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Title: I am an amateur developer and bounce back and forth between Go and Typescript. Since I code in my free time, I usually do a week of Go, then maybe a few days of Python, and then back to Typescript.<p>I find it difficult to switch between the grammar of the languages (especially ones that are rather close such as Go and TS) and spend a day pondering over bugs which are an extra colon, or a dot in the wrong line.<p>Do you have any tricks/hacks to make the switch easier?<p>---<p>Note: by "close" I mean "visually close": "func" vs "function", stacked chained methods that either have their dot at the end of the previous line, or at the beginning on the next, single vs double quotes, types prefixed by a colon or not, ...
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Title: I'm in this line of work for almost 17 years now and having yet one more of these days where I'm measuring how much time I am in my current company to see if I'm ok to start looking.<p>And I remember that every single time I wanted to run away from a role/company/project the main reason was always the other people in and around it. Personality incompatibilities, to put it gently. Ar$eholes to put it right.<p>That kind of stuff dissolves teams, burns people out, drives people out, wrecks projects and companies.<p>I'm curious. What's your view on this? If my view is valid then it seems to me that we have been discussing technology (e.g. which prog language is better for a domain) only because we cannot address the elephant in the room - aka peopleware. And if that's so then in large part a lot of what we do is effectively losing battles.<p>Thanks
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Title: Currently in a situation where our company is asking us to work weekends and extra hours because of a poorly managed project. There were too many meetings and processes during the early months of the project and now we are way behind, no longer have any of those time wasting meetings as we are now scrambling to deliver on time. It’s created a stressful environment where I am now at a point of looking for a new job.
I really believe that companies should use better strategies then putting more pressure on developers in these situations.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Josh, Yoav and Matan and we’re building Spinach.io (<a href="https://spinach.io" rel="nofollow">https://spinach.io</a>). We help development teams run projects more effectively, starting with better daily standups.<p>I (Matan) am an engineer, and Josh and Yoav led design and product teams. One of the big pains we’ve all experienced is the massive overhead that goes on in dev projects: meetings, planning, goal setting, communication, project and task management—and on and on. All this is time consuming, slows you down, and can burn you out. It was already challenging in an office setting, but for us it amplified even further in remote work with back-to-back meetings and endless pings on Slack. If you’re like us, you want to spend more time building stuff and simplify the rest. With Spinach.io, we’re making tools to support that and to help projects run with far less overhead.<p>We’re starting by taking on the daily status meeting, a.k.a. standups. If you do 30 minute daily standups, you’re spending 120 hours a year—that’s 15 work days! Besides all that overhead, it’s a pain to make everyone wait around when all they want to do is get moving with actual work. We cut the overhead by bringing intention and structure to the process, making standups more organized, focused and productive.<p>Here’s how it works.<p>Before standup: Spinach makes prep easy in Slack. Each team member writes a brief check-in. Writing helps you plan your day and articulate that plan to the team. When the team is prepared, standup can be spent sharing meaningful context instead of watching someone try to remember what they did yesterday.<p>During standup: Spinach rotates through each person’s check-in, fast and efficiently. No screen sharing or “who wants to go next”. You see and hear each person’s check-in, and there’s a timer to keep it moving. If you have a question or idea, you add it to Team Topics and Spinach will bring it up at the end of standup, so the meeting doesn’t get derailed.<p>After standup: Spinach creates a summary and automatically posts it to Slack. This is a useful reference for the team and can be shared with stakeholders to cut back on status updates throughout the day.<p>Async friendly: On days when you need to miss standup, your check-in can still get shared with your team, and you can still read the summary so you don’t miss anything. If the whole team wants to skip the live meeting and do an async standup, that’s also supported. You can switch between live and async without losing any history or context.<p>There's a demo video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bdimeouLDA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bdimeouLDA</a>.<p>We’re integrated both with Zoom (as one of the first apps in their marketplace) and Google Meet (as a Chrome extension), which means you can use Spinach.io inside of Zoom or Meet and don’t need to have another window or tab open. We also have a web app which can be used side-by-side with Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack Huddles, Discord or any other meeting app. We’re integrated with Jira to pull in relevant tasks and context from your board, and Slack to enable async collaboration throughout the day.<p>For one team of up to 9 users the app is free forever, so anyone can easily try us out. For companies with multiple teams or 10+ users we charge $6 per month per user (with a free 30-day trial).<p>Our app is written in TypeScript using React, Express, Node.js, and Socket.io. The stack is hosted in AWS using Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache Redis, MongoDB, StepFunctions, Lambda, and EventBridge to name a few. Infrastructure is written as code using Serverless and AWS CDK.<p>The opportunity to reduce meeting overhead is bigger than we thought—we've already helped many teams cut their time spent in standups by 50%. At the same time, we’re still early and would love to hear what you think about what we’re building. We look forward to your comments and experiences, whether about daily standups or other points where tooling could help cut overhead. Thanks!
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Title: So a while ago I wrote about how 2FA was missing a key feature: <a href="https://syslog.ravelin.com/2fa-is-missing-a-key-feature-c781c3861db" rel="nofollow">https://syslog.ravelin.com/2fa-is-missing-a-key-feature-c781...</a><p>Having not had any feedback on it in a while and the idea not taking off, today somebody messaged me to say that had implemented it in their product.<p>1. Obviously I think this is great and more secure<p>2. Tell people about things you do that they played a part it- it might just make their day.
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Title: Hello HN, I just learned that we are going to have a baby, but I'm just so burnt out at my job. I can barely afford my health insurance, and now we are looking at adding a dependent, there's just no way. I've been here since 2012, and I've never felt like I wasn't <i>just</i> about to be fired.<p>And this baby is going to be here, like, imminently. It's always been my dream to be a dad, and now I realize how laughably unprepared I am to be bringing somebody into this world. I can barely do my job, and now, it's so, so serious. I can't quit my job, I can't take time to look for another job, I can't _do_ my job.<p>When it was just "me" in the world, I could afford to be cavalier and take chances, but now I feel completely dependent on a group of people that demonstrably DNGASFF about me.<p>I'm not a fast talker, my resume looks like shit, the only thing I know how to do is program, and we're about to have a baby. What do I do?
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Title: I have an iPhone. Of the 10 largest apps on my phone, 4 are bank/finance apps … Robinhood clocks in at 480MB, Chase at 350.<p>What about these apps demands such a large footprint? (Larger than say Notion, Amazon, messaging, navigation/maps, etc etc)
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Title: Tigris is the first truly open source developer data platform with a simple yet powerful, unified API that spans search, event streaming, and transactional document store. It enables you to focus on building your applications and stop worrying about the data infrastructure.
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Title: I built TaskTXT.com based on my experience timing my tasks. I found that committing to a task before I start helps with my focus, and guessing how long it will take, then timing it prevents me from wanting to give in to distractions because I'm "on the clock".<p>Video Overview: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOYO0c_D6w0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOYO0c_D6w0</a><p>There's also a Mac app which you can download here: <a href="https://dl.todesktop.com/22080519n9z1jew/mac" rel="nofollow">https://dl.todesktop.com/22080519n9z1jew/mac</a><p>Video overview of the Mac app: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMs-V5v5gZY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMs-V5v5gZY</a><p>But I didn't want the tool to be distracting, so its based on plain text. That means the UI is very familiar and you can use it for generic notes in any structure you like. When you work in TaskTXT you are working directly on its data format, I made a video about this concept here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdBgVZn5NI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdBgVZn5NI</a><p>I think this tool is uniquely suited for programmers, so I'd be interested to hear any feedback about the product, or its viability as a business.
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Title: I'm a fairly young SWE in my early twenties, and I've tried a bit of everything.<p>Fullstack web dev, a bit of cyber security, a bit of AI, mobile apps, all kind of automation/bots/mass scraping, growth hacking, small games, low level C...<p>And I'm starting to wonder if I should specialize.<p>I've always been interested by AI, but since it's such a large/complex field, I never really took the time to dedicate myself to it completely because I'm always interested by 10 things at the same time.<p>I have absolutely zero doubts about my employability, but I'm afraid to regret it long term if I don't specialize in an interesting field.<p>Do you regret being a generalist? Have you been one in the past and then changed? In that case what do you prefer? Do you regret it?
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Title: In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2/3 spam/phishing emails per day on the inbox. I'm marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I'm wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?<p>Not a big deal as it's been almost a year I'm migrating off gmail and I'm keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying
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Title: I took math courses through high school up to calculus in college and a course on discrete math, which i did well in. I just got John Stillwell's "Mathematics and It's History" and I'm dazzled by the way math is presented and the beauty inherent in it, unlike the way it was taught to me in school. However, I'm starting to struggle in some of the early geometry exercises like with regular polyhedra and conic sections, and later with exercises in projective geometry. Is there a course or series of courses I can take that can build my math skill level to solve such problems with ease? Stillwell mentions using this course to teach senior-level math undergrads.
