skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 years? Not really. Pretty much any Japanese car made in the last 20 years, and domestic in the last 8 should last 10 years; 100/150k before anything major is needed.

But, to run the numbers, get a the total cost of ownership (car payment, interest, and non-warranty or whatever maintenance) for a new/virtually new car, divide it over a span of the expected months of ownership (say, 60, 120, 180 months).

Do the same for a $5,000-$10,000 quality used car that you can pay with cash.

The hard part is estimating repair and maintenance costs, especially for non-car-persons. But I believe that car reliability is so good for recent cars that it's wasteful to purchase new.

eg:

$20,000 new car

36 month loan @ 2% = $28,072.59

Estimated average maintenance/year: $500

TCO 60/120/180: $30.5k/$33k/$35.5

$7,000 used car

Estimated maintenance/year: $1,000

TCO 60/120/180: $12k/$17k/$22k

Now an older car will generally cost more over time, eventually, than a new one. But every 10 years or so it's much cheaper to purchase a used one.

And if your stereo is replaceable you can get a rear-view camera hooked up if you desire. They also have wonky standalone ones.
Macs are OK standalone machines, I guess, but client-side caching plus roaming profiles and folder redirection are _the_ killer Windows features for me. The macOS UX for mobile users just isn't as good, and there isn't anything even close to equivalent on FreeBSD/Linux. Now, if only more Windows apps would stop putting caches and temp files in %APPDATA% or installing stuff in %USERPROFILE%... that's what %LOCALAPPDATA% is for! (Firefox, Factorio, npm, maven---I'm talking about you, among many others.)
> cats lacking the ability to synthesize taurine

Where, in the wild, do find their plentiful taurine?
IIRC, it is opt-in for Google Photos (something like Photos -> Settings -> Group Faces), but that's you the uploader consenting, not the person whose's face it is opting in. The person in the photo need not even have an online presence at all, so there's no way to actually ask them for permission. (In FB's case, they can do it if the other person is a FB user)

What's your definition of biometric data? if I cluster by eye-color, is that biometric data? "Show me everyone with green eyes". Have a run afoul?
The risk now is BGP hijacking. Or really just normal operation of BGP. You data could go anywhere on the planet on its way to the destination and you're not going to know ahead of time what path any particular packet will take.

If you're using TLS, it doesn't matter so much if the exit node is malicious because they still won't be able to read it.
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Not true. Hardware is still a massive issue. How many 15" 16:10 (or better aspect ratio) PC laptops can you name?

I can name only ONE. The Ms surface book 2 which came like a year ago. Everything else has an unusable 16:9 screen. I bought the MBP retina 2015 just for the nice 16:10 screen.
Aaaaand... you lost me at "virtue signaling". You make a pretty solid point, but the smug right-wing terminology hurts it, because now I know you have a bias and might be against this on principle, rather than because of the point you are trying to make.

Using "virtue signaling" is the "virtue signaling" of the right.
A better solution would be a modular battery that slides out on a rolling platform. Pull up to battery station, roll out old battery, roll in new battery. Drive.
Leave it alone! Github pricing is perfect for all incomes. They'll slap on a few features, create a tiered payment system and charge $20 for the first tier.

100% will take my code somewhere else if this acquisition goes through. Go acquire Atlassian if you want to "diversify" your portfolio. Go stick it up your Azure MS.
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I agree and I would feel that same way if it were any other large tech company.

So many nice products have passed on in acquisition either because users abandoned them or the acquiring party did. I'm not sure which would happen first here.

If GitHub is financially strapped and looking for a buy out, I hope they're exploring other options for funding.
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> solid plastic wheelie

The local squirrels drill right through that "solid plastic" in moments to get at the goodies inside. I put my garbage in an old fashioned galvanized can, and transfer it to the company toter only on pickup day.
When I was a kid I went on a vacation with my family to a cabin by a lake. A man living in nearby had a pet crow. The crow would get cosy around our dining table outside trying to grab some food, so my mother chased it away once. After that for the next 2 weeks we stayed there whenever my mother would hang laundry to dry outside the crow would fly over and take a shit on my mother's clothes. There were 5 people in the family, but the crow would somehow always pick my mother's clothes. It was fascinating for me, that the bird was as intelligent as it was vengeful. This is a true story.
Playing the devil's advocate here, but some of the forced updates come as a result of problems found in telemetry data...

