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Title: I'm a nerd. I know tons of technologies in and out. And I am creative. I come up with new ideas all the time. And I start new projects all the time. They all have potential. But I do so many of them that none really gets enough attention to grow.<p>What can I do?
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Title: My middle schooler goes to Chicago Public Schools. They use Google Classroom for assignments and other communications.<p>I bought him a Chromebook for schoolwork, but also for other private things. When we logged in, the system installed GoGuardian monitoring software on the Chromebook without notice or permission.<p>And now I can't remove it. I wrote to GoGuardian support, and they replied that I had to contact the school or remove my son as a user. The instructions for removing him as a user do not work; on the contrary, I see the message "cps.edu manages this user and may remotely manage settings and monitor user activity" and he can't be removed.<p>I did a full factory reset, signed in to his account again, and now the system is once again locked down.<p>So now I'm in the position where I have to ask permission from a local government entity to please let me install stuff and don't monitor the computer I bought and paid for.<p>Does anyone know how to refer these people to law enforcement for prosecution?
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Title: I just got an email from Stripe:<p>---<p>Hello,<p>We’re writing to let you know that we’re making some changes to cross-border fees in Europe and the UK starting 1st July 2022.<p>Based on your Stripe transaction history, this change won’t impact [Company], and all other pricing will remain the same. You can review the most up to date fees for international transactions on our pricing page.<p>You can contact us, and find more details about this pricing update, managing or closing your account, or any other next steps, on our dedicated support page.<p>- The Stripe team<p>---<p>Of course they don't actually mention what the changes are, but looking at the pricing page [0], it seems like there is now an additional 1.1% (making it 2.5% in total) for EU companies taking UK payments and for UK companies taking EU payments.<p>I imagine this is related to Visa and Mastercard price increases post-Brexit? [1]<p>[0] <a href="https://stripe.com/gb/pricing" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/gb/pricing</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4820b619-4d35-4c6a-8523-fc685c047374" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/content/4820b619-4d35-4c6a-8523-fc685c047...</a>
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Title: Yesterday, I was talking to my partner, and even though I had heard Alex Hormozi mention that "We're all going to die, it doesn't matter who we are", I had never had the "click" that I needed to have to feel it.<p>We're all going to die one day, and we don't know when that day will be.
I've spent my whole life trying to find my purpose, where I was simply disappointed most of the time, and I was always looking at other people and comparing myself.<p>But now, I can finally say that I am slowly feeling like I am finding it with more clarity.<p>For that reason, as scary as it might be, I decided that I needed to stop being scared of things that weren't going to help me achieve the goals that I have set for myself.<p>The one is to make sure that I always focus on doing something that I love.<p>The second one is to enjoy the process and the journey that comes with doing what I love.<p>Basically, I want to grow old doing what I love, not feeling that I am working.<p>More specially what that means is: building solutions that solve problems (help people) and improve how things are being done (innovate).<p>What's that one thing for you?
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Title: I'm Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. Last month I released version 2 which includes many new features.<p>DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6.<p>My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there:<p>- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.
- It is lightweight (~250kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.
- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.
- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers<p>Please take a look at the performance demo (<a href="https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells" rel="nofollow">https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells</a>) to see the difference with other data grids out there. And let us know if you have any suggestions.<p>Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I've spent the last few months building HomeSheet - The all in one tool to track your personal assets. I built HomeSheet to make organizing and documenting my belongings a breeze. I've always wanted to put together a home inventory to protect myself in the event of a disaster, but I never found a solution that I liked.<p>Right now HomeSheet is in early access, and I'm still working on determining what additional features users would like. I'll be around in the comments if you have any feedback, questions, or just want to say hi!
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Title: Hi HN! I'm Adam Goldstein, co-founder and CEO of Hipmunk (YC S10). Today we're launching Flight Penguin (<a href="https://www.flightpenguin.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.flightpenguin.com</a>) in public beta as a browser extension for Chrome and Chromium browsers.<p>Hipmunk was a travel metasearch site that sorted flights by "agony" and showed them in a Gantt chart view. I've missed using Hipmunk ever since SAP shut it down. So I decided to seed-fund a successor along with my Hipmunk co-founder (and Reddit CEO) Steve Huffman. More recently I brought on Max Morlocke (hn: maxmorlocke) as cofounder.<p>With Flight Penguin, you get a simple, time-based way to search for flights, and it pulls in results from multiple sites. By default Flight Penguin sorts by "pain," so you see the least painful options before the multiple-layover monstrosities Kayak loves to show first.<p>As some of you know, some airlines are now demanding anti-consumer provisions when they do deals with travel sites, such as insisting that sites hide cheaper flights, hide multi-airline itineraries, and hide certain booking options. We decided not to agree to any of those terms, because we want to make the best experience. Being a browser extension gives us the ability to show the lowest fares without going through airline servers or airline contracts, since we can search and compile all the data from your browser.<p>You can install it now at <a href="https://www.flightpenguin.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.flightpenguin.com</a>. We're also launching a crowdfunding round to keep our incentives aligned with our users: <a href="https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin" rel="nofollow">https://wefunder.com/flightpenguin</a>. Happy to answer any questions and would love your thoughts!
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Title: Hi HN community,<p>I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish.<p>The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal, and keep pushing further into the world of shells, ultimately ending up with a better integrated experience.<p>At Warp we are building a Rust-based terminal that keeps what’s best about the CLI while modernizing the experience. We’ve built<p>1) An input area that works just like a code editor: selections, cursor positioning and completion menus
2) Grouped commands and outputs: so you can easily copy, search, and share terminal outputs
3) AI-powered Command Generation and Community-sourced Workflows [0]: so you can find useful commands without leaving the terminal
4) The ability to share your outputs with teammates: no more pasting long unformatted code into Slack
5) Project Workflows: save your team’s common commands into your project so your teammates can run them from Warp
See a demo here: [1]<p>We built Warp in Rust with GPU-accelerated graphics, and along the way we built our own UI framework, a text editor that’s a CRDT, and an out-of-the-box theming system. You can learn more here [2]. Huge thanks to our early collaborators: Atom co-founder Nathan Sobo, Nushell co-founder Andres Robalino, and Fish shell lead developer Peter Ammon.<p>We are planning to first open-source our Rust UI framework, and then parts and potentially all of our client. As of now, the community has already been contributing new themes [3]. And we’ve just opened a repository for the community to contribute common useful commands. [4]<p>Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. We will never sell your data.<p>We are calling today’s release a “beta” because we know there are still some issues to smooth out. You will notice that a log-in is required and that we do collect usage data and crash reports. We do so to enable team features and also to keep improving the product. Post-beta, we will allow users to opt out of usage data. You can see our privacy policy here [5].<p>While it is a “beta”, we are confident that even today the experience is meaningfully better than in other terminals. If you use a Mac, please give it a shot at warp.dev and let us know how it goes. Otherwise, sign up here [6] to be notified when Warp is ready for your platform.<p>Join our community on Discord [7] and follow us on Twitter [8]<p>Let me know what you think! Ask me anything!<p>[0] <a href="https://docs.warp.dev/features/workflows" rel="nofollow">https://docs.warp.dev/features/workflows</a>
[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/X0LzWAVlOC0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/X0LzWAVlOC0</a>
[2] <a href="https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.warp.dev/how-warp-works/</a>
[3] <a href="https://github.com/warpdotdev/themes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/warpdotdev/themes</a>
[4] <a href="https://github.com/warpdotdev/workflows" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/warpdotdev/workflows</a>
[5] <a href="https://warp.dev/privacy" rel="nofollow">https://warp.dev/privacy</a>
[6] <a href="https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/issues/120" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/issues/120</a> and <a href="https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/204" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/204</a>
[7] warp.dev/discord
[8] twitter.com/warpdotdev
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Title: I realize this is somewhat of a taboo topic but I feel like if there is anywhere we can have a real discussion on mental health it's going to be HN.<p>I have been struggling with depression for as long as I can remember.<p>Life has taken me on ups and downs but as far as I can can tell I'm fairly lucky, well-off and have every reason to be happy.<p>Unfortunately I'm not.<p>I wake up with a pit in my stomach that I carry around all day and no matter how hard I try I just can't shake it.<p>It also gets really bad in waves to the point where I nearly can't function but most of all it makes me procrastinate on almost everything.<p>I usually end up using all my effort just to be a functional member of my team at work.<p>The sad part is that I know that if I didn't have this condition and I was able to sleep when I wanted to I could be many times more productive, not only at work but also in life.<p>The obvious solution to these problems are SSRIs and other anti-depressants. These drugs are very powerful but have really bad side-effects for most people that take them.<p>For these reasons I am completely shit-scared of them. I see them as my option of last resort but increasingly I feel my options running out.<p>I have tried therapy, I have tried all sorts of coping mechanisms but nothing solves the problem permanently.<p>So HN, what has your experience been with depression? Have you tried the drugs? What worked or didn't?
Have you been able to triumph without chemical assistance and what did that look like?
Is my utter terror of these drugs warranted or should I just bite the bullet and try them?
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Title: It's like a loan because the founders don't have the money or the revenue to afford what they are trying to do. Eventually it has to be paid.<p>Somehow when folks take a large loan and buy a house which they can't really afford, usually they don't shout about it on social media forums.<p>But somehow when it comes to start-ups it's almost worn as a badge of merit?<p>Why is that the case and why don't more companies try to raise money later in the cycle and try and make do with their product revenue?
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Title: A couple of years back I started dabbling in the social sciences and humanities (my background is in ecology / evolutionary biology), and became interested in one discipline after another. From psychology to history of science to anthropology and sociology, to economics and politics, to philosophy and religious studies and cultural studies, etc.<p>I find it intrinsically motivating to move from ignorance slowly towards understanding. I love reading textbooks to learn basic concepts and looking through academic titles just to swim in their ideas.<p>While I loved university, I won't be able to handle the demands of formal schooling (especially not while raising a family). I also wouldn't want to do any advanced research degrees as I have no patience in studying a small set of problems (I tried it for science and it was horrendous).<p>While I have no issue just continuing to explore these subjects privately, I feel like something is missing. I feel like I want to do something more tangible with this breadth of interests, but I'm coming up empty in terms of ideas. I like writing and can imagine having some sort of blog, but that's seems so cliche?<p>Any suggestions? Perhaps examples of something others have done with their broad interests?<p>What does one do with an intellectual life other than swimming through intellectual content?
