skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
British PCPs are very similar to the car leases that have been very common in the United States for many years (in both prime and subprime markets). There has been a lot of recent discussion about the risks associated with PCPs is mainly because they are relatively new in the UK, and because they have grown so quickly lately from almost zero. That means assumptions about the “residual value” (to use the American term) of the cars at the end of the contract, which are based largely on data from before PCPs became so popular, may not be so accurate.

That’s probably less of a concern in the US, where the lenders have more experience with these things, although car sales (and leases) have also grown rapidly in recent years, so there is still something to worry about.

In both countries, as I understand it, it is the lender who loses out if the resale value is less than rejected. So at least individual car owners are somewhat protected, and the biggest risk might be having to return the car and not being able to get a new lease/PCP with attractive terms.
Do consider a (paid?) add-on similar to Dropbox's Extended Version History [1]. It'll at least protect against ransomware and other mishaps.

It'll also be nice if you could provide an option to get alerts if a certain subset of files change. I have folders on my NAS (I know Backblaze doesn't back up servers) which are basically files from my old desktops that I'll sort through some day in the future, and which are highly unlikely to change, maybe ever.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/security/extended-version-histo...
Honestly a car can been seen as an investment in the classic sense. If you buy a car for its utility, i.e. to help you get to work or otherwise be more productive, you will get a return you may not have been able to otherwise. Of course most people spend way too much or buy cars they don't need, so the return can be terrible.
There is already sync from ad to g-suite, how does this significantly change things for education? Also, the education industry is already probably the biggest industry for Chromebooks i.e. it already has legs there.
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Wow, trying to censor someones social account now.
Not only this but Google also has a TERRIBLE track record for just ending products with little or nor warning

I would NEVER trust a Google Operating system in the Enterprise. For example they are pushing a use case as Kiosk's Kiosk need to run for years with stability, not be at the whims of a company that can kill the product in a whim or make substantial non-backward compatible changes to it ever 12 months
Love to the Servo from Mozilla take over the world soon.
you got some downvotes but I chuckled, so have an upvote.
Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor, also got locked out of his account. He also happens to have incorrect views. Have any other professors been locked out of their account?
On the 'Weather in Sydney' page:
"The warmest time of year is generally mid-January where highs are regularly around 61.9°F (16.6°C) with temperatures rarely dropping below 50.3°F (10.2°C) at night"

I think something is off here. That sounds like our winter weather! I would guess our average summer temp would be closer to 30deg C
Most used car dealers don't give you a warranty: https://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/ctd/d/2015-bmw-x5-35i-awd... Note the conspicious absence of the word "warranty" on this listing. If the car falls apart as you drive off the lot, you're out $35K.

CPO cars have a warranty, which sharply limits your downside risk. Buying a used car from a manufacturer is a much better deal than buying it from a third party.
I'm a few months from paying off my car which I got a 2% rate on. Financing a decent used car would have been a rate of around 8% - it about broke even with expected depreciation, and it was hard to find a good used car to begin with.
> I am also working on a whitespace and comment preserving parser that round-trips, so you can change a value in a configuration file without loosing comments.

I am 80% done writing such a parser for a over-engineered legacy config file format. It isn't that hard really, you just need a parser framework/library that can output a complete parse tree (a tree where a preorder traversal covers every byte in the input contiguously, exactly once).

The remaining 20% of the work is keeping track of the line and column number (almost there), cleaning up the code, and being able to reserialize the AST to a binary format (for reloading in another process where I don't want to have to rerun the original PEG)
What impact will this have on bandwidth?
Ya, I'm going to continue to tune it and try to get a more coherent plot. I think that I will have to (at a minimum) make the sequence length really long, which will make training time even slower.
>Death by asteroids is a low risk but high impact type of event. We cannot afford to have even one such event.

Depending on how rare and difficult to tackle would be, we probably also cannot afford to do anything about it.

If we have as much as 1% or even 0.1% possibility of one hitting earth in the next 100 years, we would have rallied to build something even if is very costly and difficult.

In 0.00001% chances or less, there's no way any country is gonna's devote any significant resources...

>What is money in the face of a 0.00001% chance of annihilation?

Still very important?

(We have a much more concrete and possible chance of billions of deaths from nuclear arms and/or global warming, but we still don't do anything about it).
> A lot probably comes down to the size of the moat. If some fairly modest dataset is "good enough" that implies needed data will be widely available can be used by anyone for their automation algorithms. (Regulation could also force some level of standardization at this layer.)

Given that humans do without detailed data of this sort, I think it should be okay to leave manufacturers and service providers to figure out how proprietary or standardized the datasets should be.

