skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am currently sitting at a Honda dealership in Los Angeles, just talked to a salesman.

Info:

- ~25 new cars on the lot compared to 200+ before shortages. He said they have a good amount of used cars. Funny enough 15 minutes after they took my car they call me and ask if I want to sell my car to them!

- Lease prices are double what they were 2 years ago when I looked. Specifically Civic sedans were ~$250/month with $3k down but now are closer to $600!

- $5k over MSRP on everything which they say "can be worked on" but that seems to be the current standard. I went to Subaru few months back and it was the same.

- For financing, manager said around 3.9% interest is around the lowest they do in-house (assuming max perfect credit). Not sure what auto loans are like with big banks at the moment.

So until shortages normalize buying a new car is just not a wise financial decision (at least for me). $30k+ for a Honda is just pretty bad. With $700/month to finance I'd rather get a Model 3. With gas prices and the $800 maintenance I'm paying just for today it's looking like a good option.

If anyone is interested in current maintenance cost breakdown on my car I will update this post when i get my bill in an hour or so ballpark $800 total.
Yeah...Our family changed from Saabs to BMW at some point (back when BMW was still cool and not something literally everyone owns), and I started getting less carsick.

The Saab was pretty cool but they really didn't need to do everything different only to be different. Some things were just plain weird.
Huh, curious. It clearly didn't originate with Postgresql developers, as one can find uses of the word sprinkled around here and there in old literature. One neat way to see uses of it is to search on Google Books:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22frammish%22

That said, I don't see anything that purports to give a definitive definition of the word - everybody who uses it seems to assume that everyone else knows it. And at least at first blush, I don't see anything that attempts to explain the origin / etymology of the word either.

It's the kind of thing you'd almost expect to see in the "Jargon File" but it doesn't appear to be there either.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html
My grandad was a farm worker back in the old days before artificial insermination. You used to have a guy drive by with a bull, and it would take care of the process for you.

Much more damming, for Russia anyway, is that they apparently don’t have a single factory producing ballbarings. That isn’t going to be an issue for a while, and then it is really going to be an issue.
Wasn't twitter blocked in Russia now? I guess they cannot complain that their tweet gets deleted now.
Or like a VC I once spoke with listening to a rideshare pitch: “I’m not your target market. I drive alone in my Bentley in the carpool lane. I don’t care if I get a $400 ticket.”
Wow. Fuck this so much. I’m never using ddg again. I think I’m going to move towards searching specific sites rather than using a generic internet-wide search provider.
All these geo games that give you distances and directions to the correct answer would probably reward a little study of distance scales and how the continents line up.
No. If you choose 3 you don’t get billed. This is a scenario clearly described in the article .
You have absolutely lost your mind
One problem with platforms having a clear bias in their search results is their classification of concepts like "disinformation" aren't what they say. They can't be. A business that needs to increase profits every quarter is never going to be charitably filtering data to get rid of "bad actors" (unless it's enforced by the law), they're going to do what they can to make more money. I don't think the owners of DDG are making this mistake maliciously. However, controlling information based on subjective opinions on narratives like the Russia/Ukraine conflict (which 99% of people talking about haven't even been to the region) is short sighted unless they're openly stating "We have a clear bias and are making our own claims on what good information is."
You ignored the part of the GP comment where they agreed with you. The point is that properly managed pasture increases fertility naturally. We need animals to fertilize, or every plant must be grown with synthetic products.
I had no idea scholarships were a thing until I was well into university. No one ever mentioned them to me and I had no idea of the concept so I didn’t ask.

That said I wouldn’t have got one anyway because my life started falling apart in the last couple years of high school. Still got a physics degree though.
The Ethereum PoS Beacon Chain mainnet (it’s not a testnet) has been running since December 2020: currently over 300k validator are active, with nearly 10 million “real money” ETH staked.

https://beaconcha.in/

https://beaconscan.com/
> Does this exist in the US?

