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Title: Having a tough time on your team? Bad relationship with your lead? Working on a death March project? Burnt out?<p>A reminder you hold <i>so many cards</i> Your org needs you. There are so many software eng opportunities right now, and even with a bear market, you have enough options for employment that your company should be working hard to retain you.<p>Take care of yourself: you work for YouInc, not your company. You and your satisfaction/sanity are the product. Your employer is just a customer. Don’t get gaslit into believing in the cult around a specific company, no matter how grand.<p>You can do it. You can interview and get good at selling yourself. Don’t sell yourself short. I believe in you :)<p>Focus on building YouInc - your personal brand and “product”. Constantly market and grow independent of your employer and you can go far!
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Title: I need to host a static website with several 100s GB of text files. I'm looking for a small VPS that has however 1TB of HDD. 1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 100Mb NET are more than enough for the purpose. Unfortunately all the VPS plans that I can find do not allow for such small requirements with that much storage. They only scale the whole VPS, so if I want 1TB storage I would have to buy like 8-thread CPUs, 64GB RAM, 1Gb NET etc. I know there are "storage VPSes" but these do not allow webservers, they only work as network storage and it means I would have to pay for 2 VPSes.
Any recommendations?
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Title: Hello HN community!
Sri and Brian here from CloudPal (https://www.cloudpal.io/). We are building a tool to help companies reduce their cloud costs by stopping non-production resources when they’re not needed.<p>The problem: Almost every company on the cloud struggles with cost management. While optimizing production costs can be complex, reducing non-production costs should be a straightforward case of shutting down resources when they’re not in use. However, most companies lack an elegant solution for this.<p>The solution: CloudPal<p>- A downtime scheduler for non-production resources (currently supports AWS EC2 & RDS)<p>- start / stop button, allowing users to override the schedule (eg. if working on weekends).<p>Next up on the feature roadmap is:<p>- Intelligent start / stop functionality for non-production resources - resources will automatically stop when not in use and quickly spin back up when needed, resulting in lots more delicious cost savings!<p>- Support for more cloud providers and resource types (eg. ECS, K8s, etc.)<p>We're really happy we get to show this to you all, thank you for reading about it! Please let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments.<p>Many thanks,<p>Sri & Brian
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Title: It made the news recently that Wickr (Amazon owned E2EE chat app) is full of illegal imagery.<p>I read about this on my LinkedIn feed then decided to search for "Wickr" there to see who else was talking about this. The search returned dozens of spam messages offering drugs in Asia and the US with information to contact on Wickr for price.<p>I reported these drug spam posts to LinkedIn - which is supposedly an anonymous report.<p>Next day I got a flood of reports on my own comments (nothing to do with that topic), so many I didn't bother to appeal as I had other things to do. Few hours later my account was down.<p>Seems that for retaliation the drug network decided to find me out and use their accounts to subvert LinkedIn's policy and ensure I can't stop their spam. They have new spam up now while my account is gone.<p>No good deed goes unpunished I guess.
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Title: HN has been my morning coffee favourite read for years now but it's my very first post. I'm an old man, so please bare with me.<p>I am a seasoned systems architect and developer, now retired. While I was tempted in the first few weeks of my retirement to just turn the page and let it go, I remembered how much I used to enjoy writing small utilities for my own daily workflows. A year ago, I asked my fellow forum members (a Mac-dedicated one) if they would like to beta test some of my applications (and oh, they did). I got high quality feedback I would not have gotten elsewhere. I kept striving to answer their feature requests and today many of my first beta testers are insisting that my applications have outgrown the private beta.<p>I was caught completely off guard by FinderFix (<a href="https://synappser.github.io/apps/finderfix/" rel="nofollow">https://synappser.github.io/apps/finderfix/</a>), the first application I'm opening to public beta, making the top row on Reddit a couple of weeks ago. This sudden limelight is both an opportunity and a challenge.<p>I am not complaining. Any publicity is good publicity and I got this kind of genuine enthusiastic feedback: "OH MY GOD! Bro you’re a god sent. Thanks man I love this app. Also that Cmd + X for cut/paste. Oof so good!".<p>I however cherish anonymity and I laud the Internet for allowing me to enforce it. I am thus publishing my software under a pseudonym (a pen name, if you prefer) with a free Apple Developer Certificate. How long will I be able, with Apple's current Gatekeeper policy, to preserve my anonymity if I were to turn this hobby into a real business, albeit a small one?<p>For more context, please refer to a couple posts of mine (a manifesto of my core ethos):<p><a href="http://synappser.github.io/blog/" rel="nofollow">http://synappser.github.io/blog/</a><p>I guess this is a tough question to answer, unless you're an Apple insider, but I'd really appreciate any guidance you could give me.<p>Thank you
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Title: From Severance to "sentient" AI...<p>What have you seen, heard or read recently that meant you had to have a lay down and contemplate existence?
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Title: Hi guys, creator of lockable here - the easiest way to think of lockable is as `flock` for when you don’t have a shared file system. You can use it to control concurrent access to resources or to ensure only a single instance of a process runs at any given time.<p>Your processes can acquire, refresh and release locks via simple HTTP requests, so it’s language/framework agnostic. E.g. with `curl`:<p><pre><code> $ curl https://lockable.dev/api/acquire/my-lock-name
{
"response": true //or false, if the lock wasn’t available
}
$ curl https://lockable.dev/api/release/my-lock-name
</code></pre>
There’s also a Python client[0], which makes using the service a more pleasant experience.<p>Feel free to play around, the free tier is fully functional. Happy to hear any feedback you might have.<p>[0]: <a href="https://docs.lockable.dev/en/latest/python-client/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.lockable.dev/en/latest/python-client/</a>
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Title: Been over 2 years since the last time this question was posed and there were a lot of interesting replies the first time around. I'd like to see what people are up to in 2022.<p>Original: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930</a>
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Title: I released a new version of Recut recently, rewritten from the ground up using Rust, Svelte, Tauri, TypeScript, and Tailwind (RUSTTT stack for the win!). It's the first app I've built with Tauri and I've really enjoyed it.<p>Some back story: Recut is a tool I built to speed up my screencast editing workflow. It's like a lightweight single-purpose video editor. It chops out the pauses, with some knobs to tweak how closely it cuts and what it leaves in, and lets you get a live preview of what it'll look and sound like with the cuts applied. It can then export to a handful of other editors, nondestructively, so that you can use the full capabilities of a "real" video editor.<p>It was originally a native Mac app written in Swift, and people kept asking for a Windows version. I had learned Swift and macOS development to build it originally. So as a solo developer, I had some choices to make. Keep it Mac-only? Learn <i>another</i> whole language + UI framework, rebuild the app, and maintain two codebases? Rebuild the app with a cross-platform toolkit?<p>I'd had experience with Qt and C++ in years past, but I honestly didn't love the idea of getting back into C++ and dealing with the inevitable hard-to-debug segfaults. I'd had more recent experience as a web developer, but I was worried about performance bottlenecks. I actually started down the path of building Recut in Electron and Rust (using NAPI-RS for bindings) and it looked promising, but I was still worried about the bloat of Electron.<p>A few months in, I took a closer look at Tauri, and ported the whole app from Electron in a week or so. Most of the heavy lifting was already in Rust, and the UI stuff pretty much "just worked". The biggest change was the bindings between JS and Rust.<p>Working with Tauri has been nice. I especially like their "State" system, which gives you an easy way to keep app-wide state on the Rust side, and inject specific parts of it into functions as-needed. I also really like how easy it is to write a Rust function and expose it to JS. The process model feels a lot easier to work with compared to Electron's split between renderer and main and preload, where you have to pay the cost of passing messages between them lest you ruin the security. Tauri's message-passing has a decent amount of overhead too, but I dealt with that by avoiding sending large amounts of data between JS <-> Rust and it's been fine.<p>The Tauri folks on Discord were a big help too (shout out to Fabian for the help when I ran into weird edge cases). I think Tauri has a bright future! Definitely worth a look if you know web tech and want to make cross-platform apps.
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Title: It seems GitHub became aware of the issue around March 2 (or before, since the fix was released on March 2), and waited until June 16 to disclose the problem.<p>See full text below:<p>Hi zwass,<p>We're writing to let you know that between 2022-02-25 18:28 UTC and 2022-03-02 20:47 UTC, due to a bug, GitHub Apps were able to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. You are an owner of an organization on GitHub with GitHub Apps installed that generated at least one new token during this time period. While we do not have evidence that this bug was maliciously exploited, with our available data, we are not able to determine if a token was generated with elevated permissions.<p>User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach that either created or resulted from this event. Read on for more information.<p>* What happened? *<p>GitHub learned via a customer support ticket that GitHub Apps were able to generate scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. Each of these tokens are valid for up to 1 hour.<p>GitHub quickly fixed the issue and established that this bug was recently introduced, existing for approximately 5 days between 2022-02-25 18:28 UTC and 2022-03-02 20:47 UTC.<p>GitHub Apps generate scoped installation tokens based on the scopes and permissions granted when the GitHub App is installed into a user account or organization. For example, if a GitHub App requests and is granted read permission to issues during installation, the scoped installation token the App generates to function would have `issues:read` permission.<p>This bug would potentially allow the above installation to generate a token with `issues:write`, an elevation of permission from the granted `issues:read` permission. The bug did not allow a GitHub App to generate a token with additional scopes that were not already granted, such as `discussions:read` in the above example. The bug did not allow a GitHub App to access any repositories that the App did not already have access to.<p>In order to exploit this bug, the GitHub App author would need to modify their app's code to request elevated permissions on generated tokens.<p>* What information was involved? *<p>The following GitHub Apps generated scoped installation tokens during the bug window for your organization(s). We are not able to determine if a token was generated with elevated permissions.<p>Organization: GitHub Apps
<redacted><p>* What GitHub is doing *<p>GitHub immediately began working to fix the bug and started an investigation into the potential impact. However due to the scale and complexity of GitHub Apps and their short-lived tokens, we were unable to determine whether this bug was ever exploited.<p>We are notifying all organization and user account owners that had GitHub Apps installed and had a scoped installation token generated during the bug window so that they can stay informed and perform their own audit of their installed GitHub Apps.<p>As a followup to this investigation, GitHub is looking at ways to improve our logging to enable more in-depth analysis on scoped token generation and GitHub App permissions in the future.<p>* What was the potential impact? *<p>Due to the variety of GitHub Apps, their possible scopes, and the repositories they may have been given access to, we are unable to advise on any potential impacts as each customer's situation will be unique.<p>* What you can do *<p>While we have updated our systems to resolve this bug and no action is required on your end, we do recommend you review your installed GitHub Apps. You can use the following guidance for assessing GitHub Apps, their permissions, and their access to your private organization repositories:<p>https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/keeping-your-organization-secure
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Title: Triplebyte (YC S15) is a tech recruiting company that operates by getting developers to take skill tests, and then using the results to match them with employers. Back in 2020, they got in a lot of hot water by suddenly announcing that user profiles -- which had been collected with assurances that the data wouldn't be shared without consent -- would be made public, unless you opted out within a week[1]. This provoked a lot of backlash, especially since the CEO seemed totally oblivious to the privacy concerns[2]. After a lot of angry comments, he publicly apologized and reversed course[3].<p>Then in 2021, some users started once again being notified that their profiles were automatically being made public[4]. This time, it was explained away as an "oversight" related to the fact that previously, opt-outs weren't permanent but had a hidden expiration time. Triplebyte once again apologized and promised that it wouldn't happen again, and many people seemed satisfied with the "transparency and candidness" of their response.<p>Now it's 2022, and yesterday I got a recruiting email from a company that found me via the Triplebyte account I created back in 2019. When I logged in to check, sure enough, my profile was set to "publicly visible" and "open to new opportunities". I was pretty sure I had never made those changes, but just in case I was misremembering, I contacted Triplebyte support to find out what was going on. Today I got this response:<p>"I was able to do some digging on to why this must have happened, It looks like before we did our last update to the platform you did not have the profile visibility set to indefinitely so the profile was turned on. Since then we have made a privacy chance once you set the profile to off there is not reset time frame it will remain off until you turn it on."<p>(Unlike the user in [4], I never got any kind of notification that this automatic change was being made.)<p>So despite their explicit promises, Triplebyte did not actually go back and fix the privacy settings for users who had them silently changed by the previous "dark pattern". This is a heads-up to anyone else who has a Triplebyte account and might be affected by the same issue.<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837<p>[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280120<p>[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037<p>[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255742
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Title: We are opening a new office and will have our network / server gear in a room with a large window facing a customer reception area. We’re told it’d be nice if the racks looked nice through the glass. Does anyone sell…decorative server equipment? Something useless with a bunch of blinky lights? This is one of the stranger requests we’ve dealt with.
