skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just speak out of outer scope:

It's not a problem to hire someone. It's a problem for ROI and how fast the investment can be earned back.

If the calculations and assumptions are solid, why not?

In my experience, it's difficult to write a good catalog of needings. Most of the time this and that isn't thought about and will lead to problems later, making the whole thing slow developed and costly.

So, if you have a good thoroughly thought plan, why not hire an agency? Also, it should be somewhere where you can walk to. May be the same city. Conversation with the developers is the most important part in such things. If they're in India and you're us based - then for sure you won't really get what you want.

Also, if you want to keep your costs low later, the programming should happen with cost optimization in mind. I don't think it's possible to get that from an agency, which focuses to develop in shortest time. Then you'll get a behemoth of code with big dev debt.

What about searching for a companion with same mindset and do the programming together? It's better than doing everything alone.. and may be introducing some dev debt because of no discussions on problem solving and approaching?

Wish you the best and much more success with your project!
Theres probably lots of great robot disc handler stuff in those boxes.
The joint rotation / skinning concept is about compression and ability to playback a stored animation rapidly. It has also been done by storing the entire posed mesh per frame and interpolating between meshes.

It follows from digitizing the articulated armatures of stop motion animation which preceeded CGI. Some of the first CGI was input using metal jointed armatures with potentiometers in every joint which is a form of 'rigid' transforms.

I'm not sure what you are thinking about when you say it's not a great representation for processing animation data but I speculate that you mean it's not a great representation for how a flesh and blood creature moves and you'd be right. Advanced CGI can sometimes tackle a more thorough simulation of the musculature, complex joints, tendons, ligaments, and the physical dynamics of these all being controlled by a brain. A lot of soft body physical interactions as well. The sheer amount of processing and data needed for such a real simulation is why the cheating approximations are used for interactive simulations and games.

See
https://www.wetafx.co.nz/research-and-tech/technology/tissue
To add on to your experience, my first encounter with Digital River was back around a decade a ago when I bought Battlefield 2142 from EA (pre-Origin)
My first condo was built in the 50s and had metal (not metal framed, but painted metal) awnings. The previous owner had removed one awning (presumably due to disrepair) and the room with no awning was at least 5 degrees warmer than the other rooms in the summer.
Airlines should rent these, already set up for movies or whatever. I'd pay to give it a try. I wouldn't want these taking up my carry on space going to and from the airport or to deal with security, so that's another advantage.
MNCs get governments to force you to buy their products. I've dealt with governments where the only way to send or receive docs was MS Word. Sometimes saving in MS Word format works (LibreOffice), sometimes not.
Certain types of travel will always exist. But traveling for work? That's an entire idea I can get behind avoiding.
Was just about to type the same thing. It's hard to escape the feeling that this article belongs somewhere around the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the hype cycle chart.
When I take trains in Europe, I tend to look out the window, and they often have nice views.

When I take trains in the USA, I usually look out for a few seconds every couple of minutes, because it's mostly the same -- lower-middle class housing or warehouses if we're in a city, or ugly terrain outside of a city.
If you were using self-hosted e-mail everywhere, then it would be quite obvious that large providers like Google do massively benefit from those user reports when filtering spam.
As the Dijkstrian expression goes, testing shows the presence of bugs, not their absence. Unit tests can show that a bug exists, but it cannot show you that there are no bugs, save for the particular cases tested and even then, only in a behaviorist sort of way (meaning, a your buggy code may still produce the expected output for tested cases). For that, you need to be able to prove your code possesses certain properties.

Type systems and various forms of static analysis are going to increasingly shape the future of software development, I think. Large software systems especially become practically impossible to work with and impossible to verify and test without types.
I'm not sure money would be the real issue.

Nvidia wasn't even allowed to buy ARM even though they weren't competitors and had almost no real overlap. This would be considerably harder to pull off.

Also you have that whole AMD64/x86 patent thing. Not sure about the details (and maybe the original agreement has expired and that part wasn't renewed) but according the original deal the cross licensing agreement would automatically expire if either party was acquired.

I think the first reason is more than enough but if it's not and they still have something similar about newer x86 related features developed after 2009 Qualcomm would only be buying Intel for the fabs and other assets or would have to pay off AMD if they want x86.
Israel is the #1 terrorist in the region by any intellectually honest definition of the term. This article is about a terrorist attack by Israel that injured many civilians. And let's not forget when Israeli soldiers dressed up as doctors to murder someone lying in a hospital bed.
It's easy to run containers with different runtimes, so using gVisor (as "runsc") with Kubernetes or Docker is a simple matter of installing it and using the appropriate flags when starting a container.

gVisor is nice when you're working with untrusted inputs, like ffmpeg transcode containers.
While the Adobe thing is the common punching bag, I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that people probably need to either be more honest, or need to pay more attention.

