skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many car dealers work directly with banks to provide financing for customers. In these cases, the car dealers take a cut, so a customer who walks into the same bank might be pre-approved for a lower interest rate. (This doesn't always apply to big institutions like Chase and Ally that have huge, separate direct and indirect auto lending arms that never talk to each other.) But this profit is totally arbitrary - dealers can choose to make no profit (or even lose money) on financing if it helps them to make a sale. Most people don't realize this because you can't walk into your local credit union and negotiate the terms of an auto loan. That being said, even at $0 profit it's hard for dealer financing to beat a direct auto loan, because you (the customer) get your pick of the world's financial institutions, whereas the dealer is restricted to the lenders they happen to partner with.

Relatedly, it is significantly more convenient to accept dealer financing because you don't have to act as a middleman between the car dealer and your bank.

The point is that dealer financing is usually a rip-off (because it's fundamentally another axis along which dealers try to extract money from you), but it can still occasionally be a good deal.
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And a great and economical way to remove all that shit from the environment?
> PID is nice since it's idiot-friendly

It may be idiot friendly, but boy do I wish the idiots who did the noise cancellation on my earphones had heard of integrator windup.
At least you can use Hacker News without an account. You can probably even read the news and discussions here with curl.
? Containment on imperial systems was removed. Russia invaded Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine. China colonized Hong Kong, uighurs, north Korea. Iran colonized Iraq, Yemen, Syria. Your liberal experiments have successfully brought back the world of 1910. And yet you endorse them..
> Unfortunately I had to leave the car, so they do a final inspection and prepare some papers. I came a week later to pick up the car.

I wonder how he would have felt if you had to take the car and keep the money for a week before you could pay.
To save to an image in Altair, it's just chart.save("myimage.png"). This works much better since version 5 (the syntax is the same but the dependencies are less fiddly)
Talking about absolute emissions when comparing countries with massive population differences is disingenuous. China is bad, but Europe and the US are worse.

Shutting down discussions on what we should do here by saying that it’s bad over there is also disingenuous.
that's not solving the problem is it?

It's like a pill that removes the symptoms, as long as you keep purchasing said pill.

It's why a lot of pharmaceuticals don't cure the root cause, but suppress the symptoms. It's no different in gov't.
Athill passed away in January 2019 at the age of 101, which means she could have received a 100th birthday card from the Queen.
I think you and OP are saying the same thing; you just have different ideas of what "nearly new" means.
all I can see is that their borders have been very peaceful comparing to other part of the world.
Related current discussion:

It's OK to abandon your side-project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500386
> I am stating, however, that it is increasingly obvious that Ukraine is running out of young men to fight with. A quick internet search gave me these results:

Ukraine doesn't send young men to frontline. :-/
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> and then their customers sent me unfriendly email and demanded that I provide support for the tool and solve their problems

Out of curiosity, what sort of tool were you offering? I’ve always heard about this but it’s never been my experience, so it really depends on the type of end user you have imo.

OP is currently trying to find a job and I think any attempt at open-sourcing his tooling (especially if it is useful) allows potential employers to review him in a better light. Abandoning it all seems wasteful when more and more companies try to find more reasons to filter out candidates.
I have seen a lot of generics for TNF inhibitors MABs, but that might just be because there's soooo much demand for those drugs. (Humira was one of the most profitable drugs of all time, after all.) Right now I'm on an infliximab biosimilar!
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized industries across the globe, and the manufacturing and steel industries are no exception. The advent of AI has brought about significant advancements, enabling businesses to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency.
Why would you think reverse engineering is somehow "wrong"?

You're not "stealing" source code, you're deducing operational concepts and then reimplementing it with your own work. That's perfectly fine in a lot of, if not most cases.

(Legal exceptions: your country forbids reverse engineering, or the software is patented [= in both cases, your legal system sucks]. But those are legal arguments, not moral.)
experiments....
This feels like moving the goal posts… and rather silly. Obviously people are dramatically more similar than different. But the concept of race is about those differences, and seems to be intimately tied to various gene expressions. Of course there isn’t an Asian gene or white gene or black gene, but there are genes that regulate hair color, height, facial structure, eye color, melanin production, etc., and those are what people think of when they think of racial differences. So to say race isn’t genetic seems silly at best.
Which would be the end of progress. Even if AI is capable of taking away some if the drudgery we still need people who understand the structures and methodology to develop something new.

