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Title: I made this iPhone app called "Affine Tuning" which is a collection of body-interactive musical pieces:
https://affinetuning.com/
It uses body tracking (Motion Capture from RealityKit) to shape dynamic compositions. The app is completely free and will be updated in the future with more songs and other interactive features.
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Title: I've always heard that narrative that micropayments simply won't work and that people don't like it.<p>Recently, I've found myself paying for OpenAI's GPT-3 playground app in micropayments format. I use it for small tasks here and there and pay around 2-4$ a month. It feels totally fine and now I don't see why I wouldn't do the same for my Google searches or usage of maps.<p>Does anyone else have examples of services/products that they pay for in micropayments?
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Title: Any recommendation for a free and open source distributed database that is written in C++ or C?
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Title: I purchased Jabra 85t bluetooth earbuds a 2 months ago.
After updating Macos to Monterey, the mic drops after a random amount of time on Google Hangout and sometimes Slack, in the span of 20 minutes.<p>This is not an isolated case, users have been complaining about it.
For instance on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jabra/comments/qjwxdu/muting_during_slackzoom_calls_on_mac_elite_85t/<p>On this post, official Jabra Support declares: "We do not support the use of the Jabra Elite 85t on computers"
I also reached out to their support per email, and after a few back and forth and reaching their Lead, the answer is the same.
They won't provide a refund nor solutions.<p>This limitation isn't advertised on the official Amazon offer nor on their official website.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Wireless-Bluetooth-Earbuds-Titanium/dp/B08HR78C46/
Official website: https://www.jabra.com/bluetooth-headsets/jabra-elite-85t<p>In the absence of advertised limitation, shouldn't the mic work (without dropping) with every device supporting the adequate BT profiles?
How is a user supposed to know they don't support computers?
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Title: Aside from the trolling and otherwise immature behaviour we see in certain online communities (usually ones with a lot of very young people), I've actually observed that people in real life seem so much more complacent and uncritical compared to people online.<p>Maybe there's a sample bias because of the online communities I visit (like HN) and the real world that I live in, but in general, I've observed that people in real life seem overly concerned about keeping things "harmonious", with all the small-talk, the lack of real listening, talking past each other, not voicing differing perspectives, etc. They also seem to lack patience in various things, whether that's discussing or examining something (can't think of examples right now), and would rather "go back to their own lives". In contrast people online seem so much more generous.<p>I'm guessing this is partially because "being on the internet" naturally filters people. But what else is there? What's your experience with people online vs in real life? Why do you think this is the case?
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Title: Are there any open-source "general purpose" JIT compiler's out there? "General purpose" in the sense that it is not tied to any programming language (unlike v8 and luajit). At a high level, I want to feed in IR and get out a function pointer to call.<p>My use case is I have a DSL with a custom parser and interpreter. The DSL is essentially a programming language and is proving too slow (in terms of latency). The bottlneck is in the interpreter. I want to replace the interpreter with a JIT without having to deal with assembly code generation myself.<p>Preferably in Rust and/or Rust bindings. Preferably lightweight (small object code footprint). Preferably cross-arch (x86, arm, arm64).
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Title: I recently got promoted to a senior position involving one of the top distributed system projects in the world. The journey till here was very strenuous for myself, and the next level seems very difficult to reach without better mental structures in place. Even becoming a senior required putting in a lot of extra effort in my day to day activities so that I can barely achieve all objectives by the deadline, compared to my teammates with a similar workload. Because of my executive dysfunction, I'm having a hard time with the following things and I need to put in extra effort (on order of multiple hours everyday). It took me many, many months to develop simple planning and organization abilities, for eg. planning for the day at a granularity that doesn't overwhelm me and yet provide me a good enough overview of tasks so that I don't miss out on anything.<p>1. Tracking multiple small work items, especially the tail end work items that are inherently boring: As a mid level engineer when I was working on a maximum of couple of work items, it was easier to focus on them and track deployments, follow ups with others etc. It becomes exponentially tougher for me once it goes beyond 2 work items.<p>2. Understanding a mature big project in detail: I have always been able to efficiently work on projects that require working from ground up as they provided extra motivation. I can even handle medium size projects as I can work with a few unknowns. But for huge projects spanning teams worth 100s of team members, it becomes overwhelmingly difficult to focus on my subproject without trying to understand everything it touches upon. Maybe it's a result of perfectionist tendencies, maybe it's because I have problems starting work items with extremely limited amount of scope compared to the workings of the whole project. There are new terms, new things very slightly unrelated to my smaller project at hand that I don't know no matter how much I learn.<p>3. Relatively efficient multi tasking: Once I get started on any task, it takes a while for me to get going, and even after finishing it up, it takes a while to start on another task as well.
I'm extremely efficient once I get into the zone and the task is a big enough unit that only I have to work on. But when the project involves interacting with multiple stakeholders in an async manner, it gets split into tens of small units requiring immense willpower to start and stop. If these units are not big enough, this results in lengthy procrastination times that ultimately reduces my productivity to 10% compared to when I'm working on a single big item by myself. This problem is easily avoidable at junior/mid level engineer, but at senior level these are prerequisite rather than a choice.<p>4. Acceptance with the nature of work: I have always loved Computer Science ever since I understood its basic concepts. I have worked at fintech companies where the work involved understanding and interacting with core C/C++ constructs and computer science fundamentals to extract the maximum execution speed to give that edge in trading, and that was immensely satisfying. But at senior level and above, most if not all software companies require work that's less research/depth in nature and more planning/organizing/breadth in nature. I have considered doing a MS/PhD but at the moment I want to continue evolving in the role I have.<p>I'm interested in any and all opinions/points of view here, ranging from "Use X technique/tool to help being organized/plan/etc." to "I struggled with similar issues, and here's how I cope/developed structures to help with this over the years".
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Title: My goal was to create a DNS server as simple as the LDAP server I've been contributing to (glauth) and here it is: https://github.com/fusion/kittendns<p>A few things to know about it:
- It is easy to configure using a Toml file
- I am using it to bail my coredns/etcd instances when under attack
- (yes, it also works as a service location server)
- It comes with a simple, plain English, rule engine that doesn't do much at this point
- It can be used with LetsEncrypt. I use it to retrieve certificates for my home servers.
- RFC: all the nice ones :)<p>Anyway, feedback is welcome.
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Title: I'm aware of the relatively recent addition of things like WebXR, WebGL, WebAssembly, WebRTC, but I feel I am woefully out of touch with the most compelling and useful examples of these novel standards.<p>Do you have any eye-opening websites that really demonstrate some of the true power of the modern web?
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Title: I built <a href="https://veryla.io" rel="nofollow">https://veryla.io</a> - a minimal website for Los Angeles.<p>After growing tired of the chaotic, fast paced, attention-economy focused state of the web, I decided to build something simple and quiet. A site with no "real" database (just a json file I update by hand), no email signups, no ads, no pop ups, no data collection (besides google analytics), and no comment section filled with highly polarized politics. A site updated only 1-2 times per week.<p>It's just unique information in a simple and accessible format. The goal is for people to <i>not</i> check veryLA every day. I don't want people hitting refresh for emotionally charged SEO packed news to react to. My goal is for people to check out veryLA 1-2 per week and then go into the real world and have fun with the information they found.<p>Hope you enjoy if you live in Los Angeles or are planning to visit!
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Title: My note taking is all over the place, unstructured, random, but most frequently non-existent. I'd really like to get better at this.<p>I was wondering if perhaps people would be willing to share their notes from a typical work day which may help to provide some insight into what effective note taking actually looks like.
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Title: I work at a small startup (~5 devs) and right now we are hosting everything on Azure because we have some credits. Our use case does not really need instant scaling all that much since we're a B2B business and know ahead of time how much compute we will need.<p>I've been trying to convince my CTO that we would gain more benefits from a dedicated hosting solution (Hetzner) but haven't managed to convince him yet.<p>Right now we have around 5 small dedicated VMs for each dev (2 cores, 4gb ram) and 2 production VMs (4 cores, 16gb ram).<p>His arguments are that things are easier to manage in the cloud and he doesn't want to have the extra burden of manually configuring infrastructure since none of us have any real background in systems administration and in the future when we will scale to more production machines it would be easier to just start another VM than wait for a new dedicated server. We also use Azure managed MySql which helps us to see performance easier than if we rolled our own.<p>Do you agree with me and if so what arguments should I use? Would you recommend something other than Hetzner?
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Title: I have contacted Discord for right to erasure on 2022-02-26 and I have received no response. For context, they have stored metadata on almost all interaction with the following keys for over 4 years (i.e. since account creation) with no way to opt out:<p>['event_type', 'event_id', 'event_source', 'user_id', 'domain',
'freight_hostname', 'freight_id', 'ip', 'day', 'chosen_locale',
'detected_locale', 'user_is_authenticated', 'browser_user_agent',
'browser', 'browser_version', 'cfduid', 'os', 'client_build_number',
'release_channel', 'city', 'country_code', 'region_code', 'time_zone',
'isp', 'message_id', 'channel', 'channel_type', 'is_friend', 'private',
'num_attachments', 'max_attachment_size', 'length', 'word_count',
'mention_everyone', 'emoji_unicode', 'emoji_custom',
'emoji_custom_external', 'emoji_managed', 'emoji_managed_external',
'emoji_animated', 'emoji_only', 'num_embeds', 'attachment_ids',
'has_spoiler', 'probably_has_markdown', 'user_is_bot', 'sticker_ids',
'message_type', 'system_locale', 'components', 'is_first_message',
'cfduid_signed', '_source_job_id', '_ingest_ts', 'rendered_locale',
'accepted_languages', 'accepted_languages_weighted',
'primary_accepted_language', '_hour_pt', '_hour_utc', '_day_pt',
'_day_utc', 'client_send_timestamp', 'client_track_timestamp',
'timestamp']<p>The actual files are 75 megabytes of text(!) data.<p>This, to me, is clearly not reasonable under CCPA or GDPR. Even if it were, they have not responded to my emails, even though the 30 day limit has long passed. What can I do?
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Title: For years anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle defined my life. I tend to procrastinate to a such extent that causes problems in my day to day functioning, and generally my life.<p>For example, i have to submit 2 fairly simple assignments, in 2 and 3 days respectively. If i don't pass the next 4 assignments i will fail the lab, but i keep avoiding sitting down with all of my power. I feel pure fear and a sense of "i will certainly fail if i try".<p>The above example is with these assignments, but this type of behavior extends to everything in my life.
