skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is strange, are we even reading the same front page? ( I am pretty sure HN dont have personalised front page )

I just ran through the first 100 Front page times and there are barely any business related news.

I also dont see how the community here sometimes tilts more towards business than technology. Other than some rare news on another Unicorn, Public Listing, earning from FAANG. There has rarely been any business news on HN at all.

There are some economics news ( if you count them as business news ), but are again in the minorities.

YC backed start up Jobs are only shown may be once per day. They are more like ads on HN. Who is hiring is also only a monthly posting.

I am actually in flavour of more business news, but I also think the current balance seems to be fine.
The Design of Mathematical Language
I actually think this is a problem hackers have in general. It's the Zuckerberg problem. You build something cool, you want to talk about all the tricks you did to scale to N billion users and all anyone can talk about is that genocide you caused. You just built the tech, right? It's all about the Tech. Except it's not about the tech when you're actually having an effect on people's lives, and we should be more willing to openly talk about that. Is it easier to pretend that stuff doesn't exist? Sure. But it does exist, and we do need to actually discuss what happens in the real world due to the technology we work on.
Curious how this will play it in ä global economy.

What if the global Jobmarkt was helping Britten to fill gaps?

Might this not lead to inflation?

How will it comped within a global market? How much is it losing when it can't comped against EU internal market?

I'm very sceptical and I think this might even less to a few death. And it could have been done much slower and less risky.
I feel like this is somewhat -- err, not a lie, but not quite the truth. There's a word for it but it's eluding me atm -- "misadvertised"?

The headline of the article is: "WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support."

All of this stuff was available before Windows 11, to anyone/everyone.

I know, because the way I installed WSL2 on Windows 10 was the way mentioned in the article ("wsl --install"), and ditto for using the new/experimental Linux GUI stuff.

This was readily available for anyone who bothered to install an Insiders ISO, and there are tutorials and articles about this for Win10 specifically:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/how-to-install-wsl2-on-windows-10

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-initial-preview-of-gui-app-support-is-now-available-for-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-2/
> Why should a country's laws end at its own borders, if they don't have to? If the country views its laws as right, it seems to me it ought to attempt to see those laws enforced as widely as possible.

I really don't want to be extradited to Thailand from Australia because I mocked their King online, or extradited to China for commenting on a Falun Gong forum, or extradited to Saudi Arabia for posting a comment supporting gay rights.

You have probably already broken 100 laws from various countries before you got out of bed
Until they get their crap together and crush the terrorists they harbor, don't expect much of a change..their Arab neighbors don't care and won't help.
There is a fellow I know who gives embedded design seminars, and he -- intentionally -- puts up one slide that has an error in showing Maxwell's Equations. He notes that in Europe, especially Germany, almost every time he puts up that slide, someone politely points out his "typo". In the USA? He said about 1 in 50 seminars somebody does the same. If you are doing engineering, and you don't know cold both multi-variable integral and differential calculus, you have no right calling yourself an 'engineer' IMHO.
> My "coziness" with the military industrial complex would be to help design weapons using AI. I'm simply fine with that. I wouldn't be advocating for the extermination of a population!

So you'd be fine helping them design weapons that could exterminate a populace but you wouldn't advocate actually using them?
I don’t know about that. Even the ancient FTP protocol has a separate control channel/port.
> without some form of certificate pinning, could still be MITM'd

Now, apparently this uses plain http - but if tls/https is an option - any client (like curl/wget) should by definition come with a ssl trust root (os or bundled). If this is mitm'ed, you've got big problems. Certificate pinning doesn't really help that much in this case.
Far more in line with their EEE tradition:

- 2021: Windows Subsystem for Linux that can run pretty much any Linux program

- 2024: Custom proprietary extensions in WSL, hidden "incentives" to make sure some important software runs only on WSL

- 2027: Nobody uses Linux without WSL anymore

- 2030: WSL now costs $200 per year.
Any measurable consistent demand that can be seen on a monthly basis - assuming net lifetime value >0 is really, really good.

The problem with SaaS growth is that it's a function of customer acquisition, marketing etc..

But once you account for that, if customers are sticking around (low churn) and the acquisition/revenue works out, then if you contemplate what 'compound interest' means - and the necessity of a 'large market' - then it's probably a good investment, it just depends on the terms.
"Odds of survival have long been factored into prioritizing who will get donated organs. And requiring vaccinations against devastating infectious diseases is also standard. Organ recipients are already generally required to be vaccinated against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, influenza, and tetanus, among others diseases."

