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Title: I'm writing this post because I'm done. I can't do this anymore. After three failed attempts at building a successful startup and spending time institutionalized, I'm giving up on my entrepreneurship dreams.<p>I tried everything - building an audience, making sure my product actually solved a problem, getting paying customers, and writing high-quality content and contributing to the community. But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere. My efforts were fruitless and I'm tired of trying. I barely had 20 followers, my substack and product blogs didn't get any signups, and while I did get a few upvotes (8) on Product Hunt once, I never had a paid customer. It was as if the world was against me and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress. I remember trying to interact and hype up my fellow indiehackers on Twitter, regularly engaging with their content, but no one ever paid any attention to me or followed me back. It was like I didn't even exist in the world of entrepreneurship. And even when I did get some attention, it was short-lived and never led to anything substantial.<p>But it's not just the lack of success that's getting me down. It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips. But the reality is that it's not that simple. It's fucking hard and it takes more than just a positive attitude to make it.<p>I know I'm not alone in feeling this way. There are so many other indie entrepreneurs out there who are struggling and feeling like they'll never make it. If you're one of them, I want you to know that you're not alone. It's okay to feel defeated and to want to give up. But please don't give up. Keep pushing forward and don't let the failures define you. There's always a chance for success, no matter how small it may seem.<p>But for me, I can't take it anymore. I've hit rock bottom and I have nothing left to give. To all the indie hackers, hacker news, and Reddit readers out there, please don't be fooled by the false promises of digital nomad influencers. Building a startup is hard work and it takes time. It's not as easy as they make it seem and it's not for everyone. Don't let your dreams consume you like they did for me, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PROTECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH AT ALL COST! Don't make the same mistakes I did and realize that entrepreneurship may not be the path for you. It's okay to admit defeat and move on to something else.
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Title: Hi,<p>I used to be just a regular software engineer, now I'm "responsible", of the cybersecurity of a 30 people startup/scale-up, on top of actually building/maintaining features.<p>We can't afford a full time security expert for now, we're going to raise more money soon, but for now I'm +/- the only guy with cybersecurity experience.<p>We have huge clients, a big leak/hack would be a death sentence for the company IMO, and disastrous for a lot of people.<p>I found a few weaknesses on a few websites and on our own(it was just luck really), but I'm no expert, mostly self taught since I was a kid, I'm no junior but I'm far from an actual senior dev, most of the team is not really experienced(just smart bootcamp grads).<p>We're going to have a red team/agency audit us soon(we're going to get ripped to pieces, 100%)<p>How do I go ASAP from the scared relatively inexperienced guy I am who feels like the weight of the world is on his shoulders, to a guy that can actually handle this?<p>What course, book, MOOC website, SaaS, tool would you advise me to go through to handle this?<p>Thanks a lot
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Title: Hello,<p>I always have the itch to learn C, juts because it was such an influental language and when you are digging around a lot in GNU/linux you will have contact with it one way or another.<p>What is the way you would suggest learning C in 2023? I am already familiar with other languages (rust..) but would like to have an introduction to the C basics and program some hands-on projects in C, so I can learn the pecularities of the language.
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Title: Every time you go to Wikipedia there's a huge banner asking for money implying it could shut down at any moment due to lack of funding.<p>In reality, the Wikipedia Foundation is doing just fine. In fact, they make so much money from donations, they spend (read: waste) massive amounts of it on various social ventures instead of using it on the service that caused people to donate in the first place.
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Title: With two posts on the front page on the revival of RSS I'm wondering what RRS Reader I should use.
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Title: I wrote a JavaScript tool to search your HN favorites and export them to CSV or HTML.
The JavaScript runs in your browser like a browser extension. It scrapes the HTML and navigates from page to page.<p>Setup and usage instructions are in the file.
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Title: I spend a lot of my time looking at HN, reddit, and a lot of other aggregation sites to find new cool projects or ideas. I have hundreds of browser bookmarks, my pocket saves are unwieldy, and a ton of different github stars.<p>How do people keep track of everything they're encountering? Like sometimes I'll see something and it will remind me of a post or project I saw months ago, but it's almost up to chance if I'm able to find it again or link the two concepts together.
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Title: What will happen to this money? Will it be clawed back in bankruptcy proceedings? If Anthropic isn’t legally obligated to return it, will they voluntarily return it out of ethical and reputational concerns? How will this affect their operations and runway?<p>I wonder if the FTX liquidators have already contacted them saying not to spend it.<p>> The Series B follows the company raising $124 million in a Series A round in 2021. The Series B round was led by Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX. The round also included participation from Caroline Ellison, Jim McClave, Nishad Singh, Jaan Tallinn, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research (CERR).<p>https://www.anthropic.com/news/announcement
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Title: I like the tab-switching behaviour in Chrome/Firefox and wanted Safari to have something similar. Another wish of mine was for it to be a web extension that feels native to the browser vs an app extension that looks out of place.<p>I posted a while back on HN to see if other people feel the same and the response was very positive : <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33811253" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33811253</a><p>Say hello to TapTab : <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659363738?pt=66324801&ct=hn&mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1659363738?pt=66324...</a><p>TapTab feels right at home in Safari and is loaded with features to improve how you interact with tabs. You no longer have to miss the native tab-switching functionality that you love in Chrome/Firefox.<p>I launched the app a few days ago, and the response has been great. Some of the features that users have been loving :<p>- Keep your hands at the keyboard: navigate all tabs without your hands leaving the keyboard.<p>- Fuzzy Search: Search through your tab titles and URLs at lightning speed.<p>- Switch to previous tab: Comes with a handy shortcut to go back to the previous tab. Finally!<p>- Dark Mode: The extension feels right at home in Safari.<p>- Multi-Window support<p>- Pin/Mute/Close tabs right from the extension.<p>The app is written in ReactJS (apart from the very minuscule bit of Swift you have to write for using it as an extension in Safari) and uses Tailwind for design.<p>If you are one of the dozen people like me who use Safari, let me know how you find it. I would love to hear if there are any features that would make it a better fit for you. I have a few things on my radar gathered from talking to users like an iPad version, custom shortcuts, etc.<p>If you find the extension useful I would love it if you vote for it on Product Hunt to get this in front of a few more eyeballs : <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/taptab" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/posts/taptab</a><p>Thank you!
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Title: After using LastPass for many years, I have more than a thousand passwords stored in it. It's too many to make it practical to manually change them all. Is there a way to get all of them into something else, like BitWarden, and then [semi]automatically change them all?
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Title: Hope your 2023’s great. I’m sorry for all of you that were laid off or affected by the virus or lockdowns. Next year will be better! Keep the faith!
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Title: My dad left me a coffee plantation and I have no experience in this at all, nor did he. It is freshly planted so it won't reach peak production until around 2026. But I want to learn how I could go about taking care of it and eventually start selling beans. Do you have any resource I can take a look at to learn more about coffee and its production process?
