Ah, another randomness beacon! Although I wish it used the same API as NIST's beacon, either the v1 or v2 API.
Then one could dynamically and randomly choose which randomness beacon to use! I like it.
Readit Newszefhous commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
Here's the go-to for counting stuff in pictures of lots of stuff:
https://countthings.com/
This would probably be a hard case for it! But would be cool to see how well it works.
Uh... in-app purchases for $24 for a 24-hour license? $80 pay-per-count? The AI marketing images... Ugh.
zefhous commented on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system gridfinity.xyz/... · Posted by u/nateb2022
There’s a filament saving variant where you can use toilet rolls or other waste cardboard for the walls:
https://www.printables.com/model/880256-cardboard-gridfinity...
Not gridfinity compatible, but I have a set of corner pieces that uses a similar concept. The majority of the material can be scrap acrylic, mdf, cardboard, etc. and you just print the corner pieces. Lids and stuff too.
https://www.printables.com/model/57813-boxkit-parts-for-maki...
3d printing is great, but a lot of wasted plastic if you print large organizers and stuff like that.
zefhous commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek
Only rough if you're pretentious.
Making it easy for engineers, experienced OR aspiring is huge.
Part of what I think is rough is the framing of Postgres being "an alternative to Google’s Firebase" in the article. I mean, ok yeah they are both databases in a sense, but they are not the same thing at all. Firebase is a service and Postgres a database technology, and certainly not well-described as an alternative to Firebase by anyone competent in the industry. Lol.
I don't mean to demean "vibe coders" exactly either, but rather jumping on the hype train of using that term for your funding pitch. You're using AI to learn to become a software developer? Great! No problem with that.
But also — if you now have a database involved and you're handling people's data, you better learn what you're doing. A database provider pushing "vibe coding" is not a good look imo.
zefhous commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek
Oof this bit is rough!
> The startup supports Postgres, the most popular developer database system that’s an alternative to Google’s Firebase. Supabase’s goal: To be a one-stop backend for developers and "vibe coders."
zefhous commented on My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) fangpenlin.com/posts/2024... · Posted by u/leonry
Love this! I have been using hledger for a while now and have a pretty automated process for importing exported CSVs. I would love a little more automation in terms of pulling down the data, but on the bright side the manual process provides a good touch point to keep up on accounting regularly in small doses. This is great for just keeping an eye on things on a monthly basis.
I am starting a new business now and intend to see how far I can take plain text accounting in that context. I plan to use mercury for banking and want to automate as much as possible. I would also like to associate invoices that are stored in a self-hosted paperless-ngx instance.
What audible alternative are you using?
I have found a lot of great content available in Libby and Hoopla. I use my local library card, but am also able to get a card from a nearby larger city library, and between the two I have access to a lot of content and very soon in a lot of cases.
zefhous commented on The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio leancrew.com/all-this/202... · Posted by u/082349872349872
I’m just here to fulfill the Hacker News rule that any post mentioning the Antikythera Mechanism must have a comment linking the excellent Clickspring build videos.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4R...
One of the things I think is cool is that a standard chord sequence in Jazz is the ii7-V7-IM7 (e.g., Dm7-G7-CM7) which, if you do the tritone substitution turns into ii7-II♭7-IM7 so you get this nice little chromatic descending sequence happening in the bassline.
It’s also worth noting that when comping, the most important notes to be sure to hit are the 3rd (which expresses whether we’re major or minor) and the 7th (which gives the flavor of the chord), since the root is likely covered by the bass player and the fifth is implied by the 3rd (if you’re at a piano, try you can see this by, e.g., playing C-E-G-B in the right hand and C in the left, and comparing that to E-B in the right hand and C in the left. A jazz pianist soloing will likely do their melody line in the right hand and hit 3-7 with the left), so the tritone substitution will be made/implied by whatever the bass player does against that.
The other fun thing is to just vamp on a II♭7-V7 sequence. Some notable places you’ll encounter this in music you’ve heard include the Simpsons theme and the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.”
Like Sting said, “it's not a chord until the bass player decides what the root is.”
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