skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the headline is written in a way that I read it as car dealers are being obstinate and not wanting to sell electric cars. Secondly, the deal as I understand it is very similar to one proposed by Johan de Nysschen a few years back just to cull the dealership network and make it more exclusive. (that at the time IIRC most dealerships roundly rejected)

I didnt get past the paywall so maybe it explains better, but I believe the current deal will cost the existing dealers a lot of money to convert over to the new electric format which wont be worth it to smaller dealers or dealers that sell a mix of brands(also usually smaller dealers).

Honestly, it seems like GM is again mishandling its flagship brand and reacting to market conditions instead of trying to steer the market or push technology. They have been doing this for at least 3 decades now, and I dont understand why. Cadillac shouldnt be a volume brand, and they also shouldnt push for profit over everything else. Cadillac should be the GM Halo, with the most R&D and engineering resources creating the tech and engineering that filters down to the volume brands.

Instead they tried to be more BMW and Mercedes Benz than BMW and MB was. They of course failed miserably at that. Some good cars were produced, but they ended up compromised in some way that would make purchasing that over a German competitor pointless. Usually this was in the interior quality which was and remains subpar vs competition.

Next they got 'blindsided' by the switch in consumer preference to SUVs. I dont see how this was ever the case as the Escalade has been their bread and butter since ~2000. From what I understand the CT6 was going to become a RWD platform for a lux SUV(which would have probably been great) but GM got cold feet and instead adopted the C1XX FWD platform which while is serviceable is hardly class leading.

They developed a brand new ICE engine called "Blackwing" that was state of the art. They placed it in the CT6 for about a year only to cancel that car and realize the engine doesnt fit any other platform they make. I cant even fathom how much was lost in that deal.

Ok now they want to go all in on electric, with the only other electric being the tarted up Chevy called the ELR. I suspect that the result will end up being too expensive to recoup development costs, and if past performance is an indicator it will get canceled right as the bugs are worked out and it becomes viable. This is where Cadillac needs to actually commit to really going all in and get the freaking accountants out of the pipeline. Sure building cars is hard and expensive and risky. Cadillac used to be aspirational and forward thinking until the 60s. I suspect they didnt make a lot of money back then either. Of course maybe Im just an armchair quarterback here but from my perspective they are rudderless.
Fair, but I don't think we need to know what happened to asses what is happening now.

I consider that this being discussed in a public sphere a failure regardless of situation as it looks bad on the company no matter what.

If a person feels their only way out is to appeal to the mob then I think the people doing the management have made a misstep. If that person has a history of appealing to the mob then it is still a misstep as that should have been considered when dealing with the issue.

Perhaps they did the calculus and this is the best result, but looking in, it doesn't feel like it.
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> Here we see a journalist in its natural habitat, trying to foster a sense of outrage where none at all exists, in the hopes of luring its prey to share the article. If it succeeds, it will be rewarded with eyeballs aplenty, which, in the cold harsh winter, will prove critical to the success of its offspring.

Or, you know, the journalist did their job and contacted relevant interested parties for comment, and included their perspective for the benefit of readers who would look for that perspective.
Wait... So it’s possible to make it so you can’t use `quit()`? Just overwrite it without saving it?
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Summary of what's happening here:

Facebook has disabled access to the Oculus Quest hardware the user bought because the Facebook account associated with that headset has been suspended.

The user can't switch Facebook accounts and Facebook sign-in is required now (it used to just require an Oculus account).

This is basically the worst case scenario people were hypothesizing when Facebook bought Oculus.
First, it's a "herd".

Second, 17% is a lot of dealerships. I mean, I presume that these are the dealerships that aren't selling all that many cars, but... what total sales volume did they account for. 5%? 10%? Does Cadillac want to lose that much of their total sales? Do they want to pay money to lose that much of their total sales?

And, really, pay $300,000 for a dealership to go away, because the dealership wouldn't pay $200,000 for a charging station. Why not, you know, put up the $200,000, and keep the dealership?
A regulation requiring headlines to reflect article content would solve about half of the problems caused by social media.
Ironically as I started to read this I was holding my Oxycodone vial and contemplating taking one. And now I am.

At least my impulse is because of post-surgical pain, and hopefully will fade with the pain.
Yep. And good luck figuring out how to impress girls that spent every summer of their childhood in Paris and Switzerland.
Ditto. I think if you are an experienced web app dev, understand the pros and cons of something like Stimulus, and set out from the beginning of your project to make PRODUCT decisions within the constraints of something like Stimulus and being more SSR. Then it is a great tool.

Anything more complicated though, and you are better off with Vue, React, Etc
No, its true. I'm talking about the setting for your account, not the cookie one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25308836
How?