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Title: I work on the OpenZiti project and I have a CI server that accepts GitHub webhooks, but I don't want to expose my server to the internet with open ports. I used the Python SDK for OpenZiti (overlay networking platform) to create a GitHub Action that sends the webhook to my private server via overlay instead of via the open internet.<p>This GitHub repo is a template that I made to show you how it all works. You can use it right away to run the sample server (httpbin-go) and see the GitHub Action in...action. Relevant threads include <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596212" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596212</a> .
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Title: 5 years ago, after failing with a startup idea and being rejected from YC, I started interviewing founders with the hopes of learning what it takes to find a good idea and build a successful business.<p>I posted these case studies online (started as a side project) and eventually it turned into a business, and started making enough money for me to go full time on it (starterstory.com).<p>For the last 5 years I’ve been collecting data for each company we interview, such as revenue, startup costs, age of the company, gross margin, what channels they used to grow, and a ton more.<p>I’ve put all of this into a searchable, sortable, filterable database and I wanted to get HN’s opinion on the tool, and if you find the data / information useful? Also, would love to hear what other data points you think we should be collecting, or features we should add!<p>The tool is built with Rails, Postgres database, search functionality using Elasticsearch, and it’s hosted on Heroku.
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Title: Imagine if we had an unlikely scientific breakthrough and many orders of magnitude faster general-purpose CPUs, probably alongside petabyte-scale RAM modules and appropriately fast memory bus, become widely available. Besides making bloatware on a previously unimaginable scale possible, what other interesting, maybe revolutionary, impossible today or at least impractical, applications would crop up then?
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Title: It's buggy, and it crashes more often than any other app I use. God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call. And then if you try to just call back on your phone, and they want to share their screen, and you go back to your PC and try to join the call from your PC so you can see the screenshare (it's not going to work).<p>Seriously, with all the money and resources thrown at this company and this app, you'd think it'd be a little more stable, faster, and reliable. I am literally forced to use this app at work...
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Title: The books you mention can be of any genre and from any discipline of life. The important criteria is that they were helpful to you in whatever way you think.
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Title: f you like me and have created a website or an app that had some active users (I had 30 lol ) then you’ve probably realized that there is no good way to talk to them.<p>Emails have a low response rate and can be just lost in spam. Feedback forms are hard to implement and are not very flexible. Creating communities in discord/slack takes time.<p>So as a self-respected developer I decided to solve this problem. I thought why not bring smth like discord server directly to a website/app? Something that is very easy to integrate into your product which will automatically connect your entire user base. And this something will allow you to send instant messages/polls/feedback forms to users notifying them when they’re online using your product. And users can interact with these messages by voting/commenting or submitting forms.<p>So I present you Taku: <a href="https://taku-app.com" rel="nofollow">https://taku-app.com</a>.<p>What do you guys think? Does this problem exists and does my solution helps with that?
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Title: The U.S. Treasury sells I bonds (inflation-linked bonds different from TIPS) which currently yield 9.62% and reset semi-annually with little (but not zero) cost of early sale. You can learn more about them here: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds_ibuy.htm<p>If you have not bought I bonds yet, why not?
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Title: Sharing this funny story so that people won't feel alone when it happen to them.<p>It seems my first and only reddit account created two hours ago is shadow-banned since the very beginning, tried one comment on /r/cpp and one post on /r/rust, nobody ever seen them other than one kind mod that confirmed there's nothing they can do.<p>Even funnier is that there is a subreddit /r/ShadowBan dedicated to test shadowban and some obvious spam-bot accounts are not banned yet mine is.<p>related:
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344907
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/oonfba/<p>EDIT: now this post got flagged as well, the funny continues.
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Title: Open Prompts is the dataset used to build krea.ai. The data comes from the Stability AI Discord and includes around 10M images from 2M prompts. You can use it for creating semantic search engines of prompts, training LLMs, fine-tuning image-to-text models like BLIP, or extracting insights from the data—like the most common combinations of modifiers.
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Title: Hi HN!<p>Tony & Ali here, we are super excited to introduce Venice - an open source financial data integrations platform. Our MVP is getting financial data from Plaid into your postgres database in under 5 mins.<p>We met while building our own respective fintechs. We noticed how much developer time went into setting up and maintaining the infrastructure rather than actually building the fintech itself. In Tony’s last project Alka for instance, the engineering team spent 30%+ of time building and maintaining the data connectivity and pipeline rather than the core work of accounting.<p>What we wish existed is a Segment / Airtable for fintech, letting you get financial data from wherever they are produced to anywhere they are useful. We think the most basic version is a Plaid to Postgres database connector with a self-service portal where your customers can add / remove / repair and manage their financial connections. This takes less than 5 mins to set up without writing a single line of code. In fact, we went so far as asking non technical people to get set up and they were able to do it just as fast using Vercel, Supabase and Plaid.<p>Today, our product is perfect if you’re just starting out or using it as a hobby, but eventually we hope any sized fintech could use what we’ve built as the project matures and community grows.<p>We wrote it using full stack TypeScript, and paid special attention to composability and extensibility. There is a core connect & sync library with its own cli, a HTTP API (thank you to the amazing folks at trpc + zod), a set of headless React components, theme-able data-connected UI library leveraging tailwindcss, and finally a next.js application that puts it all together. Each layer is built on the one before, so you can start with no code at all while drop down to any layer of abstraction as your need grow. What we are shipping today is a complete, instantly deployable next.js application which you can use either as a standalone portal via redirect, or embed into your application via iframe. The default setup uses Vercel as we expect you to bring your own database and authentication that powers the rest of your application.<p>The repo is licensed under MIT & ELv2, so you are completely free to use it for your own projects and companies while we retain the right to being the only one to release a cloud hosted version in the future.<p>Check us out at <a href="https://github.com/useVenice/venice" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/useVenice/venice</a>. We have a ton of ideas in mind and would love your feedback. Hit us up at [email protected] or on slack at <a href="http://link.usevenice.com/slack" rel="nofollow">http://link.usevenice.com/slack</a>
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Title: I was frustrated with laggy notebook stable diffusion demos. Plus they usually didn't have all the features I wanted (for example some of them only had inpainting and some only had img2img, so if I wanted both I had to repeatedly copy images between notebooks). So I made this desktop frontend which has much smoother performance than notebook alternatives and integrates image generation, inpainting and img2img into the same workflow. See a video demo here: <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6392321/191858568-0550f52d-e89c-4b37-aa07-23df605b4807.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6392321/191858568-...</a><p>Features include:<p>* Can run locally or connect to a google colab server<p>* Ability to erase<p>* Ability to paint custom colors into the image. It is useful both for img2img (you can sketch a rough prototype and reimagine it into something nice) and inpainting (for example, you can paint a pixel red and it forces Stable Diffusion to put something red in there)<p>* Infinite undo/redo<p>* You can import your other images into a scratch pad and paste them into main image after erasing/cropping/scaling it<p>* Increase image size (by padding with transparent empty margins) for outpainting
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Title: Hi all. We've been playing a silly little game with my wife lately: we send each other messages about some topic we never talk about and then wait for ads related to our conversation to start showing up in Instagram. As of the last month, they never fail to show up.<p>Please keep in mind that this is a conversation between two "personal" accounts, no business accounts involved. More so, we haven't accepted the new terms of use that "allowed" WhatsApp to access messages between personal accounts and business accounts.<p>Is WhatsApp scanning personal messages to target their ads as we are noticing? Weren't WhatsApp messages end to end encrypted? Is this a violation of their Terms of Use or am I missing something silly?
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Title: Mirroring PyPI packages for environments/networks that do not have access to the Internet is hard. It's actually hard even in environments that do have access to the Internet. Most solutions out there either:<p>1. Depend on pip to download and cache package distributions. This means those downloads will probably only work in a similar environment (same Python interpreter, same libc), because of the nature of binary package distributions and the fact that packages have optional dependencies for different environments.<p>2. Depend on other PyPI packages, meaning installing the mirror in a restricted environment in itself is too difficult.<p>3. Cannot resolve dependencies of dependencies, meaning mirroring PyPI partially is extremely difficult, and PyPI is huge.<p>Morgan works differently. It creates a mirror based on a configuration file that defines target environments (using Python's standard Environment Markers specification from PEP 345) and a list of package requirement strings (e.g. "requests>=2.24.0"). It downloads all files relevant to the target environments from PyPI (both source and binary distributions), and recursively resolves and downloads their dependencies, again based on the target environments. It then extracts a single-file server to the mirror directory that works with Python 3.7+, has no outside dependencies, and implements the standard Simple API. This directory can be copied to the restricted network, through whatever security policies are in place, and deployed easily with a simple `python server.py` command.<p>I should note that Morgan can find dependencies from various metadata sources inside package distributions, including standard METADATA/PKG-INFO/pyproject.toml files, and non-standard files such as setuptools' requires.txt.<p>There's more information in the Git repository. If this is interesting to you, I'll be happy to receive your feedback.<p>Thanks!
