skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it depends on your load really.
there are background job frameworks in other languages like Oban in Elixir that utilizes postgres.

if scale is low, it's not an issue. but once you have high usage, what typically people do is they move it to a separate database, otherwise you're saturating the resources and it starts impacting the application itself.

at that point, that's not much different from external state stored else where.

also another thing about databases is their ACID transactions can only handle up to certain amount of load.
again, if you don't hit that limit, it's totally fine. once you do, which usually means outages, severe delays, etc, and it'll be a shit show.

disclaimer: I do work at Inngest, but also this is speaking from experience. :)
The DOJ under Bush W absolutely prosecuted explicit pornography for political optics.

(WARNING: Some pretty nasty stuff mentioned; text, not pictures) https://web.archive.org/web/20060321172250/http://www.thestr...

Primarily through leveraging the power of the AG to apply on-the-books obscenity laws to material which previously hadn't been targeted as such.

When the courts took a dim view towards that, they decided they could get quicker wins by making it clear to Visa et al. that things would be uncomfortable if they didn't "voluntarily" choose to stop doing business with pornographic companies.
If we don’t need any services, we don’t need any people. And if we don’t need any people, we don’t need any services. Technically, “let’s all die” has always been a solution that balances the equations of the economy; actually it is the simplest one: 0=0. But, we’ve muddled along somehow.
Add:

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https://old.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1foknoq/the_word...
> How much did visa pay in taxes? Less than a single 140k family?

No...the proportional equivalent impact of ~150,300 $140k families.
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C++ compilers today already auto-vectorize simple loops, even without manual unrolling. For manual SIMD, I agree a built-in type would be best to abstract over the 10 different HW APIs.
I'm very conflicted, because Debian's strength is the intensity of package maintainership, but it's weakness is the intensity of package maintainership. Debian has a strong focus on being a in-group culture, believes in maintainers as strong operators over their fiefs, with freedom to operate in manners they like, usually with little support or help.

There's been suggestions - ideas that maybe Debian should be a little more open to outside contributors, should have ci/CD tools & accept PRs more publicly. https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/8

I do think there would be a lot of help that would show up, a lot of drive by contributions. And some people actively converting to maintainership that wouldn't have. But at the risk of a lot of people being able to help, without acculturating onto Debian, contributing more without becoming a full maintained.

My only real Debian developership attempt was a go at packaging wayvnc a long time ago, and it's deps, well before it was available. Seems fairly straightforward, but I felt very unwelcome when I tried to ask about finding a maintainer or getting mentorship; it was a long time ago so I don't fully remember, but it was pretty discouraging and experience having re-learned so much about Debian & having some the deeds, only to feel turned away for unclear reasons.
That’s a transaction that occurs after the sale. The paying of agents is something that happens as part of the sale, so yes the buyer is very much paying the agent fees.
But but but AI, right?
It doesn't say anything about whether they'll remove the ads from the podcasts though.

I don't really mind paying for the podcasts, but it's going to piss me off if I still have to mash the 15s-forward button every fifteen minutes.
> AI is currently being coded up

Said every failed half baked AI startup the past year. Show the results when done. Saying that you are working on AI is barely a step beyond saying you have a concept of a plan.
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Ahh, thanks for the clarification! The more I learn about how things actually work, the more irritated I get of the media for playing us.
Agreed, just adding it as a data point to those who think cash is a solution.

I looked through the lawsuit and this is about stifling alternative payment methods.
For the displays? Rarely. But as salespeople, well, that too. There's probably a whole lot to unpack in the why of that, but there just aren't as many young people, more of them are fat, and on the whole people don't dress as carefully.

As an aside, I've lived away from urban areas for a while now, so maybe I am not the best judge, but I would be dumbstruck today by a first-rate window display in a downtown retail store.
Just downloaded all the data as a 2.45GB csv file. It took about 10 minutes to "export", before the download started.
There is even a full (code, data) GeoIP copy in there.

https://github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp/tree/3ab19235a69d96b...
Flash memory was still rather expensive at the time of the PSP's development and launch.

A mass-produced UMD probably cost a dollar or three to produce and package and held up to ~1.8GB, whereas consumer flash was more than an order of magnitude more expensive[1] at that time.

I mean: Sure, flash eventually became cheap-enough that it became a no-brainer for people like you and I to do whatever we felt like, but the PSP launched in March of 2005 when flash was still precious.

