skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You won't regret going to a 4-day work-week even if you do nothing that makes you money with the extra time. My wife did it over a year ago and she still talks about how it's the best thing ever and can never go back. We are a bit poorer, but quality of life went like 300x for that one extra weekend day.

2. Etsy is flooded, true, but it doesn't mean people still don't find you and buy your stuff if it's good and unique (and you put effort into learning how to do Etsy SEO). If you make something that no one else has, you can charge a proper amount for it, people will buy it and leave you great reviews.

We make nearly 6 figures on Etsy as a side-business across 3 different Etsy stores for crafts/handmade/digital goods we produce. I can tell you that we used to make a lot of money with our laser-cut wood shop when it started, it was a wonderful learning experience and trip, but after 2 years or so everyone and their dog had a laser cutter, ripped off our designs, and sold them for less than half of what we did (and they weren't making any money at those rates). We had a Chinese scam ring rip off our most expensive item featuring pictures of my wife's face in them and use them as facebook ads to try and sell our $500 item for $79.99 on pop-up stores. Nothing you can do about that, but it shows that we reached a success point to be targeted like that. There are so many niches and things you can make and sell on there it still blows our mind. People sell literal PDFs of a piece of paper with an image of a piggy bank repeated like 500 times that people buy, print out, and cross out 1 by 1 as they add $10 to their vacation fund knowing that at the end they'll have finally saved the $5k they need. These stores will have like 30k+ $3.99 sales for 20 minutes of work.

It sucks that you can't report shit stores, they are frustrating, but even though they are there, the long tail is real, you can find anything from any niche, the trick is finding out what people will type in that search bar that you actually make or can make, because that will filter out most of the crap.
> If the chatbot built around the docs outputs garbage, that is a telltale sign that the documentation was garbage to start with.

That’s not how the chat bot works. This particular chat bot can be trained on a bunch of documents and still tell you something that contradicts the facts that are clear to a human in one of the said documents.

It’s a known phenomenon called “hallucination” and this actually gives the chat bot, to some extent, it’s ability to imitate creativity (to put it simply).

edit: typo
> 80% of ElasticSearch's value add (wrt search anyway) is all the clustering

Or configurability. I looked at this again now that 1.0 is out, but besides the .NET client still being in an alpha state, it’s also very zero-configuration. There seems to be no configurability regarding tokenization strategies, for example.

Now, I certainly see the appeal, I barely understand my own ES code and meilisearch replicates probably 70% of it with no configuration at all, that’s impressive, but it also means that switching would mean giving up on those 30%.
we thought employees can be our target customer
I found fun, recently, in helping out non-profit organizations or places that could use a programmer but just don't have one for whatever reason it might be. I am building a Digital Signage solution that can swap to a live seating availability chart for a performing arts theatre, I'm working with some local theatre groups on helping flesh out some cool custom QLab integrations, etc.

You can find some fun projects in places least expected.
> It should be about user choice.

Then choose a different mobile OS.

> Apple's behaviour is nothing short of monopolistic and there is no good defence of it imo.

What do you actually propose then? Force them to release Safari for Android?

Chrome/blink has about 65% mobile market share, Safari has about 30%. If you are concerned with monopoly, how would enabling Blink on iOS do a single thing to displace the actual 600 pound gorilla in the room? Or is monopoly bad only if it's not *your* preferred choice?
I'd like to see the harpoon attachment for the F-22.
I'm not aware of any ultralight laptops that can play Cyberpunk 2077, do you have a example of one?
Glyphosate weakens plant roots in the long term.
The effect of nuclear explosions on commercially packaged beverages [pdf]
> None of my software looks anything like any of the other software.

Largely because of people with opinions like yours. It’s not that long ago that this was not the case.