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Title: The reality is I can’t quit my job given I’m young and live in California. I got a high paying job at a recognizable tech company, but plagued with exhaustion and lack of motivation, which is killing me daily life. Anything you guys have done to dig out of a rut?<p>I’m taking an electrical engineering class and exploitation security class online. I’m constantly learning, which I love. I work on a product which just clones other similar products with a slightly better price point, so it’s hard to really care about the goal, but it would be nice to shift that mentality slightly.<p>I think long term I want to work on low level systems, but my current mental state is affecting my ability to learn effectively. Maybe therapy could help.
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Title: It‘s not a phase. I am turning 30 soon. I have had this feeling ever since i can remember. I know, often times i am subconsciously aligning my actions to end up alone. Sometimes it seems like i do that to create something like a melancholic void, that i must feel, because otherwise, i would feel empty…<p>I can‘t summarize it better right now. I have learned the portuguese word „saudade“. That feeling, i believe i know. It seems somehow related, to what I am trying to describe.<p>I truly can not handle it anymore…<p>How do you deal with it?<p>Also I have recently read about „intellectual loneliness“ on here, which i resonated deeply with. It is not what i am describing, but rather a part of it. But the totality is too much for me.<p>I don‘t even know what to expect from posting here. I just have nowhere else to turn to…
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Title: Companies of one meaning either a solo developer or just you managing the entire operation.<p>Following in the spirit of user ecmascript’s annual posts, I’d like to follow up and ask this year’s (overdue) round.<p>Last year’s discussion post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299053
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Title: Reading the thread about companies of one's tech stack[1], I wonder how you ensure business continuity (in case of holydays, family event, sickness, ... ), especially when you host an application.
I'm currently developing a service alone, but one of the problem I see going forward is how can I ensure business continuity if when I'm not available.<p>Very interested to know more about your experiences!<p>[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960033
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Title: Hello, I am experienced software developer working on enterprise software in eastern Europe country. With rising inflation and stagnant local salaries it's getting harder to afford a decent standard of living. I am looking at these jaw dropping US salaries, even 60k/yr would put me among top 3% earners in my county. Browsing US job boards I find many remote contract based and salaried positions but they are all looking for US based employees. Are there any fellow Europe based software engineers who work remotely for US companies and could share advice about landing such jobs?
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Title: Being a foreigner in a new country and starting a new job I suddenly realized that my verbal communication lags far behind my writing skills.<p>English is not my native language, which makes my challenge of improving it harder.<p>I wonder what strategies and lifehacks worked for you to make your speech more concise and eloquent?<p>yes, i know that it’s all about practice. But which specific ways and kinds of practicing are most effective ones is not clear to me.
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Title: Are there canonical books, resources, or readings for how to design data structures that will be primarily read and written to a <i>disk</i> rather than memory? Most of what I learned in school about big-O assumes that, for example, random access is O(1). However, random disk reads are really slow due to spacial locality.<p>People who write databases obviously have solutions to this problem - for example, DuckDB is based on a number of papers that have come out over the years on this topic.<p>If I wanted to design, ie, a tree structure which was intended to be read/written from a disk, are there general principles or patterns the have been developed to take advantage of locality of reference, minimize random reads, or decrease the overhead of writes, that I could familiarize myself with?<p>What is the CLRS for disk?
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Title: I am a senior individual contributor in tech. I got the signal that I am being managed out. However I am still giving my best as I am honest and passionate. Only consolation is that, a lot of colleagues are also being managed out. (The product is making good money though). The environment has become very toxic with a lot of politics across all the levels. To make matters worse, I am working on some legacy technologies. I know that sooner or later I will be laid off. Questions
1. Have you been through situation? How did you overcome?
2. How to implement the do the bare minimum?. I am finding it difficult. In fact, I keep checking office mails all the time.
3. What should your strategy be?. (I have been playing around with new tech though. But there are way too many fields in tech). Searching for another job is not an option at this point. I would rather wait for them to fire me.
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Title: We all know about the tyranny of user-upvoted content. Some good posts fall through the cracks and never get the attention they deserve.<p>But I think HN is suffering from a slightly different problem. There are so many good posts that often extremely relevant and well received content never even hits my front page, and I am on this site <i>a lot</i>. I often use the "Search" feature to surface articles I am interested about, and many times I happen upon posts in the 100+ votes from the past day or two that somehow I didn't even see.<p>I wonder if the really quick decaying algorithm paired with the amount of quality posts creates the unfortunate situation that reaching the front page or the intended audience is just a matter of pure luck. Have we reached a singularity point where Hacker News has become too popular and on average too interesting that content relevant to your interests rarely reaches you?<p>EDIT: ironically, this post is now on the front page. If there's one thing I love about this site, is how it's slightly biased in favour of Ask HN and Show HN posts. Even in such a massive forum, everybody gets their 15 minutes in the spotlight.
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Title: I’ve come from JS in VSCode (with loads of extensions) to Swift in Xcode.
In XCTest, I miss the red and green diffs between expected output and actual output.
In Xcode itself, I miss the ability to perform code refactoring easily (extracting code to new files etc - more than just extracting to new functions).
I also miss linting / prettier.<p>What tools and plugins for Xcode do you all use to make developing Swift in Xcode faster and easier? General Xcode hints and tips welcome.
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Title: Hi all - with gmail recently instituting a storage limit, I'm starting to run into trouble with my usual gmail account. I'm recognizing the era of free everything is over, but I'd rather pay an organization that takes privacy seriously.<p>What is an email service you would recommend that will not be categorized as spam if I email the conventional gmail etc accounts?<p>Thanks
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Title: I've been struggling immensely and I'm wondering what has helped you guys keep going in life when all hope is lost?
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Title: I am the developer for HACK, a hacker news app on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and Android.<p>As of this afternoon, I received lots of emails reporting a bug in the app where:<p>1. Tapping on a story was taking to the link for the story instead of the comments. There was no way to access the comments.<p>2. All stories showed "now" as the time posted instead of the correct time.<p>3. Threads didn't display the title for the parent post.<p>This occurred due to Hacker News making some changes to its website's HTML today.<p>Since the Hacker News API is pretty much useless (it's a read only API and doesn't allow voting, favoriting, commenting etc. Also very hard to work with), my app relies on the website which it parses to get the content. It does the parsing using XPath. Due to the changes in the HTML, the XPath in the app were no longer valid.<p>I have already submitted an update to Apple and the Play Store for fixing this bug. Hoping to have it approved soon (hopefully sometime tonight/tomorrow).<p>I am really sorry about the inconvenience to all the users who rely on my app.<p>The apps are:<p>https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-reader/id1464477788<p>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.hack<p>Feel free to ask questions. Thanks.
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Title: It doesn't matter which role, I mean any job that could be done with internet connection and a laptop.
I read an article during the weekend that 1/3 of applicants are not willing to work in an office and that are not interested in any non remote positions, even if the salary is good.<p>I know there is a trend of remote work because I am building a job boards aggregator and by far the most selected filter is [Remote Jobs]<p>But so many folks declining non remote jobs was a bit surprising.<p>What do you think?
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Title: I'm talking about ugly/good-looking, fat/fit, skinny/strong, tall/short... etc.
Do you think physical appearance plays an important role to define hierarchies inside organizations and can decide who has the upper hand in debates?
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Title: Apple is dropping support for the 1st generation of the beloved iPhone SE.<p>Many people liked the form factor of it. What are your plans to do with the last small iPhone?<p>What are the possibilities? Jailbreak or use it as a paper weight?
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Title: Hello everyone! I was poking around GoLang's HTTP/networking capabilities to see what things I could do. Turns out it is pretty easy to insert your own networking stack into HTTP clients and servers.
