skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big advantage of the process-based model is its resilience against many classes of errors.

If a bug in PostgreSQL (or in an extension) causes the server to crash, then only that process will crash. Postmaster will detect the child process termination, and send an error message to the client. The connection will be lost, but other connections will be unaffected.

It's not foolproof (there are ways to bring the whole server down), but it does protect against many error conditions.

It is possible to trap on some exceptions in a threaded environment, but cleaning up after eg. an attempted NULL pointer dereference is going to be very difficult or impossible.
Apologies. Your impression of the argument was so spot on that I couldn't actually read the sarcasm in it :P

Just to be clear, I think there are bad forms of censorship. My point is simply my use of social media tends to not overlap with the places where those bad forms of censorship occur.
The phone is the center of digital and economic life. No one needs a console.
Trying to understand what I previously wrote and why I wrote it takes more time than I ever care to spend. I'd much rather have the comments, plus at this point, by making them a "first class" part of my code, I find them much easier to write and I find the narrative style I use incredibly useful in laying out a new structure but also in refactoring old ones.
> When will plasma be livable in general?

It already is, and a lot of other people feel the same way. If it doesn't suit your needs, that's fine.

> every problem I've googled for (sddm most recently)

SDDM is not a part of KDE proper, but it sounds like they are going to bring it under their umbrella in Plasma 6.
Low-Latency HLS Support for Cloudflare Stream
I always understood IPC, "interprocess communication", in general sense, as anything and everything that can be used by processes to communicate with each other - of course with a narrowing provision that common use of the term refers to those means that are typically used for that purpose, are relatively efficient, and the process in question run on the same machine.

In that view, I always saw shared memory as IPC, in that it is a tool commonly used to exchange data between processes, but of course it is not strictly tied to any process in particular. This is similar to files, which if you squint are a form of IPC too, and are also not tied to any specific process.

> Why does citing ChatGPT make me feel so ugly inside?

That's probably because, in cases like this, it's not much different to stating it yourself, but is more noisy.
Not only that, but they are (apparently) holding the account hostage in saying that it must be done before they will delete his account, which doesn't even make sense.

You can't see the posts you made within the subreddits that went private. (I haven't checked visibility via the API, though.)
My father is still alive, but, when he passes away, my version of this is that his crystal radios that he liked to build as hobby projects will still be blathering away since they only depend on the power coming straight from the radio waves in the air.
Cost of living isn't going up. The value of our money is going down, and real wages are stagnant. Technology is, at it has always been, deflationary, but we see none of those benefits.

Basically, the typical process of getting iterative raises has become fighting to tread water. Saving cash or cash-derived assets is somewhat meaningless because you're guaranteed a future where the savings buy a fraction of what they do when you put it away.
So much of Reddit's reach is grasping at crap though, the idea that to compete with Reddit you need hundreds of millions of active users out of the gate isn't useful either.

A "Reddit" with hundreds of thousands of active users, perhaps growing to an HN size community over years, is far more appealing to me at least than a giant that comes out of the gate baying for VC money and blood.
i get a “sour grapes” feeling from this too. funnily enough, when i started reading this i thought to myself, “i bet there is going to be some kind of self-promotion or link to give donations,” and sure enough, there were both those things at the end.

to your second point, reddit tolerates these kind of rants/events because drama creates traffic, and, amusingly, people are giving that post awards.. which is money straight into reddit’s pocket.
Can everyone run their own general contracting firm? Both of your examples require workers. Good for the outliers who are doing well, but if their employees can't keep up with the cost of living that's a problem, right?
I wouldn't even say that's so advanced. I've got a similar scope config (not published, sorry). All built from source, with the resulting binaries pushed to less-trusted hosts. My cloud servers, router, wifi APs, Kodi boxes, etc, all running self-hosted self-built software with config kept in git.

Previously I ran Debian across my setup (with a homemade configuration templating/distribution tool) but it feels like Nix really bundles up the accidental complexity of installing/deploying most software in a contained way, much more than a traditional distro.

I'll be much happier when Nix gains full reproducibility and functionality like Guix's `challenge`. But even now it feels like one of the closest implementations to the Free Software dream.
Some mountains like K2 have an extremely high kill rate and it still happens almost every year. Probably higher killing rate than all the Titanic exploration missions that did not explode in the past. It's not so much about physics but just looking at probability
I just had a brief read of the protocol but my understanding is yes, there is nothing like onion routing or similar that could disguise to a peer that is serving the data that the requester is indeed the one who is interested in it.
Yep! Everyone should read https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/ for how powerful this can be in practice. The caller gets to pause execution on the raising/hurling of an event - which makes many crazy things possible.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008519
They don’t exactly need a control group if the chance of living N weeks is effectively zero. They would need it for something like living N weeks and living N+1 weeks, but any kind of change from an individual expected outcome would be useful signal for maybe more rigorous testing.
Progman
There is certainly an age-dependent point of maximum utility for the family.

