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Show HN: Ringer – Get and provide expert help on Open Source Software
Hello HN,

Over the past few months we've been building Ringer, an Experts Marketplace focussed on Open Source Software. We want to help make Open Source more sustainable and believe that we can be a part of making that happen.

We're approaching this from the perspective of the individual developer - if you contribute to OSS then you can register instantly with your GitHub account and list yourself to provide paid support, knowledge and help for the repositories that you contribute to. We only allow those who we can prove contribute to repositories to list themselves as experts, and show details of contribution history for the experts in the system so that customers can see exactly how the experts can help.

We process payments to over 100 different countries via Stripe, and handle all of the paperwork to make the process as frictionless as possible, including 1099s for US based experts.

We're building out tools to improve the developer experience at the moment, and have started to work with customers to design a process that allows them to access expertise quickly whilst working within the constraints of an enterprise environment.

For the past 3 or so weeks we have been in an Alpha stage, so this is our Beta launch - we are really open to fresh ideas and opinions. From day 1 I have said to every developer that I have spoken to that whether you love the idea or hate it, all I want to know is why and what we can do better - so HN, please tell me what you think and want it to be!
I wonder if they're using something like WebProtege to help make authoring/maintenance easier.
Maybe a bit macabre, but live updates are here: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62834633
But Readwise only syncs highlights, it doesn't help to find "that article about topic X I read last month".
Well, if you want, you can just pull the drives out of your Synology box and hook them up to any Linux system [1]. So whichever way they're tuning it, it can't be that voodoo-esque.

[1] https://kb.synology.com/en-global/DSM/tutorial/How_can_I_rec...
React is a mature project with a huuuge ecosystem of libraries and components. It is wery well tested. While not being particularly great at anything, its not worst at anything, either. I dont expect a competent dev to ever encounter performance issues with it.

Other frameworks have their own problems. Solid requires a custom babel compiler plugin. Some are new and lack components, placing a huge backlog to reimplement everything from scratch, just not worth it.

We need a framework that will not tie components and libs to itself, so they can be used with other frameworks or with plain ts as well.
Docker swarm has Job support nowadays, would this help?
I believe it also validates the site via ssl to killnphishing. with passwords you can still trick users.
I mean he was a Christian and he did believe strongly in it and tried to share his beliefs with others. I'm not sure if I would call that zealotry though.
The circularity isn't really a problem here, since the flow of money is a circle.

Money is the token used to repay the debt, but the token is created because someone else has gone into debt. They in turn will need to obtain money which is the debt of someone else somewhere up the chain. (Even if it's bank reserves and cash, in well functioning modern economies they're injected by the central bank monetising existing debt, usually government debt.)

It's probably more strictly true to say that having money is the credit extended in the credit/debt relationship, but they're two sides of the same coin.
This is valid. I'll add an update to the post people should use caution and think about security.
UV damage is not really cumulative. Most of it gets repaired.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2002/pp/b2012...

Vitamin D production is highly dependent on time of day and latitude. At latitudes closer to the poles, even extended sun exposure might not stimulate much vitamin D. You can find online calculators which show this for your location.
I have to imagine the greasy bank advisor who manages to sell one gets a free trip to Cancun.
Jleyank called no human lesser. Their membership of the royal family is lesser. Its not up to debate - aristocracy is hierarchical.
If you find anything worth watching in Season 1, then please, stick with it. The later seasons are worlds better.
I agree - I think JSX does what templating languages have been trying to do for years.

That being said, solid is hardly the only one out there competing that can use JSX:

- https://github.com/vuejs/babel-plugin-jsx

- https://mithril.js.org/jsx.html

- https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/getting-started#setting-up-js...

I think people are starting to see the power of it when it's used in a functional manner (rather than early class-based components). A lot of alternate template libraries are only minorly different in syntax and use different styles of interop to handle the crossover. I think .svelte and .riot are fairly close, while still being somewhat html-like, rather than JS first.
> Since HTML5 happened then, things run a lot smoother on the web

Eh, that's sure one way to describe the situation. Another one being that it's only Chrome left. Sure, W3C completely and utterly fucked up, but I thought we were beyond regurgitating 2009ish "HTML5 rocks" propaganda and genesis myths.
What exactly determines that steady inflation is a necessary condition? How is it proven?
This has been a previous area of research for Google (https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/predicting-properties-of-m...). It remains routine to benchmark GNNs and other molecular machine learning models on predicting quantum mechanical properties including energies (which speed up geometry optimization)
Maybe I'm missing something, but .. what problem is this solving?
Just saw the actual speech with this text. Sounds totally positive like that. The e-mail at first looked like some sort of daily affirmations.
No one is forcing you to live there. I’m all for people spending a bunch of money to make something cool and unique. Maybe it will work or maybe it will be a slum, who knows, in the end it will still be cool to see.
Actually, you're right. Bad idea. I've edited my comment and will remove this one too.

