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Compared to other operating systems? Not that many problems. The printer queues do not magically disappear, or refuse to work for some unknown reason, which of course they will not tell you.

There are always both more and less problematic pieces of hardware. Given the forum where we discuss, it is reasonable to assume, that we both know which are which, and make a reasonable effort to avoid the former.

If doesn't always work: at home, I have an older Samsung MFD, which uses the older splix driver, and it works great. Due to that experience, I've got another Samsung printer for the office, but this one is newer and uses the closed-source uld driver. It means, that this printer doesn't work out of the box, driver installation is necessary (after that it will auto-discover anything it should, though). Not that it doesn't work, but it is a minor annoyance. It also means, that I won't be purchasing any Samsung-branded printer in the future (not that it matters, they sold the printer division to HP).

On the other hand, at friends & family, any HP printer, both inkjet and laser, worked out of the box. When I can, I won't be getting any Brother, OKI, Lexmark or another second-tier branded printer, because they were PITA even in 90's and under Windows.

So is it perfect for every piece of hardware? No. But is it that bad, as you said? Also no, that's too much overgeneralization and extrapolation.
Should’ve grabbed keys or something sharp and scratched the screen.
So literally 2 cities. Wildly expensive cities like DC, Seattle, Boston are still highly livable on $1.5 million.

Honestly, if you're regretting your life choices so severely but you're unwilling to live anywhere but NYC/SF, you're either not really regretting your life choices that much, or you're just really bad at making good decisions with your life.
An Exoplanet with an 11-Hour Orbit
Regression to the Mean and the Extravagant Headquarters Effect
Agreed, this was sad to see. Their HDD articles have enough valuable knowledge+expertise to be an effective advertisement for BackBlaze - reading those posts made me revisit using B2 for my own needs.

This article was clickbait. You expect their typical blog post quality, and instead get "An SSD should last as long as its manufacturer expects it to last".

Hope they step it up for the next post (or are not afraid to stay quiet until they have some interesting data to write about)
Ask HN: Should I Leave CA or Keep Looking for a Job?
Me: I'm a 33 year old professional who was laid off last week from their job as a data scientist. I've found a new job at a Fortune 300 company in Minneapolis. However, I'm having second thoughts about accepting it.

Background:

I have lots of savings (100K liquid)

I have cerebral palsy...walk with a limp and use a cane. Moving would suck as I have cerebral palsy and makes life a b

I'm a powerlifter and have a gym/coach in CA. I really want to stay serious about this and keep lifting.

Option 1: Move to Minneapolis

Pro: It's a job in my field

Pro: I've previously lived there and so the winters are something I can tolerate

Con: Relocation is possible, but my disability makes it a challenge

Option 2: Stay in CA

Pro: Keep looking for a new job

Pro: Get to keep my powerlifting coach/gym

Con: Even though I'll have unemployment, I'll be without a job. And there is no guarantee I'll find a job here

Option 3: Other

grad school, become a freelancer, etc
She also managed to get a phd in chemistry!
I'm generally in the same boat as you (I even read my Kindle as I walk to work), with one exception - cleaning the house.

My hands are occupied so I can't hold anything, and it's completely brainless work so I'm free to focus.

I pop in a foreign language podcast and suddenly the time flies by.
I don't want to talk to police just because I was near. Now what. More suspicious? Less suspicious?
Roderick here from Backblaze. This post is not based on our experiences with SSDs in our data centers and is a general article about SSD reliability. At some point in the future we could have enough experience and enough data on SSDs to write about how they perform in our own applications.
We blog on a variety of topics that are aimed at different audiences with different levels of experience. The Drive Stats series is just one of those series, which we will be continuing.
> Maybe this should be called "lifestyle inflation."

It is: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lifestyle-inflation.asp
It's easy to fall prey to the lifestyle creep.

Suddenly your $300k house/apartment is too small, and you aim for one that's 5-10 times more expensive.

Then your cars get more expensive.

You start looking at a summer home.

