skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite Capitalist. Government ownership simply means that government is the capitalist instead of it being some private Billionaire, or a collection of investors in a joint-stock company.

Communism _does_ mean - among other things - that "everyone gets free groceries", in the sense that they would not exchange money or another commodity for the groceries, but rather get them through wider collective/communal/regional/country-wide arrangements.
That's the 3-clause BSD license. (OSI approved)
Remove founders who have a reputation. Remove being part of an accelerator/incubator. Remove VC backing. Remove being in a "tech" hub.

Now we're cooking with wood! One way to view this in my opinion is what do you do with what you have, how do you build a learning organization that overcomes obstacles whatever they are, how do you grow with that organization and attract people who are better than you are at what you do, especially when you're in "putting down fires".

How do you build a product that enables the team to win and attract talent when you don't have the infrastructure / credentials / backing, etc.
GPL is only becoming irrelevant because nobody has the guts to use it.

Congratulations to all the teams getting co-opted by Amazon and becoming just another Docker Enterprise.

Everyone should go GPL. The time to do it was yesterday. The next best time is now.

Make money with licenses so you can actually have a business. Unless you just like funding billion dollar companies for free. (They don't even have to contribute code back!)

Open source without fangs is free, stolen labor that gets turned against us.
I've lived near where my spouse and I moved for most of my life. The woods behind the house we currently live in are where I spent most of my childhood. Ticks are just part of the territory (many springs and seeps = many ticks).

I have never had problems with tick-borne illnesses.

We moved back here 14 years ago, and within one month my spouse was diagnosed with Lyme disease.

My theory is that I'm immune to it due to repeated tick exposure as a kid. Otherwise, it just doesn't make any sense.
I think its a valid discussion point and not trite to ask if OP thinks Apple marketing will win out or if they think the product is industry leading by some performance metric.

It seems like there's nothing but "never bet against Apple" type nothing statements backing up everything but I want to give the comments a reasonable shake.
Isn't that how things already work wrt security updates on RHEL/CentOS? CentOS AFAIK doesn't get any advance warning, only once RHEL pushes out a security update they rebuild and release.

Of course, with this it might be even slower, in that first RHEL pushes out the security update, and then people will start looking whether that change needs to be forward-ported to CentOS stream, or whether it can be used as-is etc.
The way GP described it is like everything is tightly controlled. If the state controls Ant group, that would mean IPO was planned by the state, and you may already know Chinese government do regular long term plans, this incident wouldn't happen, also, it won't even happen in this way. It would be Ant group withdraw its IPO application instead. I won't say any business is fully independent in any country in this age. I am also not claiming Chinese business can be as independent as in US. It is definitely not state-owned as GP suggested.
That “phenomenon” as you call it, is otherwise known as a satisfied customer.

Nobody has time to exhaustively research every product they buy, and most people don’t have the inclination. Therefore when they find a company that meets their needs reliably, they tend to keep buying from them unless there is a problem.

This is a normal feature of business. Every business tries to satisfy their customers in this way.

If there is something special about Apple, it is that they have a lot of satisfied customers.
Related (and quite a bit better):

https://www.mcguiremarks.com/uploads/3/9/7/9/39793909/isaac_...
While I agree CPC is in ultimate control over government in China, and that China is a one-party state. I don't agree it to be a dictatorship.

I see dictatorship as monarchy in disguise. China's leadership as observed are not passed down within a singular family or families and the succession of which have not observed militarial coup. If the dictator can't have his/hers own blood-heir to take over, where is the dicatorship in this?
Totally understand that we all adjust our minds on Apple pricing but giving that headphones aren’t a new and amazing technology, I think that’s an uphill battle for Apple. After seeing this announcement, I just bought a pair of Grado SR80e. They have amazing sound and it’s sub-100 bucks. My Airpods are amazing for outside and running around at home. But for time in the chair, wired headphones are awesome.
Thanks for being honest and open about all of this.
GitHub University
>> In our new research, we found that this seems to be what leads to a more satisfying life. Similarly, being prosocial – acting kindly, cooperatively and with compassion toward others – is also significantly linked with higher wellbeing.

> Maybe the comparison between "dark traits" and "light personalities" yields this, but its been shown pretty consistently that higher agreeableness (more empathy) has a negative effect on salary, primarily for women.

