skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

You're underestimating the power that the car-based financial institutions have.

For example:

> (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.)

Speaking of Ally bank... have you ever looked at their name before 2008?

GMAC: That's General Motors Acceptance Corporation. You're literally talking about GM's piggybank for financing deals.

Ally bank has changed a lot over the last century. But they still have tight connections with GM.

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It depends, it very, very strongly depends on the dealership, the auto-firm (ex: GM can get a very good deal with Ally bank... and Ford can get a very good deal from *Ford Motor Credit Company*, the in-house bank).

Toyota... not so much. Ford / GM? Yes. It depends.
> I think it's interesting that C still exists despite great efforts to kill it.

You won't get rid of C until UNIX/POSIX goes away, that is why C is still around mostly.

Now i fully agree with WG14's incompetence, it is impossible to understand that in 40 years, it was so hard to add proper string and array types to the language, between new native types, additional struct based standard library functions, or fat pointers, one approach would definitly have worked out, if they bothered.
Applying multiple svg filters on top of each other in the needed order resulted in Firefox dropping the filters completely. I filed a bug for Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1873644 As soon as it is fixed there will be a Firefox extension, and the live demo on the site will start working.
There are no Amazon warehouses in Switzerland. There is actually no Amazon Switzerland. It’s all drop shipped from elsewhere in Europe because the conditions are more favorable to Amazon there I suppose.

I never said galaxus was a workers paradise. It’s still work. But work at regular conditions, not the exploitative ones Amazon is famous for.

Did you seriously never hear about the amount of workplace accidents rate at Amazon vs other companies? The people who died in the warehouse collapsing a few months ago because there was a hurricane and employees were not allowed to go shelter? The workers peeing in bottles to avoid bathroom breaks and keeping their grueling per hour quotas? The union squashing efforts by Amazon? The notoriously bad working conditions at Amazon (warehouse but also software)?

I’ve never heard that about other Swiss companies I purchase from. It’s probably not paradise. It’s still not Amazon level of hell and exploitation.

On a practical level, Amazon quality is shit, you get damaged or used returns sold as new, returning stuff means sending it to Slovakia out of pocket and waiting weeks for it to be processed (or returned to you because Amazon never accepted delivery), then fighting to be refunded, sometimes stuff gets stolen in your return parcels by the mail service… I really can’t see a point to undergo all this BS and feed Amazon to save 10–20% on the odd thing I buy and can also find from domestic retailers.
> I would be interested in examples of code that users believe require cancellation-specific async code, though.

This happens all the time. For example, cancellation in the middle of sending a HTTP request. The connection is now unusable and must be closed. Without cancellation the connection returns to a state where it can be used and is re-added to a pool.
> Since then, North Koreans have been sent to Russia, Poland, Qatar, Uruguay, and Mali.

Poland? Poland is a EU member country, is it legal to employ North Korean slaves in the EU?

Update: Found the following link https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2017-00624...
Some Christel Schaldemose was asking the European Parliament the same question back in 2017, but I didn't see an answer.
> never forget that the alternative, in almost all instances

Well, one shitty alternative alternative anyway
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There's zero value in reinventing how buttons and inputs should look like.

That's not the reason why anyone builds a design system. Companies need a design system so their own developers can build consistent UIs easily. If you've ever seen the output of a company that has lots of teams and no consistent way of building UIs you'd be horrified. Their products are a mess, and the UX is terrible because each app (or part of an app) works differently depending on which team built it. A design system is an attempt to solve that problem.

Most companies have no reason to release their design system to the public. When a company does that it's usually dev rel, or just plain marketing.
Right. What geoengineering and how would you go about doing it in a time frame compatible with avoiding untold death and suffering in the meantime?

The consequences are here already, we cannot wait for something that might be working or not eventually, in a century. We cannot depend on hypothetical future technology that will save us all. And none of the possible solutions he have now can scale to the extent needed, by multiple orders of magnitude. None of the flashy carbon capture demonstrations hold up to scrutiny because fundamentally the problem is to extract ppm out of humongous volumes.

By all means, let’s keep researching and developing solutions (that’s what’s paying my bills for now, so I am not going to complain). But don’t assume that there will be a magical “solve it” button. There won’t.
Linking all of Europes success during history, up to WW1 arguably as far as sucess goes, to Christianity is at best a fringe view.

What does the book have to say about which kind of christianity is the source of all of that? Cathlocism, protestantism (which one?), the orthodox church (again, which one?)?

And how does Enlighment fit into all of that?

