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Title: "Compromised" meaning that malware hasn't been installed or that it's not being accessed by malicious third parties. This could be at the BIOS, firmware, OS, app or any other other level.
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Title: A few months ago, I started making video clips with stable diffusion and noticed that the tools to do this were too complicated for everyday people. That's why I built neural frames. Enjoy.
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Title: Altman has said "it's a few cents per chat", which probably means it closer to high single digit cents per chat. Does that estimate include amortization of upfront development costs, or is it actually the marginal cost of a chat?
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Title: I've been trying to find tax / life advice about giving money to parents and I've been unable to do so. Every year or two I give my parents about $10-15k. This year I'm giving them $30k and I'm unable to find any relevant details about this.<p>Does anyone else give money to their folks? Is there any guidance on how to do this? I'm writing a check but in the past have done cash, but I find it all very inconvenient and confusing for tax purposes.<p>Thanks
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Title: Last month I asked[0] what could be done with an old iPad; the responses led me to discover Alfred Home Security[0] and It's exactly what I was looking for. The winning feature being, you can repurpose any old iOS device as a camera.<p>I have since used the app with 2 old iPads, and an iPhone 7 Plus. Works better than I expect, really nicely done app.<p>The motion detection is spot-on. I've been mostly using this to see what our new very shy kitten is up to since we've only seen him twice in 5 weeks; basically he's impossible to find during the day and only comes out to play after we're asleep. The videos are super fun / cute, and it's nice to see he's having fun and in good health! [3]<p>Alfred Security also make a impressive, very inexpensive camera ($34 US, 1080P, night vision, 130 degree viewing angle and easy to mount). I just received 3 of the 4.<p>TLDR: last month I wanted to know what was the best use for old iPads /iOS devices, and I've since discovered Alfred Home Security[1].<p>Supported Devices[2]:<p>Android: Android 4.4 or above (For a better experience, operating systems above Android 5 are highly recommended)<p>iOS: iOS 10 or above<p>Original post:<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165418" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165418</a><p>[1] <a href="https://alfred.camera/" rel="nofollow">https://alfred.camera/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://alfredcamera.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039755571-What-devices-and-systems-do-AlfredCamera-support-" rel="nofollow">https://alfredcamera.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039755...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://alfred.camera/tv/9IHo74Mj5" rel="nofollow">https://alfred.camera/tv/9IHo74Mj5</a><p>* I have nothing to do, nor any affiliation with Alfred other than pay for and use their products.
* Original Post is locked; I couldn't post this information there.
* Updated with devices / link, and kitty video link (this is off an old iPad, not the Alfred Camera), and formatting.
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Title: Has this happened to more people?<p>I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.<p>I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.
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Title: It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card.<p>I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life.<p>There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
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Title: I'm looking for a way to protect my GPL/MPL/other code and CC game artwork against ML that would ingest it to produce other work. The only exception is when someone uses maps to train AI-driven bots - that's fine. So, I'm looking into some standardized way to tell my work is for human use only. Ideally, also in automated way, like prefixing headers with something like /* <NOML> */.
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Title: DevClad[<a href="https://devclad.com" rel="nofollow">https://devclad.com</a>] is a social-workspace platform for developers to team up on projects and hackathons seamlessly.<p>It functions by matching you 1-on-1 with a compatible developer every week :)
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Title: Hey HN!<p>I’m excited to share sketch: a tool to help anyone who uses python and pandas quickly iterate and get to answers for their data questions.<p>Sketch installs as a pandas extension that offers utility functions that operate on natural language prompts. Using the `ask` interface you can get answers in natural language. Using the `howto` interface you can get get python and pandas code directly. The primary benefit of this over copilot and chatGPT is that this adds data-content based context so that the generated answers are much more accurate and relevant to the data problem at hand.<p>Check out the demo video[1] and try it out using the colab notebook (on github)!<p>[1] <a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/916073/212602281-4ebd090f-09c4-495d-b48d-0b4c37b9f665.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/916073/212602281-4...</a>
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Title: I'm working full time as a data engineer/scientist but I also have one ongoing customer (a previous employer).<p>Another previous employer is launching a startup and has recently pinged me because they need to build a series of data pipelines and ML models for their product.<p>I've to talk to them about specifics but I don't see myselft having enough available time to make it work.<p>I've been thinking about starting my own data/ml services company for a while but I don't really know when to make the jump. I think (is a guess for the time being) that the income from this new job, in addition to the income of my current client, could be enough for my living expenses of this year, so I'm thinking if this is a good time to make the jump or not.<p>The problem that I see is that this new lead is from a previous partner of my current client, so both jobs are related to my previous employer, I don't have a pipeline of possible prospects for my service, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to generate a pool of prospects while doing the work for this customers.<p>My guess is that I should wait until there is a sign that I could probably get a stream of clients to keep the wheel going, and try to find the time to take this new job, maybe negotiating terms to make it possible.<p>What do you think?<p>Edit: I've savings already as I plan to buy a new home (I'm in Argentina, we buy it cash, no mortgage). I need three more months of salary to accomplish the home budget.
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Title: This project is a Windows port of the whisper.cpp implementation: <a href="https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp">https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp</a><p>Which in turn is a C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model: <a href="https://github.com/openai/whisper">https://github.com/openai/whisper</a><p>The implementation has no dependencies, usually much faster than realtime, and should hopefully work on most Windows computers in the world.
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Title: Today I'm signing out of YouTube and here's why...<p>You know how you click the X to disable Shorts and it says "Shelf will be hidden for 30 days" but then it pops up again in like a week or less?<p>Or how when you X one of those panels on some topic you have no interest in and it says "Got it, message hidden" then pops back up in a few days?<p>If YouTube is using AI then why is it so demonstrably, phenomenally bad at learning X means NO; not [Ok not today]?<p>If YT does use AI, and if it's AI is powering any other parts of Google's (Alphabet's soup) then could it explain why all Google products suck at remembering basic preferences we tell them?<p>Hey Google AI, NO means NO. Clicking X means NO. No as in forever NO, not just today or the next few days.
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Title: I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64.<p>Some of the features that are supported include:<p>* Multiple operating system with one single action<p>* Multiple versions of each operating system<p>* Allows to use default shell or Bash shell<p>* Low boot overhead<p>* Fast execution<p>* Runs on both macOS and Linux runners<p>Compared to similar solutions like <a href="https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm">https://github.com/vmactions/freebsd-vm</a>, the boot time is around a fifth and the full execution time for the same job is around half of freebsd-vm (last time I tried).<p>The readme contains more information about how it all works under the hood.
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Title: Hey there!<p>Signals is a survey system that collects feedback from staff (mostly) but also clients and stakeholders in a business. It does this via SMS on a weekly schedule (the cadence can be changed but it works best when done weekly).<p>My co-founder and I started working on this nearly a year ago, having run similar small builds for over four years. This time we’ve tried to do it properly. The execution is relatively simple - similar to an eNPS (Net Promoter Score - a common way of measuring how consumers like your product or service), but we wanted a way to anonymously pass candid feedback from employees to managers and executives about their workplace experience, their jobs, new ideas... anything. And for it to be regular and easy to do.<p>We maintain the anonymity of the staff member (and let them know how many people are in the team receiving the question being asked, so they understand their level of safety). We show the team leads and managers a sentiment score and verbatim comments), but we do not associate the respondent details with those in the backend. This is somewhat different to currently existing tools that tend to use the term ‘confidential’, which means you're not anonymous if the admin permissions are high enough. Even those systems which claim to be anonymous can often have ways of twisting the data to unmask the users.<p>One of our team is working on natural language processing to understand, summarise and report on sentiment, comment themes and trends. We’re making it easy to add AMAs, poll clients and partner businesses, and we’re experimenting with sports organisations, unions, and within schools and education.<p>It runs over SMS (the highest response rate of any method we tested). Unfortunately, it does need a signup and confirmation (apologies) to try, but it’s free to test, and there’s no credit card required. Unfortunately, we only support the US, Canada, Australia and the U.K. at the moment but are looking to expand support as soon as possible.<p>We have only really been live for eight weeks now. We would love any feedback you have for us and hope you find it useful! You can email us at [email protected] if you have feedback or want to chat.
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Title: Hey folks, we made this screen recording tool to fix one simple problem - fixing your mistakes easily when recording so you don’t have to constantly restart or stitch.
I’m not particularly great at presenting and so mistakes will inevitably happen during a screen recording, and it’s worse when you’re already 5 minutes into your recording, forcing you to restart completely.
Please check this out and let us know what you think!
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Title: Introducing Stack-chan, an open-source hardware robot designed with Fusion360 and Kicad that is easy to assemble and customize. With just 6 screws, you can easily put together the robot and add your own features using JavaScript with the Moddable SDK. Stack-chan is completely open-source and the design files, firmware and software are all available on GitHub repository (<a href="https://github.com/meganetaaan/stack-chan">https://github.com/meganetaaan/stack-chan</a>) . Give it a try and customize it to your needs. We'd love to see what you create and hear your feedback on this open-source project.
