skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Red Hat is exactly like IBM. Huge and slow.

I know the contribution to FOSS from Red Hat is great and all, but their product, RHEL, was a cancer for a modern software development.

Just easier to maintain for sysadmins doesn't make enough excuse for really long release cycle and the worst of all is they keep supporting the old products.

The result is a nightmare development environment for all the programmers who has to workaround the old bugs that was fixed years ago in the upstream but not fixed in the RHEL packages, but they have to use the RHEL packaged software for stupid sysadmin reasons.
What is your reasoning? In the other HN news thread, there were some people specifically worried about Fedora after the acquisition
Thanks. My story sounds very similar to yours. I had a bunch of tests done including x-rays (negative), MRI (negative), an EMG test (negative), and multiple blood drawings. Eventually it came down to a diagnosis of exclusion, and the neurologist said that I had fibromyalgia despite the fact that my primary symptoms are muscle weakness and cognitive issues, with pain being an annoying but very manageable secondary symptom. At times I've wondered if it's all in my head and I'm just going crazy. Best of luck with the surgery!
Related longform article from a first-person perspective:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/07/07/a-sudden-illne...

Edit: Weird...this article now also on the first page of HN.
At least not on linux anymore :(

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-sa...
It's like Vader asked Luke to join him in defeating the Emperor (Microsoft) and ruling the galaxy as father and son - and instead of the audience hearing "I'll never join you!!", we hear "sure, let's team up."

The cognitive dissonance is so strong here. WTF just happened? If you asked me a month ago to put down serious money in Vegas on this never happening, I'd have happily done so. What on Earth were they thinking?

IBM is basically taking it's failing Kubernetes distribution, saying "why lose when we can just buy the winners?", and went ahead and bought Red Hat and OpenShift instead. A year from now, we'll start to see heavy IBM integrations into OpenShift, radically increased licensing fees for RHEL to squeeze every penny out of enterprises which bought RHEL specifically because they need the support guarantees because they can't migrate away quickly, and every other Red Hat project - Ansible, Cockpit, Fedora, CentOS, etc., will get torn to pieces by IBM bean counters.

Red Hat shareholders just sold out. Goddamnit.
Here is at least one, and it might be the worst spill in US history. It has been all over the news over the past couple of weeks and was a very easy google away. The EPA along with other organizations like the Coast Guard were lied to by the company that owns the well and also seemingly looked the other way for the most part under the guise that it wasn't really that big of a leak so it's fine to let it continue to fester. Clearly however, they were not doing the envrionmental protection part of their name.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-14-...
There was a study in 2008 that showed the majority of people with chronic fatigue had mitochrondrail dysfunction that corelated with the severity of symptoms.
Nice List!
Introducing Previs, Travis locally
> Online is real life and there’s not a significant difference between someone making death threats online or over the phone or through the mail

There is a very significant difference - someone who knows your address or phone number likely knows where you live. (perhaps less so with mobile phones compared to historically with stationary phones). And they're more likely to be in the geographical area and capable of acting on the threat.

Whereas 99% of the time someone sends a 'threat' online they do not know you, and are responding to a video / post that you made. Not that it becomes excusable, but it does make the threat much less serious.
The the drop in violent crime correlates strongly with the drop in leaded gasoline.
I'm struggling to find immaturity or impracticality in that quote.

Also your reply is redundant: You posted a sibling comment echoing parent's phallic framing of the topic.
Still, thats a rosey goal - I just have a cynical-pessimistic view on the actual outcome...
Hi, I wrote the piece. No PR was involved. I’ve been following fast.ai for a while and I thought it was part of an interesting trend

My basic rule with stories is that they must come from me casting my attention out into the world, not via a bidding war for it in my inbox. I run a whitelist and never read inbound PR. I only email comms people when I a) can’t find a person’s details b) the person asks me to
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it would be helpful if you stated why you hold your opinion, as an opinion by itself doesn't actually contribute to the conversation. with that said, most objections are a variation on (1) safety or (2) nuisance.

on the safety issue, we should look at the differential effects of scooters on overall safety and hold a greater good standard. so let's say the baseline safety record of a city is 1 death and 10 injuries per thousand people on the streets. if scooters on sidewalks (vs on roads) changes that to 0.5 deaths and 12 injuries per thousand, that's a net gain in overall safety and scooters should be allowed, regardless of your opinion of them.

on the nuisance issue, i'd suggest a majority standard. if 10% of people think scooters are a nuisance, while 90% think they're great, then we should allow scooters.

that would be the (or a) democratic way to resolve the issue, rather than spouting opinions at each other.
The icecream shop is actually "Emack and Bolio's". This leads me to believe that Bolio was named for the icecream shop (punning Emacs~Emack's), but that Emacs was not named for the icecream shop. (Emack and Bolio's opened in 1975, and it seems that Emacs was created in 1976; so it's possible though.)
There were several threads about this. We merged them into the one that was posted first.

