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Ask HN: What is “Hello World” for online marketing?
I'm trying to learn how to be reasonably good at online marketing so I've read all the books and the blog posts but I need to actually do it to be sure I know how. However, I don't have anything I want to market so what's a practical way to get some practice and level up my skills?
How I built the HN Notifier Chrome extension without hammering their API
He's either far more attractive than you think. Or he's grossly exaggerating his success (like all men). Most likely a bit of both.
Flying cars. We were supposed to have them 22 years ago and now they're saying that I should get a bike to go to work.
As a relative beginner to Docker at home, the biggest issue I've had is that there is a presumption that everything is HTTP. I wanted to run two apps in two Docker containers that both wanted UDP on the same port and couldn't do it. Docker lets you use multiple IPs but apparently you can only use a single port for any app on a single host.

Tedious.
I’ve never had an issue on a console, ever.

You are just describing PC fragmentation.
I had every desire and intention of upgrading my desktop (late 2015 iMac) to the newer hardware, right up until they decided this hardware is somehow incompatible with the newest MacOS.

They've basically just ended 20 years of Mac for me.

Pity.
First past the post voting systems.

How have we not fixed this yet?
I think Tim Cook would tell you to use an iPhone for sending your automated messages, then it won't be a problem.
AFAIK, python doesn't ship by default on any operating system anymore (used to on macOS). Otherwise yeah, it's a good contender. You'd still need to pass the URL somehow to the other machine :)
Stopped reading when he used "CCP".
Your comments made me wonder if there were height restrictions, found this verbiage on US Airforce site:

"For pilot and aircrew positions, height specifications vary by aircraft and most applicants can successfully pursue a career in aviation with the U.S. Air Force. Applicants who are significantly taller or shorter than average may require special screening to ensure they can safely perform operational duties. Applicants of all heights are encouraged to apply."
You can pay that much for a factory worker in eastern/south Europe.

I don't know about eastern Europe. In Spain, we are in the south, you can't pay 530 per month. Legal minimum salary is around double that number, then you need to add SS (30 to 40% of that) and just FYI, there's no way people will work in a factory for minimum wage anyway, so think of 2k for entry positions.
Deepfakes of Celebrities Have Begun Appearing in Ads, with or Without Permission
Connecting external screens or projectors to a PC. It never made sense to me that the devices on either end take many seconds to realize that something was plugged in.
I can agree to some extent with Gaben's take. In fact, Steam has been instrumental in changing my habits because it's more convenient than the alternative.

However, once you have a paid service and an unpaid service with otherwise identical convenience levels, the act of paying will always introduce that much more friction.

Let's say we have that donation system with online publications. Even if it's one-click, you still have to think about your balance, have the negative emotion of spending money, when the archival site is just a click away. Let's say you have a very simple DRM-free bookshop, reduced to the most convenience possible of search, click, buy. You'll still have Libgen just a click away as well. At this point, the determining factor is the propensity to not pay for labor.
I think the overall vibe is quite different from what it was in 2010 say? It used to be 'post erlang' when there was too much off topic posting, but these days discussions seem to be highly dominated by people who are 'tech adjacent' and have no idea how to code or build products, and no experience outside of big, crappy, late-stage 'tech' companies.
People from the RoI can join the armed forces of the UK? How? Is it like a foreign legion kind of thing?

NI is part of the UK but the RoI is an independent nation, is it not? The were even neutral in WW2, officially.
Just for context: I grew up in a small village in Denmark. My window to the world was one-hour bus trips to the nearest town which had a decent library, including some computer magazines.

None of my peers did any programming, and since Denmark does not have flat-rate local calls, calling up via modem to connect to a BBS was never really an option -- so there was really no-one to share with. That is certainly somewhere were the internet would have been a plus.
> If your aim is to make Emacs more accessible for new users, this is not how you're going to get good answers

Although they say otherwise, it's pretty clear when you observe their behavior that while the devs do care about making it accessible to new users, it is not in their top 5 priorities.

And I'm almost 100% sure that it is not the goal of this survey.

> They should go talk to VSCode users instead

They really shouldn't. Only on HN do I keep seeing comparisons with VSCode. The reality is that a large percentage of Emacs users - perhaps a majority - do not use Emacs as an IDE and making Emacs a better VSCode would not benefit them.

As an example, take a look at the talks in prior Emacs Conferences and note the percentage of talks that have nothing to do with SW development.
> Like, teachers are paid 2000-3000PLN

Can you please provide some sources for that claim?

For example [1] says that the lowest, starting salary is already over 3000. And the salaries for teachers grow with work experience.