(That said, I don't think I even know if the UMD drive on my PSP-2000 ever even worked. I bought it new along with a Memory Stick of a few GBs, immediately rooted it with a special battery[2], and ran old-school console emulators on it. I don't believe that I've ever used it with with a UMD.)

[1]: https://www.jcmit.net/flashprice.htm

[2]: "Special" battery as in, IIRC, it had a magic serial number that enabled some debugging tools that let the cat out of the bag.
For some reason I always thought it had to do with storage.
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Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/us/politics/kamala-harris...
Using either frontier model for basic edge device problems is wasteful. Use something cheap. We're asking "is there a profitable niche between the best & runner-up models?" I believe so.
My guess is that a big part of why the social networks took over as much as they have is that the average non-technical person did not like the thousands of small web sites: every web site is a snowflake, and if you make web sites for a living, then the differences between them tend to be interesting, but to the average non-technical person, the differences tend to be confusing or at least a little distracting or annoying, is my guess.
> I wonder how things would have played out differently if the generation that computerized their stores before the personal computer era and finessed the transition to malls had still been calling the shots at these companies during the dotcom boom.

A lot of it was bad luck. Sears shut down their catalog operation in 1993, because it was losing money, but if they'd held on for a few more years they'd have been in a prime position to be Amazon.
I think this could happen even if Harris wins. There are a lot of big donors to her campaign that want Lina Khan out.
I think jobs programs are a failure of society to imagine what true abundance looks like, and how abundant our lives are.

In the US, we produce and throw away so much food that overconsumption is vastly more deadly than underconsumption. Hell, we even put corn ethanol into our petro products just to keep the farmland in use.

We could have “universal basic food stamps” pretty much immediately. Affordably too - society is collectively already paying for a multiple of all consumption needs (just out of pocket instead of via government subsidy). People could work for extra income for their specialty foods.
>part of the department store experience is the relative expertise of staff in each department. And the sales pitch is one of high value, you might even say beauty or care.

Yes, exactly. To add to that, the salespeople in each department got a percentage sales commission. E.g. at Sears department store, the salesperson in jewelry dept was on a commission structure. The salesman working the Sears appliance center got a commission when the customer bought a washer & dryer or refrigerator; same situation in the Sears furniture department when a customer bought a sofa.

In contrast, the big-box discount stores like Walmart and HomeDepot have hourly paid employees without sales commissions.
The Toughest Part About Owning a $100k Tesla Cybertruck? Cleaning It
Cool, now all Google has to do is make it easier to onboard new GCP customers and more people will probably use it...its comical how hard it is to create a new GCP
organization & billing account. Also I think more Workspace customers would probably try Gemini if it was a usage-based trial as opposed to clicking a "Try for 14 days" CTA to activate a new subscription.
congrats on the launch! .. I am loving this entire thread.
From TFA:

> My understanding is that JPEGs don’t have lossless rotation by default, and that is true for sips as well.

This is incorrect. JPEG's can be losslessly rotated in 90 degree increments. See the -rotate option to 'jpegtran' in the libjpeg toolset.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/jpegtran.1.en

Best guess at what the author saw, the original files were likely originally compressed with an encoder that did not optimize the huffman table, and his newer tools likely do compute an optimal huffman table for compressing the DCT coefficients, that and the fact that the author was doing a lossy recompression would often result in file size reductions.

Also, passing jpeg's through jpegtran's lossless '-optimize' option often shrinks them in size. I.e., the jpeg's direct from most cameras often shrink (sometimes substantially) when optimizing them this way.
Lenient 2-year sentence for Caroline Ellison after cooperation in FTX case
A thing I have admired about the BlueSky development team is that they're always thinking about the future, not just the present. One area in which this is true is the system design: they explicitly considered how they would scale. Sure, at the current cost, this may not be worth it, but as BlueSky continues to grow, work like this will be more and more important.

Also, it's just a good look towards the community. Remember, ideally not all of ATProto's infrastructure is run by BlueSky themselves, but by a diverse set of folks who want to be able to control their own data. These are more likely to be individuals or small groups, not capitalized startups. While the protocol itself is designed to be able to do this, "what happens when BlueSky is huge and running your own infra is too expensive" is a current question that some folks are reasonable skeptical about: it's no good being a federated protocol if nobody can afford to run a node. By doing stuff like this, the BlueSky team is signaling that they're aware of and responsive to these concerns, so don't look at it as trying to save money on bandwidth: look at it as a savvy way to generate some good marketing.

That's my take anyway.

