skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For rough numbers: The average cost of car ownership in the US is around $9000/yr and 15000 miles (24000 km). So, if an extra $25/day would ruin you, or paying $25/day to go 40 miles (65km) seems ridiculous to you, then you should not buy a car.

This is of course an average. Where you live and what sort of car you choose matters a lot. Putting aside luxury, and new cars and focusing on just transportation… there is a tradeoff between average daily cost of ownership and reliability. If you can say "sorry, won't be to work on time, my car died" without jeopardizing your income then you can live the exciting life of the $500 car. My daughter's friends who do this get by on something like $4-5/day to pay for the car (excluding "mandatory" insurance, which is around $3/day, they pay that sometimes, or not depending on their work situation). Fix the small things, maybe with help from friends, sell it to the scrap yard and get another when the big repair comes.
Do you use Firefox multi-account containers?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

It's the biggest reason I use Firefox. Intuitive, straightforward session partitioning. Every browser should have it.
No SSD = INSANE

Easily the biggest speed boost any PC can get.
Wow that's a awesome. Thanks for sharing. Do you mind to be on a podcast to discuss further?
These astronauts undergo rigorous medical checks where every inch of their body is checked and double-checked. And they already come from an armed forces background where detailed medical checks are very common and there is zero shame about nudity. I am pretty sure they would not have had qualms about it if it was indeed necessary. Their space suits are already sized to their specific dimensions.

Also, why does the sheath size have to be such a public thing?
It was written by the AWS Well-Architected team, and is based on curating best practices from Solutions Architects working with customers and engineering teams.
Its one of Six main papers, with the main framework, and then one per pillar https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/

There is also a free tool available to review architectures. https://aws.amazon.com/well-architected-tool/

The aim is to help customers learn best practices for building and operating in the cloud.
(I work in the AWS Well-Architected team)
I agree, that there is a feedback loop between education and practice. But I meant that any attempt to change something needs to start from the root cause: the rapid pace of tech progress. This pace is a good thing, but it comes with a cost.

> I am simply saying that technology is extremely interconnected. All the topics relate to one another.

I believe that it is an artifact of our cognition: our understanding of tech is not crystallized enough. To draw borders between topics one needs a lot of time to think and to experiment. It is like developing software by splitting it into separate libraries: you need a lot of time to think to do it perfectly. But in a 10-20 years your separation of a problem domain will stop being perfect because the problem changed.
Your own article says "The one group of employees whose wages rose across the board are those working in the high-tech sector in Silicon Valley, with median pay up 32 percent compared with 1997." and tech sector employees are who we are talking about.
I may be misinterpreting, but I think are based on BSD license is what this does that others don’t (clang comes close, but is moving slightly further away from it, towards Apache 2.0)
I agree with you on 2 most likely not being possible (or reasonable) given that the revenue model is based in sharing user data, but I'm not so sure that 1 is completely out of the question.

I don't necessarily think that it's reasonable to have a zero tolerance policy for ad networks or the sites serving them regarding malware (cuz perfect security doesn't exist), but what about requiring some basic standard of due diligence for the ad networks themselves?
The article has nothing whatsoever to do with the notion of coming up with $400 in hard currency on-demand.
We can start with the fact that fines are not means tested so a speeding ticket for someone driving x miles over the speed limit is the same for a Ferrari driver (likely a rich person) and someone who would having trouble covering a $400 expense (a poor person)...in fact it is known that this type of situation often has a cascading effect on poorer people...lose your license/registration because you can't pay the fine, lose your job because you can't get to work, become even poorer....

The real problem is that car ownership is more or less mandatory in America because of the lack of viable alternative in most cases.

Those fines I speak of? I have a lot experience with...in fact for most of my late teens and early 20s I spent thousands in fines for various infractions. Not everyone manages to climbed out of those holes.
A safe one?
> I think the critical mistake that all these megacorps are making is that people don't actually want to pay for a bazillion streaming services.

I don't think anyone is making this mistake. It's just still in their interest to sell that.

And to be quite clear, it doesn't seem like there is a viable alternative that's priced at a level most people are willing to pay.

Of course people want a super convenient option, that's all in one place, and that's cheap to boot. But... it doesn't work economically. People would also want to all be driving Rolls Royces that cost 5 cents. For some reason, when it comes to physical goods, people understand that that's impossible, but when it comes to digital goods, they don't.
Uber isn't setting the prices, Lyft exists too. Uber would be going out of business except for investor money but that goes for all their competitors too.

