skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I help maintain the phones/computers for several non-technical and/or elderly family members.

Their computers are a mess. No matter what pro-active measures I take, every time I get involved, they have a bunch of nonsense installed doing who-knows-what. Random apps, most of which are running all the time, slogging down the system. The younger folks have different game-stores, or other similar things, all running in the background. The computers are slower than mud.

Their phones are all fine. They may download crap, but I know it is almost impossible for it to mess things up outside of that individual app.

I'm not saying this to completely defend Apple - I honestly don't know which side of the App Store/sideloading debate I fall on. I'm just pointing out that there are huge benefits, particularly for the general population of non-techincal users, to Apple remaining as a gatekeeper (albeit obviously a quite imperfect one).
They should just call it a tip, since that's the world we live in now.
[insert xkcd comic about standards]

We already have ActivityPub, no point in trying to reinvent the wheel without a critical mass of users and services.

Mastodon + Lemmy + Pixelfed are built on ActivityPub, what does your protocol bring to the table?
How bad is wildfire smoke for your health? Here’s my view as a toxicologist
It is people whose unpaid side gig is their parents’ tech support, seeing their job about to get a lot harder.
> like any software, at some point in it's life need to be refactored.

This is simply not true for most software. Software has a product life cycle like everything else and major refactors/rewrites should be weighed carefully against cost/risk of the refactor. Many traditional engineering fields do much better at this analysis.

Although, because I run a contracting shop, I have personally profited greatly by clients thinking this is true and being unable to convince them otherwise.
Any available open source APIs?
Sriracha sauce vs Electric chair?

For several reasons the choice isn't that obvious.
Is this a way to describe code bases that are hard to navigate, just like the store?
How do you gather information about malicious infrastructure?
I'm working on a cyber security SaaS platform that helps cyber security researchers gather information about malicious infrastructure - download malware, scan ports, fetch SSL certificates, etc.

I want to gather some information about how other people do these tasks without my application so that I can build it to help the most people possible. I know how I used to do it (TL;DR - it was a pain in the ass) but I don't want to assume my method was the typical one.
There are things worse than death. And then there are things that are bad when added to deaths. In the first category might be "scammers who absorb so much cash that they prevent real cures from being researched". In the second might be "people who squander their family's financial future on magic beans in futile attempt to live, but die anyway".

No one would opt into volunteer to be in the second group. But, I can see a lot of, e.g. 50-year-olds, taking a risk thinking they can refill the college-education funds and retirement funds by just working longer than they intended.

I would imagine when dying one of the comforting thoughts is that your estate will continue being able to care for loved ones after you are gone.
> What if our fibers invoke operating system primitives that block, or interfaces which indirectly do?

The best fiber interfaces, like virtual threads in Java, intercept these blocking primitives and perform the yield there implicitly. This means that user code just doesn't need to worry about this at all and can block as they normally would.
Having kids later in life keeps the total population smaller while still allowing the same number of people to exist spread out over time. This has a theoretical positive effect of reducing crowding. Would you rather your children have the opportunity to live in a house, or be permanent apartment/condo dwellers?
3) On iOS, you can remove the default Mail.app, among others, so it's not a wholly unknown concept.
My dad's been telling me that exact thing, which is weird as hell.
Yeah, I understand. Maybe it would be good to add a comment on it in the README, since most people will hit this problem.
Nit:

> Resources to learn about distributed systems

I thought Murat Buffalo's blog would come up at the top. That's a gold, and I'm confident that it was shared on HN as well (maybe a year or two back).

Otherwise neat and useful!
> drive it with a Logitech USB gamepad

As opposed to the professionals who went with a microsoft xbox controller? [1]

> Or the fact that they scrubbed a Titanic launch for the media due to weather

Yes? Weather is a thing. This is not a ride at disney land, of course they cancel the operation when the circumstances are not favorable. In fact doing the opposite would be foolish.

The company in question might be full of jokers, but your points don’t quite illistrate this well. They are about appearances and not substance.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/18/17136808/us-navy-uss-colo...
Maybe technically correct but societal changes happen so rapidly that any such collected data is useless after a decade or two.

