skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is WSL that complete?

There could be tons of edge cases where stock Linux binaries could behave slightly differently and could be a support nightmare.
The Windows NT kernel has better hardware support and Microsoft is showing that they can run a full Linux userland on top of it. What do they gain from shipping Linux for the desktop?
I mean, this predatory lending did lead to a lot of starvation. That is not controversial. He may be using exaggerated narrative (and that part is only the introduction, setting the scene) but he is quite clear in the text about what the known or suspected facts are and what we might deduce from them.
People live form the land or livestock. Even without much money you could get food. Plus, was part of the Law that anyone could harvest from any field after the first pass from the owners, as measure against starvation.

If you live in a rural area, even today, you will see that is normal and easy to share and get food free or very cheap (in fact, a lot of food will not get in the supermarket for lack of ways to fully utilize the capacity!).

Is kind of simply to maintain a live if your are friendly in the community.
That was a good watch!
No. They just plan to use developer tools (chrome based browser + vstudio) to push their one-push-publish-to-cloud.

embrace (chromium), extend (dev tool features that will only work with vsStudio but is awesome), extinguish (tool now only work with vsstudio when serving from azure because they are moving faster than open standards.)
While I'm very sympathetic to the themes of the book, I found it so verbose, unstructured and meandering as to be unreadable.
Yeah, what was this service? Some kind of attempt to built a client-side version of the old Google News style using Google's API?
In a star like the Sun there are very few free neutrons produced. There are non-exploding stars that produce some neutrons, but they are AGB stars where the core gets hot enough for (alpha,n) reactions to occur.
Wanted: a killer app for quantum computing
Seconding the book by Russo - also recommend Simon Winchester’s recent book on precision engineering
One of those examples of debt as a social construct is in my opinion the following, which shows that even in Western economies there can be a different meaning for this concept.

In English language there's a clear separation between debt and guilt. Debt is used for money, guilt for (e.g.) the legal system when talking about criminal activities. Those are 2 different words with 2 different meanings.

But in Dutch language we don't have different words for debt and guilt. Both concepts are essentially translated to the Dutch word for guilt ("schuld") which has a much more negative connotation than debt when talking about money. The same is true for the German language for example. And this might impact policies when dealing with debt, see: https://www.ft.com/content/a2c51e14-1ded-11e0-badd-00144feab...
You can publish ebooks on Apple's iBooks and Apple will distribute them without charge.

Amazon's Kindle makes you charge at least $2.99. Apparently Jeff Bezos is a little short of cash and can't afford to give away books.
If it happens, it would be the most jaw dropping event of the decade.

But MS has a room to keep their own ecosystem as losing it will have less diversity as we've seen when they dropped Edge not to mention the world will come to a halt without Windows that can run apps from the last 20 years.

Having a UNIX kernel at the core would be really nice which would make developers easy to port apps between OS but how would the world deal with all the irreplaceable apps on Windows?
You wrote this:

"So in essence stars aren’t energy possitvie (or if so only slightly relative to the energy of the reaction) they just convert one type of energy into another."

which is utter crap, at least in the case of a star like the Sun, as I demonstrated several messages back. They are massively energy positive. The fusion energy output is orders of magnitude higher than the gravitational energy that was liberated as the Sun formed.
Lets be honest about fusion - Experts urge the US to continue employing them for another 20 years. And thats coming from someone with a physics background. The fusion industry (and thats what it really is) has managed to string the public and policy makers along for 60 years so I guess why stop trying now. Fusion will never be cheap and won't be clean either.
so your second paragraph is justified by the completely baseless speculation in the first? if you actually had read the pdf I linked you would have seen the multitude of other examples of medical discrimination against queer people in it. im queer and have experienced medical discrimination. my queer friends have experienced medical discrimination, in washington state, not even a conservative state. intersex babies still routinely have non-consensual genital reassignment surgery performed, sometimes without their parent's knowledge.

yes, cishet people experience medical malpractice as well. but individual bad experiences is not the same as systemic discrimination. systematic discrimination against queer and intersex people goes on every day in our medical system, as much as people like to pretend it doesn't.
The last time Microsoft released a monolithic kernel was with Windows ME.

Google has developed their own non-GPL userlands, u-root and toybox.

Personally am surprised that Microsoft did not try to compete with OpenVZ and offer their own containers or easier to script sandbox.
Genuine curiosity here: Why is it that it's the ACA that becomes unconstitutional here and not the tax cut bill? If Trump is signing bills that make other laws unconstitutional is this a violation of his oath to protect the constitution?
$300 is significant membership fees for mere privilege of being called member of some society. I'm a member for few years now and have yet to experience any real value provided by IEEE memberships except to get spammed ruthlessly and get some discount to even more expensive conferences of theirs. Remember, even after paying $300 you don't get access to their closed publications (you just get privilege to pay "discounted" price of $13 per paper).

