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Maybe that's how it was, but it has a clearly defined header that says "User Contributed Notes" now, with up/down vote counts on each comment.
The market is inefficient because dealerships form a cartel, divvy up the geographical areas where they operate and don't allow any competition there. If it was an actual market, carmakers would sell off cars to dealers (e.g. at mega-auctions), who can set up wherever they want (or sell online), and all the games, haggling etc. would disappear.
Europe has a lot of regulations but consumer protection are probably #1 in the world
It is just a model though! Everything in science is just a model. We better hope it's just a model, because it's incompatible with quantum field theory, which is another very accurate model. The only consistent model that bridges the two, superstring theory, says that spacetime and gravity could fundamentally be many things, from closed strings travelling between D3-branes to the holographic projection of a conformal theory - and you still get the same predictions.
I can't attest to how it used to be, but now at least they are in a section labeled "User Contributed Notes". The notes can be voted up or down, so hopefully the dross sinks to the bottom.

I do agree with the sentiment though that these unofficial notes should be taken with a grain of salt. In my experience, they have been more help than hindrance.
Ours just did nonsense like run a cafe.
"Why should there be legislation?"
Lol. Read the uber files.
I'm not subscribed to a lot of channels, and mostly relied on recommendations, which served me reasonably well for a time, but over time I noticed that some of my interests completely vanished, while others keep repeating old stuff I've already seen. And even channels I'm subscribed to, the recommendations are often old stuff and not the most recent.

But click one recommendation outside my interests just to check it out, and that's going to dominate for the next couple of weeks even if I decide I don't like it. Maybe I should downvote that more aggressively.
The "killer app" of the Pine formula is that it reliably gets brand-new hackable devices into the hands of the community at an affordable price point. A PinePhone is $150 + a whole lot of shipping and import taxes, but many alternatives are:

- more expensive - the SHIFT6mq is 600 EUR, the Librem 5 starts (!) from EUR 1600 (!!!), the Fairphone 4 starts at 580 EUR. No way in fucking hell is anyone going to be buying these unless they are already in a well-paying tech job - which is automatically exclusionary towards all tech-curious teenagers worldwide, and working adults from lower-paid countries. Do we seriously want open(-ish) tech to be a toy only for the rich? I sure as hell don't.

- unreliable in production - open hardware is often (more often than not?) a limited-edition item. If you are there to order from the initial batch (or if you're lucky, the second batch), great - you can buy it. But discover it a few months/years too late, and the product is so unobtainable from the secondary market that it might as well have never existed.

- difficult to purchase across territories - USA-based (or alternatively, European-based) hackers get to enjoy having an open product, whereas the rest of the world merely gets to lick the shopfront window from across the ocean.

- less hackable - Can you flash an open firmware on any given Android phone? Anyone's guess. Can you do so for any random Pine product? Most likely, yes, even if it contains blobs. User freedom-wise, blobby but otherwise unrestricted firmware is heck of a lot better than any restricted firmware.

- not brand-new - hardware ages both in terms of specs (less powerful than the mainstream non-open alternatives - this is IMO part of what killed OpenMoko so badly), and in terms of actual hardware PCBs, batteries, screens etc aging slowly until it can no longer reliably operate/operate within spec.

I will be the first to criticise the fact that Pine seems to be increasingly leaning on the community to produce working software/firmware for their products, but I will also be the first to commend them for their ability to deliver open(-ish) hardware to more than just the globally well-off with cash to burn on their ideals (something that not all of us can do).
Also posted a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32285469 (4 comments).
The same reason a product is never finished and there is a never-ending churn of "features" nobody wants or needs.
Nonsense. There is no way to write such a law that would comply with the vagueness doctrine. It's impossible.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/vagueness_doctrine
If its just digital signage why not use RPi3s?
Where Did Architecture Go?
I don't really understand how style can be an issue, doesn't the linter / formatter catch like majority of issues or can you not configure one for your project?
Do you have any evidence that it does?

We live in a culture that wishes passion lead to success. It's what we're taught as children here. It's what we want to be true.

And yet I find no strong evidence anywhere supporting the assertion that it does; just people claiming that it's up to those who doubt to disprove it.

Passion is a fairy tale adults tell each other because it's nicer than the reality that dumb luck and being born wealthy are the only real chances we have.

And those who were lucky or born on third base love to tell everyone it was because they were just so darned passionate.
It is absolutely cynical. There's another song in the album about getting fed up with modern life and committing suicide (No Surprises).
FAANGers will not bring this about,they will simply better enable society to get to where it is going.

