skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to check out MyScale, a SaaS product with multiple vector index support and Langchain integration: https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/ecosystem/myscale.htm...
The point is to offload security faults onto the customers so tickets can be ignored.
Ask HN: Are You a Failure?
Do you have a failed business, career, or "general" venture? If so, I would appreciate it if you could provide a brief description or a link to the project, as well as answers to the following questions:

What is the threshold for failure in your specific case?

Was there something that implicitly caused the failure that you have now realised?

Did it result in a net loss in terms of financial investment?
What would be fair is for people to be able to install apps from alternative app stores, and to drive that percentage down via competition.

Some competitor app stores may charge as low as 5%, to pay for processing fees.

And others will charge different fees. And the app store that is the most competitive will get most of the business.
Wouldn’t work. Epic was expected to turn around after this suit and use it against the console makers if they won.

They want to have their app/game store everywhere, not just PC and smartphone.

Also, hasn’t “I know it when I see it” been criticized as a poor test since it was stated based on how arbitrary it is?
Joseon, the First Legally Recognized Cyberstate [pdf]
By venture I mean something akin to a financial goal
TMT will likely never be built. The funding is not there anymore, and the new funding (if it's found) will tie it up in court battles for another decade.

And kooks will try to undermine the rest of telescopes using this the MKSOA. Ignorance has won.
Several billion dollars is the minimum initial investment cost to compete in this space, to deal with all the patents and legal and regulatory to make your own phone with its own marketplace. If I don't use an iPhone my non-technical family members can't conveniently share photos with me the only way they know how. My friends can't AirDrop me videos. Apple has ensured its products won't interop well with non-Apple products.
I wasn't insinuating that or disparaging anyone. I was simply suggesting that work can put on a façade of socialization but you can be left burned by it, and GP was. It's not a fun situation to be in and I feel for him, and is also why I make friends through shared interests outside of work, because one day you can get fired, or your team gets fired, or your company goes under and everyone gets fired. And then you realize that guy talking to you about your weekend at the watercooler doesn't actually care, and won't be calling after you got fired. The GP was very clearly affected by this. It could be mitigated by not relying solely on professional atmospheres for friends.
Get involved in local politics... Start a petition to change the law. It is a lot of work, but it's not nearly as difficult as you might think.
If you don’t have an entomologist friend, there’s a subreddit for that

https://reddit.com/r/whatisthisbug
> It can until there's hard hardware chain-of-trust enforcement (like UEFI) with signed images.

That can only happen if Treacherous Computing wins. If you actually have control over the things you own, you'd be able to tell your device to lie about the first stage's signature.
Hilarious story. And definitely relate to an unusual anxiety about getting a bed bug infection (for me this is a type of catastrophic thinking - CBT works quite well). I have a routine that I follow when I check into a hotel consisting of examining mattress seams for bedbugs and hunting for hidden cameras (smoke detectors, outlets, lamps, etc.)

Surprisingly, I've never found a bedbug or hidden camera.

I did once find a 6-inch centipede in my kids' bathroom on the 10th floor of a hotel property on Maui.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244901/

"Bites from centipedes can cause extreme pain, edema, erythema and other localized symptoms as well as anxiety and panic."
In other forms there is less wealth altogether
Iranian or Persian? One is a subset of the other and the other encompasses other people who has equally contributed, if not more, to the Iranian culture.
Check out Iranic people.
GP is saying their opinion is on the PR statement, not the courts ruling
I believe that the big story is really the elimination of some “high paying jobs” regardless of the field. This will likely have a trickle-down effect on the entire economy but even moreso in certain locations like SV, DC or Boston.

True technologists will figure out how to adapt and make use of the new technologies, but the number needed will likely be much smaller.

The fewer number of technology jobs implies that managerial jobs will be cut, as well as administrative and support jobs like accounting, HR, etc. These are also high paying jobs.

We are already seeing less of a need for office space, and that means less facilities-related jobs and commercial real estate jobs. Again, these are high paying jobs.

However, there will still need to be some facilities and there will still need to be physical, hands-on technologists for lots of things.

And we will still need networks, communications and data security, AI systems and techniques, AI-interfaces (input/output)(electro-mechanical-biological), next generation mobile communications devices and techniques, next-generation computing devices, automated manufacturing, and people who can do the physical engineering of AI-prescribed solutions.

It’s hard to think about this stuff, or to realize how quickly things can change. But we are on a very steep slope of technological change right now-almost vertical. The rate of change compared to 50 or 100 years ago is dramatic. I’m in my 60’s, and I’ve seen a lot of technological change in my lifetime. Believe me, things are changing very, very fast right now by comparison.
I didn't touch that video but that yeah that sure is Cigarettes in it.