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Conor and Charles from Prequel (<a href="https://prequel.co" rel="nofollow">https://prequel.co</a>). We make it easy for B2B companies to send data to their customers. Specifically, we help companies sync data directly to their customer's data warehouse, on an ongoing basis.<p>We’re building Prequel because we think the current ETL paradigm isn’t quite right. Today, it’s still hard to get data out of SaaS tools: customers have to write custom code to scrape APIs, or procure third-party tools like Fivetran to get access to their data. In other words, the burden of data exports is on the customer.<p>We think this is backwards! Instead, <i>vendors</i> should make it seamless for their customers to export data to their data warehouse. Not only does this make the customer’s life easier, it benefits the vendor too: they now have a competitive advantage, and they get to generate new revenue if they choose to charge for the feature. This approach is becoming more popular: companies like Stripe, Segment, Heap, and most recently Salesforce offer some flavor of this capability to their customers.<p>However, just as it doesn’t make sense for each customer to write their own API-scraping code, it doesn’t make sense for every SaaS company to build their own sync-to-customer-warehouse system. That’s where Prequel comes in. We give SaaS companies the infrastructure they need to easily connect to their customers’ data warehouses, start writing data to it, and keep that data updated on an ongoing basis. Here's a quick demo: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/da181d0c83e44ef9b8c5200fa850a2fd" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/da181d0c83e44ef9b8c5200fa850a2fd</a>.<p>Prequel takes less than an hour to set up: you (the SaaS vendor) connect Prequel to your source database/warehouse, configure your data model (aka which tables to sync), and that’s pretty much it. After that, your customers can connect their database/warehouse and start receiving their data in a matter of minutes. All of this can be done through our API or in our admin UI.<p>Moving all this data accurately and in a timely manner is a nontrivial technical problem. We potentially have to transfer billions of rows / terabytes of data per day, while guaranteeing that transfers are completely accurate. Since companies might use this data to drive business decisions or in financial reporting, we really can't afford to miss a single row.<p>There are a few things that make this particularly tricky. Each data warehouse speaks a slightly different dialect of SQL and has a different type system (which is not always well documented, as we've come to learn!). Each warehouse also has slightly different ingest characteristics (for example, Redshift has a hard cap of 16MB on any statement), meaning you need different data loading strategies to optimize throughput. Finally, most of the source databases we read data from are multi-tenant — meaning they contain data from multiple end customers, and part of our job is to make sure that the right data gets routed to the right customer. Again, it's pretty much mission-critical that we don't get this wrong, not even once.<p>As a result, we've invested in extensive testing a lot earlier than it makes sense for most startups to. We also tend to write code fairly defensively: we always try to think about the ways in which our code could fail (or anticipate what bugs might be introduced in the future), and make sure that the failure path is as innocuous as possible. Our backend is written in Go, our frontend is in React + Typescript (we're big fans of compiled languages!), we use Postgres as our application db, and we run the infra on Kubernetes.<p>The last piece we'll touch on is security and privacy. Since we're in the business of moving customer data, we know that security and privacy are paramount. We're SOC 2 Type II certified, and we go through annual white-box pentests to make sure that all our code is up to snuff. We also offer on-prem deployments, so data never has to touch our servers if our customers don't want it to.<p>It's kind of surreal to launch on here – we’re long time listeners, first time callers, and have been surfing HN since long before we first started dreaming about starting a company. Thanks for having us, and we're happy to answer any questions you may have! If you wanna take the product for a spin, you can sign up on our website or drop us a line at hn (at) prequel.co. We look forward to your comments!
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Title: After playing with rust, I really like it. However, I generally don't need to write the low level code that justifies the increased complexity of the borrow checker. I would rather just pay the small price for a garbage collector. What language is most like rust, but at a higher level?<p>To me, these are the things that I like about rust that I'd want to see:<p>* Getting nullability right, not making the "billion dollar mistake". An integer shouldn't be able to be "null" unless it's part of the type.<p>* "Algebraic" (Sum and Product) data types. I love Typescript's "integer | null" syntax, but Option<int> or something like that is fine, too. Typed structs/records or tuples.<p>* Errors as values. Goes naturally with the ADTs, and it feels very robust having the compiler enforce handling all the "Ok(..) | Err(..)" results.<p>* Focus on the data, defining structs and functions that work with structs. "Traits" as a means of abstraction. Not much in the way of inheritance.<p>* A nice development experience with a good package manager or other way of finding and using open source code.<p>* Vibrant and growing community.<p>* Can develop comfortably on Mac, deploy to Linux. Windows support a "nice to have".<p>Rust just nails all these things so well, it makes me want to use it even for things that don't seem like a good fit to me, like command line tools or web servers or scripts.<p>Here are the languages I can think of that might work, but I think they all have some issues:<p>* Ocaml - Rust's heritage, so it makes sense. But I feel like it's been around forever and hasn't really taken off. And doesn't it still have some sort of concurrency issue?<p>* Swift - So close to the ideal language, but does it work well outside of the Mac ecosystem?<p>* F# - Conversely, another great language, but does it work well outside of Windows?<p>* Java - The last time I used Java in earnest (many, many years ago) it still had the nullability issue, and was too class/inheritance focused for my tastes. I'm not sure if modern Java has improved on this yet.<p>* Typescript - Is this it? As a language, it actually ticks all the boxes, I think, which surprises me. But as a runtime it's nonexistent, and so you have to compile to Javascript and run on node and all that. I use it and really like it on the frontend. But how is it on the backend for ordinary non-web applications? How's its performance? It feels fiddly to get all the build stuff running, but maybe Deno or Bun is an option here.<p>* Nim - Kind of off the wall here, but it looks like it might actually be a contender from perusing its docs. But its community is pretty niche, and I don't have a good sense on if its growing or not.
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>Let me introduce you to Quazel, where we want to enable people to talk their way to fluency.<p>We have all tried various language learning apps and tools, however, one aspect of language learning current services are really bad at is conversational practice. You might get a chat-like interface, but in the end, the conversation partner will only respond with a predefined "if the users say X I say Y".<p>With Quazel that's completely different. In completely dynamic and unscripted conversation you can talk about pretty much anything you want. For example, you can try ordering food at a restaurant and even hold a philosophical discussion with Socrates. Additionally, you can analyze the grammar of your responses or use hints to help you out when you get stuck.<p>We want to change how languages are learned from a grammar-centric approach to a more natural, conversation-focused one.
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Title: What is the biggest MySQL database you've every worked with?<p>Any interesting stories to tell?<p>I'm trying to get a sense of what MySQL is like at massive scale.<p>Thanks ^_^
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Title: I put hiring fraud in quotes because I'm not sure what else to call this and there isn't enough space in a title to explain it.<p>Basically my company interviewed a candidate who was fantastic. Checked all the boxes, nailed the interview, and had extremely relevant work experience. We made an offer. He accepted. A few weeks later on his first day the guy in the Zoom was definitely not the guy I interviewed. All the other interviewers agreed. Not the same guy.<p>We've had a number of candidates in the pipeline who seemed to be obviously lying about their identities who didn't make it to an offer but this case seemed different somehow. I cant quite put my finger on it.<p>I'm just curious to hear how many of you have experienced something similar. Is it common? Is there something obvious I'm not thinking of to help avoid these situations?<p>We may have passed on other candidates because of the strength of this one guy. This has put us in a pretty unfortunate position.<p>Some maybe noteworthy facts: we're a 100% remote company. The candidate was US based and said they didn't need visa sponsorship. They only spoke to one in house recruiter, an HR rep, and 3 people in engineering for the interviews. I discovered after the fact that one of the name brand companies on their resume was actually not the company we thought it was but one with the exact same name in a different industry.
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Title: Hey guys, a couple of years ago I posted about MockMechanics, a visual programming language/sandbox building game that I've been working on and there was a very positive response [0]. Since then I've been implementing most of the things I promised in my first youtube video [1] and making it ready for an open source release and I'm happy to say it's ready [2]. I've also been building new things and showing them in the youtube channel. It's written in clojure and you can use it to create all sorts of machines, games, musical instruments, etc using little to no code at all. You've seen the piano, the tetris game, the clock the combination safe and so on but since then I've built a 3d printer, a robotic hand, a bubble sorting algorithm, a 7 segment display, a ball cannon, a paint program and more, you can see all these things in the youtube channel [3].
[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934722" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24934722</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwxbQj5mj0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrwxbQj5mj0</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/felipereigosa/mock-mechanics" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/felipereigosa/mock-mechanics</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MockMechanics" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/MockMechanics</a><p>Channel trailer with some of the new machines - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQiA42ReNYE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQiA42ReNYE</a>
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Title: Today I got an email welcoming me to Amazon Photos, and another email saying my $60 annual subscription will renew next month. When I went to cancel, it said I would receive a pro-rated refund based on my last payment… in 2015: https://imgur.com/a/VOmJCnP<p>I don’t remember ever using Amazon photos.<p>Has this happened to anyone else?
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Title: opinionated person = having and expressing very strong ideas and opinions about things.
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Title: AWS appears to be having lambda and API Gateway issues again in us-west-2. Symptoms on our end look similar to the August 24th partial outage.
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Title: I seem to be bombarded by multiple Cloudflare posts on Hackernews lately. Is there something else I should know? Is this 'innovation month' at Cloudflare or something? All these were posted in the last few weeks! ↪<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-first-zero-trust-sim/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/workerd-open-source-workers-runtime/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-calls/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/adaptive-ddos-protection/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-queues/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/rethinking-internet-of-things-security/<p>https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-and-macs-using-new-standard/
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Title: Hey HN! We’re Kyle and Jacob and we are excited to show you Depot (<a href="https://depot.dev" rel="nofollow">https://depot.dev</a>) and get your feedback!
Depot is a hosted Docker container build service, providing fully managed remote builds from CI and from your terminal. We support both Intel and Arm builds natively.<p>As application and platform engineers, we have experienced the challenge of keeping Docker container build times fast. From optimizing and reoptimizing Dockerfiles, to implementing layer caching in CI, to running & maintaining custom runners for multi-platform images.<p>Still today, there are limitations with the available tools. CI runners are ephemeral, and saving and loading cache tarballs is slow. CI providers are resource constrained, with limited CPUs and disk space to dedicate to fast builds. And with the increasing popularity of Arm devices like M1, Graviton, etc, building multi-platform images requires slow emulation or self-hosted infrastructure.<p>We created Depot to directly address those limitations. Depot provides managed VMs running BuildKit, the backing build engine for Docker. Each VM includes 4 CPUs, 8GB of memory, and a persistent 50GB SSD cache disk. We launch both native Intel and native Arm machines, on Fly.io for Intel builds and AWS for Arm.<p>We have built a depot CLI that embeds the Docker buildx build library, implementing the same CLI flags, so developers can send their builds to Depot VMs just by replacing `docker buildx build` with `depot build`. We also have a depot/build-push-action GitHub Action that can be swapped for docker/build-push-action in CI.<p>The combination of native CPUs, fast networks, and persistent disks significantly lowers build time — we’ve seen speedups of 2-3x on optimized projects, and as much as a 12x speedup with some of our customers.<p>We believe that today we are the only hosted CI or build service offering the ability to natively build multi-platform Docker images (--platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64) without emulation.<p>We are still early though, and would love your feedback.<p>You can sign up without a credit card at <a href="https://depot.dev/sign-up" rel="nofollow">https://depot.dev/sign-up</a> to access a free project with thirty days of unlimited build minutes to try it out.
