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Ask HN: How do I turn my love for programming into independent source of money?
I have a couple of decades of experience in corporate tech from small startups (founding engineer) to huge corporations. Maybe it's my bad luck, maybe something else, but I grew resentful of the tech industry.

I simply don't like working in teams, with other people, performing corporate rituals. It feels like a wasted potential, with most companies barely caring about their users or employees.

I do, however, enjoy programming. But I can't seem to find a way to escape the salaried job and create my own business. I've read about solopreneurs who made a SaaS or two, and now have an ARR of an average software engineering salary, while being location, and time independent. Sure, I believe they face other challenges, but I will be happy to tackle these challenges if I get location, and time independence.

I have tried to start my own businesses, both educational in a form of content, but also SaaS. None of them make any significant money that would allow me to quit my salaried job.

Is this even possible, or it's just a myth?
> Fiber comes in two varieties, single mode and multi-mode. I don't know enough to know if you should make a point of running both[…]

Let me fill this in: in 2025 you (and everybody else) should be running SMF. If you need to directly connect to existing MMF you should run that additionally. But do not build MMF-only in 2025. It's akin to installing Cat5 (non-E) or even Cat3. And you pay mostly for the work, not the cable. Do yourself a favour and put SMF in.
For now most of the focus has been on the slow encodes, but in theory it can match h264 for speed and quality on encoding. In practice I've seen it get very close already.
No need for any of this if you use D!
>>Native apps can do literally anything

like hack your banking account or steal your password...
>and acting like people doing important work should have just ignored the bug.

No, I am acting like the average consumer could have ignored the bug. There wasn't a need to do a mass recall of every chip as the chip would still be fine for most users. Yes, there was a recall for people who needed it to work correctly, but in practice not everyone needs it.
There are pest control companies that will fog your property which supposedly reduces the mosquito population. I'm skeptical though that me paying for the service will make a difference unless all of my neighbors do as well.

I can't find it now, but I remember reading about a person that used a box fan, some type of mesh fabric, and dry ice to create an insect trap that was apparently catching pounds of bugs every week.
> Of course, they could have been lying at that point, in order to gain interest I suppose , but they were pretty outspoken about that idea at least in the beginning.

We're talking about Sam Altman here. Of course he was lying from the beginning, just as he's lying to his investors now about the future of his company. I think most of us are just confused why the world seems to have perpetual amnesia when it comes to Sam Altman—he can do and say whatever he wants to get ahead and a year later people are still taking him at his word.
You need a farm of machines that run the actual mail clients, to do that reliably. https://www.emailonacid.com/ is such a service.
I recall using your product years ago and it was fantastic. It helped me work solo on a web app with ease. Not having CSS and JS skills like a lot of front end devs, it was nice knowing all viewports were handled.
I'd also suggest https://greppr.org

(Disclaimer: I built it).
I guess I prefer working with rockets. But again I never had the experience so I could be wrong. I'd like a chance :)
Around 2014 when I was doing full-time business development I got a Playstation Vita and became a real JPRG addict and GameFAQs was my wingman.

By 2020 or so it had been displaced by video walkthroughs on YouTube and today I would not expect a new game to have a good walkthrough (almost bought Visions of Mana on sale last weekend, turns out it has a text walkthrough but it isn't comprehensive like the old ones.)

Generally I don't like video walkthroughs, I mean who wants to scroll to the right point in 40 hours worth of videos for a 40 hour game? (There was one case in Megadimension Neptunia VII where I just couldn't figure out how to get through a certain world, turned out there was a place where it was possible to make a jump but it wasn't obvious to me that it was possible and the video made it clear.)
Your last sentence disproves the first.
I guess that when people usually talk about paid browsers, they talk about separate web engines not chromium forks. If this will help with the battle against Google's dominance.
Umm, yes? Not sure about the rest of Europe, but here in Czechia most of merchants have a direct payment method based on QR code.

Basically: 1) you select your bank at the checkout; 2) you're redirected to the bank's payment page with a QR code; 3) you scan the code from your banking app and confirm it; 4) the bank redirects back the merchants page with the payment status confirmed/declined. No payment processor involved and the money goes straight from your account to merchant's account.
Probably? Though I don't think those kinds of controls are exposed in most of the players I use (usually set-top box video players). Besides, if I'm dealing with a 20 to 80GB 4k copy of something that originally had grain, I prefer it still be present—if I'm dedicating that kind of space, the point is fidelity. If I'm dealing with something smaller than about 8GB 1080p, I probably don't really care what it looks like aside from preferably not having obvious artifacting, so I guess AV1 would be OK in that case, though all else being equal I'll still pick h265 just to avoid the fake-grain concern entirely.
> Musk is not a fascist.