As with any time this question is asked, try to remember the US is the third largest nation in both geographic size and population, with 320 million citizens spread out over 50 quasi nation-states, a handful of which themselves are bigger than most countries, and all with their own legal systems. We share currency, an army, a flag and a constitution. The rest is a roll of the dice.

That said, at a Federal level, I've never heard of this and where I live in Northern California, I haven't heard of anything to that extent either. That doesn't mean it's not happening in some municipality in Michigan or Hawaii, or even in a different part of my own state. Though, honestly, I doubt it.

The way we do surveillance here is more roundabout: First we allow right wing news media to scare the shit out of all the old people in the country, who then go out and buy doorbell and other Wifi cameras and start live streaming every square inch of their property, 24/7. Then we either compel the bigco to give the government access to the feed, complete with gag order, or the NSA just hacks in and takes it anyways.

It seems to work well. Our video is all HD.
Authoritarians hate jokes at their expense too and demand to be taken seriously. If you can't stand being laughed about then you can't expect to be taken seriously either.
> I wouldn't downplay the editorial decisions that you mention either. That is a hugely powerful lever of control. Yanking RT or whoever from search results is exactly that, only this time it is exercised by corporate tech companies.

The costs of letting disinformation flow freely are far greater than the costs of downranking sources known for disinformation. One only need look at the antivax movement to confirm this.

> Finally, one can always find a reason why this thing is worse than this other thing, and one is therefore justified in doing whatever it is one wanted to do anyway. This line of argumentation rarely impresses me.

Good thing the responsible parties have no interest in or duty regarding impressing you, then. Whatabouters don't impress me, personally.
Americans have bigger vehicles because the cost of fuel is included in the past choices they've made (if I'm understanding your question).

Where I am right now, gas is over €2 per liter. But it's common to have a little car that's fuel efficient. In lots of places in the US (and Canada, where gas is not as cheap but has been under $1 CAD per liter in the last fee years), there are way more SUVs and pickups.

I'm not trying to say it's good or bad, just that it's a shock based on what people are used to.
Got it in one :)

Cars + Lumber + Oil narrowed it down pretty well.
Or in the present... I have yet to see an automatic in Europe (granted I haven't been paying that much attention)
But then what? Ditch the people to avoid responsibility? Jail them to prevent suicide? (and with that, avoid responsibility) Or actually get to the root cause and fix that, even if the root cause is society in one way or another...?
The Curious Case of Changed Rankings – Scribie vs. Rev on TechRadar
>existential risks now

Existential risk now pale in comparison to long term existential risk of irrevocably west/NATO aligned UKR, hence emphasis on eating "short/medium term loss". Soviets didn't want to hold AFG, it was peripheral counter insurgency work, on tier of Vietnam war was to PRC. UKR is reforging historic empire, it's core interest like TW is to PRC. As for holding UKR, it remains to be seen. There's very real possibly they'll Grozny the entire country and displace 20M+ which will destabilize Europe and make holding UKR feasible.

>if they keep making big mistakes.

Taking UKR isn't a big mistake, hasty special operations gamble was, but complete occupation isn't, especially now when RU is still capable. UKR with another 5 years US training and support would make such conquest out of reach, especially coupled with continued RU demographic/military decline. TBH for RU best time was 2014 considering how poor sanction proofing their economy went.

>look at what China has managed to achieve

RU isn't PRC in terms of demographics, and even PRC will eventually have to take TW / push back US aligned containment security architecture in East Asia. Common argument for PRC doing so in next 10-20 years is that's when PRC power will be maximal. RU has no peak to look forward to, is already on decline. It can't afford to wait.
I agree basic supply/demand models are almost hilariously simplistic, but I don't think you can really invalidate his point about what happens if money supply goes up but product supply doesn't just by saying "well product supply does go up".
> I'm definitely awaiting for traveling salesman solver or similar, guided by NN, solving things faster and reaching optimality more frequently that optimized heuristic algos.

