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Title: Some background: I'm 25, finished my undergrad 2 years ago. I went to work for a FANG straight out of college, and also was working on some social networking apps on the side that I started in college.<p>At some point my apps covered my living expenses and I decided to quit my job because I felt like it was sucking away my youth.<p>I make enough money every month to pay my bills, and I have a decent amount of savings.<p>I wake up everyday and want to work on something fulfilling, but don't know where to start. I feel like I have no more purpose in life and am not sure how to spend my time.<p>I know this is a ridiculous first world problem, but it bothers me a lot. I tried studying math, buying drones, microscopes, and lots of other side hobbies but I need something to wake up to in the morning that keeps me hungry.<p>I feel like I'm dying slowly and am not sure what to do.
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Title: Hi HN! We built Employees.fyi to make it easy to compare U.S. workforce demographic data across companies and against industry reference data.<p>In the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires the collection and submission of demographic workforce data. We collected and organized the publicly available federal data from the EEOC as well as publicly available EEO-1 submissions from individual companies. By doing so, we hope to make it easy to compare U.S. workforce demographic data across companies and against industry reference data.<p>The URL contains your current selection. Just copy the URL and share it!<p>Some examples:<p>* A comparison of 2018 data for the "Professionals" job category across the Information industry, Facebook, and Netflix: <a href="https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=PROFESSIONALS&reference=51&company1=Facebook&company2=Netflix" rel="nofollow">https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=PROFESSIONALS&reference...</a><p>* A comparison of 2018 data for all job categories across the Finance and Insurance industry, BlackRock, and PayPal: <a href="https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=ALL&reference=52&company1=BlackRock&company2=PayPal" rel="nofollow">https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=ALL&reference=52&compan...</a><p>* A comparison of 2018 data for the "Exec/Sr Officials & Managers" category across the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services industry, Accenture, and Nvidia: <a href="https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=SRMANAGERS&reference=54&company1=Accenture&company2=Nvidia" rel="nofollow">https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=SRMANAGERS&reference=54...</a><p>If there's a company with EEO-1 data that you would like to see, consider submitting a URL via this form: <a href="https://forms.gle/8cVfXpg69fiiemzc8" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/8cVfXpg69fiiemzc8</a><p>Let us know what feedback you have for us! For those who are curious: at runtime, Employees.fyi uses normalize.css and the Open Sans font. They are hosted with the website.
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Title: I want to start by saying this is anecdotal, and I feel paranoid for even thinking it. But often my internet will feel very slow, so I'll open speedtest to check if something's wrong. When I do, all of my stalled tabs suddenly spring into action and finish loading.<p>The tinfoil hat wearer inside of me speculates that my internet provider is overloaded and throttling my bandwidth, but immediately prioritizes me when it senses that I'm trying to check if I'm getting what I pay for.<p>Has anyone else noticed this pattern? Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?
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Title: Hacker News has so many people on it everyday, which makes me wonder why Slashdot fails in comparison. I also hear that the community at Slashdot is less than pleasant, but I'm not sure as to the validity of those claims.<p>Why is Hacker News so successful while Slashdot has become a relic of internet history?
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Title: A lot of online software industry content is focused on junior engineers: algorithms and data structures, usage of SQL, etc... But I don't think we often discuss what really sets mid/senior engineers apart.<p>My list would probably look something like:<p>- ability to use a proper debugging stack (not just tests/printf, use of microbenchmarks for optimisation, systems tracing for services)<p>- optimisation of how their app interacts with the environment (kernel, network stack, cache lines)<p>- debugging beyond application level issues (e.g. ability to use core dumps, knowledge of how the JVM works)
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Title: Ok this is quite a different kind of Ask HN, but I just can't help but feel saddened whenever I come across personal posts about how someone is lost, confused, stuck in a situation, feel lonely, uncertain what to do about xyz, etc.. What's more surprising to me, is how the comments mostly center around <i>external</i> solutions. I love the HN community and how good you folks are at helping people navigating the world. But, sometimes, <i>at least sometimes</i>, what we're missing is a way of navigating the <i>inner</i> world (which includes close relationships).<p>And surprisingly (or not surprisingly), the conventional methods like self-help advice or even therapy sometimes don't seem to help. I know this feeling, and had to explore around to find the tools and perspectives that finally made a difference.<p>Now I don't mean any kind of mystic / uber-spiritual stuff. I'm a pretty realistic guy; I just think a lot and feel a lot and had to go through a lot of inner work / personal development to get to where I am today. (If you want an idea what kind of person I am in real life, my personal instagram is https://www.instagram.com/samhuang.sh/ Feel free to read my posts to get a sense of my style and my experiences.)<p>To get to my point, I want to start some kind of service/platform where people can come to talk things through and have a sustained conversation about their experience of feeling lost, confused, stuck. (I won't be charging for this <i>ever</i>, because I don't believe in that. Though I'll probably have donations set up, but that's technicalities.)<p>I've been giving some people at work some advice and perspectives, and they were positively surprised by the things I talked about and it seemed to help them at least get out of the cloud of confusion. I'm not trained with any formal credentials, but somehow I've developed enough wisdom in this area to have useful things to say.<p>The problem is, because I don't quite know where my "strengths" and "expertise" are yet, I don't wanna just start some Substack and make a fool out of myself pretending to be some guru when I don't know what I'm doing yet.<p>So here in this thread, I'm hoping to invite people who are struggling with feeling lost, confused, stuck, for whatever reason, to come and seek help. And I'll do my best to see if I can offer perspectives that may be useful. It'll be a place where we can go deeper into some issues and have a sustained conversation about it all. And it would also be tremendously helpful to me to get some feedback on whether it did or did not help.<p>Much love,
Sam<p>EDIT: For the record, so far the type of advice that seemed to resonate with people has been regarding relationships, inter-personal dynamics, family conflict, parenting, friendships, etc. A lot of times, our problems with the <i>self</i> stems from problems in our relationships, and vice versa.
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Title: Hi HN!<p>Wanted to share my weekend project, Giggle. I started using Google's Programmable Search Engine recently and needed an easy way to use it. Let me know what you think!
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Title: I never thought I'd write these words but, yeah, it happened to me too: I burned out.<p>I can't even stand checking my emails anymore but I manage a team of 5 amazing devs (for a relatively large corp) who clearly started to notice something's wrong.<p>The job, the people, the tasks, the work-life balance are all great so the issue lies somewhere else. I eat healthy, exercise every day and have a good social life. I also see a therapist regularly (I started years ago and find it incredibly helpful to gain perspective on various areas of life). But most days I'd rather spend 3 hours in bed watching Netflix than write a single line of code.<p>I worked on a couple of side projects, and that helped, but I lost motivation to continue that as well. I'm researching the topic and this community helped me a lot throughout the last few years so I thought I'd post this.<p>How can I manage responsibilities and deal with this at the same time? Should I delegate my work to someone else for a while? Should I just take a couple of weeks' vacation? I'm kind of lost at the moment.
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Title: I understand the high level reasoning is “government corruption”, but I’m trying to understand what efforts have been made to allow people to rip their own lawfully purchased media. Are any congresspeople fighting to repeal this section of the DMCA? Has any legislation been proposed? Which senators are most firmly advocating for this overt MPAA rent seeking? Why is this not as popular as “right to repair” considering how many more people this impacts? This is a pretty wide-open question, so anything people can add to help me understand this history of this conflict is welcome.<p>For those who don’t know, Section 1201 makes it illegal to break any DRM or to make or distribute software useful for this purpose. The effect is that people who have a valid license to the content must pay over and over to consume that content (once for blu-ray, once for Apple TV, once for Amazon, etc).
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Title: I know there are several counterexamples, but in general I'm impressed that Apple manages to keep new products/features under wraps until a major event, and then the product is in stores a couple weeks later with pretty high quality (user experience, reliability, minimal major bugs, etc.) Can anyone who has first-hand knowledge shed some light on how this is achieved with what I assume is quite limited user testing to contain leaks. Even working on products with multiple public betas and customer feedback sessions, it's hard to hit a high quality bar with a product release.
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Title: What happened to lambda-the-ultimate.org? Seems to be unreachable, and goggling about it hasn't turned up anything for me. It always had a limited group of active participants; but I enjoyed lurking and learning from the discussions of programming language theory.
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Title: I've used ThinkPads all the way from the IBM days and those good old solid Dell computers too.<p>Recently, I decided it was time for an update. I use Linux on the often so it was important for me to purchase a laptop that was compatible.<p>I bought 2 laptops, all of which I had to return in the last 2 months.<p>1. Dell XPS: I spent over 20+ hours with their support going back and forth. I also had a tech come to my house to replace my motherboard before I gave up and demanded a return<p>2. Lenovo Carbon X1: The laptop came with a faulty keyboard so I just returned it because I didn't want to wait 30 days for a mail-in repair or drive 2 hours to go to a "local" repair shop. They also made me order the laptop 3 times because their system kept cancelling it for whatever reason so it took an insane amount of time to just purchase the laptop (I spent ~6 hours to just purchase the laptop)<p>Maybe I'm just unlucky but the time I spent and energy I spent to just purchase these laptops shows you why people buy from Apple instead. I strongly dislike MacOS because they force the "apple way" of doing things. But it seems to be the only option these days to buy a computer with ease and get a computer "that just works". My Macbook was more expensive but the time I saved outweighs the price imo.
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Title: I'm a junior dev that recently joined a small team which doesn't seem to have much with regards to tracking requirements and how they're being tested, and I was wondering if anybody has recommendations.<p>Specifically, I would like to track what the requirements/specifications are, and how we'll test to make sure they're met? Which I don't know if this could be a mix of unit and integration/regression tests? Honestly though if this is maybe even the wrong track to take, I'd appreciate feedback on what we could be doing instead.<p>I used IBM Rational DOORS at a previous job and thought it really helped for this, but with a small team I don't think it's likely they'll spring for it. Are there open source options out there, or something else that's easy? I thought we could maybe keep track in a spreadsheet (this to match DOORS?) or some other file, but I'm sure there would be issues with that as we added to it. Thanks for any feedback!
