skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few things to think about here.

First, Tesla does not yet have real competition in their market niche. They can do things differently. Every car they produce will be sold at full price. There's no incentive to involve a sales staff at this time. It is interesting to hear that you scheduled a test drive though. I'm curious if / when there is meaningful competition in electric vehicle sales, if anything will change on Tesla's end (or if other players will start to adapt to this model.)

Second, buying a car is, at most, one really dreadful day every three years (ideally more like five to ten.) Sales staff can get away with murder, and everyone gets over it and forgets just enough of the pain to go deal with it again in another five years. GM tried to change this with Saturn, but for various reasons, Saturn failed, and that prevented an improved sales model from catching on. (It seems like dealers find this horrible practice works in their favor, especially if everyone keeps doing it, but will it keep working if competition arises with a different model?)

Third, did you trade a car in? This is very typical for most people buying new cars, as many don't want to go through the effort of selling privately. I'd like to hear more about this process.

Fourth, did Tesla work with your preferred lender for financing? I'm curious how big of a network they have. For the last 20 years, I've only financed through my credit union. Anything the dealer wants to arrange is sure to be a nightmare financial institution I wouldn't want to touch with a ten foot pole!
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The ratio of the log of capacity to speed is roughly constant across the various forms of freight transit. Ships are slow but have massive capacity, trains are faster with lower capacity, planes have extremely low capacity but damn they're fast. Zeppelins/dirigibles are extremely slow and extremely low capacity. They have some niche utility when endurance is required (you want to stay in the air for as long as possible) but shipping is definitely not one of those circumstances.
Ask HN: Should PayPal be liable for scammers?
PayPal defaults to saying they can't do anything to help users that scammed. Should they be liable?
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If emails were written and parsed as markdown, I might (!) change my opinion about it. But HTML is vastly too feature-rich to be sane. I think showing images inline (such as in Github-flavored Markdown) is still too feature-rich. But lists, tables, monospaced blocks, italic, bold ... these are fine. Embedded images aren't conducive to being parsed by a script.
I think that the comparison between software and physical goods breaks down a bit in this particular instance.

If you don't have a snowblower, no amount of time spent on your own will allow you to get one - you have to get the physical parts from somewhere.

If you don't have a particular piece of software, you can often write it yourself, with some time, but without paying another person or needing to find a physical good.

As the difficulty of using a piece of software increases, the cost-benefit tradeoff tilts more toward "write it yourself".
Churches absolutely solve loneliness: it's a ready-made community complete with social events and opportunities that, with small exceptions and discounting odd-ball churches, anyone can join. Yes, they have a morality on right and wrong, but from reading your comment, I'm pretty sure you do too.

People are avoiding dating and marriage because of climate change? This doesn't sound real.

I suspect COVID making everything socially bizarre is having a much bigger impact on dating than a financial bubble bursting 13 years ago.
Any body panel or other build quality issues? I have a friend who bought a model S a few years ago and had major issues and I've heard horror stories, so I've been trying to give them time to improve on that stuff.
Is it possible that all of your neighbors in your building have their heater on? This is what happened to me in a building in NYC. It would actually get so warm in the winter I would have to crack the window open or I would get a nose bleed.
> a giant block of concrete (as a ‘thermal battery’) to manage the heating and cooling

Can you explain how this worked? Or how it was supposed to work? Was it just a literal block of solid concrete? I’m so intrigued and I have so many questions!
it hasn't been in Vim very long, added in 8.1 ~3 years

https://www.vim.org/vim-8.1-released.php
I have to admit that this quip pisses me off because open source developers have been so very generous to me.

That their work is done in public and in front of the world should not give us extra ammunition to put their efforts down.

There are countless closed source packages that are arcane and hard to deal with - we just don't see them so there not able to be criticized.
That's a nice assumption but I don't believe this to be true. Before the pandemic hit, VW (the make, not Porsche or Bugatti) made only a few hundred Euro profit per vehicle, with some lower class models even less than 100€.

Tesla just saved themselves from building a sales network.
Seems like you should sue?
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Arround 1400, the King proclaimed that "every Englishman or Irishman dwelling in England must have a bow of his own height", at one point Tennis was banned to give more time to bow practice. By 1500s every man had to buy his 7 year old son a bow and teach him how to use it, and a bow+arrows must be kept in everyones house.

Crossbows on the other hand were practically banned, but this was more because a highly skilled longbowman was more deadly
> If you don't enjoy haggling, you can just pay sticker price.

