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Title: I ported Quake 1 to the Apple Watch, building on top of existing ports for iOS and Mac.<p>Some features:
* uses Quake SW renderer + blitting to WatchKit surface (~60 fps, 640x480, larger res can run on lower framerate, tested up until 1024x768)
* touch + gyro + digital crown controls
* new AVFoundation audio backend (quake to Watchkit audio buffer copy logic), as Watchkit does not support CoreAudio
* high pass audio filter to remove clicking on Watch speaker for some of the low frequency quake .wav samples
* some smaller modifications and code updates to glue Quake 1 c code to Objective C and Watchkit<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC2o262TfQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC2o262TfQ</a>
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Title: On our fridge, 7 years ago, I put a poster: Anarchy soda! Fizzy drinks, for the people, by the people, take one, leave some.<p>I didn't set this up with any other intent that having some soda available to myself, but I've come to think of it as my canary.. The fridge pretty much never runs dry, to the astonishment of many a visitor. It indicates to me, that the culture is sound, that people are conscientious and respecting of one another. If it stops working, it flags to me that we either have a bad apple, or that it's time to start looking.<p>It's also awesome to always have access to fizzy drinks :)<p>Anything similar where you work? A thing that intentionally or not, indicates to you that you're surrounded by reasonable people?
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Title: I’m trying to make a co2 balance sheet of our organisation. I can’t find good information on how to calculate server emissions in cloud providers (we are using mostly hetzner vps). I’m curious if somebody has some findings/benchmarks or some kind of formula to have an approximation.
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Title: Probably the second time in 12 hrs.
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Title: HackerNews is a community of skilled professionals engaging politely with each other. It’s great for entrepreneurs and technical people.<p>Is there somewhere similar for writers? Especially fiction writers?
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Title: I occasionally use Otter.ai to transcribe when I'm multitasking. Recently they made an update, which I carefully opted out of, to automatically join every meeting through my Google Calendar and transcribe it. Screenshots prove I had the feature disabled.<p>The bot proceeded to join two confidential meetings on my behalf and record the whole thing, then email every member an absurd, inaccurate "outline" after.<p>I am not much of a privacy person but I feel completely abused in this situation. I have opened a support ticket with screenshots but there is no response, and according to Twitter they are essentially not reviewing tickets from free users at the moment.<p>So just a heads-up to the HN community!<p>Are there other, more privacy oriented transcription services anyone can recommend?
Upvote: | 612 |
Title: 1. Single universal binary, that can be natively executed on every hardware platform Mac OS X was made for (32/64 bit, PowerPC/x86/AppleSilicon).<p>2. Minimalistic gadget-style design. If launched as a tool, there is no menubar, no dock icon, no nothing, just the clock window.<p>3. Support for hidpi and dark mode for environments, that have them.<p>4. Window title bar for moving the window with a mouse, and a handle to resize it (latter for OS versions, that have it).<p>5. Can be easily ported to GNUStep and thus other OSes (sources under GPLv3).<p>6. Simple Makefile build system.
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Title: I contract with a lot of European game studios. I've noticed many contracts were terminated suddenly including my retainers for cost reasons.<p>Is the energy crisis that bad ? Are multiple industries affected right now or is it just planning ?
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Title: Hey HN, last week I've been building TattoosAI as a little learning project to get comfortable with Stable Diffusion & DALL-E. I'm absolutely shocked by how powerful SD is... Just like how GPT-3 helped copywriters/marketing be more effective, SD/DALL-E is going to be a game changer for artist!
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Title: I like to be able to develop with :<p>(of course) linux/android os<p>gcc/g++/gdb<p>minimal OS GUI<p>Web browser with graphical gui and normal browsing (chrom /firefox)<p>Vim<p>acreen size can be 11"<p>the site to buy from should be able to send the laptop worldwide im not from the USA<p>Thanks alot
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Title: Hello HN,<p>Over the past few months we've been building Ringer, an Experts Marketplace focussed on Open Source Software. We want to help make Open Source more sustainable and believe that we can be a part of making that happen.<p>We're approaching this from the perspective of the individual developer - if you contribute to OSS then you can register instantly with your GitHub account and list yourself to provide paid support, knowledge and help for the repositories that you contribute to. We only allow those who we can prove contribute to repositories to list themselves as experts, and show details of contribution history for the experts in the system so that customers can see exactly how the experts can help.<p>We process payments to over 100 different countries via Stripe, and handle all of the paperwork to make the process as frictionless as possible, including 1099s for US based experts.<p>We're building out tools to improve the developer experience at the moment, and have started to work with customers to design a process that allows them to access expertise quickly whilst working within the constraints of an enterprise environment.<p>For the past 3 or so weeks we have been in an Alpha stage, so this is our Beta launch - we are really open to fresh ideas and opinions. From day 1 I have said to every developer that I have spoken to that whether you love the idea or hate it, all I want to know is why and what we can do better - so HN, please tell me what you think and want it to be!
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Title: As someone living in one of the countries in the North I can't say I am too alarmed by the looming energy crisis (maybe I have lived over too many crisis already and at some point this alarmism loses its meaning).<p>Having said that, I am interested on what measures others are taking to prepare for it? It's not like we can just store energy right? Stocking up on foods if the prices increase too much?<p>Things I've done were just to replace few older bulbs with LEDs and turn of some of the unnecessary appliances (like a second freezer).
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Title: We just published this tutorial about ARMA(p,q) models for modeling time series, and how to fit them using Python. But while it’s a tutorial, it has a few twists. First, it’s interactive: you’ll learn by solving problems and making choices. Second, it’s a story: you play a character in a plot that gives you real-life problems to solve. And third, it’s illustrated: we spent many hours hacking with Stable Diffusion, GIMP, and matplotlib.<p>This is chapter 3 in our interactive course, Everyday Data Science. [1] The first half of the chapter is free. You can get the whole course forever for $29. These chapters are a lot of effort to produce, so please let us know what you think :-)<p>- Andrew Carr [2] and Jim Fisher [3]<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32118530" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32118530</a>
[2]: <a href="https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr</a>
[3]: <a href="https://jameshfisher.com/" rel="nofollow">https://jameshfisher.com/</a>
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Title: Hi! I am the cofounder TopAgree. We have created TopAgree to help teams make faster decisions with fewer meetings. My friend Linus and I are developing it together because we often don't make the important decisions until the last five minutes of a meeting. And then, unfortunately, we often make the wrong decisions. I have a big request for you: Please comment when you like to test the product and give us feedback. Thanks so much! Kind regards, Bastian
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Title: When setting up a new publicly accessible Linux server, it is usually necessary to make some changes from the defaults to improve security. There are many guides which can be followed, some from presumably reputable sources. However, the details depend quite a bit on Linux distro, version, and the current date.<p>Considering Ubuntu (22.02 LTS), what setup and hardening guide do you follow?<p>And if not using Ubuntu, or using a different version, please describe what you use and why (and if being so generous, also what guide you follow).<p>TIA!
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I made this free browser extension that modernizes the Hacker News design.<p>I previously launched Modern for Wikipedia [1] here back in December, and it seemed like the obvious next choice to build one for HN too! So I've taken what I learned from building that, and have spent all my spare time this year building Modern for HN.<p>I realize this won't be for everyone, but it was a fun project to work on, and I'm really happy with the result so far. Hope you like it too!<p>Lots more planned for future updates, and suggestions welcome :)<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29461735" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29461735</a>
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Title: Just wanted to express my gratitude and appreciettion of the hard and amazing work Dang does for this community, he is the glue that binds us together and on such a sad day, you appreciate the good things in life.<p>So thank you Dang.
