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Title: We have the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads. But what about people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money but still want to work together on cool projects?<p>For free to make the world better or to start a startup.<p>If you do, please post your project or your skills!
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Title: The only similar thread that I could find was from 2012 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652), so I decided to start one. Please share your all-time favorite HN threads here.
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Title: I am a junior/newbie preparing to enter the industry. however scouring the job boards, it seems that everything is web-based these days. And UI development plays an important role in web development \something i'm not fond of).<p>How did things come to this?
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Title: I'm in the process of switching from Gmail (last 13 years) to Fastmail, and so far, am very happy with the transition. I'm using forwarding at Gmail and a vacation message to let people know I received their email but now have a new email address.<p>Today I checked out Fastmail searching vs Gmail. I've never liked Gmail search, because half the time it won't find what I want. I think this is because it can only search on whole words.<p>Fastmail also apparently indexes whole words, but it also allows a wildcard suffix (but not prefix) so it will find email containing "Fastmail" if I search for fast*, whereas Gmail won't. Yay!<p>It's kinda funny to me that Gmail, run by the world's largest search company, doesn't actually do full-text search. If I search for cuss and don't get any matches, it seems reasonable to search for cuss* next and *cuss* as a last resort, to find "discussion". I know it's not efficient to do that last one, but I just tested fgrep on a 1GB file and it took less than 4 seconds to search it. So Google spending 12 seconds on a mail search (I have 3GB of mail, and yes, I know they probably don't store it as a 3GB file) would be a lot nicer than me trying to manually hunt through email.<p>I'm guessing Gmail doesn't even index words but uses "interned" word numbers, so searching for partial words is not even a possibility.<p>Gmail <i>will</i> spend about a minute searching for the word "the" in my mail, so spending around 12 seconds doing the equivalent of fgrep doesn't seem too unreasonable.
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Title: This is just a rant, but I'm sure HN would have some kindle to throw on the fire.<p>As a part of my new-years-eves-goals-that-I-likely-won't-achieve I promised myself to delete all my social media.<p>I found all the small hidden buttons to delete my account, but in recent years, unbeknown to me, apparently I am not allowed to delete™ my account.<p>Essentially all the platforms have only let me deactivate my account but have promised™ me that they will delete it after 30 days.<p>I'm no luddite nor am I naive, I well-know that most apps will just archive my data and make me live on as some ghost user.<p>Though the reason I wanted to quit-for-a-while is because of addiction. I wanted to turn over a new leaf, a fresh start.<p>But now I still have a few weeks to resist the urge to log back in, ugh.<p>I've emailed a bunch of support teams, here is the last reply I got from a company.<p>> Thanks for reaching out to the Community Support Team. To maintain the integrity of our process, there is a 30-day period before the account is permanently deleted. Unfortunately, we are unable to fulfill your request. If our policy changes, we'll let you know right away.<p>Integrity.
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Title: Part of my bad mood often comes from the fact that I have something in my head which prevents me from focusing on the present.<p>It can be a personal project I'm working on, work related matters, events coming up that make me nervous etc...<p>What do you do to let go of these without loosing progress?
Do you also feel frustrated to stop working on something before it is finished?
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Title: Sites that makes you feel joyous, triggers your imagination, etc.<p>I visit the following sites:<p>https://bbc.com/travel
https://reddit.com/r/FoodPorn
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIix6MklfJFywa_36iDj8Sw<p>Amazon's ecommerce site<p>https://bjornfree.com/travel/<p>Thanks
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Title: This is the time of year for pondering and learning. I am pondering why during 10 years of helping grow/maintain a busy Saas infrastructure I spent a great deal of my free time building two sheds in my garden. They have been a place to deal with stress, an office, and now a place to hangout. So why does someone create work for themself when they are already busy and is this wise?
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Title: Does HN not have downvotes? I feel like I've seen people talk about being downvoted before...
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Title: When we speak of online tools, one can think of converters, calculators or even auxiliary functionalities.<p>What kind of tools are you currently using, missing or think can be improved?<p>Some examples:<p>- timestamp to date converter (e.g. https://magictools.dev)<p>- input tools (e.g. https://www.google.com/inputtools/)<p>- text comparison tools (e.g. https://text-compare.com/)
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Title: After posting on social media, I found myself refreshing my notifications quite often. Do you know that feeling? If so, how do you overcome it?
What works quite well for me:<p>- An app that blocks distracting sites (I'm using Freedom)<p>- Change that pattern by changing my habits (e.g. excluding my phone from the morning routine)<p>Edit: A complete deletion is not really an option since I enjoy Twitter, Reddit, HN to stay up-to-date with the tech world :)
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Title: For the first time in my decade long career I'm deeply burned out. I've been feeling this way for at least the past 3 months. The smallest of tasks feel like moving a mountain which leads to procrastination and then no feeling of success when completing a task that my bosses feel is already late. I've never been anything but a top performer before.<p>I've thought and written about why I feel like this. It's a swirling combination of lack of autonomy or strategic involvement, working on a codebase that requires a lot of effort to wrangle (single digit millions of lines of code), in languages (C++, Python) I don't enjoy or want to master, with really bad tools and long feedback loops, on a team with hardly any camaraderie, and a roadmap that isn't very exciting to me.<p>The job pays well but all in all I don't feel anything like myself. I once was incredibly confident in my abilities and loved building things and exploring my curiosities. I failed two interviews in the past few months and in hindsight it's obvious why if I'm not feeling confident or like my best self. Now at night, when I should be coding to work towards better interview performance, I have no energy to pursue that or other personal interests. I feel trapped which makes me even more anxious.<p>My significant other doesn't support me leaving my job without another one lined up, even though we have nearly 2 years of living expenses saved. My work situation is causing me anxiety every Sunday knowing I'll be returning to it the next day and this anxiety sometimes turns into micro meltdowns where I fear I have no way out.<p>I've never "ran" from a job before but that's what I want to do. I've started therapy once per week. I've tried techniques to get me going on the smallest of things but it isn't helping. How would you get out of this mess?
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Title: I've been on vacation (at home) for the past 3 weeks and this past week, I've become really bored. The first two weeks of vacation I felt great relaxing since I had a stressful month before this but that feeling has gone away now. I started working on a hobby project but I lost interest. Instead, I just feel unmotivated to do anything except watch TV all day. I do exercise and cook everyday but that's about it. I think I realized the work schedule that I was following kept me sane even though it was also causing me a lot of stress. Maybe it's because a lot of places near me are limited/closed due to COVID but I don't know.<p>This came out as more of a rant but I was wondering if other people felt the same?
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Title: Ever tried to help a relative over the holidays to set up their home-banking? Lost in the juggling of your multi-factor device garden? Tried to get useful search results from Google recently to find yourself in advert hell? Longing for the old Amazon experience when today's seems like running the gauntlet of grey-imports and scam-price offerings? Logged out of a site for 6 months and returning to a completely confusing new site where nothing is like it used to be?
Today's Internet experience has become user-hostile and it almost calls out for returning to the 90s: walled gardens aka Compuserve experience, dedicated devices for home-banking and standalone cameras.<p>What has led to this experience? On the top of my head I can see the following reasons:<p>* Release Often as KPIs for developers<p>The release often KPI for promotion and bonuses has led to constant changes to 'systems that are working fine' to become ever-changing user experiences. While daily users can gradually phase-in changes, most sites that are casually used will confuse users with completely new error-prone experience.<p>* Payment Security and Financial Regulations<p>At least in the EU fraud has led to various tech-related regulation calling as an example for separate apps for IDs and for transaction verification. While it is well-meant, it leads people to check bank statements less often and anecdotally in my family confuses especially elderly users to the point of introducing more opportunity for scams and fraud.<p>* Patch-work nature of ID & Verification<p>Captchas, Two-factor SMS, password rules and Authentication Apps have been patched onto the original user/pass system. The experience has become truly annoying with some clear winners: anecdotally more and more people simply use Google/Facebook OAuth as logins to sites. This is fine from a UI perspective, but lacks consumer regulation - what happens if you lose your access and who can you contact if your accounts get compromised/scammed/blocked?<p>* KPI switch from customer first to business model first<p>Having gained their audience share, Amazon and Google have switched from a 'customer is king' perspective to one which suits their business model most.<p>What are other reasons?
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Title: Some time ago, I started a subscription-based website that has slowly gained momentum and revenue. Currently, my monthly recurring revenue from this site is about $45k USD per month. I’m taking ~$14k/mo salary (which is far more than enough for my needs) and I’m paying one other dev part time about ~$6k/mo. My other expenses to keep it up and running are only ~$2k/mo. That leaves quite a bit leftover and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with it. I have no desire to expand the operation for many reasons. I’m perfectly happy working on it full time myself and don’t want to change anything. My question is what am I supposed to do with that profit? Claim it all myself as income? Let it accumulate in the business account? The company is formed as an LLC and I am based in the US, for reference.
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Title: I've heard the reason that global automakers cancelled chip orders in the early months of the pandemic and then decided to order them anyway a few months later and that caused a backlog.But I also hear that those are 120nm chips.<p>So why are graphics cards, gaming consoles etc out of stock? Why is Apple attributing fewer iPhones sold to semiconductor shortage?<p>Can automakers not use a 7nm fab?<p>How much of the chip shortage can be attributed to AMD and Apple taking the laptop market away from Intel? And if this is true, does this mean that Intel now has unused capacity?
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Title: I know nothing about the art world, and yet I'd like to become an artist (as a hobby, at least for now). I don't particularly care about making money; but I want to understand how an artist is launched, how he/she gets recognition, how he/she gets invited to shows, etc.<p>Anyone with experience, or suggested readings? Thanks in advance!
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/" rel="nofollow">https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/</a> or <a href="https://hirehackernews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hirehackernews.com/</a>.
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>, <a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782096" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782096</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782097" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782097</a>
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Title: Imagine you haven't worked at all since the pandemic started. How would you deal with that in your resume and in interviews?
