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Title: It may be passive or active or maintenance mode of income. Just something created by you and your sole passion that have worked out for quite some time and maybe still going on.
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Title: Whenever I talk, I tend to repeat words and add in a lot of ums and ahs.<p>I also feel like I don’t have a great vocabulary and that I keep reusing the same words over and over again while talking. (I read a lot and have a good vocabulary when reading but for some reason I can’t recall those words when I’m talking improvisationally).<p>I’m wondering if there are any strategies/exercises/books/whatever that I can do/consume to become more eloquent?<p>Most material online seems to be around public speaking and giving better presentations.<p>Instead, I’m looking for material that will help me with expressing myself better in everyday conversation.<p>Thank you!
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Title: Checkout the app at <a href="https://www.lechef.fyi" rel="nofollow">https://www.lechef.fyi</a>
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Title: Hello all,<p>Very excited to share this project with you all!<p>Panoptisch scans your Python file or module to find it's imports (aka dependencies) and recursively does so for all dependencies and sub-dependencies. It then generates a dependency tree in JSON for you to parse and enforce import policies.<p>Supply chain attacks are no joke, and this is one way to transparently analyze your dependencies to see if any malicious imports are taking place. For example, your yaml parser, nor it's sub-dependencies should import socket, or sys.<p>Panoptisch is in early stages, with known limitations (for now). I welcome feedback, testing and contributions.<p>Also, happy to answer any questions!
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Title: I like that Ben Eater's videos are not some popular tech video. They actually teach something with great care and detail. He uses pen paper explanations and not slide presentations.<p>The moving hand and pen paper feedback seems better to me for the same reason a chalk and blackboard wins anyday to me.<p>Are there similar channels in the domains of CS, programming and math?<p>I am interested in these 3 subjects. But if you have a favourite from some other subject which you think people should know of then go ahead share that too. I sometimes watch in depth physics or bio videos.<p>I like the in-depth part and without slide mayhem (that people now call education). Animation is all good if used appropriately like 3blue1brown.
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Title: Last month, I started learning a Python TUI framework called Textual. After working on a 4x4 board game, I made an interactive app to test your CLI text processing skills with 40 beginner to intermediate level exercises. The app is fairly basic in terms of features — only single input file, so no stdin data, multiple files, etc.<p>Most of the exercises in this app is based on my Computing from the Command Line ebook (<a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html" rel="nofollow">https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html</a>). I hope to improve the TUI app to support all the 200+ exercises sometime next year.
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Title: This is an experimental extension for CRDTs, pg_crdt: GitHub repo[0]. It supports Yjs/Yrs and Automerge.<p>The linked blog post [1] describes how we're thinking about this extension in a Supabase context. I want to emphasise this part: "pg_crdt has not been released onto the Supabase platform (and it may never be). We’re considering many options for offline-sync/support and, while CRDTs will undoubtedly factor in, we’re not sure if this is the right approach."<p>[0] GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/supabase/pg_crdt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/supabase/pg_crdt</a><p>[1] Blog post: <a href="https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-crdt" rel="nofollow">https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-crdt</a>
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Title: I was involved in machine learning and AI a few years ago, mainly before the onset of the new diffusion models, large transformers (GPT*), Graph NNs and Neural ODE stuff.<p>I am comfortable with autograd/computation graphs, PyTorch, "classic" neural nets and ones used for vision-type applications, as well as the basics of Transformer networks (I've trained a few smaller ones myself) and RNNs.<p>Do you know of any good resources to slowly get back into the loop?<p>So far I plan on reading through the original Diffusion/GPT papers and start going from there but I'd love to see what you think are some good sources. I would especially love to see some Jupyter notebooks to fiddle with as I find I learn best when I get to play around with the code.<p>Thank you
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Title: The HP Smart App forces you to agree to use only their ink before you can use their app. That shouldn't be a big deal since modern HP printers work fine out of the box without a driver.<p>However, after you've printed a bunch of pages, they stop working and display the error message "Printer setup incomplete. Your HP+ printer must be set up using the HP Smart app. Visit 123.hp.com to download the app and complete the guided setup. Any pages you have printed were intended for setup and have been exhausted."<p>Conveniently, this usually doesn't happen until it's too late to return the printer.
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Title: Lately I've been fascinated by the reverse supply chain of corporate IT equipment. I've been wondering how different companies have been handling differently the question of whether to make laid off employees return their Laptop, Monitor, Furniture etc or not. How did your company handle it?
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Title: I don’t know anyone who has personally used one and my searching on this has been rather lackluster. Most of the image consultants I’m seeing are for celebrities appearing in magazines, advertisements, photo shoots, etc.<p>I’m looking for one based in SF or NYC that is more on the personal and professional level. They don’t just look at what you wear but the entire image overall. (Cosmetic work, fitness, context, etc.) I know this is a bit niche and probably mostly for certain execs but I need an image overhaul direly.
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Title: I'd love a recap of the tech for someone that remembers how ANNs work but not transformers (ELI5?). Why is ChatGPT so much better, too? and how big of a weight network are we talking about that it retains such a diverse knowledge on things?
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Title: There's a lot of news regarding copilot and openAI and what have you. I'm not familiar with AI so I cannot really tell hype from substance here.<p>Should I worry? Do you think that some form of AI will be able to do the job of an average programmer any time soon? If yes what is your estimate? And how would you try to AI-proof your career?
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Title: As I keep hearing about the tech layoffs, I can't help but think about starting a side hustle. But I have no idea how to find the right niche nor project idea.
So how did you folks do it?
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Title: I want to know if other developers listen to podcasts and which ones? I love to listen to podcasts at the gym, but need some new ones related to software engineering.
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Title: I am 18+ year exp software professional. I see wide variety of topics in HN and I feel like I don’t know a lot of things in computer world. Off late I find it hard to follow lot of them. Crypto, ML, Data, Quantum Computing. Do anyone feel this or if you feel it how you cope up ?
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Title: We often spend long hours staring at a computer screen, which can take a toll on our eyes. What are some effective ways that you have found to protect your eyes during these long coding sessions? Do you have any specific techniques or strategies that you use to prevent eye strain?
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Title: It's already happening [0].<p>Stackoverflow recently banned generated responses [1].<p>We're facing a new karma-generating strategy and, IMO, a policy is urgently needed.<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=clay-dreidels" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=clay-dreidels</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/help/gpt-policy</a>
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Title: The powerful tool to create travel/geo infographics and animated maps. You can even add the stickers on the planet!<p>Example <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_DvPoCMmM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_DvPoCMmM</a>
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Title: Hi Hacker News community,<p>I'm trying to deal with a very interesting (to me) case. Someone is proxy-mirroring all content of my website under a different domain name.<p>- Original: <a href="https://www.saashub.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.saashub.com</a><p>- Abuser/Proxy-mirror: <a href="https://sukuns.us.to" rel="nofollow">https://sukuns.us.to</a><p>My ideas of resolution:<p>1) Block them by IP - That doesn't work as they are rotating the IP from which the request is coming.<p>2) Block them by User Agent - They are duplicating the user-agent of the person making the request to sukuns.us.to<p>3) Add some JavaScript to redirect to the original domain-name - They are stripping all JS.<p>4) Use absolute URLs everywhere - they are rewriting everything www.saashub.com to their domain name.<p>i.e. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.<p>p.s. what is more, Bing is indexing all of SaaSHub's content under sukuns.us.to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I've reported a copyright infringement, but I have a feeling that it could take ages to get resolved.
