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Title: I’ve tried building a habit to listen to podcasts but to no avail. I don’t feel like I’ve found the right ones yet that fit into my sweet spot. I’m interested in a few topics: biographies, software design, and learning about advanced financial investing (e.g. private equity).<p>What are you listening to? Would love recommendations.
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Title: Somehow it just got me: Linux HowTos haven't been created or maybe even updated since ca. 2007.<p><a href="https://www.linuxhowtos.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linuxhowtos.org/</a><p>I haven't been using them for last 20 years... I still remember how useful they were in my early Linux days in 1999-2002. I will never forget the one about making coffee (<a href="http://fotis.home.cern.ch/fotis/Coffee.html" rel="nofollow">http://fotis.home.cern.ch/fotis/Coffee.html</a>). I made the relay circuit built into a power supply and that was so much fun!<p>But now they are all forgotten. Dead even. Why?
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Title: Easily perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on PDFs. `pdf2searchablepdf input.pdf` = voila! "input_searchable.pdf" is created & now has searchable text
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Title: Is there a general law that can be used to make Language Models (LM) such as the incoming GPT-4 __not__ use our data? Say you're a blogger and don't want your content to be used in the training dataset. What options are available?<p>Is it ethical that OpenAI, MS, Google, and others monetize their AI models while using the web data without asking for permission from the authors?
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Title: Many aeons ago I read a short story in a SciFi anthology with the following plot, as I remember it:<p><i>A man ingests Nanobots [?] which travel though his body, fixing disease and repairing damages, etc. Then they start to take over, improving on his human biology --improving his senses & strength, etc. Eventually, they begin to expand outside his physical form, 'integrating' him into the fabric of his house -growing parts of him into the electrical and plumbing systems, etc.</i><p>Note the 'as I remember it' so this may be, at least partially, inaccurate. But, given the germ of the plot has stuck in my noggin all these years, I'd love to find that story and read it again.<p>Anyone recognise it?
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Title: So the CVE-2020-11470 is back.<p>“This effectively disables code signature verification for its dynamic libraries and enables a code injection attack that Wardle calls "dylib proxying". It's not clear why Zoom uses this exception since its own libraries appear to be properly signed.”<p><a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3535789/weakness-in-zoom-for-macos-allows-local-attackers-to-hijack-camera-and-microphone.amp.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.csoonline.com/article/3535789/weakness-in-zoom-f...</a><p>Check latest pkg with Suspicious Package [0] analyzer.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/</a>
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Title: Things you made that could be valuable to other people if they used it, but which you abandoned because you enjoyed making the thing more than you would have enjoyed marketing it.
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Title: Hi,
I'm a senior dev who currently found himself working with C. On one hand I love it as it is familiar to me and I "get" it. OTOH I'm afraid it is regressing my future prospects as many consider it obsolete language and I'm in a market dominated by web dev and java enterprise.<p>So I'm thinking of investing in learning a more contemporary tech stack to stay relevant and employable. Doing mostly systems work (performance matters which is why we write in C) I was thinking maybe rust is a natural step for me but then again I worry that it won't get much traction in companies (lots of pushback from devs and management invested in older stacks, learning curve, not time tested etc).<p>Anyway. The real question is how you decide where to invest your time/energy next? I don't know of any method to attack this problem other than let the circumstances choose for me.<p>Thanks
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Title: For example, usually asking someone out on a date has huge asymmetric upside. You might hit it off and end up being in a happy relationship. If not, you'd just be a little embarrassed and maybe awkward with the person afterward.<p>Investing in call options on AMD in 2014 or Tesla in 2019 also had huge asymmetric upside. It was clear that these stocks had massive risks, but while the upside was potentially huge, the downside was capped at -100%.<p>What other examples are there?<p>Also welcome examples of things with asymmetric downside like texting while driving.
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Title: Curious to hear the community’s perspective on where our next move should be.<p>I’m an engineering manager at a fully remote US company with long-term plans to stay (and even if not, no desire to return to the office regularly). I don’t drive but like to walk to the supermarket and restaurants. My wife doesn’t like living in a big city, so we’re in the burbs within walking distance of a little “downtown” area.<p>It’s a bit of an unhappy medium because the homes we want still cost $1M, yet it’s a long and limited walk. Plus we’re ready for something new. We’d likely both be happier in a town, living just off some Main Street with 20 or so shops. The city is great but honestly I don’t need more than a good diner, a supermarket, and a friendly bar. Nice to haves are a pleasant climate (not too cold), an airport within an hour or so, and decent public schools.<p>I’m asking here because I hear so much about NYC/SF tech workers being set loose by remote work and leaving. I’ve experienced this with colleagues relocating to SC, Lancaster PA, small towns in Maryland… etc.<p>Any ideas on whether this mid-sized town dream exists, ideas for cities, and/or how we’d go about finding it?
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Title: previously AWS IP 50.112.136.166, now M5 hosting IP 209.216.230.240<p>Glad to see it back on bare metal. Thanks HN team for all the hard work!<p>(Yes, I set up monitoring for it haha)
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Title: It's a big deal.<p>- Teapodo now supports adding audio effects to tracks by mounting VST3 (Windows and macOS) and AudioUnit (macOS) plugins.<p>- Teapodo for Windows now has an installer.
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Title: I'm an average developer. Been doing it 15 years. All the vacancies in my field now seem to have 300+ applicants.<p>~60% of the jobs are with outsourcing companies like toptal, gigster and so on.<p>My labour is a commodity but even lower paying jobs expects you to be a superstar leetcoder, with the wherewithal to go through 6-8 interviews and IQ test.<p>I don't see progress in my career, i hate technology, i hate what this industry has become - it's not something I want to do anymore.<p>Nearing my 40s, so my profile is less appealing to employers, this field is very oriented to young people.<p>Anyone managed to move from front-end to another role, while leveraging your existing work history?<p>Appreciate any guidance, thanks.
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Title: A few weeks ago, I asked if I could see your cheatsheets (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928736" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928736</a>) and I was really impressed by all the high quality responses!<p>Today I'm asking about your scripts.<p>Almost every engineer I know has a collection of scripts/utilities for automating ${something}. I'm willing to bet that HN users have some of the most interesting scripts on the internet.<p>So that said, could I please see your scripts?<p>I'll go first: <a href="https://github.com/fastily/autobots" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fastily/autobots</a>
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Title: Hello friends at HN
For the past 3 years we have been arranging our physical textbook series and the first one has been published.<p>You can view sample chapters and see that the book is printed on premium, photo-quality paper here:<p><a href="https://japanesecomplete.com/book-1" rel="nofollow">https://japanesecomplete.com/book-1</a><p>In true hacker ethos, Japanese Complete was a project started to address a need the founders had and now it’s turning into a tangible product so it is quite exciting for us and we appreciate your continued support.<p>All the material in the first book is available with a free online account on our online curriculum, only that it is much more beautifully laid out for convenient look-up in the book. A much more compelling representation down to the feel of the cover and the weight of the text in your hands like fine silverware.<p>Please only get the book if you can afford it, because as mentioned you can also get the same course material with a starter account at no cost to you.<p>We developed a lot of innovations for teaching and acquiring Japanese rapidly and to-remember. Please ask any (sincere) questions here.
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Title: There was a recent, highly upvoted article about the pains of Bluetooth: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162131</a><p>Summarizing only a tiny fraction of the complaints:<p>- Connecting can make devices do weird stuff (play default songs, etc.)<p>- Pairing multiple devices leads to unpredictable behavior (random switching, switching when you don't mean to)<p>- Can't connect multiple headsets to one device (why do my wife and I need to share earbuds watching a movie on a plane?)<p>- Can't connect multiple devices to one headset (why can't I listen to music on my computer but still get calls from my phone?)<p>- ...<p>Why don't we have something better already?<p>I'm sure the answer spans a number of different fields/challenges. Standardization, security, adoption, regulation. Are there ongoing efforts to create a new protocol that solves for the problems so apparent with Bluetooth? Are there specific (seemingly) insurmountable roadblocks to improving the status quo?<p>Asking from pure curiosity. And because I spent 5 minutes getting something to correctly pair this morning.
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Title: I use my own domain to host a simple homepage. I also use it as a custom mail domain.
Initially, I bought the domain on godaddy.com when I was getting into the realms of software engineering.
I always found the user interface hard to get used to, but it never bothered me enough for me to transfer my domain.
