skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here to make this same comment - renting forever is probably fine for people who are willing to accept a certain kind of lifestyle, but for most people it's too limiting. Got kids and want a playset in the backyard? Not in an apartment. Want a wall where there isn't one, or remove a wall that you'd rather not have? Again, nope. Want a home theatre with a big subwoofer so you can watch movies at home (one of my favorites). Nope, not unless you want some angry neighbors.

I don't think for a minute that owning a home costs less month-to-month over renting - with maintenance and upkeep, repairs and new appliances periodically, it's probably a break-even at best. But, at the end of it in 20 or 30 years I can sell the house and have that money (to buy a smaller house, or move into something senior-citizen appropriate, or a condo or whatever). With renting, that's not the case.

It also helps that I live in the Midwest, where property prices are not insane. I just sold my first house (made almost $30k over what I paid 18 years ago), and now I'm buying a 5-bedroom, 3k sq ft house in a nice neighborhood... for $230k.

Is it for everyone? No. But there's no way I'd rent, at least not at this stage of life.
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Rip the Band-Aid off! I was in this same situation. It was a product whose name include "SQL". So when you called anyone, you had to say "sequel, by which I mean, just the letters, S-Q-L. . .", which just killed the magic, if there was any to begin with.
1-2 weeks for the service is brutal and effectively means a lot of batteries will not be replaced.

You'd really need a loaner for that, and to spend some extra time to set it up (and later to clear it out and return it).

I think they need to figure out how to turn these things around a lot faster at least in the great majority of cases.
> they can just make the tool not function if a full systems check doesn't return with Deere approved values

That is the problem.
I don't see how denying employment to a law-abiding citizen is connected to the public interest.

Perhaps, you are confusing your own interest with the public's one?
It's cheaper for most people.
> Replacement parts aren't an issue for motor vehicles.

Tell that to my Isuzu VehiCROSS!

Had mine in the shop to wait 6 months to find a -used- intake manifold...sigh.
Sudoku: Clojure and Python, Side by Side
Not to be that guy, but why do you feel you are entitled to advertise on somebody else's trademark?
I tried something similar to this the first time I heard of wkhtmltopdf some seven or eight years ago using css to emulate an A4 size box. (it was meant as a replacement for mssql reporting server)

First, 40 page reports experienced a few millimeters of sliding. It became more apparent at 60 pages.

Second, I could not go above 75 dpi.
I believe these chips have Uniform Memory Access via a shared memory interface on the I/O die. Am I mistaken?

Edit, just confirmed:

>Thanks to this improved design, each chiplet can access the memory with equal latency. The multi-core beasts can support to 4TB of DDR4 memory per socket.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-64-core-128-thread-7nm...
presumably mail turn around? I'm sure it's also padded to give the appearance of speed (e.g they said it would take 1-2 weeks but it only took a few days! Apple is a amazing and I want their babies! ;) )
I'll recommend: Data Structures and Algorithms in Python by Goodrich et. all, they've also done this series in Java and C++ but I am only familiar with the Python version. It has a great balance in terms of covering everything you need to know in terms of fundamental ADTs, asymptotic complexity, etc. but without the rigorous math in CLRS. Because Python is so concise, every data structure and algorithm is fully implemented.

My only con is that the answer key doesnt seem to be available.
I'm somewhat familiar with the Apollo Core, as I own a V500v2+.

It's amazing; Too bad it's not open source.

There's some open source 68000 implementations, but they're all still slow. The most well-known is perhaps tg68k, used in MiSTer cores and in FPGA Arcade.
People like farmers, and John Deere is the closest to having a monopoly in their industry.
Leave the speculation to the actual economists. By the way, they are all almost unanimous that protectionist tariffs to prop up domestic manufacturing is an awful idea.
iCloud ≠ email. I have an iCloud account with a non-functioning e-mail address.
Alpha had a weakly-ordered memory model though.
Most of the flowers the honeybees pollinate are also not native. Native bees can not pollinate these introduced species, and honeybees can't pollinate native species. They can, however, transfer varroa and nosemea and AFB and other diseases between native and introduced pollinator species. Some of these diseases come as spores in the bulk imports of Asian industrial honey.

