skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't appear to cost anything at all.
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Wow ... just wow

I can't possibly add anything to the story, provide additional insight or historical reference. All I can do is to be profoundly thankful that there are people like Ben Ferencz in the world and hope that, in my own small way, I'm leaving the planet a bit better than I found it.
> The problem is that you eventually end up stuck with an ancient version of Chromium without security fixes and incompatible with websites that use newer browser features.

Samsung can't even keep their flagship phones up to date, their TVs are not going to be kept updated regardless of what Google does with Chrome...
In Penrose book that introduced his thoughts on this argument he devotes an entire chapter to his objective collapse theory and quantum gravity. You asked for a paper and I gave you many. You want to know more pick up his book.
>- Bitcoin mining that regular user can't detect

It makes very little sense to mine on anything other than ASICs.
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sources on github. It's available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It works on any tabular data source. The UI for creating a pivot table is clear and intuitive and efficient (just a few clicks); many users find Excel's pivot table interface difficult and confusing. The underlying typed data model is a better fit for many data sets. And finally, it is many times faster than Excel for loading and working with large CSV files: My large test data set takes 12 sec to load in Tad vs 40 sec. for Excel.
The guy in this needs to get off his phone, this whole thing lacks self-awareness... There is a difference between playing with your phone around your kid all the time and spending time with your kid.
My favorite examples of overreliance on conditionals: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/285492834444771328/28... https://i.redd.it/6fh5xb20ttly.png http://i.imgur.com/GqcvMhp.png
If you're a beginner, and the intent is to learn C programming, I would start with ubuntu since it's stable and lots of linux questions asked online are often asked by other ubuntu users. Learn how the system is put together and get a feel for the tools. After a while, maybe try out Arch or some other start-from-scratch distro. I say this as someone who runs Arch on my work and personal laptop. I really like Arch, but it certainly requires some upfront knowledge and you can really shoot yourself in the foot.

Reduce as many variables as you can while getting started, and running ubuntu is certainly a great way of doing that. Plus, a lot of shops run ubuntu in production, which makes that experience pretty valuable. Good luck!
It seems to me that this high profile character often goes on record mentioning things that ultimately end up being just his wishful thinking and don't have much bearing.
The chance of success would be higher if the term GLX would be used: Debian GLX, Ubuntu GLX, etc.
> I have a hard time believing that. With a ton of stuff
> all running inside of Chrome, it's much easier for them
> to access each other's data than if they were standalone
> apps.

Ah, the argument from incredulity.

If you're using X11, every command with access to the display server (which is usually everything you run) can read all keyboard and pointer input and screen output and inject arbitrary input.
Apparently Dijkstra thought that if we could somehow think more abstractly and mathematically then we'd avoid making mistakes.

But in practice, it seems to be the opposite: most people have a hard time thinking abstractly. We need analogies to make sense of things.

For example, there was an experiment [1] showing that even basic logic is easier to handle if it's thought of as "detecting cheating" than as a pure logic problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
The promisify stuff looks rather clunky. Aren't there better options?
Is that still true if someone else foots the power bill?
Oh please. The point of the post was to illustrate the feature to those wondering "what's async/await?", error handling would be complete noise for that purpose.
I don't see what's unclean about Promise.all or how creating a 1:1 alias for it makes it cleaner.

Also, many times you want to limit the concurrency of your promise execution which isn't something you can do with an array of promises. You'd be back to using `await` + something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/promise.map.

I'm someone that used to use `co` where you could go:

const [a, b] = yield [promiseA(), promiseB()]

But I prefer the simplicity and consistency of having to use something like Promise.all or require('promise.map').
I recommend you try Fedora.

Even though Ubuntu is beginner-friendly at first sight, in very short time you'll see that all the benefit you're supposed to get from a community are actually hacks to solve things like: GUI issues with Unity, some services not starting, services crashing randomly, and so on.

