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Title: My first is due 3 days ago. I'm told that I'm going to have no time any more and good sleep is a thing of the past.<p>I'm worried, I don't work well when tired. I'm just starting to get in the habit of investing in myself as a developer and am reading a lot, practicing a lot. This has made me, in my estimation, a much better programmer. Does this end when you have kids?<p>What was it like for you out there that have gone through this change in life?
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Title: Someone has scraped my contact information from my profile and is sending me an unsolicted "HackerNews" newsletter.<p>People ... don't do that.<p>Yes, you have an unsubscribe link, but that doesn't excuse the unsolicited sending of a screencap of your rendering of "top stories".<p>At the end you say:<p>"You're receiving this email because you signed up on HackerNews"<p>That is a lie, and a tactic used by utter scum.<p>Be better.<p>========<p><i>Edit: Note that this isn't random spam. It's specific to HN, showing a screencap/image of the HN front page. And then it lies about "signing up". If it were random spam I'd delete and move on. It's not, it's deliberately targetting the HN audience, and that's why I've mentioned it.</i>
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Title: I charge $115-130 an hour. All work is 100% remote. I customize Salesforce.<p>I think my rate is pretty good, but am wondering if I should charge more or if there is other tech I should specialize in that could get me a higher rate.
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Title: Our production services just went down again due to DNS. Anybody else?
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Title: Are there any start-ups in the chip space? I think this falls in the 'sounds like a bad idea' bucket, but could be potentially good idea.
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Title: In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?
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Title: Steps to reproduce:<p>1. Visit https://webplatform.news/ in a Chromium-based browser<p>2. Inspect your clipboard (paste it somewhere)
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Title: I'm the founder of a small 7 person startup in the fintech space.<p>Should I share info on upcoming behind-the-scenes partnerships, etc with employees to pump them up? Or is giving too much information counterproductive/risky if an employee leaves?
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Title: I started listening the five hours (!) interview of John Carmack on Lex fridman's podcast, and he was talking about, among other things, about the fact that he's coding since he was a kid and spent hours upon hours in front of a screen and keyboard writing code. I find Carmack's, Romero's and the Id software folks work very fascinating and at some point i would like to dive more in depth on the history of their work and analyze their code to learn hopefully new things.<p>But that interview also strucked something that i'm battling with myself. I'm 23 and I spent my entire childhood wasting my time on Social media, World Of Warcraft, and other pointless stuff. Literally 10-14 hours a day. I don't regret my gaming interests, but i do regret the fact that i wasted so much of my life on games like World of Warcraft (I started playing when i was 10 years old) instead of finding and developing my future interests and «passions». I've always knew i wanted to study Computer Science but due to my life circumstances(mental health problems, serious financial hardships, etc.) i sacrificed a lot to get into university which i did and i hope i can finish it.<p>Over the last couple years i started thinking, how would my life be if i spent that time coding/reverse engineering/learning the internals of OS, reading books, or generally developing my interests instead of playing wow and mindlessly scrolling on SM? Would i still be in the same position in my life, the same person, as i am now? Honestly i can only guess but i don't know how to handle that i lost so much viable time. Time which could had invested on my future and develop my skills as a computer scientist.
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Title: Dear NH<p>I've been working at a company for 8~ years.<p>In those 8 years i've taken them from a small "home server" to a full 42U rack (AD, procurement + all services ) & 20K+ LOC (20+ git repos).<p>I'm currently earning £60K a year ($70K) and I'm beginning to feel "aggrieved", everyone tells me I should. They're a "SMB" but they wont/cant justify a raise.<p>The problem/s? They wont give me more engineers & nobody wants to hire me based on my current CV.<p>My CV has got 0 response. This is drafted fresh, with my entire circles feedback (though I out earn my entire circle).<p>I know they would counter, beyond what they want to, if I got another offer.<p>What do you do here? I'm applying for jobs in the £60-£100K range but get no response - is my CV BAD? Is my XP Bad (PHP, but everything I apply for is PHP)? What am I doing wrong?<p>I half want to runaway to "tourist destination" and serve drinks - I will fail if they dont expand my department soon.<p>Roast me HN.
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Title: Hi all,<p>I am interested in books that teach the ins and outs of building complex software systems from scratch.<p>One such delightful book is “Building Git” by James Coglan. It builds a complex software from scratch allowing the user to learn by building.<p>What other books would be similar to the above?
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Title: I know that the capital costs for building a working power plant of any kind are pretty high. However, I still want to learn and see what is possible.<p>1. What is the thinnest vertical slice of end-to-end power-generation functionality that an individual would be able deploy and maintain on their own?<p>2. What are the names of necessary things that I would need to learn and research?<p>3. What parts are too easy to dismiss early on, but are likely to bite me later on?
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Title: I literally cannot find a single person describing their experience using CockroachDB, which is bizarre considering how long they have been around.<p>Would love to hear from someone who've used them in production.
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Title: In every DisplayPort (DP) cable I've seen on Amazon and many other retailers, the main difference between cables is shown as the version of the DP specification that they support.<p>Unfortunately, that's not what makes a DP cable different from its peers. Every DP cable supports every version of the spec! 1.1 to 1.4, they all support the same DP spec. The difference is in the bandwidth they support: RBR, HBR, HBR2, HBR3, and UHBR 10 (and above). This then translates to the resolution and refresh rate that the cable can support.<p>The differences are listed here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Cable_bandwidth_and_certifications" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Cable_bandwidth_an...</a><p><pre><code> RBR (Reduced Bit Rate) 6.48 Gbit/s
HBR (High Bit Rate) 10.80 Gbit/s
HBR2 (High Bit Rate 2) 21.60 Gbit/s
HBR3 (High Bit Rate 3) 32.40 Gbit/s
UHBR 10 (Ultra High Bit Rate 10) 40.00 Gbit/s
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The Wikipedia page also has tables that show what those bandwidths are capable of with regards to resolution+refresh rate: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Refresh_frequency_limits_for_common_resolutions" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Refresh_frequency_...</a><p>If you want 4K @ 60Hz you need a HBR2 cable. For 4K @ 144Hz you need UHBR 10.<p>Some retailers are better at telling you what bandwidth their cables support, such as Startech which does list the BR: <a href="https://www.startech.com/en-us/search?search_term=HBR3" rel="nofollow">https://www.startech.com/en-us/search?search_term=HBR3</a><p>Monoprice doesn't show any search results for HBR3: <a href="https://www.monoprice.com/search/index?keyword=HBR3&didyoumean=HBR3&TotalProducts=37" rel="nofollow">https://www.monoprice.com/search/index?keyword=HBR3&didyoume...</a><p>Cable Matters does have some results, but doesn't show the bitrate in the product title: <a href="https://www.cablematters.com/search.aspx?PageSize=20&PageNum=1&SearchTerm=HBR3" rel="nofollow">https://www.cablematters.com/search.aspx?PageSize=20&PageNum...</a><p>Amazon shows results for HBR3 but so many customer reviews tell of counterfeit cables and straight up lying in descriptions.<p>If you know of any better retailers that sell UHBR 10 or above cables, please let me know in the comments! I hope this information is useful to someone and saves you some time and pain trying different cables.
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Title: If you are this kind, how do you decide which things to work on?
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Title: I use an Android phone.
I keep location and mobile data ON when I go outside.(So that I can locate it / remotely wipe it). I use phone's default encryption. Both my sim cards are locked using PIN. What else can I do to prevent misuses/data leak if my phone gets stolen? Whats your approach?
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Title: I have always struggled to finish projects, I start out super productive and creative then fissile out when it comes to completing the work.
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Title: I recently saw a short documentary with a case where someone had an overdose because of interaction with medicines and grapefruit juice.<p>This is apparently due to substances in grapefruit that interact with an enzyme used to metabolize some medicines.<p>Warning labels in the leaflet seems like a very inefficient solution. Why isn't the warning placed on products containing grapefruit?
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Title: What’s your fav audio content to consume before falling asleep?
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Title: Background: I am sick of Apple's terrible customer support in my country. The most recent case was that of my friend who upgraded to a 14 inch Macbook Pro that stopped booting in 7 days. Since there is no return option in 30 days like in other geographies, he took it to Apple's authorised service centre (there are no Apple owned service centres in my country), and they put a big scratch right across the Apple logo. To add to this, Apple's customer support final response after more than a week of wasting his time was they would not be able to replace the display even when my friend sent clear voice recordings of the service centre employees accepting their mistake. He had to take the help of the local police who went with him to the shop to get a written statement that they would be replacing the display too along with the mainboard to fix the primary issue of dead laptop.<p>I have had my own horror stories in the past 10 years and I do not want to pay another dime to Apple for such pathetic treatment even under warranty.<p>Are there any other options for someone like me?
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Title: Hi HN, I'm Daniel Nguyen. In June, I quit my job to start indie hacking full-time.<p>The idea of KTool first came to my mind when I was reading "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"[0]<p>I've been wearing glasses since I was 5. My right eye is basically blind. Doctors said there is no chance to cure it.<p>I was genuinely scared. Like holy shit, if my left eye stops working, my life is done. Since then I've been very conscious about time spent on computer screens.<p>That's when I started using Kindle-related products: to offload as many reading materials as possible to the Kindle. I was a happy customer of Push to Kindle. Great product!<p>Then I ran into multiple limitations which led me to build KTool: a tool to send anything online to Kindle. Blog posts, Twitter threads, Hacker News discussions, RSS, newsletters... you name it.<p>But I'm not here to pitch my vision for KTool.<p>I built a specific tool to help you send HN discussions to your Kindle. And in the spirit of Show HN, it doesn't require an account. If you don't own a Kindle, there is the option to download the EPUB.<p>Let me know what you think. Any feedback will be much appreciated.<p>If you're a Kindle owner and you read a lot of online content, give KTool a try.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980</a>
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Title: Sidekick is a live application debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. It allows you to add dynamic logs and put non-breaking breakpoints in your running application without the need of stopping & redeploying. Currently supporting Java, Python & Node.js runtimes.<p>Sidekick Open Source is here to allow self-hosting and make live debugging more accessible. Built for everyone who needs extra information from their running applications.
