skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enough energy for every human individual is already a solved problem, although not necessarily sustainably. It's not even economically prohibitive to switch to sustainable options, there's just insufficient incentives at this time. The great travesty is that, when incentives are put in place, the Holocene damage will be difficult to stop and impossible to reverse.

Our own survival chances seem to be a fraction not close to unity, but not close to 0 either. Give it 75% to be optimistic. After that, robotic seed space ships could be a buffer to protect from subsequent cataclysms. That does nothing to answer the questions of Fermi's paradox, unless you low-ball to 1.0e-6% chance of survival. Doomsayers guessing such a number are not generally taken seriously.

Looking elsewhere, we have almost unlimited wiggle room in the chance of photosynthesis evolving. Traits that evolved multiple times in Earth's history are inadmissible to this discussion, but several critical traits evolved only once. Fertile but desolate planets are, based on current science, probably abundant. As a typical reasonable human, this is a perfectly sufficient speculative answer.
Except your ML project is accessing the DirectX API through another cross-platform API layer (CUDA). And the purpose of running WSL is that you ultimately hope to deploy to Linux servers (which Microsoft hopes will be on Azure).
Medieval French village
https://www.solosophie.com/medieval-town-of-dinan/

Modern Bagdad
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y2BD66C-W58

I dont find any descriptions of specific surgeries here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Isl...
What’s dystopian about it, exactly? People buying and selling online seems pretty awesome and desirable to me. Small business owners able to sell and build brands without real estate overhead, and reach customers across the entire country/world without the expense of mass marketing is wonderful in my opinion.
What really is "basic framing"? I'm thinking of build a rectangular desk with a rectangular "apron" of 2x4's for stiffness. Would this be along those lines?
if you had many videos up, and they were all taken down, it is like book burning. they were published, then destroyed.
Yikes, do you know what happened to him?
I really do like tap-to-click. I may be in the minority. After checking the numbers again, I'm definitely in the minority on HN. But, no, I'm not trolling. Tap-to-click is sooooooo nice. I can use all touch pads the same whether or not they can be clicked all over. I don't have to click (which makes a sound). I know that sound may not annoy everybody, but i was once recording audio, and every file started with a 'click' sound ... until i enabled tap-to-click. And i have never looked back.

The one thing i love about Apple touch pads is 'natural scrolling'. What a beauty.
Just sending email with report.xlsx is still better workflow compared to FAX. (Excel is ubiquitous in Japan). Don't replicate FAX experience.
Some people just like citing XKCD and downvoting anyone that calls them on it.
Side note: Basecamp is also free for personal use now: https://basecamp.com/personal
> Large tracking surface. No dead zones, which can't be touched or tapped.

Looking forward to a driver that fixes those for you...
Covid Tax
It is broken in Ethereum. In Ethereum, since consistency is enforced by transaction nonce rather than UTXOs, there is no way for a "watcher" to keep the payer honest by rebroadcasting a previously signed transaction output. Indeed, in Ethereum you can "cancel" a transaction in the mempool by signing a blank transaction with a higher fee and same nonce, which is by design.
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that's the main problem with suse, rh, Ubuntu, ibm etc contributing to linux. they pay designers doing a job on their macbooks or windows. Ubuntu went as far as forking the WM and suse for the longest time looked like every application was a windows installation wizard.
Of the restaurants I've heard that aren't reopening in my city, I wasn't that surprised by. I'm wondering how many I haven't heard about just won't reopen.
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NASA’s human spaceflight chief has resigned
I think Microsoft is taking leaps and bounds to make up for the errors of yore. I wouldn't underestimate them at this point.
If they were adjusting salary based on where you are living, I think I'd be getting a mailbox service or a good friend in either NYC or SF and live somewhere low cost.
Having unwavering ethics isn't stupid.
Of all the places on the internet I visit, HN is the only place I regularly see comments like the one you’re responding to, suggesting that people with literally tens of millions of dollars are making some decision so they can “provide for their family”, as if they couldn’t do that already with a fraction of the interest they can make on their wealth.

