skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#1 is I think often the biggest issue, or rather a direct easy to spot symptom of the central issue which is that "agile" is just blanket applied as a development methodology to everything, including many projects that have no business being agile, while the project requirements aren't agile at all.

Agile is better thought of as a product management than a development methodology. It is meant to be agile in developing your product to iterate quickly and respond to feedback from real users. It's a great fit after a MVP is released to users to iterate on their interaction in a responsive way. It's not an ideology to be followed religiously for all projects with all constraints (particularly those where those paying for it want specific features/dates are a poor fit).

- If a given project is only agile on the development side and not also the project and product management/sponsor side, there's going to be a ton of friction.

- If all projects use the same methodologies (be it agile or waterfall or some other new hip flavor) to develop regardless of their scope and needs and sponsor, there's going to be a ton of friction.

- If your teams adjust their approach to meet the needs of the project at hand, and all aspects of the team for a given project are in sync with that approach not just developers, you just may be able to glean a relatively smooth experience.
Pinboard was nice and simple once, but nowadays doesn't seem to be maintained and is broken in many ways. I've been trying to export my archive backup for almost a year without success.
I don't see a lot of discussion about security at the moment, other than a potential for self-hosting. I created an account but I don't see MFA, which is a hard requirement for me. I'd love to look again once virtual MFA or hardware MFA is supported. I'd also be comfortable with GitHub OAuth as well, since I can manage MFA there and I think I'd integrate GitHub anyway. I'd love to see a paid bug bounty program for a product like this.

If that's addressed, I'm interested, although my use case is different. I do contract work, mostly short-term time-sensitive projects where I need to rapidly get productive on client systems. So far I've managed this by working from a beefy machine and putting each client's environment in their own local VM. The separation of clients is important since I work with multiple clients at a time, and mixing would be a huge issue.

This works fairly well. At the start of the contract I spin up a new VM. I've got standard dotfiles and install scripts I copy/paste from a Gist, then I manually install anything client specific. I needed to spin up a cloud env recently for a client who had a very memory hungry web app. The cloud env worked well, although I noticed the latency.

It looks like Nimbus will let me spin down my "beefy cloud VM" when I'm not using it, to save costs. I don't do that currently, mostly because I don't see a _trivial_ one-click way to do it. This looks like roughly 2x EC2 pricing (8cpu/32G $0.26 vs $0.58), so reducing running hours is key. I'd want fast VM start times, I don't want to wait too long. I'd probably be interested in even larger instance types, as throwing more hardware on a project is worth it to me if it helps me work faster and justify higher rates.

(edit, looks like there's a 14 day trial. I won't try this before there's an MFA solution, but it would be nice if the trial would start when I spin up the first VM.)
> The ONLY way to prevent this is to either stop offering loans or force savings in some way (taxes, etc). But apparently both those options are off the books.

This is how the system is actually designed. Social security is a mandatory annuity/savings and disability insurance program. Many countries also have mandatory contributions into their 401K (OECD Pillar 2) equivalents.

Even in the US, where these contributions are mandatory, the tax code is set up to make them extremely desirable for the employer and the employee.

> loans for everything is standard now

Stopping this would be as simple as having an indebtedness line added to the tax code. In many countries, there is a maximum level of debt that a person is allowed to carry. Companies aren't allowed to issue new debt if the repayment for all of their current debt exceeds some percentage of their income.
> And, 100% agree on normalizing databases. Are there companies that don't?

Oh heck yeah there are.
Arguing in extremes helps no one. Do a better job in your selection process and setting up proper paper trails and agreements.

It's absurd how this extreme is used to justify micromanagement without recognizing how things have exploded despite micromanagement being the status quo. Haven't seen a single stereotype micromanagement scrum shop care enough about the consequences of letting a few cowboys loose only to have trouble hiring devs to fix the mess later (because no self-respecting developer wants to fix old code with near zero documentation for a pittance).
I run Arch™ on all of my production servers since 2016 and never had any real problems or the need to reinstall either. The newer ones use docker with Alpine images, but the hosts still run Arch. Packages are updated every few days or weeks. On most servers I use the LTS kernel, pin it and only update it every couple of months to keep downtime low. That's it. The first ever server still runs fine with all its legacy apps thanks to a couple of custom packages.

One of the things I like about arch is that it keeps app config as upstream as possible. Debian's custom app config with all its magic scripts used to cause so much trouble. Yes, I only have <10 servers and the way I maintain them does not scale up too well. But that's something we have the "cloud" for these days anyway.
No less than 3 cookie consent dialogs and as a bonus, they push newsletter subscription page into history in case you decide to push back button.
I think you're missing that the website is satire. So the hyperbolic reductions it presents serve a comedic purpose. The site is supposed to make you laugh, not 100% accurately depict reality. What makes it good comedy is that triggers a cognitive dissonance by distilling frustrations with different software methodologies into ever-so-slightly absurd statements that almost represent reality, but not quite.

