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Ask HN: Slimvoice Alternative? 3 by epoca | 1 comments on Hacker News. Slimvoice is shutting down on April 1, 2023. Since 2016 Slimvoice has been my favorite site to create invoices, is there an alternative that keeps it simple and efficient to create invoices?

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Ask HN: What's going on with Amazon Prime shipping times? 3 by lukev | 3 comments on Hacker News. It used to be that in my area (NC Triangle), most items on Prime were available with 2-day shipping, and often same-day or overnight. As of the last month or so, the minimum time seems to be 5 days, with a large number of items in the 10-15 day range. I'm no Amazon lover; I view them much the same way I did Walmart 10-15 years ago. They've recently had a lot of quality issues and the prices aren't as compelling as they used to be. If they can't even offer fast shipping anymore, I can't think of a compelling reason to use them over ordering directly from manufacturers or more niche retailers.

Article URL: https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/5-percent-rule/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197956 Points: 25 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/BQkOD6a via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/4000-year-old-toolkit-near-stonehenge-used-for-goldwork-during-the-bronze-age-180981359/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34198300 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/a2yX3qH via IFTTT

Ask HN: Would a tech recession vindicate calls for tech unionization? 18 by Apocryphon | 20 comments on Hacker News. For years, the idea of unionizing software engineers and other tech workers has been mostly a fringe idea. While there have been some high-profile examples such as the Kickstarter union and organizing in the notoriously cutthroat video games industry, the idea has been largely scoffed at. The idea is that because SWEs are in such hot demand, it is one of the very few examples where employment relations benefit workers greatly. Now with large scale layoffs already and who knows what else on the horizon, it seems like that leverage, once present during the low interest rates environment of the pandemic bubble, is fast disappearing. So does that vindicate the idea that tech workers should have codified the benefits they enjoyed during the good times, through unionizing?

Article URL: https://github.com/marsupialtail/quokka/blob/master/blog/why.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34189422 Points: 30 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/qUGt2vB via IFTTT

Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation 108 by eeemmmooo | 36 comments on Hacker News. Stripe is holding over $400,000 in deposits over multiple of my accounts with no explanation. I’ve spent hours on the phone or chat with support and they can’t give me any information. We are still able to sell but can’t get the money out. Support has asked for 2 receipts for each account to review, I have sent them. Then I reach back out and they ask for the same receipts again. It’s crazy. Luckily I have other accounts that are able to cover payroll for now, but they won’t last much longer. Support has been horrible and have not given me any reason why this has happened. The accounts that are restricted are all 5+ years old and have been used nonstop in that time. Anyone know a better way to get this resolved because regular support hasn’t been able to do anything to help or explain what happened.

Article URL: https://erthalion.info/2022/12/30/bpf-performance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34186484 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/K3GMPDH via IFTTT

Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student? 4 by kmerroll | 3 comments on Hacker News. My son is, thankfully, close to completing a CS/CE degree and I wanted to ask for advice or suggestions for a useful / meaningful birthday present to help him get started? He does have a nice Windows laptop, but wondering about those of you having gone into industry and what tools, references, books, etc. that you wished you had getting started? No, not getting the gaming console he asked for. Thanks!

Article URL: https://mostlypython.substack.com/p/why-im-still-using-python Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34186283 Points: 11 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/GWa8TLE via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to get back into tech after two years of absence because of burnout? 2 by tabs_or_spaces | 2 comments on Hacker News. So I did not do anything coding or technical for the past two years because of severe burnout. Instead, I chose to become an engineering manager because it was a much different career path and this was really helping me get over the coding burnout that I've accumulated over the years. I feel that I'm at a stage of my life where I can code again and move back to the IC path. Not that I dislike management, I just like being an IC more. My technical skills are very rusty, like I can probably system design my way through but will struggle initially writing code again. But since that's my goal, I need a bit of advice in terms of how to "get back" into the industry after effectively being gone for 2 years as an IC? My current strategy is to do what I did before (choose a language, do leetcode, do sideprojects, join community, read books, etc...

Ask HN: Transitioning to consulting 3 by krisppy | 1 comments on Hacker News. Dear HN, As a long time lurker I've come to seek the collective wisdom of this august assembly. I've been a FTE for the entirety of my so far 6 year career, but am looking to switch over to consulting. I'm targeting B2B, fully remote engagements. My skillset is varied with strong C++ and Python, as applied to backend engineering, as well as having done research work in ML/AI and quant spaces. Based on informal chats with my network I'm able to get assignments quite easily, but not necessarily within my areas of specialization. I'm trying to figure out how to strategize around this transition and am looking for some advice. Here are my main questions: Are there any recommended resources (Books/blogs/courses/etc.) I should look into? Do I focus on work closely related to my specialty or take a broad spectrum approach? I have no strong personal preference here. Should I prefer depth (fewer, ...

