skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people want to take non-FDA approved stuff, I don't see why regulatory and/or law enforcement should care.

Well, among other things, if anyone makes money selling colored water, it encourages others to sell colored water. It also encourages companies that are trying to sell actual drugs to skip that expensive "testing" phase. Bad money usually chases out the good (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law) so it's likely that we will devolve into a system where very few drugs are adequately tested.

I'm not saying it never happens, but if a law, policy, or agency reduces big corporation profits, then it's almost always because lots of people were dying.
Shout out to my go-to https://dotnetfiddle.net/
The activity of dealing cars will still exist even if someone else (e.g. the manufacturer) is doing the dealing.
> The exclusivity dealerships get enshrined in law is kinda nuts.

It’s wired that the country of free market has all these protectionist laws that do not exist in many ex-soviet evonomies
Seems to be the React/DOM conceptual model that has been "ported". Here is an example from the Robolox repo - https://github.com/Roblox/react-lua/blob/main/examples/chang...
Maybe we should treat faking scientific evidence more as a sin than a crime.

E.g. no fines or prison, but "banishment" from scientific circles until the perpetrator repents publicly, explains all the details and asks for absolution.

This would be somewhat shameful, but people fear shame more than death, and there would also be a path towards restoration + more knowledge of how the fraud actually worked and what led to it.
What’s the option if Starliner is not cleared for return? Elon to the rescue?
There are Tesla showrooms where you can do test drives.

The key difference that the place is owned by the car company instead of rich middlemen that engage in regulatory capture, add markups that don't go the manufacturer and degrade the experience.
seems like an arbitrary thought exercise designed to justify this position?

independent should fundamentally mean that you disregard each party's description of reality, arrive at your own understanding of the world and then make decisions based on each candidate's promises and previous actions. you decide based on that value system, not simply based on "who your party picked."

if i decide i like kittens and value kittens, and i analyze both options presented to me and one consistently promises to euthanize all kittens, i don't think i'm a "party line voter" because i say "well, gosh, i really just can't stomach voting for that." it just ultimately is important enough to me that it not happen that i cannot accept it in exchange for their other more nuanced policies.
> drive everyone else still dealing with Russia far far away

It may be wishful thinking, because in reality in may drive these countries even closer, especially if using nukes will help Russia achieve its goals.
A repair shop doesn't need parking for 100 unsold cars, and it doesn't need to be in a high-traffic part of town.
Well, you can in theory send an entire dictionary with your page to make it not suck.

I don't plan to ever do something like this for any purpose, and I have never seen anybody do it either... But you can.
No? It's a fun luxury item to flip, that can make some decent money. Rolex's used to be good to flip if you had a good rep with an AD, but now the resale market is down.
How is levelling free market if it de-levels the playing field between me and Boeing
That gatekeeping protects desperate people from being scammed into spending tons of money on ineffective, and possibly dangerous treatments.

Is it perfect? No. Could it be improved? Yes. But the rules exist for a reason.
To be fair, how many copies of one car do you need? Once you got 15 models on display you should be good to go for testing purposes. You don’t need a parking lot with a hundred cars.
The feeling you get when you drink a particular beer is very real I would say. All of those light beers are basically the same and the reason advertising exists is to make you like that particular brand. You wouldn't have all this advertising competition between bud light, coors, pbr whatever without that difference in how the brand is perceived.
I haven't dug into it, but I have a (personal) win10 machine that is used for a combination of gaming and some of my dev work (visual studio & .net). I recently needed to install excel on this machine, and used my work account. I believed I was only logging into MS office, but now that machine has printers added that are added on my machine at the office, so somehow logging into MS Office but on a local windows10 account added printers from a different network. I'm not surprised, but definitely demonstrating that there's potential for information leakage if using their online accounts.
quite a few years ago, there was a punchclock-like device, the librarian punched the card, time stamp ; and patron number punched on a card [ that was kept in the volume and transfered to the borrowed stack on loan]
Eventually was able to get a reply that was a fairly close to an above suggestion.

