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Title: I have a Google account which used a phone number I no longer have for 2FA. I have the correct password to it, but can't login to it without 2FA. Google sends me to an account recovery sequence when I try to regain control over the account, but there's actually no way to complete this either without the phone. Of course there's no human support available. The only "suggestion" they provide is to create a new Google account, which certainly isn't helpful...<p>Screenshot attached. (Email address in that screenshot has been blanked out). https://imgur.com/a/OT1pqy9<p>To be clear, I still have access to the email address in question and could certainly retrieve any recovery code they send there. They don't offer that option though. Phone or nothing.
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Title: Hey all<p>My name is Adam, and I’m a co-founder at Yotta (YC S20), an app that uses behavioral psychology to help people save money by making saving exciting.<p>We built a feature on Yotta where you can earn 9.62% APY via US Treasury I Bonds. (https://www.withyotta.com/i-bonds)<p>This is an absurd yield for a security that is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government - the strongest guarantee you can get. For comparison, most high-yield savings accounts with FDIC coverage are paying ~2%.<p>The backstory:<p>I Bonds were established by the US Treasury in 1998 to provide returns linked to inflation to protect consumer purchasing power. The rate on I Bonds is determined from the last six months of CPI data and is adjusted twice per year. Inflation is typically around 2% per year, so I Bonds have never been relevant since the rate was never that attractive.<p>Inflation spiked in 2022 driving I Bonds reached a record high yield of 9.62% APY. If you buy them by October 31st, you lock in this rate for six months from the purchase date. In the last 12 months, around $27B has been deposited as a result of the insanely high yield. This compares to $348m in 2020. Note that you have to hold I Bonds for at least a year and you forgo 3 the last three months of earned interest if you redeem before five years. You can deposit a max of $10k into I Bonds per calendar year.<p>So if you can get 9.62% APY on a government backed security when savings accounts are yielding 2%, why doesn’t everyone have I Bonds?<p>A few reasons.<p>1. Most people have never heard of them.<p>2. People don’t want to tie up cash for a year in a CD-like product.<p>3. The only way to buy I Bonds has been on the world’s worst website, Treasury Direct. You have to fill out long forms, click on a virtual keyboard to type your password, can’t use the back button, and make one mistake and you get locked out of your account. The whole thing is a colossal pain in the ass.<p>To solve 1) and 3), we wrapped an easy-to-use UI to buy I Bonds within Yotta. Users opt into Yotta creating a Treasury Direct account on their behalf, and we automate the painful part - interacting with Treasury Direct on the backend. This enables us to provide a great customer experience, making it easy for people to get the 9.62%. If anyone wants to control their Treasury Direct directly without Yotta, they can request it, and we will transfer over their account to no longer be managed by Yotta.<p>Hope you guys check it out and can take advantage of the 9.62% rate before 10/31! Note that if you already have a Treasury Direct account, we are unable to support you for I Bonds unfortunately.<p>Happy to answer any questions and looking forward to any feedback.<p>P.S. We were featured in Bloomberg for the launch last week if you want to check that out https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-28/buying-i-bonds-there-s-an-easier-way-to-earn-9-62-interest
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Title: I work in video / filmmaking / ads in London. Most of the work in this space is short form video for YouTube / Instagram and TV.<p>Now I am seeing the video generating AI (imagen video from Google on the front page) and I’m 100% sure a good percentage of the work will vanish. There’s loads of work that ad agencies will just hire an AI prompt guy to generate for ads. Big companies will still make ads, of course, but smaller gigs that keep the whole industry afloat? What about even 10 million $ shots with CG characters that will now become commonplace?<p>I’ve retrained before. I started off as an editor, then did VR video, now moved into CG. I’m pretty good at my job - I’ve worked on stuff for Dell and Apple, including stuff you’ve probably seen.<p>It’s funny to think I might have to retrain yet again. I didn’t expect image generation AI to be the next big leap. I was already moving into more storytelling content (ie documentaries) because that’s more defensible against AI. But I expected 3-4 years before video generation would just come out.<p>Now it seems like it’s happening so quickly I’m not sure they won’t have good stuff out in 6 months to a year.<p>So - HN - what do I do now? And what about the other fellas in my industry who will be out of a job? In my estimate, we are talking about tens of thousands.<p>To counter the obvious: I have learnt web dev at one point I thought I’d make the jump, even started learning React but I found the work to be mind numbing. I just love making images. But I feel like Pierre Auguste Renoir’s who was a plate painter in France and did a good living out of it - until the process was industrialised and he struggled (maybe for the rest of his life? I don’t quite recall).<p>To counter the second suggestion: AI prompt design is not image making as far as it would interest me. I also don’t think there will be a huge learning curve. Becoming a filmmaker on my standard requires about 10 years experience or an excellent school (of which there are maybe 10-20 in the world). I would imagine AÍ promoting will be done by the lowest paid interns available.<p>What do I do HN?
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Title: There are articles about this in various places (I saw it on the front page of cnn, highlighting just how influential he was), and it does feel a bit like the world has lost a Mozart or a Rembrandt. I'm not sure there has ever been anyone like him, or will be again.<p>Sad day -- only 47 years old, he had so much that everyone thought was still ahead of him.
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Title: Hey HN! I’m Zach, from Coherence (https://www.withcoherence.com/). We’re building software that provides an integrated way to write, preview, and deploy code from one simple configuration. Check out our explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YHVx8QsLg and a high level demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/072c2afd1099496298f69ab21fdf2820<p>We started Coherence because we found technology teams spent 30-40% of their time yak shaving and writing glue code, instead of building products our customers love. We don’t think every team should have to build their own internal development platform, so we’re building the software we’d want to buy. Following the example of other great products like Replit, our toolkit is based on integration across the stages of an app’s lifecycle - from dev to production.<p>Coherence provides one integrated dashboard with cloud development environments, automatic CI/CD, and full-stack environments for each branch (as well as production), all with one simple configuration. A developer can write, test, review, and deploy code from one interface with best practices built in. Devs are intuitively navigated to their own cloud resources when needed, eliminating time spent searching consoles for every log, metric, or configuration setting you might need. We currently support containerized full-stack web apps on AWS and Google Cloud. Unlike the PaaS category defined by Heroku, our goal is to help teams leverage the platforms provided by the best cloud providers, keeping the benefits of running in your own cloud account: unlimited extensibility, cost savings, compliance with audit requirements, and freedom to easily exit our platform without an impact to your systems.<p>You can play around with a Coherence sandbox and get a taste of the developer experience at app.withcoherence.com/sandbox. If you like what you can see, you can also deploy an app into your AWS or GCP with one of our starter templates for a new project: app.withcoherence.com. We’re happy to support onboarding on a call or via Slack and we’d love to discuss what it would look like to migrate one of your existing apps to Coherence. We’re excited to get your feedback, so please feel free to drop us a note at [email protected]
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Title: RankedVote is a web app that allows you to run online contests and make decisions using ranked-choice voting (RCV). RCV is an electoral system used in Maine, Alaska, New York City and dozens of cities across the United States.<p>RankedVote’s goal is to build support for RCV by giving people an easy way to run contests and make decisions online.
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Title: I only hire people who use the software. I couldn't answer all of their questions. So I thought you guys might be able to help.
1. What is the cost of each and how has that changed over time?
2. Are there any true alternatives to these two?
3. Has Adobe innovated more as a result of the competition with Figma?
4. Anything else you could contribute to show how a user/consumer would be harmed by the merger.<p>Thanks for your help.
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Title: Let's assume you could store a computer along with a few terabytes of external storage inside a faraday cage. In the event of a disaster, you also have the ability to generate enough power to use the computer.<p>What content/knowledge would you choose to store on the device and why?
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Title: If you could change anything about your past, what would it be?
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Title: Here is the list of all ideas I've had so far but never actually took time to create any of them or go further into details<p>- Church givings - not sure how it's called, but in Christianity while being in Church a person goes around and asks for the money from people, so people give a dollar or few cents. So some kind of app that does that on global scale for the Church<p>- Would you do it for a dollar? - I even coded this. Basically person can ask someone else: would you _____ for a dollar? And if other person does it and uploads the proof, he gets the money<p>- You have a dollar? - As beggars beg in real life for a dollar, how about begging online for a dollar<p>- iEgg - just selling egg with Apple's logo for a high price. This might not be possible because of the logo, copyrights and shit<p>- Messaging with push notifications only - nowadays you can reply directly from push notifications. So no chat lists, no list of messages or such. You reply directly via push notification<p>- Don't meet in person - some kind of dating site that forces you not to meet in person, so everything must stay online<p>- Stupid people repellent - like some kind of mace or such, if someone annoys you, you spray them or around to repel them<p>- Alien emoji - regular emojis but with double eyes and green color, like this ::D ::) ;;) They are more strong than regular, so if you type ::D it means you are extra happy<p>- Social network where everything is fake - fake followers, fake likes. Like a hyper networks, you become popular extra fast and gain followers fast. You get likes and notifications from fake people, boosting your dopamine
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Title: Throughout his book "M. Outliers: The Story of Success.", Gladwell repeatedly refers to the “10 000-hour rule,” asserting that the key to achieving true expertise in any skill is simply a matter of practicing. It could be the greatest practice myth. My american boss founded my company in Viet Nam when he was 55. I admire him a lot. Nonetheless, I am still afraid of switching to other job because time is running out when i am older. A lot of my friends who are technical guys think so. Any advice?
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Title: I work on a SaaS app in France. In the past few days we noticed an enormous increase of disputes in our Stripe account, all of them are linked to SEPA payment method (wire).<p>We used to have 1 every month of so, now we have had around 7 in 2 days.<p>[EDIT] - I received an email from Stripe a few minutes after I submitted this post on HN. It seems there has been an issue with the management of SEPA payments between end of september and start of october.<p>[EDIT 2] - I actually received the email before submitting this post, I just did not notice it ;)
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Title: I know a few other languages but have really been wanting to learn C. I see a lot of books all with a lot of praise and it's difficult choosing one.<p>Any recommendations?
