skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very willing to believe that it's correct, but this article doesn't provide the evidence. A plot that showed that these top-selling vehicles just barely avoid the light truck cutoff would be a compelling way to demonstrate that. I'm afraid anything else will devolve into partisan bickering, even though this is an empirically testable theory.
Immigration has MANY MANY issues. But it is the only realistic way to solve the issue of Japan's declining population. I do not think it is a silver bullet.
Friendly reminder that white people are shot by cops at a very high rate and yes, all lives do matter.

Regardless of what the New Yorker thinks.

Edit: Bring in the downvotes, I welcome them. It’s clear to me that white lives don’t matter to the HN crowd, but that doesn’t surprise me at all considering the main people who come here are white people from California who grew up in completely white society and now have a savior complex. That’s an American caste system nobody wants to talk about right there, the way coastal whites treat everyone else.
It’s more that we shift where things are taxed (lower sales taxes are made up for with higher property taxes, etc.). Americans pay similar amounts to Europeans when you look at taxes + health insurance but we get less because of politically-mandated inefficiency.
yup, basically Git + a PR submission system
It's like a very fast car that's perfect for driving straight into a ditch.
Just to clarify: it is not simply a matter of RS-232 (potentially) going up to 12 V. The low signal level is between -3 V and -12 V. If the adapter complies with RS-232 specifications in this respect, it should work with older hardware. If it doesn't, then there is a good chance it won't.

Unfortunately, many adapters advertise being RS-232 but the specifications go on to say they are TTL. (I'm not sure that's accurate either, but it is the vendor's shorthand for 0 V and 5 V levels.) Some won't say anything at all, which leaves compliance an open question.
If Google doesn't have a blind spot towards caste bias than why where they unable to even have a talk about it? It seems like it's a topic that cannot be discussed and as such I really doubt it doesn't represent a problem
And of course their MoD claiming in this attack "Aviation equipment at the airfield was not damaged" when satellite images show they've lost multiple aircraft. On the small scale, they've been caught moving the wreckage of a Brimstone missile from months ago to new location and claiming another missile was faulty when it had the same serial number/scratches as the old one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVfddkn5M4
Fair, there are other visibility issues besides being behind a car. Maybe it's because I drove a Miata for many years - I couldn't see around anything, not just trucks. I just adapted. At lights, I would creep up if there was enough room and get a look. If not, I'd just wait until it was clear.
> I don't see how Nix is better than Docker as they serve different purposes

Nix can build many things, among them whole operating systems on the metal, virtual machine images, and container images (including Docker images).

When you use Nix to generate Docker images and deploy them in production using Docker, Nix is not functioning as an alternative to Docker, but your *.nix file is functioning as an alternative to your Dockerfile.

Defining container images in terms of Nixpkgs rather than via a Dockerfile, and assembling it via Nix rathet than `docker build` does have some advantages.

1. It moves you from mere repeatability in the direction of true reproducibility— it makes your outcomes more predictable and reliable

2. Having the benefit of knowledge of the actual dependencies on the system down to the package (or subpackage) level, Nix knows how to generate minimal images when Docker can't.

Plus there's the prospect of reuse, I guess; an environment you've defined in Nix for building Docker containers is easy to install and debug in other environments, without the extra complexity of Docker and filesystems exports/imports, port forwarding, etc. That can be nice, to be able to easily separate out what you're troubleshooting or learning as you're creating or modifying the image's environment.

But yeah that doesn't mean that pairing Dockerfiles with imperative or convergent configutation management or provisioning tools can't also sometimes work well enough in a given situation.
"Google is doing more about any type of inequality than any company on this planet"....

cough...'wealth inequality'...cough

An AP analysis finds that most foreign workers with H-1B visas are paid less than their American counterparts. But for most non-computer science occupations, foreigners are paid more.

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:873580003
Technically, it's the place of provision.

So in-store vs delivery, or online event vs in-person, etc.

Most entertaining: where I live, we have to charge the client's tax rate if it's consulting work, but our provincial tax rate if it's hosting.
Absolutely, thank you. I don't honestly care what Japan does. I'm not Japanese. I just think that the only realistic solution for them is to increase immigration.
The result of shutting down nuclear plants. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Income tax is progressive; sales tax is regressive.
Wouldn't the goal of the bin be to stop someone from selling the items in the bin?
So you put down OP saying their post is conspiracy theory nonsense, then support pretty much the premise of their post by outlining that you hope US gov't regulations change to point that meat becomes harder to access and consume.

There is pretty clearly a desire to cut overall consumption X% among the proles to fight climate change, meat and transportation in particular. There's some effort to come up with technological substitutes but at the end of the day, this desire is strong enough that a "war" is being fought culturally, politically, economically with subsidies, whatever it takes to make it happen without causing a revolt among the working class, cause as of today the substitutes are too expensive or inadequate and quality of life will take a hit as a result.
That is not much use if the future contract prices at the moment are very high. 24 month consumer deals seems to be around 25 to 30 cents/kWh currently or even more, 12 month even more. And some sellers have stopped selling these.

