skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While their is a limited time period where a new car only has Dealer parts before the aftermarket and refurbished market kicks in. largely this is because there is not really a market for parts while the manufacturer warranty is in effect so more parts manufacturers do not bother.

The difference here is the dealer will sell you the parts most of the time no questions asked, no proof of ownership needed, no need to have the dealer install the part, etc etc. My understanding is that not even Tesla will sell you the parts, you have to bring the car in, they have the look it over, tell you what parts you need, and then you pay them to install it.

this is VERY VERY different than your Audi example
"Hearsay" is a bit of a misnomer because it encompasses any statement made by someone else - oral, written, non-verbal, git repo, etc.
I don't want to be 'that guy', but a slight better translation is "Ferociously gradual".
Seems like people have different families and different workplaces, so for some of them the slogan may actually be true. Others are horrified to hear it.
Still enjoying your Blackberry? Everything you mentioned is an analogy, not direct experience, and generally uninformed.
I think you're downvoted for not having a point relevant to the discussion.
Well, just don't hire an "idea person", especially not if your company is not gigantic.

If you are running a startup, at least one of the founders is "idea person". You don't need another one, especially not as an employee. It just doesn't bring any value to the business. Hire "execution person" to bring existing ideas further. An if "execution person" is not good, it will show, if not during the hiring phase, then soon later.
$TSLA having a bad ~day~ ~week~ ~month~ quarter? they have to find new exciting things to write, c'mon guys
> It is open to question why Amazon decided to act now;

Lol, because there is now public verifiable data that sellers do and get away with these shitty tactics on Amazon.
Amazon UK still block reviews with pictures which show the seller included incentive to review.
...This is not even close to a "privacy" violation.

When you buy something from a store, they get that information without Amazon in the middle by default (billing address, shipping address, CC info). As a seller, you want this information so you can see who is buying your product and optimize around that, in the same way that as a buyer, you want the most information possible about the product and competing alternatives.

Also, Amazon can and does kick sellers off for abusing data.

Meanwhile, when you buy an iPhone or Macbook, from the moment it gets an internet connection it starts phoning home sending tracking info on you, with no way to disable it. And its absolutely silly to be ok with Apple collecting data but not any other 3d party - from your perspective, Apple is 3d party, and if you trust them with your data despite a history of violations, then you probably don't really care about privacy as much as you think.
Having worked on both projects, I can tell you that it's more complex than what you're making it out to be.
iPhone Lidar and Paris’ Catacombs
It's your company's fault because their leadership (you know, the one percent) got on the neoliberal, supply-side, tax cutting, privatization train ahead of the rest of the population and then worked like hell to condition everyone below them to believe it was going to be all unicorns and rainbows. Now that the experiment is failing (as evidenced by a renewed interest in Keynes -- at least for the FIRE sector), they're all going around saying, "Not me! Work-life balance! Inclusion! Human capital!" Except that they've spent four decades wasting and destroying the value of that human capital the way they did the rainforests, coral reefs, rivers and lakes, and the climate. Just dealing with all the piles of spent nuclear fuel is going to be a massively expensive, ten millenia project, but these people can't reliably plan out further than a few quarters.
There is no such thing as an "idea" person who is valuable because of their ideas. If they appear valuable, it's because they also have actual experience with execution, or more frequently, they have money or connections (which I don't say to necessarily denigrate, this kind of person can be very useful as well.)
Panic lost their cool, and their marketing is completely stale. You are exactly right, it’s a lot of “You’ll love it”’s these days.

I used to like Coda and Coda 2, but I was more of a Mac simp back then, and didn’t realize that they literally just plopped in some other editor (can’t think of the name at the moment). Plus, the one-window workflow was just a bad idea. Especially if you have multiple monitors at your disposal.

Insane to think that they only thing they make now that has actual utility is their FTP client. Still. After all these years.
Again thats your personal preference, if you give a linux desktop and a windows desktop to an avg person for a week, Im sure they would pick Windows since thats what they can easily identify their workflows with.
Linux distros have a long way to go before they're mass adopted.
Im from India, and a while ago when, Student laptops offered by few universities had Ubuntu as default OS. Windows installation is the first thing they did.
Going to another planet will not help with that. Pretty much no matter what happens on Earth, it will still be orders of magnitude easier to live here than in another planet.
not necessarily young, and the chatroom format is not engaging
In the late 90s into the early 2000s I worked at a large international ISP. During my first few years there our network containing ATM switches both terminating backbone circuits and as intra-PoP fabrics. For a period of time the ATM switches had to be rebooted every 45 days because otherwise they would perform an uncontrolled reboot.
I didn't say not racial at all. I said more partisan. 45% of 1 major party. 7% of the other. Independents in between.