> This seems very stereotyping. Does anyone actually experience this? In this job market?

While not directly spoken to engineers' faces, there are absolutely people who think this way. And I know former coworkers who have worked in pair programming shops, so that part is actually factual. Innocence is bliss, though (;
You have probably considered this, but just to wonder about an option, might a larger (say 15 or 30 total) preset space be searched by a user, UX-wise, via A/B testing or better/worse responses?
Scaling to the Moon
Bookmarks don't work.
What does work is saving a snaphot of the page, including content (and maybe the trail path). There is no way of 'archiving'.
This is why I like pocket..

The rabbithole is a trap btw..
I moved from delicious to pinboard, then from pinboard to nextcloud bookmarks, then finally to Evernote. Clipping pages to Evernote means I get both the link and a searchable snapshot of the content: helpful for discovery and if the link rots.
Police in the UK recommend leaving your car keys somewhere obvious downstairs in your house for similar reasons.
What feedback are potential investors giving you? What are your pain points?
Using Google Docs isn't ideal, and I didn't want to. However, I believe that the time has come that "ordinary people" (i.e. not HN readers) need to get interested in open source. I needed a solution that would be familiar and would definitely scale if the presentation got traffic.

The presentation is public domain.
I second raindrop. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s really good, very affordable, and new features are released regularly.
This once again shows that context matters a lot. I agree OPs post sounded like horrifying abuse, but it's easy to forget cultural differences.
I use notion to save links into a database.
What is the startup? Is it something you can run solo and charge money for?
And if the user is wanting to visit something like Ford.com, Google can charge Ford millions over time to be the first result, pitting them in a bidding war against Chevy for the top result (with tiny ad disclaimer) for a search for "Ford".
It's entirely possible he knows he's being tracked and might be perfectly fine with it. I've heard of people using GPS tracking apps to track down grandparents with dementia or other health issues, as well as recovering addicts in case they don't come home when expected or answer the phone after some period and all of that was consentual because they agreed it would only be used in the case of an emergency. This might be something like that.
Economy of scale. You make little from a large population. Or you can go Nestle level evil and straight out exploit the most in need [1]. Plenty of ways for BigCo to make money of developing nations.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestlé_Inf...
This is a serious story until you see the photo on file they have for one of the members. Got a good chuckle out of that.

Quite interesting that they are soliciting inquiries via tor also.
And in those posts you see plenty of discussion with pro/anti arguments.

It's not a hivemind just because people have strong opinions you disagree with.
This looks useful! Thanks for linking
Magnet is deprecated, use Rectangle which is open source.
well there's the benefit of having higher educated and presumably higher paid tenants.
> how unconscious is now commonly used

Freud and Jung used the term unconscious (das Unbewusste) - it is probably not a recent trend.
On being mentally unwell (part 1)
>Have you considered a friend's and family round?

Is this really a good idea? Not judging, just stirring the thought-pot.
Where did I deny Covid? I simply asked if stronger vaccines could lead to stronger viruses and make things worse than they already are
It seems there are two problems with something in common. Many people don't use their expensive hearing aids after purchase and fitting. And many people might not use inexpensive hearing aids after purchase and whatever fitting. Hmmm.
I feel you, and I'm not in software, nominally I'm a Product Owner from the business side. As a business we didn't understand the problem we are facing yet, we have no strategy how to tackle the problem in limited time and with the limited resources we have. And since two weeks Dev Ops is pushing me to come up with a headcount estimate to develop the software solutions we need. Because, of course, upper management needs resource estimates to come up with a reduced budget. It's a mess. And our BPO is fully on-board with this, because career opportunities. And the other POs have close to no experience. The DevOps head never had any IT experience before he became DevOps. We have a whole bunch scrum masters, agile coaches and the like. We have zero functional consultants, and we are looking at an ERP implementation project here. Oh, and the last developer we had on the project didn't see the difference between a technical and a business go-live or the need to conduct proper use-case based user acceptance tests. Or proper requirements definitions, because, you know, agile. It's a mess.
Not lazy.. they simple don't give a damn.
I think firefox has everything you need already. I use librewolf in linux but any firefox on a desktop OS should behave in the way I describe below.

> i want rich bookmark behavior.
This points needs specifics. What do we mean by rich? what are the outcomes we're trying to achieve?

> i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs.
> or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites.
This can be easily achieved through folders in a bookmarks toolbar. For example I have a folder called 'News' with my top 4 sites. When I open the browser, I just right-click on the 'News' folder, click on "open all bookmarks" and those sites open on a tab each.
One click and half a second... very efficient!