Especially because I run the DNS through Cloudlfare and, therefore, I have fairly little contact with the interface of godaddy.<p>Today Proton (my mail provider of choice) surprised me with a warning that there were problems with the setup of my domain. A quick research revealed that godaddy had cancelled my domain. It showed up in the Redemption Grace Period. This status code indicates that godaddy has asked the registry to delete my domain. After 30 calendar days + 5 days following the end of the redemption period, my domain is purged from the registry database and becomes available for registration.<p>I immediately contacted the godaddy support hotline. Mainly because of my mail account and the services connected to it. They confirmed the termination. The reason given was that I had failed to respond to an e-mail - that was sent yesterday on a Sunday(!) at 9:51 PM. Then at 0 o'clock my domain was terminated. So I had a breathtaking 2 hours to respond. Which is especially fun because I go to bed at 10pm. :-D<p>To make matters worse, the mail ended up in the spam folder because Godaddy's reputation seems to be bad and was titled: "Update your privacy settings and personal information.". Even under normal circumstances, I would have ignored this email. How should someone suspect that in a few minutes from now on the own domain is going to be killed.<p>If I understood the service employee correctly, this mail means that something was wrong with my payment data. And indeed, there was an old credit card on file. However, a PayPal address was also stored there, which still worked. Via this address, I was later even debited the penalty fees that I supposedly had to pay.<p>After some back and forth with service, I was then given an ultimatum: Either I pay €150 fine, allegedly required by my government to be charged for domains that enter the grace period. Or I lose the domain.<p>The latter didn't sound very inviting, as I like my domain and also don't feel like switching all accounts to another domain/provider. So I paid the fee.<p>Godaddy confirmed afterwards that there were no further emails or announcements. The service employee even confirmed by phone that apart from the mail and the subsequent generous transition period of 2 hours, there would have been no further information.<p>TL:DR If you have a domain with Godaddy, just make sure that the payment information is correct. Otherwise, it might get expensive.
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Title: For 10 years I've been using a custom email for every retailer I shop at that asks for an email address, always in the form of "[email protected]". I did not keep track of how many custom emails I used (hundreds, easily), but I have received spam from exactly zero of these accounts.<p>The only account that I received is one I used on my public website as a "mailto:" link. 100% of my spam comes from this address. I host on runbox.com.<p>Is the fear of "people selling your email to spammers" a modern myth, or are spam filters that good?<p>I would argue the former since I still get 30 spam emails a day from my website email address, and zero from companies that ask for them.
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Title: Your current IoT Core Services will remain available through August 15, 2023. Start your migration to alternative solutions.
Hello [NAME],<p>We’re writing to let you know that Google Cloud’s IoT Core Service will be discontinued on August 16, 2023 at which point your access to the IoT Core Device Manager APIs will no longer be available. As of that date, devices will be unable to connect to the Google Cloud IoT Core MQTT and HTTP bridges and existing connections will be shut down.<p>Your current IoT Core Services will remain available through August 15, 2023, unless you terminate your usage of IoT Core at an earlier date.<p>What do I need to do?
We recommend that you take action early to migrate from IoT Core to an alternative service. As an initial step, connect with your Google Cloud account manager if you have questions about your migration plans. Your account manager can also help you learn more about Google Cloud partners that offer alternative IoT technology or implementation services that meet your business requirements.<p>Over the next year, we will continue to reach out with additional information to support you during your migration.<p>—The Google Cloud IoT Core Product Team
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Title: Where can I meet people who are serious about working on something together? I've been trying to meet people who may want to be co-founders together or just discuss/hack on some ideas together with the goal of building something bigger.<p>My connections & network is mostly other tech workers, but so far they have at least been honest with me that they're not interested in building a company or products, they are more into enjoying fat paychecks and there's nothing wrong with that. I've tried to do the same, but I would much rather use my paychecks to give me a good runway for the next few years to fully devote to building a company. Unfortunately for me, I didn't study CS at a top uni either, so I guess whatever chance I could have had to meet people in my prime is out of grasp since I've been out of college for years now.<p>tl;dr where can I go to meet "serious" co-founder tier people?
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Title: One of my hobbies is writing userscripts, specifically adblockers for sites I frequent. Facebook in particular proved a great and worthy adversary on that front, thanks to their attempts to thwart my userscripts. Until very recently, they employed a unique combination of obfuscation techniques to prevent adblockers from programmatically identifying and removing their "Sponsored" posts.<p>Anyway, until recently I had a working (albeit hacky) adblock heuristic for Facebook that did the job. However, sometime today I noticed that my script stopped working.<p>Upon further inspection, they seem to have gone back to simply embedding the word "Sponsored" in plaintext, making it trivial for userscripts and adblockers to select and remove these elements.<p>Is it a fluke, or did Facebook just give up fighting adblock?
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Title: By getting into machine or deep learning I mean building upto a stage to do ML/DL research. Applied research or core theory of ML/DL research. Ofcourse, the path to both will quite different.<p>Standing in 2022, what are the best resources for a CS student/decent programmer to get into the field of ML and DL on their own. Resources can be both books or public courses.<p>The target ability:<p>1. To understand the theory behind the algorithms<p>2. To implement an algorithm on a dataset of choice. (Data cleaning and management should also be learned)<p>3. Read research publications and try to implement them.
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Title: Is it just me or are we heading into a future we don't want? I find it weird as a software engineer but sometimes I feel like we're building a tyrannical system of control. An all-encompassing tech monster where we'll be plugged into the matrix by implants, a VR metaverse dominated by super sophisticated ad tech, all controlled by super intelligent AGI that will be owned by an ever richer and smaller tech elite, consuming culture that's increasingly produced by AI (think DALL E and where that's headed...). It sounds like hell on earth to me if I'm honest.<p>Sorry to be such a doomer, and maybe I'm getting old, but so much of where we heading these days fills me with quiet dread.<p>Before someone posts it, I'm well-aware of the Douglas Adam quote...<p>"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."<p>Maybe this is me (I'm 40 something), but maybe, just maybe, I have a point? Talk me out of my despair Hacker News!
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Title: MerLoc is a live AWS Lambda function development and debugging tool. MerLoc allows you to run AWS Lambda functions on your local while they are still part of a flow in the AWS cloud remote.<p>MerLoc makes it possible to
- test your function locally without deploy to the AWS Lambda environment (so no wait for build, package and deploy)
- debug your function by putting breakpoints from your IDE
- hot-reload updated function on your local automatically to apply changes automatically (so again no wait for build, package and deploy)
- run the individual function locally while it is still part of flow shown above and use real requests from the AWS Lambda environment
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Title: Is RSS still actively developed as a protocol? If not, why not? Are there any viable alternatives on the horizon?<p>I find it really troubling that we seem to have resigned ourselves to web content discovery and distribution belonging to corporations like Google and Meta.<p>Also grateful for any reading recommendations on this subject, both on RSS specifically and on the question of web content discovery/distribution broadly. (I’ve read through most of the stories/posts pronouncing RSS dead or resurrecting it and I’m not convinced either way.)
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Title: For the last few years I've slowly been weaning myself off of my phone and social media. I've found that I like not having apps to entertain me every second of the day -- it's nice to be bored while waiting for someone, or to not check my phone in awkward social situations.<p>Does anyone live without a smartphone? What does that look like? Do you feel isolated from your friends/family, or do you have some other more traditional way of keeping contact? Do you think it's beneficial to you?
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Title: As the title states, did you switch to Go/Golang for developing REST api’s or other kinds of web services? What has been your experience? Would you use Go again in the future? Would you rather use something else?
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Title: Allsearch is a tool I made after getting fed up with Google's search results and reading up on conversations on HN about the state of search on the internet.<p>This is a tool I made as a spiritual successor to GnodSearch (<a href="https://www.gnod.com/search/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnod.com/search/</a>), which I've seen in a couple conversations about search on HN. GnodSearch is great, but a bit barebones in terms of looks and functionality; Allsearch is my attempt to build off of it.<p>Similar to Gnod, Allsearch allows you to apply any given search query to a search engine of your choice (either through only keystrokes, or via mouse). However, it also allows you to add your own engines to its catalogue, and allows you to define macros to use multiple engines simultaneously (useful for easily comparing engines).<p>It's not feature complete; there are still some things I'd like to add in. There are way more engines I want to add to it's default catalogue, and I also want to add in the ability to export your settings to allow people to easily share their Allsesarch configurations.<p>Curious about people's thoughts on it :)
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Title: Hi, first time posting here. I'd appreciate any feedback. I've been considering this startup idea for couple years now. The idea is an internet-free and screen-free space that allows the user to do "deep work", read, deliberate, or just do nothing.<p>It's essentially a hotel room, but only bookable for one person, for a few hours only. There is no internet provided, and cellular signal is blocked. Alternatively (if blocking cellular signal is infeasible), users are asked to turn over their devices at the counter or have the devices "locked" in a "faraday box" for the stay duration. In the room, distraction and stimulation is kept to the minimum. No screens or ads allowed in the room; and the view from the window would be calming and non-stimulating.<p>The idea is borne out of my exhaustion of living in a hyperdense Asia city, where I am always surrounded by sensory pollutions such as advertisements, city noises, as well as constant phone notifications. I am also the victim of my own internet addictions.<p>To stay focus, I've tried to work in coffee shops. Although I'm generally productive in coffees shops, I often find I couldn't really fully relax or "be myself" in a public space. I tried "staycation" in a real hotel, but the check-in is complicated, the cost is high, and the room is designed more toward leisure and entertainment. It usually lacks a good desk, a good chair; and the high-speed internet is too enticing.<p>Specifically, the space is provided to those who would block out hours from their calendar for "reading" or "writing" but constantly fail to protect that commitment. More broadly, my intuition is that "traveling" to a dedicated offline zone once in a while may be as beneficial as traveling to a different country.<p>I realize the idea is rather unrefined, and not very "tech." But I'd love to know HN community's thoughts on it. Thanks.