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Title: Hello HN!<p>For the past few months, I've been building a Nix-specific CI service, and quite a few people have been productively using it, so I thought I'd Show HN it.<p>You might be wondering why build a Nix-specific CI. It turns out its quite hard to get a really good CI setup for Nix without spending a lot of time or money on it (or both), and even then solutions don't tend to be optimal.<p>Garnix, on the other hand, handles everything, and simply. Just create an account, install the GitHub app on the repositories you want, and you're good to go! Each package gets its own GitHub check, and separate log output, which makes it really easy to figure out what went wrong (you can see an example here: <a href="https://garnix.io/build/X9knYZOB" rel="nofollow">https://garnix.io/build/X9knYZOB</a>). Builds are very fast compared to e.g Github Actions. The build artifacts are made available in a Nix cache so you never have to rebuild locally. And there are builders for x86-64 Linux as well as M1 Macs and aarch64 Linux.<p>Try it out: <a href="https://garnix.io" rel="nofollow">https://garnix.io</a>. It's free, though if you like it, consider donating! (Note that it only works with flakes.)<p>Cheers,
Julian
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Title: Market is collapsing. My stock options value is shrinked 90%
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Title: I have a few years of experience working mostly on the frontend with React and am getting more and more frustrated with all the added layers of complexity needed to work with most common frontend frameworks.<p>I’ve hit a point where it just doesn’t seem like the end justifies the means in the vast majority of cases anymore which really doesn’t make me excited to work on much in this space now.<p>The one redeeming quality of doing this kind of work is that it is in very high demand, and I worry that the price of becoming more specialized or doing something more enjoyable with less bloat is that it becomes much harder to find jobs.<p>Has anyone either switched from doing web development type work to something else they enjoy more for similar reasons? If anyone considers themselves very specialized in an area, do you worry about job opportunities?
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Title: Hi HN! I've been working on Reflame since I quit my job at Brex last year, excited to finally open it up for everybody to try out! Here's a demo: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SohUnrjiIxk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SohUnrjiIxk</a><p>Reflame deploys client-rendered React web apps instantly, to previews and to production.<p>In concrete wall-clock terms, deploys generally take:<p>- ~50-500ms from our VSCode extension<p>- ~500-3000ms from our GitHub app<p>(Jump to this comment (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134082" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134082</a>) for what makes Reflame so fast)<p>The Reflame GitHub App automatically deploys default branches to production, and other branches to previews. If you've used Netlify/Vercel's GitHub apps, you should feel right at home. The difference is it’s multiple orders of magnitudes faster. Fast enough that <i>you'll probably never see an in-progress deploy on GitHub ever again</i>, only ready-to-go preview/production links.<p>No more having to babysit builds or having to context switch to and from other tasks before being able to see our changes deployed in previews or production. Previewing, sharing, and even shipping, can now become part of the so-called inner loop, giving us the superpower to stay in flow state for much longer.<p>The Reflame VSCode extension is yet another order of magnitude faster than even the GitHub App. It was designed to offer an experience that can rival local development workflows in both speed and ergonomics, while addressing many of local dev's limitations around collaboration and production-parity. Every time we make a change (e.g. by saving a file), the extension will deploy that change (in ~50-500ms) to a "Live Preview", and will immediately update the app in our browsers to reflect that change.<p>Live Previews can operate in one of two modes:<p>- Development mode delivers updates through React Fast Refresh, offering the familiar state-preserving instant feedback loop we know and love from local development workflows.<p>- Production mode delivers updates by triggering a full browser reload on every change, and in exchange for this extra bit of friction, we get to develop against a byte-identical version of the fully optimized production deployment that customers will see once we ship, with a tighter feedback loop than was ever possible before.<p>Live Previews deliver updates over the internet, meaning we can effortlessly test out our changes on multiple devices simultaneously, and show our changes to anyone in the world, just by sharing a Live Preview link, all while having our updates reflected automatically across all connected devices in real-time (with live reload or React Fast Refresh <i>over the internet</i>).<p>Being able to ship quickly is valuable on its own, but Reflame's true north star has always been to enable customers to ship quickly <i>with confidence</i>.<p>One way Reflame helps customers ship with more confidence today is by making previews with full production-parity available at every step of the development process. Previews in Reflame are accessible at the exact same URL customers will use to access the production deployment, instead of at a different subdomain for each preview (i.e. every preview is accessed through <a href="https://reflame.app" rel="nofollow">https://reflame.app</a> instead of at <a href="https://some-branch-of-reflamedotapp.reflame-previews.dev" rel="nofollow">https://some-branch-of-reflamedotapp.reflame-previews.dev</a>). Behind the scenes, this is implemented using session cookies that our CDN will check to determine which version of the app to serve.<p>This is only the tip of the iceberg. We have some really exciting prototypes around testing and typechecking that we've been exploring that could allow us to ship with even more confidence <i>without ever slowing us down</i>.<p>If any of this sounds interesting for the apps you're building or planning to build (taking into account this comment (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134092" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134092</a>) below describing what Reflame is not well suited for), please sign up and give it a try!<p>I can't wait to see what you’ll build with it! :)
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Title: Seeing a lot more Substack and fewer and fewer Medium articles. Anyone else notice this seemingly happened slowly but consistently over the last year?
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Title: I'm tired of working at my current company as an employee mainly due to how the company is being managed for the last ~5 years and considering moving to contracting or another company with more flexibility (4 days week?) and maybe a better career path. I was a contractor when I moved to the UK to work for the current company.<p>Might be too specific to my case, but maybe someone out there has gone through something similar in the past/recently?<p>About me: from EU, early 40s, 2 kids and wife, over 15 years experience as full stack dev, based in the UK working for the same company for 7+ years in a stable full stack role remotely since the pandemic as the company sole dev/sysadmin, earning £60k+ ($66k) per year.<p>About the company: small/medium(?) size company (13 employees + 1 owner/director, ~£15m ($16m) turnover per year), 12+ years trading, I report to the director.<p>I feel stuck and bored as there is no progress to be made due to it being a private owned business with one director. A lot of decisions taken benefit the director personally instead of the company as a whole.<p>I want more time to get back in education, but working 9-5/Mon-Fri is really draining and when I finish work I just want to get some rest. I have 3 months emergency fund that could pay for the house expenses if I decide to leave.<p>There are no benefits except what's required by law (28 holidays, including bank holidays, 3% pension match), no education budget, no perks.<p>Perhaps I need to look for a bigger company with a better career path?
Maybe get back to contracting?<p>Thanks
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Title: This is an odd arrangement, why is normal support so ineffectual at surfacing these issues to people like Edwin?<p>An even bigger issue: What's going to happen when Edwin leaves Stripe or when HN loses favor in this circle?
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Title: I recently switched to a company that is largely remote first. This is after spending >5 years at a company that was deeply invested in vibrant in person culture.<p>I learned a few key things and I'm looking to apply them in the new job. First a strong culture is built, it doesn't just happen without intention. Second, people need a way to connect with each other emotionally and talk about non work things. Third, people need common activities to keep them engaged and talking until they've built friendships.<p>I suspect most of these will translate to a remote-first company. However, the challenge will be getting people to really connect. I've tried VR and zoom based team building events but those aren't great at building new relationships, instead they help maintain existing relationships.<p>Does anyone know of a company that is doing this well? I'd rather not have to re-invent the wheel if there's good prior art here.
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Title: I love JS, but every once in a while a new bundler comes along that "solves everything". And it works, for a while. then it breaks. Why? Why are there so many edge cases? I don't understand it. We only have a few module types (AMD, CommonJS, ES modules), with a few types of import and export syntax. How hard can it be to get it always right?<p>Like parcel. It worked. For a while. And now if you check the GitHub there's 690 open issues, and I had issues today getting it to work when running after an 'npm i' done in v17 or v18, yet it's fine to run in v{16,17,18} if 'npm i' is done in v16.<p>And snowpack: v0 (or 1) worked great, but the next version broke so many things (compared to the prior version) that I need to keep the dep version locked to the earliest ones for packages where I use that. Tho I guess that's more of an API problem.<p>What I'm really talking about is: why can't we just have a bundler that works always and everywhere (and I don't want to 'wait for' deno)?<p>Why would parcel start to get bugs...how hard can it be??? :...(
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I've been working on SimplePDF to solve a problem I encounter weekly: filling out non-editable PDFs [1]<p>---<p># About SimplePDF<p>- The documents you load, edit, fill never see the light of my server, everything is processed locally – no remote uploading anything. This includes the PDF generation.<p>- There are no analytics / third party tracking your every move (I do collect usage data, but it's fully anonymous and processed and stored on my server): therefore no annoying cookie banner. You can read more on the Privacy Policy [2]<p>- If someone before you has filled the same document, upon opening it you'll see fields already set, ready to be filled-in, think crowd-sourced fields positioning – saving you time and effort.<p>---<p># How does the crowd-sourced positioning of fields work?<p>When a document is loaded in your browser, a fingerprint of the document binary is made, and sent to the server. The document table consists of: document_id, fingerprint and created_at.<p>As soon as you start editing a document, a template is created, containing metadata about the fields (x, y, width, height, type of field, background color...) that is then tied to this document you created. Once you save, this template gets sent to the server.<p>The template table consists of: template_id, document_id, fields (the metadata) as well as created_by_customer_id if you're a customer.<p>As a result, someone else on the other side of the world opening the same document will see the fields you positioned already there – you just saved them the 5min it took you to position them.<p>---<p># What's the tech stack of SimplePDF?<p>- NextJS on the frontend<p>- Koa with GraphQL on the backend<p>- Postgres (Managed Database on Digital Ocean)<p>- A 10€ droplet on Digital Ocean<p>---<p>If you have any questions, comments or feedback (good or bad), I'm all ears!<p>---<p>[1] The assignments my estonian teacher gives me are usually scanned documents that do not have any editable fields in them.<p>[2] <a href="https://www.simplepdf.eu/privacy_policy" rel="nofollow">https://www.simplepdf.eu/privacy_policy</a>
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Title: Using stable diffusion to generate and walk through different kitchen renovation ideas.