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Title: I'm not sure whether its possible to obtain this model from OpenAI or how hard it may be for unscrupulous actors to train their own on the same principles.<p>On the assumption that it is entirely possible, wouldn't the natural consequence -- amongst others -- be weaponisation for unscrupulous purposes? Won't it result in 1000s of blogs mushrooming over night from purported bots-come-experts with some kind of engineered slant? Whole "online communities" for the unsuspecting to join initially made up of nothing but bots "talking" to each other, bots written journal papers / editorials, etc, and so on.<p>What comes next?
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Title: My wife is currently in Germany and had cell broadcast warnings disabled on her Android 11 device. Apparently, the local carrier she uses turns them back on remotely. She gets notified of this. "Settings changed by carrier."<p>(1) Were you aware that carriers can remotely override your settings like this?
(2) Any strategies to keep something like this from happening besides rooting the device?
(3) How do you feel about this type of remote control by a third party?<p>I must say I strongly dislike losing control over my own device. It feels dystopian to me.<p>I also couldn't find any mention of this particular power of carriers apart from one lonely Reddit post about someone trying to turn off Amber alerts [1].<p>----------------
EDIT: Additional info for clarity:<p>The settings I am referring to are under "Apps & notifications"/"Wireless emergency alerts". They are about controlling whether to and which alerts one wants to receive on their phone.<p>It's an unlocked Android One device. The carrier seems to be able to remotely change these settings (see the referenced Reddit post as well), which I would never expect. It seems to be because of the SIM the phone uses and the network it connects to. No user-controlled software change like updates.<p>----------------<p>[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/zebvs4/settings_changed_by_carrier/
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Title: I saw this question being asked on here years ago with few but interesting answers. I'd imagine that a lot of you still have some pretty interesting stories to tell about some crafty workarounds.
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Title: Embed a snow effect on your website with one line of code (~1.3kB), and add some Christmas magic to your websites. A quick weekend project :)
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Title: Are there any self-hosted and open-source ChatGPT alternatives?
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Title: Hi all - I’ve been thinking about this lately. In tech we generally have the ability to find “cushy” jobs. However, sometimes it seems like other industries might be more fulfilling, even if the hours are longer and the pay is less. Have you ever left tech to pursue something like this? If so how did it go? If not why not?
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Title: I'm dirt poor. Everyone here should know that.<p>So my phone has been failing to charge for three weeks and I bought a new phone today and can't get it set up because the old one is dead and I can't get a verification code. So I moved the old sim card on the advice of one of my sons and the codes are still going to the old physical phone and Google says it will send me a link in 72 hours.<p>Google is convinced I'm trying to break into my own accounts because I can't get access to codes on my dead phone. So I may lose my access to my google account, my blogs, etc.<p>If anyone has contacts at google and can tell them, yea, verily, Doreen Michele Traylor is a real person who is real poor and we all know her and please let her keep her phone number and her (my full name) google account and get me out of this fucking nightmare, that would be coolios.<p>Please and thank you.
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Title: Dear HN community,<p>since there are quite some comments highlighting the effectiveness of a good VIM setup and muscle memory of 10+ years, I would like to know your opinion on starting to get into it now (end of 2022).<p>For context: I'm a backend developer with 10+ years of experience, mostly using Java IDEs, and lately some vscode (for go, typescript, rust). I have some knowledge in vim, and can use it for basic text editing, but I still use the arrows for navigation, and found the "hjkl" navigation difficult. I'm somewhat experienced using linux and the terminal, and would be curious to dig deeper into more terminal-based workflows.<p>The question is: do you think it's worth the effort to learn using VIM more deeply today? The goal would be to at least be able to do the go and rust coding in vim, it doesn't need to be a full Java IDE. Bonus points for an opinion about "If yes, do you think VIM is still fine, or rather neovim? Or something fresh like helix?"<p>Thanks a lot!
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Title: I've been looking for alternatives since the Heroku announcement.
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Title: macOS is nice, but I always feel like everything is controlled by apple and I can't change it. Like using a window manager, which in Linux it helped a lot, but in macOS there is almost none good ones, they all feel like kind of sluggish.
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Title: I’ve been in the MLOps space for ~10 years, and data is still the hardest unsolved open problem. Code is versioned using Git, data is stored somewhere else, and context often lives in a 3rd location like Slack or GDocs. This is why we built XetHub, a platform that enables teams to treat data like code, using Git.<p>Unlike Git LFS, we don’t just store the files. We use content-defined chunking and Merkle Trees to dedupe against everything in history. This allows small changes in large files to be stored compactly. Read more here: <a href="https://xethub.com/assets/docs/how-xet-deduplication-works" rel="nofollow">https://xethub.com/assets/docs/how-xet-deduplication-works</a><p>Today, XetHub works for 1 TB repositories, and we plan to scale to 100 TB in the next year. Our implementation is in Rust (client & cache + storage) and our web application is written in Go. XetHub includes a GitHub-like web interface that provides automatic CSV summaries and allows custom visualizations using Vega. Even at 1 TB, we know downloading an entire repository is painful, so we built git-xet mount - which, in seconds, provides a user-mode filesystem view over the repo.<p>XetHub is available today (Linux & Mac today, Windows coming soon) and we would love your feedback!<p>Read more here:<p>- <a href="https://xetdata.com/blog/2022/10/15/why-xetdata" rel="nofollow">https://xetdata.com/blog/2022/10/15/why-xetdata</a><p>- <a href="https://xetdata.com/blog/2022/12/13/introducing-xethub" rel="nofollow">https://xetdata.com/blog/2022/12/13/introducing-xethub</a>
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Title: I saw a few ads here for hiring over the last month for YC companies in NYC that did not post their salary range, and clicking through to the post on their portal the range was also nowhere to be found.<p>I can't comment on those posts, so I wasn't able to do any type of callout. I thought I remember being able to comment on them, but I think that functionality was removed ...<p>Why is this acceptable?
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Title: XP1 is an assistant based on GPT with access to your browser tabs content. It is geared (prompted) towards productivity and can be used to help you with your daily tasks (answering emails, summarizing, extracting structured data from unstructured text, ...)
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Title: Just came back to me now.
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Title: Gumroad somewhat notably is a company that has <i>only</i> part-time employees. There are some companies that do a 4 day work week, and some big companies like Google have policies where full-timers can ask to go down to 60% or 80% pro-rated, but you can't apply directly for those positions.<p>Are there other companies like Gumroad that offer part-time employment as a competitive hiring advantage and as a formalized program? Note I'm not asking for companies that have allowed it one-off for a key hire, or a company that hires contractors occasionally.
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Title: What's you life work?<p>What is it that you're working on, be it an area, company, game, language, subject, cause etc. That you expect to work until the end of your life?<p>Starting with me it's a little bit hard. I have so many interests that picking a single one out of all of them is hard. But I plan on working on companies, causes, philosophies, books, areas etc.<p>Some of the areas I'm interested in are: Intelligence, IQ, Collective Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Writing, Sleep, Comics, AI, Game Design, Meta Cognition, Zettelkasten, Linguistics, Design, Coordination etc.<p>My current project is: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook.
It's a mixture of Roam Research, Obsidian, Emacs, VSCode(in the future), Figma etc.<p>I plan on making an online mode for people to share and collaborate with other people being as easy as sharing a link. I don't plan on making this my "Life's Work" because I believe other opportunities will arise as I go in life.<p>Examples:
- Minecraft(Notch)
- RimWorld(Tynan Sylvester)
- C++(Bjarne Stroustrup)
- Java(James Gosling)
- Linux Kernel(Linus Torvalds)
- SpaxeX, Tesla(Elon Musk)
- Growth Mindset(Carol Dweck)<p>So ... here it is, what's something you're so dedicated to that you're willing to call it "your life's work"?
