skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a consequence of suburbanization and divestiture from the major auto cities (Detroit, Pontiac, etc) in Michigan.

In recent years there has been meaningful investment and growth in Detroit [0], but a lot of auto money is in surrounding areas like Grosse Pointe [2] and Oakland county [1].

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DETR826PCPI

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Michigan_locations_b...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Pointe,_Michigan

Edit: mentioned Grosse Pointe
In the age of internet virality, who would accept an offer from a promoter that demands >80% of your profit?

Unless you are acting for reasons of charity, the answer is no.
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python
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I generally describe my job as keeping the hamsters well fed, and their wheels lubricated so the computers don't break.
While that is certainly admirable, if you’re choosing between half a dozen options, it would be difficult for most people to buy them all and return the ones they don’t want after testing.
Sure, but your initial post did not express that sensible middle ground, but rather invoked decade-long grudges using hyperbolic petulance, as if being a founder grants the power to hellban someone from society.
I hate to parse words but the article isn't about artists. It's about pop stars. Corporate puppets. Literally, tools of the trade.

Who gets the massive streams for the next release? It doesn't matter to label. That's the nature of pop music. There's always the next big thing right behind the current big thing, which pushed out what is not the last big thing.

Artists? Artists don't play these type of games.
Why do people persist in using work emails for personal things like job interviews?
My mom mostly understands what I do although I've never heard her try to explain it. My favorite generation gap is with my immigrant FIL who is fascinated with how much money we make and has no idea what it means (wife works in tech too). When my wife worked for online brokerage, he kept saying E-Trade no matter how many times we said it wasn't that one. Eventually he started confusing it with eBay and told at least a few people she worked there. When I tried to explain remote work he asked if I just put my work in the mail every day. It's adorable.
Server workloads are different from client workloads here, and network/IO heavy workloads are different from CPU heavy workloads. You'll get tend to get misleading advice from people only familiar with one of them. Especially if the client is an asymmetric architecture like ARM has and Intel is moving to.

Swift's design is made to be good for IO workloads on smaller clients, though it hasn't got as many tools for the other end.
payment on the order of a month or two of living costs

Just one or two months? Banks insist on 6 months of expenses these days when you apply for a mortgage with an offer letter in hand because they know that shit happens all the time.

Here's the kicker: companies have a very good idea of the financial shape they are in. It's just not possible that there was a sudden downturn in fortunes between the offer letter and start date. Except if a round of funding fell through, but an honest man doesn't hire on promises.

The corollary is that these days everyone is a crook.
Argh. Mils (when spoken) means mm in metric land.
Ah, like how in my home country, it’s a ‘well known fact’ that people lower on the economic ladder like to give their children foreign sounding names, whereas people that are well off give their children traditional, and even double traditional names.

Guess the country :)
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> So sure: Introduce new ways that people can feel like they've been discriminated against.

But this isn't "new" and isn't a "feeling". Caste-based discrimination is real among Indians. This is not even remotely new. And it's not a "feeling". It happens, and it's widespread.

> This white guilt

If you feel guilty, then maybe you should sit down and think about why. I'm a white dude. I don't feel guilty. I feel disappointed, though. Often outraged. But I personally haven't done anything to feel guilty about; I don't think that I am responsible for slavery in the US and hundreds of years of oppression, for example. But if I do do something to feel guilty about, I do my best to acknowledge my fault, and resolve to do better. I'm not sitting around all day wallowing in guilt over my privilege. That serves no one, and is just kinda stupid.

> where civil rights and equal rights were fought for, and won.

That's just not true. Civil rights and equal rights have been fought for over the span of centuries, certainly, but we're not done yet. That particular war is far from being over, and far from being won.
Since I work in web3 I won't be needing one of his vehicles. The more my business grows the more he's got nothing but rockets and government contracts.
There is little reason to think moving to direct sales will help anyone local, is there?

I'm now convinced it is a bad idea. But I don't see it being good for local at all.
I think your mistake here is to look at dealers simply as sales outlets. Dealers would deny that. You sell a car once, but you work on it multiple times throughout its life. IMO the problem with comparing to other retail channels is that most things we buy aren't expensive enough to warrant the same level of upkeep as a $30,000 car.

Tesla has made fixed-price online sales work so far, but notice that they're scrambling to build the support network. They're re-creating most of the dealership model but bringing the ownership in-house. That's only good if their customer service is good, because now you don't really have any good alternatives.

> why has this obvious disruption never come up in the last ~100+ years of car sales in this country and all over the world?

This is important. We can try to point to laws, but the more likely answer is that the current model is the best we've invented yet. There have been attempts to change, and more often than not it's the consumers that reject it, not lawmakers.
I believe the Mustang is going all EV soon too, right?

yep: https://carbuzz.com/news/ford-mustang-will-go-all-electric-i...
Let's pray. But let's not count on it.
The way I've heard it explained before, feel free to correct me if my facts are wrong: State sales taxes.

