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Title: Even if nobody has even tried yet, can we guess what a language generator's neural AI's training data might look like, or whether it would use symbolic logic instead, or even both?
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Title: An obvious one might be a new car (e.g., Tesla), or a house that you improved your quality of life.<p>What other purchases might be worth considering?
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Title: I've been reading about people who have chronic conditions, some of which can be quite challenging. I'm currently going through something relatively minor myself.<p>But it got me wondering, for those living with a chronic illness (not necessarily terminal), how do you deal with the stress of it?
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Title: Elaborating, what are some problems that were being experienced by one industry or domain but were solved elsewhere and were adopted by the industry plagued by the problem? Even better if the answer was really obvious for the people who solved it or solving it involved cross-domain knowledge.<p>For context, I recently heard having a breadth of knowledge (along with depth in chosen areas) is really helpful in problem solving and I'm looking for concrete examples for the same.
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Title: I've recently read Inspired by Marty Cagan, who places heavy emphasis on aiming to have at least six reference customers in place before launching to market. Ideally these customers should be from a single target market in a single geographic region. The idea is that you work with them to help ensure you're building the right product for the target market.<p>I'm looking for any advice and experience in how you might've gone about acquiring these customers (ideally small to medium business) and what incentives, if any, you might've offered for them to come on the journey with you. And how crucial was it in your experience in achieving success as a startup.<p>The skeptical part of me is wondering how many people actually have the time and energy to partake in such a program, so very keen to hear real world experiences.
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Title: Has anyone used a service to clean up your online presence/remove you and your family from data brokers (such as people finders, white pages, etc)?
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Title: I run a blog and gaming site focused on web games. We would like to interview some HTML5 developers about their cash flow situations.
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Title: Looking for a Firebase alternative that is ideally production ready and open source.<p>Has there been any strides in this area and what is the current state of them in 2020?<p>Thanks.
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Title: In the recent thread about Edge coming to Linux, some users wrote that a Microsoft controlled Chrome-based browser is preferable to over controlled by Google from a privacy point of view.<p>We know that Google collects vast amounts of data about us through all its services. No question about that.<p>But depending on which thread one reads, Microsoft may be seen as less privacy-invading than Google or, alternatively, scolded for all the ads, Cortana being creepy, them pushing everyone towards Bing, and requiring internet connectivity for playing simple games that used to come with Windows for free.<p>So which is it? Is Microsoft preferable to Google from a privacy point of view?<p>Or is Microsoft just easier to compartmentalize, because if they have your calendar and email, but not your web searches, they have less of a complete view into your life?
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Title: Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.
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Title: First of all, sorry if my English sounds off, maybe weird; it's not my first language but I'm striving to improve.<p>Short story short: I went back to high school in my late 20s and next year I'll graduate. Over the years I went from hating math to really enjoying it, especially calculus, but there's still one thing that keeps bugging me, and that's my command of its language. I have no problem solving most of algebra or calculus problems, but if you asked me to explain what I'm doing I wouldn't be able to tell you, at least not using mathematical constructs/words. It doesn't help that I can't find any resources like you could for any natural language.<p>When I asked my teacher she said to practice over and over, but that's all I've been doing these years and it didn't do much to improve my oral presentation. So, I'm asking here in the hope that someone who went through the same struggle or understands the mental process very well and knows what it takes to "fix the computation-presentation bridge", could help me or guide me in the right direction, to overcome this obstacle.<p>Thank y'all for your time.
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Title: Many countries have effectively closed their borders, by not issuing tourist/visit visas, or requiring 14+ days' quarantine, often at the traveller's expense.<p>What happens when your short-term visit visa expires? ... Get an easy extension? Register for 'language school' or other dodges? Suffer a month of quarantine for a visa run? Return to your home country?
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Title: I think that in today’s world financial literacy is more important than ever to financial success in life and yet it seems like many kids graduating high school are financially illiterate. In my opinion everyone should a fundamental understanding of how a savings account, CD account, IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k) and MSA account work. Likewise, everyone should have a fundamental understanding of the equity markets, derivatives markets, futures markets, bond and treasury markets along with an understanding of how interest rates work and their effects on financial instruments like mortgages. Kids should be taught about the various forms of business structures available to them from starting a simple DBA to the numerous flavors of corporations out there. All this can be taught without giving financial advice, which may be more in the domain of parents, but by focusing on the theoretical and historical aspects of financial instruments so that kids have a better understanding of how they work and are better prepared for life in general.
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Title: I am sometimes overwhelmed by people's enthusiasm when it comes to blockchain. I have seen a project using Hyperledger [https://www.hyperledger.org/] as a plug-in alternative for an RDBMS but one party controlled the one node the system ran on.<p>Do some of you have non-confidential (useful!) use cases for blockchain databases to share?
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Title: Which general purpose programming language is good for learning and exploring math?<p>Here is what I am looking for from the programming language:<p>* Good standard library that helps in exploring math concepts. Python fits this bill. Python's standard library has functions like math.comb(), math.gcd(), math.factorial(), etc. They make it easy to write down many closed-form expressions without reinventing the wheel.<p>* Speed. If I am exploring a new concept and I want to test a conjecture for large numbers, such iterate-and-test loops in Python run 30 times slower than equivalent loops in C++. Here C/C++ fits the bill and Python does not.<p>* Expressibility. While I am exploring mathematics, it should not feel like I am fighting the syntax of the language. Python and Java fit the bill due to their simplicity. C++ is manageable. Rust feels like too much work for quick and dirty hacks to test conjectures.<p>* Longevity. The language should be stable and not prone to too many breaking changes. Some code I write now should run without modifications ten years later. C, C++, Go fit the bill. Python does not.<p>* Open source implementations. The language must have popular free and open source implementations. I don't want to be paying large sums of money for something like MATLAB or Mathematica. Most languages popular here on Hacker News like Python, Go, Rust, etc. fit the bill.<p>Now if there is no language that do not meet all the requirements above, that is fine. Something that comes to close to supporting most of the features above is going to be okay.
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Title: Alec and Sajan here, co-founders of Laylo (cal.laylo.com), a platform for content creators to offer one-click reminders to their upcoming content, events and merchandise.<p>To give some backstory, over the last year we were building a data startup to help musicians understand who their biggest fans are online. We partnered with Sony Music and have over 600,000 artists accessing their fan data through our API. One thing we constantly noticed was that artists were posting on Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc. about their upcoming releases. The problem was that since their releases weren’t out yet, they didn’t have any destination to send fans.<p>Posts like “new merch dropping next Tuesday at 3 PST” assumes that fans will actually remember. It also uses up valuable social media real estate and doesn’t give the artist any usable data.<p>That’s why we built Laylo Drops. Drops lets you create a landing page for your upcoming releases, captures your fan data (emails and phone numbers), and automatically reminds them at the time of the drop.<p>Drops links are sharable anywhere that you can put a link: IG Stories, Twitter, etc. Fans don’t even need to create an account to RSVP. We also provide social media templates, custom messaging tools and more to make the marketing simple.<p>We set our sights on the music industry (because that’s where we started) but ultimately our goal is to help creators of all kinds connect directly with their audience and make announcements with ease.<p>We would love to hear your feedback and your experiences as creators or working with creators. We’re very excited to be sharing this with HN, and we’ll be here to answer any and all questions you want to throw our way!<p>Thanks,<p>Alec
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Title: What are your thoughts on the Go programming language?