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Title: We built installable software for Windows & Linux that makes any remote Nvidia GPU accessible to, and shareable across, any number of remote clients running local applications, all over standard networking.
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Title: What are your favorite board games of 2022? I think saboteur might be kind of old, but it ranks for my favorite this year (as I just found out about it)
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Title: I've been looking at remote opportunities and realized that a huge portion of companies hiring remotely requires you to be in certain regions (US, EMEA, APAC) — fully international remote is rare. Personally, I'm interested in "remote ok" startups (YC-backed & otherwise) but I'm outside of their specified regions and hesitant to reach out because of that.<p>It's puzzling to me because I've been successful in previous fully international remote roles (& have lots of experience building remote workflows), so I'd like to understand the motivation behind why and identify potential solutions to enabling it, as a thought exercise driven by curiousity.<p>From my perspective, there are a few barriers to this:<p>- Timezone. This is a huge one when it comes to synchronous communications, especially if you're in the driver's seat (as a team lead etc.) Disparate timezones between team members can break a team's velocity if you're not built to be fully asynchronous from the ground-up, which IMO requires a cultural shift in communications (moving towards async comms where meetings are kept to bare minimum and/or only used for social face time). What can we do to make the switch to async comms easier?<p>- No "human" touch. Socializing is critical because humans have an innate desire to connect; nothing can replace real-world connections. This is why off-sites exist for remote companies. They're way easier to arrange when your team isn't spread across continents, and arranging for international off-sites can be cost prohibitive as a startup. I believe there is nothing we can do to replace that human touch (not even the metaverse), so what can we do to make travel planning for companies easier and/or less costly?<p>- Difficult to figure compensation scale. Remote roles typically peg compensations to CoL (Cost of Living). The typical setup I've seen is applying a CoL multiplier to the base comp. for the role and tacking on +/-20% for competitiveness (or as an "error correction"). How can we help them make these decisions easier?<p>- Lack of legal presence. Having no legal entity in the country you're <i>hiring</i> in is a non sequitur, and setting up a legal entity per-country-per-hire is not scalable (beyond setting up the entity itself, you need to be aware of local labour laws, your tax obligations, insurance, etc.) I think Deel (https://www.deel.com/) has already solved this.<p>- Compliance & regulations. The company may be handling sensitive data and/or has PCI/HIPAA compliance obligations. Or it may be a government organization where security/background checks must be performed. Systems/data access may also need to be scrutinized in situation of audits and documented ahead-of-time. Not much we can do here and I think it's a question of risk, so no international remote is probably for the best.<p>I'm sure I'm missing something important. What do you think?<p>(edit: formatting)<p>(edit2: fix typo & re-phrase)<p>(edit3: typo)
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Title: I wonder when do you upvote a story? When you see the interesting headline or after reading the article that it leads to?
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Title: For a long time, I thought preserving the environment through reducing greenhouse gas emissions would improve human wealth as a result - via ecosystem services, not having to move agriculture and populations when rain patterns change and so on.<p>But apparently, the IPCC estimates that the best scenario by far in terms of GDP per capita is the fossil-fueled development.[1] I was shocked to discover this.<p>Why is this the case? Did the IPCC not correctly factor how quality of life would deteriorate in case of climate change?<p>In light of this, why should we aim to reduce emissions at a significant detriment to human life? Is it because of unknown unknowns? Or solely to preserve endangered species?<p>[1] - <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/ipcc-scenarios?facet=none&Metric=GDP" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/ipcc-scenarios?facet=no...</a>
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Title: I have a concept for a social network that would eliminate many pain points. I'm sure others do too.<p>How could we build a communal product for the public? Theoretically, this approach would result in a better product. Practically, it seems nearly impossible.<p>What are your thoughts?<p>Edit:<p>Let me give an example that I have been thinking about since 2009.<p>It requires a fundamental change from the reach model towards concentric social circles. The social network would allow users to arrange into small topical groups called social circles. These social circles would have a cap of 10 (arbitrary number) members. Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.<p>This model closely mirrors real social interactions and allows for both private and intimate communication. It also offers a profitable advertising opportunity. A social circle reflects its members’ interests and context.
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Title: variations of this question would be how to stop procrastination, how to be disciplined, how to be productive...<p>Some days it's better, but those are when my sleep goes REALLY well... but that's like having motivation, not everyday is gonna be a perfect day, it'd be really advantageous to be able to maintain a good amount of momentum consistently.
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Title: Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta.<p>Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight:<p>* web pages<p>* emails/newsletters<p>* PDFs<p>* ePubs<p>* twitter threads<p>* youtube videos (with transcripts)<p>* RSS feeds<p>With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually consume & stay on top of that content!<p>There are also a lot of advanced features too, such as text-to-speech, GPT3 questions/summaries, super powerful highlighting (that includes markup and images), complex filtering/search (with our own query language), sleek mobile triage UI, keyboard shortcuts for reading/everything, integrations with note-taking apps, a browser extension for both saving pages and highlighting them, and much more.<p>If anyone's interested in more product details, as well as our business model, etc, we wrote a detailed launch post: <a href="https://blog.readwise.io/the-next-chapter-of-reader-public-beta/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.readwise.io/the-next-chapter-of-reader-public-b...</a><p>Predicting a common question: Reader is part of the Readwise subscription pricing right now in beta -- there's a 30 day free trial and then it's paid at ~$8usd/month. We also promise to not raise this price for existing subscribers.<p>Reader is also fairly technically interesting -- our iOS, Android and webapp all work fully offline and sync your reading data/progress with eachother. Our search on web is built with wasm sqlite. We have a fairly intense pipeline for cleaning web articles (removing ads/styling). We share lot of modules around syncing/highlighting across all platforms, etc...<p>Happy to answer any questions :)
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Title: URLs containing any of the popular Mastodon servers are rejected by the Twitter API. Profile bios and URLs are now rejected if a user attempts to change them. All the major Mastodon sites are flagged, and Twitter is even checking 3XX redirects, transparent proxies, and URL/link shortening services for Mastodon related responses.
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Title: Hi there,
This is just a shameless self-plug about a personal project of mine:<p><pre><code> "Using mpv and mpvc to play and manage the stuff I listen."
</code></pre>
To that end I've forked the great <a href="https://github.com/lwilletts/mpvc">https://github.com/lwilletts/mpvc</a> and started hacking around, so far I've focused on: getting a minimal TUI working, improving the CLI, playing online music (eg. youtube and other streaming services), and bugfixes (including the introducing new ones).
The project is mainly developed, and, used under Debian/Ubuntu systems so expect the best results with these.<p>What I expect from sharing in HN is:<p>- Letting people know about that might find it useful/interesting.<p>- Getting some feedback about things that I might have been missing.<p>- Being a personal project, that I use and develop, I've got no commercial interest, but I highly value if people find it useful and promote it.<p>If you are still reading, just head to <a href="https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/" rel="nofollow">https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/</a><p>Thanks!
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Title: 10 months ago, I started to work at a company that uses Slack heavily. They have 1000+ channels and my team is tagged in a lot of stuff so I get a lot of notifications.<p>I can't concentrate at all. It's not like it's annoying, I simply cannot work.<p>I have been spending 10x more energy since I started to just keep above the water but now, after 10 months, I'm simply drowning and my tickets are all piling up.<p>I don't want to be that person that's not reachable but more and more, I'm thinking about closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day.<p>Any advice?
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Title: Or is there a list of them somewhere?