You still are forced to go though good cop/bad cop sales routines for 'add-ons' like mats, some sort of paint protection and crap like that.
Of course any style of music can get old and repetitive. But electronic music in particular has been very tied to the technological development of electronic instruments, from the moog modular and forward. A style like jungle/dnb was simply not possible before the advent of samplers and sequencers (well in theory you could do it with tape machines, but). Since about 2005 we can do "just about anything" with DAWs and plugins.
* does single study * ... “it’s official!”
The best software spec is a functioning spreadsheet.
Yes. :) https://github.com/quectel-wireless-solutions/QuecOpen
LEED is a joke. My dad used to manage a large office building in chicago and the certification was done by the building management itself. The guy collecting the data asked all the tenants for the info and threw out all the reports that made the building look bad. They got leed certification.

I'm also for more efficient use of resources but I'm skeptical LEED actually improves this. Also, all those curtain walled buildings are hideous and destroy the built environment.
The Danes drinks every day while the Finns drink it all in one sitting.
They are no experts, they are charlatans.

We stick a label of "expert" to charlatans, liars, idiots, mouthy and loud idiots and then we are surprised that "experts don't work".
how the hell did antivaxers become a significant portion of the population

Some people see Jenny McCarthy as a great model and assume she's knows more about health than she does. People put misplaced respect into a guy like Novak Djokovic. It's OK to respect his stance on backhands, but why does anyone care about his stance that he's against vaccines?
will be the next arguably iconic products - yeah I mean if apple released a rock someone would argue about how iconic it was
For cost savings. They are common in offices in my country. I find it really distractive myself
Yes. My 486 DX2-66MHz could do 112kbit MP3s, but was struggling with 128kbit MP3s.
Piping output to a file is much more preferable in my opinion, but you can access scrollback with ctrl-b [, then j/k for up down and ctrl-u/ctrl-d for jumping up/down.
The dinosaurs really messed up by not having a space program.
I wouldn't give their system that much credit -- the belt OP received doesn't even fit the trousers.

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That incomprehensible line above was written by my advanced AI. Or I was just lazy and wanted to sell something with a cool marketing buzzword, and without regard to ethics.
This made me laugh, but if you think about it most non-free software is like an expensive player piano. Just as difficult to move, but it only plays music approved by the manufacturer, and requires special tools to tune that they only sell to approved partners.
but to those who believe in theology it would appear as such...
Ask HN: Books and literature on the scientific side of Software Enginnering?
I'm aware of the eternal debate on whether software engineering is "real" engineering, and the purpose of the question was not to fan those flames...

After seeing some posts here on HN on the more scientific side of Software Engineering (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630385) I wanted to learn a bit more about this side of it.

In summary, not qualitative "process" studies (e.g. anedoctal evidence on why Agile is good) or theoretical Computer Science, but more quantitative analysis and formally proven processes, if that makes sense.
I don't see how you could get a hangover from drinking 6x330ml cans of beer in a single evening, let alone across a week. You evidently have a chip on your shoulder over alcohol
> C doesn't have generics, so it has no choice but to make `sizeof` somehow special

It could have used a different syntax though. Ada has a special syntax for compile-time inquiries like this, so there's no way to confuse them with function calls. Ada calls these attributes.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Attributes#Lan...
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The article doesn't give us quite enough information - what percentage of hospitalised Covid patients are over 70? 70 year olds are getting to the point where they spend a lot of time in hospital.

The "hospitalised for Covid" part of the sample group is introducing a lot of bias. Fit, young and healthy people are much less likely to end up in hospital. So it makes sense from the first that the group is suffering more problems than a general population control group.
Yeah, it's probably just you.

To me (and probably most others), license texts and such absolutely look like they are shouting. I do not understand whence the convention of having them in ALL CAPS, and can only assume it's in itself some sort of a cultural association between ALL CAPS and IMPORTANCE. I have only seen it in English legal texts, anyway – is it even used in other languages? It looks to me like ALL CAPS was originally used to emphasize key points, and then an inevitable race to the bottom happened until EVERYTHING WAS IMPORTANT which really means that nothing is important.

When it comes to typography, nearly every type of emphasis employed in Western text except italics (and sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴄᴀᴘs, which see too little use these days methinks) only exist due to technological limitations, particularly the extremely limited typographic options available to typewriters and, later, 7- or 8-bit text terminals. This includes ALL CAPS, s p a c i n g, and u͟n͟d͟e͟r͟l͟i͟n͟e͟d͟, never mind ASCII crutches like /pseudoitalics/, _pseudounderlined_, and ∗pseudoboldface∗.
I think it's also interesting to zoom out and look at all car sales[0].