I personally might never trust/desire an autonomous car, especially one connected to the internet, a phone network, or a car-to-car network. In a world where everyone has your best interests at heart, it seems like a nice feature; in the one world we've got, it doesn't.
All other articles and GM comments say that the extended summer shutdown is to increase Bolt supply, not because there is too much supply already. The Bolt outsold both of Tesla's vehicles last month. The Sonic has weak sales, so during the shutdown they're reconfiguring the plant to make 1 Bolt for every 1 Sonic, where it was 1:2 before.
Then I'd need some other software where I could start a server and import my data. Otherwise it's useless.

If this software exists and it is an adequate substitute to Google products.. well, let's just use it then.
I've got a bunch of hardware that plugs into specific services like Pocket (ebook reader) or Spotify (my hifi). If those services go away, or for some reason I don't want to use them, there's no way for me to get equivalent functionality with some simlar service (e.g. I'd rather use pinboard.in than pocket).

I would much prefer it if all of these services followed a publicly documented protocol and allowed me to configure which endpoint they talked to. I can't see this ever happening without regulation though.
Because Linux still isn't ready to roll out for the average enterprise office user. My mother, father, wife, and sister all have higher ed degrees and fruitful careers and can't realistically use a linux machine - even today. Linux' open nature has been it's greatest achievement, and it's worst enemy. Lack of commonality or agreement on package sources, etc., has led to an ecosystem that's all but inaccessible to the Real World.

I love it myself, but until you can walk into a Best Buy and a quarter of the options are Linux machines that the sales people can show off as well as the mac airs and surfaces, it's going to stay for people like me.

And that's just the home world. Trying to bring business into it? Unless your staff is purely development oriented, you now have to retrain every one of them (and probably most of the developers). Linux for wide spread average business user use is a non starter.
I'd look into companies focused on SBIR grants. The SBIR program is a governmental program designed to spur R&D in small businesses. Over $2.5billion is awarded annually. For instance one grant deals with researching detecting and suppressing attacks on GPS receivers on missile systems.

You can staff projects off of grants, so it removes the need to sell the product. And the companies are probably going to be more academic, with a high percentage having graduate degrees. But companies will be under pressure to win grants. And because they have less of a need to sell a product, your work might not be widely used after the project ends. Also, the DoD is a major source of grants, so it would be helpful if you were comfortable with working on military research projects.

But it might be something to look into if you want to get into software development in an academic environment.
That's only if you intend to sell it for more than scrap value some day.

Any car I buy is getting sold to the junkyard for $500 in 10+ years and 200k+ mi. How steeply it's paper value declines between now and then doesn't matter much to me.
>>Enterprise services get far better support.

Better is relative. it is accurate to say it is better than the no support they give to free consumers. But it is a far cry from "good" support
> The algorithm tries to assign each list a unique integer so that the more probable lists get smaller integers.

This sounds like basic Huffman encoding. What am I not understanding?
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• Are there any functional programming advocates in the Common Lisp open source community?

Yo! https://github.com/slburson/fset
Considering that current Word doesn't do that much more than Word2000 but is undoubtedly slower, why shouldn't people complain about lag?
The Mozilla user base is already biased. Plus they can run experimental test fixtures to canvas sites. This sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Pony (https://ponylang.org) uses sum types, perhaps excessively. Just yesterday, I wrote:

(None | (In, USize))

I.e., None (the null valued type) or a pair made of a type variable (In) and a USize.

The thing is, the values that satisfy this type are not subtypes of None and a pair. (That would be silly, given None.) Such a value is either None, or a pair.
I wonder how much of the citizens' indifference to and mistrust of the government and politics is a product of living for decades in a communist authoritarian state, as opposed to a fundamental nature of the people there. Seems like a classic case of fundamental attribution error.
You think you're joking but
> Consumer satisfaction indices are published with some regularity, the United States is usually somewhere between the 20th and the 30th position of such rankings.

Thanks for the data point. I'll point out that consumer satisfaction depends on many things in addition to what we are talking about in this thread.
Yep, I was using TF 1.0.0. I will probably upgrade in the future and will keep this in mind.
I don't get how people in this thread keep comparing a paid enterprise product, to a free ad-backed product used by billions of people. The cost you pay is mostly for the 24/7 support. These are two entirely different services that can't be compared. It's near impossible to provide quality fast support to billions of people for free, especially when there are millions of fake users in the middle trying to use the exact same free systems to abuse and break the system.
> It's even ineffective.

