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Title: I default to Prophet (formerly FBProphet) for my work [which is business-y timeseries data], curious what others are doing.
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Title: Really just a few lines of code to have a REPL-like experience with Vim and Postgres.
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Title: I find somethings actually strange. Per se, checking my quality as a developer with job interview questions I will receive a not so high grade. I would say between 5 to 7 out of 10. Not brilliant. But as a developer I think I am actually really good.<p>I never "studied" computer science in a regular way, but I am in the industry more than 20 years. I started as a hacker, reverse engineering, assembly code, moved to C and C++ and now web development in Node.JS, Go (golang) and Rust and Vanilla JS. Touched of course Python and Arduino and Raspberry PI.<p>I find it that my code and overall look as much better (if I can be a bit non modest for a second) than other developers even seniors.<p>- My code is highly readable with good comments and other can take over my code responsibility quite easily<p>- My code runs (and also complies) faster than other - I understands the usage of Hash / Map instead of searching arrays and many other small things that actually enhance the code performance<p>- I know how to KISS (Keep it stupid and simple) and so I am able to write complicated software because the basic is simple and separated so my feasible to comprehend<p>- I understands Object Oriented correctly and knows where to use it and how and when to avoid it<p>- I know not to search always the latest new shiny thing (library or framework) and use legacy software that actually do the job when needed without complications<p>- I understand how the computer works, from BIOS, BUS to OS (Linux and Windows internals)<p>- I have (again if I may say) good product skills and some UX guts which helps me manage things on my own<p>All of this together allowed me to build and sell already two startups. Develop and maintain easily many web sites and SaaS which creates me nice passive income (such as https://gematrix.org).<p>So am I a good or bad programmer? - Still I will score quite low in job interview questions ...
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Title: Hi all! I have come upon good financial fortune recently and took a step back from day-to-day work as a software engineer. After a few months of downtime, I'm now ready to jump back into work, but given I no longer have any financial stress I'd like to focus on ways to use my skills to give back to the community. I've been writing startup software for 10+ years, have co-founded a company and exited.<p>What does HN think are some good ways to give back? Here are some avenues I've explored but have come up dry:<p>* Teaching: I'd love to teach programming to high schoolers, but most positions require some post-grad/PhD, which I do not have.<p>* Non-profit / civic work: I'd love to work with USDS, 18F, or something like that, but there don't seem to be as many open positions and USDS requires folks to be on-site in DC (not possible for me).<p>* Mentorship programs: I've done a few mentorship programs in the past, but is very high touch and infrequent - I'd like to do something more hands-on.<p>Thanks HN!
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Title: I’m Rishabh and the co-founder and CTO at <a href="https://supertokens.com" rel="nofollow">https://supertokens.com</a> (YC S20). We offer open-source user authentication and we just released our user roles product for companies implementing authorization.<p>Our users are web developers, and a prominent and adjacent pain point for our users is authorization. Developers typically implement two independent solutions for authentication and authorization. Offering AuthN and AuthZ in a single solution is something we’ve been thinking about for the last few years.<p>Quick primer, authentication is knowing who the user is, and authorization is knowing what the user has access to. A physical analogy: A person enters a building. Authentication means reading their ID card and knowing that the person’s name is John. Authorization means knowing which floors, offices, and files John has access to.<p>With increasing privacy and data complexity, companies like Netflix[1], Slack[2], and Airbnb[3] have built out their own complex authorization systems.<p>To build our user roles product, we started with a first principles approach of covering authorization use cases using scripting languages such as XACML and OPA. But looking at existing solutions built by talented teams like Oso[4], Aserto[5], Cerbos[6], Strya[7], we realized that while these were powerful solutions, they were often overkill for most early to mid-stage companies (especially on the B2C side).<p>We went back to the drawing board, reached out to our users and after dozens of conversations, we realized that most authorization needs require the ability to<p>1. Assign and manage roles and permissions<p>2. Store roles in the DB and session tokens to make it readable on the frontend and<p>3. Protect APIs and websites based on these roles and permissions.<p>And so, we built user roles – a simple RBAC authorization service that focuses on the balance between simplicity and utility. It doesn’t cover many complex cases and we’re not looking to displace any of the authorization incumbents. But you can add AuthN and AuthZ using a single solution, quickly.<p>In the near future, we’ll be launching an admin GUI where you can manage your users and their roles with a few clicks.<p>We’d love for you to try it out and hear what additional functionality you’d like to see. What are your favorite authentication providers and what do they get right?<p>- [1]: <a href="https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca-2018/cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/270/The%20distributed%20authorization%20system_%20A%20Netflix%20case%20study%20Presentation.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca-2018/cdn.orei...</a><p>- [2]: <a href="https://slack.engineering/role-management-at-slack/" rel="nofollow">https://slack.engineering/role-management-at-slack/</a><p>- [3]: <a href="https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/himeji-a-scalable-centralized-system-for-authorization-at-airbnb-341664924574" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/himeji-a-scalable-cent...</a><p>- [4]: <a href="https://www.osohq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.osohq.com/</a><p>- [5]: <a href="https://www.aserto.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.aserto.com/</a><p>- [6]: <a href="https://cerbos.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://cerbos.dev/</a><p>- [7]: <a href="https://www.styra.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.styra.com/</a>
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Title: I know it's fallen out of favor lately but I still enjoying blogging. I've been blogging since 2007 and I'm interested in encouraging others.<p>I started writing, publicly but to myself, primarily so I could remember how to do technical processes that I didn't repeat very often.<p>If you've ever considered blogging but haven't started what's stopping you?
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Title: Hi HN! We are Nunzio and Sebastiano, co-founders of Akiflow (<a href="https://akiflow.com" rel="nofollow">https://akiflow.com</a>). Akiflow is a personal planner that consolidates all your calendars and tasks in a unified view of your work.<p>For people who like to plan their time, it is tough to be realistic about what work you can get done without a calendar showing you how much time you can invest in your tasks. But it is hard to organize this because there is so much context-switching due to tasks coming from different apps—not to mention "unstructured" sources like email, notes taken during a meeting, a message on Slack, etc..<p>I’m that type of user—for me, my calendar has always been the ‘primary source of truth’. But the user experience was terrible. I had to keep to-do lists on the side of another app and manually turn my tasks into events to see them in the calendar. Tasks were scattered across messaging apps (emails, Slack), project management platforms, video calls, the web, etc., forcing me to jump between tabs, tasks and tools. I had to manually turn emails or Slack messages into tasks on Asana and always remember to push new tasks into my task lists.<p>We originally started Akiflow with a narrower idea: a command bar, similar to Alfred, to create tasks on Asana, Trello, etc.. or add events on the calendar. After a while, we learned that what our users really wanted was to have everything in one place. Once we understood that, it was obvious that we should pivot to building that one tool: a tasks+calendars app focused on making people faster.<p>How it works: most people start their day by checking outstanding conversations on their emails or Slack from mobile or desktop. There are two types of conversations—those that can be answered right away (in which case just do it!), and those that generate a task. The latter are what you save into Akiflow. Once you’re done processing your emails, Slack, etc., you open Akiflow where you find all your tasks coming from your various conversations and tools.<p>Once in Akiflow, you can organize each task quickly—you see all your to-dos and can drag and drop them into your calendar between events already scheduled. Alternatively, you can snooze a task for later if you need more time, or snooze it for someday if it isn't actionable yet.<p>Now you have a complete list of your tasks for today and can hunker down to work. As your day goes on, Akiflow sends notifications on what you should be working on, based on your calendar events and tasks. We make this easy—for example, when it is time for a call, you can join right away with a click or a shortcut.<p>We have integrations (via APIs) with multiple sources of to-dos (Gmail, Slack, Todoist, Notion, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, and anything else via Zapier and IFTTT) to consolidate tasks in a single inbox. We added a lot of keyboard shortcuts and a command bar (we had this ready from Akiflow #1) and built a desktop application that manages all this information and helps schedule it.<p>The calendar works offline and supports both events and tasks; it's built for time blocking and gives a comprehensive view of your day, week or month with features that make everyday actions much faster (join a call, share calendar availability, meet with, review your days). We integrate with your Google Calendar with a two-way sync, and we support working entirely offline. We also have a mobile app currently in beta to add and manage tasks on the go.<p>The desktop application is built using Electron and React. We use some native node modules to use a local SQLite database to store all the information and provide offline support. Our desktop app is in sync with our cloud, so multiple desktop clients will be kept in sync.<p>If you're interested in trying the product, we have a free 7 days trial available; after that, we have a basic SAAS pricing model (<a href="https://akiflow.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://akiflow.com/pricing/</a>).<p>We would love to hear your feedback and ideas—thanks!
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Title: If so, how did you do it? How did it go? How are the savings? I have TBs of data I need to progressively replicate to R2. The original blog post on R2 talked about an automatic migration tool for S3 to R2, but I find no mention of it anywhere outside of that blog post.
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Title: I was extremely productive. Let's say a 10x developer ; )
I had a full time job, did my crypto-sideproject, I was laser focused.
It took off and was extremely successful. Quit my job.<p>NOW a year later. I'm just overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with the bureaucracy and a lot of pending issues:<p>- Tax declaration. Is pending. Accountant extremely slow. Have to think about it every day. Sometimes need to give feedback on some points. Extremly expensive.<p>- Bank's want my Tax declaration and the source of wealth. Don't accept the money. Have nearly every week a meeting or a request for some documents. They are very slow.<p>- Money is in crypto and at risk, till the bank's will accept it.<p>Currently, I really can't get things done. Waking up and thinking how that shit will end. Didn't do anything for my project for months. The regulatory things, just progress so slow and are distracting me.<p>Any Idea how to deal with it? How to get back on track?<p>I tried sport, meditation, tried yoga nidra. Still waking up - and all the pending stuff comes into my mind. Never had such high pressure and so high stakes in the game.
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Title: So, I'm reading a lot these days about lay-offs in tech companies and how many HN users (mainly from US?) are having a hard time finding top-level paying jobs.<p>I work on Western Europe, and in theory we should be more screwed up than other Western countries... but:<p>- Just landed (3 months ago) on a job that pays me 20% more than the previous one. I could have switched jobs years before, but I just got the courage to do it now<p>- Keep seeing the same amount of job offers on Linkedin. Now, I have the tendency to keep a list of companies that hire on an Excel file, so I can come back to it later and compare past and current situations of such companies. I have over 200 companies that operate in Western Europe (but not exclusively) that I consider "top-level" (at least from my point of view). The effect of the recession? Well, it has had one, but somehow very poor: many companies went from having around 1000 job offers open in linkedin on a weekly basis to having now around a third of that. Sure, they are not hiring like crazy anymore, but they are still hiring!<p>- A company that announced a 14% lay-off back in May, is now hiring again (the same pattern as before: when they were offering thousands of jobs before, now they are offering a few hundred)<p>Now, I have no idea how FAANG is doing in Western Europe (I never cared to track them) because I have no plans to work for them. But all the other non-FAANG companies over here are hiring. So, I don't feel the recession (yet). Touching wood.