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Title: I tend to think all over the place when it comes to problem solving. It is hard to think step by step or have a clear mental path/logic. How can I overcome this? Thx.
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Title: I have a BSc in computer engineering and part of the major was just a couple of calculus and discrete math courses. I want to expand my knowledge in mathematics through online courses. Is there a specialized website that offers courses in various mathematics fields?
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Title: Hi All, I managed to avoid having to write C++ for all of my career. However, especially with SDR, I find my need to write C++ and my brain is so grooved reading C code that I find it trips me up reading C++ code. Also I find I don't have a good sense of "clean" C++ code. Since I learn best by exploring, I was wondering if there are some good code bases to read where I could get a feel for what "good" C++ code would look like.<p>Any suggestions? Pointers to repos would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Title: Hola HackerNews!<p>Super stoked to share Decentro (<a href="http://bit.ly/decentro-hn" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/decentro-hn</a>) with all of you today.<p>Decentro is an easy-to-use API platform for banking integrations in India & Asia. We do the hard work of tying up with legacy financial institutions so that developers can integrate their desired APIs and launch.<p>Think of us like Plaid+Synapse for the Asian subcontinent where the regulatory complexity, financial intricacies, and local knowledge inhibit the foreign infrastructure players from operating.<p>This is my second fintech venture, and I started Decentro out of my own pain point. In 2015, we had launched a fintech venture called 'Mypoolin' in the domain of social payments, ran it for three years, and then sold it to a global payments company that eventually got acquired by PayU in 2019.<p>Throughout those five years across the organizations, we saw it first hand that integrations with banks and old-school institutions were extremely painful across all stages and categories. The average time span for API integrations with any bank ranges from 4 to 6 months or more depending on the type and complexity of the use case.<p>Our product roadmap is a function of the core-building blocks of any fintech company. First came KYC/KYB and digital onboarding, enabling companies to digitally verify the identity using 7 possible national IDs/documents of consumers or partner businesses. Immediately thereafter, we launched our 'Accounts' module with 2 partner banks in India, enabling any company to launch fully digital bank accounts (sitting on top of a common physical pool), collect the money via any possible method online into these accounts, fetch bank statements, automate reconciliations, and programmatically route money via any bank transfer channels into any account in the country.<p>Our first customer categories are SMB focused neo-banks and B2B marketplaces in the country that are looking to adopt banking APIs and digitize their money flow and customer lifecycle. Our customers have processed $3M API-based transactions on our platform over the last three months.<p>We just opened the beta APIs of business bank accounts. You can link multiple virtual accounts to your core business account, automate reconciliations, receive payments from your customers, and automate vendor/salary payouts instantly. No more payment-processor/gateway delays! Our pricing is straightforward and mostly on a per API/transaction basis.<p>I'd love to hear your thoughts on our proposition. Your unique insights while navigating the complex world of B2B, banking, and payments will help us solve the integrations pain point for good.<p>We are here to answer your questions here or on founders[at]decentro.tech
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Title: I have enough experience under my belt to feel comfortable approaching fuzzy engineering problems that span relatively unfamiliar domains but I feel it's quite difficult to convey this when applying for positions.<p>I'm also sure to fail googlable technical questions so I was wondering how others might approach this.
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Title: I want to show my kids what you can achieve with software development, and I think dealing with some physical thing that is controlled by your code is incredible fun - you are getting feedback instantly.<p>I see that there some projects like Sphero, etc.. that already got an API - I think it's great.<p>Can you advice some other things that are falls into that category? (I'm actually afraid of doing hardware part of it... so I think arduino-based things are too complex -- correct me if I'm wrong)
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Title: I work as a data scientist in telecommunications. Mainly, I used python and matlab, but I want to extend my programming range to include a compiled, systems language because lots of digital signal processing is written on embedded devices.<p>To me, it seems Rust is so much better than C/C++ in many ways: lots of Python-like abstractions, rigid compile time safety checks... A modern language designed from scratch without a hodge podge of welded on features.<p>Rust could also turn into something big, by the looks of it, in the next 10 years.<p>So I have two questions: how much does it make sense for me, in my circumstance, to learn Rust as my first systems language, and the second question is how much, in general ignoring my circumstances, does it make sense to learn Rust first?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I’m Ross Chanin, co-founder and CEO of Artifact (<a href="https://www.heyartifact.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.heyartifact.com</a>), where we help people record the important stories in their lives, told in the voices of friends and family members. Think of us as an on-demand podcast studio you can focus on anything you want. We set you up with an interviewer in our marketplace, and we make the process easy, from scheduling to hosting interviews over the phone, and then delivering a polished edit that wouldn’t sound out of place on the radio.<p>Our idea was born out of a personal sense of loss: My grandfather passed away and I found myself regretting that I hadn’t captured him telling stories about his life. I thought others might feel the same about someone in their own lives.<p>The problem (for me, anyway) was that I didn’t have an easy way to go deep with my grandfather. It was never the right time. Some of the questions I wanted to ask were quite personal. I don’t have audio editing skills, so I was unsure what I would even do with the raw audio if I’d recorded a conversation with him.<p>I mentioned what I wanted to do to my friend, George, who’s a journalist. He stopped me and said, “But that’s what journalists do. Why don’t you hire a journalist?”<p>We decided to try it as an experiment. My Aunt Cindy was about to turn 59, so George called up three of her oldest friends, interviewed them about their relationships with Cindy, and delivered an edit that, when Cindy heard it, had her laughing and crying in equal measure.<p>Cindy and her friends told us three things that we have since heard over and over: First, customers often tell our interviewers things they’ve never told their loved ones, but would like to be able to say to them (example - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlwIojFPmF/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlwIojFPmF/</a>). Second, we routinely hear from recipients that, as soon as they've heard an episode in which people talk about them, they want to call those people and thank them. And third, that the experience is helping people feel closer to each other.<p>But the truth is that we would have only ever been a cottage production studio with George and me at the helm (that’s right, my friend George became a co-founder). This is where Moncef Biaz and Martin Gouy, our technical co-founders, enter the picture. Together, as a team, we think about Artifact as a marketplace, connecting the right interviewers with the right guests (e.g., if you need a bilingual Mandarin and English-speaking interviewer who is also great with 11-year-olds, we got you.) We’ve also become obsessed with the state of audio recording and editing technology, effectively asking the question: "How close can we get to studio-quality sound without the studio?" The answer is: pretty darn close.<p>Far more important than the audio quality is the substance of what people are telling our interviewers. Our customers are telling us that these incredibly personal stories are becoming heirlooms for their friends and family. Customers are also teaching us new ways to use our service: wedding and anniversary gifts, family heritage, journaling, enterprise use-cases, etc.<p>We put lots of little snippets (with permission from our customers) on our Instagram. You can also hear a full Artifact—commissioned by a couple who wanted to document the husband’s cancer diagnosis and their shared journey (<a href="https://www.heyartifact.com/daryl" rel="nofollow">https://www.heyartifact.com/daryl</a>).<p>Ultimately, our goal is to make this service accessible in every language, geographic region, and culture. Because we all have a story to tell; what we didn’t all have, until now, is someone to tell it to—someone who knows how to ask the right questions, how to record it, and how to make sure it sounds great, so that we can easily share it with friends, family, and generations to come.<p>I’d really love to hear the community’s feedback and I’m here to answer questions.<p>—Ross<p>P.S. There’s more detail on that first experiment, and how we expanded our scope from there, in this blog post (<a href="https://www.heyartifact.com/blog/hey-were-artifact/" rel="nofollow">https://www.heyartifact.com/blog/hey-were-artifact/</a>).