All these tells me this is enormously blotted organization mainly providing vanity and have no real mission. There are tons of non-profits that operate this way with their lavish expenses and highly-compensated officers.

If Elsevier was non-profit with nicely compensated "officers" then would you be ok about their ways?
...or you just go skate, play soccer, throw a frisbee in a nearby park.

Unless one happens to live in a skitown, snow sports are already more expensive than alternatives that don't require a roadtrip, let alone season passes.

If someone has an extra $250 a month to to spare for a hobby, they're already doing fairly well.
What Russo has to say about Seneca and Eratosthenes is shocking
While desktop platform control is important and probably has a positive ROI, the article argues that desktop OSs are already "good enough", and that Microsoft can probably find more profitable alternatives for their engineering effort.

This is the same motive behind the switch to Chromium, that browsers are "good enough" and that the marginal gains of platform independence aren't worth the heavy investment.
I would take a more pessimistic view. The platform enables and encourages toxic behavior, but at the end of the day, is plagued by toxic people who feel very insecure and thus need to show virtue signaling in its strongest form; who have little self control over their own emotions; and who have a strong desire to assert themselves. A large proportion of people get their opinions from garbage news and don’t care to think critically. Putting opposing groups of these people in a large scale forum of any variety will result in trouble.
Open question: If, for one stock, you could predict tomorrow's closing price today (with 80% accuracy within 2% of the actual price), how would you trade that stock?
Talking about a rock and roll structure does go nicely with the image from the article, of the debut of the song by a young priest (himself inspired by peace in the face of war) and his composer friend, accompanied by just a guitar.
Hell no, please don't bring Windows Virus to Linux :(
The problem with this is that Robinhood claims you can have a Robinhood "Checking and Savings" account and not buy stocks with it - and the SIPC is saying no, you actually do need to intent to buy and sell stocks with it and to use this account as a source of funding in order for it to be insured.
To flip your question around, should a prosecutor have the power to, upon an 11th bank robbery occurring, simply drag in the guy who did the last 10 and present him as "probably" the guilty party? This has happened any number of times in the past. It's important that each case stand on its own merits, to the standard of "beyond reasonable doubt".

That said, judges have a lot of latitude to allow evidence of prior conviction if they feel it is in aid of a fair trial. They wield this power in order to keep all parties honest and unbiased as best they can. In this case - rightly or wrongly - the judge has decided that knowledge of the outcome of the first case would prejudice the second case, especially due to the emotional nature of the allegations. That's why the order was made.

While I have nothing but contempt for Cardinal Pell, who represents pretty much everything I dislike about the church, he has as much right to a fair and unbiased trial as any other person. Months of media saturation might indeed prejudice that, so I reluctantly support the intent of this kind of power, appropriately limited and temporary. It certainly is more complicated in the age of global media, however, and I really don't know what the answer is, if there even is one.
That works for ebay because it is very simple to determine if you got the result you wanted.

Case A: You get the correct product, it is working.
Case B: Didn't get product, doesn't work, etc...

A gets +1, B gets -1. Simple to judge for 99% of people.

More complex things, like medicine or law or even wiring electrics in a house, the consumer is completely incapable of determining if the service they got is good, because they don't understand it well enough to judge.

This is why reputation systems won't work for anything more complex than ebay. Studies already show doctors get judged mostly by how nice they are. Sure, a reputation system might help you find the nicest doctor, but that isn't whats important right?
For whom? The bigger player? The one with a trade deficit with the other? The one with less domestic supply of traded goods?
Whether there is a prior conviction or not has no impact on the truth of this instance. Prior convictions are taken into consideration during sentencing
I do, mainly on an exercise bike at the gym. I use Calibre to reformat and boost the text size.

What's useful about boosting the text size is making it readable at arm's distance, a flick to change page isn't a problem.
Theranos's product didn't work. This product may be a bad deal or a good deal, but it's going to deliver what they promise. T-bills are illiquid if you want the gains. They're promising liquidity in exchange for a cut of the gains. Sounds reasonable, at least in theory.
Crash Chrome 70 with the SQLite Magellan Bug
Came here to post this, and saw you already did. Until the incentives actually align against Elsevier, asking faculty to play nice isn't going to work. Tenure is hard enough; just because they say "publish or perish" doesn't mean the "perish" part is optional.
One argument the article made is Microsoft is spending billions on Windows while the revenue from, and quality of, Windows are declining.
> It's the company providing the service to the consumer who is responsible to vet the final product.

