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The current generation 4Runner went on sale in mid-2009. The engine was first introduced in 2002 and the transmission in 2005.

It should be half the price, but people will apparently pay Toyota just about anything for it.
UPS routinely delivers my packages after 9PM. Fedex had a phase of leaving my packages next to the road. The dodgy people in passenger vehicles tend to hang out in my driveway for a while and never seem prepared. Half the carriers stack the packages in front of my door such that it can't be opened. All the services are bad in their own ways, which seem to depend on the "ingenuity" of the individual drivers. I'm sure they're all getting the screws turned on them as much as technically possible.

I will say Fedex Express seems to have retained some of its character, in the way that UPS Air has not (some of those >9PM packages have been Next Day Air 10:30AM service). The worst is being unable to reach an actual human. If I'm calling, it's not because I want to listen to a computer voice read out the tracking information. (Although one of their tracking websites has been straight up "unavailable" for months, so maybe it's not a stretch).

The reward for worst offense probably goes to UPS, for delivering a crushed box that started off containing 4 gallons of oil paint, very obviously leaking everywhere. That was also at 9PM, so nobody to even try to get ahold of until the next day well after I had been forced to deal with it. I donned disposable gloves and carefully poured them into a 5 gallon bucket and got 3 free gallons of paint and 20% discount on the reship from Home Depot. I guess dealing with the fallout is the real price we pay for goods getting delivered? The sheer wastefulness continues to be obscene to me. We have such abundance that we don't even bother handling goods properly to avoid squandering them.

What I really don't get is why none of these companies have tried batching deliveries onto fewer days per week. I get that they they're not in the business of storing packages, but instead of having drivers race around to do one package at each of many houses, they could make fewer stops. If the buffering would take too much room, do ingress policing that requires shippers to only ship to specific destinations on specific days. If we're going for cheapest possible rates, that seems like a straightforward optimization.
Related:

Skribilo: A Document Programming Framework - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490192 - June 2021 (22 comments)

Skribilo: A Scheme-Based Document Programming Framework - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8453884 - Oct 2014 (2 comments)
> as it exists in source code, not in hex

Isn’t this at odds with highly optimized AOT code? I suspect that’s the ultimate blocker but certainly you have this today for any kind of JIT/Interpreted language.

EBF does kind of let you get some of it back, but ultimately it turns out that writing code to debug other code is really complex and you experience rapidly diminishing returns for most bugs (except the super gnarly ones) because a little bit of state and system’s understanding proves sufficient most of the time.

I’m sure you’re aware but GDB has reversible debugging via rr. It’s still hard to get all the way back to source if you’re debugging an optimized build of your code. And polyglot environments can be extra challenging unless special care is taken. I agree it’s a mess, but I think that’s because it’s actually extremely hard to meet competing goals. Do you see the reason why it’s so bad differently with your greater experience in the space?
This article disproves its own thesis. The article shows that technology has gotten objectively better, the problem is that better technology is a double edged sword, but cynics only like to acknowledge the negatives.

This contradiction is perfectly embodied by the first example where the author bemoans 45 minutes to download 20 gigs over the internet (which is even a bit slow by today's standards). In the time of the n64 that the author alludes to you couldn't even download 20gb from local media to a hard disk in 45 minutes, not to mention there is no hard drive or media even available on the order of tens of gbs. This is objectively better technology, in fact, the technology is so unbelievably amazing that the author is actually impatient about waiting 45 minutes for what was literally a feat of grandiose fiction as imagined by the video game player of 1996.

Of course, it's not lost on me that when you want to just sit down and play a game, it's frustrating that advancements in technology can also be used to create a barrier to your enjoyment, certainly this is not good and nobody likes it, but it doesn't then follow that the technology is objectively worse because of it. Also, there are others who actually like this, they'd be excited to know that they're getting the freshest experience with bug and content updates, there are many people who deliberately hold off playing new games so that they can wait for the first round of patches to fix major issues.

All the other examples suffer from the same kind of contradiction, but I won't elucidate each one, the point is, technology has gotten objectively better.

I should write an article, "Old Man Yells At Cloud: Ungrateful hedonists don't know how good they have it"
They did say that debt repayments more than 60 days overdue have increased. "54% year-over-year to reach the highest default rate since 2014" isn't good.
I'm not saying that polars isn't faster. In fact in my other comment here I mention that polars is much better than pandas at what polars does (it's not a drop in replacement). I'm just saying that most of the times (not always, and in fact in those cases we've used polars to speed it up) that I've seen painfully slow pandas operations has been due to poorly formatted pandas code.
Build a Q&A Site with Docker
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is particularly important for Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html - we want HN to be a place where people can share their work and get meaningful, respectful feedback. Criticism is fine of course but it should come with information and explanation.
Cargo value seems irrelevant to profitability. I wonder what the actual cost and profit for a cargo ship
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The context matters entirely.

