skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some countries have very high vehicle or road taxes, and in that case the price difference is effectively less, and the taxes are maybe better used for a newer model.

I like to buy things on their own merits, because they last, etc, but for example new cars usually have warranties. So the 'financialized' mode of purchasing is sometimes a better route; buy new with comprehensive warranty, get free replacements if anything breaks, buy on free credit and invest the money you'd otherwise have spent in a lump sum, etc, etc. ie contract and financial tricks can beat out simple solid engineering choices.
Thinks this is a different technology.
> Clearly centralized, ad-revenue driven psuedo-monopolies are a big problem.

Financially, it's the exact opposite of a problem; it's too profitable. There will always be big market for companies that manage to lock up an audience within its walls.
The name game in the name game often gives fun looping results:

Janson Janson bo-banson,
bonana-fana fo-fanson,
Fee fi mo-manson,
Janson!

Add or remove commas to keep it from going out of bounds.
We used CO to kill mice in my lab. Concentrated CO, filling the chamber first with it. They would take two breaths and pass out, maybe twitch once or twice, and that was it.

If I had to die I’d like to go that way.
I felt like this was already discussed elsewhere in the comments, so I didn't revisit it, but now I will point out a few things.

Backup cameras were far less necessary because the introduction of these cameras enabled the drastic reduction in rear visibility that now necessitates the cameras.

Blindside warning pales in comparison to well-integrated convex mirrors on both sides. The 2012-2014 Ford Focus executed this concept superbly, but I don't know of any other vehicles that have it.

As a grumbling aside, backup cameras are really about the safety of those outside the car, and I deduce from the popularity of SUVs and trucks that such a consideration carries almost no weight when buying a car.
I am in the same position. I want a drone, but it must be well-supported by an open source autopilot (and surrounding tools).

After looking at the contenders, I found the px4 project to be most impressive in terms of documentation of both the flight systems as well as the drones that have been used. They have a list of development kits to consider:

https://px4.io/devkits/
This is also the premise of the novel Gateway by Fredrik Pohl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(novel)
Seemingly "people" like to be informed, no matter the format.
How though? Does Doordash instantly send the restaurant the money or is it like after a few days?
Having seen how execs behave first-hand, this is the least surprising thing ever.
I am not able to see "Upgrade Plan" . Cn anyone suggest link to Upgrade plan?
This sounds like it’s spoken from someone who doesn’t understand a lick about sql. Pandas has one of the worst APIs I’ve ever seen. Truly a blight on the data processing landscape.
Lucky for you, there's a new PEP proposing just that: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-704-require-virtual-environ... Written by the author of this blog post no less!

However, you'll find that as with all packaging discussions there are people opposing it, because their workflow doesn't match yours and they don't want to change how they work. We, as a community, need a way to resolve such stalemates or I fear we won't make much headway
Let's say you have $50k in savings and an offer in hand for Microsoft or a startup idea of your own.

If want to work on your idea, but you don't already have connections to tap for immediate VC funding, any work you do on it is earning $0 income while you're still having to pay the bills. Your downside risk is that after X number of months or years, you've lost $Y dollars of your starting savings.

If you take the Microsoft offer, your downside risk is that after X number of months or years, you get laid off, and have to look for a new job, but your $50k is still there, and quite possibly a bunch of new savings as well.
VR will always be more of a destination, whereas the vision for AR is that it'll integrate with your daily life via a wearable.
There's also Rec Room, with a similar number of monthly active users.

More numbers can be found at https://www.metaversed.consulting/blog/metaverse-universe-q1...
Dwarf Fortress? http://bay12games.com/dwarves/
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/37930

Here’s lattner telling some guy off. There’s none that I can think of that are super memeworthy or anything. It’s usually just insecure devs with a little Dunning Kruger cocktail in the mix.

