skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Linux' tends to have a reputation as being complicated to use or it's just for developers, etc. But nothing could be further from the truth. If you install one of the more modern distributions like Ubuntu, the OS runs faster, easier to use and much more friendly for just getting stuff done.

I've now realised that I will never buy another Microsoft OS after using Windows 10. I had to download a separate program to switch off all the spyware and to disable crippling updates. This isn't even a problem with Ubuntu.
It's not speculation: there are already markets (Norway) where close to 50% of all new cars sold are EVs.

Other countries (China, Netherlands, France, UK) will follow as governments set mandates for electrification.

The US is likely be some years behind Europe and China on uptake for various reasons - there's not quite the same environmental imperative (air pollution) driving government policy, there's less tax on fossil fuels, and geography/demographics are not quite as favourable due to longer commutes and longer distances between cities.

But I do think we'll see significant electrification in many markets during the 2020s, with double-digit market share globally for BEVs by 2030 and >50% share in some markets (China, parts of Europe).

(btw: You do not need a garage or carport for EV charging. Chargers can be, and very often are in my experience, installed outdoors.)
That is very useful.
Try going back and visiting it again if your adblocker blocks the entire interstitial.

Also, hopefully you're using uBlock Origin. Nothing else is really any good (except uMatrix, but it's almost the same).
Isn't that exactly what LTSB is designed for?
That is an issue of reputation or PR.
I need to try that cpufreq for battery life...
It's a compromise for its super compact dimension, sadly throttling down the cpu defensively is becoming very common for a lot of models, even the last macbook iteration has that problem

That's one of the reasons for which I still keep buying "thicker" laptops like the T series of lenovo.
Last commit on master was 5 days ago, and appears otherwise to be maintained. A lot can change in a repo in 2 years
VM's a solution?
Whoa, I primarily run Win 10 Pro on my home machine and was assuming that if I'd splashed out for an Enterprise license, I wouldn't be having this problem of extremely pushy/sneaky updates.

It's good to know I'm probably saving hundreds of dollars (if a home user can even buy a single enterprise license without too much hassle) for basically the same pain.
Most people already do that.
Wouldn’t it have to ask permission to access that data on installation though?
Not an answer per se, but so far the best solution I've found for the random reboots is the RebootBlocker service[0] written by Ulrich Decker

[0] - https://www.udse.de/en/windows-10-reboot-blocker
Sounds like you got a lemon of a paste job. My XPS 15 is able to run with a full load on all cores for hours at a time. Similarly, gaming on it doesn't seem to cause any issues.

It's possible that external factors are the issue (such as ambient temperatures), however I'd wager that a proper repaste of both the CPU and GPU would improve cooling.

By default the XPS (and actually most Dell laptops) seem to come set to RAID rather than AHCI, which is likely the BIOS change you're referring to.
Seconding this, the number of e-commerce companies who got "A/B testing into bankruptcy" on my memory approaches 20.

My take on this. Even in cases where such testing was done by disciplined statisticians (which is not the case in at least 9 times out of 10. Yes, a math or cs PhD major is not a professional statistician by any stretch,) the value of advice made from that data is marginal at best.

As eCommerce is bread and butter of cheap electronics industry, I saw times and times again that "science driven" outfits loose out to others. Not so much because of their quality of decision making was demonstrably inferior, but because their obsession with "statistical tasseography" drained their resources, and shifted their focus away from things of obvious importance.
> But, in terms of strictly legal arguments, the US constitution only affords those rights to US citizens, which these children were not.

This is not true. The Constitution uses "citizen" when it means "citizen", and "person" when it means "person." The Fourteenth Amendment is a great example:

"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Citizens have privileges and immunities that cannot be deprived by the states, but all persons have the rights to life, liberty, property, due process, and equal protection. The Sixth Amendment also does not say "citizen" when it talks about a speedy trial and a right to counsel.

See also Wong Wing v. US (1892), that illegal aliens were protected by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments when being tried under the Chinese Exclusion Act; Plyler v. Doe (1982), that the use of "person" in the Equal Protection clause definitely includes illegal aliens; Zadvydas v. Davis (2001), that due process applies to everyone on US soil, even if facing a deportation order; etc.
Rural Japan? Wow, that must be amazingly different from the U.S. I’ve often thought about offering my services to different countries to experience what it’s like living there.
The latest MacBook with i9 also throttles heavily to the degree that it's worse than the i7 model.

When I was researching laptops, they all seem to have problems actually putting the CPU under load for extended periods of time. Loud fan noise, throttling etc.