But I generally agree, I want my OS to ask me every time it wants to send a crashdump (or anything else).
I can ecpecially relate to the part where intuitively obvious things were probably invented for intuitively obvious reasons, then the derivation was thrown away and the thing was described axiomatically like the blind man describes an elephant.

The non-explanation of the determinant in my linear algebra textbook was especially infuriating: "There is this thing, right? We will later see its uses. It happens to have the following properties: ..., If you swap two columns its sign changes, ..."
I'm not sure about the comparison itself... I've tried DDG several times, I search for technical things in generic ways a lot. DDG almost never gives me what I want in the first page. Google almost always does.
> By passing this on to Mozilla and discontinuing Tor Browser, you're going to inherit the innumerable issues in their code base.

What issues exactly? Tor Browser = Firefox ESR + some patches + some other stuff and tweaks. Before the release of the next ESR TB devs rebase and submit these patches to mainline Firefox, that's why you have prefs like privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.firstparty.isolate in mainline Firefox, see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
I'd be curious to know how small the "small investors" are.

Also, smaller investors can ride the coattails of larger lawsuits, if those are successful. Findings that Theranos fails to refute in those trials can be used against Theranos by subsequent parties, under the res judicata doctrine (specifically, collateral estoppel).
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It's not a simple hypothesis, and it's extremely lazy pedagogy. It's not a reasonable guess if you can't establish any reasoning that would lead you to it, and even if you could, in a textbook, I expect your guesses to be more than reasonable, I expect them to be actually reasoned.
>Better Window Management

YES! Please add native Snap in MacOS (and native Exposé in Windows).
765 vehicles per 100 people has to be a typo.

816 per 1000 sounds reasonable when you consider how many are childern, live in big cities, are in the military, etc... There are some pretty big classes of people who own no vehicles whatsoever.

If you look at married suburban households the number will almost certainly be over 2. The most common case involves one person driving to work while the other shuffles kids around or has their own job. The public transport option may exist, but is likely inadequate (excessively slow) and undesirable.
That's a rather condescending reply, lecturing her like a schoolchild. Funding space research is one thing, but spending $billions on poor designs like the Shuttle is another and on expensive American lifestyles is another.
What was the lesson?
What's going to be lost?
With an unusable 16:9 screen. And with Lenovo's tendency to put in some of the worst looking, cheapest screens. Yuk.
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>The number one thing you worry about with a launch vehicle is not ISP, it's the tyranny of the rocket equation.

The rocket equation doesn't account for thrust. It's terms are mass and ISP (or exhaust velocity).

>If this tech lowers the weight of the first stage, it might actually RAISE the ISP of the rocket overall, even if it lowers the ISP of the engine itself.

ISP is depends only on exhaust velocity. Changing the mass of the rocket cannot effect it.
All the examples (people and neighborhood names, the question about the salwar suit) sound South Asian to me, so maybe it's launching first in India?
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I think your math is a bit off. 11.5 million what? There's only 369,300 electric cars in CA currently. That's about $2k per car being invested.

Plus, this isn't the limit of the charging infrastructure spend. It's just a one-off budget approval. There can (and will!) be more invested.

I think a billion dollar investment in something like this is a great start.
How is the FTC/SEC not involved?
I don't need an app to send email or shop on Amazon either, yet here we are.
I guess the new aspect is the attempt to make it a mass movement. Not just something that Gates family does and everyone else goes "well, it's their choice how they spend their own money", but something that average people talk about.

Also, the outsourcing of research. If Gates Foundation wants to donate their millions effectively, they can use a part of the budget to find out what are the most effective ways to help. If an average person wants to donate $100, that's not enough budget to also include research. Now the person with $100 can simply read some Effective Altruist websites and follow their recommendations; thus getting the advantage of research they would not be able to finance themselves.
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Man, I disagree with about everything from this opinion. And I hate that I have this urge to write out the point-to-point rebuking:

+ "Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep." : Really? Are we playing the "let's redefine everything so that it works out like I say" game now?

+ "You’re not going to get rich renting out your time." : the top 1% of Americans are dominated with doctors and lawyers who, guess what, rent out their time.

