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UnTab is a browser extension to search through open tabs, history, bookmarks and perform common browser actions in just a few keystrokes.

I started working on UnTab as a project for FOSS Hack 2020, to solve my personal problem of searching through dozens of open tabs in my browser. Since then, I have found other use cases that integrate well with the workflow of UnTab, like searching history, doing quick web searches, etc

I have open-sourced this project so that anyone can contribute plugins and themes that can extend the feature-set of UnTab. I had a great learning experience building this product and really hope it is helpful to the community.

Feel free to leave any feedback.

PS: UnTab was one of the winning projects in the hackathon!

GitHub repository: https://github.com/blenderskool/untab
I am not with Cloudflare, but I'd guess something about traffic from your ISP is causing Cloudflare to be uncomfortable with it. Presumably your ISP could discuss it with Cloudflare?
Nicely put! I think most "real" engineers dismissal of software engineering is because we can for the most part ignore physics. This somehow seems like cheating and not mathematical enough to be "real" engineering. I've even heard the claim that discrete mathematics, graph theory, and theoretical computer science is not "real" mathematics. It should be clear that a developing complex software system like Unix, Kubernetes, Redis is engineering, but somehow others from different engineering disciplines cannot see that. After bringing so many great inventions and innovations into this world, how can we once and for all make the case that software engineering is real engineering and get the respect that this field deserves?
This is not a show-stopper.

You can buy a simple office keyboard for $25, but there is a market for custom mechanical keyboards 10x as expensive.

You can watch YouTube for free, but a lot of people buys the premium subscription to remove ads.

Sam thing here: there may be enough people wanting to buy an ad-free, surveillance-free premium TV with user-inspectable, user-updatable open-source firmware, latest HDMI, and in interface for network boxes to taste. Given that it has a good panel, is well-built, has a minimal but premium look, and the producer offers a modicum of tech support, it can easily be sold for at 150% or even 200% the price of an ad-ridden smart TV from big names.

Such a business can be a good business, even though it won't show hockey-stick growth.
This was kind of expected due to the shutdowns required by most countries during the chaos of COVID. Of course we need our infrastructure to be more robust, but no use crying over spilt milk.
Aledade | Software Engineer (many roles, see below) | Remote USA | Bethesda, MD | https://www.aledade.com

Note: We are hiring positions from software engineer all the way to a VP of engineering due to a massive expansion in our business.

The description below feels front-end heavy, but while we are looking for "T-shaped" engineers, heavy front-end experience is not required. Thanks for listening, continue on. :-)

Aledade is a leader in population health that is using innovative, value based solutions to transform the way physicians interact with their patients. We are on a mission to change healthcare for the better and solve complex problems within the healthcare system.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help develop our web application, which helps deliver the right care to the right people at the right time. A Software Engineer on the Aledade App team is primarily responsible for expanding, improving, and maintaining our existing web application. We're looking for our engineers to be self-starting, and proactive; they are expected to serve as a trusted resource on the business logic in place as well as our system architecture. They are expected to work collaboratively, with minimal supervision, to ensure our application meets our users' needs, as well as project requirements and scalability characteristics.

On a personal note, my time at Aledade has been wonderful. The people I've worked with, both on the tech side of the house and the "in the field" employees have all been very knowledgeable and genuinely care about our mission. Our CEO is VERY knowledgeable and genuinely cares about the people in the company, and the transparency is like no other company I've ever worked for.

Our tech stack consists of Python 3, Postgres, Snowflake, DBT, Flask, and moving from Angular to Vue.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions and/or a resume if you're interested.

pmiller@aledade.com

https://jobs.lever.co/aledade/05917ddb-c614-4ec7-84a5-da995c...
>the cost to unmask any given btc txn to asymptotically approach $0.
Mind you, there are several ways to obfuscate transactions even in the bitcoin network. and there are also privacy focused blockchains to whitewash money
Steve Jobs never cared personally much about that, he dropped out from a less know school, worked menial jobs and traveled the world. Wozniak even managed to be expelled from Colorado for hacking the university system. For them, their colleges were not their entire life experience and social life when they founded apple.

It is very different from Brin and Page, that basically catapulted from campus to become billionaires. Their life experience before becoming founders was entirely shaped by Stanford, their identity tied to it. It makes sense that their company reflects this.
I've played this multiple times (there are at least two endings) and I've honestly loved it.

