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Tell HN: YNAB will partly remove direct bank imports
It was a bummer to me that the famous budget app YNAB announced in a private in-app message that the direct bank data import will be removed.
The reason is that they use TrueLayer as an immediate platform as data provider. TrueLayer implements bank interfaces with the status of "private beta", "public beta" and "GA". YNAB now stops supporting "private beta" banks yet charging the full price for a reduced product feature portfolio.

I was talking to the Manager of Direct Import at YNAB, asking her about compensation or whitelist working "private beta" banks.

Here's her statement:
> I am genuinely sorry this change impacts you. We don't have a way to make an exception. And we don't offer discounts on our subscription price.
We will support your bank again when TrueLayer moves it to the public beta phase. I'm hopeful that the success you experienced with your bank means they are close to making that change but we don't have a timeline. In the meantime, there's nothing more I can do.

It's really sad to see such a great doing company making that bad decision, removing vital features and still charge the full price.

Are there any good ynab alternatives?
This is mostly talking about estimates, most of that drop hasn't happened yet.
There are 'dry' EEG electrodes which don't require conductive gel, and algorithms to remove the electrical effect of eye-blinks (ICA, etc.)
I recently stumbled upon a freelance gig from someone looking to hire someone to submit applications for software engineering positions on their behalf. They were willing to pay a few dollars per application and would provide all of the content for the submitter.
If you like these kinds of games but find SPD to be a little too mechanically simple and lacking in build diversity, you may also enjoy DCSS (dungeon crawl stone soup) and my personal favorite: Frogcomposband.

You can play the later at angband.live, and it's an exceptional game with incredible depth and variety.
Retro Offices You'll Either Love or Hate – Architectural Digest
People will only outlay their limited cash on things that seem to 'have value'.

Do the products of the modern media companies have any 'value'?

IIRC there was a US president whose name I have forgotten who often complained about media companies producing very little but 'Fake News'. Fake News has no 'value' at all. Those companies deserve to die.
Harvest Moon came out in 1996 and is basically the same game.
All hail our new AI overlords. "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss".
I'm early-retired and all I can say is that it didn't work that way for me. I do have more time, but I'm not so bored that I want to tie up my schedule. I'll come up with a project I can do at my own pace.

It's sort of like telling yourself that you'll go back to school. Some people do, but most don't.
If you get rejected by the first 5-10 companies you apply to then you need to take a step back and figure out what you are doing wrong, because spamming the same resume to 1000 more companies isn't going to change anything. 5 strong leads is infinitely better than 1000 weak ones.
I can relate to this. For me, having a child completely turned my life around from depression and lack of purpose. I’m even considering fostering after.
It was during covid, not dot-com, but this person went into carpentry: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
Preacher, Painter (houses, now has a painting company), two cooks, a few went back to school for various non tech things and I lost track of them at that point.
> Beijing appears to have found yet another way to hurt American business after Bloomberg reported on Friday that authorities there had started to ask domestic electric-vehicle manufacturers to ramp up their spending with local chipmakers — at the expense of US ones

Since the US is restricting the flow of chips to China, why wouldn't they build up their own industry?
But most of the drop is in 2024, so is fairly firm.
The tide is turning.
What does dual license mean here? Does that mean that Redis is subject to one of the two licenses, or to both of them?
DeepFlow [1][2] is one of them, where we implemented distributed tracing for microservices using eBPF.

1. https://deepflow.io
2. https://github.com/deepflowio/deepflow
Is that really a thing happening these days? Sounds horrible.
It’s probably mostly temporary, until CEOs decide the “bad economic climate” is over and start hiring again.

I know decent former tech company employees who are stocking shelves at Home Depot until hiring picks up.
There’s a Black Mirror episode somewhere in here akin to the Hunger Games.
i like this.

i solve a lot of problems from doing cardio.
Check out the paper about the AI in the original FEAR. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d... Much of the "smart" behavior players loved was actually just a simple state machine with nice animations.
I’m not biking to work in -17C. I have walked to the bus (including through 50cm of snow in a raging blizzard) and driven in such temperature many times.

A quick search reveals that the average winter temperature in the Netherlands is above freezing, while average summer temperatures hover around 20C. Sounds positively delightful for biking. That’s not the case for much of North America.

Where I come from, generally in the Great Lakes region, the average temperatures range from -1C to 30C during the year. Not great for year-round commuting by bike. Some people do it, sure, but it is truly a commitment.
It doesn't end at hiring. At one place I worked, the CEO got new hires in a room and "spontaneously" asked them to tell an embarrassing story about themselves one by one, to break the ice. People were very uncomfortable but did it. Nobody was having fun, it was pretty cringe. Then it was the CEO's turn (she went last), and she told the most flattering "embarrassing" you could imagine, which was basically just a huge flex about her life and opportunities.