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Title: tl;dr - Cloudflare rendered my domain inaccessible and support has been ignoring the ticket for 4 days, what's the fastest way to get technical assistance when on a free plan?<p>Last week I transferred a domain used for a personal project from my old registrar to Cloudflare. After the transfer was finalized and new NS records had propagated, everything resolved normally and everything was working fine. I then enabled DNSSEC, and after a while the domain would no longer resolve. Every DNS server I try - Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, even Cloudflare's own DNS on 1.1.1.1 - returns SERVFAIL. The excellent diagnostic tool on dnsviz.net tells me that the domain is returning bogus DNSKEY/DS/NSEC responses and bogus delegation status. "no SEP matching the DS found".<p>I tried canceling the DNSSEC setup and waiting for over a day, with no effect. I re-enabled DNSSEC setup and waited for 3 days, with no effect. Cloudflare's control panel has since several days now been saying that DNSSEC will be enabled "in the next 24 hours". My site cannot be reached, and Cloudflare's support cannot be reached.<p>I've been forced to migrate the project and its (few) users to a completely different domain. I cannot inconvenience users by bouncing them back and forth, so the domain Cloudflare ruined for me is now effectively lost, as is the "branding" of the project which was reflected in the domain's name.<p>How can I get their attention without paying for an Enterprise plan? I would like to think that basic functional service should be accessible even when using Cloudflare only as a registrar with fundamental DNS on a free plan.
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Title: Bike’s most original feature is the “fluid” text editing. Lots of text editors have animated some interactions (cursor movement, insert newline, etc), but I think Bike is the first designed from the ground up to support fluid editing.<p>Give it a try, it feels different. (movie on home page if you don't have Mac)<p>Other Features:<p>• In text mode Bike works like a normal text editor. In outline mode rows are constrained to outline hierarchy.<p>• .bike file format is HTML subset, so files are easy to parse and manipulate. Bike also supports .opml and .txt.<p>• Scriptable via AppleScript. Javascript plugin API also expected in future, though no timing on that.<p>• Architecture needed to support fluid editing also makes Bike faster/more scalable than most (all?) outliners and many text editors. I test performance using the Moby Dick Workout[^1].<p>Implementation Notes:<p>• View is built using CALayers[^2].<p>• Animations are performed by Core animation and Motion[^3] lib.<p>• View performance is determined by visible text, not document size.<p>Model representation is interesting in that it’s just a flat list of rows. Each row has a `level` property, outline structure is determined dynamically. View implementation requires that each row has a unique ID.<p>I’m using OrderedDictionary from Swift Collections[^4] to store rows. This is Bike’s performance bottleneck for large outlines. Eventually I may change to augmented b+tree and then should be able to work with gigabytes worth of outline. That will be fun, but not sure it’s actually needed. Already probably fast enough for 99% of use cases as is.<p>Hope you find Bike interesting. I’m happy to answer any questions.<p>[^1]: <a href="https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/</a><p>[^2]: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer</a><p>[^3]: <a href="https://github.com/b3ll/Motion" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/b3ll/Motion</a><p>[^4]: <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-collections" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple/swift-collections</a>
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Title: I have a confession, I pirate a lot of content. Mostly TV/Movies. That being said, piracy is pretty expensive.<p>I built a computer with ~30TB of hard drive space. That, conservatively, cost me $1200. It's an older computer, with a lot of hard drives and it's probably costing me around $45 per month in power. I'm going to want to add more storage space soon, and have about $500 slated for that. I pay a usenet subscription, and subscription to indexers, for let's say $10 per month...<p>So if I stopped pirating I'd have saved $1200 and still have a budget of $55 per month for streaming services.<p>So why do I still pirate? Well one thing is show availability. There are some must-have shows that simply aren't available in my region (not the US), so I already have to have the piracy infrastructure in place if I want to watch them.<p>I also very much appreciate having a local copy. It's not like steam where I can just download whatever I want and play it offline (I do mostly buy steam content, if it's on steam I probably don't bother to pirate).<p>Streaming services still have significant service problems that need to be addressed.
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Jeff and Michael, and we’re building Infra (<a href="https://github.com/infrahq/infra" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/infrahq/infra</a>). Infra is a tool for managing access to cloud infrastructure. We’re starting with Kubernetes and have a roadmap to support Postgres, SSH and much more.<p>Michael and I were the co-founders of Kitematic, an easy way to run Docker on the desktop. We sold the company to Docker and built Docker Desktop while there. After that, we worked on Infra App, a Kubernetes client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Between what users told us and our time at Docker, it became obvious that managing infrastructure access was becoming increasingly painful.<p>Many larger teams don’t give access to developers, while smaller teams often just grant admin access to everyone. Teams in between either build extensive tooling in-house (e.g. Segment’s Access Service), or they end up spending a lot of time manually onboarding and offboarding team members with the right permissions. We wanted to help teams securely distribute access using the principles of least privilege to their infrastructure systems without managing certificates, keys or integrations with identity providers.<p>With Infra, access is granted or revoked via an API or CLI, and in the background, Infra takes care of provisioning users & groups with the right permissions no matter where the cluster is hosted (EKS, GKE, AKS, or other managed/self-hosted Kubernetes clusters). When users need access, Infra distributes short-lived credentials that expire after a short period. For larger teams, Infra integrates with identity providers like Okta to automatically give access via existing accounts.<p>Credentials are signed and verified by a central root of trust with a short time to live, so they are easily revoked or rotated when necessary. Infra doesn’t rely on a single point of failure. Other tools in this space use a centralized proxy to verify credentials, whereas Infra instead verifies them at the destination infrastructure. Access continues to work should Infra’s API or the configured identity provider go down temporarily. For clusters hosted in different regions, this means users won’t suffer from slow connections from being proxied.<p>Infra is a lightweight service written in Go, uses <100MB memory at rest, and is deployed by default with SQLite.<p>There are a few existing tools that solve infrastructure access management, but they are sold directly to directors of engineering or security teams and can’t be easily deployed by smaller teams without an expensive sales contract. We set out to build a product that teams of any size can pick up, self-host, deploy and build custom tooling on top of without fretting about a sales conversation.<p>Our GitHub repo is at <a href="https://github.com/infrahq/infra" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/infrahq/infra</a> which contains the full product that can be self-hosted via Docker or Kubernetes. We plan to make money by running a managed service version of Infra so teams don’t need to host and upgrade Infra manually. We don’t have pricing for this yet but will charge in a way that scales with usage, so even smaller teams (<10) can use it.<p>Our team includes an early VMware employee whose work is used in all VMware ESXi installs, an engineer from Hashicorp who was a large contributor to Consul, the original developer evangelist from Datadog, and the engineer who built 1Password’s cloud service, 1Password for teams.<p>We started building Infra a year ago and have been quietly iterating on it with a few teams of various sizes, ranging from 5 developers to public companies. We’re so happy to be able to share it with you and can’t wait to hear your feedback and thoughts!
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Title: Hi HN! Today we’re launching Startup School 2022. Startup School is YC’s free online course to learn how to start a startup. The 2022 course will be 7 weeks, starting June 27, 2022. More info and the signup page is at <a href="https://www.startupschool.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.startupschool.org/</a><p>This is our first live startup school course in 3 years and we’ve made a lot of upgrades. To explain the changes, let me give a brief history of how Startup School has evolved over the years.<p>Startup School goes all the way back to 2005 when it was a one-day lecture series for founders (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.startupschool.org" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.startupschool.org</a>), but its current form as an online course got started in 2017 (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13801376" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13801376</a>). We ran three live courses, in the summers of 2017, 2018, and 2019. For all these courses, we ran Startup School by hosting lectures with an in-person audience, recording them, and posting the videos online for the rest of the participants.<p>We had planned to repeat that course the following year, but when the pandemic hit, it forced us to rethink our plans. Unable to host anything in-person for a while, we relaunched the course as a continuous program in June 2020 (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552928" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552928</a>). In the continuous format, you can sign up anytime and watch pre-recorded lecture videos at your own pace. This is the format we’ve used since then.<p>The continuous format has a lot of advantages and we’re definitely going to keep it as an option. But there is a different level of excitement and energy with a live course, which is why we're bringing it back this summer. Here’s what’s new, starting with the thing I'm personally most excited about:<p>1) We’re going to have in-person meetups for founders in dozens of cities around the world. These will come in two forms:<p>First, some of our most successful YC alumni will be hosting large-scale, 100+ person meetups at their offices. Each meetup will include a talk by the founders on how they built the company, followed by a networking session where people can meet the company founders and each other. We have these lined up for about 30 cities.<p>Second, we’ll connect founders in the same city with each other and encourage them to organize smaller local meetups at bars, restaurants, parks, etc. Based on past participation rates, we’re expecting founders to organize meetups in 100+ cities.<p>2) In the past live course only a studio audience experienced the lectures live; the rest just watched the videos posted online. For 2022 we’ve gone remote native: we’re hosting all the talks on Zoom so everyone can be part of the live talk.<p>3) We’re tightly integrating our co-founder matching site into the course. We launched that site on HN 9 months ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750298" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750298</a>) and since then it’s gone extremely well, with over 70,000 matches made.<p>During the course, we’ll also host many meetups and speed-dating events for people looking to meet potential cofounders.<p>4) We have a new track for founders who don’t have an idea yet and are just exploring doing a startup. Our last course was designed for founders who already had an idea and were actively working on a startup. But in October 2020 we added a new Aspiring Founders track for founders who are just thinking about it (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24944460" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24944460</a>). We’re keeping that two track structure for this course.<p>I know many people on HN have participated in one of the earlier versions of Startup School. We’d love your thoughts on the changes we’ve made!
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Title: Login to your admin panel (https://admin.google.com/?action_id=SE_SELF_TRANSITION&utm_source=helpcenter) to confirm that your account is for personal use and keep the Legacy G Suite plan going.<p>Updated Support Page with details: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en<p>A second Support Page (https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217#faq) indicates that "You can continue using your custom domain with Gmail, retain access to no-cost Google services such as Google Drive and Google Meet, and keep your purchases and data."
