skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm creating a language learning app [0] and I've come up with it using frustration.

When I was in Germany, I wanted to turn my highschool German into something usable, but no apps or techniques worked for me. And I've tried 20+ of them.

Anki was the closest, but I really dreaded the card creation process - sentence, translation, audio...

So when I've finished university, I've found myself in a situation in which: I didn't need a lot of money, didn't have a job, LLMs were a new thing.

So I've started building.

[0] https://vocabuo.com
Why not use the open source Android? I just feel like it would be more mature.

And yes I like many others here have been trying Linux phones for 10+ years, since N900.

Your phone just has to work, it can't crash because you get a call, or hide buttons because the UI is confused by orientation. IT MUST WORK. So that's why I wonder why people don't just use Android.
Look outside of tech.

I found an area far outside of tech that had very real problems that nobody was really solving; in fact, the existing tools that should have solved this problem turned out to be a nightmare for the intended users. I've been working on it for a few months now and gotten very positive feedback, and have a steadily-growing userbase now. It's more of a side-project right now, maybe 10 hours/week, but maybe someday it'll evolve into an actual business (:

Not willing to share specifics about the specific area I'm doing this in, but the general idea stands. It helps a lot that the problem I'm working to solve is one I personally dealt with, so I understood a lot about what the problem was and was able to effectively solve it for myself. This translated into producing something that a lot of people like and use regularly.

Even more broadly: solve your own problems, then generalise out. If you're solving a real problem that you have, that isn't incredibly specific to something about you/your life/the way you do things/..., then odds are there's probably others out there with the same problem. Every even modestly successful project I've had started with solving my own problems, then polishing the solutions for others to use.
Love the no-no sense, approachable documentation at that page.
Chemical Safety Board has numerous casualties and fatalities:

www.csb.gov

Right there on the front page it says they will be investigating the recent H2S release that occurred at Pemex (the old Shell refinery) last week.

Other than that the most recent final report has been on the front page since July 2024, but that was an incident at LyondellBasell that occurred back in 2021, so these investigations are thorough but it takes time.

However within a day of the H2S fatalites at Pemex one of the county officials on live TV mentioned immediate hearsay that a "flange" of some type was a suspected culprit and contractors might be the most heavily involved more so than actual Pemex employees. Plenty of plant personnel were certainly exposed though, and it could be smelled across the neighborhoods way outside the gate. So it was not a minor leak, seems like some kind of reservoir was opened, and concentrated toxins emerged by the kilo and took the greatest toll on those in the immediate area.

If so that would be almost exactly like the LyondellBasell fatalities even though it was a different chemical.

IOW we may have to wait a few years to see if accurate conclusions can be made at Pemex, but it may very well turn out that contractors were performing the exact same tasks[0] at Pemex that occurred at LyondellBasell three years earlier. Probably using safety procedures well-established before 2021, but maybe not aware of this most recent CSB video. Which should really be required training material for anyone expected to be involved with these type tasks.

[0]Whether the potentially deadly tasks were being conducted carefully or carelessly would pretty much be a matter of judgment I think now.
Yes. It doesn't even require a lot of time, all the build scripts are on our GitHub.
The Milky Way might be part of an even larger structure than Laniakea
The only time I've been scammed was when I bought a 16 TB USB drive for $3, or a $10 mosquito bite thing that didn't work. Basically, if the thing sells for much cheaper than anywhere else, it's a scam, otherwise you're OK.

I've bought from Ali hundreds of times, maybe thousands of items. The quality isn't always great (what can you expect for the price?), but it's very rarely scams.

Stay away from microSD cards, though.
Cursor is so good.
Seems to me, the two will still be correlated however. E.g. if the entire world buys their bananas from one place, because the price is the cheapeast or whatever, then this will require a massive concentration of agriculture in that location impacts for the local environment - and those local impacts can have global effects, e.g. in case of large-scale deforestation.

I don't have data, but it seems to me, local agriculture avoids those problems, simply because it introduces more variablility and spreads the environmental burden over a larger area.
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development (2001) [pdf]
Are you saying that managing and hosting a static site generator is easier than WordPress for nontechnical folk?
Would be neat to have an AC to keep the electronics nice and cool.
In this particular case, it's helpful to remember that two people can be wrong.
>Sounds like you don't really have an argument.

>Maybe I do, maybe I don't.

>But this we do know: per previous replies, if we can't agree on appropriate language to discuss the color of the sky on a given day -- that is, if I can't get a straight answer from you in response to an extremely straightforward question about a single event in 1948 -- then we're not going to be able to communicate with each other in regard to the bigger-picture stuff.

>Which was?

>No need for fancy optic effects here - just say what you mean.