Children are not idiots and they do not need things dumbing down for them.
We sent mails but we got no updates on them.
Perhaps ironically, oil fired generators have to fire up to supply enough electricity for these cold snaps. Low-carbon nuclear, high-carbon fracked gas, and high-carbon oil are the three largest sources of electricity in Maine during deep freezes.

https://www.themainewire.com/2023/02/amid-cold-snap-maines-e...
I am currently writing a small app for my partner. I asked friends what should I use. Decided on react native. It is literaly a slideshow of a praticular pdf (rules for a new dog-sport), just as dedicated app. It is maybe 100 lines. Maybe I will add some anki-like functionality if I feel like it. It was fun.

The crucial thing was, speed of feedback-loop? And the expo stuff is good. It does the bundling, it has hot reload. I don't mind typescript and the embedded xml.
HIP 65426b is the first exoplanet JWST imaged, but it was previously discovered by VLT-SPHERE, which I believe is also a direct imaging instrument. So it would not be correct to say that JWST took the first pictures of HIP 65426b.

However, JWST was the first instrument to directly observe LHS 475b, also confirming its existence for the first time. As to "where are the pictures?", IIUC these observations were made using a spectrograph instrument that does not produce a picture as such. The results are easy to find on the web with a search engine.

One might say Bard's result is wrong in the sense I have proposed because a spectrograph result isn't a picture. However, given that the prompt explicitly specified that the results should be tailored to a 9 year old, I think that would be pretty disingenuous.
Not strictly. Architects I think are generally considered ICs. An IC is basically anyone that doesn’t have people under them officially in the org hierarchy, even if they do thought leadership, like a tech lead or architect.
Police unions improve the lives of police officers but do little to improve policing. Teachers' unions improve the lives of teachers but have little effect on student outcomes. It's not obvious to me that a powerful air traffic controllers' union would do anything to improve safety. In fact if other public sector unions are informative, the result of a strong ATC union would be to protect and insulate poor performers.
Heh, I do this too - create stuff, put it on Etsy and watch the 0 sales just roll in.

I also see it as a way to show the world that I make stuff, dammit, and not just type code into an IDE! :)
Show HN: ListLang – Learn Languages to Fluency
Depending on the language, the top 1,000 most frequently used words account for ~85% of all speech and text, and the top 5,000 account for ~95%. It’s really important to learn these words.

Learning words in context helps you naturally understand their meaning and use cases, while avoiding the rote memorization of definitions.

ListLang helps you achieve fluency by learning the 5,000 most frequently used words in context.

Most language learning apps never move past beginner level content. This method requires some basic knowledge, but otherwise it should rapidly increase your level past the intermediate level and into the advanced level.

I built this app because I studied Spanish and Russian for many years in school, but when I traveled to Argentina and Russia, I realized I didn’t know enough vocabulary to meaningfully communicate with the people there. I hope it will be helpful for you.
U.S. briefed 40 nations on China spy balloon incident
We will think about it :D
What's interesting about the online art world is that there are a number of platforms like Etsy that ostensibly take the sales and marketing off your plate, that said, all your points are true. They are often a race to the bottom where you feel a strong pressure to compete on pricing.

What I've seen work instead is to charge much higher rates of $1,000 or more. Think to yourself, hypothetically speaking, if I were to charge $1,000 or more for my art or my woodworking etc. what kind of items would justify that price point and then just focus on those.

Then when it comes to marketing and selling, pursue a relationship based selling approach rather than an ecommerce transactional approach.

Once you start getting social proof of happy customers you can often take the same work that was selling for $1,000 and sell it for $3,000 to $5,000 or even more.

