skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how are you supposed to express that sentiment without it sounding like a threat?
Yeah, it kinda took me by surprise too. One would think the Toyobaru twins along with the MX5 would have a lot higher manual transmission sales.
How does one reverse this process?
I stopped when the cost of prime went up again.

When I do order, my orders get free shipping anyways.
Modern locking torque converters provide direct connectivity from engine to wheels just like a manual transmission. They just also provide the torque multiplication and buttery smooth starts that a torque converter allows for.

I drove a BMW with the 7 speed Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) for a few years. The programming is really good, but every once in a while it would get things wrong and I'd look like a kid just learning how to drive a stick shift. BMW has switched to the ZF 8 speed for the new M5, and I wouldn't be overly surprised to see that happen for the next-gen M3. The purists will wail, but at the end of the day, it won't change anything, and the cars will still be fun to drive.
I work at Picterra[1], a swiss company doing machine learning on drone & satellite imagery.

From discussion with a number of drone service providers, it seems to me the restrictiveness really depends on the context.

For things involving flying a drone over a crowded area, it's definitely hard to get authorization and we've seen projects being abandoned because of that. So yeah, drone delivery in cities might take some time before it is allowed.

On the other hand, most of the commercial applications I've seen are around using drones for mapping. So basically taking pictures and then processing them (create orthophotos, build a 3D model, detect objects, etc...). This usually doesn't involve flying over crowd and for a number of use cases (farms, construction site, security) the fly would be over a private property. A lot of people are able to do this without any legal restrictions.

From what I know of the history of the swiss Drone Valley, the two biggest success are sensefly [2] and Pix4D [3] and those are in the mapping business.
Two of the booming startups would be wingtra [4] and flyability [5]. Wingtra seems to be mapping-oriented as well and Flyability develop drones that can fly inside. So a lot of the swiss drone valley is really into drones that can take pictures for mapping & inspection and I think this segment will continue to see massive growth in the future.

[1] https://www.picterra.ch/
[2] https://www.sensefly.com/
[3] https://pix4d.com
[4] https://wingtra.com/
[5] https://www.flyability.com/
And you're talking to someone that went through it all the same. Just because it's worked out for you doesn't make your experience the norm for all students. If you're expecting all students to spend 15+ years working just to get through their degree then I would argue that system is just as fucked up as the one we currently have.

The solution is to make college free for students and wipe away student loan debt. You're not going to fix the expectations, and even if you did that doesn't solve the mess we're in right now, does it?
well, WASM is going to change things a lot I think over the next 5 or so years.

Things like https://blazor.net/ (though not necessarily the first wave of these frameworks) are going to become more popular, and there are various variants in other languages. I think there will be a slow (very very slow) decline of js
Potato potato.

For instance for my current dev station I have a Mac and whenever I need Windows for something I use a Windows VM. It works pretty well for me.

The bottom line is that the guy needs cheap hardware that allows for a modern dev environment and also access to windows. Some flavor of linux + windows will check the boxes.
As mentioned at the end of the article, I hope all complicated car transmissions go away, and are replaced with dead simple reduction gears in electric cars. Transmissions are expensive to repair and replace, and are often the part that junks an otherwise servicable car when things go awry.

While I empathize with car enthusiasts' loss of manual control, as a used car buyer, and person who enjoys cleaner air, I'm ok with moving past manual (and even automatic) transmissions.
I was amazed the other day at how difficult it is to find products on Amazon now. I knew exactly which product I wanted to buy beforehand too.

I was trying to buy "BSN Syntha-6 Edge Protein Powder". I dare anyone reading this comment to find a 2-pound jug of cookies and cream flavored whey protein (not Micellar Casein or Hydrolyzed). I found it on GNC's website very quickly and bought it there.
Alex Russell first diagnosed this problem at Chrome Dev Summit in 2016 in a really amazing talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4

He makes the point that lots of JS frameworks are so large that you're already doomed before you write the first line of real "app code". The framework itself has already blown your performance budget.
If I had to choose two words that describe exactly what apple products AREN'T, affordable and upgradable are near the top of the list
Neat idea! Left aligning content on the FAQ page [1] would make it easier to read, imho.

Also, the logo is nice, but I find its strokes are a bit too thin.

[1] http://birthbook.me/faq
I'm in Spain and I don't think I've seen an automatic in my entire life and it's also not possible to get a licence for an automatic car.
It sounds like your motor home just had a really crappy automatic transmission. I've spent a lot of time driving around the Rocky Mountains (since I live here) and have never really had this issue when towing trailers.
The next line is -- "They're low-cost and easy to make," he said -- so that might be the main factor. They are also easier to repair.
i think public transit exists in most urban centers in america, is that not true?
If a transaction weren't in my interest, I wouldn't engage in it.

