skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really, really don't like to be conspiratorial, but I think the only explanation of why there isn't some sort of "negotiating large purchases" class in school is because our economy needs some amount of suckers at some level.

I mean, it's hard to argue with the common refrain "when am I ever going to use calculus?" that you often hear from high school kids, but then nearly everyone in the US buys a car at some point and there is no simple guidance or courses for that. Why can't schools have a short class that teaches:

1. Never sign something without reading it first. It's scary to me how many sales situations (e.g. a gym membership, house closing, etc.) give you stacks of paper with the implicit (or not so implicit) understanding that "nobody actually reads all this".

2. Understanding who is on your side and who isn't, legally.

3. Understanding common negotiating and pressure tactics.

etc.

Seems like a course in these important life skills could be done in a couple hours at most yet most of us only learn these lessons if we have family members who teach them to us.
Director of National Intelligence on Recent Iranian Influence Efforts
Copyright’s purpose is a cudgel to be wielded to enrich the holder for, ideally, eternity. If “eternity” is threatened, you use proceeds from copyright to change copyright law to protect future proceeds.
Jordan Mechner explains some key design decisions in Prince of Persia
This is the kind of thing a younger version of me would have fantasized about, made theories as to the meaning, etc. Old me just said out loud “huh, you’d figure that would mean something, but guess not.”
You really don't get what privacy is about.
By growing animal cells in rice grains, scientists dish up hybrid food
Which he can only do because he has clean air to breathe…
The dealerships are just an arms length b*ch of the automaker

Just remember these simple things when buying a car at a dealership

1. Don’t play 4 square, cut to the chase. If they ask if youre paying cash or financing say you are open to either option, but focus on the bottom dollar

2. Whoever you’re talking to is not the person you’re negotiating with, they are just a front. This is the case with most retail sales including windows, flooring, siding, and curtains. The first time the guy pauses and has to ask or talk to a manager is the first time you’ve actually negotiated anything. The first time they “ask their manager” they might just go for coffee. Don’t just accept that they leave their office to talk to the manager, watch where they go. Find a reason for them to leave the room at least 3 times.

3. Even if you don’t think you are you’re going to end up in “the box” it’s harder to say no to a female statically so you may end up with a woman. Don’t be hung up on gender, ask questions, don’t get bullied. If your question doesn’t get answered, don’t move to the next topic.

4. Just watch the movie “Used Cars” it’s fun. Do not think it’s all a joke

5. In the words of “Casino” (1995) . It’s all been arranged to get your money.
I really agree with this point; who’s to say making the email is not less valuable or making the world just a little worse? I would probably agree more if the example was Netflix or even YouTubr but part of me is still biased toward feeling TikTok is just probably neurologically worse than anything outside of drugs.
> Dealerships should not exist

Don't fret too much, they won't survive much longer.
Tesla is absolutely anti-consumer. The quality of their cars is terrible and they manipulate prices regularly. During COVID the gouging was especially obscene.
And voila! Just like that, you now have 2 systems to maintain, support and debug.

Do we redirect server side, use 302 or use JS to redirect ?

docs and api dont match, users don't RTFM, but lament that the engineering quality is low.

Support now needs to know which api endpoint the user with problems is hitting and why they cant repro when hitting the new endpoint.

Auth will be fun too, is it a domain redirect? subdomain? Cert rotations anyone ?
I have used circos plots many times in the past (genomics). They make for very pretty figures. But, like you said, the major problem with them is that they are difficult to accurately interpret. They are used often to compare whole genome rearrangements, but the resolution has to be reduced to so much that you just can’t use them quantitatively. They are useful for qualitative comparisons, but it really suffers when you need to show details.
> that Linear can't add that in two seconds if they wanted to?

FYI Linear has had this feature for a while. It works quite well.
Interesting timing. TUAW had just popped into my head 20 minutes ago. Missing it, I was about to go look to see if anything had materialized. Glad I saw this first and know not to bother. It deserves so much better. It was a great source in its heyday. Once it shutdown I never really filled that gap for myself.
You may have a variety of model types/sizes, fine tunes, etc, that serve different purposes - optimizing for cost/speed/specificity of task. At least that's the general theory with routing. This one only seems to optimize for cost/quality.
Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
From what I understand, it's from people using it in their workflows - say, Claude but keep hitting the rate limits, so they have to wait until Claude says "you got 10 messages left until 9pm", so when they hit that, or before they switch to (maybe) ChatGPT manually.

With the router thingy, it keeps a record, so you know every query where you stand, and can switch to another model automatically instead of interrupting workflow?

I may be explaining this very badly, but I think that's one use-case for how these LLM Routers help.
thank you for your feedback. I will change that back to a shell transcript.
The service experience with both Rivian and Tesla sucks. And that is why the manufacturer should never have a monopoly on the service of your car. Rivian wait times can be as long as five months. Tesla regularly denies warranty claims.
Reverse engineer your startup brand
It's very common for startup founders to focus on building their product first rather than focusing on their startup brand.