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Title: I'm the lead developer of Otterkit. We've been working on this compiler for the past few months. The goal is to support the latest COBOL 2022 standard and compile it to C# (will support nativeAOT as well)<p>Currently most of the work is being done on the parsing side of it to ensure that it can correctly parse all of the 2022 standard. We're almost done writing the parser, and will soon move to the codegen and runtime library.<p>Please let me know what your opinion is on the project. I'll be here to answer any questions about it.<p>We're also looking for contributors if anyone is interested in helping the project grow into a production ready compiler.
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Title: Hello friends,<p>I want to build something! But I have very limited time. So I was thinking if I could optimize for small, very practical ideas that I could pull off with the amount of time that I have.<p>Do you have any tips on how to come up with ideas for micro side projects?<p>Bonus if it would be possible to monetize it in any way like ads or micro payments for a very residual income.<p>Extra bonus if it is something simple that can improve peoples lives.<p>... Maybe I'm asking too much.<p>Thanks
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Title: I don't know what is happening with Gmail but lately Gmail's aggressive spam filtering created a huge problem for me.<p>It was a reply I sent to an email yet Gmail somehow figured out it was spam and the other person never got it (which I learned after 1 week)<p>Two weeks before they sent the property tax notice (from the govt) in spam and had I missed that email there would have been a penalty.<p>This is a very old Gmail address almost 10 years or more so I don't know what's happening but I've stopped trusting Gmail altogether after this.<p>This spam thing is such a black box, so don't be like me and check your spam folder just like you check your inbox if you're on Gmail.<p>P.S. Also looking for a good alternative to gmail if anybody has some suggestions. Right now I've just created a filter to send all email to inbox.
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Title: It is common knowledge that when first learning programming, one should start with small projects to build something real rather than learning rules and syntax of the language only.<p>Which are some of the best books that take a project based approach in teaching programming to a beginner?
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Title: Hi everyone! I'm one of the authors of this project. The demo you see here is powered by a tool that I recently helped develop and open-source at Shopify called handy. You can find the repo here: <a href="https://github.com/Shopify/handy">https://github.com/Shopify/handy</a><p>Most people don't realize that VR headsets have become really capable motion capture platforms, so we decided to release this tool to bring motion capture into the hands of everyone who owns a headset.<p>With a cheap Quest 2 you can capture your hands using the headset's hand-tracking feature and your head. With an expensive Quest Pro you could capture your facial expressions using the headset's eye and face-tracking features.<p>Thanks for checking this project out! I'm here to answer questions if you have any.
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Title: So far I really like the fediverse, but I am really missing some cross server follow suggestions. I was hoping someone here had some good suggestions on who to follow?
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Title: I have spent the last 10 years working for FAANG companies, but nowadays I find their performance-review and promotion obsessed cultures to be really draining. Worse, those negative feelings seem to be leaking into my personal life and slowly alienating friends and family.<p>Therefore, I've been pondering a change of pace. The classic HN answer is of course "create/join a startup", but I've also been looking at areas more adjacent to scientific research.<p>One option that has come up is the US Department of Energy's national laboratory network[0]. From what I understand, the pay is 33-50% of FAANG, but they do seem to have interesting projects (e.g. the nuclear fusion facility that was recently in the news).<p>Has anyone here worked at one of them before? What is/was the day-to-day like?<p>[0] <a href="https://www.energy.gov/national-laboratories" rel="nofollow">https://www.energy.gov/national-laboratories</a>
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Title: A few years ago, their was a talk about flatbuffers[0] being a memory efficient and quicker method than JSON.<p>Anyone have any real world experience with it?<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/google/flatbuffers">https://github.com/google/flatbuffers</a>
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Title: Avocademy is offering Pro Bono UX/UI Design services.<p>We can help you with:
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Some things we don’t do: logos, coding, or development.<p>What You Can Expect:
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Title: You may like or dislike Tiktok based on it's content and style of delivering that content but I think everyone has to admit that technically it is quite the achievement.<p>It's video based and delivers video really well. It rarely buffers or fails to load. Compare that to the Reddit video player or the Twitter video player or Vimeo. It's much better. Netflix loads poorly initially for me quite a bit (granted it's trying to load much higher quality).<p>How did they manage to get the engineering talent when seemingly FB, MS, Netflix, Amazon, Google are all fighting for that talent?
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Title: I'm contemplating a career move down and an wondering, if others have gone through the same, what their experience has been.<p>Background: I work as a senior PM in a big tech company. The pay, without being out of line with the market, is more than I ever thought I'd make. I owned my house outright at age 40, I go out to eat whenever I feel like it, I get to travel a few times a year. I'm pretty happy about my life day to day.<p>But then I still think of my job as challenging and sometimes stressful. I look at some of my lower level engineering peers that are "stuck" in their careers (5+ years at the same level, no management responsibility), and honestly I feel like they have a pretty blissful life. Maybe I'm idealizing, but I feel like they can just think about how to build something, get it built, and move to the next thing. Not have to deal with recruitment, management, strategy, etc. Show up and fix the bugs.<p>I used to be a SWE and have kept my skills current, so I'm considering a move back and down from senior strategy and product work back to engineering IC work. This would likely cut my pay in half, so I'd have to do away with some luxuries, but I feel I could manage it financially.<p>Yet I also have a strong instinct against doing this, because it feels like self sabotage according to the standard definitions of a career. I worry about having regrets and endangering my family's financial safety.<p>Any folks who've gone through this and want to share their advice?
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Title: Most code editors' find & replace features are still very close to the original design intended for text documents, so they become unwieldy when you need to match across newlines and indentation for example, or when a parse of the code is necessary to capture a particular expression.<p>Codex (<a href="https://codex-kappa-dusky.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow">https://codex-kappa-dusky.vercel.app/</a>) is an attempt to rethink what find & replace should look like in a modern code editor. It defines a simple but powerful syntax for describing code modifications, combining plain text, regular expressions and Tree-sitter queries, along with sensible handling of newlines and indentation*.<p>It can be used just like regular plain text find & replace, but allows freely mixing in regexes and Tree-sitter queries as more flexibility is needed.<p>It introduces "line quantifiers" for matching a bunch of lines at the same nesting level, so basic structural changes can be achieved without even using a query (see the JavaScript function example in the link).<p>I designed Codex with a specific use case in mind (the one I show in my demo video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_N0-AJ2Qg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_N0-AJ2Qg</a>), so any suggestions for other things it should support would be much appreciated, as well as general feedback.<p>*Indentation is relative and space/tab agnostic.
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Title: For me, I'm building workspaces and sharing capabilities for the third time at a different company.<p>I would convince my boss to pay for a service that provided easy-to-use React components and implemented all the flows for inviting users to workspace, share by email or link, list who can access a resource, send invitation emails, etc, so I could focus on the damn app!
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Title: The tech sector underwent rapid manpower growth, and recently, rapid reduction [1,2,3].<p>What advice do you have for new grads in CS/EE fields looking for jobs? For example, I am finishing my PhD in AI-related work this spring. Colleagues I've talked to in several companies have told me about frozen hiring. Is this true in your experience?<p>Is it better to get <i>any</i> job than keep searching for the job I'd be most suited for? Should I reach directly to managers in different teams? Who are the best people/kinds of firms to reach out to when the industry is slowing hiring?<p>[1]: https://layoffs.fyi/
[2]: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/05/tech-jobs-hit-the-hardest-by-layoffs-last-year-report.html
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Title: In recent years Python ecosystem evolved significantly. From using requirements.txt to dependency management tools like Poetry, from simple typing to Protocols [1] and Variadic Generics [2]. We've got walrus operator, match case statement, and finally even faster Python. More and more low-level libraries are being written in Rust [3].<p>What new features, tools, libraries (already implemented or being worked on) are the most useful for your work with Python? What are you the most excited about?<p>[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/
[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0646/
[3] https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-core
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Title: I'm Varun from the Codeium team. After support for VSCode, Jetbrains, Jupyter, and Colab, we are super excited to bring free AI-powered code autocomplete to Vim and Neovim.<p>And in the spirit of Show HN, we have a playground version for anyone to try the tech in the browser without any installation (<a href="https://www.codeium.com/playground" rel="nofollow">https://www.codeium.com/playground</a>)! We also made the vim client open source and are open to contributions.
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Title: Every website and software seems to move to the left/right sliding thingies.<p>I <i>know</i> the right side is on.<p>But whenever I have to use them, I always have this little doubt on my mind of "did I really set it correctly?"<p>Am I going crazy or are these things a fad with much worse usability than checkboxes?
