skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you believe that "software will eat the world", then hardware doesn't matter. Sure, the customers who purchase a locked-down device might not be able to update their device. But the technology will still be out there, so that it can be built upon to improve the next generation of hardware --- perhaps hardware created by a competitor, or using open hardware. This is especially true for consumer-grade devices, which generally become obsolete and replaced within 2-3 years anyway.

And if this is something that a sufficiently large segment of the users actually care about, then they will vote with their feet, and purchase hardware where they can update their own code. Maybe this will even result in a software ecosystem where the company selling an open product will be able to take those improvements from the dedicated power users to improve future releases of their product. But this is something which is best enforced by market forces --- if it's really an important right that users find important, they will demand it.

This is essentially the debate when the FSF tried to convince the Linux kernel community to relicense to the Linux kernel to the GPLv3. We declined, essentially because we saw the downsides of the anti-Tivo-ization clauses had towards people choosing to use Linux versus some other OS. And we believed that growing the contributor base was in the long term, far more important than the more short-term anti-Tivoization concerns of the FSF. This is why the Linux kernel is GPLv2 and not GPLv3. We didn't give in to the siren call of the FSF position.
pi-hole is the most recognized name on here, but I think you're wrong about DNS level blocking. There are lot of home routers that have started integrating that feature natively. A few examples that I know off hand:

- Motorola MH7022

- Eero

- Disney Circle

Basically any of them that say "content filtering" in their product sheet are using DNS level filtering.

> ...the trash resolver of their operating system...

I'm very curious why you think the well tested, vetted, and constantly updated resolvers built into OS's are "trash". Is it just because most don't have support for DoH or DoT?
Qt is for-profit business forced to provide open source library. Isn't that better than paying peanuts for struggling dual-licensing open source company?

Qt company is publicly listed for-profit company with zero interest in open source. Their business is growing fast and their stock is up 700% in last 3 years.

Qt is contractually obligated to to provide LGPL version for the core library forever. Recently they just retreated to minimum requirement their legal agreement with KDE foundation requires. Yes, Qt the company does not want to serve those who use LGPL license, but that's just small number of extra hoops for free product you don't have to pay for.
These are almost so plain looking they stand out. I wonder if that's what they were going for, since they could've easily stuck an apple logo in all that empty space.
I'm sure this will go like any other apple product release - the internet will make fun of it but in real life it successfully becomes a fashion statement.
We developed an open standard for storing encrypted secrets alongside code in your git/whatever repo: https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/securestore-open-secrets-form...

The format is language/platform agnostic and we’ve releases libraries for .NET/C# and rust, as well as developed two separate CLI utilities that can create and manage the stores.
I did repeat some lies. Thanks for pushing on me to do my research better, haha.

I looked into the details to clarify:

The USPS has to have the cash on hand to pay earned benefits 50 years out. That is unique to the postal service.

The same act also mandated that price hikes at the USPS never move faster than inflation. Very few businesses would want to operate in an environment where you're biggest liability is future healthcare costs of employees, and your revenue is tied to inflation adjusted 2006 prices....

The Pension Protection act does make pension funding more regulated, but the requirements are nowhere near requiring cash on hand to fund 50 years of obligations. Other pensions are also allowed to have assets that aren't cash, meaning they can grow.

The larger point I was making, which I think is supported either way, is that the USPS is actually a viable business. The consistent profit loss is based on legislative mandates that their competitors, or anyone else, don't have to abide by.
I imagine there is an increase over last year, but every year there are expansive rentals of trucks. In our area we find that sometimes multiple trucks meet at the grocery store parking lot and further pass out packages.

I wonder if the issue is more the volume over the year never let up and rolled into a marginally increased holiday shipping or if it's really a multiple factor of shipped packages over last year.

Either way, Penske , Uhaul, etc. who've probably had less rentals this year vs previous, must be happy to see their stuff being delivered.

Even amazon has people delivering from their own cars around here.
Well, at least now I suppose the pilots are all very very aware of the quirks and details about this airplane. I suppose that even in a hypothetical case where the airplanes were not modified at all we would be safer due to all the alertness about the quirky behavior. Does that make sense?
Because some important vendors don't target Debian whereas they do target Ubuntu.

Canonical and RedHat are paying the salaries of the people steering the direction of Linux as a whole. They're forcing you to choose between the two.
Excellent! That's one more site I can disable in Dark Reader.

Edit: spoke too soon. It's not available in their enterprise edition yet. Re enables Dark Reader for corporate url.
This. Although I 'd suggest running Silverblue in a VM first to learn about package layering and flatpaks. (This was my migration path. Made sure all my use cases were working within the VM before I installed on bare metal.)
Microsoft aims to help businesses get handle on data with new tool
Oh my god this is amazing. I've been wanting something like this for ages.

