skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect senior management who hire that consultancy know exactly what will happen but they need the cover to be able to say that they had "independent" management consultants come in and look at the business and give their "honest" recommendations.
That average price is being dragged up a lot by truck sales, including fleet purchases.

While the average MSRP of cars in general has definitely risen over the last few years, I don't think it's all that likely that most people are buying much larger, more expensive cars, particularly given the overall decrease in their purchasing power.

Frankly, I suspect that many buyers have been priced out of the new-car market entirely—which would provide another upward pressure on their average selling price, as more of those who would have been buying at the bottom simply vanish from those statistics. And someone who's now looking at used cars because they're not even able to afford a $23k new Corolla or Civic is absolutely not going to be in the market for a Tesla of any kind.
It's the worst of both worlds, what people have described as a "playing at shops" market: the surgeries are private, so they're all little businesses with inefficiencies and poor IT, but they look and feel like a poverty-striken government service. Many have Squid Game appointment systems (rush the phone at 8am precisely and hope you get a slot). The user does not acually pay money at the point of service.

NHS dentistry is a lot more .. honest about "we don't have any NHS appointments, but you can have the same service from the same person at a higher price, in which case we do have an appointment".
Nothing I've seen from either of them counters Cicero's famous secular philosophical basis for ethics?
How America moves homeless people around the country
It's not the inference, it's the training. They say in the paper: "We train with a batch size of 256 for a total of 80,000 optimisation steps, which amounts to eight epochs of training." That's a fair chunk of time. Mind you, `small.en` has smaller decoder layers than `medium.en`...
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> When you read above about std::pointer_safety, did you understand the difference between relaxed and preferred? If you did, please explain in the comments section.

[Since I don’t want to sign up with Disqus, I’m commenting here.]

According to https://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/issue1098, “pointer_safety::preferred might be returned to indicate to the program that a leak detector is running so that the program can avoid spurious leak reports”.

This means that a program which uses different program logic depending on whether a GC is running or not, can choose to opt for the non-GC logic when the GC is running with a leak detector.
I’d argue God saved wework. Leasing temporary/limited capacity office space is going to be the future and wework fills that.
Yes! It's like the problem of when to stand up from the blackjack table.
Also the MG-4 .... which is about the cheapest EV available while still having decent fast-charging (130kw) and range (64+kwh), selling for 40k euro
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Homeschool done right (TM) isn’t you teaching by yourself though. Teach your kids to read well at an early age, get a good math curriculum, and feed them high quality books written by people who know way more about each subject than you do.

Self-learning and reflecting on what you read are two of the most important parts of learning. Too often, schools pay lip service to these ideas, then spoon feed information to students.
> do car dealers want to sell EVs ? from what I can see it's an all losing proposition for them,

Outside the US, car dealers are just an extension of the manufacturers. The networks of dealerships (which are just showrooms + service locations usually, since of course you do the Tesla mode of ordering for all new cars) are just sister companies to the manufacturer. Whether or not they want to sell what HQ manufactures isn't really a relevant question for them. What a BMW reseller wants is to keep as many BMWs on the road as possible because that gives profits in sales and service (Which benefits both BMW and their sales and service org)
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This is a weird argument.

I don’t agree with parent, but the reasons are vastly more nuanced than “your ancestors were religious so you’re wrong.” And that’s ignoring the even weirder swipe suggesting parent move to a different country.
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I recently had to update my resume and got inspired to create something targeted at technical people and not based on wrestling with UI menus. The idea is to minimize choices by relying on the best practices for the tech industry.

Live: https://devresume.app/
Github: https://github.com/vangelov/devresume
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I think GP practises were always privately owned?
Especially, because it clicks ads without you seeing them
My impression from hearing about the Belt and Road initiative was China was dominant in Africa overall.

So on a continental level is China the biggest investor?
I've had tech-heavy cars for nearly 10 years now. The novelty factor has worn off.

I'm done paying a premium for stuff that doesn't work in heavy rain or heavy snow. I'm done paying a premium for stuff that needs OTA bug fixes every 6 weeks. And I'm definitely done paying a premium for interior materials quality problems that Toyota solved 30 years ago.
I find the opposite. 99% of my drives are a few miles each way. I no longer think about fuel or any maintenance. It's so damn convenient.

Sure, the few times a year we plan a longer trip it gets trickier. Although, the number of chargers coming over the next two years will change that landscape. I'll also say, I often just rent something, I do not want to drive a van all the time but they're great for road trips with two kids. Likewise, I do a lot of woodworking. If I need to haul more than the roof rails will hold I drop by home depot and grab a truck then go to the lumber yard.
Have they really changed the ToS that much? My understanding was that by EULA the content you create through Warcraft 3 World Editor always belonged to Blizzard and Reforged hasn't really changed much in that aspect.