Some company leaders just like to humiliate the people who work for them because they can.
If you take the bible on face value, you can easily see that every single one of us has incest in our family history.
Different kinds of people find jobs more and less easily as the job market shrinks or grows.

The young grad with 2 years of job experience looking on the west coast vs the 45 year old with 20 years of boring enterprise crud on the east coast see very different things when markets are loose or tight.

Critically people experience each job market differently as they move between buckets. This happens even if not that much time passed. The guy who retired early at 45 then got bored and starts looking at 50 is just in a wildly different position.
You can also check out DeepFlow [1], where we implemented distributed tracing for microservices using eBPF, which of course also includes observability of K8s networks.

1. https://deepflow.io
Apparently people now call using Google's advanced search operators Dorking, neat! I guess I've been dorking for a while.

Most of us know about "site:" since it's extremely handy, but there are a lot more. For some reason I had it in my head that many of the documented operators didn't work properly -- or at least I couldn't get them to work properly the last time I tried to experiment. I'll have to try again.
More likely a stock buyback.
My perspective continues to change, and my feelings about death increasingly line up with what I've liked to say for years: "I accept that I will die and I'm okay with that." I'm in no hurry to die, mind; life is wonderful, even when it's shit (well, like a cold shower, it's a lot better once I'm through the shit). Increasingly I'm okay with who I am, where I am, and what I've done, freeing me up to do what I really want to do.

Mentally converting a lot of my physical stuff into shit to give away (so much gratitude to George Carlin), and actually giving it away (no regrets for any of it, either), has been a huge part of this process.
Moving around stuff drawn in another program is boring, and gives me flashbacks to back around 2000 when I was moving around stuff at the end of a lengthy multi-person chain that started on paper. Drawing stuff in the same program I'm moving stuff around in and using its rigging/distortion tools to do inbetweening is fun. I really gotta make time to seriously dig into Moho or Toon Boom soon because I keep on missing animation lately.
There is an implicit expectation that numerous tropical solar farms will produce anhydrous ammonia for export, both as fuel for shipping and to back up intermittent temperate sources, and for traditional uses in industry and agriculture.

There is a chicken-and-egg problem for the ammonia economy.
1 definitely tracks. My last company did lots of layoffs and the people who didn’t have a problem getting a new, maybe more senior or well paid, job were the ones that did a great job and put some oomph into their work. Absolutely nothing wrong with wanting or needing a 9-5, but the people who did reasonable work and then were unavailable after 5 are the ones that are having issues getting new jobs.

I don’t think the next best thing is to start a company however. Because the people who didn’t get jobs from their network are more likely to be the people who won’t necessarily excel at this. Plus there are so many variables here.

Next best thing in my view is to grind the heck out of Hacker Rank problems and get a job out of pure spite from brute forcing software challenges. Not fun or interesting, but can work really well to land someone a high paying job without having to think about starting a company.

Next best thing, or parallel best thing if this is your preference, is probably to get a more local dev job. There are surprisingly many local companies who don’t post remote roles, don’t post roles on HN, pay less than FAANG market, but are comfortable, in person roles with medium expectations. This is way better than being a liquor store clerk.
They DID reinvest.

Intel built D1X and it took forever to get working and even longer to become profitable (if it even is yet). It was a 10 year 10 billion dollar project.

D1X was like their entire capex budget.

They just flew too close to the sun and imploded with too many technical challenges.
So far, the most viable route of FOSS monetization seems to be "open core". Android, SQLite, GitLab, VSCode, Docker to name a few.
SEO for resumes has been a thing for at least a decade. It’s dystopian and dehumanizing. You can only imagine how bad it is going to get when AI gets to screen, interview, and hire; totally autonomously. I’m sure companies are begging for this: cutting their entire recruiting budget would surely return at least 0.01% to the almighty shareholders.
The article looked really interesting, but the scrolljacking made me leave immediately.
The job market is normalizing, not dying. It's hard to get a job in tech? No shit, that's how it should be. Sleepwalking into a $300K-500K/yr job with no effort and no expectation to perform was the anomaly, and that's over now.
Investment banking
Ask HN: Is there something better than CapacitorJS for hybrid applications?
I'm looking to avoid developing for different devices and wondering how this is being addressed in 2024
“Health equity” could be claiming new victims. More than 10 million nonblack Americans with chronic kidney disease may have seen their treatments or transplants delayed because of policy changes enacted after 2020’s “racial reckoning.” Some of those patients now face greater risk of death because national transplant organizations have embraced racial activism.
Gelsinger is a weird dude. He had the Pope bless a wafer for good luck on a fab.
Because a "data scientist" can't get a job? Not surprising at all.
You don't need a full EEG to do what the parent mentions. 3 electrodes around each eye (EOG) + ground is all that is needed. Even cheap commercial electrodes will work for this. Blinks can be filtered online with PCA-like techniques.
You don't have any feedback to improve your approach other than the fact that you did not get a response.
Distinct issue. You’re serving transport infra, you do what the landlord says or make way for another business that will. People travel on Sundays and want to eat, regardless of your belief system.

