skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine is 13 years old, a Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse GT, and I love it. It currently has about 52,000 miles on the clock, and has never once failed to start during the dozen or so times I’ve used it in the last year - unlike my wife’s much newer car which we keep on a battery charger now as a matter of course.

These days, 260hp isn’t much of anything special, but back then it was the most powerful car I’d ever bought, and I still love the whine of the air, increasing in frequency, as I pull onto an empty freeway and put my foot down to get up to speed.

Over the years it’s needed a small amount of maintenance - new tires, timing belts etc. But nothing has gone wrong that isn’t expected to happen on the maintenance schedule. That reliability and the fact that it’s been paid for, for over a decade now, is just awesome.

Airbags everywhere, excellent brakes, not much rear visibility (but it’s a convertible, so the top is down more often than not), traction control, and a 6-cd changer [grin], what’s not to like :)

Having said all that, in a few years it’ll be time to move to an electric car, but I want to stave off that future as long as possible.
One thing that keeps me driving an older car (2002 Honda Accord) is the greatly increased total cost of ownership of newer vehicles. Whenever something needs replaced -- windshield, tires, whatever -- it's often dirt cheap, and the car itself is extremely reliable. On the other hand, my wife's newer Mazda seems to be a perpetual money sink. Everything is so much more expensive to replace. The windshield has special sensors, so it was super expensive to replace. Tires are a lot more expensive. (A nail impact that was just right to destroy the tire cost us close to $1000, but I guess a lot of that is admittedly due to the AWD requiring replacement of all tires.) For these newer cars, the initial cost seems to be a much smaller part of the TCO.

I agree with the safety concerns others have mentioned about older cars, and I would gladly pay more for safety. But I do feel a bit frustrated when getting the safety also requires a huge TCO increase for frivolous features. (E.g., are the automatic windshield wipers really worth the 4x cost bump at the glass shop?)
What other viral diseases are easily treatable by medication as opposed to vaccination? Are there any?
Cars are lasting longer than ever:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/zbxa6/resurrection_198...

This can be chalked up to another feature of capitalism: planned robustness.
The odds of this happening is declining over time. You can see the change in used car prices where popular reliable cars like the crv or crosstrek maintain a resale value above 10k for 5-10 years dependent on trim.
> The thing I've noticed at Amazon is that not only are the pre-existing conditions awful, but nobody has any interest or willpower to fix it. Everyone will happily vent to you and tell you how awful things are, but any suggestions to fix it or make things more efficient (even if the fix is very simple and requires low effort) will be met with hostility. And I'm not just talking tech issues, but also process/workload issues.

In my case, direct management seems interested in these issues and understand there are problems we need to fix, but ultimately the feature/product launches always make it into the sprint and the larger bug fixes never do. It's very much "actions speak louder than words".
When you say "working an unpaid job at a startup," what kind of arrangement do you have? Because normally it's illegal for you to work and not get paid.
Having worked in an environment where there was a constant onslaught of customer issues. I can tell you that even though I was offered more than 7 hours of sleep, my days were absolutely terrible. Fire-fighting all day, and never getting to work on the features that we promised to deliver led to me lying in bed awake. My mental health was extremely fragile. My physical health was worse. The promise of "Work/Life Balance" needs to be clarified. Does the "work" part bleed into your "life" part? Does the job make it possible to truly disconnect? Some of that is based on personality (I aim to provide value, and am truly jazzed when I know people are pleased with my performance), but some of that is based on what your daily grind looks like. If you are constantly dealing with a nightmare for even 8 hours of your day, it doesn't matter what the rest of your day is like.
That's not even that old. My 2011 4Runner just has those (plus ABS). Toyota didn't add much else until just a few years ago. The vehicle only has 75K miles on it; I'll probably keep it for quite a bit longer.
Long covid. I'm 28, fit and healthy, and I had covid that wasn't bad enough to require hospital treatment, but left with me with fatigue, shortness of breath and heart arrythmias that are only just improving 12 months later and are still not back to full fitness.
That list of safety features seems reasonable for a car that is only driven 2300 miles per year
It couldn’t find my account, huh? Oh it’s case sensitive. I’d change that.
Why would C?
Getting you to come in for service is just an excuse to get you to come in to look at cars. Service is usually a break-even business for dealerships, but it’s a good source of sales leads.
> That's fairly irrelevant considering it's true of any sample.

Yes, that's pretty much the point I'm making. The same argument applies to all claims of disparate impact. It occurs in every sample.

