skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The failure rates for SSDs I've seen when I've seen them compared to HDDs are lower. So long as you aren't using QLC in certain servers. Although there is indeed less warning of impending failure.

Use case also seems important as HDDs are relatively adversely affected by mobile usage.
Generally you'd source some of your "income" from capital gains, and some from dividends. You wouldn't use interest at all. The first 24k of dividends would fall under the standard deduction, assuming you're married. Assuming your "income" is coming half from cap gains and half from dividends, that yields a 0% tax rate (20k dividends @0% and 20k cap gains @0%). And this is of course assuming nothing comes from retirement accounts. In that case, the situation is even more advantageous.
Yeah, cities don't get cheaper as they grow in size and density. They become more desirable due to better availability of jobs and services, and therefore more expensive.

Of course a myopic analysis of building a single tower is not going to capture long term effects of building a hundred of such towers over many years. Especially if your incentives say you should build.

If governments want cities to be affordable they need to

- make cities less desirable compared to currently semi urban areas by spreading out the location of government services and jobs, providing incentives for private companies to do the same

- allow for building reasonable amounts of housing, but only the kinds and locations that match policy objectives

- cut off all "investment" demand for housing by eliminating the expectation of risk free profit. Ban foreign money, add much higher property taxes on anything but primary residences and purpose built rentals, etc.

If you set up a proper incentive structure for everyone, things will settle in a much much better equilibrium than today. Desirable places will still be expensive, but general affordability would improve a lot due to layers of profit seeking parasites exiting the market.
It's not obvious to me that Uber stock is not also priced for a future where autonomous driving solves a lot of their current problems, do you disagree?
This particular use of Trusted Execution is meant to be used against Large Organizations, not individuals. No one is going to revoke that ability in your example in the context of what I propose.

Also, it's not meant to be a complete solution by itself. It's meant to be a tool supported by other legislation. So it would totally be possible for Facecorp to crawl the web and put together a non-revokable database of private individual's information, outside of Trusted Execution engines. But to do so, they have to go to that effort, instead of just sweeping user data.
When I create a simple curved object in Blender or OpenSCAD, I see a mesh of triangles. When I create a simple curved object in Fusion 360, I see a smooth object with no apparent triangles. Is Fusion 360 rendering a triangle mesh or is it doing something else?
Academically, EdgeDB is very interesting, but practically, it seems to be solving a problem that does not exist. SQL is great for simple set operations and will lose its efficiency as you move towards more advanced features. The industry has accepted SQLs limitations and created new ways to interface with data, such as UDFs, pig, and pyspark. Those widely accepted alternatives can save you from doing something in SQL that you really shouldn't be doing in the first place.
I have the same issue with Putty. I was helping a client debug an issue with an appliance they bought from my company (me on their computer, them watching over my shoulder) and asked if I could download Putty on their machine. They said yes, so I went to "https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/" and clicked the download link and they flipped out. It's too fishy, they said, must be a malicious site. I went to putty.org instead (not affiliated with Putty), and clicked the "download putty" link and it redirected back to the other site, and from that point they refused to let me download Putty.

We then spent 3 hours getting approvals for me to get my own laptop on their internal network so I could use ssh from my Macbook. I felt bad because my company charges like $300/hr for our consulting services, so we wasted nearly $1000 because the main Putty download site seemed too suspicious for the client to be comfortable with.

I know Putty is legitimate and I know it's a free product, but appearances do matter. Presentation does matter. Although I do blame Microsoft a bit for not shipping an SSH client for so long.
If anyone's wondering if this answers the Actual Question of why the cert was allowed to expired, don't waste your time, it doesn't. I guess implicitly that's a "social detail"?
>The questions we often hear are “Why create a new query language?” and “What’s wrong with SQL?”. This post contains answers to both.

Ah, I can already tell I'm not going to like this article.

>lack of proper orthogonality — SQL is hard to compose;

Their reasoning: "The difference in structure is large enough to make any sort of source-level query reuse impractical."

This is blatantly false. The second example in the article using the join covers both the single-row and multi-row result cases. Additionally, SQL can be made very reusable and modular using tools like DBT, or within a DB using views or other constructs.

>lack of compactness — SQL is a large language;

It's certainly smaller in the keyword set than almost any other computer language I have used. This is like saying "It's a very cold day in the Sahara desert" when the temperature is 40C/105F.