Overall there is nothing much to do as unless you own the production there just isn't insulating contracts available.
... which is still pretty shitty.
The article is exactly correct on why. You can non-ironically say Thanks Obama to this.

If you can remember the “All cars mandated to get XX MPG by YYYY year” headlines… that was this.
They might be factoring in the mpge of electric vehicles.
Can you name a single video game that this has ever happened to? There isn't even a hint of truth to what you said
>As a dev, what would be my motivation to support items from other games in my own game.

I never suggested you had to. Other websites could upstart support handling items from different games so you can focus your development resources on building the game and not on building a trading ecosystem.

>It seems like I would focus on creating items myself and selling them to players

You would be the only one able to mint new items. You can sell new items to players.

>If players are in it for the financial gain, I'm not really developing a game after all.

Wanting to have something that emulates physical ownership closer is not really being in it for financial gain. It's much better for players if they can sell all of their skins to some other player when they are done with the game instead of having a ton of expensive items locked up into their account.
Visibility and perceived personal safety I think are a big factor on why people are driven to prefer purchasing suv & truck models. American anecdote: when I am driving my sedan, I don't feel safe. I can not see through the windows of vehicles ahead of me due to the volume of large vehicles on the road, and a big part of driving safely is predicting traffic - I am at a large disadvantage due to only being able to be reactive to the back end of a vehicle in front of me instead of being able to predict what they are going to do by being able to see ahead.

Larger trucks & suvs also seem to have higher safety features these days in strength and crumple zone coverage. If so many other vehicles are so much bigger than my car, how do I fare in an accident in my ford fusion vs "everybody else's" f250. Someone else here called it an arms race and I absolutely see why.

I would rather drive my 4runner than my car even though my car is absolutely the better choice for practicality - I feel better and safer in my 4 runner.

This is in addition to edge case buying. Large vehicle purchases are also popular due to what those vehicles bring to the buyer, including: cargo capacity, towing capabilities, ground clearance for rural needs, and in the case of large vans&suv's extra passenger space.
> They see these weird characters and it looks like gibberish and they assume that the people who understand this gibberish are somehow on another level of intelligence.

Honestly: if you come to such a (dubious) conclusion, the conclusion is actually likely true (with respect to you), because if you were smarter, you would sooner or later realize the mistake in this flow of thoughts.
disclaimer: I read just the top and the bottom of your note.

Merely saying "freedom" I think is the mistake.

We have very specific rights and corporations have very specific restrictions. Corporations profit by taking advantage of opportunities. That's kind of generally what power is all about.

And so I'd be far more comfortable saying that we have the freedom to not buy something that GM is selling.
Agreed, I have that vehicle and it isn't quite so big as the monster pick-ups. I've had a SportTrac since 2001. The key thing is that is only has a 4.5' bed. It isn't jacked up and without a 6'-8' bed, it is quite maneuverable. I hike and camp and kayak and hunt and and and... The smaller bed is problematic when I do need plywood but it just gets strapped down instead. The big problem with this new Canyon that you mention is the height and width (which is only need to combat the higher center of gravity) and engine box of this monstrosity. People don't need an engine that big for this "mid-sized" truck because they won't be towing that big with it. It is definitely big for big sake. It must be that the profit margin is a LOT higher on a $60K truck than a $35K truck. One new truck that is combatting this a little is the new Ford Maverick. It is the same size as my SportTrac and TOPS OUT at $35K all-in. It is not jacked up or with an oversized engine. It is funny that it is quite smaller than the new Ranger which was always the small truck line.

The reason truck rental isn't much of a thing is the same reason people drive into cities with public transportation: time convenience. You can't go when you want and come back when you want when you are dependent on someone else. They want to "just go" without planning. Like you said, most people never use the truckness of their truck and it is a status/ego thing.
Somehow in $current_year, blind auditions are also racist:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220725001219/https://www.nytim...
Very off topic, but this really bugs me. The last clip there is a portrait orientation video inside a landscape inside a portrait inside a landscape. The remaining video appears on my 24 inch monitor at the physical size of a phone.
And in related news the value of old cars has never been higher.
Government Motors can keep their junk cars and bundled spying service.

“By including this plan as standard equipment on the vehicle, it helps to provide a more seamless onboarding experience and more customer value,” GM spokeswoman Kelly Cusinato told Automotive News in an email.