Both are equally as important.

Because within a brand, we need a strategy.

What do I mean by strategy?

Brand strategy is about positioning, game theory, and time – how will tomorrow be different than today to change the dynamic of the marketplace?

- A bad product with a bad brand = guaranteed failure
- A good product with a bad brand = missed potential
- A bad product with a good brand = temporary success
- A good product with a good brand = winning combination

Take this for example:
You can’t say “We’re Nike” by pointing to your sneakers because in a blind taste test, everything is the same. It’s something else. If Nike opened a hotel we would probably guess what it would be like.

We need to know how to leverage positioning, game theory, and time.

Positioning is a clear map of who you are and who you’re not.

Game theory is a strategic decision-making that anticipates the actions and reactions of competitors.

Time – Building a brand doesn’t happen overnight.

Study how great brands like Nike. Study their brand strategy. Study their moves against competitors.

Then apply the learnings to your startup.

Knowing all this and putting them into action will help you make a significant leap over your competitors.
There's also the fact that the latest models are downright dangerous, with no stalks on the steering wheels, everything needing to be done through a touchscreen, etc. Plus you'll get sunburned just sitting in the car since the roof is glass.
Again though; why do you have to offload this processing? What are you doing that inherently cannot be done on-device?
There is a lot of knee-jerk reaction in the line of "but what if someone abuses it! OMG!". As mentioned everywhere, the optimal amount of fraud is not zero, and the optimal test coverage is not 100%, and the minimal budget will certainly not get you there fastest, etc, etc. Some managers DO understand the problem and make it easier on their reports - but it doesn't take too many jerks to bring civilization to a grinding halt.
I’m sympathetic to this point because I used to strongly have this feeling of “the Internet is for us nerds”, so I get it. I think that ship has sailed though, these people don’t even know about us or that we existed. I mean, the Internet is the most popular thing in the world but no one could tell you who Vint Cerf is, even so-called programmers today.
> the median HN poster finds that as repellent as a paywall

"Median"? Countless paywalled articles have been on the HN front page without flagging.

404 could run a feature on the latest innovations in "Grassroots for hire" persona and narrative management software.
> I always thought trains (light rail, high speed, what ever) were so much better than cars.

Do you honestly think that standing in a crowd with other people's smell all over you is better than being in your personal space, with music and AC turned to your taste, alone, sitting in a comfortable place that you adjusted for yourself?

You must be the kind of person who thinks bland rice and unseasoned chicken breasts are better than all other foods, just because of how price-efficient they are.
The key for a hidden track at the beginning is that players usually start playing track 1 from index mark 1 (1.1) rather than index 0 as with continuous play through all subsequent tracks. The lead-in area for 1.0 is a holdover from grooved phonorecordings never meant to be played. It's a way for the primitive hardware of early CD players to acquire the start of the data stream in a safe area that doesn't have to be faithfully reproduced.

Some players permitted you to skip back from 1.1 to 1.0 to hear the lead-in as a hidden pseudo-track. Typically this was only possible with hardware index nav. buttons rather than the track nav. buttons, further obfuscating the presence of the hidden track.

The other means of "hiding" tracks is to have a bunch of short silent tracks until you get to track 99 (inconvenient to reach on a player without numeric track entry) or to have a long section of silence starting on the last track from index 1.
When I was young and full of myself, writing Perl and PHP, while your ma was still reading you a bedtime story and giving you a stuffy to fall asleep with, I had to program uphill, both ways, in the rain and snow. Not like you milk toast Data Engineers clickty clicking around Databricks and Snowflake UIs.
wasm-console (formally wasmshell) is a webassembly component that can help you explore the filesystem, make network requests at the moment.

The idea was born when trying to debug why my component could not access a particular file and I really wanted to be able to do "ls" on the filesystem to see what is there.
CrewAI collects prompts via telemetry, can't be disabled
The story behind Sc.Tiger and Oracle
Cool details! Thanks for posting.
I wonder if it’s just the first “rail”. The Ginza-sen is Japan’s first subway. It was opened quite a bit later than the date outlined in the article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metro_Ginza_Line
Bits & Bytes
There are two >100 comment/vote stories from them in the past two weeks, according to algolia. Maybe the others are being unfairly treated, but that seems pretty good to me.
The linked GitHub issue states:

> I created a new project using crewai==0.35.8

> At this site: https://docs.crewai.com/telemetry/Telemetry/

> > It's pivotal to understand that NO data is collected concerning prompts, task descriptions, agents' backstories or goals, usage of tools, API calls, responses, any data processed by the agents, or secrets and environment variables

> I did not enable the share_crew setting. I placed a breakpoint at the location in the OTEL library right before information is transmitted to your server and dumped >the data that was to be transmitted:

> telemetry.json

> crew_agents.json

> crew_tasks.json

> llm.json

> The telemetry data contains:

> Prompts

> Task Descriptions

> Agent Backstories

> Agent Goals

> Contents of the environment variable (base_url of my local ollama server)

See https://github.com/joaomdmoura/crewAI/issues/372#issuecommen...
CarMax / Carvana earn money on promising and delivering a better buying experience. They have other issues (such as missing simple maintenance items and overpricing their extended warranties) but the buying process is shockingly straightforward and upsell free.