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Title: Hello all,<p>I have been working on a self hosted CalDAV calendar client Bloben <a href="https://github.com/nibdo/bloben-app" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nibdo/bloben-app</a><p>This is mostly an alternative to other web clients like great AgenDAV with some additional features I wanted to use like email invites, alarms, webcalendars, etc.<p>You can play with demo (limited to read access) here: <a href="https://demo.bloben.com/api/v1/users/login-demo?username=demo&password=Bg8v16a4q7gvC&redirect=https://demo.bloben.com/calendar?demo=true" rel="nofollow">https://demo.bloben.com/api/v1/users/login-demo?username=dem...</a><p>In the end it should provide separate clients also for CalDAV tasks and notes.<p>One thing I would maybe like to discuss more is adding encryption, which is obviously quite problematic when using standards like CalDAV. Initially I just added non-compatible fully encrypted calendars, but realised this might not be useful for many people using different clients.<p>Something halfway is adding an option to protect only some, say sensitive, events by encrypting fields like title, description or location. That way events will still be displayed via standard mobile apps and decrypted only in Bloben client (with link to open from description).<p>As part of this project I published also React calendar component <a href="https://github.com/nibdo/kalend" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nibdo/kalend</a><p>Thank you, if you are interested and feel free to ask me anything.
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Title: Hello world, we're super happy to share Kukkee here!<p>We started Kukkee because we wanted to empower people — friends, teams, university students and faculty, organisation members, and more — to quickly find the right time to meet, while letting them keep control of their personal data, branding and costs at all times. We're just getting started so keep an eye out for Kukkee's upcoming features. Kukkee is open source, and contributions are more than welcome!<p>Excited to have you try Kukkee and hear any feedback you might have along the way!<p>You can learn more about Kukkee's current and upcoming features, how to self-host and even try out a live demo – at https://kukkee.com.<p>Check us out at ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kukkee.
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Title: Hi all,
My name is Simone Di Nuovo and i'm the creator of tilepieces, an open source project to visually editing HTML documents and Web applications.<p>Tilepieces is a software that allows you to create applications for editing HTML documents, using some of the popular interfaces of the browser developer tools (with which it is possible to integrate css edits).<p>Tilepieces also allows you to reuse your favorite code and libraries, and exposes APIs that are useful for editing multiple files at a time.
You can start using tilepieces with its progressive web application version at <a href="https://pwa.tilepieces.net" rel="nofollow">https://pwa.tilepieces.net</a>!<p>I will be happy to receive any comments from you.
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Title: Before realizing on what I should focus on and what my purpose was, I was in the agency world, and close from the infoproduct world.<p>I came to realize that there's a lot of programs that exist for this audience (agencies and coaches with a course). Most of these programs are steps by steps on how to do X (often sales related) or on how to improve their mindset to scale their business.<p>When I switched to focusing more on my craft of being an "optimizer" (problem solver) by focusing on being more a maker, I noticed that there's not much of these type of programs.<p>I am still new to this new "indie" and "maker" world, so maybe I simply have not been exposed to it enough, but I am curious, how many of you have been doing some inner work?<p>And what have been your experience so far as a creator regarding your personal growth?
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Title: I've been working as a programmer for about 7 years now.<p>Increasingly it feels like my job has just become gluing together opensource components, which doesn't feel creative at all -- there's little problem-solving going on.<p>All the areas where I could feel like I'm contributing something aren't valued. For instance, shareholders don't care less if the software is reliable, performant, or secure because they only want something that "works." If it "works," everything else is irrelevant.<p>It wasn't like this when I first started. Back then it felt like open-source was mostly limited to template engines, URL routers, and so on -- stuff you wouldn't want to write yourself and probably couldn't do better. I'm working on a (non-JavaScript) project with almost 200 dependencies. I've had entire weeks at work where all I do is edit YAML files (I don't work in DevOps, it's not k8s) and write glue for code that I'm not allowed to write myself.<p>Any code I do write myself eventually gets replaced with another open-source package. Even if the package is worse! When I've tried to talk to my manager, he's told me we have to think about how maintainable the project is. It seems the company is trying to optimize for having as much code as possible be maintained by "the community" so they can minimize risk.<p>It's all left me feeling extremely depressed and I don't know what to do. I'd just leave and work somewhere else, but it seems like this is becoming more and more common. After all, most problems are solved by now. Why not just pull yet another package off GitHub?
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Title: Received an email from ACM<p>As of July 1, 2022, you will no longer have to access the O’Reilly Learning platform as a benefit of your ACM membership. Despite our best efforts, O’Reilly Media is unwilling to continue to license their content to ACM for members. Please finish your reading/training by 11:59 PM ET on June 30, 2022. If you wish to continue accessing O’Reilly Learning past this date, you will have to contact O’Reilly and purchase a license directly.<p>We regret that O’Reilly is not willing to continue providing this service to ACM Members and hope that you will continue to enjoy other benefits of ACM membership, such as our Skillsoft collection (with thousands of online books and courses from publishers such as Manning Publications and No Starch Press), as well as ACM TechTalks, the ACM ByteCast series, and more. All of these can be found in the ACM Learning Center.<p>ACM will continue to explore new partnerships to deliver additional professional development benefits and other opportunities for lifelong learning.<p>Sincerely,
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Title: It was fun reading <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929345" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929345</a> to see people linking, debating, and critiquing/admiring each other's sites. So what's yours?
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Title: I know they're simply following Airbnb's model of showing only the daily price, then tacking on extra fees at checkout, but it's hostile to the customer.<p>When the minimum final cost is 50% more than the list price, I suppose deception is the best way to drive signups.<p>Ironically, I may have been more likely to complete my purchase had I seen true numbers from the start. The initial fee had me thinking it was remarkably affordable.
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Title: "“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.
You may have paid money to get copies of a free program, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies." - From the GNU Website.<p>Do you believe in Free Software? People often talk about the benefits of open source, but they tend to switch to proprietary, partly-proprietary (Jetbrains is a good example. Only parts of their products are open source), or corporate controlled open source (Corporations like Microsoft who espouse open source, but not free software because most of their stack is proprietary), when there's convenience to be had.<p>Is free software a lost cause? If we believe in things like right to repair, must we also believe in free software? Is using free software for financial benefit and then not contributing back simply by promoting and using free software immoral? Are we building a bad future for software by not fighting for something like the Free Software movement?
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Title: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming compared to other domains?<p>For example Unreal Blueprints<p>What is it about them that makes it so popular?
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Title: Hi HN community, I’m Nick, co-founder/CEO of Transform.co. I’m thrilled to share MetricFlow, an open-source metric creation framework: <a href="https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow</a><p>MetricFlow strives to make what has historically been an extremely repetitive process, writing SQL queries on core normalized data models, much more DRY. MetricFlow consolidates the definitions for joins, aggregations, filters, etc., and programmatically generates SQL to construct data marts. You can think of it like LookML, but more powerful and ergonomic (and open source!). The project has three components:<p>1. MetricFlow Spec: The specification encapsulates metric logic in a more reusable set of abstractions: data_sources, measures, dimensions, identifiers, metrics, and materializations.<p>2. DataFlow Planner: The Query Planner is a generalized SQL constructor. We take in data sources (ideally normalized data models) and generate a graph of data transformations (a flow, if you will) – joins, aggregations, filters, etc. We take that graph and render it down to db-specific SQL while optimizing it for performance and legibility.<p>3. MetricFlow Interfaces: The CLI and Python SDK rely on the flexibility of the Spec and Planner to build just about any query you could ask for on top of your data warehouse.<p>These components enable novel features that other semantic layers struggle to support today:<p>- MetricFlow enables the user to traverse the entire graph of a company’s data warehouse without confining their analysis to pre-built data models (dbt), Explores (in Looker), or Cubes (in lots of tools).<p>- The Metric abstraction allows the construction of complex metrics that traverse the graph described above to rely on multiple data sources. We support several common metric types today, and adding more is a critical part of the open-source roadmap.<p>- The Materialization abstraction allows users to define and then programmatically generate data marts that rely on a single DRY expression of the metrics and dimensions.<p>MetricFlow is open source(<a href="https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow</a>) and distributed through pypi (`pip install metricflow`). You can set up (`mf setup`) a set of sample configs and try out a tutorial (`mf tutorial). The docs are all here(<a href="https://docs.transform.co/docs/overview/metricflow-overview" rel="nofollow">https://docs.transform.co/docs/overview/metricflow-overview</a>). We’d love contributions on GitHub. We’re adding new Issues to share our roadmap in the coming days, but feel free to open your own.<p>We’re also opening up a Slack community(<a href="https://community.transform.co/metricflow-signup" rel="nofollow">https://community.transform.co/metricflow-signup</a>) to talk about the project and, more generally, metric tooling.<p>Let us know what you think – we’ll be here answering any questions!
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Title: I'm not talking about general advice like owning equity and stuff. I want to the actionables, like maybe joining a startup accelerator and work on my own thing (not the best example)<p>I was to reach FU money and get away from the salary addiction
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Title: Disclaimer: not looking for a job as my father does not speak english, just want some opinions.<p>My father used to code in the 80's, assembly, machine language, banking services. He stopped coding in the early 90's and now for some years has been studying and deploying some flutter applications for fun.<p>He decided last year to return to the market, learned git, dart, state management even how to use figma to try some junior jobs, but he's always failing in the last interview part, where the company has to choose between him and some fresh grads (most of the time the recruiters say that the age is a problem)<p>See, he is not really trying to get a senior job, he is just hoping to get a job in the area again.<p>Do you guys have some advice for an older dev starting now or returning after decades?
