skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those spacers are rigid, which will remove a lot of the acoustic gains you'd otherwise get from using a vacuum.

It's worth noting that, although the page you linked says “good acoustic performance”, the vacuum windows they offer aren't mentioned on their noise control product page, nor listed in their sound simulator tool.
It's the only mainstream language I know where structs and modules are the same thing.
I hadn't realised just how small Tonga's land area is. Imagine a square 30km x 30km. It's smaller than that (747 square km).

But this table of countries ranked by population densities shows Tonga is not even close to the most densely populated countries (Tonga is about 65th of about 200 countries): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
... Not to be confused with WSL 2, the VM-based successor to WSL 1's tighter integration of Linux binary compatibility into NT. Both WSL 1 and WSL 2 seem to still be delivered as part of the package that has just reached version 2.0.0, though it doesn't seem WSL 1 is getting much (if any) work these days as it's considered a technological dead-end.

(And in case anyone's interested, it appears WSL 2 was added before this package reached 1.0)
I don’t keep a close eye on US copyright law, but didn’t they stop extending it a year or two ago?
Proof that nobody hates Communists more than fellow Communists. Shit, I learned that from reading Orwell.
Seems to be WSL 2 v2.0 if I'm understanding correctly. I agree that it's very badly named.
I wonder why January 2022. Perhaps some kind of event happening in February 2022.
They may have already had to pay for bed and board for free accomodation they got while in prison:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/wrongly-convicte...

I remember David blunket introducing this ghastly mechanism and being shocked that no one cared. He was an awful home secretary.
I just have a house full of manicans. Bonus, I never get lonely.
The problem is too many cars, not too many people.
WSL2 supplanted WSL. It's a different (but similar) technology with the same (albeit, confusing) name, not a version bump.

This release refers to WSL2 version 2.0.
I asked the same question to two different ChatGPT accounts:
"What was the most devastating event in January 2022?"

The first one is my personal ChatGPT account.

On the other hand, the second SS is from my company account.

While the first one acknowledges a knowledge cutoff date of January 2022, the second one specifies its training cutoff as September 2021 yet still provides answers to the question.

https://x.com/youraimarketer/status/1703997050419867662?s=20
That doesn’t contradict what I said.

For example no one is going from zero to jumping in an F35 which is why there are several types of training aircraft military fast-jet pilots progress through.
No one was confused about this. If anything, there was an abundance of clarity on the matter.
Kamal 1.0.0 (formerly known as MRSK) has been released
> we have a basal ganglia which evolved from reptiles

I took this as the key point addressed in the introduction—this model of evolution is widely understood to be wrong. We did not evolve from reptiles, we evolved alongside reptiles from a common ancestor. Modern reptile brains have also changed in form and function since our common ancestor, and we don't have whole divisions of the brain that exist in humans but not in reptiles.

Essentially, the triune brain theory goes right alongside that classic image of the monkey evolving into a man. It's not actually how evolution works, but it's a catchy simplification that's hard to get rid of.

From the caption to the first diagram:

> The evolutionary tree (c) illustrates the correct view that animals do not linearly increase in complexity but evolve from common ancestors. The corresponding view of brain evolution (d) illustrates that all vertebrates possess the same basic brain regions, here divided into the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. Coloring is arbitrary but illustrates that the same brain regions evolve in form; large divisions have not been added over the course of vertibrate evolution.
It’s enough to make you want to sleep in a Faraday cage coffin every night. A privacy vampire.
Taking inspiration from USB
You have a very naive view on this topic.

You can't give eveveryone a Job Guarantee™, because the only natural job guarantee is that your efforts benefit someone else. If your work is not productive someone else pays the cost, you wind up in a zero sum situation.

Also, I fail to see how such a system would mean interest rates remain at zero permanently, or how it ensures permanently low mortgages for interest rates to remain at zero permanently. Perhaps you can elaborate on the mechanism you envision when you talk about this.

You can't outlegalese network effects, all you can do is shift cost around. This is why these sorts of schemes always have unforseen negative consequences, because people naively think they've found a silver bullet. You probably have not.
No. Should I?
It is quite clearly fraud. For some reason we don't seem to prosecute companies for fraud.
Ha, well I used to teach Prolog and yes, you could solve it using Prolog but I think it would be horribly slow without Knuth's magic algorithm.
> So once again, let’s invite the obvious: Orwell is lying when he calls himself a socialist. And again, once the possibility is admitted, the evidence piles up. Read Orwell’s correspondence with poor Victor Gollancz over Wigan Pier and you see the stolid, loyal Gollancz trying desperately to understand why his star writer spent so much time vilifying his fellow socialists in a book commissioned by them. Read that exchange and you’ll never buy Orwell’s version of himself as simple, honest man. He’s the Satanic diva, pushing Gollancz into objections which allow Orwell to play the lone, misunderstood hero.