[1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/10/12/polish-teachers-among...
Super frustrating if you read fashion-related reddits. 90+% of links on posts more than a few months old are dead. Only the ones that go to Instagram albums or something like that, are usually still OK. True even for companies that mostly sell "timeless" fashions.
No. There are still missing -important- stuff and "works but you have to stand on your hands while singing" kind of things. It's nowhere near being friendly to an end user unless someone picks and sets up the hardware and the software for them.
My favorite https://www.youtube.com/c/MollyRocket/videos
Stop Writing Twitter Threads
It works well only in theory. Almost no apps works on ios9 anymore, so you can't run netflix, hbo, even browsers are useless because certificates aren't updated - that's why i wanted to just use it as a homekit server, but you can't do this either.

ie, the processor is just fine for doing all of the above, but slowly all functionality has been lost.
$ cd /directory/with/files/you/want/to/share

$ python3 -m http.server 1337

Then just connect to the IP and Port of the machine hosting the python http server and transfer away.

Aside from Bluetooth I'm not sure how you'd do this without using a LAN or WAN.
Because you won't get security updates after 2 years or so.
> No one paying even a little bit of attention thought “can’t”

Maybe that's true in the abstract, but how did those in power act based on this obvious threat?

Europe completely refused to even begin to diversify its natural gas sources until this year, even though that obviously should have happened after the annexation of Crimea at the very latest. They invited catastrophe by relying on Russian energy.

In practice, they didn't take the threat seriously. They thought it wouldn't happen, they gambled quite a lot on that outcome.
That job market seems like so long ago. See job ad, type out a letter with your CV, wait for them to write back, somehow organize a time to meet, more rounds, and so forth. At least it must have been hard to spam out CVs.

The guy seems pretty hardcore from my perspective. University training for all those techs. Of course hardware back then cost a lot of money so you wanted people who knew what they were doing.

What did people do for interviews back then? Reverse-a-linked-list? That would have been a relatively recent publication in 1980. Kadane's algo didn't arrive until 1984 IIRC. Was K&R published yet?
practically all modern strongly typed languages are adopting or already had type inference from day one, allowing you to do things like var. They give up nothing in terms of strong typing to do so. Forcing people to write manual boilerplate does not equal professional, what a strange take.
> All/most "ESG" criteria are politically contentious things that seem to strongly align with one political/ideological block [1].

Indeed, ESG has join the boogeymen CRT, woke and cancel culture of the right wing elite's puppet show.
I love how its a normal thing to drug someone up just so they can cope with going to a job that is making them feel like shit.
This tale just enraged me.

I know I'm privileged and so is my family, because I can insist that my elder relatives opt for Apple, where such issues are far, far more rare. For most of the last 6 or 7 years, my 82 year old mom has done nearly all her computing on an iPad. She only needs her Air when -- no kidding -- she needs to transfer embroidery patterns to the USB stick her sewing machine uses (about which: yes, sewing machines have gotten HELLA COMPLICATED).

No bloatware. No marketing software. No problems. But also: only possible because we can afford Apple hardware, and because she has someone in her family (me) that knows to send her there.

It's still largely a Windows world. That Windows machines are so routinely loaded with ALL THIS CRAP is completely unacceptable. MSFT could do something about it if they wanted to. I remember joking, in the 90s, that MSFT's greatest crime would end up being how much they lowered everyone's expectations about what was possible in computing, and that's definitely turning out to be true.
Plus Grid and Flexbox work reliably now and are pretty simple to use.
€32.8* > $27.77

:shrug:

* Euro zone, EU is less

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages
Ryzen 5000 didn't have USB4 (TB3) support so that was a no-go - Framework uses 4 x Burnside Bridge ( JHL8040R) TB4 re-timers [1], one for each of their expansion module plugs. Ryzen 6000 uses Kandou retimers, which is probably a much bigger lift than plopping 12th Gen in (looks like the PD controller was refreshed (and the RTC fixed) but basically the rest of the board stayed the same [2]).

I think one thing to keep in mind also is that for whatever reason, 10 months after launch, the number of Ryzen 6000U laptops I've ever seen advertised for sale I can count on one hand (I was watching all year, I would have much preferred a Ryzen 6800U laptop!). Currently, only the Asus Zenbook S 13 and Lenovo ThinkBook 13s are available in retail stores in the US (Amazon and Newegg, respectively). In the EU, Geizhals search turns up exactly 1 6800U model (Lenovo Yoga 7 14ARB7). [3] Personally, I'm not convinced Ryzen 6000U ever actually shipped in quantity...

[1] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/blob/main/Ele...

[2] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard/blob/main/Ele...

[3] https://geizhals.eu/?cat=nb&xf=6751_26&asuch=6800u&bpmin=&bp...
> Many even call out their parents' occupation.

