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Title: I want to read books that give me insights into other professions preferably something unrelated to and far from working in technology. For example, what is it like to work on a container ship or the life of a forest ranger. Memoirs with a bit of adventure are a bonus.
Thanks!
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Title: I value Hacker News' polite, curious forum culture, which has lasted much longer than I would have expected. Are there other forums with similarly high standards, but which are focused on other things (science, maths, psychology, art... whatever?)
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Title: I’m an avid reader. I have many books going at any given time. I’m also interested in reading articles and blog posts online. But when I spend my time reading articles, I sometimes have this thought at the back of my mind about using the same reading time for books instead. Do you have any tips and tricks on how you’ve build a balance in this?
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Title: I remember finding a kind of game on HN in which the player could press either the right or the left arrow button on the keyboard and the application would learn to predict the next move quite quickly.<p>Does anyone remember it's name, or better even, a URL?<p>Thanks!
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Title: I just saw this article (https://antipodes.substack.com/paul-graham-is-not-a-public-intellectual) that has now been removed from HN and also the Substack page shows a 404.<p>I read through the article, and while critical of Paul Graham, it wasn't out of line or insulting or something.<p>I'm also surprised that it got removed from Substack (which is a YC company) - not sure why the author himself would have removed it?<p>What's happening?<p>Edit: Yes, it looks like the author removed it from Substack: https://twitter.com/MichaelOChurch/status/1336033522327445504?s=20<p>But still worries me that it was flagged down on HN.
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Title: I guess it was inevitable <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219216" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219216</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/james_hilliard/status/1336081776691843072" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/james_hilliard/status/133608177669184307...</a><p>Hello James,<p>Thanks for writing in.<p>At the moment, credit allocation for OSS projects is on hold as per directives from management. Sincere apologies please.<p>We will provide updates once we get additional approval from management.<p>Thanks for your patience<p>--
MK<p>Your Friends @Travis CI<p>Test and Deploy with Confidence.
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Title: I know there are classics that get posted every time this question comes around, so bias them towards more recent ones :)
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Title: Saw [stateoftheart.ai](http://stateoftheart.ai) pop up a few times on Twitter - what do you think of it?<p>Seems super useful to find state-of-the-art methods across ML research areas and much better for doing lit review than Google Scholar?
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Title: It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong.<p>I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow.<p>My product is SongBox (<a href="https://songbox.rocks" rel="nofollow">https://songbox.rocks</a>) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.<p>I'm at a stage now where I've bottomed out all the work I've wanted to do and I'm looking for a fresh round of feedback. Would love you guys to check it out and see what you can think of.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I lost interest in my career several years ago, but now I think I’m just losing interest in programming in general. I sat down the other night to get started in a grand project I’ve been getting so excited about and I just couldn’t and this seems to be pretty common lately. The projects I dream up are super cool feats of hacker ability, but then much of what’s involved in doing it just feels tedious and I know I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap. Most of the time these days, my projects always get delayed for one reason or another. Normally it gets expensive or it requires me to be good at something I’m just not, or I just get stuck on something where I have no idea where to look for answer because it’s so indescribably niche. Of course, as in the example I stated earlier, I look at the boilerplate involved look at the code required to do what I want I my brain just shuts off and my eyes glaze over. I’ve never been particularly good at anything, but at least I was somewhat driven in the past. Now, I can’t even get to work on the projects that do interest me. I lose motivation too easily (i.e. if I see someone working on something cooler). Most of the times my projects end up “delayed indefinitely”<p>This isn’t a case of getting out of my comfort zone and trying other subfields either. That’s what I’ve been trying to do for 2 or 3 years, but nothing really interests me and the things that do... well, refer to the previous paragraph. The most recent project is very wide and covers many things, but I constantly lose and gain interest on it before even starting any work.<p>Sure I have things outside programming that interest me, but nothing conductive to hands on, hobbyist work, do at best, I’m stuck passively consuming content related to those.<p>So I’m not sure what to do now. How can I get the spark I used to have back,
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Title: Summarizing, after a nice adventure at a startup, I'm quite tired of it. My main issue is I have a lot of decision power in this company (without being in a management role), and I know that I cannot just move to another company and do what they say. I want to have something truly mine.<p>I am going to create a mobile game. I already have friend who is a graphic designer (and a gamer). We are pretty excited about some ideas and mechanics we've been exploring. I don't want to create "yet another RPG" that no one will play, but a "simple", entertaining game with a well defined business model and a well defined market target that hopefully will have enough traction to generate income. HN readers. I ask for advice! Some info you may find useful<p>- Country: Spain
- Runaway $: (Just for me, for living) 12 - 18 months
- Skills: Software engineer, programming mainly for Android and iOS, with a little of JS (Vue and friends) and a little of Spring + Big Data DBs.<p>Please share similar experiences, any advice regarding the project (still have not decided if Unity or Unreal Engine for instance) or just some encouraging words because I will need them.<p>Thanks!
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Title: > How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p>> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.<p>Also, for the curious ones, I asked the same question exactly a year ago:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I'm curious to know more about what automations people use day-to-day. Either cron jobs or other services?<p>Does it make your day easier?
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Title: The recent Apple M1 chip is faster and more efficient than the equivalent intel chips. Can someone with a better understanding of chip design explain to me:<p>1/ What specific design choices make the M1 so much better than the equivalent intel chips ? It looks like there are a bunch of changes -- 5nm silicon, single memory pool, a combination of high efficiency and high power cores. Can someone explain to me how each of these changes helps apple achieve the gains it did ? Are these breakthrough architectural changes in chip design or have these been discussed before?<p>2/ How did apple manage to create this when intel has been making chips for decades and that is the singular focus of the company ? Is it the fact that Mac OS could be better optimized for the M1 chips ? Given the design changes that doesn't seem like the only reason.
