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Title: Hey, HN community,<p>We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters.<p>Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified. You can adjust the services and steps depending on what you actually need to automate in your business.<p>Even though some existing cloud solutions do the job well enough, we still wanted to build an open-source and self-hosted alternative to those. Because it allows you to store your data on your own servers, which is essential for businesses that handle sensitive user information and cannot risk sharing it with external cloud services. This is especially relevant for industries such as healthcare and finance, as well as for European companies that must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).<p>You can see the available integrations here (<a href="https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps</a>). We currently have limited integrations but are constantly working on adding more and enhancing the existing ones. You can also request a new integration by using GitHub discussions: (<a href="https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categories/integration-request">https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categ...</a>).<p>You can use the following links to check it out:<p>Website: <a href="https://automatisch.io" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io</a>
Docs: <a href="https://automatisch.io/docs" rel="nofollow">https://automatisch.io/docs</a>
GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch">https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch</a><p>Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback, and if you like what we are doing with Automatisch, please give us a star on GitHub.<p>Cheers!
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Title: I start making money when I was in my final year of Master Degree in 2017 at the age of 25. I’m sharing breakdown of 5-years earnings by year.<p>#2017 — $2,500 ($208 / month)
Internship for US based company as a web developer with Angular.js<p>#2018 — $6,500 ($542 / month)
I joined a full-time job as web developer in a company & was doing extra work in night as freelancer.<p>I quit my job in 8-months & moved to south India to building company of one.<p>#2019 — $24,691 ( $2058 / month )
I sold my first project that I build out of a GitHub repository for $22k and did some extra side work to make more money. From now, I stop taking freelance work and start exploring ideas in APIs software. In Nov, 2019 I build NoCodeAPI and Launched in Jan’2020 before covid.<p>#2020 — $42,124 ( $3,510 / month )
I grow my SAAS business nocodeapi to $2k MRR & built a small website with Twitter API in 11 hours and I sold that for $5k within a month.<p>#2021 — $153,609 ( $12,800 / month )
NoCodeAPI MRR $3.5k and sold two side project for $95k while growing my SAAS business.<p>#2022 — $216,433 ( $18,036 / month )
NoCodeAPI MRR grows to $5k and this got acquired for 6 figures.<p>#2023 — ?
Currently, I’m building a new software to make apps with table data. → tableapps.io
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I’m Joe, CTO at Dopt. We’re building a tool that lets you design user state machines and an SDK so that you can run them in your product.<p>We offer a React SDK that lets you create instances of those machines for any user of your product and exposes methods for transitioning the state of the user—effectively moving them through the machine. Dopt then acts as a persistence layer for the users’ machine state. We call our machines “flows”. Dopt lets you send in data about your users (identify calls/properties) and lets non-devs define rules based on that data for which users should enter the flows. Non-devs can also update content and other custom properties that can be referenced via the SDK.<p>For example, with Dopt’s SDK you can build:<p>- a multi-step, interactive product walkthrough that helps users learn how to use a product by using it (<a href="https://www.dopt.com/examples/learn-by-doing-onboarding" rel="nofollow">https://www.dopt.com/examples/learn-by-doing-onboarding</a> )<p>-a getting started checklist that helps a team get setup and activated (<a href="https://www.dopt.com/examples/getting-started-checklist" rel="nofollow">https://www.dopt.com/examples/getting-started-checklist</a>)<p>You can see a short 4 minute demo of how Dopt at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRvAp6Cnls">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRvAp6Cnls</a><p>We make iteration on your state modeling easy with flow versioning, and we even handle migrating your users between versions on the fly. Dopt’s UI lets everyone easily track how users move through your flows and provides controls for enabling/disabling or resetting them. We’ll work right alongside your analytics and experimentation tools.<p>We started Dopt because we’ve seen the teams building onboarding/education flows struggle with a similar set of issues that Dopt sets out to solve:<p>- Homegrown onboarding is time-consuming to maintain (and it changes a lot!). The logic of the flows is complex and opaque to non-developers and devs are forced to be in the loop for every small copy, targeting, and logic change.<p>- The customer and user data needed to show people relevant experiences lives in multiple places and is hard to build interactive experiences with (e.g. what’s their use case, what plan they’re on, what they’ve done in the product, what other teammates have done in the product, etc…).<p>- Persisting and migrating user flow state is hard.<p>The existing tools aimed at helping people put onboarding into their products frankly suck. They’re not built for developers, only offer boilerplate components, and have brittle integration points that are hard to troubleshoot. They end up producing mostly low-quality tooltip tours.<p>We’re in a closed beta period right now but are looking to find more people building product onboarding that are willing to give Dopt a spin.<p>We’re not charging for Dopt during our beta period and are just asking for feedback to help us learn how to make Dopt better. We’ll eventually start charging later this year (by monthly tracked users) when we go fully self-service but are planning on having a “free in-perpetuity” tier for small use cases to make it easy to evaluate whether Dopt’s valuable. We won’t pull the rug out from anyone who’s built with us during the closed beta.<p>You can signup for our waitlist on dopt.com or drop us a note at [email protected]. If you mention HN we’ll skip you to the head of the line and get you product access. We’d love any feedback on the site, docs, and examples too!
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Title: Someone just published 40Gb+ of leaked Yandex GIT repository. Won’t provide magnet here, but it is top google result for “yandex leak” when filtered by last 24h.<p>Affected services:<p>aapi.tar.bz2
admins.tar.bz2
ads.tar.bz2
alice.tar.bz2
analytics.tar.bz2
antiadblock.tar.bz2
antirobot.tar.bz2
autocheck.tar.bz2
balancer.tar.bz2
billing.tar.bz2
bindings.tar.bz2
captcha.tar.bz2
cdn.tar.bz2
certs.tar.bz2
ci.tar.bz2
classifieds.tar.bz2
client_analytics.tar.bz2
client_method.tar.bz2
cloud.tar.bz2
commerce.tar.bz2
connect.tar.bz2
crm.tar.bz2
crypta.tar.bz2
customer_service.tar.bz2
datacloud.tar.bz2
delivery.tar.bz2
direct.tar.bz2
disk.tar.bz2
docs.tar.bz2
drive.tar.bz2
extsearch.tar.bz2
fuzzing.tar.bz2
gencfg.tar.bz2
groups.tar.bz2
helpdesk.tar.bz2
infra.tar.bz2
intranet.tar.bz2
investors.tar.bz2
it-office.tar.bz2
jupytercloud.tar.bz2
kernel.tar.bz2
library.tar.bz2
load.tar.bz2
mail.tar.bz2
maps.tar.bz2
maps_2.tar.bz2
maps_adv.tar.bz2
market.tar.bz2
metrika.tar.bz2
mobile-WARNING-notfull.tar.bz2
nginx.tar.bz2
noc.tar.bz2
partner.tar.bz2
passport.tar.bz2
pay.tar.bz2
payplatform.tar.bz2
paysys.tar.bz2
portal.tar.bz2
robot.tar.bz2
rt-research.tar.bz2
saas.tar.bz2
sandbox.tar.bz2
search.tar.bz2
security.tar.bz2
skynet.tar.bz2
smart_devices.tar.bz2
smarttv.tar.bz2
solomon.tar.bz2
stocks.tar.bz2
tasklet.tar.bz2
taxi.tar.bz2
tools.tar.bz2
travel.tar.bz2
wmconsole.tar.bz2
yandex_io.tar.bz2
yandex360.tar.bz2
yaphone.tar.bz2
yawe.tar.bz2
frontend.tar.bz2
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Title: Hey guys, I wanted to introduce you my hacknight project.<p>It is a tribute to onekb.net which has stopped its service a few years ago. Currently it is still a beta where external resources are also possible (but not the point ;) ) to get your opinions.<p>When it is finished, the source code will be open source. The secret word is therefore also hackernews.<p>P.S.: The source code is currently 2.4Kb I'm trying to make it smaller. 1Kb would be my goal.
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Title: Specifically the backend. I'd love to hear your reasons. Do you keep one eye on what the stack would be post MVP?<p>1. Old schoolish (VPS - Maybe DO, Django/Flask/Rails/Remix/Next with postgres)<p>2. Supabase etc with JS/TS on either side of the network<p>3. Lambda/Cloud functions with Firebase/Dyanamo DB/Cosmos DB etc<p>4..n. What else and why?
