skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think Scion did too, but could be wrong on that.

Incidentally my first new car was a Scion and the sales process wasn’t nearly as smooth as they’d like you to think it was.

The extent of the ”Pure Pricing” system was that a dealership posted a menu of the vehicle and service prices, and that was the price you paid. It wasn’t a nationally set price — the dealer could price the car as they wished, and everyone who walks in pays that price.

All that really changed about the dealership experience was that once I picked a car on the lot, there was no price negotiation to do, so they handed me right off to the Toyota dealership’s F&I guy and it was the standard slimy F&I experience from there.

It certainly was not an experience where I was able to go to Scion Dot Com, choose the car, arrange financing and trade-in online, and the delivery appointment is a quick thing where you drop your trade and go. That was the experience with Tesla; I spent all of 15 minutes physically at the store on delivery day and 10 of it was just me adjusting the seats/mirrors and logging into Spotify.
> industry-leading oral antiseptics

The Romans did it first
Not at all. This is all about retrofitting existing code with more static checking. Nothing here creates an incentive to write new code in C++ instead of Rust.
Smart and correct rebuttal.

We all need to be able to live with the notion of levels of completeness. This is biology—not engineering.

What is the precise definition of a filled glass of water?
if they want to help, they can.

And naturally, if they are offended or upset at the product too (ads?! after you bought it?!), they may become your advocate... and go well beyond just being nice and helpful.
Do you have a problem with the words "disorder" or "illness"? Because it comes across to me that it rubs you the wrong way that so many people can be considered flawed in some way. I don't think that way of looking at people is untruthful or wrong, it's just a lot more nuanced to look at it than a person being either "sane" or "insane".

I really do wonder this as you so explicitly put "mentally ill" and "disordered" as interchangeable, which they clearly are not. Pretty much everyone has some kind of disorder, which they can address. Only a few have a mental illness, which they can learn to cope with.

Your example also serves to reduce attempts at nuance even further, by trying to make mental illness only understandable through the lens of a physical one. So one has got to wonder: maybe you are lumping way too many things onto one pile?
I imagine the roofs are still probably the best places for them. I doubt you want to set them directly onto the roof anyway, so if you need a little scaffolding to get them arranged in a particular fashion then installation is probably the right time to do that.

Yeah, I guess the angle with the sun or something for most of the year makes solar a little more difficult up here? Thankfully we've got a lot of hydro-electric.
That's the real promise of 5G.
Because its hard to find existing construction that’s

1. In the right location.

2. Dense enough.

3. Cheap enough.

4. In good condition and zoned properly.

The last bullet point is the real kicker. It’s very tempting to point at older real estate, often shuttered light industry or commercial, and ask about converting it. Unfortunately a lot of these buildings are illegal/hard to rezone as residential, or have an uncertain cost to convert them for habitation. And of course the financiers of any project hate uncertainty.
Yes, that is what I assumed as well.
Or Google introduces new ads like when they screwed over Nvidia Shield users with a mandatory UI update that highlights ads.
my company turned off all our conference room video conference hardware to force people to dial in individually. the argument being that the remote people have less representation if theyre a small box on a screen vs everyone in the room
Early 70s, and it wasn't with a modem. I think the typical Teletype baud rates were 45.45 baud, 110 baud, and 300 baud. Having to wait half a second for your Teletype to type out a 15-character error message that tells you what you already know is the opposite of user-friendly. (Later, yes, people were using 300-baud modems, but that wasn't how Unix was originally developed.)
I think there’s a lot of WFH folk who are worried less about promotions than they are the availability of WFH jobs in general.

People who favor that style of working viewed COVID as a transformational event, and are going to push back hard on anything/anyone suggesting a return to the previous status quo, where WFH was something you had to be a relatively special snowflake to be afforded by many/most companies.
>First, it allowed the building of suburbs, which just wasn't feasible before. This in turn led people to push zoning laws such that building anything other than a SFH became illegal.