He is an active, high-level, participant (formally an adivsor, clearly practically exercising directive influence) in a fascist, kleptocratic regime. There may be some definition of personally being a fascist where this is consistent with him not being a fascist, but I would suggest that any such definition is inconsistent with what the bast majority of people you might speak to mean by “being a fascist”.

> Fascists don't follow neoclassical economics.

Neoclassical economics, like Newtonian mechanics, is an approximate descriptive model, not a normative system; to the degree that it is accurate, everyone follows it, regardless of ideology.
Oh no! How will they pay their CEO an outrageous salary, or have feminist AI conferences?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_pr...

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozfest-house-zambia-...
something something stochastic parrot
The DOM seems fair to call a networked document reader. You've suggested a different build target for what would have been native apps - I think you and OP meet in the middle a bit; you get the power of non-html app development. OP laments the overhead of having to shove that into the existing web model designed for documents; you appreciate the sandboxing.

I think you have similar opinions that mostly overlap, regardless of insults about statements being silly.
In 3 to 5 years once AI is doing most of our tech jobs, we may look back on this comment as someone with laser vision
There are modular jacks that can expose 6 or 8 different connectors on one outlet. I just figured the hotel ones were a slightly more sophisticated version of that.
I brought it to the hn frontpage again. Is this worth getting some free month? ;-)
Yes, they have been observed in the same rigor as any number you claim has been observed. If you’d spend a moment and read instead of repeated willful ignorance, you’d learn something.

Now go do your homework. Attaching idiot phrases like complex apples is as stupid as claiming we don’t see radio waves so they can’t exist or that matter cannot be mostly empty space because you can stack books.

Your limited imagination, understanding, and unwillingness to learn, even when given a source and phrases to look into, doesn’t apply to those scientists that have done the work.
Can that library be rebuilt in a reproducible manner? If so, what's the difference between the library hosted by Cisco and a locally built one that is identical bit-for-bit? Is there any mechanism to ensure that the library was genuinely downloaded from Cisco rather than procured through alternative channels? If the Cisco server is turned off tomorrow, how can one tell if a copy of the library wasn't downloaded from the Cisco server while it was available?

I'm most likely missing a lot of crucial context, but it appears to me that this peculiar licensing scheme was a compromise made between lawyers that makes little practical sense on a technical level. That, or I'm far too chaotic for such nonsense.
Here's a comment from the creator with a host of things that are mostly not available in Chrome:

There's a huge list of things Polypane emulates beyond the screen size.

For devices:

- user agent
- reported platform
- device pixel ratio
- rendering mode (mobile rendering and desktop rendering respond differently depending on your viewport meta tag)
- default input device
- orientation APIs

Beyond that it can also emulate reading direction, page language, browser locale, user-configured default font-size, different network settings and a whole range of different media queries like color-scheme, reduced-motion reduced-data, reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, forced-colors (windows high contrast mode) and color gamut. I'll be adding even more device browser-specific emulations later this year.
Great lib... now is there a Go-native way to generate vectors from text?
> the Freedesktop servers

Think they just moved to Hetzner.
Can open-webui update code on your local computer ala cursor etc?
One of my all-time favorite essays is by the same author: "The Shape of Rome" —

https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsyJX3sESjs
Many countries in latin america still subsidize gasoline, so EVs just aren't as viable here compared to e.g. Europe where gas is taxed significantly.

(anecdotally, Chinese cars are pretty popular here in Ecuador, but they're fossil fuel cars, not EVs)
I agree with you. However, Inflation is resultant, not a fundamental thing that moves the pointer. Current, the Inflation scenario all over the world is because of Covid related quantitative easing.

Problem is, quantitative easing as the instrument is misunderstood by politicians. It creates/accelerates further debt burden on future generations. And, that just accelerated this debt trap for many nations.

The Demography dividend is already eroding fast. Natural Resources are already limited. So, Innovation is the only way out for nations. AI is a driver for that.