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Title: Hello, I'm a machine learning researcher who's here in Tokyo on exchange. Might anyone be interested to meet up for an interesting conversation over a meal on Christmas?
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Title: Due to the recent LastPass debacle, I decided to cycle my Gmail passwords. Boy that was a mistake!!<p>Gmail has decided that I can't log in with "just" my password. The new password is correct. It then asks me for my old password, which I put in correctly. Then it tells me I can't log in anyway. :(<p>Occasionally it will give me a QR code to scan. But I can't scan it on my phone, since my phone is logged out.<p>I can't log in to my recovery account, because (like a fool) I changed the passwords simultaneously. Now both are locked.<p>Somebody help! My account name is [redacted]@gmail.com (the recovery email should match my HN username). I'm locked out of a decade+ of correspondence, recovery, and historical data.
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Title: I often see comments about how it's a bad idea or not practical or whatever in 2022, so I'm curious what others do here. Do you run a mailserver/host email accounts on your domain? Use a free service like Gmail or Hotmail? Go with a paid setup like ProtonMail or FastMail? A sort of combined setup where you host your email on another service but have it tied to your domain?<p>What's your setup for your email account these days?
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Title: Just wanted to wish everybody here a Merry Christmas. HN is one of those Internet communities which I would be the saddest to see go, even looking back on other communities in which I've participated over the years.<p>I see many posts here about loneliness, nihilism, friendships (or lack thereof) and just wanted to let everybody here know that life is never hopeless, and there are always people who care, even if they're thousands of miles away.<p>Please reach out to loved ones this season and let them know you love them. Life is short, and you never know when the last time you'll be wishing somebody a Merry Christmas will be.<p>I wish you all the very best for 2023.
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Title: I just wanted to let any HN users who are alone for the holidays - maybe even without a place to stay - that I want to make sure you have a good meal in your stomach tomorrow night and that you know that there are others who do care.<p>HN has been an incredible resource for me. I have met friends, cofounders, and business partners on this site. My intellectual curiousity has been somewhat sated and my social circle made richer by this site’s very existence. I myself have gone through tough times and spent multiple holiday seasons on the street. I want you to know there are people out there who care about you and believe in you.<p>If you need food to celebrate the holidays (or another resource, such as housing help for the night) please email me at the address in my bio. You may remain as anonymous as you wish, so long as I have enough information to get you the assistance you desire.<p>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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Title: I volunteered this year to be the on call over Christmas and currently I'm dealing with a generator fire. Merry Christmas.<p>Who else is working through the 25th this year?
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Title: - Use lists instead of long paragraphs.
- One prediction per list item.<p>Historical:<p>2022: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236</a><p>2021: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068</a><p>2020: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596</a><p>2019: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859</a><p>2018: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988</a><p>2017: none?<p>2016: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767</a><p>2015: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723</a><p>2014: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370</a><p>2013: none?<p>2012: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201</a><p>2011: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023</a><p>2010: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681</a>
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Title: I’ve been writing for a while but I feel like I’ve stagnated for a while. What have other people done?
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Title: A few days ago, just before the Christmas, Amazon HR called me to inform that my offer is rescinded. The start date was Jan 2, 2023. As a gift, they will pay me a months salary.<p>I already resigned from my current post after obtaining the work visa for the new location on November 30th. I asked their affirmation before resigning.<p>Right now, I cannot relocate and my current visa became void since I resigned.
I also cancelled my rent agreement.
In a month, I will be on streets, without a job and visa.<p>In every step I tried to behave ethically and high trust. Guess I did wrong. Are all places like this?<p>Ps: sorry, I forgot to add. the new location was Canada. My current location is in EU.<p>Ps2: some background about me:<p>Amazon offer was for Sde2.
I have 5 yoe.
I have worked in several projects spanning from embedded software for airplanes to scalable cloud based data heavy backend applications.<p>Java/C++98 were the primary stack.<p>I had turned down an offer from Meta to join Amazon. I think my system design and general ds&a ability is okay.
I am a good team player and perform well in friendly environment.
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Title: Hi HN, I built this tool to estimate how much it would cost to purchase all the music in a user's Spotify library and individual playlists. Kind of interesting, maybe you'll like it too
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Title: Did you already build nontrivial applications with it? Where does it shine? What are the cons? What did you try before, which didn't work for you?
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Title: The topic of data recovery from broken phones seems to be a prime target from SEO optimised blogspam so I'm posting here in hopes that someone had a similar issue in the past and may be able to help me out.<p>I am tasked with restoring some photos from a Huawei P30 that has a broken screen/touchpad. The photos were stored on the device directly, unfortunately not on an SD card or on a cloud provider. The phone does still turn on (it vibrates when plugged into a power outlet and shows up on Windows). However, it's only showing an installer for HiSuite (which did not help), not the file system. USB debugging is enabled.<p>Things I tried so far and didn't work:<p>- shining a flashlight at the screen to see if only the backlight is broken (it seems the whole screen is done for)
- eyeballing it and trying to blindly enter the passcode
- connecting phone to external monitor and keyboard via USB-C -> HDMI (monitor stays black)<p>Is there anything that may still have a chance of working short of replacing the screen to unlock the phone? Thanks and happy holidays.
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Title: Let's say that you're a Ruby on Rails veteran and now you get a job at Google, where you need to learn Go. What's your approach to quickly learn new framework/programming languages?
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Title: As my browser bookmark folders get more and more messy I feel the need to migrate to a different solution. I'm looking for the ability to add brief comments/notes/tags to the links I save, to record metadata such as: where I found the link, what I thought about it and what it might be useful for.
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Title: I'm currently in my early 20s and since getting a job as a software engineer, I started to save up more and more. For all the money not to go to waste and just sit in the bank account, I would like to start investing, and slowly add to it every month. What options do I have? I'm based in Europe if that matters. I also perfectly understand that safe means lower return and I'm perfectly fine with that, since I am going into this for a long term.<p>Also, any useful resources regarding investment would be helpful (YouTube channels, books, etc.).<p>Thank you!
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Title: As I change passwords and research migrating from Lastpass, what are the current HN recommendations, Linux, Firefox, IOS please..
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Title: What were your favorite podcast episodes of 2022?<p>Mine were:<p>Hardcore History Blitz 68 - Human Resources (https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-human-resources/)
- discusses the history of the Atlantic slave trade<p>Fall of Civilizations 16: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
- discusses the rise and fall of the Bagan Empire of Myanmar<p>Lex Fridman #309 - John Carmack (https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/)<p>The Missing Cryptoqueen 11: Operation Satellite (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads)
- this is the latest episode in an ongoing BBC series that investigates the whereabouts of Ruja Ignatova, founder of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam. I recommend starting from episode 1 if you're not familiar with the story.
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Title: On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend.<p>Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 people/families nearly $8000 worth of food, hotels and cash.<p>I will try to ensure we do this type of thing more often; while I was surprised by the level of need in the community, I was even more impressed by the desire to help fix it.<p>Thank you everyone.