Globally, about 56 million cars sold in 2020 (or about 14 million per quarter), down from 65.5 million in 2019.

China was the largest market with nearly 20 million sales, followed by the United States with 14.5 million.

Comparing the estimate of 14 million per quarter, Tesla hitting 183,000 sales would account for 1.31% of global sales. That is small, but also given how many manufacturers they are, it's by no means insignificant (and of course leading in EVs.)

Globally, Toyota sold 8.7 million cars (2.17m / quarter) or 15.5% of global sales.

In the US, GM sold 2.5 million cars (637k / quarter) in the U.S. or 17.6% of US sales.

[0] https://www.best-selling-cars.com/international/2020-full-ye...
Unless I'm unaware of some new discoveries, i believe the first written word (that is clearly identifiable as a written word) would be in cuneiform, around 3500 BC, in ancient Sumer.
This and most modern buildings are heated and cooled via a central heating/cooling system which distributes the hot/cold via water.

So, it may be even though you don't have the heat 'on' there is still hot water running through your apartment's heating system.
You sponsor visas?
I haven't used neovim, but it certainly is possible to use vim with its terminal feature as a terminal multiplexer. The way I do it is to use a single instance of vim to handle the multiplexing and just run whatever I need in different split windows or tabs.

If I need to copy, I'll use the terminal normal mode (ctrl-w N) and visually highlight text and copy it to the + register. Then I can paste the contents in another application. The only issue I've encountered is that some text that's not supposed to be wrapped has line breaks added at the screen width. In that case, I'll paste the text into another vim buffer first and remove the line breaks using gJ. then copy and paste it into another application.

For copying text from another application back into vim, I'll just highlight it with the mouse and paste it into vim using ctrl-w "*
What problem is there to apply regression at? You get the measures, and make the cloths fit to those measures. If there is any measure missing, you can't just go and guess it, because you are not fitting a population.

Talk about distraction...
Wiki says there are 950k docs in the US. I'll start with thinking that since I don't have better numbers, that is a good initial estimate. I'll next estimate that there are less that 1k doctors wildly prescribing Oxy to patients and wind back up at my 1:999 ratio. I bet, frankly the odds are actually way BETTER than that. And I'll just finish by pointing out I didn't say "1 bad apple", I said "1 in 999 doctor apples are bad for the sake of this argument.

On the expert in all fields: actually I just disagree here. I get your point but I think my summary is right. Let's again take the doctor sub-argument. If I decide that because my nephew's college roommate's friend had a doctor who was a bad apple (bad call? Oxy abuser? whatever) that I won't trust doctors anymore then the result will be that I become the medical expert in my life. As I am no longer delegating that competency and expertise to doctors, I have now assumed that role. Then add to that my assuming all the other roles that the top post used as examples and I'm now (in my world) the export (for me) on all those subjects.

I don't know about you, but I have a life and just don't have the time to be an expert on geopolitics, all fields the press is covering, all house repairs, my car, science, my health, and everything else mentioned... (1) For my part? Thank god for qualified experts.

1 - from top post: "Politicians, journalists, contractors, car mechanics, scientists, all experts and all professionals with with trust issues."
Ah, that's the one that I really wanted. Thanks.
Thank you for the correction. I misread.

https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/zwickau-3755
Consider the difference between the way the law and the platform treats transmission of spam calls over the telephone and pirated content over YouTube. You can tell which one is the concern of moneyed interests.
I've always liked the term "not on my watch". It probably derives from the maritime world, but is useful in my sysadmin career.

In many (larger) organizations you cannot ensure everything is running smoothly all the time. But you can look after everything in your own (IT) wheel house.

As a Canadian I cannot do much about China's (or India's) action, but I can do stuff about what happens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where I live.

So I will push for progress where I can, with the things under 'my watch', because it is the right thing to do. Doing the right thing yourself is sometimes the only thing you can do.
I usually don't like people that don't use a full stop at the end of sentences ...
I recently migrated a personal blog running on a hugo static site to digital ocean with automated github deployment, SSL certificates, CDN, and a custom domain. It took all of 15 minutes including updating the DNS on my custom domain registrar.
I did have a trade in, a 2011 Toyota Venza with low miles. Tesla offered me ~ $7,300. Carmax offered ~$10k. Carvana offered me $11,300ish AND they came and picked up my car. As with Tesla, I'm not sure I can go back. Even if Carmax had offered me more, it would have involved them doing a car inspection while I waited in their showroom. Carvana didn't even SEE my car before they made an offer, and having them pickup my car was super easy.

