skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read both, and they have different pictures. The original article, with the older time estimate, had a much more worn camel pic than the other one with the 2000 year estimate. Hence my wondering if that maybe means something.

Unfortunately it's vague whether or not the different pictures are from different time periods, different sites, or what exactly.
Might be because of different utilization rates. Cars can be rented 7 days/week between biz (weekday) and consumer (weekend) travelers, and across all seasons of the year. I’m guessing bikes get rented on weekends (30% of days) during the summer and spring (50% of days).

Rough estimates of course, but only 15% utilization (30%*50%) would radically change daily rental prices. Doubt it’s the only reason, but wouldn’t be surprised if it’s factor
> You are not coming out ahead. Buying a new car will have long term benefits compared to someone’s used car which may or may not have issues depending on the reason they sold it so soon.

Most people sell their new cars due to an expiring warranty period. Second most people sell their new cars due to the needs of a growing family. The third most people sell their new cars due to a changed financial situation. The fourth most people sell their new cars because they want even newer cars.

'Build quality dissatisfaction and reliability' is the fifth most common reason to sell a new car; or rather, to introduce a single-owner car to the used car market.

I had a JD Power infographic from ~2013 that listed the reasons, but am having trouble finding it.

Unless things have changed since 2013 signifigantly, most used cars that just exitted the factory warranty -- and sometimes factory maintenance umbrella -- have a lot of life left in them.

Aside from that, a car that is a few years older has a significant price advantage on parts -- a feature that is attractive to capable DIYers and mechanics.

And further aside from that -- if you're in the market for a used luxury brand car (Lexus/Infiniti/BMW/Audi/Mercedes/Porsche/ETC) , buying used allows one to side-step the dealer imposed major dealer-markup fees.

Example : the E92 M3 MSRP from from 2009 was about 70,900~ USD. The dealership markup in North Hollywood was 30.5k. In 2010 that same car was worth ~67,000 USD on the used market.

Many of these cars had less than 20,000 miles at the time of sale; buying a card with mileage that low is worth a 35,000 dollar discount to many people.
Yes, if you calculate the depreciation based on getting a pretty good deal rather than paying the list price, the fabled thousands you lose as soon as you drive off the forecourt mostly vanish.
I would've kept 'em.
I use rss2email to send feed contents to my inbox, from there I have a good searchable archive wherever I am - be it desktop or mobile.

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

I never got the hang of using a browser to read feeds, email suits me much more naturally.
It's funny because most people I know have gone exactly the other way. Why use nosy and intrusive Windows when you can run all your games directly in Linux?

What value is Windows adding here?
Yeah also a doubter, you can get to pretty DRY workflows with GitLab extends, caching is great, built in artifact repositories (including image registry), workflows/rules on when to build (i.e. run certain tasks specifically off MRs), granular approval rules, review environments and the paid for version has pretty awesome security primitives that are really easy to incorporate (sast/dast/container scanning et al.). I may be a bit biased but having kicked the tyres on actions my feeling is GL is miles ahead on the CI front.
There's an awful lot of overclocking out there (2005)
Interesting story. I did something similar for a bespoke monitoring/helpdesk/knowledge base for a big client in energy trading.
However it took me an afternoon and I did get permission: I just installed Oracle text on the existing database and replaced the old search by tags with the Oracle text instance.

Typically in these large orgs, writing an app is only one of the first steps; they also need to be maintained, updated, monitored which might require extra budget, which typically nobody wants to pay for because "everything works".

If you ever end up in a similar situation, you could consider the environment as a part of the challenge before you figure out a solution.

Nevertheless, the 1 hour meeting is a hilarious story, although I personally would avoid burning bridges on the way out: it might hit you in the face in another context when you least expect it....
Why then and not France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc.?
Amateur astronomer caught an object hitting Jupiter's surface
There are a few bigger stories at play here (amongst many) that I see this article as an instance of:

1. Cultural 'meme' & trend that has dramatically spread throughout mostly american, urban, educated, elite/elite-adjacent spaces over the last 7-9 years that lionizes and rewards those who can claim they are a 'victim'. This meme favors certain immutable characteristics as inherently providing victimhood status. If you were born with an immutable characteristic that's held in favor by the meme, you have many advantages available to you. Nobody is supposed to acknowledge those benefits according to this meme. So you can both be objectively very privileged and also considered a mostly helpless victim of an oppressor class.

2. Internet has allowed anyone to be heard, no matter the level in the hierarchy of a company. And if you know how to use the right words according to this victimhood meme (regardless of objective victim status), you have a good chance of being rewarded both socially and professionally. This is a pathway that some take if they don't believe they'll be able to succeed by other means.

