skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux can be run without Microsoft telemetry.

Op was saying that he/she could not run WSL2 without Microsoft telemetry.

So, yes WSL2 includes Linux plus Microsoft telemetry. Parent was saying that Op actually wants Linux, since Op wants Linux functionality, but not Microsoft telemetry.
Loans that automatically disappear after X years with interest payments that only apply if you make more than $Y (Y = UBI paid out).

It wouldn't be the person asking for a loan that speculates on them earning enough to pay it back. It would be the entity giving the loan speculating on the person earning so much more in the next few years that the income-percentage makes them lots of money.

Of course, for it to test UBI, the giving entity must not be allowed to decide whether they accept someone or not, that would lead to them picking and choosing, like insurance companies with pre-existing conditions.

However, if the claims about UBI are true, they won't need to, as even the odd slacker will be more than offset by the exploding productivity of the overwhelming majority.

I'm sure Dorsey could fund it, the question is whether he actually believes in the claims of giant benefits and virtually no slackers.
The worst part about this type of social network is the people it brings out of the woodwork. Those crazy assholes who live in your neighborhood who were otherwise confined to passive aggressive letters and shouting at you as you take down your trash now have the ability to band together with other asshole neighbors and get the police involved whenever they collectively feel an emotional response about something.

How is this a good thing for those of us who want to be left the fuck alone? How do we put an end to this ridiculous nonsense?
RescueTime data on how coronavirus is changing the way we use apps and tools
I don't think there is a problem at all actually.

Insider build is very clearly targetting people that are ok with potential bug and instability and that are ok providing telemetry to Microsoft so they can improve stability.

You are not one of those people, and thus shouldn't use it.
I agree with what you said. I do think there should be some linkage enabling law enforcement to interact with users but not misrepresent that as the ND being part of the PD. It’s a connector. You can reach out to your PD right there, provide footage of applicable, etc.
Engineer uses mechanical resistance to detect damage to red blood cells
Some suggestions:

Greek gods / Roman gods / Other gods / Characters from the chronicles of Narnia / Characters from Marvel or DC / Characters from Donald Duck / Animal species / Plant species / Musical genres (e.g. electronic music)

Good luck :D
So, I don't get it.

Why does it matter if a few volunteer mods manage a ton of subs?

Isn't it hard to do? So they have a hard job? And it's volunteer?

And .. what? I don't understand the outrage directed at mods I guess.

Note: I'm a light Reddit user. I follow a handful of subs. And I can't name a single mod of any of them. Maybe this is more meaningful for people who spend more time on the site and are more involved in their particular subs? What, they just bash heads with mods sometimes?
That is if the article isn't locked for editing by approved editors only and you can actually edit it.
The CDC and States Are Misreporting Covid-19 Test Data
I think the conversations here are more valuable than the comic itself, which is, uh, not really a joke. Some shitty drawings and half an idea, like many xkcd comics. But the comments here have pointed me to some cool stuff, so...
Netflix made it and proved a market for paid streaming services. Google has bungled this again and again and is currently in the middle of pitting its ad revenue against its top content creators which will only wind up killing both. They've already demolished their recommendation algorithm in favour of just showing repeats of what you just watched so they can cover their ass. Creators are still using 3rd party services to get paid since almost anything can get you demonitized nowadays. Giant channels like JRE are jumping ship. Nobody wants to pay for YouTube Premium if all they're going to do is kick the legs out from under all the worthwhile channels and turn the service into Cable TV 2.0. All this means they've got much bigger problems than paying for storage and delivery.
The problem is .. what if your Leads are the racist people like they are in my "neighborhood" (which consists of like, 30 neighborhoods..?).

EDIT: I should note I have reported the member to Nextdoor Support a few times now to no avail.
Interesting recommendation of flipmine.

I buy in to the idea of what they're selling - used goods arbitrage - they're just selling another form of a "get rich scheme". Follow the money.