We changed the url to the most readable and least press-releasey. The others were:

https://twitter.com/EdHammondNY/status/1056604618015285248

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-sa...

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r...
Antisemitism has widespread roots in Europe going back 100s of years, unfortunately. It didn't need the Internet to spread :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFS_(file_system)

https://openpowerfoundation.org/
The articles (and Stalman interviews) happening recently pointed to this situation. Open Source, as adopted currently, is a flawed model that valors corporate protection more than end-user freedom.

github is now sourceforge. redhat is now suse Linux. etc.

all the little benefits you got having an apache or bsd license over gpl will start to bite you now. Case in point: every major company has a opensource executive whose only job is to make sure all projects are using closed-source-permissive licenses.
IBM is a sales-driven company that mainly focuses on closed-source proprietary software. Red Hat is an engineer-focused, innovation driven company that's completely built around the open-source Linux kernel.

The two worlds just seem incompatible to me, and I assume a lot of people share the same concern as I do.
I think the universal time to anything is about 25-20 for amateur levels. You never know when you will go full dedicated to something so at least don't lose amateur skills.
Out of curiosity what sort of workloads are you running on a Talos II?
It's important to remind people that hateful speech is not protected by the First Amendment in America.
Yes this is classic :) Sudden Motion Sensor or SMS not supported anymore due to switching to SSD.
I have chronic fatigue and my condition is improved by fasting. Fasting triggers autophagy and hgh release. Most of the symptoms of CFS are the same as low hgh levels, and people with CFS have low hgh.
This is a huge problem for the open source project I work on. New users are overwhelmed with channels to plumb, and search is not great.

I'm open to advice on how to wean our project from chat to email (probably?) Or some better platform that helps new users and developers onboard without so much static
> my house won’t be worth the debt I took on.

Don't you mean your house won't be worth the equity you put in? Assuming you put 20% down, your debt is 80%. I would think it's pretty tough for a house to lose more than 20% of it's value.

Also, if the house isn't worth the debt you took on, that's technically the debt holder's problem not yours.
www.redhat.com it's a done deal, sorry for your loss
What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
An average wage will leave you pretty unhappy in London. London has a lot of wealthy people, which is distinctly different to high income, and it has a fair number of high income people too.

I think being a big fish in a small pond has a lot to say for itself in terms of mental satisfaction about one's place in the world. It's relative, unfortunately: someone else must be worse off for you to feel relatively better off.

It takes a lot of income to make a meaningful dent in your self-perceived place on the ladder in London, if your ladder includes things like owning a home in a safe area within reasonable distance of transport.
I'm skeptical and intrigued. Mostly about your world view since you are on HN and that does some selection. Apart from the water thing, who do you think defines agenda of "mainstream modern medicine"? Is there like some secret communication channel between all researches around the world to keep everybody in dark about how water is not necessary for well functioning brain? I'm sorry if it sounds offensive, but I'm sincerely curious how do you see it.
How so? Are you referring to the "BuzzFeed's business model in 10 easy steps - number 7 will surprise you" and "23 pictures of cute kittens"?

On the other hand... their journalism (BuzzFeed<i>News</i>) is up there in quality. Such as https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/chris-hamby-buzzfeed-news and https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/us/politics/george-polk-j... ("In all, journalists representing more than a dozen news organizations were recognized for reporting. Three nontraditional publications — Vice News, The Intercept and BuzzFeed News — won awards for the first time, Mr. Darnton said.")
> I wouldn't have a trust issue assuming there is a rating system.

That was the original free-market rationale for not having food or medical regulation at all: reputation will take care of it!

Unfortunately, unsafely prepared food can literally kill you. So the country wised up and requires food safety certification.

Ratings are great for pushing up average quality. They're a non-starter when it comes to guaranteeing minimum quality, i.e. the product won't make you sick or kill you.

Honestly, I don't trust someone's grandmother who thinks it's fine to cut the cooked chicken with the knife she used when it was raw, because she was never certified in a food safety course, even if it only happens 1% of the time. It's not fair to make people get sick so enough of them leave 1-star reviews.

Because again, there's a world of difference between an Uber driver who doesn't know the route (minor inconvenience), and food that makes me ill for days.
I agree that BuzzFeed isn't the poster child of wholesome online content, but they don't advocate hate speech or blatant conspiracy theories, to the best of my knowledge.
Exactly. They provide nothing over the security of a paper ballot.
Well, I don't know anybody in the FOSS community which would be worried it systemd became endangered ;)
>Has you noticed an increase in these reCaptcha challenges and if so, is there a particular reason for this?