A bachelor at 30 in the 60s or 70s was likely to stay a bachelor their entire life. Today the average age of marriage for men has risen beyond that.
"Difficult" doesn't even begin to do it justice. Making a code which has 2k global variables and probably order of magnitude as many underlying assumptions (the code should know that now every time you touch X you may be influenced or influence all other threads that may touch X) is a gargantuan task, and will absolutely for sure involve many iterations which any sane person would never let anywhere near valuable data (and how long would it take until you'd consider it safe enough?). And making this all performant - given that shared-state code requires completely different approach to thinking about workload distribution, something that performs when running in isolated processes may very well get bogged down in locking or cache races hell when sharing the state - would be even harder. I am not doubting Postgres has some very smart people - much, much smarter than me, in any case - but I'd say it could be more practical to write new core from scratch than trying to "refactor" the core that organically grew for decades with assumptions of share-nothing model.
I Automate Client Finding on Fiverr
Define what service are you offering? Define your target audience?

ex: set up shopify shop for aspiring ecom brands/dropshippers

Set up the best gig profile on Fiverr - optimize its SEO using Fiverr’s “Keyword Research” tool

Set up Twitter alerts for keywords in your niche

“dropshipping”, “ecom”, “products to sell”, “shopify set up”

use tools like Zapier or IFTTT to automate this

Create a standard pitch that highlights your value propositions

Of course, customize it for each individual

Offer free guides to help them get started

Use hypefury to automate follow up messages
I found the (wireless, $30) game controller:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Nano-Receiver-Contr...

and this from a review:

“Pretty good controller, fits in hand comfortably and is compatible with anything I throw at it in a Debian linux environment. The conductive pads are extremely low quality though as I've had to replace them 3 times in the 2 years Ive been using it. For a Logitech product I expect better build quality and reasonably easier to find replacement parts but not true for this product.

Last night I had the left directional button go out on me and without parts on hand I ended up breaking down an old wired controller I had laying around. The IZDTech controller i used for parts is over 5 years old and the conductive pads are still in good shape. With a little modification I was able to get them to sit 'okay' on the buttons. Until i can find the appropriate conductive pads this will have to do.”
Homes for sale in the Bay Area are at their lowest level in 20 years. Here’s why
Not releasing code or weights under the false pretense of misuse.
So are they releasing it or not? It's a nice PR statement but "we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time". Phantom release?
Goodwill has always struck me as a very suspect accounting practice. I'm honestly surprised it's legal.
I do. Interested? :D On a small project, I managed to reduce costs by 70 times simply by transitioning and eliminating unnecessary features. This happened four years ago, and the project is still running smoothly. However, what I truly enjoy is providing an objective view of the actual cloud transition process to companies before they make any misguided decisions.
Not zero, his current userbase would probably be amenable, but you're correct in that's a very small proportion of Reddit's total users.

I don't see federated alternatives taking off after Mastodon/Twitter. Most people I followed on Twitter didn't move to Mastodon, they simply stopped posting anywhere.

My feeling is these platforms will slowly die, but that'll take a very long time to come to fruition, same as digg and myspace.
This is a huge issue in the voice acting community. Been frequent recent discussions over at https://www.reddit.com/r/VoiceActing/.

For what its worth, most of the cost of audiobooks doesn't come from paying talent. For intermediate level actors, the going rate is around $50-$100 per finished hour (PFH) and experienced actors it can be around $250-$300. This page does a decent job of laying out pay structures for audiobooks: https://speechify.com/blog/whats-the-meaning-of-per-finished...

An 8 hour audio book might cost the author/producer about $1800-$2k.

Just talking about Audible exclusively, they take about %50 of sales. But it's kinda wishy washy about exactly how much an author will earn in royalties. It's not as much as you might think. Good article from an author here that lays out some sales numbers: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/how-audiobook-authors-are-p...

The other way that a narrator can get paid is called royalty share. That means the author/producer doesn't pay the narrator anything up front and the voice actor then relies on a small percent of each book sale to get paid. Theoretically, if an audiobook ends up really taking off then the narrator potentially could make a lot of money. But that rarely happens. Most audiobooks that you find on Audible have very, very low sales volumes.

To sum it up, it doesn't occur to lost of audiobook fans but voice acting is a very competitive industry. It takes a lot of work to make a name for yourself, and even then the most successful actors probably aren't making much more than a highly paid software engineer. For most wannabe voice actors (including myself), its something you do more for love than necessarily to make a career out of it. Though of course, lots of people do but not the majority.

This is all why I'm personally not a fan of these voice generation models. It's going to eventually make this niche industry non-competitive for real humans except for the talent that is already established. People keep blaming the actors as being too expensive when most are barely making it without secondary jobs.
Although I feel bad for everybody involved, making billions selling the most polluting transport system on the planet (private jets) and then getting crushed by the ocean certainly feels like karma.
> My point is that as you age, without kids, most peoples’ options for spending time is the same subset of things they could do in their late twenties and early thirties, except they will do those things worse as they age.

They wouldn't be limited to options that don't build. You can have children and build a family, but you can also choose to dedicate your resources to building a business, or a skill, or knowledge, or whatever. Doesn't matter that you lose energy as you age and make lesser contributions, because you're kind of transforming it into something more persistent that you value. That could be a family, but it doesn't have to be.

