skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car makers and dealers learned a long time ago that consumers have wide access to the invoice price of a car (theoretically this is the price at "cost" which the car dealer pays) and have taken steps to obfuscate this with various fees, kickbacks, sales bonus programs and volume sales agreements such that you can't be sure how much margin is really in a car besides looking at the range of actual sales rates of the car.

This is the norm and always has been as far as I am aware. If you are buying a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord or other popular, value oriented (lower margin) car then there may be less wiggle room in the sticker, but for a car with an MSRP around 40k there's probably a fair amount of room to change the price.

Also, a car that never sells makes $0 in revenue. People tend to buy cars with their heart and the cool factor/brand value of a Tesla 3 is orders of magnitude higher than almost anything chevy makes.
Customers vs users is a very interesting perspective - and yep, it seems very understandable that a 'customer' (or user) might not want to take on the liability of their own data storage.

I'm stretching a bit here, and haven't mused on your thoughts a ton, but perhaps one reponse is that this shift places demands on ensuring that local storage defaults - and the security of the delivered software - are adequate to keep the data safe in the hands of a layperson user/customer, and that that needs to distribute the cost and attacker opportunity away from massive centralized data silos enough to make the markets (and users, customers) follow.

Another angle would be to (optionally) assign another organization/entity as your storage provider - I think the 'Solid' project was suggesting something along these lines.
It might be news, but then framing matters. Is it described the way a scandal is described? This is akin to losing an election and refusing to step down.

If Trump loses in 2020 and starts making claims that voters didn't understand the consequences of their vote and demands another election be held, do you think the headline would be as tepid as the ones describing calls for a new referendum? I'm not from the UK, and didn't support Brexit, but democracy is literally at stake here. If Brexit doesn't happen, at least in my opinion, the mirage of democracy in Britain is lost.
@antt, no they don't pay the employess. In fact they don't have employees: "With no employees and 2663 volunteers, it spent $270,846 on infrastructure, $92,364 on public relations, and $17,891 on two ApacheCons." - from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apache_Software_Foundation

ps: I'm getting downvoted for linking facts :D
I took a course in linear algebra when I was in grad school, took a graphics course (which is basically applied linear algebra), watched the 3 blue 1 brown linear algebra series on YouTube and have spent some time looking at machine learning algorithms (which seem to be basically applied linear algebra) and I still don't feel like I have any real intuitive sense of the topic. Whenever I read an algorithm description that includes a matrix multiplication, say, I understand exactly what they did, but I've never looked at a problem and thought to myself, "ah, that's a problem for linear algebra!"
Graham Farmelo’s Interview of Edward Witten. Transcript
I think a good solution would be to have opinion pieces in another subdomain such as blogs.mynewspaper.com/ephraimgoldstein with a very different design from the rest of the paper.
Slavery was a particularly and uniquely intractable problem where a "moderate" or "centrist" solution was particularly unappealing.

There's extensive literature on what's been driving polarization, but it really is a new "era" for it and not a cyclical thing. Factors include:

- More democratic/open primaries, which select extreme candidates

- More statistically targeted media (including social media) to take advantage of extreme views (including social media)

- Increasingly partisan news media made possible by more fragmented media (first cable, then the Internet)

None of these show any signs of going away, and all three are phenomena that are fundamentally new in the past few decades.
> Doubly so when we have a pretty strict "no overtime" policy of working no more than 40 hours a week.

Is HR ready for this increase in applications from this post and the comments?
> We all know there is a problem. Absolutely no-one denies it.

You keep angrily repeating this, and it's very obviously wrong. Nobody is going to take you seriously if you keep doing this, even if they're natural allies in whatever cause you're part of.
I think of it as any other product type situation on the surface. I'm willing to pay for content.

Beyond that there is an element of wanting to support an industry that I think is important to maintaining a healthy democracy, thus I don't care so much how much anyone else is paying.
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There's a difference between healthy fear of dangerous things, and an irrational fear of something that isn't contagious. The stigma that we're trying to get rid of is the latter, not the former. People should not be afraid of casual interaction with HIV+ people, and should not really be afraid of any interaction with an HIV+ person with an undetectable viral load.
The greeks had two institutions we could use: ostracism and lottery.

We should be able to vote on those we want out of politics and the most voted would have to seat it out.

And a small portion of representatives should be chosen by lottery. Maybe 5% or 10%. These representatives, obviously, would not have to answer to their sponsors.
I have to strongly agree with the first part regarding the so called "out of control costs": Yeah, electricity is much cheaper in the US than here, but so what? Often people on HN (especially those in the states) make claims like "people ought to see the real costs on their bills", especially when it's about subsidies (e.g. via public health care). But, well, here is the thing: Energy in the US is greatly subsidized. Not necessarily monetarily, but regarding environmental costs. Gallon of gasoline for cheap bucks for thirsty cars? Even cheaper electricity for Bitcoin mining?

