skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buried under a lot of faffing about over emoticons, a lucid criticism of the research field named AI:

>> He laments that AI as a field has largely moved away from its original goal. Since the mid 1980s, the information explosion combined with the exponential growth in computing power has generated huge commercial interest in developing specialized AI technologies. An influx of money shifted research focus away from creating a general intelligence to specific statistical learning that could be used by industry.
Condition: Person X has a need to run macOS for 3 hours for whatever reason. They have a lot of options, including the ones I listed.

Various options have different drawbacks, including EULA violations, but all represent viable alternatives for some (therefore competition) to Macstadium.
I know what it is; I installed it, used and administrated it.

Doesn't everybody already know that networking performance has greatly increased over the decades?
At some point, pkg is to take over the updates of base, kernel, etc.

That isn't to say that the current freebsd-update isn't any good, just that it needs someone knowing they are doing. And even experienced people do make mistakes. Case in point, you tried to upgrade, you were given a locally-modified file under /etc/ to merge with the new version, you made a small mistake, shouldn't result in losing the system.

If I'm not mistaken, when Debian is confronted with the same problem usually asks whether to keep the old file or replace with the new, which basically narrows the ability to merge the two together in many cases. FreeBSD actually is slightly smarter there, in the sense that it can even detect whether the comment header of the file is the only thing that changes and actually merge it on its own. But, if there are real differences (e.g. you modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config), it asks you to merge the incoming with the current version. In any case, I think FreeBSD is extremely stable when it comes to what goes into /etc and how stable the file formats of individual files there are, so I think it would be perfectly reasonable to just simplify the choices presented to the user.

In my previous job we actually had an exhaustive list of IGNOREd files for freebsd-update, just to make sure that nothing was to get clobbered by some major or even minor upgrade. And that freebsd-update would practically run to completion without any interaction of this sort.
I tried Mobian but eventually switched to https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch - the phone is much more usable for me including Firefox. I am waiting to receive my updated board and look forward to further improvements.
I actually enjoy my current work, but get distracted super easily, then I exhaust myself doing unproductive things, and cannot get back doing anything useful.

Waking up at 7am and riding the productivity train until I can actually helps with this.
It can be encoded in the type system as well. That's really what Java's checked exceptions are: one of the only places in Java where you can specify an alternative 'return' type. But it isn't quite complete enough to use in Java; little quirks here and there make it difficult to use widely, especially since Java 8 and lambdas arrived.

You can still use Java's type system to get something approximating Rust's approach. One upshot of Result-based error handling is that you can often replicate it in any language by shaving off one or two of the biggest benefits to suit that language's constraints.
This sounds like a classical slippery slope argument.

I think many people believe that if you create data it is your data. GDPR suggests that legally we lean towards this position as well.
Holding stocks is also a hedge on the USD, not unlike bitcoin.

Perhaps the market is expecting more money printing.
I hold a scientific article to a different standard than a comment on a web forum. It isn’t that much effort to run an article through a spell checker or have it corrected by a native speaker.
Wikimedia’s CDN up to 2018: Varnish and IPSec
Aw, it's 6" screen and 160.5mm tall ... so too big for one-handed operation. I hope they'll eventually make either a 4" 125mm size or a flip phone, because that would be exactly what I would want to use. It's for the same reason that I'm also holding on to my old iPhone SE because the new SE is too large.

Like this, it's sadly more like "Linux that almost would have fit into your pocket".
Such amount of plasma at 100M°K will destroy the whole building. Temperature of nuclear explosion is less than 1M°K.
> Why did setting up macOS take 3 days? I don't even think it would take 1 day if I set up a new machine from scratch.

I think it might depend on what "setting up" means. For example, "logging into my main day-to-day accounts" might take a couple of hours, max, allowing for even an annoying system-level issue.

But installing, configuring, and gaining access to all one's apps might add anywhere from another few hours to another few days, depending on the number of apps, the location of the files, the version delta between new and old systems, and so on. If you have to do some online research and you hit StackOverflow more than a couple of times as you search around, you may be looking at a serious time bump.

And if you have to contact the software vendor...well, yikes, in a lot of cases. Days, understandable. Weeks of suffering--possible.

