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Title: Hi HN. Aravindh and Alex here, co-founders of Fable (<a href="https://www.tryfable.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tryfable.com</a>). Fable allows product teams to collaborate on product specs, which it automatically syncs to issue trackers like Jira and Linear. Here's a demo video: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/a34eebc263f949db90f2e17aa7ffe104" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/a34eebc263f949db90f2e17aa7ffe104</a><p>Product teams painstakingly craft their product specs to ensure they’re building the right thing. Unfortunately, the pace of modern product development is so fast that the minute a product spec is written, it’s no longer relevant. People waste time copy/pasting this content into issue trackers, because the engineers need tickets to work on. Worse yet, these stale artifacts result in bad decisions and ultimately the wrong product going out the door.<p>Alex and I have been PMs at companies of varying sizes and industries—from Microsoft to Budweiser to Zocdoc. This idea came to mind when I was a PM at TpT (Teachers Pay Teachers). I was wasting hours copy/pasting from my spec into Jira, time that I could have spent doing more valuable things like talking to users. Then after creating those Jira tickets, I’d get the link and paste it back in the spec. Problem was that I didn’t have time to keep updating the spec, which is the only place that my teammates on marketing and sales looked at. They didn’t want to go into Jira.<p>Fable gives product teams a place to collaboratively write their specs. What’s unique is that once the spec is written, teams can push a button to sync the content with their issue tracker (currently Jira and Linear are supported but we’re adding more). It’s a two-way sync—meaning if content changes in the issue tracker, it comes back to Fable and vice versa. You can start writing your spec in Fable, push a button to sync with the issue tracker, and <i>maintain accuracy</i> even as the content changes in the issue tracker.<p>Other document editors allow users to embed a Jira or Linear ticket, but it’s not a two-way sync. Building two-way sync was an engineering challenge since we had to account for offline issues, errors, etc that could cause conflicts between the two versions. We’ve designed our conflict resolution engine to be smart about handling these scenarios, and when we can’t come to a decision on what the source of truth is, we prompt the user to select one.<p>We’ve built Fable from the ground up for product teams, emphasizing ease of use (no complicated setup or learning curve) and speed (you don’t have to wait a few seconds every time you want to edit a doc). The foundation is a powerful document editor built on Prosemirror. It allows users to dynamically embed content from sources including Figma, Google Drive, and Airtable.<p>Fable makes product definition a more collaborative process, involving teammates all the way from ideation to creating tickets on issue trackers, and letting everyone keep track of what is being built and its status. No more sales and marketing people going into the issue tracker and throwing their hands up because they don’t know how to parse through all the tickets. Later, the Fable doc serves as a record of what was built, so teams can look back later to understand the thought behind live features.<p>We charge per “maker”, meaning people who are actively creating content. This tends to the product manager, and sometimes also the designer and engineering manager. Anyone who just wants to view and comment on the doc (marketing, sales, etc) gets access for free.<p>We’re looking forward to feedback from the community!
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Title: I hear what seems many a valid complaint about Google's conflicts of interest in managing Google Chrome and how it has down-stream effects on Mozilla and other web browsers. What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?
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Title: My goal is to get FlexOS open sourced. - Does anyone know of a copy of the source code? I contacted the designer and author of much of FlexOS and he does not know where the source code is.I think it would be fun to see if FlexOS/386 can be brought back to life.<p>FlexOS was a powerful and innovative operating system from Digital Research, the early 1990's.<p>Here is a Byte Magazine review of it from back then:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bootrino/vintage_software/master/1991_01_BYTE_FLEXOSS_MUSCLE.pdf<p>Here's the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexOS<p>Maybe someone at WindRiver knows where the source code of FlexOS is? The wikipedia article above says:<p>>>>>When Novell decided to abandon further development of the various Digital Research operating systems such as Multiuser DOS (a successor to Concurrent DOS) and Novell DOS (a successor to DR DOS), they sold FlexOS off to the Santa Clara, California-based Integrated Systems, Inc. (ISI) for US$3 million in July 1994.[22] The deal comprised a direct payment of half this sum as well as shares representing 2% of the company. The company already had pSOS+, another modular real-time multitasking operating system for embedded systems, but they continued to maintain FlexOS as well.[22] FlexOS version 2.33 was current as of May 1998 and with FlexOS 2.34 to be released soon after with added support for faster CPUs, 64 MB of memory, EIDE and ATAPI CDROM drives.<p>>>>>Integrated Systems was bought by their competitor Wind River Systems in February 2000.
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Title: I'm not complaining, I'm just genuinely curious. When speccing out an XPS 13 Developer Edition, switching the OS from Windows to Linux bumps the price up by $200. Is it subsidizing whatever work had to go into validating that the OS works as expected on that model?
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Title: Have any experienced (10+ years) engineers gone down to say working as a mid-level engineer at a FAANG company just to keep getting paid but work at a lower responsibility, as a 1-2 year break?<p>Was it beneficial? Was it just tedious? Did it hurt your career?<p>Figured I'd ask as I can't be the only person who thought of this as a way to still earn but handle the burnout from working a tough engineering job.
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Title: Greetings!<p>I've created a GitHub action that works that allows GitHub Actions to exchange a GitHub token for AWS Access Credentials.<p>I've cultivated a few examples of it in action:<p><a href="https://github.com/saml-to/aws-assume-role-action-examples" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/saml-to/aws-assume-role-action-examples</a><p>I've always found management of AWS Credentials has been a pain. So this setting up this Action works like this:<p>1) A SAML Identity Provider is created in AWS<p>2) A Role in AWS is set up to trust that Identity Provider<p>3) A config file is added to the repository indicating which role can be assumed<p>4) The GitHub Action exchanges the Repo Secret for AWS Credentials using the SAML.to backend for the exchange<p>Let me know what you think! I'm Happy to take questions and comments here or on Gitter:<p><a href="https://gitter.im/saml-to/assume-aws-role-action" rel="nofollow">https://gitter.im/saml-to/assume-aws-role-action</a>
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Title: my account is only psuedo-anonymous so i won't reveal too much about the situation but someone very important in my life just passed away. i've never been in this situation and i'm berating myself for not being broken. i'm with family and assuming the role of keeping everyone calm, but mostly because i am calm, not because i am someone they typically rely on. i am sad. i have cried. yet, i am not broken like them. i can't tell if i'm feeling numb or if i am some sort of sociopath. is it normal to feel so still and empty in the midst of something so calamitous?<p>i feel ashamed. i don't think this is absent grief. i loved this person with my entire being. i'm worried that there's something wrong with me. is this my way of grieving? is my coping mechanism letting go of all sentiment and walking through the motions? i feel so out of place; they keep asking me if i'm okay; i'm thinking of putting on the act of being completely distraught so that everyone else will leave me alone. i'm so drained and i think it's mostly this anxiety over my reaction. i'm hungry and exhausted and i really just want to know what to do?<p>are any of you who have experience in this department willing to give me some advice? i can't talk to my family, most of them are in an incurable state. the wound is still very fresh.
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Title: Hi HN. Do you have any advice for applying to Junior Software Engineering roles? How to get through the automated resume screening, does having projects on GitHub help, etc?<p>I hear the job market is "hot," but is that true of entry positions too?<p>I'm a self-taught programmer who recently decided to finish my bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I'll be finishing in a month or so, and I'm trying to do some planning in advance.<p>I guess what I'm asking is: If you were fresh out of college, how would *you* go about getting a job?<p>If anyone is curious about the weird graduation time, I go to wgu.edu, and they let you accelerate through the classes as fast as you can go. I recommend it.
