skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's likely what's happening. Owner buys it new, uses it for 7-9 years. Goes to the used market, where it gets 4 years. Maybe a second turn on the used market, and then it gets sold overseas. I hear the Middle East is a big consumer of used cars from the US.

Also, "aging" is going to be heavily influenced by socioeconomic group. For some people, aesthetic damage to the paint or interior is enough to qualify as aging. Other people are more interested in the functionality, and other people are interested in whatever drives. I have friends that consider a 3 year old car to be aging, and I have friends who drive 10 year old cars and think they're just fine.

I do think Teslas (and electric cars in general) are going to have an impact on the used car market, especially on the cheaper end. These batteries don't have tremendously long lifespans, and a replacement often costs as much as a cheap ICE car.

I'm curious if there's going to be any profit in repairing electric cars with new batteries to sell them in Mexico or other parts of the globe, or if we're basically just going to be cutting off part of the used car market. The social impacts of developing countries losing access to a relatively cheap supply of vehicles could be bad.
I believe logseq.com fulfills those needs. Using the "properties" feature, you can tag any block or page.

What's more you can even write queries [0] to ask interesting questions about your notes, like what TODOS were written within a time period, etc.

Could you explain quick-linking a little more?

[0] https://logseq.github.io/page/Queries
I enjoyed this article and was impressed with how far the author got in each day's exploration.

I always thought Plan9 should have had a comeback as part of the "Internet of Things" given its deep support for networking and its modest hardware requirements (it was designed in the 90s.)
There was and still is a website called The Daily WTF about discussing especially funny bugs and programmer's mistakes. In 2012 I registered on it as a user "undefined" to make a comment about JavaScript oddities under one of their articles and almost forgot about its existence, then they migrated their comments and forums to Discourse and in 2015 I got a bunch of email notifications about people mentioning me as suddenly all "likes" in the forum were linked to my profile:

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/17637/undefined-liked-thi...
My relationship with historical linguistics, and linguistics in general is that I consider it both interesting and pseudoscientific — I will also admit that my dislike for the discipline might be colored by my negative experiences in conversing with linguists on a personal level. My interest is otherwise nonprofessional though I minored in it in university.

Especially linguistic psychology is to be taken with a grain of salt — what I said about how unmarked forms of words acquire secondary meanings is certainly the consensus in that field, but it is not as if it were ever established empirically, nor could it; it is simply an idea that appeals to the intuition and there is nothing obviously wrong with it.
Don't misunderstand. I have no problem using someone's preferred pronouns.
Well, apparently companies love these - it means that work vehicles can all be bought in "basic" cheapest spec, but if the employee driving them wants fancy gadgets, they can pay for it from their own pocket! What's not to like?? /s
That's essentially what backing up to your Mac instead of iCloud gets you. The data is encrypted with your key to a device that you control.
Every time I see SOAP in a ticket/task I die a little inside. Without fail every SOAP related project I've dealt with in the last 10 years has been a shit show. I've actually and unfortunately gotten pretty good at dealing with it but I so hate it.
Does a general participate in an invasion when they give an order?
cats too.
I'm happy with WFH. At least where I am located calling it a lockdown is a bit of a stretch. That said, I haven't been going out, going to other people's homes, or inviting people to mine. I do miss going out to get lunch, dinner, and drinks. However, I've saved quite a bit not doing those things.

The biggest positive change for me has been eliminating my commute, which usually takes 2-3 hours per day. I've used that time for weightlifting and have stuck with it 3-5 (usually 5) days a week since March. I have also been able to get more sleep due to not needing to get up as early to commute to work.

Beyond that, I have a much easier time focusing in my home office. Most workplaces are loud and distracting. Peopling walking by or having impromptu conversations by your desk is a major distraction that seems to happen every day in an office.
>I’m not the Floridian. I replied to your post because I thought you were overlooking how much federal law impacts daily life.

I should have looked at the username before responding. My apologies.
I wonder if you can rent him to sit in Zoom meetings doing nothing.
"The list of improvements under this new free and open, yet proprietary, license, is overwhelming."

"Free" and "open" have established definitions in the software space, neither of which mean "proprietary." This is just open-washing nonsense.
Don't go too far down that road because you can never be sure when a smart (but insane) person will get enough dissatisfied people and go to war. Thus everyone needs to know enough about war so that society as a whole can deal with war if it comes.