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Title: Hey everyone! Yunyu, Rahul, and Jason here. We're co-founders of Cohere (<a href="https://cohere.so" rel="nofollow">https://cohere.so</a>), which lets you see what your users are seeing on your web app and remote control their browser with their permission. This requires zero setup on their part, which is particularly helpful for less tech-savvy users.<p>Pointing things out over Zoom screenshare is highly time consuming ("click the 4th checkbox on the right", "click the handle and drag"), and trying to figure out what users are doing over a live chat or phone call typically leads to endlessly frustrating back-and-forths.<p>When COVID forced all of us into remote work, we found ourselves spending a lot of time in screensharing sessions. We were tired of choppy frame rates and blurry text, and realized that we could get around this by sharing the user’s screen in a different way. Rather than video streaming, which is how it’s usually done, we could send over diffs of their webpage’s DOM representation and reapply those in the viewer’s browser – this is similar to how virtual DOM frameworks like React work.<p>We first used this technique for an earlier project (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363250" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363250</a>) that rendered React apps on the server (a Node equivalent of Phoenix LiveView). This reduces development complexity for web apps by completely eliminating the need for RPC layers (REST, GraphQL) – for instance, you'd be able to write to the database directly from your React component and share state across sessions with a single hook. It works by sending DOM updates from the server (e.g. insert a node, change an attribute) in response to input actions sent from the client (e.g. click a button, type a character).<p>This approach uses significantly less bandwidth compared to traditional
screen sharing solutions, and gives us a semantic understanding of the webpage (e.g. a button is sent over as a <button />, instead of a blob of bytes). As a result, we can selectively filter out sensitive content and allow viewers to scroll and type on the webpage without any perceived latency.<p>To solve our screen sharing problem, we initially built a Chrome extension that let users browse web pages collaboratively. During YC, we saw that our early adopters were primarily using this tool to walk through their own web apps with their customers, so we decided to refocus the product towards helping companies onboard and support their users.<p>Because we're focused on the real time use case, we only record the DOM when a session is being viewed. This means that no data is sent to our servers unless Cohere is actively being used. Additionally, we don’t persist or retain any session data.<p>Thanks for reading our story – we'd love to get your thoughts, feedback, and ideas!
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Title: Let me put this as simple as I can:
Writing tutorials on Medium means you are putting them behind a paywall, thus restricting learning opportunities.<p>Medium is not StackOverflow, it limits the number of articles that can be freely read.<p>If you ever learned something from a blog or from stackoverflow do contribute back by sharing your knowledge open on the internet not behind a paywall.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I'm Jakub and I'm the founder of Deepnote (<a href="https://deepnote.com/" rel="nofollow">https://deepnote.com/</a>). We're building a better data science notebook.<p>As an engineer, I spent most of my time working on developer tools, building IDEs, and studying human-computer interaction. I helped build a couple of startups, I built tools for JavaScript development, and worked on Firefox DevTools. But once I started to work with data scientists, all those code editors and IDEs that I knew as a software engineer suddenly stopped being the right tool for the job. Notebooks were.<p>Notebooks as we know them today have many pain points (versioning, reproducibility, collaboration). They don't work well with other tools. They don't exactly encourage best practices. But none of these are fundamental flaws of the notebook paradigm. They are signs of a new computational medium. Much like spreadsheets in the 1980s.<p>Two years ago, my co-founders and I started to think about a better data science notebook. Deepnote is built on top of the Jupyter ecosystem. We are using the same format, and we intend to remain fully compatible in both directions. But to solve the above problems, we've introduced significant changes.<p>First, we made collaboration a first-class citizen. To allow for this, Deepnote runs in the cloud by default. Every Deepnote notebook is easily shareable (like Google Docs) and easy to understand even by non-technical users.<p>Second, we completely redesigned the interface to encourage best practices, write clean code, define dependencies, and create reproducible notebooks. We also built a really good autocomplete system, and added a variable explorer.<p>Third, we made Deepnote easy to integrate with other services. We didn't want to build another data science platform where people work with an iframed notebook. We want to build an amazing notebook that plays well with other services, databases, ML platforms, and the Jupyter ecosystem.<p><i></i>Check out a 2-min demo here:<i></i> <a href="https://www.loom.com/share/b7e05ecca78047c2a2f687d77be8ecea" rel="nofollow">https://www.loom.com/share/b7e05ecca78047c2a2f687d77be8ecea</a><p>Building a new computational medium is hard. It takes time. Today, we're launching a public beta of Deepnote. Not everything works yet. Some pieces are missing. But we also have a lot in store, including versioning, code reviews, visualizations. We still have a lot to learn too, so I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
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Title: It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.
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Title: As the title suggests, my outlook.com account has been suspended due to violations. However, I can't find any reference in their terms and conditions to my specific violation.<p>The reason is that I use NordVPN to connect to the internet.<p>Any ideas? I can't do anything without that account as changing my email on many services requires access to my old email.<p>Over the years I have read many stories on here of this happening to people, mainly on Google services, and it pretty much stops them dead in their tracks... well, now it's happened to me.<p>I've been thinking about it over the last several days and, legitimately, the only possible recourse is to run your own email server. Now this has it's own issues but it means I have (almost) total control over my data.<p>Anyway, as the title suggests, any ideas? I just need to get it reinstated so I can move all my email away from it now.
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Title: Now that youtube-dl is gone, how are you downloading youtube videos?
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Title: Hello HN<p>I am a fullstack engineer with 10+ years of experience in corporate, government, digital media agencies and two startups. A few months ago I started building a small side project to solve a problem that I found interesting. I hit a wall eventually and figured I may be able to speed up my progress if I spoke to someone with more industry knowledge. I spoke to some family who put me in contact with the CEO of a relatively successful company in this field who would be willing to lend an ear to my questions as a personal favour to my family member. Over the course of several weeks we built up a great relationship and further developed this little side-project as well as discussed some of his ideas on ways to further innovate in the industry.<p>To cut a long story short; he offered €200k in funding to quit my job and co-found a seperate business with him and two of his existing employees. The investment is interest free and can be reduced by €40k per year. The funding is being offered in a personal capacity and is not coming out of his existing company. There will be a 25% equity split four ways with the goal of further developing some of the ideas we have discussed to date.<p>Myself and one other employee will split the funding as salaries (totalling 1.4 years of runway). I will be the technical arm of the business. The other paid employee will be dedicated fulltime to providing information from within the industry to fill gaps in my knowledge and leverage his extensive network. The CEO and the final member will act as executives in the company (CEO and Chairman) and will work to get the business profitable as quickly as possible.<p>Broadly; what can I do in these extremely early stages that set will set the business on a trajectory for success? I plan on seeking a start-up mentor that I can regularly check in with - is this a good idea? If you have any thoughts, suggestions, books, or whatever to offer, I would be extremely grateful.