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Title: Hello HN, I made this silly project over the long weekend. It’s pretty basic right now and the captchas are very easy. I plan to add captcha difficulty levels for link creators soon.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Brad, Kevin, & Isaac, the co-creators of Joon (<a href="https://www.joonapp.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joonapp.io/</a>). Joon is a mobile game that motivates kids to do tasks that they might not otherwise want to do—things like chores, homework, brushing their teeth, or making their bed—or things which they like, but not always in the moment—calling a grandparent, for example. The game does this by embedding these tasks into fun “Quests” that the kids do want to do. Along the way, they develop good habits—not because they’re supposed to, but as a side effect of playing the game. Here’s a short video to give you the idea: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOwk_wOBBE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOwk_wOBBE</a>.<p>One of the hardest parts of parenting (and of growing up!) is getting kids to do things that they don’t enjoy. Parents usually see these as important activities that will help their kids become independent, responsible, and ultimately, happy. Kids, however, often don’t feel the same way! This is an incentive alignment problem: kids want to have fun, parents want to raise a successful human. As technology advances, this is getting tougher, because kids want ever more tech while parents struggle to motivate and connect with them. Joon is our attempt at a ‘middle path’ that combines the fun tech that kids want to play with, and the good habit-building that parents want to see.<p>We started working on this idea when, shortly after college, the three of us had a conversation about our childhoods, and realized we had each played 10,000s of hours of video games when we were kids (mainly Runescape and Pokemon). While we didn’t regret the fun we had, we wondered what would have happened if we had spent that time doing something more meaningful. Looking back, we felt that there could have been something fun like those games, but that would also have helped us grow in life skills. We’re building Joon to be what we wish we’d had as kids, and because it’s something that parents are telling us they need right now.<p>Joon is a mobile game that’s like a combination of Pokemon, Club Penguin, and Tamagotchi. The twist is that in order to take care of your pet and make progress in the game, you have to do parent-assigned or self-assigned “Quests” in real life. It’s a world for kids where real-world activities and outcomes (mental health, relationship-building, cognitive development, physical health, etc) determine your outcomes in the game. Most importantly, it aligns the incentives of parents and kids by helping kids become more responsible through playing a game that they love.<p>Such a game must have very high retention (something which is difficult for mobile games) in order to keep the parent and child aligned. For this, it’s critical that the game itself be the motivating factor, not external rewards. We’ve been hearing about kids who are asking their parents for more tasks at home (whether it’s chores or family activities) every day so they can play Joon, so it feels like we are on the right track.<p>This is how the app works currently: A parent initiates account creation and adds their kids, and then can choose from a suggested list of tasks to assign their kid. The child will choose a pet and see what tasks (that we call “Quests”) they need to do. Once the Quests are completed & approved, the child will receive coins in the game that they can use to buy food to feed their pet (dont worry! there is no negative reinforcement here. I.e the pet just gets sleepy if it doesn’t get fed, it won’t die). This is the core game loop mechanic. There are longer game loops for the child to explore after they have mastered the core game loop such as dressing their pet, exploring new regions, unlocking new items, meeting friends, & even minigames..<p>Interesting enough, people of all ages are using the app, not just kids. For example, neurodivergent adults have been finding value from using it, which is pretty cool to see. We were both surprised that adults would use Joon, but at the same time not surprised, since we ourselves only realized as adults that we hadn’t developed many good habits as kids. In fact the earliest incarnation of the software was a prototype Kevin wrote while in college, to motivate himself to do things like get enough sleep.<p>In terms of pricing, we have just launched it as a subscription-based model with 3 plans to test. A monthly plan for $7.99, a quarterly plan for $16.99, and an annual plan for $49.99. Each plan can be used with a free trial or the user can just use a freemium version of the app for a certain amount of time without opting in to any plan.<p>Please let us know what you think and if applicable, share your experiences as a parent or gamer with us! We’d love to dive in further in the comments
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Title: I've recently started managing a very big team for the first time. I'm still trying to figure out a good model. Daily stand-ups? What to focus on in weekly meetings? How to make the most from retrospective? In a previous team I found the stand-ups very boring as it was mostly for the manager and not for us, as people on the team worked on different things.<p>Also, what's a typical path going from a team manager (EM1) to senior manager (EM2)? What are the things I should focus on to show I'm ready for managing managers? (I understand it can take a few years)
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Title: Previously asked on 2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167
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Title: I've been feeling off in several ways for a long time now, months if not more, and finally got around to seeing some healthcare professionals. "Showing symptoms of severe occupational burnout" is what I'm being told, and it rings true.<p>I know there are probably plenty of people on HN who have gone through the same. Reflecting back on your experiences, what are the sensible things to do next? Aside from continuing to listen to the aforementioned healthcare professionals, that is.<p>Some questions I'm wondering about, specifically:<p>- Should I tell my boss and/or team? Should I tell them right away, or wait until I know what other steps I want to take? What should I expect their reactions to be?<p>- Should I take time off? How much? Or should I try to work reduced hours? I'm hesitant because I don't have many hobbies (if any) and in the middle of the pandemic there isn't much to do anyway. I don't think running out of things to do would be any better for my health than continuing as-is. I've been there before and I don't handle boredom well.<p>- If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.<p>- Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about? I feel like this isn't exactly rare.
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Title: Optimism thread incoming!<p>Years ago before the concept of lifehacks waned and inflation, burnout and Corona hit, i remember learning quite a few tricks through the internet, that has followed me whenever i hit a slump.<p>What did you start to do, stopped doing, or became routine that really made a difference in your life in the past years?<p>Examples:<p>- Stop scrolling social media<p>- Have no-screen days<p>- Do X day challenges<p>- Try new social settings<p>- Have a morning routine with meditation, yoga or gratitude-list<p>- Journal either in the morning or evening<p>- Meditate<p>- Become a mentor, parent or do community work<p>- Force yourself to read a bit everyday, also challenging stuff<p>- Eat better, and find out if you have deficiencies<p>- Get more light and get out and move<p>- Try different sleep schedules<p>- Take more time off idling<p>- Move city<p>So HN what what changed your life?
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Title: If you haven't heard yet, Google is retiring the free version of G Suite. See more here: https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/<p>I have been using G Suite legacy for a decade with my extended family, and have about 12 active accounts.<p>I am looking for either free or low cost alternatives to keeping email addresses active. My main priority is to be able to send and receiving using my own domain with multiple accounts without any deliverability issues. Still being able to use the gmail web interface would be nice as well.<p>I'd love to hear experiences from someone who has either gone through this recently or is planning to do it soon.
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Title: Hi everyone and bots! Title says it all. What websites do you use to find cutting edge information for anything that you are interested in?
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Title: Mercury is a perfect tool to share your Python notebooks with non-programmers.<p>- You can turn your notebook into web app.<p>- You can add interactive widgets to your notebook by defining the YAML header. Your users can change the input and execute the notebook.<p>- You can hide your code to not scare your (non-coding) collaborators.<p>- Users can interact with notebook and save they results.<p>- You can share notebook as a web app with multiple users - they don't overwrite original notebook.<p>The demo running at Heroku (free dyno) <a href="http://mercury-demo-1.herokuapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://mercury-demo-1.herokuapp.com</a>, at AWS EC2 (t3a.small) <a href="http://mercury.mljar.com" rel="nofollow">http://mercury.mljar.com</a> - No need to register.
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Title: A single publisher, multi subscriber lockless ring buffer build with the new generics in Go 1.18beta.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I hacked a simple service for gathering HN replies and organizing them by the parent's username.<p>The main idea is to be able to efficiently get the latest replies to an HN user. For example, you can use this service to send yourself notifications when some replies to you on HN.<p>The service queries the official HN API and can be self-hosted. It is basically ~30 lines of Bash script. I made this mostly for educational purposes -- thought you might find it useful for something.<p>Cheers!<p>Edit: for example, here are the latest replies to me [0]. It includes only recent replies, since I started the service just yesterday and it hasn't observed older replies.<p>[0] <a href="https://hnreplies.ggerganov.com/?u=ggerganov" rel="nofollow">https://hnreplies.ggerganov.com/?u=ggerganov</a>
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Title: The software world today is increasingly SaaS, user-hostile and rent-extracting.<p>My most recent experience is Shutter Stock, a completely scam company that charges ridiculous amounts of money with no easy to unsubscribe.<p><a href="https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.shutterstock.com</a><p>- Microsoft has used its dominant position to charge for MS Office in perpetuity, breaking features and now trying to trick people to use One Drive more (renaming files from an Office App is only a "feature" that works for files saved remotely on One Drive)<p>- Apple's "services" income is mostly from various apps that use predatory practices to maximise how much they can extract from users. For example, it makes sense for me, with a broken App Store search, to pay $4 for each download when I can get users to pay $5/month to use my app.<p>- Many other examples, with the whole industry going towards SaaS and HaaS<p>What has the world come to, where technology has been appropriated and we are left paying rents every month and companies are increasingly becoming user-hostile and predatory and monopolistic!
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Title: "Unfortunately, energy prices in Germany have been increasing dramatically, and electricity plays a big role in the operating costs for servers. We have always calculated the prices for the Server Auction to be as low as possible. The current prices for many Server Auction servers do not cover the increasing operating costs."<p>In my case, server price is going from €26 to €35, a 35% increase(!!!). Still cheap for what I'm getting but quite a price hike, new pricing starts in March in my case.<p>Received via email, no article on their website yet.