Possibly, because blaming the car by taking a detour through a motivated political movement doesn't make sense to people? Suburbs would be impossible without cars, true, and airstrikes would be impossible without airplanes, but that seems like a poor case for blaming government policy on an inanimate object.

>Third, all these cars new housing developments needed roads

All economic activity needs roads. Those roads get wider because of cars, but their existence is felt most strongly in the wider economy because of trucks. Being able to transport goods anywhere with low latency makes a huge difference to the operation of thousands if not millions of businesses.

>Fourth, driving everywhere is like living in an insulated bubble. You don't have to deal with your fellow man.

Just earlier tonight I was driving and nearly got hit by some other driver who ran a red light.

>Things like Skid Row (LA) or the Tenderloin (SF) don't touch you

Liberals really need to work on not sounding like they want people to get robbed.

>I honestly think this contributed to making people care less about the plight of their fellow man.

Someone in Utah honestly believes that the reason Californians won't deal with the homeless problem is because they don't go to church. But neither of you gave me any evidence.
And a one time, Portuguese Urine was considered the best to brush one's teeth with.
We will be killing the archaic concept of a reference genome. All will some be dynamic pangenomic assemblies that grow and flex and branch as more genomes are added.
> filtering any packets that source from the management MAC of the AP to completely isolate it.

Yeah but you're still trusting the black box to (a) implement security (WPA) correctly and (b) not get hacked and spew out packets onto the wired interface with forged MAC addresses claiming to be from your laptop's wifi card.

I've run into this problem before and currently I'm leaning towards just doing wide-open no security 802.11 with nothing-but-wireguard-packets firewalls on both ends of the wireless link. Basically s/wpa/wireguard/g.
And then of course they’ll suggest that “something” must be done about the homelessness crisis, and things get worse still.
That's because the sound on In Utero wasn't really Albini's.

He has a distinctive sound; there's a long list of artists who've had him do 1-2 records. Listen to Surfer Rosa and then Trompe Le Monde, or Pod and then Last Splash, or Rid Of Me and then the 4 Track Demos, where you get some of the same songs, even.
Efficient wireless charging is on the way for EVs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq7SP18sPKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1gaNO9nj0

No cables or charging posts mean lower maintenance costs and tidier parking spaces.
A lot of music library managers (including good old iTunes) let you add a lot of various and esoteric song tag data as columns in the track list. The problem was always that the column arrangement that makes sense for one style of music doesn't make sense for another.

One missing feature that I've never seen in a music library application is the ability to have "presets" for these column headers that you can easily switch between. So you can turn on the "classical" preset which shows Composer, Performer, etc., and you can turn on the "contemporary" preset which shows Artist and Album.
This story is nonsense.

"Now that we've established unstoppability as a net new feature, I’ll make my most speculative and contentious proposition: Hyperstructures can be simultaneously free forever to utilize and extremely valuable to own. This is possible because of their unstoppability. There is no cost to maintain and keep the protocol operational forever."

You heard it here first folks. The code maintains itself, forever. This is obviously naively optimistic at best.

Further "free forever to utilize": Servers are free now? Switches, networking, power? There are costs, even if they aren't high. At best those costs are externalized to stakeholders beyond the majority of the user-base.

Every time I read about one of these "unstoppable systems" which avoid the existing financial system, I find myself wondering if the theoretical freedom that grants is worth the risks it imposes.
Not entirely true, you can get ath9k_htc cards that will do 300mbit/sec 802.11a on both the 5ghz and 2.4ghz bands.

You have to look hard. It's basically only Atheros 9280 that can do all that with FOSS firmware. You also have to make sure the device has TWO RF front end chips (one for each band). Just looking for "AR9280" will get you a lot of single-band products.