None of those diseases have high kill rates. Kill rates aren't the justification being used.

It's about maximizing success of the transplant. This is just one more vaccination in a list of vaccinations.

This isn't surprising to anyone remotely familiar with eligibility requirements for organ transplants. There are all sorts of choices a patient can make that would make them ineligible.
Author here. Thanks for the heads up. From my experience, after it turns off, it tends to stay off for about 30-45 minutes. I hope that's long enough to avoid issues. The comment in the link mentioned delaying 3-5 minutes.

And yep, It was my bad to misunderstand the first knob. I should have read the manual instead of assuming. I added a note to the post.
Snow Crash plays with the idea of brain exploits using specially constructed sounds.

Roko’s Basilisk is an idea that hearing of will put you in danger of.

I enjoy the concept.
About Assange potentially being extradited to America for trial. I contrast it with Prince Andrew. A normal person would be facing criminal charges and have been extradited to America for trial. One justice system for the rich and another justice system for people like Assange
How do you define "startup"?
WSL for me:

- Great scripting environment for a number of "used weekly/monthly" tools (stuff to test backups, automate some processes) Maybe this is more an indication of my lack of PowerShell knowledge to do the same.

- Good way for me to test most Linux binaries our scripts / code might use (wkhtml2pdf seemed to experience this, might have been because any windows bins we found were out of date/mislabelled.)

- Ansible "Controller/Host" , My god, my favourite usecase for WSL. It just works. Still have to deal with Ansibles bytespam errors, but you don't need a whole VM to just to update some servers.
Isn't Keccak SHA3?
This is dark… I bet Satoshi is also a regular user of this website.
Yet. Whoever sets up the first moon resort is going to make a fortune.
If you just look at what SpaceX does today, then definitely not. But Starship would drastically expand the market, and a full rollout of Starlink would turn SpaceX into a major telecom company on top of that. Both are far enough along to take into account for valuation.
Most people here don't read the articles, so there isn't much mental effort being put in either way.
> You can superficially understand the math when guided, but without any reason to retain it I am not sure what you will gain from the experience.

This has been my experience with almost everything I ever learned about math, much of which I have unfortunately not retained.
It’s certainly torture for whoever is trying to implement all possible corner cases to ensure VT-100 compatibility.

Not even DEC got it right 100% of the time.

Apple’s Terminal and xterm (the original X app) do a commendable job at that.
CUDA is supported, with some limitations. https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide/index.html
The distinction is important because you can’t change race but you can change culture. However it isn’t easy and it has to start with the children. It is too late for the adults. And any practical solution (boarding schools for talented kids designed to extract them from their dysfunctional culture) has serious negative consequences as well. Australia tried to change the culture of the indigenous population and it ended badly. It is a very hard problem. Especially because the feedback loop of the culture is self-reinforcing. When I lived in the US I remember talking to a successful well-educated African-American that I worked with who said he was called an “Icecream” (black on the outside white on the inside) by other African-Americans! In other words, people in his community resented his success instead of celebrating it. That just blew my mind.
I also regularly give a quick peek to the comments sections before reading the article in order to figure out whether I should bother reading.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
Hindsight is 20/20, all we can do is learn for next time.
Instagram is a cesspool for more than teen girls. I'm reminded of the influencer who charged $20k to endorse a product, and $75k to trash a product.

All the top landscape photographers now have to use Instagram as their primary online marketing platform. Landscape photos look horrible at Instagram-size (even on the desktop the size and resolution is horrible) unless you boost the colors and jazz them up to a ludicrous degree.

I'm on a lot of overlander forums, in the US and international. We never once see the top #VANLIFE Instagram stars unless they're trying to promote something. I'm convinced they get the sunset shot (10x likes if the woman is wearing a thong), then go stay in a hotel with all their influencer $$.

I could go on. Basically Instagram destroys everything industry and hobby it touches. It's still fine for sharing travel pics with your friends though.
This will definitely encourage the production of bug-free commercial software.
> the market for automobiles was tiny before the automated production of the Model T

I think that's a false analogy. Automobiles are a lower-latency, cheaper to operate, cleaner, faster substitute for the horse and cart, which many people already had and many more desired. There was a big market and it had high price elasticity of demand.

The analogy here would be for hypersonic point-to-point travel over large distances on the Earth. It's not at all clear how big or elastic the latent demand for that would be.

