skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Consumer Reports, not JD Power, and they said they surveyed for issues in the first 12 months. It's about "new" cars after all so you can't go further back than that. They also weigh issues for their severity. Where are you seeing that their methodology is the same as JD Power?

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...

> Every year CR asks its members about problems they’ve had with their vehicles in the previous 12 months. This year we gathered data on over 330,000 vehicles, from the 2000 to 2023 model years, with a few early-introduced 2024 model years.

> We study 20 trouble areas, from nuisances—such as squeaky brakes and broken interior trim—to major bummers, such as potentially expensive out-of-warranty engine, transmission, EV battery, and EV charging problems. We use that information to give reliability ratings for every major mainstream model.

> We weigh the severity of each type of problem to create a predicted reliability score for each vehicle, from 1 to 100. We use that information to give reliability ratings for every major mainstream vehicle. (The reliability rating is then combined with data collected from our track testing, as well as our owner satisfaction survey results and safety data, to calculate each test vehicle’s Overall Score.)
Agreed. The speed of a language is reverse proportional to number of CPU instructions emitted to do something meaningful, e.g. solve a problem. Not whether it can target system calls without overhead and move memory around freely. That's a given.
You can self host and reach inboxes. You just have to have all of the optional headers/dns stuff set up, and have a domain and IP address in good reputation.
Probably also having the whole block in good reputation.

Realistically an absolute fuckload of spam and not a lot of genuine email comes out of residential and cheap VPS hosts IPs so they already have a negative rep.
Recently seems like the real difference is writing it down, then P-hacking it to deceive peer reviewers.
My base level Kenmore washer and dryer are over 20 years old. When it's time to replace them I would only consider Speed Queen.
2000 4Runner 2x4 (I think last year made in Japan) 320k miles. Still original alternator, starter and every other major component (transmission, rear end, etc). I am not sure but may have replaced water pump about 10 years ago but I could be wrong and it still might be original. Just tires, brakes, battery and religiously change oil every 3k. Has a little hail damage but other than that looks new and feels dependable and drives well. It is my first Toyota...
I've solved the parking lot problem with a $29 Apple AirTag.
Well, if we want to, we can use Open Genera to emulate a Symbolics workstation -- on Unix.
Intellij has built in Git GUI which has lots of features of other commercial dedicated tools. Features I use include selecting and committing individual lines where needed, rearranging and squashing commits all within easy ui.
> So expensive cars that cater to fussy people score poorly compared to cars bought by people who only care about reliability and getting from point a to point b and don't pay attention to their car.

That sounds believable, except that Lexus is at the top of the list, and they are definitely a "fussy people" brand. Meanwhile Chevrolet, Ford, and VW are near the bottom.
I figured it was a homonym confusion with eg "dragon's hoard". Still a bulk noun, just not the one anyone was reaching for.
For me it's privacy first and foremost, since you're paying for the product, you are not the product.
It's a really great search engine that lets you blacklist websites from your results, promote websites to be higher on your results list and it has an AI search. $10 a month is nothing when i consider all the time i'm saving having my results instantly be customized to me instead of having to wade through Google's ads and SEO spam blogs
Also, I tried the same identure contract from the other side (the master rather than the apprentice) and, some highights of the comparison:

(1) the room and board commitment that it called out as a plus as a clear commitment for the apprentice side, it called out as a negative as excessively vague for the apprentice.

(2) The "Standard Practice Comparison" calls out the 5-year term and associated commitments as standard to the Master, while calling them out as unusually burdensome and out of line with standards for the Apprentice.

(3) the "Recommendations" on the Master's side (reproduced below) are actually written as recommendations to the Apprentice. Giving the recommendations for the wrong party is a pretty big failure, even if everything else was right.

Recommendations

Follow the Rules

Make sure to do what the contract says. Follow your Master's lawful commands and don't break the rules, like playing illegal games or skipping work.

Protect the Business

Keep your Master's secrets and don't let anyone damage their business. If you see something wrong, you should tell your Master.

Respect Boundaries

Don’t get married or waste your Master’s things during your apprenticeship. Focus on your learning and duties.

Stay Committed

You agreed to work for five years. Stick with it unless your Master says it's okay to leave.

Learn Well

Take the chance to learn as much as you can from your Master about being a merchant. It's a big part of the deal.
I’m grateful that some people still believe in evidence and reason.
Phenomenal quickstart, and thanks for the write-up. It’s so thrilling that we’re at this point in portability and ease relative performance.
Just grab a beefy x86 CPU (e.g. one based on AMD zen4) and put it in SMT=1, and you'll probably have a much better experience. A lot of windows/Linux software is already optimized for x86, and you'll get good performance uplift per logical thread from SMT=1.
I just don't like any model of Japanese cars... they don't drive, look, or feel as good as a high end European car. But man do I wish European cars were half as reliable as Japanese cars. Driving European cars is a hobby for me, but spending every weekend to keep them working gets old sometimes.

