skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The median ownership of a vehicle is under 5 years, and the median miles per year for a non-commercial vehicle is 12,000.

So how do the resale values for 5 year old EVs with 60k miles on the clock (or more accurately on the battery) look?

When we bought the little petrol car the salesman saw us looking at the EV and there was a brief discussion, back then he said that resale values for cars like that were "a complete unknown"
...

The little car has ~50,000km (~31,000 miles) on it so far, and even if its resale value after 5 years were to be zero I guess the most I've lost is the full purchase price, €10k.

How does that work with a EV that not only costs much more up front but probably loses fractional value faster, too?

EDIT: just checked the current prices, the latest model is (in round figures) €15,000 and as an EV it's €25,000. The trade seems to want to describe the latter as "affordable" but to me it's simply an extra €10k up front that I don't have right now. The range of the EV is basically 1/3 that of the petrol version.
> You could differentiate the two by saying empty string for "has no middle name"… except on Oracle VARCHAR2, where NULL is equal to empty string.

This is what kills me.

This seems like an obvious case where multiple flavors of NULL would make perfect sense. For example Ticket.CancellationDate isn't "unknown", it's this ticket is not cancelled. But SQL standard doesn't have a way to express "empty value" as distinct from "unknown value", so we're stuck working around the strange implications of using this square peg to fill a round hole.

Oracle's bizarre "empty VARCHAR2s are NULL" is strange but is consistent with every other datatype that offers no way to say "empty" but "NULL". 0 is not the same as NULL int and is not the same as empty int. Mindate is not the same as NULL date and is not the same as empty date.
Sure you could impute some nefarious/corrupt intent (almost every pardon seems to have some "lobbyist" or personal attached, regardless of the President or even state governors), but the justification quoted in that article seems reasonable enough on its own:

> “Mr. Levandowski pled guilty to a single criminal count arising from civil litigation. Notably, his sentencing judge called him a ‘brilliant, groundbreaking engineer that our country needs.’ Mr. Levandowski has paid a significant price for his actions and plans to devote his talents to advance the public good.”
That's my experience too. I have a perfectly good understanding of the monad interface and some of its more common use cases, but it never felt like I had a magical moment of clarity regarding their nature, so I always doubted I really understood them.
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College is the best investment a young person can make even outside of STEM. Obviously the odds of financial upside varies discipline to discipline, but within most of them, college degrees are worth the money as compared to not getting a college degree (not to mention that most disciplines are entirely inaccessible without a degree).

Lots of people out here who can actually affect the labor market and affect the way student financing works, and instead of hiring people without college degrees and instead of electing people who can reform financing, they just ask students to take a decidedly stupid bet on not getting a degree. It's a silly way to solve the problem.
If you've bought a license, who's going to know? "Developing Mission Scenarios" is indistinguishable from "Flying the Cessna under the Golden Gate Bridge".

The question is more "Is it worth buying a Dev or Academic license"?
Absolutely this, at least for prototyping
why is nobody talking about the REAL benefit of going back to the office... "respectful personal use" of the color laserjet and the office supplies!?

https://tadleckman.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/creamer-hoarder/

how am I supposed to engage in a pointless yet personally significant act of rebellion and defiance without access to the supply closet!?

(/s not /s)
Ask HN: Moving from Corporate to Solo Dev?
I'm pretty disillusioned with the corporate rat race...I naively took on some additional managerial/strategic responsibilities assuming I'd get a promotion, but I'm finding that even if I did get the promotion, I'm not enjoying my current work as much, as I'm far less hands-on. I know I can provide value--I've got industry-specific domain expertise and I can write high-quality software.

One of the projects I've recently been managing is the outsourcing of some programming work--work outsourced to a team of "professional programmers" but with no domain expertise. I think I could have done better myself in terms of code quality, but even if I had, I know I wouldn't have gotten paid as much since I'm an employee. I'd like to capture that value myself instead of dealing with an OK bonus and sub-inflationary raise.

I've been considering trying my hand going solo, offering my skills on a contract basis. But I've never done this, and it's a big change for me. Ideally, I could start with my current employer as a client.

How often is this done? What steps should I take and what should I consider? Any resources that you'd recommend?
School is mainly subsidized daycare, but it's daycare that's important especially for poor kids.

This is an important point in the United States. Many kids have absolutely NO order in their lives outside of school (due to absent parents, economic hardships, etc, etc). Many schools don't fully understand this, and do a pretty poor job of serving the kids, but I've seen public schools that fully understand what their kids need, and do their best to meet those needs. We can argue forever as to whether public schools should be responsible for the sort of things they are forced (by reality) to implement, but without the schools, these kids would be totally lost.
America lost to Vietnam

America lost to Taliban

USSR lost to Afghanistan

All of these were insurgencies. Why can’t Russia lose to an insurgent Ukrainian population?