"Ellie sells loose shoes; Bill shills big goose oil."

Took quite a bit of "you're not actually sticking to the list". Also, weird... recursion issues with chat output.
Manufacturers want to offload the customer service as it's extremely expensive as well as limit liability. That's why dealers exist and will continue to exist.
In science the money is not tied to the utility of the research (or at least no directly tied in most cases).

It's possible to get funding to research something completely bonkers, in engineering it's less likely.
Actually the whole sneaker market is like this too now. They have weekly drops where inventory is restricted to create hype.
Desperate parents are well known for their medical expertise and cold logical calculus.
> Trying to get a Tesla serviced is still something of a nightmare

They literally come to my house and fix things, it's incredibly easy for me, but I have four service locations within 30 minutes drive, so may not be the common experience.
> No it can't. You still need places where cars can be repaired as well as storage for parts/cars inventory. The only way you reclaim some land is if service gets worse.

You probably aren't going to have 10 Ford dealerships in town all selling the same models of cars. That's where the space savings comes in.

As for parts/service, that also gets more streamlined as you aren't likely to have the audi/ford/dodge dealerships and instead just the 1 ford manufacturer in town.
That sounds like a good idea until you realize that the military does is state owned anyway. The private sector supplies everything. But it's not like the military makes any of its own stuff. They buy all their trucks, guns, body armor, ammunition, radios, helicopters, boats, etc. etc. from private companies.
Thank you for investing in that it will definitely pay off.
I work on a team that supports some equipment related to airplanes. An acronym for one piece of equipment that is decades old is "RCSU". When I got a support call talking about "RSCU", I assumed the person meant "RCSU".

Nope. It turns out, when they made their next-generation piece of equipment, the vendor differentiated it by swapping the inner two letters in an already easy-to-say-wrong acronym.

My reaction was, "WTF didn't they just call it the RCSU2?!"
You need to have OrgMode active, which is usually not enabled for .txt. Try .org as the extension, or run `M-x org-mode` after opening the file.
I used to work for Pepsi-Co so I am well aware of how their distribution works.

But in this case, at the point of retail it makes no difference. The store can sell as many different brands as they want. The problem is not the middlemen, it's the exclusivity arrangements that disincentivize brand competition.
How many zero-intervention rides has Waymo done? How many years did it take to get there?
I go to the dealership. Half the time, the neighborhood guy sucks. I've almost never had luck with local guys.
If they even had a corpuscular theory of matter, they might have considered weight. But this was firmly back in the Enlightenment "Natural Philosophy" kind of thinking when materials were "imbued" with properties like gravity and levity or heat and cold. Some of the people working on these things also had a keen interest in alchemy and the search for a philosopher's stone.

Part of the problem we have in trying to put ourselves in their minds is that some or most of their reasoning is unrecognizable to us as "science." If you try reading EG Newton's Principia Mathematica it's laid out in prose from first principles using geometry and is essentially unrecognizable except with a strong education in Euclid.
That 90% is for both of the two biggest DMSes, CDK and Reynolds & Reynolds. Both DMSes have been around since the '70s or so, so they're probably considered a safe option by a lot of dealers.
> This is why factories run airgapped networks

Yes, also Critical National Infrastructure often distinguishes between 'operational' and 'business' software / networks.
Chroma subsampling is a crime and I hate it.
Yeah, the footprint of my local mechanics are peanuts compared to the gigantic parking lots gobbled up by dealerships. Parts take space, but not 5 acres of space.
It's difficult to order many of those very early memories but given the location of some of them, opening a Fischer Price toy airport on my third birthday is the oldest I can put a date and place on. Fragments from before then include being crib age.

