skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not defending anything. I just don't like condemning one thing without knowing the overall picture. All the comments I saw were like a bubble of identical opinions and people circlejerking about the awfulness of dealerships without any real substance. I sort of expect more from HN.

I'm not an expert about the auto industry or the auto market or the regulations and their history and I'm in no position to tell anybody here they're wrong. I just wish people would consider the wider context.

Why do these regulations exist? What benefits are there? Downsides? What changes if these regulations are changed or removed? What regulatory changes can be made to improve the state of dealerships?

Maybe allowing manufacturers to run their own dealerships would create more competition and put downward pressure on prices and improve quality of service across the industry.

How do you deal with the threat of manufacturers edging out all private dealerships so that they're the only option? Will the market eventually become worse because of a lack of competition among dealerships? How do you ensure manufacturers don't treat independent dealerships unfairly and exploit the vertical integration in an anticompetitive way? How do you prevent regulatory capture through manufacturers?

All I see here is "dealerships bad". And yes, the examples I've seen are bad and most things I've heard about dealerships really suck. But the best solution isn't necessarily to get rid of independent ones. Maybe it is, maybe it's not (imo, pretty likely not).
"The thing about dreams is that they disappear when you wake up"

To me, it's the opposite. As soon as i still have ability to learn more things everyday, it's the dream to me already.

It's the greed that kills them, not waking up.
I thought this would be recording everything to generate an AI model that could sit in zoom meetings for you.
No no, Prop Joe is a member of the board
IMHO, Apple were circling the drain until the original tiBook product launch.

If SGI or BeBox had been the first to market with such a sexy laptop, we'd still have them around.

It was the lack of focus on laptops which killed Be and SGI (and others), but it was the focus on laptops as personal computing devices which saved Apple.

I'd kill for an alternative-universe SGI or Be laptop. Imagine the tiBook with Irix or BeOS on it .. delicious ..
A friend of mine totalled my car while I was on vacation, not at fault, and my insurance company used these sites to lowball me. Being a used car, about 10 years old at the time, there were very few comparable vehicles for sale in my area. The insurance company wouldn't even accept one out of state. I dickered for a few weeks until I found one on Craigslist for $1k over the offering price -- I called my adjuster immediately, and he was happy to pay it out and never hear from me again.

If you actually want a fair price on a trade-in, you'll need to sell it on commission. Less parking, advertising, and expenses to get it into saleable shape -- and you don't get the money upfront while you're trying to whittle down your loan. If you want to just walk away from the car and deduct it from your purchase, you pay dearly for that convenience.
I won't take a stab at answering your question directly, but I'll pose something to think about:

It is the nature of many a developer to scoff at non-programmers running the world with supposedly nightmarish Excel sheets. And there is probably a lot of valid criticism.

But it works.

And any time I see Engineers trying to engineer things to their own taste, they just make things worse. You'll either make some portal with an inferior feature set or you'll reimplement a crappy Excel. Work with the Excel status quo, not against it. Don't look down at the problem from high atop a mountain, but rather admire just how incredibly effective Excel is as a swiss army programming tool that basically anyone in a business can use.
Screenshot of gmail on my NeXTStation Turbo Color. It’s dated 2009 so I think I may actually have been using my NeXT through 2010 and had my dates off.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/helfer/3947037084/in/photolist...
From John Grisham's "The Firm" :

Avery taught Mitch all about billing clients for his time. As an associate he could bill $100 an hour. His future progress at the firm, he was warned, depended on how much income he made for the firm. He learned that it was acceptable to bill clients more than he actually worked. 'If you think about a client while you're driving over to the office in the morning,' Avery told him, 'add on another hour.' He could bill clients for twelve hours a day, even if he never worked twelve hours a day. Mitch also learned that Avery liked to bend the firm's rules.
Make no mistake, if the US wanted to end money laundering in its backyard, it could do so. These jurisdictions exist because they provide value, especially to people with the influence to stop them, who see no reason to interfere in a system that benefits them without personally hurting any individual. Any negative externalities are sufficiently diffuse so the public can't pin the blame for the continued existence of the system on any individual beneficiary of it. So why would anyone stop it?
Looks similar to the https://akinator.com
SBF is a huge donor to democrats and a friend of many powerful people. The NYT doesn't want him to look too bad.
The entire media environment around cryptocurrency is utterly hilarious. It's just nonsensical clickbait bollocks from top to bottom.

It's like, ok, so Tesla autopilot crashes sometimes. Let's write an article on rubber because Tesla is a car and the car tyres are made of rubber. Rubber bad!

I'm fully aware that I'm in "old man rants at cloud" territory here, but it baffles me that someone wastes the one life they have writing this stuff, and that people waste their time reading it. And sure, fair, I'm here writing comments on HN. Writing an article is a lot more deliberate than that.