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Title: I've been in tech for like 20 years. I've started a couple of companies, I've worked for way more. And... I'm done. I mean completely burned out, hating on the industry, and really just wondering what I can do with my life.<p>I'm not with the mock-woke companies that lie to themselves. I'm done with the frat-boy companies. I'm done with people changing the world by making XYZ obsolete, or disrupting ABC. I'm done with companies pretending to do good or well, while in reality just being rent-seeking behemoths. I'm sick of watching our brightest pollute the world with ad tech. I'm just done.<p>Does anyone else feel this? Did you get out? What do you do now, and how do you reconcile the sheer difference in dollars?
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Title: Hey HN, I'm working on a project for school and need to learn a bit more about the revenue model of custom software dev firms.<p>I've been googling, but can't seem to get a straight answer. It seems like there's an initial project cost & then maintenance revenue ongoing for the software / app's life. Is that accurate?<p>Appreciate any insight y'all can provide!
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Title: I haven't been able to find anything about it except for news of the vote back in February.
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Title: Getting feedback from customers is crucial but it seems really difficult to get people to answer a survey or get on a call.<p>I mainly use email to ask for feedback and the response rates are terrible, 2-3%.<p>Are there any effective ways of getting feedback from customers? Tools or templates?
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Title: Cert expired 5 mins ago.<p><a href="https://github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/</a>
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Title: Dan Kohn[0], executive director at the Linux Foundation, has died[1].<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dankohn1" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dankohn1</a><p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/DrOceanJulie/status/1322957062444326919" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/DrOceanJulie/status/1322957062444326919</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: Please state the job location and include the keywords
REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
When remote work is <i>not</i> an option, include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: Try <a href="https://findwork.dev/?source=hn" rel="nofollow">https://findwork.dev/?source=hn</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</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=24969522" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969522</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969523" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24969523</a>
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Title: I'm a relatively new freelancer, and I haven't found a great way invoice clients. My current strategy depends on the client -- some people I email a work summary each week, some I'm in constant contact with while working so I just tell them the number of hours, and some I invoice via a self-hosted Invoice Ninja[0] instance.<p>Have you found a way to deal with this that you're happy with?
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Title: My 16GB 5th gen iPod nano is dying. I'm looking for a replacement. Years ago Apple stopped selling anything except the iPod Touch, which is too large and fragile for me. I want something that fits into my pocket, with a long battery life.<p>"Long" means can be used for a couple of days without needing a charge, or in standby for weeks. As an example of "too fragile", I had a 7th gen. iPod with touch screen that broke after a month or two of the same treatment my 5th gen. handled for years. I went back to my 5th gen. after that.<p>I only need it for podcasts. I like dedicated hardware to reduce the temptation to connect to the world.<p>Since Apple decided to split up iTunes into different apps (I haven't upgraded my Mac yet, to keep iTunes), I'm also fine with switching to a new app to manage podcasts.<p>Any suggestions?
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Title: I've been a teacher for 20 years to over 2000 kids in 3 countries from infants to teens, from kids in underfunded failing schools to the rich and famous. I'm sick and tired of the way our education system is failing our kids at all levels and I want to completely rehaul it. I think everything about it is backwards and it needs to be thrown out and started from scratch.<p>Since March, I've been building a movement around what I'm calling Modular Learning- an approach that's really personalized, really flexible, really involves families in the learning process and very much nurtures children's natural curiosity and love of learning - in a nutshell, a more holistic and child-centered approach that allows for total flexibility and personalization.<p>I've been hosting workshops for thousands of parents and kids impacted by school closures on issues ranging from communication with children to curriculum planning, food, financial security and talking to kids about racism.<p>I'm now working closely with a group of 20 families (mostly in tech) with kids ages 3-12 in personalizing their children's education through a combination of 1-1 instruction, social-emotional learning, electives and parenting workshops, closely measuring how kids perform in a parent-driven approach. We've also written hundreds of blogs on the best curriculum and apps for parents to support their children's learning. based on their learning styles.<p>I need to find a co-founder who can share this big vision with me and has really bold and smart ideas on using technology to scale something like this, and of course is at a stage where they'd be excited about taking on a project of this magnitude.<p>Anyone interested?<p>If so, email me at [email protected]
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Title: Hi HackerNews!<p>I'm Ashutosh, one of the founders of Sunsama (<a href="https://sunsama.com" rel="nofollow">https://sunsama.com</a>). Sunsama is a daily planner for busy folks. Each day, Sunsama walks you through a guided daily planning process that helps you create a calm, focused, and intentional plan for the day. Sunsama pulls together your calendar, emails, and tasks from other SaaS tools into a single place.<p>Travis and I started building products in the calendar and productivity space a couple years after graduating and working our first jobs. The idea that we were going to spend the next 40 years behind computers, working, and that Outlook or Google calendar would be the best way for us to be thoughtful and intentional with what we did at work felt unacceptable.<p>Before Sunsama, we built, launched, and shut down six different products in this space over the course of four years. I’ll spare you the postmortem on each failure but my favorite boondoggle was the first product we built. We tried to build a “social network for time” (think Calendly meets LinkedIn). In retrospect, it was doomed because it wasn’t something we needed ourselves nor did we have a real user in mind, we just thought that “networking calendars” would be an interesting problem to solve. After shipping this and learning that no one wanted it, we just kept frankensteining our software from one pivot to another, mostly unsuccessfully. In one of our last pivots before Sunsama as it is today we hit a breaking point when our biggest customer churned and we realized we only had a few months of runway. It was a gut punch because we felt we’d finally run out of “if we just change <blank>, this will definitely work” ideas.<p>This time, instead of frankensteining our idea, we took a step back and started fresh. Luckily, all the products we built were calendar/productivity related and over the years we’d talked to thousands of users and customers about their calendars, their work tools, and how they went about their work day. This intuition and expertise for how people work coupled with a fresh perspective got us to the realization that everyone started the day by asking themselves "what am I going to do today?" but answering that question was difficult and there wasn’t a great place to answer it. The calendar works well for planning meetings but is too clunky for heads down work. Project management tools work well for documenting all the work a team might do over long periods of time but it's stressful to look at hundreds of Jira tickets when you just want to work on a couple of them today. Text lists or written notes are flexible but don't connect back to the actual source of work. And simply keeping a mental list seems to break down once your job becomes sufficiently busy or ambitious.<p>So we decided to build a calendar + daily todo list for people who function on a hybrid of a maker and manager's schedule (to use Paul Graham’s terminology).<p>We’re excited to officially launch on HackerNews now that product is self service! It took us a while to get to this point as we originally started out as a product with a concierge onboarding (a la Superhuman).<p>Right now, we integrate with Google Calendar, Gmail, Asana, Github, Jira, Todoist and Trello. In the future, we hope to add more integrations and open up signups to folks who use those tools as well! We'd love your feedback on how it feels to plan out a workday with Sunsama!