If this niche were so great then the proprietors would keep this software platform to themselves to identify the opportunities and perform the work. Instead, they "offer" you the opportunity while they take in a $39 monthly fee for their service.

That's my take on almost the entire industry of "make money doing X, just use my service or take my course!" Bro, the real money is conning these suckers.

A fool and his money will soon part ways.
Only with regard to certain industries.

I believe software engineer is pretty free-for-all. Just don't try and represent yourself as a P. Eng. Then you're in trouble.
Yes it does make it harder to argue fraud. If the stolen credit card is used with the pin by the perpetrator, the bank will often say it was your responsibility to guard it.
Void is a breath of fresh air for anyone who is fed up with the mission creep of systemd but it's also a great distribution in its own right.

I'm not familiar enough with the internals of XBPS to compare it with apt or yum or pacman, but it seems to work quite well.

I have also found the community around Void to be quite welcoming.
depesz has a great tool that highlights the changes.

Even going from latest 9.6 to latest 12 gives a huge number of fixes and changes and features.

Can't recommend this tool enough :)

https://why-upgrade.depesz.com/show?from=9.6.17&to=12.3
I run an affiliate blog, and they're definitely easy to get up and running. However, they're not "only 1 or two hours a day" type things as they are often claimed. But they can be fun and rewarding. I usually make around $200 a month with about 500 page views a day.
Thanks for the link. Where are you selling your finished product?
I'm genuinely curious how this works but maybe it's being perceived as "I'm entitled to free stuff on the internet" (I am definitely not one of those people).
Amazon's Mechanical Turk market place (https://worker.mturk.com). Also google around for the forum and find insight and tools to help snipe higher value tasks.
The funny thing is that a lot of reflection is made necessary because of the lack of a preprocessor. Considering that everything old comes back after a few decades as a new innovation with a shiny new name I wouldn't be surprised if the preprocessor came back to support static compilation.
I like the phrase "transparency is the new objectivity".

No human is truly objective, so being transparent and honest about biases, and making good-faith efforts to be fair-minded, is likely as good as it gets.
> Based on musl libc, busybox and the Linux kernel.

Busybox is not KISS. It's an all-in-one package, removing the ability to strip down the number of tools you have to the ones you strictly need. It's a big, bloated binary blob, in other words.

> Every installation of the distribution contains the full sources (of the distribution) with git history attached.

This doesn't even pretend to be minimal.
Women in tech: Jobs in artificial intelligence grow amid coronavirus
Why do we use MS's terminology for it (telemetry) when it is essentially theft of private and sensitive data?

From what I have gathered, they are snarfing up my browsing data and what applications I have installed. I don't have the time or energy to jump through the hoops to figure out how to stop this blatant invasion of my privacy. On top of that, I've read that win10 shows ads in the actual OS. That is so beyond unacceptable that I am stuck on an unsupported OS (7)

As a result, I now have only two windows7 boxes - one for gaming and one that I use as a front end for some specialized audio hardware. Each box is dedicated to that purpose and is relegated to a subnet. 20 years ago, 90% of my computing was on windows - now it is <10%. Soon, I'll get another mac to do all my audio work on and, eventually, I'll relegate my gaming to Linux available titles.
I like Nextdoor. Its focus on 'hyper local' allows me to get recommendations for local businesses.

I do have a problem with NDAs signed by my local elected officials. I would like to know what they are up to, thank you very much.
This.

The whole dotnet core telemetry ticket was a complete shit show which pretty much outlines the developer community are merely subjects.

https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145
He's offended by the fact that they're not all white. It's the real reason why people are acting like they're outraged by vector drawings of people: some of them happen to be brown.
Balkanisation of India won’t happen. Keep trying though.
I downloaded Reddit Enhancement Suite and it has a feature that marks the cumulative amount of upvotes you've given a user when you see a post of theirs. It is absolutely eye-opening just how much content is posted by the same few dozens of usernames. GallowBoob is the most infamous but to focus on him would be a mistake. It's pretty clear to me that the vast majority of content on Reddit is heavily manipulated and artificial.
just had a friend with a Mac test it. when requesting foo.jpg (from an <img> tag), it sends:

