skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll explain why it's down voted then: everyone knows Nathan used to work at Microsoft but "rich man goes on to make the world much worse to get even more rich" is no better than "man makes the world worse to get rich".

Also note now the down voted post contains only one factual number plus a bunch of speculation all in the interests of deflecting. The post assumes Nathan never sold any stock, then assumes Nathan never spent most of his money, then assumes Forbes somehow knows an accurate valuation of a private company. Then after all these assumptions the post still admits the important bit: Nathan started the world's biggest patent troll and is actively involved in extracting rents.

Note: I do not buy the speculation that MS is the major source of Nathans current wealth. Nor does it change anything or make patent trolling different.

Nathan's founding of Intellectual Ventures caused everyone in the world to get slightly poorer. It is an affront to any inventor or intellectual on this planet. Nathan was militarized a system meant for good into a system of worthless rent extraction. In turn Nathan caused the current patent trolling we see from IBM, that they have more patents does not somehow absolve Nathan, this is the future he says he wanted.
"don't touch it if it's not broken" is not a philosophy, it is a slogan. Some people say it, because it is preferable to them to run old unpatched vulnerable systems rather than spend resources on upgrades. That's just a reality. Some care about up-to-date, some don't. Most people don't really care about security, and some of those don't care even about CYA security theatre. If they did care about security, they wouldn't run unverified software downloaded from the Internet.

Why Docker has anything to do with this discussion?
> 1. Where do the upstream RHEL sources live? CentOS sources are in https://vault.centos.org/8.3.2011/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/, but where do they get them upstream? I believe they're only available to RHEL subscribers, does this give RH a way to block clones?

Red Hat publishes it's sources on https://git.centos.org. Those are then used to build CentOS Linux packages.

In the future they'll do their development there, and build CentOS Stream and Red Hat Packages from there.

See also: https://crunchtools.com/before-you-get-mad-about-the-centos-...

> Remember, the source code at git.centos.org is basically read only, downstream code from RHEL. That’s how Red Hat complies with the GPL. Technically we go above and beyond because we are only legally required to provide code to customers, and not required to provide code for BSD/Apache/etc licensed code, only attribution.

Regarding question 2, CentOS has a somewhat custom build system for each major version afaik, for 8 this would be https://koji.mbox.centos.org/koji/
You could also impose a limit on the number of items a person can buy by law - similar t some shops do to try to stymie selling out of highly coveted items.

They could impose a maximum of 3 purchases per person. Then shops and payment processors would have to enforce this rule.
There are lots of image-container formats. DjVu is my favorite, and supports OCR text annotations also. But, outside of some niches, it has fallen out of use these days. Adobe closed the quality gap by adding jbig2 and jpeg2000 support to PDF, making it possible to build a "bunch of images" PDF with similar quality to DjVu.
Actually, curses uses two buffers and diffs them so that only the delta is sent „over the wire“. In graphics, everything is redrawn every frame usually.
Or Blue Origin trying to patent rockets landing on floating platforms and then suing SpaceX. At least we are soon coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the first successful landing!

https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-partial-win-in-patent-ruli...
It's fairly common in antitrust. Section 16 of the Clayton Act [1] gives states power to bring federal antitrust suits on behalf of their residents, and states will often bring both federal antitrust claims and state antitrust/unfair and deceptive trade practices claims in the same suit, as the states here are doing. Incidentally, if you're interested in the surprisingly expansive role of state attorneys general, the National Association of Attorneys General has published a fascinating (though pricy) book that goes into the common powers of state AGs in more detail than anybody would want.[2] The website for James Tierney's State AGs course at Columbia also has a lot of interesting readings.[3]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/15c
[2] https://www.naag.org/publication/state-attorneys-general-pow...
[3] https://www.stateag.org/syllabus-2020
But he did. According to the article, the hospital is contractually obligated to use the name for 50 years.
I always thought it was more than a little incestuous for RH to acquire and maintain the RH clone, but it did fill a niche.
It's ironic that the toxicologist's name is McIntyre!
I suspect this is what a solution might look like if someone was designing a system to produce tenured professors and attached minimal value to other things.
This is the first I've heard of that one-second delay. That's downright evil. Whoever is responsible for that should be ashamed.
That doesn't mean it's a valid PDF. Preview has error correction to try and recover document data when metadata is corrupt. It's entirely possible that the documents have always had corrupt metadata and that Preview now expects stricter PDF guidelines.
It seems to be very rarely enforced. I ride in Seattle without a helmet all the time and have never had a problem.
I've moved from a place where the protocol is "what's your name/birthday?" (while looking at a form with my name/birthday on it)

to a place where the protocol is "are you [name]?"

