skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Dealers are terrible awful places to buy a car but they’re generally excellent at fixing cars quickly.

I'm going to have to stop you there.

A little about me, I was a college dropout and worked as a mechanic for a few years, then went back and completed my undergrad, got a Master's and I've been white collar for a couple of decades, but I've always done as much work on my car myself as possible.

20 years ago we used to call the dealership service department the "stealership." I'm afraid nothing has changed.

I normally won't let the Toyota dealer lay even a finger on my car but I recently had some recall work done (fuel pump). I also asked them to look at another issue since the car was there and they presumably had the specialized equipment and knowledge to diagnose a tricky automatic transmission problem.

Well they couldn't even replicate the problem, even though I left detailed instructions on how to reproduce (yay bug reporting experience!). I watched the test drive on my dashcam and he didn't do what I said.

Worse, they messed up the recall repair and left equipment in my car. I told them it was probably the sending unit. They diagnosed the car for over 6 hours, checking everything BUT the sending unit, before finally giving in and realizing it was indeed the sending unit (it's the fancy name for a float in the gas tank). It took them another 4 hours to finally fix it.

I was left without my car for two full days for a repair that they told me was a 3-hour job.

Never, EVER take your car to the dealership EVER once your car is out of warranty. I have friends that used to have car dealerships in the family. They don't make much money on the sale of cars, the service department is under intense pressure to generate most of the profits for the dealership. They will lie, cheat, and steal to get your money. I cannot stress this enough. STAY AWAY FROM AUTOMOTIVE DEALERSHIP SERVICE DEPARTMENTS.

The average HN reader, with a little internet searching and some common sense, is better equipped to diagnose cars than a dealership.
Common knowledge for a very long time. Also F5/shift-F5.
That's unfortunate... I feel like every startup I know of just recently switched to Brex. I wonder how many are being kicked off the service.
You’re probably correct. Your hospital is probably running an advertising campaign through roku and wants to track how successful it is, and exclude serving ads to existing patients (customers).

You can opt out here (ctrl f “ad personalization”): https://docs.roku.com/published/userprivacypolicy/en/US#:~:t....

Or global opt out (do this on all of your devices):
https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
In my experience, one of the most common causes of slowness is IO when there should be none. I’ve managed to speed up some computations at my company by over 1000x by batching IO and keeping the main computational pathways IO-free.
Blame the Debian maintainers. That was the default python package.
one of the best things you can install is windows power toys, and PowerToys Run becomes your work horse to get to everything really easily. web search, calculator, file search, programs, services, find settings, find open windows, timezones, unit conversion, launch things as admin, etc

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run and check the search commands / hotkeys

My start menu / win-r days / open a shell to execute some commands are pretty much all over now and I just use PowerToy Run
Do these numbers mean anything? Can I sue Elon Musk for $1 trillion?
Well, he's suing both, but if a Google employee ordered his employer to fire him in a retaliatory manner, I imagine Google should also be a defendant.
> here are a pile of little funds like Finblox, with shiny web pages, and customers who are enormously happy — right up until they aren’t.

And they lock up customer's funds up and they cannot withdraw it. This is why DeFi 'Yield Farming' platforms like Stablegains, Celsius, Finblox, etc are designed to fail in a bear market which the tons of users only jump in when the market is running on the upside.

A platform promising 200% APY on your savings is a 98% chance it is a pyramid scheme.
Anything as complex as an operating system is going to have far too many features for them ALL to be easily discoverable. For something that complex, you want the most fundamental features and the most-used features to be easily discoverable, and everything else doesn't necessarily need to be. I've used many different versions of the major operating systems, and this seems to be true of them all, and is not macOS-specific.

As to why "Mac users are so delighted when they discover previously-unknown features"... I think it's partly because Apple (usually) does a good job at adding features. It often feels like they've refined the OS, not like they've simply jammed more things in.

Also, I think it's in part because when you get used to using a particular version of the OS, you might get used to not having certain features built into the OS. So when you discover that something you had previously been relying on a third-party app for is now built in to the OS, it's a pleasant surprise. While this isn't actually a Mac-specific thing, I do feel like Apple puts a lot of features into their OS that other OSes rely on apps (or even third-party apps) for, so maybe mac users might have more occasion to discover that something is now built in?
Good to know manual and automatic transmissions will be around for a good long while, then.
Anecdote warning, but what you describe is not my experience at all. My Toyota dealership has been like 6 out of 5 stars, and I normally hate praising corporations or businesses. They seem to care about my vehicle more than me. If it goes for any service I get a link to a video with a mechanic, snapchat style recorded from a phone explaining any problem they found and recording it on video to me, I simply love the transparency. But I completely appreciate this is probably a local thing and my dealership just happens to have really enthusiastic staff, with corporations of such huge size, there is probably great variance in the quality of customer service.