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Title: Hi HN! Co-Founder of Permit.io here,
I’ve built access-control to my products, thousands of times throughout my career - and at no point did I want to.<p>We adopted OPA, created OPAL.ac (open-source), and Permit.io on top - so no developer would have to build permissions again.<p>To truly solve this problem end-to-end we’re releasing Permit-Elements (<a href="https://permit.io/elements" rel="nofollow">https://permit.io/elements</a>) - embeddable UIs providing the interfaces you need so your end-customers can control access-control (e.g. user-management, audit-logs, approval flows, permission requests, api-key management, …)<p>Check out the full tutorial: <a href="https://youtu.be/xGYdDF65lkQ" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/xGYdDF65lkQ</a><p>The solution highlights:
- Authorization for Authorization (who can control who controls permissions)
- Security (auditing, real-time decision making and meeting industry standards)
- An easy integration (generate and embed a JS snippet)<p>There’s a lot more to do, we’d love your feedback on Permit in general, this feature, and others.
Chat with us on Slack (<a href="https://bit.ly/permit-slack" rel="nofollow">https://bit.ly/permit-slack</a>)<p>Thanks,
Or Weis
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Title: Yesterday, I got lost track of the HN post comments.<p>I fixed that problem → http://hntoast.com<p>I make this in the last couple of hours. So, if you have any feature requests or feedback.<p>Let me know your thought about this tool.
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Title: <p><pre><code> I would like to change my "paycheck to paycheck" way of life and am looking to learn about financial vehicles (US based) and investment basics, and anything else that "I wish I had known when I was 20 years old".</code></pre>
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Title: Infrastructure as code (IaC) often fails during deployment due to dynamic constraints such as name collisions, quota limits and other resource-specific constraints that devs run halfway into an IaC deployment. We witnessed this first hand at TinyStacks and built precloud - an open-source framework to define and run dynamic tests before IaC deployments.<p>The precloud framework currently supports Terraform and AWS CDK with several default checks (unique names, service quota checks and more) and ability to define your own!
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Title: We all know there’s a big luck component to breaking off the /new page. I want to see the original content that you’re proud of but flopped on HN.
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Title: An AI joke generation tool built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 language models, and fine-tuned with ~15k late night comedy monologue jokes.<p>web app and model creation all open-sourced
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Title: It hasn't been posted publicly but staff recieved an email from the CEO this morning announcing that 8% of staff have been cut in a "restructuring". This is especially surprising because staff have repeatedly been told that the company has strong cash reserves and is on a trajectory to profitability, even with market headwinds. No word on the breakdown by department or role.
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Title: IBM (IBM) announced the cuts Wednesday, saying they were related to the previously announced spinoff and sale of two business units. Some 3,900 positions, or 1.5% of its global workforce, are expected to go. The move will cost IBM (IBM) about $300 million this quarter, a spokesperson confirmed.<p>SAP (SAP), Europe’s largest software company, will lay off 2.5% of its global workforce of 112,000, or around 2,800 employees, according to an earnings report published Thursday. The restructuring will cost between €250 million ($272 million) and €300 million ($381 million); the company’s shares were down 3.3% in Frankfurt.
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Title: Hey all, I made knotend [0] because I wanted a flowchart editor that was keyboard-driven and super fast. I was tired of dragging boxes around on a canvas. You may have seen knotend around here before when I wrote an initial blog post [1] about why I wanted a new kind of flowchart editor. Thank you to everyone who has given me feedback here on HN!<p>Since that blog post I’ve been working hard to get to a v1 which I’m showing now. You can use the free version without having to sign up for an account. I would love your feedback!<p>What makes knotend different is two main things: 1) The nodes are constrained to a grid which enables a keyboard-centric experience for selection and navigation, and 2) there’s autolayout so each time you add a node, the graph automatically lays itself out and places each node in a cell.<p>In the future I’ll be working on supporting more complex editing actions, linking graphs together, collaboration, and more.<p>Please drop your feedback below, reach out on twitter [2], or email [email protected].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.knotend.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.knotend.com</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.scottantipa.com/why-knotend" rel="nofollow">https://www.scottantipa.com/why-knotend</a><p>[2] <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottyAntipa" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ScottyAntipa</a>
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Title: I just got laid off from Google search after working on the ranking team for four years. Wanted to see if there's anyone out there that wants to build a search startup, especially if you're ex-Google. I have some ideas for how to build a search engine like 2010 Google, that's relatively low tech (i.e. achievable). If you're interested email me at username @ Gmail.
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Title: Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (<a href="https://www.pi-a.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.pi-a.io</a>) which developed Lungy (<a href="https://www.lungy.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.lungy.app</a>). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU.<p>My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were huge numbers of patients coming off ventilators and they are often given breathing exercises on a worksheet and disposable plastic devices called incentive spirometers to encourage deep breathing. This is intended to prevent chest infections and strengthen breathing muscles that have weakened. I noticed often the incentive spirometer would sit by the bedside, whilst the patient would be on their phone – this was the spark that lead to Lungy!<p>The visuals are mostly built using Metal, with one or two using SpriteKit. There are 20 to choose from, including boids, cloth sims, fluid sims, a hacky DLA implementation, rigid body + soft body sims. The audio uses AudioKit with a polyphonic synth and a sequencer plays generated notes from a chosen scale (you can mess around with the sequencer and synth in Settings/Create Music).<p>There are obviously lots of breathing and meditation apps out there, I wanted Lungy to be different - it's about tuning into your surroundings and noticing the world around you, so all the visuals are nature-inspired or have some reference to the physical world. I didn’t like other apps required large downloads and/or a wifi connection, so Lungy’s download size is very small (<50MB), with no geometry, video or audio files.<p>Lungy is initially a wellness app, but I’d like to develop a medical device version for patients with breathing problems such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) & long COVID. Thanks for reading - would love to hear feedback!
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Title: Received a wrong grocery item via amazon store. It now says grocery items are excluded from opening a return or refund ticket and the contact us option goes back to the main help search page. Appears now you have no recourse for amazon mistakes with their automated support.<p>Contact Us just takes you back to the support search page..
Error in their support loop.<p>https://i.postimg.cc/cLfyLbs0/amazon-order-loop2.jpg<p>* Thanks to the commenter below, resolved via their 800 number.<p>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2022/09/14/how-to-contact-amazon-account-inquiries/7867529001/
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Title: There were several posts [1][2] related the benefits of exercise and the comments were filled with interesting discussions about different types of exercises and their benefits. I am curious to know how readers of HN exercise and how it has benefited them personally.<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515421
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206115
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Title: Hi HN! I use the desktop versions of Zoom, Notion, and Asana, so at the end of the day, I have a ton of Chrome tabs left over from these services launching their apps. I threw together a little extension to clean these tabs up.<p>Do folks tend to use the browser versions of these apps? Or are there other sites that this extension should support?
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Title: How would you implement a right to repair for software in 2023?<p>Perhaps you could change copyright law to require either public source code or source code escrow before software could be eligible for copyright protection. Plus some default rights, like right to modification, rebuild and reinstallation for individuals.
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Title: Not sure about anyone else, but I enjoy seeing the posts on side projects making money. Often while reading all of the comments I find new products or services I want, so I buy them and contribute further to that hustle's success. But for every hacker making $100 or more per month with their idea, there are hundreds more working hard, making nothing, struggling to get started. Does that describe you? Maybe the community just needs to hear about what you're offering, what you've been working on. If you've got something cool that has not yet gained traction, maybe it just needs to be seen by a gaggle of like-minded hackers and geeks. So share!
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Title: Hi, I'm Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it's been nine weeks since I started.<p>I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me.<p>It's a Chrome extension, and I'm offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I'm not making money yet, but it pays for GPT, which can be pricey for long texts. And some of Lex Fridman's podcasts are incredibly long.<p>I'm one of those overly optimistic people when it comes to GPT. So many people tell me, "Oh, it doesn't solve this problem yet; let's wait for GPT-4". The real issue is that their prompts are usually inadequate, and it takes you anywhere from two days to two weeks to make it work. Testing and debugging, preferably with automated tests. I believe you can solve many problems with GPT-3 already.<p>I would love to answer any questions you have about the product and GPT in general. I've invested at least 500 hours into prompt engineering. And I enjoy watching other people's prompts too!