>The market says Uber should be going out of business

The market isn't saying Uber should go out of business or it would have gone out of business. The market is saying Uber should be aggressive about pricing until Uber's competitors stop subsidizing their rides. Investors are part of the market too.
I was actually being sarcastic, I think this is a really bad idea. Sorry man, I see that you're one of the cofounders, I just don't believe this is will help the situation at all. Fwiw I lived for several months in SF, in the tenderloin, stacked in a room usually with at least four, sometimes five other people.
that's the difference between europe and the usa.
> Unfortunately, rent control will have the opposite effect of what Oregon thinks, and only make housing scarcity worse.

I agree in general, but Oregon's law only limits increases to 7% per year. In the long run, that should easily be enough to keep up with inflation, even in a hot market. If San Francisco's law were 7% and not 1-2%, I doubt it would be nearly as much of an issue as it is today (where you have people with rents effectively from decades ago, because that isn't enough to keep up with the market).

The 7% limit seems designed to limit extreme short term increases, but still allow rents to reflect market value in the long term. I think this is a politically smart strategy, without the long term damage of holding rents below market value.

edit: and combined with the zoning changes... I'd say the open market approach to managing housing supply and demand came out way ahead with this law.
Climbing a tree is useful for going to the moon. Having access to heights from which to drop things is a prerequisite step for the first experiments that lead to an understanding of gravity and acceleration ;).
Looks like it. The hypothesis is not completely far out, the benzimidazoles interfere with microtubule assembly, and some chemotherapeutic agents in clinical practice (taxol, the vinca alcaloids) do the same.

The strange thing is that the affinity of benzimidazole anthelmintics to mammalian tubulin is much lower than to roundworm tubulins, but as we say, more research is needed.
Yes, but Geneva and San Jose have the same density. I think it’s worthwhi to see where scaling breaks down with constant density and also worthwhile to not a priori dismiss the idea as non-scaling.
Ask HN: How to get people to see what you're doing?
How do you get from "I have mode something that I think other people will enjoy" to actually getting it under the eyes of people? Especially when you don't already have a big social network and such.
Every Amazon executive, including Bezos, should be required to work as a picker one week per year.
The other option is to simply default and walk away from the property if you can't find a tenant, and you can't afford to eat the loss of selling it.
While I think that some in power do as you suggest, I also think that others do not. You therefore need some other mechanism to distinguish which is well-justified and which is self-justified.

As far as I can tell, the city is making the change on the belief that it promotes equality, and not specifically because it's harmful.

Unless you believe that all inequality is harmful, I don't see how you drew your conclusion.

What would "meaningful change" look like to you? I thought Berkeley had a long history of making meaningful changes.

You appear to be using "virtue signal" in a meaningless way, akin to how the Republicans members of Congress use "socialist" and "communist" to describe anyone to their left.

Has the last 150 years of de-gendering been "pure virtual signal"? Are you going to use "authoress" and "aviatrix" because those poor words couldn't defend themselves?
SMS will be received. It is just like being on the normal cell network.
If you actually want to save money, don’t drive an SUV.

The cheapest new car in the US by the same company is 13,255$ and does 31 city / 39 highway. That cheap SUV gets at best 15 city / 19 highway, so assuming nothing is wrong it’s using twice the fuel.

Assuming 15k annual miles and zero mechanical issues you save money with the new car in ~10 years. Though a more through analysis is likely going to make that time shorter as keeping an old car on the road gets more expensive.
Of course AWS wants you to use them. They would never market for a competitor, that just makes 0 sense.

In terms of reliability, AWS and GCP have solid track records in terms of multi-region availability (I can't say the same about Azure... They seem to be years behind still.) Cost absolutely goes up when you're building out regional fault tolerance, but that's true whether you use a mixture of cloud providers or any specific provider. If you need high availability, you need to waste some level of resources (and in turn, money), it's part of the design.

I'd argue almost anyone would be fine running out of a single aws region. There are specific cases where extreme availability matters, but in that case you're making the tradeoff of cost and simplicity for reliability.

It would be interesting to see something like a study on whether using multiple regions in one cloud provider makes more sense over having your load spread across providers in terms of complexity versus fault tolerance.
A third category needs to exist. Uber drivers are in a gray area between W-2 employees and completely independent contractors. It turns out that's exactly the common-sense compromise Uber is lobbying for. Other countries (such as the UK) have this third category.
This is certainly damning.

However, it seems like all the incidents are happening on the interconnection suburban roads, not the inner neighborhood roads.

Faint praise to be sure; walking and biking as a mode of transportation should be safe and encouraged.
>Get a shitty Toyota

What if I have a shitty Toyota?