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Title: I'm a senior freelance fullstack engineer working a day gig and an hourly side gig "just in case", clocking around 45 hours a week for ~5$k/week in a country where the average salary is 1900$ a month.<p>I'm paying myself a small salary compared to what I earn and I invest everything else.<p>Given my income and my economic situation I shouldn't feel anxious, yet I can't relax thinking every hour spent watching netflix is in a way costing me ~110$.<p>So when I don't have any more work for the week, I work on my hard and soft skills through certifications so I can up even more my hourly rate.<p>It's a never ending race, I've been playing this game since 2016, finding new ways to earn more, not because I'm passionate about it, but because I'm anxious everything could come crashing down in a couple of years and I'll need the money.<p>I feel like we are destroying our planet, destroying our economy, we make poor people poorer, stir political extremes, we alienate the younger generation with social medias, there is war in Europe, everything is about politics when it should be about science and people...<p>I've tried not caring, going to bars and restaurants and beautiful places in vacation, getting a new car, finding hobbies... but I can't pretend, I don't know how to cope anymore.<p>So I work, always, because I'm anxious I won't be able to provide for the people around me, my sister won't earn enough to feed her family, my mom won't be able to retire even though her work is killing her, my dad's small business will be ruined if the economy collapses...
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Title: Here's the Youtube link [0].<p>[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman
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Title: There was a cold call from Google Ads associate, I wasn't available to talk and asked to re-schedule the call, but I couldn't answer the follow up call.<p>Today they suspended all Google my business listings.<p>Anyone had the experience before?
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Title: I've been developing my own algorithm for news shortening. Basically, it takes a news article from the site, does some calculations and spits out up to 5 the most important sentences. Demo can be seen here <a href="https://excerptdaily.com" rel="nofollow">https://excerptdaily.com</a><p>I created it because I read news and I hate reading Bible-size articles full of unnecessary information just to find the main point<p>It has a purpose, it really does solve a problem:
* Save people's time
* Inform you as fast as possible
* Give you the main point of an article in 5 sentences
* Save you from clickbait or half clickbait titles<p>Starting my own news website without any connections or audience doesn't make sense, also I'm bad at marketing. I firmly believe this is a very good solution. I just don't know yet how to utilize it?<p>Should I offer the power of algorithm to some podcast that have audience and their own news website, should I offer it to someone who wants to build a news website...
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Title: My NYTimes subscription is ending next month and I am looking for another news subscription. What news publication is it worthwhile to subscribe to? I’ve read horror stories about dark patterns in cancellation so that should also factor in.<p>I’m not sure if anyone noticed but NYTimes’ quality has gone downhill for the past 2-3 years and why is there no dark mode on the app? WSJ looks good but there are issues with cancellation.<p>Edit:
I am from Southeast Asia and got lots of family and relatives in the USA, so the obvious interest in Western and EU culture and politics.
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Title: Curious, as I'm worried honestly as a prospective employee, will the company even last?<p>I wonder if Brian will reply to this cause I'm curious to see what the burn rate is now with the layoffs and rescinds of offers, and how the company is planning to live through a 2-3 year maybe more recession + crypto winter.
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Title: Hey folks! I'm trying to actively get better at pitching developer tools. So I had the idea of collecting an inspiration list of the "best of all time". Would like to crowdsource this!<p>The vibe I'm going for is pitches that left you with a clear "before" and "after" division in your life where you not only "got it" but also keep referring to it from that point onward.<p>Obvious candidate for example is DHH's 15 minute Rails demo (and i've been told the Elixir Liveview demo is similar) and Solomon Hykes' Docker demo.<p>What other pitch is like that? (or successfully pitches a developer tool in a different way, up to your interpretation)
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Title: Hey HN! I just released hTorrent, a gateway that allows for retrieving torrents through a plain HTTP interface. It supports seeking, which means that it can be used to stream media directly using e.g. MPV without having to wait for the download to complete.<p>I'd love to get your feedback :)
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Title: Whenever I need to build a UI/interface for a side-project, I always feel frustrated that I cannot create anything that looks or feels good to use.<p>What are your favourite resources to learn about UX/design? Doesn't have to be web-related.
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Title: I'm interested if anyone has moved to PR from the United States for financial reasons and if so, what their experience was/is.
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Title: Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only the page text. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.<p>There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, detecting the likely main text & removing its non-text siblings, blocklists for classnames that contain words like "sidebar", and testing this on a few hundred popular sites.<p>I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, private annotations & inline Hacker News comments. The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the related article HTML. So when you click a link on HN you’ll see the parts people are talking about while reading. [1]<p>The code is all on GitHub!<p>[0] Screenshots comparing it to the Firefox reader mode: <a href="https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/comparison.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...</a><p>[1] It's fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. Another project I built, <a href="https://hn.lindylearn.io/best" rel="nofollow">https://hn.lindylearn.io/best</a> shows the number of "annotations" an article has beneath its title.
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Title: What projects were affected - stopped existing or the opposite, could grow.<p>How was the atmosphere at Microsoft at the time? How normal devs were affected?<p>What implications it had on other companies?<p>In general, what changed after threat of break up<p>How big topic that was? Did people outside IT even know about it?
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Title: I have been a git user for a long time, but I've never used Subversion or any other VCS more than a little.<p>I also hardly use Git submodules, but when I do, I don't struggle.<p>Yet people talk about Git submodules as though they are really hard. I presume I'm just not using them as much as other people, or that my use case for them happens to be on their happy path.<p>So why are Git submodules so bad?
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Title: I work for a DeFi protocol that has a token. I joined in 2021.<p>I would describe myself as having neutral stance towards the crypto industry, DeFi/Ethereum more specifically. I am not a fan of most other alternative chains or Bitcoin. I understand that the majority of tokens and services are scams and markets caps are a bubble driven by speculation, but I also see true potential in the technology and ideology. Both of these opinions kind of cancel each other out leading to me being neither fully pro- nor fully anti-crypto.<p>However, the constant backlash from the public is nagging me. All the hate for crypto, even though much of it is uninformed, makes me question my decisions. I am also worried about future employability. If crypto fails, which is a real possibility in my mind, will I be unemployable because I spend several years in the scammy crypto industry?<p>Just feeling a bit lost. Anyone else in a similar position?
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Title: It seems that several projects claim that they have built the "world's fastest key/value store" or sometimes the phrase used is even more outrageous. The following projects are in question:<p>- Redis: <a href="https://github.com/redis/redis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/redis/redis</a><p>- KeyDB: <a href="https://github.com/snapchat/keydb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/snapchat/keydb</a><p>- Dragonfly: <a href="https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly</a><p>- Skytable: <a href="https://github.com/skytable/skytable" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/skytable/skytable</a><p>And, these are my benchmark results (30 threads, 1 client per thread with GET/SET. See below for setup):<p>1. Redis: 112,100 / 99,892<p>2. KeyDB: 288,931 / 282,997<p>3. Dragonfly: 408,322 / 392,446<p>4. Skytable: 619,992 / 676,091<p># Notes<p>1. Redis:
I'll start with Redis which I'd like to call the "original" key/value store (after memcached) because it is the oldest and most widely used of all. Being a long-time follower of Redis, I do know it's single-threaded (and uses io-threads since 6.0) and hence it achieves lesser throughput than the other stores listed above which are multi-threaded, at least to some extent. The best parts about Redis: it's the most feature complete of all the systems here, and is the oldest. (not saying old necessarily means better).<p>2. KeyDB:
The second is KeyDB. IIRC, I saw it in a blog post which said that it is a "multithreaded fork of Redis that is 5X faster"[1]. I really liked the idea because I was previously running several instances of Redis on the same node and proxying them like a "single-node cluster." Why? To increase CPU utilization. A single KeyDB instance could replace the unwanted proxying funkiness, so I ditched Redis for KeyDB. Has been a fine experience so far, except for some occasional crashes.<p>3. Dragonfly:
Just found it on HN and seems to be relatively new. Dragonfly claims that it is 25X faster (that I couldn't reproduce) than Redis[2] and has the slogan "Probably, the fastest in-memory store in the universe!". Doesn't support all the Redis commands yet, but I find it interesting mainly because of performance. Also, it's good to know why it is faster because it clearly outlines the underlying architecture[2]. The other three stores don't say much about it. Will be following the project.<p>4. Skytable:
Found it while looking for projects written in Rust. Claims to be "insanely fast." Skytable's "experimental benchmarks" claim that it is something around 10X faster than Redis and some 2X-3X faster than KeyDB[3]. I hadn't heard of Skytable and it doesn't seem to be as widely used (unless I'm missing something?). I find it interesting because of the planned features[4] and performance. Only Skytable natively runs on Windows out of the four. Will be following the project.<p>5. My thoughts:
Redis needs no introduction and is arguably super stable for use on production systems (using widely in our systems). KeyDB seems to be "stable enough" and it seems to be good for prod since Snapchat uses it already[5] (and so do we!). I found no Dragonfly v/s Skytable benchmarks.