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Title: Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian.
We are working on Step CI - a fully automated API testing platform for developers.<p>Step CI works programming-language independent and for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML).<p>Our CLI and test runner are available on GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/stepci" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stepci</a>) under the MPLv2 license.<p>Since our last launch, Step CI is now able to generate automated tests for your API based on your OpenAPI (Swagger) spec. This saves you a lot of time as you never have to write and maintain your tests again!<p>We would like to invite you to try our tool and give us feedback! Please star us on GitHub, if you like what we are working on!<p>We are very thankful for your attention and any feedback or suggestions we receive from you :)<p>Mish and Sebastian from Germany
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Title: Hello HN!<p>I've found my SQL knowledge to be lacking, so I made a project that uses SQLite as a backend.<p>As it is intended for self-hosting I aim to make it easy to set up and maintain. Getting it up & running takes no more than a few commands (bar setting up a proxy such as nginx, which is out of scope).<p>I've set up a "demo" site at <a href="https://forum.agreper.com/" rel="nofollow">https://forum.agreper.com/</a> if you want to try out the UI.
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Title: Hi HN! My name is David ([email protected]) and I am the author of Linkidex (www.linkidex.com)! My goal is to make bookmarks better.<p>I built Linkidex because I was getting overwhelmed by the number of things I had to keep track of on the internet during my day to day job. Constantly needing to re-find various wikis or jira epics or project proposals or whatever was eating into my day. I was using a chrome extension to manage urls, but the extension was getting unwieldy as my list of “important URLs” grew and I started looking for alternatives. There are a few really cool bookmark managers out there, but I wasn’t satisfied with what I saw. Regular bookmarks don’t cut it either for me as I need something that works across browsers and devices. Thus, Linkidex was born.<p>The most basic idea with Linkidex is that you can go to Linkidex and just start typing. Linkidex will search across your link titles, link urls, categories, and tags all at once. Click the result you are looking for and it opens in a new tab. If you want to scope your search by specific categories or tags you can do that too.<p>Linkidex is a progressive web application. It (mostly) works offline and it can be downloaded to your phone and act like a native app without requiring you to grant it any permissions. The back end is rails, and the front end is React, Typescript and GraphQL.<p>Security wise it is deployed to AWS. The database and back end are all wrapped up in a VPC. The front end supports 2 factor and WebAuthn, so you can use a yubikey or your device's fingerprint reader as your second factor.<p>Linkidex can import and export bookmarks to and from your favorite browser. That said, I’ve limited the number of links / categories / tags a given user can have for now on Linkidex to prevent anything insane from happening.<p>All feedback / feature requests / complaints / whatever welcome. Thanks for checking out Linkidex!
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Title: A lot of folks I know (myself included) are moving or want to move to more rural towns (from ~4 Mio. to around 10k popluations).<p>Anyone here did the same? Do you miss MeetUps, conferences or many like-minded people? If so, how do you make up for it?
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Title: Hey everyone!<p>Excited to be able to share the release of `InvokeAI 2.0 - A Stable Diffusion Toolkit`, an open source project that aims to provide both enthusiasts and professionals a suite of robust image creation tools. Optimized for efficiency, InvokeAI needs only ~3.5GB of VRAM to generate a 512x768 image (and less for smaller images), and is compatible with Windows/Linux/Mac (M1 & M2).<p>InvokeAI was one of the earliest forks off of the core CompVis repo (formerly lstein/stable-diffusion), and recently evolved into a full-fledged community driven and open source stable diffusion toolkit titled InvokeAI. The new version of the tool introduces an entirely new WebUI Front-end with a Desktop mode, and an optimized back-end server that can be interacted with via CLI or extended with your own fork.<p>This version of the app improves in-app workflows leveraging GFPGAN and Codeformer for face restoration, and RealESRGAN upscaling - Additionally, the CLI also supports a large variety of features:
- Inpainting
- Outpainting
- Prompt Unconditioning
- Textual Inversion
- Improved Quality for Hi-Resolution Images (Embiggen, Hi-res Fixes, etc.)
- And more...<p>Future updates planned included UI driven outpainting/inpainting, robust Cross Attention support, and an advanced node workflow for automating and sharing your workflows with the community.<p>We're excited by the release, and about the future of democratizing the ability to create. Check out the repo (<a href="https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI</a>) to get started, and join us on Discord (<a href="https://discord.gg/ZmtBAhwWhy" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/ZmtBAhwWhy</a>)!
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Title: I've found that the difference between me and great programmers I've come across in person or online is that they have extreme mental fortitude, get unstuck on their own, and pick up new things with breeze.<p>Whereas, I find myself going for almost academic perfection (i.e read all docs first) / mastery. Really procrastinate hard when I hit the wall and just hope for things to click. And then just get sleepy when I do start reading code. This means if I'm in my space I'm super productive, but anytime I come across something I don't have an expert level knowledge I come to complete halt.<p>It took me lot of self introspection to realize this, so if there are other pitfalls that you have come across let me know, I might have them too.
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Title: Since January 2022 the Doomsday clock has not advanced [0]. That is before the start of the war. Over the past few months the war has escalated and threats of use of nuclear weapons have been made. Shouldn't the Doomsday Clock reflect that a nuclear conflict is now more imminent?<p>[0] https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
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Title: I enjoy the act of drinking - literally having a drink, or the feeling right after a drink. I hate how I feel an hour later, the foggy head feeling. I have a hard time saying no to a drink if everyone else is having a drink, I have done it before and am not afraid of what they think, more so, I enjoy having a drink, but I really don’t want to any more. I think it is something I would be better off without, completely but just can’t seem to get there.<p>I don’t buy it for weeks at a time, then cave and have a 12 pack in a weekend and feel like garbage most of the time.<p>Any tips on cutting out something completely and how to get out of just hating yourself when you fail?
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Title: _TL;DR_: Stytch, a Login SaaS Unicorn, has no CRSF-protection in their authentication API and other questionable security practices, coupled with a nonexistent security policy.<p>First of all: Why am I posting this on Hacker News instead of disclosing directly?<p>From experience, a lack of security policies and of communication on existing vulnerabilities implies retaliatory practices when submitting vulnerabilities responsibly. Since MITRE CVE does not accept vulnerabilities for SaaS services, I figured that Hacker News would be the way to get Stytch aware of their issues without getting me in the crosshairs.<p>The setting:<p>A few weeks ago (in June 2022 to be exact) I was looking at different authentication services and Stytch was one of the services that got my attention. Stytch.com was founded in 2020 with over $125M [1] raised at a $1bn+ valuation [2].<p>Checking out what the fuzz was about I decided to look into their security practices. The lack of a bug bounty program (e.g. HackerOne), ethical disclosure policy, and security policy already left a bad feeling. But I was keeping an open mind and wanted to see what their API has to offer.<p>The scoop:<p>The most critical issue I came across was a complete lack of Cross-Site Request Forgery defenses. All of the provided authentication APIs (e.g. [4]) except for Social Sign-In are vulnerable to the most basic of login attack vectors: Login CSRF [3]. This can be used to steal credit card information, for example. CSRF is completely missing in all of the Stytchs API concepts, a major oversight in the API design.<p>Further I found that the OTP tokens sent via their "passwordless" email authentication were valid for up to 7 days and did not invalidate on use. Attackers may find old magic link tokens in the browser, chat, or email histories and use them to get a valid session. While this issue has been fixed since June 2022, the vulnerability was not disclosed to customers.<p>Recently, Stytch has introduced a concept from OAuth2 called PKCE - a spec that is difficult to master for everyday developers - into their non-standardized Magic Link API which does not use a three-legged delegation authorization mechanism. This is not a direct vulnerability per se, but at least a questionable choice in terms of security.<p>A full report can be found here for anyone interested: https://www.klgrth.io/paste/kmxof<p>[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stytch-auth
[2] https://stytch.com/blog/announcing-series-b/
[3] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#login-csrf
[4] https://stytch.com/docs/passcodes#sms_auth
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Title: After a four year journey, the book I wrote to help junior and mid-level programmers earn their first promotion was published today . The book is titled Junior to Senior: Career Advice for the Ambitious Programmer and is now available on Holloway’s website[0].<p>I truly believe that soft-skills are what makes the difference between a good programmer and a great one. I also believe that anyone can learn the soft-skills needed to accelerate their programming career.<p>I wish I’d had better resources to learn these things in the early years of my career and I’m hoping this book will become a useful resource for the next generation of programmers to build successful careers.<p>What this book covers:<p>Choosing a career path: generalist vs. specialist<p>What makes you a senior engineer?<p>How to deal with feeling like an impostor<p>How to build trust and work with your manager<p>How to recover when you make a mistake, and what to do during incidents<p>How to ask better questions<p>How to read and understand unfamiliar code<p>How to add value to your team and company<p>How to identify and manage risk<p>How to deliver better results<p>How to communicate more effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences<p>The importance of a healthy work-life balance<p>How to ask for a promotion, and how to prepare for it<p>I wrote this book because these soft-skills are rarely taught in coding bootcamps or computer science degrees, yet they are critical to every programmer’s career trajectory. Almost every programmer I know, including me, had to learn and develop these soft-skills on the job. It took hard work and a lot of trial and error to learn how to communicate my ideas effectively, navigate office politics, manage risk, and so many other things that programmers encounter in their jobs today.<p>Get instant lifetime access at holloway.com. Use this link for a launch discount:<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior?vip_code=JTSLAUNCH" rel="nofollow">https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior?vip_code=JTSLAUN...</a>