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Title: I don't mean to disrupt the flow you guys seem to have hera, and I'm not certain if I'm doing this correctly. Please let me know if there's a better place to do this.<p>What is this site? I came across a discussion about a programming question I had from 2013, which isn't uncommon, but to my surprise this place appears to still be thriving a decade later. It calls itself a news site but appears not to be an actual journalist organization, but rather some kind of... archival feed? Is it a social media platform? I've see it compared to Reddit in a couple of the community guidelines and FAQs. What is the purpose and the history of this site, how has it managed to stay up and running for nearly 15 years without me ever hearing about it? For those of you who are still here, why?<p>I must say I'm a bit exited. I find myself mourning the deaths of so many independent forums and smaller social media platforms which thrived tn the 2000s-early 2010's but have now mostly gone offline or faded into complete disuse. I'm not sure exactly what you guys have going on here, but it's seems... Good.
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Title: Hi everyone! I'm trying to create a version control system that solves some of the problems that Git and other version control software has when working in a team. Let me know if you have any feedback!
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Title: Do you have any special math books that you hold close to your heart because of the value they delivered specifically to you and your mathematical thinking and skills?
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Title: Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We initially launched Retool on HN five years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494</a>. The feedback was extraordinarily helpful then (e.g. we launched source control, on-prem, etc. based on HN comments), and we’re grateful for all of it.<p>Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app, to POST back to an API endpoint, is startlingly difficult. (As a web developer myself, it has for a while been shocking how hard it is to build and ship something useful onto the app store.)<p>For us, it was important that we build a native mobile app. That’s because although the web as a platform has come a long way, we think Apple / Google are — to some extent — anti-web, in the sense that they hamstring web developers in an attempt to get more apps on their app stores. With a native app, we were able to ship a brand new set of mobile-specific components, drive substantially more performance, and frankly — deliver much more delight.<p>The team is currently hard at work on white labeling, offline apps, and push notifications. We expect to ship all that in the next few months.<p>If you have any feedback on the product, please do comment in this thread! HN is a particularly valuable source of product feedback for us, and the team is very eager to please HN readers. (Since if we can do that, we can surely please any developer, hah!)
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Title: I would like to inform the HN community, if your plan to recover your Google account in the event of losing your phone is to use a 2FA backup code, or SMS recovery, to remove the old 2FA setup and set up a new 2FA code, that that may not be possible.<p>My situation:<p>I had 2FA set up with my Google Account through Google Authenticator.<p>I lost my Google Authenticator settings when I broke my phone.<p>I have 2FA backup codes. These successfully log me into my Google Account.<p>In order to disable 2FA, or generate new 2FA backup codes, I need to access the 2FA settings page under the Security tab. When I try to load the Two-factor authentication page, I am forced to re-authenticate with Google.<p>When re-authenticating to access the 2FA page, there is no option to enter a 2FA backup code or SMS verification to pass the 2FA challenge. The only option under "Choose a way to verify" is to enter a 2FA code. Entering a backup code instead of a 2FA code returns an error.<p>What am I supposed to do in this situation?<p>Yes this is a classic "maybe I can get support through public shaming" attempt. Thanks in advance.
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Eden and Ari, co-founders of Odigos (<a href="https://github.com/keyval-dev/odigos">https://github.com/keyval-dev/odigos</a>). Odigos is an open-source project that lets you instantly generate distributed traces for your applications. It works alongside existing monitoring tools and does not require any code changes.<p>Our earlier experiences with monitoring tools were frustrating. Monitoring a distributed system with multiple microservices, we found ourselves spending way too much time trying to locate the specific microservice that was at the root of a problem. For example, we once spent hours debugging an application which we suspected was causing high latency, only to find out that the actual problem was rooted in a completely different application<p>Then we learned about distributed tracing, which solves exactly this problem. Unlike metrics or logs that capture a data point in time in a single application, a distributed trace follows a request as it propagates through a distributed environment by tagging it with a unique ID. This allows developers to understand the context of each request and how their distributed applications work.<p>The downside is that it is difficult to implement. Unlike metrics or logs, the value of distributed tracing is gained only after implementing it across multiple applications. If even one of your applications does not produce distributed tracing, the context propagation is broken and the value of the traces drops significantly.<p>We manually implemented distributed tracing for multiple companies, but found it a challenge to coordinate all the development teams to instrument their applications in order to achieve a complete distributed trace. Once the implementation was finished, we saw great value and fixed production issues much faster. But partial implementation wasn’t worth much.<p>We set out to automate this process. We knew how to do most of it, but the trickiest part was how to automatically instrument programs written in compiled languages (like Go). If we could do that, we would be able to automate the entire process of generating distributed traces. While researching, we realized that eBPF—a technology that allows the Linux kernel to load external programs for execution within the kernel—could be used to develop automatic instrumentation for compiled languages. That was the final piece of the puzzle, and with it we were able to develop Odigos.<p>Odigos first scans and recognizes all your running applications, then recognizes the programming language of each one and auto-instruments it accordingly, using eBPF and OpenTelemetry. In addition, it deploys collectors that buffer, filter, and deliver data to your chosen monitoring tool, and auto scales them according to the amount of traffic. This automation allows developers to enjoy distributed traces within minutes as opposed to manual effort which can take months to implement.<p>Automatic instrumentation across programming languages is not a trivial task, especially when dealing with static binaries (like the ones produced by the Go compiler). We built multiple mechanisms to make sure we inject the relevant headers in a secure and stable way. We developed a system that tracks functions and structs across different versions of open-source libraries. In addition, we developed a system that performs userspace memory management in eBPF. As a result, Odigos is the only solution that is able to automatically generate distributed traces for compiled languages like Go and Rust. While other solutions require users to be experts in OpenTelemetry or eBPF, our solution does not require prior knowledge of observability technologies.<p>Our solution can be installed on any Kubernetes cluster by executing a single command. Once installed, we detect the programming language of every running application and apply the relevant instrumentation. For JIT languages (Java and .NET) or interpreted languages (JavaScript and Python) we deploy OpenTelemetry instrumentation. For compiled languages (Go, Rust, C) we deploy our eBPF-based instrumentation. All of this is abstracted from the user, who only has to: (1) select any or all of their target applications and (2) select a backend to send monitoring data to.<p>In May 2022, we released our first open-source project: automatic instrumentation for Go applications, based on eBPF. We later donated this project to the OpenTelemetry community and it is currently being developed as part of the Go Automatic Instrumentation SIG.<p>We are big believers in open standards, therefore the instrumentation and collectors used by Odigos are all based on open-source projects developed by the OpenTelemetry community. This also enables us to be vendor-agnostic.<p>Currently we are focused on building our open-source project. There are no pricing or paid features yet, but in the future, we are planning to offer a managed version of Odigos that will include enterprise features.<p>If you're interested to learn more, check out our docs (<a href="https://docs.odigos.io" rel="nofollow">https://docs.odigos.io</a>), watch a demo video (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d36AmVtuGU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d36AmVtuGU</a>), and visit our website (<a href="https://odigos.io" rel="nofollow">https://odigos.io</a>).<p>We’d love to hear your experiences with tracing and monitoring distributed applications and anything else you’d like to share!
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Title: I work with Ukrainians and paying some of them has been a challenge, so we decided to give payment via BTC a try. I got a personal Coinbase account to play around with it, to get more familiar (I had never purchase any crypto until then). Once I got the account and proved to myself that it should work, I started the process to get a business account.<p>The business account took a long time to get. Probably 2 months. The amount of information they asked for was quite surprising to me. As a founder, I had never given this level of detail to anyone for any purpose. I assumed that it was due to regulations Coinbase were under, but honestly, I do not know. The end goal was important enough that I was willing to go along.<p>Once I went through the onerous process, I linked our business checking and purchased some BTC and tried to transfer it. I was told there would be a 13 day hold on the funds before they could be transferred to my consultant. I went through support and was told to use a debit card and there would be no hold.<p>Since I didn't have a debit card, I had to get one. After it came, I tried to add it and I got the error: An error occurred / Business cards are not supported.<p>That was in mid-December. Here we are in late January and it is still not resolved. Here's a thumbnail of what has happened in between:<p>- I submitted an email ticket, where they sent me canned responses for the first week or so. They really never seem to understand the issue.<p>- After a few weeks they finally told me I had a personal account and I couldn't add a business debit card.<p>- I showed them screengrabs of my account proving that it was a business account.<p>At this point they ghosted me.<p>A week ago I tried a chat on the website. I explained everything above and it came down to this:<p>> A person can only have either a personal or business account, but not both<p>Let's ignore the fact that they let me open both accounts and never said a word about it. They even let me connect a debit card to my personal account and a checking account to my business account.<p>Next, they told me if I deleted my personal account I could add the debit card to my business account. I did that. No change.<p>I started a chat again and after a long time bumped it up a level and said someone would get in touch with me via email.<p>Yesterday I got an email that my new ticket was closed and asked if my issue was resolved.<p>At this point, I deleted my personal account and my business account is stuck in "personal" mode and I can't add a debit card, so the hold time means it's useless.<p>I just want people to know that Coinbase is a complete joke of a company. Don't use them.