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Title: Please meet Loadjitsu, my weekend project, years in the making.<p>Over the years while building different apps and sites, I always felt that I need a modern load testing software.Tools like JMeter, ab are not very easy to use and it seems innovation in load testing which is a crucial part of any software release cycle has been ignored.<p>This is my third attempt at making Loadjitsu, I am so glad that I can finaly release this.<p>A bit more about the software
1. Powered by golang you can run load tests for tens of thousands of connections per second on very average hardware.
2. Cross platform, run it on Windows or Mac or host it on your linux machines
3. Lets you load test databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongodb out of the box.
4. Will keep adding more load testing targets in the future (even the more esoteric ones)<p>I hope to open source Loadjitsu soon and let users contribute new targets.
Hope this makes load testing fun again
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Title: I did ask the same question in 2016 [1] and got some really interesting answers.<p>I'm still chasing the dream of having a side-business and earning some side money, but with web apps it means mostly SaaS. Personally I hate rent-seeking behaviors (I'm not alone, it seems - "Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software" [2]), so I'm trying to know what people are doing regarding desktop apps.<p>Are people still building desktop apps? More specifically, can you make a living (or earn some side money) in 2022 by selling a desktop app?
Please share it with us, or are we doomed to build web apps and SaaS for the foreseeable future?<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658873" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658873</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30021404" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30021404</a>
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Title: Recently, I notice more and more search results Google are locked behind registration gates, and not only does Google list them at all, they're often the top results (Think Quora, Pinterest). I never had issues accessing the content in the results but recently, it's bad. Does no one at Google care? Are the people in charge investors at Pinterest/Quora?
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Title: Windows Subsystem for Linux with CUDA support + TensorFlow<p>Let me save you many hours of pain and just give you the rundown.<p>* You <i>MUST</i> be on Windows 10 21H2 or above. 21H2 cannot currently be updated to (yeah, it's because they are pushing Windows 11) so you need to download it as an ISO.<p>* Install the latest "game ready driver" for your card (you don't need a special driver despite the nvidia documentation, I got mine here: <a href="https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx</a>).<p>* In general you should ignore the nvidia documentation as they make it almost impossible to figure out what combination of cuda & cudnn versions you need.<p>Steps to install:<p>1. Open CMD as administrator.<p>2. Run: wsl --install -d ubuntu<p>3. Open the Ubuntu WSL and enter the following commands:<p># Install CUDA<p>sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys <a href="http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/7fa2af80.pub" rel="nofollow">http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubun...</a><p>sudo sh -c 'echo "deb <a href="http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64" rel="nofollow">http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubun...</a> /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cuda.list'<p>sudo apt-get update<p>sudo apt-get --yes install cuda-toolkit-11-2 cuda-toolkit-11-2<p>sudo sh -c 'echo "deb <a href="http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64" rel="nofollow">http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learnin...</a> /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-machine-learning.list'<p>sudo apt-get update<p>sudo apt install cuda-11-2 libcudnn8 libcudnn8-dev<p>sudo apt install libnvinfer8 libnvinfer-dev libnvinfer-plugin8<p># Verify CUDA installation<p>cd /usr/local/cuda-11.2/samples/4_Finance/BlackScholes<p>sudo make<p>./BlackScholes<p># Install TensorFlow<p>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev<p>pip3 install tensorflow-gpu<p>If you are reading this in the future I have some advice:<p>* Look at this page to get at least an idea of what versions of cuda and cudnn will work together: <a href="https://www.tensorflow.org/install/source#gpu" rel="nofollow">https://www.tensorflow.org/install/source#gpu</a><p>* Use apt-cache search <THING> to see the possible versions, allowing you to <i>guess</i> what you need to install. Good luck.
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Title: I'm not talking about stuff like launching a company that could take years to take off.<p>I tried bounty hunting for a while, but it seems that a lot of companies don't care that much or are dishonest when it comes to paying you, I found weaknesses that could be used to siphon tens of thousands of dollars and didn't get a single $ when reporting them through their bounty hunting program(even though they fixed it a few months after my multiple reports).<p>Do you have any ideas of ways to make money with code besides getting a job?<p>I'm okay with gray area stuff, as long as it's not straight up hacking.<p>Btw I'm pretty good at automation/making bots if you have any ideas in that area.<p>Thanks guys :)
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Title: My social and entertainment life has involved alcohol for the last 10 years. There's been lots of alcohol and health related posts on HN in the last few days. As a result, I am going to stop drinking. It's worth noting I don't have a problem with alcohol or being around it.<p>For those of you who don't drink, how do you fill your Friday and Saturday nights?<p>FYI, I don't smoke or drink tea/coffee.
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Title: I'm kind of looking for a job, and even though I really need one, I'm completely unmotivated by 99% of the job offers I see and rarely apply.<p>Maybe I'm naive, but it just seems that almost every job out there is about squeezing more profit out of people, and absolutely nothing else, and it doesn't really make me want to work.<p>Since college I've been working the bare minimum (or less)to live, 3 months there, 6 months there, 2 months there... I don't know how anyone manage to work full-time for a long period of time at unrewarding jobs that just don't matter.<p>People who have really great jobs(not talking about money ofc), how did you find them?<p>People who work 8 hours a day, mostly for a paycheck, how do you cope without wanting to off yourself?
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Title: I've seen some articles lately taking about how software engineers make <i>upwards</i> of $125K in the US. That's off by about an order of magnitude.<p>It's really not <i>that</i> uncommon to see software engineers in the US with 3-5 years of experience making >$300K--about what a doctor would make, except without having to go to school for 12 years to do so.<p>It's kind of unfathomable why someone might choose a career in investment banking, or management consulting, or any other engineering profession, which might require very long hours, extensive certifications, hostile work environments, etc. over a career as a software engineer or product manager. That is, unless they don't realize they can make at least as much or more in tech.
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Title: Hello HN, sharing my weekend project. I'm a fan of retro GUIs and fan of HN, so I built an alternative HN front end that resembles a Window XP desktop with an old Outlook email client.<p>Archive and github links if you get 500 errors:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220122190454/https://hackerxp.com/new" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20220122190454/https://hackerxp....</a><p><a href="https://github.com/assemblylanguage/hacker-xp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/assemblylanguage/hacker-xp</a>
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Title: Encouraging me to keep asking "why does work the way it does" was a big one for me.
Also how did it impact what you have done?
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Title: I’ve worked in technology my entire career but when I was replacing a broken wired garage door opener with arcade buttons I realized I had no clue what I was doing.<p>I couldn’t tell you the difference between wires or what was happening beyond randomly stripping wires and connecting them to see what happens.<p>My method worked for what I figured was a low voltage / risk project , but I would like to know more and eventually be able wire a raspberry pi for hobby projects / be able to manage more complex work.<p>Is there a good place to start / has anyone started from nearly 0 and found some good resources?
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Title: I want to get into a zone solving interesting problems. Sometimes that involves think deeply on research papers, practice algorithmic questions, writing on something, building a prototype, or simply allow mind to day-dream.<p>I gotta say, I've been unsuccessful at consistently doing any of these things. Then one time I went to a buddhist monastery for a weekend leaving tech behind. That was a revelation. Time to time I had the urge to look at phone I didn't have, but soon felt like a blessing.<p>When I look at my computer, I see a device not designed to help me with these goals. I constantly check email, messages, read toxic forums which I guess is partly because of being alone and lonely. Hard to make friends after college. Seems impossible to make good ones.<p>I wonder what you think about getting my box in order.
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Title: There are lots of solutions already, but most solutions have too many ads or they process on server(privacy concern).<p>Webutils convert all images on client using webassembly.
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Title: With the Google Apps changes I am looking at moving my emails somewhere else.<p>One solution is a SaaS service that would cover all my needs, but they all have limitations (except at very premium levels of prices).<p>I am considering hosting the incoming part (having my MX pointing to my home server) but I do not want to deal with the outbound part because of apparently how difficult it is to have consistent deliveries (because of spam filtering - there were several comments in HN about that).<p>Is there a good SMTP sending service that is affordable for home users (6 users sending a normal (low) amount of emails)? I guess that what I need is a service that will forward @mydomain emails (with the possibility to set up SFP, DMARC, ...) and handle at least two domains.
