Hacker News: enigmo

New comment by enigmo in "ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors"

enigmo — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:45:19 +0000

you pull packages from a trusted package repository, not from the internet. this is not rare in my experience (financial services, security) and will become increasingly common due to software supply chain issues.

New comment by enigmo in "ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors"

enigmo — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:47:11 +0000

having a local simulator (DynamoDB, Spanner, others) helps me a lot for offline/local development and CI. when a vendor doesn't off this I have often end up mocking it out (one way or another) and have to wait for integration or e2e tests for feedback that could have been pushed further to the left.

in many CI environments unit tests don't have network access, it's not purely a price consideration.

(not a turbopuffer customer but I have been looking at it)

New comment by enigmo in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

enigmo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:35:16 +0000

yeah all the major airports are class B and they need atc at jet cruise altitudes.

there are uncontrolled airports with runways large enough for jets.. like Alpine Wyoming.

New comment by enigmo in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

enigmo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:27:40 +0000

not going to argue with that, there were single engine comments on the thread though.

New comment by enigmo in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

enigmo — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:14:28 +0000

it depends on the airport and airspace. it's not required everywhere.

New comment by enigmo in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

enigmo — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:40:13 +0000

mirrors can be configured in dockerd or buildkit. if you can update the config (might need a self-hosted runner?) it’s a quick fix - see https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/pull-cached-... for an example. aws and azure are similar.

New comment by enigmo in "Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos"

enigmo — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:59:44 +0000

this already exists, many apps use it. I do wish it was mandatory for _all_ apps to use it instead of being optional.

New comment by enigmo in "OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware"

enigmo — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 03:02:44 +0000

https://www.tindie.com/products/will123321/fourthirdeye-v10/ and a few other third party options have been available.

New comment by enigmo in "Nanolog supports logging with 7 ns median latency"

enigmo — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:49:05 +0000

6. WPP in Windows 2000 ETW https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/weg/...

New comment by enigmo in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

enigmo — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:24:57 +0000

there are tags for this but I don’t see it used much around here, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:check_date as a starting point

New comment by enigmo in "Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly"

enigmo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:23:40 +0000

this is a common enough need that

  out geom

does a similar operation in fewer characters

New comment by enigmo in "Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut"

enigmo — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:28:50 +0000

most dairy cow meat is used for hamburger, it's rarely sold as steak or roasts.

New comment by enigmo in "Monolith First (2015)"

enigmo — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:41:48 +0000

it's also possible to have more than one microservice in a single repo. defining good interfaces is a problem unsolved by repo size and count.

New comment by enigmo in "Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020"

enigmo — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:42:16 +0000

Misleading headline, the first sentence is "how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from *our largest Dataflow job*". Surely it's not the largest ever run, even on Dataflow.

New comment by enigmo in "Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020"

enigmo — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:02:16 +0000

Hive also has had this optimization for as long as I can remember. As others have noted it's not particularly new or novel, it's just not part of the Beam SDK.

New comment by enigmo in "The Battle of GameStop"

enigmo — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:13:11 +0000

it's probably just a typo, in context this reads like `content` not `contempt`.

New comment by enigmo in "Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani"

enigmo — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 06:07:10 +0000

I wonder why the interested parties don't just offer to pay for ID cards. Seems like this would solve both problems, but perhaps I'm missing something obvious.

New comment by enigmo in "Getting rid of NPM scripts"

enigmo — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:01:24 +0000

I've used multiple that run the build in a sandbox without secrets. One of them didn't even mount in the .git directory, it just propagated some commit info via environment variables. I also like to split the publishing of artifacts from the deployment process to make sure it's repeatable. This also ensures that the CI pipeline doesn't have direct access to production.

New comment by enigmo in "Stanford apologizes after vaccine allocation leaves out medical residents"

enigmo — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:51:47 +0000

the hospital employs somewhere around 30k people. even if they had all 60k doses (two per person) they can't vaccinate everyone at the same time due to potential side effects, so a schedule is needed to avoid an entire department being sick at the same time.

my wife works for the hospital but has been working from home most of the time since covid started. she's low on the priority list because of this, and rightfully so. her co-workers that are treating the (sometimes infected) patients should get access first, if they want it.

New comment by enigmo in "Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes"

enigmo — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 02:20:55 +0000

microservices can too, just most databases don't support this without an additional service layer. fwiw Spanner does.