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Title: So, let me preface this by saying that I think it's possible to have a healthy discussion on this topic, and I am not trying to be overly judgmental of Substack.<p>But, I am genuinely curious why is it getting so popular and particularly here on Hacker News. Does it have some kind of a hidden feature that makes it very appealing?<p>My number one assumption would be that it uses a global userbase, so people who write on Substack can collect subscribers/readers much faster. Is that all there is to it?<p>I also know that Substack prefetches an email address (once you enter it on any Substack-based site) and then plasters it on all their other customer sites, which I _really_ <i>hate</i> about their platform.<p>But I can see the appeal in that, I guess.
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Title: Implement scanyourpdf.com in JavaScript. No backend servers needed.
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I am looking to buy a laptop for software development in the 0 to $2000 (USD) range.<p>What I am looking for:
1. Durability: battery life is important to me as well as general longevity of the hardware i.e. I would like it to last a long time.<p>2. Linux support: I use Linux as my OS of choice and I have <i>no</i> intention of using Windows/MacOS<p>3. Optimized for intensive computing usage.<p>Other things of note:<p>I looked into the Framework laptops and so far it looks like they are still a bit beta.<p>However, I <i>am</i> curious about users' experiences with:<p>* the KDE Slimbook 15: https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-kde/kde-slimbook-15-comprar<p>* the Purism Librem 14: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/<p>* Kubuntu Focus: https://kfocus.org/order/order-m2.html<p>* the StarBook 14-inch – Star Labs®: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook<p>Also tips about maintaining battery life would be appreciated. I've read too much conflicting advice about that lately :) Thanks.
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Title: Hi HN, long time lurker with a throwaway here:<p>I recently quit academia (social sciences) and I plan to transition into a data science career within the next year or so. This is the part I liked about my academic job and the stuff I am good at (statistics, analytical problem solver, data wrangling/modeling).<p>Reading through job ads the technical skill palette for DS seems overwhelming: python (+pandas, scikit, ...), R, docker, k8s, PowerBI, Tableau, PostgreSQL, DevOps/pipelines, different cloud providers, maybe add some javascript, various ML toolkits (Tensorflow, etc.).<p>I have 15 years of experience as a statistician (R/STATA/Linux/SQL) and a sabbatical year in front of me, which new skill(s) should I learn/prioritize?<p>Edit: I have a PhD.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I'm a software engineer, mainly working on mobile apps (iOS primarily) through React Native and some Swift/Java. I have a CS degree and about 7 years in this field.<p>However recently I've become very aware that JS/TS and Swift etc are just APIs on top of APIs. I've been drawn to learning more about how computers work, the history of programming/computers (Unix, Sinclair, commodore, etc and even going back to Ada Lovelace, Babbage and mainframes in the 1950s) and things like memory allocation. I've tried learning some BASIC and Assembly code but haven't really got very far. I read/devour articles on sites like https://twobithistory.org but they only get you so far.<p>What can I do to help accelerate this and satiate this desire to learn more about how computers work? I live in London, UK and would be happy to spend some money on a uni course or something if there was a good one. I learn best practically so like to be "doing" something as well as theory.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>Our startup nearly died 2 years ago. We kept losing customers to spreadsheets. And it made us see a problem right under our nose: everyone just wanted flexibility & speed from a spreadsheet. But they have to stay in sync with {Jira / Salesforce / insert SaaS app}.<p>When we followed this thread, we discovered how broken the integration experience was for flexible products like Airtable, Smartsheet, Monday, and Google Sheets. Their big problem is that they transform external data into their own format. This makes setup harder, since you have to get the mapping just right. And often you can’t sync back.<p>We took a different path when building Visor. We essentially made a data lake & ETL tool with a front-end. Visor integrates with your Jira instance, reads its schema, helps you import the right data, and lets you work in a flexible spreadsheet* that syncs both ways. There’s also an interactive Gantt & Timeline view.<p>*Spreadsheet is a generous term for now. Formulas are still on the roadmap. As are many true “spreadsheet” features. But we’re working towards it.<p>Our roadmap is public, here: <a href="https://support.visor.us/visor-roadmap" rel="nofollow">https://support.visor.us/visor-roadmap</a><p>And for VueJS devs, we eked out more performance from Vue 2 by modifying the core, documented here: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/vuejs/comments/u6tzv8/how_we_resolved_hitting_major_performance_issues/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/vuejs/comments/u6tzv8/how_we_resolv...</a><p>For database geeks, you might enjoy learning about the realtime graph DB we built to power the product: <a href="https://blog.visor.us/cloudstore-part-1/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.visor.us/cloudstore-part-1/</a><p>I’ve seen so many great companies start out by launching on HN. It’s quite a special personal moment finally to be sharing with you all.<p>I’m happy to answer questions, take criticism, and generally hear what you think.
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Title: DTL is a project that began it's life as part of a another piece of software for a startup I founded a few years ago.
For that project I needed a way to describe how to rewrite data in a portable way. I needed to be able to create the rules on the fly and store them in a database, I needed them to be able to describe transformations I hadn't thought about, but also needed them to be safe and predictable. Though the startup didn't survive, the language I made was so useful to me I felt I had to extract it and make it usable to everyone. DTL is the result. Though the npm module is relatively new, the language itself has been in use in production systems for years. Over the past couple of years I have been working to make it more accessible and useful to newcomers. Though it's really powerful, I tried to make it easy to use and simple to understand so that you can get up to speed quickly and use only as much as you need.<p>To summarize: DTL is a javascript module and related CLI tools that are really handy for transforming data from one format to another. It's made to allow you to specify your transformations as data (JSON by default) which means they are easily shared from frontend to backend and vice versa, as well as making them easily stored in databases, etc. It can be used as part of your project to transform data between APIs, between the frontend and your database, etc. and can do simple mappings as well as complex calculations. It can also be used for validation and is really handy for extracting useful information from large / complex datasets (there are some great examples of this you can try on the website). The CLI tool (dtl) is like jq on sterooids, allowing you to slice, dice and remap csv, yaml, json or even plaintext data doing anything you can describe in a DTL transform. If you ever wished you could `grep` in complex data structures, today is your lucky day. :)<p>I'd love any feedback you have and if you think of anything it doesn't have that it should, I'd love to hear that too.
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Title: We’re trying to bring new ideas to the optimization space. We’ve used a bunch of technologies over time (CP, MIP, LP, heuristics, etc.). We’ve built our own solver (for <a href="https://www.nextmv.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.nextmv.io</a>) and learned a lot along the way.<p>Solvers are amazing. MIP solvers, for example, are some of the fastest and most mature software packages that exist. They’re also wickedly challenging to use effectively.<p>Do you use optimization solvers? Which ones? Why? Do you like them? Why or why not?
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Title: The image: <a href="https://twitter.com/mrbiffo/status/1516862012915167236" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/mrbiffo/status/1516862012915167236</a><p>Mirror: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/3TU00N4.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/3TU00N4.jpg</a><p>On my Mac's Dell LCD monitor, this image has a surprisingly intense 3D effect. The colored blocks appear to be floating in front of the blue and black background.<p>On my iPhone, the effect doesn't work at all, and it appears completely flat.<p>This is not simply a parallax or contextual effect - it feels as if I am looking at one of those lenticular 3D postcards.<p>What's going on?
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Title: Strange (or maybe not so strange?) thing happened.<p>I'm looking for a good name & .com domain for a product for some time now. Just tried a new guess and the .com is available. I was quite enthusiastic about this option. Or so I thought...<p>It just so happens that the previous owner was a person that died from cancer couple of years ago and hosted some semi personal stuff there - judging from a quick read on web.archive.org, mostly promoted their books, but the topic of disease was present and books were somewhat related.<p>Apparently there was no one around them who would take care of the site and pay for the domain (or maybe there was, but they decided it was better not to). Related Facebook account is deleted, too. OTOH books are available on Amazon.<p>Now I don't feel like taking this domain would be the right move. Both emotionally and business wise.<p>Curious if you have any thoughts or maybe have seen some similar situations.
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Title: Aside from the obvious trick of appending "reddit" to searches, or going straight to wikipedia or scientific literaure, how do you actually find anything?<p>In many cases, there's forums, wikis, clever people's blogs, but none of them are easy to find through Google/DDG, and essentially rely on manually "indexing" them in your head/bookmarks/notes.<p>How do YOU go about this?
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Title: So let's assume we open a pull request, merged current main into our feature branch and are running tests. The full acceptance test suite takes 5 minutes to complete.
Meanwhile, in those 5 minutes, 10 other commits have been made. If we merge now, we can't be sure that we won't break stuff right?<p>So after merging the pull request, are you supposed to perform another set of regression tests? Hard to find info about that
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Title: Every day, I'm rotating between a german blog (Fefe), HN and reddit. I can't stand twitter or instagram, but feel like I'm missing out on interesting content - other blogs, people worth following, maybe news outside of tech.<p>What's your web routine?
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Title: I've heard a lot about people who have catch-all email accounts and subscribe a different address to each service. So, these people may have a nice idea of who sold or leaked their email addresses based on the spam they are getting. Are you one of these people? Can you name your spammers?<p>As a side note, I have a friend from not-US who by mistake used a special address only for this country's IRS equivalent (he had something like "unit 12A" instead of just "unit 12"), and he would occasionally get physical spam to that address. I remembered that, then decided to ask this.
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Title: Hi there. I built a company that makes algorithmic trading strategies for its users to invest with.
