skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe this is a good incentive for Bay Area devs to move somewhere cheaper :)

Why give up Bay Area salaries, and the large Bay Area job market, to make less money somewhere else for the only company that would pay it?

One of the reasons people stay in the Bay Area is the ease of finding new jobs in tech. If you don't like your job, you don't need to put up with it, because there are plenty of other options.

On the other hand, if you move out of the area and there are only a few employers who will hire you where you live at a salary you can live with, you do not have that ability. And good luck moving back -- if you spend a few years out of the Bay Area housing market, the cost of moving back would blow your mind.
No beef! I thought the argument of "my experience was overall no better than with an ad-paid search engine" was enough... And how come there's no appreciation for acknowledging I did thank Kagi for existing to let us experience something? The piece I admit is 50% "what the hell Vlad" and other 50% is the actual "paid search engines are no better than ad-paid". I see the comments are divided which probably means I should go back and revise the article a bit
I use redis as a messaging server via xstream. It handles restarts well. Not sure if dragonflydb supports that.
Worse unless someone has figured out how to do the internal coordination that companies do. That’s a huge part of why first world countries are richer. They have large companies that embody social technologies and make long term and large scale coordination easier. Most people want security more than you be an entrepreneur and perhaps get rich, with much higher chances of losing everything and higher stress because the buck stops with you.
Ask HN: Got an offer from Google but I already started a new job
G interview process was unexpectedly slow, I started interviewing with them in Oct last year. After figuring out they will take forever, i started interviewing at other companies and in JUNE, they have given me an offer but I'm already almost 6 months in at a new company. I want to leave for Google, however, it'd be mean throwing away my prorated sign on bonus and also undo vested stocks. More than 100k+ loss.

Is there a way to tell G I accept the offer but I will start next year 2nd quarter.

Because that is unreasonable way of doing things
IIRC in the 90s online credit card processing was a minutes-long affair since it would require dialing into the bank's computer system, or possibly calling a human banker to check the authorization. IIRC it wasn't uncommon to just do it offline with physical pieces of paper in the mail. Towards the late 90s they got better at rejecting CCs if you did authorize online (especially after PayPal gave away a lot of $5 prepaid ones).

ISPs were also pretty liberal with free trials (AOL CDs galore) since it was mostly customer acquisition cost (it wasn't yet established that you had to have an Internet connection like you did a landline and Cable TV) and the marginal cost was low (ideally, the cost of peering -- the ISP basically had some routers and modem banks between an internet exchange and a phone exchange; and the user paid any applicable long distance charges to call the ISP). Whereas now you'd preauthorize the card at signup time to catch this sort of fraud beforehand.
I once had someone told me their organization "Didn't do curiosity driven research". I have never lost interest in a long-term position faster.

Having a position that doesn't require me to peg everything to a practical deliverable has done wonders for my ability to actually chase down ideas.
Continuiing with that logic: if I accept an exploding offer, and my "offers of employment environment" has changed compared to when I accepted company A's offer, I can choose the more recent, and higher offer? I can make the notice period generous
Well, we don't need to make salaries public in order to have internal transparency.
Most large companies had "social credit scores" for decades. They're called performance reviews. Nothing new here. You just had unreasonable and naïve expectations. You now know MS Teams is monitored. You are free to seek employment in companies that don't use MS Teams if you dislike this so much.
not target, but the “contiguous US” part reminded me of the time where at a Hawaii Walmart they refused to price match walmart.com. so I just ordered online right then and there and chose to pick up in the same store. I watched the same staff picking up the same item from the shelf and called me to the online pick up area…
Interesting; I actually thought about that too! But there are ways it could backfire, like people reporting this junk to blacklist sites. Spamcop doesn't care that what you sent is a copy of a valid e-mail from YouTube with good DKIM.
https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-e...
Firefox just tried to sell me a VPN service on a new tab
If I ever see another ad I will be done with Firefox and switch to Chromium.
I’m guessing EV sale in your state is minuscule compared to ICEs? Why do Tesla need more than one showroom if that one can handle all the sales in the state? Or maybe there are Tesla showrooms in adjacent states that are frequented by consumers from your state?