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Aleem, Chris, Borys, Meichen and Zach from Streak (YC S11) and today we’re open sourcing our InboxSDK <a href="https://www.inboxsdk.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.inboxsdk.com</a>, which makes it easy to build apps for Gmail.<p>Over 1.8B users spend their days in Gmail! Having your app built into the Gmail workflow is a better user experience and gives you great user retention. InboxSDK gives you a high-level, declarative API to insert your UI into Gmail without having to directly manipulate the DOM yourself. End users install a browser extension to use your app.<p>The SDK can add UI to multiple areas of Gmail. For example, adding a button is as simple as:<p><pre><code> composeView.addButton({
title: "My Nifty Button!",
iconUrl: 'https://example.com/foo.png',
onClick: function(event) {
event.composeView.insertTextIntoBodyAtCursor('Hello World!');
},
});
</code></pre>
InboxSDK enables you to add info to the sidebar on threads, add items in the left navigation tree, insert results into the search box, navigate to full page routes, add toolbar buttons to the compose window, add label indicators to thread list views and many more. You can see some examples in my comment posted below.<p>Hubspot, Dropbox, Giphy, Clickup, Loom, Todoist, Clearbit and our own Streak have all built apps using the InboxSDK. The InboxSDK is open source dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses for maximum flexibility.<p>Why use the InboxSDK over rolling it yourself? Several reasons: (1) it’s hard to do DOM manipulation in a performant way; (2) you need to handle all the different configurations of Gmail—there are a lot, and they change often: e.g. conversation view on/off, multiple inboxes, chat left/right, personal vs Workspace accounts; (3) You have to maintain compatibility with tons of other Gmail extensions so you don’t stomp over each other.<p>On a technical level, the InboxSDK handles all the DOM watching and manipulation, XHR interception, multiple extension coordination, and exposes a high level API to developers. We make use of page-parser-tree, another package we open sourced that helps detect elements on the page performantly. The trickiest bit we handle is intercepting and modifying network requests that Gmail makes in order to support several of the APIs we expose.<p>We’ve been building this SDK for years - it’s what powers Streak (www.streak.com), an 8 figure ARR SaaS business. We built the InboxSDK for ourselves because we wanted to separate our logic for wrangling Gmail from that of our app. Several years ago we let developers use a hosted version of our SDK. We didn’t want anyone else to go through the same pain to integrate deeply with Gmail. There were two unexpected benefits:<p>It vastly increased the number of end users (20M+) using apps built on our SDK. This gave us significant leverage with Google. They are super supportive of the SDK and give us early access to several builds to ensure the SDK doesn’t break when they make updates to Gmail.<p>We spent an ungodly amount of time maintaining compatibility with other Gmail extensions. Once the InboxSDK became a defacto standard, all the apps (currently >1000) that used it were instantly compatible (the InboxSDK operates under the model that there will be several extensions running at the same time and it elects a leader to route all modification through).<p>Why open source it now? First, several companies were nervous about us hosting the SDK. We mainly did this so that every extension was running the same version of the SDK, but with the recent Chrome manifest V3 changes, remote code execution is no longer supported. Not hosting the SDK removed the primary reason why the project needed to be closed source. We do need to figure out a new way of keeping all developers relatively up to date on the latest version of the SDK, <i>any ideas?</i><p>We’d love feedback! The repo is <a href="https://github.com/inboxSDK/inboxsdk" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/inboxSDK/inboxsdk</a>, and the docs are: <a href="https://inboxsdk.github.io/inboxsdk-docs" rel="nofollow">https://inboxsdk.github.io/inboxsdk-docs</a>
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Title: <a href="https://urbook.fordes.de/" rel="nofollow">https://urbook.fordes.de/</a><p>…a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers.<p>I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher).<p>This is the link to the full book for online reading: <a href="https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/" rel="nofollow">https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook/</a> (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)
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Title: I am an Iranian and have a family member in Iran. As you now the internet is currently shut off from outside or very slow.<p>Over the past years, I would create a OpenVPN server with a port other than default OpenVPN port (1194) and share the connection with my family member in Iran. Using a random port was needed because default OpenVPN is blocked in Iran for sometime (probably since 2010). But recently [after the recent internet shutdown] I notice a change. My family member cannot even connect to a server IP address or (private) domain using any port so VPN doesn't work anymore. Instead they are only able to connect to the outside world using locally paid VPNs but applications that have end-to-end encryption doesn't work anymore with these VPNs (Telegram, WhatsApp and etc).<p>So my theory is they cut off the connection to outside and people are only able to connect with outside world using certain VPNs that are probably made by the government. Not really sure.
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Title: There are so many interesting companies out there offering remote/distributed roles, but I'm not sure how to approach them.<p>Do you apply directly on their careers page?
Do you find recruiters on linkedin and connect with them?
Do you cold email founders?<p>What's your strategy? How did you land your fully remote job?
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Title: I'm interested in finding an executive/startup coach, but I'm neither a c-suite executive or a successful founder. Does coaching exist (and at a relevant price point) for folks that maybe aren't quite at "that level" yet, but are hoping coaching might help them get to the next level?
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Title: Have a personal budget to spend mainly on programming books and was wondering what are some of the better ones recently? Question is deliberately open ended with no particular focus on specific domains, nevertheless a small summary why a given book is great value would be appreciated.
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Title: I'm finding forums like Stack Overflow to be almost unusable due to the sheer number of useless pedantic criticism that people post instead of actually answering questions.<p>This usually falls into one of the following:<p>1. Nitpickers who interpreted something in your question as incorrect. They will focus on this minor point that they think you said.<p>2. Dogmatists who consider what you are asking about as violating some sacred creed, like model-view-controller or following a pattern. They believe that you've violated that, and they are going to focus on that. Nevermind that you're asking about performance problems with some function, they are going to criticize you for using that function.<p>3. Evangelists who think you should be using newer technology Y instead of technology X. You asked a question about configuring something in X, and instead get lots of useless responses telling you to use Y. It doesn't matter your reasons for using X. X is stupid, use Y.<p>I suspect that if the voting/karma behaviour of these forums could be changed, there would be less of this.<p>But are there better forums where this sort of behaviour is discouraged?
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Title: We are looking for feedback on a novel way to build and run a service for you to manage and share your identity.<p>Demo: <a href="https://greenfielddemo.com" rel="nofollow">https://greenfielddemo.com</a>
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Title: In a quest to have full local access to my wireless security cameras without the cloud I've figured out how to access the video and audio streams of any camera of a certain manufacturer (whose name I'm withholding) without any modification to the stock firmware.<p>I currently have a program that, given an IP of the camera, will connect to it, authenticate itself, and get the realtime video/audio stream. This isn't just intercepting an ongoing stream, it will actually start a new stream of its own.<p>Is this something that I just keep and use in my home setup as I originally intended or do I put the code on GitHub for the masses? What are the general considerations for something like this?
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Title: I feel burned out and every one of my friends and coworkers I have talked to are feeling burned out.<p>Having a kid, covid , war in Ukraine and now recession and layoffs have left me fatigued and I can barely learn anything new or look forward to anything .<p>All I want to do is look at my phone and consume more content.And I look back fondly to 2001-2007 and also 2010-2017. Do I need therapy or is everyone feeling the same ?
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Title: Posting from a throwaway. I am 50 and I have been running a small software company for 15 years. At the peak it had 7 employees. Then for 5 years I was traveling. The company sort of fizzled out. I am pretty good at programming and can program fast, in whatever language (Rust, C, etc). I have an apartment in SF and I don't have to work for several years. But I am not sure if i am still young enough to start a software company. For example, in 10 years I will be 60. Is there any data on this?
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Title: I'm the founder of an early stage startup, around 10 employees.<p>One of those (one of the first to join) has been an issue for quite a while. Lots of time off, low effort at work, minimal hours. Felt like squeezing water out of a stone to get a result from them.<p>Recently, their behavior has gotten worse despite feedback. Taking off without informing team. Found out a lot of past work was plain wrong.<p>They vest in a few weeks. I don't want to have them on the team anymore, I'm done trying and this employee is negatively affecting me and the company.<p>Should I let them vest then let them go, or just let them go? Feedback from former founders esp is helpful. Any downsides to having them on the cap table?
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Title: Vite-plugin-ssr author here.<p>Let me know if you have questions!
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Title: What do you guys use when you want to quickly open a file? I used to use VS Code for this purpose, but it's becoming more and more like an IDE and doesn't quite have the startup time that I would want anymore. Plus, it's a bit annoying when I already have a project open as it'll open as a tab and look as if it's part of that project if that makes sense.<p>Notepad almost fits my spec (startup time, simple, quick UI), but it doesn't have syntax highlighting or anything useful for text manipulation/navigation/etc.<p>I could never get along with Notepad++ - it's hard to explain why, because I can see it's a fantastic editor and is very popular, but it just doesn't fit into the way I work I suppose.<p>I think the main key points for me are startup time and syntax highlighting.<p>Thank you!