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Title: IIUC, the ACH system<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house</a><p>Is utterly insecure. Anyone with your routing number and account number, 2 numbers printed on every check, can ask your bank for all of your money and the bank will not confirm anything with you.<p>My first experience with this was Apple's credit card that can only be paid via ACH and I was shocked when I typed in my info into the apple wallet app and then it took my money without the bank confirming anything with me.<p>Why hasn't this been more of a problem? Are their mitigations? These numbers can be stolen from data breaches even easier than passwords as they won't be salted and hashed, they'll be the actual numbers right? The entire payment regime in the USA seems to be switching over to ACH. Should I be worried?
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Title: I want to be able to hold some smallish number of lines of code and say "it is generally agreed that this code is amongst the best examples of programming that there is".<p>Does anyone have any suggestions for such examples? Any language is fine. As long as there's some way to say "look, here is where people say this is great code".
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Title: Whenever I end up on discord, I'm completely lost, and I know all the functions, but still lost. If I had to describe it in a word, it'd be ANXIETY. 10 teams, 30 channels, 50 unread messages in each channel, 500 members, 5k gifs...<p>I have no idea who is talking, what is being talked about, are you and how are you suppose to follow anything, how to find information that took place 1 min ago and let alone few weeks ago, how each message somehow takes so much vertical space.<p>The UI contrast doesn't help, as there is none. Everything just looks like vomit of UI elements on page, that's what came to be the interface of discord.<p>But people seem to be using it? who is using it? and how are they managing to 'get' it?<p>It feels like artistic rendition of millions of people chats combined into one, but meant to be appreciated from distance not to be interacted with.
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Title: MOOCs doesn't necessarily mean courses on platforms like edX or Coursera. They can include university courses with public materials like videos, notes, assignments, etc.
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Title: Having built Proxies API and made it to 100 paid users for the first time in my startup life, I tried to compile a list of tips for other developers like me who might be thinking of starting something on their own.<p>Developers are a different beast, and the advice here may not apply to anyone who is not a developer and is a normal human being.<p>Pick an idea you have used. When you start a startup one of the persistent problems you face is that you don't relate to the problem. If you are not a parent, its almost impossible to relate to any conversations that parents have about their troubles. You just don’t. This lack of empathy in a startup setting adds up to a huge disadvantage and will never allow you to be fully confident in what you are doing.
2. Pick an idea you have already paid for: If you have ever paid for a service, think very carefully about that. Can you code it yourself if you give yourself a few months? It is because developers don’t pay for shit. If an app forced you to do that, then there must a real need for that app.<p>3. Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI: My product Proxies API is an API. I can get away with almost no UI. It is such a relief that I don’t have to work with a designer. I find that I am 4 to 5 times faster when I don’t have to deal with UI stuff.<p>4. Don’t pick anything that you need in-person sales for. Marketing is a developer’s friend. I realized this only later in my life. In-person sales are very weird for the developer personality. My advice. Don't do it. Learn how to market instead.<p>5. Pick something that is a self-serve model: People signup for a trial and decide to pay or not pay based on their trial experience. This is a beast that you can conquer. You don’t want to be going around talking to actual humans. It is not for us.<p>6. Try writing: If you can code and write, you will win the world. The whole success of Proxies API is based on constant improvements to code and a little bit of consistent writing over time.<p>7. Keep it real: Be clear on your motivations. I know that developers are not motivated by the prospect of making millions. But they are excited by the promise of financial freedom. So I was clear on my motivations when starting Proxies API — I didn’t want it to make me millions. I wanted it to give me financial freedom by earning what I earned in my day job. I didn’t need a penny more. By being clear about it, you are not living someone else’s life but your own, and it will give you the necessary fuel to keep going.<p>Have fun.<p>The author is the founder of Proxies API the rotating proxies service.<p>This article originally appeared here: https://www.proxiesapi.com/blog/Tips-For-Developers-Who-Want-To-Build-A-SAAS-Startup.php
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Title: Hi all,<p>Was thinking about buying my next machine, and was quite impressed with all the positive feedback I got from my friends regarding its excellent CPU and hardware. However, I wanted to jump in here and get some insights from those of you that have been using it.<p>1 - How is the performance? Does it get noisy/hot like my work machine (2019 i9 16" Pro) ?<p>2 - How is the development experience? Are you missing some critical tools on this platform that you need on a day-to-day basis?<p>3 - How is Docker performance/compatibility? I work a lot with Docker for backends/servers and Docker for Mac has always been pretty bad, but wanted to see if it improves with M1!<p>4 - How much RAM is good for heavy development work? I use Adobe Creative Cloud a lot, do video editing here and there, and also a lot of Mobile development (React Native). Would 16GB be okay, or do I need more? (Would like to future-proof for the next 4-5 years). My work Mac with i7 32GB always gets insanely hot and noisy with most basic loads.<p>Thanks again and will really appreciate your insight!
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Title: So I was hired in this startup a year ago. Its aim is to make a SaaS. It's been painfully obvious that nothing gets done about this, the only projects we work on are bizarre random demos or small open source projects on github for "marketing".<p>The company has not had a series A funding yet, and was almost bankrupting some months ago until a VC gave them "some" millions. Meanwhile, there's still no product, and the company pays for worldwide company trips for no purpose (no conferences or anything), pays for life coaches and frequent global flights for the CEO and who knows what else.<p>When I say "no product" I literally mean it. It only exists on a powerpoint slide without a single line of code implemented.<p>The worst part is this startup is 5-7 years old, and has gone through the bankrupt -> saved last minute by investor cycle more than one time.<p>Average employee stay is 6-14 months. During my employment three managers left the company, and four engineers. There's no documentation about anything because people come and go after they see there's no future in this company.<p>Should I anonymously inform investors that my startup employer is a scam, and if yes, how should I approach it?
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Title: Just went out to german users (translated with deepl):<p>We, the Telegram team, ask you to give us your opinion on how the data of German Telegram users may (or may not) be shared with German authorities, including the German police (BKA).<p>Telegram never shares information about your chats or contacts with third parties, including government agencies.<p>Nevertheless, to prevent misuse of our platform by terrorist groups, our current privacy policy since 2018 allows us to disclose IP addresses and phone numbers of terrorist suspects upon government request backed by a court order.<p>We're conducting this poll to find out if our German users support our current privacy policy or if they want to reduce or increase the number of cases where Telegram can potentially share data with authorities. We are providing three options to choose from.<p>OPTION 1: No changes. Telegram may continue to share IP addresses and phone numbers of terror suspects only based on a court decision. This option is already included in Telegram's current privacy policy.<p>OPTION 2: Upon request by German police authorities, Telegram may disclose IP addresses and phone numbers of suspects of serious crimes, even if not supported by a court decision. This option, if approved, would be completely new for Telegram and therefore requires a change to our privacy policy for users from Germany.<p>OPTION 3: Under no circumstances may Telegram share user information, including IP addresses and phone numbers of terror suspects. If this option is supported, Telegram will change its data structure and privacy policy for users from Germany.<p>Only users registered with German phone numbers can participate in the survey below. We have informed all Telegram users in Germany about this survey. The poll will remain open until September 5, 12:00 pm German time (UTC+2).<p>(Together with an attached poll)<p>Original: https://imgur.com/a/oHdxchb
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Title: I'm a senior backend dev (Go mostly) and feel like I could be doing more in the evenings, when my kids are in bed, to make a few extra ££.<p>I have no interest in under-selling myself on fiverr etc, so how do you find the work?
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Title: Hi HN! This is Sneh and Kimberly from Be Golden (<a href="https://www.begolden.online/" rel="nofollow">https://www.begolden.online/</a>). Be Golden helps you understand how your lifestyle impacts your health, particularly in terms of inflammation levels. I (Sneh) am a PharmD and the CEO; Kimberly has a PhD in biology and is the CTO.<p>We all make lifestyle choices daily - what we eat, how much we exercise, etc. No matter how good we are, we are all probably trying to get better but we don't have a great feedback mechanism on how our choices impact our health. We may go to the doctor once a year (if that) to get some blood work done but so much happens in between that it's hard to tell what made an impact. We wanted to change that so that you are better understanding how your lifestyle is impacting your health to help you make better decisions.<p>Be Golden focuses on helping you measure and manage inflammation levels because inflammation is impacted by all key lifestyle behaviors (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress) [1] and impacts a variety of health outcomes—from energy levels, to IVF success rates and IBS symptoms to chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer [2]. This Nature Medicine article (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0675-0" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0675-0</a>) states "One of the most important medical discoveries of the past two decades has been that the immune system and inflammatory processes are involved in not just a few select disorders, but a wide variety of mental and physical health problems that dominate present-day morbidity and mortality worldwide."<p>I started tracking my inflammation scores (see my graph here! - <a href="https://www.begolden.online/post/our-ceo-s-hscrp-scores-over-time" rel="nofollow">https://www.begolden.online/post/our-ceo-s-hscrp-scores-over...</a>) after I learned I was at high risk of breast cancer and had a bilateral lumpectomy. I learned that chronic inflammation can be a driver of tumor development [9], progression [10], and treatment responsiveness [11]... and can impact a surprising number of other things. It keeps us from functioning optimally. The good news is that it can be managed with healthy lifestyle choices (see [1]). I started making healthy changes (like exercising almost daily) and seeing an impact on my inflammation levels (although it seems like the “startup lifestyle” has me back on an upswing lately). I decided to start a startup to help manage inflammation because I wanted more tools, data and analytics to help me make healthy lifestyle choices. I recognize the (hopefully short term) irony :).<p>So how does it work? You start by measuring your baseline inflammation levels using an at-home, finger prick based, blood testing kit, that includes a shipping label to send the sample back to the lab. You then receive your lab results and we start layering in data-based insights like how your levels compare to other people like you. From there, you can try a new habit from our list of scientifically backed options (<a href="https://www.begolden.online/post/lifestyle-interventions-associated-with-decreased-inflammation-levels" rel="nofollow">https://www.begolden.online/post/lifestyle-interventions-ass...</a>) or something else you have been meaning to try.<p>Once you choose a habit (for example, adding ginger to your diet), we will help you track how often you do it. Our current digital platform design is to text you daily and ask you: Did you have ginger yesterday? (yes/no). Then you will re-measure and receive insights. For example, you may get an insight like - you have had ginger 15 of the last 30 days and your inflammation levels are down 10%. Based on the data from clinical studies, some interventions can change inflammation levels (as measured by hsCRP) within weeks and others show within months [3]. As such, we recommend testing every 1-2 months to likely provide adequate time for change to your levels. Each person’s needs and time to impact will vary, so you can adjust this frequency up or down, depending on what works best for you.<p>Note - You can of course request that we delete your data at any time and we’ll do so.<p>We measure inflammation using high sensitivity C Reactive Protein (hsCRP), an established marker of systemic inflammation [4].<p>For those not familiar, I thought I would also share a bit about what inflammation is. There are two types of inflammation—acute and chronic. Acute (short-term) inflammation is beneficial [5]. It can be caused by infections as well as cell damage. During acute inflammation, the immune system ramps up, removes pathogens/heals tissue then ramps back down [6]. In chronic inflammation, something other than acute infections (like physical inactivity, obesity, and/or disturbed sleep) may be driving inflammation and the process doesn't ramp down so the immune system is constantly active. This constant activation may lead to the immune system attacking healthy cells, draining energy, and losing normal functionality [7]. Chronic inflammation can disrupt homeostasis [8], which is when the body is in balance and functioning optimally.<p>In the future, we should be able to let you learn from not only your own data but data from others (anonymously, of course). For example, you may be able to see what interventions have shown the greatest impact among people like you. By bringing more people and interventions to the platform, we can improve the experience for everyone.<p>We’ve recently been building a tool to help you see how different lifestyle choices can impact inflammation scores among different demographics, based on aggregated data. Check out our “work in progress” tool here: <a href="https://begolden.shinyapps.io/shinyapp/" rel="nofollow">https://begolden.shinyapps.io/shinyapp/</a> - we’d be interested in what you think of it!<p>If you’re interested in your inflammation levels, you can pre-order Be Golden here with a special HN discount code HACKERNEWS to receive the first test and access to the digital platform for just $59: <a href="https://www.begolden.online/" rel="nofollow">https://www.begolden.online/</a> If you are not ready to order and just want to learn more, you can do so at the same link.<p>We’re looking forward to hearing any of your comments, questions, ideas, experiences, and feedback!<p>p.s. dang suggested we put all the footnotes in a comment because there are so many of them - so they're here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32650321" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32650321</a>.
