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I haven't had any problems running all types of GUIs in WSL (1 & 2) through Xming for years now.
A secretive Pentagon program just ended. The mystery has not
The author doesn't say who or how what about the project was interesting, just that it was interesting and that it made him endure Java. My experience is the opposite. I don't care so much what I'm making, as long as it's not something making the world a worse place. I care about what technology and methods I can use to do whatever. That is interesting to me from a craft point of view.
> Rather odd as in the UK id expect to get paid a lot more as a contractor for the same roll as a FTE

As a software dev/management contractor, sure, but as a “self-employed Yodel delivery driver” or similar low skill role? (Which it seems to be in this case)
I completely agree with the sentiment of what you're saying. That said, that's not at all what this is. They are just making it easier to run GUI apps in WSL. This is already something you can do with VcXSrv or any windows-based X server. I've actually been using VcXSrv to run a full Ubuntu Buddgie desktop with GPU acceleration and native performance on my work machine for over a year now. If anything, this has made it easier to _get away from_ the telemetry and crap that goes along with a default windows install because windows has absolutely no idea what I'm doing within my WSL installation.

So yeah, nothing to see here, if anything this is good as it makes linux more accessible to people stuck in windows-only environments. This isn't even M$ making a desktop environment. They have just written an X server into windows instead of having to install one yourself.

side note: I'd also be quite happy if Windows slowly removed the windows parts and replaced them with unixy parts until the whole windows ecosystem could be considered unix-based. That would be so great for so many reasons.
Accessing the Windows filesystem from WSL and vice versa is extremely slow, so running for example your IDE in WSL and having your code etc. stored in WSL is useful. I think that is one of the big usecases. It's already kinda supported in vscode, where it runs a vscode server in WSL and Windows just runs the frontend.

It's useful for me when developing dotnet intended for Linux as I can store the code in WSL and be able to build, debug, run docker and so on directly from vscode.
Twitter users in Turkey can now emoji-react to tweets
Having digital timer settings would be tricky without a processor, I imagine.
It fails to be an automated test to tell computers and humans apart, as computers are more than capable of solving proofs of work without human intervention.
Thanks for the response.

Do you have the numbers on the other side effects as well? Also do you have the myocarditis cases and other side effects past 1 year?

Just to be clear, I don't think everyone is going to die in a couple years.
It seems the author might be unaware of the semantic difference expected for to_s vs. to_str and equivalent for other short vs long named conversions.

The former is expected to be pretty imprecise. E.g. if an object can somehow he described with a string it's ok to implement to_s.

But you should only implement to_str if an object can be naturally represented as a String. E.g. if you implement a specialized string class, implementing to_str is fine, while your Person class might reasonably return a persons name from to_s but probably shouldn't implement to_str.
No not really. Can you imagine gamestop demanding a cut of dlc purchases because a physical game was originally purchased in their store?

These are separate concepts.
Because the purpose of this law is to suppress the right of online platforms to moderate certain forms of speech, and to compel them to publish that speech against their will.

If Facebook or any other platform breaks up in order to avoid that, the government will just rewrite the law in such a way that it still includes them.
Just wanted to say that this seems like really good data. Pre-registered RCT with a large n and a very significant measured effect.

I kind of wonder how necessary/effective this treatment would be in people who are already enough protein, they didn't include info on the diets of the patients involved.
I agree that Apple not bringing iMessage to Android is lock in and very purposeful. But I don't think (at least not initially) it's because it works better than plain old SMS. I think there is quite a bit of social pressure to have "the blue bubble" especially in middle/high school.

Most of the iMessage features, text, video, pictures and "reactions/tap backs" work over SMS. The only real feature missing is delivery and read receipts but most people in my experience have read receipts turned off. Apps also don't work but I've yet to see someone actually use that feature.
Worthy of more study. Please vote to fund your country's space programs.
Masks in unventilated spaces tend to not be a _bad_ thing, overall. To use my children's phrasing: why it bad to keep your cooties off another person?
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The issue with browser based PoW is that browsers are still fairly slow execution environments.

Any waiting period for calculation that won't annoy users is not long enough for an attacker to not still be able to spam, given that they will be solving them 2-100x faster with an optimized native implementation vs in a browser.

It also doesn't work as a turing test, because by their nature computers are good at batch solving proofs of work.

I once started an anonymous email service with browser-based PoW for antispam. It didn't work.

You'd need users to do like, several hours of in-browser PoW to make it viable as an anti-abuse measure. Anything less means a bot farm is posting spam dozens of times per hour.

