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> Not everything requires pessimistic transactional guarantees or atomicity.

They are easier to give up after the fact than to try to regain after the fact.

> If I'm solving for something where data consistency is not an utmost priority (tons of applications meet this criteria, including the one you are using now HN.) I don't have to worry about this.

Sure. But wait for the pain. Prove the business need to relax the guarantees and the business acceptance of the risks.

> So it ends up being a choice of consistency over availability.

Total partitions are relatively rare and so disruptive that even if the magical datastore keeps chugging, everything else is mostly boned, so it doesn't matter. Meanwhile people tend to discover that actually, consistency mattered all along, but it's impossible to fix in retrospect.

Then there's the whole thing of bold claims being made in theory and not delivered in reality. RDBMSes, with the exception of MySQL which is close to being singlehandedly responsible for the emergence of NoSQL in the first place, tend to actually deliver on what they promise. The record for the alternatives is mixed, the fine print varies wildly and tends to leave out important details like "etcd split brains if you sneeze too loudly" or "mongodb is super fast, unless you want your data back".
That's impressive, but fundamentally hybrids are a dead-end. They're more (not less) complex than pure internal-combustion cars, and they still need fossil fuel. Ten years from now there won't be any hybrids for sale; all cars will either be purely electric or special-purpose IC. Not that Toyota doesn't already realize this, but it puts Tesla's vision ahead for now in my opinion.
But wait, the image shows ~$600 million. So $30K is small.

Maybe that ~$600 million isn't in USD?
I appreciate how dedicated GitLab is to continuously improving the product. Thinking about moving my projects from Bitbucket to GitLab for that reason.
Why is the minimum-wage proposal a good idea?
Apple’s business model is not to sell your data. Apple’s business model is to sell you hardware.

Google (Android) sell your data to the advertisers.

You are totally mixing up open/closed source projects and business models.
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Arms control seems to me to be the right path for this. I don’t want a future where increasingly deadly weapons are more and more readily accessible. The fact that it’s an otherwise legal firearm precludes a bit of the slippery slope argument (IE what if it were plans for a $200 missile launcher?), but the untraceability of the guns creates a problem that the law enforcement system doesn’t really have the tools to deal with yet, and I think that is what keeps most people who aren’t gun activists worried.

A way I think about it is if I look 100 years into the future, there are energy weapons or auto tracing bullets or autoturrets with aimhax, would those be acceptable for anyone to build? Availability creates danger - someone has a psychotic break and builds up a bunch of guns in their garage and drops 200 people before they’re shot dead.

I wish we could get rid of this Wild West mentality - it is entirely possible to build a world in which guns are unnecessary in most anyone’s day to day life.
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I can't say enough good things about Firebase and GCP in general, but I'm always cautious when using Firestore in particular. I usually avoid unbounded queries altogether, and treat it primarily as a key/value store to get by id.

When I do use queries, it's always in places where the results have a well-defined limit (usually limit = 1), e.g. finding the most recent X or the highest X.

With the above two, you get all the greatness of Firestore, but with a well-defined (low) cost that you can calculate ahead of time.
The other thing that Tesla's naysayers still don't get is that

A Tesla (any model) is the most fun street-legal car ever built

Full stop, no caveats. American muscle cars from the 60s weren't this responsive. No German car is this responsive. You just have to drive one to understand.
Very good point. I haven't actually used WeChat, but so far as I know you have to explicitly opt-in by adding the brand as a contact. There are valid non-spam use-cases (e.g. Amazon order updates) and it would be an unobtrusive monetization strategy.
If you think that's cool, check out the AdGuard app for Android. It handles not just browser traffic, but traffic from every app. Not the one from the Play Store, but the one from their website -- the Play version is crippled. It'll block all those undesirable connections for the entire device, and it's GUI makes it super easy.

It is not free, however, but I believe they offer a trial still.

On my last Android device, after months of usage, I was blocking on average about 40% of all traffic on my phone -- most of that to trackers and ad networks. On Android it seems like most every app is sucking away at your device, almost none of the tracking and ad network activity is voluntary or opt-in.
>The last linchpin imo for uber will be something like uber pool with better dedicated routes.

They already launched a feature called Express Pool in some areas (at least the Bay Area) which does something like that: it's like Pool, but you might need to walk a little bit from/to your final destination. The routes aren't fixed, but the spirit of the idea is the same.
Is there a place for benchmarks where we can discover the “best” SSDs? I find their performance varies wildly.
I don't know you guys either! Just thought it was an interesting post to share.
Lubuntu is taking a new direction
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> If you're not sure what it is, you offline it

I've literally never worked at nor heard of an employer that tried this. You have a case study example? You seriously think IT departments are in the business of finding an archiving the contents of every random PC on the network?
Compare from the article: "I Promise will feature longer school days, a non-traditional school year, and greater access to the school, its facilities, and its teachers during down time for students. That’s a formula aimed at replicating some of the at-home support children may be missing when it comes to schoolwork."