Article URL: https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202212290013 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34174806 Points: 34 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Z5gDeCR via IFTTT

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2022/your-brain-your-brain-code-1221 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34175768 Points: 22 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Q7zpLw4 via IFTTT

Perhaps I'm not in the know, but I find it hard to imagine that we encounter a site, we bookmark it into what's often a poorly self-curated / organized taxonomy, and then rarely ever go back to it, what do other people do to manage their bookmarks, or to even share them? I love "awesome lists" as well, which are often just a bunch of well organized bookmarks anyways, so what do people do that's better than this? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34176035 Points: 17 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/JVjvtF1 via IFTTT

Ask HN: The ISP has a competing product so has decided to block my domain 9 by qerim | 4 comments on Hacker News. The ISP in my hometown (Albania + Kosovo) has decided to block my whole domain to my free legal streaming website because they also happen to offer IPTV services. I only found out after trying to access my site from Albania today, it just comes up with a “bad URL” request. The streams I serve on my site are public freely available TV channels, combined into a single page. Since EU laws do not apply to neither of these countries, is there any course of action I can take to prevent this sort of monopoly going on?

Ask HN: Best Uses for Old iPads? 3 by evo_9 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Wondering what is the best use of an old iPad? Like a gen 1 & gen 2 iPad Mini, and a similar age full iPad... https://ipadlinux.org/ ? Other options, better options?

Article URL: https://cointelegraph.com/news/alameda-wallets-become-active-days-after-sbf-bail-community-mulls-foul-play Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34164404 Points: 35 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ufROiUo via IFTTT

Ask HN: Managing Aging Parents Finances? 2 by ksj2114 | 1 comments on Hacker News. My father has dementia and I have had to step in to manage his financial life, and there are a bunch of inconveniences with this process (nothing major, but certainly a hassle). Would love to hear if anyone is facing similar problems and what they've found works well Problem 1 - He lives across the country, so I am not in person with him / don't have access to his computer Problem 2 - He's constantly forgetting user ids and passwords and changing them (and increasingly accounts have 2FA), so if I want to monitor his accounts its very difficult / sometimes impossible to log in, and many services don't have "view only" access. I have joint access to some services / accounts but not others. Problem 3 - He's increasingly naive to scams (email, phone etc), which means that he either should not have access to all his accounts or I should be monitoring them closely (probably the f...

Article URL: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2022/12/27/jean-michel-jarres-classic-oxygene-4-recreated-with-19kb-of-javascript/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34163559 Points: 36 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/a45Ipju via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20221225223/the-top-1-was-the-only-group-to-see-real-wage-gains-from-2020-to-2021 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34163689 Points: 80 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HYtiMm9 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adapters/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34151708 Points: 58 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/uyEpP7j via IFTTT

Ask HN: Private companies with no outside investment? 2 by Ilasky | 0 comments on Hacker News. The last kind of thread I found was from 2017: https://ift.tt/xg74UXy I'd love to learn about some other similar companies out there and maybe give them some visibility. For example, a couple I like are Plausible (plausible.io) and Remoteok (remoteok.com).

Ask HN: Protecting Family Computers 4 by NikolaNovak | 0 comments on Hacker News. I live a conservative online life - I have separate emails for friends, for business, and for crap; I don't open strange emails or download attachments; and I have spare computers if I really want to touch a potentially wonky website. I use Keepass and try to pay attention what I'm doing. So on my Windows computer, Windows defender has been sufficient. I can't claim I'm 100% certain my computer is not compromised (can anybody these days?) but have not had any issues. My family... is different :-). I'm constantly cleaning up weird browser extensions, strange software, cancelling subscription, etc; and their email inbox makes me cry. Should be paying and installing something like Norton or Kaspersky or McAffee? Is there a point? Do they create privacy / nagware / ads / performance issues of their own? How do you set them up for backup? Backblaze or sync.com? Or is there a simple utility...