It consists not only of physical health but also economic stability and other factors.

33 seems totally fine. But generally people tend to be a little more cautious for pregnancies after 35 (mothers's age).
And you can make a LackRack from it [1].

1. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
I agree with the factual basis of your comment; it's true that lots of conference attendees have their tickets covered by employers. That was true for about 50% of our attendees, but it was a real mix - and I'm pretty sure that everyone was happy with their investment.

However, there's another dimension to this, which is that there are different kinds of conferences and of course, different kinds of attendees. We were very up-front in our marketing that our event was catering to a certain personality profile; specifically, people who understood that the talks were the thing that happened between hallway conversations. This was pretty radical in 2008.

The vast majority of conferences have a cookie-cutter vibe, and I agree with you that most solo devs would cut those out of the budget in leaner times.

We wanted our event to act as a force multiplier, whether that meant elevating smart ideas or meeting the people you wanted to work with or for. It was carefully designed and high touch.
I don't get it. How is a 2000-member structure any different from having 2000 global variables? How is maintaining the struct possibly harder than maintaining the globals? Refactoring globals to struct members is semantically nearly identical, it may as well just be a mechanical, cosmetic change, while also giving the possibility to move to a threaded architecture.
>> You don’t like that you have to Apple? Tell your customer to use a web browser.

It's not working like that with companies with values of trillions that own half of the market.
There are plenty of public employees in the US who know how to run distribution systems. The second biggest city in the country has municipal electricity by way of LADWP.
This is very fun!

I am only making suggestion because it rhymes with "hurl" (and it works well metaphorically for the repeating tossing/hurling): you could introduce a "whirl" keyword or part of the standard library as the way to handle loops.

It could be functionally the same as your loop example but removes the self-referential first argument (i.e. whirl(count, [1,3])).
Yeah. I'm not sure having Boeing design and build me a $10,000 LED lighting array is necessarily a big improvement and, if you're worried about the reliability of your game controller? Buy two maybe of everything maybe, even three? There can be reasons to use expensive bespoke coffee pots on commercial flights. But going with the gold-plated aerospace version isn't always the answer.
This comment is both true and utterly useless.

You aren't in traffic, you are traffic.
I've generally had buffer-cache hit rates in the 99.9% range, which ends up being minimal read I/O. (This is on AWS Aurora, where these bo disk cache and so shared_buffers is the primary cache, but an equivalent measure for vanilla postgres exists.)

In those scenarios,there's very little read I/O. CPU is the primary bottleneck. That's why we run up as many as 10 Aurora readers (autoscaled with traffic).
Errors are so common with these endpoints, not having retry out of the box just makes it harder to hack on which I think is against the spirit?
They are free mostly because they have in app purchases, which the stores take their cut of. It's easy to see the stores provide some of the value in the transaction, but 30% is an amount which would be arbitraged away with some real competition.
Corrupt or misbehaving admin have no accountability, with no means for users to remediate the issue, and the culture of the company encourages a process by which the only admins who will remain are those who are corrupt, abusive or otherwise inappropriate for the position.

Reddit is broken from top to bottom, from the front end to the back end.
Thief taped photos of his victims faces onto a DUMMY bypass facial recognition
I would be happy to pay more for an app by using the Apple store than using a side loaded version. I like being able to cancel subscriptions without having to email or call someone.
What sort of a shitty delete your data process doesn't delete your data?!?!

On brand for reddit I guess
>I prefer the Apple experience.

Yup, different people place the freedom vs security cursor at different spots.

You're clearly a "I'd rather live in a golden cage than use my brain" type, and that is fine, more power to you.

No everyone is like you, thank god.
Also, came here for the fertilizer info, as I believe P deposits are getting more expensive? (happy to be corrected)
I'm not gonna lie, I cackled at the first comparison ("reddit" vs "The Garden of Earthly Delights")

This feels like retro Internet, I love it.
Gritty 3-Step SEO Plan for Dev-Heavy Startups Without a Marketing Team
Lol, I made it until it asked me to choose between Elon Musk and Torture.
Serious game store competition has improved Steam a lot. Epic Games may be a shit company, but they keep Valve on their toes and we're all better for it. GOG is also ahead in many ways, like how their launcher integrates with every other launcher so you only really need to open GOG if you want to play games.