Is Russia willing to fight for 10 years?
You (probably) cannot call it a "purchase" then.
> 90% likely, the small print specifies that what was bought was the right to access that file provided that a couple of conditions remain met, and one of the conditions is "until 1. august 2022" or something like that.

Note that this happened in Germany, where judges generally treat fineprint as "Whatever."* - the way something is communicated and customer's reasonable expectations matter a lot.

* Where fineprint contradicts more prominent text.
Hello sensei,

Are you looking for a mentee?

I could really use your wisdom.
I think one parent working part time for the first 7 or 8 years or so is a pretty good option if you can make the economics work, admittedly the economics of it may not be easy
The companies think it makes enough of a difference to be worth lying. So I think it's worth forcing them to stop lying. You're probably right that it wouldn't have a catastrophic effect, but it might be enough that they do reconsider things.
Yeah, I don't mind that. :)
It's still illigal at a federal level.
Does anyone know how well this works?

I have a real-world use case: I have a full Atmos audio setup (7.1.4) and a projector for video. Now projectors don't do HDR very well[1], and to be honest I'm more interested in immersive audio than shiny highlights in the picture.

Unfortunately, a good few film disc releases only put the Atmos audio on the UHD disk along with HDR and running those disks through my rig and forcing SDR yields a picture that is too dark compared to the original HD SDR copy (and letting it try HDR isn't much better).

So I'm wondering if this will enable me to rip and convert to a good SDR UHD copy of a film with the Atmos audio ?

--

[1] ...and 100 inch OLED TVs are stupidly expensive.
Of course they have messages

https://mbasic.facebook.com/messages/?ref_component=mbasic_h...
This looks really cool and should help me out when integration testing things are require an LDAP connection. For example setting up the Jenkins ldap connector in an automated test.

PS: I'm glad we no longer need to state in the title of a Show HN post "written in rust".
Facebook doesnt have to be good. Their target demographic is old folks who use yahoo and hotmail addresses. They get angry when they cant find the buttons in the spots they are used to.
No. It's an automated response.
You will have to go the legal way or divert public attention toward your case somehow.
A friend of mine got a permanent ban on Steam for asking a gender question. It was the last of many bans, most unjustified and ridiculous.

Steam is not your friendly platform. It's hostile to customers. If you're positive you're correct and can afford the trouble and cost go the legal route.
Well, given that Tron came out in 1982 and I got my first computer in 1979 ... not me.

My first programs were sorting algorithms, then I got tired of how slow the machine was, taught myself Z80 machine code (not assembler, machine code) from a book, figured how to smash the stack, created a machine code monitor, and wrote a compiler to translate up my BASIC programs to Z80.
I wasn't referring to this movie in particular but just culture in general.

But that also applies to this movie if the creators ideology hasn't leaked into it. Haven't watched so can't say.
>customer's

Customers'. It's not targeting one person :)
Interesting. I guess the difference here is that I learned vim after neo2 (https://neo-layout.org), not before. That way I already had proper arrow keys in my home row and hjkl felt cumbersome and redundant.
"Accurate topography with regionally and culturally appropriate textures"

What does that mean?
> what I mean by "meaningful" here

Then what do you mean by meaningful here? I can't think of anything people would consider more meaningful than ability to produce/provide in relation to educations purpose in todays society. No one presumes we're talking about underwater basket-weaving when we talk about the education system, because it's rather focused on enabling the youth to learn the skills necessary to compete in todays economy.

> GPA predicting success is, as you note, a self fulfilling prophesy

This is not an argument I made - it's a possibility, but I do not consider that to be an understood fact and I believe anyone, myself included, would have a very difficult time evidencing this claim in either direction (which is what I noted).

> so if we just assigned them at random, and then colleges and employers continued to take them seriously

This is quite the qualifier - no one would take GPAs seriously if we assigned them at random for the same reasons employers don't hire from their stacks of applicants at random.

> And then if in successive generations we assigned your GPA to be the average of your parent's GPA - still great?

GPA isn't a measurement against past generations, it's a measurement against your peers - this isn't a valid use of the metrics GPA try to provide. We have testing that attempts to answer "is the current generation more educated than the past?" but that metric is not GPA. Things like literacy rate would be useful for estimating if our education system is getting better.
Where is the results?
Meatverse would get skewered by reviewers.

And then some competitor would come along, slaughter Meatverse, and eat Zuckerberg's lunch.
Cascadia Mono/Code, depending if I feel like having ligatures:

https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

It has the option to enable cursive italics, which is disabled by default. Been using it for over a year. No complaints.
You were the one that brought it up.
> every single home has at least one large A/C unit, most of which draw the amount or more as an electric car being charged and yet the grid doesn’t fall over when it’s noon and everyone’s air conditioning is running full blast during the summer

It does in California
Iosevka is delightful once you get used to its density. I use a custom build of Iosevka with cues from Atkison Hyperlegible[1] that works really well even at tiny font sizes.

