skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert on DragonFly, but from what I know it's design differences aren't really that radical. It differs substantially from FreeBSD, but it's not like a fundamental re-imagining optimized for SMP. Performance is a bit better in some places, and about the same in others.

I do think DragonFly is neat and quite interesting, but I suspect it didn't gain as much momentum because the community behind BSD is already small and reluctant to fracture without stronger reasons. It's worth noting that this is not like spinning off a new Linux distro where you're ultimately just repackaging different variations of the same basic OS - DragonFly is effectively an entirely different OS since the kernel is significantly different.

Slightly out of date, but still relevant benchmarks: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd1...
Do we know who this guy from MS is?
Phoronix has done some benchmarks vs Linux https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dragonfl...
You seem to be responding to something I didn't say.

I only said that demand for any preventive measures against X, can be artificially inflated by injecting fear of X into the populace.

Since vaccines are a preventive measure, this is applicable to vaccines as well.
My son's school has a Rubbermaid tub of iPads that they wheel from classroom to classroom on a cart as needed.

He was talking today about playing games on the PCs in the computer lab, and my wife asked about the iPads, and you know what he said? "Those are for doing work."
You're echoing Steve's explanation exactly:

> the dream of making real money, enough to buy our freedom from the rat race and live life on our own terms

Quoting Steve quoting the paper's conclusion:

> The authors’ conclusion — Entrepreneurs think they are better than their resumes show and realize they can make more money by going it alone. And in most cases, they are right.
> stuff they randomly throw at you without any explanation

That's kind of their approach. I agree that in case of Japanese they could do better. E.g. if they explained what is explained here: https://8020japanese.com/japanese-sentence-structure/ - and they have space for such texts, but they are not using it for Japanese - it would save me some frustration and trying to figure out what these weird things are doing inside the phrases. Once you get the principle, it kinda clicks in place. So with the help of some other sources, so far it's not too bad for me with Duo and Japanese I feel. Though of course I don't think it's possible to use it alone without some auxiliary materials.
Especially with an education system that's effective on only 2 out of 12 different brain arrangements [see Timothy Leary's "your brain is god"], it's hard to say that school marks are any predictor of how beneficial one will be to Humanity or the Planet.
This has nothing to do with setting public perception of leakers. It's about researching what motivates them so they can both exploit people like this in other organizations and help protect against it in internal organizations.
How to Be a Systems Thinker
> if the crime is minor or irrelevant, the record won't hurt the person, otherwise it's a proof that it's not as irrelevant as you think

Let me tell you a little thing called marijuana possession charges and how they make students ineligible for student aid and government loans/grants. Even getting charged with possession of a single joint is enough to bar a student from receiving aid or loans. Such charges or convictions are the reason employers turn people away all of the time.
AI is an excuse for Facebook to keep messing up
I hope that this post gains traction!
> Or do Apple seriously believe the iPad as it is has a business chance in the cash-strapped education market?

It does. It just has to sell on hype instead of any actual utility. It's a very common sales strategy.
Honda is a car for everyone. Macintosh was a computer for the rest of us (everyone). The first Mac was short on memory (128K) for the type of apps it was meant to run. Hence the "not enough gas."
Detect Kernel-Mode Rootkits via Real Time Logging and Controlling Memory Access [pdf]
By no means a new idea:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/how-star-trek-artist...
Arbing the great bull run of 2017
Who really won though? Does anyone buy tablets anymore? I feel like I haven't seen one since 2015.
Riveting. Thank you for the relevant detail!
I don't blame them for that. It seems to me (a very early beginner in learning Japanese) that a lot of languages have a formal way of expressing things, and informal shortcuts which native speakers use almost always in real life. But when you're just learning, you need to learn what "wa" does and what "watashi" means, and thus having "watashi wa" may help.

It's like in martial arts you learn kata first, though if you get to apply it later you don't do the same kata, you do something else - but to do it, you have to learn to do kata first.
Have you looked around? :)
Geometry distinguishes between equivalence and value. An "angle" isn't its degrees, but the geometric figure (two rays or segments meeting at an end-point of each). It's the measure of the angle that is the degrees.

You don't say "angles are equal" - you say they are congruent. It's their measures that are "equal".

Although congruency implies measure equality, it doesn't really mean that, but that the shapes are the same (can be rotated/translated to coincide).
Imagine seeing an article titled "How furniture manufacturers own your day". It has graphs on how long on average you spend sitting on chairs from each company. How many companies make desks you use at work as well as beds you sleep on at night. How these companies make their products work better together so you have a chance of buying more, and then sell accessories on top of it. They even fight for your lunch and dinner time, providing dining tables and chairs and sometimes even utensils.