Don't be fooled by the first screen it's actually a pretty fascinating game, if simple.
That's not "anomalous behavior", that's routine: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If you want anomalous behavior: we not only put your post in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), we unbanned wikidot.com and unkilled your submission so that it could go through in the first place.
VW can keep its 'smart car'. I'll keep maintaining my dumb car - look at Cuba and North Korea, you can keep old cars running a long time.
"accident" doesn't tell you anything about what caused their death. They could have been hit by a car, stepped on by an elephant, electrocuted in the bathtub etc. They'd be better off ignoring if it were intentional or accidental and just listing what killed them like asphyxiation, heart failure, etc although that can have problems too since life insurance may or may not pay out without knowing if it was suicide
The is a common question, but there are certain things that are just better done in camera than post. Then there are situations where a combination of in camera + post provides optimum results. Astrophotography is one that can and does use both. The longer you can expose, the more information obtained. For ultimate long shots, you need to compensate for the earth's rotation. You continue to snap away all night, and then take those images into post where you stack the images. The stacking software adds the data together resulting in a single image that is the equivalent of a single image with an exposure time equaling the sum of each shot.

Why do this? If you do single long exposure, there is a very good chance your image will have an airplane fly through, a satellite streak by, or something more terrestrial like a fellow stargazer shining a laser through your frame, car headlights, etc. Taking a series of short exposures limits those issues, and if it happens, you throw out that shot and only loose 45-60 seconds instead of 15 minutes.

Stacking can also use shots you take when the lens is covered called dark frames. You take this for the same exposure time as the normal shots. This provides a noise pattern that builds up in any electronic sensor as the heat builds up from staying energized for so long (as well as natural summertime heat). That noise pattern can then be subtracted by the stacking software. The stacking software can also realign the images so you can use shots from multiple shoot days (er, nights).
Interior Department approves first large-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.
Bigger companies are more compliant to the local laws than smaller companies. Simply because they have more to lose if the local government turns against them, they tread more carefully. Small companies can afford to fly under the radar just because they are small and likely catering to the fringe users and not to the masses.
Except I can do most of those things already.

Listen to music, yes, for most of the vehicles I've owned, though the most recent purchase has no radio (it predates radios in cars being a thing).

Have a conversation, I mean... yes? This is where my wife and I get a lot of discussions in, rolling down the road. If I want to talk to someone remotely, I can just pair my phone and have a conversation that way.

Work? Not directly, but I'm certainly free to have a complex problem rolling around in my head, pondering it from various angles, as I navigate down the road. At least for the stuff I do, this is the hard part, not the actual typing of code.

Sleep? No, but I work with technology for a living. There's no way in hell I would trust self driving nearly enough to close my eyes, much less actually sleep. Maybe in a few decades, but... if I drove in some areas like the current self driving tech, I'd be pulled over for driving while plastered.

I've no problem with driver assist technologies, but with where self driving is, we may as well be discussing antimater powered starships. "What would you pay for a ride on the Enterprise?"
There is no legal precedent I’m aware of that you can carve out one company’s products and claim that constitutes a market over which it holds a monopoly, in the presence of an alternative with comparable market share.
There’s always politics but politics is overhead. It necessary but if the overhead is too large it can easily eat up the bandwidth and leave no room for the actual stuff.

You can’t do if all you do is arguing over what to do and how to do it.

People have limited time and cognitive capacity.
In 10 years, will we see ARM everywhere?
Is there anything in the Android ecosystem that interoperates with AirTags?
Here's a company that sells dumb panels with a HDMI input and Pi Compute Module attached to them: https://www.distec.de/en/products/monitor-solutions/iot-moni...
There have been calls for some time to treat semiconductor manufacturing as in the interest of national security. The funding and policy isn't onerous to do so, and "never let a crisis go to waste." Something similar was already done for rare earths [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=rare+earth+us+national+secur...
By that logic, everyone should use caps and shout. Ad absurdum.
How about you spend some of that cash hoard and do it yourself? I would rather the government start dealing with cyber attacks because that's going to affect the east coast something fierce if this crap keeps going.

If the government gives money then it better talk to these companies about where their items are produced.
No, interacting with UIKit is just one example usage, though important enough to warrant special constructs like that. The people that seem most excited to me are those that work with server side Swift.
What makes you think those political problems won't follow us to whatever techno-autocracy/libertarian-paradise/commune/??? that you are envisioning for Mars?

