skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I've been interested in mapping with drones myself, but the cost has kept me out.

The 3D Model Repository sounds like what you want. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D_Model_Repository

Wikimedia Commons might work for this, too. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons#3D_mod...

Tangentially, if you aren't already aware of them, you may be interested in
OpenDroneMap (ODM) https://opendronemap.org/

and OpenAerialMap (OAM) https://openaerialmap.org/
Risking to sound similar to that bottom down-voted comment, I want to gently introduce a view here that contrasts the sentiment of it being a "wonderland." This seems hardly something worth preserving given the artistic quality in my opinion.

Yet, on the other hand, if it doesn't harm anyone and the trust indeed bought the apartment, then no harm in keeping this quirky place alive.
Ask HN: What spending commitments do you have with AWS?
A few of the comments in yesterday's thread about selling developer tools[1] mentioned AWS spending commitments and selling via AWS marketplace.

From my experience, AWS' options around spending commitment are not well documented publicly. You can read about Savings Plans online[2], but unless you know what an AWS EDP or PPA is you're not going to stumble across it on their website. There's lots of third parties that claim to be able to negotiate great PPAs for you, but it's hard to know if you're actually getting a good deal or not.

Because these transactions are so opaque and hard to negotiate, "Some companies have hundreds of millions of dollars in unused AWS committed spending"[3]

So in the interest of bringing some transparency to this, and helping each other save some money, is anyone able to share details of PPA (or equivalent) deals they have seen in the past?

Please don't say or do anything that would violate an NDA and put you personally in trouble.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029283

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/

[3]: https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1779209673142370763
I’ve been doing some swift for a while, it’s a great language.

This is the first time I’ve heard you could do recursive enum cases. Very neat! I wonder if that’s recent or not.
We had a fire near Boulder CO that destroyed 1000 homes and had a few fatalities. If there are 100mph winds and dry conditions then it just takes one spark to create an unstoppable fire.

The local utility closed down some (but not all) lines for a recent wind event and everyone is kvetching.

Maybe this isn't obvious but domestic electric service is a marginal business. It's not profitable for every customer. That's why it's a regulated monopoly. In edge and rural areas the lines are not profitable (you can't charge more to joe farmer at the end of hundreds of poles.) New subdivisions with new poles/transformers etc. cost less

Windswept lines and poles out in the middle of nowhere are the places at risk and "make no money." The utility doesn't "pay" for the shutdowns but they can get sued for a fire.
I vaguely recall there being a project that essentially used the Swatch algorithm, but switched to UTC, and removed the Swatch name for trademark reasons.

I wish I could find it now, since it did exactly what we're discussing.
There's much less government intervention in hiring programmers, than there is, in hiring teachers (you need a state certificate) or CPAs (same). Even if you want to be a hairdresser you need a state certificate.
Show HN: Solo founder launched iOS Development Agency as a Subscription
Hi there! I recently launched my iOS development agency with a subscription model, inspired by DesignJoy founder Brett Williams. My agency is among the first in the US (or in Texas, or in Dallas ;)) to offer iOS development services on a month-to-month basis. The subscription is flexible, allowing for pauses or cancellations at any time. With 10 years of experience in software development and success as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, I aim to leverage my expertise to help startups and other companies elevate their iOS development.
Make a change, it's never too late. And you certainly have the means
In the US, sales tax is imposed by states and local governments. AFAIK, Temu does collect and remit sales tax.

Import duties are levied by the Federal government. Temu's customers are exempt because their orders are under the de minimis limit.
The man in the white suit 1951

I have some routine (not sure what to call it) where I take a context (by lack of better words) then work backwards.

This topic had me wonder what great lessons or insights in (my) life have not at all been captured by any movie. What followed was like an eruption of great movie ideas. What each movie really needs is at least one amazing plot twist. Nothing really accomplishes that the way changing the viewers perception of life does.

Ill do a crude example but it probably doesn't do justice to the raw idea.

I discover one day that you can always increase your spending to match your income and at the end of your money have a chunk of month left.

I discover that selling your brain in a job leaves your free time without one.

I also discover one day that physical activity is not optional.

I talk with a very successful business man who one day discovered that his chair in front of the TV is only a few meters away from his car and that his personal parking spot is only a few meters from his personal office. After some 30 years he had to walk 150ish meters to the other end of the building and was absolutely exhausted. Only then he realized he didn't get any physical activity at all.

One could forge a plot from that where the protagonist progresses from wealth, a highly successful career, weak and depressed all the way to a shit physical job with crappy pay. The villa, the cars, the credit card wife, the fake friends, it all has to go. Why internet if one can read books. Why drive if one can walk in the rain?
The Matrix.

While as a kid I would say that I wanted to be downloaded into a video game when I died, the idea that was already the case never even entered my mind.