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Title: Lately, I have been trying to follow the habit of reading a lot, be it books, articles or blog posts on the subjects I would like to improve myself in.<p>That said, the more I read, the more I get this awful feeling of not memorizing anything and creating a mess in my head.<p>I try to use some simple tricks like explaining a concept to another person or even to myself, but that doesn't seem to help a lot.<p>What are your tricks and methods to maximize the mental output of technical literature?
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Title: I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of flipping through the internet a bit like you would a magazine, of undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism, and I think I'm approaching something that's beginning to feel pretty fun.<p>The link at the top will return results out of a pool of approximately 10,000 domains, you can refresh to get new ones. You can also explore in a directed fashion by using the 'Similar Domains'-buttons. These are not random.<p>A sampler, beyond the random sites offered with the head link<p><a href="https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.amiga-news.de" rel="nofollow">https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.amiga-news.de</a><p><a href="https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.aaronsw.com" rel="nofollow">https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.aaronsw.com</a><p><a href="https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/therealbitcoin.org" rel="nofollow">https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/therealbitcoin.org</a><p>I don't have thumbnails for all 500k domains in the database yet, but I think it's getting to a number where it's reasonable useful.
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Title: I work in an engineering department at a tech company in the USA. I've worked on many hiring projects over the years but the latest project is different to the others.<p>In the spreadsheet that lists all the open positions, there's a new column next to open positions with DEI comments. It has a line like this:<p>Senior Software Engineer (<i>must</i> be female)<p>If I follow this spreadsheet and exclude male applicants, then would I break any laws? Or if not laws, then would I violate other regulations or ethical standards in the industry?<p>I ask because my understanding of anti-discrimination law is that there are certain classes of people that cannot be excluded from job openings. Things like sex and race.<p>If this is illegal then what's the right way to handle this? Are there other ways I should think about this besides legal/illegal or ethical/unethical? Does region or state within the USA matter?<p>A little more context:<p>As a SSE I would do interviews or screen candidates but now in a Sr Manager role I'm more involved in the early planning and management of the process. In the first meeting where I saw the comments I said nothing. I followed up a few days later with an email to VP eng to say I opposed. 2 days after that I had a call with VP eng where I raised the issue again and they insisted that the requirement remain. I've taken no more action after that.
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Title: I’m looking in awe of the total carnage in a lot of tech stocks over the past year or so, and accelerating in the last few weeks/months.<p>While the FAANGs have so far held up ok (ex-Netflix), there’s a lot of small or mid cap tech stocks that are down 50% or more in just a few weeks. ARKK and related ETFs are down more than 50% since Feb 2021 highs.<p>I understand a lot of this is due to the Fed’s new hawkish stance which disproportionately impacts high p/e stocks like many public tech companies due to rising rates and asset purchase tapering.<p>But how long is this trend away from tech going to last?
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Title: Could this have the desired effect of reducing low-quality posts that the poster considers as such when posting? My habit is already only to post something that I personally want others to hear about, rather than 'maybe this will get a vote'.<p>It could potentially reverse the problem of so many stories being posted that so many don't even get to be seen and voted upon. It would also be great if some focus was brought back, tech is so much a part of everyday life that the intersection of tech and X is largely a general news feed.
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Title: I have a gmail account that I rarely use, but I know the password. I enter it correctly and get the following message:<p>You’re trying to sign in on a device Google doesn’t recognize, and we don’t have enough information to verify that it’s you. For your protection, you can’t sign in here right now.
Try again from a device or location where you’ve signed in before.<p>Even if I get the code from the recovery email account, it won't work. Is this the AI hell Google throws you into if you get a new phone and computer in the same year? Has anyone else on HN run into this and found a solution?
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Title: Obviously, outside of Hacker News.
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Title: I feel like I'm still hearing about the same ML and AI advancements that were purported in 2016. What's some technology that is <i>actually</i> cutting edge and unknown to most laymen?
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Title: Last Windows 11 update changed default browser to Edge, default Chrome search-engine to Bing and changed "restore previous tabs" setting to "always open Bing on startup"<p>So they basically messed around with third-party software settings to push their shitty products. This is pathetic, predatory and should be illegal.<p>How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories?
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Title: Next semester I'll have a subject about computer architecture. During it, we'll be learning assembler (TASM, if the website's correct).<p>Could I ask for your advice, how to approach that topic? I'm not going to lie, task of learning assembler seems to me quite daunting and stresses me out. Do you have any tips from your personal experience? Do you have any TASM books recommendations?
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Title: uBlock Origin is more than an ad-blocker, it's a general purpose content filter that can be leveraged to hide low-quality content from pages you browse. While the main filter lists can remove mailing list popups and obvious nags, the definition of low-quality content is personal, so one size cannot fit all.<p>I used to have an ad-hoc script to render and publish a personal uBlock Origin filter list, added to all my browsers. The goal of this project is to enable more people to build such a list custom list to filter out low-quality content and nags. Chose from a list of community-maintained templates, set your options, add your custom rules, and get your personal filter list.<p>Code and content are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and hosted on <a href="https://github.com/xvello/letsblockit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/xvello/letsblockit</a>. The project is still pretty young and needs more filter templates, and lots of frontend improvements (my last web project was in 2005, this is not my forte). Any feedback is welcome!
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Title: I have the chance to move from my engineering career (full-stack robotics, software engineering, cloud background) to assist a law firm as a patent agent in my respective fields. Has anyone made this transition who can offer some input on how that transition played out and what they learned?
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Title: Im feeling burned out and getting interested in machining, materials science and engineering outside of code.<p>Anyone else done this? Thinking of going to school full time to see it through.<p>FYI:<p>I do not have any schooling past highschool. I got really lucky and ended up an SRE after working my way off the helpdesk.
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Title: Hi HN, We're Arun, Manish, Abhilash and Franklin from Castled Data (<a href="https://castled.io" rel="nofollow">https://castled.io</a>). Castled is an open source reverse ETL solution. It helps you to periodically sync the data in your database/warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.) into sales, marketing, or support apps (Salesforce, Hubspot, Intercom etc.), or custom software, without needing an engineering team. Here’s a demo video: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/71bf33acbb4a41cab7c96a3460a84e5f" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/71bf33acbb4a41cab7c96a3460a84e5f</a>.<p>On an average, mid-scale organizations use around 40 SaaS apps. These are powerful in functionality, but limited by the quality of the product/customer data which is fed into them. The data getting synced into these tools is often incomplete, suffers from quality issues, and requires unreliable and manual imports (e.g. from CSV).<p>Manish and I were founding engineers at Hevodata, an ETL company, when it went from 5 customers to around 300 customers. We started seeing the trend of more and more customers wanting to move the data out of their cloud data warehouse to feed their business tools. We built a prototype to solve this for our users, but when we went deep into their use cases, we found that there were a lot of unsolved problems in this space. We also realized that activating warehouse data reliably for operational purposes was emerging as the next big trend for data-driven companies.<p>We did some research and came across Census/Hightouch, which were early-stage Reverse ETL cloud solutions at the time. But from our previous experience working in the ETL space, we believed that any data pipeline solution needs to be open source to cover the long list of connectors that needs to be built. So we set out to build our open source Reverse ETL solution.<p>With Castled, companies can create automated data pipelines to periodically sync the output of a warehouse transformation query or dbt models(on the works) to their sales, marketing, support and notification tools. We fetch only the incremental results by default on every pipeline run, which makes sure that rate limits and other constraints of the destination APIs are not breached. Our users can also set a time schedule to define the frequency of the pipeline run.<p>The technical challenges in building such a tool include: doing CDC (Change Data Capture) from data warehouses which do not provide a typical write ahead log; handling rate limits on destination APIs; handling deduplication of records on destination objects; failure handling and automatic retries. But the biggest challenge is the sheer number of destination app integrations that need to be supported—we are talking about tens of thousands of connectors.<p>Our major differentiator from Census/Hightouch is that we are open source. Our users can host Castled in their own private cloud and start operationalizing their data for free. We’ve observed that initially customers are inclined towards buying a cloud solution for their data integration needs. But once they scale up, they realize that their cloud vendor is unable to cope with the increasing number of apps getting used in the organization. They soon start building in-house data pipeline solutions or look for an open-source solution to solve their problems. Being open source, we provide the flexibility for our customers to build their own connectors rather than waiting for cloud vendors to fulfill their connector requests.<p>Compared with open-source alternatives (e.g. Grouparoo), we have built Castled in such a way that our community can build new connectors in a few hours. One example of this is our Castled Form Language (CFL), which helps our users auto generate extremely complex forms on the UI by writing a few Java annotations on the backend. This removes the need for a UI developer to build a new connector.<p>We have our Github repo here : <a href="https://github.com/castledio/castled" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/castledio/castled</a>. For most users, you can spin up the application on your desktop in a few minutes. In case you want a hosted solution, we also have our cloud platform hosted at <a href="https://castled.io" rel="nofollow">https://castled.io</a>. We have a subscription based hosted cloud solution, which provides more security features like single sign on, authentication, user management, notification, alerts, etc. you can sign up for and try out the product for free, no credit card required.<p>This is the first time we are trying to build an open-source community around a project and we're excited to hear any thoughts, insights, questions, encouragement and concerns in the comments below! Also we will be monitoring the thread over the course of today to answer any questions. Also feel free to reach out to me by email at [email protected]
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Title: I've long considered leaving this country for a multitude of reasons.<p>I'd be curious to hear some first hand experiences of those who've made the move to Europe and what you think of the process and considerations one should make.<p>A few questions to start the conversation:<p>- Where do you live?<p>- What's the biggest sacrifice you had to make (i.e. pay, housing, friends, etc.)<p>- What have you gained?
