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I think dealers need to be careful since companies like Tesla demonstrate that you might be able to cut them out completely.

Personally I buy used cars because I drive once a week and if you have friends with car repair skills maintenance is pretty cheap. That will soon change though and may never come back as cars will be locked down more (without actually having gained any significant functions as self driving is out of reach).

Efficiency got better though. A new car today might indeed use 30% less gasoline compared to a 15 year old car. Don't know how diesel compares but that seems to be the best argument for a new car.
When I bought my car (ford focus st), I had a company discount in my back pocket. so we went through the whole negotiation phase with the dealer and I got it down to a price I could swallow and right before I signed I pulled out my company discount slip and the salesman who was working with me was super upset, but honored the discount on top of our negotiated rate. 1. fuck dealerships and 2. dont use your morals with salesmen.
I think they have some satellite-based connection points, and those feeds understandably cost $, but maybe with cubesats we’ll fill in some gaps at an affordable price (possibly delayed).
At least here the dealers appear to be "selling at sticker" but I assume that if you slip the right person enough "add-ons" you find that you're higher on the list of vehicles arriving ...
Imagine your product could have a conversation
I still think it's AS funny (not necessarily funny, just not less, not more) . Dilbert has always been about making fun of thing Scott Adams may find absurd in corporate environment regardless of political correctness[0]

it's just that the article author reached the point where he thinks is serious is what Scott Adams.

It's the old "you can joke with anybody, you can joke about everything, you just can't joke about everything with everybody"

[0] https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-07-13 -> talking about owning slaves (and I didn't need to search far, just put a random year )
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Dilbert used to mock people I mocked and was funny. Now it's mocking me and needs to be cancelled! /s
The issues themselves aren't punching down, but the way he's using the characters is. Imagine Alice deciding to falsely accuse the PHB of sexual harassment to get rid of him. Or Asok becoming a manager and only promoting members of his caste. I feel like this is like that.

I transitioned at work, and I've tried really hard not to be this character. I asked people to use my new name and pronouns but never complained to HR if they didn't. I made an effort to be as friendly and hardworking as possible, so that my conservative coworkers wouldn't see me through the lens of the "culture wars" like this that they're fed. This kind of comic was the stereotype I faced.

It worked for me. I changed peoples' minds, got respect for being reliable no matter my looks, and eventually started passing so nobody remembers I'm trans anymore.
We have a pretty weird political case here in NL around a guy called Thierry Baudet who is clearly unhinged but still gets voted into parliament. Apparently there is a segment of the population that responds sympathetically to things that make no sense at all. They're not even trying to make sense or connect to reality, they just keep repeating all kinds of nonsense and whatever results in a response gets promoted further. COVID, Immigration, 5G, The Russian war on Ukraine, Abortion, Transgenders, Nitrogen in farming etc. Absolutely nothing is sacred, the common thread seems to be that if there are two sides to some subject they will sympathize with the 'losing' side and garner a loyal following. Misery really does love company.
I'm 55 in the middle of the US and I am like "where are all the junior devs that are coming for my job?". Where I am, there is not enough of them.

I have one kid in college an another going into her senior year of high school. Seems like very few their peers are going into computer science. I know it is not for every body, but it is surprising how unpopular it is.
This is akin to going to an ATM and finding a bug that lets you withdraw money out using the information from a receipt that someone threw out in the trash bin. It is definitely illegal.
Will you tire of posting about this stupidity? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32117175
> Oh right, because a token gesture that you throw on your CV and took 0.05% of the time you'd otherwise spend on writing grant proposals

Sure enough, a report on Berkeley's diversity initiative—recently publicized by Jerry Coyne and John Cochrane—shows that eight different departments affiliated with the life sciences used a diversity rubric to weed out applicants for positions. This was the first step: In one example, of a pool of 894 candidates was narrowed down to 214 based solely on how convincing their plans to spread diversity were. - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

I'll let you decide if using this criterion as the first step, that disqualifies 76% of candidates, is a "token gesture that takes 0.05% of your time".
It's horrible technology, born from deeply misguided ideals that will hurt and is hurting a lot of people. I'm not going to celebrate it's repeated, persistent failures but I'm not going to deplore them either.
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Isn't it a consequence? If the entire foundation of your system is irreversibility and finality, then doesn't it effective becomes true? (unless you are big enough to force a network-wide rollback...).
I'm not sure why everyone is surprised when this repeatedly happens.

Constant inflation = absolute numbers get bigger

Underlying resource market prices increase + constant profit margins = record profits
>Most of them can't be updated by someone in the store headquarters remotely.

Yest they can, since the '90s (in Europe at least). Where did you get this misinformation?