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Title: When you visit the Dropbox iOS app's PDF viewer there's a bright blue Open button. It shows "Open with... Adobe Acrobat Reader, Add Text or Signature" - it's an affiliate revenue scheme dark pattern that sends you down a totally bad path. It caught my mom today, a Pro subscriber and a doctor, and she was just trying to look at health articles with her patients. Not "sign up for an Adobe account?" as she worriedly said on the phone today.<p>It's rough. The app is full of crap like this, it's not the first time it's caught my mom - an educated person! There was smart sync (different than "selective sync") being toggled on by default on new installs, which was horrible. Files that don't open! Bad engineering, bad product design. There are the blocking notifications and prompts. The defaulting to show the Dropbox app instead of Finder. That's just in the last two months.<p>I asked Dropbox CS people to "disable product management." I joked in that thread that they were aspiring to be "anti-mom."<p>I liked Dropbox, it was basically perfect in 2012, it's why I pay for it so consistently, why I've gifted subs to people, why they keep paying, etc.<p>Drew, why are you ruining your product?<p>That aside, remember when Steve Jobs personally replied to people's emails? There is no process for a normal person to connect with a real decision maker at giant tech companies anymore. It's the most foreboding development in the tech industry. Delegating stuff like this to social media is bad management, and Paul Graham should be apoplectic that <i>despite</i> all of these dark patterns, Dropbox shares are still not trading above their IPO price. It's bad business sense, it's bad product. It's just bad.
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Title: hey hackers ,<p>Me and the team are super excited to launch Ambra - <a href="https://ambra.app" rel="nofollow">https://ambra.app</a> – a collaboration tool enabling teams to organize tasks in a natural way by using only tags and mentions, all in a single box.<p>Ambra removes the necessity of having multiple fields for creating a task – there is one single box to rule them all. We empower writing tasks naturally.<p>Defining a fully descriptive task in traditional tools is not a simple process. You’ve to start writing the task title, description, and additional form fields for task status, priority, assignee, etc. It means there are some ceremonies to be followed.<p>Working for many years with different remote and office teams, I saw that every team develops its own ubiquitous language. This is more emphasized especially when it comes to daily tasks description language. This level of understanding helps the project team to communicate quickly while eliminating inaccuracies and contradictions; and that’s an attribute of a – smart team.<p>Describing a task in a natural way using one single box, without the need for multiple form fields, makes the task data entry process trivial and helps the team focus on delivering – what’s most important for an agile team – values.<p>A flat team is responsible enough to focus on productivity and move the tasks to #done. However, they should have a proper tool to achieve that – that’s where Ambra comes.<p>An example: Hey @ troy we need #todo a #presentation of the website to the customer #urgent. You immediately know the status of the task, who's in charge for and when it's needed.<p>Ambra is offered as freemium, you can go now and create your first project, invite your teammates, or just start assigning tasks to yourself and feel the simplicity.<p>We love to hear your feedback.
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Title: On November 5, several students reported that they cannot access their G Suite accounts. Google seems to disable all G Suite accounts in National Taiwan University (@g.ntu.edu.tw) due to spamming.<p>> "Your account is disabled due to spamming."
https://i.imgur.com/G2ZCkcE.jpg (in traditional Chinese)<p>Fortunately, most services in the university do not depend on G Suite. They depend on a unversity account (@ntu.edu.tw).
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Title: I live in a "Top 10 most dangerous cities in the U.S." What can I do to help? It seems like the most common solution for people who are educated and well off is to move. To get out of the situation, which is understandable. However, this causes a brain drain and leave the city in a worse place.<p>I don't want to do that, I want to uplift if I can. What is the micro thing I can do today, that can have a chance of a macro change tomorrow?
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Title: Amazon has been scraping HN profiles and dumping email addresses into their applicant tracking software. Nothing you can really do about it but it's lame and should be called out.<p>I use a unique email address in my HN profile just for HN related stuff (it's hn@<my domain>) and just received a spam from an Amazon recruiter "about the status of my application for engineering management roles at Amazon".<p>I've never applied to work for Amazon, never used that unique email address anywhere else, also not been an engineer for 10+ years!<p>This here is partly venting and partly to put others on alert.
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Title: Why do we need political parties? Many issues are partisan and many more bi partisan.<p>Instead of pitting 2 or more parties against each other, why can’t select the issues we want to be implemented and politicians with no party affiliations to implement them?<p>This way we can have elections maybe even once a year for issues rather than for parties and we can track issues. Spokesperson can be a rotating head of state.<p>Isn’t it a better way to govern ourselves?
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Title: How do you secure your code assets from leaking onto github/gitlab? Let’s say hypothetically that the company does not have a work issued laptop and that the company has invited developers to the organization with their personal github accounts.<p>For instance, a developer worked for your company for two years, but is no longer there, and has leaked some production code he wrote to show to a recruiter/developer?<p>Another example would be a current malicious employee who posts code snippets of your super custom trading algo to github as part of his next job search or while trying to land a contracting deal?
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Title: I got lucky at a few startups in my mid-20s and now in my early 30s feeling a profound loss of motivation to continue working or developing a career after achieving a comfortable worry-free level of financial success.<p>Perhaps part of it is that I’m not that motivated by either money or status or power.<p>Has anyone been in a similar situation and how did you deal with it to find motivation again?
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Title: I just spent 15 minutes reading posts and comments by a specific user and really appreciated how detailed and humble they all where.<p>Each comment almost read like a good blog post so that made me wonder why I cannot follow this user.<p>I assume there are browser plugins that do this but I would really appreciate if it was a part of HN.<p>And just like upvoted posts/comments, it should stay private.
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Title: I'm looking for something private and easy to use to share pictures and videos with my family. My extended family uses Snapchat and Instagram but we're concerned but privacy and tracking. Text chains? Whatsapp? What works for you and your family actually use?
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Title: As a Macbook Pro user for the past 4 years (previously linux-on-an-xps), I'm concerned that Apple's move to ARM with the next generation will make them non-viable as a daily driver for dev work. What are people's thoughts on their viability once the initial kinks are ironed out? If the answer is no: good 13" Linux-able laptop suggestions?
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Title: I've found a few interesting online courses while browsing "startup Twitter."<p>They're related to different topics, but here they are:<p>1. [Productivity] Building a second brain (https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/)<p>2. [Growth] Demand Curve (https://www.demandcurve.com/)<p>3. [Growth] Reforge (https://www.reforge.com/)<p>4. [Product] Hooked Online Workshop (https://courses.nirandfar.com/)<p>Do you know of other courses like these? (I guess what they have in common is that they're startup-related)
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Title: Sometimes I wished more people could know some of my amazing childhood songs which are unknown due to the language they are sang at and the country in which they became popular. I wonder are there songs like that in your country. Here are some of my personal favorites:<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mieEeD0Kfk
(Brit Olam/ Matti Caspi)<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE5cHysMf5o
(Hine Hine/Matti Caspi)<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV2rGPHvB8g
(Lakahta et Yadi/ Yehudit Ravitz)
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Title: This chart[1] from anandtech.com plots the impressive performance trajectory of Apple silicon over several years.<p>Of course, no technology is guaranteed to continue improving forever. The sustained performance gains reflect Apple's tremendous dedication and investment in the endeavor.<p>After the A11 chip, though, it became clear there was a non-zero probability that Apple could one day meet or surpass Intel.<p>Which begs the question: what underestimated technologies exist today that could overtake incumbent technologies within 5 years? Put another way: what technologies are in the A11 stage and not yet widely recognized for its potential?<p>[1] https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/perf-trajectory.png
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Title: I did my MS and PhD in agriculture but am looking to pivot into something that gets me out of the lab.<p>I'm now doing the NYC Data Science course (https://online.nycdatascience.com) but am getting concerned I may have missed the boat. What does HN think?