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Title: I've been happy using/buying products recommended in previous threads and I figured I'd get another one started for the end of the year.<p>So HN: what are some items you bought or services you've started using (could be paid apps, OSS projects, etc.) this year that you swear by?
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Title: Whether searching for best dog scissors or hot sauces, I get a front page full of SEO’ed fake top 10 lists with affiliate links.<p>I can include site: to search a specific reviewer or Reddit, but that basically turns google into a local search. Has the time of google for product reviews now past? Is there a replacement that downranks these terrible SEO’ed fake recommendations?
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Title: I've been kicking around the idea of living comparatively off-grid for a while, and my family is on board with the idea.<p>Have you ever done this, or started researching into it? With a steady-enough income stream via remote work and reliable internet, is a "fully remote" existence a good idea?<p>Or are there downsides to the approach? I'm not exactly a "hang out with people" type, and I'm racking my brain trying to talk myself out of the thought, but every risk seems to come with opportunities. Am I missing something?
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Title: Hey HN. I'm in a little pickle regarding my career and life choices and I'm not too sure what to do. I'd like to get some advice or perspective from others here. During my teenage years I worked fast-food/retail, with a bit of odd manual labor mixed in here and there. Then I joined the military and worked a physically demanding job while active duty. I did that for 4 years, all the while teaching myself to code with the primary motivation of being able to attain a lucrative job and build a respectable career for myself down the road. Upon separating from the military, I attained said job.<p>At first, I was thrilled. I do enjoy coding to an extent, and thought that this was my "big break". But after doing it for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, I've come to realize that I don't enjoy it all that much after all. It was an escape after a hard days work. It was a way for me to relax. But sitting down, alone, in front of a computer screen all day every day is slowly driving me mad. My mental health is slowly getting worse and I've come to realize that I need some amount of human interaction and, more importantly, some amount of movement and physical activity. I don't believe it's my company, coworkers, or manager that makes me dislike my work. The problems I solve are interesting, my manager is truly incredible, and my coworker are all kind, encouraging, and helpful. It's simply the nature of the job, I'm certain I'd feel similar with almost any desk job where I toil in front of a screen day in and day out. I just didn't realize it as I'd never really had a truly white collar job prior. I also should note that I don't try to derive meaning or fulfillment solely from my employment. I go to the gym, I train MMA, I even dabble in stand-up comedy (though public speaking certainly is not my forte). All that to say, I don't expect to be 100% fulfilled from any job, but I just can't handle the 40+ hours a week of complete inactivity and nearly complete isolation.<p>I have the GI Bill, which grants me 4 free years of tuition at any public university in the country. I'm strongly considering quitting and using it. The only thing holding me back is that I have no idea whatsoever what I could do that I actually would enjoy and would meet my physical and social needs without overloading them. Too much socialization or physical activity for me is almost as bad as none whatsoever. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll almost certainly have to take a pay cut, and that's okay. I'm willing to earn less in exchange for my mental health, but only to a point. The ratio of income lost to happiness gained should be at least roughly equal.<p>I'm blessed to have the opportunity, time, and means to drastically alter my career path in my early-mid 20's but at the same time I'm overwhelmed with options. And I fear choosing the wrong one as I don't want to be in this same position 4 years from now.<p>I've tried introspecting and narrowing down my options based on my interests, but I can't think of a single career I'd like to actually make out of my interests. Working out and MMA isn't something I would want to make a career out of as it's just a way to blow off steam, and I don't have the desire to do stand-up comedy professionally. The only other interest I've had over the past ~5 years has been programming. Which I do enjoy, just not enough. Aptitude isn't a concern. At the risk of sounding arrogant, I'm certain that I could perform well doing whatever I decide, so long as the interest is there. I'm hoping that just maybe there's some perfect career path out there that I just haven't heard of or thought about yet.<p>After that novella, I open the floor to you. What are some good options for me to consider? What would you do if you were in my situation? Is there anything else I haven't thought of?<p>Thanks if you've taken the time to read this, doubly so if you then take the time to write a response. I look forward to hearing from all of you.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Eleven is the second project that I've built to learn Go. It lets you create a code sandbox in your cloud provider account easily.<p>What's a "code sandbox"? Just a VM, running in your cloud provider account, with some runtimes pre-installed, your repositories cloned, a way to connect to it with your preferred editor (or via SSH) and a way to serve your apps easily via HTTP (with automatic HTTPS).<p>You could use it to deploy your app, as a remote development environment or even to test some code. It's up to you.<p>For example, to deploy a Node.JS app:<p>$ eleven aws init hello-world --runtimes [email protected] --repositories eleven-sh/hello-world<p>> Success! The sandbox "hello-world" was initialized.<p>$ ssh eleven/hello-world forever node index.js<p>> Forever: command started. Run "forever stop" in current path to stop.<p>$ eleven aws serve hello-world 8000 --as hello.eleven.sh<p>> Success! The port "8000" is now reachable at: <a href="https://hello.eleven.sh" rel="nofollow">https://hello.eleven.sh</a><p>$ curl <a href="https://hello.eleven.sh" rel="nofollow">https://hello.eleven.sh</a><p>> Hello World<p>Still learning Go by the way, so I'm open to any suggestions to improve.
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Title: I love the idea behind Fedora SilverBlue, and NixOS, etc but we never seem to hear about Guix. For me I’d rather write things in lips than in whatever language Nix uses. Has anyone used a Guix build before to get a working workstation? Thoughts?<p>https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon
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Title: I was born in the 90s.
My impression is that folks in my generation are increasingly leaving or ignoring social networks and, after roughly a decade, have concluded that they aren’t helpful or interesting to them as a concept (perhaps outside of special domains such as professional networks or dating). They still stay in touch with groups of friends via messenger apps.
Do you share this observation? How universal is it? How has it come about?
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Title: Dear HN,<p>So far in my (admittedly fairly short, at 7--8 years experience) professional life, I've always entered employment as a software engineer.<p>However, I study a lot of things outside of this: leadership, economics, site reliability engineering, writing, queuing theory, product development, extreme value theory, lean, survival analysis, etc. This means when I find the right employer, my job often extends well beyond the programming I was hired to do, into things like:<p>- statistical analysis of customer health,<p>- cross-functional KPIs for alignment on current priorities over a diverse set of departments,<p>- improving development methodologies and workflows,<p>- adjusting on-call compensation to improve join rates and employee satisfaction, and more.<p>Over and over I encounter the advice to "come up with and practise the elevator pitch of what you do". I struggle with this. In an ideal environment, I do so many things I have trouble summing it up -- and if I do, it ends up being something too abstract like "I optimise all your systems".<p>I realise the things I do are basically the job of a CTO, but with my short professional experience it would be ridiculous if I said that's what I wanted to work as -- I know I lack a lot side skills that would be necessary for that job. (And I don't think everyone would appreciate the joke "assistant to the regional CTO".)<p>I can sell myself as a software engineer and hope that I end up in a crowd that appreciates the other things I do, but I would like to try to find a good summary of what I do to begin with.<p>How have you approached this?