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Title: In our last post, we showed that there is an easy way to generate automated tests for Rest APIs from your specification.<p>Since the last release, we have added some new features:<p><pre><code> - Generate tests from your API spec in the CLI
- Run tests against gRPC APIs automatically
- Get request and response information when your tests fail
- Generate fake data and use it in the requests
- Bring your own test data (from .csv)
- More intuitive CLI interface
</code></pre>
We built this because we wanted a simple, developer-friendly way to automate API testing without relying on cloud solutions. You can integrate it with Docker, GitHub Actions and Node. Your tests can have multiple steps, with shared context between them. Lastly, you can use it as a library and in combination with other testing tools like Jest, Ava, Mocha (and soon Insomnia).<p>If you want to step out of locked-in cloud solutions, give our tool a try.
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Title: Is there any forum like HN where people discuss film, literature, etc?
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Title: Hi, I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Shimmer (<a href="https://shimmer.care" rel="nofollow">https://shimmer.care</a>). We offer one-to-one ADHD Coaching for adults. It was born out of my own roller coaster of a journey navigating my ADHD diagnosis.<p>Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult is complicated—equally heartbreaking and liberating. You literally need to rewrite your whole life narrative in light of this new realization. The process currently is super confusing and expensive (medications, therapy, coaching, tools, apps, etc.) and I just wished someone would guide me through it. Someone to personalize things for me, ask me good questions, and encourage me when I was feeling down.<p>My experience was the basis for what Shimmer is today. We’re creating an ADHD coaching service that is actually affordable (5-10X cheaper than traditional ADHD coaching, in fact!), personalized to your life (because what works for me may not work for you), and focused on action instead of theory (because we’re not short of knowledge—we just aren’t <i>doing</i> it!).<p>Our service is fit for ADHD brains. We merge the best worlds of telehealth (e.g. therapy/coaching sessions) and asynchronous apps (e.g. Headspace, Noom) to create a solid combo of human accountability and app-based support. You get matched with an ADHD-specialized coach, meet weekly in focused video/audio sessions where you set weekly goals, and over time, bit-by-bit start building a new day-to-day that supports your goals: new routines, systems, and skills.<p>Our program is rooted in science-backed methodologies including Health & Wellness Coaching, Cognitive Behavioral Coaching (CBC/CBT), Acceptance Commitment Training (ACT), positive psychology, and solution-focused coaching. The way we deliver it, however, is less rigid and more experimental. In each 15-min session and in the asynchronous portions, you’ll draw on collective ADHD community knowledge to work with one thing a week in your life that you’d like to improve on. Your coach will support you via text access (in-app) and by seeing and reacting to your weekly “Actions”.<p>In terms of the app itself, there are 3 main components: (1) a daily/weekly simple check-list where you track your coaching tasks, checking them off (automatically pings your coach) and reflecting on your progress in-app, (2) a resource hub where you’ll find short, bite-sized content in service of your coaching journey, not standalone education to just “read up on”, and (3) your personalized chat with your coach where they’ll guide you through the journey—checking in on your completed/in-completed tasks, giving you feedback, and sending you resources.<p>On the back end, our coaches have web and mobile apps that are designed to save them time and cognitive effort, so that they can focus on coaching. Simple things like “scheduled sends” and a prioritized message list are included to help them manage a large case load with less effort.<p>It’s $99/mo. for 15-min weekly “bite-sized” sessions, or $349/mo. for 45-min “similar-to-traditional” coaching sessions. Traditional coaching can run $400-700+/mo. (up to the thousands depending on the coach). We also reserve a portion of our memberships for those with financial need, on a case by case basis.<p>If you have ADHD (or think you do), we’d love for you to check out our platform and give us critical feedback (or positive reinforcement!). It’s a super streamlined and ADHD-friendly signup process and in honor of our launch and celebration of October being ADHD Awareness Month, the first month is 40% off (offer until Nov 12).<p>I invite the greater Hacker News community to share any experiences you have with ADHD & navigating care, and am always open to scheduling a 1:1 call to learn more!
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Title: Some people are giving Musk a pass for today’s layoffs because Twitter is unprofitable and needs to cut costs. But the real pressure for cost cutting and the layoffs is that Musk purchased Twitter via a leveraged buyout. He loaded the company with $10B of additional debt and now is facing annual $1B interest payments. The dramatic layoffs with no severance are thus the result of Musk’s decision to buy the company and the acquisition strategy of using a leveraged buyout.
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Title: Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit.<p>Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer.<p>What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not.<p>You can try this for yourself on,<p><a href="https://www.reveddit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.reveddit.com</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/</a><p>Your content will be removed, you won't be told, and it will be shown to you as if it's publicly visible.
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Title: It's a circle I've been trying to square recently as part of my career.<p>Backstory essay: I'm 6 years into my career. I spent 5 of those in the same company - company A, working up from a Grad engineer to an SDE3, 3 promos, in that company. I had a very few stumbles there and always performed and handled transition pretty well.<p>I jumped ship January of this year over company changes, projects getting cancelled and stopping from a revolving door of Product heads coming in and out. My goal is not to get a senior title but to progress in my knowledge and move on from JS over to a Java focus. I want to build a product or even just some features; I want to code and earn my way to seniority; not start and stop every quarter.<p>I move to the next company, Company B, in March as SDE; everyone else on the team is Senior SDE with 7+ years experience and above: I'm the most junior.<p>Company B is a start up and I'm expected to contribute from the off; build out big features and bring some solid knowledge base to the team... but I just totally crap the bed.<p>The code I write is problematic; there's no documentation to set stuff up, so I go without the code running on my local machine for a while, which obviously causes issues. I make a bunch of amateur mistakes and my direct team lead takes a dislike to me for, naturally, messing up a lot. I go from the guy who can solve the problem and save the day to the guy causing the problem; I'm not trusted at all (and why would they)?<p>I'm lashed with negative feedback in my first couple weeks, so buck up and genuinely put huge effort in; my code gets better, but the team lead expects tickets closed faster than I can. I feel incredibly untalented and dreadful at my job; every one of my system design choices are the incorrect ones and aren't taken into account. Eventually - right before probation ends - I'm terminated when I fail to complete an MVP of a new system feature.<p>Obviously, I'd seen the writing on the wall, started interviewing elsewhere and now work at Company C, but as a Senior Software Engineer this time.<p>Company C is a big company in a bit of a niche area. I'm working on a team migrating from a dreadful old system to a more modern Micro-service base system. I'm expecting to do dreadful and underperform, get fired and end up exiting the industry within a couple weeks.<p>Instead, I'm back to my old self again: I'm reviewing code with confidence, pushing up solid features, contributing to initiatives and mentoring junior developers again. The code and features I write are solid and passing QA.<p>There's no tech lead helping me, so I'm just using my gut and it's going swimmingly. I have discussions with the other senior engineer on the team and my technical knowledge is respected; my relationship with my manager is pleasant and I'm performing accordingly.<p>It's only been a couple months but I feel like myself again; like I went from the back of the herd to the front of the pack... but I'm still so confused about what exactly is the root of my performance increase; or rather, what made me become worse.<p>Has anyone else ever had this sort of experience, this sort of bumpy ride in their career? Are start-ups hard to work in that larger companies specifically because of expectations, of what's considered "appropriate" at different levels? Am I just a lucky idiot fumbling back in and not even realising?
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Title: Hello. Briefly about Structpad:
All interaction with app comes down to simple typing, like in a notepad. No buttons, commands or special characters needed. However, you can still build complex structured data.<p>Something about why I'm building Structpad:
I love taking notes and I think it's necessary for deep thinking because our brain is very powerful, but it has one weakness - memory.
I noticed that not only the text itself matters, but also some invisible structure in our minds. There are various tools that try to reveal this structure, such as filenames, folders, tags, links, tables of contents, but they are often complex and unreusable.
So I wanted more structure, less clutter, and no extra clicks.<p>Programming languages use OOP for a higher level of abstraction, to create more complex programs, so why not use something similar for our thoughts instead of plain text? In this way, Structpad reduces the load on memory for the sake of the quality of using the mind.
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Title: I work in a FAANG office where a lot of people can speak Mandarin, but I'm not one of them. About half of my immediate team can, though.<p>One of my team members has a hard time with English, and started talking in Mandarin with my team members who understand it. And recently, my other team members started using Mandarin between themselves even when the one who struggles with English isn't around.<p>Sometimes, certain words clue me in that they're talking about our project, and it makes me feel excluded. Isn't one of the benefits of coming into the office is being able to overhear project conversations and be able to join in?<p>My manager is remote and has no idea any of this is happening. I don't want to be the asshole to ask people to speak in English, or make my manager be that guy either.<p>Is there a tactful way for me to handle the situation?
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Title: Hey! I am a software engineer with vast experience of building full stack application and lately I’ve been really mesmerized by popping up tools that utilize AI to solve common day to day problems. Generating blog outlines from couple of lines of text, creating realistic avatars of yourself in different settings, generating art from text prompts. I’ve never even had touch points with such technologies so it’s quite overwhelming for me in terms where to start!<p>Do I need to know the basics? Shall I just utilize the existing solutions like gpt-3, openAI, stable diffusion and built applications with them? Can I make those tools tailored for my uses cases(model training) or I should built similar from the scratch?<p>Looking for advice!
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Obviously we are experiencing a surge of stable-diffusion based apps at the moment, but I have yet to see anyone try and map the outputs onto actual physical products that can be delivered to your door.<p>I wanted to make it easy to:<p>- pick an artistic style<p>- hit 'record' and speak into your phone / tablet / desktop or whatever, and describe the kind of design you want your clothing to have (since speaking is more spontaneous that typing)<p>- swipe among a variety of mockups (t-shirts, hoodies etc.) featuring your design, and order it to your door with the click of a button<p>The product is called 1SEWN. Fulfilment is currently achieved using a print-on-demand service called Printful (<a href="https://www.printful.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.printful.com</a>) that I have integrated with.<p>If you guys would like to try it, I would love some feedback. Shipping is currently limited to outside Europe, but even if you are in Europe, your feedback about the whole UX would be much appreciated!<p>Much love,<p>Matt
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Title: I am working full remote right now(programming/gamedev) and I travel several times a year for periods of up to two months. Because of specifics of my job I need to have a powerful workstation(I mostly need a powerful CPU) and I am comfortable with at least two 27" monitors. Traveling with that much stuff is only possible with a car, and even then the whole setup takes too much space.<p>Laptops are getting there with the compute power, but the 27" monitors aren't getting any smaller. Meta Quest Pro(which seems to be the top of the line now) has been just released and even tho it is somewhat pricey($1500), it still costs as much as three good 27" monitors.<p>Does anyone have any useful experience to share on working in a VR headset? Is it comfortable for longer periods of time? How is it on the eyes?
