skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're lying to ourselves if we believe anything Google claims about respecting privacy. Unless your data is encrypted when you give it to the monster, and you can know with certainty that it is, then it's not private. The monster will know what the data is, and it will sell it or trade it for power from governments, etc.

Who else has taken note that you can no longer create a Google account without a mobile phone? Google is linking accounts to individuals. Anonymity and privacy are no longer a reality when dealing with Google.
I bought a used car from a dealership a few months into COVID before the huge price spike. I had outside financing and the salesman couldn't believe my 2.7% rate. In his words "The average person coming in here is trading in a car with negative equity and taking a 10%+ rate." That was pre rate hikes. I can't imagine how high the payment burden is now.

Pure anecdote, but that guy left soon after our sale. In his words "I feel dirty facilitating these purchases. It's really screwing people over who are incapable of making sound financial decisions."
> I’ve been thinking about hacking up a rolling box frame where high quality photos can be made into a “roll” and have motors on the top and bottom to roll up to see the next pictures.

This sounds similar to signs I've seen in some malls. I'm not sure what they're called though.
You missed the rent moratorium. My cousin got to live rent free for 18 months.
Here’s the link the article is referencing, if you want to read the source https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-tel...
Because 80s was more patriarchy era
For BART in the Bay Area, it’s a shockingly small amount of money - $1.7M in revenue out of $255M total. I’d happily pay half a percent more to not have that crap put in my face. Hell, I’ll pay your half percent too.
But the original argument i still find convincing. As i would not fly with an airline, that has death priced in. Once the word is out, it is over.
I grew up thinking of trucks as cheap and functional. I did a spit take while watching a Youtube video running down current truck prices. Does anyone know what is driving this? There's got to be more at work than inflation to produce a 90K pickup truck.
A 19yo paying $1650 every month just to get around! That would have paid for my first car and insurance for six months, just a scant decade and a half ago.

> I think a major culprit is our social-focused society creating this desire to keep up with the Jonses' in your social/work circles.

Society may very well pressure individuals to keep up with the Joneses, but individuals do not have to yield to that pressure. Let's retain some individual agency. Nobody has to put themselves in a lot of debt to appear a certain way to their peers.
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At least with a 1300/month payment I assume/hope he actually has a decent loan term. I hear people bragging about their $400/month luxury car payments. What's that, a 7 year term + residual ensuring you are underwater on that loan for 10 years?
I've said this before and I'll say it again but one of the best things the auto industry did for itself was to tie a person's identity to the type of automobile they drive.

In today's society, you can completely disregard someone based solely on the car they drive (cough, Prius).
> No evidence of overfishing?

The alaskan snow crab market is in the hundreds of thousands to a few million. If 10 billion snow crabs were caught, the snow crab price would have cratered to a penny and we'd all be feasting on cheap snow crabs every night.
I wonder if AI generated web pages block AI agents from indexing their content, like, one engine indexing the other's content in a loop until the amount of digital garbage is so gigantic that is the end of the information era, or how are we ever stopping this? What is our failsafe?
It seems like a mistake to conflate an upgrade treadmill with innovation.
Because you have a long odd numbered chain of 16-bit ops. Ex: 15 16-bit ops, leaves you with a 16bit NOP in order to realign for the following 32-bit op.
Vitamin D moderates inflammation and has a decent amount of evidence for reducing intensity of covid and other upper respiratory infections.

Specifically vitamin D deficiency makes things worse and most people are at least mildly lacking.
What is fear-mongering? And what is this need to stop fear-mongering about? I'm suspicious of it, because it seems to often lead to suppression of truth.

1. I haven't seen any credible studies prove the total ineffectiveness of masks. Don't forget two things: preventing spread is never a binary issue, it is and always has been about slowing it down enough to give health services a break. Only a handful of countries made it their ambition to totally stop the spread, and even then its a matter of slowing it enough so it dies out rather than spreads. Masks are not hazmat suits.

2. There's a small percentage that reacts really bad, but it was large enough to bring health services to its knees and cause tens of millions of deaths globally. Then there is a much larger percentage that got it quite bad, people that didn't need to be hospitalized but were totally handicapped for months and months (or years).

Your last remark hints at a conspiracy, and with that you are the one who is fear mongering.
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https://carbuzz.com/features/new-cars-are-not-too-expensive-...

