skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Windows disks are mounted at /mnt/c /mnt/d etc

The real issue is being able to read the WSL disk from Windows which you have to access as a network share from localhost
We will know what our starting efficiency is before next year, when we start to produce and sell fuel. Anything above 25% works economically, and that has already been demonstrated.
Accelerating DevOps with GitHub and Azure
It would be useful to see resources about streams (and stream processing) and data lakes, specifically how they compare to data warehouses.
You're right. I missed an important part of the comment I was replying to: you need to say something about "company policy" or "company lawyers", now you're playing in the both the social and technical realm.

Nothing justifies an honest person going to great lengths to do some weird thing quite like "company policy".

Nothing makes officers think twice like the mention of lawyers backed by Apple / Google levels of money.
What do you mean by not caring about dev tools for a long period? Their tools were always industry-leading. It's what brought platform dominance to them in the first place. One might even hear a faint chant from the past: developers, developers, developers!
I totally agree that it needs to induce entrepreneurs into the market, but you lost me at Crypto, crypto could be a way of making it work (but you'd need to solve identity issues and have a tax scheme built in AND it'd need to be usable by landlords, grocery stores, etc...
Would your story also include incidents where innocent people are maimed or killed in accidents caused by those "rebels" while they were "feeling the winds and speed flowing over their shoulders..."?
First, I don't see any table that lumps all responses 18-49. I do see a column for <45.

Second, the tables that show responses for all respondents do include values (not N/A) for all age groups, meaning that across the n=1000 poll there are > 125 respondents in each age group, meaning that at minimum 250 people out of the 1000 in the poll are under 50.

The categories that do have N/A are in questions that select for only Democratic or Democratic-leaning independents who are registered to vote -- which is only 411 respondents out of the poll. And that one does have a lot of N/A's, including in the < 45 column. Having N < 125 under 45 in a sample size of 411 people is disappointing, but hardly the same as "no responses from people under 50", which is what you wrote. It also doesn't mean that those responses weren't included in the poll, only that they didn't feel confident to break them out separately.
I'd imagine retrofitting power plants to process their exhaust is itself an extremely expensive process.

Maybe they could setup their devices around plants anyways tho.
As long as MS supports IE, we are mandated that we have to support IE. As far as I know, only IE11 is still supported by MS, but support will continues until 2025. The thought of all websites we build having to be compatible with IE11 until 2025 makes me sick. Is there any hope that rolling IE into Edge will shorten the time that IE11 is supported?
You can use docker client from WSL and have it use the Windows docker running in the background. No need for VM

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
UsesThis: Joe Armstrong
> 'Irreversible' is somewhat misleading as used in climate discussion. It's used in the same sense as saying that the above consequences would be irreversible. And in that sense it's completely true. But many people interpret it, as you seem to be implying, to mean impossible to ever reverse. What it really means is that the expected return to a climatic equilibrium, through entirely natural processes, would take a length of time outside the scale of a human lifetime - hundreds to thousands of years. It does not mean permanently irreversible nor does it mean we go full Venus.

I'm not sure what your point is here. Yes, nothing is ever truly permanent—eventually the sun will die and all life on earth will likely go with it. When I say something is "permanent", I think I should have to qualify it with "until the heat death of the universe."

If a million species go extinct, they aren't coming back. The glaciers, once melted, will take millennia to reform.

This is entirely different from a normal geopolitical conflict, which can be ended whenever all sides agree to such. Wars can of course inflict permanent damage (and loss of life), but the time scale is generally of a different order of magnitude.
> There's no reason you couldn't represent RFC5322 data with RDF as JSONLD. There's now a way to do streaming JSON-LD.

Is there a reason you'd want to? I clicked all your links but I still have no idea what Solid is.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Overzealous testing while building an MVP for a project is just a waste of time as the code gets thrown out and redone so many times before it gets to the end user.

On the other hand, if requirements are mostly defined from a UX/UI workflow and and business logic perspective, that's a whole other story. Then it's easy to justify testing everything, as the expectation that the requirements will change is fairly low. Unfortunately, most companies don't follow the correct way of building software because it requires extra upfront time and resources.
It would be nice if they improved their own file system performance. Sidestepping the gap by running a VM gives them less incentive to fix these issues, which are also visible in native Windows applications.
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2: ELFectric Boogaloo
I find it amusing you claim docker on mac was frustrating when it's damn near useless on Windows. File change notifications still don't work right (as of about a month ago).

Edit: I'd love to use Windows as my daily BTW, it's just not there yet for me. I don't want to have to jump through hoops to make my current workflow, work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game
I personally use beancount [1] and love it. There are also many similar alternatives [2].

1 - http://furius.ca/beancount/
2 - https://plaintextaccounting.org/
Something like that might be a solution for UI limited sites such as GOV.UK (the reason why I like it, gov sites should look like that, be clean, informative and no distractions).