You'd think we learned lessons from the black plague in Europe. Seems we did, just the wrong ones.
Good stuff. I would recommend VSCode over Visual Studio.
Was that SQLSentry (SentryOne now)?
Having ownership and responsibility is nice imo. Pay off a house, and you have some nice real estate that you can live in, sell off, rent out, transfer to your children/grandchildren later in life. Way more options than having to pay for rent indefinitely. I've lived in way too many apartments in the past decade, purchasing a house and land has been the best decision of my life. There are tradeoffs to both lifestyles - I'd say that apartment / renting is great for 18 - 30 and gets progressively worse the older you get.

I'd rather have a dream where I have more responsibility and ownership as I progress in life rather than the dream of eternally renting and owning nothing. Sure I have to deal with shit I used to just call up my landlord and have them deal with it, but learning new skills and how to fix random things is fun too, at least to me. Not everyone's cup of tea I get it, but neither is renting forever.
>> I have yet to see an industry certification which has not clearly put in place for a business reason.

> Since when business reasons became intrinsically bad?

The way I read it, it's a shorthand for "has nothing to do with a fair trade of value in exchange for money".

> Aren't we on HN?

HN is not a place frequented by wolves of Wall Street.
People are entitled to their feelings, but so am I to mine. Any implicit declaration of wrongdoing is in their own heads, because I don't see humans (myself included) as some kind of infallible entity that is always right or wrong. Circumcision, in my opinion, is a barbaric and silly practice, but why should that matter to you if you chose to get your kid circumcised? You're you, and I'm me. We can think about things differently. If you're amenable to being convinced not to have some of your kid's penis chopped off, great. Otherwise, great too, you do you. You're not going around in a van circumcising people against their will nor am I forcing reconstructive surgery.

The world is full of people with opinions that disagree with those you may hold closest. On a basic level, I don't understand why you'd be offended by someone else's opinion as long as they're not forcing it upon you/being a dick about it.
Right. God forbid you enjoy a book because of the characters and the story. Only philosophical, topical, and metaphorical works matter!
There's no reason for the average investor to trade ETFs at all when no load mutual funds exist. You can use vanguard directly or etrade (or a billion other companies) for that.
One most people don't care about.
Pandoc is definitely the way to go in terms of ease of writing and the quality of the output.

It's not super difficult to take Jekyll-ish input and generate books from it either, e.g. I built a tool to do this:

https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd

Example of a book I published with this approach: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692553916 (a fairly challenging type setting problem with lots of footnotes, foreign language, etc.)

The main gotchas are that if you really want it to look good you have to dig into the Latex template, so ultimately it would take more effort to make it push-button for non-technical users.
You know, maybe it was Netware. My memory has some bitrot in it after all these years.
And only specific serial numbers, so presumably they've identified the exact batches of batteries that were involved?
It’s coming for cars too.
I had to check myself, and there are serial/IMEI numbers there, at least the last-five version of each... maybe they store partial hashes instead of the full numbers (hopefully, but I'm a pessimist)
A computer company pushing pop-up notices to individual computers? No thanks.

Can you imagine how this would be abused by computer marketing departments? It's bad enough when they have your e-mail address.
I'm not entirely sure of everything, but problems with UUIDs (which we expected), and some dbus signals not being generated when run over a NFS mounted root causing the boot to hang. We hacked some timeouts to get around the problem but never figured out exactly where the signals were supposed to be generated from.

A hint if you're doing this on Linux. We PXEBoot an iPXE loader to boot the machines. Doesn't work properly on UEFI unfortunately, gotta use BIOS boot.

If it helps, I have notes on how to set that up:

Go to http://rom-o-matic.net and choose gPXE git. Click on the "Customize"
button to expand all of the options.