Shitty stores that only offer their maker's products (uPlay, Origin, Battle.net) don't need to compete, so their experience is usually crap. Most of those have vanished these days, though.
Google concerns aside, why can't I just use a spreadsheet
>The US’s first state-run public power company could be created when Maine votes later this year

Salt River Project is a state run public power company.
Simple, because Discord is real-time chat.

Forums are way too slow and don't automatically load the new messages etc.

And beyond that Discord has group voice and screen sharing too. I use these features all time time in my communities to talk to and help other users.

I don't really understand how anyone thinks a forum is a viable alternative to Discord.
Tbf there’s two different levels of IKEA. There’s the flimsy, throwaway stuff (good for what it is) and then there’s a higher quality level. The higher quality items come at a price that is commensurate with their quality level but definitely jarring compared to the pricing of other IKEA items.
The installer used to have an option for this, but nowadays it's discouraged. How come you wanted a single-user install so much? And j/w, are you on macOS?
Maybe the USA could regulate consoles to allow sideloading as "retaliation", it would be nice for a trade war to benefit consumers for once.
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r... (European Commission: What should I do if I think that my personal data protection rights haven’t been respected?)
I don't know what the parent meant by radical, but one reason my events are indie is because I'm biding my time as we grow.

If I want this year's conference to open with a keynote documenting all the ways Windows violates user trust, there's not a sponsor in the world that can veto it. We might even kindly point out the names of product managers and higher-ups who green lit those harmful policies.

This is all just a hypothetical scenario, of course... ! ;)
This probably won’t help the situation in the US but would be a major step forward for the openness of the iPhone platform
I personally hate the stores and the games that require you to "login" or even worse subscription based games.
I am not a lawyer, but my full-time work involves reviewing codebases for GDPR and CCPA compliance.

I do not believe this strategy will achieve what OP is hoping.

In response to a deletion request, Reddit instead seeks to anonymize the data. Anonymous data is not personal data, so anonymous data is not covered by GDPR.

If you submit a GDPR deletion request, they will in this way wriggle into a position where they claim GDPR does not apply.

When Reddit (or most any other website) soft-deletes an account, they simply obfuscate the user's identifiers such as username and IP address. They argue that this is sufficient to make the mass of remaining data anonymous, and therefore not covered by any privacy law.

This is an extremely common position for websites. However, it requires that the remaining data truly be anonymous. For Reddit, this is absurd, as the free-form content of the website allows any amount of identifying information to be uploaded. Reddit simply cannot guarantee that identities cannot be deduced from what remains.

I believe this is fundamentally in violation of GDPR, but I am not a GDPR regulator with the power of enforcement.

This requires a legal appeal to the regulatory bodies.
Outside the HN bubble, Windows is still used everywhere. Your kids probably use it at school.
I think the best option really is for side-loading to be possible, but just not easy. this is how it work on Amazon Fire TV sticks. you have to go into settings, flick a switch buried a few layers deep, then download an unobvious app from the store, after which you can download whatever app you like from the internet, but only within that app. everyone wins. at least until Amazon decide this is losing them money, anyway
The EU already did
If they can come up with the money then who cares?

It would be a much better case for regulating if there were some external payer.
Face images in ePassports: how high resolution are they?
Interesting, what about Quickbooks or Deel? Seems like there's a billion of these payroll startups
To be clear: nobody else should have the option to not have to use the walled garden on devices they purchased because... you prefer the walled garden?

If there is side loading forced to be allowed on Apple devices, there is nobody making you leave the walled garden.
Man, the longer I'm around the less willing I am to trust Google with anything that's not a core part of their business — search, gmail, docs. Everything else seems like it will be shut down or unsupported at some point.
I assume this is for smelting bauxite. Is that correct? Do you have similar numbers for recycling aluminum?
Completely agree with the ideal situation you present. The problem is that this doesn't hold up under the pressures of small teams chasing high growth.

Nobody is intentionally sabotaging anyone else (usually) but everyone stretches a little bit in the name of growth and things break down at the edges. Revenue growth can be life or death for small companies so, even though it sucks, promises are made and things are rushed. A perfect foundation and completely bug-free features don't matter if the business is dead.

There's a lot of sub-optimal juggling going on around this growth phase where you sometimes need to just focus on keeping the ship afloat until you hit the next set of milestones -> prove your worth -> raise -> grow the team to help shore up the foundation. Even if you aren't raising VC it can still be a similar grind where you need more cash flow to hire more to meet the exploding customer demands.

