skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So called "Wedge Savers" are quite common. I own a few for adapting older keyboard wedge devices like barcode and magnetic strip scanners into USB devices.
I find that most of the linux-like versions of user-space tools can be installed via homebrew. What functionality would you been hoping for from a linux vm?
would this VM be able to have any GPL v3 licensed tools?
While this is generally a large improvement, there is still a glaring issue with accessing files between the WSL and Windows https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
I am using strapi ,it is good!
Are they scarce everywhere? I was under the impression that LA county, at least, could test everyone that was symptomatic.
Millions of people would have become newly unemployed regardless, as a result of the pandemic. The pandemic is an ongoing global catastrophe. Refusing to take efforts to mitigate it doesn't mean it's not still a catastrophe. Social distancing was always going to happen regardless of whether it was mandated. People are rational enough that they won't put themselves into close proximity with others if it could easily mean death (especially because of how overcrowded the hospitals would be).

There isn't a country on Earth right now that isn't doing social distancing of one form or another. It's an inevitable consequence of a pandemic; it's not some elective choice that we made.
Exactly. It really doesn't need a syscall translation layer anyway given its Unix + BSD and POSIX foundations. Although this open-source project [0] does exist for macOS but it looks like its inactive.

[0] https://github.com/linux-noah/noah
I’m a bit confused...are you federating user management of those customers to their IDP? Or running separate keycloack instances for each of them? Or something else?
Please leave politics out of this. The OP was making very specific claims and I asked for the sources, which he provided. I thought it was common knowledge that HCQ is most often prescribed for chronic conditions (but I could be wrong about that). It is fair to ask for a source though so here is a source. https://reference.medscape.com/drug/plaquenil-hydroxychloroq... Note that for treatment of, say, Rheumatoid Arthritis the treatment duration is indefinite. The suggested dose for off label use of HCQ with covid is a single dose of 800mg, then 4 to 7 days of 400 mg. (That is from the Epocrates app on my phone so I don't have a link to share.)
After 5 years, Google Cloud implemented prefix redirects in their Load Balancers
For the roof though, at least in the US, the property it's on is based on men taking it with guns from the natives. Everything since then where you're keeping people off "your" property is a continuation of that coercion.
WSL 1 was closer to flinux than cygwin.
>...The first smile will be gentle and gracious, and the second will be of pure glee.

What kind of smile is there when there is nothing to buy at any price?

Before all these laws, in natural disasters there used to be marginal producers (people with a pickup truck etc) who would load up on some supplies like ice etc. and bring them to the area that was hit to make a quick profit. When the electricity is out and someone wants $12 a bag for ice it would anger you if you just want to keep your drinks cold, but you would think it is a bargain if that way you can keep your insulin chilled.

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungergouging....
> because Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital there isn't really equipped to deal with a large number of critical care patients

That makes me think its sterling example of why we need a county-by-county. Don't just base it on infection levels though, as you pointed out. Include hospital support, ppe levels, interconnectedness, etc.
With an older population, a problematic medical system, and being caught totally unprepared, isn't Italy the worst case scenario? I don't think it would be representative of what's going to happen in other countries from here on out.
Literally running Linux under regular hyper-v, with some clever FS tricks.
WSL2 with Docker Desktop is amazing. I switched over last week and the performance is amazing. Further, you don't have to reserve CPUs or RAM anymore.
Yep, that's the one. Thanks for finding and posting (wasn't able to do this where I was at).
In unprecedented move, Treasury orders Trump’s name printed on stimulus checks
Hi, I'm 20 years dev and I love C. C is my second language after assembler. A good days with Turbo C with 20 MB hard drive and 8086 without IT marketing and viruses.
I working on a real-time reverse-debugger for new programming platform. It's possible to debug C code and prevent NULL and memory exceptions.
I create my language based on C and removed all keywords, and it works perfectly.
I want to make a gcc backend to my programming language and all features will be available for any C-programs.

How I can find help for this?
"Milk it?" This is the biggest worldwide pandemic in over a century. It's going to fundamentally reshape society for many years to come.

You can't bury your head in the sand about this. Frankly, in comparison to this, almost nothing else is even worth mentioning. And anyway, it's not like there's sports to cover. Almost nothing else is going on besides the pandemic because everything was shuttered to fight the pandemic and even that is just barely enough.
I understood you were the user, and that what Atlassian was way too cold and lazy on their part.

but again, to play devil's advocate, Gmail do offer professional account part of the G Suite. Without knowing your work history, it would be difficult to know if the Gmail address is also not a "professional one".

On another hand do you think notification would have solved the issue ? And wouldn't a more malicious employee just delete all the boards if they did not part with their previous company on good term.