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Title: So with Elons stupidity ruining Twitter, it seems to be really happening this time, people, and content creators (Tweeters?) are moving to Mastodon for real.<p>I am not very optimistic about Mastodon, particularly for these reasons:<p>- crappy inter-instance user discovery<p>A user won't show up in search or the federated timeline unless a local user follows them.<p>It basically makes it impossible to get discovered when using your own independent instance.<p>Even if you interact and reply to a user in instance B, you will still not show in instances B search or federated timeline.<p>I found this diagram to be helpful in explaining which users show in the federated timeline:<p>https://imgbox.com/V7rZ6i2q<p>- no way to see other instances timelines<p>This makes its even worse to discover accounts when launching your own server.<p>- no backfill for old toots[1-2]<p>This is just ridiculous.<p>But it seems to be where everyone technical is going, and since it's a federated protocol, If I am going to use it, it's going to be on my own server.<p>So far I have seen three main Recommendations for hosting Activity Pub<p>- Mastodon (obviously)<p>- Misskey<p>- Pleroma<p>My use case is a personal server, just for me.<p>I want something reliable, and easy to maintain, because figuring out how to migrate to another platform later-on isn't fun.<p>Which one do you recommend?<p>Misskey looks to be the most interesting one.<p>You can create lists, follow other instances local timelines, supports reactions, remove the character limit, etc. but Mobile app support is limited, PWA is the only option.<p>But I don't want to end up using something unpopular, where the development is going to be rather sparse.<p>1. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14017<p>2. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34
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Title: It's been a month that Jadi (real name: Amir Emad Mirmirani), an Iranian geek, has been imprisoned in Iran's most notorious prison called Evin in Tehran.<p>In Iran, he is one of the most famous people active in the field of programming and computer education. In his personal blog[0], he has been writing about technology and society for years. He has also a YouTube channel[1][2] to teach and encourage Iranians to programming and Linux, and a podcast[3] that has been explaining technology and science news along with his comments for several years. All this in a country with a dictatorial government where standing in the right place has a heavy price.<p>His arrest occurred on October 5, a few days after the recent nationwide protests[4] began in Iran. Arrest at home with beating. The reason for this is not yet clear, but it is probably due to his efforts to increase awareness of the society about Iran's internet censorship system, and his positions against a company called ArvanCloud. Many claim this company help the government of Iran in implementing the internet censorship's system (something like Great Firewall of China). In Jadi's own words, this company has made it possible for the government to turn the Internet into an intranet at any moment and block people's access to international services. Something that happens in every demonstration in Iran including right now.<p>The reason I am writing here is to raise awareness about him, which may lead to his release. All this may be nothing more than a false hope, but it is what I can do. From the news he covered in his podcast, it could be guessed that he is one of the regular readers of Hacker News. Perhaps hearing your support here will boost his morale behind bars in Evin. The prison which is also known as Evin University due to the number of educated political prisoners [5].<p>[0](Persian) https://jadi.net/<p>[1](Persian) https://www.youtube.com/jadimirmirani<p>[2](English) https://www.youtube.com/geekingjadi<p>[3](Persian) https://castbox.fm/channel/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA-%E2%80%93-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%86%D8%AA-%7C-%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%A2%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF-id22150?country=us<p>[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahsa_Amini_protests<p>[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison
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Title: California; just got the SMS. How TF are they being notified of my voting activity?
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Title: Hello stranger.<p>It has occurred to me that one of the crucial elements of the early internet was the feeling that there was somebody out there, _somewhere_ on the globe, that was actually responding to that particular thing you were putting out there. It was a special feeling, because it was a sense of connection. Just being online and being part of the few select communities that existed back then was a commitment, and I believe that's in part what made it feel special.<p>With all the world gaining access to the internet, I think we've gained a lot, but lost this sense of wonder: Since online interactions have now become commonplace to the point of para-social meaninglessness, any single post or message doesn't really feel all that _real_.<p>HN is still the closest thing I know to that primordial kind of internet, and so I'm putting this post out there. It might get buried instantly, or it might survive, and on the off chance that it does:<p>I encourage you to comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment, however niche it might be. It might let you find some likeminded people and maybe recapture a bit of the best aspects of the internet in those early days.<p>In any case, I sincerely wish you a great day, from one surprisingly-real-but-currently-text-based being to another :)
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Title: I saw in yesterday’s poll that there’s a huge group of potential fathers here. I’d like to learn from your experiences
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Title: I think AWS and its signature system is making things more complicated than it should be, like this is a normal signing in process to API:<p>1. you request client credentials, which is normal.<p>2. construct request URL, normal.<p>3. add headers, eh, normal.<p>4. signature... fuck.<p>First you need to convert the URL you have from step 2, mash it with headers from step 3, add header keys to signed headers, then sum256 hash the payload and hex encode it.<p>Then you create a sign, add algorithm, request date time that is formatted with ISO8601 but all special characters stripped apart, add credential scopes, hash the canonical request you created at the first step.<p>Then, you calculate this abomination:
HMAC(HMAC(HMAC(HMAC("AWS4" + kSecret,"20150830"),"us-east-1"),"iam"),"aws4_request")<p>after that you calculate this:
signature = HexEncode(HMAC(derived signing key, string to sign))<p>after that you create an authorization header and add signature to it:
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIHV6HIXXXXXXX/20201022/us-east-1/execute-api/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;user-agent;x-amz-access-token;x-amz-date, Signature=5d672d79c15b13162d9279b0855cfba6789a8edb4c82c400e06b5924aEXAMPLE<p>...I mean what the fuck? I can understand why people choose Azure over AWS for the sake of freaking simplicity just by looking at this sign and request process. It feels overly-complicated. Does anyone feels the same while working with this abomination?
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Title: Now that the sun is setting earlier with daylight savings time, I’m finding that I struggle with the increased hours of darkness in the evenings.<p>I’m finding hanging out in well-lit areas with people and music in the evenings are good to counteract this (mall, cafe, gym, book store).<p>Do you do anything to offset fewer hours of daylight?
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Title: Hi HN! This started late last year as an afternoon project to play around with ElasticSearch, and then I kept thinking of new features I wanted to add. I still have a lot of things I want to build, but now seemed like a good time to put it out there: even if the results aren’t nearly the quality I’d like, I’ve still found it useful and I want to show it off!<p>I’ve been working on it since September 2021, but only in fits and starts. The entire thing runs on a computer in my living room (there’s a picture on the About page); I haven’t done any load testing so we’ll see how it holds up.
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Title: Hi HN! We’re building an open-source pricing & packaging engine for SaaS with a built-in billing system. (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>).<p>We strongly believe pricing is the largest untapped growth lever for SaaS, primarily because pricing affects so many critical systems that don’t talk to each other (billing, payments, feature limits, metering, and CRM). We’re building this infrastructure to fix this and enable quick experimentation.<p>Lotus acts as a central repository for all of your pricing plans and utilizes your payment gateway, to manage usage-based, per-seat, and custom enterprise pricing. We’re excited to open-source this because we want to enable developers to build their custom pricing and integration edge cases on top of this base.<p>We’ve launched this repo under an MIT license so any developer can use the tool. Give it a spin for us at either:<p>* test our cloud version at (<a href="https://demo.uselotus.io" rel="nofollow">https://demo.uselotus.io</a>)<p>* self-host here (<a href="https://github.com/uselotus/lotus" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uselotus/lotus</a>)
and let us know what you think.<p>All feedback is appreciated! If the project is especially relevant to you, follow us and we’ll keep you updated when we’ve fully published all our beta features.
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Title: I'm talking about the whine, buzzing and similar noises. Here's an explanation of how they happen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D6PKusyvUU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D6PKusyvUU</a>.<p>Now, I've heard of some simple DIY remedies that work, like putting glue in/around the inductors.<p>So, I want to know why this doesn't get properly fixed in the manufacturing process. Because nobody cares? Is it too costly? I wouldn't mind paying a small price premium for a product if there was a guarantee of no coil whine.
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Title: TLDR: Click the link to see some cool visualizations, refresh a few times for random examples, and try editing some of the code yourself.<p>This is a small weekend project of mine inspired by shadertoy.com<p>It's a static single-page site hosted on GitHub pages so the website design is pretty barebones. I'm not a web developer so I mainly wanted to create a Cool Thing with my free time and not have to learn tons of front-end to do it.<p>I'd love to hear what people think about it and please post or send me any shaders you make! You can use the link button in the bottom right to share.<p>I hope that this gets more people interested in shaders because GPU programming is a pretty different paradigm and learning it has made me a better software engineer even though my current job doesn't touch it. That said, textshader only runs normal Javascript on the CPU so think of it like a simplified sandbox and not the real thing. I'd highly recommend checking out shadertoy to level up to the real deal too!
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Title: Considering that you started programming on your own as a self learner and have found success (whatever that means to you) as a programmer in life, what do you think were the reasons behind that?<p>Was it:<p>1. Formal CS or Math education alongside or later on?<p>2. Pure grit and consistency in completing stuff you started<p>3. Working in real projects at industry<p>4. Something else entirely
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Title: Hi HN, when learning Golang (and topology), I ported a simple GOL in C (<a href="https://github.com/Jeadie/GoL" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Jeadie/GoL</a>) into Go. I then added a bunch of features
- Playing on other fundamental polygons (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_polygon#Examples_of_Fundamental_Polygons_Generated_by_Parallelograms" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_polygon#Examples_o...</a>)
- Considering all possible update rules (of which, there are many).<p>Looking to get back to this project soon. Would love some feedback + ideas.
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Title: Considering the massive layoffs in the last week, I am curious if these companies will begin to rely more on consultants/contractors or if budgets will be cut for consultants.<p>Is there any historical data on this? What have you seen in your own workplaces?
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Title: Yitang Zhang, the mathematician behind the 2013 breakthrough on bounded gaps in primes, posted to the arxiv today a result which (if correct) comes close to proving the nonexistence of Landau--Siegel zeros: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02515" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02515</a>.<p>To give a sense of the scale of this claim: If correct, Zhang's work is the most significant progress towards the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis in a century. Moreover, I think this result would not only be a more significant advance than Zhang's previous breakthrough, but also constitute a larger leap for number theory than Wiles' 1994 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (which was, in my opinion, the greatest single achievement by an individual mathematician in the 20th century).<p>Some discussion / explanation of Siegel zeros and Zhang's claim can be found here:<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/y93a86/eliundergraduate_the_hype_around_yitang_zhangs/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/y93a86/eliundergradua...</a><p><a href="https://mathoverflow.net/questions/433949/consequences-resulting-from-yitang-zhangs-latest-claimed-results-on-landau-sieg" rel="nofollow">https://mathoverflow.net/questions/433949/consequences-resul...</a><p>An account of Zhang's remarkable story (and his previous breakthrough) can be found here. Famously, prior to his breakthrough, he worked at Subway and lived in his car:<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty</a>
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Title: All I want to do is create simple text pages and add pictures to them, as well as maintaining a document library. But the amount of options, views, cutomization settings, "hidden" display settings is 10xing the amount of work that should be required.<p>I upload a file and neither myself nor my team can't see it. I see some text saying that files that are checked out by you are not visible to others. What? How do I check it back in if _I_ can't see it? What were they thinking?<p>One part of me thinks that it is designed this way so that it necessitates hiring a Sharepoint Developer or SharePoint Admin, which would provide for excellent job security...
