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This is awful. It's proof of the downsides to the IBM acquisition, which I think we all knew was coming.
Imagine if you were running a business, and deployed CentOS 8 based on the 10 year lifespan promise. You're totally screwed now, and Red Hat knows it. Why on earth didn't they make this switch starting with CentOS 9???? Let's not sugar coat this. They've betrayed their users.

I personally run a CentOS 7 server (as do members of my family), and was planning on upgrading them all to 8. Luckily, I didn't get round to it yet. I guess I'll have to consider an alternative. For my server I want a boring, stable OS, so I'm definitely not using Streams. This is going to ripple throughout the whole industry, as CentOS is used all over the place, from regular home users to businesses (and things like CloudLinux).

It's very disappointing that Red Hat can't see the damage they'll do not only to the community, but to themselves too. Someone will come along and take the CentOS user base, and it won't be Red Hat :(.
JS (the language) may never introduce breaking changes, but JS (the ecosystem) sure does. With a quite normal react app, breaking changes are a constant battle. Clone the repo, oops, one package was upgraded that broke another; upgrade that one, oops, it breaks another. The package manager is supposed to deal with that, but it (effectively) doesn't.
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I always forget exactly what is permissible with the LGPL, but isn’t it the case that the whole point is that using a LGPL library doesn’t “infect” your program?
Fresh today: Chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved assembly of human genomes ;)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0711-0
An opportunity is enough, I'd politely decline :)
I find it frustrating to read articles like this. To me, I see encrypted messaging helping keep children safe from having their information intercepted and mis-used by others. I think it's a matter of what you think are the greatest threats.
This is from October. As far as I know the issue has long been resolved.
Pressure on individuals outside China? Like with Assange?
I guess you missed the decades before Bill went big on philanthropy and was much reviled as an anti-social workaholic, tyrannical CEO, and rabid monopolist.
Show HN: End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude
I can't believe this isn't on the front page!
> in the end went bankrupt because in a free market is unfair

Not exactly a 'free market' then if they're not free to fail.
WiFi Teletype that works. I so want that.

Where can I even find a Teletype that might actually be close to working and if do find it can I get a little more notes?
This happened on October 15. The issue was resolved and the water was turned back on the next day: https://apnews.com/article/berlin-europe-762cda8830dd1bfedad...
In Rust, the signature of the function would be along the lines of `-> Result<whatever, Error>` and you'd have no choice but to handle the Error case of the Result or to panic. Either way, not a segfault.
Since GDPR came out, the two companies I worked at have been more cognisant about how we stored user data for EU customers (e.g. making more fields optional, giving user deletion options). And we also undertook a review of how we stored data for California customers for CCPA.
> Regardless of how the bass response is tuned, higher total harmonic distortion is objectively worse than less total harmonic distortion. Headphones are a tool to enjoy audio experiences, and a good tool should get out of the way of said experiences.

This is why nobody buys tube amps for their guitars. Everybody just wants flawless clean sound with no breakup.

Being "objectively better" on some metric does not mean that the metric matters at all to the target audience.
This is not my experience, no.
> There’s plenty of anti china / anti America content on YouTube.

There's also plenty of anti-China content on TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/freehongkong

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chinazi

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fuckccp
It’s great that you welcome a GPL fork, perhaps there is room for one.
Sounds like those people need more opportunities to me.
So Centos 8 will be a beta test stream for features and fixes, but for CVEs it will lag behind RH. That's an interesting twist.
My impression is that while Qt has quite widespread adoption, KDE is still pretty niche. The majority of that I'd guess is that Qt makes a point to be cross-platform. Gtk since 3.0 is pretty well Linux-only and content to stay that way.
I disagree I think RHEL and CentOS go/went hand in hand. With RHEL being used and licensed depending on the project or the environment. Binary compatibility and the uniformity of managing both being the big selling point.

Now the closest alternative is Canonical with Ubuntu Server which can be installed wherever with no strings and support purchased as required.
> A dozen lines of code is a lot.

Are you really trying to argue that using 1 or 2 lines of YAML per component to define how an entire application is deployed and scaled is a lot?

How many lines of CloudFormation would you need to do just that?

And... I mean... What's your alternative to a infrastructure-as-code config file? Clicking around a dashboard to treat your app as a pet?

> Especially when it's in a language you don't know and don't already have installed.

It's self-describing YAML (or JSON). It's not a arcane special purpose DSL like cloidformation or SAM, or a convoluted Python program like CDK.
Wait, what? Isn’t the whole point of having multiple publishers/subscribers?
If one defines success as true happiness that lasts, no.

