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Late to the Party 4 by couldbeanything | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am a programmer with about 1 year of experience in python. I think I am fairly good in this with some project in machine learning as well. Covid-19 messed up my college and did'nt pay attention to my computer science engineering bachelors subjects. With me being a new comer to this tech world, I realize I need to do my part with core concepts like, Hardware, networking, PC making, OS , microprocessors .. along with incorporating my learning in ML and other new technologies. My wish to learn the core concepts has nothing to do with any requirement with my current profession in programming. But I do feel like I lack core concepts and have this peer pressure to know these things, to be able to call myself a 'techie' . Has anyone ever felt this need to learn all these basics ? The quantity of this thing is so huge that I know cannot be achieved in a single month or two. And I know this also requires physical...

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Ask HN: What was your most memorable interaction/discussion on HN? 4 by hubraumhugo | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Locked out of Amazon accounts for a month 3 by nikolay | 3 comments on Hacker News. Suddenly Amazon Shopping asked me to change my password. I got authenticated, including with my 2FA, and picked a new password, but I keep getting server errors that something went wrong and asking me to retry later. I attempted on different browsers, the mobile app, incognito mode, etc. I kept trying this for weeks, hoping somebody would attend to the logging errors. Finally, I opened a ticket with Amazon Shopping, which has not been worked on for a month after being on the phone with them twice. Yesterday, I tried to use my AWS account and have a support plan for it but encountered the same issue. My IAM users and root user also experiences the same problems, and a password reset is mandated without explaining why. For whatever reason, Amazon has flagged all my accounts and IAM users as needing a password reset, and their password reset system does not work, and I'm locked out of everywhe...

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Ask HN: Are there any keyboard extensions easily attachable on a laptop? 2 by seansh | 9 comments on Hacker News. I don't mean external numeric keypads, my laptop already has that (and never used it). I mean just a few extra modifier keys (control, alt, super, etc) which can be easily attached on a laptop and reachable by thumbs. Take a look at the thumb keys of keyboard.io and you know exactly what I mean. This would be very useful for programming especially in editors such as Emacs, where you want your fingers to stay on the home row for faster typing but avoid using the small fingers to prevent RSI (Repeated Strain Injury). I've tried remapping the keys to move all the modifier keys closer to the thumbs, have tried some hacks with input-remapper [1] to redefine the keys for short-presses, long-presses, hold etc. and have tried Emacs key-chords. But I think nothing would beat having just a couple of extra keys reachable by the thumbs. Alternatively, are there any laptops whi...

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Ask HN: What keeps you busy on weekend? 3 by ooooak | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Nick Tredennick Passes 2 by drallison | 1 comments on Hacker News. July 29. Sue Tredennick, Nick Tredennick's wife, reports the sad news that Nick has died. Two days ago, Nick was riding his ATV from his office to the downhill barn. He had an accident and died. His Apple Watch called 911, but he was gone by the time the paramedics arrived, and the coroner believes that he expired immediately. He was always grateful for his career in a new and rapidly changing industry, and for the innovative people with whom he worked. Nick worked on a multiplicity of microprocessors, was a founder at Microprocessor Report, and was well known for his eloquently expressed and insightful contrarian views. Nick was a friend and colleague and will be missed.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.18.15 , 5.15.58 , 5.10.134 , 5.4.208 , 4.19.254 , 4.14.290 , and 4.9.325 stable kernels. As usual, these kernels contain important fixes throughout the tree. Note that the Retbleed mitigations have not been backported any further back than the 5.10.x series at this point. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/JkSDH4R via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you change your budget around a big raise? 6 by mainedotpy | 9 comments on Hacker News. Recently a side hustle went from 20% of my main job salary to about 100% and has held steady at this level for 3 months. The actual increase in work is trivial. Our lifestyle was already pretty comfortable and we were saving. I am struggling with how much of this extra cash we should feel good spending on unnecessary-but-joyful splurges such as fancy dinners, cleaning services etc vs how much of this windfall I should just be saving. I grew up lower middle class and do not have a great financial background.

