skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not even remotely what the announcement is implying.

CentOS is the new upstream for RHEL minor releases. Fedora is and will continue to be the the RHEL upstream for major releases.

Lifecycle of RHEL:

Fedora
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Enterprise Linux Next*
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HARD FORK for next RHEL
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Centos Stream (Pre-release phase)
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RHEL Major release
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CentOS Stream
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RHEL Minor release

Those last two will loop until the RHEL full support phase (first 5 years) are over, at which point Stream will end due to there being no more minor releases. Any consumers of Stream will need to migrate to the next major version of Stream.

Stream will have effectively 6 years of support (5 + 1 year pre-release), and RHEL will be releasing major versions every 3 years.

Considering new technology and design decisions aren't incubated at all in CentOS, it is in no way shape or form possible to use it to replace Fedora.

* ELN: Fedora Rawhide with RHEL buildroot context.
Millions will soon have a stake in Tesla. They just don't know it yet
I've developed, maintained, and extended web platforms that all could benefit from what Pegasus seems to do. These platforms have driven up into the million-per-month range of sales for consumer (and team!) based products. The vast majority of the platforms are trash, yet power jaw-dropping amounts of sales and usage.

I think it perfectly reasonable that Pegasus has all the underpinnings these kind of platforms would use and greatly benefit from. What kills me is that hosted platforms of this nature tend to either: 1) completely suck; 2) have costs that only large corporations can afford and benefit from.

That said... I'm curious what obstacles prevent the author from growing this into a hosted SAAS solution that focuses on enabling externalizing provisioning (e.g. via webhooks) and customized sales flows. It seems like there is a solid foundation in place!
Nice concise write up of the same study here: https://zeynep.substack.com/p/small-data-big-implications

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305573
The Tor Project in 2021
Have you ever done this though? This is how I started and progress was impossibly slow.

At some point you’re just draining yourself of every spare hour, you’re underperforming at your day job, and you’re not really moving forward.

It’s ok to do for a month or so as a litmus test, but after that I fully support diving in full time (in full knowledge that there’s a 95% chance you’ll fail).

You can always get another job.
Let's agree to respect each other and refrain from personal attacks.

What do you define as "living safety"?
Given that they put it in the same category as Hotmail, I assume that they mean Yahoo Mail, not the search engine.
https://medium.com/dfinity/dominic-williams-internet-compute...
I can't escape the feeling that emacs got this right. Nobody wants their config to be lisp, but it fits the bill for what you needed. Especially combined with the custom sections. So nice.
Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser
Scheduling for Asymmetric Arm Systems
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.is/gLkDt
Don’t you appreciate the knowledge and experience you have now though? I’d never consider that a waste.
I'm a big fan of these wool blankets:
https://www.risheep.org/rhodywarmwoolblankets.htm
Why opposed and not simply stressed? Anyway if you need to wait until the end of the world to determine a man's character then you need to take a couple of psychology courses.
A signal he relies on is talking to customers. If you're extroverted, I assume you're more likely to take that step.

You can obviously find other paths to success, but he's just doing what's he's discovered to work. If you were seeing growth despite being introverted, I'm sure he'd pay attention.
How would you feel if Apple copied your app, and got to keep 100% of the profits while charging you 30%?

See: Spotify.
That does not go away, there's nothing stopping you from buying genuine parts from the manufacturer if you trust them more than the competition.
Covid-19 Deaths Surpass 9/11 Deaths in Single Day
In my opinion, and maybe I'm an absolutist about this, the fact that there aren't these guardrails is opportunistic and predatory. Agile, iterative design and testing will inevitably lead to failures, that's the whole point. Marketing a cloud service to developers who need scalable and changing access to computing during that process should take that into consideration.
> All websites behave differently.

That's the point, isn't it?
> Can I install those third party app stores on any Android phone?

Galaxy Store no (by Samsung's choice), F-Droid yes, Amazon Appstore I'm unsure. But for the overwhelming majority of third-party stores, yeah, you can install them on any Android device in a matter of seconds.
Advanced ADB Headlights Will Save Lives, but Not in the U.S. (Yet)
I’ve never tackled a game before, but as someone who has done the whole “iterate publicly” thing (link in profile), I’ve always wondered whether games are basically “startups on hard mode” for precisely this reason.

There’s so much competition and things can really unravel due to missteps early on in the piece.

I guess the flipside is the market is both huge and very willing to spend money. So swings and roundabouts.
How to Know How Much You Need for a Deposit on an Australian Property?
This will be the quickest blog post ever. The answer to this question is a follows; Consult with a mortgage broker. Mortgage brokers are generally free because they are paid commission by the bank. In my experience with mortgage brokers I have found them to be wealth of knowledge.