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Title: What should a data engineer learn as a part of Upskilling in 2022?<p>New languages like Rust/Ocaml/Nim.. if yes then which?<p>I don't think learning an ETL tool will be helpful because essentially they are all one and the same.<p>Any tips?
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Title: Hello there, happy holidays.<p>I've been maintaining for 6 years this Dog API that only returned facts. I recently rewrote the project to make it more flexible [1] and I had a blast doing so.<p>This API has been used by a lot of computer science students, as well as bots and other 3rd party services that integrated in the past. The old endpoint receives around 1,000-1,500 requests per day, which makes me happy.<p>The goal is to extend it to make it more interesting and usable, I collect dog data in my spare time. I'm not looking to monetize it, it's just for the love of education.<p>Feel free to use it, and share it!<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/kinduff/dogapi.dog">https://github.com/kinduff/dogapi.dog</a>
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Title: Back in 2015, there was a text-message service called Magic where, in principle, you could ask it to do anything. They'd reply with a price, and if it was acceptable, they'd make it happen.<p>Did Magic die? Was it absorbed into another corporate entity?<p>Example article from 2015: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/11559368/i-tried-out-magic-the-new-text-message-concierge-and-it-was-far-from
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Title: You have probably given advice to the vulnerable young and older people (as well as to self-declared "technotwits") about technology in the coming year.<p>What are your top 5 tips for the coming year? I'm advising:<p>* Do upgrade any device that doesn't receive OS updates (mobile devices are a particular concern)<p>* On mobile, <i>do</i> use an encrypted chat app (e.g. Messages with RCS, Signal, &c)<p>* Don't use identifying information as a password
and don't re-use passwords<p>* Don't answer phone calls from unknown sources<p>* End any communication where someone asks you to do something insecure (e.g. "give me your password so I can check your account")
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Title: It's amazing what civil, mechanical, structural, electrical and all other "real world" engineers have built for us. They need to be paid way more than software engineers IMO considering how critical their work is. Yes, I know it's a pipe dream, cause supply and demand. "Have you seen how much big tech makes?".<p>Whenever my mind wanders off and lands on a video of practical engineering, it boggles my mind how complex real world systems are put in place. Big hats off to those engineering these systems so us pampered folks can whine about RTO vs WFH and Rust vs Go.
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Title: pbproxy is a small wrapper to give you a consistent and remotely accessible interface to your system clipboard on linux and mac.
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Title: The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you've read in 2022? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books would you recommend to others for 2023?
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Title: tl;dr: haystack is a workplace search engine for devs that runs in the browser.<p>Iv'e started working on haystack recently because I feel modern workplaces are in dire need of a good workplace search product that is free to use just like google.<p>Information is scattered between too many communication channels and platforms, we communicate with our peers through slack and email, share docs and specs on confluence, work with tickets on jira, commit code and have discussions on github, not to mention all the .docx, .ppt and .pdf that fly around the organization.<p>Existing search featuers plain suck, if you tried using confluence search you know what I mean, keyword search is terrible. Even when you find relevant looking results, they require you to commit to entering the page, and scroll through to get to the relevant paragraph.<p><i>What does haystack do?</i><p><pre><code> - Enable you to search all your workplace applications from one place. (slack, confluence, notion, jira, github, outlook, gmail, etc...).
- Natural language queries ("How to do X”, "Do we support Y", "How do I connect to Z").
- No download, all the magic happens in the browser.
- Local browser storage option.
- Code references embedded in search results.
</code></pre>
Example, "How to connect to integ2 machine" on haystack could give you:
"I've finished setting up the <i>second integration server</i> ... ssh connection details"<p><pre><code> ssh -i private.pem [email protected]
</code></pre>
aggregated from a slack communication you had a while ago.<p><i>Next Steps</i><p>Fine-tuning haystack for lower-end laptops with no dedicated GPU, public release date - Feb/March 23.<p>If you would like to get early access + you have dedicated graphics, there's a button in our landing page, and my email address.<p>I'll be here in the comment section!
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Title: Over the break we got a few comments from someone we hadn't seen before.<p>Like everyone else we've been messing around with ChatGPT so it was immediately obvious to us that these were written with ChatGPT. Anyone else getting these?<p>Here are the comments:<p><a href="https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/453">https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/453</a>
<a href="https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/714">https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/issues/714</a>
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Title: I may buy a car (new or used) soon and am a little worried about all the software in cars these days. Software can control pretty much every aspect of a modern vehicle, and so the idea of bugs in a vehicle's software scares me from a safety perspective. Poor software engineering has been implicated in automobile safety incidents in the past[1].<p>I'm aware of the NASA/JPL rules for developing safety-critical software[2] but I'm not sure if any car manufacturers follow anything similar.<p>Does anyone here have any knowledge of the software development practices of any automakers and what they do to ensure safety and reliability? And is there anything else I can do to mitigate this risk (short of buying a very old car, which would have other safety downsides)?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration</a>
[2] <a href="http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf</a>
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Title: What are services/products that you built and wished you had bought?<p>Have you bought something that you had to scrap and build yourself anyways?
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Title: I have a meter of old computer books that I no longer need, I can't really see there's much demand for Java 1.3, or Dreamweaver 4.<p>I have been told that acid based papers can't be recycled, I'd take them to the charity shop but it seems pointless if they'll just throw them out.
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Title: I’ve had numerous articles brewing in my mind for a while.<p>Now I’m ready to write them.<p>What platform for wiring articles do you recommend:<p>1) self-host<p>2) substack/medium<p>3) something else
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Title: Earlier today, a number of people I know have been spammed via GitHub issues and discussions, using @-mentions. Push notifications and emails sent. Very annoying because the report process for spamming on GitHub is not that quick.
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Title: How much cost to run Hacker News monthly?<p>These costs could be cloud costs as well as any engineers assigned to upkeep.
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Title: I am amid researching events/messaging patterns to use in a microservice architecture with distributed transactions. The goal is to reliably process events published by multiple services - potentially with different data stores.<p>We've already decided to use Sagas to orchestrate the distributed transactions, and now I want to find an event framework that complements Sagas well.<p>For context, we are building an open-source commerce engine striving to be highly extensible. We provide developers with the primitives to create sophisticated commerce experiences and allow them to replace the different domains (PIM, Inventory, etc.) with their own microservices. Hence, maintaining a great developer experience is paramount to us in technical decision-making.<p>It seems the industry standard is to use a Transactional Outbox Pattern (unless you go all in on event sourcing), but I believe this increases the complexity for external developers building microservices as they would need to understand the outbox pattern and expose one themselves to ensure the events system of our engine is fully functional.<p>I've been working on a solution that uses a shared cache across microservices to store events in an ongoing distributed transaction - effectively a shared outbox. The transaction orchestrator of the Saga would be responsible for processing the cached events upon successfully committing - or invalidate in case an error is thrown. This solution reduces complexity and boilerplate code for developers. Has anyone heard of a similar pattern? I haven't been able to find anything.<p>I am curious to learn how others have solved the problem of events in distributed transactions.