Edit: Focusing on the West is also extremely reductive. Up until colonialism really got started, the Mongols dominated the far east, China was a major economic and scientific power. None of which were even remotely Christian. It is true so, that the Western form of guilds is directly linked to European christianity. As the mongols and China show us so, there are more ways to prosperity than the "Christian" one.
X threads aren't unfortunately very useful for people who don't have account on X. Linking to the original source is much better. If the original source is only X thread, authors should reconsider their life choices. It's never too late.
I kinda agree with you, I think labour is good for prisoners. They were forced to be contained in a prison anyway.
I think the solution is better managed prison, where prisons would work to cover the cost the prison, including food, electricity and so on. As long as it is not for profit. It is so hard to do though. Look at the non-profit organizations around us, many of them are corrupted as well.
Did a spokesperson say that? Else just another case where the authors opinion and hyperthetical is presented as fact.
Is there an implication of equivalence of any general sort of the two societies? I think this is just a rejection that north korea is somehow uniquely capable of this specific sort of terror.
well, for a little revenue, make them foss and ask for donations. i've made a few thousand quid doing this, you generate some goodwill, and you can put it on your cv for prospective employers to look at.

it's unlikely you will be able to live on the income from your side project, particularly in what seems to be very niche.
Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240226053631/https://time.com/6...
It’s kinda weird how that works out. You’d think that every time you experienced something that was harder than anything you’d done before it would be a big deal, but apparently, basic training works on a meta-level. Instead of learning how to get through that particular hard experience, you learn that you can always get through a harder experience than you’ve ever dealt with before.
Yes. Attempts to match api with the chat interface have proved futile. The api never seems to behave in the same way as the chat interface.
I used to work at a big car dealership making indirect auto loans, so I don't think I am underestimating the power of in-house financing. And I definitely know Ally's history! ;)
This was very clear reading, without getting too bogged down in the math equations.any other reading suggestions entering into this topic?
The team that won Disobey’s CTF this year was very young. I don’t have a perfect eye for age, but I’d say the average age for the large group was around 20-25
Also Plotly generates Javascript so it has wrappers for many python frameworks such as Streamlit.

I'm also using it in a regular React app and it has quite decent APIs.
> For example, there are currently a variety of sanctions against the Russian and Iranian petroleum industries. So, they sell at a slight discount to neutral countries such as India which then re-export the "clean" oil.

At least for Russian petroleum stuff, it's not as easy. The existing pipeline networks from the oil and gas fields are mostly focused on delivering to Europe due to history (everything east of the former GDR was supplied with gas and oil from Russia), and that is coming to an end rather sooner than later as Germany is building up import capacity from the North Sea and Croatia from the Mediterranean (a new LNG terminal on Krk and the existing oil infrastructure on Omisalj), as well as Ukraine planning to end oil transit in 2025.

Alternative transportation capacity is very very scarce as there are barely any pipelines and Russia doesn't have accessible sea ports in abundance.
From my experience dual language approach always adds some atriction across the board, in tooling, building infrastructure and debugging layers.

Hence why while I could use C++/CLI on my hobby coding to stay on the confort of .NET, with a couple of bindings being used from C#/F#, I end up using straight C++ instead.
I find a knife to be a much lesser financial burden than buying a car, especially if I think about buying a brand new car. The price of the average new car in the US is what, $48,000? I imagine it's quite a bit lower for knives.
The top three things I learned in control theory class were

1. PID's work adequately for more situations than anything else.

2. If a PID doesn't work you should redesign your hardware.

3. Phase noise will totally mess with you.
I test drove a few cars and I bought the car I preferred on the dot com of the car manufacturer.

I knew the displayed price was the real price.

Because I ordered it online, I could even return it up to two weeks after the delivery as the local law mandates.
Those plant, utility scale I mean, are not paying loans, those are using special project investment vehicles. Discounted cashflow is not used in these cases (I know it as a way to determine the valuation of a company), things like ROI are used for utility scale projects. And guess why the vast majority is repowered with new panels...
> I won't conflate woman's rights (which I don't disagree with you) with environmental regulation

Without conflating them, you have to have noticed that the same people tend to be on the wrong side on both issues. Which is a shame, because there is nothing more conservative than safeguarding one’s environment and way of life, but it is what it is.
Why would a nuclear reactor blow up? There's nothing explosive in them.
Checkboxland: Render Anything as HTML Checkboxes
I can't seem to figure out the angle? Whats the scam they are running? There is always a scam.

Is the modem collecting data? Are they hoping you'll use their streaming service and then gouge you later once you are addicted?