You get a couple of kids...and they turn out to be extremely expensive:
- Daycare
- Prep-schools
- Private tutors
- Prestigious Universities

Because you want to maximize their chances of success, and have planned their academic life for the next 15-20 years.

It all adds up. And since you're surrounded with peers that live the same lifestyle, you get conditioned that this is all normal.

Here's a personal example, and one that I never, EVER, thought I'd fall for:

I bought my first "real" suit after graduation, and paid $1000 for it. I felt like a real baller, but was also anxious about wearing it. What if I got stains on it, what if some douchebag with a cig bumped into me, what if, etc. I could afford it, sure, but it felt like A LOT of money for a piece of clothing.

Years later, and I'm buying suits 5-6-7 times more expensive. The old $1.5k ones don't feel right - the fabric isn't nice enough, the fit isn't as good, the small details are lacking.

Internally, I rationalize and convince myself that all these small differences are truly making the price (premium) worth it. And since I make good money, it doesn't mater.

But, what if I lost my income? Or had to settle with a "normal" job, making $45k a year? There's no way in hell I could afford spending 10% of my income on one thing. But at the same time, downgrading from luxury like that, and all the way down - it's not even like going from 3-ply to 1-ply TP, it's like going from 3-ply to newspaper.

And that's just for something as trivial as a men's suit. When I was a student, I didn't even own a suit - and had absolutely zero interest or care about wearing one. But then you get put in an environment, and ridiculous things start to get normalized.

I know people that swore to the shittiest of shit lite-beers, but now obsessively shop wine bottles worth tens of thousands. It doesn't happen overnight - but is rather a very gradual process.
I do not mean to be harsh, but this sounds exactly like an ad for golem which, IMHO, is not the right place nor time for.
In case anyone missed it, here is version 1.0 of the spec.
Not yet an RFC.

https://confluence-public.open-xchange.com/display/CoiW/COI+...
Just think about the networking changes that have happened in the last 50 years. This guy is insane to have lived through, and engineered against soo many changes in computer networking. I mean... If you are looking back at this guy's career, you need to realize, to this guy, Linux is a young whipper snapper of an OS. Megabit-speed networks werent even really a thing until this guy was like in his late forties or something. I hope that I am able to have a fraction of longevity and impact as this guy did on the computing industry.
I was developing Java code to run on windows, but disliked the different IDEs. I learned Unix / vi / bash in the late 1980's; vi is in my fingertips. I use cygwin https://www.cygwin.com/ which gives me the unix utilities running on windows. This is probably not what you were looking for.
That's really on the people. Reality is that no one forces anyone to use Facebook or twitter for that matter, even though in many ways the latter is almost becoming a necessity and therefore there is also an argument for Twitter violating the Constitution by censoring anyone in what is a de facto public space, as has been established by the court ordered ban of the president blocking users.
Except people do care, as evidenced by the fact that this is even an article about a controversy in the first place.
I thought this was about some kind of new legal marijuana business or activist.

Fooled me.
I don't ever remember being 'stuck' with GNU Hurd. It was a "non-product" with a little more evidence of progress than Duke Nukem Forever. Back in those days, I used SunOS (later Solaris), HP-UX, DEC Ultrix, IBM AIX, Tandem Guardian and SGI Irix.
I'm not sure what you're trying to convey with your comment.

Do you have reason to believe otherwise? If so, you should take the bet. Otherwise, readers have no reason to believe someone who isn't willing to put their money over their mouth is, over someone who is. Especially if you don't even bother to give reasons for your belief.
But he's miserable in his current life, too. Maybe the problem is him, not his circumstances?

As long as he keeps wanting what he wants and doing what he's been doing, he's going to keep getting what he's been getting.
Given how smooth Apple's transition from PPC to Intel was, and how much experience Apple has with ARM in their portable lines -- if/when the complete transition to ARM happens it'll probably be a brief blip on everyone's radar and likely increase competition both price and performance-wise in the desktop sector.