You seem to be comparing apples and oranges: I do not think "higher wellbeing" is the same thing as "higher salary," and whatever correlation there is due to the stress of being poor (and thus is less and less signficant as salary progresses past a minimum threshold).
I'm not too familiar with the openSUSE team, but I think it's a pretty safe bet that Debian will remain independent.

Ubuntu is already owned by a large corportation.
Hello, Oracle Linux.

http://linux.oracle.com
Because CentOS was once an independent project and Redhat promissed to keep Centos 8 alive till 2029.

Security patches are not backports, they are security patches that obviously should be for free, Redhat is making loads of money off free software already.
I find it amazing that the conservative drum beat of markets, capitalism, deregulation, and free distribution of speech all seem to fly out the window as soon as it is time to complain about china. Now suddenly western values must be defended by banning access to software.
They probably would do FIFO with overflow. The problem is that there’s no communication with the retailer about how long the delay would be.
Curious why people on here seem so abrasive to this so far. Have had a few work loads on Stream, and updates are just as "boring" as expected from CentOS.

I seam to have more issue at work dealing with older versions of packages on CentOS that lag behind up to date packages on "unstable" distros.

As a fan of rolling release (btw I use arch), I will love not having to deal with EOL CentOS upgrades at work.
Also there is some research showing that people are more creative when lying down.
My wife and I currently use Google maps to share locations with each other. I really hate doing this because I really dislike Google having access to my location. So yes I would use it. I would probably pay $15-20 once or a $1-2 a month for something like this
So, losers.
I’m finicky about audio quality, still I favour Apple products generally.

I was willing to give Apple a chance last year and got AirPods Pro, but they proved abysmal in terms of everything—comfort for wearing long term, isolation, sound quality, going out of sync with each other, and a while ago one of them started to emit loud noise randomly. It’s likely that some of those issues are related to my unit and individual fit, but I’m back to Shure SE215/SE425 and their black foam tips (which achieve very similar overall attenuation without active NC[0]) as my go-to in-ear headphones.

For over-the-ears I have fairly old (and virtually unbreakable) Sony WH-1000XM3; when their battery goes I would love to give Apple another chance but the price tag makes it hard to justify.

IMO to any audiophile/sound engineer familiar with the brands mentioned by eertami the price of Apple’s new AirPods would indeed appear outlandish.

[0] Measurably so: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/apple/airpods-pro-... vs. https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/shure/se215#compar...
No JS on the website (so far)…nice.

Interesting. Been thinking about something like this. You mentioned other privacy preserving services; which products do you think are most in need of privacy preserving alternatives?
It was open source (BSD licensed) before today, 9:23 AM. That is when version 2 was released.
I guess they don't like that people can generate their own vector tiles more easily nowadays, or services like Maptiler [0] (see [1] for some more context) that provide tiles at lower costs.

[0]: https://www.maptiler.com/mapbox-alternative/

[1]: https://www.maptiler.com/news/2020/05/the-future-of-openmapt...
'If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn’t change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

Socrates taught us: “Know thyself.” Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm, we halt, stricken dumb: it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren’t. From good to evil is one quaver, says the proverb. And correspondingly, from evil to good.'

--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oh cool. As for CloudLinux, "not free" probably scale for some hosting environments, including non-managed cloud instances.

But something like Springdale, given resources, might be able to provide. They're still tracking RHEL 7, though.

Debian and Ubuntu, which offer five years of Long Term Support are the next best thing available, and that's already kind of tight for long-term deployments of self-hosted, old-fashioned business software.

Debian is particularly impressive, since they, on paper, aim to support all packages with security fixes, whereas Ubuntu's main repo is a lot more limited.

OpenSUSE Leap versions seem to get three years, which really isn't enough software that needs to just work for a long while.
Yes.. what he said.

But my main reason is actually the gigantic size of the residential gateway box. I mounted the ONT, UDM pro and PoE switch on a wall in a closet and the RG just took up too much space.
#!/bin/bash --loose-syntax
$ 10
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> The physical reality is that average January lows in NYC are 20 degrees lower than in SF.

