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I think automakers should be allowed to sell direct but most prefer to sell through franchised dealers. Building out a nationwide dealer network and holding inventory takes an enormous amount of capital.
Flight Tracking in Messages (and Anywhere Data Detectors Work)
i think this is valid, i think i will open source this or even make it free!
A Purpose-First Theory of Transfer of Knowledge from Programming
Yeah but I think the main concern in this situation is copilot moving forward, not their past mistakes.
Why, then, does approval voting continue to be so unpopular? It's much simpler than ranked choice or score voting, doesn't suffer from the failure modes described here, and elects candidates that satisfy a larger subset of voters than either FPTP or RCV - maximizing the consent of the governed.
That's probably true pretty much everywhere--and, of course, in many places lots of things that are sticker price in the US are a negotiation.

Honestly, if you're paying cash, it's not a big deal. I bought a car a couple years ago. At the time, there wasn't really any point in haggling on the car's price given how in short supply everything was. I got them to toss in some extra trade-in to cover the "factory options" on a car that wasn't even built yet--with the proviso that they had a deal if they agreed to it. I took a very discounted extended warranty which may or may not have been a good deal but it was cheap.

The whole thing, including test drive, took me maybe 30 minutes. I said "no" quite a few times but it was hardly a pressure-packed negotiating session.
If they ask to talk to their manager then just talk to the manager yourself, no point negotiating with someone who lacks authority
Firefox’s website “interventions” are documented on Firefox’s about:compat page. Each intervention has a link to more information about the website issue it’s fixing and a button to turn it off.
This, that I had to wait was annoying but at least I got exactly what I wanted. Years ago I tried to by a BMW, exactly the model I wanted with the options I wanted. No one in the area had one so I went to a dealer and had them order it and they had me put down a $1000 deposit. I took the bus to/from work for 3 months waiting. I got a call it was in on a Sunday. I went to get it on Monday, they had sold it to someone else. If I wanted it I could wait another 3 months. I was so angry feel like burning the place to the ground.

Tesla (and maybe Rivian) don't feel like they'd do that. You order what you want, you get exactly that. I hope I never have to deal with a dealer again.

That said, the same seems to be happening to e-bikes in the bad direction. They've gotten expensive. You have to take what the dealers have or order through the dealer as the manufacture doesn't take direct orders. Then you have to pray the dealer doesn't sell the bike while you wait. That seems less likely with a bike but it's annoying that you have to go through a middle-company.
My recent visit to a BMW dealership (for parts for an old car) was so awful. Every aspect of the dealership feels scummy. The coffee machine "lounge", the shiny cars, the branded "merch", the sales staff, the "service department" layout. It's just a creepy experience at every step. I have never bought a new car (although I have bought used, from a few dealerships) and honestly I am not sure I ever would.
Dealerships should exist, their exclusive right to sell cars should not.

Customers should have the option to buy from a factory and to buy from a dealership.

Maybe I need a car now or want a curated selection instead of infinite choice, but I also want to buy from the factory and get my dream car or work truck in the exact specification I need without the dealer markup.

By allowing the choice they would be forced to compete and that should be good for the customer!
I can't speak for everyone, but ours was great. The other day the car threw an error message about the battery; we brought it to a service center, which swapped the whole battery free under warranty and without bother. Tesla gave my wife $100 in Uber credits per day until they got a loaner a few days later.

Perhaps the best part of the "service experience" is not having to go in for oil changes, brakes, and all the other stuff legacy cars require.
Now, how to get the SD card in the hands of the customer? Mail it to them!

I worked on a equipment project for a large restaurant chain about a decade ago. The core application and related assets/recipes/files were all on an SD card. When it was time to upgrade the app or release new seasonal recipes, every store got a new SD card in the mail with instructions to wait for a certain date, power down, swap cards, power back on, dispose of the old card.

It was way cheaper to send updates that way than bother with encryption, networking, corrupted disks, etc. A bricked machine lost a hundred dollars or more per hour. If the new card failed, the operator could continue with the old one until a replacement could be sent.

One major problem was suppliers always trying to swap to lower cost SD cards, even counterfeit ones (c.f. Bunnie), and things would go south really fast. The Linux system and hardware were both pretty old and had MMC stack issues when the cards showed shaky margins on the timing. Or, capacity wasn't what was advertised (c.f Bunnie). We had to spend a cycle or two qualifying each mailing release to make sure a shitty batch of cards didn't make its way into the stream.

SD has its uses, although I still prefer a read-only eMMC partition to hold the bootloader and O/S. I don't get why RPi users put themselves through such misery to save $20 on their SBC.
It's mostly on the car manufacturers. Most of them seem to want the dealership model nowadays.

