skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Binaries are just not very resilient artifacts, especially when they so closely depend on their surroundings. High-level programming language code, on the other hand, is much more resilient.

That’s a modern phenomenon. AS/400 or Solaris binaries were different.
Which was, in fact, a lot of the impetus behind open source generally early on. And even the less formal sharing of Unix source code given that it was written in a high-level language and could therefore be relatively easily ported to new systems.
If only it were that cheap. The cost in the US is $12/month which is ridiculously high considering their “premium” content is garbage as is YouTube Music which is forcibly bundled in.
I can think of multiple examples of rushed games that are good, or became good - though Miyamoto's quote here may have been before the era of internet updates.
Docker support is precisely the sort of feature that would have required significantly more work to support in WSL1 than WSL2.
Interesting, I would expect the opposite problem since WSL1 doesn't use virtualisation in any way. Do you have more details about the error you experienced?
I wasn't aware of this, thanks!
I have no numbers for the Rutherford engine on the Electron rocket. Amusing idea would be take a page from that and design a ram jet with an electric turbine to get it going.
With the Wifi standard extensions to allow time-of-flight, or the "old-fashioned" signal strength methods?
Programming Is Social
Super smooth on my mobile, well done! Any idea about battery impact?
States Getting Ready to Distrib Covid-19 Vaccines. What Do Their Plans Tell Us?
Sounds like a incredibly useful tool. I can see this becoming ubiquitous in companies just like pagerduty, ELK, APM, grafana etc. Kudos
When the news of apple silicon broke, apples shitty cooling of their recent laptops made sense. The CPU of my wife's MacBook air throttles several times a day without much heavy work.

I sincerely believe they botched it on purpose to be able to present increadible performance improvements compared to previous generations.

Apple silicon is amazing, of course. But the older machines were downright bad at cooling.
Yes, admittedly loop mounts and Docker were an easy add for WSL 2 and would have been significantly more complicated for WSL 1.
Agreed, but it is still more expensive in terms of direct costs than ‘do nothing’ which seems to be the case for the telescope.

Whoever downvoted me, thanks a bunch. Not sure why.

Running a team of painters still costs more than nothing. The cost of painting doesn’t cover the cost of ongoing inspections for metal fatigue etc etc. Engineering reviews, government oversight and so on.

Large bridges, especially with vehicle traffic, vibrate quite a lot and this is causes major ongoing concerns with fatigue, which means extensive monitoring along with the painting. More costs (not saying it’s unjustified).

Keeping a team going is efficient as you say, but more expensive than nothing.
A Mamluk-Kipchak Treatise on the Skill of Archery (2013)
> I feel like the 1MB limit is excessively generous, especially for text-only pages.

No kidding. I just checked and the average text-only page on my blog well under 100kb. Even the image-heavy front page is under 1MB...
"Roblox is absolutely wild

It has 110MM MAUs + delivers an est 1.25 BILLION hours of entertainment each month

It does this not because it makes a good "game", but because players make games/worlds/experiences for and with one another

This only exhausts when imagination does"

--https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1236773493372596224
I don't think the spirit of that maxim really applies at the same level as linters – after all, Python has linters too.
Ask HN: Does Instagram have a new onclick effect?
I've noticed that Instagram has changed its onclick effect in the ios app. Previously, the selected pictures would show up instantly, now, it seems like they have added a visual effect to it. With the recent update of switching "Liked" with "Show Reels" has been an awful user experience.

Why would Instagram add this clicking effect?
The End of the World:

https://archive.org/details/endoftheworld_flash
FB Tries to Stop Research Exposing 'Political Disinformation' in Ad Practices
It’s a measurement based on the statistical low income cutoff (the “poverty line”). In child poverty research, a child is considered to live in poverty if they live in a family whose income falls below the low income cutoff.

Using that measure, in the United States 1/6 children live in poverty. Half of those live in statistically defined ‘extreme poverty’. That 1/6 has some interesting geographical and race based components that worth a read. There is a metric shit tonne of research on this and if you’re interested in a reading list, my email is in my profile! :)
> People use the downvote on HN for disagreement all the time.

To some extent yes, but I wouldn't say all the time - it's definitely a lot better here compared to places like Reddit.
We handled this on our forum just by having an indicator that it's a revived thread. Worked well.
Apple 15% cuts of fees will affect less than 5% of App Store last year revenues
Looks like they get a name, a link, and a logo.
Somethingawful threw some of their worst shitposters out, and they went to 4Chan. 4Chan has since thrown a subset of their worst shitposters out, and they went to... Other forums.
Jeez, 36 pages with resume for "Napster"!
I mean, i think you just need practice. i feel like you're thinking too literally about the basic process of programming and trying to apply it to sql.