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Title: (More info posted in a comment below: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651107" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651107</a>)
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Title: See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930<p>Feel free to update us on your progress if you participated in that thread.
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Title: Hi there HN,<p>Disclaimer: I've submitted a Show HN as well as the link for this general project before, but particularly like this one short story so want to submit one for it specifically. Hope it's not considered spammy!<p>I and a collaborator who writes sci-fi just released the short story "The Great Filter Button" - <a href="https://storiesby.ai/p/the-great-filter-button" rel="nofollow">https://storiesby.ai/p/the-great-filter-button</a><p>Here's why it's relevant to HN: most of the text for it was generated by GPT-3 (with human curation, using SudoWrite) and it was entirely illustrated using DALL-E 2 and MidJourney, and a bit of DreamStudio aka Stable Diffusion (of course with human selection of prompts) AND it narrated using neural voice synthesis (via BeyondWords). And I think it came out very well!<p>To my mind it is a pretty good example of how the newest commercial tools by powered by learned media synthesis models can be leveraged by humans to make art. It also shows some of the limits: DALLE-2, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion all have trouble with more complex prompts and don't follow various aspects of them, the voice synthesis is still pretty robot-y, and the GPT-3 written parts are heavily guided by human text (and the whole story is quite short).<p>We plan to keep exploring these realm of human-AI creative collaboration by releasing weekly short stories with this newsletter, and would love feedback, suggestions, or even entire submissions of your own creative work done using AI. Feel free to just comment here on HN, email us at [email protected], or comment here - <a href="https://storiesby.ai/p/submit-your-stories-ideas" rel="nofollow">https://storiesby.ai/p/submit-your-stories-ideas</a><p>Last thought: even with AI doing the "heavy lifting" of writing and illustration, a great deal of creative decision making is still left up to us with respect to subject matter, style, formatting, etc. I hypothesize that sturgeon's law will remain true in the age of AI-generated text/images (most of everything will be crap), and the job of literary agents, producers, etc. will just become far more involved. Sort of like A24 is mostly a distributor (and to some extent producer) yet have made a huge name for themselves - this may become the norm.<p>Edit: wow thanks for feedback HN! To the comments saying this is at best a mediocre story/outline, totally agree. Since we want to put something out weekly, these stories are quickly generated with the intent to be a neat example of human-AI collaboration, rather than with the intent to reach the bar of published sci short stories. Maybe one day...
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Title: Hello HN,<p>this is the first functional reimplementation of AutoHotkey [1] for Unix-like systems, as far as I am aware. Half the commands are still missing, but everything important is done, as I have worked a lot on it over the past two months. Converting scripts into stand alone binaries is also supported. Hope this will find some adoption eventually. :-) - This implementation focuses on v1.0-like classic syntax from 2004 (!). This is a significant <i>subset</i> of the popular current v1.1 syntax from Windows (AHK_L). The reason this does not (yet?) target the full Windows spec is how complex it is. Notably, there's also another ongoing project which targets v2 called KeySharp [2].<p>If you are not aware of what AHK is, it is an easy but capable scripting language for automation and Hotkeys, and all sorts of visual things like GUIs.<p>If you want to learn more, there plenty of info on the repo, the docs html, and there's an active AHK Discord too, and I am personally also checking the forums and HN of course.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.autohotkey.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.autohotkey.com/</a>
[2] <a href="https://bitbucket.org/mfeemster/keysharp/" rel="nofollow">https://bitbucket.org/mfeemster/keysharp/</a>
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Title: Just got this in my inbox. They haven't updated the FAQs page yet, as far as I can tell.<p>> Hi-<p>We’re improving the Terms of Service that apply to your Colab Pro or Colab Pro+ subscription making them easier for you to understand and improving the ways you can use Colab. The changes will take effect on September 29.<p>The [updated Terms of Service](https://research.google.com/colaboratory/tos_v3.html) include changes that will allow you to have more control over how and when you use Colab, allowing us to offer new services and features that will enhance your experience using Colab.<p>We will increase transparency by granting paid subscribers compute quota via compute units which will be visible in your Colab notebooks, allowing you to understand how much compute quota you have left. These compute units are granted monthly and will expire after 3 months. You will be entitled to a certain number of compute units based on your subscription level and will have the ability to purchase more compute units as needed.<p>Additionally, we will allow paid subscribers to exhaust their compute quota at a much higher rate. This will result in paid subscribers having more flexibility in accessing resources. Read more about these changes at our [FAQ](https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html#compute-units).<p>If you would like to cancel your Colab Pro or Pro+ subscription, you can do that by going to pay.google.com and clicking Subscriptions and services. If you have any trouble canceling, you can email [email protected] for assistance. Please include an order number from one of your receipt emails if you email us for assistance.<p>-The Colab team
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Title: Backstory:<p>I wanted to play with intraday stock data but couldn't find a free dataset anywhere. IEXCloud [1] offers API access to 1-minute granularity intraday historical price data, but I was worried that it could get expensive or unwieldy to build up a substantial dataset via API calls. Plus, IEX gives out their raw data for free.<p>I probably should have just used the IEXTools python library [2] to parse IEX's raw data dumps, but I was working on a Julia project, so it felt more thematically appropriate to build a new tool from scratch.<p>I haven't been actively using InvestorsExchange.jl a lot lately, but it's made me the proud owner of a 50GB SQLite DB dump covering several years of trade data, and I think it would be awesome if I could help folks in the HN community more quickly build up this kind of dataset for their own curiosity or research.<p>Feedback is also greatly appreciated!<p>[1] <a href="https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices" rel="nofollow">https://www.iexcloud.io/docs/api/#historical-prices</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lvfrazao/IEXTools</a>
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Title: While browsing the other day I discovered that there used to be a meetup for London based HN readers[1] that appears to have fizzled out when the organiser moved over to America. This type of thing seems to have been relatively wide-spread in tech hubs at the time[2].<p>To try and rekindle a local HN readers meetup in London, I have arranged a meetup event here: https://www.meetup.com/london-hacker-news-meetup/events/288139501/<p>If you are in the London area, feel free to come along and say hi!<p>[1] http://www.coderholic.com/hacker-news-london-meetup-a-year-on/
[2] https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups
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Title: I have been using the official release so far, and I see many new tools popping up every day, mostly GUIs. A substantial portion of them are closed-source, sometimes even simply offering an executable that you are supposed to blindly trust.<p>Not to go full Richard Stallman here, but is anybody else bothered by that? How do you deal with this situation, do you use a virtual machine, or is there any other ideas I am missing here?
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Title: I've been wondering what the rationale for the (home/personal) printer industry to be this predatory and opaque is.<p>Cartridges that go bad after a set amount of pages regardless of the ink level. Quality of printing going down over time just so that a technician can reset a counter. High prices.<p>I thought that maybe the digitalisation of paper work had made the margins so thin that the only way to go forward was to resort to the mess that we have right now. But afaik the same was true 20 years ago.<p>In particular, there is some brand that was praised for consumer friendly practices here on HN that joined the dark side recently too; Brother iirc.<p>Most people I know "print at work", and they don't want to have a printer because when they did have one, the experience was atrocious.<p>People that do print at home, are mostly photographers that want physical prints of their photos.<p>I wonder if there's anyone here who worked in the industry and could provide some insight.
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Title: I have been wondering on how I could preserve some of my digital photos so my son could access them when I am long gone. I currently have a mix of iCloud and OneDrive but those requires account logins and I couldn't find a convenient way of like hey son here is all your baby pictures and all of our adventure when we where still living together. Any suggestions?
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Title: Hello folks, few of us are planning to meet over the weekend for a in-person meetup.<p>Which location would you prefer?<p>- Indiranagar or
- HSR Layout<p>Join here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KCIoKXpa7HQItbVA48LlN5
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Does anyone have a list of IT security stuff that you should setup for your early stage startup?<p>Like for example DNSSEC, VPN, forcing employees to use 2-factor etc.
