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Ask HN: Is indie game dev a viable solopreneur option in 2025?
Taking some inputs here, is solo game dev (something of the scope of stardew valley) still a viable career option in 2025 to earn a decent revenue ? Or is it more of winning a lottery kind of situation ?

As for me, I've been a regular s/w developer and play video games as a hobby. Never built any games before as the learning curve was too steep (not to mention the various skillsets that needed to be learnt - art, music etc apart from programming). But with the advent of AI in almost all tools these days, I'm wondering if its more accessible now and building/publishing a game is easier than ever ?
Well, about 25 years ago the EU issued 1 and 2 Euro coins (no bills for those denominations) and as far as I know still do. So it's working for them. When I lived over there (2005ish) I didn't care much for carrying a coin purse in addition to my wallet, but I think that's just a cultural/personal preference. Likely same as you.
Learning is a perfectly valid use case and I admire people who are passionate enough to dig deep.

> I am "bored" of high level code

But personally I am very "boring" an truly lazy developer, my only goal is to make shit done asap with good quality. And hi level tools (when you know their limitations and nuances) help you avoid a lot of bugs while delivering great quality for majority of real world application.

I've seen even ruby services handling crazy amount of traffic successfully. Even if it's more expensive cpu/ram wise - there are other tradeoffs that can make it worthwile.
> find it annoying when kernel APIs like ublk require io_uring

Good. That's a forcing function for making io_uring work in your environment.

> bypasses seccomp

Seccomp sucks.

We shouldn't be enforcing security by filtering system calls, the set of which will grow forever, but instead by describing access control rules on objects, e.g. with SELinux. If your security policy is that your sandbox should be able to read from some file but not write to it, you should do that with real MAC, which applies to all operations , il_uring included. You shouldn't just filter read(2) and write(2) in particular.

We shouldn't hold back evolution in systems interfaces because some people are stuck on bad ways of doing things and won't move.
After I posted, I wished I hadn’t added the car metaphor. You’re right that it doesn’t map to the body well. That said, it’s still true that most of what food is doing is fueling activity and not replacing parts of the body. Carbs work really well.
Last year, I accidentally canceled a return request after realizing I was being scammed by the seller. eBay refused to refund my money because the request had been canceled, even though the return address provided by the seller was fake. I wrote letters to two state consumer protection agencies and that worked. I eventually got my money back.
The original guy who famously did that was the publicity director for Palisades Park Amusement Park in New Jersey, some time in the 1950s and 1960s. He had a checkbook cover with a pad of bills he could tear off.
Song identification and speech-to-text are massively different algorithms.
Thanks for the suggestions! I’m fairly comfortable cooking so this sounds great. I’m also looking to prep meals with good macros, which seem to be pretty hard to find unless it’s something simple like chicken on rice. Some people on instagram have really nice looking high-protein meals, but I’m not sure how well these would prep or if the listed macros or even right. I’ll try out the meal kit service- i never thought of it as a way to just try out a lot of different types of food! Super good idea
I want this for YouTube videos as well that can summarise the content and just take me to the things I would find most interesting in the video, almost like auto chapters that skip all the “and later we’ll be discussing really interesting thing X if you keep listening” filler. It would be great to filter all the noise out and create highlights package automatically that was 10% of the video length that can be watched separately.
> For instance, a way to set restrictions on all rings created by child processes, or a way for seccomp to enforce that any uring created has restrictions applied to it.

SELinux or your favorite MAC is there to solve this exact problem.
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Brings me back too. But what stayed stuck on my memory, was something i read here on HN: at some point, one yahoo dev added his affiliate code to the links !!
Replacing a solenoid with a servo seems simple until you realize pinball machines eat servos in a few months of use.
> This is a very different statement than "the simple answer is just fatty meat," which is what you originally claimed.

It's a different statement, but it's not contradictory. Simple answer is: eat fatty meat. Complex answer is: just like everything in this universe, it depends on many factors, and no single answer is correct in every single context - but eating fatty meat will get you 90% where you want to be for 10% of effort.
It's not a local AI model. It's using a groq.com API, but your point about people missing the point is still a good point.
There's probably not enough training data. People use Python with LLMs because it's what works, not because it's the best language. Anything rarer starts having issues.
This is irrelevant, I'm not talking about GDP. I'm saying that people generally don't pay money for things they don't value, ergo when people are paid money, it's for things that other people value.
> This tool allows you to capture a moment in time as you wish it happened, not as it actually happened.

> the Clean Up tool gives users a way to remove distracting elements while staying true to the moment as they intended to capture it.

idk, seems like the author described it the exact same way Apple does in their marketing copy.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is...
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Health Insurance costs? Taxes are lower in the USA but taxes in many European countries give you Health insurance.