A different poll said Hispanic people are the most inclined to get vaccinated. But politics was the strongest correlation still.[1]

Cumulative vaccination rates reflect earlier hesitation. Also scheduling difficulties, transportation difficulties, and wanting to get vaccinated by a trusted provider.[2] But targeted efforts have closed or nearly closed the gaps in many places.[3]

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trust-johnson-johnsons-coron...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/26/9899620...

[3] https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/media/2388/open
45 minutes is the best for me. Long enough to get in the flow and short enough to not be lost in the flow.
Can it support AirPlay? I hate how AirPlay enabled devices can be so expensive.
The world is complex sometimes. We can both be at fault and be a victim of unfortunate circumstances when bad things happen.
Think about how absolutely insane some assumptions would have to be for this to be a problem.

These are the kinds of things that separate commercial software from open source software: in many organizations, commercial programmers typically write to a spec, and the specs usually come managers asking for specific, needed things without both a proper understanding of the larger picture and a nuanced understanding about how those specific pieces intimately fit in to the larger picture.

Open source is usually written by people who take pride in what they write, so even though a 32 bit timer for millisecond events almost certainly won't still be running 50 days after you've started a program, they'd still consider, "What if it overflows? Should I handle that event, or should use 64 bits instead?" instead of, "Not in the spec. Why should I care?"

And with bad programming practices comes unmaintainability. You want the department who wrote that code several years ago to open it up again, fix some things, then give you a new version? Well, that's going to take months and hundreds of thousands of dollars because they're not set up like that.

It's a stupid game with stupid results, yet we have so many apologists who think that if companies with money do it, it must be right.
I foresee a market for new home builds being tempest shielded
We have not experienced a large solar storm since the Carrington Event, before the electric grid. There have been larger solar storms than the Carrington Event in the past. Note that there are other factors such as being in the direct path of the blast, the Phi angle, the Geomagnetic field strength, etc.

I don't see how you can say with confidence "That doesn't happen with a solar storm". We have only had the electric grid for a short period of time & have not been keeping detailed records for very long either.
The Convenient Problem Space of Blockchain
This doesn't require an edition change, but I'm really looking forward to custom, per-collection allocator support. It's in nightly right now and very nice to use.
E = mc^2 implies that mass (m) is being converted to energy (E), and a windup toy car is definitely not converting mass to energy. Windup cars get their energy from torsional springs, which are E = (1/2) k theta^2.
> The median senior engineer pay in Italy is around EUR 38k - up to EUR 78k if you have around a decade of experience

I see these salaries in places like Spain, Italy, and even Germany outside of Frankfurt / Berlin, and I'm flabbergasted. I've lived in the EU and travelled quite a bit, too. If anything, the prices for food, electronics, sundries, etc. are MORE expensive than the US because of VAT.

Housing, I'm sure, varies just like in the US, but I wouldn't imagine it's all that different. A small 2BR "condo" (i.e. not a single house with yard) in a mid-tier city in the US can now easily be $300K and probably similar in Italy, Spain, or Germany, at least in urban areas where all the jobs are located.

How do you guys live?
https://epc.tesla.com/en/catalogs/2/categories/37/subcategor...

The Tesla screen is available from Tesla's parts departments. You don't even need to own a car to buy it.
Haxe and Programming for Many Machines
> What's wrong with "u8 x = 5;"?

I believe it makes the parser marginally more complicated. Let's say you had a non-builtin type, "foo". The var trigger immediately declares what's going on. For "foo x = 5;" the parser must either 1) have contextual information that foo is a declared type or 2) wait to notice that there are two identifiers side-by-side and then resolve that this means "it must be a variable declaration".

Honestly, C and C++ are very much in the minority for choosing this syntax. Coming form pascal, I remember finding this syntax to be annoying 20 years ago, so it's my bias to believe that this is just internalized pain for C devs.

As for the type coercion with the () operator... well, C is infamous for "spiral types". Typecasting complicated things in C, like, say, an array of pointers, can get scary as hell.
Amazon simply can't afford rockets blowing up publicly like Tesla can.

This is all there is to it.

Bezos stepping down and distancing himself from Amazon should provide new lift (no pun intended) and much more risk taking to Blue Origin.

We should all remember that this is a marathon, not a sprint. It's not like the frentic months of the software wars where Apple put together the iPhone and its app ecosystem in 48 months and others never caught it.

This is a terrible business (like everything Musk is involved in except Neuralink).

Bezos should learn from Google and understand that there is no shame in killing a project....but I suspect the ego wars against Musk are too big now.