Obviously I don't know everything from the story. And my assertions are very far from the truth. I am trying to understand what would motivate such a decision (beside the obvious Atlassian is a heartless money-grabbing company that rot everything it touches)
IMO most 'generative art' is about as creative as a markov chain text, just with images as the input instead of words. It'll be a while before anyone can assert any sort of equivalence to human creativity and have it taken seriously
Singapore is often refer to as soft-authoritarian.

It's like choosing N.Korea as an example and asking why you should trust them with your civil liberties.

https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2017-12...
Also the hospital bed line that many draw are all based upon having medical staff for them. So does somewhat depend upon no staff shortages due to illness impacting capacity of hospital bed numbers.
I’d say Spanish would be a much better fit. Much easier to learn than many other languages. (Another good candidate would be Malaysian.)
I still don't understand. RSS may be sourced from a single server, but it is, like I said, also generally being run from the same entity that is sourcing the content going into the RSS feed. Some sort of additional "decentralization" would be bad.

RSS and the content it is syndicating being connected is a good thing overall; AIUI Mastadon ultimately advertises very similar types of control over data in terms of random entities not schlepping whatever data they like around under whatever pretenses they like. (RSS of course has no fine-grain controls, partially by design, partially because no other design was possible at the time.)

Let me put it this way: Being specific, how is my RSS feed at http://jerf.org/iri/rss.xml particularly "centralized"? I mean, yes, I'm the one serving it, but that's what I want, just like my email comes in to a server under my control by my choice. There's no central service, no central registry I had to register that with, no central consumer, no central authority to tell me they won't carry it or that it's going to censor me.
This is ridiculous criticism. There are so many unknowns with this virus. We don’t know how many people have it, how fast it is spreading or what the mortality rate. Everything is a fairly rough estimate.

It turns out that social distancing is working better than expected, or the virus isn’t as contagious as expected, or slightly less severe than expected. That doesn’t mean the lockdown was the wrong thing to do, or that it isn’t still necessary. What it does mean is that we’ll be able to start easing restrictions as the hospitalizations continue to drop — and perhaps we can stop it completely with testing and contact tracing.
It's possible to bypass the CPU in some cases using NVMe over an RDMA layer with Infiniband. PCIe 4.0 dual-port 200Gbps Infiniband/Ethernet adapters exist[1] which are compatible with this approach: https://store.mellanox.com/products/mellanox-mcx653106a-hdat...

[1]Although you can't saturate both of them through even a 16 lane PCIe 4.0 port which has ~250Gbps of throughput each way.... Which to me means that PCIe 4.0 is not at all too soon.
>where Wolfram has branching from undeterministic applications of rules. I'm not sure how Wolfram can derive unitary evolution.

I don't think it's right to call it nondeterministic: every possible sequence of rules happens, separately. It seems to lend itself easily to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of QM.
doesn't macOS put a BSD translation of some sort in their kernel? Theres a microkernel, a driver api (device kit) and then 'bsd'
Correct. WSL1 ran ELF binaries on Windows (as crazy as it sounds). WSL2 is basically linux in a VM + OS provided helper services on both sides.
Would KolibriOS fit the constraints to do something like this? Per the description it "requires only a few megabyte disk space and 8MB of RAM to run." but has a recognizably usable GUI and office suite.

https://kolibrios.org/en/
There is a distinction between quarantining someone who is sick for the duration of their illness and putting the entire population under indefinite detention and building a long-lasting deep surveillance operation with mandatory universal participation
There’s no tracking information here
Eh, it's kind of like the decision on how bags of groceries to carry from the car to the house at once -- it's faster the more you take, but the more you carry the more likely you are to drop them and the more catastrophic the accident becomes when it happens.

It's tricky to take large bites here because of the short doubling time compared to the relatively longer recovery time -- in the ~3 weeks it takes your currently-infected cohort to recover, your infected population could increase 100-fold if you aren't careful. Mistiming things -- misjudging how many people are currently infected -- by a couple of days can be difference between exposing 10% of your population to the risk and exposing 15%. There's a reason pandemics are often compared to forest fires.

This will get easier as time goes on, as the doubling period gets longer and longer.

Based on current estimates of how many people will die in the US, you can infer that we currently expect 5-10% of the population to be exposed in this first wave; I believe what widespread testing there has been in Italy leans towards about 10% of that population having been exposed there as well.
> Question -- from what I understand, WSL2 is closer to Linux running in a VM, whereas WSL1 was like a Windows kernel level version of Cygwin. Is that mostly correct?

Yes, that's essentially correct. You could also think of it as WINE in reverse; one big difference from cygwin is that it runs unmodified binaries rather than needing to recompile.

> prior to VMs there was a patch set for the Linux kernel porting it to user space -- so you could run Linux as a user process

User Mode Linux (UML; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux), which I think is still a thing, although not super popular.

> Would WSL2 be closer to this model, or is it really running Linux under a stripped down Hyper V?