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Title: I'm writing a book about the scientific method targeted to a lay audience. As part of the dramatic narrative I came up with the following puzzle: imagine you have built a time machine and you want to go back to ancient Greece and try to convince someone that you are from the future. The time machine operates under Terminator rules: it can only transport your body, no artifacts. (Some provision is made for you to acquire period clothing once you arrive, but that's it.) So the only thing you can take back with you is information that you are able to memorize. You can study for as long as you want before you go (so, for example, you can, and probably should, learn to speak ancient Greek) but once you go there is no coming back.<p>Mark Twain used a similar scenario as a plot point in his book, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." In that book the protagonist solves the problem by predicting an eclipse of the sun, but that isn't very interesting so I am adding the following two conditions to the puzzle:<p>1. There is some uncertainty about exactly when and where you will arrive. The time uncertainty is many decades, and the space uncertainty is many tens of kilometers.<p>2. You have to convince them within a small number of weeks, otherwise they will just decide you are crazy and throw you in the loony bin.<p>So predicting a solar eclipse doesn't work because solar eclipses are very rare at any particular point on the ground, so the odds of you appearing someplace where there will be a solar eclipse to predict are vanishingly small. Even if you did get lucky enough to end up somewhere that an eclipse would happen within a few weeks, you would have to either memorize the exact time and location of <i>all</i> of the solar eclipse events in Greece over a multi-decade period, or learn how to calculate them on the fly by hand. You would also have to somehow figure out exactly when and where you had arrived. You can't just go buy a newspaper and look at the masthead.<p>Some other things that won't work:<p>1. Predicting a lunar eclipse. The ancient Greeks knew how to do that so this would not impress them.<p>2. Predicting a historical event, for all of the same reasons that predicting a solar eclipse wouldn't work.<p>The puzzle is designed to nudge you towards an approach where you try to reproduce some scientific or technological advance towards which you can leverage the knowledge you bring with you from the future.<p>I have not been able to come up with a solution.
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Title: I have been seeing a lot of posts on Reddit and other forums of mostly students setting up an AWS account only for them to be hacked and account owner being stuck with a significant bill.<p>Most likely scenario is hackers are trying leaked username/password pairs from other breaches against AWS and gaining access to those accounts.<p>They then spin up EC2 instances in all sorts of regions on the compromised accounts<p>PSA set up MFA on your account if you haven't already.<p>Some examples:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/rv3lm5/i_lost_55k_from_hackers/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/rv3lm5/i_lost_55k_from...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/rvbncu/account_hacked_unable_to_sign_in_4000_in/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/rvbncu/account_hacked_...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qx8i02/got_hacked_and_found_a_30k_bill_please_turn_on/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qx8i02/got_hacked_and_...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/rv4mnq/my_account_was_hacked_and_now_my_bill_is_over/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/rv4mnq/my_account_was_...</a>
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Title: Terry Foxx 55 yr old ex radio announcer homeless, Don't have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of. everyone seems to think people with mental illness are crazy. We're not crazy, we're just trying to stop us from thinking we are.being depressed & thinking about suicide everyday. Hearing a voice that tell me I belong on another planet,where you receive compassion and care,Tired of being call a bum, old fart or your days are numbered.I've just had enough feeling my time is up.nobody cares about second chance or the homeless, I don't wanna tragic death, I prefer taking sleeping pills and just never wake up.the world would be a better place without me. Ps Living in a world where there are more animals shelter than homeless shelter. hopfully he can get help before and not afterwards
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Title: Hello everyone,<p>I’m Hari, and I’m a serial Microstartup Maker. 2021 has been an amazing year despite the pandemic where I reached my recent goal of $500/day. Compounding works everywhere, even in microstartups. It took 3 years to reach to $300/day but just 4 months to $500/day. The business model of my microstartups is a mix of App sales, subscriptions, affiliates and ads. I'm now spending just 10% of my time to maintain and fix bugs. My next goal is to reach $600/day.<p>My Microstartups Rewind 2021<p>* Revenue - $117K/year (67% ▲)<p>* Expenses - 3K/year<p>* All time high revenue - $15K/month in Dec (18% ▲)<p>* Daily goal - $500/day reached in Dec<p>Visa List - https://visalist.io<p>* Revenue - $50K/year (39% ▲)<p>* All time high revenue - $8K/month in Dec<p>* Total Users - 2.6M/year<p>* Active users - 250K/month<p>AnExplorer - https://anexplorer.co<p>* Revenue - $50K/year (95% ▲)<p>* User growth: 130% ▲ yoy<p>* Active users: 350K<p>ACrypto - https://acrypto.io<p>* Revenue - $10K/year<p>* Active users: 30K<p>Tech Stack i used:
Android - Java
Firebase
VueJS
GoLang
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Title: I've been running my personal blog for a while using WordPress, but I find it too buggy and loads slow.<p>I was thinking of redesigning and redeveloping my blog into a light static website. What are some alternatives to Wordpress that are fast and small? I don't really need a CMS as I write all my blog posts in markdown. I'm currently thinking of using Hugo or use some framework like Skeleton. Any other suggestions?<p>My current site: <a href="https://rishikeshs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rishikeshs.com/</a>
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Title: I have been learning cad with fusion360, and have already designed, fabricated and built a number of small items for my own (personal) use around the farm. To date, this has meant prototyping with the 3d printer, outsourcing laser cutting of steel (up to 10mm thickness) and welding parts by hand. Its been mainly small tractor attachments/brackets/etc.<p>I am becoming a bit more adventurous with my designs, and have started designing some ideas that would need to be injection moulded to be of any real practical use. There are also some aspects of the design that I believe would need to be rotomoulded to reduce material usage and weight to acceptable levels.<p>How can I move to this "next level" of prototyping and small scale manufacture? Is this something I can achieve myself with (limited) investment in specific machinery (budget ~15k USD)? Im only looking at small runs - but a number of parts, which I would assume would make more commercial offerings expensive?
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Title: Hello!<p>I've been studying Computer Science for a few years, but due to changing my major as well as a lot of online classes I haven't been able to meet many fellow developers in my university, especially not those who share my interests within the field. And as far as I know, there aren't many physical community gatherings happening close to where I live.<p>I would like to change that.<p>So: those of you who have managed to successfully connect with other developers online, how did you do it?<p>If anyone would like to chat or learn together, just send me a message here or email me at: erikpl (at) duck (dot) com. These days, my learning is focused on C (related to a compiler course) and video streaming (work-related).
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Title: Hello wonderful people here,
I'm taking a computer science and engineering course at the university level.
Any advice for me before I proceed?
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Title: For the unaware, uBlacklist [0] is a browser extension that lets you blacklist sites from the google search results page. It lets you blacklist sites right from the results page, by regex, or by linking lists hosted somewhere.<p>The low quality of results has been a problem from a while now and has become worse lately thanks to all those StackOverflow and Github clones. So I was wondering if we could come together and contribute to a single blacklist hosted somewhere and then import it into each of our browsers. Who knows? We might end up improving the quality of the results we all get.<p>Lists to get rid of the StackOverflow and Github clones already exist. [1]<p>I would love to contribute to a project like this, but won't be able to be a maintainer due to time constraints. Would greatly appreciate it if someone could host this. A simple txt file on github would do.<p>What do you say, HN?<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist</a>
[1]: <a href="https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist</a>
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Title: I realize this might be a bit of a strange question, but for the past 10 years, my dream has always been to build a side-project, and passively make money of it. Not even replace my full-time job (although that would be ideal), but just get a bit of extra money.<p>However, in the past 10 years, I haven't build a single product that was shippable, I've had plenty of ideas, many that I just didn't execute because I often overthink things.<p>My usual flow goes something like:
1. Come up with an idea for a product, and be really excited about it
2. Do some basic research and start planning
3. Start development
4. Quickly obsess over every tiny UI detail
5. Start second guessing the product
6. Find an existing product that's closely related
7. Give up<p>I've had ideas written down for years, only to see someone else build it, and be reasonably successful.<p>It's not that I'm a bad developer, I've shipped many products while working for different companies. It seems to be that when I'm on my own, I just can't seem to do it. I feel like I've wasted 10 years messing around, and it's really bringing me down.<p>Has anyone else been in a similar situation, how did you deal with it?
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Title: I used to be a happy 1Password user, but they seem insistent on making the experience as terrible as possible lately. I've tried BitWarden and Enpass, but their integration is worse and they suffer from some of the same problems as 1Password (subscription/server-based, not really in control of own data, etc.)<p>Are there any password managers that<p>- Integrate into browsers on all major platforms<p>- Have decent password generators<p>- No major security breaches in past ten years<p>- Local-first / sync via standard sync mechanisms (Dropbox, iCloud, sync thing, etc.)<p>EDIT: Based on responses below, I'm going to try KeePass[.*] and see how it goes. First hiccup is that 1Password import doesn't seem to work, but I'll keep at it.
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Title: I have no money. I do have rich friends who are getting richer and richer every year.<p>I try to be gracious and happy for their good fortune.<p>However it makes me depressed and angry and envious.<p>One friend told me a few days ago his house went up in value $1,000,000 in one year, at which point he sold it.<p>I visited my cousin who is a fabulous person and has a gorgeous house freshly renovated and extended and a new pool put it.<p>All around me my peers are becoming very wealthy.<p>And I’m at the bottom with nothing.<p>I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune or show me around their stunning houses. And afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of.<p>Good people, great friends, and seeing them brings me down.<p>Rich people aren’t aware that their tales of success make people like me feel bad. They shouldn’t have to be aware of that or hold themselves back. As a good friend I should feel happy for them, and I pretend to, but inside it makes me feel terrible.<p>If you’re commenting on this thread and offering advice, I encourage you add the context of whether you are one of those who have money or not.