Not to mention creating the next generation of AI chips.
Ask HN: Do you get worst answers from OpenAI API compared to ChatGPT?
But that’s not the point that was made. Reforming political and economical systems is not “telling the individual to change while allowing the companies to continue“, it’s pretty much the opposite.
From the Wikipedia article, this is how:

During his election campaign in 2021, Yoon Suk Yeol said that he would ask that the United States to redeploy tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea if there is a threat from North Korea.[162] U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Japan and Korea Mark Lambert rejected Yoon's call, saying said the proposal was against U.S. policy.[163]

In November 2022, a US-South Korean air force exercise named Vigilant Storm was countered by North Korea by missile tests and an air force exercise.[164]

In November 2023, both the Koreas suspended the Comprehensive Agreement Pact - a pact aimed at lowering tensions between the two countries - which was signed at the September 2018 inter-Korean summit, after North Korea launched a satellite into space.[165]

On January 15, 2024, Kim Jong Un announced that peaceful reunification was no longer possible and proposed identifying South Korea as a hostile state in the North Korean constitution. It was also announced that North Korea would dissolve the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, the National Economic Cooperation Bureau and the Mount Kumgang International Tourism Administration.[166]
A few questions/suggestions, if I may:

Would really appreciate more documentation (there's also very little documentation on Neocities!), on things like whether (and if yes, how) clean URLs are supported.

From the "donate" page, what exactly do "Endless bandwidth" and "Twice as smaller rate limits" mean? I can't seem to find documentation of the limits for the free tier, so it's difficult to determine what "Twice as smaller" means.

As there are already quite a few services offering free static web hosting, it seems to me what places like Nekoweb and Neocities have to offer is a sense of community and ways for like-minded people to find each other - and in that respect, I've been frustrated with some of Neocities' limitations (like the limit of 5 tags) and apparent lack of interest in developing further. Do you think you'll implement things like a tag cloud, to help people find each other?

And finally, is Nekoweb open source, or will it be?
This is a really good comment that touches on some thoughts I’ve been pondering for awhile now.

In psychology, there is a concept of “culture-bound disorders”. Traditionally, these seem to be very unusual disorders that are extremely common in some cultures but not in WEIRD cultures. I think maybe the psychologists are getting this backwards; maybe some of the proper disorders in the DSM are actually culture-bound to WEIRD culture, and I think the specific way PTSD is normally described may be one of these. This isn’t to say that other cultures don’t have stress reactions, but they have different stress reactions that crystallize in forms that are more “normal” to their cultures, the way textbook PTSD is effectively “normal” to our culture. I’ve read about cases where well-meaning Western counselors show up to natural disasters expecting the survivors to have textbook PTSD symptoms. At first, people hear these counselors asking about PTSD symptoms and are genuinely confused, but apparently with enough contact, the suggestion from an authoritative sounding western medical practitioner implying that this is how they should be feeling in that situation can end up inducing those very symptoms.
I came here for this, and I'm glad you beat me to it. I never knew about hyperthymesia though, and it seems shocking that there have been persons affected by it, and it sounds like Borges was in fact prescient.
Can we measure % of homes transferred from parents to children? I know several millennials who inherited their houses from their parents when they passed away. There is no way they would be home owners otherwise.
Presumably there's a business loan with a fixed contract and terms. That's a very different situation than an open ended commitment to maximally enrich shareholders... Pay your bills and the lender has nothing to say about how you run the business. Don't pay your bills, and the contract (which everyone signed) says what happens.
I am not optimistic. The pace of progress in the field is very slow. Barring an AGI-induced revolution in medicine (not out of the question) I think the chances of curing common allergies in my lifetime are not super high.
How do you avoid squatting?
Notably, no discussion on the article, only about the archive.ph site not working ;)
Caregiver burnout is real and we have to self-regulate even if no one else seems to be stepping up.

If a person minimizes their own feelings and doesn't realize it, be it towards family or others, they will minimize yours' when the time comes and not see the damage they are doing regardless of how many ways you try telling them.

Once an addict, always an addict (e.g. gambling). The game may change but the instinct to react in a fight-or-flight way and protect one's wins versus think rationally will kick in.

If feeling neglected in a relationship, not to compare to others and try to incentivize one's partner to step up.

Shutting down and minimizing and invalidating and gas-lighting can be incredibly damaging. It isn't an "offensive" technique but damaging nonetheless.
Is there some dynamic equivalent of document.querySelectorAll("section") JS-based DOM filtering, that listens to websites building new UI elements through dynamic loading and applies the filter on newly added (or modified?) DOM elements (much like how CSS rules automatically cascade when HTML elements are added and removed)?
I don't know if they're strictly lying, but they sure aren't recognizing that going through all their legal documents requires thousands of dollars of contract review.
Ukraine sadly appears to be worse off today by the choice they made to engage instead of finding a peaceful solution.

I'd say that's for Ukrainians to decide. They might just have more information on the costs and risks (and infinitely more actual stake in the matter) than you would, after all.