How much is left as an open question.
Taking Notes from Browser Address Bar
When I clicked on it, the page was full of Tweets don't fall inline with your claim, but maybe we all see a different Twitter according to "personalization" :)
What about empowering people to protect themselves from violent insurrectionists? If I read in the news that a whole bunch of people planned to converge on my town and shoot at each other, I would certainly consider buying some body armor
There is a ratio. 5 mg + 0.5 * PUFA. For example, 20g PUFA = 15 mg vitamin E. It gets specific, as more is needed with longer chain PUFAs like DHA.

Lipid peroxidation can also be handled with more vitamin A and 1g+ vitamin C (to recycle the oxidized vitamin A).
I'm surprised how no-one ever brings up this point. I've thought about it many times too.
Advertisements are also messaging.

Take a news article about a governer starting a new coronavirus lockdown. This article having ads for hand sanitizer, and this article having ads for zip-ties, are two very different messages.
Baloney. If they're that inept, GP is going to have to do it for them anyways. He should save himself some trouble and start with something he won't have to replace in 5 years when precisely the same thing that happened at WhatsApp happens to signal.
That argument doesn't really hold up when Facebook literally serves the ads. In the metaphor you're suggesting, this would make Facebook the one wielding the gun, and companies buying ads would be whoever hired them to do the job. Hired hitmen are still criminally liable, despite not being the client.
I have that book too and it's great. Will have to check out that specific section. I mostly used it to see examples and explanations of how to do things in the Ecto DSL (which it is great for).
eh...I think this can be analogized to what we already see in code...

You need architecture, you need backends, you need a front end, you need product design...all with data.

Why are computer scientists computer scientists not engineers? Why is computer science about the code side? Why did computer engineering end up being more on the hardware end of the spectrum?

Words, especially newly coined terms are pointers to meaning. That meaning is socially mediated, it is not inherent.

You're saying this (adn I think the author is too) because there is a need for this group of people to look beyond titles to skillsets, and the existing titles carry linguistic baggage of the difference between science and engineering that has existed for decades.
Luckily there are faster and smaller alternatives in Rust for the ElasticSearch - Toshi[1], Meili[2] and Sonic[3]. In the age of Rust there is no need to use JVMs overhead.

[1] https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

[2] https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch

[3] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
I do an introductory Python lab course at my university. It's targeted at engineers who still create graphs from Excel and then normally level up to MATLAB, if things get complicated (think insets, ...). I guess about 30% of the people previously did at least some of the YT/Udemy "courses" on datascience. It's really horrifying for me (not being an engineer myself, but imo having a relatively engineering-like mindset) to see these people horrified at simple tasks like writing a variadic function. "What do I need this for?". Well, it's using the programming environment. And then let them code up a simple version of Levenberg-Marquardt. The level of "why do I need to do this" is astonishing again...
> seems to be more aimed at trying to show strength (ships in china seas)

They're showing strength because they want to keep the waterways open for international use.

> and less on making sure folks can trade or have safety.

The US has plenty of anti-piracy efforts across the globe.
MV2 is memory-limited, the depthwise + groups + 1x1 convs has a long launch time on GPU. Shattered kernels are fine for CPU, but not for GPU.

Though per your note on the scales, that's really interesting empirical results. I'll have to look into that, thanks for passing that along.
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I like Grafana and I wish you the best. Source-available to me is basically FOSS unless I want a free ride off your hard work.
Someday it will have WSL support (joke attempt)
Looks like the server needs to be updated. I am in a more restrictive environment but I'm not able to access the site as that server is using an unsafe protocol negotiation method.
The low gpu utilization rate in the first graph is kind of a tell... Seems like the M1 is a little bit worse than 40% of a v100?
This is hilarious. Paying money to passive-aggressively insult somebody, I think you may have invented a new market. Has this product generated any revenue yet?
(if you have Messages in iCloud enabled, but you don't loose much by turning it off)
Yes, I understand that, but what I would like is a distribution without any x-pack code. I don't want to have to figure out how to turn off and remove x-pack. What I'm concerned about is that it's another vector for security vulnerabilities that I don't need.
ahem http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/log?rev=mein+kampf
I would guess that it's a reaction to job title hype.

There's a huge variety in DS responsibility and background between companies.
So, you're saying that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. are publishers?
Its time to learn about the economy than just MySQL.
Nothing's fundamentally changed, besides the flashing. Load up a site without Adblock, and you'll have a time warp moment.
Man, it's so frustrating seeing all these businesses shutting down (smaller ones are closing for good), meanwhile I'm sure Bezos and the Silicon crew are reporting record profits this year through food deliveries and amazon purchases.

I sometimes find it very _very_ hard to not see this all a transfer of wealth from the middle/lower classes to the upper classes - either calculated beforehand or just being taken advantage of now I don't think it matters.