That's the appeal of dreaming about Mars. It's all vague, hand-wavy, loosey-goosey. It's like a software project, before the first line of code is written. To buy into the vision, you don't need to figure out how it has to work - you just need to have the hope that everything will fall into place, the code will be perfect and defect-free, and it's going to be way better then the system you are re-writing.

The only problem is that billions of people currently depend on the legacy system, and that the vague plan for the re-write calls for it to be carried out blindfolded, with a hand tied behind your back, and to make things more interesting, the language of choice is brainfuck.
If the US government subsidizes them they should also make their services cheaper for US companies.

Hah - one can hope. But really, is there a chance that could happen? I'm not sure if there's any precedent.
What in hell is that????
But you were probably not hiring for roles were being attractive, friendly, used to being in front of a camera and (possibly) extroverted were important, right?
If we're going to go out of our way to acknowledge this new service could be a civic good we should also acknowledge that it could be immensely destructive. If you get to have optimism for a brand new corporate product launch from TikTok I get to have cynicism.

Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity - often in unhealthy ways. Rich people tend to have more followers, white people tends to have more followers, blondes tends to have more followers, sexually provocative content tends to have more followers.

I do not see TikTok shedding its whole zeitgeist to forward a a jobs product that helps the world.
Was hoping the actual linked interview would clarify this, but it too didn’t seem crisp: would it be the cost of buying the car new + $8.50 per hour? Or is the idea that I never have to buy the thing outright, but I could get access to a self-driving car for $8.50 per hour?

The former seems absurd for many of the reasons found in the comments here. The latter would be appealing to me.
Dupe from earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27116601
I mean, it’s also important to recognize that the average salary most people in the US gets paid does not include benefits. Let’s say the salary for a senior engineer is $100k. (This is super low in reality, especially in the tech world. Maybe not when including other types of companies.) Let’s say the typical cost of benefits is 30%. That works out to $130k total. That’s around $10.8k a month. And remember, this is the low end.

In the blog post, they said they’re going to have each person make $6k per month (excluding benefits). Subtracting 30% for benefits, it works out to $50k a year base salary. For software developers in the US, that’s a pittance at any level.

No, OSS devs shouldn’t be forced to take that little to work on important projects like Babel. If we want talented devs working in a certain area, we need to make it financially attractive.
I'm sure we have that, but it's the second filter, after the resumes have provided the first filter. Moving it to step one seems like it would exacerbate the problem.

That is, you'll get better results (in terms of hiring competent employees) if you find out whether the person is physically attractive after you've already anchored on whether they're qualified in a more objective manner. Resumes aren't great at giving you an accurate anchor, but better than nothing, imo.

I'm reminded of a recent study on speed dating that found that higher physical attractiveness increased people's perception of ones intelligence: https://psyarxiv.com/ewvny/

(Just to note, I'm not particularly opposed to TikTok's service as a new avenue to try, but I do agree with the OP that it could make various discriminatory biases worse, and we should be aware of that risk.)
That would be true if the advice was for an individual - when your organization is serving children, you have a responsibility to them and their parents to minimize the risk, which is small but non-trivial
Sure, if you have the same heat source, in an environment with the same atmospheric conditions, working on a piece of meat similar to what you've cooked many times before, you likely don't much need a thermometer, not that it'll hurt.

But a thermometer let's you transfer those skills much more easily to environments with varying conditions, It's especially common for professional cooks to be expected to cook in varying conditions.
> if the position involves performing, recording videos, or pitching to people

I don't know about everyone else, but the last year working from home my life has been an avalanche of video calls. Not infrequently, there's a 60 second pitch that is the most important part of the call.
1. Set up off shore tax havens to not pay tax

2. Lobby government for subsidies

3. Laugh all the way to the off shore bank
The moon has some additional practical hurdles compared to Mars:

1. No atmosphere means no weathering, so all of the moon dust is incredibly sharp and easily coats equipment when it gets kicked up. This dust quickly wears out joints and contact surfaces.

2. The Moon's low gravity and lack of atmosphere mean that you have to carry extra propellant to land.

3. Lack of easily extractable resources. It is comparatively easier to extract water and CO2 on Mars to generate methane for a return trip. A trip to the moon requires carrying all of the fuel for a return trip as well.