--> <a href="https://justfor.fund" rel="nofollow">https://justfor.fund</a><p>Advice and feedback are very much welcomed!<p>Disclaimer: New born business with its first beta version (12 users) currently live.<p>Details:<p>- I'm the sole developer and founder<p>- I applied to YC S22 batch on the last day<p>- Currently facing a big KYC compliance wall (code and protocols)<p>- My priority right now is obtaining funds to cover minimal operational cost's. Need to pay for broker partnership costs too.<p>- I have essentially no funds to cover cost's right now.<p>- Currently applying for dev positions on several companies.<p>- Developed the beta version on 3.5 months full-time.<p>Thank you
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Title: I'm working as a data analyst/scientist for two years and I'm already tired. In theory everything is amazing, the math, the algorithms, until u get a job. Useless and endless meetings, useless requests, arbitrary and weird decisions to make the boss and customers happy. We end working 40+ hours/week but the job could be easily done in 30 or less, that is another thing that kills me inside. We all could be living our lives in those hours that we pretend we're doing something. I know it sounds like I'm depressed and all that but I love life, my problem is with the state of things in the corporate environment, the faking and pretending that all is perfect in the way it is, and in the job but in the end everyone is unhappy and feeling like shit and waiting for friday. I just dont know what to do because it sounds to me that every company is the same. Does anyone else feels like that? What do you do to overcome this feeling?
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Title: Hey Folks,<p>I’ve been really annoyed with the search part of finding gifts.<p>It’s hard to use keyword search for something when it’s an “I’ll know it when I see it” kind of deal.<p>So I thought, what if we scraped/indexed TONS of products and then just focused on removing the things we don’t want and then see what’s left to see if there’s anything cool?<p>I built it in Flutter so it's both iOS and Android but it could be web too.<p>I’ve only just started the scraping/tagging of products and if anyone has suggestions for bulk tagging images/content I would love to hear them. That’s the current bottleneck.<p>Any feedback would be welcome!<p>cvanvlack AT gmail DOT com if you want to discuss 1-on-1.
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Title: 1) What tech stack did you use?<p>2) What cloud did you pick?<p>3) How long were the deadlines?<p>4) Did CNN know it could lack content?
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Title: We've been asked to return to the office for two days a week "mandatory".<p>I'm convinced that this is just the first part of a plan to eventually have people working 5 days in office again.<p>The reason I am convinced is because there is no clear value proposition to even being in office two days "mandatory", which tells me that it is not really a gesture of flexibility but rather of temporary appeasement.<p>What do you think?
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Title: There's often times I want to prevent a computer/laptop/VM from sleeping and while, yes, there's various Caffeine/Amphetamine apps they're often overkill.<p>Instead, this small (12Kb) page does the job and only needs a web browser.<p>It's just a very simple usage of a web api normally used for things like video players: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake_Lock_API" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...</a>
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Title: With increasing remote work, are there rural communities where many people are tech workers?<p>Curious globally, but mostly interested in USA/UK.<p>I would like to live a more pastoral life, but anecdotally I've heard that people tend to be very different to those you find in a city.
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Title: I tried hard to understand the space and some of the ways in which the technology works, but after many hours of investment I am still unable to alleviate my scepticism that this entire space is vapourware, there is nothing here more than you can get with traditional database technology?<p>At the same time, the amount of coverage and attention it is getting and for a sustained period makes me believe I am missing something.<p>After all there are few instances of technology fads that have sustained such serious interest for a prolonged period of time (approaching a decade now) with little to show for in terms of investment returns or societal impact.<p>I am talking committees formed in parliaments and central banks around the world to discuss its benefits, serious universities dedicating whole programs on the subject, elite investors pouring money into its potential, and the list goes on.<p>So far the most charitable explanation I could come up with for the craze is that it is an effective rebranding for marketing purposes of database technologies, similar to how "data science" rebranded statistics and business analytics.<p>On the other hand "data science" even if it is merely rebranding did arguably lead to significant change in tooling/workflows in how data is consumed and presented in corporates around the world, no such thing could be said of blockchain.<p>Where am I going wrong? I am particularly keen to hear from people who underwent the journey from skeptics to believers in the space.
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Title: Fleet is an experimental fast, lightweight, open-source, build tool for Rust.<p>Builds with Fleet enabled are up-to 5x faster!<p>For a production repository (infinyon/fluvio) which we tested, we were able to cut down our incremental build times from 29 seconds down to 9 seconds, boosted by Fleet. We saw even better results on dimensionhq/volt, with our build times cut down from 3 minutes to just 1 minute - a 3x speed improvement!<p>How does fleet work?<p>Fleet works by optimizing your builds using existing tooling available in the Rust ecosystem, including seamlessly integrating sccache, lld, zld, ramdisks (for those using WSL or HDD's) et al.<p>You can get fleet at the official website.<p>Check out fleet over at https://github.com/dimensionhq/fleet and our website at https://fleet.rs<p>Looking forward to your feedback and thoughts!
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Title: Today the Ruble is worth more than 2 months ago before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Can any economists chime in and explain why this is happening? Inflation in Russia looks to be high but similar to the one in Lithuania for example. Ukraine inflation is lower which in my dilettante view doesn't make sense.<p>It looks like it's business as usual and war doesn't really have any impact on global economy at the moment. Prices were going up before Feb anyway.<p>So what's going on?
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Title: Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!<p>I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - <a href="https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon</a><p>PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
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Title: With Firefox losing more and more ground with each passing year, how do you feel about Chrome getting (even more) of a monopoly worldwide?<p>Should we start pushing harder for people to use Firefox?
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Title: I am using FeedBro, it's a browser extension and it does not sync data yet. So I just export my subscriptions to a OPML file as a backup. It's free and has some nice features.<p>For other feeds I use iNoReader which is really packed with all kinds of features.<p>I was wondering what you all are using these days.
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Title: One would assume after 10 Gen chipsets, and 10nm or shorter designs large heat sinks would suffice. But most of fanless devices are Celeron/Pentium-M chipsets in Chromebooks or Windows laptops with 4/8GB RAM and eMMC. Is it impossible to passively cool i5, i7 (integrated graphics)? Due to OS needs I cannot go for Apple M1.
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Title: I'm still looking round for an alternative to Google Workspace, when they get rid of the free tier for custom domains, in a month or so's time.<p>My needs are pretty basic; I just want a reliable email service that I can run on my own domain, with a couple of addresses for family members. I'm not bothered about all the other business-related stuff. Privacy and encryption would be preferable, but not an absolute deal-breaker. Anything I want to discuss in private goes by encrypted messenger anyway, not email.<p>One must have is IMAP support. I run a load of email addresses [not all via Gmail or Google Workspaces] so I want to be able to keep them all in the same place [Thunderbird] and not have to fire up different apps for different accounts.<p>So far, I've checked out most of the oft-recommended options; Protonmail, Tutanota, Mailbox, Mailfence, CTemplar, Runbox, Zoho, etc. and found that there were issues with most of them --whether this was lack of IMAP support, lack of Unicode support [Hello Runbox and Zoho. It's 2022!] or just general uneasiness after reading customer reviews.<p>But, by far the biggest no-no with all of these services is that they charge for each separate email address. I have emails set up on my domain for the missus, and a couple of family members. So 4 in all. As each of these services charges per user, that effectively means quadruple the stated price for any of them. For amount of emails sent on the accounts --a handful a week at most, that ends up being prohibitively expensive, for the amount of usage.<p>Which brings me onto the 3 mentioned in the title. Migadu[0], Postale[1] and MXroute[2] all charge by the amount of emails you send, not by the number of actual addresses you set up on the domain. Which seems a much fairer system. Especially for my use case. So, unless anyone is aware of another option, I'm wavering between those three.<p>I still have some doubts though:<p>MIGADU --Probably the best known of this business model and the prices seem reasonable for what I want. But a quick read through their T&Cs is pretty alarming. Their Acceptable Use policy [3] pretty much says they can suspend your account without warning for a huge range of subjective reasons. Including:<p><pre><code> >Hate speech, racism, calls for violence, Nazism as well any other immoral, unethical or socially unacceptable activity will be denied service. If illegal, we will report such to the authorities.
</code></pre>
Quite apart from the fact that this implies that Migadu are scanning the content of every email that their users send; what the actual fuck is a bloody email server company doing, taking on the role of arbitrating what is 'Nazi', 'immoral' or 'socially unacceptable'?<p>This virtue signalling shite is really going too far these days. By all means take down accounts that are indulging in illegal activity, but otherwise just keep your noses the hell out of people's private correspondence!<p>So, thats's MIGADU ruled out. Next up...<p>POSTALE --I didn't actually find anything too egregious on the Postale website. But that was part of the problem. I couldn't find any info about the company at all. ie. where are they based?.. where are their servers?.. etc? Even on the company 'About' page[4], all we get is mention of an unnamed 'creator' and the only contact details are an email address. I have absolutely no idea where this company is based, or what size it is. For all I know, it could be some kid in his bedroom. A bit dubious about entrusting my email to such an unknown entity.<p>MXROUTE --I hadn't heard of these, til I saw a few recommendations on HN. On the face of it, it seems to be a good fit. I'm not afraid of a bit of setup and configuration. However, I have noticed people complaining about the company's 'attitude' and, reading through their FAQs they do come across as pretty abrasive --even down to making a point of not offering refunds to anyone who signs up and doesn't like the service.<p>CONT'D -->
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Title: Anyone been using iCloud Private Relay and if so, can you share how’s it’s been?
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Title: Sorry if this is silly but today I have discovered that my (pricey, I know) Ergodox-ez keyboard (but I assume any other "programmable" keyboard should work likewise) allows for any key to be programmed either for "press" or "hold".<p>And after more than a year using an uncomfortable configuration for my wrist (I use emacs a LOT), I have set 'j' to behave as CTRL when hold.<p>And then my mind has blown up.<p>No more weird thumb positions, or elongated pinkies.<p>I had done this with one of the large thumb keys for space when pressed, Meta when hold, but I had never imagined using 'j' (or, say 'f') for that.
