skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly - 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.

Costco/Walmart are, from a European perspective, more like a "cash and carry" wholesaler masquerading as retail. There is very little effort made to present the goods, it's all about high volume and the lowest possible price. They're equivalent to our supermarkets/hypermarkets, but even bigger and broader in scope.

This might sound like I'm stanning for department stores but not really. They're way more expensive than Amazon or discount retail, priced more like a specialist, and the quality and expertise doesn't always match the presentation. You can easily end up paying specialist prices for Amazon quality if you're not careful.

Anyway, I think their time is up, perhaps with a few high-end exceptions surviving as a luxury tourist experience. In central London, we've a department store just for toys - like an old-fashioned and upmarket Toys'R'Us - and today's generation are basically un-wowed. Like, sure it has a lot of stock, but the big etail operators have a lot more again. And you don't have to travel 40 minutes to look at it.
Yep! I'm already on the Coffee Clozers newsletter
CPU to be sure. However, low power video decoders are really nothing new for Intel or AMD.

Also, the codec being decoded matters a lot. H.264 is trivial to decode at this point while something like AV1 will require a bit more power to decode.
Because corporations pass profits on to individuals who also pay income taxes.

It is a bogus comparison. Visa might "only" pay 17%, but if you are an owner, you are paying 17% and then another 20% on what's left.
Discussion (59 points, 3 days ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614846
While "a major department store in every town" is probablty a thing of the past, my impression is that at least in major European capitals, the "national" department stores are still going strong.

I make it a point to try and visit them when I can. A couple hours in Selfridges in London, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Stockmann in Helsinki, Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm or Magasin du Nord in Copenhagen will tell you something about the country you're visiting, and keep you well entertained. I never buy anything outside of maybe a snack from their over-the-top food halls (most recently Moomin-shaped-gummies in Helsinki), or a sometimes surprisingly affordable lunch at one of their lunch counters (it's hard to beat the view you get along with your lunch or apéro at the top Galeries Lafayette on their terrace).

But in any case, none of these flagships have ever seemed empty or disused. On the contrary, I'm always surprised that while I might be astounded by the prices on display, there are always hundreds of local shoppers who seem to be quite happy to pay them.
> What are we supposed to take away from a high the high profit?

If you’re the sort to buy into conventional economic theory, that VISA faces no effective competition.
>I wish there was an easy way for pip to list what it's missing so it's easier to install dependencies via the system package manager.

PEP 725 is trying to be exactly that (https://peps.python.org/pep-0725/). It just took this long, since the implementation of the new `pyproject.toml` system, to get around to it.

But aside from that, the system package manager is only appropriate for "dependencies" that need it - i.e. things that need to actually be part of the local system, not packages side-by-side in a virtual environment somewhere.

>Also it's sad how setup tools bdist_rpm seems to be considered deprecated.

Historically, Setuptools tried to be a complete solution for everything except actually fetching code. People were even expected to setup.py install locally after downloading something from GitHub or whatever. Nowadays it's supposed to be just a build backend, for the kind of building processes that can be automated under Pip's direction. `bdist_rpm` simply doesn't fit that mold. You're supposed to use a third-party build system instead.
THANKS!!!!!! This works!

I have been amazed at how little information there is about this. Maybe I just don't know the right areas to look. But I tried google, reddit, stack, several LLMs[0] and never once did I come across ipconfig. Where should I be looking?

[0] Of course LLMs were just repeating the same stuff as reddit and SO and would continually forget that airplay got deprecated despite being in the prompt and me telling them multiple times after it suggested it over and over....
This is going to sound sexist, or youthist... but... dep't stores used to hire young people for many of the display cases, either gals or guys --of course they had the "patronly" guy for serious things, like suits and so on, but for many things they had something not quite over the top like the buxom and ripped "kids" A&F had, but the guys and gals were not frumpy... these days it's different.
You're really speaking about documentation quality, though. The most horribly written code ever written can still do a good job of documenting what the "if" does.

I think the real takeaway here is that code quality doesn't really matter. The most horribly written code is still quite fine to work with if well documented.
I feel like this article is leaving out the important parts. You'd think from the text that it's purely a price thing, where DOJ has some subjective idea of what a transaction ought to cost and are mad that Visa charges too much. The actual complaint and the DOJ statement on it both make it clear that the real problem is specific steps Visa has allegedly taken to stop people from competing with them.
I tried it and wanted it to work, but it only translated a few sentences on the page for me. On the highest level of difficulty, the whole page should be highlighted, don't you think?