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Title: Hey HN! Charles here from Prequel (<a href="https://prequel.co">https://prequel.co</a>). We just launched the ability to sync data from your own app/db/data warehouse to any of your customer’s Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel – and I wanted to share a bit more about how we built the Google Sheets integration. If you’re curious, see here for a quick GIF demo of our Google Sheets destination: <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/hn_asset/Prequel_GoogleSheetsDemo.webp" rel="nofollow">https://storage.googleapis.com/hn_asset/Prequel_GoogleSheets...</a>.<p>Quick background on us: we make it easy to integrate with and sync data to data warehouses. Problem is, there are plenty of folks who want access to their data, but don’t have or don’t know how to use a data warehouse. For example, FP&A teams, customer success teams, etc.<p>To get around that, we added some non-db destinations to Prequel: Google Sheets, CSV, and Excel. We had to rework some core assumptions in order to get Google Sheets to work.<p>By default, Prequel does incremental syncs, meaning we only write net new or updated data to the destination. To avoid duplicate rows, we typically perform those writes as upserts – this is pretty trivial in most SQL dialects. But since Google Sheets is not actually a db, it doesn’t have a concept of upserts, and we had to get creative.<p>We had two options: either force all Google Sheets syncs to be “full refreshes” every time (eg grab all the data and brute-force write it to the sheet). The downside is, this can get expensive quickly for our customers, especially when data gets refreshed at higher frequencies (eg every 15 minutes).<p>The other, and better, option was to figure out how to perform upserts in Sheets. To do so, we read the data from the sheet we’re about to write to into memory. We store it in a large map by primary key. We reconcile it with the data we’re about to write. We then dump the contents of the map back to the sheet. In order to make the user experience smoother, we also sort the rows by timestamp before writing it back. This guarantees that we don’t accidentally shuffle rows with every transfer, which might leave users feeling confused.<p>“Wait, you keep all the data in memory… so how do you avoid blowing up your pods?”. Great question! Luckily, Google Sheets has pretty stringent cell / row size limits. This allows us to restrict the amount of data that can be written to these destinations (we throw a nice error if someone tries to sync too much data), and thereby also guarantees that we don’t OOM our poor pods.<p>Another interesting problem we had to solve was auth: how do we let users give us access to their sheets in a way that both feels intuitive and upholds strong security guarantees? It seemed like the cleanest user experience was to ask the spreadsheet owner to share access with a new user – much like they would with any real human user. To make this possible without creating a superuser that would have access to _all_ the sheets, we had to programmatically generate a different user for each of our customers. We do this via the GCP IAM API, creating a new service account every time. We then auth into the sheet through this service account.<p>One last fun UX challenge to think through was how to prevent users from editing the “golden” data we just sync’d. It might not be immediately clear to them that this data is meant as a source of truth record, rather than a playground. To get around this, we create protected ranges and prevent them from editing the sheets we write to. Sheets even adds a little padlock icon to the relevant sheets, which helps convey the “don’t mess with this”.<p>If you want to take it for a spin, you can sign up on our site or reach us at hello (at) prequel.co. Happy to answer any other questions about the design!
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Title: I built a pipeline that turns tweets about ML papers into a podcast.<p>Code's up here. Happy hacking. <a href="https://github.com/yacineMTB/scribepod">https://github.com/yacineMTB/scribepod</a>
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Title: "Our spam detecting systems flagged your account because of the email address you used to register the account. Temporary/aliased email addresses are not permitted for use on GitHub accounts."<p>"Before we can remove the flag we need you to add a personal, non-disposable email address and then verify that address. You also need to remove the temporary/aliased email from the account."<p>Bad news for SimpleLogin and AnonAddy users.
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Title: Lots of us have had to do some pretty crazy stuff to launch a minimum viable product but I think a lot of the stuff I've done personally was pretty mild (hardcoding things into an interface, running manual processes, etc.).<p>I want to hear some of the fun and crazy hacks. No need to mention the company or product to protect the innocent :).
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Title: I'm 33. I just learned, today, that there is no such thing as a paprika plant and that paprika spice is simply dried, ground bell/mild peppers. It seems relatively obvious in hindsight given that I'd never seen or heard of a paprika plant, but the fact I'm learning this so late in life is a bit staggering.<p>It got me wondering - what other simple facts slip by us sometimes until the obvious is made apparent?<p>For fun, a few others I've had occur over the years:<p>- I thought "having allergies" and "being allergic to something" were entirely distinct concepts. The former is a non-lethal, relatively mild inconvenience experienced seasonally by many. The latter is "I die if I eat that crab." The extreme differences in effects and differences in how people spoke about these words caused me to assume they were entirely distinct concepts until my early 20s.<p>- I did not realize that the musical artist "Flo Rida" (pronounced Flow Rye-Duh) was, you know, referencing the state, until someone pointed it out to me. It's much more apparent when written :)<p>relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Title: For context, my wife was given delegated email access to a Gmail account >10 years ago and no longer has contact with the account admin. She'd like to remove herself from this delegated access but multiple chats with Google support reps have indicated that the only way to do this is by contacting the account admin and asking to be removed.<p>I've been looking into this and seen multiple forum threads of people delegated access by ex's, relatives who have passed away and the like who are unable to remove themselves from this access even if it's extremely painful.<p>It blows my mind that this isn't a feature that exists or that Google can't help you remove your _own_ delegated access.<p>Anyone encountered this before and found a solution?
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Title: I am a back-end software engineer with about 6 years of experience. I used to avoid applying to big tech companies in the past, because I didn't have enough time for a proper coding interview preparation and I preferred companies who hired based on my past projects and verbal assessment.
However, I recently quit my last job and for the first time in my life I concentrated fully on my preparation for big tech. Ironically, there are news being constantly published about large layoffs at all major tech companies.
Is it still possible to land a job in FAANG at the moment? Should I continue with my preparation?
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Title: About a month ago I started a suprisingly-not-that tricky project to build an experimental python repl that I could use instead of bash as a daily shell in windows, mac or linux. It"s more hack-for-exploration than a production ready shell, but here it is! Hope somebody finds it anywhere near as interesting to check out as I found making it.<p>Disclaimer: I know about xonsh and love it (if you haven't heard of it, google it). This project is more pure python and less python and bash interacting - see the readme for more details.
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Title: Is anyone else noticing that for several 5 year blocks (pentad) the world just seems to get markedly worse? It's like no body seems to give a shit about anyone except themselves anymore. Whats the cause of this? What's the solution?<p>A bunch of things I've noticed:<p>* Landlords seem extremely greedy and do terrible rent seeking tactics like fees upon fees (250 admin fee to rent here, $75 to apply, $300 non refundable pet deposit, $25 a month pet rent, $12.50 community fee, $15 trash valet, $5 online payment fee, $100 a month community internet (for the $50 a month package), going Month to month after a lease ends is 2x the annual price. And then they use RealPage to collude to make prices higher[1]<p>* People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.<p>* General worker apathy is endemic everywhere I go people seem aggravated I would dare to check my order and point out they didn't put in the ketchup i asked for, or the napkins, or whatever. Or when I dine in the tables are dirty. Or the gym is filthy, the cleaner just drags the mop around looking busy but accomplishing nothing. But in many instances they keep asking for more tips.<p>* Software seems to be overrun by a mentality that any future cost is worth it to save even 1 minute of development time today. And this one I think I've observed the root, it seems that people get promoted away from their problems so they're not the ones to solve them. And those who do write good software (albeit slightly slower) are not promotable beacuse they're "under performing" their peers. Why does it seem management (and many thusly incentivized engineers) have abandoned decades of experience showing how to create reliable, robust, reusable code that is both great the customer, fast to iterate on, and only a tiny tiny bit slower to write.<p>* Seems like everything is subscription model and you have to pay N times to access something thats only worth 1-3x . Eg: I Netflix for a couple hours a month. At the price for 4k access I can almost go out to a theatre. Video games are all trending to subscription models. I just learned the other day that the PS4 games I got with my subcription to PSN all are locked because I stopped subscribing (nearly 50 games) . So I paid them like $125 for access to these games for 24 months, and now I cannot play any of them? At least I still own NES/SNES/N64 Game cartridges that will never lock me out.<p>* Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I've ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them. And every year our taxes (their paycheck) and our insurance goes up (a consequence of poor driving habits). And at the same time, we get these cases where a dude like Tyre, at least as I see the body cam, seems to be basically complying and the police freak out on him, he basically complies, and they taze and pepper spay him, no wonder he ran away -- what is someone supposed to think when they say "on the ground" and you get on the ground and then just keep getting more and more aggressive. Like are you gonna just lay on your face while they potentially pull their gun and just shoot you in the back of the head? How do you know what's going on unless you can face and see them? How can you trust they wont, cause even if it's 99.999999% they wont, you only get 1 one chance and if you get it wrong you're dead without any coming back.<p>* Over and over again we keep hearing stories of fake people becoming the top paid, respected, or otherwise status people in society. Elizabeth Holmes, Frank/JP Morgan scam for $175M[2], fraudulent crypto schemes<p>* And there's a ton of little things too like the water is poison, the air is poison, the food system is poison or crashing etc.<p>I'm aware of pinker's general argument that many numbers are getting better. But it seems like people just treat eachother like shit these days.<p>Anyone else have other examples? I am I way off base here?<p>[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/26/23479034/doj-investigating-rent-setting-software-company-realpage<p>[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-charlie-javice-fraud.html
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Title: The stadia controller bluetooth firmware unlocker was the first time I experienced WebUSB<p><a href="https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.html" rel="nofollow">https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.html</a><p>Today I discovered the VIA project can configure my QMK keyboards<p><a href="https://www.usevia.app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usevia.app/</a><p>Both of these implementations worked perfectly on my framework Chromebook. What are some other cool examples folks have seen?
