skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad to see you renamed to forms from blocks :) I am not saying that your work is bad but even if your work is bad you can make money hand over fist so questions of "good" or "bad" are immaterial[1].

As a solo developer walking a well-worn path you're in a fortunate position. You can poach customers from competitors and differentiate based on customer's having direct engagement with you, the founder, and price, because you don't have expensive developers to pay.

Identify a single use-case that your software is good for today, and then spend some time identifying prospective customers based on companies using your competitors for that use-case, then reach out and undercut your competitors based on your values. A competitor's case study / customer stories page is the classic poachers first port of call.

Persistence will pay off. Most of your outreach will fail, most of your ideas will fall flat, most of what you think matters won't matter and most of what you think doesn't matter will matter. That's okay.

Anything can be made into a company. Can you make this into a company? Nobody really knows until you've tried, but the idea has potential and you have the necessary skills to pull it off so there's no reason it shouldn't be possible.

The biggest difference between developers who write software and founders of software companies is a focus on customers. If you're struggling to see a clear path forward, it's a sign that you are probably spending too much time writing code and not enough time thinking about / talking to customers. You'll know you're doing enough business things when you start to feel like you're letting the software slip.

[1] I think it's great but that would undercut my point that it doesn't matter
I mean, no it is not difficult, look at French school menus. You just have to not have the bad options on stock.

Kids eat better in a lower-middle-class area preschool in France than they do in the most expensive daycare in the Bay Area.
I thought it pretty clear. If it makes you money, you pay for it. And it's so inexpensive, I've never bothered to negotiate with my employer to fund it as I could easy pay it myself.

So now I am less incentiviced to pay and I have no path forward to negotiate with my employer to front money.

Regardless, I love the tool and your general approach, trying to keep things in publics hand (e.g. publishing and opening the canvas format) - so probably will still pay for it :D

I prefer using my own syncing though, as otherwise it's too expensive for "just syncing".
Ubershader actually has three different opposite meanings, unfortunately.

The classic usage is a single source shader which is specialized using #define's and compiled down to hundreds of shaders. This is what Christer uses in that blog post above (and Aras does as well in his ubershader blog post)

Dolphin used it to mean a single source shader that used runtime branches to cover all the bases as a fallback while a specialized shader was compiled behind the scenes.

The even more modern usage now is a single source shader that only uses runtime branches to cover all the features, without any specialization behind the scenes, and that's what Dario means here.
> Your wife may one day want a chicken to live inside the house. You may one day agree to this, and then miss it when the chicken is living outside the house again

Whenever someone mentions how unique you can be with language and come up with amazing unique sentences never uttered by anyone before...I shall think of this
This is the real answer. However to gauge competence you must first have it. The fact that most people don't is why we are in this position in the first place.
Yes it's this one.
The law is not about regulating property that is “close enough” it is about regulating interstate travel. Congestion pricing does not include the roads that would charge for interstate travel, only the roads within the city. Furthermore if the Potus wants revocation power of approvals then congress should grant the Potus that power. You don’t get to just make up powers that aren’t written down. That’s why the courts will stop this stupid meaningless revocation via memo.
I worked at a pro audio company where one guy spent 5 years on a power supply. It succeeded, and I always appreciated the management for supporting him.
The thing in the video moves slower than the sloth in Zootopia. If you die by that robot, you probably deserve it.
I don’t think the language is necessarily chosen for the project. I think C# is just a main stream language that a lot of people know.
I'm framing these specific DOGE initiatives where they're firing people at random as reckless. Because they are and there are real human costs that are just being glazed over.

I 1,000% agree that in general, we should reduce bureaucracy and minimize the steps people need to take / the approvals required and make things as streamlined as possible. But if those things are small fires, having the current Republican majority with DOGE in support is asking arsonists to put them out. Often you need substantial upfront investment to fix e.g. the social security infrastructure - but when one party is opposed to all government spending, the infra will never be improved and the proposed fixes are to fire a bunch of employees that are maintaining the current system to save costs.
I would not fire staff responsible for safeguarding nuclear material, and I wouldn't be trying to avoid transparency.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-14/elon-m...
In the first paragraph of the article there's a link to the relevant WHATWG issue[0] (they could have used better link text though; of all people Google employees should be cognizant of link accessibility).

[0]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9799
I think it depends entirely on what the military does. People seem to think the military will just fall in line with the president. I think a military coup is far more likely than that.
> Please find me a clip where Trump supported Project 2025, I'll wait.