Is the person looking to choose an engine a hobbyist, hopeful indie, tech lead for a team? Is the project content driven or very procedural? What’s the timeline? Are there resources to dedicate to significant tooling, or handling cross-platform insanity?

List goes on of course. But my highly opinionated answer to your question is the only people using a rust game engine are hobbyists and hopeful indies who aren’t on a time crunch.
Just because somebody posts a video of themself crying hysterically on Tik Tok doesn't mean they are right. I'm just saying.
The way this page was built is amazing for learning. "dragging" the properties and visualize / see what effect it has instantly is so helpful to understand what's up. Wish I've learnt CSS with that kind of page.
There is also the fact that hosts can take down negative reviews for a variety of dubious reasons. The fault here is entirely with Airbnb. The reviews are the only real information that you can use before booking (and yes you can discuss over messages but the UX flow doesn't really accommodate this in a meaningful way where both parties agreeing to terms before the booking is made). I recall Lyft used to send people out to inspect cars and give training before letting someone drive. Airbnb is just being cheap and lazy on this front.
These "ChatGPT says" comments are terrible. It's not even true that tempered glass requires more force to break from one side, is it?

Really low effort. Unless, I guess, the point is to showcase how some of the answers ChatGPT comes up with are very confident and very incorrect.
It wasn't a bonus like a year end bonus, it was a sign on bonus and a relocation package. So they gave her money and helped her move cities in the idea that she would work for them, and then she decided to renege on that deal. I've had a similar offer made and they were very clear I would need to pay it back if I quit within the year. I don't really see what is wrong with no this.
My impression with this comment was that OP seemed to be emphasizing that they had no place to stay that first night.
That's right, because logic works hand in hand with objective reality. On the other hand, logic would be very effective to beat the patently absurd argument that Canada's purchase of 88 F-35s is in any way related to an actual military threat faced by Canada. Unfortunately, even on HN, absurd propaganda doubling as conventional wisdom trumps logic and objective reality every time when it comes to geopolitics.
Seeig a fellow TA pursue a cheater who copied a major math assignment symbol for symbol from another student, mistakes and all, and fail to break through the bureaucracy and achieve actual punishment was quite an eye opening experience. If this is how brazen cheaters are handled in one of the top Canadian engineering schools, what hope is there?
These days, the only time Amazon ever does that to me is if I order something with same-day delivery. Otherwise, all regular orders come via the big gray & blue Amazon trucks, just like any other delivery company.
The one time I posted a negative review it was promptly taken down after the host complained. They then proceeded to submit a negative review of me (a personal attack really) that had no basis in fact and I had already provided Airbnb with proof earlier in order to get my money back. It was a huge PITA to take that review down. Grew very disillusioned with Airbnb after that, they really don't provide any protections against malicious hosts.
When you've driven to the store to buy the game, pop it in, and immediately have to wait for a multi gigabyte download, the farce is made most apparent. You don't buy games at a store, you buy game coupons - the disc is just a proof of payment that is used to download the game, since the fact that it's on a disc is reasonable evidence that it's already out of date.
I guess it's the glass half full or empty type situation

1. You can watch your favorite movie sitting on a bus stop

2. sure but i can listen to any song i like those that aren't on my playlist thanks to 4g instead of hearing annoying radio ads. i can frickin see the tyre pressure of each individual tyre fwiw.

3. yes but again i can watch anything i like as compared to having a tivo or even before that when you missed your favorite show at 9pm, you missed it forever.
They weren't unplayable, they were hard. As a kid we routinely used to go far in the game with fun, as an adult I was shocked at how difficult they were and couldn't finish anything but we used to.

Also some games had nice enough multiplayer modes that we spent all night on these with my cousin (bubble bobble, rc pro am).

I wouldn't compare the 8bit era with the post ps3 era
Amazon isn’t disrupting UPS. They’ve sunk billions to try and smooth out the slowdown in an e-commerce business that is a boat anchor on the real money machine - AWS.
Australian satirical site to paywall content to stop use as AI training material
I'm really curious what your schedule looks like
Does that website have an RSS feed?
I'd take crappy wifi over the host literally being a scam and booking me a building that they do not own.
Tell HN: iCloud Login Bug
Steps to reproduce: purchase a new iPhone from a prepaid MVNO. In the setup screen I decided to create myself a fresh @icloud.com account, skipping setting up a lockscreen PIN(relevant later). Here’s where things get fucked. 24h later, getting pop ups telling me to sign into iCloud again. I’m still logged In on the phone in Settings but nothing works. It’s telling me my email or password is wrong?!? The same password I always use for my important account and know by heart.