There was a competition for exactly this at Neurips 2021

https://www.ecole.ai/2021/ml4co-competition/

Not sure how much they improved over handcrafted heuristics, but the summary paper may give some insights

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02433
10 years ago a base model Suzuki SX4 sedan was pretty much this in the USA. Not sure about more modern stuff.
I don't know, I couldn't get through a chapter of Anna Karenina but it's still a great opening line.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Perhaps it reflects the transport choices of the lawmakers. They spend more time frustrated on the 101 than they spend attempting to use a bus or train.
Yes, SPAs aren't required but they make it more likely that the site will use AJAX to request data instead of rendering the page with server data PHP-style.
Glad to see you here lucidrains. Truly appreciate your recent open-source contributions and works like big sleep, deep daze.

Everyone else check out this https://github.com/lucidrains?tab=repositories
Same, and I was incredibly confused by the wordle-style colored squares that briefly appeared. I saw them on the '?' page too, but no explanation of what they mean. I successfully completed the puzzle and still have no idea what those were.
What sort of real world things does Geekbench represent?

Are we saying that it can do CPU ray tracing as well as a threadripper, or is this more lightweight multithreading and would be an excellent webserver?

Sun had systems that were much better than x86 in high threaded environments. But ultimately in the real world x86 was better. I know my M1 Pro MacBook Pro is definitely not better than my Intel desktop when I use it for writing code.

Although it could also be operating systems and supporting software that are giving me the contrasting experience.
> and are probably less than the health effects of obesity.

This is somewhat true, from what I can see, but not enough of a difference where replacing obesity with a smoking addiction is worth it.
Alice: "Nobody saw me swimming in the pool last night"

Bob: "Oh, how was it?"

Alice: "How was what?"

Bob: "Your late-night swim?"

Alice: "I haven't been swimming in ages."

Bob: "..."
This happened to me. I am unfamiliar with the area, the rental company didn't mention it so I ended up receiving a ticket for not setting my transponder correctly. They even send my a picture on the ticket clearly showed me and my wife (2 people!) in the car. I ended up contesting it and they dropped it (first offense I guess). I bet they are relying on the fact that most people will not fight it. It's a stupid system.
Minimalism it tech is pretty pointless. Every simple specialty thing seems to invariably cost way more than a common complicated thing, and usually doesn't have much better reliability.

It's philosophy pretending to be engineering. Real engineer requires deep analysis, not just assuming that simple is more reliable.
I want one, sad they got discontinued. They seemed to constantly get great reviews.
It's a federal highway that predates the interstate system. It was still built using federal funds, so the argument stands.
Buffer to what? Russia already has a sizable NATO border.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%2523xitler
Previous video with teardown and protocol analysis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSDJRC0F6c

I've used probably a dozen Labelwriters among the 400, 450 and turbo ones, and never ever had any issues by using non original rolls. This is nothing but an anti-consumer measure; I'll never buy or suggest a Dymo product again, and my rolls already work perfectly on my old Zebra printer.
> So where does that leave us? Everything is biased?

Search results are created by humans and intended to be consumed by humans, so yes. (And just to head it off, a web crawler is ultimately just an abstraction for the humans who will later consume the search results, it just happens to have particularly fast and strict browsing habits)

Now that said, accepting that "(un)biased" is an extremely broad term, I'd very easily believe that the intent of the tweet was to point at some specific type of bias that DDG (at the time) intended to avoid.
I'm not sure that's true. Certainly there are a number of "classics," including some like A Tale of Two Cities that are probably not the author's best work, which most people would probably find boring with memorable openings.
Why do they keep releasing these incremental specs/generations with minor improvements? I mean they should just define a standard that is actually somewhat futureproof.

But I'm sure there are economical reasons why that's not done
How is this a bug in Mozilla? This seems to be about some email the Russian government has sent, and CA certificates.

