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Title: Does anybody remember the Second Life boom when companies were trying to snap up linden-land and set up shop online? That failed, and I can't help but feel like the 'metaverse' concept being marketed to us is that, but with VR helmets and advertising strapped on.
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Title: These technologies have mindshare and will be part of our world’s future. As an engineer, where can I read about these technologies discussed regularly, so I can learn & understand through exposure? Is HN that venue? (If not, why not? What are the boundaries of our bubble here). I’m interested in the tech/practical applications, as opposed to the hype/emotion.
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Title: I don't do much frontend programming so I've been mainly using Javascript. However, more and more libraries are using Typescript which makes me think that I should make the jump. But I don't understand how adding types will suddenly make frontend coding more efficient. I tried researching for pros and cons but nothing came up.
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Title: I want to understand how the experience was<p>what was the cost involved<p>what were the entry barrier for an average person to join<p>How similar was it to current social media networks<p>How big the industry around it actually become<p>From a tech point of view what do you think were the major breakthroughs and what made it to the internet we see today.<p>I have watched the documentary www.bbsdocumentary.com , so I have some context but want some more anecdotes if I can :)
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Title: I'm fascinated by what I read in HN everyday. I want to start my career in IT. I'm now 44 though, and trained as a mechanical engineer in my career and spent the last 20 years in business (finance, strategy and operations).<p>I'm looking for wisdom and pointers from the community here.<p>How can I go about it? I have access to Coursera/EdX and around 1.5 years to focus full-time on retraining. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Title: There are obvious ones like quality sleep, excercise, get some sunlight during the day and check your hormnes. I still feel a too drowsy during the day.<p>Do you have any personal experiences / anecdotes with what have helped you in the past?
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Title: Ask HNs are my favorite part of HN. It was a hassle for me to go through /new looking for just posted Ask HN threads.<p>/shownew already existed, so I requested @dang to create /asknew. And he did!<p>/asknew, at least for now, will only show posts that are in the HN server's RAM. It won't go back beyond that.<p>Thanks, dang!
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Title: At the age of 40 I decided to go back to school and launch a new career in tech. In 2019 I graduated from a good university with a master degree in Computer Science but I could not be less disappointed and frustrated. I have paid more than USD 45,000 in tuition and accommodation just to realize the knowledge I acquired was not worth it at all.<p>My goal was to start my own programming career and try to make money online like everyone else.<p>The subjects we took sounded very impressive: Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, OOP, Semantic Web, Web Development, Digital Imaging and Computer Vision…etc. In reality students don't have time to learn anything valuable and you graduate with weak skills at all these areas.<p>I have been reflecting on all that wasted time, money and efforts during my school. As students we were really busy, but in reality we were learning nothing serious related to the real world problems or emerging technologies. I don’t throw the blame on the classes I took, but when the professor who is teaching you web development does not know what Bootstrap is, then that is a big problem.<p>I respect and value education, but some fields can be realized outside of the classroom. Honestly, I don't even know where I placed my diploma. Maybe somewhere in a box in my basement.<p>Recently, I have been teaching myself programming and web development using free resources on YouTube and other free platforms. I was determined to become a programmer and to launch a career in Web Development. To some extent, I can say I am advancing pretty well, and the things I learned so far could not have been acquired otherwise.<p>I am now able to develop complex systems that are used by thousands of people on daily bases; thinking about this, nothing I learned in college contributed to my ability to build and launch these products. Everything I learned was from YouTube and other FREE resources like Udacity, Coursera, and Edx…etc<p>I do not want to generalize, but it was a complete waste for my time and money. I understand and respect other opinions, but -leaving the college credential out of this- I cannot see the value of learning computer science or software engineering for loads of money, while you can get much better education on the same subjects for free.<p>I can say with complete confidence that if you are interested in learning Computer Science, or at least the field of Web Development you can do this without the need to go for a paid CS Degree or even an expensive bootcamp. If I can do it, anyone else in the world can do it…even better than I did.<p>Start from the free resources on the Internet and use your inner grit and persistence; that’s all its going to take. No matter how old you are, you still can get into tech; that’s the beauty of the internet; everyone can launch a career and work online.<p>You will hate it at the beginning, but I promise, the more you learn the easier and more fun it becomes. Start with the simple stuff and enjoy whatever you think is easy to understand. Ignore the hard parts as they will become easier down the road when you revisit them.
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Title: For the general public he was seen as just another hacktivist along with various
hacktivist groups that were active around the time like lulzsec and anonymous.
But for the wider internet community, he represents something much much more,
especially post 2020 where we are all questioning many aspect of governance
that we take for granted as the normal state of the world.<p>In November the eight of 1986 Aaron Swartz was born. While his early childhood
was like any other kid, he showed early spark of someone who would be very
consequential to internet culture.<p>One of his first website to be recognized by the public is "The Info Network"
a user generated encyclopedia, created at the age of 12 years old which won
the ArsDigita Prize.<p>But later on he was accepted into Y Combinator's founder program on a startup
called infogami. While infogami failed to get further funding, his contribution
to the wider Y Combinator, got him in touch with another fellow co-founder to
work together on this small but potentially important firm known as Reddit.<p>If you are from Reddit or Hackernews, you will be very familiar with how the next
few years will go for Arron as well and so no further introduction will be needed.
(But you can follow further in his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz)<p>However what will be consequential to the wider public is his work as an tech
activist fighting for the same rights and values that digital natives in the
wider internet culture would fight for. Especially in the realms of copyright
laws and the wider debate on digital access and freedom.<p>This includes writing Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, as well as filing a FOIA
request to find out how Chelsea Mannings was treated after she was detained for
her alleged role in the WikiLeaks leaks.
In addition to to leaking PACER digital court records to improve public access,
which had him investigated by the FBI for potential copyright infringements.
And most importantly to rally the internet against Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).<p>However it was tragically his efforts to push for open access to academic
journals (much of which was publicly funded research) that may have costed him
his life at 2008-12-13.<p>Eight years later, as we emerge from the global pandemic, it is about time we
celebrate his life and reflect on his his short time with us.
As well as reflecting on how his actions had inspired countless digital natives
current and in the future to continuously push and fight for the
right for information to be free and transparent.
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Title: I often find that reading the comments on a HN post lead to more insights than simply reading the linked website alone or just the OP, so in the spirit of HN as a link aggregator: What HN threads have most contributed to the way you think about startups now?
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Title: A client of mine is just about to launch a startup. There's nothing public on the web yet. Today, while hacking a very minimal prototype of a HTML page into VSCode, I got a strange suggestion from GH Copilot. When I entered the client's name Copilot prompted me with a ready-made <article> block containing a marketing claim of their company. So far so nice.<p>Strange thing is the claim is not public and not contained in the codebase I'm currently working on, in no codebase I know of and to my knowledge, I'm the only related dev using Copilot. It's also not listed on Google, thus I assume it's not leaked somewhere else that could be indexed by GH (which is an assumption of course, but appears likely). But it can be found in a completely separate local folder with project assets that is not published on GH.<p>The marketing claim is about the length of a tweet and is not exactly generic. It requires understanding of my client's business (which again, cannot be derived from my codebase). So it's not GPT3 output that matches coincidentially.<p>The GH „About GitHub Copilot Telemetry” page [1] does not indicate that your locale file system is scanned though.<p>Can anyone explain that or observed a similar phenomenon?<p>[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/about-github-copilot-telemetry
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Title: TL;DR: Why isn't VSCode the new Emacs?<p>VSCode is clearly a code editor. Emacs is used by many as an operating system / UI framework / app platform.<p>Emacs's adepts have been using it for email, calendars, process management, taking notes, terminal GUI, coding (dah), and some even browse the web without leaving it.<p>I've been using Orgmode (+ org-roam) for a couple of years already and no other software can replace it for me.<p>I have huge respect for this almost 40 years old piece of technology and all the people keeping it alive and active. I love the hacker community around it.<p>All that said, I mostly hate using Emacs. It's slow (I have i7 with 4 cores and 32Gb of RAM). Emacs Lisp drives me crazy. I constantly mis-press some weird key chord and enter a state where I can't do anything unless I restart the app. It's hard for me to find docs on how to integrate with various parts of the UI, so I mostly rely on reading the source code of different extensions. Two years in, I still can't read Emacs Lisp well.<p>I feel unproductive when changing how Emacs behaves. And I've been coding for 7+ years, including functional programming.<p>---<p>Now, I've been using VSCode for quite a while (after 4 years of Vim).<p>I've noticed that, on the surface, VSCode extensions can do everything Emacs does.<p>If you think about it, VSCode is a UI framework too — there's an API for all the UI components such as the sidebar or the text editor area itself; and you can also add your custom commands that can be triggered in a number of ways.<p>Which means you can actually implement things like Orgmode in VSCode.<p>Also:
- You are coding using the most popular ecosystem in the world (Web).
- The community is larger than one of Emacs.
