skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term 'workload' is itself slightly loaded as it implies something constant like a server maintaining performance over a given period. I did mention my use-case is developing software, so I'm not exactly pushing this to its limits, however programs seem to work a lot faster which I know sounds anecdotal. I found a benchmark which did influence the switch back to Win10.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=icelake-...

>if simply counting the number of first-place finishes, Windows 10 performed the best with coming in front 50% of the time to Clear Linux at 36% and Ubuntu 19.10 at 13%.
non public can be non military as well.For example, DEA in cooperation with local law enforcement per scanning for illegal drug farming.
Conversely, Ford was its own colonial power, much like the United Fruit Company or Shell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

Fordlândia had its own version of Prohibition, and its own little revolt about the cafeteria.
TBTK v2.0 – Second Quantization for C++
> Deep learning systems require too much data (and often not raw data), crazy amounts of compute, and still fail under comically irrelevant tweaks of the problem (eg: adversarial noise).

Many of these criticisms generalize to 'first make it work, then make it better, then make it fast'.

Being able to solve some of these problems at all is the kicker, whether or not it is efficient is at the moment not nearly as important as being able to solve them in principle.

I suspect that in the very near future we will see something that extracts the actual insights required from a DL model that makes it work which then can be used to power an analytical solution that performs a lot faster than the model itself, and hopefully with more resistance against noise.

I've already seen several glimpses of this and I'm hoping for some kind of breakthrough where DL is used to continue where feature engineering left off.
Pedantic note: Jails are not a BSD concept, they're a FreeBSD concept. OpenBSD has no notion of jails.
Pathological social withdrawal: proposed diagnostic criteria for hikikomori
The reason I don't believe it's a balance is simply that I haven't seen a downside. The world has drifted towards microlibraries largely because of real advantages, brought on by automated package management making them practical. People here seem to be grasping at straws to find a justification for disliking that change.
We've had image support in terms possible for years. I don't think that's what's needed to make a nice command line math program.

Instead, we need term programs that can handle type ligatures better. Being able to use something like FF Chartwell in a terminal would be amazing .. and would lead the way to having properly formatted mathematical notation in the terminal, without requiring a new standard to implement. Ligatures are already a thing - they just need to be better supported by the term apps.
A look at modern web browser (CPU, GPU, Memory, multi-process architecture)
Quite a lot of Apple's success is in the supply chain. They're very keen on the secrecy but I'm unconvinced that they actually need it; it's as much about avoiding the "Osborne effect" as dealing with competition.
Extensive fires in southeastern Siberian permafrost linked to preceding AO [pdf]
Not sure which of those specifically you're referring but from a benchmark done in Jan 2019, Clear Linux has a decent lead over *BSD
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dfly-fre...
> because the strategy is the modelling of the data, not of the world.

But that is how all learning works. Even the most advanced physics models are verified using experimental data. If data is found that contradicts the model the model is deemed faulty and will be adjusted to match the insights gained from the new data. DL just automates that approach aiming for the minimum gap between 'theory' and 'data' where the theory is expressed as a number of weights, thus encoding 'insight' in a - for now - non-reversible way. Just like wetware typically has not clue how it arrived at a certain conclusion, we use the words intuition and synonyms when actually we mean 'guess based on past experience'.
Good question, but I don’t think anyone knows since Google likely suspends the account without giving a reason.

Since there is no recourse, it’s also hard to get clarification.
The interesting question here is: Isn't what Steve Jobs was doing and Elon Musk is doing, very similar to what set designers do in film? Their designs are certainly meant to tell a story, to get the fantasy of the "audience" going.

And just judging the sales it kinda works for Apple. Elon Musk is certainly in the trade of selling stories as well, and he is quite good at it which explains his sucess.

As somebody who moves between engineering and design a lot I like to stress this: cosmetics and storytelling by design are not without their function. I also hate it when the cosmetics become everything and the function nothing, but many engineers don't realize that the cosmetics alone can change the perception of things so much, that they impact both function and the real world usage.

A curious example is the Mexican neighbourhood of Las Palmitas¹ – a hillside part of town with drug problems. Instead of investing into drug prevention the government just painted the houses with colors. This apparently changed more in the communities conduct than any invisible but functional thing could have ever done.

The fictional part of design (so once you see a thing, what does it invoke in you), is something that often gets completely ignored by engineers, just like the functional aspect sometimes gets ignored by designers (although I'd call them bad designers then).

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¹ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/mexico-pachuca...
This doesn't make sense to me. There's lots of open source software that's widely used, but most of it is not the "most optimized, most efficient, most advanced".

