skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are asking prices.

Dealers are putting high asking prices into these websites to anchor the negotiations at an unreasonable number. Gullible customers come in and feel like the dealership is doing them a favor by selling for "only" 20% over MSRP.

I really doubt that RAV4 SUVs are selling for 50% over MSRP in high numbers. Maybe one or two sales to people for whom money is no object who also, for some reason, won't simply buy a more luxurious vehicle for the same price. Don't let dealers fool you into thinking this is the new market rate, though.
I'd wager that most EVs are pretty similar to the ICE equivalent from the same manufacturer. Teslas are relatively unique with the smartphone-on-wheels concept. My wife drives a Bolt, and it's just a car which happens to use electric motors. Infotainment and everything else is normal.
The mirror idea is really interesting, maybe they want to make the city seem "invisible" to the outside?

I think the hope is attracting investors maybe like Dubai. Turn it into another international hub. There are strong institutional issues with this (especially considering the Kingdom's saudification drive) but I think building it in a relatively sparser area is an attempt to circumvent this.
I'd say Dave Chapelle and JK Rowling have pissed people off based on their controversial public statements.

Which is very different from actual physical harm; for example the actions of Kevin Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and Bill Cosby.

What is "controversial" vs "harmful"? Obviously there is a thin line here. But most of these people are being lumped into the same "cancelled" bucket. It depends on which online community you ask.

Has an actual crime been committed? That's a good starting point for nuance.
> accessibility

I don't know about that, Motif was used (and in some circles is still used) a lot with government and scientific projects so it might have something but that is just guesswork. If it has it'd be something specific to it.

> DPI independence

Depends on what you mean with this. Motif was made to work in a large number of different systems with different graphics abilities so it can use arbitrary text and gap sizes, a large part of the visual side can be customized to make it work at any DPI. I think it can also use the DPI settings from the X server to adjust sizes too.

However it doesn't have automatic and dynamic scaling in mixed DPI scenarios since there isn't any commonly accepted mechanism for X11 toolkits to do that (this is more of a political/social issue than a technical one - the X server already provides all the necessary information and functionality but there needs to be something akin to EWMH -or even a new version of EWMH- to standardize messages and behavior for handling DPI dynamically).

> layouts that automatically resize

It was one of the first toolkits to provide such functionality.

> right-to-left text

AFAIK it has support for both right-to-left and top-to-bottom (for, e.g., Chinese) text layout support. However that is only about layout, i think Motif can only use either core fonts or Xft, so you do not get proper support for Arabic, etc.

Regardless what i had in mind with "pure functionality perspective" was about things like having working GUI elements such as buttons, menus, windows, lists, dialogs, events, etc, etc - i.e. the necessary bits for all toolkits to have to be "GUI toolkits" :-P.

I don't know if Motif itself is developed much anymore though, i took a look in the SourceForge repository some time ago and seemed that development dried up. Sadly it was open sourced about a decade too late to gain any momentum.
'Star Wars Kid' says your digital shadow shouldn't define you
As long as you people (and I mean that specifically, wealthy white collar professionals who want a crossover are THE #1 target demographic for this thing) they will keep doing it.
Not sure if this counts, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074488

Admittedly, I had a really hard time getting any traction for this project. Cold e-mailing media folks had some limited success but no sales impact. Same for HN and Product Hunt. But eventually Apple noticed and gave me a banner ad in the iPad App Store, which netted me about $10k overall.

