skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine supporting my right to charge my customers for the software I build for them, absolutely. And I support Canon's right to do the same.

Many of us have had the experience of clients telling us to "just" write code that they think is easy, but we know how that can go in reality.

There's already a simple solution here in HDMI. I don't see a reason to be outraged at Canon over not providing another solution that most buyers will never even use.
Measure–an open-source, self-hosted tool to find patterns and pinpoint cause
Progress towards what, exactly? Their own state? Or full citizenship of Israel? Or can you think of another acceptable outcome?
And the funniest part is that when you buy from Amazon (ES, DE, etc) that tax is not applied further hurting the local shops.
Don't forget the revelation 2 weeks later when you realise immediate past you should've trusted deep past you instead of assuming he'd somehow got wiser in the intervening months.

Instead intermediate past you broke things properly because they forgot about the edge deep past you was cautiously avoiding
Only just replaced my 1080 (non-ti) and it would run basically any game I threw at it very well. Only replaced it because it doesn't really do raytracing or TAA very well, and those are becoming more and more common.
> As-is, for most purposes, my Android phone is a better camera than my full frame interchangeable lens camera.

Any Android/iOS flagship phone right now is MILES behind current full-frame mirrorless technology, and I doubt they will ever be truly comparable. There are too many technical limitations.

I am pretty sure we will eventually have consumer cameras with an Android-like OS and the equivalent of today's full-frame sensors, delivering awesome footage, but mobile devices will never come close to a (semi-)professional camera.
Agreed! The comparison is great for estimating the scope of the tasks they're capable of--they do very well with bite-sized tasks that can be individually verified. But their world knowledge is that of a principal engineer!

I think this is why people struggle so much with agents--they see the agent perform magic, then assume it can be trusted with a larger task, where it completely falls down.
>What stops them suffering the same entropy issues? Is there a reinforcement step with human feedback?

It seems the situation changed with inference scaling/reasoning models (o1 and beyond). I found the tweet I was looking for, but it wasn't from an OpenAI employee as I seemed to recall:

https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1879961110507581839

>>Gwern: we have reached the threshold of “recursively self-improving”, “where o4 or o5 will be able to automate AI R&D and finish off the rest.”

>Now that we have received various cryptic messages from renowned OpenAI scientists, “Gwern” assumes the following:

>- we have reached the threshold of “recursively self-improving”, “where o4 or o5 will be able to automate AI R&D and finish off the rest.”

>- the purpose of o1 is primarily to generate synthetic data for models like o3, which is why he is surprised that o1-pro was released at all

>- he thinks that Anthropic Opus 3.5 is not released for the same reason, the compute is needed to generate synthetic data

The rest of the tweet is interesting too, it starts with the same facts as this article, but makes the point for "reverse distillation" instead (i.e. using synthetic data to train the next model). In particular:

>If you look at the relevant scaling curves - may I yet again recommend reading Jones 2021?* - the reason for this becomes obvious. Inference-time search is a stimulant drug that juices your score immediately, but asymptotes hard. Quickly, you have to use a smarter model to improve the search itself, instead of doing more.

gwern.net

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gwern.net
Steampunk authors typically assume that that one got solved, I think (I believe, before small steam engines became irrelevant, that there _was_ some progress in that direction).
IT's not a joke. When filming for more than 30 minutes the cameras at the time (10-15 years ago) would warm up and eventually shut off automatically to cool off.
Actually, Blue Origin beat SpaceX to land a booster. The difference is that BO landed New Shepard, which can barely bump a manned capsule over the Karman line, whereas SpaceX is landing an orbital-class booster, which is a much more difficult proposition.

I do agree though that SpaceX has used their money much more efficiently and moved a lot faster in general than BO.
Avoid `git reset --hard` and `git clean -xfd`. To get a clean working-tree, use `git stash --all`. Allows restoring files if necessary. Saved my sorry bottom multiple times.
Family announced on Facebook? Ironic, since David had said he was not on Facebook.

God speed you shinny diamond.

At 1:26 https://youtu.be/UwPprWxt9oo
I have a 160ms ping to news.ycombinator.com. Loading your comment took 1.427s of wall clock time. 
Clearly, HN is so bad, it's complete bonkers ;)


time curl -o tmp.del "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730748"

real 0m1.427s

"if you're taking 200ms for a DB query on an app with millions of users, you're screwed"

My calculation was 200ms for the DB queries and the time it takes your server-side framework ORM system to parse the results and transform it into JSON. But even in general, I disagree. For high-throughput systems it typically makes sense to make the servers stateless (which adds additional DB queries) in exchange for the ability to just start 20 servers in parallel. And especially for PostgreSql index scans where all the IO is cached in RAM anyway, single-core CPU performance quickly becomes a bottleneck. But a 100+ core EPYC machine can still reach 1000+ TPS for index scans that take 100ms each. And, BTW, the basic Shopify plan only allows 1 visitor per 17 seconds to your shop. That means a single EPYC server could still host 17,000 customers on the basic plan even if each visit causes 100ms of DB queries.
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And it made the UI slower - as confirmed by another comment and used battery.