That's the key to making a sustainable income with art or handcrafted work these days.
"Organizations such as the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues and the European Commission, Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency, and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment[30] have concluded that there is no evidence that glyphosate poses a carcinogenic or genotoxic risk to humans. The final assessment of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority in 2017 was that "glyphosate does not pose a carcinogenic risk to humans".[31] The EPA has evaluated the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate multiple times since 1986. In 1986, glyphosate was initially classified as Group C: "Possible Human Carcinogen", but later recommended as Group D: "Not Classifiable as to Human Carcinogenicity" due to lack of statistical significance in previously examined rat tumor studies. In 1991, it was classified as Group E: "Evidence of Non-Carcinogenicity for Humans", and in 2015 and 2017, "Not Likely to be Carcinogenic to Humans".[32][33]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)
I think the balloon was ~ 80k feet in altitude. I cant think of any way we have to safely pluck a multi-ton payload out of the sky from that or any other altitude. I'd naively guess we used a missile for lack of any other viable way of downing the craft.
Ask HN: Do GitHub employees use copilot to develop GitHub?
One incident even featured a pre-filled ballot indicating a vote for then-ruling parties.
Dual source heatpump + Solar + battery + propane generator might be OK. The batteries would need to somehow be kept warm though.

(The solar and battery are there to stretch out the propane supply until the delivery truck gets past whatever road blockages exist, and then addresses the inevitable shortage cause by the electricity going out.)

Of course, an 80% efficient wood stove costs a small fraction as much as the above setup, and is more reliable.
The Collective Intelligence Institute
Coincidentally, Bank of England has a terrific explainer on this exact topic [1]. It gets straight to the point and explains without resorting to jargons.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
I would always want a wood stove or at minimum a fireplace in sufficiently cold climates (anywhere it gets cold enough for snow to accumulate) if my heating was electric.

Easy for your power to go out, and it’s somewhere between uncomfortable and dangerous when that happens If you don’t have a backup.
> Right now our provider is getting DdoS'ed, so my employer is not reachable.

> It got me really curious what the right mitigation to being unreachable is.

Sometimes what can be done technically and the best solution are not always the same.

Is there a reason that you can’t simply move to a better provider without resorting to more advanced DNS infrastructure?

Cloudflare for example is sort of the gold standard for DDOS protection and they also offer excellent DNS services.

There are other major DNS service providers with excellent reputations as well, aws, dnsmadeeasy comes to mind.
Bad form, poor taste. Preferably not anywhere, but not on Hacker News, please.

Thank you.
That would be true of any software system we put into an airplane, yet we have deployed software into airplanes.

If your AI has linear / continuous output, testing it should be no different than any other software.
And for every day of most years in Maine, the heat pump alone "just works". Cold this cold is very rare. Usually, the heat pump only goes out when the power goes out, in which case oil and gas heat goes out, too -- no power means no blower and circulator motors. Woodstoves have always been popular (though by no means ubiquitous) up here because the power does go out, because they're cheaper than fossil fuels, and because they're cozy. Lots of people have them even with oil and gas heat. Growing up, we used wood day-to-day and oil as a backup; many more people use the easier heat day-to-day and light the fire on occasions when they want to gather 'round it.
> For anyone telling to use VPN, yeah, many people are used to using VPN because of these blocks

not to mention, imagine learning to setup a VPN (Beacuse your life depends on it) while you're buried under rubble..
I worry about the 'futureproofness' of heat pumps.

Specifically, heat pumps use more energy on cold days. They use a massive amount more energy on the coldest days.

Today, if you use double the electricity, it costs double the money. Thats affordable as long as it happens rarely.

But, with lots of people getting EV's and heat pumps, and the generation mix getting more wind and solar, I forsee energy companies forcing customers onto dynamic pricing plans. Ie. the price adjusts every hour of the day.

Now when it's cold, and everyone else is trying to use extra power for their EV's and heat pumps, the price will go way up. So now, instead of using double the power and paying double, you'll use double but pay 50x.

Suddenly the economics of a heat pump don't look so attractive when you realise you paid $300 on one cold night...

Dual heat sources solve this (I doubt gas will ever have dynamic hourly pricing).
This is a strange comment; maybe I'm not understanding it.

1) Starlink is available on the internationally recognised territory of Ukraine, with the support of the government of Ukraine. The unlawful presence of Russian troops in Ukrainian territory doesn't change any of this. Turkish authorities, conversely, have not authorised Starlink in Turkey (for obvious reasons - their terror at losing their power to censor).

