skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two
Hertz self-insures.
Maybe Google never had the ambition or ideas to employ 200,000+ people. How big were they in the golden era that you're imagining?
Could you point me to the source?
It's the perfect symbol of peak boomerist individualism and failed nationalism. Burn as much fuel as you can. Make as much noise as you can. Who cares about the atmosphere and trying to live peacefully below it. It's an absolute engineering masterpiece. Six times the fuel per mile as a 747, uh, anyway, whatever it's loud and fast that's so cool!
Seems like a lot of random complaints, from mobile apps to lane-keeping software. Not much seems specific to EVs, more just about new technologies.

I guess you can rent a $20k Kia and avoid all the new tech.
Yeah. We have a similar thing going on with self-hosted GitLab at my work. (And there, there isn’t even any incentive why it should be slow.)

When I make an edit and rebuild on my computer, it takes a few seconds to rebuild because most things are cached.

In CI it takes 20 minutes on the MR branches of our repo. 30 minutes on master. Because a whole bunch of crap is downloaded from scratch and rebuilt from scratch.

Our infrastructure guys did set up something that is able to cache stuff that some of the repos use. But with the limited access I have I have not been able to figure out how to make use of it for the repo I work on. And they don’t have time to look into it for me either.

That’s my life lol
As they say, "location location location". In a Texas summer, it is easily 3x that per month for 4 months out of the year for a house. So, that's 12 months in one quarter based on your math. The vast majority of that is just running the A/C. So again, this makes much more sense when you look at the nuances vs just some lame internet posting of using averages. If it makes no sense for you, that's too bad, but to come out with broad brush comments alluding to it not making sense ever is just naive.
This is Iran priority #1. I'm surprised it took Iran two weeks. They benefited by sending a message.
Aren't these the remnants of the Bitcoin gold-rush age?
I think there's a build of an older version of it on the YoYoGames archive. The archive didn't save the screenshots that the original website had, sadly.

I also spent a long time working on a very large update which I might have archived somewhere locally but never shared it online.
Outlook (the app) is not the same as outlook.com (the email service) or Exchange Online (what most companies use). Data from one product/service could be used in different ways than others.
https://www.hertzcarsales.com/used-tesla.htm
Hospitals love to do this thing where you set up a payment plan for auto-draft, but the moment you get a new bill, they cancel the payment plan with no notice and happily let your account go delinquent.

At that point, I just let it go to collections until the collector is willing to settle for a fraction. Or if I get lucky, the debt gets sold seventeen times and it just goes away once I ask for proof that they own my debt.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes I say. If you wanna try and fuck around with me, I'll do my level best to make sure you lose as much money as possible.
2 billion? Did they sit on diamond chairs while they coded or something?
... US government-run "socialism".

Because we all know how well they run all the other programs, especially if you've dealt with healthcare they already run (military and VA).

I'd imagine people would be clamoring for socialized medicine if they fixed the VA to be a shining example.
KiCAD’s storage format is s-expressions, so it works OK with git (better than binary file formats). However I have not tried to merge concurrent edits by multiple people; I suspect if there is any conflict you are basically out of luck.
This real story of dirty-tricks thugs stupid enough to get caught, and the "Silicon Valley" TV bit about Gavin Belson trying to get his people to kill a protestor ("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5pt1bvutQ")... made me wonder how often wealthy sociopaths, even in the US, are quietly having people problematic to them neutralized in a criminal way.
I am partly working for an Italian company from Germany. Billing is very simple. I invoice the Italian company according to the so-called reverse charge procedure: My invoice does not include VAT, but only the European VAT number of my and the customer's company. The customer must settle the VAT with his tax office. I only have to inform my tax office at regular intervals about the turnover with the individual companies, so that the European tax authorities can check whether the customer has declared his taxes correctly.

I invoice via my own company. But this is not mandatory. You can also apply for a VAT number as an individual and follow the same procedure. I did this before I set up the company.
This also holds true on thebflip side for most consumer internet speeds (at least in the US).

Many people have a x00 Mbps or even x Gbps downstream, but most have no more than x0 Mbps upstream. Literally their ability to pull traffic from websites is 50X in some cases than to push information out. Going beyond that (greater uploads) often costs significantly more.

Whether or not these two are actually related isn't clear to me, but it is interesting.
I think this is only half the answer (or atleast part of it). This not only ends up attracting the make-quick-buck-with-certification types but also the political sociopaths who knows how to optimize time on the ladder over quality. This not only has lowered the bar but also made these places very toxic to work in! Passive aggressiveness anybody?
I checked my electric provider and although I said in an earlier comment that they don't do this sort of differential pricing, I was incorrect. They've been doing it for years now -- but it's optional and you have to opt in to it.