> Untrue. There was a noticeable UI lag when scrolling between app pages. I've tried it in both the iPod touch and previous generations iPhones. It felt like how Android used to feel like back then.

How was Jobs going to force Adobe to get Flash to run on a first gen iPhone when they could barely get it to run 4 years later on phones with 8x the memory and 2.5x faster?

Apple struggled to get Safari to run.

As another counterpoint. Google and Motorola tried to release an “iPad Killer” with the Motorola Xoom promising it would have 4g and Flash. Adobe was late releasing Flash for Android tablets leaving the Xoom in the unenviable position that you couldn’t visit the Xoom product page from the Xoom itself because it required Flash.

Adobe Flash on mobile was always a clusterfuck
practically infinite resources and "classified" failures
> A tiny cubby in a cavity left by engineered trusses is not.

Yes, it is. It doesn't have to be usable to be an attic. It just needs to be a space between the ceiling and roof.
It is. There are scraping third party services you can pay for that will do all of this for you, and getting blocked by IP. You then make your request to the third-party scraper, receive the contents, and do with them whatever you need to do.
I'm about 90% sure that for some inane reason, McDonalds outsources and creates separate apps for each country/region with these disastrous security flaws, except that at HQ they universally demand horrifically counter-productive "anti-root" measures for every locale, to a larger extent than even finance apps.

Why am I so sure about this? I live on the other side of the world, the app is almost certainly an entirely separate codebase from the Polish one the article is about, and yet here too it has the worst anti-root measures of any app by any remotely large company, including finance, healthcare and government apps. Enormous numbers of false positives. Even for those with the most mainstream Android models around.

This will all just come down to one person at McD's HQ who is forcing through these ridiculous ideas and costing their company a bunch of money in the process. No other multinational employs this strategy to any similar degree.
The point was about Starship - it has never successfully flown with any amount of cargo. The 3 billion number from the poster before makes it clear they were only referring to Starship, not all of SpaceX.

SpaceX is an extremely successful space launch company, and Falcon 9 is the best we've ever had. It's just Starship that seems to be going much worse.
OP bought a camera, and the camera can be used as a webcam - but deliberately not with standard protocols. Pretending the limitation is of technical nature rather than a result of corporate greed is both delusional and harmful to consumer rights.
From my memory CHDK was a project for Canon's consumer/point-and-shoot cameras, and Magic Lantern is for the DSLRs.
What the end of Meta's moderation means
> I wonder how many of us, here, understand that many jobs are going away if/when this works out for the companies. And the usual coping mechanism, "it will only be for low hanging fruit", "it will never happen to me because my $SKILL is not replaceable", will eventually not save you. Sure, if you are a unique expert on a unique field, but many of us don't have that luxury. And it'll be used to drive down salaries, too.

Yeah it's maddening.

The cope is bizarre too: "writing code is the least important part of the job"

Ok then why does nearly every company make people write code for interviews or do take home programming projects?

Why do people list programming languages on their resumes if it's "least important"?

Also bizarre to see people cheering on their replacements as they use all this stuff.
This article is missing some very critical details.

Do you have to use the software from Cannon? What about any other webcam software that runs on Mac?

Does Cannon's software support non-Cannon webcams? IE, is it standalone software that the author prefers to use over other webcam software?

Is this a case where most customers will never use the webcam software, thus Cannon is "passing the savings on to them" by charging separately for the software?
compare the cost
I’m not a big fan of Elon Musk, but this is just the typical executive talking up their product and to some extent being overly optimistic about timelines. You’d think with the quantity of software engineers in HN this would be obvious, but the (rightful IMO) disdain for Elon Musk is resetting people’s brains.
I have always thought that my brain is optimized for reading. I’m just okay at math, my sense of direction is downright bad, and I’m not that physically coordinated, but I was an avid reader from an early age. I ace reading comprehension and analogies questions on standardized tests. It has never felt like a skill I intentionally developed. I have long assumed it is an innate characteristic.
Effect of time-restricted eating on visceral adipose tissue/cardiometabol health
Back in the day Kodak had to buy back all their instant cameras after losing to Polaroid. Though I'm not sure if law has changed since then (it has, but I'm not sure if in relevant ways), or just that they did that because no being able to make film made them useless and so buyback was a goodwill gesture.
For sure, they had very interesting architectures. Used even in supercomputers as a number of them in parallel
This is another case in point that people should research the software capabilities of the devices they purchase.

Typically, that can be reduced to one simple question: Can it run custom firmware or custom operating system?