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Title: Hi HN! This is a little site I put together while learning the Elm language as part of a hackathon at my work, I thought you might enjoy it.<p>Be sure to click the `(source)` buttons next to the graphs: you can edit them interactively & write your own queries against the entire data set. The syntax isn't well documented yet, but you can probably get the general idea pretty quickly based on the examples there.<p>If you like it, have questions, etc. let me know! If folks think this is cool, maybe I can get it turned into a legit project. :)
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I'm curious what unexpected team rituals have been helpful for your software development teams as you've been working remotely.<p>Rituals that are expected:<p>- everyone on the team writing up weekly summaries.<p>- record every video conference<p>- have lots of 1:1 meetings to maintain relationships<p>Rituals that have been unexpected:<p>- Posting once a week about what I did for fun over the weekend, usually with photos.<p>- Setting up longer phone call 1:1s where both attendees are walking.<p>I think the future of our working relationships will be increasingly remote, but I'm struggling to see interesting creativity for tightly integrated dev teams.<p>If new ways of working aren't established, I struggle to see how remote teams will compete with teams that meet in person on a weekly/daily basis.
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Title: Hey HN! Pipedream is an integration and compute platform purpose-built for developers building workflows and connecting cloud services.<p>You can author workflows without writing any code: Pipedream supports over 700 integrated applications (GitHub, Slack, etc) [1] and all connectors are open source [2]. In addition, you can write any Node.js, Python, Go, or Bash code within workflows, extending the pre-built integrations with your own custom logic.<p>Since we launched Pipedream on HN [3], over 300k developers have used the product. Pipedream developers tell us consistently that they love the code-level control when they need it, and the built-in, no code integrations when they don't. But we’ve also heard consistent feedback that the product needed to be easier to use, support more language runtimes, and provide a native Git integration.<p>In Pipedream v2, we have re-imagined the entire product and key features, including:<p>- Multi-language support including Node, Python, Golang, and Bash
- Data Stores to store and retrieve data across steps & workflows
- Open source triggers and actions for 700+ applications
- Improved workflow builder to test and iterate without impacting live workflows
- Multiple triggers are now supported per workflow
- Improved forms and testing for rapid step-by-step development<p>We’re working on a GitHub integration now, which will let you manage workflow definitions as code. You can still use the Pipedream UI to author workflows, and use Pipedream’s pre-built integration components to build integrations, but you’ll be able to serialize those workflows to code. Think Terraform or CDK for app integrations. You can sign up for our waitlist below. [4]<p>My cofounder @dylburger and I will be here to answer any questions.<p>[1] Explore our integrations - <a href="https://pipedream.com/explore" rel="nofollow">https://pipedream.com/explore</a><p>[2] GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream</a><p>[3] Alpha launch on HN - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270424" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270424</a><p>[4] Sign up for early access to GitHub integration - <a href="https://pdrm.co/git" rel="nofollow">https://pdrm.co/git</a>
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Title: Has anyone ever switched clouds from one service provider to another (e.g. AWS to Azure or vice versa), partially or entirely?<p>If so why? They all offer almost identical services. Do small (but maybe significant?) differences or unique products (e.g. Spanner) make such a big difference that it has swayed someone to switch their cloud infrastructure?<p>I wonder how much these little things matter and how such a transition (in partial or as a whole) went along and how key stakeholders (who were possibly heavily invested in one cloud or felt they were responsible for the initial choice) were convinced to make the switch?<p>I'd love to hear some stories from real world experiences and crucially what it was that pushed the last domino to make the move.
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Title: Dropbox released a "user age verification feature" today, which is a simple set of drop downs for you to fill in your birth date.<p>I made the mistake of choosing "2022" as my year of birth instead of my actual year of birth.<p>Obviously this is my mistake, but a warning to anyone else: I now have 48 hours to backup my files before I will be locked out of my account, and Dropbox support has been unable to confirm that they can fix the "issue" for me.<p>I think this is the single worst "feature" I've ever encountered in a software application. I'm honestly shocked.
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Title: I've spent the last several months going though a FAANG interview. A recruiter from the company reached out to me and said they were hiring for remote. I got a hiring manager on board, spent evenings and weekends preparing for the coding and design interviews, and made it to the last step - my application had to go through a hiring committee.<p>The hiring committee said no, they didn't want remote hires.<p>I have friends in arguably worse situations. They were recruited for remote positions, accepted the jobs, and are now being told they have to show up onsite. When they pointed out they had been hired as remotes they were met with a collective shrug - the job opening didn't say remote, the agreement they signed didn't say remote. The recruiter was wrong but that's not the company's problem.<p>I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is, but it seems to encourage bringing in as many candidates as possible over treating them with honesty and respect.
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Title: I'm a mid 30s male, software developer, married without children.<p>I started playing a video game at the end of 2019, and played every time I could when my wife was not home. Then came 2020, covid lockdowns, also I started getting better at the game (the ladder systems are so addictive) and played more. In 2021 I just didn't care anymore whether my wife was home or not or even if I was supposed to be working and started playing all the time. I'd wake up early to play and would go to bed late to catch up with work I had not done during the day.<p>According to Steam I played over 2.000 hours during 2020 and 2021.<p>Finally I decided I was seriously addicted and uninstalled the game, unsubscribed from everyone related to the game in youtube, quit all discord communities, and it worked.<p>I have been now "clean" for 4 months. But sometimes I crave to go back and play. I watched a youtube video in incognito recently of some famous player and had so much urge to play again. But I'm afraid just by installing the game I will be going back to the addiction.<p>Is it possible to have a "healthy" amount of playing? Let's say just a couple of hours in the weekends? The only reason I think I have been able to not play for 4 months is because it's time consuming for me to download/install the game again, set my keyboard shortcuts, etc. It will take at least 1 hour for me to set up everything and that's what is preventing me to go back. But if I had the game available and ready to launch in a click I am not sure I would be able to play only some hours on the weekends.<p>What I love about this particular game is how I can totally focus mind and body for each 30-40 minutes match where I won't take a look at my cellphone or anything can distract me really because I'm totally focused basically in a real "flow" state. Of course it's a flow state for something irrelevant to my life or society, so it's basically a waste of time I guess... But I also don't have the change to get to this flow state in my day job or in other activity really, adult life can be so boring sometimes...<p>Really curious if someone else has experienced something similar
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Title: Hi friends, wondering if you have ever had those moments when you just feel empty, lack of meaning in life and find everything to be boring? Plus you don't want to do ANYTHING.<p>How did you muscle pass that? Did you seek therapy or just hang in there and wait for it to go away? What if it hits frequently?
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Title: Going from big L to Facebook I see lot of differences in onboarding. First there is huge cult like behavior. "The meta way".."interpretation of our values is the only one".... Then from start to finish there has been defensive explaining / self consciousness how we are visionary despite what they say.. almost begging salesy about metaverse .. like dude I'm not joining the meta team get over it. Also seem to take pride in being overbearing, prev company was like take time and settle in and this is like go go go give me 100 soldier... cringe
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Title: Algorithms don't have to be state of the art.<p>One of my favorites is a prime number generator based on a predator-prey models of cicadas: http://www.j-npcs.org/online/vol2000/v3no2/v3no2p208.pdf
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I am going through a promotion process at work and a large part of the interview process centres around solving the challenges of hybrid working (which in this context means that each team member will spend some days in the office and some WFH). To complicate matters I am based in a different office to the rest of my team so even when I'm in the office I am working remotely.<p>I'd like to read some expert insights about how to manage this situation. Can anyone recommend some good books by business leaders or management experts about how to approach management in a remote working or hybrid working environment? I'm not in a STEM field so it doesn't need to focus on STEM (and in fact would rather it is not too closely tied to STEM or any particular industry).<p>Thanks in advance!
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Title: I am from a generation that is familiar with banners showing dancing Flash animations from the internets of the 00s, usually some boobs and butts on the middle of the screen, and I still remember that pressing [x] or [close] could either close the banner or do it even bigger. So if the cookie banner's overlay is not hard enough, I am comfortable to read a text through the overlay, but it seems way more broken because the owners of that dancing nudes at least realized that they are disturbing people, and those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user, so cookie banners are noticeable agressiver - nude banners never had an overlay and almost never made the content unreadable before paying attention to them.<p>Some websites might require you to go through the jungle of odd choices about which cookies are acceptable and which are not. It's so similar to Italian strike (aka "work-to rule"). Imagine regular people who are forced to chose between the strange and even strangier. What can they choose but "agree to everything" or look at some gray text through a gray overlay?<p>There are definitely people in the HN crowd who can understand the different options offered by cookie banners. I have an example of this product of thought, maybe not the best, but good enough to demonstrate what the jungle is [1], so if at least one person in the whole world uses this option - share your answers:<p>1. What will you do on your next visit if your browser forgets the cookie - click again, right?<p>2. On which websites do you use these custom cookies, maybe you know something about some special websites?<p>3. Do you know about some instruments like DO-NOT-TRACK but for cookie banners? Adblock or adblock-like extentions IMO miss the point of doing the conscious decision.<p>4. If you are such an advanced user of cookie-banners then it is natural for you to think they are somewhat useful for you - what are the advantages of this?<p>[1] https://www.hull.ac.uk/
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Title: I've got this code I'm interested in [1], and asked about 2 years ago, actually. My efforts at patching it didn't go well, in retrospect. [2]<p>It's a Forth variant that does typing, and lots of things that normal forth can't do... likely as powerful as Lisp, I think. It's become an obsession to get this thing running.<p>I do a wget, unzip, untar, ./configure, make, su make install and it works perfectly... under Debian 3<p>Anything newer, even with -std=c99, and it dies a horrible death.<p>Taking the executable from Debian 3 to Debian 11 (32 bit) and it works perfectly.<p>How do I, a non-C programmer, who is willing to dump tons of time into it, migrate this code into the year 2022?<p>Here's an example of something that seems opaque to me, from src/words.c:2012<p><pre><code> *(--(char*)hash_ptr.parm.v.p) = fpop(sst);
</code></pre>
I have a hint as to what's going on here, but when you throw * in there twice, I think you can see how it's confusing.<p>1 - <a href="http://stoical.sourceforge.net/download.php" rel="nofollow">http://stoical.sourceforge.net/download.php</a><p>2 - <a href="https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical</a>
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Title: Our corporate policy is to fully scan our Hard Disks with AV weekly. It never finds anything. That's 22,000 systems using a full CPU core every week...adding wear and heat and power consumption.<p>Likewise, marketing for this fastest hardware generally consists of a product that's 140% the cost, 110% of the performance, and 120% of the power consumed due to processor binning and supply/demand curves.<p>SaaS is a bottomless hole where you throw your processing without thought of power consumption, just write a check and make it go away.<p>Flight Simulator 2020 requires a 250gb download, every couple of months. Every endpoint, every cable modem, every Akamai cache.<p>I don't know how to even formulate the statement: Maybe consider your carbon footprint when performing that next full code compile?