Ask HN: Libraries You Enjoy Using? 2 by tmaly | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have seen a few threads asking for good code examples in various languages. I am curious if there are any code libraries that you really enjoy using that have a great public interface.

We shouldn't trust developer advocates 3 by SoftwareDev5 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I truly don't understand why people have a cult following for developer advocates. You shouldn't trust or use a product because a influencer who is getting paid by the company is telling you to. Developer advocates are literally wolves in sheep's clothing. Yes they are developers. Yes they are experienced with the product. But I'm pretty sure anyone would advocate for anything if they were getting paid 220K+ for it. I'm not saying all developer advocates are bad or untrustworthy. But a majority of them are just highly paid individuals who are paid to generate sales.

Successfully Installed Chrome OS Flex on CN60 Chromebox 2 by smallette | 0 comments on Hacker News. I tried to duplicate what "notyourday" described in this thread (5 months ago, see https://ift.tt/dhoEwnk ) and was able to successfully install Chrome OS Flex on an ASUS Chromebox CN60. His instructions were pretty much spot on but I do have a few comments: 1. Suggest creating boot USB first. It takes a while and you can be doing other things while that is going on. 2. Had trouble getting Ctrl D to work on my keyboard. Finally figured out I need to use a different (wired) keyboard. 3. Had trouble figuring out "-LO" in the the series of inputs while in text mode of Linux. To be clear the "O" is a capital "oh", not a zero as I had initially surmised. Always have trouble with that. And you can use the enter key between the three commands even though the instructions in MrChromebox.Tech say to only hit enter after third line is typed in. 3. I had to ...

Tell HN: If your IP is shadowbanned, even new accounts can not participate 3 by syracuse850330 | 4 comments on Hacker News. So, I got shadowbanned on HN. No big deal, everyone tells me: happens all the time, just get over yourself, and create a new account to be more constructive this time around. Eh, Okay...? So, I signed up as https://ift.tt/LRHc98z So far so good. Then I submitted https://ift.tt/aV2sIfi Which went through, except that I couldn't comment on my new submission, as before. And, guess what? This EXACT link was already submitted 3 days prior, by user-who-apparently-doesnt-violate-guide-guidelines 'indy' Was I told? No! Was I left to believe my duplicate link was submitted? Yes! Good job, HN modernazis! I have about 20 pills of benazipril left, which should do the job of getting rid of me for good. Bye!

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Ask HN: How do you practice self-care? 3 by justcuriouslol | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just curious what you do for self-care and wellness

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Doesn't “Turning up the heat” at Meta accomplish the opposite of intentions? 7 by jmatthews | 7 comments on Hacker News. Thinking through a high competence developer's situation where you still get legitimate high value offers vs. someone that "doesn't belong here". Doesn't Mark's strategy insure high performers at least consider leaving while "lucky to be here" clings for dear life?

Ask HN: Going All-In on Rust 5 by itsmefaz | 9 comments on Hacker News. I am a full-time engineer working for an MNC where the tech stack is Java / Python. Outside of work, I spend most of my time in competitive coding and teaching programming to friends/family. I am looking to transition to Rust for all my side projects (and possibly everywhere in the near future). I don't have any specific reason for this transition other than to move away from Java / Python. I want to continue my competitive coding practice and my side projects that are mostly low-level systems. I am looking to build a niche for myself and see Rust as an escape (something I can explore and grow with). I might be overplaying my hand here, any suggestions would be helpful. Is there anything to keep in mind before I take this plunge?

Ask HN: Why not allow adults to be adopted as “adult children”? 2 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. Such adopted adult children would be expected to take care of you as you get older and in return you would give them life advice and some/all of your inheritance.

Ask HN: Ideas for Late Career Reinvigoration? 3 by throwexaway | 1 comments on Hacker News. Throwaway. I'm a mid 40's developer (non-manager) who's worked at a gamut of companies (big cos, startups, self employment/contract, "fun" but low-paying gigs), in many problem domains, but mainly FAANG for the most of the last ~15 years. Close to being able to retire, but not quite there yet. I'm bored. I've done a bit of everything at this point, and it's starting to feel tedious. I don't care about title/level anymore. With various market meltdowns, the golden handcuffs are feeling less binding, and I'm feeling a bit more free to make choices career-wise, since at this point I'm fortunate in that I only really need to cross the finish line so to speak. I have no desire to leave software development - I'm not going to become a woodworker or teacher. After I retire I will still code as one of my main hobbies. But everywhere I look, it all seems...