EDIT: scrolling down, you can see this kind of sentiment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637307
The only reason fraud is such a huge problem (and resolving it is such a 'benefit') is because credit cards are an obsolete, insecure model.
About 4 months ago when I launched Modern Realty, it was at discount. However, what comes with a product branded at a discount product is people aggressively questioning our quality and services all the time. Also, we would get lots of potential clients who would try and push our prices even lower. We don't have any of these problems at full price, and people have a significantly higher presumption of our services out the gate.

We have similar real estate insurance to real estate agents. Agents make mistakes describing property all the time - we make mistakes, but fewer than the an agent.
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Wikimedia is a totally underrated source of photos.

The problem is filtering good ones. See my PR of the day, where I'm using only the images that are featured on Wikipedia pages. It gives better results than google maps in lots of places. Also some weird pictures like logos but I'm confident they can be ruled out.

Your map is cool !

https://plantopo.com/geophotos#13.92/50.91621/-1.37752

https://cartes.app/?photos=oui#13.92/50.91621/-1.37752

With this second link you'll understand the why of my PR : there's just too many Wikimedia photos ^^

Edit : PR merged, you'll see less photos in 1 minute https://github.com/laem/cartes/pull/611
While I understand your point, doesn’t adult stuff also have very high rates of fraud and chargebacks? Even if a fair bit may have been correct but reported as fraud for personal reasons?

Avoiding a category like that (or holding it to stricter standards) seems rather reasonable.
https://archive.ph/ZE0Wx
If you like a podcast enough to go through back catalogue, probably worth throwing them a monthly fee every once in a while to grab everything.

That said, are there any communities out there that diligently archives podcasts? Seems like pretty effort trivial considering rss+size. I was hoping more people was going to use PLEX podcast for this, but it was bad, and got axed.
> This is social engineering, no?

Yes, this is probably spear phishing, a targeted attack.
The question is not how much better it is to pay by debit card than cash, but how high the margins are compared to the costs. If the margins are high there may be possible to improve the competition of the market.
Have you tried Gitlab Duo and if so, what are your thoughts on that?
I haven't worked in a single company where it wasn't easy to game any metrics. The only effective countermeasure to people slacking is having eyes watching them.
> POSIX is supposed to be descriptive of what exists, not prescribe new behavior

Well, it can be argued that ape already existed when that POSIX change was written :)

Everything is working as intended. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
Returnal is on PC. Demon souls is just a PS3 game… I don’t really count remakes.
Other browsers were allowed to exist in Windows restriction-free. The DoJ simply took umbrage with MS bundling IE with Windows. The judgment was vacated a year later and IE still ships with Windows and never took over the world.

Conversely, the Apple App Store does not allow competitors and is directly the reason you can't buy your app anywhere else. Further, MS never profited directly off of IE whereas a sizeable portion of Apple's profits comes directly from their app store.

Also, most of US v Microsoft took place prior to Ballmer coming into power.
> Are you using opentripplanner for routing?

No, Motis. I picked the first I could install on my computer at the time. Turns out, it's a very promising project.

But switching to OTP wouldn't be such a problem. GTFS in, JSON out. It's a one day work change for basic functionnality.
They'll be cutting off a significant discovery source, though. That's how I subscribe to most of my podcasts -- somebody links to a good episode and I like it so much I subscribe.

IMO they're probably better off with the exact opposite approach -- make all the episodes but the latest one free, and put the latest one behind a firewall so people who don't pay are a week behind.

That's what almost all of the Patreon-funded creators do.
Biggest one is probably health insurance. I'd be surprised if you can get any (private, employer-sponsored, ACA exchange, Medicaid, Medicare) health insurance plan without an SSN. Medicare at least makes sense since it is administered by the Social Security Administration.
To introduce their WinAmp-relevant identity: https://winampplugins.co.uk/
I, like many of the other people in this thread, had a buyer agent that did nothing. If you need someone who can do these things, looks like you've found that person!
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Maybe take things as far as they should go, but no further.

also: sunk cost fallacy
I've literally just launched it.
What limitations are in place due to licensed broker and agent laws?
> Isn't this just an anti-science term adopted by religious people and postmodernists?