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Title: This article did not shock me at all but somehow looking up the numbers on Docusign made me wonder, seriously, and with all due respect: how would you get to 7,400 employees at Docusign? I literally can't do back-of-the-napkin calculations that make it plausible.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010050
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Title: Are you doing consulting at $250k+ a year? What is your niche? How did you find it?
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Title: Just a heads up for anyone using their API - about 1 in 5 requests will return with Cloudflare Insights tracking JS. It's not mentioned anywhere in the API documentation, Privacy Policy, or ToS.<p>Fairly certain this is the package they based their service on https://github.com/tdewolff/minify<p>Edit: Here's a tweet I posted with a screenshot of the code:
https://twitter.com/cullend/status/1575243757624360960?s=20&t=JVhqXDJExBnrEVOXeFH4Jg
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Title: My company email is copied to Gmail. Over the years, their spam filter has gone berserk. It started from PayPal emails a couple of years ago. Last year, critical PPP loan documents ended up un Spam folder. But recently, we found several .gov emails there, including irs.gov emails and even several emails from @fbi.gov, containing legal documents! You'd think they could at the minimum whitelist all genuine US government emails? Pressing No Spam button doesn't seem to do anything for the future emails, we ended up creating "Never send to Spam" filter for from:.gov !
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Title: I have a feeling that the risk for different infrastructure problems has increased here in Europe. Assuming internet outage for somewhat extended time, what would be good resources/tools to keep locally just in case? Some that I can think quickly from the top of my head might be:<p>- offline wikipedia<p>- offline stackoverflow<p>- youtube-dl<p>- libgen (are there tools to download e.g. only some genres?)
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Title: Hi,
I don't see much about clojure over past 2 years or so. Same goes for other industry functional languages (e.g. elixir, scala, F#).<p>Are they just in later stages of hype cycle or are they dying out the same way perl did?<p>For better or worse most of news/fuzz these days seem to be about Rust (not that this translates to actual job postings though).<p>PS: Asking because I want to delve into a functional language but I cannot bring myself to do this seriously if it doesn't translate into market value.
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Title: With recent news about market melt-down, I was wondering what really has happened? Anyone with the knowledge please ELI5?
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Abhishek and Aditya, co-founders of Telematica (<a href="https://www.telematica.so" rel="nofollow">https://www.telematica.so</a>). Telematica is an API that helps businesses to access battery and usage data for electric vehicles, as well as manage charging across 25+ EV brands without using any hardware devices. We also develop tools like smart charging, dynamic load balancing, and charging scheduling for EV fleets.<p>For better or worse, all modern EVs include built-in internet connectivity and send all vehicle data to the manufacturer’s cloud servers, effectively eliminating the need for external hardware devices and OBD II dongles. The problem is that all of this information is locked inside the car dashboard or the manufacturer’s mobile app—technologies that car companies are not the greatest at building. There is no official Tesla or Volkswagen API available for developers to use to create apps and services based on vehicle data.<p>Some car APIs exist, but don’t focus on EVs. The fundamental problems in EVs—range anxiety and charging management—are absent in ICE vehicles. This means that developers have to build a lot of tools on top of the car API before they can solve their actual business problems. For example, (1) charging point operators must be notified when the charging begins and receive live SoC (State of Charge) every 1 minute; (2) fleet operators need to poll data to manage their operations or perform predictive maintenance; and (3) smart charging companies and utilities must manage charging based on live charging data and energy prices.<p>We eliminate the need to build and maintain an additional layer of infra on top of the car API for each of the above use cases by providing webhooks, data logging, and a plug-and-play smart charging module. Our product is divided into two parts: an authorization flow to obtain user consent from the EV owner to connect their car with a third-party app, and a developer API that allows our customers to query live EV data, manage EV charging, and log data for specific endpoints.<p>We came up with the idea for Telematica while working on a Tesla-like trip planner for the Indian market to reduce range anxiety among EV drivers. Unlike in the US, where Tesla controls both the car and the superchargers, the Indian market is fragmented - car manufacturers lack a robust charging network. Controlling both the car and the charger allowed Tesla to answer a variety of questions, such as "Will I be able to reach my destination with my current SoC?" How many charging stops should I take? My ETA, including the charging time? and so forth.<p>We needed access to real-time battery and location data in order to build a smart route planner. And, to our surprise, there was no Tata API (India's largest EV OEM) that we could use directly. To address this, we reverse engineered the Tata mobile app and identified the API endpoints before developing a Plaid-like product that relies on EV owners' consent to share their data with a third party app. We had to figure out the API for each OEM separately, which was time-consuming and difficult. This made us realise that instead of building the end user app let's build a developer API that anyone in the future can use to build powerful EV apps.<p>Our customers range across various industries. Companies that are building the charging infrastructure or mobility apps use our API to get access to real-time battery data (SoC, range, charging status). We are used by utilities and companies that offer demand response programs to manage EV charging during peak hours. Finally, instead of purchasing expensive OBD dongles, fleet operators use us to manage their fleets and optimize their charging schedules and routing.<p>We charge $0.25 per EV connected with up to 10,000 API calls allowed per month. Connecting up to 10 EVs is free of charge.<p>We collect the account credentials to the OEM (manufacturer) account as most of the EV brands don’t have their own OAuth2. We try to only store tokens in the encrypted format issued by the auth servers wherever possible. For the OEMs where this is not possible, the credentials are stored encrypted with the AES256 mechanism. Privacy policy: <a href="https://www.telematica.so/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https://www.telematica.so/privacy-policy</a>.<p>You can try out our API here - <a href="https://hn-demo.telematica.so/" rel="nofollow">https://hn-demo.telematica.so/</a><p>We would love to hear your feedback and ideas!<p>Thanks,
Abhishek and Aditya
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Title: Just over a month ago, the New York Times reported that a man named Mark had his Google account terminated because its AI accused him of possession of child porn. Even after police confirmed that the accusation was completely false, Google still didn't give him back his account. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805> Now, over a month later, has he made any headway yet?
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Title: This was a discussion when M1 macbooks were launched, and Apple supposedly addressed it in an OS update (macOS 11.4).<p>But I'm seeing really high read/write numbers. I'm aware that SSD lifespans are long and TBW spec is pretty generous. Still, compared to my linux machines, this seems extraordinarily high.<p>On my newish M1 MBA, with the latest updates, with barely any use, 98%+ sleep, I'm seeing about 3 to 5 GB reads per day and 2 to 4 GB writes per day.<p>Latest report from smartctl.<p>----------------------------------------------------<p><pre><code> === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 27 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 716,195 [366 GB]
Data Units Written: 616,232 [315 GB]
Host Read Commands: 9,108,273
Host Write Commands: 6,947,397
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 95
Power On Hours: 5
Unsafe Shutdowns: 11
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0</code></pre>
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M1 Air 16GB 1TB.<p>Is this normal?
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Title: As you probably have heard, there have been widespread protests going on inside Iran for the past week or so following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police.<p>Following the protests, the government has cut off or severely limited residential and especially mobile broadband access to the internet and people can only access websites and services hosted inside Iran. This has made connecting to VPNs with servers outside Iran, and Tor close to impossible. That being said, the servers inside Iranian data centers still have access to the outside world.<p>The government has also blocked Instagram and WhatsApp (the main channels of communication used by people inside Iran), and alternatives such as Telegram, Signal, etc are also blocked, halting communications to a crawl. People have to either call each other via GSM or send SMSs (which by the way is being monitored and messages containing keywords related to the protests don't even get delivered). As you can imagine, it's preventing people from coordinating the protests and strikes, and with the sattelite TVs being also heavily jammed, the only source of information accessible to most people is the government-led local TV channels which are distributing regime propaganda 24/7 and trying to scare people into submission.<p>We (a group of tech people inside Iran) have started using the servers inside Iranian data centers gain access to the Internet, and are setting up VPN servers and Tor bridges and giving the information to people we know. It's not scalable, and it's risky for us (the servers inside Iran can be traced back to us), but that's the only way we could think of to help. The technical details are published here:<p>https://github.com/InternetForIran/InternetForIran<p>We need help on multiple fronts:<p>- Please review and contribute to our repository on GitHub linked above. We need to improve the security and make deployment easier.<p>- The methods for setting up Tor bridges described in the repository were working up until 2 days ago, but have mostly stopped working and we haven't figured out why yet, maybe you can help?<p>- We have reports that V2Ray VMess and ShadowSocks are working inside Iran even at times when most other tools and protocols don't. We haven't been able to reliably deploy and test this (there are many configuration options and it's not clear which methods are working). Please create an issue or send a PR if you know how it works and how to deploy it.<p>- If you are an Iranian expat: Get a server inside Iran and set this up for your family and friends and get them back online.<p>- If you are an entrepreneur or work at a tech startup inside Iran: Your company already has servers inside Iran. Talk with your team, set up VPN servers and Tor bridges and share them with other employees and ask them to help get their family and friends online.<p>Edit: Formatting.