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Title: Just got an email from Salesforce: "Action Required: Heroku security notification".<p>Looks like the database that stores pipeline-level config variables for both Review Apps and Heroku CI were compromised.<p>Per Heroku, "...any secrets you set in Review Apps and Heroku CI config may have been compromised and should be rotated".<p>This...is really messed up :/
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Title: As a result of a discussion on one of the longest-running academic/scientific mailing list servers I know, the Computational Chemistry List (CCL.net), I want to consult the HN hivemind.<p>I'd like to get your recommendations for email mailing list servers or providers. While CCL.net is more than just a mailing list, this is the main way at least a couple of generations of busy scientists have interacted with CCL.<p>Some have suggested a Google group, a forum or even LinkedIn as a replacement for this mailing list. Such alternative methods of group communication seem to have worked out for some user groups of scientific software packages (especially those mainly focussed on code developers), but I would assert that the breadth of the subject matter (computational chemistry as a whole) favours a 'slower' mode of communication that does not require the user to invest time in regularly checking a website. Additionally, it is worth noting that not everyone, depending on location, has easy access to either Google or LinkedIn.<p>Hence my request: reliable, secure, globally accessible email list providers/services/software that stand a good chance of sticking around as long as CCL.net already has. I'll summarize replies to the CCL.net list, and post a HN link to the answers here on the CCL.net list.
Many thanks!
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Title: Hi HN:<p>I published part one of my free NLP course. The course is intended to help anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the very basics all the way to today's mainstream models and frameworks.<p>I strive to balance theory and practice and so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook (in most modules) putting the theory into practice.<p>In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up useful bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.<p>No registration required: <a href="https://www.nlpdemystified.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlpdemystified.org/</a>
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Title: I'm in my late 20s, just started my career proper as a developer. I got into a big tech position, leaving behind startups and the chaos of my early 20s, for now.<p>When I started school at 18, I was full of excitement and big ideas. Over time, economic, social, and physiological realities have sunk in: big ideas are hard and take a LOT of time to realize. Happiness is found in relationships. People (myself included) are very limited and imperfect. The body requires a lot of maintenance and has limited energy. Money is really nice.<p>A mentor has advised me not to become "boring" and wants me to try to stay entrepreneurial. I still want to be creative. But I wonder if I'll do these things or if I will just work and be happy.<p>I don't have a specific question here, just want to get perspectives and experiences. It seems like this forum is full of people who have traveled a similar path: starting with big ideas and hopes for their future, sometimes being able to achieve those but through a tremendous amount of time and effort. Or, have realized that a certain amount of money, free time and family is all they really need.<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: Hi! One of the creators here. Very proud to finally be able to show you what we've been working on for over a year now. Curious to hear your thoughts!<p>Objectiv is open-source (APLv2) product analytics infrastructure. It's built around a generic but strict event taxonomy, open/common data- and infra tools (currently PG, snowplow, working on bigquery with more to come), and the analyses are done using our pandas-like, SQL speaking modeling library called Bach. As a result, we’re moving towards a vision wherein models can be shared openly, independent of product, platform[1] or data platform[2].<p>How?<p>- Fully assist the dev doing the instrumentation using tools for ide support, run-time validation, ci integration. No auto capture, but very low-effort[1] instrumentation.<p>- Scale using proven tech: a single collector writing to PG for small or snowplow to anything[2] for big.<p>- Feed data into your own data warehouse after validation.<p>- No tracking plan, but an open event taxonomy designed for modeling, that fits most user interfaces out of the box or can be extended otherwise.<p>- Take some of our pre-built models off the shelf or use Bach directly to model on the raw data in a notebook.<p>- Bach generates SQL for the target platform: productionize without lock-in, feed to a BI system, dbt, etc.<p>Where?<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/objectiv/objectiv-analytics" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/objectiv/objectiv-analytics</a><p>Docker demo: <a href="https://objectiv.io/docs/home/quickstart-guide/" rel="nofollow">https://objectiv.io/docs/home/quickstart-guide/</a><p>Website/docs: <a href="https://objectiv.io/" rel="nofollow">https://objectiv.io/</a><p>Let me know what you think and what platform/SQL backend you’d like to see supported first.<p>[1] Currently on plain js, react, angular, react native. Future: vue, native android/ios.<p>[2] Once we’re done building Bach support for all SQL platforms. Now: PG, bigquery in development. Future: redshift, clickhouse, athena, etc.
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Title: I am reading through a thread on how to scale a company, and one of the points is replace generalists with specialists. How can a generalist optimise for a long term career.<p>In tech , how can one thrive as a generalist?
https://twitter.com/Codie_Sanchez/status/1526912303890849796
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Title: I follow K9 XOAUTH2 issue [0] and saw someone post that FairMail development has been terminated.<p>From the post [0] and the website [1]:
All my projects have been terminated after Google falsely flagged FairEmail as spyware without a reasonable opportunity to appeal. There will be no further development and no more support.<p>GitHub has the last release as of 2022-05-18 and the repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only.<p>FairEmail was posted on HN just over a year ago [3].<p>EDIT1: Another post was done earlier [4] linking to an XDA post. Thanks @M66B<p>EDIT2: Another post was done earlier [5] linking to another XDA post. Thanks @neogodless<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655#issuecomment-1131645640" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/655#issuecomment-113164...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://email.faircode.eu/" rel="nofollow">https://email.faircode.eu/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/releases</a><p>[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386374" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26386374</a><p>[4] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426915" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426915</a><p>[5] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432334" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432334</a>
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Title: Obviously, if you believe there will be one in the next 3-6 months!<p>My question is for someone in tech, but of course, please feel free to chime in even if you are not in tech<p>1. What are the obvious Dos and Don'ts?<p>2. Were you around during the last one? How did you survive it / What got you through it?<p>3. What did you learn from the last one? Any dumb mistakes you made last time that you wish you didn't? What are some of the common mistakes people make?
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Title: I'm a 10x developer and I hate it. If you consider yourself a "top" developer I would appreciate your perspective.<p>It didn't start this way. I became a Jr Dev at 33 years old, people consistently assumed I was more experienced than I was. I'm not sure if it was my life experience or my relentless pursuit of self-improvement but I have been continuously improving my capabilities.<p>Around the time I turned 38 years old I felt competent. My code started to become defect proof. The drawback was it took me an extra 20% more time to complete. The Product Owner used to say to me, "I know it will take you an extra two days to a week to complete something, but then I never have to worry about it again". So, solid code, but kind of slow in comparison.<p>I'm now 42 years old, my code continues to have minimal amount of defects, but I complete stories fast, and I'm not working crazy hours, just the standard 8-5. Of course I'm involved in a lot more meetings nowadays, architectural discussions, bleeding edge Proof of Concepts etc, however that has not slowed me down. It has made me faster.<p>I never set out to become some kind of uber developer, but in the last couple of years I have noticed a shift in behaviors around me. It started with little things. Tech Leads inviting me into meetings to express my perspective on things. Developers pinging me when I have never worked with them, because "you probably know the answer". Being asked to weigh in specific Code Reviews outside my department. Lately if I join a meeting with people I haven't talked to before they already know who I am. Even my manager has started introducing me by just saying "This is X, you've probably heard of him".<p>Someone run a query to see the number of git commits by user for the application group I am in, about 350 developers. A script I wrote that performs various automation tasks was number 1, I was number 2. This surprised me, and it was an event that brought some of my thoughts and feelings into focus, thus this lengthy post.<p>I don't think that the number of git commits actually proves anything, other than I commit, code review, and merge code frequently. I wanted a better metric to quantify my feelings of alienation. I looked at Jira stories and story points. In my direct team of 10 people, myself included, I have completed 71% of all story points in 2022, the other 9 are responsible for the other 29%. That jives with my number of git commits compared to others as well.<p>So what's the point of this thread? It's not to brag, if I came across that way, I apologize. The problem I'm having is it's lonely and stressful.<p>This feeling of loneliness got quantified when the commit number came up. The problem is people just accept whatever I say. I used to get challenged in some of my decisions, which I always appreciated since I could create better solutions. Nowadays people just accept whatever I say as the best way.<p>It feels like I don't have peers. I'm solely dragging my entire team and everyone else around me with me for the ride. This leads to stress, it feels that if I am not working on the "thing" it won't get completed.<p>I worry that by not being challenged I will become complacent.<p>I catch myself becoming more controlling because at this point about 80% of the code base is my code for the applications my team is responsible for. I don't think that's a good thing, at the same time what I find plainly obvious is not to others.<p>The worst part is I am sensing within myself this frustration that everyone else appears to move so slowly. The thought of "great, one more thing I got to fix" is coming up too frequently.<p>To summarize, I'm a pretty good developer. I love writing code. However I feel alone, and I'm afraid I will become conceited of my own abilities. If you can empathize with this I would appreciate your perspective. Am I the only person feeling this way? What can I do to change things?
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Title: I'm a relatively late adopter of Bluetooth, having mainly used cables up until recently. I own a pair of cheapish Anker earbuds and now Audio Technica headphones.<p>I find Bluetooth to be a frustrating experience. Almost every day I encounter issues when I'm trying to pair say, my headphones, with my MacBook. I hold the power button the headphones to turn them on or they're already on standby. I do a few clicks to pair them on my MacBook. macOS says it's paired but I didn't hear the pairing sound. So I try clicking again to unpair. No unpair sound. I toggle Bluetooth off and on and try pairing again. No dice. I power cycle the headphones and they pair with my phone instead. I hold the up and down volume buttons to force them into pairing mode again...<p>Not to mention that Spotify randomly decides to switch devices sometimes and refuses to switch back unless I kill the app. Or it says my headphones are paired even though Android does not.<p>On the London Underground, my music often goes crackly/distorted presumably because of interference from the trains and other devices around me. Frankly I never even considered that could be an issue. And it's not a faulty product or anything like that.<p>This isn't just a complaint about my AT headphones. My Anker earbuds are just as frustrating.<p>It would be so nice if you could just like, I don't know, bump two devices together and they use NFC to pair or something.
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Title: Long story short, through a bizarre chain of events starting from trying to hire a contractor online an anonymous person (the title is from their perspective) has uncovered and has access to thousands of user credentials (email + CLEARTEXT password), associated addresses, company information, as well as associated active API keys for stock and crypto exchange accounts, and to top it all off some of them have withdrawal permissions.<p>The entity affected by this vulnerability is NOT a trustworthy company, it is not even a registered company. The service is operated by individuals and not under a registered business entity. The anonymous person wants to assure you that no sane person would ever subscribe to it, they are providing technically borderline illegal / grey area services (for they are not licensed as they should), yet there are thousands of paying active users.<p>The nature of access is such that it is somewhat hard for bots to find, which the anonymous person assumes is the reason it seems untampered with, but they have not tried executing write operations so they have no idea if it may only be read-only access and bots had a field day on it already - they doubt it at this point. The database itself also contains admin credentials to an internal administration interface which HAS write permissions.<p>Now, there might obviously be some documentation going on, but they are seriously wondering what to do with this before anything else.<p>As far as they see it, there are three options right now,<p>1) Contact the site owners themselves and let them know, but the... service they run seems shady, it is not a company, and the anonymous person worries that they might try to simply sweep it under the rug without informing their customers or doing nothing at all about it (if they are even still around, the last admin login in their system seems to be from March even though there are thousands of users still active)<p>2) Scrape off the email addresses and send emails to the affected individuals, warning them of the data leak, urging them to change their passwords and disable the API keys, however the anonymous person worries that their emails either get routed to spam or ignored by a good amount of them<p>3) Nuke the data to prevent any future harm<p>They are super lost.
