skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to drive a 1982 Datsun 720 truck. It was such a convenient town truck.

It had a 1.6 L engine in it (which wasn't very fuel efficient as it was 30 years old), and wasn't any larger than a sedan. Yet you could still fit practically anything you'd ever need in the back. The only disadvantage in the design was that the cab was sized for small Japanese people. I'm only 5'10" and I felt uncomfortable sitting in it for too long, it was also only single cab.

It's a shame that compact trucks are no longer a thing. Even the Toyota Hilux is a lot larger and more unwieldy than the models from the 90's.

What you really want is something like the ute version of the Ford Falcon or Holden [Chevy] Commodore [1], which they used to make in Australia and sadly have discontinued.

[1] https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/ford-xr6t-v-holden-ss-u...
I think it's time for us to fight back against these robocalls. I have just read an article about this topic at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob.... People who have similar problems with robocalls (especially the ones which come from legit companies) might find this information useful.
I wonder why this hasn't been solved by some kind of a law which would apply to not only Mastercard a long time ago?
I mentioned future, naturally I drive manual today.

The point being that what is right to learn today won't stay like that forever.

Only people that maintain old timers still know how to use a motor starter.
Too mellow for merzbow. And not as interesting.
Europe also has a history that goes back 1000-2000 years of disparate countries unifying.

Germany, for example, is the descendant of the 19th century North German Confederation, a Prussian-dominated customs union between north German states, which in itself was an effort to recreate the earlier German Confederation without involving those pesky Habsburgs.

The Holy Roman Empire was a unified confederation of German, Italian, Swiss, and Bohemian states that allowed large amounts of autonomy and sovereignty within its borders. In fact, our modern conception of sovereignty dates from the Peace of Westphalia, which ended a thirty-year-long war (imaginatively named the Thirty Years War) fought largely over the authority of, once again, those pesky Habsburgs to tell HRE member states what their state religion should be.

Britain was formed by the unification of England and Scotland, both of which are still legally considered separate countries under British law. Italy was formed as a union of Italian states, largely from an effort to overthrow Habsburg rule. Spain was formed as a union of Iberian kingdoms (that eventually fell under a branch of the Habsburg dynasty which went extinct due to inbreeding, leading to a war of succession.) Poland and Lithuania had varying degrees of unification from 1385 until 1795, when the then-unified country was torn into pieces and partitioned off into their surrounding empires, including Habsburg Austria.

So really, given European history, it seems like most European countries don't really have a problem joining together into larger unions, so long as those unions aren't ruled by Habsburgs. The closest the EU ever got to that was when Otto and Karl were Members of the European Parliament up until 1999, so hopefully we're fine.
Considering that power generation and power transmission are generally money makers, seems like somebody would rise up to the challenge. E.g. https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tells-national-governors-asso...
In SF, they just make affordable housing illegal to build in most of the city. In fact, they just ban all new apartments: https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/

No apartments, no affordable housing.
A bane to run? Like what happened when you ran it?
I think there are multiple root causes which are society-wide.

One, is that the boomers were a post WWII generation and there was a huge need to keep everything, because people lost everything and much of it was unreplaceable: My parents were teenagers in London during the blitz and lost book collections, possessions being bombed out. They subsequently had kids, across the boomer window: Guess what culture we grew up in: a hoarder culture.

We experienced the 1970s oil crisis. So we kept candles and suger. We experienced periodic food and supply shortages. So we kept bulk buying.

We kept paper. We kept things. We kept old cars. We kept old electrical items. We repurposed them.

But then consumer society moved to replace, not repair. The problem is we didn't get our brains re-wired.

The other societal pressure is affluenza. We're under a huge amount of social pressure to keep buying stuff. If the rate of acquisition exceeds the rate of consumption, you can wind up accidentally in hoarder mode, stacked up with purchases "just in case"

Thirdly, social anxiety levels are skyrocketing, especially amongst the young. Anxiety feeds hoarding, because the pleasure moment in getting things is matched by the pain moment in shedding things. Its a cycle of emotional states feeding a buy-keep mode.