> edit: more detailed explanation by fennecfoxen

That explanation does not reflect the law. (Nor does yours.) Recall that the first disparate impact case ruled it was illegal to preserve a requirement that the company had imposed prior to the civil rights act, because of the effect that requirement had on black applicants. The shift from this set of requirements:

Must be white
Must have a college degree

to this one:

Must have a college degree

constitutes illegal discrimination against blacks. Obviously no one claimed that the degree requirement was intended to keep blacks out.
There is radar data from the ships too. The reason they send the jets there in the first place is because they can't explain the radar data. So, we have radar data, a video and the testimony of several professionals. We don't have to believe in aliens to accept that something very surprising is going on.

The writer of the article is dismissing evidence to fit his theory. And the guy is a professor of epistemology.
There's nothing wrong with supporting iOS. What is wrong, however, is Apple's insistence on approving every single instruction iOS devices run, and this policy being realized in hardware. You bought the device. You gave Apple money, they gave you an iPhone. It's yours now, and it's no longer theirs. So why do they still retain any kind of control whatsoever over it? A new iPhone literally won't let you do anything before it gets an okay from the mothership.

It should be illegal for hardware manufacturers to hardcode public keys and hostnames into devices such that the end user can't change them.
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story
My washing machine is a great companion. Barely needs play and just obeys my commands. Plus keeps my clothes smelling fresh.
Your experience also matches mine from my time in the advertising org. There's no benefit to placing blame, just figure out what went wrong, how to fix it, and how to prevent something like it from happening again. In fact it was one of the few parts of the culture that I tried to take with me after leaving.
the buyer should think about the replacement value of the vehicle.

I might spend $1500 on my 12 year old car (which is "only" worth 4200 according to KBB), instead of spending lot more money to get a different used car with unknown issues or a hefty monthly payment.
I for one don't mind it. I went 4 days/week in March and it changed my life for the better. I like my job but that one day off extra gives me so much flexibility. I can do all errands on Friday and then pick up the kid from school and have the whole Friday afternoon and weekend to spend with them. That means that during the week I finish work and can spend time however I want instead of doing chores...

In my opinion this 'message' should actually be pushed more and people encouraged to try it. If that means shilling some website with 4d/week jobs...so be it.
There's a Tinder extension for VSCode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfd8RyAJh6c
It takes a lot to comply with established building codes and practices. While they all exist for good reasons, it means the existing housing supply is inflexible and reconfiguring it to meet new demands is very expensive.

I believe the solution lies in reconfigurable, self-assembling building components. If a home can adapt to its environment and the needs of its residents, the cost of planning drops dramatically. Imagine upcycled plastics or recaptured carbon bricks that could be extremely strong, yet migratory on-demand. Such a material could help us adapt to changing populations and climate conditions while slashing cost and waste. While I think 3D printed concrete is neat, it’s meant to be fixed. I want smart legos, or the microbots of Big Hero 6 as my walls.
please stop with comments starting with 'i've heard that' - there is enough misinformation already.

Please. add. citations.
Another unappreciated aspect of sleep is how much of it one needs depending on their age. As I've gotten older, I've noticed that I need far less sleep. I still try to get 8 hours if I can, but most of the time I get away with 6 or 7 just fine and I get up much earlier in the morning. I think adolescents need more like 9 hours of sleep, but for some reason we (in America anyway) make kids get up earlier than most adults and give them work to do at home so they have less time to get to bed early, giving them all the incentive to stay up later. Adults trivialize sleep, which is funny because in high school and college it seemed agreed upon by everyone that we actually needed that extra hour or two. Teachers and parents would tell us that we were merely "slacking off" if we slept for more than 8 hours and didn't get up at the buttcrack of dawn.

Millennial parents undoubtedly have their own set of problems distinct from past generations, but I hope they've learned by now that their parent's views on sleep don't need to be repeated just as they're not repeating the 9-to-5 butts-in-seats mentality that is no longer a universal.
I suspect it is just local availability of English speakers.

Western copy writers and copy editors are expensive by Chinese standards and access to them is hard for a Chinese firm.
I thought of “It’s a d** in a box!”.

https://youtu.be/Rt0spqQtMKg
30. Overweight but no actual medical problems. Not prescribed any medications. Not a drug, cigarette, or alcohol user.
Actually, you can. There's a huge gulf between things that we know we could compute given enough time, even if that time is impossible to actually be given, and things we know can never be computed given infinite computing power.

Something like the perfect security of either hiding or binding in a commitment protocol can never be broken given computers of infinite capacity and speed because it's mathematically impossible. That is opposed to computational security, which only states that the property can't be broken within any usable time frame. This is often in the order of hundreds of millions of years in practical cryptographic systems. The point is, it can be technically be done.

Breaking RSA can factored just by brute forcing. It might take a lot of time, but actually doing it is not hard for sufficiently small keys. We just increase the key size until it takes a long time.
Honestly, talking to a therapist might be the best start. You shouldn't have to feel anxious all of the time, and there are lots of different ways you can work on managing and minimizing your anxiety so you can have your weekends back to yourself again!
Lots of talk about safety features and reliability in the thread.
But I wonder if some of it is lack of great visual differentiation among model years. Harder to tell cars apart and they don’t rust like they used to.