> Is travel at 50 really fundamentally different than travel at 30? Other than having a bit more money, my opinion is not really. In many ways, travel at 30 is better, even with less money.

Even with relation to travel, maybe you dream of having a deeper understanding of one or more cultures or pieces of history and each travel contributes a bit to that.

It seems like you think the point of traveling is just to enjoy the travel itself, a momentary pleasure, but I don't see the point of travel if you return in the same state as when you left. It's only when something changes, when a contribution to something was made, that a travel was worthwhile. I don't think that ability to contribute to something (interpersonal relations, business, knowledge, etc.) is all that much affected between being 30 and 50.
A positive spin but arguably deceitful spin on the state of affairs in the US and UK.

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2023/uk-drops-new-gl...

"A new analysis of global rankings of life expectancy over seven decades shows the UK has done worse than all G7 countries except the USA."

"According to the OECD, state the researchers, the UK recently became the second most economically unequal country in Europe after Bulgaria."

Me personally, I dont even think I'll be reaching retirement age if I continue to live in the UK, and thats not through not wanting to work, but thats because of the how the UK has become. Everything has just got too expensive living in the UK now.

More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK, but you cant point this stuff out to people in the street because they'll have a go back, a form of denial of the situation in the UK.

Its become very dog eat dog, quality of work in decline but costs still going up.

Crime in my experience is also off the scale and the attitude of the police now means I no longer report crimes to them.

So yes this sort of article is portrayed as positive spin but is in fact deceitful spin.
> The government hopes that the move will spur competition and lead to app price drops

Most apps are free. The paid one are also already very cheap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVtOevLrt5U
Anecdotally, I never felt like syscall performance was an issue, it was always File I/O (and yes "real-time" A/V is always a massive issue for File I/O on Windows).

The issues with syscalls to me always seemed to be more around obscure compatibility than performance. Apps would crash that shouldn't because they relied on a weird POSIX edge case (that they maybe shouldn't). It always seemed more to me on the general syscall front beyond File I/O that "app just doesn't work at all" rather than "app works slowly".

That said, I've never been a heavy WSL user so my experiences may have been limited in some of the syscalls people were complaining about. WSL1 was "fast enough" for my use cases. I'm very curious if WSL1 on the incoming Dev Drive which takes a different approach to A/V exclusion among other things and file I/O in general would be as good or better than WSL2 performance.
And the movie is in the public domain, so you can stream it on the the internet archive!

https://archive.org/details/goliathawaits1981
Go talk to a farmer whose livelihood depends on the weather and you will find few who don’t believe the weather is screwy today and it is hard to make a living. Over the course of 20-30 years watching in one place you do see a difference in the timing of the seasons, plant community, patterns of rainfall in such.

Now if you spend all your time in air conditioning you might not notice and that is part of why your friend can sustain his belief system.
Only with work. If they are destitute but don't have to program, it's also quite possible they'll be hungry and cold and thus still also miserable.
I like my name for them better!
"Free" with in-app purchases that can easily eat one's entire paycheck.
I'm a big proponent of this method. I do the same thing several times each winter in my car using an empty parking lot.

Practice feeling comfortable sliding and recovering so you don't have a bad reflex and overcorrect. Absolutely saved my ass one time a few years ago driving home from work.

I was on a 55 and the roads were dry and clear. I came around a slight curve that runs next to some woods and hit black ice immediately. I lightly tapped the gas and tokyo-drifted back to the center of the lane. Felt just like what I had practiced and I felt calm while doing it. Had I panicked and slammed on the brakes, I would have gone sideways into the woods at 55.
nvm I get it now lol
No, I defend it because I actually do not want that. I prefer the Apple experience. I control all my subscriptions from a single place, I only get stuff from the App Store and if I get tricked to buy an app that is not working I can request a refund and I’ve never had issues getting my money back. I also haven’t had a single issue with anyone from my family getting scammed or their details being stolen after switching the to Apple. Before it was a constant “accidental” subscriptions and random installed apps.

What actually annoys me are the developers wanting everything for “free”. Look you customer chose to buy an iPhone. Accept it. You don’t like that you have to Apple? Tell your customer to use a web browser. But I feel there is almost no respect from developers to what the users have chosen and why.
I'm not a medical professional but webmd.com seems like a ok source for the general public:

https://www.webmd.com/baby/guide/pregnancy-after-35
Exactly. I wouldn't dance on most of it but it serves its purpose quite adequately. I find that IKEA has consistently good quality. Very little of there stuff is great quality, but almost nothing is of a low quality. It is all adequate at a very reasonable price.