[1]: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
For basic social skills development for ages ~4-7 it only matters that they are around other children. Ideally this is with a lot of unstructured time. The "quality" of the other 5 year olds doesn't matter, humans are social animals and childhood play with other children is know to be critical in development. Closing schools for a year in much of the US was an unmitigated disaster for childhood development. No other OECD nation did this.
I don’t know why they’d do something like this. Do they think that putting a damper on the entire digital purchases market, and the playstation store in specific, will somehow make them come out on top?

Is this just a middle manager somewhere trying to make a quick buck by scrapping a loss making product?
Yes, many Mosfilm classics seems to be on YouTube. I recommend Assa https://youtu.be/VOeDP6eUgD0

Such crisp, captivating film making from beginning to end. I do think the Soviet era is sort of mis-characterized in Western portrayals. Compare the Assa and the recent Chernobyl, both depicting about the same era.

Also "Assa" seems like a Soviet mirror image of how Blood Simple depcits the USA.
There's a reason Ben's Original (Uncle Ben's) is big in the mushroom community.

- Pre sterilized

- Cost effective

- Easy to monitor
Most of the homeschool families near me make like $40k a year. You just have to decide what’s important to you.
He has presided over one of those decades
Yeah, this was my initial reaction as well. Growing mushrooms is not difficult. This feels like a solution looking for a problem.
The meatverse meatup is probably a way to rebrand the local meat raffles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_raffle

Could even make a fake "meta" looking logo for it and get sued!
And the worst part is those folks are the ones who were least able to do what you did. Not many people can afford to put their kids through private school.

All our government policies for the last two years did was fuck over the poor and enrich the wealthy.

…Oh yeah, and create an entire sedimentary layer of discarded masks in our soil. I hope people realize those things are made entirely of unregulated dirt cheap plastic. Consider how much micro plastic you’d be inhaling if you had to wear it 8+ hours a day.

But you aren’t allowed to say this out loud because a ton of people will call you all kinds of horrible things. Independent thought has not been allowed at all. Just shut up and listen to “the experts”.
My new startup pitch: "It's the metaverse, but just for people who don't eat meat but wish they could justify doing so."

My YC application is pending.
I never said NixOS uniquely solves that.

And that doesn't have all the other benefits. Also it's a worse way to handle state and rollbacks. Sledgehammer for a thumbtack.

I already spent the time to learn the hard stuff. So now my life is made easy by NixOS. Same idea behind learning Haskell. Huge personal gains.
I was in that Token-Ring world back then, and the terminator clip at the end of the chain was the bane of my existence. Our System 6 and 7 machines had to talk to everything, VAX and PDP and DOS and anything else that communicated over serial.

The WWW was a rumor then a thing, and it was fun to click around on Gopher, but you couldn't find anything you could really use.
I love Costco for many of the reasons people are citing here, but I didn't have a membership until very recently because the store is a bit useless if you don't have a car and a pantry. I really wonder how well they'll do in dense European cities where those aren't the norm.
Astronauts Take Out the ISS Trash Using Bishop Airlock
I'm saying the definitions you learned are meaningless, so I'm not sure what information you could possibly take away from the statement

The terms and how they are used have zero correlation with reality
Why would someone want this? (Honest question)
We did a 3000km trip in an EV. We only spent 15 minutes total waiting on charging. All other charges were done during bathroom, eating or sleeping breaks.
I think -greater access to XYZ also needs to be expanded

It's the way FB can track you in the real world, via GPS, have direct access to various sensors, locate people you are in the same room as, etc.

I honestly think that might be worth more than the "no ad blocking", given that FB can use that data to deliver ads on many other people's apps.
I'm skeptical. How?

You'd need a "proof of ethics" and that seems technologically dubious.

Or, you'd be using blockchain to create an ethical application, and whatever benefits are realized by the application are probably not best provided by blockchain.

Using computing to compute meaningful data is directly justified or at least directly measurable.
This isn’t due to Economics Phds. In my program (and in every other top program) we get full funding plus a stipend so we don’t need to go into debt. And completion rates are very high, out of a cohort of 20 usually only 1 or 2 a year can’t pass their prelims. The filter is at the admissions stage, which is nearly as bad as for the ivies. For comparison, at the University of Minnesota (a state school with a top 15 Econ department) we get 400 applications to the PhD program a year and admit 50, of which 20 are expected to actually come.
You could have looked 2 comments up to find this[1]. This was well known at the time and the basis for COVID measures in schools in basically all of the OECD.