I see that you're angry that I did not take the bait of trying to contradict your premise. Sorry; much as you may hate it, we agree that the siege was antagonistic. My straight answer, I'll repeat: antagonism in response to previous antagonism is, at the very least, understandable. In this case, "Who started it?" is significant.

I'm trying to falsify my own stance by finding an instance where the USSR did something aggressive and uncalled for that wasn't a response to Western rhetoric or behavior. One might say the various invasions in the run-up to WWII, but those come after Truman's famous, "Let 'em kill each other," line; Western enmity was preexisting, at that point. And I reject the notion that it comes down to their human rights record, considering our own (even at that time). It seems to come down to a bitterness over the West's inability to turn its totalitarian machine towards at least the facade of our desires and ends (a la China for much of the 90s and 2000s). It's just one of many examples where the West has interpreted a failure to kowtow to our ambitions as an existential threat. This is the dumbshit recklessness that I'm referring to when I say that we started the Cold War.

Also, this is the last time I'm assuming good faith on your part. I would say, "Don't fuck it up," but part of me thinks that you'll take that as a challenge.
Can someone explain why this is still an unmet need within the current video conference platforms? Giant monitors have become increasingly common-especially for the developers who might be working on these tools.
> its purported purpose is to listen me sing and pulse the lights according to the pitch

I'm stunned there are enough customers with good enough pitch control to make that a viable market
arsonist-firefighter engineers

Never heard that term. Love it. Definitely has described me on a few occasions.
Oh cool, someone that actually worked on it!

I was just thinking about how much pressure there must be on everyone involved in Discovery Class missions. People's entire professional careers, billions of dollars, so much at stake!

Is the pressure something significant, or is it spread across so many people that there is little trouble sleeping at night?
Once you turn on full disk encryption, the phone will reboot once and begin to encrypt the entire filesystem in the background. Further reboots will require that you input your FDE password (which can be different from your lock screen password/PIN) in a minimal rootfs-based UI.
My take on Hugo is that it tries to be opinionated, but changes its opinion far too much. This doesn't seem to happen with other static site generators like Eleventy, and maybe Astro (I haven't used Astro through enough upgrades to provide a good opinion).

I tend to forget which Hugo version I've used before for a site template that I end up reusing, so I just downgrade Hugo versions until the site finally builds — the saving grace is that every version is its own binary, and there's no dependency hell like some other JS-based static site generators I've used (I'm looking at you, Gatsby!).
Starlink Gen2
Neither land nor materials are scarce. They've been artificially made expensive to prop up the feudal system. This planet is still mostly wilderness - go zoom in anywhere on Google Maps and you'll see. And building materials are easy to find in nature everywhere except for in the oceans and the deserts.

I know it's easy and a habit to always defend the status quo, no matter what it is, but when it comes to housing the situation is much beyond ridiculous. I can purchase a literal airplane for half of what it would cost me to buy a run-down shack where I'm from, which is a region that neither has any high paying jobs nor lack of space. It's a mostly deserted, low-population density region, with population shrinking every year because people cannot afford a fucking simple house to live in. Housing prices has nothing to do with economy nor supply and demand. It is all politics and it's all a scam.

By the way, what do you think it takes in energy, factories and labour to make the material needed for a car? A whole lot more than what it takes for a house.
Rich people arguing on the internet. We've only got one life to live, it's just not worth the time to follow this soap opera.
My own pocket at the moment. Very happy for folks to try and use it as a tool. If it becomes a problem - hopefully the community will contribute. What do you think?
I am a firm believer that any self-hosted app should require, at most, a docker-compose.yml and possibly a .env file to get a basic service up and running. Requiring me to clone your repo or run some script from your site doesn't inspire a lot of confidence that it will be easy to maintain and keep up to date, whereas if you provide a prebuilt Docker image, I know that I can always just pull the latest image and be up-to-date.
Hugo is very, very easy to manage. You generally do not "host" static site generators, you run them to generate the site.
'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem
you can just share multiple windows on the newest macOS and they will ne nicely arranged for viewers. You can even add the presenter thing to show your face next to them.
We have been around since decades, being hired guns for Fortune 500 consulting.

Codebases are as old, or as new, as customers require for their business cases.
Ok but we're in a thread about Ubers cloud bills, which are probably well into the 9 figures annually. It definitely gets talked about in board meetings.

Global public cloud spend is hundreds of billions of dollars a year. I wouldn't be surprised if it's AWS's marketing team that came up with the talking point about how much more expensive developer time is.

Edit: put this another way- wherever you work, you might know what parts of the architecture need some performance work but do you know what parts of the architecture cost the most money?
Great point! It's very difficult to build for a domain in which you're not an expert (non doctors building for doctors, non lawyers building for lawyers etc). You're going to lack a lot context, knowing what's important and how people use existing tools (versus what they say about how they use existing tools).

