skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Story from when we moved to Montana 20 years ago:

We buy a freezer at Costco. Checking out, we ask for details on delivery. Costco employee says "Oh, we don't deliver". We had been used to Costco in CA which at the time would deliver large items.

I ask "Well, how do people get big things like freezers home".

Costco person says "Easy, just put it in your pickup, we'll help you load".

"Hmm...we don't own a pickup".

Costco employee looks somewhat confused.

Then says "Easy, just get your neighbor's pickup".

The next week we bought a pickup.
i would say <5 minutes a week
About the majority of the questions I will get back to you. In terms of the latter - I wish I could have simply posted it — so absolutely, yes.
Oof.

Confidentiality, NDA's, and other business tools like it are at complete odds with open source, free software, transparency, and honesty.

It's comments like this that cement the idea of getting off of Freenode to Libera.chat is the best thing we could do.
This will not save the planet. We need to consume less, and walk/bike/take transit more. Fine, this may not be for you, but at least don't insist on a the rest of subsidizing you (untaxed climate externality).
Electric seems like a great idea for a truck in general. You need high torque and with electric drive you don't need to have an overpowered and inefficient engine to handle peak load. For long distance use better aerodynamics will be important in the long term and Ford isn't breaking any new ground here.
Oh great. Then you return your rental and come back home and realize you need to buy more of some heavy large item. Fantastic.
If this were the cause people would have noticed having 0% free memory way before their SSDs started dying.
so you're willing to disclose it?

I'm sure the other side would also be open to it

if both sides are happy there should be no problem whatsoever

this would completely settle the debate
IRC stays IRC, but how else does a network like freenode survive a giant schism? They need to differentiate from libera chat.

Matrix has problems, but as the ecosystem grows we'll start to see improvements.
I'm very much in favour of seeing performance as a key part of the development of any dynamic, interpreted language. (I single out dynamic languages because in most typed, compiled languages, fast execution speed comes for free.)

However, David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp and creator or Ruby-on-Rails, has this interesting take on the cost of running Ruby for their business. Make of it what you will:

Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby (2019)

https://m.signalvnoise.com/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operation...
The logs posted over at

https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=18926720&cid=61404...

Seem to indicate that the staff were unitedly and firmly against this.
It's suspicious having the entire team against one person.
I still don't get the whole picture but claims when made by an entire staff usually have merit.
PIA have clarified that they are wholly owned by Kape these days, and that LTM/Imperial holdings/Andrew Lee has no stake remaining: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ng5pzj/freenode_now_...

This is also why the sponsor logo on freenode.net is for Shells, not PIA.

Kape has its own questionable background, but not one that involves this incident.
I live in Scotland, and the process here is the seller has to undertake a survey with someone who is accredited. In practice this means that the same 3-4 firms end up doing most of the surveys. It's not just some ranodmer saying "yeah, looks good mate".

> In the US this only costs a few hundred dollars for a typical house, which is a tiny fraction of the overall transaction price.

You know what's even better than _only_ a couple of hundred dollars? The seller paying it once.
Calling a cab resulted in a cabbie showing up maybe 20% of the time. You would hail cabbies in the street.
> I had more reliable phone service in the 1970s.

I've considered getting a landline again, but it would be nothing but spam calls and surveys and scammers.

I grew up with landlines, and it was possible to have long, nuanced conversations on them without stepping on each other like happens with modern cell phones, and someone pointed out a year or two back that the issue is the latency. Cell phones are high latency, often with some variances in the latency - for everything. Landlines, across town, were both lower latency and far more consistent. Even across the country didn't seem so bad as a modern cell phone to your neighbor.

Talking on the phone didn't used to be painful - but it is now.
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Well, maybe cars shouldn't have Bluetooth in the first place? Also, it's not like these updates are ever going to fix the situation. They'll just be slightly less vulnerable.

Not to mention that updates can obviously brick things. Imagine waking up one day and finding out that your car is bricked due to some update.
Unfortunately, ny company won't let us install software thats not signed.
> the main job of VCs is not to fuel innovation, it is to protect the money of their clients from the potential disruption.

Huh? VCs clients are pension funds, fund of funds, etc. Their main job is to return those LPs a return on investment. Nothing more. Very few of those LPs have deliberate plans to avoid disruption. Unless you're talking about CVC specifically.

Unless I'm mistaken about your use the word "client", this is just plain wrong.
You go rent an F-250 from Home Depot and let me know how that goes.
Install xserver (also works on Mac and Windows) then ssh -X to the container. Start sublime on the container, and the gui will show up locally.
People that have never interacted with a freenode ircoper will believe everything they post.
>But this is exactly what SpaceX is doing? Ditto with Starlink.

No, not the same.