$10-20 an hour is better than minimum wage and a few years ago I worked a labor job that "only" paid $12.00/hr.

Is Jeff Bezo's personal net worth the causation behind someone not being able to support a family?

What about Zuckerberg, what is the average salary of a FB employee? If its above a certain amount is that a "moral" billionaire?

I would argue that pursuit of profits can lead to bad things for employees... but I never understood going after billionaires when their wealth is almost exclusively because they created a company worth billions. If that were the case, everyone making minimum wage should have seen their salaries skyrocket when these billionaires lost great %'s of their wealth over the last year.

I personally see rent/CoL being the problem. I don't know of solutions but I do feel going after billionaires is just a waste of energy. I'm a bit bias as my work has some crossover with "wealth and finance" (trading stocks) but all too often these ideas about "taxing rich people" just blow up and leave everyone worse off.

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

TL;DR, they tax each trade on the market. It makes a fraction of what it was projected to make and never comes close to making more than they did before by just taxing the capital gains (profit from trading). Its an idea I've seen showing up more and more.
It would be pretty easy to discriminate if you had loose underspecified rules, then decide action on a case by case basis. The problem seems to not be in the rules but in the deciding.
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Someone on my team likes to write their own mocks instead of using the mocking framework. A lot of people don’t really understand the point of testing, but this behavior is pretty far down on the spectrum.

The mock is hard to write by hand, so they get sunk cost fallacy and share it between tests. Now the tests are coupled to each other, which makes it hard to change features. But wait, there’s more.

They made space for some delegation/composition that never arrived or disappeared, and so they’re sharing the same mock across two different test suites, in two different directories. And made very coarse grained commits, so even if I wanted to know how tf they got here, which I really don’t, I’d have trouble doing it.

Writing complex scaffolding for your tests is supposed to hurt. Pain is your body telling you something is wrong. If you can’t set the preconditions in a few lines then you don’t understand the problem, or you don’t understand your own code. Both are bad for your coworkers.

Big decisions are the culmination of a bunch of little decisions. They are not the little decisions themselves. Don’t write your code like they are, and all of this shit gets ten times easier.
The top comment seems to imply that that was/is SOP.
You misunderstand the nature of Gupta's expertise and how it might relate to the issue at hand. She has also demonstrated her lack of qualifications in this matter with her public statements even in the areas where she would be legitimately qualified.

You're just goalpost moving here, the argument in the article you are citing clearly says the viruses are similar and presumes that their effects are similar on that basis. If YOU don't accept that then you don't accept your own cited authority, you're wasting your own time here on that basis.
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If it's high up in the article, and the headline is misleading, that means the problem lies with the editor rather than the journalists. Journalists do not write their own headlines.
Gebru's email to team members: https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

Tweet explaining how she "resigned": https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334343577044979712?s...

An external reviewer of the paper: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k69eq0/n_t...

I think you should be more open about what potentially actually happened because your first sentence seems very accusatory without proper information, the very bias that Gebru speaks of. According to her email that Dean references in his, her "feedback" for the paper was given in the form of a confidential HR document. That seems highly nonstandard for a review process supposedly only concerned with scientific rigor and is not addressed at all by Dean's statement. Further, his statement clearly, likely intentionally, muddies the water about what the actual sequence of events were that led to the paper being created, internal reviewers originally being notified, when the submission happened, who approved it, who submitted it externally, who asked for this to be retracted, and when and in what order all this happened. The fact that his statement, that was apparently meant to clarify these exact proceedings, makes it even more vague about what actually happened seems pretty damning to Dean's case, in my opinion.

Both Gebru's and Dean's statements have very little overlap in flavor and in facts, so it's pretty apparent something is going on here that is nontrivial and abnormal.
Here are mine:

* All children should be introduced to computation in BASIC.
* Clojure is not an acceptable lisp.
* Jerking off to complexity is not cool.
I'm afraid this is pretty common on the Internet today. I recently set up my own web server and I was a little shocked to look at some of the logs (in terms of the level of malice and persistence, like hundreds of different attacks attempted by a single attacker) even though I had often heard about this phenomenon before.

You could try to complain about the abuse to the SWIP owner of that IP address space in whois. Note that some ISPs and countries may not care much. Perhaps this bot is already deliberately hosted in one that doesn't care.