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Title: I was born in the late 90s so by the time I got involved in technology, my introduction to Unix and Unix-flavored systems was limited to Linux and MacOS. However, I've read about the history of Unix at Bell Labs, the BSD systems derived from research Unix, and the eventual commercial releases of Unix System V from AT&T themselves. I also see that HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris are apparently still maintained and get releases, which suggests that they are still being used in production in some places.<p>I'm curious if anyone here currently works (or has very recently worked) somewhere where proprietary Unix is still used for production. If so, can you tell me what they're used for and why those deployments haven't been moved to an appropriate Linux distribution?<p>Not suggesting Linux is necessarily better for all use cases, just wondering what keeps these small number of entities clinging to closed-source Unix with presumably pricey license costs.
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Title: I'm using "internet addiction" here in a loose sense. Think of all modern hyper-engaging online services: TikTok, MMORPGs, social media, video games, porn, etc.<p>I think HN users might be especially aware of how addicting these can be, so do you take any precautions to help your children avoid falling prey to them?
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Title: I really liked the "Raytracing in one Weekend" Series [0], in terms of: explaining a complicated concept by programming a toy implementation of the thing itself and afterwards one is left with more knowledge and something to "show".<p>Does someone know similar series on other subjects than raytracing? I know there is the Advent of Code, but that's more like solving a puzzle.<p>[0]: <a href="https://raytracing.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://raytracing.github.io</a>
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Title: This is a long shot, but I am a desperate dad reaching out to my developer network, and I thought I would also try here.<p>Unfortunately, my daughter inherited my autism, which made growing up difficult. She had no friends and was bullied so severely that after multiple schools, we were forced to home-school for most of her teenage years, then through the COVID lockdowns.<p>Social media became an essential part of her life, mainly Instagram.
She worked hard on it for hours every day. She started modelling free collaborative work with photographers. She took the hard path; no bikinis, lingerie or sexualised content. She did this for years and eventually got enough followers to get regular paid modelling work, and at 19, this is now her job, along with singing which we started to help with her confidence.<p>We are unsure how it happened, but after four years, her account has been banned for impersonation. The only thing we can think of was a week ago, she ran into some of the girls who bullied her years ago, and they probably reported her out of spite.<p>There were no warnings, and the remediation process was a form that came back rejected with no ability to try again, even though she has a business registered for the account, driver's license and other identification. We have tried everything else, and now she cannot even create a new account, as it is getting banned for spam if she tries contacting her old network.
This is not only her job but her life, her network, and her friends; it's all gone.<p>I know these are first-world problems, and it's probably stupid to reach out to HN, but it broke my heart to witness the decade of pain she has gone through, every birthday party, not a single friend.
Now watching her go through this, inconsolable, I am worried she will do something stupid to hurt herself,I am asking for any help.<p>I am looking for any contacts at Meta to see if there is any back channel to try and get her account reinstated or advice on how to move forward.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back.<p>I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal.<p>Very much a work in progress.
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Title: I am a believer I can learn from anywhere and I thought I can ask HN folks to share what they learned or received advice that had profound impact. For me, be relentless in saying NO to things. It came from a trusted friend when I was complaining about overworked at my workplace.
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Title: This is a quick prototype I built for semantic search and factual question answering using embeddings and GPT-3.<p>It tries to solve the LLM hallucination issue by guiding it only to answer questions from the given context instead of making things up. If you ask something not covered in an episode, it should say that it doesn't know rather than providing a plausible, but potentially incorrect response.<p>It uses Whisper to transcribe, text-embedding-ada-002 to embed, Pinecone.io to search, and text-davinci-003 to generate the answer.<p>More examples and explanations here: <a href="https://twitter.com/rileytomasek/status/1603854647575384067" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/rileytomasek/status/1603854647575384067</a>
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Title: Hi HN, Is this a known thing? I'm pretty frustrated, and even given my near-complete disillusionment about capital-driven-tech these days, I can't believe Google is doing this.<p>I just got home from being in Mexico where I used my VPN (because of course US financial apps panic if you access them outside the US).<p>I fired up my LG TV running the YouTube app (which I'm not signed into) and every, single, ad is in Spanish.<p>My Edge browser on my desktop computer gives results in Mexico and claims I'm in Quintanna Roo. In many places, I cannot override this, at least without signing in and/or apparently explicitly feeding it more accurate location data to "fix" it's perception.<p>Is this expected/known? At one point, it even said "based on your IP address" despite the fact that my IP clearly looks up to a Washington State IP address.<p>I just wish I could make this known to Google's advertisers. Are they aware that when I travel, they're pay to show me ads that I can't understand?
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Title: Hi Hacker News!<p>I made a site which displays the most common useragents found on the web.<p>The site updates weekly with data sourced from the server access logs of another site I run in order to give an accurate picture of the devices and browsers being used on the web.<p>I do a lot of web scraping in my work and it's this group of people who I had in mind when creating the site.<p>The data is presented as useragent, browser, os, and relative percentage of occurence. It can be viewed as a table on the site or via json in the API.<p>Please let me know your thoughts or feedback and I hope you find it useful!<p>Thanks!
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Title: A few months ago I noticed that I was quickly approaching my 10GB sync limit for my daily driver vault. I considered deprecating some of the heavier files and images, but I was worried how it would affect the integrity of my vault. Instead, I took the opportunity to think to myself -- what would the perfect vault look like?<p>I began to write down some of the key philosophies and strategies I use in my driver vault which led to indispensable plugins, which led to more indispensable philosophies and on and on it went.<p>I've chronicled these results into a fully working vault template that includes templates, dataviews, macros, scripts, and powerful but simple and intuitive structural elements.<p>This vault is truly a condensation of all of my knowledge pertaining to Obsidian (the README is very long), so please do give it a go! I promise you'll like what you see!
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Title: I used Stripe for about 2 years to run a fashion brand in the uk. In the case of my business, I never had an issue processing my small payments for dresses, ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to $1000. All of a sudden, we start getting attention we get payments of $3300 and more. We had around 50000$ dollars on stripe. Stripe flagged the account and is now holding the money from me for "at least 120 days"<p>It is one thing to say this is a red flag, fine... I hear you... no problem. a transaction multiple times the size... sure. I get it. However, A normal payment processor would then query you for documents authorizing the charge, bank statements, financial statements, some sort of procedure to remedy the issue. Stripe provides NO SUCH METHOD TO RESOLVE these issues.<p>There are reports of Stripe continuing to add "30 days" to the reserve hold past the initial 120 days, indefinitely. Stripe is taking advantage of a lack of regulation in this space to steal small merchant's large transactions. They see a big, outlier transaction and lick their chops, hiding behind KYC and "Fraud prevention" To hold your money indefinitely.<p>You cannot call Stripe. They do not have a phone number. Their support page on their website has Phone call and messaging grayed out. You can only email. If you email, you get robots. Even in the same email thread, a different "agent" (with a different name and everything) answers each time with not prior knowledge of your history. There are no ticket numbers to your support request; nothing tracking it. The robots respond with what is quite obviously a template response.<p>If you do a little bit of research about this topic, you immediately see this is a prevailing issue. Reports of Stripe taking up to $31,000 are all over the internet! Again, Stripe gives no manner to remedy this. There is NO ONE you can call. NO ONE you can talk to. More disconcerting, it seems that anyone who posts about this issue on reddit gets downvoted and teamed up against by established Reddit accounts, that I have to imagine are owned by Stripe. These account have some established reddit history on them, mainly talking about coding in PERL. It's a little sus.<p>In my case, I sent my EIN letter, Sales Tax Receipt, Articles of Org, Statement of Trade Name, Certificate of Good Standing, Bank Statements, Website links, Signed transaction receipts, and anything I could think of to Stripe to review. I just received robot-responses.<p>I challenge anyone here to connect me to a human being at Stripe that can tell me how to resolve the issue. It can't be done. This is a big problem and should be brought to the attention of small business owners, and regulators!<p>TL;DR: Stripe is a faceless enterprise with no humans you can talk to, no publicly listed phone number, and will allow your small account to operate just fine for a while. As soon as they see that you are growing (and thus your chances of leaving Stripe for a larger, more favorable processor) they will Freeze your account, disallow you to issue refunds, and hold your money indefinitely. You've been warned!!!