- The docs are much friendlier.<p>---<p>From what I understand, the main difference is that with Emacs you can start hacking any part of the environment right from the start. It's designed to be played with.<p>With VSCode, you just have a strictly defined JSON config file, and everything else requires you to work with "extensions" which sounds like something less accessible and "oh, that sounds grand, I'm not sure how deep that rabbit hole is". You can't just open a file, define a new hook or whatever and now your VSCode behaves differently.<p>But are there any other reasons, technical or otherwise, why people don't seem to use VSCode for things beyond editing code?<p>If only you could open some special file, write some Typescript, and modify anything about VSCode in a dirty hacker manner, would you use it?
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Title: How do you find funds to invest in? There are more funds than stocks out there. I have a 5 year investment horizon, and are willing to take on a large risk.
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Title: As I get older, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to manage the seemingly constant influx of 'important' documents.<p>Fortunately, most documents are sent to me digitally, where I can easily file them on my computer and back them up.<p>For non-digital documents like auto lease paperwork, home-related legal documents, major bills that I want to keep around, etc, my filing system is incredibly poor. By 'poor', I mean: it takes far too long to find the document I'm looking for, it's difficult to decide where to file something, and it's too difficult to find things.<p>Every few years, we take a stab at reorganizing our files, but the lack of searchability and the other affordances of digital documents leaves me wanting more.<p>How do you organize your personal documents? Do you digitze them somehow? Do you have a great filing system? I want to know.
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Jagath and Vignesh, co-founders of Gallery (usegallery.com). We provision on-demand pre-prod environments on your own cloud account so you can do manual QA, share feature previews with team members/clients, and parallelize automated testing & CI processes, all without bottlenecking on your staging environment.<p>Engineers typically have a fixed number of cloud environments, including production, staging, and maybe some additional pre-production environments. They use these to preview features, share work with other team members, do manual QA/automated testing, and more. As the number of engineers grows, having a fixed number of cloud environments becomes a bottleneck. Teams end up queuing for access to staging and so on. Creating additional environments and keeping them in sync, though, is a major headache, especially when the environments are reasonably complex.<p>When this problem reaches a boiling point, teams either have to slow down feature development, test on production, or deal with building their own on-demand platform internally. That’s where we come in. We enable on-demand spinup of unlimited environments for quicker development. Engineers use these as environments-per-feature—in parallel—to share previews with QA/other engineers/product people, to create demo environments for clients with features that aren't in production, to run automated testing on ephemeral environments as part of their CI processes, and more.<p>Vignesh and I are engineers with experience in infra/research at Facebook/Apple/Microsoft. We met as roommates at Caltech. We got into YC with a very different idea (a way for stores to ask customers questions and offer instant recommendations/promotions based on their responses) but soon abandoned it (it was more exciting to us as a technical challenge than to stores as a practical solution) and found ourselves testing different ideas as quickly as we could.<p>During this period, right before every launch without fail, Vignesh and I would collide on staging: features that worked locally would break on prod infra. We tried to provision our own individual staging environments, but setting them up and keeping them in sync sucked up valuable bandwidth. The gold-standard workflow, in my mind, was the one-click “On-Demand” environment provisioning I’d had at Facebook, wherein I could click a button and instantiate a live feature preview. We found solutions that promised on-demand environment spin-up, but none of them worked for us; they were either incompatible with our stack (mostly built around App Engine), didn't interface with our cloud provider, or required too much overhead and finessing to set up.<p>This was the seed for our idea. Talking to larger startups, we realized that the inconveniences we faced were just a few of the major pains faced by bigger engineering teams with nascent DevOps; they often had brittle, scattered workflows around managing their environments and growing queues for features. They needed a solution to flexibly create, destroy, and replicate environments, through both ad-hoc and developer triggers like PR’s and CI builds. While there are a number of existing services that aim to simplify DevOps and/or provide easier workflows around environments, engineering teams we spoke to were either unable or unwilling to use them due to incompatibility with their specific setups.<p>We realized that a better approach would be to abstract away the specifics of each environment by using infra-as-code as middleware. Infra-as-code solutions like Terraform, CloudFormation, etc. can represent infrastructure thoroughly in a standardized fashion. The majority of people we talked to were maintaining their infrastructure using Terraform or something similar, and it was easy to build out pipelines for those who didn't by using Terraform under the hood. This was the key to what became Gallery.<p>Since every company manages their environments differently (cloud provider, use of K8s or infra-as-code, cloud-managed services, security/privacy layers), creating a product that can work with them all out-of-the-box is a challenge. Unlike other solutions on the market, Gallery isn't a Kubernetes orchestrator that replicates containerized environments; rather, we can represent entire cloud projects, including managed services (e.g. App Engine, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.), spin them up in sandboxed cloud projects, and automate their teardown as well.<p>To create cloud resources on your GCP/AWS accounts, we use Terraform as a middleware. For select cloud services, we can understand an existing project, generate the Terraform corresponding to it, and use it to spin up your resources. We allow users to link their own Terraform code to allow spin-up of more complex environments as well. When you trigger the creation of a new environment, we spin up a worker that applies the Terraform template and performs any post-deploy actions to seed the newly generated infrastructure (for example, copying over initialization data into databases). We store your Terraform state file and manage tearing down environments when they outlive their TTL, or deletion is triggered by a specific action (e.g. merging a pull request).<p>Once we spin up infrastructure, we pull application code from your app repositories, and allow you to specify build and deployment commands that target the newly created environment. This lets you use your current deployment scripts on Gallery almost as-is, for fast and straightforward onboarding. We have integrations with Github/Gitlab around the Pull Request/Merge Request flow, letting you create environments that track a branch whenever a PR is created.<p>We're a SaaS product, and we have pricing tiers based on the number of concurrent environments. We’ve prepared a live demo account that you can play around with as a read-only team member here: <a href="http://a.getgallery.co/teams/14" rel="nofollow">http://a.getgallery.co/teams/14</a>. I've also prepared a demo video of how to set up ephemeral environments per-PR in just a couple of minutes (<a href="https://www.loom.com/share/26165ea69f0d4b7b974019bdf72e5d11" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/26165ea69f0d4b7b974019bdf72e5d11</a>). You can see our docs here: docs.usegallery.com.<p>Thank you so much for reading! We’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and experiences around the problem we’re tackling and the solution we’re proposing!
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Title: I'm not great at finishing projects at work.<p>I'm not great at finishing my own projects.<p>How can I get better at this? I've frustrated managers and even friends.<p>I've tried a lot of personal time management techniques.<p>I think I'm even good at identifying the critical steps forward for success. In group meetings, I'm lethal at cutting unnecessary work.<p>But somehow, when I go off by myself to actually do it, little gets done. Something in my brain seems to generate lots of complications to the tasks I am doing, and I lose enthusiasm and self-confidence.<p>I would pay for a coach, if they were familiar with this specific problem and not just general emotional support.
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Title: I've looked around a bit and can't really find a satisfying answer to this question. There are posts on answer sites, but these often boil down to "dynamic languages are good at glue", or "Tensorflow / Jupyter".<p>That can't be the whole story, can it? Or if it is, why did these projects choose Python over other scripting lanuages?<p>I bet there's some interesting history here.
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Title: Hi HN, I'm Kevin, the founder of Dendron (<a href="https://www.dendron.so" rel="nofollow">https://www.dendron.so</a>). Dendron is a local, open-source, markdown-based note-taking tool that helps developers work with notes like they do with code.<p>My background is in software engineering. Before Dendron, I worked at AWS for 5 years on systems that had grown more complicated than what any one person (or team) could hope to understand.
As someone who doesn't have a great memory, I was always overwhelmed with technology and the constant flux in programming languages, frameworks, and techniques. I realized early on that I wouldn't be able to keep everything in my head and so I wanted a better way of externalizing this information in a way that could help me find it again when needed.<p>The problem with externalizing information is that it becomes hard to find again later unless you're diligent about maintaining a consistent structure. Search is a possible solution, but doesn't work at the scale of personal data (too big to keep in one's head but too small and too unstructured to effectively index). I tried all the note-taking tools and found that they too, to varying degrees, made it easy to get notes in, but hard to get specific information back out again—especially once the quantity of information grew beyond a certain threshold (eg. 1k notes).<p>Over a decade of experimenting, I found that the only times when I've been able to find information both consistently and quickly is when that information was well organized and well structured. Whether it's a certain naming convention or a precise hierarchy, once information was indexed in a way that made sense in my head, I could find it again. This led me to the structural approach that is now embedded in Dendron. I've been using it successfully myself to manage a personal corpus of over 30K notes.<p>Organizing notes doesn’t happen effortlessly or become unnecessary with note-taking tools. What’s different about Dendron is that we accept that organization is necessary and requires work — we give you the structure and the tooling to do it consistently.<p>Dendron is the combination of two things: (1) a structured superset of Markdown with a type system to map and enforce the consistency of your notes, and (2) tooling built on top of that structure - this is a growing set of commands and utilities that let users refactor, lookup, and share their knowledge. We borrow heavily from prior work in programming languages and developer tooling which help developers organize and reference millions of lines of code.<p>The main way that users interact with Dendron is as a VSCode plugin. When you start the plugin, Dendron starts a local server that indexes and processes commands from the plugin in a separate process. We have interactive graph views and a note preview which is powered by React and NextJS. These are the same components that go into our NextJS template which users can export to publish their notes.<p>Most of our users are developers. Their use cases include daily journals, keeping track of tasks, and implementing personal knowledge management systems. Many also take advantage of our publishing feature to share their notes on Github Pages and other platforms. Because notes are local, most of our users use Dendron for both personal notes and work. They keep their personal notes on a shared drive like Dropbox and work notes on their work computer. We also have enterprise customers that use Dendron to publish their content. For example, AWS uses Dendron to host a YC specific manual to new YC batches.<p>Currently, we have a Patreon-like model where supporters can contribute to get access to priority support, early builds and contributor-only chat. Next year, we are launching a teams offering, to give technical teams a better alternative to existing tools like Confluence and Notion.<p>Dendron is open source and self-hostable. The code is freely available in Github and can be installed on all VSCode compatible clients. You can get started by following the installation instructions here: <a href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/678c77d9-ef2c-4537-97b5-64556d6337f1/" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/678c77d9-ef2c-4537-97b5-64556d...</a>. We also offer a CLI that has a subset of the functionality available from the plugin, which is also open source.<p>Whether you're just getting into note-taking or are a seasoned veteran who has tried all the tools, I would love to hear how you do knowledge management. If you do try Dendron, please let me know how we can make it better for you! I'll be responding to comments all day - you're also free to email me directly at [email protected] or message me in our discord server (<a href="https://discord.gg/AE3NRw9" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/AE3NRw9</a>). Thanks for reading!