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Title: Natural language playlist is an AI tool that generates a Spotify playlist based on your prompt.
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Title: In the entirety of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, I haven't noticed a single car or truck in the streets of Oceania. Sure, Winston takes the train once or twice, but no cars? I would have thought the generally envisioned future of the 40's included car-ridden roads. Was this novel even more ahead of its time than I thought?
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Title: We've all had to fill out forms that ask about our medical history. As I age, I realize that remembering the specifics is getting increasingly hard. I have a bunch of hints about the miscellaneous appointments I've made scattered around 10 different digital health record systems. I can sometimes piece together a good enough history with a little effort, but it would be good to have a personal, secure place to store all the names, appointments, procedure names, and maybe even imaging.<p>Does anybody have a solution better than racking your brain or emacs org mode (which would be an improvement for me)? It looks like 1Password has some basic functionality for this, but I haven't used it yet. What's your approach to solving this problem right now?
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Title: I am excited to announce a new tool for music producers and audio enthusiasts - a music audio search engine. With just a simple description of the groove you're looking for, our semantic search engine will output the most similar audio in seconds.<p>I used the Freesound.org API to upload over 3,000 grooves to MongoDB, and combined all the relevant data such as tags, title, description, BPM, etc. into OpenAI's Text-Davinci to generate a unique description of each sound. I then embedded these descriptions using the Ada Embeddings Model and inserted them into Pinecone DB vector database, making it easier to find the perfect sound for your next project.<p>This search engine is designed to save you time and make your music production process more efficient. Give it a try and see the difference it makes in your workflow. I would also appreciate any feedback on how I can improve the website and make it even more user-friendly.<p>EDIT:
- Google Sign In removed
- 25 total sounds now (only 5 before)
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Title: Apple boasts a lot about their handoff feature, but the one place where I need it most is when I play some music on my iPhone and want to later continue listening to it on my Mac. Spotify does a great job at that and that's been the main reason I haven't switched to Apple Music yet. Is there any technical/legal limit for Apple to avoid doing this?
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Title: 10 years ago, there were a lot of parties in my life, and now there are none. Where have they gone? Have you seen the same, and have you managed to revive your party life?<p>I remember parties at friends places, for housewarmings, birthdays, holidays, sports games, barbecuing, karaoke, whatever. I remember parties at work, for people joining the team, for people leaving, for projects kicking off or finishing.<p>Now my kids are older and it seems that only they get to party. I try my best, invited some people for parties, but we never seem to get invites in return.<p>Hypotheses I have so far:<p>- I'm just getting old (closing in on 50) and people my age don't party anymore<p>- COVID happened and we still haven't restarted partying the way we used to<p>- I'm just unlucky with my set of friends and need to renew my friendships<p>Very interested in both macro trends (eg is partying overall just down) as well as things that you've done at individual level to restart party life.
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Title: During COVID-era we got a lot of new podcasts. So I am wonder, what is the current list of Tech Podcasts, which you consume these days?<p>My current list:<p>1. https://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast/ - deep dives into different tech topics<p>2. https://anchor.fm/happypathprogramming - scala/kotlin/java + interviews with different tech people<p>3. https://postgres.fm/episodes - deep dives into different parts of PostgreSQL database<p>4. https://www.softwareatscale.dev/archive - interviews with different tech people<p>5. https://bootifulpodcast.fm/#/all-podcasts - java/spring + interviews with different tech people
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Title: I love Youtube. For an autodidact (i.e. dilettante) such as myself it is a dream come true of knowledge. I like it so much that I pay the utterly economically irrational Youtube Premium monthly fee just to skip ads.<p>I would say about 35% of my feed correctly anticipates my nerd interests in content in mathematical foundations, theoretical physics, and computer science. About 35% of my feed anticipates my interest in various martial arts and combat sports. The rest of my feed is for random walk curiosity topics I’ve dipped into over some recent time period.<p>There are a strangely high number of gun videos. All sorts of things from guys running around promoting tactical training to gun reviews etc... I like martial arts and combat sports. I don’t like guns. Maybe you like guns. Good for you. We all have our things. Not for me though. Maybe that makes me such a statistical outlier that it just breaks any attempts to mathematical model me. If only there was some way to tell the algorithm it has something wrong. Oh wait – there is. I click “Not Interested” and “Don’t Recommend This Channel” to gun video I see.<p>As far as I can tell those buttons aren’t connected to anything on the back-end. They seem to exist to provide the user with some comforting illusion of control but have no. This is pretty absurd on its face. I mean we can talk about artificial intelligence until we are blue in the face but when the actual human keeps slamming a button saying “NO THE ALGORITHM HAS THE WRONG OUTPUT TRY AGAIN” and it has zero impact then what kind of choices are being made at Youtube. Like what are all those people actually doing all day. But OK, I’m a big boy. I don’t like guns but I’m not triggered and I gloss on by.<p>But yesterday I got a whole new level of WTF. Yesterday I got a full on Nazi propaganda video. Not Nazi in the sense the term gets over-used as internet rhetoric. No, I’m talking about the kind of guys who would be proud to be called Nazis. Some doofus called the Leather Apron Club appeared on my feed with a video explaining how overrepresented Jews are on Joe Rogan and how dangerous this is for “us.” It turns out this is a whole lovely channel with 30k subscribers devoted to warning good white Christian American folks about the insidious Jewish media domination conspiracy.<p>I’m not calling for this to be banned. This isn’t a free speech thing. This is a serious questioning of what the hell any of the Youtube engineers and managers have been doing for the past 17 years. 17 years. Youtube isn’t a new product which popped up last month. They have had almost two decades and virtually unlimited resources to file down the rough edge cases. And yet here I am – a sucker actually sending $12 to Google every month– being recommended Nazi propaganda. Sure I can click “DON’T RECOMMEND” and “NOT INTERESTED” until I’m blue in the face but based on prior experience I doubt that will have any effect. If anything, because I was so puzzled by what was happening that I looked at who this Leather fellow was, Youtube’s trillion dollar “AI” tech stack will probably serve more and more of this stuff. In which case I just exit. I leave Youtube and take my $144 of bloated 99% margin revenue with me. A+ business job managers.<p>I’m just baffled here. Everyone is terrified of AI taking over the world and here the world’s biggest AI entity after two decades and billions upon billions of spending seems to have a recommendation algorithm with precision I could hack together in Microsoft Excel over a weekend. You have legions of very highly paid business managers who haven’t realized that this is a great way to not make revenue. How is this product such a flaming pile of dog poo that this can systemically happen? This is Hacker News. I’d sure love it if some people with current or former insights from the Youtube team can help explain.
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Title: this is the post.<p>we were just cut off with 10000 people.<p>I am a senior frontend engineer with master degree in UI/UX.<p>Let me know if you or someone you know look for my skills. I was recently working on Skype Messaging Team using React Native and TypeScript.<p>This is the LinkedIn profile.<p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabettanova/
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Title: Amazon, Google and Microsoft are clipping 10,000+ people each from their roster. Can someone explain why is this happening?
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Title: I have noticed an uptick in uncaught phishing messages in the past few months, and talked about it to a friend who observed the same. Anyone else?
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Title: I was in two minds about writing this but in the end the thought of preventing someone going through what I went through is enough to tip the scales.<p>As per title, sometimes in life you don't realise how toxic something can be until you leave it behind, no matter that be a bad habit, a relationship or even work. Sometimes it can be so toxic that you'd consider ending it all (as i did) because there is no visible way out and keeping the money flowing in at the same time when people depend on you. I am here to say thats not the case. Good stuff can happen.<p>Under another name on here I wrote about my previous job and I felt stuck because if I left I walked away on a large chunk of stock options. That and my age made me feel really depressed and unwanted.<p>I was driven to actively contemplate suicide due to my boss and his shitty attitudes and issues but no one actually seemed to care. Even then I convinced myself with "aww, it's not so bad" when in reality it was absolutely horrific. Getting out of bed became a real battle. People bitch about people being too lazy to get out of bed but some of those people will not be able to get out of bed because they are so depressed they see no point in it because "it's still gonna suck". I was so sidelined that I could literally disappear for an entire day/days and no-one would notice.<p>I had a "top 10 dick of the year" award boss who didn't like me at all and proactively sidelined me so much it left me nothing to do on a daily basis. That said, in a large company you can cruise for years and that's what I did. The previous boss was a good guy but he left to pursue better options. Things where quite good back then actually.<p>Just doing nothing sounds awesome. It's not. It's crap. Imagine having to sit at a workstation for months and years, having to be "present" with nothing to actually do but make some some BS stuff to appear busy. Even doing training courses and such becomes boring after a while. It was a kind of mental prison and my boss truly didn't give a flying you-know-what. Imagine having nothing in your week to justify the normal desire to do something useful. I even wrote scripts to make life better but my boss wouldn't consider them because I wrote them.<p>Anyhow, it all came to a head and I ended up moving on... (cant go into that too much) and my new job pays much better money and is 500% more interesting and I get to play with cool new technologies. It makes you realise what crap you will really put up with and how from an impartial viewpoint you should have just "nope'd" out of it years ago but the status-quo is just easier to maintain.<p>Looking back at it I knew my time was up a long time ago but I didn't have the courage to jump. It caused me so much misery and anguish. Looking back on the experience, I wasted several years of my life working for someone who didn't nurture or appreciate talent with his sociopathic tendencies. It's only after all these things have happened that you realise the effects it had.<p>As an example, my faith in myself is utterly crushed. My new boss has recognised a lot of the mental snot has been virtually beat out of me and is understanding and I am grateful for that and is very helpful.<p>Recovery will take time but at least I know I wont get verbally berated every time something isn't perfect.<p>For those that this resonates with, I am not saying jump out right now but plan to just get out, even if a new job pays less or means going into a less demanding job. You can always make more money later but you can't get your time back. I suspect it will take years to get my confidence back but I am so glad to be out of a terrible situation.<p>It's only when you leave you realise how truly terrible it was. I am however still resentful over the lost years.