The difference is unnerving.
Thanks for your explanation.

I think I understand a little better your point of view. CentOS became so important for the HPC community that most software is now validated against it. So even if RHEL itself were to become free (as in beer), people won't switch to it (or at least be reluctant).
I got burned as an early adopter. Tried the Oculus Rift and PSVR. I had to deal with minor motion sickness issues with both. I didn't like that there was a lot of setup and physical space involved with keeping them ready. It seems like that's gotten better with the Quest 2 but there's no trade-in program so I guess I'm stuck for a while.

Here are some experiences I wish I could have:
1. Virtual presence at a concert or sporting event
2. More apps or games where I sit down and can move around but still experience VR. Controls seem awkward still for this type of thing. Maybe it contributes to motion sickness.
Is this German?
It did not sound remotely interesting or compelling to me until I tried it. It turns out it's a great way to get moving without feeling like you're putting work into it. For example, I've been using Thrill of the Fight to de-stress after work. It's incredibly effective at that because your brain gets tricked into thinking you're in an actual fight and millions of years of fight or flight stress response kicks in. Afterwards three rounds you feel the kind of release from stress that it would take hours of traditional stress management techniques to achieve. All without the head trauma!
How do you extinguish an open source project? Wasn't the idea that the community will keep it alive? Like the invisible hand of the free community?
Exactly. This is literally chump change compared to how much did the pandemic cost the economy.

This is a no brainer.
Blue Origin doesn't need to be worried about lack of cash. As long as Bezos is willing to burn billions they will keep on going. But that also means they don't have fear of failing, so they keep on doing things slowly. Elon on the other hand was and still is relentlessly pushing his companies to a breaking point. Model 3 production hell was a great example - do or die for Tesla, with crazy production lines in tents, flying machines from Germany in matter of days etc. Starship program is also managed as if the world was ending tomorrow with every other prototype ending with a big boom. The big pivot from carbon fiber to steel is example of agility, not failing for sunken cost fallacy and optimizing for rapid development speed.
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. Please don't post like that.

Your comment would be fine without that opening swipe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How is that unrelated? The lead AG in this suit filed a different suit less than a week ago with some incredibly spurious reasoning, including that the president-elect of the USA stood only a 1-per-1000000000000000 chance of having won the election fairly.
>The idea that all of the 'scandals' and morally repugnant behavior within Facebook management and in the company as a whole has been reported and revealed is so laughable that I cannot believe anyone would try to suggest this with a straight face.

The point is not that all potential scandals have been reported. The point is the ones that have been uncovered have been extensively reported. And that didn't change anything to the majority of users.

So why would you think more scandals will do?

> Most users stayed due to lack of a good alternative, not because they felt any affinity for Facebook.

When asked what the alternatives miss, the answer is almost always the network. When you ask to contribute to alternative so you grow that network, it's "meeeh, too complicated to use 2 networks". But it's not too complicated to use FB, and Twitter, and Instagram, and Linkedin, and...

"There is not good alternative" is a lame excuse. The honest answer is: "I don't want to do any effort nor any kind of compromise whatsoever".

And if you don't want to change anything, in my view, you're fine with the status quo.
Maybe if instead of a pandemic a catastrophic climate event happened to occur in a sudden period of time, people might get the same impression that it's at most a thing that would last a few weeks or years because "there's no way this would happen to us now." But when more data comes in and it turns out the damage is permanent or long lasting, maybe those people forced to make changes won't end up going back to their original equilibrium. We could not in general forsee the sheer calamity the pandemic has caused in its short timeframe near the beginning. Large and drastic changes would probably have a greater effect on short-term memory than if we're essentially frogs in boiling water, even if the degree of environmental consequences ends up the same.

Because the changes the pandemic caused were drastic by its nature, so much behavior was regulated and put into law (large gatherings illegal, etc.) in such a short time. If it's inevitable that climate change will never occur drastically, how can those restrictions on growth and consumption not continually get pushed back because of lobbyists who see no short-term consequences?