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Title: Are there any courses that build storytelling skills, without a focus on a business purpose?<p>The only courses I found were aimed at being able to sell your business better; I'm only interested in storytelling for the sake of itself, with the only end goal of being satisfied in pleasurably conveying a story that has either happened or that is fictional.<p>Any reference/idea appreciated!
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Title: I know docker for a long time but I never used it in serious projects. I find it hard to find good and especially up to date tutorials. I’m especially interested in a tutorial on how to run (feature branch) containers which spin up on bitbucket pipelines/GitHub actions for manual and automated testing for PHP and Node applications (containers should exist as long as a feature branch exists). I found some random YouTubers which give a nice intro/demo into some features but not really a deep dive.
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Title: Hi folks,
With all things happening with AI, Robots, autonomous cars, drones, etc. I feel like even software engineers can experience difficult time to find a decent job in the future.
What do you think are those strategic skills to master for the next 5, 10 years to have an edge?
Please give some specific technologies/skills (learning how to learn is nice but not so specific).
Thanks!
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Title: I feel like signal is lower in general, and I run into a lot more cases where connections seem to hang entirely. In theory 5G should offer a lot more bandwidth, but I don't remember ever being bandwidth-limited on LTE. 20Mbps is plenty on my phone. Same for latency. I'm not playing FPS games on my phone.<p>5G seems worse, but I used to work on a physical layer wireless technology and it might be placebo knowing that the higher frequencies used for 5G don't go as far or penetrate as effectively.
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Title: During last years I started seeing less good answers, and discussions around that website.<p>It's clear Google Search algorithm is favoring other websites. And probably AI and the new LLM models are being another reason devs will stop going directly to StackOverflow.<p>What do you think? Will StackOverflow keep up, or will slowly dye?
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Title: So, Party A launches the nuclear missile at Party B, and Party B uses its now-apparently-at-least-occasionally-working missile defense systems to take out/destroy the missile/bomb before it can be detonated. What happens?<p>I am thinking about how the US detonated its Hiroshima nuke about 45 seconds after dropping it from the plane, and how it was detonated, as designed I believe, about 1/3 mile above Hiroshima.
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Title: Hey,<p>I lead the technical efforts at one of the charities in Ukraine; we're now trying to rebuild connectivity for people in some of the areas where much of the civilian infrastructure was destroyed and Starlink® is not a viable option, or perhaps "not-to-be easily scaled option."<p>The world of long-range Wi-Fi is a wild one!<p>We are now trying to evaluate the cost of a point-to-point mesh network using commodity hardware, and so far have only experimented with Raspberry hardware to work the antenna, and some Atheros AR9331-based SoC's. The idea is to make a single device that can act as both a relay station, as well as an actual hotspot, it then can be placed in line-of-sight configuration to potentially cover huge areas (the accepted performance would be anywhere from 0.1-1 Mbit/s point-to-point over anywhere from 5-20km. We are aiming to bring the cost of such configuration down to $100 per unit at least. Hopefully, we also wouldn't need to do so and somebody else could do the whole thing for us at a similar price... Where would you start, i.e. with the vendors, as well as the commodity hardware, firmware that should work best for a setup like this? Bonus points; if it can be somewhat be aware of the current happenstance. In terms of bleed from Electronic warfare deployed by the enemy in Ukraine; it has to work hopefully in adversarial environment!<p>Best regards,
Ilya
The Stone Cross Foundation
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Title: Hi, I know some programming. I know C and some python as well. I have built projects with python but every time I work with python, I feel like python is made on the simple basic structure and I don't know that. I find myself constantly looking for small things as well, I feel like I really don't know the internals of pythons. Which book would you recommend that you go beyond the syntax and shows how things works on a basic level so that I can get build up some intuition while working with python. Forgive me if I failed to express myself.
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Title: I am watching my fail2ban logs on my servers and while this tool is fine and will probably annoy them a little, is there a more fun way to mess with these people?<p>I can see from the failed attempts that are trying to curl the kiss a dog cryptojacking software, so they aren't simply probing my server - they are trying to cause harm.<p>Preferably legal. Making them lose money would be great too!
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Title: I have been running Ubuntu on servers and desktops for around twenty years, but ongoing changes to their platform have shaken my faith in its future. The first serious breach of trust was forcing their users to use their untrustable snaps (e.g. Firefox on 22.04), but the last straw for me has been breaking apt upgrades on 20.04 LTS in order to push their Pro agenda.<p>I am looking to replace Ubuntu with something that will be stable and supported for the next twenty years, without being ruined by corporate interests. What are my best options?
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Title: Quick background: I am a tech lead in a SRE team. I am not sure this is what I want for the rest of my life.<p>I love the sec field. In the last few years I've played lots of CTFs, pwned several boxes on Hack the Box, studied and reproduced CVEs, etc. I have the technical knowledge.<p>I don't think that I want to do pentests or bug bounty. I'm more into research. I like to be the one ahead discovering new stuff. But, how do I get there? Who hires someone like that? What do you need to get the role? How is this job for real? So many questions.
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Title: And if not, what’s your plan? I’m currently at a FAANG, and been in tech for almost two decades, and I’ve never felt such a huge loss of camaraderie and safety.
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Title: Hi,<p>My career is currently in this field, and I created this project as (effectively, among other things) a living resume, and to also be a really great workbench for hacking/experimenting on different methods. Testing and getting a feel for how different methods work within this framework is truly a delight, and quite simple/fast. Additionally, generally speaking, many of the mathematical concepts should transfer, so this (for me) has been a really great proving grounds in testing out how something might work in a different place in the real world. We hope to get under 2 seconds of training time (for 94%) within about two years or so, so stay tuned for updates as we continue to push more changes that take us faster and faster than our starting point of ~18.1 seconds or so.<p>By the way, this architecture and training hyperparameters do indeed scale well, just increase epochs from 10->80 and base_depth from 64->128 and you'll have about 95.77% accuracy in about 188 seconds or so (just over 3 minutes :D). That alone is a huge boon! Great to see scaling laws working well within this very, very tight hyperparameter resolution.<p>Feel free to let me know if you have any questions, Hacker News always seems to get me the most traffic. I really love talking about this project, and can't really seem to find anyone to nerd out about it with. This is very, very cool stuff! So feel free to leave a comment, and I'd love to jump in and chat about it! :D :) <3 <3 :))))
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Title: We hear that improving how we converse or listen one to one with people says a lot about how we treat or empathize with them in real life situations. Is that actually true?<p>What other aspects of life improvements have you seen with improving your skills in this domain?
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Title: Worth saying up front: This isn't for a startup idea or anything like that, just keen to learn from the more-stable-than-Reddit minds of HN so I can get ideas for myself.<p>We have twin girls who are ~6mo old, and we're finally getting out of the "survival" stage and getting to the "parenting" stage. I'm finding that there are so many different schools of thought about absolutely everything, from pregnancy/birth to sleep training to Montessori to gentle parenting.<p>Specific things I'm curious about:<p>- Did you think about what sort of parent you'd like to be and work backwards?<p>- Did you think about what makes a good kid and work backwards?<p>- Did you align with a "style" of parenting?<p>- How did you use technology to help you?<p>- Did you keep your kids away from technology (like watching TV) for the first couple of years or just go for it?<p>- What would you do differently if you had your time again?
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Title: A programming language has a "core language" plus a package/module system.
In each successful language, the core language is neat-and-tidy,
but the package/module system is a Rube Goldberg machine.
See JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C/C++.<p>Lots of brain cycles are spent on "programming language theory".
We've roughly figured out the primitives required to express real-world computation.<p>In contrast, we apparently have no "package management theory".
We have not figured out the primitives required to express dependencies.