Certainly not anybody bothering dozens of people manually, for months, like in the link. That’s pretty wild.
US pledges to “go on the offensive” against Russia
Second law of thermodynamics cannot be defeated. The laser is outputting more heat than it can cool, effectively just moving heat.
Sorta apt username (like gonzo journalism), if this aids attackers.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tenure#Noun

The ivory tower sense, of an officially-secure permanent job, is only one of several.
Unlawful restraint of person
Houston also has a pretty effective, progressive program for the homeless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-...
Things certainly did go crazy for a while, mainly due to supply chain issues that reduced the supply of new cars for sale. So people bought more used cars, driving the prices up. That's starting to correct now that new car supply is getting more plentiful.

Even a 15 year old car without major issues is hard to find for less than about $5,000 USD where I am though, which is more than I've paid for a car in quite a while. You can find cars for less, but they get ugly pretty quickly.
"if people are trying to chase you away, you can always leave."

not a solution per se
There is:

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I greatly doubt it. Everybody already had a cellphone in 2007, and Apple pricing it at $200 with carrier subsidies tipped the scales in its favour when it came to rapid adoption. There are no such discounts likely with their headset; the estimates say it will be $1500 minimum. And unlike a phone, a headset is not an essential device that goes with you wherever. So it won't create the same kind of excitement the iPhone did.
IMO Dragonrealms was great in the late 90s and early 2000s, but when I tried to get back into it in 2020 I found that rampant AFK scripting for skill progression killed my desire to put much time into it. It was supposedly still against the rules, but those rules were basically completely unenforced and people would just flagrantly violate them while the GMs didn't seem to care. I ended up canceling my account after about a month.
Yes! That, and the gamma-rays being emitted by all the falling matter. That’ll kill the husband way before he gets close.

But I love the story. Clever use of time dilation.
That's the part i'm not sure about. The menu looked totally legit, the phone number turned out some random person in Vegas (after i bothered actually calling). Someone took their time to set this up.
Viewing Secrecy Through “Blank Spots on the Map” (2009)
Surely nobody really takes…whatever Meta has been doing in VR seriously?

Their VR demos look awful, last report I heard was employees didn’t even want to use it or touch it, oculus has done basically nothing except burn customer goodwill.
This comment seems to implicitly assume

a) that corporal punishment is the only or only effective way to ensure nobody or at least less students have to fear other peers
b) corporal punishment is any effective at all
c) the necessity to fear some peers has a strong connection to whether they are 'controllable'

All three claims seem to be disputed.
Also porn is not handled the way it is because it's "controversial" - it's handled that way because the business is a magnet for stolen credit card numbers and payment dispute filings (i.e. from husband's trying to cover expenditures on a bill their wife found) and money laundering and just about every other type of financial crime.
Sounds like a have to C it to believe it.
SEO Spammers Thrilled Google Isn't Cracking Down on CNET's AI-Generated Articles
Tell someone in the 18th century that 200 years later 2 percent of the labor force will work in agriculture, and they would swear that we must have nothing to do.
They bought a tiny bank in WA and like 10x’d their deposits overnight. I think they were going to use it for some kind of money laundering or some other scheme
R is easy and fun to use.

R is also impossible to understand whta is actually going on.
Roadwarden is a recent text adventure that has some sections like the ones you want. The story is pretty good too.
The difference is that these companies figured out that the real business is SEO and leadgen and the actual work is secondary. The capital H hard problem isn’t plumbing it’s finding work. Once you own the sales funnel it’s game over for anyone else.
Referring to actual people as "illegals" is gross.
Yeah southen cars don't rust out like salt belt cars. You might need to be wary of flood cars if you buy from anyplace that's had a recent hurricane.

Once a car is 8-10 years old, the age really doesn't matter anymore. It's all about the condition of the individual car. At that point the lemons are pretty much gone; the remaining cars are survivors, but some were taken better care of than others.
Headsets might be a niche market, but "leaving reality" is a huge market if you count video games, movies, TV, novels, short stories, plays, musicals, ...

