skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love your work Michael Drogalis, I remember when you made onyx (didn't it start with a different name?) in clojure! I still to this day suck at clojure and never managed to get a job to work with in and I'm stuck doing Ruby, how about that!

Have been following your journey and hope you are successful on it. At least in term of a software developer I'm sure you are best class :-)

Taking the plunge is very difficult, hope you at the end feel like it was really worth it. "Your friends making more than you" isn't a really big deal if you feel that despite this, you are still more satisfied than working in a day job.

I do work in a day job and don't even make that much, but also lack the courage to run my business, as you've seen, even being a great and outstanding software engineer like you still (and smart overall) will still have no assurance of success.

Given that life will eventually end no matter if you have money or not, what matters is living life to the fullest and scratching those itches & desires before we're too old, sick and tired to be able to those things. Just like you did.
I wonder what the commercial licenses actually cost. I know there was a big movement of shooting movies and events with canons when good video on dslrs first became a thing. I never even thought about codec licenses, because that stuff shouldn't exist. the manufacturer should buy the license so the camera can use it forever, because its just a paperweight without it, and I dont think they should be able to sell cameras with hidden text licenses like that.
I always fantasize about leaving this job and creating my own business, even if it is "just" consulting or contracting rather than a project / product.

But it seems super scary and I struggle to find any information on how to even sell stuff. So at the end I just convince myself once more how great I have it with my stable income.
Retire this meme. Google sucks now.
Don't worry, there's no way Dr. T and his techbro 'advisors' are going to do anything other than figure out ways to expand the possibilities of looting and grifting.
BambuLabs removing 3rd party access to its printers
The window tax features prominently in a visual novel video game (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles), which also contains a bunch of wildly outlandish historical nonsense and characters like mad-scientist inventors, teleportation devices, and Sherlock Holmes types. I was blown away to learn the window tax was actually a real thing, not something silly just made up for the game.
This! I've been using Cursor regularly since late 2023. It's all about building up effective resources to tactfully inject into prompts as needed. I'll even give it sample API responses in addition to API docs. Sometimes I'll have it first distill API docs down into a more tangible implementation guide and then save that as a file in the codebase.

I think I'm just a naturally verbose person by default, and I'm starting to think that has been very helpful in me getting a lot out of my use of LLMs and various LLM tools over the past 2+ years.

I treat them like the improv actors they are and always do the up front work to create (with their assistance) the necessary broader context and grounding necessary for them to do their "improv" as accurately as possible.

I honestly don't use them with the immediate assumption I'll save time (although that happens almost all the time), I use them because they help me tame my thoughts and focus my efforts. And that in and of itself saves me time.
I don't believe it would be a dealbreaker, but I don't know, as I am only a US citizen.

I think the level of scrutiny would be much higher if you were a dual citizen with a nation the US perceives as an adversary - i.e. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea.
>>not having evolved emitters.

Like echolocation in bats and dolphins... Excellent point!

In fact, humans do have some echolocation capability [0,1]. That should tell us that LIDAR (or emitter-receiver-range-finder capability) may ultimately always be a core piece of the solution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-does-human-ech...
Sociopaths are rife in the management levels of most companies. They don't see anything wrong in pushing ethical boundaries they don't hold themselves to.
What the fuck? Is it even legal to access personal datas as deep as the ones you might use to tickle others during a divorce?

edit: this applies only to us (i'm european so i can't ask for my data but i am curios about it): you can request to access the data they have about you here https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request

if you click on online form instructions they tell you how to correct infos about you as well
Guy is a serial liar and you are making excuses on his behalf.
"Sources say." That's my favorite source.
Rust also uses LLVM so I don't see why not. Even D has its own C compiler, does Bun too.
It is actually a really cool idea! Why i tried it out however it is not always clear to me which parts are the 'game interface' and which parts are your 'tooltips'. Not sure if this is intentional though

I was also just about to complain that you shared something to Show HN that is behind a subscription - then I realized that was part of the experience!
I think I’d pick Tesla, even if it’s more data, because they have never sold that data or indicated they ever would. Unlike literally every other manufacturer that has and does
I once had an app that used a lot of colored bars with text labels on top of them, and I wanted a programmatic way to determine if a color should use black text or white text because R+G+B over some threshold was not working. I stumbled upon the YIQ color space where Y is the perceived luminance. Under 128 got a white text, over 128 got black text. Worked like a charm.

Y = 0.299 * R + 0.587 * G + 0.114 * B
I have no idea what novice pay is like.

I'd happily tell you what I make personally as an EE with ~15 years experience if you were to contact me privately, but I don't really feel like posting that on the internet.
Cloud Maturity Model v4.9 released
The Open Alliance for Cloud Adoption just recently released version 4.9 of the Cloud Maturity Model (CMM). This update includes a domain on using AI models (traditional and generative) within the enterprise. You can also check out the related podcast (https://oaca-project.org/podcasts/2025/01/16/solutions-for-s...).