As a result, we keep building new variants and features,
until we end up with <script>, require(), import, npm, yarn, pnpm, (py)?(v|virtual|pip)?env, (ana)?conda, easy_install, eggs and wheels ...<p>Is it just a "law of software" that this must happen to any successful language?
Or are there examples of where this it has not happened, and what can we learn from them?
Is there a "theory of package management", or a "lambda calculus of package management" out there?
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Title: I've been disabled since 2018, and my skills in software as such have largely become outdated. I have high problem solving competence in general, but most modern technology stacks people are regularly using seem to be past my time. I'm willing to put some work into correcting the difference, however due to the circumstances I'm in, it would really have to quickly and effectively pay off. It can't be a "maybe useful" kind of scenario.<p>I've come into a situation, largely due to how awful the rent situation is in the United States, where I pretty desperately need to maximize the amount I can earn under disability (which is around $1200 a month) without losing it.<p>I have 8-10 years of overall experience, and regularly program as a hobby, but I have not been employed for years.<p>The last job I worked I primarily wrote python scripts for automating things like data entry into a CMS and other basic front-end web development features using older technology.<p>What can I do to actually be able to get some side income in the software space here in 2023? I've talked with a couple companies in my situation and the answers usually are along the lines of "well we can just hire a new graduate with up-to-date experience and they can work 40 hours a week for us no problem."<p>I'm in my early-to-mid 30s for reference. I'm not really able to get off disability as the condition is severe.<p>---<p>edit:
I've already reduced expenses pretty much as much as I reasonably can do of course.<p>I've explored other options already as well. For things like Fiverr or being hired contract-wise on websites they seem to be races to the bottom so if I'm trying to earn $1200 a month I'm really having to work quite a lot harder and more hours than I'm really currently able to do.<p>I have some applications I've written that generated some interest, however if I want to make any decent money off them I would have to put an extraordinarily large amount of effort into marketing and post-release diligence which may well be past what I'm currently capable of doing.<p>I do tutor students as well intermittenly but it doesn't get me very much.<p>I've written some scripts and other little projects for people I know here and there for small amounts, but it is extremely inconsistent availability even though they trust what I deliver.<p>It seems like finding other leads in that regard is really my only option.
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Title: I was helping my son learn to write and realized I’ve been holding the pencil wrong when I write. When I changed my grip to match how my son was learning, it was more comfortable. What have you learned that is different and better than something you’ve always done?
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Title: Canonical now requires an Ubuntu Pro subscription to get security updates, even for Ubuntu releases that are still supported. On an Ubuntu 22.04 system that's not subscribed to Ubuntu Pro, the output of running "sudo apt dist-upgrade" includes this:<p><pre><code> The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:
libopenexr25 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libmagickwand-6.q16-6
libmagickcore-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6-common
Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro</code></pre>
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Title: I think that asdf (<a href="https://asdf-vm.com" rel="nofollow">https://asdf-vm.com</a>) was a great idea for a project. It helps consolidate installing and running different programming languages into a similar UX. It also is built with a plugin interface that makes it easy to build support for new languages.<p>However it is so slow. I was just testing `node -v` and it was taking ~900ms. That kind of overhead is completely unusable. My shell prompt uses runtimes inside of it for various things so this effectively makes every command take multiple seconds to complete.<p>So I rebuilt it in Rust but using the same plugin ecosystem so it should be a drop-in replacement. I also added a couple of features that I wanted from asdf (aliases and fuzzy-matching).<p>Let me know what you think! Just know that people have only been using this for a few days so if you see any bugs, they're likely not big hairy issues, just overlooked edge-cases and will be fixed soon.<p><a href="https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx">https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx</a>
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm the creator and solo developer behind Browserflow, a Chrome extension that lets you automate any website. (Show HN from around a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254147). Basically, it's a general-purpose browser automation tool like Selenium/Puppeteer/Playwright that anyone can use without writing code.<p>The Browserflow website includes examples of automations people often request, including scraping popular websites like LinkedIn. A few days ago, I received a cease and desist letter from LinkedIn: https://browserflow.app/linkedin.pdf<p>As a one-man operation with modest resources, I'm hoping I can get some help from the HN community in understanding what this means to avoid getting sued into oblivion. :)<p>At first I thought that I'd be fine if I removed all references to LinkedIn from the Browserflow website, but I'm not so sure about that. One of LinkedIn's demands is to “Cease and desist developing, offering, or using software or programs with features developed, marketed, or intended for automating activity on LinkedIn’s website or app, scraping LinkedIn member data, or otherwise violating the LinkedIn User Agreement”.<p>Even if I removed all the LinkedIn examples, Browserflow could still be used to automate or scrape LinkedIn because, well, it's a browser automation tool. Is LinkedIn demanding that I stop developing Browserflow altogether?<p>The letter cites hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp as the legal precedent for why Browserflow is in violation, but there are some differences between hiQ and Browserflow that I thought might be meaningful:<p>1. Browserflow is not designed specifically for scraping LinkedIn: It's a tool for general-purpose browser automation, not a service that scrapes LinkedIn and resells the data.<p>2. Browserflow does not scrape LinkedIn on its own: Any automation of LinkedIn is initiated by the user using their own LinkedIn account.<p>2. Browserflow does not create or use fake LinkedIn accounts.<p>I'd be fine with removing all the LinkedIn examples from the website, but I'd like to continue building Browserflow because I love working on it and it's my livelihood. I'd appreciate any advice or help. Thanks!
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Title: Hello Hacker News!<p>I built a free service where you can schedule 1:1 video mentorship calls with senior ICs and managers in software engineering, product management, and design. The goal is to remove barriers to building a professional network that can help you grow your career like building skills and getting referrals. Right now we’re limited to folks living or working in the US or Canada, but we’re working on expanding beyond that one day.<p>Without logging in, you can browse mentors here: <a href="https://www.get-merit.com/mentors" rel="nofollow">https://www.get-merit.com/mentors</a><p>Between tech layoffs, hybrid work, and an uncertain industry outlook, I hope this can be a useful resource for you or someone you know, especially if you do not have a large professional network.<p>I would love to hear your feedback!
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Title: This is not a question for those with millions/billions in the bank, but for normal software people who have saved some money, but not enough to retire.<p>What age are you planning to retire? What do you plan to do after retirement? What are you doing to get there?
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Title: The JSON Schema organization is requesting feedback from users out there about the stability guarantees it should be enforcing on the next release of the specification.<p>If you feel you can contribute, please read <a href="https://github.com/orgs/json-schema-org/discussions/295">https://github.com/orgs/json-schema-org/discussions/295</a> and share your thoughts.<p>The current options are:<p>- The specifications that have been published to date provide no stability guarantees, but we will be adding explicit guarantees with the next publication.<p>- Apply the stability guarantees starting with the most recent publication (draft 2020-12) so that the next publication contains no breaking changes.
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Title: It could be tech related or otherwise. What made it so special?
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Title: Being able to sell yourself/self-promote at work is one of the key secrets to being super successful. How does one go about doing this?
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Title: We've built this over the last few weeks to leverage vector search and LLMs (this is backed by GPT-3.5, though we're also testing Flan-T5) to answer question over large sets of documents with references. Currently, we've ingested the documentation for React and some key adjacent libraries (Redux, React-Redux, React-Router, MUI). This allows you to ask various natural language questions and the output is hopefully a relevant answer with code examples if applicable, while sourcing the original docs whenever possible.<p>We're working on adding up more documentations and have more "general" questions (e.g., query your own notion documentation). Any feedback is appreciated at this stage, let us know what you think and if there are any libs you'd like to see added!
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Title: Decryption key derived from master password never leaves the browser. It's just a text editor so far, but a we have a few features planned: retrospective tooling, sentiment analysis, journaling modules, guidance and information inline, better habit formation & rewards UI.
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Title: Our B2B SaaS had its entire website cloned at another domain. The cloner then took the time to create a new logo and change a few colors.<p>We reached out to the hosting provider, and the registrar, neither care.<p>The cloned website is hosted in Europe (Germany), with a small hosting provider. Domain registration appears to be hostinger.com.<p>Our concerns: Search engine trouble, potential customer confusion, lost sales.<p>We found the clone when ahrefs started reporting a new domain linking to one of our sites, because they'd helpfully cloned our entire footer.<p>Thanks for all your advice!
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Title: Please let us know what you think. We would be so so grateful for feedback from the community. Thank you in advance!