Ask HN: Lesser-known sites for ebooks and audiobooks, as DRM-free as possible 2 by tusslewake | 1 comments on Hacker News. Interested in lesser-known places where people get ebooks and audiobooks. A few I use include: - ebooks.com, which offers epubs and pdfs of most titles available on Kindle, usually at a somewhat higher price than the Kindle format. - audiobookstore.com, which has a lot of audiobooks in DRM-free formats, usually both .mp3 and .m4b. Excellent reading quality, a good option if you care about archiving your audiobooks. With their monthly membership plan the prices are manageable. What about other people?

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Ask HN: What blocks you from switching your small-to-medium business to Linux? 9 by butz | 9 comments on Hacker News. Question for small-to-medium business owners, working primarily with office suite type of software (think Microsoft Office programs, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - what is stopping you from switching from Windows to Linux? I am also interested to hear stories about unsuccessful switch to Linux and why you reverted back to Windows.

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Ask HN: Are Large Language Models Like GPT-3 a Hype? 2 by behnamoh | 1 comments on Hacker News. LLMs keep getting bigger and bigger, but I still don't understand the value they provide to businesses and individuals. There must be a reason for MS to purchase the GPT-3 license for $1b, and Meta, Google, OpenAI, etc. wouldn't spend millions of dollars just to train these huge models. Yet, I don't get it. IMO, "AI through API" is a bad practice that sets a wrong precedence for the incoming AGI. It's basically a black box wrapped around another black box. In addition, the cost of GPT-3 and other models may be prohibitive for small businesses and startups. What is going on here? I see some similar patterns between LLMs and cryptocurrencies: both are super hot and receive billions of dollars, but neither has proven its use cases. Given the crypto bubble burst, are we going to witness an AI winter in the next few years?

Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason 8 by kag0 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason and would rather have you dispute with the credit card company than refund you. I encountered this and thought it was interesting. If my company had charged someone and found there was no trace of it in our system, I would be very concerned. But at Zipcar they seem to play it off as not a big deal. I wonder how much revenue they make from randomly charging people who don't notice. https://ift.tt/MzmXkWN

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Ask HN: Do you think Hacker News is missing any features? 5 by jarrenae | 9 comments on Hacker News. I use Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, and basically all the other social networks, but Hacker News stands out as a specifically targeted forum. I think of it as a subreddit basically. This piqued my curiosity; are there any major product/platform features that Hacker News should have?

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Ask HN: Increase Key Repeat rate on Mac OS beyond normal limits 4 by ggerganov | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey, I thought about asking here in case someone knows some hacky way to go beyond the Key Repeat limit of the keyboard on Mac OS. I already know about the command "defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 1" but it is still not fast enough. Any ideas or suggestions? For a video demonstration of the question check the videos in these 2 tweets: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1551619285943975937

Ask HN: Where is the best place to order quality t-shirts for employees? 7 by calderwoodra | 6 comments on Hacker News. Curious where others have ordered T-shirts from and what they thought of the quality.

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Ask HN: Does anyone want to take ownership of roundtable.audio? 9 by sethkim | 2 comments on Hacker News. In 2020, I built https://ift.tt/axFrDmK, and later an extension for Hacker News (https://ift.tt/9oDsaHh) which turns HN posts into audio chat rooms. I've since moved on to other projects, and am looking to see if anyone wants to take over the project, or remix it into something entirely new. The code is open-source and can be found here: https://ift.tt/zEmZfcu. I'm planning to shut down the current deployment at the end of the year if no one wants it. If you're interested, feel free to reach out! I'd be happy to spend some time intro'ing you to the codebase and can give you some technical and commercial ideas for how to extend it.