Also maybe consider using something like fail2ban, a leading tool for automating some attack-bot blocking:

https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Although it's a much-debated topic, I don't think that the escalation of "hack-back" is reasonable ethically or even tactically. One important problem is that you don't even know for sure that the apparent origin of the attacks is an entity that's deliberately involved at all. It could be a legitimate server (that someone relies on) that the attacker has previously compromised in order to abuse it to attack you. The main person who suffers if you succeed in a hack-back might be the legitimate operator of that server, who may also be an innocent victim (and might think of you as a malicious attacker for trying to disable the server!).
Or maybe we need smaller or fewer dealerships.
Yea, but those niche subreddits are getting rarer and rarer. There's some kind of goldilocks zone where subs are popular enough to be active with interesting content, but not popular enough to devolve into no-effort meme spam. Or possibly terrible moderation ruins the sub completely. Or the official Reddit fun-police shuts you down.

I left that cess pool behind about a year ago, and I don't miss it.
Having done a a lot of consulting for car dealerships, I’d wager that it’s more likely that their appointment reminder system is held together by duct tape and baling twine, and getting it to schedule smarter based on the data in the dealer management system is so complicated that it’s probably using default values from when it was first set up 8 years ago.
I wonder if the thinking was that dealers have more buying power since they’re purchasing multiple cars from the manufacturer at once, so they are on more equal footing when it comes to negotiating with GM and Ford. Then, since there are multiple dealerships selling the same cars, they can compete with each other on price. Thus, in theory, allowing customers to purchase cars at a price closer to the “wholesale” price.

Of course, once the systems exist, the dealers will lobby for their continued existence.
It still is problematic if you use third party plugins / saas vendors.

Not all. But many. Things like zendesk integrations for example. YMMV
I spent the late 80s working in XBase, which also had a single numeric type, though you could enforce the desired precision by saving numbers in tables.
Apple's iPhones will turn down the volume if your music is too loud
> A regulation requiring headlines to reflect article content

That is literally asking the impossible of journalists.

Unless the headline is as long as the article, there will always be some nuance from the article left out of some headlines.
Sure; but this trend doesn’t rely on upbringing alone.

The children of two collage graduates have collage graduate genes and a collage graduate upbringing. It’s no surprise they’re (we’re) overrepresented in collages.
Sorry, I meant that I for one don’t go to /newest often.

And I didn’t imagine it was what drove most links to the top of the homepage. I always thought that many people submitting the same URLs was more influential.
Would you eat lab-grown human meat?

I've only been vegan for about 2 year now, but my current view is that meat is just gross. Being lab-grown only solves some ethical aspects, but is still gross.
Those questions are perfectly reasonable sanity-check tests of basic programming skills (functions, loops, basic arithmetic). That person is not assuming you know how to calculate Pi -- they're telling you how to do it as part of the question.
Cadillac looked dead 25 years ago, too, and managed to rejuvenate the brand with the CTS and Escalade. I wouldn't count them out yet.
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> It's not "runaway activism" if you hire ethics researchers who find ethics problems.

The fundamental difference between activism and research is that activism sets the agenda ahead of time while research explores the knowledge space and reports findings. One helps us incrementally make better sense of the world, the other wants us to narrow on particular facts while omitting other relevant facts in the name of advancing a cause.

> Reasons for not citing research, especially recent research, range from lack of relevance ... To simply not having known about it

The omitted research is clearly relevant. Deciding what is relevant and what is not is precisely what narrative warfare is. If they did not know about the adjacent research, then they would simply be incompetent researchers (which I highly doubt is the case).

> The correct reviewer response to this would be an "accept with corrections" to "revise and resubmit"; retraction is overboard.

There is no retraction because there was no external publication. Jeff Dean states reviewer response as you stated was there but was ignored by the approver.

> Once your employer starts interfering with what you can and can't publish, it's time to find a new affiliation indeed.

Corporate researchers are still employees and are bound by a job description. Independent of the content of the research, it is also entirely within the rights of the employer to set a certain bar of quality being cleared. In this case it seems like Google didn't want affiliation with this paper, not the other way around.
I've read it internally. It's rather bland and doesn't actually indite google. I'm inclined to believe that it was a paper-submission-process issue.
> I'm thankful HN is not designing for 'engagement' or MAUs at the UI level.

HN has an entirely different business model. Regardless of heady ideas by the creators, from a business perspective this site is little more than an advertisement for ycombinator's actual services. I'm not sure what model reddit could go with at this point in their growth outside of their ad platform (and their odd cult-like "token" awards).
Yes - that's fair - that's the Andrew Carnegie and Alfred Nobel style of gaming. After winning first in cheat mode, play again in real mode!
> Zuckerberg

You mean when he was coding the site to rate which of his classmates were hottest? Yeah, cool cool.
It's unfortunate you were in a geographic location and a time that exposed you to poor math teachers.

I was taught calculus in high school, well before university, in Australia in the late 1970s.

