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cschneid··on Show HN: GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing
Wow, very cool. That's exactly what I was thinking.
cschneid··on Show HN: GUIs for Faster ML Prototyping and Sharing
This is cool, I am playing around with ML myself, and was just looking for a lightweight way to get dynamic input to models. The minst handwriting demo in the readme is almost exactly what I wanted.

I have no idea what the architecture is, but it would be really cool to have this dynamic interface play nice with VSCode's notebook (jupyter) functionality, so I can add dynamic inputs right inline with the rest of the code.

cschneid··on Biohacking Lite
Sheet pan roasted stuff is a great lazy meal that the grandparent comment was discussing.

Our personal favorite sheet pan meal is: chopped red onion, chopped bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, box of dry gnocchi. Toss it all with a bit of oil and salt and pepper, and whatever seasoning you may want, spread on baking sheet and bake for a while until veggies look tasty.

Serve with a few shreds of parm or other hard cheese.

5 minutes to prep, 20-30 min to cook. A bowl to wash, and it's mostly veggies and the components sub out really easily for anything you have in your fridge.

cschneid··on Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies
From the FAQ: "In the event of fraud, you will be eligible to receive a full refund"

Is that baked into Libra? Some form of reversible transactions? Or is this Facebook offering to take the risk temporarily while it gets traction?

cschneid··on Unofficial APIs
Awesome! I was just looking at integrating Omnifocus and Notion to keep better notes and history of tasks, letting Omnifocus focus on just the task management side of the world.

It'd be cool to link up a script that takes a new task in Omnifocus under the right tag, and push a template into Notion for the note taking, and sync a link back into the notes field of Omnifocus for quick access.

cschneid··on AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs
Other than price, why the recommendation for the 3900x over 3950x?
cschneid··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
Newegg and Walmart have fallen to the same thing Amazon has: allowing 3rd party sellers.

They're not as far along, but going down that path is what causes so many issues with counterfeits and generally poor experiences. I accidentally bought some thermal paste from a newegg seller who shipped it via slow-boat-from-china, and it took weeks to get to me. It was technically listed, but I hate any shopping experience that forces me to be on high alert not to get screwed (as minor as super-slow shipping is).

cschneid··on Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
I have a similar setup. I really appreciate that Hue bulbs are standard Zigbee bubls, then with a layer of fancy Phillips UI on top. If Phillips ever go away, easy to replace with a different UI, and direct control.

User friendly, and not tied to specific vendor.

cschneid··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
Then when done:

7024. Collect payment upon job completion.

cschneid··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
Uber for Babies™
cschneid··on Apple Watch Series 5
I use AutoSleep on Apple Watch 4. It is good at poking me after a few days of not sleeping enough with a message like: "You slept for 5:38 last night, and have a sleep debt of 12%". That's enough of a poke to get my sleep back on track.

I've also used it to experiment a bit with how drinking at night affects my sleep. (noticeably!). I could do that with just how I feel, but the hard data is easier to correlate later.

cschneid··on Tree planting: Where can I do it and which type is best?
The rules presented in the article were just: "Don't mess anything up, and do it with permission by the land owner. If you plan to plant a ton, ask pros if that'll mess anything up."
cschneid··on Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services
I wonder about the low level labor in data centers. Swapping disks and servers. I imagine they have a lot of the same tracked-time-pressure that retail pickers do? But I've never read about it one way or the other either.
cschneid··on Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
And my question was if Libra was any different. If it's like Bitcoin, there's zero chance this wont' be a hacker's paradise, and fail miserably as a way to immediately have your money stolen.

How would Libra ever work if general population using it have the normal level of computer security?

I foresee a headline like: "$20m worth of Libra stolen due to newly found security flaw. Facebook says 'sucks to be you, it's irreversible'".

(or is the protocol different, and it is reversible? How? Who controls that?)

cschneid··on Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
Paypal can reverse transactions, can Libra? Or is it like bitcoin, where I must protect my private key by any and all means, and then if it's lost, sucks to be me?