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Ask HN: How to pass a “Product Sense” interview? 6 by cgb223 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a Product Manager who's been applying for jobs recently and have had a good amount of interest from companies that I would be excited to work for. Each time I make it through the initial recruiter interview, then the casual chat with a PM, and then fail at the "Product Sense" portion of the interview. Now, I'm not new to being a PM, I've been operating in a Senior role at a Big-N tech company for 5 years, and over the course of that time brought multiple products from 0 to 1 to v2.0 that has netted us high 9 figures. So I'm in this weird place where I know I'm a decent enough PM, but for whatever reason the structure of the interview just isn't conducive for me showing my best self. These interviews are very open ended. The interviewer will suggest a hypothetical product or market that a hypothetical company wants to be successful in, and asks how you...

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Ask HN: Is top talent in software overrated? 5 by Victerius | 5 comments on Hacker News. What do you think about this imaginary argument between an unnamed corporation and an unnamed engineer? "Software engineers ask for too much, and we will lower our salaries to line them up with the rest of the non-technical staff." "That's a stupid decision." "Why?" "Software engineers are less replaceable than non-technical staff and are the most important people in your company." "We do not share the belief that engineers are any less replaceable or more important than non-technical staff." "Then you will not attract top talent." "Top talent does not always chase the biggest paycheck. And we can do just fine without top talent." "Top talent will go to your competitors instead." "Top talent is overrated and will not give our competitors any meaningful edge. A team of ten average engineers can produce as much ...

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Ask HN: High quality digital art printing? 4 by frozencell | 1 comments on Hacker News. I need to print digital art (.jpeg) but most of the websites seem to be ads or spam blog posts. Does HN know some good addresses?

Ask HN: Why does YouTube scale down quality automatically? 6 by markus_zhang | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi friends, I have noticed that since maybe a month ago YouTube has been scaling down video quality for EVERY video played. It doesn't make sense because I have a pretty good network that can play at highest quality so I guess the only reason is to scale back output. Have you experienced the same? Any solution to force 1080 without manual intervention? Thanks!

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Expiration date on exercising options – total BS? 2 by drschafran | 3 comments on Hacker News. I don't understand why there is an expiration date on exercising stock option grants. Anyone have a compelling reason why this even exists? Seems to force stock option holders to 1) Make decisions when they aren't necessarily ready to and 2) Take on tax burdens before they ever see a payout.

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How to Own Your Growth as a Software Engineer 2 by jesalg | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was reflecting on my career journey recently and decided to put down some thoughts on what I found to be vital to my growth in case if you find it helpful. It took shape as this blog post where I cover four tenets to owning your growth: - Do the job that's needed of you - Understand where you are on your career journey - Advocate for yourself through storytelling - Learn to organize your thoughts & communicate articulately Does any of that resonate with you? What advice has been pivotal to your growth? Please share it in the comments! https://ift.tt/9uBbMJY

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Tell HN: Studied computer science but struggled with statistics, and algorithms 3 by kbrannigan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello guys, In college, I put my classes in 3 categories. The Naturals: Topics I could do in my sleep: GUI classes, Programming Classes. The conceptuals: Topics I understood the concept of: Database, Physics, Computer Graphics, Biology. The Aliens: Topics I couldn't grasp no matter how hard I read the books. : Statistics, Probability, Algorithms, Calculus 2. These topics are what make me afraid to apply for a job. I can code, but I do poorly in interviews. Thanks.

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Ask HN: How do you manage shared code across microservices? 2 by sruffatti | 2 comments on Hacker News. We are moving off our legacy monolithic architecture to a microservice based architecture. We are about four years into the project and we have 200 distinct microservices. When we first started out on this endeavor we created a parent POM called common-service. This POM declares dependencies such as Hibernate, Spring Boot, and some homegrown common libraries (the most important being a JAR that handles service discovery, rather than each service having to implement service discovery on their own). Now that we have 200 services running in production, it is a difficult to roll out new versions of common-service for a variety of reasons - some teams don't have the capacity, some teams prioritize business requirements over upgrades, etc. How do you handle this in your organization? Do you have shared code across your microservices? Is it an anti-pattern to share code across microser...