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Title: Just like <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468248" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468248</a>, I give up.<p>I've been at it intensively for a couple months and my mind simply refuses to cooperate. If anything, after having done 400+ problems I seem to be worse at them than when I started.<p>Since your time is more valuable than mine, let me summarize:<p>7+ YoE, MSc. in some science (like it matters)<p>Last 4 years been mostly ETL with Spark and some backend thrown into the mix with a "senior" title for devops and mentoring noobs.<p>I used to think this job was a creative one, since writing frameworks and libraries for further use, documenting code and extreme programming made me think that I was building something new and useful.<p>In fact, due to having extreme ADHD the only thing that kept me distracted during all my overtime was the ability to pursue fun and challenging things. MPP and all the cool stuff you can do with modern tools is fun, interesting and challenging.<p>Leetcode isn't about fun and challenging things, it's about thinking in one particular way, spitting out solutions using the same exact data structures and jumping through hoops on command without philosophizing or creating anything that can be reused/extended.<p>This is also what Software Engineering has become: you memorize, regurgitate and participate in agile the masquerade. Creativity is shunned. Tried architectures/patterns are what is expected.<p>I wish I had practiced law for the past 7ish years instead, because at least all of my skills would still be relevant.
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Title: Hi HN, this is Alex and Dillon from Gravitl, based in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. We built Netmaker (<a href="https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker</a>), a virtual networking platform for cross-cloud computing and Kubernetes. It’s secure, automated, and extremely fast.<p>Networking across environments is hard and slow. WireGuard can solve this, but it’s tough to run at scale. WireGuard is a fast and efficient VPN protocol that is growing quickly in popularity. Linus Torvalds called it a “work of art,” and it was added to the Linux kernel in 2020. It now runs on most major operating systems.<p>We created Netmaker to automate WireGuard-based networks at scale. It opens up a bunch of use cases that are otherwise infeasible. With Netmaker, our users are managing edge networks, connecting fleets of unmanned aerial drones, and cloud-bursting k8s clusters for machine learning.<p>Alex got the idea for Netmaker while he was in New Mexico, staying in the desert to escape the pandemic. We were trying to run a distributed Kubernetes cluster. Our goal was to create a cloud provider with no infrastructure, using compute provided by users. To start, we bought a couple raspberry pis and some cloud VM's, hooked them all together, and ran a k3s cluster across them using WireGuard.<p>We realized we needed a mesh VPN to do this at scale. None of the existing options gave us everything we needed, so we built Netmaker. We put it on GitHub, and it became so popular that we decided to work on Netmaker exclusively.<p>Netmaker works on a client-server model (<a href="https://docs.netmaker.org/architecture.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.netmaker.org/architecture.html</a>). A central config server tells each machine where its peers are and how to reach them. The local client automates network settings and DNS on each machine. The result is a flexible virtual network that stays in sync whenever machines are added, removed, or there is a change in state.<p>Without Netmaker this is challenging, because WireGuard requires reconfiguration whenever any peer in the network changes. In addition, the network can be blocked by factors like NAT, firewalls, and port availability. Netmaker anticipates and solves for these factors, while being compatible across Mac, Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD.<p>There are other solutions out there with similarities, but we’ve got some key distinctions. After all, we created Netmaker out of necessity, because the other solutions didn’t meet our requirements. First off, Netmaker is super fast because it can use kernel WireGuard. There are some other WireGuard-based solutions like Tailscale, but they use userspace WireGuard, which is much, much slower.<p>Second, Netmaker is tailored towards the cloud and Kubernetes. Stuff like OpenVPN was built before the cloud became a go-to deployment strategy.<p>Finally, Netmaker is fully self-hostable. A lot of existing options are SaaS, but our users want control of any servers that are routing their traffic or managing their virtual networks.<p>As for what’s next, with Dillon at the lead, we’re putting in a lot of work to overhaul the code base, implement community-driven features, and pull Netmaker towards a “pure WireGuard” vision. We're planning an enterprise release in the coming months which will have a few features that businesses need at scale, without taking away from the free community version. In the meantime, we have a simple support subscription for the existing community edition: <a href="https://gravitl.com/plans" rel="nofollow">https://gravitl.com/plans</a>.<p>We’re always looking for ways to do things better. If you have thoughts, we’d love to hear them, and if you’re doing anything cool with WireGuard that could be relevant to our project, we’d love to hear that too. We’ve also got a community on Discord you’re welcome to join at any time: <a href="https://discord.gg/zRb9Vfhk8A" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/zRb9Vfhk8A</a><p>Thanks for reading, and Happy New Year!
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Title: I'm 23, me and all my friends are alcoholic. I just can't have fun without alcohol. Been looking for solutions to replace alcohol to have fun but I couldn't. How do you have fun without alcohol? Thanks
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Title: Hello fellow HN users.<p>Is it my idea or are interviews more harder nowadays? If you had to take a technical interview for your current position would you be able to pass it and get the job?<p>If you were the one doing the interview, would you be strict and request more things so as to filter out candidates? It’s understandable because somehow you need to find the best ones for a given position, but there are some soft skills that C/Java/Python interview problems can’t identify.<p>I’m asking because I’ve seen many interesting positions in which I could imagine myself into (having ~20 years experience in telecoms/soft engineering), but the entry requirements with regards to programming languages are set too high.<p>What are your experiences?
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Title: Hi HN, I’m Nate, and here together with my co-founder Matt, we are the founders of ContainIQ (<a href="https://www.containiq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.containiq.com/</a>). ContainIQ is a complete K8s monitoring solution that is easy to set up and maintain and provides a comprehensive view of cluster health.<p>Over the last few years, we noticed a shift that more of our friends and other founders were using Kubernetes earlier on. (Whether or not they actually need it so early is not as clear, but that’s a point for another discussion.) From our past experience using open-source tooling and other platforms on the market, we knew that the existing tooling out there wasn’t built for this generation of companies building with Kubernetes.<p>Many early to middle-market tech companies don’t have the resources to manage and maintain a bunch of disparate monitoring tools, and most engineering teams don’t know how to use them. But when scaling, engineering teams do know that they need to monitor cluster health and core metrics, or else end users will suffer. Measuring HTTP response latency by URL path, in particular, is important for many companies, but can be time-consuming to install application packages for each individual microservice.<p>We decided to build a solution that was easy to set up and maintain. Our goal was to get users 95% of the way there almost instantly.<p>Today, our Kubernetes monitoring platform has four core features:
(1) metrics: CPU and memory for pods/nodes, view limits, capacity, and correlate to events, alert on changes;
(2) events: K8s events dashboard, correlate to logs, alerts;
(3) latency: monitor RPS, p95, and p99 latencies by microservices, including by URL path, alerts; and
(4) logs: container level log storage and search.<p>Our latency feature set was built using a technology called eBPF. BPF, or the Berkeley Packet Filter, was developed from a need to filter network packets in order to minimize unnecessary packet copies from the kernel space to the user space. Since version 3.18, the Linux kernel provides extended BPF, or eBPF, which uses 64-bit registers and increases the number of registers from two to ten. We install the necessary kernel headers for users automatically.<p>With eBPF, we are monitoring from the kernel and OS level, and not at the application level. Our users can measure and monitor HTTP response latency across all of their microservices and URL paths, as long as their kernel version is supported. We are able to deliver this experience immediately by parsing the network packet from the socket directly. We then correlate the socket and sk_buff information to your Kubernetes pods to provide metrics like requests per second, p95, and p99 latency at the path and microservice level, without you having to instrument each microservice at the application level. For example with ContainIQ, you can track how long your node.js application is taking to respond to HTTP requests from your users, ultimately allowing you to see which parts of your web application are slowest and alerting you when users are experiencing slowdowns.<p>Users can correlate events to logs and metrics in one view. We knew how annoying it was to toggle between multiple tabs and then scroll endlessly through logs trying to match up timestamps. We fixed this. For example, a user can click from an event (ex a pod dying) to the logs at that point in time.<p>Users can set alerts across really all data points (ex. p95 latency, a K8s job failing, a pod eviction).<p>Installation is straightforward either using helm or with our YAML files.<p>Pricing is $20 per node / month + $1 per GB of log data ingested. You can sign up on our website directly with the self-service flow. You can also book a demo if you would like to talk to us, but that isn’t required. Here are some videos (<a href="https://www.containiq.com/kubernetes-monitoring" rel="nofollow">https://www.containiq.com/kubernetes-monitoring</a>) if you are curious to see our UX before signing up.<p>We know that we have a lot of work left to do. And we welcome your suggestions, comments, and feedback. Thank you!
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Title: I would like to create a group that promotes RSS.<p>Regularly on HN we see threads about the apparent demise of the feed file as a technology and how sad it is. Despite the answers to those threads showing that RSS/Atom is not dead at all, what is clear is that it is not in a great spot. Less sites support it, percent-wise a smaller amount of internet users knows what it is and how it might be of use, browsers dropped their integrations.<p>I have a plan on how to counteract this. It includes getting people together who feel that this technology is elemental for the open web and should be preserved. It then vaguely continues like this (not necessarily sorted by feasibility):<p>1. Open PRs for browsers with provided-by-us code to integrate RSS again, with UI elements that make existing feeds visible and supports subscribing via a feed reader<p>2. Run a site that can be used for this, that takes a "I want to subscribe to a feed"-request and presents RSS readers to do so.<p>3. Implement default feeds for CMS that are missing them.<p>4. Implement easy to use libraries for programming languages that might miss them.<p>5. Create a website that explains why this is important, that hosts or links to the specifications and that contains additional documentation.<p>It's nothing I can do on my own, but I really think that if some people come together, that we could have a real influence on this development. Even if the browser integration step fails (which might be likely) there are alternative ways forward. And I'm sure there will be many more ideas on what could be done.<p>If this is of interest to you, consider joining https://gitter.im/FosterRSS/community.
