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> There's a possibility that this isn't the big deal people think it could be. It all depends on the day to day stability of Stream.

CentOS's key attribute, and what separated it from other enterprise-focused Linux distributions, was that it is (well... was) a binary-compatible clone of RHEL, and was supported for as long as its RHEL counterpart. This allowed the user to use CentOS as a free drop-in replacement when the requirements called for RHEL (e.g., when running proprietary enterprise software that only supports RHEL).

CentOS Streams is not a binary-compatible clone of RHEL, which makes it unsuitable for people who need that specific feature.

CentOS Streams may be perfectly reliable (note that this isn't the same as being stable), but there are already many reliable and well-established Linux distributions to choose from if RHEL compatibility and length of support isn't important, and few reasons remaining to choose CentOS.
writing as somebody who runs a big collection of bare-metal hypervisors for ISP infrastructure purposes... this post quite honestly just makes me smirk.

I have truly lost track of the numerous instances, and number of people who would be better served by buying a $1200 test/development 1U dual socket server with a few fast SSDs in it, and putting it in colocation somewhere for a few hundred dollars a month. The costs would be absolutely fixed and known.

On a tight budget? You don't even need to go as far as $1200, I see totally fine test/development environment suitable, Dell 1U servers on eBay right now for under $500 with 128GB of RAM.

Or that would be better off purchasing a fixed-configuration virtual machine (typically running on xen or kvm underneath) that has a certain specific amount of CPU, RAM and storage resources allocated to it which cannot balloon. For a fixed bill per month like $65 or $85.

You want to deploy your weird app on some cloud platform? sure, go for it, once you've got the possible scaling-up cost issues and possible bugs worked out on your own platform.
Not quite sure if this is sarcasm ?

The do not track header is about 10 years old, ans was promptly ignored by all websites

DNT: 1
DNT: 0
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The water tanker guys also steal the municipal water supply by giving bribes to some of the officials.
That's a good point. The arguments based around complacency can't count because each countries' response is different. There is no global preparation against the virus so all the additional deaths that can be attributed to local lockdowns not being sufficient cannot be attributed to a global cause. Each of them would be attributed to the individual countries' politicians.

10000 politicians each causing 100 deaths is not the same as an incompetent or malicious researcher leaking the virus on his own.
It's "fantastic" how Google by the end of the article still come out as a good and friendly bunch...
There is no physical commodity changing hands unless the futures contract is held to expiry and delivery takes place.

It's not like this product enables speculators to hold on to water reserves better than they can currently. They'd have to have vast warehousing capabilities (or some lakes?) to actually sit on the physical product.

Sure, they can try to push the prices by cornering the liquidity in the futures market, but again, to actually have a sustained impact, they'd have to create a shortage in the physical market. This won't change with these derivatives.
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The birth rate in India is not particularly high, at 2.x, and my anecdotal experiences of travelling and working there is that younger couples prefer to have fewer children, only 1 or 2. Of course the population is already large, but that's unlikley to get much smaller in the short to medium term, so is hardly a useful suggestion.
To your example. During the US housing price bubble (so called) that deflated 08; it was generally much cheaper to rent. So a user did not necessarily have to buy a house. And when you purchase real estate far beyond what is needed, then obviously you will have to rent because you can't occupy it all by yourself. The true price of living hasn't changed just because people are overvaluing real estate.

Consider water. Say a speculator drives the price way up in the sky to the extent that ordinary people are affected. What will said speculator do with these contracts? Either she will sell them (and the price rebounds), or she will be stuck with tons of water which is burdensome and incurs costs to store. So clearly she will want to sell this water and at that point be subject to the market demand for it.

In other words, undue speculation drives you out of business.

Now, regarding this future contract it is financially settled based on the actual index value of what water costs. So it's not capable of being driven by silly speculation at all.
Folks - you control your browser / if cookies accepted / how long to keep them.

While scammers rip folks off for huge amounts each year (Microsoft technical support scams etc) regulators are busy with this.

I just wish there was a button that said I accept all cookies and I’d never see these damn pop ups again.
Part two of the article indicates they did that, and had the bill nulled out.
I agree: any company which does not respect DNT should be heavily fined at a minimum, with executives in jail. This would ensure fast adoption.
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Hell is other people. Social is often annoying, but companies will push it to the max because they need virality. It's a conundrum, and people need to find ways to work around how to spread word-of-mouth without destroying all privacy and individuality.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8360073/More-60-peo... (caution Daily Mail; mildly NSFW sidebar)

"internal ⁦@Facebook⁩ research that found over 60% of people who joined groups sharing extremist content did so at Facebook’s recommendation."