Even after watching the movie, I was just like "oh man, that's such a neat idea" but still didn't think it was actually the case.

It wasn't until years later reading Nick Bostrom's work that I started to seriously entertain it, and only then as I considered it more seriously (and as things progressed in parallel) that it became a predominant belief.

But for a movie to set in motion a complete shift in how one sees the world and their place in it is a pretty remarkable accomplishment, even if it still required a ton of additional pieces thereafter to arrive.
Indeed, but my surprise is due to how far away Farnsworth fusors seemed to be from useful for anything besides being a switchable source of (ironically given this article is about aneutronic p-B11) neutron radiation.
A great spectral ray tracing engine is LuxRender : https://luxcorerender.org/ (the older one, that is - the newer LuxCore renderer does not have full spectral support)

Beyond the effects shown here, there are other benefits to spectral rendering - if done using light tracing, it allows you to change color, spectrum and intensity of light sources after the fact. It also makes indirect lighting much more accurate in many scenes.
So they can connect to CAT-6 Ethernet.
CGH: Computer-generated holography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_holography
I do all my swift CI/CD for non UI code in girthub actions on the Debian image for some time now due to lower cost and faster run times.

I even use Swift on a ARM raspberry Pi docker cluster.

Windows is officially supported for some time with networking and nearly all of foundation ported if that’s not complete yet.

The only real issue you have is at the UI level.
There are some web and even ncurses libraries using SwiftUI like DSLs

Now with the new macro features you can get a lot more flexibility for cross platform builds.

C++ interoperability is also possible with latest versions. It was a hidden flag for a couple years. I’ve wrapped many C++ emulators in Swift over the last year with Cmake to Xcode projects.
The correct formatting of c000 in base c is 10000. So while the transcription is sloppy it's the right number.
It's not nerd sniping if they can answer it in 3 seconds.
If the government appointed executives "managing" the port try to interfere with organized crime, the union goes on strike and the port shuts down.

Canada is sadly too dependent on its ports to stand up to the criminals who run them.
I’m 15 years into my career and still make less than $250k per year. Happy to trade places with them.
It's definitely not the most secure system, and I'd never use it for anything other than streaming entertainment, since once there's a breach at one place, anyone looking at the list can guess other sites easily.
> We demonstrate three-dimensional color image reproduction using a two-layered hologram cascade composed of an iPhone and a spatial light modulator.

So, not just an ordinary display then? What does this "spatial light modulator" look like?
Such impressive engineering behind it. I remember using Shazam for the first time and thought it was an absolute game changer. I still use it through Siri to identify songs I hear out in the wild.

Didn't realise it existed all the way back to 2003, which makes it all the more impressive
I think the really neat piece of software behind this is maxima (https://maxima.sourceforge.io/), a rather influential computer algebra system of ancient lineage still in use today in more places than you might think.
> it is deliberately being presented as equivalent to COL

It kind of is. That's what makes it confusing, I suppose.

If you buy a house of equal value as compared to 60 years ago, then the amount in dollars you will pay, when adjusted for inflation, will be equivalent to 60 years ago (within some margin of error; inflation is impossible to calculate perfectly). If we live exactly like they did in 1960, then inflation and the change in cost of living are the same thing.

But, people expect more today. As mentioned in several comments up-thread, take housing: They are bigger, safer, more energy efficient, more attractive, more comfortable, etc. Alongside that, the married family unit is quickly dying – people are more likely to be single nowadays, so we place more value on being able to live alone. Land is more valuable too. This is particularly noticeable anywhere near agricultural areas, where climate instability and more mouths to feed in the world has made food more valuable, making farmland more valuable, making urban sprawl out into the farmland more expensive. It goes on and on and on. So, even if the dollar was of constant value, you would unquestionably paying more for a house today as compared to in the past. But you're getting more! People are willing to pay more, in constant dollars, because it is worth it.

Only on the dollar side are you getting less. The so-called 'hidden tax'. This is what inflation tries to find. If you are a politician speaking to the people, especially on a national scale, this is the only thing in your control, the only thing that is relevant to you. People choosing to buy bigger and better things is not really of your concern. Why shouldn't someone be able to buy something nicer if they want to?

> Given that a word is defined by what the majority of the people using it mean by it

In the absence of any other definition, that is true. If a speaker defines a word, though, then that new definition takes force while they are speaking. And economists and the President have most definitely provided a specific definition for "inflation".

> I think inflation in common English is closer in meaning to COL than to the technical economics term

I'm quite sure the most common definition is "that single number they talk about on the news", which is equivalent to CPI, which is most definitely not a cost of living measure.
While the sentiments might be popular, I think this is fake. There are only a few trillion dollar companies, and none of them are offering 250k entry level SWE (highest I see is 180, but I haven't checked thorougly)

E: This comment was made under the false assumption that the original poster was entry level. Since it's implied they aren't, it could be very real.
It most certainly is.