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Title: We are excited to announce Cedille, the largest language model for French (6b parameters).<p>Demo: <a href="https://cedille.ai" rel="nofollow">https://cedille.ai</a><p>Language models are general purpose AI systems that are able to solve a range of tasks by simply being prompted for it. It can be used for example to summarize text, do translations, or for idea generation & overcoming writer's block.<p>You may know GPT-3, the humongous model from OpenAI. Cedille is a similar model targeting the French demographic - but smaller, as we don’t yet have $1b in the bank like they do. Although GPT-3 supports multiple languages including French, our model is competitive with GPT-3 on a range of French tasks! Plus, of course we’re open source while they keep their model closed and heavily restrict access to it.<p>You can try it out right away from our playground: <a href="https://app.cedille.ai" rel="nofollow">https://app.cedille.ai</a><p>We are proponents of “open AI” and as such have released a checkpoint for the world to use (MIT license): <a href="https://github.com/coteries/cedille-ai" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/coteries/cedille-ai</a><p>One of the problems with large language models is the potentially toxic, sexist or in other ways unpleasant output. We tried our best to avoid this issue by doing extensive dataset filtering. As a result, our benchmark indicates that Cedille is indeed less toxic than GPT-3.
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Title: Curious to get peoples opinions about the current state of inflation and compensation.<p>Have you broached this subject with your company/ boss? Are you waiting till stuff gets really crazy with inflation? Do you think this will pass and October was just abnormal?
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Title: I'm curious if you have a favorite CS book specifically for the way it was written and how the author communicated their ideas.
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Title: People love their metrics. Whether it's how many steps they made in a day, or their karma score on Hackernews, etc<p>But social media metrics aside: what other metrics do you pay attention to in your daily life?<p>One obvious one for many people would be their bottom line / profit margin. But that aside, what numbers do you pay attention to each day?
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Title: Hi HN, maybe it's just the bubble I'm in but these days I see a lot of discussion around "no-code" and the "no-code" movement. There's also a bunch of new no-code apps being launched every day - https://www.producthunt.com/topics/no-code#order=trending.<p>Some seem to supplement developers (eg: retool) and some empower non-engineers to be able to build websites/apps/integrations without necessarily having a developer in the loop (eg: shopify/zapier/airtable).<p>What do you think about this movement? Clearly these apps/platforms enable non-developers to solve a bunch of problems which would otherwise need a software engineer. Is this a paradigm shift?
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Title: Hey HN! Kashish, Tejas, and Josh here. We’re building Hightouch (<a href="https://www.hightouch.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hightouch.io/</a>), a reverse ETL platform— that is, software that gets your data back out of your data warehouse and into the SaaS tools that people at your company are familiar with (like Salesforce). We enable you to Bring Your Own (BYO) database so that all your SaaS tools run off of the same dataset. You specify what data you want and where, and we take care of the rest.<p>We were exposed to the data integration space as early engineers at Segment. Segment and other CDPs (Customer Data Platforms) were built on an older model that hits a wall once you reach a certain level of complexity. You don’t have access to your own data, there isn’t a great way to express business logic, and you don’t have flexibility to transform data to your needs.<p>Cloud-based data warehouses like Snowflake and tools like dbt solved part of this problem. Where Segment/CDPs require you to store data in their format, warehouses let you store your data in any format. They let you store it in your own cloud for privacy and security. And where Segment/CDPs only have event data, warehouses have all your data—things like a full replica of Salesforce data and a full replica of Postgres data.<p>The problem is, all this data tends to get stuck in the warehouse and only get used for reports and dashboards. In our experience, business teams don’t want another BI dashboard. They want their data in their primary tools—the SaaS applications where they spend their days—so they can use it to actually operate their business.<p>Because of this mismatch, a lot of engineers are doing busywork writing scripts to get data from warehouses into CRMs like Salesforce, Hubspot, Customer.io, and so on. Such scripts are brittle—they need changing when users request more columns, when an API changes, etc. And that’s only if the business people are lucky enough to get engineers’ time in the first place. There are also a lot of teams downloading CSVs and manually uploading them to various platforms because they can’t get their work in front of engineers who are busy with a hundred other priorities.<p>We decided to build something that would appeal to both sides: business people who know what they want from their data and just need access to it, and data engineers who want to help but can’t build and maintain every integration as the marketing team buys an endless number of SaaS tools. That’s how we came up with Hightouch.<p>Hightouch is a platform that makes it easy to take models and views from your warehouse and sync them into your SaaS apps, using only SQL to express your logic. Mapping between columns and application fields is done through a declarative UI. You write a SQL query to pull the data you need, map columns from that query to fields in your SaaS tool, and set how often you want data to sync. We handle the rest. See a demo here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhHWG9hwj0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhHWG9hwj0</a>.<p>No more hard-coding database columns to a Salesforce field in Python or Javascript, only to have a sales team ask for a ‘quick change’. We handle all the annoying complexities of moving data around: type-casting, error handling, authentication, retries, debugging, observability, notifications/alerts, and changing APIs—freeing up your engineering time to work on problems specific to your business rather than syncing data into a CRM.<p>We’ve also built integrations we think data engineers will love. We integrate directly with dbt and dbt Cloud, we offer git sync for version control of your models and syncs, we have an Airflow operator, as well as a public API, and we’d love your ideas on what you think is missing.<p>Hightouch doesn’t store anything. We connect directly to your existing warehouse/database and SaaS tools. As data changes in the warehouse, it changes in the SaaS tool. You get full control and your data is always owned by you.<p>Our customers use Hightouch to do things like: sending a feed of new leads and customers to Slack; syncing product usage data into CRMs like Hubspot and Salesforce; and
syncing user cohorts into marketing systems, such as all users who abandoned their shopping cart, or users with a high “churn risk” score.<p>We’ve grown from 4 people to almost 30 now, and work with amazing customers like CircleCI, Plaid, Retool, Ramp, Lucid Chart, Nando’s, Grafana, Kong, Autotrader, Blend, and Imperfect Foods. We’re also hiring—we have over 15 positions open at <a href="https://hightouch.io/careers/" rel="nofollow">https://hightouch.io/careers/</a>, and we would love to meet you and have you join the team.<p>We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback and experiences on data warehouses, building integrations, ETL, workflow orchestration, and anything data related!
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Title: I'll be here for the next 2.5 hours and then again at around 11:30 am PST for another 2.5 hours. As usual, there are lots of possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you are concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!<p>Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>.
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Title: I am primarily concerned with app data. I have many apps like messaging apps that have important private data such as contacts and message history that is difficult or impossible to export. A big concern is if I lose my phone, there are some accounts that can only be recovered using the same phone number, which may be impossible if the phone company refuses to issue another SIM card with the same number (a problem when traveling abroad).<p>So what do you guys do to get full (preferably offline) backups now that Android 12 has removed backup functionality from adb? Is the only option to use a phone that can be rooted? (unfortunately not possible with my Samsung Fold 3 without disabling the camera).
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I am in a bit of dilemma. I started a enterprise software startup with a bunch of friends in college, we got a bit of funding and I dropped out. We did couple hundred k in revenue and raised a bit more but eventually we couldn't make it work. For past 2 years feels like I have been in a zombie startup and want to move on.<p>For people who have been in the same boat, what did you end up doing? As for getting ready to be in the job market again, what kind of positions did you end up applying for?<p>I am thinking either:<p>1) Join a seed/series a startup as a developer and grow with them. Pros of this are this is what I know how to do best and love working in small teams<p>2) Join a more established bigger co. Pros are a more stable position but not sure it will be an environment i will be able to do well in
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Title: I want to learn Algorithms & Data Structures from scratch then move on to doing LeetCode.<p>But I want a structured guide / textbook that I can follow which also contains exercises.<p>I have checked the CLRS book, but, it's more of a reference than a book that you can read from cover to cover. For example a basic Stack is explained in a page and a half or two, for me this is not enough, I want a book that can go into the details of each specific DS or Algorirhm.<p>*TL;DR:* Are there any books better than CLRS for DS & Algos?