Frictionless micropayments are still a pipe dream today, as any useful technology available to do so has basically been outlawed in the USA without a multimillion dollar license, and a KYC department, et c. It's a real shame because we have all of the technology for cash-based anti-abuse bonds and the like. It's just illegal to deploy it unless
you go full MSB.
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what is your view on Clojure.spec?
> The message above has a timestamp of 16:57 UTC (11:57am ET) on January 20, 2021, moments after the swearing in of Joe Biden as the President of the United States and minutes before the statutory end of the administration of Donald Trump at noon Eastern time.

The questions that started to surface included: Who is AS8003? Why are they announcing huge amounts of IPv4 space belonging to the U.S. Department of Defense? And perhaps most interestingly, why did it come alive within the final three minutes of the Trump administration?

From the linked article on top, as background info. Quite interesting.

https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/
The stratospheric hexagon was observed in 2018: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06017-3

But since this weird site doesn’t put dates on its articles, who knows how old this “Legit News” item is.
Because sufficient number of legislators in the US congress would not vote for it back in 2010, hence this compromised situation.
There isn't any law or order yet, but seeing the trend in the US and other Western countries it is heading that way.
> of the same scale that the military-industrial complex/the executive branch got out of the PATRIOT act/Afghanistan.

Given that covid and the subsequent reaction realized one of the largest wealth transfers from poor to rich in modern history and led to great market returns for those in power, how can you honestly say this?

Look.. like most people on hacker news I am in the top 1% of earners and due to my industry benefitted greatly from covid lockdowns. But just because we benefited, we cannot be blind to the mass robbery that has taken place. We've literally robbed the poor to pay the wealthy.
I came to say just that
Makes sense actually. That's been an annoyance of mine as well. I suppose I never realized it's better on other platforms.
Where do they find people willing to put up with that. Some people have a high threshold for job pain versus uncertainty around job hunting pain. I'd much rather the latter.
I'm getting tired of this take. There's such as thing as programming for the joy of programming. You can love a clever algorithm with no "business value". Code can be beautiful and fun to write without being useful, or optimally-useful-per-unit-of-time-invested.
I purposely avoided 'BDFL': too much precedent as to what that means!

Limiting certain kinds of js access to vetted libraries is benevolent, if that's part of the language's goals. Likewise the lack of type classes or mutability/unsafe escape hatches.

Elm's developers do not enforce constraints to be 'hostile' or 'far from benevolant'. It's a tradeoff - language power for certain guarantees, guarantees that not even Haskell can provide.

Unfortunately, this sometimes means trying to constrain access to the completely unconstrained js library ecosystem, so the solution, at least for now, is a bit of a blunt weapon.

Note that Elm doesn't 'break your build' if you don't use github - that's a constraint on linking to official libraries only. I don't use github and my code works just fine.
I imagine if your app needs to interact with your Linux system, running it within WSL is a lot nicer.
It’s still nice for people who may not have (local) bank accounts, namely poor people and tourists.

IIRC you can’t have a WeChat pay account without a Chinese bank account.
nothing will change until high level executives start getting thrown in jail
Group's can succeed because they are communal. The survivalist idea of an isolated compound does not work. Because the larger group of people who can work together will out man you. The best survival strategy is to make friends with your neighbors. And to be in a town and city with less territory to control. Ethnic communities can do this kind of thing really well.
Add a self-rating system:

- Actually, I'm here for the beer

- Sometimes when I shoot, I score

- I have some moves

- I used to be good

- I am good

- Serious

and offer to either match people by level or build two teams that are evenly matched. After the game, ask people if they thought it was fun and if they thought the self-ratings were fair.

Later you get to add teams, quasi-teams, and leagues, if there's enough interest. But always start by asking if they want to do a pick-up game.
you left out "publicly calling out your SVP on twitter for not being racially sensitive enough" which she did before the paper blowup. Pretty sure that was the prime impetus for her being fired.

BTW, I worked with TPUs on the hardware side, and the entire section about hardware power usage is just completely and totally wrong (I would have asked for the paper to be retracted if it was published, the errors are so large). As for the obvious flaws part, yeah, some of the flaws are obvious (and known to all practitioners of the art already), some are irrelevant but made to sound like they are existential crises, and some of the "flaws" are just per personal opionion about what she doesn't like.

Hopefully she can find some academic position from which to propound her opinions. However, I do think in her behavior, she excluced herself from future employment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...
"How is babby formed" - for those not participating in the zeitgeist of 2006.
I have read them -- and we are in complete agreement.

Here is some great information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfFeocgSKvU
I don't get this. People can still create 1000s of fake users on my website just by using CPU time?
> However, despite the new origin (AS749) these prefixes are still routed exclusively through Hurricane Electric (AS6939)

sounds pretty familiar.
> To decrypt the backup, the key K is needed Thus, to safeguard K in the HSM-based Backup Key Vault, the client performs a registration of K with WhatsApp.