They all seem to be built for mostly idle CPU loads, with spiking only for a few secs at a time to load programs.
I think there is still a fundamental difference in the way you troubleshoot things between Linux and Windows. In Linux you can usually find something on Stack overflow or Ask Ubuntu, copy a few commands into the terminal and get things working. In Windows you can find some icons in the settings related to what you are doing and randomly click until things work again. While I prefer the first option I can understand why others (who are not IT professionals) prefer the second.
Which year is that XPS 15 from? I considered buying one in early 2014 but I didn't because a lot of people was having issues like that (both on Windows and Linux.)
The Portal team was aquahired, like dota2's IceFrog.
Truckee is relatively expensive given the demand for second homes for wealthy coastal types.

Why not just cross the border? Incline Village is great and you avoid CA taxes
> Years later he started to sell Klein Bottles on his website.

From a miniature robotic warehouse under his house, no less:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/23/how-clifford-stoll-sells-k...
Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities
Forgive me for this being off topic: if you use a script blocker this site will blow up your CPU unless you have ajax.googleapis.com allowed. My browser became completely unresponsive. When I checked dev. console there were 50,000+ errors (and quickly climbing) on a video JS import. (2018-07-reversing-effect-quantum.html:1314). Pretty buggy.
Purchased in early 2018. So I think the 2017 model?
Sure, but deleting it doesn't do much good if they're going to get a new copy of the same information from someone else a week later.
LTSB is fantastic, except there is no linux subsystem. If you can live without that, or use Cygwin instead, it's far and away the best Windows distribution.
I live in a ski resort and work remotely in tech.

While it has its upsides, which are obvious, there are some downsides.

Winters can feel long. Like 9 months long. The “slack” season between spring snow melting and summer can feel never ending. Same with fall; too cold to do much, but no snow. Town is empty, businesses shut down and shorten hours.

It’s easy to get feel isolated. It’s easy to not see much sun shine for days or weeks at a time.

January and February are generally great, but tourists can get annoying. Same with July and August. 4/12 would recommend.
I currently do remote work in Toronto for an SF company, but as a full time employee, with benefits etc. How does your healthcare situation work?
But not without being a certified Rockstar dev, and they haven't printed the stickers yet.
Linux is only "easier to use" so long as you never color outside the lines of whatever the distro had in mind for a use case. So basically, as long as you treat it like either a web kiosk or a web-dev workstation you'll be ok.

I also doubt that it runs faster in any meaningful way. Certainly my own anecdotal experience doesn't suggest that.

And God help you if you ever have to delve into the goldbergesque internals to fix something. Though to be fair Windows 10 isn't any better in this regard if it involves anything added since Windows 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_period_styles ?
As a high school teacher, I like to use diaries and sticky notes to track them. Once in a while, I go through them and update them.
Forbes is well known to not work with ad blockers. You can't even visit the site without letting it store cookies on your machine.

It requires being able to store cookies in order to "personalize your experience". Lol.
Intel advisory: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...

CVE-2018-3628 - "Buffer overflow in HTTP handler"

Affected processor list (simplified reordered by me to reflect relevance and improve readability):

• Core i3/i5/i7, generation 1-8 (that is, all of them)

• Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6

• Xeon Scalable

• Xeon W

• Core 2 Duo vPro, Centrino 2 vPro
As someone who worked in the HP company during the Carly, Mark, Leo and Meg eras, I’ve heard some old timers say much better things about the company.

Even when I started, The HP Way was known and alive at least in some pockets of the company. It was what inspired many to give our best despite the changing environment.

After Carly, things only got worse with Mark Hurd. Cutting costs was the one and only trick he knew.

Now the company remains a tiny piece of its former self, having been split and sold to others in pieces.

Any company that looks up to and wants to emulate The HP Way would be good to be employed in.
An unwelcome side effect is that incoming city dwellers can push up prices for people already in these small towns who don’t have the option to relocate.
No. Peripherals and proprietary hardware.
> Stafford beer has developed a model for this, the viable system model.

It's worth noting that Stafford Beer dedicated a lot of his life to fixing very broken hierarchies which at their core tended to two extremes: management managing everything, crushing front-line autonomy; and management having no interest in anything outside metrics.

Beer took a cybernetic approach to designing organizational structures which is not at all unlike the design of electronic regulatory systems.

There are several of his talks online which are an accessible but easily-misunderstood introduction to the material he covered more fully in his books.
How would you validate / resolve 02-03-15? Is it Mar 2nd or Feb 3rd? Date picker solves this.
considering how his company came before he was really famous, I highly doubt that. It's ok if you don't care for Gary V, he's not for everyone, but saying his success is contingent on the fact the he's "famous" is simply not true. Again, if you don't know what you're talking about, you probably shouldn't be speaking on it.
The first town mentioned in the article is Yellow Springs, OH. That's very close to Dayton and Springfield, two decently sized cities. On top of that's it's about an hour away from Columbus and Cincinnati, both of which have tons of nightlife, restaurants and competitive tech jobs.
Don't you need to be on volume licensing to get that? Which rules it out for most.
Because Windows is not a serious system. It's a point and click, wizard next-next-next system.