Or given how humans can act, maybe they'd go back to their normal levels of consumption out of spite anyways. It's hard to tell.
I never saw these screw-ups in Acrobat, so maybe the problem is not the format, but Apple?
Please don't respond to someone breaking the site guidelines by breaking them yourself, despite how provocative it may be. Doing this just guarantees a slide into a deeper circle of hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I generally prefer rolling distros, but while Ubuntu generally doesn't use the latest kernel, it's still providing security patched versions of the kernel regularly.
Fair enough, though I'd still argue that a public write-up that might warn a few people and save them the trouble is well worth writing on its own. As this blog is just a hobby, my time for it is limited and it's not like a write-up like this doesn't already take up some time. I did provide plenty of resources in the links, to which I don't think sample PDFs from me would add much value. But point taken, I'll try to attach sample data where applicable in the future.
That's unfair. Not even Emacs master works under Wayland. It's nowhere near a replacement for X.
There's a big difference between cancelling a project and firing the team. I haven't seen any evidence that Carmel utilizes binary translation.
People with Down Syndrome consistently report higher levels of satisfaction with life than the average person. It's just that we look down upon them and it makes us sad. We only care of things from our own point of view. Try to consider their perspective.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/0...
Show HN: Torus Trooper – old-school 3D shooter, written in D 15 years ago
In practice, Minivans seat 7 - Two adults, three of your own kids, and two of the neighbors.
We are developing an open source VR fitness game and after almost a year of exercising im VR I can tell you that in my case the sweat inside of your headset is not a problem but you should use the right VR cover. The stock ones of the Quest are very hard to keep clean.

The sweat on the rest of your body is a completely different issue. After about 40 minutes of VRWorkout I usually look like coming fresh out of the shower. Without VR I could never build up the willpower to "grind on" for so long.

Our game does not try to put the game aspect first but the workout. The game elements are subordinate to the movements if your body and the muscles you are using not the other way around.

That's something we have can't compromise on since the movements that are expected from the player (jumping, pushups, crunches, burpees) should not be compromised by trying to achieve some arbitrary goal like hitting an enemy.

Here is a video of this crazy idea https://youtu.be/mFYzaQzsUI4

[1] VRWorkout https://vrworkout.at
Sure, thing. It's hard to find info about this because most info about listing things on Amazon is hidden behind hoards of information from course sellers and "get rich quick with amazon FBA" content.

Essentially, Amazon either wants you to A) register a trademark and your brand (the only way to list things without UPC's and use amazon's internal "fxn" label scheme) or purchase UPC's for each product you sell. UPC's are intended to be the same for your product wherever it ends up on the web and are intended to uniquely identify your products. Technically you could purchase a new UPC for each place you list your items, but that can get expensive. Amazon leverages UPC's to identify items in their warehouses and more importantly trace counterfeit items or food items that could require a recall. It used to be common for people to re-sell existing UPC's but recently amazon has started banning sellers for this practice. Having expensive UPC's is also a way to make the barrier to entry higher, making sellers on Amazon really have to want to sell on amazon.

The game theory and psychology of it all is pretty interesting.
I think you're mistaking work for being puzzle-solving.

Work is always about people.
If it's not about people, it's probably research, which is different from work.
Author here. Would love to know what’s the common 5% and the major differences.This guide was written with a complete beginner with no programming background in mind (myself 5-6 years before includes). I think veterans’ wisdom and experience can help rookies a lot.
This seems like the exact use case for an ILO. An Initial Legal Offering I was reading about that will now be easier for defendants to access.

The linked service allows you to use the blockchain to stake your currency against the legal proceeding benefitting in the outcome if successful.

https://www.institutionalassetmanager.co.uk/2020/12/15/29354...
I like tig, then I discovered lazygit, a samish idea in Go which as far as I can tell is more powerful and easier to use. (I have no affiliation to any).
Basecamp Review – Easy-to-Use System to Organize Your Business Better
I think it is mostly about running servers (standard services that don't change much) for 10 years (and more). You don't need 10 year LTS distribution for building a product. You take whatever version of OS distribution you like, secure local copy should the upstream disappear, and vendor it into your product and never deviate from it.
Yes, it's a pity people are so easily manipulated.
TikTok Engagement Calculator and Earnings Estimator
Previous threads on this project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209940

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24142135

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24010633

(If anyone's curious. Not dupes.)
Clojure is quite capable in interactive programming, through its REPL, so you must be talking about the lack of a condition system in the clojure core.

But Common Lisp features like the condition system are already available in Clojure by just requiring (loading) the respective library. :)

As an example, see https://github.com/clojureman/special . Nice thing about this repo is that it points to other options re. conditions with pros and cons of each one.

Now that I think of it, you might also be referring to the fact that Common Lisp can load libraries through the REPL. Clojure can also do this through an alpha feature, add-lib, that you can already require in any project.
It mostly is. I run a pretty minimal config, and it hasn't changed much in a decade. Occasionally I might try a new package to see if it scratches an itch better, but that's about it.
Speeding Up CPython
Obvious next question: what drove the CentOS devs to sell to Redhat. From previous discussions, I understood that it came down to lack of resources / devs to maintain and support it. So OP's question is on point: what will Rocky Linux do to avoid a similar misfortune?
> pull you out of book.