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Title: I have a very weird problem with Twilio. It seems like they have gotten so big where they have started acting in bad faith.<p>I'm curious to find out what other entrepreneurs think of this situation, where a partner, once trusted, and for which technical foundation has been built upon, now has shown to be acting in bad faith.<p>Every once in a while, some scammer will send a phishing text message to one of our phone numbers. Here is an example:
"""
Your Facebook account has been placed on hold for verification. To avoid account suspension, Please visit: https://opensopstat.com/
"""<p>The message will be relayed to en employees cell phone as is what happens with all txt messages. Now Twilio thinks our account was hacked and someone is sending text phishing text messages from it.<p>The latest time this happened, the account was immediately suspended by an automated system. They did not communicate to us that this happened or why it happened. I had to fill out a support ticket and wait about 3 hours for a response before I even knew what the problem when was. This happened at night, so no one knew there was even a problem until the next morning when business operations resumed and the phones didn't work.<p>Its bad enough that they shut down the phone system for my entire company because of their mistake, but in order to get the system back online, I have to go through their ticketing process that is only through e-mail, where it takes hours or days to receive a response. If I want to speak with someone on the phone, which probably would have gotten the problem resolved more immediately, I have to pay $1,500 per month for their phone tech support. Obviously this is an unreasonable amount to pay. I don't need tech support, I just need someone to call, explain the situation to, and have them click a button.<p>We pay them about $600 a month and have been working with them for over 10 years. I understand their profit margins might be thin? But are they really that thin? And if so, there should be a more reasonable phone option. I don't need to speak with an engineer, I just need to speak with someone who can click a button and unblock the account.<p>Temporarily, I will re-program the system so that it does not forward text message content to my employees phone numbers. Which is fine. But my bigger problem is what do I do now? If they're willing to shut my system down without even giving me a number to call, what else are they going to do to me in the future?<p>The way in which they have been so cavalier with me is a red flag. And if I'm being honest, it does make me angry how they are willing to so readily damage my company in such a profound way AUTOMATICALLY without giving me a way to talk with them. I understand they may have a big phishing problem and will need to use automated software to help, but it is very reckless to not have this counter-balanced with a reasonable way for legitimate customers to even contact them after the suspension.<p>Are there other API-driven VOIP options that I should be considering bearing in mind that it would be expensive to re-write the software to work with another vendor? Or is there some way I should be looking to work things out with them?<p>What do you guys think?
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Title: From Dr. Richard Hipp:<p>There is a bug in versions 3.35.0 (2021-03-12) through
3.37.1 (2021-12-30) which could potentially cause database
corruption. Upgrading to version 3.37.2 (2022-01-06) or later is recommended.<p>## About the bug<p>In order to encounter this problem you must:<p>1. Change SQLite's default behavior so that it stores secondary journal
files in memory, rather than as temporary files on disk. Secondary
journals are stored on disk by default. To move to in-memory storage
you need to compile with [-DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2 or 3][1] or
set [PRAGMA journal_mode=MEMORY][2] at run-time.<p>2. Use the [SAVEPOINT][3] SQL statement to create nested transactions and
sometimes roll back those transactions using ROLLBACK TO.<p>3. You also need a measure of bad luck, as the problem is difficult to hit.<p>## Recommended fix.<p>The recommended fix for this problem is to upgrade to [version 3.37.2][4].
If that is not possible for you, you should at least consider applying
the [one-character patch][p1] to fix the problem.<p>## How this bug was created and how it was discovered<p>The bug arose from an enhancement that we installed in response to
[forum post e78ffd751185a67e][5]. Repeated use of SAVEPOINT and
ROLLBACK TO with an in-memory journal was causing excess memory
usage. The fix was to "truncate" the in-memory journals following
a ROLLBACK TO, in order to contain the memory growth.<p>The bug was first discovered (and [reported on this forum][6])
10 months later by researchers at the
Wingtecher Lab of Tsinghua University. Using the AFL++ fuzzer with
a custom mutator, they managed to cause an [assert() statement][7]
to fail. It turns out that assert() statement existed to verify that
the statement journals were operating correctly, and so the failure
of that assert() statement indicated a possible corruption bug. Further
analysis showed that corruption was possible, though it is difficult
to hit.<p>This bug is a sufficiently obscure corner case that it might have gone
unnoticed for many years, had it not been for SQLite's heavy use
of assert() statement to verify internal consistency, and for
Wingtecher Lab's ground-breaking analysis tools that found a way to
get one of those assert() statements to fail.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#temp_store" rel="nofollow">https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#temp_store</a>
[2]: <a href="https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_temp_store" rel="nofollow">https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_temp_store</a>
[3]: <a href="https://www.sqlite.org/lang_savepoint.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sqlite.org/lang_savepoint.html</a>
[4]: <a href="https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_37_2.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_37_2.html</a>
[p1]: <a href="https://sqlite.org/src/fdiff?v1=a85f0dc5c02a4245&v2=ff4336a98b05ede2&diff=1" rel="nofollow">https://sqlite.org/src/fdiff?v1=a85f0dc5c02a4245&v2=ff4336a9...</a>
[5]: <a href="https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/e78ffd751185a67e" rel="nofollow">https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/e78ffd751185a67e</a>
[6]: <a href="https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/d7338bf4901f1151" rel="nofollow">https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/d7338bf4901f1151</a>
[7]: <a href="https://www.sqlite.org/assert.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sqlite.org/assert.html</a>
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Title: Dear HN,<p>I'm working my first job out of college and I really enjoy it. I get to do fun computer vision stuff, write Rust, great pay, great benefits, short commute, etc. And my manager and her boss are both super smart.<p>However I'm a bit frustrated. I thought I was doing well - I'm working hard on the project I was assigned to, and it's coming along nicely. The deadline was pushed back once (which that seems to be very common at this company), and the new deadline is still in the future.<p>Two weeks ago, my manager's boss schedules a meeting with me and my manager. My manager is busy putting out a fire so it's just me and the boss, and the boss made a some of criticisms of me. I've been thinking about them and I can't shake the feeling that some of them were kind of unfair. (To be clear, I absolutely did make some mistakes on this project that contributed to it taking longer than it had to.)<p>First, he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long etc. I had no idea that he felt this way before the meeting - I've mostly just been working to get it done before the revised deadline my manager gave me.<p>He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions, some of which were made largely on my manager's explicit suggestions. (When I bring this up, he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement.)<p>Part of the reason it had taken so long is because I put a substantial amount of work into a part of the project that's no longer necessary due to changing requirements, which I don't think I could have forseen. I don't think the boss appreciates that and just sees that the amount of usable output is low for the amount of time I'd been working.<p>He did also make some criticisms that I thought were fair. For instance he said I should have looked at other projects to see how they accomplished what I'm trying to do. That definitely would have been a good idea.<p>After our meeting, my manager and my boss had a meeting with just the two of them to discuss the status of our project. I have no clue what happened in that meeting and I haven't heard anything about it from either of them since.<p>As of today the project is pretty much done (save for some procedural details). I'm happy, but I can't stop thinking about that meeting. I really did work hard, so it's demotivating that it feels like the result of me working hard is unappreciated.<p>I'm not thinking of quitting over this or anything, but it seriously bums me out. I don't know if I have a future at this company if the boss thinks I'm not a good dev, and I really like it here. A month or so ago they added someone else to my project and I trained him on my code, and he's super smart and capable, and I'm thinking that now they probably feel that they could fire me if they wanted and not lose much.<p>But the saddest part is that I really admire my manager and my boss, and I wanted to make them happy to have hired me, and now I feel like they probably aren't. I guess I can try to learn from my mistakes and get over it, but at the very least it feels like an inauspicious start.<p>How should I proceed?
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Title: I'm not overweight (OK, I should lose 10 pounds). I'm in decent shape. And yet, I just had two stents put in my heart, because one coronary artery was 90% blocked and one was 80% blocked. How did I know to start looking for that kind of problem?<p>It's pretty simple. A doctor told me "Your physical performance falls off slowly, over decades. That's not what you're looking for. When it drops off quickly, over a week or two, <i>that's</i> what you're looking for." And that's what happened. I play ultimate frisbee. One day I realized, "Hey, I'm more winded than I was two weeks ago. And it's taking me longer to recover from being winded."<p>So I got a stress echo test on my heart[1]. That showed "abnormal motion of the heart muscles under stress". Translation: the arteries couldn't feed enough oxygen to part of my heart when it was having to beat really hard.<p>Note well: This is not the <i>only</i> way to tell. Pay attention to other things, too (especially to crushing pain in your chest). But if you see this kind of drop-off in your physical performance, don't ignore it.<p>-----<p>[1] This is an interesting test. They take some ultrasounds of your heart, then run you on a treadmill until your heart rate reaches 90% of your theoretical maximum, then take some more ultrasounds.<p>One part that hackers might appreciate: During the ultrasounds, they told me to take a deep breath, then let it out, then stop. Eventually I asked why. Turns out they're trying to shoot an ultrasound beam between my ribs to the heart, and they have to get the spacing between the ribs to line up with the part of the heart that they're trying to see. So they use my lung volume to change the spacing. I thought that was very clever.
