skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone looked into knock on effects from the Obama era cash for clunkers that reduced the used car supply by 677,081 cars? I always thought that was going to impact affordability. It removed lower cost vehicles AND their future cannibalization for parts to keep other low cost vehicles on the road.

The other change I wonder is just the longevity of cars (which could counteract impact from cash for clunkers). My father used to buy a new car every 3-4 years in the 90s because cars sucked. Cars are more expensive now, but last much longer. My 7 year old car is as good as new still, my dad kept his last car 10 years.

Is a product that lasts triple the amount of time for less than triple the old price actually more expensive? No, but it IS now contradictingly unaffordable. It becomes the rich people and shoes trope. Poor people can only afford cheap shoes that wear out more often. When I could afford nice italian boots that lasted longer and were amazingly more comfortable I actually spent less on shoes, but I had to be able to shell out $500 for boots. Now I can only afford $40 for junk. Heck I have shirts from Nordstroms from 10 years ago that I still get complimented on but can't replace and am forced to slowly replace with cheap garbage shirts than wear out in a year because I'm broke and am sad to see myself fall into that trap knowing I am throwing away money to the benefit of looking worse for more $$$ spent over time.

All that said having moved down about 10 social economic groups the people I know have 2 daily struggles that keep them in constant anxiety. Housing and keeping their cars running. The system is not going to hold if this keeps up. People can't live in this constant stress and anxiety with no hope and are going to look to some way out. In the past in other countries that's been far left or far right political charlatans. Yet the people up high still expect the status quo to hold and are doing nothing to make things better.
I'm not sure what "a rare subject" means, but I interpreted it as "highly niche" -- and in the larger world of books, it's certainly that.
His father claims to have given $115k to his two sons, with the rest being them working and getting student loans.
Relational databases are an implementation of the relational model of data, which itself is an implementation of first order predicate logic, which of course was invented by humans. If AI can figure out human language, it should be able to handle human logic as well. We’re already seeing that with AI code generators and co-pilots anyway.
Have some respect you are talking to a prompt engineer right now.

/s
remember that if you don't understand a particular line of code, you can have chatgpt explain it... have fun
When I set up my Corolla the app made me go through and enable/disable a bunch of things. I declined most of the connected technology at setup time without any issue.
Thx for the move reference, haven't researched in a few years. Tho I need two moves to match stereo need for production so it's quite a lot bigger, I'm sure that helps the sound. I have software for sweeps and eq.
Huh? I have to do none of that nonsense. I just searched for "local bike shops" and "best crypto libraries for python" on mobile.

The results are clear and apparent without scrolling needed.
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Happy Teacher's Appreciation Week to All the CS Teachers
I have tremendous admiration for all teachers, especially computer science teachers who (presumably) could make more money working as engineers in the industry, but instead choose to educate others and help them chase their dreams. You are an inspiration and thank you!

I hope that people recognize the importance of education and, especially in the United States, start to value education more. I worry that most education in the U.S. will become privatized because budgets continue to be cut and good teachers decide to leave for other opportunities.

Thoughts?
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I’m confident you can find the claims in mere minutes if you genuinely haven’t seen them and are interested.
"cost me $299 on a two-year contract"

The rest of the cost was in the monthly payments.
True. I recently inherited a small 2016 truck. It's so stripped down my nephew didn't know what the crank was on the door. He had never seen a manual window crank ha! It does however have one nice feature; bluetooth. I could easily afford a nice car but this little truck is perfect. I don't drive that much so I could see having it the rest of my days barring gasoline is still made. I have no desire for a new car.
Andor is the first SW content I have re-watched since Jedi.

[spends a few minutes on a mental inventory]

Well, okay: I watched all the SW eps with my son. (His words after seeing Ep1 were "Daddy, that wasn't a very good movie.")

Still, I rest my case. Andor is the first content that I would actually miss if it went away.
If you are a thief
I have played plenty of PC open world games and I think BOTW is better than any of them.
Breath of the Wild is objectively a masterpiece though.
Most people with ADHD I know would benefit from a secretary more than a sergeant.
Posit standard[1]; intro[2]; interactive graphic[4].

[1] https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf
[2] https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf
[4] https://cse512-19s.github.io/FP-Well-Rounded/
I mean obviously wherever a date time entry can be found, there should be a TZ drop-down and a DST checkbox.

lusers who don’t know what those things are will learn soon enough.

I really mean it. The ambiguity is a problem.
>But as a public figure I think he's massively overexposed, largely by choice, and it's doing him no favours in terms of perception lately.