If you want caregivers and to be around people who like you and actually care while you are aging and then old, I would say strongly that it is better to practice treating others the way you would want to be treated, with honesty and kindness. Or if you want to be around that kind of people (I hope everyone would, upon reflection). Or if you believe in God (for which I have many reasons that I find compelling, even "proof" sufficient to my personal satisfaction), or if one wants to play the safe side of Pascal's wager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager).

Money is a poor companion compared to trustworthy, unselfish, kind people who know that you in turn can be trusted. (And my experiences with social security and medicare, as well as everything I have read or studied in years, including the outcomes of communisms, family travel and degrees, language study, etc etc, strongly bear this out--we don't want to rely just on institutions to care for us if we can have people who know us and who care, and whom we have trained by our example over a long time to be caring and have a service-oriented mindset of actual considerate love for others. For example, close and extended family, neighbors, and strangers. There is no real substitute.

Stalin, for one example, had "success" in terms of power, prestige, and something like adoration of the masses. But if what I read, as I recall, is correct, he died neglected and miserable in a pool of his own waste, surrounded by false friends who cared only when fear required it. And either way, I think the concept could be obvious.

If one just wants pleasure, power, and attention during your years of best health, and to fade & die after you can't maintain it, and thinks life is just the law of the jungle (dominate until you are dominated, rule or ruin?), then maybe you would consider that honesty and kindness don't matter. I strongly recommend honesty and kindness, treating others the way you would want to be treated, and a clear conscience for a truly happy life. Much more could be said. :)
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> audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price.

It's not just sound though, right? Can you point me to an offering that offers the same features that Apple is offering here? Wireless, with a high battery life, automatic switching, Siri, noise cancellation, spatial mode, etc.

> At least airpods have a unique selling point in their portability and ux but I don't see how this benefits over-ear cans.

I don't see why portability and a good UX are somehow not needed for over-ear headphones.
I'm not an audiophile myself, but if you yourself claim to be one and then state you settled for Airpods something here rings very untrue.
Original discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428

(and also here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345866 )
Thanks for pointing out the spatial audio. It amazes me all the comments about price but not discussing what features these actually have. Dynamic head tracking for spatial audio could be really amazing and is not cheap to implement. These aren't just some "dumb" headphones with speakers in them. I'm really interested in trying these out on the Xbox X which has Dolby Atmos on a big screen and hearing the sounds move as you look around. Also, imagine silent discos with the DJ streaming in Atmos as you move around. Now if only there was a widely adopted open spatial audio standard instead of Atmos...
Lets be charitable, shall we? They'd get pretty inventive, faced with 10 miles of walking taking a day, or on a bike taking an hour. Perhaps make hard rubber tires? Ones woven out of wire? Wood?

Bikes remain useful, even if they aren't up to modern road-bike standards. So useful, I think we'll see them for decades with ever more creative solutions to the problem of Bike Shop Closed, Oh What Will I Do?
I was thinking free as NOT "server side" stuff like MongoDB Cockroach and so on, you know as in the Article described.
I'm guessing that would be the Sony XB-900N, the little brother of the 1000-XM3. The noise canceling isn't quite as good as the XM3/QC35, but it's close.

Edit: I should admit that you are correct that $200 (MSRP, not paid price) won't buy a fair competitor. More appropriate is $350, which is what the XM4/QC35 II cost.
USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 are different things. USB-C is a connector defined as part of the USB spec, which was developed in tandem with USB 3.1. TB3 is a different spec, basically an external PCIe interface, that uses the USB-C connector (used to use mini DisplayPort). Typically, TB3 ports are also compatible with USB 3.1, but I don't think that's a requirement.
Also, we don't scan "live" memory, which matches your intuition -- why would we?
What aspects of music does Glass experiment with, in the 21st century?

In 1968, it was fair to call him an experimental composer and musician. In 2021, not so much, certainly no more than any composer who is alive and still trying to write new work.
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There are now some updates with improvements to the Russian-language bits.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/where-did-combin...
This is perfect for my needs, thank you!!
I took the Carpentries instructor training recently, and this is one of the reasons they insist that all
of their courses are delivered as live coding with no slides at all.

Instructors are encouraged to pause after every mistake, and then systematically resolve that mistake out loud - review the error messages and walk through the resolution.

https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/14-live/in...
I own a pair of midrange Dali speakers which use compressed paper cones and sound really great.

You need some material which is rigid enough to push the sound waves in the air, but light enough it can be pushed to high frequencies. If plastic works, why not?
Wait, are you talking about de-soldering with mercury? That sounds...uncommon and ill-advised.
I've seen a brand mercury that makes electronics products(?), but doesn't seem to quite fit the context.

I mean, a soldering iron isn't exactly disposable. I can see how the audiophile crowd could grind gears. But while fiddling around with something can certainly be more trouble than it's worth, basically repair shaming seems like a bizarre take. At that point it's as much an electronics hobby.