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Title: Asking here because I think there is probably a lot of overlap and maybe some knowledgeable insiders.<p>I used to visit The Register almost every day up until a few years ago. Back then, it was famous for its punny headlines, tongue-in-cheek reporting style, and all in all being a self-identified IT tabloid.<p>I visited it again a week or two ago, and it seems to have dropped the humourous tone and intentionally-obscure headlines, to become just one more samey IT news page.<p>Does anybody know what caused this transformation? Has it been acquired by a conglomerate or something? The nearest thing I've found is that its original Chief Editor left in May 2019...
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Title: I'm not a web developer, but I dabble in it because I find it interesting. I went through some courses like The Odin Project and others to learn the basics of HTML/CSS/JS, and I thought it made a lot of sense: HTML structures the page, CSS handles the style, and JS handles the functionality.<p>However, after working for software companies for a few years, it seems like almost nobody uses these technologies in the way they're presented on websites like w3schools to make web applications. Instead, they use component-based frameworks like React. To me, these frameworks seem way more complicated than HTML/CSS/JS, and I don't understand what problem they're trying to solve. What makes the trade-off of all that extra complexity and abstraction worth it? Aren't HTML/CSS/JS perfectly fine and time-tested tools for web development on their own?
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Title: What do you use to launch your weekend project these days?<p>Example, I'm developing a simple Python project that uses database. Need db service that I don't want to manage. Also, want to auto scale
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Title: Bitwarden is experiencing an outage right now.<p>What I learned about it, is that they can remotely disable your browser extension which is assumed to work in offline mode. So, as soon as you have an internet connection — you get blocked.
This is what happened to me like 30 minutes ago or so. Just cannot log into my account and verify a transaction because I'm stupid enough to trust them with my TOTPs and storing temp verification passwords.<p>The funniest stuff, though, is that the company's damage control is to remove the comments and suspend feedback from it's community forum. Given that I'm a paying customer, I'm a little bit offended by it.
For a secret management company that secured $100 mil recently, it's a clear mark that the enterprise service train is on the way.<p>I'm lucky enough to have the offline access to the storage. But my trust to Bitwarden as a reliable service is completely ruined. Having this in mind, is there a viable alternative?<p>PS. Expect Spearrin to appear on HN and bring "personal" apology for the hiccup. But I won't buy it. Password manager services are almost like bank storages but on the internet. Apologizing won't fix the fact you can get remotely locked from the passwords and TOTPs at a pressing moment.
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Title: My co-founder partner is the CEO of our company and I am the other co-founder. This is a tech company with size of 30 people.<p>Last month a company retreat event announced and it is scheduled only 5 weeks forward. I learned that with other employees on Slack. It is a 5 day beach vacation to very far away. It cost like 10% of annual revenue of the company and company is barely profitable. It is announced that our business partners also will come so all managers including me must attend (None of our business partners attended). I rejected and didn’t go.<p>During this economy, how wasting so much money on beaches, midnight parties at pubs, and yacht tours can be normal?<p>How can I deal with this behavior of treating your partner like any other employee?<p>How can I fix this communication problem and prevent future abuses?
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Title: I have 15+ years of software engineering experience. As an IC in real world scenarios on average I tend to outperform many of my peers in delivering features, both in dev velocity and the quality of code.<p>But. My mind is quite slow in the initial phase of analyzing the problem, gathering the requirements, figuring out the best solution, trials and errors edge cases etc.<p>This feature failed few faang interviews for me already.<p>It looks impossible to me to deliver a quality (or even just working correctly) code for rather complex puzzle in 40 minutes.<p>Even if it’s the puzzle I’ve already solved on leetcode. I have hard time memorizing stuff, it’s much easier for me to rebuild solution from scratch, once I understand the core idea. But it takes time.<p>So how do I get to faang or other company with comparable benefits if their all interviews seem to be heavily biased towards quick, rather than deep thinkers?
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Title: Anyone build an awesome collection of programming books? Are you willing to make it public domain, if you haven't already?<p>I'd love to import your data into PLDB.com. Will give you many internet points and/or something else that will enrich your life.<p>comment here or email me at [email protected]
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Title: There are some good empirical papers, but I only know very few. What is your best empirical paper on software development?
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Title: Well written books can serve as eye openers and warp your understanding of a topic when read at the correct time in your life.<p>Can you name a few books of that type that really were of such high value in your field of work or study?
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Title: What did you read that was really eye opening in some way?<p>Please provide a link, if possible.
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Title: Finding a good sdk is hard.
Finding a well documented one is harder. Would love to see what you consider as the golden standard for documenting sdks!
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Title: I quit my job a few weeks ago to focus on a business that I want to bootstrap on my own. What was once 8+ hours of Slack messages a day, non-stop emails, and regular meetings has turned to near silence.<p>I don't miss the constant Slack messages and Zoom fatigue but now I literally have no social contact when working professionally, aside from customer interviews/meetings.<p>Curious how solopreneurs deal with this? Any communities out there?
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Title: Can anyone tell me if there is a beautiful markdown editor? I have been looking for it for quite a long time but I found nothing fit! Every markdown editor I found is ugly! Help! I can't write raw markdown without a beautiful UI!
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Title: I got a offer from a company, which among other things, consists of a medium pay raise in comparison to my present job and more exciting projects. The company is mid sized and honored as one of the best employers although I would be working for a branch located in a lower cost of living country.<p>In my current company I'm valued as a good employee and if it comes to cutting costs I highly doubt it I would be first or second in line.<p>Considering the upcoming recession, is it wise to job hop for not such a huge pay rise or should I stick to my current, mildly boring but safe job instead?
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Title: I want some advice from people over 40 who started their higher education after they reached that age. I'm mostly looking at people who decided to do PhD or Masters post 40. How was your whole journey? What advice do you have to share?
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Title: Hopefully this can be a fruitful discussion since I think I have a quite clear but also reasonably common set of needs. I have a feeling that if you're "in the world" of frontend engineering you get a much more intuitive feeling for these tooling questions than I can get at a distance by reading SEO-spam developer blogs and State Of JS (although the latter does seem really helpful).<p>I'm thinking of building a text-annotation based app _alone in my spare time_. The core usage loop is about viewing and interacting with "visual markup" applied to a body of text. So lots of tooltips/hoverbars I guess.<p>Some notes about my needs:<p>- This would be by far the most complex GUI I've ever built.<p>- Relatedly, I expect to get the UX design horribly horribly wrong and start from scratch at least once.<p>- I also suck at making things look pretty and also don't find this problem very rewardinging to think or read about.<p>- All of the above point towards a framework that is pretty easy to get started in and prototype quickly.<p>- Because of limited time, and low confidence in UX design decisions, I would often follow the path of least resistance and the end product would be heavily influenced by the tools I used to build it.<p>----<p>- Despite what I said about quick rampup I'm fine with learning new languages.<p>- Weak typing is a deal-breaker. If using JS, must have good TypeScript integration or similar. (Does anyone still write plain JS?)<p>------<p>- I don't think I'll want a native desktop app but an iOS/Android version could make sense. But I'll never have time if this can't share most of the code with the web version.<p>-------<p>- I don't really have the discipline for manual testing. Luckily I also find it satisfying to over-invest in test automation. I don't really know how this is done in frontend land but good tooling would be a big plus.<p>-----<p>- I'm happy to sacrifice one or more of the other requirements in favour of tools that are likely to be maintained 10 years from now.<p>----<p>What are HNs thoughts?