The physical reality is that 20 degrees lower isn't that bad. Humans have thrived in colder climates for thousands of years. Being a human being in a modern day NYC/Chicago winter is a cakewalk, unless you are among the small subset of people who treat anything below 60F like its a death sentence.
I presume you are making this statement with no firsthand experience of the product to base it on.
30k active users and 100% monthly growth
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I see. I gave the explanation because I experienced it and understand where it comes from. I am not particularly affluent, and therefore I often need to make the 'best for the buck' decisions, that also includes buying books and whatnot. I know that had I been affluent, I'd spent more on my hobbies over minmaxing.
Isn't "If they're not willing to play fair, then _we_ must play fair" the core of of US philosophy? It certainly seems to be the standard imposed on US civil rights leaders and the central message of the big speeches in superhero movies.
What a shame. I guess they got sick of people taking their code and ripping out their API subscriptions.

For anyone interested in an open source mapping library (that also has 3D support) that can handle raster data (including the Mapbox tiles), I launched a project 2 weeks ago that is the culmination of 7 years effort: https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js/.

I must say (while acknowledging my huge bias) that I'm disappointed with how the 3D terrain works in the new Mapbox version. It is the top-billed feature, but the controls feel clunky, the terrain often disappears and they didn't even bother implementing distance fog to give the scene scale. When they announced the 3D feature last year I was expecting more.
Many of Sony's In-ears including the WF-1000XM3 not only have replaceable, but also standardized batteries.

https://www.firstxw.com/view/235586.html

And that with space left over.
If Apple really wanted to make this product sustainable, they could.
We are a high-volume shipper. Our limits were per-account, not per-location nor would drop-offs be accepted and treated in any way differently.

I suppose that we could ship as much as we wanted paying over-the-counter full-retail rates, just like anyone else could.

In contrast to the retailers stories in the article, these limits were not a surprise to us. We’ve been planning for months to accommodate this and I think our main carrier (UPS) did a great job of communicating, even as things were somewhat being defined.
It is mostly lack of/improper training combined with fear.
Wow this thread made me realize there are so many tools for this.

Just to throw in another one, at my company we are using git-crypt [1], and it works pretty well in our case

[1] https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
The problem is partly that page speed measurement tools care a lot about that first load. Even if everything after that is super snappy due to cached resources, if you are only using 5% of the total CSS file in the first page the user hits, that other 95% is dragging down the experience on first load, and especially dragging down lighthouse scores.

It doesn't mean though, that you can't have a combined approach where a small amount of genuinely global CSS is loaded from an external file that is cached, while component-specific CSS lives in the component and renders inline with it. But then it's like ... why do that extra request if the file is that small, and you end up with inline everything.

Definitely the trend from a business point of view is to optimize for good perf scores on lighthouse, even if that's a little illogical at times.

Another thing though is that often the JS for whole chunks of a page (which contains the CSS) can be code-split and cached as its own file, so whole components made up of HTML CSS and JS can be lazy loaded and if that same chunk of stuff is needed again, it could be a cached JS file.

Especially if these are "below the fold" and pulled in as the user scrolls or something, you get a small initial payload + small JS files being called in to run as needed.

I don't know how many implementations there are of this in the wild, but it's possible.
That was in March. The messaging from Jan was pretty much the same, if not even more lax. The WHO is to be blamed significantly for not communicating properly.
Did you think about using dual licensing? GPL + Proprietary for paid users?
> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Popper expands upon this, writing, "I do not imply for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
> a nightmare because they appear so charming outward to powerful people in decision making positions, while being cruel and sadistic to others

I wouldn't conflate emotional intelligence - i.e. the ability to modulate behavior based on person specific interactions - with necessarily possessing negative, vindictive, malign or cruel personality traits. That's definitely a stereotype.

It is entirely possible to be charming, without secretly being cruel or vindictive. Yes, it can be more difficult to judge a disarming person's intentions, but that doesn't mean the person is inherently sadistic or ill willed. Perhaps they are just good at making other people feel comfortable.
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Command E is a blazing-fast, secure way to instantly find anything in your cloud or on your computer via a Spotlight-like search and command interface on top of your data. It's basically a CLI for business users, built on top of their cloud data, inspired by the "fuzzy finder" search boxes in IDEs (i.e. Command-T plugin in vi, Helm plugin in Emacs, ⌘T in Atom, ⌘P in VSCode, etc.). It’s ridiculously fast - searches return in <10ms and we don’t warehouse your data - it stays on your own machine in an encrypted database.