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Title: Been running Linux for years and one thing that has always been frustrating is finding my laptops have either woken themselves up, or won't go to sleep.<p>The majority of time they do work as expected, but maybe 20% of the time they don't, is there a logical explanation for this?<p>I've had Macs and PCs which don't seem to suffer from the same issue.
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Title: I want to get better at marketing my side projects when I finish them so more people can use them. For example, I built Hacky, a free iOS Hacker News app, and I'd love to get it in front of more people.<p>Outside of posting on HN, Indie Hackers, Reddit, or paying for Ads, I'm not sure where to get started on marketing.<p>What are your best tips or resources when it comes to marketing? How did you learn how to market?<p>Link to Hacky for those interested:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-hacker-news/id1459946382
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Title: I’m looking at finding my next software engineering position. I’m based in U.K. but don’t want to be restricted to just U.K. companies so I’m looking for remote positions too. There seems to be a ton of job sites out there now, does any one have any recommendations for which ones are worth the time signing up for?
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Title: I just had lapriscopic surgery and was put under anesthesia for the procedure, upon waking up my throat and voice are totally messed up. My normal deep voice now sounds like Mickey Mouse's and it hurts to swallow. With all the advancements in medicine and especially during the current pandemic it would seem an opportune time to develop a less damaging breathing tube which I suspect currently is just a piece of vinyl or silicone. After my experience I would be more than happy to kick in a few dollars to support the development of a better tube, possibly made of a more natural material grown in a lab. I figured I would ask if anyone is working on this problem. Thanks.
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Title: I know the policy doesn't really exist anymore, but I still like the idea a lot in principle (for large and financially secure startups, say 1k developers and up). Just wondering what Xooglers and others think about it.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>The discussion pops up regularly about which MOOCs and courses to take so I figured I'd start a curated list of recommendations. It's by no means exhaustive (and it's just the ones I know) and is quite broad.<p>If you had any suggestions, feel free to create a PR or Issue, or even respond to this post and I will add it.<p>I'd love to be able to capture quality somehow, but not sure of the way to go about that just yet.<p>https://github.com/tombasche/professional-development
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Title: Does anybody have any tricks to prevent eyestrain in day to day computer use?<p>* lighting position
* Screen brightness
* position to windows
and many more I am sure.
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Title: various services are broken<p>- youtube returning error<p>- gmail returning 502<p>- docs returning 500<p>- drive not working<p>status page now reflecting outage: <a href="https://www.google.com/appsstatus" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/appsstatus</a><p>--------------<p>services look to be restored.
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Title: I'm trying to log my time via timer app (manually switching it on when I code). Plus I use an app which checks what apps I use every minute.<p>It turns out that:<p>- I barely can code for more than 4 hours per day<p>- I have max. 60% of "productive" time, which means that 60% of time apps like IDE are open. The rest goes to random stuff, like messaging/youtube etc.<p>So I'm curious. I know that there are tons of articles saying that you can't be productive all the day.<p>But what's in real life?<p>Are there any persons who can work, say, 8+ hours? I mean, really work, not be at office.
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Title: I have little service for personal use, and I was considering opening it up to a general audience. Right now its processing some of my personal data for fun little personal report, in particular chat data. Since its information I have access to already, I don't mind running the program locally.
What I would like to be able to do is run an analysis for anyone and return the little report that I get for myself. Without having access to their data or storing it in the first place. I know with for example oauth scopes, you can grant access, which sort of fits the criteria. But I'm thinking more exported data from an application, that doesn't have delegated access functionality<p>How I envisioned a solution would be some trusted third party takes my analysis script, returns the report and that is it. I never see the underlying data and recieve only one time token to access it.<p>I know it will never be hundred percent leak proof, and there is still a level of user trust, I realise that, but just thinking conceptually, is there any existing service out there, that does such a thing or attempts to offer something similar? Or what would an alternative approach look like?
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Title: Back in 2010 I had an idea for a service that would allow people to easily create semi-permanent email aliases so that they could give an email address to people and websites without revealing their real email address. These aliases will continue to work indefinitely unless you choose to block them.<p>My brother and I spent a few months building the initial version and launched the website in July 2010. For the first year we had about 50 signups per month, by 2013 this had increased to 1500 and it's currently around 3500 per month.<p>Similarly, our revenue grew consistently but slowly - doubling about every 18 months, reaching its current level of around $8k/mo.<p>Over this time we redesigned the website, and found a company to create an explainer video for the service (both through 99Designs).<p>We have not spent much on paid user acquisition, we experimented with it a bit a few years ago without positive results. I think the difficulty is that some user education is required for them to understand what the service does and the value of it.<p>The website is called 33Mail (<a href="https://33mail.com/" rel="nofollow">https://33mail.com/</a>).<p>My plan is to spend the next few weeks focussed on trying to accelerate 33Mail's growth, in particular I want to try Google and FB advertising, and we've also been thinking about setting up an affiliate program through something like Commission Junction.<p>But before diving into that it would be really helpful to get some feedback and suggestions, it can sometimes feel like we're too close to it to see it objectively.<p>I would be super grateful if you guys could take a look at it and see if any suggestions come to mind.
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Title: There are multiple versions of Lisp. Multiple compilers. What is a good one for someone new to pick?<p>I use VS Code and Vim. Are they suitable for learning Lisp?
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Title: The question about successful online business has been asked a few times in HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332072, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535)<p>I'm curious about non-SaaS business models because nowadays with all the press that SaaS gets other viable business are not heard about often.<p>> How many people on hacker news are running successful non-SaaS online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p>> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
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Title: This is a legit question and not a rhetorical/troll question. My own opinion is negative of them, and I wish they did not exist but that does not mean others are not allowed to work there or do not have different opinions. However, I am curious, is the work interesting? Is the pay too good? Or do you feel that there is no negative impact of Facebook on the world and humanity in general or that its positive influence outweighs the negative?<p>Id love to hear why people stick it out there when there are many other companies that could pay as good or provide more fulfilling (again, subjective) work for less pay.<p>Edit : For context, I thought of this when I read about the ad Zuckerberg put out against apple recently, which is obviously far from the truth/false.