I agree with your post, but I tend to think of facebook's users as providing the product (their attention). If the consumer is a company buying advertising, then where's facebook's motivation to be careful with a user's "private" data?
It's becoming increasingly clear that a fully connected graph is not the ideal form for productive human social organization.
https://youtu.be/lmX18C3PBq0
Classic example is printf. It returns an error, but nobody checks it.
Buy call / puts (depending on the current price) near the target price, with very close expiry dates. This would maximize your convexity.
Serving your site on iPV6 using Nginx
Apache Beam – Building Your First Pipeline
> Giving "everything is awesome" tips to everyone, all the time, is the tipping equivalent of "everyone gets a trophy" competitive sports. You're not really helping the people you're giving them to, because you're eliminating critical feedback signals.

that was my point.
Or you can return your books on time and have it for free.
XD is free for everybody. That's reason enough to be excited.
To outsiders, Christianity can seem downright Lovecraftian in the terror it inspires. Ever see Evangelion?
That would have been the end of me using computers, right then and there. An operating system that updates or upgrades more than about once per decade is moving entirely too fast. 5 years about the fastest possible rate that even approaches being reasonable. The fact that Windows has always bent over backwards to provide backward compatibility would be totally invalidated by shifting toward Linux. I run a bunch of DOS programs in Win 7 still, without needing to go through DOSBox, and that's not counting my collection of 3.1 and 9x programs which I actively use.

So yes, giving up entirely on the good things that Windows does without respect to the GUI and accepting the practices of Linux/Unix devs who have little or no respect for the past would be nothing short of a catastrophic mistake. Your idea would likely have killed computing forever, in my view, especially enterprise or professional-use computing, and within the first two rapid releases that broke necessary functions. It's the so-called 'Softies' who keep the world running and effective for normal people who don't want to have to figure out how to compile a program just to turn on their computer and do the things they need.

And it would have killed home use as well - we don't need network workstations at home with limited control, we need computers that we have full control over, all the time.
Try an iron condor - you’ll profit if the price of the underlying asset stays between two points
I am using Firefox and use "SearchMage - Search Enhancer" add-on for that

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchmage-se...

I found it here a few months ago actually and am quite happy with it, It has a few features that include infinite scroll that you can turn off or on.
> If you're taking street narcotics I think cancer risk is the least of your worries

"least of your worries" is obviously an exaggeration.

While it's true that overdose deaths (attributable in my assessment mostly to bad public policy) have become a leading cause of death, cancer isn't actually far behind.

Overdose deaths (recorded by the CDC as "Poisoning" and classified under "Unintentional Injury" [0]) is the number one cause of death for Americans of both the age group 25-34 and 35-44, but cancer (recorded as "malignant neoplasms") is number four and number two, respectively.

So, if you're in the age group most likely to die from an overdose, then cancer is either the fourth or the second of your worries - far from the least.

0: https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcause.html
Come visit Medford, MA (where Jingle Bells is ostensibly set) in late December or January.

Then you'll get it.
There's no such thing as "zero fees". Robinhood is making money by giving your trade orders to hedge funds who then front run them, so you end up paying for it by getting worse prices for your trades.
Atmospheric disturbance was a major problem for the SDI (Star Wars) project.

They came up with solutions, and no doubt there are more and cheaper solutions today, given advances in materials, computing and astrophoto stacking techniques.

Note that they were able to use off-the-shelf tank infrared detectors ($50,000 each) to detect ICBM launches from space, so I suspect even more cross-pollination 35 years later. For example, fiber optics are orders of magnitude better now.
I don't think this is happening, Visual Studio is basically a legacy product at this point. Still developed and maintained, but not a major focus for MS, and they want to push Azure adoption as much as possible so I don't think we'll see IDE lock in like you're talking about.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

People in rural and conservative communities aren't bad people. And IME people in urban and liberal communities aren't even any less racist. The biggest difference is that those with power in urban and liberal communities (i.e. middle-class and whites) are more likely to acquiesce when confronted with claims of prejudice or inequality.

This propensity to acquiesce is considered radical by conservative communities, who view themselves as being principled.
Here's a dopey idea: What if Microsoft open-sourced the Windows NT kernel? (While retaining some proprietary drivers, etc..)

If handled well, a community would blossom around "NT," with multiple "unofficial" distros (maybe one with full POSIX compatibility), and lots and lots of happy developers. If things went really well, they might even achieve the resources necessary to create Windows Phone 2.0.

Microsoft could still make money from consumer/enterprise support plans (i.e. AppleCare), and via commissions on sales in the Windows app store. And an open-source Windows could lead to growth as a cloud OS, driving revenue for MS Azure.