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Title: Cofounder of Obsidian here. We're excited to announce Obsidian 1.0 is live!<p>Obsidian 1.0 introduces two big changes: a UI overhaul and an new tabbed interface. We've put a lot of care into making the app more approachable and more accessible. We've also prioritized using more native OS features for menus, windows, and many details.<p>We got our first private beta users from a comment under a HN thread about org-roam [1], and our waiting list was an innocent Google Form. Good times!<p>Our initial launch on HN was over two years ago [2], when terms like "second brain" and "tools for thought" were still in their infancy. Since then, the landscape has continued to evolve and new ideas are sprouting in the space every day. Obsidian has always embraced its "hacker" nature and thrives off its community of tinkerers. We now have over 670 plugins that push the envelope of what's possible in the app.<p>We want to continue to foster that same hacker spirit, but at the same time, we want to provide a polished product that can stand on its own. In the last several months, we've expanded the team and refocused ourselves on providing a product that's polished and easy to use.<p>We have big plans to continue making Obsidian the best and most refined thought-processing app for decades to come. Obsidian 1.0 is just the start!<p>Special credits go to Stephan Ango (@kepano) for the redesign and Liam Cain for tirelessly polishing this release.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767658" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767658</a>
[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23324598</a>
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Title: I'll be here for the next 2-3 hours and then after a break of about 1 hour for another 2-3 hours. As usual, there are many possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!<p>Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>.
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Title: It looks like things have been getting worst on the GDPR front, for what I can tell.<p>I am getting messages from users telling me that that can't use my service because things like Google Fonts and Google Analytics have been essentially made illegal in certain European countries like France, Austria and Germany, due to recent court rulings.<p>A user told me they know of people who got fined because of this.<p>Is this true? I can only find a few references here and there, but there seems to be truth to it.<p>My main question is, what did you do in your case to make your product GDPR compliant?<p>Any links to services that you used would be very helpful.<p>Here is what I did so far for compliance.<p>I generated the legal documents like terms and conditions, privacy policy etc. using a third-party document generation service, and I added a PDF with a GDPR Data Process Agreement (DPA) listing the platforms that I use (Firebase, etc).<p>I've set the region of my production databases to Europe.<p>To give more context if needed, I own a bootstrapped company and I'm now setting up the legal paperwork for being compliant with GDPR, the company is Belgium-based.<p>The company is an online course platform, that allows customers to create their own website, in their own custom domain.<p>So the customers could have in their websites privacy policies that are different than mine.<p>What did you do in terms of documentation and third-party services to help you make your company GDPR compliant?<p>Any services that you recommend?<p>Thank you for any insight on this matter.
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Title: By saying general math in the title I mean all of the following (in American way):<p>- Algebra 1, 2<p>- Geometry<p>- Precalculus<p>- Calculus 1, 2, 3<p>- Statistics and Probability<p>- Discrete Math<p>- Linear Algebra<p>- Differential Equations<p>But especially these two:<p>- Calculus 1, 2, 3<p>- Linear algebra<p>I am currently studying at a non-english university in a technical specialty involving math (Calculus and Linear Algebra, to be exact). Right now the workload is 3-4 hours of classes a week, which is painfully low. And after a second year, apparently even less time will be spent on it. My English is good enough to consume math content, so that's not an issue. As well as explanations: I have already found and used resources (both in English and my mother tongue) to self-study fast enough to submit my homework.<p>What actually is an issue are workbooks (or exercise books, whatever you call it). All the workbooks by which we study vary in quality and there are library shortages. The authors are almost always dropping easy exercises right after the start of the paragraph in favor of much more complex ones.<p>Since I can buy books on Amazon or acquire PDFs using other methods I am asking for your advice on picking general math workbooks that fall under all of the following criteria:<p>1. There is a shit ton of exercises in the book, varying greatly in their complexity. You can't solve the book in a month or two even if you study 24/7. This way it's suitable for spaced repetition.<p>2. The author does not sacrifice easy stuff for hard stuff and vice versa.<p>3. The answers are given to all of the exercises, no matter the complexity.<p>4. The solutions, however, are unnecessary.<p>5*. The workbook itself may actually be some online platfrom like Grasple.
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Title: I'm posting this on this forum because this is an innumeracy issue and you folks are very numerate. If I discuss this anywhere else the politics and emotions will distract, but the numbers are the focus here:<p>The last three months, core CPI month over month have been 0.0%, 0.1%, and 0.4% respectively (annualized rates of about 0%, 1%, and 5% respectively, or about 2% overall)<p>Yet for three straight months every time these numbers come out the NY Times and other media plaster a front page story saying "Inflation is stubbornly still at 8.9%" or something, because they are choosing to use a 12 month rolling average, but they all talk about it as if that's just natural, not a choice (and a questionable choice that is at too coarse a level to see what's happening RIGHT NOW)<p>Certainly there's plenty of nuance to go around -- inflation has been very low for 3 months, but was rather high for months before that, so it's hardly time to celebrate yet. But the indicators from the most recent 3 months are consistently VERY GOOD if you want inflation reduced, and this part, which is also the more news-worthy part, is not getting any attention.<p>What's up with this? Mainstream media has always been a little innumerate but this is a whole other level. Is it innumeracy in journalism, ideological bias, general fearmongering to sell papers, or what?
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Title: Some two years ago, I found myself spending a lot of time in the terminal between learning vim and discovering new command line tools. I was surprised to see that the niche of HN clis was (relatively) small, and so I decided to write my own command line tool for browsing HN called `circumflex`(`clx`).<p>`clx` is written in Go using Bubble Tea[1]. You can read the comment section or the linked article in reader mode in the pager `less`.<p>Using `lesskey` to add custom keybindings, the replies can be collapsed and expanded in real-time (but not individual replies, only all replies at once). Behind the scenes I am appending invisible unicode characters to each line so that I can use the custom keybindings to filter them out. The same technique is used to allow for jumping between top-level comments.<p>I spent a lot of time thinking about syntax highlighting and finding relevant bits to highlight while also not going overboard with colors. The end result is highlighting of things I find useful for providing context in the comment section, like indicating parent poster and original poster, coloring references, coloring indentations as well as formatting YC startups.<p>Other quality of life features include adding submissions as favorites (it is stored as a pretty-printed json so you can check it into your vcs to allow for readable diffs). Submissions are marked as read and new comments are indicated with a bullet point.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea</a>
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Title: What can / should I do with an (otherwise perfectly good) Android phone that no longer receives security updates?<p>Yesterday’s epic thread about blue and green bubbles, which of course branched off into a comparison of iPhones and Androids, made me think about my own phone more than usual. It’s a Moto G Power (2020) running Android 11 that received its last security update in April.<p>I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t realize this, or realize that this is Motorola’s policy (one version upgrade and two years of security updates) until yesterday. I admit that this has given me a new perspective on paying $500 for an iPhone SE that might receive updates for 5+ years vs. $200 for a budget Android phone that might get less than 2 years of support from my date of purchase.<p>Anyway, I’m otherwise perfectly content with the phone. I bought a budget phone in the first place because I’m not a heavy phone user, which makes the thought of buying a new phone that much more painful. My options seem to be:<p>1. Stick my head in the sand and don’t worry about the lack of security updates for another couple of years. I’m obviously in good company with millions (billions?) of other Android phone owners, but how foolish would this be?<p>2. Replace it now with a new phone.<p>3. Maybe go down the rabbit hole of LineageOS or other custom ROMs? Is this viable for a daily driver that I don’t use much but needs to work when I need it? How mature are these compared to, say, the major desktop Linux distros?
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Title: Quit a low-paying C++ job (which was a horrible mistake) and now being unemployed for god knows how long.<p>So far, every single company I applied for, rejected my job application.
(Told me that they found a person better qualified than me.)<p>Some weeks have passed, I didn't find anything new.
Have large amounts of debt and barely any savings.<p>I am exhausted and stressed to the point where I am already thinking about "taking the easy way out".
Those rejections hit hard and the fact that I am not qualified enough (as they told me), just makes me question my existence even more.<p>It seems like I am going to be unemployed for a while.
I don't know when this war will end and whether they want to nuke the Northern Hemisphere away or not.<p>However, I know, I am not alone in this and god knows how many people have it worse than me.
The uncertainty for me (and probably for many others) is really hard to endure.<p>So maybe I shouldn't be exhausted or depressed as I am right now.
Maybe I should learn things and get distracted in these uncertain times.<p>Naval Ravikant suggests you to learn math.
Math and physics happens to be a hobby of mine.
Currently, (re-)studying linear algebra and analysis in R^n (multivariable calculus).
Those 2 areas in math interest me the most and I enjoy studying them.
Other than that, I like to watch physics lectures from Walter Lewin.
Trying to learn some Japanese with Genki.<p>All that is "useless", but at least they bring me joy, and they distract me enough from this harsh economic reality.<p>On the other hand, I can learn something "useful" for whatever the job market demands of me.
As being mostly a C and C++ dev won't cut it for me anyway.
However, I simply don't feel like it.<p>Yeah, so I tried (looking for jobs), I failed (getting a new job), and now it looks like I need to come in terms with my unemployment and the fact that the world tanks right now.
Trying to do something "useful" in the meantime...<p>Signing off.
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Title: I am seeing lots of posts on HN about layoffs. So and so company fired 1000 people, so and so company reduced it's workforce by 20%, etc.<p>We have normalised firing of people. I don't know about the "developed" countries where people have social security, but for countries like India where there is no social security and stigma is associated with being laid off, it is a very difficult situation.<p>I remember asking few years ago to my sister's husband, who runs our family business, what keeps him awake at night with regards to business. His answer, "Not messing up". I was expecting something like "Funding", "Losing sales" etc. But hearing his answer surprised me. Because it sounded personal. So I asked him what does he mean? And he said, "The company has about 100 employees, but I am not just responsible for 100 employees. I am responsible for about 400 to 600 people. Each employee has a family. They make their future plans because they have an income from this company. They have to fund their kids education, they have to look after their aging parents, they might have taken a loan for daughter's marriage or for a house. They are relying on me. If I mess up, I affect lives of 400 to 600 people. That keeps me awake."<p>Some how firing/laying-off has been trivialised.
