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Discussed at length here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007247

I have vague memories of iPod Linux (or Rockbox, I can’t remember) having a feature where you could record voice notes using your regular headphones using the same technique

Got a discount code for the HN family? ;-)

Congrats on shipping. I'm living in the EU working California hours (4pm-1am) and will definitely be buying one.

sounds good, thanks for the response!

I’ve noticed the same thing. Horrible for my productivity. Paging @dang

It’s described here: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...

It doesn't sound like GP is saying we have to do away with audio, just that it's absurd to stick to _just_ audio. Great to have a screen that shows "Clear for option 25R etc etc". I think I saw the latest Cirrus planes have something like that, doing live transcription of tower/ATC calls.

EDIT: I will add I get that adding something like that to a general aviation cockpit is much easier than putting it on a commercial 787, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

I attended Northeastern from 2010-2013. Fundies (the freshman-level functional programming courses) was fundamental (ha) to my growth as a software developer. It taught me how to reason about data and how to design programs (the literal name of the textbook).

I know a lot of students hated it—frankly those were mostly the students that it seemed were only doing computer science programs because they’d heard they could make a lot of money in the field. The “real nerds” all seemed to love it, and now nearly 15 years later those are the engineers in my network who have built the most impressive systems and products.

I guess I’ll have to update my default instructions for recruiters from “automatically interview anyone with a degree from Northeastern” to add “if they graduated before 2025”

I’m scheduled to donate one of mine to a stranger in a few weeks. Similar story here—saw Scott Alexander’s story, did some research, decided it was something i had to do.

I’m donating through the national kidney registry, which means that I (and five close family members) will pop to the top of the transplant list if I ever need one.

off topic: do you have a name or a link for the paper referenced? My company just moved to a new office that's "coincidentally" closer to the CEO's house, and I'd love to send it to him.

I have long considered building a code generator that only serves "nice" codes.

The standard implementation would use a hard coded set of patterns. The enhanced version would pair automatic random code generation with a public site where members of the public can decide in real time whether a given code is "nice" before it's sent along to the intended recipient.

(note @tptacek if you're reading this, I swear it's (mostly) a joke)

The two are unrelated, but they do reference the shareware platform in their FAQ.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#are-you-affiliated-w...

ah i think it's a feature for YC founders to identify each other, might not be on for everyone

HN highlights your username in orange to indicate that you're a YC founder, and shows that you're a founder of Octolane on your profile. Disingenuous comments like this on a forum like HN are strongly discouraged.

(if it wasn't clear, this is submitted in jest)

Basically what WorldMaker said. We updated our tsconfig and package.json, updated all our imports to include ".js", and fixed/upgraded things as necessary. The only real hiccup was that `require.main === module` no longer works, so we had to write some workaround code to determine whether a script was being run directly.

If anybody has tried ES modules in the past five years and had to turn back due to incompatibility / lack of library support / javascript is a minefield, I'd urge you to try again. I managed to migrate our Typescript/Node codebase over to ESM about a month ago, with only a few hiccups. It's nice to be able to use the latest versions of all of sindresorhus's packages again.

I was annoyed by having to reach for a remote or my phone when watching stuff on my Apple TV, so I made a MacOS Apple TV remote[0] that lives in the menu bar. Saves me literally seconds every day.

[0]: https://github.com/dickfickling/honeycrisp

Reddit comes to mind as an alternative (to Digg) that succeeded (by at least some definitions of the word). A massive amount of Reddit's early user growth came from a poorly-received redesign to Digg's home page. There are a lot of parallels to draw to the changes Musk has in mind for Twitter.

have you worked on Typescript projects using ES modules? What you’ve described is the status quo for CommonJS modules, but doesn’t work when you switch to ESM (afaik, at least)

when gp comment was written, the HN title didn’t include the phrase “in market value”

asking for a friend: what's the safe and effective way to pirate things in 2022?

I've been doing the same (also for about 10 years). A quick scan of my spam folder from the last few days shows drizly@, eventbrite@, homechef@, and sunany@ were all leaked at some point.

Does anyone know of a good NYC analog for this?

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It's fascinating to me that the coins dated all the way from 200 AD to 400 AD. Finding a US cent from even 100 years ago is a surprise and delight these days, and I imagine it's similar throughout the world. But somehow, 1600 years ago, somebody had a hoard of coins that were up to 200 years old.

I’m sure i’m being dense here, but can you please explain the justification for fining a retailer for an unattended cash register? Also what’s unsavory about CVS/Walgreens?

As the other comments have noted, Cory addresses this further down in the linked post. He further expanded on this in the post he wrote when he quit smoking[0]:

> That was my homework: go away and think of an immediate reason not to smoke. When I came back, I had my answer ready: “I spend two laptops per year on smokes. That money goes directly to the dirtiest companies on Earth, the literal inventors of the science-denial playbook that is responsible for our inaction on climate change. Those companies’ sole mission is to murder me and all my friends. I’m going to quit smoking and I’m going to buy a laptop this year and every year hereafter, and I’ll still be up one laptop per year.”

[0]: https://doctorow.medium.com/i-quit-9ae7b6010c99

Not sure if you saw this, but Culdesac is a YC company (S18), which probably explains the “founder” nomenclature.