The best part about Redis, KeyDB and Skytable is that they don't make any "crazy assumptions" about the system they run on. What do I mean?<p>Dragonfly expects you to have the latest hardware[6] and the latest kernel[7] on all your servers. I find this outrageous because not all servers run 5.10 and a majority of them are still using long-running branches on 4.x. Also, I don't expect them to have the latest processors, either. I'd argue if the other three stores started assuming the latest features, they'd be far faster than what they are today. Finally, both Dragonfly and Skytable are still early in their development so it may not be fair to compare their features against Redis and KeyDB who have been around for far longer. Also, all projects other than Skytable have companies behind them (unless I'm missing something).<p>Edit #1: I have run the benchmarks myself for each store. In the benchmark with Redis, KeyDB and Skytable (redis-benchmark, memtier and sky-bench): Redis and KeyDB benchmarks seem to be very consistent, Skytable is a little inconsistent at times. However, in the benchmark with Redis, KeyDB and Dragonfly (with memtier), I was NOT able to reproduce the 25X speed that Dragonfly claims. I ran all tests on two m5.4xlarge servers (one with the k/v store and one with the benchmark tool).<p>Edit #2: Added benchmark results<p>What are your thoughts? Have you tried benchmarking any of them locally or in the cloud?<p>References:<p>[1]: <a href="https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/10/07/blog-post" rel="nofollow">https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/10/07/blog-post</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://github.com/ohsayan/sky-benches" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ohsayan/sky-benches</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://github.com/skytable/skytable/issues/203" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/skytable/skytable/issues/203</a><p>[5]: <a href="https://docs.keydb.dev/news/2022/05/12/keydb-joins-snap" rel="nofollow">https://docs.keydb.dev/news/2022/05/12/keydb-joins-snap</a><p>[6]: <a href="https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/issues/124" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/issues/124</a><p>[7]: <a href="https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/issues/96" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/issues/96</a>
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Title: I’d like to read books faster, but I’m skeptical that the methods available will do anything beyond teaching me to skim - and I’m just the sort of person who finds a lot of magic in minor word choice. The idea of reading only 5 words in 8 repulses me.
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Title: Where can I find an exceedingly gentle introduction to writing proofs? My math education is limited to non-AP high school classes many years ago. I’m now trying to relearn what I’ve forgotten (and then go beyond that) so I would like to grasp the underlying principles rather than only doing rote exercises to memorize techniques for getting answers without deeply understanding what’s behind those techniques. But I need to start with really, really simple proofs that explain the very basic techniques. For example, I know things like (a^b)^c = a^bc, and that I can solve for x in x/a = b/c by cross multiplying so that xc = ab, but I can’t prove either of those things. How do I learn to develop their formal proofs? Any of the texts I’ve seen so far are much too advanced for me.
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Title: We watched an episode and now clips are showing as recommended on YouTube. How does it work?<p>(Edit 16:48Z) More info:
- using iPhone
- YouTube on Safari, no app
- got connected to her wifi
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Title: No I don't think its imposter syndrome. I got into tech a few years ago because I find building cool stuff, especially clone apps, to be really fun. It's like legos for me, and I build a bunch of projects using various technologies so I keep learning some new frameworks and languages. I feel good working on all sorts of applications, from backend to web and mobile apps.<p>Unfortunately I tried to do some mock interviews (leetcode) and got demolished. I have been practicing for the last couple of months, but I just cannot solve a single medium problem on my own without looking at some help and even then it is hard for me. I think that I'm hitting my limits because I'm finding that I am not that good at actually "programming". I have a hard time thinking about some of these problems, because I can't comprehend the question itself.<p>I can build UIs, or build a backend api application deployed on some cloud provider, but I don't know I just can't seem to do actual programming like the stuff you do with leetcode. This has made me really question myself and my abilities, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to find a better job when I can't get past the technical screening.<p>I'm depressed because I make a decent base salary but I don't really know how to solve some of these tough algorithmic questions. I'm feeling stuck and I don't know how to get out, because I just feel overwhelmed. I want to do something interesting and hopefully make more money, but I've hit a wall. Help!
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Title: When someone replies to my comment on HN, I usually upvote it, even if I disagree with it. It's the only signal I can give that: "yes, I read it but I don't care enough to reply right this second." I feel like this gives the author some feedback that their comment was appreciated, even if nobody ever replies.<p>I don't usually see upvotes deep in comment threads, but sometimes I do. Am I the only one doing this, or do other people do this too?
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Title: [As it stands the post is flagged, 45 minutes in -- very likely by a fan or investor in the cryptocurrency who is unable to stomach a conversation about an obvious challenge facing the project. I will try to appeal the flag.]<p>Bitcoin aims to give people self sovereignty and financial freedom (who otherwise couldn't attain it). That's a noble goal, but the project has always had a fundamental problem:<p>Bitcoin only survives if enough miners continue to participate, who spend on electricity to keep the network's total hash rate high (enough to fend off a determined foe, including one focusing state-level resources in a short period of time to pull off a 51% attack). Miners do this in exchange for new bitcoin. Though miners' profitability has recently been challenged by the latest downturn, the market can adjust and is not in immediate jeopardy of collapse. But it will be.<p>The total supply of bitcoin is 21M. Less than 2M remain to be mined in the project's lifetime.<p>Eventually the # of bitcoins produced per year will be too low to maintain miner incentives. [Every four years moving forward, half as many bitcoins will be produced. The so-called "halvening" has generally been seen by investors as a positive thing, b/c it implies continued scarcity, but they miss the forest for the trees.]<p>Today, the amount of electricity used to safeguard the bitcoin network is roughly equivalent to what a small country like Argentina consumes. Historically, new bitcoins are created to reward miners who pay for that electricity, but that is increasingly less the case.<p>Transaction fees would need to increase to pick up the slack (of lower mining profits). Ever-higher transaction fees will kill the cryptocurrency's potential for mass appeal (which companies like Square(Block) have bet big on).<p>The only way that none of this is an issue is if bitcoin continues increasing in value inexorably. To be fair, I'd say that's Bitcoin's #1 use case so far has been: a speculative vehicle that consistently rises in value. That will inevitably come to an end, if for no other reason than there isn't enough money in the world to sustain its historic rate of climb. It's also dubious for something to be branded as digital gold if it requires more new money coming into the system to be viable, in that respect it's closer to a Ponzi scheme.<p>Another "out" is if all of the miners can agree to increase the project's total supply, something I imagine will be attempted. That will be a huge shit show though, as the brand of bitcoin revolves entirely around scarcity.<p>That's the project's basic flaw. I set aside bitcoin's less-existential problems: extreme energy demands, failure to act as an inflationary hedge, disproportionate use by ransomware gangs, potential vulnerability to quantum crypto-breaking computing, and existence in a space rife with scams (from USDT to UST and all the under-regulated web3 banks and securities-sellers in between, like Celsius).<p>[Old edit, now it can be seen on page 2. It likely tripped HN's "flame-war" alarm, which is really a thing: [Interesting, this hit the front page of HN and was shadowbanned(?). I'm not seeing it as flagged, but now it's nowhere in the top 90 posts. Can someone ping a mod, or @dang?]]<p>To address the Lightning network (which settles transactions off-chain quickly for less $) > "Transaction fees will have to grow in the coming decades, but if most users stay on the Lightning Network they won't be directly exposed to those fees." If users are shielded from the future transaction fees b/c of Lightning. Ok, well where does the money to safeguard the network come from if mining blocks produces less and less of it (and users don't pay fees b/c of Lightning)?
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I have been working in finance as a Quant, basically combining some aspects of data science with tool programming. In my free time I worked on side projects including with Flask, Django and Plotly Dash. Basically worked with Python with a pinch of React mixed in. I’m 38 now and seriously considering to move into a software company in the hopes that I can work on probects like my sideprojects. Although I am willing to learn a lot and invest time, I am afraid that I may not be good enough. Should I take a chance and quit my new job as a math and physics teacher (it just does not make me happy)at a high school to persue a position at a software company?<p>I am at a crossroad now and am happy for any hint if you have ever seen a similar move work out.<p>Thank you in advance for any reply!
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Title: Two weeks ago, I announced (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31598978" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31598978</a>) that I was shutting down my companies, 70 Million Jobs and Commissary Club (companies that helped the formerly incarcerated get on with their lives). The overwhelming volume of support I received just through Bookface and Hacker News stunned me; my heart overflowed with pride and gratitude.<p>Now I am facing another challenge: I need a job. I’ve spoken with many recruiters and HR professionals, along with people who are interested in either acquiring my company(s), funding them or just want to make themselves available for a chat. I’ve received offers for leadership positions at nonprofits, but I haven’t yet discovered the right fit. Maybe I love the startup life too much. Maybe my criminal record hurts my chances. (Maybe!?!) Maybe my age is a deterrent.<p>Before I accept a position that doesn’t thrill me, I thought I’d get the word out to the YC community. Perhaps your company has—or has been considering—beginning a foundation or some other mission-based, social impact endeavor. Perhaps you need to hire lots of folks for your work force and want to seriously access the largely ignored 70 million Americans with records. I can help.<p>What else am I very good at? Business development, sales training and management.<p>Please note: I’m not very technical.<p>If you’ve got ideas, I’d love to hear them. Thanks for your time and consideration.