I think you'll find there's a significant split in perception between, for example, the average American and the pseudo-elites who inhabit Bluesky and Hacker News. Or the latter and the average actual hacker, for that matter.
> but surely running a business is one of those things that IS about money?

I'd disagree. Running a business is about developing systems to create and maintain resources, connections, and influence. Money is a symbolic representation of resources but by itself isn't a resource. Resources in my opinion, and experience, are a very small piece of the puzzle. In my experience connections have way more value than money. In my experience money attracts the worst kinds of folks to work with. My skills have created more value than money ever has.
if you're working with ephemeral services like those then no you'd never use sqlite because they are temporary. in my mind quick and dirty being a backing store for something like a local script where you wouldn't want to spin up a full server for... or a small webserver that you are running locally. if you are going to do a proper website you'd ideally want to have something with more flexibility and data guarantees. sqlite is grand for a specific sort of read heavy or single access writes workflow.
That might be a thousand times more expensive. It’s not software, it’s biological processes that are hard to automate.
Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
What is the lean method in this case?
In this case it looks like probably not, at least in the short term, because it's all extremely personalized.
Are you talking about starship?

I'm not a big elon fan but that was objectively not a failed mission. They were very upfront that they expected it to destruct, and wanted to see how far it got.

Their entire launch, navigation, communication, engine/fuel/structure, and the self-destruction teams/systems all performed, and they assuredly learned a ton from that - both sensor data - and other things such as concrete debris from the launch pad being a problem.

From my understanding they were primarily were concerned about the launch stages and getting into an ascent and anything beyond that was icing on the cake. There was no payload, it's destination was to crash off the coast of hawaii.
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It seems to me the YT algorithm doesn't care about left/right.

Sometimes I watch a rightwing video, and then all I get is more and more extreme rightwing videos suggested.

Then I have to watch some leftwing video to get back to more balanced content :D... but there seems to be plenty of content on both sides, with suggestions leaning heavily on which side you watched the most.
I played OOT for the first time at the start of COVID after no gaming for 20 years.

It's the best game. As a kid I liked Marathon and Mario but never played Zelda for some reason. OOT is just a perfect game.
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> Reportedly the leadership of SpaceX manages him like he's a medieval boy king

A family friend who works closely with Elon at SpaceX puts it like, "you have to make him believe that your technical conclusions and recommendations are actually his to have any hope of traction." Otherwise, even if you're proven right years later when Elon's strategy fails, he will hold you to task for, "not convincing him hard enough."
He's outstanding because he cannot be honest about the situation. Even his father contradicts Elon's claims. Elon claims he was in 100k debt during schooling, it's revealed he had scholarships and his father paid living expenses. It's revealed his father had involvement with emerald mines, going as far as to state they were regularly sold for upwards of $500 a piece, Elon then claims he doesn't remember anything except seeing a small jewelry box filled with "low quality emeralds".

Do you sense the pattern? It would be as if Paris Hilton went around repeatedly saying she was dirt poor and used her galaxy sized brain to start her own business without any help. People would, obviously and quite reasonably, mock it for its absurdity. Yet when the same happens to Elon Musk, there are endless hysterical defenses ready. As if you are telling a child that Santa isn't real.
That actually worked with SpaceX though. Elon handed off operations and "making money" to Gwynne Shotwell and she killed it.

Elon is still working on moonshots like Starship, but it let the core F9 product run operationally smoothly and rake in cash.
>You seem awfully hung up on the Hollywood effects being overblown. Yes, this is true and no one is arguing against it. However, even a small spark can start a forest fire.

I'm hung up on it because the likelihood of this happening is in Actuality overblown. It's not fire season yet and CA just came out of a drenching torrent of rain.
Damn, if it wasn't for the debt he dragged the company into that could actually be manageable. There is a possible steady state for twitter to be more focused on right wing minded people who don't like being told unhappy truths or have their lies questioned, like tumbler has for dumb teens. It could very well just be smaller and continue on with that "niche" because it's a big niche. But that debt really puts some limits on future options.
These are called distraction attacks. Self-consistency mechanisms make them more difficult, but nothing's particularly effective overall. I used a similar prompt with poems instead to beat level 7. Took a few tries though.
High fees and days/weeks wait times for international wire transfers are common knowledge - check at almost any bank.

Because the fundamental task at hand is only partially about transferring money.

In reality, it's mostly about precisely what crypto payments seek to circumvent: fraud prevention and KYC.
Hmm that's interesting. I didn't realize European leagues differed so greatly from U.S. leagues. U.S. leagues like the NBA and NHL are introducing jersey advertisements, but it's purely about earning more money. Most (all?) U.S. leagues have some type of salary cap to keep player compensation down.
A Nike shirt with a Nike logo on it isn't a problem.