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Title: I have a friend who has been offered a position at a tech startup. He will be a software engineer. There are already more than 5 employees (including CEO, etc.), but less than 10.<p>Besides a salary, he has been offered around .2% of the total shares, vesting over 4 years.<p>Is that about the right amount? My gut feeling is that it is too low.<p>I'm wondering what "similarly early" employees have been offered at other startups. Examples would be welcome.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>During the pandemic, two friends and I built Grapic [1], an AR app to let us use real paper and whiteboards to brainstorm when working remote. We're all visual thinkers and found the drawing part really lacking in tools like Miro.<p>The aim is to make it possible to screen share any real surface. We use AR and some computer vision to let you mark a rectangle on a flat surface (like a whiteboard or paper notebook), and then stream a stabilized and "flattened" version of that surface as video. The video can either be shared as to a webRTC room that you can access with a link or directly into a zoom meeting over Airplay [2].<p>The app is currently iOS only and we're holding off an Android version until we know there is sufficient demand.<p>We would be super thankful for any feedback or advice!<p>Best<p>Niko<p>[1] Grapic website: <a href="https://www.grapic.co/" rel="nofollow">https://www.grapic.co/</a><p>[2] Note: There is unfortunately a bug in Zoom on macOS Monterey where Airplay to Mac interferes with Zooms Airplay screen sharing. Zoom is working on a fix but in the meantime there is a workaround: <a href="https://www.grapic.co/zoom-troubleshooting" rel="nofollow">https://www.grapic.co/zoom-troubleshooting</a>
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Kevin, Guru, and Peter from Metaplane (<a href="https://metaplane.dev" rel="nofollow">https://metaplane.dev</a>). Metaplane is a data observability tool that continuously monitors your data stack, alerts you when something goes wrong, and provides relevant metadata to help you debug.<p>Data teams are often the last to know about data-related issues. They commonly find out only when an executive messages them about a broken dashboard. This is comparable to finding out about your servers being down only when your end users report it! In software engineering, this problem is solved with observability tools like Datadog and SignalFx. These monitor your system over time by tracking metrics (like CPU, memory usage or any arbitrary value), and sending alerts when they hit thresholds or are anomalous.<p>Metaplane solves this problem for data teams. We continuously monitor our users’ data warehouse tables and columns, testing for things like row counts, freshness, cardinality, uniqueness, nullness, and statistical properties like mean/median/min/max, as well as schema changes. After we build up a baseline of data points for each of these tests, we send alerts on anomalies to the user's Slack channel. Each alert includes metadata like upstream/downstream tables and BI dashboards affected by the issue, so that the user can assess how important the issue is and how quickly it should be addressed.<p>We're particularly careful about alert fatigue and false positives. Since we can't ask users to set manual thresholds (they would be changing all the time), we have to make a reasonable prediction based on past data, which can result in false positives and false negatives. If we under-alert, we miss important issues, but if we over-alert, users become desensitized and start ignoring alerts. Our solution is to include "Mark as anomaly" and "Mark as normal" buttons with each alert, for users to provide feedback to the model.<p>To give a common example, Metaplane can tell you that a revenue metric in a Snowflake column has spiked from $100 to $10,000 in an unexpected way. The alert includes upstream dependencies in dbt and downstream Looker dashboards that are impacted. Another example is if a table in Redshift that is usually updated every day hasn’t been updated in over 48 hours. A third example is if a table in BigQuery that typically increments 10M rows every day suddenly adds only 1M rows because of an upstream vendor bug. These are all what we think of as “silent data bugs” — all systems are green, but your data is just wrong!<p>Over the last eight months, we've caught problems like these for data teams at dozens of companies including Imperfect Foods, Drift, Vendr, Reforge, Air Up, Teachable, and Appcues.<p>Today, we’re excited to launch our self-serve product and free plan with the HN community. Setting up monitoring for your data stack takes less than 10 minutes. Here's a 4 minute demo video to see how it works: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/1aa54eb8b45548e180f6ab3a4a580cc5" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/1aa54eb8b45548e180f6ab3a4a580cc5</a>. We make money by charging for more tests and team/enterprise features. You can use our new free plan or try out all of our features in a 30 day trial, no credit card required.<p>Our goal is to help data teams of any size be the first to know about data issues. We think observability will become as much of a no-brainer to data teams as it is to software engineers today. Starting on AWS?—get Datadog. Bringing on Snowflake?—get a data observability tool (hopefully ours!). Eventually we want to support more use cases that you’d expect from a Datadog for data, like log centralization and diagnostics, spend monitoring, performance insights, and deep integration with upstream applications. For now, we’re just starting where the pain is highest.<p>We'd love to hear your ideas, experiences, and feedback, and will be answering any questions in the comments!
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Title: I was always a straight-A student until I came to university, where I could never seem to care about the course material or putting effort into my classes. As a result I never even finished my bachelors degree, and I'm now in my early 30s and regretting it a lot.<p>Fortunately I was able to land a job in tech, an industry which cares a little bit less about credentials, and I've now held a number of jobs in software. I'm paid well and I think I'm pretty good at what I do. But then I look around and see the cool jobs in 3D graphics, in distributed systems, in machine learning, or other "hard computer science" fields, and it feels like I will never be qualified without a graduate degree.<p>It really bums me out and constantly thinking about it is starting to wear me out mentally. Putting my career on hold for a few years to go back to school has a very high opportunity cost right now, and even if I were to do that I would still feel like a massive screw-up for going back to university in my 30s. At the same time, I feel like I'm throwing away my potential and my curiosity about deeper technical topics.<p>Has anyone here been in a similar situation? What should I do?
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Title: We are all dependent on electronics in modern life, from stuff found in our appliances and cars to entertainment. Given the ever increasing potential for disintegration of global supply chain, what would be your choices for hypothetical technological prepping? Microcontroller boards? Power electronics? RF?
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Title: Looking mostly for smaller startups and solo devs blogging insights from developing own products
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Title: I absolutely love HN, but obviously it’s focused on webdev, startups, and programming. As a sysadmin, the majority of the content isn’t relevant to me professionally.<p>Fellow sysadmins: what’s your favorite alternative to HN?
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Title: It's 9:48am PST and spotify.com is a 404. Other apps known to use GCP also down. GCP status page is all green at the time of this writing: https://status.cloud.google.com/
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Title: A few questions for anyone at Spotify:<p>- Why isn't there a list of new episodes from podcasts you follow? (This should be MVP- absolutely every other podcast service i know of has this!)
- How exactly am I supposed to use the "your episodes" playlist?
- Why don't podcasts always sort correctly when you go to a podcast list?
- Why can't I search within an artist's page? even if it's limited to their discography?
- Why can't there be a separate list item in the sidebar for podcasts, artists and albums?
- Why can't I get to the "find podcasts" area from the library (or the your episodes area)? this used to exist!
- in the podcasts section in your library, why can't I sort by most recently updated?<p>I get why Spotify is pushing podcasts so hard, but why not implement some absolutely basic features?<p>Phone issues:
- Why does it take so long (if it even shows up) for downloaded podcasts to show up when you're offline?
- what's the point of downloading them if they won't show up?!?!?!?!?!
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Title: I have a limited time and need to quickly ramp up on these skills. I need hands-on experience as that's how I learn best. What would be your go-to resource/workshop for that?<p>Is there some standard "here are existing 10 services and in this guide we'll go through deploying them, securing them, installing service mesh, provisioning database..." kind of thing?
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Title: I'm considering an E ink phone, like the Mudita Pure. Does any one have experience with an E ink mobile device? What are your thoughts? Pros? Cons?
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Title: What screen time limit do you set? What apps or web sites do you restrict (or allow)? What tools do you use?<p>How do you describe the dangers of the Internet without making it scary, or sounding dramatic?<p>How do you respond to "but dad, all my classmates have their phones unlimited and unsupervised"?<p>For context, what is the approximate age category of your child?<p>There's a billion articles written about all of it, but I am really interested to hear the crowd here.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I have this frustration with the modern web. Everything's locked into a platform or requires a build step or CI.<p>It got me thinking the other day: what's the easiest way to sync a TXT file onto the web?<p>I thought about FTP, scp, Dropbox, GitHub — but all of them require multiple manual steps and feel complex.<p>It got my wondering: why isn't it easier today to put something on the internet than it was 10 years ago?
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Title: At my current job my boss and I have been discussing a potential move for me into management. I am currently a technical/functional lead but I find myself more and more dealing with “people” challenges and helping to unblock others rather than purely solving technical issues.<p>At this point I’m a little on the fence about whether becoming a full-blown manager appeals to me. I really like working on technical issues but at the same time I love being able to provide some leadership and guidance for those who need it. It would also give me slightly more weight when it comes to departmental decisions and high-level strategic goals which I do find appealing.<p>In general, I’m curious what the transition was like for most folks who moved from being an individual contributor to a manager. Did you ultimately end up loving it? Hated it?<p>Any advice and input is greatly appreciated!