Regarding table joins, this visual with venn diagrams on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17946221/sql-join-and-di... usually helps me. But again, it's just practice. Try to think of real world cases and then creating relevant join statements for those.
Original title:

States Are Getting Ready to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines. What Do Their Plans Tell Us So Far?
Improving Performance and Search Rankings with Cloudflare for Fun and Profit
What you say!!
Versus, running it for a while, as they did?
Same here. Got into AS1 in high school, back before Adobe acquired Macromedia.
Learn to tell a story about what you are doing. What are you building, why does it matter and how does it make things better. And tailor it some to audience members, e.g. engineers will be curious on the technical how, marketing or execs will likely want to know more about what it will look like to clients and how it improves the product and they don't care about the framework you used. If you are in a startup founders can blur those lines when they are involved in engineering but always start with the What, why and how it makes things better. You can even tell a compelling story about why changing a 3rd party library matters if you follow this process. Don't skimp on details, but don't go overboard, try to find a balance again based on the audience.
I find family to be far more dangerous than strangers. With family people let their guard down and hug and take off their masks in doors. Family are where 70% of infections come from.
72 millibits doesn't sound feasible for even the most minimalist of websites. ;)

Seriously though, this isn't just a "grammar" thing. If you don't know the difference between millibits and megabytes, you probably shouldn't post on the subject of page size (or anything else relating to bandwidth consumption / network performance).
Semi-permeable boundaries are critical to preserving urban diversity
What reason is there to believe that Ruffle will succeed where other Flash emulators (Shumway, Swiffy, Lightspark, ...) have (apparently) failed?
stochastic terrorism would enters the chat
In scenes with a lot of shrubbery or tall grass, it's pretty much impossible to spot a sniper because he'll be behind the vegetation, not just nestled in it with camouflage that blends in well. The rifle scope can "burn through" the vegetation the same way you can see through nearby grass with binoculars. It's impossible to see through it if you're at a distance from the other side, unless he's silhouetted against a bright background.
Gaddafi apologized for the slave markets of North Africa [1] where black Africans were sold in open auction markets till mid-to-late 20th century. The Libyan war returned these slave markets to Libya where Arab traders would buy/sell black Africans as slaves. This happened under a African-American president Obama, and his Africa-American advisor, Susan Rice. My head explodes thinking about how this is glossed over in the hagiography of the Obama administration. The fact that Susan Rice is again being considered for Secretary of State ( a promotion!) shows zero accountability.

Akin to the Crimes of GWBush/Cheney/Powell and how their obsession with Saddam and WMD broke Iraq/Syria. Something they have to be yet held accountable for.

No Skin in the Game.

[1] https://face2faceafrica.com/article/watch-gaddafi-apologize-...
I want fish as my shell. Easy peasy.

I want to type ‘code <dir>‘ and have it open in VSCode. Can’t.
There is no reason unless you do some aggressive caching but forum software did not do a good job of making it clear that it's an old thread that has been revived.
I completely agree. A good mathematician says things like

"this variable x and this constant k interact with our Transfer function T" etc.

It's a lot of words but it turns into a sort of drill for the students about the notational norms.
No direct evidence as you would expect. We only have circumstantial evidence such as selection of topics to cover and general view regarding covered events, which align quite well with position demonstrated by intelligence services. It also has some questionable funding sources (e.g. National Endowment for Democracy and Integrity Initiative), but I would say it also nothing more than circumstantial.

One recent analysis of Bellingcat behavior (not in general, but using a selected case) can be seen in this video (in Russian, but it has good English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDhhCLyYCU4 Author of the video is a Ukrainian opposition leader, who fled the country during Yanukovich rule, got asylum in Europe, and since then lives there.
> And yet you can still go a level further, with objects like those in Moon & Spencer's holor theory that include generalizations for transformation rules beyond covariant or contravariant, generalized connections similar --for example-- to universal Christoffel symbols, and effectively creating rules for tensors, pseudotensors and stranger array-like objects.

One can always go farther, but I'm not sure that this is doing that. I looked up the Wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parry_Moon#Holors and found:

> But this is incorrect, in general, for the definition of a tensor includes a specific dependence on coordinate transformation.

This is very much a physicist's definition of a tensor; a mathematician's definition includes no such thing (although one may prove results about co-ordinate transformations as a theorem). For example, there is no such thing, mathematically, as an intrinsically covariant or contravariant tensor, although, having chosen a fixed vector space $V$, one may certainly put a bi-grading on $T(V \otimes V^*)$ that makes that sort of distinction.
What are the advantages (or differences) of these compared to HN? From a quick glance they seem to be clones with a bit of glitter.
Currently using this one https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-ogr-fdw for an image migration project. Using it to pull image metadata thru ODBC. While it's primary design is for GIS data, it works well for any ODBC database.
My theory is more stuff almost directly means less user experience. More stuff always requires more design knowledge, which is an extremely scarce resource.
I haven't seen this in over a decade. Everything in this Internet Archive collection is bringing back so many memories.