Not exactly a success in absolute terms, but it made money with no prior audience.
It is mostly good but at some point turns to adult sexual relationships and gender politics front and center. I think it is too much for pre-teens and now regret watching. (Kids at that age don't even want to see adults kiss, although grow out of it as they approach teenhood).
That just means that almost everything in world has a level of dishonesty and fraud. And just because it happens, it doesn't mean we should just accept it.
comparing an outback to a rav4 hybrid or plug-in hybrid is not a very direct comparison. although I agree the subaru awd is superior, I am paying a lot more to keep my high mileage forester on the road than i would a Toyota.
I'd give LiteFS a run soon. SqlLite is cross-platform, but seems like LiteFS is not. True?

https://github.com/superfly/litefs
> the OP mentioning that kids don't know about public libraries was NOT a criticism

I disagree. It verry much came across as a critique of the younger generation.
If some large American ISP did this people would be at pitchforks. Hetzner gets a defense
"Unlimited" is a marketing gimmick. There is no way to provide unlimited of anything. In most cases, "Unlimited" means you won't be cut off at a specific threshold, but the limits are to the provider's discretion.

The other case is that you buy a specific usage tier, but that is probably going to cost a lot more, which is why "unlimited" plans exist.
Ask HN: Do you use a smart watch?
The answer to this is easy. At least it was for me; I didn't know it was such a problem.

My solution is [1]. It generates a C file with a specific array name passed in through the command-line. It also has a few other niceties that I need.

It works on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and the BSD's, no matter the compiler or linker.

I use it to generate the arrays for the help texts ([2] and [3]), as well as two math libraries ([4] and [5]).

People are welcome to adopt and adapt it. Just follow the license, as per usual. I've even adapted to my other software. [6]

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/strgen....

[2]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/bc_help...

[3]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/dc_help...

[4]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/lib.bc

[5]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/lib2.bc

[6]: https://git.yzena.com/Yzena/Yc/src/branch/master/tests/strge...
When you say 'user_id' do you mean each end-user of the system or each customer?

I assume you have a few customers and then very many users belonging to each customer.
The guy should sue Tesla for lugging around 1/3 extra battery weight at his own cost.
I think it would be easier to do it safely if you made it so that the number of chips to be flashed was small and they were easy to pop on and off the motherboard. I grant that this is more work to use than a single master connector, but it removes that point of vulnerability both for undermining the ability to flash things and the massive backdoor that is a single port with the ability to reimage every chip in the machine.
Why are you a former customer?
also, what do you count as bandwith?

Simply sending packets down a wire usually limits one to the physical speed of the interface, but even then some kind of packets might get dropped by various filters/mechanisms along the way.

For instance, should i be able to use my full bandwith of my connection by sending purely BUM traffic down the link? Somewhere in the network, some policer is going to start dropping BUM traffic to protect the network against flooding.
> have no fair use policy

you think an ISP the size of hetzner or OVH or similar has no TOS/AUP that they put a lot of time and thought into before publishing, and putting in the customer new-order workflow?!??!
I found it remarkable that the term “corrosion”, which underpins the whole work, was never defined.
That doesn't sound true.

Every car I've had was used, I DO like that the ecological "cost" of the car is paid by the previous owner.

However if you buy a new car and drive it for its entire life (15 years) that seems similar to buying a used car. Especially if by doing so you put your old ICE car off the road.

Better of course if you can live with less cars and use public transport instead.
Tobi is a much more admirable CEO than Musk, even though Tobi appears to be a Musk fan.
Although I know financial markets are extremely complex and driven by human psychology, I can’t help thinking about thinking about it in terms of classical control systems.

Do you want a smooth input, or an abrupt step input? Psychologically, I’ve got to believe there would be a quicker response by consumers if rates shot up overnight vs “boiling the frog” with a gradual increases.

In simpler dynamic systems, you get a faster response with overshoot and ripple, maybe this would be similar? But would it be better? I wish the article author had been able to find more discussion by economists talking about the potential effects.

Could you pull out of a recession or pop a forming bubble in months instead of years? Maybe it could lead to a smoother Macro-macroeconomics. But maybe the overshoot is too much; maybe the system is just too chaotic to control effectively.

Financial markets dislike abrupt changes, but I think if the central bank was perfectly transparent about their goals and responses (“To maintain a annual growth rate of 1.9%, Fed decisions will be made based on a PID controller with the following parameters…”), some smart financial engineers should be able to account for the rapid changes in their own models. Maybe there’s even some profit potential anticipating the overshoot and ripple that could provide some dampening effects.