Bezos should have known better. When Musk insults you, you just do what Bill Gates does: You smile, compliment him, stroke his ego a bit and then go back having de-facto veto power in institutions such as the WHO and UN, operating way above Musk head.
I have noticed that the only productive unit of execution from idea to functional proof of the idea, is exactly one person. It helps tremendously if they have others to talk to about their idea, ‘idea people’, if you will. But it doesn’t work to have a separation between authority over ideas and responsibility for execution. I assume that is what prototypical ‘idea person’ is looking for in a team.
> 1. Be First: Crises are time-sensitive. Communicating information quickly is almost always important.

An I correct in remembering the CDC taking its talking points from the Chinese officials who had a vested interest in spreading disinformation and falsehoods about where and how the virus started?
I’m not saying it’s reasonable, I’m just saying I would prefer it. I also would prefer websites without ads and social networks without arbitrary “community rules” but it’s not going to happen.
The trouble is that the reality is probably closer to it simply not being financially worthwhile for manufacturers to offer the lower-end variants anymore - in the case of cars, partly because they're legally required to include these features, but also because the incremental cost of adding those new features shrinks. That is, rather than the cost of a 1990s base-model remaining the same and people just getting higher-end models, the cost of a 1990s base model increases closer to that of more feature-filled models to the point it doesn't make sense to make the features optional. If you think about the cost of making, say, a fancy entertainment or sat-nav interface, that's gone down in a way that the cost of huge chunks of carefully machined, stamped and welded metal hasn't.

Also, the definition of a high-end variant changes over time too. For example, today a 52-inch TV fills the same price niche that a 32-inch one did, say, a decade ago but it also fills the same quality niche - you need to buy the 52-incher to get the same kind of audio and picture quality as a 32-inch set from years gone by, and the 32-inch sets have deteriorated in quality in ways that aren't necessarily visible from the obvious spec-sheet numbers.
I wish businesses would understand that inflicting subscriptions on consumers is a lot more onerous than they think.

A subscription means one has to use the software they paid for. You can't have it sit on a shelf for those once-every-few-months use cases. It means having to manage a million stupid business relationships with vendors that one doesn't want to have to deal with. It means trolling credit card statements after-the-fact to make sure the subscription was actually cancelled when that comes time, and it means dealing with the cancellation process (and whatever dark patterns the vendor throws down) on a fairly regular basis.

The old paid-updates model isn't "antiquated", it's customer-centric. Subscriptions are the opposite: customer-hostile.

The service worker earning minimum wage can't afford a million subscriptions. Your subscription means they are a lost customer, and it means they cannot invest in their future in a way that they can effectively control their costs. It's a great way to get your stuff pirated.

Photoshop is a great deal at a fixed cost of $1000 or whatever it was, because when I needed it it was there for me and I knew it would solve my problem. Photoshop cloud is a fucking rip off, I'm not going to pay their ridiculous monthly fees, nor deal with their onerous subscription terms, for an app I use maybe once every six months.

I don't want to live in a future where I am beholden to a million rent-seeking wantrepreneurs because they forgot how to finance their business the old-fashioned way, or because they are afraid of being "antiquated"

The SAAS mentality really, really, really needs to die.
My LG display went black. The panel itself was working fine because the logo shows up when it powers up. When I checked online it said it’s the controller. I looked into the cost of replacing it - it was more expensive than the price I paid for the tv itself. Ended up replacing the tv entirely.

I don’t care much about the panel issues - a few dead pixels I can live with and anything worse I’d rather replace it. But everything else should be easily swappable.

Also, I’m assuming you’d at the minimum support HDR and preferably Dolby Vision and Atmos. How easy/hard is that?
I knew it was only a matter of time until we got this question. Thanks for asking—it’s important and definitely something we’re concerned about!

We try to prevent abuse through a few measures:

1) The platform is only available to students who are 13+ , and we encourage both students and volunteers to keep their conversations focused on academics. When in a session, students and volunteers only see each other’s first names (which is not a lot to go off of, considering we have users across the country and even some international volunteers).

2) Before volunteers can begin working with students, they have to go through our screening process. Volunteers provide a picture of their photo ID and two references who we contact and ask about their suitability to work with children. A human being reviews all reference forms and runs the name from their ID through the National Sex Offenders Registry.

3) Tutoring sessions on our platform are completed using a whiteboard and text-based chat (no audio and video). We have a chat filter that prevents inadvertent attempts to exchange personal information like phone numbers and emails, and we also block links out to common third-party video conferencing sites like Zoom.

4) Students and volunteers can rate and report each other, and we read through the chat logs of most of the sessions on our platform. Sessions can get flagged for review for tons of different reasons. This is the piece of our process that is least scalable, and we’re still looking for ways to balance quality assurance and safety with scalability.
That's a recurring experience. Sorry you got bitten by it. I've had it as well and others I know as well.