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Title: There is an "Are you depressed"-AskHN trending at the moment and I am glad that people are being reminded both that they are not the only ones having a problem and that it is OK to talk about it.<p><i>In case you are suffering from an actual depression (or suspecting that you might do): you definitely should talk to</i> someone qualified <i>and not take advice from randos on the internet. And be it a helpline where you can just dump your worries to and get ideas what to do about them.</i><p>So, this out of the way: what does actually you help to keep our mood up? <i>The cheaper, easier and more practical it is for most people, the better.</i><p>Among other things, activities that help me are:<p>- Going outdoors, somewhere where I do not need to be too careful, i.e. away from roads where I would need to pay attention to not being overrun, also not <i>too muddy</i> cart tracks where I would have to be careful not to step into puddles,... Just anywhere where I can more or less walk and look without anything requiring my attention.<p>- Doing sports feels very good afterwards, sometimes for days if the activity was intense enough. Running or walking might be the easiest thing to start, the latter does not even require comfortable clothes. Just go out and walk. Bodyweight exercises can also be intense and do not necessarily require any weights or machines. There are exercises that require no more than a yoga mat or a carpet to train on. Cheap and effective, imo. Check the web for details.<p>- Sauna (if you have access to one)<p>- Spending time for oneself if domestic bliss is lacking (running or walking is great as does not require one to justify why one would like to be for oneself).<p>- (Offline) reading is great, it really helps me focus on something and to silence other thoughts. This doesn't work with every book for me and I usually need to read into a few to find a good one.<p>- Anything that makes you feel in control to boost your (perceived) self-efficacy. (And be it something as simple as taking a pill of vitamine D each day because you are convinced that it might help you avoid a severe cases of Covid in case you ever catch it)<p>Other ideas?
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Title: Why doesn't the United States (and other democracies) require open source voting software for all elections? Software that can be externally verified and validated and that could reproduce the results of an election (given the voting data set). Why are citizens expected to trust private companies and closed source software to elect officials? All software has bugs. This fact is not disputed. Citizens should have access to inspect the software used during national and state elections. This should be a basic democratic right. Why don't we do this? Why don't people demand it?
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Title: With Firefox and chrome m1 releases do we think it will mean more updated builds for raspberry pi as well?
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Title: I'm a software engineer with a budget for professional development, I'm looking for a good way to spend it.
I'm curious what other people have found valuable, it could be a book, MOOC, conference etc
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Title: After working on too many projects in totally different domains, using different languages, how can one get rid of the feeling as if all these years' efforts are nothing more than illusion?<p>I feel as if the only thing I know is how to pick up any new stuff fast, but ultimately it's not gonna last.
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Title: I'm hoping to avoid an old-fashioned product-fanboy flame war, but I don't know any other forum that might notice the same things I've noticed.<p>I am a diehard user of Google Drive, Google Images, Google Search, Gmail, Android/Pixel UIs, etc. But over the past 3 years, I've noticed that these services are functioning more and more poorly, from lagged upload times all the way to increased delays between clicking a button in Gmail and rendering the next object. My Pixel 2 now has so many bugs I can't even keep track of them. The UIs and menus for all of these Google services get more and more hidden, convoluted, and inaccessible with every update. Google Search at this point is a joke, to be avoided unless looking for PDFs.<p>Am I crazy, or has anyone else noticed this trend over the past few years?
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Title: I've been programming for 25 years (since I was a kid) and worked in industry as a SWE for 13 years. The more I advance in my career and get exposed to more technologies and teams, the less interested I am in continuing.<p>I have taken some time off work recently to travel and unwind. Felt great at the end. Then I returned to work and quickly felt terrible: stress, insomnia, hard to keep up with everything.<p>I don't care anymore for all the constant keeping up with new developments, team project schedules, new technologies (never did actually), the lack of creativity and open-ended thinking, the lack of time to explore the world.<p>I have given a shot to working with talented world-class engineers, to learning new technologies, to developing on different tech stacks. I just don't see the value in that beyond the paycheck.<p>Is it time to quit tech?
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Title: Recently a bookstore near me that used to carry lots of interesting periodicals (including my favorite 2600) stopped all of them. So I have decided to subscribe directly. What are some of your favorite magazines/journals (tech and non-tech) that you love and wish would last for a long time to come.
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Title: My brother gave me a Raspberry 400 (starter kit) because he knew I'd geek out on it and really evaluate it.<p>If you give it fast enough "disk" storage it really moves. I plugged in a Kingston brand 120GB SSD on a USB3 adapter. hdparm -t gave 292MB/s read speed and the default LXDE environment was really crisply responsive, with even a first launch of Chromium taking less than two seconds. With such good storage, the only real limitation is that heavy Javascript stuff is too slow - 5+ seconds to switch between folders in Chrome, or for the thumbnail gallery to appear in Youtube. Also, video calling is marginal. Aside from that the CPU is fast enough.<p>Then I accidentally yanked a cable. And the SSD was bricked. I was able to unbrick it again with the long-powerup-without-data-cable trick, but plainly this setup is too fragile.<p>USB boot is a game changer. A junk drawer 8GB USB stick works just fine, aside from the fact that it takes many minutes to copy the OS image onto it in the first place.<p>An old 60GB SATA laptop hard disk in the same USB3 case that I tried the SSD in is pretty good. About like a decent SD card, but without the scary wear/corruption issues. I can post the brand (Can$14 on Amazon) and the workaround needed for its broken (or at least Linux incompatible) UAS.<p>Bluetooth Audio actually works. In the typical use case, with this thing plugged via HDMI/DVI adapter into an old junk monitor, you can use additional clutter, like a $3 USB headset adapter and computer speakers to get sound or at least plug in a headphone. But if you have a bluetooth headphone or speaker, you don't need cables at all. I can post the recipe that worked for me for this.
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Title: When you start to explore the workings of Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs, you eventually stumble across the file /Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta/rosetta.<p>This file contains a nice little haiku. Maybe some of the old "Think Different" spirit is still alive:<p>translation is done<p>as preferred long in advance<p>rosetta idles
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Title: I'm not talking about learning programming languages if you are already a programmer, but more like something totally different from what you do - like a new human language, new sport or music or any skill late in your life? 40s or later? If yes, what is it and how did you learn?
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Title: A few times a week, I like to pick up a copy of the FT, WSJ, etc. and read through them to come up with interesting ideas and projects.<p>I'm aspiring to do the same with sci-fi short stories... Reading them but also asking the question of, "How can this be built?"<p>What tools and tactics do you use to stimulate ideas and brainstorm?
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Title: I use mailgun to send transactional emails like email confirmation, password reset, etc.<p>I need to send a welcome email and welcome series set of emails to start. I can hand code this, I suppose.<p>But I want to also plan to handle more advanced drip stuff like as described in this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070375<p>Should I be looking more seriously at using a mixpanel partner integration? Are there any self-hosted open-source projects that integrate with mixpanel data pipelines for doing this kind of thing?<p>I signed up and implemented Mixpanel, expecting to use their messaging feature to trigger sending welcome, drip and other prompting email flows.<p>However, that product has been deprecated and they want you to use one of their integration partners now.