I don't use a VPN and I've been observing this increase for some time now. I do not know why, but I believe they are probably training a new model or something.

I'd also like to add, if any Google engineer involved in the reCAPTCHA project is reading this, that I'd be pretty amused if you stepped on a lego piece or bumped your tiny toe against something hard.

Yes, I am that mad. My UX on the web has declined drastically thanks to you.

Not only are the images hard to understand - some of them are purposefully grainy! - I take a long time to do what I need to do on certain websites.

I thoroughly dislike you.
Essentially just an ad for SaneBox.
Prohibition works fine well enough, or rather, much better than most alternatives.

If Opium were for sale in every corner store (even if it was safely packaged, measured etc) we would have a healthcare epidemic that would shatter society. About 10% of society would be addicted very quickly, another 20% would have some fallout pretty quick, and that's enough to take everything down.

Opiates are extremely addictive, to the point that doctors now give you the 'minimum number of pills' you need after surgery, not the whole bottle.

The #1 cause opiate problem is addiction to legal pain killers and it's not a 'street problem' it's a 'suburbs problem'.

So if the most conscientious, bill paying, regular folk in society can't even handle access to their regular pain killers, there's no hope for us otherwise.

And now with fentanyl which is wiping people out - the discussion becomes moot because it's just so powerful it's not even a debate.

Most hard drugs should be prohibited and that's just the world we live in. We give up small rights, like the ability to smoke heroin, because society at large can't deal with it, and that statistically probably includes you and I anyhow.

So maybe soften punishment or whatever, decriminalize, fine.

But I don't even think most 'harm reduction' works - in 20 years of 'insite' in Vancouver, that disgusting, drug ridden area is thriving in it's ability to keep people addicts and screwed up.

As for money laundering, it's easier than we think to stop, but the BC government is soft, inept, and everyone is addicted to the money anyhow. Specific requirements and transactional requirements for mortgages, registration of accounts, limits and controls at casinos (you cash out more than $!K you provide an ID etc.)

Corrupt money from Asia is Canada's economic heroin.
Bad news.

Sure, there are ways you could argue it could work well.

But, IBM would have to change.

Good luck with that.
Don't forget that it is a mental practice, and like in sports you can injure yourself. (Maniac episodes etc)
What could possibly go wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785162
I really like the idea around "ambient awareness". I'll look into it.

Currently, I've built a slack bot for personal use that integrates with my calendar where I can create stretches of times as "Focus" events and during that time, the bot helps me establish an async communication model.

The bot sets my status to "Do Not Disturb" during the event and if somebody tries to message me, they get a message that I am in heads down mode. They can then leave a note on why they were contacting me or if I they need me urgently, they can click a button and I get an immediate notification. When my focus time ends, I get a list of notes from my team on why they needed me and I can answer them one by one.

Effectively, I've found that once a team moves to Slack, all internal communication moves to Slack (instead of using slack for urgent sync and email for other async), and this brings back email like async model to Slack for the times when you need it.

You can try out the slack bot at https://slack.com/apps/A5MJB641F-oliv

In full disclosure, I've build the bot for my personal usage and don't intend to monetize it. It's just my way of giving back to the community. It's not very polished and doesn't have an onboarding flow, so if you need any help in using it, contact me at ishan.chhabra [at] gmail.com. I'll be happy to help.
A PhD is not only about solving some specific problem. It is more about learning how to solve problems, and more importantly, choosing what problems to solve.

Having a PhD should mean that the person is capable of making consistent progress in ill-defined problems without much external support. Of course not all PhDs can do this, and you don't need a PhD to gain these skills, but they correlate strongly enough that it makes sense to just filter some jobs by whether or not someone has a PhD.
> violent crime has dropped as internet use has gone up. And violent crime has also dropped since social media first became a thing

You are making a causation argument two sentences after calling out a causation argument.
Complicit isn't really the right word at all. For many Americans (probably most) that have a job, they have to get to their job to make money to continue to exist and support themselves and their families. Because of the lack of public transportation (also not their fault) they more than likely need a car. In order to get things they need for their household they have to go shop for them (using a car) or ordering them (having them delivered). Also, I'm not sure how you think the average person influences the energy policies for the fire department, police, Amazon, or car manufacturers. For most people they have no say in any of this and use the things they need to to continue to get by. We are not all complicit, especially considering complicit is defined as illegal or wrongdoing.