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Title: This questions has been asked before [0][1][2], but I'm thinking that in the last 4 years something new and exciting has been created or discovered.<p>If you could describe in a couple of words why you mentioned what you mentioned, that would be fantastic.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18085765" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18085765</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537512" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537512</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271167" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271167</a>
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Title: I have been writing a decent amount of SQL for three years now, and while the paradigm is extremely powerful, the language lends itself to unmaintainable spaghetti code quickly.<p>Fundamentally, SQL lacks meaningful abstraction, and there's no sane way to package very common operations.<p>Say you want to find elements in a row that correspond to some maximum value when grouped by date. Today, you'd need to write something like this EVERY SINGLE TIME:<p>```
SELECT
sd1.sale_person_id,
sd1.sale_person_name,
sd1.no_products_sold,
sd1.commission_percentage,
sd1.sales_department
FROM
sales_department_details sd1
INNER JOIN
(SELECT
sale_person_id, MAX(no_products_sold) AS no_products_sold
FROM
sales_department_details
GROUP BY sale_person_id) sd2
ON sd1.sale_person_id = sd2.sale_person_id
AND sd1.no_products_sold = sd2.no_products_sold;
```<p>Wouldn't something like this be nicer?<p>```
SELECT
sale_person_id,
max(no_products_sold) as max_sold,
link(sale_person_name, max_sold),
FROM
sales_department_details
```<p>Frankly, it seems like some sort of macro system is needed. Perhaps the SQL compiles into the above?
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Title: Ecocoru is a puzzle game where you have to solve compass and ruler construction problems. The game mimics compass and ruler and let you draw straight lines/segments and circles/arcs. You can also view and explore a solution for each problem. A basic knowledge of well-known results of Euclidean geometry is needed to play the game. The game has over 70 problems.The game is designed for full-screen mode and the use of the mouse.
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Title: The government of Chile changed the local rules for daylight savings with approximately 30 days notice.<p>A lot of chaos has resulted, at least according to Reddit [1], which is where I found out about it.<p>Media doesn't seem to be reporting much on this, the most I've been able to find is one article from before the changeover [2] and a changelog for the IANA tzdb [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/x9kr42/that_time_the_chilean_government_messed_with/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/x9kr4...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/07/microsoft_windows_chile_time_change/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/07/microsoft_windows_chi...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/NEWS" rel="nofollow">https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/NEWS</a>
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Title: I would like to learn to draw/sketch as a hobby, with the eventual goal of being able to do scientific illustration, something like this: https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/4/2021/05/jellyfish-life-cycle-6d7d6fa-1.jpg<p>Is there a learning pathway where I can jump straight into the digital era -- using an iPad or a Wacom tablet or similar -- still learning the basics of color, stroke, technique, etc., but skipping the part where I have to go to the art store to pick up various pencils and inks? Or is that ill-advised because of ________?<p>I learned (and loved) digital photography in a similar time period, where film was dying but it was possible to learn most of the same techniques in a digital SLR. That was before the age of automatic photo-enhancing AIs that the phones now have.<p>In my professional life, I'm a frontend dev with some basic graphic design skills. I know my way around Illustrator and Photoshop quite well, but only when it comes to manipulating "inorganic" graphics like logos, buttons, and whatnot -- i.e., skilled enough at the technical aspects of that stuff, but I couldn't draw a basic stick figure or cartoon dog from scratch if my life depended on it. I don't know where the whiskers on a cat go relative to its nose, or how to draw a human nose without it looking like a Ferengi abortion.<p>So, is it possible to learn drawing basics digitally?
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Title: Hey everyone, I build a Chrome Extension for real estate investors to be able to easily calculate the cash flow of a rental property right within Zillow.<p>As an aspiring real estate investor, I found spreadsheets and proprietary online calculators like Bigger Pockets to be complicated or slow. With Homescope, you can bring this within your workflow and estimate your operating expenses instantly.
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I build this bot to automate the process of going to wayback machine (or archive.ph) to find the archive link for posts with articles that have subscription blocks<p>The idea was to have this run on a server and then I wouldn’t have this daily annoyance, the bot was banned, so its not currently active, but I still wanted to show it off and get some feedback<p>Disclaimer : HN doesn't allow bots, so please don’t use this to run your own HN bot.
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Title: I used to have an easier time finding truly weird material to read on the web. Things like:<p>subgenius.com
timecube.2enp.com<p>Things on the fringes of sanity, or sometimes far over the line.<p>Any resources for finding material that is way out there, but manages to steer clear of hateful/racist/bigoted patterns of thought?
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Title: Today I was trying to use Python to build some custom ZMK firmware, which relies on a package named west. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get it installed so that it's in my PATH. Why is python package management still this bad after so many years, with so many wonderful examples of how good a package manager can be?
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Title: Previously asked here → <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152</a>
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Title: Julia is a language created by academicians. Unlike Python, it is less headachy. Python has weird behaviours scattered all over the place. Still everyone uses Python for Deep Learning (including researchers).<p>Julia is fast, with good syntax and lots of libraries. Infact it has a library called Flux.jl for ML/DL. Yet nobody uses it. Why? No major industry partner has picked it up to create bigger deep learning frameworks.<p>Why?
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Title: Looking for opinions on what you think are the actual issues with languages. Ive heard toolchains and documentation are a pretty big part. If say, there was a language like rust + go + scala, with an exceptional package manager and documentation, would you feel compelled to try it out?
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Title: Even compared to other developed nations in Europe and most certainly compared to my country (Korea), the pay range I see for remote jobs from US seems to be in a totally different ball park. There must be numerous contributing factors, but I can't quite grasp how come.<p>Or maybe not all jobs are paid so well or living costs compromise all that, but do they?
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Title: Past few years I've been feeling more and more that no matter where I look, no matter to what companies I talk to, a lot of the jobs in the market around me essentially boil down to be exactly the same.<p>- A basic app (just because it’s thousands LoC, doesn’t make it less of a CRUD app)<p>- Deployed on AWS/Azure (rare occasion GCP), using pretty much the same setup to deploy<p>- The difference is the copy - quite often even most of the styling is similar…<p>Only challenges so far came from having more customers on the app at the same time, but even then it leads to more conservative tech choices, nothing else of note.<p>Yes, I know my skillset is quite generic - heavily JS/Node/React based, with a few years of experience in Python and very light knowledge of some lower level languages (had some passing interest in Go, Rust, no commercial experience to back it up).<p>I went through quite a few industries, but at the end of the day, all of them just feel the same. Working on a platform for a hedge fund felt no different from building for a retailer or a real estate company.
Everything behind the scenes is so much of the same that unless the devs intentionally made some random tech choice or decided to use a barely stable new framework - you could hardly tell them apart from code PoV.<p>I’ve tried startups - but majority of them, until a pretty late stage are mostly smoke & mirrors, where you do everything to acquire customers while pretty much lying about the capabilities of your tech. Can be fun in the beginning while figuring out what the product is, but so far, all of them end up being a CRUD app, just with a different skin.