I think you are looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses. The software I remember from 20 years ago was generally slow, clunky, unstable, and often didn't work very well.
I’m not convinced CL is more useful for real world usage. People sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that more features are always better. With programming languages, that’s rarely true, because even features you don’t use cost you something — in terms of training new programmers, and every time your dealing with other people’s code. (And note here that in real-world projects, most of the code you have to modify and debug isn’t yours!)

Of course it’s possible to go too far the other way, and R5RS leaves too many questions unanswered. But in my opinion, simplicity is also an important feature, not just academically, but in practice.
This is why I'm weary of buying IoT devices that rely on a company's cloud for core functionality. Not that losing value even by losing the extras is something to scoff at but at least you keep the core.
hn also struggles with this.

a few days ago: an open source implementation of k (!) was mainly discussed in terms of coding style and “readability”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009241
Yes. There's no point abstracting over a vendor API if you're not actually using an alternative implementation (even for testing). Otherwise, keep your code simple, and pull out an abstraction if and when you actually have a use case for doing so.
FBI asks Apple to help it unlock iPhones of naval base shooter
Main reason is don't seriously use Google or any social network anymore is because of privacy. They never respect my privacy. OK, i still use their services, but just for non-serious work.
How is shooting one down going to tell you any of that?
Take the mafia, its the ideal example to organise towards- it thrives and works in open spaces like restaurants, construction buisnesses, it exists in plain sight. Yet, the omerta enforces a absolut silence to the outside world.
The ideal buisness organization is the mafia.
Yes. But if we can extract versions of libraries used to build packages then it would be easy to audit the system by cross-checking against CVEs. Those who prioritize security would remove the affected package(s) until a new version is available.

My point here is to be able to install a new package when it's out, without disrupting the whole environment. For FreeBSD, for example, the new Firefox is already available. I have installed it, and it wouldn't run. I had to auto-update 300 MB of other stuff, including LibreOffice, PyCharm and even TeXLive, to get the system up to date for the new Firefox to be able to run.
To me, my optimised compilation of liquorix on f2fs beats windows on my laptop outright. I lose bandwidth but gain lower latency. Even moving around windows explorer and searching by name is embarrassingly sluggish on my windows 10 install. Can't afford ms telemetry service and windows "defender" taking up half my resources whenever they please, either.
Bayesian methods work reasonably well as long as the parameter space is relatively limited and you have enough data to extract some advantage but not enough to power a deep learning model. You also usually do not rely on Bayesian methods exclusively to solve some problem but use it in conjunction with other methods (sanity checks) to ensure you aren't outputting nonsense.
It would be funny if Buttigeig won and some news websites doesn't mention the president for 4 years...
Great idea - I think an incentive aligned dating app would be pretty neat. It's obvious the current model is broken, the main companies are incentivized to keep you swiping and searching, not actually match with someone. OkCupid which was good is becoming much more Tinder like. I don't know a great payout mechanism, the ideal would be that after ~3 months of dating someone you say to the app that you found the one and pay $X; but it seems like a bad business model to rely on user self reporting
The official Blake3 site / repo actually covers this itself:

> NOTE: BLAKE3 is not a password hashing algorithm, because it's designed to be fast, whereas password hashing should not be fast. If you hash passwords to store the hashes or if you derive keys from passwords, we recommend Argon2.
It's sad really that Johnny Ive's legacy at Apple ends up with that and the stupidly thin keyboards that fail at their most basic task.

SJ was hard and had a lot of stupid ideas, but he also made sure to hire people that knew when to fight him on that. And I think keyboardgate would have been addressed earlier if he had been around.
'I've paid $250k for a ticket into space'
Averaging predictions can lead to improvements but this isn't necessarily so. It may also result in simply dragging down the accuracy in the direction of the lesser method if it is consistently less good than the others in the batch. Averaging works well when multiple methods tend towards different outliers, that way you end up cancelling some of that out.
If we're honest: Arch is annoying, but the reason people (including me) run it is because they don't want their OS to explode in a shitstorm every time a 'major upgrade' cycle happens. (Looking at you, Ubuntu.)

So, your comment is 180 degrees off the mark. Arch exists for people who don't want breakages to happen.

(On the other hand, if you're conditioned by Windows to reinstall the system every year, then Ubuntu might work fine for you.)
Also PBKDF2 is really easy to implement if you have a cryptographic hash (even more so with a ready-made HMAC), which is useful if you can't or don't want to pull in dependencies.
> Isn't book club an American thing though ? Never heard of one in Europe.