When you subscribe there are three prices given-

Monthly, Annual paid monthly, and Annual prepaid. The Annual paid monthly very clearly indicates that there is a fee if you cancel after 14 days. The annual paid monthly is some 33% less expensive than monthly, with the downside that you're committing for a year, or to pay a termination fee if you cancel early.

https://imgur.com/a/ldhiEtf

This has been extremely clear for years. Like you have to be blind to not see a "Monthly" that costs much more at the top, then one called "Annual billed monthly" and not have paused to do some diligence.

Adobe does a lot of shady stuff, but on this topic we seem to hear the most from careless, thoughtless, or selfish people who think they figured out how to game the system. Kind of like the "my laptop got stolen out of my car and it had the only copy of all of my important documents and the doctoral thesis I've been working on for seven years" stories, at some point we have to not be so naive with people's foolishness.
That makes sense and sounds really useful
>cause all operating systems are terrible

This is code words for "Im emotionally invested into my choice for non logical reasons and its very hard for me to admit I have made the wrong choice".
Isn't this exactly what Google's new NotebookLM does?

Cool idea anyway :)
Thanks, it even mentions low-e glass which I was wondering about.
What makes you say that? In my experience, the spam button works fantastically. There is a gym of some kind that has me on their mailing list, refuses to honor unsubscribe, and sends me probably 2-6 emails a month. They've been doing this for years, but Google correctly gets every single one into spam because I marked one (several?) as spam years ago.

Most, if not all, political junk email also ends up in my spam folder after judicious use of the spam button a few years ago.
yes, the early SPIKE software for Hubble was on TI Explorers.
> Eventually assholes are going to join, that's simply unavoidable.

To repurpose an old aphorism: Moderation is key to avoiding assholes running rampant on your platform.
Weeks out, with more facts settled, it does appear that this was one of the most (if not the most) precisely targeted attacks in the history of modern warfare, measured either by ratio of combatants to noncombatants injured, or by the measures used to target it (which included creating a fake pager distributor that sold legitimate pagers to legitimate sources and selectively delivered compromised pagers specifically to Hezbollah, which used them on a private military network it fought a civil war in Lebanon to maintain).

What isn't captured in these threads but should be obvious to anyone looking 150 miles south is that conventional warfare, as conducted by every military power in the world, kills children and noncombatants in vastly higher numbers.

Use this attack to disqualify Israel's reckless and militarily pointless continued campaign in Gaza. Clearly, they had the capability not to conduct warfare the way they are there. Or, if you like, to condemn all warfare worldwide. But the attempt to single out the pager/radio attack as distinctively amoral is unpersuasive.
So this entire article seems to actually describe a _single_ work/consultation product, then spends the rest of the time describing and backwardly lauding the absurd cult of personality that seems to encompass this entire operation.

"A boring dystopia as a service."

Or maybe I'm just not cognitively ready to read this yet this morning. I guess I'll set my A/C to 60 and chew on some ice to see if that helps. :|
The people have never specifically asked for anything, because we're not a direct democracy and we don't have federal referenda. What does that matter?
SGML was intended for sparse markup in mostly plaintext files. From it grew HTML that is markup-heavy, and XML which is often 100% markup. What made sense for rare markup nodes became... suboptimal when applied in a very different role.
Forcing people to "Sell the family Farm" has been used by estate-tax detractors for so long that there are multiple special programs in place to ensure it never happens (interest-free loans, etc). Given that the current limits are over $13M per person or $26M/couple where zero tax is owed, I don't think this "woe is us" routine resonates any more.
One of my neighbors conducted studies and published results for Lockheed in Georgia in the 1970's. This was during the development of very large transport aircraft, and solving the associated aerospace challenges. Those studies was usually cross-checked and reviewed by another PHD at another base (Wright-Patterson). The available pool of potential reviewers would have been small, and the profession was insular (US and NATO scientists mostly). Also, no one had a football field size wind tunnel, and computers were primitive/non-existent for simulations. One of them included printed source code. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA000431.pdf
A terror attack definitionally targets civilian noncombatants, deliberately.
Write the proof of concept in a language that the company doesn’t want to support. Erlang, Haskell, Prolog.
Alternatively, you print fiat and inflate away the debt ("currency debasement"). Favorable for those with debt, unfavorable for those holding currency and assets. Regardless, at some point, the music stops and the collective delusion this debt gets paid back ends.