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Title: My wife has a shopify store, does about $1k per month and less than half of that goes through paypal. Out of nowhere today they disabled her account for 'violating user agreement'. She didn't do anything out of the ordinary or suspicious, just getting paid for some shopify orders. Doesn't have any complains or issues or chargebacks or anything I can see that looks suspicious. There doesn't seem to be any way to contact support, dispute the problem, etc. Super frustrating. Is there anything she can do, or is she just literally not able to use Paypal anymore without any explaination?
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Max and James, co-founders of Needl (<a href="https://www.needl.tech">https://www.needl.tech</a>). Needl is a single search bar for all your apps that lets you find any document, message, or file you need. Here’s a demo video: <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/652ae56c8ee34bc2a84b8aacf479a9f4" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/652ae56c8ee34bc2a84b8aacf479a9f4</a>.<p>We’ve all struggled to find information and couldn’t remember if it was shared over Gmail or Slack or Notion. Most of us have hundreds of thousands of emails, documents, messages, etc., and only a small fraction are actually useful. Internal search is even harder than web search in some ways: with web search, there are dozens of right answers and millions of previous searches to train ranking models, but internally (i.e. on your own data), there is only one right answer and limited training data.<p>Needl’s value prop is twofold: it unifies all of your information together and provides better search than existing platforms (here’s an example of Needl compared to Gmail: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/3ZX8f8Q" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/3ZX8f8Q</a>). Together, these save time by giving you exactly what you need. Recently we also launched a personal assistant that gives direct answers to any search. Simply ask, “What’s the budget for our 2023 team offsite?” or “When’s my next flight to SF and what’s the confirmation #?” From your web apps, we’ll generate the exact answer you need. (pro tip, you don’t even have to phrase it as a question).<p>To rank results on Needl, we combine text matching, semantic search, and platform-specific usage patterns (e.g. email opens). Semantic search (based on user intent / meaning) has helped us solve the hard problem of internal search – everyone has a different vernacular and way of organization. We use LLMs to create embeddings and then use vector search to allow greater breadth of results over traditional text-based search. Our search (and generative answers) even works well in different languages, something that surprised us.<p>To give generated answers to questions, we take the first results on Needl and run them through GPT-3 and use an engineered version of the user’s query to prompt GPT-3 accordingly. It’s similar to what Phind.com (Hello Cognition) and Perplexity.ai do with web search.<p>Using LLMs to build relationships between documents for search and recommendation was a remnant of our failed college startup. We had built a “TikTok for blog posts” that recommended user-written content based on their interactions with other posts. We quickly found out social media moderation was a nightmare (who would’ve thought) and few people enjoy reading any more.<p>It wasn’t until we threw in the white flag and went to our full-time jobs — James as a SWE at Microsoft and me in investment banking at Moelis — that we realized that recommendation + search was the real product. At my job in particular, intranet search was unusable. The primary way people “searched” for information was by sending company-wide e-mail blasts asking if anyone had materials about an industry or company! This got us wondering why internal search sucked so badly and led us down the path of building Needl.<p>Obviously with a product like this, privacy is the #1 concern for users. Some companies have solved this concern by going local first, but that involves significant reduction in quality of search, because LLMs can’t be run locally. We went the opposite route: users’ entire index is stored on the cloud. We know that’s not for everyone, but the results it enables are significantly more powerful, and we make clear commitments to our users: (1) we never access users’ personal information without explicit permission; (2) all information is encrypted both in transit and at rest, and (3) we will never sell users’ information. We’ve gotten SOC 2 Type II compliant to give our users assurances about the way their data is being handled and our dedication to information security.<p>Setting up Needl takes less than 3 minutes—users create an account, grant read access to the platforms they want to search through (Slack, Notion, GSuite, etc.), and we index their information. Once completed, you have instant, cross-platform search in a Spotlight-esque format—control + space opens Needl from anywhere.<p>In terms of pricing, Needl is free for up to 3 integrations and $10/month for unlimited integrations.<p>To learn more, you can download and set up Needl at <a href="https://www.needl.tech/">https://www.needl.tech/</a>. If you’ve already tried tools in this space, we’d love to hear your experience and what you care about most. We look forward to everyone’s comments!
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Title: Last December, Heroku nuked the database on one of my active projects. I was travelling at the end of the year and did not catch wind of this until I returned and saw messages about an issue with the app. Sure enough, I checked and noticed that the database was gone and detached on December 9th.<p>Before the hate comes out, yes I know Heroku deprecated free tiers. However, I did not understand this would affect my projects on paid dynos. The real issue here is that I never received a single email or notice of any kind to my email about this. From researching, it appears most people received SEVERAL notices about this. I did not think there was an issue with my setup because I received zero communication.<p>Upon reaching out, Heroku has told me that they cannot recover the database. They also admitted that there was "an issue" sending out notifications to me, and confirmed that none were sent.<p>So I guess just a warning to all - your database might be nuked at any time. I learned my lesson about not doing an offsite backup regularly. I guess the bigger lesson though is that Heroku should really be a last resort option for projects these days. RIP.
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Title: At 13-20 years old, I was very curious and passionate about computers. I spent hours learning computer hacking and exploiting with buffer overflows, taught myself C, C++, linux, python, ... I did a lot of side projects in my 18s.<p>Now I'm 28 years old, working at a FAANG as a software engineer. It's been a couple of years that I don't have the same curiosity and passion to learn new technical things, outside of work, as I did before. I value and like learning new stuff in my day-to-day job, but thinking about learning a new programming language in my free time does not make me excited anymore.<p>Is this normal, possibly due to aging for some people? Or is it because all my curiosities have been solved after undergrad, or could it be a symptom of chronic depression as I pretty much don't have craving for anything anymore?
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Title: I was surprised to see this in my email today:<p>> Your private repository baobabKoodaa/laaketutka-scripts (forked from futurice/how-to-get-healthy) has been deleted because you are no longer a collaborator on futurice/how-to-get-healthy.<p>That was an MIT-licensed open source project I worked on years ago. We published the source code for everyone to use, so I certainly did not expect to lose access to it just because someone at my previous company has been doing spring cleaning at GitHub! I had a 100% legal fork of the project, and now it's gone... why?<p>Turns out I don't even have a local copy of it anymore, so this actually caused me data loss. I'm fine with losing access to this particular codebase, I'm not using HN as customer support to regain access. I just wanted everyone to be aware that GitHub does this.
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Title: I've been looking for resources for our data team to apply best practices for testing SQL pipelines (we use DBT) but have not found anything. How do you test SQL pipelines? What patterns, tools and best practices would you recommend? Any good reference material you know of?
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Title: Hi Everyone,<p>TunnlTo is a tool for controlling which Windows applications, processes, and IP addresses can use a WireGuard VPN tunnel. Here are some examples of how it could be used:<p>- Route only FireFox through a privacy VPN
- Route Slack and Microsoft Office through a work VPN
- Route a game through a gaming VPN
- Stop a game from routing through a privacy VPN
- Stop a browser from routing through a work VPN
- Route a specific IP address range through a privacy VPN
- Route all traffic through a privacy VPN except a specific IP address range<p>I have been collaborating on this project with the creator of WireSock - Vadim Smirnov.<p><i>"WireSock VPN Client is a lightweight command line WireGuard VPN client for Windows that has advanced features not available in the official WireGuard for Windows such as selective application tunneling and disallowed IP addresses.<p>WireSock VPN Client combines the power of Windows Packet Filter and BoringTun (user space WireGuard implementation in Rust) to provide exceptional performance, security and scalability."</i><p>The TunnlTo app is built with Tauri and I've used boring old HTML, CSS (bootstrap) and JavaScript as I had major JS framework fatigue. I have previously built a production app with Electron and Vue. Tauri appealed to me for its use of Rust and its small installation sizes. I tried Tauri pre version 1.0 and had a bit of trouble but this time around its been a positive experience. The docs and the Discord community have come a long way.<p>I would appreciate any feedback about the project so I can get an idea of what direction to take it in next. Vadim will be around a little later if anyone is curious about the WireGuard implementation and wants to know more.<p>Thanks for reading!
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Title: Hi everybody
i create an app called talkfi in my bedroom to connect people with similar interests, my app has 1M+ downloads, it sends 3M+ messages per month
someone would like to be my cofounder?
i accept any help, help on marketing, fundraising or a technical person<p>thanks for your time
my contact is [email protected]
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Title: Hey HN! About a year ago i stumbled upon the world of swords, knives, and EDC gear. A weirdly addicting (and expensive) hobby to have.<p>Back then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me. There were some great youtube channels that helped me pick out what i wanted however i had to sit through multiple 30 minute videos just to review 10-15 knives or so each.<p>Recently i've been having a little trouble sleeping so i decided to pickup a new passion project to work on late at night, here's KnifeGeek!<p>it's a completely free website where you can search, filter, and sift through an extensive knife database (over 60K+ knives) and add them to your collection or wishlist. You do need to sign in to add stuff to your wishlist or collection and after a bunch of advanced searches.<p>Please check it out and let me know if you think anything is missing! I'll try to flesh it out more on a daily basis if people find it cool or useful.<p>Planning to add in price comparison functionality and more data per knife in the next week.<p>PS: Images are a little shoddy, working on that.