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Title: All examples are compiled with -O3 for x86-64.<p>https://godbolt.org/z/PYxz55
(GCC 9, 10, 11)<p><pre><code> xorl %eax, %eax
movl $0, -24(%rsp)
movw %ax, -20(%rsp)
movabsq $72057594037927935, %rax
movb $0, -18(%rsp)
andq -24(%rsp), %rax
salq $8, %rax
movb %dil, %al
ret
</code></pre>
https://godbolt.org/z/8njqn1 (GCC 9, 10)<p><pre><code> xorl %edx, %edx
movl $1, %eax
movb $2, %dl
movq %rax, -24(%rsp)
xorl %eax, %eax
movq %rdx, -16(%rsp)
movdqa -24(%rsp), %xmm0
pinsrd $3, %eax, %xmm0
movaps %xmm0, -24(%rsp)
movq -24(%rsp), %rax
movq -16(%rsp), %rdx
ret
</code></pre>
https://godbolt.org/z/sronaG (GCC 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)<p><pre><code> movq %rdi, -24(%rsp)
movq -24(%rsp), %rax
movq %rsi, -16(%rsp)
movq -16(%rsp), %rdx
</code></pre>
For each example, two movs and a ret (and no stack access) would suffice.
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Title: Hi HN! We are Jake [jakemoshenko], Joey [jschorr], and Jimmy [jzelinskie] of Petricorp (<a href="https://petricorp.io" rel="nofollow">https://petricorp.io</a>). We’re building authorization services that reduce the overhead of adding a complex authorization policy to your apps and internal resources.<p>We’ve been building developer services and tools for over 15 years, and throughout that time we’ve repeatedly run into the problem where whatever authorization solution we pick for a new service at first, turns into a major limitation later down the road. Relational database backed libraries like the ones found in popular web frameworks have proven inflexible and a scaling bottleneck, and distributed policy engines such as Open Policy Agent [1] turn the evaluation scalability problem into one of distribution and consistency. In the past, we’ve even had to shelve product features because the effort required to safely alter the policy and migrate the data was higher than the value of the feature!<p>To solve these problems we’re building a multi-tenant SaaS platform based on Google’s Zanzibar paper [2], which allows for flexible tenant-defined policy, at planet scale. This new platform offers the consistent experience of a centralized auth solution, with the scalable nature of a distributed system. By taking on the operational overhead of running the platform ourselves and providing users with client libraries that reduce complexity, we're shouldering the burden to enable authorization decisions that are fast, accurate, and accessible across applications.<p>Today we’re launching our first product integrated with that platform: ShareWith (<a href="https://sharewith.io" rel="nofollow">https://sharewith.io</a>). ShareWith brings Google-docs style sharing to anything that you can run behind a reverse proxy or authenticate with OpenID Connect (OIDC) [3]. We think ShareWith is a great alternative to VPNs, which are hard to set up and configure, hard to federate access to, and don’t allow for fine-grained permissions or sharing with people outside of your organization.<p>We’ve already found a few interesting uses of the service: We secure traffic to our own internal dashboards by running them behind OAuth2 Proxy [4] instances configured with ShareWith. Other companies are using it to avoid building the boilerplate for adding sharing and permissions into their products entirely!<p>Because organizations in ShareWith are billed per unique participants that have had resources shared with them, the pricing model shouldn't inhibit protecting new things. Adding another service or adding an existing user to a new service doesn’t impose any additional cost.<p>ShareWith website protection is implemented using an extended OIDC provider. Normally, an OIDC provider is responsible only for returning an identity. Our provider will also match up a given access request with a pre-designated authorization requirement, and then check that the requestor has had that access shared with them. If not, we will pause the authentication flow and give them an option to request access, which notifies the owner: a familiar pattern to anyone who has ever had to request access to a document.<p>Underneath the hood, we are making dozens of requests to our platform, from writing and updating policy, to the individual access control checks. To answer an authorization check request, we first build a graph containing edges and nodes from both the policy and the individual relationships between users, groups, and resources. We then take that graph and attempt to find a path from the resource to the user. Once a path is found, or no such path can be found, the service informs the caller of the decision. Thanks to the distributed nature of the service, these answers are quickly computed by building and evaluating subgraphs in parallel, and each piece of data is replicated to ensure reliability.<p>Try out what we’ve built so far by following our guide (<a href="https://sharewith.io/first/" rel="nofollow">https://sharewith.io/first/</a>) to protect an example service. If you want updates from the team, be sure to sign up for our mailing list (<a href="https://sharewith.io/newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://sharewith.io/newsletter</a>) or follow us at <a href="https://twitter.com/petricorpio" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/petricorpio</a>. If you're interested in integrating with our underlying authorization platform, you can reach out to us directly at [email protected].<p>We've learned a lot building ShareWith, but now we want to hear what you think about what we’ve built so far, and the direction in which we’re heading! We’ll be hanging around in the comments today if you have any questions or feedback.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.openpolicyagent.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.openpolicyagent.org/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/" rel="nofollow">https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://openid.net/connect/" rel="nofollow">https://openid.net/connect/</a><p>[4] <a href="https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/" rel="nofollow">https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/</a>
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Title: Having a few spare minutes this morning when I stumbled across the BAT wallet in my Coinbase account and decided to look more into it. As someone who regularly produces YouTube and Reddit content as well as content for my own site (which I often share here), it seemed like it might be worthwhile. So I've signed up. Obviously nothing yet, but I was interested in hearing from other publishers/creators/whatever who've signed up:<p>* Who is your audience?<p>* Do you receive any BAT?<p>* How much of your audience appears to be using Brave and are contributing BAT?<p>I'm going to use Brave for non-work things for the next week or two and buy about $15 worth of BAT so I can help contribute to this little experimental attention economy.<p>Thanks for reading/answering.