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/heres-what-a-1-million-retirement-looks-like-in-america-11671890735 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34150930 Points: 36 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/qdpwyek via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-india-plastic-recycling-pollution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34151107 Points: 46 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fVs8mFW via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/acid-personalities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34151880 Points: 20 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/5LiVOGv via IFTTT

Ask HN: Have You Tried Homesteading? 6 by Phileosopher | 9 comments on Hacker News. I've been kicking around the idea of living comparatively off-grid for a while, and my family is on board with the idea. Have you ever done this, or started researching into it? With a steady-enough income stream via remote work and reliable internet, is a "fully remote" existence a good idea? Or are there downsides to the approach? I'm not exactly a "hang out with people" type, and I'm racking my brain trying to talk myself out of the thought, but every risk seems to come with opportunities. Am I missing something?

Is BuildZoom paying for spots on HN? 8 by HN_is_for_gemes | 0 comments on Hacker News. What the hell is going on with BuildZoom. Seems to be they are doing some stupid gorilla marketing here in HN, CONSTANTLY "hiring" a devs. Fuck off build zoom

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/26/inside-the-library-where-you-can-read-in-two-countries-at-once Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138863 Points: 16 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/JZo5aWj via IFTTT

Ask HN: Browser setting/extension to stop page from changing layout as it loads? 3 by AdmiralAsshat | 1 comments on Hacker News. I get incredibly frustrated when I'm trying to interact with a page and try to click on something, only to have a box appear and push down the thing I wanted as I'm clicking on it. Sometimes this is because the page is still loading; more often the page builds dynamically as you scroll, and so it's impossible to fully load the page at the outset. I have adblockers installed, but this doesn't always prevent this scenario. I just want an internet-1.0 webpage where the "skeleton" of the page builds first and I can clearly see a carved out placeholder where an image/ad/whatever will be when it's done loading, so that it safely leaves the rest of the page alone. Any suggestions?

Ask HN: Google useless for shopping / product reviews? 5 by blobbers | 7 comments on Hacker News. Whether searching for best dog scissors or hot sauces, I get a front page full of SEO’ed fake top 10 lists with affiliate links. I can include site: to search a specific reviewer or Reddit, but that basically turns google into a local search. Has the time of google for product reviews now past? Is there a replacement that downranks these terrible SEO’ed fake recommendations?

Article URL: https://ronakganatra.com/email-marketing-to-developers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34139850 Points: 7 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ox632b1 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126080 Points: 8 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UJM8kIA via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is your favorite front end state management solution? 5 by manx | 4 comments on Hacker News. Did you already build nontrivial applications with it? Where does it shine? What are the cons? What did you try before, which didn't work for you?

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/cats-in-the-middle-ages-what-medieval-manuscripts-teach-us-about-our-ancestors-pets-195389 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34127540 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/pq0TMtc via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you take notes when reading pdf textbooks not in your field? 5 by markus_zhang | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi experts, Happy holidays! Context: My field is data engineering and the pdf textbook I'm reading is of Microcomputer Architecture (the Mick Bit slice book) from my laptop. Issues: I'll list the two issues below. *Issue 1*: How to effectively take notes when read from *pdf sources*? I feel the best way is to insert a *BLANK* page after each *TEXT* page (by saying text page simply means any page with texts), use an e-pen to hand-write in the BLANK page while circling/labelling contents in the TEXT page. I can probably insert the blank pages using a Python script but I'm not sure which e-pen and writing board I should purchase for my laptop (Lenovo T-460S). I believe handwriting is the only fast, reliable way to take long notes. *Issue 2*: How to effectively take notes for *technical textbooks not in my field*? I just completed the nand2tetris hardware ...

Article URL: https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34124843 Points: 23 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/bSKGN5n via IFTTT

Article URL: https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125674 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fp70IQL via IFTTT

Ask HN: TLD Recommendation? 2 by rrgok | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don't know how to formulate correctly this question. I'll try. Mail in a box (Miab) suggests [0] some good TLD and some bad TLD. This is not to bash on Miab. But to understand from where these suggestion comes from. I own some names with cx, ninja, run and some others. Why would be bad to have a custom domain email address that doesn't belong to the good list of Miab (or any other domain...)? I was planning to make some personal (and work) email addresses with those cheap domains and fastmail (or some other hosting), but now I'm not sure about it. Any particular reason? [0] https://ift.tt/3G1excT

Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-great-forgetting-253223/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116041 Points: 15 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/w1y3Dfv via IFTTT

Article URL: https://austinhenley.com/blog/challengingalgorithms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34118450 Points: 25 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/FVJPE2U via IFTTT

Article URL: https://github.com/ethereum/pos-evolution/blob/master/pos-evolution.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119048 Points: 30 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/JzXu5IA via IFTTT

Article URL: https://cepr.net/wild-inflation-not-anymore-a-closer-look-shows-were-already-approaching-normal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119539 Points: 17 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SQ6P2KH via IFTTT

Ask HN: Racism in London 8 by naissa | 8 comments on Hacker News. I traveled to London this week and I’ve been going to restaurants. When people see me (I’m black), they always say the restaurant is booked. Finally, after a few minutes I came back and spoke to a black woman who was working there and asked for a seat. She gave me a seat right away. According to her, the restaurant was not booked. There was plenty of space. I don’t know what to make of this. Has someone had a similar experience?