What's especially annoying is that the high end European cars are ostensibly better made... much more expensive materials, more attention to detail (better rustproofing, cable organization, etc.). They probably actually last longer on average if you maintain them well, but they just have unexpected parts failures extremely often.
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.

Previously asked on:
2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421

2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863

2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306

2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
As I said, there are exceptions, but broadly its just slap motors on output shafts. The motor is usually designed to bolt onto an existing automatic transmission housing.
Google reinstats downloader app after internet mocks them
After their news about suing the same people that abuse the DMCA.
Name some examples of large, militarily powerful groups accepting living conditions that were worse than the previous generation experienced, not due to natural disasters. People have never accepted that. Sure they've had shitty living conditions, but they started shitty, they didn't get worse. Sure they've been enslaved, but the civilians in this country are heavily armed enough to fight back against a government they see as allowing living conditions to slip.
ICYMI:

> We weigh the severity of each type of problem to create a predicted reliability score for each vehicle.
No, a lot of C++ and Motif as developed under Unix, but the giant for C++ software by a HUGE margin it's Windows and Win32 since forever.

Similar on how the web was born in a NeXTStep and then GNU/Linux servers (and lots of clients, libre sourced Mozilla and Konqueror's KHTML) ate nearly all the cake.
How Meta Is Planning for Elections in 2024
What couple of steps?
What's wrong with a Highlander?
I am in the Eastern USA. Looking at remote positions mostly (USA). I have yet to have an interview loop that did not involve both system design and some "leetcode"-style code questions.

None have been as complex or bad as some make them out to be, but all have the potential to trip you up depending on the day.
If the guy is just - for want of a better word - genetically shy and a sole-contributor type who likes to take tasks and bunker down and churn out code, implementing any of these suggestions will probably make them snap quit.

I think the better question to ask here is, can you get the input you're looking for out of the guy through a method that best suits their style. These suggestions are very 'force the round peg into the square hole' - like; the guy's shy? ok, we'll fix that by ramming him into situations where shyness isn't permissible until he gets over himself.

It may be better to figure out how they can best deliver their contributions; some people prefer to digest input and write emails than engage in a 'face to face' because they see that as inherently adversarial and tend to back down.

At the end of the day, not everyone is going to be able to stand up and advocate loudly for themselves in a group scenario; that does not make them a bad contributor. You need to evaluate their ability and ensure that your processes do not mean that an insistence on 'face to face, talk it out, say what you mean' style of communication in the business results in their contributions getting steamrollered.
Commanding officers at shore training commands are mostly there work on their golf games and sign administrative paperwork. The real lessons come from people with not even half his experience. Even a former CO that allowed this to happen is probably better to teach basic tactics than a Lieutenant who has done maybe two sea tours, honestly.
It was an emotional response driven from frustration. But obviously something highly inappropriate to say outright, and only creates yet another PR disaster. He is his own worst enemy, unable to adequately control himself. It seems verbatim what Dana White said the other day. That said, he did apologize for the remarks and the rest of the interview was rather normal. We'd all be better off not clinging to the constant desire for drama and focusing on meaningful actions over words.
Not to dismiss your opinion, but for someone arguing in favor of nuance, your perspective on seniority is surprisingly... un-nuanced. So a senior is not a senior if they are not proficient at Git? How do you even measure that proficiency?

EDIT: FWIW, I don't value titles like "senior" and never took them to be meaningful.
Funny what sticks, isn't it? Many nations are evolving to relative omniscience now, either directly or with corporate/allied deniability. THX was pretty prescient. I doubt anyone would get financial backing from a major studio to put something like that out these days, nor would typical audience attention span suffice for its consumption. Good on him for doing it when it was possible. Great film!
And if you liked to hate Robert Carlyle as Doctor Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe, you'll love to hate him as Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold / Weaver in Once Upon a Time!

...Did you know Battlestar Galactica was based on the Book of Mormon?

I also love Dark Star! But it is time for Sgt. Pinback to feed the alien.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESQK98HbKBY

Some people hustle pool. Some people hustle cars. But have you ever heard about the man who hustles stars? Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJheh1XcAQ

Due to unfortunate confusions by the cosmos and misunderstandings by the search engines at the outset of the internet era, he had to make a trans-steller switch to Star Gazer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhoNffiu3Q0
Yeah OP is confused. This is CR which is a completely separate company from JD Power. Only JD Power measures JD Power metrics and no one else really cares about them.
I remember reading the article about black women and the plague in England and laughing out loud. Certainly you're at an advantage if so many people are that blindingly stupid.
Or, Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare (SPEW).
of course i drive/bike/walk in daily life. the risk is proportional to miles traveled. adding 10-50 a day compared to 10-50 a week is quite a bit. is that snark
The main claim, as I understand it, is that they are not capable of hitting the promised performance numbers.
OK, I get what you are saying about the board at least.

