skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably "Lee". At least in French it would be pronounced that way, Fleur de Lys. (flur de lee)

Here it suggests you should pronounce the s: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/fl...
Say Goodbye to App Stores
Lessons Learned from My Last Anxiety Attack
hi rob,
would you rather be jonas salk or john d. rockefeller?
Or perhaps allowed compassionate euthanasia in severe cases.
Bikes aren't allowed on freeways, so there are similar restrictions on cyclists.
If it becomes a feature of Edge rathe than a standalone product, what is supported is now Edge (which has a feature allowing it to support legacy IE websites), not IE. That is, no one will be using a supported browser that only supports IE functionality, so while Edge users can access IE websites, there's no reason for anyone else to support IE in order to cater to those users, since they will actually be using a modern browser, not IE.
Already know about this: this still means a big VM eating up memory
$17 is a pretty good wage for low-skill labor in NYC.
I own a 2014 MBP I use as my main work laptop. I also own a desktop running Windows 10. I currently maintain a VSCode dev environment for my coworkers who all use Windows.

We switched from XAMPP and Eclipse for PHP development to WSL with VSCode and so far the transition has been really good. The only problem is that OS X still has a way better free MySQL client in the form of Sequel Pro compared to Windows which only has MySQL Workbench and HeidiSQL for the free options. I wish there was a better SQL client we could use.
Good. As far as I'm concerned, all malls should (and will) die.

They are a scourge. Some hold nostalgic feeling for them because they were the only thing close to a social hub at the time (whereas malls are one of the reasons social hubs aren't there in the first place).

Go malls, go. I ain't shedding tears for thee.

After all, I'm in good company. The guy who invented the malls hates them too[1].

[1]https://qz.com/454214/the-father-of-the-american-shopping-ma...
We're going to take the power at the renewable power plant, so we will be certain that we are getting zero carbon electricity.
Not as things are currently designed. This is similar to how you can’t use things like the `?` operator, break, return, etc. inside a lambda and expect it to affect the outer function: it doesn’t work because lambdas are treated as their own functions. Personally I think it would be cool to pursue an extension to lambdas that would allow some of those things to work, but I’m not a Rust team member or anything, just an interested observer.
I agree, it doesn't seem politically possible with the current government to continue raising rates.
Ok, I get if they're looking to scale and have them on multiple machines. But I tend to use namedpipes and/or shared memory because I need fast access between multiple services on the same machine. I don't need to scale.
Reitz has responded (and subsequently removed his response).

Please un-flag this article so that HN can discuss the controversy/debate surrounding Reitz and his accuser.
Amazon has gotten really bad since they opened the floodgate to Chinese crap. Alot of it is shady as fuck.
Yeah, the expensive hobby isn't mandatory for everybody anymore, in fact it is banned on public roads, and the better alternative is readily available for people who don't want to shell out the cash for the quaint older method. What is the problem here?
You are confusing standards with implementations.
you have to redo the garden every season anyway
Ask HN: What is your faviorte interview question?
What is the best interview question you have asked/have been asked? It can be either technical or professional. If possible please provide what you are looking for in a response from a candidate.
Qt's licensing for commercial products is something like $500/month/developer. For a small team of 6 developers, that's $36k in licensing a year. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to take existing Qt code and "port" it over to the commercial license -- you're required to start from scratch IIRC.
I’m debating the possibility of moving out of MacOS and just get a Windows 10 Surface device. I don’t mind the Windows UI but feel like WSL may not be adequate for me.
With this rate of change inside MS OS team, I won’t be surprised when one day, Windows would embrace the Linux kernel and just build the UI on top of it. Look at what the IE team does with Chromium. Somehow, I think MS needs to cannibalize its own business (OS or browser) to set itself for a comeback in the near future.
The difference is that the university will sell out its admission spots for its own benefit, but doesn't want its agents to sell said spots for their own benefit.

A university will happily tarnish its illusion of 'meritocracy' for the right amount of money - as long as it is the beneficiary. It's not going to let its employees tarnish that image for personal gain.

Life isn't fair, and neither are admissions (Although the universities try their best to convince children and the non-thinking otherwise.)
Human trafficking violates consent. Violence violates consent. Sexual abuse violates consent. The government has a role in preserving consent in transactions. The third-party negative externalities I mentioned fall within the purview of government responsibilities precisely because they have an impact on those who have not consented.

Gambling does not violate consent. Drug usage does not violate consent. Prostitution does not violate consent, or in the cases that do, those independent instances are where enforcement needs to occur.
Windows Core OS is different from Windows Server Core.

Santorini is the codename for Microsoft's forthcoming 'Windows Lite' OS designed for laptops and 2-in-1s.

