skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They compete with other automakers.

By your logic Ford can just jack up the price they charge to dealers and the dealers would have no choice but to accept it. But that's not true because Ford has to compete with other automakers.
> everyone pays whatever absurd price the sales team

If it's truly absurd then they'll walk away and buy a cheaper car (or a used car) instead.
Seems similar to the franchise model. Local people in local markets find the opportunities and take on the risk while the cost of the arrangement is passed on to the consumer.
Frankly I don't think you're very good at reading executives' words: you have to read through the lines and notice what they're not saying.

Nowhere in that does he say outright where dealers fit into an online, fixed price world. He only makes super vague statements like "dealers will be more specialized."

Reads to me like Jim isn't planning on dealers being around in the future but he's being vague enough to try not pissing the dealers off in the near-term.
Not disputing that these will sell really well, but you can get the same 220v out the tailgate of an ICE F-150 today, without waiting 2+ years for the privilege.
> I feel like any repair at the dealership costs at least 50% more than if you go to another establishment.

It’s entirely dependent on the market and region. Sometimes it is cheaper to go to the dealer depending on make and model. It also depends on where you live and the availability of mechanics and parts.
group theory aside, the elegance of sliding implementation is such that it feels like just humming along playing with Turing tapes that can act on each other in some nice smooth way; that's not to say it's a precisely accurate analogy, more that it just feels nice in some intuitive CS / math sort of way

the other was that found it easiest to move to known state and then solve, like an intermediate canonical isomorph instead of solving directly as human without machine group theory super rotators
> Toyota and Honda don’t need much service, and I don’t see how they are money makers for the dealer

Well first off, people like buy that marketing stuff hook line and sinker, so they make more on the sale. Second, pretty much any vehicle that rolls on earths surface is going to need stuff serviced in proportion to how close it is to the ground. For cars this means the dealer can make plenty of money selling brake pads, wheel bearings, suspension bushings, tie rods, and other wear items like that (and the labor to swap them out).
The world needs fewer middlemen
Unless they're recording my conversation at the pub I do not see how (very illegal where I live, I'm hoping illegal everywhere). Care to link an example?
In industrial machines, there's such a thing as holding it wrong. In some cases, that means getting maimed (that old-school table saw doesn't care whether it chews on wood or flesh) or precluded through a clunkier mode of operation (you need to press these two buttons separated at roughly arm length to make sure that they can't be actioned while you have an arm in the way of the heavy arm-eating chunk of metal). The former is C and unsafe Rust, the later is safe Rust and GC languages.

You're trying to draw a comparison with a consumer product with a design flaw.
Very cool (well, not the getting screwed part). Most of my experience so far is on the sports side, with music exposure being more indirect.

It's amazing how many ticketing systems of various forms have been built over the years. It seems like one of those things that should be simple, but there are just so many ways to slice it.
The hard level is the same thing as The Nowotnik Puzzle, a ZX Spectrum game from 1983.

https://www.emulatorgames.net/roms/zx-spectrum/nowotnik-puzz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTLeI5QS8Qw
What I tell my family: Help making things on the internet

What they think I do: Computer things

What my non-technical co-workers think I do: Make the dashboard better.

What I really do: Talk out loud to the screen and lots of searching

What my cat thinks I do: Not give her enough head scritchies
I feel this fact is grossly underappreciated. Caring about speed and correctness but not ownership and lifetimes (and thread safety and race conditions and...) is like caring about road safety but not caring about headlights. You're not avoiding ownership and lifetime problems, you're just avoiding looking at them.
> Perhaps, but unless you want a permanent under class of people unable to find real employment, there needs to be an on-ramp. Either someone is too dangerous to have in public (which case they should still be imprisoned), or they have served their sentence and their punishment is over.

That's not how the "criminal justice system" works. Not in the US and not in most of the rest of the world, especially the "first world"/"Western world".