One more recommendation: collect emails for people like me who want to see how your project develops over time.
> Seems like they just got so much bigger that we don't even recognize them as a department store. Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, et. al. are just variations on the theme.

I don't think so. Home Depot is clearly a big hardware store / lumber yard. Costco may carry many kinds of merchandise, shelved roughly according to type, I don't think it really qualifies as it has unspecialized staff (and very few of them), little selection within each type of item, and probably its only true "department" is the tire department.

The only thing you list that could arguably be a department store is Walmart, and I think the reason it's not recognized as one isn't because of its size, but because it's been drained of all glamor.

And none of them (at least in their non "super" sizes) are subjectively much bigger than the old mall department stores.
I'm presuming the poster either never took a compilers course, never had to write a parser, slept through their entire CS curriculum, or doesn't have a background in CS. (Which to be clear, doesn't have to involve a degree! The people who invented Computer Science sure as heck didn't have CS degrees!)

People forget that Computer Scientists has actual foundations built upon objective, scientifically backed, work in multiple disciplines, including mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy.

We use those foundations to build the tools that we then use to engineer software. It is one of the few fields where practitioners are expected to know both the foundational theories underpinning the tools they build, as well as then use those tools to create absurdly complex projects.

Sadly some people skip over the theory part.
Thats certainly true, and at least in philosophy similar discourses go back much farther than that!

But the senses are importantly different right? In the former, we are talking about clearly psychological assertions, in the form of skepticism, within an otherwise shared world.

Here it is clearly rhetorical though, right? Talking to GP as if they were LLM. Using it for a not-so-shorthand for "I believe you to be wrong about this".

Its really not a big deal. It's just interesting, I guess, how much the tools tend to master us and change us while we lie to ourselves that its the other way around.

Also, hadn't heard "acid flashbacks" in a long time.. Still waiting for mine!
If you go to their demo[0] and type in a prompt to ask it to say something (eg. a person says "hello") it seems to hallucinate a response in a made up language ... maybe, I don't speak every language.

[0]https://huggingface.co/spaces/OpenSound/EzAudio
The embedded video does not work for me on Android (neither chrome or firefox, I think it is because it adds an iframe with a /embed/ link with autoplay via javascript after the "Watch this video" button has been pressed)

This is the youtube link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MsHGqVuIK5g
Scalability Works in Two Directions
I don't have any, and indeed I've not criticized or questioned anything about real estate.

I've questioned how you'd support some of the claims you made that were overly-broad and seemed disconnected from the technology you're describing.

I've questioned your lack of transparency on pricing, and your justification for it.

I've asked a few questions about the general risk/liability of being a real estate agent and how you're managing those risks.

I think you've entered into this with a very narrow view of the technology you're using, the risk you're taking on (and creating), and the ethical considerations you need to be making.

If I'm wrong, it would probably benefit you to clearly lay out some of the considerations you've made around the above.
Funny enough filenames are just byte sequences. So almost anything goes.

There was just some patch that added '/' protection, because that's the only character that's not allowed in filenames.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/46f7109a9e03df89b66ada...
Exploring the limits of Postgres: when does it break? – StepChange
Discussion (424 points, 6 days ago, 234 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584486
right, late 80s. where i lived at the time (albuquerque or socorro) the local calling area was a whole city or group of nearby towns, but if you were to drive in any direction for an hour you'd be out in the middle of the wilderness, so it doesn't sound like your situation was actually different
The GitHub ToS states:

> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking). You may grant further rights if you adopt a license. If you are uploading Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other GitHub Users.

It would be weird to have a license that lets me create a fork in my own repo, but doesn't permit me to distribute it. If I create a fork of a public repo on GH, I require a license to distribute it because a public repo can be forked or downloaded by anyone. I can't them doing doing it. Therefore permission to further distribute is required for participation on GH.
In the US, bank debit cards are commonly Visa, although they can often be run on multiple networks, debit is confusing.
eCommerce is inherently cashless by design. Confined / captive environments (e.g. airplane cabins) are cashless. Concessions and merchandise counters at large events (sporting events, concerts, etc.) are cashless. Self-service kiosks for anything (or vending machines) are increasingly cashless. And if memory serves me correctly, I believe that using cash to purchase real estate via arms-length transaction is prohibited in the USA by law, even if the buyer and seller agree on the use of cash (and if it was logistically feasible to do so).

