skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Albeit not identical, dealerships definitely do sell other vehicles and will almost always push the new model of their brand over the used model of the other brand.

I'd argue this will vary with dealerships. And, the pushiness would be more sales person, rather than the dealership.

For new cars, there are a couple reasons why a dealership may push a new car over a used car. The manufacturer may be providing volume incentives and the dealership needs to sale a certain number of models to meet that incentive. Or, a new vehicle has been sitting on the lot for too long and the dealership needs to move the vehicle (this is more true for used cars).

But, USED cars are a cash cow for dealerships. Either through trade-ins or auction purchases (based on the type of dealership), there's WAY more margin in a used vehicle than there is in a new car.

Unless it's a purely volume-driven dealership, dealerships will be perfectly happy to push a used car over a new car.
Totally agree. You have to be cut out for this.
I have been encouraging anyone who will listen to not buy anything on Amazon. The co-mingling of goods (especially nutrition items) is going to result in some Chinese vendor sending a batch of poison in as supplements or baby food and get a bunch of people killed. That is the only way this is going to end.
I feel the same way. I also like having things written because it acts as documentation that can be referenced later. It's especially important on remote teams because not everyone is in every call or hears every word. My two cents after half of / most of this decade being remote.
While this is true, those with the highest scores get a claim on abundance whether or not they created wealth.
I was born and raised just above dirt-poor, by American standards; e.g., lived in a poor area (now a full-fledged ghetto), we reused milk to each have a bowl of cereal with the same milk, we wore all hand-me-downs, any toys we had were hand-me-downs from church friends, nobody in my extended family had ever graduated high school, we never left the state once, we ate at restaurants a few times ever, etc. Both of my parents’ parents were absolutely dirt-poor and entirely uneducated. My maternal grandma couldn’t even read.

I worked my fucking ass off as a teenager, starting at 13, making minimum wage for 2 years at various jobs; I slowly upgraded my job status to the point where I was earning almost 3 dollars an hour more than minimum-wage by the time I was 19, and I was proud of that at the time.

Needless to say, I didn’t go to college (nobody paid for that and I certainly didn’t have the money).

I became motivated by learning how much profit some of the customers I helped were making as entrepreneurs (always being nosy and asking questions, etc.), and I started a half-ass business at 22 years old. I made a little bit of money and learned some new skills burning the midnight oil till 3am for months, which translated into a sort of graphic design job, now making more money. I got acquainted with web design and web development just by reading stuff on the Internet and reading books, seriously burning the midnight oil. I worked my ass off nonstop and never stopped trying to learn more and more. Fast-forward 6 years and many hundreds of hours studying, and I was earning almost $200,000 a year as a software engineer.

Nobody gave me anything. Minimum-wage was much lower, inflation adjusted, when I started out. I started out at a huge deficit with a poor family that was uneducated and did not steer me in any particular direction. Yet, I made it.

The moral of my story is that all of the “adversity” that I experienced was exactly what made me successful. Earning minimum-wage is for people who are starting out for people who can’t make it past there. I certainly didn’t deserve more than minimum wage money earned it; but I’ll tell you what, I did deserve more when I got there, and I didn’t have to be thankful for it, because I earned it. Nobody deserves anything by default, not even clean water. Everybody has the freedom to make their own choices, including how to create a safe and clean society. It’s not the job of some government overlords to fix everything for us plebeians by passing laws. It’s our job. It’s our world, until we give it away to hucksters masquerading as our saviors.

Listening to people on here whine like groveling animals about how they deserve this and deserve that, because life is expensive, like that’s somebody else’s job to fix for them... imagine trying to describe your woes to an Irish immigrant, who just came home from a 12 hour day at the same factory where he lost his finger a few months back; and you’re typing your message out to this laborer on your $1400 phone.

Some people won’t make it; that’s OK. It sucks, but it’s how life has always been for every species since the beginning of life on Earth.
Who would you rather have another $100 million dollars - the US government or Bill Gates? One has a track record of creating incredible products, the other is a literal dumpster fire, blowing $100bil ain’t nothing to the government.
Isolation Can Change the Human Brain
There are already quite a few of those series. F# For Fun and Profit (fsharpforfunandprofit.com) does a good job of explaining the basic concepts, and the author's videos are a fun watch even if you already know everything he's talking about. Ploeh Blog (blog.ploeh.dk) has spilled countless pixels explaining the functional alternatives to various OO ways of doing things.
I can identify with that. The more autonomy I have the more I get done. I am happy to collaborate with others but I don't need nor want a manager to tell me what to do.