So you're right: youtube has the megaphone. I wonder what the proportion of people watching extremist/disinformation content on youtube because of suggestions is? In some ways it's worse than TV, because if you publish shit on TV you get people writing to the regulator to complain (qv Janet Jackson superbowl nipple ridiculousness). On youtube you may never know what your fellow citizens are watching until they say "of course the world is ruled by lizards, here's the video that proves it".

I wonder if people would accept the compromise that youtube would host this content but force it to "unlisted". After all, the recommendations are their speech, not yours.
Because it's not factually correct, it's stating a full on falsehood (no human studies) and then doubling down when challenged on this falsehood.

You can believe what you want about all sorts of things about the vaccine, but there _are_ fundamental facts, and that's what I find disturbing about this mode of thinking. Spreading misinformation on purpose and then covering it under the guise of "just my opinion, man"

And nobody said anything about censoring him or "deplatforming" him. But some basic human decency would be nice.
Having native support for Linux seems very fitting to a cyberpunk game, but given the kind of crazy reactions you get from some people in that community when things a. are not open source and/or b. exhibit the tiniest of flaws, it's probably not worth the bad PR they would generate.
I don't see this trend out in the real world. Look on any major jobs site and you'll find React jobs everywhere.
There is no global policy. Each local policy is only responsible for a fraction of the deaths. The originator of the virus can be a single person and thereby satisfy the criteria.
Driving on public roads is a privilege. Voting is a right.
only a half TB of RAM? somebody recently gave me a free 4U server with 256GB of RAM in it. for zero dollars.

If you need a number or xen or kvm VMs with a lot of RAM assigned to each one for testing something, you can fairly easily set up an older Dell R910 (quad-socket system) with 512GB of RAM for under $2000.
Ah, the RFC 3514 approach..
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> "I'm not racist, but [racist shit]..." "I don't mean to be rude, but [rude shit]..." "I'm not a Trump supporter, but [parrots Trump's lies]..."

I'm not a racist. I try to be polite. And I generally do my own research.

>Again: where do you draw the line? Tell me what he'd have to do in order for you to give a shit?

Don't get me wrong, I do give a shit. I'm very morally opposed to everything this President has done.

And I was very morally opposed to everything the previous President did.

And I will be very morally opposed to everything that Biden is going to do.

In my understanding of history, there has not been a single President that did not commit atrocious crimes against humanity, with the possible exception of William Henry Harrison who served only 31 days in office.
> Europe has some successful international projects like CERN or Airbus. Besides, what are the other options?

Those are vanity money pits with colossal losses.

The A380 alone lost over $50 billion.

> Europe is in this strange place where collectively account for enormous wealth and power

What century was that? Certainly not the 21st century.
Hrm fair point. I'm not sure DNT could have been repurposed to imply consent under much newer regulations, but you're generally right, this mechanism predated the EU regs and somehow was passed up.
No I did not. I merely pointed out that markets cannot change reality. They give you a view of reality.

Regarding this contract, it is financially settled. So there is no actual delivery of water, and it merely offers you an exposure to already existing prices of water in California.
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>> And even there I feel the reading of material in print is negligible

But the written bible needs to exist or the religion will fade out, correct? No one is able to adopt the practices of the Minoan religion. The Minoan religion is dead since their people have gone and they didn't write much, if anything, down and no one can accurately choose to adopt their beliefs.

>> most Christians have of course also never read a Bible

Why differentiate between them reading and them being read to by a pastor for example? What's the difference?

Christian churches often choose to host bible classes, why would they promote use of scripture to further indoctrination if it's not effective? Why would they read to the congregation from the bible?
Wouldn't websites fail in obscure ways if you disabled cookies? That would mean few people would disable them, so in turn web developers wouldn't care about making the errors less obscure, etc.
From my EU friends, I definitely heard good things about it. Did you actually try or are you just basing that on server's geo location?
What are you talking about?

Pelosi was encouraging people to go out and visit Chinatown in February, while Trump was talking about shutting down travel from China in January.

Which one of those approaches sounds like containment to you?
With enough eyeballs light bulbs are unnecessary.
Most of the time the light bulb changes owners(usually landfill) and dictates when that is done.
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Filters allow rather large families of wavelengths through. You don't have just red, you have a fraction of green. Because your eyes only have three types of photoreceptors they can be fooled by playing back a similarly large family of wavelengths back.
> The costs would be absolutely fixed and known.

Until the server breaks and you have to drive over in the middle of the night and try to replace it but the only available server right now is a shitty one and oh shit only half the backups work cause the onsite backups are fried too etc etc etc.

