skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sell carnivorous plants online. It's not my main job/revenue so it doesn't fit your description of successful. It could certainly be my main income but I like keeping it as a side job.

Here's a few things I do that made it "successful":

- Obviously, selling good quality product is the most important thing.

- Offering rare species that are hard to find elsewhere

- Having a good website that works, is well organized and easy to use.

- Friendly customer support, I like to talk to my customers as I would talk to a friend (to a certain extend).

- Fast shipping after receiving an order, or at least let the customer know when their order will be shipped.

- A good logo made by a designer, this has been super helpful for brand-awareness

- Good packaging that minimize most damage the plants, with printed plastic labels for each plants (with my logo on them)

- Active presence on social media, with good quality picture posts (with my logo on them)

- Always give more to the customer than what they expected to get. Even a small surprise when they open their package will make them feel good about their purchase.

- SEO optimisation so that people can find you on google. I struggle with this because google keeps autocorrecting my name.

Most of these points feel obvious to me, but I would say 95% of the other sellers fail at multiple of them. Mainly the customer support point, a lot of them feel like I'm talking to a robot.

I would say the part that I struggle the most with is staying on schedule and not forgetting about people who order via email/private message. Thankfully cold weather in the winter allow me to take a 6 months break each year. During that time I can relax and dive into other projets.
Softbank will likely end up making money on this one in the end.
Whoa, you don't need to drain your parents for 100% of the costs when on university. I was never very good student because it took me long time to memorize things compared to most peers, but even lame partying me was able to get a part time side job, was able to go to work&travel programme to US during long summer break etc.

It might be hard to finance all your university expenses by yourself, but you can definitely cover a lot without any real impact on your studies. Just be more effective with your free time, which is an invaluable lesson for rest of the life on its own.
Shaq Backs Rockets' Morey in Hong Kong Protest Controversy
This is why I am greatful I spent my first five years as a DBA: learning SQL was just a tool but why things worked or didn’t work, why queries were fast or slow, how to best define a schema for a given use-case (that’s key — schema design should fit the business use-case not some arbitrary “beautiful” theoretical model)
Yes... I am interested... And I am also a web developer.
Euthanasia will become legal worldwide, and legally supported suicide for non-medical reasons will increase suicide rates by a 10x or higher factor.
Analogies are imperfect, but I think the intention was more like "If for some reason you cannot do that, here is a simple meal you can make in your own kitchen."
So...electric motorbikes means you don't need bike lanes? Why don't we put children on motorbikes again?

NHTSA: "For every mile traveled, motorcyclists have a risk of a fatal accident that is 35 times higher than a car driver." [1]

In my experience, light weight electric transport mingles great with bikes, as long as they're limited to something reasonable. I can clock up pretty high speeds on a normal bike!

So no - we do need bike lanes because cars are too dangerous, whether your bike is electric or not.

[1]: https://www.askadamskutner.com/motorcycle-accident/how-do-ca...
What happens when it rains / snows?

Nothing / depends on the rider.

There's proper clothing which keeps you dry. Personally I find fresh snow awesome to ride in. Not so fresh snow is less fun, but I still do it. But indeed if you cannot / do not want to take the risk then in most places infastructure is not quite ready yet and we do need solutions. Shared electric vehicles combined with decent public transportation services would be my bet.
We will talk a lot about the weather.
Most of the Germany had the "benefit" of being able to rebuilt post WW2 bombing, so they are a bit more spread out and can easily accommodate new road features (if there was a country that is car friendly but not US, it's Germany :)).

And Netherlands is just... Flat, and biking has been a tradition there long before the current ecological push.

However, most European old towns are frequently narrow one-way streets on hills and it gets really hard to get a buy in to reconfigure them altogether.

But I agree with the premise that streets should be given back to people, but pedestrians should first and foremost, with bikes and other micromobility tools "demoted" compared to them as to not cause mayhem (eg. pedestrians do abruptly stop :). Basically, pedestrian streets with traffic rules stating that pedestrians are always in right of way. That should provide plenty of space for both social activity and transit with bikes and such, even in small streets I mention.

Living in a climate that gets significant snow and is hilly means I would also like to streets to be efficiently "heated" to reduce risks for pedestrians and cyclists during winter months.
Real dairy only comes from hobby farms - artificial milk is at least as good, and tuned for it's final use as drinking milk, cream, cheese, etc, and different health needs.

Many juices and even some pulps, flours etc, are also largely made using engineered yeasts and bacteria. Fruit is reserved for eating directly, or adding as an additive to gain a 'made with real fruit' label.