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Title: Users are reporting banner ads such as "New! Track your health and fitness with the..." below the search box on both google.com and chrome://newtab.<p>Google has historically been protective of their front page, why now?
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Title: Hi HN! We're Sonica, Marvin, and Satie, and we are building Red Goose (<a href="https://goose.red" rel="nofollow">https://goose.red</a>). Red Goose is a web app to mobile app conversion engine that produces ready-to-publish apps for the app stores using GitHub repos.<p>There was a discussion on HN a few weeks ago about how a developer shaved off almost half of their native app's code without losing functionality [1]. Our launch today is a direct outcome of that thread and, moreso, in the context of this comment [2] and this one [3]. Paraphrasing the context below:<p>> "Fastmail is the only email/calendar app with a reasonable size (just 20MB)."<p>Followed by:<p>> "… EDIT: just realized the app is a web view. Sigh."<p>As someone who has been into mobile app development since 2010, the comments above read like a punch to the gut. We grew up believing that the native experience was better than the web!<p>It took a while to admit, but the web, it appears, has genuinely caught on. It has matured to a point where the four pillars of web development—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly—are likely enough for universal distribution.<p>We already host compute-heavy environments for graphic designers [4], video editors [5], and rich document editing [6] on the web. And there is still more capability [7] in the works, if you will.<p>So the question we asked ourselves was: Could the modern web become the "native stack" of mobile app development?<p>With Red Goose, we want developers to be able to do just that. Create web applications that double up as mobile apps for the app stores. But this isn't always easy. Historically, native mobile apps have differed from (outdone?) the mobile web in three broad ways:<p>An app-specific design language,
Smooth and fancy screen transitions and,
Solving compute-heavy processes that scaled to millions of users.<p>However, at the same time, building and maintaining native mobile apps is super expensive, and it requires hiring separate teams of experienced developers whose sole job is to focus on mobile APIs.<p>Even with the newest alternatives like React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Xamarin, Ionic, or any other similar framework, there is a quantum increase in the amount of boilerplate code. Over time, as many of us have experienced in the industry, the web and native teams grow distant, leading to a less than optimum situation and bloat.<p>Red Goose puts the webview back in the ring. This step alone removes all the duplicated code from the equation. Red Goose then offers an alternate strategy [8], using the webview as the main leverage over your web app. And solve for native experience in the following three ways:<p>First—Intrinsic Design: we have built a new css framework called Toucaan [9] to tackle the gaps between mobile app design and mobile web. It allows the development of "app-like" interfaces using new css standards and the intrinsic qualities of the medium.<p>Second—Screen Transitions and Animations: Not all apps need this, but smooth transitions and performant animations are already possible with the new web APIs. With a strongly cached webpage using a service worker (PWA) and a better understanding of initial containing blocks (ICBs) pertaining to your front end, one can easily take steps to take the experience to the next level.<p>Third—Webassembly: The best thing about webassembly is that the wasm functions return immediately and synchronously. So one can easily offload compute-heavy transactions to a locally installed wasm utility and benefit from performance gains instantly on both web and mobile apps.<p>It appears that many apps wouldn't need to sprinkle webassembly into the mix to reach the level of performance expected of mobile apps, and just caching with a service worker and an app-like layout would do the trick.<p>Red Goose itself uses vanilla javascript and an experimental version of Toucaan for its frontend. Its backend is made with Node.js, Express, and MongoDB and is hosted on AWS within Docker. Our web-to-mobile app conversion pipeline uses NodeGit for app delivery, and the freshly minted mobile apps are written in Swift or Kotlin and shared directly over GitHub.<p>We believe that the opportunity to reduce app development and distribution cost using the newfangled powers of the web is massive—we've already helped a few teams to cut back on their expenses by as much as 80%.<p>At the same time, we're still early and would love to hear what you think about what we're building with Red Goose. We look forward to your comments and experiences, especially if you have been on this path before on your own. Thanks!<p>Relevant links:<p>HN Discussion:<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442529" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442529</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443310" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443310</a><p>[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30444202" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30444202</a><p>Leading web examples:<p>[4] <a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/" rel="nofollow">https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...</a><p>[5] <a href="https://web.dev/clipchamp/" rel="nofollow">https://web.dev/clipchamp/</a><p>[6] <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-Canvas-Based-Rendering-Update.html" rel="nofollow">https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...</a><p>[7] <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/fugu-status/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.chrome.com/blog/fugu-status/</a><p>Tooling:<p>[8] <a href="https://www.toucaan.com/blog/mobile-apps-with-red-goose" rel="nofollow">https://www.toucaan.com/blog/mobile-apps-with-red-goose</a><p>[9] <a href="https://toucaan.com" rel="nofollow">https://toucaan.com</a><p>The end.
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Title: Hello HN!<p>I became frustrated with the unpredictible/poor match quality and opaqueness of "relevance scores" in existing fuzzy and fulltext search libs, so I tried something different and this is the result. The main selling point is the result quality / ordering, with best-in-class memory overhead and excellent performance being bonuses. The API is pretty stable at this point, but looking for feedback before committing to 1.0.<p>TL;DR<p>The test corpus is a 4MB json file with 162k words/phrases, so give it a second for initial download. You can also drag/drop your own text/json corpus into the UI to try it against your own dataset.<p>Live demo/compare with a few other libs (there are many more in the codebase, in various states of completion, WIP):<p><a href="https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uFuzzy,fuzzysort,QuickScore,Fuse&search=super%20ma" rel="nofollow">https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...</a><p>In isolation for perf assessment:<p><a href="https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uFuzzy&search=super%20ma" rel="nofollow">https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...</a><p>To increase fuzziness and get broader results, try setting intraMax=1 (core) and enable outOfOrder (userland):<p><a href="https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uFuzzy&outOfOrder&intraMax=1&search=super%20ma" rel="nofollow">https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...</a><p>Also play with the sortPreset selector to swap out the default Array.sort() for one in userland that prioritizes typehead-ness (the resultset remains identical).<p>Still TODO:<p><pre><code> - Example of stripping diacritics
- Example of using non-latin charsets
- Example of prefix-caching to improve typeahead perf even further
- Example of poor man's document search (matching multiple object properties)
</code></pre>
That's all, thanks!
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Title: The word 'meaningful' may be a bit ambiguous. It infact is. By 'meaningful' software I mean any software that has meaning to you or your customer. The thing is you deliver value in one way or the other.
E.g: You write and maintain an open-source package used by quite a few people. Or maybe you wrote and website as a hobby. Now, it is used by quite a few people so you maintain it and the revenue it generates is your primary source of income.<p>If the above description fits you, can you recall how you learned to program and build meaningful things? More importantly what drew you towards programming, and not another subject? And if possible, mention THE meaningful software you wrote.
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Title: About a month ago, Microsoft SmartScreen suddenly started flagging the login page of our SaaS dashboard as 'unsafe', scaring away our customers.<p>We understand false flags can happen. So we took to the official SmartScreen feedback site to report the false flag (as the website owner). Received an email that stated it would take up to 24hrs to analyse: 'If the status of your site has not changed after 24 hours, please contact us with a reply to this message'.<p>Sep 8 - first ticket sent.
Sep 9 (24h later) - nothing. So we replied to the message as instructed.
Sep 12 - still nothing. One more reply sent. Asked some of our customers to report our site as safe.
Sep 15 - crickets. Tried calling phone support, impossible to get through; they just hang up on us. Reached out to MS support on Twitter, said they would look into the case.
Sep 22 - no changes - MS twitter support has been unable to find the correct person internally. We replied to the SmartScreen ticket once more. Opened two new tickets. Asked more customers to report the site as safe.
Sep 30 (Today) - now the warning has started to spread from our login page to our entire dashboard. Still no word from Microsoft.<p>We are totally baffed that MS allows a false flag to stay up this long, totally ignoring us for almost a full month, meanwhile destroying a business that did nothing wrong...<p>We suspect one of our competitors is responsible for falsely reported us. Is 'weaponized SmartScreen' a thing?<p>Does anyone have a similar experience? Any advince on resolving this matter is greatly appreciated!