Ask HN: What to do about developers from politically problematic countries? 3 by Sunspark | 6 comments on Hacker News. This is a topic I have been thinking about for awhile. I don't see any easy answers so I thought I'd put it out there to see if others have any thoughts or experiences to share. Developers are people. People are the same all over. They have their own feelings and biases and value systems. In the age of globalism, people emigrate everywhere, or they do not, but make their work globally accessible in multiple languages. What does one do when their work is in use, but trust in the product begins diminishing because of their statements or actions? Current examples: 1) Russia: This country is now designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. A number of developers have expressed Pro-Putin viewpoints and support the war against Ukraine. They are also highly intelligent and have good software products. 2) China: We have all heard about the Huawei 5G debacle which resul...

Ask HN: What brick and mortar business would you start? 2 by conductr | 3 comments on Hacker News. Interested to hear ideas on what types of non-software businesses seem interesting to start in 2023? I’m open to all ideas but, for context, I have about 3 acres of undeveloped commercial land at a well trafficked intersection. It’s in a Dallas suburb and I have some capital to develop it but would like to do something other than be a strip center landlord which is the usual thing to do in this locale.

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/12/20/france-starts-a-debate-on-legalising-assisted-dying Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108654 Points: 13 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ybmkVQR via IFTTT

Article URL: https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-0-0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109215 Points: 23 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/J2lWxz6 via IFTTT

3 days from idea to Product Hunt launch and $720/- in sales 3 by chandan_maruthi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Last Thursday my co-founder and I were traveling to a startup event in San Francisco. We had just missed an event earlier in the week and I would have totally missed this one if not for him reminding me. I told Harish how this was a pain for us and others like us. Others like us needed to be at these startup events to be part of the ecosystem of the customer, founders, and investors. Harish agreed that it was a pain and something we faced every day. We said why not "solve" it over it the weekend. Put it up on PH and see what happens. We put together a simple Airtable. Harish would update with events coming up, and I would automate this with the calendar. We spent last weekend on it. I read a ton of articles on "How to" do a PH launch. I learned that Tue-Thu are good days to launch. Most of them suggested a 2-3 month prep. But we had given ourselves just tha...

Article URL: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/neural-search-frameworks-a-head-to-head-comparison-976aa6662d20 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34107410 Points: 16 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/I7k0JhP via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you overcome decision paralysis when shopping? 8 by behnamoh | 8 comments on Hacker News. In my home country (not the US), shopping was simple: Just go to a few stores and see what's available (they often carried similar items). Then make a purchase and go home. In the US, however, there aren't many shops where I live. Everyone I know buys things online, but there are many e-commerce websites and each has its own perks and quirks. Let's just consider Amazon. I fully experience the paradox of choice whenever I search for something on Amazon, because there are 100s or even 1000s of options that I don't know which one to choose. I spend hours and hours trying to buy even the simplest things (e.g., a butter dish, skillet, etc.) What are your strategies to deal with this situation? Are there better search engines than Amazon's builtin search that can help reduce the noise when shopping?

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/12/22/do-simpler-machine-learning-models-exist-and-how-can-we-find-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096988 Points: 38 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/70vJ4Tg via IFTTT

Version 4.2.0 of the Darktable raw photo editor is out. New features include a new display transform module, a pair of new highlight-reconstruction algorithms, and more; see the announcement and this Libre Arts article for more. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/7THrbDm via IFTTT

Article URL: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095032 Points: 34 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/bmCjG7v via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to start a public identity from scratch in late 2022? 9 by oliverjudge | 2 comments on Hacker News. For the past few years conventional wisdom would have said to spin up the the usual socials (Twitter for thought, Instagram for visuals, Short Video for younger audiences), but with the amount of turmoil in those spaces at the moment are they really the best places to start building an individual platform. I've seen a movement back to personal blogs and newsletters but do they provide enough discovery to help people find you? If you were starting from nothing today where would you put the focus for where your content lives and how you distribute it?