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Title: SPyQL (<a href="https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql</a>) is SQL with Python in the middle, an open-source project fully written in Python for making command-line data processing more intuitive, readable and powerful. Try mixing in the same pot: a SQL SELECT for providing the structure, Python expressions for defining transformations and conditions, the essence of awk as a data-processing language, and the JSON handling capabilities of jq.<p>How does a SPyQL query looks like?<p><pre><code> $ spyql “
IMPORT pendulum AS p
SELECT
(p.now() - p.from_timestamp(purchase_ts)).in_days() AS days_ago,
sum_agg(price * quantity) AS total
FROM csv
WHERE department.upper() == 'IT' and purchase_ts is not Null
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1
TO json” < my_purchases.csv
</code></pre>
In a single statement we are 1) reading a CSV (of purchases) with automatic header detection, dialect detection, type inference and casting, 2) filtering out records that do not belong to the IT department or do not have a purchase timestamp 3) summing the total purchases and grouping by how many days ago they happened, 4) sorting from the most to the least recent day and 5) writing the result in JSON format. All this without loading the full dataset into memory.<p>The Readme is loaded with recipes and there is also a demo video: <a href="https://vimeo.com/danielcmoura/spyqldemo" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/danielcmoura/spyqldemo</a><p>Any feedback is welcomed! Thank you.
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Title: How on earth this email passed the spam filter?
<a href="https://ibb.co/4PrjH9V" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/4PrjH9V</a><p>Recently I am getting more and more of these emails in my inbox.
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Title: Hi HN. I'm a student and for the past few months I've found myself sitting at my desk each evening with no motivation to do anything. I want to change this. How have you all gotten out of long tracts of lethargy? What are some strategies or approaches you've found to be effective in dealing with this?<p>Thank you for your advice!
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Title: I've been trying to spend less time on time wasting stuff. Not necessarily to work more or be more productive, but to only spend time consuming quality content or necessary stuff.
So I've blocked about a few websites on my computer(from social medias, to forums, clickbaity news sites...)<p>So instead of wasting a few hours of my time between reddit memes, pointless flamewars, and stupid articles about made up issues, I spend them between hackernews and linkedin.<p>But is that really better or just an equally addictive illusion?
Isn't this just a facebook for techbros?(me included)<p>After years of browsing HN daily, did you reap some benefits out of it?<p>What's your take on this?
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Title: Twitter takes 20 seconds to load on my phone made in 2020. It then takes about 5-10 more seconds for me to close all the popups and that's IF it doesn't fail along the way (which it does sometimes), IF I don't misclick anything (which the website makes painstakingly easy).<p>All of that to load a list of 280 chars text messages, occasionally with a picture or a video. How come even my pocket supercomputer with 8 cores and 8GB RAM takes that much time to display just some text and pictures?<p>It's yet worse with reddit.<p>I do understand that some companies may be motivated to break their own websites to force users to install spyware ("it's better in the app!"), but making a broken website doesn't take dozens of megabytes of JS. Same slowness could be achieved with a few setTimeout()s. What's more, websites are slow even when they aren't trying to push an app down your throat - e.g. the desktop versions of those same websites are hardly better, and even websites that don't have an app to "offer" are oftentimes just as overengeneered.<p>What I'm trying to understand is what is the motivation behind this? I wouldn't have any questions if webpages required manpower and optimizations to be fast - but on the contrary, anyone with most basic html skills can come up with a faster frontend than twitter's[1] AND cover that same functionality (text, a few images and a couple of forms - ALL of this is covered by HTML alone, doesn't even need a single line of JS!). This means that companies pay people to make their websites worse, and to do that in a laborious manner - again, not just some setTimeouts()s, but dozens of megabytes of code (and that's compressed!). And I can't help but wonder - what is the incentive for that? Why? A business should generally save money wherever possible and only spend it to make profits, shouldn't it? I just can't see how the crime against everything decent that is the twitter frontend could possibly benefit the company, or anyone for that matter. If anything it would harm it. And it costs it money.<p>[1] - see e.g. Nitter, Invidious, Teddit - all of those much more robust than the sites they grab data from. Also pretty sure that even if the people behind these did get paid, it was orders of magnitude less than what the people these companies have working on their frontends get paid.
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Title: I have the habit of looking at the date of things I consume online, it gives me a sense of relevance and context, both when I'm looking for things that are "from now" but more importantly when I'm looking for things given a temporal context, for instance, programming for an old compiler, finding out how to do something with an old piece of hardware or electronics.<p>I feel like I'm encountering more and more sites and articles where I can't seem to find the date.
Google will return irrelevant results from today rather than relevant results from 10 years ago.<p>I feel it's getting worse, is it just me?
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Title: Hello HN!
I've been playing a lot with <a href="https://hyperscript.org/" rel="nofollow">https://hyperscript.org/</a> recently (not to be confused with the other hyperhype hyperscript). I threw together a quick Wordle clone in an evening to see what it would look like using this language. The main functionality that is missing is checking for invalid words. The word dictionary is also very small, so it's very easy.<p>The goal here wasn't really to create a good version of Wordle, it was to build 80% of Wordle in a different language to see what it looks like. Turns out, it looks pretty good! Stuff like using CSS rule precedence to highlight the squares, CSS selectors to figure out which key to highlight, and using the DOM to keep state are all really natural in Hyperscript. I highly suggest going to the site and viewing the source!
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I've spent a lot of time over the years building mockups and demo videos for my apps with tools like Photoshop and After Effects, always frustrated by how tedious it was.<p>For the past year and a half, I've been working on building a better way.<p>MockRocket makes it easy to show off your app, right from your web browser–no experience required. Choose a template, drag and drop a screenshot or video and display it on a realistic 3D device model. You can even animate it to create a video.<p>You can customize as much or as little as you want, and export in up to 4K resolution. All rendering is done in the browser, not on a server–using WebGL and WebAssembly–so your imported designs stay 100% private.<p>This is the first release! Please let me know if you have any feedback or questions!
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Title: Hi, we’re Ali, Hassan and Alistair, co-founders of Infracost (<a href="https://www.infracost.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.infracost.io/</a>). Infracost shows engineers the cost of each Terraform change in CI/CD before resources are launched. When something changes, it posts a comment with the cloud cost impact. e.g. you’ve added 2 instances and volumes, and have changed an instance type from medium to large, this will increase your bill by 25% next month from $1000 to $1250 per month.<p>We launched the first version of Infracost just under a year ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588</a>). As we said in our first release ‘the people who are purchasing cloud resources are not shown costs upfront, so they don’t know how much the resources will cost before launching them’. Our assumption was that because we are open source and engineers are flying blind, they (the engineers) would pull us into their workflow. Actually, something different is happening:<p>The engineers are not pulling us in - it turns out to be the senior DevOps, SREs and platform teams. One of their challenges is figuring out how their small team of 7 people can fulfill the infrastructure requirements of hundreds of engineers. To solve this, they have created and put in place processes for engineers to provision infrastructure when they need. Now they want to implement cost policies and guardrails so that these hundreds of engineers don’t blow past all budgets. For example, if a change will result in a higher than 15% increase, leave a warning. If a change results in a >25% increase in costs, block the change till a team lead has reviewed it.<p>This has two implications for us. First, we need to create an output that isn’t only used by humans but is also digested into other systems to make further decisions. The second is the people we have been speaking to are not our end users. We need to figure out how we can get introduced to our end users, and create a different set of questions for each persona.<p>We’d really love your feedback around the cost policies use-case. We've created examples with standard policy tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Sentinel and Conftest. Check out the repo for GitHub Actions at <a href="https://github.com/infracost/infracost" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/infracost/infracost</a>. Our other CI/CD integrations are listed here: <a href="https://www.infracost.io/docs/#4-add-to-cicd" rel="nofollow">https://www.infracost.io/docs/#4-add-to-cicd</a>.<p>We'd love to hear how you think about policies and guardrails for containing cloud costs!