Similarly most real meat is more a speciality food, reserved for steaks, roasts, ribs, etc, anything processed (minced beef, chicken fillets, soups, curries, pies, sausages) is made using artificial meat. Much pasture is reforested.
Another nice blog post/mini-project from Balena.
Even though there are other similar solutions, the ease of use and instructions posted, make it very easy to create your own project :-)
Oh good, an exciting new attack vector!
Different tools and uses and implications.

Spyware informs third party that is mostly not relevant about your actions. It is bad, but does not imply loss of freedom or physical danger around.

Stalkerware allows person who knows you personally to, well, stalk you. It implies more immediate threat to both freedom, privacy and physical safety.
Floorplan: Spatial layout in memory management systems for Rust
I mean, yes, there popups. But my linux installation does exactly that too, every login I get software update popup by default and if I don't want to see it I need to change options manually (and update settings in linux are far from trivial).

As for bad upgrades - I had linux upgrades which failed something in the video path and I was stuck with broken X server and no GUI. And I didn't manage to repair that state even after extensive searching on stack exchange, so I just deleted everything and reinstalled. Another time I tried to install custom software and ended in a error hell of incompatible versions of libc, libtrpc etc. and it simply didn't work (it was on Debian), but at the same it worked just fine on another VM with different distributive.

No OS is perfect currently.
author here:
> replica 0
It's an example for the article and the intention was to remove the complexity of primary/replica shards.
Let's say "shard" is an unit and no matter about primary or replica.
In fact with replica to 1, the behaviour would be the same but in the diagram it will have twice more shards.
What we wanted to show is IF one node goes down and up after few times AND a rollover occurs just after then this node will handle all those new shards and so handle all the write. here we have a spread write issue

> introduction of a job which runs each day
this job has many purposes:
1) because of rollover, our indexes are now suffixed by -000001 then -000002 etc...our applications no matter of the rollover post and get doc by the alias in front of these indexes suffixed by -000001... So if you don't create the index for the next day in a daily basis index design, your application will push at 00:00:01 a new index with the alias name and it won't be in rollover "mode".
2) because we are using ILM feature, we need to define the ILM rollover alias in the template and it changes each day because our indexes name are "index_$date"
3) performance issues: we have a lot of traffic and if we do not create index before for the next day, we will except a lot of unassigned shards, cluster yellow etc...

in fact, yes, it's a common use-case (daily based index) but maybe not with rollover + ilm
I want a scifi novel where those "good enough sex robots" end up being dropped into foreign countries as a weapon of mass depopulation.
The author delivered this speech!
React Data Fetching Patterns
The issue is the engine. There are few big engines out there and chromium is taking a lot of the market.

The issue with this is that they could start controlling the standards and everyone would have to follow behind instead of everyone working and doing what’s best for consumers.

While chromium is open source, that doesn’t mean they have to accept merges from the community. It only means that they have to provide the source code. Yes it can be forked, but now you have to maintain or develop your engine. If they’re the dominant ones and are setting standards, that won’t help much.

By using another one you are helping keep a neutral ground.

The difference between MySQL and MariaDB is that you have PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MSSQL among a bunch of others, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab...

So the issue isn’t forking or not, but the fact that it’s still close enough that gives chromium the competitive edge and could kill the market.
> The demographic that bikes are young, fit adults. Can't bike much of anywhere without struggling with hills.

If only young/fit people use the infrastructure then the infrastructure is really poor! Note than I'm from the Netherlands and comparing countries is a bit weird. Why not aim for a better infrastructure than the Netherlands?

Anyway, for hilly areas I expect a large share of people to use electric bikes. And way more care for safety. In Netherlands they think about possible safety issues. Meaning, someone on a bicycle going down a huge bridge is probably going fast and doesn't want to stop. You could argue that a bicyclist shouldn't do that, but that's pretty pointless. What's better to engineer the infrastructure in a way that deals with that. Hillier areas would require a lot of thought.
> in little over a couple hours

That seems a couple of hours too long to me. Copying over from a backup takes a bit of time, but not hours.
I doubt that. The success rate for running a profitable social media powered business is very, very low. Of the hundreds of thousands of people who try maybe 5% of them make any money, and 0.05% make enough to quit their jobs. The number of people who qualify as what most people would call financially successful (eg a stable mid 6 figures income) is even lower still.

The creativity and freedom might still make it worthwhile, but the chances of being a breakout star are effectively zero.
Fuck drivers. They are freeloaders on the health, space and safety of the people who live, walk, bike, socialise, work and have kids in the city.