"Extend and pretend."
(HN doesn't want me to continue with this nonsense deeper, so adding here). Just to note, it is not only grammar books, there are several papers about it as well, you could see it if you actually bothered understanding the nuances of it. So I am wondering are you an expert in linguistics and Turkic languages? Do you have a real source that supports your thesis? My guess is you are not, so indeed there is no need for further discussion.
It's weird that he excludes data races from the memory safety even though data races can be in the other classes he calls out. Not sure I buy that it's not as relevant for security since use-after-free is a common side effect of data races.
Me too, but if you're not avoiding it now the Apple Vision will not make a big difference
Usually 4-6 hours. I’m a solo founder. 15 years of experience.
Show HN: Kloudlite – Open-Source Dev Environments That Just Works
Hey everyone!

I’m the founder of Kloudlite, and I’ve spent years working through slow, frustrating development loops.

Developers are often stuck with long build times and manual deployments, and most tools don’t effectively solve this problem without adding complexity.

That’s why we built Kloudlite: - No need to build or deploy to test your app – everything runs directly from your workspace - Seamlessly connects your local workspace to remote environments via a secure VPN - Full production parity, so what works locally will work in production

Some key use cases: - Faster development with zero build/deploy steps - Instantly switch between environments without reconfiguring - Collaborate with your team in real time

I use Kloudlite daily, and it's free to try. Give it a go!
I think your statement answers itself.
> guarantee to remove and shred the hard drives

Now that storage is often an indistinct chip on the motherboard, I wonder how that works.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851467
How can we possibly have a duplicate discussion about two different contexts? One is a first party announcement, the other is a third party news article explaining and contextualizing the first party announcement. Often, third party news articles include direct quotes from relaxant first party sources that are not present in the first party source, and may not be present anywhere else. So I don’t see how the discussion would necessarily be duplicated either.

Do what you want, but it’s not a duplicate submission by definition, and isn’t necessarily a duplicate discussion. This is a place to comment on the specific article I posted. That distinction seems clear to me.

I’ve had this discussion with dang before, and due to our conversations, he has planned karma sharing among related and even explicitly duplicative submissions, because reposts happen, and for some topics, to limit all of HN’s discussion of a given topic to a specific post’s context is unreasonable.

We both have the same goal here - to connect people with relevant information. There is an actual dupe problem on HN, but alternate sources of information does not a dupe make.
I doubt that. Independent research paints a less clear picture. i would welcome it if the ticket were only free for workers, who suffer from one of the world's highest taxes and levies. It should not be available to welfare recipients.
https://imgur.com/a/ldhiEtf

There is no fine print. It is extremely clear and obvious. If you see a term called "Annual paid monthly", 33% less expensive than a monthly option right above, what possible other interpretation can someone have?
Not sure how much it factors in, but solar is at a political disadvantage since Chinese solar panels are artificially expensive.
I’ve been trying to model using a SBLOC in a FIRE simulator to cover the gap between retirement below 65 and when 401k/social security kicks in versus selling and paying capital gains, and it looks like you come out ahead of selling stock like 90% of the time, but 10% of the time it’s much riskier and you go broke.
Making stuff in general reduces poverty. Cheap gear from China has been helpful all over the place, especially phones.
Fair enough. I would've used C++ as well.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41858863
>> by those that don't like IA.

Or perhaps it was to make IA better.
Why can't you avoid it now? Just open zoom. No need for gen 5 avp.
This is specific to my town, if I lived across the street in a different town I wouldn't need to. Unfortunately I didn't know this detail until after I bought the house.
This seems like the code implementation way of shifting left. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38187879
Ah yes, good find: the stroke node can only apply to vector data, but when you use the Circular Repeat node, it now produces group data (as it should have always done). The fix is to put the Stroke node first to avoid the type error. I'll see what I can do to update the tutorial with that info, and to try to make the Stroke node more robust so it could apply to all group elements.

I'm surprised that Ctrl+Z undid more than one step, I've never seen that before. If you get the chance to reproduce that and write up the steps, please file an issue since we'd like to take a look into that.
It’s Salesforce v2. A ridiculously expensive proprietary “easy-to-build” application platform with an ecosystem of ridiculously expensive consultants.
Kindle Scribe should show your calendar, news, weather, etc when it's plugged in.

I hope Scribe note sharing is improved from "email yourself a PDF".

And come on, still no physical page turn buttons?

I also want a Kindle Scribe with a scroll display: a high-refresh-rate LCD touchscreen that sits just below the bottom of the eink screen. Use case being: swipe to a bookmark or page very quickly. It would stay off until touched and would be about 2cm tall, with the same width as the eink screen.
Austria has highly available state housing of high quality. I don't think they qualify as a communist state, despite one of the more prominent complexes named after Karl Marx.
Writing for reusability also tends to make software testable from my experience. If you make excessively involved units of code, you can't test, but you also can't re-use.

