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jabyess commented on The NSA Furby Documents 404media.co/these-are-the... · Posted by u/gumby

pnw · 2 years ago

Practicality has never been an issue for spies. Look at the lengths the Soviets went to for surveillance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

jabyess · 2 years ago

the craziest thing about this is:

> The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Leon Theremin,[7] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

jabyess commented on "Are We Automata?" by William James (1879) psychclassics.yorku.ca/Ja... · Posted by u/benbreen

TheBlight · 2 years ago

Slightly tangential, but is anyone aware of an app/site that can take a URL like this one and convert the text to a format and layout that's easier on the eyes and easier to read in general? Like Kindle-fy a web page full of text?

jabyess · 2 years ago

Most browsers have a reader mode. Firefox has one built in, I just click the icon to at the right end of the URL bar and it does it nicely for me.

jabyess commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

repelsteeltje · 2 years ago

I live in EU, earn approx €52,000 as a senior software engineer (whatever that might mean) and live a happy live with a house, mortgage, wife, children, ... Don't consider myself rich, but doing good. Should I change jobs?!

$168,000 - $350,000 for a Software Engineer seems outrageous. What am I missing?

jabyess · 2 years ago

That's the upper end of US salaries for engineers, it's definitely not the median. But in general US, tech salaries are higher than every other location. If you can swing it remotely, it might be worth it for you.

jabyess commented on The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter in 2015 twitter.com/stevekrenzel/... · Posted by u/sgk284

languageserver · 3 years ago

I do not trust this story. Seems way too absurd to happen in the 2010's. Literally just some guy (tm) on Twitter saying it

jabyess · 3 years ago

which part seems unbelievable to you?

jabyess commented on Why are maps so hard to make? readmargins.com/p/say-hel... · Posted by u/danso

dv35z · 4 years ago

Map gurus - I was thinking of printing a black and white map of my neighborhood on my wall, and then putting pins, annotations etc in it.

I found it difficult to find a good tool which could accept a Google Map location, and export a PDF with street names, but not so much details. I ended up taking a screen shot of google Maps, then vectorizing it, the manually changing to B&W, updating details etc. Anyone found good tool / workflow for this

jabyess · 4 years ago

mapbox studio will let you custom design layers, but i haven't gotten very far into it so i can't speak to the level of control you get.

jabyess commented on A Way Out for A.out lwn.net/SubscriberLink/88... · Posted by u/bitcharmer

jabyess · 4 years ago

Once again, XKCD[0] proved to be right

[0] https://xkcd.com/1172/

jabyess commented on Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux? · Posted by u/MikeBVaughn

jabyess · 4 years ago

This is surprising to me because it wasn't that long ago (~3-4 years) that I bought an XPS developer edition and it was $100 cheaper than the windows version. At the time, I assumed that was just the cost of the windows license.

jabyess commented on Tools for Thinking juliendesrosiers.com/2021... · Posted by u/juliend2

submeta · 4 years ago

Roam Research was a game changer for me. - I know it’s expensive, the founder behaves arrogantly, but nontheless: They have created a product that is very unique. Many have imitated it’s feature-set (athens, org-roam, logseq to name a few), but they were first and paved the way.

What makes this product exceptional is the way it allows to link notes: Deliberately by surrounding words by doulbe brackets or automatically by linking notes that have the same keyword in them.

I started migrating my journal entries (date stamped) and my markdown notes into it, and I start to see connections among the notes that I did not make intentionally.

Slowly I start to come up with more and more categories for note taking that I want to do in Roam: Dream journal, reading notes, articles, research.

Before I was using Bear, Ulysses, Evernote, later I started using Emacs/org, now with a small detour settled with Roam.

jabyess · 4 years ago

There's also a FOSS version called foam https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

jabyess commented on Apple Maps vs. Google Maps forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/ColinWright

aunty_helen · 4 years ago

What a tight rope this author has to walk. You want commute suggestions but you don’t want google to know where you live or work?

I’ll bat for google on this one, the value I get from Gmaps vs the value they get from my data seems like a fair exchange.

Also PSA, if you use Bluetooth with your car, your city transport department is tracking you. Best of luck opting out of that or even finding who to contact.

jabyess · 4 years ago

> Also PSA, if you use Bluetooth with your car, your city transport department is tracking you. Best of luck opting out of that or even finding who to contact.

Can you say more about this? I've never heard of it.

jabyess commented on Launch HN: Bristle (YC W21) – At-home microbiome test to improve oral health · Posted by u/dannygrannick

david_l_lin · 5 years ago

Short of giving away some of our secret sauce and analysis pipeline, what we do is sequence the nucleic acids in your saliva in a de-identified fashion such that only Bristle scientists can match your sequence data with any potential identifiers. As data comes off the sequencer, we use a bioinformatic pipeline to remove 98%+ of human genetic data prior to any analysis such that its impossible to derive meaningful genetic information from the sample. The end result is that we effectively store only microbiome sequence data and not your personal genetic data. We store all of your data in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.

Your de-identfiied data (metadata and microbiome data) may be used in aggregate analysis to mine for novel biomarkers of disease, and to develop novel therapeutics targeting the oral microbiome for the treatment of disease.

jabyess · 5 years ago

Why not put all this info on the site?