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Title: With Russia invading Ukraine & China preparing to invade Taiwan, I can't help but wonder.<p>In the 2010's, many people told me 'WWIII will never happen, the world is too interdependent'.<p>When I look at the world unfold in the 2020's, it seems very few people accounted for how much corruption, economics, social media, propaganda, etc. would factor into geopolitics.<p>At this point, to me, another global conflict with massive consequences seems inevitable. There is just enough desperation, social unrest, government corruption, and resource depletion to trigger survival instincts on the largest scale.<p>Just like individuals have a drive for self-preservation, nations do too. Wars happen when two or nation's drive for self-preservation collide. It seems Russia, China, and North Korea have already aligned while the US/EU have aligned, not sure where India stands. The US has warships moving in the South China Sea, China sees that as an act of escalation. Winter is coming in the EU with Russia withholding energy. TikTok is spying on the all it's users and Russia interfered in US elections...<p>I'm just curious to hear what others think/feel. I'm open to any perspective, none of us are prepared for what's ahead for better or for worse. I'm hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.
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Title: Hi HN<p>It also supports percentages, dates and variables.<p>I've been working on this alone for a few years now, so would love to get some feedback.
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Title: We have had nearly 6 months of economic gloom. Theres has been lots of hypothetical talk of who will win in these turbulent economic times.<p>Does anyone know of actual companies who have had some explosive growth in recent months?
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Title: Hi! Was wondering if any Rust developer have moved to embedded land. Did you switch to C/C++ or stayed with Rust? What MCU did you work with? Any tips?<p>I have good understanding of Rust and soon will need to program ESP32 chip. Write a driver and and http/tcp api on it.<p>Currently I jave seen mixed messages about Rust in embedded. Ecosystem moves fast, but semms like old C/C++ devs stay with their lang. So I'm curious what Rust devs have to say abou it.
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Title: There was a big splash a couple of months ago with the letter Elon sent employees saying get back to the office.<p>What happened?<p>Did people go back?<p>Did people quit?
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Title: A lightweight single-header pattern-matching library for C++17 with macro-free APIs.<p>Try it at <a href="https://godbolt.org/z/8YMr8Kz8j" rel="nofollow">https://godbolt.org/z/8YMr8Kz8j</a>
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Nish, Liusha and Neil, the founders of Nimbus (<a href="https://www.usenimbus.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.usenimbus.com</a>). We’re building an easy way to code and manage environments on cloud VMs that are configured for projects you’re working on. There’s a video demo here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g6Jk5zyQG4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g6Jk5zyQG4</a>.<p>Initially, we were working on simplifying dev environments for coding school students. But when we found ourselves using what we were making and finding it useful for our own work, we pivoted to dev teams like us.<p>Big tech companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, etc. all have in-house cloud environment solutions. This lets engineers spend more time on software design and writing production code and less time waiting, testing or troubleshooting. With Nimbus, we’re bringing the same convenience to everybody else.<p>The three biggest pains Nimbus alleviates are compatibility issues, scaling challenges and not having a powerful enough dev machine.<p>Compatibility issues touch hardware, software, and users. The leading cause is poorly supported tooling on M1 and M2 architecture or a varied fleet of Mac, Linux and Windows devices of various specs. This is made more complex by tool/package updates that break support for that fleet and the impossible task of writing and maintaining perfect documentation.<p>Scaling challenges build on the compatibility issues. Engineers can spend days to get access and setup environments for every project they touch. Containers help but it’s only part of the solution and tools like Docker can be so resource intensive that slow devices to a crawl. And then, once everything is set up, important data and code sits on the laptop - which is a hugely vulnerable endpoint (probably second to smartphones).<p>Nimbus lets engineers always pull the right environment, eliminates local env management and debugging, and makes environments portable - engineers can work from any machine because the code runs and stays in the cloud.<p>We want Nimbus to be easy to use and flexible enough for any developer, so we provide persistent and ephemeral VMs (EC2) that work just like local development. You create a ‘template’ that tells us what kind of machine and OS you want. Then you load up a ‘workspace’, which is a cloud machine near you for the lowest latency possible. You can jump into that server via our local VS code plugin (Jetbrains coming soon) or the remote dev capability of your IDE and get to work. At any point, you can ‘snapshot’ the image and use that as a ‘template’ for future workspaces.<p>Here are some examples of ways we’re being used today: a European logistics software company replaced their internal cloud infra with Nimbus to improve reliability and reduce engineering and cloud costs; a fast-growing international fintech company is using Nimbus to bring reliability and consistency to dev environments that broke often; a software development agency is using Nimbus to cut onboarding for their engineers from days to hours; some developers are personally using Nimbus to work at home from their gaming PC and extend their laptop battery life when away from home.<p>Other products in this space focus on simpler use cases (e.g. Replit) or have design choices and limitations that we weren’t happy about. Codespaces is the best-known offering but it’s expensive, not platform-agnostic, and has limits from its repo-based workspace design. Some people ask if we compete with Docker but most of our users use Docker in Nimbus - and Docker’s poor performance on Mac is one of the main reasons people try Nimbus.<p>We have a free trial if you want to check it out: <a href="https://app.usenimbus.com/" rel="nofollow">https://app.usenimbus.com/</a>. We’re currently working on self-hosting capabilities, enabling prebuilds, and easier templated environment creation – but we’d love to hear what you want. And we look forward to your thoughts and feedback on Nimbus and coding on the cloud in general!
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Title: David Goulet - Fri Aug 12 15:00:54 UTC 2022<p>Greetings,<p>We had to do an emergency release due to an IPFire GeoIP database bug they informed us about.<p>Announcement: https://forum.torproject.net/t/urgent-stable-release-0-4-5-14-0-4-6-12-and-0-4-7-10/4270<p>Dear packagers, sorry about the inconvenience but we had no choice. ChangeLog below.<p>Cheers!
David<p>Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
affected.<p><pre><code> o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
- IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
(including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.</code></pre>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>My name is JR and I had a need for a simple analytics solution that allowed me to store (timestamp, json) logs and run SQL over them.<p>It was hard to find the right solution. Solutions like Mixpanel and Amplitude optimized for particular report types. Whereas solutions like Snowflake, BigQuery, etc. required a lot of setup.<p>I built GraphJSON to fit in the middle. I strived for the ease of use of tools like Mixpanel and Amplitude, but wanted to ensure affordances were built to support use cases that big data warehouses enable.<p>Under the hood, GraphJSON is powered by ClickHouse. This enables really efficient disk compression and fast queries. In many ways, you can think of GraphJSON as an easy way to explore ClickHouse without having to run and maintain your own clusters.<p>I'd love for you to give it a try. You can generally start logging your data in under a minute. From there, you can either use the UI tooling to create graphs in a no-code way. Or if you're more advanced, you can use the SQL editor to do any query you can think of!
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Title: Modified C++<p>Inspired by the paper "Some Were Meant for C" by Stephen Kell, I decided to show that it's possible to iterate C++ to be safer, more explicit, and less error-prone.<p>Here's a possible starting point: I didn't invent a new language or compiler, but took the world's best compiler, clang, and modified it to begin iterating towards a new furture of C++. Naming things is hard, so I call this 'Modified C++'. Some of the following could be implemented as tooling in a linter or checker, but the idea is to update the compiler directly. I also wanted to learn more about clang. This compiler needs a flag to enable/disable this functionality so that existing library code can be used with a 'diagnostic ignored' pragma.<p>You can build clang using the normal non-bootstrap process and you'll be left with a clang that compiles C++ but with the following modifications:<p><pre><code> - All basic types (excluding pointers and references) are const by
default and may be marked 'mutable' to allow them to be changed after
declaration
- Lambda capture lists must be explicit (no [&] or [=], by themselves)
- Braces are required for conditional statements, case and default
statements within switches, and loops
- Implicit conversions to bool are prohibited (e.g., pointers must be
compared against nullptr/NULL)
- No goto support
- Explicit 'rule of six' for classes must be programmer-implemented
(default, copy, and move c'tors, copy and move assignment, d'tor)
- No C style casts
</code></pre>
Here's an example program that's valid in Modified C++:<p><pre><code> mutable int main(int, char**)
{
mutable int x = 0;
return x;
}
Here's another that will fail to compile:
mutable int main(int, char**)
{
int x = 1;
x = 0; // x is constant
return x;
}
</code></pre>
I'd like your feedback. Future changes I'm thinking about are:<p><pre><code> - feature flag for modified c++ to enable/disable with 'diagnostic ignored'
pragma, to support existing headers and libraries
- support enum classes only
- constructor declarations are explicit by default
- namespaces within classes
- normalize lambda and free function syntax
- your ideas here</code></pre>
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Title: We benchmarked on more than 55K series and show that ETS improves MAPE and sMAPE forecast accuracy by 32% and 19%, respectively, with 104x less computational time over NeuralProphet.<p>We hope this exercise helps the forecast community avoid adopting yet another overpromising and unproven forecasting method.
