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I actually don't understand the purpose of CentOS if Red Hat owns it. My understanding is that CentOS is mostly RHEL with the all trademarks replaced.

So if that's the case, what's the difference between a free RHEL without a commercial support contract/license and CentOS other than Red Hat not having to maintain those IP-related changes for CentOS?

The alternative scenario that most people seem to be assuming, where there will be no free RHEL or RHEL-like OS, seems impossible to me as somebody somewhere will just recompile RHEL source and release it under a new name just like CentOS did before. And of course Red Hat knows this.
No, it didn’t make sense to take an existing and useful site like Google Finance and dumb it down to make it a part of Search instead.

If it made sense, then there wouldn’t be a need to reverse course today.

I think it only makes sense if you look at the incentives of Google as a corporation, and disregard the opinions of the people who used and liked Google Finance.
Most reasonable people that asked for lockdowns also asked for stimulus packages to give those people who couldn't work money while they're out of work so they could survive.
Again, according to that TWiV episode this could be done for $1 per test.

And it could be subsidized by the government for those who couldn't afford it.
The higher the price, the more useful Bitcoin is.
If a person distrusts always anything, from anyone, from anywhere then it is true that blockchain doesn't provide any solution. However blockchain can make it more difficult, for a corrupt official to change some official documents, or in some cases to make them disappear completely. The timestamp of the arrest is of the utterly most importance. When a cop that may be corrupt or not, we don't know, upload the arrest after 10 hours, then something fishy might going on, the video might be edited. People around usually witness the arrest, and they know around what time it took place. If the data is uploaded 10 minutes after the arrest, then we are more sure of the legitimace, than after 10 hours. That's all.
Don't you think if there were a magical way to 2x your money, everyone would be doing it?
Open source ML compiler delivers 30% faster BERT on Apple M1 than CoreML
Last time i tried to generate a token so an app could push to a repository of mine, but I wasn't able to limit the scope to only that repository, I had to give the app the right to push to all the repository I had access to, which I didn't want to. So I ended up creating a new account only for this app. So much for scoped access token.
Having had it explained to me later, yes, but when I first heard the term I thought it was a rebranding of standalone desktop applications rather than something that involves servers.
39% renewable, which is actually higher than I expected. I said renewable and opportunistic power capture. The latter is a large proportion of mining because it is effectively free income. There are a lot of places in the world where excess power is generated and wasted because there aren’t uses on site. Bitcoin mining is a relatively cheap way to offset cost of operations in these areas.
MacKenzie Scott: ex-wife of Jeff Bezos gives away $4bn in four months
I’ve started journaling with Day One app few months ago. I am starting to use it more and more with every week and I am really enjoying it.

Interesting side effect was that for a long time I wanted to have a comfortable note system that would allow to store ideas related to books I am reading, side project, work projects etc. And I could never keep a system because I always over complicated requirements for that notes system in my mind. Now I just started to use my journal for that, it’s fairly unstructured and would be hard to use as a reference once I have a lot of content, but that’s absolutely fine. Just the act of taking the note in journal is super helpful. And with a few distinct journals in the app I have enough structure to keep it useful
Has Mozilla fully open sourced Pocket? It seems like years since they promised to do that.
Yes because he is. These are the people who are spearheading this whole environment being criticized in this thread.
This matches up with other such drastic changes in IBM's portfolio of offerings. They're turning the screws on all their customers.
Your first step is to have a realistic goal / timeline.

You can't just "flip" money. You can invest and have gains, you can also have losses. As for where and how, it's all based on your risk profile. Ie. What can you lose without causing any issues.

You have to get out of this flip mindset though, it's an unhealthy way to look at it and could lead to making mistakes.

Visit robinhood.com (they get some flack) but they're really a good way to get into stocks. Watch some youtube videos, tons out there some good, some bad. Take an average of their suggestions then build your own plan.
I'm not going to claim it'll be without issue, but it seems way more robust than DCMA, since there's an appeals process that can boot people out the program if they flag incorrectly too much.
Bitcoin Tops $20,000 for First Time
> a Thunderbird Android email client. [...] I want a full featured "power user" IMAP-over-TLS + SMTP email client for Android that is also open source.

Here it is: https://email.faircode.eu/

Unlike K-9, it is very actively developed.
Less than the cost of the transaction fees + terminal and merchant fees amount of energy
the details are right in the about page of that particular poster for all to see, and HN isnt the only place that was getting spammed, probably a script that was/is a little bit too loose on frequency of postings
I gave it a shot, it's off to a good start. It's VERY basic so far. No OPML support, no categories either. But it looks nice and I think the idea is a good one. It's lacking a bunch of standard RSS reader features, but I assume they're aware and probably going to add more.
How do they "control it" exactly?
Then why not try and make a career out of that? Become an indie game developer. Join a music label, or make your own. You don't have to do the nine to five. You can be your own boss. It just takes some work to get there.

