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Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App
Hey HN!

A few years ago my brother in-law was looking to purchase his first car. He was struggling to know what to look for when going to car dealerships and felt quite overwhelmed with the financial and practical decisions required. Not that I have any particular expertise with cars or the engineering involved, but through my own experiences purchasing cars and owning them I gave him some advice and "tips". As anyone would.

Things only morphed from there, I spent the next couple of years in my spare time learning to code, researching, and developing CarCheck. It's been a journey! Hindsight is 20/20 and some things I would have done differently, but that's part of the fun. I am proud to be sharing my (imperfect) first app with the world and excited to learn from you all for my next project :)

I would love to hear your feedback!
I've heard theories of how a license change could be possible but they all seemed more hope-based than reality-based.

I wouldn't let that keep you that from using ZFS though, it's an incredible battle-tested filesystem and features like native compression, encryption, and block-level backups make it an easy choice over ext4 for any of my systems.
“Children” is likely the wrong word here. As humans develop, they change incredibly fast. The needs of a 6 year old are surprisingly different from those of an 8 year old.

This study focuses on 14 year olds (on average). This is way past the age of “needing to burn energy like a dog”. Sure, they have more energy than adults, but you’re still likely describing much younger humans.
> SNI = nsa backdoor into https everywhere.

No. Not even remotely true. If you can write a coherent argument that substantiates this claim then I will address it.
More discussion 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40191132
(re)enabling basic security scans on GitHub
Vim and text motions should do the trick.
You Can Set Up a Home Security Camera System Without Using the Cloud
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Avoided syndicated/linkshare sites like /.

Lots of discussion on actual article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327307
How many years did it take to get to 7?
Fort Worth's tallest building sells for $12.3M, bought for $137.5M in 2021
Thanks, I didn't know about -x !

My usual is:

yt-dlp -f 140 [url]

The -f 140 maps to the m4a format.
> Wouldn't this employee demand much more than 100k/262, if they are willing to work an extra day in the year ? Since they would theoretically contribute 25% more output ?

Yes, 25% more.

If someone works only 4 days per year, s/he will be called a "consultant" instead of an "employee". And if the company wants 5 days intead of 4, they will have to pay 25% more.
Your knee-jerk reaction is perhaps emphasizing OP's point. OP obviously is referring to the spirit of being more in tune with our natural roots and not prescribing "Get a dog, visit a man-made park" as a strict prescription as you seem to be interpreting it.
> I don't remember comic books being "nerd" material before the 2000s (like say computers or computer programming)

I'm not sure how comic books got into this. But comics were definitely for nerds: basically, socially-inept people who did things like reading instead of going out to parties. Computers were not central to the definition of nerd.
My understanding was the majority of the work was performance tuning related. It's been explicit about still being in the "beta" phase. (See 3) https://bcachefs.org/FAQ/

The only way for it to get better was to get more and more users, merging it into mainline is the best place for that. The kernel maintainers also did put it through fire too, there was some heated exchanges that resulted in fixes before merging. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Delayed-Linux-6.6
All that tells us is that some attempts at improvement fail. Which, while common, doesn't inform us about the whether making attempts is good.

Startups give you as many attempts at improving a situation as there are people who can scrape together some capital. Improvements from within is capped at (#Existing Companies x %with functional management) which is a much smaller number of attempts. Improvements by regulation is capped at ... N=1 and whatever the odds are that a good idea dodges regulatory capture, your political opponents, inertia and being too hard to enforce (sub 1 attempt in practice, maybe 2 or 3 pushes in exceptional circumstances).

Of the options, startups are the best. The failures are less consequential.
Well, having some limitations seems reasonable. I think it's fine we don't allow smileys in street names. Or a while just is extended ASCI characters. It just seems that an apostrophe should be okay. Also weird that a local government gets to make the call.
I was skeptical too, but it's plausible. According to the Federal Reserve's Distributional Financial Accounts release [0], the bottom 90%'s share of "corporate equities and mutual fund shares" in Q4 2023 was about 13% (5.24 / 39.94)

[0] - https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
Salaries in the US are substantially higher then Canada.

Switch to the purchasing power index to get a more clear view of the relative wealth of people in the countries.
Could be. There’s at least a link to the paper. Unfortunately it’s a preprint, not peer reviewed.

I can’t tell at a glance if the science is bs, but I can certainly tell that writing for a general audience before peer review is a shit thing to do and should certainly discount this article.
Discussion ended up here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327307
I think he's referring to OLED, in which each LED can organically emit light without the glow of a backlight. But in terms of most productivity monitors today, your current one was likely a great value and works just fine.
This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode and https://github.com/AydinAdn/MediaToolkit (see https://github.com/PackJC/YoutubeToMP3/blob/main/Form1.cs). Note the (admirable but non-OSI) terms of the former library if using any outputs from this software.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp is a well-maintained public domain alternative.
There's also another aspect which has nothing to do with grammar and is simply about someone else imposing a new name over "your" neighborhood.