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Title: An implementation of a dynamic programming language in Rust. Includes: Parser/Compiler, REPL, Virtual Machine, Bytecode Disassembler<p>This started out as a learning project to teach myself Rust. It has grown into a decently substantial piece of software and I've learned quite a bit in the process!<p>Some neat things:<p>+ A garbage collector that can store dynamically sized types without any double-indirection (i.e. I have my own Box implementation with manual alloc/dealloc)<p>+ The smart pointer used to reference GCed data is a thin pointer. The ptr metadata needed for DSTs is stored in the GC allocation itself, so that the GC smart pointer is just a single usize wide. This allows me to keep the core value enum Variant down to 16 bytes (8 bytes for data, the enum discriminant, and some padding).<p>+ The GC also supports weak references!<p>+ Statically dispatched type object model using a newtype wrapper and Rust's declarative macros. Ok, what that means is that I have a MetaObject trait that I can use to easily add new data types and define the behavior for specific types. Similar idea to Python's PyTypeObject though very different in implementation. However, I don't resort to dynamic dispatch or trait objects despite working with dynamically type data. Instead, I have a newtype wrapper over the core value enum Variant that statically dispatches to each of the enum branches! And then a few macros that minimize the boilerplate required if I want to add a new branch to Variant or a new method to MetaObject (just a single line in each case).<p>+ Different string representations! This was inspired by the flexstr crate. Strings that are short enough to fit inside a Variant are "inlined" directly in the value. Longer strings are either GCed or interned in a thread-local string table. All identifiers are interned.<p>+ An efficient implementation of closures inspired by Lua's upvalues.<p>The language is still pretty WIP. I'm planning to add an import system, a small standard library, and a few other things<p>(Yes, the name might not be the best, being also used by a well-known ReST docs generator, I'll take suggestions. I do like the name though, both as a reference to the mythological creature and the cat :D)
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Title: I wrote a program which I'm proud of having done and would like to keep it for posterity. What's a good storage medium where I can keep and load again in the future? Requirements are: size < 1GB, must keep for at least 3 decades, must be easily transportable (for moves between houses and such) and can sit on a shelf. Bonus points for suggestions on an equally stable storage type that some computer will still be able to understand in the future.
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Title: Please HN, please add a dark mode setting tied to my profile.
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Title: I periodically hear about projects that use/have used sqlite as their sole datastore. The theory seems to be is that you can test out an idea with fewer dependencies (and cost) and that it scales surprisingly far.<p>There are even distributed versions being built for reliability in the cloud: dqlite by canonical (of Ubuntu fame) and rqlite<p>Given the complexity it seems like there are use cases or needs here that I'm not seeing and I'd be very interested to know more from those who've tried.<p><i>Have you tried this?</i>
<i>Did it go well? Or blow up?</i>
<i>Were there big surprises along the way?</i><p>- https://sqlite.org
- https://dqlite.io
- https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
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Title: Hey all, I'm Asim, the founder of M3O, a curated catalog of APIs that provides simple abstractions for the most common API use cases. The idea is to create a single place to explore, discover and consume public APIs as higher level building blocks.<p>Most of the time I don’t use all the features of an API and I assume most devs don't either, so picking and choosing the common patterns, abstracting it away and surfacing a new building block is useful. For example, Twilio has a lot of APIs but I only care about SMS. Even then I just want a quick way to send it. So stripping it all away results in something that's one endpoint and 3 fields (from, to and message).<p>Another example is something like email. There are services like sendgrid that provide a really feature rich experience for email but I’m just looking for something simple that will let me send plain text or html.<p>There are a number of API marketplaces out there, but we’re doing something different—our goal is to improve productivity. For example, RapidAPI has thousands of APIs, but there’s a lot of duplication. It’s overwhelming for developers. Choice is the enemy of productivity. AWS, on the other hand, offers a curated catalog of services where each focuses on a specific problem. We feel the same: from an API perspective you only need one of each building block. You only need one SMS, Email or Geocoding service.<p>I've been obsessed with this problem since working as an SRE at Google in 2011, seeing how the internal platform and APIs were being used by teams. I then worked at a ride hailing startup called Hailo where we got to build something similar, and experience the velocity of development in shipping products on top of simple, easily discovered APIs. I spent the next few years bootstrapping an open source project called Micro, trying to get people to standardize their API development to reach this goal.<p>Ultimately it took raising funding to take a real shot at it. After seeing the productivity Google unlocked and what Hailo could have done with their platform, it was clear to me it could and should be a product: a single way to consume APIs with one platform, one account and one framework.<p>Our goal is to build an API catalog that can act as the building blocks for most use cases, and then double down on services that have a lot of demand so we can improve the features and reliability.<p>In the wild, every API looks different, the docs are different, you have to figure out if there's client libraries or not. We unify all that, so everything looks and feels the same. All our docs are generated based on OpenAPI specs, and we code generate examples/client libraries for JS, Go, Dart and the CLI. It means you only ever need one client to access all these APIs.<p>Unifying API development and consumption requires a lot of resources to do at scale, hence it's only happening inside fast growing startups and large tech cos. There are a lot of barriers to entry. Getting started isn't easy. Our approach has been to first nail API development for ourselves and then focus on API consumption by end users— ultimately we want to let anyone offer APIs on our platform. That requires enough large scale distribution and inbound traffic to make an attractive proposition to developers.<p>We've spent a year building the product with a lot of feedback on what worked and what didn't. We’ve signed up 8000 people, served 5M API requests and have 60+ APIs on the platform.<p>On billing: we're still figuring it out and would like feedback. It started as a free product, then moved into per request pricing. Unfortunately that's hard to scale without a lot of volume and it felt like people were more used to subscriptions for SaaS products so that's the route we've gone.<p>Anyway that's us, hope you try it out (<a href="https://m3o.com" rel="nofollow">https://m3o.com</a>), and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments!
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Title: For more context that made me ask this question, please see this video: <a href="https://youtu.be/clqUs5ZAUEU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/clqUs5ZAUEU</a>
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Title: Greetings, creator here!<p>I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch.<p>After seeing <a href="https://charm.sh" rel="nofollow">https://charm.sh</a> a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app.<p>Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and publish lists. There is no installation, signup is as easy as SSH'ing into our CMS, and publishing content is as easy as copying files to our server.<p>Check it out and let me know what you think!<p>source: <a href="https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh</a>
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Arnaud, founder of Echoes HQ (<a href="https://echoeshq.com" rel="nofollow">https://echoeshq.com</a>). Echoes lets you connect engineering work to its intent directly from your product development tools, and uses this information to create activity reports that focus on the purpose of engineering work.<p>I've been an engineering manager for over a decade, and I know how hard it is to navigate the chaos of product development. Engineering management requires data — to inform decisions on priorities and hiring, and to communicate activity to our partners in other functions. But how software development insights are collected and used today is at odds with the developer’s experience. The data is typically gathered by enforcing heavyweight, one-size-fits-all processes, such as manual timesheets or mandatory tickets for every commit. Its use can easily turn into individual surveillance and misguided performance management. Indicators focused on efficiency of the development process alone perpetuate an outdated view of engineering as a "feature factory". For all these reasons, we created Echoes. Echoes provides engineering organizations with the data they need to succeed, without compromising the developer experience.<p>Many existing solutions collect data from GitHub and issue trackers to produce insights, but Echoes differs in important ways:<p>* We care about the purpose of engineering efforts over the efficiency of the development process. Purpose is defined in Echoes a the set of outcomes your are pursuing as an organization (e.g., reducing the onboarding time for your users) and the initiatives aiming to influence these outcomes (e.g., a templating feature). Echoes publishes this configuration to your development tools of choice (e.g., as repository labels on GitHub, as a custom issue field in JIRA, or labels in Linear) and allows to tag day-to-day efforts with their intent, consistently throughout the organization. Echoes’ focus on purpose makes the reports understandable beyond engineering, and shifts the conversation away from engineering productivity to the collective prioritization choices.<p>* We strive to answer engineering managers needs without compromising on developer experience, in its broadest sense. We believe that builders should pick the tools and workflows which make them most productive and that management needs should accommodate for that, not the other way around. Echoes’ contract is that engineering efforts be tagged with their intent, but leaves tooling and workflow choices to each team. The resulting reports are team-centric and never about the individuals.<p>Check out our website (<a href="https://echoeshq.com" rel="nofollow">https://echoeshq.com</a>) and introductory video (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ochIr4obw#t=58s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ochIr4obw#t=58s</a>) to learn more. We offer free trials (no credit card required) if you’d like to give it a try.<p>We look forward to hearing your feedback and answering your questions. Many thanks!
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Title: Last week it was said that Twitter's directors will take a poison pill instead of selling Twitter to Elon Musk.<p>What caused the board to change the direction 180 and now closing the deal with Musk?<p>Can anyone shed a light on that, I didn't see anyone talking about this.
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Title: I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672</a><p>That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed.<p>Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet?<p>I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC experience to the browser for a more general but enterprise focused audience. I wondered why not create an open Slack-like chat app for general discussion? Not gamers or enterprise but rather for people to have open, kitchen-table discussion on the matters of the day (or just for fun!).<p>I set out to build this because I wanted to use it myself and felt that existing chat apps weren't designed for open public discourse in the way Reddit/Twitter are but for threaded comments & mostly unidirectional communication.<p>This past year I’ve been very grateful to have a group of people continuously show up, offer support of the site and the idea, encouraging me to continue. Without those people I would have probably gave up!<p>But alas I want to see this through and I believe now is the moment to make it happen.<p>Since the last Show HN I’ve added:<p>- markdown support in chat messages, post text, and user bio in profile (soon coming to full text post).<p>- User profiles including bio, location, photo avatar, and chronological post listings.<p>- New “who’s online” list that shows the top 10 ppl online and helps steer people to active conversations.<p>- @mentions now work in posts, user bios, as well as chat messages.<p>- Email notifications to be alerted when someone @mentions you.<p>- Settings pages with ability to change password, delete account, and manage notification settings.<p>- Upgraded image handling to support higher res photos with upcoming features allowing enhanced viewing.<p>- Major refactor of the chat handling to stabilize it and fix many bugs with presence, locations, etc.<p>- Many improvements to the codebase, frontend, backend, UI, tests, etc<p>- Updated mobile web UI that drops you straight into the chat in a single view.<p>- Ability to toggle full width chat view on desktop.<p>- Live message counts displayed on the post list items that are updated in realtime.<p>- Updated location handling for realtime location display.<p>- Backend stability & aggregate analytics.<p>Through Sqwok and particularly through the last Show HN I've met & got to know numerous people living across the entire Earth from Laos to Europe to Africa, all through a silly piece of software that for some reason seemed like the thing to work on.<p>Truth be told there is much, much more I want to do with this. I believe now is the perfect time with the state of existing social networks and I’m hoping to find more people to support the site and help drive it to the next level.<p>Let me know if you have any questions,<p>Thanks!