Also, not all Tesla sales happened after consumers visited their showrooms. Tesla itself planned to close most of their showrooms at some point [0], only to reverse it later. I’m sure they were confident their sales wouldn’t tank when making such decision. One dealer per state may be too few for Ford, how about five? or ten? Do you think Ford can’t afford five or ten showrooms?

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245296/tesla-stores-clo...
Not nearly as absurd as thinking it’s okay to criticize strangers’ hobbies.
It was, for a time. Much better times than now, that's for sure.
There’s also certain things that are cheaper at a dealership. My father is a mechanic and still brings his truck to the dealership for oil changes because they will change the oil for literally less than his shop can buy the oil for.
Because this is extremely hard to predict.
Geopolitics are really interesting, these decisions are always more than they seem at first.

What is the actual reason for this? What is Mexico looking for?

Maybe is just a way to put pressure and push for more near shoring investment?
I think that makes your original comment non-sequitur?

Haskell does not allow Integer * Double (or even Integer * Int32), but it does allow `2 * 3.14`, and you seemed to be saying that what Haskell does is somehow dangerously weakly typed.
Mostly true in terms of margins, at least if you consider finance and insurance separately from vehicle sales (as all dealerships do).

Nevertheless, new vehicle sales including F&I is a non-negligible factor in most dealerships' bottom line, and new vehicle sales can also be a significant driver of service volume (both organically and as a result of loyalty incentives).

You're also correct in assuming COVID has been good for new vehicle sales profitability.

Here are the per-segment breakdowns reported by the three largest dealership groups in the US, before and after COVID:

1. AutoNation (AN)

2019 Rv: 52.3% New, 25.6% Used, 16.7% S&P, 4.8% F&I, 0.6% Other

2019 GP: 14.3% New, 10.4% Used, 46.1% S&P, 29.0% F&I

2021 Rv: 46.7% New, 33.4% Used, 14.3% S&P, 5.4% F&I, 0.2% Other

2021 GP: 24.3% New, 13.9% Used, 33.8% S&P, 28.0% F&I

2. Penske Automotive (PAG) (excluding non-retail auto dealership businesses)

2019 Rv: 45% New, 35% Used, 6% Fleet, 11% S&P, 3% F&I

2019 GP: 23% New, 12% Used, 1% Fleet, 43% S&P, 21% F&I

2021 Rv: 44% New, 38% Used, 5% Fleet, 10% S&P, 3% F&I

2021 GP: 27% New, 17% Used, 2% Fleet, 34% S&P, 20% F&I

3. Sonic Automotive (SAH)

2019 Rv: 47.0% New, 35.0% Used, 13.0% S&P, 5.0% F&I and Other

2019 GP: 15.0% New, 10.0% Used, 44.0% S&P, 31.0% F&I and Other

2021 Rv: 41.3% New, 39.3% Used, 11.3% S&P, 8.1% F&I and Other

2021 GP: 24.1% New, 6.9% Used, 35.2% S&P, 33.8% F&I and Other

(Rv = revenue as percentage of total, GP = gross profit as percentage of total, New, Used, Fleet = vehicle sales, S&P = Service and Parts, F&I = Finance and Insurance)

(source: SEC filings)

N.B.: Gross profit may be a misleading figure in this comparison, as it excludes major expenses (notably, salaries and commissions for non-administrative staff) directly attributable to particular business segments. Alas, I'm lazy, and these are the only per-segment percentages immediately available in all dealership 10-Ks.

With all that said, I imagine many, possibly most, dealerships would remain comfortably profitable even if net (non-F&I!) profit on new vehicle sales were zero.

Finally, note that fixed vehicle pricing is not exactly a new idea: GM famously introduced the Saturn marque with a similar tactic. And as with this older example, I assume Ford isn't planning to mandate fixed pricing on financing, insurance, trade-in allowances, third-party extended warranties, dealership-installed options, or anything else beyond the selling price of the vehicle itself and possibly certain minor fees related to the sale.
It has meant no test drives in practice. I was shocked when I tried to test drive a Ford Mach-E that no dealership within a 100 mile radius had any inventory on hand -- when I called individual dealerships to ask, they said not only was the entire inventory already promised to individual customers and the only way you could test drive was if someone bailed on their order. I got a few emails that inventory had popped up, by the time I called (even within a few hours!) the vehicle had already sold. I'm genuinely shocked that consumers are buying first production run vehicles entirely online without a test drive.
Adverse possession dates back to all the way to the Code of Hammurabi. Arguably, it is a necessary part of property ownership itself because otherwise you could never know whether you (or the person you bought it from) owned a specific piece of land at all. Someone could always come by with an old deed and say that it belonged to them.
Awesome, I used to work with Mitel PBX which have a feature called DISA which allows you to call a number and place calls from there. The number you call will give you dial tone and you could place calls anywhere I looked up the list of customers with Visa find the main number and try the first 20-100 numbers which was normally the range used (sold DIDs by Telco) during my installation I gave myself access to those via 1800 numbers so it was pretty much able to call LD/cell phone which used to be expensive before
Those idiots did the same thing with the Focus RS. It was basically a hotrodded mass produced econobox but the dealerships treated it like a rare Lamborghini. I'm convinced it's why that car died so quickly: demand didn't match dealership greed so they just sat on the lot.
I don't understand. You can have filtering rules like "when a new message arrives with 12345@mydomain.com in the To: or Cc:, move mail to lists/foo-list folder".
Hotkey + hover is very nice for words, fwiw.
The petroleum industry has the biggest subsidies in the world. We are literally burning the entire world so that we can give them more money.

It's hard to compete when you don't have a level playing field.
They also might have a hot fix (or temporary feature disable) that they've applied in Cloud, but not yet packaged for distribution.
Haha, I did the same thing. Screw every single Toyota salesperson in the state of Oregon.
I'm in a field that requires no more advanced equipment than a decent laptop, and there's not a vast array of private citizens "putting a fire" under anyone.
I have very little in common with either Clinton, but it’s hard to disagree with that assessment (even though it’s misconstrued), given the facts. Basically everyone that could be harmed by their coalition has been or is in their sights. Basically every bit of progress to make our society more inclusive has been under threat. The defectors from that program have been high profile but very lonely in their principled stands. I’m fairly privileged but I feel more vulnerable than ever that “then they came for me” is sooner rather than later. That’s more true for more vulnerable people I know.

Calling people out for what they’re doing isn’t anywhere near the same thing as assigning lifelong attributes to them for their heritage.
It's more complex than is being presented.

Ads artificially increase the price of a product or service, because the cost of advertising is embedded in the price of what's sold; you're paying more money to be manipulated to buy something.

There are other externalized costs that aren't calculated, e.g. what's the cost to society on top of the "$10"/day?

What if ads also make us sicker, make poorer decisions, wasteful decisions - perhaps as simple as buying lower quality products because they have a higher profit margin and so it's the product you're exposed to, and then because we're sicker we spend more money on health?

There's not much conversation about all of this. I think the natural mechanisms of how information propagated via word of mouth before communications became what they are, how we are able to bypass those natural mechanisms, has some very negative impacts on society, e.g. buying products/services from people that didn't earn or deserve the attention, instead able to buy and manipulate you with cheap-shallow ads; what would the world look like today if this wasn't the case, what would your buying patterns be, what type of person would be amassing profits from the different buying patterns that would exist if there weren't ads, and what would the cascading consequences of that be?
no... Tesla sells all their cars like this... Ford is just testing the waters
> It is basically impossible to avoid what would, in monogamous contexts, be severe conflicts of interest.

> You think that “unable to avoid your ex” is bad? Now you can’t even go to work and avoid your ex.

Huh.

I just realized, if we had rigid gender roles where every work place or work team was one gender, and if everyone was monogamous, cisgender, and heterosexual, those problems wouldn't happen.