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Title: We (my cofounder and I) have built several startups previously and spent an unnecessary amount of effort on auth. This led us to build an open source alternative to Auth0 and AWS Cognito, that’s called SuperTokens. We’ve spoken to 100s of developers and startups to understand the pain points with current services and we hope you find this useful!<p>Why did we build this?
To be able to control our user data and have it stored in our own database.
Have certain customisations that other identity providers do not offer
We couldn’t afford to pay
It took too long to understand the documentation of alternate service providers<p>How are we any easier?
We think that Auth0, Firebase etc are great services but auth is complex. There are many different use cases for different types of apps. Since services have to cater to each of these, they tend to become complex in their implementation (due to no fault of their own).<p>SuperTokens takes a modular approach - making it possible to pick only the features you need for your use case. This means you need not worry about complications associated with other features (eg: SSO and OAuth if you don’t need it) and this in turn makes it easier to implement and manage SuperTokens.<p>We are still early in the journey and working hard on building more functionality.<p>Please see our website: <a href="https://supertokens.io/" rel="nofollow">https://supertokens.io/</a>
Our GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core</a><p>Do let us know what you think - specifically whether you would consider SuperTokens for your app. Why or why not? What can we change or offer?<p>PS: We did a "Launch HN" post earlier when our product was only for securely managing session tokens (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24306572" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24306572</a>). We realized we need to build more of the auth stack (signup / signin, social login etc) and hence we're excited to announce that we've built basic login functionality.
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Title: I interview a lot of people and in the past year that has included a lot of people laid off for COVID reasons. I've noticed that there is a big difference in interviews with people who have been laid off versus those who are searching while having a job - and that difference is confidence. People who have been laid off talk at me so much more than other candidates. They spend precious minutes of a phone screen trying to explain away why they got laid off or giving me a laundry list of achievements. Sometimes I don’t get to ask my full screening list of questions because they have spent so much time trying to explain every single project they’ve ever done. As a hiring manager, I get that these are tough times and lots of companies are laying off. I do not think it is your fault or that you are unqualified. I would not have taken the phone screen if I did not like your resume! Don’t hide the fact that you got laid off, but it’s much better to note it ‘Yea the company hit hard times and laid off a bunch of the workforce, but I’m really excited to talk about how your company is tackling XYZ.’ Then move us to a conversation about how we could work together. Paint a picture of how you could fit in at the company. Ask about what the challenges are that we have right now, then help paint a picture of how you could help solve them if you joined. The candidates who already have jobs tend to seem more self-assured and spend more time asking me questions or engaging me in conversation - and that is very appealing!<p>I know this may not be very helpful advice because I get that you need a job yesterday. It can be very hard to relax and be your best self in those situations, but if you can slow down a little and put yourself in the mind-frame of "hey they would be lucky to have me and need to sell me on their company" it will help you to come off as a better and more desirable candidate.
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Title: I wanted to share the status with the Owncast project. If Wordpress is your self-hosted version of Medium, then this is your self-hosted version of Twitch.<p>I've been little by little chipping away at building an easy to use and super useful live streaming server for individuals. It's still early days, but some recent updates include a dashboard where you can see some basic viewer metrics, configuration settings, and how your hardware is handling all that video crunching. We all know working with video can be intensive on the hardware side, so hopefully this helps people keep tabs on things.<p>There's a demo server if you're curious what it's like. But if you're a streamer, or even have a little interest in the space, I'd love for you to give it a spin. Feedback is highly appreciated!<p>If you want to learn more about the project check out the documentation, and of course all the source, issues and additional discussion are over on Github.<p>Demo:
<a href="https://watch.owncast.online" rel="nofollow">https://watch.owncast.online</a><p>Github:
<a href="https://github.com/owncast/owncast" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/owncast/owncast</a><p>Documentation:
<a href="https://owncast.online" rel="nofollow">https://owncast.online</a>
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Title: In the good old days (at least since online became a thing) I would have turned to the Usenet and would have got more or less meaningful responses within a couple of hours. When the Usenet started dwindling in relevance web forums took its place and eventually StackOverflow. But now it seems all these three places have become irrelevant<p>* The Usenet has become utterly irrelevant<p>* Equally web forums<p>* StackOverflow has archival value but for the rest it is a wide desert of 0-answer questions<p>* In my current case (an Android issue) even Google's own forum (<a href="https://groups.google.com/g/android-developers" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/g/android-developers</a>) appears to be only a honeypot to train their spam protection :)<p>So is there a place to turn to these days when someone is hitting a roadblock with a specific development issue or have they completely disappeared?<p>Thanks
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Title: I am a Ruby programmer with 10 years experience, based in Berlin, Germany, earning around 60k EUR. I also have some Python and JavaScript experience. I'd same I'm a mid-level engineer, not working on anything super trendy or complex. I'm in my 40s. I see lots of people on HN with salaries in the 100k region and above, but usually in the US. Is it possible for someone like me, staying in Berlin, to reach 100k EUR within a few years?
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Title: Been listening to the Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick today and it brought memories of the time when I didn't even have a computer yet but already knew everything I could get my hands on about computers and programming. Memories of excitement of tinkering with Pascal and later VisualBasic programming. Excitement from watching the Hackers movie, etc.<p>I haven't felt that way for a long time now and it saddens me greatly.<p>Nowadays, I am very pragmatic, and although learning new things is interesting, it's not the same.<p>Don't know if I can ever get that feeling back. Have you managed to?
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Title: I'm curious to hear about people who excersised their stock options at a startup and there was a liquidity event (i.e. acquisition, merger, IPO). How good was the RoI? Did you lose money?
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Title: I’ve been getting on the privacy and anti-tracking bandwagon big time recently and am looking to replace gmail. What are good email services that allow you to use your own domain name?