Flash gave creators so much more latitude than YouTube and whatever it is that Steve Jobs wanted for us. We've really lost something.

Facebook, Platforms, ... we had so much more free-form creativity back in the golden era of the web. It's a shame.

Flash, despite not being open source, was really amazing and nothing has filled its place.
True, but clients can opt to not load (or lazy-load) images without too much adverse effect. JS-heavy sites often completely break without JS.
Please make it clear earlier its US specific. If I go to waitlist, it asks for my ZIP code, showing greyed out 12345, nor does it allow me to select any country. 12345 isn't the format we use here. Kind of an odd way to say 'we don't serve your kind here'.

That being said, I heard in a local podcast about an initiative for local news platform, but more to get directly reporters to get paid instead of a middle man as newspaper (the platform just allowed to select your city, and they had themselves very low margins). Margins for local news are already really thin due to lack of amount of potential interest. Some is even state sponsored. Its a tough market for sure. I forgot the name of the platform (it was partially still being build ie. only a number of pilot cities), which is kind of telling, I guess.
Great article! Reminds me of when I was working on a bug in a phone kernel and adding its equivalent of printk() made the bug disappear! Lauterbach time!
Pegasus Data Language: Evolving schema definitions for data modeling
> I consume all video content on either my phone or my tablet (where I don't have access to AdBlock)

If you're on a network you control, you can do network level ad blocking :-)

https://pi-hole.net/
With all due respect, there are quite literally hundreds of well written papers that explain this. The number isn’t controversial in the slightest and it’s based on one of the most basic statistical observations in economics. Honestly, I can’t understand why HN is having so much trouble with this.

The answer is that in child poverty research, a child is considered to live in poverty if that child lives in a household with an income below the statistical low income cutoff.
Digital Theme Park Platforms: The Most Important Media Businesses of the Future
What makes you think the overhead between Cygwin/msys2 and WSL 1 would really be so great? They are both just translation layers after all.
Some of us are older than that
Here's my example of a non-trivial product landing page weighing in at 0.3MB transferred:

https://www.checkbot.io/

Includes analytics, chat client, big product screenshot, theming and payment integration, so you can still do a lot well within 1MB.
A guy here in Aus does pretty much that.

https://inqld.com.au/insights/2020/09/22/how-a-gold-coast-je...
Exactly, especially when one of the few things Windows does a lot better than linux (at least historically) is the seamless integration of multiple video cards for having many screens which allow for more graphical interactions
If you can render an old thread (as opposed to pre-rendered HTML and I doubt that is done for forums), there is no storage cost or performance benefit to preventing comments on it.

New comments don't need to live in the same read-only storage as the old ones. They just need to be found when the old ones are rendered, and that's easy - the new comments are in hot storage after all.
See this branch which discusses Bellingcat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150913 (BTW it's interesting that the same link got mentioned twice here in comments, even though relation to the OP is weak in my opinion)
The closest example outside Windows I can think of is the idea of "zones" in Solaris/Illumos/SmartOS. You can have a "LX branded zone" where the OS will respond to linux syscalls.

I don't know if the native solaris syscall interface is itself a zone, while Win32 is a subsystem on Windows.
This is an anti-technology point of view. It's astounding to read (on HN of all places) a complaint about this major new processor advancement, because it won't support all his legacy desktop apps.

Technology can't simultaneously progress while still remaining backwards-compatible for years or decades. As another commenter here says: just use an old computer to run your old software. When your old computer breaks, buy another on ebay. Ebay won't run out anytime soon.
Being able to do arithmetic like 579x46 is foundational arithmetic, not some esoteric thing. Furthermore, teaching arithmetic while relying on a calculator is not teaching arithmetic.

It's second or third grade material. It's reasonable to expect teachers to teach it and kids to learn it. It's easy to create tests for it.
Maybe I should get my kids a stock of their favorite game.
I recommend checking out podman (or docker) - they have built-in criu support. Otherwise you’ll need some other namespacing mechanism to avoid colliding pids
I really love this sort of thing. Makes me incredibly nostalgic clicking through the web before it was all apps and click bait.
There's a book called IBM and the Holocaust[0] covering one such example from WW2.

I really meant anything where you are fully aware that your work will directly cause people to suffer. Like someone asking you to run a simulation to determine where to drop a bomb for the highest death count.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I can tell you why reddit does it. Because their entire architecture is built around new data being hot and old data not.

The tiny tin-pot hobby forum can keep every single post in memory and it's not really a problem. They can also do a full database scan pretty quickly.

But reddit can't do that. If it's not in the cache, it takes a lot of work to pull the data from the database. And there is no way to cache the entire dataset. That's why threads get locked at 6 months. So they can be statically archived for quick access.