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Title: I have been a software developer for the past 11 years and have mostly enjoyed it. Lately I have been so burnt out and most days dread waking up. My question is what are some other jobs that pay well (I am the provider of the family)? I have some saving and could take time off to see if that helps things out but currently I feel like a new career might be the real solution.
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Title: Companies are willing to pay big money to developers, however they issue crappy laptops as development machines. Laptops are designed for mobility, not for performance. Sure, you can use a dock and plug a keyboard and external monitor(s), but a Core i5 laptop with 16GB of ram running at 1.6GHz won't cut it as a dev machine. I would imagine that companies would want to provide the best tools for their developers so that they can be happy and productive. What is the rationale for companies to do this kind of short-sighted thing?
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Title: Am I the only one who finds it bad that I either have to spend around 10 hours a week going to the grocery store, cooking, cleaning the kitchen,... or, if I want to skip all that, that I have to spend a shit ton of money ordering uber eats?<p>We have rockets that can leave our atmosphere and cars that can run using electricity. Why don't we have a better way to feed humans? Do you realize how much human capital is spent every day on this useless foodstuff, day in and day out, the exact same process for billions of humans?<p>I mean, honestly, at this point, just mail me a tube that contains my daily food nutrients, I don't care if it tastes like shit, as long as my body can function and I don't have to deal with this inefficient bulshit anymore.<p>Is that something that exists? a company that does that? If not, is there a better way? can someone find one, as I'm probably not smart enough to find one.
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Title: If there's one thing absolutely guaranteed to get a gazillion comments on HN, it's a post about either 1) note taking software, 2) note taking methodology 3) a combination of the two.<p>I'm kinda fascinated by this, in large part because I'm sucked in by it too. I can't count the number of apps I've tried, or the dopamine rush when installing a new one.<p>What's this about? Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just <i>get this right</i>? Or are we just endlessly curious about what everyone else does? Tell me, I need to understand myself better!
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Title: I am based in the UK and find it hard to find good developers/designers/product people. Although we advertise on our web site, unless people are looking quite specifically, they are unlikely to find the adverts (unlike FANGs which would attract candidates directly).<p>Also, Recruiters tend to be a poor and expensive solution. It is hard to tell the good from those who just claim to be good and we get a lot of noise from them. Also, I'm not sure that the best candidates just call a random recruiter to find them a job.<p>What are others doing to both find jobs and to recruit?
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Title: As an update to [0] and [1], the scammers have now completely deleted my page of 50k subscribers.<p>I am devastated. 10+ years of building a heavy metal community, gone like a puff of smoke, just like that. And Facebook still hasn't replied to a single message. I hate to imagine what would have happened if I was an actual business...<p>I am reaching out to the HN community one last time. If anyone has any advice or can help me talk to an actual human being at Facebook and restore my page and ownership, <i>please</i> get in touch!<p>(or if not, at least vote / comment your own frustrations or horror stories below, to help get my story be seen by such a person, if you think this post deserves it...)<p><pre><code> [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706571
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423</code></pre>
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Title: Source <a href="https://github.com/dashborg/hibiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dashborg/hibiki</a> | Interactive Tutorial <a href="https://playground.hibikihtml.com/tutorial/" rel="nofollow">https://playground.hibikihtml.com/tutorial/</a><p>I love JavaScript, but for many projects -- especially internal tools and prototypes -- setting up a full frontend JavaScript stack (npm, webpack, babel, create-react-app, redux) and all of their configuration files, folders, and scaffolding is overkill.<p>Hibiki HTML incrementally plugs into any backend, using any template language (even static HTML files) with a single script include. It includes a built-in frontend data model, Vue.js-like rendering, built-in AJAX integration, and a full component/library system.<p>It is also <i>fully scriptable</i> from your backend AJAX handlers. Anything that Hibiki HTML can do on the frontend can be done with a remote handler by returning specially formatted JSON <i>actions</i>. This allows you to write frontend logic (that would normally be JavaScript code) in your backend handlers.<p>Background -- Hibiki HTML is a standalone, open-source, more powerful version of the frontend language that I had built for my internal tools startup Dashborg over the past year. It is a reaction against the extreme amount of scaffolding and configuration required to set up a new frontend project, especially when you're a backend/devops/data engineer who isn't a JavaScript expert. As more Hibiki libraries are written, the advantages will hopefully become even more clear.<p>I'd love to get all of your feedback, questions, and comments. Would love a star on Github if you like the idea. Also, feel free to email me, and/or join the Slack workspace I set up (contact info on Github or the tutorial).
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Title: Occasionally a link to a tweet will be submitted here as a story by itself. Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium by making the site nearly unusable without an account. Until a few days ago you could read all the tweets you wanted but clicking any of them would pop up a “join twitter” screen. Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs.
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Title: Particularly interested in how people use feature flags on the frontend.<p>Does your team use them? If not, why not?
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Title: Hi HN folks, I can't think of a better place to ask this.<p>So I'm not a software engineer but robotics, and my masters degree was more of an "jack of all trades, master of none" in Robotics (but more towards software side of it)<p>I've now worked for about 3-4 years, so still a junior, but mostly at startups (and in my 3rd one).<p>Hitting my 30s last year and recently talking to a person slightly younger than me with similar background I got the sense of FOMO. this person had a similar degree and first job out of college at an (now failed) startup, but just recently landed a SDE job at Amazon.<p>As I haven't really worked at big companies, I've always had this nascent feeling that I never really learned "the right way" to do things. I often feel like a "patchwork engineer", learning how things work only sufficiently to make things work in a smaller scale without understanding important big project/organization principles. (or maintaining stuff)<p>How much of this is valid, and how much is just the misconception "the grass is greener" at big companies? Is it valuable to try to apply to big companies to get a good foundation in "the right way" to do things? I feel like I've also cornered myself with my resume / experience by only working at startups, and might not even be a lucrative candidate for larger organizations. (30s crisis not withstanding)<p>Any insight is much appreciated!