Not really. They're quite popular in the UK; my village has one that meets once a fortnight or so.
As it’s Branson I take it with a pinch of salt, and it’s onpy suborbital, but given the typical salary of a graduate developer in SF, let alone seniors, has anyone here bought a ticket?
Ring says it protects your home, but users say it exposed them to cyberattacks
What point is there to ask for something that you know does not exist?
Deep Interactions Between Knowledge Representation, Reasoning & Machine Learning
Exactly. Part of this problem is visible right now with PayPal, one of greatest FinTech projects. AML lockdowns but also disputes. Lately i have read people sell for twice the price just because one of two transations aproximately is a fraud.
Someone once taught me a phrase I often use "Lowest common denominator coding." What it means is that you should code to the most common abilities held by the group of coders you are working with.

In practice what that means is when you are writing a piece of code you should do so in a way that the new hire fresh out of university with less that a years real world experience should be able grasp what you are doing fairly quickly.

Abstractions, using the latest and greatest additions to the language you are using and obsessing over reducing the code line count can help the code run faster, but it also increases the learning curve for people looking at the code for the first time.
> I think you've failed to read the other answers I and others have provided.

I read them and it was based on those comments, and also the half a dozen previous discussions on Pijul here at HN, that I formed my opinion.
I'm Watching Avengers: Endgame (2019) on Flixtor.to
> Of course a rolling release system is going to have more breakages.

Well, no. The point of a rolling release system is that you upgrade by little increments, so you never have a moment when a 'major upgrade' happens and breaks your system or forces a reinstall.
I feel one step short of donning a tinfoil hat, but maybe the drones are used for monitoring someone/something in the area where they are being observed?
Yes I totally agree and this reminds me of an article [1] I had read about unequal life expectancy based on race in the USA. Racial groups that are less advantaged economically have a much lower life expectancy

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/the-racial-life-expectancy-gap-in...
Your reply sorta proves his point

Americans are so obsessed with milk that the mere thought of not drinking it is seen as abnormal and weird

That’s a pretty juvenile point of view, milk isn’t even particularly good for you
Child lock isn’t electronic, it’s a mechanica switch you can only access when the door is open that prevents you from opening the door from the inside of the car. Locking the doors does nothing, if the door is going to open it’ll automatically unlock if you pull the handle from the inside.
U of Sydney researchers find evidence of how hydrogen causes steel embrittlement
It does look nice, but it seems to be missing complex numbers.
The global economy is closed yet it can grow due to technical progress. (Better ways to organize trade, production, life, etc. More specialization more efficiency for the whole system, comparative advantages coupled with trade compound for every trading partner.)

Central banks manage the money supply simply by keeping track of this growth process. (Via closely watching prices, trying to stabilize them, and trying to keep unemployment low at the same time.)

No need to sell off "assets". Changing ownership of capital doesn't matter for economics (naturally public choice economics and developmental economics deals with politics, monopolies and other pathological market states, which cab arise from too much power/capital consolidation.)
Probably you’re thinking of https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
> You didn't need to make such a condescending comment.

I didn't find anything in their comment condescending, it seemed quite helpful.
One interesting heuristic is h(x) = 0, which is also [admissible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admissible_heuristic) and transforms your A* into an uninformed heuristic as far as I remember.
TBF that's super easy to work around: just prehash the key.

In fact, an other risk of bcrypt is that any nul byte will truncate the key, so you probably want to hash the password with something else (SHA384 or SHA512/256 for instance) then base64/base85-encode it before passing it to bcrypt.
You probably mean SIXEL? That is very limited, has drawbacks, and is not supported by many terminals (not exactly sure why, maybe too complicated, or too ugly). It's also discussed exactly in that thread. Developers from tmux, iTerm, mintty, xterm.js, Kitty, and others are in there.
We’ve Never Seen Conditions as Bad as This
> The BSDs qualify as "Tier 3" in Mozilla's build terminology, which means that the onus is on external contributors to identify problems and propose fixes, as there is no continuous integration support for these architectures.

In other words, Firefox doesn't maintain the port for OpenBSD, OpenBSD developers do.
AppImage[1] kind of works that way. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more, tbh. I don't think it supports multiple architectures like app bundles can (fat bundles) though.

[1]: https://appimage.org
New K-beauty brands of 2019 that are worth checking out
A relevant quora answer: https://www.quora.com/Art-teachers-often-say-draw-what-you-s...
No we’re not – no we don't.
The correct term is KDF, PBKDF is a specific KDF algorithm.
There is nothing coherent about the article.

Ok, lets make an almond tree that doesn't need bee's.

Now we'll have less bee keepers, since they will lose the work they are doing, and less bees.

Tomorrows article will be about bee collapses and how that matters.

Nothing in the article points to the almond process that's killing bees. It implies other activities in California are responsible perhaps we need to look there.

If they are trying to make a claim a bees life matters, then why does it matter over a grasshopper that's also killed by the pesticides?
> Another way to think about this topic is that China's CEO is Xi Jingpin.