Fourthly, we're drowning in choice. Its a classic experiment, to offer three jams for breakfast, or twenty (if you offer twenty, people often avoid jam because deciding which is too hard). If you have too many choices, you wind up making bad choices to get "all the things" to avoid having to decide which to get. So you get two kinds of screws from the wall of twenty, or a box of twenty kinds? I went the twenty. Then, we have the choice problem disposing: which to keep and which to chuck?

Fifthly, the "dont be wasteful" moment works to stop buying but if you HAVE the thing, "dont be wasteful" says don't dispose of it. Dont "throw things away which are useful"

Disposal stores, Op-Shops, Charity shops, don't take electrical goods any more in OZ (safety risk) and don't take shoes and bedding (health risk) so these things stack up because adding them to the waste pile is "wasteful"

Society is hard sometimes. Its judgemental, and it adds pressures. These pressures feed hoarding.

Marie Kondo may be helping unwind it, but the back pressure is huge. She is a bit cult-y and maybe others have noticed what I see: people are disrespecting cleaning up, cutting down, going to 'wasteful' and 'disposable society' messages. Yes, its wasteful to buy unwanted things, and throw them away.

But we have the things, and if we stop buying the economy tanks.

What do we do?
What no one seems to want to consider is

Buy a block of LAND

Divide it into FOUR

Put 3 tiny homes on 3 sections

Each Tiny Home has -

- Roof tank water (kitchen)

- Gas Stove

- Solar System - DC Fridge + DC Lights + DC 24" TV (TV Vesa mounted to wall)

- Small front porch

- Small Shed

- Small Car park (2 door sedan/motobike/scooter)

On the 4th segment you have

* SHOWER/Bathroom BLOCK connected to GRID WATER+Grid Sewage

* LAND LINE Internet that is shared via wifi

* 4 big car park
Drive way to each place

So instead of renting a block of land with 1 story and 3 bedrooms for AUD$355 per week

you can rent out THREE 1 bedroom tiny homes for AUD$200 EACH

Everyone has piracy and their own space

Everyone has internet and its lower shared cost

Person that owns the block of land now gets AUD$600 PER WEEK instead of AUD$355 for the same amount of PEOPLE
That sounds impressive. Do you have a resource for those numbers?
I was very surprised to learn that diff / patch file formats are essentially unstandardized. Shouldn't there be an RFC or something?
We ended up paying a total commission of 1.5% selling our house in Cupertino, CA, but that was a special situation. The listing agent agreed to accept a 1.5% commission, as the house sold itself - more easily than we expected. (We got 21 offers at or above asking, in a week.) The buyer was also an agent, so she offered to buy without a commission (which effectively added 3% to her bid). I did a lot of work on the selling side: taking pictures, writing the description for the MLS, helping to show the house, including two very busy open houses, negotiating. The house was an as-is tear-down, so there was no staging, just a little bit of tidying up.
(Some of the interested buyers wanted to live there, though I warned they they would need to budget for repairs.)
In the Bay Area, you're looking at 3% of at least $1 million.

Your annual property taxes (In San Jose) on that USD$1m will be on the order of $14,000. Your mortgage payment with a 10% mortgage will be another $4,255/month. That's $65,000/yr just to hold the house, with insurance adding another $3k (earthquake insurance!). Don't forget a maintenance budget of 1%/yr!

Additionally, you're going to be spending ~$8,500 in tax and fees just to close.

To repeat, if 3% is going to make or break your ability to buy the house, you can not afford that house. Imagine what happens when it drops 10% in value? What happens if it drops 10% in value, you need to move and market rents don't cover your mortgage[1]? The Bay Area has 30% swings from peak to trough, 10% is (slightly exaggerating) the peak to trough swing in a single year.

I never said that people who chose to go without an agent were stupid. I said agents were there to keep you from making stupid mistakes - but that was my experience. I had no concept of what the prices were in the area, or how to deal with selling agents who didn't want to close. The agent talked my partner down off the ledge a couple of times.