With the much needed reorganization of our society based on our ancestry (who our parents are, where they came from, what they did) and who we choose to be (the genders and politics we identify with), we can better apply the ancestry/gender/political matrix to decide what goods/books/movies/blogs get produced, who produces them, who gets to run companies, who gets to be president or on the supreme court, what gets taught in schools, how money is distributed, who gets what type of health care, who gets to live where, etc.

Technology will be used to help us get to this better and more equitable future more quickly, more efficiently, and most importantly, will make sure economic and political equity is transparently tracked and apportioned appropriately based on each individuals relative needs.

I really do not think that the FAANGers here will create this future, they will simply provide the tools for what is currently happening.
Radio Shack’s First PC: 45 Years of TRS-80
You are correct ... because if I'm only going to make a 2 minute video I would put it on TikTok or Instagram. Way easier to get likes (which is what I'm after if I'm not monetizing it), and way easier to make that content.

I think YouTube knows this which is why they are pushing shorts so hard.
TIL: you should use CCCP only if abbreviating using Cyrillic. In the Latin alphabet, you should use SSSR or, in English, USSR.
Interesting! I am the age when I should have come across this song, but I never did. Never saw the music video, never heard it on the radio, never heard anyone talk about it at school.

The advice is timeless, but I don't know that the song has aged particularly well. If you can call it that. It's less a song and more an essay read over a very 90s beat, and not 90s in a way that makes me nostalgic either.
> Even if unemployment rates triple, we're still not in an employer's market

Broadly, no. We had 0.6 unemployed per job opening in May [1]. So a ~70% increase in unemployment would have neutralised the market.

We saw a 5% MoM reduction in job openings in June [2]; if that continued into July then the ratio is currently about 0.7. Still tight! But tightening, and with all signs pointing to a neutral market before Halloween. (I said the "window is now closing." Not that it’s closed.)

[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/u...

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/job-offers
> If the advisor's getting cheap or free grunt work

This is a huge misconception. Yes, as a grad student you aren’t paid well. That doesn’t mean you are cheap for a PI. They have to pay your tuition, as well as university overhead related to your stipend. You don’t see a lot of that money in your bank account, but it is leaving the PI’s research grant nonetheless.

The most productive students are those who are about 3 years in when they are done with classes. The least productive ones are those about to graduate; they typically have a serious case of “senioritis”, and are often busy making contacts in industry and planning a career. Keeping them around makes them less productive, not more.

Professors want to graduate them to free up resources and to bolster their promotion portfolio.
Someone who is not a lawyer but had to deal with our legal department more frequently than I wish: it absolutely depends.

In German law you are to keep any information regarding invoices for at least 10 years in their original format. This legal necessity usually overrides the right to delete. However, what this archiving of payment data entails differs based on how the payments are received/processed and how invoices are issued. The implications are different depending on when you pay cash, via a SEPA transfer or via a third party processor like Stripe/PayPal/Paddle.

But this whole debate is a perfectly adequate demonstration what the biggest issue with the GDRP/DSGVO is: it is extremely complex and intransparent.

EU lawmakers successfully implemented a law that makes it rather difficult for newcomers to enter a market with a (digital) product without putting themselves at risk or spending tons of consulting with a specialized lawyer. Despite repeated claims of officials that they intend to make the EU a more attractive location for digital businesses, their actions often speak different words.
Hardly seems fair to people who work long hours to feed their family and don't have the luxury of time to constantly try to scoop up the available vehicles. Plus, the ones who do have the time will recognize the obvious, easy money to be made in re-selling vehicles they purchase.
At certain tech labs I've formerly worked at, the MIT nepotism network is so strong it's essentially core company culture.
Timeshare is victimless too right?
I agree 100%.

People making content to scratch their own itch have moved on to TikTok or Instagram. They're the "cool" platforms to be on now, and the production requirements are way less.
Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
Like with everything, once you get to a certain scale it's just very hard. This is not Netflix and their tiny catalog. We're talking about millions of videos added to YT every day. My main issue with YT lately is the increase in ads before videos are played. I use it much less because of it. I know they have a mo ads tier. It's probably worth it for someone using YT often.
No, this is for handling the --relative (-R) flag where the part after the first /./ in each source path is a relative destination for that path so e.g.

rsync -aR foo/./bar/baz/ dest/

copies data from foo/bar/baz/ to dest/bar/baz/ while any other /./ is effectively meaningless.
I can understand that after this whole back and forth, but for your consideration, "What were your thoughts if any here" isn't exactly something you say to a stranger and expect them to not read it as an insult. Especially if it comes right after an affirmation ending with a question mark, in a "it's so obvious, how do you not know this?" tone.
Plenty of people are, hence the markups on new devices immediately after launch on eBay.
None of this works without astrology, since it was the guiding theory behind Brahe and Kepler's measurements. The out-of-sample training data that Newton used for confirmation was comet orbits. Would ML really have created an elegant, closed-form theory about the elliptical shape of orbits and the power-law dependence of the period? Without these insights, there would be no inverse-square law in the first place, and perhaps we would only have an effective theory.
How comes that you have the "best health care quality" but all the indicators of health care quality like life expectancy is among the worse in the Western world?
> Oh and now I get 2 ads every single video, its barely worth it ...