There's many good arguments against high-level BaaS such as Firebase but I'm not sure that "colo is cheaper" is one.
Have i understood right that the only thing this update does is to disallow my pc run any flash content after january 12? I use flash in firefox browser very often for some reasons and definitely will use it after 12 january so i just afraid to update.
Once an organization reaches a certain size it will need one, who ideally should be a person that can wear the dual hats of linux/bsd sysadmin and also network engineer.

If the person is already on payroll doing a number of other duties, the time/effort to set up such an environment as described in the post could be as short as a couple of days work.
How much water is a human right? We know what happens if you don't set a per-person limit to, at least, how much is free. But that's rationing (?) and evil, apparently.

I'm not entirely sure of the terminology, and I suspect there's a deliberate effort to ensure the idea of both government and free market supplies in tandem stays out of popular consciousness. See "death panels" for healthcare... if you can't compete with government, perhaps your business just isn't very good.

Alternatively, Universal Basic Income. Then, assuming your goal is to ensure people aren't dying due to lacking basics, you've only got one parameter to tune and one to monitor.
> Most of the censorship cases I can think of have been religious or conservative groups

That's all the Islamists are: a conservative religious group which believes in gun ownership and the use of violence. The difference between the people posting with gun+quran and the people posting with gun+bible is razor-thin.
To be honest wine is so awesome it makes games run better even on Windows.

On another computer I had, with the supremely buggy nVidia Optimus, SimCity 4 and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura both worked correctly only with Wine DLLs on their folder, preventing them from using Windows normal APIs.
Yeah, but the absence of system administrator has just cost these guys 72k for several hours.
>> And most news isn't fake, luckily

Agreed - poor wording on my part above, i meant specifically islamic terrorist propaganda when i said fake news.

>> making it harder to access radical content is maiing id harder, but not impossible, to become radicalized

Agreed but harder is a good outcome. I'm fine with "better, but not perfect"
> I do not want to disable all cookies, I'm perfectly happy to use credential cookies or a shopping cart

The cookie banner that you have to refuse/accept only concerns cookies that are not necessary for the proper functioning of the site. So login cookies or shopping cart are unaffected by the consent, and if your site has nothing else than this, it does not need to ask for consent.
Ask HN: Is your home automation secure?
One reads a lot about home automation related (or IoT, for that matter) security incidents, yet there's at the same time a big market for these products. It doesn't look it is only for die-hard enthusiasts, seeing many beginner's guides obviously addressed to non-technical users. Statistics are misleading anyway - they list like 69% of US homes having at least one smart home device, although my home (not in the US) has every one of them carefully disabled. I'm really curious to know from somebody who "automated" their home, what are their thoughts about security? That it won't happen to them? That the drawbacks or possible losses are minimal? Or they put special measures in place to make sure it won't happen? Are certain brands more trustworthy or more upgradable than others? Thank you!
My post is about the ridiculousness of comparing pandemic to an act of aggression. I made no comments on the measures being taken. Please, invest an effort into reading and comprehension. Following the logic of the article, i can dismiss the severity of this exact pandemic, because WW2 nets much more casualties than COVID.

Then if you want to classify deliberate murder as something natural, i can come and simply murder you and it will be perfectly OK. And as viruses have killed more people than the sum of all wars and homicides, it will be literally of no relevance to anyone.

I don't know how long you've been living on this planet, but not knowing the difference between being murdered by someone who shot you and dying from a disease speaks of immaturity i can't do nothing about.
Living in one of the wettest cities in the UK, I welcome this news. Now instead of feeling miserable when I look outside at the never-ending rain, I can revel in my new found riches, pouring from the sky.
fine, buy two identical ones. and set up proper backups. or even make the backup a hot-spare.

if it's a test/development system that's meant to possibly break, you shouldn't be driving anywhere at 0300 in the morning anyways.
> maybe I should try it with some Firefox extensions

So you're making fun of me although you haven't tried it. Yeah, okay.

> But I expect 95% of the web to break if I disable it

And you'll be wrong, it is much lower than that (except if you're talking about adverts failing to display, then I guess yes, in that respect it does).

I don't give a damn about other sites (and I don't browse intranet sites on my home machine -- if I'm in an office I use their office machine).
If they don't work I don't use them except in rare cases when I really need to in which case they get run in a VM.

> you're probably hurting yourself, too

That's deeply patronising from somebody who admits they haven't even tried doing what I do, nor has even asked why I and others do it (hint: it's for many of the reasons you described). It sounds like you're talking to a rather stupid child.
And after Google, everyone else. I am so annoyed by sites making it a real struggle rejecting cookies. Most of the time, I just don't use those anymore. Not sure if that helps, so.
We're at the stage now where they can reasonably reliably track you without cookies. I think we need to focus more on restricting what companies can do with data than focusing on asking users permission for things. Popup-hell doesn't help anyone in my opinion.
> How do the economics of such a theft work?