Microsoft is building out Santorini as the version of Windows Core OS that runs on consumer and education foldable PCs, laptops, and 2-in-1 tablets. It may even eventually show up on Microsoft's mythical Andromeda device. It's a new take on what Windows can be, introducing a brand new user experience that's a little more like Chrome OS and less like old-school Windows. It has deep ties with web experiences and puts universal Windows apps front and center, with the ultimate goal of having everything in the Microsoft Store runnable on Santorini.

Santorini features a centered taskbar experience, similar to that on the Surface Hub 2X. There's a simple app launcher that doesn't feature live tiles, which lists your installed apps from the Microsoft Store or pinned websites. I'm also told that Windows Sets has a pivotal role in the overall Santorini experience, with apps and websites running under tabbed windows that also get grouped as such in the taskbar.
Thanks for the info - I think I would personally be much more interested in trying out VSCode as my main editor if I knew I could also SSH Remote to MacOS as well as Docker containers and the like.
Kenneth Reitz responds to fundraising controversy
Logitech classic keyboard 200 [0]

Not that noisy, soft, small keys, reliable. A simple choice with nothing special.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Classic-Keyboard-200-USB/dp/...
Negative on HN is mostly positive in real life!
> One of the great things about Linux is its stable and backwards compatible system call interface. This will enable us to ship the latest stable branch of the Linux kernel to all versions of WSL2.

This is a very interesting phrase. Linus often appeared to be yelling at developers not respecting the rule #1 of the kernel. However the kernel being strictly backward compatible is a boon for Linux users, most of the industry should be inspired by this strict policy.

Interestingly, Microsoft (compared to Google, Apple...) is the company providing the best long term support for its products.
nfs, cifs, virtio-9p? or virtio-fs, whenever that lands.
when can you start?
> I like how an official donation is an acceptable way to get your kid into a school but a backdoor bribe is not.

I don't think that's ever been acceptable. I mean, people do
it, but it's not acceptable in the least.

I feel pretty bad for the kids too. They will forever know that they aren't a 'real' student.
Could OP (or anyone else who feels qualified, I guess) give me their opinion on a perpetual license as opposed to an annual license?

I have been considering building some licensed software and I had it in my head to offer an annual license to get at that recurring revenue, but...since it's client-only software (e.g. a game engine) that doesn't need to be making any API calls to my servers, I'm wondering if maybe that doesn't make any sense. I don't know...I've never made licensed software before and so I've never really thought about this. I guess I worry with a perpetual license that I'll run out of customers after enough people have got their hands on it. Maybe that's crazy, I don't know.

Also I would have no idea how to price a license...how did you arrive at your prices?
I hope you are wrong, but realistically I fear you are correct. It is easy to show something works in the lab, hard to make it work in the real world.
https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2017/03/what-are-the-crimi...

> When a person unintentionally kills another, whether or not a gun was used, they can be charged with manslaughter, which is a felony. Manslaughter is frequently referred to as criminally negligent homicide, as that name more closely mirrors the elements of a manslaughter charge. To be found guilty of manslaughter, a person has to die as a result of a defendant's inherently dangerous actions or actions taken with reckless disregard.

> Typical penalties for a manslaughter conviction include at least one year in jail, and can be much worse if the conduct that led to the death merit such. For example, a repeat drunk driver that causes a death is likely to face a harsher sentence than a recently victimized elderly man who, instinctively, accidentally shoots someone they believe to be a robber.

And I say the penalties should be worse because cars would be less obviously dangerous than guns in an era when most cars are self-driving. In short, a gun is a gun, and people know what guns are. If someone is waving a firearm around, well, most people who have competent faculties know that that's dangerous. In the era I'm foreseeing, which I think is the era most of us in this thread are foreseeing, a car is no longer as inherently dangerous as they are now, unless someone has made the conscious choice to make it that dangerous again by driving it manually.

I also support greatly increased penalties for DUI, but that's going a bit afield.
I realize you already know this, but just to add to what you've said...

It also makes a lot more sense in stage races. The win for the day's stage is not the only win to be had. The overall race win is based on combined time across all stages. Often someone who is in the running for the overall race win will make a deal with someone who isn't. By not attacking each other, their average speed can be higher. One rider gets to win the stage and the other gets the benefit of working together to finish the stage in the quickest possible time. This allows them to gain on their rivals for the overall win.

In a single stage race, the win is mostly the only thing that matters.
More context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826680
Sometimes people say Southeast Asia to mean China, Japan, and Korea too, which is... Fun.
I'm sorry, it's been too long since I read about it. It was years ago. Maybe a Rolling Stone story?

To your first question, yes, Gropon decides the price. There are many examples of comapnies who made an offer through Groupon which put them out of business.
I fear it's getting harder to find those two criteria on a new flagship.