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Title: I wanted to share a project that I've been working on designed to help young kids go from reading single words to reading whole books.<p>My husband and I started spending a lot of time teaching our 5-year-old (Alex) to read because our school district is exclusively doing remote learning and I was skeptical that he could learn to read over Zoom.<p>We used flashcards (which Alex found boring) and then combined them into sentences (which Alex found interesting). But the sentence approach requires a lot of arranging pieces of paper and remembering which words you are working on.<p>So I developed 02books for my family and decided to share.<p>You can use it (no account required!) here: https://02books.app/<p>Github: https://github.com/sofignatova/02books<p>Thanks for letting me share - this my first real open source project!<p>Regards,
Sofya
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Title: I'd argue if this was 2010, the best thing to learn for the next 10 years would've been statistics and data science.<p>In 2010, if you were in the right places and looking at the right trends (Theano, ImageNet, CUDA, the explosion of available datasets), you could reasonably predict that machine learning would be a good investment. (and ironically probably one of the worst thing to get into right now due to potential bull-whip effect)<p>Now I fully understand that hindsight is 20/20, and that any new and untested technology will be highly uncertain. But if you're working on something exciting, could you make a pitch as to why your specific field would take off in the next 10 years and is a good time to invest in right now? Rust? WASM? Maybe even robotics?<p>(For my own prediction: I think something Application-specific integrated circuits are super interesting to look into for the next 10 years. The slowing of Moores Law and Dennard scaling, and the ever increasing focus on specialized hardware all points to that ASICS would become more interesting. Personally I know very little about this field, but it feels like the age of homogenous computing is over and the next 10 years could be an exciting time for be able to go `full-stack`)
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Title: It can be either hardware or software. For me,<p>1) Apple Watch. I have been moving a lot more since I got my watch. I also check my phone less often now.
2) Vari standing desk. Replacing my old IKEA desk with a sturdy standing-desk has been great.
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Title: I'm the technical co-founder of a pre-revenue startup. We were 51/49% to them and took a small round of pre-seed funding (~$100k) so our cap table is approx 40% for me and co-founder, 10% option pool and 10% investor. We have very standard shareholder agreements for 4yr reverse vesting with 1yr cliff.<p>My (non-technical) co-founder spent $10k to create the initial website over a year ago with the idea. I joined about 11 months ago and since then the idea has changed a bit, we've built loads of products, grown from 2k users to 60k users and continuing to grow due to dominating SEO for our niche.<p>Recently my co-founder said they wanted to work on it themselves. I said I didn't want to leave. They suggested I go down to 3% equity and they continue. I said they would need to buy out my equity at a fair price.<p>My co-founder doesn't have the money, and the business only has around $40k cash in the bank right now. My co-founder also won't entertain the idea of raising external money to buy me out, or monetizing the site right now.<p>To me this seems ridiculous as I'm literally just giving away my equity after spending 11 months building the tech and growing the business. Right now if we stuck adsense on the site, we'd generate $5k/mo, and we have inbound sales leads looking to spend upwards of $40k with us. Basically, the business is primed to make money.<p>They will not entertain the idea of me buying them out for cash.<p>What are my options here? It's basically being presented to me as "Take the 3% otherwise you'll own 40% of nothing". I don't really want any equity in the company at this point if I'm not involved.
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Title: He is 23 years old now and has completed all the required courses for an associates degree in computer science at the local community
college except for some core courses that are very language intensive. Some of the courses he has done is Java 6, Data Structures,
discrete math, computer architecture, Calculus 2 and Calculus 3 honors. His overall GPA is around 3.5. In high school, he took AP computer
science and AP Calculus and got 4. His language comprehension and communications skills are very low. We have been targeting his learning
from an examination point of view where he would learn at home and spit it out in the tests. It took lot of written practice for him to learn anything and do
well in the tests. So, he may not be able to code or program given a spec.<p>Since the start of the pandemic he has been home. Now we see that his skills are deteriorating and have started teaching him HTML/CSS and Python. Later on, thinking of introducing Selenium.
May be a long road, but the intention is to get him started on software testing. If practiced enough, he picks up on patterns.<p>Has always liked and built complex legos like architecture. We assume that is because of the clear instructions that comes with it.<p>Looking for suggestions on how we can help him. Any opportunities where he can be exposed to the work like environment and build his confidence.
Any jobs that would involve math calculations but not much social interaction? We fear he may not have focus for a long time for work, although
he has taken exams that have been four hours long with breaks.<p>Would appreciate any suggestions or advice. Thank you.
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Title: YouTube has been criticized for their recommendation algorithm which can often time recommend the same thing over and over.<p>This got me thinking about what makes it that hard to build a good recommendation system?<p>On my side, I'm currently working on a new way to do so. I called it Channel Tree. The goal is to start out with a list of YouTube channels provided by the user.<p>Then my software will go look for the channel section of each channels to look for other channels there. This has the effect of building a deep tree of different channels related to each other through the channel section. The user will only have to specify how many layers of the tree he would like to have so the algorithm can stop there.<p>Finally, you'll only have to look at the tree and look out for channels that may seem interesting based on who's the parent in the tree.
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Title: Cyberpunk’s reviews paint it as a tire fire. I think it’s a fun game, but it doesn’t live up to the expectation - it’s not the next Witcher 3.<p>There are many examples of overhyped releases: Duke Nukem Forever, the Matrix sequels, etc. What got hyped and actually delivered?
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Title: If there was one book you’d recommend for everyone to read over the Christmas break. What book would that be?
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Title: I referred a friend to TripleByte in 2017 back when I was actually using the service. He received an email a couple of days ago claiming I referred him again. I've submitted an account deletion request so my friends stop getting spammed but figured I'd let you all know.
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Title: 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858866<p>2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18740939<p>2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16045859<p>2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239<p>Ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762<p>It's been a weird year, wonder if there were still good tech talks in 2020.