+ "You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get." : The concept of "first-mover disadvantage" should really solve this. Look, Palm produced a smartphone, and Apple also produces smartphone; Apple make trillions, Palm died. The society clearly want smartphone. Why did Apple succeed but Palm failed?

+ "Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you." : please see above for doctors and lawyers, whom are all trained by the society. Plus, if other humans (i.e. the society) can't train you, who does? God sends angels to you?

+ "Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now." : And if you are interested in, says, building rafts (or horse-drawn carriage, or any of these things), you will get rich so fast that your stomach will starve.

+ "Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others." : sigh. Right.

+ "The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon." : Ummm. One, Trump brand and accountability have adverse relationship. Two, some of the most rewarded people on earth don't do business in their names. Bill Gates used Microsoft, in case you forget. Corporations exist for a reason.

+ "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." : Yes, and the best vendors always win! And Windows is the greatest OS on earth! And Facebook is the best social network! You get my sarcasm.

So, conclusion?

My father taught me this, which I believe to be true: small wealth is by hardwork, great wealth is by Heaven. If you want to be affluent, be industrious at work, be acceptable to society, be prudent in finance; and you will eventually get there. If you want to get richie rich rich, well, pray (plus all of the things for little wealth). This kind of "I get lucky now I will give stupid advices" things really should go away.
Talk. Google Code. Google sites (technically still around). Google desktop (so awesome, really miss this).
There is nothing wrong with a space cowboy western, and in fact that's one of the reason people love the original trilogy: plenty of original (for the time) action, good guys on one side and BIG BAD guys on the other, so it is easy to takes sides, add some cheap mysticism (the "force" stuff) and the redemption of the baddest of the bad guys.

Not the most original of the plots [1], but good enough and simple enough that most people can enjoy it. That's not the issue with the current state of Star Wars in my opinion. Also for most people Star Wars is the movies so the issue about what is canon and whats is not is moot [2]: for them it is canon if it appears in one of the trilogies.

I have three other different issues with the current trilogy (and in general Disney's approach to Star Wars).

The first is that the current trilogy is just more of the same. The Force Awakens to me looks more like a reboot of the original movie than a sequel. The Last Jedi is a bit better but only because it looks a reboot of the whole original trilogy: I think that a better name would have been "The Empire strikes the return of the last jedi", and that would even describe the most relevant parts of the movie perfectly.
In a way the prequel trilogy is better: while it is not up to par with the original trilogy, I like the contrast between a world where Jedis are available by the dozen (for example see when the jedis come to save the main characters in the arena) versus a world where there are two "bad" force users (Darth Vader and the Emperor) and two "good" force users (Luke and, for a while, Ben Kenobi).

The second issue is more general, and it is related to the fact that regardless of the quality of the content, the more movies you make about a topic or a "universe" the less value the single movie has.
Even worse, after a given threshold I won't even watch any movie about the genre because I fear that if I don't see all of them I will miss something. I feel that way about the gazillion of Marvel/DC Comics movies, I feel the same about Star Trek (I only know about the original serie, but I don't have time to see _all_ the episode that I missed) and I fear one day I will feel the same about Star Wars.

[1] Also it seems Star Wars got many idea from other movies. My favorite is the one about getting inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO from the main characters of Kurosawa's "the hidden fortress", though after seeing the movies I would say the resemblance is only in "the character of the characters"

[2] I have to admit that I played to some of the games, and I think that KOTOR has a story that is much better that Star Wars original story. THAT is something I would love to see a movie about.
Vast majority by land area. Per person it isn't so clear cut. Many people live in the city and don't own a car because using a car in the city is somewhat impractical and the public transport options are sufficient.
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The forum I run only bans IP addresses caught posting link-spam. Which, admittedly, asymptotically approached 100% of Tor exit nodes before I instituted more rapid ban-expiration. I added faster ban-expiration after hearing from some of my privacy-conscious users that Tor had become unusable for my forum.
This looks really cool, and something I've wished had existed in the past. Have you thought of doing unions with a syntax like this, following after languages like Crystal, TS, Elm, etc?

class A
sig(foo: TrueClass | FalseClass).returns(String)
def bar(foo)
foo.to_s
end
end

The T.any(…) syntax seems very … verbose, for Ruby at least. And Ruby doesn't have a true "boolean" class (it has TrueClass/FalseClass), so that would be riddled everywhere unless you created a boolean type yourself. Same for indifferent hashes, i.e. a hash with keys of type T.any(String, Symbol).
"Mathematics is a part of physics."