Would you mind removing the part you've quoted to avoid giving people bad ideas?
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I'm a software engineer with 20+ years of industry experience, have been programming for 25 and working independently for the past 15.
I am mostly focused on the backend (though I have done my share of front-end/web work and it's not a problem for me), with a specialization on fintech / capital markets / derivatives technology and distributed systems.

I have worked for some of the top investment banks and trading systems vendors in Europe and Asia, handling duties ranging from architecture, design, project management, to delivery and ops.

Lately I have been successfully working with start-ups in the US (references available on request) and am interested in expanding my collaboration with this type of client globally.

I offer impartial, state-of-the-art software / solution architecture / audit services for your existing or planned systems, and can be as hands-on as you need me to be. I have a no-nonsense, less-is-more approach, have enough battle scars not to chase hypes or over-engineer, and am interested in building systems that run like clockwork long after I'm gone.

My working style is decidedly collaborative and friendly, but you can count on me to take the lead, stay on topic, present the trade-offs in clear language when a call needs to be made, and deliver on time and on budget.

Do you have an ongoing or planned project that you could use assistance with?

Then please do get in touch today for a free initial consultation call.
Want to know another great safety measure that only costs you around $100 w/ no monthly fee? Pick up a handheld ham radio. When you enter areas with rangers, stop and ask the emergency frequency they use.

Best to get a HAM license to be safe (it’s trivially easy to pass the General exam), but if you are only using it in an actual emergency, I highly doubt anyone will judge you too harshly for not having it.
Ya this is true but who’s gonna pay for the roads and the schools and the cops? Not the people with art in freeports.
It comes from a line often attributed to the 19th-century humorist Mark Twain: Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you that day. ”Eat a frog” is intended as a metaphor for “do that shitty task you don’t want to do”.

It appears to have actually been coined by a late 18th century French humorist: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/03/eat-frog/
Sadly unable to try without an email address, and it won't take my Firefox Relay mail proxy. Pass.
Neither of those is a significant advantage.

Also, I'm not a fan of tinkerbell engineering, where anything is possible if we just believe hard enough.
"refugees"
Wait, no live pulse diagram? That's not the data driven future I've been promised.
One of React's competitive advantages is React Native. That's hard to beat.
There's no gray in chess. It's all blackwhite.
This is certainly true. The article speaks about how sometimes you must eat frogs. The point is that we often do not ask ourselves whether eating so many frogs is actually necessary and instead take it for granted that we must do this thing that we hate and seek advice for how to do that.
>> Eating more frogs now can mean that you have to eat fewer frogs in the future

Key word there is "can". We need to be very careful when deciding about temporal shifts in frog eating (more now, fewer later). If it's not a very tight loop, you are likely eating someone else's frogs so they don't have to. Be sure you're actually reducing the number of frogs coming your way.
I'm not trying to guess why you would say that (and by that, I mean the fact that you would avoid writing because it's trying to preach to you), and I do want to say that Lewis is, overall, very close to proselytizing in his writings (generally it's pretty explicitly stated that's what he wants to do). But.

Avoiding something because it disagrees with your worldview, or because it is 'too close to [insert literally anything here]' is not a great way to expand your understanding of the world. Being exposed to things you disagree with is step 1 in understanding how or why they exist, with few exceptions (CP, explicit hate speech, most calls to violence, those sorts of things).

Read the screwtape letters. Yes, they're intended to make you consider your immortal soul and embrace Christianity. But also yes, it's an amazing piece of literature.
Much of it has seemingly no reason for being specialized to u8, especially the needle/haystack search example that takes up much of the blogpost. Even the "replacing invalid UTF-8 with the generic replacement character" part could simply be factored out as an iterator adapter on u8's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
This library isn't about bit packing--it's mostly about optimizing text and presumably "ripgrep" which the author is also the creator of.

However, I do agree that Erlang's Bit Syntax is, by far, the best handling I've ever seen for slicing and dicing bits and bytes at the very lowest level.
I think this is an interesting (albeit extremely costly) urban planning experiment.