However, I recall someone factoring this in comparing Canadian salaries vs California salaries and the California salaries still came out on top.
What a bad, reductive point of view. While it's true there are shitty bad salespeople (as there are engineers), try selling anything without doing any selling of the product. Once the company gets to a certain size, having someone work on sales full time instead of getting an engineer who doesn't whan to do that work, work on that part time.
It’s somehow a shame that this has have a core written in C, but there really isn’t an alternative. It’s a really neat project! It looks like its designed to be used from Matlab or Julia, which is a fascinating pairing.
I worked at a startup where the main problems I saw were:

(1) It was impossible for anyone to enforce anything. Our genius business development guy couldn't get our head data scientist to share data files with customers (say Big 5 accounting firms) in a way they felt were safe. I couldn't get the data scientists to use standardized versions of Python. (Docker just accelerated their ability to find defective Pythons, such as one with Hungarian as the standard charset) The engineering manager would tell me "we use monads for error handling in Scala" and "we do code reviews" but I don't believe the latter because the first certainly wasn't true.

(2) We were developing core technology and developing solutions for various customers. There was a lot of zigging and zagging and spoiled work in progress. I felt like the customer contact was helping us understand the requirements for the core so I'm not complaining about that. Our management practices should have been focused 100% on squaring that circle.

The VCs believed in our vision and our BD genius (I did!) but they knew we were badly managed and brought in a stream of consultants some of whom were helpful and some who weren't.

The worst was the consultant who came in and forced us all to write OKRs which took two weeks against the core and solution and development work that did matter for the business.

My feeling was that my job was to pull for the team wherever it needed it and it wasn't my business to set goals that weren't fundamentally grounded in the needs of the team. I had enough work to do that I didn't need to add a single task that wasn't on that critical path. Particularly customer requirements could change faster than the OKR cycle, we needed practices that worked at the speed of our business.

I was anxious that when review time came along I'd find that, out of 20 OKRs, I would nail 5 of them, totally fail at 5 of them and the other 10 would be in between. At review time whether this is success failure would depend on politics and ability to navigate politics. That genius BD would deservedly get a good review, a really good coder or data sci may or may not. People with high and unmitigated narcissism are privileged by systems like stack ranking and OKR because they are focused on presentation of self in ways that average people aren't.
I see why you made that connection, thanks Paul. RD Putnam definitely
on my radar. I presume you're aware of Rick Roderick's great lecture
connecting Bowling Alone to the Big Lebowski and de Toqueville's
"Democracy in America".
> Current io_uring is not particularly prone to vulnerabilities

The tech industry: launch early! Develop in public! Many eyes make all bugs shallow!

Also the tech industry: we will never forgive you for that one segfault you had ten years ago.
This. Real multidisciplinary is bottom up, where a person with multiple fields of expertise makes them work together. A singing number of these organizational versions are top down, where some leadership decided interdisciplinary studies are the future, so someone mixes a bunch of courses together and ta-da!
Show HN: BlogChatify, chat with your Substack blogs
Hey HN! Happy to launch a first version of RAG for Substack. I made it for my Substack blog (https://www.ambitiousxdriven.com) because despite having 1.5K readers, readers typically don't comment or provide feedback, which makes it difficult to improve my blogs.

With this chat interface, readers can re-discover my older blogs & get value from it. Blog writers like myself can see the (anonymized) reader questions and thus improve our blogs!

This is just the beginning, also my first full-stack app - Lots more to come :)
Cheers!
I prefer it so much more. If you told me I would be a proponent of censorship in my 20s I would have laughed at you.
Well, instead of getting into that, the simpler debunk is that fatty meat only gives you a fraction of your daily nutrition. Even when you add in eggs and dairy.

But only in diet camps (usually "carnivore"/"keto" camps) on social media do people tell you that research on saturated fats is debunked because it condemns the foods they wish to eat. We know that, for example, saturated fat increases apoB concentration in the blood which is independently causal in atherosclerosis.

We have converging lines of metaanalyses that show this connection which is why reducing saturated fat and LDL cholesterol are unanimous guidelines, not social media fringe positions. ;)
Fasting is a great way to induce massive muscle loss. In almost every case, cutting weight loss by 60% in order to preserve muscle is desirable
Just because it's listed at $500, doesn't mean someone will pay that.
My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking
Does it take fewer managers to manage remote employees?

Do the tools that help manage projects with remote employees reduce the number of managers needed?
Ebay effectively enables mail fraud - it's surprising the postal inspector's haven't taken notice.
In your experience, why einx over einops+einsum?
Apple certainly doesn’t invent everything.

Calling what they do as mere refinement may be equally understating it in some cases.

They get it right. For the masses. They create beginners.

Anyone can start with an Apple, because it’s what it’s designed to do.

I have my own biases that extreme usability started earlier with other movements like WebOS and Palm contributing to it as well.

Still, if we look for watershed moments where huge numbers of people in the mainstream adopt technology, whether it’s the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, watch, laptops, they don’t need to be the first, just the best for the most number of people.

Being able to integrate hardware and software closely creates a different and reliable result for the many, as much as I might not like having complete agency.

If anything, Apple helps invent beginners in the mainstream.
Context: I'm an engineering director at a medium-large tech company.

What both the article and the comments here show is that for most users of OKRs, they don't actually consider the Objective and the Key results to be different. If you consider a key result without considering the objective, then yes, you'll just move a number and nothing more. If you actually try to deliver an objective, and use your KRs to see if you have made progress towards that objective you'll do much better.

That said, I've had to fight many times in my career, even with senior-level product managers, to think about OKRs that way. I ideally ask the engineers that report up to me to care first and mostly about the Objectives their team has taken on, and to care about the KRs second. That leads people to do the right work far more often than having them try to move a specific numerical value above all else.
I wrote papers in graduate school using a typewriter before switching to a Mac Plus. It was a Smith-Corona and used a cartridge "ribbon" and a special "correction ribbon" that lifted off the text (instead of using white-out).

It wasn't a Selectric, though, so mostly you just used it as a typewriter. Selectrics were expensive and mostly used in business rather than by individuals.

Even the IBM Selectrics were nothing like as good as having a word processor, which is why the transition was so fast. A friend of mine was in commercial real-estate in that period (mid-1980s) and discovered that with a computer, he could type his own offer letters and not have to bother with a secretary. My brother's law firm went through something similar. In a handful of years, there was huge adoption.
Comments so far seem to fail to recognize that this post is a "response" to the WSJ article linked at the very beginning and isn't a standalone piece by itself.
> From July 1, 2018, until April 6, 2021, the defendants defrauded Apple’s Matching Gifts Program when they pretended to make donations to the American Chinese International Cultural Exchange (ACICE) or Hop4Kids, the DA said. The workers' donations were returned to them, and Kwan, the CEO of Hop4Kids and accountant for ACICE, kept Apple’s matching funds.

I hope they not only got fired, but also get some hard jail time. I always wondered why Apple reduced the matching amount during these years. This gives some insight...
Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America's Trifinio watershed
> Trudeau, who is now answering questions from reporters, said his one regret of his premiership has been his failure to introduce electoral reform.

Oh please, you had lots of time to address this and instead you've just handed us to the conservatives.
binder shares a buffer between kernel and user space on billions of Android devices, and Android is by far the most secure Linux distribution.

There's nothing wrong with the general concept.
> And you straight up can't change your mind about who you are working with midway through the process, you sign a contract.

You don't have to, those contracts are optional. They will threaten to not represent you, but if you are a well qualified buyer, this is something you can force without much risk.

The more well qualified buyers refuse, the more normalized working for clients without contracts will be
I'd lobby for this title to be "inspection and review of Orbit" since I found the dive into its internals to be interesting, too
Actually my manager was "demoted" back to a programmer, which I think is a good thing. He was forced onto management a few years ago, but that was a waste of talent in my opinion. I also think a lot of stress he suffered as a manager is gone.

But yes, a lot of people were let go at the same time (8 months ago).

And the article, no useful information from what I can see.
Ok, maybe that was exaggerated - there are differences, but they are shrinking.
Denial is a common coping mechanism about the ever growing corporate surveillance state and all the ways its power may (and thus eventually will) be wielded to further economically disenfranchise most people.
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VPS is usually significantly more expensive (hostings that offer xmr payment are also not the cheapest ones), and less flexible (you can't choose your exit point country). And your anonymity set is... one.

VPS have their uses and VPNs have theirs, they are used for different things.
Btw, 'informal' agreements, even oral only, are legally binding, though it may (?) vary by state. For example an email is legally binding.

In a case like this,there's not even the need for small claims - if you just contacted the better business bureau, you'd have gotten reimbursed the shipping and then something reasonable on top as 'an apology for the misunderstanding.'
Obviously don't do that for two obvious reasons (which I am highlighting just to be technically correct and to entertain ourselves):

1) Socially, not good idea. We are social creatures, and want to be accepted as a part of healthy group of our own species.

2) Eating your own kind more likely to transmit diseases, so less healthy.

Also cows and sheep have 99.99% same chemical composition as you, you don't really need to go that far, and any additional benefits (if any) are below statistical noise, but two downsides above are huge.
> all it took was the complete destruction of flash

And then 15 years of waiting.
"Man pretending to be woman vs real woman" was just an example used to introduce the question in the form of a party game between humans before moving onto the actual question of a machine pretending to be human vs a real human.

At a stretch, by looking at only your quoted snippet you could read that the machine is pretending to be a woman - but that interpretation is not consistent with the rest of the paper. For instance, "the best strategy [for the machine] is to try to provide answers that would naturally be given by a man".
Should've done it weeks ago. Utterly shameless.
I love Out of the crisis by Deming and Some theory of sampling.
Not "would be", but "would have been", past tense: Once upon a time it may have been valuable, but since Google deliberately ruined its search engine, it's of no use any more.
Electoral reforms are only proposed by those who think they'll benefit from them.
The problem with OKRs and just about every corporate process is that something that began as a good idea gets diluted over time to the point of being nearly meaningless at best and super distracting at worst.

The reality — having worked in big tech for almost a decade — is that people just take what they already wanted to do and frame it as an OKR. You see this happen with Agile processes as well: "as a user I would like [to use this feature the PM is excited about]"
I like to buy 50 lbs bags of beans, rice, flour, lintels, etc on the cheap from restaurant supply stores and keep store them in 5 gallon buckets and make large batches of chilli, curried splitpea soup, daal, blackbean soup etc it cheap healthy easy to reheat later and I can throw it in a crockpot before work and it be done when I get home, this with a side rough chopped root vegetables and squash tossed in herbs and sprinkled with olive oil and roasted on a baking sheet makes a great meal.
That's what I told the managers at one startup when they brought in a consultant to introduce OKRs.
To pile on the battery issue, we had some very severe storms in my area that took down power for days and internet for weeks. Credit card processing was not possible for gas stations during that time period, but the pumps worked when the power came back on. The only way you could fill up at those stations was with cash. It doesn't happen every day, but it does happen, and perhaps more importantly could be made to happen.

Not that cash is necessarily a lot better. I can't remember what sci-fi character made the observation that "all currency is mutual delusion", but I observe the truth of that. I've thought it was in Hyperion, but have not been able to find it.
Apple AI alert falsely claimed Luke Littler had won darts final
Well, I mean he has a history of just burying his head in the sand with every controversy and eventually they all went away after a short time.

The strategy clearly worked for him until it didn't.
I hadn't heard that this was likely to happen. Any Canadians here able to weigh on whether this was expected or is a normal procedure for your elected officials?
I am the author of this article. The moderators on Hacker News don't let me post here anymore, and they de-emphasize my articles that anyone else posts to prevent them from being viewed by many people. If I recall correctly, they even shadow banned worldofmatthew for a while for posting too many of my articles? So, I am surprised that so many people found this post. Since the moderators still allow me to comment here... As I said in my article, "And, please don't insult my intelligence by comparing this device to a thin client. I have installed OPNSense on a thin client to make it into a very nice home router. Something useful like that will very likely be impossible with this device." So, apparently some commenters here didn't read enough of the article to get that far. I like thin-clients, because they are general-purpose computers. I haven't tried every one, obviously, so some might not be, but I love the one I have. The problem with the Windows 365 Link, as I see it, is that it is as far as it can be from a general-purpose computer--although it isn't out yet, so we can't really know for sure what its capabilities are. My main objection to the Windows 365 Link is that I see it not as merely another locked-down corporate device but as a harbinger of things to come for us all. I am sorry that so few people here seem capable of understanding the long-term corporate goals that this device highlights, and that is the source of my frustration that leads to my hostility in this article. I see all of the freedoms that we once looked forward to from what we once called "the computer revolution" being taken away one by one. And the attitudes of most of the people here on Hacker News are one reason this is happening. Many of you think you are so smart, but either you aren't smart enough see what is coming, or you simply don't care. Either way, I feel sorry for you.
> Electoral reforms are only proposed by those who think they'll benefit from them

There is a long history of this not being true, particularly by outgoing leaders. See, for example, how Nixon almost abolished the electoral college.
FWIW: Speech-to-text falls under "AI", but is not considered generative AI. (Note that systems with capabilities that go beyond STT with capabilities such as summaries or translation may incorporate generative AI.)
BC perplexingly chose otherwise. People always seem to hate this. Even here in California, we’re lucky to be able to rank everyone in SF but few other cities can. And every election, there’s a lot of “IRV is ruining this city” when candidates with fewer first choice votes win.