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Title: The "new" Reddit mobile web interface got worse (again). I'm logged in and now every time I open the webpage I'm asked if I want to "continue in browser" or "open in app (recommended)". I don't have the app installed and I don't want such dark patterns force me to install it. Previously that happened only to unregistered users.
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Title: hello void,<p>i am an IT Support Intern at a manufacturing company. My company makes precision parts for a variety of customers. my company uses a program called Epicor, and on Monday we are scheduled to update to the newest version. The problem here is that my boss has left this in my very... "capable"... hands and is jetting off for the week.<p>I have not been prepped, I have not even recieved a login for Epicor, and I am panicking.<p>Does anybody in the void have any experience running through a large feature update such as this for a company with around 150 workstations with this software loaded onto it?<p>I assume my boss has left the process to be automated, but I am concerned that I will be completely unable to troubleshoot in the event of a catastrophe. maybe i am overthinking. maybe i am anxious for no reason. i guess i just need someone to tell me to calm down haha.<p>thanks everyone. have a good weekend!<p>-db
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Title: I'm wondering should we be thinking about WebAuthn as a method to replace passwords or should we be thinking of WebAuthn as a easier second factor in the authentication flow?
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Title: I'm finding that I picked up a LOT of IT knowledge over the past 40 years...and that some of our new hires are missing out on that foundation...skills are weak on networking, Bottleneck troubleshooting, understanding what a healthy or unhealthy process looks like.<p>There's stuff online for mutexes and race conditions and VonNeumann bottlenecks in general, but I'm having a hard time finding the concept in general.<p>Do you have any suggestions on where I can point people, or should I just start throwing stuff together myself?
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Title: In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great learning experience.<p>Recently I looked into doing this again and ran into a bunch of issues:<p>- My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work.<p>- The web is using more javascript than in the past.<p>- Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt.<p>It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps. Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated.
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Title: On the heels of yesterday's bombshell:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198708" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33198708</a><p>First thing this morning I emailed [email protected] to request a data freeze as outline at:<p><a href="https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/" rel="nofollow">https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/</a><p>But I've not yet heard anything back.<p>This is only the initial first step in a process with unknown hoops to jump through, but first I must get the form to reply and submit the freeze request.<p>If I don't hear back by tomorrow morning I'll mail in the form, but my god this is frustrating to have to opt out of something I never consented to in the first place.<p>Parasites.
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Title: I've tried switching from IDEs like VSCode to Emacs (with evil mode) a few times now, but I always gave up after a while because my productivity decreases. Even after 1-2 weeks it's still not close to what it was with VScode. That's frustrating. But when I watch proficient people using these editors I'm always amazed at what they can do, and they appear more productive than I am with VSCode. So with enough effort it should be a worthwhile investment.<p>I think my problem is the lack of a structured guide/tutorial focused on real-world project usage. I can do all basic operations, but I'm probably doing them in an inefficient way, which ends up being slower than a GUI. But I don't know what I don't know, so I don't know what commands and keybindings I should use instead or what my options are.<p>How did you become good at using these editors? Just using them doesn't really work because by myself I'd never discover most of the features and keybindings.
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Title: On numerous occasions these services have proven to be unreliable stewards of people’s most private data. How come we haven’t tried to disband them?
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Title: The amount of dramatic clickbaity hollow content is only getting worse and kinda saddening me.<p>My only escape is RSS with few hand-picked blogs. But, it seems like the chance of finding new thoughtful and cool blogs are getting closer to zero. I'm worried I might be putting myself in a bubble here.
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Title: I made a site to do investment research faster and more efficent, with links to 10k 10Q, charts, industry averages, macro economic data, hedgefund reports and much more
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Title: Hello, folks. I'm Jiang, the author of ESInfer.<p>I love writing Javascript because it has a prosperous ecosystem and is quick to get my hands dirty. However, sometimes it's painful when the flow is not fast to follow due to the lack of a type system.<p>To solve this, I wrote ESInfer, a statical inference tool, to automatically type check and generate type annotations for Javascript.<p>It works with pure Javascript without any add-ons to the language or user-space code and supports highly dynamic features, such as the modification of prototypes.<p>It is still in the very early stage, which offers almost all ES5 features and a select set of ES6 features like array/object destructing. I'm working hard to bring all ES6+ features into it incrementally.<p>If you heavily use javascript/typescript and do NOT want to write the type annotation sh*ts anymore, give it a try :)
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Title: With so many 'sub genres' in programming (machine learning, networking, frontend, etc.), what's your favorite one? For me, I really like sockets/TCP type programming in Rust and C but I'm curious what people like to code in free time.
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Title: The two most useful email filters that I have on my personal account automatically move the following messages to a "from-robots" folder:<p>* Any message that contains the word "unsubscribe"
* Any message from no-reply@<p>As a side note: please do not send emails from [email protected] If you want users to engage with your communications you need to give them an option to respond.
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Title: APIs are a little like the open road—always waiting, full of opportunity, but hardly utilized. So here’s America, composed of several APIs that paint a vivid, real-time picture of a good old-fashioned road trip. Get local classifieds and photos. Tune into local radio stations. Talk wit other drivers. And more.<p>Exploring the country by car was an invaluable experience for me during my time in the states. I’ve since moved to Barcelona, and find myself missing the territory. This is my attempt at recreating the magic.
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Title: Hi,<p>I want to start a little bit of writing, for various reasons in which monetisation does not play a role.<p>I do myself dislike how Medium blocks access to articles, but read that you can exclude your articles from that. Does it affect how Medium "exposes" your article to the web?<p>I wrote two Medium articles as part of my job for my previous company and was happy with the overall experience, except this Freemium behaviour.<p>Will I/my articles get negativity within dev and tech communities because they are written in Medium?<p>Thanks
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I am a solo founder that just finished writing code for my project (MVP) and am ready to find clients.<p>- for the sake of the question, my clients will be small physical businesses. Think, Family Doctor's Office, Local Cafe, Small barber, etc.<p>I will be developing a blog for SEO purposes and doing other things to promote my business online. However, I believe the key to success here will be "Cold Sales". I have never done that before. So, if you could recommend a book, a blog post, other online resources, or you just have a random advice that I could learn from, I would be very thankful.<p>Suffice it to say I will be starting out ASAP, even though I don't know anything. I believe practice is the best teacher. However, if there are any resources that could help me get up and running quicker that would be awesome. Thanks a ton in advance.
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Title: Which top 2 books you you always remember when someone asks you about books that taught you to think.<p>Not told your exciting stories about thinking (like those fancy NYT bestsellers), but actually pushed your own thinking skill forward.
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Title: I began this in late September purely on the whims of frustration with thesaurus.com, which does not bother to focus the input box! So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the term in the address bar (eg type carefulwords.com/word) to get my results.<p>It is very rough around the edges right now. There are far too many synonyms, which themselves are only organized alphabetically. I hope to take the site in a more inspiring direction over time than merely synonyms. Perhaps euphemisms, or other poetic uses from the past, or author commentary, or something altogether different.
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Title: I have a publication on Medium https://medium.com/luminasticity where I publish some critical works, some poetry, some science fiction, humour etc.<p>I have been pushing around writing a piece that might end up being quite long on Mark Twain and Racism, as it pertains to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.<p>And of course in writing this there are some well known racial slurs (and some antiquated, unfamiliar ones) that will have to be quoted and referred to, which I expect would probably end up getting my account automatically banned.<p>The article will be showing Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson as anti-racist works, so don't suggest any actually pro-racism sites.<p>I suppose this is an argument for hosting one's own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already.<p>So just is there a platform for this kind of thing where one won't run into algorithmic banning - or moderation by people not overly familiar with American English literature who might misinterpret what they read?
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Title: The meaning of "interesting" may vary reader to reader. Some may find books with practical utility interesting, while others may find thought provoking books interesting. Someone else may have a totally different view of interesting books.<p>Which books you read or re-read in 2022 were interesting to you? And why were they interesting actually?
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Title: There’s just been two more explosions.<p>The first was unheralded, but for the second, first there was gunfire - I grabbed the camera and went to the window, opened it, and I could hear a loud droning noise, an engine - and then I saw a bright white missile in the sky, completely uncamouflaged, flying at a moderate altitude, perhaps 500m? it flew slowly, right-to-left in my field of view, and then began to dive towards its target, the sound of the engine becoming increasingly louder and stronger, and then it plunged below the line of buildings (I’m on the 15th floor) and I could see it no more, then the inevitable crack-bang - different to the explosions from a few days, not so large, but where I had the window open I felt the blast wave come to my face and body, and then of course with sick certainty the unfurling column of dark grey smoke shooting up from the impact site.<p>I’m hoping not too much additional damage is being done to the electricity infrastructure, although on the face of it, that explosion was simply in central Kyiv, not a very long way from the Samsung building which was hit last time.<p>I’m amazed at how slow the missile was. It was not rocket powered, but had an engine. I understand now how they can be shot down. There is time to aim and fire a missile.<p>I can hear more gunfire now, and another explosion just happened.<p>I was able to grab two or three photos, but it’s a wide-angle lens, so the missile is very small. Not publishing, don’t want to give information to the Russians.<p>Emergency services’ sirens now.
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Title: For instance on Mac I think I should turn on disk encryption, sign out of iCloud, back up on my applications specific configuration files, delete all my local copies of SSH keys, delete all my local copies of proprietary code.<p>I never thought of having a checklist for this before but I think it's useful and there's probably some sort of standard best practice.<p>I'm interested in what are people's responses for different platforms and is there any sort of Open source script that will handle this for you like a "nuke script"... I mean obviously the point is not to Nuke it you want to bring it back later but.... you want to handle if someone somehow has privileged access to everything you want them to have his little surface area of anything valuable as possible.
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Title: Today in Trondheim, Norway, around 100 health doctors & nurses demostrated by walking with torches trough the city against the implementation of a new software in the hospital. The Helseplatform is an adaptation of Epic to the Norwegian Health system. Have this ever happen in history before? How bad can something be that users go out in the street to demostrate?