I don't see any mention of Russia being invincible in my comment

You said "Ukraine lost the minute they refused to accept Russia's demands", which immediately implies "They lost the minute Russia invaded".

Nevermind the fact that nobody has "lost" yet by this stage. The outcome is far from clear or assured for either party, and will likely be for quite some time.
Lancet drones just use mobile phone with an Ukrainian SIM for navigation.
Either

1. They don't want to post the launch codes to the internet, or

2. The code is just 000000 (hey it's not the worst I've ever seen)
Actually that is a good example. Did it seriously affect MSFT? It seemed like most just had a laugh. They look fine now.
Or used money they didn't have (ie. Credit cards)
given two consecutive failures of uk launched tridents, i think a lot of people have doubts, and that is very dangerous.
> Iran is in a similar situation and we had started down this path

Liberals believe this very much, and I sincerely wish it were true. But it's really not. Iran was simply taking advantage of what they could get, there was zero chance of them changing.

Iran is currently in the center, or at least involved, in so many conflicts I can barely list them all. (Yemen, Israel, Russia, Syria, Iraq, just to start with.)

You really believe they are doing this just because of Trump?
Are you seriously buying cars like this? Create strategies for "financing them"? It's like someone is about to buy a knife but opens facebook and falls into japanese-superchef-damascus stell kitchen knife rabbit hole. Or am I the one who falls straight into the claws of kind of people who later buy AS Roma?
I've been on the shots for four years with zero side effects. My allergist has put hundreds of patients on it and takes it himself.
In this issue of Implementing I show you step by step how to make a search engine similar to the one you use in ecommerce stores such as Amazon!

Let me know what you think!
Orcas and Giant Manta Rays can pass the mirror test, did anyone try to do the mirror test with Sperm Whales? (I guess that would be difficult due to the size of the Whales:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
A Twist on Wadler's Printer
yes, I've experienced this via their api. Although the GPT-4 model is a tad bit better in its responses compared to the turbo model
Interesting! I did not know this! But does it need to be indented correctly ?
Sold by "Peace Dove Grocery Store."
Last time I bought a car, I just messaged my credit union's Auto Buying service with the make/model I wanted. They told me the best price they could find and the dealer drove the car to my workplace once I set up the financing.

If your bank offer this service, you still have to figure out which car you want and what the fair price for it is. But those are minor roadbumps compared to haggling at the dealership.

There was no payment for the service or obligation to get the loan through the credit union. I did finance through them anyway since I intended to pay the car off pretty quickly.

TLDR: investigate if your bank offers a car buying service.
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right thread to ask this question, but how did you get started with tech career in non-profits? Does the field provide competative compensations?
The purpose of sanctions is to increase friction and make the targeted entity less competitive. Nobody expects that they work perfectly, because there are always strong incentives for bypassing them. But the effects are often very significant in the long term. For example, see the differences between South Korea and North Korea.

Nobody actually wants Russia to stop exporting oil, because they are one of the biggest exporters in the world. World economy would take a huge hit if that much oil disappeared from the market. The purpose of the sanctions is not to prevent Russia from exporting oil, but to reduce the amount of money they get from selling it.
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The places were the guilds had power were the prosperous places up until the early modern age and the rise of manufacturing in the run up to the industrial revolution: medieval towns and cities, added benefits if those towns had noble rulers that allowed, for various reasons, a high degree of independence.

Examples include the Hanseatic League (run by the various merchant guilds as a de-facto state) ans every single city in what now is Germany or Austria. Up to the point the rural nobles constabtly feuded with those cities.

You saidb t yourself, the textile manufacturer guolds of the low countries contributed a lot to the prosperity of those places, same for England. And for a long time, the trade between those cities was run by the Hanseatic League (which were arguable a lot closer to modern day capitalism than a local crafts guild).
The Power of Perseverance: Starburst's Journey from Open Source Vision to $3.35B
> a once or twice monthly injection for the rest of my life is not something I'd like to sign up for.

I take this exact drug for not-even-life-threatening allergies and the hassle is really not that bad. It's certainly less annoying than suffering through ragweed season every year :P
Simultaneously achieving two goals (supporting the local seafood industry and making a profit) is much more difficult than achieving a single goal - making a profit, so the likelihood of failure is high.
>> Ethics are a personal construct

> Ethics are more universal

Both of these statements will have philosophers up in arms ;D

Whether morals (and transitively ethics) are universal or context dependent is an unanswered (and possibly undecidable) problem in philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_universalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism
Who are the "geniuses" at Lenovo who are trying to destroy the legacy of the awesome Thinkpad keyboard? As a Thinkpad user I expect a certain keyboard layout. If that layout is changed, there one less reason for me to buy a Thinkpad as my next laptop.
Best bet is probably to find a local hackerspace.
> using the least powerful language features possible

Why on earth would you do that? That just leads to more complex code where bugs can hide.
Here's the thing:

Firefox was very usable for most users even when it had real extensions.