> or pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole.
> and i want it to be intuitive, efficient, and a prominent UX feature set.
In a rabbit hole window with X tabs -> right click on the tabs area -> select all tabs -> bookmark tabs -> then from there you can create folder 'rh 17 August'
Next time you open a browser, just right click on that folder and open all. When done, just delete the folder.
Once you learn this, it's a one or two second process so it's very efficient in my view.

You might argue that this option could become a one-click thing (ie a right-click menu item called 'save all tabs as bookmarks' and use an automated name) but that brings a whole new range of problems (cluttered interface for users that don't want this, and therefore decrease in overall UI efficiency)

> i'm not alone right?
No, many people like me relies on bookmarks. I share the frustration others shared around the bookmarks toolbar being hidden by default. However, by using standard behaviour I manage to make bookmarks work in a pretty efficient way.
The alternative for "maximize" on Mac is to simply double click the Window, although some Windows do not have much of a "title" or "bar" to click on, because of modern simplification of GUIs, and this can cause accidents to happen. Still, I will argue it is incorrect to have the maximize button do something that I hardly ever need to do, that is, enter full screen for the given window.

Both Gnome and KDE are better desktop environments, heck even Windows 11 has done a better job (although they ruined the taskbar now).

The mere fact that you can not change things to your liking on Mac proves my point. You have to buy- and install third party applications from developers that you do not know or trust, and that is just to fix some of the most basic issues. Microsoft recently also decided to go down this route, and have now sabotaged their own Taskbar, preventing users from moving it.

It has nothing to do with "not being used to the Mac-way" – these things are just worse on Mac. There is nothing good about not having direct access to the location address in your File Manager, or not being able to change this stupid default behaviour of various keys and UI elements.

The ability to use "cut" on files, and actually change location by a text-based address bar are both to be considered core features. It is entirely brainless and inconvenient that we have to hold in "option" just to get a "move files" option to show up in the right click context menu.
"Tracker Detect": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...
There may just be some Russian patriots within their intelligence network who felt the invasion was a bad move for Russia and hoped alerting the US in advance would avert it.

Similar happened in the German military before WW2.
I use Zotero with cloud sync. It's got full text search, tagging, webpage snapshotting, and PDF annotations
Apply to YC - it’s perfect for startups with some early traction and no VC network. Even just doing the application is a great exercise.

An alternative to VC money is monetize your users and live cheaply while you grow revenue.

I shut down a company with really great product-market fit, but a small TAM. I don’t regret it, but I wish I didn’t have to. Real traction is gold.
You don’t need to plan and prioritize these updates. You can only install them in one order and the proper time is now.

If this pisses you off you’re not Apples target audience.
Let's go!

I'm currently living rent-free in an unoccupied student room in Edinburgh (it's out of term here, and I'm living with friends). I'm spending most of this month enjoying the Edinburgh Fringe Festival[0] (I saw 7 shows yesterday). The remainder of my time goes on Open Source/contracting work.

Due to the Fringe, this month is unusual and I'm not satisfied with my open source activity: it's mostly code reviews, force-multiplier work, mentoring and small changes, rather than larger architectural work or features.

Financially: In the UK, the minimum wage is £9.30/hour. This is around $20k/year. Open Source work nets me between $10 and $1.50/h via Open Collective (donation funded), plus <$100/m monthly from Patreon/GitHub Sponsors. I have a financial buffer from previous employment and my main aim is to avoid drawing into this buffer. I contract on a part-time basis, and this fills the income gap.

I've previously listed my hopes for the next month[1]. I want a multi-monitor setup for my next 2-week project, and that's not feasible to travel with.

Am I OK? I am for now. Although my lifestyle offers me a lot of flexibility, it isn't feasible to start a family or hit the traditional 'life goals' while living in this manner. It's a shame to have to fundraise for small personal projects (<$10k), rather than funding them yourself. I'm making financial sacrifices to be where I am and have an irrational worry about what the move back to traditional employment would look like in terms of salary, perceived experience, and coming to terms with the reduction of personal and creative freedom.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32312955
Okay, can you give an example of how that would look?
100k mau is hard to achieve. Don’t throw that away. Maybe you set the price too high for investors?
Read the thread below, I gave an example and go into detail about Signal.
Isn't Epson the king of user-hostile MBA stunts? If one company has forever lost my business, it would have to be them.
Aside from everyone pointing out most browsers do everything you ask, there is a new (-ish?) feature in Chrome history called Journeys. It's an interesting approach to solve the 'reasearch rabbit hole' and has been useful for me but would be better if it was exposed in the UI in a better way.
If it was intentional ... I hear your cry for help.
Yes "this" was supposed to mean the whole "pay for news" thing has nothing to do with defamation laws.
The back of the envelope math is beautiful here. EV production is really ramping up now. Tesla expects to put out around 2 million cars per year by the end of the year. If we round the kwh of their batteries down a little to 50kwh, we get some nice round number to work with. 2 million cars is 2 x1000 x 1000 times 50 kwh is 100 gwh. So Tesla alone is adding 100gwh of battery per year (well a bit more but you get my point). Other manufacturers are also producing cars. and we'll soon hit 20 million EVS per year. Or about 1 twh / year of battery production.