I will note that this only applies to high growth companies. If you have a pile of cash, strong product conviction (and skill), and the willpower to keep your feature set limited while turning away potential customers, you might be able to build the solid foundation -> sell the rock solid product. That isn't how most startups operate though and once you take VC the clock is ticking.
You do have rights regarding issues of libel and slander, which seem to be the acts Reddit staff engaged in according to the description the user provided. (The language implies explicit acts in public intended to cause harms)

Really, y'all need to stop this stuff. You scare people from action and so things only get worse.
Thank you for sharing, I grew up next to a hydroelectric dam and the time I spent on top of it for general tours and special tours with our scout group is something I will always remember.

My brain however has in the past created incredible nightmares based on the scale of what I experienced there. I just _had_ to see what the tailrace output looked like and was not disappointed by this nightmare fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhSzs4JXE0
That would lead to inconsistent brightness across devices

Phone brightness is going to be adjusted automatically or manually when someone goes from somewhere bright to somewhere dark, not to mention that different phones already have different brightness.

I'm pretty sure there is already "inconsistent brightness across devices" so I don't know what this actually means.
> 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.

Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).

Post 2016 the messaging from most commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) seemed to be that they were going to be the ones benefiting from a brain drain of Americans leaving the country. Canada was supposed to become an "AI Superpower" and Universities in the UK were supposed to be where innovation was going to happen next due to the perceived hostility of the United States to foreign talent. I recall someone pitching the "Silicon Roundabout" and that Cambridge and Oxford were going to be the new Stanford and MIT.

It's interesting, in retrospective, to see how wrong these predictions were. Top destination for UK nationals in Academia was, and still is... the US [0].

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...
Reflection at run-time will be interesting.

I believe that additional capabilities squeezed out of javascript if programmers can utilize type information at runtime.
> Is there a reason this is more important than say on consoles? Why does no one push for sideloading on Switch and PS5, what's the difference?

Every single member of homebrew communities is pushing for that, why are you claiming they don't exist?

Phones and tablets just get priority because they affect multiple markets and massive chunk of economy (pretty much all B2C and a lot of B2B software) due to popularity of pocket computers and their critical position in everyones lives.

Sony doesn't dictate what kind of software Japanese banks can build for their customers, US Apple/Google corporation however do and thus control big parts of their economies. OF COURSE that's what they're prioritize over video games.
PM seems to be the plan if my startup doesn't pan out.
You need best-in-class natural intelligence to get the most out of artificial intelligence.
Improving Mazzilli's Driver – Better gate driving for the classic ZVS converter
> It's already likely necessary Reddit's leadership needs extra personal security because of this drama.

A drama created by Reddit's leadership and made worse by their lies (something dumb to do when recordings or emails can be made public).
Im not disagreeing with you, but some context to my statement ;;

My grand parent bought their house in Saratoga, California in 1959 for 24,000.

They sold it in ~1999 for ~2.5 million

The area was all apple apricot and orange orchards.

Gramps wasa nuclear engineer building bombs for General Elecrtic (one of the designers of Hanford -- manahattan shit)

Silicon valley was built - literally upon the design of the IC - out of the founders of Intel from Fairchild (sunnyvale) (When I work at intl, andy grove and I had the same pee schedule (my cube was right next to his, and for some reason the only place we intereacted was the restroom, when we peed)

Anyway - I have seen silicon valley evolve from orchards to chips... I've been here the whole time. Detroit can do it too.
Ask HN: Disk Partitioning in 2023
in 2023 with the rise of SSD's and NVME, is disk partitioning necessary? does it have a valid use case?
We already know there are some extreme environments with ancient life!

The Movile cave [1] has been sealed off from the atmosphere for 5.5 million years, and it's filled with very unique creatures. They survive off of chemosynthesis, rather than photosynthesis. It's an extremely low-oxygen environment!

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave
Yeah! Whenever I visit my parents their Android phones are always full of adware and toolbars, their background is a gambling ad, and their bluetooth speaker insults the cat!

Except that's not what happens. My mom gets spammy magazine article notifications which I offered to help her get rid of, but she actually wants them for some reason.
And your argument would be bad.
This wiki article is probably the best place to start:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wei_Zexi

Then there was some movement on the issue in 2019:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-10/cancer-tr...

I’m not sure where they ended up due to COVID happening next.
Not in the ocean, but I believe there are shipwrecks in Lake Superior with preserved bodies

https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Whitey
This is not about the price of apps.

It is about running what you want on a device you own.

You may not have realized it, but you do not own your Apple device anymore, in the sense that you can't run what you choose on it.

You are only allowed to play in Apple's carefully tended village.

I'd recommend re-watching The Prisoner [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner