jjmaestro
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Comment · 1 year ago
@wwilson will there be any videos and slides? I can't find any links in the conference webpage :-/
Thanks!
Comment · 1 year ago
> They can do it (surprisingly well, once you disable the friendliness that prevents it) ...
Interesting! :D Do you mind sharing the prompt(s) that you use to do that?
Thanks!!
Comment · 2 years ago
Check this [1] HN post from 10 days ago, the first problem listed, "Dual monitors swapped positions" and the cause ("The problem comes from vendors who flash the same exact firmware with the same EDID to multiple monitors in the same batch.") :D
[1] Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038759
Comment · 2 years ago
Reflect Orbital is developing a constellation of revolutionary satellites to sell sunlight to thousands of solar farms after dark.
One of the founders shared a video on Twitter showing a test they did with a balloon and a "mobile solar farm":
Comment · 2 years ago
Just out of curiosity, as I've seen a few comments also mentioning PrinceXML. Is OneDoc an API, wrapper, etc, on top of PrinceXML? Or is it a completely new rendering engine?
Thanks!
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting! Have you considered reaching out to one of those (e.g. Citymapper) and see if they would like to work with you? Either employ you, subcontract you, use you as an API, or whatever! :)
I think it's really cool that you maintain such a service and maybe they can find in you a good partnership!
Comment · 4 years ago
Another nit, the "abandoned" part is the one that was open sourced a loooong time ago. Since then, it underwent a ton of changes but yeah, it's within Facebook. So, not abandoned at all, but not available outside.
The main issue (as usual in big companies) is the large amount of inter-dependencies with internal systems. Scribe as-is today doesn't make much sense outside Facebook. And yeah, it could be cleaned up, mock the internal services and OSS it. But that's a lot of work, both doing it and maintaining it. And having all those mocks, etc "wouldn't be Scribe as-is either"in terms of how e.g. it scales and so on.
In any case, the storage (LogDevice, https://github.com/facebookarchive/LogDevice) which is a large part of the system was open sourced a while back and... sadly it went again into "not-maintained OSS".
Finally, you can get a similar-ish system working with OSS tools (e.g. fluentd + Kafka) that will also scale quite well and which IMHO can also made to scale to Facebook-size levels. So, the incentive is there, but there are OSS alternatives already available :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Just a nit, for Facebook, Scuba is not the logging ingestion service. It's Scribe, which Scuba itself uses as the ingestion :)
https://engineering.fb.com/2019/10/07/data-infrastructure/sc...
(I worked in Scribe)
Comment · 4 years ago
RAMPANT!!?
It's really hard to believe that people still write stuff online without doing some basic searching. But here we are...
Here's a couple links to illustrate how RAMPANT knife crime is in the UK:
[1] For the year ending September 2019, there were 221 homicides involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the police. This figure is for England and Wales only and it excludes data from Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
[2] Recorded knife crime rose by 7% from just above 41,000 in the year to June 2018 to just above 44,000 in the year to June 2019, knifepoint rapes, robberies and assaults logged by police continued to rise.
I think it's pretty clear that your "rampant" is off BY A LOT. Knife crime in the UK is definitely not something to dismiss but guns (and gun crime and gun accidents) in the US tromp pretty much every other crime statistic in the "modern, civilized" world.
[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_statistics_in_the_United...
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone is willing to pay $5 a month for a meme app! XD
Are the users active? Have you thought / analyzed if they pay and forget that it's a subscription? :-?
Comment · 5 years ago
From your comments, you turned from a one-time purchase to subscriptions.
Can you share your attrition rate? Also, how many want to pay per-month VS the full year (heavily discounted price)?
Thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
Mmmm, not sure if that would be the case / possible with something like "First home for your use, you get tax exemptions, etc. Second house, for you, X amount of taxes. If rented, Y% of the income. Third house rented, insane % of the income (like 50%)". That would discourage people from buying-to-rent massive amounts of properties, as they would simply not be cost-effective, regardless of how much you want to pass on to the renters.
If you think that would raise rents by a huge %, I don't think so, as it would be completely impossible for people to pay.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yup! paper covers / paper bedding, and the expert handling of midwives. Pretty simple and straight-forward!
P.S. also enemas were used in the past... but fortunately, interventions such as this, or pubic hair shaving are no longer ordered for women during labor and birth!