skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct in theory, but there are so many conditions in your answer that you have really proven GP's point.

Even if you make sure that information gain about an individual from your dataset is minimal, this could easily change if combined with other data sets, as GP stated.
I just tried changing the feed sorting order to "Most Recent" and found that it only displays 4 posts. One post from a page I follow, one advertisement whose sponsor was liked by one of my friends, one post that links an article from one of my friends, and a series of posts on a friend's wall for their birthday.

At the bottom, it says "there are no more posts to show right now." If I change the sorting order back to "Top Stories", it shows far more posts and the first four are in the same order as the ones shown in the other sorting order.

Given that, I don't have much incentive to use the "Most Recent" sorting order it seems.
And the effect on the grid and electricity infrastructure is non trivial and in the USA the grid is not as well developed as it is in the UK Europe so its even worse for the USA with its 110v standard
Why go from WASM to native? If you're using LLVM to get your WASM, just go directly to native, if other, find a native implementation of the language you're using.
You’re a student who needs to take notes for a class. You open your laptop to find that the battery has died. No problem. You’ll just plug the charger in. But, unbeknownst to you, it had downloaded an update silently the last time you used it. Now that it’s booting up you’ll get nothing but a Windows Update screen for the next 15 minutes.

You’re at the doctor’s office waiting for an appointment. You open your laptop for a minute to check your mail. Surprise! Windows is booting up with an update. The nurse then calls your name and you have to carry your laptop around with the lid open like a jackass or risk bricking it.
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A regulation can be oppressive even if you had a vote in forming the regulation. The two are only marginally connected to each other.

"Democracy is the idea that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
Because Crystal doesn't have a good Windows story.
I have the same problem with Windows 7. "Applying updates" until just over 80%, then "Update failed, reverting changes..." followed by a reboot. It goes through this cycle 3 times before finally booting to the desktop. Each attempt takes between 30 minutes and an hour.

I followed all the instructions from Microsoft to reset Windows Update and ran their "Fix It" assistant multiple times. Guess I just won't be booting into Windows anymore, I only used it for a single game anyway.
er no because people are used to going to the gas /petrol station and being able to refuel in 10 min
I actually agree with the person commenting the original article:

> The "security updates" situation reminds me of organized crime's protection racket: Either pay us to "protect" you or bad things will happen. In the case of automatic "security" updates -- and not just Microsoft's -- we're compelled to pay in computers and programs that are corrupted with unwanted new behaviors. If you don't accept those, well then your computer will be insecure. So "pay up" or else.
You can explain things with more than a single picture. You can also play with pictures in your mind, and you can encourage students to do so by giving them more than one picture. Visualizing corner cases is often very useful. For triangles, you can change angles and side lengths and see which facts still hold and which don't and how certain values/function results develop.

Moreover, it very much depends on who your target group is. My brain, for example, works entirely inductively (in the beginning). I won't be able to develop an intuition of something if I don't start with examples. Pictures are often good examples. During my undergrad studies, my linear algebra prof was as critical about pictures as you and other commenters here. I hated it. I was never able to get an intuition about the more abstract topics until I saw concrete examples including pictures in later lectures and projects. Moreover, not everyone is going to be a theoretical mathematician or quantum physicist. I suspect that by not showing pictures, you usually lose more students along the way than pictures would ruin students that need a fully abstract understanding (later). It would be interesting to see some data on this, but I guess its going to be difficult to collect.
I have a theory about stoicism in the past vs. stoicism in the present. Keep in mind that I say this all from a very North American point of view (born in Iran, but grew up in Canada).

In the past, there was no guard against disease. If it came, you were done for. There were some limited options available when it came to medicine, but by and large, if you got a disease, that was it. It was out of your hands, and even if you wanted to, you couldn't do anything.

In the present, there are a lot of solutions that can be solved with enough access to capital. It's possible now, not impossible as it was prior, to cure yourself of certain ailments, if only you live in the right place, have the right amount of money (or social security), etc. To a certain degree, living in a particular place and access to capital can be a matter of personal choice. A lot of the time, not enough to get you the treatment you need, but enough to give you the sense of having some measure of control.

Having a measure of control but being powerless is new to modern life.

That's what I think, at least. What does HN think?

