skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in the long term you end up paying more because of all the returns. all for the privilege of being abused by countless fake and incorrect listings trying to fool you when trying to but something (with a 25% change the you will wait, spend time to return, and still not have the item)

yet you claim that you move away from sites that merely annoy you with ads. I'm highly skeptical.
No, I would hate this regulation and this is everything against what open internet stood for. I can see that you don't want AI companies to exist so you want this regulation, but how is different than search engine scraping the internet? If the content is not behind TOS or paywall, it should be equally scrapable by anyone be it search engine or AI companies or me.

If the content is copyrighted, it should only be shown if user accepts the terms or pays for it.
If it perpetuates an inefficient form of urban settlement, then it is at best a local optimization. Look at all the people in this subthread who are demanding a cradle-to-grave lifecycle analysis but are for some reason unwilling to expand the scope of that analysis to ponder the question of why the car should exist at all.
It happens that one might get left out and it's no problem unless a predator shows up :)
Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months
> Unlike OSM you don't have (legit) access to the raw tiles

Google does serve raw tiles, not free of course

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static...
They could bake this into the firmware as an opaque blob, no?
I mean, if their inference costs are 700k per day, we are at approx 256M per annum. Which puts that part of the operational cost maybe 1/8th of revenue.

So where did the other 4bn go?
And if there's a collision, the driver of the heavier vehicule is always liable.
somewhat related is the use and abuse of jsonb columns in postgres, these also get stored in toast tables and cause a lot of performance issues as opposed to when being stored in actual tables and columns (not json)
Real Scrum has never been tried.
Have you ever seen the movie Office Space? There’s a bit about “TPS reports” where multiple managers individually correct the main character on a new cover sheet. I’ve experienced that myself. The movie portrays it comedically but IRL it’s kind of a demoralizing experience. A bit soul crushing actually.
You are not wrong. We both agree that the problem is the org structure as it stands. The incentives for layers and layers of management are divergent from the needs of the business and the needs of the producers of output.

Perhaps we need to reduce the number of levels, replace managers with technical leaders whose incentives are aligned with the needs of the business. Offload all grunt paper work to an executive assistant.

No need for EM1, EM2, EM3, Director, Sr Director, VP, SVP, SSVP nonsense.
My extended benchmarks [0] use the rapidgzip, igzip, gzip, and pigz command line utilities and simply redirect the output to /dev/null to minimize I/O write interference. That's where I got the comparison of igzip to "zlib" as it is used in pigz. I did not compare libdeflate very often to these benchmarks, but before posting my comment, I quickly ran "time libdeflate-gzip -f -k -d 4GiB-base64.gz" inside /dev/shm, which took 20s vs. 9s for igzip.

libdeflate-gzip is something I built and installed a while ago from libdeflate/programs/gzip.c. lideflate-gzip -V prints: "gzip compression program v1.18. Copyright 2016 Eric Biggers". I am aware that lots of care also has to be taken with I/O, which might make the command line utility slower than the library interface, but doing the tests in /dev/shm hopefully alleviated this. I am also aware that base64-encoded random data is a weird test case but it has its pros because it is a kind of minimal benchmark for raw Huffman decoding speed without (many) LZ references that need to be resolved.

I redid the benchmark as outlined above with the three test files that I am also using for my extended benchmarks [0]:

4GiB-base64.gz -> libdeflate: 20.5 s, igzip: 9.4 s, rapidgzip: 1.5 s
20xsilesia.tar.gz -> libdeflate: 5.4 s, igzip: 6.6 s, rapidgzip: 1.8 s
10xSRR22403185_2.fastq.gz -> libdeflate: 5.8 s, igzip: 5.5 s, rapidgzip: 1.9 s

File Sizes: Compressed -> Uncompressed:

4GiB-base64.gz : 4294967296 -> 3263906203
20xsilesia.tar.gz : 1364776140 -> 4239155200
10xSRR22403185_2.fastq.gz : 970458140 -> 3618153020

In conclusion, it seems that it highly depends on the test case and the one I tested to, too quickly, check my statement is one of the outliers.

[0] https://github.com/mxmlnkn/rapidgzip#scaling-benchmarks-on-2...
Glad to hear it’s gotten easier to run, back in peak covid times it was absolute nightmare fuel to self-host when it came time to update it. Even self hosting email is easier than Jitsi was at that time
It is /exactly/ because the media company can promote its partnered VPN. A huge driver of user signups in the commodity personal VPN space is affiliate referrals, and usually those affiliate sites are "review" or "how-to" sites. While the affiliate relationship is usually stated, it implies that the site makes money off the referral. In a lot of cases, the site actually makes its money by preferred placement of the VPN provider on their site. A VPN company often even writes or edits the content for the site.