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Title: I don't think we need a front-page story on every rumor or every tweet he makes, and for some reason commentators on these stories can't seem to follow the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).<p>Most of the "breaking news" stories have turned out to be false anyways. Nobody's intellectual curiosity is being satiated by this nonsense.<p>I propose a 30 day cooling off period. There are other outlets (e.g. Twitter) for folks who really want up-to-the-second news about Twitter.
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Title: Hello HN! My name is Paras and I am building this project called Slashbase. It's an open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser. Connect to your database, browse data, run a bunch of queries or share queries within your team, right from your browser. Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB.<p>It's written in Golang and Nextjs React Framework and runs as a single binary.<p>Features:<p>- Cloud based: Setup on your server. Works in browser.<p>- Easy to use: with minimal interface it is simple to use.<p>- Collaborative: Works with your teams. Easy sharing queries within team.<p>- Database Support: Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB.<p>It's in beta phase and all I am looking for is some users who want to try it out and drop some feedback in comments.
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Title: A very small team may also count.<p>Excellent = usability/utility or the quality of code.
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Title: Hi HN, I have been making this Cozo database since half a year ago, and now it is ready for public release.<p>My initial motivation is that I want a graph database. Lightweight and easy to use, like SQLite. Powerful and performant, like Postgres. I found none of the existing solutions good enough.<p>Deciding to roll my own, I need to choose a query language. I am familiar with Cypher but consider it not much of an improvement over CTE in SQL (Cypher is sometimes notationally more convenient, but not more expressive). I like Gremlin but would prefer something more declarative. Experimentations with Datomic and its clones convinced me that Datalog is the way to go.<p>Then I need a data model. I find the property graph model (Neo4j, etc.) over-constraining, and the triple store model (Datomic, etc.) suffering from inherent performance problems. They also lack the most important property of the relational model: being an algebra. Non-algebraic models are not very composable: you may store data as property graphs or triples, but when you do a query, you always get back relations. So I decided to have relational algebra as the data model.<p>The end result, I now present to you. Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to address them. This is the first time that I use Rust in a significant project, and I love the experience!
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Title: I created a system for building SVG-only websites called Svija. But, though the content was nice, the sites felt too static — a bit flat and lifeless. Even a basic HTML website has mouseover effects, but SVG doesn't have them for free the way HTML does.<p>I wanted to find an easy way to recreate mouseover functionality in SVG. For my first try, I labeled objects in Adobe Illustrator:<p><pre><code> • linkSomeName: an invisible link <rect> (over the link text)
• mouseoverSomeName: a <g> mouseover decoration (usually bold or colored text, or an underline), initially hidden
</code></pre>
The two objects are connected by "SomeName", and a javascript event listener attached to the link object would change the mouseover object's CSS display from "none" to "block".<p>Once I had used it for a bit, I thought that it might be nicer if the effects faded in and out. So, I tried animating the transitions with GSAP. It immediately became clear that there was enormous potential to manage complex animations visually, and I worked over the
summer to create Svija Vibe.<p>It's all based on linking Adobe Illustrator object names to the GSAP script. Most basic transformations already work well but there's a lot I'll be able to do to make it even simpler to use.<p>I'm really excited about it! I've only just started but I have a million ideas about how to make it more capable — the big one being the ability to chain animations together.<p>There's a support document at <a href="https://tech.svija.love/how/animation" rel="nofollow">https://tech.svija.love/how/animation</a> that gives more detail about exactly what can be done.<p>Svija Vibe is free. It works with Svija, which is also free, but you do need to create an account to use it (Maconly, at least for the next three months).<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430368" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430368</a> · previous HN about Svija 2022-12-03<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30454324" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30454324</a> · previous HN about animation 2022-02-24<p><a href="https://greensock.com" rel="nofollow">https://greensock.com</a> · GSAP
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Title: Hi, I'm Ritinkar and I'm building metadocs, which is kind of like reddit built into every documentation ever.<p>It's a chrome extension that allows discussion on any webpage to happen there itself.<p>Currently I have built threaded comments, and a upvote/downvote system.<p>Plus I've built this cool feature called Highlights, which lets you discuss specific lines in any documentation. As well as a feature called Top Hightlights, which shows the most interesting hightlights on any webpage.<p>Hope you guys will try it out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here.<p>Thanks.
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Title: An Azure Cloud Architect has joined our company. They are recommending that all our web apps that are currently deployed in Azure App Services/ VMs should be (gradually) split up into Azure Functions going forward.<p>I'm skeptical - I was under the impression that serverless was for small "burstable" apps with relatively low traffic, or background processing.<p>The two products I work on are both REST APIs that send and receive data from a user interface (react) with roughly 60 API routes each. They have about 100 concurrent users but those users use the apps heavily.<p>The consensus on the internet seems to be "serverless has its use cases" but it's not clear to me what those use cases are. Are the apps I'm working on good use cases?
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Title: Hi HN! Cody, Reshma, and Rahul here and we’re building Medplum (<a href="https://www.medplum.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.medplum.com</a>), an open-source platform that lets you quickly build complex healthcare applications. We provide a headless EHR (electronic health record) that supports common standards like FHIR, HL7 and more. You build whatever UI and UX you want, and we handle the infrastructure and give you lots of interoperability and automation tools.<p>The digital healthcare space has been hampered by proprietary tech, walled gardens, and vendor lock-in. Working as healthcare app developers ourselves, we kept seeing organizations developing the same infrastructure over and over. The question “how is this stuff not open source?” came up so often that we finally decided to just build it.<p>Out of the box, Medplum includes:<p>- Auth - An end-to-end identity solution for easy user authentication, sign-in, and permissions using OAuth, OpenID, and SMART App Launch<p>- Clinical Data Repository (CDR) - A back-end server that hosts your healthcare data in a secure, compliant, vendor neutral, and standards based repository<p>- A FHIR-based API for sending, receiving, and manipulating data<p>- SDK - Client libraries that simplify the process of interacting with our API or any FHIR server<p>- A web application where you can view your data, perform basic editing tasks<p>- UI Component Library - React components designed to help you quickly develop custom healthcare applications<p>- Medplum Bots - Write and run application logic server-side without needing to set up your own server<p>Our team has years of experience in healthcare technology. We were the founders of MedXT (YC W13) and have held engineering leadership roles at Box and One Medical.<p>Our repo is at <a href="https://github.com/medplum/medplum" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/medplum/medplum</a> and you can see a demo video here: <a href="https://youtu.be/nf6OElRWOJ4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/nf6OElRWOJ4</a>. There’s a sample app at <a href="https://foomedical.com" rel="nofollow">https://foomedical.com</a>, with code at <a href="https://github.com/medplum/foomedical" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/medplum/foomedical</a>.<p>Medplum is under the Apache 2.0 license so any developer can use it for free with no strings attached. We make money through enterprise integrations, and by providing a hosted version and support. Compliance is a priority—we are SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant and are pursuing ONC and HITRUST. Our hosted service runs on AWS and uses cloud infrastructure similar to a typical SaaS application. This is also rare in healthcare.<p>We would love to know what you think - especially any recommendations or ideas you want to share, and would love to hear about your experiences developing healthcare applications!
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Title: I'm pretty salty, I've been paying for Adobe Stock for about $40/month and you get about 10 assets a month. I had 240 assets, so spent about $960 to get it. They failed to charge my credit card and now they removed all credits and said they cannot give it back.<p>My credit card is on file and is working fine for all other products. I basically feel robbed. It just seems silly that they cannot give the assets back. The manager told me the same thing and told me to look at the Terms of Service.<p>Is this my fault given they had the credit card on file and its working fine for everything else? It just seems like Adobe has zero accountability.<p>Also I guess a bit of a warning to anyone who has Adobe Stock, make sure your payments are being processed or they will remove years of credits... To buy the amount of credits I have on their site, it's like $3000.
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Title: This brief reply [0] got some love so I thought I'd elaborate. Company ultimately did the right thing so I'm leaving out elements that would identify them.<p>I was once asked to remove a hardware safety mechanism from a medical device [1] and replace it with a software only function. Technical first, then we'll discuss wetware.<p>The process was started by, and results displayed on, an embedded Windows PC [2]. The PC didn't control any safety critical operations. Hardware peripherals had their own sensors, firmware, and safety mechanisms. You could incinerate the PC at any point and be fine.<p>There was a Big Red Button acting as a physical power cut-out. Request was to remove the physical button and rely only on a software (touch screen). Death was a remote harm, but moderate injury / user stuck in device / panic attack was plausible. And it's Windows, so duh.<p>Managers didn't contest my logic, but the request came down from none other than the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a publicly traded company, who was also a major shareholder and took a personal interest in the project. He ran over every layer of management until he ran into my skinny ass. I'm the runt of the litter that would have been pecked to death in the nest if his parents weren't so amazing.<p>I said no way. Not going to happen. Not going to do it. But I never hinted at resignation. They were going to have to fire me or go around me while I take discoverable notes.<p>That Big Red Button is still there to this day.<p>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead<p>Some suggestions for people in similar circumstances:<p>1. Live within your means and have savings. Hard to stand your ground if you're living paycheck to paycheck.<p>2. Suggest reasonable alternatives and keep cool.<p>3. Document. Even if it's just an email to yourself. Who, what, where, when, why, and how much. Update it as the situation evolves. Stick to raw facts you have direct knowledge of.<p>4. Research and cite applicable regulations or similar situations. Bring it up with company legal / regulatory affairs staff. Email them after the meeting with a summary of what you discussed.<p>5. Bypass chain of command. Make sure people calling the shots have been given your data.<p>6. Don't resign. Just put your tools down.<p>7. ---- I've never had to cross this line, but theoretically….<p>8. Sign nothing that looks like a liability release or NDA (often included in severance offers) if they terminate you.<p>9. Contact government regulators. OSHA, FDA, FAA, etc.<p>10. Nuclear option is go to the press, but I don't suggest that unless you can afford to bring a lawyer and love a shit show. You probably already signed an NDA before this point. But personally, if it involved risk of death, I'd do it.<p>References:<p>[0] <a href="https://twitter.com/LdnmaSentinel/status/1589822045592096768" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/LdnmaSentinel/status/1589822045592096768</a><p>[1] The studious among you will note the similarities to the Therac-25: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25</a><p>[2] At one point we had requirements for hardware peripherals that only had Windows drivers. Otherwise would have gone Linux or some RTOS.<p>Edits: formatting
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Title: I've heard this being said about mathematics and we know that both programming and math are logic based and pretty much require the same thinking techniques and programming is derived from math. So, wouldn't it be true that it's a young man's game for programming too?<p>You only see top programmers who started as kids and probably won some Olympiads and programming competitions, and this continued in their 20s and maybe kept their skill up till 30s but that's about it. What do they do after that?<p>I'm 30 and missed my chance to be a kid prodigy in programming or math and clearly not happening now. Is there an area where you can be good at as you get older and what is the old man's game options as a programmer?