Ask HN: Did you have a positive experience with agencies/freelancers? 2 by athosblade | 1 comments on Hacker News. Recently, I've noticed a lot of articles saying negative things about working with freelancers/agencies? As someone who is currently working as a freelancer and used to work for an agency, I want to hear about your positive experience with agencies/freelancers.

Ask HN: What GO web framework do you use? 4 by umen | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN , what to use to be fast and easy like java's tomcat server ? So many half baked or not maintained frameworks... What do I use in production?

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Ask HN: Is UK citizenship worth it after Brexit for software consulting? 5 by oumua_don17 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have been living and working at a FAANG in UK for past 2+ years now. I came on the now Global Talent visa, so in next 2 years I can become a UK citizen. I am also closing in on my retirement/FU corpus, but I don't intend to stop working. I am pondering if it's worth becoming a UK Citizen after Brexit if I want to do software consulting. Will the UK passport/citizenship help? My primary market targets will be UK, US and Europe, so Visa Waiver Program and short term EU visits should allow me to do business visits for contract negotiation etc. I would prefer to work in UK for 6 months - 8 months of the year and be outside of UK in the winter :-). UK citizens (naturalised or otherwise), any inputs? Is this a good or a flawed idea? I hold an Indian passport. I don't want to worry about maintaining the ILR status, and anyways after ILR, it's just 1 year to...

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Ask HN: Why should the CHIPS bill be passed? 3 by givemeethekeys | 4 comments on Hacker News. Aren't chip companies all very profitable? Shouldn't they take out a loan? Didn't Intel just commit to $35B to start factories in Europe? Why can't they do that here? Is the funding free? Where is it coming from? I've yet to read a good explanation for the CHIPS act. All this money being spent when we should be cutting spending. Shouldn't the chip companies be able to sell bonds / shares to raise money for more factories?

Ask HN: What are the best public-code searching web apps today? 2 by eatonphil | 0 comments on Hacker News. You can do a global code search in Github.com or in your search engine (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, whatever). There are some language specific systems like Hoogle [0]. Maybe SourceGraph's global search engine [1] is ok too I have only tried their project-specific views. What is the best hosted/free web app out there today that you use to do searches on code across one or multiple projects? [0] https://ift.tt/H8MIUFY [1] https://ift.tt/7GSQvEc

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Ask HN: What is your experience with YC's co-founder matching? 3 by codegeek | 1 comments on Hacker News. For me personally, I spoke to a few people but it mostly dies after a conversation or so (if we get to that). Wondering what the experience has been in general with the co-founder matching tool.

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Ask HN: Preparing for Systems Interviews 2 by TimPC | 0 comments on Hacker News. I last interviewed almost five years ago and at the time I was mostly asked leet code in the interview portions. I’m interviewing again now and it seems nearly every company I’m talking to has a system architecture question as part of the screen (in some cases one ML system and one Software system). I’m generally good at architecture but I’m used to solving these problems over long time horizons by doing detailed research. Are there any good resources or practice problems for doing these in 45 minute spitball sessions? I think it’s a dramatically different skill from regular system design and I’m not entirely sure how to approach it. I also would like to practice a wider variety of systems because my personal experience is a bit heavy on mobile and I feel I’m likely to get asked mostly server specific questions.

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Ask HN: Do you take short naps while working from home? 2 by boredemployee | 3 comments on Hacker News. sometimes I take some short naps, 10 to 15 min afternoon. It always seems to give me a boost for the left hours. Also I usually do it when I have a problem that I don't know how I'm going to solve, but after the nap I feel like my brain is completely fresh and prepared to solve it. It's like a hidden superpower. I don't understand why people don't talk openly about more that and pretend they are always productive.

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Ask HN: What can you realistically manufacture in your garage? 20 by abdullahkhalids | 23 comments on Hacker News. Given a two-car garage, what can a small team (2-3 people) manufacture that can be sold for some amount of profit? Imagine access to capital of 20-50k USD at maximum. Interesting would be items whose manufacture could be automatized to some extent, but this is not necessary. I am not particularly interested in the legality of this at the moment. But safety considerations could be important.