Accept: image/png, image/svg+xml, image/*;q=0, video/*;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5

the server responds with foo.jpg.

i also tested it in Firefox, which sends:

Accept: image/webp, */*

the server responds with foo-converted.webp.

honestly, i'm not entirely sure how

image/*;q=0
*/*

etc are handled, but it works; i also briefly looked at the plugin's source, and i haven't found any special handling for Safari. btw, here's a test page linked in their docs: http://toste.dk/rh.php

---

edit: looking at the generated .htaccess, it appears that WebP is served only if Accept contains an explicit `image/webp` (no wildcards), so that explains it.
Many (all?) Indian banks have to offer a no-frills zero-balance bank account by law. Since many banks are government owned, it’s quite easy for such banks to offer these accounts. A lot of welfare schemes directly transfer the money to the recipients’ bank accounts. I suspect this will, too.

To prevent welfare fraud, many bank accounts have been linked with a biometric database called “Aadhar”. In fact I believe all Indian residents need to have registered their biometrics to operate a bank account (as you can imagine, people who don’t receive welfare aren’t huge fans of this rather invasive approach).
Eh, looking at the code it's pretty benign
The cute'ification of design is definitely a thing. When you think about what something is supposed to signify, it appeals to certain aesthetic reference points. Within a particular critical framework, all design is to signal alignment to perceptions of power, and reflecting the ones from your customers minds is how a product succeeds.

Personally, I find this kind of design originates in those corporate retreat exercises where you co-operate in infantalizing play-time and people are forced to compete to demonstrate submission and remove indicators of individual quality or personality as "edges" that create friction to the dynamic flow of power. In the design language, removing edges and clear lines that might signal "either/or, black and white" thinking in the design reflects this value of passive, liquid, flexibility - which is the opposite of decisive, directed, or forceful aesthetics of 80's, 90's and 00's coroporate design languages.

Compare it to the 90s-00's Italian Futurist corporate design language of some major internet companies, which was perhaps in hindsight an unfortunate choice, and was the polar opposite of the unthreatening startup languages of today.

The values implicit in the design are fascinating to consider, but a critical view of them would take the topic into more controversial territory.
People are now more free to drive whatever speed they find reasonable rather than the speed of other traffic. The long tails of the curve are coming out. There's probably just as many people taking advantage of the ability to comfortably drive below the mean traffic speed we just don't know about them because we don't ticket them so they don't generate data.
Or, some people are just assholes. I find it very odd to read a comment here basically defending the driver - they were obviously going to call the police as soon as you started committing property damage to their store.
Not entirely. Since Strong Customer Authentication took effect in Europe, 2FA is now required in most places for most purchases. Additionally, contactless now "expires" occasionally, and requires you to put your PIN in after spending €150 since the last time you entered your PIN.
In some ways, yes. I was advocating for something a little smaller and tied a little less directly to commercial products.

More of a mashup of the MacArthur and Thiel Fellowships.
Initially I thought Nextdoor is a great idea. A place where you can get to know your neighbors, ask for recommendations for local labor, discover new restaurants that opened in town, etc. Like everyone already mentioned, the noise ratio made it hard to use and I quickly didn't bother to log in and canceled all notifications.

Also, my town and all nearby towns have FB groups. It's not at a neighborhood level like in Nextdoor but most towns are not that big that it matters much. I'm not big on those groups either, but I'm assuming with good group moderators you can get the same or even greater value. In that sense Nextdoor is just a feature...
Affordable local system space travel (Would love to fly around Saturn 1 time before I kick the bucket)

General virtual reality (I like many others have migrated for work. It'd be nice to give my parents a real hug through the web)

Open source computer brain interface (I want Emacs but for all corporal senses)

Provably valid crypto-elections (Let's say I have a dispute with my local neighborhood about garden gnomes, we can all vote and agree on a binding solution and have no doubts about the legitimacy of the outcome)

Personal and private bioinformatics (Let me sequence my own genome without the usual Silicon Valley Big Brother using my God-given DNA for secondary purposes). Your own DNA is not implicitly copyrightable by yourself under American law, correct me if I'm wrong.
Go is still undergoing intensive R&D, especially in the runtime. Its releases are quietly tested against internal Google projects, but not formally tested with widely-used open source projects.