He's more like the chairman. He sets the direction that he wants china to go in, others execute his plan.

> There are a few distinctions between calling China a company and calling Apple a nation:

Nobody is calling china a company and apple a nation. People are talking about money and influence. Apple certainly doesn't have the money and influence of China or the US. But it has more influence than most smaller or even midsized nations.

- A nation has a treasury, has control over interest rates and can prosecute violators,

Banking cartels/central banks like the Fed control interest rates. The treasury mints money and collects taxes.

> - A nation has hard physical military and ability to go to war, a company has office security and HR

So has companies. Companies have even fought wars against each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnatic_Wars

> - A nation can prosecute criminals, a company can layoff people.

Governments prosecute criminals. Companies have been able to try, punish and enslave people.
yes, fire them.
> You can build the same feature on top of pretty much any reasonable DVCS, certainly on top of git.

Absolutely, the only difference is the time you'll waste managing your branches (creating, rebasing and merging them).
Ubuntu has _more_ magic that breaks a lot more frequently in less expected ways than Debian.
> 1. After a while, the "if err != nil {" becomes a single statement in your mind, and you only notice it if it's different (like trapping things that should error with "if err == nil {"). In other words, it only feels verbose if you're not used to it.

The whole point of programming is to abstract away repetitive work. Yes, a human will spot that the pattern is the same, but this is both fallible and a waste of human effort. And even if you can see the difference, those extra characters are still filling up your lines and making it hard to keep functions on a single screen where you can comprehend them more easily.

> 2. The point of Go's error handling is that it isn't magic. There's nothing special about error values, and they are handled exactly the same way as every other variable in the system. The only thing the language defines about errors is that they have a method called Error that returns a string. That's it. This means that you can create complex error handlers if you need it, entirely within the standard language. This is extremely powerful.

There's nothing magic about something like https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/ either. Just plain old functions and values written in the language (that talk literally gives the definitions of all the types and functions it uses, written in plain old F# code). You need functions as values, but everyone agrees that's a good idea anyway, and you need proper sum types, but you need those anyway if you're ever going to be able to model a domain properly.
Looks really nice! Looking forward to playing with it a bit.

Shameless plug: I built something similar as a part of my workflow platform for JVM (for Java and Clojure):

https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa

The main focus of my tool is enterprise integration and data processing, but I still love to play and experiment with the ideas of developing code directly in browser and how to visualize its execution flow.
So I built a live coding / visualization also as a part of my tool.
This becomes non-trivial if you apply it to languages other then js (so browser integration becomes a bit harder).

I also think the main challenge here is the server-side part of things, especially when you make such solution distributed - i.e. how you achieve high availability and assure everything gets executed (at least) once even in case of failover, how you cater for multitenancy while achieving sufficient security/isolation between users etc.
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Three comparison/branch pairs are not free.

Clang will optimize

bool swap_if(bool c,
int& a, int& b) {
int ta = a, tb = b;
a = (-c & tb)|((c-1) & ta);
b = (-c & ta)|((c-1) & tb);
return c;
}

into cmov instructions. Used in a quicksort partition loop as

l += swap_if(
*r <= pv, *l, *r);

It makes quicksort fully 2x as fast as the usual branch.
“In Theory; Current practice has all but forgotten this. That is why many Physicians themselves are looking at Yoga, Meditation, TCM, Ayurveda etc. to supplement their treatment.”

Eh, no. If many Physicians are looking at TCM, Ayurveda, etc†, it’s because there’s piles of Money and Ego in it. Shock: some <koff> physicians really do miss the Good Old Days of “Doctor-as-God” Paternalistic Medicine, and are only too delighted to bring it all back for their neurotic wealthy patients who miss it too.

“The point is not to throw away centuries of empirical evidence on what has worked regardless of theoretical models used to explain them.’

Centuries of “empirical evidence”?

Get. Tae. Fuck. And take your Appeals to Antiquity and Special Pleading bollocks, and stick them up your ass with all the other balls that Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex Jones and the CPC are flogging this week too.

Because I wasn’t born yesterday.

Unlike you.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=bait+and+switch&category...

https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsinmo00chrigoog

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

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†I exclude Yoga and Meditation here because (ignoring any woo-woo gateway bullshit) those are essentially Exercise and Relaxation, which along with Diet are standard mainstream medical advice. Only real difference being that Medicine says “Eat right and exercise, or you will Dieeeee!‡”, whereas AltMed says “Eat right and exercise and stick our super-magical expensive coffee up your ass, and you will have an orgasm in your pants!”

‡Okay, it doesn’t really say “Die”, but that’s what neurotic high-maintenance muppets hear anyway; which is what makes them such suckers for the AltMed con. And I really wouldn’t care about that because that’s their funeral, except that they make others dead too.