When I first started looking to buy a property at 19 I went to a local bank branch and was quickly told that I probably couldn’t afford a property. After that experience I quickly consulted a mortgage broker who was able to point me in the right direction. That experience allowed me to understand the size of the deposit I needed.

After that I went on to find a property and pay a 25k deposit, which was the first half of my deposit. Due to the property I bought being an off the plan apartment I was then able to save another 25k by 21 which saw me having the correct amount of money needing to settle.

The number one rule here is to define your goals and see a mortgage broker (THEY ARE FREE). Without this integral part of the process you will not know how much you need to save for a deposit and therefor your entrance into the Australian property market may be delayed.
By use I am referring to people directly using NOAA or other government apps/websites to directly access it without intermediates. Other companies repacking that same data bring very little to the table.

It’s the same issue where the IRS could in theory cheaply provide a user friendly tax prep software for ~1$ per taxpayer. However, tax prep software manufacturers have a massive incentive to avoid that. Further, they are going to lobby heavily for the issue which impacts themselves where most people don’t care about losing out in ~50$ per year.
Childhood Without Other Children: A Generation Is Raised in Quarantine
Most of my automation has to do with personal data backups/exports and various tools I've developed to process it and use [0]. That would be hundreds of jobs scattered across several of my devices.

I have a tool I wrote which is doing periodic searches for specified queries on different sites and generates RSS feeds with new results + HTML reports (so I can find people with overlapping interests, e.g. if the same person matched against multiple queries) [2]. Sort of like google alerts, but much better. So there is some daily scraping for that.

I'm using a somewhat hacky tool which 'compiles' a python spec for jobs to systemd and makes it very easy to maintain. [1]

As for making my day easier.. not always yet, but certainly makes it more fun. I live by the motto "Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it" :)

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/my-data.html#consumers

[1] https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html

[2] https://github.com/karlicoss/axol
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Clearly, we need a ‘Wikiworld’ AR app for adding shared metadata to the world.
That’s like saying for an antitrust violation to have occurred, the violator must have previously intentionally not been violating.

E.g. Intel can tell PC manufacturers they must not sell AMD devices, if they started with condition when they made their first sale.

I don’t think the courts will buy this argument. What Apple did from Day 0 was anticompetitive.
oxygen to leak out, which then ignited in a large fireball.

That sounds a lot like a thermoberic bomb :)
Wiz 'n' Liz
Why would brick and mortar retailers need to find through profit margins, but amazon didn't? If amazon could convince people to give them money and forego immediate profitability, I don't see why the same wouldn't be possible for e.g. hudson.com, (which is not as mighty as the amazon, but has more commerce flowing through it than the Amazon)
Thank you. Anyone who looks at the numbers can see that AirBnb is not affecting housing availability in any meaningful way.

There are about 6 times more permanently vacant units in SF than the peak number of AirBnb, and the amount of construction that has been blocked during discretionary review (met the zoning requirements, people complained about parking) since AirBnb's existence far exceeds the AirBnb units too.

(I am in favor of vacancy taxes, a house being used, even by a short-term renter, is better than the blight caused by properties sitting empty)
Cypress is a great tool for E2E testing!
> it's also ok to say that the success of AirBnB has had huge negative consequences for many people.

It’s not clear to me what these are. I really don’t mean to be obtuse, but what are the ‘huge negative consequences for many people’?
It's a bit like asking why anybody would want 100x the amount of any computing resource they have right now: jumping up more than an order of magnitude typically enables completely new use cases. For every step up those use cases have to be discovered, and it might just be that we haven't discovered too many compelling common use cases for gigabit networking. Maybe they don't exist, but I would think it's more likely they just haven't been discovered. At this point it seems a lot of use cases like remote work, collaborative editing, games are more obviously limited by the (often physically unavoidable) latency. Another limiting factor is that it doesn't help much to have gigabit networking if either side limits the actual bandwidth used.
It's probably something of a response of a 20th century trend to turn US history into religion.

"Patriotism" has been promoted to extreme lengths in the last century, with fun shit like the Pledge of Allegiance. (Where would we be had we pledged allegiance to the king instead of having a revolution?) And "un-American" heretical ideas like communism were weeded out with religious fervor.

I think the massive reduction in frequency of Constitutional amendments is related. We were supposed to be improving and adapting our democracy on the fly, but now we've been convinced we're supposed to treat is as holy writ instead.
google plus meets amp fo sho
But having a system that accepts non-genuine parts leads to a more complicated system. Apple's system is simple. Android's system is more complicated because it has multiple app stores. I don't want that complexity.
A good post on the Expression Problem, and the benefits of Clojure's solution to it: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-expression-problem-an...