Nuclear-powered ships built in orbit would drop transit times significantly but I wonder if they'd significantly reduce Mars <-> Earth costs (you'd still need Starships to shuttle payloads through the atmosphere). They are probably required for mining the asteroid belt though...
Agree with you that not all of these things will apply to every DS role - particularly research heavy ones. But my hope is the vast majority will.
Regarding "my friend left the envelope on a table in his house" not producing the "AirTag found moving with you" alert, this is obviously by design. You get the alert if the tag is planted on your person/vehicle and following you around, not if it happens to be sitting still in a location that you frequent.

The alternative is being constantly bombarded with alerts because other residents of an apartment building also own AirTags, which is not going to be useful to anyone.
No one person solves climate change. Climate change is solved by multiple industries 100000s of researchers, engineers, business people and politicians all working on different aspects. Giving the credit to one person (who has yet to do anything is beyond delusional).

Dislike Musk if you want, but Tesla clearly was successful in convincing the world EV were better and that increase the speed of transition to EVs. That is likely more then the waste majority of people ever did for reducing CO2.

> Also Musk will not make much money from SpaceX because like everything he's involved in the margins are terrible (molecules and atoms don't make money).

SpaceX is making amazing margin on rocket launches. They want make much money from launch because its a pretty small market.

We don't yet know anything about margins for Starlink, but your claim that it won make much money is quite bold and against most analyst opinion.

> His net worth has balooned because of his ability to sell an ever improving vision of the future and constantly moving the goalposts, but solving climate change is becoming a crowded trade socially speaking.

Tesla stock isn't where it is because they are 'solving climate change' but because how large the company is, how fast they are growing, what their automotive margin are and the many future prospects they have.
> Some of the world’s biggest chip buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc’s Google, are joining top chip-makers such as Intel Corp

> to create a new lobbying group to press for government chip manufacturing subsidies

None of those companies need subsidies.
> Bigger companies are more compliant to the local laws than smaller companies.

Sort of, but partly because those bigger companies are often the ones writing the laws. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. operate "public policy teams", whose goal is to push legislators to enshrine their business practices as law.
Because we automate away jobs.

If you can fill more orders with fewer employees you go up in value, either as the ceo or the company share price.

Weve been automating away jobs in all sorts of places for decades. Sometimes that's robots. More often its just production method changes. No more need for skilled taxi drivers when you have GPS etc.
> Here's a reasonable metric: who controls the market for iPad or iPhone applications, and how did that compare to who controlled the market for applications that ran on Windows at the peak of Microsoft's dominance?

Apple for iOs and software distributors and computer store retailers for the windows application market.

Microsoft dominated the market for operating systems for home computers, and they did a bunch of nasty stuff, including using their dominance to effectively restrict and/or prevent bundling of other operating systems with new computers, and there were shenanigans done against a handful specific products made by others, but AFAIK Microsoft did not make any attempt to dictate what applications computer stores sold. If you could convince distributors and retailers, your software could be on shelves. There were made for windows labeling programs, and those are now compulsory for drivers, but that's outside the Microsoft abuses time frame and there's not the same kind of pushback.

Google's control of Android is similar, but not nearly the same. Developers can make apks available for users and users can pretty easily install them; the experience seems to be getting consistently better, my newest phones will show a warning on opening that links to the checkbox and when you tick the box you can install the apk directly, without having to find it again. It's not quite as easy as running a setup program on windows, but it's darn close.

Sure, most developers don't provide apks, and most users don't use direct apk links when they're provided, but it's an available option vs jailbreaking an iOS device which requires a lot of fiddly steps. There's also a concern about Google enforcing some terms on downloaded apks that are also distibuted through the Play store, at least a few years ago, they didn't like non-google in app payment, even if it was only in the direct apk; and Google Play's security scanning apparatus runs against downloaded apks and sometimes shows scary messages which may be anti-competitive.

I think there's certainly a legal question about if Apple's captive market can be considered a market for anti-trust purposes. If so, there's a clear case of anti-competitiveness, IMHO. If the relevant market is applications on smartphones or tablets, I don't think Apple has enough marketshare that the anti-competitive things they do are prohibited, because IMHO, they only do things that are prohibited in combination with strong market power.

Google, on the other hand, probably has enough market power, regardless of segmentation, but they also are signficantly less restrictive.
SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories.

In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5031, for example, which directly addresses those aspects of the early site in a very humorous way.
Very much not correct. The Plank time is a rough scale at which we know that our theories do not work. That might mean that a new discrete theory appears there (which is frankly quite probable), but we most certainly do not know whether that is the case and it is just as possible that the underlying theory is continuous.