It can't just be that they give you unlimited bandwidth just to get you to pay a bit more for their modem. They could make so much more money by just charging for the 50GB like what OP pays.
Not bad for a security check.

https://systemweakness.com/linux-privilege-escalation-using-...
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what’s the most declarative dataviz programming language of all? :-)

*** SAS SCATTER MATRIX EXAMPLE ***
proc sgscatter data=sashelp.cars;
matrix Horsepower Acceleration Miles_per_Gallon / group=Origin;

*** ALTAIR SCATTER MARIX EXAMPLE ***
import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source = data.cars()

alt.Chart(source).mark_circle().encode(
alt.X(alt.repeat("column"), type='quantitative'),
alt.Y(alt.repeat("row"), type='quantitative'),
color='Origin:N'
).properties(
width=150,
height=150
).repeat(
row=['Horsepower', 'Acceleration', 'Miles_per_Gallon'],
column=['Miles_per_Gallon', 'Acceleration', 'Horsepower']
).interactive()
So more confortable with Apple practices, or happy PinePhone user?
I am not an expert in statistics, but i have read quite a few papers in my area (IT/Kubernetes/etc) that had an obviously faulty methodology if you have experience at all. Reading the other comments, this software should have never been used in this manner, which it seems to me someone who is hopefully well-versed in this area should have caught. Then again, the reviewers may have had very little experience in this area. (This happened to me, when the review came back the reviewers admitted themselves in the form that this was the case.)
Even more retro would be using tables.
Where are you running ads? A good chunk of those impressions and clicks might be invalid traffic (although the signups are almost certainly legit).
Well...

https://sgs.princeton.edu/00000000

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link

> According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers. Blair said the missile launch checklists included an item confirming this combination until 1977.[7] A 2014 article in Foreign Policy said that the US Air Force told the United States House Committee on Armed Services that "A code consisting of eight zeroes has never been used to enable a MM ICBM, as claimed by Dr. Bruce Blair."[8] The Air Force's statement (that 00000000 was never used to enable an ICBM, i.e. the weapons were not actually launched) does not contradict Blair's statement (that 00000000 was the code for doing so).
Including Serde macros, and tokio async implementation?
Voting in better representatives. Almost all of our problems stem from money in politics.
You can forward support requests to an AI agent with infinite patience.
> There was a once famous story about Seymour Cray being asked, when they moved to a new building, where he wanted his office phone. He supposedly replied on the tree outside his window.

> I've searched the internet and have no luck finding where I read that (many years ago now).

Here you go! [0]

> A Tribute to Seymour Cray, by Charles W. Breckenridge, SRC Computers, Inc.

> Presented during the keynote session at Supercomputing '96, November 19, 1996

> Seymour avoided publicity. He was given many awards and honors, and would have had many more had it not been for his nature to decline them in order to remain totally focused on his work. He led a streamlined life, designed to allow him to achieve his goals, goals that sometimes appeared to others to be utterly unachievable. He avoided distractions. Once when someone ordered a phone for him because they noticed that he did not have one in his office, when asked where he wanted it installed, he replied, with a twinkle in his eye, "on the tree outside my office."

[0] https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/tef/cray/tribute.html
reminds me of the idea of derailing any conversation about business in the US because of labor practices in a far flung remote region that Congress refused to pass any reforms over

Its how Americans talk about some other places so I always find that amusing
Fantastic comment. This is the best answer to "What is good code?" that I've ever seen. Nicely succinct too.
What is Symfony-UX/Turbo worth in production?
Not the OP but, I can relate to this with a side-project I created many years ago that is an online tutorial for shell scripting. It's all open-source, requires minimal resources to run (small VM where I run a bunch of other stuff) and it is used most frequently by online schools to brush up on shell scripting. I get a lot of weird requests from random people which can be a bit annoying sometimes. This is for a site that gets around 100k visitors per month.

With that said I think there is some value in putting stuff out there without any marketing. Even if you don't have plan to monetize it can be rewarding in itself. The trick for me is to have a good way to minimize maintenance, which means use the same scripts and mgmt utils for several projects so you don't have any snowflakes that require special configuration.
Don't take adderall to work on someone else's startup
And the key blanks are from Ace Hardware!
This whole thing is so annoying. I would much rather purchase my car from Toyota corporate and not have to buy a car with some random guy's name stickered onto it because it sat on his lot and he got commission from the sale. I don't care of the sales money evaporates out of my local community, it's not worth the hassle.
Its 2024. Google Fi is serving some cities with 8Gb/s symmetrical. The internet has been around long enough that OP should be able to saturate the connection for anything he/she wants no questions asked. Its literally pulses of light going through a strand of fiber. It is not even matter just photons! They are paying for photons!
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Unfortunately, in the US most of those sales are still funneled through a dealership, and even a "direct" purchase is still usually subject to dealer markups and similar nonsense.
I printed some of this and put it on the wall in my office for everyone to see
Was it navy federal by any chance? I would one day give it a try based on your positive experience if so!
I'm using deno to write integration tests for a complex google sheets script. sharing code between frontend and backend may not be that much of a win, but testing js code with a CLI is a great boon.
I wonder: if you can just measure the gyroscope readings and velocity, then knowing a starting coordinate, could you just calculate the current coordinate? What are the unknown parts of this equation which make a sattelite / other methodology a must?
The opportunity to sidestep all this bullshit was a huge reason why I went with Tesla instead. No negotiation, no sales people, just click and order.
Off topic:
This site is next to unreadable on my phone.