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Ask HN: Is there other software similar to Vim and Emacs? 10 by GrollingGrakbor | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for software that is powerful, understandable, hackable, extensible, reliable, future-proof (few breaking updates) and feature-rich. The two tools I've found so far that come close to this are TiddlyWiki (notetaking) and Vim/Emacs (same text editor niche). TiddlyWiki loses some points on hackability because it's web technology and fairly sandboxed. Vim/Emacs are only for text, obviously. I think what these tools have in common is that they all have a strong core idea (Vim: modal, TiddlyWiki: a quine of tiddlers, Emacs: elisp) that provides insane feature breadth at relatively low cost to learnability. Other software is usually on a spectrum of low feature count (most tools in the UNIX philosophy) to low understandability (IDEs, most other text editors, all OSes). Then a few rare ones are extremely powerful, but so old and poorly designed that I don't...

Ask HN: Quickest path to a tech job in SF Bay Area? 2 by skogsbonde | 4 comments on Hacker News. A friend wants to change careers and is interested in tech, but she's not sure what to start learning. Which types of jobs are most in demand, that could be learned the quickest by a beginner? She's good at math. Should she start studying machine learning? Or is Javascript/ReactJS frontend a safer bet? Backend? iOS SwiftUI? A normal person obviously can't learn in a reasonable time the broad field of software engineering like the ins and outs of computer networks, TLS handshake, cpu out of order execution, avoiding branching, et cetera - but what is a vertical that could be learned in a reasonable time by a beginner that would be a good bet in terms of job prospects?

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Ask HN: Does this idea make any sense? 21 by AhmedMujtaba | 18 comments on Hacker News. Hi there, I would like to get your perspective on this idea, does it make sense?, I happen to think dev shops are broken, and this may be a better approach, let me know your thoughts? https://ift.tt/RjXcDJ9

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Ask HN: How did free people in USA thrive in high heat before air-conditioning? 2 by reactspa | 2 comments on Hacker News. I live in Mid-West USA. It's been hitting 95°F the past few days. I experimented with trying to go without air-conditioning. Couldn't do it. Couldn't work on my computer despite being indoors and having a fan on my desk. Had terrible sleep (despite having a powerful ceiling fan). Air-conditioning is not even a hundred years old and was originally not even invented to keep people cool (it was invented to keep machines from overheating). How did free people stay thriving and productive during summer in places like Florida, and the American South where there's not only extreme heat but also extreme humidity? Is it a case of: - temps have gotten hotter more recently? - if I had continued my experiment, I would have eventually gotten used to the heat and learned to thrive in it? When it gets extremely hot around here, I think a lot about the Bedouin wit...

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Ask HN: What is that amount where a big company won’t bother to sue me? 4 by throwaway_9120 | 4 comments on Hacker News. So I was reading this thread https://twitter.com/cryptofelon/status/1548049090490953728?s=20&t=JuA1NrodiAOfZ67fFMfZhg It is difficult to make out who is on the wrong side here but it set me wondering if I happen to possess some domain and a big company comes after me, what is that max amount where they won’t bother to sue me? (Perhaps the legal fee and associated headache is more than the amount they can simply pay up and both the parties move on.)

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My bank will open my closed account to make it overdrawn 2 by hispanic | 4 comments on Hacker News. I just saw my (large-ish US-based) bank add the following language to my account agreement: > After your Account is closed, we may temporarily reopen your Account to resolve a dispute concerning the Account, or to accept a debit or credit to your Account, even if doing so results in your Account becoming overdrawn. Feels like a fee-grab.

