skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a per capita basis sweden isn't really more worse off than many other countries that have shutdown. It's about middle of the pack. Personal responsibility lets us have our cake and eat it too.

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
That's good to hear. I use VirtualBox to develop on a real Linux VM from Windows and if this lets me get rid of an Oracle product, I'm happy.
Somewhat cynical take: because the West doesn’t have superiority in this space.
My eyes read that as

>I can see this being used to lift houses.

My evening has been made that much more interesting.
> which I think is still a thing, although not super popular.

Yeah, I compiled a version last week. It's occasionally nice for kernel devs to have an env to try out new ideas, so it more or less gets maintained.

Google's gvisor project is sort of a blend of that and WSL. A reimplementation of the linux syscall layer like WSL, but as a linux process like UML instead of as a kernel module as in WSL.
How does this work with IDEs like IntelliJ? I believe WSL 1 had issues with having Windows IntelliJ and the source code being in WSL?
Ask HN: How do you say “No” when you're the right person for the job?
I'm very much a jack of all trades, working as a Product Manager which is the job I didn't know I wanted until I got it.

What I like most is the variety of responsibilities I have. I'm better at doing a large number of things than a large number of people are at doing those things. I'm not amazing at anything except that. I can learn quickly to do something up to a relatively high standard.

I'm passionate about doing things right and when people ask me to help them on X and Y, I genuinely want to because I think/know that I'll do a good job, even if it's outside my normal tasks.

Sometimes I feel like there is no one else I'd trust to do those tasks right and I feel like that may be the main problem. I like helping people too obviously.

So at the end of the day I find myself genuinely thinking that all the things I'm working on should be on my shoulders. In reality I get burnt out because the things that matter to me don't move enough, I just don't realize it in the moment.

Are there any tricks to figuring out on the spot whether you should take on a task or not?

My title is a bit of lie, it should read "when you think you're the right person"..
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-faq

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-ux-changes
While flying, the whole thing is suspended by the motors. It'd only be the weight of the centre components (mostly battery) that'd be flexing the arms.

(While crashing, all bets are off. But way back when I used to fly RC gliders they had a saying "If you build them to crash, they won't fly well. If you build them to fly well, they won't crash.")

Also, it's not like anyone expects thousands of hours of flight worthiness out of a consumer or even semi-pro drone. Sure the military might spec that for their Predator replacement, but most drone hobbyists I know end up with a bunch of perfectly serviceable old drones which they no longer fly because their gear became obsolete well before the mechanics failed irrepariably.
The RealReal lays off 10% of workforce, furloughs 15%
mother of god.
That’s called string theory.
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines is once again correct: no.
You mean Wine?
Those don’t have a legal mandate to deliver to every address in the US.
Windows Terminal uses grayscale instead of subpixel antialiasing by default. They recently added the ability to turn on subpixel antialiasing. (I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "off".)
> The whole thing was a weird janky process

Atlassian's MO
The things I liked the most about WSL were the ability to share the same file system (and RAM, etc.) and not have to care about partitioning any resources. And to search the Linux files on the Windows side and even modify them with tools that can handle them (yes, I know what I'm doing). Now all of that goes out the window(s)... so I'm pretty unenthusiastic about WSL2. And the 9P server has been next to useless for me on WSL1. It's so darn slow for a local filesystem, it's almost like accessing files over SMB.
I never thought I’d say it but because of this exact setup with VS Code I’ve actually stopped using my MBP at home in favor of my desktop, which was really only built with gaming in mind. I’ve now gotten used to having all the extra computing power at hand and would struggle to go back to a laptop as my primary development machine.
If it's possible for GH to run a profitable business while offering SAML integration for free, I am 100% supportive of the suggestion. It's hard to say exactly how many enterprises pay specifically or exclusively for this reason, as opposed to other enterprise features, like audit trails.
I was mostly going by this article, which seems factual.

http://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/1994/alexander-visits-th...

Just to reaffirm my prior comment, I think Alexander is a genius. Having walked through the UO campus, it doesn't particularly remind me of his ethos. (The cemetery, of course, is quite nice, but not part of the campus.)

I don't see any indication that Alexander was involved with Hatfield-Dowlin or the Matthew Knight Arena. Is there a source on that?