I mean, Mallard Road and Duck Road are both grammatically fine, but if some bureaucrat somewhere decides "Duck is easier to understand and read"...
The Bakshi movie definitely isn’t camp. It plays itself way too straight (so to speak). If it reads as corny today it’s because it’s such pure, guileless 70s kitsch.

Also, I realized rewatching it recently for the first time in forever that the Lemmiwinks episode of South Park is an homage to the Bakshi movie!
They released an entire album[1]. It’s everything you could imagine. You’re welcome.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Leonard-William-Shatner/dp...
Cavitation for motorised propellors is to be avoided at all cost... a lot of engineering exists to do exactly this.

Cavitation is a destructive force and eats away at the edge & surface of the prop blades, making it VERY inefficient.
e.g. Google's Gemini's output had some rather embarrassing biases in its outputs; to the point where asking it to "draw a 1943 German soldier" resulted in images of women and black soldiers. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-...

I wouldn't put that on the same level as "refusing to talk about massacre of civilians"; but I wouldn't put it to the level of "free and unbiased" either.
That is why I said "in its current form".
I feel this way about all wrapper code

where someone is like 'okay we need our own internal version of this API'. the reasons vary but are like 'we don't trust people to use the official API correctly' (which, fine, but yours is less standard and worse-documented).

sometimes the answer is 'we need extra functionality' which, fine, but 1) don't wrap the entire API for gods sake, just add 3 functions, and 2) your codebase over time will end up 99% polyfills

point being if you are not using the defaults you are inflicting great misery on whoever inherits your codebase
I used loom for the first time today, not only did it do all the things you mentioned, but it perfectly transcribed what I said, then allowed me to cut out sections of the video just by deleting words and pauses from the transcription. I thought that was pretty cool.
Also it looks like they don't (yet) have a copyright assignment, which would make it exceedingly difficult to relicense if they got significant external contributions.
No maintenance? Really? One ‘aiming’ motor goes bad, and this thing could easily fry a long strip of the earth when it loses its lock on its ground station. I don’t think I want such an Elon Musk type of promise as “no maintenance” in this situation. Everything needs maintenance, and while space does different things to machines than air does, they still wear.
I'm saying that an atomic RMW is going to get the cache line in "exclusive" state, (in typical MESI protocol) but that if you are trying to gin up the equivalent with spin locks you need to think through how that plays out, as the reads might be in "shared" state.
This is where I stand. I think people fall into the trap of believing that it is reliable and useful because it can occasionally spit out boilerplate code that matches what boilerplate code is supposed to look like.

Which is a very dangerous place to be in, because the more you assume that the code generated is reliable the more likely hallucinations are to sneak into your codebase. And now you don't have a good mental model of what your code is doing because you didn't actually write any of it.

I have a feeling that codebases using and relying on copilot are, essentially, pushing disasters later down the line when bugs pop up and no one has the ability to actually debug the system.
I forgot I still have one of these in a box somewhere. I assume the battery is long dead.. but I should load rockbox on it and see how that works.
hasn't google been building such devices for a decade now?
Sounds like a problem with the term “data scientist” to me.
So they finally started to legalize what’s in practice since the 90s. These were norms for middle schools, high schools, and universities years after what happened in the Tiananmen Square.
I don't think the airships were powered by hydrogen. They had diesel-powered engines. The hydrogen was used to lift the thing.
You can certainly find a dark raincloud inside every silver lining if you look for it. Don't bother taking a vacation in Hawaii because you'll probably get sunburned and stung by a jellyfish. What kind of vacation is that, anyway? /s
In the past CMEs have even knocked out transmission lines. However, it is unlikely that every electronic device would get fired globally. But if that were to happen we would have bigger problems to solve, e.g. getting food.

You could look at the devastation brought on by the recent tornadoes to see that electronic technology becomes the least of our concerns.
Opinion I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I'm left with even more questions
To not always be true. It's a little hard to cite hundreds of years of science history. But one of the big examples is general relativity, from many aspects. Many scientists simply didn't believe it (yes, the word "believe"). One could follow the theoretical arguments, which were sound, but many didn't want to. Even once evidence started coming in, many still didn't believe it. It took many decades for general relativity to be broadly accepted, and now today, it's one of the most tested and verified theories.

The book Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved is a pretty good one that covers various components of this story, in particular focusing on black holes.

There's far more belief and bias in science than the science community will admit to.
Why would American inflation affect countries that don't use the USD?
From "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien" we see what he agreed with his publishers:

"Stanley & I have agreed on our policy : Art or Cash. Either very profitable terms indeed; or absolute author's veto on objectionable features or alterations."