I frantically attempted every varient Id ever use. Of course I’m scared and looking for options. Miraculously , without knowing password I was still able to change my name from “Anonymous Operetive” to my government name and call Apple… and I was able to add a secondary @gmail in “Reachable at”, supposedly for recovery. I immediately fill out a the standard iforgot.apple.com recovery flow. thankfully they have my phone number verified but and no other contact method beside the gmail. The page says basically it’s been accepted but I should wait 12 days before they’ll be sending telling me instructions for resetting the password by text, in 12 days as a security measure.

After 13-14 days there was still no text from Apple with a password reset link. But something did changed, the iCloud login prompt was now asking me my password for my @gmail account. Somehow it became the primary address and miraculously my normal password finally worked! Now there’s more weirdness, in Settings it won’t allow me to remove this gmail from “Reachable at” in my Settings screen and use my initially setup @icloud.com address.

The email app finally logged in and could receive mail. Now I can’t ducking remove the @gmail.com from my account and use the @icloud as the primarily and there’s a highly confusing UX glitch that occurs; when selecting the old gmail, clicking the red dot, a screen appears saying you have to choose a new Apple ID email. So, I enter my @icloud.com and submit. I get a popup “Your Apple ID has been updated. - Use xxxxxxx@gmail.com to sign into your account. WTf? How has it been “updated” to the email I explicitly just clicked to delete.

I try on iCloud.com in the browser to change my damn email and get the error: “This email cannot be used as an Apple ID at this time.” With no further explanation. Not only is this an obvious, reproducible, scary, confusing bug, but it gets worse from here and there’s major security implications. I called Apple again and explained this issue and offered to share my screen via remote assist. The agent did some research, and then said I have to wait 30 days to remove it. Nowhere in the UX does it say this, and why the fuck? How is removing an secondary, 3rd party email from my iCloud account take 30 days? What if it were compromised. This bug is bad.

I also have experienced a 2nd very similar bug, this time on Mac. even worse in my opinion: where a brand new iCloud account ALSO glitches after 24h and the login prompt on iOS / macOS falsely claims you’re entering an incorrect email/password when you’re 100% sure it’s correct. The story behind this one is posted in the comments.
I agree that not everything on Airbnb is scam and plenty of reasons to use it, still. Now painting outside maybe not an issue, but it depends. If they had a balcony with a view in a photo of a property and featured it in a description, but somehow forgot to mention anywhere that it is obstructed by a construction - it is “scamish”.
Just the bailouts equated $229,000 for each of 6.5m Americans in finance.

Just the drop in the stock market equated to the earnings of 75,000 quants averaging $7,800 per day for 45 years.
According to this article [1] you have 15-60 seconds until the electric windows stop working. Also, on most cars you can detatch the headrests and use the metal at the bottom to break the windows.

1. https://rac.com.au/car-motoring/info/unexpected-car-emergenc...
For a crazy comparison, it's worth taking a look at the B-1R concept. It was a b-1 refitted for air to air combat.

In a bvr battle of missile trucks, it may be beneficial to have separate platforms optimized for sensing and attack. Maneuverability may not be required if the aircraft can remain high and fast.
They’re fine for one night while you resolve the Airbnb problem though.
> I’d trade 10 year old graphics for 10 year old stability.

Would you trade 3-year-old graphics for 25-year-old stability? If so, my friend, console gaming is where it's at!
Hotel user here. Never tried Airbnb. Are chores, curfews and cleaning fees common? Why would anyone use them? Are the savings that much?
Absolutely ... but don't forget the fun of trying to play multiplayer Command & Conquer via dial-up modem: "Wait, I thought I was calling you?", "Why is your phone engaged?", "Hold on, let me call you on my mobile" ...
I’d be ok with it if my identity was a secret that I needed to guard myself. But it isn’t. My name, DOB, and address are made publicly available by my municipality. My drivers licence can’t be kept secret because the law requires me to carry it on my person, where it’s easily lost or stolen (and also needs to be shared in case of an accident). My passport also can’t be kept secret because every airline and hotel takes a scan of it. There are hundreds if not thousands of copies of my passport, most of which I assume are stored without any security whatsoever.

These are physical documents that should only have power when produced physically. It simply shouldn’t be possible to do anything with just the details or a copy, especially not taking out credit in my name or taking over my bank accounts.
Train hard, fight easy
> I left a review of my experience and Airbnb promptly deleted it

That’s interesting. They can do that? On what grounds was it deleted?
The title that's inside <title></title> is not so bad.

"Metropolitan Bank Is Fleeing Crypto. Bitcoin Investors Should Be Worried"

As for other banks, what about Silverlake.

Not many banks are offer crypto services. Regulators are stepping up.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/04/crypto-winter-us-regulators-w...

It is likely that countries will launch their own digital currencies.
My neighbor has one, sometimes it feels like a train.
This could be true. It could also not be. We'll see.
CubDB: A Pure Elixir Key Value Store
> "...there’s no option to buy once and upgrade again in, say, 3 years."