So someone can only be accused of supporting something if it is caught on video?
One of Trump's executive orders has shut down enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This government is absolutely not trying to root out corruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
You should consider licensing the core project more restrictively with something like a FSL. Regardless, there may be more of a market in selling "pro" licenses to plugins for projects like WordPress, Shopify, Payload, Craft CMS, etc that include integrations with 3rd party services.
But baking soda is basic while HCl would be acidic?
What gives you that confidence? I know that I wouldn’t trust 19-year-old me anywhere near a mature, nation-scale system that lives depend on.
You really need to define "good" in this sentence. How can nature move beyond nature?
That is so incredibly dumb. I can get it in a tweet, but please, please, please properly capitalize in anything longer than a few words!
I use PDFBox. There are some FOSS layout libraries you probably want to add one or more of, depending on your needs.

It's disgustingly fast and capable. In one project we crunched out 150k PDF documents in less than forty minutes from roughly 6 GB input data, on a mid laptop, including a fair bit of other file types related to those documents.

Fairly low level but not hard to get started with. You might have to wrap it in a module yourself if you're using those.
It’s worse than that. They’re going to give themselves $4T in tax cuts for the 1%, cut Medicaid for $800 billion, and claim DOGE will make up the balance, even though it won’t make a dent.

The debt will go up $3T, the savings will never come (again), poor people will lose healthcare, and when people wisen up, Republicans will revert to talking about how Democrats just want to “tax and spend”.
And frankly, that's an entirely reasonable result for having invested in Bitcoin at any number of times, which was also by all reasonable measures a bad idea. I think even people who support the existence and value of crypto would agree that Bitcoin winners are most like stock-lottery winners than particularly savvy investors.

Crypto is great for scams even beyond it's infrastructural advantages because a lot of people made a ton of money from investing money they couldn't afford to lose in things that were pretty indistinguishable from the actual scams.
Whenever I see "follow the law", my first reaction is always: Is the law fair and just? I'm merely posing the question. If you find the law to be fair and just, then for sure everyone should and probably will follow the law.
We put the redundant roosters in the woods, let nature do the killing for us. They didn't last one night.
Social Darwinistic systems are inherently unstable. People eventually get tired of corruption and being abused.
But you shouldn't do some stuff you can't do properly at all, not quickly and not slowly. As a layman, you can't sign a contract in a language you don't speak, even if you have a whole year, unless you can become more-than-fluent in that language in a single year. That's just not something you should do, and the AI isn't reliable enough to help you with it. That's what a legal department is for.
That's the case being made, yes. It's not supported by the mistakes reported, at least yet.
I don't see a monopolistic hold on the media from Amazon that would justify this. Anyone can produce content and put it out there. I agree they're not a good steward and they pretty much ruin franchises, but their right to do it is just that. Now if there is evidence that they're taking a substantial amount of business away from everyone else and you can prove they have a controlling hold on it, i'm with you on breaking it up.
To be clear: no biotech VC ever invested in Theranos. The people who are actually “savvy” in that industry (everyone) stayed clear because even cursory due diligence revealed the core problem with the science.

That’s what separates competent people from rubes and tech VCs. A bit of due diligence.
It's common for stray passwords or authentication tokens to be found in data dumps of i.e. someone's email, dropbox, or whatnot. So getting read only access to all the data in a given agency means you probably have access to a trove of stray passwords and authentication tokens that can be used to pivot into write access there or somewhere else.

As a concrete example, if you have read-only access to someone's email inbox that's enough to steal most of their accounts on other services since you can request a password reset link and then click on it.
AI Agents Need an Access Control Overhaul – PydanticAI Is Making It Happen
The goal is to reduce government spending by $2 Trillion in 4 years. If you want to see how this is going: https://polymarket.com/doge
That is indeed absurd, and I would argue a clear regulatory failure. Thank you for the example though. That is pretty wild.

Still, there's a decent chance I'd personally choose to pay that premium for the comfort afforded by train travel while nonetheless being disgusted by the broader situation.
According to the article, he first sent the money to Kraken to presumably purchase cryptocurrency there and was later convinced to move the cryptocurrency to a different Hong Kong based platform. The supposed platform in Hong Kong may have just been a front though.
Instead of looking at your high quality software as an "asset to monetize", I would recommend thinking of it as a "way to introduce your high quality skills to attract high quality customers that are more than willing to pay for your time".

This allows you to get money for customizing the software for specific applications, but still build up a valuable asset over time (instead of just being a T&M slave).
This is a very early/basic implementation by looking at the limitations:

- File system editing is not yet supported (planned for future updates).

- Files larger than 4MB are not supported at this time.

- Referencing buckets in different regions fails.