Considering that business is about compounding unfair advantages, if you have to hire people to tell you if you're going in the right direction it's going to be tough.
Presumably because there's very little additive white noise inside copper wires
What are you using to get your code into Claude. Continue, or something similar?
This is just sad to watch
Lol, what a bunch of garbage talk.
He just attacks dhh on random things like why he bought a car, not talking about any of dhh's points in his article.
Matt trying hard to kill WordPress
Location: Greece, Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not

Technologies: Python, React, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Bash

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z8kNxIFl1cym2g6DAPu0h_eYJX5...

Email: manoskoniotakis@gmail.com

Data Scientist with 3 years of total work experience. I previously worked in computational neuroscience research focusing on neuronal activities in the visual cortex of mice, trying to understand how the brain encodes information. I then worked as an AI trainer at DataAnnotation creating coding data for chatbots. Currently, I am looking to work on a larger project in mind and get my hands on the industry environment to gain relevant experience and test myself. I am fairly confident in my general abilities and would like to apply my skills to building something useful.
How much are we altering it over coming out of the last ice age and the natural effects of volcanos and vents?

That is still unknown and constantly shifting in predictions.

Yes we should minimize our effects on the environment as much as possible, and we are doing a lot better in that goal, but we still need to live.

I wouldn't say living our lives is playing God.
No, because features get added to new versions of Python, and libraries they need to use may depend on those features. “Just don’t upgrade Python” is advice that’s only going to last a finite amount of time before introducing pain points and/or risk.
I agree I would love this option, but how much would you be willing to pay for such a device? Would you pay $800? $1,000? $1,400?

That's where I have a hard time. I would pay that kind of money, but I would need something well polished and fully capable of being a "daily driver." I think many people are in the same place I am, and thus we have a real chicken and egg problem here.
What control does it have over the baseband / modem or lack thereof?
Oh! comp.risks in a website. Amazing!
> rest of the world seems to be getting along just fine with pursuits rooted in providing actual value

Oh man don’t look too hard into the medical industry, auto industry, game industry, or appliance industry.

It really seems like they’re all looking for rent-seeking type opportunities, subscription services, and planned obsolescence.

I think Serif (makers of affinity photo) is the only software shops that come to mind that sells a useful product not tied to a subscription.
EDIT: oh actually bitwig is too. I think a lot if DAWs don’t require a subscription.

I’m sure there are others, but they’re few and far between.
This is a Harris aligned group that held a rally[1] intended only for for white men. Unless we want to pretend that redboxing[2] isn't real and that PACs actually operate completely independent from their campaigns I don't see how it doesn't imply what the first commenter was saying.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/whit...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-boxing
So it was technically possible, but logistically improbable.
&t MRI scans show damage to brain 'control center' behind long Covid-19 symptoms
"IBM created PCs as we know them and is currently worth $214Bn, yet nobody cares much about them."

Well except they sold their PC division years (decades?) ago to Lenovo, so yeah, no-one cares at all about IBM PCs.
And can introduce unusual failure cases for these bespoke missions. Mars Observer was lost in flight to Mars three decades ago, probably because of the inappropriate reuse of a satellite rocket engine. (1) The space environment out around Jupiter is really quite different from the environment that the JWST is facing around E-S L2 or what the Parker Solar Probe is facing right near the Sun. Even if the component is spec'd to handle the environment, you need to have actual educated humans (read: expensive labor) determine what those conditions will be, and then verify that the part will meet it, and that's where the money goes- to pay all of those humans.

If you built even 15 Europa Clippers the cost per-item would come down enormously (because all of those people's work could be re-used), but since the 1970's NASA has not had the budget for multiple probes per missions. So every mission is bespoke, and has to be done again completely from scratch.

1: The engine was normally used for circularizing the orbit of a geosynch comm satellite, so within a few hours of flight. For doing a Mars Insertion burn it needed to sit fueled for months in outer space, which was not appropriately tested, and probably the fuel tank exploded in flight because of that.
A large majority of the complaints we get of this form on the Meta site, whenever there's an actual object case, turn out to be really clear-cut duplicates where the OP is quibbling on an irrelevant detail instead of trying to understand the explanation in the answer and adapt the code to individual circumstances.
I'm pretty sure it's not being used as a success metric there, but as a contribution metric.
I was curious, so I looked up the budget. Development of Europa Clipper cost about $2.5 billion of which $1.1 billion was the spacecraft, $475M was payload, $200M was the launch vehicle (about $230M saved by not using SLS), $160M for ground systems, $60 M for testing. Formulation of Europa Clipper cost $1.2 billion. Operating it will cost about $80M per year.

