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> Running a virtual machine often means accessing the UEFI to be sure they have virtualization extensions enabled.

Likewise for WSL2.

I hope modern computers with a capable processor are all shipped with virtualization enable at firmware level, because Hyper-V can be used for tons of things in recent Windows.
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I can pop open an Ubuntu tab in Microsoft Terminal and use *nix utilities as though they were made for Windows. For example: I could chain some scripts and commands together to process and produce reports on my Ableton Live sets without fussing with host extensions in a VM.
I've got my eye on that one if it returns to stock. Thanks!

A slightly alarming statement on the page:

"Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect."

I've bought dozens of screens in my life (phones tablets monitors TV's) and have never had a stuck pixel. Is it actually normal?
I don't have a budget in traditional sense (Excel table with spending categories and amounts allocated for each, with regularly updated actual spent amounts). I just look at the balance of my checking account when I get the statement. If it goes down month over month, I know I need to cut spending.

Everything else is automated: scheduled transfers to savings, recurring mortgage payments, autopay for credit cards, etc.
Yes, agreed. I'm going to draw their attention to this thread.
> a lot of people are just not that bright.

From anecdotal observation, I wouldn’t say intelligence is the deciding factor, but impatience. People don’t pause to evaluate.

I have a friend who lashes out or gives up at mundane life problems (why is this hamburger soggy and how to avoid it) without pondering a solution or cause. Her immediate reaction is to find blame (even if herself), not to consider if and how the issue can be fixed.

But I’m confident she has the ability and intelligence to find solutions, because from what she tells me of her work—including customer and management reviews—she does it in professional settings.
Preface: This is an honest question, not an attempt to start a "which language is better" war.

I'm proficient in C#. I haven't yet encountered any problems I can't solve with C# and the .Net open source ecosystem. (Perhaps that says more about the banality of the problems I'm solving than about .Net, but there you are.)

What would Rust give me the tools to do that I can't already accomplish with C# / .Net Core?
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It's not that frequent. It seems it's just a subset if the readers who misapply what I say. If it were a large part of the group, then I would be looking at myself more closely. I would guess that everyone has been misunderstood at some point on here.
The problem is likely not in the Ext4 code, but in the block I/O driver (which is Hyper-V specific, IIRC) or even in Hyper-V itself. Several reports mention Windows shutdowns, sleep or hibernation, so it may be a simple unclean shutdown of the VM.

A bigger problem would be if Hyper-V is either ignoring memory barriers, or caching writes to the disk and losing them when the Hyper-V service is shutdown. But that would likely affect more than just WSL, so we'd have seen the problem sooner (or so I vehemently hope).
If the above is true:

>If you have employees and revenues, you are engaging in sophisticated money laundering. If you have a thousand shell entities, you are doing something else (and more common).

Isn't it easier (and more effective to the goal) to query the attorney of record, Articles of Organization filer, registered agent (etc from the Secretary of State), and have a more stringent eye on what they do, rather than taking personal identities to the Treasury?

The fault is not the individual, it's the supporting system that allows for thousands of anonymous LLCs to be coordinated - that only can happen through a support structure - that should be easy to identify through the current data.

Edit: also, yes, as another comment mentioned, thank you for chiming in. Very rarely do people get to speak to decision makers and advisors in these positions - this is real democracy at work.
My state taxes inherited out of state real property at an absurd rate (I wanna say 20%, might be 15, in any case, that's a big chunk of change).

In practice it's just a big f you to anyone who's parents live out of state and die owning their home and didn't have the foresight to put it in trust or sign it over to the kid(s) prior to dying.

There is no justifiable purpose for this tax other than revenue. Property out of state has zero cost to the people of the state. It's a pure money grab and it's only affecting the middle class (because anyone who can justify the cost of estate planning will not be subject to this tax).

Edit: I'd be curious to see why people find this comment so disagreeable? Or is it just ideologically inconvenient to point this stuff out?
Thanks!

Do you have any leads on how to do that?

I was toying with the idea of making a series and selling/pitching to Netflix. I have thousands of hours of HD footage that isn't in the YouTube vids...
Sounds like bullet journal (which I endorse, having used it for 4 years this month).
I'm not surprised that industry prefers W2V over Transformers, given how heavy-duty the latter can be at inference time.

It's been a few years since I looked at it, but IIRC fastText is basically just w2v with subwords, so it's also possible this negative sampling fix applies to w2v and fastText equally.
There is a pep for that: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0582/
I think calling it WSL2 was a mistake.

The predecessor, WSL, "just worked" and it was more a less a linux experience for most practical purposes-- and certainly better than hoary old cygwin.