Totally different than EV charging infra uptime and availability.
> could we teach the child and know for sure that they understand it?

Yes, children aren't born knowing languages so you teach the child the language and then you can see it understands it. You don't need to share a language to teach language. We haven't been able to teach any animal language at even 4 year level, so animals at least doesn't have the same level of language intelligence as humans do.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764988
I quoted the phrase "it's feeling more like a third world country" verbatim, which is the part I have issue with. I also said "I get the sentiment", meaning that I understand what they were trying to express (that it's getting worse). I don't know what you were disagreeing with though?

> You can't then come along and say

Of course I can. That is also my experience. According to OP many third world countries they visited seem to be handling this better than places like Paris, but imo it's just because they have the power to sweep the problem under the rug. I don't think that is the solution we should aim for.

Oh and btw

> You can't come along and pick some worse example from another place.

I didn't pick them, OP did. I literally would not have replied to OP had they not invoked the "turning to 3rd world country" drivel.
I know that some companies are developing AI-based interview products. In a video conference, the AI asks questions and then evaluates the candidate's answers, giving a score. This can save a lot of time for the interviewer. Such a world is quite scary.
If someone can stomach 1000 cold contacts and no results, that person should consider switching to sales.
Who do you think I was talking about when I said "It seems more like something the battery makers should watch" ?
I was box number three - tried to be box number two and went bankrupt, and took a job at PCWorld (UK version of BestBuy?) doing repairs. Couple of months in I had coded up a sort of automated PC fix program - turned 2 hours into 5 minutes. There is always a way to find an entrepreneurial gap - even if I never quite exploit it to my own financial benefit

Worst day in that job when I was trying to crawl out of bankruptcy was meeting a few of my ex-colleagues while wearing the crappy purple uniform. I was putting food on the table and they looked like I was a joke.

I still put food on the table, the job market always wants people who can just code. Networking is hard and requires longitudinal effort. But the jackpot remains elusive.

Keep trying
This looks sick. Can't wait to try!
Open core companies, including Redis, are the ones switching to fake open source licenses.
Definitely not true in my experience. I have witnessed very little consistency, it seems most applications are simply automatically filtered using many variables that no one is going to figure out.

But you could argue that applications are automatically filtered because of the spam, but at the same time if you don't spam depending on your position you are a lost cause. It is terrible system that feeds on itself.
Man 2 can sell his real estate at any time he pleases and become a renter if he likes.
I was also unhappy with how reference managers handle annotations. So I rolled my own app (https://getcahier.com), with highlight management integrated in the application. This enables me to extract highlights according to topics, organize them in notes using document elements (like collapsible notes and outlines) and use them to plan more complex arguments. This makes it much easier to read actively.

On the paper organization side, I would also like to find out a better way of doing it. What helps me a lot, from a more methodological perspective, is to categorize books according to time period, school of thoughts, or perspective.
So after reading the positive comments here I went ahead and bought a copy for iPhone in the App Store.

I was hoping that it supports controllers, as i recently bought a pretty neat controller that you plug the phone into the middle of, and you get buttons and thumb sticks on each side of the screen. Kind of similar to the joycons you have with a Nintendo Switch. This controller is PlayStation branded, but produced by a different company that has licensed the right to brand the controller that way.

Anyway, I am happy to report that yes indeed this game works with my controller. Left thumb stick moves the character around, and right thumb sticks moves a sort of aiming square around!

Edit: the pointer sensitivity was a bit high for me, but it is adjustable in the game settings and after adjusting it it is comfortable
>> Absolutely nothing wrong with wanting or needing a 9-5,

Kids, life, have these things. Just make sure you are hitting your marks, that your helpful that your gonna roll your selves up and get shit done. If you have to leave, then leave, bow out.