Prisoners are NOT release only once they are deemed no longer dangerous. They are release once their allotted prison time is over. They can still be dangerous and released, and they can be not dangerous at all from they one and still go to prison.

Also: Choosing to like someone and dislike someone else, choosing whom you assist when not obligated by law and whom you don't, choosing who gets your time and who doesn't - all of this is not part of the punishment people are sentenced to by the state court system and thus it is not "over" in any sense or way once they are release from prison. You, I, and Mr. sowwww are free to volunteer our time, money and efforts towards whom and what we'd like and we're under no obligation to assist people we don't like just because "they have served their sentence and their punishment is over".
It varies from place to place. For example, people are segregated by caste in many places. In other cases, it's easy to identify from surname. But there is one method that you should be aware of - it's more relevant to silicon valley. There are a lot of cases where it's not immediately possible to distinguish caste from name or looks. People from all castes look more or less similar. In such cases, the caste believers would do covert background research. That might be from your social media profile, public and political connections or even professional service records. There are also cases where they make the determination based on subtle differences in traditions (like marriage ceremonies or celebrations, clothing styles etc). And then there are some obnoxious methods like patting someone on their back to see if they wear a 'sacred thread' under their shirt.
Previously, 158 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391380
> There are rice paddies surrounding the capital city of Sacramento.

Believe it or not but the area where they grow rice in Sacramento is actually a flood plain. [1] Given your handle maybe you knew that? Surprisingly rice's water needs aren't all that high either. It's not the lowest but it's not the worst by a long shot. [2]

[1] https://www.ppic.org/blog/the-yolo-bypass-its-a-floodplain-i...

[2] https://localwiki.org/davis/Rice_Paddies

"In an arid state with growing pressures on water availability and use, it may surprise many to learn that rice is one of our most water-wise crops, requiring 25 gallons to produce each serving, like oranges, while almonds require 80 gallons per serving"
I'm interested in a Mach-e......that was until I saw the markup the dealers wanted.

I'm done with dealers. I recently helped purchase a car for my father after his was totaled. I talked to dealer and he promised that they are selling at MSRP. Next morning I call him and he wants above MSRP unless I RESERVE NOW. I told him I'm no longer interested in doing business with him and went elsewhere.
There is virtually none. My brother and my best friend sold cars and jumps around. Now they are at a no haggle Toyota dealership that basically sells at MSRP. It is generally much better for everyone involved. Just make it like a Tesla experience, throw you the keys, if you want it here is the prices. Don't have to deal with BS anywhere.

The "dealership" model needs to be killed off. It's probably just a few dozen moguls that make money off of these dealerships and spend most of their money lobbying.
>Who does Ford compete with if they set all of the prices and offer direct sales for an entire product line (EV's in this case)?

>The answer is "nobody".

It would seem to me that the answer would be "every other EV manufacturer"?
Semi-counterpoint: Walmart pays hourly workers more than any of the mom-and-pop retail in my hometown.
> Sometimes they’re even worth using for “normal” repairs because they will sometimes bill by the book even if the actual labor time is higher.

This is exactly correct. Which is why if you aren’t sure, compare prices with your preferred mechanic first. Where I am, the best independent mechanics and shops charge more than the dealer, for various reasons.
I’m pretty sure it already has. Unicorns with a short runway doing big layoffs, “unicorns” with $600k ARR completely folding, and the big boys like Meta and Uber having hiring freezes. The TC may remain relatively high simply because wages tend to be sticky, but the competition for the top jobs will be tougher as the market power shifts to the tech companies that are actually profitable and can afford the top talent.
Ah yes so let's ruin a good thing so the incompetent have a fair chance? Pah.

What is the point of learning and trying to be intelligent if everything around you gets training wheels put on it? Oh wait, it isn't for our benefit.

