MS needs to slow down their user hostility otherwise everyone will notice.

I think you are probably right--it's a real problem.

As an article, it is not 100% coherent, but there is a valid data and a real problem that is clear.

There is a man page.

Nice nostalgic piece. I have a lot of fond "favorite chip" memories from that era.

Not to be too pedantic, I would contend that at the time, it was pretty clear to enthusiast what the differences were. Everyone in the industry was paying attention to 486s and the cost of a genuine intel chip. The FDIV bug was on every Evening News for weeks. AMD and Cyrix vs intel debates were common.

I agree that it is not obvious now that Pentium came after 486, but at the time, it was clear.

My dad managed some key school district functions across the Mojave desert and we had a little place near US-395 from which we could go fishing, hiking, or travel to go skiing. CBS News radio on was our constant companion across long roadtrips across the entire west, even when casettes and CDs abounded.

News would keep us informed and Mystery Theater would keep us entertained on the drive back home, exhausted, on Sunday evenings.

He's old now, but drove to Wyoming to fish last year from southern California. He said the fishing wasn't any good when he got there, so he turned around and came home before the next day dawned. I wonder what he will listen to this Spring.

0.1 GB per full-attention layer and "The model has 60 transformer layers: 45 GatedDeltaNet (linear attention) + 15 standard full attention." So, 1.5 GB.

This is an unnecessary downgrade in security. I hope it does not propagate to other distros.

The correct change would be leave the default and put in the visudo file for easy uncommenting. The "developers opinion" is flat wrong.

# uncomment below to see *s when typing passwords # Defaults pwfeedback

All of the dev thinking on the matter is based on narrow use-cased "if you're on a a host where login to a login screen and people can see you... "

When users connect via ssh keys to production hosts and type sudo passwords, I do not one iota of potential security benefit lost.

It's not a downgrade to security for any password length:

- If it's so short that the knowledge of the length makes bruteforcing noticeably faster, the password is so short that the total length taken would be very short regardless.

- In all other cases, it removes such a small fraction of time needed (on the scale of removing one age-of-the-universe from a process that would otherwise take thousands of ages-of-the-universe) that it doesn't change any infeasible timescale to a feasible one.

So either the information isn't needed, or it won't help. So not a security decrease.

I noticed that, too. However, I will say that having a couple weeks to watch Microsoft through the lens of the original post, I am inclined to adopt it as my current model for Microsoft's actual agenda.

As a result, I do not currently think that Microsoft is consumer-oriented. They have reinforced my opinion by doing anti-consumer changes in XBOX and then saying that they were pro-gamer. Seems like a pattern.

Maybe they will prove me wrong; I am sun-setting my final host that's running their software soon.

I am not convinced that Microsoft is all of a sudden deciding to try again to become a consumer-oriented company based on something Pravan Davuluri says.

Seems more like FUD.

You are right: it is, thankfully, no longer extraordinary on a per-biomarker basis.

As yet another step in mapping the space of biomarkers for diseases, it is noteworthy and worth a thumbs-up somewhere in the universe.

Why is it noteworthy on HN? I think it is because HN likes optimistic stories about scientific progress on lots of dimensions.