If you cant come in, or have to go cause you need to be at the gym or your spin class or D&D night. No one is calling you back right now. They remember that you put you first and not the team.

It does NOT have to be, and SHOULD NOT be, toxic.
Are you talking about training a human or training an artist?

Downloading copyrighted data at huge scales to use in your commercial software product is pretty substantially different than an art student studying a reference.
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Without listing 100 can you list 10 just to get a general idea?

I'm not sure what generation we're talking about. I'm in my late 30s and I don't have the same doomsday outlook on life.
Copyleft isn't permissive. It's a viral license that sets restrictions on derivative works, forks and contribution.
> And the fact that this is the silent default behavior in C++ is wild to me.

I agree, totally. Backwards compatibility is a cruel mistress.
When you're changing your career and trying to get into an industry ... it's hard to know how that plays out. More directly a buddy of mine, also my age, and in the same camp was straight up told by a recruiter they were looking for someone younger. He had her on speakerphone and asked her to repeat it and she did.

Then the question was, do you want to be the guy who calls that out? Trying to get a job...

I don't think the outcome is a sure thing, in that case I wanted to do / say something but I felt like it was the applicant's call. Not an easy decision.

I respected his choice to just move on, still burns me up a little, but his call IMO.
If you only play open source mobile games and are afraid of wasting your time, make sure you avoid the factory tower defense game Mindustry which presents itself at https://mindustrygame.github.io/
can i be of, assistance ?

https://adventurebricks.com/

https://www.rpgminifigs.com/

https://www.rpgminifigs.com/collections/character-packs

https://www.enworld.org/threads/lego-d-d-minifigures-pics-of...
In the USA is it now illegal for vendors to email statements as PDF attachments?
I recall, in years past, getting monthly statements from e.g. utilities as email PDF attachments.

Now, it seems many/most vendors are reluctant or incapable of doing this, instead forcing me to either (a) visit their (especially if small-time) increasingly shitty website to download the same statement PDFs, or (b) switch back to getting paper bills in snail mail. (b) intrinsically sucks, and (a) is becoming increasingly annoying as resume-driven development (and/or management incompetence) seems to be driving website "change for the sake of change" redesigns chock full of functional regressions (basically: change which suggests that those doing the redesign did not even bother to inform themselves about the capabilities and functionality of the website they are replacing, and blithely discarding same).

Is there some recent law or standard that has eliminated the straightforward practice of emailing e.g. utility statements?
A shame, because seeing how you can get and apply a BMS to a build is probably where much of the readership interest lies.

How 'programmable' is the BMS typically? is it arduino programming hard? Can you e.g. shape the charge profile. set the stop point, route around damaged cells? is the BMS field upgradable?

I'm guessing its a commodotized un-upgradable closed solution and you set the params on purchase (alibaba) and its how it works forever.
>turns out this software is hard to build and we need to pay smart people to work on it.

Well, I'm reasonably smart (math PhD, FAANG experience, etc), and I interviewed with you a couple of years ago.

Went through all technical rounds, didn't get the job.

I've spent some time with Meta since then, and made enough money that pay isn't a priority for me now. Especially for a project like this that I both believe in, and see as a great fit for my background.

I'm looking for the next move now, and I still would love to be with JITX.

Pay me less. Let me help you being your vision to reality.
$20k for a week’s work seems more than good, no?
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Negative, ghost rider.

I’ve had a fairly consistent 100:10:1 application:interview:offer ratio for about 25 years, including bull and bear markets. It’s a numbers game. There is likely nothing wrong with his resume. You need to have a very wide top-of-the-funnel.

There are probably a few Captains Of Industry here on HN who can send 5 resumes out and get 5 offers. These are multiple-standard-deviation outliers.
Oh this is by no means limited to ancient times, try giving any two young children the same amount of food, but cut into different sized pieces - smaller cuts result in more pieces than the larger cuts... Guaranteed meltdown. :)
What is the topic?

Another is No Starch Press.
Have you tried Packt? I thought Packt would publish anything.

Do you have any idea what kind of percentage you will get from sales? I've heard that it is very difficult to make a good return from book sales unless it is a huge success.
Actual PIRG report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770220
After getting laid off after the .com bust, I did a variation on 3), accepted a contract job with a terrible company. It got me by until the market improved and got a much better job.

The trick in a bad market is to understand that mostly the cool perks are gone, and for a time you need to lower your expectations. I think that is going to be very difficult in this cycle.
What do you like about organization in Mendeley?
People who didn't put extra effort into a job that wasn't their own is not indicative that they won't for a job that is actually their own.