For SpaceX, Elon spent almost all of of his $160 million PayPal wealth on 3 failed rockets before the 4th finally worked. And that 4th successful rocket test only demonstrated a proof-of-concept and didn't have a real payload from paying customers. That's an example of R&D in physical materials not iterating cheaply like the software world.

For Starlink, some google search finds this:
"Despite the heavy investment needed to build Starlink, the company's leadership estimates Starlink will cost about $10 billion or more to build"

$10 billion is not cheap to build/iterate.

Compare to the software world... Kevin Systrom building an iOS app for location check in (Burbn) and then pivoting to a different idea of photo filters (Instagram) is way cheaper than spending millions/billions on destroying rockets and launching satellites.
You're not penalizing anybody, you're adding a temporary incentive to get the manufacturer up to speed. Once they're selling enough, they don't need to incentivize people to buy them.
Availability of “dumb TVs” seems to be extremely location specific. I tried finding one in Denmark and it’s pretty much impossible. Romania has a nice selection, as some one on HN showed me a while back.

I don’t know anyone who uses the smart features in their TV, except my wifes parents who use the Netflix app in their Sony TV. Everyone else just use an AppleTV, ChromeCast or a box from their cabel/internet provider.
If you happen to select the same home inspector as the other perspective buyer, you can rest assured that they will simply copy over the report and charge you the full amount. It's best to arrange to be there when the inspection happens to prevent this or drive-by inspections.

One of the issues that keeps there from being a neutral third party holding the inspection results is the vast difference in quality in home inspections. Since home inspectors are not liable for anything they miss in the inspections, there are some really poor quality inspectors out there. The third party hiring the inspectors isn't going to be aligned with your interest in hiring the best inspector. Most likely they're going to go with whoever is the cheapest so they can keep as most of the fee you and other buyers are paying them.

In states that license and regulate home inspectors, perhaps part of the requirements could be that every home inspection report has to be part of the public record for the property. If there are multiple inspections, each of them becomes part of the record. A sneaky seller might pose as a buyer and payoff an inspector to give them a good report that becomes part of the record so it would still be in the buyer's interest to hire their own inspector if there is only one inspection report. At some point though, there will be enough inspection reports that your risk of only seeing faulty reports becomes low.
It is a bit insulting but I suspect many people have enough experience with this that its a bit of a gut reaction. I know a lot of big ego people, they all drive trucks. I've been flipped off by drivers of all vehicles, but only run off the road by trucks, usually for very trivial things. because you know, getting into someone elses lane is effectively a challenge to their manhood, and they better make a point about it less they lose their social standing. That's not the actual thoughts in their heads, but it is their reaction. Trucks are _also_ comfortable, convenient, and all those other things, which is _also_ crucial. But I just can't imagine any of these big ego people driving a small car (and yes, more than a few have explicitly said as much).

At any rate, what exactly would objective supporting data look like here?
One idea I don't see on the table is 2FA for vehicles. Make it so a Yubikey must be tapped if something is connecting/installing.
I don’t have much of a dog in the Freenode fight, but the idea that people who are in the right don’t need to work to convince others is just patently false and not supported by reality. Especially when one side is seen as the side of “good” by default.
The last mortgage I took was with Bank of Ireland, they offered a full survey for £400 but I rang them and asked if they would do it for free if I took their mortgage on completion - they said yes, so I paid nothing for the survey. Other mortgages I had the survey was just included in the mortgage, no extra cost.
Thanks. I'm glad to hear that -- I think the lack of transparency around the sale is making it hard for a lot of people (myself included) to make sense of this whole situation.
Yes, though it throws up a "sign up to read more" notice if I have JS turned on.

You can read it here:
https://archive.is/6PfeI
UltraEdit was the best editor for Windows in the late 90s early 2000s. I remember asking my boss for it.

The niche it filled was surpassed by Notepad++ and other free tools.
One of the major drawbacks of selling your company is it’s, well, no longer your company.
Why didn't Texas import power from other parts of the country? Or Mexico?
Ah, ⍷, clever, don't even need the outer {...⍵},

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What You Should Know About Charging Before You Buy an EV
I think it's also practical -- if there are tons of Subarus around then it probably means they cope with the road conditions here and are reasonably cost effective and reliable.
Don't tell the people who are convicted / took a plea deal based on "Telco location" this.

As you can tell from your experiment, these locations are... rough to say it nicely. This is truly helpful for the investigating party, since their counterparts are not aware and they can move / interpret your device's location to that point they would like you to be. The accuracy is however... not so great as they will present it to you / the judge.
It is a double edged sword - he's also bound (and may not have been the initiator).
Welcome to the New Google Store in NYC
I know more than one person with a chicken coup. Mine only have hens but they contact friends when they need a rooster to visit and fertilize :)
Open that Advanced button to proceed, inspect the certificate (click the lock icon in URL bar)
Amazing! The video is from November 2013!
A blind spot that wasn't a blind spot five feet back. Like, when does this come into play? Describe a scenario.
>are there any good automated transcription tools that can make a good transcript

Automated? No. But if you're willing to pay $1/minute and the audio is good/accents aren't too heavy/etc. there are a bunch of options.
This is the same concept as a blameless post-mortem. Or the difference between the end of WWI and WWII peace treaty wise. You can blame and morally demonize the right all you want; and you make a reasonable argument why you'd be correct to do so.