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Title: I'm 27 at starting to realize it's not worth my time to work in excess for my current corporation.<p>I have a lot of fun ideas in my head and books I want to read that I feel deserve my time and health much more. I've been reading more philosophy lately and realize that our lives are finite and we should focus on breaking away from all this useless societal dogma.<p>Has anyone else gone from corporate grinder to zen learner? I'm starting to wonder if industry isn't for me and a more academic setting would be more suitable.
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Title: Going to a big school and meeting people with different backgrounds and interests has made me painfully aware of how ignorant I am. I'd like to meet people who will challenge me intellectually and act as a catalyst for my growth. I'm thinking of reading some lesswrong posts and hanging around in the comments and perhaps exploring that part of the internet. It's not perfect but it's a start I guess. What are some of your experiences with meeting people on the internet and how does one go about meeting great people?
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Title: Hi my name is Nisha, and Madhu and I are cofounders of Lion Pose (<a href="https://lionpose.com/" rel="nofollow">https://lionpose.com/</a>). We make clinical skincare products for people of color, without toxic bleach.<p>When she was 10 years old, Madhu’s family took her to get her whole body bleached, because she was told it would make her skin more beautiful. She didn’t know that bleaching products contain toxic or potentially dangerous ingredients like mercury, steroids, and hydroquinone (which has possible links to cancer and kidney failure). Madhu is not alone in her experience—some reports estimate that nearly 50% of people of color have used bleaching products on their skin.<p>The horrors of bleach aside, skin of color has been notoriously left out of both medical training and new product development. Most skin images in medical textbooks are of white skin, dermatology residents are not trained to diagnose on darker skin tones, and skin of color is often omitted from clinical trials and studies. But skincare for people of color is a $9B market in the US, so this imbalance represents a big opportunity,<p>At Lion Pose, we are on a mission to end skin bleaching and create safe and effective solutions for brown skin issues. Our main product, Unspotted 4X, fights hyperpigmentation— dark spots, melasma, discoloration, or scars—which is the #2 skin issue for people of color, after acne. We scoured NIH studies to find the best active ingredients for darker skin tones. Our proprietary blend of acids (glycolic, lactic, tranexamic, and azelaic) exfoliate and resurface the skin, with antioxidants to promote healthy new growth.<p>We’re working with a medical board of Harvard-educated dermatologists to make sure we get this right. Most of them have black or brown skin themselves, so they understand the consumer’s point of view first-hand.<p>Our second product is a mineral SPF 30 sunscreen made with zinc oxide. Similar to bleach, traditional SPF ingredients like oxybenzone have been linked to cancer. Zinc-based sunscreens don’t have this problem. However, they tend to have a thick white consistency, which is particularly difficult to blend on darker skin tones—you may have noticed this if you’ve ever applied them to yourself, and then tried to rub away the highly visible traces they leave! We’ve created a smooth absorbable formula, tinted with safe iron oxides, allowing blendability on dark skin.<p>Clinical skincare is the fastest growing category at beauty retailers like Sephora. Our products will be available in all Sephora stores in the US and Canada upon launch (Sephora projects $3M in sales in the first year), which we hope will allow us to grow without having to rely on expensive Facebook ads. Retail sales still dominate in this market.<p>Many people don’t realize that there is little to no regulation of skincare products in the US. This has caused a market saturated with products that are useless and/or ineffective, or even harsh and damaging. Most consumers aren’t going to research specific ingredients to find products that really work for their skin tone. Therefore, truly clinical skincare products feel unattainable or inaccessible—most consumers believe you must be wealthy and have access to top dermatologists to have healthy "glowing" skin. We hope to contribute to changing this!<p>We are about to kick off our next round of consumer testing. If you or someone you know are interested in trying our products, we’d love to hear from you. Write us at [email protected] and we’ll send you physical samples.<p>We’ll be around in the thread and look forward to your comments!
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Title: Hi Hacker News!<p>My name is Sagar, I’m working on a startup called Speakeasy - we’re making all APIs self-service. The platform is currently in beta, but we’re independently launching this tool which you can use to generate language-idiomatic, statically-typed TS SDKs from any public OpenAPI schemas. We hope to continue iterating on this to give devs a way to easily generate high fidelity client SDKs for all the major languages.<p>Inspiration for this product is from past experiences struggling with OpenAPI. I was originally optimistic about using the OpenAPI tools to build out our offering, but quickly realized that the tools left a lot to be desired, and would not have provided our end users with the developer experience we wanted. While it’s not exhaustive, we’ve tried to address some of the biggest gaps in this tool:<p>* Low-dependency - To try and keep the SDK isomorphic (i.e. available both for Browsers and Node.JS servers), we wrap axios, but that’s it.This is intended to be idiomatic typescript; very similar to code a human would write; with the caveat that the typing is only as strict as the OpenAPI specification.<p>* Code just like a human would write - At this point static typing is everywhere. So wherever possible, we generate typed structures, construct path variables automatically, pass through query parameters, and expose strictly typed input / output body types.<p>* Future direction - There’s value in being neutral, but we felt like there is more value in being opinionated. In the future we’ll add features like built-in Pagination, Retries (Backoff/Jitter etc), Auth integrations, which should be handled in the SDK.<p>We’re planning to continue improving this service, so would love to hear what you think of the choices we’ve made, the issues we should address next, and what languages we should work on supporting.
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Title: Hey HN, my name is James and I founded Payload (<a href="https://payloadcms.com/" rel="nofollow">https://payloadcms.com/</a>) with two close colleagues, Dan and Elliot. We're a dev-first headless CMS [1] that's half app framework and half CMS—we're closing the gap between the two. You can check out our demo here: <a href="https://demo.payloadcms.com" rel="nofollow">https://demo.payloadcms.com</a>.<p>Imagine you're going to build a new SaaS app. Would you think of building it on a headless CMS? Probably not. To devs, "content management system" is usually a swear word. If a team of engineers gets assigned a CMS project, it's less than thrilling. Engineers want to avoid roadblocks, write code, and build things they're proud of—but existing CMS's get in the way of that left and right with their third-party integrations, point-and-click schema designers, code generation, etc.<p>Rather, you'd build your backend on an app framework like Django, Laravel, etc., for good reasons: ownership over the backend, better access control, customizable auth patterns, etc. Typically, headless CMS are super limiting; you'll end up fighting the platform more than having it help. But, with app frameworks, you're often left to roll your own admin UI, and that takes time. Not to mention building CRUD UI gets old quick after you do it a few times.<p>That’s where a headless CMS could shine, because they instantly give you admin UI that non-technical teams can use to manage digital products. That saves a ton of UI dev time— but without an extensible API, headless CMS's are far too limiting. They're designed for marketing teams, which usually only need the generic basics: log in, create a draft, preview the draft, publish the content. Go back and update some pages. Define editor roles and localize content. If you need more than that, you'll soon be out of luck.<p>Payload is different because we treat developers as first-class citizens. We provide the best of both ends: a powerful and extensible API and a fully customizable admin UI out-of-the-box. All with a developer experience that we obsess over, because we want it ourselves.<p>Payload is code-first, which allows us to get a lot of things right. We give you what you need, then step back and let you build what you want in TypeScript. You'll understand how your CMS works because you will have written it exactly how you want it. Version control your schema and use your own Express server. Completely control the Admin panel by using your own React components. Swap out fields or even entire views with ease. Use your data however and wherever you need thanks to auto-generated, yet fully extensible REST, GraphQL, and Local Node APIs.<p>Since it uses your own Express server, you can open up your own endpoints alongside what Payload does. In fact, you can extend just about everything that Payload does. It's MIT and open-source, fully self-hosted, comes with GraphQL and REST APIs, and completely customizable.<p>We realized the need for Payload while we were building the corporate website for Klarna. The Klarna engineers we were working with were among the best in the world, and while they evaluated headless CMS options, they saw restrictions in how all of the normal contenders "black-box" away the API. They wanted to build their CMS, deploy it on their own infrastructure, and truly "own" their CMS. They fell back to using WordPress. When that happened, Klarna inadvertently shined a spotlight on the CMS market and pointed out a significant void in proper code-based, developer-first CMS. There was no one to give them the developer experience they needed. That's what got us started working on this.<p>It might seem like a CMS is just a wrapper around a database with a nice UI to show different field types—but in reality, it's a lot more complex than that. We obsessed for years around how to build a proper API that minimizes breaking changes, but still exposes a simple way to extend everything. When you start to introduce things like field-based access control, field-based conditional logic, localization, versions, drafts, and autosave, the task becomes a lot more daunting. Doing it right requires a significant development investment—especially if you want it to perform at scale in addition to removing roadblocks at dev time.<p>It seems like every day, a new headless CMS pops up. But when you filter down to those that are completely self-hosted, the options quickly dwindle. And then when you remove the confused point-and-click "no-code" (argh!) GUI nature of the existing options, the options narrow to one: Payload.<p>Our users have built quite a diverse set of apps on Payload. We've seen a virtual events platform, a broadcast platform, SaaS apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, and an Uber-like snow plow service! There are over 1,000 projects in production as of last week, and we can't wait to see more.<p>Open source has been incredibly helpful. We've gotten significant PRs and our community has gone above and beyond in their contributions. We did not anticipate the level of skill and involvement that we are seeing daily from our community.<p>Our business model is based on two things:<p>1. Enterprise features like SSO, audit logs, publication workflows, and translation workflows. Of course, as Payload is open-source, you can build these functions yourself, but enterprises are opting to pay for our official functionality and SLAs rather than rolling it themselves.<p>2. Cloud hosting. Now that Payload 1.0 is released and ready for production after more than two years of development and dogfooding, we've shifted focus to building a deployment platform for Payload that will deliver permanent file storage, database, API layer, and CI. It will be the easiest way to deploy Payload, but not mandatory to use—much like the NextJS and Vercel model.<p>You can get started in one line by running `npx create-payload-app` or you can try out our public demo at <a href="https://demo.payloadcms.com" rel="nofollow">https://demo.payloadcms.com</a>. The code for the demo is at <a href="https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo</a>.<p>We would love to hear your feedback. If we don't have something, we'll build it. If there's a sticky spot in the DX (developer experience), we’ll fix it. Looking forward to hearing what you think—and thank you!<p>[1] Quick refresher: CMS stands for "content management system" and headless just means API-based, with no restrictions over where you use the content on the frontend.