Do yourself a favor and get an ad blocker. YouTube is barely usable without one at this point.
I spent most of my time in Barcelona, but I was in NYC, London, Bangkok, Shenzhen and various small spots throughout Southeast Asia, mostly in Bali and Thailand. I never changed residency officially. I am Danish so I could certainly have saved a lot in taxes, but I just didn't bother.

These days there is a lot more infrastructure (like https://nomadlist.com/) which is great but I imagine also takes some of the excitement out of it. If you are able to work remotely, it's quite easy to make it work in cheap places, depending on your expectations. There is a certain type of loneliness associated with it in that you make lots of temporary connections. There were times where that got to me. On the other hand, I made many true friends that I still speak to frequently. Today I am happy to have an international network of people that always offer me a place to stay when I am in their region.
When I negotiated to buy my most recent car online back in 2016, the term to use was 'final out the door cost'.

I reached out to maybe 7 or 8 dealers, had a couple that refused to provide a total itemized cost, and then got back 5 quotes that varied quite a bit (like $7500 on a $30k car).

Did one round of negotiation which ended up lowering the lowest price another thousand bucks or so and went with that dealership.
I do hate the equivocating between Tiktok and other social media services. (eg: "Well, isn't TikTok just as bad as what Facebook is doing?")

But that said, the use of the term "poison pill" is excellent, and something that I've been using to describe modern tech in general. It'd be wrong to say that Google maps is "bad." Really, it's incredibly convenient. But it's got a poison pill: it tracks you obsessively, it can be used in a geofence warrant, etc. You could say the same for facebook. It's quite convenient to be able to contact everyone from your life, but it's got a poison pill: (Fill in all the complaints about Facebook over the last 10 years.)

I bring this up only because we often get caught between a simple binary: are things better now, or were they better in the past? Usually it's both: one component of things was better in the past, and one component of things is better now.
Can you do by country and zip code? Would like to see Canada there.
How would the US possibly enforce this law on tik tok? At the end of the day, if a regulator can’t investigate, then they can’t enforce. What’s to stop tik tok from providing lip service then doing the opposite?
Dark Clouds Gather for Mining Giants
That's how the big names get even more exposure. When something at a big name happens the headlines are "Stanford/MIT/Harvard/Google scientists invent". When it's from somewhere else it's just "scientists invent" or even worse "mechanics developed" (this happened a few weeks ago when the company ZF developed a new steering for cars).

The rich get richer....
Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands
Interruption is the enemy of productivity [audio]
I get what you're saying but I reject the notion that some of these tech choices are 100% subjective and that there's no "right way" at all.

If hardware has increased in speed/capacity by a factor 10-100 in a decade and our "accomplishment" is to actually make software increasingly slow, shitty and bloated with no new added value to the user, you'll have an idea of the absurd waste and efficiency of our stacks.
Neat, the games in the trailer look to be based on Pico-8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
let's not conflate 'freshwater' with 'immediately potable', unless we care little for ingesting sewage and detritus, it will usually need some amount of treatment
I'm using different blockers on Desktop and alternative apps on mobile. I used yt mobile and,I kid you not, I got 3 ads in less than 1 min.

I just waiting for some channels to start using alternative platforms and start consuming them there.
Solid – A Better Web (Simply Explained) [YouTube]
> "And while they are the primary workhorses of research"

If find this sentence borderline offensive, and for many reasons.

I'll just lay out the most prominent one: don't you miss doing actual work yourself?
Is it possible to restore multiple pane windows?
ah yes, Mz. Peaches. Best fried chicken there is.
Can you please present evidence that a definition was changed?

This wikipedia infight on the recession page has nothing to do with redefining its meaning.
A New Web Archival Crawler Tackling Storage+Fidelity Issues
Its worse than that. It doesnt actually work.

Unless you have videos of experiments designed to observe measurement devices we have created, on systems we have designed, it's all useless.

The only useful thing in figuring out how nature works is creating truely novel experimental circumstances and measuring them with novel devices created for that purpose.