By all means get your million and take an extended vacation. But when you get bored of that, think about the things that would be fun to persue. Good luck.
Thanks, good clarification!
I wish there was something like Ubuntu’s LTS, paid support, and release cycle, but with plain old Debian as the OS. Ubuntu’s “innovation” has been negative value since the beginning of time. Oh snap!
What's wrong with Thunderbird's built-in calendar?
I use bspwm, which is similar to i3.

I mostly put 1-3 windows per workspace, and generally use one workspace per task. My "main" browser window is always workspace 1. My todo lists are always workspace 2.

I then have one workspace set up to default to floating windows for apps that tends to go crazy with them, like e.g. gimp.

The other workspaces are usually split into 2 or 3 windows, usually two columns with one window taking a whole column by itself and the other column split in two "half-height". E.g. if I'm working on a web app, the browser will typically take up the biggest window. But I also have keybindings set up to let me easily move the active window left/right/up/down (it will swap places with the displaced window). I tend to move windows into a bigger space more often than I resize them.

Getting windows in the same space is easy for the most part - windows open on the space I have active, but I have keybindings set up to move the active window to a specific workspace, and you can also define rules for bspwm that sets up predefined slots for windows that "swallow" windows that match certain criteria, if there are certain apps you always want on certain workspace for example.

Switching windows to floating if the wm doesn't get it right is also just a keypress away.

bspwm can be fully controlled with a command line tool, so I also have scripts that will read a JSON file specifying a layout and recreate it and start the appropriate shells, browsers etc. I use the same plus an alias to change the name of the workspace based on the "nearest" project file working up from the last change of working directory on a given workspace. It's not perfect, but it means that e.g. if I "cd" into a project, the workspace name changes to reflect the project name, which does tend to make it easier to keep track of what I've put on which workspace.
Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle – $550k (sunnyvale)
you need to click to do that (and take the risk of downloading software from unknown sources)
at a point in time and within a country/region, mostly yes. It works fine for humans, but is really messy when you try to make it rigorous enough for software.
here.com ? (That's what Amazon UK uses for location tracking maps)
Because they previously needed it in order to do open-source work that was based on RHEL instead of Fedora, and because as a volunteer-run project, it was not being super responsively maintained. Here is a comment from a long-time Red Hat engineer explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351295
While I don’t care about Facebook, the sad thing about all of this it’s almost always the smaller companies that will get fucked first.

Or, in the words of the dude, you’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.
Are you hacking our website?!?!?! ?
My father is a physician. He always recommends that if you are getting a test done, try to schedule it for the middle of the week and not near a holiday. It seems the lab techs make more mistakes on Fridays, weekends, etc. Just his anecdotal experience.
The mode of transfer is urban stormwater runoff. Proving the replacement chemical is safe for the salmon is good enough.
Seems like they (fb)really don’t like having to work for that money
The issue is that the US government has refused to help people during a time when they should absolutely not be forced to work face to face jobs to pay the bills.

Instead Republicans have held aid hostage in exchange for legislation allowing businesses to force employees to work in unsafe environments with no recourse[1]. Even so far as a measure that would allow the US attorney general to penalized employees up to $50k for having the audacity to sue businesses for creating unsafe environments.[2]

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/15/disturbin...
2. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/covid-liability-shield-la...
> The truth is excitement and hype around price is the lowest common denominator for people interested in cryptocurrency so naturally it would be the most visible topic.

Echoing this, I'm involved in several more technical cryptocurrency groups, and there is little reference to the price, even today. Pretty much all of the discussion is around the technology itself, and what it can do.
Not too surprising, considering how container-based hosting (Kubernetes and friends) are taking off. The market for old-school all-inclusive Linux server distributions is bound to shrink, and it makes little sense for Red Hat/IBM to have two of them.
Yes, IE was very innovative in its heyday (up to version 4). But back then there was no strong standard body (sort of status quo) like we have today, and due to Windows monopoly they could come up with stuff which was never even intented to be implemented by other vendors (well, Mozilla). You cannot really compare that era to today's situation.
> Just a question, isn't all criticism against bitcoin applicable to gold?

Pretty much. It is insane that gold mines pollute the environment while central banks hoard double-digit percentage of ever mined gold in their vaults. And I see also no difference in the stupidity of central banks supporting gold price or cryptocurrency price.

(There is a small difference, though, as a noble metal, gold actually has some utility outside inves^H^H^H^Hgambling and illegal trade)
"Their" domain exists because the entire concept of the domain system was created out of thin air - the people of Niue didn't create it and in fact voluntarily ceded control of it, but of course because "they didn't recognize the financial benefit control". Well no kidding, few realized the potential of the web. The use of neo-colonialism is just expansive use of a term for marketing reasons.
How does market share equate to being a "real option"?
The point is not "this will work in every scenario".