At my current job there is a trend to more and more planning, prioritizing and scheduling. I understand there is a need for that but personally I perform best if I get a big goal and can figure it out for myself.
Ira Glass's take on this is so good and I go back to it often when my creative work is less than satisfactory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE

Basically when you work on creative stuff you're drawn to it because you have good taste, but for a long time your work will disappoint you because of your good taste.
It'd be nice if this had iOS support. My mother lacks directional hearing, and always struggles to find her iPhone despite the ability to make it ping with her Apple watch. An app that just says what area of the house it is in would help a ton.
Umm, that isn't what is usually considered intermittent fasting (IF). IF is typically less than a day, basically 12-20 hour fasts by skipping a meal or two.
a) Not all of the bands enabled by the phone's SIM are usable in all locations. Because this information is transmitted by the cell site, the phone does not have to enable location services. It knows where it is and what frequencies it can use, trust me.

b) There are other locations where the entire phone isn't allowed to be turned on (the NRAO quiet zone near Green Bank comes to mind, unless this has changed recently.)

So, no. This is not a valid excuse.
I didn't attempt to make a detailed criticism. Basically, it's the naive application of Goldratt's "The Goal" to IT. People have been trying to model IT processes on manufacturing for decades. Still doesn't work. The opinion of several engineers that I respect very highly who suffered from the author's consulting services makes me discount his work entirely.

If you read farther in Goldratt, the sequels to "The Goal", he refines the notion of constraints in very interesting ways that leave the factory floor. I don't think the author of the Phoenix Project ever got that.
I never said not concerned, I said less concerned relative to the apparent concern in the comment I was replying to. Any error would be in the relative level of concern.

I know of their concerns. A friend of mine just got his Ph.D and has a very interesting story about how he answered a query by one of the CRISPR patent holders (then a student in his program) regarding techniques for delivering an intact sequence to the mammalian nucleus.[1] Prior to graduate school my friend spent several years working at the Craig Venter institute studying rhinovirus (while his wife completed her post-graduate work at NIH), and the technique he utilized at the institute and recommended "coincidentally" ended up being the one used. Which gives credence to the whole argument that the CRISPR "discovery" was basically combining together two already well-established methods for gene editing in an obvious way.

Also, he was the safety directory in his lab, both at school and at the institute. Because of the nature of the work, he would obviously be well aware of the risks involved with any sort of gene therapy. I don't know whether he would approve of germline therapy, but I'm pretty sure he'd agree that any blanket ban with the pretense of saving humanity would be naive as it's quite likely already happening to some extent under the radar, both deliberately and unintentionally. But that's a different sort of argument and doesn't contradict what yours, as far as I understand it.

I just took your argument as being excessively alarmist, and my point boils down to that scientists tend to be less alarmist because they're already inured to these things. They know how the sausage is made, and it's never pretty. They see the enormous holes in knowledge that you can drive fleets of buses through. But they also understand that nature is far more forgiving than popular science journalism would have you believe. "Holy sh+t, I didn't expect that'd work as well as it did" is, I think, not an uncommon experience; likewise for "holy sh+t, that didn't go as I expected", for that matter.

[1] Or something to that effect. Don't quote me because (a) I'm recalling from memory, (b) he gave me the dumbed down version, and (c) a Harvard e-mail system migration meant that he lost all his previous correspondence so he's likewise recalling his discussion from memory.
http://archive.is/FFpgV
Who will interpret the 9 trillion hours of resulting video then? Every person in the world would have to spending three work shifts a week watching and evaluating it.
Why Blue Is the Internet’s Default Color
A 33% drop in efficiency sounds reasonable for climbing a mountain vs driving on flat land. Do you know how much your range drops when you're driving in the cold but not climbing a mountain?
> We had a system where, every time we optimized the underlying database, it became slower.

One thing I've noticed is that the amount of time I have to wait when performing operations has remained more or constant through the past few decades, even as processor instruction retirement rates skyrocketed and memory/storage/network latencies plummeted. I often find myself trying to pull up a site to do something like track a project or buy a ticket, only to be waiting for 5 to 10 seconds before I am able to read the information and/or perform the operation I was there for.

I always ask myself, "Why on earth am I having to wait at all for this?" I assume it's the same concept of "induced demand" for roadways. Under that theory, in densely-populated areas, traffic will always be as bad as it is, regardless of the number of lanes. Add more lanes, and commute times drop. Then people who didn't tolerate the longer commute times before jump in and start commuting, increasing the load on the roads. This quickly raises the wait time to just below the previous wait time, with all the people in the "margin of toleration" who weren't commuting before now commuting.

In the case of the systems at my company for project tracking, I just assume that people build systems on dependencies in a way that trades latency with the convenience of using a particular API/service with an SLO. The system with the SLO costs money to maintain, and so they have a quota system in place based on priority. The project tracking software comes along and says, "Well, we could write the data into a Prostgres instance with a 10 millisecond response time, but then we've got to worry about backup/restore, availability, and all that stuff. Or we can be the lowest priority traffic for this nifty distributed storage backend that has a support team and SLO with a 7 second response time." The seven seconds of each person's life every time they use the tool is an externality, and it's something few people are ever going to complain about. So, 7 seconds it is.

I'm resigned to waiting an average of 5 or so seconds for anything I do on a computer for the rest of my life, no matter how cheap cycles, storage, or bandwidth get.
http://archive.is/lsGS0
As a native English speaker I could understand dropping the "e", but where does the "h" come from?
https://www.ebay.com/b/Electric-Vehicle-Batteries/177703/

I have bought a few different kinds, The honda cells are currently my favorite for their build quality but they are not the cheapest.
Yes. Complicated means lots of moving pieces but predictable. Complex means lots of components that are far less predictable.

https://thearmyleader.co.uk/team-of-teams/
I find this interesting. 58 car related deaths from 1.3 billion rides. In the US you have about 100 car deaths per day. Let’s assume 100m cars on the road each day, for 100 deaths for 200 million trips. Uber could be an order of magnitude safer.
Someone is generally classified as a smartass when the balance of intelligence is on the smartass side. So this is just giving idiot managers carte blanche to fire people smarter than they are. For job security I guess.
Prisoners charged for Project Gutenberg e-books
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I use a more simplistic solution: I bind a keyboard shortcut to uBO's element zapper so I can just zap sticky headers as I find them. I have to zap for every repeat visit, but the same shortcut works for zapping sticky sidebar videos or other undesirable elements too.
Also available at IA:

https://archive.org/details/dougengelbartarchives?sort=title...

It'd be great if someone with the chops could clean up these videos (esp. the displayed characters) to make them more readable.
You either already own or pay for the seed, the land and the man-hours to tend the tree. This both employs people and brings more abundance into the world.
Thanks!

> From the OOP perspective, though, monad is a pattern where you only have one behavior (bind) that you can customize, and you have to do everything through that one behavior. That looks like a straightjacket. Sure, it composes well, but... why limit yourself like that?

That's an excellent question. Thinking of monad as a pattern itself, with bind as its API, made me realize that OOP patterns (as a categorical concept) aren't the best analogy for the different behaviors monads encode, but rather monad is just one of the patterns. Makes sense -- there are obviously behaviors not generalized by monads but are in the realm of OOP patterns. For instance, the visitor pattern is covered by functors.

(At the time of writing I was thinking about how bind can relate seemingly disparate behaviors: error handling, async, state, etc. What other useful structures seem disparate? OOP patterns! And so I fell into the black pits of "Monads are just like <thing>" myself, where thing = OOP patterns.)

As for the question: One could call it a straightjacket but one could also call it "the law". Limiting yourself is exactly how Straightjacketed Sam can ensure correctness properties of the program. Monads force Sam to work within the monad, so they can only write "a depend on b" in a specific and well-defined way. This is analogous to how singleton pattern would force Sam to work with this one instance of an object, or how the factory/smart constructor pattern forces ensures only certain (valid) objects can exist. If any of these restrictions are too limiting, there's no need to use the patterns, but you'll also lose the laws (guarantees)!
This is an idiotic approach. Learn to communicate better instead.
Spot on. Also consumers are attracted to tech gadgets during cyber Monday sales so it's even way easier for them to sell those items over non-electronics.
Result and option are the same special case, the Try trait.
They're people as well, the good ones use it as a way to test the conviction of the founding team. If they can't take a few verbal licks, why would they be able to acquire enough customers to gain traction? Not a perfect test, but it has proven to be a workable process where the ones with the most conviction always get _something_. Sometimes it's too late, and sometimes it doesn't work out. That's life.
If her spatial hearing isn't completely lost changing the ringtone to pulsing white noise (one second on, one second off) may help, as it's generally harder to locate higher pitch tones (like most ringtones).
What work do you think we didn’t investigate with Rust?
I like the well done hiding nav bar in my browser but the web ones tend to go mental popping up and down randomly. And then it just magnifies the crappiness when you have 2 stacked nav bars from the browser and website which are both trying to hide/unhide.

The ideal hiding navbar is one which is the only one on the screen and one which only pops down as much as the user scrolls so you have to scroll up one navbars worth to get the full thing and not the ones where you scroll up 1 px by accident and the full navbar flys down
This meaningless comparison is a fundamental concept in psychopharmacology. Different substances can have different effects whilst acting on the same pathway. And to your point re: "effects"it should be noted the SAME substance can have very different effects (biphasic effects) depending on dose (alcohol being the key exmaple).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolimbic_pathway

https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1423-0...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9884132
What would a tax on subsidies look like? Wouldn't that just be a reduced subsidy, which is still a subsidy?
If Apple introduces tile like competitor, would it lower the threshold for creepy and stalky folks to track others? Would it be as easy and slipping in a Apple Tile and its location be crowdsourced back to Apple and therefore to the stalker?
This is pretty close to what you'll see in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on brogrammer [1]. Klout posted an advertisement at the Stanford career fair saying "Want to bro down and crush some code? Klout is hiring."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brogrammer
The Golden Dilemma [pdf]
One of those 100M is spent, on goods and services provided by working people, while the other 100M may sit idle for decades to come.
I’d be interested in some citations; I wasn’t aware of this. Then again it’s not my area of focus, so that’s not super surprising! We don’t do global type inference as a design decision, and since lifetimes are also generic types, I thought this was also the case. I think you can make a compelling argument that this inference would be bad, regardless of possibility.
This seems like a personality thing and reflects the type of culture company leaders want to create. Every other comment in this thread is "I don't like video, not conducive to how I think/work" or "I like video, makes me feel engaged and part of a team". My bet is this is not a better/worse thing but more of a mars/venus thing (I'm definitely, as someone on a remote team myself, in the video camp).

The other strange thing you hear a lot is that any attempt to get people to be on-site or on-video (basically anything other than fully async, text only) is attributed to control-freak tendencies by terrible managers. Again going back to my above point and the fact that so many people here agree that video is better for them, I wish we could dispense with speculatively attributing motives so negatively and give people the benefit of the doubt that, right or wrong, they hold their POV because it is what they actually believe is best.
There was a recession in 2001
On iOS, there is no way to do this. Every location request will ultimately send your location to Apple.
Nice, one thing I noticed in Italy is people eager to practice their Spanish with me everywhere I went
.

Even witnessed French tourists interacting with Italian customer service workers... in Spanish ! On two different occasions. It blew.my mind lol not used to see Spanish used as a Lingua Franca outside Spanish speaking countries...
I absolutely love how "changing to dark mode" is an official step in the "How to Play" section. Got a good laugh out of that, and it's not like you're wrong -- your users' eyes will eventually thank you :)
> finding out what files are there in the first place

ls?

> what data the files represent

ls, file

> which programs would be useful to operate on the files?

I guess I assume that people know this kind of thing, but xdg-open is fine.
> shoot an arrow at the guard on top of the castle walls

You aim the bow at the guard on top of the castle walls. You fire an arrow at him. He screams and falls backwards off the wall. You quickly reload your bow and shoot another arrow at the same guard. This time he doesn't fall off the wall
Fascinating.

Native English speaker, here. Can speak “emergency” Spanish and German, but that’s about it (asking for directions, ordering food, making limited small talk in a hideous accent I’ve been told, etc). Tried French for a while but stopped because it’s way too hard to learn without immersion.
In a way it’s not really surprising to me that Germany is the country retaining English proficiency - English is a Germanic language after all. That the Romance language countries are drifting away from English is not surprising in that regard.

Still, as economies continue to globalize it is curious that there’s a regression at all. English has been the language of business for probably a generation or more at this point. Is this a leading indicator of an economic decoupling we’ll see in the coming decades?
Another big part of it is liability management. If you're a high level exec and you make the wrong call, it's on your own head. If you hire a reputable expert and they make the wrong call, you're in the clear, even if it's what you would have done anyway.
>>> Your phone can do all the same things as those devices, and it's a better target for attackers because it's always on you.

>> "privacy is dead"

>>> In reality, bugging my residence isn't going to result in very interesting data.

>> "nothing to hide"

> I'm not arguing "privacy is dead" or "nothing to hide".

Really?
Amazon also slapped the "Deal of the day" label on many products during black Friday and cyber Monday, even though the prices for those products were still the same as before. No price drops but good at creating FOMO for consumers.
I am with you on:

* not having to cut labor to the minimum as a basic value

* sooo many jobs would be unobjectionable at 8 hours per week. Almost any job.

* professions should be designed to balance physical and mental labor, particularly to offer breaks from painful standing.

I am not with you on:

* Giving people 167% of the average hourly wage for an easy job like retail. As a society, we do not _want_ retail to be a great career. You don't develop the job skills or provide the same value as jobs that are more challenging, and the more valuable things you could have produced are lost. Retail should pay less than other jobs, _because_ it's more fun to interact with people all day than to work at a hot grill.
I'm having a ton of fun with this, it's hilarious.

>You pick up the medical equipment and put it in your bag. You then proceed to
search the dumpster for more supplies. You find a couple cans of food and a
small amount of water. You then proceed to search the rest of the dumpster until
you find a large backpack

> open the backpack

>You open the backpack and find a bunch of ammo, a knife, a bat, a flintlock pistol,
a first aid kit, a compass, a lighter, a tinder box, a rope, duct tape, a crowbar, a screwdriver, a saw, a crow bar

> take the crowbars

>You take the crow bars and put them in your bag. You then proceed to search the
rest of the dumpster until you find a second backpack

I've got not one, but two crowbars, and another backpack!