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Title: A friend and I were just watching this video about Horizon Worlds.<p>https://about.fb.com/news/2022/04/testing-creator-monetization-horizon-worlds/<p>Does anybody have any insight into why it looks the way it does?<p>A small game development team could make some dramatic improvements to this.<p>Do they not have game developers on the team?<p>Is there no art director?<p>Why is there no lighting?<p>Why are the characters wrists all held unnaturally?<p>Why do the football emotes float up into their heads?<p>What does a football mean?
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Title: so much of my time is spent in chrome tabs / windows / and searches. someone's average chrome tab count is a badge of honor / horror. Chrome now hides the bookmark bar by default. you can create tab groups for a session, or pin them so that they consume all your bandwidth and memory next time you open your session.<p>But that's not what i want.<p>i want rich bookmark behavior.<p>i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs.<p>or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites.<p>or pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole.<p>and i want it to be intuitive, efficient, and a prominent UX feature set.<p>i'm not alone right?
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Title: Recently I found myself looking for a place to store bookmarks. I used to love del.icio.us, but it's no longer around. What is its spiritual successor? I'm currently trying Pocket, which seems to be alright, but I wonder if there is anything else this community can recommend. The most important things for me would be integration with browsers, maybe a dedicated app, and mobile / desktop support.
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Title: After filing a violation with twitter support for an account impersonating an opensource project I work on (posting fake news, etc) Twitter has asked that I verify myself as being part of the organisation being impersonated by providing a copy of my business card or a signed company letterhead.<p>This is not the first time I've been challenged to provide a company letterhead as a form of authentication by a large, reasonably sophisticated company. How is this still considered quality best practice?
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Title: If you're building a REST/HTTP API, how do you think about when to express the hierarchy of resources in the URLs?<p>For example, let's say you had a blog site. Organizations have blogs. Blogs are made up of sections and comment threads. Comment threads have individual comments.<p>Would you opt for:<p>- /organizations/:organizationId/blogs/:blogId OR /blogs/:blogId (and get the organization from somewhere else like an auth token)<p>- /organizations/:organizationId/blogs/:blogId/sections/:sectionId OR /blogs/:blogId/sections/:sectionId OR /sections/:sectionId<p>- /organizations/:organizationId/blogs/:blogId/threads/:threadId/comments/:commentId... you get the idea
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Title: This is significantly different in its feature set than the existing open source alternatives, I made this to be a more complete library, and well, as a portfolio artefact.
Any comment is greatly appreciated. Thank you!<p>Code: <a href="https://github.com/lusift/lusift" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lusift/lusift</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>During lockdown I took up the keyboard hobby but I couldn't find anything I liked the aesthetic of. So I set out to design my own keyboard from scratch that shunned the gamer look in favour of a more minimal, serious design.<p>I've built several prototypes but I would love to get some feedback from the HN community.
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Title: I would kill for a job that feels even remotely useful or interesting.<p>Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups that are just making useless services that clearly won't go anywhere.<p>I've also found that interviews don't tell you much about reality. I've changed jobs a few times in recent years, every time I had interviews being told about interesting projects, great practices and so on, but once actually there was made to work on mind-numbing useless stuff.<p>It honestly makes me feel like my skills and time are being wasted. I'll be honest and say I consider myself to be pretty good at what I do (and it's been confirmed at my past jobs where I quickly get that reputation), but I just don't know where to find interesting opportunities that don't feel like either a grift or being a parasite making money out of arguably evil things.<p>How do you find interesting gigs?
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Title: Hey HN! Michael here, computer vision researcher turned co-founder of Cerrion (<a href="https://www.cerrion.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cerrion.com/</a>). I’m here with my co-founders Karim and Nikolay.<p>Cerrion helps manufacturers automatically detect problems on their production lines using computer vision. You can see this in action here, for detecting issues on conveyor belts and in glass bottle production: <a href="https://youtu.be/DuSN-qJcoNQ" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/DuSN-qJcoNQ</a><p>It’s estimated that undetected problems on production lines cost the manufacturing industry $1 trillion in lost production time per year. This is because staying on top of your production is hard and works best with trained and experienced eyes. We are working on making this easier, by automating production line monitoring with computer vision.<p>The basic idea is simple: our product learns how a manufacturing process looks when things are going well, then can detect and track anomalies and other problems in real time.<p>This has several major benefits: (1) it allows detecting subtle issues on the production line before they become big and costly, (2) it reduces the need for human monitoring, and (3) it facilitates root cause analysis remotely in a matter of minutes by showing video data of the problem(s).<p>We came to work on this because Nikolay previously co-founded Assaia (<a href="https://assaia.com/" rel="nofollow">https://assaia.com/</a>) and we learnt how messy and intransparent ground operations at airports are. We quickly realized that manufacturing companies suffer from similar pain points, given that manufacturing processes are highly complex. Thus, we started talking to manufacturing companies and soon recognized that computer vision could significantly increase their process transparency and thus help them better run their production lines.<p>We have built a video analysis pipeline using a dockerized Python stack. The pipeline processes RTSP video streams and analyzes them in real-time, using a Convolutional Neural Network, making predictions for what goes wrong where in the production process. We aggregate these predictions into events, push them to a Kafka queue and serve them back to the customer. We do this via a real-time alerting system and a detection library. The real-time alerting allows customers to take actions immediately. The detection library offers an analytics dashboard, as well as videos of the relevant problems. With this, our customers can find systematic production issues and do root-cause analysis.<p>The manufacturing landscape is heterogeneous and production processes are constantly changing. To be able to serve all kinds of industries, we need an adaptable product. To get there, we are working hard to make our product plug-and-play—essentially, to get to the point where it fully automatically learns how a manufacturing process looks when things are going well and automatically detect deviations based on this. In practice this means we need to build a performant model using transfer learning and self-supervision; and automatically adapt and keep it up to date from just a handful of user inputs (for which we use active learning).<p>BTW, we pay our bills by charging a SaaS license per production line.<p>Thanks for reading! We are curious to hear your thoughts!
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Title: Hi HN<p>I've used a lot of vector maps in the past, and was always fascinated by the technology, so I decided to try and build one from scratch as a way to learn more about how it works, and also as a reason to (finally) learn WebGL.<p>I've uploaded the source to GitHub <a href="https://github.com/kochis/webgl-map" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kochis/webgl-map</a><p>Hope someone finds it useful / informative, and open to any feedback or tips as well. Cheers!
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Title: Hi, I just saw this tweet[^1] by @QuinnyPig that mentions accessing your Pi-hole while traveling thanks to TailScale and wondered how to deploy Pi-hole at the edge, instead of a home lab, for improved latency.<p>My simple solution involves running it on Fly.io to make it easy to relocate anywhere, and embedding tailscale into the same firecracker VM (né docker container) to keep the infra dead simple and cheap.<p>Naively deploying a publicly accessible DNS resolver is not ideal[^2] so the main constraint was to secure the VM by 1) keeping all public ports closed and 2) having Pi-hole listen only on the private network interface created by TailScale.<p>It's all very straightforward but it's noticeably improved my bandwidth usage and page loading times across my laptop and mobile phone, so I figured I'd share. Suggestions for improvement are also welcome!<p>[^1]: <a href="https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1558521941538983936" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1558521941538983936</a><p>[^2]: <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/dns-amplification-ddos-attack/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/dns-amplification-d...</a>
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Title: Hello everyone! It was so fun working on this project for the past few months with some of my fellow high school students :) I am so excited to share our first prototype and hopefully we'll be done with it all soon! <3<p>(ofc, it's open source, contribute here: <a href="https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider</a>)<p>The goal of the game is to slowly teach function composition that get progressively more complex while you also help the ghosts ski on the slopes and explore the entire map!
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Title: I find myself, especially when I'm jumping between languages that I'm less familiar with, more reliant on copilot for boilerplate, or at least example code that I can modify. It really does come in handy and save time, but I'm not certain it's worth $10 per month, or I'm just a cheapskate, and would rather find a better deal if there is one.<p>I've tried Tabnine, but it's never been that great and it's a memory/cpu hog.<p>Just got a notice that copilot's 'preview' is ending in 3 days, so it's time to find a replacement or decide if it's worth it to keep it and pay the fee.
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Title: I've tried CME Xkey 25 (the USB wired version) and Korg Nanokey 2.<p>The CME device <i>would</i> be my dream micro-keyboard, especially at the price (US 125), with full-size keys and even per-key aftertouch. (Key travel is minimal; it's a low-height device.) However it has had some reliability problems with a key, and eventually with the USB cable. I'm finally admitting that I need to replace it.<p>The Korg is incredibly tiny, cute, and works fine ... but the keys are just buttons. But it's ideal for carrying around with an iPad, super cheap, and so far reliable. The velocity sensitivity is good enough to be usable.<p>So I need to replace the Xkey 25. What other highly portable keyboards have people enjoyed using? I'm hoping for something not much longer than the width of a laptop. Thanks.