The WPH crew was pushing really hard on what could be done in the medium of a Flash cartoon delivered via a dialup modem, but it sure is hard to look at most of that animation now.
The bugs themselves are really easy to kill! Spray them with rubbing alcohol and they're dead. They walk over diatomaceous earth and they're toast. Reach 115 degrees for 30 seconds and they're done. But yes, infestations can be resilient because they scram at the first sign of trouble and hide really well if they're forced to live somewhere other than your mattress/box spring/bed frame. They will hide in electrical outlets, clothes, cracks in trim, in furniture, under carpets, move to different apartments, etc. However, they need a reason to leave your bed-- e.g. the mattress is too crowded with other bugs, has been treated with insecticide, etc.

The situation you had in your apartment would never have gotten better. Without treating the whole building, spraying insecticide will just push them into adjacent apartments. Many jurisdictions distinguish between infestations local to one dwelling to be handled by the tenant and infestations that are building-wide which landlords have to treat. If they just keep pushing them around, they never have to shell out for a building-wide treatment and they always look like a hero because technically they didn't even have to pay to get your apartment treated.

Step 1 is to clean every tiny little crevice of your bed frame, bedding, box spring, and mattress and if possible, get a mattress bag.
Step 2 is to put bed bug traps under each leg of your bed-- they can't jump or fly, only climb.
Step 3 is to make sure no part of your bed or bedding is touching the wall or floor.
Step 4 sprinkle diatomaceous earth around the base of your bed and the edges of your room.

That's actually enough to stop you from getting bit right there and if your infestation is really minor, is probably enough to entirely eradicate it. Unfortunately, they can go 70 days without feeding, so you'd need to keep that diligence up for quite some time. That's why a proper extermination will be building-wide and happen at least twice with the second treatment being after the eggs should have hatched. The best method, IMO, is tenting the building and heating it to 115 degrees for a few days. Not cheap, though, and obviously very disruptive.
If you default on a debt, even if the original debt holder writes it down, a lawyer can buy it, and file a lawsuit against you. You are served with papers requiring you to “appear” and usually pay hundreds of dollars in fees, not to mention the additional work and discomfort of a court appearance about something you usually really have no legal argument against.

If you cannot afford to pay, or cannot or do not appear, the judge will grant whatever is requested, which is usually that the full amount of the debt be resurrected, with a punitive go-forward interest rate, and a lien instated, typically upgrading the debt from unsecured to essentially secured and also enables wage garnishment.

You can head this off by filing bankruptcy, but that also costs hundreds to thousands of dollars and requires significant time, organization, and frankly risk as the limits for things like keeping a reliable car are absurdly out of date.

Why do we allow lazy lawyers and others to leverage judges in order to stand on people’s necks?
I feel a whole lot closer to the sales people and random product people who come in the office than the other developers on my team because those people in office are real people while the others are just icons on a screen.
Anti-Climb Paint
I discerned a similar ontology as the OP over the years in different hobbies too. My sense is that what quadrant one leans into can change in time and space too. In my case, I've had a whole heap of nerd hobbies in my life, among them being game collecting and retrogaming.

I was a game collector even when I was a child back in the heyday of console generations 4 and 5 all the way into my mid twenties, and also a game player since then up to the present as well. When I was much younger I used to love collecting original hardware and media complete in box and everything, and I kept everything I got when it was new in absolutely pristine condition (I was a very atypical child) but as I got older I grew tired of the collecting aspect of video games and sold everything off. At some point it dawned on me I was just buying stuff and putting it in a box (falling into the kit quadrant) and not really playing the games at all. After realizing all that, and when I had acquired everything I wanted (I tended to collect a mix of only games I liked + genre instead of by system, so my collecting requirements were much smaller and easier to achieve), the fun was over and I cashed out some years later. With retrogaming I now vastly prefer a Raspberry Pi and a gamepad in the living room. Fortunately I was able to get in and get out of the game collecting hobby when it was a fairly cheap hobby to participate in (i.e. when CIB copies of classic games were like tens of dollars at most).

I was also an avid tabletop gamer who was into the playing and collecting aspect of Magic: The Gathering and other TCGs, particularly Legend of the Five Rings, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, and VS System. I started playing MTG way back in the ancient days and had a particular taste for vintage. I also played standard, booster draft, legacy, and extended, but vintage was always my favorite. Back then vintage was accessible on a high school budget with planning and dedication, and wasn't the rich man's game it now, at least if one is not using proxies. For a long time I was both into the competitive side of the game, as well as the collecting side of the game. Over time I grew tired of the playing aspect of Magic: The Gathering and vastly preferred the collecting aspect of it, before life priorities changed entirely and I lost interest in TCGs completely.

I don't really do the collecting/kit hounding side of any hobbies anymore, I prefer the actual doing of the thing instead, but I am grateful I was able to get in, enjoy it fully, and get out of the collecting aspect of both video games and MTG long before both became impossibly expensive to participate in, though it is fun to dip in and see what is going on with those things from time to time.