1. Does it have Slack integration?
2. What's your monetization strategy? I worry when things are free.
I think this is better described as superficial charm than any meaningful understanding of other's goals and feelings. It's easy to be outwardly charming when you have no real intention to follow up on whatever you're promising to others.
> Seems people are less willing to pay for high quality tools these days.

On the contrary, I think companies are more willing than ever to pay for quality 3rd-party tools and software. The reality is that the Qt licensing costs are a bargain relative to time saved for enterprise customers. It's not even a question at this point.

The complaints usually come from people thinking of lean startups or selling hobby projects, where the licensing overhead is another non-trivial number on your cost of goods sold. Many of the complaints here would only realistically be a problem for someone selling a very small number (<100) of their product per year with very low margin, which is far more rare than people think.

Regardless, Qt still has a separate small business license with a different pricing structure: https://www.qt.io/qt-for-small-business
Its nice that Bluetooth 5.0 lets someone else besides Sony use their lossless technology.
Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program
lmao it's $792 in Hungary, EU. Yes we have the highest VAT in Europe but still. Not that I have a comment on HN salary like most people here so yeah, that's fucking expensive.
Yet you’ll notice they’re not on the top of the list, therefore my statement stands:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/196114/top-10-us-states-...
You could define operations on nullable types to allow this in Dart, like:

extension NullableNumExtensions on num? {
num? operator +(num? other) {
if (this != null && other != null) return this + other;
return null;
}
}

main() {
num? i, j;
print(i + j);
}

For method calls, we have a null-safe method call syntax that automatically lifts the operation to give you a nullable result:

int? i;
var b = i?.isEven; // b has type null?

We could have made all operations implicitly do this lifting, but our experience is that this isn't what users want. They want to know as early in their code when an operation on a potentially-absent value is attempted and reconcile right there what behavior they want.
CentOS 8 Ending Next Year to Focus Shift on CentOS Stream
It's not the answer you wanted, but to cure you of all the legal headaches, consider Electron, with its MIT License :)
Founder, Stadia Maps here.

We're looking into this, as well as trying to build consensus with the other map vendors on how to approach it.

If you're a vendor and what to be part of it, email me (luke at stadiamaps.com).
I'd agree there is an arguable difference between sharing a server vs sharing data within the server.

Bottleneck issues aside, letting two microservices connect to the same Postgres cluster but access different "databases" (collection of tables) within that cluster could be considered an acceptable data separation. Certainly with multi-tenant DBaaS systems there may be some server sharing by unrelated microservices/customers. Whereas letting two microservices access the same database tables would probably be frowned upon.

Nevertheless, sharing the same Kafka topics between microservices seems to be a common thing to do.
I don't like those news. CentOS was my "go to" distribution which I used by default if RAM was enough (it has surprisingly high requirements to install). I know it well. I'm using RHEL on my home server with developer license, but that allows only for a single instance, and I have more hosts.

My ideal outcome would be if they would allow using real RHEL for any hobby projects and for commercial projects with income below some threshold, so I can start and grow with RHEL and then switch to paid option when I'd have enough income to warrant it.

But it's IBM, so probably I'll have to switch to Debian which is good enough, but I'd miss SELinux, better systemd integration and more polished packages.
Nice to see but it's too contrast-y for me compared to the stylus theme I've already been using which honestly looks better https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark
Seems like RedHat wanting to make CentOS a less "safe" alternative to RHEL.
FIPS and similar certifications (Common Criteria) have a pretty bad reputation. Plenty of pretty severe crypto vulns that should've been caught by certifications were missed, and more importantly that didn't lead to any critical reflection on the side of the certification bodies.

But it's common that if you work with governments that FIPS certification is a requriement.
Wish HN had a dark mode setting as well.
2GB laptop here, I can run several qt5 applications, with Electron I would bring to its knees with just three.
East-Asian-American students also do well in math. I think there are racial differences in abilities, which foil efforts to mandate equal results.
The coloring on diffs needs some work. The green is almost invisible with dark mode enabled.
Webinar about Active Learning on December
If the network allows outbound traffic, they can hard-code an IP list - this is how Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 works and malware has done this for decades – or they can use local DNS to resolve a single name which will answer or redirect to a service which does further queries. Malware commonly used IRC for this until that started getting blocked on most networks, but imagine how easy it would be to miss, say, a bot which connects on 443 to a major hosting provider, like half the apps you run, searches Google.com, Twitter, etc., or hits an ad network for a keyword selected by the attacker.

In every case, once they get the server(s) to connect to you lose all further visibility unless you’re blocking 443 and forcing traffic through an inspection proxy.
Dark traits are helpful once you are actually in the position of power. This article thought dark traits might help get you there, but this is not the case. The economic system rewards leaders who are cut throat and rewards subordinates who are kind, it makes a lot of sense when you frame it that way really.

