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Ask HN: Hacker News for Non-Software Engineers 5 by elil17 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! While I love the culture and many of the articles, HN is not as relevant as I wish it was to my day-to-day job and interests. As a mechanical engineer/engineering generalist, I wish there was a version of HN that focused more on every type of engineering that's not software engineering. I wish I could find the blog posts about how to get the most out of a factory visit, the journal articles about new materials, and the latest startups that hire people with my skillset. I'm not looking for Q&A or help forums (there are lots of good ones for that).

Ask HN: Networking with Hackers in a Small Town 2 by imoreno | 1 comments on Hacker News. I recently moved to a small town in the US. It seems to have a decent number of people in the software iondustry (I did a LinkedIn search for my city and "Industry: Software development" and got a few hundred) but it's no tech hub like the Bay Area or NYC. I work remotely so I'd like to network with people in my area, to build professional relationships, maybe make friends and collaborate on some personal projects (I enjoy working with people much more than on my own) and just generally be more involved in my local community. Maybe organize some kind of tech meetup (currently, meetups.com shows none in my area, although perhaps there's some that are not advertised there). How should I go about doing this? Any tips for figuring out who would have common interests before I reach out, or is it just a matter of trying everyone and seeing who bites? If anyone has been in a simila...

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/10/revamp-of-mdn-web-docs-contribution-docs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33409730 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/BD8y5AR via IFTTT

Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose you passwords in case of death? 13 by bsjaux628 | 10 comments on Hacker News. After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death? My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.

Tell HN: WhatsApp appears to be censoring references to Signal 8 by DicIfTEx | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don't usually go in for conspiracy theories, but this one seems pretty clear-cut and I can't see anyone else discussing it online: WhatsApp appears to be selectively censoring references to Signal. Specifically, I had changed my profile picture on WhatsApp to the Signal logo and my ‘About’ text to ‘Message me on Signal - https://signal.org/download/’. However, I noticed recently (after someone happened to open their WhatsApp in front of me and I saw their chat with me) that my WhatsApp contacts are seeing my profile picture and my ‘About’ text as blank. I've checked and this seems to be the case for all of my WhatsApp contacts. See screenshots from me and my friend's phones here: https://ift.tt/abnl3V1 On the bright side, this serves as an ideal demo for convincing anyone who doesn't understand why I am trying to migrate them over to Signal. So, I guess, than...

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Ask HN: Best Node.js in production course/book? 3 by alexbezhan | 1 comments on Hacker News. Production best practices to make NodeJS run reliably in production. I looked around and there is only newbie level courses, like installing on Heroku, etc. I'm looking for some real-world hardcore professional stuff. With database migrations, logging, monitoring, debugging, optimising the environment, etc.

Ask HN: How to start practising video editing? 3 by bitigchi | 1 comments on Hacker News. I want to practice video editing using iMovie and/or Kdenlive, but I am having a hard time finding ideas or material to create new edits. Where to start?

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Article URL: https://www.lei.chat/posts/compilers-and-irs-llvm-ir-spirv-and-mlir/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387149 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/P9ytTo8 via IFTTT

Ask HN: What are some of the best libraries out there for scraping reviews? 2 by itssho | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking to create a tool to pull in all our company reviews/comments in one place so we can respond to them... save us the time of cycling through a bunch of websites and knowing what we last read. I know I can google and I have - but I don't want to miss something that everyone is using to do this :) Thanks! P.S. I'm language agnostic on this... I'll build a service out in whatever I need to.

Article URL: https://www.reaktor.com/blog/how-to-deal-with-life-after-heroku/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33386305 Points: 22 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/yTHCvrl via IFTTT

Article URL: https://jafingerhut.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33386334 Points: 30 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1tZ3rjl via IFTTT

Ask HN: Will Meta's virtual reality bet succeed? 3 by sebastian_z | 5 comments on Hacker News. At the moment, I am skeptical if virtual reality will catch on in general. However, it seems that quite a few companies are working on virtual reality with Meta being the most prominent example. Are there use cases that will lead to mainstream adoption or adoption in some niche at least?