This is not even getting into things like working with local network services and local network utilities, configuring old hardware on the new machine, or even changing or disabling new Mac OS or Mac features to suit one's working style.

> It took me two hours to set up Debian by hand yesterday.

Congrats, :) but this does complicate the question further because now it depends on what is involved in this "by hand" thing. It took me 20 minutes to set up Haiku OS by hand...10 minutes to set up Puppy Linux by hand...what does it mean? That I used my hands? That I plugged in a USB drive and hit "Next" a bunch of times? That I configured and compiled all sources from scratch?
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You seem to be ignoring that the US and Australia are trying similar things with encryption. China is already even worse. That would cover almost all the internet.
Ok maybe this is dumb question and is addressed somewhere: If a security problem is found, e.g. in muscl (the C lib), then is the user supposed to rebuild everything that statically linked it??
Does this seller have any reputation (i.e. has anyone bought a game shell)? Reminds me of the popcorn pocket [1], which seems to be stuck in manufacturing limbo ...

https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com/
If you've experienced computer use for any length of time, that is the root of everything.

like for instance:

> Every time Apple pushed an updated, my pf.conf and automount configs got broken on macOS. They either got deleted or they moved somewhere. Well, the last 2 times it just got deleted.

I mean, wtf? With open source, there is at least discussion and education about something like this.
Count me in on this. Colleges are a joke right now. I went back to school to fill in maths for grad school, and it's a shit-show right now.

You get better education on YouTube. what do we do now that the standard professor trying to teach remote is worse than youtube?

Paying thousands a semester only to end up using all free resources to actually learn.

One of these days we'll fire 90% of them, and then we can all learn from the top 10%.

Youtube, plus Kahn academy, plus openmit

/rant
The thing I still don't understand with Mac, even if you were to virtualize it, is that VNC is abysmal compared to RDP from Microsoft. How are people actually /using/ this hardware (short of command line x-code builds)?
I've moved to Ubuntu this week as my new dell xps arrived.

The last drop was macOS opening Apple Music every time I put my bluetooth phones in, with no way to disable it even when removing the system integrity thing.

Apart from re-learning some of the hotkeys, everything* just works. Font rendering is sharp, Gnome feels snappy enough for the kind of work I do. It feels good to be treated like an adult by my work-tool.

* had to install a driver to get the fingerprint scanner to work
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I think the point OP is making is that a sales person shouldn't justify or create the need- they should identify an existing one and solve it. Which is similar to what a CSR does.
> What exactly is involved with "Setting up macOS" to take you 3 days?

Different needs for different people?

I mean, every time I reinstall Windows it takes some days to me to setup it too (removing all crapware/ads, changing settings in places that doesn't make sense to me, install all my programs without a proper supported package manager [1], etc etc). In my NixOS setup it takes literally minutes if you exclude the download/build phase.

[1]: Yeah, I know about and use chocolatey. Still isn't the same, since for example most programs still use their own update mechanism, installation of packages fail constantly (specially more complicated packages like NVIDIA drivers) and there is some other headaches.
One aspect to consider is hardware. OpenBSD seems to have better hardware support for certain laptops, namely Thinkpads.
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Sorry but this is a ridiculously stupid reasoning. You're relying on coins being lost (unknown amount) to counteract rewards and closing there's no inflation due to that.

This also assumes that miners will be holding enough bitcoin that price increases alone will not only pay for their operations but also cover a reasonable interest in their holdings. It's not logical to think this will happen. And even of it does, you'll be left with only a handful of miners.
> I'm not upset.

"I'll just respond with most of your horseshit assertions with one statement:"

Seems like you were upset.

> Just correcting false facts propagated by ignorant folks. Such as yourself.

Seems like you are still upset which is shocking since I agree with you.

> India has been a democracy in spite of the monarchies the UK used to support in Indian territory, in spite of the regional and sectarian conflicts the British tried to impose on (and succeeded) India.

You are repeating yourself. I agreed.

> Have you ever considered the reason why India has been forced to languish in the background in world affairs, in spite of being on track to be the most populous country, to be because of American and British (and for a while European) interference?