I’m sure I’ve completely Dunning-Kruger’d this and millions of lives would be ruined, but since I’m not the Fed Chairman, we’re all safe.
And yet, that’s not how data center bandwidth is typically sold. Weird huh?

It’s total bait and switch, and probably false advertising/fraud.
This is amazing. Thank you
UEFI Secure Boot doesn't completely protect against physical attacks. If a person can turn off and turn on the computer, they can replace the currently active UEFI bootloader with a shim app, enroll their own key. They can then run any UEFI binary, that binary can then do whatever, and at the end remove the SHIM NVRAM variable that it used, finally loading the original OS bootloader and removing all traces.
Adding more ads and bringing down video serving costs are tangible, achievable goals. Solving self driving is not. I honestly don't think Google has the right culture to deliver either. There's no hunger to win there.
Do you have a discretionary budget?
Hockey players are more likely to be accosted in Ottawa than a local CEO.
Caesar vs. Dominance-Oriented Status Seekers
It may have also been torched by the workers before they fled to prevent it from falling into Roman hands.
> But this takes policy change, and engineers not only cannot independently make that fix in a democracy; they think they know better than democracy because they know how to program a car in a simulated road in abstraction.

That came off as abrasive, I apologize. I think the point I'm trying to make is that instead of denigrating engineers trying their best to solve problems, which in my opinion, is largely negative sum / leads to stagnation, we should be cultivating positive sum thinking.

Doing something is always better than doing nothing.
I agree, I don't think in the near term this affects their sales. They've cultivated a myth of technological superiority that works with less sophisticated consumers, while at the same time offering fewer features than all of the competition. I mean, heck, even a Nissan Rogue has a 360* camera that Tesla doesn't offer. Auto wipers that actually work. CarPlay, etc.
There's a lot less to go wrong in an all-electric vehicle. Not saying you can't have issues with fans or the seat-heaters (ahem), but you're not looking at an engine rebuild or even oil changes down the line
Yes, this, exactly.
Beautifully expressed!
And there are a number of competing, qualified, third party electricians who can make the change for you. You aren't locked-in to contracting with the company which originally built the house.
How do you manage your backend in this case? Do you have an insurance of backend for each customer or do you allow backend to make connections to all the DBs.

I'm interested in doing similar and wondering about the best way to handle the routing between the databases from a single backend.
Is it still ok if the ham is made from cats and dogs? It's not like you're paying premium for it, so can you complain? Please note that nowhere on the packaging it says anything about cat and dog meat.
Datadog+CircleCI+Dynatrace and your project costs more than fee full time ppl working on them.

But for some companies paying extra to be able to blame someone is crucial.
Why can't we have some transparent unlimited traffic contracts?

We give you unlimited depending on overall network saturation and conditions. Offer a live dashboard and prediction on where you are and how you may be throttled.

Otherwise also offer pricing per GB transfered.
We live in the real world. You're right but that's not worth basing strategy on.

"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass"
Eh, that doesn't even seem legal? Unless it's in a contract somewhere in very very small text.
That's pretty neat! I should set up something similar for my domains that keep being spammed.
I don’t think you’re accounting for other costs like fuel needed for a truck which is an ongoing cost.
The previous post didn't say a script got caught in a loop overnight, it was that the engineer didn't understand the difference between stopped and terminated.

Even so, I don't think it is AWS's fault that buggy code was left to run unattended overnight in the example you give.
I wonder if you could abuse gzip compression on responses to send a zip bomb back to them.
> I know little about Skoda but branding wise I would not put it on par with Toyota.

In many parts of Europe, Škoda is considered "the European Toyota". Because it's made by Volkswagen Group and uses the engines previously tested by its more premium brands – such as Porsche, Audi, and Volkswagen.
It's not a lie, it's marketing (.. well I guess that is a lie then).