And I'm big on reusability because I'm lazy. If requirements change, I rather tweak than rebuild.
I think this is a good observation but GOG hasn't modified the language on their site (it still says "buy now" when advertising a game). So I wonder if they have a different interpretation of the law.
I don’t want your pink eye infected skin flakes in my eyes. Have you seen how airlines “clean” plane seats?
> but Tesla is still liable for their promises. If they said it would do X and it doesn’t, that’s a defective product and Tesla owes compensation.

Not really. A judge recently ruled that it was 'corporate puffery' in a very similar case.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259588/tesla-lawsuit-au...
> since it's so rare that I find anything positive to say

Wonder why that is?

> I think it's a positive thing if the companies making these bets don't offload the costs of those bets onto public utilities

This is written as if with concern for public utilities which makes me wonder: Do you think they’ll stop using public utilities? Do public utilities want that? How long until these companies try to outright replace public utilities?

Still want that public money.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/03/nuclear-m...

> Whether or not that energy use is wasted is an open question.

Slop is a waste for us, but a boon in: data harvesting, surveillance, labor and union costs; for them.

> also that they're looking at energy sources that have less of an adverse environmental impact than things like coal.

You think these companies made this decision with altruistic concern for the environment?!

M$FT makes recall a required dependency in explorer.exe -> “I'm so glad I can finally compliment these guys for caring about the environment.”

Make it make sense.
Show HN: I built a publishing app for developers ('Plaid' for content)
Hey Beautiful folks, it's Warren. I built a publishing app to create and manage content. My goal is to build a simple SDK compatible with JavaScript frameworks.

The challenging and satisfying part was building and publishing the SDK to npm. Initially, the SDK files were not included in the file after running npm publish. To resolve this,, I created a separate folder and built and published the files from a different folder.

I'm building this for myself and other developers. The goal is to have an intuitive user interface to create and publish content. This is the first time I've used Typescript to build a project of this scale. Previously, I written data pipelines and mobile apps primarily in Python and Java respectively.

Happy to listen to feedback. This is version one.
Built a GUI[1] to generate funding.json, with help from Claude.

This XKCD[2] is perhaps becoming less relevant.

[1]: https://vishnukvmd.github.io/funding.json

[2]: https://xkcd.com/974
> Palantir's business model is selling their software to the DoD, government, and to large financial institutions. These are the only people who can afford it.

Literally demonstrably untrue. There are orgs in nearly any vertical you can name who are using Palantir.

> And, their software is not spy tech. They have some secret sauce behind the visualization of a customer's custom integrated data sources.

Mostly true :)
Not seemlessly because Amazon has their store locked down to Kindle. But you can export all your books from the Amazon web interface or use the desktop Kindle app to download them all. You would then use Calibre with a couple plugins to deDRM them. At that point you have plain ebook files in Amazon's format to do what you want with. Calibre can convert them to any one of the open ebook formats (I personally prefer epub) and sync them to your device(s)). Those ebooks are treated like any others and fully supported by PocketBook cloud if you use it. The convenience of Amazon's store for Kindle is nice, but it's also how they lock you in to their ecosystem and devices so you keep only buying/paying for a subscription with them.

The process is really not bad at all if you use the desktop Kindle app to download your library before importing to Calibre. Each step is fully automated with the only manual parts being setting it up and doing each step in sequence for the whole library but not each individual book.
> you can work on things like Google search or the Facebook news feed, all of which seem like marginally good things

lol, where has the author been in the past decade? both of those are bad, especially the feed algorithms are scientifically proven to have a strong influence on the decline of trust into democratic institutions
You're welcome! It was a great read, and I'm happy to share it. Looking forward to more of your insights in the future! Keep up the fantastic work!
Show HN: Semantic Search for Idea Validation
IBKR claims that you can establish a margin loan by:

“Withdrawing funds in excess of settled cash in the denomination of the currency being withdrawn;”

So as long as you have enough collateral it’s effectively the same?
Reinventing Core Data Development with SwiftData Principles – Fatbobman's Blog
It's also extremely culturally dependent. (Never mind that plenty of people in countries that obsess over eye contact find it uncomfortable as well.)

It's generally considered rude or an act of intimidation to maintain eye contact with people in Japan, for example. Not nodding occasionally while someone is talking is also seen as a sign that you're not paying attention. Are we going to modify videos to nod automatically too? Or maybe we can stop trying to fake social interactions and enforcing local customs on the world.
airpods at least had the equivocal wired headphones normalizing that look for a decade before they appeared.
Can I read a book with it, too? Or just enjoy the boredom without much digital interaction?
Japan does this just fine: they have standardized zoning across all municipalities, decided at the national level.
The way Amazon was "losing money" in the early years was all intense reinvestment though so they could at any point pretty easily tune their profit making by turning down the ridiculous amount of warehouses they were building for one example.