>Sell the house

As if I could afford a house, lol...

>Pay off all your debt and student loans if you have any

"Why are you so depressed? Just don't be sad, idiot!"

>Ask your parents to help you out

What if my parents are as broke as I am?

>Go back to school if necessary

And take on more debt that I'm supposed to pay off?

>Laziness is your enemy

My enemy is a system hijacked by the rich to smash and grab as many systems and institutions that are supposed to help poor people as possible.

>Take advantage of your resources and network

I have no money. All my friends are poor. If I didn't go to college, where am I supposed to find these rich friends to get me job references? If I can't afford to go to a bar or a simple restaurant, how am I supposed to spend time with anyone who could help me out?

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I'm not actually the person above. But you must understand why people do not like these common tips you give. It is not because they are lazy, but because they do not have the escape hatches you have/had. They are angry that you think everyone has the luxury of getting a personal bailout from your family members, or that everyone owns a car like a BMW.

I say this as someone in your own position. I have a good car, good apartment, parents who helped pay my student loans, and they even covered my lawyer fees when I tried to start my first LLC.

I am in a luxurious position that millions of my fellow citizens would envy. Yes, of course my parents worked hard, they came to this country in 1999 with $0 in their pockets and worked their way up to managerial positions eventually being able to buy a house in a wonderful neighborhood with three (three!) non-beater cars.

I like to think that I work hard. But the opportunities given to me by having good parents, a strong financial background, being in a calm, safe neighborhood, and especially having a pass-me-down car? Those were free. I didn't work for those. It was complete luck that I ended up with parents who gave me these things.

Luck, not work. That's privilege.
Raj Chetty’s American Dream
Using average power is kind of misleading:

The core inside 0.20 of the solar radius contains 34% of the Sun's mass, but only 3.4% of the Sun's volume. Inside the 0.24 solar radius is the core which generates 99% of the fusion power of the Sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core
John Oliver did not say that Amazon had an employee die. John Oliver started off talking about Amazon and then switched the discussion to the companies trying to keep up with Amazon (in the order fulfillment business) which is where said death occurred. These competitors apparently have far worse employee treatment than Amazon but claim they have to in order to keep prices down due to Amazon's efficiency.
> Even the ranking system may imply in stability.

Seems weak. Are restaurants employed by Yelp? Ranking systems abound nowadays, they imply little.
“They also found 10 firearms, most of which were unregistered, prosecutors said.”

If a prosecutor believes firearms should be “registered”, they should be disbarred.
US median household income is about $60k, which is stagnant for about 15 years despite GDP growth [1]. The median listed housing price has increased by ~50% for the same time[2]. What could a good financial management education teach with these trends in mind?

For a newly-minted median-income household, what is a good financial decision between buying a house or renting? Buying a house with much debt and mortgage payment is risky (remember 2008?) but maybe it is a good investment until that time. Or, not buying a house and continue to pay the rent and helping someone else paying their mortgage may be the safest bet. In either case, there seems growing housing cost anyways that no financial education could help.

Maybe moving to an area where no job exists but house or rent is cheap could be an alternative that no education suggests?

IMO, financial education without considering external environment is easy. It's always like, save more and keep some cash for the risk. But what it doesn't tell people is that the risk is getting higher for the same return and more and more people deplete their income paying the premium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
C++20 Finalized
> They kinda do, by not accepting rides under a certain price and forcing a raise, like it has been reported.

Yes, kinda. My understanding is that once they're "on the clock", they get penalized for declining too many rides.

> This will never happen. Anyone can start a ride-sharing service with a tiny investment. There's no way bankrupting current companies will give Uber an unassailable market.

Except any startup will be forced to either price their rides above the cost of service, or find investors willing to take a loss in order to undercut the former.

Uber may not ever have an unassailable market, but they will have to eventually raise their prices or lower the cost of providing rides.
> ...might be a fun foss project to make a distributed alternative so people could be real contractors. GNUber or something

https://libretaxi.org/
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I spent the past year going out so much... Some weeks I went out every night. Clubs, parties, Toastmasters, interest groups, assorted meetups, ... to no avail. I think I'm done with that, back to square one, writing code from my "basement", talking face to face to maybe 1-2 people a week.
It's perfectly reasonable to complain about the government banning incandescent bulbs. For a drop in the bucket of energy savings, they took away a choice that many people preferred in favor of mainly fluorescent bulbs which are an environmental hazard. Thank God for decent LED lights in the last few years or the irony would still be pretty thick.