The extension API didn't affect end users at all.

It feels like a war against power users, were designers want to take away control from us to make sure it always looks like they intended.
All the unexplainable buggy behaviors on Microsoft systems.

We understand, buddy, don't worry about it.
I worked in the Danish public sector for a decade and we didn’t really adhere to this. That being said, the more pricing tiers you have and the more complicated it is to buy your product the less likely we will even try it.

Aside from that your biggest competition is always going to be when “included” services does what you do as part of a package deal. Ten-fifteen years ago it wouldn’t have been weird to see an organisation using whatever was the equivalent to Microsoft Teams at the day, we used a couple I think one was called Jabra or something along those lines. Today you just aren’t very likely to see things like Zoom or Slack in the public sector because when you get Microsoft Teams as part of your deal anyway, then it’s really hard to justify paying for something similar.

This is also part of why Microsoft bought so heavily into OpenAI… they know that almost no one in enterprise is going to be buying anything but their AI when it’s part of their “package deal”. Even in the company where I work now, which is transitioning from startup to enterprise you see this. We now only use Enterprise Co-pilot (well in the dev department we still use gpt 3.5) but the company as a whole only uses (and pays for) co-pilot because it’s “free” for everyone on the sort of license we buy through our current third party Microsoft license vendor.

I mostly use it to make AI images of cats or ducks performing various functions for internal presentations.
Reminds me of the washing recommendations for the Kevlar trousers of wood workers. Like, 3-5 washes and the fibers are shot, better to stink of pine sap, then to pain on mine sap.
Not “every company” outsources to India. A relatively small number of US companies outsource tech work overseas.

Outsourcing did not start “recently” either. As far back as the 1990s some companies started outsourcing, with mixed success. I remember the dire predictions of widespread tech unemployment coming because of outsourcing. Didn’t happen, probably won’t this time either.

More programmers create more programming work, and I’d say that doubles when you have remote programmers with language, cultural, and timezone differences.
From the article:

>>> Nothing was fired, of course. The keys inserted were effectively blanks.

Seems like they used special exercise keys, and that's probably the ones in the photo.
> these entities wish to have us comb through dozens of pages of legal agreements

what a shame! make the "comb through legal agreements" plan 60k ACV?
Damn. I didn't know that. Chinese people will never buy peeled garlic.

I once saw a machine to peel garlic, basically roll garlics in a container and the skins will come off automatically. I wonder if it can works out cheaper and kill this industry.
Hmmmm.

Anyone know what terminals were used in Colossus: The Forbin Project?

You know. For verisimilitude.
> One cop (white shirt, maybe security, it’s not clear) begins spraying him with a fire extinguisher, the cop with gun drawn remains stationary. White shirt yells “I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!” More cops arrive, as do EMTs. 3 fire extinguishes are used.

It seems there was some police negligence. Why to draw a weapon on someone self-immolating, instead of helping put out the flames?

This reminds me of the 'burning monk' from the Vietnam war. Impressive. RIP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4...
I use the same system but with highlighting/formatting of https://xit.jotaen.net

I even learned how to create a plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA and created one for highlighting this format (love idea hotkeys and workflow).
> Especially as you say, if you are rich in China or Russia, more likely than not you are on more than friendly terms with the ruling clique. So what do you need cryptocurrency for?

That is the conundrum isn't it. It is being marketed as some kind of liberal utopia but right now it can be used to work around the (quite massive) trade blocks. It really works both ways, but there's one group who love it either way (albeit also the more anonymous successor): criminals. What is the most criminal country in world (not relative to size)? Russia. It isn't even a country it is the Russian maffia in disguise as a country. If you you look at who benefits, it is also a deeply isolated country such as North Korea. And Bitcoin / PoW is a great method to get rid of your excess nuclear energy which is a fit for China. All have a motive.

> Btw, you can try hacking into Chinese targets and getting caught, and seeing whether you face any legal repercussions.

If I were very good at this and would enjoy it I'd work for some Western secret service. Very decent paycheck, morally on the better side of the spectrum, and well imagine having fun at work.
This sounds like the person wasn't a particularly good developer either. Bugs not withstanding, part of the job description for a good developer is having communication skills.
Interesting how an investigative journalist won’t open up his threads for commenting on X/Twitter.
This is good to see.

The annoying thing about soldered RAM on Thinkpads is that it can't be disabled.

So if the onboard RAM dies so does your laptop. Even if the laptop has a SODIMM slot.