I wouldn't be so sure. Do this to a few people and thousands of others start to mince their words. It could be extremely effective if it were employed as a political strategy, because being locked out of your Google account is a major problem for most people.
Aren't all those laws focused on new cars? I can't imagine the backlash a government would receive by zeroing out the value of most people's most expensive possession.
Kinda curious how electrical vehicles will fare during a mandatory evacuation or disaster. If you don't have a full charge, there's not an easy way to get a full charge, and so you will just not have transportation the full route.
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Isn't looking at Craigslist selection bias around people looking to buy/sell cheaper cars without warranties?

If I had a used car worth 20K still in a maintenance window I wouldn't sell it on Craigslist. Autotrader if I wanted to private-party to max my upside, dealer if I was lazy.
Don't they have a range of something like 20 miles, which would take much more than a few seconds? And that is measured in a straight line from the gun to the target; the shell, of course, takes the long way.
To expand on my post, the features I require are:

- Keep at least first (non-zero sized) version of file, at least one version per month (if modified), at least one version per 15 minutes for last week, last version of file.

- Ability to back up files in certain directories very frequently (ie 15 minutes intervals).

- Ability to search for and restore individual files in client, ie without sending my password to someone else.

For this I find the $10/mo Crashplan now charges to be reasonable (my current backup set is ~400GB). I would be prepared to pay more if I required more storage, though within reason.
Haha, that's awesome! I was thinking about trying to combine the scripts and book text so that I can train on more data.
> Are there others?

The ways discussed in the article and in this thread, as examples.
There's also an appstore version which is unlikely to update the application code together with the definitions.
It is.

"Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression rate of arithmetic coding"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540
Result:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6305625...
They have no problem supporting planned parenthood though. Kind of ironic...
Why opt-out? I understand that if the users have to make an effort to submit telemetry data, most won't. But it could be a dialog at update/installation time, wich requires the user to choose between yes amd no. If a users says no, they clearly value their privacy more than additional features or stability of their browser, and Mozilla's values include respect of the users' choices about their own data.
As someone who at one point considered a 500e, why so cheap in the aftermarket? Are they really falling apart this quickly?
Made me think of Michael Hastings demise... https://youtu.be/7zakBULPETo
More probable lists. Huffman coding converts a symbol into a sequence of bits, ANS and arithmetic coders in general convert a sequence of symbols into a sequence of bits.

This means that fractional probabilities can be encoded more precisely-- Huffman codes are only optimal if your symbol probabilities are powers of two.
Yep. And that's called a reputation.
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Wouldn't the price tank if the majority of insiders want to cash out?
Speed values in space always seem to omit "relative to what" clarifications. Relative to the earth, the sun, along the earth's orbital path or contra, etc.? It makes a huge difference.
I'd like to introduce you to JavaScript, the HTML of programming languages.
Whatever the rationale, the posts's core statement - that either people accept new contract terms or their device will brick the next time they change the API - is correct.

[edit] apparently the models have a line-in socket? In that case, I agree, them turning into regular speakers is better than bricking. However, I still think the article is relevant as it highlights the problem of ownership and terms of sale with IoT devices. (The conditions under which you bought the device can change arbitrarily after the sale)
I am not an electrical engineer.

My understanding is that in theory two diodes can provide (at least some of) the functionality of a transistor. In practice, using current semiconductor technology, this is impractical/impossible. My reading of the article is the claim that it is possible to provide the behavior of transistors with the single molecule. That is not the same as claiming a single molecule mechanism uses the same technology as current integrated circuits. The analogy I would draw is that transistors have many of the same behaviors as vacuum tubes...or more perhaps more visually the same behaviors as valves in the British usage.

Of course I may be completely misunderstanding the article and it's claims, but that is how I resolved the various confusing implications.
I assume you probably made the comment to bookmark the article? There is a 'favorite' option that does that for you.
Where it's inelastic then a profit-maximizing business would already have priced their goods accordingly, and there would be no room to raise prices. Most businesses won't just leave money on the table.

There are exceptions and complexity, of course. In health care, raising the price of a good with inelastic demand such as, say, Epipens, might attract social and political penalties. On the other hand, pricing such goods (e.g., pills that cure terminal diseases) at very high levels to begin with is an accepted practice.
Usually the factory warranty transfers on sale if the car is new enough. https://www.autotrader.com/car-tips/buying-a-car-is-the-fact...

Generally not as nice as CPO, but it's something.
All of these provide a form of risk insurance and professional administration to prevent large transactions from going very badly on the edge.
Sounds like you're not using their backup service as a backup service, then, and perhaps part of the reason why they've discontinued it.
This works as long as you don't wish to attract people, or have such a strong personality that it signals more than anything else.

Yes, being in a particular place is a signal. But if you wear a Tommy Bahama shirt and khakis to a BDSM party you are probably not going to get attention.