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Title: My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.<p>Check it out:<p><a href="https://impervious.com/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://impervious.com/beacon</a><p><a href="https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon</a>
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Title: According to customer service, all customers are limited to buying four Audio CDs <i>per week</i> from any seller, in any combination, on Amazon.com.<p>This is not a per-title nor a per-seller limit, nor is it related to Amazon Prime or FREE Shipping or whatever. It's across all titles and sellers, in any combination (including 3rd party sellers), with any form of shipping, Prime or non-Prime.<p>Talking with customer support over the weekend, they claimed it was an error and would be fixed today, but as of this posting, the four-per-week purchase limit is still active.<p>The specific error message (during checkout) is:<p><i>There was a problem with some of the items in your order (see below for more information):<p>You have reached the purchase limit for this item. We have changed the quantity to the maximum allowable.<p>If the quantity has been set to 0, please delete the item (below the item details) to proceed.</i><p>More info on the problem here: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/anyone-having-troubles-ordering-from-amazon.1143712/<p>The problem first appeared on Friday, April 22, 2022. If anyone at Amazon can get this fixed, that would be great.
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Title: A bunch of developers and myself have created RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed a development database from a production database.<p>Features:<p><pre><code> - Support data backup and restore for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB
- Replace sensitive data with fake data
- Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design)
- Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size
- Start a local database with the prod data in a single command
- On-the-fly data (de)compression (Zlib)
- On-the-fly data de/encryption (AES-256)
- Fully stateless (no server, no daemon) and lightweight binary
- Use custom transformers
</code></pre>
My motivation:<p>As a developer, creating a fake dataset for running tests is tedious. Plus, it does not reflect the real-world data and painful to keep updated. If you prefer to run your app tests with production data. Then RepliByte is for you as well.<p>Available for MacOSX, Linux and Windows.<p>> <a href="https://github.com/qovery/replibyte" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/qovery/replibyte</a>
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Title: Let's say I am earning $100,000 and inflation for the year is 5%; sure I am still earning $100,000 but the actual value of that money is worth 5% less. If this isn't adjusted I have effectively taken a pay cut of 5%.<p>Independent of raises based on things like role changes or good performance how can I stress that I really dislike the idea of not having my salary keep up with inflation, and then how can I best go about ensuring that my employer keeps the salary up to date with inflation?
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Title: Did they cut comp in half? Vested stock will (I assume) be paid at $54.20, but for forward looking grants pending vest?
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Title: I'm not looking for textbooks or best education materials per se, but rather for thought provoking and inspiring reading on computer science topics.<p>What books you find the most brilliant, inspiring and explaining the core CS ideas, data structures, algorithms?<p>For any level of readers, just your personal best two.<p>For example, I find this book amazing for beginners: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319<p>And this one of the same author for more prepared reader: https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Computability/dp/0470229055/
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Title: Hi HN community,<p>Over the last six months, we’ve been building FlyCode, a product editing DevTool. We make it easy for team members to edit product copy in web and native apps’ code through FlyCode’s dashboard with auto-generated PRs instead of using a code editor.<p>From the beginning, we built around the belief that codebase ownership should stay with developers and that tools should flexibly coexist with a codebase rather than dictate infra changes. The key shift for us was to identify ways to include non-technical teams as individual contributors in the development process.<p>At FlyCode, we’re building a git-based product editor that makes it easy and safe for non-developers, to contribute to web & native apps code without actually coding. So far we’ve built [1]:<p>1) A GitHub application that scans your selected repositories in real-time for product copy. We are working on integrations to support GitLab and BitBucket in the future.<p>2) Editing React, Angular, and Vue code as well as JSON and gettext PO files (for international use-cases). We support editing product copy in resource files and hardcoded.<p>3) Pre-built GUI to invite your team to manage and edit product copy with auto-generated PRs.<p>We are hoping to use this post as an opportunity to collect feedback from fellow hackers! Our open beta is fully self-service and takes about 5-10 minutes from sign up to first edit [2]. We recently added 3 demo repositories so anyone can try the platform [3]. If you’re using GitLab or BitBucket sign up to be notified when FlyCode is ready for you.<p>We are far from our vision but the team - 10 amazing humans (we’re hiring developers [4]) - is working hard every day to improve the user experience and feature requests from our early collaborators (editing images, variables, JSON configuration, A/B testing, etc.).<p>While the platform is still in “beta”, we are confident that today’s FlyCode creates significant value for teams, large and small. Your feedback is what guides us forward so please share any questions, comments, or concerns in the comments below.<p>Join our (new) community on Discord [5] and follow us on Twitter [6]<p>Feel free to contact me at: jake[at]flycode.com or fly[at]flycode.com<p>[1] <a href="https://docs.flycode.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.flycode.com/</a> [2] <a href="https://flycode.com/developers" rel="nofollow">https://flycode.com/developers</a> [3] <a href="https://github.com/flycode-org" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/flycode-org</a> [4] <a href="https://flycode.notion.site/Jobs-FlyCode-94d9cdf269794c368cebc3caad12e416" rel="nofollow">https://flycode.notion.site/Jobs-FlyCode-94d9cdf269794c368ce...</a> [5] <a href="https://discord.gg/sKc4rZnMuw" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/sKc4rZnMuw</a> [6] <a href="https://twitter.com/FlycodeHQ" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/FlycodeHQ</a>
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Title: Hey HN, I’m Yana from Kraftful (<a href="https://kraftful.com" rel="nofollow">https://kraftful.com</a>). We’re an analytics product that helps IoT companies make their apps and displays more usable.<p>As you’ve probably noticed, everything is becoming internet connected: home appliances, furniture, exercise equipment, toys. But it’s often done in a clumsy, unusable, or unnecessary way—IoT toasters, anybody? Hardware companies haven’t yet figured out where connectivity makes sense and where it doesn’t. At the same time, some great use cases are beginning to emerge: elder care, micro mobility, preventative care, energy saving, and more.<p>I ran into this problem as head of product at IFTTT, working with the makers of hundreds of connected devices. Unfortunately, the apps and displays that control these products tend to have terrible usability, especially for less technical people. Hardware companies don't understand how to use data to track how their products are used or where they have usability problems, let alone how to fix them. The usability methods developed at software companies haven't made it into their universe. In particular, they hardly ever use analytics tools because those require lots of configuration, and IoT PMs have more than software and UX on their plate. If they use anything, it’s usually Google Analytics because it’s pre-configured. But when they want to answer IoT specific questions (like where users get stuck when they try to connect the device), PMs need to export the data and query it outside of Google Analytics. Most of them don’t know how to do that and don’t have time.<p>When I was at IFTTT, I would hear from IoT PMs that even when they’d sell millions of connected devices with a recognizable brand, only a few thousand people would ever use the product as a connected device via the app. I wanted to help them get to the root of the problem: How many people tried to connect the device? How far did they get? Which connected features did users care about most and are those features easily discoverable? I was surprised that hardware companies, big and small, couldn’t answer such questions.<p>I’m sure some of you are thinking: do hardware companies really need more data? But often they’re stuck in the worst of both worlds: their product design enables invasive data collection, while they're not even using non-invasive anonymous events to improve the experience. That's a lose-lose situation, which can and should be turned into a win-win: less invasive analytics <i>and</i> better usability.<p>Our goal is to provide IoT companies with everything they need to make their products usable by everyone without collecting unnecessary data beyond anonymous events. I’m particularly passionate about protecting user rights. In a prior life, I drove the rollout of HTTPS by default across Wikipedia and worked with privacy at EFF. As we continue developing the product, I want to think through how to nudge the IoT industry in the right direction.<p>Today, we provide a pre-configured dashboard with metrics that matter for IoT experiences, like device connection success rate. The dashboard includes usability recommendations for how to improve the experience based on the data and industry benchmarks to show how the experience compares to other connected devices.<p>For example, our dashboard shows where users drop off when using a device for the first time. If users struggle connecting the device in the app, the PM can read about how to simplify the connection flow (like avoiding app permissions not needed to connect the device and any configuration before the device is connected). They can track whether adoption goes up after they make improvements. They can also track how frequently people use different features in the app and learn where to move features so the experience becomes more intuitive. If they need to do a drill down on something beyond our pre-configured charts, they can create a custom chart directly in the dashboard. No need to export data or write queries.<p>The dashboard is based on anonymized events tracked by an SDK embedded in mobile apps that control the hardware. It does not analyze events from the hardware itself, like sensor data.<p>We also surface feedback from app store reviews to contextualize the data. IoT PMs can analyze reviews of their own apps or other apps from their industry and get GPT-3 powered summaries of common complaints, features requests, and how users’ general sentiment changes in response to app releases. The idea behind this feature is to give PMs more product insights and identify areas for improvement without burdening users with UX surveys or waiting until things are so bad that complaints bubble up from customer support calls. (Part of this is still in development and will launch shortly.)<p>I’m excited to get your thoughts on what we’re building! I recorded a short video to show you how the interaction data shows up in the dashboard: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hndsQzowic0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hndsQzowic0</a>. If you have a connected device app to try out with the SDK, feel free to pick a free trial on the plans page. Eager to hear everyone’s comments and feedback in the thread!