- Only up to 1000 files can be displayed in a single directory
Taxes on luxury goods typically aren't expected to significantly reduce their consumption, because they're purchased by price-insensitive wealthy people. But the congestion pricing seems to be deterring use, and indeed is explicitly intended to, so who are these price-sensitive people being subject to the tax?
My goodness! I’d make a special trip. I don’t suppose you’d be willing to blow the cover of their anonymity…
This is what courts and process and testimony are for. Doing this reliably in the face of bad actors with minimal stepping-on-fingers is a solved problem.

Unless you don't actually care about the truth and want to send a convenient lie twice around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Then you should act like Elon is acting.
Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android
+1. It is also possible for tech savvy people to fall for regular scams (automated text in the middle of the night from your bank etc..).

It is 2025 - still banks can't do everything through their apps. To Fintech: Stop SMS based OTP , have better apps. You no longer have the excuse that you can't hire engineers.
They said 1.5 tokens/second. 1 mil tokens is 667k seconds is 185 hours per million tokens. 1kW * 185hr * $0.45/kWh = $80 per million tokens. Again, assuming 1kW, which may be high (or low). The cost of the physical computation is electricity cost.
Nepal Took a Risk on a $500M U.S. Grant. It May Now Regret It
Show HN: Libretto – novel approach to concurrency and stream processing
Libretto is a declarative concurrency and stream processing library for Scala. Libretto adopts a highly concurrent programming model based on the principles of locality and linearity. Libretto programs are strongly typed with interaction interfaces represented via session types.

Being concurrent by design, it achieves seamless automatic concurrency restricted only by natural causal dependencies. Libretto programs are maximally concurrent by default; forcing sequentiality requires introducing explicit causal dependencies.

The principle of locality manifests itself in that interactions within Libretto programs are explicitly reflected in type signatures and can only occur with the immediate surroundings, i.e. there is no action at a distance such as through callbacks, indirection, resource capture, or side effects.

The principle of linearity states that each resource (value) in a Libretto program must be consumed exactly once. (This is inspired by the linear logic, wich is adopted by Libretto with a twist of interpreting the multiplicative conjunction in a concurrent fashion.) Linear resources in a type-safe program cannot be implicitly cloned or dropped, though some types can be marked as safe for duplication.

Libretto programs are interpreted as pure values, i.e. as computation descriptions/blueprints. Expressed in Scala code, a Libretto program first gets assembled into a description/blueprint of the program (in a form of an abstract syntax tree), which is then can be executed by an interpreter (which, in principle, can be a code generator).
Did Microsoft ever sell directly? They had Microsoft Reader but I thought all the stores were third-party.

However, Amazon did at one point in time sell ebooks in multiple formats pre-Kindle, one of which was Microsoft Reader. (I assume the others were PDF and Mobipocket.) So they have form for closing up shop and killing access to purchases like this.
It's called a "house cleaner" and they only cost ~$150 (area and all varies) bi-weekly. I'll shit a brick (and then have the robot clean it up) if a robot is ever cheaper than ~$4000/yr.
This is a word salad.
....what happened with your capslock?

Again, do you think the head of USAID could have just told the head of CIA "no we're not doing this"?

What makes you think they were informed at all? That's kind of the entire MO of CIA - they don't inform other agencies what they are doing when it concerns national security, they just go and do it.
It's a bit early for browser support given that it's not usable in Chrome. A better place to look for information about the status is probably here:

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5737365999976448
Came here to say this. The CIA's jazz emissaries eventual revolted. This came up on today's Thom Hartmann program.
Man, the nursing homes in the 90s germany, where dement SS-soldiers goto attack polish nurses and victims of the russian liberation ran from any nurse with the accent. Sometimes drugs are the only thing keeping a institution working.
DOGE is actually the USDS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service
These dogmatic vegans aren't born that way - they're created by a completely unethical farming environment and detachment from farm life as /u/partition mentioned.

As I grow up I am beginning to realize just how many "bad personalities" and "horrible life choices" are really just driven by a poor environment - and that speaks more of our society and governance than the individuals.
This is a common belief in the US, and it has one obvious weakness: what if most of the people with guns are happy about an authoritarian government, since they feel like they are the "in-group", and they hate the "out-group" anyway?

I mean, the erosion of civil rights in the US has gone on for some time, and the argument that guns would prevent it is constantly proved wrong. As long as there's lip service to free speech, and more importantly, the right to bear arms, it seems that all other rights can be trampled on with impunity.
Are they going to look into X/Twitter banning far right influencers like Laura Loomer?

I’m curious if this all ends in a vaguely misguided ending of Section 230.
You must not cook for yourself much and have no children.

You can blow through a dozen eggs in a single day or even in one or two recipes.
What do you know about the deliberations and discussions went into these laws.