There's a story I love to recount on this topic. A dad asked his kid why they preferred reading books to watching movies. The kid said, "because they have better pictures."

(And yes, AI can write stories, so the markets aren't orthogonal.)
What you've described is less of a "tax" and more of a financial enema.
Just need to download the 90 gig client, then I'll join your Teams 2 call.
likewise, if you buy a car that was made before it become standard to overload cars with bad computers, you get a car that is not overloaded with bad computers.

no computers is definitely better than bad computers.
This is a thought experiment.

Let's say that someone (perhaps DoE) identified that the power grid was at risk of attack. Convincing a bunch of people (politicians) to spend a chunk of change to secure it would be betweeen difficult and impossible. In order to further their cause, they can stage these trivial looking attacks to attract funding to grid security.

In computers, hiring pen testers is a common way to get security funded. An attack is a sure fire way to get something funded.
Same if you still use a real terminal. I still love my VT520 <3. But so many programs just barf out xterm-256 without checking. .

I mean, termcap/terminfo was invented just for this. It's a solved problem.
Never bought into VR. AR is interesting, but it has to be seamless, so a part of regular glass frames without any noticeable alterations.

The whole metaverse thing has always seemed ridiculous to me.
And his parents put up, what, their house? And what again was the supposed bail amount?

It’s absolutely wild the special treatment he’s getting.
Unless you're very careful and hedge your words, claiming that X ("war will cause economic harm to both parties") will cause a reduction in Y ("likelihood of war") leads everyone to say your claim is "disproven" whenever Y happens. Doesn't automatically mean the claim has actually been disproven.
> No, not if someone comes to a sudden stop in a busy lane.
Why not? You’re meant to maintain enough distance to the car in front of you at all times that you should be able to come to a complete stop without rear-ending them.
I mean, yeah on the one hand it's showing disregard for another culture, but on the other hand, it would be a waste of good and valuable resources not to recover the objects.
>things are still running

running from the radiation released from the shelling of nuke plants, not running in the "performing normally" sense

"Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday"

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225165134/https://www.bbc.c...
This is why you rewrite it in Rust \s

But seriously, one of the reasons games should maybe be less C++ and more memory-safe languages, if not Rust then languages like C# or JavaScript. And maybe incorporate formal methods into game-dev. The code which handles server responses should be sufficiently isolated from any of the unsafe code (e.g. rendering), so that you can ideally prove (or non-ideally, at least be very confident) that a server response cannot cause arbitrary code execution.

Maybe it still won't be sufficient against state actors, but it would mean that you can reliably play an old game like you can reliably view a webpage.

I would not be surprised if COD and GTA have remote-code exploits, though.
Repeating a string 4 times creates fun patterns with 360, 180 or 90 degree rotational symmetry (modifiable by adding spaces) which make nice looking avatars:

"grosegrosegrosegrose"
"grose grose grose grose"
> However, once you move the companies infra to AWS (or any one cloud provider) and shutdown your infra, in due course AWS will keep increasing your price by x% every year. At the point you don't have a choice but to pay those price increases yoy. You have much less bargaining power.

I think you’re leaving out a key restraint: AWS is quite profitable now but has strong competitors and there’s still a much larger amount of IT spending which isn’t going to any cloud provider. If they abuse one customer, a ton of money is going to race to the exit. It’s also hard to see how they could raise prices enough to cancel out all of that lost future business without attracting regulatory attention, too — rearchitecting isn’t trivial but you’re still talking on the order of a year to profit before you’re not only losing the profits you had but also all of the future growth.