2) Turkey is not a democracy, and to say Erdogan was elected by the people ignores his misuse of state power to suppress, harass, and imprison members of the opposition, his control of the media, his control of the judiciary, his vast corruption, and his meddling - both de jure and de facto - with Turkey's constitution and electoral law. No free election can happen under such circumstances. The trappings of voting do not make for a democracy.
This is one of many, many reasons why western countries and social media companies should not normalise censorship re-branded like "fighting disinformation".
Hermes, NFT creator spar over 'MetaBirkins' in trademark trial
Apparently this is a contrarian take, but Google is in no way in danger of being disrupted by OpenAI.

The scale they have means that they could reduce that "advantage" in a matter of hours if they wanted to. 100m monthly active users vs Google 4.3b daily active users.

The compute they have can train more/better models than they can, and they have been working on this for longer than OpenAI has (see their keynote in 2017, Chatbot that got the guy fired because he thought it was sentient)

Microsoft helps here, but all of those things still exist. Bing is tiny compared to Google.

Microsoft will "win" the productivity tools (Teams, Office, etc.) for the same reason Google will win search.

Happy to be quoted on this in a year or so.
Plays quite well, and having the total moves displayed as a goal is super helpful to figure out roughly how complex the solution ought to be. Got to level 15 so far and it seems reasonably well balanced. Getting the level difficulty scaling right is often quite tricky, having made a fair few games so far that's always been a pain, so very good job on that. May be worth adding one even simpler first level since some people here are apparently having trouble figuring out the mechanics at the very start.

One other suggestion I'd make is regarding the art style, which seems a bit inconsistent. The space wallpaper doesn't really fit with the rest, I'd imagine a wooden table sort of texture might look better. Having the buttons in the same style as the game board tiles would tie the gui together more, etc.
Not bad. Also if you use headphones you wont even know they are on.
I have never read or heard of anyone using desktop Safari due to a “limited appetite for browser customization”. In every context of every conversation I’ve witnessed where desktop Safari was mentioned, every participant was fully aware other browsers exist.

As an example, Safari is the only choice if you don’t want to give more marketshare to Chromium but also need to programatically control or retrieve information from your browser. Firefox has no AppleScript support, which disqualifies it immediately.
Is it really "just a single statically linked binary"?

I'd love to use Meilisearch as you describe, but their so-called SDKs are just for clients, so you still need the Meilisearch server listening on localhost.

I would love to see something like SQLite based on Meilisearch (i.e. a fully self-contained search library like https://github.com/mchaput/whoosh). Do you know if such a thing exists?
I'm dying laughing right now, this is phenomenal comedy gold.

Thank you.
Update Regarding Kotlin/Native Targets
It doesn't take a ton of compute or GPU power to play games from 5+ years ago, especially if they offered a good variety of settings. And when you include emulated games, that makes for a huge catalog.
He has links in the article but those links don’t give any evidence of what he claims. For instance, he has a link to the Gang of Eight but this doesn’t provide any evidence to what he ways. He uses links in a clever way to make it seem like he’s acquired evidence. What the linked information shows is that his assertions are plausible.

It’s plausible that the U.S. used the military personnel he claims the U.S. used so that they could avoid Congressional oversight. But where is the evidence they actually used said personnel? He references a source but my source with direct knowledge of Seymour’s work says that Russia paid him to write this.

Given Seymour’s work on Russia’s involvement in Syria I’m skeptical of him having credibility on the topic of Nordstream.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2018-07-22/ty-article-opinio...
> To be fair, that's less than one a second.

Well, taking the context into consideration, I'd still say it's too much. Context being they were full git clones and the traffic ended up representing "70% of all outgoing network traffic from git.sr.ht".
Yes. This almost makes you giggle with excitement about what sort of potential has accumulated around web technologies when used creatively and with purpose.