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Title: Why bother at all with a blog and/or public presence at all? The last few days I have noticed quite a few HN posts about developer blogs.<p>I used to blog and maintain a decent open source presence online, but the last couple years I have completely withdrawn from the public. I deleted my Github profile, took my blog offline, removed all professional network accounts, etc.<p>It wasn't for the lack of success. I have no idea how many readers or followers I had, but some of my security related posts made it into more "serious" media and elsewhere.<p>I think it boiled down to a realization that no one really gave a damn about me, my writing/work/creations/etc. So then, what's the point? Is it entirely ego driven? Chasing dopamine hits when your post or your project is tweeted about?<p>The last few years I have been creating things entirely in the dark. It has been so freeing. Not creating to be talked about. Not creating something to hold it up and say look at what I did. I finally got the feeling back. The one you got when you first started programming. It's wonderful.
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Title: One would think that over the last decades, with a countless number of smart people, there would be a Linux distro on the level of macOS. I am talking about a distro, that you don't have to configure anything for. A distro that handles things like external devices screen recording without weird glitches. A distro that is _worry free_ and that _just works_.
Why do you think that is the case? Or am I simply ignorant of the current state of Linux distros?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Like many of you I want to be able to enjoy my evenings after work by either reading books, spending time with friends, learning something new, working on side projects, workout, or running errands. However, I'm typically way too tired to get myself off the couch on most days to do anything and unfortunately I cannot take a nap or sleep to recharge. I'm only able to consume easy to digest content in this state. This was both the case with WFH or going to the office.<p>The other day I took a shower after I got back home and it was extremely recharging. I've been forcing myself to walk into the office which gives me a separation between work and home and also forces me to walk 30 mins to and from the office which is a great daily exercise.<p>What have worked for you that allows you to recharge after a day of work so you can use the evening for the activities you like to do?
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Title: I'd like to hear some ideas on how to get myself unstuck.
Before I get into it, I want to recognize how privileged this whole story is, and that myself 15y ago would laugh at how much this reeks of 1st world problems.<p>I'm having a hard time deciding what to do, both personally and professionally.<p>Personally, I'm conflicted about lifestyles I want to obtain. One day I'm ambitious and want to devote my life to building generational wealth, only to dream of a humble house and spending my time cooking simple meals. It's not that I think I wouldn't find some happiness in any of those possibilities – what bothers me is that I cannot completely decide where on that spectrum I'd like to aim for. A good example of this is the question of living in the US (on H1b/L1) vs. Europe, where I bounce between the two on a weekly basis, making it hard to either move or come to peace with where I am and move on.<p>Professionally it's a similar story.
I started coding in middle-school, and acquired generalist skills by working on many things throughout high school / college. I was and still am ambitious, albeit I lately started understanding it's a double-edged sword in a way.<p>Now I'm in late-twenties, came to FAANG straight from school, working on distributed systems at scale. My job is good, I get enough opportunities, get recognized very often, and there's room for me to grow. The shipping velocity and lack of accountability is not great but I don't think I can impact the culture enough for a meaningful change. Organizational overhead is frequently a mess and building trust with an ever-changing list of line managers and TLs takes away too much energy. Looking around, there aren't too many people I like or am excited about working with, but that tends to change often.
I used to think there were times where all I wanted to do was clear – learn more about databases, or build distributed systems, or coach and mentor peers, or get more money, or build effective teams, or start a self-bootstrapped side business to squeeze more money out of my skills, etc. I used to be more excited about tech as well, now it all seems less meaningful.<p>In the past year or so, I've struggled to define a meaningful & fulfilling direction. My answer to "what do you want to do?" is rarely consistent for more than a few days in a row. I now realize I never really knew what I was after, and I was just lucky to be happy with whatever I had stumbled upon. Do I want to pursue being a depth IC, manager, founding engineer in startups, or even a founder myself? Hard to control scope in these decisions. Thinking this over day-to-day is a recipe for anxiety and endless analysis-paralysis.<p>Most of my life I have had to work hard to create opportunities for myself, and open as many doors as possible. I was lucky to open quite a few. I now understand that I need to deliberately close some of the doors to move forward, and it goes against what got me here, hence so much friction.<p>I'm looking for fresh perspectives on conceptualizing or thinking about situations like this. Frameworks that peers and mentors often provide assume that I know what I want to do, and are concerned more with how to do it.<p>How do I limit the scope of my decisions? How do I ensure I can backtrack in case of a bad decision? What is even a bad decision? How to find things (or thing) that I want to do and be sure to do it for longer than a week? How do I commit without looking back? How to think productively about dependencies between these decisions?<p>Curious to hear stories as well. Where were you stuck, and how did it play out?<p>Many thanks, HN.
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Title: Signal on iOS will not free up any disk space when you delete chats or media. You cannot see or clear usage in the app or in iOS settings. There’s a potential security problem where your data is not actually being deleted when you delete chats.<p>We are having no luck getting the Signal team to acknowledge the issue. The ticket was automatically closed despite activity.<p>https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4916<p>1. Be aware that a large portion of your storage space might be stolen by Signal.<p>2. Be aware that this might be a significant security flaw.<p>3. If anyone can get Signal to pay attention rather than closing repeated tickets as stale, that would be great.
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Title: I am a visual artist and Dall-E 2 has made me realize that my skills will soon be almost worthless.<p>My role, if it continues to exist, will consist of prompting the software and selecting among its outputs. This is unsatisfying work that I cannot take pride in. My artistic skills, my craft, has been automated.<p>Quoting Wikipedia: On 19 November 2019, Go master Lee Sedol announced his retirement from professional play, stating that he could never be the top overall player of Go due to the increasing dominance of AI. Lee referred to them as being "an entity that cannot be defeated".<p>I am young enough to switch tracks and focus on a new creative field.<p>What creative skills will be safe from AI?
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Title: Hello all,<p>I got my first swe job this past August and it honestly has not gone well. I've enjoyed it, but it is clear that I am not seen as reliable and definitely not known for completing things fast.<p>I know this sounds like a normal junior dev, but I mean more than a normal beginner. Example: I have now been on this team for 8 months, and I made 2 costly mistake back-to-back that is pushing back the release of a production feature by a while month at this point.<p>Long story short, screwed up a step I had done before in the fall without realizing. Then when it was fixed I submitted a ticket for a prod systems account rather than a QA one not realizing there would be a difference. (Just so many mistakes all in a row).<p>The struggles came way before this though. When I first joined I struggled to even know how to start things. I was sometimes assigned stories no one else on the team had done anything like before, so at times I couldn't even ask the senior devs for help.<p>This gets down to the issue. I don't think my team is necessarily the most ideal to learn on (my manager has been gone since December). The senior engineers also seem to assume I know more than I do (like the credentials above, it seems obvious there would be an account for QA and one for Prod, but I didn't know to assume that). But, the thing is though, this team isn't a bad one. I can make excuses all I want, but an experienced engineer joined the same time I did and is doing great.<p>I have identified some issues. I certainly didn't ask enough questions when I started and I definitely will wait around for people to get back to me sometimes rather then be proactive. I also tend to spend too long tackling an issue or trying to fix something I think I messed up rather than raise it to the team that I am having an issue. The problem is at this point I have been on the team too long to ask any basic questions, one of the senior engineers even pointed out they shouldn't be helping me with certain processes at this point.<p>Honestly, I am a little deflated. I know imposter syndrome is a thing, but that doesn't count when I am actively slowing the team down or causing problems. I take a really long time when finishing stories unless one of the seniors is giving input. It just sucks because I did well in my CS classes and worked hard, and I feel kinda like a disappointment. Its hard to imagine anyone who is good at engineering delaying a teams release and causing problems. I don't know anything about performance (again cause manager is gone) but if I get put on PIP because of this, I feel like I can't help but see it as a statement on my potential and ability.<p>I know I should just focus on improvement, but I am not sure how. Should I be writing reminders to myself to always double check everything? Should I write down the steps to every process? Its hard for me to know whats a junior engineer error and whats an error I shouldn't be making at all.
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Title: Doesn't this break the purpose of MFA, which is that the thing you know (password) is separate from the thing you have (MFA device)? If so, then why do all of the reputable password managers include TOTP functionality?
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Title: Aside from a quadratic formula program written on my TI-84 in high school, I did not do any real programming before I was 19, when I learned C because I consciously decided I wanted to learn a new skill. I read stories of learning on a ZX-Spectrum at 5 years old, but I never really got that experience of just playing around. I think for me, programming has always been work, and that makes me very sad because I know this can be a very rich and rewarding hobby. I think the only time I really felt this was when I played EXAPUNKS.<p>Can someone point me in the direction of 'fun' programming? Tools that are just really enjoyable to use? I want to find the joy in computers.
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Title: I'm trying to get better at chess by solving chess problems on Chess.com and Lichess. All problems seem to be attack oriented, not defence. As a result in a chess match I constantly look for ways to attack my opponent, not to prevent an attack from my opponent. Why are chess puzzles not 50% about spotting and preventing attacks? Any advice to train that specifically?