> But if he never was a leftist, why did he call himself one? For Orwell, the red star was protective coloration. It allowed him to smuggle his hates into print, gave them a fine radical gloss, and spared him the cold, clear readings his essays deserved. (Only academics believe that writers want to be understood. Writers want to be misread to their advantage.)

https://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-chri...
I trained as an architectural historian, and let me tell you, architectural quality can't be put into words. Architects and arch. historians have intuitive opinions. There is no science of architectural criticism. Alexander was the kind of person who thought such a science was possible.

The most important clues to the mediocrity of his buildings are the facts that a) they aren't widely imitated and b) they don't usually appear in fine books about architecture, trad or otherwise.

Alexander was more of a mathematician than an architect. It's a long time since any one person did both of those things well.
You cook 3-5 times a month? Did you mean week? Otherwise that sounds like a crazy amount of eating out or getting take out food. We cook 5-7 times a week.
And each pixel is what, a RGB-vector?
Developing code in the same OS you play Baldur's Gate 3 in is the real win. Thanks Microsoft
Imaging like this is like scanning a scene with a one pixel camera. Cameras use a lens to focus an image onto a plane, and the plane has multiple sensors. What would that device look like for microwaves?

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Did you see the pilot/first episode for "The Expanse"? There's a cop/private detective type who had a phone that was a single sheet of transparent glass or plastic type material.

That was cracked.
Holes? Like, literally, holes?
Honestly, whoever convinced Microsoft to make Linux run in windows was a genius. I would have seriously considered a Mac had they not done this. It just opens so many possibilities in Windows for me and all of it is so easy and simple to setup.
Does MS have an internal memo or something that directs teams to make versions/names not go up linearly?

E.g. .net framework/core, xbox, windows and now WSL
Isn't this the Mount Everest trash solution as well? You have to carry out more trash than you carried in
I'm going to wait a while to see how the new VPN stuff works out. Previously WSL2 didn't work with a Windows VPN without an extra tool ( https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit ), hopefully this might fix things, but not going to risk trying it in case it breaks everything.
The best way to deal with fires is not to. The problems the west is facing are due to so much fire suppression for tire last century and a half left too much fuel near the ground, we are now learning to let them burn.
I concur. I believe GDScript should be split from Godot itself and support should be added for third party IDEs. It has a lot of hard-coded things specific to Godot in it and it suffers from it. The built-in code editor has a very confusing layout and its built-in code editing functions will never be as powerful as providing a language server to a dedicated IDE.
Always the straight man, I asked, what’s your job? It sounds unreasonably interesting to me.
bg3 runs very well on Linux for me through proton, fwiw. Definitely a great feature though, especially if you can't be bothered to dual boot.
There is an easy solution, you already can't patent cooking recipes. So why allow chemical recipes? To those that say that would stifle innovation, well historic evidence is inconclusive at best, e.g. the development of the pharmaceutical industries in the US, Germany and Switzerland saw thr biggest industry develop in Switzerland who did not have any patent protection followed by Germany, where only processes not chemicals could be patented. The US pharmaceutical industry only become much bigger after they benefited from the harmonisation of patent systems to follow the strong protection in the US.
And then of course the rest of the nation and world.
I think part of the reason for relative quietness is: after 30 years of privatisation drives, what is left of the Post Office is just another business with some extra regulatory burden. "Business Screwing Up" happens every day and is hardly news.

This said, thank goodness some free press still exists in the UK. Without Private Eye, these folks would never have seen even the little justice they received.
> You're not supposed to patent anything you haven't actually made

not true. That's Actual Reduction to Practice. There is also Constructive Reduction to Practice.

I wrote about this in depth, for software:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/no-source-code-no-patent

This is a good place to repeat, "let's just remove software from the patent system."

If you don't, then any changes you propose will being the Big Pharma lobby down on you. Once we get our own IP protection laws (or no IP laws), the pharma companies won't care about us anymore.
I can recommend reading about the reforestation laws in Germany.

Why? Germany was running out of forests to harvest around 1400, and the oldest law that is still in effect is from 1442 (Forstordnung of the Bistum Speyer) . All forests in Germany are artificially created, and there are a lot of things involved to make this happen.

We have rain plans that limit the amount of how much water farmers are allowed to use which are on higher altitudes on the mountains/plains. We have the Wasserwirt which is responsible to flood the farming plains regularly (completely under water), and redistribute their water "lakes" to other fields down to lower altitudes. We also have the Foerster whose job is to decide which trees to harvest, which ones need to be replaced, and what to do with the dead trees.

All of those variables are planned carefully and involve a lot of data, especially the water flooding and rain plan parts.

There are a lot of nice documentaries about this on arte and NDR in case anyone is interested about these kind of topics.