I wish Google would sort out a way of ensuring everyone could get stock android updates for a much longer time period.
Sunscreen enters bloodstream after just one day of use
So about 10,000 drivers out of maybe over 70,000 total are vowing not to drive during a small window during which many might not have driven anyway.

This is not how you send a message. If you want people to listen you have to shut streets down!
Nothing at all is truly carbon neutral, after all a human took a breath to contemplate it.

The idea and processes behind Prometheus are still very interesting and have implications beyond the short-term focus on carbon footprint. This type of process will likely be needed to manufacture fuel on other planets.
How to Balance Technical Debt
Yes, that data is from a recent Science review article: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6438/eaav3506

I think the timing on this effort is right, from a cost of renewable power perspective, as well from a growing consensus that it is very close to being achieved. Hope to prove that soon!
Yeah, I didn't conflate these concepts. Back to the question:

Why do you think there is a problem when the ECB can hold bonds till maturity? Central banks have an infinite time horizon, they are upgraded sovereign wealth funds. The issuers themselves can just rollover and create new bonds when their old bonds are reaching maturity, if they haven't paid them all off yet. This is commonplace. If they fail at having enough revenue or getting investor appetite for a new issuance then they default.

There are criticisms possible about central bank behavior, but as far as stability to the financial system what problem do you think there is? Central banks haven't been in the habit of actually unwinding their portfolios into an illiquid market, and their large bond holdings can just be repaid by the issuer.
Different molecules burn differently. They might not be able to stop NOx, but they can make a fuel burns cleaner in an engine. We already know how to make those molecules, but it isn't practical to make gasoline that way for normal use (read 3x the price of pump gas)
> A minor correction

Interesting. TIL, thanks. (I looked at /proc/cpuinfo on my i5, saw 4 entries, and assumed HT dual core).

> Have you tried using WSL instead?

These are tests to ensure PhotoStructure works on stock Windows machines, so I can't use WSL.

> filesystem performance should improve by a significant amount

That'd be awesome. Where'd you read that?
Alarming articles like this raise more questions than answers. The number of species on earth apparently ranges from 2 million to 1 trillion (??). One question is whether this biodiversity is needed. Life on earth has survived significantly larger extinction events and in the grand scheme of things "preservation" is not an optimal condition for anything. It just feels good for humans to preserve the planet.

More importantly however, evolution has found a clear winner in its path towards (whatever she was trying to do): humans. We are already beginning to alter evolutionary trends and this will only keep accelerating. It's worth considering whether evolution is now obsolete and whether indeed most species serve a purpose. With brains taking over, life is on transformative path which will lead to it becoming extraterrestial and generally way more transformative than evolution has ever been.
So you're agreeing that they need to let workers go?
Uavos
Well of course it's not 100% energy efficient. Nothing we do is 100% efficient because we cannot escape the second law of thermodynamics (entropy).
Gosh, I depend on NTP, DNS, BGP, DHCP, ARP...the list goes on. And I'd bet you depend on them too.
Yes, like Amazon, Groupon has its own traffic which would be hard for a small business to reach otherwise.
I am forced to use windows (drivers). Thus, I am forced to use WSL, and welcome any improvements brought to it.
Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-ergonomic-keyboard...
Ever heard the song "Red Barchetta" by Rush?
WSL runs Linux binaries on the NT kernel. That command executes in bash on Windows with no modification.

The opposite also works. Powershell has had a Linux port for a bit now. There's no reason you couldn't use use Powershell scripts to deploy to Linux servers if you wanted to.
Exactly. Microsofts obvious, deliberate and well executed attempts to strangle Apple by cutting off the developer pool they need to sell their live-style gizmos coupled with Apple management's apparent obliviousness that this is any threat at all (otherwise they would not impose additional unforced deterioration on their own developer system on top of whatever Microsoft is chipping away) makes one kinda wonder what's wrong with shareholder capitalism.
>"The Zhao family claims that they are victims of Singer, and that they believed their $6.5 million — by far the largest sum paid to Singer as part of his scheme — was a perfectly legal donation to Stanford. This generous act was not only done for the good of the school and its students, but also done out of the love and support of Yusi by a caring mother,” the family said in a statement to the Times."

Their defense is that they thought it was a legal donation, but clearly still expected that it would buy their daughter admission.
The problem with e-fuels for jets is that a majority of the climate forcing comes from the high altitude water vapor in the exhaust, not actually the CO2. EDIT: I should point out here you COULD actually make an e-fuel without hydrogen and thus without water vapor as a combustion product. Carbon monoxide, for instance. The energy density is much lower, but it is sufficient. HOWEVER, there are obvious safety concerns with CO fuel that basically makes that a non-starter. Another option is a fuel cell that condenses the water output and stores it for periodic (possibly lower altitude) discharge in liquid form.