When going large corporate, you get an extremely small part of the bigger stack to work on, which might be interesting first time around, but gets old after changing the search bar for who knows how many times that year for marginal gains (yes, while the changes are marginal, I do realise they can translate into millions every month).<p>I’ve had little luck of going for roles that do not directly correlate with my current experience. It seems that recruiters have very little interest in talking about any roles other than ones that fit my current stack exactly (node/react/python). Even had one that was a bit more direct than others and blurted out - “Why would you want to change with so much experience in your current stack”. I get it, easy payday for them if they hire someone who can work full on from day 1, but there's nothing in it for me to encourage a change.
Sadly, recruiters are often the gatekeepers for a lot of the roles and as far as I can tell, unless I’m an easy hire with experience in the stack being hired for - they have little interest in a “wildcard”.<p>So here’s the question - is there a way out?<p>Any experiences of a major transition and how did you pull it off?<p>Is contracting the only way - accept that I'll be making CRUD apps and might as well maximise income from that?
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Title: Disclaimer: Thought Experiment. Does not need to be "practical". Let your NIH flow and your imagination run wild<p>We've learned a lot about computers in the decades we've been producing. A lot of software assumes that computers work a certain way. See Go lang and how it handles file permissions. In the Linux Kernel drivers exist that supports the IBM 3270 Display System which at this point is over 50 years old. Terminal Emulators mimic the VT100. All of this makes sense given the context in which they were developed and created. But if you were developing an OS in 2022 without these constraints what would you remove and or change? Would you keep 32bit support? Arm, Risc and or x86?, monolithic or microkernel?, C, Rust, Zig, D, C++, or something else?, how would it talk to hardware?, what would your executable format look like?<p>Also if anyone has any interesting links to cutting edge research into Modern Operating Systems I'd love to browse them!
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Title: IPDetective collects data from about 60+ different sources such as official cloud provider endpoints and public VPN/Proxy/Tor/Bot net lists. Then aggregates this data into a fast and easy to use API that can be integrated into applications or scripts easily.<p>IPDetective started as a hobby project for my other hobby projects :) and I decided to wrap a simple website around and offer it as a service.<p>Let me know what your thoughts, if you find value in this service or if you have any feature requests.
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Title: I am the author of the platform, happy to reply to any question you might have!<p>It scales up really nicely thanks to a year of research and development of the hashtable implemented in cachegrand, on the hardware used for benchmarking, an AMD EPYC 7502P, it was able to reach up to 5mln GET QPS and 4.5mln SET QPS, with batching up to 60mln GET QPS and up to 26MLN SET QPS.<p>cachegrand is fast, it's fully Open Source, it's under a BSD 3-clause license - it can be used easily as standalone platform or incorporated in other ones without any licensing issue - and we are working to expand the Redis functionalities supported and to impelement a tiered storage to cache more data than the available memory.
Longer term our goal is to expand the support to different platforms (e.g. memcache, kafka, etc.), add support to webassembly to have user defined functions and server side events, and of course a network bypass (combining XDP and a lockless FreeBSD tcp/ip stack) and a storage bypass.<p>Although it can easily used via docker, here a direct link to the latest release
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0.1.4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/releases/tag/v0....</a><p>Currently we are focused on supporting Redis, here the list of commands currently implemented
<a href="https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/architecture/modules/redis.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/a...</a>
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Title: pg_netstat is a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic. It uses libpcap to capture packets and aggregates at user-specified interval.
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Title: As part of the annual JS13K games challenge, I've put together a pretty large (but small-in-code) Metroidvania game that fits in just 13KB of compressed Javascript.<p>The source is available here: <a href="https://github.com/arikwex/infernal-sigil" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/arikwex/infernal-sigil</a><p>NOTE: the current head of the main branch is at 13.6KB due to quality of life patches. The legit 13KB version is tagged in github.<p>Useful hacks:
- Using Roadroller (<a href="https://github.com/lifthrasiir/roadroller" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lifthrasiir/roadroller</a>) for compression
- Compressing the map data as grayscale PNG paired with some code generation.
- Using procedural animation for all characters.
- Replacing string enum with numeric enums for compression.
- Built a small game engine for object lifecycle and rendering.
- Single function to generate unique procedural songs for different regions.
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Title: I just saw the following ad on HN.<p>> Contentedge (YC W17) is hiring to build AI content writing software for SEO<p>From its landing page there's the following sentence:<p>> Instantly create briefs or text that’s modeled after high-ranking content and sounds human-made.<p>This kind of service seems specifically designed to drown the Internet in blogspam, even more so than it already is, and hence worries me.<p>I know it was inevitable given the rise of convincing AI text generation and sure if one company doesn't do it another will (and no doubt there are already those that do), but please Contentedge, reconsider if this is truly the product you want to create for this world.
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Title: Curious what are some notable examples of companies being forced to shut down due to many people leaving within a short timeframe?<p>I imagine if half the staff left a nursing home, it would be forced to shut down.
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Title: I think that was the only channel that had the perfect mix of education and being attractive for children, that got discontinued.<p>Any other alternative’s?
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Title: Spotify's discovery algorithm? Radio? Soundcloud?
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Title: What is a good sample program or project to work on to explore the primary aspects of a programming language? Something that can be worked on for a couple hours or days. Something that will give exposure to most of the basics of a particular language. Would love to know how people go about trying out a new language in this way.
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Title: A few weeks ago I bought a one month Disney+ subscription to check it out. I have all kinds of problems when using their web player compared to Netflix and YouTube:<p>- subtitle settings get reset every time I close the website.<p>- the button for changing subtitles is in the upper right corner. Once you open the menu the button for closing it appears in the upper left corner. You can't close the menu by clicking outside of it, despite the fact that you can still see the blurred video in the background.<p>- pressing space doesn't pause the video, but repeats the last action you did. If you closed the subtitle menu by pressing esc, pressing space will open it again. If you entered the full screen mode, pressing space will close it.<p>- there is no way (afaik) to open a list of all episodes from within the player. You have to go back to the show's main page, choose the season (because it always defaults to season 1) and scroll a horizontal list (which always defaults to the first episode) using a button that appears only once you hover it. Scrolling with a mouse scroll/touchpad doesn't work.<p>- it is impossible to search for movies using a director's name. For example, I know that Disney+ has a lot of Charlie Kaufman's and Wes Anderson's movies available - they are my favorite directors - but I couldn't quickly check which specific movies there are.<p>I know that it's possible that I have higher standards of UX because I'm a programmer, but I doubt that Disney+'s interface is intuitive to anyone.
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Title: I've been looking for contract work for the past couple months, and it's been dire. All the job boards are looking for full time employees, and on Hacker News the only recommendation is Toptal.<p>Is there really no other platform for decently paid contract work that's not a complete race to the bottom? I find I'm close to having to abandon 10 years of consulting because I have no idea where to find anything else than full-time employment.<p>The other two job boards I've been keeping an eye on are mostly about React and other frontend roles, with offers few and far between. Linkedin is similarly dire for contract work.<p>Is Toptal the only option for someone with 16 years experience that wouldn't want to work for peanuts? Or just going back to being an employee?<p>(In case anyone's reading that's looking for a senior Elixir/Rust/Go engineer/sysadmin, resume's in my profile. I'm based in London.)<p>EDIT: excellent responses so far, thanks. I like how many are suggesting going through recruiters, while the common motif on other similar posts is to avoid LinkedIn. I've started cleaning up my Linkedin profile this week, and I already have a dozen recruiters setting up appointments with me. I will try and explicitly request contract jobs with them.