Not at all, as a scientist, I find scientism to be very common and the biggest obstacle to the general public understanding science- more so than religious people and postmodernists which are at least openly anti-science, rather than just confused about what it is. It is a fanatical religious like belief in the correctness, completeness, and finality of "what science has already discovered" and an aggressive dismissal of e.g. things like creative though experiments or anecdotal observations that question current understanding. To people practicing scientism, the regular practice of actual science looks like heresy and pseudo-science and they would get angry if they were present, e.g. when Isaac Newton or Charles Darwin first mentioned their now accepted but once controversial ideas. They will say things like you don't know (and shouldn't think or talk about) anything until it is confirmed in a large study- without considering how scientists come up with the designs and ideas (and funding) for such studies in the first place.

Science in popular media and schools is taught as a bunch of authoritarian facts to memorize and believe without deeply and intuitively understanding, rather than a creative process of trying to deeply understanding and question things for yourself. When I mention something interesting or counter-intuitive I encountered in my professional research, or something interesting I have been thinking about recently- especially among young intelligent "skeptical and science loving" non-scientist programmers on this forum, I am often met with angry derision, because the process of talking about and exploring weird ideas- e.g. the actual how the sausage is made by working scientists, is seen as extremely unacceptable if it conflicts with what they heard in school, media, etc. I’ve mentioned things I’ve personally discovered on here- and been called an idiot and sent the wikipedia link for a field I’ve studied for decades, and is actually citing my older papers and work, by someone that only heard the field existed when they read my comment.

The pseudo-science conspiracy theory people ironically get the creative independent thinking part more right than the "Scientism-ists", but then miss the important second part of actually taking the responsibility to deeply understand for yourself, and critically question things.

There is something very wrong with science education when the people that say they love it, respond negatively when they encounter the real thing- and this can be fixed by redesigning science education. As an academic PI I don’t teach regular classes, but put students directly in the lab working on a new problem nobody has solved before, where they can’t look up the answer, and then mentor them 1 on 1 if they get really stuck. I then have them actually write it up and submit it to a real peer reviewed journal.
In the U.K. you paid by the minute for phone calls too. That’s on top of tue per minute compuserve charge and the monthly charge.

While the extra charges ok top of the phone we’re slowly removed, the genral per monute phone costs remained well into the late 90s and the gradual rollout of broadband (512k adsl)
The article references the efforts of researchers to digitally decode papyrus scrolls for the Vesuvius Prize. That itself is very interesting and was covered on HN at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861
So in Star Trek artisinal work/projects would not exist?
Monopoly is about far far more than market share. That’s a bit of it, but you can be abusing a monopoly at far far less than 95%.
The problem with these large open source projects is that they are already on maintenance mode and the fun part has already been done a long ago. Who wants to work for months doing menial tasks so that when they "graduate" they can start doing maintenance.
(Posting while my above comment is greyed out from downvotes)

My comment is a direct quote from Wikipedia. If you aren't aware, downvoting my comment will not change what Wikipedia says.
> probably worth throwing them a monthly fee every once in a while to grab everything.

How would you do that though? I'm assuming Spotify and Apple Podcasts will remove your downloads once it detects your subscription has ended.

And I assume there won't be any way to just download raw MP3 files for anything in the back catalog.
Isn't that because of high chargeback rates?
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And, notably, it's an election year and the Biden administration wants everyone to see what's at stake in the election.

Yes, they probably also believe in what they're doing and yes, they've been putting this together for a while, but it's not a coincidence that we've had a regular cadence of these announcements for the past few months.

Edit: Recognizing when your party is playing a political game is a healthy part of the democratic process even if you agree with their goals. Pretending your preferred party is above political showmanship isn't even party loyalty, it's just naivete. Everyone needs to put on the show to accomplish their goals.
This is an interesting alternative to password manager, esp. if you want to version control your secrets
https://github.com/getsops/sops
I tried building software in the real-estate space and its very difficult to break in and change consumer behavior. You can see what I was working on here (https://findur.io). The app is active but the business is shut down. I just leave it up to have as a portfolio project at this point. I've learned many hard lessons from doing this journey.

Lessons learned that might help you guys out:
- Consumers want everything Zillow has. Until you actually build Zillow AND THEN start to innovate on top of that, people won't come.
- Zillow is developing the "everything app" for home buyers. Read their quarterly reports you'll get insight to what they are doing
- Consumers in this market won't pay for a service give Zillow and others are free. Market is tough
- Brokers are paying other fees and don't want to buy additional software.
- Realtors are not doing well in this market so this must be a huge value add or they won't come. They also require a mobile version because they are on the road a lot.
- Validate that your company is not just a "feature" but truly something different. A lot of times, Zillow can just build out the feature itself. It already has a first pass at using LLMs for search
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