Details on the Europa Clipper budget are at https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/nasa-fy-2024...

(Edit: fixed billion/million typo)
Well, by the OP's naming standards, it's Taiwan (Republic of China) that is the primary entity, and they have the rights to all of China :-)
Real-time mesh networks for disaster recovery. Cameras would be a plus as well. Each drone can be a node in the redundant network. If they can pick up cell phone signals, then they can be even more useful.

I could see this being useful for ranchers/farmers. It can be used to identify loss.

It can be used to identify invasive species and where they are flourishing. Or to find where mosquitoes are breeding and possibly prevent them from doing so.

Some of these may not require regulatory approval.
Maybe because a workaround with OBS isn't that difficult?
It seems that way. And it’s probably true.
That doesn't preempt the parent's concerns. If your docker-compose has a mongo container now I have to either self-host mongo or use atlas.
Wordpress is the BAD PHP. PHP itself isn't that bad.
Stuff like this shows how much better the commercial models are than local models. I’ve been playing around with fairly simple structured information extraction from news articles and fail to get any kind of consistent behavior from llama3.1:8b. Claude and chatGPT do exactly what I want without fail.
Hugo Quick Start Guide: [1]

> Before you begin this tutorial you must:

> 1. Install Hugo (extended edition, v0.128.0 or later)

> 2. Install Git

> You must also be comfortable working from the command line.

Yeah...this is not by any means easier than WordPress.

[1] https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/
Astronomers find Webb data conflict with reionization models
There's Cody too.
I'd pay up to 3k if it was quality delivered the experience of a top quality phone and a top quality laptop.

I mean the technology to do this is already here. If apple or samsung wanted to do this... they can.

Right now I use an iphone, but if samsung made a phone that felt like say linux, windows or macos when in laptop mode... I would switch off iphone in a heartbeat.

And i mean it has to feel like macOS. None of that bloat is acceptable. SteamOS actually pulls this off but in a gaming form factor.
Yes, core.async is CSP style async (not to be confused with CPS programming style, which this article is about) and there is a learning curve. Particularly as the go macro cannot see across function boundaries. (Some of Rich Hickey's videos on it give an overview similar to what you wrote above.)

My confusion was on the OP's statement about "sigils": "if you use the wrong sigil at the wrong place, you are dead in the water."

So don't use the wrong sigil? There are all of two of them; I think OP means the parking take and blocking take macros. One is used inside go blocks and one outside. That was the easy part. The hard part was wrapping my head around how to efficiently program within the constraints imposed by core.async. But the machinery of how to do things (macros, functions) was very simple and easy to learn. You basically just need to learn "go", "<!" and "<!!". Eventually you may need ">!", "alts!", and "chan".
Imagine two footguns. One shoots your foot off when you open the window. The second requires you to point a gun at your foot and pull the trigger before the window unlocks. Far fewer people will suffer accidental foot injuries from the latter.
I said for years that we should just use UTC everywhere and that people should wake up at offsets. One day my wife told me she was tired of hearing it and it was a stupid idea. That she could walk into nearly any town anywhere and know that at 9am she could walk into any bank, grocery, or diner.

Sure there are other ways we could communicate offsets, days, whatever, but having everyone on the same daily schedule and just adjusting the schedule itself keeps it simple for most of the population.
i mean microsoft do have a pretty terrible reputation except for with the typescript/vscode audience...
Why does this question always come up? There's zero technical reasons you can't electronically pay with all-open software stack e.g. Ethereum on GNU/Linux, it's pure matter of trust.

With currently available payment standards, it's like asking for a live credit card with someone else's private key and an open debug port, all at the same time. Things don't work that way.
I don't know exactly what it is, but the timestamps coincide with when I visit the directory - they don't get updated until I visit the directory in Dolphin.
Bootstrapping (not seeking VC), the last few weeks, I'm spending most of my time just on business&administrative stuff.

It's about 90% time, not the 50% I expected.
Not a fan of Wordpress and have no dog in the fight but managed platforms are not directly comparable, neither on the provider or user side of things. And if we’re talking about the future of web, managed commercial players are working hard to destroy the web in various ways. Also there’s nothing wrong with operating in a saturated market either. This tech-centric idea about growth is so toxic I don’t know where to begin. Like that existing users are worthless.
To be exposed to ideas and observations that may be outside your normal perception.

Forewarning of the issues when it matters, following rational principle, is being forearmed in preparation (should you choose to act on that warning and hedge your survival bets for yourself and loved ones).

Those that accurately predict and prepare survive. Those that don't are culled when the environment becomes disadvantaged towards survival.

There is always an element of chance, but adaptation and flexibility greatly bias towards continued persistence.
Surely it could just insert the proper form depending on context? (with language-specific code of course)