In my city, there is a push to charge drivers higher toll fees to make it less lucrative to drive, similar to how bikes riders have paid a health and safety fee for years. Once drivers are paying their fair share for the use of highly valuable inner city space, then we can start to dream bigger than bike lanes.
I bet just even solving the errors in diagnostics and/or catching stuff before it's too far gone would be huge in itself. I'm not talking AGI here, just bog standard perceptual stuff: looking at xrays, MRIs, mining medical records for patterns, handing unstructured medical records better, low hanging stuff like that.
Google officially lays claim to quantum supremacy
Ghostnote is a contextual notes and todo app. https://www.ghostnoteapp.com It is profitable but not enough to live of when you have a wife and too kids and live in new york. I build it because i needed it myself.
I'm sure this will just get lost in, but hey I'll say it anyway.

I've worked in aquaculture science for years before I moved onto programming (Pays better / I don't have to worry about farm alarms going off at 2 am). I've worked in nearly every type of far. I've been at some of the most cutting edge Recirculatory aquaculture systems in the UK, and I've taught degree and master students in the field.

Its a dishearting situation right now. Company after company in this field seems to be going bust because they keep having their technology stolen by the Chinese state.

Other than Salmon farming the UK aquaculture industry is fucked. Even if you automated everything, it's still cheaper to produce aquaculture products in third world countries and ship it in.
The recirculatory aquaculture field as it stands is dependant on EU grants. (Which have stopped because of Brexit) And also renewable energy grants. A few years back, the government would pay you money to heat water with a biomass boiler. So it was and maybe still is to run a RAS system without fish in it.

I'm currently working on some R&D with Giant freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii,) to hopefully farm blue claws so that they form in higher densities. But this is only a side project and until major legislative change happens warm water aquaculture in the UK is fucked.
For 1 and 3 I think that the question is do these examples (assuming that they are real and true) support the argument made, and can we , do we, agree that it is plausible and reasonable to assume that these are real and true. If you doubt the notion that a social worker could be dismissed by this kind of data driven change of policy then I would concede that damages the argument. This is not a physics observation though (kinda the point here!) if you say that there is one example where a social worker wasn't dismissed in this way then I do not agree that is sufficient to derail the argument. On the other hand if you show me one example of a situation where an atom decays differently and produces behaviour not accounted for by the standard model I will happily declare that the standard model is bust.

For 2; this is not about the contingent knowledge that science produces, it's about the applicability of the process that produces that knowledge so effectively in some domains. There are domains where it is not appropriate or useful to think exclusively and uncritically in a scientific way, medicine and economics being just two examples of domains in which uncritical application of the scientific method and mindset have done significant harm to a significant number of people.
FYI: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/lede
I always hold up https://pinboard.in/ as a poster child for a successful one-man shop. It's so successful he takes several months off at a time, right now he's in HK reporting on the demonstrations.

He's very generous with sharing his financials on his blog: https://blog.pinboard.in/2019/07/i_cant_stop_winning/
I didn't forget that, and thousands of police weren't injured, actually. That's wrong by an order of magnitude.

The point is that there is so much video evidence of the entire conflict that we don't really need to deal in hyperbole. There's so much footage and - as you so graciously demonstrated - so much incentive to exaggerate the misdeeds of the other, that we don't need to believe anything which either side says to support their aggressions.

The footage might eventually emerge of the hatchas, lavadoras and motosierras, but let's wait until it does before we take it as gospel. The videos we do have show that the police have already demonstrated that they are willing to lie.

There's a video of someone using a pickup to plow into a group of mossos. Talk about that, don't casually lap up their unsubstantiated talking points.
The speech also points out that most people who achieve meritocratically do so because they have access to enormous amounts of resources, since birth. In essence the rich used to just hand their wealth to their children (and most still do that too), but now some actually dedicate part of their wealth to training their children to excel in a process that is often nothing more than a dog and pony show.
Neat! What's your business model?
https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o/blob/master/awesome.md

there are sections on using cri-o on EKS AWS
It was odd to use the Referendum mechanism for this; it merely undoes the effects of SB10. A full-on Initiative Statute has the same signature burden but allows the authors to rewrite the law as they like.

Maybe they feared the Secretary of State would fight any new
statute language in the courts indefinitely. A Referendum can't be fought that way.
Hi! What is blue river technology’s see and spray tech doing now? It disappeared from Salinas lettuce fields after JD bought them out.
Cars kill 65% as many people as skin cancer in Australia.

Skin cancer is estimated to kill 1,725 in Australia in 2019 [1].

During 2018 there were 1,135 road deaths [2].