If you're a VPN company, it's actually cheaper for you to own the sites and populate them with your own product than it is to pay a site for placement, especially if you own four or five VPN brands. Heck, sometimes, they don't even acquire sites. They just start them and spend money to get them to rank well.

I don't trust review sites in general (even if they don't contain paid recommendations, they still rank by which affiliate will net them more money), but I /really/ don't trust sites that cover or rank VPN providers. Personal VPNs as they are pitched to consumers are just shy of snake-oil, and almost all the content written that touts them is revenue driven.

Background: I previously helped start and worked for a VPN provider.
But the very article we are discussing shows that it does change things, though?
I sort of expect that Windows and Mac have more testing and overrides applied to fix buggy firmware. The find and override process just happens during pre-ship QA instead of post-launch support issues debugged over the internet.
It's personal for everyone who cannot eat because the land that feeds them is turning into a desert. Being indigenous has nothing to do with it. At some point someone will run out of water, and we will de-carbonize in about 20 minutes. Or however long it actually takes for the ICBMs to land. Before that we will have refugees being repelled with heavy military equipment (artillery / aviation / warships), and regular kinetic conflicts.
Apple: Using cash is “clearly reckless” activity
This data shows that imports from China are down significantly year on year, though?
An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]

EDID rewrites are 99% of the time blocked by the monitor firmware: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Decoding-monitor-EDID-on-macO...

By the way, one helpful tool that helped me navigate the EDID dump was Kaitai Struct [2]. It shows a side by side view with the hex view and the EDID structure, and it highlights the hex values in real time as you navigate the structure. Unfortunately [3] it doesn't support the extension blocks that the author needs.

[0] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/external-displays-swapp...

[2] https://kaitai.io/

[3] https://github.com/kaitai-io/edid.ksy
This exists, as I mentioned before, in Cloudflare's Durable Objects. You have serverless JavaScript and WebAssembly with consistent, durable, per user state.

You could emulate this in your language and framework of choice by loading user state at the start of the request, manipulating it in memory, and save it at the end. Like with durable objects, you’d also need to gate requests and process them one at a time to keep things consistent. A simple queue could be used to do that.

It’s really not connected to async/await, you could write it synchronously or with goroutines or actors or whatever.
True Scrumunism? :)
This is a major reason why I don't do affiliate links outside of Amazon for anything I mention (I add tracking links sometimes if a company sponsors a video and requests I use one of their tracked URLs, but I won't do affiliate links for any entity I work with). It creates perverse incentives, especially if one of the services generates a lot of revenue for a channel/publication.

If there's a relationship with a vendor—especially in articles that review and compare different services—it should be obvious what that relationship is. Online tech publications and review websites are some of the worst offenders these days.
I've seen tiered speeds limits for trucks and cars on highways in europe.
Honest question: are there any aspects of climate science that aren't political these days?

I'd certainly love to see climate discussions that openly talk about facts, but it always seems to wind down to the Horrific Apocalypse Mitigators vs. the Crusaders Against Government Overreach.
Wayland Support for IntelliJ-Based IDEs
> My supermarket has a savings scheme, in exchange for my personal information. The way it works is that the cashier asks: do you want to join this savings scheme?

They know all your personal info from the credit card you're using anyways. The phone number you provide at the supermarket is a formality.

The proof is in the pudding: When I buy stuff at home depot, there was one time I provided my email address for a receipt. Now every time it asks if I want my receipt emailed.

"Aha!" you say "You provided them your email address". They already would know, because they track you through the store with cameras.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-Drives-P...

(As an aside, that quote in the article about "72% of consumers say that poor personalization decreases their trust in brands. " is 100% made up bullshit, lol)
You'd be right, if you had any proof of WhatsApp being E2EE in the traditional sense.

You're using obfuscated closed source binaries from the biggest behaviour manipulation corporation on the planet.

Telegram is none of that. The security is robust and the features and services are much better.
> possibly even increase taxes overall since the extra weight of electric cars mean more road wear and tear

I've already commented elsewhere about this, but I find it odd that as soon as EVs gain popularity, suddenly people care about the weight of cars. A Ford F-250 peaks at 7,660 lbs. and those have been around forever. I'm not saying it's wrong to consider weight, but I am saying this all smacks of vague EV hate.

> You're gonna have to replace gas tax

Texas is doing this just by increasing the price to register an EV.
Based on what we’ve seen acquisition costs are likely extremely low. This is an “if you build it they will come” situation and they built it.

Lifetime value they don’t even know at this point — the best we could hope for is an early (and probably still seasonal) assessment of churn.
I'm in China, and I think you're wrong. The situation is absolutely catastrophic and we're slowly falling down the cliff. Those GDP numbers are BS, in the US, France or China, since they count public spending. Anyone can build ghost cities for billions, add it to GDP and show a growth of GDP: meant nothing more than a big dick number.