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Title: Obviously a throwaway.<p>I've been doing tech for years (20+). I've been through the startup ringer. I've founded my own company (and exited, nothing real). I've dealt with all of it. It just feels like everything is moving bits now - and the bits sometimes have new fun names, the systems change, the language changes, but it's moving bits. I've had a meaningful, impactful career - I've mentored, given back, done charity work too. I have gratitude, thankfulness, health, and religion. But I'm done. Whether it's working on cool tech, or doing meaningful work like supporting freedom on country X.. I'm done.<p>I'm trying to figure out what else I can do with my life. What else is there that is middle-of-the-road salary-wise, like tech. I'm not looking for massive FAANG like salary replacement, stock, etc. But I am trying to figure out what else I can do that is in any way similar to the middle.<p>I think a lot of us think about this - I know that I have many conversations about it that others bring up. So I thought.. crowdsource? What does HN think?
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Title: <a href="https://opencollective.com/emmet" rel="nofollow">https://opencollective.com/emmet</a><p>I thought this was peculiar for two reasons:<p>* While we all know and love Emmet, I am surprised it's still getting money to this day. Its website is stuck firmly in the Web 2.0 era.<p>* Most of its sponsors are casinos and other gambling websites, and in the real world it's usually an indicator of possible money laundering.<p>* All donations are exactly $150, every time.<p>Anyone know what's going on here? Seems like to me someone is laundering money through OpenCollective...
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Title: Let's assume that:<p><pre><code> * I am a billionaire with 8 billion dollars on my bank account
* There are 8 billion humans on Earth
* Around 6 billion of those humans have a bank account
* I would like to send 1 dollar to every human on Earth
</code></pre>
How would I go about doing this?<p>Some challenges that I believe I'd face:<p><pre><code> 1. Getting the bank account numbers of the people who already have a bank account
2. Getting 1 dollar to people who don't have a bank account
3. Verifying that I'm not sending 1 dollar to the same person several times
4. Building or finding some kind of service that makes sure I don't have to do 8 billion manual transfers
5. Making sure I don't break any international laws in the process
6. How do we handle children?
</code></pre>
Some ideas for how to perhaps deal with these challenges:<p><pre><code> 1. Create a website where I promise to send money if you send me your bank account -- doesn't sound shady at all.
2. Use the same website to also allow people to send their address instead of a bank account number, and then simply send 1 dollar through regular mail? How would postal services in poor or corrupt countries deal with this, once they know there are millions of dollars being sent through the mail?
3. No idea.
4. Would a simple script that iterates over 8 billion rows and sends Stripe commands do the trick?
5. Am I allowed to send money to North Korea? What happens if I send money to a known terrorist? No idea.
6. No idea.</code></pre>
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Title: I want to contribute to community efforts at finding missing kids and be ready for local disaster situations. But as someone who wears headphones my ears are often rattled for hours by these alerts.
This can't be an isolated issue as google indicates multiple lawsuits about this. https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/17/apple-hit-with-lawsuit-over-ear-shattering-amber-alert-volume-through-airpods-pro/
The link is for apple, but as an android user I face the same issue. What I don't understand is why
emergency notifications don't respect media volume? Can someone explain the technical logistical reasons for this?
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Title: Is the React library impacted somehow by Meta layoff? If yes, how?
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Title: Hello folks, I was a telecommunications engineering student when I came across the Erlang language.
I was seduced and it looked like a good career for me.
By the description it was a niche language with a high demand on the market.
But it was 3 years ago and and I still did not find an appropriate Erlang position (I applied to all of the very few offers on the internet and it was not only the telecom offers)
How do one find an Erlang job?
PS: screw Elixir by the way
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Title: (This is a serious question, despite my username)<p>There are plenty of studies that show that having a "purpose" and working after it is correlated with higher happiness or well being. "Purpose" is vague enough, so to make things worse I am going to conflate it with "life meaning", "calling" or "personal values". I recently came across the Japanese "Ikigai" which seems related.<p>Ok, I buy this, however, what is this "purpose/ meaning/ calling/ value" thing? What does it mean, really? How do I find mine?<p>I think this is the kind of thing a fair amount of people here in HN have thought about, so I thought of asking.<p>Is there any research that goes into what is "purpose" and how to figure it out? I've come across plenty that talks about how good it is, but nothing that goes into how to find it. Any serious books that you may recommend?
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Title: Shri and Akshay here - we are building Metlo (<a href="https://github.com/metlo-labs/metlo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/metlo-labs/metlo</a>), an open-source API security tool. Metlo works by discovering all your API endpoints, running security tests, and detecting potential attacks. It runs before your APIs go into production, and also in real time, alerting your security team when anomalous usage patterns are detected. Metlo secures your APIs against the OWASP Top 10 (broken auth, injection, excessive data exposure etc.) and more.<p>Although APIs are one of the largest attack surfaces in companies today, there aren’t many good security tools to protect them. The few tools currently on the market are “enterprise” only; they require you to talk to a salesperson to use, or even see, the product.<p>We saw a need for an open-source solution that could be self-hosted and where you didn’t have to talk to a sales rep to see the product. So we started building an open-source API security tool with an MIT license that you can self-host, fork, and generally do whatever you want with. Since not everyone wants to self-host, we also built a hosted offering that you can get started with for free.<p>Our website is at <a href="https://metlo.com" rel="nofollow">https://metlo.com</a>, repo is at <a href="https://github.com/metlo-labs/metlo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/metlo-labs/metlo</a>. There’s a demo video here: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/2c38c731cf044288995e5ee2566528a7" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/2c38c731cf044288995e5ee2566528a7</a>. Check out our sandbox at <a href="https://demo.metlo.com" rel="nofollow">https://demo.metlo.com</a> (no email required). You can get started with our hosted service (in Beta) for free at <a href="https://app.metlo.com/signup" rel="nofollow">https://app.metlo.com/signup</a> (there’s an always free tier, and paid tier is not enforced yet) , or you can self-host by following the instructions at <a href="https://docs.metlo.com/docs/deploy-to-aws" rel="nofollow">https://docs.metlo.com/docs/deploy-to-aws</a>.<p>Our functionality can be divided into three areas – discovery (OSS), testing (OSS), and protection (closed source):<p>(1) Discovery: Metlo scans your API traffic and discovers all your public endpoints. This is especially useful for finding legacy, undocumented, and shadow endpoints your security team may not be aware of—a particularly nasty way to end up with vulnerabilities. We scan each endpoint for sensitive data (address, phone numbers, ssn, account info, etc) and assign it a risk score so you can instantly understand your highest-risk endpoints.<p>(2) Testing: Metlo runs a suite of automated tests against your API traffic and endpoints so you can find vulnerabilities before an attacker does. We find issues like unauthenticated endpoints returning sensitive data, no HSTS headers, PII in URL params, and many more. You can also write your own tests.<p>(3) Protection: Metlo analyzes ongoing traffic patterns and surfaces anomalous behavior so you can catch and shut down potential attacks in real-time. (This is not part of our open-source offering though.) Our ML Algorithms build a model for baseline API behavior and any deviation from this baseline is surfaced as soon as possible. Our UI gives you full context around any attack to help quickly fix the vulnerability.<p>We’ve tried to make it easy to set up and use Metlo (though deployment can still be easier and we’re working on making it so). You can self-host on AWS, GCP, etc. (should take <5 min to do it) or use our hosted service at <a href="https://app.metlo.com" rel="nofollow">https://app.metlo.com</a>.<p>We make money by charging for our hosted service, protection features, multiple users, SAML/SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and support. As for pricing, here we’re a bit embarrassed because so far we have the dreaded “contact us” for our enterprise plan with some early pricing for others. That’s bad because, as mentioned, our goal is that you should never have to talk to a sales rep. However, we should have a “compare plans and pricing” page figured out in the next few months.<p>We look forward to hearing your feedback and ideas, and your experiences with API security, and are happy to answer any questions!
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Title: I have always extended the life of my phones by flashing custom ROMs. Now I am curious about how this ROMs are built, developed and maintained.
Unfortunately, even though I am a developer with a good technical background, I could not find a good point to start learning.
Any advice?<p>Thanks!
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Title: Based on: https://www.workatastartup.com/companies?role=eng&role_type=be
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Title: I love Streamlit but have run into many situation where taking it from PoC to MVP state is insurmountable.<p>With all the recent HN hype around htmx and sematic html / classless css I decided to build a Streamlit alternative using these on top of FastAPI.<p>This has a couple advantages:
1) easier to extend when you move past PoC since the FastAPI app is exposed (allowing adding more routes) and hstream acts more like a typical web stack
2) with htmx and html (plus MVP.css) doing the heavy lifting the package is alot less complex and easier to reason about - and hopefully more performant eventually
3) html is simple, so using this we can give the user much more control around the look and feel, while falling back onto MVP.css (classless css) sane defaults.<p>Would love to hear people's thoughts.
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Title: Today I'm launching Postcard!<p>I started Postcard when I deleted most social media, but still wanted a way to keep in touch with friends and my network.<p>When I worked at Webflow, it became clear to me that most website builders are way too complex for individual users. So, I drew inspiration from social media - where all you need is a couple photos and text fields to get a great site online. So, I think I’ve about achieved a site builder that even my Mom could use.<p>The product seems simple, but there are many under-the-hood optimizations. There's caching, CDNs, custom domain support, TLS certificate issuance + management, dynamically-generated open graph images, image optimizations, email sending, full-text RSS feed, email reputations, and more. It also uses a couple new products to make the domain connection process easy.<p>Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!<p>PS - Rumor is that Twitter is shutting down Revue. If you want help transferring content and subscribers over to Postcard, just email me!
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Title: Hi all,<p>We're Fabienne and Ewan of Climacrux. Today we're proud to launch our latest project to try and make carbon dioxide removal as accessible as possible: CDR Platform [1].<p>In short: it’s an API to connect to a portfolio of carbon removers. You can purchase from as low as a single gram and select from both natural and technological removal methods.<p>Longer: A couple of years ago we launched an alternative to carbon credits, Carbon Removed[2], designed for individuals to buy and subscribe to CDR. But we always had the nagging thought that there was more that could be done.<p>CDR Platform is our foundation for that - a simple API to get prices and purchase (at the moment). Our plan is to become the Stripe of the carbon removal ecosystem, seamlessly connecting the supply to the demand.<p>We’d love to hear your feedback. Do you see a use case for this and would you use it? What features have we missed? Do you understand what we’re doing and if not, what’s unclear? We’d love to hear from you.[3]<p>Many thanks and happy hacking, Climacrux.<p>P.s. If you are a carbon remover, send us your prices, life cycle analysis and some more information about your removal timeline. Our aim is to bring your services to a wider audience so you can focus on reducing our CO₂ levels. Thanks for your work!<p>[1] <a href="https://docs.cdrplatform.com" rel="nofollow">https://docs.cdrplatform.com</a><p>[2] <a href="https://carbonremoved.com" rel="nofollow">https://carbonremoved.com</a><p>[3] [email protected]
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Title: This is a tool for auditing github organizations including their repos, users, and teams. It is useful for compliance, security and auditing.