But I agree container ships would be a good application of this. Container ships also have pretty high efficiency internal combustion engines (about 50%), meaning there's less advantage in electrification there than for land vehicles which often have 15-25% efficient engines. And it allows low particulates, which is one of the main forcing regulations on shipping powertrains nowadays, without the overhead of cryogenic LNG.

However, container ships use ridiculously cheap bunker fuel instead of highly refined gasoline.
> the company doesn't pay them to do it

It absolutely does. Google has a vested interest in making Go a popular language outside of Google: It improves sentiments towards Google by association, and it means that Google has an easier time onboarding new hires since they probably already know Go.
There's clearly large power variance within the 1%. 10M net worth is a wonderful lifestyle, but that crowd can only dream of the kind of doors that having billions opens.
I see the key as being benefit of all students (university has more money) vs benefit of one (bribe).
As an avid fan of very complex board games and a player in an "advanced stat" fantasy baseball league, I can promise you that long term grinding using spread sheets and optimization trees is fun for some people.

You play <name of FPS de jour> to show off fast twitch muscle memory, but you play games like this to show a different sort of ability. Perseverance? Intellect? I'm not sure what it is for each person specifically, but they can be fun.
2019 is the year of desktop linux on windows?
Just to add another data point, in the UK it is perfectly legal to ride a horse (or horse drawn vehicle) on all roads except motorways. I expect similar laws exist in the rest of Europe. Due to the density of other roads it is possible to get about quite easily but I suppose this isn't the case for the USA which is larger and less dense.
The article states they’ll live side by side.
D3Wasm: A port of id Tech 4 / Doom 3 engine to WebAssembly
> I guess there is no hope that one will be able to continue to use WSL v1?

Looks like that guess is wrong:

“WSL 2 is a new version of the architecture that powers the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run ELF64 Linux binaries on Windows. This new architecture changes how these Linux binaries interact with Windows and your computer’s hardware, but still provides the same user experience as in WSL 1 (the current widely available version). Individual Linux distros can be run either as a WSL 1 distro, or as a WSL 2 distro, can be upgraded or downgraded at any time, and you can run WSL 1 and WSL 2 distros side by side. WSL 2 uses an entirely new architecture that uses a real Linux kernel.”

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
The article doesn't mentioned right or wrong ?
Postfix works because Rust doesn't have piping or do-notation.
I don't care either way though, I'm welcoming await to the family & excited to use it.
I'm not sure about that. What is money for, if not to live a better life? Some things may/should be beyond money, but I'm not at all sure that a slot at a college is one of them.
Fuels are used in lots of places besides cars where batteries aren't necessarily viable options.

Large transport ships, airplanes, and rockets all are a long way of from being able to be electric.
I made the "sad" joke to my kid who loved arcades like Dave and Busters/etc. while growing up that the ticket games are kid gambling.

If you look at the last 10 years in those places, the "gambling" games basically are taking over an ever-increasing amount of floorspace. Many games may as well be slot machines for all the interaction and experience they give.
If these are private institutions, why does it matter if people can pay their way in. You might think it would be a problem if only rich people can attend these schools, but the schools want the diversity as well. They should be able to allow whomever they want (and lose any public financing).

edit: spelling
If anything, I think we all feel that there is a cliff coming.

Though not like a Kurzweilian Singularity, we all see a climate change cliff out there in (most of) our lifetimes. We all know that the future is not going to resemble the present, and that's anxiety producing.

I'd argue that from Dr. Rosling's data, it will be a much better world. But even his stats and monte-carlo show us that it'll be different. Pax Americana is ending, clearly, but what comes next with all those missles we have chained up in those silos, that's reasonably terrifying.

The world has never been more 'up for grabs'. It's exciting to me, but it can reasonably be very anxious to others whose livlihoods depend on stability.
Announcing WSL 2 (Microsoft Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows)
The article's author did, and came up with a number about 2 orders of magnitude lower.
I'm a big fan of the team at Drift, as the product itself is very good- They just make it really easy to have their product be annoying which is why so many of us complain about that.

I will also say we use live chat extensively in our product and it's nothing but great. We have a sub 1 minute median response rate for all chat requests, and our customers love it. Great support matters, and chat is great support.
They basically completely abandoned the previous approach and started from scratch with a new one, so I'd say it's normal
As do I...You shouldn't be replacing your oil multiple times a year. Unless you drive a lot (i.e., 10k+ miles a year, meaning >27 miles/day every day of the year or >40 miles every work day of the year), you should be able to go 2-3 years between oil changes.
The post you replied to said exactly why it exists and explained why it no longer needs to exist after this (.Net 5) change. Even Microsoft's own graphic on the linked page makes .Net Standard's irrelevance obvious.