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Title: Can Reddit go much worse than this... I can accept the pain of using new.reddit.com to login. But as soon as switch to old.reddit.com it shows that I am logged out? What are the product dev teams aiming for?<p>1. Reddit now forces you to use new.reddit.com to dismiss the cookie banner<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780092" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780092</a><p>2. Since forcing people to mobile all the time to
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208958" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208958</a><p>3. To forcing create account to read threads:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780092" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780092</a>
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Title: I built a web based prototype for an application using a Docker microservices architecture:
postgreSQL, redis, traefik, etc. - the regular stuff - which works great.
Now, the application's usecase is actually better suited in a offline environment with a standalone executable,
and I'm struggling to make this transition.<p><i>(How does the app work?
Think of the application as a file indexing system: you specify a folder on your local hard drive and the program will analyze the files (might take up to 30 minutes) and store metadata for it in a search-optimized datastructure.)</i><p>From what I understand most applications also separate frontend and backend layers and let the processes communicate via message passing
over some form of channel and protocol. The solutions I found include Unix Sockets with gRPC (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/grpc/interprocess?view=aspnetcore-6.0), local HTTP Servers with a REST API or gRPC, even
JSON over stdin/stdout (https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor).
Solutions for datastorage include custom file formats, sqlite databases or bundled mongodb instances into the main application.<p>I figured out the backend part with analysis running multithreaded and writing into a sqlite database.
For the IPC I spawn a gRPC Server which clients connect to over HTTP/2.
That way I compile a platform agnostic backend and platform specific frontends.
It all works okish but I feel like it's unnecessarily complicated and there could be a common strategy I am missing.<p>*TL;DR: What are modern architectures for desktop applications equivalent to a microservice architecture with backend/frontend separation, message queueing, pub/sub, authentication, ...?*
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Title: Standard work hours here is 9am-6pm, so 9 hours and I used to stay 10+ hours in the office often. before covid was another hour commute daily which meant pretty much not having any sun. New girl at work has a kid and told me she thought it was crazy staying past 3-4pm, and it dawned on me how right she is. pretty much everyone finished working by 7pm - many stores, restaurants are already closed before I even had a chance. Also after 6 hours the effectiveness or quality of work declines.<p>I got nothing against 4 day workweeks - I myself work part time, but I rather work 2-4 hours for even 6 days a week and I'd like to see this approach more popularized. Anyone else feels like this?
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Title: When I'm away from electronics (and this is very important), my mind goes far, sometimes memories, other times to dream walking or solutions to problems.
When I have electronics I just come here or to instagram.
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Title: Looking for suggestions. Can be fiction or non-fiction.
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Title: In an unusual turn of events the Google Play app has stopped showing the permissions for apps and instead has replaced this very valuable source of information about the app behavior and capabilities with "Data Safety" which barely shows anything technical and instead gives some vague interpretation of what the app does with your data.<p>Earlier you could disable automatic updates and always know what new permissions a certain update brings - this is no longer possible or available.<p>This is especially upsetting in terms of installing new apps. What do they do? What do they use?<p>For instance I've never installed apps which require "Find accounts on the device" (android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS) because the permission allows an app to find all the accounts on my device (normally an email addresses, including your primary google account, but that can be anything including your phone number, unique IDs in various services) and do anything with them.
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Title: Over the past few years I've met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter.<p>Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode/hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job.<p>Ever since 'Cracking the coding interview' was released, every company's interview process has become like Google's and Google didn't have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1]<p>Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to "crack" the interview. And people do go through this grind.<p>The people who do manage to crack these rounds are not necessarily good at programming either because the time they spent doing competitive programming stuff should have been spent learning to build actual things.<p>The no-whiteboard companies are very few, hardly ever seem to have openings and not hiring junior engineers.<p>What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode? Surely there must be a way to demonstrate their understanding of algorithms without having to spend 3-4 months memorising riddles<p>[0] homebrew creator.. https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
[1] Zed Shaw gets offered a sys admin job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93984
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Title: It's been like half a year since it was first announced in closed beta; I never got an invite to the beta, and on occasion I look it up to see if it's ready for general consumption yet.<p>Those who are in the beta, what's your thoughts on this editor?
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Title: I have to be extremely picky about stuff I want to learn. I lack time, and moreover, if I actually want to reach a non-trivial level of skills in a particular field, I have to spend serious amount of time, abandoning other wishes/ideas.<p>So, my question is- is the Crypto tech, like blockchain, worth learning? Will there be applications beyond decentralised finance, web3, etc.?<p>Will learning the tech make me a better "technologist" in any way?<p>I want to be clear: I do not want to buy or own cryptocoins. Web3 does not look interesting to me at this point.<p>Should I still learn about blockchains?
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Title: Are there any? Something that can be made to do practical things. Can be DIY.
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Title: I was just told in the supermarket card payments are down in -all- supermarkets in my neighborhood. The internet doesn't seem to know much about it yet.
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Title: "That Horoscope Podcast - Aquarius" and it's eleven siblings - are daily podcasts that are end-to-end programatically generated e.g. scripted, voiced, post-produced and uploaded.<p>Would love to get some first impression feed back and hear how others would achive the same thing!
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Title: What's the activity, state, location, situation - anything - that gives you the greatest enjoyment in life? The most pleasure, the most contentment, the most bliss, the most happiness. Or your top 3 things, if you can't choose just one. Thanks!
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Title: My passion is writing developer tools. I like the feedback you get and the way it shapes the work.<p>It's cool when you can build software and someone runs it on their own data just a short while later and has a direct line of communication to you, providing a tight feedback loop.<p>I quit my job a few months ago and in a few months I'll have to find a new one. I thought I'd see if anybody had any ideas for tools they wanted to see written that lined up with my interests and that I could try my hand at, to see if I could make a go of working on dev tools for myself before going back into the job market.
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Title: I think we Instagram should indicate whether or not an image had filters applied to them. This will still allow folks to enhance images, but at the same time inform users that the image has been enhanced and improved. Therefore informing the viewer, what you're seeing is a mixing of reality and illusion.
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Title: This is one of the biggest pain points of my work - reviewing diffs of Jupyter Notebooks.<p>Does anyone have any good tools for this that preserve the visuals of the Notebooks.<p>My approach has always been rendering the files as .py without the cell outputs and comparing which is a big PITA.<p>Anyone have any advice?
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Title: I have thousands of online accounts, hundreds of thousands of saved items (likes, bookmarks, papers, books, movies, videos, photos, files, open tabs, tasks), hundreds of inbox and feeds, and they just can't seem to stop growing.<p>Inbox zero is now a rare occurrence, only made possible by abusing Gmail's snooze function. My phone, laptop, and clouds are full.<p>Using personal finance analogies, should I:<p>- Reduce my spending (unsubscribe, stop consuming feeds)?<p>- Pay back my debt (consume the saved items)? Perhaps using the debt-snowball method?<p>- Get more credit (file storage) so that I can spend (save items) more?<p>- Declare bankruptcy (delete everything)?
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Title: Does anyone have any tips for handling the fact that there is an ever growing number of apps to check messages on. I have to check linked in, email, texts, messenger, whatsapp, signal, telegram, slack etc
Everyone seems to have their preference I have loads of friends who only use messenger, some who only use signal.
As a dyslexic I find it super hard to keep up and end up missing and forgetting loads of things as a result.
Does everyone just deal with it? Or is there a way to centralise my communication without hiring a pa?
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Title: When you’re learning about a new topic or technology that you want to incorporate into your workflow, how do you know how to scope the learning and when to stop?
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Title: Took a break from the falling sand simulation blog posts this week to work on another small project. It's a little pixel world generator- each time you visit, you'll see a new little world. I really like this stuff and had a blast building it yesterday!
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Title: Elm looked very promising when it was new and made continuous progress for a while. But now the GitHub repositories don't show activity anymore.
https://github.com/elm/compiler<p>Web technology is still moving fast and Elm just stopped. The version number indicates that it's still unstable (breaking changes expected).<p>The number of participants in 'State of Elm' also indicate declining interest: https://state-of-elm.lamdera.app/<p>Some ideas are really nice, so it would be a bummer if it dies.<p>Did I miss something?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm opening up the beta for IndigoStack. It's a native macOS app which provides a fresh take on how to run all the services you need for local web development. I've been building it for myself as a Laravel & Drupal developer and I'm now looking to get some beta testers on board!<p>Check it out, and don't forget to sign up to the forums to give us your feedback!<p><a href="https://indigostack.app" rel="nofollow">https://indigostack.app</a><p>My motivation:<p>Like many developers I've developed a love-hate relationship with the existing options for local development on a Mac. If they're virtualised, you'll often get...<p>* high CPU usage
* high RAM usage
* poor filesystem performance / syncing
* command line and configuration complexity<p>And existing native solutions tend to be either too simplistic, or command line-based or both.<p>So I've built IndigoStack with everything I liked and wanted, running everything natively on your Mac:<p>* services are all native & fast
* services are standalone; macOS updates won't ruin your setup
* able to run multiple services (eg PHPs) simultaneously
* easily build / start / stop / rebuild your stacks in the GUI
* run multiple projects which don't interfere with each other
* config-in-code; quickly and easily share stacks within a team
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Title: Mathematics is best learned under the guidance of a mentor. But not everyone has access to mentors all the time. That's where books come in. Good books. Books that can be substitute for a mentor or sometimes even better.<p>Which books (preferably not pop-sci) fall into this category?