Outside of the development mailing lists I don't think I've seen any actually useful or valuable discussion since bitcointalk forums in the early days.
Safe follow distance is usually measured in time, not distance. It's a function of human reaction time plus your vehicle's ability to brake, which is mostly a function of its velocity (also greatly affected by tires and weight but there's far less variance there in passenger cars compared to personal variance in velocity).

Most DOTs claim around 1.5s for reaction time, and then up to another 1.5s for braking at typical highway cruising speeds. So, 2-3s follow distance in total. Adjust down for low velocity and up for poor driving conditions.
Isn't the same already true for trails that do have cell signal?
I strongly disagree with Galbraith's argument essentially about "the end of quality". We did not reach an absolute zenith of product quality in the 50s.

What did change was the coverage of mass media.

Instead of relying on long and expensive genuine user feedback loops to generate positive buzz around a product, advertising manufactures that buzz directly. This is why is it everywhere, and influencers are just the latest innovation. Not because product quality/QoL reached a high point.
Looks like a slick wrapper around Apple's ImageAnalyzer and ScreenCaptureKit
Yeah I have 6x the number of twitter followers and my engagement on Mastodon is far higher and of much higher quality since it's mostly my SWE peers on the server I'm on.
i have still never seen a 'targeted ad' that is even remotely related to my interests or purchasing habits.
Seems like clear market dominance, which is concerning. An unscrupulous company could start to increasingly leverage this in five years or so.
> I bill by the hour, not the minute. If I work 10 mins on something and do nothing for the other 50, you are billed an hour. Frankly, this is how most clients have actually wanted it.

I find it hard to believe anyone wants to over pay for your time by 6x what it's worth. I understand rounding up. But I don't understand working 10 minutes one day, billing for an hour, and then working 10 minutes the next day and billing for two hours total.
You can't control what the person behind you does, but you can control what you do and rushing people through turns is unsafe. If the person in front of you signaled (or did anything else to indicate) their turn in sufficient time, then you should be able to do likewise for the person behind you with a light tap on the brakes. The odds of being rear-ended probably won't change by any significant amount, and IMX people who cite those odds weren't really thinking about them at the time. It's just an excuse for prioritizing speed over safety.
There is a recent post by Jerry Coyne on this New Zealand issue:

https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/11/01/richard-dawkins-is...
I love how my example was actually Euclid, but everyone's just writing Euler now.
> And where is the evidence it's related to wikipedia?

To WMF. Right there on their webpage. They are proud of it:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/08/wikimedia-fo...
Magnetic Cabinet Child Locks [video]
I am certain that you're trolling, but I'm giving you the answer anyway: No.

When you have 1 dollar in your account, the bank still has the dollar! It's a liability owed to you.

Every financial asset is somebody else's liability. Every financial asset is similar to a promissory note. If you sign one, it is your liability, but it would be an asset for the note's holder. This is also true for your bank account. Your account statement is a promissory note that the bank owes you 1 dollar.
I guess if you want to make 10x what a typical person makes, you jump through a couple hoops. I just fail to see the point in lamenting the process or purposefully removing yourself from it on some principle. DS&A studying and time complexity analysis, if you didn’t do it in college, can be learned in a couple months of focused practice. Or you took a class and payed attention. These seem like small things to me to get the big paycheck.
Aside from them (mostly) having four wheels... do you really think they look the same?

I can usually guess the make of a car from its headlights and grill in my rear-view mirror. There's plenty that differentiates the look of a car. And I'm far from a car buff.
As of .NET 6/7, I'm pretty sure the implementation could be refactored to be much more simple and less reliant on hacks - minimal APIs give good performance and outputting raw bytes as "Hello World!"u8 seems innocent enough which many other benchmark implementations do anyway.
Similarly, there is Shortwave for Gnome users. It pulls its list of stations from www.radio-browser.info.
This was hilarious! I cried hard.
We have been running PlanetScale as our production database for about 6 months, migrated from Aurora Serverless. I love it, their query insights tool has been a game changer for us and has allowed us to optimize a ton of queries in our application. Their support is always available and highly technical.

For a sense of scale, we have ~150gb of data running around 5 trillion row reads + 500 million row writes per month
bypass paywalls clean magnolia1234

Mod exists for all major browsers.
The same, but I have an "Initiate Refund" button.
If you rewrite half of the equation to be about real losses, of course that's true, but that wouldn't make sense to do. However, securities denominated in dollars are also affected by inflation, so the only way to discuss their losses coherently is also against the inflation-adjusted dollar.

e.g. lottery winnings are also affected by inflation.
Disney: “Gendered stereotypes are harmful — be more inclusive!”

Also Disney: “Tell us your gender so we can target ads based on that!”