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Title: Quit grad school and spent my 20s at a chaotic startup where I learned nothing about how to intentionally build a business. I spent years running around like a headless chicken to satisfy sales-type execs who had no interest in leveling me up. I was a moron for staying on as long as I did.<p>I was eventually let go, and for the past few years have been doing on-and-off menial gig work. Feel like I’ve wasted my life. No marketable skills. Unimpressive résumé. No network. No mentor. No confidence. No motivation. And I’m in my mid-30s.<p>-Is there any hope for someone like me?<p>-Is there any reasonable path to starting over?<p>-Where do I even begin?<p>-Will tech co’s ever consider hiring someone like me?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I made this because I needed to track how much I work and on what. Timeretain allows you to track time using a fast, private feed of time cards. It displays your stats next to it, and you can filter to zoom in on a description or tag. You can always export what's in view.<p>It's different from other time trackers because it's powerful <i>and</i> minimalist. Here's how I use it.<p>I need to hold myself accountable. I want to know how much I've worked in a week, and Timeretain immediately shows that — no need to create extensive 'reports'. Next, a log of what I did is useful for standup. I can get that from my feed, which loads quickly. Finally, I have to track time for specific topics. With Timeretain, I can add tags on the fly — it doesn't require me to create and manage 'projects'.<p>I would love to hear your feedback. There's an instant demo on the landing page; you don't have to share personal details to test.
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Title: Google: 12000<p>Microsoft: 10000<p>Amazon: 18000<p>Meta: 11000<p>Twitter: 4000<p>Salesforce: 8000<p>200,000+ laid off in tech since the beginning of 2022.
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Title: Someone on HN once recommended I share this story, and I've been seeing a lot of "how do I get into tech in my 30s" and "can I switch careers" posts, so I figured I'd post.<p>----<p>I'm 37. I spent my twenties bouncing all over the place; did a stint in the Army Reserves while shooting for liutenant bars that didn't work out (failed out of college and I was in ROTC). Did construction, real estate, grew weed in Denver for a year (legally), ended up bartending for roughly a decade. It was great in my early 20s. Not so hot to watch my age group get raises and salary increases.<p>I have my GED and never finished college - left with a record-setting 1.2 GPA (I have severe ADD and I wasn't properly medicated, there were other problems too). Seemed like there was this universe of 'good jobs' that were simply not in the cards.<p>So there I am, in my early 30s, struggling to make NY rent and watching folks get promoted and getting married and buying houses and all that stuff. I was lucky enough to have friends that worked in tech, and I've always liked computers, and I'm so totally out of options. So, I start asking - can this be done? How do I go about it?<p>Responses were encouraging and daunting - "it can be done, but do you know what you're getting yourself into?" was the gist of most. I visited a friend in Utah, who happened to lead a tech team. He has a pet project he doesn't have the time to do, and offers to mentor me if I move to Utah and work on it. I credit him with providing the support I needed to feel confident that I could do this. Didn't end up completing the thing before I had to move on, but I learned enough to teach myself.<p>Spent the next year trying to figure out how to keep a roof over my head while teaching myself. I I couchsurfed for a while, trying to balance self-teaching with being a good guest (I failed at this at times). Got my second break when I found a place that I could afford, just moments before a cruise ship was reported to be in quarantine with some novel virus or some such.<p>Covid ended up having a huge silver lining for me; now I had time to work with no distractions. I joined the recurse center (1) and did a batch. I lived, ate, and breathed code. Built until my brain hurt.<p>Right after quarantine ended I got my first job - off the HN whoishiring boards (2). And with not a moment to spare - I was pushing up against my credit limit in ways that I'm still recovering from.<p>---<p>My advice to people that find themselves hounded by the money / career hounds and wonder if they can get into tech is as follows:<p>- Making this kind of change is an emotional journey first and a technical / intellectual one second. It is incredibly taxing to stick to it and many, many times it will look hopeless. Get in touch with your fears, insecurities, etc and work on those. Face the demons. You are bigger than they are, or they wouldn't fit in your head.<p>- Get hungry. Seek out information greedily. Get that google-fu up. Realize that any and all questions you have along the way have an answer that can be found, if not on the internet then through other programmers, which leads to...
- Find community. Nobody does this totally alone. You won't be the first, and you shouldn't try to. Most of what I know came from someone else.<p>- Eliminate those things in your life that have control over you. I had a gaming addiction that I had to kick to do this - might be different for you. Oh yeah, I mothballed my facebook as well. Wasn't contributing to the goal so out it went. Be brutal with yourself, it will pay off.<p>- If you have any format of processing disorder like I do, for god's sake get help. Unmedicated I'm totally useless, and being real with myself about that was a necessary component to my survival.<p>- It can be done.<p>---<p>1 - https://www.recurse.com/<p>2 - https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/<p>edit: formatting
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Title: I work for Metro by T-Mobile. Our store computers run thin clients operated by T-Mobile and the internal account management software EDGE fucked up the internal memo disclosing the recent data breach.<p>Upon accessing a cx account today I see the following memo:
————
High Priority Memo | Created by 11111 on 20-Jan-2023)
Customer received the following SMS notification: IMPORTANT: Some of your account information was obtained without authorization. Passwords, SSN, payment methods were NOT affected. Your name, # of lines, contact details and other account information may have been. Learn more: metro-tmo.co/CustInfo. See https://www.metrocare-agent.com/announcements/<Redacted>…
————<p>First off, “metro-tmo.co” is a spam domain that isn’t owned or operated by T-Mobile. Not only could the person who wrote this memo fail to write complete English sentences, but they fail to link the correct domain to the announcement regarding their own data breach. as of this current moment, their internal account memo system continues to link this incorrect spam link. and to make matters worse, they even sent this spam domain to potentially millions of customers phones via sms.
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Title: If gurufocus is to be believed, he owns approx 1.76M shares. GOOGL closed at $98, up $5 today. Not bad for causing more hardship and pain on a +$100B reserve balance.
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Title: Atlassian has killed off their on-premise Confluence product for small to medium sized organisations.<p>We currently have a 25 user license and would probably upgrade to 50 users in the next year or two. Our only option at the moment is to pay a fortune and a half and upgrade to their 500+ user (on-prem) Datacenter product. By law we are not allowed to use a cloud solution.<p>Most likely we will have to move to Sharepoint :(<p>Anyone in a similar situation?<p>Suggestions and recommendations would be very welcome!
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Title: There seems to be a fairly low uptake in developers creating widgets for iOS since the update that let us place widgets on our home screens. Is anybody in the know regarding why are developers not jumping to develop them?
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Title: I’m of a younger generation, and have seen a lot of references to text based games in popular media. Games where it gives you a prompt like “You are in a forest” and you can type things like “I climb a tree” or “I look around” and it responds to that.<p>I’d love to try one of these out. I have a modern computer so I’m guessing it’ll have to be emulated somehow, but what do you recommend as a great text based game to try? Like ones that really make you think and get creative
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Title: I'm constantly surprised by the fact that Sam Altman is the one in charge of OpenAI. As far as I know, he dropped out of college to start a company that folded (Edit: this is wrong, he sold it, was a bust for investors though), ended up advising companies at YCombinator, Paul G liked him, and he just sort of made lots of connections. Then he became CEO of Open AI? I'm likely missing a step, right?<p>Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's a moron or anything, but it's <i>fascinating</i> to me that he doesn't have ANY of the following things that I'd assume makes one qualified:
* Published AI research
* Sold a company
* Worked at a Unicorn or top tech company
* Reputation in OSS as a hacker/builder<p>Surely there's more to the story? Do people who he has advised at YCombinator all agree he's brilliant and insightful? What am I missing?<p>EDIT: I was wrong, he did sell a company. My mistake!<p>That does change things, but I'd like to hear more from people who have good things to say about him. Maybe he's given some amazing advice to really important companies that we're unaware of. It would be nice to hear more of how he got his reputation.