As for the quality of the architecture program, the campus speaks for itself. I particularly liked that quote about "Science losing faith in the Arch". Ouch.
From the main article, it looks like they believe that relativity and quantum mechanics are both things that directly emerge as necessary consequences from the structure, not that those are arbitrary results that may be computed inside. It wouldn't be very interesting in the latter case; there's no shortage of Turing tarpits.
Windows Terminal is made by the same guys working on WSL and works pretty well: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

You can get it via the Microsoft Store and it comes with support for connecting to WSL, Powershell, and cmd.exe out of the box.
TMC was one of the coolest companies of all time; I really wish they were talked about more often.
Poll: Is your company doing or planning on doing layoffs?
It seems like every company is doing layoffs. Companies like google, facebook, apple, microsoft that generate insane amount cash probably are fine. But what about smaller startups. Who knows how long social distancing will last for. I guess uber eats is probably doing well, but uber taxi probably isn't. What about Lyft. These companies are burning cash and they pay pretty well too. I work for a large f500, but they have cut a lot of contractors.
How does this square with Denmark, which is opening schools tomorrow? It's possible they're wrong, but they must at least have some reason to think what you're saying won't happen.
Sweden's deaths per capita is neck and neck with the United States and following approximately the same trajectory with no lockdown. It's neither appreciably better nor appreciably worse.

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
That's a rational look at things. But if they believe they can (find replacement tenants), they will try, possibly making things worse.
Chicken pox was a steady state. It sucked that kids got it, but their parents and most adults were likely immune, so when they brought it home from school, it didn’t spread to parents.

But if you expose kids to COVID now, they will in turn expose their parents, who will expose their coworkers, etc, etc

I could see that being effective strategy if we didn’t have a vaccine in 30 years, but for now, most people are still susceptible.
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> laying off workers to make the business competitive results in having your salary clawed back for three years.

If the company goes out of business due to inefficiency - then the market will supply another one that can treat workers and investors well.

And maybe it should be clawback against all assets and profits earned in the CEO's lifetime. That will give them motivation to pay off the spurned employees the fired, then start earning more for themselves.

Since this is all about free markets and scale, we need to have optimistic forecasts. There's a credit against the CEO to pay off the employees due to management failing, but the CEO can always try again in the future to pay off their newly accrued debt by making better decisions for investors and employees.

Imagine - if all management decisions were binded 50% to the welfare of the employee and 50% to profit? Bound by the law? Or face strict liability, financial penalties and possibly criminal charges for causing jeopardy to the workers? That's absolute genius.

It's all about how we define competition. What if competition is redefined to imply responsibility and obligation to caretake for workers, and every business on Earth is subject to it? What's wrong with that?
Yeah, the drive for a "WSL" is really because Microsoft/Windows doesn't play nice with the *nix world of tools/commands that developers are falling in love with.

With OSX, the terminal experience is great, no need for a "WSL" over there!
The actual API layers are nowhere near that clean ;)
Whenever I see the IHME charts[1] (which are great) I think “I wish I could see the what the model predicted before today’s date so I can assess it.”

This shows laudable transparency, in my view.

(Also the model was directionally correct, it’s not like it was entirely the wrong shape.)

[1] https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/cali...
> The information can be anything. A seemingly uncoordinated twitching finger could be a song when placed on a piano or the right pin number when placed over an input panel of a cash dispenser. Until the signal is not decoded, even the carrier is clueless about its meaning.

Is that true? I've never heard of 'muscle memory' being an actual memory like that...

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However, I'd like to point out that there is in fact a well-established kind of memory which lets you use a human to carry a large amount of memory while being 'clueless' about not just its meaning, but what the encoding even is: visual recognition memory.

You can recognize whether you've seen an image before; given appropriate datasets, this allows encoding messages into a human's visual recognition memory without them being able to elicit this knowledge in the absence of the target images. This can be used for tricks like storing passwords, or multiplying 10-digit numbers: https://people.csail.mit.edu/andyd/rec_method.pdf I calculate that you could feasibly store 5.8 kilobits per human: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition#fn61
The good thing is we’ll see in the end. Lots of predictions. It’s almost as if you can’t be criticized for being too cautious. Sure, but the good will won’t last forever.

The US accepts 22k deaths a year without blinking due to flu. That’s just the flu. What’s the magic number we’re willing to accept? 50k? 100? There has to be a percentage of the population we are willing to accept as casualty because we already do, just unstated.

The lockdown will ultimately spread misery far and wide if left unchecked. Massive rise in poverty, violence, drug abuse, depression, crime, suicide, homelessness, prostitution, etc.

People need to be more clear on what they’re willing to accept. Right now there is no real discussion on “what next”. Lots of obsessing over the current body count though.
Fair. But the curves on the document referenced above are not epidemic curves. They’re unbounded exponential growth curves. My criticism of the report stands.
The NLRA protects workers seeking "mutual aid and protection". This is very clearly covered.

https://www.dol.gov/olms/regs/compliance/EO_Posters/Employee...
Delve works just fine.
Not by Apple, but here’s two:

https://github.com/ish-app/ish

https://github.com/linux-noah/noah

They have varying stages of support for Linux syscalls.
I suggest The C Companion by Allen Holub for getting an idea of "behind the scenes".