There are also devices with that chip plus an AR7010, which is a nifty little USB-to-PCie bridge so the whole thing fits on a USB stick, like this:

https://deviwiki.com/wiki/Sony_UWA-BR100
> the official return policy has little bearing on what the employees are empowered to do.

Employees may be empowered but that doesn't mean they'll help. It's a lot of trouble to take your TV off the wall, get all the accessories together, and cart it in to the store. If the employee on duty doesn't feel like helping, you're out of luck.
Don't let it bother you man. It's just an example of cross-cultural confusion crossed with some blunt HN mannerisms (to put it politely).

The tell is the callout that this is an "American thing" -- which, well, it is. America has a culture, and especially SF has a culture, that's pretty distinct from elsewhere. Talking up the raw intellect of one's coworkers is a very SF thing, and a very-non-European thing (not to say the person you're responding to is from the EU, I'm sure there's other similar places).

How it reads to an American: "this commenter is psyched to go to work with their colleagues, whose contributions and company they enjoy"

How it (could conceivably) read to someone from a culture very different from SF's: "this commenter is bragging about the IQ of their coworkers relative to everyone else's, which is either uncouth or sycophantic."

Commenting on it is of course ridiculous. Happy your team is good :)
One of the ones from the old horse cavalry days: Two privates fresh on the plains from New York are digging a hole to bury a large animal and are arguing what the animal is. One says it is a horse, and the other maintains it's a mule. The camp doctor comes up, and sets them both straight -- "It's an ass, fellas". Later the chaplain walks up, and asks the two privates what they're doing. "We're digging an ass hole."
I was able to get 800 MBps real bandwidth with 2x2 and 80MHz :). No tinkering required either, just changed to 80MHz channel and voila.
That way the core authors don't need to know a thing about how the parent program (usually Retroarch, but it doesn't have to be) handles input re-mapping, and you can change all of them in one place—or use multiple for different cores, or even set it on a game-by-game basis, RA supports all that, too, and the cores don't have to care about it.

It's less complex than a wrapper program having to know a bunch of different config formats and conventions.

Again, cores run as shared libraries inside Retroarch. These "fake inputs" aren't, like, actual OS-level simulated devices. It's more like a core listens for events of type (name made up) "ra_analog_0" and treats anything coming in as left-stick x-axis positive-direction input, and by convention so do most or all other cores that emulate a system with a left analog stick (or perhaps with just one), unless they have a good reason not to, so default Retroarch-provided automatic input device mapping can make most common gamepads do something sensible with most cores, as soon as you connect them. Then if you prefer to swap left and right sticks, you do it one place and it works everywhere. Or if you prefer to swap left and right on just one game, you do that. The core never has to know about any of it.
Telomeres and centromeres, major histocompatibility complex, and other highly repetitive and complex regions with segmental duplications. This stuff matters!
Unveiling the Indigenous Knowledge Behind the Mud Houses of Nagercoil
Well in Japan it just ends up that housing isn’t generally a good investment so you don’t typically park your money there, and then this is a non-issue.

If everyone expects their housing to appreciate forever it’s no surprise that their appreciated homes will become unaffordable to most people. Housing ought to be a utility not an investment IMO. A Georgist-style land tax would probably do a lot to tip the balance.
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Value that was created in the past is still value, is it not? Parent post created a conflated straw man of ancestors stealing wealth plus inheritance. So what if you are rich because your parents created value? Did the value they created die with them?
there must be some genome-cleaning processes active, surely. otherwise wouldn't the size of all genomes slowly ratchet up in every species, until organisms just can't cope anymore and everything goes extinct?

also, do you consider introns to be junk DNA? those didn't evolve from viral insertion (probably?) so though they might end up hosting "junk", presumably they're not all "junk."
It’s loss aversion. Many people perceive office environment to be unpleasant for various reasons (long commute, psychopathic coworkers, noisy, lack of privacy) and so now they have tasted freedom they have a strong negative reaction to losing it.
Sauce? I'm always interested in tales of social engineering
We had a Vizio TV before TVs were ever connected to the Internet (maybe 2005). That can't possibly have been their business model at that point.
I get where you’re coming from. I’ve been half time remote since 2017 (I.e. on one coast half the time and back near the office the other half) and full time since 2019. It is very nice to visit and have a really good in person session occasionally.