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Title: In the last job I have gotten a lot of autonomy. I have been the only full-time engineer in a small team. My task was to create a machine learning model ready for production and to design and start work on the product integrating the said model.<p>I have felt that the team trusts me to do the job and therefore I decided that my time will be used best by applying myself to the actual development. I neglected meetings that seemed unnecessary and reduced one-to-one communication.<p>I have set up tools to monitor my progress with the model (like tensorboard and sacred[1]), kept meticulous issue-tracking and a well-maintained repo on Gitlab. I also have been writing short semi-regular reports on the progress of the model (current issues, things to try and test, current metrics and suggestions for the development). It turned out, no one has ever reviewed any of the above and the team relied only on my summaries during short, semi-regular meetings. My ways of communicating turned out to be mostly inaccessible to people without engineering background!<p>As a result I was accused of slacking off and was deemed not worthy of any equity in the newly formed company [2]. I believe that my biggest mistake [3] was lack of proper communication of my progress and complexity I was dealing with. I was also unable to convey why some things take more time than expected during modelling or software development (like data processing, writing unit tests, etc.). Hence, my questions: How to effectively communicate the progress to non-engineer team members? How do I set reasonable expectations when the team expects development time to be closer to a hackathon project than a maintainable and certified product? How do you explain the complexity and gotchas of the work that needs to be done?<p>[1] https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred<p>[2] I resigned as a result (still working on the project until the end of the year). I am now transitioning to freelancing.<p>[3] There were other issues on both sides too of course, but not pertinent to my questions.
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Title: My team validates startup ideas using Reddit. It has 1.5B visits a month, so it can be fast and accurate.
With this approach, we launched 5 projects, including a "cash cow" Email Verification Add-on and a recently launched micro-saas Silent Inbox.<p>Here is how I research subreddits and evaluate them for ideas validation.<p>- When I have an idea to validate I write down at least 5 keywords related to it. Example terms I used last week: “meditation”, “breathwork”, “breathing technique”, “anxiety”, “stress”. Enter one keyword at a time into the search bar and it will give you a list of subreddits where your keyword is mentioned.<p>- Find at least 5 subreddits with people who discussed your topic. Make a copy of my spreadsheet [1]. And collect information about the number of readers. Pro tip: don't waste your time on subreddits with less than 10K readers.<p>- Go to Related Subreddits by User Overlap [2]. You need to check every subreddit you found by searching your terms to get more ideas on when your potential audience is hanging out.<p>- Read posts within each subreddit to see if people might be interested in your project. Add subjective relevance to the spreadsheet, where 10 is for super relevant subreddit.<p>- Once all numbers are added to the spreadsheet, sort your list of subreddits based on the Score it calculates for you. Congrats, now you are ready to pick the most relevant subreddits, plan content, write a title, research the best time to post, etc.<p>If you're keen to learn more about the topic, check out our guide https://guide.opryshok.com on validating project ideas using Reddit.<p>Resources<p>[1] Reddit Evaluation Spreadsheet by Ryan Luedecke https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IjgpzGBgZF9L9dVKkUrC7tE_AkPErApK_fJazsTNIP4/edit#gid=0<p>[2] Related Subreddits by User Overlap https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
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Title: I've noticed that now some timestamps have a full stop at the end. Like some of the submitted articles on the front page now say "2 hours ago.". What does that mean?
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Title: Everytime I start a new project (i.e. weekly) I go looking for a clean and beautiful html template. It's always sooo hard to find some. What's your go-to for clean html template?
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Title: Document exempting MOOCs from Iran sanctions is here [1] in part (iii) It clearly exempts Iranian students from sanctions for undergraduate MOOCs and some more.<p>Coursera does the same. As an important contributor to education access, I expected more than indiscriminate banning of people, because of the country they are in <i></i>while the law allows it specifically<i></i>. Especially that is more important for Iranians under current the government.<p>It is important to be informed, the other option is to fall victim to the propaganda fed on national television to us every day.<p>For more context refer to list of sanctions and exemptions of Iran in treasury.gov [2] Iran License (No.G) contains more context.<p>[1] (https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/iran_glg.pdf)
[2] (https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/iran-sanctions)
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Title: I see non-quant trading methods regularly bashed here, so was wondering if there's any short term traders (< week) on HN?
As this is an eng-heavy crowd would be interesting to hear you story and what kind of analysis you do (not expecting too much detail of course!).
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Title: I am not good in marketing, growth hacks etc, like to improve my skills. Would you please suggest some great books for getting first few customers for a startup ?
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Title: I seem to constantly have 1-2 large ideas in my mind that I chew on in the background, which seem to arise (or give way to something bigger) from reading or a lengthy discussion with a coworker or friend. For example: "what is the best way to organize a liberal democracy of >100M citizens?"<p>I'm wondering if there is an approach people have that best helps to organize, prune, and work through large, fundamental ideas such as these that they'd be willing to share.
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Title: I'm currently going through a bit of a struggle with what I do. I've been programming for over 20 years now and in that time I've explored a lot of corners of software development and computers in general.<p>I started with C/C++ and wrote games and played around with game engines. I learned PHP and SQL to generate basic "dynamic" sites. I learned Python and wrote commandline tools and Qt applications. Moved to Flask/Django to create websites and extended my knowledge with JS, React, and learned how to set up servers. I played around with security, reverse engineering, exploit development, web hacking, and malware analysis. I'm learning Elixir now. I've dicked around with arduinos, raspis, and simple circuitry. I've put in place devops processes and tools where I work. I dabbled with image processing, VR, and interactive experiences. Yet I wouldn't consider myself particularly knowledgeable in any one of those things.<p>There's people who find their niche and they learn more about it each day and never tire of it, but I can't seem to find that thing myself. At work I often do a number of different things, so again, I'm not solely focused on one thing.<p>The biggest issue is that it makes looking for work difficult as I can't say I'm an expert in say micro services, or I'm a React pro, nor that I am an expert Python developer.<p>Apart from saying you're a "generalist", how do you best sell yourself when you don't have a specialisation or a specific area you are focused on?
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Title: Since it’s Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought it would be nice to say a big thank you to dang for his tireless work moderating HN.<p>Thank you dang. You keep this community vibrant and interesting, yet civil.
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Title: I’ll be here for the next 2.5 hours and then again at around noon until the end of the day. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!<p>Previous threads we've done: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts</a>.