Unlimited plans exist because demand isn't consistent, and shared bandwidth provides a way to lower prices. If I was guaranteed max bandwidth on 5G all the time on my cellular plan, I'd pay a lot more than $40/month.
As someone who did the exact same thing last year, we paid $55,290 for our Model Y. Dealers were quoting us 48k for the RAV4 hybrid, with a 12 month wait list.

It was worth it for us to pay 7k for the upgrade to the Tesla, and to get something much faster.
Ask HN: There was an article posted here about layoffs. Help me find it?
There was an article posted in the past few months (perhaps authored by a VC, but I'm not sure) which spoke about the need to deep cuts/layoffs rather than doing multiple rounds and ruining morale unnecessarily. Do you know where I can find this article/post?
In the current gas price world, whats the 10 year TCO comparison? Might not be as far off as you think..
New Release: Tor Browser 11.5.1 (Windows, macOS, Linux)
>UEFI Secure Boot doesn't completely protect against physical attacks.

I didn't say it did. In fact I formulated what I wrote precisely to convey the opposite message.

>they can replace the currently active UEFI bootloader with a shim app, enroll their own key.

UEFI can be protected by a password if the implementation supports it. How secure that is is of course up to the implementation.
I think we should be ashamed of our shortcomings, but not ashamed of our capabilities and accomplishments.

"Shamelessness" suggests that it doesn't matter which is the case.
Water is metered in many parts of the world. Leave it full blast and you're footing the bill
For 1Gbps? That’s bullshit.
oracle has flashback
Who installed the pirated copy in this hypothetical? If it was Microsoft itself for whatever reason, then yeah - it’s on them to make the customer whole.
> a local execution story

I can see how "local" can have multiple meanings, but here I meant "as a developer on my laptop, can I have local docker run things the way GL is going to run things?"

I hear people say a lot "oh, I just use shell scripts, NBD" but as I said, I'm sure for hello-world setups which don't have any includes or take advantage of GLCI constructs that can work fine, but what rubs me the wrong way is that "gitlab-runner exec" doesn't say "just use shell scripts," it says "gitlab-runner exec - execute a build locally" and it for sure does not do that
I think Log4shell was about the closest we got to this. It’s still crazy to me you could exploit an unknown machine by leaving a string of text somewhere and waiting for a vulnerable client to process it. I imagine many spammers are running a lot of insecure PHP and Perl scripts to support their operation. That was certainly the case back in ~2006, and I imagine most “new entrant” spammers are not using email but rather social media tactics and the like, so I doubt email spam infrastructure improved.

That said, the real guilty spammers are the companies doing it under the flag of a sales tool. RIP your email if you put it in a git commit.
Been using Mullvad for over 6 months now. Really like it.
I wish they offer a way to whitelist streaming apps on iphone or atleast make a widget to make it easy to turn VPN on and off.
You’re rather stretching the analogy in a way that wasn’t there. I said a lower level of quality, not an entirely different product.
> - this add revenue is good, which indicates they aren't really affected by the Iphone privacy changes like META is.

ad density would be an interesting figure. YouTube is unwatchable with ads turned on.
I believe that is exactly what they’re doing. What better excuse than a deadly pandemic to assume totalizing control over people’s lives?
Evil or not, for sure is bad :)
There really isn't as much lithium in a battery pack as people seem to think. The 450 kg pack in a Model S has about 60 kg of lithium. Dutch fire fighters dump the whole car in a skip full of water to cool it down once they have contained the fire so that it burns out but doesn't set light to anything else.

60 kg is roughly 9 kmol and 1 mol has a heat of combustion of 300 kJ/mol so if burnt in air it would release 3e5 * 9e3 = 27e8 J which is about 75 kWh (coincidentally about the same as the battery capacity). Enough energy to raise a ton of water by 67.5 K. So if you can submerge it in water it will pose no further risk.