Your comment seems to imply the average person has the same power, capabilities, lobbying ability, voice, free time on their hands, and money that someone in the government/politics/large lobbying firm/large corporation would have to dedicate to these things. I'm pretty sure for most people that's not the case at all.
Look how slow Redhat moves up their kernel, Redhat simply is the IBM in the open source world!
To add on, there was this article posted months ago on the same topic:

Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469382
That sounds pretty evil to me.
Last crash was before AirBnB that’s one. Second you could always rent the whole unit just to cover the cost of mortage. I seen friends houses going from 180,000 to 30,000 during crash, only to get back to 170,000 some 8 years later. So so long as you can get hired as McDonald burger flipper, you should be able to withstand next crisis, even if it chops off 80% of your home value.
"dnf, powered by Watson"
The amount of misinformation I see on Quora is staggering; product placement like this is better than the average content, to be honest.
Ask HN: How to distribute hundreds of terrabytes of data across servers?
I've found myself in a difficult situation. I have some kind of file sharing websites that grew unexpectedly fast and I can't seem to find any good option for file distribution.

I'm using bare metal servers from Hetzner, because AWS/Azure/Google Cloud would be too expensive.

Currently I have two ways of distributing the files:
1. GlusterFS, which doesn't seem very stable, is really slow and is using a ton of resources, but it made it pretty easy and fast to setup. I don't think this is going to be a viable solution as my data is growing.

2. The second thing I tried after getting disappointed by GlusterFS was application-level distribution. What I do basically is split every HDD into 1TB partitions (so I can mirror them easier,as I'm using different size HDDs) and upload the file randomly/to the emptiest one.

The second option works pretty good, but there are some drawbacks. Searching for files is easy, but very slow with GlusterFS, harder, but faster with the second option.

My question is: What better option do I have? Did I misconfigure GlusterFS or is it normal to be slow?

Thanks!
I actually understand all of this. But if you are investing in society, then that is different than consumption. That should be encouraged imho.

Actually if you dig deeper into fair tax it is theorized that cost of goods would largely remain the same. this is due to the removal of corporate income taxes altogether. Also companies would not pay any sales tax on goods/services.
I am worried about the future of the numerous Open Source projects. I mean, why did they sell RedHat? The bet on OpenShift does not seem to pay off then. I always saw RedHat as the "enterprisy" OSS company that helps moving all these Java monoliths to the cloud. Even more problematic is the influence this aquisition has on the landscape of OSS in the cloud space, especially since CoreOS, RHEL and CentOS are now run by IBM.
I wouldn't use it even it if were open source or public domain!
> I do trust random taxi drivers and I do trust arbitrary individuals to cook for me

Do you though?

All the taxis you take are with licensed drivers. The government has already set up certification standards.

Likewise, how often do you eat a meal by an arbitrary individual? Generally it's either someone you know and trust, or else a professional cook under food safety certification working in an inspected kitchen.

Are you saying you'd get into a taxi driven by someone without a driver's license because you'd rather pay less and take risks? Or eat a hamburger made from ground beef sitting in a refrigerator for 4 weeks because the cook "thinks it's fine", and again you'd rather pay less and take risks?
Try to use something made by IBM and then tell us if you like it.
What might have happened to degrade postal service between Paris/Savoy and Venice between 1500 and 1765, from 2 weeks to about 3.5? Could it have been possibly been Switzerland leaving the HRE (and maybe imposing border duties) in 1648?
I'm not sure what the situation is in the US, but in the UK there has been a number of changes which has helped increase the rate of new house building to increase the stock. This, along with Brexit uncertainly, looks like it's starting to show signs of slowing down the dramatic shortages and house price rises we've been seeing for decades. Some people bought based on assumptions regarding the rate of price rises and may be disappointed, but I don't expect a crash resulting in a lot of defaults because lending criteria has been tightened and many people have the last recession in their recent living memory so they are more careful.
Then why do those "asserts" have return error codes associated with them? A failing assert shouldn't use normal error reporting mechanisms, and it most certainly shouldn't return a specific error code implying that assertion failures can (and should) be handled.
you should read the latest earnings statements, growth was declined and a huge miss of estimates

hence the IBM merge, Redhat probably felt they couldn't do it anymore on their own
Fairtax has a prebate to cover all tax for essentials (everyone, poor or wealthy, gets a "check" at the beginning of the month). You theoretically only pay tax on non-essential items.
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This is a good article but it's a dupe (or quasidupe) of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18317591, from yesterday.
I tell this my customers all the time.

Still an app in the App Store is seen as a must have.
IBM has been historically a Linux contributor. Eclipse, their open source IDE, opened the other to Java and other programming languages in the OS. And Power processors supported Linux early on. From that perspective to purchase Red Hat makes sense.
It makes even more sense as the announcement states that they are trying to create a bigger cloud provider to compete with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

My main concern is the reduction on variety. All big businesses are buying layer after layer of different markets reducing the number of options that one can choose.

* https://thenewstack.io/contributes-linux-kernel/

* https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-r...
Just go Debian and be done with all this stuff
IBM is sliding into irrelevance in the mass market for sure, but they've still got a sizeable slice of the HPC/supercomputing market and their research in quantum computing is hard to overlook.