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Title: I have an account on DigitalOcean for long time and I was using Github Login as the method of authentication.<p>For the past 7 years I had my company email as my primary email, and my personal email as secondary.<p>August 18, 2022 1:56:22 PM PDT I removed my primary email account because we had a merge in our company, and now we use different emails.<p>Now I can't get access to my DigitalOcean account, because for some reason they don't use the GitHub identifier but the email address. ( Also I lost access of my company email )<p>Im trying to get access to my account for the last 20 hours, they requested a picture of my ID, and of me holding my ID.<p>They have everything to change the primary email to the one I requested, but the support team don't understand the problem...<p>So Be careful using GitHub as your DigitalOcean authentication method!<p>Someone had a similar issue in 2020: <a href="https://twitter.com/salzian_dev/status/1293975538990813187" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/salzian_dev/status/1293975538990813187</a>
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Title: IIUC, RDP (Microsoft's remote desktop protocol) sends draw commands across. It's the default way to access remote desktops on Windows. Conversely, AFAICT, the default way on MacOS and Linux is VNC which IIUC sends all the pixels (with compression). I've noticed for years I can work remotely, edit code, etc on RDP. I've done it around the across 8000 miles and had hardly any lag. Conversely I'm trying to share 2 computers right next to each other in the same network via VNC and it's horribly laggy.<p>Is this just not an itch anyone has wanted to scratch in the last 25 years? On Linux you can maybe XWindows your way to a faster connection by what about Mac? Also, RDP seems to let me run GPU based stuff where as XWindows you're actually not seeing the computer's display.
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Title: I've been working on a new terminal console for interacting with Jupyter kernels.<p>It can display rich output in the terminal, including images (using Sixel / Kitty / iTerm2 terminal graphics protocols), ipywidgets, LaTeX, and HTML. You can also save your terminal session as a Jupyter notebook.
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Title: While I have noticed that Phoenix is a thing people are generally happy about, I was surprised to see, that it beats the Loved/Dreaded section of the current stackoverflow survey by a staggering 20% over Express and RoR.<p>I suspect this is due to some rather fanatical following and coordinated effort to skew the outcome. Still, I am curious, specially since the latest blog update is nearly from one year ago, which gets me at least a little suspicious in web world.<p>Any takers? What's the current feeling around Phoenix? Is is the end all superior fullstack framework (at least form the devs side) this survey makes it out to be?
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Title: For web development or otherwise.<p>What are the challenges and advantages?
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Title: Some investors will ask you what problem you're attempting to solve. So I'm curious about Slack. What problem exactly did it solve?
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Title: Hello HN<p>I've been working at this company for some time in an administrative role. As part of my job, we – and many others – work with data which gets aggregated and refined by a centralized team of specialists. This process is only partially automated and therefore still quite heavy-handed. As I understand it, significant time is spent on the manual part of it all.<p>Out of curiosity I started building this small project in my free time just to see if I could automate it myself, since most of the data required is available open source. There are still many rough edges but what I have now is already superior to what we have at work.<p>Now I'm wondering about where to go from here - so far I haven't told anyone. Strictly speaking, this is not part of my job and I am "poaching" in someone else's area of expertise. I like my job and don't want to make enemies. On the other hand, I would love to see my solution put to use and maybe even enhance and/or expand it jointly with IT. However, this is code I wrote in my free time and I am rather unwilling to give it away without any benefit.<p>Any ideas?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>One of the things that frustrates me about Copilot is that all tasks posed to it must be in the form of a completion. By writing clever comments you can get it to generate a few lines of code or a short function body, but you never get coherent long-form generations just from mashing the tab key.<p>I’m working on a different approach. Instead of requiring you specify your code generation task through stilted comments, you can use GPT-3 to fill in what I call “instructional templates”. They’re like f-strings, except the English goes on the inside and the Python goes on the outside. Additionally, each instruction’s location and surrounding context can aid in interpreting it, allowing instructions to be impressively terse.<p>I’ve collected 10 examples of the method on a Twitter thread here. Most code examples are in Python, but I also demonstrate generating CSV, NDJSON, R, Markdown, and HTML: <a href="https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1559801520773898240?s=21&t=-r-dR8pkhZ3lfCpeLOWqvw" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1559801520773898240?s=21...</a><p>I also have a few examples of more creative, non-program output in HTML and Markdown in this thread: <a href="https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1560953991722418177?s=21&t=-r-dR8pkhZ3lfCpeLOWqvw" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1560953991722418177?s=21...</a><p>Interested in any feedback, especially from anyone who’s tried to apply my method to their own problems.
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Title: Use Spotify? This tool will automate your music discovery for you. Join here (100% perpetually free with no strings attached): <a href="https://brew.fm" rel="nofollow">https://brew.fm</a><p>Some time ago, I built and showed HN[1] brew.fm, a tool helping artists remix each other’s work. It had been quiet, and I remembered how fun it was to work with the Spotify API, so I repurposed the tool to solve one of my own problems: missing out on new music of my favorite artists. I shared it on Reddit yesterday[2], and this seems to hit a spot for more people: so far 833 people connected their Spotify account.<p>How it works: The tool simply shows your top 50 artists on Spotify over short, medium and long term, and checks those artists for new music. If you select a playlist, every artist involved in the tracks will be checked for new music, after which new releases are shown sorted by most recent release date.<p>Here’s a video of me demoing the tool: <a href="https://youtu.be/Nh2Ognb4PgU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Nh2Ognb4PgU</a>. Enjoy! Very open to feedback.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952633" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29952633</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/wsq8rl/let_a_1000_bots_discover_new_music_on_spotify_for/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/wsq8rl/let_a_1000_...</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’ve been working at a FANG for 2 years now and I feel like my career goals and interests are not aligned with where I’m at. Outside of my FANG I was a go-getter who loves learning new things and taking on hard problems. Inside my company I have tried over the past 2 years to propose different solutions to hard problems and I just get blown off.<p>I’m good at my job I already got promoted in 1 year and am moving up. I am making more money than I expected, but at work I’m not able to express myself creatively or do things outside the box. I just get assigned straightforward work from my manager that the product managers and “leadership” assign to our team with barely any input on the overall project or ability to propose new projects.<p>I feel like if I stay here I will just get stuck in a cycle of never accomplishing my goals but I’m scared to move teams or companies or build a startup because I have a good manager, a good comp and my job isn’t that stressful.<p>I could become more involved at work in building paper reading groups or other kinds of side projects to creatively express myself at work but I don’t want to be the person whose life revolves around their FANG.<p>Anyone else feel like this? What did you do?
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Title: I made this for people like myself who keep a list of ideas for apps / startups.<p>I also made it for people who are curious to see what projects others have "in their drawer"... and who may want to have a say in which idea should see the light of day.<p><a href="https://ideas.dynamate.io/" rel="nofollow">https://ideas.dynamate.io/</a><p>The site allows creators to anonymously showcase their idea:<p>Title. Description text. Maybe some mockups...<p>I've tried to make it so that it's quick and easy to just dump an idea in there that's been sitting on some list of yours for months - and hopefully get some feedback on it.<p>If someone else on the site sees your idea and likes it, they have various choices of showing support:<p>They can upvote.<p>They can subscribe to progress updates.<p>They can tell you why they want it (there's a questionaire that is loosely based on "The Mom Test").<p>And they can even send you money as encouragement.<p>As the owner of an idea, you can see how many unique upvotes, subscriptions, etc. your idea has received. You get a nice table of all the ideas you have on the site, sorted by feedback score. Also, in the case of non-anonymous subscriptions or donations, you can get in touch with early supporters.<p>Publicly, though, neither upvotes nor any other form of support for an idea are shown. This is so you cannot go to the site and just grab the most popular ideas from there. And also so that each idea can get the same amount of exposure and attention.<p>There are many great books out there on validating startup ideas. And my site won't be a replacement for those. Rather, it's designed as a low hanging fruit to get your idea out there.<p>I hope some of you find it useful. Feel free to test it out on the ideas I've posted on there. And perhaps share some of your own!<p>Also curious to hear your feedback both on the idea itself and the execution so far.<p>The site is still early beta. Please let me know if you run into any bugs. Also, and ideas how I can make it better would be greatly appreciated.<p>Thanks!
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Title: This is a question for salaried employees (or those who charge by the hour, but are expected to work full 40 hours for an employer).<p>Where/How did you find your job? If you started at 40 hours per week, how did you negotiate it to 32?
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Title: Our platform caters to small business owners and individual sellers in a very particular niche. On the surface we're doing well; we have no trouble getting more users without spending a dime on marketing, our buyers and sellers are frequently using the platform and are happy, users are engaged and willing to talk with us, and we're even making a bit of money too.<p>However, we have one massive problem: our merchants are not used to paying taxes and are deeply afraid of using our more monetized features because we are legally required to fill out a 1099-K on their behalf. It's one part "I don't want the government taking my money" to two parts "I don't know how taxes work" in most cases that we've looked into.<p>Now, some of our sellers don't mind, but the vast (and growing) majority are not comfortable with taxes. This presents a problem as we're still growing, but not sustainably. We obviously want to keep pursuing this startup idea but unless something changes, it doesn't seem likely to work out.<p>To solve this, we've tried hiring tax experts to explain how taxes work or why it's not as scary as they might think, but it hasn't been very convincing. On the more drastic side we've been thinking about switching business models a bit, but it seems so crazy to me when there is a huge opportunity right in front of us that we can't seem to capitalize on.<p>Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? What works? What doesn't?