Also about corruption and the forest mafia in Romania, which is a huge discussion topic in Brussels for years, because Ikea and other furniture producers down the line keep buying illegally harvested wood.
Ben Skeggs is a no brainer instant hire for AMD and Valve. Wonder what his plans are after Red H^^IBM.
And also visit the nice Kröller Muller museum near Apeldoorn while you're in our country. They also have some Van Gogh's. Helena Kröller Muller was one of the first to recognize this kind of art. And also the place is surrounded by a beautiful forest where bikes are freely available.
This is actually the popular opinion, world wide. It's what we've been doing for decades. And it's terrible.

The really unpopular opinion is "let's generate less trash and reuse everything we can, plus slap a recycling tax on everything".
> Most of the times, there are no dozen situations.

After 20 years of building all sorts of software, I know that this a fact, but the challenge is to make others aware of it.
If it can’t be put into words, how can you call it not good?

The fact that something isn’t imitated or featured in books has almost nothing to do with whether it is “good” or not, merely that it’s not in line with the wants and needs of builders and publishers.

I’m not a huge fan of Alexander and in fact I don’t actually know much of his work, but these aren’t very good criticisms.
https://www.cygwin.com/ is available since 1995
I am glad that someone is finally clearing this up.

The brain is in fact a plump shallot with a tiny noble heron inside.
> "It has been good for my work, but it also puts me in an unmanageable situation where I don't really know what to do."

Well I guess the artist can give the money back?
> Sure, the USSR did some objectionable things, but

> George Orwell’s infantile politics are most evident in his magnum opus, 1984

> But there is a reason we remember Orwell. And it is not because of his literary prowess. It is because of the novel’s political utility to reactionary capitalist and imperialist governments

Orwell is not above criticism, but you'll have to do better than that.
What a terrible name! Into the trash.
Don't they also pay % on top of the franchise fee as well as are required to purchase all the food and werez from Macdonalds which I assume also got more expensive.
what words would you use to convey the same message, if you were
Cygwin was a great tool, and I've released some software which used cygwin, but almost all large programs ended up needing cygwin-specific patches (I maintained quite a few myself), while WSL2 (which is just a fancy VM), in my experience offers 100% linux compatibility, I've never had any issues with it except some VPN-related internet problems.
Unity has made it abundantly clear they haven't cared about the engine for a long time. They used to be working on a game to help identify areas where the engine could be improved and ended up firing the team who was working on that to "refocus priorities." There's also been the wave of lay offs for top talent and even more leaving voluntarily, of which Mike Acton of data-oriented fame was one of.
Nearly half of parking lots' space a dedicated to move in and out. That space isn't needed with street parking because the street itself accomplish this function.

Parking lots are mostly used only half of the day and empty otherwise, because typically people drive their car around in a few different parking lots. Streets are useful all day long.

I'm unconvinced removing street parking would allow for smaller streets because that space is also used for bus stops and snow management in winter. Chance are street parking don't take place in itself but merely maximize usage of space that would be used up by the streets anyway.

I don't think we need private parking buildings to park our private cars when not in use, ie, most of the time. We need fewer, always in use, public cars to drive on our already public roads.
Thanks for clarifying the dimensions.
It’s crazy that even back then , a man with his talent had productivity was largely ignored by society.

I lament the thousands of latent van goghs today that just didn’t get noticed in todays hyper competitive and hyper attention-focused society.
Maybe! But I wasn’t rich or important when I worked with Sam, and he had no reason to charm me. He barely knew me, and everything I saw about him was genuine and kind — not to me, but how he interacted with the world.

I’ve known many “important” or “rich” people over the years, and there’s always something in their eye that betrays what they want you to think of them. Sam is likely the only person of that sort I’d ever speak fondly of — he’s a genuinely good person who cares about humans more than the abstract concept of humanity.
iOS 17
> the regrown tree farms do not behave like forests. The dense growth crowds out the ground-level plants

Crowding out ground-level plants is the entire point of being a tree; it's pretty normal for forests to have clear ground.

Here's what a redwood forest looks like: https://www.westwindvistas.com/Redwood%20Forest%20Floor.htm
There is no reason to think it's a bad analogy, and in fact it seems obviously true. All you need to do is look through history to see that larger empires have more complex bureaucracies. In a village all you need is an elder, in a country even a dictator needs teams of accomplices to get anything done.

Really the thing his argument gets wrong is that he says Socialism where I think what he actually means is Anarchy.
Seems odd they don't use the same incoming ship to take cars back
I feel like it often goes in the other extreme: "if a 2 years old cannot use it, it's too hard".

I am fine with requiring that professionals know their tools, even if I'm well aware that this is not the norm.
Do you consider bike centric cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam not free?

The concept of "cars == freedom" is completely absurd to me. The mode of transport that has a unique identifier printed on it, that you need a licence to drive that can be revoked, that you have to pay the government to use, is considered the beacon of free and open transport.