Probably sounds absurd, but that's essentially what this article is. Tech is as ubiquitous as furniture, perhaps even more for certain demographics, but for some reason there is a new article every day which sounds like the author looked around and was suddenly surprised to see everyone with smartphones and internet.
While the likelihood of a collision (whether "accidental" or malicious) is probably still relatively low even with MD5, what reasonable, compelling reason is there to still be using MD5 -- especially when much stronger hash algorithms such as SHA256 and SHA512 are available?

Generate both SHA256 and SHA512 hashes or maybe SHA512 and some other "unrelated" algorithm (if you want to really play it safe), dump them into a checksums.txt (or whatever) file, then PGP/GPG sign that file (with a widely distributed and certified/signed public key, of course) and you can effectively eliminate any chances of a collision whatsoever.

It seems that the benefits of switching would greatly outweigh the costs associated with doing so (unless this would require some major code changes to your processes/pipelines/etc.).
How Frances Frei tried to rebuild Uber’s culture
Unrealized capital gains were not taxed in that era, and are not taxed now.

(In the US; Europe has many places with wealth taxes.)
A Step by Step Backpropagation Example
MemoryMonRWE – Detect Execution of Kernel Memory via EPT (Extended Page Table)
I can’t imagine writing something much more substantial than a couple of paragraphs. Typing is fine, but editing is so slow without a mouse.
Agreed. 'Software engineers' are not actual engineers for the same reason that bridges and buildings don't come with an end-user license agreement that disclaims liability for a faulty product.

"BY SETTING FOOT ON THE BRIDGE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE BRIDGE IS PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' BASIS AND THAT YOUR USE AND RELIANCE ON THE BRIDGE THEREBY IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND DISCRETION. COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, PARTNERS AND SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND GUARANTIES REGARDING THE BRIDGE WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. FURTHERMORE, COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, PARTNERS AND SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (I) THE BRIDGE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) THE BRIDGE WILL BE STRUCTURALLY SOUND, RELIABLE, SECURE AND ERROR-FREE; (III) THE QUALITY OF THE BRIDGE WILL BE AS REPRESENTED OR MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; OR (IV) ANY FAULTS IN THE BRIDGE WILL BE CORRECTED."
totally missing the point here. this is like arguing Mexican street taco stands aren't vegan enough
Songs aren't ads (except the songs that are ads, of course), they are the final product, and I just got it for free. If I record the radio, I've gotten what I wanted (if the DJ doesn't talk over it at some point). That's why there's so much effort put into trying to stop "pirating" (DJs talking over songs is one of those measures).

Movie trailers are certainly ads but, lately, I avoid trailers for movies I know I want to see even harder than regular ads (fingers in ears "LA LA LA" type stuff) because I know they're going to spoil everything. I can't believe how many times all the twists and final scenes are shown in trailers. The Ready Player One trailer even spoiled the book for me because SPOILER I hadn't learned about Aech's real identity yet, just seeing the cast was enough to accidentally deduce it (and not just 1, but 2, "surprising" aspects of the character).

Superbowl ads did tend to be good before they became a "cultural product". Now they're all just Idiocracy level shit.

Bit of a tangent on the "song is an ad" thing: Now that our personal information is the final product, like a song is, and enough people are finally starting to realize that can lead to trouble (yet still don't want to pay for anything with money) they want exactly what media companies have been seeking for decades, DMCA and DRM for their personal information. As we all know, DMCA and DRM suck for everyone involved. They don't stop copying and inconvenience both creators and "legitimate" users far more than "pirates". The reality is simple, if you don't want your information "product" to be consumed, just refuse to give it to anyone.

Edit: "Consumed" is the wrong word, information isn't a consumable product in that it's not gone afterwards. What's the right word? Whatever it is, that's what we should be using to talk about the act of receiving information.

Edit again: "Received" is better. duh.
Don’t blame Cambridge for Facebook’s privacy crisis
The time tech entrepreneurs spend on building software that may or may not become a viable product is worth a fuckton of money.
The problem with this is they ask you up front on your application for most jobs whether you have been convicted of a crime. If the answer is yes, generally your application is thrown in the trash. If you lie and they catch you, they have grounds to reject you.
Only if you take x=(0,1,0,...) and adopt the convention that any member q of the base field Q is assumed to represent qx^0 = (q,0,0,...).
That is to say, x+3 only meets the definition of a polynomial because you insist on interpenetrating it as such.

That’s what we mathematicians do. In the context of the original post it is absolutely clear that x+3 is a polynomial. There is no other reasonable interpretation.

When you write things like:

Notably, x+3 is not a polynomial in the technical sense. If we wanted to consider x+3 a polynomial, we would be asking for the t value such that (x+3)[t] = (-1)[t]. Where (-1) is also a polynomial, and (g)[t] is the map Q[x] X Q -> Q given by standard polynomial evaluation.

it gives the impression that you don’t know what a polynomial is. The second sentence I quoted is not true. (EDIT: see note below, my interpretation of what was written was wrong.)