> The key to encrypt the backup is secured with a user-provided password. The password is unknown to WhatsApp, the user’s mobile device cloud partners, or any third party. The key is stored in the HSM Backup Key Vault to allow the user to recover the key in the event the device is lost or stolen. The HSM Backup Key Vault is responsible for enforcing password verification attempts and rendering the key permanently inaccessible after a certain number of unsuccessful attempts to access it. These security measures provide protection against brute force attempts to retrieve the key.

> Additionally, the users have a choice to use a 64-digit encryption key instead of a password, which would require them to remember the encryption key themselves or store it manually as in this case the key is not sent to the HSM Backup Key Vault

So they do allow not storing the key on their servers, which is the only way I know to ensure encrypted backups can't be decrypted, but they make it inconvenient by forcing the key to be 64 digits, for a strength of 10^64.

They could make "no store" keys much easier by allowing the key to be characters, so that people could use a sentence or other sequence of words as a key and not have to write down or remember 64 digits. Using just letters (ignoring case), you'd need at least 46 to get equivalent (12x actually) strength. With uppercase, lowercase, and digits, you'd only need 36 to get 3x the strength of 64 digits.

If users already need to create a password to secure the random key stored on WhatsApp servers, it seems the strength of that password is really the strength of the whole system. In that case, they could just derive a key from the password and use that directly as the encryption key. Assuming they actually want to protect the backup that is.

Disclaimer: I have never used WhatsApp, but am author of HashBackup which does not store your key on any servers.
The whole cloud product part of Postman is so useless. Does anyone recommend another similar service?
I think your analysis is a little bit vague? There are an almost unlimited number of chemicals that might be tried to treat any given disease. You can't test all of them.

If you limit the chemicals to those available at a vitamin store (which is how I'm interpreting 'nutraceutical') seems like a terrible strategy for how to deploy research resources. Almost no diseases are treatable in an effective way with these chemicals, and when there are positive results in a study involving these chemicals it is almost always not reproducible or the effect of the chemical is insufficient to justify using it. The vitamins and nutrients which we have evidence there is a benefit to taking are already added to almost every food product you can buy.

The only people who seem to be motivated to push this strategy are the companies which profit from selling big plastic bottles covered with the most misleading claims they can legally make, and filled with what are basically placebo pills.

I'm going to go ahead and make a prediction: There is nothing you can find in a vitamin shop, taken in any amount, that will end up demonstrating sufficient benefit to the treatment of COVID that it is worth using.
Due to a president that the media declared absolute war against. If Biden or Clinton were in office, they'd have renewed it quietly.

Just because they can't sneak it back in now doesn't mean they don't want to. The new administration has already made bogeyman out of 'domestic terrorism' that it's own fbi cannot find evidence for.
>it is unclear to me why this is being downvoted

I would tell you why, but you're not allowed to according to site rules (it rhymes with 'billing')
What a defeatist mindset lol
Sounds like an awesome teammate.

#2 is a big one, personally.

When I started, and was on call, every page was an 'omg omg' moment, and your brain rattles as you stare blankly at the screen. And I noticed nearly everyone is the same way, at some point at least.

But when I wasn't on call, and people called me to help anyways, it was much more relaxed(hey, not my butt this time) and it was a very level-headed approach.

Eventually I learned to just internalize 'be calm, we got this' even when flying solo, and it helped tremendously. Unfortunately, I have no advice as to how I actually achieved that over time.
That begs the question: why is Google using subpar developers? It's hard to imagine there just not being any better ones, and it probably isn't a money issue. Are they so against having good old employees?
> Even in a taxpayer funded scenario, I would bet the doctor is going to have to get approval from the system to provide a treatment above a certain cost.

That happens due to scarce resources. Most often in developing countries. Where I live, there are places doctors work at that barely have water for them to wash their hands. Ordering an MRI is a big deal.

I refuse to believe this would ever be a problem for the US.
That was certainly a mistake, but those were replaced by cards with more secure chips in 2011 [1] - I think it's hardly fair to write off the entire system as 'outdated at launch' because of one (admittedly high-profile) security flaw.

[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/77247/uitrol-veiligere-ov-chipka...
The united states federal government is temporary too by that metric. Yet everyone gets mad when you talk about eradicating it.
Work on iteresting¹ X, not interesting² Y!

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1. to me, not necessarily you.

2. to you, not me.
> That aside it’s terrific to see MS putting something good into Windows rather than just removing things and taking choice away from the end user.

That's the tip of the iceberg MS want everyone to see, and point the finger at.

MS want people to stop using Linux as an alternative since they lost the battle when they attempted to kill it during the Ballmer era. The plan now is more subtle: making sure everyone using Linux will want to do that from a Windows machine, with all the implications about security and privacy, which would be non existent since any malware (or Windows itself) that for example used Windows keyboard drivers to sniff passwords while one connects say to the bank under WSL "because it's more secure" would be 100% undetectable from that Linux.