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Title: Today I launched an Imba course for Scrimba.com. Imba is an amazing language for building web applications, that deserves more attention.<p>Watch my announcement video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSIsvZJhow" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSIsvZJhow</a><p>Take the course (it's free): <a href="https://www.scrimba.com/learn/imba" rel="nofollow">https://www.scrimba.com/learn/imba</a><p>Some context:<p>I fell in love with the Imba programming language a couple years ago and quit my job to spend all my time building projects with Imba. The first one being TaskTXT (<a href="https://www.tasktxt.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tasktxt.com</a>), a plaintext notepad with built-in timers. It's full of UI details that were a joy to build with Imba. Trying to build things like this with React in the past honestly made me feel dumb.<p>Imba (<a href="https://www.imba.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.imba.io</a>) is a language that compiles to Javascript, like TypeScript or JSX. Imba's syntax diverges much more from Javascript, looking more like Python or Ruby. It's compatible with Javascript and Typescript and NPM modules. It also has fantastic VSCode tooling and even supports TypeScript types.<p>I like Imba syntax better than JS, but the real selling point is the built-in features for building web UI. Imba has first-class support for html tags, css styles, and custom web components. Those are all parts of the language. For me, Imba has replaced Javascript, HTML, CSS and React.<p>Imba's "Memoized DOM" model for updating the UI is an order of magnitude faster than virtual DOM approaches. This allows for simple state management, because you can pretty much re-render the whole UI whenever you want and Imba manages to do that very efficiently. There's an older article about this here (<a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-virtual-dom-is-slow-meet-the-memoized-dom-bb19f546cc52/" rel="nofollow">https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-virtual-dom-is-slow-me...</a>) if you want to dig into the technical details.<p>People often ask for examples of things made with Imba, and the most prominent one is the learn-to-code site, Scrimba.com and its interactive editor. Scrimba was was built by Sindre (creator of Imba) and the Scrimba team. The fact that Scrimba's editor was made with Imba grabbed my attention when I first learned about the language. It's one of the most impressive web applications I've ever seen.<p>Sindre originally built Scrimba to share Imba, but until now there's not been a real Imba course on Scrimba! So, I'm pleased to be fixing that today.<p>I know Imba looks strange to a lot of people. Imba programmers are used to people looking at it and declaring it to be stupid and wrong. An open mind is required. Imba doesn't have to be for everyone, but for a certain type of developer who values design, and wants to build expressive UI quickly, it's pure magic.
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Title: Author here. I’m unreasonably excited to share this library that we’re open-sourcing today — our team has been building it for five years and these ideas have been a passion of mine for fifteen.<p>SymForce is a library that makes it easy to code a problem once in Python with an augmented SymPy API (backed by C++), experiment with it symbolically, generate optimized code in C++ or any backend language, and then run highly efficient nonlinear optimization problems based on the original problem definition. This workflow elegantly solves a wide variety of tasks in robotics and related domains, and can speed up common tasks by an order of magnitude while requiring less handwritten code and reducing the surface area for bugs. See our paper at <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07889" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07889</a> for experiments (accepted to RSS 2022).<p>We developed it at Skydio for real-time robotics algorithms like SLAM, calibration, bundle adjustment, MPC, and system identification on our drones. It’s a key pillar of our autonomy stack that has accelerated our iteration cycle from prototypes to production systems. We are releasing it to benefit the open-source community, and think its components are useful to anyone writing algorithmic code, like students, research teams, and tech companies.<p>You can pip install it, play around with a formulation in a notebook, and deploy production code in a couple of hours. Try it at <a href="https://github.com/symforce-org/symforce" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/symforce-org/symforce</a>
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Title: I’ve been job hunting and I was going to get interviewed on Friday for a SWE role at a small startup and today I received an email from the PM canceling the interview and letting me know the company has decided to stop the recruitment process for all roles due to the markets situation. She also attached a tweet about a YC email to all their founders, here’s the link: <a href="https://twitter.com/refsrc/status/1527238287471292417" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/refsrc/status/1527238287471292417</a>. I checked the company webpage and in fact they have closed all the open positions, there were like 6.<p>From all the rejections I’ve got so far this is the first time the reason is markets turmoil / recession threat. To be honest is my first time job hunting since I graduated in 2019.<p>Screen shots: <a href="https://t.co/wSx5IR44nK" rel="nofollow">https://t.co/wSx5IR44nK</a><p>Will be this the situation for most tech companies or just start ups? I know the unprofitable over valuated ones will most likely get rekt first but I wanna know if during recessions recruiting slows down even for big profitable companies.<p>What companies or roles will be more resilient?<p>And how as a SWE / tech industry professional, specially the ones starting their careers like me, can prepare?<p>I hope some experienced people in the industry can give some hope and advice. Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market. First pandemic, then recession? F...
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Title: Hey HN, I want to share with you something I and my four colleagues have been working on for the last several years. It’s a whiteboarding and notes tool called Muse[1]. We just released a 2.0 version which includes local-first sync.<p>A little backstory: I’m one of the authors of the 2019 essay Local-first software[2]. (Past HN discussions[3][4].) The thesis is to reclaim some of the ownership over our data that we’ve lost in the transition from filesystems to cloud/SaaS. So I’m excited to bring CRDT technology “out of the lab” and into a commercial product as a chance to prove the value of local-first in real-world usage.<p>As a developer and computing enthusiast, I care about abstract ideas like data ownership. But for most users I think the benefits of local-first will surface in how it feels to use the software day-to-day. One example is ability to work offline or in unstable network conditions: any changes between devices will be automatically merged when you reconnect to the network, no matter how long you’ve been disconnected.<p>Another area is performance. The sync backend was written by my colleague Mark McGranaghan who has written extensively about software performance[5][6] and why we think the cloud will never be fast enough to make truly responsive software.<p>A few technical details:<p>– Client-side CRDT written in Swift, streaming sync server written in Go<p>– Sync server is generic, doesn’t have any knowledge of the Muse app domain (cards, boards, ink, etc). Just shuffles data between devices<p>– Transactional, blob, and ephemeral data are all managed by this one single state system. For example ephemeral data (someone wiggling a card around) for example, isn’t even transmitted if there are no other clients listening in realtime.<p>More in this Metamuse podcast episode.[7]<p>We draw heavily on research from people like Martin Kleppmann, Peter van Hardenberg[8], and many others. A huge thank you to this wonderful research community.<p>Even if you have no interest in the Muse concept of a digital thinking workspace, I’d encourage you to try the free version just to see how local-first sync feels in practice. My opinion is that is fundamentally different from web/cloud software is well as from classic file-based software—and an improvement on both. Would love to hear what you think.<p>[1]: <a href="https://museapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://museapp.com/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/" rel="nofollow">https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804478" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804478</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444</a><p>[5]: <a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software/" rel="nofollow">https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software/</a><p>[6]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506170" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506170</a><p>[7]: <a href="https://museapp.com/podcast/56-sync/" rel="nofollow">https://museapp.com/podcast/56-sync/</a><p>[8]: <a href="https://www.inkandswitch.com/pushpin/" rel="nofollow">https://www.inkandswitch.com/pushpin/</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’m cofounder of <a href="https://www.vantage.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vantage.sh/</a> - I previously worked at AWS and DigitalOcean.<p>Today Vantage is launching Autopilot: a managed service that identifies and applies savings to your AWS account by automating the buying and selling of reserved instances. This is saving early customers over 50% in some cases. Upon opting into Autopilot, if your on-demand EC2 costs increase, Vantage purchases 3 year, no-upfront reserved instances. In the event your compute spend decreases, Autopilot will list your reserved instances for sale in the AWS EC2 Reserved Instance marketplace on your behalf.<p>Unlike other providers that charge you egregious fees (20% or more), Autopilot only charges you 5% of the savings found. These are your cost savings and I believe you should have as much of the benefit as possible.<p>Some of our current customers include Barstool Sports, PlanetScale, Panther, and MIT.<p>Happy to answer any questions or feel free to contact me at ben [at] vantage [dot] sh if I can be helpful.
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Title: I hate to even talk about this but with all the bad news recently about the stock market downturn esp the NASDAQ, hiring freezes, rising interest rates, along with all the other negativity like Russia's war, continuing lock-downs in China with no end in sight and sky high oil prices all contributing to inflation, it seems like a recession might be inevitable at this point.<p>I am no economist but it is esp concerning to me that with particular recession due to inflation there don't seem to be any "easy" option like Quantitative Easing available to get out of it fast so I fear that this might a painful one which is adding to my anxiety. How worried are you and what are you doing to handle it? Is there a chance it could be as bad as 2008 or worse 2000? (I was not in the professional job market during those years so I have no idea how bad they were other than knowing they were real bad).
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Title: I have usually kept a short list of games that would be fun if they existed. Long ago one my bullets in the list was a procedurally generated planet-sized planet with a full diaspora to explore. No Man's Sky fulfilled that for me.<p>What are some games that you wish existed?
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Title: As a freelancer I often found my self with too much work or too little work, I have no problem with the first case but with the latter one.<p>When I'm in those days of little to none work I've found my self lost in the days and time with the constant thought "What should I be doing now?".<p>I think that an structured routine should help me organize through the day but whenever I search online for an "optimal" formula, I end up with generic SEO crap like organize your meals and take vitamins. I'd like to know how other engineers that don't have a strict work schedule manage to organize the spare time without the feeling that you are wasting your precious and short life time.
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Title: We have a client who are looking to replace zoom in their org. They like to self-host everything, and are wary of using outside services. We help them run their own email, and over the years we have helped them set up GitLab and Mattermost, etc which they are happy enough with.<p>We've set up a Jitsi installation but our stakeholders are wary about the limits on number of participants -- they can't really do department meetings or let alone an all-hands type of meeting with ~1000 people on the call. Also, some parts of their org are invested in the zoom usage/meeting stats too, and so that is another piece we'd have to figure out. We've also had mixed results testing with team members far away on rough connections, where audio/video was workable in zoom but sometimes unworkable with our internal setup.<p>Has anyone scaled up to 1000 and beyond with any open source solution? Any stories of success or failure? Are there other options to consider than Jitsi? Why is there no one crushing it like GitLab or Mattermost in this space?
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Title: A lot of recent tech has felt… well boring. I fell into this industry because it was fun / weird / creative and it’s felt stale for a hot minute.<p>What’s something fun you’ve done with tech recently that may or may not be overlooked?
