skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As if they have some inalienable right to live in places like Brisbane.

So the folks who live there now do because they were born earlier and got to buy a house first?
Why? The Linux sub-system is the best part of Windows. He's doing them a favor.
A Linux workstation at the very least involves X and full user's control over the computer, neither of which are provided by this piece of software.
Wasn't that the first beta release of insider? I thought they fixed inode support

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/10/07/wsl-...
My main project is Ruby, but have a small (mission critical) app that is WinForms .Net. Developing with VisualStudio (not VS Code) inside a VM on a Mac is terrible.

This is way better.
Oh, if that data was bad, they should have even included it in the graph.
Microsoft employees do. (And they post here).
Great news, this will hopefully allow our developers to make code on Linux since they've been forbidden from running VMs and it's extra overhead.

I hope Visual Studio gets good integration here because it truly is a first class IDE and it's hard for me to tempt our windows developers away based on that fact combined with the "We don't support linux on desktops" and "No VMS" attitude of my company.
Google's entire business model around Android depends on withholding their apps unless manufacturers agree to preload their apps and set default search and the like. It's not a coordination issue, their whole business depends on them not backing down on the requirement.

And being required to preload Google Play Books, a direct competitor to Amazon's Kindle platform, is similarly fundamentally unacceptable to Amazon. These two companies are completely unable to come to terms on this because their requirements are so blatantly opposed to each others' businesses.

As these mega-conglomerates start selling everything under the sun service-wise in lock-in ecosystems, these sorts of clashes are likely to increase in impact and number.
Present an argument against what? All you have done is shot down my claims with some "life isn't science fiction" garbage. You haven't posted a single comment in this thread relevant to the future implications of AI. There's nothing thought provoking about your comments. You're just being dismissive.
I believe in climate change and I am proud of some of the successes of the EPA/other US policies have had in protecting the global commons (ozone, lead, NOx, etc). But following your point, ignoring this to focus on a "who gains" perspective...

Trump used now-unsurprising hyperbole when he said that global warming was a hoax invented by the Chinese, but he was alluding to this point.

China has over a billion citizens, a disproportionate number of young men, and quasi open economy + closed political system where who you know & schooling strongly affects your ability to succeed. Also, like the US and Russia, it has tremendous natural & mineral wealth available for traditional enterprises.

In such a <em>political</em> climate, China has made it a national policy to out-compete America for traditional manufacturing jobs to keep all those people, particularly young men employed and rising. Cheap energy is a major manufacturing consideration and if you can get the American government to deficit spend money or regulate private industry on this, that fits China's national goals nicely.

(Encouraging deficit spending by the US helps keep the Renminbi cheap relative to the dollar in our crazy fiat world)

Russia has an even stronger incentive to encourage environmentalist policies by the US government because of its fossil fuel wealth and ambitions for the opening Arctic ocean without US competition there.

Ironically, historically, betting against American ingenuity and worldwide technological advancement has been a mistake; some minimally invasive level of US government intervention is probably worth it for mitigating global warming and blunting oil-rich oligarchies. But it is also still in the interest of current Chinese/Russian/Iranian/Venezuelan leaders at this time.

Finally this can be viewed two ways in US politics. On the one hand, environmental protectionism logically hurts the working class in America, to some difficult-to-quantify extent in the immediate term/recent past. On the other hand, America is a world leader. We may have some moral imperative, plus gains in technology financed in America lift all boats, including ours which is the largest and finest.

(may have to reevaluate the phrase "lift all boats")
This isn't about scanning a table where the elements are allocated contiguously, it's about scanning a linked list where the elements could be anywhere; the next element is almost never going to already be in the cache. That's already bad enough (a cache miss on every step down the list), but those items are all page-alined (they are all in the same position relative to the 4k memory page that they are in), then they all have a lot of memory address bits in common and end up evicting each other out of the cache, slowing your scans down. If you only scan the list once then it's no big deal, but if this is some frequently-accessed kernel data structure (list of processes or threads or GDI objects or what have you), then it's a big problem.

One fix is to ensure that these objects are stored at locations that don't share so many common bits, or for the CPU to actually have a hash function that it uses on the address, rather than using the address as-is.
If you're actually interested in doing this from Seattle, it looks like Alaska has nonstop flights from Seattle to Charleston, SC and Kansas City. Greenville-Spartanburg, SC (GSP) is another candidate although a bit harder to get to.
> So what is Chromium gaining from switching to clang-cl?

There are lots of good reasons, but my favourite point -- besides considering clang to be a superiour c++ compiler in general -- is that using an open-source compiler allows us to fix things.

When a developer runs into a miscompile or compiler crash, finds an inefficiency in the generated code or has an idea for a new warning, we can fix it and push a new compiler out within days. And in addition to the work we put in ourselves, we benefit from the huge amount of work put in by the wider llvm/clang community.