On the other hand, a lot of custom maps for Warcraft 3 were based on external IPs (Dragonball Z maps etc) so it's not something Blizzard can claim anyway.

Even when transitioning to Dota 2 they had to purge some of the more obvious IP things that existed in Dota 1, such as the sorceress character named "Lina Inverse" became "Lina".
Not privatised. GPs have always worked like this, since the foundation of the NHS. They were never nationalised in the first place.

IIRC GPs refused to be NHS employees, so the government compromised and agreed to pay existing private GPs to treat NHS patients.
> parental involvement is the single biggest determinant of children's success and growth

yes!

> my problem with homeschooling is that it's completely unregulated

oh dear. so...if perhaps you meant "not regulated to x standards" i could agree more readily with that, at least in US / many European. but even conceding that, regulation historically has tended to effectively supplant parental involvement with state involvement (speaking about actual effects of regulation, not intentions). contra your first point about parental involvement.

i suppose it's possible future regulation could be different. but i see no reason given the current cultural climate to think future regulations will in fact uphold parental responsibility over state responsibility.

and besides it appears to me that government funded schooling is being held up as the "huge daycare." it has automatic funding in most places - even those who would not wish to pay, even those who never have children involved in it are contributing. it is in fact consistently used as a way to collect more taxes, but i digress. if i were a lax parent i would not have any inclination to move away from something that is already paid for and easy for me. or if i simply needed a place for my children to go for 8 hours out of the day government funded schooling is an obvious easy option.

in short regulation is not the solution to bad parenting, nor is it a good way to prevent bad parenting.
Dramatically more so. Rust is complex, but most (not all!) of the complexity is there to support a specific, modern, safe style of programming.

C++ adds fifty years of cruft to that.

A lot can be said about the surrounding social environment, but as far as the languages go, I don't think it's far wrong to say that Rust is "C++: The good bits".
Doctor's practices have always been private businesses. It was the NHS that pseudo-nationalized them by making the government the only paying customer (more or less). The doctors recognized the dangers and didn't want it, so Bevin famously had to "stuff their mouths with gold".
I mean one of the common correlations between dementia and 'something else' is stress, people who are stressed get dementia more often. I guess people who are not getting enough deep sleep are also stressed.
We also need to talk about the curb weight of these EVs…
>China, meanwhile, is eating our lunch

This is the story - everything else is just humbug. China produces (and buys) more EVs than the rest of the world combined. We can debate the reasons for that, but the basic fact is that the balance of power in the motor industry has drastically shifted. GM and Ford like to imagine that they're competing with Tesla, but Tesla know that their real competition is BYD.

Legacy manufacturers are pushing out FUD to try and appease their shareholders, but the reality is that the market share growth of plug-in vehicles is inexorable; the question is no longer whether battery-electric vehicles will represent a majority of new vehicle sales, but whether any of the legacy manufacturers will be left by 2040.

https://www.ev-volumes.com/
Well, this is an internal driver. A person has it or not. (Just like technicall skills but in a different area.)
The biggest issue is they aren't making anywhere near enough of them.

Toyota argues that batteries are constrained and that for one EV they can make five PHEVs which will reduce emissions more than that one EV. It makes sense on paper and they have a wildly popular PHEV in the RAV4 Prime but they haven't even remotely scaled to meet demand, so it feels more like we are replacing one EV with one PHEV while the other four buyers go ICE or plain hybrid.
I'm running an M1 Max with two Thunderbolt docks, and each drives 2 4k displays, runs great, although it's kinda overkill. But it does require the docks; you can't connect directly.
We're most of the way there with ICE vehicles anyway. New models have so many sensors and electronics, and parts are in such a short supply, you're mostly beholden to the dealers. Especially for any major components like the engine and transmissions.

We need to do a better job as a society into shaming people for making terrible purchase decisions.
uBlock Origin can also be used to modify the DOM or CSS in specific URLs via its "My Filters" screen.

For instance, I use it to switch HackerNews to dark mode, and restrict the width of comments to about 10-12 words: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/c39c83f2f97c3c6b1c307c...

It's a great alternative to GreaseMonkey or other user style extensions.
just wait until the battery or motor dies on you,
or you have to resell your car and no buyer wants to take on the risk of a used battery.
As one who is highly critical of the BUSL and especially of companies switching from Open Source licenses to the BUSL, I want to chime in a bit on this.

First of all- Thank You. Thank you to Sentry and the people there for making Sentry and making it originally Open Source. Thank you for continuing to make it eventually Open Source. Thank you for your continuing financial support of Open Source. I should have been more nuanced in my comment above, as Sentry only abandoned Open Source for their core product(s) and continue to contribute to other open source projects.