Those batteries have long lives in the car and then typically a second life in storage solutions. Some cars now come with vehicle to grid technology and when they are plugged in, they could be used to provide power to the home, or the grid.

So we have a fleet of car batteries that is currently growing by the hundreds of gwh per year and soon twh per year that can be plugged into the grid. Even just using a tiny amount of that represents an enormous amount of power.

That's a huge buffer to dump excess power in during the day (from e.g. solar panels) and withdraw from during peak hours. The current Tesla virtual power plant is tiny in comparison. If you then consider that batteries have a fixed number of cycle times (around 1500 or so), you basically get to pwh scale in terms of amounts of energy that flow through that buffer every year. A lot of that power is cheap renewable power. Just with car batteries. Other storage solutions are available. The world currently produces a bit over 25 pwh per year currently.
If you pay attention, you will note the authors of this decided to Ditch KDE and apparently design their own UI, which would be more like Mac. My point is, power users do not really want Mac desktop environment – it is just a "necessary" evil that we are stuck with.
India is overrated. It will never go to wars. so US should up ties with the Pakistan and Afghanistan, Remember its pakistan that defeated Russia in Afghanistan and also defeated America in Afghanistan with US AID. They have more caliber to defeat the next super power.

If Biden is smart, he should up the relationship with Pakistand and Afghanistan. its deadly combo
To be fair, when you lose something, you're not only at the mercy of the person who finds it (if they do), but you're also asking a complete stranger to do something for you.

If I have time I could drive across town to deliver something to you, if I don't I'll leave it there.
Awesome ! Congrats on the Show HN launch.

curious to know if you are using the newly introduced JSON Type?

At work we run a small CH cluster ( 10 TB+ Data ) and the functions for Working with JSON consume too much CPU resources.
But that’s the point: you’re already paying more in taxes for healthcare than anyone else in the world, and then you’re paying again to an insurance company. You’re literally paying twice.
Are you saying that because the number of possible signatures is so vast and the vaccines so specific, even if they get slightly broader it isn’t going to make things worse because in the grand scale of things we aren’t really walling too much off?
>You're forgetting about taxes though. A lot of cash-based transactions are not declared.

In NYC medallion cabs, all taxi rides are recorded by the taxi meter in each car. It records the distance and the fare charged, regardless of payment method.

So that's not really the issue.
I'd love my post to be an argument in extremes for arguments sake. It is, unfortunately, half of my daily work at the moment...
I actually had to do this yesterday for a small fuzzy search through bookmarks thing I’m building for myself.

It was something like:

SELECT url FROM moz_places WHERE id IN (SELECT fk FROM moz_bookmarks)

You can find more info on that database here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places/Places_SQL_queries_best_prac...
https://archive.ph/BwPlM
tab stash is a pretty decent extension for quickly saving tabs and then restoring them later with one click

https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash

and unlike some other tab management extensions, it uses native bookmarks to store things which means you can still access the stashed tabs if you sync them to firefox mobile
DiDi in deep doo-doo over 64B illegal acts of data collection
Covid antibodies, even vaccine induced ones, don't stick around for much more than 3-6 months. Whatever natural immunity you got nearly 3 years ago is long since useless. You're either getting lucky or an asymptomatic case and not knowing it.

edit: Since you're unvaccinated, go get a covid antibody test and check for yourself how good (or terrible) your immunity is to the virus. You can take either one, the S type or N type test, since you won't get a false positive from vaccine antibodies. Put your money where your mouth is and find out exactly how little protection natural immunity from 3 years ago is providing you.
We do this here in Sonora, CA. Our PV array supplies more than our A/C uses. We turn the A/C on around 10am, cool to 70°, turn off at 3pm. House insulation has limited indoor temperature to 76° on recent 101° days.
There's a bunch of interesting work happening in the blockchain space around formal verification languages that can compile to smart contracts.

Makes sense - not only do you lose money if you get it wrong but it is very difficult to correct!
What do you mean by "despite the weaker security"? Did I miss something about a security hole?
del.icio.us?! What memories! I remember that when I discovered it I spent 24 hours labeling my markers, I think it was back in 2008.
Since it disappeared I have been using firefox bookmarks, because of its ease to make backup copies, also yesterday I discovered that they can be tagged and those terms are included in the firefox search box, so far I am happy, but it is also not I use markers very often.
Which part of the argument do you disagree with?
I often wonder if our lack of exposure to pathogens and parasites have anything to do with the extreme rise of auto immune diseases.