The past few months have been stressful for most people in the tech industry owing to mass layoffs everywhere. Luckily, I survived the layoffs at my company. But I was very anxious during the period it was announced and it affected my mental health quite a bit. However, on talking to a few other engineers at my company, I realized not everyone was as stressed. They are confident in their skills to get a new equivalent job which would easily support their current lifestyle, even in the current market. They have what I would call, "F-You Skills - Enough skills to know that you would never have to worry about money in your life", a spin on the more commonly known term "F-You Money" [1]. I was wondering if HN users ever think of their own skills in this context. If yes, how should one go about building these skills. To be clear, I am not talking about interviewing skills, which are also equally important. But I am more interested in technical skills that people believe ...

Ask HN: Can you please help me support my tvguide project? 2 by tux | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi I'm Tux, creator of TVNFO (https://tvnfo.com) tvguide project, been around since may/2016. It's a curated and manually updated content. Currently I'm working on version 2 with more features, like Movies/Collages/Boxsets. It takes a lot of work, but I've been doing it mostly as a hobby. This is the first time ever I'm asking for donations publicly on HN. I could really use your help with donations. TVNFO never used any advertisments and most traffic is word of mouth users with little to no donations. With your help I can make public website more open to everyone to enjoy. If you are interested in this type of content please consider helping (https://ift.tt/0osqxHi). By making a donation you will receive full account with more features :) Comments are welcome but please be kind, this is the first time I ask for help on HN like this ^_^ Private email comments (in my HN ...

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/palantirs-spac-bets-backfire-hitting-companys-growth-11671511333 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082958 Points: 33 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/viHr0fu via IFTTT

Article URL: https://substack.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34084089 Points: 11 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://substack.com/ via IFTTT

Ask HN: I'm enjoying Apple's ecosystem. Should I be worried? 3 by behnamoh | 4 comments on Hacker News. I own a few iDevices: MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. I don't necessarily use Apple's services (e.g., News, Music, Podcast, ...) but I find the tight integration of Apple's devices so enjoyable that I wonder why no other company has even tried to do that. I like the hands-off feature, the fact that Apple's devices are "aware" of each other, so I can put my Watch to sleep mode and it automatically tells that to my MBP, iPhone, and iPad too. I like the buttery smoothness of iOS and macOS, and the fact that Apple's design guidelines has resulted in a somewhat uniform UI experience across third-party apps, so I don't have to re-learn how to use new apps. I can talk a lot about why I'm so sold on Apple's ecosystem, but the cynic geek inside me gets worried sometimes. Is it all a perfectly designed trap? What's the catch? W...

Ask HN: Does TypeScript live up to the hype? 3 by speedylight | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’ve only ever used vanilla JavaScript ever since I got into WebDev and while it can annoying to work with at times, it’s really well rounded overall in my opinion especially the current version of ECMAScript. Combined with svelte it’s absolutely delightful. Then I started hearing more about Typescript on Twitter and such and I got really curious because everyone had at least one good thing to say about it - mainly the data types aspect of it. Which is the only benefit that I can really wrap my head around.

Article URL: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34072345 Points: 8 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/bavPADq via IFTTT

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-fargo-reaches-record-3-135449093.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34067782 Points: 72 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/TeydXjB via IFTTT

Ask HN: What are the tools you use for job search? 3 by digitalsanctum | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a software engineer and I use a combination of manual searches and a couple of bash scripts for doing things like getting reviews of prospective companies. I'm curious what others are doing in this space to separate the signal from noise.

Article URL: https://blog.picnic.nl/why-picnic-picked-java-e53fafe0df1b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064310 Points: 25 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/LKbdauH via IFTTT

Ask HN: Are there valuable insights from the Twitter files? 7 by mind-blight | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've been reading the Twitter files, but I'm struggling to find anything that's much of a revelation in them. Twitter removes pictures of Hunter Biden's penis, and US three-letter agencies meet with top social media execs seem pretty weak. I'm fairly left-leaning though, so I may be glossing over something. Objectivity, are there details that are valuable outside of scoring political points?