It might have been interesting to see how Tolkien might have vetoed things, or demanded changes. We see from his letters how strongly he viewed many things.

We also see at least one critique of a film-proposal - though off-hand I cannot remember who's film-script it was..
This is the sort of silly and smart and insanely-well researched bit of fun that was the norm during the blogging era of ~ 2000-2010 before the social media era really set in. I miss it.
Yeah, not everyone has what it takes for a good adventure....I suppose that's why so many like Paris and Rome, it's all they can handle...
GB6 though is known (at least in the Chinese tech space) to heavily bias towards Apple chips in their synthetics.
Which is also couched in off-puttingly heterocentric language. What if you’re not a boy, and what if you’re not interested in wooing women? Is just not a very big deal to be lazy in that case?
Purchasing power can be misleading in countries with a top-heavy income distribution. Because cost of living calculations include everyday expenses but exclude most luxuries, average costs are close to what the typical consumer pays. But if the income distribution is skewed enough, average salaries can be much higher than what the typical consumer earns.
Some honest feedback: describe your product/tool without using a competitor’s name. I’m on mobile and the landing page only tells me “recording software” and “Loom” before it drops into Twitter like 3rd party comments.

I honestly have never used Loom. I don’t know what it is. Do you really want me to have to go look up “the competition” just to know who you are?
https://browser.geekbench.com/search?q=Mac15%2C12
Canada, Australia and the US make up the top three countries for average home size by square footage.

If people prioritise the size of their home more then it stands to reason that they'll pay more as a percentage of income.
hopefully will be resolved in a month.
I think just by country messes up some of the measures for some countries and cities. I paid half of £720 to rent a former family home in Nottingham while a friend paid over £1000 in Nottingham.

Not my experience but I think Amsterdam also has extremely high rents but I'm not sure how it compares to the rest of the Netherlands.
Several years ago, after finishing a coding bootcamp, I created this little web app that turns YouTube channels into an XML podcast feed. Might need to dust it off. https://github.com/plasticbugs/podcasty
God gives many wisdom to see a solution. Ask him and see
It's aesthetically pleasing.
About the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaokao
GPUs have evolved to be AI machines with as little baggage as possible. People have been arguing GPUs were old technology and therefore unsuited for AI since at least 2014 (when Nervana was founded), but what they perhaps didn’t expect is that the GPU would evolve so quickly to be an AI machine.
also see: https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/issues/82
> Japan has always been a value.

How long back does your 'always' go?

Japan has approximately the same local price level now that they had in the early 1990s. One USD also buys approximately the same number of Yen as it did in the early 1990s. But the USD had quite a lot inflation in the meantime.

Ie Japan has gotten a lot cheaper comparatively. It used to be a lot more expensive.
"This pricing will be locked in for the lifetime of your subscription."

Highly doubtful, I have been cheated out of lifetime guarantees so many times. Latest when the company is sold.
Is there actual evidence of this occurring or is it just a hypothesis? I can’t recall offhand significant policy changes to capture voting demographics.
I just asked GPT-4 if the government lied when they claimed face masks didn’t prevent COVID-19 early in the pandemic. It evaded the question, and said that masks weren’t recommended because there were shortages. But that wasn’t the question. The question was if the government was lying to the public.

I’m going to guess a Chinese model would have a different response, and GPT-4 has been “aligned” to lie about uncomfortable facts.
You can look at median salaries for that.
Heck make it even better by making that an option, so the user can set the countdown to their preference.
Elon Musk: Threat Or Menace? Part 5
>I believe that they never fully recovered after Covid and tourism never bounced back.

Tourism bounced back as soon as they opened the borders. The 2023 numbers were at 2016/2017 level despite them not opening their borders until late 2022 (meaning lower ski-season numbers), and removing covid checks in April 2023.

Feb 2024 was reported as having 7% more tourists than Feb 2019 (2019 having peak tourism numbers).

There are a LOT of tourists at the moment.
Great point. Considering square footage, New Zealand looks like the outlier. Same average home size as the US but with a Rent Index of 29.
'The pedant' can be quite wordy in general, but keep in mind that most of the scroll bar on that page is filled up by the comments.
I thought it would be implied, but I meant "not always true".

Regarding intelligence, it's an interesting thing. I'm not sure I understand that assuming animals, in particular cetaceans, to be intelligent requires a "big claim". In fact, it's basically a big claim to assume they are not intelligent. Intelligence is a spectrum, and it does indeed seem to be the case that humans, in general, start from one extreme of that spectrum in assuming that all intelligence needs to be proven. For cetaceans, it's a bit mindboggling at this point that people are still surprised by their intelligence.