The same probably applies for Tesla. I cannot afford one myself, but I imagine that a certain % of people get excellent service or no problems at all, and another percent like comment OP get many problems and then whoever they're dealing with probably shrugs and says, well, most of our customers never had any issue, we'll just drag this guy along. It sucks and these businesses that earn such huge margins on EVs should strive to dig into their pockets and deliver better customer service. For me personally, it's the treatment of that last percent of customers who are outliers and have rare issues that's very influential of how much I trust a company.
Many many years ago I wrote the companies first do not call list cleaner. Feed it a list phone numbers and it would give you the ones not on the DNC.

Converted the list to band performed a simple binary search to find it.

A basic python script. could handle about 4,000 records a second.

Corporate IT reached out to Oracle. Built a custom solution that cost probably a couple hundred thousand.

They tried to force us to use it.
They were a little upset when I asked if they could up the performance by a few thousand percent.

I was on their shit list after that until I had leave.
You are pointing to people who have been long dead and made comments when there wasn't a much of a backlash against such things.
Those are good points. I misspoke with the word civilization, I'm thinking more like primitive agricultural towns. I don't think agriculture suddenly happened after the ice age. I think it's more likely the events at the end of the ice age buried the evidence of earlier agricultural activity. Again, I don't know of anything that might suggest that was really the case. But it wouldn't surprise me if we find that one day.
Do you think Saudi Arabia is secretly 20% LGBT, like the US gen-z is openly?
I've heard of over a year for some Hyundai parts.

It's an anecdote, of course, but the solution 11 months later was to buy another car. You can bet it wasn't a Hyundai.
I’ve been with mercury for 3 years now, I would recommend them
Canva engineer here: we do compatibility checking of interservice contracts (Proto) to ensure that gradual deploys are always safe and can always be safely rolled back.
Mercury is about to get a lot of new clients
A startup where friends hire friends is normal. Because startup's founder is risking his money (well, and investor's but that doesn't change much as the money is given to him as the founder). A middle manager hiring only among friends is more problematic because it's not their money that will be paid, but the company's money - so there's a conflict of interest in play.
It's true of all car manufacturers this century sadly, not just Tesla
Amazing tool. And the best FOSS app I ever used on Ubuntu.
Good to know! I was interpreting parent generously.
Aren't the fast parts of numpy written in C?
Yes, if the intent is to regulate monopolies.

You know what you call a small cap monopoly?

Not a monopoly.
>None of those things are in the best interests of the people involved. Homosexuals who engage in same sex activity are more propense to addictions and self harming behaviour, ...

So you're saying being a homosexual is not in one's self-interest. As if it's somehow inherently bad.

Did it ever occur to you that the supposed propensity to addiction and self-harming behavior may stem from the fact society's historically been less than accepting of homosexuality, owing in no small part to religion?
So much projection. Who's "making it political" when he's using the term as a bludgeon? He's a knock-off Donald Trump JUNIOR.

Why anyone credits anything he says will forever escape me.
His cult of personality is one of the reasons for Tesla's valuation. Remove him, and you have a crash.
What is the modern day Florence?
Am I missing something? Indentured Servitude?
When I was rejected by Brex, I moved to Mercury. So far so good.
I think it's why in the anecdote they change lighting hues, and not for instance swap the machines, or move around the work areas for no reasons.

In IT parlance, I guess lighting hues would be equivalent to the changing the window manager theme for a lighter/darker one ?
> I was going to upload a screenshot of my issue tracker spreadsheet but I couldn't figure out the best place to do it. What's the pastebin of images? Imgur seems too public.

I've often used imgbb[1], which is free, requires a direct link to view images, and has the option to expire URL's at your choosing.

[1] https://imgbb.com/
I had a Honda Clarity for a couple years - it was a great city car and I'll admit fun to drive with the instant torque of the electric motor. But then I moved to a rural area so I sold it and bought an F-150 :)
I mean businesses are an undeniable source of political power in a democratic capitalist system. There is lobbying, influence over the media (see Bezos) etc. The choice of where you buy has an effect that is not totally unlike voting.
Hmm. I think this guy is just looking for a payday. He was a contractor, not a full time employee.
is there like a blog post or something that goes with this very short help article?
Mike's own website: https://copia.is/ (scroll down to sponsorship logos) Copia has also been listed on Google's own public policy transparency website in the past, though it's absent at the moment.