Fedora is often taken as somewhat unstable because of its fast release cycle and lack of a long-term support release, but, in my experience, it has proven itself to be very reliable and stable for my workflow.
NixOS is great for development, particularly C since C doesn't have a language-specific package manager / build system. http://nixos.org/

Although it's going down: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity If you want a distro on the upswing you should instead look at GuixSD; it emphasizes the "GNU" part of GNU/Linux. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
What's the ugly side of Silicon Valley and the tech industry culture?
I had 250k on an +20 year old Toyota pickup, though things slowly start to crap. Leaky carb diaphragms due to ethanol, harmonic balancer wearing out, corroded brakes lines, bad clutch cylinder, dead ignition module. Donated that after buying a new Toyota pickup. Had that for 12 years now with zero problems.

Purchased a used 2015 Nissan Leaf recently and very happy with that. We'll see how the battery holds up.

I think many will ditch their cars not due to engine wear, but for stupid reasons like their smartphone not linking to the stereo.
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Soekris Engineering, Inc. has suspended operations in the USA
I think these are all very legitimate reasons, thanks for the info!
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There is an option called [super_]read_only designed for this use-case:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variab...
Once you're done with your tirade, let me gently direct you back to what I actually said: "Bikes are a great thing[...] but they're not an either-or proposition in many environments."

While you could maybe be a bit less polemic about it if you'd actually like to engage in a debate instead of yet another Internet flamewar, you've understood the core of the problem: Introducing bikes in the US is a cultural issue. It's a long slog. Dropping a subsidy for e-cars (which is crucial to drop pollution levels and break petroleum dependency) for bikes nobody will use right now is... not helping anybody.

You might also want to improve your understanding of another culture before you insult them wholesale. So, a few things:

* "jaywalking" means illegally crossing the street. Which exists in Europe as well as the US.

* "As for the sweat thing, that is not a problem on a bike". You really might want to learn about humidity.

* "you can pick up really fresh nice food on a daily basis from better shops". No, no you really can't. The shopping situation here is dismal.
Wow.. I just want to seat in a mediation done by him to see WTF he does that cost so much.
As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (NY Times)
Whether or not you use Arch Linux itself, the documentation at wiki.archlinux.org is really truly fantastic. I learned so much by setting up and customizing my Arch system(s), but it was those docs that helped me learn more than anything specific to the Arch distro/code/tools itself.
Well, they were pretending to be Marxist at least.

Which is about as pretty close as any modern state gets to actually being "Marxist".
And, annoyingly to those who prefer other distros, one major selling point for *ubuntu distros is that nearly every aspect of setup/configuration/adjustment is documented somewhere, be it a blog post, wiki, stack exchange, forum post, etc.

For certain less popular desktop distros (e.g. slackware, arch, and to a certain extent fedora, debian, etc.) there are lots of little things where you find some decent documentation, but you have to know how to adapt it to your particular OS version. Things like that kill a beginner's curiosity, because in the beginning, you just want to get some random thing working, not debug linux kernel versions and package repositories!
I'm not sure where you're getting any of this from.

First, I don't see why you think WASM-based ads will be any less blockable than JS already is.

Stronger DRM on the web [is already a thing][1], but that has nothing to do with WASM.

Bitcoin mining on the web is already possible with JS and so far that hasn't been an issue. If it does start becoming a widespread problem though, browsers will start taking steps to combat it, like they [already have][2] for pages that needlessly consume CPU in the background.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

[2]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/background...
For a Japanese twist, read Eiji Yoshikawa's novels - he fictionalized historical accounts into novels, Taiko is set before Shogun and is about the rise of Oda Nobunaga, who was succeeded by Clavell's Tokugawa Ieyasu. Musashi is about the famous swordsman's life.
You can choose what kind of laptop you want. ChromeOS is one of the options, and security (+ trivial exchange-ability) is one of the selling points for using a Chromebook.