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/tip/about.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374402 Points: 59 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/StlLP0D via IFTTT

This feature set is a little complex, so I may be getting the sequence of events a little wrong. As of sometime in roughly the last day: - the ProtonMail web app will automatically show you embedded and remote image content in HTML messages. (New behavior.) - "Trackers" will be removed, and presumably not processed at all. (Existing behavior.) - ProtonMail will proxy the remote content for you. (Existing behavior.) The settings to do so are: - Messages and Composing -- Auto show embedded images (automatically enabled with this change) - Email Privacy -- Auto show remote images (automatically enabled with this change) -- Block email tracking (I had this enabled already but they probably also automatically enabled it.) These settings are present in the beta and regular channels for the web app. I somehow had beta channel enabled, so I'm not sure if these settings would have been automatically enabled for non-beta users. This is the (now incorrect) documentation fo...

Ask HN: What features would you like to see in a P2P search engine? 3 by logicallee | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have a long weekend and I am thinking of putting online a p2p search engine for the web. Searching the web is too large for me or anyone to crawl by themselves but a group of people could do text-search on the sites of interest to us. Would you use a p2p search engine? What features would you like to see in a peer-to-peer search engine whose nodes crawl the web and run search queries?

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-owns-twitter-the-story-so-far/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374770 Points: 129 # Comments: 255 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fHPZuN6 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375250 Points: 11 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792 via IFTTT

Ask HN: How profound is Stability AI really? 2 by recvonline | 0 comments on Hacker News. I came across a lot of interviews and articles about Stability AI (https://stability.ai/) recently and wondered if it’s just a Silicon Valley buzzword parade or, if it’s really changing how and where we compute in the future? Anyone from the company or in the field can give an unfiltered opinion?

Ask HN: Suggestions for academic/research journals discussing AI-generated art? 3 by Rikuesque | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a first year engineering student, and for my technical writing class we need to write an informative paper. I chose AI art and it's influence on our society as my topic. One of the criteria is to have at least 5 academic/research journals in your references. I'm having difficulty with this because AI art is such a new topic. Does anyone know some academic/ research journals that they're willing to share? Even if the article is just about generative algorithms in general that's a great help. Thank you in advance.

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/why-i-use-jellyfin-my-home-media-library Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362416 Points: 39 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9qfHYdZ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2022/10/27/one-time-programs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362170 Points: 16 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QzJISXN via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to file your own patents? 3 by empty_array | 3 comments on Hacker News. Looking for good comprehensive resources or maybe even a good course (paid or free) to learn how to file good patents. I am looking for quality training that does not require a full law degree to be able to write reasonably good patents. I have a few I would like to file and the cost of doing it through an attorney is prohibitive. My only option is to learn to do it myself. Our patent system isn't designed to be equitable at all. The power is entirely in the hands of those with tons of money, be it corporations or individuals. In the past couple of decades I have missed out on filing patents for inventions that, as recently as yesterday, I discovered large corporations implemented ten years after I came-up with the solution. My new startup is based on new technology. I need to stop this cycle of working my ass off to develop innovations only to have no protections whatsoever from the well-financed....

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Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/495304/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348319 Points: 17 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/7S0gr5k via IFTTT

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03688 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33347967 Points: 24 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/tOJdpP6 via IFTTT

Python has lots of different options for mutable data structures, both directly in the language and in the standard library. Lists, dictionaries (or "dicts"), and sets are the foundation, but two of those maintain an order based on how the elements are added, while sets do not. A recent discussion on the Python Discourse forum raised the idea of adding an ordered variant of sets; while it does not look like there is a big push to add the feature, the discussion did show some of what is generally needed to get new things into the language—and could well lead to its inclusion. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/QRUWkHT via IFTTT

Printer Recommendations for Latex – 2022 2 by capnahab | 1 comments on Hacker News. Well, not specifically Latex but text decouments, black or grey scale, don't need color, don't need scanning etc. I just want nice crisp computer modern font. If you want to recommend paper too that would be a bonus. I don't mind upfront cost for reliability and longevity. I'd rather not be tied into a difficult consumable deal though I realise that's part of the hardware deal.

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Article URL: https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/phar-lap-frontrunner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33347345 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/C1Gl3kQ via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is AI going to replace most programming jobs in the next 10 years? 2 by afaik | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious to hear what people think the next 10 years of the tech industry looks like given the recent rapid advancements in AI. Will there be mass redundancies? What would a programmer's job look like, if there's a need for programmers at all? What skills do you think would be in high demand?