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Title: Edit: Wow #1 on HN. Y'all are making my day.<p>Hey HN,<p>I'm mostly a lurker on HN who's always super inspired by other people's small project that end-up making money. (Huge fan of Ben Stoke's Tiny Project [0])<p>After being burnt-out in big tech, I decided to write my own weightlifting app and set myself a humble goal of reaching $1000 in total proceeds. See [1] for my initial launch post.<p>I've now surpassed that goal and am now making about 500$/mo by selling premium features in the app. Android version is coming soon too. Doing the whole thing end-to-end (code, launch, marketing, support) was super gratifying and taught me a whole lot. I have to admit that I got almost teary eyed the first time someone bought one of my IAPs.<p>I'm not making a killing out of the app, and that was never the goal. But the personal satisfaction I got out of it was worth everything. I can't pretend to have derived any life lesson that applies to everybody from this, but this whole mini-journey was worth it for me, and I hope it will be for you too, should you embark in a similar one.<p>[0] <a href="https://tinyprojects.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://tinyprojects.dev/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27507452" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27507452</a>
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Title: Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn't like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it's just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?
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Title: Hi HN! I’m Justin, founder and CEO of Arctype, and we’re very excited to share Arctype with the community. Arctype is a cross-platform GUI (soon to be open-sourced) to manage and query your databases, with built-in collaboration and visualization. It currently supports Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, as well as newer-generation databases like ClickHouse, PlanetScale, and Yugabyte (and more coming very soon!).<p>Think of Arctype as “phpMyAdmin meets Postman”. Most of our team grew up learning how to program using the LAMP stack and we missed the experience of interacting with our databases using phpMyAdmin. We wanted to bring back the experience of a simple app that lets you explore and query your databases, but with an updated and modernized interface.<p>At the same time, we were heavily inspired by the ease-of-use and collaboration features of Postman. We wanted to create a super useful, collaborative app like Postman that your whole team uses for development—but for databases instead of APIs.<p>We have a few thousand developers using Arctype today but we haven’t shared it with the HN community yet–we’re excited to hear your feedback! We also have a very active Discord community at arctype.com/discord where developers can ask questions and talk about databases/SQL.<p>I’m sure the community has a lot of questions, so we’ve compiled a list of the most common ones we get:<p>“Why isn’t Arctype open source yet?”<p>It will be soon! We’ve been focusing mostly on features that users have been asking for, as well as performance, stability, and security. We’re not completely happy yet with the documentation and development experience of contributing to Arctype, but this will be a core focus for us in the coming weeks. We just want to make sure it will be very easy for the community to contribute once we publish on GitHub.<p>“How does Arctype make money?”<p>Arctype is free (and will be free forever) for most developers. We have a typical SaaS model for large teams based on a per-seat license as well as an enterprise version that companies can run on their own infrastructure.<p>“Why is Arctype built using Electron?”<p>We wanted to make it easy for anyone to use Arctype–Electron is currently the most practical solution to make it cross-platform and also accessible via a web app. Apps like VSCode and Discord have shown that it’s possible to achieve decent performance so we’re confident that over time the advantages of developing on Electron will outweigh the slight performance hit compared to native apps.<p>“Does Arctype need an account?”<p>You can use Arctype without an account or you can login via email or Google. Certain features such as sharing queries and dashboards with your team require an account.<p>“Is Arctype secure / does it store credentials?”<p>All of your credentials are stored locally, and queries are also executed locally on your machine. We do have a feature that lets you automatically share your credentials to your team, but that is strictly opt-in, and all credentials are encrypted on our backend. Additionally, we have an enterprise version that companies can run on their own infrastructure for organizations that have stringent security requirements. If you’d like to learn more, we have more info at arctype.com/security.<p>“Does Arctype use any analytics software?”<p>Arctype has usage-based analytics and error reporting (we use Sentry) that we use to improve the app and to help us fix bugs/crashes. However, this can be turned off. Additionally, Arctype can be used fully offline.<p>“Why doesn’t Arctype support X database?”<p>Email me at justin at arctype.com :) We’ll make it happen.
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Title: Before the pandemic, my tiny startup was doing quite well selling Edge AI systems, based on our own lightweight AI inference engine, with object detection and face recognition for smart city and smart retail & food service applications.<p>When the real world shut down, there was suddenly nothing to monitor on streets and in restaurants, so I set out to try and evolve our real time face recognition system into a video codec for high quality face-to-face online interactions, as I was not satisfied with the quality of Zoom and friends. I got it to work, and the first release for IOS was just approved on Apple's app store, link: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/vertigo-focus/id1540073203" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/vertigo-focus/id1540073203</a><p>The way it works is that you create a meeting URL, which you can share out-of-band, for instance via slack or text message. You can also share as a QR code which the app can scan to join a call. You then place your device on a surface in front of you so that the front camera can see you, and it will recognize you face and assign you to your own session, which is broadcast to the meeting channel. If more than one person is in view, both of you will be broadcast but with separate session ids, like if you were on separate cameras. Other meeting participants will show up on your screen and you can start talking. It is optimized for eye contact, meaning that the eyes will actually make it through to the other side as more than just dark pixel clouds, so thinks should feel a bit more personal than the standard Zoom/Teams/or Google Meet call.<p>Because it uses face rec, you can ONLY show your face, and if you disappear from view your audio will stop after a while, to avoid situations like when you need to go the the restroom but forget to mute. This also solves dick-pics etc.<p>The CODEC is not based on H26[45], but is pure AI that runs on the GPU. There is a neural network that compresses the video in real time, and another one decompressing on the receiving end. Finding a tight network architecture that would do this in real time with acceptable quality was a major part of the effort. There are several quality settings possible, but right now it is set fairly high and for 20FPS maxes out around 700kbit/s, though typically uses about half. I've demonstrated good results down to around 200kbit/s, so in theory it should work over satellite links or even Bluetooth. The protocol is UDP with no congestion control but with (Wirehair) FEC to protect against mild packet loss, future versions will detect packet loss and adapt to available bandwidth.<p>The audio just uses OPUS and may click a little bit, I blame AudioEngine or the fact that the last time I wrote audio code was for the game I published for the Amiga in 1994.<p>If you don't have a friend around or multiple devices to play with, there is an "echo test" server mode that allows you to be in a meeting with yourself. Traffic will be peer-to-peer if possible, but otherwise you will be relaying through my tiny Raspberry PI server, so YMMV. I plan to try to switch to something like fly.io soon to improve scalability.<p>There is also a MacOS version coming very soon, and the underlying AI engine also runs on Windows & Linux. Android support is planned.<p>Please take a look and let me know what you think.
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Title: I have two personal computers and one work laptop, all of which have similar development environment but not the same. One personal computer runs windows, the other two Ubuntu.<p>Since I knew that I will be using different IDEs and environments, I decided to learn vim and use vim bindings in all my IDEs to ensure some sort of similarity across all my development environments, but it doesn't cover it all. I've also tried manually migrating my home directory between different computers, but that comes with several issues, primarily that I'd have to try to share it between professional and personal computers.
So what I'm left with is basically remembering what I'm using, and then tediously spend a day or more re-configuring newly installed computers with the software and configurations I know I'm using. It feels like I have to throw away my perfectly configured hammer which I know by heart and get a new one every time I work at a different workplace instead of bringing it along and perfecting it further. Surely there's a better way.<p>How do you keep your development environments/ways of working synced and backed up?
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Title: For those of you who enjoyed having a flag icon on your menu bar by using the keyboard input work-around, Apple has replaced the beautiful flag icons with two-letter icons. This makes the Mac less fun, less colorful, and less enjoyable to use. For true international users (not those of us just using it to display something pretty) it'll be harder to tell what language you are using because flags are easier to identify than gray text. Bad UI move Apple.
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Title: I am interested in finding a job at a company that is having a positive impact in the world. I think this probably rules out FANG (MAMAA?) companies. Does your work make at least a small contribution to a better world? If so, where do you work?
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Title: I was born too late to witness popularity of XMPP as a decentralized instant messaging protocol. When I started to be a "conscious" user of the Internet, such services already became centralized, so I don't really remember those times. As I follow the development of projects like Matrix, I wonder what has made SMTP such a stable protocol that has stood the test of time and what is the real reason we don't use XMPP (I mean, we do using Whatsapp, but as a part of closed ecosystem).<p>Is it only that XMPP was overcomplicated and if managed better it would survive? Or is it something else?
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Title: Asking HelloFresh to delete your data will simply result in them changing the email address on your account to hellofreshcustomer-<customer id>@hellofresh.de<p>Your account showing your name, address, credit card, etc can still be accessed whilst the token stored in the cookie is still valid
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Title: Does anyone have a good idea of how much .NET development is happening on non-Windows machines (or in non-Windows dev environments)?<p>I'm talking about the environment where code is written and debugged - not the environment where it is published or ultimately ran.<p>For example, I could imagine .NET back-end code being developed on Macs or Linux then deployed to AWS.<p>I enjoy the .NET language, but I much prefer a Linux dev environment over a Windows one (Ruby and occasionally others languages uses in the Linux dev environment). The release of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac has made me wonder how much demand there is for writing .NET code in a non-Windows environment. I also realize there are other alternatives, like JetBrains or VS Code.
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Title: I'm seeking practical advice on how to develop critical thinking. I need it in my life. I want to have independent though, and not be bound to anyone's view of the world without forming my own. Especially in our age it's a life or death skills to have.<p>I my critical thinking skills are very poor for my age.