Uh, yes, there is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
Intelcom is totally undercutting them for sure. If I get an Intelcom email, I know it's showing up on time as stated. Meanwhile, if it's UPS, well I'm still waiting on a package at I ordered 2 months ago coming from the US a 2.5 hour drive away. It has been chilling in Pennsylvania for the majority of that period which was supposed to arrive today after contacting support yet has been pushed out another week two hours after the described delivery window today.
Same for me, as of this evening, the 'Latest' tab is now gone (it was there this afternoon). This largely eliminates my preferred way to use Twitter. I suppose I was of little value to them as a not-logged-in user, so they have eliminated any value for me.
Although AirBnB operates a two-sided market hosts and renters, they only care about the hosts. Every interaction I've had with AirBnB is always in favor of the host and there's really no customer service for guests. I called over several days to resolve an issue with 'ambassadors' who are volunteers with no authority. The worst one was booking one for 30 days, getting to it late (after midnight) seeing that it was completely inappropriate. AirBnB has a completely different policy for long-term rentals and there was no recourse and the host knew it from the first discussion they knew where they stood.

Now I just book hotels--you know what to expect and get what you pay for.
Is there something that could be particular to your situation with UPS?

I've not had to go pick up a package in basically ever, in a low population county in the US. I remember 20+ years ago my brother and I went and drove to get something, but I think it was Fedex.

As far as online shipping, vendors seem to split between UPS and USPS for me. There's a Fedex distribution center like 6 miles away, so not sure why they don't seem to be in the mix.
I wonder if the developers will use coax or fiber? I assume coax is cheaper... ? Oh, or CAT-6?

Question: for fiber, I assume it's easy to later upgrade from 1Gbps to 10Gbps?

Is the same true for coax?
To be clear, I mean that Alphabet revenue was about the same in both 2019 and 2020, so it's only growth since Q3 2020 that matters.

Any idea what the new headcount is doing? I can think of very little change in their services over the last handful of years, but apparently they have doubled in size in the last five! At best I could point at waymo, but they've gained 2k compared to 70k. And they already gutted stadia but that was never very big.
Only 8 weeks of severance? Didn't Salesforce give 5 months?
No, in the U.S., the middle class can include much of the working class. The middle class has typically included the entirety of the manufacturing sector prior to the year 2000. When people vote for politicians who say they're going to bring back manufacturing jobs, those voters aren't clamoring for lower-class wages, obviously.
Lua is great and I've shipped titles professionally with it however it needs to be deployed at the right layer. There's going to be things that you need to be fast and usually native is your path there. I think in that context Rust shows a lot of promise.

Also the build loop on Bevy is pretty good from what I've seen, esp if you enable the dynamic linkage flag in development. The ECS system is really well thought out even if the engine is a bit sparse I think it shows a lot of promise to build a highly efficient game loop.
You can call it censorship if you want—people mostly use that word nowadays to express a feeling—but the moderation point is that you plainly broke HN's rules with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34298516, and doing that will get you banned here.
>> The full life cycle of the programme is expected to cost $52bn ($70bn Canadian)

The other article linked states that the programme lifetime is 40 years.

$70B/35M/40 = $50 / year per person
New set of Go libraries for CLI development
A new set of libraries for developing CLI applications in Go, whether classic (one command execution) or in a closed loop console.
Answers from AI could be wrong sometimes(close to 20%). The better database schema and purpose provide for AI, the better results you can get. This can help the AI better understand what you are asking it to do and improve the accuracy.
Met spouse a few months later at another activity organized by the same club. Have to think that I would not have had the same confidence to approach women and interesting stories to tell them if I have not been doing rock climbing, skydiving and whitewater rafting for couple of years prior. It's such a female take to mock guys for seeking out thrills and then only want to be friends with shy nerds who could lose a few pounds. But no matter, most of us would not even find ourselves attractive if we backed off from every little risk, and young and single is exactly the time when consequences is as much primarily on us as they are ever going to be.
I do remember the past and dealing with driver issues, irq conflicts and broken implementations of opengl or directx that crashed my games all the time. The countless hours trying to get unreal to run in hardware mode without crashing. Hours trying to find the right combo of drivers and IRQs and even moving slots.

That's just games. I don't know how many papers I lost due crashes due to macs not having protected memory so one app could take out the whole system.
How does this differ from the F4 being retrofitted with a cannon in a centerline pod? It was designed for BVR, but that (politically) didn't work out so well.
Way too far in the opposite direction IMO. I did love the series (well, right up until the last two episodes, when it was clear they ran out of money to actually conclude things properly) but it was as slow as molasses.
The inverse of this is that in the early days, you’re getting amazing value while these unicorns burn through billions scaling up. Airbnb 5+ years ago have incredible value for money, as did Uber and more recently some of the eBike/scooter companies.