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Title: We're a fairly typical run-of-the-mill mid-size enterprise software vendor trying to hire for fully-remote SWEs in the "DevOps" software space (Linux, containers, k8s, yadda yadda). We post in the usual places including Who's Hiring but we haven't even managed to backfill a retirement from six months ago, and we're junior-heavy already. Benefits and salary are good (though salary isn't posted in the ad), and the people are great, though the work requires a reasonably deep understanding of the underlying platforms which a lot of people seem to dislike.<p>I'm wondering if the work being a higher percentage non-code is what's causing us trouble, if we're just rubbish at hiring in general, or if it's something else.<p>What's everyone else's experience attracting applications from senior talent in this market, and what is everyone doing to increase their attractiveness?<p>Current hiring process:<p><pre><code> - Resume screened by in-house recruiter
- 30m call with them
- Resume passed up to engineering
- Hour-long call with hiring manager (typically the engineering manager of the team the candidate would join)
- Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing
- Presentation of technical assignment to the team
- Offer</code></pre>
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Title: So I tried to create an Instagram account yesterday. After registering, I was immediately told my account was disabled for suspicious activity, but that if I wished they would review it within 24 hours. Weird, I thought, but maybe it's just some rare false positive that can be triggered and I'm just unlucky. So I waited, patiently.<p>After 24 hours I tried to log in again and to my surprise, my account wasn't just temporarily disabled anymore but permanently deactivated and I was met with this message:<p>> Your account has been disabled for violating our terms. Learn how you may be able to restore your account. <a href="https://help.instagram.com/521372114683554" rel="nofollow">https://help.instagram.com/521372114683554</a><p>How can I allegedly have broken Instagram terms when I just created the account and even verified it by phone? So I visited that link and asked them to restore it. What I get is an email by facebook that demands I send them a picture of myself holding a paper that I wrote a specific code on. Verbatim the email is this:<p>> Hello, thank you for contacting us. Before we can help you, you must confirm that you are the owner of the account. Please respond to this email and attach a photograph of yourself, where you hold a piece of paper with the following, handwritten code on it: *** Please make sure that the photo fulfills the following criteria:
- shows the above mentioned, handwritten code on a clean piece of paper, followed by your full name and username
- shows both of your hands holding the paper as well as your complete face
- it is well-lit and not too small, dark or blurred
- is attached as a JPEG-file to your response E-Mail
Note: Even if this account does not contain and pictures of yourself or it represents somebody or something else, we can only help you when we receive a picture of you which fulfills these criteria.<p>Am I the only one who finds this incredibly intrusive? I know I might be partially beating a dead horse here, as everyone knows Meta is pure evil. But this email really "gave me the rest". I wouldn't use IG for posting pictures of myself anyway but now I won't ever be using anything from Meta even for business reasons.<p>Are there really no less intrusive ways than the above to prove ones ownership of account?? Why is email and phone verification not enough anymore these days? Is this the type of "progress" happening at FAANG? LOL
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Title: I would like to block all political news online from showing up while reading/researching stuff online. What are tips, methods and techniques that i can employ to block such news/content?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I've been thinking about this a lot lately.<p>If you are a solo founder/ bootstrapper, what do you do get honest feedback on your products/ideas?<p>Especially when you're just starting out, and have no users yet.<p>Who do you ask?<p>- Friends and family
- Other founders in communities
- Twitter<p>Anyone else?<p>Would love to know your approach or if something that worked for you.<p>Thanks
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Title: First post here. It's 2 AM and can't sleep. I'm 40 and the majority of my experience has been in Java. Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, what you'd expect. I'm pretty much at the top of my game (which I know is specifically Java, but bare with me).<p>We all know technology constantly changes and progresses, and I've always thought that's fine, I'll be happy to learn whatever replaces Java because it will be better, right? I've seen Go coming along, Kotlin too. But I've been hit like a brick in the face to realize where we're headed. AWS. The cloud. I'll get to the point. I hate it. I've seen it happen personally at two companies now. The transition to the cloud. Where we throw away everything we've spent years learning to reinvent the wheel. We throw away relational databases for MongoDB. I love SQL. I'm good at it. But no one cares. MongoDB is "in" now. I'm good at Java. Years of experience and I finally feel good in my abilities and speed with the frameworks, ORM's, best practices, etc. We're just throwing it out like it's nothing. For AWS products. Lambdas written in Typescript (why Typescript, I don't know, the same reason I don't know why MongoDB). Files of YAML configuration, and Kubernetes and a lot of other things I don't care about, just to create the same CRUD apps we've always been creating.<p>I've been buying power tools and learning how to use them. I've started taping and patching drywall. I've cut down trees. I want tools that won't change every 5 years. I want tools that I can master and will be relevant in 50 years. Maybe I'm too old to be a carpenter, or tradesman. I just need some advice. The worst thing is, developers are embracing this AWS trend and seem to love it. No one seems to mind. Software engineers are cursed. Just when we've established a best practice and it's a solved problem, we throw it out and reinvent a new way to do it.<p>Please let me know if I'm not alone, or if it's just me and I need to adapt or get out of the way. I will predict this though: AWS is a mistake. It's not fun. It's not "software engineering" and it won't be here in 10, 15, 20 years. All your mastery of Kubernetes will be for nothing. It will be tossed aside like trash. And the worst part is when that day comes everyone will act like it was never that great all along. They'll also embrace the next trend like it's the greatest thing ever. Because software engineers are cursed.
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Title: How does HN manage to be always online?
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Title: I know many people use VMs for work, or to test things they develop. Makes sense.<p>But what else do people use it for? I want to hear interesting or unusual things you use a VM for.<p>For example, I have thought of running a VM only to use git in there, maybe so try and see if magit will run faster in a VM rather than on the host macos. I also have thought of using a VM to only run a browser in there, to keep the memory under control. Not sure any of these are good, but they are interesting.<p>What are your ideas or actual ways you use VMs?
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Title: Hi HN! We're Pierre, Jacques, and Farah from Dioptra (<a href="https://dioptra.ai" rel="nofollow">https://dioptra.ai</a>). Dioptra tracks ML metrics to identify model error patterns and suggest the best data curation strategy to fix them.<p>We’ve seen a shift in paradigm in recent years in ML: the “code” has become a commodity: many powerful ML models are open source today. The real challenge is to grow and curate quality data. This raises the need for new data centric tools: IDEs, debuggers, monitoring. Dioptra is a data centric tool that helps debug models and fix them by systematically curating and growing the best data, at scale.<p>We experienced this problem, first hand, deploying and retraining models. Once a model was in production, maintenance was a huge pain. First, it was hard to assess model performance. Accessing the right production data to diagnose was complicated. We had to build custom scripts to connect to DBs, download production data (Compliance, look the other way!) and analyze it.<p>Second, it was hard to translate the diagnosis into concrete next steps: find the best data to fix and retrain my model. It required another set of scripts to sample new data, label it and retrain. With a large enough labeling budget, we were able to improve our models, but it wasn’t optimal: labeling is expensive, and random data sampling doesn’t yield the best results. And since the process relied on our individual domain expertise (aka gut feelings) it was inconsistent from one data scientist to the next and not scalable.<p>We talked to a couple hundred ML practitioners who helped us validate and refine our thinking (we thank every single one of them!). For example, one NLP team had to read more than 10 long legal contracts per week per person. The goal was to track any model errors. Once a month, they synthesized an Excel sheet to detect patterns of errors. Once detected, they had to read more contracts to build their retraining dataset! There were multiple issues with that process. First, the assessment of errors was subjective since it depended on individual interpretations of the legal language. Second, the sourcing of retraining data was time consuming and anecdotal. Finally, they had to spend a lot of time coaching new members to minimize subjectivity.<p>Processes like this highlight how model improvement needs to be less anecdotal and more systematic. A related problem is lack of tooling, which puts a huge strain on ML teams that are constantly asked to innovate and take on new projects.<p>Dioptra computes a comprehensive set of metrics to give ML teams a full view of their model and detect failure modes. Teams can objectively prioritize their efforts based on the impact of each error pattern. They can also slice and dice to root-cause errors, zero in on faulty data, and visualize it. What used to take days of reading can now be done in a couple hours. Teams can then quality check and curate the best data for retraining using our embedding similarity search or active learning techniques. They can easily understand, customize and systematically engineer their data curation strategy with our automation APIs in order to get the best model at each iteration and stay on top of the latest production patterns. Additionally, Dioptra fits within any ML stack. We have native integrations with major deep learning frameworks.<p>Some of our customers reduced their data ops costs by 30%. Others improved their model accuracy by 20% in one retraining cycle thanks to Dioptra.<p>Active Learning, which has been around for a while but was sort of confidential until recently, makes intentional retraining possible. This approach has been validated by ML organizations like Tesla, Cruise and Waymo. Recently, other companies like Pinterest started building similar infrastructure. However it is costly to build and requires specialized skills. We want to make it accessible to everybody.<p>We created an interactive demo for HN: <a href="https://capture.navattic.com/cl4hciffr2881909mv2qrlsc9g" rel="nofollow">https://capture.navattic.com/cl4hciffr2881909mv2qrlsc9g</a><p>Please share any feedback and thoughts. Thanks for reading!
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Title: Hi HN!<p><a href="https://flat.social" rel="nofollow">https://flat.social</a> is a web video meeting app for organising fun online meetings & social events. Each participant can move around and talk with others in their proximity.<p>Here is a quick demo if you wanna see it in action: <a href="https://youtu.be/Y2yH3twjrx4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Y2yH3twjrx4</a><p>I’ve been on it solo for around a year right now. Tech used is Next.js, Typescript, PIXI.js on the front-end and Node, Mediasoup, Socket.io and Matter.js (physics engine) on the backend.<p>Feel free to jump in into the demo room (<a href="https://flat.social/f/Flat.Social-Demo" rel="nofollow">https://flat.social/f/Flat.Social-Demo</a>) to say hi, I’ll be hanging out there throughout today.<p>Would love to hear your thoughts on it!
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Title: A lot of saas success stories here ger posted often but I seldom see any success stories about someone making any serious money from apps, especially android apps.<p>Is it very hard to do that, especially with the play store tax? Or am I being a pessimist.<p>Please share your success (or failure) so we can all get some motivation (or reality check)
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Title: The belief in the “hot hand” in sports is <i>not</i> an example of this. It seems to be “proven” or “disproven” every couple of years.
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Title: Gleb, Alex, Erez and Simon here – we are building an open-source tool for comparing data within and across databases at any scale. The repo is at <a href="https://github.com/datafold/data-diff" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/datafold/data-diff</a>, and our home page is <a href="https://datafold.com/" rel="nofollow">https://datafold.com/</a>.<p>As a company, Datafold builds tools for data engineers to automate the most tedious and error-prone tasks falling through the cracks of the modern data stack, such as data testing and lineage. We launched two years ago with a tool for regression-testing changes to ETL code <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071955" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071955</a>. It compares the produced data before and after the code change and shows the impact on values, aggregate metrics, and downstream data applications.<p>While working with many customers on improving their data engineering experience, we kept hearing that they needed to diff their data across databases to validate data replication between systems.<p>There were 3 main use cases for such replication:<p>(1) To perform analytics on transactional data in an OLAP engine (e.g. PostgreSQL > Snowflake)
(2) To migrate between transactional stores (e.g. MySQL > PostgreSQL)
(3) To leverage data in a specialized engine (e.g. PostgreSQL > ElasticSearch).<p>Despite multiple vendors (e.g., Fivetran, Stitch) and open-source products (Airbyte, Debezium) solving data replication, there was no tooling for validating the correctness of such replication. When we researched how teams were going about this, we found that most have been either:<p>Running manual checks: e.g., starting with COUNT(*) and then digging into the discrepancies, which often took hours to pinpoint the inconsistencies.