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Ask HN: Why are the FAANG tech support forums often useless? 10 by behnamoh | 6 comments on Hacker News. Examples of tech/customer support forums that are useless: - Apple (see [1]) - Microsoft (see [2]) - Google (see [3]) I often find better answers on SO, SU, and other stack websites. Hell, even independent blogs have better solutions. Why, then, can't these giant companies improve the quality of their forums? [1]: https://ift.tt/SYvZ8rW [2]: https://ift.tt/kNqraZy [3]: https://ift.tt/HtDh7be

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Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? 66 by agent008t | 63 comments on Hacker News. I feel like we are living in uniquely pessimistic times, at least when compared to the last ~70 years. The world order is being challenged, and not for the better. Massive geopolitcal problems are ahead with no good prospects - continuing Russian aggression in Europe, looming aggression in Taiwan, gloomy prospects over Iran nuclear situation. The US may well see a new civil war in the next few decades. Demographics, particularly in Europe, are not looking good. There are climate change risks to look forward to. Deglobalisation will lead to less global economic efficiency/prosperity. Tech advancement appears to have stagnated, and in any case the dream of technological innovation making tomorrow better has been replaced with the reality of tech making a lot of our lives worse, disconnecting people, pitting people against each other, hijacking our attention. Culturally, we seem to be gettin...

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Ask HN: What do your non-tech friends don‘t understand about technology? 8 by recvonline | 13 comments on Hacker News. I wonder if there are common themes you can teach people about technology! For example: Many family members of mine inherently don‘t understand E-Mail or messaging like WhatsApp. They think their Mail or texting app on the phone receives a text and don‘t understand the client/server model and how packages are getting send through the internet.

Ask HN: How to stop Google Play Store from replacing apps from other app stores 9 by daggersandscars | 4 comments on Hacker News. I had Amazon Kindle installed from the Google Play Store. Amazon removed book purchases from the Google Play version of Kindle. One can still buy books from the Amazon Appstore version of Kindle. * I uninstalled Kindle from Google Play * I installed the Amazon Appstore * I installed Kindle from Amazon Appstore Direct book purchasing restored. Every few weeks, the Google Play store uninstalls Kindle from the Amazon Appstore and installs its version. Being able to use multiple app stores is (imo) Android's primary appeal. If Google Play can arbitrarily replace apps with its own, that's a serious problem. How do I stop this from happening? I have verified this -- when it happens, going to Amazon Appstore -> My Apps lists Kindle (Not from Amazon).

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OSS/Self-Hosted alternatives for EcoBee smart-themostats/sensors? 2 by Pr0ject217 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I would like to purchase a smart-thermostat and wifi sensors; however, I would prefer if they don't have microphones/radar, and don't require connecting to the internet (LAN is fine). What would you recommend? Thank you.

Ask HN: What is the definition of a “founding engineer”? 2 by hn_throwaway_99 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm asking this question in response to this thread: https://ift.tt/hpugNv1. The reason I'm asking is because the comp listed in that thread is "in the $160-180K range and equity around 1.5-2.0%". I'm assuming that actual founders (not "founding engineers") will have equity stakes that are an order of magnitude more at that point in the company (though perhaps much lower cash salaries? not sure). Now, of course, actual founders at this point have already done a ton more work and had more initial risk - they came up with the idea, did the work to get into YC, etc. But, going forward, the founding engineer is probably going to be working just as hard as the founders, and has just as much risk as the whole thing going belly up. So, I don't mean this to come across as overly negative, but being a "founding engineer" seems like a pretty ba...

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Ask HN: Something you wish you knew before you started coding? 2 by shreythecray | 5 comments on Hacker News. If you could go back in time to when you first started coding and give yourself any advice that would help you develop better or faster, what would it be?

Ask HN: Has any one successfully pivoted away from tech? 2 by arrjayh | 2 comments on Hacker News. Looking for advice from those who've successfully left tech. I've been in for 3 1/2 years (since graduating). In large part my career has felt like it has been failing upwards. Recently, I quit my job and have gotten to a point where I'm starting to think I'm not cut out for this. A few comments on this: 1. I'm not really progressing far into interviews, especially in the technical portions. 2. Some simple tech questions are now throwing me through a loop. 3. With the negative feedback I've gotten my motivation has basically reduced to 0. 4. I've traditionally struggled with logic tasks and have had to take more time than my peers to solve them. 5. I've had a hard time connecting and relating to co-workers and team members. My resume reads nicely: https://ift.tt/kCD9lKb and I fortunately get lots of interviews but they pretty quickly fizzle out after 1 or ...