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Title: We strongly believe working on open source software should be a viable source of income for many more developers. Unfortunately, the following barriers limit the extent of open source funding:<p>- Only a small fraction of open source projects are funded, and most money goes to a few notable projects.<p>- Each project has to market is self to get significant funding.<p>- Large corporate donations provide the bulk of the funding, making it unreliable and unattainable for many.<p>- Finding and supporting each of your dependencies is a cumbersome task. Which ones, how much, and on which platforms?<p>So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription. StackAid is early and has a unique allocation model, so we're working with supporters and open source projects to validate the experience further. We're matching subscriptions up to $100/month during the beta.
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Title: I'm interested in writing a x86_64 Linux driver for my 15 year old photo printer.<p>It looks like someone out there maintains 32 bit drivers for this printer, but I'd like low-hassle native support for my 64-bit install.<p><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/1324015/how-to-install-printer-canon-pixma-ip1800-on-xubuntu-20-04" rel="nofollow">https://askubuntu.com/questions/1324015/how-to-install-print...</a><p>Where do I get started with this? What's the toolchain for sniffing USB data and that sort of thing?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>My name is David Sokol, and I'm the founder of rentaflop (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>). We're a crowdsourced render farm aimed at making Blender rendering fast and affordable.<p>If you've used Blender, then I'm sure you've experienced the pain of waiting around for your animations to render. You've probably even had to sacrifice the quality of your work to reduce your render times. I've been there too.<p>If you're like me, then you're also disappointed with the alternative solutions: spending thousands of dollars on graphics cards or using prohibitively expensive cloud render farms to get fast render times. Our solution to this dilemma is to leverage low opportunity cost hardware from around the world to allow Blender artists to render their projects quickly, affordably, and without compromising on quality. Since most graphics card owners aren't utilizing their hardware to do valuable work 24/7, we provide them with a way to make money without lifting a finger, while lowering the cost curve for 3D rendering.<p>We're currently doing a public beta. If you'd like to try us, check out our site (<a href="https://rentaflop.com" rel="nofollow">https://rentaflop.com</a>) and render your Blender project quickly and affordably! If you're a graphics card owner who wants to help Blender artists while earning money, reach out to [email protected] and we'll help you get set up.<p>We posted about our private beta on HN a few weeks ago. If you'd like, you can check out the discussion here (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32299674</a>).<p>Please leave a comment below, we'd love to hear your thoughts :)
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Title: I literally type the headline into DALLE and pick the best image. Welcome to the future of news. Enjoy!
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Title: I keep reading "DevOps Engineers make $250k+ in San Francisco". Which parallel universe is this San Francisco in and how do I get there?<p>15 years ago, any job ads I looked at or any recruiters who spammed me with Sr Infrastructure/Systems engineering positions came with a $120k-$160k range.<p>Today for Sr DevOps positions the published ranges I see are ... you guessed it, $120k-$160k.<p>What gives?
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Title: 8 days ago, Twitter suspended the 'Ticket to Europe' account (https://twitter.com/TicketToEurope). As the reason, Twitter gave a vague formula: your account broke the Twitter Rules. What rules exactly? It is not known.<p>We have already sent several appeals, but we are not getting any reply. Twitter Support also does not respond to us. We have the impression that for several days our efforts have only fallen into the abyss of algorithms. Several months of work on Twitter thus go to the trash. Is there any chance to get our Twitter account back? Is the only option to create a new account and start building a community from scratch? Do you have any experiences with similar situations?<p>Personally, it is hard for us to imagine breaking any Twitter Rules. Our game is a socially engaged project that we have been working on for 8 years (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2094580/Ticket_to_Europe/). We invest private savings in it and create it out of a sense of mission - it's a Text-Based RPG about refugees. The scenario was based on real stories of refugees we met during our research in a refugee camp. We are supported by various human rights volunteers and various NGOs consulted the scenario. We do not promote racist behavior in any way, on the contrary - our project was created precisely to increase social awareness and sensitivity to the drama that refugees face. How can such ideals conflict with Twitter's principles? Dunno.<p>Will publicizing such a case in the media increase our chances of recovering the account? Please help us, we are emotionally broken and a little desperate.
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Title: I recently tried to make a separate work account in Discord.
To do so I created a new account with my main accounts phone number. This caused discord to delete my primary account phone number and used it for the new account.<p>However, this alone caused me to be instantly banned.
After reaching out to support, they basically told that me I could not use my present phone number for verification and that they couldn't tell me why, and couldn't help me further with that.<p>I would really like to keep my primary Discord account, is there anything I can do about it?<p>I have contacted Discord support through their ticket system twice, I have contacted Discord on Twitter (DM); but to no avail
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Title: I noted HN slow to respond; news.ycombinator.com -> 209.216.230.240
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Title: Saw <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868</a> from a couple weeks ago and figured I'd share my own story.<p>3 weeks ago, I woke up to a pissed off customer telling me her payments were broken. My startup uses Stripe Connect to accept payments on behalf of our clients, and when I looked into it, I found that Stripe had decided to deactivate her account. Reason listed: 'Other'.<p>Great.<p>I contact Stripe via chat, and I learn nothing. Frontline support says "we'll look into it." Days go by, still nothing. Meanwhile, this customer is losing a massive amount of business and suffering.<p>After a few days, my team and I go at them from as many angles as possible. We're on the phone, we're on Twitter, we're reaching out to connections who work there / used to work there, and of course, we reach out to patio11. All of these support channels give us nothing except "we've got a team looking into it". But Stripe's frontline seems to be prohibited from offering any other info, I assume for liability reasons. "We wouldn't want to accidentally tell you the reason this happened, and have it be a bad one."<p>We ask:
1. Why was this account flagged?
"I don't have that information"
2. What can we do to get this fixed?
"I don't have access to that information.
3. Who does?
"I don't have access to that information"
4. What can you do about this?
"I've escalated your case. It's being reviewed."<p>I should mention at this point that I've been running this business since 2016, my customers have been more or less the same since then, and I've had (back when it was apparently possible) several phone conversations with Stripe staff about my business model. They know exactly who our customers are and what services we offer, and have approved it as such.<p>After a week of templated email responses and endless anxiety, we finally got an email from Stripe letting us know that they had reviewed the account and reactivated it. We never got a reason for why any of this had happened, despite asking for one multiple times. Oh well, still good news right? Except nope, this was only the beginning.<p>This morning I woke up to an email that about 35% of my client accounts had been deactivated and were "Under review", the kicker here being that one of those accounts is the same one they already reviewed last week! This is either the work of incompetent staff or (more likely) a bad algorithm. No reasonable human could make this mistake after last week's drama.<p>So currently, my product doesn't work for 35% of my customers. Cue torrent of pissed off customer emails.<p>And the best part is, this time I have an email from Stripe this time: Apparently these accounts are being flagged, despite the notes on our file, and despite the review completed literally last week, as not in compliance with Stripe's ToS. They suggest that if I believe this was done in error, I should reach out to customer support. Oh, you mean the same customer support that can't give me literally any information at all other than "We have a team looking into it"? The same customer support that won't give me any estimates as to how long it's going to take to put this fire out? The same customer support that literally looked into this a week ago and found no issues!?<p>I feel like I'm going crazy over here. These accounts have hundreds of thousands of dollars in them being held hostage by an utterly incompetent team / algorithm that seems to lack any and all empathy for the havoc they wreak on businesses when they pull the rug out from under them with no warning, nor for the impact they have on customers when they all of a sudden lose all ability to make money. And all that for an account that has been using Stripe for nearly 7 years without issue!<p>This goes so far beyond "customer support declining at scale." If lack of customer support means that critical integrations start to fail, that's not a customer support failure, that's a fundamental business failure.