It is clear that dumping a lot of water vapor in the stratosphere would have climatic consequences.
Typical Microsoft marketing lie, as in last version of windows, windows 10 mobile devices, windows support and so on. Oh wait, they hire consultant to synergise efforts in OKR and drive innovation in right to repair domain according to management indicatives! That’s will be success for sure.
Surfaces are highly custom (and badly) engineered and sold in (tens of) thousands. Nobody wish or able to repair them. Nobody even wish to repair new xboxxses.
Macs are sold in hundreds millions and getting fixed easily, despite “evil” apple.
Serious question: Why does Atom still exist? On the front page they advertise something called "Atom Teletype" which seems like a ripoff of VS Live Share (or was it the other way around?)

Why aren't the Atom people working on VSC instead?
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (2018)
There is even a name for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I think there's some weird A/B test shenanigans going on with this one. I have a machine where some letters or whole words will get google search results and ads with images in the first few entries of the dropdown, but on my main machine it's just google searches and then history/bookmarks at the bottom.
The CDC disagrees with you. Go to https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm... and click on "Weekly Number of Deaths by Age". There is no observable difference in the 0-25 age group between 2020, 2021, and the previous years.

The equivalent data for Europe are at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps, which I find easier to use. You will see that the excess mortality in the 0-14 age group is actually negative in 2020 and marginally positive in 2021 so far (went down a bit earlier in the year and now is back up a bit).
No prob!
Specifically this:
“To imply something is "similar" typically implies that it is separate to some degree”
So the US military has many microwave comm projects. ATT was only one of them that was left unused. Many had no ATT involvement whatsoever.
So yeah, military had contracts with ATT, but those were a tiny subset of microwave efforts.

Former Submarine communications specialist here.
Car Insurer Lobbies to Pin Pricing on Tracking Driver Skills
Unemployment was already cut off on 9/4. There are no more stimulus checks that I am aware of.
So by picture you mean photograph? To me an illustration is a kind of picture.
Or upgrade to MERV 16, which is nearly as good, much cheaper, and has much lower pressure loss.
Basically everyone has an ankle monitor.
The Amiga 500 was reasonably priced, at least in most of Europe. It was a very popular gaming computer for a few years.
Thanks for sharing, that’s awesome to read
I use WSL all the time, have for years. It's excellent. I much prefer it to my last setup which was trying to MacOS act like a modern Unix.

Not sure what you mean by "man pages". The full Linux man system is there, of course. WSL itself has very few commands of its own. There's wsl.exe but you almost never use it. It has no man page per se but it does have a good --help string as well as online docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/basic-commands
Huh - looked at that location on street view and it is so weird seeing a modern AT&T logo on a Long Lines site building!

Microwave backhaul fascinates me... I think the most interesting example of it that blows my mind is the private backhauls that are going up between major financial hubs in the US like Chicago <-> New York. Since latency is a huge deal for a lot of these HFT traders some intense stuff gets engineered:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...

Specific quote I'm referencing:

> The researchers then used the FCC and other records to deduce that, at the time of their 2013 study, there were 15 (!) networks licensed to operate microwave links between the two cities.

Freakin' wild!
lol so true. Apps are actually inferior for the user these days. Example: I can easily skip YouTube ads on the mobile YouTube website, so I use that. Can’t skip ads on the YouTube iOS app.
the Taiwan ADIZ literally extends into mainland China. Taiwan itself admits "violations" are routine. It's a farce that this is getting serious coverage.

Yes, someone does want to stoke fear, but who truly benefits if there's an outbreak of war in the region? Hint: it's not China, it's not Taiwan.
Yeah, I read that erotic fanfic back when ESR wrote it: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764

It's not going to happen. The Windows NT kernel is one of Microsoft's greatest assets; in fact it's better designed than Linux on many axes. Until recently it had better support for async I/O (and the developer experience of io_uring may still not measure up to IOCP under Windows), it was designed for multithreading, and it has a more advanced security model. It also has a more advanced driver model, which is to say it has a driver model at all. The fact that there's a standard ABI for drivers means hardware Just Works under Windows and is still incredibly fiddly under Linux. Microsoft essentially has stewardship over the entire PC platform because they play very nicely with OEMs and make hardware easy for Windows to support.

They are not going to give that up. It'd be the OS-kernel equivalent of giving up Alpha for Itanium.

If anything, the future of Linux is to be a guest under Windows NT. How many Hackernews have I heard repeat the mantra that the best Linux desktop environment is WSL?
It's fine for sharing travel pics with your friends, but an abomination for anything that touches money.
On the topic of Unikernels and MicroVM's:

Does anyone who knows this stuff, know if there is something like Docker, but lightweight (capable of running thousands of processes with couple hundred MB memory) and doesn't require being deployed on bare-metal or an orchestration tool?