Self-hosting is still not quite as easy as it could have been, though.
Show HN: Build Your Own Regular Expression Engines
I'm now writing more materials after the "Build Your Own Redis" book.

Feedbacks are welcome.
The banks don't know how much money I have, because the different banks I use don't talk to each other. The bank knows I buy things from amazon, but they don't know what I buy. The government knows what I report in taxes, but little else. Shops I purchase from know that I have paid, but they don't know my name or my bank account #.

Every party knows something about me, but nobody knows enough for me to be worried. The current system is pretty good at protecting my privacy, especially given how primitive it all is.
I feel like this relates right back to the recent wave of layoffs.
I believe both Dawn and wgpu are planning on supporting SPIR-V ingestion for native use cases,
They are not elected democratically, and they are not deciding on anything democratically, even though it is "democratic" on paper.
That makes sense and thanks for the solution. And sorry, my comment was not written well. By "post" I meant "thread". If I write anything up I'll be sure to share with you. Congrats again, this is impressive!
I don't, but the opportunity cost of an MBA is insane. If you're making $150,000 and the cost of tuition + COL is say, $60,000, then you're opportunity cost for going to school is $420,000.

Which means you'd likely not make your money back in 5 years.
A lot of games I would want to play have UIs that I think would be extremely tiny on a 7 inch screen. Which makes me think: if they are "available on Steam Deck", they would be a pain to play?

Put differently: unless the game is purpose built from the start as something that works on a 7 inch screen, I am not sure it would be a good idea to play it on a Steam Deck?
How easy is it to scan the blockchain and monitor transactions?
How easy is it to scan the blockchain and monitor transactions? Come and find out!
I like that the author spends time on notation, mapping math concepts to their equivalent in code. In my experience this is a big stumbling block for coders trying to learn math.

It's difficult enough for the general audience to learn math notation (alien symbols), but coders face the extra difficulty of "namespace conflicts" for the meaning of math symbols (e.g. = sign does not mean assignment).
> It seems they don't know beforehand which releases will be labeled LTS though, it happens after the release itself.

This I do not understand. I think for commercial reasons it would be good to know:

* The next LTS

* Its actual real "Life Time"

well before its release. I think this will help commercial entities and some distros in their planning (maybe even the distro I prefer). Right now it seems rather random.

But with that said, years ago, I heard some kernel developers would like to stop having LTS kernels. I wonder if these somewhat unplanned LTS announcements is one of the reasons for that thought.

To me, if they cannot have a formal planning process, maybe better not to have any LTS kernels.
Report it. If they claimed anything otherwise, that's fraud.
It's not that ironic. Electrification isn't a "welp, we're done now, yay" thing, it's one of two parallel paths that works together for decarbonization.

1. Electrify all the things
2. Clean up the electrical supply

Obviously if you only look at one of the paths in isolation, it doesn't solve problems ("it's great that everything's electric, but electricity is still high carbon"/"it's great that electricity is clean, but most energy use isn't electric"), but there's no path forward on climate that doesn't involve both.
Imagine the headlines if the balloon had been carrying some kind of explosive warhead, set to go off if tampered with.
As an addendum the commercial banks have a profit incetive in form of future uses of said know-your-customer information (overdrafts, financing, mortgages...) even if actually "just managing your money around" is net unprofitable, as it usually is.

I don't see how having the govt foot the unprofitable part of the whole thing for no clear benefit for them (govt already know everything, kinda) will help the financial system at all.
Green Atom surveillance: 120 gigabytes from the Russian internet provider Convex
>it treats minorities as a special lesser class that require protection from everyone else. It's the civil rights movement in reverse.

I keep seeing this statement but I never really get an explanation as to how it makes them a "special lesser class" or it's the "civil right movement in reverse." Could you elaborate?

>says anything you do in your interactions with a minority if they accuse you of anything they are right and you must meekly accept it and bow your head in shame.

I would like to see the language that says this.