The programing device you saw is only for initial pairing or resetting the label, but other than that, they can always be updated via 2.4GHz radio or infrared base-stations (depending on manufacturer) mounted throughout the shop.

Source: used to work in the industry many, many years ago
> There are much, much better ways than reading CNN/NYTimes every day.

Reading those once a day is actually pretty good, let's say at a dedicated time. In contrast to many-times-a-day-let-me-just-check-the-app. The latter is just causing dopamine rushes. The former keeps you informed.

What did you have in mind?
"Media propaganda is obviously a bad thing, but reading credible news isn't."
I would tend to agree with you but since Covid hysteria I do not believe in mainstream media anymore. So that’s an issue because I’m not able to find credible news anymore.
I've absolutely had my introversion be interpreted as low key racism before. It was not a fun experience.
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FYI, the high-priced PiBox config includes TWO each 2 GB SSDs (which you can stripe and/or mirror), so the price is not really at all unreasonable when you consider the cost of the drives alone are about half the asking price. And just try to get a high spec (8 GB) CM4 these days: Most places are quoting 52 week (indefinite) lead times. The PiBox team managed to negotiate delivery on a big enough batch of these to do their first production run. Color me impressed.

FWIW, I've got a PiBox on order (w/o the drives), and I think the price is VERY reasonable. (No relationship other than waiting customer.) The PiBox "mainboard" that hosts the CM4 has much better I/O capabilities than a garden variety RPi 4. I'm actually going to be using mine for a small, light NAS and application server, and I'm confident it will work well.
If you find a way to get the ATM to spit out $100K to you by mistake, legally you have to pay it back. Same if it’s the bank’s error.
Anyone who has gone through the extreme pixel-level iteration process of honing a UI at a company that really cares about UX knows we are very, very far off from letting AI do it.
Oracle being Oracle, I imagine that A: they're annoyed they didn't get to invent the process and B: they're very very annoyed that there's no way to ban people at random, not tell them why, not give them any way to rectify it, and keep their money, since it's free tier. That apex post-capitalism there.
Sadly, I think it was a partial false memory. There is indeed a section on making animated GIFs, but instead of a seal bouncing a ball, it's just a bouncing ball sans seal.

Here's a screenshot from the book (it's on Archive.org)

https://dl.sphericalcow.xyz/private/hn/0e66b5f993de9e96aaaee...
I'm not sure if it's theft but they most certainly have to give the money back. It's just an honest mistake, an equivalent to accidentally dropping a wallet full of cash on the street.
Are we talking about the same Hollywood? This is sheer denial.
I'm sorry, someone must have spiked my coffee this morning.

Am I reading this right? Your friend spent 9 months interviewing for a single job?

And then he decided that the company that had been trying to hire him for a pregnancy's worth of time was somewhere that he wanted to work after already having a job that hired him in a month?

Is this 'normal' for the Goog? If so, why am I not shorting this company?

No really, what did they put in my java today?

EDIT: Actually, yeah, someone put in some sort of super caffeinated beans today. Sorry for the somewhat manic posting here.
Ford can start selling their cars online if they think they can do better. Problem solved.
Of course the reason why they don't already do this is because they have done the math and concluded that dealerships actually earn them money.
Dealerships aren't quaking in their boots.

Is he insinuating that dealers are all illegally conspiring by the way? There must be at least a dozen Ford dealers in a 100 kilometre radius of your house they aren't rare. Find the cheapest one.
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They moved late into the game, and have to compensate their tardiness and generally low appeal with incredibly generous allocations. They can always pull that back later when they feel like, after all, like OP found out today...
Eh, even if it happens everywhere it’s frequency is different and some companies are easier to resolve it than others - I much prefer my chances with Microsoft than with Google for example.
Left a longer comment in another reply, but to focus on how you feel emotionally - as a sole dev also doing support, you're a lot closer to the product than a service rep typically is. It's something you created; of course it feels personal, because it is!

The detachment that can help - but not remove - that emotional response is to try to change who you represent before you pick up the phone, as much as you can.

When you're developing software, you're representing yourself, more specifically your ideas, plans, and execution. The software is a reflection of how you work.

When you're supporting customers, you're representing the customer. This means the software isn't yours anymore - it's someone else's, something the person you're representing has spent money on but is now in your ear telling you they aren't getting the value they expected.

If you can turn your viewpoint in that direction even a little - roleplay it, change your voice, give yourself an alias, literally put on a different hat, anything that can trick your brain into detaching yourself from your "normal" dev role and emotional attachment - the stress changes.