> because once you label someone who disagrees with you as a Nazi you are free to censor them,

Show examples of it.
> You should not need to protect yourself from being scammed.

Under the current administration, you need to protect yourself far more than before.

- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is gone.

- The Justice Department will focus on "violent crime", even though that's mostly the job of local law enforcement and the FBI doesn't handle 911 calls. In terms of dollars, white collar crime is far bigger than violent crime. (Burglary in the US is way down, about a fifth of what it was in 1990.)

- The administration plan is to move crypto enforcement from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Heavy payoffs by the crypto industry have enabled this. [1]

It's called "deregulation", suckers. Open season on Americans.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/technology/crypto-industr...
He has to be a James
So websites "look better in Chrome", that's what Google wants.. but it's ultimately not good for us, so I hope developers don't fall for this..
Just about a Fabrice Bellard level of competence there
What if it is? We transcend nature and evolution because of our culture and foresight.

We are the ultimate result of 4 billion years of evolution. Nature has made itself redundant in some ways.

Actually, transcend is the wrong word we are still a part of nature of course but we can literally leave the planet and have the ability to irradiate this globe to erase most macroscopic life.

We are an outside context problem as an Iain Banks Ship Mind would say.

It’s a huge responsibility and opportunity that we will almost certainly squander.
> The things he is saying and doing are not a joke, and should not be treated as one

"When somebody shows you who they are, believe them" -- Maya Angelou.

The country did get the best look at what His Majesty was and is: among other things, at the insurrection party, and when he told his subjects to drink bleach. But nah, the price of eggs was more important.

Democracy dies not just in darkness. It also dies by the sheer stupidity of the demos.
Are egg prices soaring? Where?
I understand why some people vote for some parties and why they’re “voting on inflation” or “right to abortion” but I guess, for me, keeping checks and balances and democracy is the one value above ALL for me.

In the span of human history, not a lot of countries and civilizations have lasted long, marked by constant instability and uncertainty for the future. We have a boring and imperfect political system created by our founding fathers but at least it’s been stable for nearly 250 years. A lot of people have tried standing up their own political system… most fail and everyone suffers. Even the founding fathers completely failed once first.

I know times are tough now but, in the context of history, they can be much worse and I rather not lose what good we currently do have.
I will echo the sentiment of some other commenters - you have to decide who you're selling to, and flesh out the product more to suit that customer.

If you're selling to non-developers? They don't know what npm is. They don't know how the Web works. They will need you to provide them with a one-click solution. Typeform (the product you stated you're competing with) has a visual editor and provides hosting. It's a one-stop shop.

On the other hand, if you're selling to developers - nobody's gonna want to pay for just a form library. A frontend developer can build a form in 10 minutes. Open-source has taken over so much that, nowadays the only money in selling software to developers is in editing tools (like IDE's, AI tools, etc.) or cloud-based solutions. If you're just selling the software itself with no cloud hosting, it's gotta be something really useful and really complex, like a database or an operating system.

I think things like form builders do get somewhat close to the "solutions architect" market. That is, you may be able to sell a version of your software to people who build websites for other people. Take a look at sites like themeforest.net. Creating themes and plugins for content management systems (like wordpress, squarespace, weebly etc.) and selling them to freelancers can earn decent money.
A major floodplain in Michigan has a similar problem with dioxin contamination.

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Fold...
It was, but it was made worse by DX12/Vulkan. Previously shader stages were separate and fixed pipeline settings were loose bag of knobs. If that corresponded to hardware stages, great, everybody was happy! However, if there was mismatch between API and hardware (for example, some fixed pipeline state wasn't really hardware state but lowered to shader code) then driver needed to hack around it. If that could be done by patching the shader, it was ugly, but it worked fine. But if it required recompilation, then stutters occurred and it couldn't be prevented by application because it was all hidden from it. The solution was thought to encapsulate everything in pipeline state objects. If you could do that, excellent, no stutters no matter on what hardware it runs. It has issues however: in reality applications (especially emulators) don't always know beforehand which states they will need, previous ugly driver tricks that sometimes could have avoided recompilation by patching shaders are no longer possible, and even if the hardware does have easily switchable state API doesn't expose that leading to combinatorial explosion of state objects that was previously unnecessary. Some of that was rolled back by introducing API extensions that allow more granular switches of partial state.
Since the President’s power ultimately relies on others compliance, what if a bunch of very high ranking officials in the military simply decide they’re going to ignore the President? No more power.

At the end of the day, there is no true forcing function that forces people to comply if they don’t want to. It can all come crumbling down. Trump is playing a dangerous game.
Most billionaires do.

Coincidence?
Whatchyu need my email for?
Ramanujan is another great example of divine inspiration.