Any org that deploys Go apps should designate someone to watch the Go issue tracker, and subscribe to all issues that might affect them.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/
TruffleRuby now passes all RubyGems tests and is in production use at Shopify
TruffleRuby now passes all the RubyGems tests [1] and is in production use at Shopify [2].

A couple questions for the HN Community:

(1) When do you think adoption will pick up?

(2) Once several major languages are fully implemented on the GraalVM, will the value prop of cross language interaction (without having to resort to bindings) create sufficient momentum to ensure adoption?

(3) If (2) above occurs, will we finally not have to re-write all the packages and libraries in each new language (e.g. database libraries)? Or will they still be rewritten in the new language (despite the fact that you could call to the previous language's version). If so, why?

[1] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/2797#issuecomment-626150446

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23182907
Widespread.

Asp.net, entity framework, anytime you use an attribute, binding, autogenerating columns based on an object.
Like 10000000000 other people there.
Heard of eBay? VS2k19 for $5, Windows Server 2k19 for $5.

Black market, hah.
The user in question is GallowBoob.
I've seen that interview before and that quote in particular resonates with me but at the same time there are basic economics to consider.

I want to be clear, what I meant by 'quality' above is functioning systems. If there's a hodge-podge solution that gives you a 10x improvement at the cost of 1/2x the productivity vs. an "elegant" framework that gives you a 2x improvement at 1/10x the productivity by requiring to re-invent all the tools, the 'hodge-podge' solution wins.

To me, this is the same basic argument of Dvorak vs qwerty keyboards. Dvorak might be a 1-2x improvement over qwerty but qwerty wins because of cultural momentum. The improvement isn't worth uprooting the infrastructure already in place.

I think programming languages suffer the same fate, where the size of code base, libraries, etc. secures it as the lingua franca even if there are other languages that are marginally better.

As a rule of thumb, I think a replacement needs to be at 10x the improvement before it has a chance of uprooting entrenched systems.

The Unix system might be chaotic but it's had a lot of time to adapt to different needs. There's also a culture of freedom, sharing and experimentation that isn't present in the Windows world. These all have real world implications on what tools are available for experimentation, use and improvement.

> If you got sat down and told to come up with a set of composable command-line tools for a shell, the end result would have nothing at all in common with the bash/GNU tools. There is nothing there worth repeating.

Sorry, no. This sounds like an emotional plea rather than anything rooted in critical thinking. Sorting text files isn't worth repeating? Searching text files isn't worth repeating? Piping text from one process to another isn't worth repeating? I've tried to be even keeled in my responses but this is ridiculous.
CI/CD as Expressed by Conway’s Law
I know about that utility -- still not shell though. The fact that you need a utility to make such a simple task readable is pointing to the shell language lacking.
And Reddit has absolutely no support system for things like this.

My immediate thinking involves referring affected parties to professionals and specialists who deal with this sort of thing, but in your opinion-what should Reddit (the company) be doing?
Hahahahaha, I was imagining it was something like that and it was confirmed at the end. I see posts like this in our Nextdoor too. What's silly is .. the area I'm in forgets this. So it gets reposted probably every 2-3 weeks, sometimes by the same person.
"G2A couldn’t come to terms with those large firms and just did the audit themselves"

That's not an audit, it's just deep introspection
The other day I went to the office to pick up something and I was finally able to experience the nice banked turn in my commute at full speed. 160kmh with tires at the limit of grip, when most of the days I can barely get 60kmh there. What a pleasure.
Indeed, GIS improvements, index operations improvements, statistics improvements, stored generated columns, parallelized hash joins all could be compelling reasons to upgrade. They improve operations efficiency and DB performance (nearly) without any changes to the working code.
Quick aside since "lakh" is used in the summary: In Indian numbering, a lakh is 100,000. There is also a crore, which is 10M.
"The proper and better API is to combine the "dequeue connection" and "send query" steps, returning a handle back for the response, which may include (as an optimization) assigning the connection to the caller for any additional requests."