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Title: Every other posts this week seems to be about the aforementioned. The novelty and breakthrough in generative art is understandable, but what are other use cases are there for the greater collective good?
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Title: In the past month we've seen a dramatic, seemingly coordinated, increase in engineering applicants whose resumés and backgrounds appear qualified, but who refuse to use their cameras during Zoom interviews and who often can't answer specific questions about their backgrounds. We've wasted a significant amount of time on comms and interviews with over a dozen of these candidates. Anyone else experiencing anything similar?
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Title: The service I am building is usage-based, i.e.<p><pre><code> * I am charging per second the service was used, e.g. USD 0.01/second
* I would like to give credits upon sign-up.
* There is no monthly minimum.
</code></pre>
At the moment, I am thinking that I can achieve this with just a few tables:<p><pre><code> * `billing_account (id, billing_rate_id, running_balance)`
* `billing_rate (id, rate)`
* `account_credit (id, billing_account_id, timestamp, amount, function_execution_id)`
* `account_debit (id, billing_account_id, timestamp, amount, source [platform_credit or stripe])`
</code></pre>
When a user creates an account, I would create an entry in `billing_account` and associate whatever the current `billing_rate`. I would also create an `account_debit` entry with `source=platform_credit` and update `billing_account` `running_balance` value to reflect their balance after the `platform_credit`.<p>Then whenever they run a function that costs them, I create `account_credit` account with an entry equal to the amount they spent and update `billing_account` `running_balance` value.<p>When they top-up their account, I would just add entry to `account_debit` and update the balance again.<p>This appears to cover all my use cases, but I wanted to check with anyone who's designed such database schemas before.
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Title: Hi folks. My wife has been looking for a job and sometimes in the application forms there are annoying questions like "Why do you want to work here?". At the same time I've been playing around with GPT-3 and have blown away by it's capabilities, so I decided to build a site that can answer these annoying questions for her.<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/Lior539/why-do-you-want-to-work-here" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Lior539/why-do-you-want-to-work-here</a><p>Here's an example of a generated answer:
Using this opening for a Senior iOS Engineer at Monzo -<a href="https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/3838039" rel="nofollow">https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/3838039</a>
The generated answer question on the application "What attracted you to Monzo?":
"What attracted me to Monzo is that it is a bank that is trying to make a difference in the world by making it easier for people to manage their money. Monzo is also very customer focused and puts the customer first in everything they do."
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Title: Every time I am reading blog posts about "how to become a great developer", or "what´s the difference between a good and a great developer", I am marvelling the self-confidence of the author. Or better to say: I am wondering if I should have better self-confidence too?<p>During my 20 years of work experience as a developer, I´ve never felt that I am a great. Neither good. Maybe good enough, or good-ish. And it depends of many factors. First, I always know some guys, who are better than me. One is coding quicker, the other does not need so much googling or checking documentations during work, the next one has better code structure, and so on.<p>I always had/have multiple leveled lists in my head, what I need to improve. To write tests. To change Js to Ts. To practice quicker typing. To create better snippets. To learn better focusing. I could continue the list...<p>I don´t think I can tag myself as "great" until the list is done. Do these bloggers?
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Title: We moved away from meetup.com thinking our meetups would be destroyed at some point.
When we stopped paying, meetup.com actually "offered" our meetups, including subscriber's list with full name and email, to anyone willing to pay to keep them alive.<p>We are now out of control with no way to get the userlist cleared. meetup.com support is not responding to support requests.<p>Thinking of any action that we can take against meetup.com ?
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/" rel="nofollow">https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/</a> or <a href="https://hirehackernews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hirehackernews.com/</a>.
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677261" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677261</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677264" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677264</a>
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Title: During the '90s and the early '00s, dedicated soundcards were in-demand components in much the same way GPUs are today. From what I know, Creative won, on-board sound became good enough sometime between Windows XP and Windows 7, and the audio enthusiasts moved on to external DACs and $2000 headphones. Today Creative still sells soundcards, but none of them appear to be substantial improvements over previous models.<p>So what other reasons could have caused the decline in interest? Was there nothing that could be improved upon? Were there improvements on the software side that made hardware redundant and/or useless? Is there any other company besides Creative, however large or small, still holding the torch for innovating in this space?
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Title: Hey HN! It’s Eric, Caleb, Nick, and Garrett from SideGuide (<a href="https://www.sideguide.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sideguide.dev/</a>). We give developers and technical PMs an easy way to learn and evaluate API/SDK products using live code environments. Our product is a lightweight, embeddable, online code environment that lets you play with APIs and SDKs in one click.<p>Companies use us to let developers experiment with fully-configured examples with zero setup. If you saw Hyperbeam’s interactive example on Show HN a few days ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32598062" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32598062</a>), that was built using SideGuide.<p>We originally started as a B2C coding education platform after graduating college. Knowing how to use APIs has become a critical part of solving meaningful coding problems, but we watched hundreds of devs struggle to learn from API documentation. API and SDK documentation is often lacking in depth and interactive examples, leading to an incomplete understanding both of the implementation process (how to get an API or SDK working) and of the value (what you can actually do with it). We repeatedly saw students floundering with this, then wasting hours re-inventing the wheel instead of using an off-the-shelf solution.<p>Eventually we realized that the pain of getting an API or SDK running wasn’t just limited to students, but is something that developers have to deal with all the time—especially when deciding whether or not to use a particular product. When you just want to quickly test an API, you shouldn’t have to futz around with installations, dependencies, and whatnot. Developers and technical PMs should be able to quickly play with the real code before investing time and money in a product. That is why we built SideGuide.<p>SideGuide allows API/SDK companies to create instant live coding environments that help their prospective users (developers) understand the implementation process and product value through real guided examples.<p>A company can create a live code environment/sandbox from a GitHub repo of any product example or lab. These online code sandboxes allow developers to quickly play around and learn with no setup or friction and after they are done they export the repo for use in their own projects.<p>These sandboxes can have optional guides that walk potential users through different parts of the implemented code. The steps in the guides can be attached to any file or code block in the project, so nuance in the code or structure can easily be explained.<p>In addition, we provide observability and a feedback mechanism for the sandboxes. This is so examples and guides can constantly be improved and support can be delivered when it’s needed.<p>Getting this right is a challenge because it’s only valuable if you create an experience that developers love. That means spinning up environments quickly, tight integration with API documentation/authentication, and flexible workflows for all of the different types of developers.<p>Our solution is different from other online coding environments in two main ways. First, we are focused on APIs/SDKs. We are building features to allow developers to quickly play, test, and learn about <i>products</i> instead of providing a fully featured IDE like most other solutions. Second, we give API companies a white-label solution, so they do not have to send clients to another platform to play with their product. This is what Hyperbeam did with their Show HN mentioned above (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32598062" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32598062</a>). As that example shows, it allows for a more seamless solution all around.<p>Since we want devs to be able to experiment with examples with no initial setup, we decided to build our own web-based editor with Next.js, Monaco, and Sandpack. We built the UI with Next.js, which provides us fast load times with hybrid static and server-side rendering. We use Monaco for the code editor portion, which allows us to integrate VScode-like features such as language servers. With Sandpack we can take advantage of hot module reloading and npm dependency support.<p>Currently we only offer web based examples, but runtimes like Python and Node are coming soon. Right now, we host the application ourselves and provide a widget which companies can embed on their docs/website/anywhere. In the future, companies will be able to access a complete white label version of our web app that they can host and integrate seamlessly into their existing developer experience. As for pricing, we are charging a flat rate per month for web environments but once we implement runtimes, we will switch to usage-based pricing.<p>If you want to learn more about SideGuide please check us out at <a href="https://www.sideguide.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sideguide.dev/</a>. We'd love to hear any thoughts and feedback you have!
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Title: (Updated) Important upcoming changes to Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux<p>Updated August 30, 2022: We are updating this message to indicate we will be retiring the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux in 90 days (early December). Please take action as appropriate for your organization.<p>We hear from you that you want the full richness of Microsoft Teams features on Linux such as background effects, reactions, gallery view, etc. We found the best way to act on this is to offer a Teams progressive web app (PWA) on Linux as a new feature of our current web client, which we’ll make available to our Linux customers in the coming months. PWA enables us to ship the latest Teams features faster to our Linux customers and helps us bridge the gaps that existed between the Teams desktop client on Linux and Windows. The PWA experience will be available on both Edge and Chrome browsers on Linux.<p>We will be retiring the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux in 90 days (early December), which is currently available in public preview. All users on the Microsoft Teams Linux desktop client will have to transition to the web or PWA version, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. We are committed to helping all current customers on Linux start using the PWA app; we’ll publish guidance once we are closer to releasing this feature.<p>Teams PWA is an evolution of our Linux web experience - it offers the “best of the web with key functionalities of client”: zero-install, lightweight, and has a rich set of features. For example, the PWA version supports features such as:<p>Background blur and custom backgrounds
Reactions and raise hand in meetings
Large gallery and together mode
PWA also provides desktop-like app features such as:<p>System notifications for chat and channel
Dock icon with respective controls
Application auto-start
Easy access to system app permissions
When will this happen?<p>We plan to make Microsoft Teams PWA on Linux generally available in the coming months.<p>How will this affect me?<p>If your users/administrators use the Microsoft Teams Linux desktop client, they either need to set up the Microsoft Teams PWA (when it is generally available) or use the Teams Linux web app to ensure business continuity.<p>What do you need to do to prepare?<p>To prepare, we recommend informing all your users about the upcoming changes, encouraging them to switch over to the PWA (when it is generally available) to get the latest features on Linux along with a desktop-like experience. Microsoft will publish a blog post about this change and how to install Teams as a PWA on Edge and Chrome once we are closer to making this feature generally available on Linux in the coming months.