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Title: Equifax is selling salary data as part of an "employment verification solution":<p><a href="https://theworknumber.com/" rel="nofollow">https://theworknumber.com/</a><p>You can view a copy of your report here:<p><a href="https://employees.theworknumber.com/" rel="nofollow">https://employees.theworknumber.com/</a><p>It will contain:<p>* Previous annual salary<p>* Previous paycheck amounts<p>* Previous addresses<p>* Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months<p>From their website, this data may be able to be removed via CCPA:<p>> Employee data is exempt from the CCPA until January 1, 2022.<p><a href="https://employees.theworknumber.com/california-consumer-privacy-act" rel="nofollow">https://employees.theworknumber.com/california-consumer-priv...</a>
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Title: It seems all the hCaptcha verifications I receive are for buses, boats and trains? They don't seem limited by geography or by recency. I'm curious why these particular artifacts and whether this has always been the case.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Sean & Sam, the founders of Homestead (<a href="https://homestead.is" rel="nofollow">https://homestead.is</a>). We enable homeowners to split their lot, build a new home, and sell it for a profit.<p>We’re taking advantage of a new California law called SB9, which is designed to expand housing supply (<a href="https://cayimby.org/sb-9/" rel="nofollow">https://cayimby.org/sb-9/</a>) in the state. SB9 allows homeowners to split their single-family residential lot into two separate lots and build up to two new housing units on each. It just went into effect on January 1.<p>The new development opportunity opened by SB9 is only available to homeowners, most of whom are under-resourced to take advantage of it. That’s where we come in. We take care of splitting your lot, financing the new development, managing construction, and selling the new home. You receive 80% of the net profit. You can see whether your property qualifies here: <a href="https://search.homestead.is" rel="nofollow">https://search.homestead.is</a>.<p>We’re a couple of architects who have been working on large scale urban plans, affordable housing financing, and increasing housing supply for a while now. Our first idea was to help homeowners create lifelong revenue streams by building ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) on their property. We figured out how to manage builds that finish up to 5x faster than normal builders and are 2x faster than prefab from first touch to a turnkey unit. Homeowners have used the income from our ADUs to start a business, move to a different country during the pandemic, become cash flow positive on their mortgage, house grandparents, and move out renters to reclaim their home for the first time in a decade.<p>The problem was that over 70% of our leads could not afford the upfront costs of construction. With Homestead, our latest iteration, we solve this by taking on the risk of funding the project. We provide a way for homeowners to finance $400k+ of construction without risking their home or credit as collateral. We split the lot, bring financing, and our expert team of architects and project managers oversee the project until sale.<p>In high value markets, that means a homeowner could make over $1M without risking, or spending, a dollar. Under normal circumstances, this would be too good to be true, but that’s how crazy the housing market has become. SB9 represents a $6T (!) opportunity in California alone. For example, a 1-mile radius of San Fernando Valley has $3.35B in untapped development equity—4,600 opportunities to add new homes and duplexes through SB9.<p>Capturing the opportunity of SB9 requires developing new financing products, development expertise, and customer-facing sales. Development is an incredibly regulatory-heavy and location-specific industry. Homestead is based in Los Angeles (by far the best market for SB9) and we have sold 80 ADUs (59 since March) with 10 built and 17 projects underway.<p>Here’s an example (<a href="https://www.zillow.com/homes/4511-Sally-Dr-San-Jose,-CA-95124_rb/19674282_zpid/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zillow.com/homes/4511-Sally-Dr-San-Jose,-CA-9512...</a>) of how this could work for a typical San Jose home — footsteps away from one of our customers. The new house on the split lot has a sale value of $1.5M, based on a same-sized new-build home on the block. The total cost for building the new unit, including permitting, local fees, and financing, is $700k. That’s a net profit of $800k, of which the homeowner’s 80% share is $640k.<p>Our mission is to increase the housing supply in California. In contrast to the develop-and-flip approach, we add new housing while sharing profit and keeping communities in place. We want to change the lives of teachers, nurses, social workers—doubling or tripling their liquid net worth—so they can do things like early retirement and paying off their kids' student debt or helping them make their first down payment.<p>We know that a lot of you share our passion for the housing supply problem, so we’re looking forward to a good discussion. Please share your questions, feedback, ideas, and experiences in this area!
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Title: Hello! Just wanted to share what just happened to me, maybe some Apple SWE here can take a look at this. I recently changed my macbook and created a new Apple ID for the new machine. For work, I like to have a unique ID and not reuse old ones. The problem is that, today, after 2 days of "use" (the first time the laptop is charged is to reinstall everything), Apple decided without notification that my account should be blocked for "security reasons".<p>I tried to reset my password, but they blocked the whole account, it seems to me that they even deleted the account from the database as they could not locate the ID of other information (name, mail, etc.). Coming from another OS, one can imagine that you can swap two IDs and continue, but ... NO! Here you need to provide a password to log out, but since my account has been deleted, I don't have any password. Also, one can imagine that a +2000$ machine designed for "professional" users can actually recover from these types of errors using magic links or text messages. They wanted me to wait for an appointment with the service. Just to reset an account!!<p>Why did I reinstall all? Every 30 seconds, a message appears asking me to check the ID.<p>TL;DR: Adult human crying.
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Title: I can read less text content easily. my way of reading it is to make slides of all those texts and learn from the slides.<p>But I have issue with reading huge huge texts as you know in this case it will require too much time when I do this. Is there way to simplify this reading style?<p>eg-: of sth that I want to read is this.<p><a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...</a><p>It takes me 45 minutes to read 3 paragraph and comprehend it at least.<p>If I go that way, you can imagine, how long it takes me to read a research paper. Probably a week to read a research paper lol. Even reading articles in internet is a hassle for me if they are longer. If I just read what I need to learn it is easy as it will be few paragraphs but if I have to learn sth else long it is pain to me as I can't do it timely manner.<p>Are there any udemy courses that teach how to read textbooks for university students that you are aware of?
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Title: In honor of the new Matrix movie, I was curious if anyone is working on or aware of research or methods people are working on to provide "instant knowledge", like learning kung fu:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vMO3XmNXe4</a>
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Title: i'm getting an overwhelming feeling we're in a stock/crypto/dotcom/housing bubble as of now<p>companies with zero revenue raising billions, s&p returning ~30% last year, bitcoin going 10x, housing (in my area) up 2x<p>yet we are in the middle of pandemic, millions get sick every day, inflation 30yr high, supply shortages<p>is the economy is broken? should we be expecting a crash/crisis soon?<p>edit:
i can't help but think there will be a counter reaction to the Fed printing dollars recklessly in 2020<p>and i'm even more scared Fed will go on a printing spree again to keep the current bubble from popping
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Title: I have noticed many times, writing down a problem and work on it on a paper is much more productive than staring at my screen and/or jumping right to code.<p>Last time it happened, I spent a day on a Coq exercise, when I finally I decided to grab a paper and pen, and solved it in 5 minutes.<p>Is this something that anyone else is experiencing? Is it something that has been (dis)-proved?
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Title: When I first started my career everything was great - I did some internships at small local companies and got terrific feedback. I loved computers and would identify problems and dive into solving them enthusiastically. In hindsight a lot of the stuff I did was basically prototyping that never made it into production, but it felt great and my bosses loved it.<p>After a couple years I hit the big time and got a job at a tech startup that was blowing up. There was one really successful project I worked on, and otherwise I didn't really accomplish much - the whole organization I was in was very dysfunctional and we churned through management and new projects really quickly, but nothing really landed. During this time our stock price went crazy, and I sold all my stock to make a down payment on a house and max out my retirement savings. Eventually the mismanagement got to me - every project seemed doomed to fail, and I was paralyzed with indecision daily. They promoted me to the level where I was supposed to propose and run projects, and I hated it.<p>To try and get back to building things, I joined a small startup around the time the pandemic started. Everyone there gave me great feedback, but there was no product focus, very little management, and ultimately it still felt like the things I was working on didn't matter or lead to anything. The product itself was hard to use and had so many problems that I couldn't imagine trying to untangle them all, so I left after a year.<p>At this point I was terrified that I just couldn't work in tech anymore. I had developed medical problems from stress, and took months of time off to try and recover. There was nothing else I wanted to do for work, but the thought of sitting down and building anything was terrible.<p>Fast-forward to today - I applied for and got my dream job, working at another very successful startup that has a lot of high-performing people. They get things done, and the product is great. It's been a couple months and I have achieved <i>nothing</i>. Not a single PR merged. I came in with all the momentum from my unemployment, all the enthusiasm and energy I could muster, and proposed a bunch of projects. Nothing landed. My manager left a few weeks after I started, my onboarding buddy has been absent, and the fear has started creeping in again that I'm alone and can't hack it in this high performing team. If I can't work in the tech industry it would completely upend my entire life.<p>Does anyone have any advice from a similar situation? I think I need more support and guidance but my experience has been that tech companies don't really offer that, and also that everyone seems happy and successful regardless.
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Title: I'm a developer and product manager, about ten years into my career and making pretty good money.<p>I'm curious to explore if contracting makes sense as an alternative to full time employment. How do I start? How do I position and price myself?
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Title: I have a feeling that ProductHunt is only read by people who post to ProductHunt in a sort of pyramidal echo chamber. Is it the case, or does ProductHunt reach further than product managers in small companies?
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Title: I’m starting a new job this month at a medium-sized software company (in business one decade, approx $150ARR, has received multiple rounds of funding, looking to IPO, ~500 people).<p>I accepted an offer and I was asked to join four to five calls with vendors ahead of my start date. This felt like “work” to me since each call takes prep and led to follow-up calls. Having not yet worked in the role, I’m also lacking context on the business problems leading us to chat with these vendors in the first place. To be frank, it feels very unnecessarily rushed which is ringing some alarm bells.<p>My new boss says it’s not really a big deal to ask me to join these calls before my start date. I suggested we either move my start date up ahead of the calls I was asked to join or I invoice for my time ahead of starting. He scoffed at both but mentioned “they’d take care of me” with “maybe an extra vacation day”. Vacation time at this company is “unlimited” so I don’t really see that as a perk.<p>I should mention the reason he’d like me to join the calls is that I will be using the tool from the vendor we select. It’s nice to be consulted but it doesn’t feel right to be asked to join work calls without being compensated. I wouldn’t push this angle but I also suspect it’s illegal.<p>My boss has also made several comments about the work I’ll be doing that have sounded very uneducated on the subject matter. I am walking into this job with the understanding that education will be a piece of my job but it was a surprise to learn the level of maturity of my boss’s understanding.<p>There have been other things that have felt unprofessional. IT mailed me my computer just before Christmas without talking to me, making me feel like I had to spend an extra day waiting on a FedEx package instead of hitting the road for holiday travel.<p>They promised an email on a certain date with my login credentials for my work email address and it didn’t arrive. HR has scheduled on-boarding Zoom sessions with our personal email addresses, exposing our personal emails to everyone else in the cohort starting on the same day (20-30 people).<p>Am I overreacting when I think about these signals? I guess the best I can do is get in there and see what the job is like, but all of these have combined to make me feel less than great about joining this company.