I would take DIE advocates more seriously if they reformed themselves — rather than lecturing the rest of us while engaging in such blatant hypocrisy.
Who are "some"?

That's first thing that jumps out. You have to list all the organizations willing to go on the record calling it fraud.

Your added statement doesn't provide any information about additional organizations that consider FTX-Alameda a fraud. It just puts out a nebulous implication that there exist some organizations, somewhere, that are calling it a fraud. In fact, your statement doesn't clarify whether or not these organizations are engaged in investigations. Nor does your statement even make mention of the evidence these organizations gave you to back up their assertions. Only that these, hopefully not totally hypothetical, organizations "question" a narrative.

I have to say, this addition by you is actually worse than the statement that NYTimes printed in terms of journalistic quality.

I actually hate NYTimes/FOX/CNN/BBC etc for reasons that should be obvious. But what you're doing is going in the opposite direction of where we need to be headed with responsible journalism.
It's pretty hard to untie the multiple connections and ascribe specificity to brain development and lack of a decent gut microbiome.

For example, we know pretty well that humans subjected to famine/malnutrition/toxin exposure/etc. in the first two years of life, when ~70% of brain development takes place, will tend to have decreased cognitive function over their lifetime.

If being deprived of a microbiome reduces the ability of the gut to absorb nutrients, then essentially a kind of starvation could take place which reduces brain development, and as healthy brain development seems to be one of the requirements for normal social interactions with others, it could just be nutrient starvation rather than any direct neurochemical signaling from gut microbes to neurons that's messing up brain development.
It's $4 billion. Berkshire is $700 billion market cap.

And, while he runs Berkshire conservatively overall, some individual bets he makes are very risky. He risks billions betting on the weather.
If you listen closely, you can hear an ameoba laugh.

If the ameobas didn't have the guts to fix all the worlds problems, what chance does that leave boffins? Tri low bite as they might :p
Query memoization with optimistic updates
> He then attacks planned obsolescence as the dumbest outcrop of this process,

Planned obsolescence is an economic myth. There is very little evidence that it actually exists in the real world, unless you are really willing to stretch the definition. It's just not possible to successfully pull it off in a competitive market.
What it’s like to use Apple’s Emergency SOS via satellite
I looked up what Twitter bonds I could find for puchase today and if I'm reading this web site correctly a Twitter bond that runs till 2030 has an effective yield of between 4.86% and 5% depending on daily price fluctuations.

This isn't a very exciting investment opportunity.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/bonds/twitter_incdl-note...

A 2030 treasury ETF has a yield of 3.86%. This means you'd be compensated around 1.15% per year for taking on the risk of Twitter going bankrupt.
Yes. Every system is evaluated from a safety perspective and measures are taken. What's interesting is that N+1 redundancy is seldom used. Usualy there is a totaly different system that checks the main system. Like a software watchdog that checks a hardware one. This is also why they need 5 years to get out a model that is more or less the previous model. That and they really don't get software.
Metcalfe's law succinctly explains why communication becomes more fraught as teams and organizations grow. Good managers minimize this quadratically rising cost.
Well, it's a typical hydrogen news story.

So while there is a lot of potential in hydrogen, a LOT of legitimate and useful use cases, and likely some real fundamental science in the article, the hyping of hydrogen is a desperate astroturfing campaign by oil/gas/nuclear to stave off EVs and wind/solar/battery which is eating their lunch in raw economics.

Thus the lack of real numbers intentional. Hydrogen production isn't efficient compared to grid transport and battery/hydro storage, because water is a very stable molecule and splitting it will fundamentally take a fair degree of energy and thermodynamic/heat loss/entropy.
Halperin's debut novel _The Truth Machine_ also has people living "documented lives", with always-on video and audio recording, as a primary plot element.
If we're talking about securities that are losing money, they can't be beating inflation. You're talking about securities that are beating inflation.

i.e. iff your security is worth fewer dollars than it was worth some period of time ago, it is losing money. The fact that dollars have also lost value during the same time means you've lost more money, not less.
This is neat. I'm curious where you got the list of stations. I try to keep a list of them, as most of them accept indie music submissions.
on the flip side a donor planning on donating $1m anyway may be persuaded to allow them to use it as a "matched" donation to try to get another $1m out of others.
People aren’t rational, they lack awareness, and even when they are aware of a new behavior they are hesitant to change behavior unless there are significant signals from media & peers that the new behavior will bring value .

Besides all of this, the cognitive load of being aware of every possible new behavior, activity and product in the world would be overwhelming.