You cannot do science as a statitics of images; that's pseudoscience. And chomsky is here only half-right; it's actually much worse than he's sayign.
Authors have developed the design of a new web archival crawler, Jawa -- JavaScript Aware Web Archiving -- which reduces storage overhead of JavaScript resources, leveraging classic program analysis techniques to identify parts of the code that won't be executed, or are irrelevant in the context of a web archive. Simultaneously, Jawa also improves web page fidelity by eliminating negative effects of JavaScript's non-determinism.
Days of old nobody will honor the Costco rate because it only applies to cars in inventory that don’t exist
I worked at a startup where every time investors visited the CEO would drag out our MIT guy to do the demos.
I think that’s an issue with the monetisation. People who needs a specific guide would be relatively small in numbers. Unless your video is watched by tens/hundreds of thousands, it is not worth making (unless for hobby). Content creators are feeling like they need to make the title and image appealing to a wide audience rather than people looking for something specific.

The search engine should prioritise videos matching your specific search so you can find what you are looking for from hobbyist creators but I’m not sure if that’s happening.
Has anyone found a reliable way to block the ads on Android TV that isn't "root your TV and install and use this weird App you get from this website here"? Would a Pi-Hole work long-term?
That is why we have charities that take care of handling such issues.
The document states that there is a way to use Google analytics using an anonymizing proxy. While that way of using it effectively renders it useless, it is authorized. Hence "almost"
"with certainty"? Perhaps not. However, the given information leads us to believe that it wasn't lying.
Probably depends a lot on your citizenship. As an American it’s easy to get at least a 3-6 month visa basically anywhere except for embargo nations; many other countries that have visa holiday systems make 6 month stays pretty easy too. not so for my Indian friends for instance.
Every graduation at the time had to either reference or parody this song.
Thank you for your comment and question. Out of vanity, I wanted the images to be accompanied by my piano music, however inept that music may be.

Please feel free to take screenshots of the images in the video and share them yourself on the Internet—giving appropriate credit to OpenAI, of course. You don’t need to credit me.

You may also run the same prompts through DALL-E 2 yourself and post the resulting images online; those images will be different from what I got. Or you could come up with your own prompts and post those images. In either case, please post the link here. I will be very interested in seeing the images you get.
None of that means anything.

The web is slower than ever. Desktop apps 20 years ago were faster than today's garbage. We failed.
It's a binary choice. Either who you're with will want kids, or not, and if you're determined to have them but they simply refuse despite all appeals of any kind then what consensus are you talking about? In other words, there has to be a point where you say you're leaving someone unless they also want kids. This is an ultimatum whether you want to call it that or not. Beating around the bush politely about it doesn't change or resolve anything.
Huawei, but I think your question was about social media platform owners.

Other platform owners are bad, I don’t need them to be equal to China before doing something about it.
It sounds like you find near-zero value from YouTube, so you might as well stop using it?
I just bought a new car as well. It turned out that the "in transit" car had obviously not been built yet. Paperwork charges were a bit high and there were some mostly BS "factory installed options." But MSRP was MSRP and I was actually able to get the charge for the options added to my (already pretty good IMO considering) trade-in price. The main pain was that I had to wait 6 weeks when I had some issues with my current car. But then I went in with the attitude that I was probably paying sticker and would be happy to just get the car I wanted so things went pretty smoothly from that perspective.
Why should the rules only apply to cars?
Thanks for the comment!

I think the "the more things change, the more they stay the same" is a great thing, and something to very much be aware of and study. The move back and forth from backend state to frontend state to slim apps to fat apps has been going on since the 60ies, and is driven by ultimately hardware and networking costs.

The underlying patterns are all fairly well understood, which means that knowing both approaches and being aware that things are going to slosh back and forth heavily simplify long term design.

I haven't written these thoughts out, but in many ways the codebase (as in, how your files are organized) is largely independent of how your code is actually deployed and where it runs. If you are aware that some business logic might one day run in the frontend on the client device, and 4 years later might make more sense ot run in a lambda, that's something you can architect for.

Serverless / stateless is ultimately "functional programming". If you write your code as a side-effect free function, leveraging technologies like WASM, you can keep the same code, and deploy it frontend or backend or both or as a lambda or as a single node worker, and the code itself won't change. These are the things that next.js and vercel and edge computation leverage, but it is true in every codebase (embedded, desktop applications, etc...).
I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out.

Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?
Yes, the U.S. economy is likely in recession
Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight
10-foot ladder: http://archive.today/2022.08.03-132452/https://www.japantime...

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