I would never buy a jersey with a big digital blur logo on it unless they spent decades innovating in the fashion industry on top of their crypto junk.
The overwhelming level of sponsorships is one of the two main things that drove me away from sports generally, if I'm honest.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Regardless of how right you are or feel, it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That first chapter of that book "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson was just horrific - people were being basically boiled alive in a lake.

What is the expected wet bulb temperature ???.
Egos is really neat, and super approachable. I did some documentation work for it last fall, and despite only having a weak grasp of operating systems I could easily understand the whole thing. I only needed to figure out a few common acronyms and magic numbers that weren’t explained.
it is - it's dystopic art
systemctl stop 'libvirtd*.service'
systemctl disable --now 'libvirtd*.socket'
systemctl enable --now virt{qemu,network,storage,nodedev,log}d.socket

Went without a hitch. `virt-manager` still works without the need for `virtproxyd`.
For me nothing much has changed..

It is still a fairly slow and bloated site like always.

Need to add lots of filters to block all the politic garbage people spew, and mute anyone that repeatedly does this. Same as always.
> I find the folks who struggle the most are trying to write JS as if they are still a C# or Java developer so they constantly run into square peg round hole issues and blame it on the tool. I love JavaScript. I also love C#. But you've got to approach how you solve problems with them differently. How you write long term maintainable code in both is different.

Weird take. Because the best way to write maintainable JS by far, whether you're using TypeScript to enforce it or not, is to keep all the lessons that informed the design of Java in your heart. Go ahead and decompose your program into classes and interfaces, eschew with clever tricks and just focus on readable code instead, and make sure you or anyone else can without much difficulty work out at any given point what the "shape" (type) of a value is.
Gunsights too. That was how Doc Draper who later pioneered inertial navigation and whose lab designed the Apollo Guidance Computer first made his name. (Draper Labs is no longer formally affiliated with MIT as it was divested during the Vietnam War.)

But WWII was probably a major catalyst in the US to the rise in prominence of all the great science and engineering research universities. (There are actually a lot of inventors from that era like Draper who although they were also theoreticians to some degree one suspects might not fit in with a modern research university faculty.)
More like epic complexity.
I mean, that's what FDIC is... it's basically backing a bank's funds using the US tax payers at the end.
The article premise is relatively banal, but the topic the article describes after, is extremely important (IMO).

This bits:

> Several companies defended their use of AI, telling The Post they use language tools not to replace human writers, but to [...], or to produce content that they otherwise wouldn’t

> We published a celebrity profile a month. Now we can do 10,000 a month.

describe an undergoing mass-transition of (a large amount of) publishing towards a commodity.

Cheap publishing has always existed, but it required somebody to actually write something, therefore, a minimum of creativity/knowledge has always been a requirement. With LLMs, any requirement is gone; publishing can be reduced to sending an input and checking the output.

"Interesting" times!
And if you own a failed emerald mine you might be poor. If you own an emerald mine that just barely broke even (admittedly that is a bit unlikely), you might end up middle class in the end. Of course you can also end up being obscenely wealthy from such a venture.

I don't think anyone is suggesting elon musk rose from being a homeless person to a billionaire. I guess this internet dispute is whether he made his own money, or inherieted it (e.g. like trump). Whether or not his parents owned an emerald mine doesn't really shed much light on that debate. Its entirely possible they were moderately wealthy but the emerald mine wasn't super lucrative and musk still made money mostly by means of his own combination of skill and luck.
My actions are my own - and ad hominems aren't all that fruitful in conversation I believe.

Funny you went to ecoterrorism - I wouldn't have called what Native Americans were doing eco terrorism - they were defending their way of life.

There are many things you can do that are more impactful than taking the bus and that aren't blowing up pipelines - chatting with representatives, working with journalists to help undercover situations, working with activists you support the actions and reasoning of....see what I mean?

I think your logic is self serving - if everyone thinks like you, are things going to change? Because they sure don't seem like they will. But you feel comfortable in your daily life.

(And to add - objectively better can be right even if the ''positive value'' is imperceptible. Are you doing actual efforts to solve the issue or just enough to not feel like it's your responsibility?)
It's a simple equation:

Revenue = (value of data per person) x (number of customers) - (probably of data loss) x (probability of fine) x (cost of fine).

If that number is greater than zero, they'll do it, if it's less than zero, they won't.
And she runs the show at SpaceX.

Musk, CEO and “Chief Engineer”, mainly just fucks things up like causing DOD investigations into his pot use (a disagreeable government contracting clause due to the War of Drugs), and now most famously overruling the real engineers and thus overseeing the destruction of the Starship launch pad, and promoting an FAA and environmental investigation.