What nauseating corporate speak. I'll translate:

"We are forcing this grabage on our customers so we can drive up the price and remove their ability to opt out of our tracking and spying service," -- which is primed to be used to track driver movements and 'carbon' use (Lol!) and rat back to the nanny state. Just like every electric car.
Both Mindustry and Freeciv made it to the frontpage of HN today so I feel it's necessary to share the OS Game Clones site in case people haven't yet looked through it:

https://osgameclones.com/
no sense in ordering one to be built if there’s one sitting around already

I think that's the catch. Given the number of customization options in the website, I would find it highly unlikely that there would be one already built with the options I selected, so I will always be guided down the path of working with a dealer.
I know and generally I agree with taxing income for this reason. “Double taxation” is a silly reason.
If Manhattan Adopted “The Line”
As a US born individual with immigrant parents, I had NO idea how many times I got scoped for my caste. It’s quite amazing how routine simple questions have ulterior motives behind them.

Now that I am a more senior in my career, I’ve made it my mission to always call it out when it happens.

I hope others start doing it as well.
I'm currently contracting for a client that uses a no-code tool to build their product, and this is exactly my opinion. If you're building a software startup, the only scenario where it makes sense to use a no-code tool (e.g., Bubble), is if you don't know to code. And even then, you will need to replace everything with proper code once you start growing.

Of course, this is a bit different for low-code tools that are used internally etc.
> Tucker Carlson worries about "the total collapse of testosterone levels in American men,"

This is not just him shouting random polemic; this is a scientifically measurable and deeply concerning medical trend. https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...
The trick (and this remains to be seen), is that lab meat is expected to become cheaper than animal meat eventually, and consumers will then prefer a $5 beyond burger to a $10 cow burger.
It can all be abstracted into “tribalism”.
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Sales tax in the US is not a Value Added Tax, so putting just the post tax price on the sticker is not actually enough, the sticker would need the pre-tax price too, as some purchases can be exempt from sales tax.

Most VAT based countries have a single VAT rate for the whole country (or possible a country-wide set of rates for different types of products). The United States is not like that. Even if we consider an individual state as the equivalent to Country, each state does not have one consistent sales tax rate.

Typically the state will have one rate, the county can have its own rate, the city its own rate, and potentially even special districts with their own sales tax rates.

That complicates things a lot. For example, if a law required the shown prices to include tax, it would mean that an online website cannot show you the price until you have entered your exact street address. Most people don't want to tell the website where they live just to find out a price that may not be any good.

The variable tax rate means that if the law applied to advertised prices shown on say TV, it would not be possible to have nationwide advertisements that show a price, or even statewide advertisements, or in some cases not even city-wide advertisements. (Unless they set a post-tax price based on what they can sustain with the highest tax rate, which means charging people in lower tax areas a higher price than they would otherwise have charged, just to be able to mention a price at all on TV). Unless the law allowed "between $x and $y depending on your local tax rate" (where X and Y are based on the lowest and highest tax rate for the advertising area).

Most people who want such post tax pricing laws would not be terribly happy with a law that allowed advertising a range like that.
fuse-overlay has some support for this, but it is fairly experimental. Basically it allows mapping of all files to a single UID, and then stores container owners/permission in XAttrs. When fuse-overlayfs exposes the image to the container process it exposes the xattr user/group and permissions.
Soon their pension and other systems in place to support their aging population will not be able to be supported by those working. Where will the money come from? There needs to be someone there to work. The labor force has to come from somewhere.

There are a lot of immigrants looking for jobs. Billions.
>This is equivalent to raising the MSRP by $1500 and including 3 years of a free OnStar subscription with every purchase. Viewed in that light, what's so bad about this?

And if I would like to save that $1500 by waiving the 3-year free subscription? Do I have that option?
> I'm pretty sure my 8y old model would still work if I hadn't left it on a plane.

Can confirm - I am currently using a ~12 year old Kindle 3rd gen, with no problem at all. In fairness it hasn't seen very heavy use but even for the battery and electronics to have held up for that long, often being stored in sub-optimal conditions, is fairly impressive IMO.

I strongly dislike Amazon and its walled garden but I dislike waste more so I have no intention of upgrading before I have to. I mostly use my ereader to read free ebooks downloaded from Gutenberg/Standard Ebooks/etc anyway.
Sedans are gonna be gone in a few years. Ford already culled thier lineup of regular cars and all the other sutomarkers are working on that too. Trusks are also way more profitable than cars and thats another reason there are so many of them.
We're blocked! sobbing. We're blocked!

This person definitely worked at a tech company where as soon as someone has to wait more than 2 seconds they start histrionically marking tickets as blockers.
You have to really think how CAFE works.

There is incentive to make small efficient vehicles, but also to make large efficient vehicles. Both will allow more large inefficient vehicles to be sold.
I agree, but that is really hard. It only comes by force.
Well, nobody before this month thought that any were operational, so not really your fault.
Nearby star’s midlife crisis illuminates the future of our own Sun
Apple/Google do not want to allow fee-less in-app transactions. The game developers also don’t want to allow a free in-game market. This is something only consumers want, but then the creators won’t make money. Either way, consumers won’t get to decide this.