I can’t put my finger on why it’s used so much. To frame the super rich 0.1% as merely responsible fathers and mothers?
Microsoft hasn't given up on Windows but having lost the mobile space I think they've decided to go back to their roots of developing software for many operating systems. It doesn't matter if you run Windows, Mac OS, Android, or iOS if they can sell you an Office 365 subscription.

The Windows protectionism that dominated the 2000's doesn't help Microsoft sell more product anymore.

It's not so much that Microsoft has changed but that the world has changed and Microsoft is changing with it.
this is an area, nim could've come and improved on. i.e if nim had an ability to port your python code and have it running 98% on nim. most python users would have been there already.
So are you backing the project then?
The actual minimum listed for that particular game seems like it does what you're asking for:

> Intel Core i3 560 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.0 GHz
Is there any reason to prefer it over `perl -pie` ? I found out that at the base level, they are pretty comparable; and at advanced level, CPAN (or perl- packages in distro's repo) have saved me more than once.

(Some embedded systems often do not have perl, but if they are that limited, they might have a very stripped down version of awk too)
Well...yes allegedly buying looted artifacts is bad, but that was already the headline. I didn't realize that allegations of sales tax evasion(? not sure if it was a charge, or just an interesting tidbit pointed out by prosecutors), a pretty pedestrian crime in comparison, would also accompany these charges. It's sort of like: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArsonMurderAndJa...
psychopaths rise to power so i wouldn't be surprised if there is some truth to that. someone once said 'a dumb psychopath is the serial killer, who kills a few people, and is imprisoned. a smart one drops bombs on thousands of people at once and gets paid for it.' something like that anyway.
want to bet this will be a huge sum to some five companies instead of smaller loans?
I was a beta user of WSL1. It was interesting, but the very slow file system performance from Windows to Linux and vice versa was a deal breaker for development use.

I haven't even bothered to use WSL2 because I hardly use Windows anymore, and I was forced to use VMWare with Linux on Windows for a few years of development work. It was always a pain, too, and once I switched to MacBook, I never looked back.

Since then, I assumed WSL2 wasn't going to be used much by 'real developers' as it also had many of the same problems that plague VMWare and VirtualBox, which haven't been adopted by enough developers to pose a threat Linux native and Mac users.

But I really feel MS is throwing a lot of resources into this. It's not just a quick fix for those users who need a command line but wouldn't ever consider Linux or Mac anyway, as I initially thought.

And if this gets 'good enough' then imagine even more trouble for Linux and especially Mac's grip on engineers and scientists.

Ubuntu, Redhat, and the rest have utterly failed to work with Dell or Lenovo or HP to concentrate on just one or two very well supported laptops - everything including suspend, battery life, ACPI, fonts, etc. It's a chicken and egg problem - workstations aren't profitable because most users won't put up with the hardware and driver problems. And without paying users, the distros ignore potential pro users to concentrate on enterprise.

As for Mac, while I'm happy they've finally fixed the keyboard and allowed 32GB+ ram, that configuration looks absurdly expensive at $3500 compared to a similarly configured $1700 Dell Precision or Thinkpad. And MacOs has gotten worse over the years, not better. There is nothing really compelling me to stay except for it's Unix compatibility.

WSL2 may eventually be the final nail in the coffin for a viable Linux Desktop, and Apple should be worried too, though they appear to have forgotten about pro users years ago anyway.
I'll speak to comments mores than posts.

Good HN is sourced, maturely explained viewpoints, that have "meat" to them. "Meat" being a thesis and supportive dialog. Or, at minimum, personal experiences that enhance the discussion at hand.

Bad HN is puns, harsh politics, humor, and dismissive language. Examples: "Nah, [my subjective viewpoint]", "correlation is not causation", "I feel attacked", etc. These comments clutter the comment section, add nothing to the discussion, and brings HN down ten pegs. It also invites those in who want to chat without understanding the topics and/or reading the articles. Reddit is a prime example of this.
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It is, of course, decidedly not a Linux distro though. If it was, it wouldn't be an issue. I think there are positives, but it looks a lot like "Extend" to me.