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We are building *open source infrastructure for deploying customer-facing data pipelines.*<p>Here’s our repo <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a> and website <a href="https://pipebird.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pipebird.com/</a>.<p>Pipebird (YC W22) is designed to enable companies that generate important data to offer secure data pushes to their customers’ warehouses, directly from their products.<p>Our team was previously building in fintech, where we heard from many of our peers that their customers wanted data pushed directly to their warehouses. Customers wanted to bring data into their source of truth without having to maintain custom built pipelines or introduce security risks by contracting a third-party ETL/ELT provider.<p>After seeing Stripe <a href="https://stripe.com/data-pipeline" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/data-pipeline</a> and customer.io <a href="https://customer.io/data-warehouse" rel="nofollow">https://customer.io/data-warehouse</a> recently invest in building out their own native data sharing products, we realized that many SaaS companies could better support their customers and even generate additional revenue by offering native data pipelines.<p>Our goal with Pipebird is to make creating a reliable data pipeline as simple as pressing a button from a vendor's dashboard.<p>With the current iteration of the product, data can be selected from a number of sources (ex: Postgres, MySQL, CockroachDB, etc.), customers can configure pipelines and optionally apply transformations (like type casting), and data can be periodically synced directly to customers’ warehouses (ex: Snowflake). We’re actively adding sources/destinations and would appreciate any feature requests.<p>Here's a 2 min demo of the product <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/c7a7e4b4e57c4015b533fd754c510b2e</a><p>Pipebird is open source (MIT license) so that any developer can use it. Our aim is to not charge individual developers - we make money selling paid plans that include features like multiple projects, user permissions, additional security features, managed infra, support, etc.<p>Give us a whirl: <a href="https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pipebird/pipebird</a>. We’d love your feedback and will be here to answer any questions!
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Title: After covid, and the temporary transition to remote (for some), it seem that switching from 5 days to 4 days would be an arbitrary decision, with very little real impact. (Of course I'm referring to jobs done in typical 5 day week).<p>For those who say it would lead to a decrease in productivity. Well that is only relative to the 5 day week. And the 5 day week, only exist because of some archaic reasons. It is not some law ingrained in the universe.<p>And beyond that we can see that increases of productivity has not led to increase of leisure time, maybe the opposite.<p>And we know many people who work barely a fraction of the week, yet need to maintain this kind of presenteeism. It seems absurd. Will we be trapped in this irrational mindset forever, or just until a certain generations dies out?
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Title: I check this page almost every day to discover new and interesting projects and keep track of what’s happening in the open source community. Unfortunately as of today, the following message is displayed on the Trending Repositories page:<p>> Heads up! This Trending tab is being deprecated. Due to low usage of Trending Repositories and Trending Developers, this tab will no longer be available beginning September 30, 2022. For questions and feedback, please visit GitHub Community.<p>https://github.com/trending
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Title: Countle is a daily puzzle game, a la Wordle, where you use 6 given numbers to produce of a sequence of calculations to reach a target number. In other words, it's a daily round of the "Numbers Game" from the British game show Countdown.<p>Sample numbers round: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI</a><p>A new puzzle appears every day!
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Title: I originally developed a WASM port of wxWidgets for <a href="https://dj.app/" rel="nofollow">https://dj.app/</a>. When it came time to open source wxWidgets-wasm, I decided to port another complex app as a test case, and Audacity seemed like the obvious choice. In the process, I also needed to write a new host API for PortAudio for playback and recording in the browser.<p><a href="https://github.com/ahilss/wxWidgets-wasm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ahilss/wxWidgets-wasm</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ahilss/portaudio-wasm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ahilss/portaudio-wasm</a><p><a href="https://github.com/ahilss/wavvy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ahilss/wavvy</a>
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Title: A couple of years ago, I had an interesting idea. What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source? The order management system, the storefront, customer support, etc.<p>The marketplace would simply connect to the seller’s infra instead of locking them in. If, for some reason, the seller is removed from the marketplace, their software stays with them and they can continue accepting orders directly.<p>This model can be used to disrupt any marketplace from AirBNB to UberEats: building tech for home renters and restaurants and later, leveraging that to build a competing marketplace.<p>In 2019, I started building the first piece, Openship, an order management system that lets you source orders and fulfill them from anywhere. Now that that’s in stable release, next up is Openfront (an e-commerce platform for storefronts) and Opensupport (ticketing software for customer support). Together, they provide the staples for any modern business: sales, fulfillment, support.<p>Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls.
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Title: Husband and I are expecting our first kid. We have decent mat/pat benefits for the US (3-4 mo each) but manage lean teams and are stressed about the impact our leave will have on our teams & us when we return.<p>If you're manager of a lean team or startup, how have you effectively handled your or an employee's mat/pat leave when in reality, your biz is already short-staffed? Temporary promotions? Contractors? Spreading the work across the team?<p>(To be clear, both our companies are supportive of leave, so this isn't a question about whether to take the leave or working during leave.)
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Title: I really like the "workspace porn" and been frequenting various blogs and communities with workspace setups. It's inspiring and interesting to see how other people organize their workspaces and achieve focus and comfort. And while it's also interesting to see random setups from people with different backgrounds, I especially like to see setups from developers and tech professionals like myself. That's why I decided to start the blog dedicated solely to such setups. I hope some HN visitors will appreciate it, too.
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Title: After having my domain hijacked today I'd like to share an incident postmortem just in case you find yourself in the same situation (swearing at your terminal output at 10am on Friday morning when your website is down).<p>9:58am I can no longer deploy to production<p>10:15am Finished troubleshooting all services, no problems identified<p>10:16am nslookup resolves to some random IP address instead of my prod server (WTF!!!!!!)<p>10:20am Log into registrar and find out they replaced my custom DNS servers with their own and added records to serve a "Parked free courtesy of GoDaddy" page with ads and a button that says "Get This Domain"<p>10:30am Changed my domain on the registrar website back to my custom DNS servers<p>10:32am Changed my password on the registrar website<p>10:38am Got told by GoDaddy support they didn't have anything to do with this and it was my fault it happened (f-me, right?)<p>11:55am DNS records across the internet are still jacked<p>12:00pm Manually blow out the cache on cloudflare for my domain<p>Postmortem Suggestions:<p>* If your website goes down; don't blow 15+ minutes troubleshooting your app services before checking DNS<p>* Enable 2fa with your registrar (even though there was no alert for us)<p>* Set up an alert for when your domain resolves to a different IP address (make a script and host it elsewhere or pay for a service)<p>* Don't trust your registrar!!!!<p>* Take a screenshot of your registrar settings and DNS settings right now so you have a record when they disappear<p>* Get access to your registrar account ASAP after the attack and change your DNS records back using the screenshots you just took<p>* Manually purge the cache of major DNS providers (for your domain) to allow your DNS records to propagate: https://cloudflare-dns.com/purge-cache/
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Title: If you text 8145594701, it will send back an image with the prompt you specified. Currently only US numbers can send/receive texts because Twilio. Sorry to the rest of the planet!<p>I think this will likely fall over but I figured this would be a cool little thing to demo. I removed the NSFW filter so be mindful of your prompts!<p>I don't persist numbers and there is no linkages being saved between the original text message and the generated images.
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Title: I have a Bachelor of CS. But after working for 5 years, I can't remember these CS stuffs like Computer Organization, OS theories, Database normalization. What occupies my mind is delivering the feature to meet business goals and Kubernetes stuffs.<p>Is this normal? Or I need to work harder to learn them again?
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Title: Due to the overflow of the 10-bit counter, some devices will "go back in time" by 1024 weeks (almost 20 years). This will occur on the night of September 17-18. The problem will affect - and this is now a sure thing - Microsemi's (AKA Symmetricom) SyncServer (100, 200 and 300 series), TimeProvider 1000, parts of TimeProvider 5000 and Timesource TS3x00 (and a few others), which are popular in industrial networks.<p>Loss of historical data and event logs, logging and security problems, loss of process visualization - these are some of the surprises that can happen when, having received the wrong date, other devices also decide to "time travel."<p>What to do?<p>If your network is running one of the aforementioned devices, it's best to disconnect it in advance. Unfortunately, most of them are no longer supported by the manufacturer and no patches are expected. So it looks like they will become quite useless after September 17.<p>This leaves very little time, therefore, to replace them with new solutions. If you are not sure whether the problem also affects your device, you can unplug it on September seventeenth, and if it shows the correct date the next day, plug it in again. Of course, such a maneuver is possible only in those networks that can operate without time synchronization according to GPS for several/some hours.
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Title: There was a question a couple days ago about hourly rate, and a lot of the discussion revolved around raising compensation by specializing. Of course, generalists can still specialize, but it's a bit different. So, I'm curious what the answers will be like if we hear from only generalist developers.
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Title: Alumina is a programming language I have been working on for a while. Alumina may be for you if you like the control that C gives you but miss goodies from higher level programming languages.<p>It is mostly for fun and exercise in language design, I don't have any grand aspirations for it. It is however, by this time, a usable general-purpose language.<p>Alumina borrows (zing) heavily from Rust, except for its raison d'être (memory safety). Syntax is a blatant rip-off of Rust, but so is the standard library scope and structure.<p>Alumina bootstrap compiler currently compiles to ugly C, but a self-hosted compiler is early stages that will target LLVM as backend.<p>If that sounds interesting, give it a try. I appreciate any feedback!<p>Standard library documentation:
<a href="https://docs.alumina-lang.net/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.alumina-lang.net/</a><p>Online compiler playground:
<a href="https://play.alumina-lang.net/" rel="nofollow">https://play.alumina-lang.net/</a>
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Title: Hi all! I am trying to expand my knowledge in event-driven architecture to apply in a simple producer/consumer service I am building.
Can anyone recommend event-driven architecture book?
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Title: Target prompted me to enter my order information when I used its phone tree to call about a return. When I connected with an operator, they prompted me for the order number again.<p>This has happened with several providers e.g Banks, other E-commerce sites.<p>What's going on? Why even prompt me for this information if the operator needs me to repeat the information? Its aggravating and sets the wrong tone for my support call.<p>Anyone have insight into why this poor support CX is so common?