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Industrial Society and it's Future really hit home for me a month ago when I first came across it. I feel you.
I agree. The point is, they might not have the funds or the "political will", as you say, to implement a UBI in Euros. They cannot print Euros. But if they can issue "tokens" out of thin air and encourage network effects that lead to some acceptance in shops etc., that might be a different way to go.
"About 65% of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels"

These EV cars should be renamed "Coal Cars" so people understand the true harsh carbon footprint. Because you plug the car into a wall doesn't mean the energy is clean.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
I'm hoping that enaml-native improves some of the pain points that I had with kivy (ex. non native widgets, complicated build system, no "standard" tool integration / debugging, poor version management, "centralized" recipes). Enaml-native addresses a lot of these (or tries to). Would you mind sharing what issues you had?
I wasn't advocating for perfect exactly measured equality, I was arguing for a distribution that wasn't over the top insanely unfair to 99+% of everyone.
I did Pomodoro for about 3 years while I was doing my PhD (UK type). It was a live saver for me as I came from a study system that had all the questions and answers given to you, so the requirement of sitting in my desk to 'do research' was completely alien to me. Before I adopted Pomodoro, I tended to procrastinate and distract a lot. Using Pomodoro I got to focus, and found a way to split what I was doing (reading papers, writing, thinking about my problem) in small bites.

Nowadays I wouldn't think in using it, because my current work requires me to be interrupted plenty of times a day. Pomodoro is terrible if your activities include interacting with other people. But for me it really worked.
Yeah, someone got it confused with Titanium.
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Yeah you can but then you have exactly the same problems as a browser render so I'm not sure it's useful.
I actually worked through an issue like this on 7, took about a day, and only after I found the correct directions online. There was an update that broke update, that’s when I turned off win update. The only reason I use the machine is to rdp to work because I couldn’t get the Linux vpn client to work, I’ll have to revisit that.
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Exactly, I was surprised that TFA brushed away the terrible handling of updates, especially of late. "Sometimes, updates will annoy you" is quite an understatement when it involves having a whole different OS being installed without your consent.

I definitely do not tell people to turn Windows Update off but I also definitely do not try to convince to turn it on because I don't want them to hold me accountable if something weird happens. That's where MS messed up, turning updates on should be a no-brainer, not a compromise. It's easy to lose trust, it's hard to regain it.
no because carparks don't have the electrical power availed to support charging hundreds or cars at at a time - they will have enough to run the lights but not enough to service hundreds of high amperage car chargers
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or ride the bubble and get out as soon as you made "enough".
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Friends,
It should be fun to compute and with that in mind I wrote a service that rewrites arbitrary sites according to your likings, i.e. a reverse http proxy with dynamic rewrite rules.

Excerpt from http://www.scrupless.net/what.html:

"The Scrupless rewriter is a text analysis tool which can be used to experiment with live sites. Rewriting can be an effective tool to reveal paradoxes in popular social trends and political movements, to play with ideas, and to uncover underlying prejudice and bias. You could, for example, swap "man" for "woman" to deepen your understanding of the underlying content."

A quick example of what it can do:

https://is.gd/v8m4Rb - The Flat Earth Society turns (a)round)

Create your own rewrite rules here: http://www.scrupless.net/

Most of the examples on http://www.scrupless.net/ are in swedish but you get the gist. If you can come up with better examples please tell me.

This was fun to write. Nothing fancy. The source code is on https://sourceforge.net/projects/scrupless/

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'No I just think that it's all down to the fact that they're better at business.

The weakest of these German chains is in my opinion Lidl, but I'd prefer to go there than the Tesco I have around the corner any day!'

I agree the German supermarkets seem to have better management, that which is visible at shop floor level anyway, for sure.

I don't like Aldi and Lidl because the checkout process is so rushed and chaotic. Obviously, some people don't mind and see it as a fair trade-off?
Eh. I regularly update my Windows gaming PC and every time it takes a long time to restart and apply updates. Far more than macOS and Ubuntu. And this is not new behaviour.
> Though to be fair the W10 experience is still a significant improvement over the XP and W7 days (I haven't had an update repeatedly fail yet).

I am on the other side of that fence, managing about 100 machines across all versions W7-W10 and Server 2008-2016.

Win7 boxes are by far the most stable desktops, in the past year I have had at least ten win10 systems blow up due to updates, stuck in and endless loop of installing at shutdown and reverting at startup. A few weeks ago two stock server 2016's with nothing but SQL Server installed outright died to a windows update (unbootable).

I am never upgrading my personal windows machines past windows 7.
Mainly because I am not familiar with Ruby. But if Krystal emerges with a strong library ecosystem, I will definitely consider it.

Another factor is backing by an established company. Unfortunately Nim (I like Python a lot), D and Crystal are languages supported by relatively small communities. But I understand all languages start somewhere. Python, PHP, and Ruby are examples where one person languages eventually became very popular.

I won't mind doing small CLI projects in Crystal, but for something that I do for a client which needs to stay in production for years, strong backing by a well-known company goes a long way.

In fact, Go is an easy sell these days in the enterprise, once you drop words like Google, Docker, and Kubernates. Unfortunately, it's not sufficient to understand merits of a language to get your company/client to use a language. Business decision makers need some kind of social proof.
> Why, God, why?