Depends on the purchase price of copper at the local scrap dealer.
It's not just the graphics API. These phoronix benchmarks show worse Wine performance even on CPU only tasks: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wine-ubu...
Those numbers are somewhat financial fiction to garner sympathy for big pharma, lobby for reduced regulations, and for “AI” startups to pitch their products.
> This phenomena is how I've been mostly converted to racism

I'm sightly surprised that someone would just come out and happily admit that they've been radicalised by the internet and are comfortable being a racist.
It is the point of the thread :-)

For many developers, maybe the majority, those languages are their objective reality. They haven't used anything else, they might not ever use anything else.

So things which extend the range of their tools are very much appreciated.

They're not going to shun their existing programming languages because other people don't like them and they're not going to switch to OCaml or to commercial Java compilers, either ;-)
I can't help but feel that fines by countries of big corps is just so routine that it's probably part of the budget. Sure we see fines, but what happens to the money from the fines! Do they go to the users impacted - nope. Do changes happen as a result - slowly if at all. It's all kinda like some form of taxation upon the user/people as we all know any large fine upon a corporation - who ends up paying for it...the users/people..again.
As it stood, DNT was used as an additional 1.5 bytes of identifying information: Yes/No/Not Set. To be then promptly ignored.
Honestly who care about cookies. All those popup are just anoying.
HBD is just how that particular crowd (less-wrong rationalists, a.k.a reactionaries who can spell) dog-whistles their racism.
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Not worth checking if they were wearing a mask. You wouldn't learn much from that. People lie, stretch the truth, and mis remember all the time.
Then they should’ve been fined for not respecting dnt
Technically, it’s GNU/desalination.
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That implies you are going to be running prod in the cloud. Unless you're developing against purely synthetic data, the data transfer costs are potentially astronomical.
Not only development but also running in production. You can configure alerts but you can't configure a hard limit. Thats just insane. That makes working with GCP like playing with fire.
He provided defence for Jeffrey Epstein at his trial for being a pedophile rapist pimp, and then remained friends with him after he was convicted of that.

There are many more points than that that could be made, but it does not seem necessary.
> Everyone knows California's policies are unrealistic -- people are going to gather.

Governments can drastically reduce contacts between people, and doing so reverses the growth of the epidemic. This has been done in many countries now.

The most obvious example is China, which essentially eradicated the virus months ago, but even European countries have had success with lockdowns. For example, take a look at the graph of new cases in France: [1]. Case numbers were growing exponentially in October. The French government implemented a lockdown on 30 October. About one week later, the number of new cases began to rapidly decline. A recent relaxation in the lockdown (beginning 1 December) has caused the decline to stop, and new case numbers are now approximately constant at 20% of peak level of a month ago.

For the US, an equivalent effect would be reducing new case numbers from 200k/day now to 40k/day in one month. The US could do this, and it would save hundreds of thousands of lives over the next few months.

1. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/#gr...
Modern financial markets are extremely complicated. Not because all parts of the subject are complicated, but more of a result of a layer-upon-layer-upon-layer effect mixed with jargon.

Anyway, regarding this contract. What happens if a bunch of random people bet on water scarcity? Well, if there is no water scarcity they will simply lose all their money.

If there is water scarcity, however, this will be a clear signal of trouble ahead several weeks (or even months) before the scarcity becomes a real problem for real people.

Yes, these greedy speculators will earn a lot of money (from people hedging and from other speculators); but it will not be because of losses of ordinary people using water on a day-to-day basis.

Those people, if water scarcity sets in, will have to ask their supplier (the state I suppose? or are there private companies in CA?) why this is happening and solve the problem.
But it's all about the journey bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZsSR225Ti8
Oracle Linux already builds from RHEL sources, so that could be an option.

Edit: There's also Rocky Linux already : https://news.itsfoss.com/rocky-linux-announcement/
It is baffling why cloud providers don't have that option.

I might want to have an app because I don't mind spending 50 dollars on my pet project as a hobby, but I don't ever want to spend more than that. Not if I write a wrong query that's suddenly becomes very expensive, not when I got attacked, and not even when I have legit users.

By the way, the same goes for some companies, too, just the threshold would be different.
Some other examples.

Russia stole a sidewinder from the US.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19042850

Brits stole a towed acoustic array from the Russians
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a28794/...
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You don't need to be in his field to notice he is an associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Well my mom knows how to use WhatsApp. All the women in her knitting club are using it to stay in touch with their grandkids.

She probably doesn't know what an SMS is (those are those things her bank sends her, right?).