skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demand for used cars is so high that the deprecation of new cars is often not as fast as that article suggests.

I paid almost $20k for a 2016 Honda Fit a few years ago, the Carvana price is about $17k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuZl-Ay-8KI

I also question the "Americans only want to buy large SUVs" because Americans who go to a car dealer frequently find that they sold out the last small car they had yesterday but never fear, they have hundreds and hundreds of trucks in the lot that are unsold.

I've heard Toyota very much wants to retire the Corolla but all that will happen if they do that is people will be paying new car prices for 10-year old Corollas.
It’s not necessarily the worst idea ever to launch a Bakersfield to Fresno high speed line and to have your train traverse the Bay Area and LA corridors at a lower speed until work on those are complete.

But my understanding is that they were feting a plan which left passengers with a 20 mile bus bridge to Bakersfield, and that’s just deranged
Many of the western democracies were dictatorships (i.e.) monarchies, until long after their basic governmental frameworks were established. Many parts of the English government, for example, predate the Glorious Revolution.
It's super cool. I would buy merch with that logo (stickers, a shirt, etc.)
I don't know why anyone likes his books. They tend to be very light on facts and evidence, and heavy on inflating his own ego.

Maybe read it if you want to understand the current zeitgeist in the world of managers, but I wouldn't look for wisdom in them.
An American corporation protected by the American taxpayer has some duty to its workers.
now. Not at the time were "adopting TCP or not" was a question.
Sure, just having a little fun on the topic that I don't think is to be taken seriously.
Why would me knowing it matter?

So shareholders are paying for the exec, and they are paying for the consultant who is doing the exec's job?

If you work as an exec at MCD, working this out is the kind of thing that you should know. It is the reason why you are being paid money to be there.
Which is precisely why this will be pushed aggressively. I'm sticking to passwords myself.
uff, I had been somewhat (worriedly) expecting another american civil war.

what is unexpected about it, that it not going to be California Vs Georgia, or the Virginias Vs Florida (I don't know enough about state-politics within the USA so disregard my specific examples)

the surprise for me is that it will (already is but whatever) be things like this, "department of commerce" Vs "securities exchange comission" or things like this...

the Federal Bureau of Investigation is FIGHTING the Central Intelligence Agency!

wow
Jason Fried: On hiring, rehiring, and one question to answer them all
I remember reading a blog a hairdresser some time ago. He could tell if somebody is going to tip or not the moment they walked in. He loved old ladies because they almost always tipped - although in the UK it's usually a pound or two.
It’s much faster, doesn’t require you to tweak the generated password to fit their weakening requirements, and you’re never nagged to rotate it. I have used a password manager since the 2000s and for most sites like that I end up hitting the forgot password flow because they broke their password database or use inactivity expirations. You also don’t have problems when their front end developers break their form entry or validation for your password manager, which is common, and pushing this removes the justification for adding insecure MFA systems like SMS or emailed codes.
I think that about the HDMI In port every time I see it on my OG Xbox One.
Agreed with all of this. I consider the API structure (which might be defined by protobuf/Avro/Thrift/etc) to be separate from anything that is used by either the server or client services. The API structure is the only thing that should be shared.

When you start out, it will feel very repetitive because your client object structure matches your API structure matches your server object structure. You might even think "DRY!" and want to combine these, but IMO, resist the temptation. You will eventually have a case where these need to evolve independently. For the Galactus case, imagine that for compliance (or whatever) reason, you need to start soft-deleting users, and you do that via the simple case of an `IsDeleted` flag on the User table. You'll need that flag on the User object on the Galactus side, but you don't want to add this to the API and expose it to clients.

> Edit: This allows you to run API migrations and data migrations independently. Which is crucial for any service that will last longer than 1 year.

Totally agreed here too.
Not a hassle, lift the cord, press the button, stick the cord in the hole, done. Parking space idea sounds nice, as does all vaporware. As long as I can back in.
The latter group is plenty big enough at the point of sale (e.g. every single store).
> Communism left the world stage.

That... didn’t happen.
Please don't call market extremists Austrian. We, the people of Austria, want nothing to do with them and their philosophy is seen as crazy fringe theories here.
>“With climate change, it’s very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this it’s not at all clear what you should do.”

> “I’m in the camp that thinks this is an existential risk, and it’s close enough that we ought to be working very hard right now, and putting a lot of resources into figuring out what we can do about it,” Hinton said.

I am sure he does not believe that.

Because, if we actually believed AI was an existential threat, then the thing to do immediately is to ban all AI training (it would be easy as AI training is pretty expensive) and to hunt down all AI researchers and place them in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives.