There's no such laws in place requiring independent dealerships in Canada. Aside from the usual direct sales car companies, Genesis dealerships in Canada are all owned by Genesis Canada and I can order a car direct from Genesis. Yet most of the big names in cars operate with independent dealerships, as well as practically every motorcycle manufacturer as far as I know. In fact, Mercedes-Benz Canada just sold off all their Toronto dealerships to a AWIN/Zanchin [1] and AFAIK it wasn't because they were forced to.

I don't have any real insight into why this is the case. Most I can say is that if direct sales was so lucrative for car makers, one has to wonder why they didn't take advantage of it here. That being said, FortNine released a video on why motorcycle dealerships work this way; I suspect a lot of it applies to cars as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meHYBhcpdvQ

[1]https://media.mercedes-benz.ca/releases/release-048f50ed0ac9...
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/32842#issuecom...

^ Claims to have a fix due in a nightly build.
Option/Maybe/Result is a Boolean in disguise.

It has the same problem as Booleans by supporting only two branches: single happy path and single unhappy path, when real life may have many paths, and it’s not always clear which of them are happy or unhappy (from the business logic point of view).

Even for purely technical errors, simple OK | ERROR isn’t enough, but should be something like OK | RETRY | UKNOWN_ERROR | FAILED.
Well, it's just an AWS Account ID
It's more complicated. If the post is interesting then it's fine. A lot of first post to personal projects get upvotes. Or if it's autokilled, it may be vouched and then upvoted.

Even comercial post are fine if they are interesting.

The problem is when it's too off-topic, or too much empty marketing without information, or too much hype or ... there are a lot of reasons that can cause a post to be not interesting.

I don't know how the server decides which post to kill. I've seen some false positives and some flase negatives, vouched a few and flaged a few.

It is different when someone submits their own site again and again and again. (Unless it's very interesting, but if someone repost their own site too many tiems 99.9999999999% of the time it's not interesting.)
How do you feel about Malloy vs PRQL?
"Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530207
I needed to get a message to my misses while on a long flight home. It wasn't an emergency but it would have been a total bummer to let her know after I had landed.

The problem was I had packed my wallet into my check-in like a dumbass. I couldn't figure out a way to sign up for in flight wifi. Plenty of apps and services have my credit card number on my phone but none of them would show the entire number without me signing on.

The flight however had Alipay as one of the apps to pay, which would have been great except it wasn't working. It still allowed connections to alipay. I figured out I could cancel the payment through a button hiding in a transaction details page and be dumped out to the alipay home screen.

The alipay chat feature wasn't working though, they'd must have thought about that. But some of the mini-apps did work, including the mini-app for my home automation.

It let me send a message to the terminal thingy at the door of my place where you buzz people in (there was a feature to send mail to other rooms, I just sent it to myself).

This took up about 40 minutes of the 11 hour flight.
It has very big exceptions, like marketing VP vs paramedic.
I would caution against assuming that wealth equates to effective parenting. Poor parenting, in this case, is a failure to transfer and instill the concepts of compassion, respect, and empathy to children from adults.
As someone who wants WASM to free us all from JS. Is this even worth it if DOM bindings for WASM will never get a released? I’ve been following this since 2018 and it seems like we’re still at square 1 with DOM bindings. Incredibly frustrating.
Do you have a link to your friend's post?
Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential
I admit to being arrogant, perhaps that's an inevitable side effect of being confident. When proven wrong, however, which has happened on HN (!) I try to admit it. I don't like making mistakes.

I'm not offended, as that's to be expected when I write things that are unpopular.

But I still accept your apology, and no worries. Perhaps we can engage again in the future!

P.S. I know about the simulator issues, but the information came filtered through a journalist and I am skeptical. What I cannot reconcile is the first incident where the deadhead pilot simply turned off the switch, compared with the simulator pilot. It didn't matter whether the runaway trim was the root cause. It did matter that runaway trim will kill you and it must be stopped. All three crews knew that, which is why they fought it.

In my work on the stab trim system, it was accepted that the first resort for trim failure was turning the thing off. Overhead in the 757 is a matrix of circuit breakers, the purpose of each is to turn off a malfunctioning system. The stab trim one, being critical, isn't located overhead but right there on the console.

I work with machinery all the time. When it fails, my first reflex is to always turn it off. For example, one day I smelled smoke. Looking around, smoke was coming out of my computer box. I could see fire through the grille. The very first thing I did was yank the plug out of the wall, the second was to take the box outside. The flames went out when the current was removed.

I simply do not understand failing to turn off a runaway trim system. Especially when it kept coming back on after normal trim was restored.