We're jumping right into another Great Depression, although as a millennial, I would argue we should call it something more fitting and modern - maybe... "The Big Sad"?
>If the content is not illegal, and the ads are not illegal, I’m not sure what the issue is at all.

Have you ever considered that what is illegal can be changed, and that the commenters you are replying to may feel that some part of this industry should be made illegal? It used to be legal to advertise cigarettes to children, and now it's not.

If you want to argue that it will be difficult to write and pass legislation that actually accomplishes anything meaningful, I'd agree. But to say "no laws are being broken so who cares?" is just so unproductive. Something has to be done here, and I think I would rather have it be done at a government level so that I can at least feel like I had some say in it.
Pfizer vaccine reduces coronavirus infection among entire population
Hey everyone this is OP, was a really nice surprise seeing my article generating so much discussion. I unfortunately don't think I'll have time to answer everyone but feel free to reply to this comment if you'd like to ask me anything.

It seems like the article was a bit polarizing, some of the comments made me realize I made a few imprecise statements and I'll fix those. Other comments didn't approve of my tone and that's a bit harder to fix since I tried writing this article in the same way I usually speak. I've written a lot of more dry content for my robotics ebook and I was purposeful in trying something different for this article.

Some of the comments actually generalized my observations to management and software more generally and it's always nice to see people taking my ideas further than I thought they could go.

One major thing I'd like to point out is I don't think "ML is dumb" is the right conclusion, there are lots of incentives making it so more of ML is stagnating but this is certainly not true for the field at large. Interesting ideas need to involve a certain amount of risk. The latter half of my article showcases a few ML adjacent projects which I think are absolutely fascinating.

And if you're interested in reading more stuff by me my robotics and machine learning ebook is very easy to read http://robotoverlordmanual.com/ and will teach you all you need to start building robots at home
Or maybe because there are just far more amateurs than actual security pros out there?

Dream market remained online for 7 years and shut down gracefully after the administrator got tired of dealing with DDoS attacks, odds are the site earned closer to $100M even if you ignore bitcoin appreciation.

>and he will be given long enough time and high enough incentives

You only have to last a couple of years to make tens of millions, Empire Market exited the business with over $30 million after two years.
After thousands attempts, Mario Kart fan pulls off Rainbow Rd “ultra shortcut”
Interesting. I recall the idea that wars come when the money spent on the military exceeds the money made in trade. I don't recall how much evidence there is behind the idea, but I think it's an interesting POV...
And also, they are being thrown off the platforms of private companies, not being censored by the government, so it's actually not a free speech issue at all.
Maybe because it all just leads to nothing.
Why not? Obviously the outcome of Boeing’s decision directly led to many deaths, and I am explicitly not trying to compare the two on result. However, the corporate actions which created these two scenarios are quite similar and I think it’s useful to compare them, since we’ll definitely see it again and again in the modern business world.
Google has a perception problem. Even if I can't logically defend how I feel about their likelihood of killing a product, it doesn't mean that image hasn't been built up over time by their actions. That's branding.

That aside, if they end up tying Fitbit accounts to Google accounts, the whole jig is up anyway, because no-one wants to buy a hardware product whose operation depends upon not having Google shut your account down with no recourse other than to raise a stink on sites like HN.
Since the mute LED is a user-facing security feature, it is in fact a pretty serious bug if users can't rely on it to be correct. Witness the wide variety of incidents over the last year where people ended up in serious trouble because they thought they were muted but weren't.

I feel like of all the examples in the blog post, this was the one with by far the biggest potential for actual harm to people.
Congratulations to José and the whole core team!

I've been working exclusively with Elixir and Phoenix for the past four years, and it's been a delight.
By "actual notice", I assume you're referring to the paltry 24 hours notice provided by Apple. To my knowledge, Google did not provide notice.
Look, Larry, give it up, OK? Nobody is going to use Perl 6. There are a million other languages out there these days. What does your language do that is in any way special or unique? Nothing.

Needless to say, the name Perl has little cachet or relevance today, thus explaining the name change. Lipstick on a pig.

At this point, if a supposed 'alternative' can't replace the C language, I want nothing to do with it. We need to get back to the hardware. No, Go doesn't cut it, and (laugh track deafening) I'm not interested in Rust, either.

I think the very idea of a VM language, while a cool and fun toy back in the early 2000s, is losing its relevance, at least for the moment. Source code portability is much better than binary portability.
What Decentralization Requires
I’m skeptical that dead drops of items purchased on the dark net is common. It seems like too many competing factors that would make it impractical.