As this space is constantly changing we are looking forward to feedback!
It didn't get to the point of testing the thermal protection system.
I addressed your claim that 48-Arabs have "equal rights" when the former Israeli Prime Minister himself doesn't think so and says so openly.

And rich of you to mention "the military rule ... 1966" when you knew nothing about it 2h ago (as evident from your previous reply). Judging from your other replies, you probably don't know a lot, but see yourself fit to engage in Hasbara-like fashion.
Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)
I'm just thinking about 6 to 7 figures software investment and trying to understand how you could do that without several meetings.
> making cheap ethanol poisonous and with different color closes the loophole in healthcare policy

I have never seen this as anything other than the death penalty for evading taxes. If the tax were designed to reduce consumption across the population, it needs to scale with income or net worth. Otherwise, it's just a tax on the poor.
Wipe the EXIF data on the images when you make it public and nobody will be the wiser ;)
Lua's best place is as the language "on top of" another language.

ie. You have a big application that has a configurable feature and you also need that configurable feature to be super flexible since the amount of possible variations on that feature is so large that it's not worth maintaining it in the "main" language. An example could be say, an enemy AI decision script in a turn based RPG. While you can hardcore the decisions into the language itself, it doesn't make it easy to modify (especially if you want to iteratively test it, since each iteration needs a recompilation of the entire program).

That's where LUA shines - instead you just put it in a LUA file and it's dynamically loaded and interpreted when it's needed, allowing you to rapidly modify it without needing to recompile the entire game.

Python is amazing for scripts that are also software in their own right, LUA is amazing for snippets (so a layer smaller than scripts), since on that level, none of it's shortcomings are a problem. The C interop and sandbox also makes it fairly easy to set up a DSL/importable module that runs your "main" language if that's what you need as well.
There is an unlimited amount of potential financial gain from American politics, both in lobbying and campaign financing. It is also widely true that the candidate with the most money spent in a campaign is heavily favored to win the election, with the exception of the presidency which is more contested. Now consider that in the 2020s the richest people now have more money than God.

The short of it is that you can get anyone you want in office, to do anything you want even if it directly opposes their constituency, as long as you spend enough money on them to get them in office, buy their vote, and keep their PR afloat.

Gilens and Page (2014) found that "average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence" on American government policy: https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=e4797592-9d73-4f2b-...

Worth noting that this paper saw pushback for many years after the fact but measurably, its conclusion has been true since its release.
I have a very visceral response to people who say things like "tough choices must be made" when it's notable that they will not be making those tough choices, nor will have those tough choices impact them, and will instead be apparently playing musical homes for the best personal outcome.

Like I'm glad your personal wealth is going to let you skate out of the worst effects of climate change (so you think/for now). That is far from a universal experience and "tough choices need to be made" in this context sounds a hell of a lot like euphemistic language for "a lot of poor people are going to die, at least if they're too poor to afford to rent my spare homes."
Here in the salt belt, our cars rust to the point of being unsafe after about a decade, maybe 15 years if you treat them right. You can't really buy a car much older than that in good shape even if you wanted to. We are soon hitting the point that ALL used cars will have phone-home features unless they are explicitly removed by a sufficiently clueful owner.
JWT Is a Bad Default
Thanks to the success of The Witcher 3, I wouldn't call CDPR an indie dev anymore. I'm sure porting that game wasn't easy, but it had a well resourced studio behind it. Not all games can even make the tradeoffs that were necessary for it to work, though. Factorio, a 2D game, also made by a pretty competent but still indie developer, was ported to the Switch, but its expansion pack Space Age couldn't be.
Ok, fuck it. Today project: Porting my vector and quaternion from Rust to Zig as a learning project.
I can't believe we're still at the stage of pointing fingers at the other side. Democrats, Republicans, the extreme left, the communists, the alt right, the far right, yadda yadda yadda

It's glaringly obvious the entire political spectrum is rotten to the core and it all is an illusion of choice, it's all about power, money, keeping it and if possible making more of it, none of them care about the bottom 90% a week after they get elected, if they did care even a little bit the US would be a completely different country. You still have 10m households getting water from lead pipes lmao, #1 global superpower #1 economy #1 military

We have the choice between eating shit or drinking piss and people decide to make one of these their entire personality, is this how little imagination we have left ?

They're all printing money while we chimp out at whatever bullshit the news, that they control, decide to shit out. https://fortune.com/2025/01/08/congress-stock-trading-pelosi...
The automated FTS is triggered if it leaves a pre-defined corridor (which is wider than the flight plan - substantially so in some places).