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Title: This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.<p>Here are some examples of transformations it can make:
Golden gate bridge: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/gg-bridge-suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a>
Girl with a pearl earring: <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/master/assets/girl_with_a_pearl_earring_suprise.gif" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...</a><p>I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.
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Title: I'm looking for a book that will explain how electricity and electronics work to a level that will be useful day to day. Concepts like how the grid works, how electricity does work, what different electrical components do and how they do them.<p>Something not requiring multivariable calculus.<p>I recently read "Immune!" by Phillip Detmer about the human immune system. Is there anything at a similar level to that that you would recommend?
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Title: We often hear how the games industry is bigger in terms of $ than film & music put together. But looking around it's still less universal than e.g. TV (±"everyone" watches TV but not everyone plays video games).<p>How come games make more money as an industry than other media?
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Title: Yesterday morning, I powered up my desktop with Win 10 Pro, and I noticed a shortcut for Edge browser on my desktop. I figured it must've been put there during the most recent update and sent it to the recycling bin.<p>This morning, I power up the same PC, and it's back. So as far as I can tell, the update forces the presence of an Edge browser shortcut on the Windows 10 desktop.
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Title: So, I imagine that in a few years when playing future video games similar to RDR2, NPCs would be able to answer in a non-fixed way, always within the context of the video game, perhaps even their voices would be also generated by AI. I even think players will be able to interact with NPCs via voice (so no more “press square to Dismiss, triangle to Antagonize”).
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Title: Life is pretty absurd and wonder more and more why we put so much stake into a job when the employer effectively doesn't care about you.<p>Anyone taking some time to do cool stuff?
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Title: It seems I am unemployed and uninvestable. I'm looking for advice. I have been a senior engineer for about a decade. I feel I have become unemployable because of my experience. Interviewers have repeatedly told me I am over qualified for positions. I know this is a tough time for everyone considering the massive layoffs in our sector, but I have been jobless for a year, and counting. I’m not asking for a handout, but rather advice.<p>I’ve had a few failed startups due to a lack of investment, while I see grifters like SBF raking in billions. I have had my ideas be realized by other companies, years after I attempted, because I lacked capital. I have had my pitch decks dismissed without a second thought. What is the secret sauce here? Is it a matter of who you know, rather than what you know? Every other day I see companies with no clear mission raising capital with little more than marketing jargon and a landing page. Am I seeing this incorrectly?<p>Currently, I have simply been looking for employment, but that has also been fruitless. I have decided I am unemployable – which is fine. Is there anyone else that has recovered from this situation? I would gladly welcome your advice. Thank you.
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Title: Previously asked on:<p>2022 → <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152</a><p>2021 → <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095</a><p>2020 → <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167</a>
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Title: One of my employers used o365 with fairly draconian rules. Trying to log in with my free browser of choice yields the lovely, monopolist message:<p>>You can't get there from here
You cannot access the resource from this browser on your device. You need to use Chrome or Edge.<p>> Error Code: 530001
>App name: Office 365 Exchange Online<p>Why? It's a static website in accessibility mode and the "request desktop site" slider works as intended. What reason could be behind this? Didn't the EU literally fine Microsoft for exactly this sort of behaviour?
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Title: Synesthesia is a platform that allows you to create create, customize, and publish your own website. It allows you to select free templates to get started, it has a drag and drop editor to customize the website to your liking, and it publishes and hosts your newly created website. You can also view website analytics and upload content to update your website.<p>I would love to hear any feedback on the project.
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Title: I just started my consulting firm moving from a lead tech role at startups, and I wanted to see other's experience in the forum regarding initially starting the firm, networking etc...
I started with 2 pro bono clients that in return will write a testimonial. I have got also potential paid clients in negotiation, I am focusing on writing and entering podcasting but I am not sure how.
Would also love to hop on some calls if anyone is down anytime.
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Title: I love how Bret Victor outlined the importance of programming transforming into a paradigm of direct data manipulation.<p>I'm much more curious about a programming paradigm that no longer uses text to communicate with computers but instead just directly manipulating data, receiving past, present, and future feedback of how it would change given your manipulations. Or to put it a different way "What if" feedback. "If you did this, the data would change in this way" is visualized across many different dimensions, allowing you to 'feel your way' through feedback where you wish to go.<p>In other words, you give your computer your input data, and you modify dimensions which allow you to specify what you want the program to do.<p>To be clear, I'm not searching for specialized interpretations of this "Oh someone did this with typography" or "Oh someone did this with a game" but rather some more generalizable form like "Someone tried to replace Python with an idea like this"<p>I suppose the nearest thing I can think of is manually modifying the parameters of a neural net but that's perhaps too cumbersome because there are so many. Perhaps if you can put an autoencoder on top of that, and reduce the parameters down to a smaller "meta" set of parameters that you can manipulate which manipulate the population of parameters in the larger neural net?<p>I'm just really curious if there have been instantiations along these lines (as opposed to code live-running with results on the sides).<p>I realize this is all quite difficult, may even seem 'impossible' to have some sort of generalizable system that does this for all sorts of programs. I've heard people say it can't be done, and code is the ideal format. I hold that in abeyance, I don't really know, but intrigued to discover those who have a counter perspective to that and have attempted to build something.<p>Also really curious if you know other similar people to Bret Victor I should check out!
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Title: Or more precisely, <i>my</i> little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website <<a href="https://evalapply.org" rel="nofollow">https://evalapply.org</a>>.<p>A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity.<p>Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. <i>But</i>. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and <i>of course</i> one could not let the half-past just <i>be</i>. So here we are, for better or worse.<p>Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\//<p>The README explains all, animated GIFs and whatnot. Some assorted highlights:<p><pre><code> - shite's, ah, "business logic" (except templates) is about 300 lines of Bash, written in Functional Programming style [^]. Pipeline all the things!
- The innards won't surprise Perl/PHP/Shell gentleperson hackers from the last century.
- The local hot reloading workflow is surprisingly nice, and occasionally hilarious! No JavaScript needed.
- Full rebuilds are low performance and that's fine :)
- Pandoc is great.
- Sometimes sed and regex is exactly the HTML parser you need. *Very* sometimes.
- stdio buffering can mess you up
- jq -Rr @html # escapes HTML; what?!
</code></pre>
... and all sorts of other stuff noted in the README and inline docs.<p>[^] because shell ain't a bad place to FP... <a href="https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp-part-1-doug-mcilroys-pipeline/" rel="nofollow">https://www.evalapply.org/posts/shell-aint-a-bad-place-to-fp...</a><p>---<p>P.S.The commit history stops at 3-odd months ago, because I've been using a private fork for day-to-day content drafting, publishing, and layout tweaks. The "business logic" is by and large the same as the public version linked here.
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Title: I love HN. I check it out basically for hours every day, for the past 5 years or so.<p>But, HN is utter hell too… it’s worse than my addiction to The Guardian.<p>I see so many topics I’m interested in, so many cool projects, so I bookmark them. Then I see more and bookmark them too. There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.<p>But the constant reality is that I will never ever be able to do all the things in my brain. It’s a severely frustrating and depressing fact I feel faced with every day. A world of highs and disappointment.<p>But I’m totally addicted because there’s just so much new.<p>Anyone else with ADHD feel this way or have a healthier outlook about HN?
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Title: Hi folks. Remote Rocketship is my side project that searches the internet for remote jobs.<p>A dev friend of mine in South Africa was recently searching for a remote job and was complaining how most companies will only hire you if you're based in certain countries. So I ended up putting together this list of companies that I found that don't care where you're based.<p>I hope it's useful!
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Title: I've been reading Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi, which is about the importance of networking and developing lasting relationships, and Keith does talk about preparation (get to know a person before you meet them), about being genuine, about having something to offer, about the importance of being liked, but I think I'm missing something a bit more fundamental. While I cherish relationships I do build, developing a genuine human bond is somewhat of a mystery to me: it happens sometimes, but infrequently, and doesn't seem to be under my control at all.
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Title: Our DevOps/SRE team has been trying to do Scrum for over a year but the sprints are always derailed by support work.<p>They've tried to add support tickets to the sprint as they come in, but that changes the sprint scope and renders the "velocity" metrics useless.<p>They've tried to exclude support tickets from the sprint and keep the scope very small. Some weeks it works, other weeks they overdeliver by a lot (because there were fewer support tickets and they got a lot of tickets from the backlog).<p>I'm thinking Scrum is useless for that team but management insists all engineering teams must use scrum.<p>Do you have any advice for managing tasks in a team that has support/adhoc and project tickets?