Afaik, both Ruby and Crystal allows you to write dumb functions and procedures, if you love C style structured programming.

def plus_one(x)
x + 1
end

So perhaps you should calm down a bit.
I run an app called Don't Sleep to stop this exact scenario. Auto-updates is one thing, rebooting the computer (and killing everything running) when you are running a long-running experiment is the inverse of peak happiness.

The app just lies in the background, does nothing else than this. Suspend/hibernate works as it should, it just stops auto-reboots.
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That makes no sense. Microformats 2 defines how to parse html into json form, and there are multiple implementations in different programming languages.

http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats-2-parsing

If you have problems with micropub, file issues with the spec.

https://github.com/w3c/Micropub/issues
> If the Reals are fundamentally the set of all points that make up a line, the "imaginary numbers" are the set of all 2d points in a plane

I'm not sure that's true. It's a very good way to visualize complex numbers at first, but the set of points in a 2D plane does not define complex numbers.

That's a very interesting question actually, what is the difference between R^2 != C ? Here's someone's attempt at showing this (top answer): https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/444475/whats-the-di...

To me, trying to visualize complex numbers is an easy way to forget that R^2 != C.... They look the same but don't behave the same way (how do you multiply to members of R^2 with each other ? you need to define it, whereas multiplication in C is already defined). C doesn't behave like 2D vectors either. Since multiplying 2 complex is not the same as multiplying 2 vectors (whatever that means) although their components could be the same.

structure structure structure.
I find the Windows Update in windows10 pretty good :-) Not as good as OS X update mechanism, but it's miles ahead of what we had in previous Windows :-)
That's the old version; they're claiming the new can add 3.7 miles of range for each day of charging.
OSX gets it right? Yeah, by delaying many security updates.
I admit though when they do updates, you barely notice.
It didn't even do that unless you explicitly turned on a flag in about:config.
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These things are cyclical:

* Early computers (1960-1980s): Dumb Terminal - Remote Server

* Early PCs (1980s-1995): Local Processing - Remote Storage

* WWW (1995-2010s): Dumb Terminal - Remote Server

* JS/ASM/Etc (2010s - near future): Local Processing - Remote Storage

Its fully possible that we will switch again to dumb terminal model. For instance, once the hassle of local code execution takes it toll, someone will have the bright idea of just putting the web browser itself in the cloud and just having a remote control connection to that browser....and the cycle will begin again.
Heavily discussed at time of publication 7 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340286
Id speak to an electrical engineer before you make such wild assertions - upgrading supplies like this will be massively expensive.

Also battery tech doesn't follow mores law so we aint going to get an order of magnitude change in battery tech ever
That makes no sense to me. Most of what makes Crystal different from Ruby results from the former being a static language and the later being dynamic.

I understand that dynamic languages are not popular these days on HN, but it's silly to suggest they should become static languages. They just offer different tradeoffs, a bit like screws and nails.
Most electric cars will charge at night, which is when power consumption is currently at its lowest. Power stations (and other parts of the power infrastructure) have to be sized to the daytime peak, plus a safety margin to cope with at least the loss of any single element. So until the extra consumption from cars charging overnight grows above the difference between the nighttime low and the daytime peak, not much extra infrastructure is needed.

On the other hand, there will be cars charging at daytime (either at fast chargers, or while the owner is at work); and there are some power stations that can only work during the day. I don't know which of these two factors is bigger.
Maybe in certain parts of the world, where they're still stuck in the industrial era.

Ontario's power generation is primarily nuclear, then hydro, then wind, with a small percentage being gas turbines. https://cns-snc.ca/media/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelectrici...

I can charge my electric car here and comfortably assume that it is clean energy.
You also can end up in an Omelas situation. Normal for the vast majority, living hell for the rest. Hmm that sounds familiar ..
> I'm not leaving Firefox over this.

Of course, I am not leaving. The CMO should be leaving!
Are electric buses even necessary when electric autonomous sedans are available?
I have been trying this for sometime, but was not able to do it. Will try your tutorial
PS: This is GDPR, not the EU VAT thing (also referred to by the OP). The former is painful but necessary; the latter is a straight-up unmanageable mess created by people with no understanding of the Internet. This is not a monolithic "all regulation good"/"all regulation bad" thing.
God, I hate that phrase. I mean, I know that's the intended reason for it - to make it outrageous. But it's also stupidly incorrect. Facebook is not "producing" people who are using it, it is producing specific representation of data about their users. And I do not believe whatever data Facebook has can be considered equal to actual people.
It's rather inconvenient to use, but they do that already in a form of KB articles linked from the Windows Updates UI.
Microsoft thinks just because Google can force-feed Chrome updates to users, it can do that with Windows too. It doesn't seem to comprehend that an OS has fundamentally more stringent availability and reliability requirements than a browser.