My work has moved the office to a general hoteling model where the dozen people that need the office every day are always welcome to use it. It’s mostly a ghost town but everyone is happy with how this worked out.

The most common use case is a team coming into the office to see each other for the first time in two years or the first time ever depending on when they started.

We have a rule that all calls are done over Zoom or Meet, so we will have the eventual insane looking situation of the majority of the participants in the same conference room speaking into a laptop.

The company owns several Owl cameras which did a good job pre-pandemic of bridging the gap of seeing who is speaking in a conference room. I’m not sure if all laptops open is a good policy for remotes like myself but I’m sure we’ll figure that out in a few months time.
This is one of those tricks you just have to memorize and it's very hard to come up with the solution in 30 min.

What a great way to kick off a professional relationship:

"I know this problem is useless and obviously unrepresentative of the actual work we do. So do you (if you aren't incompetent). You also know perfectly well that I've memorized the answer and am only pretending to 'solve' it for you on the spot. And yet, we go along with the charade and pretend it's a vitally necessary, even clever hiring technique. Because hey, we're getting paid big bucks to play this game, after all. So who cares."
Gource

https://gource.io
An aspect of affirmative actions policies in practice is that the individual beneficiaries are not explicitly labeled as such, so there is a layer of plausible deniability.
At this point, the mere existence of the other group is a danger to what the first group sees as their interests. The human instinct is to minimize the other group, making their group appear larger, and strengthening the argument that their interests should prevail.

Someone who wants to be completely untethered from the office is threatened by someone who wants to work in the office a couple days a week. It means they will have to choose between moving and having job prospects within a much smaller area.
We know it is. And that model is a few years old.

But that’s the base price people would compare against. A 50% premium to get rid of that creepy stuff is pretty heavy, though it may be less for higher end stuff or newer models.
I think, this core also plays the music programs by Peter Samson.
Yes, they are now. (As far as I know.) But such was not always the case, for example in the Jim Crow south — where all-white juries routinely convicted innocent black defendants and routinely exonerated guilty white defendants. Proper Jury representation had to be foisted on Southern states, who resisted it mightily.
how will the local news station feel when they discover that the TV can show ads during the local news? Possibly overwriting the local ads?* And the local news doesn't get a cut?

* most of local news is just "native advertising" anyway, like that piece on the latest kitchen shelves or the upcoming "fleet week" or the local basketball team's star.
Maybe it's time to create new teams.
Most of these don't have good display characteristics, as far as I can tell.

I wanted 4k120 444 10bit w/a decent contrast ratio and couldn't find any hotel TVs approaching that, but plenty of consumer """smart""" stuff.

I ended up getting a flagship sony TV, which looks pretty good... when it's not busy crashing or glitching out due to its embarrassingly terrible software. Of course I don't give it Internet access; that seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
Show HN: A clicker game about the future
This was supposed to be submitted to a game jam a few months ago, but I ended up missing the deadline. The theme of the jam was "the future".

I recently tried to finish it. It's pretty unbalanced and after a certain point it gets impossible to progress, but maybe someone will find it interesting.

This is written in C++ and built for the web with emscripten. Link to the source is on the page. The repository also has a Qt-based editor for the tech tree.
without the SRY gene you probably wouldn't be named Rob.
Because it usually leads to terrible implementation. Lawmakers have very little clue about technology, have you see our Congressmen (assuming you're American)?

No one thinks about externalities or loopholes. The entire house-of-cards is built for better polling and public approval, not about actually improving anything.

Ultimately public loses, politicians gain polling points, and corporations exploit loopholes that are designed into the system.