>lack of consistency — SQL is inconsistent in syntax and semantics;

Is it? Or do people take liberties with their implementations? There is an SQL Standard and Postgres is compliant to it. Other databases not being fully ANSI SQL compliant is the fault of the DB creators, not the fault of SQL.

>poor system cohesion — SQL does not integrate well enough with application languages and protocols.

It is a relational language designed to be used within a relational database. Do the authors also complain that their screwdrivers are very inefficient at cutting meat?

They're onto something with the trickiness of NULL, but there have already been tons and tons of discussions on Hacker News - anyone with database experience, either analytical or transaction, will tell you that imagining a NULL-free world actually creates more problems then it solves.

I found this to be a highly misinformed article, personally; really it's a marketing ploy for their proprietary language. Just like most other "we have our own query language better than SQL" product, it probably isn't.
Hasn't that happened many times in history? The landed gentry owning land, everyone else "renting".

In many countries today, home ownership is pretty rare, and the majority of people rent.
And where is that mythical place that actually has free market for housing? Most countries/states have building codes and other regulations that mess up simple supply/demand dynamic.
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Maybe the balance beam, but only for obvious choice reasons.
Oh wow, that is news to me! A welcome change.
Welp, then I am going to say it: it looks underwhelming, both in capability and looks.

6.5t of soft-landed payload to surface of moon and 2.5kW of power via fuel cells if Twitter can be trusted. A grand vision of O'Neill cylinders and whatever in space is nice but how? How? Less gradatim and more ferociter would be nice.
Still rocking my Nexus 5X and will continue to do so until it physically dies. LineageOS works spectacularly and I still get Android updates faster than most flagships.
I am not buying stock, but a business model that could work is renting out a percentage of their capacity to companies/startups that need to deliver goods or services to customers' homes.

I also don't believe self-driving will be anything more than tech stuck in R&D for the next 10 years. If I were an investor have preferred Uber sell ATG before this IPO.
I found mine through Hacker News funny enough. Found a freelancer here, worked together ~5 months and felt I knew enough to make a pitch for setting up a company and going after an idea. Going well so far and we are getting to know each other.

Possible co-founders are all around you if you need one.

Do you go to local meetups at all? Do you have an idea already that you are building? Whats the story?

Also, once you get one make sure you keep them:
https://healthybusinesspartnerships.com/keeping-your-partner...
What are you after?

This clearly says they screwed up and that internal procedures need to be changed so it cannot recur. If this was in fact an oversight/accident, what other kind of explanation can they give?

> This was due to an error on our end: we let one of the certificates used to sign add-ons expire

And:

> We clearly need to adjust our processes both to make this and similar incidents it less likely to happen and to make them easier to fix.
I own broad index funds. I expect that at some point, Uber will be added to the index that the funds track, so the funds will buy Uber.

The basic reasoning here just boils down to market consensus that Uber is worth $x billion, and I don't really have any reason to think that I can outguess the market consensus.
In the article he mentions needing to be able to mark things partially completed, and how filling in the boxes makes status more visually scannable. So I don't think org mode is at a par with paper for his purposes.
That autonomous driving is coming is inevitable. The scale and timing I can debate though.
I hope this is not it. Looks cramped like an economy car, with the massive center console and fat door covers.
Wondering why this was posted. They are a known rocket company and owned by Jeff Bezos. Does he run this organization as mercilessly as he does Amazon? Are they using sawhorses and doors for desks?
Yep, browsing pages laden with too many GIFs is my favorite way to have a hot laptop that sounds like it's getting ready to lift off and get my low battery warning to pop up.
If this is a lander what will they use to deliver the lander to lunar orbit? I'll admit I don't follow this sort of news very closely, but it seems quite exciting.
I'm disappointed they left QBE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_by_Example) out of their history of SQL and relations. SQL vs QBE is one of the great examples of concise technology beating over-wrought UX.
I love Valencia if you work remote, we just got back from 3 months there and I highly recommend it.
This is only meaningful if you happen to live at a gas station. My electric car takes me only ten seconds to charge as I plug it in when I get home on my way inside.
Yep, threw win10 enterprise ltsc on a 7 year old laptop. Use it as a media player sitting under the TV.
Change the way to build web application which all independent assembly components will be consolidated into.
> Medicine isn't like normal supply and demand.

Indeed it isn’t, and like you’ve correctly identified, demand is inelastic. But it’s still a market subject to competitive forces, provided they exist.