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Title: If this ends up dead and nothing more than a semi-introspective rant, so be it, served its purpose.<p>I started programming when I was 16. I am now over twice that and still programming. I don't like the realities of day-to-day software engineering. I cannot shake the feeling that I've spent the last 16 years doing it just because of... inertia. The 16-year old me just liked to hack around, learn fast, write shoddy scripts that pushed the limits of what I knew. So I know nothing about windows internals but I'd like to write some cheats for a game I'm playing? Let's dive in. And I loved it.<p>But I never had any love for the "art" of programming. I can, however, say with some confidence that I have a good sense of what makes a good, clean, sustainable solution - but the answer to that question isn't even a matter of programming, but of humans and how we work, and how we use our brains. You know, it's the old "you're too dumb to debug smart code in an emergency at 2AM". This can be extended to 95% of problems in my eyes. We need to be nice to other human beings working with us - that may be other people, or even may be me, but 3 months from now, tired, trying to hit a deadline or find a bug.<p>I digress, but I think I'm trying to convey the point that... I never really felt at home in my job. It all seemed off. And I have trouble figuring out where the problem lies.<p>Have you had moments where you did a sober double take and decided to alter your course or commit to it and stay on it? Heck, maybe close the laptop altogether.<p>I know this topic comes up every once in a while, and the usual answer seems to be burn out, but hopefully I can put a spin on it by focusing on what questions a person can ask themselves to better figure out what they want out of their job in the short, medium and long term.<p>What questions would you say one can ask themselves to really get to the bottom of it?
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Title: Today's internet is filled with dopamine wells of content. I wanted to steer away from that and foster meaningful writing. So I made a site where you can only have a single post. The intention is to encourage thoughtful posts like the blogs we all love here at HN (Paul Graham's, fasterthanlime, Bartosz Ciechanowski's, etc).<p>For now posts are only markdown, but I intend to make some markdown extensions to make posts more dynamic.
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Title: The end of the year is coming, and I have some funds left from my company learning budget. I wanted to give it back to some of the authors that still help me in my developer journey, by buying some of their work online and hopefully contributing to their income, but the following happened:<p>1. I went to Amazon, since I have a kindle and didn't want to buy physical books. Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books, so I started buying them one by one. My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them.
After a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company.<p>2. Not wanting to give up, I go to a different online store, Thalia, to buy the books again. After buying them, I download the files, which are in an .acsm format, and can only be opened on the Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software. Once opened, an .epub file is downloaded, and even though I can't transfer the files to my kindle on ADE, I download Calibre to transfer them. Once I try opening them on Calibre, I get an error message saying the files are protected by DRM.
Funnily enough, it's possible to remove this DRM protection, but it's also not something completely legal, and makes me question why did I decide to legally buy the e-books in the first place.<p>After spending hours trying to buy e-books, having my Amazon account blocked, and downloading files that can't be transferred to my Kindle, the only conclusion I come to, is that I'm never buying e-books again.
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Title: The media narrative is that there's a massive software failure going on in its scheduling system, and they need to stop flying for a day or two to "reset" it. Anyone have first-hand experience on their systems about what that really means?
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Title: What was the best software (applications, services, frameworks, compilers, whatever) that you used during 2022?<p>For me, the following tools made my Windows development environment substantially better:<p>- Windows Terminal (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal)<p>- Windows Sandbox<p>- Visual Studio Code Remote extension<p>- Sublime Merge<p>- ImHex (https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex)
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Title: The ISP in my hometown (Albania + Kosovo) has decided to block my whole domain to my free legal streaming website because they also happen to offer IPTV services. I only found out after trying to access my site from Albania today, it just comes up with a “bad URL” request. The streams I serve on my site are public freely available TV channels, combined into a single page.<p>Since EU laws do not apply to neither of these countries, is there any course of action I can take to prevent this sort of monopoly going on?
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Title: Perhaps I'm not in the know, but I find it hard to imagine that we encounter a site, we bookmark it into what's often a poorly self-curated / organized taxonomy, and then rarely ever go back to it, what do other people do to manage their bookmarks, or to even share them? I love "awesome lists" as well, which are often just a bunch of well organized bookmarks anyways, so what do people do that's better than this?
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Title: Hi all, I just released a new version of <a href="https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s">https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s</a> that is a complete rewrite in Crystal that is faster, better overall and allows me to offer simple standalone executables. The previous version was written in Ruby, so users had to either set up a Ruby environment, or use a Docker image instead. This is no longer necessary.<p>This is my first project in Crystal and I love it already! It's syntax is lovely - similar to Ruby's - and it's FAST!<p>I would appreciate any feedback anyone might have - if you are a Kubernetes user as well as a Hetzner customer, please give it a try and let me know what you think, if you encounter any issues etc.<p>During my tests I was able to create a cluster with highly available control plane (3 masters behind a load balancer) and 5 nodes in multiple regions in just *3 minutes*. This is the total time to create the resources (servers, firewall, load balancer, private network), deploy Kubernetes to all the nodes, install some stuff required to provision load balancers and persistent volumes out of the box, and install an upgrade controller to easily upgrade the Kubernetes version (I use k3s as Kubernetes distro). I don't think there is a faster way to create a production Kubernetes cluster!<p>Do you have Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner already? If yes, which tool did you use to create them? Would be interested to know more about alternatives people are using.
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Title: I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features:<p>* Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS Brain's website.<p>* Option to sort articles by upvotes and time. The algorithm is similar to the old Reddit and you can find it on the website as well.<p>* Save search terms into folders so you can filter the articles.<p>I've been using it for a while and found these features very helpful. So I want to share this on HackerNews. The frontend is written in Flutter so it has cross platform clients, even though the web version don't feel very "web native" because the level of Flutter web support. I guess only time can improve that.<p>I don't have enough hardware to scale it up so it's currently in subscription mode to limit the users. I'm going to open source the code (maybe non-commercial license) once I think it's ready so you can host it by yourself. It's still in early stage and haven't been tested by a lot of people. So any feedback is helpful. Thanks!<p>Update: Added a scroll down hint in the landing page. Thanks for the feedback.
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Title: Stripe is holding over $400,000 in deposits over multiple of my accounts with no explanation. I’ve spent hours on the phone or chat with support and they can’t give me any information. We are still able to sell but can’t get the money out. Support has asked for 2 receipts for each account to review, I have sent them. Then I reach back out and they ask for the same receipts again. It’s crazy. Luckily I have other accounts that are able to cover payroll for now, but they won’t last much longer. Support has been horrible and have not given me any reason why this has happened.<p>The accounts that are restricted are all 5+ years old and have been used nonstop in that time. Anyone know a better way to get this resolved because regular support hasn’t been able to do anything to help or explain what happened.