It wouldn't be an optimization; you need it for transactions for DBs where transactions are tied to the connections, which is I believe basically all of them.

It seems like this would still leave "I sent a request and it was completed but I never heard that it was, so now I don't know if I need to resend it" unaffected... I find myself concluding that there's a certain amount of fundamental brokenness in trying to communicate with a database with a mutable-data based protocol over TCP, period. I'm not sure that can necessarily be resolved in any practical manner, but there may be ways of moving around the fundamental brokenness, once it is acknowledged to exist, to be less like to bite, and less likely to bite hard, and easier to detect if it happens.
Wow, that's lots of money. If they're growing wheat, that's 34 bushels worth at $5 per bushel. I don't know what yields are like in India, but in Saskatchewan, Canada 34 bushels per acre of wheat is not a great crop, but it's not a bad one either.

In other words, that payment could double a typical Saskatchewan farmer's gross income. And considering that the farmer's expenses are typically 90% of the income, that's about 10x the net income. (A typical Saskatchewan farmer has about 2000 acres of land).
"Which is why people should use a language that isn't riddled with issues like this."

You can't pick a language based on one characteristic. Show me a language that doesn't have a long series of stupid issues. Usually you have to pick the lesser evil.
Yeah this is tough everywhere. In Chicago I could easily be paying for mortgage on decent house for what I'm paying in rent. It's just that I'm in my mid-20s and only really been making decent money for a year. It's going to take years to build up the down payment, meanwhile rent money is just flying out the window into someone else's pocket every month.

I could save a lot more by just not doing any retirement saving, but that doesn't seem like a good trade off, considering the money I put in now is going to have the most time to compound.
Can someone please explain how doxing works at a technical level? Suppose I post something on Twitter or Youtube that someone does not like how would they dox me? For example, CNN outed a guy who did a video where Trump bashes a guy superimposed with CNN in a boxing ring. Wouldn't such attempts at doxing people also put pressure on their freedom of speech and expression?
All of those are completely above water, legally speaking. There's even a term for that: arbitrage.
WSL2 contains Linux and other stuff. I would not say "WSL2 is Linux" because that kind of imply a bijection which does not exist, and MS is starting to play on that while extending WSL2 with e.g. D3D12 access to the host and talking about that with titles like: "DirectX loves Linux". That's not even strictly similar to the more traditional "integration tools" of VMs, given the user experience integration they provide which is at the core of WSL (in their case the VM aspect is more of an implementation detail, see the network, stdin/out, and maybe tomorrow GUI integration -- and of course see historically the architecture of WSL1 which provided a subset of the same services without a VM and without Linux), and also given they never talk about opening that kind integration to other VMs, even less third party ones. Maybe they will (I would not count on it) in which case it is slightly more ok, maybe they won't, in which case this is border line an hostile attempt to fork the ecosystem and redefine "Linux" (in the sense of traditional GNU/Linux desktop distros) as Linux running under Windows with WSL.
Nextdoor definitely has its share of racist sounding posts.

A woman in my neighborhood said she came home late one night and parked a couple of blocks from her home. She was walking home and a younger black male was walking behind her. As she walked closer to her home she said she felt he was getting closer to her. She turned around and said “night tonight buddy!” really loud. She was convinced the guy was out to rape her.

The only thing I like Nextdoor for is I can find neighbors in a day who I can sell or give away things I no longer need. It’s like Craigslist circa early 2000s in terms of genuine people who want to take it off your hands.