If you are a CEO the system will reward you for paying people less wages so you can beat out competition.

If you are a worker the system will reward you for kissing the CEO's ass (by not punishing you).
I thought you also couldn't bundle Qt, and the installer had to tell the user to download it separately.
it's not dark it's deep blue :Ð
Why the snark? We're just calling out the obvious inconsistency.
Sorry for vasting your time :P

I actually run Steam inside flatpak - I installed Steam from flathub, launched it, downloaded the games and almost (see below) everything worked. Flatpak runtime has all the necessary Mesa drivers (for AMD and Intel, not sure how Nvidia and flatpak works). The only thing I had to configure myself in the host system was udev rules for Dualshock gamepad. That one breaks the otherwise nice experience of everything working out of the box.

And wrt the Vulkan requirement: that's why I bought The Talos Principle originally. It was one of the first games with Vulkan renderer and I was curious, how well it works.
Thanks. Didn't recognise it as BSD at first glance
I was in the same boat as you, normal Airpods stayed in my ear while running but the Pro Airpods kept falling off. I then found some third party foam tips on Amazon and that made the Pros feel invisible like normal Airpods.
isn't Oracle Linux just CentOS wtih an oracle sticker and a contract?
I didn't know Oracle builds from CentOS rather than RHEL sources. Nor that RHEL doesn't release sources anymore?

If that's true, I wonder how Oracle got some of their 8.x releases out much earlier than CentOS. (Oracle Linux 8.3 2020-11-13 vs CentOS 8.3 2020-12-08, Oracle Linux 8.0 2019-07-19 vs CentOS 8.0 2019-09-24.) I'm assuming here without verification that both track the RHEL 8 point releases.
>Calling any modern regurgitation of Glass's very-listenable minimalism "avant-garde" is misleading and shuts out the contemporary listener to an entire world of avant-garde music - much of it, very listenable.

I'm not convinced that someone simply using the word "avant-garde" shuts anyone out of anything.

For example, if I type "Taylor Swift is avant-garde" did this suddenly shut out listeners from an entire world of pop music?
What incentive would they have to lie, given they're losing their business? Besides, I've known them for years.

I'm not sure what you mean with regards to a person or agency. There are multiple people and agencies that failed drastically here.
I love how it goes to the settings panel. Kudos m1.

Two clicks from the HN homepage and it's done. Informed and improved in one go!
> The Flight envelope is unstable without MCAS.

You do not understand the use of the word 'stable' in relation to the words 'flight envelope'.

737 Max is stable across all of its flight envelope.

The worst you could accuse it of is that at one extreme of the flight envelope it gets close to neutral, but it never is unstable.
I think the settings link is useful too; it allowed me to click on it and immediately flip the setting in question, which was exactly what I wanted. The blog post doesn't really contain anything more than, "We have dark mode now," anyway.
(Off topic)

"[email protected]" strikes again! Anyone viewing this page with Javascript disabled has "folding@home" replaced with the text "[email protected]", that links to this page: https://foldingathome.org/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection .
This is because if you choose to serve your page via Cloudflare, it helpfully removes anything that looks like an email ID in the page, if the client doesn't have JS enabled - apparently in an attempt to "protect" them from bots.

I first came across this on Mastodon instance pages, where Mastodon IDs, which look like "@username@instance", get replaced with "@[email protected]".

Edit: This is how part of the page looks with JS disabled: https://i.postimg.cc/kXq3dj0X/emailprotectedfolding.png
Makes it sound like some sort of surreal humour:
"[email protected]’s original focus was on understanding how proteins fold into their dominant structures. ... The general idea behind [email protected] is to harness the power of computers from around the world ... The biomedical applications of [email protected] are quite broad and include Alzheimer’s disease, ... we (the protein science community at large, and [email protected] in particular) "
Thanks, that helps. We're also an Oracle (database) shop, so the Oracle-specific repos are probably a plus in our case.
First of all, you haven't heard these headphones and neither have I.

Second, I know a thing or two about audio. I saw an earlier comment mentioning that these use "plastic" drivers, as a sign that they are cheap. Generally speaking, the greatest speakers in the world use plastic or paper material for the cones in their drivers. (Google SEAS or Scan-Speak drivers for some examples). A minority of speakers use aluminum or other lightweight metals instead, but generally it is not preferred.

Third, most of the comments on this article are comparing them to traditional, passive headphones in the ~$500 range. These are active headphones with onboard DSP. The physical construction of a speaker matters much less when you can simply shape the response via DSP. If you've ever listened to Bose QC headphones with and without the onboard electronics engaged, you know there's a night and day difference and in addition to the noise cancellation, that difference is due to DSP EQ'ing of the headphone's output.

Fourth, Apple has a solid track record when it comes to audio engineering. They've had some misses, but their laptops, phones, tablets, and other devices tend to measure very well[1][2] in the audio department. So trusting Apple to "do the right thing" with an audio product (if perhaps not at a desirable price) is a reasonable proposition.