Of course if you change context then different interpretations arise. Which of course is the whole point of my original post. Like all spoken languages mathematical language is nuanced. Things must be interpreted in context.

When presented with the equation x+3=-1 x+3 is a polynomial. -1 is a polynomial.

I gather you do not think x^2 - x + 1 = 0 is a polynomial equation. Is x^3+4x a polynomial? Is there any other reasonable interpretation using accepted mathematical conventions? Perhaps you don’t think 2/(x+3) is a member of R(x). What is it a member of then?

Edit:

x+3 is a polynomial that defines a natural map from R to R. To solve the equation x+3=-1 is asking for the pre-image of -1 of this map. This is what it means to solve this equation. It’s solution set is an algebraic variety. I see no other reasonable interpretation. The whole branch of algebraic geometry is about precisely this. Studying zero sets of polynomial equations.

That we teach people rules they can apply to find the answer does not detract that what is really going is as I’ve described and as you did describe with the second quoted text.
Twitch rewrote their entire video player in C++ and compiles it down to WebAssembly with Emscripten. That way the same player can be compiled to the web, as to iOS, Android, game consoles etc. That’s a huge business case when you want to create a module to support a wide variety of platforms and targets.
There's this other thing called the FWL theorem.

As long as the unexplained term is uncorrelated (in the probabilistic model; linear regression will force this to be the case computationally) with the included variables, your coefficients will remain unchanged. So adding/removing variables shouldn't change results at all -- unless the model is mis-specified and you're including variables that correlate with unobserved factors in unexpected ways.

So for example a regression of children's IQ on the income of their parents provides a plausible mechanism; but if you add the arm length of the kids you will have problems, since arm length is correlated to an omitted variable (kids with longer arms are older and perform better on IQ tests).

That's most of the "in context" story. Nothing to do with multicollinearity.
Implement First, Ask Questions Later (or Not at All)
Democracy is in danger because publishers, large and small, lack the discipline and expertise to produce objective, quality reporting, and give a voice to people with something interesting to say.

Nobody forced them to chase clickbait or spend their days sourcing stories from Twitter and Tumblr. That's all on them.

And before you think that's an exaggeration, I'm talking about one of my (European) country's major national papers whose daily front page now consists of breathless American political drama, hashtags and gender politics. It's ridiculous, the children are running the show, the writing is atrocious, and their world view is about as sophisticated as a first year pol-sci major who's never held a real job.

Get those people to shut up and we'll be far better off. I look forward to their tears. If their content was worth it, they wouldn't be struggling.
Important for many real use cases such as estimating demand from prices instrumental variable regression.
Lawmakers Want You to Be Able to Sue Robots
Doesn't that's really make AMDs target market much smaller though? Especially with the current gpu prices, it might make sense for 2700x but how about their 6 core versions? People targeting those won't necessarily want to spend $400+ on a gpu.
aside from my age (50s)

Bingo.

Employers, if you haven't widened your pool to consider people already beyond their 30s, you have no business complaining about a "talent shortage".

It cracks me up looking at companies' "About" pages to see them bragging about how "diverse" they are, juxtaposed with pics of assorted employee gatherings showing their workforce as uniformly white and Asian and age 22-35.
There are still some commits under review. I would wait until the tracking issue is closed.
I agree.

I've been using an iPad mini with Cellular as my phone-replacement mobile device since the day iPad mini came out. It fits in my pocket (not as comfortably as a phone, but well enough).

My only other device is a 15" MBP.

To be more accurate, the iPad mini is 7.9", not 7" though. And 4:3 aspect ratio. So in area, it's still much bigger than a 6.5" 16+:9 phone would be.
Facebook in 2020: ‘The AI Made Us Do It’
I think the interface can provide the semantics - pass by reference or value etc. Which can be standardized. Then it is upto the languages to implement the interface.

IMO the languages designers and developers are better off by looking at the GC solution from top-down rather than bottom-up.
They seem to yes.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/05/4q17-ipad-vs-other-tabl...
Don't think the MD5 is there for security reasons, just to detect broken downloads.
I completely agree with this. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering; however, I've chosen a career in technology. I've had titles like: systems engineer, devops engineer, build engineer, automation engineer. I've hated every one of those titles because I'm NOT an engineer. I explicitly chose not to follow the engineering path and instead start a career in technology. Funny thing is, any time I tell a coworker how I feel about being called an engineer, I just get a funny look.
Huh. I read on a tablet all of the time, I guess that makes me a prisoner of hype! Minority view, yes.
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Thanks - duplicate story I didn't realise I was in the other thread
OLINUXINO Is Open Source / Open Hardware, Low Cost Linux SBC
I would usually write you off as someone who self identifies as law enforcement with a throwaway account (ironic, since no upstanding citizens have anything to hide!), but a real question:

What departmental protections will exist for someone like yourself for using this without a properly authorized court order? Self restraint? Professional integrity?