Yet another case of losing opportunities under the guise of helping stupid people.
Sorry, I probably shouldn’t have used “you.” I meant generally… “people who make this argument”
The monarchy would love for you to believe they're only a ceremonial head of state. It makes their sinister and self-serving wielding of power much easier. In fact the Queen routinely gets laws changed in her favor, and the details of the process by which this happens are not widely known. The monarchy is a vast and private rent-seeking apparatus that exists to perpetuate the interests of its family members and their business holdings, and is inexplicably afforded vast political power and reverence. It is a rotten leftover that has no place in the 21st century.

As for "some definition of fine", I think it is increasingly clear that the UK is not fine and has in fact never been fine, or even much of a democracy, and has been essentially run by a corrupt aristocracy for centuries. It's not a secret that the whole lot of them all went to Eton - that should raise eyebrows among anyone not inured to the whole sordid business.

(Well, I should say that it's only really England with this issue. But England is the imperial core of the UK. Its satellite states are more sane, but thoroughly subjugated.)
I just think it’s an off-the-cuff comment and he probably didn’t mean it. He’s not announcing a new change in the way they do business. My read is that he’s generally saying he wants Ford to be more like Tesla. It’s not clear if any of his suggestions are even legal, given the laws in most states against direct sales (in some states there are special exemptions just for Tesla).
> glorified wrapper around yarn/npm

This is exactly what it is, and it's not even shy about it. It literally calls npm or yarn under the hood (specified with the `npmClient` setting).

> All of the "linking between projects" is exactly what lerna does with bootstrapping/hoisting, so I'm not sure where you're coming from when you say this doesn't address OP's problem.

Yeah, here's a "super simple" lerna example: https://github.com/dan-kez/lerna-webpack-example

It only has about 7 config files before even adding any "real" code. Fun stuff.
Have you seen high schools in the US?

Once I discovered that every school-issued machine had a VNC server running on it I assumed that the contents of my screen were being recorded at every moment. Turns out I was half right, as I caught up with the IT guy afterwards and the principal (a paranoid sociopath who shouldn't be anywhere near kids) wanted the ability to catch kids when she thought they were looking at non-school related things.

It's fundamental safety in a society with these sorts of companies to assume: company infra = logged until you die. Once your company has come under a subpoena for information or under some kind of long term discovery, you write emails under the assumption they're going to be in court for everyone and your mother to see.
What you are saying doesn't make sense UNLESS there is a monopoly. Let's say it costs Ford $10k to manufacture the car. Let's say their average profit per car is $2k, and the dealership gets $1k on average - which means that ON AVERAGE, the dealer sells each car for $13k. Some people might get a good deal for $10k, and some pay $16k. MSRP is likely set to $16k.

You are saying that in the fully online world, Ford would get away with the same MSRP of $16k. This is not possible as long as another competitor can produce the same car for $10k or less and charge say $12k for it. Why would any consumer go for Ford in this case?

I haven't used Carmax but that's different - their whole business is in flipping cars and they have to make enough profit to run their website on top of it. So I would assume it is always going ot be higher price than what you'd get from elsewhere.
I hope the people implementing all these policies and technologies are seriously weighing the consequences of their actions. I suspect that they are not.
Highly agree on your second point, many first generation born south Asians I work for or work with that grew up within the suburbs couldn’t care less caste and simply don’t relate or identify with their parent’s generation and caste affiliation, they just want to be seen as American and are treated as such.

Only older heads who immigrated here are the lions share of individuals perpetuating this caste based discrimination. Please state your sources if you disagree with my assessment of first generation born Americans of South Asian descent working in big tech and Silicon Valley.
I was just thinking that since it's a relief to be "out of the game" for most people (well, maybe it is?), it must be a pain to be in an open relationship and having to set your own standards for when you're not looking.

And a pain for everyone else if it turns out they're socializing with you because you're taken and they don't want to be hit on.
Headlines are sometimes wrong :)
Yea it's hard to say without context, I just gave the generic answer. I'm not sure you ever 'need' a garbage collector, and if avoiding one lets me save 20k in cloud expenses a year on a small team, it's probably worth it, because after scale out 20k isn't 20k anymore.