> If drug x is what is keeping you alive and they have a patent on it its not like you can't buy the drug.

The drug x did not emerge spontaneously. Someone decided to create it because it was a demand for it and it was an opportunity for profit.

Had the research not occurred, the drug wouldn’t have been created at all. So the way I see it, having an expensive drug (I will maybe be kept alive) is preferred to not having it at all (I definitely won't be kept alive). Plus, patents do expire as far as I’m aware.

Yes, I understand people want drugs at prices they can afford but this is not solvable by simply price fixing without generating unintended consequences.
What does that have to do with anything? If anything it should be cheaper because the risk pool is much larger and the population density is much higher. A big part of Canada's healthcare cost is due to the huge geographic distribution of the population.

The truth is American elites systemically abuse poor people and feed them propaganda to make sure they don't question their terrible conditions. You're repeating that propaganda.
I'll take soft-serve over a soft landing any day:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/blue-moon-ice-cream-midwe...
The fact that this is the most money losing company ever to IPO should raise some eyebrows.
Some good discussion here, but I would just like to point out that the word engine is wrong for electric power units, they are always called motors.
No, but if you pay attention, the US, Russia, and other global powers are engaged in proxy wars all over the globe. We continue to fund terrorism. We are on the cusp of another cold war with Russia. China is moving for market dominance and expansion of their totalitarian regime.

The West's global markets are on thinner ice than ever. Domestically, the US, the world's biggest superpower, is crumbling. Poverty is on the rise. The wealth gap broadens. The US has begun assaulting its citizens' Constitutionally granted rights, including the rights to free speech and the right to bear arms against the government.

Dozens and dozens of extremely important natural resources, minerals, etc will be dried up within half a century. This will likely lead to global instability and riots. [0]

The environment is wasted. Thousands of animals and insects and other life evaporated. We are literally in the middle of a global extinction event [1] whose impact has yet to be fully appreciated. Our biosphere is rapidly collapsing. Our generation will be synonymous with plastic and the destruction of the Earth.

Multiple Middle Eastern countries are gaining access to nuclear weaponry. Things are as tense with Iran as ever. Al-Qaeda's plan [2] for Islamic global domination and war, while dampened for a moment, is still chugging right along. ISIS is not gone. We have not defeated them. They want a global religious war and everything they do is working towards this goal.

If we get out of the next three decades without a world war, I will be very surprised. The coming War for Resources is inevitable, the only unknown is when.

No, the UN is not doing their job. Nor is the US.

[0] https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/NICR%202013-05%20US%20Na...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda#Strategy
I don't particularly want someone who has already proven themselves to be rude and inconsiderate to know my name, face and address. The kind of people who don't care about how their actions impact other people are precisely the kind of people I always strive to avoid - not get to know on a first name basis.
The best place to find a co-founder is a previous coworker. Including the ones you didn't think of. People change, so do you.
That's just a business problem, not any different for domain names than anything else. I have a great idea for a business, it's a small building that sells pizza. Unfortunately I can't name it Pizza Hut because that's already taken. I want to start a supermarket and my last name is Wall, I can't exactly call it Wallmart. I want to start an electronics supply company, I can't call it Tesla. I have to come up with other names.

I want to create an app that helps people relax. Sorry, Calm is taken, I need a different name. I want an app that's like a book of faces... Facebook is taken. I need a different name.

If someone else already has the domain name you want, you can register under a different tld, but you have to be aware that this conflict will exist and confusion will be a problem.
It’s hard to short an ipo and insanely risky. Uber could pop big on day one and wipe you out even if the price collapses later.
Do looks matter for a lunar lander?

Of course it doesn't look as good as the awesome streamlined rocketship concept art I grew up with in the 1950s, I will grant you that.
Hi, MySQL supports JSON (it has a native JSON datatype) but it also support NoSQL (CRUD operations). For more details, check https://www.slideshare.net/lefred.descamps/pyconx-python-mys... or https://www.slideshare.net/lefred.descamps/oracle-code-roma-...
Composability is quite a feature for me.
Yes, agreed. That lack of play-control is both a weakness and a strength of GIF. The strength is misunderstood and underrated by those who think videos should replace all usage of GIFs.
How on Earth is it naive to point out these games can be played for free? Countless people do it for Puzzle and Dragons and Fate GO, and these two games are some of the highest grossing mobile games of all times. Just go into their respective subreddits and search F2P.