In fact, many car centric city designs force you to own a car which seems like the opposite of freedom.
What are you trying to prove?

ChatGPT: "The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020."
Really wishing benchmarks for AI included evaluating how well they come up with plans for peaceful anticapitalist revolution. This is not a joke.
NixVim – A Neovim configuration system for Nix
Its both, WSL1 and 2 are both part of WSL.

Think of this as, kinda, the userland tools for WSL.
But how is advocating having a supermarket within walk-able distance from your home the same thing as making it hard to travel untracked?
> I've heard that the best ecological and economic outcome is to manage an old growth forest and log it selectively using patterns that mimic tree loss from non-human activity

I don't see how this is supposed to be accomplished. For that concept to make any sense, you'd need to prevent the tree loss from non-human activity, which is all but impossible to do.

If you can't do that, then the existing pattern of loss already looks like "loss from non-human activity", and any logging you do will look like "a lot more loss than typical of non-human activity".
Yes, although that person probably retired long ago since the idea dates back to 1990 or so (NT Posix subsystem). The difference in modern times is someone convinced them to make it usable.
What x86-64 hardware provides software support from the manufacturer for 15+ years?
I don't think that's a sensible line to draw really. Permanent employees get to vote, that seems obviously more a cooperative than a classic organisation, where votes are based on the quantity of shares bought.
Not sure I understand what you mean here. How do I ship the API of my library without shipping the library?
We can also break it down even more, managers are only allowed to pick one of the mutually exclusive options:

- Well documented, well maintained code that everybody could work on

- Quickly finished projects that nobody ever touches again, but only the programmer(s) have a mental model of it

The first option is more expensive at first, but way less expensive if you happen to have to rewrite it from scratch at some point (and if you are not maintaining and document it, that moment will come and it might not come at a point in time that fits the schedule).

The second option is less expensive first, but it will bite you in the arse if the programmer(s) are gone or forgot how it is done.

Everywhere else managers try to minimize risks, here they often just don't aeem to get the trade-offs involved.
> Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
While it doesn't refute your point, the Frequently Asked Question section does give an explanation for the consonant soup: it's Welsh.

> How do you pronounce "mwmbl"?
Like "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh. But the intended meaning is "to mumble", as in "don't search, just mwmbl!"
You can dump caches in current wsl2, you just have to dump a value into a /proc file to trigger it
It doesn't change the message of his work, does it?
It’s strange how bikes haven’t caught on. Similar to Malta, which is tiny and heavily urbanized, but has a massive car problem. 30 km is what some people commute on bike daily.
The Pharma lobby is one of the most powerful in DC. Zero chance of that ever happening.

So let's remove software from the list of patentable subject matter. Then Pharma won't care about us anymore. One thing at a time.
Right, so it feels like Go hasn't solved this problem. It just completely ignores it.
On your reading maybe. If Orwell wanted to set 1984 in Stalin’s Russia then he would have done
Markets, Commodities, and the Supply Chain
As per the tech vloggers, the camera setup in iPhone 15 is more powerful then before.
I think the whole thing falls apart when you get to the point of a CEO making so much money, regardless of their performance, that they can just retire after a single year.

So what if I don't get my contract renewed if I have $50 Million, that's more than most people make in their entire lives. See you at the beach!
And to think that the neo-malthusian discourse was derided just a few years ago. I'd say that in the last two years or so it has established itself as fact, even though nobody calls it out loud by name (probably because of past negative associations).
> I hadn't realised just how small Tonga's land area is. Imagine a square 30km x 30km. It's smaller than that (747 square km).

And that’s for the entire archipelago, the biggest island, Tongatapu, is 260 sq km with a density of 274.
I agree. There are a lot more victims of the Post offices crimes who paid the difference or were fired from their jobs that are not being compensated, the true scale of the problem is much larger than just those convicted.

What astonishes me about this response is that we have clear criminal action by executives in the Post Office, they knew the system was faulty and they still went ahead with the legal cases. These executives have crimes they need to be tried for in court. This is a criminal matter against the staff of the Post office and its just not being dealt with correctly at all. The Post Office should be paying a lot of people accused compensation.
I actually think it works even better like this, as a description of modern society.

The rule is that Capital hands you a salary and you do the work; if you try to "take the money and run", the State will order you to refund Capital, acting as its enforcer. No matter what, in the open you can't beat them: capital will always profit and end up on top.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. This isn't a release but a "re-release" right? So only available to those on Windows insider update train?

Putting that aside. I am quite excited about the mirror network change. My big annoyance when I moved from WSL1 to WSL2 was that a service run inside WSL wasn't available to the my LAN. It made sense why it didn't, WSL2 is a hardware VM so you weren't binding on the hosts networking stack like WSL1, but it was still annoying.