Article URL: https://blog.southparkcommons.com/startup-engineering-hiring-anti-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33334062 Points: 21 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wLqfnKd via IFTTT

Lennart Poettering has posted a detailed specification for a new approach to "trusted computing" systems. Central to the proposed design is the concept of a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) . These UKIs are the combination of a Linux kernel image, and initrd, a UEFI boot stub program (and further resources, see below) into one single UEFI PE file that can either be directly invoked by the UEFI firmware (which is useful in particular in some cloud/Confidential Computing environments) or through a boot loader (which is generally useful to implement support for multiple kernel versions, with interactive or automatic selection of image to boot into, potentially with automatic fallback management to increase robustness). This work is evidently the first in a series that will come out of the newly formed Linux Userspace API Group . from LWN.net https://ift.tt/fbjQi04 via IFTTT

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Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02126-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320156 Points: 51 # Comments: 41 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/5oWxUtI via IFTTT

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Article URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-wasm-technical-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320530 Points: 14 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8Qgebo5 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do you know of any books on the physics of wheeled vehicles? 2 by extrememacaroni | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'd like to work on an engine that will simulate wheeled vehicles like rovers and such, and I was wondering if there were any books or courses that deal specifically with this topic (the physics part). I found bits and pieces here and there and of course there's open source physics engines but I'd enjoy the process of learning the theory and implementing it myself.

Would you take a research job at a UARC? 2 by ipunchghosts | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have a PhD and was offered a position as a researcher at a UARC in the United States. UARCs are university affiliated research centers setup by the US DoD to act as a liaison between DoD and academia. However, after interviewing and speaking with a few employees of a competing UARC, these places seem like research dead-ends mostly acting like a glorified defense contractor. I would like to do research and publish. HR tells me this is a great place to do these thing but when I check IEEE and Google scholar, i cant find any publications of authors from this institution. Plus, the interviews made it seem like the work is mostly doing data analysis or writing software. Nothing there lead me to believe I would be doing research day in and day out. Does anyone on HN work for a UARC? Do you like it? How much research do you do?

Ask HN: How to find an in-office tech job 2 by hiremelocally | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm an experienced (10+ years) software engineer in the Bay Area. It's getting to be time to change jobs, but unlike most my peers (and my team), I prefer working in the office with my team in-person. With so many companies going remote-first, I'm not sure how to find a local company where most of my colleagues will be in the office most days any more. Where should I look? P.s.: I'm not looking for a remote vs. in-person debate. Many, many threads here have gone over the pros and cons, it's getting tiresome, and I know which is right for me.

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Ask HN: What are some sites that should be archived before they are lost? 3 by throwoutway | 1 comments on Hacker News. Some sites I have bookmarked no longer exist as the creators have died, gone bankrupt, founder disputes, or shut down for other circumstances. What are some that should be archived by numerous users? I'm thinking more information-heavy sites. Sure, The Way Back Machine might contain them, but even they might one day be bankrupt or shut down

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Ask HN: How to deal with after lunch fatigue? 5 by shahinghasemi | 15 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN. I've been noticing that I experience severe physical/mental/attention fatigue after serving lunch which affects my abilities at work(I'm a full-stack developer). I've been trying no-lunch routines a number of times and noticed a significant improvement over my attention. What's your experience? Is there any medication/diet/routine that can be helpful? Is that related to vitamin deficiency e.g. B12, D3, etc.? Thanks.

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Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products? 6 by epicureanideal | 6 comments on Hacker News. After all these years, Android phones still feel like cheap plastic to me, and the interface feels cheaply put together. Why aren't there more Apple-quality products? For example, couldn't someone make a great smartphone with limited models, a very tiny app store that doesn't have nearly the range of the Apple app store, but just enough to do common things for some small subset of the market? Same question about why there isn't one polished Linux-based operating system, etc.