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Title: Let's compile a list of the best free courses on various subjects. Video courses are preferred; it's nice to have a backlog of videos to watch when the opportunity arises, like while flying.
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Title: It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
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Title: What do you plan to achieve this year? Both professionally and personally.<p>Are you going to learn a new programming language? Familiarize yourself with a concept? Spend time with family?
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Title: Recently, a company in Kenya (which I have never heard or nor have any association with) added me to their Google Cloud project without my permission. At first, I thought I had mistakenly accepted an invite to their project. However, I swore that wasn’t the case. To test my theory, I tried creating an empty project and invited my other Google account to it. I discovered that Google Cloud lets you add ANY individual or company email (even at companies you aren't affiliated with) to a project without getting their permission or notifying them. Google doesn’t even send an email asking you to accept the invitation. It just adds you automatically without telling you. The end result is you can quite literally just type in any Google Cloud account (including accounts at companies you don't work at) and associate it with your project without them ever knowing.<p>The worst part is that you can’t leave the project after you’re added. Google requires the project owner remove you. They provide no way to remove yourself. I’ve tried contacting the company that added me but they’ve not responded to my requests.<p>I also tried contacting Google support and they’ve been less than helpful. At first, they thought that my account was hacked. I pointed out that this was not due to a hack, but due to Google’s faulty invite system. They responded back and said they didn’t see any association between my email and the project. So they listed the case as resolved and said they couldn’t discuss any further details about the project. This is despite the fact the unwanted project still appears on my GCP dashboard. I suspect they didn’t see any association because they were just checking the projects owned by my account and not checking projects I’ve been added to.<p>This whole situation seems like a recipe for unwanted spam since you can be added to projects without permission and can’t ever remove yourself. My biggest fear is if that company uses the project to do something malicious then my account might be banned by association. This could also be used in other ways. E.G. you could flood a competing startup's cloud dashboard with hundreds of bogus projects. You could even use it to get someone in trouble by adding them to a project that's doing illegal stuff (e.g. hosting illegal content). If this was limited to adding people within your GCP/GSuite this would be a minor issue because I doubt your coworker is going to use GCP to spam you / get you in trouble. However, the ability to add anyone and everyone outside of your GCP/GSuite makes this a huge issue in terms of spam / safety. Overall, this is a major oversight on Google’s side and is a huge security, privacy, and spam risk.<p>To date, I’ve still been unable to get any help from Google to resolve this issue. If there’s any Googlers willing to help, I would be extremely grateful.
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Title: The book(s) may be related to your profession or not at all. The thing that matters is that it caused a paradigm shift in your mental model of the world or a topic or whatever?<p>Mine was <i>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</i> or <i>SICP</i>.
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Title: 1. whois.freenom.com is currently down.<p>2. Their nameservers are unreliable: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/freenom/comments/vl71se/freenom_servers_are_down/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/freenom/comments/vl71se/freenom_ser...</a><p>3. Their client area often doesn't work. I can't login right now, and it seems I'm not the only one having issues: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/freenom/comments/zwh7o8/an_unexpected_error_occurred/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/freenom/comments/zwh7o8/an_unexpect...</a><p>4. Their email address ([email protected]) bounces because it forwards to their CEO's gmail and their SMTP server doesn't have a PTR record set:<p><pre><code> This is the mail system at host smtp06.freenom.net.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system
<[redacted]@gmail.com> (expanded from <[email protected]>): host
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[142.250.141.26] said: 550-5.7.25 [216.75.58.148]
The IP address sending this message does not have a 550-5.7.25 PTR record
setup, or the corresponding forward DNS entry does not 550-5.7.25 point to
the sending IP. As a policy, Gmail does not accept messages 550-5.7.25 from
IPs with missing PTR records. Please visit 550-5.7.25
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#ip-practices for more 550
5.7.25 information.</code></pre>
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Title: What are some bold predictions you have for next year?
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Title: Hi HN! I designed this Pole Clock to be a helpful tool for people like myself who often struggle with managing their sense of time.<p>I found that analog clocks are generally easier to read and understand than digital ones, however I find the fact that every day is broken into two 12-hour rotations unintuitive. A single 24-hour rotation makes it easier to grasp where in the day you are, the bottom half representing night and the top half representing day.<p>Additionally, because the clock displays 24 hours, you can add extra hour hands on the clock for other time zones. This is especially useful if you work remotely or have friends and colleagues in different time zones. At a single glance, see where they are in their days and energy levels!<p>I hope you'll give the Pole Clock a try and find that it helps you better understand and manage your sense of time.
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Title: I use restic for incremental, encrypted backups, with ssh+rsync as fallback for any excpetions. Using keyfiles for restic results in headaches with securing it and passphrases means no automation.<p>I am curious how you guys manage your files in a convenient and secure way.
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Title: Hi *<p>While I love to read machine learning technical papers from scientific journals, I also believe that there's a lot of knowledge hidden in personal blogs. So I have been collecting them here [1] and here [2].<p>I would like to know which are your favourite personal blogs about machine learning, deep learning, statistics, maths, or related topics.<p>Thank you :)<p>[1]: https://github.com/alexmolas/ml-blogs<p>[2]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H9ceAbEkSvtzg8A2x0BkI44qJw3Cq0rPdnCihGMn8rU/edit#gid=0
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Title: Back in the 80s, they seemed a viable alternative for the future of computing systems. The RTX2010 [0] found wide adoption in the spaceflight industry.<p>Since then, however, they seemed to have completely petered out.<p>Is there any specific reason?<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010</a>
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Title: It used to be that in my area (NC Triangle), most items on Prime were available with 2-day shipping, and often same-day or overnight.<p>As of the last month or so, the minimum time seems to be 5 days, with a large number of items in the 10-15 day range.<p>I'm no Amazon lover; I view them much the same way I did Walmart 10-15 years ago. They've recently had a lot of quality issues and the prices aren't as compelling as they used to be. If they can't even offer fast shipping anymore, I can't think of a compelling reason to use them over ordering directly from manufacturers or more niche retailers.
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Title: Either I'm late or I missed it but just in case, Happy 2023 to all of you and yours.
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Title: What are the best open source TypeScript frontend and backend real world projects I can learn from?<p>I am a self-taught web developers and I haven't worked for any good companies. There are no seniors reviewing my code.<p>My code quality can be improved but I don't know how. Maybe reading some good codebase is a way out.<p>I use React in frontend and express in Backend. Do you know any good OSS projects that use those stacks?<p>Maybe I should read popular OSS frameworks instead of web app's source code? I am thinking of changing my job, so reading real web app's source code might be more relavant.<p>I am very thankful for any advices. And Happy New Year!