The big 3 auto makers are all located in Michigan, USA. If they sold a vehicle direct, the sales tax dollars goes to the State of Michigan. Which means all the other states are missing out on *significant* tax dollars.

To force each state to get tax dollars, local dealerships were established. That way tax dollars go to the state the vehicle is sold in, rather than the state the vehicle manufacturer is located in.

I'm curious if this has changed at all over the last 20 years with the rise of e-commerce. For example, when I order a product on Amazon, do I pay taxes on that product for where I live (where the product is "purchased"?), or where Amazon is headquartered?
Maybe the job seeker could offer to work for free for the number of hours they'd be contractually entitled to in severance payments if they were fired their first week on the job. Usually that's zero.
Reverse caste-ism
A problem for those players, an opportunity for others :)
This article mentions why this model (and your article) is quickly becoming outdated:

> record labels who sign TikTok stars initially demanded complete ownership of all the master recordings, and tried to keep 85% of future revenues. [Musicians] wouldn’t even collect the paltry 15% until they paid off their advance.

> but TikTok influencers now have so many labels chasing after them, they can play them off against each other [...] labels are now offering a 50/50 sharing arrangement, while also agreeing to return ownership of the masters to the artists at some later date
It's a classic assertion of power, pointedly ignoring any appeal to anything but more power.
Quite a few essentially had Americanized (or for Canada... idk, Canadized? Anglicized? somebody tell me the best word for that :) ) names forced on them upon immigration.

My mother's ancestral Norwegian last name wouldn't have worked particularly well in English, my own last name of Danish origin survived unscathed for obvious reasons.
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Wait until you hear someone yelling at the helpdesk because their Ashley Madison email was caught by a corporate spam filter..
Uniqush: Unified server-side push notifications for Android/iOS/kindle
"as long as they can get Parliament to pass an Enabling Act" is a huge qualifier - if the elected representatives are agreeing to it, that's not a dictatorship, and in UK no act of parliament can't bind itself or a future parliament from changing its mind at any point of time, so that dictatorship would last from an Enabling Act until a Disabling Act.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31601976

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602288
It sounds 200% like newspeak and it’s pretty obvious what will be inside the egg.
>"The GP presented these properties as if they are unique to progressives. "

I genuinely wasn't trying to do that. The article, and discussion, was around progressives when I shared my observation and thoughts about them. Wanting to stay in focus, I kept my comment and observation about them only.

I'm genuinely surprised that by not bringing up a contrast with other political ideologies I'm perceived as believing it is unique to them.
When I see "No Haggle, Fixed-Price, Online Only", I think "Rip Off", and I can't be the only one.

It's not that I enjoy haggling with car salesmen, walking out the door and getting hunted down in the parking lot like an animal... I don't... in fact I hate it. But at the end of the day I get a deal I'm satisfied and comfortable with - and it's always below MSRP - far below.

I think what we're seeing here is a combination of the younger generation's fear of conflict (a negotiation is an adversarial conflict), coupled with car manufacturers realizing a lot of people are totally OK paying $10,000+ over MSRP... almost "bidding" for a car.

I fully expect prices to increase, while overhead decreases (no sales staff, no stale inventory, no loss of inventory, rent payments, etc). But the younger generation will feel great because they got to click a button and a grossly overpriced car shows up the next day - just like "Amazon but for Cars!".

I can't see any positive coming out of this. You don't buy anything over a few thousand bucks without negotiating. Even the photo copier at your office was negotiated for days or weeks... how can someone buy a $50,000 vehicle at MSRP/Invoice price and claim they didn't throw away money?

It used to be only suckers walked into a dealership and paid sticker price... bigger suckers payed more than sticker price (gotta have that undercarriage coating), and everyone else paid closer to the true price having researched what similar vehicles sold for etc.
I've been doing async Rust since the tokio 0.x combinator days, and I remember being like OP. For some reason `Arc` did not exist in my mind and it was a struggle appeasing the borrow checker.

The Go version is similar to the final Rust version; except the Go version is forcing you to use Arc everyone[1]. Seriously, just use Arc (or Arc<Mutex<>>), in 70% of cases you are wrestling with the borrow checker trying to do something dangerous, in the other 30% the borrow checker is wrong and isn't smart enough to understand what you are trying to do. In both cases, 95% of the time, you aren't creating enough objects per second to justify getting rid of that atomic add.

I'm not even sure this is limited to async code either. I've seen plenty of code by C++ "zero cost" gods which abuse lifetimes in order to avoid a single clone or Arc. At least the compiler made sure you won't segfault, but I'm not sure the complexity is worth it over just an Arc.