This is a fallacy. People often engage in transactions that aren't in their interest- believing in the moment that they are. Or said another way, there's a difference between long-term interest and short term interest, and people often don't see their long-term interest clearly. Or said still a different way, there's a big difference between happiness and pleasure, and people sometimes engage in pleasure in detriment to their happiness (roughly from the Dalai Lama).

I'm not talking about the 10^(-14). I'm talking about real decisions where there is an information asymmetry. And meth.
There's little argument for manual transmission anymore except in larger vehicles. There used to be an efficiency gap, in that a good manual driver was more efficient than an automatic.

But two things have happened since then, we have computer controlled transmissions and CVTs.

Manual drivers were more efficient because they learned when the vehicle would need to shift, and shifted preemptively. A computer controlled automatic can also be aware of when to shift, and shift early, but much more precisely (since it isn't based on engine noise/judder, it is based on direct electrical feedback).

CVTs are more efficient yet again because you now have "infinite gears" and they're computer controlled.

I'd happily drive a CVT until the day I die, and I learned on a manual. The only thing I wish is that they had better "off the line" response (e.g. stopped at a light).
can I use this in conjunction with graphQL and middleware such as apollo client? so essentially, use the middleware to query my DB and use watermelon for local storage?
Sometimes people don't even realize when they got items that were not what they ordered.

One two occasions, I ordered Nvidia cards that are overclocked. Both of them were swapped out with stock speed cards. People would not notice this unless they looked at the nvidia control panel and clicked system settings and looked at the clock speed.
I have very mixed feelings about this -- I walk and bicycle quite a lot, so I'm not deeply engaged with driving being fun, nor do I think it's really a great thing if drivers are having fun driving. Fun means more people spending more time on the roads endangering my life. But on the other hand, I learned on a stick. It really is more fun and I miss it.
For the second, Γάμος is like the word "marriage", meaning both the occasion of getting married and the state of being married. So a better translation would be "Master (your) marriage". Given the Ancient Greeks' dim view of women, I'm guessing it boils down to "Wear the pants at home."

For the third, I think it should be "Cause no grief onto [others]" (ἐπί+ dat.)
And it works great! Well worth my picodollars.
How is that relevant to the practice of "memorizing enough canned answers to most of these dang questions"?

It's not. Instead, ask something not particular tricky, a bit open ended, and just a little bit involved (at least 3 things interacting) with the purpose of seeing if basic skills can be applied. Instead of looking for an answer that can be memorized, you're looking for evidence to see if people have actually designed, implemented, and debugged something at a level beyond gluing libraries together.
We should just revoke drivers licenses for people who can't operate cars responsibly. It's way too easy to get a license and keep one in the US today. We don't even re-test.
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All the gov would need to do is mandate that colleges charge tuition as a percentage of post-graduation salary, and you'd see half of these low quality colleges peddling worthless degrees go bankrupt overnight.

At the end of the day, this country needs to decide whether the role of universities is to train students for career paths, or purely to provide higher education. It's very difficult to orient the structure around both without the incentive's being misaligned towards one of them.
A public ledger provides greater protection against
money laundering and other criminal activities than a
paper currency does

This is not true, especially when it comes to larger amounts.

For example, laundering millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies was easily achieved though services such as ShapeShift which up until recently had no KYC/AML paper trail. If someone wants to launder millions of dollars in physical cash, they would need a business acting as a "front" which could be scrutinized to an audit.

The Bitcoin network allows anyone to move millions of
dollars across the world without any in-person
meetings, and without the approval of any financial institutions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/technology/bitcoin-russia...

The Russians also created Bitcoins themselves through
the process known as mining, the indictment said.

This detail is particularly interesting, because if we assume state sponsored spies with a technical understanding of how the internet and the Bitcoin protocol works, that this sort of transaction could be untraceable to the source and so it would be safe to assume their operation was discovered though other forensics outside of blockchain records.
I think it's important to note that given the revolving doors and deep material connections between financial institutions and the government (and the resultant regulatory capture), there isn't that much meaningful daylight between "government" and "banks".
Agreed that space is a part of the comparison, but what I've seen is that although they put 3 checkouts in the y-axis space of a single staffed lane, they end up having to use up almost 3 times as much space in the x-axis to allow people to pass each other, which simply isn't necessary to allow in a staffed lane. So I don't believe the amount of space is that different.
Definitely the latter. One could almost paraphrase as “the ends reflect the means... therefore use noble means”
Drove nothing but manuals for the past 16 years. Got my first car with a dual-clutch automatic this year. It's faster to shift, easier to drive, has a crazy number of ratios, and still manually controllable. That said, if they still exist, I will go back to a manual for my next car. I think there is a level of engagement lost even with something controllable like a dual-clutch. I can see the appeal of a dual-clutch or even the newer torque converters and I can't fault people for choosing it over a manual, but for me it's not the right fit.
I've tried three times to rent a manual car at Schiphol, and ended up with an automatic each time. I also noticed that my Uber drivers almost always drive automatics in Amsterdam.