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Title: I am a self taught developer. Its been more than 3 years. I know decent JavaScript, and full-stack developement knowledge. I recently started admiring text editors. I use vscode. I have also used VIM and EMACS. I tried reading their source code, also of atom, brackets, light table etc.<p>Honestly I don't understand anything. I am not able to make sense of the data flow and the architecture. I want to understand how text editors work under the hood. Also I want to understand the plugable architecture they use to extend the functionalities of the editor.<p>Please suggest me any articles, videos, conferences, blogs, where I can pick up the concepts. I have been troubled by this lack of knowledge and unclear path to access it.<p>Edit:
Reasons for this quest:
I am not here to create yet another text editor. But I do understand that they are one of the complex peice of software which still is under constant improvisation and developement. Also text processing is the one of the core concepts of computer science. A lot of algorithm and data structure knowledge is hidden inside it. Besides, I feel through real world projects one can learn alot about core computer science foundations.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re George, Oscar, and Dan, the founders of Nyckel (<a href="https://nyckel.com" rel="nofollow">https://nyckel.com</a>). Nyckel allows developers with no ML experience to train and deploy ML functions to classify images and text with very little training data. We let you go from a few labeled data points to a serverless machine-learned classifier in minutes.<p>The ML-as-a-Service space is dense, including some recent YC companies; so why did we create Nyckel? Our goal is to create a tool that is light, fast, fun, and accessible. Training only takes seconds, you only need 10s of annotations, we avoid ML-lingo and abstract away concepts that make developers feel like outsiders. Our pricing is transparent, signup is instant, and the platform is 100% self-serve.<p>Dan, an experienced engineer without any ML background, was building a social website that required manual curation of user-contributed content. He looked into automating this curation with ML and found offerings that required complicated setup and knowledge of ML concepts. He talked to his AI-researcher friend Oscar, and together they realized that the current solutions were unnecessarily complex and didn’t expose the right developer-friendly abstractions. We think there are many engineers like Dan who leave similar problems unsolved because of the effort required.<p>Using Nyckel, you upload a small (or large) amount of data, annotate a minimum of 2 examples per class, and have a trained model deployed in the cloud and callable via a REST API. All of this happens in seconds. As you use the model, you can continue to improve it by providing more data points as you encounter them. You can also explore and annotate your data in the UI.<p>The Nyckel AutoML engine is based on meta transfer learning. It’s “transfer” because it leverages a large set of pre-trained neural networks to represent your data, and it’s “meta” because we make informed decisions on which of the networks to try based on your particular problem. The design allows for a highly parallel execution where features are extracted and models trained by 100s of compute nodes in parallel requiring only 10s of seconds to train even with 1,000s of samples. We keep abreast of the latest deep-learning networks and add new networks to the system to improve existing and new models. Your trained model is immediately deployed on an elastic inference infrastructure.<p>Our customers are using us to do things like: tag and organize photos in a used-car marketplace; triage customer responses and support tickets for CRM (in multiple languages); determine fake vs real profile pictures to help with user verification; analyze blood sugar charts to suggest corrective actions; and build a barcode-less scanner for bulk foods.<p>Oscar has over 4k scientific citations of his AI research, as well as several industry applications behind him. Dan has designed multiple developer APIs throughout his career, most recently Square’s developer APIs. I led the Functions-as-a-Service team at Oracle Cloud and have extensive experience building large cloud systems. We think that ML, cloud, and API expertise is the right combination for this problem!<p>We have elastic pricing with an always-free tier. Beyond the free tier, we make money when you invoke your function to make a prediction.<p>We're really happy we get to show this to you all. Thank you for reading it all! We’d love for you to check us out, and share your thoughts on Nyckel and your experiences in the ML tooling space in general.
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Title: Anyone else feeling utterly lost and disillusioned by the tech industry in 2022?<p>Speaking as a developer with over a decade of experience..<p>Web3 /cryptocurrency / NFTs make me feel like I’m taking crazy pills, turning even successful, veteran startup founders and respected VCs into shills.<p>Google search is worse, by nearly all accounts, than in was a few years ago.<p>Social media, more divisive than ever, is pressure testing the fabric of society.<p>Shopping on Amazon is like navigating a minefield of low quality garbage products flooded with fake reviews.<p>Streaming content is more abundant than ever, while the average content quality is, subjectively, rapidly diminishing.<p>On the job hunt within the past year, rarely I interviewed with a company that was working on anything even remotely interesting or groundbreaking.<p>As a consumer, I’m struggling to remember the last time I felt elated by a new app, website, or piece of tech.<p>Yet, despite all this, despite what feels like a downward trajectory, market caps are unfathomably high, and tech salaries are sitting at all time highs.<p>What’s going on?<p>How’s everyone else feeling?
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Title: This company ran a full-page ad in the SJ Mercury News today, on page A5, asking Google for help:<p>Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/7h0H4lO<p>Interesting strategy to get help from support. But might it backfire?<p><pre><code> __________________________
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Dear Google:<p>We love you. We really do.<p>SO MUCH THAT WE SPENT $865,346.15 WITH YOU LAST YEAR. AND THIS YEAR WE WANT TO SPEND EVEN MORE.<p>But we're having an issue with our Google Ads account and it's preventing us from taking this beautiful relationship to the next level. Nothing major. Should be an easy fix. We just can't seem to find the right person over there to help us fix it.<p>Please don't take this the wrong way, your phone agents have been great and very friendly (especially Surabhi, we could talk to her all day) but they've been unable to point us in the right direction and, as a small company that relies on your awesome Googleness for much of our success, we're growing concerned.<p>Any chance someone over there could spare 5 minutes for us and make our dreams come true? We'd sure appreciate it.<p><pre><code> Much (much) love,
Corey Newhouse - Founder & CMO
ICG America, Inc.
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Title: Are there good alternatives for Google Analytics which you can easily host yourself?
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Title: Blog post from a few months ago, but it seems to have gone into effect today.<p><a href="https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-securi...</a>
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Title: Hey HN!<p>Show us the power of "single PHP file" side projects and other low-tech/"simple stack" stuff that you're working on or like a lot.<p>Anything goes, doesn't need to earn money, but it should be fairly simple behind the scenes.
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Title: Hi HN, This is Tom, Adam, and Brandon from Clover (<a href="https://cloverapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://cloverapp.com</a>) – a digital notebook that blends notes, tasks, whiteboards, and a daily planner into one streamlined app.<p>We've spent our careers working on creative tools. Tom started building web-based design products with Apple back in 2011. Our first startup – Macaw – was one of the first no-code tools on the market. It was acquired by InVision years ago, where we went on to build numerous other design tools. We are also long-time productivity junkies, having built nine different note-taking and task management apps over the past eight years. These were passion projects that were fun to build and use.<p>Working in the design industry, we noticed how designers struggle to communicate their ideas with design tools alone. They often spend more time in a text document outlining feature specifications than they do in their design program designing the actual interface. Task management is done in yet another program, and so on.<p>At the same time, we noticed how text editors don’t do a good job of supporting thinking. Our brains naturally think in a non-linear fashion. Great ideas don't flow out of us with a beginning, a middle and an end—they require an iterative process of divergence and convergence (the ‘double diamond model’, for those familiar). Forcing people to record their ideas in linear documents is a terrible constraint. It's much more intuitive to work in a non-linear fashion like designers do within their design tools.<p>Conclusion: Thinking tools lack communication and productivity features. Writing tools lack thinking and iteration capabilities. This means you need to string together multiple tools across an idea’s lifecycle, which is difficult to manage.<p>This gave us the idea for Clover: a single workspace to support all stages of an idea’s development: from brainstorming, design, planning, all the way to execution. It should be as good for thinking and iteration as design tools, have powerful text and knowledge management capabilities, and support planning and task tracking workflows. The mission is to help you think more creatively and get more done every day.<p>The heart of our implementation is a new type of document, which we call a Surface. It's a freeform spatial document with a heavy emphasis on text capabilities. This required us to build a new type of text editor from the ground up. At its core, it's similar to other modern markdown-style editors (like Dropbox Paper) but it also borrows mechanics from design tools (like Figma). Instead of working down a page from top to bottom, you can work in any direction, drag and drop text the way you would move layers in a design tool, sketch on top of your documents, embed rich media from across the web, and a lot more.<p>Building a workspace like this requires meeting users' expectations of not just one but many different tools: digital whiteboarding, note-taking, tasks, and knowledge management. Consolidating technology and UX into something that actually works across all of those different functions is an interesting and challenging systems design problem. Text editors are deceptively complex to build, and we had to rethink a number of things about traditional text editors to enable Clover's spatial capabilities. We don't have all of the features of the traditional programs, but we think having all of your tools together is more valuable.<p>We also spent a fair amount of time thinking about how a product like this should fit into your daily workflow. Our Daily Notes feature is intended to be a place to return to throughout your day to take notes, plan tasks, journal, etc. It has some special functionality to automatically roll over any tasks that you didn't finish from day to day, and it aggregates tasks across all of your pages, so you have one location to see all of your priorities.<p>Having notes, whiteboarding, tasks, and a daily planner all together in one tool makes it frictionless to carry out ideas from beginning to end and ensures nothing gets lost in the cracks.<p>Clover is used for a wide variety of things – taking notes, planning tasks, etc. Some of the more interesting one ones we've seen are: planning out presentations and practicing them with Clover's frames and presentation mode; outlining a vision for a sales team using our diagramming tools; drafting blog posts and using a Clover surface to iterate on the text or take notes in the margins; simple kanban to manage small projects; watching videos on a surface while taking notes and pasting screenshots directly next to the embed.<p>We charge a simple monthly subscription and you can try it out here: <a href="http://cloverapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://cloverapp.com</a>.<p>We’d love to hear what you think of the product and ideas on how to improve it. Thanks!