>Even expensive sports cars like the BMW M3 and Porsche 911 kept up with inflation. A 2003 E46 M3 cost $46,545 ($78,729 today), while a new M4 (the two-door version of the M3) is only $74,300. In those 20 years, power went up from 333 to 473 hp. Even the 911 Carrera, which seems expensive at $106,100, is way cheaper than the 996 model at $72,435 ($122,521 today).
Particularly when your culture emphasizes it. Conservative heteronormative culture requires performative displays of manhood, and in the USA that means truck ownership. I can't imagine how humiliating it would be for a conservative man in the rural south to drive a sub-compact.
The worst part IMHO was that most of that stuff was backed up by saying “trust the science” and anyone who criticized it was accused of being “anti-science”.
Anecdotally, yeah they are.. a lot more incentives lately and though it's a combination of supply + demand, the "days inventory" on dealer lots is back up to what many consider to be a normal level:

> The total U.S. supply of available unsold new vehicles climbed to 2.21 million units, the highest level since early spring 2021. That is up 60% from the same time a year ago. However, inventory remains 35% lower than pre-pandemic 2019. Inventory numbers include vehicles available on dealer lots and some in transit.

> Days of supply stood at 60 at the start of October, the same as the start of September. Inventory, measured as days’ supply, was 14 days higher than the same time a year ago. Supply has been inching toward that 60-day level, which the industry once considered normal and ideal, throughout the year. It was last in the 60s in March 2021.

Prices have come back a bit too..

> In July, the average transaction price (ATP) – the price paid – rose a scant 0.4% from a year ago, the smallest year-over-year price increase in the last decade. According to Kelley Blue Book, the ATP of a new vehicle in July was $48,334, compared with $48,671 in June. Since the start of the year, transaction prices are down 2.7%, or $1,335, the largest January to July fall in the past decade.*

https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Septem...
Honestly surprised Nokia is still around and has that many employees
non-paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20231024135225/https://www.reute...
That's what I tried to explain to him. He had a paid off '04 Excursion before this car that he wrecked, after putting about $15k worth of aftermarket stuff in it. Now he's wanting to put a lift kit and all this aftermarket stuff in the F-150 and won't listen to reason when I tell him that is the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
Easier said than done. Lots of Zynqs on orbit and elsewhere right now but if you want to do anything at all custom you're stuck with soft cores because regardless of who you are, I know for sure you don't have the money to do a custom chip.
An honest salesman? We should put a radio collar on him and study his habits. /sarcasm
Because people can be killed by unexpected side effects of treatments that are incautiously rolled out too soon. People can also die because the money went into treatments that turned out to be ineffective when the resources should have been spent on searching for things that actually worked.
> A single intrusive Android, Apple, or Microsoft app enables the developer to conduct audio, video, and physical surveillance on the end user while data mining highly confidential personal, business, medical, legal, employment, and location information from the end user to exploit for profits.

Y'all do know that modern Android and iOS have permission prompts to prevent this kind of thing, right? And at best this would still be "don't worry that our hardware is inferior because at least we make it harder to install malware" - deflecting doesn't convince me that speed isn't a problem.
and until I bought our Honda Odyssey for ~7k a few years ago, the most I'd spent on a vehicle was 2500$.

Maybe the cultural difference is an aversion to debt. My parents never got a loan to buy a vehicle, and I haven't either.
The problem is that people cannot afford to live in city centers. Especially those with families.

You would think corporations would finally place their offices in more liveable areas but for some reason they feel the need to build in city centers, and inconvenience their employees.
To anyone on iOS, this situation can be made easier with guided access: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612

Temporarily lock your screen to a specific app/view and selectively disable functionality like switching apps or typing.
I wish there was a leaderboard or percentile you could see without making an account.
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Most of the discontent I see aimed in NASA’s direction has little to do with their autonomous missions (which have been consistently excellent) and more to do with how Congress has misused NASA’s crewed efforts as yet another cash pipeline for traditional aerospace companies, which has for decades prevented crewed spaceflight from becoming progressively cheaper, more sustainable, and more common, instead keeping it artificially suspended in its mid-late 70s state.

I think it’s a massive error for Congress to have anything to do with any remotely technical decision. That should be at the sole discretion of NASA. Congress’ involvement should go no further than deciding what slice of the taxpayer funded pie they get yearly, and should not include the ability to attach strings of any kind to the funding.
Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing
It pisses me off. I have had worse problems.

Legacy Java Enterprise Edition projects are at the top of that list, and they keep coming back and haunt you years later.

The other problem is that C/C++ and Python have terrible build systems. I respect CMake, because it works, but the DSL and documentation is terrible. Using raw make is awful, because you need to generate dependencies.
it's a good counterpoint. but basically we're saying the car is a good bandaid for the foolishness of city planning (spacing things way too far apart, having the stores be min of 2 miles from most houses, placing disproportionate office space to housing ratio, nearest library like 4 miles away and yet its the size of an amusement park).
When you run out of boost tokens, if you clear your bing search history and restart your browser you get fresh boost tokens. I've been able to do this endlessly.
Also if you use it during non-peak hours the wait times are usually 30 seconds or under for 3-4 image generations.
But it wouldn't be a F-150, which appears to be the key bit.