And yeah, I mean "lose all your money due to a 0 day in your browser".

cschneid··on Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
Something I haven't seen yet: If my computer has a bit of malware land on it, do I lose my entire wallet worth of Libra irrevocably? If so, this seems pretty questionable as a mass-market money...
cschneid··on Mate: Netflix browser extension for learning words via subtitles
https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com is a similar tool. Allows side-by-side subtitles in two languages. It also lets you skip back one whole sentence at a time to re-hear a line.

I used it to start trying to hear and parse Japanese (only about a month in of learning, so brand new, and just hearing the words and sounds of the language is still tricky).

cschneid··on AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
Legit question: what headphones are you talking about?

Requirement: in-ear and no wires or over ear hook thing.

cschneid··on Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
Say you sign up for a gym. The agreement is for $50/month with a year commitment. You give them a credit card to pay.

6 months in, you cancel your credit card (or it expires or whatever).

The fact that they can't bill you doesn't change that you agreed to the plan and that you owe the second 6 months anyway. That's a debt and the gym can (and some do!) choose to go after you for it in whatever legal way they feel. That's collection agencies, and direct lawsuits.

An open ended agreement ($10/month for a newspaper) often will have this same style - you agree to pay $10/month for access, they give you access. Valid until cancelled. If you simply ghost - is that cancellation? Probably not, and it's up to the contract. Of course, most consumer things just drop it and shrug, but that is not a given.

cschneid··on Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
Remember that this is not cancelling, and some companies can and will sell your bad debt to collection agencies.

You don't get out of contracts just by ghosting on them.

cschneid··on Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009)
No Fees, No Loans, No Credit Cards - how exactly does this bank make any money?
cschneid··on Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
He means in aggregate of the people.

52 people each buy a week share.

Each person gets charged $100 / month.

So 52 people each pay $1200 / year, which is the $62,400. Which I'm guessing is a bit more than the cost of maintenance

cschneid··on Ask HN: Do you use budgeting software?
YNAB is pretty great. I allow it sync transactions from my bank accounts, but its budgeting system works fine if you're willing to enter transactions in manually.

It is a refined form of envelope budgeting, and allowed me to go from an engineer that made a lot of money, but spent willy-nilly to an engineer that knows what's up, and with a rising net worth.

I like that it encourages you to look at the money you actually have and allocate it to what it needs to do ("Rent", "Savings for christmas gifts", "Car replacement", "Efund"...), as opposed to forward looking budgets that are just guesses about what you want to spend going forward.

cschneid··on Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt
I live in Fort Collins - bonds are being sold, and everything is going forward. In theory, the first customers should be on Mid to late next year.
cschneid··on Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading?
In 2017, the S&P 500 was up 18.74% - not that the extra 2.5% you made is nothing, but it's not a get-rich-quick type of return.

How many trades did you do over the course of the year? Was your volatility lower than the market overall?

cschneid··on I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet
For sure, I took up skiing this year (I'm so bad at it, but it's so fun).

In no way is what I said meant to be "Crippling worry that affects my life". More of a rational: "this is the most likely way I get really screwed, so I bought insurance"

cschneid··on I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet
My biggest fear right now as a developer is losing the ability to work due to an injury. I recently bought long-term disability insurance, which is expensive for sure, but makes me feel so much safer. (what I got - after 6 months of self-covered disability, it'd pay a significant amount every month until age 65)

My main worry is falling while biking or skiing, and knocking my head. But now I'm worried about eyesight, and my hands, and everything else around the modern world.

cschneid··on The Big Vitamin D Mistake
I self-paid for a handful of labs a few months ago, including Vit D (and thyroid, and blood related stuff, and cholesterol, and a few other related things).

I went in, the nurse drew some blood and charged me $150. A week later, they mailed me the results.

None of this was done online, and insurance never was involved. I found a lab in town, asked their cash price, and they told me, and it was fine. Specifically the lab was associated with a larger medical facility, so call around to any local hospitals to see what they quote you.

cschneid··on Django 2.0 released
I've worked on a handful of large to very-large Rails apps, and I find that after a certain level of size, you're dealing with a Ruby code base that happens to have Rails as the way it is presented. Rails' implicit functions are either obvious because you use them often, or just not relevant, since you're deep in plain Ruby objects implementing your business logic.
cschneid··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
What network connected power strip are you using for that?
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