What's stopping Apple from adding hardware-level emulation to their SOC's, even if it's only partial functions, to ensure cross-compatibility doesn't take a serious toll on performance? x86 would be patent-encumbered but I'm sure there are a few creative ways to reduce that burden.
Intention was to set up next cloud on a rock64 talking to my nas as backing store - but it turned out more difficult than I originally intended, might do it all on AWS instead - still not sure and didn't have time to try again
In short Go functions I tend to like single letter variable names. Maybe because it makes me closely consider the behavior of the program instead of trying to assume by the variable names.
Where in CA are you? I'd be surprised if you have difficulty finding a new position in any of the major metros.
What exactly is your qualm with them investing in this company?

If you have a problem with gambling, take that up with your legislators. But I wouldn't expect you to have an issue with gambling, since you, ya know... literally earned a living working with the incumbents.
I personally would have preferred to see some actually MTBF or MTTF data. (https://blog.fosketts.net/2011/07/06/defining-failure-mttr-m...)
It's definitely satellite TV. Some planes have been outfitted with it since JetBlue debuted it in like 2000.
HN also uses a more interesting language (Arc) [lobste.rs uses Ruby, I think]. Though lobste.rs has a different feel, because it's not as big.
Quantitative Economics with Julia
I've found it extremely dependent on fine differences in the primary thing I'm doing. e.g. I have no problem following if I'm going on an uneventful or familiar drive, but will automatically tune it out if I don't know where I'm going.
fair point on the debit lowering the effective "tax".

I'll point to my edit and restate that its better for you, because you're well-off enough to get a 2%-back card. I'm guessing that the average across all cards/americans is much lower than 2%.

(i'm an immigrant to the US, and for the first few years all you can get is the crappy starter cards available to people with poor/no credit, that have no benefits. These days, im in your boat - i qualify for the fancier cards so im essentially making money of the back of everyone that doesnt. So i would be worse off too, but i think thats fine)
Show HN: Strava (& Other) Tracks as Google Earth Like Interactive Scenes
Edit: TL;DR: No, not with replication in the picture.

As for whether replication shows fresh data, it sort of can, but not in a very practical way. synchronous_commit = on, when synchronous_standbys has been configured, does indeed make COMMIT wait until some number of standbys has flusheùd the transaction to disk, but not until the transaction is visible to new transactions/snapshots on the replicas. In other words, it's just about making sure your transaction is durably stored on N servers before you tell your client about the transaction; a new transaction on the replica server after that might still not see the transaction (if the startup process hasn't got around to applying it yet). As a small step towards what you want, we added synchronous_commit = remote_apply, which makes COMMIT wait until the configured number of standbys has also applied the WAL for that transaction, so then it will be visible to new transactions. The trouble is, you either have to configure it in such a way that a dying/unreachable replica can stop all transactions on the primary (blocking the whole system), or so that it only needs some subset of replicas to apply, but then read queries don't know which replicas have fresh data.

I have a proposal to improve that situation: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/22/1589/ Feel free to test it and provide feedback; it's touch and go whether it might still make it into PostgreSQL 12. It's based on a system of read leases, so that replicas only have a limited ability to hold up future write transactions, before they get kicked out of the synchronous replica set, a bit like the way failing disks get kicked out of RAID arrays. Most of the patch is concerned with edge conditions around the transitions (new replicas joining, leases being revoked). The ideas are directly from another open source RDBMS called Comdb2. In a much more general sense, read leases can be found in systems like Spanner, but this is just a Fisher-Price version since it's not multi-master.

As for whether that gets you strict serializability, well no, because PostgreSQL doesn't even support SERIALIZABLE on read-only replicas yet, and although REPEATABLE READ (which for PostgreSQL means snapshot isolation) gets you close, anomalies are possible even with read-only transactions (see famous paper by A Fekete, search for that name in the PostgreSQL isolation tests, for an example). Some early work has been done to try to get SERIALIZABLE (actually SERIALIZABLE READ ONLY DEFERRABLE) working on read-only replicas. https://commitfest.postgresql.org/22/1799/ but some subproblems remain unsolved.