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"Before you can reach a point of effectiveness in defending your own children or your principles against the assault of blind social machinery, you have to stop conspiring against yourself by attempting to negotiate with a set of abstract principles and rules which, by its nature, cannot respond. Under all its disguises, that is what institutional schooling is, an abstraction which has escaped its handlers. Nobody can reform it. First you have to realize that human values are the stuff of madness to a system; in systems-logic the schools we have are already the schools the system needs; the only way they could be much improved is to have kids eat, sleep, live, and die there."
> I'm yet to see a TV with USB C inputs.

That is not how Apple works, the reason they do such drastic changes like dropping support for floppy/cd drives, usb A ports is because they want to move the industry forward.
TOTP tokens can absolutely be intercepted. A MITM attack can work like this:

1) User inputs username and pw into spurious site.

2) Spurious site prompts for the user's TOTP token.

3) Spurious site proceeds to immediately log in to the real site w/ username, pw, and valid TOTP token.

4) Bad guys get an HTTP session cookie which for many sites lasts practically indefinitely.
I think you're being a bit harsh to the individual drivers here. My dad was a yellow cab driver in NYC, lots of drivers, like my dad, were immigrants and owning / renting out a medallion was seen as the equivalent to owning your own home as a nest egg. I totally agree that taxi companies were colluding with government to create regulatory capture that was deservedly busted by innovation, but lots of families have been hurt by the drop in medallion prices. Many drivers have committed suicide. I'm disappointed that NYC didn't take the deal.
I doubt it will mean the extinction of humanity, but unless a couple of miracles happen it will mean the end of our current industrial civilization.

If we had started working on this 40 years ago reaching zero emissions would be a realistic goal today, but even that is not enough now. Not only we need to reach zero emissions ASAP, but we also need strong negative emissions. And after that we need to figure out how to slow down the feedbacks (Arctic ice melting, methane, etc).

Maybe if ALL humanity was working towards those goals we would have a chance, but it's not even a priority for the vast majority of humans.
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Or, if it's from someone I don't like anyways or want others to dislike/disregard: manipulative.
Seem to? The entire middle class was built this way. See: FHA, student loans.
> I don't understand why this hasn't been all over the front-page of HN

Probably because the discussion is entirely political, and political discussions on public forums rarely end well.

> This is pretty clearly a freedom of speech issue

Would you also support someone publishing instructions on building your very own nuclear weapon? If not, where do you draw the line between 'free speech' and 'free speech that is very likely to end in tears'?

I'm generally very much against limiting the spread of information, but I believe there are some things that we humans are not mature enough as a species to have freely available. Hell, we're not even mature enough when it's restricted.
Whatever the case, as someone inside Google, I’d urge you to resist this effort like many of your colleagues did with Project Maven.

Helping the Chinese government consolidate power by censoring information and silencing dissidents (among whatever else they’ll end up doing within the context of this partnership), is a dark road to go down. It will also undoubtedly set a dangerous precedent that will be demanded by like-minded regimes outside China.
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TIL what a 'dentry' is!
How bizarre that such a primitive technique could be banned. You’d think elaborate fishing lures and rods would also be illegal if using your hands is wrong.
No idea. For what I know the royal family owns the whole nation and all the "serves" on them. They --on paper-- only allow the democracy to do its thing until the decide it is enough. That they are afraid to do so because of an imminent revolution, it just speculation. On paper it is clear, they still own our asses, the land, and all what we own. And less then half the swedes supports them.
I ended up replacing my home router last weekend. Had the age old decision: openwrt, or dd-wrt? I'm still not convinced that openwrt/lede does a good job explaining why it's a better choice. I went back to dd-wrt, but mostly because I'm familiar with it. I wonder if they could do with a better "marketing" attempt on their landing page? On re-reading https://openwrt.org/start - I think I may switch back.. but I wonder how many others did the same.
From what I understand, AWS at least is pretty good about giving you at least one "get out of jail free" card if things go awry.

Caps are tough though. I can certainly understand a use case that would want a hard circuit breaker that just kills everything it can once it hits a certain threshold. Sort of; you presumably don't want everything on S3, for example, to be deleted.

On the other hand, moving up the scale of serious businesses, I can imagine it would be hard to specify circuit breakers (rather than just alerts) and you get into issues of terminating services that affect all sorts of other services across the entire account.
Thanks for actually reading, unlike the parent.
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Affiliate programs are sometimes yanked out of the hands of people making big money on a individual basis. I read about a fellow that was making something like $100K per month from the amazon affiliate program and then one day without cause or reason it was revoked on that guy. Imagine having an insane lifestyle like that and then suddenly losing it.