Less social pressure to get new car as harder to tell what’s new.
Obviously not impossible but not as stark as a 1990 from a 2000 car.
2010 and 2020 car don’t look that much different.
Good article.

I have spotted similar bugs too which become evident very quickly when working with smaller resolutions and likewise with a smaller number of grayscales.

> We choose a H×W rectangular grid of points, from which we will draw samples.

An additional thing to keep in mind is how a camera capturing the image would be operating. It's not sampling in the true theoretical sense of picking points from a continuous signal. The pixels are of finite size, which makes the grid (2) as closer to the reality. There are additional complications for color images where the red, green and blue channels are integrating over different regions within the pixel area (see [A] for example). This makes the real grid as different from even (2) for different color channels. However, the math suggested by the author should not change still.

> It seems the mess is unique in the deep learning world.

The title, "Where Are Pixels? -- a Deep Learning Perspective", looks unjustified. What's presented is not a deep learning perspective. It applies generically.

[A] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
An earlier form of anti-lock brakes were available in some American cars starting in the late 60's. It was standard in the 1974 Lincoln Continental, 4 years before Mercedes even had it as an option.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/antilock-brakes/
I didn't really consider museums and public institutes. Thanks for the insightful reply.
Good eye! It’s tough to get the Goldilocks level of self promotion and hustle. Too little and you aren’t aggressive enough. Too much and you’re slimy. HN is a picky bunch!
Worse for you. I happen to like bluetooth, backup cameras, wireless keys, and a lot of the other modern features cars have now.

Manufacturers definitely went wrong putting important controls in the touch screen. That’s a usability nightmare. I’d consider the rest to be personal preference.
> Vaccines introduce a foreign substance 100% of the time into your body

So does the virus. And all of our data shows the virus is much, much worse.
These people are annoyed because they know all the other hardware is terrible. They want the good hardware but don't want the software that it comes with. Essentially they just wish Apple were a completely different company.
Pay yourself and expense it back is usually an SMB strategy for keeping costs down by offloading work onto employees. It’s not just your time that’s wasted, but all the work to organize expense reports, make sure you used the right codes, &c.

It’s a headache for you and the folks in accounts, but at small scale, that works. But as the company grows, this becomes harder to justify. At some point they centralize a lot of this stuff, and when they do, many choose to start booking people into hotels that cater to businesses who book people into hotels.
Is there a 10-year-capable electric car out there? I hope there is because I may need to purchase one soon. I've known too many people have issues with Teslas to consider going for one, and I'm not sure what else is out there.
This looks like a solvable problem, why aren't bumpers/hoods/doors optimized to protect pedestrians and bikers?
I used to work 4 days a week and shopping during weekdays is amazing, especially when shopping for clothes.
Do you have data showing that it's "usually a lie or self-delusion"? Because there's a genetic explanation[1] for why folks need less sleep. The only way I can sleep 9 hours in a night is if I work up a sleep debt.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...
I installed a Sony CarPlay unit and camera in my 2003 4Runner back in 2016, and I thought it was pretty easy. Took a few hours, but nothing complicated.
Perhaps it should be mentioned that drivers are halfway to a rootkit even when not being malicious. A driver has (and often needs) access to all apps' memory for example.
Canada's Covid-19 lockdowns have lost all touch with reality
I'm seeing this with my current employer. I'm helping out the hiring manager with interviews and technical assessment. He's trying to target people who will stay with the company for 8-10 years. It's ridiculous. (Almost) no one does that. Especially when you can make a whole lot more by changing jobs regularly.

Personally, I don't care about working on cool technology. I care about getting paid. I can't afford to buy an absurdly overpriced house without getting paid.
For anyone who doesn't have a sub I'll summarize a few salient points people are missing. Most importantly new car sales and prices are at all-time high. The driver of growing car age is the higher quality and durability of cars in the last 20 years and people owning more cars per household. So people are not holding on to old cars and foregoing new purchases but rather doing both. Used car prices are also at all-time high.
I've wondered why software engineers don't get royalties similar to Hollywood writers. If a writer writes a hit show/movie that is still played 10 years down the road, they receive royalties. Why isn't software the same? If I write code that is still producing value for the company after 10 years, shouldn't I get royalties for that?