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Article URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6652 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33301449 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/u7y1J8q via IFTTT

Article URL: https://arslan.io/2022/10/22/review-of-the-kinesis-advantage360-professional/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33301053 Points: 12 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/5Zx7YWC via IFTTT

Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall 5 by lknfrnpt | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks, I'm close to hitting a decade of full time experience. In that time, I have always worked in back end engineering roles requiring oncall duties. I've recently identified a few things that are my key stressors at work, and the key contributors to my burn out. The top of that list is the existence of oncall duties, and the need to be ready to respond for a week at a time. Even with a quiet oncall, I still plan my personal life around being oncall. Same goes for planning any tie off. I've reached a point where I don't need or want to self sacrifice (e.g,. for total comp, or prestige, or whatever); instead, I'm trying to tweak my path forward for the next decade or so of work. I'm not ruling out a change of disciplines, for instance mobile or frontend development. That said, I have a strong set of skills and deep experience from the last decade. So I'm wond...

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Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/yaswkg/apparently_you_cannot_have_kanye_interview_on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33300721 Points: 27 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fNsebLa via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33300739 Points: 10 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/76yu4Ox via IFTTT

Ask HN: What were some great ideas that were too early for their time? 2 by atlasunshrugged | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious what were some of the more innovative ideas that were just too early (e.g. the tech was impossible or too expensive) but would have been viable in the future or are today.

Article URL: https://typefully.com/DanHollick/blending-modes-KrBa0JP Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33292199 Points: 17 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eEvX0NR via IFTTT

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Ask HN: Who Is an iPad Pro For? 6 by cgb223 | 7 comments on Hacker News. In terms of hardware the iPad Pro is an impressive machine. But for the most part it seems limited to being a daily driver for email, watching videos, web browsing, or other non-process intensive tasks To those who _specifically_ use an iPad Pro for work, what do you do with it that cannot be done on a regular iPad or iPad Air? Why does the iPad Pro make your life better than doing the same thing on a MacBook/notebook/Desktop?

Ask HN: Any Alternatives to GatsbyJS? 2 by srameshc | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am tired of Gatsby, since it is getting difficult to get answers and it is not very CMS agnostic anymore. I am looking for an alternative which can aid with some scaffolding etc and it can be plain JS, React Vue or Svelte.

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Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/benevolent-dictators/#felony-contempt-of-business-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33279274 Points: 36 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/F3lnLRx via IFTTT

YouTube Premium Price Increase 3 by latchkey | 1 comments on Hacker News. We created YouTube Premium to provide an uninterrupted YouTube experience, so you can get closer to the videos, creators, and music artists that you love. To continue delivering great service and features, we will be increasing your Premium family plan price from $17.99/month to $22.99/month. This change will take place on your next billing cycle starting on or after November 21, 2022.

Article URL: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65592749/niemann-v-carlsen/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278926 Points: 79 # Comments: 88 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/dDSCeLf via IFTTT

Ask HN: Tools for managing job interviews? 3 by throwawae1 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm familiar with "Applicant Tracking System (ATS)" software like Greenhouse for the hiring side, but I've never heard of software for managing the interviewing side. As a software engineer somewhere between casually and actively interviewing, I've quickly become overwhelmed in managing leads, emails, scheduling, and documenting discovery for each opportunity. I built out what I thought to be a sophisticated system in Notion (complete with a database, todos, and document templates), but it hasn't scaled as well as I thought it would. Anyone know of any tools out there for managing job interviews and opportunities for tech workers?

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/10/battle-with-bots-prompts-mass-purge-of-amazon-apple-employee-accounts-on-linkedin/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277865 Points: 35 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/0r7K2Mn via IFTTT

Article URL: https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/new-motorcycle-lighting-design-could-save-lives Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278067 Points: 37 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/VK3DuLn via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841483/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278349 Points: 30 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/7xcKWPg via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-washington-officials-stocks-trading-markets-stimulus-11666192404 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278633 Points: 178 # Comments: 93 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/hfmSlpU via IFTTT

Article URL: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/yet-another-scientific-body-has-debunked Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278698 Points: 59 # Comments: 40 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/LPZrzEt via IFTTT

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Machine learning in the database is 40 times faster than in a microservice 4 by levkk | 4 comments on Hacker News. We ran a benchmark comparing a typical Python microservice with PostgresML and got some exciting results: https://ift.tt/pwhCMi9

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Ask HN: How to ease in Git to someone with Git PTSD 2 by lastdong | 0 comments on Hacker News. I came across some colleagues who can’t stand Git (even the slightest whisper). Alternatively, Perforce is used extensively in the gaming industry, really good integration with Unreal Engine. Yesterday, I finally understood why: in their previous team, someone who didn’t understand Git at all, brought it in, and they ended up commiting directly to master and using spreadsheets to track who was editing what (no gitflow, no PRs) - just baffling, of course it didn’t went well, and of course they hate it. How do I get them to trust the Git system again is an interesting challenge, but Perforce works, and basically wanted to share this amazing story.