It would be an absurd waste to ruin so many lives (especially mine) to fix a relatively small problem, but if you think that problem is a big problem, I can see the appeal.

Usually the arguments you see online for rigid gender roles and reverting feminism is weak sauce like "but homophobia" or "but religion" or "but, like, tradition"
I don't think so, if that's your passion and you have no other hobbies.
Why is programming for fun worse than birdwatching or building model trains?

My joke is always: "Wait, you guys are getting paid for this?"
I feel like the logical next step is for the author to discover PBX, such as Asterisk or something built on top of it. Then they can call between the two in-house phones and also dial out to the real phone line in an emergency.

Just need an old PC, a compatible dial-up modem with voice, and a card with a few FXO ports to go to the payphone and child's phone...
People (understandably) often lament how hard it is to make an impact in the world. Being a juror can have far more impact than every vote you’ll ever cast.
On desktop Firefox, quite a lot of jank scrolling past the "Beautiful and Customizable" section. The diagram itself is fine, but the diagram embedding on the page seems to cause a performance hit.
I mean it depends on what 'customer data' means. I would hope the files on the vms and s3 and what not are verbotten. That's one meaning of customer data.

But what about who is a customer? When I set up some stuff on AWS with a corporate email account, we got emails and phone calls right away from a very interested (and not very useful) sales person; I suspect because the corporate domain was high profile. Email domain is customer data, but it seems they looked at that. (OTOH, maybe all signups get a high touch sales process)

Or how about just a top N list of customers by spend (or bandwidth) or top N medium-big customers by growth? That's customer data, and would be super useful for (anti-)competitive reasons, but kind of hard to say no, you can't know who the big customers are.
Thanks, really wonderful project!

I tried it quick and a few comments:

It looks like both the web page version and browser extension download from storage.googleapis.com, which is not ideal (obviously much better than the text to be translated being sent). IMO, this should be clarified in the extension description. Are there any plans for Mozilla to host this data? (Well, Amazon I guess to match addons.mozilla.org)

https://mozilla.github.io/translate/

I noticed the web page has Polish but not the extension. Is it not considered sufficiently high quality yet? (Looks like that might be the case from a quick test.)

As with others, I first tried to translate a bit of text not the whole page. Another super helpful feature likely already on a todo list is the ability to see alternative translation options.

Thanks again, this is great and I'm surprised it isn't a larger download. I am curious about any size/quality tradeoffs being made.

Also, playing with the web page a bit English->Spanish I see it does a whole text translation such that adding new sentences affects the translation of earlier ones, sometimes in very odd ways (with one combination of words it translated "Spanish->English" to "español-esplén"). It seems to sometimes produce "Spanish" words that don't seem to be actual words in Spanish as best I can tell and even accoding to its own Spanish->English. It seems like a way to indicate a section to be translated as a unit might be helpful.
TikTok is another level of content recommendation that's unmatched by other platforms. Partially due to the short form content that allows TikTok to learn preferences quickly.

TikTok has session times almost as long as Facebook which means users are watching a lot of videos. I imagine this allows users to be targeted very effectively and that's why TikTok is talked about a lot as a platform that makes random stuff go viral quickly.
Perhaps they should rebrand to “angel investors”
> giving it a small bed with angled sided making it badly shaped for carrying many loads

I genuinely doubt the average Cybertruck customer is planning on using for hauling anything more than kids and groceries.
Yeah I get that Rust tries very hard to be general-purpose. It also has a great ecosystem, has rare features like proper ADTs/macros and no annoying backwards-compatible quirks, and its one of the best languages for WebAssembly. So there are reasons you might want to write something in Rust that doesn't need to be low-overhead.

But even when you're doing everything single-threaded with Rc and RefCell and Box<dyn>, you can still run into pitfalls. More significant, when you do this your code becomes incredibly verbose. You have to constantly specify over and over again you're doing this the high-overhead way and not the weird optimal way, it gets annoying.