Truth is when they ask a random dude on TV if he's ok with drinking Japanese radioactive water (the trendy distraction these days), he replies that he didn't intend to make children so he doesn't care if he loses fertility due to contaminated water...

Nobody gives a fuck about shit, we all pretend to work while they pretend to pay us, we get jailed for months in our own homes when there's a stupid sneeze in the city and get all released under the "it's just a fever, wait a few days" admonitions of the same doctors who captured us when we all get it at the same time, we're either completely ignoring the communist bullshit and doing nothing they expect us to do, or totally believing in it and doing only the BS they expect us to do, which produces nothing.

Kids are unemployed, elderlies are fascists, politicians are spineless and factories impotent. The GDP growth is as real as the president's official salary.
Quite a few of my whitewater paddling friends--who often have to shuttle people--prefer minivans over 3-row SUVs but, as you say, minvans have largely been replaced by SUVs which are IMO not really ideal if you regularly fill up the seats. (Even the best/biggest ones I've been in still require something of a do si do between people in the second and the third row.)
Perhaps space-efficient "tagged" data.
all paths lead to Kevin Bacon
Is that some sort of subtle trolling? I mean, with that Newspeak verb randomly thrown in, it must be, but then again it wouldn't surprise me if there exist communities on the internet who'd develop slang that ends up being basically Newspeak.
Mac is more annoying than it seems. I went full Linux around three years ago. The annoyance for me peaked with Mac phoning home file data every time I tried to open a file and apps breaking upon major updates.

My main issue was with the hardware though. I would spend $3,400-$4500 on a nice machine only to have the keyboard break and be told they would replace the entire motherboard, etc. Then to have a screen break due to a poor cable connection and be told I would have to replace everything again.

I said fuck it and bought a decent machine with open hardware and a good-enough screen. It's no mac display, but damn... I haven't had to fight with hardware or software in about three years. The kicker? My machine only cost me $1,100 and battery isn't half bad. I get 9 hours with it.. which I never believed was possible with Linux before.
I suppose in nearly all of Belgium 3 phase + N (230/400V) is common. You have to pay extra but it's available.
'giant' is a bit of a stretch for 5 buildings and a small park.
I ran into the same problem as TFA in 2017 with an AOC g2460pf monitor. The display port would advertise binary garbage for the EDID that wouldn't checksum, so no OS would try and use it. AOC registered some "drivers" with Windows, so it would automatically download and apply a patch that would make that port usable, but they also included a CD with the stuff on it.

However they patched this on the Windows side was quite fragile, because it kept breaking after OS updates. After I could no longer get it working with the reinstall and pray method, I switched to Linux because of this issue. I fixed it once with an EDID in the initramfs, and haven't had any issues for the last 6 years.
Picard and Riker sitting side by side, their faces buried in their hands.
I do think sometimes about moving to a google for business account, but the likelihood of losing access to a google account seems pretty low, all things considered. It's easy to forget that here on hacker news, certain probabilities, dangers, etc. are overstated by extremely tiny groups of outspoken people. E.g. based on the comments here you might imagine that most people are somewhat wary of big tech because of privacy concerns, when that's probably not even true of people browsing hacker news in general, let alone the general populace of the US or the world.
As my modest contribution to the battle against SUVs/crossovers/other bloat, I am attempting to popularise the term ‘bimbo box’ - the credit of which belongs to Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
Speaking of occult rituals, I think scrum started to go wrong when we were told to stop it with the chickens and pigs.

https://www.visual-paradigm.com/scrum/scrum-pig-and-chicken/

https://www.scrum.org/resources/chickens-and-pigs

That's when it stopped being about teamwork and started being about micromanagement.
Scrum is a good tool for a bad manager https://www.yegor256.com/2015/01/08/morning-standup-meetings...
The Audi A6 comes in both a sedan and wagon (hatch back) variant (named "Avant"), I would assume saiya-jin was referring to the wagon variant. The only wagon variants sold in the US are the "allroad quattro" variant and the RS6 though.
The agile manifesto is a nonfalsafiable commentary on what was the status quo decades ago. The only possible response to complaints about anything done under the guise of agile is that the practitioner did it wrong.

In a status quo where everyone is trying (or at least claiming) it as a guiding principle, any actionable advice is only the interpretation various people bring to their reading of the scriptures.

In these cases, the utility of the manifesto is nil.
VPNmentor, a VPN review site, was acquired by Kape "Technologies" for 150M.

PrivateInternetAccess, a major VPN service was acquired by the same company for 95M.

A VPN review site is worth more than most VPN services it promotes due to insane $CPA they pay to these types of sites, that masquerade as "security exports" while in reality ran by marketing people.