Using distributed MPP engines such as Spark or Trino to download the complete datasets from both databases and then comparing them in memory – an expensive process requiring complex infrastructure.<p>Our users wanted a tool that could:<p>(1) Compare datasets quickly (seconds/minutes) at a large (millions/billions of rows) scale across different databases (2) Have minimal network IO and database workload overhead. (3) Provide straightforward output: basic stats and what rows are different. (4) Be embedded into a data orchestrator such as Airflow to run right after the replication process.<p>So we built Data Diff as an open-source package available through pip. Data Diff can be run in a CLI or wrapped into any data orchestrator such as Airflow, Dagster, etc.<p>To solve for speed at scale with minimal overhead, Data Diff relies on checksumming the data in both databases and uses binary search to identify diverging records. That way, it can compare arbitrarily large datasets in logarithmic time and IO – only transferring a tiny fraction of the data over the network. For example, it can diff tables with 25M rows in ~10s and 1B+ rows in ~5m across two physically separate PostgreSQL databases while running on a typical laptop.<p>We've launched this tool under the MIT license so that any developer can use it, and to encourage contributions of other database connectors. We didn't want to charge engineers for such a fundamental use case. We make money by charging a license fee for advanced solutions such as column-level data lineage, CI workflow automation, and ML-powered alerts.
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Title: I already knew Google didnt offer email or telephone support to users, but I pretended to not to care about it.
Now that I'm in to a real problem that needs support (a conflict caused by Google algorithm that does not allow me to use my account), I found out I haven't any option to ask support to Google. It only redirects me to Community Forum, when people already told me they have no solution for my problem.
Let's say it is not acceptable that Google does not provide any form of support. I am pretty pissed about that.
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Title: Howdy HN! We’re Jacqueline and Frank from Astro (<a href="https://www.tryastro.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tryastro.com/</a>). We’re a platform that gives you access to engineering talent in Latin America and lets you build teams there. We take care of the sourcing, payroll, HR, benefits, local procurement, and equipment, all from an easy-to-use dashboard. (Video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmiVOVfbHFI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmiVOVfbHFI</a>)<p>Before starting Astro, we worked as leaders at the same company, Jacqueline in sales and Frank in engineering. As we built our teams, we found it was very hard to compete against top tech companies for talent. Therefore, we broadened our search beyond Austin, Texas.<p>We ended up working with various partners in Latin America because of the strong talent pool, great English, and US friendly time zones. However, finding and retaining engineering teams in Latin America was a challenge. We loved our teammates, but were never thrilled about the outsourcing firms they worked for. Because they weren’t our employees, we couldn’t control what they were being paid, couldn’t give them benefits and perks, and the only visibility we had was the $150/hr bill we got from the outsourcing company. How much of that actually went to the team?<p>Because traditional outsourcing firms tend to attract non-tech clients and their culture revolves around billable hours, our team members were also unsatisfied with the outsourcing company that they worked for. Freelancing could be an alternative, but is also difficult for teams in Latin America due to its inherent risk and likelihood of being treated as a second-class contractor on a foreign team rather than a first-class stakeholder.<p>We were stuck with three uncomfortable options: outsource the entire product, manage a large team of independent freelancers, or rely on an outsourcing company to create our engineering culture.<p>What we really wanted were our own teams, including our own offices, equipment, salaries, benefits, etc. But setting up a foreign entity and knowing how to hire in foreign markets was a distraction and difficult—not to mention payroll, benefits, procurement, legal compliance, etc.<p>We ultimately went to work at different companies, but continued to experience the same pain points at our new companies. Finally, in 2018, after commiserating many times over beers, we decided to build the company we kept looking for, a company to automatically handle all of these international complexities.<p>We originally called ourselves Austin Software and we started by building teams by hand for startups in Austin, Texas. Then, we started to realize we had gotten good at solving lots of problems on behalf of teams in the US: sourcing Macbooks, finding competitive local benefits and perks, legal compliance, even organizing happy hours, travel and SWAG. Our idea was to productize what we’d learned and make it available to other companies. We got tired of explaining that we build teams, not bill project hours! So we built Astro (“Austin Software Tool for Recommendations and Opportunities” :))<p>You can think of Astro as something like a love child between Toptal + Gusto + WeWork + Amazon (the latter because of the logistics we do — more on that below), tailored specifically for software engineering teams in LATAM. Unlike Toptal or Turing, we fulfill local benefits, equipment, even team-building events. Our pricing is also transparent, in contrast to companies that charge by the hour, upfront fees, or handcuff you to long-term contracts. Customers review and pay for 1) the developer’s desired salary, 2) benefits and taxes, and 3) our 15% management fee on a week-to-week basis.<p>Here’s one example of the kind of thing we take care of. A 16 inch M1 Macbook Pro is not just a perk in Latin America, they actually save countless hours when dealing with heavy dev environments. But they’re difficult to source in Latin America, especially outside of the handful of major cities. And even if they are sourced, they’re extremely expensive, especially if they know you’re an American company, and getting them to teammates across South America runs the risk of theft or damage. We solve this by having local entities, local logistics, local distribution and secure local offices.<p>We’re proud of the fact that developers in Latin America have a much better experience working with us. That’s because our customers (i.e. the companies using Astro) are looking to scale their engineering departments with long-term stakeholders, not temporary “horsepower”, and also because real tech culture (the sort of thing devs in Silicon Valley take for granted) is a huge draw for developers, but nearly impossible to find via outsourcing shops, and very hit-and-miss on Toptal/Turing.<p>We hope you’ll try us out! Visit <a href="https://www.TryAstro.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.TryAstro.com</a>, and configure your desired team (See video tutorial and screenshots below if you're just curious). Astro will source, pre-vet, schedule interviews, send offer letters, manage employment contracts, and coordinate equipment, office space, and SWAG. Once that’s set up, you can use Astro to manage your team on an ongoing basis: salaries, bonuses, additional benefits, perks, equipment, etc.<p>Check out some screenshots here: <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17qYsZLKrhPdE1Ud1LA5A8RYNZiJkXo41" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17qYsZLKrhPdE1Ud1LA5A...</a> and a video tutorial here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmiVOVfbHFI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmiVOVfbHFI</a><p>We’d love to hear your feedback and we’re excited to answer any questions!
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I've been working on a code review app for GitHub called Crocodile for about a year. I used to work at Microsoft where we used a tool called CodeFlow for reviewing code and I missed it after I left. I know many other ex-Microsoft engineers feel the same. Here are some of the distinguishing features of Crocodile that are inspired by CodeFlow:<p>* Comments float above the code instead of being inline. Long discussions that are displayed inline make it really hard to review the code.<p>* Comment on any text selection in the file, even a single character.<p>* Comments don't get lost when code changes. I hate it when comments become "outdated" because I rebase or the line is edited.<p>I also implemented lots of features that I wish CodeFlow had which you can read more about on the blog. [1]<p>For those curious about the tech stack: it's mostly written in Go with Alpine.js, HTMX, and Tailwind CSS for the frontend. For storage I use PostgreSQL, S3 compatible object storage, and Redis for caching. I use Pulumi for infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes deployments. Everything is hosted on DigitalOcean.<p>Feedback is welcome!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.crocodile.dev/blog/why-crocodile" rel="nofollow">https://www.crocodile.dev/blog/why-crocodile</a>
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Title: The market is difficult and many investors put new deals on hold while taking care of their existing portfolio companies.
Aside from preparing for strong growth and low burn, what other suggestions do you have for young startups?
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Title: If not, do you collect web pages some other way?
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Title: There was a buzzword Big Data which regularly popped up in tech news. I haven’t seen the word used much lately. What advances are being made on it?<p>I imagine with various privacy scandals it fell out of favour since your data should be /your/ data only.<p>And many have talked about data being the ‘new oil’ when really it should be reframed as radioactive waste.<p>What happened to using this term to hype up your brand: ‘We use Big Data to infer information about how to improve and go forward’?<p>Was it just a hyped up buzzword?
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Title: Hi HN, Stew and Dan here from Foster (<a href="https://foster.co" rel="nofollow">https://foster.co</a>). Foster connects you with professional editors who can improve your writing. We've built a button in Google Docs that you can tap and get collaborative support on your document within 24 hours.<p>Most online writing today is produced in a broken way. Writers are commonly told to publish a lot, see how readers respond, and adjust. But most internet readers don’t comment or respond. They just get whatever they can and move on. They bail on an article the minute it fails to hold their attention, and you don’t get a second chance. Thus the most common response to writing online is silence. Silence is a terrible teacher!<p>What writers need is feedback <i>before</i> they hit publish, so that readers receive the best-expressed version of their ideas. But it’s hard to get quality feedback on a draft. Asking friends tends to be unsustainable—you burn an ask each time—and hiring an editor is complicated and expensive. That’s the problem we’re solving with Foster.<p>I published a personal blog for ~2 years that basically nobody read. One day, I decided to start asking friends for feedback on my writing. I was pretty surprised to discover how much my writing sucked. The first post I published after an extensive round of peer edits became my most popular piece.<p>At the time, I was working on another startup and blogging for fun on the side but the experience was so profound that I wondered if this might be something I could help more people experience one day. A year later, I reconnected with my friend (and now co-founder) Dan and we realized neither of us were passionate about our startups at the time. We started to talk about our mutual love of writing and realized this might be our chance to build something we really cared about.<p>We launched Foster as a Slack group that writers could join to swap feedback on each others’ drafts. But over time we learned that 'writer' and 'editor' really aren't the same thing. Most of our members primarily loved to write, and while editing other people’s work could be helpful and interesting, they ultimately wanted to just get the best possible feedback on their own work.<p>We started to redesign the experience so that writers didn’t have to join a full-on community and could instead share and track their drafts using a simple web app. On the other side, we recruited professional editors to specialize in improving drafts.<p>Eventually, we realized we should just bring the entire experience to the draft itself since that’s where the writer lives, so we built a Chrome extension that works with Google Docs. Writers see a Foster button directly in their doc that they can tap to submit the work to Foster. Editing help then comes directly to their document without them ever leaving.<p>Unlike hiring an editor via marketplaces like Upwork, you don’t need to do any job-posting or back-and-forth. You hit a button in Google Docs and high-quality collaborators jump in to help. (The majority of the writers we spoke with early on use Google Docs, but we plan to expand to other writing platforms in the future.)<p>We’ve built a collective of editors, writers, and experts who enjoy jumping into first drafts and helping to improve them. Foster contributors do more than spot a missing comma—they give you suggestions on how to make a story funnier or how to make your argument air-tight. People tend to underestimate how much better their writing can be. We’ve found it's hardest to get somebody to post a first draft in Foster, because often they don't think they need an editor. But once they do, more than half post another draft.<p>A few of our early users are Hacker News regulars who have used Foster to improve their work before submitting it here. These were both sent through Foster prior to being submitted to HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304667" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304667</a> (this post landed the author a job).<p>And while it’s exciting to see individual pieces improve, many writers tell us that using Foster has elevated their writing skills generally (<a href="https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1535404631123173376" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1535404631123173376</a>)
and motivated them to write more (<a href="https://twitter.com/liuxi/status/1511191555796729862" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/liuxi/status/1511191555796729862</a>).<p>Today, we’re opening up Foster to anybody who writes. You can go to <a href="https://foster.co" rel="nofollow">https://foster.co</a>, pick a plan based on how much you write, and install our Chrome extension (you can also submit drafts via our web app). We’re giving free trials today, so you should see a promo code when you go to pick a plan. If you don’t see a code and still want to try Foster, shoot us a note at [email protected].<p>We hope you’ll share your input, questions, and suggestions in this thread. We’re excited to hear what you think!