This would actually contain the threat and moreover have very minimal disruption of normal people's lives.

And if you really believed that AI was an existential threat, you could argue that that course of action is the most moral to take (greatest good to greatest number and all that).
Colonels of Truth (2016)
> One of the key assumptions made by nixpkgs, and by many hermeticity-focused projects, is that URLs stay alive and unmodified. They don’t promise that something will always build. They promise that it will build perfectly, exactly as you specified, or not at all. There’s a nice security element to that I guess.

This shouldn't be the case since the main upstream substituter, cache.nixos.org, should have the derivation cached or at least the latest remote source/binary. MS Teams is an exception since it's licensed as "unfree" which likely prevent caching. I think there's a way to mark the remote src of the package as redistributible (if MS allows that) even if the final package/derivation is not destributible.

Since external sources are content addressed, you can always manually add the source file via the `nix store add-file` or `nix store prefetch-file`.
The difference is between "Company releases new product in current line with X feature" and "Company releases software update that provides X feature to current products in the field". "Company updates product line with X feature" is ambiguous between the two.
Do you have any experience with the legislative process at all? Because that is pretty common tool (defunding a program or agency) used today and has no relevance to the single subject rule
> As the mythical man month has teached us: what one engineer can do in one month, two engineers can do in a year.

I don't remember that being the main idea behind the Mythical Man Month.

I think the major take aways were more like "Adding people to a late project makes it later" and "Some tasks don't get faster with more people.

For example, you can't get 9 women to birth a baby in 1 month". Other tasks _do_ get faster with more people (doubling the number of people digging a ditch will result in the ditch getting dug faster).
Gmail seems to only show ads if you have categories on.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3094499?hl=en&co=GENI...
Can you provide sources for this claim? If true, how? What is it that the 4090 has that the P40 doesn't to justify the price?

I understand that 4090 is aimed at gaming and has a lot of extra bells and whistles like the RTX cores. But it is also consumer electronics and much cheaper than the enterprise GPU lines for the same power.

According to this 4090 already has double the raw flop performance of the V100 and is competitive with the most powerful GPUs in the market from last year.

https://www.aime.info/blog/en/deep-learning-gpu-benchmarks-2...

And according to this the V100 is ~60% faster than the P40

https://ai-benchmark.com/ranking_deeplearning_detailed.html

Not that these sources look particularly reliable, but still, consistent with intuition.
Show HN: Summora – Everything, in summary
Hey HN!

I have developed a platform for user-generated articles on any topic. The twist is that everything should be written in short form. The editor is built in such a way that an article is divided into segments (e.g. "chapters" for a book summary). Each segment then has bullet points, which define the actual content.

https://www.summora.com/

Here is an example article where I amateurishly explain quantum computing:

https://www.summora.com/post/clgjtw6rr0000lc082cppvzex

Such platform is not a new idea, but started as a learning opportunity I just felt like building it. The UI is written entirely by hand. Writing/editing articles should be as smooth as possible (imagine Google docs), accordingly there are few "save" buttons.
The technologies used are Next.js, tRPC, Prisma, Tailwind CSS and AWS S3.

The code can be found here:

https://github.com/bennettdams/summora

I have a lot more features in mind, but haven't found time to implement them yet.

Would love some feedback!
> Auth services, obviously

Isn't it easier to do simple cookie based session token authentication simpler for the beginning?
Oh, you mean like the QD-OLED monitor hooked to my PC?
Paying off shareholders in one Quarter before you plan a mass layoff in the next quarter, and hinting these are unrelated, seems to me to be a more disingenuous move than to call out this fact.
Would've been pretty tricky having demolition crews placing explosives in 3 buildings in NYC for weeks without anyone noticing.
Why does this defy physics? How are buildings supposed to collapse?
As I said, there is almost no chance that they reverse before the product is killed because they are optimizing for revenue, not user growth (and when you take this at the margin, increasing ads per page is the only way).

I have never seen a company stop before this point either. The institutional imperative to continue gaming the numbers is overwhelming.
Of course they do. On one hand Twitter was known to have FBI and CIA working inside them.

But here's Israel explaining[0] their troll army operations explicitly (see former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett directing the organization at 3:28 in video)

https://youtu.be/4xl30Re1EUI?t=208

Why wouldn't any powerful state do this? It is effective, and other countries do it so you can't abandon that "battlefield".
Ok. I don’t work in SaaS and I know something about Casio G shock watches, so I came from a different perspective. Thanks for adding that
Virgin Galactic to start commercial flight in late June
Good explanation.