The other thing to consider is the substantially greater cost of a hybrid cloud: not just the obvious costs of extra resources, ops, security, training, application support, etc. but also the opportunity costs of restricting your usage to the lowest-common denominator cloud features. That’s a heavy cost to pay every month as a hedge against a low-probability event — I highly doubt that you’d lose money betting that you’d save so much money by using a single cloud that you’d still come out ahead if you had to migrate later.
whiteness is a little more complicated than the color of your skin.

and groups of people with non-white skin -- say, Asian Indian Americans -- being able to overcome racism is great, but it should not be required, and they had some advantages:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/the-mak...

https://archive.ph/ih2Sa

The result was an intense form of social engineering, but one that went largely unacknowledged. Immigrants from India, armed with degrees, arrived after the height of the civil-rights movement, and benefited from a struggle that they had not participated in or even witnessed. They made their way not only to cities but to suburbs, and broadly speaking were accepted more easily than other nonwhite groups have been.
The Walmart near me had turned almost all the checkout lanes to self checkout. Self scanning a while cart of groceries SUCKS and I swear I'm gonna start stealing just to try to get them to bring back the cashiers...
Already mentioned, but another hearty recommendation for Planetfall. I played that game in the 1980s, and I still enjoy playing it from time to time.
'Nightmare': Collapse of leading crypto lender traps investors
no, OP is very explicitly talking about spherical cars with negligible friction.
The color codes could intefere with your grepping though, and it won't guarantee clean output unless all the begin/end codes are on the same line
Yeah, when I think uncapped downside, I think of shorting something that can go up any amount and being on the hook for that. When I think of losing a job, I think of loss of income (including benefits like healthcare (at least in the US) and stock grants), possibly loss of networking with colleagues (though social media exists), and not a lot more. So I’m with you. I have no idea what they’re talking about and would appreciate a detailed explanation.
Whoever buys VRChat will impose publicly-traded-tech-giant-“can’t upset the investors, Washington, or the media” guidelines/DMCA to it, and ruin it in the span of two years.

It’s popular because you can do whatever you want, which is the antithesis of companies like Alphabet/Microsoft/Meta.
That is why I think they might be more inclined to conduct a blockade.
The Roman attitude toward work was the exact opposite of the capitalist attitude.

Romans saw work as servile and debasing. One reason they had slaves was so they could be insulated from it.

It’s hard to see that attitude leading to the Industrial Revolution.
what a simp, they have been "saving the world" since forever, it's how they make money. But sure we should give them credit for something we've already paid, now. Zero percent of that money is going into lobbying for their interests instead of the public's.
I agree with you, but I feel it's unfair for the other 99% of the country to be subject to it.
This article is so anti-America that I thought I was reading CNN for a second.
Nobody cares this much to risk everything just to get some extra security on some arbitrary thing.

That's like shooting up a school to get more security around schools. Come on.
There’s a very old YouTube video of a drunken Boris Johnson reciting Homer in the original Greek.
In (and Above) Beverly Hills, Police Are Watching
His parents co-signed a $250M bond with Bankman-Fried, it says so right there in the document.
> Convincing a bunch of people (politicians) to spend a chunk of change to secure it would be betweeen difficult and impossible.

I'm not convinced of this. They play a lot of games, but ensuring that power is reliable and fairly price-stable is not just important to all of the peasant middle class voters, but also to their big corporate donors, the farming blocks, etc.
I think one thing that was unclear to me was that the first thing you do in the app is select an area, and then you get the price for a new image, but no option to use an existing one (which is what I expected). Instead you have to go to a completely separate menu option to find the existing images.

It’d be nicer if the list of the existing images for an area just showed up in the same options dialog that allows me to choose the options for new images (probably as another choice next to medium or high resolution).
Set Point Theory May Explain Why You’re Not Losing Weight
This is what happen when google assigns too much weight to old, high authority domains. Content becomes secondary.
They make money because patents prevent others from producing that “something”. The justification for patents is that the inventor gets to milk their invention in return for sharing how they did it. This is based on the an assumption that society as a whole benefits from this arrangement. So, if society as a whole is not benefiting from patents because pharma companies are charging obscene amounts then it is time to get rid of patents for medicines (or regulate how much pharma companies get to charge).
Yes complicity with theft makes one untrustworthy.