We're now a venture-backed startup with a really strong team working on this every day, but I originally started building it after seeing information and data scattered across 20+ clouds even amongst a small team at my last job. I saw how Slack had applied a lot of polish on top of IRC and how APIs were reaching a sweet spot of standardization and maturation and decided the time was right to build something like this for other knowledge workers (and to bring the search pattern in our IDEs to all the other places we spend time as engineers).

We have 30+ integrations now, and I use it everyday to:
* Quickly jump to our PRs in GitHub
* Get into Zoom meetings with 2 clicks rather than digging into calendar events for the meeting link.
* Instantly get back to Google Docs and Clubhouse tickets (we also support Jira, Trello, and Asana along with most of the tools your product team lives out of)

The product is free and I'd love any feedback - you can download the app here: https://getcommande.com
> I didn't even look at the features, I just looked at 'Panasonic.'

I suspect Panasonic hasn't added any new features to their microwaves in the last decade anyways
Yep. We run almost all our systems on our own hardware. (We do use cloud VMs for random things.) It is much cheaper.

Running our primary DB cluster in AWS for a month costs more than the purchase price of the hardware the cluster runs on.
Should be. It's CentOS packages with rebranding and maybe some custom fixes on top. There are two kernels that ship with it, either the RedHat Compatibility Kernel (RHCK), or the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).

I would point out, I'm not in the OL org, I have absolutely no idea what this change means for Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux is based off the CentOS sources as that's the only way that RedHat was making the source code to their distribution available (there way of meeting the terms of the GPL). RedHat has to make their source code available in one form or another so I can't imagine that this would have any impact on OL, but that's entirely guess work.
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The one time I hired "just a competent one" it was a disaster. They weren't competent at all!

I think it's better to say things like, "make sure your expectations are realistic."
Closed source nonetheless.
We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time
It also notes the low life satisfaction and a desire to never change and instead aquire more power over people.

They seem to be confident in themselves but unable to self analyze.

Looks like putting these people in positions of power is terrible as they will lead to an overall worse performance for your company.
Not sure that it is so easy. May be easier to go mRNA fishing. Diversa did this. I think now part of BASF.
Summary: California, working with Apple and Google released an app called "CA Notify" to contact trace COVID-19 spread. The app uses "Bluetooth to determine when two devices have been near one another for more than 15 minutes."
iPhone users can activate the app by enabling "Exposure Notifications" under settings.
GitHub Releases Dark Mode
From Bloomberg (not on the web yet):

Amazon.com Inc., American Express Co., Daimler AG and Stripe Inc. are among those joining a new GitHub program that will let companies directly fund open-source projects and software developers that are key to their businesses.

Edit: would probably update with this link: https://siliconangle.com/2020/12/08/github-universe-2020-bri...
I suspect return policies are often used to justify unnecessary purchases. How many times have you bought something online you didn't actually want, but then didn't return it because it was too much of a hassle?

Even if things are returned, they can often end up in landfills still (though I doubt that would happen with these $500 headphones). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-amazon-returns-1....
I would say there are two types of audiophile communities:

1. The sort that’s just looking to show off or is completely obsessed, without paying much regard to the enjoyment of the audio itself.

2. The sort that just wants to enjoy music.

The communities that fall into category #2 are great. They’ll give advice such as:

- Don’t waste money on X when you could buy Y for a fraction of the price. You’re unlikely to notice a difference.

- No, humans can’t differentiate between properly-encoded MP3 320 and lossless. It’s physically impossible, and I’ll show you how to conduct a double-blind test to prove it.

- Yes, X is better than Y, but it’s also a lot more expensive. Start with Y; if you’re really not satisfied, you can upgrade, but chances are Y is good enough.

- Why on earth would you buy that cable? Just get some cheap crap from Amazon. It’s a digital signal anyway.

- Balanced analog signals don’t benefit from expensive cables.

- Unbalanced analog signals don’t benefit from snake oil, which includes pretty much any cable over 20 bucks.

- If you’re enjoying your music, don’t mess with it. Stop trying to impress people.

- Don’t buy $500 headphones from Apple. Amended: Don’t buy $500 headphones.

- No, those $500 Apple headphones aren’t going to help you as an artistic professional—you need reference speakers, which those definitely are not. They’re designed to make even the crappiest audio sound like unicorn farts.

- Are you regularly flying first class and need something to dampen the screams of children? Get whatever makes you happy, but $500 is probably excessive.