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Title: There is a very common (dark?) pattern I see employed by practically everyone in the industry, instead of charging for differentiating features, we seem to accept that it's ok to charge for security features as premium features in the pretense that these are "Enterprise Features". I am not here to name and shame but you know how it works. Role Based Access Control, SSO integration, API access to audit logs, MFA are presented as "premium enterprise features", why isn't there a bigger backlash? Why is this practice not pushed back by everyone? The startup I'm building, we are committing to provide SSO/SAML/OIDC, audit logs, advanced RBAC etc for free for everyone, we want people to pay for actual differentiating features. Am I missing something here?
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Title: I woke up this morning to find five obviously spam emails in my Gmail inbox. In the preceding decade of using Gmail, I don't believe even a single one has made it past the spam filter, so I'm quite curious what could be causing the sudden influx. These aren't some cleverly crafted ones either, subject lines include:<p>𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫'𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧_for_up to$𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎'. (sent from [email protected])<p>Roundup-Lawsuit..See if YouQualify LRT. (sent from [email protected])<p>Welcome-To_CarShield (sent from [email protected])
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Title: I have worked in tech for about 14 years at companies big and small. I've worked in startups, big tech, consultancies, and I've been a freelancer. The one thing that's been pretty consistent is excessive technical complexity (aka tech debt). Probably < 10% of codebases I've seen used proper abstractions and commonly accepted software engineering best practices. The exceptions to this are newer codebases (< ~3 years old), smaller codebases (< ~10,000 LOC), and smaller development teams (< 10 contributors).<p>I've pondered this problem quite a bit. I initially perceived it as the result of engineers compromising in the face of business pressure or engineers making mistakes due to lack of experience or foresight. But as I've become more experienced (and worked as a manager), it seems like a tech business problem. Tech businesses face undesirable situations that result in low quality code as a side effect. Examples include critical employee departures, hyper growth, critical customer demands, and even changes in government regulatory requirements.<p>Can this be avoided for codebases that are old and large? Does anyone know of examples of codebases (public or private) that have maintained a high quality codebase that is large, old, or supported by a large number of contributors? If so, how is it done?
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Title: Every time there is a post here related to Firefox, I see a lot of people complaining about the state of browsers and the utterly dominance of Chrome and Chromium based browsers.<p>I’m wondering if that are technical reasons why the newish browsers (such as Brave or Edge) are choosing Chromium instead of Firefox as their starting point.<p>If so, shouldn’t this be a priority for Mozilla to change that?
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Title: I'm looking to get back into an IT career but I have lots of serious impediments. I'd like to ask HN readers for their views on my hopeless(?) situation.<p>Am an ex-solicitor. I got out of UK jail a couple of years ago, I did some whitecollar stuff and I have a permanently un-unspent conviction for money-laundering. I'm over 60 with law & a science degree plus several post-grad qualifications. I'm currently doing a masters in data science for interest. I used to be a programmer back in the 80s and keep up with the topic (Erlang, OCaml, F#, Python Golang etc).<p>I'll never pass jobs with DBS checks due to convictions. plus I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism (I'd wondered about COBOL but banks and government wouldn't take me), and I dont fancy doing all the BS prep needed for interviews anyway. But I like stats ML and data so I'd love to try for that. But the age and convictions are a serious problems.<p>I don't imagine anyone on HN has anyone with my collection of problems but does anyone have any suggestions that might help?
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Title: As a self taught programmer I feel like I have a big gap on my math knowledge, where can I start learning math concepts that will help me in my career?
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Title: I'm seeing a lot of "submit your application" web forms with a required linked-in field. Would it be absolute folly to attempt to get hired without using linked-in? What are your experiences?
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Title: Cost Of Living Adustment (COLA): increasing pay to match inflation to result in a net zero change in purchasing power. theoretically separate from performance review/salary raise.<p>Why aren't companies doing this? I've only seen one company since leaving the military that does performance review+COLA to change pay. Myself and many friends got a ~3% pay "raise" last year when mostly everyone agrees inflation was ~6%! This is a pay cut. (the one company i personally know that does cola+performance, the CEO is prior military).<p>isnt this obviously bad? you guarantee employee turnover to keep ratcheting payscale (which the US is seeing on historic scale) and disgruntle the remaining workforce. does everyone really think theyre saving on payroll short- and long- term by not doing COLA?<p>what am i missing?
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Title: I had a recent, lengthy, conversation with a recruiter. He said two things:<p>1) Microsoft dev stack is really a dead-end, any new startups or even large corporations starting new initiatives are more and more are moving away from any kind of MSF tech or Azure cloud development, and
2) no developer really wants to work with MSF tech.<p>I have lived in the Microsoft world my entire career, although MSF is increasingly open source/polyglot. Also, I spent a couple of years doing node.js, react, salesforce dev and integrations, Heroku, etc. I found it a breath for fresh air in some ways but lacking in others. And I have to say that I do 'like' working with C# and Azure and the rest, but I am at the point in my career, and with the market the way it is, that I could still possibly make a move and not take a major hit salary-wise, but I probably not for too longer.<p>For context I am approaching 40 and live in a major US city in the southeast, and I do not have an interest in going into management.
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Title: I'm a British Software Engineer.
I just discovered my South Korean fiance has just been diagnosed with a terminal condition so I need to move over there ASAP.<p>I've got a CS degree and 1 and a half years experience at a large news organisation. In my team we manage a web service written in elixir including all associated CI and aws infrastructure. I've been coding in python since I was 16 and java at uni. I've been learning Korean for the past year but its not business ready yet.<p>So my main question is, given my situation, how difficult would it be for me to get a job in Korea?<p>Other questions:
How common are English speaking software jobs there?
Could I get a remote job for a company outside of Korea while still living there?
Does anyone here have insight into Korean job visa or marriage visas on here, that could point me in the right direction?<p>Sorry if this isn't concise or the questions are easily googleable, I'm still reeling from the news. I just thought this is the most likely place to get the best advice!<p>Thank you in advanced, your advice is greatly appreciated!
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Title: Computer games, board games, etc. are accepted.
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Title: I have to admire the guy for sticking to his guns and his vision and not monetizing it. It would be so easy too- keep the existing version free but create an iOS/Android app with some bells and whistles like longer words and boom rake in the cash. Being so hell bent on your vision commands respect. But I can't help but feel that the guy is about to let someone else benefit from his creation and am not sure how to feel about that (see https://twitter.com/zachshakked/status/1481345622938685443).<p>Apple is cracking down on blatant Wordle clones in the appstore right now but there is demand there, there is going to be a different app with a different name with a different ui with some added features like multiplayer that is probably gonna make some good money for a few months.<p>If someone is gonna inevitably end up benefiting from it, I'd rather the guy who made the original rather than an app cloning team in China or some bay area tech bro. I am putting myself in his shoes and even if I had the vision that he has, I would not be able to stop myself from monetizing it even if just to not let the copycats make as much of a windfall.<p>What do people here think of this situation?
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Title: The latest version of Firefox (96.0 and 95.02) seems to have a problem where as soon as you enable DOH (DNS over HTTPS) the browser is unable to establish any connections. Disabling this feature once enabled doesn't resolve the issue, closing the browser leaves processes hanging in the background consuming resources. Several of my friends have reported (Windows/Linux) seeing the same issue but we haven't been able to find a solution.
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Title: There are a series of subreddits concerned with machine learning topics. In those subreddits there is an organization named CatalyzeX that is constantly promoting their browser plugin to access the latest ML papers, code, etc.<p>Here is one such post of theirs: https://old.reddit.com/r/LatestInML/comments/s2l10i/given_a_single_video_of_a_human_performing_an/<p>My question: why a browser extension? This really smells fishy, because a browser extension bypasses any browser security one may have, and has access to one's entire computer. What valid reasoning could there be to justify a browser extension for this purpose?
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Title: Some younger companies like Coinbase[2] and Stripe[1] are sharing numbers that they are not hiring much in the Bay Area anymore.<p>I am assuming that many positions that require the candidate to (eventually) relocate to the Bay Area are not getting a lot of traction. A fried of mine refused to interview for position like that despite being very junior! She decided the cost of living is not worth it.<p>What all of this means for the Bay Area talent pool and job market? Talent in the Bay Area are fetching astonishing pay ($600k for L6)[3] which I believe contributed to the out of the ordinary housing market in the Bay Area when you compare it to other cities in CA like San Diego and Los Angeles. I know many older talent have grown roots in the area. They have kids and friends which means they can't easily move. What if with this new wave of remote work acceptance, Bay Area pay won't match the expenses? Companies can hire everywhere in the U.S. for arguably the same talent quality. Some companies are even expanding to Mexico City[4] and other countries which might put even more pressure on Bay Area salaries.<p>Are we at an end of decades of continues growth and competition in the Bay Area? Will there be big pay adjustments?<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1481129589761998857" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/14811295897619988...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1480647701221896195" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1480647701221896195</a><p>[3] <a href="https://levels.fyi" rel="nofollow">https://levels.fyi</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.lyft.com/careers#openings?location=mexico%2520city%252C%2520mexico" rel="nofollow">https://www.lyft.com/careers#openings?location=mexico%2520ci...</a>
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Title: Hi, so I have been working with some very small local clients/businesses developing them websites and custom made internal software/tools and also providing hosting and support.<p>What are some mistakes you have made down the road and what advice would you give to someone that just started?