For another example, an engine fire. I don't know what the fire checklist says, but I bet right at the top it says to activate the fire extinguishers and cut off the fuel and electric power to the engine. I've done the same for an engine fire in my car :-)
I've been hearing this for like a decade now on hn.
Dialing the Moon (2022)
Finland has a 1,340km border with Russia, and the closest part of Belarus to Finland is 462km away.

So again, why did Russia not invade Finland to stop Finnish membership in NATO?

Russia claims this is their casus belli for their invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and tankies accept this at face value.

They also claim that Ukraine deserved to be invaded because they were mis-treating ethnic Russians. Okay, but Ukraine's treatment of ethnic Hungarians near the Hungarian border was virtually identical. So... does Hungary have casus belli to invade Ukraine?

Or if Putin takes all of Ukraine as per his stated goal of "returning" Ukrainian land to Russia "where it belongs", does he also plan on returning the currently Ukranian land back to Hungary that it lost? If not, why not?

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-adm...
I've owned several cars (Ford, Subaru, all ICE), and never went to the dealership after buying the cars. Are you buying high end European models or electric that require dealership maintenance?
> Isn't that what Framework does?

Framework kinda serves as a glorified systems integrator. They need partners like Intel and AMD to work with them to make sure their chips are suited for the sort of chassis they're making. The recent RISC-V board was almost entirely a third-party offering as far as I can tell.

So, I'd argue it's not really what Framework does. Someone like Nvidia, Broadcom or Rockchip would have to provide a particularly compelling chip that fits the form factor and power/thermal envelope, with potentially another middleman designing/integrating the chip into a compatible board. Making, upstreaming and maintaining those in-tree drivers is a commitment of it's own, and you'd have to validate the plethora of expansion cards/peripherals with a device that doesn't have UEFI or probably even PCI.

Like the parent said; you'd need a sizable ARM license-holder to commit to the entire vertical process for it to release in a quality state. It's not infeasible that one of them might step up to the plate for this someday, but the incentives would have to line up for them before they'd consider making it a product.
10% of $40,000 is quite significant (at least to me).
”The main reason is that direct access to the DOM requires the ability to pass references to DOM/JS objects through Wasm. Consequently, when GC happens for JavaScript, the collector must be able to find and update such references on the live Wasm stack, in Wasm globals, or in other places controlled by the Wasm engine. Hence the engine effectively needs to support GC in some form.

However, the new proposal for reference types that we split off from the GC proposal tries to give a more nuanced answer to that. It introduces reference types without any functionality for allocating anything within Wasm itself. In an embedding where host references are garbage-collected that still requires a Wasm implementation to understand GC. But in other embeddings it does not need to.”
A Scientist's Quest to Decode Vermeer's True Colours
Set up a password manager like Bitwarden or 1Password (which you should absolutely do anyways), and you can put all your card information in the manager. They typically will auto fill them as well
Ah my bad, I was thinking of the early zero power seven segment numeric tape printers.

The numitrons used a ton of power. Or was that VFDs?
Actually, I'd use such a service myself.
I don't think it's a valid solution for such a problem. The solution has to be more general, not just for 1 site.
What copyrightable elements of the original work persist in the model, if it is incapable of outputting them? I can derive a SHA-1 hash from a copyrighted image, and yet it would be absurd to call that a derivative work.
Agreed. There is no world in which React is faster than vanilla JS, except maybe certain contrived examples.

Selling React as “fast” has got to be one of the greatest bamboozles of all time. I know I thought it was fast when I first started.

It’s reasonably fast for what it does, but the overhead of virtual DOM diffing has real performance costs compared to vanilla.

React makes it really easy to make things slow. At my job it isn’t uncommon for a single list item component to take 2ms to render on a fast machine. Multiply that by a few dozen list items, and suddenly your feature is taking hundreds of ms to rerender. Sure, you can improve things with virtual rendering and targeted optimizations, but the default case is not fast.

It’s especially insane when you consider that video games can render a high fidelity 3D scene in under 16ms.
This is all true, and in a vacuum I agree with it. There's a pretty core problem with these kinds of assertions, though: people have to make rent. Never have I seen a substantiative, pass-the-sniff-test argument for how to make practical this system when your authors and your artists need to eat in a system of modern capital.

So I'm asking genuinely: what's your plan? What's the A to B if you could pass a law tomorrow?
It’s certainly the case that the Tesla service centers suck, and perhaps they would be better if they were independent and competed with each other. But I’m not sure what this has to do with new car sales. I think my personal preference would be to buy a car from the manufacturer (the actual thing I want to buy, i.e. the car, is identical no matter what route it takes from a manufacturer to me), but perhaps service should be a competitive market. After all, a Tesla owner is not buying corporate Tesla service — they’re buying service from a specific customer service operation and a specific set of technicians.