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Title: I've been a fan of comics since I watched the X-Men Animated Series in the 90s, and I fell in love with collecting original comic art when I got my first Jim Lee sketch in high school.<p>But, after missing out on some original comic art pieces because I didn't know when they were added for sale on websites, I decided to take it upon myself to make an app that monitors original comic art sites and emails/texts you when new art drops.<p>It's called Nerd Crawler and I'm building it myself so there might be some bugs but I'm hoping it helps comic art collectors. It works with over 40 original comic art websites like Albert Moy (Jim Lee's art dealer), Cadence Comic Art, Artcoholics, a bunch of Big Cartel sites like Jim Cheung / Jason Fabok / Dustin Nguyen, Greg Capullo Art, Skottie Young, and more.<p>It's free to try @ <a href="https://www.nerdcrawler.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nerdcrawler.com/</a>, and you can upgrade to a paid plan if you want text messages alerts or want to check sites every 10 minutes or 1 minute.<p>From a technical standpoint, my tech stack is:<p>- Ruby on Rails<p>- Hosted on Heroku<p>- Emails sent by Mailgun<p>- Texts sent by Twilio<p>- Images hosted on Cloudinary<p>- Credit card charging handled by Stripe and the new, low-code Stripe Checkout<p>The minimum viable product was built in about a week with minor bug fixes and new features added weekly.<p>If you have any feedback, have art sites you wanted added, or questions, let me know!
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Title: Just got this email from Coinbase, and it seems one by one the promises of crypto of the last several years are evaporating:<p>Starting on June 27, Coinbase will introduce some changes required by local regulations. Specifically, when you send crypto outside of Coinbase, we are required to ask you for the name and physical address of the recipient and the purpose of transfer. In certain cases we may require you to link a Coinbase Wallet to your main Coinbase account in order to send crypto assets off the Coinbase platform. This allows us to verify that you control the Coinbase Wallet that is receiving the crypto assets.
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Title: When writing suggestions in code reviews I have used all of these forms:<p>* Should we extract this to a separate function?<p>* Could you extract this to a separate function?<p>* I would extract this to a separate function.<p>* This could be extracted to a separate function.<p>* This should be extracted to a separate function.<p>* Extract this to a separate function.<p>As you can see, these have very different tones and I would like to be more consistent and as constructive as possible. Is there some general best practice for this? Are you or your team using a set of rules or guidelines?
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Title: Hi fellow HNers!<p>I have a fairly strong background in cloud system and application architecture. However I feel that I’m sometimes limited by my technical writing skills to communicate my ideas and concepts. Any advice on how to take ones technical writing skills to the next level?<p>I’m willing to do what it takes, being online courses, contributing to OSS process work or what else you might suggest.<p>Looking forward to tap into the HN hive mind on this topic!<p>Thanks,
Max
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Title: Opsflow cofounder here! We launched a bunch of things recently, some of them well received (Terragen, AWS Bootstrap). It's no secret that AWS is hard, and our mission is to make it simple.<p>What HN crowd helped us realise is that the UI was still not simple enough. Rather confusing in fact.<p>So in the last couple weeks we have radically simplified it based on your feedback. We have removed the unnecessarily complex concepts like Services and Environments - it's just Apps now. All options are now on the new Settings screen. Instead of Infrastructure and Software deployments there is now a sequence of steps.<p>Check it out - and tell us what you think!<p>Here's our launch on ProductHunt: <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/opsflow" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/opsflow</a>
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Title: We have finally launched Domfetch!<p>Domfetch is a free platform to find expired domains. Users can search through domains that are (almost) available for registration. We enrich these domains with extra data to help users find valuable domains.<p>We created this tool because we found the (free) alternatives lacking certain data, such as Moz, Alexa history (we check 5 years of data) & search volume history over a period of 1 year.<p>Let us know what you think! More features and tld's will be added in the near future.
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Title: I recently bought a Brother colour laser printer, with the understanding that OEM toner was not chip-locked.<p>Wanting to update the firmware, and being on Linux, I started to look at ways to do it manually.<p>After finding a few guides to do so manually:<p><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_problems#Updating_the_firmware" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_probl...</a>
<a href="https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2015/11/updating-hl3040cn-firmware.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2015/11/updating-hl3040cn...</a><p>I decided to poll my printer. I then noticed an OSS/python project to just handle it via a package. However, I noticed this issue:<p><a href="https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9">https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9</a><p>Startled, I Googled... and the printer listed is an inkjet. For a second I was relieved, but then started to search for other issues, and found this:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mfc_firmware_update_nongenuine_toner_now/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mf...</a><p>Not only is the above, post-sale firwmware update a change of what I understood to be Brother's historical policy, the <i>method</i> is beyond evil.<p>Brother seems to be apparently accepting the ink, but then <i>purposefully</i> making the print quality poorer.<p>I literally cannot think of something, product wise, more evil. It's one thing to say "We refuse to use 3rd party toner", and another to <i>accept</i> the toner, and then just purposefully print like garbage.<p>I was a happy HP customer for years, and only switched to Brother (which, by all accounts, is a much smaller / less renowned company) for the sole reason to not be vendor locked.<p>I will likely return this printer, but thought HN should know what Brother seems to be up to.
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Title: What were some side projects of yours that you deep down knew nobody would deem very valuable yet kept spending quite some time on?<p>And do you regret those endeavours?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>What do you use to manage projects or features for your projects?<p>I am trying to discover some tools that maybe are a combination of Basecamp and Github/Gitlab issues.<p>I want to be able to have discussions there but to include also non-technical people, while also being able to plan for technical work.<p>I tried Asana, but it did not work in our team. It seemed very crowded UI.<p>We also tried various other projects, including Basecamp. It is the closest one to what I am looking for but the todolist management is a bit hard to use.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I have a deaf team mate. He is a great admin who is hungry to learn more. We have moved our meetings to Microsoft Teams for live captions. This has helped all of us immensely.<p>I've read older HN submissions from deaf community members with great ideas. The articles are old, and I'm sure there are new ideas.<p>Please help me to help my team mate.<p>Thanks in advance.<p>*Edit - I forgot to mention we're 99% remote. Thanks for every suggestion so far.
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Title: I know there's discussion around RSS readers every here or there on HN. I'm curious about how many of you (especially those of you who write code) interact with publishing to or subscribing from RSS feeds as part of your work or side projects, and if you have any common pain points or favorite tools/libraries (and if it's something you can share here, please do!).
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Title: Both DALL-E from OpenAI and Github CoPilot work on the same philosophy. While one receives a massive praise online the other is being criticised that it's working with copied code and just pastes copied code.<p>Why is this difference in opinion?
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Title: Hi HN, it’s bad out here and I need advice on the most humane way to lay people off. It’s more than half of the company, the company itself is small (less than 50 people) and very close. I’m the head of engineering, so I have a large share of those kind folks to let go. Literally I have to lay off friends.<p>I know we’re gonna do the basics as best we can of course: more than 2 months’ redundancy package, try and find roles for people as best we can, do the paperwork right so they can claim anything they need to.<p>I want to know your advice for the human element; how to tell people and not be cruel. How to balance that against honestly trying to save what we can.<p>Eg. I hate that when I read stories about layoffs it always comes as this awful surprise and then you have to immediately leave, it’s so abrupt how can you say goodbye properly? But that seems to be some protection against someone acting in a way they normally wouldn’t and doing something destructive in the heat of the moment. How can we possibly preserve both properties?<p>We want to tell people one-at-a-time and in-person. Is this best? Why do companies even mass-tell people? But then I don’t know how anyone can keep their composure going back to their desk to pick things up though... Quickly word would get out, diminishing the point of telling people one-at-a-time. Where to have these conversations is also an issue, the office is pretty small. And we need to have a lot of them in just a short time too.<p>It’s going to be awful regardless, but I would like any advice on how to make it the least awful. The least-awful, that is, for those who have to leave; since if I get the dubious privilege of riding the death spiral a bit longer then we can leave my own feelings out of this.
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Title: As of a few minutes ago, it prompted me to update my settings:<p>"GitHub Copilot can allow or block suggestions matching public code. See GitHub Copilot FAQ to learn more."<p>The FAQ appears to be missing.
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Title: Dear HN,<p>I have the opportunity to move from Berlin to Princeton, NJ, in relation to my wife's job.
I wonder if it makes sense financially and I thought to ask the community.<p>A bit of context: I turned 50 this year, I have 25+ years of coding/system design/tech lead experience. I have mostly worked as a freelance "on-site", sometimes for short periods of time, some other times I stayed with the same client for years.<p>These days I work on a lot of cloud migration projects, with a strong focus on AWS.<p>So, coming to my question, I have no frame of reference regarding salaries on the East Coast, especially for freelance jobs.<p>I did some research and the salaries for permanent positions in the area are significantly lower than my current income in Europe. I assume that I could potentially earn more by engaging clients on the west coast, but my US network is non existent.<p>Is the free-lancing that I'm used to do in Europe even a thing in the US? (Working for a client for months - at least 6 - on a daily rate which is higher than a normal salary because I can be released at any time plus I bear all the cost of employment including health).
Also, can my age represent a problem for employers?<p>Sorry for the fuzziness of the question, I hope it does make some sense.<p>EDIT: my wife's company will provide a work permit for me, but at this stage I don't know which type.
