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princesse··on Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
Congrats on the launch. Once I submit a question I can see the answer but the question is gone. I think it'd be nice to keep the question around in the UI (or a log of questions?)
princesse··on Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
How about Timberborn? The whole game revolves around water management.
princesse··on Rackspace Exchange hosting down ~18 hours; “solution” is to start over on O365
Sounds like somebody's about to lose some money.

https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nasdaq-rxt/rackspac...

princesse··on Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Would love to know more about those configurable MMOs you mention. Anything in particular I could read/watch?
princesse··on Poll: What do you call the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files?
USB key.
princesse··on Show HN: Drovp – Convenient UI for any drag and drop operations
Love this idea and execution, thanks for sharing
princesse··on People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices
I do not see anything while dreaming. It is a constant source of slight anxiety as I can be quite conscious and the blindness is puzzling. In daily life I can project myself in some mental space (ie my kitchen) and perceive where the boundaries of things would be, but none of this process has anything to do with vision of sight. It's more like extend proprioception.

If you place your hand on a wall, then close your eyes, then remove your hand, I suspect you'll still feel where the wall is. Even if you picture something completely different in your head, the wall is still there I suppose? My guess is that my extend proprioception (or whatever the right name for this would be) is more fine tuned and apt than someone with a mind eye, but I can't really know. :|

I also do not hear sounds while dreaming, but then again I don't really have an inner monologue anymore, that went away at the same time I learned programming and I don't think it's a coincidence. I do verbalize in my head when reading conversation-like stuff (HN, slack, etc.), but you won't catch me with any internal monologue while reading ingredients, jira tickets, etc.

While dreaming, I can have conversations but there's no gradual arrival of content, it's instantaneous, it was not yet "said" or it was.

princesse··on The reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom, it’s bad UX
I'm not familiar with the meaning of a printed owl on a door, why was that significant to you?
princesse··on Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease
I did, but I was going when I did so. Spent more time outdoor looking far, then close, then far, etc. I've become aware of the duration of the transition in focus and it now serves as a warning side. Whenever it seems to take longer to focus on far-away things I know I need to do some more exercice. Went from needing glasses (which I declined) and seeing everything blurry to having a great vision I can't complain about.
princesse··on Court orders US Capitol rioter to unlock his laptop ‘with his face’
My MBP requires the password to unlock touchID after a while, fwiw
princesse··on Generating JSON Directly from Postgres
> But as things get more complicated, where does the business logic live? Maybe in the database as stored procedures? It's less crazy than it sounds.

I've worked with a bunch of systems like this before. One was just a collection of PHP scripts that would trigger SQL queries. Another one was all lambdas and Cron jobs on top of mssql stored procedures.

If you have a decent team and if you use version control as intensely as you would with code, I have no reason to believe this cannot work. To be fair, those condition are true regarding of tech and architecture.

What you cannot do easily though is pivot, hire, and scale. This is what bit those teams I worked with and why those specific systems are no longer around.

princesse··on Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software [video]
Fwiw this is the core concept behind React, and it is approached in a nice way there as far as my opinion goes. I'm unclear about general purpose programming languages but seems like other comments have good suggestions
princesse··on The Intelligent Forest
Anathem worked for me
princesse··on Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines
Can't wait to see this in effect during the next Tour de France.
princesse··on Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now
Okta did not acquire Auth0 yet.
princesse··on Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?
Isn't deno a nice typescript setup for this use case?
princesse··on “I will slaughter you”
Just switched from npm to yarn and I love it. Thanks for your work.
princesse··on Google Sued by YouTube Rival Rumble over Search Rankings
GoogleAds has a system like this behind the scene where trademark holders need to whitelist the specific GoogleAds accounts that want to use their trademark keywords.

No idea how widely used or effective this is though.

princesse··on Fantasy UI
Some of what you describe reminds me of EagleMode, you might want to try it out.
princesse··on The Piet-GPU Vision
Yes, this is definitely what I was expecting too
princesse··on Tell HN: Thank You Dang
Thanks for the hard work Dang!
princesse··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
DealerBreacher | Montreal, Canada | Marketing Technologies for Car Dealerships | Onsite or REMOTE | Full Time

DealerBreacher is part of Trader.ca (AutoTrader.ca) and works closely with multiple marketing agencies around the world. We build SEM technology specific to car dealerships and inline with their realities and challenges. Our technology is unique and still in its infancy, with a lot of potential left.

We're looking for 2 backend developers with experience in Laravel and/or NodeJS/Typescript, and good knowledge of SQL.

Experience setting up deployment pipeline with automated testing is a plus. Experience with Adwords API, Microsoft Ads API or Facebook Marketing API a plus. Experience with Google Pub/Sub and Google BigQuery a plus.

To apply, email antoine.theriault-brunet@trader.ca with your resume or portfolio, and hacker news in the subject.

princesse··on Show HN: Routine Ops – Schedule recurring tasks by role
Was this just shipped? If so, congrats!

Might be just me, but when I compare the feature list with something like Monday.com (which can be configured to do the given use case with its internal automation tool), I really can't imagine paying $29 per user. That's at least double what I would be ready to pay, especially since I don't see any integrations and there's no mention of webhooks to build on top of.

princesse··on Gitqlite: Query Git Repositories with SQL
This would make the difference between neat and useful for my team.
princesse··on Ask HN: What problems do you see worth solving in 2019-2020?
Can you provide more details? Are you talking about algorithms like modular decomposition[1]? Any specific challenge you'd like to see addressed in the following years?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_decomposition

princesse··on React Router v5
So many negative comments in here. Just wanted to let the maintainers know we use the library in multiple projects without issue and that we appreciate deeply the work that goes into it!