skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've bought a few cars at dealerships. The first time I was pretty young and got pressured into buying an extended warranty, but that was the first and last time.

You are the buyer, you ultimately are in control because you are the one paying for the car. You can buy a car for a fair price at a dealer, but you have to have a strategy and understand who you are dealing with, or you will get played like a fiddle. Walking out is your superpower. If they pressure you to sign a "statement of commitment" to buy a car, or if they ask you to sign anything that's not the actual sales contract for the specific vehicle you are buying, walk out. If they say you can't see the contract before you sign it, walk out. Do not sign anything until you've gotten your final deal in place, and do not sign if they then try to change something. Get up and head for the door. At that point they are as vested in the sale as you are. The salesman is already thinking about what his commission will be.

Many states have a 48 or 72 hour "buyers remorse" law where you can unwind a car purchase even after you've signed the contract. Find out if you have that and understand how it works.

Do not fall in love with a car. It's a car. There are thousands of others for sale right now. If you can't make a deal on this one, there are many other cars and many other dealers.

I don't buy cars at dealers anymore. I'm just not willing to sit through the lies, bullshit, and games, even when I know it's coming. I buy from private sellers, and pay cash. Some of the cars have been better than others, but they have all been far better deals in terms of total costs during the time I've owned them than any new car has been.
> Trained routers are provided out of the box, which we have shown to reduce costs by up to 85%

The answer is here. This is a cost-saving tool.

All companies and their moms want to be in the GenAI game but have strict budgets. Tools like this help to keep GenAI projects within budget.
Don't go to dealerships that play these games. Seek out dealers that focus on business sales where the direct to consumer is not the bulk of their business. A lot of countryside dealers (deep country) have the same attitude. They let you drive the vehicle, if you want it they will find financing if you need them to. Sign the papers and leave. They will probably pitch some accessories and a warrantee extension. Zero drama. At those dealerships if they try that shit (sneaking in charges or playing any games) they could lose generations of business from a person. City dealerships are a pressure cooker because they have so much competition. If someone leaves they are never coming back. There is no philosophy of repeat business from a particular customer. If that happens it's just gravy.
> Dealerships should not exist and only exist due to terrible laws making it illegal for most automakers to sell direct.

Dealerships exist because the automakers wanted them, and those laws exist due to the automakers' foul play.

Automakers want to make cars. They don't want to manage stores, deal with thousands of different municipalities' rules for selling and registering vehicles, repair vehicles they've already sold, or store millions of cars in inventory until they're sold. They let someone else do all that, and it lets them run their factories at a nice even pace with essentially guaranteed buyers for their output.

Automakers did, in the 1990s, start to get jealous of the money their dealerships were making on the back of their products. Ford and GM both opened factory stores competing directly with their own dealers. They knew just where to open those stores and what to sell at them, because they had full knowledge of where their successful dealers were, and what they were best at selling at those dealerships. The franchisees were taking all the risk in selecting sites and financing inventory just for their franchisor to swoop in and undercut their business with their own store next door.

That unfairness is what led the dealers to lobby for those state laws banning the automaker from competing with its own franchisees.
There is probably a shortage of qualified instructors...
Yes, I like the turboxyz123 animation and contrast to the minimalist website (reminds me of the zen garden with a single rock). I think people forget nowadays in their haste to add the latest and greatest react animation, that too much noise is a thing.
No, and all it does is prove, once again, that big tech companies cannot be trusted to sustain even common sense privacy concerns.

We need a privacy bill of rights. It’s time! The GDPR shows the way, and we can even improve on it with hindsight.

We’ll never get ahead of the data harvesting and exploitation of that data without it and all of this becomes quite an acute problem when we add low cost cognitive digital intelligences to the equation.
People can do other things, such as listening to music, an audiobook, reflect, meditate, etc...
The tool currently allows only one set of strong and weak models.

I’d be really good to allow more than two models and change dynamically based on multiple constraints like latency, reasoning complexity, costs, etc.
Interesting article, if on the advertising side of things. I've done some hobby work with some basic composites and they're really neat to play with. Even so, I itch at the idea of bolts made out of composites; there are plastics and resins that don't creep under some conditions, but I wonder if the space magic they're describing actually...works.
When I heard the story, it was represented as a real life experience, not a fable, not fiction.