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Title: I've lamented here many times that if you want to dabble in the mainframe world, that there were no resources available to mere mortals. That has changed as of few months ago.<p>IBM's "Master the Mainframe" platform has been renamed to zXplore and been reopened.<p>Even better, completion of this course and one other super basic one on IBM's site opens you up to apply for a learner's license of z/OS (the dev&test environment that runs on Linux) itself, which can be had for $120 a year.<p><a href="https://ibm.github.io/zdt-learners-edition-about/" rel="nofollow">https://ibm.github.io/zdt-learners-edition-about/</a>
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Title: Over the last few days I've noticed several distinct Google results that are simply 'Untitled', that redirect to other sites that are definitely spam and possibly malware (I didn't stay long enough to investigate). I've seen other examples of titles such as 'Oh' redirecting to the same spam sites. From the result preview below the title, the results otherwise seem somewhat relevant to the query, but most often end up loading a fake captcha page.<p>Google deleted a support thread posted 3 days ago about this issue [0]. There are a few comments on a HN thread from yesterday [1] which mention this issue as well. A reddit thread is active on /r/google about this issue [2].<p>Something seems to have gone wrong at Google to allow so many fake results to pollute so many different search queries. There have been many discussions on HN lately about how the quality of Google's search results have gone down, but until now I've never seen them become a massive influx of possibly malicious spam.<p>[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/147896848/i-have-untitled-google-search-results-on-almost-everytging-and-it-redirects-me-to-malware-website?hl=en-GB<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30086059<p>[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/seio29/is_anyone_else_getting_these_untitled_google/
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Title: Like many people who have spent decades behind a keyboard, RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) prevents me from writing code and doing graphic design through the usual keyboard and mouse inputs.<p>So I have turned to a complex and highly unreliable software stack that provides both voice-to-text, and clumsy but limited control of Microsoft Windows, Chrome, etc. This includes Dragon Voice-to-text, Voice Computer, and Talon, plus a browser extension and heavy customization.<p>Users of Dragon will acknowledge that:
a) The software is a creaky dumpster fire built on archaic code
b) There is no viable alternative on the market<p>My question is: *how is it that no one has built something better?* The market is huge, and the Natural Language Processing of "OK Google" and Siri are quite refined at this point.<p>References:<p>Dragon: <a href="https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html</a><p>Voice Computer: <a href="https://voicecomputer.com/" rel="nofollow">https://voicecomputer.com/</a><p>Talon: <a href="https://talonvoice.com/" rel="nofollow">https://talonvoice.com/</a>
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Title: Hi HN! There's been lots of note-taking / personal knowledge tools developed in the past few years. But there's a big difference between working with people you already know and collaborating with anyone on the internet.<p>Right now, if you're interested in, say DIY air purifiers[1], you could throw up a document or webpage. But there's no good way for people you don't already know to work on it, to make it their own. If you're writing software, the answer is obvious: publish a Git repository on GitHub/GitLab.<p>With Encycla, we're building a sort of "GitHub for knowledge": a place where you can create simple, topical webpages that others can fork and asynchronously push & pull changes from (without knowing about Git or anything technical).<p>On the backend, every page on Encycla is a git repository containing Markdown that you can clone, edit independently of the Encycla website, push to other services (such as GitHub, GitLab), etc.<p>For instance, here's a page on Encycla:<p><a href="https://encycla.com/KF94" rel="nofollow">https://encycla.com/KF94</a><p>and the underlying git repository pushed to GitHub:<p><a href="https://github.com/philipn/KF94" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/philipn/KF94</a><p>1. <a href="https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube" rel="nofollow">https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube</a>
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Title: Any technologist familiar with blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs is almost certainly aware that the entire scope of these technologies is promoting fraud, scams, and Greater Fool schemes. As a legitimate technological framework for the mythical decentralized "Web 3.0", anyone who spends more then an hour learning about how enthusiasts propose to actually implement "Web 3.0" tech on blockchains knows that there is not a shred of legitimacy to the thought that blockchain can drive even a tiny, mundane application - never-mind the "new web".<p>For those not familiar with the industry, the YouTube documentary "Line Goes Up" by Dan Olson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g) has been pointed to many times in HN threads, and is a great introduction to how dangerous these technologies really are. Within a few hours of following any tutorial on building a decentralized app, most developers should be able to see what an absolute disaster zone trying to work with this fundamentally broken technology would be, and what a nightmarish step backwards it is for developers concerned with cost, speed, privacy, safety, and ease.<p>I think it is important as technologists, engineers, and developers that we start making it very loud and clear to the public how fraud-ridden and dangerous these systems are. With most early-adopters running dry, the Ponzi scheme will only be able to continue by expanding into the average consumer market - and if as a community we stay silent about why and how these systems are simply convoluted scam practices, we are dooming ourselves to work with them.
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Title: On or about December 26th, a Facebook page that I run for our band called Wonder Bread 5, was unpublished without any warning. The only notification I received, was in the drop-down menu for notifications in Facebook.<p>We have been a band for over 25 years now, and have used our Facebook page to promote our band, spending thousands on paid adds regularly to direct fans to our concerts, and to engage with our audience since 2009 or longer. Our Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/WeAreWB5/ although I can still login and see the page, no one on the other side of Facebook can see it. Thus being unpublished. After about a week there was a notice on the front page that read, "Wonder Bread 5 goes against Facebook's community standards". Under this was a question asking if I agreed or disagreed with this decision. I disagreed with this decision as I don't understand why the Facebook page was unpublished or what we have done to go against Facebook's community standards.<p>After a few weeks of logging in, a new message popped up. I still get "Wonder Bread 5 goes against our community standards". When I try to post, it says "Your account is restricted right now. You have been temporarily blocked from performing this action." So I wonder if this is a short temporary thing, or a long temporary thing that will be drawn out over months? My thought maybe, was to go in and try to delete most everything in hopes whatever I delete is what is being flagged. Does anyone have any insight into that, or thoughts as to what may be being flagged?<p>To my knowledge, we have been in compliance with the rules and regulations of Facebook. The page has never been banned or put in "Facebook jail". When I go into the violations section of our page, Facebook says "you have no violations, thank you for keeping Facebook a safe place". If it is a copyright problem, we have been in touch with The Wonder Bread company lawyers and have been given permission to use the name "Wonder Bread 5" as long as we don't use the logo<p>Our business is really hurting because of this. We can't pay for ads to promote our concerts. We have 13k followers, losing them would be horrible<p>Any help would be very appreciated.
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Title: I remember back in the late 2000s, I used to spend a lot of time on DeviantArt and even shared my own artwork. I can't remember why or when I stopped using the site.<p>Do you still use it? Did your usage drop off in the last decade? Why?
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Title: I have been using at Suite with custom domain for my email since 2010. Now google is shutting down g suite and forcing a paid Workspace subscription. I only need to keep my email and domain. By accident, I deleted my g suite but still have access to admin console and the domain registration.<p>Is there a recommended email hosting I could simply transfer to?
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Title: Looking into hashicorp nomad but I wonder if there is a good non commercial alternative?
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Title: My social life is lacking and I would gladly make some new friends. But the only place where I can socialize is the workplace which is full of people like me and the conversations always turn back to work.<p>I would gladly meet up with some interesting educated people from other professions. I am just at a complete loss where to go and what to do to accomplish this.<p>This might even be an idea for some kind of new social app, but for now I am asking the question to you, hoping some know good ways to accomplish this.
Upvote: | 42 |
Title: It's been a while since I have felt that Google's results have deteriorated. It takes a lot of tricks to find what I am looking for. Today an interesting case occurred that frustrated me a lot and is worth telling HN.<p>First, I was looking for a song and searched for: "here were the dreams are born" (I know I mistyped). One of the first results I found was this interesting story (Google results <a href="https://imgur.com/a/gUq4XVZ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/gUq4XVZ</a>):<p><a href="https://mechahuggermr.tripod.com/id66.html" rel="nofollow">https://mechahuggermr.tripod.com/id66.html</a><p>I took the following sentence from this story and used it in the readme of an internal project:<p>"David, we have been expecting you - this is what you have been searching for - this place, David, is where dreams are born"<p>Some people wanted to know where this quote came from and could not find it on Google.<p>I also tested and cannot enter any combination of parameters into Google to find this page. I tried quotation marks, literal search and no hyphen. Nothing, it is impossible to find it.<p>Does anyone know what is going on here? Can someone do a magic call and find this page on Google?<p>Has Google's AI/BERT Enhanced Search reached a point where indexed pages can not be found?<p>All results were tested with a Brazilian connection and replicated in a Private Session on an US VPN.
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Title: As I write this post, my neighbors from above, probably college students, are having a party of their lifetime, laughing, kicking and screaming. I'm not even mad at them, just full of envy.<p>The last time I had fun like this was in college. I was broke, renting a big flat with a bunch of roommates, but young, healthy, and full of enthusiasm (and booze). Finding friends in my teens and 20s was as easy as going out literally anywhere. When I eventually went to work, I thought my life would only get better. And I made a good career, but in the process, steadily drifted off into isolation.<p>These days I work either from home, or at best in a mostly empty office. I tried to meet new people at hobbies and dance lessons, but guess what - they're all full of lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc.<p>All the "normal" people I knew in the past are now changing diapers and working to pay off their mortgages, which I guess is a kind of consolation. Still, I'm only in my 30s, and it feels like my life is pretty much done. Doing things by myself is boring and depressing, and getting into a group of "normal" friends, of both genders, to hang out and laugh with, seems like an impossible goal.<p>In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby, going to therapy, approaching random strangers, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't have any skills other than coding, so quitting the career would be a major financial hit. On the other hand, I feel that finding a non-coding job would be ultimately the best way to find new social groups, and get out of the apathy
Upvote: | 427 |
Title: Any dyslectic programmers here? Is it an issue for you in your daily programming? Did you find learning techniques that helped when you were still teaching yourself?<p>Fonts, colors, screen readers?<p>I am currently teaching a teenager, it is obvious he understands principles fast and has great memory retention, but syntax is a bit of a problem. We obviously use helpful editors and IDEs in this regard, but it is still an issue.
Upvote: | 41 |
Title: For those who learned C after learning Python, was it worth it? Did it help you to better understand Python?
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Title: History: Last year I had to replace the tire on my bike, and I was surprised how difficult it was to find a suitable new tire. There were a lot of numbers written on the casing, so I googled what they meant. In the end I was successful, but I didn't want to do the same work again for the next bike after I've forgotten the details. So I wrote this website.<p>Technically, the web page is kept very simple, no frameworks, no templates, no website builder. It uses HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, and it privides a responsive layout for mobile usage.<p>I'm happy to receive feedback. If you have tried the label of your bike tire, and it doesn't work, please post it as well. Thanks!