They say that the percentage of users who actually do this is somewhere around 10%.

Personally, I value having electric prices being stable very highly. I'd prefer pay higher rates (up to a point) to keep that stability.
Repeatedly claiming your opinion is true does not make it so.
Sectarian conflict exists everywhere. But in America it’s all-encompassing, because there is no dominant group. Australia is still majority English. Scotland is majority Scot, etc. America has no majority group. Only 4% of Australians have German ancestry. In America, by contrast, Germans are 17%.

I don’t think there’s any election in Australian history where people from a foreign ancestry ended up tipping the balance and caused major change. That’s happened repeatedly in America. FDR never would’ve gotten elected without Irish and Italian immigrants. That would be an explosive event in most other countries.
> Profit margins are like 4% on health insurance.

If I tell you my cost of a bottle of water is $96,000 and sell it to you for $100,000 in the middle of the desert, my profit margin is only 4%.
> what makes you think that engineering-driven cultures ignore or don't ask for input from sales/marketing/customer support?

The part where managers who don't partake in these efforts refuse to believe engineering estimates, engineering challenges and unknown unknowns and yet feel empowered to blame engineers in performance reviews.
He did had monetary incentives to be biased. /s
yep, but w burn 90% of it and we don't have to.
just crown it with a LLM
I used youtube with all thumbnails blocked for a while. Also, no recommendations or comments, or ratings (FF Unhook extension + uBlock rules). Only subscriptions, text feed with titles.

It was a good middle ground, but eventually the thumbnail URL format changed and it started appearing again. Also re-enabled recommendations and comments, but my front page remains subs only (more or less 5 videos a day of select channels).
Don't you need to provide your credentials to sparkmail in order for the app to able to sync across multiple devices? how is that any different from what Outlook tried to make you do?
A single-payer system doesn’t seem like a magic fix to me at all. At best, a single payer could, at least in principle, wield enough market power to improve the overall system.

Just look at Medicare. Medicare has enormous market power, but it uses that power in more or less absurd ways and does not optimize patient outcomes or its own expenditures particularly effectively.
Apple says longtime directors Al Gore and James Bell are retiring from the board
This is a great idea and seems like it could be super useful. We've built something sort of like this by firing off events to Amplitude from the server side to cover state transitions by users, including the old state as a property for later inspection. But doing it automatically from the DB txlog makes a ton more sense.
Ohh yup. Looking at the merge it allows people to reset other users passwords.

I was also able update my instance.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offe...

https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/ViewPage/AllDocuments
Japan: It's very hard for companies to lay off employees here, and I haven't seen any reports of large layoffs in the Japanese business press. However, a lot of IT work is subcontracted to smaller companies, and cutbacks in subcontracting might not make the news. Employment cutbacks by smaller IT firms might fall under the media radar, too.

The picture of the overall employment situation as conveyed by the news media here is of a tight labor market and of difficulty for companies in finding and retaining employees.
This exact complaint was common in 2001. Which hey maybe it’s true! Maybe the nerds from 2 generations ago could have built all this technology 10x over… except they didn’t.
And yet Medicare has a 94% satisfaction rate.
Lots and lots of Bolts on there if you take a look
I know everything is logged but I basically quit using irc when tons of channels started having bots that would log EVERYTHING in a room to public urls.

But it is really cool that I can read channel logs from events, like 9/11.
Thanksgiving sale in January checks out.
Y Combinator – Biggest waste of time for startup founders
Apple might be less bad than, say Oracle, but it's still an evil mega corp.

Their privacy angle is little more than mere marketing. Authoritarianism is in their DNA.

By no stretch of the imagination is it an ethical company, and people really need to stop treating it as such.
eBay cooperated fully with the investigation and had no interest in protecting the ones who were caught. Maybe none of them, iunno the eBay office culture at all.
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.” said Dostoevsky. In this case, it would appear that some people desperatly want to worship software, and are assaulting society with their new religion. Let's stop at Nietzsche. Everything else is a waste of electrons.
Ah, I see where you strayed from reality. Your comment seems to be based on a premise that voters are rational.
First off: I suggest you pay any reasonable bills you know you incurred and can pay. Don't be a deadbeat. That said...

As I understand it, it's pretty typical for these bills to be sold, and once that happens, the originator doesn't really care anymore. They got what they got and it's written off. Maybe they won't see you anymore, because you don't pay your bills; maybe they don't really care because lots of people don't pay their bills; if they were smart, they'd bill you at time of service, but chances are they're not organizationally capable of billing at time of service. If they won't see you anymore and you have limited options for medical care or they're the best option for medical care; you'll need to settle up. If not, the clinic has no means or desire to force you to pay.