None of the last several cars I owned were from a regular dealership buy. One was a private sale. One was an ex-rental, bought from the rental company's sales division. And the last one was from CarMax. Of course, the price was right every time to seal the deal, but articles like these certainly did influence my choice.
A more charitable view is that there are some people that grew up with BBS and then the Internet and it was just a very different place with a culture for which nerds could sort of call home and now it is decidedly not that thing and it can be kind of sad for some people.
In my experience building a fintech on Evolve this description of the relationship is incorrect. My customers have accounts at Evolve directly and are FDIC insured.

As to what that insurance covers that is indeed a different question.
I didn’t see a link to the App Store. It looks like this is it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unlimited-grid-habit-tracker/i...
> The attack marks the second suffered by Heritage this year. In April, a Heritage official told Politico that the think tank had shut down its network in response to a breach by a nation-state hacking group.

I wonder if it really was a nation state earlier? Or if that was just the least embarrassing group to blame?
"Trust no one... even yourself"
It’s just a fact that in the US that any item over a particular cost is not a fixed cost item. There’s always room for negotiation. It’s not awesome for those bad at haggling but it is what it is and it’s not limited to cars.
i split my blogs (see my bio) for these reasons. people need to know what theyre getting in order to subscribe. if you have the volume of output to support multiple blogs, then do it (most people cannot)
Exactly - most people, including the parent poster, have never worked with a misinfo researcher
Is this different anywhere else?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/cell-phones-people-subway-...
In the market for a new car and our experience at four dealerships has forced us to choose between Rivian or Tesla, simply because of its DTC model (and, importantly, shipping better EVs).

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

I wonder if traditional auto cos are aware of the opportunity cost of dealerships. The cost is growing
what does fixie do these days?
Hold on. Did they ditch their in house framework that’s supposed to be better than React? The one that rhymes with welt? I’m confused.
I was visiting family and logged on to a neighbors insecure wifi one time to get in my work vpn. I couldn’t connect to the vpn and I noticed I could easily get into their router, so I did and changed an MTU setting on it and voila back in business. :)
There is a push, which has been around for decades, to measure how effective teaching is for a school system taking in taxpayer dollars. This is measured via standardized tests. The tests are generally passed via testing and repetition. Often this becomes the metric for measuring teacher, principal, superintendent performance and school funding. So these authorities begin having the students memorize, do repetition and testing - and testing not to guide a student's progress, but to reward or punish them. The school authorities have the students due this to pass the standardized tests, at the behest of those who have authority over the school authorities and want measurement.

So then the question is, is this the best way to learn in general? You can read studies of education including John Dewey's from over a century ago to see that it is not. The purpose of the education system is not to educate, but to do this thing described in the first paragraph. Nowadays the public schools are contending with charter schools, vouchers and the like, so there's a more injection of profit, religious fundamentalism and the like in the educational taxes people pay than there was a few decades ago.
You say it with cynicism, but ultimately React jobs pay better vs jobs which require only common HTML/CSS skills. Why wouldn't programmers want to pursue better paying/more readily available jobs?
Cant watch from my location, just want to know if he is the inspiration for the blind character in my favourite movie, Contact.
There’s plenty of real world usecases that demand high interactivity async views. They should be a small subset of the page but there will always be demand for that sort of real time UX that pure static apps can’t provide. Pretending otherwise at a large company like NYTIMES that has multiple properties with hundreds of millions of visitors is unserious. They aren't running a simple blog or just a newspaper.

I believe React/Vue will ultimately be replaced by recent modern developments using websockets to trigger the delivery of server side static async views. This is how Github/Shopify now does it, ala Elixir's LiveView, and Rails itself also has ActionCable+Turbo/Hotwire. It is far superior as it keeps logic in one place in the backend and in one language. But that is far from mainstream yet like React is and there will always be legacy features that need to be supported.

But hopefully it will become the standard and JS will limited to necessity.

For ex: some components on pages like charts/graphs, multi select boxes with autocomplete, etc will still require JS that websocket/ajax triggered views can't replace. But those are easier to package into standard libraries. Whether reactive vDOM will still be needed for that idk.
It’s easier to add/maintain features and more performant than vanilla js
A generalist programmer will not have the chops to build interactive visualizations such as what the New York Times develops.