Since you're going there, there's a lot of people who claim to be Christian who would be kind of surprised if you said that it didn't matter if Jesus never existed. Same for Muslims with Muhammad, and Buddhist with Buddha.
If copilot is ruled fair use it doesn't matter what your license is, fair use superceeds it.
> Legally sound or not, these should at least prevent your code from being included in Copilot's training data

Has microsoft said this or something?
Thread reader: https://twitter-thread.com/t/1810696257137959018
My best car buying experiences were when I was an employee of a car company, and could buy any car built by that company at a price they designated (a pretty small amount over the cost to build it). The company designated a dealer to go to, and I would walk in with a certified loan draft from my credit union, and walk out with the car. One dealer did try to sell me alternate financing, but I just said no.
Yes, Ubiquiti has AP mesh hardware that uses a dedicated backhaul radio, so you can extend the mesh without needing wired backhaul for mesh points.
Brings to mind the old story about a JSON DSL

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
In St. Petersburg. Unfortunately, the whole thing went away by 1984-85. It only lasted for a few years.
It would create an almost perfect vacuum. You could then extract work by collapsing the vessel. The free energy for the work would come from putting the trapped helium (state 1) in a higher entropy state (state 2).

For what it's worth, this is done industrially to separate gasses using porous membranes.
You've got it backwards. Buying a Rivian or Tesla means you're locked in to servicing the car with the company you bought it from, and have nowhere else to turn if you're unhappy with that service. Buying a car from a make with a dealership network means you can get it serviced anywhere, and never have to deal with the company that sold you the vehicle again if you prefer not to.
A real material would. But thermodynamically OP is right, you'd get a vacuum.
> Notably, plastic recycling is fake, and my city just makes a giant pile of plastic separate from the giant pile of garbage.

For some measures of "fake". The German PET bottle deposit scheme works relatively well, as the material collected is pure PET with very little contamination.

For pretty much every other type of plastic, "recycling" usually means thermal use, aka burning it for district heating.
> We want the two bananas now, not a banana tree for life.

As the saying goes, a banana is hand is worth two on the tree.

Seriously though, car sales is cut throat and it's do or die. The people who walk in there thinking they are going to be the "good one" are out the door in a minute.
No they don’t, that’s not how the money works in concerts. The bands get paid a flat fee by the promoter. You can Google this if you don’t believe me but I know from working with concert promoters.

Why would Ticketmaster/live nation pay them at all? They don’t have to, the bands don’t have any other places to play and they make most of their income from live shows.
The Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen wrote a good cartoon called Rat Park about this experiment; https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/
"Not all documentation is like that, of course, but when someone successfully insists on hard coupling documentation to code, that puts a hard limit on the type of documentation that will be written."

I don't think I've ever seen a project argue so passionately for "all documentation lives in the same repo as the code" that people were put off writing books or tutorials that didn't go in that repo.

I'm pretty sure we aren't actually disagreeing here. I'm fine with "unofficial" documentation - books, tutorials etc - that lives outside the repo. The official reference documentation that's updated to reflect changes made to the project should live alongside the project itself.
Isn’t the pain of even thinking about the existence of a monthly payment a true cost? I’d so much rather just pay upfront and never think about it again.
CSS Gets Inline Conditionals
hmm, that last item seems like a pretty serious flaw; it makes the default matter a lot
A $40 upgrade for existing owners makes this all the sweeter. Would that anyone else making systems have such a sustainable ethos.

I wonder how hard it would be to use this for other purposes.
>Just reading these comments - is everyone OK with them sending your password to a server, but not with the lack of encryption?

Take a poll and see how many iPhone users are here. Now realize the remainder are on some OEM Android! 50/50 I am the only one to reply to you running GrapheneOS. People WANT it to be this way, because any other way is too much work. It's how oligarchy arises!

I am not being hyperbolic, y'alls bitlocker codes are going to Microsoft soon if not already with 24H2.

Being into technology on a tech hacking [orange] subreddit does not put one into the same group as the tradecraft-savvy.
> Never sign something without reading it first.

I have an hour on my lunch break and I just want a gym membership. Am I supposed to take it home and spend 2 hours reading through fine-print legalese that I won't be able to parse the subtlety of anyway? Or find and hire a lawyer to review the document? You can say "find another gym" but what about when they all do that?
IIRC some IBM DBs have a level called 'chaos', it may be read uncommitted but with other side effects...
When I bought my current car, the financing deal was probably at least neutral to me. But I just didn't want to deal with it.
A container implementation that depends neither on Docker nor on runc is at the very least interesting, by itself.
My kids weren't willing to practice either musical instruments or math. Some people just aren't intrinsically motivated that way, regardless of how you inform them or explain the benefits.
When Gemma 2 2b releases it would be interesting to compare its scaling with this
See if you could put in a filter for particularly heavy sediment.
> At least until their perpetually cruddy remotes eventually failed.