May be, we will see new world order in this lifetime only.
The web is just a convention that gained rapid adoption so now browsers dominate software. As far as conventions go, it is not bad compared to some of the stuff humans have landed on. Better than paving over everything so we can drive and park cars all over, better than everything being single use and disposable. Web has it's ups and downs but it is decent based on our track record.
10G media converters are available for < $50 USD, but TBH I've never used one.
SR is for when you accidentally installed MMF really.

Except, no, you can run (single lambda, not muxed) LR transceivers on MMF, it's out if spec but you actually get around +20% range before hitting dispersion limits.

I'll also note SR ranges are not in fact long enough for larger buildings. And this gets worse with higher speeds, since modal dispersion is a bandwidth problem, not attenuation.

Also, using 800G for comparison is a bit ludicrous ;). 10G is bread&butter, 25G/100G is mainline. (40G is the shunned weirdo uncle.)
Risk of Becoming Allergic to Meat After a Tick Bite May Be Higher Than Thought
Is it just me, or is this "paths to victory" metaphor for presidential elections commonly used by US media a pretty strange way to "narrate" an election outcome, all things considered?

The outcome is effectively fixed, although unknown, once the last polling stations close, so what's with all the evocations of physical phenomena ("blue wall", "battleground states" etc.) when everything that's still happening is a gradual discovery of a completely determined outcome?
despite the extra boilerplate, I feel like it's still better to undef the macros in the same scope they were defined in, so that they clearly delimit the code in which the macro is active.
Even if all individuals are properly cleared and have a need to know, Signal is not an authorized method of communication for work-related materials.
From my own (limited) exploration with them, that's how I use them too. As a way to summarise basics and accelerate my progress with new technologies.

I don't need anything esoteric here, I just need a source for the essentials that isn't SEO spam and doesn't assume I'm an absolute moron.
I was responding to someone who made a joke about an obvious mispricing by the govt as being due to deregulation when it’s really the opposite.

As far as who owns the water, well for mineral water sources, I’d say the citizens do, and the best way to handle that is probably still to charge Amazon the same amount and then use the proceeds as tax revenue for the general welfare so the people don’t have to be so poor in the first place.
Maybe they shouldn't have been so quick to bend the knee with their $1 million inauguration bribes. Everything Trump is doing was 100% predictable.
There is a lot of data to support this, most of it showing 20-50% efficiency gains. For a multi-trillion dollar industry that equates to potentially over a trillion dollars in efficiency in a single year.

https://github.blog/news-insights/research/research-quantify...

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/copilot-developer-product...

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-i...

https://intuitive.cloud/blog/delve-into-the-depths-of-amazon...

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-013_d9b45b68-...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.17125

This isn't slowing down either, if anything its accelerating with reasoning models. Which means it likely under-valued actually. Lets not forget those numbers are just for software!
Thanks!

I'll start using it for sharing times of Carbide Motion files.

EDIT: One last feature request --- add an option/UI where a beginning time allotment could be entered (say 60 minutes for a 1 hr. meeting) and the time would be counted down for each entry? and then then time over shown once the allotment was used up? This would seem to match the typical usage of managing notes for a meeting.

For bonus points, add in a way to add hourly rates so that the on-going cost of the meeting will show up? (though maybe that's too cluttered).
IMHO, the "western" style of retirement, i.e. using other people's children's money to fund the elderly's retirement doesn't look that great either...
This story lacks substance and is a perfect of example of medias complacency to the state in the name of “national security”… total BS. Ken Klippenstein has a great take on this reporting.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/trump-admin-...
A yearly reminder of the most painful and beautiful moments that can happen in a human life. Damn.
Its a great tool and for a front end developer its reasonable.
any non-toy IDE can do that. Most IDEs use clang directly for parsing nowadays.
I second the request. A few years ago we switched to Google Workplace, but it would be nice to know. I would like to forward it to the sysadmins just in case we go back to our own server.
I had the exact same thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473149

Really bewildering from an epistemic point of view, even if it's "just a metaphor". (And do people really generally understand it to be just that?)
>in practice it never got traction outside Apple and they are essentially the only one who uses it

Are you thinking of ALAC? What you're saying is true, if you're talking about ALAC. ALAC is Apple's lossless codec. AAC is a lossy codec and is unrelated to ALAC.

AAC is an industry standard. It's in the Nintendo DSi and 3DS handhelds. Heck, according to wikipedia, the Nokia S40 series of phones supports it.
A huge focus of gene drive manipulation of mosquitos is to force their populations to extinction.

The male is created with an X chromosome that will destroy any other X with which it is paired, leaving only other male progeny with the hostile X.