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Title: Hello HN,<p>While there are some projects that implement partial versions of Xlib APIs on non-X11 platforms for compatibility (most notably, Tk), I don't know of any others sophisticated enough to run Cairo and GTK applications (albeit with a few hacks). So I figured this might be technically interesting.<p>As of now it just implements the base Xlib APIs, it doesn't implement XRender, GLX, XInput2, etc. (though it's more than possible, I just didn't see a need yet.) Cross-program interaction is also very limited, and there are plenty of X11 features that likely can't be implemented; but this works sufficiently well that GTK3 is now in Haiku's default package repositories, with GIMP and Inkscape atop it to boot, using this.<p>And for the fun of it, I did try to compile Xnest (the X.org server variant running on top of Xlib) on top of this; it crashed on startup in the keyboard handlers. However, that could potentially be because I didn't have the necessary data files and not because of anything missing in Xlibe; I didn't investigate too far (or it could be an actual incompatibility; Xlibe's keyboard subsystem is rather primitive and is most of the reason I had to patch GTK for full functionality.)<p>(A few more screenshots, including GTK and WINE running atop Xlibe: <a href="https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2022-01-10_haiku_contract_report_december_2021/" rel="nofollow">https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2022-01-10_haiku_...</a>)
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Title: Hi HN! Kam here. I’m the founder of Linen.dev <a href="https://linen.dev" rel="nofollow">https://linen.dev</a>, a website that makes your public Slack community Google searchable. Linen will sync your Slack threads and make it SEO friendly so your community can find Slack content that was previously hidden.<p>Previously I worked on a popular open source project which had a sizable Slack community. Slack was great for engaging with community members and with early sales. However as community scales Slack becomes this black hole where context becomes lost. Most public communities can’t afford to pay for several hundred/thousand members so they are limited to 10,000 free messages. You run into the problem of people asking repeat questions and not searching in Slack. It also doesn’t help that the Slack UX encourages posting and not searching. We experimented with Github discussions and Discourse but didn’t want another channel to maintain and split the community on.<p>With Linen I wanted to build a tool that is very low maintenance without changing my current workflow. By making it search engine friendly and putting it on a website the community members can find answers to repeat questions before ever getting into your Slack channel. Linen is the first result that comes up on Google if you search for
“seeing a weird issue with flyte” <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=seeing+a+weird+issue+with+flyte" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=seeing+a+weird+issue+with+fl...</a> or
“replace beast http with proxygen” <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=replace+beast+http+with+proxygen" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=replace+beast+http+with+prox...</a>.<p>As a side effect of syncing conversation to a website you end up with a very long tail of unique and relevant content for your community. Linen is free to use and get setup but I offer a paid version (I am still figuring out the pricing model for it) where you can get the content redirected to your own subdomain where your domain gets all the SEO benefits.<p>Linen is built with Nextjs, Node, Typescript, React, Prisma for the ORM and using AWS aurora for the Postgres db. I chose Nextjs for the server side rendering capabilities and wanted to share types between client side with Typescript. I’ve also enjoyed working with Prisma as the ORM since you don’t have to write a lot of boilerplate with other ORMs. I've also been pretty happy with Vercel and Nextjs especially with the server side rendering and client side caching it provides.<p>Here are a few communities on Linen right now:<p><a href="https://osquery.fleetdm.com/" rel="nofollow">https://osquery.fleetdm.com/</a><p><a href="https://discuss.flyte.io/" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.flyte.io/</a><p><a href="https://calendso.linen.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://calendso.linen.dev/</a><p><a href="https://community-chat.infracost.io/" rel="nofollow">https://community-chat.infracost.io/</a><p><a href="https://community-chat.signoz.io/" rel="nofollow">https://community-chat.signoz.io/</a><p><a href="https://airbytehq.linen.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://airbytehq.linen.dev/</a><p>The product is very simple right now but I want to add features like related questions detection with semantic similarity, integrating with Github to notify the thread when it is finished, auto thread detection for conversations that aren’t in thread form.<p>You can sign up for free today at <a href="https://www.linen.dev" rel="nofollow">https://www.linen.dev</a>. I am doing manual onboarding at the moment to get better feedback and to manually walkthrough some of the less polished parts of the boarding flow.<p>p.s. I’m actively working on supporting Discord on Linen so would love to hear from anyone that is interested
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Three months ago, I took a job at Baseten to help craft and document an application builder that lets data scientists build full-stack, production-ready applications around their ML models without worrying about containers, Flask, or React. From my first day, everyone was focused on what would happen today: opening up our public beta. I’m super excited to see what you build with Baseten.<p>If you want to take Baseten for a full-speed test drive, follow along with this tutorial, where you can build and deploy an application in 20 minutes: <a href="https://docs.baseten.co/getting-started" rel="nofollow">https://docs.baseten.co/getting-started</a><p>While Baseten is built for data scientists and machine learning engineers, something I’m particularly excited about that doesn’t come up often when we talk about Baseten is how it also makes building with ML available to people like me with a general software engineering background but no real experience with ML. With our library of pre-trained models, you can build and deploy an application around models for tasks like sentiment analysis, image classification, and speech transcription. By building applications around pre-trained models, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the use cases, capabilities, and limitations of machine learning.<p>If you want to play around with some models and applications without signing up for an account yet, check out our gallery (<a href="https://baseten.co/gallery" rel="nofollow">https://baseten.co/gallery</a>) and try the demo apps.<p>P.S. We are also hiring; I found Baseten from HN.
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Title: I'm currently going through Destroy All Software's screencasts [0]. They're heavily based on Ruby + Rails and TDD, although most of the concepts probably do do translate to other languages.<p>Since the screencasts are over 10 years old now, I'm wondering if Ruby on Rails is still going strong. What resources would you recommend to get into Ruby/Rails specifically? Same question for TDD? Thanks!<p>[0] <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog</a>
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Title: One of the problems I faced when I had my first users on [just-diary.com](<a href="http://just-diary.com" rel="nofollow">http://just-diary.com</a>) is that I didn’t have any way to talk to them. Like getting feedback on using the product, asking them questions about what they want from it, and sharing some tips on how to use some features.<p>Does anyone have the same problem? If yes, how did you solve it?
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Title: When creating product videos, I'm looking for a very simple video editor, preferably in the browser, that can work with layers:<p><pre><code> - add video from a MP4
- add text
- add stickers (à la GIPHY)
- render as MP4
</code></pre>
I've tried this:<p><pre><code> - TikTok video editor, perfect, but only works on mobile (not available on PC), and anyway I can't export the finished video as MP4
- TikTok Ad video editor, working on PC, but I can't export as MP4
- Veed.io, kapwing.com, clipchamp, ... are ok, but they all have expensive pricing: at least 12$/mo for no watermark
</code></pre>
Are there open source solutions? Or paid software with a one-time payment?<p>(I don't like to spend 15$/mo for this: it will be 540$ spent in 3 years! I prefer software with a one time payement, 50 or 100$)
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Title: I can host my own Mastodon server, or all kinds of other novelty / fun things which don't seem easily decentralized.<p>Email feels like one of the most decentralized internet concepts, and ironically it's seemingly the one thing I <i>can't</i> self-host unless, from what I've heard, I enjoy being permanently marked as spam / blacklisted. What's going on? How do we fix this?
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Title: It's been a while since the last recession. If there was another one, which companies would do well? "Do well" could mean succeed or grow meaningfully, or "do well" as in not be hurt as badly
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Title: Hi HN!<p>A few years ago our company moved to a new office. That office has a insufferable bathroom in terms of privacy. You could hear a needle fall on the floor inside of it which made it very uncomfortable to use the bathroom.<p>Many people ran the tap water or fake coughed to cover their “noises”, especially doing “no 2”.<p>I got sick of not being able to be comfortable in the bathroom and hearing everyone’s toilet business so I decided to make a music player using a Raspberry Pi and soldered on a motion detector that started a white noise and music whenever you entered the bathroom to hide these sounds.<p>A lot of people said they wanted one so I thought hey I should try to make this into a product.<p>A lot of time and money was wasted hiring consultants until I 13 months ago said “enough of wasting money, I’ll just build it myself”.<p>Today I launched a kickstarter and am selling 50 units.<p>Link: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loodio/loodio-bathroom-privacy" rel="nofollow">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loodio/loodio-bathroom-...</a><p>I know people in US have loud fans and such to cover for this, and a lot of people just play music on their phones but the problem with that is: when you manually play music in there you indicate you are going to do something embarrassing!<p>How else are you solving this problem?<p>I tried all existing solutions like the Sound Princess from Japan and other chinese crap on Amazon/Ali but they were not up to the task.<p>I think there could be a market for Loodio.
What do you think?
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Title: Hi HN. I've gotten pretty tired of needing to learn a custom programming language for a tool I use once a week or less. So I figured, it might be easier to pick up if `jq` used a programming language I already know. Voila, gq.
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Title: I've generally stuck to the mantra in life that "If it smells like shit everywhere you walk, check your shoes". I'm currently a Junior in college - I've had an internship at Amazon last summer and now, for my final summer I have an internship at Google.<p>I go to a state school not really known for CS, although we have a huge CS undergraduate body. A lot of classes in CS require group work - which for the most part, I think is really helpful since most engineering in industry is done in teams.<p>I've had 3 classes where the majority of the grade is made up by projects, and many classes where we do many projects. In each class, I've had to carry the bulk (~90%?) of the workload - half the groups don't know how to code (mostly webapps), and the other half don't care to try.<p>I've tried many approaches - I find that if I recommend tech stacks that I'm comfortable with, most people won't care enough to learn them, but when I let others select, the project ends up as a steaming pile of garbage that doesn't work, and requires a rewrite the week before it's due.<p>School Groups that are lacking are not the exception, they're the rule - I haven't had a group be able to get anything that's runnable without almost taking over.<p>I thought that when I got to Amazon, things would be different: highly motivated people working on exceptional software. But the webapp I was working on (internal) was poorly held together, and the frontend had literally no tests and no way to get mock data locally - i.e. the engineers working on it were just guessing about the shapes of the DTO's, pushing to their personal deployment of the app, and then testing in the cloud before pushing to production. The feedback loop was brutal.<p>I really try my hardest to do the best with what I have - I've never lost my cool and always try to have a cheery attitude. But when I sat down and git pulled what our group had been working on, and there were compile time errors in the main branch, sometimes I wonder if I'm just holding my peers to standards that are too high? Is it too much to expect tests? Is it too much to expect to be able to test full stack locally?<p>I'm beginning to think that I just need a reality check on what standards to hold others to - but at the same time, I can't help but wonder how some of my peers are passing classes or getting hired.<p>EDIT: Thanks HN for all the helpful advice - I've read each comment many times and will probably come back to this post many, many times over the course of my career. Some of these comments have shifted my perspective on some things.<p>I can't reasonably reply to all comments thoughtfully, but they are all appreciated - thank you.