It's pretty bad at most tasks except gaming.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
And '10 x'
-Wpadded causes interesting... results when including glibc's headers.
Systems, institutions, and cultures evolve to fit their environments better than alternatives.

That's not to say any are perfect or fully optimized. There is room for innovation. As problems are solved, remining problems start getting more attention. And environments change over time. But established approaches are more optimal in at least some respects than failed experiments of the past.
What if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Mariana Trench?
>if Plan 9 had taken off in the 90s

Plan9 is a joke, file abstraction is a ridiculous idea. File abstraction is terrible for anything beyond storing information.

It sucks for multimedia, IPC, input. Unix showed that, escaping from file abstraction in any domain (except networking, maybe). That's why we use d-bus instead of pipes, opengl instead of writing buffer etc. People need disposable, modular and introspectable APIs, like in mirageos, lisp machines or smalltalk OSs, not a ridiculous file crap.
Except those things you find on SO often don't work because they're from 2010 and the way the internals are organized in your more modern distro are different, or they only ever applied to red hat based distros and you're on a debian based one, or the problem in question only looks very similar to a known bug in some old version of pulseaudio, etc.

Personally, I'm in favor of discoverability, especially for troubleshooting. Sadly, Windows is becomming more and more like Linux in this regard as time goes on and they try to make it into a phablet OS.
I switched to Chrome OS on a Pixelbook and run all the Linux and CLI programs I need for dev and photo editing. I am not going back to macOS or Windows. Those operating systems are too generic in nature and filled with bloat.
valgrind (--tool=memcheck) would probably have detected the issue, yes.
With a loss of shared reality we will resort to violence. The only path to shared reality is empirical reason.

Fiction is on thing, but these products that intentionally blur the line between truth and falsehood are entirely wicked.
What about the non serious OSX UI with that bouncing effects and click-click-click and hidden in the topbar menu controls?
I know I'm preaching to the choir here at HN, but I feel like there is a very important point that the author has skipped over:

Part of why the install process and general use experience went so well is all the time and effort Dell put into explicitly developing Linux support for this exact model. They likely made hardware choices (e.g. Intel wifi chipset instead of Qualcomm/Atheros) based on existing Linux driver availability. And in cases where a driver wasn't available, or didn't work perfectly off the shelf, Dell probably put coders to work customizing that driver to suit the configuration of the XPS.

In a way, this is a bit like buying a Microsoft Surface and then being thrilled at how Windows installs and runs on it. For the sake of people who read this article and try installing Ubuntu 18.04 on an arbitrary laptop, I think the author should mention that there was already a ton of bigco effort to make this configuration of HW/SW work smoothly.

In my experience, Ubuntu gets more polished and newbie-friendly with every release, but I do think some readers might try to follow in the author's footsteps with their own miscellaneous laptop, get discouraged, and then be soured on Linux again for a while. I don't want that to happen. I want to see Linux gobble up more of Windows 10's market share. If that means the population needs to homogenize a bit on the hardware front, so be it.
The Material Design idea was a step in that direction. It's based in flat design, but takes advantage of drop shadows to create depth where it makes sense for creating a hierarchy.

Apple has taken some baby steps in that direction too, with ios 11, and the focus on translucency and blur to create layers of depth.
Remote work is fantastic if you are willing to make some sacrifices.

The biggest sacrifice is career advancement. I personally don't care because I am considered an older worker...but as a remote employee, it can be more difficult to advance into management etc. I also tend to let others "win" if I have any sort of workplace conflict. Since I am not in the office, I need to make sure no one has cause to talk negatively about me.

Everything else is a positive. I can literally live wherever I want. I have no "commute". I get paid a decent Bay Area wage that is considered very high by local standards. I do not pay CA taxes.

Many companies are still hesitant to embrace remote work but that is changing.