I like many of the ideas.

I am pretty sure that it won't work as planned, but humanity can learn from it.

The importance of architecture and urban planning can't be overstated, and unfortunately most of what has been done during the 20th century has been mediocre and, in some cases, catastrophically bad.

We have some good models for cities and architecture, but unfortunately, as with any technology, we only have a choice between innovation and decay.
I did the vue 3 bump a while back and Evan You did a fantastic commit by commit repo to follow along and there's even a migration build of vue 2 which warns you of all the areas where your app will break in vue 3, really fantastic.

I can't claim that that upgrade was painless, it took a few days with an app with > 10 pages, >20 custom components and I had to push ahead with re-writing a 3rd party component or 2 that was only vue 2 at the time (honestly I should never have used them in the first place. reap what you sow). But build times are faster, my bundle size is a lot smaller, I'm really pleased with the new features, and I'm a building faster as a result.
Or when you lose them for some reason (browser crash, accidentally closing all,...) and you realize you actually don't care that much and just move on with your life.
Man, on one hand... evaluating frameworks is just part of the job, right? Same as evaluating a vendor service, or a third-party package, or an architecture or a pattern...

On the other hand, novelty burnout is a real thing. Javascript has mutated so much in a short period of time that it's become impossible to keep up with -- especially once you factor in frameworks and tooling.

Times like this, I wish vanilla JS/ECMAscript was more powerful out of the box. For a language designed to work with the HTML DOM -- the ONLY language that works natively with it -- it is so woefully underpowered. Why do we need a framework at all to do a simple stateful AJAX UI? =/

For many sites and apps, the business logic SHOULD be the focus of dev time, but it's not... it's implementing trivial business logic inside of the ever-growing monster that is the JS ecosystem. There are 1000 ways to do anything in JS, but never just one good way.
I apologize for what I see as some confusion caused in my wording - diamond itself isn't the blade. It's the abrasive sintered-in with a powdered metal. You basically mix the two together and hit it with a laser to fuse it all together.
The upper classes are more likely to support environmental policies, so this is a pretty asinine comment. And it's these same upper classes that are pushing for frivolous as opposed to substantive policies (plastic straws, anti-nuclear, etc).

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325157337_Social_cl...

Yes, if you are trying to change human beliefs and attitudes, you can't disregard human nature or behavioral psychology. Duh.
Every large company will grow a pointless and pedantic way to organise data. Might just as well make it explicit.
Same. Spam, page loads, and aesthetics aside: I'll never click an ad out of principal. So why load it?

I wish there was some kind of Netflix for site supporting. I admittedly don't donate because of how awful some payment systems are. I'd rather log into a site and tick a few boxes to pay.
Ask HN: Why not have bottles with minimum drinking times to “compress” time?
For example, a Diet Coke bottle might ensure that it takes at least 30 minutes to finish the bottle. This could be done by stopping liquid flow temporarily whenever your drinking rate is too high.

Such a bottle would be ideal for 30 minute walks since time seems to go by more quickly whenever you are drinking something. So in a sense, such a bottle would reduce the time it takes to walk to your destination.
Judge Dredd's Mega-City One comes to mind. Although this is a more refined design, one which minimizes the amount of public gathering space.
and for folks who prefer reading there's a great book on that topic as well:
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
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Email: marek at mce-consulting dot eu

I'm a software engineer with 20+ years of industry experience, have been programming for 25 and working independently for the past 15.
I am mostly focused on the backend (though I have done my share of front-end/web work and it's not a problem for me), with a specialization on fintech / capital markets / derivatives technology and distributed systems.

I have worked for some of the top investment banks and trading systems vendors in Europe and Asia, handling duties ranging from architecture, design, project management, to delivery and ops.

Lately I have been successfully working with start-ups in the US (references available on request) and am interested in expanding my collaboration with this type of client globally.

I offer impartial, state-of-the-art software / solution architecture / audit services for your existing or planned systems, and can be as hands-on as you need me to be. I have a no-nonsense, less-is-more approach, have enough battle scars not to chase hypes or over-engineer, and am interested in building systems that run like clockwork long after I'm gone.

My working style is collaborative and friendly, but you can count on me to take the lead, stay on topic, present the trade-offs in clear language when a call needs to be made, and deliver on time and on budget.

Do you have an ongoing or planned project that you could use assistance with?