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Title: This week alone I had 2 interviews with 2 different companies where in the first one of the interviewers asked me my age, directly followed by "why hire you over a younger graduate?" (which isn't the same as "why hire you over someone smarter than you?" because why even ask this). In the second one I was also asked for my age, followed by whether I plan to get married anytime soon.<p>I'm under the impression that the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age. It feels like I'm not allowed to be an amateur professional simply because I'm over 30 years old. Instead of seeing people as "a guy with 2 years of experience" or "a woman with 4 years of experience" we see "a 40 year old guy with 2 years of experience" or "a 34 year old woman with 4 years of experience".<p>It feels like there's an implicit expectation of expertise in doing something that comes with my age. It's almost as if I'm not allowed to learn and get good in something that I want, simply because I was late into "the party", where party can be whatever but since I'm a web developer that's what "the party" is.<p>I've had multiple people telling me that "we saw people with fewer and less polished projects get jobs". I've been seeking for 8 months, I'm almost at the point where I might as well freelance to bypass the discrimination. I get barely any calls back, and the one interview that felt somewhat fair was because I had my former manager from a completely unrelated field introduce me to someone looking for web developers, and that didn't worked out because they wanted me to learn their stack and build an assignment within a week, which failed gloriously.<p>Is there something that we can do so that people can just be amateurs regardless of age? I'm sure since we're making SOME progress against sexism and racism we could somehow do something for ageism too, because I can't blame Zuckerberg's opinion anymore.
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Title: Not sure if this a bug or feature.<p>I searched for pro wrestling videos (I know), and mixed in with my search results where:<p>- cryptocurrency videos<p>- stock picking videos<p>- teenage reaction videos about random subjects<p>- a video about white supremacists<p>I really don't know what's going on. These videos have nothing to do with my search query, subscriptions or previous searches on youtube or elsewhere on Google.<p>They're not marked as ads either, they're just presented as straight search results - and there is no way to hide or block them.<p>What is going on with Youtube, are they so intent on torpedoing this business...
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Title: My coworker has barely worked for over a year now. No joke and no exaggeration. Every single day they seem to find a way to not do anything - either in some excuse or obfuscation. The worst part is that this person is a higher title than me and probably gets paid more than me.<p>My manager seems to be slightly aware of this but I'm not sure by how much exactly. It's obviously quite frustrating on many different levels. Is there any scenario in which this makes sense for me to mention something to my manager or should I just keep my mouth shut?
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Title: There was a long discussion on HN the other day regarding why companies are having trouble hiring engineers:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892437<p>One of the recurring themes is the "leet code" interviews. I will go further and say that any interview that doesn't mimic the job is a guaranteed way for me to turn the company down.<p><i>Stop accepting shitty interviews</i><p>When I was talking to trading firms about coming back to the finance industry, about half of them admitted they already use my open-source software. And yet, only one firm bothered to ask me about how some of my stuff was implemented. That's the firm I'm working at now.<p>Instead, I got plenty of firms that still insisted on asking me questions that are not remotely related to the job. Tons of Hacker Rank and Codility, even though I've never had a time limit when building something in real life. Tons of intern-level questions as if I was a college freshman. And tons of detailed questions about how a specific programming language works, as if we're going to build a compiler for that language.<p>And to reiterate, those were the firms that already admitted to using my software!<p><i>Stop accepting shitty interviews</i><p>The stupid assessment practices won't change unless employers suffer the consequences for this nonsense. I have always made it my mission to reject any firm that asks me syntax questions or brain teasers. (Seriously, the New York Times doesn't assess journalists by having them conjugate verbs; it's just weird to ask this.)<p>Yes, people get mad when I terminate the interview on the spot. I'm sure I've been blacklisted from a few places because of my stubbornness. But damn if I'm going to allow stupid shit like this.<p><i>Stop accepting shitty interviews</i>
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Title: if I don't have hands on experience on designing large scale applications How can I be good at it? Any open source projects for the same or the books/videos..Thanks
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Title: I'm looking for advice om whether I should publish my research code? The paper itself is enough to reproduce all the results. However, the implementation can easily take two months of work to get it right.<p>In my field many scientists tend to not publish the code nor the data. They would mostly write a note that code and data are available upon request.<p>I can see the pros of publishing the code as it's obviously better for open science and it makes the manuscript more solid and easier for anyone trying to replicate the work.<p>But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing, it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism (e.g. coding style, etc). Besides, many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage.
Upvote: | 421 |
Title: At one point I found a GUI application with backend automation libraries (python I think). Basically you view webpages like email. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Title: Reddit returns a 403 page with content "Blocked" right now for many firefox users.<p>Apparently not with Chromium. Probably a blocking mishap ongoing (as of this posting) at reddit.
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Title: Perhaps the amazing HN community could help this fellow dev:<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/s46twv/anyone_voice_code_i_had_a_stroke_and_cant_use_my" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/s46twv/anyone_voice...</a>
Upvote: | 57 |
Title: I keep coming back to a desire to be phone free. Without digging into the reasons for this, how might one make this transition without losing too much utility? Eg. navigation, emergencies.
Upvote: | 47 |
Title: What to price the things I make feels too much like guesswork to me. I would love to know any recommended advice for how to price digital products and services. How did you come up with the price for your project?
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Title: Occasionally I have friends who really want to get involved in software, but they have zero background in it whatsoever. I'm never really sure what to say. Computers and programming have been a part of my life as long as I can remember. It's the only thing I was ever good at or wanted to do. I can't really understand how to articulate that. It seems impossible for me to recommend someone do this stuff without having that lifelong level of understanding and context and passion. Am I wrong? Is software really not that hard, and able to be learned later in life?
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Title: It is quite famous that 95% of Bitcoin is owned by 2% of accounts. This concentration not only risks to threaten blockchain's own premises, but also exposes minor investors to risk of whales who lead the market and can easily speculate on prices since they can influence the price trends.<p>Is there any crypto inequality index?
I thought that Gini index could work too!<p>I would like to find an inequality index in the cryptocurrency description on CMC and similar, it would help me make better investment choices.<p>What do you think?
Upvote: | 63 |
Title: Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.
Upvote: | 255 |
Title: I noticed on the youtube homepage that I cannot hover over a video thumbnail without it getting big and auto playing a portion. Does anyone else find this annoying as hell?<p>I understand the argument about how people don't like change (which will probably be the first counter to my complaining) but this is somewhat overstepping a line for me.<p>What say you, HN?
Upvote: | 143 |
Title: Email from Amazon UK this morning:<p><i>The expected change regarding the use of Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk will no longer take place on January 19. We are working closely with Visa on a potential solution that will enable customers to continue using their Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk.</i><p><i>Should we make any changes related to Visa credit cards, we will give you advance notice. Until then, you can continue to use Visa credit cards, debit cards, Mastercard, American Express, and Eurocard as you do today.</i><p><i>Thank you for being an Amazon customer.</i>
Upvote: | 66 |
Title: Is there a line of research that looks into solving difficult / intractable problems by finding a mapping that expresses them as different problems that we know how to solve?<p>A fairly surreal and probably overly optimistic example would be, for example, to solve traveling salesman problems using chess engines. What we would need is to find right mappings:
(1) from a traveling salesman problem to a chess position and,
(2) from a traveling salesman route to a chess move (or move sequence)<p>A general solution for a "compiler" that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could:
(1) translate a tic tac toe position into a chess position
(2) solve the chess position
(3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence<p>Any thoughts or pointers to relevant research would be much appreciated!
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Title: If you've had an email account for a while you probably know what I'm talking about. Open your spam folder and undoubtably it's filled with poorly written and worded emails still advertising "free sex", "you've won", "open for a gift card" or otherwise.<p>These emails are so bad and there is almost no chance of them finding their way through a spam filter, why are people still sending them?
Upvote: | 110 |
Title: I'm in a job that's got nice folks, but a terrible stack. The money's fine, but I'm not really learning, and I've been thinking about looking for another job.<p>Naturally, that led me to trying to enumerate when I should leave a job.<p>I'm curious what metrics others here use to determine when it's time to move on. What makes you decide that it's time to quit your job?
Upvote: | 64 |
Title: My extended family has several terabytes of family photos and videos from over the years. We've mostly digitized everything, but some segments are just sitting on external hard drives in closets - waiting to eventually break or become corrupted.<p>My current methodology for our immediate family is aligned with the common back up advice - one local copy, one off-site copy (at grandma's house,) and one in cloud storage. We're using Google Photos for cloud storage. The easy integration with Nest Hubs makes for nice digital picture frames around the family homes.<p>What is your system for backing up family photos and videos to stand the test of time? Is it adequate to put everything in cloud storage and forget about it? Do you reassess every couple years and adjust to the new landscape of storage services? Is it unavoidable that we'll be paying $100+/year forever for a [presumably increasing] few terabytes of cloud storage?<p>Is there a good solution for posterity? For example, once I die, and if my family were to become unable to pay the hosting bill, is there any way to guarantee these heirlooms remain intact and available?
Upvote: | 321 |
Title: Hi HN! Matrix-CRDT connects the worlds of Yjs [1] (a proven, high performance CRDT) with that of Matrix.org [2].<p>It started as an experiment, asking myself; can we store "state updates of a datastore" in Matrix instead of chat messages? Now, I'm convinced it's actually a really powerful combination to develop real-time, collaborative software.<p>I'm using it for a new project and so far didn't have to write a backend yet. Matrix takes care of a lot of stuff: Authentication, E2EE, federation, hosting, etc. - so I can focus on the client.<p>I love the ideas of Local First [3] software. Personally, I'm convinced the technologies in this ecosystem (CRDTs, etc) are really powerful and can do more to decentralize software than many web3 technologies that currently receive much of the hype.<p>However, it's still early days, so I decided to open source parts that I think will be useful to others (I recently also shared SyncedStore [4])<p>[1] https://github.com/yjs/yjs<p>[2] https://www.matrix.org<p>[3] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/<p>[4] https://www.syncedstore.org
Upvote: | 320 |
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