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Title: I heard a lot of shaky news over the past year from Stripe's customers: [0], [1], [2]<p>Now there's news about the whole Stripe raising more money [3], [4], [5], eyeing an exit within 12 months.<p>What does this mean for Stripe customers now and 12 months from now?<p>I would like my payment infra to be stable, boring, and profitable/sustainable.
But the news is giving me mixed impressions...<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528<p>[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233011<p>[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/technology/stripe-thrive-funding.html<p>[4] https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/fintech-stripe-tried-to-raise-more-capital-at-a-55b-60b-valuation/<p>[5] https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/26/fintech-stripe-eyes-an-exit/
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Title: In the past few weeks, I've noted a decline in my desire to use ChatGPT, because it feels like the answers are slowly getting lazier and lazier. I used to be able to ask pointed questions about "how do I use X tool to perform Y job". It's crossed a threshold where if I turn around and google the same thing I'm getting the right answer. Maybe my questions are degrading in quality in some subtle way I can't detect, or maybe I'm asking the wrong questions. I can't help but wonder why it went from great to meh.
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Title: This is a joke before anyone gets too worked up. The algo is a simple one which goes and replaces random words with their synonyms.<p>It will obviously beat these AI detectors but the output isn't probably what you would want.<p>The point stands though that more sophisticated approaches that rephrase or mix up the word distribution will be able to throw off the detector and it should not be relied on exclusively for, say, checking if a student assignment is AI generated.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I know this isn't the forum for this kinda question but I've been an avid reader and commenter here for 10+ years and I feel I align pretty well with the demographic. Which is why I'm asking for help.<p>Recently I've been applying to remote jobs, but literally all of my applications have been rejected or ghosted. It's so much different than when I was looking a couple years ago. I'm in my mid-20s, with 7-8 years of professional experience and have been programming since I was a kid. I have FAANG names on my resume, jobs and internships (when I was a student). I consider myself a reasonably good engineer - I don't think I'm hot shit, but I would've expected to get to the first screening at least somewhere.<p>Has the landscape changed so much in the past few years? Or, if I'm doing something wrong and raising a huge red flag to everyone, how the hell do I figure out what it is? Getting kinda jumpy about my prospects, it's been disheartening.
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Title: For the past few months we’ve been building Trigger.dev and can now share our beta with you: <a href="https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev">https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev</a>. Trigger.dev is an open source platform that makes it easy for developers to create event-driven background tasks directly in their code. You write workflows using our SDK, and can view all the runs in our web app.<p>Why we built this:<p>- We found current workflow / automation tools like Zapier and n8n are good for simple tasks, but not for more advanced use cases.<p>- Dropping down into code in these tools is just not a great experience. We prefer using our own IDEs, version control, and having access to GitHub Copilot etc.<p>- Sometimes, a workflow requires us to query a database or handle some sensitive information. It would be great if this data wasn’t sent to a third party.<p>Our beta version lets you:<p>- Trigger workflows from webhooks, custom events or schedules (CRON)<p>- Use API integrations with Slack, GitHub, Shopify and Resend. We’re adding more of these each week.<p>- Add delays of up to 1 year. Workflows will resume where they left off, even if your server has gone down.<p>- Support for Fetch and subscribing to generic webhooks.<p>- Observe every workflow run in the app (great for debugging).<p>- Open source MIT license so anyone can self-host the platform.<p>We’re still early so would love your feedback and opinions. Feel free to try us out for free – and if you want a specific API integrated, just let us know.<p>Main website: <a href="https://trigger.dev">https://trigger.dev</a>
Github: <a href="https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev">https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev</a>
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I've created a new Sudoku app for iOS and Android that prioritizes simplicity and privacy. It's free to download and use, and I'd be grateful for any feedback or suggestions.<p>Features:<p>> 4 difficulty levels, accessible at any time<p>> No personal data collection of any kind<p>> Clean, minimalistic design that focuses on the game<p>> Takes up significantly less space than other popular apps (by a factor of about 10x)<p>> Minimal use of advertisements<p>I was frustrated by how many of the popular Sudoku apps feel excessively over-engineered, consume a lot of storage space and some that even collect unnecessary personal information, like location and contacts. So I put this app together without any of those things (using flutter).<p>Links:<p>iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/sudoku-puzzle-palace/id1668683822" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/sudoku-puzzle-palace/id1668683822</a><p>android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kingfishertech.sudoku">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kingfisher...</a><p>Here's a screenshot of the main app page: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/FbCf2IJ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/FbCf2IJ</a><p>Thanks for taking a look and happy solving!
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612351" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612351</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612352" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612352</a>
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
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Title: Twitter laid off 50% of its staff. Principal and staff engineers made lengthy Twitter threads predicting the collapse of the system given its nuance, complexity, and how their positions were key to its survival. Pundits predicted that the site would likely not survive a few weeks, that there was no fat to trim at the company and all the workers let go were essential for daily operations.<p>Now that it's been three months, what happened to the dreary prognosis? Where is the continuous downtime? Where is the permanent feature freeze? Where is the imminent collapse we were told about? I noticed that nobody is talking about how none of those predictions seem to have manifested. Why?
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Title: I've been very struck during most of the AI discussions recently how little weight comments seem give to the subtlety and rich contextual knowledge that humans bring to even quite simple activities.<p>I know we often over-estimate the value of our contributions. I know we often find that our functions can ultimately be automated in some respect. But I find in aggregate that the leading comments reflect a very arid conception of being a human connected to other humans.<p>For example in the discussion about AI Lawyers very little sense of the moral aspect of another human acting on behalf of a human client. In the discussions about the replacement of programming jobs by this kind of technology, not a great deal of confidence in the importance of human judgement in building human-focused systems.<p>Is this just reflective of our context as people that streamline and automate, or do HN readers just think a human isn't such a complex entity?<p>For me this is somewhat like the T-Shirt that says "I went outside once, but the graphics were crap"...except nobody's joking.
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Title: Uniquely, our AI cover letter generator creates a cover letter from your resume and a job description. Use the finished product as an outline you can polish on your own.
Upvote: | 108 |
Title: It seems that compared to DaVinci, the other 3 models are pretty difficult to effectively use. I spent hours trying to get usable results with Curie, but to no avail.<p>I'm just curious to know from those who are building applications using Open AI APIs, how are you planning on monetizing your applications when it costs 1-2 cents to get a decent result. That is quite expensive.
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Title: Share some information about your project(s) if you are looking for testers. Please use this format:<p>Project Description:
What do you want to be tested:
Contact Info:
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Title: We just released Serverpod 1.0
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Title: I put an extraordinary amount of work effort in the company for 3 years. I worked under the same manager during this period. Last year when performance review meeting happened just like every other year, I was told that you are the best engineer in the whole organization.<p>For these years, I have not got a single dollar raise or promotion. My salary has been the same from the day I joined in 2019.<p>Last year, performance review meeting was different. When mass layoffs were happening, manager brought another engineer on the team. I came to know that this engineer had known him in the past, could be friends. Even though, there was no need for another engineer on the team. My manager told me to train this engineer with same skill-set like you. I am a nice person so I brought this engineer up to speed. From the time this engineer has learnt everything that I have known, my manager has stopped talking to me. My 1:1 meetings has not happened for last few months. I am getting cold shoulder treatment from everyone else on team. This engineer who I taught has been assigned lead role and giving me directions for last few months. The whole situation has become toxic for me.<p>How to handle this situation best?<p>This is top 5 tech companies in Canada. If this is the kind of culture promoted here, how are other companies doing?