It's a great example of poor environmental policy and you dismiss criticism as "weird anxiety". It's not weird to dislike other people forcing you to make choices that they think are for your own good.
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Really? This statement about a place where the word “Balkanization” comes from?
In my own experience, mysterious conflicts were either caused by unusual filenames or case-sensitivity conflicts between Windows and Linux. In every case they were resolved by renaming the file, deselecting the parent folder in the sync config (removing it from the local synced files) and then adding it again for a fresh sync. It's only happened for me a few time, with moderate to heavy daily use. I'm not sure if your conflicts were unresolvable for some other reason, but the "deselect/select for sync" method always worked for me.
Survivor bias, we only get to see Roman successes today ;)
Any fine is an example. $40 to someone on the breadline is a problem. While to someone wealthy it’s nothing. There are people who don’t worry about fines due to their wealth, and just avoid situations that would risk their licence.
For those who enjoy Wittgenstein, I highly recommend the works of one his greatest students - Elizabeth Anscombe. Possibly one of the most prominent women philosophers of all time.
Looks good, but makes me worry that target sponsored this. Are RFCs normally cooperate sponsored?
Gerald Jay Sussman. But yes, they're a rare breed. When I asked an MIT professor to name a few people in the Institute with uncompromising integrity, they could only think of three. Jerry and Pat were two of them.

In this age, it's nearly impossible to make professor at MIT, let alone tenure, without lapses of integrity.
I may have some standards, but I have never had a chance to reject someone. This is actually very puzzling to me - most guys seem to at least have the option of meeting the extremely unattractive / obese women. I don't.
> Pay off all your debt and student loans if you have any.

Paying back student loans seems like a bad idea, what if the Democrats win and forgive student loan debt?

You'll be left holding the bag.

> For example, you could get an MBA.

With another student loan?

> If I can do it, so can you.

Perhaps, but if I was living paycheck to paycheck, I'd be in "good company" with the federal government, local governments, corporate America and the majority of the general population. That's a pretty big interest group. I have a feeling there's a big debt jubilee coming up...
>the competitors are having a hard time because Uber can keep undercutting them

They keep undercutting Uber, should Uber ignore that? Besides, Uber doesn't set prices significantly below the competitors, it relies on being a superior service with lower wait times and higher vehicle utilization. If you open Uber and Lyft you will typically see very similar prices, with the main difference that Uber can be lower because they are a more efficient service, but Lyft will make up for this by subsidizing rides even more than Uber (something you can see very clearly in their S-1 and quarterly earnings reports).
It seems like everyone in the US is getting postmodernism wrong
As far as linting and formatting is concerned, having a company-wide policy and having IDEs implement it automatically and presubmit checks enforce it is enough.

However a lot of the arguments over code review come from (sometimes) aesthetic preferences about code decisions. Should this be pulled out as a function? What should it be named? Should this be inlined or pulled out as a variable? Is ~A or ~B more readable or ~(A and B) (the latter ends up causing the ugly sandwich (!( in languages like C++ or Java), etc etc.

These don't have automated solutions, but can nevertheless spark impassioned arguments.
This is not the intent at all, I work in the AWS Well-Architected team, and we are engineers trying to help other engineers. If you follow the best practices you will spend less (there are performance and cost optimization pillars).
The story is also in song form by Molly Lewis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39st68H1reA
Or you could spend $65 on a raspberry pi and install pi-hole. Then a huge amount of advertising and tracking never gets accessed and everything goes faster. This is a little more pragmatic then expecting all advertising to go away.
Right, I was trying to figure out what bitwise operation the control key performed specifically, but my google-fu was failing. Is it key ^ 0b10?
The IRS allows you to deduct $0.51/mile if you use your car for business. This takes into account all the costs of driving: gas, insurance, registration, depreciation, maintenance and repairs.[1] I don't know if it also takes into account the opportunity cost of having $15-50k sitting in your driveway instead of in an investment.

The average American commutes 32 miles/day round-trip[2] (we're not counting other driving). So they're incurring ~$16/day in direct and indirect costs related to car ownership and driving. Over 1 year of workdays, that's approximately $4k in car-related costs.

The median household income in the United States is approximately $60k.[3]

This implies that the median household spends almost 7% of income just on one car. Most households have 2 vehicles so I'll wager it's more like 10-12% of income. This is also more than the amount households save annually (6%).[4]

1. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...

2. https://itstillruns.com/far-americans-drive-work-average-744...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

4. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savings
A fusion reactor that is operating needs shielding against neutron radiation much the same as a fission reactor does. So a fusion reactor on a manned plane still has the same mass issue even if it were compact enough to fit.