Maybe with all of that work we'll get close to the place you want. It's complicated, and we aren't even talking about multi-master.
This is a weird article, it seems targeted at home users, only Stddev is the primary concern the avg home user should have wrt 'reliability' once you get past looking at rather or not lifetime is even long enough, and they don't even address that. It's not "how long does the avg ssd last" its "How likely is my ssd likely to die before its time".

Step 1: Assume every home user doesn't use backup. Most users have at least one important thing on their hard drive that is not getting backed up right now, either because they don't have a backup solution, or because the thing is located in some non-standard location that is not getting backed up. I can think of one thing on my own computer that qualifies for the latter case right now.

Step 2: Now write the article taking step 1 into account. Assume somebody reading this article is going to use it to decide where to store their unbacked up important data.

Nobody cares how long the average case is when its longer than they plan to use the drive.

They care about the likelihood their unbacked up data will be lost because their ssd died before its time.

They care about how well the firmware is designed to handle error cases, does it shut down and refuse to power up or does it go read only? Does minor localized errors in some data cause it to lock out access to all data?

Those are the interesting questions wrt to ssds.
Soundcloud Rappers and Their Mugshots
An airport is a public space. A plane seat is semi-private or at least has always had that expectation. And given that it was placed there by the people owning the plane, it is well within the bounds of what passengers can expect to demand changed by said owners.
> They're hardly the up and coming underdog

Didn't mean they're an underdog as such, one can still be up the top and push hard. Many just don't.

> the things you mention are pretty much par for the course

As I said my background was Arduino, and the ARM offering from Atmel is a lot more expensive from what I can gather. I don't know too much about the others. Coming from the Arduino, the peripherals of most STM32s are something else.

edit: of course the price point is also a big factor in this, with the "Blue Pill" and similar dev boars in the <$2 delivered range.
I've yet to go through any of these machines since they were implemented. I have opted out every flight, every time.
IP ownership comes into play if you don't. iirc you both "own" the IP/source code/etc and things can get very messy if one of you wants to go forward with the idea and the other doesn't.
Bagman and slow burn were good if you are into historical political scandals. Covered watergate, Clinton impeachment and Nixon’s vp spirew Agnew.
I'm talking about a fixed income, like bond dividends, annuities, etc. It doesn't adjust for inflation; that's a separate problem. Just saying that if you can get a 4% return on 2.5MM, which is on the high side of realistic, that's a 100k indefinite fixed income.
Indeed, someone may have a very strong interest in Hitler and Nazis and Neo-Nazi culture without being one - aka a professor or researcher of authoritarian history.
> If you don't release an episode every two weeks, your show gets buried in the library.

S-Town released all its episodes almost 2 years ago, and Pocket Casts still has it at #23.
I made a quick site to show the lyrical geniuses of our generation. Hope you enjoy! :)
Why Has Seed Investing Declined? and What Does This Mean for the Future?
If I recall correctly he added a safety net that I setup after doing this a few time.

I'd be SSHd in and restart the rules, then the SSH session would hang. I was actively modifying rules and hey look I was a noobie sysadmin!

I made dumb mistakes back then. I believe that's when I made a catch all rule for my home IP on ssh in and out.

Regardless, thanks Tom!
Into what new account? A new Google account or something else?
It's been easy finding a new job. I got three offers in four weeks. The problem is that ALL of them were outside of California

I'm in the SF East Bay
Interesting article, but it's not really clear to me what the actual application is (and this is coming from someone who started my career in law, and was recently working on using ML for contract review automation).

As far as I can tell, it's intended to classify each paragraph as one of "facts", "pleas", "grounds", etc. On its own, this doesn't seem particularly useful. I assume it feeds into the broader Doctrine platform (litigation search and case summaries perhaps?). I jumped to their website but couldn't say for sure as I don't speak French.
You're in public on an airline, so whatever, they can have all the cameras they want on that airline.
Sure -- but that also depends on your class of cabin, your flight length, all kinds of things.