Describing it as mere tax evasion interests is a bit of a simplification. During Corralito accounts were frozen to the point they could often barely be drawn on. Whether you want to blame that on the bank or not, the end result is people end up not trusting the banks...
I also started doing that MOOC, when it was hyped. I got to the first Octave exercises. Immediately I felt uncomfortable with the code base presented. It seemed really badly structured. It felt like I was just hacking something into a mess.

I knew I was side-tracking, but still I tried to refactor it a bit, to make it more acceptable. Modularization felt somehow shoehorned into the language though. Then the grader did not work any longer. Not sure it was because of my "refactoring" or because of the course platform. More likely my modifications, or that the grader checks the integrity of files one is not supposed to change.

After that experience I threw the course and did 2 other MOOCs, which taught with the up-to-date (back then) Python stack, which I found much more useful for real applications. However, in those 2 MOOCs I could already use the knowledge learned from the Andrew Ng MOOC, so at least in that aspect of teaching the actual theory, he did a very good job.
I don't know why convex mirrors aren't common. There must be a well researched reason like them leading to bad judgement of relative speed or messing up with spatial awareness of the driver.

Hard disagree about backup cams. I can't think of a single new or old car that would be objectively better off without a backup camera. No amount of rear glass will make you see a cat or a dog that's standing right behind the trunk.
>and sleeping 12+ hours per day.

I hit rock bottom and have slowly dug out. It was more on the relationship side of things.

One thing I noticed these days is I tend to get very sleepy. I am not sure whether it is age related as I am approaching 40. The sleep is such that I fall asleep while typing or if I am reading I fall asleep and the book falls down. I can sleep for long hours and I feel very nice after waking up like it is a new day or something.

I eat decently and I cook what I eat. I also don't have any habits. Is it just age related or something deeper?
I still play from time to time. For the most part the only in game communities tend to just use the world props as a prop/sandbox for freeform roleplaying. The people who script level their characters tend to talk on discord and probably other chats. I don't think spontaneous in game interaction is much of a thing anymore.
I bet part of this is a distraction. Someone needed the power out in order to do some random heist job in NC. So they kill power over a vast area. That way motive is virtually impossible to pinpoint.

Likely it's some security thing like some vault that needs constant power. You kill power in some massive way such that the backup generators will run out before everything comes online. Then Boom! pull off your elaborate heist to the tune of (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1lWoA2tgxQ) and walk away like nothing happened.
The reason Argentinians want to get paid in this and not their local currency is economic instability and high inflation in Argentina. You don't want to be holding Pesos, it's madness. The situation is similarly dire in quite a few other countries. Turkey, Venezuela, Iran, Lebanon,...

I'm not sure about Argentina specifically but from most of these cases I know personally they don't even use Binance for conversion, there are local money changers that trade hard currency for depreciating (t)rash, this was true even before Bitcoin & co when people still kept paper dollars under their mattress or in the bank. Those who think this will go away with regulation and bans are even more delusional than the folks who thought that alcohol or drugs can simply be banned and all will be fine. Financial security is a basic need, it's part of our drive for survival.

Binance is mostly used by speculators/retail traders, not people who actually use cryptocurrencies. I get the joke that Bitcoin people say everything's good for Bitcoin, but in this case it may actually be true. Binance isn't a good company and people have been concerned about their huge market share in exchanges for a long time. Binance isn't pro Bitcoin, Ethereum and other such networks. They heavily push their own coins and solutions which aren't decentralized. It's only slightly better for the ecosystem then FTX probably, in the sense that they're not outright stealing user funds - at least that we know of.
Growing pains going from Python 2 to 3 ?

(Are you sure Octave didn't have simular ones when it was as young ? Not to mention that they are kind of forced to follow behind Matlab : for instance IIRC they only recently started to think about adding Unicode support ?)