It doesn't go away, it can't, because you're still YOU. But instead of taking the customer's WORDS as personally, you start to take the customer's PROBLEMS personally. And that doesn't sound like much, but it's an important shift from the problem making you feel SAD to the problem making you feel FRUSTRATED.

It's hard to get past being sad because someone hurt your feelings. It's still hard, but less so, to identify a problem that makes you frustrated, because you can solve problems. You're a developer - you're an engineer, at least on some level. If you can identify a problem, you can solve it, which turns that frustration into motivation. (That sounds cheesy but I can't find less cheesy words right now, I'm pre-coffee.)
62 here, and I know the feeling. I feel like a fresh out of school 22 year old when I have to explain current best practices to people a decade or even a generation younger (who insist on using Windows 7, or won't upgrade to supported 64 bit versions of IDEs, etc. etc.).
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I would instantly vote for a federal politician (senator, congressperson, president) who authored a bill clearly stating that there would be transparency in the suspension process, and a defined set of actions for recourse, appeal, etc.

But it's not likely to happen. All the tech companies have virtually all these slimeballs (both parties) in their pockets. Plus many of the pols and their staff are rotating in and out of positions at these companies as employees or lobbyists.
I don't know if I would agree with that. Using Kubernetes on a good day is not complicated, but it does have a lot of moving parts. There are many different flavors and distributions of Kubernetes, a lot of concepts that can prevent your workloads from running (because system pods taking too much resources, affinity, persistent storage, kubelet/etcd/apiservers cyclic dependencies, x509 certificates). An actually HA Kubernetes deployment needs an external load-balancer for no reason at all (kubelet could talk to multiple apiservers like all "distributed system" software does, but that's still not implemented).
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There's definitely YouTubers out there that have those quality animations/explanations, one just has to dig for them unfortunately. They get drowned out by the algorithm-chasing videos and the low-quality content farm channels from developing countries.
Apparently the coding mistake was identified and deemed "impossible to exploit": https://certificate.quantstamp.com/full/nomad

> QSP-19 Proving With An Empty Leaf

> Recommendation: Validate that the input of the function is not empty

> The Nomad team responded that "We consider it to be effectively impossible to find the preimage of the empty leaf".

> We believe the Nomad team has misunderstood the issue. It is not related to finding the pre-image of the empty bytes. Instead, it is about being able to prove that empty bytes are included in the tree (empty bytes are the default nodes of a sparse Merkle tree). Therefore, anyone can call the function with an empty leaf and update the status to be proven.
>rsync is not the right tool for the job if you do not trust the server

Why would you ever trust the server not to do bad things?
I'm a bit surprised that Stripe uses Mongo? For financial transactions?

Is it the primary backing store or a cache?

I always thought of Mongo as the DB with questionable durability and performance claims ... i.e. the "quick and dirty" DB. And also under-featured compared to relational DBs.

But I haven't used it so maybe that is not accurate.
TOS is voided in cases of suspected fraud.

Additionally they make no promises of informing the user.

>When reasonably practicable and lawfully permitted, we will provide You with advance notice of any such suspension.

I think people are confusing billing payment notices with termination.
and no mention of suśruta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta whose works were copied extensively by Arabs.
If you ignore the fact that the actual law might have something to say about this, then sure.
Now subtract the deficit spending including the stimulus package from that nominal 6% growth.
Paprika is great. I’d much rather pay once upfront than for a subscription.

However, one thing that makes Paprika a no-go for our family is its inability to make shared collections of recipes, grocery lists, and meal plans. My wife and I want to cook together. We want to tweak our family recipes over time and share a single grocery list and meal plan between us.

Paprika can’t do that, and no other app comes close to Paprika in terms of features and payment model.

So, I’ve started building my own: Umami (https://www.umami.recipes).

Currently it’s just being used by my family and friends, but it’s starting to get to the point where I think other people might like to use it, so if you try it out please let me know what you think!

It supports shared collections of recipes and will soon have shared grocery lists and meal plans as well.
I never had a Ford, but I do like Toyotas. Sadly Toyota dealers have been marking up prices quite a bit for a while. There was a HN post recently that showed RAV 4 Primes in CA at 70k. I think this might be happening everywhere.
Interesting and well written article supported by factual data. I wonder if this is a temp thing, or if it is another early warning that regression is coming. Is a major regression coming?
Oracle doesn't care about HN unless they can use HN as a direct source of money. Users being mad on HN doesn't matter, being mad at Oracle does not cause Oracle to make profit.