Economies of scale isn't really part of it, it's more about moore's law.
How would you send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to a Windows process? Using kill on Windows processes sounds weird.
My company owns a forum with 56 million posts and unfortunately we had issues getting Google to index older threads.
There are vestiges of user.css like the Style sheet option in Safari. [1] I do wish they were better supported, and that user styles automatically had priority over webpage styles.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/advanced-ibrw1075/mac
Starting my development journey on Windows many years ago, discovering Linux and eventually daily driving MacOS for years - WSL1 has enabled me to once again make Windows 10 my daily driver for both work and play for the last year.

I spent several months using WSL2 but because the implementation attempts to hide virtualization behind a curtain, it was unclear where the magic successfully blended the guest with the host and where it didn't. I ended up having a lot of trouble with networking, and leaned heavily on my understanding of virtualization to debug those issues:

- Connections to Windows VPNs wouldn't work well inside the WSL guest

- Running browser automation tools like Playwright wouldn't allow you access to the browser in Windows

- The WSL2 guest can't connect to services (tcp, ports, whatever) running on the Windows host

- Trying to do something like `ssh -D 1337` from inside the WSL guest is confusing

- If you run `ssh -L 8080:localhost:8080 remote.com` using powershell, the WSL guest does not have access to port `8080`.

While incredible in that it has dynamic VM memory allocation and such, it still felt like running Linux in VirtualBox, SSHing into it and having a lot of automation to handle port forwarding - a workflow I have used in the past and isn't very revolutionary.

WSL1, while a simpler implementation that is more feature constrained, I felt that it matched my behavioural expectations (an API mapping that isn't feature complete) making it more useful. I continue to daily drive it.

Windows Terminal also made Windows competitive with other OSes that have quality terminal emulators, such as `iTerm2` or `gnome-terminal` (`hyper` is too memory heavy, though `cmder` is not too bad).

It's my understanding that MS wants to focus on Hyper-V to make VMs more like containers, but for my simple use-case/world view, I would rather the "reverse Wine" world of WSL1 to the "enhanced VM" world of Hyper V.

I will continue to use WSL1 daily and hope MS chooses to focus on this style of integration over the WSL2 style. I'd love to see features like blending `/etc/hosts`, supporting `tmpfs` and containerization (without virtualization).

If MS deprecates WSL1, I will probably move back to MacOS or Linux.
In anti-poverty research, a child is considered to live in poverty if that child lives in a home whose income falls below the statistical low income cutoff point. That’s ‘the poverty line’ that you’ve hopefully heard of.

Finally, we are talking about child poverty - a little bit of respect and perhaps some research would be a far better complement than lowbrow snark.
Flash will not be supported in any of the large browsers after December, limiting access to people who go out of their way to use both a fork that preserves NPAPI or whatever Chromium uses and manually install some version of Flash.

I'm not aware of any search engines that index arbitrary files that the browser or some ubiquitous media viewer can't open. The most annoying I can think of is the occasional powerpoint files I've run across on google, and at least those are usually cached in a browser-friendly format.

It'd be like indexing Adobe CS project files, and requiring a subscription to Adobe to open the search result.
What Is Computability?
In-N-Out Billionaire Lynsi Snyder Opens Up (2018)
Ask HN: What's on your 2020 holiday gift list?
That works for me on bash on WSL1, interested to know why that wouldn't work on fish?
I wouldn't say Lightspark has failed at all, they're progressing nicely. Others are too.

I heard a rumor Shumway was abandoned as a project by Mozilla because ex-Adobe engineers were steering the project and Adobe issued concerns; they probably could have been worked out, but you know, Mozilla. Since then, Flash has been end of life'd more aggressively, so I think Shumway could return.

Flash files should be like music or graphic files - playable in a variety of players and items. Even VLC someday, we could hope.
The article suggests that the act of replacing the cables could cause a catastrophic failure. My interpretation of this is that unless one could replace all the cables at exactly the same time (which is impossible), at least one more would fail, which would almost certainly cause the instrument pod to fall, destroying the dish and damaging buildings with flying cables.
So they're iconic and ironic.
Yeah, it certanly would be great and it would IMO end up with a healthier ecosystem.
So a Christmas card list would be illegal? That seems...excessive.
That's correct. When I was researching why Google wasn't indexing many of our threads, I found the same thing was happening to other large forums.
5c hint: a little bit of padding and max-width on your content would make it far more readable!
Even though I disagree with some points in the article, there are some harsh cold truths behind this rant that the author dares to point out.

For example, I can't deny that media has unconsciously shaped our culture and altered our sense of values: boomers through TV and our generation through social media.

Call this brainwashing if you want, but the effects of marketing "personal happiness at the expense of everything else" is undeniable.
I like how you answered the question of why they're not up yet. But yes, I'd like chan-like flashes to be able to live on in some way.