You can play F2P. If you want to save 3 hours of grinding buy spending $5, why do you want to stop them? It's their money, if people enjoy these games, why stop them? You don't need to control every aspect of peoples lives.
If I want to invest in autonomous vehicles why am I buying stock in a money losing taxi company instead of a company that makes money and is doing self driving car research.
Agreed.

My initial reaction when Let's Encrypt had you re-issue every 90 days was negative, but I was wrong. Very wrong. A 90 day re-issue forces you to have working re-issue infrastructure and procedures, and therefore you're less likely to get stung by an accidental expiration.

Long expirations are a trap, a very easy trap to fall into.
I just don't understand why a person would think this is possible?

Every window in the house has to be wired?

Windows are to allow energy in, not stop it, that's called a wall.

Obviously a wall makes more sense. But then you'd have to realise a roof makes even more sense and the whole idea doesn't make sense. So you can't talk about walls.

I don't get people brains.

Something like double glazing is a huge energy creator. It's a simple tech and works and also reduces noise which is a know health hazard. But I guess it's harder for people to get excited about?
I've had that happen a couple of times. The email is fairly bland - it looked like the sort of copy you'd write for an automated system. It includes a link to this comment by way of explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
As does Shopify.
I'm aware of this reporting, that's the test pilots. I'm talking about engineers who are pilots, and pilots consulted for the design portion, whether they be in-house, customers, or consultants brought on board.

If you're a food products company, you bring in people to do some kind of product testing to see if they like it or hate it. So far I have yet to read or hear from a pilot who says: Oh this is GREAT idea! Love the entire concept!
But hasn't Google invested a couple billion on Lyft? And since Google is the leader in self-driving, might not Google help Lyft in its self-driving endeavors -- therefore making Lyft more able to pull-off a fleet of self-driving taxis?
Research in pharma is expensive, you can easily spend billions and have nothing to show for it. Where else do you think all that money comes from?
China overplayed its hand with Trump on trade, and it could cost them dearly
>If the source is freely available, then every day someone is going to read it and maybe see/fix the bug.

How many years did Heartbleed go unnoticed? How many exploits in open source software get reported here?

It's not true that someone reads all of the open source code every day. The truth is, few people ever read any of it, and fewer still have the domain expertise necessary to be able to spot and patch any obvious bug, much less subtle ones. And yet this metaphysical belief in the "many eyes" persists.

Sure, it exists, but there are supposed to be eyes on the proprietary code as well, and the effect is probably smaller than people think, with no one outside of a project's maintainers ever actually studying the code for most open source projects.
That is the most pathetic excuse I've heard in a long time. Maybe if journalists actually did proper and thorough research, the field wouldn't be so despised and the dumpster fire it is today. The world demands good writing and the fact that it isn't happening is the reason news outlets are going under. Research is free assuming you have a computer and the internet, but if you're a writer, you already have those at your disposal; any whiny excuse thereafter is complete BS.
Mozilla, unlike all of the other major Trust Stores does not actually operate a publicly trusted CA.

Microsoft, Apple, and Google all do, the biggest Trust Store I can think of that does NOT operate a CA other than Mozilla is Oracle (who manage the default Java trust store)

This puts Mozilla in a good situation of independence IMNSHO.

At Google we know it takes actual effort to make sure that corporate firewalls protect the Trust Store function from being sabotaged by the convenience of, say, Google's Cloud function or people in their SRE wanting to keep the lights on for Chrome users. One day Google's CA people accidentally minted certs that Chrome wouldn't trust for Google web sites, and there had to be mechanisms in place to ensure that "Just tell the Chrome engineers to ignore it" wasn't a viable fix, because that would be _easier_ but it destroys any value in that trust store.
>They are always auto-playing with no concept of play and pause.

Which is why I can't wait for GIFs to die.
> Although SRWare has been claiming "Iron is free and OpenSource", this wasn't true from at least version 6 on until mid 2015, as the links given by them for the source code were hosted in RapidShare and blocked by the uploader. SRWare Iron "is entirely closed source and has been since at least version 6". According to Lifehacker, as of October 2014 SRWare Iron was "supposedly open source but haven't released their source for years". In 2015, SRWare resumed releasing what they claim is the source code for the browser, although not stating on their page what version the source code is from.

yeah I think I'd rather run Chrome...