Not stated in the article, but I suspect that another big reason a lot of hobbyists obsess over the gear and kit aspect of a hobby is because buying kit is a substitute for not having time or energy to actually do the hobby itself. In some sense, buying kit is materializing fantasies about actually doing the thing, but not having the time or the place to do it.
Same. Took so long I moved on, and now I have an unopened and unused replacement unit. Wonder what it'll fetch on ebay..
Speaking in Spanish would last about 1 minute until we transitioned back to English because it was more effective.

"You need better friends, man".

Actually, what you need (for immersion to work) is friends who will meet you halfway. That is, who won't mind slowing down a bit and coaching you occasionally so that you can at least stretch 1 minute into 5 or 10.

That - and one simply needs to try harder to make it through at least normal everyday interactions (at a cafe, while shopping, etc). You definitely do not learn anything significant from a purely passive approach to immersion. You need to take literally everyday as a learning opportunity - and prep accordingly.

Nah, they'd be doom scrolling.

Agreed, that seems to be the market DL was designed to serve.

And hence, is about as useful as one would expect.
Definitely true for me with my most recently acquired hobby of fishing, although I lean extremely heavily towards doing the thing. I had some experience from childhood but I first started "bass fishing" as a hobby last summer with a $20 Walmart rod combo. I watched plenty of YouTube and engaged in the time honored pasttime of filling a box with a bunch of plastic critters of questionable usefulness. After doing that for a a good chunk of the summer, I spent about $100 on a nicer rod and reel, and figured out the 3 or 4 lures I like to throw, and now I just do that about 95% of the time I fish.

Same way with my guitar - bought pedals, gear, etc for years in high school. Now I have one main guitar and play my amp on the same setting almost every time I play.

Also same deal with all my programming setup shit, I did vim/tmux, played with emacs, and now I almost always just use VSCode.

I guess my archetype is that I like to tinker and fuck around, but once I settle in to something that works for me, I largely lose interest in that, and just do whatever makes for the lowest friction to do the actual thing.
The DOJ already did a scathing report about this happening in Ferguson, MO.

One of the best Reddit threads I’ve ever read about the context of that town (when a police officer shot an unarmed black man circa 2016) was about the police and local government acting as parasites on the citizens / travelers. It describe how taking a day off of hourly work to get to court to pay a fine could mean you get fired. Anyone who could afford a lawyer didn’t have to show up personally.

Old NPR story about the same topic: https://www.npr.org/2014/08/25/343143937/in-ferguson-court-f...

I have tried to think about how to write a product/service to help people deal with / fight this sort of parasitic government process.
I think Ruby's equivalent would be something like rbenv (which is just a big shell script!). Java similiarly ends up often being installed through package managers or other bespoke system installers that would at the very least need to bundle a runtime.

To your point, One could write something like rye in Python, and then use PyOxidizer to package it up. I imagine a part of this is "Rust is fun", which is totally a legitimate reason to work it. And of course Rust comes with a very good distribution story (Go might have been another good answer for some people).
This is why it's best to create an account for every comment or every few comments. Say what you want to say and abandon it to start anew.

Then there's no concern about maintaining an ongoing reputation, or being downvoted or flagged, or having your comment deaded, or people being rude to you, or being doxxed - because you've already discarded the persona you used to engage. A temporary carapace within which to roam this virtual world, never to be inhabited again.

There's no self-censorship with this approach, because there's no self.
> While acknowledging that most users are not a developer?

You don't have to be "a developer" to install, for instance, the sort of retro-gaming emulator you use to play classic console games. You just need a free developer account Apple ID.

> Through an app called AltStore, you can install emulators onto your phone through a method called sideloading. If you're unfamiliar with the term, sideloading is installing software without using the App Store.

https://www.pocketgamer.com/next-level-gaming/how-to-install...
tl;dr: Financially responsible people are getting charged more so that financially irresponsible people can pay less.
Except for Microsoft’s. It took me twenty minutes of trying to realize that they have their own non-standard QR codes, and that I had to click “use another authenticator app” to get a standard one.
And then in all likelihood, your body is shot by age 40 and you are looking for a new career where you don’t have to carry heavy things and crawl into tiny dirty spaces anymore either. This is the thing I keep telling my son - the trades are fine potentially when you are young, but you don’t want to be doing them still when you are 60.
secret cabal binary codes /s
> At no point did they ever use their position to squeeze more money from developers.

Except the entire time they required a 30% cut and you weren't allowed to point to other payment methods.
> What do you suggest we do over this ?

Break it up! That's what you do with monopolies. That's what they did with Standard Oil. That's what they did with AT&T. That's what they talked about doing and should have done with Microsoft.