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Title: Free or paid. Both tech and non-tech (scrum, PMP etc)
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Title: Decided to remake my old pathfinding project to hexagonal tiles. Pretty happy with how it turned out.<p>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/honzaap/Pathfinding" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/honzaap/Pathfinding</a>
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Title: Hey,<p>Wanted to share what my friend and I built — Feather. It provides investors with all imaginable financial data, without breaking the bank. Effectively 90 percent of the Bloomberg Terminal, at 5 percent of the price.<p>We just opened sign ups for early access — all you need to sign up is your email address. We’ll open access to the software in order of sign ups, and we’d love to have you onboard.<p>Check it out!<p><a href="https://try-feather.com" rel="nofollow">https://try-feather.com</a>
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Title: I built an app for my university in the US. They love using it. Now I want to charge a subscription ($16 per month), but I am an international student with F1 Visa. Should I form an LLC or incorporate? If yes, how, should I find a US partner? Or, I shouldn’t charge them at all?
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Title: Alternatively: What's the current status of Personally Identifying Information and language models?<p>I try to hide my real name whenever possible, out of an abundance of caution. You can still find it if you search carefully, but in today's hostile internet I see this kind of soft pseudonymity as my digital personal space, and expect to have it respected.<p>When playing around in GPT-3 I tried making sentences with my username. Imagine my surprise when I see it spitting out my (globally unique, unusual) full name!<p>Looking around, I found a paper that says language models spitting out personal information is a problem[1], a Google blog post that says there's not much that can be done[2], and an article that says OpenAI might automatically replace phone numbers in the future but other types of PII are harder to remove[3]. But nothing on what is <i>actually</i> being done.<p>If I had found my personal information on Google search results, or Facebook, I could ask the information to be removed, but GPT-3 seems to have no such support. Are we supposed to accept that large language models may reveal private information, with no recourse?<p>I don't care much about my <i>name</i> being public, but I don't know what else it might have memorized (political affiliations? Sexual preferences? Posts from 13-year old me?). In the age of GDPR this feels like an enormous regression in privacy.<p>EDIT: a small thank you for everybody commenting so far for not directly linking to specific results or actually writing my name, however easy it might be.<p>If my request for pseudonymity sounds strange given my lax infosec:<p>- I'm more worried about the consequences of language models in general than my own case, and<p>- people have done a lot more for a lot less name information[4].<p>[1]: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/12/privacy-considerations-in-large.html" rel="nofollow">https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/12/privacy-considerations-in-...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/18/openai_gpt3_data/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/18/openai_gpt3_data/</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex#New_York_Times_controversy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex#New_York_Time...</a>
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Title: - Every time you feel the urge to check your phone, don’t do it immediately.<p>- Count to 10 so that your higher self is engaged. Now ask yourself “do I need this to achieve my goals?” The answer can be yes or no, of course.<p>- You don’t have to avoid using the phone completely. You can answer yes at times if it’s justified. Just be able to intervene between the phone and your intuitive addictive self, and make a conscious decision.
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Title: This started out as a static HTML file, being used by some developers at my current employer to document "domain terminology" relevant to products we're building.<p>Soon it became too much work to update the items in the HTML manually, so I added a JavaScript-based editor. It relies on a tiny Node.js server to write changes back to the HTML file.<p>Not as user-friendly as a "normal" web-based application, but it does mean we can keep the HTML file under version control and follow our normal development process for making/tracking changes.
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Title: Hi everybody, I just ported some 2018-scalajs games to Scala 3, it is amazing that such 8-year old code base required less than an hour to get all the games working in Scala 3.<p>I encourage you to try Scala.js/Scala3 which work really nice.
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Title: CRProxy is a new reverse web proxy service.<p>We have a generous free plan that includes the ability to use custom domains and semi-custom sub-domains. We have reasonably priced plans with good bandwidth and no additional usage charges.<p>Please give it a try and let me know what you think.<p>Thank you,<p>David
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Title: I own four different Apple computers -- a 2017 MacBook Pro, an M1 MacBook Air, an M1 MacBook Pro, and most recently a maxed out Mac Studio. I also have had in that timespan three different Windows desktops that I have built and a ThinkPad running Windows or Linux depending on the mood.<p>I have spent countless dollars on cables and adapters in an attempt to find the magic combination. I have read DisplayPort specs, I know every brand of certified cable. I now know way more than I would ever care to know about DisplayPort and HDMI protocols. I have tried 4 different brands and models of monitor. For one of those models, I had three of the exact same model. All combinations work flawlessly with anything that is not one of the Apple devices. I have all but eliminated any of these components being the problem.<p>Depending on the device and the day I will get:<p>- Visual artifacts like snow, lines, flickering<p>- Failure to support native resolution on any high resolution monitors<p>- Failure to support high refresh rates<p>- Forced scaling, detecting monitor as a TV and using interlacing<p>- Most reliably of all, failure to wake from sleep without plugging/unplugging; doing a dance with power cycling my monitor or device until it finally works, or just giving up and logging into my Windows PC because today I can't use my Apple computer<p>It's never all at once, but it's always at least one thing. In the time of owning any of these devices, I have without exaggeration, not once had the expected experience of sitting down at my desk and starting my day without fighting my computer to work properly with my monitor.<p>Searching the internet, I can't be alone. All of the problems I have, as far as I can tell, other people experience. And as far as I can tell, no one has an answer. I'm at a breaking point after ordering this $4k desktop Mac Studio and waiting 3 months for it to arrive. I hoped that, being a device that requires an external display, they at least worked it out with this one.<p>They did not.<p>So how does the entire professional industry working with Apple computers manage to start their day, every day, like this? Am I insane? Is no one else dealing with this? Are you all just using the built in display? This has been going on for YEARS for me, across multiple generations of devices.
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Title: I recently came across some family names that I was previously unaware of. Some family members had been separated, killed, or went missing during WW2. Are there good places to search for records, especially those from Germany, Ukraine and Russia? I'd be especially grateful for some sort of adoption records from Germany from the mid/late 1940's. Also wonderful would be birth/death records.
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Title: I self taught back end, and can now make full apps with ruby on rails. Unsurprisingly, my finished applications never look quite right. I use bootstrap which helps a lot.<p>I think the problem is mostly with the layout of elements on the page. I try not to overdo things with unnecessary elements, and am at a point where each individual piece of the webpage (e.g. a button, a logo, a navbar, a form) looks fine <i>on its own</i>, but doesn't look professional <i>as a whole</i> (for reasons I'm not yet perceptive enough to detect - I can tell it's clunky but I can't articulate <i>why</i>).<p>I know 30 minutes is ambitious, but I'm working on an MVP and don't have a lot of time <i>right now</i> (in the future, absolutely).<p>Any recommendations for crash courses, videos, articles, or tutorials greatly appreciated! Particularly interested to hear from anyone who wasn't a design 'natural', and had to self teach as I am.
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Title: I've always been curious about real-time multiplayer user interfaces.<p>When I found out about CRDTs and Yjs[1] I thought they could serve as a solid base for a project like that.<p>So I built this pretty simple desktop-like UI (heavily inspired by lifeat.io) and used Yjs to replicate the whole UI state among multiple peers, creating the experience of a unique interface.<p>Try online: <a href="https://yboard.lol" rel="nofollow">https://yboard.lol</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/yjs/yjs" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yjs/yjs</a>
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Title: Everything self-hosted has its maintenance tax but why Kubernetes (especially self hosted) is so hard? What aspect is that makes Kubernetes operationally so hard?<p>- Is it the networking model that is simple from the consumption standpoint but has too many moving parts for it to be implemented?<p>- Is it the storage model, CSI and friends?<p>- Is it the bunch of controller loops doing their own things with nothing that gives a "wholesome" picture to identify the root cause?<p>For me personally, first and foremost thing on my mind is the networking details. They are "automatically generated" by each CNI solution in slightly different ways and constructs (iptables, virtual bridges, routing daemons, eBPF etc etc) and because they are generated, it is not uncommon to find hundreds of iptable rules and chains on a single node and/or similar configuration.<p>Being automated, these solutions generate tons of components/configurations which in case of trouble, even if one has mastery on them, would take some time to hoop through all the components (virtual interfaces, virtual bridges, iptable chains and rules, ipvs entries etc) to identify what's causing the trouble. Essentially, one pretty much has to be a network engineer because besides the underlying/physical (or the virtual, I mean cloud VPCs) network, k8s pulls its very own network (pod network, cluster network) implemented on the software/configuration layer which has to be fully understood to be able to maintained.<p>God forbid, if the CNI solution has some edge case or for some other misconfiguration, it keeps generating inadequate or misconfigured rules/routes etc resulting in a broken "software defined network" that I cannot identify in time on a production system is my nightmare and I don't know how to reduce that risk.<p>What's your Kubernetes nightmare?<p>EDIT: formating
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Title: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking? With so many rescinding on offers and freezing hiring, is there a shift where remote jobs are going more global and in-person staying local?<p>Are layoffs making finding remote jobs easy or more difficult.<p>Are indeed, linkedin best places to look for jobs or is working via recruiter more beneficial during these times?<p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/06/27/layoffs-netflix-coinbase-tech-recession-worries/7701262001/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/06/27/layoffs-netfl...</a><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-companies-ramp-layoffs-hiring-133854014.html" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-companies-ramp-layoffs-h...</a>
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Title: Hi everyone — thanks for your interest in PRQL — let us know any questions or feedback!<p>We're excited to be releasing 0.2[1], the first version of PRQL you can use in your own projects. It wouldn't exist without the feedback we got from HackerNews when we originally posted the proposal.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/prql/prql/releases/tag/0.2.0" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prql/prql/releases/tag/0.2.0</a>
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Title: I have (or had as it seems now) a spreadsheet in google docs tracking important business metrics. I was trying to look at it today and got the message:<p>"We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service. If you feel this is in error, please request a review. Find out more about this topic at the Google Drive Help Center."<p>If I click the request a review I get:<p>"404. That's an error. Sorry, this item cannot be found or is not available."<p>This spreadsheet simply had metrics and domains. I find it near impossible it was violating any terms of service unless there is a shadow blacklist of domain names which somehow trigger a file being removed. And I'm left with no recourse to even request a review or get my file back?<p>I turned on airplane mode on my phone and was able to get an old cached copy, export was only possible as a PDF. So at least I have a slightly stale version of raw data that way.<p>Even as a paying customer, this is pretty embarrassing and there seems no recourse is possible?