If it cannot, you have to make do with whatever restrictions the manufacturer has imposed in their software. Be it a subscription for webcam mode. Or even completely disabling your device if they so decide.

If it can run custom firmware or operating system, there is a fair chance that the community creates software for this device that is actually good. One that allows you to do what you want with it.
I am a civil-structural engineering and have obvious bias for Concrete. Over here in India, literally all houses are built using Concrete and Burnt-Clay-Brick / Fly-Ash-Brick Masonry. I hope Concrete gets promoted more as a building material. They buildings which are professionally designed easily withstand 2500 Year Return Period magnitude earthquakes. Last time I enquired on HN about preference for Wood in US (remote areas) Building Materials, someone said, can't design house venerable to High Seismic Activity. While my exposure to US Building codes is limited, I know for sure, ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) have excellent Earthquake Loading criteria. It should be doable. Perhaps some regulation could help there.

A personal example: Wardrobes are usually made using synthetic-wood over here in India. I went a step ahead, and got it build using Steel-Sheets. So a major chunk of fire potential removed from the house. And it was within 10% of the cost of wood work. Termite free forever as bonus ! Have a look at the photos in google maps listing of the local manufacturer. https://maps.app.goo.gl/7Wrt4rNtcpez53Bm6
That's nice but is it worth spending so much to get natural boketh in over team calls?
I don't disagree, but...

> Property taxes could be cut, or decoupled from property values (e.g. poll tax), but that never happens.

Couldn't the total property tax take be set to be proportional to incomes, shared between households in proportion to property price?

> If the risk really is high, there is no practical insurance available, and all purchasers are rational, then the price may go to zero.

Rational purchasers might reason that:

1) they need a home

2) unless they own a home they'll have to rent

3) even an uninsurable home could be expected to be habitable for a while

4) if rent for the duration of expected habitability exceeds transaction costs and property taxes for some uninsurable home, it could be worth a nonzero amount
Yes, this is "what I wish I knew before starting my first startup".

Which is an interesting topic, but very different from just "quitting my job and going back to interviewing", which is its own thing. I need a stable job (so no startups for me), but I've come to dread interviewing. It's not lack of experience (either job or interviewing), I'm experienced -- and my experience tells me they are dreadful.

I might be unfair, but "quitting to start my own startup" to me reads like the person doing this is: financially in a good place, in order to take the plunge (or alternatively: no family and responsibilities), and also very confindent that they can find another job if their startup doesn't pan out. This immediately puts them in the minority of engineers worldwide.
PCIe releases draft specification for PCIe 7.0 – full release expected in 2025
I have a divided opinion on this one.

On one hand, when I used to treat my side project as, well, a side project, alongside my job, I barely had any progress. There is always this voice inside of your head that whispers “well, maybe it’s not that bad to be an employee forever, the money is definitely good”. In addition to that, if you want to have any social life, and avoid health issues, the amount of time you can dedicate to your side project is limited.

In six months of unemployment I achieved more for my business that in years of “side projecting”.

Having said that, there seems to be an aura around “quitting my job and working on my business” mentality. For many it seems like the only reasonable option. But nobody is talking about the other side of it: you need money to live; your product might suck; and after you finished building, you suddenly need to do marketing and I ain’t ready for this shit!

So to each their own I guess. :shrug:
I never needed Enterprise Docker Desktop.

I hardly even need Docker Desktop.

It just proves useful to start and stop Docker this way, since it uses fewer resources.
That’s the really egregious thing. I think a bunch of programmers should be able to see the merit in charging money for software. It’s a bit of a bitter pill in a product that we mentally categorize as “device” rather than “computer” but it’s at least somewhat sensible. Software costs money to make, that money has to come from customers, and getting it from the customers who use it makes sense.

But requiring a subscription is such a blatant “fuck you, we want more profit without doing any work, and you’re going to provide it.”
Two step forwards one step back. Doesn't mean the step back made the two step forward not good.
I was not familiar with the concept of brine.
I thought we would extract the salt from the water and store it. Maybe use it for construction material like with the CO2 extracted from the atmosphere.
I'm not an expert and I might have the Dunning-Kruger effect on this. It might be a lot harder than I can imagine/know at this moment but it might still be worth it and necessary.
Your analogy to a stripped back version of JavaScript is really on point. I feel that way about Lua too. Through time Lua kept its simplicity, whereas ECMAScript kept accreting stuff which most of the times makes life easier, but also gives way too many choices for how to do the same thing.

Indeed the 1-based indexing, which often generates heated discussions, could be a source of confusion later on. However, like you mentioned, it can also prompt the beginner to quickly understand the languages are just tools, which have slightly different ways to be used, depending on what they're trying to solve.

In fact, this 1-based indexing is by convention (although everyone uses it), once again showing how flexible and "hackable" Lua is.
> I know I am on HN. Curiosity is one thing, investigating issues for free for a rich company is another.