Less american. More british, but yes. I agree with you. And the reason why britain succeeded is because the indian elites are sell-outs. That's my point. It's why india willingly rejoined the british empire.

> To correct your preconceived BS, the CoN is a meaningless patchwork of nations of the British empire for Britain.

It's not meaningless. It's symbolic. It reveals the mentality of the leaders of the colonies. If it is meaningless, why is india even in it? Isn't it humiliating?

> India is not a pathetic colony of Britain

Sure it is. Otherwise it wouldn't be in the british empire. It willingly joined. Do you think think would allow hong kong to join the commonwealth? Do you think the US would join the "commonwealth"?

> India has already overtaken Britain by the GDP numbers.

Considering india had 1.4 billion more people... And yet still britain is a permanent security council member and india is not.

> Yet you also willfully ignore places such as Puerto Rico or American Samoa or France's former African colonies, all of which have become worse shitholes than India.

Puerto rico and american samao are doing much better than india. Go look it up. And as for france's african colonies, I believe they should liberate themselves as well. What's your point? Puerto rico isn't a country of 1.4 billion people.

I'm not the one being closeminded. You are. It seems like something triggered you and you act like I'm insulting india. I'm not. I'm saying india should become an independent power jusst like china. Not a british slave colony. If china was still in the british empire, I'd say the same thing.

Imagine after ww2, china decided to rejoin the japanese empire. That would have been insane right? That's what india did. The only reason that happened was because the indian leadership/elite are sellouts. No other explanation for that. And it's also why india is so poorly developed. After ww2, india shouldn't have begged their way back to the british empire, they should have demanded a seat at the UN security council.

As it stands, india today can't demand a permanent seat at the UN security council since they are a colony of britain. Can't have britain and their colony both in the permanent security council...
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> Why is Windows a nightmare? I use Windows 10 on a PC I built and it's fine.

I paid $200 for a Windows 10 pro license because I needed to run a Windows application in a virtual machine. I was very unsatisfied with my purchase. I would describe Windows as “a nightmare”. Here are my top three complaints about Windows.

* There are advertisements built into the operating system.

* The operating system often restarts itself, without the users permission. It will restart itself even if a user launched application is running.

* There is still no central repository for useful applications. Managing and keeping all software updated takes a lot of manual work.
The author stated in the article he stayed away from Linux because most of them run systemd and since his servers run BSD he figured his desktop might as well too.
As the other reply noted, I'm just copying and pasting from the other sources. I'm not even sure what "FDI stoppage" is -- I've only just started looking at the issues here, and for what it's worth, I'd love to hear more about what FDI is, and why some people want it stopped, and why you feel that it is problematic.

I can search to get more information here, and I've been working my way through the list trying to figure out exactly what the context is for each demand, but having someone provide context inline here would make for a more interesting discussion.
Ask HN: How do you find and vet freelancers?
I'm a backend engineer and I don't have much experience with design (UI/UX), sales or marketing. I intend to hire freelancers to design and market a MVP. How do folks generally go about finding and vetting freelancers? My expertise is limited and I'm not sure how to evaluate the freelancer's work. What are the things to look out for? What financial arrangement works best, hourly or per project?
I like that their pieces dig into the backgrounds of the researchers, which humanizes and popularizes the science itself. It has to get down from the ivory tower somehow, and storytelling is a great medium. Most Quanta articles are not "void of any science;" rather, I find them to be great lay explanations of high-level concepts that most scientists (including myself) would struggle to articulate to non-academic family and friends. If you want "just the science, ma'am," you can go read the papers themselves.

Also, not to nitpick, but I thought the crypto article was well-written and covered the subject properly. It seems you are the one misunderstanding the science if you believe that iO is just a form of FHE, which makes me doubt your whole enterprise of discrediting Quanta's work ;) Speaking as a (former) cryptographer here.
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I don't know if this is what you are thinking of, but there is this concept in embedded systems sometimes refereed to as library operating systems [1]. My understanding is that in this model the operating system is implemented as a library and you your system would consider of one application that uses the os library to do tasks usually handled by the operating system.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system#Library
I've had this for email but never for text messages. But the emails I've had this utility for were also business related stuff. But I do not think of mail/email as a means of chatting.
Hm I only looked at the output of size which gives

text data bss dec hex filename
1566 600 8 2174 87e hello

(no optimisations)
1 in 8 UK adults over the age of 55 to delay retirement
If you're willing to rely on undocumented behavior, you can always skip kernel32 and use ntdll.dll directly. Or you could go even further and direct invoke the right syscalls. But either way, you'd be relying on behavior that Microsoft can change without notice.
I said "where gross negligence and gross fraud are mostly avoided"