Try telling that to a statistician, or a computer scientist, or an economist, or....

I think it's worth noting that category theory, which was initially derided as abstract nonsense even by other mathematicians, is now a central field of study in math and is also becoming a major part of theoretical physics. If we only studied things that are immediately applicable to some particular science, we would not be able to advance the sciences as quickly as we can now.

I'm not that wild about the Bourbaki style of exposition, which does emphasize rigor over intuition, but I think that there is a lot of value in having students go through that phase. Terry Tao has a good explanation of why at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-..., and I'd encourage anyone interested in the topic to read it.
You bet, haha. I don't think it's a useful reaction, but it's my reaction.
Yes but I want my upvote to mean something therefore I to read the article before hand.
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Great news !

With wider adoption of ipv6 and all the good things that come with it (don't mistake me, they are great!) also comes the risk that each computer will get a uniquely identifiable IP address that will be used for fingerprinting. I've never really used Tor in the past, but this got me thinking about it.

An option could be to provide a webRTC-based node, but I am not sure how feasible that would be, after reading some comments here. Maybe for entry nodes and guard nodes instead of exit nodes? The transient nature of browser sessions could greatly enhance privacy. Of course, you would need some algorithms to deal with this very nature... But I can imagine some.

This surely lowers the barrier to entry for greatly enhanced privacy. Quite a lot of people seem to be aware of the private browsing mode, and I can imagine this being turned into a simple toggle on the private browsing home page, along with a short explanation (and a link to additional privacy tips).

A low hanging fruit that could enhance the privacy a bit would be to use the trusted recursive resolver (DNS over https) in private browsing by default, since it already is part of Firefox. It just needs a default trusted resolver.
Many people mention Microsoft's past history as reasons for worrying about this. However, I disagree. I don't think this would be bad because it's Microsoft.

I think it would be bad because GitHub wouldn't be a generally independent entity, with no business interests besides making a product good enough that people will pay for it anymore. Currently, GitHub doesn't really have any incentive to care what tools and platform you are using, or where you deploy your code. To the contrary, they want to appeal to the widest audience possible.

This would all change if owned by Microsoft. GitHubs role would then instead likely instead be to channel users into other Microsoft products and services, especially Azure. Instead of functionality that benefits everyone independent of platform, it will be in their interest to add features that only benefit users of the Microsoft ecosystem. Azure CI, deploy to Azure, .NET integration, LinkedIn integration. I don't think this is the kind of platform most FOSS projects would want to use, certainly not me.
Unless they're going to leverage their monopoly in Search or Android to get into this business, Nextdoor doesn't have anything to worry about. Google doesn't have a history of releasing products that succeed organically.

And they probably will, but that's why the EU's antitrust cases against Google are so important!
Topping my wishlist would be for Apple to not have to put every product in the same "fashion bauble" category and consider pro, workhorse computers to be a different type of thing with different criteria. Both the Mac Pro and the MacBOOK Pro should be treated as workhorses, not show horses, and optimized for practical usefulness. Less emphasis on looking thinner and more fashionable and more on keyboards that feel great and go on working just fine when splashed with bacon & eggs, thrown in a backpack, dragged around on a desert adventure, lots of convenient connectors, maxed out on battery power, useful buttons instead of gimmicky touchbar, and so on.

My wish would be that actual computer users could look forward with excitement, the way we used to, at what new improvements were about to become available rather than dreading what they'll "courageously" take away next.
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So I searched [1] Bugzilla and found 51 issues, none of which are from the last 2 years. There really just isn't an issue with GCC/clang incompatibility with the standard.

The issues that are still open [2] are practically all either a dev didn't test with GCC and got away with things they shouldn't have in clang, or dealing with Apple's ancient version of GCC.

I think this "monoculture" thing is really about MSVC being not that great, which I sympathize with, and which everyone who's ever used MSVC for C or C++ has discovered. But that shouldn't be an excuse to stop using GCC, which is an excellent compiler and has been for generations.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc=gcc&reso...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=gcc
Or reminders that reliably synced across Mac/phones. It works _most_ of the time, but there's at least 4 or 5 times a week I open one of my macs and it reminds me to call my mother even though that was checked off my list.. four days ago.