For me, Sony remotes were made of the same stuff as early Nokia phones - indestructible! Surprised to hear someone thought they were cruddy.
Etsy is betting on this strategy to capture back market share from Temu – Shein
Just uninstall the Weather app and never see or use it again.
The "unmolested data" would still have undergone error correction though, wouldn't it? I don't think a bin/cue rip would contain the redundant stuff, which GP seems interested in, nor the subcodes (of which some are represented in the cue file, while the bin file is PCM audio).

And at the risk of taking us well beyond the rainbow books, I'll just leave this here: https://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1266
Yup, definitely a case for enums there -- I don't think the rule is absolute (I'm not sure you should always use enums over booleans), but much of the time it seems to be true.
But learning programming felt good.
Nostr or something like it is going to give us back the awesome internet.
The problem is to understand how complex the request is, you have to use a smart enough model.
It’s very easy to write one. I’ve done it in half an hour in bash. (Most of the half hour was spent cursing at various versions of util-linux that were broken in creative ways.)

Doing it well is a different story.
Definitely not.. they can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt it was a loan originally.
I would counter that those that make the most significant improvements can see the gaps, but focus on, and communicate effectively, the opportunity rather than being complainer. I think we will all agree the workplace is as much politics as it is technical prowess
Do you actually believe this NYT opinion article speaks for everybody on this topic or is that just convenient to the argument you're trying to make right now?
They were physically robust but the carbon button contacts always became dodgy for me. I tried to avoid Sony products for this reason because I encountered it so often in other people's gear. I have a remote from the late 00's that saw virtually zero use and it conked out with age alone.
> forced us to choose between Rivian or Tesla

> Just can't stomach driving to the dealership for routine maintenance, having to deal with such a predatory culture.

Ummmm, are you sure you've done your research and due diligence on the Tesla maintenance and repair experience? They are, ummmm, widely regarded as more predatory than pretty much every other manufacturer/dealership.
Some of that is already possible, since it can generate a difficulty score for a prompt that could be manually mapped between models based on ranges.
Worth caring about why?? Because you think Google shouldn’t be allowed to make things better for their users? Like I said, you are so concerned about fairness you’re missing the point.
The big risk is that Mercury goes out of business. This leaves the bank with money in Mercury accounts but no way to get back to customers. The funds may be considered to be the companies in bankruptcy, when means that customers would have to wait and may not get back all their money.
I am tertiarily involved in some efforts to prosecute offenders in this area. I am not of aware what volume of traffic online would be these images, but am aware of some material in cases where people are caught and prosecuted. My understanding is that in actual prosecutions such images and videos are quite common.
Those hypothetical programmers at Google could start by doing a Manifest V4 that would be like V3 but actually useful and privacy-respecting. I’ll believe it when it happens.
blocking i/o makes simple things simpler, but it also makes hard things harder. having only blocking i/o can make hard things much harder. maybe it would make more sense to put blocking i/o in a library instead of the system call interface?
jokes on them, some of us use the headphone jack
I agree that's not proper domain fronting, but one point is that CDNs can and absolutely do restrict certain SNI/Host/sites to subsets of their IPs. It's not necessarily the case that if you can connect to one CDN node you can connect to all the sites that CDN serves.
You would not get your ass kicked legally speaking. Copyright is not that broad. It's not a patent.
I get the loathing for Ticketmaster and all, but can we just also acknowledge that the only reason they can do what they do because the various entities they collaborate with participate in the monopolistic cartel scheme?

Can we also please acknowledge that if people stop going to the things Ticketmaster sells tickets to, they will stop these practices? No one is forcing people to participate in these things; I don’t.

Lastly, it even calls itself Tomicketmaster. And you didn’t realize you are a Ticketslave? It is right there, in the name! Right in front of your eyes!

It always amazes me what they can get away with and people just behave like buffalo on the Serengeti, stampeding through the crock infested river … “those crocks are the worst! Ok, Karl, we are up next”

Instead of chiding your TicketMASTER devs and alpha slave MBAs, maybe stop being a TicketSLAVE altogether. Has that dawned on any buffalo?