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Title: Happy new year HN. As the title says.<p>On my list are:<p>- Lua<p>- APL (not sure yet which)<p>- Forth<p>- Lisp<p>I will continue learning:<p>- Python<p>- JavaScript<p>- Dart/Flutter<p>- XSLT (I know, but it's work related and actually really powerful, even if outdated and overly verbose)<p>Edit: formatting, no idea how you make a list on this sight without it concatenating into one line if there's only a newline between each item!
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Title: I'm reading Petzold's <i>Code</i> [1], and it dawned on me that I didn't understand logic gates intuitively until now. I took a Computer Architecture course back in college, and I understood what logic gates meant in boolean algebra but not empirically. Petzold clarified this for me by going from the empirical to the theoretical using a lightbulb, a battery, wires, and relays (which he introduces when he talks about the telegraph as a way to amplify a signal).<p>Another concept is the relationship between current, voltage, and resistance. For example, I always failed to understand why longer wires mean more resistance while thicker wires mean less resistance.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.codehiddenlanguage.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.codehiddenlanguage.com/</a>
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Title: I've been tinkering with code since a young age and I like thinking my way through problems and understanding the way computers work, but I've never had a programming job. For the longest time, I went in other directions even though I enjoy it a lot, because I was told that I shouldn't spend my life in front of a computer. It turns out that I do that anyway, just not being paid for it.<p>Without any programming jobs on my CV, what is a good way to penetrate into the market? I've had job interviews where I did a bunch of coding challenges (and passed), but didn't get accepted because of lack of experience. I considered that maybe I need to do a bootcamp as an initial way to back my skills up.
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Title: I have yet to find a password management solution which is:<p>- secure<p>- easy to use<p>- accessible on multiple devices (home PC, work PC, and ideally phone)<p>I currently use a mixture of KeePassX (synced manually using SSH) and stored passwords (e.g., in my browser). But I keep thinking that there MUST be a better solution.
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Title: I enjoy all facets of using computers, including programming, and am decent at it. I like many others also enjoy the theory crafting aspect which means spending time reading/thinking about programming and technical concepts and engaging with or observing discussions and even debates.<p>Programming is intellectually challenging, and that seems make insiders and outsiders assume that in order to have some success as a programmer, one must be intelligent, rationale, sensible, or heaven forbid, wise.<p>Yet in my experience, it doesn't take a lot a long time engaging with the digital-technical community at large to realize there is often a large gap between intelligence and wisdom or even basic sensibilities. A field which has so many tools to objectively quantify their work and the result so often are debates displaying poorly concealed biases and egos.<p>I was visiting the Star Citizen subreddit where a user posted a readable, short, simple proof of concept to improve a longstanding inelegant UI element.<p>I read debates about languages and see the most reasonable of authors walking on egg shells and writing caveats like they are commas lest one misstep allows a snowballing tirade of people missing the point.<p>And more universally, I see people who have acquired anywhere from basic to advanced competency spit jargon of the most specific like it is poetry, in a field where learning specifics on the job is the norm (and not that difficult), it seems people cannot resist using obtuse language to virtue signal their intelligence relative to other people.<p>There are obviously exemplary members of the outward facing tech community; they often have great success for being the foil to what is above, but more and more I become frustrated and begin to believe that progress in digital technology is greatly hindered by the low quality background of interaction between those who use it.<p>I say this fully embracing that in a domain like tech where extremely complex and nuanced problems need to be solved that disagreements, sometimes passionate ones, will need to be resolved one way or another - I am not against or complaining about that fact; I am simply growing tired of what I think most reasonable people can identify as basic immaturity and the surprising and disappointing commonplace nature of it.<p>Do I have to issue any more caveats? I am dead certain their have been numerous and highly successful workplaces which were the anti-thesis to these complaints.<p>I have less experience in this space and in life than many of you - so please offer your perspectives.
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Title: Dear HN,<p>Is there a better way to start a year than with acts of generosity?<p>Recently, I learned about the Seva Foundation, which counts Larry Brilliant, Ram Dass and Steve Jobs among its founders. The foundation's mission is to <i>"build sustainable eye care systems worldwide by creating equitable access to eye care, building capacity of new and existing eye hospitals and systems, and collecting and learning from evidence."</i><p>I perused their website, and was taken aback by how common it is in many parts of the world for scores of people to suffer from vision impairment due to cataracts - a condition that can be easily cured with a simple surgery that costs 50$ to carry out.<p>It is a powerful reminder of the stark inequalities that exist in the world. I feel grateful that there are people like the Seva Foundation, who are doing something about it.<p>You can learn more about the foundation and donate to the cause at:<p><a href="https://www.seva.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seva.org/</a><p>P.S. I am not affiliated with the Seva Foundation, I just found them to be a genuinely great organization and wanted to spread the word.
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Title: I'm already doing push ups, pull ups and prison burpees, but I want a structure of some kind and a program to follow to build the habit.<p>What's a good calisthenics program that you have used personally?
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Title: Heya.<p>I created a flexible collision engine for broad detection in C that's also pretty fast. Personally that's my best, so I wanted to show it here. Although... still not as fast as DragonEnergy's one that supposedly handled millions of agents bouncing off each other every frame on an old i3, haha. I hope I get better at this! He set the bar pretty high for me.<p>I was considering including some small function that tries finding the nearest entity, although I think it might be better to simply use query for that matter. Perhaps in the future I will get a good idea of how to do that more efficiently.<p>This is not a clickbait. Although generally you also call other functions in a tick, a collision check between 500,000 circles ("circles", not "squares", because distance is checked and forces are applied based on the angle between) is done below 5ms on not really that demanding hardware. I achieve lower times than that on my budget laptop, slightly more on my PC (yeah, weird). The total time spent in a tick is 3-4 times that.
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Title: Yes, I know hardly anyone uses Swing anymore. :-) I basically just did it for fun and thought I would share.
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Title: There are paid services that offer this (e.g. resemble.ai), and a few colab notebooks that I haven't found very helpful, but I wanted to know whether anyone here has had any luck with free text to speech (tts, t2s) tools. Thank you!
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Title: JSON-RPC / OpenRPC seems like a great option for APIs. Why isn't it adopted more widely?<p>Many of the APIs of projects I've worked with look like essentially like RPC style calls. The URLs are structured as action/method names to do specific things. I like many of the benefits to an RPC approach compared to REST, GraphQL, or gRPC-Web. Unfortunately, the client code generation with popular options feels clunky when you want to use them in an RPC style. It seems like JSON-RPC would be better.<p><a href="https://open-rpc.org" rel="nofollow">https://open-rpc.org</a><p><a href="https://www.jsonrpc.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.jsonrpc.org</a>
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Title: [I'm the author] Spall is a web-accessible profiler that I made to help my web-dev friends load gigabyte+ JSON traces without lunch-break-long load times. Recently, Spall got experimental support for auto-tracing with binary traces (along with an in-progress native-port, to give it more memory headroom), which was used to help track down and fix some hard-to-spot lock contention issues in the Odin-language compiler.<p>I demoed it at the Handmade Seattle conference in October, <a href="https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/c/2022/spall/" rel="nofollow">https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/c/2022/spall/</a>, with a head-to-head against Perfetto, another big web profiler.<p>I'll be around to answer any questions. Thanks for looking at my project! If you like Spall, you can catch my other projects over at <a href="https://colrdavidson.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://colrdavidson.github.io/</a>.<p>If you happen to be hiring I'd love to hear from you. Looking for something fun and new to do after a long sabbatical, working on cool open-source projects!