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Title: I have depended on Evernote for a long time without even realizing how much of a daily utility it is. It has been so seamless that I had forgotten I was rolling with the free version, until recently. I noticed a few UI changes which seemed a little unintuitive and some of my notes didn't seem to sync as reliably between my phone and laptop. No biggie, I have gotten used to updates.<p>Then this week I was working through a new project on a customer's site taking notes in Evernote as I normally do. I spent a good chunk of time going through the project onsite and making a comprehensive list of everything that would need to be done. I noticed the header on my note was grey but assumed it was a UI change. I had 4G reception on my phone and figured, even if something's not quite right I can sync it up back at the office like I normally do as the note would be on my phone. So I proceeded like normal.<p>The whole note is gone as if it never existed.<p>Is this some sort of effort to onboard me to the paid version?
Have I inadvertently clicked a "yes I accept that the free version is going to become unreliable" button?<p>I appreciate I am not a great customer - I have been using a free version for years without even thinking about it. But thats kind of the point, Evernote worked so well I never gave it a second thought.<p>Now I am not 100% sure on the safety of my notes...<p>What is other people's experience? Have I just been caught napping because I mindlessly clicked an updated terms of use without reading it (as I do)?<p>If I go paid am I getting something as good as what the old Evernote was like?
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Title: There are multiple companies that were born to solve specific internet's infrastructural problems (e.g. Equinix, Akamai). Looking at the way internet usage has evolved, what kind of infra challenges do we have to face (now or future)?<p>[books/papers suggestions are welcome!]
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Title: There are so many apps which promise scientific benefits like relief from stress, better habits, etc.<p>Unfortunately most of them are free for only 7 days or 10 days and followed with a steep cost. I'm okay paying if there are any real benefits but the reviews are really mixed on the play store.<p>So just wondering what you guys think? Has any such app has had real life benefits? What do you think?
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Title: Hi HN aficionados,<p>I was wondering if anyone has a good system for keeping track of replies to comments you posted on HN. As far as I am aware, HN doesn’t offer any type of notification mechanism that would include notifications for replies to your comment (it would also be nice to be able to subscribe to all comments for certain posts). The lack of a notification mechanism means you need to manually monitor your comments page and see if there were replies. I was curious if anyone has a good solution to this.
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Title: I recently received an starting like this:<p>> Hi fouric,<p>> I found your email from one of your GitHub repository while checking for a solution.<p>> Being in the software engineering industry, I am reaching out for your valuable inputs on our product called "Language Lens" [...]<p>The email attached to my GitHub account isn't exposed in my profile - the only way this individual would have gotten my email from GitHub would have been too scrape my commit messages.<p>Needless to say, I didn't request or consent to this.<p>All y'all might want to make sure that the email attached to your commits is something you're not afraid to receive spam like this at.
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Title: Maybe it’s just me, but I’m fed up with the state of the web today. Unfortunately, the law passed by the EU makes most websites show a banner about their cookie policy, sometimes taking up half the real estate on mobile screen. Sometimes they let you change your “cookie preferences” but often times the “essential” cookies radio button is grayed out.<p>So now I have decided to close any non-essential website that does this crap. For example, there was an article on HN today that linked to fleksy.com which showed a huge cookie banner on my phone. Between learning about how swipe key works (the content on their website) and saving myself from having to tap on small buttons to close the banner, I chose the latter.<p>I think if more people did that, websites would be forced to avoid using cookies in such a way that necessitates a cookie prompt.
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Title: I find it a bit of a struggle to read books both tech and non-tech on my laptop (since I keep on checking other apps). I have tried physical books but keeping organised notes is lot of a pain.
Also, how do you eliminate all the distractions around?
My hand just automatically go to open Twitter or Reddit or Youtube
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Title: Outline.com was a website readability / paywall bypass site. It's been modestly popular for years among HN users, including myself.<p>The domain now redirects to a seller site: https://outline.com
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Title: I'm looking for a modern Python book, the latest one I have on my shelf is from before the 2/3 split, and I was hoping HN would have some recommendations?
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Title: I find myself reading the comments on HN before the articles most of the time...
It usually brings a better/shorter description and decent reaction.<p>Only when I don't fully understand the arguments then I read the article
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Title: In my experience, HN users tend to have incredibly specialized interests. I'm curious about what newsletters are out there that deliver a depth of specialized knowledge?<p>For me, it doesn't get better than 'The Prepared' and the 'Future of Trucks' newsletters. Both provide a window into technicalities that I wouldn't otherwise think about in fields that I'm broadly interested in.<p><a href="https://theprepared.org/" rel="nofollow">https://theprepared.org/</a>
<a href="https://www.trucks.vc/newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://www.trucks.vc/newsletter</a>
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Title: I have known python for a long time but have never done a proper project or earned money through writing Python code.<p>I like the core Python but I'm not interested (don't like them personally) in any frameworks. I have used python to write small scripts to do small things like automation and stuff but honestly writing (or even working on) big projects seems terrifyingly arduous to me.<p>As far as I have seen almost all jobs related to Python are either back-end development using Django or something related to data.<p>Considering I like neither of those, is there any other careers I can pursue? Especially if it involves writing many short script! I know there must be other jobs out there related to Python but the number of those seem to be really low and hard to find.
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Title: I want to broaden my horizon regarding how things are solved in the real world. Other than some very high-profile companies (like Netflix, github) and companies that I've worked at, it's hard for me to find easily digestible (20-60 mins) examples of actual working architecture of differently sized companies from different business verticals.
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Title: Working on a remote codebase from a local computer accessible via ssh, what’s the best/easiest way to write, edit and test code?
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Title: A little help for programmers, who wants to run C/C++ code in the browser.<p>(This is my second attempt to show it, first time I got banned bcoz of my personal page domain, I don't really understand it why is is suspicious.)
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Title: I've always been curious about the demography behind this social network. After all, not <i>everyone</i> who's a "hacker" is in a tech startup or cybersecurity, right?<p>So, what do you do for a living? Is it the culmination of a series of interesting jobs all over the map, or have you had a Steady Eddie job for a decade or two?<p>And, more abstractly, what do you <i>want</i> to do? Are you living the dream, are you chasing a dream, or have you given up on chasing that dream?
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Title: Hey HN, I’m an engineer at Supabase [0] and one of the creators of this demo. My team and I have been working hard to bring developers the next version of Supabase Realtime.<p>The current version of Realtime [1] is a Change Data Capture (CDC) server for a PostgreSQL database that broadcasts changes via WebSockets to authorized subscribers. It’s written in Elixir/Phoenix.<p>The server utilizes PostgreSQL’s logical replication functionality, which writes database changes to Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) segment files, and a replication slot, responsible for managing and retaining WAL files.<p>Database changes are polled from WAL by the server using PostgreSQL’s replication function pg_logical_slot_get_changes and changes converted to JSON objects using the wal2json [2] extension by setting it as the output plugin.<p>Security is enforced through two checks - each check ensures only authorized client subscribers are sent database changes. The first check validates a JWT that is sent by clients subscribing to database changes. This JWT must contain an existing database role and optional claims, both of which can be referenced in Row Level Security (RLS) policies. Every valid client subscription is then inserted into the realtime.subscription table with an assigned UUID, database role, and claims. The second check calls the realtime.apply_rls SQL function from Write Ahead Log Realtime Unified Security (WALRUS) utility lib [3]. This function takes the database changes, executes a prepared statement to verify if the database role and claims have SELECT permissions on the changes, and outputs an array of authorized UUIDs. Then, the server finds all the subscribers whose UUIDs are in that array and broadcasts the changes to them.<p>The next version of Supabase Realtime will offer three features: Broadcast, Presence, and Extensions.<p>Broadcast, our Pub/Sub offering, can be used to pass ephemeral data from client to client such as cursor movements. This runs on a distributed cluster of nodes built on top of Phoenix PubSub + Channels.<p>Presence, can be used for tracking online/offline users and their state. This is built into Phoenix, and uses replicated state across a cluster using an Observe-Remove-Set-Without-Tombstones (ORSWOT) CRDT [4] which prefers adds over removes when resolving conflicts.<p>Extensions, are a way for the community to add additional functionality to take advantage of the WebSocket infrastructure. We have converted the existing Change Data Capture system to an extension that supports connecting to multiple customer databases (multi-tenancy). Other possible extensions include listening to other databases like MySQL and getting stock market events server-side [5], then broadcasting them to connected clients.<p>This demo is built using a Supabase project, Supabase Realtime, and Next.js and deployed on 20 Fly [6] nodes located around the world. You can find an introduction and walkthrough of the demo here [5].<p>Supabase Realtime is entirely open source and you can find the demo code here [7]. Once we have stabilized the release we will add it to the self-hosted offering [8]. This demo is a way to highlight the upcoming features and gather feedback/ideas.<p>Feel free to ask me anything and let me know what you think!<p>[0] <a href="https://supabase.com" rel="nofollow">https://supabase.com</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/supabase/realtime" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/supabase/realtime</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/eulerto/wal2json" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/eulerto/wal2json</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/supabase/walrus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/supabase/walrus</a><p>[4] <a href="https://gsd.di.uminho.pt/members/cbm/ps/delta-crdt-draft16may2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://gsd.di.uminho.pt/members/cbm/ps/delta-crdt-draft16ma...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://supabase.com/blog/2022/04/01/supabase-realtime-with-multiplayer-features" rel="nofollow">https://supabase.com/blog/2022/04/01/supabase-realtime-with-...</a><p>[6] <a href="https://fly.io" rel="nofollow">https://fly.io</a><p>[7] <a href="https://github.com/supabase/realtime/tree/multiplayer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/supabase/realtime/tree/multiplayer</a><p>[8] <a href="https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/docker</a>
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Title: Just received a very strange email from Bill.com:<p>--<p>Hello,<p>We wanted to let you know that as of March 21st, 2022 we enabled a new feature called Bill.com balance for your account. We apologize for not communicating this ahead of time which is our standard practice.<p>This new Bill.com balance capability enables you to pre-fund your Bill.com account, store funds for payment flexibility, and enable faster payment delivery times with no additional fees.<p>It’s important to note that this change means that as of March 21st all payments received through Bill.com are automatically routed to your Bill.com balance instead of your connected bank accounts. As long as Bill.com balance is activated, the funds will continue to be routed this way.<p>To withdraw funds from your Bill.com balance:<p>From the Overview section of your Bill.com account, select Manage Balance
In the Manage Balance section, select the three dots, then select Withdraw Money
Enter the amount you want to withdraw in the Amount field, choose which connected account you want to withdraw the money to, and select the Withdraw button
Withdrawals initiated by 5pm pacific time will lead to funds being available next business day by 10am pacific time
Once you’ve withdrawn all funds from your Bill.com balance, you can also choose to turn the feature off.<p>To turn Bill.com balance off:<p>In your Bill.com account, select Settings, then select Bank & Payment Accounts, then select Bill.com balance
Select the Turn off button
Questions? Learn more about Bill.com balance or contact us by clicking HERE. We’re here to help.<p>Thank you,
The Bill.com Team<p>--<p>This seems genuinely crazy. Like without warning, without prior opt-in authorization, a company that's responsible for vast amounts of business to business payments, made the call that it was OK to, just, not actually send money onwards to their customers? Not as a feature they enabled, or even something that's a little aggressively pitched, they just silently did it.<p>So a customer of yours decides to send you money, and they thought they'd sent it to you, but instead it never got to you, your payment intermediary just held it in some kind of new payments account they decided to assign in your name without even getting your permission. And without telling you.<p>After receiving this email I just went into my Bill.com account where I discovered a six figure balance that they just decided not to give me and didn't tell me about (even now, this email doesn't say <i>that</i>. I had to go look) and I certainly never gave them permission to do that. Even when looking at this balance, the button to withdraw money is hidden.<p>Like they aren't making it clear they unilaterally decided to keep enough money for me to buy a house in a quasi-bank account I never opened and don't fucking want. And I have customers that paid me that I assumed had not paid me who had. I have an A/R person emailing client statements asking them for overdue payment when they actually did pay me last month.<p>It's absolutely appalling, I'm sort of speechless. Wondering if anyone else experienced this or has any personal knowledge of what's going on and what severely misguided executive decided this was OK.