I know, plural of anecdote is not data.

Oh well. My 1998 Tacoma with a five speed will die soon enough, and I'll end up buying an automatic, probably.

I will have :wq! on my headstone, though.
Sure, where available, but if the Swedish postal service already offers 1 day delivery, it's not a competitive advantage to Swedish companies, assuming Amazon isn't barred from using it too.
My father bought me my first car, under the conditions that it had to be a stick, since he wanted me to learn in general, and since you have to pay attention more to the road, your likelihood of getting into an accident decreases significantly.

Now I drive a manual Golf GTI and I'm firmly of the "cold dead hands" camp with having it. I always wonder why other people don't like driving, and then I drive their cars. Having the stick turns my 45-minute commute from a chore to something I legitimately somewhat look forward to. My lease runs out next year and it seems like 2018 is the last year for many stick-shift models.

Definitely going to miss it when we all go full electric. Even then I hope to have a "fun" car to drive around.
I mean sure, PHP has a package manager and you can write software in it. But what compelling advantages does it have over it's competitors if you don't either have legacy code or are primarily a PHP developer?
I love my stick shift, and echo others that it increases my engagement level, but I'm at the point of buying my next car and I know it'll be automatic.

Too many companies don't try to push any advanced technology into their manuals; if you want any kind of active safety features you need to go automatic. Honda was probably the outlier; I test drove the Civic Hatch and it had everything except for low-speed follow available in manual. But others like Subaru, Mazda, etc won't put any of those features (adaptive cruise, etc) in manual packages, at least in the Canadian market.
I don't think fun has to equal unsafe. Manuals provide an opportunity to have fun doing things like matching downshifts and thinking about what you are doing. Both can be done within the confines of safe, legal operation.
The galaxy brain take on Tesla is that it is just marketing wrapped around the progress that was already happening in batteries. They really actually are cheaper and have much increased energy density relative to 10 and 20 years ago.
You can use the e-brake as you lift off the clutch pedal and press on the accelerator. With some learning, I'm now pretty OK at it after some 13,000 miles of manual driving total.
Do not stop to be thrifty

My guess is that rather than "always be thrifty", this is more like "don't let cost-optimizations stop forward progress". So, somewhat more like "penny-wise, pound-foolish" or "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" than "always be thrifty".

Master wedding-feasts

My guess here would be a meaning like "take full advantage of important ceremonial celebration feasts", with possible connotations of both "enjoy them fully" but also "don't over-imbibe or take them for granted".

Grieve for no one

Could very well be dependent on the exact form of 'grieve' in the original formulation; if a word meaning to mope or remain backward-looking (as opposed to honoring/learning in memories), it might really be about doing the right kind of mourning. Or, if the emphasis was on 'one' unique person, it might mean never to focus grief on any singular loss, as loss is universal – sort of related for "ask not for whom the bell tolls – it tolls for thee".
Getting up was fine. Stopping at the precipice at a 4 way stop, then trying to start again was the tricky bit. With an auto you can hold the brake while you slowly press the accelerator, then release the brakes.

Need a third foot to do that (or a hand brake) with a manual.

Edit: Hill lock definitely sounds nice. Didn't exist when I was young, poor, and had crappy old American made manual shift cars...
Had to google that https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/LF16/London/lots/r113-198...

yeah would be fun
I was looking around the lot at my local Porsche dealer 2 years ago. Tons of 911s. Number with manual xmission: 0.
That is a crime against humanity.
My brother has an R8, Viper, and Vantage (All Manual) and I would rather drive a Tesla over all 3 of them. Manual is fun and you get the feeling of control and I love driving them, but in reality, there is a reason they are on their way out. The main problem is that the replacement, automatic, make driving feel worse. The computers that manage automatic transmissions are so bad that they make automatics feel terrible to drive. EV's have their own problems, but changing gears is not one of them. Right now, my preference is:

EV > Manual > Automatic
I was under the impression that the real improvement in "5G" systems was in how many concurrent users they can handle, not the amount of bandwidth they can offer a single user.
Arguable. It easily could have increased the chances of another 9/11 by stirring up a bunch of shit.
Tiny, in-demand restaurant in Maine asked for reservations by notecard
The free market does not work in all situations. There's a reason why our healthcare is an absolute disaster compared to any other first world country, why our college is far more expensive, why our drugs cost more etc

And it ain't because of cost control. Every time we loosen the reins a bit and let the 'free market' take the wheels, we see things get a lot worse for Americans as a whole. Especially when you have giant companies controlling the market entirely, like with ISPs.
Or order pizza 'by the slice'
> Why do people always reach for central control, when we have the ultimate mechanism of price control as a core part of our society (competition).