For a more modern look, i suggest Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and O'Halloran

Of course, you would need to pick and adapt the content for your students.
Other than price, why the recommendation for the 3900x over 3950x?
The US lockdown as of April 14 is idiotic for several reasons:

1) Lockdown was started to reduce need for ventilators. Since they don't work 66% - 90% (80% in NY) of the time, that's moot. (But Chinese papers have published that since January, so I guess we're slow learners.)

2) 98% of people who catch corona virus recover fine on their own. Of the remaining 2%, most are older, just like the flu every year.

3) The US is not S. Korea - we're not setup for testing or tracing, and won't be for months. We'll run out of food and most small businesses will be ruined for no good reason.

4) Corona virus has spread world-wide. There is no way to predict if it will come back next month or not, so let's get rolling on herd immunity.

My practical suggestions are, to use a medical metaphor, just rip the bandaid off:

1) Spend a week creating dedicated quarantine hospitals, just like Wuhan did in Dec./Jan.

2) Tell everybody to sew a mask.

3) End the lockdown after communnicating the above, and let the flu runs its course, just like every other year in human history.

I understand that it's human nature "to want to do something", but we have no cure for this.
I don't think technology will be a long term solution. What I think the industry needs is tighter regulation and incentives for companies to not "move fast and break things", lest they get slapped with large fines. The issue is that I don't think the majority of politicians are informed on the social cost of, say, not serving a website over HTTPS or encrypting data at rest. Until then, this sort of thing will keep on happening because ultimately companies don't have a disincentive to do otherwise.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22872491
I feel pretty lucky that I've only ever used Trello with one ExampleCo -- so when I got this email, I signed in, removed myself all ExampleCo boards, and deleted my old ExampleCo email address from my account.

This process isn't too bad if you actively work at ExampleCo, but if you left it years ago and are still on some boards... yuck.
Part of my clings to hope that this is strictly because rewriting all those gazillion syscalls was a PITA, and they will eventually convert on something in between WSL1 and WSL2 where the Linux "front end" is used with NT, like the opposite of a rump kernel.
Seconding Windows Terminal. I happen to also really like the font that comes with it -- Cascadia Code. But I'm a sucker for ligatures.
I think the only way will be by growing an agent centric web, where companies don't have much power over us to begin with.
The github bit doesn't make any sense. When you leave you just get kicked from the org...
This site is totally on brand.

As a shareholder, I don't want them wasting money on a redesign. And this has been the design for at least 20 years.

Over that time period, they've added about 400 billion dollars to their market value.
I love the idea and I'm glad someone was able to create it but long term maintenance is the problem with assembler. Few people have the know-how to help. Even if there were a large number of programmers that could maintain it, it's better to write the OS in a high-level language and use assembler to optimize it.

Nice job anyhow...
It's not worse than US: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ (third plot on page)
btw, I tried it with one of my friend, found its a bit lag, and when it happened, the video will restart, maybe its just our VPN lags...
Yeah, that makes sense to me. (And presumably the Bay Area is going to keep moving in lockstep as it has been.) It'd just be silly if Tuolumne County had to stay sheltering in place because of conditions in the LA area or something.
Yes, I did actually. And it's not only not necessarily causative, but they indicated that their symptoms weren't fully resolved. More importantly, it could very well be that the elevated catecholamines from just such a tumor are interfering with their sleep and causing excessive arousals. In fact, that may even be totally consistent with a pheochromocytoma.

Patients with a pheochromocytoma are notorious for presenting with secondary conditions that get misdiagnosed as the primary issue and the tumor isn't discovered until death. They're often called referred to as one of the "great mimics" of medicine. Note it on the list here: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_great_imitator)
A 36-bit system with (it sounds like) 9-bit bytes stores bit 8 of a int in bit 8 of a char, and bit 9 of the int in bit 0 of the next char; memcpy won't change that. They're asking for somthing like:

unsigned int x = in[0] + 512*in[1] + 512*512*in[2] + 512*512*512*in[3];
/* aka x = *(int*)in */

out[0] = x & 255; x>>=8;
out[1] = x & 255; x>>=8;
out[2] = x & 255; x>>=8;
out[3] = x & 255;
/* *not* aka *(int*)out = x */
Have they figured out how to pass through the GPU yet? Would be cool to use this for e.g. PyTorch.
I think that’s the “new terminal beta” they were talking about.
Sounds like a dialect of Portuguese to me...
In this case, I did not even use the company email. I was my personal gmail.
If C had real array types the compiler could do real optimizations instead of petty useless ones based on UB.
There are plenty questioning the legality. Workers do have rights in the United States. One of them is to engage in organizing activity for mutual protection, which includes discussing working conditions with the public. Despite the spokesperson's doublespeak, that is exactly what they were fired for.
My point is that there is no extrapolation of the data we’ve seen to date that yields the blue line on their graph.
By “personal responsibility” I guess you mean something like «each individual person makes their own decisions without official guidance about how their behavior might affect their neighbors – during a severe crisis when nobody has access to complete or accurate information – and we just all hold our breaths and hope none of them make bad choices».