On the other hand, you're not wrong about its capabilities. And honestly, if it's just groceries, one could easily go for a used car or hatchback.
I would argue, from a layman's perspective, that "I do not know" and "I do not remember" have significant differences, and drawing those parallels would only serve to muddy the waters. In this case it could be possible to show that the testimony was given - even if without other deceit or malice - without competence and "any reasonable person" would be aware of their lack of expertise. Just like it could be possible to show, through evidence such as correspondence, that X had knowledge of Y. I wonder if the system is resilient against such speculated abuse.

Edit: these logical inversions made my ESL head spin a bit. The point was that "I do (not) know" is more readily falsifiable than "I do (not) remember".
The new Year's Eve assaults were not BS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year%27s...

Not only that, denial of it appears to have been one of the instigating factors in launching far right parties to prominence.
Flying radiation hardened FPGAs is a big one. Just because a chip exists doesn't mean it's usable for any given application.
For modern heat pumps (e.g. Daikin Altherma) the COP at -2c will be around 2.8-3. They operate down to -25c in heat pump mode, then automatically switch over to resistive heating.

I live in Lithuania (-20c and lower during winter is not uncommon) and almost all new houses have them. You can no longer use gas for heating in new builds. 3kW of solar generates more than enough power (with net metering) to run a heat pump over the course of a year for the average size house (150m2)
Immunosuppression do help, even its lightest forms such as NSAIDs in small quantities. But immunosuppression alone is not enough to overcome the pathology.
Already discussed in more than one thread, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37942403 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37940317 and others.
Rapid reading and comprehension¹ and exposure to a breadth of vocabulary and ideas is the professional equivalent of having superpowers. So many developers have crappy writing skills and weak reading comprehension and have to struggle harder to develop their careers because of it.

¹ The barren wasteland that is online discourse doesn't count for obvious reasons.
Maybe you should not be the one representing your company at a Congress hearing if you have this behavior..
That was the only part of a comment I took issue with and I did “directly address” it. None of the rest of the comments were part of “an argument” and I took no issue with them; there was nothing else to “address”.

Looks like other community members also agreed that you were out of line, judging by the flagged status. It seems that your creative interpretation of the guidelines might need some revision. That includes whether my corrective comment was “snarky” - that comment has received positive karma votes from the community and is not flagged for violating HN commenting guidelines.
How, exactly, do you imagine that would happen?
Last time I was shopping for a car ~4 years ago. Most prices were written on the windshield as weekly payments, over an unknown period. Getting the actual price required stopping and reading the small window sticker.
How about reading him "Quantum Physics for Babies"? Or "General Relativity for Babies".

https://www.csferrie.com/book/baby-university-board-book-set
The flu is not a harmless disease, get that into your head. We have been vaccinating against the flu for decades, and yet there are about 400,000 deaths per year during an average influenza season.
I wonder why you would introduce an extra dependency for the base64 example. It seems more trivial than left pad.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/uint8array-extras/blob/cbf24...
Devices -> Pi-Hole -> Unbound -> DnsCrypt

Some additional details:

- Outbound internet access over port 53 is blocked for everything on the network, other than the Pi-Hole/Unbound server

- IpTables rule in place to force all outbound traffic over port 53 to go thru the Pi-Hole. This prevents devices from circumventing the Pi-Hole filtering by hard-coding public DNS servers

- Cronjob that polls http://public-dns.info/nameservers-all.txt regularly, and updates an IpTables rule to block all outbound internet traffic over any port/protocol to servers in that list. This is my attempt to block things that try to circumvent DNS filtering by doing DNS over HTTPS

- Unbound makes it possible to bypass DnsCrypt for specific zones, as needed. It also is configured to prefetch records before expiration, which generally eliminates the latency introduced by DnsCrypt

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This is overkill, but I tried to address privacy concerns as well as ad-blocking with this setup, and it's also been fun to tinker with
> Since the age of nuclear, it is no longer possible to have minor conflicts between super powers, only mutually assured destruction.

Its not only possible, its happened multiple times, but downplaying it (Syria recently) or outright pretending it wasn't happening when both sides were fully aware (Korean war air combat) have been part of managing escalation risk.
I think the nuance here is if you tailor ALL interviews for a specific job based on each candidate to the point where the interviews are no longer directly comparable, that could constitute a hiring practice that would run afoul of some laws in various places.

However, what you're describing sounds reasonable to me - you're offering the same overall interview structure, just tailoring the question to delve more into someone's bespoke experience. That's a hell of a lot more work than a one size fits all (ala leetcoding style) question - kudos to you.
It's funny what you are downvoted, but FR8 was way better OCRing Office-printer-scanned documents even against the much later versions of FR, I saw the comparison on the same source documents.