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Title: I've tried every possible way to contact Uber I can find to only be met with canned answers by what I assume are bots. I was a victim of this so I know it's being exploited by drivers currently.<p>How to assault/rob your passengers and not get caught:<p>1. Accept the ride<p>2. Meet the passenger and lock then in your car.<p>3. Do not start the ride, but instead assault, extort, etc... Your passenger.<p>4. Decline the ride when they flee the car.<p>5. Ride is now routed to the next driver.<p>6. Profit!!! Because you car and name will never appear in the riders history. The rider safety hotline does not have the ability to see driver canceled rides. You cannot open a help case in the app because driver cancelled rides do not appear. Uber support (if you can get them to respond) do not have the ability to see driver canceled rides. There is no way to escalate this issue. There's no human to talk to about this issue. You are totally safe to do this with impunity as a driver.<p>For all the tech magic, anything that deviates outside what they have considered as possible leads to a black hole. How do we contact Uber about this massive exploit before it blows up and tanks their already floundering stock price?
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Title: On a new side project I'm working on I need to have a fair amount of documentation for usage, implementation, options, etc. In the past I've used https://docsify.js.org hosted on Vercel, but I was curious if there is anything else out there people like. Looking for free or paid options. So long has I can host on a subdomain I'm indifferent.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Reading this page (https://hackerdaily.io/29237308/comments) and I've found a few blogs I like, but I'm struggling to build a rubric for what makes a good engineering blog.<p>I'm working with some awesome engineers who have day jobs but still find time to write some posts. How do we make sure we make best use of their time?<p>Do "How we did X to improve Y" posts work? Do you want backgrounders to our key area or should we assume knowledge and give a bucketload of detail? I'm assuming nobody wants promotional content, but if we say how awesome we think something is because we solved our biggest pain point, does that count?
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Title: Hello HN! I’m Ross, and alongside my brother / co-founder Ryan, we’re building Accord (<a href="https://inaccord.com" rel="nofollow">https://inaccord.com</a>) with the goal of making B2B sales suck less for buyers and sellers. Yep, sales... sometimes a dirty word in the startup community, but read on—it’s not what you think!<p>I helped Stripe’s sales org go from a couple of us trying to find potential users, to scaling a 450-person global revenue machine. That rollercoaster of a learning curve turned all my ideas about sales on their head. At first I assumed that success in sales was based on someone’s ability to be a smooth talker, applying ad-hoc tricks, improvising each deal. Thousands of conversations and hundreds of deals at Stripe taught me the opposite: the key to personal success in winning deals, as well as the success of the entire sales org, is in building repeatable processes and iterating on them each day. What works best is not a cowboy operation with people winging it—it’s orderly, iterative, and actually more reminiscent of building great products.<p>Jumping ahead a bit: the idea behind Accord is to take all those lessons and build them into a platform that sellers and buyers can immediately use, so you don’t have to learn the hard way like we did. A well-oiled B2B sales machine is surprisingly well-suited for software, so we built that software. We let you easily create a repeatable, collaborative sales process (even if you don’t have a background in sales), and that is really what helps you hit your revenue goals.<p>Ok, so back to the wild world of startup sales and why I decided to leave Stripe after 4 amazing years. Well, similar to a lot of you, I truly felt the bar for B2B sales today sucked and wanted to use the tough lessons learned to level-up the experience, making sales more collaborative, transparent, and genuinely helpful. Every startup needs to sell, but very few do a decent job at it, and I think this is because many founders feel like they need to be born with amazing interpersonal skills. In reality, sales is more of a science than an art, and is much more accessible than founders think.<p>For example: Customers don’t want to talk to sales reps. One of our wildest learnings is that 95% of the buying process is NOT spent with a seller. You get only 5% of the entire process to engage, so you’d better get it right. How? By partnering with customers to actually solve their problems.<p>Not only that, but the average B2B sale involves 14+ people, and that’s only on the buyer’s side! You can imagine the inefficiency and crossed signals here.<p>Even if you have the above all figured out, you need a system to reinforce this collaborative, buyer-first approach. You need to structure your sales the way you can structure engineering (Github), design (Figma), product (Jira). No matter what you try, you’re never going to see a real transformation in sales until you bring the buyer into the process.<p>Accord provides a radically collaborative workspace that makes you look like seasoned sellers. We give you collaborative, customer-facing workspaces to drive alignment throughout the process; templated sales & onboarding playbooks; a Resource Hub for managing key deal documents, images, etc.; Engagement Insights (see how prospects are interacting with your process); Contextual Conversations— commenting system contextually attached to particular key parts in the sales process; integration with Slack & Salesforce plus integrations through Zapier - like Hubspot; and Smart Notifications(keep stakeholders informed by sending the right message or reminder at the right time).<p>If you’re curious to try it out we offer free trials (<a href="https://inaccord.com/free-trial/hacker-news" rel="nofollow">https://inaccord.com/free-trial/hacker-news</a>) and free sales consulting sessions from our founding team (Seed/Series A startups + Stripe, Shopify, Google Cloud).<p>We'd love to hear if this resonates with your experience as either a seller or buyer of tech!
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Title: I'm in an interesting situation and would like to know about what others who have faced the same situation have done in the past.<p>I've been in the market for a new job since spring. At the beginning, I was only focused on products I really liked to (in summary, what a futurist engineer geek would like to: AI, blockchain, security, etc). I had several interviews, but no one struck a deal, either because they decided to move on with other candidates or because I decided to drop off.<p>Fast forward to mid September, I decided to start applying to positions that suit my role and/or career progression, but in less appealing companies. And I have been very successful. The minimum offer I have received doubles my current salary.<p>So, I'm in this situation in which I have offers which look positive from a financial and career progression point of view, but in boring products which not interest me at all and which have no upside at all.<p>Have you ever been in that position? What did you do?
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Title: I want to start a teaching business. I'm struggling to find good open-source software on which I can start building my platform. The state-of-the-art seems to be Moodle or Canvas which are designed for universities - they use archaic UI and features.<p>Is there something where I can host an online course, also have live classes and perhaps add on features like a community for students, assignments, etc? The only options I am seeing are things like Kajabi and Teachable which are very restrictive in their feature set, and not customizable.<p>Anyone running an edtech company here? What do you use? Or do you build everything custom?
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Title: Looking at our VPS provider bills each month makes me cringe. I was thinking maybe we could offload non-critical systems to our own colocated servers onsite or in a cabinet in a local data center.<p>Has anyone done this and what was your experience?<p>How do you select a colo and what do you look for?<p>How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really?
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Title: They may increase productivity tremendously<p>They may only be common among experienced developers<p>They may be used at innovative startups<p>They may even be used at FAANGs<p>They need not cater to web developers only<p>They may help amazingly to learn coding<p>They may useful for a new programmer<p>The criteria is anything that has helped you from all diverse sectors of the industry.
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Title: A long time ago I worked as a software consultant/contractor in the US, and I'm thinking of doing it again. I mostly enjoyed it but the "find your next client" part was really stressful. Of course, there's another big industry in which talent always has to find projects and vice-versa, and that's the film (and television) industry... in which there are Agents whose job it is to do that matching for a 10% share of the deal.<p>But when I look around I don't see that happening in software. I know some people tried, but I don't think it got anywhere. Instead I still see "consulting companies" that have employees, and "independent contractors" that have to constantly worry about their next gig. For people who want to be independent contractors, but don't want to do the whole networking-for-jobs thing, it seems like Hollywood-style agents would be the perfect solution.<p>Why isn't the software agent a thing, even a dominant thing, in our industry?
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Title: As we all know, there is a trend in the automotive industry towards ever more digital "features" in cars. Many of these software systems pose privacy risks; many others simply don't work as intended, leading to frustration and trips to the dealership. For those of us who are "old-school" and prefer their cars without fancy digital gimmicks, which cars would you recommend?