We use Vue.js for frontends so 'using JavaScript very sparingly' doesn't even compute to me. Switched from Angular and I totally understand what you mean (given its more JS hardcore and more problems).
But now this fucking "right to drive" thing is actually becoming a fucking reality.

1.25 million people die per year from auto accidents in the world with as many as 20-50 million additional people injured or disabled.

Source: https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

The average car utilization is less than 4.5%. For over 95% of the time, most cars are just sitting there doing nothing.

Source: https://www.reinventingparking.org/2013/02/cars-are-parked-9...

Cars are the second largest expense for most people with the cost of the car, cost of maintenance, registration, insurance, parking, etc. coming only behind their residence in terms of cost.

Manually driven cars are a wasteful luxury that kill over a million people per year. I can't wait until they go away.
> I thought the GPL would require Microsoft to ship the Windows source code?

I'm inclined to think Windows is not a derivative work of the Linux kernel by any remotely tenable legal theory, but anyone with code in the kernel they are shipping willing to take the other side of that bet against Microsoft’s legal team has the option to try.
Denver votes on decriminalizing hallucinogenic mushrooms
This assumes the effects of climate change will be smooth and linear, rather than lurching and dramatic. It also fails to connect the dots between the nuclear annihilation you fear and the politically destabilizing effects of Climate Change.
Where do you get the idea that taxis weren't exploiting their workforce? Most taxi companies made money hand over fist by lending the medallions to the drivers and lending the vehicles to the drivers. They sidestep the issue of contractor vs employee by being a service provided to the driver; aka the driver is their customer, not employee.
I see it making a comeback. If you care about mainstream apps, a Linux terminal, and can’t bother with macOS, this is your option
PL/I is syntactically like Algol, or Pascal, or C with more words and fewer brackets. At heart, it's a "normal" block-structured procedural programming language, which proves that a C clone could adopt the same basic idea.
I actually don't think it is dystopian. Today, you cannot ride a horse on most public roads in the car lanes. For those that like to ride horses, there are now parks for you to do that in.

The same thing will happen with autonomous cars. When the roads are fully autonomous the cars will be going maybe twice as fast as they are now, and much safer at the same time. For people who love driving manually for fun, there will be "auto parks" just like the horse parks of today.
Hm..

"That senior staff memo also suggested that union organizing is inappropriate for tech professionals. “Forming a union is a great tool—for marginalized workers,” it stated. “We’re concerned with the misappropriation of unions for use by privileged workers.”"

Privileged in what way? I have come to realize that tech workers (Of all skill types.) by and large (In my opinion) are skilled trades people similar to the marginalized workers that are cited.
If you really think the underlying economic problem with electrochemical CO2 to alcohols as fuel is the separation at the end you are in for a world of (economic) hurt. Not that improving the aforementioned separation isn't useful or valuable, its just not the lynch pin.

Take a really hard look at your economics, in particular throughput and capital amortization (which scales proportionally to uptime!). Good comparison industries are chlor-alkali, fuel cell, and water-electrolyzer. Aqueous Cu catalyzed CO2 reduction - even if you are best in class for FY and efficiency and durability - have atrocious current densities, diffusion limited, by the standards of anything considered commercializeable.
Yeah, the ownership and riding of a horse is now restricted to the privileged. Not exactly a shining example to use.
I tried selling a beauty product with AA batteries from Amazon on Amazon as a third party and the AA batteries from amazon triggered some safety review - I had to share safety data about the batteries and Amazon said their own MSDS didn't meet their standards for me to sell their batteries on their platform.

It's a clown town over there.
Docker for windows currently still runs in a VM though
We are doing the system shakedown now, and have started making fuel. We'd like to do a demo in the next few months, as long as it doesn't divert us from our timeline. Everything we're doing has been demonstrated separately, including the CNT membrane alcohol extraction, so there isn't really a technical risk here. Everything we need to do now is focused on proving the economics.
Johns Hopkins protest escalates as students chain themselves to admin. bldg
I like how an official donation is an acceptable way to get your kid into a school but a backdoor bribe is not. What is the effective difference? I'll answer my own question. The school and government get their share. So, it's not about what's right or wrong, it's just about the money, like always.
I think the biggest problem with this would be that you wouldn't want highway traffic crossing the bike/horse paths at grade, so I'm not sure that building bike/horse paths along (even if a bit away from) the highways would actually be efficient.

It might be better to simply require that equivalent paths be built somehow.
We live in a winner-takes-all world, or conversely, an eat-or-be-eaten world. Giving in to the environment means your competitor is now one step ahead of you.