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Title: My personal itch to scratch just recently has been the umpteen formatting foibles of HackerNews. So, in the spirit of making the web more personal again, I knocked up a TamperMonkey userscript to fix up the worst of my personal bugbears.<p>This isn't an attempt at a complete rebrand/redesign of the site, instead it's just fixing up what I think are the biggest design/readability issues whilst trying to remain true to the site's existing aesthetic.<p>Key features:<p><pre><code> * Base font size increased
* A little more room around headings
* Top menu bar is full-width and with a little more padding
* Downvoted comments no longer faint hard-to-read grey. Instead they're rendered with a light gray background and in a smaller font size.
* Comments have a more readable max line length
* Quotes are parsed and transformed to look like genuine quotes. I.e. any p or span that starts with '>' is transformed and rendered with a light orange background and in italics.
* The 'Add comment' box on items is hidden by default. (Surely you'd want to read all the comments first before leaping in with your own 2p's worth!?)
</code></pre>
Check out the repo's readme for example screenshots.
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Title: I'm starting to work with C and would like to build a webserver. I've found a few interesting writeups but would love to hear from the community.<p>What's your favorite book/post/lecture/whatever? I'd also be interested in opinionated writeups/positions.
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Title: Musk, and many of those defending him, keep claiming[0] that his aircraft are part of the FAA's Privacy ICAO aircraft address (PIA) program[1]. And that therefore ElonJet or anyone else tracking them is doing more than just republishing public information because you have to first deobfuscate the PIA code.<p>It's false: None of the aircraft Musk has been using are currently using PIA transponder codes or have been recently, and you can verify that for yourself.<p>What PIA does is assign you a fresh non-traceable ICAO hex code every 60 days for each aircraft in the program. You are then responsible for keying that code into your aircraft's transponder each time you get a new one. If you don't change the transponder code there's no additional privacy, as the transponder broadcasts its original identity.<p>This is what an aircraft in the PIA program looks like on ADSB Exchange: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a0fe01<p>Note the 'PIA' flag and lack of additional information that would normally be pulled from the registry. If you convert that to the registration using an online lookup tool[2] you get N163NB, a fake record.[3]<p>Musk uses three jets, N628TS, N272BG, and N502SX. None are using PIA codes and all are easily visible on ADSB Exchange and most importantly have are still using their ICAO hex codes that are listed publicly along with ownership information on the FAA registry.<p>In fact, N628TS is airborne over the Middle East right now using its original assigned ICAO hex code of A835AF, not a PIA code.<p><i>Edit: As pointed out, this is because PIA codes may not be used when flying internationally. However you can view the aircraft's recent US-only flights and see it using the same code.</i><p>Perhaps his aircraft have used PIA codes in the past, but they're not using them now. Here's Aric Toler of Bellingcat making the same point: https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1603802439232241665<p>In our discussions on HN we should at least be able to agree on basic facts like these, and avoid repeating the claims made by those with an interest in confusing the issue.<p>N628TS:<p>https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af<p>https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=628TS<p>N272BG:<p>https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2ae0a<p>https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=272BG<p>N502SX:<p>https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a64304<p>https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=502SX<p>[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603803508087537665<p>[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy<p>[2] http://www.avionictools.com/icao.php<p>[3] https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=163NB
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I've seen a few posts encouraging people to start blogging or collect their TILs in the form of a blog. I find this to be a great idea, but if it's meant to be public, how would you approach the sharing of this information?<p>I don't love the idea of spamming social media with links just to get people to discover your blog, but maybe that's the best approach.<p>The other option I guess is to just post and let it be discovered, but would that ever happen organically in today's internet?<p>From the other end, as a reader, how do you keep track of interesting blogs? Is RSS still being used? Personally I've realized I read blog posts shared on social media or here on HN, which comes back to as a blogger you might have to spam your links to get traffic.
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Title: Hey HN, we are Daniel and Tal, Co-founders of Slauth.io (<a href="https://www.slauth.io">https://www.slauth.io</a>). Slauth auto-generates IAM policies in order to save engineering time and make your policies more secure.<p>If you're an engineer, you probably know how tedious and error-prone it can be to manually write IAM policies. We surveyed over 70 engineers and found out that a majority are using or have used wildcards (*) in order to quickly write IAM policies.<p>By using client-side monitoring or via a proxy, Slauth.io observes all of the API activity and generates a policy based on functionality and least privileges.<p>Once deployed in a remote environment, or run locally, you will need to run an end-to-end test using a wildcard policy. Slauth will observe the activity, apply its logic based on large amounts of behavioral patterns of the service you deploy, and create a high quality IAM policy.<p>The IAM policy will be presented through the Slauth Dashboard where it can be copy/pasted or as a pull-request into your Git repository ready to be reviewed. Integrations with IaC services such as Terraform are also available.<p>Our objective is to automate manual error-prone IAM policy writing in order to increase engineering velocity, reduce friction and harden security.<p>Would love your feedback on the value proposition and if you would use the AWS SDK or Slauth proxy for onboarding.<p>Feel free to also sign up for Beta usage! <a href="https://www.slauth.io">https://www.slauth.io</a>
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Title: Not newspapers or media services (though those can be annoying too), but products in general? It feels like it's getting harder and harder to just buy something in the tech world, especially when it comes to running programs on my home computer. Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. Note taking app? SaaS. Image editor or office suite? SaaS (thanks Adobe...)<p>This is especially annoying given I generally refuse to rent anything in life, and will go out of my way to buy something upfront simply so there's no risk of losing it if finances get worse in future (or the wrong billionaire buys the company). Yet it seems like it's getting harder to do so, especially when open source products don't exist for that domain.<p>So yeah, why is that? And is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of subscriptions for things that should be one off purchases?
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Title: Pages are loading slowly and sometimes returning "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!"
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Title: Hey!<p>I started working on this app 4 months ago.<p>The idea is simple: automate creating promo quality videos that include screen recordings as much as possible<p>Currently it makes cursor movement smooth, zooms in on clicks, adds background and frame around recorded window and adds cinematic motion blur.<p>I plan to add selfie camera support, full text slides and multi-clip recordings.<p>Works only on macOS. It is paid software (one time payment for license + 1 year of updates), but you can download and try it for free - everything except final export to file will work 100%<p>Thanks!
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Title: Current situation:
- I have three sources connected to my monitor (1 HDMI, 1 DP, 1 USB C).
- The monitor is on a switched off source i.e. due power save mode.
- When I try to switch to another source, it takes 4 seconds or more to switch<p>What the monitor should do: S
- Switch instantly no matter if the current source is on or not.<p>WHY the long delay???
It is really something that angers me.every.damn.time.<p>I have a Dell U2723QE, but older models have that as well as others from other brands.<p>Would love to get a recommendation for an instant switch model.
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Title: It's returning a 404 ... the original is available via the wayback machine.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221218200110/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20221218200110/https://help.twit...</a><p>Consider contributing to them.