I worked at Wal-Mart in Canada for seven years when I was younger and during the summer, when I worked more hours, I would see the department managers and the upper level store managers do it every morning during the week. Wal-mart really pushes the idea of winning. Everything is about being the best at generating profit and beating the local competition into submission. The location I worked at completely destroyed a Zellers, Eatons, Bi-Way and possibly others that I'm forgetting.

I worked in the electronics department and my manager had the discretion to price big new movie releases below the competition (he would actually check out the competition himself). We had a line that snaked through the entire store for days when Titanic came out since we had the best price for a large radius. Having the best price on an item would be something that would be mentioned during the morning meeting and would be something everyone in attendance would get excited about.
Ultimately Swatch Internet Time is tied to UTC, since it's Zurich time and not universal or entirely disconnected from the past.

If the time had been entirely separate or arbitrary that argument would hold, but the time was a normal "24 hour clock" that synced up to the standard day rotation, but centered on Zurich.

Because of that, the choice not to use UTC, but instead to UTC+1 meant that to do a calculation of UTC, which is the standard time measurement for earth, you had to subtract 41.6 beats, which was silly.
Let's not just cross-post from Reddit to HN. It's pretty duplicative.
2002 even!
But profitable for the company, so they'll keep doing it?
Yep, the anti-systemd people certainly got angry.
Coming from a C (and derivative) background, this was a good article to help map idioms and introduce new patterns. I still mentally translate to C in my head though.
For the typical HN user, but my original point was that the users likely to get breached via credential stuffing are going to take as many shortcuts as possible.
This is a great question.

At this point in the project my recommendation is to NOT pick Ripl over any other more mature library of similar feature-set, especially D3, Two.JS, Konva etc. These libraries, in particular D3, are written by very clever people and have been battle tested for all sorts of use-cases. Although the end goal is for Ripl to have feature/stability parity with a lot of these other libraries, at this point I can only recommend it for hobby projects or curiosity.
https://thebestvpn.com/118-vpns-logging-policy/
In everyday calculations, I don't find myself using thirds significantly more often than fifths.
I inherited a 34” flat Sony Trinitron from a roommate moving out. He inherited it from the guy who sold him his house. It was the two inches shy of the largest CRT Sony made, and it was a damn 200 lbs (91 kg) white elephant.

I eventually foisted it off on some deliverymen for free. They didn’t believe me when I told them the weight. When they finally lifted it, it was gratifying to hear one grunt, “Damn. I guess it really is 200 lbs.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FD_Trinitron/WEGA
I use this often for documenting cables. Every time some EE decides to rearrange the SWD pin order on a new board I make a new diagram and a new cable.
I wish they support mac keybinding, but I never seem to get it right.
It's an interesting feature, but remember that CORS exists for a reason; this can also lead to a delightful variety of custom CSRF attacks etc. ;)
I mean the point was to be hyperbolic, but "concrete mcdonaldified" is just a notch below the SFBA. There's a kind of northern Californian exceptionalism that reeks of people who have never traveled to the other 49 states. Or even within California.

I've lived in a number of different places in the country and the Bay Area is hands down the worst, and it always baffled me how many people that lived there thought it was the peak of American living. I'm sorry that most places you don't need to worry about stepping over needles and human excrement in the streets. But there are some pretty mountains that catch on fire only every couple of years, so I guess it's alright?
Does she decide to do those things?

I like the story, but I find it profoundly sad that she has to live through her marriage and birth of her child with the knowing of what is coming.
The person on Reddit referenced how things were at their previous job, so probably not entry level
This one's a deep rabbit hole: https://.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/11vfp8p/npwas_the_matr...

TLDR: The Wachowskis who wrote and directed the film, later became trans. There's a lot of closet trans themes hidden in the film (closet gays/lesbians can relate as well).
You might also want to check out other 3b1b videos on neural networks since there are sort of progressions between each video https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks
In this city, even at 3:30 in the morning on Sunday, cruise control is just useless. It's a spaghetti pile of twisty roads and a billion intersections. Even on the major thoroughfares, you're not going to drive more than 20 seconds without hitting a intersection. To make matters worse, it's all way too disorganized to efficiently coordinate-- almost nothing is perpendicular-- so when traffic is light they just have very short light cycles and you're nearly guaranteed to hit a red light in a few blocks, max. Most residential streets are only wide enough to accommodate one car, but in many cases there's no logistical way to make them one way, so you just have to get good at constantly negotiating who should yield and who should go with oncoming traffic. That, specifically, causes shockingly few problems! But it makes for complex traffic patterns that require a lot of cognitive load to handle. If there was good public transit here, it would be great.
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Microsoft,Apple,Facebook,Goo...