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Title: September looks to be crunch time for (some, mostly big) tech companies looking to get people back to the office. Apple being the most notable to lay out the demand.<p>So... those of you working at companies demadning a return-to-office... are you going to quit?
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Title: TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.<p>Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.<p>Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.<p>All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.<p>Never use GCP for production.<p>----
Edit full story by request, long read:
----<p>Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra.
Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.
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Title: TLDR; never use google cloud systems for production.<p>Google cloud suspended all our projects due to the billing issue in their system they had.<p>Despite reassurances "your account will not be suspended" while communicating with billing support, all the projects were suspended at 1am on Saturday.<p>All the account payments were made and the billing cards are valid. There are no outstanding bills.<p>Never use GCP for production.<p>----
Edit: full story by request, long read:
----<p>Previous month billing didn't went through. Not sure if this was due to the billing outage google had (https://status.cloud.google.com/products/oLCqDYkE9NFWQVgctQTL/history) or financial transaction issue, however we went ahead and made a manual payment covering all the outstanding amount + extra. Despite the payment made, about a week+ later we suddenly started receiving threatening emails "Your Projects are at risk of suspension". Edited and updated the billing cards. Opened a billing support request clearly mentioning this is a production environment and all the bills are paid. They were "investigating" the issue and assured the project will not be suspended.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>When programming an API, or any kind of application, software, ecc , at some point in the code you know that something could go wrong and you should notify it as an error, now, should I throw it? Or should I just log it as an error and let the program continue execution anyway? Or should I do both?<p>Let me know what you think are the best practices to notify errors and how you usually manage this situation.<p>Btw this is my first HN post:)<p>Thanks!
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Title: As title says. A little background on me and I'm sure many of you relate:<p>- I've been a web dev in the UK for around 10 years now, it kills my soul. Lots of startup snakery over the years, company using and abusing you, mass-layoffs nowadays or years prior etc.<p>- I feel very manipulated and used in this industry behind all the smiles and creepy niceties. By managers, PMs and even other devs who are lapdogs of upper management (then those same devs get fired later for made-up reasons when they do the dirty work of management). I find it hard to genuinely trust anyone, yes, even the ones with "bring your dog to work" / "free Friday lunches!" / super-friendly staff / engineering managers who look like they read a book on how to speak like a friendly manager / other BS<p>- My creativity and drive to create side projects outside of work hours is gone. I don't remember the last time I coded for fun or with the intention to make money off it. Most weekends are spent trying to "heal" from the week, same for outside work hours. I get better at disengaging whenever needed nowadays though.<p>- On the plus side, I'm quite financially well off because of web dev and paid off my cheap mortgage (I live well below my means, super frugal, no dependents) and have 1 property I let out. I'm tempted to keep on this path as I know nothing else professionally.<p>- Now that every one calls themselves a developer, bootcamps churning out devs that know the exact same thing as seniors (on paper), I'm not sure if this will drive salaries down in 5-10+ years time or would our jobs even exist then? Don't even get me started on interview processes and how high their standards have become such that you will get disqualified over minutiae.<p>- So I do am tempted to quit, but don't know what else to do, so I was curious what you guys who have been disillusioned by this industry have done and are doing nowadays?
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Title: Hey everyone, a while back I posted about an open-source maps project I was working on called Headway. I just wanted to share an exciting update. I made a few architectural improvements with the help of some really awesome contributors and Headway can now run full-planet instances. I'm really excited with what we've managed to come up with.<p>Right now the full-planet demo server is in Germany and lives at [1]. A brief explanation is at [2]. I'm hopeful that the project will continue to improve with time and eventually end up being a real contender in the web maps space. I'm talking with folks about the potential for getting some more robust hosting options too which is very exciting.<p>For the moment though, Headway has some usability issues. It's missing ETAs, has no steps list for directions, or proper geocoding search results page, etc. I'm going to get to these issues with time, but please drop me a line if you're interested in helping out. Especially interested in help with web frontend, design, or internationalization. Development takes place on GitHub [3] and discussions tend to happen in the matrix room [4].<p>[1] <a href="https://maps.earth/" rel="nofollow">https://maps.earth/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://about.maps.earth/" rel="nofollow">https://about.maps.earth/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway</a><p>[4] <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#headway:matrix.org" rel="nofollow">https://matrix.to/#/#headway:matrix.org</a>
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Title: Hello everyone!<p>As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.<p>So I started creating the tool I wish I had in the first place. In Digs, the basic idea is that:<p>- you can add music releases (albums, EPs, singles, mixes) in three lists: Want to Listen, Listened, Digged. You can also use tags and notes to better organize these lists.<p>- you get a public profile where your activity is visible (i.e. what you added to your lists). Example profile: <a href="https://digs.fm/alskn" rel="nofollow">https://digs.fm/alskn</a>.<p>- you can add other people as friends. Then you'll see their activity in your home feed.<p>- you can either like or add a comment to any activity of your friends (or yours)<p>- you can explicitly recommend a release to one of your friends<p>You can think of it like Goodreads, but for music. I would assume it's mostly targeted to people that like to listen whole albums and would like to keep track of what albums/mixes they want to listen to, sometime in the future.<p>This is very early yet and there are a lot of rough edges.<p>You can find a few screenshots of the basic functionality in the homepage, from where you can also create an account - <a href="https://digs.fm" rel="nofollow">https://digs.fm</a>.<p>I'd appreciate any feedback, thanks in advance!<p>---------<p>EDIT: I figured it's worth expanding a bit on some highlights:<p>- In the search box, apart from searching, you can copy/paste any release URL from Discogs/Spotify/Bandcamp/Mixcloud/MusicBrainz and it will basically fetch the release and then you can add it to your lists.<p>- There are browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, so that when you're on some of the aforementioned sites, and you stumbled upon an interesting album, you can click the extension icon and the item will be added to your "Want to Listen" list.<p>- For certain releases, you'll notice there's an embedded web player, for convenience.
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Title: Number of emails I'm getting for developer related products and surveys based on my Github email is increasing.<p>Those emails never go to the "Promotions" or "Updates" tab of Gmail and make it directly into my Primary inbox<p>If you're working on developer related products and using Github emails as a marketing target you should stop! Those emails are not meant for marketing.<p>Edit: Today I learned you can set your email to a noreply email provided by Github[1][2]<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32553451<p>[2] https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address#setting-your-commit-email-address-on-github
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Title: I’m throwing this out because I’ve gone as far as I can as a solo founder without holding myself back. (More info about me in my profile.)<p>I have an awesome prototype that re-imagines how people learn a language. I think this has a real chance to change the world by making language learning as achievable as learning to read in your first language and as predictable as following a recipe.<p>I applied to YC last year and got an interview, but it was still early enough in development that I needed to rely on instinct and intuition to answer questions. I’ve finished the initial R&D and am building the final UI for the prototype. The prototype natively supports any pairing between 20+ languages, including English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, and many European languages. Practically these pairs are limited by the availability of bilingual dictionaries.<p>I’ve been meeting with a couple of people a week, mostly language learners, teachers, and tech people, but I am finding people, perhaps unsurprisingly, have a lot of trouble seeing past the curse of knowledge. We’ve all learned a language, so most of us feel qualified to teach it to others without deeply examining our assumptions.<p>Meeting someone on HN isn’t ideal, but I’m determined to find the right people and I’m willing to improve my chances in any way that seems productive.<p>What’s my idea?<p>I’ve studied Japanese for years and constantly wonder, “how close am I to being able to read and understand this book, academic paper, song, or show?” And there isn’t any tool that can answer that question for me.<p>Natural language processing (NLP) has advanced to the point where I can build something resembling abstract syntax trees (ASTs) for natural language sentences. By indexing the words and original sentences, I can easily track a user’s learning across any number of pieces of content, link to word references like dictionaries, cross-index words to show other examples of usage, create automatic exercises with full context, schedule reviews (SRS), tagging named entities (proper nouns and the like) and provide concrete guidance.<p>I want to build language servers (natural language LSPs) and integrated language environments (an IDE for language) for individuals. For any content a user adds she will have access to content reader, dictionaries, cross-references, character information (like kanji) if applicable, review exercises, parallel text tools (not machine translation), and sentence shadowing tools.<p>My prototype takes the books, articles, or web pages you would like to read and creates a detailed index of all the words and sentences; it then finds the fewest sentences that cover all the words and turns those into fill-in-the-blank exercises to study from. You are given real feedback and correction when answering exercises. It also includes an integrated e-reader and dictionaries.<p>Who do I want to meet?<p>You must be:<p>* Deeply curious and technical (but this need not be in programming);<p>* Willing to ignore established methods/ideas when reality doesn’t match;<p>* Deeply believe that at every level, the details matter;<p>* Able to say “No” in order to ship, even for things with obvious immediate value.<p>I'm currently preparing my YC application for the winter 2023 batch.
If interested, please email me at [email protected]. Put "co-founder" somewhere in the subject and include:<p>1) something awesome you've built<p>2) why would you be right for this and<p>3) the best time and way to contact (FaceTime/Zoom/etc) you.<p>Even if you aren't the right person, please upvote this and help us meet.