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Title: I was watching a video game documentary about the history of the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise, a theme park management game that had both an easy learning curve but with incredibly sophisticated dynamics. What really impressed me however was the origins of the first two titles: written by one man in assembly language.<p>At that point, I realized how mediocre and untalented I was. Nothing I’m doing in my life are anything that people will remember me for. Throughout my life, I’ve seen many awe inspiring projects done by extremely talented people, way more intelligent than I am, come to fruition. Over the years, I realized how shallow and dumb I really am. I’m uninteresting.<p>Most of my career revolved around software development, something that I’ve done since I was 17 (now I'm 30) until a few years ago. I found myself writing entreprise software usually in the backend and that’s all I really knew except for some server administration and scripting sprinkled on top. Sat beside me were full-stack developers with expertise in DevOps as well. They knew how to do everything I could on top of so much else. As for me, I can barely write basic HTML pages.<p>I meet with incredibly smart people with master’s degrees and PhDs knowing so much about their field of expertise while I’m a University drop-out. People who know world history so well while being able to talk about the hard problem of consciousness at the same time. YouTubers and Twitch streamers who are so talented at playing games and entertaining us along the way.<p>There’s people who have paved the way for innovation and foresight that I don’t have at all. Those who make so much money due to their talents and bringing them to life in this world of ours. I’ve watched so many documentaries about all sorts of people from racing drivers, to game developers, comedians, data science experts, cybersecurity nuts, music producers, video editors, documentaries makers and so much more. These are all things that come to mind thinking that I’ll never be able to do any of that.<p>I’m mostly a self-taught person teaching myself skills as I go along with my life. I generally don’t pick up much except for a few facts that I can repeat to others. I can barely do derivatives anymore in math or draw like I used to. My talents are shallow and honestly quite useless.<p>Today, I don’t do much with my life other than binging on YouTube documentaries and reading Wikipedia articles not helping my case. My motivation for learning is shrinking slowly and would much rather stare out of the window while I’m not doing my obligatory 8 hours of daily work.<p>Now, I’m an unimportant technical writer composing documents for developers and users. There’s no path for career growth if I stay in this specialty. My work doesn’t feel like it takes much talent and I was hired a few times without having any credentials in business writing.<p>I’ve been told by previous managers that I’m always in “learning mode” and quite “creative” but I can’t convince myself that these traits are actually true. I feel untalented, empty and dumb.<p>My dreams do exist but they starting to seem more and more superficial. There’s a lot of subjects and activities that I’m really interested of getting into but I can’t just dive into it. I blame it on the lack of time and laziness but I have strong time management skills and can conjure up much empty slots in my schedule. I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.
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Title: I purchased a very nice .io domain 2 days ago and I received an email from my registar today saying there was a bug in the registry and that the domain should not have been available so they are going to cancel my registration.<p>Right now I own the domain. What can I do? Is it okay for registries to do this? Does it happen often?<p>Thanks!
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Title: Just curious what kind of predictions you have for the upcoming years 2022, 2023, 2024.<p>I think the obvious one would be the EV wars. Also the delayed shipping dates for those vehicles. IE: If you order an EV truck now you wont get it until 2024.<p>Hopefully staying remote and rent not going up, but one can only hope...
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Title: Although there are countless Android phone makers, there isn't a single one of them that makes compact phones. Sony was in the business for a while but it seems to lower the supply of the new models and mark them with super high prices.
That's very strange as there is clearly demand for smaller phones, shown by the iPhone mini. Apple offers an almost identical compact phone to it's regular model, but it seems that phone makers who usually copy Apple on everything, just skip this idea at all.
If anyone has thoughts on it or a compact model to recommend I'll be glad to hear.
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Title: I know that a lot of people on HN are focused on retiring as early as possible. However, for a variety of reasons (some within my control and some not) it seems unlikely that I will ever be able to afford a comfortable retirement despite my efforts to save. I've heard from others in my peer group that they are in the same boat.<p>Let's say that I am in my 30s now, reasonably healthy both mentally and physically, and want to take steps that will allow me to continue working in a technical field for as long as possible (40+ years) so that I can maintain my income well into old age.<p>What are some things I should start doing now and/or think about doing in the future that will allow me to stay "on my game" in terms of being able to work and earn a living?
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Title: Just wanted to let people know incase there are sellers that are having to pay return fees for items that Amazon has canceled due to the state of emergency and highway washouts in British Columbia.<p>I just got scolded by the rudest customer service rep I have ever dealt with. Apperantly I should "Know full well that BC had a weather event and that my items were damaged" which is another lie as I tracked them and they never left the Amazon processing center.<p>But anyways I assume what they are doing is clearing up space for new deliverable orders as the center is jammed full of packages that are for addresses cut off from the lower mainland. All new orders are being rerouted from the east rather than the south, but instead of reshipping the items at their southern warehouse, they just claimed they were all returns and placed the owness on the sellers for returned items.<p>I guess doing the right thing would have eaten into Amazons profit margins, and if those margins are not big enough...well I guess their billionaire owner wont be able to take another joy ride into space.<p>Dealing with Amazon customer support is felling more and more like dealing with an abusive partner.
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Title: I remember reading about cryptocurrencies on HN around the time Bitcoin was first published. A lot of skepticism was already there, of course. But the discussions were mostly curious, and people trying to learn more, even when they didn't really understand any value of the thing, or when they thought it might be bad.<p>Contrast that with how the discussions on HN are today, where there are basically two camps that are just screaming at each other. Curious conversations about cryptocurrencies on HN are basically gone, and one group yells how great everything is while the other one is warning of the impeding doom and zero use cases.<p>Why did it get like this? Is the sentiment similar on other social media? Is there any particular reason cryptocurrencies are so divisive while other subjects are not?
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Title: I am building a web SAAS and being a developer, I want to mostly focus on development and skip the marketing, pr and other related stuff, hence I am looking for tools to automate/delegate as much as possible. I like building products after all.<p>There are so many great tools and strategies, but almost all of them require you to have a person or even a team to support it - for example all social media automation tools require you to prepare a lot of content to be effective. I can't do that.<p>Do you know any great tools that are more or less 0 maintenance, relatively short setup and deliver value?<p>It doesn't have to necessary be marketing tool, but it's what made me curious. If you know of development, accounting or whatever other tool please shoot!
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Title: I use this mental model called 'Play to your strengths'. It's more a saying than a model, but a model nonetheless. Anyways it has helped me build great things, since I can only ever build on strength. I fix my weaknesses where I can, but I don't pay my weaknesses too much attention.<p>There's this whole cult about 'fixing' yourself, and seminars galore by 'successful people' who want you to mimic their behaviors so you can be 'successful' too, so I avoid this groupthink.<p>What other little sayings do you repeat to yourself or what other mental models do you employ daily?
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Title: Sorry for the incoming rant, but this feature from Chrome is so ridiculous and user-hostile that I just need to get it off my chest somewhere. I'm sure people at Google read this forum as well, so if someone from the Chrome team happens to read this and take the complaint to heart it would be an added bonus.<p>I have a personal website, let's call it "www.myname.com", that is visited somewhat frequently by various people. However, when they are sent to my website, will Chrome correctly inform them they are currently viewing "www.myname.com"? No. It (incorrectly and baselessly) assumes the www must be meaningless, and lies to the user by showing the website address as simply "myname.com" instead.<p>The crux of the issue is that the root domain "myname.com" does NOT point to my website, and will simply time out without a response. There is nothing I can do to fix this. My domain host does not allow ALIAS records on the root domain, only A records. Conversely, my server host (Heroku) does not allow A records for routing, only ALIAS. As such, I'm stuck with the www solution.<p>Basically, if a visitor remembers the address Chrome shows them on my website and tries to revisit it via "myname.com", they will simply be sent into the void, with no idea of what is happening.<p>There is no justification for hiding the subdomain from the url. The subdomain and the root domain point to DIFFERENT locations, and Chrome will NEVER know if the difference is significant or not. Redirecting www to the root domain is just a cultural norm. What's next? Showing "fruit.com" when you visit "apple.com" because it's linguistically similar and maybe could point to the same place? Apparently showing the correct address of the website doesn't matter, so I see no reason not to.<p>And what's the potential upside for the user? Saving 3 characters and a dot in the address bar. Is it really worth breaking the domain name system for that?<p>Stop it, please.<p>P.S. Everything I've mentioned above applies to Safari as well.<p>P.P.S. I suspect people will tell me to change domain host or server host. I'm looking into it, but it's a hassle and it would be nice to know Chrome isn't trying to actively trick my visitors in the meantime.
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Title: So I’ve done everything from parsing XML in the 2000s with java, to writing VXLan kernel drivers for SmartOS. It’s been a blast!<p>However, I’m not sure any of the work I did has really done anything to “make the world a better place.” I’m having a hard time seeing software as anything other then a more optimized way of removing money from someone’s wallet and concentrating it in someone else’s wallet.<p>So I want to know, how do people make software work meaningful, and how do you see it making the world better?
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Title: This week will be my 16th Thanksgiving in a row working. I haven't had a cost-of-living increase since 2008, the annual merit increases cap out right around inflation (or under) most years, I've been working 60~ hour weeks, working 6 day weeks, for over half a year now. In the past 2 weeks we've had 3 people quit from just my team. Put a fork in me, I'm done.<p>The problem is, my job doesn't really translate to much. I fill out paperwork all day, clearing international freight through customs. I don't have a GED, I'm still 3~ years out from earning a degree (which I don't actually want, but employers 100% do). I've even been rejected by companies in my industry, Flexport for example rejected me outright for not having a degree at a time when I had 11 years of experience "Hope all is well, Ryan! I wanted to extend a virtual wave and thank you for your interest in joining our team. You obviously have many of the skills we're looking for. However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree as well as previous experience in a broker role doing entries and customs classifications." so I struggle to even escape my current employer for a job that pays even remotely what I make (about 39k in central Indiana after 15 and a half years, while McDonalds is starting at $13-15 an hour all over the state...).<p>I'm at the point where the only joy I have in my life is what little time my wife and I get to spend together, and some volunteer stuff through my religion. Today I'll clock in, work 11 hours, get to have dinner with my wife and do some classwork, then back to bed to rinse and repeat. On Thanksgiving I'll only work 10 hours...<p>What do I do? I can't get a degree any faster than I already am.