I disagree about the open source effect. I think the rise of open source has been a great catalyst for advancing the industry. If every company had to do everything themselves, the Internet would still be stuck in the 1990's.
You can disagree and dissent all you want, but there's a bit of style involved. Gov't discussing legislation you don't like, feel free to shout from the rooftops. Telling someone to their face they are doing something you disagree with is another thing entirely. Holding rallies to let people know you believe they are deviants/perversions of nature/etc serves no purpose other than intimidation.
Large scale event, something that has big impact on services.
It’s a thing. The author was not unlucky. It’s actually a thing (I worked in AWS, I have heard this from several managers, some which actually had trouble struggling with how stupid the system is).

You have a team of X engineers and you want to grow. You hire a couple more. The current engineers have 0 incentives to help the new ones. Most people don’t have the chops (technical or emotional) to go up against a whole team.

Come review time, what do you think is going to happen? As a boss will you let go someone who’s been there for 5 years and knows the service inside out or the new guy who seems to be struggling.

Not all people are jerks, and there are good pockets (but mostly the deck is stacked against you when you join).

Also, IMHO Amazon is going to have a really hard time hiring people with the reputation they created for themselves.
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Oh, wow, what an amazing take. You owe me a new keyboard.
Everyone should be testing in prod, in that you release code and see metrics and monitoring to show that everything is working.

Testing in production is not going “let’s see if this will work” it is “we will release and validate that everything is working as expected”

People need to get over the old school cowboys who jump on prod to see if something works.
They're literally asking for someone to weigh in with first-hand experience on something they heard but are not sure about. It's a valid question that I would also like to hear about.

Citations are more relevant for when people are making a claim than for when they are investigating a claim.
What does leverage mean in this context? The power to change company policies to better benefit SEs? The power to pick what products to bring to market? The power to negotiate profit sharing as part of compensation? No, a random employed SE doesn't have that sort of leverage.

The only leverage an SE really has is asking for more money after they've delivered a lot of value -- it's not a lot of leverage, and it's conditional.
They say Ritalin is prescribed primarily for the teachers.

It doesn't really help the student all that much since they go from hyper, attention-seeking and not paying attention to stagnant, inhibited and disinterested (and still not paying attention).

I believe it does work for its purpose, but the dose is usually much too high and had to be taken often enough (it only lasts 3 to 4 hours) that the kid is pretty much constantly peaking then coming down.

Eventually they did create "extended release" tablets that probably fix that issue, so my experience may no longer apply.
I like my job. I like it even more when WFH and even more when doing 4 days of it.
If someone was L+1 at a similar-tier company, why would they accept the downlevelling instead of a finding a suitable gig elsewhere? Is Amazon that appealing? Are openings that scarce?
Don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but taking this at face value, here's a recent thread related to engineering licensure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559804

With licensure comes regulation. Oddly there seems to be more demand and better pay for unlicensed computer programmers than there is for engineers in the licensed fields. Every electrical engineer I know, who can program well enough to do it for money, eventually becomes a software developer.
Railguns just seem to have no advantage compared to missiles.

The only locations where railguns seem to make sense are in space, or low-gravity environments like the moon - specifically for launching cargo.

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

Even on Mars, to reach escape velocity you would need a 200km long track:

https://marspedia.org/Mass_driver
My cousin (20s) lost his sense of taste and hasn't recovered it months later. Son (teen) lost his for a week then recovered it. Reports however that he has pernanently lost his sense of thurst. Ymmv.
Resources are always scarce. Energy and raw materials will always be expensive, and the demand for energy and materials both increases as they become more available (keeping the price high).
Maybe because they’d have to be sealed against light to grow root vegetables.
I watched some interview with some congressman saying that the aliens explanation is not so bad, the problem is if they are Chinese or Russian.

I don't know if laughing or crying about that statement and what it says about humans.
I sometimes use one when traveling, if I'm not sure there will be a kettle or coffee maker in the room. Tons of them available online, usually called "immersion heaters"
Appreciate the candor. Agree odds are low now of getting it.

When you’re healthy you get the vaccine for others, not yourself.

Studies so far show no difference in baby outcomes.
> This is why an employer like a fire department, or a moving company, can have fitness qualifications, even though these have a disparate impact on the elderly, while age is a protected class.

But note that fire departments can't have the same fitness qualifications for men and women. Age is a protected class; sex appears to be a more protected class.
Maybe he is interested in exploring new languages, and not so much in increasing his leverage.
I do not understand what this means. You can buy standalone CarPlay/android auto head units to install in older cars, and they almost always have a connection available for rear view cameras.
I've been near but not to Trona. Driven through Wonder Valley in California though which is pretty grim - at least that has low shrubs... This is what the area just outside Coober Pedy looks like: https://goo.gl/maps/C4E9xid1tY8CRp2f8 And closer in to the township: https://goo.gl/maps/1dZYqCgjB3nxzEfE7

Fairly inhospitable!
yes, but by taking the vaccine 100% chance of doing that.
Virus, only if I get it.