My guess is in twenty years, the remote worker will have higher life satisfaction: much more likely to own a home, much more likely to be able to start a family etc etc.
Sure, typically yes. It's not necessary - interoperable APIs exist, and for underdogs they're even attractive as a selling point - but market leaders tend not to play by those rules.
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By the same token though, I find it much easier to fix remotely. I got tired of having to talk my father through tech support issues, since under windows it often required me walking him through all the steps. Far easier to email him a command string and tell him to paste it into the terminal. Sure, this doesn't help him learn how to fix things himself, but he has zero interest in learning to use the computer for anything more than a web browser anyway. And the lack of malware is a nice plus.
This is the closing comment on the article. Kind of sad that there really isn't an OS that does even a mediocre job of everything.
For what it's worth, I managed to fix the thermal throttling on my 9560 (sounds like you have the same model) by carefully removing all of the old thermal paste from the heat spreaders using rubbing alcohol and re-pasting it all. I also added some thermal pads to connect some components to the bottom case. There are guides online on how to do this if you Google around.

Personally I think it's inexcusable to need to go through all this on a brand new £2000 laptop but I liked it enough to go to the effort and, like I said, it did completely cure the issues in my case and has been fine for the past 6 months or so.
Well, think of value of any analytics in eCommerce setting:

1. you see a random SKU spiking for n month in a row - good, keep stocking it, maybe even spend few adwords vouchers on it. BUT the fact that nobody in the company readily knows the nature of such spike is already an indication that the business fails at understanding its market.

2. Never in my career, I saw any of "coffee divination" level ideas coming from analysts ever being "life changing" for a company. I been through a number companies spending money on "algorithmic optimisation service" for banner ads of their clients. Yes, the "optimised" banners did score progressively more clicks with time, yet a single full time designer who was hired alongside the "optimiser" company could be scoring more clicks and purchases - without any input from any kind of data analysis
> When most everyone shouts, few listen.

I feel this is most evident on Twitter. I see it in the indie gamedev scene: everyone trying to advertise their upcoming game or steam sale, trying to build an audience, but no one listening to anyone else's.

Another aspect being sold (implicitly or explicitly) is the democracy of the platform: anyone (commonfolk) can talk to anyone else (celebrities, CEOs), but the fact it's possible works against itself. There's so many voices no one really gets heard except a handful.
Data about the world ("There is a granite formation here") & personal data ("I am interested in chairs") are two fundamentally different ways to look at this.

So far we've built companies off personal data. But it can really only be used for one thing -- ads. Hence the many adtech startups of dubious social good.

If decentralized big data were to take off, I'd bet all my chips it will be because of data about the world, which enables fundamentally different, more interesting, and more productive use cases. And is bounded by utility instead of personal spending.

Currently you have interested parties either self-generating data, or specialized companies compiling targeted data sets (usually on commission). What you don't have is diffuse, global datasets (e.g. geotagged temperature readings from every cell phone on the planet, right now).

That starts to get interesting.

The "hard" technical problem is the driver of homomorphic encryption. In order to truly own data, I can't allow copies to be made. But in order to make that data valuable, I have to allow arbitrary computation to be performed on it.
I want to be able to leave notes on my phone by using short voice commands, then later export everything to ascii, and analyze it on a computer. I'm not aware of a solution for this, but in combination with some data-mining, it would be a great tool for analyzing habits (and keeping track of diet as well).
You can disable these “features” on enterprise but you need to dig around in the settings and google how to do it.
Do you make the same salary as you would in the Bay Area or did you have to offer a discount?
Numerous direct intervention studies have shown the clear causal link between dietary saturated fat and blood cholesterol levels. You can obscure this fact by playing games with population meta studies because individual baseline levels vary a lot and are genetically determined.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-saturated-fat-studies-s...

Anecdotally, I and several people I know have dramatically dropped our blood cholesterol levels by cutting this stuff out of our diets.
I would never use Mac for running important jobs. It's a good developer machine but has no chance as a server system.
> If I recall correctly the birds are a network, where each one would monitor the ones closest to them and react based on that?

This is how Craig Reynolds' Boids model works. [0]

However, I recall from word of mouth that if you factor in a reaction time that the model breaks down; though I can't see any references to this phenomena online.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids
Not sure that my Uni can support these, plus they have no Linux subsystem (which is quite useful) and last time I heard, they are ditching Office 365 ProPlus support for that branch (which is the Office we use on campus, and I require in my workflow).
I have a bunch of goals every year. They're written down on a small whiteboard that I've got hanging right next to my desk. Whenever I wonder what to do, I'll look at that whiteboard to tell me what currently has my highest priority.

At least, that's the theory. It doesn't always work out that way, but I can just write new goals down next year (or leave/rearrange the ones I didn't reach).
That is a nice fantasy. I don't see it applying for most people tho. I know exactly zero people who do contract/remote work and don't struggle to make a living, even in a cheaper area. The hardest part is to get any decent paying contracts.

You might have some advantage that is not even clear to you. Maybe you worked in a big company for 10 years and now can gather work through contacts from there. Maybe your father is well known in the industry you work. Something like that.