Cetacean brains are huge and deeply folded. If you simply look at a whale brain versus a human brain, once would guess that the whale brain is from the more intelligent species. Yes, whales are bigger and thus dictate a larger brain to operate, but it isn't clear what that scaling relationship actually is. And whales are well known to be some of the emotionally evolved creatures on Earth, so it continues to surprise me that there is this hidden assumption that they need to be proven to be intelligent. At this point, it would seem the burden of proof should be on those who think they are not intelligent.

In my opinion, part of the bias is in our own unintelligence. For us to consider something intelligent, it seems we require burden of proof such that the "other" intelligence is related back to our own. However, this completely precludes the perspective and perhaps even discovery of there being different intelligences. For example, the part of the brain related to emotional intelligence in whales dwarfs our own, all relative to the rest of the brain. Thus, it might be hard or even impossible for us to understand such emotional intelligence. This is actually where I think the science might be tunnel visioned. There needs to be more thought put into what intelligence actually is such that we might recognize intelligence that isn't like our own.
People took his rhetoric figuratively when they should’ve taken it literally. Now we know!
Get out of your routine and introduce some dissonance.

Outside is an endless miasma of geometric and color gradient state change overload for the brain, garbage collects the social objects we’re forced to hallucinate.

Sit in one spot too long and it all goes fractal.
Show HN: Built a Free AI Vocal Remover App Provide a (YouTube Link | Media File)
If SV techies want to succeed in Europe, then they should be okay with valuing what Europeans value.

Europeans are not stupid, they prioritized different things, including market socialism in different countries. The Americans also need to remove their exceptionalism glasses and take a long hard look at their own selves—the average American citizen (digital or otherwise) is socially worse off than the average European citizen. The success of American companies is based on the financing environment in the U.S. and has less to do with “friction”. The “friction” exists because on average Europeans have different values. So really, wake up SV tech bros. That whole site is a big ball of yuck.
I’ve always found the term “overengineering” as used to mean “unnecessarily overspecc’d” a little odd. Engineering is all about appropriately selecting and sizing components. Overspeccing something is underengineering it, and usually happens because you don’t have time to accurately size things so you throw the kitchen sink at it.
I mean, I don’t see how the second is in the slightest bit debatable. Fifty or sixty years ago you could afford a car, a smallish but not tiny home (with a yard!) and support kids with a single income - at a factory or other not overly skilled job.

Now many college grads have room mates… and I’m not talking about 20-somethings.
as long as their not redesigning it so their streets are SEO'd. Mary's Walk Near Me etc.
When you scroll down a webpage, do you think of it as going forward? I don't think people think about it that way. They think of it as going down. I think people think of it more in terms of spatial terms than in terms of text reading direction terms.

Also consider if you see a signpost with an arrow pointing to the right. That means go right. If the signpost has an arrow pointing up. That means go forward. Or any map, e.g. physical, or gps navigation software, or videogame in-game map, up on the map corresponds to forward in real life.
I think we are actually past the social media era (or at least we are past its peak).

Btw, the total absolute amount of new good blog content is probably not any lower than during the golden age you harken back to. (And of course all the old material is mostly still there, thanks also to various archives.) The relative amount might have gone down, but for your and my individual content consumption absolute amounts matter more.
How would RAM _not_ be a factor? You can't do file compression without using memory.
The Fall of Online-Education Technology Powerhouse 2U: $900M in Debt
This is AP exams, not Gaokao. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement
I thought this was about the adventure game Loom but no.
For people with the alternate configuration, having making the scroll wheel move down make the content zoom in makes sense.

I have scroll wheel up mean scroll up, but 100k stars has backwards scrolling mechanisms for me. So for me, the 100k stars is inconsistent with my system settings.
Who needs MP3 in 2024? Retrocomputing does! So a really lightweight YouTube client capable of running on Windows 95 and/or 486-class machines producing MP3 output would make a really great sense. Can this? For everyone else there are AAC and OPUS.
Sure, but I'm just explaining Steve's reasoning here. People are saying it's a bad analogy without understanding what he's actually saying.
The US is not the only country who has experienced high inflation since COVID.
And this creates a bit of an oddity, because in the Clone Wars, the Republic fleet is essentially built around fast carriers – the Venators – and their fighters, whereas it is the CIS fleet which has specialized gunboats (along with the slower Lucrehulks that function as carriers), but by the time we get to the Empire, the doctrine has switched: the ISD is clearly a gun platform first and foremost, which carries its own fighter screen, but expects to win with its primary battery, not its (flimsy) TIE-Fighters

Not steeped in Star Wars lore, but I thought there was an in-novel explanation that the Emperor was planning on defending against a superior alien threat who had enormous planet-sized ships. For which the Death Star and other heavy guns would make sense.
I think it's really useful to describe your product as an alternative to a well known product. Most people will instantly get it, much more so than a long re-definition of the original product.
Can you share evidence of "heavy bias" towards Apple in GB6?