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Title: I was diagnosed with astigmatism in 2018 or around that time. I haven't been to the eye doctor since, but at that point my vision was around 20/20 or slightly impaired. I did get glasses, which I rarely wear, but I have been wearing them more recently because I feel that my eyesight may be becoming more of an issue. For example, after long periods of coding or looking at my phone screen, I see floaters. Sometimes I wake up seeing them and have a low-productivity day or take a nap and some Advil in the hope that it is related to a migraine.<p>I am mainly interested in what tools, settings, and themes people with astigmatism use, and if you have any preference for light or dark themes. Personally, I cannot stand light, whether it is physical light or light on screens. When my 5-year-old turns on the overhead light in my bedroom, I pull the blanket over my head or shout to turn it off. I feel like Gizmo from Gremlins.<p>I am a developer, and my main tools are Terminator + Tmux, Chrome, DBeaver, and Visual Studio Code. The font I am using is Jetbrains SemiBold. I just tried the Solarized Dark theme and I am kind of liking it, but I feel like I might be able to find something slightly better. Before that, I have used Night Owl, GitHub Dark, Material, and a few others.
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Title: Until 2019, I used uber everytime I traveled abroad. Then one day, suddenly I login and it logs me out, says my account is blocked. There was no way for me to reach support or figure out why. We've been using my wife's account since then. I'm just account to travel again, for the first time since 2019, and tried to login to uber, still blocked. I fill the support form, and get an email saying they won't send my request to a support rep until I verify my email. So I click the link and verify.<p>One day later I get an email from a rep saying "I'm contacting them from my second uber account". I had no idea you could have 2 accounts with same email. And if that is the case, it's clearly an accident and I have no idea which account they refer to. And they won't help, no way to reach a human. I don't get how a ride hailing company thinks is't cool to behave like a bank. Any tips on how I can resolve this?
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Title: I know the best of my life is behind me, but I need help salvaging what's left of it. I've been meaning to ask for help for a couple of years now, but only now got around to it after being scared by my first real suicidal ideation a few nights ago. HN is probably not a suitable platform for this, but /r/advice seems to be not very active and I can't post on /adv/ due to some IP range ban. There are no mental health facilities in the small town where I live. I let my professional network decay and die, and there is literally nowhere else I can get any kind of useful, actionable advice.<p>I'm a 43-years-old single guy, NEET for the past decade. I got my Master's in the US in the late 2000s and was gainfully employed there for a few years (NOT in my field of education; long story) until I had to return to my home country to take care of my ailing father. He passed on within a year of my return, leaving my family with a financial mess, and his death took a lot out of me. I still obviously miss him, but in wallowing in depression and self-pity, I let the prime of my life pass me by.<p>As I stand, I have no current skills related to either my education (MEng) or my previous work experience (BI Reporting/Analytics). I don't have ideas/skills/network for entrepreneurship.<p>I had all the desires of a regular guy: a wife, kids, a house, meaningful work, etc. I mean I still do, but I guess I'm too late for the first few. Every night I promise myself to do/be better tomorrow and somehow get myself to sleep. I was once looked up to, now I'm a pity case and an example case of how not to throw one's life away.<p>With every passing day, I am becoming more bitter, angry and disillusioned. I don't want to live like this anymore, but I don't know how to even _start_ thinking of ways to get myself out of this hole.<p>Ideally, I would prefer to go back to the US; not only for the dollars (they're nice), but also because I actually was happy there. I'd do all the things that I didn't do enough of because I was focused on saving money and because I thought that there would always be time for them when I was more stable/settled.<p>The good: No diseases AFAIK, no vices at all other than severe procrastination and a masterful ability to lie to myself. I have ~US$25k-equivalent in salary savings from a decade ago.<p>Sorry if the above text is rambling and not very cohesive. I've probably also skipped over some useful information I should have provided. Please do ask. I'll take some time reflecting on your replies and then respond. Thank you.
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Title: Hi,<p>I've been meaning to write this for a few years now.
I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34032484 and lots of great replies there - but I happen to have an insight which I kept track of for years now.<p>Some background first. Since more than a decade I've been using an always-on VPN on all my devices through a VPS I operate (various cloud providers along the years).
Also for context, I stopped using all google services around 2015 or thereabouts - although I still have an account I no longer use it.
The only google service that I use rarely is google maps - of course, never logged on.
And a few times a month I use google search for the odd obscure thing.<p>Around 2016 was the first time I noticed that google.com was showing at the bottom of the page my ZIP code. It felt very unusual but I was in the process of moving so I didn't pay too much attention. To my surprise, a few weeks later google.com was showing my new ZIP code.<p>I shopped around for cloud providers that would allow me to rotate the instance IP easily and thankfully there are many but I was curious how come google picked it up - the only plausible reason was using location data from the Google Maps iOS app.<p>Here's how you can replicate this.<p>Get a cheap VPS from a country different than yours. Get an iOS device (ideally an (older?) iPhone but I think it should work on an iPad) - Android devices should be excluded from this test for obvious reasons.
Reset it to factory defaults (optional but removes moving parts and false leads like cookies etc).<p>Install wireguard (or your preferred always-on vpn) and configure the VPS to be used as an exit node.
Install google maps (don't login of course) - can be used without being logged on just fine.
Install firefox focus (Safari in Private Window mode would work as well).<p>Confirm via ipinfo (or your preferred whatsmyip website) that you're using the VPS IP
Go to google.com and confirm it's showing at the bottom of the page the country of the VPS (could also be shown in a different language if google has a presence in that country).<p>Use the google maps app a few times a day (ideally navigate from a place to another) - it will take about 2-3 weeks but you'll notice that google.com will now show your actual country for the VPS IP and also the google.com language will change to your own.<p>If you want to take it one step further, continue to use google maps on the iOS device. You'll notice that after a few more weeks, google.com will show your actual City (based on the IP) - and after a while longer it will be even more precise, will show your ZIP code.<p>You have to be patient though, it will take 2-4 weeks to start with - and it's imperative that that IP address is dedicated to this test.<p>Funny enough, I was on holiday on Mexico for a month right before reading the HN article I mentioned (have been using a VPS in the states for lower latency) and I noticed that after 2 weeks the language changed to Spanish and google.com was showing Mexico (I rotated the IP when this happened and it prompted me to write this 'Tell HN'.<p>Not surprisingly but Google doesn't share the new GeoIP data - MaxMind, ipinfo and others never changed their location data for that IP - they showed the original geoip even a few weeks after google changed theirs - haven't checked longer than that - it could be shared eventually.<p>In conclusion - I can't say that I'm surprised Google is using the Maps location data - and I don't think there's any way to prevent it (outside of not running Maps - but unfortunately it's one of the few ways of checking restaurant reviews).
My "workaround" is to periodically rotate my VPS IP and move on with life :)<p>Thanks for reading - I hope you found this useful.
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Title: Languages, frameworks, technologies etc.
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Title: Is there a book, paper, report or article etc. that really stood out?
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Title: Last month, we open-sourced Infisical (<a href="https://github.com/Infisical/infisical">https://github.com/Infisical/infisical</a>) - a simple, end-to-end encrypted tool to sync environment variables across your team and infrastructure. You can use it to store environment variables and inject them into your applications locally or into CI/CD and production infrastructure. It can be used with any language/framework and is platform independent with a super easy setup.<p>We know secret managers exist but, in our experience, they’re too complicated, not comprehensive, not user-friendly, or a mix of all three — other nicer ones are closed-source and don’t have self-hosted options available. That’s why we’re on a mission to make secret management more accessible to every developer — not just security teams.<p>We’ve launched this repo under the MIT license so any developer can use the tool. The goal is to not charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for some future enterprise features as well as providing a hosted version and support.<p>In the coming weeks, we plan to add features like key rotation, access logs + more integrations. We’d love to hear your thoughts and any feature requests!<p>Give it a try (<a href="https://github.com/Infisical/infisical">https://github.com/Infisical/infisical</a>), and let us know what you think!<p>Main website: <a href="https://infisical.com/" rel="nofollow">https://infisical.com/</a>
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Title: I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience!
Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast [0] and Darknet Diaries [1].<p>Any other suggestions?<p>(Asked the same question 2 weeks ago but didn’t get any traction. Sorry if it’s against the rules to send again)<p>[0] - https://lexfridman.com/podcast/<p>[1] - https://darknetdiaries.com/
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Title: I thought this could start a good debate on the subject. Myself I have had to make a short running web-scraping job that, given a change in the site, sends a notifying email. This running once an hour.<p>It is 2022, so I had thought it would be tremendously easy and cheap, but it seems no solution is easily implemented.
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Title: It's been a significant year for me career-wise. Through a few job switches and word of mouth, I moved up from a small software company to a massive firm you've probably heard of which has doubled my salary.<p>My first month has been quite a struggle and I constantly feel like I don't belong here. I'm getting paid more money than I could have imagined making but my output is a fraction of what it was at my old job. I usually make a conscious effort when I start at a new job to carve out some work that needs to be done for myself and get cracking but I'm having trouble understanding the project.<p>Everybody is much more experienced and older than me. I'm in my early 20s so I'm used to people seeing me as green. I had a chat with my 'boss' (not my boss per se, I don't really have one) and he seemed OK with my performance. I asked for what I could do better and he had something pretty minor for me.<p>I just feel like dead weight and like I should be fired.
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Title: I'm excited to launch today! Pine Tar Poker is a yahtzee-inspired poker game with just a touch of cosmic horror for iOS and Android.<p>I started working on this idea last January by making a paper prototype: a simple printed score sheet I could use with a real deck of cards. I had some fun with that, so I brought it into Unity and kept expanding on it over the last 11 months during nights and weekends. It's tough for me to stay motivated on side projects and see them through to release, but the act of shipping something is so fulfilling that it's usually worth the pain. For Pine Tar, I stretched myself in the narrative department by adding a bit of a Lovecraftian tone to what would otherwise be a Western saloon setting.<p>One thing that kept me motivated during development was seeing my dad get hooked on the card game. He'd text me when he got his first royal flush and when he prestiged the score sheet -- he got every hand type in one game! He has amassed so much in-game cash, I think I need to expand the number of digits I show there!<p>If you get a chance to try it, let me know what you think! If you can't afford it and want to try it, I have a few codes for both platforms, my email is in my profile.
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Title: I am 12 years old. My GitHub account is flagged for no reason. I am using the GitHub Student Pack. The problem is that I use GitHub OAuth everywere, I can't access applications like Replit and Digital Ocean that I registered using GitHub OAuth. Maybe it's because I'd never use Windows, I use GNU/Linux instead. I used Proton Mail to register GitHub. However, like RMS said, Microsoft is bad. I won't use GitHub anymore. But it is difficult to migrate. But GitLab is related to Google. I don't like BitBucket. And I can't use Netlify and Vercel with Codeberg which is what I love.
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Title: Usually our monthly fee won't exceed 1,000 dollars. We discovered last month's bill is almost 3,000, and for this month up till now it's already over 200,000.<p>We collected the evidences and filed police report. The bill is paid through a distributor, anything we ask about the reduction of payment, the distributor just passes it on to Microsoft. I feel if we don't find a way to talk to Microsoft, we will just end up paying the whole thing.<p>Many of you might think we screwed up, we pay up, but I think it's more like a stolen credit card situation, we can negotiate with the bank. How do I go about this?
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Title: Well here we are again... it appears that the archiving function (to which I subscribe) is degraded - URLs crawled since about May 22 that landed on cache5.pinboard.in just return 404 (or in one case, garbage) when accessed; perhaps the drive is full? Anyone else noticed the same? Older links still seem to work OK.<p>I notice that idlewords is recently active on HN despite being impossible (for me at least) to get hold of by email - if you're reading this, would you resolve the above issue at least? Then I can finish manually scraping the archive I have built up, since I've been unable to persuade you to prepare a backup of it for me and I'm now concerned the site will go offline without warning.
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Title: As in title. Is Raspberry Pi a viable option (SD card?!)? Should I get an Intel NUC? Fanless would be really, really nice.<p>Thank you!<p>EDIT: OK, a web app, not a website, the service is not critical (it's my side project, 5yearsback.com), I'm 100% technical, the app is in Clojure, but I plan to deploy Zig services as well<p>EDIT2: I've a static IP.
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Title: Except for posting to HN, how do you tell the world about your projects that you are working on? If you don't have funds for adds how do you spread the word? Only through personal social media accounts?
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Title: Hi all,<p>I’ve got a BS in Computer Science and have been considering pursuing a Master’s degree part-time with a focus on ML/AI.<p>I know the common narrative is that a Master’s in CS really isn’t worth it if you’re just looking for a pay raise. However machine learning is an area I’m interested in but lack the requisite background. I just really worry the degree will mostly be worthless by the time I graduate considering the rate at which AI is advancing.<p>The degree would mostly be for personal knowledge/fulfillment, but I don’t want to bother with it if we’re all going to be unemployable in a few years anyways. Another alternative I’m considering is learning HVAC repair as a fallback career.<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: I recently created a simple but efficient tool to help document writers generate a list of acronyms and definitions.<p>Here comes chatGPT.<p>At home, it’s all fun and games until I realize this thing might be able to do exactly what my “dumb” website does: "Give me the list of acronyms used in the previous text and their definitions"...<p>It had a good-looking answer. Of course...<p>At first I was bummed, but quickly realized that even though the output looked neat, it was also not reliable (missing some acronyms, adding some that were not in the original text, albeit related to it).<p>Anyway, the next day I stumbled upon https://killedbygoogle.com and the two things collided in my head: other people probably feel like AI is going to "kill" them or their product too. Why not make a list of these things?<p>A shameless clone later (it's open source ) https://deathbyai.com was born. I was initially going for a more serious tone, but it soon felt impossible to give a fair story for each item in ~5 lines, so I went for something lighter and, hopefully, more fun.<p>This is neither an attempt to criticize AI nor one to bury its "victims." On the contrary, I hope this page can highlight the potential of AI while showing that the "old ways" can still be relevant.<p>Hope you like it. Feedback and contributions are welcome!
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Title: I've asked this previously: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208</a><p>But a few years have past and want to see what's emerged since. Although can be new to you vs. released in 2021 or 2022 necessarily.<p>Things I've come across in the meantime:<p>* mock AWS services <a href="https://github.com/spulec/moto">https://github.com/spulec/moto</a><p>* query cloud services <a href="https://github.com/turbot/steampipe">https://github.com/turbot/steampipe</a><p>* munge CSV <a href="https://github.com/johnkerl/miller">https://github.com/johnkerl/miller</a> <a href="https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv">https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv</a><p>* page json <a href="https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless">https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless</a><p>* text to tree structure [I use this as a hack to version control my music library] <a href="https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni">https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni</a>
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Title: I have been in retirement but with the downturn selling assets makes my heart hurt more than it should, so I'd be willing to do short-term contract work. I definitely do not want to join any company as an employee.<p>Job board that caters to software engineering, full-stack, product-adjacent concerns.<p>Thanks.
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Title: It's driving me nuts.<p>All over the web, search functions don't actually return the word you searched for.<p>They seem to all do some sort of creative interpretation of what you searched for in the name of "relevance", thereby returning irrelevant results.<p>And in many cases, there is simply no way to do a literal word search. You'd expect maybe if you put your term in quotes that you would then get back precisely what you search for, but no..... again, the search function comes up with its own creative interpretation somehow.<p>Ugh why can't search...... search?