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Title: Hey everyone, we’re Arjun and Anirudh, founders of Signadot (<a href="https://www.signadot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.signadot.com/</a>). Signadot is a Kubernetes-based solution that enables lightweight environments, called Sandboxes, to test microservices early in the development lifecycle.<p>Before founding Signadot, I managed engineering teams building microservices at different companies. As the number of services and external dependencies (i.e databases, message queues, third-party APIs, etc) increased, testing became challenging. While at a smaller scale, we could stand up our “application in a box”, as the complexity increased, we relied on a pre-production (staging) environment to do a lot of our testing. However since the staging environment was shared by many teams for testing, it became a bottleneck. When issues were discovered on staging, the root-cause analysis took a long time.<p>We talked to many companies about how they were testing their microservices, especially once they started to grow beyond ~20 engineers. We encountered various solutions ranging from companies setting up multiple (expensive) staging environments, to having each team take turns “locking” the staging environment. At larger companies, like Uber and Lyft, we learned that they had built their own highly scalable (but bespoke) solution for testing microservices based on dynamic traffic routing. With this kind of system, environments can spin up quickly, and are cost-effective at scale. We wanted to build a similar system that was more generalized and make it available to everyone running on Kubernetes.<p>The intuition behind Sandboxes is that each test environment only has a few microservices under test and all other dependencies can be fulfilled from a shared pool of microservices running the latest version called the *baseline*. Starting with a staging Kubernetes cluster running up-to-date stable versions of microservices, sandbox environments are described in terms of what is modified with respect to the baseline. This is similar to the copy-on-write model of resource management. Once a sandbox environment is set up, tests can be run against it and requests get routed to the versions of microservices under test.<p>An important consideration is isolation between different sandbox environments. For isolating test requests, we use traffic labeling and request routing. With traffic labeling, a tenant ID is set as an L7 header on each HTTP/gRPC request and based on the value of this header, requests follow different paths through the microservices. Request routing is realized by working with a service mesh (like Istio) if already installed, or by using our sidecar proxies. For tests that require data isolation, we built a pluggable framework called Resources (<a href="https://docs.signadot.com/docs/sandbox-resources" rel="nofollow">https://docs.signadot.com/docs/sandbox-resources</a>) that can set up an ephemeral stateful resource (Kafka topic, database schema, etc) on the fly and tie it to the sandbox lifecycle. Resources can also be used to test when there is async communication across services.<p>We worked with a few enterprise companies for over a year to come up with an architecture that can support complex microservice environments. We built a Kubernetes Operator that installs into our users’ Kubernetes clusters and connects to a control plane that we host. Our control plane acts as both an API to create sandbox environments and as a proxy layer that can route traffic to sandboxes.<p>We are launching with support for integration & end-to-end testing by providing high-fidelity environments that can be set up via the CI pipeline. Next on our roadmap is making it easy to write custom resource plugins and enabling feature testing using sandboxes. With feature testing, developers working on different microservices can see how their changes interact with each other’s services before merging.<p>If you’d like to try it out, we have a free tier. Our pricing is based on the number of unique services in sandboxes.<p>Thanks for reading this post and we welcome your feedback and comments!
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Title: I have a Stripe account that has been going along nicely, regular transactions at a steady but moderate pace -- a few transactions a week at a consistent amounts. I'm a one-person-shop, not a developer, and I integrate with Stripe through my invoicing software. I've been building momentum towards a new product launch that will hopefully change that transaction velocity to dozens, hopefully a couple hundred transactions per day, through a storefront.<p>Now, I am concerned that a significant change in velocity/volume like this is going to set off a flag with Stripe, and I fear that my Stripe account will get nuked, kill the launch, all the momentum I've been building, my reputation, and all my regular business to boot -- if I lose access to Stripe I lose a very significant portion of my business. Even if its just for a couple weeks while I'm "being reviewed".<p>There seem to be many threads here on HN about getting killed by Stripe without explanation, without easy recourse, without customer support or quick resolution -- especially as a small fry like me.<p>Are there any suggestions for a non developer, one-person-shop to avoid this seemingly common pitfall?<p>Why do I think I'll get flagged? In recent history had one invoice that was unusually large for my transaction history -- I landed a really good project. I feared this would set off a trigger with Stripe, and sure enough I was flagged "as a part of our ongoing account review process".<p>Stripe sent very vague and *very "phishy"* seeming emails. After logging into Stripe I had to give access to my bank accounts and get through a "review" of my business.<p>I really feared I was going to be cut off then. So, I harbor no illusions that it will happen again next time should I enjoy a modicum of unusual success. I certainly learned that in the future I have to invoice large projects in smaller incremental chunks and not in the one-lump that the client preferred.<p>But I don't know how to handle if the velocity of transactions changes.
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Title: I understand the advantages of Saas - transparent updates, cloud based, redundancy, subscriptions, scaling, unicorns etc.<p>Why don't we have more businesses following the JetBrains model specially if the product is not a service that needs to run 24/7. I buy the product once and use it for perpetuity. If I want updates, I pay more.<p>As a consumer, my data does not leave my perimeter, my data is not sold or used for ads and I am not hooking into a subscription that I am going to forget soon.<p>1) Personal photos and videos backup and viewer. - Just give me a cheap cloud for backup and a desktop app for viewing.
2) Personal budget - Just give me a desktop app that connects to my different accounts and gives me overview.
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Title: Self explanatory.<p>I'm just curious whether companies are open for this. Lately there is more traction towards open-source and whether a person can start contributing to it and later join the core team.<p>one personal example i've read is the developer of nomad levant project was acquihired[1] by hashicorp<p>[0] - https://github.com/hashicorp/levant
[1] - https://twitter.com/jrasell/status/1230132251893125120
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Title: My mom got locked out of her 10yr gmail account. She doesn't have access to the phone number she added for 2FA. This is after she has the right password and also has access to the recovery email.<p>This basically locked her out of her whole online life because for all other social accounts she uses sign in with Google.<p>There is no human support, and their support website says if you cannot recover the account, create a new one.
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Title: Hi,<p>most people (hopefully) have local backups. However, when that backup fails, it is good to have a backup stored somewhere off-site. In the old days you would ship physical drives/tapes, which is cumbersome, costly, and slow. With fast upload speeds, it is now possible to upload your data to the cloud. I have found S3 Glacier Deep Archive to be a great solution for this:<p>- It is very cheap ($1/TB/month for US region)
- Very reliable (99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones)<p>However, usability out of the box is not that great, I'm not aware of any automated backup solution for Deep Archive. This free project provides that.<p>Currently, ZFS is required, but that might change. Please try it out and provide feedback!
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Title: Either personal (like asking your bank to revoke all cards you used with Uber) or work-related (recheck your security posture so that you won't have a Uber-level catastrophe)?
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Title: I just received this email a few days ago:<p>We are writing to inform you of an incident that involved some of your information. We are providing this notice to explain the incident and measures we have taken, and also to provide some steps you can take in response.<p>What Happened?
We detected a compromise of two unique passwords that were used to access a customer contract search tool that allows access to rental contracts for U-Haul customers. The search tool cannot access payment card information; no credit card information was accessed or acquired. Upon identifying the compromised passwords, we promptly changed the passwords to prevent any further unauthorized access to the search tool and started an investigation. Cybersecurity experts were engaged to identify the contracts and data that were involved. The investigation determined an unauthorized person accessed the customer contract search tool and some customer contracts. None of our financial, payment processing or U-Haul email systems were involved; the access was limited to the customer contract search tool.<p>What Information Was Involved?