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Title: Hey everyone,<p>Was just starting the tax process for 2022 and found out about the changes that have been made to Section 174 that take effect this year. Essentially, all R&E expenses must now be amortized over 5 years (instead of taking them as a regular full deduction in the year in which they are incurred), and on top of that all "software development" is now an R&E expense. [1][2]<p>This seems like a disaster for any bootstrapped software company. As an example, if you make $100k in income, and spend $90k making the software, at first glance you've got a successful company bringing in a 10% profit margin. Previously, you would have just paid tax on that $10k in profit. Makes sense.<p>Under these new rules, the US actually says "that $90k you spent to make the software has to be spread over 5 years, and you can actually only take 10% of it in the first year." Suddenly you've gone from a profit of $10k to a "profit" of $91k for tax purposes. Even at a 30% tax rate (which isn't even close to the top rate in the US), you're staring down a $27k tax bill that you're somehow supposed to pay out of the $10k in actual cash you have left on hand.<p>To be clear, you will eventually get the taxes you pay back over the next 5 years. But how are bootstrapped companies without access to large capital reserves or investment supposed to come up with the money to pay these tax bills while they wait it out? For every dollar you spend on making software, you've now got to have 30+ cents in reserve just to pay the tax bill for the year!<p>I am completely flabbergasted as to how this was thought to be a good idea...it seems like it drastically increases the cost of starting a bootstrapped software company in the US, which is just terrible policy in general.<p>Was just curious -- is this interpretation what others are hearing from their own tax professionals? Is it affecting others and if so how are you dealing with it?<p>[1] https://rsmus.com/insights/services/business-tax/looming-required-capitalization-of-section-174-expenditures.html<p>[2] https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/usc26/174
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Title: I'm a senior dev at one of the FAANGs with more than 15 years of experience, but the rest of my team consists of devs with an average of 2 years of experience. At first when I joined, I thought this was an aberration, but there are many teams around me that are structured similarly. Is this how FAANGs try to scale teams? The devs on my team are smart but mostly naive about getting stuff done in the real world. I'm sure they'll figure it out over time. But in the meantime, my days are quite frustrating because I'm in teaching mode most of the time instead of building stuff.
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Title: Over the last year, I've worked on aggregating Groundhog data, including predictions, location, and a cute photo.<p>Welcome to GROUNDHOG-DAY.com: The clean and breathable, machine-readable, all-regional data source for Groundhog Day forecasts. Find your fave groundhog, peruse past predictions, or trek the continent-wide Groundhog Map.<p>Includes enterprise-grade API for corporate use cases.
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Title: We finished a design that allows a plug-and-play solution with TensorFlow Lite and a web server with the UI on ESP32. Here is a video of the process: <a href="https://youtu.be/aEZX3JMzwTo" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/aEZX3JMzwTo</a><p>I wanted to share the design in case anyone is interested as the camera is aimed at developers who want to play with AI models on the embedded side.
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Title: So I lost my job back last year. I didn’t feel like I immediately needed a new job and I’ve never particularly had difficulty finding one so I figured this time I’d bide my time and see if I could get a job I actually wanted as opposed to just whoever offered a big number that looked good.<p>Usually, like most devs, I imagine, I get a number of recruiters flooding into my LinkedIn account, particularly if I have my account set to show I’m open to new jobs. At first, this seemed to be the case, but I was being very selective with who’d I’d talk to. If a recruiter wanted me to jump through hoops, or refused to give me any information about the role/company/etc. they were hiring for id just ignore them.<p>Then around mid-December I just stopped getting any contact from recruiters. Nothing about my LinkedIn profile had changed so I figured people must just be in break for the holidays, and so I decided to just sit around for a while.<p>But it’s February now and I haven’t had a single recruiter reach out to me since December 16th and I have no idea why. Someone suggested reset and reapply the “looking for jobs” status on my account, but that didn’t seem to work.<p>There’s only a couple things I can thing of offhand.<p>1) Remote-status. I’ve read that looking for remote right now might be much more difficult with the flood of candidates into the market, but that doesn’t make too much sense because even though my profile was set to prefer remote, I did get some local recruiters in my inbox for a bit.<p>2) Weird internal ranking system. Not to sound conspiratorial, but I’ve started to wonder if LinkedIn downranks people in searches if they don’t engage, and around November I was ignoring a lot of recruiters. I’m not sure if it’s likely, but it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve heard of something like that.<p>For reference, I have around 5 years professional experience, mostly in the .NET enterprise world, but have worked with other things in the last and many things outside of work. Anyone noticed this before? Is there anything I can do to get recruiters to start talking to me again, or am I just in a very bad market?
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Title: I never really read my micro-econ textbook.<p>Looking up concepts from the book with Google yields SEO-y results.<p>So I used GPT-3 to make a custom chatbot I can query at any time.
Upvote: | 51 |
Title: Hey HN!<p>I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: <a href="https://maroofy.com" rel="nofollow">https://maroofy.com</a><p>You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music.<p>Demo: <a href="https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554</a><p>How does it work?<p>I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music.<p>My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output.<p>I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic search to find similar music!<p>Here are some examples you can try:<p>Fetish (Selena Gomez feat. Gucci Mane) — <a href="https://maroofy.com/songs/1563859943" rel="nofollow">https://maroofy.com/songs/1563859943</a>
The Medallion Calls (Pirates of the Caribbean) — <a href="https://maroofy.com/songs/1440649752" rel="nofollow">https://maroofy.com/songs/1440649752</a><p>Hope you like it, and would love to hear any questions/feedback/comments! :D
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Title: Impact can be from the viewpoint of career, hobby skills or life in general. It is you who knows what aspect of you the course has impacted. And why do you think so?
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Title: Hi, small SaaS founder here (tardis.dev) - I've been heavy Cloudflare Workers user (currently 4 billions requests & 1PB of data per month) for about 4 years already and today at 00:00 UTC without any warning my account was restricted, both website and APIs are down or very very slow to respond/time out, customers are angry obviously. I confirmed with support that "hmm, I see that your zone seems like being restricted due to 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content, see that there's high JSON data transfer". - which is bit strange as I'm using workers which have different terms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 (confirmed by their CTO)...anyways I get it, perhaps I pay too little and should be on enterprise plan already, but when I got approached by Cloudflare sales team I explicitly asked if I can still be on pay as you go/self server model and reply was: "Enterprise wise, that's up to you and you could likely get away with utilising self-serve as you go, but if you did choose to go enterprise (without R2) I might be able to have something approved in the xx/month range."<p>I would fully understand that I am required to upgrade, but why not sending me an email before shutting down my business completely? I even asked about such scenario on zoom meeting I had with their Sales and they said it will never happen - few weeks forward and here we are...anyways going back to replying to my customers emails regarding service outage.
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Title: Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB.<p>In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide <a href="https://jamsocket.live" rel="nofollow">https://jamsocket.live</a> where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY).<p>You may have seen my blog post a couple months back, “You might not need a CRDT”[1]. Some of those ideas (especially the emphasis on state machine synchronization) are implemented in DriftDB.<p>Here’s an IRL talk I gave on DriftDB last week at Browsertech SF[2] and a 4-minute tutorial of building a cross-client synchronized slider component in React[3]<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33865672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33865672</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRv3MImcqM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRv3MImcqM</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktb6HUZlyJs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktb6HUZlyJs</a>
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Title: Some say it's a technical limitation for heat management, memory management. While some others say it's to escape the additional tax that applies if a camera is classified as a video camera, the latter being defined as something that records beyond 30 minutes.<p>What's the true reason?
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Title: I was having trouble loading GMail in Chrome. I wasn't sure if it was my spotty internet or the browser acting up so I gave Firefox a shot. And behold! Firefox opened it in a jiffy.<p>What impressed me most was that it was able to import saved passwords, bookmarks and websites history from Chrome pretty quickly. Previously, I had imported these to Chromium based web browsers (Brave & Edge) but was afraid that it might be an issue for non-Chromium browser like Firefox, but to my pleasant surprise, it wasn't.<p>Some really cool observations in first 30 mins of using it :<p>1. It opens websites really quickly, much faster than Chrome<p>2. All parts feel really customizable. I was able to get rid of the Firefox View tab really easily (I may explore it in the future because it seemed quite interesting to send links from phone to desktop). It was also easy enough to customize bookmarks bar to only show up in new tab.<p>3. Extensions ecosystem is thriving . I was glad to find my old favorite: Dark Reader. But I have also found a new favorite - Tab Stash. I also found an extension to download Youtube videos - Video Downloader, something I didn't find in Chrome<p>4. Clean look that gets out of your way.<p>I had given Firefox a shot in the past and had found Chrome to be a better performing browser at the time. But this time, Firefox seems to really have clicked with me.<p>I'd be glad to learn of any other cool features and extensions that y'all might want to share.
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Title: John Carmack's new interview on AI/AGI [1] carries a puzzle:<p>“So I asked Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, for a reading list. He gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ And I did. I plowed through all those things and it all started sorting out in my head.”<p>What papers do you think were on this list?<p>[1] https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/
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