EDIT: This version of the disclosure is still up: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_...

Note that the Google Public Policy Team's explicit purpose is to influence laws to be favorable to the company. Paying "think tanks", lobbyists, and political action groups is explicitly about avoiding government regulation for Google, as Mike is doing here.
You can upload it to Imgur but not post it to the public gallery. That gives you a "private link" (ie. obfuscated URL) that is theoretically only visible to people you share it with.

Of course if you're going to post it to HackerNews that's very public so be sure to redact anything you don't want the world to see.
The pollution from such a car is undeniably an externality. Just Google "is pollution an externality".

The less efficient engine itself is not because it is priced in. Because the government made them put it on the window of every single car sold.
How about a month dropdown with the options below?

Jan01, Fev02, Mar03, Apr04, May05, Jun06, Jul07, Ago08, Sep09, Oct10, Nov11, Dec12
Not restricting speech.

> Not what free speech means?

Multiplanetary? Really? We'll all be so far dead by then...

> Asshole for trying?
> Life's a house of cards

Life has picked it self back up after every major extinction level event.
They could at least implement more robust 3rd party service, better availability of tools & parts & training for them.
THERE ARE SCREENSHOTS SETTINGS?!
It’s insane to me that children are allegedly being groomed and molested but the topic of the day is nepotism.

The business should do what it thinks is right and deal with the fallout. Take a stand.

People are fired all the time for posting their personal opinions on FB. Especially if they make the company look bad. Fire these idiots for supporting a child molester.
Maybe MkIVs ruined me, that's where most of my experience is.

Please never say "back to the VW" and "Beetle" in the same sentence. They're shoehorned together in the worst of ways.

If we're going to go back to the Beetle era where it was easy to work on, I think you have to go back pretty far. That's probably too old for most people.

Completely different than a Golf or Jetta the same years, which usually allows you to get to whatever you'd like. If not, at least the service position let's you yank the engine quick.
Yeah, if you can't afford to go to Mars, just take out a loan and then pay it off by working for him[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Kristennetten/status/1217992009794740224?
People who write blogs and post frequently sometimes think that everybody else is doing something similar. However, the more years I spend as a software engineer, the more obvious it becomes that the visible online presence is not even 1% of engineers (and not necessarily the best ones).

Some people work very hard on their online presence, which is fine, but sometimes it seems like they're compensating for something. The really truly great engineers know that they are good, or at least above average, so they will always be in demand - they have no need to maintain ultra visible personas. Their CVs will probably get them wherever they want to go.

Also, the best resource for expert advice is probably senior mentoring rather than blogs. Blogs are ok for exploratory reading but when you're in a pinch and you need an expert that understands your problem, the solution space and the stack you're on, you will be looking for a senior.
Ramp too I think. Somebody should put together a list of startup friendly neobanks.
> I think the point was that you can't really go after nepotistic hiring practices alone without also throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The comment just said "investigate"! This is getting very strawmanny.
Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss): The Missing Manual
It just says visual studio is statistically more likely to die out - as most software does.
> AND to disallow the importation of the exact same medication from other countries.

In other words, "free markets" only and exactly when it benefits the owners of American corporations.

And please don't throw some stupid safety and efficacy arguments this way. Pretty sure people in other countries don't like buying tainted drugs either.
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Or hold option to keep the screenshot area in the same position and resize both corners at the same time.
> Dealerships can vary in quality

Which is part of the puzzle people are seemingly missing.

Get rid of dealerships - and you're stuck with the manufacturer's service - for better or worse.

Don't like that one particular dealership? Go to a different one... Unless you live in the middle of no where, you likely have at least two or more dealerships for your car's make within a reasonable distance. Find one that treats you right - for both service and sales.
I never thought about changing the save directory to another folder. I’m blown away at the simpleness of it.
> I'd say something like the "ribbon toolbar" upgrade of MS Office, which I think improved accessibility of functions, is one of the only examples I can think of.

I don't think it improves accessibility when I keep having to go hunting in different sections for the right button. (The ribbon in the Recycle Bin makes no sense to me either.)