Home decor is another point - if you want it to be a comfortable home and nothing else, great! Do whatever you like. But if you want the space to act as an occasional community center for you and your social group, signals help. There aren't many fancy 50 year old wine parties in basement apartments.
Very possible and true in general that successful people attribute success to hard work (who wouldn't). I have had trust fund folks defend their situation similarly as well.

But my point is to take the focus away from them and their life and point it at self. It has always helped me to assume that the world is a place where hard work wins against all odds because then my search is for hard work rather than luck.

I don't have much other than internet encouragement :), So good luck. I really hope you turn it around!
For many companies yes. But for companies with relatively poor financial fundamentals, debt is not that cheap. Tesla's 8 year bonds are currently yielding close to 6% (and they got a great deal on this too). They're rated junk. Spotify would likely have to pay a higher coupon than Tesla. Debt for them is not that cheap.

That being said, if you can issue investment grade bonds, then debt is very cheap.
See the sibling comment for why this "solution" is a joke. Also keep in mind that takeout is completely buried so fewer than 1% of the users know about it, let alone use it enough to not get screwed by a lockout of their most recent data.
An Electron alternative done right
I like how visually look VS Code, not only the app but the syntax.

But in fact, I use both. I always use 2-3 different editors. Mainly because using 2 monitors is easier to switch between apps than between tabs/windows of a app! So I use sublime to code and VS Code to visually something else. Or to write random stuff.

I have the same setup before with TextMate + Sublime.
There are very strict laws about using children's data, so I'd assume that the data collecting is kept to a minimum for Chromebooks in schools
Justice Department Drops Request for IPs of 1.3 M Visitors to Anti-Trump Site
It's relatively time consuming to do this. And how often should I do it? It's not as simple as the name suggests.
Original title: Justice Department Drops Request for IP Addresses of 1.3 Million Visitors to Anti-Trump Site (12 characters too long)

Techmeme Summary: DOJ says DreamHost warrant was too broad, states it has no interest in records relating to 1.3M IP addresses of visitors to anti-Trump site

Dreamhost reply: Narrowing the Scope

https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/narrowing-the-scope/

Dreamhost reply submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15077311
Agreed. I had a free ticket to a comedy show, and I wanted to give it away without it going to waste - I had to think very hard and carefully about if I wanted to offer it to a female coworker on short notice.

The comedian in question did some rather blue jokes, and that could possibly be construed as harassment. It's a shame you can't just offer tickets to coworkers of the opposite sex without worrying about consequences.
Yes, the laws only apply to new vehicles.

It's similar to when Color TVs were invented. What happened to the re-sale value of all the B&W TVs that were already out there? They plummeted, because they had been superseded.

This scenario will be even more aggressive, because laws will ban the sale of the "old tech".
Many problems here:

1. You're proposing a mechanism for collecting data, and a strategy for extracting more data than you currently do. You have not figured out the type of data that you will finally need, only a set of things that you currently envision. Naturally, the data that you will collect in the future will be more than what you currently envision. There is built-in mission creep that is dangerous.

2. What you currently envision is not fleshed out as especially useful. You only believe it is useful. The pain point of biased data is red herring. Your concern is more about not enough data.

3. You have found a technology which you believe will allow you to collect a lot of data anonymously. But none of you seem to understand the technology very well. It seems like a shiny toy that you are eager to go to town with. I am not sure this is the right attitude.

4. You're proposing to use your users in lieu of proper testers, or to save time. There are many ways to properly test software and to save time. Have they been explored? There used to be a time when beta software was a thing. Prompt the users to become testers for your beta software. If users don't want to be testers then don't collect data from them. How much data do you actually need anyway? Have you fully utilized your existing data?

Over all, I see this as a nice-to-have luxury, not some life-and-death situation, and subverting the goodwill of users is not worth it, IMHO.
I found Sonos support to be super helpful. First time I've talked with a support representative where I came away impressed with how knowledgeable they were.
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Nice! I drove my $6k Jeep 65,000 kms through 16 countries, then sold it for what I bought it for.

Now I'm driving my ~$35k Jeep through 30 countries in Africa, should be well over 100k kms.

Have fun out there!
Some warranty/return possibility? A friend has just gone through two returns at CarMax.
I know a lot of people struggle with the meditation habit because they don't like to just sit still and breath. These are a pretty great set of tutorials for alternative options.
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Have you seen what happens to gas stations during a mandatory evacuation or disaster?

With no electricity, gas can not be pumped from the tanks.

Even when it can, there is immediately a line-up of 100s of vehicles.

(I see this very often in West Africa)
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