It leads to a better developer experience, and in the end a better product.
Ah, thanks. I've only played around with interactively but that makes sense.

It really seems like the primary use case is supporting Docker/OCI containers for local dev, so you can keep using a Windows desktop instead of switching to a Linux one.
Watch Formula 1 or NASCAR and you'll see 200 mph crashes where everyone walks away.

...and more interestingly, none of the cars have airbags. What they do have, however, are very tight restraints.
Right, but CEF uses cmake w/ msvc customizations IIRC. And the spotify builds do ship with the DLLs already built. I asked on the CEF forum just now, we'll see.
Holy shit. Great writing. Really felt the anguish and tragedy of the extra six seconds at the end...
My theory of what they are going for is to migrate server devs from Macbooks running BSD Terminal.app to cheaper Windows laptops running WSL terminals. Once you have migrated away from Mac, getting your server code to run on Windows natively becomes a lot easier and more attractive.
Send ME your data! I promise I will never sell it!
I think you seriously underestimate the threat of a real fire - a mistake which a lot of people (rather sadly) make. People die in house fires because the do not wake up in time to get out - the place goes up pretty quickly, and smoke (+ poisonous gases) incapacitate and suffocate people before they even have a chance.

Many resources in this area, but as a starting point:
https://www.ready.gov/home-fires
I'd be curious if it robs it of some benefits, though. The process you describe above sounds like it might actually be beneficial in an "antifragile" kind of way.

That is, there are benefits to be had by knowing you do work on multiple toolchains. Painful at times, but mainly in ways that make a better product.
Yes, I know Microsoft doesn't have an X server. This is why I asked if people could recommend a 3rd party one.
Extra dependencies are rarely ever doing anyone a favour. Yet another thing to keep up to date, occupy disk space, memory...
Gibsonian tech ghetto? That's a bit exaggerated. We are talking about building medium density housing and mixed use around a railway station versus commercial property and office parks. Sounds more like what Brisbane wants with the commercial property is closer to a Gibsonian tech ghetto to me.
I've been using this for back-end dev since 14.04 distro (lastest update is xenial). Quite stable and very fast, no emulator or vm come close to WSL. Best gift from MS to devs after VS.
A good way to minimize swapping is to adjust the swappiness setting and set it to something low. I have it set to 10 so it won't start swapping out until RAM reaches 90% utilization. Edit or add (if it's not there):

vm.swappiness = 10

...to /etc/sysctl.conf. You can change "10" to whatever works for you. The number is the percentage of free RAM before it starts swapping. You can also change it on the fly with:

sysctl vm.swappiness=10

...but you have to add it to the sysctl-conf file to make it permanent.
Their IP addresses belong to a company named PSI net:

~ dig +short console.wasabisys.com
38.27.106.13
38.27.106.12
38.27.106.11

NetRange: 38.0.0.0 - 38.255.255.255
CIDR: 38.0.0.0/8
NetName: COGENT-A
NetHandle: NET-38-0-0-0-1
Parent: ()
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS174
Organization: PSINet, Inc. (PSI)
RegDate: 1991-04-16
Updated: 2011-05-20
Comment: Reassignment information for this block can be found at
Comment: rwhois.cogentco.com 4321
Ref: https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-38-0-0-0-1

There's not much to be found by PSINet or Cogent who own them, but they don't seem to offer hosting services. The only relevant piece of information that I could find as to what PSINet do these days is this one:

https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/lots-of-weird-traffi...

It does make it sound as if it is a market test, or that PSINet have developed large scale hosting capabilities in the last few years.

// Edit

In addition, they use the exact same terminology Amazon uses in their console file, including ARN and two policies named after S3:

AmazonS3FullAccess
AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess

The policy syntax looks familiar to those coming from S3 as well.
> the Aug 21 path is remarkable in that it includes the most important historic sites for almost all the dark aspects of US history

It really isn't, and it really doesn't. It doesn't cross Dresden or Nagasaki or My Lai or Guantanamo. It crosses a lot of sites of historical political and military domestic engagements in the USA, all of which are sad for the losing side, because it crosses a large cross section of the US.
I use Crystal (not Windows support yet) and works well.
Sheesh, your company sounds like a crappy place to work.
I'd like that too. The main thing holding it back is the file interop. If a windows program creates a file in a Linux directory bash literally can't see it. I've worked around this by putting my real work in Windows directories and symlinking then into my WSL home, but I can see this biting me at some point in the future.
Been following Phoenix for a while now. It looks amazing! One small complaint: the lack of code highlighting in the documentation really bugs me.
I used it when I first got my current laptop because Linux couldn't work the video properly (it could either do 800x600 resolution stably, or do 4k and freeze every few minutes). It was nice enough. I switched back to Linux as soon as the drivers got good enough and haven't looked back, but I was pleasantly surprised by how nice development has gotten on Windows in recent years. If I weren't building systems management tools that kinda need the system to be "real", I could see Windows+WSL being a great combo for people building multi-platform applications.
They did.