3. Increasing trend toward 'safetyism', where the concept of harm is becoming looser and more abstract. You don't need to even be objectively or provably harmed anymore to claim you were harmed and thus victimized.

Given all of the above, it's not surprising that big tech companies who operate in these elite spaces will experience 'unrest' amongst their employees. Cultural winds have created pathways for people to both legitimately and illegitimately air grievances to attempt to be rewarded socially/professionally.

(And lest anyone interpret the above as suggesting nobody is ever objectively or truly victimized, I am most definitely not saying that.)
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Because the op has pride in what he does. Because he cares more about getting it done than the political faffery.

That's a my take on it, anyway
Delighted someone remembers it! Thanks.
Yes. So would drones with crazy ranges, speeds and ability to stop threats.
>I run two dehumidifiers in my basement and they consume similar energy to an a/c (400-500W)

Am I correct in understanding that two humidifiers use the same amount of electricity as one AC, making them twice as efficient for the task at hand?

>but separate from that they also increase the temperature because the exhaust has no where to go, defeating part of the purpose of the white roof.

If you're looking to cool and dehumidify, then by all means, use an AC. My question was on the use of an AC while no one was home, ie where the cooling effect would go entirely wasted, and only the dehumidification was valuable, in protecting from humidity-induced damage.
Humility is a great personality trait, but from my experience, programmers are unfortunately rarely humble.
> Both of these would only serve to amplify the power of Iranian government many fold. And there is no "maybe" and no "time to time". We're talking the de-facto tools of surveillance capitalism here.

Your argument is definitely compelling - I share the distrust in the way things are going with “surveillance capitalism” as you call it, but, is there a risk of being too binary here?

For example, could it be possible that options 1 and 2 do not necessarily have the same negative outcome. Could an outside tech company (not state controlled) even if it’s under control of a western government that’s continually pushing for more control (and I speak as a Brit where we’re fighting our own battles on this front) still be better at helping to spread freedom of communication and ideas even marginally than the fully state controlled alternative?

It’s all relative I think. No country is perfect, no government is perfect. As a Brit my government fucks up continuously. The American government fucks up continuously. The Australian government fucks up continuously (looking at the recent legislation that we’ve talked about on HN). We’re all basket cases. But, the world is imperfect. Is it possible that even with our flaws, a more open and democratic (relatively) country’s private sector companies can still have a positive impact by having a presence in less open/democratic countries? Even if that means having to acquiesce occasionally?

I’m not sure. But I’m open to the possibility and I think the parent makes a strong case from their description of their own experience with Iran.
Sorry, it wasn't my intention to insult you!
Just one more question: Suppose you're in the desert and you see a tortoise turned on its back. What do you do?
I get what you're saying, but... they're still un-borked and survived a reboot.

Also I don't care about the monitoring and analytics, so there's that
One thing I can't figure out with Nebula is - how do you join multiple different networks?

For example, I have a personal laptop - I want to join two different networks, that are for two different purposes, and be able to talk to hosts in each? (But hosts in each should not be able to talk to hosts in the other)
If it's a contract, 3X is the terms I'd go with.
Link to the actual report: https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IrwinRep...
Bug fixing likely helps with retention, which shareholders _will_ be interested in.
Basically we have gone full circle back to public domain and shareware models, they just get called something different.

And yes, back in those days, getting the source was possible for some stuff, after getting the paid version.

And naturally there were the books and magazines with source listings, which most authors also got paid for having them published.
> There are so many options out there. How do you choose? Follow the advice of an influencer.

That's the boomer perspective that I wanted to point out. Where's the internet in this flow? Where's the community? Where's google? I know the above statement is simplified, but what matter is the linking logic, which can be radically different b/w generations.

One thing boomers don't recognize is that, unlike the celebrities from the last generation, influencers are contributors, not rulers or leaders. They make practical contributions to their communities, and, in return, they earn trust, which then can be utilized for monetization. It's not like someone great bam comes in and become a star (which is the exact strategy of this artificial influencer. So boomer, eh?)

Also it's worth noting that the internet community is that it offers more information and raw data than the sum of influencers can ever offer. Follow the recommendation of an influencer? Pf, it's just mere a drop in the vast ocean. A proper digital-literate - and MZs are the first digital native generation - will search other sources, cross check the information, and, naturally, expand it even further. As more effort goes in to these steps, the significance of influencers drops rapidly.

