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>Unpaid

you are doing it wrong.

You 'curate' in favor of your advertisers. /r/eatcheapandhealthy has some relationship with Leanne Brown. They let that website's marketers astroturf + they link on the sidebar.

On the bright side, HN doesn't hide that they have perverse incentives, they just pretend that astroturfing doesnt exist.
One nit I have about Life Expectancy, it should also include quality of life.

By that I mean, it you are unable to take care of yourself, I think Life Expectancy should be adjusted to take account of life quality.

For example, if you are in a Nursing Home or if you are bed ridden, I would say your "life" is reduced by half the amount of time spent there.

But as other said, infant mortality is a big factor. With the US abortion bans in some places, I expect infant mortality to rise. IIRC, on ave, Right Wing controlled already have the highest infant mortality rates.
KDE originally used CORBA, but dropped it for KDE 2.0 when it was found to be heavy for local use in a DE.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/kdemdashthe-next-gener...
I think the effort involved disincentivizes against it, and nudges people towards defensively adding spare fields or whatever.

The other comment pointed out that you can make a fall back migration code path that migrates over older file versions. That's the escape hatch if you have no other options
I'm not so sold on that idea, a lot of subreddits were built with love and care. Not sociopathy, apathy, and sadism.

Subreddits where the moderators often behave against the overall wishes of the community usually don't end well.
I think having been walked through the process once I'd be able to do it myself. It's not too complicated but you do need to know a few things.

1. Each level has a range of salary/stock that they can't go above and you can infer the range by looking at the reported info on levels.fyi. For my company you have no possibility of negotiating into a higher level.

2. If you haven't been offered a signing bonus just say the words and 10s of thousands of dollars will magically appear.

3. You can push back on their offers many times.
Previously I'd only ever made one negotiation move but I think there were 3 rounds of back-and-forth for my current job.
Show HN: I made a web application framework for .NET Blazor
Bluesky Continues to Explore More Creative Moderation Plans Openly
I think there are two sides to this. One one hand I agree with you that this isn't an issue for the "general" public. On the other hand I wouldn't be surprised to see centralized platforms like TikTok getting banned, or perhaps simply unprofitable, within the next decade as legislation slowly grinds its way into limit the impact of these platforms. Because aside from anyone wanting to take more control over their own content, the political and social elites (at least in Europe) are currently very aware and focused on the negative impacts digitalisation has had on our society.

In Denmark we're in the process of banning devices like iPads and smartphones from schools and other institutions. We're also likely going to see an age limit on Social Media like TikTok that's around the same age as buying Alcohol (yes, that's a good combination) and a range of other things. In the wider EU, you have privacy and competition stepping in, both banning and taxing these platforms in ways that might make it hard to operate a profitable platform if you're allowed to have one.

It's still a little too uncertain to say anything concrete, but it's certainly not looking like the explosive growth of centralized "free-to-use" platforms will face the same profitable and non-regulated market the coming 20 years that they did the previous.

Someone is going to be well positioned to take advantage of this as people move on from the previous generation of social media platforms.
I'm also self-taught (but one of these who started when they were 5, rather than 11).

I think you already have great ingredients to up level your skill:

* an area you're curious and passionate about (Accessibility)

* already contributed bug fixes, improvements to tooling, and 1 moderately sized enhancement to a widely used piece of software

* surrounded by people better than you

My advice is to try and build something from scratch yourself. That will allow you to discover and learn a lot more.

What is the programming language that you have the most expertise in?
If that was the reason then he was probably paying his lawyers $15 an hour too.

You can waive risks, but not a certainty of death. If it was inevitable that the sub would implode at some point because it was so poorly constructed, and Stockton Rush was just playing a very elaborate game of Russian roulette with his customers, then the waiver isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

The other problem is that I’m fairly sure that OceanGate didn’t disclose everything they knew, which would also invalidate the waiver.

For example, David Pogue signed the waiver and went down in it (albeit not very far). He seems like a fairly sensible person with a family who doesn’t have a death wish, did they really disclose to him about the window not being rated for the depth, the whistleblower lawsuit, the letter in 2018 to OceanGate warning them to stop development, etc?

A waiver built on lies is worse than useless, far from getting them out of legal peril it proves that they knew that death was a real possibility.
It's 2023 and Jack is on the board, someone needs to be throwing money at them to solve their scaling problems-this ain't 2005.
You know, there are tons of people out there who loved Zelda as a kid who have no idea what BOTW/TOKT is. This sounds like you being caught in modern marketing/hype cycles, not brainwashing.
Nope.

Did you read the old article or this one?