This caused a lot of people to believe they could just transition to WSL2, lead on by the promise of an even more performant linux experience. The documentation didn't say anything about complications from attempting this, so a lot of people just tried it as soon as they could, thinking it would go as smoothly as when they tried WSL. But nope... it many cases, it doesn't just work out of the box. There's network configuration and gateway issues, snags with vpn, and now this git repo corruption. When you look on git issues, it's just people randomly shot-gunning suggestions, some of which work, some of which don't. I think WSL2 was rushed out too early, or at least it's lacking a comprehensive troubleshooting guide to get it up and running.
You might have just convinced me to buy the devkit. What do you use it for in your masters thesis?
Absolutely, I'm working hard to make another big one happen in mid 2021.

Before Africa I drove Alaska to Argentina - theroadchoseme.com/expedition-overview
I thought it was a typo for GB maybe?!
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here's the whole world done this way using Wikidata https://twitter.com/derenrich/status/1228508337559392261/pho... but the labels are removed and it includes maritime borders to make it a (very hard) guessing game
I remember seeing a documentary a long time ago called Overland to America that documents similar travails, including a failed attempt at driving across the Bering Strait in one of these things: https://www.arktoscraft.com/
This matches my own observations where swapping a pure 'bran' cereal for any other breakfast meal allows me to feel fuller while eating less.

Also, subbing TVP for mince is also a way of increasing fibre and protein at the same time. After hydration TVP is almost double protein by weight compared to store-bought mince (at least where I shop), and it also has a good dose of fibre content, and no fat. Once again, I went 50/50 on this and I could eat less and feel fuller, and I argue it tasted better because the dish wasn't as oily.
I read that in the Star Wars IV movie, the actors refused to read his lines and made up their own ones. Then later for episode one he was so famous nobody dared to refuse his wishes... result is known.
Or, alternatively, a crowd whose needs aren’t completely met by Linux.
I use a mix of WSL2, and VMs. WSL2 has a few nice properties for some use cases:

a) It comes default with some network binding magic (ok, just configuration) that makes your WSL env almost actually behave like localhost. I know you can configure this yourself, but it's nice out of the box. (on the other hand, sometimes is this exactly the opposite of what you want...)

b) My main machine is a bit RAM constrained, and WSL2 will "magically" reclaim RAM when I close the consoles (unless I left something running...). Once again, not the biggest win, especially if you spec'd out your machine to run VMs, but still nice.

I think WSL2's biggest wins are not for 'full out development'. But it's nice when you need want to jump in and poke at something quickly in Linux land. The startup time for the console/VM is fast enough (~1-2 seconds), and the cleanup is good enough I can quickly jump between, without having a VM actually hanging around all the time.

I'm sure the file system integration is useful for some usecases... classic one would be if someone emails you data files or something. You download in your browser in Windows and then can access pretty seamlessly from WSL.

I think I would summarize WSL's advantages as being a bunch of little quality of life advantages that are very much suited for Windows dominant workflows that periodically jump into Linux.

There are all sorts of other disadvantages though - I would not recommend anyone who has a comfortable VM based workflow to ditch for WSL. An example of an uncomfortably stupid rough edge would be periodically time-desyncing: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4149 . I shit you not, my workaround is to manually adjust my linux time forward and back with `sudo date --set "${INCREMENT} seconds" until it gets close enough that OAuth doesn't shit itself.
Isn't that essentially Microsoft and Apple’s business model and how they got to where they are today?
I have anecdata about victims of domestic violence using these tools. There are even entire guides for how to do so (eg Michael Bazzell's Extreme Privacy). It's hard to tell how many people are doing this when the entire purpose of doing it is to obfuscate who you are.
There is a typo in the headerbar: "Programmes's Competency Matrix", should be Programmer's.
> He told Spielberg he had an entire trilogy planned for his old-fashioned hero and they shook hands on the spot. That character turned out to be Indiana Jones, and George Lucas turned out to be a liar.

Yet another reason to doubt that Lucas had already sketched out nine stories when Star Wars was released, much less that they were the source material for Episodes I-III. (And I don't think Disney is even claiming to draw on old unpublished material.)
I do like them both very much, and find both incredibly talented. Sorry if my comment came of as negative towards them. (But I also like Marvel movies, for what it's worth.) Just wanted to point out Fincher is not art cinema as the top comment suggested. (And Spielberg is not just family friendly subjects either.)

I don't know about "multiplex pleaser" - Gone Girl, Finchers previous movie, "topped the box office for two consecutive weekends" according to Wikipedia.
I'll buy one in a heartbeat which tracks Sp02 throughout and viberates/beeps when it goes below a threshold.
KDE 4.0 dumped me.
I like my beans with meat.
Yeah, this clashes with my experience too.

I experimented with vegetarian meals a few months back and found I could eat literally 1kg+ of cooked lentils/beans/etc and still feel hungry. <500g of chicken breast (plus vegetables), on the other hand, would see me through.
Ask HN: Stress induced sleep disorders or night terrors?
Hiya everyone, happy new year! Writing this from a throaway account for obvious reasons.