On August 1, 2022, our investigation determined some rental contracts were accessed between November 5, 2021, and April 5, 2022. After an in-depth analysis, our investigation determined on September 7, 2022, the accessed information includes your name and driver's license or state identification number<p>Well its a nice email to wake up to.
The first time I ever rent a uHaul and my DL is leaked.
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Title: Are there any good blogs that focus on CI/CD pipelines and SRE without a ton of fluff?<p>I feel like the space moves fast, and I need a way to keep up with it better. In an ideal world I would want to see best practices for different tools, and pipelines so I can evaluate them and adopt what makes sense.
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Title: This is a follow up of this thread ( <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174828" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174828</a> ) which got some amazing responses but considering it's been almost two years, It's time for new edition<p>I'd love to hear about what interesting problems (technically or otherwise) you're working on -- and if you're willing to share more, I'm curious how you ended up working on them. This time, with a twist. Please include web technologies too if it's really niche and not a lot of people know about it
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Title: I started building a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from/organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework!<p>I recently rewrote the complete framework to make use of asyncio and the newest Slack SDK<p>Let me know what you think!
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Title: I'm writing a kids' book for my daughter about future jobs. All the books that she currently has talk only about current jobs (chef, firefighter, librarian, etc etc). I'm putting together a list of future jobs that she can think about (space mining engineer, neural lace technologist, prompt engineer, etc). I'll probably throw some jobs in the list that exist but are still rapidly growing, like data scientist.<p>Fun ideas appreciated!
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Title: Asked previously -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30027925
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Everytime I read articles and consume all other content around attemping a startup, I see no consideration for those whom are employed under employement contract to assign both moral rights and intellectual property to their employer. I have read Lean Startup by Eric Ries and consumed a ton of Y combinator content.<p>Under these circumstances, how can one validate the market using a minimal vialable product, for something truly novel? Futhermore, the're contractually unable build an MVP as result of assigning their full intellectual property rights for anything loosely related to their job.<p>What can one do under these circumstances, and let's face it, its found in the majority of employment contracts within the tech industry?<p>Anyone any thoughts on this? Moreover, I'm considering leaving a very well paid software developer job to free myself of this obligation, with the intention of building a product to offer real value to both me and others alike.
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Title: Previously when I wanted to learn languages by reading the original, I started looking for an EPUB reader.<p>I wanted it to be<p>1. browser-based, so I could use my browser extensions<p>2. cross-platform, so I could read on different devices<p>3. able to read multiple books at the same time, so I don't have to open multiple windows<p>Unfortunately, I didn't find it.<p>As a developer, I really like the flexible layout and power of VS Code, so I tried to combine its design concept with EPUB reader, and Lota was born.
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Title: Someone in another thread mentioned they purchased an RTX 3090 for Minecraft, which sounds awesome, but seems excessive, only because I'm not having as much fun with games atm.<p>So, what games are you having the most fun with, other than Factorio and Cities Skylines?
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Title: It seems like Feedburner removed custom domains so some major feeds like
<a href="http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss" rel="nofollow">http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss</a> (+ all others)
<a href="http://feeds.marketwatch.com/marketwatch/topstories/" rel="nofollow">http://feeds.marketwatch.com/marketwatch/topstories/</a><p>are now down.
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Title: Meetup.com's webpage has been throwing 400's and 502's for two hours, and still only half their site seems responsive.<p>There is no way for me to tell Meetup that their site is down. There's no contact page, no e-mail address, no suggestion box, no chat, no nothing. I want to help them get their business online but they have made it nearly impossible. Literally the only e-mail address I have found is for their recruiting/jobs page.<p>This problem is much larger than just one website. I've seen this dozens of times on huge websites over the past two years.<p>Years ago, a company I worked for was actually serving malware on their website, because a server got hacked and we had no idea. Somebody found it on a blackhat internet forum and wanted to tell us, but spent hours trying to track down a generic website contact just to let us know.<p>People of HN: Please tell your job that their website needs a contact page, and somebody in the company who checks the emails and sends them to the right group. This isn't rocket science, y'all.
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Title: I have to find a strategy to fix this development team without managing them directly. Here is an overview:<p>- this code generates more than 20 million dollars a year of revenue<p>- it runs on PHP<p>- it has been developed for 12 years directly on production with no source control ( hello index-new_2021-test-john_v2.php )<p>- it doesn't use composer or any dependency management. It's all require_once.<p>- it doesn't use any framework<p>- the routing is managed exclusively as rewrites in NGInX ( the NGInX config is around 10,000 lines )<p>- no code has ever been deleted. Things are just added . I gather the reason for that is because it was developed on production directly and deleting things is too risky.<p>- the database structure is the same mess, no migrations, etc... When adding a column, because of the volume of data, they add a new table with a join.<p>- JS and CSS is the same. Multiple versions of jQuery fighting each other depending on which page you are or even on the same page.<p>- no MVC pattern of course, or whatever pattern. No templating library. It's PHP 2003 style.<p>- In many places I see controllers like files making curl requests to its own rest API (via domain name, not localhost) doing oauth authorizations, etc... Just to get the menu items or list of products...<p>- no caching ( but there is memcached but only used for sessions ...)<p>- team is 3 people, quite junior. One backend, one front, one iOS/android. Resistance to change is huge.<p>- productivity is abysmal which is understandable. The mess is just too huge to be able to build anything.<p>This business unit has a pretty aggressive roadmap as management and HQ has no real understanding of these blockers. And post COVID, budget is really tight.<p>I know a full rewrite is necessary, but how to balance it?
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Title: I have this suspicion that conversations that are deep about touchy issues are nowhere to be found on the internet anymore. Perhaps they have moved to late-night dinners with VCs or yacht rides with rich people? Where are the places to start (and continue) conversations about important issues without self-censoring and walking on eggshells?
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Title: I want to cancel my Adobe CC subscription. I don't use the software anywhere near often enough to justify the cost of it.<p>When trying to cancel my subscription I was faced with a ridiculous "cancellation fee." Surely this can't be legal? How do I avoid paying this outrageous money grab?<p>It goes without saying that I'm never going to use any of their products again.
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Title: Or have you switched completely to Ebook?
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Title: Hello HN, this is a small side project I worked on that restyles HackerNews to look like the desktop of an older version of MacOS from the 90s.<p>Internally, this is just a proxy to news.ycombinator.com that injects a custom `news.css` style sheet on some routes (login routes redirect back to HN). If you want to use the style sheet on the client side, there are browser extensions and a custom style sheet available at the github repo [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css</a><p>edit: try <a href="https://hackertosh.org/news" rel="nofollow">https://hackertosh.org/news</a> if the page is blank
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Title: When I see this I immediately think the work will be the kind of grind that requires lots of Grit to survive.
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Title: I am happy to announce Stalwart JMAP [1], an open-source JSON Meta Application Protocol server that aims to be scalable, robust and secure. Some of its key features are:<p>- JMAP Core, JMAP Mail and JMAP over WebSocket full compliance.
- IMAP4 rev2/1 support via Stalwart IMAP, an imap-to-jmap proxy [2].
- Scalable and fault tolerant: consensus over Raft, node autodiscovery over gossip and read-only replicas.
- RocksDB backend with full-text search support in 17 languages.
