Hacker News: dante_dev

New comment by dante_dev in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

dante_dev — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:31:48 +0000

You're not wrong. Read his profile.

    I used to joke about how I used LinkedIn as a dating site, but in the current year this just isn't that funny anymore. The professional managerial class I was mocking is quickly losing its grasp on power, so it's unclear if I'm still punching up.

    How many of the messages here even come from real people anymore? How many of those people have pronouns in their bio? Are they GPT/GPT?

    We have a big task ahead of us to define what the "new business" looks like. Comparatively, the revolution is the easy part.

New comment by dante_dev in "LeafletJS: a JavaScript library for interactive maps"

dante_dev — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:52:16 +0000

Right, leaflet can be used also outside the map context. We used it to reimplement a "Pick Your Own Seat" component (originally implemented in flash), where the user picks its own seats while buying tickets!

New comment by dante_dev in "Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database"

dante_dev — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:24:08 +0000

can you tell us the scale you're talking about? getting good enough results with ~1 billion rows

New comment by dante_dev in "I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka"

dante_dev — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:02:48 +0000

Love it! But the cdn serving the images is improperly configured. The browser hits the cdn each time you go back and forth, downloading the images (multiple megabytes each) every time.

Likely the `expires` header is the problem (it's a date in the past)

New comment by dante_dev in "Stripe Identity"

dante_dev — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:16:08 +0000

Many other countries in Europe can do it as well.

    The electronic identity cards of Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Portugal and Spain all have a digital signature application which, upon activation, enables the bearer to authenticate the card using their confidential PIN. Consequently they can, at least theoretically, authenticate documents to satisfy any third party that the document's not been altered after being digitally signed. This application uses a registered certificate in conjunction with public/private key pairs so these enhanced cards do not necessarily have to participate in online transactions.

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

New comment by dante_dev in "Godot has been renamed to Godette Engine"

dante_dev — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 09:49:33 +0000

They really got me before reading this comment

New comment by dante_dev in "Instagram is killing my start up"

dante_dev — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:46:46 +0000

Not necessarily. you could use their ad network or just use your instagram account like anyone does posting images\stories

New comment by dante_dev in "Making Vaccine"

dante_dev — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:10:36 +0000

I think he was referring generically to any bad crafted vaccine. Not the one approved by authorities. Indeed any improvised drug can be harmful.

New comment by dante_dev in "Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies"

dante_dev — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:10:54 +0000

I think the difference in wages narrows down with specializations. I linked just the "general practitioner" because I couldn't find an average including all the specializations.

New comment by dante_dev in "Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies"

dante_dev — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:40:04 +0000

Just throwing some data, average general practice doctor is 150k$ in US vs 61k$ in germany.

https://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Physician_%2F_Docto...

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Physician_%2F_Docto...

New comment by dante_dev in "Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?"

dante_dev — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:11:52 +0000

right, I think I messed up with the reply while I was reading other comments.

New comment by dante_dev in "Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?"

dante_dev — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:58:47 +0000

Right! the keyword here is "Reproducible Builds". Basically once there is documentation about how to produce the release build, you can do it yourself and compare the resulting hash with the build distributed in the Store. Generally speaking it does no come for free, but once you find a way (e.g. for iOS compiling with a specific Xcode version in a specific OS with some adjusted config) is kind of doable (except that Apple encrypts your build server side for DRM purposes, so you'll need a jailbroken phone to do something about it)

For Signal there is an open issue here for iOS [1] and some documentation for Android [2]

Some nice work about it has already be done by telegram https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641

[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/fab24bcd1e5...

New comment by dante_dev in "SARS-CoV-2 induced remission of Hodgkin lymphoma"

dante_dev — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:16:40 +0000

Looks like we're talking a study when N=1, I would wait a little bit more before drawing conclusions.

New comment by dante_dev in "Load testing is hard and the tools are not great"

dante_dev — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 13:18:27 +0000

I do agree. More importantly, it has an architecture to scale (despite of being just python).

I created complex load tests and custom workflows to analyse resulting data thanks to its complete scriptability. Really a nice tool.

New comment by dante_dev in "PHP 8"

dante_dev — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:51:03 +0000

Mostly because only cpu-intensive code greatly benefits from JIT. Serving a blog (like the demo) is not much cpu-intensive.

New comment by dante_dev in "Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account"

dante_dev — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 06:51:59 +0000

I had the same problem. Created new fb account, linked to Oculus, bought couple of things, got banned. Asked for review, solved within 2 working days. Not even my real name.

Good thing, it's a "soft" ban. They do not allow to log in, but if you are logged in, it's fine. So i could use my bought items even though I could not log in in browser. But if I would have logged out from Oculus, I wouldn't be able to use them.

New comment by dante_dev in "How to Speak (2018) [video]"

dante_dev — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:15:42 +0000

The fact that he compared his sport skills (in that case skiing) with an olympionic sport skills. That in my mind sounded like: "Well, she clearly had talent & potential, but he got the Knowledge for skiing, thus was better in that moment"

New comment by dante_dev in "How to Speak (2018) [video]"

dante_dev — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:41:45 +0000

I'm not american, never heard of Mary Lou Retton, still I understood the concept by his explanation, and loved his anecdote that was 100% clear even for me that never heard of that person.

New comment by dante_dev in "Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]"

dante_dev — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 08:48:55 +0000

Source is Ministry of Health, data is collected by each Region. Specifically this is the free icu rate per region https://infogram.com/tasso-di-occupazione-posti-letto-1h7k23...

Unfortunately it's live without the per-day history, but you should consider that we're at the peak right now.

Considering the many people downvoting I feel like US news suggest otherwise. Weird!

New comment by dante_dev in "Additional 6.6M File for Initial Unemployment Benefits [pdf]"

dante_dev — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:26:06 +0000

In Italy you see 10% mortality because Italy tests only (really) sick people. It's really likely that millions of italians have covid. This is not really demonstrable at the moment, but still https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/coronavirus-report-six-mil...

Italy is treating every single patient with high standard healthcare. They did not reach the "0 free ICUs" moment yet.

What we can say as of today is that the high number of deaths do not depend on overwhelmed hospitals, but likely just because there are A LOT of covid patients. Also a greater average age and the fact that older people are much more integrated in the society played a role affecting mortality, but still those are only theories and we can't say how much they affected the total.