Fun fact, to drive the point home. Guess how the predators of the Serengeti are treated when they want to go to an event. You think they deal with Ticketslavery even though the Ticketslaves is how the cabal makes its money?
Thanks, great advice! I already created an account and looked around a bit. However, it seems that I need to make a payment link for each digital image (correct?), because I'd need to use the forwarding functionality to forward the user to the download link after the payment.
Not true. You can easily train a BERT single class classification model without having to train an LLM.
How about the only winning move is not to play? Go to your credit union and get a loan you can afford. go find a private party seller. buy a used car that’s a few years old, in excellent condition and has low miles.

You’ll be a lot happier and richer.
Are pie charts bad or just misused?

They aren’t good at measuring small quantities. But it is easy to see 1/4 or 1/2 of a circle. And it is easy to see if something is a straight line, 90 degree, or a little more or less than either of those.

Compared to a bar graph, it seems a little easier to spot that one quantity is, like, half of another. And it is easier to visually sum of a collection of quantities, on a bar graph this is a major pain (unless it is stacked of course but that’s another type of graph).
You can distill evaluation ability
Ask HN: How to deal with vitrolic colleagues in workplace?
As you can guess the colleague is still in college and is 23 years old. He's a kid and I forgive him for that. He's very vitrolic about me because manager likes me and it can be seen that he likes me. He''s not doing anything bad to others because he likes me. I am male, manager is male, and this vitrolic dude is making me emotionally sad day per day, and I am falling into his trap.

I don't want to contact HR because I know they'll probably fire me when time comes because they love mediocre employees as they can pay less salary to them.
PS I am planning to leave, although this is a good company, but can't leave when you don't have a job at hand.
It is generally not a huge difference in small systems like you find in college towns.

It is a pretty substantial portion of most major transit agency budgets; BART for example has a farebox recovery of about a third. If you were to totally make it free you would need to basically increase the other sources of funding by 50%.
Having had the dubious pleasure of trying to use Meet from various Apple devices, Meet didn’t lag because Meet couldn’t produce video at all. Maybe I only operate at the wrong edge of the Meet ecosystem, but it did not compare well to anything else out there.

(I’ve tried Safari, I’ve tried the native app, and I’ve even tried the phone bridge (!).)
> While composites might seem like a futuristic technology, in many ways, they hark back to millions of years of human and even pre-human material technology. Wood, after all, is the original composite material, as it’s composed of long and short fibers glued together by other substances—much like modern synthetic composites are often made up of carbon fiber held together by epoxy resins. Wood was a chief enabler of the success of our species, and it exhibits many of the advantages and disadvantages of composites.

Not to nitpick too much, but while wood is "technically" a composite material made up of fiber embedded in lignin, I don't think it's very useful to include it under the broad category of composite materials. Engineered woods like plywood and cross-laminated timber definitely are, but it's more useful to classify regular wood as an organic raw material rather than a composite.

The first composite material humans had any experience with was probably silcrete. It's naturally occurring but ancient humans figured out how to strengthen it by heat treating it in a fire (80-160 kYa). The first time humans intentionally made a composite material is adobe/mudbrick (11 kYa), wattle and daub (6 kYa), plywood in Mesopotamia (5.4 kYa), cob (4 kYa), and finally Romans developed something resembling concrete (I dont remember kYa).
that is so cool. I will try it out as well. thank you for sharing.
This is for applications that use LLMs or Chat GPT via API.
Helium in the atmosphere is almost two orders of magnitude more common than xenon and three times as concentrated than krypton. Both are extracted from air.

Even though He is constantly venting to space, alpha emitters keep replenishing it.

Cheap helium from 7% CH4 wells is not going to last. But we're not going to run out of He. Just the energy to extract it.
I'm surprised there's no "diy prospector bot" by now.
Off topic: How does the judiciary decide which judge to choose for such highly technical case?
The weak-to-strong assumption is that it is easier to eval the result of a task than to generate it. If it is wrong, human can not make a stronger intelligence than us.
Another option is to go to your banking institution and ask them how much they will loan you to purchase a car. After telling the dealership you absolutely won't use whatever financing they are offering, have them write up a cost sheet of the vehicle you're interested in and tell them you will show this to your bank. This will usually do one of two things: the dealership now knows you have a bank behind you who is looking out for your interests. (If they're not, change banks!) And it gives you an opportunity to get a possible better interest rate from your bank, who will surely want your business.

The cost sheet also makes then spell out exactly what the cost and the extras are on the vehicle.