The USA has 4,000+ colleges, most of which do compete aggressively for students. Huge marketing departments with regional and national reach. Radio ads. Television ads. Print ads. Marketing networks with college counselors. Salespeople who spend many months attending college fairs. Fancy dorms and other amenities. Carefully crafted discount rates applied in a way that tickles the applicant's ego in just the right way. Beautifully crafted websites. Massive landscaping budgets, the bulk of which is spent during recruiting season. Expensive logos and mottos crafted by marketing firms that spend a lot of time with study groups. And so on. Higher ed marketing is a big industry in the USA.

Competition alone does not drive prices down.

> What happens when the government tries to provide for us... they gaurantee your student loan: Skyrocketing cost of school

Well, maybe the government should actually provide education instead of providing financial products...

On that note, both European higher ed and US K12 would like to have a word...

IMO the problem in health and education is that we can't stomach the massive inequalities that show up in free markets (healthcare: let people die; education: only the rich and a few lower-risk borrowers get higher ed), but also can't commit to just socializing the whole damned enterprise. We need to abandon our morality or abandon our aversion to socialism; until we choose one, we'll be stuck with these extremely suboptimal public/private "solutions".
When I talked to them, the CS/IT programs had test outs, but they seem to be Microsoft oriented so the tests are most likely the microsoft tests.

But this was a few years ago, so no idea how they just started offering their CS in June.

You would have to confirm them. I had a co-worker who was attending while working a full time job, thats how I found out about it.
It could stand, if it wasn't so woefully off-base. But, as they say, haters gonna hate soooo whatevs dude, spill the haterade all over yourself.
You might enjoy writing it, but does anyone else enjoy reading it? ;)
So you will never work at Apple because you had 1 bad interviewer out of a sample size of 8? That seems foolish.
You gotta be euphemistic, the software running the site is precious about certain topics.

(that is, your grandchild comment here done be killed)
This was a vast potential market and Fannie Mae proved you could get away with serving it, the sky didn't fall for a number of years.

So other banks jumped on board. Are you saying they would have taken on this risk if the federal government hadn't moved first? I think there is a clear cause and affect.
Eh, driven both. The PDK in my Porsche is faster then I am. All my friends that screamed and yelled about being smarter then the PDK I took out for a ride on a long fun Mt road. At the end they said the PDK was better. This is and should be a task for a computer.
It is possible, I've driven manual cars and trucks from 1995 to 2010, no accidents whatsoever, but sometimes you want it easy.
Ericsson was/is Intel's large foundry client, but with the 10nm delays and 14nm being thoroughly booked with x86-64 and LTE modems for Apple, there isn't room for Ericsson to produce new chips on modern nodes. Worse yet, I hear Ericsson designed specifically for Intel 10nm, which leaves them up a creek for the next few years.

A firmware update to make existing hardware have a longer lifespan and help Ericsson to retain their clients was likely the only out here. If Ericsson had the new chips they were planning on, this firmware update would be much more expensive and less probable to actually see carriers taking them up on it.
I will defend about 20% of the interviewer's behavior here. I've had candidates try to negotiate away requirements or get me to give them part of the answer. They'll say something equivalent to, "Hey, could this method I'm supposed to implement have an extra parameter that makes everything easy?" Sure, any problem can be made easy by taking away the hard part, but we're not doing that. Or they'll say, "So what data structure would you use?" That's for you to solve.

From time to time, I ran into candidates with a crazy attitude like this, so I learned to stand my ground. It was an unfortunate and surprising necessity. The interviewer might have been doing this but going overboard with it. (Or maybe they were just a jerk.)

Now the 80% of the behavior I won't defend:

1. An interviewer should have the soft skills to stand their ground without being harsh and implying that you suck.

2. An interviewer should know the difference between minutiae and important stuff. Partly for time management reasons during limited interview time.

3. Even if an interviewer is rough around the edges sometimes, they should understand that in this context, they are the face of the company. And it is stressful and tiring. So they should reign it in and be understanding and nice.

4. The company should be in control of their own interviewing process, at least enough that failures like this aren't common. Maybe an interviewer needs some guidance to improve, or maybe some people aren't cut out to do interviews, but they shouldn't be just left to their own devices.
That still doesn't compare to the 300Mbps I'm getting right now even through Comcast, or the 1Gbps I'll be getting once the local fiber company builds out in my neighborhood in the next year or so.
PS: I also trust the HN community to give honest reviews on this (mostly because it'd be inefficient for a monitor company to peruse HN for questions asking about monitor purchases) so if anyone has a widescreen monitor they love for coding/gaming, let me know.

Given how common paid reviews are where the person writing the review says nice things because they are paid to, let me suggest you just do a new Ask HN asking specifically what monitors people like.
This times 100 - in my mind it is the major failure of the Obama administration. There should have been heads on pikes - then maybe we'd see better behavior.