- OAuth 2.0 authorization code and device authorization flows.
- Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) message signing.
- Written in Rust.
- No third-party software required to run or scale.<p>The next item on the roadmap is to release an SMTP server in Rust with the goal of making self-hosting an e-mail server much simpler.<p>Any comments or suggestions are more than welcome!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/stalwartlabs/jmap-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stalwartlabs/jmap-server</a>
[2]: <a href="https://github.com/stalwartlabs/imap-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stalwartlabs/imap-server</a>
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Title: Even though there are literally thousands of books on software engineering, not many are really useful or career changing. That said, let's try and name the books that you consider to be important in your career, how you understand the field, your current skills and depth of knowledge.<p>Let me start:<p>1. Designing Data Intensive Applications<p>This book doesn't need any additional praise, but it's just brilliant how it manages to be both highly technical and very readable (and even capturing).<p>2. The Pragmatic Programmer<p>I wish I had read it years ago. It reads like a great conversation with an incredibly experienced friend of yours<p>3. Philosophy of Software Design<p>It's debatable whether this book is the better replacement for Clean Code, but I really like how nuanced and undogmatic it is.<p>It goes without saying that with such books it's often the case that you revisit some parts or delay until you have a usecase that includes the topic discussed in the book. This is especially true for DDIA.<p>What are your top 3-5? Please, also add your brief comments on how exactly this book changed you :)
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Title: Hey! My name is Dima, I am from Ukraine and I am the co-founder of Lost Pixel! We built this tool to solve our problems at work and decided to open-source it so more people can build their custom visual regression testing pipelines! If you want to chat about the tool or visual regression testing in general I am super excited to meet like-minded people! Thanks a lot for checking out the product and I hope it will serve you well if you decide to try it out :D
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Title: Figma was just bought by Adobe, we all know that. Word "Adobe" brought back to me the memories of early days of my career when I was a Macromedia/Adobe Flash developer and I was working on websites very heavyweight both graphically and animation-wise.<p>In 2022 we have SVG, WebGL, canvas, sound API and we can practically rebuild many of those Flash websites. They were accessibility disasters, but today we can do much better.<p>All this makes me think: why Adobe haven't finished yet Flash export to HTML5/WASM which is easy and popular? What's stopping them? Money or technical obstacles? I can imagine the targeting all the browsers both desktop and mobile and QAing all of that is hard, but feels like doable and web platform is pretty reliable these days?<p>And the final question: can people from Figma help Adobe to make Flash actually work? Figma is one of the best WASM/WebGL apps out there which (I presume) very experienced engineering team. I've read the blog post when they were running JS interpreter compiled to WASM in a web worker to create secure sandbox used as plugin environment. All of it just works. Can they help?
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Title: Hi friends,<p>Any recommendation of activities and reading for someone who is apparently going through a mid-life crisis, aside from seeing a therapist and doing more exercises?<p>I have some vague idea of what I would like to achieve for the rest of my life (mostly intellectual stuffs such as studying General Relativity), but there is an invisible wall standing between them and what my mind is at the moment. I also think I should setup some other goals such as family (already have a baby son) but my mind is not particularly interested in that part. Maybe it will reveal itself when time passes.<p>I'm also interested in any experience of anyone who apparently had a mid-life crisis but managed to go through it more or less without too much damage to themselves and their families.<p>Thanks.
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Title: I found some old and inactive meetup and eventbrite groups but are there any in person? I went to a hackathon event before covid that was incredible and I was hoping similar "energy" still existed.
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Title: Almost 3 years ago, I posted a story of how a post I wrote about utilizing county level police data to "police the police" to r/privacy and hackernews. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gr11aw/i_think_i_accidentally_started_a_movement/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gr11aw/i_think_i_a...</a><p>The idea quickly evolved into a real goal, to make good on the promise of free and open policing data. By freeing policing data from antiquated and difficult-to-access county data systems, and compiling that data in a rigorous way, we could create a valuable new tool to level the playing field and help provide community oversight of police behavior and activity.<p>In the almost 3 years since the first post, something amazing has happened.<p>The idea turned into something real. Something called The Police Data Accessibility Project. (<a href="https://www.pdap.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.pdap.io</a>)<p>More than 2,000 people joined the initial community, and while those numbers dwindled after the initial excitement, a core group of highly committed and passionate folks remained. In these 3 years, this team has worked incredibly hard to lay the groundwork necessary to enable us to realistically accomplish the monumental data collection task ahead of us.<p>Let me tell you a bit about what the team has accomplished in these 3 years.<p>Established the community and identified volunteer leaders who were willing and able to assume consistent responsibility.<p>-Gained a pro-bono law firm to assist us in navigating the legal waters. Arnold + Porter is our pro-bono law firm.<p>-Arnold + Porter helped us to establish as a legal entity and apply for 501c3 status<p>-501c3 status granted<p>-We've carefully defined our goals and set a clear roadmap for the future<p>-Hired first full-time staff.<p>-PDAP was awarded a $250,000 grant by The Heinz Endowments<p>So now, I'm asking for help, because scraping, cleaning, and validating 18,000 police departments is no easy task.<p>The first is to join us and help the team. Perhaps you joined initially, realized we weren't organized yet, and left? Now is the time to come back. Or, maybe you are just hearing of it now. Either way, the more people we have working on this, the faster we can get this done. Those with scraping experience are especially needed.
The second is to either donate, or help us spread the message. The more donations, the more data we can gather.
I want to thank the r/privacy community especially. It was here that things really began.<p>TL;DR: I accidentally started a movement from a blog post I wrote about policing the police with data. The movement turned into something real because of r/privacy and hackernews: (Police Data Accessibility Project). 3 years later, the groundwork has been laid, non-profit established, full-time staff hired, and $250,000 in grant money and donations so far!<p>Scrapers so far Github <a href="https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/Scrapers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/Scraper...</a>
Discord if you would like to join the efforts: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/wMqex8nKZJ" rel="nofollow">https://discord.com/invite/wMqex8nKZJ</a><p>*This is US centric
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Title: Hi all, just posting an update to my previous Show HN, where I announced a side-project I worked on which was a (web version) of a multi-user, notepad style calculator:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817997" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817997</a><p>After a couple of user requests (and having a good think about it) I decided to migrate the web UI to create a Mac and Windows desktop app. After using it a little bit, I feel this is a much better experience than the webapp, and reduces a lot of the friction if I wanted to run a few small calculations.<p>You can find the download links below:<p><a href="https://www.figr.app/download" rel="nofollow">https://www.figr.app/download</a><p>For context, Figr was a side project I worked on to get back into coding after being in management for the last few years. It's kind of a cross between popular notepad style calculators (like Soulver, Numi, etc), but also has multi-user editing (like Google Docs). I've got some example templates below which hopefully show what it can do, and hopefully is relevant to the community:<p>- <a href="https://www.figr.app/s/RUNWAY" rel="nofollow">https://www.figr.app/s/RUNWAY</a> - An example to work out your burn rate / runway<p>- <a href="https://www.figr.app/s/LTVCAC" rel="nofollow">https://www.figr.app/s/LTVCAC</a> - An LTV/CAC calculator<p>- <a href="https://www.figr.app/s/CONTRACTOR" rel="nofollow">https://www.figr.app/s/CONTRACTOR</a> - Hourly rate calculator for contractors<p>Opened to feedback, or technical questions if others are in the process of moving, or thinking about moving their webapps to desktop apps, as it's been quite a journey!<p>Thanks!
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