However, that doesn't mean that other people shouldn't consider managing their own purchase or sale. My comment was purely around the statement that saving 3% would allow you to buy a home.

[1] SF rent - https://medium.com/@mccannatron/1979-to-2015-average-rent-in...
The mining operations in Western Australia have also invested heavily in autonomous EVERYTHING.

The massive dump-trucks and drill rigs are going autonomous, with anywhere between 10% and 100% (depending on the site) of the heavy vehicles are now driverless.
So what do you do if you're Elsevier then? Do you try to pivot? Do you try to fight to hang in there? Do you give up and spin down the company?

I really wonder, especially because they're so old (around since 1880) and so profitable (37% profit margin!)
^For a year. Which is still a significant loss, but yeah.
West's unconscious bias against tech in Afrika
Here in Australia, we have a thing called Superannuation. Your employer is forced to put away a minimum % of your income, typically 10%, into a fund of your choice. Often jobs will come with up to 15% superannuation.
Except that the UK is a small island off the side of the third largest trading bloc in the world. Why would anyone want to negotiate only with the UK?

Why would Japanese companies want to continue to manufacture vehicles in the UK when it will only support its local market?

The UK is a relatively small market, its only advantages were stability (now lost), having the City (a tax haven, with branches in British off-shore locations), and access to the EU.

You've still got the City, but EU finance will move to other capitals.
>it's not eco-sexy like a 100MPG Prius

Oh HN.
I've been using SiruisXM for years, and they have been more than happy to continue their lower initial price - or one very close to it - indefinitely, provided you call them once a year and threaten to cancel right here, right now. Why on earth they insist on this game instead of just giving me the price they and I both are happy to agree on is anybody's guess, nevertheless this is the case. I guess a lot of people give up and pay the higher price?
Never had a problem with their service reps though. Answer times were reasonable and as long as you make it clear you'll really cancel if you'd not get a reasonable price, it didn't take a lot of time overall.
What Does Democracy Mean to People in Beijing? [YouTube Street Interviews]
[pdf] Math Societies to US Lawmakers: This Is Why You Should Fund Basic Research
Curious, wouldn’t you want the source code to compile on the final platform? (If not using docker) I’m not familiar with binary or lower level workings but I figured there would be certain benefits of compiling the same code on Linux vs Mac or Windows for example.
I don't know about that... I was sure it would work, but I'm not so sure anymore, after Avis managed to charge me 25EUR on an _expired_, _debit_ Mastercard that had 0 EUR in it (bank simply took upon themselves to automatically perform currency conversion from one of my other accounts so that they'd cover the negative balance). I never thought something like this would be possible. (it was a fee for supposedly "processing" a traffic ticket; they didn't pay it for me, or send the ticket to me - the fee was for taking the time to inform authorities who drove the car; they said I'd receive the ticket separately from the police, which I never did).

I contacted the bank, and they said if the charge was not fraudulent (1), there's nothing I or they can do. Apparently the merchants can back-date transactions like that to a time when you interacted with them and the card was valid; I'm not exactly sure how they can charge an empty debit card though, but apparently they can do that too (because they pre-validated that I had a certain amount at the time of rental?).

(1) It wasn't; the contract said that they can do that, and I actually could use a ticket reference number that they quoted to verify on the police site that there was indeed a parking ticket issued to the car on the day that I dropped it. To this day I'm not sure if it was me who committed a parking violation, or the next person who rented the car, after me. It is mildly plausible that it was me - that morning I parked in a legal parking space, but slightly outside the allowed "lines" (another car was taking a third of the only remaining slot, and I parked a bit outside of it).
>But they are interested in the API, because that's what their customers are using.

The API is very much a part of the product. It's effectively the UI for the service.

Small companies like Mongo and Elastic can't compete on scale but they can compete on interface design.

If it's ok for the giant providers to just take their interface design and rip it wholesale then you are cutting off the market for new database engines.

Aurora and DynamoDB have been around for ages. If it's objectively superior, then why did they feel the need to make a MongoDB compatibility layer?