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Title: Just got the following email from npm. TLDR:<p>- "npm username, password hash, and email address in a 2015 npm archive"<p>- "an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party GitHub.com OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis CI"<p>Full email below<p>---<p>Hello,<p>We’re writing to let you know an investigation into unauthorized access to npm infrastructure revealed that your npm account information was accessed by an attacker. This unauthorized access was part of an attack campaign utilizing stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party GitHub.com integrators, Heroku and Travis CI, that has previously been documented on the GitHub blog.<p>User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. Read on for more information, as well as on our blog further detailing GitHub's analysis of the attack on npm: https://github.blog/2022-05-26-npm-security-update-oauth-tokens/<p>* What Happened *<p>On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party GitHub.com OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis CI, to download repository data from dozens of GitHub.com organizations. One of the victim organizations impacted was npm. We do not believe the attacker obtained these tokens via a compromise of GitHub or its systems because the tokens in question are not stored by GitHub in their original, usable formats. GitHub's initial blog post and subsequent updates regarding the attack campaign can be found on our blog linked above. Following the discovery of npm's initial compromise, GitHub investigated the impact to npm. Based on this analysis, we have evidence the actor was able to access internal npm data and npm customer information.<p>* What information was involved? *<p>Your npm username, password hash, and email address in a 2015 npm archive of user information from a skimdb.npmjs.com backup.<p>* What GitHub is doing *<p>Upon discovery of the unauthorized access of npm infrastructure, GitHub immediately began an investigation into what was accessed by the attacker. After determining whose information was accessed in the compromise, we directly notified affected users and published our blog post on the investigation.<p>To ensure your account’s security, we've also rotated your npm password and you will be required to reset your password via https://www.npmjs.com/forgot.<p>* What you can do *<p>If you use the same password for any other service, we recommend that you change it on that service as well. We do not recommend reusing passwords, and guidance on strong passwords is available here:<p>https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-strong-password<p>In addition, we highly recommend enabling 2FA on both your npm account and the email address used for your npm account if you've not done so already:<p>https://docs.npmjs.com/configuring-two-factor-authentication<p>Please feel free to reach out to GitHub Support with any additional questions or concerns:<p>https://support.github.com/contact?subject=GH-0200941-4895-7+questions&tags=GH-0200941-4895-7<p>Thanks,
GitHub Security
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Title: I've been dealing with a serious health issue that is a major problem in my life, I am in constant pain, I can barely work. My experience with the US healthcare system has been abysmal - I go to a doctor, the doctor sends me to get tests, it's 3 weeks, after that another 3 weeks to see a specialist, 3 weeks more for more tests, etc, etc. I've been ping-ponged around for 4 months with little progress in terms of diagnosis.<p>I'm sure that there is a way to buy better healthcare. Surely Satya Nadella doesn't have to go through this. What I would love to do is pay a large amount of money ($50K out of pocket not counting insurance for just the diagnosis) and go through all of the doctors/tests in two weeks. Does anyone know where I can do that? The US would be best, but can travel internationally for this too.<p>Would appreciate any pointers people might have, I don't even know what to Google. If necessary, the issue is neck-spine related, relevant doctors might be neurologist, rheumatologist, spine surgeon, etc.
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Title: For self learning, approachable etc ... any suggestions ?
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Title: Hey HN -<p>I mostly stay in the shadows here, but for the one year anniversary of my first (ebook project)[1] I figured I'd write a blurb in case it's interesting to anyone.<p>I'm terrible at launching things, and take years to ship my own apps. After my last app was acquired, I wanted to fulfill a "moon shot" goal of mine - write a book in any form. I settled on adapting one of my more popular [blog posts][2] that I keep updated through each version of iOS into a five book series (one for each topic of accessibility, design, UX, APIs and a catch all bonus one). So far it has sold 1,534 copies and has made over $124,000. Now that things have settled, it makes about $2k a month on average.<p>I learned from my own launch history and decide to launch it in "early access", otherwise I'd never finish it. Launching it went great and was a day I'll never forget, as to that point - I had never made close to that much money in one day.<p>CONS:
It's not all rainbows and sunshine though. I used to read posts like this and my heart rate would shoot up, thinking "What the heck - I could do that too!" and make some good money. While it is true that the project has been great for me financially (I have a stay at home wife and three kids), honestly life is not any different. I just save most of it, spend it on the 1,000 school activities my kids have or whatever life throws at me. I didn't make any splurge purchase.<p>I've also realized the real, grating reality of opportunity cost. At the one year mark, this book series is only half way done. I can't put into words how much I miss making software, because now - all I do is write. That has been my main takeaway through all of this - your time is valuable, and I cosigned a ton of mine away the moment I decided to embark on this.<p>PROS:
On the positive side, I get messages from people starting out on iOS and veterans alike who are really enjoying the books. It's hard to put into words how motivating that is, to fell like you are doing a tiny little thing that somewhat matters to some people. I also love teaching and writing, so the project does appeal to me - but I've learned I need a better balance. When I shipped apps, all I wanted to do was write. Now, the opposite is true.<p>Anyways, if you are considering launching a digital downloads type of product, I'd say go for it. Tech-wise, it was trivial to get started:<p>Gumroad for sales
Netlify for deploys
Made the site from scratch using Tailwind
Ulysses to write<p>I think in a world where there is a lot of "grifting" going on with courses, ebooks, etc - you can actually stand out if you stick to your word and show authenticity. For example, I promised updates every two weeks - and I've stuck to that, a year in.<p>TL'DR:
Launching your own thing and making money is neat, but at the end of the day life doesn't really change at all. Consider your time investments. Try to truly help people.<p>Happy to answer any questions if you have any.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.bestinclassiosapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.bestinclassiosapp.com</a>
[2]: <a href="https://www.swiftjectivec.com/a-best-in-class-app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.swiftjectivec.com/a-best-in-class-app/</a>
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Title: Over the past week I built a project to let people self-host an entire maps stack so they don't have to send data to the big G. Right now it includes a base map, geocoder and directions server. Currently only bicycle directions are supported, and I'm only hosting tiles for Seattle because I'm unemployed and can't afford to host data for the whole planet. Check it out!<p><a href="https://maps.ellenhp.me/" rel="nofollow">https://maps.ellenhp.me/</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ellenhp/headway" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ellenhp/headway</a><p>Ultimately I'd like to really focus on transit routing (not implemented) but I'll probably throw a driving mode in there too.
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Title: I am a 26 year old learner who is really into Machine Learning. But my lack of understanding in math has held me back. Skipping and hating math classes in high school have been my biggest regret.<p>Now, I am slowly trying to learn, but I don't know where to start. I need some guidance.
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Title: I read <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341083" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341083</a> recently and feel quite frustrated because now everyone is rendering html using javascript. I'm on twitter reading web stuff, when they talk about "SSR" (server-sided rendering), 99% of the time it means javascript based server. Why these trying-to-be-innovation lately aren't not working with backend languages like python, ruby, elixir, go, rust etc?<p>I have an SPA app that is quite sophisticated whose WHOLE app size is ~110kB minified, and when I look at react-dom on <a href="https://bundlephobia.com/package/[email protected]" rel="nofollow">https://bundlephobia.com/package/[email protected]</a> it's 130kB minified which sounds CREAZY to me compared to my whole app (no, it's not a todo app, it's an editor app)<p>Is it just me that interpret this situation as "suck", or this is the future?
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Title: 400,000 live CPE terminals at minimum $110 USD per month per live terminal<p>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/25/spacexs-starlink-surpasses-400000-subscribers-globally.html<p>Obviously they are not sharing what it costs them to build a batch of 53 satellites and a new second stage, and refurbish a falcon 9 first stage for each new launch.<p>There have been four starlink launches all with successful first stage landing just in the month of May.<p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_launches
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Title: Assuming the developer is competent in their language of choice and want to implement lisp in that language. What's at the heart of lisp that makes it so simple and elegant?
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here.<p>I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console.<p>By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more.<p>It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find details in the README file.<p>After some progress on the development, I decided to pivot my experimental work to a walkthrough document. Because although there are lots of resources that exist already on the Internet, they cover small chunks of WebRTC concepts or protocols atomically. And they use the standard way of inductive method which teaches in pieces then assembles them.<p>But my style of learning leans on the deductive method instead of others, so instead of learning atomic pieces and concepts first, going linearly from beginning to the end, and learning an atomic piece on the time when learning this piece is required.<p>I know it’s in a very niche technical domain, but hope you will like my project. Please check it out and I’d love to read your thoughts!<p><a href="https://github.com/adalkiran/webrtc-nuts-and-bolts" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/adalkiran/webrtc-nuts-and-bolts</a>
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Title: Hi there. I have been reading the threads on studying math on your own. I am wondering if you have suggestions for someone (has bachelor and master in Software engineering) who is really into Physics. Any resources appreciated.
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Title: I'm impressed by the recent developments regarding Linux and audio production; I've been using Reaper, both the Windows version under WINE and the native Linux one for some time, and it works flawlessly with very low latency. Also there are some really good native Linux plugins around, and Windows one - including some very old ones that stopped working on Windows ages ago - run without (almost *) any problems using Yabridge. So the question is: why not creating a very minimal Linux distro dedicated only to run straight after the boot either a DAW and related plugins, or a plugin host? I mean it shouldn't even have a desktop and most common applications, no browser etc. Just the bare minimum to run the audio, both native and WINE subsystem with the simplest window manager around. It should boot directly to the music software to minimize boot time, also handy should it crash in the middle of a gig. Anything like that in development?
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Title: Earlier this year I migrated each of my children's Minecraft accounts to Microsoft accounts as Microsoft no longer allows launching Minecraft with a Minecraft account.<p>About a month after doing the migration while signing in to one of the Microsoft accounts I was presented with a message from Microsoft that the account was locked due to activity on the account that 'violated their terms of service' despite no one using the account since the earlier migration.<p>The only way to unlock the account is to provide a phone number in order to receive a confirmation code. There is no email option provided to receive a confirmation code, and the only way to contact support directly is by signing in to the account (can't be done while the account is locked).<p>Prior to the migration from Minecraft to Microsoft I never had any issues with using any of our Minecraft accounts.<p>Whoever at Microsoft thought this was a good idea is causing them to lose business.
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Title: Hi HN, this is something I created for my personal use and I have been using it daily for a long time now. It’s a page that shows top 25 links from the sources mentioned in the title. Updates every 10 minutes through a cron job and new links are always added to the top.<p>Some more details: It’s using simple heuristics like minimum upvotes/comments to select the links. For techmeme, only the first headline on techmeme.com is considered a top link. For reddit, currently fetching content from only a select few subreddits.<p>It’s just a simple page. No ad. No tracking. It’s the first tab I open in the morning. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. :)
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Title: Just received this via e-mail - no mention on it on their blog:
---------<p>Scaleway invests heavily to build efficient data centers and reduce our environmental footprint, and the best example is our Eco-AZ in Paris, PAR2, which has the lowest PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) in Europe. This is particularly important as we all observe a sharp and sustained increase in electricity costs in the recent months which we have to reflect, at least partially, in our prices.
To simplify our pricing and encourage the use of our more efficient data centers, we will be harmonizing the pricing of our Instances across our regions. This means that the prices of Instances located in AMS1, PAR1, and WAW1 will be increased, and align with the prices of PAR2, which will remain unchanged. The only exception remaining is PAR3, our unique DC located in a nuclear shelter. However, to encourage the use of this highly secure AZ and benefit from the full Paris Region, we will drop its pricing significantly.<p>With this price change, our compute Instances will be the same price in almost all our Availability Zones (except PAR3, repositioned at a lower price). This change fully supports a multi-AZ strategy, which is key to building more resilient infrastructures. You can now spread your workload without being constrained or concerned by AZ location and expand easily in all our regions.