I'll admit it can be daunting for a new user to see a lot of buttons, but if there is a tooltip or even a tutorial for each button showing where it can be useful, that shouldn't be much of a problem.
98% of top Python packages on PyPI distribute wheels
Some sexologists do consider this to be related to sexuality. For example, Anne Lawrence, who has considerable expertise with gender dysphoria, has noted that in many cases it appears to be a type of 'erotic target identity inversion', in which the subject of sexual desire is oneself in a different physical form - in this case, the opposite sex.
I think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.
people have been trying to replace X11 since I started using Linux around '96.

The Xorg we use today is miles ahead of the XFree86 days that I find it rather humorous people are still complaining. Sure, I can see from a dev point of view it still sucks to work with. But from a user point of view? It does everything I need it to, and more. I can run remote apps. I can run headless X (how I was doing headless Chrome way before anyone else). I can run multiple X servers on one machine and switch between them (one for multi-monitor productivity, and a second for single-monitor gaming since most games don't work great with multiple monitors). xrandr is a thing today. I can dynamically change just about anything on the fly. I haven't touched the Xorg config and modelines in about a decade now. Getting a GPU to work has never been easier. There is just insane flexibility in what you can actually do with X11 that the warts kind of just fade away.
> Because he may be the face most associated with Tesla but he doesn't provide strategy for the company, and doesn't really have a ton of input on operations, and 110,000 other people work there.

CEOs set company strategy and drive execution.
If I had to guess it's because of interest rates.
Agree. Fact. But why so. And more importantly why not?

Some discipline want to teach you basic so they do not stop you from innovation. Some just exposure (mba, mgt) so you have to deal with practical case, it’s complexity and not just theory.

IT is not just about computer research … hence may be one should expand one’s scope.
Good product.

We were using it for a few years and though we transitioned to pure PG - that database is still named “citus” in honor of what citus did for us.

Glad to see the open sourcing - especially the backups (which is why we switched). That’s really important.
I didn’t say that every story needs to include a mix of genders speaking.

This story does have a mix, though. And it’s interesting that the characters conform to U.S. 1950s gender roles despite the plot covering enormous distances and spans of future time.

This is simply because it was written by someone in the 1950s for readers in the 1950s.

Likewise, in the U.S. in the 1950s it was broadly assumed that everyone was familiar with the language of the Christian Bible, especially King James. Whereas today’s society is less religious overall and more overtly diverse. An editor considering this story today would have to think about how many people would simply miss the reference of the last line.
352 packages of top 360
Brex founder here.

We've made the difficult decision to no longer offer services to the small business market.

Back in April we launched Empower, and we decided to put the full weight of Brex towards building the best global payments platform for tech startups and larger companies. With that, we realized we couldn't do a great job serving the small business community at the same time. This has been an incredibly difficult decision for me and the team, but we believe small businesses deserve a partner that is entirely focused on them.

We know how changes in financial services can be disruptive – especially in a moment like now. We're doing all we can, and working with other financial service providers to make this transition as smooth as possible.
He has made a number of false claims about the capabilities of his cars. In my case, these claims influenced my decision, not only to purchase the car, but to pay for expensive options. Although it’s a great car, I feel like Tesla (Elon) over promised and under delivered. The idea that I was scammed out of $6000 for FSD pisses me off every time I get into the car to the point where I’ve considered selling it. That’s not a great reason to sell a car, but at least I won’t have a daily reminder of the time I was stupid sitting out in my garage.
Useful video

As Teslas Age | Gruber Motors

https://youtu.be/GcpPyBYRDcM
I wonder if his continuous reporting rose to the level of harassment, and Google needed to shed him to avoid discrimination allegations.
I think Ramp's requirements were a lot higher than Brex's when we looked for startup neobanks — they required something like 100k in cash or something, which we don't have (lol.)
EU alternatives:
https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-pl...

Note the cost of electricity Germany is the most in the world [0] compared with US prices [1].

https://www.electricrate.com/data-center/electricity-prices-... [0]

https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/ [1]
Do you think the Society of Professional Journalists' Journalist On Call [0] project has helped to restore trust in the media? Because it exists "in an effort to address the issue of dwindling trust in the media".

If not that, how about The Trust Project? [1] Or AP's Trusting News project? [2] Or Duke University's News Measures project? [3]

These and other projects intended to increase transparency, accountability, and trust in journalism have existed for years.

I don't think the lack of trust in journalism is something that journalists can control. I think a significant reason for declining trust in journalism may be that many people don't like being advised of facts that do not reconcile to their world-view.

[0]: https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1577

[1]: https://thetrustproject.org/

[2]: https://trustingnews.org/about-us/

[3]: https://dewitt.sanford.duke.edu/news-measures-research-proje...