This goes on for a few hundred generations, driving the female population to zero.

There are grave moral questions in this, but eventually the technology will reach those who decide to deploy it, perhaps against the general will. It is only a matter of time.
python-specific side question -- is there some indication in the python ecosystems that Numpy 2x is not getting adoption? numpy-1.26 looks like 'stable' from here
I don't mean to engage in conspiratorial thinking but I believe in this industry we have to assume dishonesty. It's just so many orders of magnitude easier to run a con than actually do the thing being promised.
Show HN: We built a native macOS screen recorder focused on speed and quality
We built a fully native Swift macOS screen recorder, with a big focus on simplicity, speed and high quality output.

We record the camera, screen and audio separately and composite them into your chosen layout on the fly as you record, we get you a shareable URL super quick and you can change your mind on the layout post recording.

We designed our online video pipeline around Mac Mini's, processing chunks of video in real-time and the code is shared with the macOS app so we are able to fully render both online and offline.

Now that we have built the baseline product we are finally ready to really start innovating.

Happy to answer any questions, appreciate any feedback.
To achieve an ESM-only future, we can't have features that only work in non-ESM. Browsers don't support synchronous blocking loading and execution of ESM scripts.
You can check out https://github.com/JoshuaC215/agent-service-toolkit for a pretty comprehensive template for deploying a langgraph service, with a streamlit UI as an example client
Now we are getting into the definition of what a parallel filesystem is.

In my book, a parallel filesystem is not just pooling together a bunch of nodes, but something that can actually support the synchronized accesses needed by a parallel workload. So not just decoupling between data and metadata, but scaling out of the metadata layer as well.

That and a hierarchical namespace (I could be sold on compromising some POSIX compliance for performance reasons, but it has to fundamentally be a hierarchical namespace with similar semantics). So object stores would not qualify.
I bought a Bosch dishwasher about a year ago and didn't experience any of this. Maybe it depends on the model?
It's looking more likely that NASA will fly the Artemis II mission
"Any Updates?"
Make VoWiFi calls using Asterisk and strongSwan
Darknet Diaries is not a good podcast.

Each episode is chewed up slowly to the lowest common denominator, meaning half of an episode is condescending explanation of trivial matter. The misplaced air of faux mystery, true crime podcast style, does not help. The narrator being occasionally a free speech absolutist and explicitly in favour of money laundering services does not help.

Risky Biz covered Anom in https://risky.biz/RB751/ via a dense if a bit short interview with Joseph Cox, who wrote a book about it, starting around minute 35. Listen to that and respective Darknet Diaries episode to compare. In general Risky Biz offers more balanced, less boring, and up-to-date takes on cybercrime (sans interviews with actual criminals).
Yeah, it's an obsessive personality trait that I've observed in most high achievers. Often not healthy. At least scrutinize your obsessions, people.
Here's how to remember which one to use:

lose -> lost

loose -> loosened
Kind of reminds me of a mountain you're going to climb :)
There is a big space in between today's world and Harrison Bergeron. Somewhere in that space is probably the global optimum. False dichotomies are false.
Absolutely incredible indeed! People asking money in change of their work, how dare they? /s

All these years where megacorps gave people stuff for free have tainted the minds of many.

If you questioned the subscription model over the perpetual license, that would be somehow acceptable, but assuming everything must be free is just non sense.
It is, it's just not immune to physical damage. Rodents and Jackhammers…
Yes, and they do that routinely.
Yep but some are claiming this makes the speed of light incredibly unsafe and unpredictable.

A small but loud group of scientists are working to replace c with a crab emoji in most literature going forward.
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You can always first send it to yourself and read the Authentication-Results header. Though even Gmail displays SPF/DKIM/DMARC status when you view the raw source of an email.
I'd love to see a well-done comparison between quality and encoding time that isn't this increasingly old graph: https://people.videolan.org/~unlord/SVT-AV1_BD-rate.png

I've seen some strong claims for VVC but not with a lot of detail on encoding settings.
To be honest, if a 15 year old machine is still working fine for somebody, and h.264 is fine (if you don't care about HDR/4k, it really sort of is!), I'm not sure the benefit of suggesting somebody junk a machine
I think there's a sympathetic prevailing sentiment as it relates to paywalls. I don't know that Cloudfare is regarded as unnecessary or negatively (though I'm certainly open to that argument!).
A and B were already used. Somewhere.
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