> good luck finding it

It's still available on the trackers.
Click through to the videos and you'll see that these are supporting animations that form part of explanations of specific algorithms.
Find a partner maybe? That's my theory of why I'm not a unicorn CEO yet.
Just FYI, Apple Music supports automatic iCloud syncing of your personal music files that you drag into your library. Most of what I listen to is on streaming, but I can have non-streaming music, bootlegs, vinyl rips, Bandcamp purchases, and music only available on SoundCloud or YouTube (via yt-dlp) seamlessly alongside the streaming stuff.

I’ve tried to explain how limiting any other streaming service is to friends, but I’ve mostly been met with blank stares at the mere concept of wanting to listen to off-streaming music or even where one would come across actual music files these days.
Tobacco?

BPA?

Leaded gas?

Trollitis?
1650 could buy my first two cars.
"If you live somewhere where you have to drive, you are a captive audience"

I don't think you appreciate just how incredibly massive this country is. I have to drive 15 miles to work everyday. If I couldn't drive, I would literally just starve and die (or, I suppose start working as a local farmhand).

It's funny, I feel the same way about people who live in small areas and don't have the ability to independently go anywhere they want at any time without having to rely on someone else. The "walkable city" feels like a hellscape archetype for the most captive audience you could ever possibly conceive...
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Lots of discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37940317
This is where close partnering helps. Microsoft can lead the way in building all their games(a considerable library, especially after the Activision acquisition) with universal binaries, and provide great tools to third parties to build games the same way.

The games that aren't recompiled will (after 2 years or so) fall far enough behind in requirements compared to the state of the art, that the emulation will be fast enough to play those older games.
It's probably not surprising that it happens to some extent (like, you get flat earthers and FotLs/SovCits and various other loonies), but more how _common_ it is. It has to be one of this century's most widespread conspiracy theories.
From what I can see, there does seem to be a strong correlation between how much attention one paid to the government and media, and the subsequent attribution of health issues to having tested positive for an infection at some point.

Among the people I know and that I'm aware of, there are three broad groups (spanning age, sex, and numerous other traits):

1) People who generally ignored the fear that governments, doctors, and the media tried to instill. They disregarded the lockdowns and other measures imposed by government, and remained calm. They didn't take tests, they didn't wear masks, they didn't get any shots, and they generally went about their lives as best that they could as if nothing was happening.

2) People who bought into it, and got somewhat worked up whenever it was pushed by the media. They masked, they stayed indoors when asked to do so, they took tests when they had to, they got shots and maybe boosters, and so on. But once the media focus moved on to other topics, they pretty much forgot about it all and moved on, too.

3) People who became extremely paranoid. Some of them masked month after month, even while at home, which they avoided leaving for weeks at a time. They took daily tests. They've taken every shot and booster available. They lived in a constant state of fear for years. Even after most other people moved on, they didn't, or in some cases, still haven't.

The people I know who fall into the first group are consistently doing well, including those in their 70s, 80s, and even a few in their 90s. None have died, and none have had any major medical problems. I know that some of them don't even know if they ever contracted it, since they never got tested. If they had it, it was indistinguishable from any other cold or flu.

It's a mix for people in the second group, although this is a numerically larger group. Some have had major health complications, including cancer and cardiovascular-related issues, but they generally don't blame their health problems on having tested positive for infection at some point.

The third group are the only ones I hear of attributing ongoing health problems, no matter how minor or common, to a prior infection. Collectively, they now seem to have more serious medical issues, even among those who appeared quite healthy prior to early 2020. Also, I know that a number of these people are repeatedly testing positive for infection, even recently, despite having had numerous shots and boosters, and despite having supposedly overcome one or more prior infections that should have granted some degree of immunity.

I can't say for sure if it's the only factor, but a person displaying more fear/paranoia in the past and present does appear to correlate with more medical problems in the present, and a greater likelihood of attributing such problems to having had prior test-indicated infection(s).
Of course. The gas consumption would be probably slightly worse but at 1500 per month that's not going to matter too much

"Ah no but the used truck doesn't have a touchscreen or a radio with bluetooth or builtin GPS" /s
Just let him be a kid.
Language acquisition and physical activity are much more crucial at that age. A little counting is ok if it involves physical activities. Kids should be playing, especially with other kids through age 6. Reading and talking with them too. But by age 2 you need to be asking them open ended questions.
It's written this way to hopefully get some information across to people trippin on fox acid.
I can't believe this company is still around.
The header bar with nothing but the app's name seems redundant and gives me the impression that I'm looking at a phone-sized window in GNOME rather than an app designed for the entire screen.