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Title: It will probably seem really silly, but I loved the vibe of the original Hackers film (90s, anti-corporate, young kids vs world), as well as Johnny Mnemonic.<p>I also enjoyed reading (the 1997 version of) Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, as a snapshot of the vibe at that time.<p>The vibe at the time which maybe too glibly and imprecisely: was a strange solution of corporate dystopianism, mixed with a young person's rebellion and optimism.<p>I also like the idea of, but never watched War Games (maybe it's <i>too</i> old?)<p>I don't intend this question to be my personal recommendation solicitations: it should be a chance for anyone to share--but I'm just trying to give some concrete examples to frame it, which I suppose boils down to (maybe): 80s-90s vibe cyberpunk fictional hacking films, not docos.<p>Does anyone have any good recommendations for some fiction films to watch in this space? Hacker fiction films?
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Title: Ideally, please also share what it's about and why you feel drawn to read it again and again.
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Title: Although I understand its mantra, I was never able to “drive the design” using TDD. To highlight my issues, let me share a recent failed experiment.<p>I have been trying to create a command line tool to categorise my expenses and show a total by category. I’ve been using this exercise to practice TDD.<p>In my latest frustrated attempt, my first test was along the lines of “it can categorise a single transaction correctly”. The problem with this is that this is testing the “tip of the iceberg” that will be almost the whole, final app. I think I was attempting a more “top down” design strategy here.<p>Before that one, I tried the opposite: a more “bottom up” approach. I know I need to, at least, read a CSV, parse a CSV row into some data structure and then categorise it. So I TDDed my way through to complete these “sub problems”. However, when I was about to apply the categorisation rules I realised that the data structure I created didn’t help, was just bad and didn’t work at all :).<p>So, how do you do it when you have a “larger project” (here, “larger” means something that’s not your typical “2/3 points user story” at work)? I always end up feeling stuck whether I try bottom-up or top-down.
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Title: We are illlustrating existing books using stable diffusion and other ML models.<p>We are currently on our quest to illustrate the Project Gutenberg library.<p>This Show HN is really early in our journey and we are happy to receive your feedback!
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Title: Which specific action or decision did your parents make that most positively influenced your quality of life as an adult?
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Title: Recently I got to know the pay scales that my peers and even junior developers are getting in the US/EU. It is substantially more even though we do the same work. Though I've known about this policy, getting to know the numbers is extremely jarring. It's causing a lot of resentment and detachment to work from my side.<p>I've raised this issue with my manager and they've told me that I can transfer if i want those pay scales but that's not a possibility for me. If the company is willing to pay me that amount in a different location, why can't it pay me the same here?<p>The reasons they've given me are weak and I want to debunk them.<p>1) cost of living - a lot of my colleagues are in locations where they can buy independent houses which are cheaper than an appartment in the city I live. Real estate in my country runs on black money, and I'll probably never be able to own a house. Some of the EU countries provide free health care and education, I'm just a major health issue away from poverty. Most of them come from nuclear family cultures, where as I take care of my retired parents and younger siblings, and if i get married that's a whole new family.<p>2) talent - if they are more talented than me then why am I in a more senior role than them. And my talent won't change if I change location so why should my salary<p>3) something about not trapping in a high salary job - I dont even know what to say about this. I would love to be in that trap instead of the one I'm in right now where I'm being forced to migrate, where I would loose my family, friends and all the support structures I've built around me, to receive the same benefits as my peers.<p>This seems senseless to me. What would the company gain if I work from a different location that they would pay me more? It feels like a poverty tax and I've never felt more like a cog in a machine.<p>What do others think about this and how do you deal with this?
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Title: Any crazy request or something that stressed you in a way that you wanted to quit?
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Title: Have you all noticed a lack of social connection ever since work from home took off? Don't get me wrong, I love working from home. But when starting at a new company, it is hard to get to know your co-workers and fit into the company.<p>There are tons of studies showing how social connection was a driver for better morale and performance (since new people settled in faster).<p>Would the ideal situation be where we can be WFH and still create the meaningful social connections with our co-workers?<p>We are working on something like that. But wanted to see if others felt the same issue.
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Title: Hiya HN, I'm Nate, cofounder of Mito (<a href="https://trymito.io" rel="nofollow">https://trymito.io</a>) with my best friends Jake and Aaron. Mito is a spreadsheet UI that runs inside a Jupyter Notebook. Each time you edit the spreadsheet, it generates Python code for that edit. This allows analysts to write Python scripts using an interface they are familiar with, instead of waiting months for eng resources.<p>Mito is open core: <a href="http://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo</a>. Our docs are at <a href="http://docs.trymito.io" rel="nofollow">http://docs.trymito.io</a>, and you can download it here: <a href="https://docs.trymito.io/getting-started/installing-mito" rel="nofollow">https://docs.trymito.io/getting-started/installing-mito</a>.<p>Most people doing data analysis in Python struggle to just write basic Python. If you search StackOverflow for the [pandas] tag, you’ll find pandas users wrestling with everything from “how can I make a pivot table?” to “how do I import from another folder?” These users are experts in their field — they just aren’t experts in Python. Tasks that take them seconds in spreadsheets can end up taking them days. (Here’s how we put it to investors: the next 10 million Python programmers are transitioning from Excel and have one real problem: writing the damn code.) A lot of organizations are stuck on this dilemma: they want to move from spreadsheets to Python, but getting started with programming—even with a highly usable language like Python—is hard.<p>We’ve spent years with users trying to adapt their spreadsheet skills to Python. It takes weeks to learn the basics. Their existing skills don't transfer. Many of their needs are simple to do in a spreadsheet—writing a formula, aggregating data, graphing—but adapting them to Python requires long courses, emails to internal support (if any exists) waiting days for a reply, and countless trips to Stack Overflow. Often they just give up and return to Excel, but that makes them dependent on IT to write code for them. One of our users was quoted a full year for IT to implement a simple report! (Fast-forward: he ended up using Mito to automate it himself in less than a week.)<p>We went through this ourselves when we went to college together, studying engineering and business. We first learned data science with spreadsheets, then had to relearn it in Python. The transition was painful—basic Excel was much easier! Of course, not-so-basic Excel soon becomes not-so-easy, which is what drives the move to Python in the first place.<p>With our interest in spreadsheets, we started a spreadsheet-version-control company at the end of college, and spent a year working with Excel power users. Eventually, we realized that version control was secondary to the real problems users faced with spreadsheets: limited data size, speed limits, lack of advanced functionality, and a horrible replayability story.<p>Essentially, enterprises are caught between a rock (their spreadsheet woes) and a hard place (the pain of moving analysts to Python). We decided to work on this instead, and started Mito.<p>Mito is a spreadsheet UI built as an extension to Jupyter Notebooks / JupyterLab. Using a Mito spreadsheet, users can import data, add and delete columns, write formulas like Excel, make pivot tables, generate graphs, and more. See our docs (<a href="http://docs.trymito.io" rel="nofollow">http://docs.trymito.io</a>) for all our functionality.<p>Every tab in a Mito spreadsheet is a different pandas DataFrame. For each edit made, a line of pandas code is generated in a code cell directly below the spreadsheet that corresponds to this edit. For example, if I use Mito to import a CSV, add a column named Day of Week, and use the WEEKDAY formula from Excel to pull out the weekday from another column, Mito generates the following code:<p><pre><code> # Imported tesla stock.csv
import pandas as pd
tesla_stock = pd.read_csv(r'tesla stock.csv')
# Added column Day of week
tesla_stock.insert(1, 'Day of week', WEEKDAY(tesla_stock['Date']))
</code></pre>
In practice, the typical user bounces back and forth between writing Python and using the Mito spreadsheet, depending on the task at hand. We think this fluid movement between a spreadsheet and Python is really cool. The spreadsheet backend is just a Python extension to the IPython kernel you’re already running for your Jupyter Notebook. Because Mito is just a Python package, all data processing happens locally.<p>As mentioned, Mito is an open core product. 90% of the code is AGPL licensed. The rest is under a separate enterprise license. These modules are still source-visible, but require users to pay for a pro or enterprise offering before using them. That’s basically our business model.<p>We have 3 versions (<a href="https://trymito.io/plans" rel="nofollow">https://trymito.io/plans</a>): (1) Free: basic analysis tools, as well as some basic telemetry that you can opt out of; (2). Pro: all of (1), with advanced functionality; (3) Enterprise: all of (2), with more advanced features, optimizations, and support.<p>Because spreadsheets are sprawling pieces of software, we’re pretty obsessed with optimizing for long-term development. We use strong types where we can (TypeScript on the frontend, fairly comprehensive MyPy in Python). We’ve implemented our own component libraries for common components from scratch, which lets us be flexible during large refactorings. We implemented our own custom JavaScript grid—hyper-optimized for our use case, and as a result is the fastest JS grid we tested in our context. We're also big fans of metaprogramming—we write an increasing amount of code that writes code for us—which in turn makes it easy to add more functionality to our spreadsheet.<p>We posted about Mito a long time ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305615" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305615</a>. No one really liked it (we learned our lesson!), and it didn't do much at the time — I think the app had a single button that added a column. Three months ago, someone (not sure who — thank you, alefnula!) posted it again: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446236" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446236</a>. It reached the top 3 and we got lots of comments—yay! Since then, we’ve doubled the number of features (mostly data processing), done a UI overhaul, dramatically expanded the Pro + Enterprise offering, made telemetry optional in the free version, and more.<p>We’d love to hear all about your experiences with spreadsheet analysis, the uncanny valley between spreadsheets and code, the travails of moving enterprise analytics off of spreadsheets, and whatever else you’d like to ask or mention. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Title: Its quite possible that even YC would miss a few good founders. One that I came across recently was veed.io. They have raised 35 million in funding from Sequoia. What other startups that YC rejected went on to do well?
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Title: For the past few years I have been spending about 10% of my time at my current employer working on a project for a very large west coast tech company. This essentially involves support for a piece of software which they license, weekly meetings with their team, implementing new feature requests etc. I recently saw a job posting for a role within that team which I would be absolutely ideal for, and I intend applying as it would be a great move career-wise.<p>My question is, what are the things I need to consider before doing so?<p>A few which come to mind:
My current employment contract does not have a no-compete clause (and I don't believe they are even enforceable in California), but could there be HR rules at this company saying that they can't recruit from supplier teams? I would be working on the same software which might be problematic/awkward as I may need to interact with people at my previous employer. I have a lot of specialist knowledge, so concerns around IP might be raised. The business relationship between the companies will also be quite strained as my departure will be hard felt at my current employer.<p>I would appreciate any insights or advice from those who have dealt with similar situations and how best to navigate any pitfalls.