If the certificate is being misused, I think it should be revoked by the authority who approved it.
Surely the computer is better than us at shifting by now anyway, right?
Neither Harvard nor Von Neumann are described in a scalable way. Maybe a contentious opinion, but I don’t think either copes with multiple CPU and virtual memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture
This, exactly. I think that the idea is to teach to dog how to interrupt the negative emotion with something positive. It gets to the point where they interrupt it themselves without your intervention. With Lily, it got to the point where she'd see a small dog or a cat, and she'd look straight up at me (good girl!)

To begin with, practice randomly when there is no trigger. Have a sneaky treat ready and say the dog's name. If it's difficult to begin with (because they don't know their name), try putting the treats into a small plastic container and shaking it, or taking the plastic packaging of their treats. They learn to respond to that noise very quickly. Words are more complex, but if you say their name when you make the noise they'll start responding to that too. Always carry accessible treats.

5 months since we adopted untrained (pretty wild) greyhounds, I can get either of them to sprint to me by calling their name, sit, high-five, lie down... no matter what's going on around them. That response makes it easier to discourage cat-chasing and to reduce their prey drive.
I don't think my Suzuki SX4 has driver seat height adjustment, at least I've never used it if it does...
Just give me a “this is irrelevant to my search” button on each result. And a “never show me results from this domain” button while you’re at it.
Ideally you use the predictive technology to enhance and check the work of humans. In reality, I agree that people usually just get ditched in favor of the technology that works most of the time...but not all (self-driving comes to mind).
Vaccines and Omicron mean Covid now less deadly than flu in England
[wakes up] [clown vanishes]
https://archive.ph/W8HfL
I'm aware of what page it comes from.

I'm also aware that not all communications use exact definitions at all times! Your smugness is not called for.

If you just want to link some government pages in the google results for 'pyramid scheme', here's one following the precise definition: https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes...
Tulip mania wasn't even that big a thing. Lasted a few weeks and consisted of a couple traders trying out new speculative financial instruments.
Just a % bar for how close you are to the country geographically
It's really not clear to me.
Can this be self-hosted?
Unfortunately Blender is GPL and so can't be ported to iOS or iPadOS :(
I don't know anything about that particular case, and I would have agreed with you about the "few local SWEs", until I saw this side of the business. You would be floored by the amount of work and hoops that you have to jump through, and that's well before the SLAs and KPIs. Take a wild guess how much it costs to hoist, populate, and maintain a gantry with the associated sensors, cameras, etc. That's in the price tag, too. The SWEs aren't doing that work! The SWEs definitely aren't driving the test vehicles at the test track.

There's a good reason that the systems themselves cost so much money. Heck, it costs an arm and a leg just for the routine maintenance permits! The CI/CD, security, data persistence, data provenance, latency, and agency interop requirements are absolutely insane. Trust me, it's more than just a few SWE can handle.

Lastly, it's definitely not about any under-the-table dealings. There's just a huge amount of work! When deciding to whom to award the contract, they do background checks on key company people, look at past contracts, etc.

That's the reality of the situation.
until COVID supply chain issues and chip shortages. Could compete if they didn't need so many chips to run everything.
Both tolls or the requirement to have an "expensive car" (electric) quickly become discrimination against poor people. Possibly unintentional discrimination.

I think it should be simple occupancy based only - vehicles with 3 occupants or more only.
I expect high gas prices to cause some hesitation in buyers.
And I have a transponder for the Seattle area that I use about 3-5 times a year. I don't live in Washington but I do visit regularly. It doesn't work anywhere else but when I need it, I need it. A nationwide standard really is needed.
I still can't read that site name as anything but "expert sex change".
I got this in three, all quite close countries -- though I should have got it in one from the kaolin-coated paper bit.
It's cool how Tesla and his companies in general seem to really understand the idea that things should be computers first, and not have anything that could have been software.