> Secondly, the original architecture was based on a tool that was not designed for scale. Based on the article, it read as if this tool was used for diagnostics to perform ad-hoc assessments of stream quality. This means it likely wasn’t designed for scale or put through the pressure tests of a formal design document / review. If that were to happen, any run of the mill Software Engineer would have been able to recognize the obvious scaling / cost bottlenecks that would be encountered.

> Finally, I think the PV team made all the right moves by switching to provisioned infratructure. They identified an existing tool that could have been a potential solution. They attempted to leverage it before realizing it had some real scaling / cost bottlenecks. After assessing the situation, they pivoted and re-designed for a more robust solution that happened to use provisioned infrastructure. This is what the software development process is all about.
Just to add an important caveat to the promise of the headline. When you reach a certain point, earning more money usually comes with increasing downsides. Managers at most well-run, larger companies will expect more than just your reasonable best efforts. As you move up the ladder they will demand consistent delivery of specific, tangible results. Sometimes you'll be required to achieve these results with insufficient resources or in changing circumstances beyond your control. And each year the targets will get higher.

Above a certain point, say around 80% of the total comp most employees get, the ground rules start to subtlety change. Getting results in the middle (or below) of your peer pack will no longer just mean you don't get a raise or bonus. The mantra becomes "Up or Out."
Early identification of chronic diseases seldom improves life expectancy because patients still don't make healthier lifestyle choices. We can't reasonably expect the healthcare system to resolve this. Solutions will have to come from elsewhere.
So are you saying that Twitter engineering is >50% H-1B at the moment? Do you have a source for it?
I wish there were some law like "if you waste the court system resources for PR and virtue signaling, you are personally liable for triple costs" but it's likely impossible. So the incentive to pull stunts like this is always there.
Is copyright based on the character or on a particular representation of the character? The latter seems utterly stupid to me, but wouldn't be a surprise given the stupidity of copyright law in general. I'd be curious if there is any precedent on this question.
this 100% !

When I write, it's usually to help my brain think: what I write remains a bit longer in my brain (say minutes instead of seconds). Moreover, using pen and paper is so much more "free form" than typing, and instinctive too. If I have to make drawing, a pen and a few seconds are what I need; with a computer I have to figure out what tools to use (program, icons for line drawing, choosing a color). It's so much more productive.

When I type, it's more like instructing the computer what to do.

However, when I write documentation or an email it's more like formalizing a thought that was first thought about in other ways.

This is mostly true when I'm doing hard thinking tasks such as algorithms, maths, arguments, etc.

I wonder if all of this depends on the tasks or my way of working or if this is more universal... Interestingly, there are a lot of maths tutorials on the web where people use notepads or even paper instead of computers when explaining. The opposite is 3Blue1Brown which presents "finished" product, result of typing.
Ada's tasks don't require an explicit join, they're lexically scoped. So if you have a procedure with two subtasks that procedure will not terminate until those two subtasks have terminated (by whatever means they may be terminated, running to completion or an explicit `abort SomeTask;`).

Here are a couple pages on Tasking in Ada:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/task... - doesn't compare to any other languages, just Ada code.

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel... - Includes comparisons to Java and C++.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-9-8.html - more on cancellation via the abort statement. If you abort a task with subtasks running, it will terminate all of them.

Ada has some escape hatches around its task system that "breaks" from structured concurrency, but pretty much everything people have been asking for around structured concurrency is already in Ada and mostly the default behavior.
Hi HN!

I wanted to share my latest project I've been working on called WinGetty.

It's an open-source solution that could be helpful if you're working with WinGet and need/want to set up a private repository. (For anyone who doesn't know, WinGet is Windows built in package manager)

Let's talk about the problem first though. When it comes to private WinGet repositories, the available options have been quite limited. Adding packages to the community source isn't suitable for internal tools. Paying for services that offer this can be expensive, with a high monthly cost for a limited number of packages. Setting up a WinGet Rest source with Azure introduces dependencies and potential internet downtime concerns, which may not be ideal for on-premises setups. There's really no reason for Microsoft to use Azure here.

That's why I created WinGetty. It's a solution that focuses on simplicity and control. WinGetty features an easy-to-use web interface where you can add packages, versions, and installers with customizable parameters like installer type and install scope with silent install parameters etc...

I'll be honest, WinGetty is still a work in progress and not really completely production ready. I'm continuously refining the database structure and making potentially breaking code changes to reach Version 1.0.0.
But despite that, at least in my testing, it has been working very well so far.

If you're interested in trying out WinGetty, you can find out more on the official website at https://wingetty.dev where you can also see some screenshots and you can find the GitHub repository right here: https://github.com/thilojaeggi/WinGetty

Setting up right now is basically just cloning the repo and running "docker compose up -d", by default it will be available on port 8080 after that, but feel free to change that within the docker-compose.yml.