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Title: More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings?<p>Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest .<p>Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not image search
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Title: For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job<p>1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver<p>There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.<p>What's on your 'to watch' list?<p>[1]<a href="https://hasura.io/" rel="nofollow">https://hasura.io/</a><p>[2]<a href="https://strapi.io/" rel="nofollow">https://strapi.io/</a><p>[3]<a href="https://www.forestadmin.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forestadmin.com/</a><p>[4]<a href="https://www.appgyver.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.appgyver.com/</a><p>[5]<a href="https://www.integromat.com/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.integromat.com/en</a><p>[6]<a href="https://nodered.org/" rel="nofollow">https://nodered.org/</a>
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Title: I have a B.S. in Computer Science. Having worked two years, I've absolutely found i hate working under people in an office environment. I've hopped across three companies, I'm growing miserable and finding I dont enjoy this whole CRUD MVC business logic type of work. I'm tired of fixing leaking pipes in mediocre code bases by people who aren't passionate about what they do. I also find app development to be plain uninspiring and am constantly biting my tongue.<p>I want to develop a JS interpreter, a simple game engine, or even an app of my own interests. Can these sort of projects lead to more distinguished roles? Or do I just have to work my way up for the next 20 years under bland government contractors and health insurance companies?<p>This is not what I wanted in life. Do most people lie when asked if they like their job? People keep telling me to do what I live because bigger salaries aren't as important. That just doesn't seem realistic.
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Title: Could be related to product, management, industries, tech and such...<p>I'm now listening to:<p>- https://99percentinvisible.org/<p>- https://changelog.com/master<p>- https://darknetdiaries.com/<p>- https://hbr.org/2018/01/podcast-dear-hbr<p>(edit: spacing)
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Title: Mine was the audio essay on this episode of The Portal:<p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/39-admission-to-sugar-baby-u/id1469999563?i=1000486557613" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/39-admission-to-sugar-...</a>
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Title: Like many places, my job values dishonest harmony over honest conflict. The priority is always compromise and getting along, which results in design by committee, tons of wasted time, and generally low quality output. Of course, they don't say this explicitly, but actions speak louder than words.<p>I'm not in a place where I can leave my current job, and I realize that this is prevalent basically everywhere.<p>The issue is, I find myself essentially constantly walking on eggshells, unsure of when the situation calls for directness vs. being agreeable at all costs. This constantly delays projects and saps my energy, which negatively impacts the company, my career, and my happiness.<p>Are there any books HN can recommend that discuss this at high level? I'm not expecting a solution — but I'm hoping there is reading material out there that will help me understand and navigate this better.
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Title: I love asking new colleagues this question, figured I would open it here as well.<p>What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
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Title: Phones seem optimized purely for content consumption. One of the reasons I prefer using my laptop/desktop is that they are where I can create things. Music (DAW/VST ecosystem), code (compilers, editors, etc.), visuals (illustrator/photoshop/Final Cut). I would like a way to casually create things on my phone rather than consume them. For example, rather than compulsively checking my email or looking at HN, I'd like to update one of the synths in a song I'm working on. I'm open to the idea that desktop workflows will not translate directly to mobile workflows, and that the media I play with might be different (maybe I have to become a connoisseur of TikTok videos?) That's fine. I just want to create rather than consume. How can I do this on my mobile device?
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Title: Is it likely to be an IPv6 leak?<p>I setup the VPN server using PiVPN (Wireguard VPN)<p>For example, when I do a Google search, my location is correct at the bottom of the page.
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Title: I am not able to find out the Mastercard data analytics opt-out page; I know it existed: it was a webpage where you enter your credit card number asking to opt-out for their data "analytic".<p>Any idea?
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Title: I‘d like to aggregate the output of a few REST calls visually. What options do I have nowadays? Thanks!
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Title: It's been... a year, and the world trends disturbingly. Thank you to this wonderful community for providing an optimistic counterpoint to the gloom-for-clicks deluge parts of the 'net have become.<p>No matter what's going on, or what new catastrophe those around me are discussing, I know I can come to HN and find hopeful people, creative people, sane people, rational, intelligent, insightful, compassionate, careful people.<p>This place is special; a daily n=1 proof that healthy communities can exist and thrive, that ideas are discussed deeply and enthusiastically, and that at least some percent of humanity are engaged in building better things, for profit, for the world, or just for the sheer joy of hacking and finding things out.<p>At the end of a very long year, thank you.
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Title: A friend pointed out a bunch of the 'tell us about your successful side project' threads suffer from a survivorship bias. They're still great for inspiration, but I suspect we could learn a lot about challenges and wrong approaches from each others' failures.
So what's a side project you built hoping to generate revenue from it, that hasn't actually earned you much / any money?<p>Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be / what would you do differently if you did it again? How much time/money did you spend building it, and what kind of iterations / improvements did you make to try and salvage it?<p>Appreciate any and all answers!
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Title: How is it going so far? Drawbacks? What kind of work are you doing with it?
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Title: What's the best book you read in the current year, and why? For me it was Range, by David Epstein. The combination of surveys, research data, anecdotes, and the ease of reading was fantastic! It helped me see many things in a more positive light than I had before. What about everyone else?
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Title: What are your predictions for 2021? It's clear that 2020 was somewhat of a false start into this decade and has arguably completely changed everyone's lives for the long term. (If not permanently).<p>This time, it seems that my crystal ball is lacking inspiration for 2021 due to the uncertainty caused by this year.
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Title: Thanks to the mods and to all the members of HN for one of the bright spots of 2020.<p>So many submissions, so many comments. Most of all, so many intelligent discussions.<p>Also, so much guidance in how to live life - with curiosity, empathy and optimism.<p>Times, both bad and good, will come and go. Lives will be lived and time will move on. But seeing the humanism of people, in my humble opinion, is reason for hope for a better future.<p>Have a wonderful new year everyone!