I agree that if you are expecting top quality you will be disappointed. But for the price it is hard to find much of better quality. Especially not so consistently.
usb-c and now this. Great news for consumers!
They absolutely do allow that, they just ask that you send them a request which they regularly respond to. That doesn't violate GDPR or CA's law, and why should it?

One of the major elements of this site is that it's a building knowledge-base, at least in theory, and people randomly gouging parts of it out on a whim is unhelpful. By adding a (legally acceptable) step in between the urge to delete and the action, they toe the line while discouraging tantrums.
That's how you bring several kW of power down to an ROV.

An umbilical cable, copper conductors and fiber optics inside steel wire sheath. The weight of the thing makes it impossible to attach it directly to the ROV - It would be unmaneuverable - so instead they bring it down to a TMS (Tether Management System) - basically a cage where the steel umbilical terminates and a spool of lightweight tether cable, 100m or so, which the crew then pays out to give the ROV the capability to snoop around at depth.
One of the differences between USA/Canada and France/Germany (and perhaps other countries). Local phone calls in Canada/USA are included in monthly phone bill service, whereas in France/Germany, local calls are charged a per minute rate in addition to any monthly phone service cost. I believe local phone-dialup ISPs took off in Canada/USA because of the lower cost.
Scorching take. Tweez is nowhere close to spiderland. Now hurry up and get me some new headphones Steve, they're fucked.
> True but so far the common view is that when you buy something subsidized you play by the rules of the person that subsidizes it

No thanks
> while those companies have provided immense value

My gut reaction is the same as you say you've already heard. I think that the existing platforms have not provided much value at all, and instead have been detrimental to our world. But that might not be a fair reaction -- what value are you seeing from the big social platforms?

Because if you can identify the value that a new platform would offer, and build from scratch with specific positive goals in mind, maybe something could work. But if you are talking about starting with email or chat... those aren't the core values of FAANG platforms anyway, so I'm not sure you are clear on a vision for where you would go with a new platform. And without a solid vision and clear intent, I'd have to answer, "No", don't build it.
> Write code that can be replaced. Writing code is easy, but editing code is hard. Make inputs and outputs extremely clear; everything between is disposable detail. We intuitively call irreplacable code “complicated” or “spaghetti”.

I like this rule especially for test code. There’s already a level of abstraction going on with test code which makes it more difficult to reason about. Don’t make it clever.
tl;dr The prospect of paying significantly higher mortgage rates is dampening homeowner interest in selling. Despite these rates, demand is sufficient to be keeping prices high.
You're going to have a very very very hard time defining "basic necessity".

Electricity isn't a necessity, neither is internet access. Or maybe it is? Does that mean a phone is a basic necessity?

Is an x-ray machine a basic necessity?
What you're talking about is a rewrite, not a refactor.
I have 10 YoE now, and same.

Best of luck. There's a good chance having a business double major might do well to make you stand out as someone who can do the product management side of things in addition to the more technical work
While I’m not necessarily in favor of this, a multimodal AI that has access to your location, vision inputs, etc could obtain much of this context. People already explore foreign countries by hobbling together these services.
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The demography and expertise of your typical lurker probably vary over time as well. E.g. someone writing in a physics newsgroup in the usenet era I would guess is more likely to have relevant expertise than one writing in a physics subreddit today, now that the internet has grown beyond a population of predominantly academics and techies.
Facebook can ban a journalist from the platform, refuse to answer their emails, kick them out of F8, etc. All would be forms of entirely legal harms.

Freedom of the press (and speech, association, etc.) in the US constrains government, not private companies.
>This is how it already works - this is what a clinical trial is.

That's not at all how clinical trials work. If and when someone decides to advance a drug to the next stage of development, it's done because they think there's a sufficiently profitable market at the end of the road. So lots of extremely promising drugs stall out if the numbers don't make sense. Furthermore, the trial enrollment process itself is cumbersome and often your only entrypoint is email "trials@pharmacompany.com" and hope you can a response and can navigate their arbitrary screening process. Speaking of screening: trials are full of exclusion criteria. They can get copy-pasted between trial protocols and often have no real reason excluding you. What's the washout period for your last line of chemo? Ever had any kind of immunotherapy? &c &c From the point of view of whoever is trying to get a drug approved it's better to be safe than sorry wrt any kind of uncertainty in a patient's medical status or treatment history. But that means that there might be a drug that looks extremely promising from previous trials but the only current trial excludes you for a small reason.
a random aside, I truly thank you for your course. You're the teacher I wish I had in my bachelor's 8 years back. Singlehandedly revived my interest in learning databases. :).

Through your course, I reached a stage where I can help OSS projects and its features.