If you try it out and notice any issues/have feedback please let me know.
Well in that case your headline is as good as the tabloids, thanks!
The unification wasn't exactly free. The immense costs for the most part were shouldered by western citizens through the Solidaritätszuschlag. The total price tag is estimated to be between 0.95 and 2 trillion Euro (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosten_der_deutschen_Einheit#R...).
> From what I've read, the original meaning of "third world" before it became pejorative was non-aligned countries in the Cold War.

That was the original sense, yes, but it was never particularly widely or popularly used in that sense.

> I'm unaware of, say, Finland or Switzerland - nonaligned Western countries more or less, yes? - ever being considered "third world".

Probably because "Third World” wasn’t a label most people (or the media) ever used in its original sense, it became popular mucb later as a another term for less developed countries, not in its original sense.
Specifically which European nations count infant mortality differently? I keep hearing this claim but I've never seen anything to back it up.

And it would have to be pretty much all of them to account for the difference, right?
Nations are highly-organized grouping of people. So what you're saying is, very large and cohesive groups of people can relate to one another without overt rules, therefore, so can individuals. That's a non sequitur.
Its mostly a result of chronic low income. Inflation has raised the ceiling for income, but the floor is still zero and many people (including me) are close to that. Job security has gone to shit even for college grads and decent paying jobs are heavily gate-kept, most people in bottom 40% of income distribution don't even have a chance of getting one of those.

Low income = lower quality diet, less access to health care, lower quality housing and ultimately (for some) drug use and other hardship-related problems.

This is also why it will never be addressed, as low-income issues have not been a priority in America for a long time (the most recent budget bill made it harder for SNAP recipients) and right now states are kicking millions of people off medicaid because they didn't complete paperwork.
I don’t know if it’s so novel; when I see millennials wearing the trappings of their youth, I think of how my parents generation watches their old college’s football games, have the college’s mascot on their desks and on their clothes, and occasionally break out into the school’s fight song when among friends.
This is also the topic of the book Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
They’re not closed to individuals. I’ve run two VPSs on Hetzner cloud for 2 years now…
> There are people paid full time to manipulate Reddit (and other networks.) The people and states employing them must be fools to waste so much money for no economic reward.

This is a strawman.

Of course there are people paid to influence every single public opinion website from Twitter to Hacker News. That is a completely separate question as to what the economic incentives of moderators are.

The only way that makes sense is if you are making the claim that the plurality of moderators, or at least some exceptionally high percentage, are paid or otherwise compensated by somebody else to manipulate their subreddits.

There is no data to indicate that this is a widespread coordinated or otherwise repeatable business practice such that we could say that it is an economic system, comparable to other economic systems.
Sorry. I wasn't saying that your comment was based on poor technical understanding. I was making that judgement about GP's strawman of your comment.

I'd be interested in hearing what you have to say from the technical side, in case it contains any information that is new to me. Personally, I model things such that if a closed software/system has access to some information, it will backhaul, store, and abuse that information (if not immediately, then in the future). I'm not going to hang my hat on a hope that some companies aren't functioning as optimal surveillance machines!

FWIW I don't find privacy policies themselves particularly enlightening because they're generally vague, equivocating, and subject to change at whim. Sure technically if there weren't a "privacy policy" then you might theoretically have some legal right of action to go after a company for abusing your information (although good luck demonstrating real damages, as always). But at least in the US that feels completely hypothetical.
They may have absorbed tech, offering a counter service, or prefer customers to be invested in one service form over another service form. Or C-levels or replaced. Or or.... (tons of reasons)
Actually in this specific case I'm not sure why you wouldn't just run `sudo nixos-rebuild [...]`; there's no point in getting a root shell for a single command.
Ah, thanks. I wasn’t sure how they could bootstrap that sort of thing. That’s always a hurdle in a service that fundamentally requires network effects to hit critical mass.
The feudalism model stands up, where Reddit is the kingdom, reddit executives and employees are nobles and the king’s men. That means the mods and users are viewed as part of the land, just as serfs. Any mod who date challenge the crown will be discredited, accused and stripped of what little they have.

Just as in feudalism, you see the crown trying to govern by dividing the people and making them focus on survival so that the crown’s taxes flow and they dare not challenge local landowner.
No one cares about your company. The only reason anyone works at your company is because they have an addiction to food and shelter and think that trading labor for money is the best way to support their addiction.

Unless you’re profitable, there is no such thing as a “stable” startup and not even then.