The AFTS has independent, hardened, validated inertial measurement systems.
Excellent idea. I would love something like this but for property reviews for renters. Ideally an open source self-hosted platform that communities can use to keep landlords in check. It would be more complicated, of course, due to a number of reasons, but a step forward.
Right, but why use Apple ($800 phone every 2-4 years) compared to say, an automaker ($40k in depreciation over 10 years) or a REIT ($2000 in rent every month)? Moreover, why focus on absolute profits? If the healthcare industry split into 3 (eg. doctors, dental, drugs) but with the same margins, does that mean they're suddenly not "too profitable"?
IMHO the main difference where you need to "think different" compared to lower level languages like C or higher level languages like C++ and Rust is memory management. The entire Zig stdlib expects allocators to be provided by the caller and there's a handful of specialized allocators in the stdlib to pick from. This opens up a lot of flexibility for explicit memory management, but to take real advantage of this new freedom requires some experimentation and unlearning when coming from most other languages.
I know nothing about the case but isn't that a little like saying "look, we weren't lying, cause we never said we were saying the truth"?
Fair. I think that was for HLS rather than the launch systems, but I guess if it’s already been disbursed, it’s probably all commingled.

But that still means it’s not just taxpayer money, it’s mostly theirs. They’ve been raising equity rounds this whole time.
Greenland's melting ice is clearing the way for a mineral 'gold rush'
There's the strange phenomenon that people like to say "bright red" as much as it is an oxymoron.

#ff0000 is, in terms of brightness, pretty dark compared to #ffffff yet there is a way it seems to "pop out" psychology. It is unusual for something red to really be the brightest color in a natural scene unless the red is something self-luminous like an LED in a dark night.
LexisNexis owns an app now being rolled out widely by homeowners insurers, named Flyreel. These insurers require its use, and it basically is 4K footage of your property and home interior. I needed to do this due to our insurer leaving the East Coast, it was incredibly invasive and I am still mad about it.

Talk about stalkers paradise!

> advanced property survey solution that provides a breadth of actionable data from the ground, the interior and the sky, then applies AI-driven insights to help U.S. insurance carriers identify, retain and acquire profitable risks – all without having to send someone on site for a physical property inspection.

https://risk.lexisnexis.com/products/flyreel
Could you list some? (This isn't the usual snarky HN "source?" question. I suspect you know more than I do and I'm also curious about Zig!)
Show HN: E2E Testing Platform Lila
Lila is an e2e testing platform allowing anyone in your team to implement tests using plain text instructions.
The one translated by O’Connor and Burgin? That's a good translation.
- "The first Long March 5 is classed as a full success on Wikipedia, I couldn't find info there about a failure (the second one did blow up)."

The Wikipedia entry describes it as "suboptimal but workable initial orbit", which I interpret as a partial failure (coming from a military entity that's universally opaque about its failings). They're not inclined for language like "partial failure" that we get out of transparent countries—contrast that first Delta IV-H, which also reached a "workable" orbit—just not the intended one.

- "However it was later found that nothing at all was wrong with the vehicle, it was a failure in the ground software, and an identical vehicle successfully carried out its mission 7 months later."

Also true of the Ariane 5 explosion: that was a software bug (unhandled integer overflow) in the flight control unit. The important part isn't whether it's hardware or software, but whether they got it right or not, before launch.
AppleTV has a seeing to do this if you’re using one of those.
Not apples comparison imho. Flutter requires using a new fringe language and while it might be a very nice language it's a heavy lift in most businesses contexts to march off into a new language just to use a mobile framework.

So, the main reason for Expo (there are others) is: get to write in the language most developers already know.
I think the "frontend engineering problem" they are talking about is actually the "React engineering problem". All the examples seem to be entirely about react and only react.

I'm pretty happy with modern angular for big apps with big teams working on it, and just vanilla JavaScript for smaller simple things.

I've tried lit etc al for components but honestly beyond the pure atomics (buttons etc) there is very little that ever gets reused between projects
Ford does have explicit settings to disable all connectivity. If it turns out they're lying, there is a massive class action in their future.
I'm all for this, lol.
I don't fully understand your response, sorry.

Property I'm talking about means your ownership of physical objects, or virtual equivalents (ownership of a legal entity like a private company or your shares in a public company). Any conversation I've ever had about those things with lawyers, usually talking about estate planning etc, has been something along the lines that it has the same protections as physical property that you own.

Nobody can just take it from you (eminent domain being the exception for physical property, but has a high bar).

When Ma Bell was broken up (not sure about Standard Oil), I assure you that the shareholders would've gotten the shares transferred to the new smaller bells.

So what is the precedent for the idea of taking Wordpress away from its legal owner? I'm asking a legal question, not taking sides in this. For the record, Mullenweg seems absolutely unhinged.