Because despite being 'superior', people were still using MongoDB.

A database engine is more than just the backend. The developer-facing side is just as important - if not more so.
This won't even stop Amazon. If you forget to cancel your Prime subscription they'll try charging you by putting a hold on the money before it's time to pay. If that fails they'll try charging other cards and payment methods you might have registered.
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That's a great service. I've been avoiding such free trials as a rule because I was concerned I'll forget to cancel or have to be subjected to a runaround when trying to do so. Of course, this may make some companies forgo free trials, as that was exactly what they counted on, but for me it would be net benefit as I'll be able to do trials with companies that really honestly want to show me their service and convince me to buy, without fear.
You mean the European Union negotiates to advantage the Union? Did you know that Scotland doesn't like England having a say in what happens there?

The UK had the benefit of memebership of the EU (the freedoms of goods/services/people) without the hindrance of the Euro on its own monetary policy.

Now people that can't even remember what it was like to be at the end of the British empire think that there was some magical period to go back to. It's pathetic.
Why is there no black bar on the HN main page? I thought it was an algorithm that searched for the word “died”.
Your arguments are very absolute.

None of those things are even close to being unsolvable

nothing compared to the cost of using inferior technologies

solve a problem we don't even know will be a problem in a 100 years from now

None of those comments ring true with me.
Sure. And I hope it works, and I hope Visa responds and matches. But, rather than "leave it to the market" I wonder why we let people do 'subscribed unless you decline' models in the first place? They are inherently dangerous and risk people incurring debt they had no intention of owning.
Just finished reading a book called "The Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick. The central idea of the book is to get you to ask the right questions, because if you ask people questions like "how am I doing", friendly people will tell you "yay" because they don't want to hurt your feelings, while assholes who want to appear like gurus will tell you "nay" to bolster their own notions of being a startup soothsayer.

Highly recommend it. It's short (yay!) and very practical and changes the way you think about questioning people.

No affiliation, just like the book
Also that the examples are broken right to frack...

Screenshot: https://boring.host/MWDuAnO
One of the biggest exports from the UK is financial services. One of the reasons for that is the EU "passport" given to financial services firms to trade.

The UK is losing that export market. Really really dumb.
Does not sound like you meet the DSM criteria for hoarding mentioned in the article. It sounds more like you are someone who likes hardware hacking and hangs on to a lot of hardware bits and pieces for that reason.
they would love to. zoning.
Honestly, as someone who worked for AAA at the roadside, the Corolla is an admirable car in its own respects. Ive seen late 90s models absolutely abused and make it to the 150k mile mark.

...

With that being said, if you try to tow a boat with a corolla, you’re practically sentencing the poor thing to transmission trouble and differential difficulties. I’d say that you’d be lucky to get a boat from driveway to launch ramp 3 separate trips before the transmission fails. All of that is assuming you can find someone to frame weld a tow hitch for a boat to the corolla.
Completely open source admin dashboard on PH
As far as I understand, these laser scanners work outdoors in daylight:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/laser-scan...
These days you also have to be careful about which kind of transmission a car has. The CVT's generally can't pull any where near as much load as the older geared transmissions.
I don’t know why this is exactly, but it seems useful interior space is decreasing across all vehicles as dashes get bigger and curvier and more surrounding. I’ve driven my 2008 Honda Fit for 10 years, but the second and third gen models, while bigger and heavier, have less driver legroom due to big curvy dashboards and controls bulging in towards the driver. I can’t drive the ‘09 or later Fits, it’s physically impossible (I’m 6’8”).

Similarly my 2002 Tahoe (same vehicle as Silverado, Yukon, suburban etc in most aspects) has a ton of room for repositioning myself in the drivers seat, I can and have driven it 8+ hours in a day with no discomfort whatsoever. However my father in law has a suburban of a generation after mine, and while I still could drive it comfortably, there is only one available position for me, even with the addition of a telescoping wheel in the later year models. I would be exhausted after two hours from the inability to reposition myself.
It's a Symptome of schizophrenia. Not everyone with it runs around as hobo rambling. Instead you have plans, a myriad of them, and each item you got is justified by its usage by the recombination disease.
Might makes right.