Honestly I think Rust should have an "easy mode", where you everything is implicitly wrapped in ARC / dyn / mutex, and when you write code it's almost like you're working in a truly general-purpose "regular" language. Except it interfaces perfectly with regular Rust and compiles to Rust, so you can still use your favorite cargo packages and even jump into real Rust when you need to.

The issue with that is Rust is already stretching itself kind of thin. So this "easy mode" has to be implemented so it's very simple and you can completely ignore it if you want. Maybe it will just be adding better FFI support to Rust, or maybe it will be another ambitious language like Rust but has better support for implicit easiness.
They spend 1,000 times more than you to build out a network. 30% is lower than what Walmart would charge you if you were lucky enough to get listed. Most people raise prices to cover these and advertising costs. If you tried to replicate that network the time/effort would outweigh the costs.

Spending years on an indie game was never going to be that profitable. I hope you build the game for other reasons aside from profits.
So, situations can vary but hiring committee results are valid for a year. The wildcard is how lazy or vindictive your recruiter is.

It might actually be worth explaining the situation, and asking to start team match after the new year. I don’t know their policy, but they might be willing to compensate you with a higher on hire bonus to get you to quit.
US median salary for full time workers is $56,000
git sucks completely. after using it for a decade, even building it (light demo) from scratch to get a feel for it, watching courses after courses and using it daily.. I still can't memorize most of it which is because UI of commands doesn't make sense....

wanna create a branch git checkout -b "abc"

wanna see what branches you have: git branch

wanna revert to file to old state: git checkout c5f567 -- file1/to/restore file2/to/restore

I thought checkout was to work with branches? what happened?

why is there even staging?

why there are infinite flags

I just want to have different version/branches of same code so i can try different things and go back and forth between them, plus remote sync.

I get by with common commands and if situation is weird either I will find the solution by Googling or I'll have to manually copy paste new code.
lol "excessive complexity". Compared to what? Every language if you learn it to sufficient depth starts to appear that way, and Rust is mostly displacing C++ which is insanely more complex.
> State subsidies. We know these kill worker efficiency. If that weren't true the USSR would never have fallen behind the USA in terms of wealth.

The USSR never did fall behind the USA in terms of wealth; it started very far behind when it came into existence in the ashes of czarist Russia, and caught up quite a bit through one of the most rapid industrializations the world has seen. Even after the initial phase of industrialization, from the 1950s throughout early 1980s, the Soviet economy grew faster than the US economy.
Was it literally just the sound of money dropping that validated the call? Presumably this was before automatic switching and a live operator had to connect you?
I think you are capable of doing some basic search: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/

No, additional partners bring contention into view. Who is responsible for what and when? People are emotional creatures --it will bring conflict. Kids don't prefer parental conflict. Is the nonbiological going to pay child support when they decide they found a better less stressful trio or quartet, etc?
> Apart from TikTok upending Facebook , none of the other big tech firms have any competition and I do not see them having a viable threat in the next 5-6 years . They will buy up any competitors

What does that have to do with nerds remaining nerds?
If you haven't bought a car in the last year or so then you're out of the loop. Stock is low and prices are above MSRP pretty much across the board. For especially in demand cars like the Lighting or Toyota RAV4 Prime the "dealership markup" can be 50% more than MSRP or more.
Holy crap these are amazing. Good on you mate. I wonder if there is some kind of game dev guild for folks who want to just get together for a weekend hackathon and build games/engines!
i think my recruiter might be the laziest human being on earth, only hear once a month and only after asking about an update and it's clear they don't remember the info they told me last time or wrote down what they have told me because they are just repeating what they had already told me and explaining things that were already explained.
Not to mention the icon for the extension is "あ⇆a".
Women are generally under represented in IT. And usually there is a high level of hesitation, fear-of-unknown-foreign-land among young women when they travel alone from home country to any other country. Things are changing fast though.
In the future, please note the existence of the word "should" before posting angry screeds against something I didn't say.
But then Balaji also predicts that crypto is viable. So I would take his opinion with a pint of salt.