But HN usually never fails to have a kneejerk reaction to any discomfort with "let's legislate it".
Not far off, in some cases.
As you knew the industry, I will take your word for it. Thank you for sharing some actual knowledge with us! I'd be interested in more if you are willing and have the time.

Was Albini really an "engineer extraordinaire", like the introduction says? Why does live almost always sound better to me than studio, lacking the energy and creativity that make rock'n'roll great. Is it just me? For the most part, I stopped buying studio albums. Why wouldn't they just record Nirvana (or Bruce Springsteen or whoever) playing their new songs live?
How can you tell if this is happening? If it's not showing ads, should I even care? It can't tell who I am if I've not logged into it or logged it into my wifi.

It's surely bad for TVs to do this. But I'm not quite sure what the issue is if it has no idea who I am.
Like reproduction?
> Weird album names:

> † from Justice

> from David Bowie

> ' from Frank Zappa

> () from Sigur Rós

How are these albums names "edge cases"? I feel like ANY software would deal with them just fine. Hell, the last two don't even use non-ascii characters (though you definitely should have unicode support regardless).

Edit: I just realize HN won't the star symbol (U+2605). Which is weird since it does support characters like Chinese/Japanese glyphs あいうえお你好
A big issue for bees is disease. If the sick bees can be automatically stopped from entering the hive then the spread of disease will be stopped
My time to shine! I work in music distribution.

The Apple Music style guide is a great and accessible place to look if you're interested in music metadata: https://help.apple.com/itc/musicstyleguide/en.lproj/static.h...

DDEX is the set of metadata standards used across the music industry: https://ddex.net/

Also worth knowing that not all content on streaming services is music! Some of it is spoken word, ASMR, non-music field recordings, etc. The difference between sound and music is subjective of course though.

On an artistic note, music can of course be presented in an infinite amount of ways. Not all these can be represented (i.e., re-presented) on streaming platforms. Installations and generative music for example. That's ok! To be able to represent all this music (and non-music) requires restrictions, otherwise we wouldn't be able to create programs for it in the first place.

Sometimes restrictions on sound content are to make the streaming services friendlier to use, like the formatting of featured artists in titles. Royalty laws put restrictions on the handling of different roles, like songwriters and composers.

BUT nothing is stopping you from building your own way of representing music digitally, so long as you follow relevant laws.
There's a reason why MusicBrainz SQL schema looks like what it looks like, after years of careful simplification to achieve an optimum approximation of reality.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Schema

10+ years ago at Zvooq, during the golden age of music metadata and recsys startups, we tried to really solve entity resolution in the domain. I've never seen another streaming service make an honest attempt at this, even at Spotify with their 2014 acquihire of the Echo Nest. You still get Utada and Hikaru Utada as ~completely separate entities
it should be hard to find non-union workers.

It is. Everyone wants to work for union shops like UPS or John Deere, and people feel it's a great victory to be hired. While non-union shops are always hiring, because they drive people into the ground.
You're conflating democracy and capitalism. In a free and democratic society, individual freedom and agency is imperative. Capitalism is a top-down dictatorship, a mini-monarchy that anyone with money can spin up.

You can't try to misappropriate ideals meant for humanity in general, to a system that's a dictatorship. One you need to involve yourself in just to survive.

That's why there's unions, to help level the bargaining table. Otherwise there's too much power on one side, the one holding all the cards/capital. It stops the race to the bottom.
There is a wide spectrum in density between single family detached houses and skyscrapers. I used to live in an 18-story 20s-era building and loved it. I can't remember if it had 2 or 4 units per floor. The ranch house with the two big yards and no commercial center within a mile was probably the worst place I lived.
A lot of what if's these days... what if he's a Russian and wants to throw around doubts to support his country's war effort. (I can make my own what ifs without any factual basis, too :))

My point is, who cares about what ifs that don't have any factual support (yet or ever).