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Title: Today I went to check out a colleague's branch, and noticed the standard `git` one-liner has been replaced with a `gh` one-liner: `gh pr checkout 1234`. Underneath, there's some subtle advertising: "Work fast with our official CLI. _Learn more._"<p>This is of course useless to me, and to any other developer who prefers to use standard tooling rather than proprietary lock-in stuff.<p>I don't begrudge Microsoft shipping a GH CLI as an optional thing, but shifting workflows away from the standard client is one of those changes that doesn't serve users, but rather serves some PM's KPIs.<p>EDIT: based on the "not on my machine" responses here, it's clear that I'm on some branch of an A/B test. These are the only three options now presented in my GH web UI - all the rest have disappeared (https://imgur.com/P7llsVo):<p>1. Checkout with the GitHub CLI<p>2. Checkout with GitHub Desktop<p>3. An ad for buying Codespaces for this public repo
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Title: I’m one of those people who are sworn never to return to the office (ok, maybe once a week) as I truly and wholeheartedly enjoy working from my office. I’m interested to how does your typical wfh day looks like, during and off office hours, mainly for inspiration what I could add to my routine.<p>Disclaimer: I don’t have kids.
Mine is wake up around 6am, have a cup of coffee with my spouse and go meditate for 30min. After I’m finished my spouse had breakfast and is at the door with the usual “lucky you for having the opportunity to wfh” (she’s right).
I have breakfast and check my emails. After reading the emails I write a separate work and private to-do lists which I try to follow as best I can.
I try to work using a pomo-timer (pomofocus.io) and during the breaks I do laundry, cook a meal and do other chores.
After work is done I do a 1hr scheduled do-nothing time where I literally try to do nothing to reset my brain. During this time my phone is on dnd.
After that my routine stops and every day is a little bit different.
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Title: Obviously there’s been many, many layoffs at the FAANG / Big N tech companies.<p>While the biggest names may be downsizing or reshaping or whatever euphemism you prefer, there are many more tech companies in the Bay, who may have different situations.<p>As someone who used to live in the Bay, and is considering returning (had to move for family health reasons) I’d love to understand where we’re currently at.<p>So some specific questions then:<p>How many tech jobs are still exclusive to the bay, vs being targeted towards folks who are remote across the country / world?<p>Does this differ based on roles like software engineering vs more people oriented roles like Product / UX / Sales / Marketing?<p>How many people are going back to the office? How many are still in the bay, but just working from home? Of that latter, how many would be free to leave and work from any other state as they please?<p>Most of my friends left the bay, for a wide variety or reasons. I haven’t heard of anyone moving back. But on the other hand, I cant imagine the bay ever not being the epicenter of tech, growth, and innovation? Where do we actually stand?
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Title: Hello Folks,<p>What is the best course for leetcode style questions?<p>Course requirements -
1. Walk thru of algorithms and data structures
2. Walk thru of patterns
3. Sample problem solving<p>Preferably need a live course to force me to sit thru the course duration.
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Title: https://twitter.com/planmoretrips/status/1603738966271860736<p>I ran into this myself (literally could not check out with my credit card without agreeing to those terms) and opted to paypal instead. Anybody at airbnb/plaid know if this is any less awful than it seems?
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Title: Are you one of the people that finds your job to be very satisfying? Tell us what you do and why you like it so much.
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Title: If possible, provide links to demos, products pages, etc.<p>Limit posts to one tech per post to make it easier for votes to reflect HN’s voting patterns and make it easier to filter related comments.<p>___<p>Here are some examples from CES:<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=SYYXida84Nc">https://youtube.com/watch?v=SYYXida84Nc</a>
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Title: I have always chafed at handing any aspect of my life over to a corporation, but the ease and convenience of Google's ecosystem has herded me in over the years, and I never want to be without that type of "cloud" style document and data storage again. I'm also ready to do what is necessary to stop relying on some faceless entity to manage it, I'm just not sure what to use, or where.<p>Plan A: Nextcloud on Linode. Probably not the dirt cheapest choice, but affordable as a steady expense right now, and it seems to provide a lot of resource headroom while I get on top of how it works and what my actual needs are gonna be re compute and bandwidth and so forth, as well as allowing me to stand up any extra services I may want on this web presence - Nextcloud's open nature is good for that as well, but I want access to the system itself.<p>What I need:<p>I will be using one of the Nextcloud office suites for the same stuff I currently do on Google - text documents (chord charts mostly), spreadsheets, etc.<p>Likewise I will be figuring out how to hoover every photo and video taken by our phones and computers up into a backup collection, and we can then treat our phones like "thin clients" which are only representing our data, not storing it. I have not successfully used any organizational aids for pictures before so for now I'll be happy just to have a collection of dated folders for each phone, and we'll improve from there. It will be stored in some sort of cheap bucket or block storage as well as on my local ZFS server (seems like block storage might be the better choice for that reason).<p>Likewise I want to get all my email history backed up somewhere other than gmail's servers on an ongoing basis. I don't think I'll stop using that email address and I don't expect to actually <i>control</i> my email (nor would I want to), but I don't want to be in a position anymore where Google could just up and decide to lock me out of my own communications history based on some algorithm. That said, I will probably also setup some sort of alternate email that is not on any .com platform and possibly transition to it over time, and all email will end up here.<p>Re platform, I <i>think</i> that I could probably do it a lot cheaper on AWS, and I <i>think</i> I know how to get that done without getting snagged by one of their runaway expense traps, but I'm not completely sure. I do not trust them not to find some way to slip a thousand dollar bill past me before I realize what their automated system is doing.<p>Linode, on the other hand, have a good reputation in terms of competence and reliability, and from what I can tell the price they are offering is not completely out of whack. They even offer the quick deploy version, but I do believe I would just take a raw server and stand it all up myself, I have security people in my family who can make sure I'm not hanging my junk out the front door before I go live.<p>I am also considering Digital Ocean, who I've dealt with a little bit in the past and found them great.<p>Future plans for this server include some kind of federated publishing - Nextcloud might even have some sort of blogging extension that could be further extended, or maybe even it's already implemented, I'm not that up on it yet. It's just a high profile self-hosting system that I noticed.<p>Or I might add a small Mastadon to the server for the same people who use the Nextcloud, but I'm hearing a lot about runaway transfer fees so I'm gonna wait and see before I stand one up myself. But that's why the raw server instead of the one-click solution, one way or another I'm gonna get on ActivityPub.<p>Anyways, thoughts anyone? Like I said, current plan is Nextcloud on Linode for a while and see how it goes, but if there's something leaner or more extensible or that handles ActivityPub better or whatever I'd love to know.
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Title: What ML papers do you think someone who has a some experience - but would still consider themselves relatively inexperienced in ML, could implement?<p>ideally, a list of papers that could take 2-5 hours each and a few hundred lines of code?
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Title: I’ve been visiting HN for more than a day. Almost daily.<p>While Reddit, Digg, FB, Twitter etc have jammed in more features and ads looking like posts, HN has remained high signal to noise ratio.<p>Thank you for that.<p>As I get older, my brain is unable to deal with ads and too much flashy imagery/videos.<p>HN is an oasis.<p>My only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts and hit areas for expand/collapse. It’s too easy to hit the wrong button on a phone.<p>Thank you for keeping HN clean.