See also: Overruling Tesla engineers and ordering the removal of radars, directly leading to multiple preventable accidents.

He’s fuck up. Rich. But still a fuck up.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1313952039869788173?s=20

https://www.drive.com.au/news/elon-musk-overruled-tesla-engi...
He also added a ton of features. Bookmarks, encrypted DMs, subscriptions, longform text, pushed the chronological feed, view count, improved video, added meetings, improved notes. I'm probably forgetting something but Twitter has definitely added more features under Musk than the previous 10 years.
As if the zit goo that holds the cryptoverse together is not, in its own way (behind the façades of functional programming and fabncy consensus protocols) -- basically another form of ALL CAPS and COBOL.
The last paragraph mentions it was removed after the journalists asked Amazon what's up
The article does state that Amazon took all of the fake publisher books down after the journalist from the Post asked them about. Jeff Bezos owns both, this may have expedited the process.
Wow, a much more vitriolic first comment than I would expect from HN. The last six months has not lacked for Musk-hating enthusiasts howling “Twitter is dead.” But when I look at Google Trends, its story is that interest in Twitter is almost identical to where it was 5 years ago. Doesn’t seem so dead to me?

Have Musks changes have been net positive or negative? No shortage of internet opinion on that Q. Regardless of one’s personal feelings on it, it seems hard to dispute that Twitter moves faster than before. I consider that no small feat given how much legacy code and bureaucracy the company had at the time of his acquisition.

If he can free more of his time by making this hire, I am looking forward to seeing whether that translates to even faster iteration times. pg and all the others I followed are still there, so still plenty of potential to create quality entertainment/learning w less regret than Facebook
So Musk owns ~80% of the shares but Yaccarino is his boss? Good luck with that - I hope she's good at tightrope walking.
In video games long loading times for levels is a serious pain point, so video game developers put a lot of effort into tuning up compression algorithms to get the best wall clock time considering both the time to fetch content from storage and the time to decompress.

If the target is a console you may know exactly what hardware is there so you can justify the effort in tuning. (it’s more complex today because you have a choice of what kind of storage to use with your XBOX). With a PC or phone your results may vary a lot more.
"Amazon removed the impostor book, along with numerous others by the same publisher, after The Post contacted the company for comment."

It probably helps that Bezos is the majority shareholder of both The Post and Amazon.
These numbers mean nothing. Just raw numbers in a vacuum. Facebook is worthless and it's visit count means nothing. Same with instagram or twitter. The only reason google is so high is due to it being a search engine. These numbers are not the gotcha you seem to be implying they are.
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That laserdisc player is only jokingly a life changing transaction.

I see no reason to excuse fraud and deception, those are not convenient low friction services.

I see no reason to ignore how there is supposed to be a take-backs provision which they are merely getting around, producing exactly the outcome those provisions were created to prevent.
It was easier back then, because there were fewer people developing new compressors.

I've lost count how many compressors have been marketed as a replacement for gzip over the decades. And it's always a replacement for gzip. Every time a new compressor starts getting popular, people start promoting a new even better replacement, and gzip never gets properly replaced.

zstd finally has some potential to replace gzip, but only if people accept it's good enough and stop trying to replace it with something even better.
I imagine the only people saying that are those benefiting from the ULA contracts.
I can't believe Americans accept that it's a criminal offence to lie to federal officials. Why don't you push back against such a bizarre overreach?
Yeah, it is. The only glaring issue I see is that Yaccarino will definitely have to compromise by kicking some of the more radical people off the platform to get the high-dollar accounts advertising on Twitter again, which will draw fire from what is now the most visible user base. Or at the very least, reducing the "freedom of reach" I've seen Elon refer to. Otherwise, she seems to be a decent hire, catering to a lot of groups.
All machines of meaningful complexity need maintenance if you expect them to last, including EVs, and a fluid change that happens twice a year for most vehicles isn't exactly a huge inconvenience.

IMO getting under your vehicle twice a year is a good thing and more people should be encouraged to do it. Getting eyes on the stuff hidden underneath before it gets bad enough to start breaking is always useful.
Oracle has had Larry Ellison as chairman/CTO, and someone else as CEO, for almost 10 years now - and they’ve done well (financially at least) over the period. They even started out with two joint CEOs (Mark Hurd and Safra Catz), but were reduced to one by Mark Hurd’s sudden untimely death. Ellison isn’t majority owner, but he does own over a third of the stock.
Is it a lot of money per person? No. But it’s plain lie that tax payers don’t pickup the bill. We do, every single dollar of it.