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Title: Like many of us I have an email address for Amazon (.co.uk) which I don't use anywhere else.<p>A few minutes ago, I received a pretty nonsense spam mail to that address.<p>I contacted Amazon support who said 'we're investigating' in a way that made me think I might not be alone.. and advised I forward it on to [email protected].<p>Just curious if anyone else has recently had similar?<p>(To head it off: no it shouldn't be third-party sellers - they don't get your email, any disputes etc. are through a [email protected] address in my experience.)
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Title: Hi HN, this is an early version of what we’re imagining as a truly functional stock photo platform using Stable Diffusion.<p>We’re doing our best to hide the customization prompts on the back end so users are able to quickly search for pre-existing generated photos, or create new ones that would ideally work as well.<p>If we keep going with it, in future versions we’d like to add voting, better tags, and more varied prompts, or maybe whatever you recommend!
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Title: All solar panel systems I can find seem to require an internet connection. The (seemingly) best option I have found so far is a system with an inverter that only requires an internet connection during the initial installation, which uses a wifi dongle so I can probably unplug that afterwards. Even then, the manufacturer states that not having it connected to the internet voids their warranty, and I'm afraid the software might even have some kind of countdown where the system will stop working when it hasn't been connected to the internet after a certain amount of time.<p>I am not interested at all in connecting something that should help me get off the grid to the internet. Combine that with security issues[0] and I'm starting to think we're collectively folding our arms behind our back and intentionally falling forwards.<p>Maybe I'm too paranoid. Thoughts?<p>[0]: For example: https://csirt.divd.nl/cases/DIVD-2022-00009/
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Title: I see comments on HN once in a while about how they did [clever thing X] during a recession years ago and made money. With volatility comes profit potential, and it seems clear to everyone that rough seas are ahead. What are people doing <i>now</i> to potentially profit, or at least insulate themselves, during this?<p>I liquidated my discretionary equities portfolio (not much in it anyway) about a year ago already. Still have my retirement in its roboadvisor mix of bonds, equities and don't plan to touch it. Wondering if it might be worthwhile to invest in short ETFs like SH, SQQQ.
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Title: I set up my business 12 years ago, and since then it's been just me, mainly doing freelance software development, but I have always offered "Gmail for work" which became "Google Apps For Business" which became "GSuite" which became "Google Workplace".<p>Over the years, after becoming a reseller of Google's services, I resell Google Workplace for a slight profit margin, as I've found that my customers often have a real requirement of what Gmail for work can offer, so it's always been a good fit.<p>Three months ago, a customer asked me how to add a user to their organisation, so I sent them a link to the documentation (https://support.google.com/a/answer/33310).<p>They continued to email back, claiming they couldn't do it. After a few back and forth emails, I logged into my reseller console, which allows me to administer my customers' domains... but the customer's domain was not in the list.<p>The customer was getting a generic error when trying to access admin.google.com - please contact your domain administrator (me). When I tried to log in, their domain was simply not in the list of customers.<p>Since then, I've been on countless live chats, phone calls and email threads with Google support, but nobody's listening. Every time I get passed to another person, I have to explain everything from the start again, and I'm pointed to a Google Forms page to submit my "I can't access my account" request. Submitting the form doesn't do anything.<p>In fact, the support feels like I'm being trialled on teaching some kind of defective AI how to discuss problems with my Google account, or maybe I'm communicating via Google Translate to a non-English speaking sweatshop?<p>Anyway, my customer has been waiting to add a user for 3 months now, and they're getting shirty - possible legal issues are coming my way because of my incompetance.<p>I honestly don't know what to do. Google have just pulled the plug on a customer, and now I'm in hot water with nobody to talk to.<p>Has anyone got any advice?
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Title: I am mostly interested in what ties together backend and frontend, the later necessarily including web + android/ios, in the most time effective way possible in 2022.<p>Things I am looking for:<p>* The web/app one man show stack. What's the most reasonable way to get there, alone, assuming you start from scratch with now expectations about the tech you are going to use.<p>* Flexibility, initial dev speed and maintainability. I am looking for a stack that can work reasonably well for websites and apps, on the web + android + ios, or any subset of those. The less redundancy and additional parts to learn to make it all work, the better.<p>Things I am willing to give up:<p>* App speed and performance, specially on the client side. webviews are okay, if it eases the dev process.<p>* Matureness. I assume if something had already won in this space it would be apparent.<p>* Beginner-friendliness. I don't need any amount of no code, and I don't care if it's easy to pick up (but if it's not I do expect something tangible in return for my additional brain cells. I am not looking for something exotic, for the sake of being exotic. If there's two solutions that check all the other boxes equally, for this particular exercise, I am going to pick the one that's simpler.)<p>Things I am currently looking at include Flutter and Meteor, and maybe Rails with Hotwire (as soon as Strada is released). There's no need for all the required tech to fly under one name, but I'll probably grow increasingly suspicious the longer the list grows.<p>EDIT: If you take the time to respond, that's super cool, but if you are actually trying to answer the question, please be specific and point at the individual components.
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Title: This sad sequence of events just happened to a relative, and they're distraught. I haven't used Windows for ~15 years but since it was my area of expertise back then I still get lumbered with these problems. This one really surprised me though.<p>They logged into Windows 7 (I know, upgrade...) and it looked like their files were missing. In a panic, they opened Explorer and searched for their files. They turned up in the search. They just didn't show up in the usual "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Videos" paths.<p>They decided to move the files "to the correct place". And then they shut the computer down.<p>The next time they started it, the same thing happened. This is where I got called in, because <i>this</i> time, the files didn't show up in a search. I told them to turn the computer off immediately and drop it with me.<p>Can you guess what happened? Well, check this out:<p>- Windows couldn't use their user profile because it was corrupted<p>- So it created a temporary profile in "C:\Users\TEMP". (This wasn't obvious to the user because Explorer hides the 'detail' of the file path and simply shows the username)<p>- Unwittingly, when they moved the precious files to the "correct" place, they were putting them into a <i>temporary</i> profile.<p>- On shutdown, Windows promptly deleted the temporary profile, so "C:\Users\TEMP" got wiped along with all of the files.<p>I was frankly astonished that Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience. Anyway, now I have to try to recover not only the files, but the directory structures. I'm not even sure it's possible... :(
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Title: Or, if you have enough funding to write a new kernel, what would you do differently?
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Title: We just released a major upgrade to SigNoz with support for Logs management based on ClickHouse. Would love to get any feedback from the community here on what you think and any questions you may have for us<p>Many big companies like Uber and Cloudflare have been shifting to ClickHouse as their main workhorse for Logs management seeing much better performance. for e.g Cloudflare recently shifted from Elastic to ClickHouse and are seeing 8x improvement in memory/cpu resource requirement in ingestion.<p>This is our first release with Logs support and we have added support for:<p>- Filtering logs based on fields<p>- Full text search in logs<p>- Live mode to see logs coming in realtime<p>- Detailed view of logs in table and json format with ability to add filters quickly<p>- Ability to specify interesting fields which will be indexed by default
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Title: Howdy HN!<p>I find myself testing my ping from time to time, especially when my internet seems wonky while WFH. It feels like there should be an easier way test my ping than puling up a terminal or a complex web app - especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal.<p>I figured I should be the change I wish to see in the world and created this super light ping test.<p>I also created a latency monitoring solution (<a href="https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor</a>), feel free to clone and try it out! I know there are a lot more mature monitoring solutions out there, but I never did figure out how to set them up. This one is super simple: clone it to some device that's always on, compile it, set up some systemd stuff, and it's ready to rock on port 8180!
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Title: Over the last few months i have created a few threads where i ask questions which exposed some insecurities and/or things that currently trouble me. In my last question i asked "How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?". The overwhelming number of answers in that thread really helped me. Since then my mind is a bit calmer, and my mental health is more stable. Now, this improvement is probably more due to start taking the correct medication around the same time i made the thread, but i do believe the variety, the diversity, but also uniformity of the answers helped me to put some things into perspective and changed my thinking.<p>From that point on I took the opportunity to make some small, but crucial changes in my every day life. Some change are: Thinking what i want my daily life to look like, what i have space for in my life, introducing rules on how i spend my time, stop using SM platforms, or limiting the usage to bare minimum for the platforms i need to have some access, exercising and more. The book "Digital minimalism" by Cal Newport informs my efforts. I highly recommend it.<p>Now, the reason i make this thread is because i have noticed that i «forgot» how to think and engage with others. What i mean by that, assuming that i once knew how to do these things, currently i feel i can't think, It's like my mind has become passive, just consuming without processing. I have difficulties with evaluating information when reading articles or when i participate in conversations, a lot of times i feel my mind blank like i have nothing to say (in serious and non-serious conversations), having difficulty forming opinions besides on basic black and white topics. Another example that i realized fairly recently is that i don't evaluate a comment, a post, etc on my own but rely on others opinions with the comments, upvotes/downvotes, shadowbanning, etc they do.
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Title: I get stressed out a lot by my work. The people, and the lack of autonomy.<p>It invades my evenings, my nights, I spend sometimes hours unable to sleep dreading the next day.<p>I don't have any autonomy. I'm treated as a resource to be "used". And I work with people I don't respect personally or professionally.<p>I have been looking for a way out for a while, but let's just say that quitting or finding another job is NOT an option for now, for the sake of argument - to hopefully get some actionable advice.<p>I already stopped caring about my work. But my personality finds it difficult to ignore things that are wrong. Sometimes I look at other colleagues communication with others and it affects me also, I see so much wrong but I can't do anything about it.<p>How can I just stop caring?