For example, my Chrome ("stable") right now just renders most new windows as completely white -- no address bar or anything else. Because Google decided to force-feed me a buggy version I never wanted or asked for. So I have to open 2-3 new windows before I get a working one. It's painful but I can still do that, or use Firefox/IE if all else fails. If this kind of crap happened with the OS I would not be able to use my laptop at all.
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It means that all polynomials with coefficients in the real numbers have roots in the complex numbers.

Maybe a different example would help. Imagine we are working with Integers modulo 3 (denoted Z/3Z). Z/3Z is a field, meaning we have all the expected arithmetic (+, -, , /) and we can look at polynomials. Here is a polynomial that is irreducible i.e. does not have roots in Z/3Z:

x^2+1

We can construct an extension field in which this has a root; let's call the root i and write the extension Z/3Z(i). Here is where finite fields like Z/3Z differ from the real numbers: extensions like Z/3Z(i) still have irreducible polynomials. On the other hand, in the real numbers, x^2+1 is irreducible, but if we construct an extension where it is reducible, R(i) i.e. the complex numbers, we get a field where there are no irreducible polynomials (that is the basic idea of the fundamental theorem of algebra).
How is this any different to rendering to canvas or WebGL using minified and obfuscated Javascript?

WebAssembly is just a more compact representation.
Vitamin D should be the first.
Yeah, if we want latency added to literally every action... I understand that what you're saying is a possibility, but I sure hope it doesn't come to pass.
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I agree. At the moment you can use WebAssembly, but it is not exactly user friendly. Effectively they have only build tools that can work inside other tools or as a part of an existing toolchain.

However, the end game is to be able to load a WebAssembly module just like you load a JS script. So, we are going to get there, but it will take some time.
How does the emissions of a coal plant (plus the loss from transfering over the power line, battery, into motors) compare to the emissions of a regular petrol or diesel car?
Red [0] has a fantastic cross-compilation story, is a tiny compiler, and is a kind of Lispy version of Object-Oriented. Includes GUI support in the native runtime. It's meant to be a sort of "better Rebol".

[0] http://www.red-lang.org/p/getting-started.html
I doubt many will go out of business. At least in the U.S. the stations themselves make maybe 2-3 cents a gallon profit, which likely doesn't even begin to cover operating costs. The vast majority of their income is from the convenience store items.

All but the most poorly run will pay whatever is needed to install electric chargers and stay in the game.
I wonder how Microsoft employees react whenever that happens in their own meetings. Do they just laugh and forget about the issue? Do they ignore it and quickly grab another computer? Do they use undocumented settings to fix the issue?
This is hardly inherent to Javascript/WebAssembly. Installed applications are binary code, i.e. closed by default unless you explicitly provide source code. The same holds true for web applications, however, for some reason we don't care about it being open source that much anymore...
BC is a bit of an exception because of the low density. In a higher density area, you can count on public transit to take you long distances and use the electric car to make up the difference.

One of the benefits of going full electric would be smog reduction. Again, BC doesn't really have a smog problem because of low density, but somewhere like Toronto or LA would benefit hugely from not having gas and diesel vehicles clogging up the streets (and air).
As I understand it, even electricity generated from coal is significantly cleaner than the equivalent in gasoline.
I don't call those "accurate" personally, but YMMV
Ok, so how would you explain venn diagrams without pictures? How would you describe Mandelbrot sets without pictures? How would you explain hyperbolic parabaloids without pictures? How would you explain conic sections without pictures? How would you explain a trapezoid without pictures? How would you describe a sine wave without pictures? Eversion of a sphere? How would you illustrate the calculation of the slope of a curve when talking about derivatives without pictures? How about a cycloid? How would you show the representation of a signal in both time domain and frequency domain?
The government doesn't need to immediately borrow 1 EUR or have it on hand write you a check for 1 EUR, so the comparison holds.
Depends on where you live. Not all states are coal states.

Where I live (NY), coal is either gone or on the way out. Electricity comes from hydro, gas and nuclear. Coal is getting killed by natural gas.
All that is true, and it's the consequence of internal devaluation through austerity.

It's fascinating to see how that is sold to the population, in the middle of an export boom, and very low inflation.
On off if not the primary duties of MP's in a parliamentary system is to hold the executive to account - this means proper scrutiny of all bills.
Even with unsustainable generation the carbon footprint of one big generator is less than the footprint of lots of tiny ICEs. https://www.withouthotair.com/c20/page_131.shtml
Some drivers still ask for cash tips ("Uber takes a cut if you tip in the app").