Open sourcing the Windows kernel would be the ultimate culmination of Microsoft's turnaround, and IMHO a fair penance for evil deeds past. Nothing could do more to invigorate the open-source community. I would be so delighted I might even start to use Bing! It's never going to happen, but it is a very pleasant dream. Far better than "One Kernel to Rule them All!"
> And it would have killed home use as well - we don't need network workstations at home with limited control, we need computers that we have full control over, all the time.

looks at the state of desktop computing

..and yet, here we are.
How does it compare against a placebo in a double blind trial? This is simply a single case report with no comparison.

Chiropractic remedies have a long history of being questionable.

Wikipedia provides many sources:

> Systematic reviews of this research have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[4] A critical evaluation found that collectively, spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition

> It is frequently associated with mild to moderate adverse effects, with serious or fatal complications in rare cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic
Nice. It runs on my iPhone! (Although without the keystrokes).

Well done!
On the contrary - no mortgages would mean I couldn't afford a house, and someone richer than me would buy it and loan^H^H^H rent it to me. They'd get richer, and do the same to the next person who couldn't quite afford to buy a house. You've described a society closer to feudalism than efficient housing.
They already did that once. It's called Windows NT, largely derived from DEC VMS. Here's an article about it: https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...
Ask HN: How do I become a better team lead for a small, junior dev team?
I'm a senior developer at a small startup managing a team of three co-ops and one junior dev. My team members are great: eager, smart, curious, and effective. I rarely have to teach them how to solve a problem; they naturally research and implement solutions.

But I didn't get a CS degree because I'm great with people. I've had some limited management experience, mostly interviewing applicants and running standups. I'm now responsible for the performance and well-being of a team of junior devs, and I'm definitely out of my comfort zone.

I want these guys to succeed, and I want to succeed in helping them succeed. But I'm mostly flying by the seat of my pants and I'd like to learn from others who have been in my shoes.

What are some good resources I should look at? What are some things I might be neglecting that I need to pay attention to? How can I best be effective in my new role?
A few thoughts just bubbled up while reading this.

1. Everyone is potentially a journalist. Smartphone & social media = capture & comment.

2. Everyone is potentially a celebrity. Virality = celebrity.

3. Everyone is potentially a publisher. Share, post, retweet = publish.

4. Almost no one is (cares to be) an editor.

It seems to me that though the obvious impact of these is exactly what you'd expect (a permanent social shit-stain), the times they are-a-changing. Belief is no longer a matter of truthiness but almost a lifestyle/fashion choice. People are learning to tune-out whatever it is they consider fake-news. I suspect that the amplified impact of modern "shame storms" will be discounted by the levels of latent disbelief held by people.

i.e. people could (soon) care less.

Maybe?

EDITED: fixed line-break formatting. Why do I keep falling for the same thing?
I'm in the same boat and have the same thoughts. I'm essentially trapped on OSX, and have been for a decade - sure, with enough pain and effort I might be able to kinda-sorta get by on linux, but in practise the barrier is just too high. And windows has never really even been an option until fairly recently.

I'd love to see real competition in the OS space for people who need both a decent app ecosystem and open source developer tools.
Beautiful effect. So full marks for stylish and simple.

I'm not sure I can read all the story-arcs of change over time on this un-adorned. I think the photo of a huge redwood trunk with significant events in the human timeline overlaid might be in my mind here: left could be legal changes affecting immigration, right could be world events stimulating immigration eg the boom and bust and famine cycle.
I'll give a crack at some cliffnotes:

A debt is a very natural thing for humans, because we feel compelled to provide value to people who can't pay us yet.

Even before money people had gifts and favors - we give with the expectation that we'll be given something in the future - or we say 'you owe me one' when someone has helped us through an issue without sending us an invoice.

So the genius of fiat currency is that you get to represent these IOUs as a standard, fungible currency, such that I can take the debt you owe me and transfer it to someone else, so now you owe them. Being able to trade debt like this essentially turns debt into the currency.

The benefit of this being that economic growth is not limited to how many gold coins we can mint -- we can become as indebted to each other as we like -- the more people go into debt, the more money we have to trade. Pretty neat.
I feel this way every time someone recommends a study or a book to me. If you can't summarize it for a 5 year old, then you are either lazy or don't understand it yourself.

For example, instead of telling me to read a 500 page book, you can say "the Big Bang is this really crazy but suprisingly plausible theory that our universe just suddenly exploded from nothing into this really hot and dense and chaotic realm, and now everything is expanding and cooling down and getting farther apart but also clumping together because of gravity. Check it out!"

Becuase at least then you can say "oh wow, why is it clumping together? how do we know gravity is a thing?"
there comes an update to Mirai.
Why not a fan of either company Apple or Nvidia. AMD has cards that work. I am sure they like this which is good. Nvidia does not need more help.

While yes it's pretty anti-user what Apple is doing just more reason why I don't like Apple. It's also to be expected from Apple.
Maybe just a /s marker? It made me smile at least.
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