I also don't assume to know what "the board" means anymore in regard to OpenAI. When Ilya came back on board with Altman, any presumed understanding of the dilemma was lost upon me. I hate to say it, but I don't expect to believe anything that I hear about this story from this point on.
It reminds me a lot of Mindustry's Erekir, both in setting and in some gameplay implications (tungsten deposits, lava as a resource, heat changing gameplay solutions).
- bitbucket is one option.

Added: for clarity, while they do not require SMS/email/fingerprint/yubikey they do have an "app code" thingy which means that whenever you push, pull, etc you will have to enter one extra password.

That PW can be stored in your PW manager like any other PW
This. Unix/Linux are bound to C. Unix's API it's just libc. NT Objects and C++ was the natural binding as you say. Even ReactOS has an NT object viewer in their explorer.exe/shel32.dll reimplementation.
I wouldn't say they are insignificant, just that as a pure informational discipline the cost to actually implementing the discovery (in this case, spreading the information) is close to zero (and much less than even the spreading of software or even pure algorithms in some cases, which in our current environment is so often encumbered in some way), the low hanging fruit is gone. Especially in history, where until new methods of looking in the past are discovered most things are already well trod, the effort to contribute something actually new and noteworthy seems very high, leading to shortcuts such as this.
Since this is HN, let me share me an idea I had one day.

Psychology/CBT says that we have so called "core beliefs"--i.e. convictions we hold, that we're not really aware of as they are embedded deep in our minds.

For instance, if one of our core beliefs is "the world is a bad place and people are hostile", we can by default perceive other people as potential threats and feel anxious/afraid/endangered.

Now, ChatGPT has the system prompt "I'm ChatGTP, ...." that's hidden from us.

IMVHO that system prompt is like a core belief. Or vice versa--our core beliefs are like ChatGPT's system prompts.

And CBT can be thought as sandbox escape/prompt injection. If we find a way to override the system prompt, we can effectively change it!

Of course it's just a shallow analogy, but maybe someone will find it useful!
The author criticises a historian for jumping to conclusions from a very small sample and then does exactly the same thing himself. It seems like the first people to yell bias are biased themselves.

The history of history is littered with some very questionable theories promoted by very questionable people. It’s not some new phenomenon and it’s not confined to one political affiliation or agenda.
Powering TV displays at work with a simple script using feh and Syncthing for copying files over to the pi's around the factory
>Why is the wife the primary carer?

Totally agreed biology IS a factor here. The problem is biology doesn't come with a label and sometimes it's not clearly designed for a singular concept.

There's no Label on exactly which parent is supposed to be the better care taker and maybe there's not supposed to be a clear answer here. But there is this:

https://archive.ph/Zv9rp
Unix CLI makes automation easy. The least you 'use' the computers for repetitive tasks, the better.

If you want fun, get Scheme or Common Lisp+Emacs and start hacking something cool.
Apple ending relationship with Goldman Sachs, fate of Apple Card unclear
That sort of work but not all the time, your messages still end up in spam a lot when trying to reach somebody you haven't exchanged email with before.
It would have to be from the small list of cars you can still buy new that haven't changed much in the last decade. The Chrysler 300 and Dodge Challenger come to mind.
>but as much as people love to crap on leetcode-style engineering interviews, they do ensure an objective bar of programming ability

sure, but the further past junior you go, the less programming ability really matters to your day to day job. There's stuff I'm doing on a technical level now that I woulda done just fine 7 years ago in college, but lacking the ability to properly integrate it into a proper PR, communicate with systems/product owners on requirements, iterate on based on customer feedback, and overall maintain with other legacy code in mind. That's gained from experience working on a large codebase, not by hacking away at your ability to find the longest palindrome substring on a whiteboard.

It's inevitable to ask those questions to a junior who lacks work experience, but it's really annoying that I have to study trivia like that some 7+ years into industry. Or that some companies are so paranoid about me answering their trivia quiz offline that they want to compromise my machine's privacy to check on me siting at my computer in thought. I'm gonna be googling documentation on the job anyway, so at least ask me about concepts if you need to probe.

>But the interviews I've sat in on for roles like product management and marketing had less of an objective bar, so it was generally easier for someone with a great personality to get hired in those roles.

I agree, it's hard to gauge those skills, harder to build those skills without having a job first (catch 22) and nearly impossible to assess in any technical test. These are parts of business that can fail even if you do nothing wrong on a technical level, and since society is so blame-first, we never truly assess how much of that is on the market, the individual, or the product.