Choose:
1. PXE bootstrap loader image [Unload PXE stack] (.pxe)

2. all-drivers

3. PCI VENDOR CODE: [blank] PCI DEVICE CODE: [blank]

X CONSOLE_PCBIOS

_ CONSOLE_SERIAL

BANNER_TIMEOUT [20]

_ NET_PROTO_IPV6

(Serial Port Options are irrelevant)

X DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTP

X DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTP

_ DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS

_ DOWNLOAD_PROTO_FTP

_ SANBOOT_PROTO_ISCSI

_ SANBOOT_PROTO_AOE

X DNS_RESOLVER

X IMAGE_ELF

X IMAGE_NBI

X IMAGE_MULTIBOOT

X IMAGE_PXE

X IMAGE_SCRIPT

X IMAGE_BZIMAGE

X IMAGE_COMBOOT

X AUTOBOOT_CMD

X NVO_CMD

X CONFIG_CMD

X IFMGMT_CMD

X IWMGMT_CMD

X ROUTE_CMD

X IMAGE_CMD

X DHCP_CMD

_ SANBOOT_CMD

X LOGIN_CMD

_ TIME_CMD

_ DIGEST_CMD

X PXE_CMD

_ IPV6_CMD

_ CRYPTO_80211_WEP

_ CRYPTO_80211_WPA

_ CRYPTO_80211_WPA2

Embedded Script:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#!gpxe

dhcp any

initrd http://<your_server_here>/initrd.img

kernel http://<your_server_here>/pxelinux.0

imgargs pxelinux.0 root=/dev/nfs rw boot=nfs
nfsroot=<your_nfs_server_here>:/netroot root ip=dhcp nfsrootdebug

boot pxelinux.0

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh my god I forgot about this. Brings back good memories.
I'm pretty sure Linus was joking...
Was the actual series linked anywhere in the article ?

I might have missed it, for anyone else looking for it:
https://www.tbs.co.jp/watatei/
That usually works but in this case, it’s not just a modal. It doesn’t show the article unless I sign up. No way to dismiss it either. It’s different than the modals I used to get last week.
Given the JavaScript performance of the shipping units intended for mobile use, which is eclipsing the best of Intel's offerings, it might be possible that the A14 or A15 iteration actually surpasses Intel's chips at x86-64 code as well when run through a Rosetta-like compatibility layer.

What if the high-end chip was ARM? It's not just about raw speed, it's about how much performance you can squeeze out of a particular thermal envelope, or compute per watt. If ARM offers 2x the performance per watt, doesn't matter what Intel's chips do with hypothetically unlimited power.
Thought it was 5 workdays tops? Perhaps they're expecting a ton of people turning in their machines since batteries usually need to replace by now anyway.
Someone needs to inform him of the error in his ways of getting published and how low he has sunk.
That's very shocking to hear, but I'm not entirely surprised to hear that you doubt these events. The combination of censorship and propaganda is very effective. I try to keep an unbiased perspective and I am very aware of how the hidden motives of governments and media organizations can skew the news, even in the freest of countries.

My best media-savvy sense is that all of the things you mention are in fact happening and that they are atrocities. For example, here's some good reporting the BBC did: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...

My broader point though is that you won't change your mind because your livelihood and freedom depends on you denying or ignoring the actions of your government. So just like in the VPN experiment, we can remove the wall, but you will not leave the prison. I feel sorry for you, individually and personally, though it's probably for the best that you're not interested in questioning these things too closely.
Nowadays you don't need a Trojan to collect user info.

edit: pun unintended.
"In 2002 an article in Consumer Reports Web Watch labelled BonziBuddy as spyware, stating that it contains a backdoor trojan that collects information from users."

My, how times have changed. These days that would be considered expected behavior.
I have the 2016 15" MacBook Pro model and the battery won't take a charge. I have to keep it always plugged in. Apparently I'm not in this recall.

It is a total bummer because it takes Apple 3-5 days to fix this. The batter has 476 cycles on it and Apple rates it at 1000.
Half our company are still using these

It's been years since I was involved in this sort of thing, but at one time Apple had separate people to handle business accounts, especially ones with many machines.
Professor Ted Kaczynski is laughing in his prison cell.

Industrial Society and Its Future
http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf
I worked PC tech support for a major PC hardware company back then.