I was looking for the equivalent of IE Knative/OpenFaaS, without needing Kubernetes or k3d. Users can write functions/handlers in whatever language, and deploy them on the platform, and the whole thing is either run as something as convenient as a container or a single static binary.

I tried to find something, read up on Firecracker, emailed some people a lot smarter than me. Nothing fitting this bill seemed to exist, so I opted to build my own using GraalVM.

(Which is working, but isn't as flexible about application packaging as a Dockerfile. It imposes some restrictions on how things need to be written to deploy on my platform.)

Just curious if something like this DOES exist and I just didn't manage to find it. Building something yourself is always the worst answer, unless you're smarter than everyone in your field. Or you know something other people don't.

Which I am not/do not.
Same here, the sense of freedom is incomparable.
What is the conflict? She only gets paid if her claims are substantiated and lead to a substantial enforcement action. And perhaps I’m a bit too in the weeds on this sort of thing but when I read “whistleblower” I assume there is some avenue for remuneration either from the SEC or a qui tam suit or some other private right of action. Why would anyone blow their whole career up to bring fraud to light if they’re going to be financially hung out to dry?

I think most people view whistleblower protections as aligning the interests of the public and the whistleblower.
A perfect encapsulation of why these privacy complaints are next to worthless. You don't trust Microsoft with telemetry but your package.json pulls in 30 packages from completely random Internet strangers who published something that looked cool on GitHub.

There's no coherent threat model here. There are a million different ways to shoot yourself in the foot and compromise your codebase before we even begin to consider what Microsoft can do with the knowledge of what buttons you press sometimes.
Serious question, because I'm not very strong with legacy shells.

Given that I can do all of this easily in powershell, why is the GNU toolset so weak that this utility has any remaining problem to solve?

Did no-one notice in 30 years that bash can't traverse a folder structure?
It probably made it that far out of necessity as that happened to be the shortest distance between the two nearest hydrogen fueling stations.
60 years ago - "lead paint is hurting our children"
the queen anne site is a wireline CO for that region, and has cellular stuff on it. The 6 GHz microwave has been out of service for many years. It used to be a primary link across the sound, to things in Kitsap, and similar.

fairly typical USWest/Qwest central office otherwise.
If you want to hear English short wave radio broadcasts from North Korea, it is quite entertaining. Here's what to do:

1. Choose the time you want to listen and note the "target area" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Korea#English

2. Choose a WebSDR in the "target area" from this list:
http://kiwisdr.com/public/

3. Tune the WebSDR to the correct frequency and listen. You might try a 2 or 3 different WebSDRs in the "target area" in order to get the best reception

The broadcasts are much shorter than an hour, contrary to what Wikipedia says. The format is usually:

1. National anthem (very imposing and sounds like a Soviet military anthem in my opinion)

2. News / headlines. This lasts maybe 3-5 minutes and then is repeated several times

3. Music

Sometimes the music is before the news. Last time I listened, it was the 73rd anniversary of North Korea's indepedennce and so the news was about all of the congratulations from other nations -- the list of which was quite amusing (Cuba, Syria, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Russia others I don't recall).
What intrigues me is that the "Hackers", who care about state, programs, and process, haven't turned attention to the State, and set about un-jacking its programs and streamlining its process.

Why haven't we got a robust git server with anonymous read-only access for everyone who pays taxes that holds all (unclassified) legislation/regulation affecting society?

Commits would be possible for elected officials/appointees only.

Similarly transparent treatment for the tax code.

Come on, Hackers: let's beat the entropy out of (or at least minimize it) in the res publica.
> helped him break his Facebook addiction

Nice! It's awesome that he said this. I always comment on the addictive nature of these platforms and games. Really nice to see these concepts making their way to a wider audience.

Facebook wants their platform to be addictive. That's what engagement means: the rat pressed all the right buttons when provided with the proper stimuli. They want people looking at and interacting with the feeds as long as possible so they can serve as many ads as possible.

They need to be held accountable for deliberately causing damage to people's mental health.
It's a great example, so much better than the modern "replacing birds' batteries"
On Becoming
Lol, they even have a Youtube channel...
This. The best you can do is hope they get started late and keep an eye on their social media as much as possible. Just NEVER let them know you're watching or they will take that sh*t underground.

And of course try to raise them with good values and a solid emotional base to make good decisions with.
I would assume they copy Chinese textbooks as it's the only border.

I wonder if, when discussing ANSI C++, they admit what ANSI means.