Openings do not necessary break here. They are meant to take advantage of a situation by a series of branched off movement. If you are not making good enough guess about why a particular opening is played - making one move to pull somebody out of the book won't do much good.
Thanks, I'll definitely check out your article. I'm currently writing a Pratt parser in Go and I don't have problems so far.
Author here. Thank you for your comments. Glad the guide was useful to you.
Virtual primary care startup Curai Health secures $27.5M Series B
Author here. Thank you for the mention :)
IIRC correctly, it's built on top of org-mode, with some tweaks toward use as a "knowledge graph"
The comments are interspersed in random threads, but there's a bunch in last month's about the COO being replaced, one striking example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/k5icgf/coo_of_j...

> I work for Blue Origin. blue is not telling the public..

> 1. They built 4 different rockets..none are built the same.

> 2. They never documented the builds. The allowed legacy engineers transfer to New Glenn.

> 3. The rockets are marginal at best. tail 4 just came back from Kent..They had to cut it open to replace helium tanks. the tanks have a life cycle.Instead of replacing with new..they ground on the welds till the cracks went away. ATP test was need to know only.

> 4. Software between tails is different..they cant talk to one another.

> 5. BE3 is a single engine dud..The last flights have all been done with the same engine cracks and all.

> 6. All BE3 engine assembly attempts have produced an Engine
Lacking an Economist subscription, is it due to a game theory explanation for how above a certain survival or wealth probability threshold, human societies switch from r-selection to K-selection, or is it just that the overprotected ones genetically select out because they grow up to be unattractive?
sorry I dunno why this didn't come up in the dupe checker

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25432397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440107
Because SSH actually delivers appropriate user security?

In HTTPS the model is, you and the server both know a secret, your "password" and then you... just tell them your secret each time to authenticate.

That's a pretty good model if you're a ten year old playing forts out in the woods, but it's far below what we ought to be achieving for a service like this.

It's true that this plaintext password authentication is normal for the web, which is basically Tim (Berners-Lee)'s fault but that doesn't magically make it a good idea, and it makes sense that GitHub doesn't want "Yes it's crap but it's no worse than the web" to be all they're delivering.
Basic PDF editing (adding, removing, reordering, cropping and rotating) has been rock solid in Apple's Preview app. It's something that I dearly miss when I'm on Windows.

Which makes showstopper bugs like this a very unfortunate.

But then again, it's been common knowledge that you shouldn't upgrade to a .0 release...
It doesn't seem to touch on the most glaring abuse in my opinion, which is the widgets on their search page that directly competes with websites bidding for page ranking.
You seem to dislike lightning network, but the reason given are not accurate.

What would happen if there was collusion between nodes?

And while it is true that you are still limited by the Blockchain speed if the nodes don't cooperate, all the incentives are made so they do cooperate and that transactions happen near instantly.
Exactly.

My all personal systems are Debian, however when I install something research related, it's always CentOS. There's no question. I even manage a couple of research servers at my former university. They're CentOS as well.

Moreover service (web, git, documentation, etc.) servers are CentOS too to keep systems uniform even if there's no requirement. So it powers the whole ecosystem, not the compute foundation. That's a big iceberg.
> you interrupt a whole lot of transmission chains

Trees! Know your data structures. /s
Really have no idea. I'll probably launch an expedition to find any remaining humans, because how do you know there is none, especially when the infrastructure is still working?
No, not remotely.

It may be true that a particular company has a stranglehold on browser choice on your particular phone, but that is completely different from having an anticompetitive strangehold on the market as a whole, which is what matters from an antitrust standpoint. I'm not the biggest fan of capitalism but the market seems to be functioning rather well. Not perfectly but well.

Just a refresher: IE had 96% market share at its peak, and Microsoft were guilty of quite a few other anticompetitive practices as well w.r.t. Windows itself, more or less literally penalizing OEMs from shipping any other desktop OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars

Competition is thriving in the mobile space. Safari, Chrome, and derivatives of Chrome are competing with each other and they are well-performing, aggressively maintained and updated pieces of software.

Sure, there are plenty of technical reasons to be annoyed with either one of them. Mobile Safari sure is slow to adopt certain standards, etc. And don't get me wrong -- it is extremely regrettable whenever browser choice is restricted. It sucks, I hate it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/wsj-amazon-uses-data-from-th...

Don't know why people are downvoting. This is SOP at Amazon. You want to blame me for Amazon's reputation? You want to blame cnbc? What the fuck, fuckers.
Not full electric, but we've been loving our Pacifica PHEV. You do sacrifice a bit of practicality—no towing capability, and the middle seats don't fold into the floor like the gas version (the battery is down there)—but in the summer we sometimes go months without refueling.

I fully concur on the practicality. The only vehicle more versatile than a minivan is full-size van (my family's conversion van growing up was insanely useful).