What I'm really curious about is the accuracy of some of those really old memories. How we see the world changes over time. The box that Fischer Price toy came in looked massive to me but would be tiny to me now. What other things do I remember through the eyes of a child that are significantly different from reality?
that one got flagged
Most other modern dealerships do this as well, when applicable. My parents had the software in their Ford Maverick updated by a mobile service team.
I think it’s quite interesting though. The target of Counterscale is a higher level abstraction than you usually find. Cloudflare provides that today but there is no reason that level of abstraction could not be provided by something fully open source.

There is also SST for instance which is also sitting in there somewhere with a similar thing. It’s not quite self hosted but also not quite PaaS.
Wow these are great, thank you!
They might have hundreds of cars and not every feature is immediately visible.
Looking at a corporation as a single entity from the outside it seems more like some sociopathic, mildly superhuman ai than a group of people. Of course it’s composed of people, but is that really the most useful frame to view it through? It’s nothing like a book club.
There's a quiet irony in car dealership networks being fucked like this. They spend so much money ensuring their government-mandated monopoly, only to fall victim to a different kind of monopoly.
Does anyone know exactly how we got to this situation (required car dealerships)?
Imagine if Steam were the only way to purchase games on your Windows PC.
How does this relate to my original comment about apple being anti-poor? My question was: why should apple be pro-poor? There are other manufacturers. I think I see now why I was flagged, people understood me wrong. My point was: apple is higher-tier smartphone tech, so it doesn't have to attend to "poor people" (to be defined). Other manufacturers happily do. So the original argument doesn't make any sense.
A similarity to your struct of fileops, would be Go to allow implementing an interface will nil methods. Like:

func (f *file) Rename() = nil

Then later test for nilness with: if f.Rename == nil,
or with better readability:

if v, ok := f.(interface {Rename()}); ok && v == nil // -> if true, then nil method

We could define a Type Assertion to return "nil, ok" when all methods
of the interface it is being passed to are implemented nil methods.

type NotOftenImplemented interface {
RareMethod()
SuperRareMethod()
}

if v, ok := data.(NotOftenImplemented); ok && v == nil {
// RareMethod() and SuperRareMethod() are nil
}

switch data.(type) {
case NotOftenImplemented: // would be supposed to match ONLY if AT LEAST >= 1 of the methods of this interface is non-nil
}

Of course it would create a phenomenon where all callers of any interface methods would now fear of calling any method without first testing for its nillness.

On another hand, there is also sometimes methods implemented with a single-line of panic("Not Yet Implemented") so...
Yeah, somehow I completely misread that sentence.
> Many years ago I would have said Apple would never leave the EU, but now I’d say it’s firmly in the “possible” territory.

I don't even think that Steve Jobs would be able to pull that one off.
Once your car is older/out of warranty, yes. New cars under warranty pretty much go to the dealer.

Dealers actually don't know much about their older cars. Try to bring for example a 1990's era (or really anything more than 10 years old or so) Mercedes to a dealer for service, none of their techs have any idea what it is, unless they happen to have an old guy.

Dealership shops are trained and reasonably competent working on newer stuff that's under warranty coverage. Older than that, you can often get better workmanship and cheaper prices with an independent.
> correlation versus causation

Well, polling can't give us causation. Nothing but ESP or really good guesses can do that.
The behaviour of a credit card company would vary enormously around the world though, for example in the UK credit card providers are jointly and severely liable for any action brought against the merchant (ie if they won't do anything you take both them and (eg) Apple to court) so they tend to be far more responsive to consumer complaints.
Thanks for the post. One thing, I wanted to test this in chrome and I realized your examples are all based on a larger Playground with a test HTML doc.

Maybe one self-contained example w/ a new function you can copy/paste into the console to play around with would be cool.

I was mostly using it as a test to see if it worked in Chrome so I could start using it.
AI Is Already Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems
can vouch for this one - i use it in a few places
Ask HN: Ideally, what features and changes would you want to see in Python 4.0?
Maybe so, but I bet more than 5% of Apple users would appreciate the economic effects of a world in which people can go to a random website and save a few bucks.