Ask HN: Bet on the Success of OpenAI/ChatGPT 2 by smithcoin | 1 comments on Hacker News. A friend of mine and I were debating the likely "disruptions" that ChatGPT will have in the coming years and how it will alter various industries. The timeline he suggested was 2 years. The questions I have are this: - What do you think is a reasonable litmus-test for measuring this? (e.g number of employed workers in AI) - He was willing to and I quote "bet my career" on the outcome of this. I have no need for his career. In the spirit of the bet what would you think is a prize that is worthy of this? (e.g something tongue in cheek like dinner at an AI powered White Castle[0]) I will be posting the bet on Longbets.org. I have attempted to leave my position/bias out of this post in relation to the bet. [0] https://ift.tt/67Opixq

Article URL: https://blog.tempus-ex.com/hello-video-codec/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055101 Points: 18 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ovtsQhm via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022? 3 by huseyinkeles | 0 comments on Hacker News. I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience! Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast and Darknet Diaries. Any other suggestions? (Asked the same question 2 weeks ago but didn’t get any traction. Sorry if it’s against the rules to send again)

Article URL: https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/whats-new-in-bazel-6-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055006 Points: 23 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/vpaRmI9 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Looking for a Programable Text Editor 4 by xcubic | 2 comments on Hacker News. I’m not sure if this exists, but I’m curious what would be the closest thing available to an “Event based programmable text editor”. Imagine this scenario: - Every monday at 10, the editor, would inject a checklist into your work log with some weekly checks you do at work. - Some of the checks are manual, some have inputs to accept extra data - Some are automated because you wrote a snippet of code for doing such check - On save, convert to json and send to someone via email - Every time you do this, you need to do a followup around 2days later with the person that received the checklist. They will provide a paragraph with some feedback that you need to save. To do so, your editor, already injected a form into your work log for doing so. This is just an example but could go very far I imagine.

Version 4.0.0 of the Apache SpamAssassin spam filter has been released. Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 contains numerous tweaks and bug fixes over the past releases. In particular, it includes major changes that significantly improve the handling of text in international language. As with any major release, there are countless functional patches and improvements to upgrade to 4.0.0. Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 includes several years of fixes that significantly improve classification and performance. It has been thoroughly tested in production systems. We strongly recommend upgrading as soon as possible. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/4lipbng via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.circusscientist.com/2022/12/18/ubuntu-snap-update-spoiled-the-world-cup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041272 Points: 51 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wdcgsml via IFTTT

Ask HN: Should the downvote button exist in comments here? 2 by seydor | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am noticing a lot of emotionally-driven downvoting in the past 3-4 years. Do we really need another reddit?

Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? 13 by CM30 | 12 comments on Hacker News. Not newspapers or media services (though those can be annoying too), but products in general? It feels like it's getting harder and harder to just buy something in the tech world, especially when it comes to running programs on my home computer. Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. Note taking app? SaaS. Image editor or office suite? SaaS (thanks Adobe...) This is especially annoying given I generally refuse to rent anything in life, and will go out of my way to buy something upfront simply so there's no risk of losing it if finances get worse in future (or the wrong billionaire buys the company). Yet it seems like it's getting harder to do so, especially when open source products don't exist for that domain. So yeah, why is that? And is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of subscriptions for things that should be one off purchases?

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/16/apple_decoy_labor_group/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040361 Points: 78 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wz2Zla0 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.andycleff.com/2022/12/doing-no-better/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040377 Points: 6 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ydSMpVC via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do OLED displays only save energy with absolute black? 3 by fortnum | 0 comments on Hacker News. It was always my understanding that OLED displays use less energy the darker the screen is. However I now came across some information that this is actually only true for absolute black (#000000). Is that correct? Does #010101 use the same energy as #FFFFFF or do darker shades still use less energy?

Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP 2 by wereallterrrist | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, Is this a known thing? I'm pretty frustrated, and even given my near-complete disillusionment about capital-driven-tech these days, I can't believe Google is doing this. I just got home from being in Mexico where I used my VPN (because of course US financial apps panic if you access them outside the US). I fired up my LG TV running the YouTube app (which I'm not signed into) and every, single, ad is in Spanish. My Edge browser on my desktop computer gives results in Mexico and claims I'm in Quintanna Roo. In many places, I cannot override this, at least without signing in and/or apparently explicitly feeding it more accurate location data to "fix" it's perception. Is this expected/known? At one point, it even said "based on your IP address" despite the fact that my IP clearly looks up to a Washington State IP address. I just wish I co...