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Title: Hi HN! We’re Shaeq and Samrose, co-founders of Matano (<a href="https://matano.dev">https://matano.dev</a>). Matano is a high-scale, low-cost alternative to traditional SIEM (e.g. Splunk, Elastic) built around a vendor-agnostic security data lake that deploys to your AWS account.<p>Don’t worry — we’ll explain all this jargon in a second.<p>SIEM stands for “Security Information and Event Management” and refers to log management tools used by security teams to detect threats from an organization's security logs (network, host, cloud, SaaS audit logs, etc.) and send alerts about them. Security engineers write detection rules inside the SIEM as queries to detect suspicious activity and create alerts. For example, a security engineer could write a detection rule that checks the fields in each CloudTrail log and creates an alert whenever an S3 bucket is modified with public access, to prevent data exfiltration.<p>Traditional SIEM tools (e.g. Splunk, Elastic) used to analyze security data are difficult to manage for security teams on the cloud. Most don’t scale because they are built on top of a NoSQL database or search engine like Elasticsearch. And they are expensive — the enterprise SIEM vendors have costly ingest-based licenses. Since security data from SaaS and cloud environments can exceed hundreds of terabytes, teams are left with unsatisfactory options: either not collect some data, leave some data unprocessed, pay exorbitant fees to an enterprise vendor, or build their own large-scale solution for data storage (aka “data lake”).<p>Companies like Apple, HSBC, and Brex do the latter: they build their own security data lakes to analyze their security data without breaking the bank. “Data lake” is jargon for heterogeneous data that is too large to be kept in a standard database and is analyzed directly from object storage like S3. A “security data lake” is a repository of security logs parsed and normalized into a common structure and stored in object storage for cost-effective analysis. Building your own data lake is a fine option if you’re big enough to justify the cost — but most companies can’t afford it.<p>Then there’s the vendor lock-in issue. SIEM vendors store data in proprietary formats that make it difficult to use outside of their ecosystem. Even with "next-gen" products that leverage data lake technology, it's nearly impossible to swap out your data analytics stack or migrate your security data to another tool because of a tight coupling of systems designed to keep you locked in.<p>Security programs also suffer because of poor data quality. Most SIEMs today are built as search engines or databases that query unstructured/semi-structured logs. This requires you to heavily index data upfront which is inefficient, expensive and makes it hard to analyze months of data. Writing detection rules requires analysts to use vendor-specific DSLs that lack the flexibility to model complex attacker behaviors. Without structured and normalized data, it is difficult to correlate across data sources and build effective rules that don’t create many false positive alerts.<p>While the cybersecurity industry has been stuck dealing with these legacy architectures, the data analytics industry has seen a ton of innovation through open-source initiatives such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, and Arrow, delivering massive cost savings and performance breakthroughs.<p>We encountered this problem when building out petabyte-scale data platforms at Amazon and Duo Security. We realized that most security teams don't have the resources to build a security data lake in-house or take advantage of modern analytics tools, so they’re stuck with legacy SIEM tools that predate the cloud.<p>We quit our jobs at AWS and started Matano to close the gap between these two worlds by building an OSS platform that helps security teams leverage the modern data stack (e.g. Spark, Athena, Snowflake) and efficiently analyze security data from all the disparate sources across an organization.<p>Matano lets you ingest petabytes of security and log data from various sources, store and query them in an open data lake, and create Python detections as code for realtime alerting.<p>Matano works by normalizing unstructured security logs into a structured realtime data lake in your AWS account. All data is stored in optimized Parquet files in S3 object storage for cost-effective retention and analysis at petabyte scale. To prevent vendor lock-in, Matano uses Apache Iceberg, a new open table format that lets you bring your own analytics stack (Athena, Snowflake, Spark, etc.) and query your data from different tools without having to copy any data. By normalizing fields according to the Elastic Common Schema (ECS), we help you easily search for indicators across your data lake, pivot on common fields, and write detection rules that are agnostic to vendor formats.<p>We support native integrations to pull security logs from popular SaaS, Cloud, Host, and Network sources and custom JSON/CSV/Text log sources. Matano includes a built-in log transformation pipeline that lets you easily parse and transform logs at ingest time using Vector Remap Language (VRL) without needing additional tools (e.g. Logstash, Cribl).<p>Matano uses a detection-as-code approach which lets you use Python to implement realtime alerting on your log data, and lets you use standard dev practices by managing rules in Git (test, code review, audit). Advanced detections that correlate across events and alerts can be written using SQL and executed on a scheduled basis.<p>We built Matano to be fully serverless using technologies like Lambda, S3, and SQS for elastic horizontal scaling. We use Rust and Apache Arrow for high performance. Matano works well with your existing data stack, allowing you to plug in tools like Tableau, Grafana, Metabase, or Quicksight for visualization and use query engines like Snowflake, Athena, or Trino for analysis.<p>Matano is free and open source software licensed under the Apache-2.0 license. Our use of open table and common schema standards gives you full ownership of your security data in a vendor neutral format. We plan on monetizing by offering a cloud product that includes enterprise and collaborative features to be able to use Matano as a complete replacement to SIEM.<p>If you're interested to learn more, check out our docs (<a href="https://matano.dev/docs">https://matano.dev/docs</a>), GitHub repository (<a href="https://github.com/matanolabs/matano">https://github.com/matanolabs/matano</a>), or visit our website (<a href="https://matano.dev">https://matano.dev</a>).<p>We’d love to hear about your experiences with SIEM, security data tooling, and anything you’d like to share!
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Title: So far I've used it to reference ideas from books I've read before.<p>I've also used it to explore books I have not read before by asking the bot questions.<p>Some people have told me they use it like a reading companion. They pause while reading the book if they have a question, and use Konjer to answer it.
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Title: Two months ago, we left our jobs at AWS and Figma to continue building Infisical.<p>It is an open-source end-to-end encrypted tool that helps you manage developer secrets across your team, devices, and infrastructure.<p>During the previous Show HN, we got a lot of useful feedback which we’ve been iterating on A LOT!<p>In the past month, we’ve been pretty much working 24/7, and we added:
- Integrations for Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Actions, Render, and Fly.io
- Public API
- User activity logs
- Point-in-time recovery and secret versioning
- Custom environments
- Kubernetes operator (<a href="https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/platforms/kubernetes">https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/platforms/kubernetes</a>)
And made lots of other performance improvements both on the frontend and backend.<p>Our repo is published under the MIT license so any developer can use Infisical. The goal is to not charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for some enterprise features as well as providing a hosted version and support.<p>In the coming weeks, we plan to add features like key rotation, alerts, and secret groups - as well as continue adding more integrations.<p>Give it a try (<a href="https://github.com/Infisical/infisical">https://github.com/Infisical/infisical</a>)! We’d love to hear what you think!<p>Main website: <a href="https://infisical.com/">https://infisical.com/</a>
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Title: Signal was a brilliant app. It can send messages with rich media, host group chats, and even do voice and video calls, all with the peace of mind that comes from a proper secure messaging app. The best part was that you could still send messages to people who don't use Signal. Signal was the messaging app everyone wants - all the benefits of iMessage, without being siloed in one particular ecosystem.<p>Sometime leading up to October of 2022, the folks at the Signal foundation lost the plot. Signal has since dropped support for SMS, and is inexplicably adding "stories" to their personal messaging app. I despise this.<p>Instead of just complaining about it, I decided to do something about it. Here is a link to a version of the Signal Android app that still supports SMS, and doesn't have stories. There also isn't a stupid, nagging banner telling you to update. Right now, it's just Signal 5.38 with a couple lines commented out, but I plan to integrate any upstream security/UX improvements in the near future. For now, you'll have to build/install it yourself, but I will eventually put an APK out there for people to download. Enjoy!
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Title: Two of my friends recently welcomed their first child and I "wrote" a kid's book for them using ChatGPT for the story and Midjourney for illustrations.<p>The plot was sourced from a group of friends.
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Title: The project is called QueryStorm. It uses Roslyn to offer C# (and VB.NET) support in Excel, as an alternative to VBA. I've posted about it before, but a lot has changed since then so figured I'd share an update.<p>The current version includes a host of new features, namely a C# debugger, support for NuGet packages, and the ability to publish Excel extensions to an "AppStore" (which is essentially a NuGet repository). The AppStore can be used by anyone with the (free) runtime component.<p>Another great addition is the community license, which is a free license for individuals and small companies to use. It unlocks most features, but it isn't intended for companies with more than 5 employees or over $1M in annual revenue.<p>I would love to hear your feedback and am happy to answer any technical questions about how QueryStorm is implemented.
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Title: Although probably late in this field, I have recently come across the topic, sourced/starting from an old paper by one of the main actors in this area, Gheorghe Paun ("An impossibility theorem for indicators aggregation"), who I then followed through to learning about Membrane Computing. I am planning to buy the introductory book on the topic, also authored by Paun, but not right away. I was wondering if there are individuals who could speak to the how and why, and maybe work on applications in this space.
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Title: Looking for strategies and tips for dealing with eye strain.<p>i.e.
- Types of contrast (i.e. solarized)
- Types of eye drops
- Smaller/Larger font/refresh rate/etc
- extra sleep? (my eyes are red)
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Title: A couple of months ago, we left our jobs to build UpTrain AI, an open-source machine learning observability and refinement tool which helps users understand the performance of their models in production and improves them over time by identifying problematic data-points for retraining.<p>Data drift, Distribution shifts, Model degradation, Edge cases - we have personally faced these problems in our previous organizations and have built a lot of tooling to solve them. We are building UpTrain so that others don’t need to build them and can solely focus on improving their ML models while we abstract away all the engineering complexities.<p>You can get UpTrain for free by checking it out on GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrain">https://github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrain</a> - available under Apache 2.0 license). We're not trying to make money off individual developers, but we do have some enterprise features, a hosted version, and support that we charge for.<p>Give it a try and let us know what you think!
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Title: Our entire lives get spent pursuing outcomes.<p>We keep grinding, hoping we'll achieve X and then we'll be content forever, only to find merely emptiness on the other side.<p>The new shiny badge of honor barely takes days to get normalized and the void kicks in again.<p>What exactly are we going after? Is there even an end to this?
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