I can't even say I wouldn't use it - it might be nice! But I will not use any WSL-only capability, that's for sure.
It's sad, but it seems Will Wright has largely checked out from game design. He's probably enjoying his money and his family.
I would like to be able to do some DIY biochemistry, I support these open source labs
To be honest I don't quite understand what stopped those developers from running machine learning on their GPUs under Windows itself. Most frameworks work just fine. I've been doing quite a lot of TensorFlow with both Python and .NET.

The only time I faced the need for Linux box is trying a demo project from OpenAI, which did not use the features it required Linux for on a single machine anyway.
Before you just said it was "transphobic and borderline hate speech". Now you are saying he was being a dick, which would make a lot of sense if he wasn't talking about someone literally using confusion of how to handle transgender athletes to brutalize women.

Do you understand that this person was beating women unconscious and broke a woman's skull in 2014? Fallon Fox had a daughter, joined the navy, worked as a truck driver, transitioned, and fought in MMA without disclosing her past. This person is doing a huge disservice to transgender people.
Makes sense, the success of bringing the Joe Budden Podcast no exclusively last year opened the way for this.

Very interested to see how video will be on Spotify.
> things are expensive in manhattan because it is expensive to live in/around manhattan. even the lowly mcdonalds employee gets paid about twice as much to work in manhattan as in peoria.

All of this supports the idea that the value of a dollar is lower in Manhattan than elsewhere. Indeed, it doesn't just support the idea; it is a restatement of it.
You don't need to have a direct LN connection with the content creator, just a path through intermediate nodes.

More likely users won't have to deal with all that because there will be micropayment wallet providers that can aggregate the transaction costs of buying bitcoin and maintain large value LN channels.
Thanks both!
Yes that's true I agree with both of you on this
I did the switching theme thing before on my site[1] by putting theme specific CSS into separate files and link those depending on the chosen theme. In case of my site that is done on the server side

I wil do the same with this. I'll look how to do it with JS for the demo page and add an extra release with separate theme files ^^

If you have any other ideas I'm glad to hear them!

1: https://asvvvad.eu.org (not using mono/color)
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people who sells self driving tech finds more people who say they trust it more.
I have a similar pipeline (bank and credit cards included) although I run my own SMTP server to capture the transactions as they're forwarded from my main email account. It's a pain to setup the first time but not hard to maintain if you lock it down.

It started out fairly basic (just CSV files dumped somewhere monthly) but the more history is there the more I find to do with it. I recently rewrote the whole thing and added auto-reconcile support, so it can tell if my record in Ledger is wrong and point out the exact discrepancies. I have a tendency to be lazy about recording things so making the machine check everything is nice.

It sucks that there aren't any good APIs for this sort of thing. But until that happens I'm stuck running Postfix and scraping HTML out of mbox files.
Is this a critical issue for you? How often do you `ls -a` in your homedir?
Massive red flags. No mRNA vaccine has made it to human trials, and all earlier attempts at vaccines for other coronaviruses (such as SARS/MERS) had some pretty bad side-effects such as immune enhancement.

Generating antibodies is one thing, but there have been SARS1 vaccines that generated antibodies and made the results worse:

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8218

Keep in mind we don't have vaccines for HIV or Herpes, but we do have effective drug treatment. It's much more likely we'll see a compound or procedure saving people from ARDS/Pneumonia than from a vaccine any time soon:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...
Am I the only damn person that liked the ribbon's?!
Not going to find much sympathy for Hobby Lobby on Reddit or HN.
Just got this year's 10lb box about a week ago or so. He does old school postcard mailers to remind you the upcoming season is arriving. Nice way to cut through the noise. It worked on me.
its a podcast. It just also is published on youtube. Listen to it via RSS on a podcast app and thats my choice.
Oh yes, you are right about workers comp. My mind just went to unemploent insurance everytime I read workers comp.
> Frankly, for mainstream development, Kotlin or C# gives very pleasant, productive languages with strong ecosystems without paying such a penalty

If dynamic is important, Groovy is an excellent option - it preserves almost all of the desirable dynamic properties of Python but is by default 3-5x as fast and with trivial effort 10-20x as fast, approaching Java speeds essentially, and with all of the advantages of that runtime (full concurrency, etc).
If they had only made this one sketchy purchase, maybe reputation would explain something. Or if there had been any record of them checking the claims made before purchasing this tablet.