This is a quick prototype I built for semantic search and factual question answering using embeddings and GPT-3. It tries to solve the LLM hallucination issue by guiding it only to answer questions from the given context instead of making things up. If you ask something not covered in an episode, it should say that it doesn't know rather than providing a plausible, but potentially incorrect response. It uses Whisper to transcribe, text-embedding-ada-002 to embed, Pinecone.io to search, and text-davinci-003 to generate the answer. More examples and explanations here: https://twitter.com/rileytomasek/status/1603854647575384067 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030389 Points: 7 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/sMdAbUk via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2022/12/16/avr-gcc-compiler-makes-questionable-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34029750 Points: 25 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MLRJz5W via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.archdaily.com/956906/corviale-a-one-kilometer-residential-complex-in-rome Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34029784 Points: 16 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/tKQ23Er via IFTTT

Ask HN: Similar Books like “Raytracing in one Weekend” 16 by augunrik | 2 comments on Hacker News. I really liked the "Raytracing in one Weekend" Series [0], in terms of: explaining a complicated concept by programming a toy implementation of the thing itself and afterwards one is left with more knowledge and something to "show". Does someone know similar series on other subjects than raytracing? I know there is the Advent of Code, but that's more like solving a puzzle. [0]: https://ift.tt/9bB2aWG

Ask HN: Front End Development 2022 2 by dcwardell | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been happy working as a back end developer my whole career, but now I want to learn front end development. It's a little daunting since the space is so large and things change so fast. I have 2 questions: 1. If you were to start a new product and had complete control of the front end stack, which tech would you choose and why? 2. What are some good resources (books, tutorials, etc.) to learn front end development in general (patterns, best practices, etc.) or the tech in particular.

Article URL: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/digital-work-and-exploitation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34012659 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ql89xOw via IFTTT

Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work? 12 by wassenaar10 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was born in the late 90s so by the time I got involved in technology, my introduction to Unix and Unix-flavored systems was limited to Linux and MacOS. However, I've read about the history of Unix at Bell Labs, the BSD systems derived from research Unix, and the eventual commercial releases of Unix System V from AT&T themselves. I also see that HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris are apparently still maintained and get releases, which suggests that they are still being used in production in some places. I'm curious if anyone here currently works (or has very recently worked) somewhere where proprietary Unix is still used for production. If so, can you tell me what they're used for and why those deployments haven't been moved to an appropriate Linux distribution? Not suggesting Linux is necessarily better for all use cases, just wondering what keeps these small number of entities cli...

Article URL: https://collabfund.com/blog/selfish-writing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34012796 Points: 9 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kTlzHO2 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://openai.com/blog/new-and-improved-embedding-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34003394 Points: 23 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/OmNFgRZ via IFTTT

Ask HN: I'm desperate. How can I overcome anxiety in interview situations? 2 by raydev | 6 comments on Hacker News. Apologies for the ramble, I feel like context is useful here. I've had a decade long career, with the latter half at some decently big name tech companies. I code, I ship, the features I've worked on and led development on are now in the hands of millions of users. Unfortunately I was recently laid off, not due to performance issues. My whole team was deleted, and I understand the motivations for it, it is what it is. Over the years, I've had an uncomfortably high interview failure rate despite my successes. I've only had success because my resume looks great; when I ship I do it well. But I succeeded in getting my last job because I passed one out of 7 interviews. The more I talk to my peers as I've moved up in the tech world I've learned they do not have similarly high failure rates. They often have competing offers. I am comfortable when se...

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34000131 Points: 75 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/BFQHfVA via IFTTT

LLC legal challenge what do we do? 5 by iambateman | 5 comments on Hacker News. Two friends and I started a public library technology company in 2014. We are collectively majority shareholders but in 2020, we turned operations over to another shareholder, who is paid about $80k/year and has about 25% of shares. Total revenue is holding steady at ~250k/year. In 2021, he issued an amendment to increase the number of allowed shares to dilute us out of ownership. We voted it down. Two weeks ago, he sent out another amendment for the same thing but this time it “passed” because of new shares which he was not authorized to issue. We are not on friendly terms with him, to say the least, but we also aren’t interested in taking over operations ourselves. Is there anything we can do? Any advice is welcome.

Ask HN: How to not be jealous of other people despite being a failure 3 by user-extended | 3 comments on Hacker News. Yes, I am objectively a failure. This might be hard to believe, but I am 23 now, and ever since I was 16, my life has been just failure after failure. At 16 my grades started to fail dramatically. I only made it through High School because of two teachers' "mercy". At 18 I went to college for Computer Science. I failed every single subject I had, even one that had nothing to do with CS. I blew all of my parent's money. At 19, I suffered a rare illness (still have it, in control now), which combined with depression made me into a very anxious person. At 20 I tried studying Robotics at a non-uni level institution, I failed at it, blew my parent's money again, less severely though. I couldn't handle programming and dealing with electricity IRL. At 21 I studied a non-uni level degree in Logistics, actually finished it, and now I'm working a jo...