I know about Worldcom Enron AIG Lehman... Gross fraud and negligence still isn't condoned. Buying the index is still better than trying to guess which of the 500 aren't performing fraud. Laugh all you want; best of luck to you
This is kind of the idea behind unikernels. There are experimental Linux-based unikernels, but the more mature unikernels are custom.
These researchers really need to re-evaluate their assumptions:

>Figure 2: Illustration of Mining Gaps. Miners will
only mine when the instantaneous expected reward
exceeds the instantaneous cost

This makes no sense, rational actors generally consider discounted future cash flows, not just instantaneous reward. Perhaps the quality of the paper is explained by the researchers following this strategy and only working on 15th and 30th of every month (when their salaries are remitted to their bank account representing an instantaneous reward).
I think skuhn put this nicely up-thread. There were both successes and misses, and investing is all about taking risks with the understanding not all of them will pan out. Apparently the program was profitable on net.
I would appreciate these disclosures a lot more if the author didn’t always include a flippant dismissal of security architecture improvements in macOS. Yes, it’s harder to write software with sandboxing and other modern security techniques, but that doesn’t mean we should go back to how things were.
No, sales people who lie dont get fired. Sales people who dont hit targets get fired - and those are biased towars salesman who dont lie. Those who lie sell better hit targets.

Sales who do basic admin instead of selling dont get fired, they are the ones more likely to hit sales targets. The ones who do basic admin waste effort that could be used for selling and get no rewards for it anyway.

> lazyness ( watching YouTube/Facebook/Shopping

Completely normal among programmers.
Yeah, it was a little bit. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/solyndr...
I just recently got interesting in this topic and have been trying to organize my learnings on Github:

https://github.com/melling/Probabilistic_Programming

Currently trying to learn RStan (and R)

Found interesting examples for the Kaggle Titanic competition:

https://wiekvoet.blogspot.com/2015/09/predicting-titanic-dea...

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2015/10/predicting-titanic-deaths...

Putting examples here:

https://github.com/melling/Probabilistic_Programming/tree/ma...

Anyway, if anyone else has stumbled upon any other blogs, books, etc, I could use other good resources.
Not sure why we're getting downvoted. Space shuttle was absolutely a terrible design from a "true" reusability perspective (the most important part of reusability being cost reduction).
For Russia it would be the FSB and the various gray area semi-government controlled propaganda/disinformation groups.

China has the Ministry of State Security, MSS.

The UK has the SIS.

Germany has the BND.

The Dutch are also pretty capable with the AIVD.

They all fund nonprofits and groups to help spread good and bad propaganda.
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That's not what the parent said
1. Can't argue there, although once I "uninstall" the advertised apps, I've never had them return

2. There's an option to disable automatic restart for updates

3. There's the winget package manager, but it's still in preview. There's also chocolatey and scoop, which are community run, but that's similar to homebrew on macOS.
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Some people care a lot about Open Source Ideology. The BSDs are free in a different way than Linux is Free, GPL vs BSD licensing.

Separately the source code for FreeBSD is pretty clean and easy to read. I needed to modify the behaviour of one of the core utils a few years ago, and I found it very easy to do. The C library that it uses is also pretty well written. It won't be quite as clean as OpenBSD, but it is a lot simpler than trying to figure out glibc(which was possibly intentionally obfuscated to avoid lawsuits).

The build system for FreeBSD is also pretty simple to figure out. You can download the source, modify the kernel or userland and rebuild world in like at most like 30 commands. I haven't tried with Debian or any Linux distro, but I would imagine it would be harder given the separation of the kernel and userland.
You don’t remember when laptops didn’t come with wireless, I suppose — I think it’s possible that there are other distinguishing features of laptops and desktops.