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: Video demonstration: <a href="https://youtu.be/bJFa5HOmhl4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/bJFa5HOmhl4</a><p>I created a demo involving ChatGPT, OpenAI's Whisper running on-device for speech-to-text (because why not?), and ARKit. By defining a custom JavaScript environment with JavaScriptCore and describing it to ChatGPT, I was able to get it to produce functioning scripts that instantiate and manipulate 3D objects.<p>Sketchfab is used to import 3D assets on the fly. Google Poly had a much better catalog of assets for this sort of thing but sadly, it's no longer available.<p>The README.md describes how it all works but the gist of it is that user prompts are wrapped in a larger prompt that describes the environment (i.e., which functions are available to use and how they work) and constraints. The code is then executed directly. Assets for objects are fetched as needed by searching Sketchfab.
Upvote: | 54 |
Title: The past few months have been stressful for most people in the tech industry owing to mass layoffs everywhere. Luckily, I survived the layoffs at my company. But I was very anxious during the period it was announced and it affected my mental health quite a bit.<p>However, on talking to a few other engineers at my company, I realized not everyone was as stressed. They are confident in their skills to get a new equivalent job which would easily support their current lifestyle, even in the current market. They have what I would call, "F-You Skills - Enough skills to know that you would never have to worry about money in your life", a spin on the more commonly known term "F-You Money" [1].<p>I was wondering if HN users ever think of their own skills in this context. If yes, how should one go about building these skills.<p>To be clear, I am not talking about interviewing skills, which are also equally important. But I am more interested in technical skills that people believe will easily fetch them "decent money" [2] in any scenario in the short term future.<p>[1] F-You Money means "Enough money to leave one's job, etc. and enjoy the lifestyle of one's choice" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fuck_you_money<p>[2] not insane money to retire early, but good enough to support their current lifestyle.
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Title: Years ago I was visiting a local robotics team for a meet and greet. There was an adult there acting as the supervision, and the kids were working on getting their robot up and running for a demo. One group was busy on the laptop/joysticks. Another hand their hands on the robot, adjusting pieces of plexiglass that guided balls. From a small demo moments earlier, I learned that the joysticks were VERY sensitive and drove multiple 300 watt motors that drove a chain drive for the wheels. The chain was exposed and there were fingers everywhere. I had a moment of pause and then I just yelled "STOP", startling everyone including the supervisor who was mid-sentence in conversation with me. I slowly unwound the whole situation, turning it into a chat about "culture of safety."<p>I think about this a lot, specifically because there was about 2 seconds where my brain thought, "I'm not in charge here. I just met everyone. Do I really speak up? Maybe I'm missing something about all of this." After many replays of this scenario over the years, I decided that I would rather embarrass myself horribly than hesitate next time.<p>Has anything like this happened to you? How did you feel? What did you learn?
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Title: Hello! I made a web application for my friend and I to use as part of a New Year’s resolution and decided to open it up to the public. It’s pretty simple but I’ve really enjoyed building it and using it so far. I’ve written ~10,000 words, which is a lot more than I used to write. Enjoy and be nice!
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Title: How do you find mentors? I'm a 30 something engineer who has never had great technical mentors mostly because of working in startups with few experienced engineers. I've had many business people mentors over the years but not as many engineering mentors as I'd have liked.<p>So how does one go about finding mentors when you do not work closely with them? Is there a better strategy than simply reaching out on email/linkedin and hope for the best?
Upvote: | 145 |
Title: During the ship-stuck-in-the-canal days, I was introduced to freightwaves.com, and another HN post along the line introduced me to mining.com. What are some interesting, in-depth sites similar to those but for other industries? Like for solar, wind, and nuclear, for instance? I can google them, but I like hearing recommendations from people that are in the industry!
Upvote: | 161 |
Title: I'm a senior iOS developer with background at a FAANG etc, so during good times it was always very easy to find jobs. Recently I've had some pretty bad experiences with two YC companies in a row.<p>In both cases I went through long recruitment processes, spoke at length with the founders and technical staff, did a (paid) trial project, in one case this lasted for almost a month. In both companies everyone I talk to was extremely positive, even gushing, so I was not surprised to be hired.<p>I was very surprised though that in both cases they changed their minds before the formal employment had begun, due to their financial situation.<p>They were never rude, and they did pay me for the hours I had worked, but it still wasted a lot of my time since I didn't seek any other jobs while trial working for them.<p>It's hard to imagine that it was some kind of ruse to get very short term work done, but it's also hard to see how they couldn't plan better. Perhaps they started hiring on the expectation of being able to raise money, but that seems unprofessional and disrespectful towards the candidates, no?
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Title: Hey HN, we’re Colin and Dima, founders of Metriport (<a href="https://metriport.com/">https://metriport.com/</a>). We help digital health companies access and manage user health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API. Today we're launching our open-source Health Devices API, which allows companies to gain access to their users’ health data from various wearables, RPM devices, and mHealth apps. You can check out the public Github repo here: <a href="https://github.com/metriport/metriport">https://github.com/metriport/metriport</a><p>For developers in the health data space, building integrations to various data sources is a huge pain, as it means wrangling different data formats, gaining access to the APIs in the first place, and ultimately spending precious developer resources building out data pipelines. We solve this pain for you through our open-source API, which is quick and easy to get started with (see: <a href="https://docs.metriport.com/getting-started/connect-quickstart">https://docs.metriport.com/getting-started/connect-quickstar...</a>).<p>Out of the box, our Health Devices API supports integrations with Fitbit, Oura, Whoop, Withings, and Cronometer. We plan to add many more, including Garmin, Apple Health, and Google Fit in the near term. We work closely with our customers, so if there’s an integration you need, we’re more than happy to build it into our API. Because we’re open-source, you can also fork our code and build your own custom integrations.<p>Getting started is simple. To start getting data from your users:<p>1) Create a developer account and generate an API key: <a href="https://dash.metriport.com/">https://dash.metriport.com/</a><p>2) Set up our client on your server and initialize it with your API key: <a href="https://docs.metriport.com/getting-started/connect-quickstart#3-setup-the-metriport-client-on-your-server">https://docs.metriport.com/getting-started/connect-quickstar...</a><p>3) Link the Metriport Connect widget into your app. This pre-built widget makes it easy for your users to connect all their data sources into your application.<p>Now you’re ready to start accessing your users’ health data from their sources they’ve connected.<p>We also offer a hosted SaaS solution with usage-based pricing, with no minimum platform fees. We believe this will open doors to a wide range of early stage companies and help drive innovation in the digital health industry.<p>While we’re excited to be launching this product today and be the first open-source Health Devices API of its kind, we’re also really looking forward to sharing our Medical API with you in the coming months. You can find out more about that here: <a href="https://metriport.com/medical">https://metriport.com/medical</a><p>We can’t wait to see how this API is used and what it helps companies develop. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, and happy developing!
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Title: I'm still pretty early in my career, which I started as a software developer. I transitioned into a data scientist role about a year ago, then moved to the USA for a Master's degree in AI/DS.<p>Here I'm seeing a trend of software developers being paid better than data scientists in general, and I was wondering if I've made a mistake transitioning away from software development. The number of opportunities also seem to be dwindling (or maybe I'm not looking well enough, please feel free to correct me).<p>My question is this: Did all the talk of data science being the "sexiest" job cause the market to become saturated, or is it still a viable career path?
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Title: What non-technical books would you recommend to technical folks to improve their writing skills?<p>Edit: by "writing skills" I meant general writing skills and not just technical writing.
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