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Title: I've used Adderall (not ADHD diagnosed) a couple of times, and it helps a significant amount. However, I know it can't be the real solution - my problem is concretely that anytime I work on something, I can't work on it for long amounts of time - every 15 minutes, I will either visit HN, Reddit, some game, or have to get up and physically leave the desk. I can't bring myself to work on things for extended periods of time. How do you guys do it?
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Title: Hi HN - this is a little side project I threw together. Some implementation details: image processing is all done with headless GIMP (running inside a Docker container) through its built-in Python API. It's _very_ slow (about 50 seconds/image), and currently it processes exactly one image at a time. The website is built with NextJS; payments are processed by Stripe.<p>I've had the best results with pictures of houses, although certain photos of people or nature can look neat, too. (For example: <a href="https://brushify.art/s/ruYmQWk" rel="nofollow">https://brushify.art/s/ruYmQWk</a>, original photo from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation</a>.) The effect obscures the edges of the photo, so images with plenty of margin around the subject work best.<p>Something I'd like to play around with is swapping the GIMP script for an AI-based process (maybe using something like Stable Diffusion?), with the goal of generating images that look more handmade (something like these: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/search?q=watercolor+house" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/ca/search?q=watercolor+house</a>). I have exactly zero AI experience though, so there would be a bit of a learning curve.<p>Would love any thoughts or critiques!<p>----<p>edit: remove unrelated details
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Title: Hello HN, I've linked a tutorial from Pickcode, where students are guided through making a chatbot that plays mad libs. Pickcode is designed for introducing programming without block coding, in a way that's closer to Javascript or Python. I made Pickcode based on my frustrations teaching beginners in both block coding and in Python.<p>The link here is to just one lesson, and I have a few more that you can find on the site. I'd love feedback from HNers with kids age 10-13 or so, or HNers who can put on an intro to programming hat.<p>On the roadmap is adding more complex use cases for your programs (like drag and drop web apps), and obviously many more lessons.<p>If you're a teacher and interested in using this with students, email me at [email protected]
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>ShowMeYourHotKeys is a macOS application I worked for the last months. This app shows the frontmost app's menu items shortcuts (it also have some other features)<p>There is a beta version available on the website.<p>Accessibility permission is necessary to obtain menu items informations and Full disk Access is necessary to create custom shortcuts.<p>I would love to hear all the feedbacks and suggestions.<p>Thank you for your attention.
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Title: With so many layoffs happening simultaneously right now, and so many companies with hiring freezes, layoffs planned, or other prohibitive measures taken, I can imagine that the amount of candidates applying for any one role must be a lot.<p>Tech Recruiters: Have you noticed that more people are applying for the same roles?<p>Do you have less roles to recruit for than before?<p>How intense is the competition presently for roles?<p>Without going into too much detail, I’m about to enter the job market, and I’m terrified
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Title: Side project tunneling a TCP port through WhatsApp, can be useful on airplanes or any WiFi/carrier that has unlimited social network data limits. Appreciate feedback :)
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Title: Hey forks. We just release a complete open-source solution for accelerating Stable Diffusion pretraining and fine-tuning. It help reduce the pretraining cost by 6.5 times, and the hardware cost of fine-tuning by 7 times, while simultaneously speeding up the processes.<p>Open source address: https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI/tree/main/examples/images/diffusion<p>Our codebase for the diffusion models builds heavily on OpenAI's ADM codebase , lucidrains, Stable Diffusion, Lightning and Hugging Face. Thanks for open-sourcing!<p>We also write a blog post about it. https://medium.com/@yangyou_berkeley/diffusion-pretraining-and-hardware-fine-tuning-can-be-almost-7x-cheaper-85e970fe207b<p>Glad to know your thoughts about our work!
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Title: Context (skippable):<p>If you want to learn web development today and you use Google—even with the “one weird trick” of appending ”reddit” to your searches—all you find are micro-services, serverless/lambdas, >1M react packages, >10M npm packages, and >100M tutorials of how to do yet another to-do list with MongoDB or Firebase or the amazing marvel that is using SSR/CSR with Vercel.<p>For the sake of over-simplification, let's call this exciting web development. Now, where can I learn about the other side of the spectrum?<p>Request:<p>Is there an insanely pragmatic website or book containing everything you need to know when creating production-ready (yet simple!) web applications?<p>I am talking about HTML5, CSS3, modern JS (do you even need it? and if so, how does simple javascript look like?); `cron` jobs; database persistence; difference/explanations of when to use bare-metal v. vps v. vm; what there is to know about reverse-proxying and load balancers and how to correctly setup and deploy those and so on?
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Title: I recently received the following email from Microsoft, with hard deadlines for banning domain fronting on existing and new Azure CDN services:<p>"Action required: Azure Front Door/Azure CDN blocking domain fronting<p>Please take action to stop domain fronting on your application before 8 November 2023
You're receiving this email because you currently use Azure Front Door or Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic).<p>Since 29 April 2022, we've changed the behavior of Azure Front Door and Azure CDN from Microsoft to align with our commitment to stop allowing domain fronting behavior on our platform. With that change, we offered the option to enable blocking domain fronting for existing or newly created Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources, through opening a support request. See details in <Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure> <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/blocking-domain-fronting-behavior-on-azure-front-door-azure-front-door-classic-and-azure-cdn-standard-from-microsoft-classic" rel="nofollow">https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/blocking-domain-fronting...</a>.<p>To continue our commitment, we're making changes in two phases to stop allowing domain fronting behavior on our platform.<p>1. Beginning 8 November 2022, all the newly created Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic) or Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources will block any HTTP request that exhibits domain fronting behavior. Previously existing Front Door, Front Door (classic) and CDN from Microsoft (classic) resources aren't affected by these changes.<p>2. Beginning 8 November 2023, all existing Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic) and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources will block any HTTP request that exhibits domain fronting behavior.<p>Recommended action
Between now and 7 November 2023, if you want to block domain fronting for any existing Azure Front Door or Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources created before 8 November 2022, please open a support request. Provide your subscription and Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic), or Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resource information in the support request. Once blocking of domain fronting has been enabled, Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic), and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources will block any HTTP requests that exhibit this behavior.<p>If your application uses a different TLS SNI extension during the TLS negotiation from the request Host header, you should prioritize changing this behavior on your application by 7 November 2023 to ensure they match. Otherwise, your application or API may be impacted by this change on 8 November 2023.<p>If you have any questions, please open a support request and provide your subscription details along with your Front Door or Azure CDN from Microsoft resource information.<p>If you have any questions, please contact us."<p>Posting it here in case it's of interest to anyone.
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Title: Personally, my aim in life - my dream life - is to live a slow life. Own a small house somewhere in the woods. My days will be filled with writing and reading. What about you?
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Title: I'm an old MS-DOS / Windows programmer used to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. The old days were simple, in that you compiled code, and gave it to your customers. Everything just works.<p>Now every time I try to learn something new... there's always a build system in the way, with MSTOICAL it was Autoconf, with switching to Linux, I couldn't get WikidPad to build on Linux, trying to build a lifeboat for Twitter, Python works, but then modules require builds that break.<p>Is it possible to have a system without Make or the like?<p>Alternatively, any good resources for the above?
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Title: I built this small app for fun, to play with image generation thanks to Vercel’s new library [1]. You enter your GitHub username (or anyone’s), and it generates an image with a few info about your account.<p>[1] <a href="https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions/og-image-generation" rel="nofollow">https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions/og...</a>
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Title: A few months ago, I’ve made some controversial comments on an open source project discussion that I regret.
Because of these comments, GitHub decided to permanently ban me from the platform.<p>I can no longer have any account on GitHub, new accounts that I create are hunted and suspended.<p>I tried appealing the ban, and months have passed with no response from support.<p>This means that GitHub has effectively suspended my ability to participate in the development community, and also I cannot work as well, because my company uses GitHub, and as soon as GitHub finds out that a account is used by me, the account is immediately banned under the justification that it is being used to sidestep a decision.<p>I don’t know what to do anymore, I’m afraid, I’m going to be fired if I can’t work, what I’m going to do?<p>Edit: this thread is flagged, did I do anything wrong? Should I change something, or delete it?
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Title: Recently interviewed with a medium sized company for a backend dev position.<p>They said I passed the interviews and promised an offer. After a month of "trying to find a customer to place me", telling me I'm a fantastic candidate etc. they finally decided to cancel the verbal offer until maybe next year.<p>I've recently had other bad experiences were they basically try to find excuses to cut me on interviews. It's like I'm answering the questions correctly minus one, so I'm disqualified.<p>I don't remember job searching being that hard even a few years ago, anybody relates?
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Title: It seems all anyone cares about with crypto is how much richer they get in dollar terms when cryptos go up.<p>And yes, those who were busy explaining why Ethereum is garbage, **coin, etc, and why only they know better, would have been 10% richer in just 2 days.<p>If crypto is supposed to replace other currencies, then you don't get richer if it is worth more in dollars. The entire point is to not use dollars. But nothing is priced in crypto. If it was, there wouldn't be enough supply. Also nobody would ever buy anything with it, because why spend 100 on something today when 50 will buy it tomorrow.<p>So crypto has devolved into nothing more than a scheme to bid up whatever coin of the day becomes a MEME darling and FOMO kicks in. You don't want to lose out on getting rich, do you?<p>Don't give me the crap that DeFi everything is around the corner. It's the same thing as automated driving. It's been right around the corner for years.<p>Windows 95 hit and the entire world was online with email and www everything within three years. Crypto is going on more than a decade with no better use case than day one. Other than a few thousand whales who got super rich when they got the masses to bid up the coins.<p>It amazes me how many people are blissfully unaware of the rampant tether fraud and the effect it could have on the whole ecosystem. This is a view from a good friend of mine who is an expert on the subject and well in the know.<p>Nobody knows where the USD supposedly backing it goes. Most of it is in “commercial paper” they said, but the investors who work in that industry say they’ve never heard of them.<p>This seems impossible because at their scale, that would make them, like, the 5th largest commercial paper investor on Wall Street. How could commercial paper investors not heard of them?<p>Unlike Bitcoin, Eth, and other coins, Tether was always claimed to be backed by something which ensured its's stable value. Tether the company claims that their tether coins are each worth $1.<p>There are now >$60Bn worth of Tether coin issued. With that much money they'd be a very serious private financial institution, and yet they only have 13 employee's. They have never been audited by any independent third party. They have repetitively lied about who owns the company (the same people who own Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange own Tether, and yet did not disclose that until it was found out). They have receptively changed their story on what backs Tether coin (originally each coin had $1 in a bank account to back it, now it's majoritively unspecified "commercial paper").