I tried it for a while, but I'm too used to the Mac to have made the switch more easily, so I moved back. But I know quite a few folks who use and love them. Opinions, as I'm sure you can guess, vary widely. It was surprisingly not-bad, even for a diehard mac user, and that was on a model from two years ago.
Completely OT, but is there a mathematical explanation for why, when scrolled the spaces between the words appear to form connect channels?
Antergos is arch, but super user friendly.. I was sick of ubuntu (crashed a lot for me) and antergos runs very smoothly, for added pleasure I recommend trying i3 window manager once you learn tiles you'll love it--esp. if you do any web development.
Perhaps the better question is, how is this better than Google Spreadsheets? Most of your reasons still apply, but I believe google docs handles large spreadsheets pretty well (after an initial loading phase).
I'm sad to see PDF.js go. The PDF spec is ~12K pages long, and most of those pages describe things I don't want my PDF viewer to support, like embedded Flash, in much the same way I don't want my browser to support Flash.

PDF.js is at a very comfortable nexus of compatibility and efficiency, and I kind of wish I could use it for non-web-PDFs as well (but not so much that I want to put it in an Electron wrapper).
What they could do is make the cartridge inoperable without online activation, in which the customer has to agree to terms of use. Damn, that's evil...
agreed I love antergos, my favorite distro by far, esp. with i3 window manager.
The massive ChromeOS market as compared to the Chrome extension app store?
Where can one buy these printers?
I've made this point before and people are always skeptical. Consider how many fewer moving parts an electric car has. It's like the difference between solid state electronics and vacuum tube electronics.
Just use ZFS. It's been battle tested for the last 13 years in production, and was written by careful, thoughtful, intelligent engineers to solve a problem. BTRFS was written sloppy to solve the problem of "oh no, Sun did a thing good"
Sure, people get railroaded by the justice system all to often. But more often than not those are usually unfortunate souls with little ability to defend themselves accused of crimes far more heinous than stealing trade secrets.

For what Levandowski is accused of and how he is accused of doing it, there should be plenty of either incriminating or exculpatory evidence, if the parties involved want to divulge it. Google isn't some district attorney trying to look tough on crime for the voters, nobody outside of Google and Uber really care all that much about the case really care or which way it goes. Levandowski, by pleading the 5th has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion (yes, yes, shame on all of us) so he can't be clinging to whatever shreds of his reputation are left for future jobs.

It's not impossible that he is innocent and his lawyer thinks the best strategy is to plead the 5th anyway, I just don't happen to buy it myself.
It may take a bit longer before it is disabled everywhere, but I feel like the writing is pretty much on the wall for NaCl at this point; If you develop or depend on apps that leverage it (in any context), this should probably be a warning sign to start thinking about how to sever that dependency (even if it's not urgent).
Well, there's AMP. Most people on HN seem to really hate that solution though.
Don't most ad blockers just rely on media queries on the DOM? I imagine there's a lot of ways to circumvent those techniques when you are rendering raw pixels with wasm.
I think you're referring to word rivers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)).
KDE Plasma 5.10, Simple by Default, Powerful When Needed
For development these days I use generic Debian stable install with guix package manager. You can install a dozen different versions of gcc if you want and isolate your project from the rest of the machine with guix environment https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg009...

Fujitsu Lifebook E8410 has Intel graphics and Atheros wireless, it's also perfect for running a BSD. They are simple systems to learn and use, especially OpenBSD where all configuration is in one directory. Here's all you need to know as a casual user in one post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797171
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Though I don't think it needs to drop exponentially. Take any of the new EV (Leaf, Bolt, Model 3) that are $35k and drop the price by 2/3, keep the 200 mile range, and ICE car sales will die fast. ICE car prices are not dropping. EV only need to drop below ICE, not a continuous Moore's law.

I bought a used 2015 Leaf recently for $8500. Yes, it's only 80 mile range, but that gets me to work for two days without charging. It's nearly free to drive; $0.02/mile energy costs, or nothing if I charge for free at local charge stations.
Ubuntu is good, just pick a flavor you like. I currently enjoy Ubuntu Budgie, which is a new official spin on Ubuntu. If you want something different that is truly worthwhile check out openSUSE, it has more packages than a lot of distros I've seen and they do a lot to contribute to other Linux distributions.
I really don't understand how anyone can use Google office apps, the UI is painfully slow. I was using Gnumeric before, but I'll try this out, thanks OP!
WASM is aiming to be fast enough to actually be capable of running a rendering engine. No more DOM for adblockers to look at, the pages may finally become canvases.

I just cannot see this not happening.