Not even stripped down; it's running Hyper V. (This is one of the big problems with WSL2; if you use it, you can't use non-HyperV virtualization.)
Would it make sense for defer to operate on a scope-block, sort of like an if/do/while/for block instead?

That would allow us to write:

defer close(file);

or:

defer {
release_hardware();
close(port);
}

I feel like that syntax fits very nicely with other parts of C, and could even potentially lend itself well to some very subtle/creative uses.

I feel like a very C-like defer would:

- Trigger at the exit of the scope-level where it was declared.

- Be able to defer a single statement, or a scope-block.

- Be nestable, since a defer statement just runs its target
scope-block at the exit of the scope-block where it's defined.

- Run successive defer statements in LIFO order, allowing later
defer statements to still use resources that will be cleaned up
by the earlier ones.
No war has been declared.

But in a way, you are right. We are in a war for our futures, and we are losing.
Ah, I completely forgot about flinux. Seems there were a lot of neat innovations back in the earlier days, including a couple of single system images (SSI) implementations (the opposite of VMs, making a network of hosts look like a single multiple processor system).
If we follow the spirit of the article, submarine operation is all about stealth. Detonating a (missed) torpedo would give away that there is an engagement, whereas letting it sink is quiet.
I’m holding out for the Linux subsystem for Windows.
> regardless of the pricing

>> If Intel sells $5 CPUs, will you change your mind?

Sure, if they were selling i9s for $5.

But the OP's point is the opposite. "Regardless of the pricing" means even that if you ignored the huge costs of Intel's best CPUs they were generally the highest performance option given your unlimited budget.

That's not really the case anymore, except for very specific workloads.

> I don't understand the obsessive praise of AMD.

"obsessive" seems unnecessary. People are praising AMD because they are finally bringing performance competition to the CPU market, which is great for consumers.
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Everything breaks if it isn't.

I was on an OS development team in the 1990s. We were using the SHARC DSP, which was naturally a word-addressed chip. Endianness didn't exist in hardware, since everything was whatever size (32, 40, or 48 bits) you had on the other end of the bus. Adding 1 to a hardware pointer would move by 1 bus width. The chip vendor thought that CHAR_BIT could be 32 and sizeof(long) could be 1.

We couldn't ship it that way. Customers wanted to run real-world source code and they wanted to employ normal software developers. We hacked up the compiler to rotate data addresses by 2 bits so that we could make CHAR_BIT equal to 8.

That was the 1990s, with an audience of embedded RTOS developers who were willing to put up with almost anything for performance. People are even less forgiving today. If strangely sized char couldn't be a viable product back in the 1990s, it has no chance today. It's dead. CHAR_BIT is 8 and will forever be so.
"They're doing what makes sense for their business" is a weak argument against an accusation of unethicality. Owning slaves is very good for business.
> Presumably, this also means you have to have Hyper-V enabled, crippling all other VM software

How does hyper-V cripple other VM software?

I just had to enable it to use a prebuilt VM I need, now I’m a little worried
I wear masks in public, even though I have no comorbidities, because of all the people I might subsequently spread it to if I got it. Remember that asymptomatic transmission for several days is common.

Putting on a mask takes a few seconds, so compared to all the suffering it might prevent, even at 0.01% probability, it's well worth it.
We need a Linux subsystem for Windows...

Though Wine is quite good.
Any object I could name seems ultimately arbitrarily defined at some point, it's "object-ness" simply a thought in my mind.. and even that only as long as I actively uphold it, since a thought isn't an object either, but a process. Sure, I also slice the worlds into things with words (or unspoken thoughts that do the same thing), I have quite the ego actually, and I find that fun; but when I recursively ask "what is X?" and then ask that about whatever it consists of or is affected by, it quickly ends up nowhere, in a cosmic shrug.

Where exactly does an atom begin or end? Where does my body end, and does it also occupy the vast empty spaces between atoms, and so on? Is it solid with an outside, or rather just a bunch of probability clouds loosely held together by mysterious forces? Considering all mass attracts all other mass in the universe, no matter how weakly, can it be considere separate?

All I can say for sure is that "there is something", or "there is something going on", but I don't even know which of either, or if one follows from the other.
random wikipedia image that somewhat supports what I was thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#/med...
Years ago a friend invited me to help him brand his cattle. We rounded 'em up and sent each through a chute where we applied a dose of ivermectin to their back. The procedure was: measure, pour directly on their back and then spread it around with bare hands. We did this for an indeterminate number of cattle. He seemed unconcerned that _we_ were getting quite a dose through our skin too.