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Title: Comments on Hacker News can be very well thought, I'm often impressed with the quality of discussion, although I don't participate much. I'm curious, what do you think was the most insightful comment of 2020?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>What is the state of recurring payments that most startups / companies use?<p>Been meaning to use Stripe for everything, but not sure why other competitors such as fusebill, chargebee, memberstack, chargify, recurly etc, exists or what their benefits are, not sure I even know the difference.<p>Do you use any of these in the list above or something else to handle recurring payments and how was your experience?<p>Thanks.
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Title: This question was asked 3 years ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535</a>) by mdoliwa, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays.<p>> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p>> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
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Title: I got contacted by someone wanting to buy the domain and was thoroughly surprised. It seems that the owner had it pointed to a Linode instance/IP which was then abandoned and was subsequently "inherited" by me.<p>http://unstoppable.com/<p>https://whois.domaintools.com/unstoppable.com<p>https://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=unstoppable.com
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Title: I need an opinion, I am a developer and in 2019 I built a tool for developers(it falls in collaboration tool category), I set this tool for free and during 2019 we gained around 15000 users, things were going smooth until Covid-19 came and our tool exploded in popularity.<p>We get around 20000-35000 new users every month and have around 400000 (Four hundred thousand users) in total, every month around 80000-100000 users use it actively. All the traffic was from Google organic and word of mouth, i recruited 2 fellow develops as co-founders and we spent the whole 2020 to develop the features and make it enterprise ready.<p>It is free until today and from 1st feb 2021 we want to launch a Paid version. Now we are not sure how to price our tool, we have 3 main competitors and the largest one have around 60000 users, but we marketed our service as a free tool. Now we are thinking about having 90% of the features as free and then offer a Pro/Enterprise plan with features like (SSO and integrations) etc in the paid plan.<p>The challenge is that there are 20-30 other tools poped up in last 12 months and most of them are copying our strategy of marketing it as a free tool. Now how should we approach this, if we go very hard on pricing and locking features we fear that our users will go to those free tools and our growth momentum will fall. On the other hand we also want to have reveneue and also want to reach 1 million users. Please give ur suggestions as I am very depressed due to this situation.<p>OTHER NOTES: we are a team of 3 developers and have 2 freelance developers, we have not made any money from our tool and received an equity free grant from Govt (In EU we have this option), we were approached by few investors, 1 want 30% equity for 250K USD(we said no), and other is waiting for some paid conversion. We have spent around 50K of our own investment and 75k from the grant until now, monthly infrastructure cost is around 3000 USD
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Title: Tying a OTP to an email appears to be more secure than the cluster that is remembering and managing passwords.
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Title: I see people note that they just leave it up and get hundreds of signups... Is this just survivorship bias?<p>I've tried writing and sharing a blog post on it and I've tried grinding via social media, but have had little luck.<p>Any advice?
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Title: Don't see much online but it's getting unusable for me
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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 lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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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>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632979" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632979</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632980" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632980</a>
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Title: What's normally the snappiest site on the web has been consistently taking ~5 seconds for each page load today. Extra traffic due to Slack being down, perhaps?
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Title: When you think of someone who has mastered the discipline of Software Engineering what comes to your mind?
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Title: I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010 and I thought this could be useful to resurrect.<p>You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.
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Title: Hi HN!<p>My son recently turned 7yo and I have successfully got him interested in programming. We started about half a year ago playing Minecraft and building more and more complicated automated machines. Recently I have added some robots that can be programmed in Scratch and now we have also started writing some simple games in Scratch.<p>I am not just trying to teach him programming but also show that with a bit of organization and working little bit each day you can achieve pretty huge results. So we created a very simple version of a game. I have then created a document where we are maintaining a listing of functionality we want to add. We then take them one by one, discuss how it can be added to the game and then tick off once it is done.<p>For Christmas he asked for some programming books ("how to make complicated Minecraft machines, how to write complicated commands and how to make mods").<p>We plan to do some more complicated robots and also make our own fun mods for Minecraft (as soon as I figure out how to hook up Scratch to recent version of it).<p>I am trying to not spend too much time on any given day (about 1,5h every day currently) so that ends up still wanting to do more.<p>I am also doing large part of coding myself and we switch who sits by the editor when he says he knows how to do something. I am trying to keep him enthusiastic by showing constant progress which I think is more important than that he actually does everything by himself.<p>I have 20 years of development experience so generally programming is not an issue for me.<p>Please, share your experiences, things that you have tested with your kids that did or did not work. Any tips you have personally tested.
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Title: (Throwaway account.) I work for a large software company on an on-call rotation that’s been getting more toilsome, and wondering if anyone has been in a similar place.<p>Like many SV companies, on-call isn’t compensated with the rationale that it’s part of your engineering duties. I buy this to some degree—someone does have to be keeping an eye on things—but it's complicated by sizable inequities across the org. _Most_ people have no on-call rotation, many others have a token rotation that’s ~never used, and only a handful of teams have rotations that are quite bad. Management has extricated themselves completely.<p>Things have been angling slowly worse. In a gambit to prioritize uptime over engineer time, we have more alarms, tighter tolerances, and a larger operation that generates more tail problems. Good for users, but not so good for us. Being able to sleep fully through the night is increasingly rare. There are some false positives, but most are not, and not easily fixed by more engineering.<p>Expected time to response has lowered to low single digits—theoretically, you should not be exercising or driving if you’re on. The scheme works because many engineers are in their 20s and willing to soak up pain like a sponge. Rotations tend to smaller over time as single people make backroom deals to get out, and new blood is added too slowly.<p>I’m not trying to get myself out, but want to effect some kind of change. IMO compensation or extra time off would be ideal—not only is it a nod to the cost of on-call, but it also make exchanging shifts easier by adding incentive beyond simple goodwill. The company could easily afford it, but probably doesn’t want to pay for what it can get for free.<p>I have frequent conversations with my manager and get token “yeah, we’re looking into it”s, but it’s obviously not a priority for anyone up the chain. Has anyone else been in a similar position? Are you paid? What did you do? Suck it up? Leave?
