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Possibly illegal, depending on where you live.
Also a sure-fire way to get some irate drivers banging on your front door, given that it would be easy to work out which house the photo was taken from.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government. You can’t seriously believe this right?
There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far. I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha
Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered vehicles?
Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have much less enforcement of these rules… Would you call their driving experience optimal?
Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I don’t really have a view on it? So no, I don’t think I am.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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#654At work, I'm finalizing a platform to quickly set up and deploy Apache Flink clusters and pipelines. It's going surprisingly well, with several teams interested in using it! Unfortunately we couldn't use the extremely cool Flink Kubernetes Operator because it's incompatible with the existing infrastructure stack at my company... but rolling out something similar enough hasn't been too hard.
At home, I'm about to receive my new robot vacuum and the gear I need to install Valetudo in it. I'm excited because I've had nothing but bad experiences with cloud-connected vacuums. To give you all an example: my current Shark vacuum sometimes starts by itself in the middle of the night. When I get up to stop it and check the app, I see that the floor plan it tried to clean is not my house... so it's receiving cleaning commands from other users.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#655I'm also learning JavaScript through Daniel Shiffman's book Nature of Code. As someone who has a background in modeling it's a very engaging read, and the exercises are fun!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Feature Request: Looks like the React JS is 1.1MB out of the ~ 1.6MB the site takes to load all other assets. Do you really need React for this? That aside, I think this is really cool and very helpful. Thank you.
I am using Streamlit, and it is the thing that is adding React. I appreciate that it's a heavy site, but just being honest with you - it doesn't seem worth the time optimising this by moving to another lighter framework at this stage of the project. Sorry!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#657At my organization, we have a corporate-approved password manager, but shared folders are disabled. If someone needs a FID password, or something of the like, there are people that send the password in plain text over Slack, Teams, etc. and not everyone deletes their message containing the password afterwards.
You enter your secret on the website and it gets encrypted on the client-side before being sent to the database. A one-time-use URL is generated and then you send that URL to whomever needs the password. The backend never sees the secret in plain-text.
The tool is meant to be self-hosted - but I'm in the process of deploying it publicly for people to try out. I got the idea from my brother -- he was doing an internship at Tesla and said they had this being used internally, so I figured I would create my own as a little side project that I can then implement at work.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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Not sure if you are already familiar but I use Cal AI and think it does a pretty decent job. How granular do you track the macros? hard to figure out from a picture if I used some cheese or how much oil.
CalAI is a scam. It's highly inaccurate, there's no way to determine calories from a picture for a multitude of reasons
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
#659There is a lot of potential here to help, and I don't have big ambitions to scale this to a lot of children. There are also schools that need help. Other people that volunteer their time to run a daycare center for those that can't afford a regular one. One school is looking for someone to teach programming, but doesn't have the budget to hire a professional. I could volunteer to do it, if I could find a sponsor. It doesn't even require a full-time salary.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
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CalAI is a scam. It's highly inaccurate, there's no way to determine calories from a picture for a multitude of reasons
works fine for my use case and found it alot better than myFitnessPal, ymmv and yeah of course it's impossible to determine with certainty but it gets you 80/90% of the way there.