Also, I agree, it's interesting to hear his experience report.
According to victims rights lawyer Carrie A. Goldberg, for every one case involving a rape tape on Pornhub, she has 50 involving rape and CSAM being disseminated on Instagram and Facebook. Mainstream big tech is far worse than Pornhub for rape porn and have a built-in mechanism for harassing victims directly.

I agree that Pornhub should have to follow the same rules as American porn companies as far as ID requirements and copyright rules.

But let's not pretend that any other part of this is about protecting children. Tech companies sent the DOJ more than 45 million instances of CSAM in 2019 alone, most of which they never investigated.

This is about the DOJ pressuring Pornhub into allowing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a DOJ subsidiary, to censor their content. Which they agreed to.
https://cloud.google.com/sustainability

Google claims the lead by using energy purchased and used.

Amazon claims the lead by investments made. Still needs to be built, kinda like Blue Origin v SpaceX?
This isn't new. This has been there for many years.
Only https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376003
I very deliberately made no attempts to even hint at a defense of Apple, my comment had nothing to do with them (and very little to do with the US, for that matter). I'm simply remarking that Google is not in the same discussion in terms of anti-competitive behaviour in the mobile app market.
I created a script to tarball my git server's git directory, encrypt it, and backup to Google Drive if new commits were made that day.

inb4 "just use GitHub"
I've been thinking about pushing more in my client make less work for my servers.
Your comment is so funny it hurts.
I'm with you. I have yet to use any of these cloud computing providers for building or testing anything, and it is partly due to this (and partly due to privacy and confidentiality considerations).

"Yay! NBD! Google is the best! All I had to do was work there for a few years, rub elbows, make connections and ask for favors!" Really, google would be the best if there was no way to accidentally go over your stated budget cap by 86 million percent, or at the very least have a policy to refund people who can demonstrate that this is what happened.
First, there's no way to compare the election stuff with this weather thing. Sometimes different things happen at the same time for different reasons.

>There exists a certain group of people that think private sector and The Market™ should handle many/most/all things

I think the Accuweather problem is worse, much worse. What has happened is that NOAA & NWS had been happily supplying data to..whoever..when some people decided to create a commercial service with the same data. Then they hired disgraced Jesus-freak Santorum to play lobbyist and try to kill the NOAA/NWS public services. Note that Accuweather is not going to fly their own satelites, they just want you to be locked out.[1]

That's right: if a private company decides to commercialize something the government is already doing, using the same government services that that government function is using, then the government should stop doing the thing and let the private company have the market.[2][3] This is a continuation of the Republican principle of privatizing profits and socializing risk, as well as colonizing publicly-funded resources.

It's classic pulling-the-ladder-up.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...

2. https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuwea...

3. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...
There actually have been 2-3 RCT so far. This was the most notable.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
There was recently an article on HN [0] that really opened my eyes to just how well Best Buy has done with that model.

This section in particular:

> Based on their feedback, Joly (the new CEO):

> - fixed broken systems, like an internal search engine that gave bad data about which products were in stock;

> - restored a beloved employee discount program; and

> - invested heavily into regular employee training.

I would bet money that fixing the search engine cost in the order of <$100Ks of engineer time and led to $1M+ in revenue. That's why the whole argument of "well, the profit margins are tiny so that's why retailers are dying" doesn't hold water with me. Just like every company there are critical systems that are obviously broken and are relatively easy to fix but are not correctly prioritized.

If they are prioritized, they tend to have ripple effects through the rest of the company.

0 - https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/amazon-almost-killed-best-...
Oh... that's a huge project to tackle! And really dang cool if you can pull it off!

Do you know for sure the hardware even works? Can you get them to talk to each other? What kind of interface do they have? Do they do ethernet at all?
it's the age of retribution. If you were male and european no matter how great your accomplishments were when you were alive you will be judged by the standards of today. On the other hand I think a lot of ppl forget that actions they take for granted today like eating meat or having a heavy carbon footprint may not be taken so kindly by history.
Back in the days of pre-computing, we had the “first sale doctrine”.

This meant that as soon as you bought something, you had the right to do whatever you wanted with that physical item.

Including selling it. Including renting it out. Including bundling it with five other books from other publishers and selling it together for whatever price. Without any of their consent.

And it certainly includes tearing a page out. Or writing your own notes over the pages.
A dishwasher is great if you can fill over 50% of it. Will save you couple minutes and effort.
Just use Goat Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Simulator
:-)
In other parts of the world, like europe, visiting prostitutes isn't a sin. That's an American sin.
But then I don't get to be a "serverless hero" and write blog posts about how my side project (that no one uses) costs $0.000034 to run instead of $5.
They sold off Gilt over two years ago for a net loss (estimated at $150M): https://www.wsj.com/articles/gilt-groupe-sold-to-rival-rue-l...
There is an irony in that statement.