In the bad old days of computers, there were certainly more problems you had to solve with an iron. Hell, if you've had a busted cap on a gpu or mobo past warranty, there's still problems that do.

I don't know, I just find it difficult, that on this kind of software-dev focused forum, that I can discourage the hacker spirit anywhere it grows.
When enterprises own the devices on their networks they can add whatever root certificate they like and MITM filter whatever they like. This makes over the network traffic more secure and does nothing to really impact threat detection.

If you don’t own the device then 1) should you be interfering or snooping the traffic at all? 2) if you need to limit threat then subnet clients you don’t own.
The real message is that if you want stability now, you have to pay for it with RHEL.
Hi everyone. I wanted to start a company that builds privacy preserving/enhancing products+services. The first product was this location sharing service (scratching my own itch), and my friend said I should just put it out there to see if anybody is actually even interested in it. The code is AGPL [1], the crypto is based on libsodium and the mobile apps are all native.

I’d like to find a way to charge for this service so I can spend more time on it, and building other privacy preserving services, but I’m not sure of some things:

* Is this a service you would use?
* Would you pay for it?
* Would you or your company sponsor it?

Happy to answer any questions you may have. Any feedback is appreciated.

P.S. I'm sure you may be wondering "where is the iOS app?". It's coming. Real soon. Now'ish. Later. It's currently undergoing a UI overhaul, and because all of the people I share with are Android users, it hasn't been as high of a priority.

[1] https://github.com/zood
I travelled around Switzerland by car many years ago. I noticed there were military trucks driving around all the time, but I never saw a military base. I also noticed there were many iron entrance doors in the side of the mountains on the roads with no apparent purpose. Then one day, I saw one of these doors opened with 2 guards standing out front as a military truck drove into it. Finally, I figured out these must be tunnel entrances to the Swiss military bases.
Link to the new LICENSE terms https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/blob/v2.0.0/LICENSE.t...

IANAL, but it seems you can only use the library if you have an active account, and you can still modify the code except billing and analytics. The it links to the TOS ( https://www.mapbox.com/legal/tos ).
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"pass a blind test" wasn't my choice of words, I would rather put it like something similar to "no one was fired for buying from ibm" on a personal level.

> You may have valid problems with Apple's users

I don't have a problem with apple users. I use apple products too. I also understand the rush of spending. I just don't understand how users see apple as a Hero/God company (blind trust). For evidence see parent comment.
Bwahahahah. You think EotB is "on the extreme end". You've never heard "Music in Similar Motion", I assume?
The complexity of building a lie-down workstation
Ironically, it’s easier if you don’t pay Qt and just use it as LGPL: ship it unmodified, distribuite Qt sources unmodified on request, and go your merry way.
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Sorry, but when the DAC can be tuned to the specific hardware, and the engineers know what the hell they are doing, the result can be pretty damn impressive.

This is the reason modern active bookshelf speakers like the Klipsch The Fives punch way above their weight and pull off stuff its hardware shouldn’t be capable of.

Apple can do the same thing, they have the engineers and know-how. And on top of that, the positional audio is something that requires compute power anyway.
Did you see the notes?

- adaptive EQ
- noise cancelling
- transparent-mode
- 3D spatial awareness

If Apple nails those, then it's worth the money in my book.
Hi ArtWomb,

thank you! We are very excited to bring our vision of learning autonomy to the world, and it's great to see this interest.

The MOOC Duckiebot is the first of the family to be powered by NVIDIA. Our other Duckiebots as well as the Duckiedrone are Raspberry Pi based.

This said: as for peripherals you definitely want to get a compatible wifi dongle and provide cooling to the Jetson, e.g. with a fan. Add-ons (to the robot): we went for a modular, plug-and-play sensor suite and more features to enhance the hands-on experience (i.e., LEDs, screen).
Headphones won't wake up the neighbors
I think everyone likes the bond they grew up with but I think it's fairly uncontroversial to say that Craig is the best actor to play the role.

Skyfall is still alarmingly good, i.e. it's a bond film with explosions and car chases that also has real thematic depth and absolutely beautiful cinematography.
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Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
Ordering is the rational thing to do if you're interested in these.

Best to judge them for yourself and then return them if they don't meet your expectations.

Waiting for reviews is ok too, though people seem to lose their minds when it comes to Apple (both for and against them). So the reviews are probably going to be even less useful than normal for headphones.
Read in passing that the system does not activate multiple times in sequence, and there's an extra sensor input for the pitch (previously it was a single one). Besides the manual being more explicit on the correct workaround.

Don't have a source though.
Sounds like CentOS Stream will bring the pain to users and admins. Going forward, the answer to every stability question will be "maybe you should go buy Redhat".

I had a bad feeling about the CentOS project when Redhat became involved as more than an upstream RPM source. I hope CentOS isn't turned into another Fedora.