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Ask HN: Are there any undocumented ISA extensions used in Linux systems? 3 by ladyanita22 | 1 comments on Hacker News. If someone were to build a Linux system with proprietary, private (undocumented) ISA extensions, how would they do it given Linux is open source? Are there any examples of this being done? Would it be possible at all? I got inspiration from this (https://ift.tt/Bxh9iWc) and I wondered if someone has done it before on a Linux-based system. I understand a userspace library could be created to access those instructions from userspace, but how would then they be implemented in the kernel? Through a proprietary kernel module built using a custom compiler? Or is that not needed at all and the library could just run on the processor taking advantage of the proprietary extensions?

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Acquiring first users through offline workshops 1 by ankit272 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a founding team member at Power Club, a Bangalore based EdTech startup where 11-17 year olds test drive careers to design their dream lives. We are considering workshops in apartment complexes and offices as a channel to acquire first 100 users. If you have prior experience in this channel, please guide me how to go about doing that.

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Just published the longest Article in the History of Medium.com 5 by mario-stopfer | 2 comments on Hacker News. I hope this article will serve those who are struggling with their side-projects and are looking for some motivation. Its not easy to keep going when you don't see the end in sight, but I guarantee you that if you just keep going, the end of the road is there waiting for you! https://ift.tt/CTDLel5

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Ask HN: Solutions Architects were you promoted into that role or hired directly? 2 by luxuryballs | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am curious because I'm running into some minor push back where the company tells the recruiter "no we are looking for a Solutions Architect, this guy has a Software Engineering resume"... but I figure many Solutions Architects started in that role. Working at smaller companies you tend to do the same work as a SA anyways even though your title is engineer... anyone have experience with this? I have 12+ years of experience full-stack and working directly with stakeholders/clients/execs to plan/build/deploy/maintain... what am I missing?

Converting Postman to YAML to Call API-Using Fluvio 2 by akerj | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was wondering how to properly format the following keys and values into the YAML document so that I can connect to Fluvio's managing connector. I was able to use Postman to get HTTP responses from Indeed API using POST Request URL, Indeed API Key, Request Payload (converted JSON format to YAML), and two parameters (co and locale). The Request Payload also put other key values automatically into the YAML. So far I have been using the following format for YAML but I keep getting Running Status Failed for the connector. How should the YAML be formatted with these keys and values so that I can use the connector? (YAML format below) Also, is it necessary to put in all the Request Headers for YAML if I have the POST Request URL? It wasn't needed when using Postman. I was also able to get the bearer token using Indeed documentation and get a response from Indeed's API and also using anot...

Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demostrating against software? 8 by quijoteuniv | 2 comments on Hacker News. Today in Trondheim, Norway, around 100 health doctors & nurses demostrated by walking with torches trough the city against the implementation of a new software in the hospital. The Helseplatform is an adaptation of Epic to the Norwegian Health system. Have this ever happen in history before? How bad can something be that users go out in the street to demostrate?

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Version 5.5 of the Tor-centered Tails distribution is out. The biggest change appears to be a significant update to the Thunderbird email client. Thunderbird 102 is a major update with many changes to the navigation, folder icons, and address book. Thunderbird 102 also includes important usability improvements to the OpenPGP feature. When composing an email, you can now see whether it will be encrypted or not. If encryption is impossible, a key assistant helps you solve key issues. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/IU04SZL via IFTTT

Ask HN: Where to Start with Text Search? 2 by KloneKilla | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hello! I'm currently planning out a project to ingest a large library of ebooks, index them for searching and then exposing it all in a web API. Ideally this would have some sort of contextual or semantic search. Does anyone have recommendations for where to start or technologies to research? Thanks in advance!

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Ask HN: How did you master SDRAM connection design? 3 by withoutsnow | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am new to embedded PCB design. I can find lots of resources such as video tutorial or the schematics for the power, adc, dac, etc. But I cannot find any hands-on tutorial on SDRAM, neither software nor hardware connection. I don't know what those pins on SDRAM are for and how can I connect them to the MCU. Is there any book about this topic?