Presumably it would also be quite unpleasant to be allergic to your own muscles.
Apollo era: "Only men can go to space because science reasons."

People: "Yep, that sounds good".

SpaceX era: "Women are smaller and more efficient, which is a big deal when fuel costs are exponential"

People: "But have you controlled for X? What about Y? Surely it wouldn't be fair to send up only women. There must be something that is uniquely male and so we must send up at least some men, probably mostly men."
AMD Is Hiring for Another Open-Source Linux/Mesa Developer
Happy to see something I made showing up in the comments! I do still maintain Exo, but it doesn’t have all of the features I would have liked to build (like automation) built-in. Maybe someday, or for SpaceTraders v2. Cheers!
As long as you can define a signed distance function, and the function governing the motion of the propeller, WaterLily can simulate it!
64bits in hex would be reasonably compact, 1.5x the length of a MAC address.
The judge just said to Musk come say that you didn’t say the statement in the video instead of having a lawyer say “faking videos is possible”
That font seems to be designed for low vision readers. I'm not sure if you can extrapolate that to people without any sort of vision issues. I mean, I can read the essay just fine, and I don't find it particularly hard to read or anything. If anything, given that I'm already used to reading monospaced fonts all day, I think I can probably read it faster than if it was a font that I'm less familiar with.
Yes of course it can, but if this question is a setup for inductive solar roadways I'm going to scream.
When I saw they comment I had a similar thought. Of course the separation of powers is about balance between the branches of government, and the CIA and FBI are both in the same branch.

But having them separate allows the Administrative branch to operate in a way that hypothetically shouldn’t step on the toes of the judicial. (Well, that is the hope at least).
Your "pressurized accumulator" sounds like a "permeate pump", which are readily available, not too expensive (~50 USD), and easily installed. It took me longer to move the filter assembly out from under my sink than to splice the device into my RO system!

Anyone with an RO system living in a water-scarce region should install one! It'll save you many gallons a day, and has no downsides, unlike most other water reduction devices (like weak-flushing toilets or barely-misting shower heads).
Yeah rail is exceptionally low hanging fruit especially since there are any number of diesel motive commuter and intercity trains that could be upgraded today for reasonable amounts of cash (depending on where in the climate fight they fall). They’re nice because the total track miles are low and they don’t leave their area, nor need to worry about loading and unloading containers, etc.
If anyone is curious about 9/11 and wants to learn more, I highly recommend

September 11: The New Pearl Harbor: https://youtu.be/8DOnAn_PX6M?t=655

It's great because it doesn't attempt to provide explanations on its own, it simply asks questions based on text from the commission report, and news footage and documentaries you find on CNN, NBC, etc.
How do you quickly bail from email? It is a lot of effort to switch to a new email. The friction to levave is so high that your points 2 and 3 are not true.
Ok, but one issue with your comment: the U.S. has a huge safety net. Entitlements (social programs including social security, welfare, Medicare/Medicaid), etc.) compose 52% of the federal budget ($2 trillion). This equates to almost $10,000 per American. [1]

In fact, the U.S. spends more per capita than the Nordic countries, as discussed in other comments. Norway is around $7,500 per person. [2]

So what’s the difference? The U.S. is the “wild, Wild West” and Norway is not, according to [2].

[1]
https://federalsafetynet.com/entitlement-programs/entitlemen...

[2] https://freakonomics.com/2010/05/who-spends-more-on-social-w....
There will always be factions that look to capitalize on fears, real and otherwise, to benefit themselves.

But that doesn’t change the reality of the underlying threat.
We would both agree that birds and planes are fundamentally different things, but we would both agree that they fly, correct?

Both humans and LLMs have 'short term' and 'long term' memory. The process of turning short term to long term is significantly different. In LLMs this is taking the history data given to it and putting it in the training corpus then recalculating the weights. In humans this involves falling to sleep for some number of hours.

I think in the long term here AI will actually have the benefit of forming long term memories. You have to sleep to form them, it just has to run reweighting on another cluster while the primary cluster goes about its business.
From the article: ''While there are sadly many tech layoffs happening, one company that continues hiring at least on the Linux side is AMD.''

https://careers.amd.com/careers-home/jobs?keywords=Linux
Yes, such as Black Cube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube
And if in the US and a beneficiary of the paperclip operation whose downsides outweigh benefits, Cia-trained Mossad agents were available.
My camera has no clue what date it is beyond what I tell it the date is.
huh interesting links. I do appreciate the "rebuild the pre-college foundations" part too, IMO I think that's important.
The term over which to maximize profit can be subjective. The present value of future profits is also subjective. I think the answer appears to be “follow then industry trends set by Serious People” and “pay consulting firms to justify the actions I want to take”
> Did natural immunity work though?