[1] I know this this is a simplification.
I want to live, that means:

- not being forced to work 2/3 of my time
- being able to eat, drink, sleep, be warm at all time
- being able to work on whatever I want, even if it's useless, especially if it's useless
- being able to travel, meet people, have quality time with loved ones (meet more loved ones?)
- not having stress, anxiety and chronic depression

Unfortunately, this requires a lot of money, and getting a lot of money requires either substantial inheritance (I will probably only inherit debts) or a shit ton of work, which is stressful.
there is an alternative, speaking as someone who purchases piles of music in lossless format from bandcamp and similar sites, from musicians who could not five a f*ck about tiktok or other lame surveillance capitalism platforms.
I don’t think it’s an optimal strategy, but I fail to see how it’s a “total scam” in any way, shape, or form.

“This is what this job is worth to me. Are you in?”
Cars are likely a family’s largest purchase behind real estate. If you are going to sell anything, then sell the most expensive item that EVERYONE buys.
> It's unclear if Ford also plans to implement this sales strategy shift for its non-EV products.

Oh, I think it's pretty clear that unless this strategy goes totally off the rails, that's definitely where they're heading. It'll converge (albeit at different rates) with the shift away from selling non-EV products altogether.

Apart from the obvious and immediate profit bumps, there's knock-on effects, such as not forcing your customers to deal with the second least trusted profession in the USA. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/01/11/americ...
It's a sign of successful rent-seeking.

Owning a car sales franchise is one of the best forms of rent-seeking, thanks to state and federal laws protecting car dealers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
We seem to be on the path to it for sure :)
Nothing a couple of days can't fix. Unless you have single-unpaired-quote-phobia.
please make a "We're hiring!" submission instead of hijacking conversation to shill for the poor man's StubHub

(smart move bailing on Billy Beane’s SPAC btw)
I mean, yeah? Why wouldn’t we?
Well if Surnames are banned, why is the name Pichai still used? Genuinely asking. I also see tons of engineers from Tamil Nadu in the US with last names Iyer and Iyengars.
I thought it was funny that rtings.com's live burn-in test (https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test) for CNN had the "Breaking News" text clearly visible. If all news is "breaking," is any of it?
This recent video on motorcycle dealerships argues that dealerships are beneficial for the financial arms of manufacturers and also manage risk due to warranty/recall work and sales flops.

https://youtu.be/meHYBhcpdvQ
As someone else mentioned, it wasn’t online. You still had to deal with dealership. Sometimes Scion showroom was right next to Toyota’s one, practically the same people.

Also, it no longer exists. Dealers don’t like it because they make less profit off Scion cars. The incentive wasn’t there. You can see how it is different than the direct model Tesla use, and Ford is contemplating to adopt
It's only unreasonable if they are not providing value. Lots of us get into business exactly because we can provide value and simultaneously become wealthy. This is no sin.
Yeah, the point of the HN rule isn’t to prevent drawing attention to the post - it’s to put your comment on it at the same level as everyone else’s.
I think it will be more differentiated than that. If you are top talent at FAANG you'll probably continue to be able to demand top comp. If the you are a mediocre dev and you're salary is only high because you are in SF, your comp will likely go down. Comp in developing countries is already going up as well as part of the remote boom. Comp in Colombia for example seems to have practician doubled in the last year.

My thoughts on this in longer form: http://amurmann.com/posts/remote-labor-market-future/
Oh dear, you definitely chose the wrong person to accuse of not auditing their code.

I'm typing this from my OpenBSD laptop, which, I assure you, I have audited extensively; but that's hardly relevant to this topic.. I just think it's funny that you would assume this of me. I'm also big on system-transparency[0] and micro systems like Oasis Linux[1] which attempt to limit things being able to hide.

Granted, nothing is perfectly secure.

But, again, besides the point entirely.

Your central thesis is that nothing is safe.

Why, then, should I not just use telegram? Or VK, or WeChat?

We have consensus in the HN community that those chat systems (especially telegram) are inherently insecure. Why?

Don't worry, I'll answer for you: Because they do not support E2EE except when specifically asked to, and because they used their own encryption.

This is enough for the security community to decide that Telegram is a bad product(tm).

I'm not arguing in defense of telegram, I'm just letting you know what happens to "secure messengers" under a microscope.

The same criticism has not been levied to Signal, despite them offering no more protection in real terms than HTTPS would. There are theoretical safety-nets but nothing you can concretely audit.

Your argument that "it's their code they can do what they like" holds as much water as an inverted plate, given the context that they've chosen to live under.

So, instead of attempting to talk me down with and Argument from fallacy[2] perhaps you can talk about this point.

[0]: https://www.system-transparency.org/

[1]: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Puter: Desktop Environment with a Cloud Filesystem
Believe it or not .. casts are carried by Christian [0] and Muslim families converted generations ago .. upper cast by choice and forced on lower cast [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_among_South_Asi...