I’m not advocating for more advertising (i live somewhat of an ascetic lifestyle myself), nor soft or hard paternalism. But assuming people will be able to discover and adopt high value behaviors without advertising (or other outside influence) is preposterous.
There was a commentary somewhere that while someone in france had discovered the cure to smallpox in the form of variolation, the king of france was dying of it. The reason he died was not because no cure existed, but because his doctors weren't aware of it and thus didn't know to apply it. The spread of knowledge is not magical. It will happen over time, but in that time knowledge will be lost. Variations of variolation have been used for thousands of years, but smallpox was only eradicated after galbraith wrote his book. The application of capital to the spread of useful knowledge can still happen even when the knowledge ought to be obvious and important to everyone that encounters it.
I'm unclear on what you're asking me to opine on, but if you're looking for me to state my stance, as differentiated from the two aforementioned parties, here it is.

TL;DR - Armchair experts on either side of the argument make poor investors.

The lack of barriers to creating, marketing, and hype-selling a new project inherently makes 99% of the projects in this space "vaporware". The terms "grift, rugpull, scam" etc. are appropriate.

Unsophisticated retail "investors" (and hell, even sophisticated speculators just subscribing to 'greater fool' investing - e.g., most VCs) are focused heavily on the upside in these types of projects, because the measure of success is "money made". There are people who respond to this by writing off the space entirely - "It's a ponzi scheme", "scam city", "tulips", etc. All fun memes to tout the "I told you so narrative"

My personal belief is that there is the potential for "ethical alpha" (subjective, perhaps - primarily meant to differentiate from 'get out before it implodes' alpha) to be had by investing long-term in the remaining projects with the combination of development attention, enterprise buy-in, and scaling capabilities that could deliver meaningful value to end-users. I'm not going to get into a debate over which projects meet these criteria, whether they exist, or any other debate which likely will revolve endlessly with no resolution.

I acknowledge there are risks associated with the broader technology being adopted in a meaningful sense, but subscribe to a perspective that there is yet-unrealized value in its application.
I have a 2018 VW Atlas and its automated braking system has done the right thing 99.9% of the time. It's definitely saved me from 5-6 accidents -- being cut off a number of times, a racoon jumping in front of my car, and that one time my attention waned.

My Tesla, on the other hand, get's it right about 10% of the time. I wanted to type a higher percentage, but phantom breaking happens so often. The number of times I've seen the red X on the atlas in the entire time owning it is about the number of times the M3 loses its mind on a monthly basis.

The other interesting thing: I could probably write the algorithm for the adaptive cruise control on the Atlas. It's so predictable that I know exactly what it's going to do in reaction to traffic around me. If a car ahead of me slows down, I slow down at a constant rate. If the car speeds up, I know exactly how much it's going to speed up. Same with people changing lanes ahead of me, etc.

The M3 OTOH feels like a buggy machine learning model. I have no idea why it's at the current speed it's at. If I set it to 120KM/H and there's no car in front of me the chances of it being 120KM/H is about 30%. If a car pulls away from and my car should speed up there is no rhyme or reason to when and how quickly it speeds up.

All that being said, I'd still take the Tesla automated braking over nothing at this point. Reading the other posts, it sounds like VW is doing something right.
It appears many do not know the actual definition of ad hominem.
The definition of the term is out there to be looked up.
Why does Disney really need this information for advertising purposes when they already know what shows somebody is watching? I realize that any age/gender can watch any show, and of course a lot of Disney's catalogue is pretty universal to age/gender, but there's going to be some kind of a signal in anybody's viewing history.

If some profile is routinely watching a show about makeup or horses or ballet dances, you have a pretty good guess about the age/gender. Likewise if some profile is watching a lot of shows about monster trucks, little league baseball, and RPG games, you likewise can make a pretty reasonable guess about who they are.
Have you tried running linux on those? How is it?
Did you happen to know Cowbird(.com), by chance? (I tried to open it now but it seems down)

It was a website from Jonathan Harris w/ stories from people all over the world.

The way you link books together reminded a lot of that (places, topics, etc...).
My complaint is that tech is still super strong and these articles are giving people a false sense of anxiety.

Unless perhaps the FANG type jobs, don’t really know about those.

But if you are looking to get a good tech job with a reasonable salary there are tons of open positions. We can’t hire enough people.
Integrating with local SAR services is one issue, but Globalstar's coverage is another (contrary to its name, it's not actually global, since it requires satellites to have both mobile devices and at least one earth station in view at all times).
Interestingly, most of the data is from people who never actually owned bitcoin.

They owned bitcoin-equivalent on investing apps. These investors didn't control their own private keys and have their own coins.
It's definitely no panacea. I've been using it regularly (monthly or more) since 2014 or so to pay for online services like VPS and to buy computer hardware. It works well. And it works even better than fiat in situations where authoritarian governments force payment processors to embargo journalists critical of them, and other such situations.

I'm not going to replace paying in cash for groceries with bitcoin. But it definitely has it's place as a currency. It's pretty annoying that the only things people ever hear cryptocurrency have almost nothing to do with cryptocurrency at all.