Visual analogies such derivatives being tangential rates of change and 2nd derivatives being local curvatures were taught and drawn on the board in the first week of two years of Calc I and Calc II classes that came before leaving high school to attend university.
Most people don’t spend tens of thousands of dollars on education to be better citizen of the world. They want to support their habit of needing food and shelter.
> "civility" is not objective/neutral, often relies on codifying the norms of a dominant majority, and also preserves the status quo.

In this case, the norm in question was respectful argumentation grounded in empirical evidence. Why does it matter that that norm belongs to a dominant majority?
I can easily see how both accounts can be true.

For example suppose that Timnit was told to withdraw after an incomplete review indicates that they don't want to publish. If she asked at that time for a complete list of things to fix, nobody can give it to her because the review isn't finished. Nor can they produce it in a timely matter because it takes time to do the review.

Later the detailed feedback is ready. And if she wanted to submit the paper elsewhere, she could have fixed it and done so. But by then things have blown up and it is too late.
I mean... you just don't use 10W solutions to run GPU problems.

Push your wattage up to 40W on the platform, and suddenly you're looking at 10W CPU + 30W GPU, and things start to get interesting. All Apple really needs to do is get their M1 + AMD GPU (NAVI 2x is looking decent), and they're set. (Rumor has it that Apple is pissed off at NVidia for some reason, so Apple x NVidia solution seems unlikely)

I'm not sure if the M1 has enough PCIe lanes. But hypothetically, a future design would include good I/O capabilities and start to scale upwards.
But they have the Mach e and Bronco launches coming soon that are really driving people back to them
Veblen's theory of conspicuous leisure is underrated compared to his more well known theory of conspicuous consumption but it's odd that this article gives the "competitive wonkery often displayed on Twitter" as a modern example rather than something more obvious such as posting pictures from exotic vacations on instagram or facebook.
She was saying that right now, even if you write such documents, your work essentially won't matter due to some perceived problem with the process. Or at least that's how I read it.

You're not wrong. But it's also the least charitable interpretation anyone could have. Why would anyone tell their coworkers "Stop working, go to McDonalds instead"? Nobody would do that, because that would be both unhelpful and dumb.

Now, maybe it's true that she was telling her coworkers to come play dota 2 with her for 8 hours on company time. But without far more context, we can't know. And there's almost zero additional information here.

Think about how you'd want to be judged. Would you want someone to take a single sentence, stripped of context, and parade it around as if you'd said something you didn't? I wouldn't.

Listen, yesterday I was in complete agreement with you and the other commenter. I felt like she might have been an entitled employee, spreading drama wherever she went, and that Google had been generous to humor her for as long as they did. But today I'm (un)surprised to find myself feeling like I was being a judgmental ass based on very little information.

Her actions seemed crazy, but now that the dust has settled, it seems like her heart was probably in the right place, and that Jeff was giving her an exceptionally hard time for unclear reasons. Her reaction reminds me very much of how I acted at the breaking point. It gets exhausting to try to work around someone who is determined to stand in your way.

The principle of charity applies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity#:~:text=I....

You'd be correct to say that I'm guilty of the same thing in reverse: I'm extrapolating far in the other direction, inventing all kinds of plausible-sounding stories about bully managers and such. But it doesn't feel like mental gymnastics to read her comment as "I am extremely frustrated and disappointed that writing these papers seems not to matter whatsoever, and we should probably take a hard look at whether we're having any effect."

That boils right down to "stop writing your documents because it doesn't make a difference," just offensively curt. And yes, phrasing does matter, but people keep saying she said X when it sounds like she said Y.
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Ready for bonus trivia about that scene? The Salieri March is actually a Mozart piece “Non piu andrai”[0] from Marriage of Figaro that the film makers “dumbed down” to make it a simple little tune that Mozart could fix in front of the emperor (and show off Mozart’s improv skills). It was a clever way to sneak another Mozart piece into the movie. One of my favorite scenes too!

0: https://youtu.be/yz8n2tVyGwc
> I think that leverage is the core kernel of truth lurking within this question.

I like this idea, because it focuses the ethical/moral/policy question on something that seems to me to be much more tractable: what kinds of leverage should society allow you to use, and to what extent?
What "dumb idea" am I defending?
That's seems unattainable. They're sovereign countries competing in a world market for capital. The incentives go the other way.
Given how over-engineered symfony is, that's not a good thing...
Comments got spicy. Several of them. Understandably so. It's nuanced; nuance seems to be not much of a favorable flavor around these types of discussions. Instead of hitting the "hide" button and moving on since it doesn't interest them, it would seem flaggers would rather see the conversation nuked entirely.