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Title: There have been threads like this before (last one in 1.5 months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375</a>), but I'm not really sure what to do. I've emailed Maciej on 4/13/21, 12/11/21, and 4 times in the past month (a more urgent issue) with no response.<p>Full-text search is regularly broken, archiving doesn't work sometimes, and most recently my >5yr archiving account was disabled on 4/1 with no warning or ability to re-up, so as far as I know I've lost archived bookmarks from up to a decade ago (don't remember when I turned on the service). It doesn't look like<p>When I tried to re-up my archiving account, I selected 10 years, but was charged for 1 year (without the 10 yr discount, of course) instead.<p>I really have enjoyed using Pinboard, and have been since at least 2011 (when the entry was created in 1pw), but this is a bummer and I'm not sure what to do. I really respect Maciej and wish him the best, and would love to keep using Pinboard.<p>Edit: Maciej, I hear you're in Taiwan. I'd love to give you some recommendations off the beaten path!
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Title: Yesterday I got an SMS 2FA text from my bank for a login attempt that I did not trigger. I changed my password, alerted my bank, and have been checking my account balance every few minutes it seems, but luckily everything seems fine.<p>The experience got me thinking, because the SMS 2FA was seemingly the last defense saving my account from a breach. My bank doesn't offer a stronger form of 2FA—neither TOTP nor any form of U2F.<p>Meanwhile, I really love Yubikeys; I have one plugged into every laptop I own (work and personal). I use Touch ID or Face ID on sites I access frequently from mobile.<p>It seems that the one place where U2F would be really impactful is online banking, but I've struggled figuring out which banks support strong 2FA without first creating an account with the bank.<p>Does your bank offer U2F, FIDO2, WebAuthn or any other form of hardware security token mechanism for logins? Have you had otherwise positive or negative experiences with the bank overall?
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Title: In the pre-Internet era, when you were curious about tech X, you'd walk to a store, skim through a bunch of books, pick the one you liked the most, and take it home. The whole process of searching took less than an hour, and then you were committed, because back at home, it was the only material about X you had physically available. If something wasn't mentioned in the book, you couldn't Google it, tough luck. And reading that book was genuinely exciting, because with TV and offline games being the only alternatives, it was your strongest source of dopamine. You'd be picking it up instinctly, just like today you pick up a smartphone, because it was the most mysterious thing to explore within your reach.<p>These days, you type X into Google, and you get hit with an avalanche of tutorials, ebooks, video series, paid courses, online lectures, all available constantly and immediately. Then you fall into the rabbit hole of ratings, reviews, comments, forum discussions, opinions, endless comparisons of X vs Y vs Z, and so on, and so on. Right from the beginning you get analysis paralysis, FOMO, and anxiety. When you finally pick something up, the amount of material about any given topic, unconstrained by the volume of paper, seems impossible to get through in a single lifetime. Instead of peacefully exploring, it feels like you have to force-feed yourself just to get to the end of it. All of that while trying to ignore that video in your recommendations about the latest breaking news, or the other one promising to teach you quantum physics in 15 minutes.<p>Does anyone else feel like this?<p>Btw. you could say, just turn off the Internet and buy a book, but can you really pretend it doesn't exist? And how long can you stick to it?
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Title: Just try and share the link on facebook, it's blocked as spam.<p>It's next to impossible to believe that this is not deliberate, considering what kind of fake news, and scams they happily take money to advertise and spread.
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Title: I have several raspberry pis at home but I have never used them for anything else than small servers of different kinds like pi-hole, webservers etc. For quite some time I have wondered if it was all possible to use it 100% of the time coding on it etc.<p>Therefore I am wondering if anyone here uses a raspberry pi as their main computer, maybe for coding on, paying bills, surfing the web etc.<p>How is the experience, what version do you use with how much ram etc? What are the issues, if any?
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Title: It's a compiled language with Ruby-inspired syntax (but not identical to Ruby). It has fast performance and a good standard library. Version 1.0 of the language was released in March 2021.<p>Some disadvantages:<p>- Compilation is a bit slow<p>- Small community<p>- Few learning resources<p>- Windows version is still under development (not 1.0 ready)<p>I'm impressed by the language and find it very likable. It's not often discussed on HN, which is a shame.<p>If you are using Crystal, or have taken a look at the language, what are you thoughts on the language?
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Title: Unless you've been very careful, your production logs almost certainly contain secrets or personally identifying information.<p>I was surprised (and annoyed) to receive the email below from New Relic, stating that on 5/3 they will start ingesting all production log data, by default.<p>To make matters worse, if you provisioned New Relic through Heroku, you can only opt out (by enabling High Security Mode) if you contact support. And if you're on the free plan, you can't open support tickets so have to ask on the community forum.<p>> New Relic APM agents will collect log data starting 5/3!<p>We’ve been hard at work making improvements to our APM and logging capabilities, and when you update certain APM agents starting May 3, 2022, logs will be automatically collected and sent to New Relic One. Logs are a critical telemetry type for observability and this new feature will help you troubleshoot your applications faster.<p>You probably have a few questions—including how to customize your logs ingest—so we’re including a FAQ below.<p>FAQ:
Q: Why did you make this change?
A: Logs are a critical telemetry data type but they are messy. This improvement allows users to send contextualized log data to New Relic without any additional setup. Relevant log data is now surfaced and correlated with other application telemetry automatically, reducing the need to switch context or run log queries when troubleshooting your applications.<p>Q: Which APM agents will have automatic logs collection and ingest upon upgrade?
A: Starting May 3, 2022, when users upgrade to the latest version of the Java, Ruby, and .NET agent, log ingest will be enabled by default, unless High Security Mode is enabled or you have enabled the logs toggle for your accounts (more information on this below). We expect to enable application logs for Node.js, Python, and Go by July and PHP by September.<p>Q: I have already implemented logs in context. What should I do?
A: We recommend only using manual OR automatic log forwarding. For more information, check out this documentation.<p>Q: I already use a third-party log forwarder, or forward logs via the New Relic infrastructure agent. What should I do?
A: To avoid duplicating log data, consult this documentation.<p>Q: What does this mean for my New Relic bill?
A: Collecting application logs means that more data will be ingested into the platform, at your standard ingest rate. The APM agent samples logs to ensure optimal agent performance. You can increase or decrease an application’s log volume as desired. Learn more here.<p>Q: I am concerned about sensitive log data being sent to New Relic. What should I do?
A: No logs of any kind will be collected if High Security Mode is enabled on the agent, even after the agent is upgraded. If you do want to use New Relic Logs, it is also possible to configure drop filters to ensure sensitive data is not stored in New Relic. If you have not enabled High Security Mode, but still do not want to send logs to New Relic, see the next question.<p>Q: I do not want New Relic to collect or ingest logs, even after I upgrade my agents. What should I do?
A: You can either configure the agent config file locally on a machine to disable it, or you can disable logs ingest for APM agents at the account level with a toggle in the New Relic data management hub. The toggle can be flipped before ever setting up an APM agent that forwards log data.<p>Q: Where can I learn more?
A: Check out our documentation, read the Explorer’s Hub post, reach out to your account team, or contact New Relic Support.
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Title: I was told that by removing snap on a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS you are also removing containerized software and live kernel updates features. Is this true? It was my belief you just have to find replacement apps and make sure to enable unattended updates.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>COVID lockdowns made me and my wife cook a lot more at home, and we had a need to streamline our recipe management woes. These were some of the problems we identified:<p><pre><code> - Most recipe websites are what I call "mommy blogs", and the principal problem is that the recipe ingredient list and instructions are buried in a SEO-laden essay that we don't care about. We were sharing links to our favorite recipes, but links don't allow you to skip past the unnecessary essay prefacing the recipe. We knew we wanted a way to have recipes uncompromised by unrelated essays.
- Popular recipe aggregating websites are run by publishing companies that do not want you, the reader, to contribute your own recipes. This is not true for all of them; Allrecipes.com does allow you to enter recipes but that UI leaves a lot to be desired. We knew we needed a way for us (and you) to write your own recipes.
- Most recipe websites do not allow you to scale recipe ingredients. We like to cook a lot at once, and we don't like to keep track of a 2x, or 3x multiplier in our heads while cooking. We knew we wanted a simple way of scaling ingredients.
- Most recipe websites do not contain adequate nutrition information about their recipes. When they do, they don't show their math, or their sources. We knew we needed an automatic nutrition calculation for recipes based on ingredients and their quantities.
</code></pre>
After a few months of nights and weekends, we are ready to share <a href="https://letscooktime.com" rel="nofollow">https://letscooktime.com</a> . We solved all of the primary problems listed above, and more! Our features:<p><pre><code> - Recipe creation
- Ingredient highlights in recipe text
- Recipe components
- Automatic nutrition calculation
- Grocery lists
- Scaling recipes
- Tagging
- No blogging, just recipes! No bullshit essay to scroll through.
- Dark mode!
</code></pre>
We think the closest thing to CookTime is <a href="https://www.paprikaapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.paprikaapp.com</a>. Paprika is a paid native app, CookTime is a free mobile-ready website you can try _today_. I do not believe that recipe management really requires the performance, development cost, and App Store cost of a native app.<p>Without a CookTime account, you can:<p><pre><code> - Browse recipes
- Read their nutrition facts
- Scale ingredients temporarily
- Share links to recipes
</code></pre>
With a CookTime account, you can:<p><pre><code> - Add your own recipes
- Add recipes to your personal groceries list
</code></pre>
Let me know what you think! Would you use it? What are you currently using to track your recipes? What missing feature is stopping you from using CookTime?