I'm sure many of you will be happy to tell me that I'm wrong. Please do.
I've found Daniel Khaneman's definition of happiness being useful here.

He divides happiness into two parts: a "experiential" happiness and a "reflecting" happiness.

For the sake of the discussion and acknowledging I have zero insight into his personality, someone like Steve Jobs could be low in "experiential" happiness (seemingly endlessly frustrated in the present moment) and high on the "reflecting" happiness ("look at all the great, transformational things I've brought to the world")
Each house has an single always-on VPN client (RPi) to the central server so I ssh in case something is up. Pretty much never happens, but it's good to know the option is there. Most issues are with a specific software and not the OS, so I need to have a visual to help resolve, e.g. "Where is my contact list in Viber?" or "Why do I see this page?".

Plus, I'm running Pi-Hole in docker and I ssh to upgrade it from time to time, (docker pull, docker-compose down/up, etc.). I haven't bothered automating this because some things change between releases and I still end up doing manual configuration changes.
For those are not aware of it - US is actually more akin to an enterprise-owned state.

Joke aside, what this guy wrote is completely false. If Alibaba is state-owned enterprise, it does not need to stop the Ant group IPO. Yes, the state is trying to influence enterprises with the introduction of party councils in place of unions. It is not essentially state-owned when it is essentially not state-owned.

EDIT: typo
A significant change here is the licensing. Mapbox now reserves their right for their libraries to phone home, so if you're using v2, you should be aware of their data collection policies.
20ma for an ASR-33 is easy. You're just driving a transistor, not the selector magnet itself. The ASR-33 has its own magnet driver.

The older teletypes, the Model 14 (1920s) and Model 15 (1930s), take more driving. They need 60mA at 120V DC, because you're operating the selector magnet directly. The usual setup is a 120VDC supply with a 10K 2W resistor in series, switched with an opto-isolator. That is simple and works fine.

I designed and built a driver for the older machines that's powered entirely from a USB port, and converts 5V to 120V.[1] This was a fun electrical engineering project. Had to design an unusual switching power supply. A few other people have built this board, including some from the Computer Museum in Mountain View. That packages up the whole power problem in a nice little box. Requires surface mount soldering, though.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/ttyloopdriver
Yeah, you're not wrong, but neither am I. Both effects happen. The flu has unusually short immunity in humans: most diseases have an immunity that lasts longer than that.

A big worry about COVID19 was the length of immunity. As a novel disease, no one knew how long human immunity would last. Fortunately, it seems to be for a long time (more than 8 months, which is the length of time these studies have been going). As such, we know COVID19 immunity is "longer than the flu", already.
This debate has been around since the 60s. It used to be called "musicality."

A bit of distortion somehow helps?

Well - sometimes it does. And sometimes it doesn't. But if I'm paying >$500 for headphones I want something that is going to have low distortion, high accuracy, and musicality.

These products exist, and some of them are legendary. (Example: Nakamichi cassette decks which combined state of the art mechanical and electronic engineering with a world-leading sound.)

These headphones are very unlikely to be in that league. They're really for brand junkies who want to be seen on Instagram wearing Those Really Expensive Apple Headphones™.

I doubt most buyers are going to care about how they sound, or whether music sounds "more musical" on them.
IMO a better approach would be to read Designing Data Intensive Applications (mentioned a million times on HN) which is more like a high-level map of the field. The references in DDIA are also a goldmine of information.

You don't have to read DDIA front to back. Just picking a topic (for instance "Distributed Transactions") is enough to get you started building an intuition about these issues.
Apple devices are not anywhere near ready to utilize this dns protocol.

The latest versions of macOS and iOS already support DoH and DoT; Apple could push an update tomorrow to enable ODoH tomorrow if they wanted to.

Encrypted dns might be already in use by government or military agencies, but they know too well the effects of cascading this tech down to the masses. They will never let this reach the public.

You do know we've had encrypted DNS for years, right? It has some issues, which this new protocol is designed to address. There's no reason to believe "they" can or will intervene to stop ODoH.
I mean, they dropped the slogan. The idea still held up, and in a lot of ways, still does, though the jungle of different versions and Maven version hell makes it less universal than the initial hope.
This whole "People just buy them because they are popular" thing is trite. AirPods were tremendously mocked when they were launched and became popular in spite of that.

You don't like them. Millions of people do. Lots of people don't value the things you (or I!) value.
I would argue that, if it's being used properly, the message broker itself is a service. It runs as a separate process, you communicate with it over an API, and its subcomponents (e.g., the database) are encapsulated.

It's all about framing and perspective, of course. But that's how I'd want to try and frame it from a system architecture point of view.
Wish the article would explicitly spell it out. It wasn't obvious from reading it that traditional == college degree (or work experience).
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The people are ready, but we can't say our leaders are.