Sailing vessels only get right of way with small vessels. You can't sail your little 20 ft trailer sailer in front of a container ship and expect them to give way.

I can't remember what the actual rule is, but I think it's somewhere around the 250 t mark that sailing boats no longer have right of way.
Removing migration barriers for Steelhead Trout
>the lead is expected to write a check for the majority of the round

Is that true?

In the sample numbers given in the form [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT0G1nuYWUn71cV36o...], the lead doesn't have the majority:

Yappy, Total: $20M, Our check: $8M, Yes
I ignore the design industry on purpose
It's valid C++, and you will see its ilk in C++ code bases.
No, AFAICT it doesn't get rolled over. More likely it doesn't get added to the deficit, so the money just literally disappears. The system works pretty strangely when you have the power to lend yourself unlimited money...
I would also add VPC PrivateLinks to the list, which let you establish private connections between systems in different VPCs without having to either peer them or connect them in other ways. PrivateLinks allow you to relieve the pressure that you might otherwise feel to build a lot of systems in the same VPC.

Another useful concept (not VPC-specific) is using the Infrastructure-as-Code paradigm (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform) to capture all of your networking configuration in source control, along with who made any changes and the reasons or design documentation for them.
The eastside was rural until a few decades ago. Like, farms, cows, trees. It being expensive is a recent phenomenon.
Okay what about one of those biohazard stickers then?
The UK already has a "Canada++" deal. They have carve outs on all sorts of EU regulations, they're not part of the Euro-zone, they have the natural barrier of the Channel (aside from inflatable rafts) against illegal immigration...

Plus the UK currently has a say in all other EU regulation.

Brexit was a stupid idea by rah-rah Tories that think the UK is still an Empire. Cameron was a mindless twat that thought he could kill off half his party with a dumb referendum.
My current truck is an 01 and has been paid off for over 15 years :)
Yea, that's just normal Postgres replication, nothing to do with Citus.
I think advertisers would be overjoyed to hear your low estimate of your susceptibility to ads.
for some reason this strikes me as spectacularly unnecessary
Anti-landfill propaganda? Do you have any evidence whatsoever that anti-landfill propaganda exists in any capacity? I'm being totally sincere and I'm not angry at you whatsoever...this is just the first I have ever heard of anything like this.
Curious if you’ve ever tried Cython out. Not quite the same, but a semi-similar end goal to a degree. I started looking into the other day and it might provide some nice improvements to heavier applications.
Well I'm glad someone else said this too.
Ask HN: What do you use as a scratchpad for your notes?
To my fellow engineers, what do you use to jot down and organize your note/thoughts/learnings? I see a lot of people using Google Docs, Evernote, or Sublime, but I've never liked any of them. Do any of these work for you all? Is there a better option out there?
Mathematical miracles of the Holy Quran
AIUI, the black bar is a manual process, not automated.
I switched to management role in game development couple months ago. Now I’m broken and miserable and sending applications to get back to sofware development. Managing others just isn’t my cup of tea, no matter how cool the project is.
I too am a Boglehead.
Bug for bug rewrites are best because “You never know what system out there is relying on current behavior”
would you drink from a bucket if it only had one little turd floating in it?
Taking that express bus from downtown Seattle to Redmond which had free wifi was awesome the first time!
It's been mentioned about 20 times in this thread alone so yeah.
Index funds, dollar averaging.

I call it "get rich slow."
A lot of people in the US bitch about the "Feds" and talk about "states rights". Same in Canada, same in Australia.

That doesn't mean that secession is feasible for any of those states.

The EU is only 50-60 years old (depending on where you draw the line). It's the result of the worst war in human history. That war also resulted in the decolonization by European states of areas outside Europe.

The UK lost its independence when it won the war. The EU is the best result of that war and now the UK believes it can refight the issues of the post-war world.