Or if Hobby Lobby hadn't publicly accepted that these actions were illegal.
> special build of Tensorflow that uses DirectX

Huh? Are you sure about that? Regular TensorFlow on Windows uses CUDA, not DirectX-flavored compute.
Hey Austin, I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the kind words.

I think even though we're working in different directions, we share a lot of the same values and see similar issues with the status quo. When (I hope not if) quarantine's over, let's grab a coffee :) — my email's in my profile
I'm curious why you think this would make any difference to Linux gaming? If you want games to only run on Windows, they can just develop them for Windows. There's no need to put Linux in the middle.
I envy people who find things like this fun.
I've had trouble researching if WSL2 is in fact a hyper-v managed VM. I've seen some documentation referring to WSL2 as a tightly integrated Krypton (scaled down hyper-V) VM. It seems to imply the host overhead isn't as high as a guest on hyper-V
I recently went down this path. I discovered the WiX MSI toolkit and it was very smooth. If you ever find yourself needing to create an installer and haven’t used it, give it a look. It can install dependencies, customize the UI, create/start/stop/remove Windows services, configure IIS websites, and run custom actions.

It’s all done via declarative XML and made my life much easier.
True, I was thinking of http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (where Lisp was Viaweb's "secret weapon"). And I'm worried about Emacs ending up with too small an audience of package maintainers to cover mainstream workplace use cases.
Isn't most of the data coming out of the states majorly skewed by the amount of testing being done? Surely there are many more cases than are reported due to this.
Quashing hateful, exploitative, conspiracy-theory-for-profit "free speech" is a societal value I can get behind.
"Why would she lie? What does she gain?"

She gains the veneer of credibility after being fired for possibly not doing her job.

We have no idea if that's the case, but it's actually pretty easy to see how someone who is arguing with their managers over 'how to report' is then fired, and then makes some grandiose claims.

In her mind she might not even be lying when that could be the case. She believes she's being asked to 'censor' when maybe that's not the case.

We don't know, but we need to know exactly what she was asked to do and not before drawing conclusions.
Google has run free, open access, uncensored DNS for over a decade. What makes you think DoH in specific is indication of some nefarious plot to start censoring DNS? Whats in it for Google?
F# doesn't support higher-kinded types.
I don't think it's the animations in cities: skylines that makes it a CPU-hog, I think it's the actual simulation of the various agents pathfinding, etc.
No, I think the point is that you shouldn't make this distinction with respect to your budget. It's saying that if you take care of other wasteful spending, get your big wins, then plan for $500 of spending, then it doesn't matter if you make a dumb purchase. Don't feel guilty that you didn't get the best deal, don't feel guilty about the concept of a "good" or "bad" purchase, it just was within your budget, you wanted it and someone was selling it. You can't always do this comparison and avoiding dumb/wasteful decisions.

Yes, I am exaggerating a bit, but I think you missed the point.
I can't believe they have 6 million subscribers. People actually paying for New York Time "information". We are living crazy times!
"They told you it was there" from a UX perspective is about as good as it not being there.
Didn’t they keep the “start” button but change the menu to the full screen Win8 version until they brought back the menu for Win10?
Oh no, HN is turning into slashdot
Mentioned it in another comment, but I am not sure what stoped people from doing ML without WSL. I don't even know ML libraries, that don't work on Windows proper.
> This means that code written for this will NOT function on desktop Linux.