There is nothing which proves that Tether actually is backed by anything and the billions in new Tether coin which are minted could very well be worthless. Institutionalized investors allegedly sending billions of dollars to Tether, despite tether lying about their reserves, committing fraud by claiming to be fully backed when they were not, and reported by Bloomberg to be under DOJ criminal investigation for bank fraud.<p>There was never anywhere near a trillion dollars put into the crypto system. The miners created multi-millions of imaginary tokens without putting any dollars into the system. Those miner imaginary tokens came out of thin air, not from people investing dollars into the system.<p>If only 10% of those tokens are cashed out instead of "hodl", the $50 billion in tethers and few other dollars would instantly be depleted. The miners have a lot more than 10% to sell.<p>It is a classic Ponzi. All is fine when more people are sucked into putting in dollars (to pay the miners who put in zero dollars). But when people want to cash out, there is not enough dollars in the entire Ponzi to pay 10% of the imaginary tokens. The small amount of cash in the Ponzi runs out and the Ponzi collapses. It is very simple and does not require any complex conspiracy theory.
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Title: Warning: Unpopular opinion ahead.<p>Agile extremists love to dance around the broken record of: “but Agile is what ‘high-performing’ development teams use”.<p>Is it?<p>According to who?<p>What study?<p>What was the sample size?<p>How long was the study run?<p>What caliber of companies were included in the study?<p>Most importantly, what was the percentage increase in deliverability/speed/efficiency/developer happiness/customer happiness when using agile vs without?<p>These are questions the agile overlords either don’t know or refuse to provide the answer to.<p>Even if said studies exist (hint: quality ones don’t), those studies would likely have been conducted by statisticians who have never worked on a development team, thus making their study unqualified right out of the gate.<p>I don’t know what your definition of high-performance is but my definition would be along the lines of “delivering high-quality software quickly and efficiently”.<p>Now please explain to me what part about spending half the day in meetings rather than writing code is actually “high-performing”. There is a reason Elon Musk just fired half of Twitter. Sitting around in meetings all day [pretending it’s important](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sorry-your-job-doesnt-matter-what-matters-wayne-k-spear/) does not provide value. Clearly Elon is calling the bluff of all of the corporate shills who managed to convince company leaders that these meetings truly are important by firing everyone who sits around all day doing something other than writing code. He clearly put 44 billion dollars where his mouth is and told you that your pointless meetings don’t matter and they don’t need it to build quality software.<p>My previous company spent 1 hour every Wednesday talking about whatever urgent items needed to be addressed and then we peaced out for the rest of the week unless anything came up (in which case we would reach out to the person ad-hoc in Slack, rather than scheduling un-needed recurring weekly meetings)<p>My current company spends 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings. These meetings include:<p>- Stand up
- Sprint planning
- Retrospective
- Refinement
- probably 5 others that I’m forgetting<p>I’m not an agile extremist so you’ll have to excuse me if I’ve gotten any of the their ridiculous verbiage wrong.<p>But let’s cut to the chase.<p>Someone explain to me:<p>Where within the definition of “high-performance” does taking 2 weeks and 4 meetings with 10 developers on each call just to deliver a simple list-filter feature fit in?<p>I ask because such a feature would have taken my previous non-agile team not more than 1 meeting and not more than 1 day to complete.<p>If team A takes 2 weeks and 4 meetings to deliver said feature and team B takes 1 day and 1 meetings to deliver said feature then simply put, team A needs to sit down and shut up as they hold no ground to talk about “high-performance”.<p>The time-tested adage of “put your money where your mouth is” holds true no matter how many agile verbiages you want to throw at it or how many agile-non-believers you scream obscenities in the face of.<p>Below is an open challenge to any person or organization:<p>Have your agile team deliver high-quality software more quickly and efficiently than my non-agile team and I will print out this post and eat it on camera.<p>Until then: sit down and shut up.
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Title: My phone screen is broken, so I use Siri a lot lately. I was listening to a song on Spotify, and asked Siri to "Send this song to Alice". Everything seemed to go fine until later, I saw the link was Apple Music, not Spotify.<p>Alice likely never listened to it because we only ever share Spotify links.<p>Also what is happening behind the scenes to give Apple the song from Spotify? Are they just accessing current song on Spotify? What if they don't have it on Apple Music? Or are they running pattern recognition on the audio output to determine song?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>It's still possible to apply to W23 batch and we got loads of Qs about 'which stage is the best'.<p>'The best for your company', it always depends, but 'The best to get in': we know for sure you don't need a product.<p>All we had when we got accepted was a Figma prototype, showing what we <i>would</i> build, and a waiting list.<p>Waiting lists don't mean anything, but it showed we had hustled to get the first 1000+ signups.<p>Here is what our application looked like https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-got-into-yc<p>If you have any question or think we could help you decide to apply or prep for interviews, feel free to ping me on Twitter @ByAnhTho.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Over the past two years, I've been building Upbase, an all-in-one PM tool.<p>I've tried so many project management tools over the years (Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Teamwork, Wrike, Monday, etc.) but they've all fallen short. Most of them are overly complicated and painful to use. Some others, like Trello, are too limited for my needs.<p>Most importantly, most of these tools tend to be focused on team collaboration and completely ignore personal productivity.<p>They are useful for organizing my work, but not great at helping me stay focused to get things done.<p>That's why I decided to build Upbase.<p>I try to make it clean and simple, without all the bells and whistles. Apart from team collaboration, I added many personal productivity features, including Weekly/Daily planner, Time blocking, Pomodoro Timer, Daily Journal, etc. so I don't need another to-do list app.<p>Now I can use Upbase to collaborate with my team AND manage your personal stuff at the same time, without all the bloat.<p>If these resonate with you, then give Upbase a try. It has a Free Forever plan though.<p>Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!
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Title: Hi HN, since my kid was born (almost 16 months ago) I haven't had much time to learn new things, which is something I have always enjoyed.
Similarly to many people, I learn a lot by doing some kind of project (big or small). But since my time is rather constrained, it would like to do some "scratch my itch" kind of project, something that may be useful enough to keep using it.<p>I though of asking you, people at HN, what kind of "scratch your own itch" projects have you done or are doing?<p>I'd like to do something computer related (to learn some Golang), but I'm curious about non-computer projects as well.
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Title: I come from a very poor background, so I quickly learned that if I wanted something I needed to cling onto any opportunity that came up as if my life depended on it, because it did. From high school, to university, now to grad school, all I have done is stay indoors and study. It seems that learning and accumulating information is the only thing I am good at.<p>I am almost done with my master's and I am also working FT at a FAANG company. I had some free time this weekend, when I realized I could do anything, but there was nothing I wanted to do.<p>I know that to some degree I am burned out due to studies, courses and everything else, but I honestly don't know where to go from here.<p>I don't find my job particularly engaging, and I am considering returning to academia. I am having conversations with my co-supervisor on working with them after I graduate, and if that goes well, a PhD at the intersection of privacy, medicine and ML.<p>It that unless I find some big goal to work towards, I am empty, a vessel, becoming what I am doing du jour. I spend all my time working and thinking about the problem and when that stops I don't have anything else.<p>What can I do to deal with this apparent emptiness? I don't think diving into another project will cut it.
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Title: Hello, I'm building a WebAssembly compiler and documenting the process in the meantime.
This aims to be a tool for demonstration and education purpose. It doesn't aim to do fancy stuff nor to replace existing ones.
I'm building this to learn and to improve and hopefully it can be useful for others as well :)<p>From last time I've presented the idea, I've implemented more basic features on Luna and I've built a custom and tiny runtime for Luna! (documenting it of course).<p>Any feedback is really appreciated :)<p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/thomscoder/luna" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thomscoder/luna</a>
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Title: I worked nonstop for the past 20 years in tech / design space, and wanted a break. I also wanted to spend some time with family.<p>I'll take at least 6 months off.<p>But then I'd need to look for a job, but I really don't like the idea of going back to doing the same thing... i.e. web/app design/dev work for larger corporations.<p>So I'm open to doing something completely different, even if it pays 1/3rd.<p>Has anyone here made successful transition to field outside technology?<p>Any advice in general would be appreciated.
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Title: I'll preface this by saying I like Rust, and I've found myself coding more in Rust the last two years than anything else. But Rustaceans kind of like to laugh at Go, because it's not as expressive or elegant a language by comparison. That's mostly true, think of how nicely Option types, enums, and iterators work in Rust compared to Go. However, Go is simple and deeply pragmatic. There is an underrated value in that. Some parts of Rust are starting to remind me of the horror I ran from with C++. Look at this:<p>Update: It is possible to abuse existing CoerceUnsized implementations on stable. See #85099 (although I created that issue before reading any of this issue and its IRLO thread, so don’t expect any syntactic similarity to the unsoundness examples of this issue).<p>The type Pin<&LocalType> implements Deref<Target = LocalType> but it doesn’t implement DerefMut. The types Pin and & are #[fundamental] so that an impl DerefMut for Pin<&LocalType>> is possible. You can use LocalType == SomeLocalStruct or LocalType == dyn LocalTrait and you can coerce Pin<Pin<&SomeLocalStruct>> into Pin<Pin<&dyn LocalTrait>>. (Indeed, two layers of Pin!!) This allows creating a pair of “smart pointers that implement CoerceUnsized but have strange behavior” on stable (Pin<&SomeLocalStruct> and Pin<&dyn LocalTrait> become the smart pointers with “strange behavior” and they already implement CoerceUnsized).<p>More concretely: Since Pin<&dyn LocalTrait>: Deref<dyn LocalTrait>, a “strange behavior” DerefMut implementation of Pin<&dyn LocalTrait> can be used to dereference an underlying Pin<&SomeLocalStruct> into, effectively, a target type (wrapped in the trait object) that’s different from SomeLocalStruct. The struct SomeLocalStruct might always be Unpin while the different type behind the &mut dyn LocalTrait returned by DerefMut can be !Unpin. Having SomeLocalStruct: Unpin allows for easy creation of the Pin<Pin<&SomeLocalStruct>> which coerces into Pin<Pin<&dyn LocalTrait>> even though Pin<&dyn LocalTrait>::Target: !Unpin (and even the actual Target type inside of the trait object being returned by the DerefMut can be !Unpin).<p>Methods on LocalTrait can be used both to make the DerefMut implementation possible and to convert the Pin<&mut dyn LocalTrait> (from a Pin::as_mut call on &mut Pin<Pin<&dyn LocalTrait>>) back into a pinned mutable referene to the concrete “type behind the &mut dyn LocalTrait returned by DerefMut”.<p>From: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/68015#issuecomment-835786438<p>Where's that elegance now? I still maintain that I'd rather use Go when the problem domain allows for it (e.g. can use a garbage collector, don't need fast interoperability with C, don't need maximum performance.)
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Title: The recent layoffs have heightened my my feeling of insecurity and anxiety. Company I work for had a massive layoff and it’s the first I’ve ever experienced. I wasn’t impacted but can’t shake this feeling of insecurity.<p>I’m expecting a second kid and my wife isn’t working and I feel like I need to diversify my income but have never been entrepreneurial and don’t know where to start.<p>I have more than a couple years worth of savings. But this is partly due to not owning a house. Where I live the downpayment would consume most of those savings.<p>Ny wife wouldn’t be able to make high skilled wages unless she invested substantial time into upskilling which she doesn’t have at the moment.<p>How do I shake this feeling? Is there something I should be doing to protect myself besides what I’ve already ?