If OP wants the issue fixed, the most likely solution is to drop affiliate links in the comments, as a positive revenue flow might get one of Oracle's sales-lawyers to investigate the commotion and see if more monetary sources are available to be cracked open.
It's sad that FOSS programs are claiming that things hostile to freedom are actually good for security.
That is, quite frankly, an insane position.
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Hey, so I did the same. I was asked to add 9k to the 24k MSRP car. So I said no. I chose Toyota as I got the MSRP price. I would love to return to Ford but will wait until Ford sorts out the issue.
Same way that lawn mowers convince people to stick their hands into the blades, despite common sense and all the warning stickers screaming at you to not do that. It seems expedient in the moment, you're not thinking about long term consequences and just want to fix a problem fast right now.
I worked in IT support as an undergrad ten years ago and am now going to grad school and using eduroam. It is such a night-and-day difference; I'm so incredibly pleased that there was enough international and inter-institutional cooperation to make it work.

I especially like it when I open up my laptop at a new coffee shop and discover it's already connected to eduroam—in the city I live in (Edinburgh) there are enough university buildings scattered around that a surprising percentage of the city center is covered. The National Library also uses eduroam.
In my head modern slavery is the cheap and dangerous labor in other countries we rely on altogether; even the voluntary workers. It doesn't make sense to me that we still so easily value the lives of people who happen to be born somewhere else lower than those who were born more nearby. Why don't we pay the same minimum wage we do here in other countries? Or require the same safety measures etc? Yet we all just play along quietly endorsing widespread use of power to further inequality as long as it suits us.
> they prefer young entrepreneurs

I am not a grey beard yet but I am getting there quickly. My time in the industry is they value youth because it is exploitable not because they're like-minded. A young person with few responsibilities, no kids, no house, perhaps not even a significant other is easier to get to stick to exploitative pager duty schedules, long nights, etc for little pay and a party once in a while. Older people tend to be more concerned with raw numbers such as salary and total comp which presents a problem for this kind of grifter.

That being said despite having literal grey in my beard I have never had an issue getting a job. I keep my skills loosely up to date (I still don't follow the latest language trends) and know which industries I can move in. Most people age out into management and older ICs are hard to find beyond late 30s and early 40s.
Well, I tweeted the link, but my experience shows that Oracle is not a darling company for most solo developers. Typically solo devs go with DigitalOcean, Linode and co (or free stuff from AWS, even Lightsail offer some support). Either way, I hope they get some help.
There's definitely a school of thought that you should remove dates and trim older jobs. When I last switched jobs a number of years back a good friend of mine strongly advised doing so and I did. Though I ended up getting a job through a personal connection so I doubt anyone did much more than glance at my resume anyway. (And the company had quite a few relatively senior--as in older--people.
At least Hacker News isn't randomly suspending accounts without notice...I think.
It's only a spectator sport if you're not downstream from those changes though.

I also think ageism is only part of the problem, it's stubbornness in general. Even if you're younger, it's difficult to translate hard-earned experience into respect because many engineers are infatuated with their own designs and algorithms. I've had people reject my advice even though I literally worked 2 years on app dedicated to solving that specific problem we were having. Of course they had egg on their face at the first demo. And they're still using that broken code.
I've been interested in PEGs recently. Do you happen to know of any literature on what's bad about them?
Web3 is all about these heists. That's what makes it fun and interesting. We're living the cyberpunk dream.
Never heard that, but I like it!

Only applicable to certain cases, of course.
The aftermath of a large storm requires a lot of clean up. The clean up costs would be added the the GDP.
I think that's why you and the person you replied to are disagreeing. You're using "conservative" as the definition of the word itself, i.e. inclined against changing the status quo for better or worse, while the person you replied to is using "conservative" to refer to the meaning that the word has taken on with regard to American politics.

To your example about them therefore not being "progressive", I think they are saying, "I wish society would not change in that direction, I wish it to change in this direction instead." Which would be progressive.
Yeah, I have a few friends who reached this level of compensation working remotely. It's a nice life - I can't say I'm not envious. I had to travel to Switzerland and deal with the costs of living there to have such a rate and the project was timeboxed.

Interestingly nowadays you don't need to work for a US client. Switzerland, Norway and Ireland(out of all places) offer similar salaries without the zombifying difference in time zones.
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> So it was conservative to worry about the rise of Trump and the Alt Right?

No, because as we saw in the 1930 and 40s this strain of virulent fascism is not new, but sadly quite traditional - this was the conservatism bubbling through in reaction to modern liberalism.

> It's conservative to wish Roe had remained on the books?

If Roe had been an office worker they wouldn't have even qualified for early retirement, that's how briefly those rights existed - then reactionary conservatism struck to return us to the good old days.

If to make a "point" about history you have to limit your discussion to things that changed only in the last 30-50 years, you might have an alternate agenda.