The next step will be libraries to access Windows internals and GUI from WSL, so that one can build hybrids that run only on Windows+WSL; very convenient, but unfortunately now Linux is displaced and the only way to benefit from all that software will be to run it under Windows. In the end, MS will create their own Linux distro which runs on top of Windows and will essentially kill all other non-server oriented Linux distros.

Most see WSL as a good thing; I see an elaborate, and have to admit, very clever, way to take complete control of Linux in the next years.
How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida (2017)
My networked workplace computer needs to be able to compile a Windows application plus peripherals running various other architectures. The Windows part happens best in Windows, while the other parts are remarkably painful to compile without Linux. And all the platforms can compile in parallel.
>The whole point of these things is to get them to pay for the costs of whatever the patient needs. These needs are determined by their doctor. If they're not paying, they have no reason to exist.

Per the payer's terms, whether it be government or employer or insurance company, their needs are not necessarily solely determined by a single doctor. There are teams of doctors and pharmacists at CMS, state Medicaid organizations, and insurance companies that create protocol for various courses of treatment in order to prevent mistakes, waste, and fraud.

>These companies hire experts and pay them bonuses every time they find some loophole they can use to get out of their obligation.

Source? It seems odd that a company that earns more money if it spends more on healthcare would have an incentive to look for loopholes. Of course, they have an incentive to not spend frivolously to maintain competitive prices.

https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/medical-loss-ratio-MLR/

But they are all using the same protocols that the government uses anyway (via CMS), since the government contracts with the same MCOs to administer taxpayer funded healthcare for 40%+ of Americans via Medicare/Medicaid/Tricare.
I'm wondering if this could be used for building a crowd-funding platform or if there are headless solutions someone might recommend for that.
The person you’re replying to is being needlessly condescending, but I suspect what they’re getting at is that having a mindset of “what possible undesirable/malicious inputs are possible from this web form?” really precludes this scenario. Using unbounded text fields for a web form is a serious rookie move, as it’s a very obvious form of undesirable/malicious input. Point being, if you mess that up, what more subtle and dangerous inputs might you also be leaving yourself open to?
This advice is effective only if you are already famous or established. The most successful online writers who built their own brands without outside help began by writing huge, long articles that appealed to readers with high iqs and high attention spans. Short, concise articles are a dime a dozen and forgettable. You need to write looong essays to stand out and get content viral even if the articles are seldom read to thier entirety. An example is waitbutwhy.
So is the problem with categorizing anything, nature doesn't care about neat categories and honestly neither do we.

We have genetically modified almost every organism we eat the only difference is the method of modification.

When does something become GMO? Selective breeding? Mutagenesis? Marker assisted breeding? Targeted gene insertion? Who decides and why?
Agreed.

That issue left a sour taste in my mouth. As a customer, I don’t really need to be in the middle of corporate politics, I have my own poisonous politics to deal with!

I share it because many folks can’t conceive that sort of thing being possible.
If solving obesity were as effortless as getting two free widely-available shots? Absolutely, we would want to mandate them.
As someone who uses Windows as their main driver, I will personally find it a useful way to test/debug our Electron based app on Linux. Right now I’m using a full VM.

When you consider that Edge is available for Linux, MS could very well be using WSLg to develop it.

So it seems to me that this just makes it easier to anything you need to do on Linux, “on” Windows.

Of course making it easier for people on Windows to make software for Linux seems like a way to help Linux, which is a bit confusing to see MS do.
> Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012) <------

2012. Can you name a travel planning startup in the last 9 years?
This is true but so are the existing captchas. Existing captchas are just harvesting training data for Google's self driving vehicles at this point.

With a PoW captcha, it doesn't matter how smart you make your algorithm, it's still going to be slow. With existing systems I'd argue it's probably a lot slower for people than for machines, especially since it's people guessing what a machine thinks people would classify an image as.

This is an easy solution for rate limiting low trust/high risk connections and better software isn't going to magically make it any faster. This has always been what captchas aim to accomplish.
yes, but superfund sites affect your precious bodily fluids in a communist way.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924883
> isn't the primary concern that they make food into controllable IP, locking farmers into a SaaS-like subscription lock in, not allowed to replant their own seeds?

That's a concern (along with IP trolls suing farmers for infringment after cross-pollination and "terminator" features of GM crops's pollen interfering with self-seeding of said cross-pollinated crops), but IME it seems like the primary concern (ie, of most people complaining about it) is the stupid scary-soundingness one. (Which is annoying, because the former is a very real and serious problem, as it exacerbates existing centralization of food production.)