Why do you need a roll up? What security do you need if the L2 itself is able to manage a simple ledger…
100%. I worked at a company that really went in hard on Agilent Vee for hardware testing in the early 2000's. Absolutely a thing where a manager saw a "Hello World"-like demo and was so impressed that they went 100% full buy in.

Besides the obvious UI issues (like the fact that you couldn't really zoom out, you could just pan around your code), we had a bunch of engineers that still needed to do things like "get the three largest values from this array" and it just turned into the most ridiculous bubble-sort implementation you've ever seen.

Its pretty hilarious seeing some of the old screenshots now [1].

Anyways, I think it will always be really easy to sell some simple demos on low-code/no-code, but then the second you need something slightly outside the eco-system it just turns into a substandard mess that doesn't work well with source-control (or diffs) and in general is just harder than the code-full solution.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/KsVliNE.png
The DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) forum is pretty unambiguously the forum to talk about caste discrimination. What forum is Gupta "highjacking" to talk about caste in your opinion?

The lesson to be learned is, if you are offended by someone saying they experienced oppression/discrimination, really, look inward.
True, but unless you live really close to a busy airport, I doubt it's an issue. I live fairly close to a rural grass strip that sees moderate use. I have about 40ppm which is 10x less than the allowed limit for crops.

It sounds like accumulation from lead based paint and leaded car gas is the issue in the article. Which makes sense since you generally can't fly low over cities anyways (disperses) and small planes are not huge emitters (low in numbers).
IMHO there's no such thing as "no code" or "low code". It's "bad code". Or less catchy programming languages that usually lack the tools and features that widely used programming languages do.
It’s not the loading that’s a major problem, it’s the runtime parse cost on low-end Android devices. Everyone has to use government services, so you don’t get to ignore cheap devices.

(Also, luckily the UK government spent zero dollars on fixing this.)
All these companies have gotten so fatted, full of a bunch of MBA jackasses with their excel sheets and bonuses.

Do they actually give a damn about building cars people want, rather than squeezing another penny out of consumers to make wall street happy and increase their bonuses?

While there's plenty to complain about with Tesla, they're the first company to have their kind of success (in the US at least) coming out of nowhere.

We need more like that. Tesla also needs actual competition since they've been stagnating a lot.
> Having a monthly $5 subscription for that is acceptable - an annual $228 payment is not, especially because I don't even _need_ the premium features!

For my usage, a $5/month VPS running Gitea will suffice. If I have to pay more than $5/month for git hosting then I'll just do it myself.
Europeans still mostly buy mean looking BMWs to stroke their ego, more SUVs than sedans nowadays, but the pickup craze is also gaining some traction. We have the ranger raptor & toyota hilux on the market, although still a bit pricey and impracticle for us europeans imho.
You don’t get 100% renewable in Germany. The mix is 50% renewables, the rest is nuclear, coal and natural gas.

With nuclear being phased out for ideological reasons and natural gas being scarse due to the war in Ukraine, Germany will soon burn more coal than ever.

New electricity contracts already go as high as 70 Cents/kWh thanks to the misguided energy policy in Germany.
It doesn't look like the author knows what Bitcoin is... They state that "Bitcoin transactions usually cost 1-2%" (sic) which is factually incorrect.

I do believe that "there aren't many uses" for blockchains, but this sound more like an inaccurate, unoriginal and badly researched opinion piece.
Yeah that was a weird comment.

Disney+ is huge, and it got there so fast. It's absolutely dizzying to think how fast they are going to blow past Netflix with Disney+ alone.

It must be stressful to be in leadership at Netflix right now. How do you compete? More Chaos Monkeys? It's clear the differentiator is no longer engineering but IP.
Somewhere I learned that comedy is about surprise.
> like Brooks argues, we are mostly hitting essential complexity now

I'm a bit skeptical about this. If you look at random backend code, you'll find lots of boilerplate, control structures, error handling, dealing with different data structures, performance optimizations. All of that I would consider random complexity. All of that is there only because computers can't figure these things out on their own.
So the people who took Discovery from science-focused educational programming to truckers and pawn stars are calling the shots? That doesn't sound good to me, but obviously they know what the people want.
Modern passenger pickups are only safer from a sociopathic perspective. The rate and quantity of property damage and persons maimed or killed is increased substantially when modern passenger pickups are out driving around in polite society.

The fraction of that damage and injury borne by the occupants of that vehicle, the only people with the power to make the decision to use that vehicle, is reduced.

The volume of damage, injury, and death borne by everyone else increases by multiples when a modern passenger pickup enters the mix.