Of course now you’re going to talk about “equity” which in a non public company is statistically meaningless.
As a game dev, factorio has always been a title that I would absolutely love to see the original source code for.

Also, for anyone who’s first question was “how is this legal”:

“When asked about the legality of this whole endeavour, they showed great understanding and allowed the project to be released, provided it won’t be used for commercial purposes.”
I agree with that difference, but it's not relevant to the comment I made.
They also would have corrected you. It's Kroc not Koch. =)

Both are assholes, but in different ways.
The difference with Voat, to my mind, is that it mostly took the outflow of a sub-set of users who were aggrieved by Reddit at the time. This meant that it grew well, but was a more specific niche instead of having a broad base of users.

What's happening now with both Reddit and Twitter is effecting almost all of the users equally, which potentially opens up more of generic migration option. I'd never been that interested in Bluesky before, but in the last couple days, 5-10 people I was still sometimes checking in on on Twitter moved over, so now I can't see their posts at all on either platform since I don't have an account on either. It's a real bummer, and it feels like it's also preventing people from really committing to Bluesky, since there's no even read-only access to it, people who still want to have some reach can't use it exclusively.
I don't think I have ever seen %Y%m%d%H%M%S used in real life.
I don’t agree. I like the sound of it. And after all it’s just a name.
I sent it to your Gmail address.
Sure, that's relevant to life expectancy, but check out figure 3 in the article: mortality for ages 20-65 is higher in the US, at any wealth level. None of those people are infants.

We appear to be dying early in all walks of life, not just at birth.
Why not CAPTCHA protect these pages instead of blocking tor? Same attack can go through regular web.
The actual insulting part is telling a group of skilled individuals who are willingly working a job and getting a good salary that they are "victims" and helpless and abused. Maybe let them do their thing, and you do yours. There's no need to be outraged on behalf of anyone else.
I think the key factors to consider when talking about the best way to regard psychedelic substances is what potential benefits or harms do they have at the individual or societal level, for example an overdose that causes permanent debilitation or death. In my view, any potential regulation or guidance should be seeking to minimise the harms while maximizing the benefits. I also think historical precedent should be considered as part of the process to identifying that.

As an aside to some of the comments made in the article, you can still be religious without theism. And in a way any religious experience could also be considered as a kind of mental health medication.
Have you tried Mastodon? I'm not not claiming it's a direct replacement, but it is similar in many respects
We can, we have just learned from history we haven't been able to not abuse such power.
I feel like the hype caught up a lot of folks off guard and swayed them to do something that doesn't necessarily make sense. For example, building a simple web app (single page app, or whatever) using the hype around microservices, serverless, nosql, etc. is bound to fail.

Fortunately, I see a trend in more "advanced" companies to stay away from microservices/lambdas in the first iterations of their products and embrace good old modular monolith with a simple architecture.
you're describing an internet forum, technologically unimpressive as of decades ago

it turns out, the communities and their members (mod and non-mod) are more valuable to reddit than vice versa
I can't wait. What goes around, comes around.
> - Summarisation and content distillation, question answering Etc: literally everywhere. This is now a solved problem (to the point of it being dull) thanks to LLMs.

Calling this problem domain "solved" only undermines whatever point you're trying to make, unless you really believe that current LLMs which fabricate information, flip flop between answers with follow up questions, and even gaslight the user, can be called "solutions".

LLMs have proven themselves to be such untrustworthy "sources" of information and knowledge that I'm struggling to understand why anyone would even try to make this particular claim. It's trivial to refute by anyone who's used them and has been thoroughly refuted by StackOverflow Developer survey which reported that only 2.8% of developers "highly trust" the output of AI tools.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-developer-tool...
Blocks being public in ActivityPub is already a problem. Bad instances run bots dedicated to finding out if someone blocked someone on the server and making public posts calling for harassment of them.
Available since Git v2.38:

https://github.com/git/git/commit/8d1a7448206e11cd
Maybe German state itself is the actor.
I understand that, but when talking about where our priorities should be, I believe it should be on assessing lifestyle and options first.

It's also a matter of quality of life vs pure "life expectancy" being worth consideration. Dying unexpectedly, even in large numbers is unfortunate. But a majority of the population living lower quality lives for reasons which can be addressed is more of a priority.

And it could be that addressing the real health issues will also involve improving some of the issues which lead to early death.

For example, with alcohol, why is alcohol use high? Could it be somewhat due to the insane amount of advertising and promotion by the alcohol industry? Could it be because, as people's lives tend to be less happy or lower quality, they seek easy distraction and escape?

Same with cars; cities built for humans instead of for cars will mean less car deaths and healthier people.