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Title: Is there any less known but cool places you want to visit one day? I would be interested to check out Yakutsk.
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Title: I am in the process of building my connections. I want to know how do you build your audience?<p>Please don't share tips. What I want to know is the actual process like how you grew from 0 to 10. Then, from 10 to 50. 50 to 100. and so on.<p>Like, What was the situation you were in?
1. What did you do?
2. Where do you post your blog or what did you do to help people?
3. What makes them hook to you?
4. How long did it take you to grow from 0-50?
5. Did you go through some pure luck by posting online or did you recognize some pattern?<p>Although I didn't really want to hear from luck, but I open for your opinion.<p>Thank you HN.
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Title: It's easy to buy a 3.5in USB floppy drive for $10 online. In contrast, I've seen 5in USB floppy drives, but they're not common. For example, this is a USB controller for $50 - you have to hook up your own drive and provide a housing.<p><a href="http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html</a><p>It's unsurprising there's less demand for them than 3.5in drives, but it seems like the difference in demand alone can't explain this gap. Is there some technical issue that makes manufacturing drives like this difficult? Or am I missing some other part of the picture?
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Title: As everyone must have seen today, facebook updated WhatsApps privacy policy to start sharing data collected from WhatsApp with other F*ckbook products.<p>I'd love to switch but by doing so I would be isolating myself from friends and family that use WhatsApps exclusively.<p>How would you go about convincing them to switch to something like Telegram?
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Title: Though would be also great to have a thread about open source positions available. What do you think?<p>Same structure as Ask HN: Who is hiring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632982 thread but please post only jobs that directly involve working on open-source project.<p>Please also include project repo link. (github/bitbucket/etc.)
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Title: Just got the e-mail below. Odd decision given the massive pandemic growth and recent launch of Azlo Pro.<p>Who has suggestions for migration? THX<p><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><p>It is with regret that I share this news today: Our parent bank, BBVA US, has made the strategic decision to close Azlo. Transparency is incredibly important to me and the Azlo team, which is why we are sharing the news early. There will be no immediate changes to your account or to your service.<p>As founders and entrepreneurs ourselves, we know that there can be unexpected bumps on the entrepreneurial journey. We’re sorry that we won’t be alongside you—our inspiring community of entrepreneurs—as you grow and flourish.<p>We want to reiterate that Azlo’s service, and your account, is not going away today, and we will continue to support you during this period of transition. We understand that you will have questions for us. Please stay tuned for updates and news.<p>With admiration,<p>Cameron Peake, Founder and CEO
The Azlo Team
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Title: Under lock-down some couples are spending together 24hrs/day, every day, even for months.
With restricted outside activities, how do you introduce variation and leave each other some space?<p>In my case: we work in separate rooms; we take walks together, watch movies and play chess sometimes. Not too much, looking for inspiration.
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Title: I understand that it’s not for everyone, but I’m curious to see which companies work that way. Would love to give it a shot.<p>Edit: @Waterfowl posted the specifics:<p>this article about how gumroad works was at the top of the front page yesterday.<p><a href="https://sahillavingia.com/work" rel="nofollow">https://sahillavingia.com/work</a><p>discussion<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275</a>
reply
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Title: Once upon a time Jack said that Twitter initially was very open in its early stages but eventually became much more centralized, and the scale of supporting such a centralized network in the future could be unsustainable. “Blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization,” he added. “Much work to be done, but the fundamentals are there.”
Are there any truly decentralized social communication tools/protocols to look at?
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Title: At my job, I have to deal with AWS on a daily basis. I feel like I need to learn AWS on my own to start proposing solutions to problems. How do you suggest to go about learning AWS to become proficient at it?
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Title: Hey @dang, I read this[1] and I’m still wondering if there is a plan to implement this?<p>[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
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Title: Release early, release often. Don't worry, be crappy. Fail fast. Iterate.<p>Show us your half baked, not really ready for prime time projects.<p>Also, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here.
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Title: I am currently working on a self-hosted image sharing platform as my January side-project (Will post a Show HN when it's done).<p>Can you recommend VPS providers that offer cheap/reasonable plans with big storage?<p>SSD is not needed for this.. I would even prefer conventional HDDs if that saves money/offers more storage. Processing power and RAM should also be secondary as long as it's enough to scale images in a reasonable time.
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Title: I see a lot of posts and comments here HN "predicting the inevitable" and I'm wondering what market strategies you are employing to prepare?
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Title: Would programming still look like sitting in front of VS code (and chrome tab open with stack overflow explanation for that pesky compiler error)? I hope not.
I like this quote from "coders at work"<p>"So I think one direction Erlang might take, or I would like it to take, is this component direction. I haven’t done it yet, but I’d like to make some graphic front ends that make components and I’d like to make software by just connecting them together. Dataflow programming is very declarative. There’s no notion of sequential state. There’s no program counter flipping through this thing. It just is. It’s a declarative model and it’s very easy to understand. And I miss that in most programming languages."<p>Do you have any interesting books / articles that discuss this topic?
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Title: I suffer a lot, and near the end of my ropes, need advice on how to handle it...
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Title: I imagine that the news about Parler having its plugs pulled both from app stores and AWS hosting has many of us thinking: what will it take to build a solution where that's simply not possible?<p>I know of Matrix, Mastodon, and PixelFed (and use the first two), but is there a 'facebook killer' in development right now?<p>My concern is that, while seizing control of social networking from big corporations is surely a great idea, it may be initially inundated (and thus, socially formulated) by the same whackjob culture that flocked to Parler from Twitter.<p>How can we ensure that balanced and healthy communities form on the decentralized web?
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Title: "Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder.
Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurturers, carers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep." - Tim Berners Lee.<p>Thank you for everything, Aaron.<p>--<p>Discussions at the time:<p>1. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5046845</a><p>2. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048820" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048820</a><p>Blog post in 2016 by Noah, Aaron's brother: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881413" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881413</a>
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