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Title: Right now if anyone tries to load a Cloudflared website over Tor or any "bad" IP, they get a captcha which breaks something like 90% of the time. It seems to only be "under attack mode" websites, by the fact that only a fraction of Cloudflared websites are doing this. We click the checkbox and it just shows a spinning wheel forever. If this is meant to be a block then show an actual block page instead of dodging the issue and wasting everyone's time (I'm sure you already know about the problem). It also breaks when our IP changes now, which is a regression from the other 8 years you blocked Tor for (so please fix that too, don't just fix one thing and leave a new bug).<p>I searched "list of sites behind cloudflare" and got hunter.io which exhibits this behavior.<p>The catpcha page now contains a mix of embarrassingly wrong statements and nonsense propaganda like:<p><pre><code> - "Checking if the site connection is secure"
- "Did you know the first botnet in 2003 took over 500-1000 devices? Today, botnets take over millions of devices at once"
- "Did you know 43% of cyber attacks target small businesses?"
- "Did you know bots historically made up nearly 40% of all Internet traffic?"
</code></pre>
Stop doing that. Who actually believes botnets only had thousands of nodes in 2003?<p>You (just you) are making the web a dystopia. There was not rampant blocking before Cloudflare, and even during Cloudflare nobody else does this except a small amount of copycat companies, which is still your fault for spreading the bad idea.<p>You broke Tor between 2010-2018, but it was far worse: Everyone had to solve a captcha per session per website to visit any Cloudflared website at all. We had to solve two per site per session if they had a separate "cdn" subdomain. And you used Recaptcha, which gave unreadable captchas to Tor. Every single captcha had ambiguous text, which you have a 1/4 chance of guessing right (since they typically had at least 2 ambiguous characters). Recaptcha itself also just blocks some IPs (!!). When it wasn't blocking our IP it would still also often say "connection failed" in a popup for what was obviously no real reason while loading or submitting the captcha. Those are just the main issues with Recaptcha, which was and still is horse shit. This is still your fault though because even with a normal captcha instead of Recaptcha, we'd still have to solve 50 captchas just for say a 1 hour research session. All of the behavior explained here happened regardless of whether we used Tor Browser or any other browser.<p>And then you "fixed" this in 2018 by just skipping the captcha for anyone that emulated Tor Browser. This is terrible flawed protocol implementation and was documented as harmful and stupid in early RFCs, and I have no idea why HNers put up with it considering only shit companies like Microsoft would do this back in the early 2000s. There was absolutely no correlation of how easy it was to hack a site and whether they had a WAF. Nobody uses Cloudflare for the WAF or anti scraping, so please stop pretending there is any dilemma here, just remove it by default and let the idiots who like that stuff enable it if they want it. Then we'd be back to the 2003-2010 web where only a few unhinged web admins mass blocked IPs.<p>JUST STOP MASS BLOCKING. You literally have no reason to. The only reason would be if you have an agenda to stop people from anonymously accessing information.
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Title: Follow up question : Is that complexity necessary or artificially inflated?
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Title: In the spirit of the season (you know, new year, new goals, temporary motivation that might last 10-20 days), I'd like to ask what all of you are doing or would like to do to improve your mental health. Are there any particular things you've noticed work for you that have made a meaningful difference? Any new ideas that you've read about that you'd like to try?<p>Personally, I'm experimenting with the idea of automated personal/positive affirmations based on something I read in the book "Indistractable":<p>> For example, short text messages providing words of encouragement are effective at helping smokers quit. A metastudy of interventions form ten countries found that "the evidence provides unequivocal support for the efficacy of text messaging interventions to reduce smoking behavior.
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Title: Hi all!<p>A few weeks ago I was scrolling through confluence pages trying to
find ssh connection details to our integration machine for 40 minutes
straight, later I discovered my co-worker slack'ed me the ssh
connection string two months ago.<p>So the same weekend I started working on haystack - a search engine
for workplace apps. that enables you to search slack, confluence,
jira, teams, sharepoint, github, and email in one place.<p>I wanted it to support natural language queries so a query like: <i>"how
to connect to integ2 machine?"</i> yields:<p><pre><code> ssh -i private.pem [email protected]
</code></pre>
I decided that user data should be stored locally, so all logic is
completely client-sided (including the NLP model) - I don’t want
access to your internal docs, thanks.<p>I rolled it out to my co-workers a week ago and they thought it's a
hit, so I'm planning on releasing it publicly on March 2023. But if you want to try it out before then it's
available here: <a href="https://haystack.it" rel="nofollow">https://haystack.it</a>. Thanks!
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34219332" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34219332</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34219334" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34219334</a>
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: I recently had a bad airbnb experience. During check in the host requested a cash deposit. this wasn't explained in the listing or prior to arrival. i couldn't check in and went elsewhere. Then i posted a review* giving these details.<p>Airbnb removed my below review because "The review didn’t have enough relevant information to help the Airbnb community make informed booking or hosting decisions."<p>The rating of the place went back up after removal. The host still have "superhost" status.<p>Needless to say, i no longer trust airbnb reviews.<p>*my full review was:<p>I wasn't able to check in because [Host] requested 300 USD security deposit during check in. I told her - I don't have that much cash on me. - That is against AirBnB rules. - This should have been explained in airbnb listing. She can't just surprise guests with this at the last minute. She didn't listen. She said: "my house my rules", "you can't tell me how to run my business", "if you don't like it, you can cancel". I told her if i cancel, i don't get full refund so she should cancel. she said she won't cancel and me not getting refund is not her problem. I think she counts on the fact that guests typically wouldn't want to cancel in the last minute. you can see in some other reviews people had to agree to paying her this deposit. But i didn't want to cave in and called AirBnB. Thankfully, airbnb fully refunded the payment and i was able to find another accomodation in the last minute. I don't recommend this host unless you want a stressful start for your vacation.
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Title: What are you working on? Any new ideas you're thinking about?
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Title: Happy New Year everyone!<p>Me and my friend developed this extension to record google meets to the computer directly, there is no cloud dependency, neither do we require any signups, and its free.<p>We hacked this together in a very small amount of time to check if people would actually use it, so if you find this useful, please let us know so we can improve it.<p>Also, if you have any feedback/questions/ideas, please do not hesitate and leave a comment.
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