But we've seen things like forks happen, but nobody can take Wordpress itself away from Matt against his will. It's not a publicly owned company where we could potentially be fired by the board.
>I had no idea how important the status was to me until I was just a guy, at home, that no one needed.

Interesting, considering that every company goes to great lengths to let everyone know they are easily replaceable and not needed.
Haha I remember the Xoom. Company bought one at the time to test our product on, since it might be a big deal. Several of us were intrigued and negotiated who would get to take it home after work. After about 3 days it became clear that it was terrible and it was relegated to a drawer.
Murdering people is not pro anything.

The answer was already given: it was politically infeasible to pass a single payer variant in the US. And it’s not clear it would have been good even if it had been feasible.
There’s not much rubble for a house made of wood!
Twin peaks is incredible and Agent Cooper is a kind of a role model haha, never seen any other character like him
Aggressive first mover abuse of the truth is fine, but in defense one must be polite.
You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?
I assume they chose it exactly because GM makes cars. El Reg likes being clever even to the detriment of clarity.
Ms. Tippi Hedren – The Godmother of the Vietnamese Nail Industry
I would consider these launches test launches. Production is when they include commercial payloads and humans.
Yes, insulation works both ways. My garage is unheated and insulated. If I go out there to work on something in the winter I always compare the temperature outside. On a sunny day it might be pleasant outside and freezing in my garage - so I'll open the door and let it warm up.

Insulation makes the house more resistance to temperature change (relative to the inside and outside).

One thing people forget is the delta is very different in the summer and winter. Lets say your thermostat is on 70 year round. If it is 100 degrees out you only have to cool 30 degrees. When it is 0 F out you have a delta of 70 degrees. So for this scenario, expect to use more energy in the winter.
After shutting down several popular emulators Nintendo admits emulation is legal
So be it, but the topic is explicitly about "professional coders". Not "engineer", not "software professional". It is literally stated in the title of the original link.

A coder and an engineer are not necessarily the same person. It has become more common to see people do both jobs, but in history it was unusual for the engineers and coders to be the same person, and the idea is that we're going back to that model – except this time the coder will be a machine instead of another human.
These wildfires produce surprisingly few deaths.

Did you know the most destructive wildfire in California history, the 2018 Camp Fire, destroyed 19,000 buildings but only caused 85 deaths? [1]

[1] https://oehha.ca.gov/sites/default/files/media/downloads/cli...
Yep. It's fairly trivial to prompt an LLM to say "I don't know" when it doesn't know something.
First-Day Trump Order: A Federal Stockpile of Bitcoin?
A good question.

The whole domain of interpersonal relations at scale is vastly understudied.
Less than Soyuz charged them. Soyuz was a very cheap platform to the Russians, but they also understood when they had their customers over a barrel.
they tell they need its use, but they do not tell about not having visuals obstructed by a black tape /s
Apollo program was a major achievement, probably the largest in the history of humanity as of yet. But SpaceX definitely should get a credit for "breaking things", or for running agile dev cycle with hardware ("hardware heavy"). Let's just strap engines to a fuel tank and try to fly it. Let's just build a body by welding steel plates together and see what happens. Let's just launch this thing to 20 miles and see if we can make it aerobrake and land it with the engines. Iterate by learning and constantly improving. Nobody done it at that scale as of yet.

(Which of course is only possible if you have the Founding Father with a few billion $$ just laying around)
You think China is harmless? Go tell that to Tibet, India, or Taiwan.
Yes, but that requires extra hardware.

I wish Nikon would just include useful features like USB webcam mode out of the box.
I resent that accusation. We should have a Zoom call on two Canon webcams to hash this out.
> If it takes them 100 times the average crawl time to crawl my site, that is an opportunity cost to them.

If it takes 100 times the average crawl time per page on your site, which is one of many tens (hundreds?) of thousand sites, many of which may be bigger, unless they are doing one site at a time, so your site causes a full queue stall, such efforts likely amount to no more than statistical noise.
hes the ceo of a company that provides an api for google
Shopify runs a heavily sharded MySQL backend. Their Shop app uses Vitess; last I knew the main Shopify backend wasn’t on Vitess (still sharded, just in-house), but I could be wrong.

I would be very surprised if “almost every query” was hitting disk, and I’d be even more surprised to learn that they used spinners.
This can be done in software, eg https://askubuntu.com/questions/31580/is-there-a-way-of-leve... for linux.

I guess that you're asking for hardware because the source device is not under your control. In theory you could use any device with a line in to process the audio. However for watching movies that may be suboptimal as any significant delay would cause lipsync issues. That's probably something you need to check for in any solution.
It needs to be opt-in, not opt-out. Opt-out assumes consumer knowledge of the option, which has been repeatedly proven an unrealistic expectation.