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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/act-test-scores-drop-to-lowest-levels-in-more-than-30-years-11665593614 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33225917 Points: 10 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Si9Fm6Q via IFTTT

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Ask HN: Librarians, how do you find books to buy 2 by geoduck14 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've always wondered, how do you know which books to buy for a library? I've heard some libraries track which books are read (but not checked out) and I'm sure libraries know which books are checked out. Is it as simple as looking at these two lists to know what is popular? Do you care about the content of the books or just the general category? Do you look for best sellers?

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Neograd – A deep learning framework created from scratch using Python and NumPy 2 by pranftw | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone! I released v0.0.2 of neograd, a deep learning framework created from scratch using Python and NumPy, with automatic differentiation capabilities. I’d taken for granted that I understood how convolutions work. Just implement a sliding window, perform element-wise multiplication, take its sum, sounds so simple right? Add to that - accounting for the running time of the algorithm, backward pass to get its gradients and convolutions over volumes, this turned out to be an excruciating undertaking. This release includes: - Gradient checking to check the correctness of gradients that are calculated by autograd - Optimization algorithms like Momentum, RMSProp, and Adam - 2D, 3D Convolution and 2D, 3D Pooling layers for Convolutional Neural Networks - Save trained models, weights to disk and load them whenever required - Add checkpoints while training the mode...

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Ask HN: Is it possible to create a image processing based lie detector? 2 by sumitviii | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Seeing how most people who guess well if someone is lying do it from 'reading a face', it can be said that there must be auditory and visual cues in a person's expressions that reveal if someone is lying. Is it possible to create a lie detector just based on reading and processing someone's facial expressions and voice? This can have a lot of uses. Courts can know if a defendant is guilty or innocent immediately in almost all cases. Businesses can know if their suppliers and employees are capable. Employees can know if the employer will actually give them the raise that they have been promising. We may all be able to know if our dear politicians are lying. This will improve our lives and it seems like a marketable product. Why hasn't anyone made it so far.

Ask HN: How to get a job at Jane St., Two Sigma, etc.? 4 by imnotreallynew | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m a full stack software developer with about 10 years of experience building things like APIs, mobile apps, various backend services, SDKs, etc. I’ve long been interested in finance and am always mistaken for working in finance (guess I just look the part). I’m wondering if anyone here has gone from the world of software for the stereotypical Bay Area startup or large tech company to world of NYC quants and hedge funds. I don’t have a PhD in mathematics or some other extreme traditional qualification, but I do have lots experience building stuff. I recently moved to NYC and would love to join one of these companies, especially considering the earning potential versus other companies. Has anyone here made that move?

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Ask HN: Decision paralysis looking for a job for the first time in 10 years 2 by 29e30f7e-19d1 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Let me first preface all this with an acknowledgement that I'm aware this is a good problem to have and confirming that I'm grateful to be in the position I'm in at a time and in an industry where companies are still hiring. That said, I find myself on the market looking for a job as a senior engineer and have been completely stuck since I started job hunting a few months ago. I qualify for and am interested in a good number of the postings I have come across, but I feel completely disadvantaged by how little information the job postings confer. I am especially overwhelmed by how all the big names have you apply for a particular position with a particular team, and worry about getting rejected applying for one team at company ABC when I should have applied for and might have had better success with a different position with another team at the same co...

Ask HN: Why are crypto companies and EA writer-hungry? 4 by WritingWriter | 3 comments on Hacker News. This might be a weird question; it's coming from a person who is pretty non-technical compared to the average HN user. I write for a living, and good-paying writing jobs are difficult to come by, so I tend to maintain a constant search even when I have work. I've noticed that - in the tech/startup world - Crypto companies and EA-related orgs are sometimes-to-often offering OK writer jobs, while tech companies at large tend to do so much more rarely. I should note I don't mean technical writing so much; I'm more talking about outward-facing writing that seeks to communicate information to outside parties, like PR/Marketing/Employer Prop. Tech companies often hire technical writers, but that's distinct from what I do/mean. It seems to me that it should be the case that these companies would have similar needs to each other - what am I missing?

In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great learning experience. Recently I looked into doing this again and ran into a bunch of issues: - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work. - The web is using more javascript than in the past. - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt. It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps. Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33205970 Points: 38 # Comments: 34 from Hacker New...