My "financing" was leasing through Tesla. I know, I know, not a great decision financially, but I'm not sure if I want a Tesla long term. I have kids and the Tesla is obviously smaller than my old Venza and I still worry about going on trips how it will do. But as a bonus, getting a lease meant less paperwork from a bank. I use a credit union too, but this was still easier.
If you approach that question as a developer, it makes sense. Why not just restrict yourself to a subset of HTML+HTTP, which is what many people do.

However, as a user, I can't be sure what's behind each URL. Does communitywiki.org require JavaScript? Do they set cookies? Do they violate my privacy with telemetry and analytics?

If I see a gemini:// link, I know the answers to all of those questions -- they don't because they can't, not because they choose not to.
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Yeah. It sounds like we can at least agree that VS code shows that with enough effort a company can make a performant cross-platform app with a consistent UI and near-perfect feature parity. It's basically cross-platform nirvana.
Sounds like a straightforward case of congress not realizing how software would change the nature of robocalls 30 years after the law was passed. Looks like Congress will have to amend the law and this decision should not be seen as some sort of constitutional right to spam people.
Lets just say I am very keyboard centric. I have used computers for nearly 40 years. I automate the my systems with extensive Keyboard Maestro and AHK scripts, use multiple layers on my programmable hardware keyboard, LaunchBar or Keypirinha. When editing text I seldom touch the mouse or use the menus. I have mostly made Windows 10 bend to my highly MacOS inspired keyboard focus

On Linux, I mostly restrict myself to the CLI. When I try Linux GUIs, I am frustrated with the lack of keyboard consistency in the GUI, but I have also never given it the months of time it would take to bend the Linux GUI to my way. (I do customize the heck out of the CLI)
People probably have a measurable bias in self-measurement, on average.
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_rent_ interrobang

I guess that's a short-term subscription or something?
Haven't seen anything so far. I did notice some rattling from the console display this morning driving over bumpy roads, but that MAY have been from the junk I have stored in the center console. I do wish it wasn't just two big holes/had some organization.
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I did a small project for one of the founders of the LEED standard. I am in favor of the project and lacking details right this minute so I won't argue its merits BUT I can say that ... building specs are super useful, at the right time. Changes to a building can be very difficult, time-consuming and expensive, amidst a business model in West that emphasizes short-term money flow constantly. It is hugely difficult to get building owners and their insurance companies, to agree to anything. So this fellow who happens to strongly identify with Stanford University, was a basket case of nerves and ego, with expensive office suite and lots of helpers who appear nervous. I myself laid out a technical argument for a proposed software design, and less than ten minutes in to it, it was clear that the guy was not listening, and then interrupted me to start basically having a fit about different project pressures.

My impression after the whole, small project was over was that this is a person who lives in a world of wealth and status, and has to interact with others like that, who do not get along, or are constantly "jousting" .. I believe this fellow means well in the largest ways, but really the feeling overall was more like some kind of Arab Sheik than tech business.. I want LEED and things like it to succeed. I think this is a terribly hard thing to get going in reality. I feel this guy had too much pressure and was sort of losing it in a way ..
Here, have a free copy of my "kill fixed" bookmarklet. Sorry I don't have it in more readable code, but it's small enough to parse through so you can verify nothing nefarious resides in there.

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Do you expect fully remote positions after covid? Your career page seems to list onsite positions only.
There’s a somewhat quiet industry of car buying agents, often just someone working out of their house, that can take care of this for you. Usually they can save what they cost, and are often worth the saved time regardless.

(If anyone reading this turns this into a successful exploitative gig-economy business model, please send a bitcoin. Thanks.)
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My CEO refers to Fibonacci numbers (used for story points) as Mariachi numbers.
I think it is more of a production issue than a sales issue. The Mach-E will sit on a dealer lot an average of 7 days.

https://insideevs.com/news/498351/us-ford-mache-sales-q12021...
There are more than a few times that I have had to comment to someone "I have not followed your evolution as a programmer over the past 15 years, therefore I can not read your Perl code."
> This is more due to how widespread English is, and how vowels/pronunciation have shifted over time.

I'd go so far as to say that english is now spoken by so many people in so many different regions, all of whom can now be heard by each other on a reasonably frequent basis, that it has forced english speakers to become so adept at vowel-reconstruction that one could pronounce words with completely arbitrary vowels and still be understood.