I would argue that cash is not an option in more cases than it is an option.
Sure, but I don't think it is as hard as people make it out to be. It definitely is a tool you should not take lightly and use precaution with. But people act like vim or baking bread is really hard. Sure, mastery of them takes quite a long time, but ability to do at a competent level is more dependent on if one can read instructions than time or skill.
25% of classes in MKBHD's new Android app are related to ads
Yeah it was specifically the (presumed) lack of Rust's "fearless" concurrency that I was referring to... i.e. we can ram this data through a parallel map, but is it actually safe to do?

(And of course the flip side of Rust here is that you need to be able to figure out how to represent your code and data to make it happy, which provides new and interesting limitations to how you can write stuff without delving into "unsafe" territory... something something TANSTAAFL)

Good info though; thanks!
Yeah exactly, that was my reading too! The claim in the link doesn't match what the POSIX bug says

If it did, then would be a sign that the POSIX process is not working well

Because POSIX is supposed to be descriptive of what exists, not prescribe new behavior
Well, America mostly. It was available in Holland but nobody used it because it was too expensive and American-centric. And we didn't like big companies here back then (I wish we still didn't but Holland has become very neoliberal)

They used to stick free installer CDs in every computer magazine but the takeup was really low.

Fidonet was way more popular here. And in France minitel but it was a bit of an outlier in Europe.
Dasung and Onyx sell e-ink monitors. I recall hearing that some of the high end e-ink tablets have a mode in which they act as a monitor as well. You can find video reviews of them to form you opinion on whether they're responsive enough.
Because the Biden administration has effective antitrust regulation as a policy goal and has staffed the FTC with competent people empowered to pursue that.
I was thinking that. The language seems not quite clear, at least to a non-lawyer like me:

> you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking)

So, on GitHub, we can "use", "perform", and "reproduce". Does editing/modifying fall under any of those verbs?
The cost of handling cards is more than the fees, obviously the machinery and network needed to use them costs something. It's always going to beat cash, but cash should always be available as a fallback for disaster situations and "off-grid" individuals.

I don't think government should be setting prices. But disrupting monopolies is one of those things governments are good for.
Yep, I still use XMMS.

There is also qmmp[1] for a Qt based player. And I think Audacious[2] still has a classic winamp interface, although it's not the default anymore.

[1] https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/

[2] https://audacious-media-player.org/
do you have any more info on this?
Well I’ll be ready to watch the lawsuit for trademark infringement then. Except there won’t be one because there’s no chance that’s trademark infringement. All the statements on the website of WP engine (as I currently see it of course) don’t imply any affiliation with the Wordpress trademark owners and are pretty factual. Do you have some more explicit reasoning for statements on the website that you find infringing?
One big reason that it’s still favored is because it allows some tax evasion
I recently wend through the process of selecting a MP3 player software for my Linux laptop and after testing many settled on the Strawberry player. It is actually very good: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments still doesn't work well. It's embarrassing.
Just picking items from bins at human speed or better still doesn't work in production. Amazon has spent much effort on this. This is what current technology looks like.[1] That's with machine learning.

In the early 1980s, some people at Stanford were talking about building something on the moon with robots by the year 2000. I asked "How soon can you do that in Utah?" They didn't like that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ix_nP2D3hQ
We use llama models as the comparative cost, at the time of decision making (9 months ago?), was cheaper++ then closed source models and comparative to other models available through bedrock (we use via aws bedrock).

Strong reasoning at the time was also to, at some point, take this on-prem/self-host - for privacy. More a comfort blanket for some of our customers/partners and a future requirement rather than a right now thing.

From a capability perspective it's everything we need - tho we are not taxing or pushing any boundaries... Our use cases are mainly processing/structuring/summarising incoming text and we run a few agents doing a variety of stuff. We have a bit of technical jargon (motorsports engineering related) and we saw good performance with llama over our previous use of Mistral/Claude/OpenAI.
The DOJ explicitly isn't comparing using Visa to handling cash, they're comparing it to what it would cost if Visa didn't allegedly manipulate the market.

Buying from Standard Oil was more efficient than trying to stick with non-oil-based alternatives, but that doesn't mean that Standard Oil didn't illegally manipulate the market to maintain a monopoly that hurt consumers.
>Think about that for a hot minute while recalibrating expectations.

My hot minute is that corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do via higher product\services prices, investors do via lower investment returns, or the employees do via lower wages.