Sadly a lot of the other stuff is less awesome.
> safety features such as lane assist and emergency stop systems become mandatory

I've got a cheap $0 lane assist and emergency stop system called "paying attention and not tailgating" that came stock in my 2003 Ford Ranger. I've been using it consistently for 35 years now on different makes and models of vehicles and it hasn't failed once.
In northeast US, you get mailed a $50+ fine on top of the toll for not having an EZ Pass transponder.
not even 1 screenshot of its output?
And to top it off, now you have a toothache and have to visit the dentist in the year 536.
It was also safer to sell shovels in san francisco than it was to go to the Klondike and dig for gold. the analogy is correct.
Ownership transfer is done by a function call. The function often has extra logic like % of the funds for the transfer going to the artist. I guess you can cheat by sending a small amount in the transfer and seperately paying the seller the rest but then you make the thing you bought seem cheaper in the official records so that's in most cases counter-productive.
That could well be the case, and I would personally argue that that is a good part of the problem.

For example, in Europe, it's quite normal for lawmakers to cycle or take public transport to the office. Obviously, some/most of it is performative to present a public image of the politician as a "man of the people", but it does expose them to the problems of the lay person as opposed to sitting in a chauffeured car.

Needless to say, our public transport systems (and cycling) are much more sane, affordable, and efficient options here. They are by no means perfect, but they are a damn good way to get around in most cities.

It doesn't mean you can't or don't drive, but often driving is massively slower or less convenient (especially inside the urban core), so you jump on the metro/train/tram or bicycle to get where you need to be.
I actually missed the significance of the arrow entirely. It's obvious but I still focussed mostly on the distance.
Also building up. Higher density housing should be the norm in most places. In the US it's the exception and leads to poor public transport, the need for a car, long commutes, etc...
Half of Russia feels the same way about their country that you do about Israel.
California is a confusing place to drive. Trying to find out how to pay tolls online was confusing. One bridge had a "stop and pay tolls!" sign, but no one was stopping, and I found out later they issue the toll online. This was all mostly in the Bay area on a recent visit.
I've read a few things made with ArcGIS StoryMaps. While focused on interactive maps, it looks like it can be used for general multimedia stories as well: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/
Why does SQLite Online have a bunch of non-SQLite DBs taking up menu space?
> IBM's sales centric approach naturally assumed a slower industry cadence than the one that developed in the 80s. Rapid growth in low-end computers reduced the relevance of their competitive advantage in large-scale, long-term deals, …

I remember one small incident working for IBM as a very junior employee in 1984. A customer saw the PC and Lotus 1-2-3 in a demo and wanted to buy it there and then - literally got their cheque book out. The experienced IBM salesman stepped in and tried to convince them to buy a System/36. Result no sale.

I wonder to what extent IBM never really came to terms with the success of the PC.
The verb form is where the atypical usage originates, so I think it's fair to focus on the verb as the point of interest despite including an example that happens to be a gerund.

Anyway, I think there's an even larger set that "spell" is a member of: metaphorical usage to highlight anything unwanted or erroneous; "code smell" is another.

It's wrong, therefore it smells. It's wrong, therefore it's misspelled. It's wrong, therefore it wants to be different (personification metaphor).
Well actually, there is a way, but you might kill said PCB.

Heat everything up in an oven, the solder will reflow, and you might temporarily fix the board. It’s a similar idea to the Towel/Xbox 360 fix. I can attest to having successfully saved lots of random electronics this way.

All of this started with the eco-friendly alternatives to lead solder, I have a lot of old computer hardware and motherboards, and the hardware from the early 2000s is the least reliable, whereas most game consoles, motherboards, etc. from the 80s and 90s works flawlessly. To this day I swear by the leaded stuff for personal use, it flows better, doesn’t crack, and is superior in every way.
I see it happens when I check the "High" difficulty.

I can't tell the difference between radio buttons and checkboxes (which should be square).
More specifically, because Apple won't allow GPL apps.