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Title: I‘m curious what other people’s go to is for moving to other companies? I get the feeling I’ll be back in the job market sooner than I expected. I’ve tried Triplebyte to a resounding failure. Wondering if I might just bite the bullet and start consulting.<p>Anybody around who lost a job in the dotcom or obama era that can provide perspective on techniques or mentalities that get them back in the door somewhere else?
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Title: I've been hoarding ideas for what would make good learning projects when exploring new languages, frameworks, and libraries for years. So I decided to flesh those ideas out, create some mock-ups, and share them with the public. I originally just had ~20 projects, but as I kept working on it, more ideas kept coming up and it ended up coming to 109 ideas so far. Hope they offer some inspiration or guidance for those trying to learn but not sure what to build.<p>Projectbook is free and open source. Contributions are welcome. And I'll keep adding to it as I come across ideas, resources, and implementations.
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Title: I'm in a situation where my boss really doesn't get me or understand what I specifically bring to the table. She simply needs something different. I've tried to fit myself into what she needs like a square peg in a round hole. I have a very different vision for my role, and a specific understanding of how my strengths contribute to our team.<p>After a year of trying, coaching, assuming I’m the problem, talking to my skip level, hard convos with my boss, and much more etc I'm finally realizing trying to force myself into something that's simply not going to fit. With all humility I admit it may be me that failed. But life is short, it’s time to move on.<p>Cool story bro, why are you telling me?<p>Well I just want to say, the industry has an obsession with "growth" in performance reviews. But the reality is that growth only works when you build on someone's strengths. Trying to ask someone to grow by changing who they fundamentally are, leads to withdrawal, stagnation, and anti-growth. I'm actually getting worse at my job, not better, because I'm being forced to be something I'm not. It's depressing, draining, and frustrating. I can't be who I fundamentally am in my role.<p>It's important to know when your strengths are fundamentally misaligned with your job, boss, etc and leave ASAP. Don't try to force yourself to fit into it for the sake of "growth". You'll only drain yourself and there are better places for you. You may end up going through a traumatic experience that actually causes you to LOSE skills and abilities.<p>That is all, thanks.
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Title: An arbitrary filesystem event watcher which is:<p>- simple<p>- efficient<p>- dependency free<p>- runnable anywhere with a filesystem<p>- header only<p>Watcher is extremely efficient. In most cases, even when scanning millions of paths, this library uses a near-zero amount of resources.<p>Watcher is simple. The library exposes a single function and a single object. That is all.<p>Happy hacking.
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Title: Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord!<p>I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for open-source knowledge-based communities. Traditionally these communities have lived on forums that solved many of these problems. However, from talking to communities, I found most of them preferred chat because it feels more friendly and modern. We want to bring back a bunch of the advantages of forums while maintaining the look and feel of a chat-based community.<p>Slack and Discord are closed apps that are not indexable by the internet, so a lot of content gets lost. Traditional chat apps are not search engine friendly because most search engines have difficulty crawling JS-heavy sites. We built Linen to be search engine friendly, and our communities have over 30,000 pages/threads indexed by google. Our communities that have synced their Slack and Discord conversations under their domain have additional 40,000 pages indexed. We accomplish this by conditionally server rendering pages based on whether or not the browser client is a crawler bot. This way, we can bring dynamic features and a real-time feel to Linen and support search engines.<p>Most communities become a support channel, and managing this many conversations is not what these tools are designed for. I've seen community admins hack together their own syncs and internal devices to work to stay on top of the conversations. This is why we created a feed view, a single view for all the threads in all the channels you care about. We added an open and closed state to every thread so you can track them similarly to GitHub issues or a ticketing system. This way, you and your team won't miss messages and let them drop. We also allow you to filter conversations you are @mentioned as a way of assigning tickets. I think this is a good starting point, but there is a lot more we can improve on.<p>How chat is designed today is inherently interrupt-driven and disrupts your team's flow state. Most of the time, when I am @mentioning a team member, I actually don't need them to respond immediately. But I do want to make sure that they do eventually see it. This is why we want to redesign how the notification system works. We are repurposing @mentions to show up in your feed and your conversation sections and adding a !mention. A @mention will appear in your feed but doesn't send any push notifications, whereas a !mention will send a notification for when things need a real-time synchronous conversation. This lets you separate casual conversations from urgent conversations. When everything is urgent, nothing is. (credit: Incredibles) This, along with the feed, you can get a very forum-like experience to browse the conversations.<p>Linen is free with unlimited history for public communities under <a href="https://linen.dev/community" rel="nofollow">https://linen.dev/community</a> domain. We monetize by offering a paid version based on communities that want to host Linen under their subdomain and get the SEO benefits without managing their own self-hosted instance.<p>We are a small team of 3, and this is the first iteration, so we apologize for any missing features or bugs. There are many things we want to improve in terms of UX. In the near term, we want to improve search and add more deep integrations, DMs, and private channels. We would appreciate any feedback, and if you are curious about what the experience looks like, you can join us here at Linen.dev/s/linen
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Title: I've had an iPhone for almost 10 years now. Since last year I've been using a 12 Mini, before that I had a first generation SE (best phone I ever had).<p>In the last year or so I feel that typing using the touch keyboard has become unbearable. I constantly make typos, and even with auto correction turned on, the corrections don't usually make sense and I am forced to delete and retype.<p>I believe that the major change had something to do with the text selection and cursor placement change that was made somewhere between iOS 14 and 15 (or 13 -14, or whatever, who can remember).<p>Nothing feels intuitive anymore: trying to select a word rarely works, and selection ends up being snapped on to unrelated stuff. There are at least three different types of displays falling under the category of "suggestions": auto-complete (three words above keyboard), spelling suggestions (red wiggly line+tooltip), and another kind of tooltip that sometimes appears but I still haven't figured out.<p>And above all, cursor scrolling using either the spacebar trick or a hard press on screen is a complete mess and usually snaps to some random part of the text, and it is apparently variable and depends on the UI context (behaves differently within URL bars vs. multiline text).<p>I find myself more and more often preferring not to use the phone and waiting to get to an actual computer with a keyboard to type anything beyond a few words.<p>Am I just getting older/going through some cognitive decline or is the mobile typing experience actually getting worse?
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Title: Since we have an article about having fun by creating at #1 right now, I thought this would be a good time to ask: What cool project are you tinkering with this week? Please limit it to things that aren't seeking profit.
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Title: Here is their answer:<p>Hi,<p>Thank you for your thoughts on the announced SMS removal. The blog post describes all of the biggest factors in making this decision, but I know this is a change that is difficult to adjust to, so I wanted to chime in with some additional info that might give some more context.<p>1. RCS (Rich Communications Services) is coming, and it doesn’t play well with Signal. I once had a situation when I was sending SMS to one of my friends via Signal, but I wasn’t seeing any of their responses – this was because their app was automatically responding via RCS, which wasn’t delivered to Signal. This is going to continue to get worse, and Signal cannot add RCS support because there’s no RCS API on Android. Honestly, the days of any third-party SMS app are numbered.<p>2. Proper SMS/MMS support is hard. Signal has to support thousands of devices running dozens of versions of Android. Now multiply that by the hundreds of cell carriers running an inherently bad/buggy protocol, and you’ll start to understand the weird MMS bugs we can run into. And any time spent trying to fix them is time invested in an insecure protocol.<p>3. SMS/MMS has plenty of its own bugs. Remember that incident a few years ago in which everyone got old Valentine’s SMS messages delivered 9 months later? It was an SMS protocol bug for which some users blamed Signal. Other weird bugs like temporarily-split MMS groups, bad image quality, and the general inability to leave MMS groups are flaws in MMS that also get attributed to us.<p>4. Spam. My goodness, SMS spam is a real thing, and many people who use Signal cannot tell the difference between SMS spam and Signal messages if both come through Signal. They think we’re responsible for the spam.<p>5. Finally, Signal having SMS support gives a lot of people the wrong impression of SMS. They think that because SMS is being sent through Signal, it’s actually secure or as secure as an encrypted Signal-to-Signal message, and that’s just not true. We can add unlocked padlock icons to each SMS message, and we can label the message compose box as “insecure”, but the misunderstanding would continue. The only thing we can do is store the SMS messages encrypted on the device, but in my opinion that matters very little when anyone who wants your SMS messages can just get them all from your cell carrier.<p>In short, SMS is on its way out in general, and in a world where Signal supports SMS, all of SMS shortcomings are often attributed to Signal itself, all while confusing people into thinking their SMS messages are secure.<p>In my opinion, a secure SMS app does not exist. Just choose the one with the best layout or usability, and preferably one that supports RCS (which I believe at this point are Google and Samsung Messages), because at least then there’s some chance that they might end up being encrypted in the future.<p>I hope that helps give some more context. And please know that I understand this is difficult to adjust to. I can relate. I’ve used Signal as my SMS app for over 6 years, but I truly think it’s for the best.