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Title: This post is inspired by[0]. During the "great resignation" trend there were a lot of posts about people quitting due to burn out or otherwise. I wonder what they did end up doing.<p>I am not sure what I'd do if I'd quit. Maybe travel for a bit doing nothing and then start my own thing.<p>[0]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407560" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407560</a>
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Title: Books like nand2tetris, Let Over Lambda, Lisp in Small Pieces, Hacker's Delight are iconic. They aren't required reading to do well in software but they are extremely interesting and are fairly easy to read (they are well edited).<p>What other books are in this vein?<p>Due to popularity, feel free to skip The Littler Schemer/MLer, HtDP, SICP, On Lisp, Thinking in Forth. And let's skip history, biography books like Soul of a New Machine and Isaacson's Jobs.<p>And again, let's skip books that you might actually consider required reading for experienced developers.
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Title: I've worked on JVM languages for a decade, and know it from a practical standpoint, but would like to dive into the internals of garbage collection, memory pools (eden space, survivor space), and threads (virtual threads, green threads, etc)
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Title: I'm looking to build a new app with a frontend, rest API, and server-side rendering. I'd prefer a single batteried framework supporting all of these out of the box.<p>It's been a while since I can develop from a clean slate and I was hoping web dev in 2021 would be much simpler than what I am used to. However, I spent this entire morning looking at modern frameworks (not going to name them to avoid turning this into a different kind of discussion) and I'm kinda disappointed. They all look complicated and require lots of configs and plumbing to get started.<p>Any stack/framework that you find simple and joyful to develop with?
Upvote: | 99 |
Title: Inspired by [1], I considered my key reads of the year:<p>* Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holliday<p>* Post Corona by Scott Galloway<p>* Feck Perfuction by James Victore<p>What about you?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29309758
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Title: I've had uBlock Origin and NoScript installed faithfully for the past few years at least...<p>Kind of annoying having to whitelist every website I visit on NoScript these days but worth it imho.<p>Just curious if there are any others out there I should check out.
Upvote: | 249 |
Title: My friend works in a bank and for a long time has wanted to make the switch to Python. To date, he has read a few books and knows some intermediate concepts, such as closures, generators, etc.. Outside of Python, he has built workflows in Alteryx and knows some SQL.<p>His teenage son challenged him to start applying for roles in 3 calendar months from now. He figures he can dedicate a max of 3 hours per day. How should he best use his time?<p>Should he drill on Leetcode? Build a small portfolio? Gain a specialization within Python? How best would you allocate his hours?
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Title: There's a trend to make login buttons less obvious/attractive than signup/schedule a demo/etc buttons. To the point where some sites will actively discourage login. Is this because the metrics driving these sites are primarily user acquisition? Is this some UX trend I missed? I would say that it could be that designers don't expect people to ever log out, but many of these sites won't keep you logged in anyway, so you need to sign in every time you use them.
Upvote: | 64 |
Title: I've been a "front end" guy since 2007. The pool of jobs I can fit gets smaller every year because I'm not a very good modern front end guy.<p>I'm not good at animations, responsive layouts, pixel perfection, es6<p>The simplest task now so complicated, many edge cases.<p>Things get deprecated (or sunsetted) so fast.<p>When I open the chrome inspector there's 10 new features which I ignore. It's too much.<p>I spend so much time googling obscure npm error to fix my local dev environment with each OS or package update.<p>I lost confidence to apply for jobs because I don't have the will to study the things they will test me for.<p>Has anyone made that move from front to back, do you feel it's easier?
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Title: I’m a CEO with very limited free time/capacity. I would love to recruit someone to help out with “everything else” — that means personal tasks first and foremost, but involvement with the administrative/day-to-day tasks in my business too.<p>Whilst I’ve recruited and managed plenty of “traditional” roles in the office, this area is new to me.<p>Has anyone hired a PA/EA before, who can share any tips or advice?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I've been doing the startup thing for a decade now. Founded my first company and we raised a few million and had an OK exit - that is to say, I can scrape by without working too hard for the rest of my life, but this would be a mediocre result and career, at best.<p>So it's been a few years since then and I've been trying to start new things. Nothing seems to stick -- there's no excitement from other people, and I can't seem to stay focused on an idea for more than a few months.<p>The <i>hype</i> around startups now is also a drag, tbh... It was fun when it was geeky nerds building stuff, and now it's like everyone and their mother is a marketing machine. On top of that, I can't help but wonder if the world really needs another Canva or Airtable or whatever... Yet this is where everyone seems to want to be.<p>So... I spend more time debating ideas and giving up on them than I do actually building anything.<p>So now I'm wondering: should I just get a job? Part of my knows I will regret doing that but I also feel like I'm getting stale and useless.<p>Anyone else been in this situation? How'd you get out of it?
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Title: I have been really thankful for hackernews. This place has been full of great knowledge and people.<p>I really appreciate the efforts of the people who are running this platform.<p>HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Upvote: | 1098 |
Title: I tend to buy most of my yearly subscriptions and learning materials during Black Friday. Are you aware of deals that may be particularly interesting this year? I’m particularly interested on those coming from independent creators as those tend to be less known outside their circles, but anything is fair game.
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Title: (and any advice on acquiring these basic social skills?)<p>A year of haphazardly watching YouTube videos and reading papers and I learned enough to start contributing to real research. But 18 years of human interaction and I'm still missing out on social skills apparently. It's like everyone else has a degree in all these unwritten rules that I'm just supposed to know.
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Title: Recently I got a promotion at my job. I was working with another guy in a small company with an even smaller IT department. That guy was fired and I got the position to be the only sysadmin at the moment. I never had any experience working and managing the whole IT infrastructure, because the company has 4 campuses around the city. I'm kinda confused on how to manage everything, my background is with information security and it's going to be a big challenge for me because it's my first job.
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Title: Why the heck am I usually allowed only 20 or 50 or maybe 100 rows per page with whatever I’m looking at?<p>Is there some sort of shortage of CPU time?<p>Why not all me to see 500 or 1000 rows per page so I can scroll through the things you’re trying to sell me without needing to press “next” every 5 seconds?<p>Developers please, there’s no shortage of “rows”. Give us more.
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Title: Hi all! I'd really like to learn "higher level than highschool" math as a (long time ago) college drop out, but I find it really hard to read anything because of the math notations and zero explanation of it in the context. I didn't find on the web any good resource on the topic, do you any advice / link? Thanks!
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Title: I’m in the market for a new TV. I’d like it to be as dumb as possible. I don’t subscribe to any streaming services and download everything through torrents. I don’t want a TV that requires an internet connection and I really don’t want it to do anything other than display what I send to it. What’s the best TV for someone like me?<p>It doesn’t have to be totally dumb; I know these are expensive and I’m ok with a few features. But I need to be able to ignore them and I don’t want it to stop working when the manufacturer rolls out an “update”.
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Title: Post singularity, people (?) might look back and attribute certain events as a major indicator of the impending singularity. But for someone without the hind sight, looking into the future, what types of indicator would you look for? Also assuming that even if singularity is achieved (?) at some locations, the effects would take times to spread. Say it's already reached at the opposite corner of the world. How long would it take for it to be apparent and what are some indicators? Also, happy thanksgiving.
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Title: Something I should do in my 20's which will have good impact on my future.
Also things I should NOT to do in my 20's.
I am looking for all types of stuff - personal, professional, etc.<p>Thanks
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Title: I am not sure if it's something about the turkey itself or the ways generally employed to cook them, but dry turkey seems to be a common theme of discussion among people during thanksgiving. Although, it might also be my own biases that makes me think it's a common enough issue. So I figured HN would be a reliable enough group to ask if they have run into this problem/ found their own unique solutions.
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Title: This week, I found out that someone opened a bank account in my name. I was able to block the account, but I am not receiving any help from the bank. They don't even have a phone number to let me talk to someone. Everything is done via email :(<p>What steps can I take, to protect myself online? By now, it is safe to assume that my SSN, address, employment info are in multiple databases somewhere. Given this scenario, any advice?
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Title: A friend and I were discussing what it is about HN that maintains such a grip on our attention, and I realized something which is probably obvious to a lot of you: I often spend just as much time reading through and digesting the comments here as I do the original posts. It isn't uncommon for me to learn way more about the subject matter from comments than from the post itself.<p>Are there other communities, online or off, with a similar balance between the quality of the original source material (whatever that means in context) and the responses to it? For example: an online forum dedicated to an esoteric interest; a book club or writing group; your local bicycle repair shop; etc.<p>(A lot of workplaces probably exhibit this balance, but let's leave them out of the definition of "communities" for the purposes of this post.)