I do agree it's nice to have something more objective for a technical role. I just think it's a shame that I'm still being asked to implement atoi for a graphics programmer interview. What does that have to do my ability to send data to a GPU?
Thermal solar energy is a thing. The important part is concentrating the energy with mirrors to reach high temperatures and pressures. They use solar turbines because those are more efficient than steam engines. My understanding is that the efficiency is close to solar panels.

Solar thermal isn't used because solar panels are much cheaper and simpler. In world without cheap solar panels, solar thermal would be preferred form of solar energy, and could be done with advanced technology.
> This web property is not accessible via this address.
The thing most likely to cause an accident with my car is the horrible Apple Car Play system via USB. I don't know if it's a VW problem, Apple problem, or just a bad combination of the two. It can be so frustrating and fiddly that I'll just pull over to deal with it. I've been considering going old school with a mount and just use the car speakers via bluetooth instead.
Agree.

Point is to control emotion (negative side at least) and get stuff done. Perform like a "professional killer" who kills problems (I remember there is a manga with this topic).

There are always too many people losing their control of themselves (or don't have enough from the beginning). If possible, help them. If not, help yourself and don't bother.

We are entities with limits. Spending time on things we cannot/will not do is a waste (I value my will almost as important as my capability, we are humans not slaves/machines).
Join the waitlist bro, I promise you bro it's worth it bro just believe me, please bro, just join the waitlist and you'll see bro, pleeeeeease bro.
Raising the minimum wage is kicking the can down the road because it does nothing to address the root cause of low pay (low market power) in the long term, but instead delivers the sugar rush of immediate cash. It looks like something is being done. But the cost is twofold:
1) higher inflation (more money, same economic output), and 2) lower political momentum to help the poor, because "didn't we just raise the minimum wage?"

I desperately want every last poor person on the planet to have access to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation and increasing resources. But the only way to help the poor is to engineer a situation where their market power rises. This takes many forms - encouraging more entrepreneurship (entrepreneurs hire people), better capitalization for companies (more money for hiring), steady & reliable market regulations (hiring is less risky), finding ways to increase output per worker (worker is more valuable), and many other hard things.

More market power for poor people means when there's a shit employer, you go to the next one, or when you need a raise, you can demand one, and so on. Supply and demand always wins. Everything else is a distraction. Minimum wage is the rent control of the labor market.
Love those lyrics
I have a 2012 Honda Fit that they will need to pry off my cold dead hands. It's my favorite car of all time, it's everything that I want from a car. Except possibly a larger gas tank.
I'm not sure about that. The Unixes that the book complains about have been completely out to pasture for a couple of decades. NeXT existed at the time and was specifically excluded.
Graphic is good is you really need pictures. But plain old information goes better with text.

The hilarious thing about most human-computer interaction is when we use GUIs for imparting purely text information.

For example, on this HN page that I'm writing, and you're reading, the only graphical thing really is the orange bar across the top.
Reading his posts about Netscape/Mozilla/Linux/CADT, I'm pretty sure he was a salty young man as well. Reminds me of me.
any time he wants to lock himself in a screening room for four months, he should feel free
That sounds like a reference / joke that Dennis Miller would make.
Also, TUI and hybrid UI's. MC it's both a shell, file manager, editor, viewer, VFS explorer and remote FS manager. mcedit -b or mc -b, much better. No colors, no distractions, just raw info. That's how I read lots of fortune files, books, novels and documentation back in the day.
I have used simple-nixos-mailserver (not reviewed here) for three years now, for myself and several organizations. NO issues. The biggest issue with e-mail is (in my view at least) your IP reputation. In order to ameliorate this, I simply buy colocation space, which has higher quality IPs than AWS and cloud services.

I've never had deliverability issues. Because it's nix, upgrades are atomic. Installation is dead simple. Also, the entire setup was like two minutes. I eventually added LDAP authentication and roundcube which took some work, but because it's nix, I did this development on a separate VM before I simply replaced my config on my main server (actually just copied the closures). Adding domains is simple: just modify the nix config file. As is adding new users. Very easy. Highly recommend to run all your critical infrastructure on Nix. Any mistakes are easy to fix... just go back to the old generation.

I did consider solutions like mail-in-a-box but adding the complexity and statefulness of such a system just didn't seem worth it. Also, remote control panels scare me. My e-mail server is heavily SSH protected (Only my private key plus wireguard) and hardened against malicious IPs (fail2ban) among other things. Again, NixOS makes this easy. For storage, simple-nixos-mailserver keeps all data on a separate ZFS partition, which gets zfs 'send't to a remote backup (several).