I think we could reduce the number of road deaths far faster than the number of skin cancer deaths would increase.

[1]: https://melanoma.canceraustralia.gov.au/statistics
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
Precisely. And (I know the average map makes it look even bigger than it is but still) just look at Siberia. It's hard not to be cynical and conclude that the land owning class deliberately seek to keep the population corralled.
Is this FieldView?

Well..hold my beer! Field view collected so much data that the farmer doesn’t need(aka can’t use). And paid for it.

There is so much data in the field that is worth more than the crop that is being sold. So..no..the farmer doesn’t get to monetize it. Farmers shouldn’t have to pay for any data collected that isn’t used by him but can be commoditized.

In fact farmers should be PAID for allowing companies to extract data. They are mining data from our fields and making US pay for it. It’s like how Tom Sawyer painted his fence!
I use quick kind of flicks, so it's not a long time total the button is pressed. It also requires quite minimal amount of force to press. Concern is appreciated though
> I think the difference is that Google has a relatively large contingent of "activist" type employees

Yes, I believe also this is the case. This is also in my opinion the biggest issue with Google nowadays and what makes it extra garbage. They seem to be caught again and again to use their large size to surpress and censor people and companies.
Yeah. That's why they ask prices north of 1K for a phone.
Children adopted by wealthy families have huge differences in success rates, so genetic differences are not that stratified. Children of the wealthy still have issues, but they are generally better able to mitigate them.
High winds can be a bigger problem than hills, and the Netherlands, as you'd expect from a place famous for windmills, has high average wind speeds. People still manage to cycle. Studded tires are available for icy conditions, although in most of the world occasional de-icing salt on the paths will be enough. Electric motor assisted bicycles are available for people with health problems. Complaints about terrain and climate are just excuses.
> IAPs and subscriptions are literally not using any Apple infrastructure if they're things like 'unlocking premium features in the app you already have' or 'getting premium support’?

They’re using Apple’s account, pricing, payment, and licensing infrastructure
Revealing the Beauty of the Hidden Universe: EROSITA Sees First Light
Nice project! I keep onboarding screenshots for most Sass/web apps I use to get inspiration later for my own projects so I definitely find this very useful (bookmarked!).

How do you monetize the project? I can't see any paid plans in the public website
Indeed, pretty much the 'web'/html has been forced to support any possible connectivity and technology. I wonder if there would be a day where full blown out device enumeration would be provided.
I literally just switched to a very limited freemium model yesterday (just trialling it for now), but before then it was just pay to access.

It's $39 per quarter or $99 per year for access to all the content.

Quite a low priced product with decently high churn, so I've been trying to find ways to increase the value.
I never regularly looked in the app/play store for new apps, only used the search function to find what I need. However, since installing f-droid, I notice that I scroll through their new section every now and then to keep up with what people are doing and I like it and discover useful apps.
Seems like a web interface that can use bluetooth.

That's precisely what it is. Accessing bluetooth devices from a progressive web app affords a lot of interesting new functionality for web app developers.

Was this previously impossible or something ?

Web bluetooth has been around since Chrome 42 behind a flag, but it's only recently appeared in other browsers so maybe now is the time to start taking an interest.
The United States is over 200 times larger than the Netherlands in area. Suggesting that the U.S. follow the Dutch model for transportation is completely missing the mark.

It's not workable at U.S. scale. Many workers live 10, 20, even 30 miles from their jobs.
We have recent evidence that they're not very good at doing that anymore. Just look at Equifax and Intel, or the recent stories about how people are most likely playing the entire market based on advanced notice on what Donald Trump's tweets are going to do to the market.
See https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/10/biggest-fastes...
What? How? Why?
YARA reminds me of the venerable "file" utility, and I wonder if YARA could be used in place of it to identify non-malware files that "file" has trouble identifying.
Oh, definitely. Linux is worse, that's why I use Windows. Doesn't mean Windows is flawless, evidently.
Metacademy - package manager for knowledge
With typos all over the page i am starting to doubt that the actual problem was with Apple.
Anyone with fun startup ideas in London give me a shout.

I like to build rapid prototypes to prove or disprove concepts.
We don't know.

There was a post explaining how to use pronouns, by a well-respected stackexchange.com employee, not fantastic but, well, one doesn't have to follow all the rules all the time anyway. There may also have been something else.

Then a very-well-respected moderator was thrown out rather abruptly (and whatever "else" might be was surely was no fault of hers). After that, and because of various other tonedeaf behaviour on part of stackexchange.com in the past couple of years, umpty more moderators quit, https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/390427 is an example.