Look at their staff: https://www.vpnmentor.com/about-us/

Every "favorite" VPN is a property they own, except for the sole NordVPN guy.
I don’t get your git strategy - don’t you work with other people and have code reviews? And it’s not like branching means more things in progress - you can work on one dev/feature branch at a time.
The thing discussed in the article isn't a tax dedicated to one purpose, it is an ad valorem tax that is divided proportionally among the agencies. It says "$68 million a year in county property tax revenue to the county, $25 million to surrounding cities" which just isn't a lot in the context of Kern County.

I thought it was easy enough to find their reports but if your search engine isn't up to the job: https://www.auditor.co.kern.ca.us/cafr
A deep dive into Vimeo’s storage strategy for videos
> But we all know of Wall Street's long history of hatred towards physical inventory.

Accounting and taxes on physical inventory are pretty stupid and cause a lot of Wall Street's hate for inventory. The more costs there are to storing inventory the less desirable or even viable it is to store inventory.
Indeed my Dell is treated with some absurd sharpen filters because EDID says its a TV and macOS wants to "help". IIRC, there was a similar story posted to HN about it, involving debugging EDID and applying an override
> and the kernel doesn't support this monitor

I find it so immensely "WTF!?" that a kernel needs to know about a monitor, to change its brightness.
Yep, me too- I remember reading about Google (actually a friend read the article and told me I'd like it because they ran on Linux). At the time, AltaVista would often take 30 seconds and then time out, or return pages of spammy results, while Google was super-fast and accurate.
Beehive in building of ColoradoU campus said to be 80 years old
This rhetoric is extreme. Do you feel the same?
The staff at the paint store got rather confused and couldn't really figure out what to do with me, or how to take my money, when I refused to join their club, saying that I'd rather pay the 20% extra. We only managed to proceed when my wife filled in the form.

Turns out you could just lie and fill out anything on the form.
I got rejected from a job recently and I strongly suspect it was because I went on a rant about how awful scum was against my better judgement.

Something I've noticed in the last 3-5 years is that it's become more and more common for companies to quiz candidates on their scrum knowledge during interviews. They don't care what you think of scrum (though they may phase their questions like this) they simply want to know you know how to scrum because they scrum. And like in most places you can assume that although "scrum is flexible" it's also religiously followed in practise.

Anyway, this company wanted to know what I liked and disliked about scrum and my initial answer was kinda similar to this post – that I liked the idea of it but have never seen it work well in practise. Obviously this was a bad answer because it meant for the next 10 minutes of the interview they were asking me to expand and were trying to understand if I was a bad culture fit. Which to be fair I probably was.

But the truth is everywhere I've worked spirt ceremonies are universally hated and typically viewed as a waste of time (especially spirt reviews). Planning rarely adds much value and since estimates are often wrong you either need to be overly conservative with your estimation (rendering it useless), or you're forced to cut corners to deliver stuff on time. And even if you do estimation perfectly ACs always change and extra tickets are always brought into the spirt because "it's essential". Standup is never 15 minutes – it's 10 minutes per team member who likes to hear their own voice, and 30 seconds to those who don't and who just want to get on with their work. Don't even get me started on the team building games...

I have seen companies implement it better than others though. The place I work at the moment does it surprisingly well. We do standups which are mostly mandatory, but everything else is optional for the vast majority of the team.
This seems better to me than sending an entire generation of young men to die miles away from home. I imagine if a nations automated robot army gets decimated by another robot army they will surrender immediately rather than send their citizens in to get massacred.

Any nation with the capacity to build a robot army will also be socially mature enough to not want to commit robotic genocide against their surrendering foe. Although the current economic/resource subjugation that is done militarily might become more pronounced.
hey HN, and thank you todsacerdoti for posting it!

This is a feature that we wanted for a long time, but we also wanted to get it right. It's somehow the equivalent of storing files and images in an S3 bucket and then putting URLs to them in the database, but then you have to take care of keeping things in sync, take care of security permissions, delete the files when the database row is deleted, etc. We automate all that for you and even more: we cache the files in a CDN, and if they are images we support transformations out of the box.
Well, technically OP described anarcho-development.
I had that problem with the camper chickens (that end up getting eaten by raccoons) and also sometimes additional guests like possums or skunks would enter the coop.

In the end I always closed the coop at night manually and let the auto coop door open in the morning, that way I could sleep in in the summer.

Next level of coolness would be a full coop monitor with non-chicken intruder detection. Alas, all my chickens have passed on by now so it'll remain a fantasy.
Isn't marketing psychology? People will buy something with probability x% if you hammer it into their eyeballs N times. Looks like hard enough science. And one responsible for half of NASDAQ market cap :)
More like: Linux is most likely to try to use the features a device claims to support. Windows will often only try to use a narrower subset of those features, and that subset is what actually got tested before the product shipped. Case in point: NVMe APST, which has been a perennial source of trouble on Linux, but Windows largely ignores (at the expense of worse power management behavior).