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Title: After reading this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33525673), I felt scammed for buying my glasses for 400 euros, hence the question. The thread talked a lot about Zenni Optical, any other option for EU people?
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Title: Howdy HN! Tom and Jake here from Unthread (<a href="https://unthread.io" rel="nofollow">https://unthread.io</a>). We make it easy for businesses to manage customer experience (CX) end-to-end inside of Slack. We automatically create tickets for new conversations, handle assignments & escalations, triage with other teams, etc — all without leaving Slack.<p>Here’s a quick Loom showing how it works: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/8158371d29c84550863adbd6719bb112" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/8158371d29c84550863adbd6719bb112</a><p>Unthread was born out of a failed B2B SaaS startup that we were running for about 2 years. We found clients preferred sending bug reports and feature requests through Slack instead of email or the Intercom widget embedded in our app. This was great for us - Slack is a tool we were already using every day, it’s quick and easy to respond, and it’s less formal than composing an email. The problem is that chat != ticketing, and we struggled to keep track of what needed responses or follow-ups. We used a combination of “mark unread”, “remind me”, and DMs to try to triage, and things still slipped through the cracks.<p>We started building Unthread to manage our own customers’ requests inside of Slack. After piloting with other companies in our YC batch who were having the same pain point, we decided to pivot to it being our product.<p>Unthread automatically tracks incoming messages to a channel. We use some basic NLP to determine if it’s an issue or a friendly hello. If it’s an issue, we create a ticket, assign an owner, and send a private message to the assignee that they need to respond. We have an “inbox” in Slack where you can see all of the open conversations that are assigned to you, manage the status of each conversation, and close them out when you're done. If you’re also doing email support, you can forward emails into a Slack channel where reps can compose a response to be sent via email.<p>The unique approach Unthread takes is that none of this is visible to the end customer. We use a combination of ephemeral messages (only visible to your team) and DMs to keep things private. Customers don’t want to talk to a chatbot, so we help support reps provide real responses to customers by giving them the tools behind the scenes to organize and collaborate.<p>We also have an escalation system (think PagerDuty for Slack messages) to notify a backup person if there hasn’t been a response in time. You can configure this on a per-customer basis to set shorter SLAs for more valuable accounts, and we’re working on adding rotations of who’s the primary point of contact.<p>Anyone in the HN community can install the Slack app directly by using this special link: unthread.io/?referral=hn.<p>We’re excited to hear how this resonates with folks’ current experience using Slack for CX! I imagine there are some opinionated workflows out there :)
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Title: Sometimes it takes a book or a course (or explanation from a mentor) for a topic to finally click for you that you were struggling with for a long time.<p>For me, it was Stanford's EE261 course that made Fourier Transform click for me. Here is the link: <a href="https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261" rel="nofollow">https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261</a><p>Similarly for deep learning it was fast.ai courses.<p>For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org.<p>Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS.
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Title: A scammer contacted me on reddit to invite me to join his carding ring. They are using people's stolen identities to open bank accounts in their name, making fraudulent Amazon purchases with that account, and then selling the Amazon goods on ebay before finally laundering the profits through crypto.<p>I think the scammer made an error though, which is that he posted his coinbase account url directly in the invitation email.<p>The scam is structured so that all of the "students" send crypto payments directly to the ringleader; seems fairly simple to find the ringleader's account and then find the rest of the ring by tracing who is sending money to that account.<p>Here's the intro video I was sent where you can see the coinbase account (I copied the video and made a youtube backup):<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/user188604890?embedded=true&source=owner_name&owner=188604890" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/user188604890?embedded=true&source=owner_n...</a><p><a href="https://youtu.be/eZGqHx8NS1o" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/eZGqHx8NS1o</a><p>Here's also the original text message I was sent:<p>༺◍━═━═━◓━═━═━◍༻<p>The only time you'll be invited. Read thoroughly.<p>Online Carding is when you buy compromised credit card details for $10-$20 via autoshops (jstash, feshop, yalelodge, etc) and use it to place big orders on online sites like Amazon, BestBuy, etc.<p>Assuming you could navigate Amazon's fraud detection, you could place an $800 order using the card. What I do is simple, I provide a mentorship where I will (1-on-1) walk you through making at least $3,500 per week through routinely carding Amazon, start to finish, in exchange for less than 1/10th of the profit you make long-term. This is 100% digital.<p>ALL students make over $3,500 per week from this, some nearing up to $6,000.
What I'm about to show you is heavily substantiated with mountains of indisputable proof.<p>◉⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⊰ LEGIT ⊱⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯◉
Over 1,100+ positive rep on Empire from when I used to sell guides. (omnision | 2,900+ total rep, 4.93 ). Teaching carding since 2017.<p>TWO vouching channels where students routinely post proof of their success.<p>Students follow thorough guidelines when vouching, providing objective proof that their success is REAL and CURRENT.<p>Students join via Selly, which means ALL students can rate me & leave feedback, and you can see it prior to joining.<p>◉⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⊰ TIME ⊱⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯◉
MENTORSHIP: 5 days, 1 hour sessions per day.<p>AFTER TAUGHT: ~20 min to card an order. 1-4 orders per day. (20m- 1h20m).<p>◉⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⊰ SAFE ⊱⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯◉
The government convicts 1/13,698 online carders. 1/48 shoplifters for comparison. ANY associated risks will be methodically eliminated through proper digital OPSEC procedure. More detail in our Q&A channel w/ sources provided.<p>༺◍━═━═━◒━═━═━◍༻<p>STATUS (11/12/2022): 4 out of 25 slots remaining.
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Title: Long store:
I purchased a bunch of audio CDs and Apple Music (the Mac app) offered to rip it and save it into my iCloud library. I was very happy and saw to it that all the audio files were uploaded. I even saved it into a new playlist. I also have the paid Apple Music subscription which I pay for monthly.<p>In just an hour, iTunes Match (a feature of the paid Apple Music subscription) tried to match the songs and deleted almost all of them and just left 3 songs in my playlist. I tried it a couple of times and this was still the result.<p>Apparently some songs aren't licensed for my location/country and/or aren't available in the catalog of Apple music for my country and therefore they were all deleted except the ones that Apple already has in their catalog.<p>That got me thinking - Is there a reliable paid service where I could just upload MY music I legally purchased and they wouldn't be deleted just because of some stupid location based licensing or some other reason?<p>Spotify is no better as my songs in their library have disappeared a couple of times as well.<p>Thank you in advance.
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Title: I'm in the middle of a job search and wanted to share my impression after discussions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563083.<p>I'm an unemployed mid/senior-level developer in the U.S. with a mediocre but solid portfolio and passable social skills. I've applied for many jobs at normal non-FAANG places, almost all of which were a decent match for my background, and employers don't seem desperate. Lots of no responses or form rejections, several places where I was rejected after either the initial or tech screen. I haven't gotten to the negotiation phase yet anywhere. When I asked, most seemed serious about hiring: they just got a new round of funding, there was a backlog of work, something, but still no hire. Also almost no response from external recruiters, and very little inbound LinkedIn messaging from anyone.<p>I'm not complaining, it's just how the grind is. I'm getting enough traction that I'm sure it's just a numbers game. But the employers are not desperate.<p>If you are a candidate without a golden resume or big network and need a job, then definitely don't get complacent because of HNers telling you that $100k-150k jobs are falling off trees. Put together a decent portfolio and then get those applications numbers up from day one. My personal goal is at least 100 applications before seriously considering pivoting to something else.
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Title: Inspired by some awesome comments in: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33453037" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33453037</a>
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Title: Hi HN, I am Anubhav from Ramanlabs. We have been working on a native gui application to allow users to search any video data( mp4, mkv) or video streams (http/rtsp) using computer vision.<p>Application is supposed to work like a video player which displays decoded frames and recognizes objects concurrently, making it an interactive experience. It works in super real-time and only expects a quad-core CPU with AVX2 instructions at minimum.<p>Application is free to download (without any signup/account). We are only supporting WINDOWS for now [0]. Even though this is a binary application, we have ZERO telemetry/analytics builtin.<p>User interface is limited for now, and definitely needs more work. But we are releasing it here for early feedback/bugs.<p>We would love for you to try it out and hear your thoughts/feedback.<p>[0] We should also have a linux version ready in few days.
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Title: Been lurking the GitHub issues, Twitter and blog but haven't really gained a full perspective.<p>I'm in the market for a new laptop, currently using a Carbon X1 which I'm generally very happy with. I'm only interested in laptops that I'd run Linux on, but been trying some of the late Apple MacBooks and like the hardware, just the software seems to get in the way sometimes.<p>So came across Asahi Linux project, which seems to be usable for daily work, minus some missing things.<p>But does anyone use Asahi Linux daily here and can talk about their experience?
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Title: Throughout my career I've held exclusively engineering positions. However, I've noticed the parts of my work I enjoy the most aren't necessarily the technical challenges, but instead improvements to process and productivity.<p>My favourite books are 'Getting Things Done' [0], and 'Deep Work' [1]. I also consistently try to find improvements to communication, requirement clarification, and decision making.<p>Is this mindset aligned with what would be expected from a COO? I know virtually nothing about the position apart from a line that stuck with me (paraphrased): 'A COO is similar to a CEO, where they have to do the same amount of work but don't get to make any of the decisions'.<p>Do you have any insights or books/article recommendations for what the role of COO looks like? It would be greatly appreciated<p>[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work
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Title: I am in a dilemma on which language to choose on the backend for my project. I am looking for a performant, statically-typed, systems programming language. I know C++. But C++ has become somewhat an over-engineered language that is mostly in a to-be-not-to-be state of feature development. So I looked at Rust and it already seems going in the direction of C++. So I looked at Swift, and I like what I see, but I am not sure if the language has any serious users on the server-side. IBM was one who was part of the group working on server-side features of Swift, but left the group sometime back.<p>So I was wondering if anyone here is using Swift and or Vapor for backend development?<p>What are the other alternatives, Nim?
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Title: Hello HN!<p>Today, we are pleased to publicly release Kùzu: a new embeddable graph database management system under a permissible license. You can see our blog post in the above link that gives an overview of the system and our goals/vision.<p>The system is in its early stages but please try it out and give us your feedback, tell us your feature requests, and please report bugs!
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Title: I revisited an old React Native project with a view to make a new, updated refresh.<p>React Native is great; React Native firebase is great; Firebase is great; Apple is great.<p>Getting an app published that depends on all these to work together is an absolute nightmare.<p>Just installing it is now a walk through a minefield of errors - is your mac an M1? There are dozens of different recipes to follow for a maddening mix of how to install different versions of ruby, of cocoapods, with homebrew or not, with the arm terminal or rosetta emulator.<p>Maybe I was naive to expect that after a couple of years things would have just gotten <i>easier</i> or <i>faster</i>.<p>After a day spent 99% on just setup and getting a generic app to <i>not break</i>, before even touching a line of code to make a feature, I have quit.<p>I wonder if others feel this way? I'm sad because I like app development, and the idea of building for multiple platforms. And I previously invested a lot in learning and supporting RN but the balkanization of this platform has reached the tipping point for me.
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