Looks like a Google L4, Microsoft 62, Meta E4, and Apple ICT3 all come in at just a little above and below 250k
"A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one."

AirPods.
I had the exact same thought! I just saw this portion in DC earlier this year. You can get quite close to it.
They never said entry level SWE, they said it was more than they’d made before
awesome-tunneling lists a number of ngrok alternatives: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39754786

- FWIU headscale works with the tailscale client and supports MagicDNS
Where did "entry level SWE" come from? The poster said they've been with this company for one year, not that this is their first year in the industry.
Ah, my mistake. If it isn't entry level this is realistic. I'll edit my comment
> I think their success speaks for itself and people who want a long term, stable job are not necessarily “mediocre lifers”, which is a pretty ignorant thing to say.

That's a pretty ungenerous micharacterisation of what I said, and a bit of a false dichotomy. It's entirely possible to have a long term stable job in a company that doesn't adopt any of Aldi's practices on hiring and promotion - and those practices are, as a matter of simple incentive logic, going to lead to brain drain and a senior management structure afflicted by the Peter principle. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
I don't understand why people feel the need to cross-post random Reddit threads over here. If you are interested in discussing it then just do it directly on Reddit? Such content is adding no value here.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530056 "Source code example of the Shazam algorithm" et. al.
Ive been at Meta and Amazon and did not experience anything like this.

But, it can definitely be true. The reality is that <TRILLION DOLLAR COMPANIES> are just so big, they don't really have a doscernable culture. The difference between orgs is enormous.

And the difference in business units (eg between Facebook vs Oculus vs internal tools or AWS vs Twitch vs Amazon operations) is even greater.

One plus of big tech is that means you can change teams and get a very different experience.
The Hot Peace Between China and India
The problem with social contracts is that they can be made without any sort of agreement by the involved parties. We gripe about EULAs but not social contracts?
Smartphone ray tracing is here, but is it the real deal? (2023)
It's just a bridge for animals? Or a tunnel for humans, depending on how you look at it.

Looking through the FAQ, it's very funny that it began planning in 2016 and completed environmental reviews in 2018, and that the NEPA review got a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). So its cleared the bar.

...But the whole point of a wildlife crossing is to impact the environment! That's its job! So its kind of amusing it might have needed a "finding of no impact", first.

OK reading around more: I don't get it. Why this website? Why did it take so long to build a bridge? Have they been funding guys playing with LEGOs or is that just a hobby? This news piece they link to says it took the lego guy a year:

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/environment/2024/03/13/...

that might explain why it takes almost a decade to build a bridge? I'm more confused than when I started. What percent of projects like these is grift?
Could these are the silent triangular UFOs people have been reporting usually from remote areas?
Your assumption is that the outage is about the houses that are dark and not some line of silent poles/towers stretching beyond where the people are. The N Boulder outage was probably for rural lines N of Boulder rather than any neighborhood risk.

I work in GIS for utilities and know where about a mile of my feeder comes from but I can't figure out where exactly it goes after that.

Somebody probably overlaid a few maps (weather forecast, estimated fire risk, electric lines) and picked feeders based on that.
> none of them are offering 250k entry level SWE

Nowhere in the post or commments does he say he’s entry level — maybe I missed it. It’s also not his first job.

I will also add that there are tech companies that offer total comp of $250k+ for entry level positions. Are your figures just salary or are they total comp?
Agreed. I've just started flagging them, unless it's something super interesting and/or niche.
I'm not advocating suicide or anything of that form.

I'm asking, why should the majority of the world have kids given that life is largely a struggle and in so many places of poverty an extremely difficult one?
Right? That it worked even with pretty terrible GSM encoding at the time is pretty dang magic to my mind even after reading these slides.
Thanks! Yeah, I think it'd be considered fair use too, but I didn't want to go there.
At the risk of almost-spamming -- this post has taken off, which is sweet, and I have noticed some trends about what seems to interest readers which may not be placed as prominently up-top as would fit this audience. To wit: the API Overview from the Manual covers the available stuff, with code snippets (and some words). Could save people some time:

https://flow-ipc.github.io/doc/flow-ipc/versions/main/genera...
Yes, I agree. I'm saying it's not a coincidence that 60 has many divisors, but rather an artifact of the way it was derived. I don't think we disagree.
I'm not discounting the prior submission. The medical field is vast. Some jobs are a lot worse than others. Just as you can't generalize across all STEM jobs, you can't generalize across all medical jobs.

Yes, a lot of doctors have a high amount of stress. And a lot don't.
I think it might be interesting to see how different communities react to the same information.

In this case Hacker News gets to see the Reddit conversation unfold and kind of have a meta conversation about that, too, which I think is fun.
Anarchy in the US, Part 3 (Was This Martial Law?)