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Title: Most of the blogs I read about whiteboarding and leetcode style questions come together with hate. “It doesn’t test real world scenarios” or “not proof of how well I’m gonna do at the job”.<p>Do you agree with those? Or is it just the case that the tests are designed to see if the person applying is actually really smart and interviewers want to work with really smart people, and those complaining about these types of questions are just not good enough?<p>Honest question and I’m not taking any side although I admit it I tried to phrase it more towards getting favourable FAANG responses
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Title: COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly.<p>I can learn COBOL from a book in general terms, but where would I practice with real-world legacy COBOL systems?<p>It's not as though I can do a COBOL side-project to learn... or can I?<p>How does one go about learning COBOL in 2022 (from "scratch", while already being a working dev) in order to niche down as a COBOL specialist dev?
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Title: I am using awesome NextJS and serverless-nextjs and deploy my app to CloudFront and Lambda@Edge.<p>I made a mistake and accidentally created a serverless function that called itself. In a recursive loop, with a 30s timeout. I thought I fixed it and deployed the code to the dev environment.<p>I have had an AWS Billing alert (Budgets) set up to prompt me when my monthly budget goes over $300 (my usual bill is $200/month).<p>Imagine the terror when I woke up the next day to see the AWS Billing alert email saying I already owed $1,484! I removed a function and deployed it again in 30 minutes, but it was too late. It has already run for 24 hours, using over 70 million Gb-Second!<p>Only after that I've learned that AWS Billing alerts do not work this way for CloudFront. You get delayed information on charges because they collect them from all regions.<p>On the following day, the bill settled at a shocking $4600. This is more than we have ever spent on AWS all time.<p>CloudFront includes the AWS Shield Standard feature, but somehow, it was not activated for this case (Lambda@Edge calling itself via CloudFront).<p>Now, I understand that I should have created CloudWatch alarms, which would alert me when the number of requests exceeds the limit. The problem is, that they need to be set up per region, and I got CloudFront charges from all points of presence.<p>I am a big proponent of the serverless approach. It makes it easy to scale and develop things (e.g., you get PR review version branches for free, both frontend and backend code like Vercel does). But now, I am unsure because such unexpected charges can ruin a side-project or emerging startup.<p>Now I am waiting on a response from AWS Support on these charges; maybe they can help me waive part of that.<p>What is your experience with it? Would you recommend to use to build a new product if you are bootstrapped, 3-person startup?
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Title: I need a little amount of money to sustain myself while doing open-source and building my own product.<p>I imagine that finding a full-time job won't be hard. However, I have no idea where to approach this when it comes to short-term work. I have a lot of experience and I think I can be useful to a lot of teams, even in the short-term.<p>Do you have ideas on how I can approach this?<p>Update: I think either 2-4 week project or 2-3 hours a day for a longer period will work for me.
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Title: I've been working on building "the fastest news website" for a few reasons:<p>1. I got tired of waiting for news websites to load, so I made a text-only news website that only has major news headlines.<p>2. I wanted to demonstrate to the world that if you want to build something really fast on the web, you can do it without loads of JavaScript.<p>3. I wanted to show that you can design something that looks good without having tons of images, etc.<p>I put together the speed page at <a href="https://legiblenews.com/speed" rel="nofollow">https://legiblenews.com/speed</a> to hold my website to be more accountable for speed, but it's also interesting to see how fast other news websites are (or in most cases, are not).<p>Some feedback I'm interested in receiving:<p>1. What's your take both on the speed ranking methodology for Legible News?<p>2. Are my descriptions of the metrics for a non-web developer reasonable? Example of that at <a href="https://legiblenews.com/speed/websites/associated-press" rel="nofollow">https://legiblenews.com/speed/websites/associated-press</a>, and if you click through the links on that table, you see a description like <a href="https://legiblenews.com/speed/audits/cumulative-layout-shift" rel="nofollow">https://legiblenews.com/speed/audits/cumulative-layout-shift</a><p>Sorry ahead of time, but I can't fit all news websites on the speed report. I had to target general news websites, not ones for specific niches like HN for Tech. If there's something you think that's missing please post it, but I can't promise that I'll add it.<p>If you like it, please consider subscribing! Thanks!
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Title: Hi families, I'm an expert in K12 education, with a focus on secular homeschooling, mastery learning and remote learning. I wrote hundreds of blog entries during the pandemic, and at the moment I'm short on new ideas. I'm shamelessly looking for new topics and questions to write about for my blog and would love to hear some of your most pressing questions and problems. Thanks so much for your help!
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Title: Curious what tools you use that you absolutely adore. For me I sing the praises of slack, calendly, zoom, excel, and triplebyte to anyone who will listen.
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Title: I’m curious for those who receive a significant percentage of their compensation in stock or options if your total comp has drastically changed this year, and if your employer is actually doing anything to make up for it or not.
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Title: I’ve got a terrible memory compared to some people I know, and am looking for ways to improve general memory, not with something like Anki
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Title: How do you build auth for your SaaS apps?<p>Do you use a library like NextAuth? Do you use a provider like Auth0 or Supabase Auth? Do you build your own auth?<p>I'm building an app using Next.js and Prisma. I'm currently considering Supabase Auth, Auth0, or writing the auth myself. People keep telling me that writing auth myself is a bad idea, and creating truly secure auth is really hard. Although I tried implementing auth with Supabase Auth, and I tried writing my own auth with Google OAuth and Magic Links, and my own auth ended up feeling much nicer and simpler.<p>I'm looking for some advice from more experienced people. What do you use? What would you recommend? What are the pros and cons of various approaches?
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Title: We could have switched most of the planet to pure nuclear energy decades ago. If you believe climate change is an existential threat, how can you be against nuclear energy?<p>We are at a point where huge investments in renewables are becoming a reality, but the damage is already done.
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Title: Hi, we’re Ido & Eduardo, the founders of Ploomber. We’re launching Ploomber Cloud today, a service that allows data scientists to scale their work from their laptops to the cloud.<p>Our open-source users (<a href="https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber</a>) usually start their work on their laptops; however, often, their local environment falls short, and they need more resources. Typical use cases run out of memory or optimize models to squeeze out the best performance. Ploomber Cloud eases this transition by allowing users to quickly move their existing projects into the cloud without extra configurations. Furthermore, users can request custom resources for specific tasks (vCPUs, GPUs, RAM).<p>Both of us experienced this challenge firsthand. Analysis usually starts in a local notebook or script, and whenever we wanted to run our code on a larger infrastructure we had to refactor the code (i.e. rewrite our notebooks using Kubeflow’s SDK) and add a bunch of cloud configurations. Ploomber Cloud is a lot simpler, if your notebook or script runs locally, you can run it in the cloud with no code changes and no extra configuration. Furthermore, you can go back and forth between your local/interactive environment and the cloud.<p>We built Ploomber Cloud on top of AWS. Users only need to declare their dependencies via a requirements.txt file, and Ploomber Cloud will take care of making the Docker image and storing it on ECR. Part of this implementation is open-source and available at: <a href="https://github.com/ploomber/soopervisor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ploomber/soopervisor</a><p>Once the Docker image is ready, we spin up EC2 instances to run the user’s pipeline distributively (for example, to run hundreds of ML experiments in parallel) and store the results in S3. Users can monitor execution through the logs and download artifacts. If source code hasn’t changed for a given pipeline task, we use cached artifacts and skip redundant computations, severely cutting each run's cost, especially for pipelines that require GPUs.<p>Users can sign up to Ploomber Cloud for free and get started quickly. We made a significant effort to simplify the experience (<a href="https://docs.ploomber.io/en/latest/cloud/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.ploomber.io/en/latest/cloud/index.html</a>). There are three plans (<a href="https://ploomber.io/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://ploomber.io/pricing/</a>): the first is the Community plan, which is free with limited computing. The Teams plan has a flat $50 monthly and usage-based billing, and the Enterprise plan includes SLAs and custom pricing.<p>We’re thrilled to share Ploomber Cloud with you! So if you’re a data scientist who has experienced these endless cycles of getting a machine and going through an ops team, an ML engineer who helps data scientists scale their work, or you have any feedback, please share your thoughts! We love discussing these problems since exchanging ideas sparks exciting discussions and brings our attention to issues we haven’t considered before!<p>You may also reach out to me at [email protected].
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Title: Hey, Hugo from Infracost (<a href="https://www.infracost.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.infracost.io</a>) here. Infracost shows engineers the cost of each Terraform change in CI/CD before launching resources. When something changes, it posts a comment with the cloud cost impact. e.g. you’ve added two instances and volumes and have changed an instance type from medium to large; this will increase your bill by 25% next month from $1000 to $1250 per month.<p>Over the last few months, I've been working on a native evaluation for Terraform. Previously we relied on the Terraform CLI to fetch cloud resource information, which was a little slow and cumbersome.<p>Native parsing is not only lightning-fast, but it means we have contextual file information, which allows us to try a load of cool new things. For example, we could provide real-time suggestions to optimise your cloud costs as you write your infrastructure code! This VSCode extension is the result of a few weeks of hacking away whilst I should have been relaxing in the sun in Italy... time better spent, I think!<p>We're excited about the possibilities of directly integrating with editors. There is so much we can do to make DevOps lives easier when optimising cloud spend. Right now, we're looking for your feedback on this initial version of the extension. It currently ships with:<p>1. Show a snapshot of the total cost of resources right above their Terraform definitions. Updated on file save.<p>2. Resource and module blocks support showing cost estimates, including 3rd party module blocks.<p>3. A cost overview web-view shows a detailed breakdown of what components affect the price.<p>Please note this is an early release of the VSCode extension, so there will likely be bugs. If you get stuck, please raise an issue (<a href="https://github.com/infracost/vscode-infracost/issues" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/infracost/vscode-infracost/issues</a>), and we'll help you out asap.<p>We’d love to get your feedback on this extension, mainly what you think it’s missing and would help your workflow. Head over to the GitHub repo (<a href="https://github.com/infracost/vscode-infracost" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/infracost/vscode-infracost</a>) for more information and installation instructions.
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Title: Hi folks, I've been experimenting with ways to teach people how to write better for a few years. During this time, I've worked in finance, sales, and software -- and everywhere I went, most people didn't write effectively, even when their job depended on it!<p>Learning how to become a better writer is generally not fun...books, lectures, and videos are passive and boring and tedious. Getting feedback from real people is generally most effective, but difficult and time-consuming.<p>Brevity 500 is my attempt at creating a learning experience that is active, engaging, and NOT tedious. It offers static human-generated advice along with real human feedback for paid users.<p>So far, in early testing, the games seem to appeal most to marketers and salespeople, but as a technical writer and developer myself, I think these games can help anyone build a strong foundation to become better at any kind of non-fiction writing.<p>Try it out and let me know what you think!
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