Years ago, I installed the Facebook app on my phone. I immediately uninstalled it when I saw, horrified, that it had hoovered up all my photos and uploaded them to Facebook (there was no fine-grained storage permission at the time) "for my convenience". I never ran their app on my phone, again.
Readit Newshypersoar commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb
Location: Seattle, WA
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Technologies: Java, Spring, TypeScript, React, Node, SQL, Rust, Python, Clojure, Solid-JS, Nix
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzYmjFItbxdlewYL_Lz--ZnE24_CqXvH/view?usp=drive_link
Email: mail@requirenathan.com
hypersoar commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint
My bank uses a fraud detection system that calls you if suspicious activity is detected on your account. It then asks you to call back a number to verify the account activity. Every time they call, they provide a different callback number. Searching for the callback number online yields only one result, which is the fraud detection systems web page telling you to NOT trust phone calls of any kind (their advice is solid, but it tells you to not respond to their own legitimate calls)!
I briefly worked on a product related to this. It was a chatbot meant to replace the human phonecall in just this situation. The user would get a text from the bank with a link to the chatbot. They ended up not being able to sell; the common complaint from the banks was that they'd been training their users to never click links like that.
Magit has been simply essential for me for the last decade. I still switch to emacs for this even though most of my coding is in VSCode and edamagit covers simpler workflows for me.
Recently I've been trying jujutsu[0]. As awesome as Magit is, it can't fix some warts of Git like how it does conflict management. But I hate having to do version control from CLI. Most of all, I miss doing a bunch of work, going to magit-status (or edamagit), staging lines or entire files and committing parts of my work separately (like, dependency updates in a separate commit before committing api changes).
I've tried VisualJJ[1] and GG[2] but I just can't find a nice workflow with jj coming from Magit. Splitting changes feel cumbersome. What is your commit workflow with jj coming from Magit?
I've just started with jujutsu, as well. Jjui fills a little bit of the gap. Among other things, it allows for quick selecting and splitting of changes. But it's no Magit. I'm thinking of having a go at making an emacs interface for jj myself.
hypersoar commented on Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding? · Posted by u/hubraumhugo
I haven't tried Cursor, but I've been messing around with Aider (aider.chat) with interesting results. With it, you add files to its context and then describe the edits you want. It then writes a commit with (hopefully) those changes. You can use it with pretty much any model, though only close-to-SOTA models work well. I've had pretty good results with Deepseek Coder, which is tens of times cheaper than Claude.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe to the SF Bay Area
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node, SQL, Rust, Python, Clojure, Solid-JS, Nix
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Email: mail@requirenathan.com
Your resume link might be broken.
Thanks for the heads-up
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Sure
Willing to relocate: To the Bay Area
Technologies: Typescript, React, Tailwind CSS, SolidJS, Node, Prisma, Python, Clojure, Rust
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F4U8nGQQAbkM6j8wljxxvlit0_W...
Email: nsaritzky@gmail.com
I'm looking for my first job in software development. My training is as a mathematician, so I have lots of practice working on tough, abstract problems. I'm a ferocious self-directed learner and have worked on a broad range of projects. Most of my recent work has been focused on frontend, with some smaller React/HTML/CSS projects, and a bigger full-stack one using SolidJS. I'm for you if you're willing to take on someone at the beginning of their career who's driven, knowledgable, and quick on the uptake.
The sports betting craze is really interesting to me. I'm from upstate NY and I remember when it got legalized I didn't think much about it. Let people do what they want. I won't play because I don't gamble.
Then when I was hope for the holidays and every man I knew from my home town that was near my age was doing it. They'd watch a basketball game only to see if their 8 leg parlay would hit. Whatever app they were using even listed your all time wins/loses (probably legally required) and _all_ of them had all time loses over $500 and it had only been legalized a few months prior.
It's just a drain on the average person, the same was cigarettes are. I struggle with the freedom for personal choice to do what you want vs the collective better situation we get to form for ourselves as a society by banning these things, but I think I'm just leaning more towards the latter now. On the other hand, I think weed and alcohol should be legal, despite it affecting people's lives in negative ways, but the majority if their users are completely normal people.
This is such a tricky subject to me and I guess I'll just stop rambling now, but I am interested in what other people thing about societal restriction for a better group vs personal freedoms.
A solution that hits the happy middle for me is to ban, or at least restrict, advertising of sports betting. The way they've devoured sports coverage is what I find the most annoying.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Sure
Willing to relocate: To the Bay Area
Technologies: Typescript, React, Tailwind CSS, SolidJS, Node, Prisma, Python, Clojure, Rust
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P1MtUJjIbNnkRsP7YImocMzsmsb...
Email: nsaritzky@gmail.com
I'm looking for my first job in software development. My training is as a mathematician, so I have lots of practice working on tough, abstract problems. I'm a ferocious self-directed learner and have worked on a broad range of projects. Most of my recent work has been focused on frontend, with some smaller React/HTML/CSS projects, and a bigger full-stack one using SolidJS. I'm for you if you're willing to take on someone at the beginning of their career who's driven, knowledgable, and quick on the uptake.