Like CUDA, I assume that most applications would not be coded to this API directly. Microsoft already mentioned OpenCL and OpenGL.

This is to hardware accelerate Linux applications and not to create WSL-specific Linux apps. I can't imagine there's a big market for Linux GUI apps that would only run on Windows.
But in almost all of the langauge, TOOWTDI is not strictly enforced, it is merely a highly encouraged convention. For example, why am I allowed to do

mylist = [x*2 for x in range(1,10)]

but also do

mylist = []
for x in range(1,10):
mylist.append(x*2)

That's two ways to do the same thing, and I bet you would find a lot of the latter in beginner's python code. I think a better choice would to just have a linter which enforced the correct usage of sum() and join(), and not the implementation itself.
Mainframes are not slow. IBM's POWER architecture has some downsides but it is no slouch in transactions/second.

> payments taking over a day to go through

That's due to the protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACH_Network "when a real-time transfer is required, a wire transfer using a system such as the Federal Reserve's Fedwire is employed instead".

> people not being able to receive unemployment

That's probably not due to the mainframes. https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/new-jersey-unemployment... That's probably an administration issue. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/04/unemployment-benefits...
Just curious, what stops your ML code from running under Windows?
I found tab-separated files can get me pretty far. It can handle arbitrary length text, Unicode is no problem at all, leading/trailing spaces are preserved and so on. It is trivially convertible to name=value format, as long as you guarantee the "name" part is well-formed (usually the case).

The only tricky parts are embedded line feeds and tabs, and those can be defeated with trivial escape schema, even something as simple as '\r', '\t', '\\'.

Bash quoting also works. If you master the difference between "${x[@]}" and ${x[*]}, keep in mind order of expand / split all the time, and never forget the right kind of quotes, you can have a robust system which can handle arbitrary strings. But I would not recommend this to anyone.
Nothing beats pattern matching on Maybe for exception or null handling, or variations of such (Rust's Option). It's just so clean syntactically.
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The strange paradox is that the people who advocate for "peaceful slavery bad, dangerous freedom good" are all-in for deregulation when it comes to guns, psychedelics, and marijuana but you don't hear from them at all when it comes to orphan pharmaceuticals and human drug trials. If you have time to leave giant spoon sculptures around to express displeasure at pharmaceutical corporations, then you also have time to push for legislative change when it comes to right to try.
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I also found the phrasing of this to be ambiguous.

Windows (subsystem for Linux)

has a Windows host running Linux

Or

(Windows subsystem) for Linux

has Windows running on a Linux host

They've been using this phrasing since the OS/2 and POSIX subsystem days and it was also confusing then

Quarterdeck did it right with Desqview/X by just renaming their WIN16 subsystem as winx. Then you would see "desqview winx" and know that it's windows running on desqview and not the other way around.

IBM also got it right: OS/2 Windows VDM. I know it's running on OS/2.

But Microsoft has been running with this phrasing since literally Windows NT and it's always been confusing.
Man I love that game. It has a very clever automation/sensor system as well. You can rig doors to open if they sense water, heat, gasses, pressure, and a bunch of other criteria. Wiring in NOT/AND/OR gates. Timers.
iSight?
How about sockets...
More than a couple of our vendors have been frustrated by my insistence that they properly support daylight saving time. Both switch overs have their own set of unique potential problems but if a vendor has an API as part of their product and we're going to build automation on top of it, this twice a year undefined behavior generator isn't acceptable. It surprises me how many companies seem to have an severe allergy to using UTC or even including TZ data with their time/date data.
Do you put savings and necessary expenses aside when paid?
To each their own. If it works for you great. I can’t imagine sitting down and tracking whether my grocery expenses fluctuated from one month to the next, since it can’t impact my ability to pay bills and save. If I was worried about not having money for groceries I would set that money aside when I get paid.

I also have a family and am the sole income earner. I just set aside everybody's spending money / allowance and they can do with it as they wish.
How does Bitcoin decide which of the two transactions spending the same UTXO to pick?