That said, people misuse technology all the dang time(I've done it). And in general I agree, Go is usually enough and has the best cloud ecosystem. I've had trouble with large go code bases exploding over time and requiring a lot of bodies to maintain compared with rust/scala.

Sometimes it's hard to speculate when one tool is clearly better than another. Some companies just want to use new stuff to sound cooler...
Tesla monitored its employees on Facebook during 2017 union push
Wait didn't they lobby against this like... 10 years ago?
There is competition between car companies.
Then be sure to check that 1Password_rCURRENT.log mentioned in the thread, as it may provide at least more debugging info about why they're angry; that's how I found out how to fix my Firefox install (albeit not on macOS)

$ mdfind 1Password_rCURRENT.log
/Users/mdaniel/Library/Group Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/Library/Application Support/1Password/Data/logs/BrowserSupport/1Password_rCURRENT.log
I wrote plenty of vaguely web stuff in C++ at Google. A lot of services at Google are C++. But it's kind of, not how the rest of the industry expects things. And most of that stuff there is now moving to Go.
Very few automakers make competing vehicles.

There's a reason Tesla/Rivian can charge so much, and it's not because they're so much better built or way more luxurious than others.
For people with dependent offspring, yes. That's the whole responsibility of parents.
A popular “musician” is just a front person for an entire organization of producers, videographers, lawyers, promoters, that can get you into venues, choreographers etc.

It still takes a lot to produce a hit and the money is still made from concerts

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/11/137705590/the-...
belligerence is a bourgeois and pearl-clutchy way to dismiss desperate people writing text on the internet as a part of their struggle to improve the horrible material conditions of their lives and the lives of the people they love. it’s easy to be sophisticated when everyone else is effectively your slave because you happened to be born higher up in the global supply chain. belligerent is how Marie Antoinette would have described people who don’t want to want to be told to eat cake.
Maybe at the bigcorps and over-VC'd startups, but outside of the valley it's hard to find good help in my experience.
It'll be interesting how that shakes out with legacy tech platforms. A lot of the high profit tech is built on stuff that's more than 10 years old.
The only time you can get a "good deal" on a car, is for a car no one wants anyways. Go ahead try it with a decent car.
Imagine trying to identify as a midwesterner except you secretly grew up in Canada. Sooner or later someone is going to figure it out, eh?
Doesn’t Ford compete with . . . All the other car companies? Tesla, VW, GM, Kia, Honda, Toyota?
There really isn't one. The laws about manufactures not owning dealers are left over from a very different era, and the existing model is a product of pure rent-seeking from the very powerful dealership lobby.
The Twitter discussion mentions this:

> We can forcefully preempt virtual threads at any safepoint poll point

What is a "safepoint poll point"? A sleep call?
I have no idea what you mean with that Ford comment. My best guess is that you think consumers are too stupid to consider anything but a Ford?

I did negotiate server/colo/cloud prices, but I spent person-months of effort deconstructing what the right price was. I've never done that for a car.

I once interviewed for a CTO job at a major storage vendor, and in the discussion they said that most of their major customers successfully reverse-engineered prices, and that kept their margins down. I've heard that (over beers) from some server resellers, too.
The incentive should be competition with other manufacturers who are also offering fixed pricing. More transparency will benefit consumers.

Haggling over prices does not benefit consumers, just like haggling over wages doesn’t benefit employees.

The Carmax approach is great; clearly people are willing to pay to avoid all the normal hassle. Maybe their prices aren’t the best “if you know anything about the cars” -- where does that secret knowledge come from? Wouldn’t it be good if there were multiple Carmaxes and they had to compete on price and service? As long as the real prices were listed on the web and were always the same for everyone.
> If you have a long-running async function, then pass parameters by value! If you have a polymorphic async function, then return your result in a Box.