And yet, that mindset will not convince them to change. it'll just make things worse and eventually the unstoppable force will meet the immovable object.

"There are certainly elements of the "left" that are unhelpfully unwilling to compromise, but they're not even in the same zip code as the problems with today's American right wing, and painting them with the same brush makes it much harder to approach genuine solutions to these problems. "

Sounds like an argument for solving problems at the most local level possible. Something that the right used to champion and the left is fundamentally against. But also where there could be common ground if people wanted to actually solve problems instead of "dunking" on people and scoring more partisan points.
Remember the emissions to manufacture the vehicle... they're higher for EVs. Lifecycle emissions for EVs therefore aren't much lower than ICE.
Nature is amazing.
If you want something to be downloaded, you need to declare

Content-Disposition: attachment

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...>

Otherwise, the browser is perfectly ok to attempt to render it if it understands how to
It’s called a Ford Transit.
Hedge fund: Got through all the coding/technical rounds. Hiring manager and team were enthusiastic to get me on board. Final round was a casual chat with the CTO. It just so happened we went to the same university. Great, right? The conversation went well and I thought I had nailed it. But then as I prepare to leave, he throws in one last question - "oh btw, what was your GPA?". I tell him the truth - "2.3". Note that this was about 7 or 8 years after I graduated. According to the recruiter, that one last question about my GPA torpedoed my candidacy.

FAANG1: Frontend engineer role. Internal recruiter told me to practice leetcode problems. There was also a pre-interview session where I got to chat with an engineer who also recommended I practice leetcode problems. Day of the interview comes, and I was given zero leetcode problems - every coding assignment was "implement this function/feature in JavaScript".

FAANG2: Successfully passed a phone screen. I did not know it at the time, but the phone screener was a somewhat famous "celebrity engineer" too. He seemed very pleased with my solution. I am invited to the onsite.

At the onsite, I am given the exact same question as the one from the phone screen. I tell the interviewer the truth and he says its fine, go ahead. I tell him that I'll do the same solution I gave for the phone screen. He ends up nitpicking bits and pieces and basically tells me my solution sucks. In hindsight, the vibe was negative the moment he walked in and he seemed pretty hostile throughout the interview. So not sure what I could have done better.
Pickups are convenient any many (probably most) owners have them for good reasons, but living in a Midwestern city I run into so many "bad" pickup drivers it's hard not to get frustrated with them generally.

A lot of people around here have big, tall pickups with tiny beds that they drive very aggressively. They rarely use them for anything I couldn't put in my Fit (I've known several people who would never haul dirt or the like because they don't want the truck to get dirty). Many modern pickups have a high front grill that is dangerous for pedestrians and designed to be intimidating. It sucks to constantly run into trucks like that being driving fast and aggressively when I'm just trying to walk to the store.

I know that's a minority of trucks, but the worst cars by me are invariably pickups and it's hard not to generalize it.
From Freenode's own website in 2017: "Following discussion and deliberation we have decided to formally (and legally) ally ourselves with PIA. Freenode will continue to operate as a not-for-profit entity under the same management, with the same principles, but PIA's involvement going forwards will provide us with opportunities and resources that we could previously only dream of. PIA will provide an operating budget, mentorship and support that will allow freenode to implement some of the projects and ideas that have previously been on the backburner due to constraints in terms of volunteer time and resources." [1]

[1] https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
Strict lockdowns are effective. It's a virus that spreads through social contact. You restrict social contact, you reduce spread of the virus. It's not plausible to claim they're not effective.

This feels like an argument from 12 months ago. They've demonstrably worked in Italy, the UK, New Zealand, China, and so on. They were the primary tool to constrain virus spread until vaccines came along.
>> Of course I need to see the surveys now

Fair enough, I don't know anyone who bought a house this way though. For me personally it was always 1) find a house 2) ask the bank to do the survey 3) based on the survey either carry on with the mortgage or retract my offer. Yes I probably couldn't do 5 houses at once, but I have done 3 houses consecutively this way before, no issues whatsoever with the banks.
The servers are owned by various sponsors. The domain name was apparently owned by Freenode Ltd? Other than that there isn't really anything to own.
It hasn't been debunked if there's no source for the claim...
I'll buy that T-shirt!
A pair of Klipsch RP-280F[0] floorstanding speakers, paired with Emotiva PT-100 DAC[1] and BasX A-300[2] Amp.

Set me back ~1700€ but brings so much joy to listen to.