Competition is good for markets even if you continue to buy from the incumbent.
The greatest trick in UI development
> Now you get to choose whether to take it or not.

The question is who is paying for these treatments? Drug companies are not shy about charging tens of thousands of dollars a year for a course of treatment that may or may not help. Insurance companies and Medicare partD will probably be reluctant to reimburse. Drug companies have large incentives to get patients to pay out of pocket, and no, they won't refund if the product is not effective.

Perhaps if the FDA were to create a new class of approval that states: Drugs under this class are shown to not cause harm but are also not proven to be helpful. They may be taken, but drug companies may not charge for supplies until efficacy is shown in controlled conditions.

The primary issue here is there are plenty of Snake Oil salesmen ready to tell you anything you want to hear and have no qualms about taking "somebody's" money.

I am sure creating a new class such as this, will also create a host of unintended consequences though.
Apple wants to replace 50% of iPhone final assembly line workers with automation
Those things are content.

If it's not the kind of content you want to put on your site, well, don't. But they are they are there to inform you of something. (Well, except for the link preview. Link preview is not good. At all.)
> But what difference do you think this makes in reality? The process ends up being the similar.

The difference is the price listed is the price you pay. There's not an environment where the dealer is injecting whatever BS fee or piss poor financing they can to milk out every extra cent from the customer.

The manufacture is incentivized to sell these cars at the advertised price.
I just keep a copy of every webpage I view, on local storage. ( SingleFile extension )
Also Use History Trends Unlimited extension with regular backups.
Webpages that I think are particularly interesting I also keep a indexable PDF copy. Its all searchable. Uses about 1TB month storage. I've given up on bookmarking tools , too many problems with them.
Chinese retaliation for EV tariffs?
I guess, whatever works for a dev.
In studying voting systems I’ve come to respect paper-based logs along the same quality parameters as databases. Resiliency, scalability, backup, readability, schema-flexibility , onboarding, power-efficiency are all very good with paper.

So many of us were quick to move paper-based systems (voting, orders, kiosks, parking meters, journals, requests, etc) over to computers – without accounting for the e2e cost and flakiness of the software-based system.
Sorry for not disclosing everything that could go wrong, but you seemed to have missed my point while trying to be exact.
From the looks of it Rust [1] uses a constant branching factor based on number of items whereas ABSEIL generally uses a target of 256 bytes [3] for branching and fits however many elements fit within that [2]. Rust’s approach seems to be more primitive as ABSEIL is optimizing for cache line usage (not sure why it’s several multiples of a cache line - maybe to help the prefetcher or to minimize cache line bouncing?)

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/alloc/...

[2] https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/74f8c1eae915f90724...

[3] https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/74f8c1eae915f90724...
Yes, there are vehicle and even aircraft-mounted options but typically a comprehensive station would be the size of a decently large shed / medium hauling trailer. Here you can browse a set of photographs[0] of one of the rare "comprehensive" air pollution monitoring stations in Texas.

0: https://www17.tceq.texas.gov/tamis/index.cfm?fuseaction=repo...
You at all concerned about your exposure to random chemicals?
ADP is CDK as of a few years ago. I've seen a fair number of Auto/Mate stores in addition to DealerTrack, but not as many as CDK and R&R.
Canada to introduce Chinese EV tariff
Maybe 30 years ago. That's not the case with big dealer groups or young small independents.
Having written a portable SQLite VFS from scratch, I'm a bit scared of how they blindly translate fcntl locks into LockFileEx in a forking web server.

The opportunity for data corruption just freaks me out.
> If I am buying something from a company directly from their website or marketplace, for a service they provide in that app, why should I pay Apple a fee?

Ok, but explain to me why it is ok for Sony to charge a license fee to release a game that is only sold in retail stores as physical copies, while it is not ok for Apple to charge a similar fee?