The largest single real estate transaction that I am aware of was the purchase of Prince Rupert's land by Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870. For comparison, it was roughly twice the size of the Louisiana Purchase.

(It was actually not exactly a sale, but close enough. Canada paid Hudson's Bay to surrender its charter to England, that then assigned the land, free of said charter, to Canada.)
Microsoft Flight Simulator arrives for Xbox Series X summer 2021
OK, I get you. In my model of no changed behaviour, people who are coincidentally isolated during the final weeks of virulent spread might ultimately avoid infection. That's still going to be 99%, 98% infected? 95% seems doubtful to me under that model - but perhaps you are right.

100% with a rounding error.
> It’s nice to think that everyone is on equal footing, but even ignoring differences in education and genetics, the universal existence of motivated reasoning, emotional reasoning, confirmation bias, and other cognitive distortions tends to refute your assertion that everyone is equally good at determining whether or not any given idea is bullshit.

The universal existence of motivated reasoning, emotional reasoning, confirmation bias, and other cognitive distortions is precisely why no person or group can be expected to perform better at evaluating evidence and determining which ideas are too dangerous to allow other people to be exposed to.

> All humans—myself included—will go to great lengths to reject reality when it feels like it is a threat to a core value. This is especially the case when people have tied their identity too tightly to a given subject (i.e. hyper-partisans.) The average person, sufficiently prejudiced toward believing a given falsehood, is not going to be able to determine that it is false because their brain will start to play tricks on them.

This is precisely why no person can be expected to perform this role as a gatekeeper of truth.

Thanks for your links, I'm a big fan of waitbutwhy.com. With regard to [1], there's no reliable test to see where a person is on the psych spectrum, even heavy doses of introspection can lead to limited and imperfect insight, and its likely the case that the same person will move up and down on the psych spectrum depending on a variety of factors. Because cognition is costly, if someone reaches a conclusion while they are in tribal mode, its going to be difficult to reevaluate their position later when they are in scientist mode. This is why its so important to have access to a variety of opinions, thinkers, and perspectives. Even the best of us are vulnerable to motivated reasoning and other cognitive biases.
I am continually surprised because I grew up in an agricultural area and know almonds are not particularly water consumptive when compared to other crops commonly grown in california, like grapes or or strawberries. Grapes and Beef both take more water per calorie than almonds.

I think the confusion comes because people don't take calorie density into account.

An acre of grapes produces 375 million calories and uses 2.5 Acreft of water
An acre of almonds produces 580 million calories and uses 3 acreft of water
Beef is much much worse.

As an aside, Husks take up negligible water in terms of the trees consumption and are not a good indicator. 99% of the water used by nut trees goes into evaporation.
Yeah, that would be a very good idea. The way it is stated gives that impression, and helping people how to understand how to resolve an issue like this would be priceless IMO.
This seems to be more focused on the distribution. The screenshot makes it seem like it'll be shown on Chrome's new tab page. So in some sense it is closer to Snapchat stories. It's basically stories in Chrome?
Put a person each at the corner of a square, each facing the person in the corner in the clockwise direction. Have each walk at the same time at the same speed toward the person they're facing, so they all keep adjusting their direction as the person in front moves.

Describe the shape of the spiral path they trace.
Normally if you have a real guest room, you just put an actual bed there: no need for an inflatable mattress. If you end up using an airbed, it's because it's going into a space that wouldn't usually have a bed there, like the living room.
Just to add as well the point of a company isn't to survive forever but rather make a return on the investment. For a lot of these retailers it's somewhat inevitable e-commerce will take a large portion of their marketshare. The best move might just be to extract profit while they remain above water.
I think part of the critique here is that at a certain point you get big enough to where both positive and negative externalities created by your product become self evident, but often companies just settle on ignoring it unless they are called out to the point where they have to act. I feel like Airbnb hasn’t been proactive enough in addressing the negative issues created by their product at all.

For ex I’ve personally not heard anything much from Airbnb w.r.t impact on local real estate markets eg higher prices or low rental inventory. I’ve only heard them actively deny that they put pressure on real estate prices.

And they’ve only recently invested more in safety and have said they are trying to ban house parties after the shooting in Oakland last year when that has been a problem for years.
Yes, please make a post sharing your knowledge on how to convince them. I suspect most people would have no idea how to pull this off.
Lol to me it looked like part 2 wasn't written yet, but I clicked it anyway just to check and the page loaded, so I read it. No real downside in getting a 404.
In many cities the choice for long term rentals is very narrow therefore expensive because most flats are AirBnBs for tourists. This has a detrimental effect on the locals. Pre-COVID that is.
1. Ngl, that is less than I expected. Doesn't mean it's not a big factor.

2. Citations needed

3. What empirical evidence do you have for your claim that the problem is zoning.