Looking at your answers looks like you really don't have a clue, but the worst thing is you don't realize that you don't a have clue. Just like ChatGPT. You think it is intelligent, but it is not.
I have a Garmin watch and am baffled when I hear people say they charge their Apple Watches every day. I had to add my watch charger cable to my vacation checklist because I often forget I need to charge it.
Effective allocation of resources means firing people that are not necessary for the company.

Also “people aren’t just workers” might be true in general sense, but for the company they are exactly that: workers. Their private lives are not the company’s concern. They shouldn’t be. The thing I hate the most is when my employer tries to take care of my wellbeing outside work. I consider that invasive of my privacy.
The ceremony just undoes the efficiency in most cases; That's the rub.
This is false. Here are technical docs on how the TPM is used: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informati...
The API you have linked is too low level to my taste.

When I wanted to play video and render them inside D3D12 scenes, I have used a higher-level one, IMFMediaEngine https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/mfmediae...

That OS-supplied high-level video player object can demux containers, decode, play audio, and copy uncompressed frames to D3D11 textures. Then, it’s relatively easy to use DXGI surface sharing API to share the resulting RGBA8 frames from D3D11 into D3D12.
The Pacific Surfliner can go faster than Brightline currently. It's also longer and has been in service for ages now. Florida isn't ahead of the game, they're playing catch up.
(I had thought I was in agreement with your overall point until I reached this part:

> "literally every single thing society chose to do for covid was wrong. We could have done nothing at all and been better off."

Perhaps this is only indicative of my own failings, but the absolute certainty you express here led me to greatly devalue your opinion and conclude that engaging with you wouldn't likely lead to an interesting discussion on the main topic. (E.g., Do you really believe that nothing that any aspect of society did related to covid positively affected the outcome?)

(Somehow, apparently, I still felt compelled to comment on this tangential/meta topic. Maybe I'm imagining that you might find my reaction useful or interesting or maybe I'm driven by internal factors, such as guilt at dismissing your perspective because of a couple of your specific word choices.))
The sad thing is, I think if Walt Disney hadn't died when he did, the monorail system would have expanded throughout the city of Orlando and probably to other parts of the state.

His plans for EPCOT were originally to build an actual planned city using these technologies to manage traffic flow: https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/overview/the-...
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> even the defense department doesn't need 4.3 billion of anything

uhm. counterexample: they need more dollars than that
Not that I am a fan of Churchill but I saw this quote yesterday so it is fresh on my mind

> Winston Churchill once said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” [Laughter.]

I hope we will do the right thing soon and begin working on a robust public transit infrastructure.

I think the problem, as always, is money. The US housing market is supposedly worth USD 30T+ What will happen to all "money" currently in the suburban ticky tacky [wiktionary] houses? If we have high density housing with maglev trains in major city centers, will that "suck" more money from the rest of the United States?

It looks like about 7% of the US housing market "worth" is in New York (City) while about 6% of the US lives here.
Seems reasonable.
However, what if there was some constellation of "high density" city centers all connected together by reliable high-speed trains?
Will it cause the suburbia to lose value?

I am just thinking out loud. I don't own a house so I don't have a horse in this race. Maglev supposedly costs up to a hundred million dollars per mile, which looks very attractive considering a road cost one to two million dollars per mile lane, so four to eight million dollars for a mile of a standard US four-lane street/road.

[wiktionary] (US) Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ticky-tacky

[US housing worth] The total value of U.S. homes was $45.3 trillion at the end of 2022, down 4.9% ($2.3 trillion) from a record high of $47.7 trillion in June. (redfin, https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-loses-value-2023/.... )

[New York housing worth] Among metropolitan areas, the New York City metro remains the country’s largest real estate market by value, but by a narrowing margin. The NYC-area housing market is valued at $3.51 trillion, with the Los Angeles metro right behind at $3.27 trillion. (zillow, https://www.zillow.com/research/us-housing-market-total-valu.... )
I mean "scapegoat" is a shortening of "escape goat" so probably at some point in history there were grammar pedants complaining about kids these days saying scapegoat instead of escape goat.

> The English scapegoat is a compound of the archaic verb scape, which means "escape," and goat
What's wrong with "can't we just" questions?

Lots of curious laypersons here, and it's often a useful way to learn. Usually it's pretty easy for an expert to answer such questions.
NAL. But that's partly why the opposing counsel exists - to point these fallacies out to the jury. Make the other side look untrustworthy.