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kevins-murder-...
Or they're applying at small companies with unprofessional leadership. I've seen that fairly often while mentoring second-tier university students. Little fly-by-night cottage industry companies sometimes try to hire out of narcissism but don't have the cash.
That depends on how fancy you want to be, you can definitely implement an assembler with relative branches and no labels.
Dealerships are major job providers in small towns and provide some of the better jobs. Salespeople, loan officers, etc.

Think replacing local grocery stores with Walmart. Low end jobs stay, high end jobs go away. Further hurts small towns.

My guess is that a good chunk of the efficiencies from this model will go to Ford corporate so it’s a wealth transfer from small towns to big co managers / stockholders.
It used to be you could avoid taxes for things purchased online even though you had a responsibility to report it yourself.

To answer your question though, you pay tax to the state it is delivered to when ordering from Amazon.
Agreed. I have nothing but bad experiences taking cars to the dealership for repair, and normally choose to avoid them for everything except for recalls. However, when buying an EV, I want to know that the manufacturer has repair facilities nearby since third-party EV mechanics are almost non-existent at this point.

If Ford is deliberately bypassing their dealerships for sales, then I would expect the repair service provided by dealerships to be even worse than normal, since they have no motivation to make you a repeat customer. And if not the dealership, where will I have the truck serviced?
> not always switch platform as the topic transitions

My point is, you totally should. I am friendly with my coworkers too, if I want to have a non "work-friendly" talk with them, we talk in the kitchen or at the pub. It baffles me that people would use a work provided form of communication and _not_ assume it's auditable in some way.

edit: should clarify that my work is probably more calm than most and would probably not GAF about it regardless.. but it's just good opsec. Never write something down you wouldn't be comfortable having read out to you if it can be traced back to you.
Exactly. If your entire pool is global and you want quality people, you don’t have to pay anywhere near bay area wages to get it.
https://kotlinlang.org ;)
This is good advice. Write simple code first. Another generic thing I've come across is, "if the borrow checker is screaming at me when I hit a patch of code, I probably have a design flaw not a programming problem".

I've seen a lot of new people also prematurely over generalizing code. I know it sounds terrible to say, but if you probably aren't going to reuse it, you really don't have to prepare your code base just in case you might later. Decide that later and move along...
That already exists in general - this is why CEOs get surrounded by yesmen.

We already filter out people who aren’t smart enough to keep their mouth shut when necessary.
Normally I consider this kind of comment boring, but... wow. I completely agree.

I think they should have just called it Velvet. (or something else entirely)
A mix of stuff. Being coding 40+ years, 30 of those as a job. Currently I do 3 days a week working as a solutions architect, herding cats for a large grocery chain. 2 days a week I work for an R&D team for a company building digital people, doing hands on coding, ML, NLP etc etc... hence the talking to robots :)
You pay sales taxes in the state you register the car in, period. Doesn't matter where the seller is.

I lived in Virginia, bought a car in Delaware... no sales tax in DE. Wohoo? No, had to pay Virginia sales tax when registering the car.
Wow, they got “right sizing” cleanly into a sentence.
Haskell has always been the best. Go's did the same as Haskell. In either case IO is automatically async. If you want concurrency you create very light weight threads. This approach works very well for most use cases, but when you want the best performance possible the light weight threads can still be too much. Zig is going for a lowest possible overhead approach like Rust but has an interesting take: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/
Snap is currently down 70% YTD….

It also isn’t consistently profitable and just announced a profit warning. It’s also being hit by Apple’s Ad Tracking Transparency changes.
yes, i suspect that with age comes a certain zero-fucks-given modesty about what you do. youve got nothing left to prove and you are at peace with what you did. imagine Theo de Raadt aged 60 telling a room full of toddlers "i helped people on one computer do things on another" while all the grasping 25 year olds are claiming to be the Vice President of Interdomain Nodal connectivity (SSH Division 2)
That’s true in many places beyond the UK. The US has similar laws where if you meet the requirements of ownership and nobody contests it for X years, you can claim it.
> Are there any benefits that dealerships offer today over direct sales?

Proximity and diversity. How are you going to have direct sales depots in every random town in the world? And which towns get which brands? Makes no sense.
at the end of the day it allows for more people to have jobs and participate in the economy.

It's not like selling a car is a super specialized skill. We're also at very low unemployment. The people who were selling cars can switch jobs. People switch jobs all the time. Losing a job generally doesn't prevent someone from participating in the economy.

Mechanics can open their own shop or work at a Pep Boys. Likewise, the underwriters can work elsewhere, probably even remotely.

At some point we, technologists, are going to remove everyone’s job from them and we’ll act surprised societal uprisings happen because there’s no jobs available to the average Joe.

This is a problem of late stage capitalism, not technologists or automation per se. A job is only mostly a requirement to have your needs met because our society says it is. It doesn't have to be that way.