Are those German resumes? Very odd. Can't be used for anything except discrimination.
On the contrary, I am not making the claim that "it isn't theft because no such property has been deprived". I think whether it is theft is a nuanced question, and it can only be answered if we are clear on what we think that property is. The US constitution perhaps defines such a property - to paraphrase lightly - "securing for limited times to authors the exclusive right to their respective writings". If a simple exclusive right to one's work exists here it is clearly being deprived! (notably, such a simple right is not a thing, at least under US law - or fair use wouldn't exist)

What, to you, is the property being taken here? One can disagree ethically with the constitution's "The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries", or one might disagree either legally or ethically with the consistency of Congress's implementation of that power, or one might disagree ethically with whether a particular violation of that right that one believes exists is a deprivation.
In my experience looking at résumés (mostly for entry-level tech roles), fancy formatting is 100% an attempt to cover for a lack of skill. I haven’t seen one that had good content. Intuitively, this makes sense to me, and seems to fit with the old adage, “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Imo, your experience should speak for itself.
> I think you should re-read my comment. Fyi I already knew that Safari now supports vp9 webm. As a web dev I keep up with this stuff. In my comment I said that they are so behind.

Your comment:

> Safari is so behind in terms of lack of support for free media formats/codecs like webm, webp, and av1. You can't even switch browsers to view them, since it's all webkit

Maybe you do keep up with this stuff, and you did say they are so behind, but you also said "You can't even switch browsers to view them", which is not true.
Your full name is not the same as your local IP. Since your NAT subnet is almost always /24, there really are only 256 local IP addresses. Which one you happen to be using at the time is not really important. There are 10,000 other things about your browser that could be used to uniquely identify you. This is a feature of WebRTC that allows it to do what it does, not a bug. If you are worried about 3rd party web apps sniffing your local IP and somehow using that info against your interests, don't go on the internet.
For me transmitting any file over the network between my android(Termux) and my laptop(Fedora) is awful. It starts with a quite fast transmission (Like 60 Mbps), but always drops to just a few kbps after a few hundred megabytes. Netcat does this, python HTTP-Server, FTP, scp, everything fails.
> Why does it matter if it's woke? The majority of the points seem to be purely beneficial.

Partly, though see my comment below in addition to the reply you already got: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330789

There are issues with at least two of the things they suggest, though:

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Let's start with

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

(PSA: I lean right)

This sentence could be good, on its face. But Mozilla for example linked to a Facebook post about Facebook manipulating their own algorithms specifically for the election. The entry lists various websites that are both mainstream and lean distinctly to the left. Facebook's outlet choices may have been less partisan back in the day, but certainly are not in today's world. Imagine CNN touting "fiery but mostly peaceful protests" in front of a burning building.

Second, the whole idea of factuality is a purely partisan issue: Most fact-checkers police not factuality, but narrative.

See this famous Snopes rating, for example:

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Claim

Susan Rosenberg is a convicted terrorist who has sat on the board of directors of Thousand Currents, an organization which handles fundraising for the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

Rating
Mixture

What's True

Susan Rosenberg has served as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents, an organization that provides fundraising and fiscal sponsorship for the Black Lives Matter Global Movement. She was an active member of revolutionary left-wing movements whose illegal activities included bombing U.S. government buildings and committing armed robberies.

What's Undetermined

In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."

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One look at that should disabuse the reader that the purpose of the site is to honestly assess factuality. Membership in a bombing organization and being sentenced for possession of a shitton of explosives apparently just isn't terrorism. At that point, you shrug and file the fact-checking enterprise into the same bin as claims about racism - so frivolous they don't even merit consideration anymore.

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The second one that's problematic is this:

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

This could actually be very nice. The downside to it, though, is the sort of thing where people knowing what you spend money on politically could be used to harass you. We can just look at how a couple political donations outside of work cost Brendan Eich his job at Mozilla. Some people are so big they can't reasonably be persecuted in these ways, in which case transparency isn't a bad idea.

This one has a good ideal, but history is full of ideas that sound good and have good intent, but disastrous second-order consequences.
Reddit were expected to go public in March. Russia shat the bed in February.
I recently installed Debian Unstable on a new PC and it came with Pulseaudio installed by default. Just like it did when I first tried Pulseaudio on a different computer many years ago, the audio intermittently desynced from video playback on Firefox. Thankfully, Debian compiles Firefox with the optional ALSA support enabled, so I uninstalled Pulseaudio and everything worked perfectly again.
I mean, you could still offer to do it as a contractor maybe...
Why would you say this? Now I have this idea in my mind of a python script moving my money around for me twice a month and I know damn well that I'll never get to have that.
Immediately went to buy, and I'm really not clear on what I should be buying. There are three different varieties and it's hard to tell what the differences are.
I see it as they’re great at interviewing but their personality is not compatible with the teams they are on, and when multiplied over a dozen role changes in less than a decade.. then I’m less inclined to believe it’s the “company that was the problem” and they should probably be more introspective
These new definitions fly in the face of the platform engineering definition I saw used in industry circa 2015, which was "software engineering concerning the layers between the firmware and the user space code, including the OS and other modules." I also saw competing definitions akin to "we build non-customer facing services that run on the product with which feature teams build their customer facing features."
It is so simple. There's no "Experienced software architect with a proven track record of delivering high quality and performant blah blah blah" shit.