I'm a middle-aged (38 yo, male) solo founder of a bootstrapped B2B startup, and for many years I have experienced various sleep disorders, in particular night terrors or arousals in which I wake up with my heart pounding, often hallucinating that there's something in the room or outside the window trying to hurt me or my bed partner. Sometimes I then jump out of bed, shake awake my bed partner or try to drag her out of (imagined) harm's way, throw away the blanket or a pillow or turn on the lights. I never thought much about this kind of behavior since it occurred quite infrequently, recently I've been reading about REM based sleep disorder though (which is an early symptom of a neurodegenerative disease) and I'm worried I might have that. Both of my grandfathers died from such diseases (Parkinsons' and Alzheimers's, respectively), at high ages though, which adds to my fear. To get to the bottom of this I plan to do a polysomnigraphy sometime this year, until then it seems I have to continue worrying about it.

Has anyone here experienced similar sleep disorders? I once read that starting a startup can cause symptoms that are similar to PTSD, which can include things like night terrors or nocturnal panic attacks, but I never made the connection before. Recently I have been experiencing these attacks a bit more often again, and while this year I have seen some first success for my startup it has also been quite difficult due to Covid-19 and the reduced potential to network with clients (we're in a B2B market and relied heavily on our personal network and events like conferences or business fairs to find clients), and we risked running out of cash several times.

I'd highly appreciate if you can (anonymously) share your experience. Any ideas how to deal with this beyond trying to get it properly medically examined? Thank you!
I think its an error to think of it in terms of relative shares, absolute quantities matter a lot in terms of specific thresholds when something is worth it or not. The question is very specific to the absolute amount you can save each month, and your tolerance for risk.
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> I haven’t looked at your responses but I hope you’ve gotten plenty that will amplify what I’m going to say

I am curious about how you browse HN? I only see one additional comment besides yours.
Exactly. You might not be so lucky on a different platform.

Imho a better way to handle this would be to use a macro or special function that comes with the compiler, assuming it exists of course.
I also agree with fats being the most satiating for me. For a second, I missed the part where they controlled for it, but it's there:

> The meals (all 3.5 MJ, 28 energy-% (E%) fat)...
> This is a terrifying sentence to me, because what it implies but doesn't say outright, is that there's not a single person in the organization who actually fully knows what is being released. If there were, then they should already have this information!

It’s not the collection of the information that’s difficult, it’s delivering it to the user in an appropriate way when you use phased rollouts with feature flags.

The change log that the App Store presents to the user is static and identical for everybody. The changes that a user actually experiences are not. So you might have 0% of your users experiencing a certain feature when the release goes out, 10% a day later, 50% a day after that, and 100% at the end of the week. Or, if the metrics show a bad response, it might end up at maximum 10% seeing it, and then it dropping back down to 0% the next day.

Apple gives you a static text field to enter the change log information, with limited length. If you have ten different features to release, your users will all receive them at different times, and not all of them are guaranteed to make it out to everybody, how is a static text field supposed to deliver that information?
This is a really good story/writeup.
I'm really curious how Episode IV would have ended. Maybe just rescue Leia and get away, skip the final battle?

It seems possible that a scaled-back Star Wars would have been less popular.
You are talking about bandwidth as if it was the same as information density.

I think the parent is taking about information as defined by Shannon. Essentially referring to entropy.

By that definition text is far more dense than AV.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
unning a virtual machine often means accessing the UEFI to be sure they have virtualization extensions enabled

Note that this benefit applies to the deprecated WSL 1 only, WSL2 actually runs a VM underneath so it requires the same hoops that a VM would require.
It doesn't say, but since it mentions IPS, it doesn't have an always-on LCD ?
Some people advise 'eat that frog' aka force yourself every morning to start with the most unpleasant (and you know which one that is...) task first, and the rest of the day is a breeze.
Have you tried Anki or similar Spaced Repetition System?
Someone else said 'I sometimes get stuck on “what’s the point of this?”' and it resonates with me a lot. I am probably the closest I have been to launching an MVP for a site I am building and it really hits me hard. "Will anyone use this?", "why even finish it?", "how will it support itself financially" etc.
I am very happy to have shared my thoughts here (and received good feedback and suggestions!), but the best is that it finally made me look into this need - and I am not the first (big surprise :-)

It turns out that just very recently exactly what I need was made possible in Chrome (currently only "experimental") just set this flag [1]. I especially like that it's possible without the need of third party SW.

This page [2] is what alerted my attention to the solution.

NB.: It does make me wonder why this feature have not existed until now as it seems so obvious, I mean ever since the introduction of the TABbed interface in browsers (which started pre 2000 IIRC) the (over-) usage pattern of tabs existed.