My point was that I just don't want to encounter bugs. When I run Linux, I get Linux. I already have it installed and I know how it works. I don't want to take the chance of a bug breaking my development workflow.
> Per the video, the CEO was questioned about how they can attract real estate agents to work with them even though they charge lower fees than the alternatives.

My guess is that most agents make more with Redfin than elsewhere. It always seems that there are a few superstar agents that make a good deal of money, and a lot of starry-eyed new recruits doing free work for the successful agents because they're hoping to get leads (that's usually how the veterans convince people to work for them for free).

Being a Redfin agent means that you lose the chance of making it big in exchange for actually getting paid for your work. If you're part of the majority of people who won't make it big, you're better off going with them.
It absolutely is. My "IDE" is vim. It understands projects in Rust, Purescript, and Go by installing a single plugin. Zero configuration. The same works for VSCode.
I've been using VcXsrv.

I tried both Xming (donated and got the most recent versions) and VcXsrv. I found VcXsrv to be faster and dynamically picks up my screen resolution. Xming doesn't do that out of the box.

However, I find that both are terrible when my network is a bit unstable such as when I'm in transit. That's the major pain point I have.
That is my goal right now. I am making a game that I want to play and I will release it when I feel it is worth it to do so.

The key though is that I have a steady job so I have the free time to work on it without worrying about funding.
Top people including DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis and Prof Stuart Russell, a AAAI and AAAS fellow who is a co-author of the AI textbook used at most of top universities, agree that AGI is definitely possible and going to happen. [1]

Hassabis also stated in another session that there are probably at least half a dozen mountains to climb before reaching AGI and he would be surprised if it takes more than 20. He also said that it has been easier to develop major advances than he thought. [2]

Considering that there has been about one major leap per year in neural networks architecture and systems for the past 3-4 years, and this includes training neural networks to do one-shot learning for physical robot control after practicing in a simulator, should we really be that complacent?

Even if the advances slow down to one per 2 years and it takes 12 of them to get to AGI, that's only 24 years. If the rate continues to be one per year, that's only 12 years.

[1] From the start of https://youtu.be/h0962biiZa4

[2] https://youtu.be/V0aXMTpZTfc

Note: Reinforcement Learning is far from the only component being researched at major labs, including DeepMind and OpenAI.
Also used for robotics:
https://blog.openai.com/roboschool/

and other control problems:
https://vmayoral.github.io/robots,/ai,/deep/learning,/rl,/re...

I think not so long ago supervised learning felt similarly 'toy', and now they are the state of the art model for machine translation and object detection. Just because they aren't useful today doesn't mean that they won't be useful.
> They refuse to sell Chromecast and Apple TV

This is such an interesting topic.

If I open a fresh-fruit stand and refuse to sell the Chromecast and I being anti-competitive?
How about if I grow my own fresh-fruit and refuse to sell yours in my stand?

The whole reason for me to spend money running my own store it to sell my stuff, not yours.

What about if Apple open an "Apple Store" and refuse to sell Microsoft products? Ford dealership refusing to sell GM?

It's Amazon's store, they can sell whatever they want, or not sell whatever they want. If you don't like it, shop elsewhere.
"Scratch your own itch"; if you like it, maybe others will too; instant user feedback
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Rise_of_Michael...
Hasn't Linux become OS for everything?
The free version of xming works for about 99% of things, the other 1% needs the updates provided by the charity ware version, or something more recent
Well, the kernel API is implemented using the (rather undocumented) internal API. But so is the published Windows API. What it's literally not is Linux. However, you might want to call it GNU/Windows if you enjoyed watching people have seizures.
Yep! Just like climate change. It's chilly where I live right now, scientists don't all agree about climate change projections, and even if temperatures actually rise it won't lead to the extinction of the human race, so let's not worry about it.

Edit: /s because I would make me mad if even a few people thought I was being serious.
FYI, this does not work.
Show HN: Hashing-function agnostic Cuckoo filters for Redis
It seems to still be a feature hidden under Developer Mode thus not appropriate as a dependency for end users.

Maybe OP is talking about tools installed on his/her own system only?
Hey jal, just to let you know the iRobot privacy policy and device data collection and retention policy does state that data will not be shared, divulged or sold to any third party without your express informed consent on a case by case basis, and that data is not even collected by them unless you opt-in and register your robot with them. The bots are fully functional as a standalone device without internet connectivity. Additionally you can contact them at any time to have your private data removed from their servers which they are happy to do.