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Title: I've just bought a game on steam and had to create MS account in order to play it<p>but holy shit, it's the first time I couldn't complete the captcha and I tried like 10 times<p>You gotta select square which contains to identical objects something like 5 to 15(!!!) times - the more you fail, the more challenges you have to do<p>Just take a look at those graphics<p>https://i.imgur.com/zOYqWGI.png<p>Some of them are easier and some waaaay harder
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Title: Over the last few days, there's been a lot of discussion about kiwifarms being taken offline by Cloudflare. As is expected from HN, the average response was one appalled by the apparent free speech violation, and a general concern for the precedent being set.<p>While I understand the sentiment, and have thought the same in the past ( with Aaron Swartz or Chelsea Manning); I want to pose an alternative question: What's the precedence set by continuing to do business with kiwifarms?<p>Over the last few days there's been a lot I've wanted to say, but I felt like I couldn't speak. I've been on HN for the better part of a decade, but I can't say anything as myself. Instead I need to use a throwaway account and only connect over a VPN, because I'm a trans woman talking about kiwifarms.<p>I've seen how dangerous it can be for a trans woman to stick her head up. I've watched friends and strangers alike be harassed, attacked, SWAT'd, and doxxed. Not public figures (though they don't deserve death threats either), just regular trans people trying to live their lives and speak their experiences.<p>I no longer feel like I can speak up, for fear of illegal reprisals. Why should they be allowed to infringe on my rights? Why should I have to hide?<p>Cloudflair's decision to stop doing business with kiwifarms is a step towards free speech, not away.
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Title: I use foreign keys quite often in my schemas because of data integrity, while my colleague has a no FK policy. His main argument is difficulties during data migrations which he frequently encounters. He rather have a smooth data migration process than having an unexpected error and abort the whole operation that the migration is only a small part of. I suspect the errors might be mainly caused by not considering data integrity at all at the first place, but I can feel his pain. To be fair, as far as I know, he never had major data problems.<p>He is not the only one I've met who insisted on not having FK. I've even seen large systems prohibit using JOIN statements.<p>Personally, I see the data integrity out weights the inconveniences, do you use FK for your systems, what are your experiences?
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Title: For anyone who is interested to learn more about Chitchatter, please check out the project README: <a href="https://github.com/jeremyckahn/chitchatter#readme" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jeremyckahn/chitchatter#readme</a><p>Chitchatter is very much an early MVP, so I'd like to get your feedback. Thanks for looking!
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Title: Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it.<p>You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more.<p>The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes:<p>- User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards.<p>- Pre-built dashboard templates for Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and host metrics.<p>- Metrics monitoring aka alerting rules inspired by Prometheus.<p>- Notifications via email/Slack/PagerDuty using AlertManager integration.<p>There are 2 quick ways to try Uptrace:<p>- Using the Docker container - <a href="https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/tree/master/example/docker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/tree/master/example/docke...</a><p>- Using the public demo - <a href="https://app.uptrace.dev/play" rel="nofollow">https://app.uptrace.dev/play</a><p>I will be happy to answer your questions in the comments.
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Title: Just noticed issues with Github handling requests and overall flakiness.
Getting a lot of status code 500 errors and decided to open this thread for status updates.
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Title: Software dev with more than 10 years of experience. I always gotten praise by colleagues and companies I worked for. But, there are always moments where, without help from a colleague, I wouldn't have found a solution to a problem.<p>When joining a new company, 2 months in, and facing a problem where code wouldn't compile, I dig deep into the codebase but for the love of me, can't find a solution.<p>I wonder, is that normal? Or how can I say: "I don't care, if I am alone, I can figure this out and solve it."<p>Did anyone here evolve from this state of reliance of others and turned themselves into a "I can do it myself in a good amount of time"?
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Title: Hi HN community, we are Jake, Tzachi and Etai, co-founders of FlyCode (<a href="https://www.flycode.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flycode.com/</a>). FlyCode makes it easy for product, UX, and marketing teams to edit web apps without coding, so they don’t have to wait on (or consume) developer time, and can iterate, test, and release faster. See a quick example here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDL5oa2nEHo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDL5oa2nEHo</a>.<p>Non-technical teams frequently need to edit the copy (text), images, and links that appear in a web app. How to manage these has long been a pain on software projects. You can keep them separate from the code, in some form that non-programmers can edit, but this adds a lot of complexity and is usually brittle, as it can bypass the regular development workflows (CI, staging envs, deploy previews). It’s simpler to keep them in the code, but then only programmers can easily edit them. Everyone else has to wait to get their changes in, plus the devs have to do a lot of edits that aren’t their main work. This slows projects down and is expensive. It also means that product/marketing/UX teams can’t do things that require rapid iteration, such as sophisticated forms of A/B or usability testing. This limits their work and ultimately is bad for both quality and revenue.<p>There have been many approaches to solving this dilemma, including custom built admin tools that are limited in functionality and require maintenance, offloading to CMS that require heavy integration, are normally used for simple static apps, and bind your stack to their SDKs. Or wasting a developer’s time to do it for you…<p>We took a new approach by automatically analyzing a codebase’s structure, similar to a compiler. This allows us to automatically prepare a project-specific version of our platform which product/UX/marketing teams can easily use to edit their text and images. We programmatically turn those edits into code changes. Our GitHub bot then takes these code changes and creates a pull request just like a developer would—but without the latency (and boredom!). Developers retain codebase ownership, while non-developers become individual contributors to the dev process, just like others.<p>We use well-established practices for parsing and editing source code (like <a href="https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift</a>), covering most of the major technologies used for building web apps (React, Angular, Vue, and Ruby on Rails included).<p>Once our software has parsed your codebase, it generates an editing portal for your app that teams can easily use to find, manage, and edit product copy, images, and links, and then auto-generate PRs. You can edit product copy regardless of whether it is in resource files or hardcoded (fun fact: some of the largest and fastest-growing tech companies have most of their strings hardcoded!), and you can replace and upload new images and icons to your product.<p>The integration with GitHub (<a href="https://www.flycode.com/developers" rel="nofollow">https://www.flycode.com/developers</a>) took us a long time to get right. There’s not a lot of documentation around integrating GitHub to platforms, and things like connecting an org or connection requests turned out to be non-trivial. We're proud of the result because unlike with other tools, you don’t have to do any significant integration work.<p>Our GitHub app finds texts and images in the source code and sends them to our platform (you have full control of what and where we scan). Once a user requests a change it updates the texts and the images in the codebase and creates a pull request.<p>We did a Show HN earlier this year: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166924" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166924</a>, which helped us get some serious leads, which was awesome. Since then we’ve moved out of beta, added new content types (images!), launched a new UI and visual editor (EAP), and automated the onboarding of new repos.<p>We have a handful of companies paying for this and spent the last year focusing on making it extremely simple to use. It only takes 3 minutes to connect our GitHub app and configure the system for your team to start editing. It doesn’t require any changes to your code, or any special maintenance. You can get started here: <a href="https://app.flycode.com" rel="nofollow">https://app.flycode.com</a><p>We are hoping to use this launch to get some more feedback from you all! We are far from our vision to be a platform for everything front-end but are working hard every day to improve the user experience and feature requests from our early collaborators (editing links, themes, variables, JSON configuration, defining in-code A/B tests, etc.).<p>We're really happy to show this to you all and thank you for reading about it. For those that sign up, time yourself to check that our “3-minute connect + config” claim isn't just a sales tactic! We look forward to further conversation in the comments.
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Title: VoxelChain is an experimental tool to create voxel worlds in the browser. The lighting is fully ray traced in real-time and there is powerful cellular-automata based programming system, which allows to create complex digital circuits and model the behaviour of voxels (behaviour such as falling sand or water).<p>Technology wise, I'm using WebGL2 for the rendering and the simulation is coded in C89 and gets compiled to WebAssembly (with multi-threading) using Clang. The simulation is basically a custom cellular automaton and is fully parallelized. Once WebGPU is released, I'm planning to run the simulation on the GPU, instead of the CPU, which will give a massive speed up.<p>I've been working on this project full-time for over a year now, and finally came to the point of realising a public version of it to play with. There is already some really cool stuff that the community has built, and it's super fun to see how everything evolves!<p>Let me know what you think and feel free to ask any questions :>
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Title: Bauble is a toy that I've been working on for a few weeks, and I think it's reached the point where other people could have fun with it!<p>Bauble is based on raymarching signed distance functions, which are kind of like... 3D vector art? They're pretty common in the procedural art community and you can do some amazing things with them, but normally writing SDFs means writing low-level shader code.<p>I wanted to play with SDFs, but I found it very frustrating to translate "I want to rotate this" into "okay, that means I have to construct a rotation matrix, and then apply it to the current point, and <i>then</i> evaluate the shape...". So I made a high-level Janet DSL that compiles down to GLSL shader code so I could more easily play with mathematically defined shapes.<p>For more about SDFs, this mind-blowing video is what got me interested in the first place, and shows you what they're capable of in the hands of an expert: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8--5LwHRhjk</a>
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Title: Someone on HN said Notion started as a research tool. Couldn't find info on that online, but it got me interested in thinking about unusual/interesting pivots. I've read about some of the big ones (Odeo --> Twitter, Tote --> Pinterest), but curious if anyone has more recent or lesser known ones.
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Title: I run a small, bootstrapped SaaS making 15K MRR or so. It's the most money I've ever made, in a domain I'm passionate about. I don't come from means or have a prestigious background; I feel like much of my success has just been luck and grit. I'm not a great business person, but I care deeply about product, development, and my customers.<p>I am sometimes contacted by eager megacorp M&A departments and VC funds, but... Is it weird that I don't want to do any of that?<p>I'm enjoying the lifestyle of "solve client's problem, client pays me money, innovate, iterate". It probably won't last forever, but it's simple and it feels authentic. The megacorps and VCs I've spoken to want to turn up the heat and take the business to the moon, planet-scale growth or self-destruct---I don't think that's what I want. I'm sure my potential acquirers or VC-funded competitors will build it with or without me eventually but... I don't think I give a shit.<p>Am I being a weirdo? Some of my more "Silicon Valley"-type friends think I'm nuts.
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