I’m not familiar with the “Rivian shit show”.
The dealership service centre's are only good for oil changes that cost a premium. They don’t the time to care about anything other than routine servicing at a huge markup. Got an oddball issue? Your average self run mechanic is a much better option.
> Can I (practically) use Rust or Go in the browser via wasm already!?

You can (built into rust and tinygo for go.)! And wasm-threading has been around for a while! https://webassembly.org/features/ But I don't think these wasm-threading capabilities are well harnesses by any languages yet.

There been a decade of webworkers being super possible. That does get multi-threading! With transferable memory & everything. So, this isn't like some new super non-js thing. Some folks do use workers, but alas not popular enough, not something React or Angular helps steer folks to.

Whats super neat and tricky here is that the iframe in separate origin-agent-cluster has a full DOM implementation that's there & raring to go. We already could have tried using jsdom or happy-dom or a wasm-powered alternative in a worker to do something like this, already. This is super cool though because it's much lower code! It uses a dom runtime that's already loaded & available (the browser's) rather than having to ship & load a separate DOM runtime.
How though? My phone does not contain my address, or my credit card number.
The last time I bought a car I wanted to pay cash, and the sales person gave me this wet puppy look. So I negotiated a 5 year finance rate where I calculated it would be net-zero in difference to me, literally; let's say it was 50K in cash, so I would pay $25K now, and finance $25K over the next 5 years, and they would get ~2% more, which in the grand scheme of inflation, meant a net-zero loss on my purchasing power.

I considered it a win-win situation, since it left me with more money in the bank, the sale person got their kick backs from the finance company (they proceeded to give me the free replacement car mats and other freebies associated with the finance deal), and I got positive credit ratings.

But yes, what a pain.
Prefer not to as in you would rather leave 5-6k on the table, or that you prefer to buy exclusively from fixed price vendors
I have seen my fair share of ML Python codebases. Distribution is a mess, onboarding new people is a mess. The thing I would says just works is OS level configuration things like Kubernetes or NixOS are proven technology that works and there are enough resources for issues that can be self-debugged instead of opening tickets/ gh issues or reaching out to support. But as these are much complicated technology, you need domain experts and should not pressure ML engineers or data scientists to figure this out. I have seen Python packaging to be such a mess it is easier to teah to Python engineers ML or DS, then ML engineers proper package handling and distribution. The very existence dozens of packaging solutions show that engineer would rather create something from scrath rather work with existing tools.
In addition to lossy compressed track files I also generate a FLAC with embedded cue as a master copy of the original. It's useful for recreating the whole recording for mass editing. I have a few discs mastered with preemphasis that needed correction. I too hope there will be a day when all FLAC players support track navigation. The reality is the music album has had its day in the sun and will largely be a forgotten curiosity like the typewriter or rotary phone.
The other important bits to have functioning rail is that

* Japanese highways are heavily tolled and parking in choice areas is expensive. In the US parking is mandated at such high levels that it is given away for free; in Japan parking is entirely market provided and you cannot buy a car without proof of a reserved space which you must purchase

* Japanese commuting is heavily subsidized to the tune of 100,000JPY a month pretax, so consumers have more spending power specifically on transportation. This is at least one of the theorized causes of Japanese economic centralization since you can’t realize the full value of the benefit outside the megacities.
I suspect that would be very much on the high side of what you could negotiate. Certainly was a couple years ago. You can still probably get something without breaking too much of a sweat if you'll close the deal right now.
Kinda ridiculous but I'm on a stream that changes every snow melt and gold is so $$$ I've been considering panning and/or getting a metal detector just to mess around in the stream bed. I don't know if it's the value of gold or if this is another thing that happens as I age...
We have it on good authority that global climate change is going to destroy civilization soon enough
I’ve always (meaning since my first car in 1990) bought new cars through car brokers. You hire someone who knows the industry intimately to go deal with the dealers for you.

We bought a van recently. It arrived with no weird extras, at a price that seemed fair, and we never even talked to a dealer (I researched models online). She charged us about $400 for the broker service and we picked up the van at her office.

It seems like it’s just the dealer financing that forces you into this murky slimy world of dealer sales departments.
I think it’s worth noting that the CARS rule mentioned in the article is almost certainly going to get tossed now that Chevron has been replaced.

Basically anytime you see an agency rule being used to enforce something now you should presume it wont hold up in at least one federal district.
> Self-described “gay furry hackers,” SiegedSec said

"they didn't actually 'hack' the Foundation, they got access from their strict conservative daddies at the last sleepover" ?