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Title: My employment contract says the following:<p><pre><code> "The rights to any intellectual property created by employee during his work shall be transferred to employer in full."
"The employee shall shall not be allowed to provide any services to another company and not to run any other business"
</code></pre>
And the boss is defensive about the first part applying to <i>anything</i> created in the spare time as well, also refusing to make exceptions.<p>Is this sort of thing actually enforceable?<p>What would the process look like if I released a "competing" app independently, and the company wanted to take it down?<p>Or if they wanted to claim ownership over unrelated media, like a github repository?<p>I'm living in Cyprus. Does this mean I should be much less afraid of getting sued than if I were in the US?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production.<p>For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3].<p>Main features:<p>- Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer<p>- Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM<p>- Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance<p>- Avoids blocking using smart sessions, proxies, and browser fingerprints<p>- Simple management and persistence of queues of URLs to crawl<p>- Written completely in TypeScript for type safety and code autocompletion<p>- Comprehensive documentation, code examples, and tutorials<p>- Actively maintained and developed by Apify—we use it ourselves!<p>- Lively community on Discord<p>To get started, visit <a href="https://crawlee.dev" rel="nofollow">https://crawlee.dev</a> or run the following command: npx crawlee create my-crawler<p>If you have any questions or comments, our team will be happy to answer them here.<p>[1] <a href="https://crawlee.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://crawlee.dev/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ll9OlFwEQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ll9OlFwEQ</a><p>[3] <a href="https://blog.apify.com/announcing-crawlee-the-web-scraping-and-browser-automation-library/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.apify.com/announcing-crawlee-the-web-scraping-a...</a>
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Title: Is there a tool for finding metadata of pdf files based on their hash or content? Like MusicBraiz Picard for identifying and tagging mp3 files.
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Title: I’m about to start building a site for a personal blog, so I’d love to get inspiration from your favorites -- looking only at the design and not the content. Here are a couple of mine: https://joegebbia.com/dearairbnb and https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice/.
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Title: Hey HN, I've been working on <a href="https://pornpen.ai" rel="nofollow">https://pornpen.ai</a>, a site for generating adult images. Please only visit the site if you are 18+ and willing to look at NSFW images.<p>This site is an experiment using newer text-to-image models. I explicitly removed the ability to specify custom text to avoid harmful imagery from being generated. New tags will be added once the prompt-engineering algorithm is fine-tuned further. If the servers are overloaded, take a look at the feed and search pages to look through past results.<p>For comments/suggestions/feedback please visit <a href="https://reddit.com/r/pornpen" rel="nofollow">https://reddit.com/r/pornpen</a><p>Enjoy!
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Title: I just got a Dall-E render with a very intact "gettyimages" watermark on it. I'm no legal expert on whether you have to own the license to something to use it as training input to your AI model, but surely you can't just... use stock photos without paying for the license? Maybe I'm just old fashioned.<p>Prompt: "king of belgium giving a speech to an audience, but the audience members are cucumbers"<p>All 4 results (all no good as far as the prompt is concerned): <a href="https://ibb.co/gz5RDkB" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/gz5RDkB</a><p>Fullsize of the one with the watermark <a href="https://ibb.co/DzGR063" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/DzGR063</a>
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Title: Dear Plex User,<p>We want you to be aware of an incident involving your Plex account information yesterday. While we believe the actual impact of this incident is limited, we want to ensure you have the right information and tools to keep your account secure.<p>What happened<p>Yesterday, we discovered suspicious activity on one of our databases. We immediately began an investigation and it does appear that a third-party was able to access a limited subset of data that includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. Even though all account passwords that could have been accessed were hashed and secured in accordance with best practices, out of an abundance of caution we are requiring all Plex accounts to have their password reset. Rest assured that credit card and other payment data are not stored on our servers at all and were not vulnerable in this incident.<p>What we're doing<p>We've already addressed the method that this third-party employed to gain access to the system, and we're doing additional reviews to ensure that the security of all of our systems is further hardened to prevent future incursions. While the account passwords were secured in accordance with best practices, we're requiring all Plex users to reset their password.<p>What you can do<p>Long story short, we kindly request that you reset your Plex account password immediately. When doing so, there's a checkbox to "Sign out connected devices after password change." This will additionally sign out all of your devices (including any Plex Media Server you own) and require you to sign back in with your new password. This is a headache, but we recommend doing so for increased security. We have created a support article with step-by-step instructions on how to reset your password [here](https://support.plex.tv/articles/account-requires-password-reset/?utm_source=Plex&utm_medium=email&utm_content=reset_password&utm_campaign=sql_db_password_reset).<p>We'd also like to remind you that no one at Plex will ever reach out to you to ask for a password or credit card number over email. For further account protection, we also recommend enabling [two-factor authentication](https://support.plex.tv/articles/two-factor-authentication/?utm_source=Plex&utm_medium=email&utm_content=reset_password&utm_campaign=sql_db_password_reset) on your Plex account if you haven't already done so.<p>Lastly, we sincerely apologize to you for any inconvenience this situation may cause. We take pride in our security system and want to assure you that we are doing everything we can to swiftly remedy this incident and prevent future incidents from occurring. We are all too aware that third-parties will continue to attempt to infiltrate IT infrastructures around the world, and rest assured we at Plex will never be complacent in hardening our security and defenses.<p>For step-by-step instructions on how to reset your password, visit: https://support.plex.tv/articles/account-requires-password-reset
Thank you,<p>The Plex Security Team
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Title: (attempted to submit as URL, query stripped)<p>https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook+until%3A2022-08-25+since%3A2022-08-24<p>Edit:<p>Reddit users complaining of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/wwbfm5/news_feed_showing_people_writing_to_other_people/<p>Downdetector <i>(a third-party service that asks users if they're down)</i>: https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/<p>Business-oriented status page (all green): https://metastatus.com/
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Title: I have noticed that my timeline is full of thousands of random posts on celebrities' account pages.<p>Based on other comments to some of them, I am not the only one. I checked my account's activity log and security settings just in case but everything is fine.<p>Do you experience the same?
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Title: I've published the sources for the code generation and the code that was generated on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/sturdy-dev/codeball-todo-mvc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sturdy-dev/codeball-todo-mvc</a><p>I've been experimenting with merging prompts together, with a goal to write the full backend in a single prompt.<p>On the form:<p>> 1. Setup a flask web server<p>> 2. Add a /add endpoint<p>It works reasonably well, but it seems like it's loosing some precision in the prompts... The person that coined the term "prompt engineering" was right, it's really important to learn what words to use to get the AI to do exactly what you want it to do.
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Title: We are seeing tons of AI-generated images from Dall-E, StableDiffusion, Midjourney, etc. flooding the internet.<p>This will only increase.<p>Not every such images has a distinct mark that denotes it as AI-generated. They could be mistaken for real photograph or real work of (digital) art by a human. Especially by an algorithm.<p>I also understand a lot of today's cutting-edge models are trained on images scraped from the web. Not sure what curation happens but it cannot be foolproof.<p>Will future AI models that generate "realistic" images feed on this as input and generate images that mimic some of these attributes -- creating some kind of feedback loop that will eco for generations of models?<p>Has anyone already thought of such issues -- not just with images but with AI-generated text, data, music, etc.<p>Curious to know what is the thinking of this group here.
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Title: Microsoft's .NET is an open-source platform for building desktop apps and mobile apps (and more) using C#, F# and Visual Basic. Does this sound too good to be true?<p>For example, Electron is often discussed on HN (liked and disliked), but .NET is far less discussed as a cross-platform option.<p>Similarly, Xamarin is a platform built on top of .NET for building Android and iOS apps (using one codebase). This sounds like the holy grail of mobile development. But what is the reality?<p>I did a search on HN and found no stories about Xamarin from the last year. The top search results are HN stories from 5-10 years ago. This makes me wonder how popular .NET is for cross-platform desktop or mobile apps.<p>What has been your experience using .NET writing cross-platform desktop and mobile apps?
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Title: It seems like Heroku has been dying on a vine. The platform is still incredible and unmatched in Developer Experience, but recent security incidents (along with a severely prolonged resolution), downtime, and (just yesterday) a DNS-related issue is making me reconsider and quite possibly will move some mission-critical apps to AWS.<p>Are you migrating away from Heroku? If so, which cloud provider are you using (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc)? What's your stack and what service are you migrating to (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, etc)?
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Title: I got an email from Bank of America essentially: "Hey, Update your iPhone". I imagine there is a pretty gnarly exploit.
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Title: I think it would be a good opportunity for people to ask questions about the company and what it's like to work there. Has this been considered?