Personally I would call this “government irresponsibility”, but I guess we’ll find how it turns out within a few more weeks.

I’m not sure “have our cake and eat it to” is a good way to describe a crisis that is killing a whole lot of people and smashing the economy (in Sweden and many other places).
Why?

I don't see why any "deemed safe" county wouldn't be overrun by visitors from unsafe counties, making the county unsafe again. Maybe you could find a county so remote it wouldn't matter but whether those extremely isolated places are opened up now or not probably doesn't matter either way. I doubt they're much effected by this situation regardless.
I like how a factual point that goes against HN wishful thinking gets downvoted.
That's basically the "yet you participate in society" of ethics discourse. It's entirely possible to encounter qualms in everything you see - that's hardly a sign that the world is okay as it is and we shouldn't try to make it better.
The ownership of the board is by account. In this case, all the company accounts were anyways invisible to me as my login email was personal gmail account and I only had the permissions to delete board owned under my account.
Yeah. There was a time maybe 8-9 years back where at least a section of the hobby tried to push back against the people using the term "drone" for any quadcopter/multirotor, and trying to educate people that only things capable of autonomous flight were "drones", while regular non-autonomous quadcopter really are just RC helicopters.

We lost that fight a long time ago.

(And I'm not even sure we were "right" to be honest. The term "drone" got used back in WW2 era for radio controlled aircraft used for target practice. There sure as hell were not autonomous... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_OQ-2 )
WSL (1) was what the BSD people call a "kernel personality", which allows one kernel to emulate another at the syscall and ABI level.
WHO ignored Taiwan's warnings about coronavirus in December
Anybody know where Dan Pop went and what he's up to these days?
Sure, but that "lot of us" out there is a much smaller and usually much rowdier group of users that time and time again companies have been happy to wash their hands of. You're not profitable enough (and I'm not even getting started on the morality or ethics side of this).
They mean MS replacing the Windows kernel with Linux kernel. Which doesn't sound as crazy as it did just a couple of years ago. Just put all the Windows crap in a VM, similar to WSL2.
Is there a video of the press conference somewhere? It's hard to make sense of these slides without any context.
Edit to show the point better: Go here (easily the best visualization site, FWIW), scroll to the bottom where you can see a log chart of per-capita infection rates normalized to a single "start time" metric, and compare the Idaho chart with the New York one.

Number of cases is largely a proxy for how many tests are being done (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts...). Looking at deaths is more accurate, and that shows Idaho (and all other states) well below New York.
Title seams kinda of skeptical, I'll believe it when I see the source code.
As they are different there should be option to do both 1 and 2
Stop blaming Hyper-V for "crippling other VM software". You ever tried to run VBox and KVM together? It's a limitation of the processor's virtualization extension.
“The plague-stricken town is the utopia of the perfectly governed city.”
Silver is expensive, and the Defense Department is substantially less price-conscious than the average smartphone buyer.
Mine can replace the reservoir with what's effectively a bypass plug. I assume this also disables the heater.
New businesses will be established to fill the void
> perfectly pronounced

Doesn’t India have its own English dialect - similar to the US, Australia, etc.?
“Efficient” perhaps, but also typically controlled by a single entity that often ends up using its power in ways that don’t benefit its users. It’s not really about the technology, it’s about the power dynamic that technology leads to.
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For those who missed the joke, EPIC was Intel/HP's name for the Itanium ("Itanic") style of instruction set that attempts to moves most of the work for parallel instruction scheduling out of silicon and into the compiler. (And, HP later asserted that EPIC refers specifically to the Itanium instruction set, not just Itanium-like instruction sets.)

It wasn't a terrible idea at a high level, but the implementation was terribly complex and power-hungry, needing huge caches to compensate for its low instruction density. They also bet heavily on compiler advances that never materialized or materialized later than expected.

I can imagine an alternative history where Intel took the EPIC idea, but went more conservatively and focused on minimizing complexity and the total number of transistors, designing in such a way that allowed for complex power-hungry HPC optimizations later on, but didn't depend on them for the initial roll-out. This would have resulted in a lot of the potential of the idea for HPC being left on the table, but may have allowed them to have more initial success in the server market and would potentially allowed them to scale down to cell phones more easily than trying to scale Atom down to cell phones.