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Title: It looks like they only had $600k in annual revenue (don’t even think it was ARR). Also doesn’t look like their founder had any successful exits. From the couple of startups I worked at, I think we had at least $10mm in ARR when we hit the half billion valuation. What gives?
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Title: Background: I have a lot of experience in various industries in various capacities, many of them executive leadership or directional, but certainly everything from engineering to leadership. Those include existing large entities as well as being there on “Day One” for startups that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and achieved the vaunted unicorn status. I feel like I may have contacts in the “industry” but maybe not.<p>So I decided to Start My Own Thing. Kind of. I feel like I have good intuition here, maybe not, but much of that was within confines of existing entities and more importantly structures. So, started my own thing. Under my name pitched something under software and got a $100k contract, very easily, based on my personal capability alone.<p>I do not care about $100k, and it is almost not noteworthy. Except I feel like based on my industry knowledge I can turn this small contract into goodwill that can snowball into lots and lots of “small” B2B contracts of similar sizes and maybe be a real thing. I have a lot of talented SWEs in my rolodex I could call. But, assuming maybe I’m right, and I can turn this small thing into a big thing, I really don’t know what to do here. I am used to fast growing things. I am thinking come up with a company name and start a Delaware c corp, and then the for contract #2 and then maybe start pinging outside contacts at various SV firms for some seed capital to expand to similar deals 3-10? I really don’t know.<p>Overall: I feel like I have the skills, have some market fit (?), have the personal history, and could theoretically build a well-heeled team. But I have never actually started a startup myself and am totally lost. Can someone suggest a roadmap to the practical aspects of Starting a Startup?
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Title: I grew up a millennial tech geek, spending my days lurking on Tom's Hardware, playing and modding video games, tinkering with code and watching Star Trek. Wherever I looked at the world's problems, more technology seemed to be the answer.<p>Nowadays I'm a software dev and tech entrepreneur. At best, technology bores me. At worst, it terrifies me. Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable. Gadgets are a snoozfest. Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles.<p>We seem to be experiencing diminishing returns on tech for the past few years. More tech is no longer necessarily better. Is this just a phase before the next big industrial revolution?<p>When did this start, and when is the drought going to be over?
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Title: Everything is double-digit YOY growth with impending exit, and kubernetes all-the-things, and DevSecOps, and SRE, and web-scale etc etc.<p>Where are the places running their setup out of a rack in a rando datacenter grandfathered into an affordable Edgecast plan running a LAMP stack on Debian using borg for backups?<p>This may read like satire, but I promise I'm seriously asking.<p>Or am I just way too old?<p>Related: https://boringtechnology.club/
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Title: I just published a bidirectional code generation library. Afaik it's the first of its kind, and it opens up a lot of possibilities for cool new types of dev tools. The PoC is for ruby, but the concept is very portable. <a href="https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/monocle-bidirectional-code-generation/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.luitjes.it/posts/monocle-bidirectional-code-gen...</a>
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Title: Inspired by the "Ask HN: Share your personal site" last week, I finally came around and built a thing I wanted for a long time: a simple website to randomly explore all the awesome personal blogs without having to subscribe to them all.<p>So this is what I built over the weekend. You click a button and indieblog.page will redirect you to a random page from a personal page...<p>I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
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Title: Hi HN community,<p>I'm Vasek, co-founder, and CEO of Devbook [0]. Devbook is an SDK that you add to your docs website and then every time a user visits your dev docs, we spin up a VM just for that user. The VM is ready in about 18-20 seconds. We haven't had enough time to work on optimization but from our early tests, we are fairly confident we can get this to about 1-2 seconds.<p>In the VM you can run almost anything. Install packages, edit & save files, run binaries, services, etc.<p>You as a documentation owner have full control over the VM. We give you full access to filesystem, shell, stdout, and stderr. You don't have to worry about any infrastructure management. It's just one line of code on your frontend.<p>On the backend, the VM is a Firecracker microVM [1] with our custom simple orchestrator/scheduler built on top that just gets the job done.
We chose Firecracker for 4 reasons:<p>* (1) the security with a combination of their jailer<p>* (2) its snapshotting capabilities<p>* (3) quick booting times<p>* (4) option to oversubscribe the underlying server resources<p>This allows you to create a whole new set of interactions between your dev docs and a developer visiting the docs.
We've had users building coding playgrounds [2] to show how their SDK works or adding embedded terminals to a landing page [3] to show how their CLI works.<p>The way Devbook works is that you use our frontend SDK [4] on our website. The SDK pings our backend and we boot up a VM. The VMs are ephemeral and get destroyed after a while of not getting pinged.
You can predefine what the VM filesystem will look like through our CLI via a simple Dockerfile [5].
We also have an open sourced UI library for components like terminal, file system explorer, or code editor [6].<p>The need for Devbook came from our own frustration with dev docs. It has always felt strange that dev docs contain so much code but none of it is actually runnable. You as a developer have to set up full environments to see how the API works and get a deeper understanding.<p>We are very early so we don't offer self-serve for now. A bit of manual work is still required when we are onboarding new customers.
We are looking for some specific use-case that would make our go-to-market strategy much easier. It feels like the product we offer is way too general. We basically say "here's a whole computer, have fun".<p>I'd love to know what you think about it. I'll hang out here and I'm happy to answer your questions!<p>[0] <a href="https://usedevbook.com/" rel="nofollow">https://usedevbook.com/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker</a><p>[2] <a href="https://app.banana.dev/docs/carrot?ref=navmenu" rel="nofollow">https://app.banana.dev/docs/carrot?ref=navmenu</a><p>[3] <a href="https://runops.io/" rel="nofollow">https://runops.io/</a><p>[4] <a href="https://github.com/devbookhq/sdk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/devbookhq/sdk</a><p>[5] <a href="https://github.com/devbookhq/devbookctl" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/devbookhq/devbookctl</a><p>[6] <a href="https://github.com/devbookhq/ui" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/devbookhq/ui</a>
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Title: I don't know what it is but when I read things on a screen I tend to click and drag, highlighting the text that I'm reading, or double clicking the paragraph to select all of it. Anyone else do this?
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Title: Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster.<p>I want to share with you all something we've been working on for a while at Lambda: the Razer x Lambda Tensorbook: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMh6Dhq7P_Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMh6Dhq7P_Q</a><p>But before I tell you about it, I want to make this all about me, because I built this for me.<p>See, while I'm genuinely interested in hearing from the community what you think as this is the culmination of a lot of effort from a lot of people across so many different fields (seriously, the number of folks across manufacturing, engineering, design, logistics, and marketing who have had to work together to launch this is nuts), I really just want to tie the larger motivations for Tensorbook as a product back to a personal narrative to explain why I'm so proud.<p>So, flashback to 2018, and I'm a hardware engineer focusing on the compute system at Lyft's autonomous vehicle (AV) program, Level5 (L5). Here was a project that that would save lives, that would improve the human condition, that was all ready to go. I saw my role as coming in to product-ize, to take what was close to the finish line and get it over it. The disappointment was pretty brutal when I realized just how wrong I was.<p>It's one thing to nod along when reading Knuth write "premature optimization is the root of all evil"; it's another to experience it firsthand.<p>At Lyft L5 I thought I would be applying specialized inference accelerators (Habana, Groq, Graphcore, etc.) into the vehicle compute system. Instead, the only requirement that mattered org-wide was: "Don't do anything that slows down the perception team". Forget testing silicon with the potential to reduce power requirements by 10x, I was lucky to get a willing ear to hear my case for changing a flag in the TensorFlow runtime to perform inference at FP16 instead of FP32.<p>Don't get me wrong, there were a multitude of other difficult technical challenges to solve outside of the deep learning ones that were gating, but I had underestimated just how not-ready the CNNs for object detection and classification were. Something I thought was a solved problem was very much not, and ultimately resulted in my team and others building a 5,000 watt monster of server (+ power distribution, + thermals, + chassis, etc etc) that took up an entire rear row of seating. I'm happy to talk about that experience in the comments because I have a lot of fond memories from my time there.<p>Anyway, the takeaway I have from Lyft, and my first motivation here is that there is no such thing as over-provisioning or too much compute in a deep learning engineer's mind. Anything less than the most possible is a detriment to their workflow. I still truly believe AVs will save lives; so by extension, enabling deep learning engineers enables AVs enables improvement to the human condition. Transitive property, :thumbsup:<p>So moving on, my following role in industry was characterized by working closely with the least technical people I have ever had the opportunity to work with in my life. And I mean opportunity genuinely, because doing so gave me so much perspective on the things that you and I here probably take for granted. (How do we know that Ctrl+Alt+T will open a terminal? Why does `touch` make a file? How do I quit vim?)<p>So, the takeaway from that experience, and motivation #2 for me is that computers can be so unaccessible in surprising ways. I have a deep respect and appreciation for Linux, and I want others to see things the same way, so anything I can do to make easier the process of "self-serving" or "bootstrapping" to my level of understanding, is something worth doing to me.<p>So, with those two personal motivations outlined, I present to you, for your consideration, the Razer x Lambda Tensorbook. A laptop with a no-compromise approach to speeds-and-feeds and shipping with OEM support for Ubuntu.<p>sincerely,
Vinay. Product Marketing @ Lambda
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Title: [ Inspired by Atlassians outage ( https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-update ) ]<p>Dear HN,<p>What are the industry best practices for data deletion? Compliance rules stipulate that data can be permanently deleted when necessary, but backup policies stipulate that data can be restored if needed.<p>In this case, Atlassian ran what they called the "permanently delete" capability that is required to permanently remove data when required for compliance reasons. They quickly learned that they deleted the wrong data, and started the process of restoring it from their backups.<p>How do various regulators view this? A layman interpretation says that the data was not permanently deleted, because it was still in the backups. How to balance the two requirements?