I fly a lot for work (I'm already at 67k miles flown for 2019 -- that's actual miles not airline miles (so that 67k is lower than my status miles)) and for anything over 6 hours or so, I fly business (unless I get an upgrade on a short-haul) and have had 6 flights over 10 hours this year, where I tend to have a lay flat bed and attempt to sleep. So I DO sleep on flights. Quite a bit (my flight to/from Australia was great, largely because I slept 9 of the 14 hours the first leg and 7 of the 13 hours the second).

I'd be just as freaked out if someone was recording me sleeping on an airplane in a ticket I paid $10k for as if I was when a hotel employee knocked once and then barged into my room in Sao Paulo back in December while I was changing into my pajamas. (And I was plenty mad at the WTC Sheraton for that!)
We've been killing gods since the dawn of times.

The word religion itself originally was all about worshiping a god.

Now everyone can define "God" how they want and follow whatever the scriptures advise, but let's not fool ourselves here, it's always been about power / control.
Private schools and high-quality childcare. If you look in the parking lots of top-tier schools, you'll see as many old Hondas as Range Rovers. Many parents care more about getting their children the best possible education than their own financial freedom. If the job's tolerable, why not just do it to see the kids happy with a bright future?
I bet you learned to give yourself alternatives back in right.
Yeah, I'm not claiming that the guy is right, and I'm certainly not aiming to debate or criticize your personal choices. I'm just aiming to describe this attitude that seems to be really common in the NYC area, and which explains why many parents feel their choices are constrained.
Samsung – $2000 Foldable Smartphone
I think the more important point here is the normalisation happening.

> More and more devices have cameras built into them. From smartphones to tablets to Alexa-powered smart speakers, cameras have become the norm, rather than the exception, for most hardware

From a tech side, I can understand the coolness factor of equipping all your devices with microphones and cameras - however, even though this particular example didn't do much, I think we're i for a lot of risks if this trend continued.
How about Docker Desktop for Windows? Uses hyperv behind the scenes (which means you must have Win 10 Pro or other versions with hyperv) but includes docker engine & kubernetes. Defaults to Linux container development but can be switched to Windows containers if you need.
> Note, I don't believe it's necessary for _all_ transactions to be strictly serializable, but I would make the argument that all read-write transactions should be in order to prevent the anomaly in the article. In other circumstances it's reasonable to make the tradeoff and accept potentially stale data.

How exactly does the "free checking" example work?

Is it two transactions, where each transaction is responsible for checking the total balance across all accounts? Or is it three transactions, where a third read-only transaction verifies the sum of all accounts?

If it's two transactions, I think the anomaly as described is prevented even by non-strict serializability, because the additional reads force the transactions to conflict. If it's three transactions, then what we're really concerned with is the read-only transaction. What does it mean to mix some strictly-serializable transactions and non-strictly-serializable ones?
As many others have said, podcasts are definitely necessary over text when doing things you can't read during (driving, exercising, etc.)

Additionally, I enjoy podcasts for the personalities. This varies with the podcast, as some podcasts consist of generally the same content as something like a blog post, with a generic narrator reading from a script. However, most popular podcasts are popular not just for the content, but the conversations between the personalities.

e.g. I can read Bill Simmons' sports columns (which have their own merits) and get much of the same content, but I can't laugh along with him and one of his pals or a pro athlete tossing out an impromptu joke in one of his columns: only on his podcast.
That's a bad thing? In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122034 you said you hated life in CA.
Anecdotally, I have noticed an increase in advertisements in the podcasts I listen to. I think this is more likely a sign of decline than a sign of the opposite.
Isn't that basically what this is?
85% in equities during retirement is a bad idea.
No, the burden is on you. How can you have a concern with people not being spied on in public?
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I'm making the assumption that there are more jobs that pay $500k+ in Silicon Valley and NYC. If you can get that salary in 2nd cities like SEA or BOS then of course you're doing better than someone making the same in higher CoL places.