As of July 1, 2022, the following price changes will be automatically applied to all affected services active on that date:<p><pre><code> - The price of compute Instances located in AMS1 and PAR1 will be increased by 8% - The price of compute Instances located in WAW1 will be increased by 3.85% - The price of compute Instances in PAR2 will not change - The price of compute Instances located in PAR3 will be decreased by 50%
</code></pre>
This concerns all Instance types: VC1, VC2, Stardust, Start1, Pro1, Development purpose (DEV), General purpose (GP), Enterprise (ENT).<p>The prices of our other products will remain unchanged.<p>We would like to thank you for your loyalty and support over the years, as well as your understanding concerning these price changes. If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this price increase, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best wishes,
The Scaleway team.
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Title: After having sold my small business and having landed a well paying job, I find myself with some money to start saving for the first time in my adult life.<p>I'm in my late 20s, in a long term relationship, no kids, no money I can count on from my parents, and have ~70K sitting idle in my bank account. My goal is to preserve it, defend against inflation, and in general being responsible with it.<p>I could open a savings account and let the bank take care of it, but it looks to me that managing savings is not rocket science: ETF / index fund should do the trick. And I could save in fees. Also, I'd like to learn.<p>Am I right? How can I learn how to manage my finances? What tools to use, what simple strategies to pursue, and whatnot. Tried to Google it / find YT videos but it's all a huge content marketing mess. Everyone pitching "how to retire early" or "how to make money in the stock market". I'm not interested: I just want to be proactive and prepared with my personal finances, so that in 10 years from now I can buy a house (not interested in taking a mortgage now: I value flexibility more) and take care of my potential future family.<p>Would love to hear your strategies and your advice on how I can learn.
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Title: I am a software engineer who worked in big tech for about six years. I left my job earlier this year to start a sabbatical to decompress before I did stuff on my own. I generally had very good feedback while I worked but I think I solved harder problems when I was doing advanced physics or calculus in University.<p>Over the last few weeks though I haven't been feeling very motivated. Doing something of my own sounds tough and finding a job just seems so much easier. There's some framework that exists and you purely have to execute.<p>I have come to realize that for a very long time I haven't worked on hard problems consistently. Sure I have had spikes where I had to work hard and a lot but those spikes would die out after a few weeks. I was very competitive till the first few years at school and then it somehow dropped.<p>I also feel that the reward mechanisms in my head have been short circuited. A high paying relatively easy tech job, doom scrolling on social media, getting food delivered in a few minutes and the easy supply of porn on the internet have made delayed gratification tough and have made instant gratification the default state.<p>What sucks more is that ambition has now been replaced with envy. I see someone doing something like "getting a promotion" and I become envious and I wonder how do I do that / what am I doing but lack the will to execute.<p>I am hoping(envy & big lack of ambition) this is just these last couple weeks and I snap out of it.<p>1. How do I fix this? Is this burnout or depression?<p>2. How do I get ambition back and get rid of the envy?<p>3. How do I retrain the delayed gratification & work on hard things muscle? I think I'll start going to the gym and lift weights.
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Title: I've been programming on and off since the age of 16. Unfortunately, I have never been a rockstar programmer. I've always pieced code together from multiple sources to create programs but I've always failed to come up with a solution from scratch of my own and provide any value. I've always wondered how other smart people are able to come up with libraries, services and various solutions from scratch. I've devised countless ideas only to never execute them for various reasons or get started with them only to never fully complete them and see it all the way through.<p>I've already wasted my entire teens and 20s, current 28 years old, working as a software engineer (Full-Stack) at a startup for ~4 years. I've been feeling like a loser and not good enough for this career even though I am a sole developer for Mobile and Web platforms at this startup in a very small team. I've put in countless hours of work every day (70-90 hrs), being on-call almost 24/7, sometimes for straight 7 days for months despite only getting paid on a salary basis on 40 hr work weeks; being a loner helps with working long hours. My salary also hasn't increased much, and feel like I'm severely underpaid based on the # of years of experience but I struggle with evaluating my value in the market to determine my worth. I assumed working hard would pay off but that hasn't been the case at all; I truly believe I've been doing the opposite of "Work Smart, Not Hard". I've been trying to get back to learning DS and Algos so I can apply to places but I struggle with LeetCode, which is making me feel like even a bigger loser for not being able to solve problems.<p>I'm stuck in a rut, wanting to better my skills and earn a good amount of money but unable to concentrate, riddled with brain fog, and unsure of my future. My self-confidence and self-esteem are taking a hit. I am terrible at networking, so I don't have others to reach out to for tips and advice, hence I'm turning to HN. I apologize if this isn't the place for a post like this. How can I turn my directionless life around and find satisfaction with my career?
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Title: Currently an alpha is available in their Discord server.<p>I'm not the creator, if you have any questions about the program feel free to join the Discord server.
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Title: I am asking because I have noticed that as I build better landing pages for my MVPs I get judged more harshly.
This got me thinking if there is a way in which having a not particularly attractive landing page might get people to approach the product in a different way.
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Title: I've been a skeptic of AI replacing top-level art directors, designers, illustrators, SWEs, etc. for a long time, because I think it can copy well but can't <i>create</i> or <i>interpret</i>.<p>Today was my first full day of coding inducted into Copilot. I know a lot of you folks have had the fun of playing with it for a long time.<p>I have a particular way of writing code after 25 years, certain idiosyncrasies. Just as a cheap shot example, I write mysql queries in PHP by defining the whole string first as a variable named $someQ = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=:id;" and then, rather than binding the variables, I prefer to compile the query as $someZ = $conn->prepare($someQ); and then $someZ->execute(array(":id"=>$id)).<p>This isn't a usual way of doing things. Copilot tried to bind the vars the first time I did it. The second time, it set up the array. The third time, when I wrote $insQ as the name of the an insertion string, and $insZ as the query that would execute it, <i>Copilot wrote $updQ and $updZ by itself as the names of variables for the update string and update query</i>. For the record, I checked and I've never named a variable $updQ or $updZ... I usually use $uQ and $uZ. It made that up. It stopped trying to bind vars and inserted them into the execute statement. It guessed contextually almost 100% which vars I wanted to bind. This was beyond magic; obviously it read a huge amount of unrelated code in my stack to come to those conclusions from this one small file. But no one besides me uses this naming convention.<p>It was magic; scary magic.<p>I spent my evening shooting pool and drinking with bar friends; one's an ex-marine who works for the government and another's a guy who manages ops and software for a small company. They're lamenting that it's impossible in this country for anyone to make enough to afford an apartment. This never seemed hard to me. I just wrote code and got paid a lot for being good at it. Or I made graphics that could probably now be done by DALL-E.<p>It's been my opinion for awhile that consumers and users of software were <i>redundant</i>. Maybe now we're redundant, too. But in that case, who is talking to whom? What human born today has the experience of struggling to learn something, and what would they accomplish if they did learn it if a giant cloud filter could already translate their thoughts into art or code that would take them years of experience to comprehend, let alone write for themselves?<p>Are we the last generation to learn <i>skills</i>? And what happens when everyone's skill set is just telling a cloud filter what to make for them? Will that be okay...?<p>I feel like this is fundamentally different from the shift from Assembly to C to BASIC to Java or the fact that coders now don't think in terms of the metal. This is not "clip art" taking over the illustration space.<p>I feel like I've woken up halfway through a wholesale replacement of all creative industries with robots, at a point where all consumers (or measurements of consumers) have been fully replaced by robots. Having been in a niche for so long, I ignored it and thought that it would never be a real threat. I'm admitting now that it is.<p>Where do we go from here? How do we avoid a dead creative class spamming dead code and dead art to an already-dead consumer internet?
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Title: I'm already feeling bad for creating yet another docker-related post but I figured f** it, I just don't get the hang of it so somebody pls conclusively, once-and-for all, explain the need for and blessing of docker in a simple, fool-proof fashion:<p>What I did understand so far is "Docker is useful if you have multiple applications with different versions of the same dependencies running on the same machine, as well as for deploying onto any machine".<p>MY QUESTION: (Why) don't dynamically linked libraries (.dll) already solve this problem?<p>I come from the .NET world and there I can run any number of applications all with their respective dependencies, e.g. NuGet packages, as .dll files in their own isolated directories - doesn't this already solve the problem of isolation and avoid dependency-conflicts?
This is also easy to ship to any machine as I just compile the whole thing for the respective architecture and then copy and paste it over, set it up as a service/daemon, whatever.<p>To me a standalone application is simply a directory with an executable and all dependency-dlls in the same directory / some subdirectory. This is already a software-wise isolated application (obv not on the hardware side but lets leave that out for a second), of which I can run multiple on the same system. Why do I need docker on top of that?<p>I am probably misunderstanding something fundamental here so for the 21375th time, what is an idiot-proof explanation for the need of docker in light of dlls?
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Title: I learned about UML in a course, but have never used it or seen it in practice as a junior developer. Sometimes I'll see a flowchart, but that's not too common. Is this the same in other companies?<p>With some of our code, the designers are either gone or sometimes unavailable, and it can be tricky to see how all the pieces fit together. A good IDE makes the job a little easier (finding references, ctrl+click to go to declarations, etc.), but it'd be nice to have a diagram or something for visualization.<p>So, is it a good idea to try documenting the code design through some sort of visualization? If so, using UML or something else? I suppose there might be tools for doing this automatically in some languages? Otherwise I think if it was valuable enough, it could be something we make sure to review and update along with code changes.<p>Any thoughts would be appreciated!
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Title: I've been following HN for the past decade. It was an inspiration to see so many people working to make things better.<p>Being part of a community that was solving problems, "improving the world," gave me hope and purpose.<p>Then, because of my own hope & purpose, I felt like I was able to contribute to hope & purpose in other people.<p>But things are changing.<p>Myself, I've lost hope. My hope that 'things will get better' is lost.<p>I used to believe that startups were meant to solve painful problems. But the most painful problems in the world aren't even discussed here.<p>And I believe we can all agree, regardless of political affiliation, that the fabric of society is itself 'at risk' of collapse.<p>So now, I most frequently come here for a distraction. To drown out the noise of reality with some overly complicated technical write-up, or some arm-chair theoretical physics, or plead with smart people to look deeper.<p>Today I'm here, hoping, to find a little hope.<p>Why are you here?
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Title: I absolutely loved these two. I'd be very grateful if someone recommended similar books, that is, books that guide you through implementing a complex project from scratch (something besides compilers/interpreters and ray tracers).<p>Thanks.
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