What were the interviews like back then?
With Intel's latest release, I'm not sure AM5 is worth investing in at this point. Raptor Lake seems to crush AM5 with support from existing sockets and DDR4 all while being cheaper. That massively cooled my desire to go all in on a big AM5 system.
Also, the Mac way lets the user change their mind between copying the file or moving it without first navigating back to the source and restarting the process from scratch, since that decision sits on the pasting end.

In my mind the only advantage the Windows way has is that it belongs to the more popular platform.
In 1980 - I’m expert in those 3 areas
In 2020 - I’m aware of about 10000 different technologies but not expert in anything
Ask HN: What Happened to Instant Messengers?
These days we're all on services that more or less look/act the same, whether it be IRCCloud, Discord, Slack, etc. We no longer run a little program with a simple list of people you could message directly or put into groups.

My question is, is this a social phenomenon, or is the grouped chats UI paradigm objectively superior than the buddylist model?

Is that UI paradigm dead, if so, why do phone UI's still use the buddylist->conversation UI model?

Is it because we moved from one-to-one to one-to-many? If so, why didn't chat rooms kill the Instant Messenger UI in its infancy?
Definitely twitch. It's hard to find quality content, and most of it is game development, but I have found one or two channels that I can sit in on and watch for a while. Cmgriffing has a really chill personality and talks to chat a lot, so you're free to ask questions if you don't understand something.
I’ve kind of considered something similar to this approach but ended up using a graphdb to keep dependencies instead.

Using a db gives you a better way of modifying meta data in batches which might be required at scale.
It also makes it possible for tooling to query stuff quickly and do operations such as setting consul intentions, register something in an api gateway or other surrounding config tasks.

The pipelines we built checked out complete subgraphs from an api and generated json that referenced versioned TF modules and committed these to a service repo.

Thought about open-sourcing for a long time but never could get the go from legal. :(

This is very cool though!
Doesn't look like it. But Mos still seems to work if that bothers you (as it does me).

https://mos.caldis.me/
Sigstore has no idea who the publishers should be, they do automated verification based on a domain or GitHub account. The person owning the GitHub org might be some admin, just like with the domain. The automated process doesn't know and doesn't care.
I'm unironically sure it's helping their engagement numbers. Someone with the app installed on their phone is going to engage much more frequently.
Love this reply, giving me “Why Dropbox just rsync vibes” :)
Flying cars are a nightmare.

Ebikes are incredible. They are the most efficient form of transportation there is, they don't pollute, they are speedy, and they are compact!
Prior to that I read of bogus prosecutions based on ATM withdraws.
Also: I kind of like the concise wording when the writer doesn't feel they need to adhere to STAR. "Duties Included" is the only meat I want to see when I read a resume. I don't care what the specific challenge you faced was, or if your hard work transforming protobufs from one format to another resulted in "23% year over year revenue growth and 3 industry awards" for a product that uses your protobufs 5 layers up the API stack. Yet resumes are all moving over to including this cruft. I admit I use STAR on my own resume because every resume coach insists it's the only way to get noticed. It's just yuck.
Not only does that actually work very well, the windows button + V to bring up clipboard history has been a huge time saver function a few times.
Windows search.

It is so incredibly slow and inept at finding anything, whereas the app Everything by voidtools has no problem and works instantaneously.
There were in the 80s, my dad wanted to join the Air Force as a pilot but was told he could never be one, he was too tall.
I wonder how email could be fixed if there was no Spam AI filters.

I guess there would be domain whitelists, or rather an user specific domain whitelist.

Every mail would be spam or grey list by default until the user explicitly decides he wants to allow a domain.

It would be fastidious, but at the same time I would have greater control over my email, because automated email are not spam but I also want to sort them and delete them.
What country are you referring to? I know that in the UK it's often mixed, but in (Midwestern) America almost no one I've known has mixed tobacco with their cannabis.
Seems like maybe a bigger cause of e-waste might be the mindset that a device immediately needs to go in a dumpster the day after some OS upgrade comes out that won't run on it.
This theory is a subtle UX difference with larger outcomes. MacOS requires additional steps to see open windows while Windows does not.

The right click Mac OS solution is the best example. By default, right click on MacOS is deactivated. Even if someone right clicks on an app icon, that person has to click AND process the titles windows instead of seeing a visual preview as on Windows of the window.