The point is "this will work in some scenarios".
Is Octave based in the US?
Thank you - definitely I'm in the second category. Will take a look at PhotoStructure!
One man's speculation is another's investment.

We've also seen a massive liquidity pump (aka money printer), so it isn't just credit.

Unlike stocks that have to justify valuations with financial metrics, BTC has no such obligations and remains a peg against the massive liquidity influx.
This is similair to one of my favorite features of RSS reader https://newsblur.com/. Your (free) account gives you an email address that can be used to register for newsletters. Then, when they come in, its presented exactly like the RSS feed. And if a particular newsletter gets a little too noisy, you can remove it forever without hunting down the unsubscribe button.
I'll add,

4. Pocket, add daily news to it.

Pocket already knows what I like, has one of the best reader mode, TTS, has millions of mobile users already and is deeply integrated within Firefox.

Mozilla's values could even help it sign some deals with independent news media.
Want to add one: just started setting up i3 again after about an 8 year break from it, and found i3status-rs to be very pretty and functional: https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust
The thing is if you don't quit then there is going to be another post about regretting not quitting.

I have gone past the age to feel strongly regret to any choice I made. As long as I made a desicive choice without much delay I'm good with it (of course unless something really bad happens), because I know I'd regret if I choose the other way (or not), anyway.
There are plenty of compelling business decisions including from the developer houses themselves.

Development houses now have an opportunity to bring their software to a larger market share (iPad, iOS and MacOS) whilst maintaining just one code base.

Development houses would also have much stronger piracy prevention (same kind of benefit that enables console games to function).

Development houses would have much stronger control over the running environment (preventing adblock, preventing VPN region bypass etc...).

Development houses would have much more control over updates.

Surprisingly just like the now defunct Mac Servers, Apple doesn't really care about the high end hardware Mac platforms. They only care for those graphic designers/video editor/MS office crowd and their software is coming in iOS forms.
I heard this on NPR recently and was really moved by it [1]. Recommend reading the whole thing.

> You know me. I'm in your friendship circle, hidden in plain sight. My clothes are still impeccable, bought in the good years when I was still making money. To look at me, you would not know that my electricity was cut off last week for non-payment or that I meet the eligibility requirements for food stamps. But if you paid attention, you would see the sadness in my eyes, hear that hint of fear in my otherwise self-assured voice.

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/945092228
> What I wanted to try and do was something akin to the Super FX chip used in titles such as Star Fox, where the SNES runs the game logic and hands off a scene description to a chip in the cartridge to generate the visuals.

Bruh. It's in the third paragraph.

> Of course many games shipped with mappers

No. You're thinking of the NES. The SNES handled memory mapping natively. The SNES chips had specific calculation functions, or ended up being co-processors, or both.

> It's still a very cool hack but I was hoping for some ultra-optimized software-only SNES raytracer when I read the title.

Not even the SNES games in the 90s did 3d without an expansion chip. You can't do any raytracing, or any 3d for that matter (without SEVERE compromises) with 3.5 Mhz.

If you read the article, the guy designed his own 3 core chip at 50Mhz... Yes it's more powerful than any chip that was in an SNES, but, it's not entirely period-incorrect.
Ah yes who could forget famous Christians like Aristotle and Caesar.
It started to take off in October, with the release of the Oculus Quest 2, which is out of stock all over the place. It has nearly doubled Oculus' userbase on Steam in just 2.5 months despite their various other headsets having been out for years.
Credit Startup Self Financial Raises $40M in Series D Round
If I was forced to work on a non-Linux box now, I'd most likely end up running a Linux VM and do most things within the VM.
+1
Tig is awesome!
In programming the variables are saved in RAM and RAM is limited and has scopes (e.g. global scope, local scope). You also have linked lists, arrays etc. I imagine spatial navigation is very useful to handle all of these. In math you don't care, your variables are defined globally and if you have multiple with the same name the context decides which one is used.

Math is not concerned with implementation details.
Yes, but there's an enormous difference between information lying somewhere passively and copying it into an HN thread to rile indignation against someone.
Great! Where is the "Google Finance Privacy Policy"

Oh, they forgot to update that part.
Why Bitcoin Is Called Digital Gold and Why Store of Value Is a Bullshit Argument
There isn't a dearth of information online on why the value is valid. Can you present what you find unconvincing?
> If that was the case, wouldn’t we see inflation in USD prices for a basket of goods? Isn’t inflation very close to zero?

Given the rate of artificially keeping the economy going by printing money at unprecedented rates I'm surprised the house of cards hasn't come down a long time ago.

> Others say they are sick of talking about BTC price and would rather focus on its utility.