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Title: Did you ever think about how you'll never again be able to stay up all night and research new technologies, or have a hobby like kayaking, or .. All because of parenting?<p>Parenting is trending today on HN and I loved the comments. It inspired me to write about a thing I do well that I never thought about before.<p>Coming from someone who had these feeling from time to time, but almost never ponder on them, here is how I do it.<p>I noticed this is true not only in parenthood, but in everything else.<p>What worked for me in parenthood and marriage and sports:<p>1. Nip it in the bud. As soon as I start thinking about regrets I go and DO something positive now. I did have times when I pondered past (but that was in high-school and I had enough of a lesson that pondering won’t solve anything)
2. Loose hope it’ll get better (I’ve read about a POW in Vietnam war, he was like the longest captive pow in history. He said the guys who died or were in the worst condition first were the ones who hoped they’ll be out by Christmas or other important date)
3. Find joy in obstacles (the more unique obstacles you have the more unique perspective and gift you can give to your children and the world)
4. Hang out with your tribe even if it’s only virtually (whatever happens it’s nicer when you share it and you see other people have it similar)
5. Think about the future when it’s a high likelihood you will look at this moment and wish you’re back (it might help you put things into perspective)<p>One of these five is bound to help. If you have anything to add please do.<p>Also, if you like the post please check my weekly newsletter for remote-working parents in my profile. I cover a lot of relevant things there every week.<p>P.S. I know I'm coming in hot with the post. Raw and unedited. The only way to do it as a parent :)
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Title: Saying the following feels like heresy and whenever I say it, fellow software engineers look at me as if I just asked them if there are GOTOs in Javascript.<p>I used to love going to the office. Discussing our team's latest Python problems over a coffee. Looking over at their screen and then asking them why they look like they want to beat someone over the head with their keyboard repeatedly. Guessing people's emotions in a heated Retro from their body language. Grabbing dinner with a few colleagues after a long workshop meeting in the evening and then realizing that, aside from all the differences we might have about static typing in programming languages, we all like the same exotic progressive metal bands.<p>Many of these things that made my job much more than slaving at a digital conveyor belt seem to be gone these days. And the worst thing for me is that I feel few people relate. On the contrary, many are screaming in outrage if asked to come to the office even for a single day a week and threaten to quit.<p>To provide a bit of context, I have been working in the Berlin Tech Startup scene for almost a decade. I remember thinking after the first few weeks on my entry-level job that this couldn't possible be the horrible "working world" I have seen relatives complain about all their lives. It was fun, gratifying and stimulating to learn new things, meet new people and all the while be payed for doing so and building a career.<p>Now, I am fully aware that there's a low of people for whom the horror of commute doesn't make up for the gains of socializing and others that just abhor having to talk to real-life people. Then there are people who work mainly to get paid and do not care to invest themselves beyond what is necessary. But are those really the majority? I always saw tech as the field where a disproportionally large amount of people truly love what they do. Mostly, because it takes so much grit and persistence to get good at it that most people wouldn't succeed unless they see something in it beyond putting food on the table.<p>Have I been under some weird form of Stockholm Syndrom where I actually enjoyed something that was pure torture to most? Have a lot of people realized they don't actually like being among other people, apart from their closest friends and family?<p>And finally, I feel no one else is realizing that they are happily hacking away at the amazingly well-paid branch they're sitting on. As soon as a company's IT department is practically fully remote, why should they page a German wage for someone who is a face on a screen, when they can pay a fraction for that same face broadcasted from a few hundred kilometers further east or south? German is hardly used in business context here anyway and lower-wage countries within ±3 hours timezones abound.<p>All in all, there is a gnawing feeling in me that Covid made a significant dent on the once fun (Berlin Startup) tech working culture for good. And worse, I suspect there is gonna be more consequences down the road for the tech job market at large that few people seem to see.<p>I know that "the office" is a bad place for a lot of people. There may be product managers that ignore the noise-cancelling headphone stop-sign and make you lose your stack of thoughts just to ask if the dev app URL is still the same it was yesterday. There can be bad managers and unpleasant situations all around. But shouldn't we rather work on fixing those things instead of making them bearable by just turning off a camera in a Zoom meeting?<p>From talking to friends, I feel this is a very controversial opinion to have and I don't really get why. Any help to make me understand would be greatly appreciated! And just to be clear, I absolutely do get that for some people (fresh parents, people living at home to take care of their parents etc.) remote work is a real blessing. I am just wondering if that is really the case for the majority or what it is that I'm missing.
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Title: "75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12"<p>I was one of those ppl that made the decision of not having kids. I am a 40 yr old man now. This was the single worst decision I've ever made in my whole life. My spouse is 39 so the window has closed for biological children, more or less.<p>My life is now dominated by regret every day. I just can't get over that feeling. I've tried many things like therapy, counseling ect. It only helps for a little bit but I am still doing therapy. Some nights I wake up with panic and stay up all night with shallow breathing and high heart rate.<p>I used to LOVE working and all things tech, now just make do and do bare minimum to not get fired. I 've gotten few promotions here and there but nowhere near my potential of where my career could've been. Everything is just secondary, nothing is interesting.<p>I am constantly triggered by families and young kids. Even reading that post sent my heart rate soaring (apple watch) with anxiety . I just don't know what to do, its too unbearable. I fantasize about things like getting cancer and that seems to calm me down a little bit. Sometimes I fantasize about leaving my spouse, who I love to death, find someone who I can have a child with.
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Title: Hi Guys,<p>I got overwhelming support and feedback from my last post about secondfounder.com but still, I felt the need of connecting founders together so that they can together buy a side project. It's very often when a non-technical founder buys a project they have to find a technical founder to take that project further.<p>Today I have implemented this feature in secondfounder.com<p>Link: <a href="https://secondfounder.com/find-founder" rel="nofollow">https://secondfounder.com/find-founder</a><p>Your feedback is always welcome.<p>Thanks
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Title: Sorry for the mini-rant, I’m just a bit lost at the moment. I don’t know whether it’s worth looking at changing careers, trying to stick with it or something else I haven’t thought of. I’ve been working in the industry for 14 years and feel like I’m old and jaded. I got a bit burnt out a couple of years ago working 70-hour weeks and haven’t been able to bounce back since. Now, whenever I’m coding, it just feels like an enormous effort to get anything done. I’ve tried to work on different projects and things that are more in line with my interests, but that hasn’t really seemed to help. I’ve worked in various management roles over the years and have been drawn more towards that side of things at the moment, mainly because it isn’t coding. I feel like I’m average at best as a manager, but I have ASD so there are a few aspects of it that I really struggle with. I feel like I could work on these aspects, but it will always be draining and it will never be easy the way coding used to be. The other problem with management is that most people want you in-house for that, whereas I enjoy the freedom of contracting.<p>Has anyone come back from being burnt out to love what they do again? If so, how did you manage to do it?
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Title: Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters.<p>Let me know what you think.<p>You can see some of my results on my reddit page: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top</a>
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Title: Hey HN, I'm working on a project that builds with git as the backend (https://github.com/inlang/inlang) and I'm looking for other projects that have a similar approach.<p>PS: Also apps such as VS-Code or Obsidian which work on local files and have git plugins would be interesting!
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Title: Hello HN Community,<p>As an ex-founder of a developers-for-hire agency, I was fortunate to build for many different software organizations around the world, and partner with the most talented product teams.<p>One of the things I learned by coding was how painful it is to build & maintain pricing in SaaS.
The pricing structure and logic always end up being coupled with the core application code and the billing platform. The product catalog is typically managed in spreadsheets, by the product & monetization teams, while all the possible package types, including the legacy ones, are typically hardcoded across different git repositories.<p>Together with our founding team, we have decided to devote ourselves to help solve this problem, and make it much easier for developers everywhere to build out pricing.<p>At Stigg, we’re building APIs and SDKs that allow engineering teams to safely launch and roll-out pricing plan changes, faster. At their core, our APIs allow you to model any pricing (Trials, Freemium, Usage-based, Subscriptions, Per seat) and handle the access control and provisioning logic. We’re trying to build our platform in such a way that after the first integration, any future changes could be deployed by anyone - allowing developer teams to free-up their time from this tedious maintenance work.
We have planned ahead and have already introduced reach functionally like plan migrations and versioning, multiple environments support, a/b testing, and embeddable components you can use such as paywall widget, or customer portal widget. This way, you can ship pricing plans without having to do a full Phd on pricing & billing ontology.<p>We're just getting started and have a bunch of things on our roadmap. But we’d love to get feedback from the HN community to check that we’re on the right way.
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Title: Just did monthly spam folder sweep. Sometimes legit emails end up in spam, so I regularly make sure that something important was not lost amongst trash. Looking at sender details I noticed that 99% of spam emails are now coming from Microsoft email services, like Outlook and Hotmail. What happened? Did other email providers improve security? Is there some security hole in Microsoft services, that allows easy registration for throwaway email accounts? I'm interested from purely technical aspect what might shifted most spam to MS services?<p>And most important question: is Microsoft going to do something about it, as service abuse reports seem to make no difference.
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Title: Finally, I want to dedicate some time to learn Blender.<p>I'm primarily interested in modeling but will need an intro to Blender concepts, philosophy, and UI idiosyncrasies.<p>I have some professional experience in CAD and Finite Element Analysis modeling, so I'm not a complete noob in that respect. Blender is sufficiently different from everything I know, though I feel my experience is more of a hindrance than a benefit.<p>Now, the plan is to just go with the flow and do things the Blender way.<p>Does anyone know a course that teaches the basics and enough basic modeling to get started?<p>- Paid courses are OK<p>- Video is preferred<p>- Language must be English or German<p>It should be less than 8 hours long; shorter and high info density is better. Most courses are dragged ridiculously on platforms that pay creators by course length (Udemy, AFAIK), and I don't have time for that.<p>Any tips and hints would be greatly appreciated!
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Title: Hey HN,<p>As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets.<p>It's "change.org for urban transformation".<p>It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2].<p>And now, we're live with our own site!<p>Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047412" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047412</a><p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai</a><p>[2] <a href="https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/07/28/this-artificial-intelligence-bot-is-designing-better-streets-than-some-engineers/" rel="nofollow">https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/07/28/this-artificial-intel...</a>
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Title: I've been applying to jobs since February and I have reached a point where just looking at another job post gives me anxiety and makes me depressed.<p>I've done around 40 interviews in the past couple of months alone and I am exhausted. It looks like I will be unemployed until the next year and I have no idea how to get a job.<p>Technical lead with over 10 years experience. I often get praises during interviews, but never an offer.
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