Full disclosure: I am a former iRobot engineer, and also a big privacy proponent. I also had some feelings about a camera enabled mapping robot when I first learned about the project, but I can tell you that the people there take privacy and data security VERY seriously, and really are trying to respect their customers as much as possible. Unfortunatley the message that iRobot wanted to allow you to share your mapping data if you wanted to for enabling smart home applications got spun pretty quickly into "iRobot wants to sell your data!")
The margins from streaming are probably even better.

https://www.recode.net/2016/12/7/13864776/apple-spotify-60-m...
On my bookmarks toolbar I have a bookmark folder named 'y', under which there are a lot of dated folders, the latest of which is '17C'. Anything I bookmark in the next three months goes there, and in October I make '17D'.

If I use a bookmark often enough, it gets moved or copied out of the original folder, and put in a more relevant category folder. These are located under 'ref' or 'util' on the bookmarks toolbar.
I (as someone who supports building more in the Bay Area) don't want the onus to be just on Brisbane. I want it to be on the whole Bay Area, and all of its townships.

That one of the major issues I think the Bay Area faces: each township passes the buck to the next: "Why should we build housing, when township X is completely unwilling to do so?" Yes, and they say the same thing about you! With this attitude, nothing will ever get built, anywhere.
Businessvalue-only code can get complex though, and difficult to work with. But, maybe, when the value/intention is clear, it makes it easier to understand. (That is, until there's years of accumulated complexity).
Are you saying arkit cannot identify a car if I want to chart it's mileage over it?
The data points don't even have error bars, unfortunately. They come through various filters. Leaving out one government's reported numbers and keeping another's is a political decision in itself, so it's best to just report the numbers and warn readers of their veracity.
> lightweight as well

Not on my machine, it wasn't.
It's still way too slow for me using tmux.

File system performance seems bad. Have tried multiple times to use it. First when it was first announced, and then again when Creators Update came out.

But... it's just not good enough yet. Hopefully the Fall Creators Update improve things.

For now, running a Linux VM is still way faster.
How do you get everyone (every government, every rogue organization, every hacker in their bedroom) working on AI to abide by those rules?

> solve the problem

What "problem"? What if I train a neural network to learn the patterns of individuals and integrate it with military drones to assassinate them because their existence is my "problem"? What are you going to do to stop me?
This is possible because Dave Cutler and the rest of his VMS team built Windows NT to support multiple personalities. From day one the Win32 subsystem was just one of several. That idea got sidelined when Windows became so popular but the core has always been there.

It's kinda funny: the Windows NT kernel (and Executive, the actual native API) are a single-root object hierarchy where everything gets mounted - much like unix - only even moreso. Mutexes, Registry Keys, etc are all objects mounted in the root filesystem.

I guess everything old is new again. Microsoft used to have a server product called Services for Unix that replaced the built-in POSIX 1.0 subsystem with a legit Unix environment but it was always a neglected product that only existed to get people to port server apps to Windows. This time they're doing the integration on end-user desktops and have spent more time getting Win API integration working smoothly.
Reinforcement learning has been used in a lot of valuable applications to society/the economy outside of games: control system optimization, robotics, ad targeting, content personalization to name a few. Game playing can often be a great test-bed for RL algorithms that can be applied in other areas.
Because there's uncertainty in the world. People lie, the world changes, etc. Company A says no dividends ever, while maintaining soaring stock prices. Company A fires its CEO and Company A gets a new CEO. The new CEO doesn't say there will be dividends, but you assume they'll turn around so you buy, etc.
I feel like I'm in the same boat: not hugely great at math (I mean I can do algebra and various geometries) but calculus and a lot of AI literature I've read that included algorithms were just very complicated for me to figure out.

So I would also be interested in this book of yours. If you want my feedback I'm also available but I certainly don't expect handouts; just add me to a list to spam when you get your book finished :)
Plain Text Accounting [video]
A few things:

- You get a fairly substantial rebate if you use Redfin.

- You're not locked into a contract. Most agents will make you sign an exclusive contract with them, and if you end up not liking their work you're in a messy situation.

- Since Redfin agents are paid for their work and not commission, they're not just trying to get you to buy the most expensive property or pressuring you to buy ASAP so they can collect their money.

- Since you're not under contract with them (other than for the houses they show you), they won't be upset if you decided to pop into an open house.

The first reason is true not matter what agent you choose. The other three points might not come up if you get a good agent, but it's hard to get a good agent, and these are all pretty common problems. If you know someone who you're certain is a good agent, then it might be worth going with them (even considering the financial hit from the first point). If you don't, Redfin would probably be a better bet.
Please support FUSE!
Same compiler on all platforms would be one guess.
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