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Title: Together with PEZ (Peter Strömberg) I made a VSCode extension that allows you to script VSCode using Clojure (interpreted CLJS).<p>The repo:
<a href="https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride</a><p>Introductory video:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oTf-1EchU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oTf-1EchU</a><p>See examples directory:<p><a href="https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride/tree/master/examples/.joyride/scripts" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride/tree/master/ex...</a><p>See animated gifs and news on Twitter:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsjoyride?src=hashtag_click&f=live" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsjoyride?src=hashtag_click&f=li...</a>
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Title: Two years ago I had an option to go into the management path. My leadership was supportive and wanted me to take up the opportunity. I chose to pivot into the product management instead. My peer took that role. My role change didn’t go very well. Personally i was unhappy and felt unfulfilled at work. While I was respected at work and my manager very supportive I didn’t enjoy it. I quit and joined another company and pivoted into program management. Since then my work hours have doubled and while I am earning the highest paycheck I could have dreamed of, I am extremely unhappy being an IC. I have 25 years of industry experience and I feel I should mentor people instead of moving JIRA tickets around.<p>Yesterday I saw my former colleague who grabbed the manager role, got promoted to a director. I was hard working and intelligent than him. I could’ve played my card right and be in that place. Yet here I am being ‘advanced beginner’ in a different role every couple of years doing grunt IC work. How do I turn the wheel of time back and undo my career mistake. I feel incredibly stupid. I am losing confidence in making good decisions.<p>How do I deal with my feelings? Should I seek professional help?
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Title: This is major. Positive balance turned into negative for multiple customers.<p>This guy went from having a million SEK to million SEK in debt: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/marko-ligger-1-3-miljoner-minus-pa-kontot-sanslost
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Title: I made this site using R3F (<a href="https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber</a>), a React renderer for 3JS (<a href="https://threejs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://threejs.org/</a>).<p>The celestial bodies are Three.JS meshes.<p>I used loaders (namely 'useLoader' from R3F and 'GLTFLoader' from 3JS) to import 3D models, such as International Space Station. More on loading models in R3F: <a href="https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/tutorials/loading-models" rel="nofollow">https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/tutorials/loading-mod...</a><p>I've future plans for this side project. It would be great to hear from the HN community before diving into them. Enjoy!<p>P.S: Getting an empty (probably black) screen? This app shows up in browsers that support WebGL2.0 (most modern browsers do). Check this site to see whether your browser supports WebGL2.0: <a href="https://get.webgl.org/webgl2/" rel="nofollow">https://get.webgl.org/webgl2/</a><p>P.S.S: There'll probably be responsive design issues. I'd highly encourage you to use a desktop version or rotate to landscape while using a mobile version.
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Title: A command line trick, a random factoid, anything that’s interesting to you.
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Title: I recently attempted to log into a new Firefox instance with my Firefox account. As expected, I received an email with a verification code from [email protected] to my gmail account as part of the login flow.<p>This email was flagged by gmail. Above the body of the message, gmail inserted a scary looking red banner with the following text:<p>This message seems dangerous
Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information.<p>A link with the text "Looks safe" was presented (which I did click).<p>I made sure to check all the headers in the original message, and everything looked correct.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I was inspired by Wordle to make Colorfle, a different take on the genre where the goal is to mix colors together to match the target color within six tries. There were some interesting problems to tackle in making this game, one of them being the difference between mixing digital colors and real-life behavior (in RGB, blue + yellow = grey!). I hope you enjoy it -- any feedback would be much appreciated!
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Title: TLDR: I bought a $30K professional cinema camera that doesn't work unless I sign away my rights to privacy and possibly the video content I make with it ( at least it seems )<p>Over the past few years my photography business has seen a surge in demand for ultra high quality video production work. In an effort to meet this demand, I picked up one of RED Digital Cinema's newest pro camera bodies, the RED V-RAPTOR. Considering this camera is used by professional filmmakers to create films destined for cinemas, it's not surprising that it came with a $30k price tag.<p>After unboxing and assembling it, I power the camera on and the first thing I see is a wall of legal text on the embedded LCD. Turns out it's a "Software License Agreement" that I'm required to consent to using the on-camera menu buttons before any of the camera's functionality becomes available. I can give consent or power the camera off.<p>The full text can be found on the manufacturer's website at https://www.red.com/legal/license-agreements . Here are a few highlights<p>> 4. CONSENT TO USE OF DATA. You agree that RED and its affiliates may collect, maintain, process, transmit, and use technical, diagnostic, usage and related information, including but not limited to information about your RED Camera, Camera Module, computer, system and application software, usage, content, and peripherals. RED may use the information to provide and improve RED’s products and services, including providing the information to RED’s licensors. RED may also provide the information to third party advertisers for the purpose of providing advertising statistics without identifying you personally ...<p>> 5. UPDATES. RED and its licensors have no obligation to provide updates, bug fixes or error correction. If RED provides updates, such updates may be automatic and may delete or change the nature or features of the Software, including functions you may rely upon and you may lose data. You consent to updates by RED ...<p>I snapped a few photos of the camera and the on-screen license agreement for those interested<p>https://ibb.co/ZzBMPWm<p>https://ibb.co/wy5Qjq7<p>I'm annoyed that I must consent to accepting all software updates which they admit could result in the loss of my data but the part that really has me stuck is section 4. I'm interpreting it to mean that RED and whoever they see fit may access not only data on and about my personal computer but also the actual video content that I create with my camera. Furthermore, they are permitted to share all that with advertisers.<p>It seems like I must be misunderstanding this because I can't imagine professional videographers being willing to consent to such blatant violations of their own customer's expectations of privacy and discretion. Many of the jobs I get are product shoots for prototypes and things yet to be released. Some of them even require an NDA from me. There's no way my clients would work with me if they knew that my camera might be capturing frames from their commissioned videos and transmitting them behind the scenes to advertisers.<p>This camera has been assembled but collecting dust for over a week now. I'm on the verge of returning it and eating the 2k I spent on compatible peripherals. I would love some input from anyone who can offer clarity. My questions are as follows:<p>1. Is my assessment of the implications of this license agreement correct or am I misunderstanding the legalese?<p>2. Is this type of EULA, where the most basic functionality of a hardware device is held hostage pending the user consents to some arbitrary agreement legal in the USA and/or Europe? Is there actually a legal precedent allowing for it?<p>3. For film pros, do the top of the line Arris and Panavisions take these same liberties?
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Title: In almost every field there are encyclopedic reference books which are for experienced people to look up stuff when needed.<p>Then there are books with wonderful prose that are suitable for self learners that want to learn the topic for the first time.<p>Can you name some books of the second type in your field of study?
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Title: So... Child #2 (18 yo) is interested in learning programming. Good "with computers" and proficient in level-appropriate math but didn't grow up as a hacker like his old man (I'll refrain from making him learn turtle graphics and BASIC). Where should I point the kid to learn the basics?<p>I'm afraid that if I show him how to download (or, better yet, build) emacs, how to build SBCL, install SLIME, etc... and hand the kid copies of SICL and PCL someone will call child protective services on me. I imagine there was a time when the answer would have been java/awt, but those days seem long gone. Maybe there was a let's do it all in javascript phase, but that doesn't seem to be the answer today.<p>So... modern starter pack? VS Code and Python? Tell him to learn Pandas/SciPy/NumPy?<p>Are there any highly recommended online courses for learning this stuff?
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Title: I'm trying to source some programs and libraries written in Prolog to gain a better understanding of how a complete application is put together. Lots of Hello, World-esque examples out there, but looking for things that are a little less trivial.<p>I did come across terminusdb: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb which looks interesting.<p>Any other codebases people would recommend that are worth a read?
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Title: Hi HN! We're a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs.<p>I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing <a href="https://radiopaper.com/explore" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/explore</a><p>* It's possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on <a href="https://radiopaper.com" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com</a><p>* The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. You can read more about this in our manifesto at <a href="https://radiopaper.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/about</a><p>The technical stack is a Vue/TypeScript app talking to an API backend written in Go, running on Cloud Run, and using Firestore for persistence, Firebase Auth for authentication.<p>Email processing is handled through the Gmail API hooked up to a Cloud Pubsub notification which triggers another Cloud Run service. Outbound emails go through SendGrid.<p>The whole stack "scales-to-zero", and on days that we have a few hundred active users, we're still under the free limits of Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run & Firestore, so this has allowed us to operate for a long time without funding or revenue. Our overall burn rate is around $40/month, mostly from the smattering of other SaaS offerings we use: Sentry, Mixpanel, Github & SendGrid.<p>Dave & I discuss our tech stack in a little more detail in this conversation:
<a href="https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN" rel="nofollow">https://radiopaper.com/conversation/4PsvfxLX2Q5NHLBs8nuN</a><p>The team (myself, daave, davidschaengold, youngnh) will be around to answer any questions!
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Title: Or have I been unlucky for the last 20 years as software engineer?
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Title: What is in your backlog of things to learn? This could be lectures, books, projects/tutorials or anything else that's a bigger project and not just a blog post or article.
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Title: The smaller the better! What small, sharp tool do you wish existed but doesn’t or does but isn’t up to the quality you’d expect?
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Title: Hanging out with a bunch of people who share similar interests with you for 3 - 4 yrs and living with them, fashions these strong bonds of friendship which are not made after this period.<p>Before we get rid of colleges we need to find an alternative to this.
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Title: If you were to advise someone starting to build a SaaS product from an idea, what cloud providers would you recommend knowing more about beyond the bigger three?
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Title: Last 3 years has shown that to be a good investor you need to know macroeconomics, specially in context of USA which bring stuff interest rate, QE, bonds pricing, commodity prices, and many similar things which are interconnected. I have lot of general knowledge but I want to be at an expert level of knowledge in predicting/understanding what feds, markets, rates are gonna do and why.
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