It was really a chore trying to tell people who complained their PC was slow to uninstall their 8 toolbars and that stupid monkey... they couldn't explain what good it did them or when they ever used them, but they sure as hell didn't want it removed.
I think you're thinking about this the wrong way. I trust 1Password. I trust it so much that I don't bother storing TOTP secrets in it, because I don't need a small extra dynamic password tacked on to the strong password it already generated for me. The threat stories where someone somehow captures my password but hasn't fully compromised either 1Password or the site I'm logging into (thus invalidating the credentials anyways) are extraordinarily narrow.

1Password TOTP is mostly just theater.
I'm in my late 20's and I remember bonzi buddy.
Not in the long run, and not if you account for externalities dumped on society in form of trash, which follow naturally when price-sensitive customers try to game this business model.
You could have 128 cores, 4TB of memory, multiple top-end NVMe drives and Windows will still lock up when accessing an offline network share.

Good job Microsoft.
I don't know why, but in practice, I'm that manager. I constantly fight to provide planning which I don't have time to prepare, fight for things breaking here and there, fight for people onboarding team, fight with some of my own people who have become hungry of the project before I got in (and think I'm doing a super bad job), etc.

That's exhausting, super tough and even if I can say I have improved things a little bit, that's not funny at all.
> HN is not a place frequented by wolves of Wall Street.

Errr... I hope they manifest themselves right away ;-)
I will agree with the author that FB isn't invulnerable, but IMO Google+ simply wasn't compelling or different enough by that point for people to move over from FB. The problem was the Google+ tried to be a better FB than FB. There just wasn't anything substantially better from the user's perspective to encourage a shift enmasse.

This isn't so much Google+'s failure as a product as it was the astounding success of FB at keeping it's users. Google+ definitely had some cool and interesting features, but people just didn't care. I think a great case study would be to see why MySpace failed to keep it's users and FB got them, and why Google+ couldn't achieve the same critical mass.

I think the eventual fracturing of the features of Google+ and migration into other products was a smart move.

Here's an example conversation I had at the time with someone about why we should switch over to Google+:

Me: It's better! Cool features

Friend: Ya but w/e FB already has everyone there...plus those features are meh

Me: Ya but privacy!

Friend: Let's be real, Google and FB make money the same way...ain't no one's privacy gonna get in the way of that

Me: True...
Just bought a new house and requested the seller pay for a home warranty for the first year. I may look to keep it after that. It doesn't take much in home repairs to justify $600/year, provided that the work is done well and on time.
My earthquake insurance is more like 0.1% and I'm pretty sure the rates are set by the state - where are you getting your numbers?

If the cost were 0.5% I don't think it would be worth paying, that would buy a lot of seismic reinforcement.
There is probably no good answer that doesn't sacrifice security. At some point you have to be willing to say "ok, I accept this risk, this is still way better than using just passwords."

Personally, I enroll multiple devices for each account where I enable 2FA (technically not a supported operation, but nobody can really tell if you scan a QR code twice).

It's technically less secure, but I think a decent compromise.

(self promo, but related to the topic at hand: since I don't have 2 phones, I made a utility to enable using T2-equipped Macs as a 2FA client that binds the keys to the hardware. You can check it out at http://github.com/sqreen/twofa)
Why not reconsider and stop saying it.
Same. I just always associated it with the colour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_(color)
Extreme Islamic is a difficult problem to deal with globally. Look at Israel, they are taking extreme measure too.

Historically, this extreme ideology comes from Western culture. Both Christian and Islamic are exclusive religions. Drives each other nuts for thousand years.

US played a very bad role in modern days and caused the situation out of control. Iraq war and other mediterranean wars, all of them are unethical anti-human-rights wars. They have destroyed so many families. That's why nobody in the world believe US's so called human rights propaganda even though there are some America truly care.

Chinese don't believe that US is able to solve their own extreme Islamic problem. They invented their own method. They believe that the fundamental reason for the extreme behavior is because they are excluded from the society and the economy. They want to reeducate them to get them involved. However, the approach is a bit harsh. Not quite sure whether they will succeed.