The debt collectors have a time limited option to take you to court for repayment, but most of the bills aren't worth the effort, so you can probably wait it out. It might ding your credit, but if it comes up, you say 'hey, this bill correct' and it's a medical bill and everyone believes you.

If the debt collectors do file a suit, and you have the money to pay, negotiate a payout then.
Ask HN: Is a platform to teach us business/entrepreneurship should exist?
I've observed many people struggling over the years to build businesses and earn money from them. I believe there should be a platform to teach business/entrepreneurship, covering everything from ideation to earning the first dollar, hey paul graham you should read this :))))
> We don't really have large tech companies like in the US.

No, but you do have the governemnt, HFT and banking industry which pays contractors well, plus local branches of many top US companies which is still a leg up on the labor market comapred to most EU memebers, meanign salaries at the top end are much higher than most of the EU.

Look for jobs in countries without top banking and no branhces of top US companies and see what salaries are like. UK will seem like a paradise.
... if electricity was free.

Power efficiency wise, a discrete GPU won't compare favorably.
You get a larger market share of the total energy consumption/payments to be during the day. E.g. because solar is cheaper, I shift my usage so that all of my energy costs are during the day, and if a majority of people do that, there will be enough money to keep the businesses afloat.
LATCH is absolute garbage. Their Bluetooth often doesn't even work. And yeah, now without a phone, I am homeless.
> What do you expect me to do about it? I live in a reliably blue area and it's Republicans who are blocking things like a single-payer system.

So why did single payer healthcare fail in Vermont and California? European countries the size of Maryland manage to run their own universal healthcare systems. Why can’t states where democrats outnumber republicans 2:1 do the same?
No it’s because socialism isn’t the only alternative and half the country wants to use it as an excuse to enact socialism, just like they want to use literally every other issue as an excuse to enact socialism.

To me the medical system is the worst of both worlds. It’s heavily regulated in favor of the businesses (insurance/hospitals) and gives the illusion of competition when in reality “networks” exist to ensure there is no actual competition. I think either full on socialism or fully free market would be a huge improvement.
> to expect that car rental employees will babysit every customer and show them all the cars in detail is... unrealistic.

Not every customer needs explanations. I think it's completely realistic to expect a business to show me how to use what they are selling to me. How they profit from that is their problem - when they start having compassion for customers' finances, I'll have it for theirs.
this GPU was so good at the time that it started cannibalizing sales of higher end data center cards, and Nvidia had to put terms in the EULA for the drivers to try to legally prevent this.
Yeah, they play this game enough that I simply question fucking everything. They will explain every single line item in a way that I can map back to a timeline, or they will take it off.

This has to be done in person, where they can't be, uh, accidentally disconnected, but I've found the rate-of-return on that time hard to beat. They discover all sorts of "mistakes" when you're taking up their billing specialists' time.

It is a bit like haggling over your car price after you already bought it; the main thing to get over is the social discomfort of being a pain in the ass, so they can't use that against you.
When did we do it 30 years ago? With java?

There were many attempts and electron beats them all.
what? all that text and no mention of the Paris Metro??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756803
Debt is heavily marketed, but ultimately a personal choice. For those who choose to live within their means and not take on debt, they don’t have most of their paycheck going out the door to pay for last month, or have negative income.

I’ve had people who make less than me tell me I live like a poor person. That’s ok. I know I’m doing fine and they have since told me about some of their money struggles, and have a lot of debt to deal with each month.

Maybe if people stopped using debt to pretend they had more than they do, we’d see more reasonable housing and car prices, as well as goods that are made with some quality and repairablity instead of things like fast fashion that simplely gets thrown away.

Companies doing business in the US go to where the demand is. People need to stop using debt to demand junk that makes things worse.

Step one could be ratching down the average home size. It has more than doubled since the 1950s, while the number of people in the house has gone down. A bigger home is naturally going to be more expensive to buy/build, but then it also takes more land, has higher property taxes, costs more to heat/cool, costs more to repair and maintain, has more rooms to furnish, and has more place to put stuff before a person needs to stop and question if this need all of it. Simply living in a more modest home or apartment can have a massive effect on a person’s finances.
100% 1080Ti is insane value, I have two of them and zero complaints, the 11 gigs of vram make it great for inference as well.
Microsoft 'authorize' Windows 11 to run on Parallels desktop - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...

That website claims that license keys are platform agnostic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDnht964HyE
Totally fair and I agree. But what about between now and eventually?