I don't believe Sentry "owes" anyone continued open source license terms.

I believe strongly in the value of the ability to fork. This is best for both companies and their customers. It allows both to pivot to new models. This is why I promote open source and insist on it for any core infrastructure or applications within my business. The freedom to fork has to be available to the community or any subset thereof, and viable. This is the weakness of the BUSL- because it prevents the community, or a subset thereof, from pursuing a key source of revenue to fund a fork.

I also really appreciate the business challenges of running any business, and especially an open source business. I believe there are many viable avenues to doing so. Community, product quality, support, and freedom are all critical selling points that open source companies have to do a better job of promoting and leveraging. I am willing to talk to anyone at Sentry or any other company considering the BUSL about strategies to make money and to avoid "heretical" software licenses. :)
If you subscribe to the unified theory of garbage collection [0] then yes shared_ptr does use garbage collection.

See also Herb Sutter [1] (describing a different project, but also mentioning shared_ptr):

> Q: "Is this garbage collection?"
> Of course, and remember that so is reference counting (e.g., shared_ptr).

[0] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2019fa/blog/unifie...

[1] https://github.com/hsutter/gcpp#q-is-this-garbage-collection
Probably not much more than your car's interior plastics already provide
It's not 9am California time yet https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/california
I work with both, having started with C++ about 17 years ago, and agree that Rust feels like a relatively simple language compared to C++. Rust might feel harder to learn initially because the borrow checker won't let you compile certain programs, but once you are over this initial hump, the rest is quite straightforward.
There are many ways to achieve this state; closing one eye is a shortcut that may work for some. For me, achieving extremely high focus on a difficult problem will also induce this state, as my brain filters out all incoming signals to become singularly focused on the problem.

If I'm pulled out suddenly to attend to something totally unrelated, I'll often be distracted by appreciating just how altered my senses are until they reacclimatize to "normal."
Worst case scenario? That seems unlikely.

Worst case scenario would be employee stock options and RSU grants remaining or becoming worthless, like in the case of a private company that never gains enough traction to exit or exits at a low valuation.

Usually in a public acquisition, shares are purchased at a price premium.

E.g., many Twitter employees got to cash out at a stock price well above the value of the company.

Every employee should see their role as temporary. This isn’t the lifetime employment pension days anymore. I see many opportunities for employees to walk away as a positive.
Well, you are not losing anything because you just don't exist.

You have everything, and then you are not there anymore to feel that your lost something.

But I can relate to what you are saying, I see it rather like a form of "future nostalgia": it is Sunday afternoon and your are sad that it is going to be over. This is something I learnt to actively fight and live in the present.
The industry should focus on solving problems. More specifically solving the right problems, and in ways that are sustainable and maintainable.

There an unhealthy obsession with technology for the sake of technology...but no one care. Not a single user is going to say, "I love React" or "Why didn't they use Vue?"

A great technical solution to the wrong problem is no solution at all. Clients and users want their problems solved.
> If you are surprised to learn that the C++ standard had support for GC, you are not alone.

I am relieved to learn that I wasn't sleeping too deeply.

> A bit of simplification to the standard never hurts.

Absolutely right, but I'm afraid it might be too little too late. I doubt any one person can keep all of C++ inside their head.
C++ precedes Rust by ~30 years. Just wait how large the Rust surface area might have become in 2053. There’s lessons to be learned from history, so hopefully less, but about every successful language so far has only kept growing and becoming more complex.
Not really, that chapter is more about irresponsible nobles. Starving the farmers and consequently others is rather characteristic of communism, I would say. A better chapter to make your point would be chapter 80. But if all one tries to use the tao te ching for is scoring points for or against some ism, a large point has been missed.
All the anecdotal indications is that polyphasic sleep is simply acquiring significant deep sleep debt.

That is: polyphasic sleep is not sustainable over a multi year period.

Humans can still do it while sailing in an ocean, on space ships and similar extreme locations.

However a significant relapse then follows in more "normal" places.

I'd love to see if someone was able to be productive for 3+ years on polyphasic sleep.

Personally I relapsed after a few months - maybe I never truly transitioned.
My biggest concern with Home Schooling is you literally have someone not qualified as a teacher, as in probably knows nothing of the subject and may not even have an education themselves, teaching the children.

Obviously this isn't all cases, and some traditional school teachers are questionable at best, but at least traditional teachers had to at least TRY to be subject matter experts before teaching in a traditional school. Sadly I personally know several friends that homeschool their kids and I have to say they are certainly doing a disservice to their children as the kids will only ever be as smart as their teachers and these 'teachers' (ie parents) are not the brightest.
Not challenging peoples capabilities doesn't scale well. Did you ever hire someone with 0 interviews, just because they work for another good company? Then why do that after M&A?