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Title: Ever since college, I've been used to sleeping very late (we're talking +2 AM). Sometimes I would even pull an all-nighter esp. for exams or because I was depressed and would keep myself busy online. I always thought if I say awake a bit longer I can finish this piece of code or answer this homework problem, but I always secretly knew that it's not efficient as I wouldn't make much progress late at night (my performance after 11 PM is almost 5%).<p>Also, waking up early has been almost a challenge for me, and I can't say how many opportunities I've missed because of that. I'm almost 30 now and I clearly see a huge reduction in my energy, yet I still sleep very late and wake up late.<p>There has to be a better way. As a kid, I used to be up for school between 6:30-7:30 AM and I would go to bed before 12 AM. I believe going to college changed lots of my good habits. Now I'm in grad school and seriously need to correct my sleep patterns. I appreciate any tips or help from my fellow HN'ers.
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Title: I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Rich-Espresso/dp/B08BR86LR3" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Ric...</a>
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Title: I'm sorry that this is a controversial topic, but I've been feeling increasingly uncomfortable about things going on at my current and previous workplaces and I don't know where to turn for thoughts and advice. It's a subject that's hard to discuss with anyone for fear of being labelled, but I'm feeling increasingly stressed out and concerned about how far things have gone at times.<p>I work in software, and in the last 10 years or so the businesses I have worked for have been very keen to have more women and people from ethnic minorities in their engineering team. Over the last couple of years I've sensed a real change, where any concern about the ethics of discriminating based on gender or ethnicity have gone completely out of the window. Candidates that are doing well are literally being ejected from the hiring process because they don't help diversity stats. On more than one occasion I've seen a hiring manager with open roles tell a recruiter to not bother them with any applications from white males.<p>I really enjoy working with a diverse range of people. I've sensed a mono-culture sometimes in technical groups, often driven by a strict hiring process that only lets in people that think in a very specific way. I prefer to interact with all different kinds of people, although I admit that I'm not convinced that 'different kinds' has to be about race and gender (but it is a part of the picture).<p>Over the last decade I think there has often been an unspoken preference towards candidates that improve diversity, and I don't have a problem with this. It's always hard to find the right balance, to recognise bias and encourage and allow those applications to prosper. The nuance has gone in recent years, and it has become common for interviewers to think nothing of directly and openly identifying "white male" as a negative trait when discussing a candidate after an interview. I feel like we need a bit of a cultural reset, to re-establish the basic principal that truly discriminating against any candidate on the basis of race or gender is wrong.<p>To those that say, "Hey, it's just time for white males to find out what it has been like for women and ethnic minorities", I'm afraid this line of reasoning, that two wrongs make a right, doesn't hold water for me at all. It's unjust to discriminate against a young graduate today, and have them pay the price for bygone injustice.<p>I'm concerned that at some point I will inevitably have to either challenge something, and be labelled a bigot or misogynist, or live an increasingly bizarre existence with things happening around me that I consider to be clearly wrong.<p>So what's your experience? Are you comfortable with this phenomenon and is it a shift you remotely recognise? Should I just stop worrying and embrace this? Have folks that work in other industries seen a similar change?
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Title: I've been working in software engineering for 18 years. I worked mostly as individual contributor (now as a Senior Staff Engineer), also I was an Engineering Manager for couple years. Now I am interviewing after a few years at the company, and I am hit by harsh reality. For the context, I am in Europe, not in the US.<p>I like technologies and programming, I want to further improve my skills in designing and developing reliable and maintainable distributed system, make better technical decisions. Also, I want to keep learning and playing with new techs. I am now interviewing for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer, My expectations for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer are that while staying hands-on, say for 30%, I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with big impact, etc. I expect that I would report to a Director or VP level manager, so that I could be exposed to a big picture, collaborate with and learn from a professional who operated on strategic level.<p>In reality, I am now interviewing for Staff / Principal roles and see a few problems that make me rethink my carrier plans. First, the definion for the most of those positions looks Senior Engineers with a few more years of experience: so you are limited to the scope of a single team scope, report to an Engineering manager, just be a worker at a feature conveyor, just be faster, mentor young workers, maybe get some devops skill. I feel limited in impact in such roles, my borders and carrier are defined by Engineer Managers, who are usually less experienced in engineering and leadership topics than I am. The work is also very repetitive, there is not much meaningful progression, next level. I think those titles are created to cover problems caused by diluted Senior titles: an illusional career progression candy for ICs with some salary increase.<p>I saw a few Staff / Principal roles that put a very high bar on technical expertise, when only 3-4 percent of all the engineers have such levels, and again usually limited to a lot of coding and a single team scope. They usually have long exhaustive interview process.<p>An important problem with Staff+ IC roles is that there is a low salary limit as well, and you will face much more competition for top roles. Mostly salaries top at the level of a director of engineering. It is typical for a company to have 10 directors, but only 1-2 IC with a similar compensation.<p>I want to work hard, and see meaningful progression: in salary, in impact, in respect.<p>I would like to ask for advice. I believe there are qute a lot 35+ engineers here that faced similar problems and made some decisions for their careers. Now I think to plan switching to a EM track or to Technical Product management. Thank you!
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Title: Yet somehow <a href="https://www.githubstatus.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.githubstatus.com</a> is ALL GREEN! smh
Upvote: | 442 |
Title: I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features.<p>I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis.<p>Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?
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Title: Today has been wild. I am quite shocked at how quickly the whole thing happened and how difficult it is to report the hacked account to instagram and try recover the account. The docs seem to take you in a loop without ever being able to resolve the problem...<p>My friends instagram account has only ~2,000 followers, so not even a huge amount, and her email and password was reset about 6pm to a gmail account, and by midnight the account had already posted deep-faked AI videos of her promoting cryptocurrency scams.<p>The deepfake videos are very realistic too, if I hadn't know her better or know about the hacking it would be very easy to believe it was real...<p>It's possible they deep-faked her videos ahead of time but it seems like something you'd only spend resources on only if you knew the attack was successful.<p>And there doesn't seem to be that much news or content online about this happening or it seems very targeted... but for such an account with such a small following it seems like it must be quite widespread problem.<p>Have you had this happen to someone you know personally and what do you think about how prepared we are to deal with scams this sophisticated or what effect they might have?
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Title: And a nuclear war could be multi-planetary, wiping out humanity everywhere.
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Title: Are you jaded about The Internet? I've been online 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what The Internet is about and have in a way <i>reached the end of The Internet</i>. I've seen just about everything you could want, and participated in many communities over the years, and I feel everything is just 'samey' now and follows the same pattern. It's hard for anything on The Internet to stand out and be unique (at least for me). YMMV on this.<p>Now with Web3/NFTs/cryptocurrency people are building an abstraction layer on top of the web and want to decentralize all the things, which is good to see, but I want to see all that fleshed out properly before I dive into it and leverage it. This is the <i>shiny thing</i> I look forward to on the web, but it's still early days. Other than that, the web seems kinda boring lately.<p>Are you jaded about the web too? I'd like to hear your thoughts!
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Title: For however you choose to define "worth".
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Title: Here's a very plausible threat: Some developer with a left-pad package, some dependency-of-a-dependency, injects malware into their library. A developer (who is broadly trustworthy) updates their package's dependencies without auditing them properly, and the malware ends up in a VSCode plugin that you use. You open VSCode, your system is infected.<p>We know this sort of malware is making its way onto package repositories [1]. We know people are falling for these attacks. How do we protect ourselves against this family of threats?<p>[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/21/npm_malware_password/<p>We could trust nothing beyond our base system and our browser, and refuse to use any code we don't fully audit, but this would be an impossibly austere way to live. I expect most of us, when pressed, would admit that we're trusting much more code than we would like to.<p>The alternative is sandboxing, using a lightweight option like firejail (which I use) or a totalizing system like QubesOS. But these systems are awkward to use, and have their own drawbacks.<p>What's the bar for reasonable security, in your opinion? How do you secure your workstation without living like a monk?
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Title: I have not seen any love for the Cosmo's mobile linux hardware. It has much better specs than the Pine and Librem offerings, has a headphone jack unlike the Fairphone 4, and seems criminally unmentioned.<p>https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/gemini-pda-1<p>https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/cosmo-communicator<p>Older Android devices supported by PostMarketOS are also never mentioned, such as these Xiaomi devices, with better specs and will be better devices for general usage, I see GNU/Linux on Android as the natural response to my generally seen Linux usage (longevity of hardware and software support for devices you already own, rather than buying new hardware to run linux).<p>https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices<p>https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Poco_F1_(xiaomi-beryllium)<p>https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Redmi_2_(xiaomi-wt88047)<p>I've used Ubuntu Touch with supported devices through Hallium ase well. If any of your old devices support these or you want to talk about other Linux mobile hardware, please do, I think there is too much bias and assumptions that only those 2 are "Linux phones".<p>https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
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Title: In the past couple of months I have noticed much more difficulty having my taps on links in Chrome iOS register. I'll tap the same link multiple times with no response whatsoever. When this happens scrolling the page a bit and retrying does seem to help. I would estimate that about a third of my initial taps fail to register. This is on the main article links as well as the harder to hit tiny links for comment, upvote, etc. I have no idea if this is an issue with recent updates to iOS, Chrome or this site. It has been quite frustrating. Has anyone else been experiencing this?
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