Anyway - even if I have missed something pre-existing I am now extremely happy to be able to name my TABS in Chrome!

[1] chrome://flags/#window-naming

[2] https://winaero.com/how-to-name-a-window-in-google-chrome/
This is my experience too, though I eat a lot of starch in the form of potatoes and rice as well.
Is this a coping strategy for mild adult ADHD?
You provide Apple with login details when you submit your application. Just enable all the features in advance for Apple’s test account.
> How do you track money laundering?

You don't.

Just like free speech, tracking what people do with their money is a violation of basic human rights.

Giving governments that kind of power is downright crazy.

If you want to catch criminals, resort to traditional ways.
> I'm not sure the occasional bank run by people who get over zealous with their greed and desire for MORE is necessarily a bad thing.

I mostly agree. I think one of the biggest problems with the bank meltdown of 2008 is that no heads rolled, so it's no surprise that there has ultimately been very little behavioral change.

> The problem in my mind is when banks are doing fractional reserve without the explicit understanding and consent of their depositors.

All of them are consenting (FRB is what banks do, they don't make money by simply holding a deposit) but boy is there a lack of understanding on how the modern bank works as a business and it's effect on the money supply.
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was
that without zero they had no way to indicate successful
termination of their C programs.
Here is another AC story for you: I worked at a bank in the late 90s, on a crunch y2k project that was instigated because AC knowingly installed a non-y2k compliant set of core systems in about 1997, and didn't pass on the vendor's warnings about y2k to the bank management.

The AC project (which ran about 93-97) went kinda rogue, the bank management lost control of the situation. The AC project managers kept bringing in more AC consultants and told the bank management not to worry, everything was good. They were heavily customizing a non-y2k version of the vendor's software, and the vendor warned project management that they were customizing this in ways that would prevent future support and patches, but AC project management covered this up.

Eventually the vendor contacted the bank CEO directly and said "what are you going to do about the y2k issue, we are concerned". CEO: "What y2k issue?"

The bank had to go live with what they had, fire and blacklist AC and burn tens of millions of $$ to re-start the project to deliver exactly the same thing, but using a y2k-compliant version as a starting point, and removing as much customization as possible so they could take future vendor patches.
Same difference in my experience - WSL1 git screwed up git repos for me, broke git lfs, +++. I guess it’s more of the same-ish on WSL2, just different edge cases due to different edges.
Would it help to provide more information by adding edge weight as the length of the shared border between the two states?
They specified a high-protein vegetarian meal. So unless the meal is purely made from nuts, it would have to consist of processed HP ingredients like TVP.

A sibling post mentioned another study which suggests that it's actually the fibre content that determines satiety, which maybe matches your observation about oats?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25613156
I agree. I tried wsl2, and while it's nice, it has issues wsl1 didn't have. For instance, networking almost never worked until I applied a common workaround of resetting the ip stack. Wsl1 always worked fine for that. It's just not ready for primetime yet.
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Flutter is react inspired and it appears to be slowly getting twoards cross environment support.
True - but it seems like some middle ground might be possible - where the power of the shell is all available, but with the cognitive support that the GUI provides also present.
I do not use WSL but see a good reason for WSL. The benefits for the users are superficial but the really big thing is on the business side for Microsoft. With WSL they try to trap more and more Linux developers into their ecosystem. It is all about getting more control of the most talented and fruitful developer minds. In the end Microsoft and its shareholder will benefit if it keeps its hands on this crowd.
Weirdly enough, I prefer the more "toy-like" Pebble buttons to the more "solid-looking" Pebble Time ones : they are easier to find without looking, and easier to press.
I would like to ask where to find those MVP gigs? I've built a few MVPs in the past for my old clients but I find it very difficult to find MVP gigs repeatedly.

To OP: feel free to drop me a message if you need my help (email in profile)
Ah! This is interesting info and helpful, thanks!

I was on the cusp of attending some cross organization "for feds" tech meetups back in March, but... :| I'll keep on the lookout.
I have a pinetime and the form factor is great (until I lost the back plate, next one will be sealed). All the opensource activity around the watch is also great. The biggest drawback to me is only 64k of ram. Thats a Commodore64's worth of ram. The 240x240 screen is 57kbytes, it must have its own display ram.

Also NordicSemi never seemed to be particularly opensource friendly. I'm hoping for a future RISCV edition of this watch with more ram.
Rust is a systems (i.e. lower level) language similar to C and C++ that can be compiled to native standalone executables.

If you're primarily doing app dev work, be it desktop or web, you wouldn't really benefit much from it. Although I think Rust code can be compiled to wasm so you could use it as part of webdev work.

You might also find this an interesting read from the same author: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-am-a-java-csharp-c-or-cpl...
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