I presume that the lithium water reaction releases a similar amount of energy if the hydrogen burns, someone with a better knowledge of the chemistry could correct me.
Blessing from legal team doesn't mean it's not fraud. Blessing from legal team means they are willing to defend this position in court
> if they did not do this an ordinary residential last mile connection would be $250/mo not $50/mo.

Sure? I want stuff that works, damn if it’s cheap lol.
When i ran my little side hustle, almost all of my customers cared about only 2 things (related to your question):

1) They wanted training on any software. These were not "techies". These people who ran or worked in small businesses, and did not care if their machine was Windows, or their apps were Microsoft or whatever...as long as they were trained, and ideally some training/hep docs were available to them, they were happy.

2) As long as files that they needed to send/receive with/from their customers and other partner firms was ok, and not botched/messed up...then they were happy. For some of my customers, this became the biggest sticking point, and some times not in their control. For some customers, i could pivot them into different directions, for example, create web portals so their customers didn;'t need Word docs sent to them in the first place, or maybe send a PDF (exported from LibreOffice), etc. Some customers were open to different directions, others felt uncomfortable.

I will add that if i were a better sales person (I'm a way better wingman to sales, but not great at closing slaes on my own)...for item #2 above, there were plenty of opportunities to create apps/services that could be sold to customers to semi-automate the creatuion of more "conventional" office file formats. I had little success, not because of tech constraints, but moreso because i could not close deals. The challenge is changing the minds of customers towards solutions that could be cheaper, better in the long term...Microsoft's hold on business mindshare is not easy to undo.
Whenever I see that some resource is "unlimited", my take is that the company either doesn't know what the limit is, the company is gambling that users won't run into the limit, or they are just pretending that the limit does not exist.

Oversubscription is normal and I am happy to pay for a service that is oversubscribed. I just want to know what I am paying for. Am I paying for "guaranteed X GB/month, up to X+Y GB/month"? Cool, I love it. Are you gambling that enough users will sign up and pay you to subsidize unlimited bandwidth / unlimited storage / unlimited anything? I want to know.

A normal business relationship with a vendor should be profitable for the vendor. Yes, I have an interest in paying less money for services--but being able to use those services at all is usually more important than squeezing a few bucks in discounts out of the vendor. If my deal with a vendor is unprofitable for the vendor, it creates a risk that the vendor will in the future terminate the relationship, discontinue the service, or even go out of business.

It's up to the company to figure out what the right SLOs/SLAs/SLIs are. That's actually a core part of what I am paying for when I sign up for cloud services or colo services or whatever. There's a delicate balance where you figure out an SLO that is possible for the company to support, while still looking good in marketing materials, and understandable by technical end-users.

If your company provides infrastructure without SLOs, or if key SLOs are missing, then I'm going to be a bit hesitant. A missing SLO is a sign that your company hasn't done the work of figuring out how supportable a particular feature is (like "unlimited bandwidth").
generaly https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

or a little more in range of target https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=7&prefix=false&qu...

[edit]
this is a link structure using custom date ranges:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1650931200&dateRange=custom&...

now you can CLI, or GUI it.
The Dirtbag Is Back
Some of our GCP machines use far more than 80% CPU 24/7/365 on both preemptible and non-preemptible instances. We've yet to be asked to move to dedicated machines. It was pretty much the same when we were on AWS.

I don't see how a cloud provider can complain about high CPU-usage if they bill by the machine and by the minute. Otherwise 20% of your bill is for idle CPUs.
Just skew the odds
True, but Hetzner has no obligation to serve every customer. I would say this customer has gotten more than their money's worth and Hetzner is well within their rights to no longer provide service.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1499/
We don't know how to fix science (2021)
One of the great, but understated, scenes in The Godfather occurs at the periphery of the wedding scene. FBI agents are present, taking photos of cars and guests; Sonny hotheadedly confronts them - smashing cameras, throwing some dollars in recompense down (how contemptuous a gesture is that?) , and storming off...
I solved a 40x40! 22:33:38.383
Ah if only law was so clearly black and white.
Question: is it unethical to own multiple homes and rent them out?