This friend has lived a remarkably healthy life - he was over 70, never got sick, and could toss hay bales with the best of them. Seeing how Ivermectin is applied, I'm fairly certain there wasn't (and isn't) a single parasite in his body, in his clothes, his pickup truck or his mobile home.
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This is extremely ridiculous. It would be like if every time you paid your taxes your forms said "Please make your check out to the order of Donald Trump"
Someone—not me, probably not you, but someone—could have made money buying credit default swaps on WeWork debt.
cmd.exe via wine :)
On the other hand, when I am reading a book in Classical Greek with accompanying translation to English, I more often than I would like to catch myself reading the translation - not because I do not understand the Greek text but because the translation is so delicious!
Darwin doesn't use a microkernel, but yeah they straight-up grafted a BSD syscall layer onto a Mach base.
Pretty standard fare for monopoly/cartel in all segments in America. Pump stock, hit options, golden parachute.

I will say the last time AMD had a brief lead on Intel with Athlon, they laid on their laurels and started milking customers in record time. I think that was Hector Ruiz.

The last time, it was pretty clear from the mobile processors that the core engineering talent was somewhere in the company, I think the Core processor was from an Israeli team rather than the one pushing out the high-frequency pipeline-stalls-be-damned stuff.

But I get the feeling with the stunning, STUNNING process lead collapse that the engineering talent is fundamentally gone.

Intel had a two or three year lead it was thought at one point.
If this works then this would be a way to store passwords or private keys unconsciously in the muscle memory of the only person who should have access to them.
It was probably the right thing because it was conceivable to end up with 30 million pneumonia victims and no way to treat them all. But we shouldn't forget we had to waste 0.1% of all 328 million lives (one month/78.54 years under house arrest) and counting.
Who would you point out as a steelman? I'd love to find a proper, thorough critic of the Austrian school.
Look into selling dating related products. These can be information products or actual physical goods like makeup.

Beauty products

Fitness products (weight loss/ muscle, etc)

Dating advice products

You can either make your own or affiliate with people who already have products, basically selling access to your audience.
My guess is that they'll end up having to do more stringent social distancing measures anyway, but that a lot of people will end up having unnecessarily died because they waited so long relative to other countries. Because currently they are on track for an unreasonable number of deaths, and it would reasonable to change the course of action so that that doesn't happen.

I'm not seeing a lot of subtlety in these outcomes, nor possibility of both sides (credibly) claiming that they were right. We'll know soon enough either way.
I have defenestrated very little.
2.8 million Americans die in a normal year, or about 7,500/day.

The risk factors for normal causes of death are basically identical to those of covid-19 ( age, vascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease, ect). I think it is reasonable to wonder how many of the people who died from covid-19 were already loosing a battle with pre-existing condition.
All of these programs are band-aids at best. Most, like this, will force middle class rents even higher, putting more strain on the system.

The causes of ever-increasing rent are clear, but unpopular to address. We need more transit and living opportunities in healthy, job-rich areas so that 100 people aren't competing for a tiny apartment. Sadly, any movement to do so is attacked as "gentrification" or nonsense about "luxury" apartments. So, nothing gets done and people continue to get priced out. :/
And here we are on Hacker News with other threads on how battery density is peaking with Lithium and there is nothing better in sight.

Turns out there are silver based battery that can do almost double. So what's the catch as to why it's not being adopted by phones?
This large, friendly notice from the government spells it out explicitly: https://www.dol.gov/olms/regs/compliance/EO_Posters/Employee...

> Under the NLRA, it is illegal for your employer to:

> Fire, demote, or transfer you, or reduce your hours or change your shift, or otherwise take adverse action against you, or threaten to take any of these actions, because you join or support a union, or because you engage in concerted activity for mutual aid and protection, or because you choose not to engage in any such activity.

You can get a basic overview of this topic by googling things like NLRA, NLRB, and protected concerted activity, including very recent examples of how these concepts have applied. They're much broader protections than you think, and Amazon has very clearly broken them. That's why their spokesman is giving out contradictory statements like saying that they allow employees to discuss eachother's working conditions, then firing them for exactly that.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that "the company has a policy" or "at-will employment" means "you have no legal rights".
Well, it was linked in the index, so I assumed it was supposed to be there. :)
My goatsac vibrates many oscillations
Substantial research contradicts your claims. See https://www.masks4all.co for links.
Last time I checked (months ago) VirtualBox just couldn't run under Hyper-V. If you Google around you'll see lots of threads, e.g. https://superuser.com/q/1208850

Apparently they claim that as of February 19, 2020, they've "Restored the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V, at the expense of performance". https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-6.1
So WSL2 is supported on windows 10 Home as well, which is great. Does that mean Home also gets official Hyper V support?
I'm just very skeptical of this kind of noble lie. If authorities are known to tell people what's convenient for them to believe rather than what's true, is anyone going to end up listening to them in the end?
Ask HN: Have tech wages fallen since shelter in place?
Did things flip this year to becoming an employer's market? I've been looking at new postings this month and, since the record setting unemployment figures topped the news, it seems to me those hiring are offering less. Any data?