_____

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aaudiosciencereview.co...

[2] https://kenrockwell.com/audio/index.htm#reviews
> Why Bose doesn't let you pair them using the standard system is beyond me.

The app collects data on what music you listen to and sends it back to Bose. So obviously they want to encourage you to install and use the app.

Last I checked, at least. Also, there are _two_ Bose apps now, and which one you use depends on which Bose QuietComfort headphones you have. That I have no explanation for.
my point is when we develop expectations and mental models of how machines work, we can use those to adapt and feel safe and in control. but that's less possible when the machine is typically moving at 60 mph and the mistake can happen without warning
Having tried it for a few minutes, I prefer the light theme.

I also reverted back to light themes for my text editors - I felt it was easier to focus on dark-on-light text than the other way around.
Yes, that's what I've done... (and not only it)

It is just to illustrate the fact that Electron, after all, might be a real problem for native app.
I don't see any reason to think that the situation limited to " ties to extremist groups" anymore than banning zoom users who talk about Tienanmen is considered "ties to extremist groups".
Do you have any evidence for your first graph, or is it something that you contributed in order to add more zest to your internet comment?
What if there were an intentional loophole such that in lieu of vaccination one could make a $10,000 payment? The $10k would go to families who have lost a first responder or health care worker to Covid.
What was the point of Red Hat taking over CentOS then?

If they're just transparently killing of the "free version of RHEL", that surely won't work in anything but name? There's an obvious need for a 1:1 RHEL clone, and due to the license of all software that RHEL builds on, there's no way IBM or Red Hat can stop people from actually building their own "new CentOS" and many companies and communities have done so in the past.

All we have now is Red Hat taking the CentOS branding and running with it. And even that point I don't get - they could have done this with plain RHEL or Fedora branding too.

I get why Red Hat or IBM doesn't like CentOS' existence, but I am fully expecting this won't kill "CentOS the concept". This sequence of events boggles my mind really.
Has USPS announced any limits?
The strengthening exercise for a fun flat stomach
Because the aboriginal people don't take more than they need and they use the entire animal. The Japanese are doing it for the meat ($$$) exclusively.

Let's give the people that haven't destroyed their own environment a bit of leeway. IMO, a marker of intelligence isn't building rockets, it's not shitting where you eat.
If by "not far off", you mean "over $200 more". For consumer devices: The Sony 1000XM4s are $270. Bose QC35 IIs are $265. You'd have to go up to pro-grade gear, such as the M&Ds or Beyerdynamic Amirons, to match this price. Maybe Apple headphones are pro grade, but the AirPods are not, so I don't think they're going for that market segment.
> Apple is my hero in that regard, where you actually pay for the product experience instead for being part of some deeply troubling subculture where passionately debating about very expensive cables and gadgets without ever being able to pass a blind test on the claims is the norm, almost like cargo cult.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

I’m joking, I’m a lifelong Apple fan, but this comment was amusing given the long history of people calling the Apple subculture a “cult”.
>The ISS operating guide, in all it's glory:

You are comparing an 'user guide' for a 20 year old mature project to one which will launch in ~N years in the future.

That is like comparing Linux man pages with an early stage startup pitch deck.
Finally! nice.
The United States likes to say (or at least pretend) that it is a moral society, that it is through staying true to moral standards of truth and justice that the US will ultimately prevail, and that if the US fails to uphold those moral standards than the enemy has already won. US pop culture heroes (from X-Men to courtroom dramas and everything in between) constantly espouses this perspective.

From that perspective, the most important thing the US can do is keep an open communication channel with people in China so that they can ultimately see the error of their ways and come around to a US way of thinking, and cutting off communication with people in China is making the US more like China. It may be a self-righteous, egotistical, or even completely delusional way of looking at things, but the officially stated goals of US foreign policy frequently are.
> 1. There is limited adjustment potential.

What kind of adjustment are you missing? Is is lack of degrees of freedom on the arm or is it the bed?

> 2. The keyboard is not positioned correctly in full supination and my typing error rate goes way up. A fully split design may help this.

I also think a fully split keyboard would be essential here. I don't think it'd be comfortable/ergonomic at all to have the keyboard over your body while typing. I think ideally the arms should be spread to a degree (maybe hands at half a foot distance from the legs) to more evenly distribute the body-weight on the bed.

> 3. It's not a good posture for focusing, although it's great for calm viewing.

Are you referring to how it's easier to doze off? Although, that would also be a problem when viewing.
Just using black often feels like enabling accessibility features for contrast (as iOS has one) but at first glance I feel like the GH version is just fine for me due to the usage of grey instead of white for outlines and fonts.

Feels so much better on the eyes.
the smaller AirPods will have the same feature of spatial audio