So, I want to say that the influencer marketing can't be a key strategy these days. Rather, it's just an element in the usual advertisement campaign. The most critical part is the community engagement.
Are you Munroe Live on Youtube? It's a channel where they disassemble and review the internals of EVs. Any time he comes across a screw (threaded fastener), which happens all the time, he turns red and politely hints how the designers could have done a much better job.
I guess the lesson is always have someone with you when you are going under. In India, they actively remove all family members when examining patient even when the patient wants them present. Most places will not even allow the husband to be present by his wife for a delivery. I always found that very disturbing.
my employer uses a lot of paid github features, while my projects use none, so moving away would be simple for me, but difficult for them.

the real lock-in is no different than any other social media platform: network effects. most people who follow you on X rarely bother also having an account on Y. unless you're Taylor Swift, moving away means diminished visibility/reach, and dilution of any reputation accumulated e.g. over a decade of activity, interactions, etc.
This is very cool and I was unaware of this feature.

Are there any open source libraries that perform similar tasks? I can think of a few uses for this in data cleanup as long as it can handle the input not being super clean.
In last 20 years in the US and other first world countries resource consumption and CO2 emissions flattened or even reversed, whereas economic growth continued almost exponentially. We can now do way more with less resources.
I agree - there's always a danger with companies that try and have a lot of their product as OS that someone will come along with an OS product that plugs the gap in the only place they're trying to make a profit!
Except someone actually paid for those construction tools, and many developers are not even willing to do that.
That link doesn't really support what I think you are claiming. Their models show solar reflective paint reducing heat over a black roof. Most of the myths they bust are about it keeping a house warm, which it doesn't.
I’ve been following it since I was in college (early 10’s) and I’m beyond excited. I have serious anxiety around the launch going well and getting the telescope safely into orbit. Truly priceless.
The employees were fairly compensated. If the founders were going to randomly choose to share their windfall, why not with the customers? Just refund every dollar their customers paid over the past 12 months. Or, find all customers who have been continually active for 5+ years and refund all their fees. I mean, it's the customers who grew the company, who stayed loyal, they are the ones who chose MailChimp over a variety of alternatives, etc. Kind of weird that you think employees are somehow sacrosanct and should just get all this money.
Mozilla tests Microsoft Bing as the default Firefox search engine
"has worked for 8 other tech companies" is normal in Silicon Valley.
Texas has recently enacted several laws to make it more difficult to vote see https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-voter-suppr... .

Suppressing the vote of certain groups such as minorities making it more difficult for them to vote, is a move away from democracy. So where are you going if you move towards less democracy? You move towards the opposite of democracy - which is, tyranny.
Who would have thought that America 's relationship with France would worsen, after Trump was removed?
It’s not just lacking influence, it’s being unable to recharge due to the environment.

I thought I was a night owl until I spent a month and a half in a solitary space. I just needed the space and time to recharge my batteries, which wasn’t really possible where I lived at the time.
Meetings Don't Have to Suck
Ha thanks, it's my curse.
I'm a huge fan of Bellotti's writing on the web (https://bellmar.medium.com/), so this is definitely high on my to-read list.
It was a gradual improvement. These feelings (deja vu) became less sharp, less frequent, but more sticky, they were harder to shake them off. Then it stopped. I didn't finished a medication course, the doctor said I needed to take drugs for five years, I stopped to take them after a four years, because of side effects. But in a ten years or so it stopped completely. It is detectable in EEG -- I scared the shit from a teacher on a practical class while studying psychology: we learned about EEG, and so I was wearing EEG cap, sitting in a dark room with flashing lights, while my classmates watched my EEG, and she darted into the room, asking me how I feel, "is everything is ok?" It was ok, but she was scared by asymmetry in alpha-rhythms of my brain hemispheres, I saw it with my own eyes on the screen. So something detectable remains in my brains, but I feel nothing. For 10+ years.

> I can see a community of people who haven't managed to escape from a negative bucket not wanting to believe it's possible.

> I wonder if there's anything he can do mentally to grab onto the edges of the experience and divert it.

Yeah, someone told me that I really couldn't control seizures, because it is impossible, and therefore I just thought that I controlled them. Like the process goes by itself, and my conscious interpretation of them is an illusion of control. Something like rationalization. It made me to think. So I really do not know how it was. But then I've read Arnhild Lauveng "A Road Back from Schizophrenia", where the author describes how she became schizophrenic and then healed (an astonishing memoir, a look from the inside of the mind, that turns schizophrenic from normal and then somehow manages to get back, I believe you'd enjoy it), and how other people do not believe her, because schizophrenia cannot be healed, and I do not mind now whether my interpretation of my epilepsy is rationalization or not. It just is.