Perfect example of its utility is the other day when Pornhub started accepting bitcoin after Visa/Mastercard shut down their transactions. Drugs are another obvious one. A third one is not being controlled/manipulated (at least directly) by governments.

> Your options if you hold it are to buy something with it today or to hold onto it for a short period of time and buy 2 things with it later.

This hasn't deterred people from buying computers/smartphones, even if they know they can get a better one if they wait a year.
In Bitcoin, reusing an address gives folks who watch the blockchain information about whose money this is and what they use it for.

Let's say you have $20 in your address, and you want to spend $10 on candy bars. A common pattern of use is to spend all $20: $10 goes to the candy bar company, and $10 goes to a new address you just created. This helps obfuscate how much money you actually have.
I'll make a career out of it once I make my real money in normal software development.

The game industry is too unstable to make a living out of. I tired once upon a time
I live in [redacted], [redacted] and we often have high air pollution warnings and you really can feel it in the air.

During lockdown, back in April and May, there was a noticeable difference in the air quality. It felt different. When we went out for a walk you could also tell the difference in noise pollution from there being so few cars on the roads. It was lovely.

There is a church nearby that we can sometimes hear when the bells ring on the hour at night but during lockdown we could hear them during the day. My wife commented back then how she knew when the area had "returned to normal" as she could no longer hear the church bells when she had lunch in the garden.
The price of USD can go down.
Institutionally, Google has a hard time caring about things that won’t scale to large revenue.
Building co-experiences with a new state sync platform
Unfortunately, it seems a lot of people are afraid of getting vaccinated.

Those people, at the very least, should be getting tested.

Also, it's going to take a long time for even those who want to get vaccinated.

Finally, we don't know how long the immunity given by the vaccination will last. If it only lasts a couple of months people might need to get revaccinated again and again throughout the year, which will probably lead to even less people willing to be vaccinated.

So vaccines are very unlikely to be a complete solution by themselves.

We still need mass testing.
You need both good leadership and good support. The sense of unity should extend to an actual implementation of unity as well: monetary support for people while they self-isolate would go a long way, for example.

Unfortunately I'm afraid that at this point its way too late. The window has moved and the new accepted normal seems to be lots of people dying from the virus. Due to privacy protection those people are also largely invisible to the majority of the population, except for their loved ones - an abstract number. There is also a general sense that "testing doesn't work" - even more so accentuated by the repeated insistence of various medical professionals that rapid tests are "not reliable" (which misses the point - they are not for diagnosis but they're a good infection control tool) and a focus on the vaccines.

Success for rapid tests is therefore highly unlikely at this point. Could have worked 3 or 4 months ago. Maybe if there are huge incentives to get tested and a large campaign to inform the public, it could work - but otherwise I doubt it.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change#:~:text=When%20the%20outpu....
To some extent, but as someone who made that transition from 25-40K as a grad student/post-doc to even a modest tech salary in those areas (e.g., 100K), the difference is more than compensated for with rent/mortgages being ~10-20K more expensive. Plus, more and more data teams are now allowing remote work (though, let's see how long that lasts post-2020).
Short term: Amazon pays licensing fees to RedHat to keep the product going, if necessary. I don't know if they're at that stage yet, and big companies can have whatever arrangements they would like between them behind the curtains.

Long term: Amazon develops a new Distro unbeholden to RedHat/IBM. Only a matter of time.
Today you have native Germans and German citizens. Like the same as Brazilian citizens and Native people, i guess? To Imagine the same scenario that we Germans want to enforce in Brazil like "Give the Forest back to the Indigenous People" or "Let them live as their ancestors lived originally" but with people from Thuringia, Bavaria or Saxony claiming land to live how their ancestors lived back in the days is either bizarre or hypocritical.

Reference:

https://www.dw.com/en/indigenous-land-demarcation-sparks-div...
What can it do exactly though? A lot of talk about decentralization and distributed database and Yada Yada Yada. I'd love to find a good use case for blockchain but so far it's elusive
You're mistaken, or simply misleading. Brave has never inserted affiliate links into any content. What you may be referring to was the offering of affiliate links within the suggestions-dropdown in the browser itself. We wrote about this back in June of this year: https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.

When a user searched (e.g. 'binance'), the browser would check to see if an affiliate link existed. If it did, it would be displayed as a suggested URL. If the user were to press Enter at that point, they would be sent to the domain, with Brave's affiliate code in tow. We did make a mistake, however. We unintentionally matched against a fully-qualified URL as well (e.g. binance.us). We were able to fix that within a couple of days, however.

This is not in any way "sketchy". Open Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, or Edge and perform a search for "Hacker News". You'll note that in Firefox, and Opera (IIRC) you're sent to Google with an affiliate-identifier in the URL. In Edge and Vivaldi, I believe you're sent to Bing, but with the same type of identifier.
Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder