skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that car commercials in the US never show the price of the vehicle anymore. They just show a low monthly payment amount. Often, it is a lease payment which is even worse because you're renting the vehicle at a very high effective interest rate that doesn't need to be disclosed because you're not technically borrowing money. US regulations don't currently require disclosure of interest rates and fees on vehicle leases.
THe OECD has the numbers on GDP per hours worked: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/gdp-per-hour-worked/...

Worker productivity in the US has risen while wages have remained flat and expenses for healthcare and education have gone up. People really can't afford their cars any longer.

Besides, if you have a 90-minute megacommute a nice car is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity.
Brazilian here. An Uber driver told me he's on a rolling rental from a big car rental company.
Montly payments. Insurance and all maintenance included.
May switch the car for another in the same category anytime for any reason or no reason. (Slightly annoying noise in the glove compartment lock? Switch it!)
May deliver a car in any branch in the nation and pick the other up in any branch in the nation, allowing to virtually take your car over air travel to any served city.
Seemed like a really good deal, and I'll definitely look into it before buying myself a car again.
Cool, thanks for that
Just calculate the TCO. Check out how much you payed for the car + gas + repairs + insurance + everything else. Then check how much you can get when you sell it after the 4 years. The difference is the TCO. You can be surprised how cheaper a used 4 year old car can be, compared to yours new one. It's not just the fuel efficiency.
you mean everyone doesn't just use their phones for browsing non-work related things?
Yep Tesla is committing an unforced error. Yanking shit from a purchased car is uncool. Since somebody payed for that feature, it has value. Tesla should have cut a check to the present owner for the value of the feature that was being removed. Bad move Tesla.
Moral decency doesn't warrant reward.
This is true and we've been trained to not think about our common, normalized farming realities here. That applies not just to meat & dairy but to the mass production & harvest of fruits and vegetables as well.
I remember it was called “the analog hole” that enables piracy, that was going to be closed by a future date, back somewhere between 2005-2015.
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Buyers think in terms of monthly payments; sellers try to lower those monthly costs by stretching out the term. Buyers need to think of the price of the car first, and the amount of interest paid second.

But most people are not savvy and don't have pre approved loans, so they get stuck with shitty financing that the dealers make a killing on.
Wait until they start extending financing on mobile phones...
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Yeah, Visual Studio is more of a C# IDE than a C++ IDE I think; I don't code in C++ but if I did I'd never pick VS; Of course C++ is a vastly harder language to parse compared to C#;
I tried a cup in Bali, and couldn’t tell any difference. It’s just coffee. I think it’s just a gimmick with a fake value add.
If you're only concerned about OBS, it's trivial. You can use a VST (software plugin) without needing hardware or anything fancy.
USSR' stamps should be there too I think.

Hacker News special:
https://terrainformatica.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Stam...

This is the stamp featuring first (AFAIK) optical character recognition state wide implemented service - USSR's automatic postal cards and letters sorting by indexes.
Same for Helly Hansen that went from sailing/climbing gear to generic fashion.
> If you can delegate your task to the manager and they are actually able to solve it, then you can use it to keep the progress rolling

Managers are supposed to delegate tasks to you, not the other way around.

If you are delegating tasks to your manager, (as opposed to your manager saying something like, "I'm going to assign this task to XXX," or "I'm going to go try and get team YYY to do ZZZ,") then your manager isn't really managing.
Almost every problem I've seen with Angular involve people not knowing how to implement features correctly or using it for what it wasn't meant to be used for. You know, the same problems people have with all frameworks.
This sounds crazy because the article is narrative pieced together by taking facts from a decade-long highly complex legal case completely out of context.

After Donzinger procured the Ecuadorean judgment, Chevron filed a RICO case against him in New York: http://www.theamazonpost.com/wp-content/uploads/Chevron-Ecua.... (Start at page 298.) Chevron sought an injunction preventing the plaintiffs from enforcing the judgment in the U.S. (i.e. starting a court proceeding in the U.S. to seize U.S. assets to pay the Ecuadorean judgment). The New York court had jurisdiction because what it was being asked to do was prevent execution of the judgment in the U.S.

Donzinger ended up under house arrest after being charged with criminal contempt for refusing to turn over documents: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.374606...
And in other parts of the world, you'd be paying for two sets of legal council and returning a set of 18-inch wheels.
This isn't about scale, it's about location. Ecuador is a LOT more powerful than you are, but assuming you are not currently in Ecuador and don't have any bank accounts in Ecuador, how do you think they could seize any of your assets, if they had a mind to? Their options start (and very nearly end) at "sending you a polite request".

The backstory here is, Chevron used to have a lot of assets in Ecuador as part of a joint venture with the Ecuador state oil company. The joint venture wound up, Chevron left, and now there's some dispute over whether any remaining clean-up is properly the responsibility of Chevron or Ecuador. But this is being discussed after they closed everything down, sold up, and left.

All that's left if for Ecuador to go try and convince the legal system of other countries (where Chevron does have assets) to do something. And so far, that's not working very well for them.
These have fans in the base.
There’s almost nothing you can buy that would burn the difference in fuel savings.

If you’re going to continue that madness you could at least save yourself some depreciation buying 1-2 year old models.
> Apple grew because of a visionary

Jobs was a business man and manager, and Apple hasn’t had ‘visionary’ product release every single time, some of them were run-of-the-mill upgrades. Arguably, iPhone may be the only major visionary achievement after Mac 1. Anyway, all of the Apple hecklers talked about how Jobs wasn’t a visionary, or had lost his vision, with every single product release, every Mac change, every iPhone, tablet, watch. Claiming that Jobs was the singular visionary and Apple is doomed without him has a long history, somewhat buys into a pro-Apple narrative, and views Jobs with rose-colored glasses. It’s a nice thought, but not exactly accurate.

> and now it shrinks

By what metric is Apple shrinking? They just reported their best quarter ever.
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Except vehicles are salvaged when the cost of repairing whatever damage was done exceeds most of the FMV according to the insurance company's appraisal process.

It's often entirely disconnected from the vehicle's safe operation. Some vehicles/damages are just expensive to repair and/or don't hold their value well.

I'm currently sitting on a vehicle which was in a minor fender bender but since they creased the quarter panel the insurance company totaled it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the car besides a cosmetic dent, I drive it daily, its operation is unchanged.

If it were a Tesla, apparently I'd be losing access to all sorts of stuff I purchased like unlimited supercharging just because someone dented my car and the insurance determined it was too expensive to fix.

That's unacceptable in my view, but I already would never buy a car riddled with surveillance systems and unattended OTA software "updates", I'm definitely not in the target market for Tesla.
What is his budget? Forget the rate being low, if he wants to spend 15k but sees 1.9% on 36k, that is terribly overpriced for him.
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I did this last year on a 10 year old Camry, bought the car fax, paid for a pre-purchase inspection, everything checked out.

Six months later, a major electrical issue damaged a significant portion of the internal computer system, which cost almost as much to fix as the car was worth.

Almost $8k down the drain in 6 months. You’re always rolling the dice on an old car, no matter how much research and prep you do.
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i wish HN have more ways for me to tag and hide posts. i get the "intellectual curiosity" part of off-topic posts but we got reddit for that.
Louis may have to go to Hawaii. Think he'll have to pony-up for two first class tickets to bring his "camera helper" too?
I believe that you put a ton of time into your test, both creating it and reviewing it.

However, as a candidate I have to make assumptions on where to put my time, and if there is a take home test prior to an interview I’m likely to pass- while you are a super diligent company that carefully reviews all the responses to the screener, I’ve definitely seen those that aren’t, including companies kept taking screeners answers despite having no positions actually open.

There is an straight forward answer to this though- don’t send the take home work till after the candidate does the interview loop, or at least has a good conversation with the hiring manager. At that point hiring org has demonstrated a clear interest in the candidate and has put up “earnest money” to prove it. The candidate also knows if the position is something they are interested in. I’ve done enough hiring in the past to be confident that the interviews are more predictive of long term success anyways.
You could totally remove heated seats digitally though. Just disable the heated seats button via a diagnostics computer. No need to remove the physical button or the actual heating elements.
Considering that the $36k loan (assuming that's principal) indicates he's rolling in some negative equity it sounds like he traded down to something far less expensive (therefore lower monthly payments). Overall that transaction was probably a sound financial decision as far as new cars go (whatever he traded in was probably a less sound decision).
Age discrimination in tech is not bullshit.

Nobody is saying that "age discrimination in tech is bullshit." What is being said, and what I believe is supported by the weight of the evidence, is that in most of industry (eg, outside of Silicon Valley), it is not the case that "30 is old in tech."

The "tech scene" is a lot more than just SV, and the kinds of things you hear about as common-place in SV just don't seem to be so common elsewhere.
An aria from a Croatian opera, "U boj, u boj", is sung by Japanese choirs since WW1. It was first thought to be Czech though because Czech sailors played it while repairing their ship ashore in Kobe after the great war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_boj,_u_boj

It is sung in Croatian!

https://youtu.be/uqQf_92dgHM
I buy new cars far more often than I should, however my model 3 may end up getting a lot older than my previous cars. I am in the group of acknowledging I buy more because I want it than I need it and am willing to state it. I don't need an excuse, I did not buy my 3 to save the world or any other sanctimonious reasons. I bought it because I thought it was cool and I had the means and desire.

Far too often many buyers justify their purchase AFTER signing on the dotted line. The number of people who have a litany of excuses for buying something more affordable is endless, sadly. We live in a society where we are bombarded not just by advertisements but also endless shows which show a life people in general cannot afford. From buying flashy bling, to cars, homes, and hell based on dating shows, buying a pretty mate. Then top it off with politicians telling people how they deserve stuff for free and insinuating many who have stuff did not get it honestly and you end up with a society always in debt.
If you already have a vehicle and saved what you would be making in payments for the same term as your auto loan, could you earn more than 1.9% interest and then purchase a vehicle for cash? If you can afford the payments, you can afford to save that much each month. The problem is either a) you don't have a vehicle now or b) you can't delay gratification of purchasing a new vehicle until you've saved up enough.
Alternatively, there are individuals who live month to month and having tired of beaters and decide this looks affordable. While clearly a false economy, some individuals may have other motives, like status seeking.

This doesn't mean they are rock-headed. Like all of us, they could have a blind-spot where a decisions made may not be in our long term economic interests.
used to be that if you were wearing Canada Goose, it was because you were on some kind of expedition

Isn’t their slogan now “built for urban winters”? They aren’t even pretending to be genuine any more, and that only makes them more appealing to posers, who think that “urban” means something else
> if you have a 90-minute megacommute a nice car is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity.

I used to commute 90 minutes on the bus and rail on a daily basis. I assure you, even at 90 minutes, a nice car is _still_ absolutely just a luxury. A dependable car may be required, but not a fancy one.
Yep, I've seen some ones like that too. The NN is quite good at knowing what people look like, but it's much worse at knowing what people tend to be next to and sometimes you get some horrors.
It's so stupid, paranoid and user-hostile on Apple's part.

They or their vendor should just sell real batteries to anyone who wants one.

This is what happens when a short-term profit-exploitation bean-counter is put in charge to wreck a brand. Tim Cook must go.. he won the battle of valuation but lost the war of goodwill towards the brand; snatching defeat from the jaws of success.
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The Nordic Language Processing Laboratory has a sizeable collection of open source parallel texts: http://opus.nlpl.eu

Click on any of the headings in [brackets] on the top of the page to see the language pairs available for download for that collection.
I think the most costly difference between cars is found in leather seats. Leather is often the best choice if you have kids and pets... In European cars, the leather quality is usually ages above leather in cars from Japan and China. you pretty much have to pay 60k or above to get a car with non-bonded (inferior) leather.

Options add value, in luxury cars, a sunroof and alloy wheels are pretty much essential, not getting one means negative value on resale.

The dealerships often mark up prices on cars just because... It always amazes me how many people think sticker prices are firm and fixed. I have never purchased a car in my life without getting at least $7k off the sticker price.

There are many walks of life. A self employed realtor, for example, can write off a car lease, and may need to regularly carry clients, so an expensive sedan or big SUV ends up helping them more. People are so used to projecting their own circumstances on evaluating everyone else when it comes to economics, benefits of financial decisions are always subjective.
What % of angular apps in production are <= 1.5?
> geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh and fire

Hey, we’ve got nuclear reactions now too!
this is because improving your rank at hearthstone is a matter of playing as many viable games as possible. the outcome of most matches is mostly dependent on randomness as opposed to player error. The largest source of randomness being the order of card draw, which can turn around a highly favorable or unfavorable matchup between decks.

the actions of players have very little impact in hearthstone. in a typical game, the player is presented with somewhere about 2-7 choices every round (increasing in the late-game as the board becomes more full) and most of them are obviously good or obviously bad.

my point is that while being top 95% in most tasks is a matter of practice/repetition in new situations to build skill, achieving legend in hearthstone- while it might require you to build some minimal amount of skill in guessing what cards your opponent has, or estimate the odds of drawing a given card in the next few rounds the difficulty of the game will quickly drop off due to it's low "skill ceiling"- is mostly about repetition for the sake of reaching 15,10,and 5 rank level checkmarks.

hearthstone is a card game played by blizzard, the objective of the game being to make as much money as possible over the course of it's lifespan. the current meta in collectable card games is to make players believe that their actions have consequences over a randomized card game, and that their invaluable collections will continue to exist when blizz unplugs the servers after it stops making money for them.
Yeah, but Sweden remained neutral regardless of what people say. It's a pretty well-defined term.
It's true that you can buy a cheaper car that is less efficient. However as a general rule cheaper cars are more efficient. Your $68k SUV is never going to touch the efficiency of a $20k Corolla, unless it's electric.

Cars are one of those interesting goods where the more expensive they get the less effective they are at their core competency (safely and efficiently travelling from point A to point B). Watches are another example. You can buy a watch for $100 that you never have to wind or change the batteries on, and moreover gets its time from the atomic clocks in various parts of the world, so you'll never have to set it. Or you can buy a mechanical watch that gains or loses time which you have to wind for $10k. (I'm aware that there are reasons for buying a watch other than keeping the time but I just find the efficiency-price inversion interesting.)
To be fair, I run 2 4K monitors at 60hz and I don’t hear my fans doing normal work (Excel, Firefox, PyCharm, Jupiter Labs). I use a DisplayLink hub (idk if that matters, but I’ve heard DisplayLink is driven by CPU)

However, when I watch a 1080p movie, no matter what player, on just the laptop display, the mouse cursor feels sluggish and my fans are on 50-75% at all times.
I think I need to know what kind of businesses actually have people working in discrete offices of 2-3 people. The only place I've really seen this is at Kodak/Creo. It was horrible and stagnant.

White noise generators and proper office design mitigate nearly all of your concerns. There is obviously etiquette to having quick conversations around colleagues and meeting rooms are always available for deeper collaboration. For the most part our work is planned out carefully, most problems can be resolved via a couple of quick Slack messages.

I feel socialized and look forward to coming to work. If I worked in a small 2-3 person silo I'd feel like an instrument of industry rather than a family member. I know that sounds trite but it's true, feeling part of a larger team / the business as a whole is incredibly motivating.

I admit my concept of small private offices is marred by my own experiences of those work environments which have all been just soulless bad places to work. I know that is not the rule for cube/small office workplace design.
In what sense would your interviewing history reflect your programming skills?
Wow, this is a hell of a find.
Nobody is going to get physical because you called them meuf.
The spreadsheet by NathanK is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vnpEXfo2HCGADdd9G2x9...
> anymore

Not really a new thing. Ads and dealers have played the "low low monthly payment with zero down" (or whatever) forever.
>patreon is basically an e-begging platform

This is more true for some people than others. A decent number of YouTubers I know have their patreons set up to only charge customers after they put out a video, so if several months go by without any new content they aren't just pulling a salary from patrons. This model is only really relevant to YouTubers who put effort into fewer videos released farther apart, rather than those with weekly or even daily releases of vlog content, but still it feels like a fair way of doing things where they are essentially being paid for releasing something and not like begging.

Contrast this with some people I see on twitter who have a patreon... just for tweeting? Occasionally there is a spin put on it about being a minority or disabled and taking donations, but this definitely feels much more like e-begging, even though I guess you could try and make the argument that tweets are just as valid "content" as youtube videos.
I use a Rain Design mStand. It's basically just a raised chunk of aluminum. It probably passively cools to some extent (it claims it does), but I have no metrics to say how much.

(Of course, you could possibly also lay a freezer pack on the bottom of the stand, and maybe it would wick heat away even faster, and still passively...)
How can there be an explicit interest rate if there is no loan? You’re borrowing the car, not the money.
To be fair low-acidity coffee might not taste much different but it shouldn't wreck your stomach like most coffee does.

With that being said I believe you can just grow low-acidity strains.
This algorithm is supposedly lossless and requires no fiddling with such settings. So a good enough non lossy algorithm could be quite disruptive. Of course with a lossy algorithm, if you throw enough detail away it's going to be smaller.
So some questions:

> with the privileges of the Bluetooth daemon

Which priviliges is that? Can it access user data? Snoop on input/output?

> For some devices, the Bluetooth MAC address can be deduced from the WiFi MAC address

So if wifi is off, I'm safe?

I have bluetooth on all the time, because it automatically pairs with my car for cellular and audio, and turning it on and off would be a hassle. I rarely, however, use wifi unless I have to download a very big amount of data, which is almost never.
They literally link to the previous post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231548
It’s remarkable how similar all of the cars look now. If you didn’t hear the engine, or didn’t know what you were looking for, even the new Lamborghini mini SUV looks the same as everything else on the road.
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> I no longer have the confidence that the legal, economic, nor, sadly, the modern moral system of the United States will provide sufficient protection to regular people anymore for these kinds of cases and trends.

This is echoed 100% in many consumers around me in meatspace.