Yeah, I suppose a lot of the extra costs here end up in some company pockets - but if this causes people to be more responsible with their power usage then that's an acceptable trade-off for me.

As for the second part: I know a lot of grid-balancing happens cross-border in the EU, but I didn't look up numbers, so there is not a lot I can objectively say on that topic. Personally, I pay a little more for "clean" energy. I know I still get the same mix like anyone else, but my energy supplier has to buy my personal demand from more eco-friendly sources. Yes, it is still "a spit in an empty pool", but that's still better than taking a dump in the river on bathing day just because everyone else is doing it.
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> rosie notion of civil disobedience, protesting, marching, and general civil disruption

Personally I see protesting and marching as a nice Saturday afternoon out that achieves precisely nothing. Just look what the massive march and demo against the Iraq war achieved - nowt. It's important not to conflate them with civil disobedience which has very different aims and tactics.

It's being an ongoing thorn in the side of the state that has historically made a difference. I certainly don't see that as a well-worn tool of the modern activist - it's a forgotten tactic, replaced by one-off marches or demos, and the online petition. Which achieve almost nothing.

If a few smart people feel it's gone too long being ignored that they are now willing to risk prison, well good on them. If they're smart enough and presentable enough to not be easily dismissed as eco-nuts by the right wing media, they can often achieve positive press for their aims. It's hard to dismiss a retiree with 40 years in industry, doctor, or IT consultant quite so easily.

It remains to be seen if the gamble and assessment of public opinion is correct. For both XR and the school strikes, the public reaction has appeared hugely positive so far - far more so than I would have expected. Which is a problem for a government that would prefer not to act.
Do you have a source for "most" here? Most of the senior devs I know are full-time non-contractors (though that is quite possibly just a property of my friend group and location (Cambridge)).
Ditto. The ideal track layout should allow trains to go in either direction across every segment. Bonus for going under a bridge. I also haven't really worked out the graph theory (something involving the +/- orientation of junction splits) but the temptation is immanent.
Sure: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/laurie-penny
I don't get the rules on "timestamptz".

Normally I would want to enforce the use of UTC for points in time (as opposed to user entry) across backend code and APIs. If the column name is "eventtime"... then it is (of course) UTC...

I guess one could use timestamptz with a constraint saying that timezone is UTC, but is there a point? Timestamps in DBs should never be non-UTC...
I fell for the Times subscription too. Fair enough, I did expect the cost to increase after the initial promotion period but not the hurdles required to cancel.

But then, when you subscribe and find you're seeing as many ads as you do with free to view alternatives it's not surprising they are going to rely on keeping you locked in for as long as possible?
JEP Draft: Keyword Management for the Java Language
Yeah I presume the “Redact the reference for Ural Properties and any references which include sensitive info eg. the account numbers that the money was sent from” one.
Why doesn't America just assign clean up jobs to unemployed people?
All these polluted rivers and ponds and trash on the side of the road and we still have people who can't find jobs. Better for the environment and less unemployment. It's a win-win.
That's exactly where the name comes from. ;)
New for the entire US (some areas/cities already had it). Not sure about this article, but another article about the announcement that I read mentions that the UK has already had free one day delivery for a while.
I think they're extending that. The one day service has been available in some areas already depending on proximity to their distribution centers.
But if the New York Times removed their paywall (and didn't introduce some other subscriber-only benefit), you wouldn't really be paying for their content anymore, right? Because you could get that content anyway.

A payment that doesn't directly benefit you is a donation.
I was a heavy Tumblr user until I discovered Reddit around then, which made it easier to find the same type of content with more consistency.
Is it featured/mature enough for a full game?
The entire DSM-V definition of autism was transparently guided by political concerns such as making sure nobody no longer qualified as disabled. Which fundamentally makes it an expansion of the prior definition.

It's absolutely mind boggling how the bible of psychiatry can be so dominated by politics and have very little actual connection to replicable science or empirical data.
Those were always pretty interesting ideas to me, and I always used to wonder why the Founders did not replicate those facets of the Athenian Republic? It would solve a lot of our problems today.
I first heard this described in a book written by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl. The book has a lot of other cool reasonably doable ideas.

https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-...
Which makes it not a business and not valueable unless someone wants to fund it.
This reminded me of something I’d long forgotten about — sometime in the early 90s I somehow got my hands on a small portable (handheld?) TV and it was amazing. I seem to remember it had a 2 or 3 inch full-color screen, a big CB-style telescoping antenna, and was basically miserable to use (lol) — but it was a portable TV!

I remember being on some long bus trip with some kids from school and we were all hovering around the tiny screen as the various VHF signals came in and out as we drove on the interstate. 5 seconds of solid signal was miraculous and we all watched in awe.

I guess if I'd been a bit more prescient in my teenage years I'd have started working on YouTube right away! ;)
Superblocks: Barcelona’s radical urban plan to take back streets from cars
Freexian (R. Hertzog) offers something pertinent (Debian LTS): https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts-details.html
> Gilead, the drug's manufacturer, has risen the price of the drug from $6 to $1600 a month.

Your premise is correct, that the elevated price is harming the cause of fighting HIV. Your cost figures are incorrect however.

In Canada, even their health system has approved generic Truvada at wholesale for $400 per month (Truvada is twice that in Canada). Your $6 figure is plain wrong. That's the lowest wholesale cost anywhere in the developed world at any point in the drug's history. That's not the cost that it started out at in the US. It was about $1,150 (average reimbursement rate) in 2009. Truvada brought in $567 million in sales in just 2005 alone, they didn't accomplish that at $6 per month in the US. Gilead further increased the wholesale price by 45% over six years, from 2012 to 2018.
But then the Lib Dems took a beating last time these elections came to pass and whatever happened, they were going to get more seats on the rebound. Sure they gained more but even if you total all the Green and Lib Dem votes - it would still be less than 50% of the votes from these elections.

But the Green party have IMHO made huge gains factoring in everything and that is good as frankly IMHO - we have a lack of Green party representation. But to usurp all Green and LibDem voters as being solely interested in the remain camp would be disenfranchising of those voters.

After all - these are local election by local people for local issues - nothing to do with brexit beyond protesting vote people who failed to grasp that a local councilor and coulcil has less influence upon Brexit than they do as an individual who has had a say in the matter.

Protest votes irk me, as they highlight the democratic voting and say of the people is not robust enough that they are driven to such voting styles. There again I dispise tactical voting - a tactic that both the LibDem and to a lesser extent the Green party have partaken upon. Then the way the LIb Dems go about local election campaign leaflets - from what I have experience - pretty low and immoral tactics used when you get leaflets demonising and bully wording the other parties and neglecting to say what they actually offer.

But lets add some context here about the underhand election tactics being used from everybodies favorite source - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/11/greens-face...

But in fairness to the Lib Dems - they have been pretty solid upon their brexit position (after the vote) - dispite being very adamant about respecting the vote no matter what the result....until they lost. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX1vhfdSKu4

Frankly - party politics needs to change - I'd love that all local councils were independent as party politics and councils offers no advantage, frankly the opposite.
There is always plenty to question. Motives being one, response being another, heck even timing. I can think of plenty of things you can question when situations like this happen. Doesn't mean they get answered or aren't the most obvious answer.
> it's that the natural evolution of the two-party system has forced us into choices that are more polarized than ever before in the history of the US

I don't think this is supported by the evidence. Polarization in the US hasn't been unidirectional (there are many long periods during which the US became less polarized) and the recent massive spike is, well, a recent spike--it's not a natural evolution at all. Something happened in the last twenty years or so that increased our polarization. I recall several good sources, but I'll have to dig around for them...
This is a great idea. I don't know if it's even a starter, tax code wise, but would be amazing if it could be done.

For the time being, we are happy with $20 for the reasons outlined in the post itself. It's not an incentive, it's a reward, and a purely optional one. Many people in the company (I'm the author) do work on Open Source and don't make use of the benefit, because they don't care about the money. This, for us, is fine.
Don’t blame designers for your digital addiction
I wish I read it enough to discuss it deeper, but I really don't.

I do often wonder if if folks describe the "right" way to cover things if that would be the least bit flexible / allow for anything they don't like beyond a % of coverage or whatever measurement they use.
Yeah, "reading socks" sounds sort of like "lovemaking hat'. Huh? Why would you need one?
there is a few more:
Glass Shop: only sells things made out of glass. I love it. https://www.bottles.de/index.html
There are a few shops that sells only keys and safes.
There are 2 stores that sells only clothes to ballet
Haha agree. I could have written a much shorter article;).
In the UK I find that most stuff can be ordered as late as 11pm for guaranteed next day delivery. Some cities get the same day delivery too(without using Prime Now).
I never said there wasn't a difference. What I said was that the content you're taught is no different than what is taught at a school that accepts more people.
Calculus doesn't change whether you go to Ivy or low tier. It's the same material.

What it means is that you get more opportunities. And literally, nobody cares once you get to the working world which is what the majority of people go to college for. In fact, the longer you work, the less your degree is even considered. Degrees only provide more opportunity and help get your foot in the door a lot easier.

Also, you're competing with all the other 1% so it wouldn't be a shocker if you didn't get in. Nearly everyone applying to those schools will have perfect grades, SAT/ACT scores, and extra-curriculars. Plus special interest applicants such as sports players, rich people, and disadvantaged minorities.

The OP doesn't even mention how many times he applied. And now he publishes a web page with the entire goal of being condescending toward everyone else and acting like he deserves to get everything he wants. Its like he's never learned the greatest lesson of life, that it's horribly unfair.
I don't mind calling it a donation when it is appropriate, or a subscription when appropriate. I'm willing to do both.
The NYT hired Sarah Jeong to their editorial board so it's safe to say there is toxicity on both the editorial and opinion side of the paper.

Edit, for those of you unfamiliar with this particular editor you can read her own words on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1025437806775226368
Spelunking in the Turing Tarpit: Expedition Through an Esoteric Landscape
Regardless of our disagreements on Tesla -- this is a great list and really interesting to see all these OEMs, in order. Thanks for this good stuff. Upvoted.

I didn't know Peugeot was the oldest of the gang!
You would seriously struggle on that in central London.
I like the idea, but I'm concerned about the $20 / hour.

Since this is done on the employees' own time (after hours), isn't this basically saying, "hey, go help make our app's dependencies better in an overtime scenario but we're going to pay you $20 / hour instead of 1x to 2x your usual salary"?

I know at the bottom it clears that up but I dunno, it just feels weird to me. It seems like a concealed way to mainly benefit the company and potentially exploit the good will of its employees.
As frequently noted here the definition of "Autism" has changed, and now folds in Asperger's Syndrome. You're talkin' old definition; but even then you're assuming no compensating features in relatives (which the multiple-copy alpha tryptase genetic trait, to name one likely suspect, almost certainly confers.)
Take a look:
https://blog.area9lyceum.com/area9-open-sources-flow-program...
Great question --

Every organization/industry follow key performance indicators. Relative to an individuals leadership mandate, what actions did they take? What were the outcomes/results?

To be fair, there's always an element of situational subjectivity. Ultimately, you're looking for a leaders impact on the bottom-line.
I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
In my spare time I've been working on something I currently call Distos (Distributed Operating System).

My goal is to create a sort of log database merged with an app platform which maintains an encrypted and authenticated log structure that powers functions in developer code that update/manipulate local stateful resources. The apps on a user's device get access to resources managed by the platform like KV stores or Sqlite databases. The App uses these log messages, which are filtered and provided by the platform, to update these stores locally and creates new logs on the user facing clients in order to make things happen both locally and remotely once the logs are synced.

I am convinced that "logs" are the future for personal data.
> Plus in sheer numbers terms there's a lot fewer subreddits than there were tumblr's

Fewer, and lower discoverability. If you ban a sub, the mods have to bother registering a new one, and if you ban the mods too I believe they'll need to 'break in' new accounts to do that. Once they do, it'll just be an empty sub sitting there passively until they promote it on other subs (where it'll draw reports) or on other sites (which is a hassle). And without active moderation, spam users destroy spam subs by overwhelming their intentional content.

On tumblr, a new account just takes a new email, and they can be 'promoted' easily because following real users or reblogging their content with ads sends them notifications. It's pretty much the ideal structure for automation-friendly spam.
I wonder what oss people think about Worklist, a bidding system for open source. I have not seen it be used beyond highfidelity. https://worklist.net
>where a "moderate" or "centrist" solution was particularly unappealing...

True.

Moderation is no solution at all when you think about it. I mean what's the compromise? They have to be slaves 3.5 days out of the week? And you can teach them to write, but any reading is strictly forbidden. So under no circumstances can you teach them to read?

Just hard to come up with any compromise that doesn't just sound ludicrous on its face.
Ah gotcha. Yeah it'd make sense that the US has had a harder time rolling it out, being that the entirety of the UK can fit into many of the states!

I'm not used to us getting things before the US I guess :)
I have come to appreciate the wisdom of the Virginia governor's term-limiting system -- you can hold office as many times as you want, but you cannot succeed yourself.

Voters can restore someone to office, but each term must stand alone, avoiding the, "What does every first-term President want? A second term." problem.
It seems closer to 18CHF, ~ 17USD, after a cursory search.

This is actually cheaper than buying 3.22 Big Macs would be, compared across both countries [0].

[0] https://www.bigmacindexconverter.com/
The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision: The Evolution of Human Vision
Probably because it's a public works project, and there are few things as offensive to conservatives as the government spending money. Especially for environmental purposes.
Yeah. I suspect a few bayes-based techniques could have auto-moderated most noise out of most Usenet groups pretty effectively.

But can AI stop politicians like Cuomo from censoring unpalatable speech (Usenet/Reddit/Voat) to death?