> but the trouble come if a company uses their position to gain an unfair advantage

Google has leveraged its search dominance to gain dominance in a number of other areas too. For example, whenever I do a Google Search in Safari (without my content blocking extensions running), I see a big popup that says "Google recommends using Chrome". That's an abuse of power. (And naturally, Google is the default search engine of Google Chrome).

Google AMP is an abuse of power, forcing websites to redesign themselves specifically for Google, on penalty of lower search ranking.

I've already mentioned how the two duopolists colluding is an abuse of power.

Google has been accused by Mozilla of systematically sabotaging Firefox in various ways, for example on YouTube.

The list goes on and on.
Amazon, for example?
Not impossible. You just need to be a bit cocky.

And start shutting them down when they start switching to English on you -- by switching seamlessly back to your hobbled Swedish, no matter how bad it is.
Somewhat similar, but within a few years of starting photography I had a DSLR and 4-5 lenses. I was also taking lots of pictures but overtime the allure of the big gear wore off as I realized I didn't want to carry it around anymore. Eventually I downsized to a Fujifilm X100F and its been a wonderful experience!
Howso? You can use the app daily.
"non-practicing entity" usually means some company that's only formed to sue people, and has no other business. After it's collected the money, it goes out of business, so there are no assets to recover from them. Often their "office" is just a PO box in East Texas.

SRI is a real research entity. I know someone who worked there, and he's not a lawyer. That doesn't make them any more admirable, of course.
I moved from a bedbug infested apartment to a cockroach infested apartment once. When I left, I made sure to do it during the summer. Anything I kept (clothes, etc) went into black plastic bags and then into my car during the 105F+ degree summer heat. All the furniture made it into the trash bin.
> How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS? (I suppose they could be talking between different apps, but that isn't what this case was about)

They’re talking about apps. Before the App Store (and the android store etc) finding, buying and installing apps was an incredibly painful experience that few developers or users bothered with. The app stores have promoted a massive leap in the number of apps available (perhaps too many) giving small app developers the ability to publicise and publish apps competing with bigger developers.
> It can until there's hard hardware chain-of-trust enforcement (like UEFI) with signed images.

Until they make it so we need corporation or government signatures to run software on "our" machines. Until they finally destroy our computing freedom.
I will cry in locked EPYC Rome. I was looking at buying 2 used 7742's or 7702's but then I saw real performance numbers vs. existing 2 7402's: negligible single-core performance and unimpressive multi-core for $1200-1600 USD. Even 2 7F52's wouldn't be worth throwing coin down for. I may wait for another generator or 2 before upgrading in DDR5 land.
This is great, although Google decided there was malware on my iPhone. False positive? After following all the steps it asked, now when logging in to any google service, google throws an error making it impossible to log in to any google service on the phone. I haven’t done a factory reset as I don’t want to loose the google auth tokens. Catch 22.
“I continue to wonder at the kind of person who names their business philosophy ‘profound’.”
This indicates a misreading of what “profound” applies to. IMHO Deming meant his was a system of gaining deep ie profound knowledge about a process. He did not, IMHO, call his system profound or his philosophy profound.
It will also shred your vacuum cleaner if you're not careful.
“…drugs or anything inappropriate” but of course the focus by the right leaning Standard is on drugs because they want to paint a narrative consistent with their views.
oh lord... $150k for junior?!

Italian me with 15 years experience and struggling to find a €50k job..

there are platforms like remote.com or deel.com for companies wanting to hire in jurisdictions they don't have a subsidiary in.
Iran is a treasure trove of knowledge and culture, of various people. I kind of don’t blame their current rulers on some issues, especially when both of your neighbours were invaded and occupied by modern imperialist.
If anything I feel like this is Google’s fault.

Apple did what they do, but their stuff is locked to their phones.

Google made their OS free for everyone. So now a phone maker can spend a HUGE amount of money building an OS and getting apps, or they can just use Android. Spending the money to not use Android looks like a folly.

Except Google trained everyone Android comes with the Play Store.

So either a phone maker has to contribute to Google’s stranglehold on the non-Apple smartphone market, making themselves a commodity, or skip including Google services and consumers won’t accept it.

So we’re now at a place where even if an alternate OS could get applications somehow, I can’t imagine any company being willing to put the money into developing it. Only a state like China could in an attempt to force Android out of their market.
> “I know it when I see it” has been used in a court before.

It’s been used in a court, but not too much effect; the popular source of that is a discussion of “hardcore pornography” in a concurrence to a Supreme Court decision in an obscenity case which was notable for having a majority on the ruling in the case, but no consensus by any more than two justices on either a rationale for the ruling, or (among the dissenters) on the reasons for rejecting the ruling.
Thanks for the link, that’s good info. My model is listed; it seems accurate from experience: way too loud for comfort while operating it, would be disruptive to a bbq 50 feet away.

The gas ones are certainly louder, though.