Sometimes I'm just awe-struck how good these sound - they sound great on room level - but if you want them to play live-concert level loud - even with just as much control and precision as on room-level - no problemo :)

[1] https://www.klipsch.com/products/rp-280f
[2] https://emotiva.com/products/pt-100
[3] https://emotiva.com/products/a-300
Same place UPS does: https://morganolson.com/products/parcel/
You can fit a surprising amount of 8' lumber in a small car. Full sheets of plywood or drywall on the other hand is another story.

Pick-ups are also useful for larger furniture and machinery, but don't discount thr carrying capacity of a car just because it's a car.
Why would the Linux Foundation get to decide on if those researchers are allowed to experiment on and waste the time of volunteer developers?
"Blame" is something you argue in a civil suit.

Vehicle safety regulations aren't about "blame", ever. They're designed to save lives. If you can do that with better driver behavior, great. If you can do it with assistive technology, great. If you can do it with different vehicle designs, great. You do what you can, based on the techniques available and the costs involved.

To wit: if you start your safety analysis with "fuck the pedestrians, that's the driver's fault, not Ford's", then you're doing it wrong.
Because those grids were strained by the winter storm too.
I _think_ you mean they wouldn't attach a trailer to their Camray? I was confused initially by your post because a trailer behind a pickup I find is a great combination. You can load stuff much more easily on the trailer but the pickup bed is there for any overflow. But I think you mean 10' box, no?
That's a good point. I've been through a couple hurricane-caused outages for up to two weeks, but in one of those, I required transportation. I've been through probably half-a-dozen outages of a few hours to a couple days that were due to equipment failure by the utility that I couldn't have anticipated. That's over decades though.

Grid power is so damn reliable in most places that any backup solution is going to have limited use. I guess I see this feature of the F-150 as icing on the cake, not something that would sway my purchase decision.
Wouldn’t call Ram an outlier. Sells about as well and Chevy and outsells GMC. GMC+Chevy about equal Ford, and Ram sells like 65-75% of what Ford does.

Toyota is the “not quite first tier, not Nissan or a baby truck.”
Tires are an issue but diesels engine trucks and semis are audible. Also some times regular gas customers have modified exhausts. Tire noise is higher frequency though.
Ford has already sold over 100,000 EV's, and if they can't sell 100,000 Mach-E's in the next 12 months then they're doing something wrong. So by the time the F-150 becomes available their credit should be in the wind-down phase.

Another likely scenario is that Biden gets his infrastructure bill through and the credit becomes available to all US-manufactured EV's.
I dropped mine last year (along with my cable TV) because it was nothing but junk. I'd have turned off the ringer and just kept it for backup but I don't use the phone a lot and $40/month or so was too much to pay for something I wouldn't really use.
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>>What does a survey consist of and why are they so expensive?

They aren't, OP makes it sound like it costs an arm and a leg. The costs are around £300-400, about £500 if you want to pull out all the environmental reports as well, which while not insignificant in itself, is not really a big deal when buying a house for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
I did not know the trick of using memcpy to get the compiler to load a register from an arbitrary char* pointer. Given that the architecture supports it, can you assume it will be optimized like that? I assume this is done to stay away from undefined behavior.
And I've used (checks file) 56 different superchargers in the last 4 years, some of them many times. It comes down to how many long road trips you make. Fast chargers are totally unnecessary for local-only driving if you have a slow charger at home, but critical for convenient road trips beyond your vehicle's range.
My point about time in a simulation is that it can be simulated. It's more a computation of a directed graph of causation. 'When' the computation happens in the host environment isn't material within the simulation. Trying to do things in any sort of 'to scale' time is an optimization rather than a requirement.

I don't see the problem with entanglement at all unless it was so prevalent as to direct the shape of the simulation model. If it's a lesser exceptional quantity, they can be handled as special cases, whenever one is evaluated, the universe could even in the most crude implementation, be briefly stopped, the entangled partners updated, and resumed. Pretty much like running in a VM that's doing gc if your real time clock is arbitrary information provided by the host environment.
>4. No Autopilot. This is a big sell for many EV users

Is it really? I'm looking at an EV for my next car, and not once have I considered Autopilots availability as a musthave feature. Then again, most people who get excited about Autopilot seem to think that driving is a chore that should be removed, while I love driving.
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I can think of no rational reading of this article that could bring you to such a summary. The problem is not that they aren't destroyed by the wider social or economic instability that destroys the lower class. It's that they are cutting rungs off of the socioeconomic ladder by the policies that they support. Ironically, your response is addressed in the body of the article.

In part what we have here is a listening problem. Americans have trouble telling the difference between a social critique and a personal insult. Thus, a writer points to a broad social problem with complex origins, and the reader responds with, “What, you want to punish me for my success?”
Silk Road Teas is one provider I've used