Your customers are limited to your immediate geographic area and those who are willing to search for their purchases. The use of cryptocurrency to make purchases is a pretty big barrier for most people and reducing your customer base even further seems like it would make the whole operation uneconomical.

Paradoxically, the purchases should be inconspicuous yet easy to find. The mention of using Bluetooth and WiFi to help guide your customers would help, but at some point you have people out in public (presumably they’re in public because private locations provide even more obstacles) looking for hidden objects. That in itself is pretty conspicuous, even with the greater public knowledge of things like geocaching and Pokémon go (your customers also risk being engaged by those people). Additionally, placing and maintaining your drop locations is conspicuous. All it takes is one person seeing you leaving an object for the bomb squad to get called in.

The idea that a seller could place multiple orders ahead of time and then activate them as required seems odd as well. Your customers are going to have to be okay with buying drugs that could be degraded from being exposed to environmental conditions if the drops are outside (placing them inside of buildings exposes both you and your customers to more scrutiny). Likewise, leaving them for extended periods of time makes it more likely for them to be discovered. You’re also limited by what you’ve previously placed. If a customer wants multiple items, they’ll have to go to multiple drop locations.

There’s also the time and expense of setting up all these drop locations. You don’t want them concentrated because that makes it more likely that your customers will be noticed, but spreading them out will reduce your profit.

Shipping through the mail obviously poses it’s own problems, but it also has a lot of advantages. Mail generally can’t be opened without a warrant, sending and receiving mail is pretty inconspicuous and it gives the buyer more plausible deniability.

The article reads more of a “maybe this is how it could be done” than a “this is how it’s actually being done”.
Doing nothing is my hell. Waste of your life.
But as Perl-compatible regular expressions are available in many other languages, this is not really a reason for learning Perl itself, right? Or am I missing some deeper insight into regexes, because I don't know Perl?
I have been getting nothing but milsurp/"tactical tim" ads for 2020. I don't chat about plate carriers, bugout bags, etc ever, I don't engage in anything about it.. Facebook has just become like a bad gun store ad platform.
The claims are that Parler’s primary purpose was to accommodate evildoers, but it only takes a single counter example to invalidate such a broad claim.

My example and personal experience does so.

Producing a bunch of bad posts that they had not yet deleted also doesn’t prove the claim.

Just as the never-deleted “Trump severed head” picture doesn’t prove evil intent by Twitter, et.al.

Perhaps they just hadn’t gotten to them all. Perhaps their user-driven moderation scheme didn’t scale.

I’m getting fairly tired of being impugned by generalizations; I personally didn’t join Parler to plan evil; I just didn’t want to be on a site where everyone seemed to hate me.

So, I am a counter-example that invalidates the wildly general claim.

That is all.
> You can learn aspects of it, but to excel it requires a certain type of person.

This is a big problem in employment. To have successful workers the right person needs to get to the right job. Bureaucracy and politics pay are huge deterrents for this type of work. I've seen people who would love to be teachers and they'd be (somehow) okay with a low pay but not with the amount of paperwork and politics they had to deal with.
> Consider that at 14nm+++++, Intel still manages to outpace AMD with its 7nm CPUs and latest architecture. AMD competes mainly on price, which is not a great position to be in. Intel's profit margins are massively better.

Have you been living under a rock for this past year? This is not true. AMD is beating Intel in performance in every market segment right now.
Agreed, it is a complete disaster for privacy and competition in this space.
Survival / military e-shops are quite popular in EU, although they mostly target people that play airsoft, do reenactment, survival, bushcraft and so on. Preparing for a coup or for protection against the government is not a standard target group in Europe :-).
In Slovakia and Czech republic you can own basically any short or long weapon and any caliber as long as it's not full-auto. But you can of course only bring it to an official shooting range or match. Owning a weapon for self defense is possible for regular citizen and you can carry it with you (only concealed), but only for short weapons (pistols, revolvers). But it's not a constitutional right, it's a privilege and you have to meet certain condition. It's a longer topic. But I wanted to say that even though we have a lot of weapons, the gun crime rate is extremely low. Maybe that's also because every gun is registered, you have to take all the exams (medical, psychological, background check, weapon law test) and so on... It's also forbidden to bring a weapon (even if concealed) to a protest, your weapon license would be taken and say good bye to your guns.
Weapons in hands of citizen doesn't equal to gun crime (also check Switzerland), but I am also not a proponent of constitutional right for everyone to carry a weapon.
So it's maybe similar to social networks - they can become a danger if they are not regulated (same as weapons, if they are unregulated and freely available).