Then please do get in touch today for a free initial consultation call.
I’m an engineer who has recently done a large project and a few small ones in Svelte. Where do I apply?
Just as blocking them as an ethical issue fundamentally commercial: you're accessing content paid for by adverts, but you aren't contributing to that payment. The quid pro quo of the site is you pay nothing to see this, but you look at the ads that pay for the site.
That’s a good point. I think tolerability is the only drawback, otherwise zinc is functionally superior because it doesn’t get depleted in the way that chemical filters do. It does tend to be a lot heavier and greasier, though, and I’d say most people aren’t okay with the white/blue cast if they’re not at the beach. So chemical filters have an important role to play in terms of making sunscreen something that people can use consistently.
This is something I've 100% been waiting for.

The only problem is - it makes it even harder to sort through the astroturfed comments and bot-driven ad campaigns.
> f*kwits

What is the purpose of half-heartedly censoring the word "fuckwits", when it is immediately obvious to everyone what you are saying?

- HN doesn't ban users, or stop comments from being posted if they contain the word fuck.

- If you have moral objections to saying/writing fuck, then why even use it in the first place? Why not say something else?

- You are not sparing anyone else from the word, because we are all filling in the blanks automatically even if we don't want to.

So please tell me why you did it. I cannot think of a reason.
I dunno, by my reckoning the following are the top items in the category.

Performance: Solid
Learning curve: React
Bundle size: ?
Scalability: React
Community and support: React
Financial backing: React
Developer experience: React
Hireability: React
Adam Something did a decent teardown of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyWaax07_ks
> I had a GEO satphone myself (Thuraya which is really cheap for airtime in Europe) before but as I hike through the mountains it's very hard to get a line of sight. So I didn't deem it useful enough for emergency.

Yeah, the iSatPhone2 is fairly forgiving on line of sight as long as you aren’t in a canyon or hiking up the north face of a mountain. Given they are in geosynchronous orbit, targeting is much easier (just point antenna south). My iridium I had back in the late 00’s was a PITA to get signal on a hike where we had to call for an air ambulance for emergency evac.
I don't doubt Rich Harris' skills as a developper. But project governance is very different from have strong technical skills. Things like communication, prioritizing features important for the community, dealing with idiots way beyond when it stops becoming fun, gathering money, writing good documentation, etc.

Rollup is cool, but it's a very different beast from a f/e framework. For a lot of projects, migrating from rollup to webpack might be a few hours or a week. Migrating from svelte to react, is months if not many man-years.
Key difference here is that a glitch cost Knight Capital money … not shuttering if the entire platform :P
>R/cars
>Miata at the top

Nice.
> Besides, they say, users who block ads wouldn’t have bought the advertisers’ products anyway.

Even if you bought the product, you can still hate the ad for making you do so, e.g. by inducing FOMO and by causing more overconsumption, of which you are now a part.
Russia cuts off the natural gas supply in response to the sanctions for invading Ukraine.
The article was published on Fri 17 Mar 2017 07.40 GMT when Theresa May was PM:

> For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as “London Bridge.” The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “London Bridge is down” on secure lines.

Interestingly, the current PM is also a she.
I'm working on a collaborative learning platform that let's you connect with people who consume the same content as you do.
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We were very lucky that the author of this article* spent a day showing us around her neighbourhood. It's like the entire world has gone stark raving mad and "I think my child should be able to travel independently" is a controversial statement. Only a few pockets of sanity seem to exist.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/16/welcome-cycle...
Using Svelte for a quite large codebase.

Couple years ago, there was lot of hiccups especially with TS support or the vscode plugin. It's much better now.

There are some patterns to know to work around some reactivity issues with component reuse but overall, and still some TS issues with vscode (extra warnings due to lack of understanding of component context) but it's still ok.

The biggest drawback of Svelte is not the tech itself, but the lack of a well developed ecosystem of components, design systems, etc. You'll probably end up implementing many components yourself... whether it's a good thing is left for discussion.
> If someone tells you a fact you already know, then it could be communicating several different things.

You are alluding to the "meaning of communication" while information and communication theory is strictly about bits that are stored somewhere or/and send over the channel. If you know with 100% certainty that the next bit will be zero then receiving this bit gives you no information beyond what you already knew. Of course, if your certainty is less than 100% then the bit delivered you some fractional quantity of information. Mathematically, communication channel couples together random process X at the transmitter with random process Y at the receiver. The game is to describe X while observing only Y. Mutual information is a quantitative measure of how much Y "knows" about X. There is no human meaning attached to it whatsoever.