But in any case, scientifically speaking, I'm not sure that conscious efforts can help against an epilepsy: all I have is one data point, while brains is a very complex system, 1000 data points wouldn't be enough. But speaking as an error-prone human being I'm sure as hell that it could help. It might be difficult or even impossible to help patient from outside, because a psychotherapist cannot know how it feels from the inside in this particular case. Spoken language is not powerful enough to bridge the gap between minds, Lauveng shows this perfectly. Every individual need to discover her mind by herself and to find some levers to manage it. Maybe in my case the decisive thing was my "scientific" study of my deja vu before seizures started: I had a plenty of time to play with them. To strengthen it to a point when it became scary, to shake it off because I was too scared by it. I remember deja vu from my childhood (I had a trauma at ~3yo), though I became interested in them only in my teens.
"is the total amount of oxygen that your muscles can extract from your blood per minute"

genuine question, but wouldn't this also correlate with muscle mass? you can put on a LOT of muscle, so doesn't more muscle mean more oxygen being extracted from your blood?
Also, pair it with Unpoly, tailwind and slippers and you get a pretty amazing frontend setup as well.

https://unpoly.com/

https://mitchel.me/slippers/
Drone swarms.
Italy - believe it or not - has top notch expertise in producing military and space technology. I recall they also export lots of military equipment, of all types.
Similar with crude oil...all the old dry Pennsylvania wells are full...again...did more fake dinosaurs die?
I can't figure out why this is downvoted it's exactly what happened.

They thought ending the UI benefits would magically force people back into jobs they hate.

Problem is- when every job pays min wage, people are now looking for ones where they won't be fired/laid off if we have a covid resurgence, as well as the jobs that treat them the least like crap, and have a steady schedule.

These foodservice jobs have always been some of the worst, they are just now getting their comeuppance.

We should have never let them allay the wages of their waitstaff via tips either.
I watched "Triumph of will" once. The youtube started to push on me nazi apologists, holocaust did not happen conspiracy theorists and what not. And for some reason, gaming videos. It was seriously disturbing. I watched that movie because I read about it in a book.

Now they removed movie and left there only very bad unwatchable commentary of it. Let's pretend it solves the problem.
LAX area but it seemed like a small agency. They were processing around 3-4 customers per hour, presumably as returns came in. We got a car after ~2h, but lots of others gave up and left. Hypothetically if nobody gave up, I expect the line would have grown and grown until they eventually closed with a huge line of reservations they couldn't meet.
There's now malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux
Henry Kissinger
Turo prices have also gone significantly up...
France got f'd by its best allies. Only a compete idiot president would do...
am I the only one that finds this feature distracting and unhelpful? Most of the times the recommendations are wrong, and then it's just more visual noise/keystrokes.
I see you have a paid version? I'm curious if you're making any revenue with this already?
Btw I worked (too) hard on that one, even encoding a message :)
Can I ask how you found that solitary space? Looking for something similar.
Related articles : L.A.’s New Reflective Streets Bounce Heat Back into Space ( https://reasonstobecheerful.world/reflective-white-streets-u... )

and counterpoint: White Roofs, Green Myth? ( https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-roofs-green-myth_b_2901... )
Very cool. Congrats on building something and then getting it out into the “ether”! No small feat.

Keep up the good work :)
Seems like a lot more work than doing Data > Text to Columns :)
This is a valuable point. I know you're right but I still find myself bristling at some of the defense projects that don't seem necessary to me. But there is value in maintaining the expertise and processes.
YouTube is weird, it seems to be so incredibly different, depending on the user.

I get what you're saying about the reward system, but I normally run out of content I want to watch and recommendation engine isn't really suggesting anything interesting. That's after watching a few videos every other evening.

There's a few channels I subscribe to, and I do regular clean up, like twice a year, and remove the subscriptions I'm no longer interested in. YouTube mostly shows me the new videos from those channels an a few similar videos and then kinda gives up.

Two thing I would not recommend is using YouTube without a subscription and be sure to log in. The default videos on the front page are all terribly, and the ads are amazingly bad. In regards to the ads, I think that people in smaller markets are a problem for YouTube. They simply don't have enough ads so they can't actually target them in any meaningful sense.
Land mile, sea mile, metric ton, short ton, long ton, uk gallon, us gallon. In europe we also have this pfund (pound) and other historical measures. How accurate and how they differ from country to country is hard to say.
You'll find it on page 94 of the PDF document (actual page 88), under "Proposals".
You need to build a social circle and engage in more out of work activities. Especially with the remote work situation these days you can't rely on work for socialization.
That's not contrarian. I think a large proportion of the rest of the world would agree with this.
Yes you can make you own by adding barium sulfate to white paint, not as good as the expensive integrating sphere paint but pretty good for large white diffuse panels on a budget.

I watched as the rooftop out my window was painted white, it was extremely reflective. After a year, visibly the roof is dark gray. I wish I would have taken a daily picture and spectral measurement, maybe next time.
I took Clipper, Oracle SQL/PL, dBase, and Lotus 123 databases and converted them to MS-Access and SQL Server databases.