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Ask HN: Do we need a better workflow solution exist, or is it already out there? 2 by mattewong | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been on the hunt for some time for a workflow solution that: 1. bifurcates administrator vs user experiences. So for example, an admin defines a universe of possible actions, and a user defines a workflow consisting of one or more triggers that, when fired, executes some series of those predefined actions in the flow that the user defines 2. is no-code. If the admin must sometimes work with a config file (such as JSON), that's OK. But none of this python or coding business-- not that I have anything against that myself, but it's just the use case we need to address. For non-admin users, it should have a graphical UI 3. is versatile. For example, I'd like to be able to define an action to invoke any executable I choose, or to make any REST call I define 4. can dynamically chain each step's output to any of the next steps' input. For e...

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Ask HN: Are you cutting back on subscription services? 13 by gardenhedge | 8 comments on Hacker News. With a recession looming and inflation already here, are you cutting back on any subscription services? I have recently gotten rid of Spotify, Amazon Prime, my paid email service, Playstation Network. I still have Google One (I use Photos, Mobile VPN, switched back to GMail, Google Calendar). I am currently on a trial of Youtube Premium (with Youtube Music) but I probably won't keep it. I still have iCloud extra storage, Dropbox, GoPro cloud, Netflix and Disney+.

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Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff? 3 by irisedhaze | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have noticed that a lot of simple tasks are becoming more difficult to do with smartphones. For example in Android, it's basically impossible to set a countdown timer if the phone is locked without using a voice assistant. Apple might have implemented this specific feature better by allowing users to access the timer through the Control Center. However, iOS's calculator is just too cumbersome to use due its lack of features and lack of decent alternatives. What are your thoughts? Edit: typo

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Ask HN: Why did you quit learning programming? 4 by kirillrogovoy | 4 comments on Hacker News. Maybe, HN is not the best place for this question, but something tells me there will be interesting stories behind it. I saw a lot of people I knew start learning how to program. They did it in all sorts of ways: free courses, paid courses, books, schools, etc. Almost all of them quit within weeks or months. An interesting observation was to hear them describing why they quit too abstractly, too broadly. "I didn't like it." "Couldn't make the time to learn." "Too hard." Things like that. I've always felt that there's so much more behind those answers. So much we could learn about why programming is so hard to enter, apart from the inherent domain complexity. What's your story, or that of someone you've seen quit?

I am in my mid-thirties, working four days a week, and making over 100k. I have a house, a good relationship with my wife, and young and healthy kids. I work from home. My job is technically interesting, and I still learn/improve. I do not have meetings. One or sometimes two 30 min calls a week with my boss. Most days, I do not have to interact with anyone from work, not even customer contact. If I knew I could have a job like this ten years ago, I would have thought that's it, the dream. But somehow, it isn't. It's never enough. I dream about doing my own thing or retiring early to do other projects. It is probably human to always want more. So HN, how did you settle and slow down and become happy with the way it is without always wanting more? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32059666 Points: 233 # Comments: 165 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/s3EiCHt via IFTTT

Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough? 219 by perfectjob | 153 comments on Hacker News. I am in my mid-thirties, working four days a week, and making over 100k. I have a house, a good relationship with my wife, and young and healthy kids. I work from home. My job is technically interesting, and I still learn/improve. I do not have meetings. One or sometimes two 30 min calls a week with my boss. Most days, I do not have to interact with anyone from work, not even customer contact. If I knew I could have a job like this ten years ago, I would have thought that's it, the dream. But somehow, it isn't. It's never enough. I dream about doing my own thing or retiring early to do other projects. It is probably human to always want more. So HN, how did you settle and slow down and become happy with the way it is without always wanting more?

Ask HN: What is your on-call policy? 3 by bwestergard | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to get a sense of the range of policies around on-call support or "pager duty" in the industry. How many days per year are you on call? How often do you actually get a call? How many rotations are you in, and how many other people are in those rotations? Do you get any time off or additional compensation for being on call? Do you get any time off or additional compensation for responding to an incident? If you're a developer, is anyone doing first tier support before you get a call?

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