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Title: Hello, Stacktape CEO here.<p>As a full-stack developer, I was looking for an easy way to deploy and host my applications for years.<p>I could go with Kubernetes and Terraform. But the complexity of running this in production can be overwhelming even for a team of dedicated DevOps specialists. Or I could go with Heroku. But I’m not willing to pay 5-10 times more for my infrastructure just because my app was easier to deploy. I could also choose Serverless framework. But If my use case requires more than Lambda functions, I need to read through 100s of pages of AWS documentation figuring out how to configure VPCs, Security groups, Route tables and more…<p>Until now, I could choose either "powerful" or "easy". Today, after 2.5 years of development, I’m happy to introduce another option.<p>Stacktape is a DevOps-free cloud framework that’s both powerful and easy at the same time. It allows you to develop, deploy and run applications on AWS. With 98% less configuration and without the need for DevOps or Cloud expertise.<p>Unlike with other solutions, you can deploy both serverless (AWS lambda-based) and more traditional (container-based) applications. Stacktape also supports 20+ infrastructure components, including SQL databases, Load balancers, MongoDB Atlas clusters, Batch-jobs, Kafka topics, Redis clusters & more.<p>Besides infrastructure management, Stacktape handles source code packaging, deployments, local/remote development, and much more. It also comes with a VScode extension and local development studio (GUI).<p>Stacktape is a IaaC tool. The configuration can be written in YAML, JSON, or Typescript. A typical production-grade REST API is ~30 lines of config (compared to ~600-800 lines of CloudFormation/Terraform). The deployment can be done using a CLI or a programmatic SDK.<p>Stacktape is a premium tool with a forever-free tier. I’ll be very happy if you give it a try and let me know what you think.
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Title: There's such a low cost of entry on most forms of digital media / art now that more people than ever just seem to be copying what's popular and adding to the non-stop barrage of beige unoriginality.<p>The Dribbble front page could all be the same designer at this point, electronic dance music particularly could be made completely interchangeably by any artist, no one seems to have their own design flair any more. Netflix / Disney etc seem to have copped onto one idea that works and just release the same tv show / movie over and over again with a slight tweak as it brings the money in without any worries.<p>Am I just now very old or is individuality in art and media now seen as a negative, whilst cookie-cutter straight-down-the-middle appeal-to-the-lowest-common-denominator-guff the only way to get ahead at the moment.
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Title: <a href="https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-se...</a><p>This was announced in November 2021, but there hasn't been any development since. The cynic in me thinks this was just a PR move to quell EU right to repair regulations, but I really hope that's not the case.
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Title: Hi HN community, [Direct Link: www.usage.ai]<p>I’m Kaveh, founder and CEO of Usage, and am excited to show you Usage, an app that helps you slash your AWS EC2 bill by 50% in ~5min by trading reservations. As of today, Usage is in General Availability and any AWS user can use it. It works by creating a limited-access IAM role (ReadOnly + Ability to Manage Reservations) into your AWS account(s).<p>The AWS console interface has made it hard for companies to optimize their AWS spend. After years of working for different companies that use AWS, I still find it difficult to understand how much money I’m spending on AWS. I don’t know who owns what instances, how our commitments are saving us money (RIs, SPs, EDPs), and what instances can be sized down (or switched to spot).<p>At Usage, we are building a web-based app that keeps you in charge of your AWS while minimizing your bill. No code change, no moving your AWS account or instances around, and no downtime. We’ve built:<p>1) Real-Time RI/SP Recommendations: See which instances are uncovered by your SPs and/or RIs and get them covered with a single button tap. Instant savings.<p>2) RI Sell Recommendations: RIs that are no longer utilized are highlighted and sold instantly. No more worrying about unutilized RIs and no more needing to forecast your compute needs.<p>3) Consolidated View: View your EC2 instances and RI/SPs across all your AWS accounts in a single space. No more switching between AWS accounts.<p>4) Teams and Audit Log: Add as many users as you’d like to your Usage dashboard, and see who approved which recommendations.<p>We built Usage in ReactJS, Python, Java– and along the way we built our own internal accounting system to keep track of customer savings. We have plans to eventually release an open-source version of Usage.<p>Our business model is 20% of the savings we find you. We only make money when we save you money. We bill monthly and have longer-term enterprise plans available.<p>We take privacy extremely seriously. Your data is always protected both at-rest and in-transit. Additionally, Usage never collects or stores sensitive information. Usage only collects meta-data such as CPU utilization, launch time, instance configuration, region, etc. You can read our full privacy policy here: www.usage.ai/policy/<p>We are confident we can deliver a better AWS cost savings experience that is meaningfully better than other tools. If you use AWS, please give it a shot at www.usage.ai and let us know.<p>Let me know what you think! Ask me anything!
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Title: Data loss incident (snapshots)<p>Dear Customer,
Unfortunately, we have to inform you that there was a data loss incident that affects a small amount of your snapshots on Hetzner Cloud.
All snapshots you create are stored on our highly available storage systems. The snapshot contents are distributed over multiple internal servers and data is stored in a way that allows up to two separate disks to fail without impacting data integrity.
This means the snapshot can still be accessed, even if two disks fail at the same time.
Due to a recent, very unfortunate series of events in one of our clusters, multiple disks failed in short succession and caused a small number of snapshots to become unavailable.
We immediately tried to recover the affected snapshots but unfortunately the data is lost and we have exhausted all our options.<p>Affected snapshots in your account:
XXXXXXXXX<p>The snapshots have been removed from our system as they are no longer accessible.
We sincerely hope this doesn’t cause too much trouble for you; we know losing data is the worst-case scenario. Also, we have added 20€ as Cloud Credits to your account (valid for one year). While we know that this will not bring back your data, we still hope that you will accept the gesture.
In response to this we will re-evaluate our snapshot cluster data replication strategies as well as our strategies for replacing disks and rebuilding redundancy after replacement.<p>Best Regards,
Hetzner Cloud
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Title: I admit, I believe that Bitcoin will have an important (and positive) future in our lives. Yet every day I open HN and scan the articles I get the sense that most (not all) articles are anti crypto currency. The sum of these articles appears to me as "propaganda". Does anyone else feel the same way?<p>It would be interesting to know why the status quo financial system is held in such a high regard? Especially in light of the continual debasement of the dollar since it was decoupled from gold.<p>I for one, take this perceived negative bias as a confirmation that Bitcoin is a genuine threat to the existing financial system. When Bill Gates (and other powerful people) bad mouth Bitcoin I smell a rat. Does anyone else think this way? Am I just a dumb ass? :)
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Title: Curious to know if anyone has written programs for their own, regular, & personal use. And if so what they are? E.g. A colleague of mine tracks all of his homes energy use through a custom program which disaggregates the energy consumption per device and outputs a report to a tablet.
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Title: I've been trying to start a business lately, and as many people do, have chosen to rely on Google's suite of products. Google Ads for marketing, Google workspace for email, Drive for spreadsheets... The works.<p>While working for other companies, I never really had a problem with their services. In fact, Google remains one of my favorite companies of all time for solving the search problem (their search engine is still the best, sorry haters).<p>However, over the past few months, I have STRUGGLED against the tide to use their other services. My Google ads account is currently suspended for reasons I cannot fathom. My Google Sheets spreadsheet is currently frozen (the reason I'm ranting right now). Their administrative setting pages feel like going to the DMV from the amount of options on screen. Last but not least, their support is almost nonexistent.<p>Am I alone in this? Is this a problem of my own making, by using Safari instead of Chrome, and not configuring my services properly? Or is this a feeling that others get?<p>Conclusion: I hope Google gets some real competition soon because it feels like they are falling off.<p>Edit: Shameless plug, my company peddles a data movement tool called SQLpipe. https://sqlpipe.com
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Title: Having been frustrated again in using bluetooth from a computer to a smart speaker -- ugh! I swear connections only work half the time, and it isn't due to RF interference -- I'm wondering why there isn't a standard protocol for transmitting audio over the network. I think it would be so much easier to use.<p>[I'm talking about having my devices at home talk to each other. They are already on the same network.]<p>Edit/Addendum: Are there any streaming audio protocols that work from Mac/Windows/iOS to Amazon Echo Dots? I'm looking for a drop-in replacement for bluetooth audio streaming, where I can play sounds on my computer (ex. a youtube video) and hear it on a louder speaker.