This holds for individuals (politicians), companies, and even countries (e.g. US versus China).
The Clip
Use the Windows docker as a server and have your WSL/Linux client connect to it through local https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
The problem is not running kubernetes on "bare-metal". That's the somewhat easy and cheap part.
The problem is the supply chain to spec, purchase, rack, validate, provision and keep up to date your servers, their drivers and firmware. It's your capacity planning. It's keeping up with the rate of hardware evolution. What happens when you have to go from 10G to 25G networking ?
Oh and you also need a solid scalable L4 loadbalancing solution (facebook has a nice opensource dataplane based on ebpf)

You can build / assemble from open-source bits most of the classic IaaS bits (compute/storage/networkLB). It's doable, the open-source solutions are pretty good. But unless you have 10k compute nodes how can you bear the cost of having the expert knowledge necessary to debug this ?

Hardware sucks and is always on fire. Once you take this into account, the economic equation changes dramatically.
Nah, this is a good time for people to be thinking about it. If you refuse to think about things that aren't 100% yet, you'll find yourself flatfooted and at a huge disadvantage to those who did.

Whether you're pro- or anti-driving, the debate is going to be carried out in public for years, not just after the technology is perfected. And likewise for whatever other sort of freedom-vs-safety issues that come up with technology.
We just installed a chat widget on https://usebx.com and can confirm that it not only helps conversions, but has become the main support channel.

I personally never found them too annoying, but hesitated to add one to our landing page because of the general negativity surrounding them on HN.
Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
How do the unit economics look for using your tech as a battery store and then burning excess fuel for grid energy when demand is high?
www.gitpod.io has an on-premises option.
Why do you say ethanol degrades performance? Ethanol is an anti-knocking agent when added to gasoline, so it actually enables higher performance.
I feel like the penalty should be similar to the penalty given for accidentally shooting someone with a firearm when hunting and killing them. Any idea what the penalty is for that?
I just mean that some neologisms result from literary "cleverness", some result from slang, and some result from erroneous usage being adopted.
An entirely non-political article, and people still find a way to shoehorn complaints about the POTUS into the comments. What a time to be alive.
Yes, we could definitely do remote location fueling stations, like remote airstrips, etc. Right now we're focused on replacing as much fossil fuel as possible with zero carbon fuel, so that has us focused on the commodity gasoline market. Later we may do small distributed systems as well.
I am glad for this because it shows what the whole fuss about "dangerous" was about. This is like an illusion that looks deceptive from afar, but is however transparent on any closer inspection. As long as it is impossible for deep learning to make sense, these things are not a danger.
Yeah, no reason to do otherwise, even if there are 10 users IMO.

And according to my Kibana presentation on IIS logs there are actually ~100 linux users in entire country (not counting mobile users on Linux of which there are a lot due to Android). This might be related to concrete gov domain (accounting and VAT) tho.

Its principles 100% for me.
> If the cost of our equipment is also low, then we believe we can not only make zero carbon fuel, but actually compete on price with fossil fuel.

even if it can compete with fossil fuel, do you think it will also be competitive with BEV?
The claim is renewable energy is not carbon neutral? Just to be clear -- you realize carbon can neither be created nor destroyed by any industrial process available to mankind?
Yep, I've semplified. What I understood from this post is that net framework is in "maintenance mode": probably MS plan a 4.8.1 with but fixes and maybe a 4.9 with some minor updates, but .net core (now simply .net) is the place where new things will be developed.
Indeed, for example, the Indonesian Go-Jek expansion to Vietnam and Philippines are hitting up quite big moat/barrier of the respective governance.

Even with the much-lauded ASEAN, I think Southeast Asia is much less integrated than, say, South America. Or even Africa(n Union). Might be because all the diversity in language, religion, and culture here.

[There's push to make Malay a working language of ASEAN, if the non-Austronesians agree this would make much sense than using English which is only spoken by the elite few of each countries (minus Singlish and perhaps Malaysian... Or Filipinos.)]
Absolutely. A friend of mine founded a company to produce carbon-net-zero biodegradable plastics. Their seed round went well, and making great progress, and are currently raising a series A. If anyone's interested in learning more, email me steven.buss@gmail.com.
Can you elaborate on "we use zero-carbon electricity"? How far abstracted from electrical generation are you? What guarantees do you have that your electricity is provided by low/zero-carbon sources?
But the actual syscall is made by a Windows user mode library - kernel32.dll/... So your GPL user mode app calls directly into proprietary Windows library.
> The average car utilization is less than 4.5%. For over 95% of the time, most cars are just sitting there doing nothing.

This is roughly true of bikes as well, but I've never seen it used as an argument against cycling.

There is one important difference: Bikes are much smaller than cars so they take up less space when parked. But I haven't seen that mentioned in this context.

I am a cyclist for what it's worth.
Fair enough. This might be a case of https://xkcd.com/1172/
Apple has no problem with the rate of people updating their phones and laptops, but still respects user choice. It's a simple thing to do, MSFT just chooses not to do it in a paternalistic manner. Not to mention how MSFT doesn't respect user privacy to the same degree as apple does.