This is normal for what is here given as 'idea' persons. It used to generate a lot of frustrations within me. Now I know that an idea person, or for that matter most entrepreneurs, will have ideas. They'll share their current version with much enthusiasm and will wake up energized the next morning with, for them, tiny iterations on that idea. For others, such as the engineer implementing it, those 'tiny iterations', are completely new and will require large amounts of rework.

One of my colleagues described it as the idea person being a little boat that is swarming around a large container ship. The container ship just isn't able to change course on the whims of the little boat.
Forests the size of France regrown since 2000, study suggests
> Most people have an online profile, so what's preventing the interviewer/hiring personnel from just looking them up online?

Citations needed. What % of currently alive humans have an 'online' profile, how are you measuring that statistic? Are they engaging actively? How many have never had a smartphone, how many do not use social media at all?

Without sources and actual numbers it's hard to take your point seriously. MOST people do this on Hackernews, claiming "most" or "everyone" or "the majority of..." without actual data to back that up.
It's always fun to take an "impossible" ask and figure out a way to make it possible. In your case, this one is far closer to possibility that you might've realized - take a H2GO [+], make it ~20% cheaper and slap a ferrari logo on it, and you're good.

I'm not even trolling - sometimes playing with the 'impossible' demand yields useful results. You were just trying to create an artificially-impossible demand, so in this case it's not useful - but if it's a real customer "impossible" demand, trying to make it possible by rethinking the constraints can be actually valuable.

[+] https://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen-Powered-Radio-Control-Standa...
This reminds me of a friend who said he’s surprised tiktok is as popular as it is, because it’s filled with right-wing conspiracy videos.

I couldn’t help but laugh a little.
Even if those images are embedded in the email?
I cant resist....

https://xkcd.com/927/
Imgur is in the same boat. It was a younger, energetic social network and the comments were mostly whimsical. I used to enjoy perusing its frontpage. Now it's heavy on political spam, talking points and general political propaganda, more or less cloning the descent you see on mainstream Reddit (plenty of niche subs are still great and mostly free of politics). I think it largely mirrors the manic obsession you see in certain parts of the US culture to hyper focus on politics 24/7.
> Organ failure over a couple days is a walk in the park by comparison

The symptoms of acute arsenic poisoning are vomiting and severe diarrhea, severe stomach pain, convulsions and muscle cramps. Your hair falls out, you vomit and piss blood, then after a few days, you fall into a coma and die.

Doesn't sound markedly better than sepsis.
I think there’s a market for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290427

“Make it OLED, dumb TV, instant on, Apple TV box plugs in. Separate box with front facing ports that connects to screen with one cable. A remote designed by someone who thought about it for ten seconds (why do modern TVs have dozens of buttons no one ever uses?).

This entire market is in desperate need of someone to make something decent.
The best available option today is LG and it’s still laden with ads and takes a few seconds to boot up.”

I would buy one at least, there’s definitely some low hanging fruit.

I'd probably even lean into it and name the company 'dumb electronics', plus there's a nice sort of symmetry to the word 'dumb' and 'db' would be a decent logo.
Adobe had an intense outcry when they moved to a subscription model, and it worked out great for them. You are basically changing your customer base. People who would happily spend $20/month for a good code editor will love the change to a subscription model in the long run, because it lets you invest more effort in making the product great. And I think there are a lot of those people - if you spend hours and hours every day programming, and you make good money at your job, aren't you willing to spend money to use the best tools? People who don't want to buy a subscription will be angry, but in a couple months they won't be your customer any more so it won't matter that they're angry.
I feel like this article kinda confuses "idea people" and "people with an idea." Idea people should know how to prove an idea. I've had a lot of similar hairbrained ideas come my way looking to build an MVP for something, and typically the end of our conversation is "use an excel spreadsheet and prototype this idea and come back in 6 months, then I'll charge you $75-$200k to build the tech"

I've prototyped enough of my own ideas to know that most ideas are shit.
Nope, just pointing out the commonality.
This is what happens when you spend your eng career working at a company that doesn't have to sell products.
Now take a look at the market capitalization of the companies mentioned in the article: Hilton ($33.8 billions), Yum Brands ($36.08 billions), etc.

It makes sense to have a well paid CEO in those cases, they have a huge responsibility.
That's because there's deceptive language here.

There's lots of details out there about the great lengths Apple has gone to preserve actual privacy with AirTags. AirTags have been designed so nobody, not the random device holder, or even Apple, can ever see any information.

But look at Amazon's language on "privacy" - they basically say "everything is encrypted" which is essentially meaningless for privacy. It's meaningful for _security_.

And that is the difference. There's no evidence that Amazon has actually tried to create a system that respects the user's privacy (including from Amazon). Secure, yes. Private? no.
Jetbrains default way is a subscription model that leaves you with a one year old "perpetual fallback".
Money buys politicians.
Robotic System Capable of Self-Improving Its Semantic Perception