Upvote: | 631 |
Title: There are many headlines of people getting their <FAANG/Big Company> accounts banned and losing access to a lot of important documents or services. Often, trying to talk to support on any of these companies is akin to talking to a wall.<p>However, GDPR has a clause stating that "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing". Which would mean that any EU/EEA citizen should have the right to have the decision reviewed by a human.<p>Has anyone successfully overturned a banned account using this method?
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Title: I made this because I think that if contracts were written in plain text files and managed more like software, from version control to IDEs, lawyers would work more quickly and intelligently for their clients, saving them money.<p>But the entire practice of transactional law is stuck on Microsoft Word. My clients are mostly technology companies with an appetite for innovation. With their encouragement, I am moving my own legal practice away from formats like Microsoft Word and into plain text.<p>Electronic signatures of plain text contracts is the starting point for that effort. The MVP is this developer API.<p>If the reception to this product is positive, I'll continue to release the products that I build. In time, my hope is that plain text will supplant Microsoft Word in the drafting, negotiation and execution of contracts.
Upvote: | 279 |
Title: In the past, the place to be to connect with like minded people was on IRC; in particular ##java Now with Slack and Discord, I haven't found a community of folks who are building products, ideas, sharing thoughts, talking tech, talking lessons learned about growing their company, virtually collaborating on problems by sharing ideas, etc.<p>This has created a bit of tension mentally for me. The feeling of being caged up with no physical cage.<p>There was a Slack group for startups by Jason a while back, but that looks to have died off.
Upvote: | 127 |
Title: Musk flies in and out of Van Nuys Airport
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1005643673353064448<p>Satoshi leaked an IP address in Van Nuys, Los Angeles
https://whoissatoshi.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/satoshi-in-california<p>___<p>Musk wrote with double spaces after a period
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-threatening-emails-tesla-press-attention-2014-11<p>Satoshi wrote with double spaces after a period
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-threatening-emails-tesla-press-attention-2014-11<p>___<p>Musk runs several large companies<p>Satoshi was described as "bossy"
https://www.businessinsider.com/satoshi-nakamoto-was-weird-and-bossy-says-bitcoin-developer-2018-5<p>___<p>Musk has specific concern for public domain graphics
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/579210902932574209<p>Satoshi too
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/500/<p>___<p>Musk frequently says "order of magnitude"
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aelonmusk%20order%20of%20magnitude&src=typed_query&f=top<p>Satoshi too
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/15/?view=satoshi
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/19/?view=satoshi
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/42/?view=satoshi
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/120/?view=satoshi
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/threads/232/?view=satoshi
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Title: I’m a HN user for 10 years, and I realized that I’ve newer used nor visit « /newest » page on HN. I always use the home page, where the top 30/60 upvoted submissions are. Quality submissions can only reach visibility if HN users upvote them from /newest so I wonder if we shouldn’t be incentivized in any way to do so?
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Title: This is a recurring theme on HN, so I think you all have very good opinions on this topic: why does modern software seem so unpolished, slow, bloated, unprofessional?<p>Let me provide a (frustrating) example: the last straw for me has been OneDrive. I am using it to select and share photos from my wedding. It is an app written by one of the largest and most ancient software companies in history, so they should know something about making apps. And still:<p>1) The directory list view keeps "losing" the position at which I am, so every time I share a photo, I have to scroll down to where I left (in a directory with 5000 pictures).<p>2) If I screenshare using the Google Cast functionality, after a few dozens photos it loses the signal and I have to wait a few <i>minutes</i> before reconnecting. The entire app becomes extremely slow in the meantime.<p>3) The app in general is inconceivably slow. What is taking so long? I am viewing <i>the same directory</i> for 2 hours, why is it still so slow to load?<p>So at this point I am struggling to understand: how comes such an app got released? Are the incentives given to developers so at odd with app quality?
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Title: I'm not a morning person.<p>Mornings are by far the most challenging time for me to be productive. I sit at my desk fighting through my brain fog trying to find something I can focus on.<p>If I'm "lucky" something has gone wrong that needs my immediate attention [1], the small kick of adrenaline is usually enough to get my brain to wake up and I can continue being productive. By this I mean, solve problems, implement solutions, do the non-routine part of my job that I enjoy.<p>But having stuff break is not a sustainable method of waking up. If everything runs smoothly it can take an hour or two before the fogs clear. Even walking the dogs in the Scandinavian winter wakes me up sufficiently. I do of course use this time in some manners, read HN/reddit/blogs, write emails, meetings.. But I don't do any "real work", at least it feels that way.<p>So finally my to question<p>What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?<p>[1] Bosses boss-boss decided that 24/7 oncall is too expensive so 8-17 it is.
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Title: I made the jump from the "big city" with a good tech job to the homestead a few years ago and have found as much as YouTube and Amazon have provided an incredible amount of information and resources, I find myself questioning my decision.<p>I am beginning to feel that regardless of modern innovations when push comes to shove...the truth is homesteading requires an almost soul crushing amount of hard work and fortitude for very small gains.<p>I can't help feel frustrated when I watch my friends in the city enjoy all of the comforts it offers and seemingly pull away from me both financially and socially.<p>So I am looking for either some hard truths or encouragement regarding this matter.<p>Please be honest and refrain from judging those who are! I am a big boy and can handle the truth.<p>Thank You
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Title: This thread is similar to the monthly "Who is hiring?" and "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads.<p>But this one is for people who don't want to work for money and are not looking for people who want to work for money. But for people who 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!
Upvote: | 390 |
Title: Not spam, all double opt-in. Even with 10DLC it's too much $, even on cheap providers like SignalWire. Email to text is unreliable and can't do above certain volumes (unless there's some way to get whitelisted I don't know?)<p>How can I do this for cheaper?<p>Here are some numbers:<p>Pricing varies by carrier but with my carrier mix it is between $0.0065 - $0.007 for 1 message on average. I need to send ~250k each month for now and also need lots of room to send more. These prices are SignalWire which is the cheapest I found so far. Bandwidth looks like the same. I think maybe Teli and Telnyx are a small amount cheaper but not so much.
Upvote: | 61 |
Title: Visions is a python library for working with user defined data type systems. Out of the box, it provides type inference and automated data cleaning of sequence data with backend specific implementations for pandas, spark, python, and numpy. We often use it as a first pass cleaning step when working with tabular data and to simplify the backend logic of both pandas-profiling[1] and our tabular data compression library compressio[2].<p>Because data types are user defined, we can build user customizable libraries based around types without adding code complexity. In the case of compressio that means offering users the ability to use any compression algorithm they want by simply passing a dictionary mapping `{type: compression algorithm}` or defining new compression algorithms for otherwise unsupported data types like shapely geometries, images, etc.<p>We hope you like it and would really appreciate feedback about how to make the library more useful and easier to use.<p>P.S. If you're interested in learning more about the project, the original paper is available on JOSS[3] you can also check out our Numpy Global 2020 talk[4]<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/pandas-profiling/pandas-profiling" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pandas-profiling/pandas-profiling</a><p>2. <a href="https://github.com/dylan-profiler/compressio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dylan-profiler/compressio</a><p>3. <a href="https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.02145" rel="nofollow">https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.02145</a><p>4. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2w99XIKizY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2w99XIKizY</a>
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Title: Check it out: https://ar5iv.org/pdf/2106.10522.pdf
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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>.
Upvote: | 129 |
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=30164269" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164269</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164270" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164270</a>
Upvote: | 269 |
Title: Atlas is an open-source deployment pipeline platform built for cloud-native applications.<p>Atlas allows users to:
- Create continuous pipelines across all their environments and clusters
- Add custom tasks/tests plugins (Python scripts, K8S manifests, Argo Workflows, environment setup, etc.)
- Automatically rollback applications in case of failure or degradation (Atlas watches the application past the scope of a pipeline run to ensure and enforce stability)
- Use all existing Argo features<p>Would love to hear all of your feedback and thoughts on this!
Upvote: | 66 |
Title: Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You <i>can</i> host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out and write a bot for to ruin the whole canvas, but I trust that the HN crowd can come up with clever things to draw with a script, should they choose to do so. The server is recording draw events into a log, and I will be posting a timelapse here in the comments after some time. Have fun!
Upvote: | 69 |
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