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/rfs-climatetech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34002518 Points: 29 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/uY21PrM via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-cloud-package-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34002599 Points: 36 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/s5IYCPu via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/nest-thermostat-evolution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33987952 Points: 49 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/TKcudx6 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jxcksweeney Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33988883 Points: 127 # Comments: 68 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/jxcksweeney via IFTTT

Article URL: https://investors.metals.co/news-releases/news-release-details/nori-and-allseas-lift-over-3000-tonnes-polymetallic-nodules/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33988999 Points: 18 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/zhiNwoa via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why doesn't UPS show tracking history anymore? 2 by gnicholas | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been tracking packages recently and noticed that UPS only shows the most recent location of my packages. It used to show the entire history, which was useful because it was easier to tell when something went wrong. All other shippers we use (FedEx, DHL, Amazon) seem to still show full histories. Anyone have an idea why UPS would have changed this?

Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/former-mobile-phone-store-owner-sentenced-10-years-federal-prison-multimillion-dollar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33985739 Points: 21 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/4NjLfdH via IFTTT

Article URL: https://schollz.com/blog/bike/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986741 Points: 49 # Comments: 38 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/v8kzh3c via IFTTT

Help, Pick a Business Name 3 by grANDr | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am developing a new website about freelancers job listing. Please help me pick a name from list below (or recommend any funny name):/ ferrylancer dot com / looselancer dot com / nonestaffs dot com / Thank you in advance.

Ask HN: Is Anyone in Industry Using Logic Programming? 4 by joeatwork | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you use prolog or Clojure core.logic or Mercury or anything like that at your job? If so, what do you use and why?

Article URL: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M22-1787 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974632 Points: 25 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/q7br5Yo via IFTTT

Ask HN: Any other Twitter users seeing an uptick in spam DMs? 3 by binarynate | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if this is a systemic thing or just me. I keep my DMs open so my customers can DM me with questions. It used to be rare for me to get spam messages (maybe once every few weeks?), but over the past few weeks it has become more frequent, and now I'm getting spam messages daily (3 so far today). Most of the spam messages are about hiring for part-time jobs and have the same basic message structure, so it seems like Twitter should be able to easily identify them as spam, since I've reported them.

Article URL: https://hydras.io/blog/2022-12-13-how-we-built-fastest-postgres-db-for-analytics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974161 Points: 13 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/rKd2VgO via IFTTT

Article URL: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-self-supervised-learning-data2vec/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33972984 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/4ZRXwpS via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you feel about the search feature in Confluence? 6 by yuvalsteuer | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have used Confluence in multiple organizations and have always been disappointed by its search feature. Am I knit picking or is the search in Confluence just plain bad? My problems with it: 1. search terms need to be percise. 2. Complicated advanced search. 3. Slow How would you make it better?

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVIN_PJu2rs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33954176 Points: 11 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVIN_PJu2rs via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-fusion-announcement-from-the-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33958678 Points: 11 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wkUTqCD via IFTTT

Ask HN: What tools do you use for your personal knowledge management system? 5 by zvmaz | 2 comments on Hacker News.

In what programming language would you write new OS? 3 by laxmymow | 2 comments on Hacker News. In your opinion what programming language should be used to write a new operating system for the 21 century?

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00138-z Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33955270 Points: 21 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/m9cFWrt via IFTTT

Article URL: https://dcic-world.org/2022-08-28/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946026 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Rf53tWb via IFTTT

Ask HN: It's time for a `.config` path in repos 3 by maximilianroos | 2 comments on Hacker News. As the number of tools built for repos increases, the roots of repos are becoming increasingly cluttered. A repo like dbt-labs/dbt-core [0] has 21 files in its root, almost all config files like `Makefile`, `Dockerfile.test`, `pyproject.toml`. GitHub's structure — showing the full file listing before the Readme — means that this clutter adds a small tax to browsing repos. Those 21 files appear below 14 directories, so it's 2+ screens before we can see the readme. Would folks support a standard path for config files, like a `.config` path, similar to the XDG default? Tools would look there in addition to the root of the repo, and so we could move many of those config files out of the root. If there were support: I'm not sure of the best way of organizing this. Maybe a few tools start embracing the standard, and others follow? Or we have a "arewedotconfigyet.com" si...

Article URL: https://www.philipotoole.com/how-i-found-a-bug-in-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945115 Points: 77 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/RUxgBKG via IFTTT

Article URL: https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945219 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MTpJqnU via IFTTT