And the bonus, the government gets less taxes from those lower investment returns and lower wages.
English for Developers
I'm an ESL teacher. I have a student who is a developer and needs to learn English (first language is Spanish). He is already familiar with the technical terminology. What do I need to teach him?
Buyer agents are not free. The buyer agent commission has historically been felt more indirectly by the buyer, sure, but sellers pay them out of proceeds. The recent NAR settlement agrees that this needs to be clear. This is also a contributor to higher transaction costs and inflated commissions that Modern Realty seems to be addressing.
Does your product produce any work that isn't examined and approved by one of those licensed agents?
Discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631982
> This means for every $100 sale, a business is paying between $4.70 and $15.30 just to manage their cash.

I'm pretty skeptical of that number, but more importantly

> And, the cost is only increasing as more businesses and consumers trend away from cash.

That should be excluded here. We want to look at the baseline cost of cash as a major payment method, not the effects of a payment method becoming overly niche.
Yes. It's active. But it's imperative. I didn't find a good React interface to MapLibre.

See Streetcomplete switching to MapLibre.
There is no reliable evidence that red meat consumption increases cancer risk. You are spreading medical misinformation by incorrectly interpreting low-quality observational studies.
There was a period where you had a lot of white flight from urban centers in the US and a lot retail moved out to the suburbs as a result. Retail pretty much follows the consumers. I'm not sure retail could have (or had the incentive to) keep the consumers in the cities.

As anecdata, when I graduated from grad school in the mid-eighties, other than Manhattan financial people, pretty much no one I knew went to live in a major city. In Massachusetts, none of the computer industry jobs were in Boston any lony longer.
I would agree with that, but that does not make it a monopoly. That depends largely on the reasons for lack of competition. e.g Is Visa using its position to freeze out others, or is it government regulation, or customer preference, ect.
In case anyone wants to do a similar visualization on their own, this looks like a screen capture of kepler.gl which is an open source web tool for this kind of map data exploration.
I was around (working remotely, even) before anyone had ever heard of standups. Back then, developers were excited enough about their work that they would share what they were working on by their own accord.

How did we get to the point where we determined that the only way to get anything out of developers was to setup a meeting to force it out? Telling them they must provide a status update on Slack instead is ultimately just a different cartoon character on the same basic bandaid – What is the actual problem here?
> Yeah, that's wrong. Primitive arrays aren't "boxed". An int[] is not an Integer[], and no boxing is performed unless you ask for it. SoA is fine in Java.

Yes, I botched that one, agreed.

> It's pretty easy to avoid boxing if you don't want it. They are separate types after all. Even so, Android lint has an inspection for it, and Intellij (presumably Android Studio too?) has an inspection you can turn on to detect it [1]. If you're running afoul of autoboxing, it's probably mostly in collections-based code and you'll want something like fastutil [2].

Autoboxing is a contradiction of "It's pretty easy to avoid boxing". It's specifically egregious for any place where you need performance guarantees.

> I don't understand this. You aren't using more than "native size" on any platform in any language without some sort of emulated Big* type.

Because you don't have unsigned integers (or arithmetic). So, for example, if you're playing with a 16-bit unsigned value, then you need a 32-bit signed integer to hold the 16 bits you care about (and you can kind of pretend you have 16-bit unsigned arithmetic.) But if you need a native-sized unsigned integer, you're out of luck.

> Implementations typically have both escape analysis and a nursery generation for this. This works well in a desktop/server environment.

Not on Google's VM the last time I tried. Shit went on the heap and the "concurrent" GC would then stall the entire application for ~1s every ~10s.

> I'm knee-deep in GDX and LWJGL, right now, but again not in a mobile context. I used to hang out in the Java gaming forums with the folks who originated LWJGL (e.g. cas).

I used to be on #LWJGL on Freenode, but it seems the guys moved to Discord or something.

By the way, we haven't talked about how horrible the JNI is, which requires you to wrap every C function so that you can pass around the JNIEnv handle and to manually marshal data structures to/from, like you're writing fucking Lua bindings or something. The right way to do FFI is the Haskell way, where you just call the function and get compiler support for auto-marshalling data structures (and, if you want, you can get your Haskell program to build and statically link the C library from source; no need to compile separately using another build tool and then dynamically load a shared lib.) Even C# does it better than Java. So in the use case where you have optimized C code and the rest of the application in Java, even the bridge itself is a pain in the ass to write.
A fun fact about NYC's buses: many of the routes are turn-by-turn replicas of previous streetcar routes; Brooklyn alone had dozens[1]. The B46[2], for example, follows the Utica-Reid line as it ran until 1951.

They never actually tore up most of these lines; the city just paved over them. You can see them poking through the pavement whenever the city redoes the roads.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streetcar_lines_in_Bro...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B46_(New_York_City_bus)