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Title: Hi HN community.<p>I'm working on a side project documenting personal accounts of San Francisco/Silicon Valley tech culture.<p>My hope is to get a variety of perspectives with no specific expectations. The key criterion is having lived and worked (tech-adjacent is fine) in the area for some time (short times included).<p>I don't want to lead the witness too much. Authentic views and experiences are my number one priority. That said, here's some food for thought on potential remarks:<p>* your background and path to tech in SF/SV;<p>* the social dynamics in and outside of work;<p>* personal connection to work, technology, and the area;<p>* perceptions before, while, and after living in SF/SV;<p>* any of your unique experiences;<p>* your outlook on the industry at large.<p>I'm not based in San Francisco, but I'm here for the month of April working on this project. Responses in writing (comments and DMs) and conversation (over video or in person) are equally appreciated! Thank you in advance for your time and openness.<p>Edited for formatting.
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Title: Most of my family members (nuclear and extended) have little interest in spending time to manage their digital selves. Amongst other things making sure they have control of their passwords and accounts in a safe matter.<p>I've lately decided to set up a 1Password Family Account to help at least my nuclear family into taking net security more serious.<p>- What steps did you take to make it simple enough for your family to care?<p>- Did you retain any restorative powers? As in keeping master passwords to certain things and/or emergency accesses like in LastPass?<p>- Which subjects spurred the most discussions and how did you solve it?<p>- Which items do you share amongst all family members?<p>Edit: Formatting
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Title: Been professionally developing since my teens. Was the first person in the history of my university who was both a fulltime student and full time employee. Exceeded in all expectations at every job. Became the founding CTO of a start-up, put my heart and soul into it, and we sold for low 8 figures. Started a second company with some of the same people but directions started to diverge and I left. I moved to a different state for another job. Became a freelancer for a while. One of the guys who was at both start-ups recruited me into his current company with a total comp far exceeding what I asked for. All mortgages, car notes, and credit cards are paid off and our investments are enough for our day-to-day. I’m really only working for the health insurance.<p>But I've never been more unhappy and lost.<p>I used to joke that I would be dead by the time I was 40 though stopped because The Wife hated hearing it but I do feel like I have no plan past this point. Being in pandemic lock down during this time hasn't helped. I told my therapist that I feel like I've hit my mid-life crisis, though not your typical one as I'm not going out and buying a muscle car to cruise high schools. I know I'm depressed and have been for the majority of my life. Been in therapy for a while and tried various pills (didn't help), TMS (somewhat helped), and thinking about trying Ketamine.<p>I feel like I've hit my zenith already and it's just a slow decline from here on out. I’ve been dreading this day because it’s a sad reminder of that.
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Title: Hi HN! I've been tinkering with this mini-game / horror experience for a while. I hope it creeps you out!<p>You can go into settings to toggle between 2 different chatbots: a scripted experience (with achievements to unlock) and a more versatile GPT-3 mode. Let me know what you think! :)<p>There's also a toggle to show how the mouse magic is made.<p>Source is available here: <a href="https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/ouija" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/ouija</a>
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Title: Some background first: I've been a software engineer for ~7 years now. I have a decently paying job, but we're definitely in the first base stretch of home ownership and have 2 children (~1 and ~4 years old).<p>My wife has a strong academic background in pedagogy and LOVES teaching high school, but with the pandemic teaching has really affected her relationship with our girls due to the sheer amount of work being dumped on her. Teacher and admin attrition at her school was suffering terribly and it was leading to her being forced to pick either continuing to work as a teacher and sacrifice all of her time with our kids or figure something else out. I was in awe of my wife's capacity for work and the number of plates she can keep spinning while still getting the highest teacher evaluation scores at her school... Only to be met with blanks stares when asked for assistance or any sort of compensation or promotion for the amount of work she was picking up.<p>So she left.<p>After some reflection, we're both worried that teaching in general is at a place where most schools will be similar. On top of this, she originally went into teaching thinking that I'd take mornings (get the kids ready and to school/ daycare) and she'd get afternoons since schools are usually out ~3pm. But since the pandemic school hours continue to stretch, further cutting down on what little time she can be with our children.<p>So, back to my question: She's at a crossroads, but my professional experience doesn't overlap much and most of my connections are not adjacent to education or instructional design. I'm poking my network and friends and family, but it's pretty difficult to find anyone willing to give her a chance outside of education. My gut is that she needs to talk with people because throwing resumes into the void isn't going to work if you're switching industries and don't have the right key words.<p>(Edited this to make it more clear): So, I'm looking for advice regarding how to get through to people who are currently passing over her resumes and cover letters. I think if she could get someone to talk to her, they'd realize she's a strong candidate.<p>Also, if there are significant others who have been in my position, any advice on what I can do on my end to help would be appreciated.
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Title: There has been a lot of talk around how Google search is becoming worse. Like many others, I am appending "reddit" to almost every search to get useful results instead of low-quality spam.<p>Over the last few years I feel the same has been happening to Amazon. There have always been FBA sellers that buy from Chinese suppliers and re-brand the same base product, result in tons of different-looking-but-actually-same products. But it has never been as bad as now. It's has become nearly impossible to find quality products in all the spam, sponsored ads, fake reviews, and rebrandings.<p>I am now finding myself appending "reddit" to my Amazon searches as well because I don't trust the results! Does anyone else do the same?
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Title: After several fruitful exchanges here on HN, I think I'm finally ready to start putting some of my personal work out there into the real-world!<p>My original "plan" (ie grand scheme) was to have everything figured out and perfected and then publish it all at once, fireworks and all. Needless to say I no longer think that's a good idea...<p>So with a slow start, I don't expect there to be any audience for probably quite some time, and I'm okay with that (it'll give me time to play around anyway). But then, what else does one do besides regularly posting content? Where does one get quality, honest feedback? With so little feedback, how does one know if the content's any good? And if one upholds to high standards (which I do), how can one present their work to reputable individuals without getting "sympathy" feedback? All of which then makes me wonder: What sets the successful "creators" apart from the rest? Quality? Timing? Luck? Network?<p>Sorry there's a lot of unknowns as I've never done anything like this before (in fact this was probably why I had avoided sharing personal work for so long).<p>So for those of you who have been on this path:<p>What's been your experience? What worked for you and what didn't? How did you manage to get good feedback?<p>Do you know of any good resources (books, articles, etc) that cover this topic?<p>Thanks so much in advance! :)
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Title: In my early programming years, I went from BASIC to HyperCard, then learned C when I couldn't make HyperCard do everything I wanted. Plenty of folks have pointed out how the lack of native support for color doomed HyperCard. But I think it was really over when the web got started and replaced everything in the "personal content" space from underneath, so I decided to see if the idea of HyperCard would work as a web app. There are some missing pieces -- it's not perfectly compatible. You can, however, make stacks online and let others see them. Free, no ads, no personal information, you are not tracked, just a fun project.
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Title: I have an offer from AWS and as part of that they want me to sign a non-compete. I've signed non-competes in the past but reading through the AWS one is making me very nervous.<p>It basically limits me for working for a competitor of ALL of amazon for 18 months. Amazon does literally everything! I would pretty much be locked out of a job for 18 months if I left voluntarily or not.<p>All other non-competes I've signed have been scoped to just the areas of the business which I have confidential info about. This amazon non-compete make me worried I could be sued for even getting a job as a grocery bagger because it competes with their grocery chains?<p>Have any of you who work for AWS re-negotiated your non-competes? I would be ok signing a non-compete that is just limited to areas which I have confidential information about but I'm worried that asking the hiring manager about this might cause them to pull the offer.
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Title: I'm fairly certain that I have ADD. I partly feel like it started to get worse over time when utilizing certain platforms designed for to capture peoples attention with short content. I have since stopped using things like Twitter (for various reasons) and any platform that encourages short form content.<p>What methods are you using outside of avoiding social media?<p>Thank you for ... oh what's that over there?
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Title: Long story short, I was a stereotypical "good boy" in my youth and was very close with both of my parents. I started finding my own way in university and I've grown so much, but to them, I "changed". We barely talk anymore and there's tension all the time. Story for another time.<p>And for some reason, in real life I seem to be surrounded by peers with successful jobs and picture-perfect families.<p>So yeah, curious to know about you folks.
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Title: I'm not officially a programmer, although I code a lot. And despite the impression people get from me, my college degree is not in CS. One of my tech obsessions in the past few years has been reading about operating systems, their differences, their history, and the decisions they made along the way. Sometimes it's a sad story (like when I read what happened to Solaris and BeOS), and sometimes it gives me joy (like seeing how Linux distros are getting more stable and consumption-ready for end-users). On that note, sometimes I ask myself how the world would be different if UNIX had won instead of Windows, and then I remember that I actually don't hate the Windows kernel as it's honestly a rock solid design. Still though, I think a lot about OS's and sometimes get sad that Unix (as it was meant to be) didn't get into consumer's hands. OS X and Linux are out there, but they're more like Unix-like OS's.<p>But I feel like this obsession neither benefits me in any meaningful way, nor does it go away on its own. Is there something I can do that'll help me stop thinking about OS's and focus on the tasks and things that we can do on them instead?
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Title: Happy Easter, or "Resurrection Sunday"!<p>Would anybody like to share a story of something dead becoming alive again?<p>That could be economic (business exiting liquidation), a personal story, technology (old computers being repaired), scientific... surprise us! :-)
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Title: Over the last two years, I have been working remotely, and I am finding myself stuck in the same place and unable to kick-start my life. I always feel overwhelmed, and basically, I don't have the energy and excitement to do the things I should do in life.<p>Have you or anyone you knew encountered this challenge during this pandemic? How did they recover or win over procrastination?
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Title: I live in Sacramento CA midtown, Im zoned to have them, worried about summer heat a bit though. Definitely have room for them. Not an egg nut but seems like a good no meat alternative protein. Seems like it would be a cool thing to have our 2 year old grow up around in the city. Also Ive heard they attract rats. Anyway this seemed like the right place to ask this question.
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