Eventually renewables will be all we use and eventually fossil fuels will no longer be needed. But between now and eventually, maintaining backup capacity is necessary and coal is probably the best option for that for the continental U.S. Nuclear only works as a base load, fracking/oil has even worse side effects, fusion isn’t ready, and we don’t have much untapped hydrothermal/geothermal
I guarantee you they aren't leaving money on the table. they're running the same techno capitalist playbook.

they want you hooked on apps, API, etc, before the real costs are brought in. they likely should be charging anywhere from 50-100$ depending on hours
It's strangely free as in beer, not as in speech. I wonder what the logic is for that.

Also, "Windows" needs to be capitalized in the title.
personal experience?
> I don't see a conflicting definition

As I said in my earlier response, the article doesn't explicitly define what "global mutable state" is, but it does say that conventional databases are global mutable state the same way that global variables in an ordinary program are.

By that definition, an append-only log as a "single point of truth" data store, which is the article's proposed "solution", is also global mutable state. The article does not acknowledge this, but it seems obvious to me.
Apple CEO Tim Cook's total pay drops to $63M for 2023
The linked reference does not support your argument, only that losing healthcare equates to worse health outcomes. Care to try again?
Do you think all the institutional knowledge that 17% took with them was documented somewhere in an internal Discord server?
Ah, answering my own question in case others are interested. Seems the bloggers were being followed by a van at one point and they were able to get the plates, which ultimately linked back to ebay.

I keep being impressed by ai's ability to perform research for you. "Found" the answer here:

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=xzz0am8o9ruxo4wztcc4v7xp
He explained why a specific solution wouldn't work, but he did not tie that into a request to stop sending him ChatGPT suggestions. Telling them to stop is a key part of that discussion.
Corporations are not under the control of a single human. This is like saying humans don’t exist because they’re made up of cells
We've been having a phenomenon for years: engineers reported that it was hard to find a good job, while companies reported that they couldn't find good engineers. So, it may be that everyone can learn to code, but not everyone can survive the grind of the industry.
It was just a sign of the times. People just didn't realise the impact as the negative effects hadn't started yet and the benefits were huge in lifting most of Europe out of poverty.

Soon after the oil crisis happened though which was really the start of climate and environmental awareness.
We get to pick from the politicians that the DNC and the RNC allow us to pick from.
I came pretty close: http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-turbo-entabulator/
It sure works in a bunch of other countries. I don't think there's anything special about the US that it wouldn't.

And it enables things like optimizing for patient outcomes that can't be achieved with private insurance.
> generations of Americans and other democracies have managed to get things done.

That's how we got here in the first place. Generations of Americans doing it the American way.
To this day I cannot accept that A+ is better than A-. Clearly the ordering is increasing in value with each letter and so a smaller value is better, and “-“ / minus gives you a slightly smaller value.

We accept that “A” comes before “B” so therefore “A” is better. “A-“ is smaller than “A” therefore “A-“ must be better!

rank = [A- A A+ B- B B+ C- …]
or the land. A lot of people seem to forget that...
Crysis was used in benchmarks for how long exactly? And it wasnt like it was a blockbuster either...

Maybe you should make an actual performance argument instead of a popularity contest.
I went out of my way to charge the vehicle before returning, returned it with 98% it but was still charged extra. Complaints to their call centre got me nowhere and I just resolved not use Hertz ever again.

The only winner here is Polestar. That will be the next car I'll buy.
The idea here isn't that there is some benefit in theory, it's that it isn't worth it due to the extra complexity.

Maybe you can set new values (although wouldn't that imply that everything before it was wrong and wouldn't people need to check each one to make sure they're right anyway?) but then you end up having people ransomwear your wrenches.
I thought it would be convenient to virtualize an old MacBook 12" I have onto my M1 MBA so I installed a MacOS VM with Parallels and plugged in my Time Machine backup to restore it to the VM and was surprised to learn:

> It is currently not possible to connect any USB device to a macOS Arm VM yet.

https://kb.parallels.com/en/128867
As someone who had a difficult time finding a job last year I took a look at press release and I found exactly what I thought I would find: 61% of companies say that the applicants' salary expectations "do not match the company's established salary structure", 35% of them see poor German language skills as a difficulty, and 48% are putting their hopes on AI to solve the skilled workers' shortage.

To my cynical eyes this looks like "we want skilled workers, we want them to speak fluent German, and we want them cheap". And as the saying goes, you can choose two of those things but rarely all three.
Unfortunately, there is no originality in your comment, here or elsewhere in this thread. Just sad and meaningless self-flagellation (now also with weird condescension) with no actual regard for what suffering means to billions of other people.

I sincerely hope you find the maturity required to expand your worldview outside of the sheltered, entitled microcosm it presently is.