Its not unusual for the force cuts to be done via interviews at the new company
Because OpenAI focuses on putting out quality models. Efficient execution of ML models is another skill set entirely. Projects like CTranslate2 (which is what faster-whisper uses) are focused on fast model execution and work across all kinds of models from speech recognition to image and speech generation and everything in between.
This. It always amuses me when people complain about complexity in Rust.
It feels like they have no idea what they don't know about the alternatives
It's rather that with RAII (C++, Rust) you don't need a GC.

Of course, you can still create and operate a GC arena in C++, to manage a data structure or problem area where it makes sense. But why build in into the language, library, runtime if developers don't need it?
> Honestly it's getting ridiculous. I'm a dev and I can work on a macbook air no problem.

That's not surprising. It may certainly depend on the kind of development work you do but in my experience web development has always been quite easy and lightweight on the hardware compared to audio or video production. Those tasks will absolutely make use of better hardware. Back when I was recording music big projects could easily struggle even on capable hardware.
> Doubt Softbank will ever recover what they invested in there though

That’s virtually guaranteed. They’ve put over $17 billion into WeWork, and the entire company (which they only own a portion of) is currently valued at $121 million.

I’m not sure how much it’s value would have to rise for them to break even, but … it would have to be a lot. 300x? Something like that.
That's a really nice design. It makes it sort of obvious how austere and unambitious the supposedly awesome gov.uk design actually is.
"And there’s an understanding that OpenMW’s “intention” isn’t solely to be a way to play Morrowind, but also to implement a generic RPG engine and editor that uses Morrowind’s gameplay and file structure. For someone to make their own game with, not using any of Morrowind’s assets. (I’m not sure if any such game exists, though)"

To be honest, every project of this kind claims that. And in reality, everyone knows 99% of usecases for such engine is to play the original game. Sometimes there are new IPs being created on such engine. For example recently there's been some "boomer shooters" coming out using engines which were made originally to play classic DOOM or Duke Nukem 3D. But such cases are rare.
You want to use acrylic paint to solve this issue?
Ahh... my two favorite tech-related subject matters: Linux distros and the politics of browser choice. I'm currently trying to invert this entire discussion by putting a well-oiled Linux distro inside of the browser [1].

[1] For whoever doubts that a proper Linux distro can be created through pure Javascript running in a browser, you obviously haven't tried out https://linuxontheweb.github.io/ yet!
Those people are not broken and do not need fixing.
Absolutely cool but the dominant data format on the web today is JSON and you'd do even better with an object-relational query language (like N1QL)
Ethics an morals have financial upside, for people and groups of people (companies). For instance, do to their past behavior, and its publicity, Cisco is likely to lose many more competent employees during an acquisition than had they behaved otherwise.
However, the US trade barriers against ROW car industry are very effective. Placating Big Auto is more important than allowing consumers to buy cheap cars.
I have known GPs to try that too, although it is much rarer and I do not know anyone (even in London) who has been completely unable to find a GP (one person did have to ask the NHS to find her one willing to take her though).
This is the classic problem solved by Bayes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGCoVF3YvM there just aren't that many homeschooled people to provide a defense.

I'm another successful homeschooled-until-college adult, but homeschooling isn't that common now and it was even less popular when I was growing up.

EDIT: unless you were mentioning defense of homeschooling given they were homeschooled. I would assume most people on HN who were homeschooled had a decent education/homeschooling experience.
Yeah, I guess I think it’s not a matter of public school vs homeschool that’s really important. I think it just matters that someone is encouraging a kid’s education and development. It could be a parent or a teacher.

What saddens me is that some kids I grew up with were deprived of that in their homeschools. They almost certainly would have done better in public schools than at home. Not that public schools are better than homeschooling, but they are better than neglect.
I just bought a new car, and was very interested in EVs, so I looked around at the options in my area.

The story with every dealership I went to was the same: it's not just that they can't keep EVs on the lot, EVs and hybrids barely ever even make it to the lot. People are ordering and purchasing them sight unseen fast enough that the manufacturer cannot keep up with the demand.

Now, this may very well be something that varies by region, but based on the research I did, and what the salespeople at every dealership I went to were saying, this was the case for, at least, the entire greater Central NY region (upstate, not central NYC).

So is it a good deal for them? I don't have any direct evidence one way or another, but what I do have suggests that whether they want to sell them or not, they are selling them like hotcakes.
I have an AMD L14. The damn keyboard has a hardware fault. I have to close and open the lid so it suspends then wakes up to get it working again. Not a great experience, obviously.

The Thinkpad I had previously had some wonky wifi chipset. Got it working, but it was a pain.

I'm not buying anything else from Lenovo.