If you cannot tell from the tone of people here, if I may be so bold and pretend to express a sentiment I find on behalf of others: I find the zeal for your industry to not properly control tools within legally mandated limits disgusting, specifically because I oft hear pleas for better and newer tools and never we will strive to double down on our civic duty and better exercise our control and use of dangerous tools.

To be fair, you learn from the best: anecdata from friends tells me the defense intel industry post Snowden scandals, with asshats misusing feverently denied tools for illegal citizen monitoring but you can blow that off too, was to increase background screening of employees, not fix and control monitoring system access. That would be ludicrous. So I am not surprised if they can't get it, neither can you.
iOS and Android turn tablets into oversized phones, so no surprise they lose against phones - they have the same (or usually worse, at a given price point) capabilities while being larger, thus less convenient to carry and more fragile.

These days I'm not using much Windows for desktop (HN took over the time I had for games), but I do sincerely hope this OS will live on for at least couple more years, because Microsoft is the only company that knows how to do tablets. Seriously. A proper operating system, with real capabilities and proper user interface that can make use of the tablet form, makes a world of a difference. And I say that as someone who owned a decent Android tablet in the past. As someone who's friends and family with people owning currently decent Android tablets. My little Windows 10 el-cheapo tablet/netbook I picked up second-hand for ~$130 is much more useful than the top-of-the-line Samsung tablet offering. Hell, it already earned me many times more than its own value back, as it's good enough to do some meaningful dev work on the bus/train.
Man, imagine what editing was like in the typewriter era! I assure you, I got good at not needing as much editing. Two drafts and done.
...isn't this more or less an HSM by another name?
if you have never read papers on cryptography you can't understand, there's typically 2 people, the intended users of the protocol, and Eve some attacker of the protocol, since these roles re-occur in different problems, the scientific community has settled on this lingo such that the reader can immediately understand which problem for whom we are trying to solve. I.e. a cryptographer reading about a new protocol would immediately understand the paper tries to solve Alice and Bob's problem...
Wow that look amazing, how can I subscribe react to the store? Will each component need something like mobx observer?
The thing is they weren't defending Backpage but Craigslist (among others) that shut down due to new legislation.

I don't think anyone was really defending Backpage (the site itself, rather than the broker function) in any real numbers.
Microsoft was designing a tool for work. Apple went with a toy for entertainment. In retrospect, it's no surprise the latter won out.
People are poking holes in your machismo bullshit claims about software development, and then you redefined your initial claim to simply be that great developers "do their job." It contains zero information.
Here is an interesting example:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/chinese-f...

A Chinese wind turbine manufacturer paid a programmer working at American Superconductor to send them the source code used to run the turbines. The company shortly afterwards cancelled their contract w/ AMSC.
As someone who has been there, I’ll tell you more: I got paid with investor money, like majority of other folks in tech startups.

It was maybe 1/3rd of what I’d get from an established company, but still enough to pay mortgage and provide for a family of 3.

Where do you think that seed capital goes? To pay the founders and whoever they manage to hire.
To what extent is what you are talking about a feature of American English in general, or a feature of Bay Area usage specifically? Is it universally true that in American English, if a person lives in X metro area but not in X proper, they would never say "I live in X"?
The phrasing is unfortunate. It's reasonable in that context, in that very high GPAs aren't that uncommon at her level. "All academic things." Naturally "all things" is much too broad.
Thanks, I took a look through that and most (all?) of the benchmarks seemed to be fairly traditional tasks, some not even highly threaded.

I guess I'm wondering if complex, multi-box, cloud-scale workloads have any advantage on Dragonfly - or if the optimizations for clustering are in such a narrow band of use cases that modern architectures have passed it by just through brute force.

There's an irony here, in that Matt Dillon was an ex-Amiga hacker (IIRC, some of Dragonfly's architectural choices were inspired by the Amiga). Anyway, the Amiga's linear memory, co-processor-driven architecture was ridiculously more elegant than the PC's segmented memory, CPU-bound approach. Didn't matter though, a huge investment in working around the PC's limitations led to its market dominance.

So, if massive technical accommodations for less efficient OS architectures end up marginalizing Dragonfly, it would be a bit of history repeating itself.

And I'm sure the irony wouldn't be lost on Mr. Dillon.
That's true. My friend bought "new" iPhone for half of price. It broke after few monthes of use. He know thinks that iPhone is just overpriced bad phone. Unfortunately it's a very big market here to sell phones which are built from old parts in China but very unreliable. People want iPhone but can't afford its price.