> Findings from several studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission among students is relatively rare...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
I'm currently dealing with a Covid infection that, given the timing involved, I'm pretty sure I got on an airplane. It could have been at the airport, I suppose, but the guy sitting in the seat next to me sniffling and coughing, and with no mask on gives me a pretty good idea where I got it.
So is weed. Nobody cares.
"CO2 level on this @VirginAtlantic A330 indicates that it isn’t really safe to remove your mask shortly after the doors have closed. Hopefully this number will drop soon."

https://twitter.com/alexr/status/1523125114371719168

"Hey @united, it'd be great to see better fresh air circulation in your Austin airport Club. The box in the photo is a CO2 sensor measuring parts per million, and 1117 was pretty high for just a few people in the bar area at the time. Above 1000 cognitive function can be impaired."

https://twitter.com/brianbehlendorf/status/15407875450338181...
What's the deal with the machines having to start up in order? How did that come about?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hard-drug

"an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin."

But you already knew what was intended.
>That would have the immediate effect of removing anonymity from users, and limiting online comments to people with disposable income (who could be profitably sued for insulting politicians).

This must be what they meant by "Singapore on Thames" coz it's certainly not about good economic policy or building enough social housing.
2 colors appear on both best and worst. Each lists a maximum of 5 colors. That should be enough to stop the experiment right there, unless your goal is to find the most controversial colors.

The takeaway seems to be that color preferences are highly subjective to the point that you might just be getting noise.

Also how is it that people are even seeing the same colors for this to have happened? Even with birthday problem seems unlikely that two of the exact same hex colors would end up on the two very short lists. Are you sure you're shuffling these?
Taxes is not the only one, social security fees are quite high too. That might sound bad for a healthy young person. However, when you end up of no longer able to work for whatever reason, the likelyhood to end up under bridge is much lower than in many other countries. And even if you get cancer the hospital bills you have to pay yourself will be marginal. My father who is 88 had 2 bigger surgeries last year basically for free. And it's been more than 20 years that he has paid those fees that might sound high to others the last time.
This would upset me. Admittedly, I do not attach credit card info to platforms and try to use gift cards when possible, but instances like these make hesitate purchasing anything digital.
At least in part it's attempts to defeat ad blockers cause constant attempts to fetch to go back and forth.

These cause non-trivial issues on corporate firewalls a lot of the time.

But yes, the desktop site is garbage. They don't care.
DM Mono! https://fonts.google.com/specimen/DM+Mono
Gcc has more stable hardware targets than llvm, for starters.
Really depends on depth of discharge.

A 5x time 20% drain to help the grid isn't anywhere as harmful as a full 100% discharge in emergency mode trying to get to a charging station and not get stranded.

Besides, we could have methods of compensating people for helping stabilize the grid. And of course no one is forcing you to participate in this scheme anyway.
Oh I agree. That said, I know the families who kept their kids in school have crazy other issues in our area. Many had delayed speech by a year and what not.

Really not great options, we just did the best we could with what we had. It turned out well and I suggested it to others (if you can, being key). If you can also implies that you want to do it.
I just harvested my first mushrooms ever yesterday. This was not some fancy lab stuff, just put the mycelium in some got a couple of sq meters in my garden (dried leaves and such), keep it moist, and got a nice harvest. Like this guy does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERv85b9krI
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Wht a fascinating EULA stipulation:

Prepar3D is not to be used, offered, sold or distributed through markets or channels for use as a personal/consumer entertainment product.

https://www.prepar3d.com/product-overview/prepar3d-license-c...
Yah, I know about slow play, too, and it's effective against me when I'm in the mode "Eh, I didn't really have time for this game, but one more!"

But -- if you're over 2000, surely you've encountered cheaters and understand the difference that I'm driving at.

It's rather blatant, and on Chess.com I almost always get an email a couple weeks later that they were removed for cheating and that I got rating points back, and when I look back on Lichess I often find them banned. I don't even bother reporting anymore.

If it's early enough in the game that I realize it, I can just get into a closed, very-slow-to-progress position and watch them clock flag. But that's still a waste of 10 minutes of my life.
> Yes. China and Russia are the biggest geopolitical threats to the world.

If you bring together three people from USA, Russia, China then none of them will have trouble naming the two biggest threats. None of them will agree, but they’ll all name 2 of the same 3 anyone from anywhere in the rest of the world would name.
I'm surprised people are consuming special mushrooms so frequently that they would even consider a special gadget for this purpose.
Meat Externalities
Every other OECD nation went back to in person schooling pretty quickly, and mostly without masks. They didn't have catastrophic outcomes. There is to date, no known serious long term risk to children in general, but nearly a century of data about the importance of socializing with other children to childhood development. In the US we got this wrong.
Looks they have learned from Canada; unsurprisingly. But the new world order is moving forwards in slowly taking the things you own away. So...

You will own nothing and you will be very happy.