The vulnerability https://github.com/bf/security-advisories/blob/main/2025-01-... targets other sites than OpenAI. OpenAI's crawler is rather the instrument of the crime for the attack.

Since this "just" leads to a potential reputation damage for OpenAI (and OpenAI's reputation is by now bad), and the victims are operators of other websites, I can see why OpenAI sees no urgency for fixing this bug.
Influence by Design: How Meta Accepted Russian Payments Despite Sanctions
30 years ago Go AI was at best 20 kyu. Low rank professionals were giving AI 30 stone handicaps and fleecing them.
Including not checking as one person I know found out after drinking hand sanitizer. (some hand sanitizer is just alcohol that is made to taste bad, some of it isn't even alcohol, she got the later)
Karst Topography enters the room....
Creepy. If you don’t mind me asking - eastern eu?
"All that to say, a small point query on a well-designed schema should easily execute in sub-msec times if the pages are in the DB’s buffer pool"

Shopify is hosting a large number of webshops with billions of product descriptions, but each store only has a low visitor count. So we are talking about a very large and, hence, uncacheable dataset with sparse access. That means almost every DB query to fetch a product description will hit the disk. I'd even assume a RAID of spinning HDDs for price reasons.
It’s possible that solve the hurricane problems with proper building regulations and lower the risk of huge wildfires with controlled burning. But the US as always prefers to pretend that there’s nothing to be done when other parts of the world has figured it out.

We have cyclones here similar to the hurricanes in the US and usually it just blows over some trees maybe causes a power outage.
The absolute worst I have experienced was 3 days without power. I have never seen a house destroyed by a cyclone here.

As for wildfires, they do unfortunately claim a few houses most years.
>> but all of these issues seem to be solvable with current tech by applying additional training and/or "agentic" direction.

Can you explain why you think this. From what I gather from other comments it seems like if we continue on current trajectory at best you'd still need a dev who understands the projects context to work in tandem w/ the agent so the code doesn't devolve into slop.
Given the choice between earthquake-proof and fire-proof I'd go with earthquake-proof every single time since you can't run from an earthquake.
We wanted to go with the simplest model of latency that would suffice to demonstrate the problems that come up when dealing with state mutated in multiple locations. The advantage of this approach is that we can do it without hiding any state from the reader — the pie chart exposes the only internal state that exists. It’s not meant to be an accurate network simulation, just to build intuition.
Why aren't APIs using code-on-demand?
Let me guess Broadcom or Nvidia?
Bun is built on web standard APIs [1]. Is your point that it's not _industry_ standard?

[1] https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/web-apis
You are right. I live in Europe and I'm not very familiar with hurricanes. I'm more familiar with fires and earthquakes.
It seems some parts of Florida have been hit by catastrophes every 2-5 years. Maybe we should treat the whole space as natural reserves and building less there.
I saw a lot of houses constructured right on the beach in Florida that they seemed just looking for trouble.
KDE for Digital Sovereignty
I quit a hell of a job (in the good sense!) kinda out of nowhere at a point in my career where I was in a great upward trajectory to go on an "indefinite sabbatical" (turned out to be 7 months).

I did not quit to start a company, but the sense of multiple plunges does resonate.

From my perspective:

- It's very hard to detach yourself from stable (and growing) personal finances

- The comparison aspect is always there, you just need to learn to manage it

- The most rewarding bit was re-adjusting my metric of what's sufficient/enough in life

- I was not familiar with that video, but, indeed, I did learn to ask myself "would you rather be doing something else?" and the answer was no

- I learned to dream again

- As soon as I pulled the trigger on the decision I was flooded by a sense of insecurity even if I was really certain of it

I wrote stuff about it at the time but never published it.
I wonder if it’s feasible to keep a drum of this in the garage and spray it yourself around your property and home if a fire is approaching.(obviously actual fire prep like removing flammable material from around your home is better).
It doesn’t work that way.

When a dealer has a floor plan (to finance their inventory), the cars that are being bought by the dealer are collateral and have liens on them.

The lien has to be satisfied (bank paid with interest) to transfer the title to a buyer or to your theoretical “another LLC.”

Just like my car would have to be, for me to get a clear title to sign over to you.

Not everyone uses a floor plan, an unsecured line of credit would be the one situation where what you’re proposing would “work”

Floor plans are one of the reasons there’s only a few (used) dealerships in town I could walk into, plunk down cash, and walk out with a signed title that day. Because they’re transferring the title to themselves, and then to me, using the chain of ownership boxes on the back,and then sending that to dmv.

I didn’t know a lot about this other than the owner at my previous company had attempted to branch into car sales before he passed away. TLDR, we couldn’t even sell or dispose of the cars with good intentions and they all got repossessed.