Zigzagscrolling is an insult to the audience.
I know, declining male fertility is such a nice talking point, you know men being less manly and all that.

Funny so, that while micro plastics and whatnot sure are ugly and cannot be ignored, all other studies do not mention male fertility as a root cause, but rather:

- urbanization and changes in lifestyle

- women pursuing a life other than being a mother

- birth control (the reason why birth control reduces the number of kids per couple should be obvious...)

- economic incentives change from large families (old style, labour intensive farming) to smaller families (industrial labour and office work in cities)

- Covid

source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/birthrates-declining-...
Yes, I get it from a science point of view. But if it makes me happy that I have better results with this technique, and I want to share it with others, who are you to tell me to stop?

If you don't like it, don't use it.
Sometimes pass by value is what you need, for example passing a shared pointer to get the increment on use count.

Also I believe passing types smaller than or equal to pointer size by reference is redundant.
Thanks for the info. https://drgastro.in/
The reality for the average person looking for a job is 1 out of 100 employers will ever look at an open source project you list on your resume.

Its better than nothing, better than others without projects, but it wont carry much weight unless its some widely used thing

Only exception is if your project matches the company's market or their products very closely. That may get you a meaningful advantage
It looks fine to me. (Firefox / Android)
To me this seems to reflect a lifestyle where certain people always want a shiny BMW or Mercedes and have to trade up every 2-3 years to maintain it. Seems like leasing would be a better approach though.
There is and will be constant flow of people and information between corporations, and governments.

This is also true when it comes to mainstream media.

Same for big pharma and government health institutions.

The situation is not shocking, it is normal. Although it is also part of 'manufacturing consent'.

There is censorship laundering, where governments dictate narrative through corporations, and privacy laundering when governments buy citizen data from corporations.

It just works like this. We should be aware about this, but it is certainly not shocking.
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>Why would anyone sell a near-new car for 30%+ off unless they knew the vehicle is crap?

Change of life. New kids, divorce, relocation to a city, got a UTV that needs something to tow it, lost a job and need the cash, died, started carpooling, etc.

If you don’t need a car anymore and are very certain you won’t, there is no point in dragging out the ownership. Taking a big loss immediately is better than waiting 2 years and also paying insurance and registration the entire time.

Many states have lemon laws and actual garbage has to be taken back by the dealers after X number of repairs. The people selling at a steep loss don’t have a lemon in those states.

You’re a lot less likely to get a lemon buying near new than you imply.
Unlike Jake (Adelstein) himself, who whenever I've read any of his stories has obviously made it up. Especially the ones where he claims to know everyone in the yakuza.
Put then open on GitHub if you want any benefit from them. But I’m pretty sure they will just die. It’s not that you invented something groundbreaking or the like …
Yes, next/image which is part of Next.js Framework </irony>
Japan is the second largest iOS market.
It's perfectly readable on my phone and with various device dimensions set in my desktop browser.
PWA - progressive web app, delivered via the web, html, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
Auto dealers sell to commercial customers as well and I'd like to think they don't play this stupid game with them. Does anybody have any tips about how to pretend to be a commercial customer to maybe get better deals?
Those look like pretty normal numbers in my experience. Certainly nothing to worry about. But, the effectiveness of your marketing isn’t necessarily a good measure of your idea and product. Different targeting can change those numbers drastically.

Also, how good web or search ads are really depends on the economics of your product. If your customers will be paying $60 per year then paying 5$ to acquire them is pretty damn good.

For the moment though, I would focus on getting into real conversations(phone or video) with your customers to understand what they want, how much they’d pay, etc. With so much competition for attention, the days of validating with a landing page may be over.
Definitely, yes.
I'd say that the US has a better relationship with China than North Korea has with South Korea. The US and China get along, while disagreeing and even being in a trade war. North and South Korea are in a stalemate - peace was never declared and they have guns pointed at each other at all times.