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Title: Reading Peter Seibel's <i>Coders at Work</i>, and this is Joe Armstrong on the issue:<p>>Also, I think today we’re kind of overburdened by choice. I mean, I just had Fortran. I don’t think we even had shell scripts. We just had batch files so you could run things, a compiler, and Fortran. And assembler possibly, if you really needed it. So there wasn’t this agony of choice. Being a young programmer today must be awful—you can choose 20 different programming languages, dozens of framework and operating systems and you’re paralyzed by choice. There was no paralysis of choice then. You just start doing it because the decision as to which language and things is just made—there’s no thinking about what you should do, you just go and do it.<p>For context this book is copyrighted 2009 so this interview is more than a decade old, and I'm sure many things have changed since then.
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Title: I built a classic Macintosh text editor that allows users to do shared bidirection live editing with a web browser on a modern computer. Essentially it allows allows you to really quickly and easily share and edit text snippets on a classic Macintosh. I've tested the software on System 2.0 through System 7.6.1, but it should work on all PPC and 68k Macintoshes running up to MacOS 9.2.2 assuming they have a modem serial port available.<p>In addition to the github repository, I wrote up a blog post here: <a href="https://henlin.net/2022/10/02/Introducing-FocusedEdit-for-classic-Macintosh/" rel="nofollow">https://henlin.net/2022/10/02/Introducing-FocusedEdit-for-cl...</a> outlining how to get up and running. Both the repo and the blog post have a demo gif to help explain exactly what FocusedEdit does as well as how it works.<p>If you have any questions or decide to try it out on your Macintosh or in an emulator, let me know! I'd love to hear about it!
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Title: What should you be doing in your twenties to be healthy when you're older?<p>What can someone in their fifties do to be healthy in their sixties/seventies?<p>Finally, is there a good book on this topic? A sort of "owner's manual" for the human body?
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Title: I would like to learn and work on both software and hardware of real-time Linux. Any books or projects do you recommand for getting started?
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Title: I am interested in genuinely interesting lists covering any and all topics, be it post-quantum cryptography or vegan cooking.<p>Please include at least a brief description alongside your suggested lists.
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Title: I am Michael Cao. I am from Viet Nam. I suffered the polio disease and became disabled when i was one year old.<p>When covid 19 pandemic hit the world. All people has suffered a lot. I and my friend, Canadian guy, decided to cofound 2HAC Studio because we thought that we need to do something to help people.<p>We don't want to hire any employees to keep the cost at minimum (only spend 9.99$ per year for domain). I keep my job at American company in Viet Nam and my cofounder also still worked at a Bank of Canada. We spent our free time to implement and marketing our products<p>We have been developing the Google workspace addons. Out technology stack are App Script, VueJS for addons. Hugo for our website. We hosted our website in Google Cloud. Paypal is our payment system. Tawk for customer support.
All of them are free.<p>At 2020, we had a pain point in Viet Nam because health official requires to do contact tracing when people went to events, churches, schools so we scratched our own itches and developed QR Code Attendance addon <a href="https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_attendance_for_classroom_employe/372652717544" rel="nofollow">https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_attenda...</a> . After that, we provide our addon in G Suite marketplace and a lot of customers used our addon for contact tracing, for example take temperature, name, health status of attendees and give data to health official.<p>Currently, we continue working on QR Code and barcode solutions. Our startup has survived and thrived during Covid-19 while a lot of startups have failed miserable. Our business model are both subscription and lifetime pricing. We have more than 5 million users for all our Google workspace addons.<p>We make a decent living but we don’t want to risk to give up the main job. Financial recession is coming and a lot of pain is ahead. We highly recommend that most founders should keep the job and reduce spending as much as possible for a while during early stage of their startup. Also, I would like to encourage disabled people, older people to escape your comfort zone and make changes in the world. All of us could develop outstanding products with open source or very cheap tools.<p>If you have any questions and feedback, please fell free to contact me and send me an email. Have a great day, everyone.
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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://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <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=33068418" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33068418</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33068420" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33068420</a>
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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: Simple life hack if you want to avoid distraction: keep your phone plugged in and treat it as an old analog wired phone. Force yourself to walk to it to check whatever you need to lookup. If you listen to podcasts with it, use wireless headphones and walk around while listening. Unplug / carry with you as needed when you leave the house or need to take a private call.
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Title: So you moved your apps off Heroku, where did you go to and how has it worked out?<p>Particularly interested in:<p>1. How much work it took to move apps (be honest)<p>2. How much experience you had at the time of the migration - e.g. on one extreme your entire devops experience may consist of just Heroku (that's me) or on the other extreme you may be a k8s guru (this helps others gauge how they'll go)<p>3. How valuable were your learnings? E.g. replacing Heroku with an IAAS instead of another PAAS might take longer but give more fundamental learnings, and hence be worth it for some<p>4. Cost comparison<p>5. Summary/description of your apps (e.g. 20 tiny apps with a few hits per month, 5 medium with ~20k hits per month, 2 large with 1-2m hits per month type thing). Please give language/framework.<p>6. Anything else you want to add
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Title: In the past years I've been quite diluted in my personal and professional life. Changed several jobs, and in my hobbies, I am jumping from one project to another. How do you stay focused? How do you find 1 thing you are really good at and stick with it? Is there a book or a blog teaching this? Although, it seems quite trivial, for me this is a huge live hurdle. Any tips are highly appreciated!
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Title: I'm reading through the MIT xv6 OS handbook and code (here: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv/) and they mention the fact that they created it as a monolithic kernel since most unix systems are monolithic. They then introduce the microkernel concept. Are there microkernel concepts out there (especially code) I can check out? I'm curious to see how userspace processes communicate to kernel processes to execute privileged actions.
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Title: October 2022 - 408<p>April 2020 - 608<p>January 2016 - 471<p>First time the thread has been under 600 posts since January 2016.<p>Posts still trickle in throughout the month but the first 12 hours is when the majority of posts show up. I'm sure someone could do a more thorough analysis of post count but the overall number is unusually low.
Upvote: | 461 |
Title: By communicate I mean to convey what I want to say with the appropriate style and manner so that I don't say anything that sounds demeaning or hurtful to the listener. It also includes listening attentively to what the other person is saying.<p>How to learn all that?
Upvote: | 132 |
Title: Sharing is a command-line tool to share directory and files with ios and android devices without an extra client app
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Title: tl;dr Please point me to a true beginner’s reference/tutorial on networking.<p>Gradually, patiently, persistently, over the past ten years and more, I moved from Windows and Mac to all FOSS apps and then full Linux. Doing the same with my phone. Total success. Independence and self-reliance.<p>In short it’s all about control, privacy, and security, in that order. And: it’s a long term process that requires a commitment.<p>I understand desktop Linux (Ubuntu/Pop!_OS) well enough to get myself out of trouble when I mess up or an update breaks. <i>But I have no clue about networking</i>, and I don’t know where to start.<p>Syncthing keeps a handful of my important directories of user-files synced quite reliably.<p>I deleted my Google account years ago. But I’m still in iCloud and iOS for all the photos. Highly recommend Fastmail incidentally.<p>I have a small cheap Linode VPS (doing nothing right now), a Mullvad client on all my devices, Tailscale on all my devices (doing nothing because I don’t understand what it can do), and a Synology NAS in the closet with the modem/router (none of which I understand).<p>I want to:<p>- host my own photos and get out of Apple.<p>- host my own bare git repos and not rely on GitHub.<p>- host my own BitWarden server.<p>- host my own Tail-/Headscale (whatever the noun is).<p>- follow up on ideas that pop up after I comprehend networking.<p>I can HERPaDERP install packages on client and server, and copypasta configs I don’t understand. Where do I go to <i>understand?</i>
Upvote: | 185 |
Title: Ten months ago, after attending YC, my co-founder and I decided to throw our product in the trash and start a new idea.<p>Morale was at an (I believed) all-time low. We came with a 'verticalized neobank' idea (we have a strong background in fintech) and got slapped in the face by our VC.<p>It was hard to hear, the temptation to push back and/or shut down to end the spiraling was strong.
I believe this happened to a lot of founders, but we decided to put it out on the open on Sifted, to normalize this very messy moment, and the mental health challenges implied: <a href="https://sifted.eu/articles/startup-pivot-part-2/" rel="nofollow">https://sifted.eu/articles/startup-pivot-part-2/</a>
Upvote: | 100 |
Title: Hi HN!<p>I would like to create a monthly "Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?" post.<p>It would be great if whoishiring takes over this.<p>Example:<p><i>SEEKING CO-FOUNDER | FinTech | CEO/Sales | US/EU/Worldwide | Pre-Seed</i><p><i>A great idea in the taxation niche, MVP ready to go.
Ideally someone with local connections to SMEs.</i>
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