I've taken to making heavy use of the smallvec and smartstring crates for this. Most lists and strings are small in practice. Using smallvec / smartstring lets you keep most clone() calls allocation-free. This in turn lets you use owned objects, which are easier to reason about - for you and the borrow checker. And you keep a lot of the performance of just passing around references.

I tried to use async rust a couple of years ago, and fell on my face in the process. Most of my rust at the moment is designed to compile to wasm - and then I'm leaning on nodejs for networking and IO. Writing async networked code is oh so much easier to reason about in javascript. When GAT, TAIT and some other language features to fix async land I'll muster up the courage to make another attempt. But rust's progress at fixing these problems feels painfully slow.

https://crates.io/crates/smallvec / https://crates.io/crates/smartstring
It has always been hard to find good people.
The thing about Toyota and Honda though is they create loyal customers who keep coming back. My buddy has a Toyota with 250k miles on it. And that’s considered normal wear and tear. Good luck trying to get a Ford past 120k. Ever had to deal with a Ford dealership? It’s like visiting hell for a day.
My interpretation is informed by the knowledge that what he’s saying is not legal in most of the United States. It’s understood that dealers cut into Ford’s profit margin, but Ford is not at liberty to change the laws in numerous states.
I'm not new to Kubernetes and I've been using containers since Solaris zones were introduced.
A workaround for some forms that don't accept PO Boxes:

Type something like P0 B0X

Type the address of the post office and then the PO Box number like an apartment number
Rust doesn't protect you against deadlock.

I wonder if it is similar to the halting problem. Can deadlocks even be prevented in theory?
Let me see if I am understanding this: They're saying that the bond market is currently expecting an average annual inflation rate of around 2.25% over the next 15 years. And that if you remove expected inflation from a 15-year mortgage, the rate is around 1.7%. And exactly one year ago, the 15-year mortgage rate was negative if you removed expected inflation from it?

And the takeaway from all of this is that considering actual inflation, mortgages are still a pretty good deal. I think I can nod my head and say "yes", but doesn't this all hinge on house prices not falling?
- none of your business
There is a difference between an investigation under subpoena for example and

An automated process that alerts whomever is chosen as overseers to all possible missteps and misdeeds.

One is a very targeted and conscious effort the other is automated and pervasive everywhere all the time.
Hmm...

> To Soundararajan, Google was long overdue for a conversation on caste equity. Pichai, the CEO, “is Indian and he is Brahmin and he grew up in Tamil Nadu. There is no way you grow up in Tamil Nadu and not know about caste because of how caste politics shaped the conversation,” Soundararajan told The Post. “If he can make passionate statements about Google’s [diversity equity and inclusion] commitments in the wake of George Floyd, he absolutely should be making those same commitments to the context he comes from where he is someone of privilege.”

> Soundararajan said Pichai has not responded to letter she sent him in April. Google declined to comment.
So bucket 2 then?
Oh great - AI thought police to make the corporate existence even bleaker.

Could someone head over to MS HQ and slap some sense into whoever thought blessing the world with this is a win?
I wonder if it only works because Oregon has no sales tax though.
doubt it for “big tech” eg Microsofts and Googles and Apples of the world. they seem to be largely doing fine despite whatever is happening to valuations.

yes for companies with no profits and no sustainable business model eg the Ubers and the DoorDashes
It seems like the better choice is to claim that you're Minnesotan. Then after generations work your family down so they can fake being a Hoosier.
> I think the difficulty in Rust lies in that it will enforce correctness. Competing languages are less strict about that, especially when it comes to threading.

Enforcing correctness at compile time is not the only way to insure correctness.

Some do enjoy solving language puzzles (so choose Rust) and some prefer thinking before coding and prefer solving design puzzles. I personally prefer that latter, as the 'hard' problems are intellectually interesting, solving them is satisfying, and over the years the design lessons build upon each other. At which point you don't need a Mommy Dearest Compiler to ensure correctness.
IBS?
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that software engineers suffer from stagnating pay?