There really isn't anything you can do to make your old business model work. Maybe you can sell your website.

It can be dangerous to rely on a 500 lb gorilla.
and what prevents you from becoming another SaaS (or whatever-you-do-aaS to your customers as much as it can be service-tized?
How do you take real estate out of the country?
It ran Symbian didn't it?
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Do you believe a person can only be “actually evil” if they consider themselves evil?

I think when one person describes another person as evil they usually mean “this person has values to which they are attached - and those are evil values.”
Is there any example of an open source software company that has taken on so many products at once, so early in its life, and succeeded?
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Do any of you know of a site that does this? Something even as simple as a table organized by keyword (e.g. blockchain) and posts that include the word.
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Hewitt is now kind of a crank. When Hofstadter came over for the Symsys thing in Stanford a few years back, Hewitt handed Hofstadter a little sheet of paper saying that mere contradiction allowed axiomatic systems to transcend Godel incompleteness theorems. Hofstadter: "Thanks, Carl." and then he threw it away when Hewitt wasn't looking. I think there's a thread in Lambda the Ultimate.
I said "comfortably", which implies that it should not threaten your retirement in any way. That is entirely dependent of one's individual situation, whereas the parent poster was making a blanket statement about such a choice being a "laughably poor decision".

I agree that keeping in mind and taking care of your retirement is necessary, but I personally would not want to go through my entire life without the very occasional splurging on things that are a pleasure now, if the numbers work out well. Having only ever the end in sight is a pretty sorry way to live, in my view.

The car (not a Tesla) is paid off, I treat its value as "lost" (even though in this particular case it has not actually gone down in value), and I'm sure that I will look at it and especially the project ideas it spawned in fondness, rather in regret of the loss of some additional compound interest. Granted, I'm not in my 20s, though.

My comparisons were over the top, but vacations for example can add up to a lot over time, and they usually don't leave anything behind in terms of assets.
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It's not unparalleled. We literally did the same thing in the months leading up to WW2[1] and we're doing it today with Crimea/Russia.

It's appeasement. It's easier to do because it just delays the inevitable conflict, though history has shown multiple times that it always ends in bloody conflict..
In the case with China, we're plugging our ears and looking the other way while they prepare to stomp all over the South China sea and Taiwan.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement#Conduct_of_appease...
I have only seen it used to evaluate some integrals in a few papers via Residue Theorem, so maybe I should have said Residue theorem instead of contour integration. I am sure there were other methods that the authors could have used, but I was sure glad to know of contour integration then. I'd say some complex analysis still deserves to be on the list to have a base understanding of Fourier transforms. Of course, you can arrive there without complex analysis.
You need to be careful if you use this in the US. As far as I know, job ads specifically targeting new grads can be seen as illegal since they may be discriminating against 40+ year olds.
Well, a rogue line could potentially as much shut down your app hosted in DO.
This is in line with what I was thinking. The constitution is not a suicide pact, and at some point we're going to say you can't distribute certain knowledge. (How to destroy the world in one easy step).

Give that, there's going to be lots of debate where to draw the line, and that's ok. But arguing that there can't ever be a line is the kind of thing which gets people into untenable positions.
It's arguably a violation of the human rights of the people who are being targeted. Not everyone who works at Google are American, and it's conceivable that someone contributing software to such a project could themselves become a drone target, depending on their nationality.
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The problem is that in order to maintain their position as an app everyone can communicate on, they need everyone paying the subscription fee. Once people realize not everyone is on the app, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

There’s a huge difference in the number of people willing to pay for an app “that I can connect to everyone with” and those willing to pay for an app “that I can connect to only the other people willing to pay $1 for”.
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In Canada and in US absolutely.
They are not allowed to discriminate based on destination, length, let alone race, etc.

Nevertheless, I take taxis many times a week for work in Ottawa (Canadian Capital), and they regularly refuse rides they deem too short or too long (or, grudgingly accept them and complain or yell the entire time). This is #1 reason I've used Uber last year, because it's a more civil, pleasant, safe experience (work covers expenses so cost is a non-issue, and Taxi would in principle be more convenient as they're waiting at the hotel).
It's interesting that one of these things had a major financial meltdown last decade and the other is well on its way (student loans).

Coincidence?
...well, of course it's worse at locality. It doesn't track your location. It fundamentally can't do locality without not being DuckDuckGo.
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This is going to be a labour of love for someone–this pay rate is not at all competitive for Toronto. That said, I'd love to do it if I had the skills! It sounds like a really awesome project.
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I didn't go to an Ivy League university, or even a university in the USA, but I still understood what a problem set is.

I've been out of university too long to know what they called homework (plus I never did it, hence my B- average), but problem set sounds about right.
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