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Title: I met my wife about 12 years ago and at the time, we were making about the same salary ~$70k. Over the years both our salaries went up about the same until we both got to the $100k mark. About 5 years ago her career has really accelerated and her total comp is 2.5x what I'm making. On top of her salary, she hit the startup lotto and had a large cash buyout.<p>We had a hard time dealing with this at first, I was jealous and a little bitter, and she was worried that I was taking advantage of the situation. In the end, we decided that the buyout money would go to retirement and not be touched. As for out salary, we decided that we would both spend as if we both made my salary, and anything above that, she would put in a rainy day fund for home improvements or traveling etc. This arrangement kind of worked until it came time to use that rainy day funds and she started feeling that we were spending her money.<p>I've heard of this situation with Lawyers/Doctors where one spouse supported the other while they went to school, but once they started to practice, the income spread was huge. How have FANG engineers or anyone else with a big income disparity learned to deal with the situation?
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Title: So I have a lot of Google accounts that I use for different reasons that are tied to many of my other non-Google online accounts—I’ve made a good effort of switching some of my important online accounts to more reliable email services ever since I learned that Google has a tendency to randomly shut out people from accessing their business, or personal accounts.<p>Problem is I don’t know how widespread all of this is, but I do know that once an account is suspended or banned that it’s a fools errand to try to get it back unless you personally know a Googler or post it about here or on Twitter and hope that someone who can help you is going to read and respond.<p>If I start a full on revolt on Google and switch entirely to different services, it’s going to take absolutely forever so I just want to know if this is a decision worth making or am I being paranoid for no good reason?
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Title: I've just received a very pleasant surprise in email. Subscription in the UK was £89 per calendar month:<p><pre><code> Effective 24/08/2022, Starlink is reducing your monthly service fee to £75.
The price reduction factors in your local market conditions and is meant to reflect parity in purchasing power across our customers.
No action is needed from you, the price reduction will be automatically reflected on invoices generated after 24/08/2022.
Thank you for being an early customer and for your continued support of Starlink!</code></pre>
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Title: I have a BS and MS in computer science and I have been working part-time on my PhD in compilers for four years now. My research is about attribute grammars. I love my PhD research topic, it's challenging, fun and novel but I don't see it being used for any practical applications. I teach basic compiler course part-time as an instructor at my university as well. I work full-time as a backend software engineer at Microsoft.
My goal is to actually use the concepts I spent so much to learn in my PhD in my career. Where should I start? What tool/library/framework is a must know for a compiler engineer? What are the companies that do exciting stuff in compilers?<p>I appreciate any help. Thank you
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Title: But I don't know where to start or what to study. If I were going for masters in this subject, what would my courses be?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>We’re Philip, Amby, and Declan, and we made “multiplayer virtual computers” that you can embed anywhere, including 3D spaces. We decided to build this because we noticed that embedding third-party apps and websites can be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult.<p>On the backend, we’re spinning up a VM and running a resource-optimized fork of Chromium which we then stream to participants via WebRTC. Since we’re hosting the servers running the applications, multiple users can connect and control the virtual computer seamlessly, and their client just needs to handle a video stream.<p>If you want to add multiplayer virtual computers to your own app, you can sign up on <a href="https://hyperbeam.com/?ch=hn&cm=hn1" rel="nofollow">https://hyperbeam.com/?ch=hn&cm=hn1</a>, grab a free API key, and throw the provided embed URL in an iframe in your app.<p>You can also play around more with the Three.js demo in our interactive sandbox: <a href="https://app.sideguide.dev/hyperbeam/threejs/" rel="nofollow">https://app.sideguide.dev/hyperbeam/threejs/</a><p>If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to comment or shoot me an email at [email protected].<p>Thanks!<p>Docs: <a href="https://docs.hyperbeam.com" rel="nofollow">https://docs.hyperbeam.com</a>
Discord: <a href="https://discord.gg/D78RsGfQjq" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/D78RsGfQjq</a>
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Title: Hello Hacker News, we’re Austin, Manvir, and Kyle, the cofounders of Artemis Labs
(<a href="https://artemisdevtool.com" rel="nofollow">https://artemisdevtool.com</a>). We turn your in-line comments into a UI that can be used to
visualize, test, document and share your code. This helps engineers and scientists quickly
create quality scripts.<p>Artemis was born in a Caltech robotics lab where I saw firsthand how much time and effort it
took to create a quality script. Engineers were spending hundreds of hours making
slide decks, hybrid Markdown / LaTeX documents, and demo GUIs just to make their tools
accessible and usable by others. As someone who has been on the learning end of things, it
can be nearly impossible to decipher or use even the smallest scripts if they lack quality
documentation and interactive interfaces. Although these methods worked they were an
incredible time sink and documentation became stale quickly.<p>Artemis was devised as a solution to this problem. We wanted a tool that allows developers to
create high-quality interfaces and documentation without forcing them to invest substantial time,
alter their codebases or make significant changes to their workflows.<p>The way it works is simple: First add special comments to your codebase; Artemis uses these
comments (called “anchors”) to automatically generate a GUI for your code. Then run your
program using our command-line utility. Artemis launches in an offline browser window that
displays your code on one side and your new interface on the other. To see how this looks, you
can watch our demo video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDL12DkS2Hc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDL12DkS2Hc</a>.<p>This interface scrolls vertically, so as your code runs new GUI elements appear one below
another at the relevant time organized into “cards.” For example, if a program takes two
numbers and adds them, your interface will first show input fields for the variables in one card.
When you enter numbers and press “continue,” a new card showing the result will appear.<p>There are three types of anchors: inputs, outputs and documentation. Inputs let you change
variables in your program via the interface, outputs represent the products of your program as
graphs, text, etc. and documentation lets you create interface elements that explain what is
happening as your program runs. Documentation can take the form of text, Markdown, LaTeX,
syntax-highlighted code snippets, multimedia, and links, and more.<p>These anchors all follow the same format: you put them in a comment, beginning with “@,”
followed by its type— “input,” “output” or “doc.” For “doc” anchors you just proceed to add
whatever you would like to appear in the document card. For inputs and outputs, you need to
specify which variable they act upon by typing “data=x,” with x being your variable.<p>We provide a suite of default anchors, such as text inputs, and outputs in the form of text,
tables, and graphs—but we also let you create your own, using regular Python. Do you need to
create a custom anchor to quickly display your statistical data using Seaborn? Do you want to
automatically render advanced 3D plots in Matplotlib? Artemis makes this, and more, easy.<p>The reason we opted to have anchors work from comments is to avoid requiring you to alter
your code or the way you work. You don’t have to toggle between different environments—you
stay in your preferred IDE, bringing more functionality to it rather than requiring you to go
somewhere else.<p>For example, we subsume the functionality of Jupyter as a visualization tool without requiring
you to use a notebook. In our experience, notebooks are rather constraining relative to a full
Python environment— they require you to restructure your code for the notebook, run your
programs on an IPython kernel, and often import new third-party libraries or widgets. With
Artemis you get the interactivity of a notebook, as well as the display of UI elements and
documentation alongside code, but it also works with professional-grade codebases and tooling.<p>Artemis interfaces can be exported as an HTML file that runs offline. This is a key feature that
makes us a portable, effective documentation/walkthrough tool. These interfaces are small
enough to send via email and can even be embedded in web pages. When a third party opens
your HTML file, they’ll see exactly what you see when you run your program with Artemis: an
interface on the left and your code on the right.<p>We thought the most obvious applications of this approach would be for quickly building
interactive computational tools and making test scaffolding for complex programs. But it turned
out to also be really good for making code walkthroughs that can explain your program to
coworkers or managers, or teach people how to use your program. You can see this in action here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4c3Q6lHFPo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4c3Q6lHFPo</a>.<p>Engineers at Mayo Clinic use Artemis in this way, using our Markdown, LaTeX, and multi-media
documentation capabilities coupled with custom anchor outputs to produce step-by-step
walkthroughs for their internal tools.<p>Artemis is ready to go, and we offer a free trial on our website. Setup and installation only take a
minute, but we’d also be delighted to answer your questions personally and/or give you a
walkthrough—we like to meet our users!<p>Our current pricing model is $15/month for basic Artemis. There’s a pro version that allows you
to create custom anchors (beyond inputs, outputs and doc), and export your interfaces as HTML
files. We also do the “contact us” enterprise thing for larger teams.<p>We’ll be around in the comments below and are super interested in whatever you have to say!
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Title: Here are the three that I know of that are equivalent to what Heroku used to offer([1],[2]):<p>- https://fly.io/pricing (requires credit card)<p>- https://northflank.com/pricing<p>- https://www.koyeb.com/pricing<p>Runners up:<p>- https://render.com/pricing (sleeps after 15 minutes, 30s spin-up)<p>- https://qoddi.com/#pricing (no custom domains)<p>- https://railway.app/pricing (only runs 500hrs/month, but doesn't require credit card)<p>- https://appliku.com/#pricing (only Django, no custom domains)<p>Note: Fly.io is the only one of these I have actually used. I like it so far. I plan to migrate my Heroku apps to Fly. Edit: just tried their automatic migration tool ( https://fly.io/launch/heroku ) and it works like a charm!<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32594533<p>[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595589
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Title: Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application.<p>In practice, Devbox works similar to a package manager like yarn – except the packages it manages are at the operating-system level (the sort of thing you would normally install with brew or apt-get).<p>See it in action: <a href="https://youtu.be/WMBaXQZmDoA" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/WMBaXQZmDoA</a>
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