The iPhone does get annoying about updates, but it always is still up to you when it happens.
If we reach a point where manual driving is clearly unsafe compared to self-driving cars, do you really think that manual driving should continue to be legal simply so that you can "clear your head"?

Anyway, barring a constitutional amendment, you can't pass a law now that will prevent a law banning manual driving from being passed in the future, so I think it's sort of a moot point.
If Drones Had 'Claws' They Might Be Able to Fly for Longer
It'll improve net air quality (if it works) because our current methods of producing fuels themselves require other 'carbon negative' energy.
This is a completely accurate comment. Why is it downvoted?

I assume the company is operating in the US. In the US only 27% of electricity is from coal and falling.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

And in California (where nearly half of the US's electric vehicles reside--with EVs achieving a nearly 8% market share last year among light vehicles), it's MUCH less than that. There's only a single, tiny 63MW coal co-generation plant in the state, so coal power is less than 1% of California electricity.

> Even electric vehicles aren't carbon neutral, because they're mostly charged by coal power.

Additionally, it's absurd to compare two consumers of electricity, both of which are flexible with respect to time of consumption, and just arbitrarily say one is mostly coal power (which is false) and the other isn't.

We definitely need carbon neutral or even carbon negative industrial processes. I kind of question the logic of going for fuels versus more valuable non-fuel feedstocks, however. A maybe 50% efficient conversion of electricity to alcohols with a typical 20% energy conversion of fuels to mechanical power gives you about an order of magnitude less efficiency than battery-electric.

And if you ARE insistent on making carbon neutral fuels: Makes more sense to focus on things that are super hard to electrify, like long-haul aircraft and transoceanic shipping and maybe heating fuels for the far north (where air source heat pumps lose their effectiveness in January).

But I'm glad an electrochemical process is being developed, here. Electrolysis and related processes are much preferable, IMHO, than the more common thermal processes.
It took me a bit to realize this was unrelated to https://prometheus.io, which is a pretty popular project which is posted about here on HN frequently.
What's wrong with re-implementing the linux kernel? Why would people not like that?
Ouch...

I guess there is no hope that one will be able to continue to use WSL v1?
> Or they could charge a lot more, I guess. That would reduce demand for their services, meaning they wouldn't need as many employees.

That's the solution they need to follow, though it's probably going to take some badly needed regulation to get there.
> is at best carbon neutral, so from a cynical environmentalist point of view, what's the point?

This doesn't make sense to me? Wouldn't even the most cynical environmentalist agree that carbon neutral is much preferable to carbon positive?
I think the water that is still there after distillation will just be used for more distillation, it just hasn't been consumed yet, it isn't a waste product.
Walmart is 4x the size of Amazon in retail revenue with plenty of growth.
Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open-source, GPLed Linux kernel
let me draft for the next mile and I'll support Sil->Ber from Kiel...
This is a cool project! One question though: why is getting rid of thermal processes an improvement? If you're getting electricity from solar, you can get even more thermal energy from solar since the conversion efficiency for capturing heat is much higher.
We have "qualified investors" for the worldwide casino that is the equities market, to ensure you can't gamble more as an early investor than you could afford to lose.
Your engine has to be designed for it. It's a niche market I know, but some engines aren't. (Not every gasoline engine is in a car after all.)
Renewable power plants are not reliable producers of power. When they produce power they are the cheapest, so utilities would love to have more - but they need a backup plan for when renewable power isn't running which they have complex management schemes to deal with. Expansion of renewable energy it limited more by the power companies willingness to buy it than by ability to install more (though that is of course an issue as well).

If they can scale their process quickly (not just on-off, but to levels in between) the power company will be happy to give them a substantial discount. They can probably get power for $.03/kwh - windmills are about $.02 for profit so that is plenty of profit to pay for transmission infrastructure. Of course they have to agree to how quickly they can change their production.

This assumes they can turn off completely at 5pm when everyone gets home and jumps in the shower needing hot water. Then go to full production as they go to bed while the wind blows the best. Then drop down overnight. Then scaling up again as the sun comes up. In the late afternoon as the sun is hot they scale down to account for air conditioning. Of course they may as well shut down for maintenance in December (Christmas lights). If they can pull this off renewable energy can scale grow to be much better while taking more power plants offline. That is a big if though.
Seeing the classic middlebrow dismissal shitting on Dan Piponi is a special kind of entertainment.
Been using WSL since I switched to a Windows shop and it's a good lightweight alternative. I don't run a lot of the big tasks that I used to but, it's nice to have.

Installing certain apps do tend to be on the slow side so if WSLv2 can resolve this, that would be great news. As for the implementation is concerned, I have no idea what they are talking about.