The parent's point is that HN goes all frothy-mouthed about the $0.50/download fee from Apple, and then uses pretzel logic to justify why it is ok for Playstation/Xbox/Nintendo to do the exact same thing.
If you can't compete, just cripple the opposition I guess.
> If one is consistently awful and the other meets the minimum threshold to be acceptable

Then one is acceptable to you.

Many of us don't feel that way. At all.
That’s ultimately just playing the cat-and-mouse game with Microsoft. If LTSC becomes a commonly used trick to get local accounts, Microsoft will put even more barriers to get through. It’s not a game I’d want anyone to play.
This website is designed for text browsers.
Slightly random anecdote. Had an intern one summer at a large tech company I worked for, who was determined to inject a red-black tree in to the project they were working on for us, using hand-rolled code.

I'm not sure what was going through his head at the time, whether he'd just learned how to write them at college, or if he just thought they were the pinnacle of engineering.

None of the cases they were trying to shoe-horn them in to made sense. Places where you might debate that even a straight array would be sufficient, due to the limited number of items. The worst case of searching to the end of the array wouldn't matter. Doubly so given they weren't working on anything anywhere near a hot path, or a time sensitive operation. Standard library components would have been perfectly fine, and not carried the maintenance burden.

They did, on at least a couple of occasions, smugly explain what a black-red tree was to their mentor, who had likely implemented their first red-black tree at college before that Intern had ever even touched a computer for the first time. He showed remarkable patience.
I'm not defending the dealership model but when you use the term "stealership" in any way other than making fun of people who say it unironically, you come off as the same kind of person who says "M$" when referring to Microsoft. Out of touch and impossible to reason with.
It's not about crimes against science any more than financial fraud is about crimes against money. Science fraud is about falsification, same as financial crime.
> On the other hand, "What is Taylor Swift known for?" the answers "standup comedy", "comedian", and "comedy actress" are semantically similar but represent hallucinations. Without knowing the distribution characteristics (e.g multivariate moments and estimates) we couldn't say for certain these are correct merely by their proximity in vector space.

It depends on the fact that a high uncertainty answer by definition is less probable. That means if you ask multiple times you will not get the same unlikely answer, such as that Taylor swift is a comedian, you will instead get several semantically different answers.

Maybe you’re saying the same thing, but if so I’m missing the problem. If your training data tells you that Taylor Swift is known as a comedian, then hallucinations are not your problem.
Indeed, back in '95 or so there was a library called CrossELF that'd let you compile ELF so files and use a tiny loader linked to CrossELF for each platform you cared about to load the main .so file, and you could build platform-independent code with it. I remember writing some simple networking code where the loader just had a tiny set of shims for a few calls and the rest of the networking code was a single binary for both Linux and Win32.

The problem is wrapping the relevant APIs - as you can see w/e.g. Wine. For some functionality - like networking - the surface is pretty small, for others its a nightmare.
"War between nuclear powers doesn't happen any more" was the quote at the top of this thread.
https://archive.is/swdhC
Not quite correct - the grass may rot due to non-methanogenic organisms and/or be eaten by something.
I think you have to have a tabletop exercise once a year. So all good, right?
I like how they blame "young people" for not being able read cursive instead of their own terrible hand writing.
that sounds like rss
> A good rule of thumb is hash maps are preferable unless you need predictable worst case performance or your hash maps are directly exposed to the public.

Also, obviously, features only one of them provides e.g. if you need range queries then a hash table is quite useless. Meanwhile if you need insertion ordering, that’s reasonably easy to do with a hashmap.
The best WEB-DL groups are internal P2P - FLUX (HDB) and NTb (BTN).

They both (afaik) do hybrid releases by taking e.g. audio or DV metadata from one service and merging it with another source.

Funnily enough, even for UHD remuxes, P2P groups are top-tier (like Wildcat and Framestor).