Frankly speaking, getting everyone involved in the society is the key for US as well. Rich people don't pay tax, don't participate in the economy, and don't care about poor guys. They have their robots. More and more poor people have left the economy completely for years. The middle class is vanishing quickly. The extreme behaviors are emerging fast these days.

Before we point our fingers at other people, we really should figure out our own issues.
I agree and disagree.

On the one hand, yes, you're right that the repair expenses can be a big deal. If you don't want anything but the basics for the technology in your home, sometimes a home warranty can be a good option too but experiences vary significantly.

On the flip side though, after my 15 year mortgage is up I'm not going to pay another dime outside of maintenance on this thing. On a 30 year, you'll still pay a fortune over the life of the loan which makes the renting argument a lot closer.

It also depends on the phase of your life. Personally, I can't imagine having kids and dogs without a yard. If I didn't have kids or hadn't found an area where I really wanted to settle down, renting would make perfect sense.

At the point that you find somewhere to spend the rest of your life, become a part of the community, get involved, make local friends, raise a family...home ownership makes a lot more sense.

I'm a firm believer in outsourcing repetitive work. I've had a yard company since the first 2 months in my first house because the time trade off for me was more than worth it. You also will eventually learn your way around finding good and reliable contractors for the important things (plumbing, electrical, general repairs). Word of mouth is hugely important there.

A lot of this stuff is pretty easy to learn too. I was pretty proud of myself the first time I disassembled a toilet to fix it. The more you learn, the less you need to call for help for small stuff.
Note that Firefox has a sandbox too (in fact, it shares a good bit of code with that of Chrome), and therefore a sandbox escape is necessary to elevate privileges.

(NB: I have no knowledge of the details of this specific bug.)
They definitely are. I’m saying Airbnb will be valuable for the same reason they are even as regulation limits their market.
I haven't really had an issue with this. Though job searching is a little harder as a junior engineer. You can also have your resume start with your second degree.
Calling it a rumor makes the knowledge sound more exciting.

Similar to how product details are no longer "announced" or "released", but rather "leaked".
If you value stability and no file corruption, you'll go for ECC.

If you use it just for media consumption and playing games, anything goes.

A good power supply and ECC RAM make a very stable PC.
Hacker News Books looks great and crowd-sourced wisdom is very useful! But, sometimes I find such aggregated data to be a popularity contest. It becomes the default recommendation I see everywhere - from Amazon to Google trends. So, I wanted to see individual's reading list and decide for myself. That's why I built this.

> as the list grows, will there be some way to categorise and discover the lists? (tags, topics, etc)

Yes. I hope to categorize by communities such as Hacker News, Vernacular Books etc. My next list is "Reading with Your Child" :)

> is the numbered list their recommendation in order? Or is it just a list that happens to have numbers?

It is not in any specific order, since it is compiled from different sources. Hopefully, I will get to interview them to ask for their preference? ;)

> I would like a link to the source for each recommendation (twitter post or HN comment).

Sure! That's my next task. Thanks for all the suggestions!
Depends on what you mean by "disposal". I'm talking about a system where no part of the device ends up in a landfill, much like what we have with car batteries today.
That's fair.
Since I have asked friends to upvote, so I have nothing to argue about the penalty. The rule is the rule.

Questions: I only have 2 karma, will HN prioritize posts posted by people with more karmas - with the assumption that the posts have similar "interesting" level of content? If I want to resubmit, will I still get penalty for my github link?
I'm guessing surveillance will soon turn privacy into a cash cow industry. We will see companies providing "privacy as a service" coming up. The constant cat and mouse games could enable unlimited exponential growths. Security firms will be absolutely everywhere and even small businesses would have their own dedicated "security & privacy department".
I am probably being a simpleton here, but:
Why do we keep doing this?
We _KNOW_ this company won't make that kind of money, or it's worth.
It's a chat app. No adverts. No costs that would make up that evaluation.
Why? Why do we keep bullshitting each other?
Why do we evaluate a chat app like this?
Who is going to get all this money? The people that made it?
That's right. It took Commodore seven years to ship a major revision to the Amiga graphics chips, which had four times the display bandwidth and twice the blitter performance. They should have had a 16-fold performance increase in all categories by that time.