HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Pt_

20 karma · joined August 22, 2014

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/pthm; my proof: https://keybase.io/pthm/sigs/MikZXoI3hvSI0d_yLKhurzNLyht566dewgd_MLjKG4w ]
submissionscomments
Pt_··on Are we losing our ability to remember?
Before the pandemic, I was living in London shared flat with my partner and a friend of ours. Had quite a busy social life, working in an office in Soho.

Since the pandemic I have moved out of the city and into a more rural isolated area (Did not see any benefit to paying high rent prices in a city when all the facilities were shut down). All of my work has moved to remote working using video conferencing etc.

Before we would use Slack a lot, but in-person meetings were a common occurence and I would spend quite a lot of time outside of work with friends or colleagues discussing various topics.

Since being in this isolated environemnt I feel that because those interactions are far more rare when they do happen I struggle to recall words or phrases that were once commonplace in my vernacular.

This is all very anecdotal evidence of course, but it's somethig i've observed in myself of a number of occasions now.

Pt_··on Are we losing our ability to remember?
During the pandemic, spending more time at home and less time having real social interactions has lead me to beleive I am forgetting some of my vocabulary or at the least not practicing it enough to keep it in what you describe as "Working memory".

Zoom and the like is far from natural and I find myself searching for words during sentences that I know I would not have in the past.

Pt_··on Money Horror
I think its game-able automated or not. Fraud exists today and is playing on these exact systems.
Pt_··on Money Horror
He specifically mentions that he's in the Netherlands in the article.

And based on the writing in the "banking standards" paragraph it appears he understands the difference between debit / credit cards and that banking network they operate on doesn't determine the type of finance they provide

Pt_··on Money Horror
Surely anomaly detection is better done by a machine?

I guess there's a certain level of human "intuition" about these things but is this not what most banks anti-fraud systems do already?

Pt_··on Money Horror
Would it be correct to assume the vending machine only accepts credit as it likely doesn't have a direct connection to a banking system to authorize the payments at time of purchase?

I seem to remember credit being a requirement for making purchases on planes for this same reason.

I'm curious because I live in the UK and pretty much all terminals here accept debit cards, although I think the UK in general has been a bit ahead in terms of payment standards (chip & pin, contactless etc.)

Pt_··on Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React
There is an example in the Readme. From what I can tell this isnt "rendering" an AST to the DOM, its using JSX to "render" source code.
Pt_··on Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails
This sort of open tracking with geoIP based location has been around for a while. There are numerous GMail add-ons that provide this functionality eg. Streak there are equivalent's for other clients too.

This is written as if Superhuman are the first people to do this, that doesn't justify the behavior but there are others to blame here and the precedent was set prior to Superhuman's implementation with these email tools

Pt_··on Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
Went on youtube and found a "10 hour" bird and forest noises video, works pretty well
Pt_··on Shaderoo: realtime ballpoint effect
>also try using your webcam... -> Geom_A (above editor), first texture (below editor) - the [...] button

From the description under the preview

Pt_··on Mars, Moon on Google Maps
Disappointed there is no route planner on Mars
Pt_··on Show HN: AmiBot – A Slack bot to detect toxic messages
Hi everyone! This is a quick little Slack bot I've written using Google's new PerspectiveAPI.

Essentially she will analyse all the messages in any channel you invite her to, if a team member breaches the toxicity threshold she will inform them via a DM.

She works on a 5 minute buffer so it should only trigger if someone is being particularly spiteful.

None of the messages are logged or stored by myself or PerspectiveAPI.

In future I hope to extend it to help admins of large slack teams moderate members by informing them of offenders and providing more customisation options

Pt_··on Show HN: Bookslol – Find cheap books
The site appears to hijack the browser history, clicking back from the page results in an endless loop (Firefox 52.0.2 - Ubuntu)
Pt_··on Ghost in the machine: screen contents across reboots in a Macbook Pro Retina
There is a repair extension programme for video issues on the macbook pro's

https://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

Pt_··on What is the best and easiest way to host a node app?
If you haven't looked at Heroku I would reccomend it https://www.heroku.com/

You can quickly deploy a Node app with little to no system knowledge, just push a git repo to their domain and you are ready to roll