Consider that backbone.js was developed by Jeremy Ashkenas to solve problems the NYT had with its layout. Perhaps the problems they have are more complex than what you suspect?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqNFHGU3GM
I appreciate it . Thanks.
I was a little disappointed they didn’t include a picture of Tokyo Station in Chiyoda. The place is incredible – the original building is over 100 years old, the complex connects the Yamanote line with half a dozen other lines including Shinkansen that go across Japan, and the retail areas put many American airports to shame.
It "mentions interactives" in the sense that they say they don't use React for the interactives, and half of the article is about all the problems with embedding the non-React interactives in the React page.
In that case, could you clarify what instances of this you're referring to?

The death of Citra wasn't really a deliberate action on the part of Nintendo, it was collateral damage. Citra was started by Yuzu developers and as part of the settlement they were not able to continue working on it. Citra's development had long been for the most part taken over by different developers, but the Yuzu people were still hosting the online infrastructure and had ownership of the GitHub repository, so they took all of it down. Some of the people who were maintaining Citra before the lawsuit opened up a new repository, but development has slowed down considerably because the taking down of the original repository has caused an unfortunate splintering of the community into many different forks.

There is some speculation Nintendo was involved with the death of the Nintendo 64 emulator UltraHLE a long time back, but this was never confirmed. If indeed they did go after UltraHLE, then this would just like Yuzu be a case of them taking down an emulator for a console they were still profiting from, as UltraHLE was released in 1999.

The most famous example of companies going after emulators is Sony, which went after Connectix Virtual Game Station and Bleem!. Both were PS1 emulators released in 1999, a period during which Sony was still very much profiting from PS1 sales. Sony lost both lawsuits and hasn't gone after emulators since.

In 2017, Atlus tried to take down the Patreon page for RPCS3, a PS3 emulator. However, Atlus only went after the Patreon page, not the emulator itself, which they did because of their use of Persona 5 screenshots on said page. The screenshots were simply taken down and the Patreon page was otherwise left alone. Of note is that Atlus is a game developer, so they were never profiting from PS3 sales. However, they were certainly still profiting from Persona 5 sales, which had only released in 2016.

These are the only examples I can remember. Did I miss anything?
Yes and no. Ultimately there's about 5-10% of wiggle room. I would prefer not to spend an entire day in a dealership in a sales brinksmanship scenario for a 10% discount.
You don't need a microscopic image of a disc to do that; a two-dimensional photograph is of essentially no advantage here.

All you need is the unmolested data from that disc. The data is arranged on a singular spiral groove starting from the center and slowly winding its way towards the outside.

The data is completely linear: It begins at the beginning, and continues to the very end without interruption. This is all akin to (although opposite of) how a single-track vinyl record is physically laid out. The entire CD -- whatever it contains -- is just a continuous string of pits and lands.

And to observe that string as it appears on a real disc, all you need to get started is a regular old-school CD player and some appropriate data acquisition gear, and maybe an oscilloscope to help figure out what you're looking at.

The optics and basic motor controls are already solved problems, and it doesn't even have to be particularly fast data acquisition gear by today's standards to record what is happening.
This is true of virtually all service experiences these days. Service tech shortage.
Sad is pretty different than angry and bitter, but I think I get what you are laying down.
The New York Times never used Svelte for their main website code AFAIK. Instead, it's used for one-off interactive graphics within individual articles. (The article touches on this when they discuss how React 18 hydration changes broke the mechanism they were using to load these one-off widgets.)
on the contrary, they were almost always the companies with the lowest stock price in relation to their dividend payout.
https://archive.ph/caK9m
macOS has done this in recent versions. Similarly it will do all the virtual background and bokeh stuff for webcams outside of the (typically horrific) implementations in video conferencing apps.
If it only copies code that has been widely stolen already then that's a lot weaker of a case and is something they can do a lot to prevent on a technical level.
How can framework bloat (my emphasis) be faster than vanilla js?

I monitor the first paint on many sites, and the more js the later the paint. None can beat a normal site with some js niceties that trigger on dom ready.
At this stage, a MAP [Membership Action Plan] offer would be seen not as a technical step along a long road toward membership, but as throwing down the strategic gauntlet.

You understand that in fact the MAPs to Ukraine and Georgia were never issued -- and hence, that this "strategic gauntlet" (which according you is what really started the war) was never "thrown" -- right?
> Plus you'll get sunburned just sitting in the car since the roof is glass.

This is completely false. All auto glass is UV rated.

Have any sources at all that show "no stalks" is more dangerous?
Gladly! I’d go so far as to even say I was articulate.
What would be interesting is if you could find a way to scrape only the deltas and then somehow reconcile them into the full scrape.
Moving a few things around means your internal process already had copywrite infringement.
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