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Title: The first stage of the new http://thi.ng website is live, an up-to-date & hopefully more useful springboard to the 250+ projects and overview of my opensource activity since 2006...<p>Work is ongoing, collecting & re-organizing projects, assets, documentation and extracting interrelationships (incl. older work & music projects (e.g. http://thi.ng/synstack related), clients/people...). Aim is a proper archive of the past 20+ years of outputs & encounters.<p>This is the first website update since 2015. As the timeline visualizations show, building(http://thi.ng) > marketing(http://thi.ng) - maybe unusual these days, but hey... :)<p>The entire site is generated w/ tools from the http://thi.ng/umbrella collection, e.g. http://thi.ng/egf (graph file format), http://thi.ng/csv (semantic CSV parsing), http://thi.ng/transducers (functional data transformations), http://thi.ng/defmulti (multiple dispatch for template engine), http://thi.ng/hiccup (HTML/SVG generation), http://thi.ng/viz (timeline visualizations), http://thi.ng/color (heatmap gradients)<p>There's also a massive spreadsheet (148k cells adjacency matrix) to centrally define & manage the 570+ tags used to categorize the 257 projects/repositories and to batch update their package files (edits ongoing, much fun!). The tag/project relationships are compiled into an HTML list with project IDs stored as base90-encoded data attributes for each tag in the tag cloud (http://thi.ng/#tags)<p>The timeline visualizations are generated directly from local Git repos, package files and associated metadata stored in a number of linked http://thi.ng/egf graphs. The site toolchain will be released in due course...<p>Last but not least, any constructive feedback (good or bad) is very welcome! The next phase will include more individual project details, images, making-of docs, videos, xrefs etc. Currently, just a step in the right direction...
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Title: I’ve worked hard in the tech industry for the last eight years and have saved up a nest egg. In addition to that I recently sold my house which means I literally have $1M in my bank account right now.<p>For so many on here that is not too much money, but for me and my bg, I feel more fortunate than I ever could have dreamed of being.<p>I like my job, but it’s stressful. My dream is to use this nest egg to make investments that will grow the capital and allow me to live off of it.<p>Am I jumping the gun? Is $1M not enough? I’m sure I could get way more money if I endure more years of my job, but I so want a break. What are the chances of taking $1M and investing so that I don’t <i>have</i> to work anymore?
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Title: In any field that “interesting” to HN
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Title: The recent PG essay on thinking received a lot of comments about survivor bias.<p>It seems the value of survivor bias awareness is realizing the need to compare crashed planes to the survivors.<p>There's clearly potential for mismatched incentives when VCs are talking to potential founders, just like there's a mismatched incentive for armchair analysts to justify their inaction.<p>So, founders who went for it and failed enough to quit, what happened?<p>What was the actual point of failure?
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Title: I'm non-tech but am developing an app.<p>Right now, there is a language barrier between the developers and myself because I don't know the jargon. I say something and they think its something else, I try explaining how it should work, they fix it and it's not fixed.<p>It's inefficient and I feel ignorant for not being educated/able to efficient communicate. Can you make any recommendations of courses or where I should start?<p>I think starting with computer science (anatomy of a computer, history of computing, etc) and then moving into Java is probably the way to go.
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Title: I have a topic I’d like to write about. However, I’m getting lost In the weeds and failing to structure my content in an easy to consume way. What are some great resources to learn writing blog posts / articles?<p>I’m actually open to pay for a professional coach but not sure how to find a good one. Suggestions are welcome!
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Title: There was a question for the top courses on coursera yesterday, but I was wondering what are some of the good courses from Udemy that would be interesting to the HN community?
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://findwork.dev/?source=hn" rel="nofollow">https://findwork.dev/?source=hn</a>, <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnhired.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.com/</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>See also: <i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266287" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25266287</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: Nobody was able to tell me why, but after a few days of trying to place an order customer service was able to identify the reason I could not place an order was because I had a protonmail account. If you are trying to order from levono and you are unable to, this may be the reason.
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Title: It's easy to point to good beginner material like CS50 for example. But what about more advanced topics for non-beginners?
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Title: In IT circles I've noticed that whenever there's any discussion around Smart TVs, someone will usually say they buy a Monitor or Digital Signage TV instead as they don't have smart features.<p>This would be to avoid adverts, viewing habit tracking via content ID tracking or just running software without security updates on your network.<p>And inevitably someone will say that they'd heard that Smart TVs will connect to unsecured WiFi networks in proximity and start uploading your data.<p>This seems like something worth reporting to regulatory authorities at least. And also would be quite interesting to understand how it works.<p>But I've never heard of any specifics.
Like what brand does this? What data is it trying to send?<p>It's easy to spoof a public hotspot and then at least identify what domains it tries to connect to.<p>Failing that there might be information gleaned from wireshark.
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Title: Throwaway to share a cautionary tale about contract chicanery with Snowflake to protect our ID. In mid-2019, I started testing DWH providers for our small data stack. Did the free trial for on demand Snowflake after hearing how it is suited for smaller use cases. After a few months of using it, we had bills in the low hundreds range/month. Their sales rep reached out to sell us on a contract where we pre-purchase $10k credits on a yearly contract (their lowest contract at that point) where we can roll-over any un-used credits next year. I will emphasize here that the sales conversation, rep never mentioned anything regarding new purchases requirements with the roll over, and in fact portrayed it as a paperwork process to just continue the credits. The actual contract clause is pretty vague and just says unused capacity will roll over into the next contract.<p>Fast forward to now, we need to do our roll-over contract for our unused credits, which due to covid, we have over 90% unused credits because we had to prioritize other projects. Rep reaches out and informs us that we need to sign a new contract for $1k min. to roll-over our 9k credits and we would lose the 15% discount on the unused credits. Losing the discount is one thing, but having to purchase more just to keep what we have purchased was not at all how this roll-over process was portrayed at signing. The rep then said in fact there is a worse policy for newer customers where unused credits will only roll-over if you renew at the same price or greater only. I should count myself lucky that they had the decency to enforce this policy rather than their other arbitrary policy that is not mentioned anywhere.<p>If you are considering contracting with them and they are promising all these great things about discounts and roll-over, don't do it. I guess since their IPO, they no longer care about their smaller customers. There has been some chatter on HN about how Snowflake is worth so much, well...here you go.
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Title: Hi all! I’m connecting with product managers to understand more about the space. I make 30-60 minute interviews as part of some discovery research I am doing for a side project. I did an interview of a product manager in an enterprise and learnt quite a lot. Here are a few truths and titbits from it.<p>* Product management is a high velocity communication game. You are constantly working with customers, customer success managers, sales engineers, CXOs, marketing team, sales people etc.
* You can easily have a 1000 open tickets. You need to stay on top of which are in progress and what are the priorities.
* The customer may communicate with multiple people in your organization but ultimately it is your responsibility to ensure that their priorities are taken into consideration and addressed.
* Slack, Outlook in Office 365, Jira, and Zendesk are the goto tools<p>Here is the interview https://prodjeeves.com/transitioning-into-product-owner-role-interview/<p>I want to hear what the community says. What would you like to hear?<p>What would you like to ask other product managers? If you have some questions, let me know.<p>Otoh, I am also trying to understand the space. If you can spend sometime for an interview, please let me know. I would be glad to.
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Title: Are there any books that are considered a must for someone new to the field of philosophy?<p>I understand it is a vague question but it is a topic I have recently become interested in because of digging deeper into mental models. Mental models address a lot of 'practical' situations but I am realizing that they fall short when it comes to bigger questions of life.<p>What path did you follow to develop a personal philosophy?
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Title: Currently, I use GNOME on my tablet. While the general UI/UX and features are really good, its on-screen keyboard is inconvenient, buggy and not usable in terminal.<p>Is there any better alternative Desktop Environment (with Wayland support) primarily for browsing the Internet, reading e-books,... and occasionally typing in terminal?
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Title: Side projects, games, open source.<p>Previous threads:<p>2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18906094<p>2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479588<p>2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16815842
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