skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RHEL's only real value is the looong support cycle. (And CentOS was the gateway drug, and now probably someone at IBM, beancounter or VP of sales, or someone with an ideology about how to convert free users into paying customers thought that many current CentOS users will just buy RHEL if they really need RHEL7/8. And ... it's hard to think they won't. The "vendor lock-in" happened the moment they picked CentOS instead of Debian/Ubuntu.)

The low-level integration is just as good in Debian/Ubuntu land too. Hell, Arch does it too pretty well. (There's an announcement list about manual updates, it's worth subscribing to even if you don't use arch[0], because usually the same change will percolate down on the grapevine and next releases of other distros will also change similarly.)

[0] btw, I don't use arch
Wow, the world was such a different place back then. When this was written, the dotcom bubble hadn't even fully collapsed. Just two weeks later, NASDAQ would hit a peak of about 5048.62 before tumbling all the way 1139. America still believed itself to be invincible, as 9/11 hadn't even happened yet and airport security was fairly relaxed, and Enron was still considered a decent company.

How naive they were.
Nikon has been making PF, or Phased Fresnel, lenses for a number of years too. The 300mm f4 is a head-turner due to its tiny size and diminutive weight, while still being as good as the old 300mm in almost every way.

They also have a 500mm 5.6 that's similarly tiny (compared to a non-PF version) and hard to get.
If PicoLisp is too heavy for you, there's always femtolisp[1]. Anybody up for a challenge claim attolisp? ;)

[1] https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
The statement you linked to says no such thing.
> Do you know who made the shirt you are wearing? No? Then you are no different than Apple

Apple has a $2T worth to tap for investigating this, and I don't, unfortunately.
Even if 90% of the product’s value was the Linux kernel (which I disagree with but I won’t get into it), the massive value that Red Hat adds to the kernel is a stable ABI for 10 years. Fixes and new features have to be meticulously backported while maintaining compatibility and stability. So yes, it’s community code, but with a huge amount of release engineering to get it to an “enterprise”-ready state.
The Stock Market Could Crash Even If Covid Is over Next Year
See also this Elevator game: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
Can't we just send in Bruce Willis with a crack team of roughnecks to drill a hole and drop a nuke in to break the whole thing up?
More Than 30 Countries Close Border to UK (BBC)
"Not only are you allowed to do X, also boss is explicitly forbidden to prevent you from doing X"
This has nothing to do with technology or tooling, this is your team having the autonomy to do what works for you.

At my current client, my team is dependent on the "Platform Team" for _everything_ that isn't directly related to the code we're writing. Do we need a new Azure queue? That's a Platform ticket in JIRA. Do we need a new tool in our CI/CD pipeline? That's a Platform ticket in JIRA. Do we have a build failing for something other than tests? That's a Platform ticket in JIRA. Do we have an issue in production? We need to engage with Cloud Ops because we don't have access to anything in prod.

Plus, it takes six weeks to get a feature from development to production because horrible workflow and manual processes.

Plus, development teams are prevented from implementing anything without the approval of Solution Architects who are too far removed from the business to understand what's needed and too far removed from the technology to be able to design a working solution.

It's all fucking horrible, and yet we're using all the modern cloud tooling: Spring Boot, Azure, containers, K8S, Gitlab pipelines.

In contrast, a couple clients ago my team had full autonomy to do what we believed was the right solution. Stories would often be groomed, implemented, and delivered into production all within a 2-week sprint. No muss no fuss. When they weren't, it was normally due to us having to wait on another team to deliver their work.
Re the deli and other quasi essential shops, it would seem unfair if they closed when you can still buy your fancy cheese and olives in a supermarket.
Shenzhen’s boom led to highest property prices, lowest home ownership in China
Why would making chargers available for free be better for the planet? If people need a charger they can buy one. Offering one for free does not help, and in fact may be worse since that can only increase the number of chargers shipped.

As far as I can see, they stopped including chargers partly because of EU pressure (new law?) that mobile phones should be sold without chargers in order to reduce e-waste because everyone already have a box-load of these at homes. Hence also the push to standardize so that any charger works with any device.

Of course, commercially this allows manufacturers to potentially cut costs while keeping the price of phones the same... But why not, nothing wrong with that.

From an environmental point of view, making people specifically pay for chargers is the best way to make sure they only get the number of chargers they actually need, which fulfils the aim of reducing e-waste.
I know the OpenBSD community agrees with you. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152871660307018&w=2
I didn't think my respect for the FSFE could get any lower, and then along comes this.
Bash and shellcheck mitigate the issues but Powershell (and some newer shells like Elvish and Oil) actually solve the issues by introducing proper objects and breaking the defaults bash expects.

Bash suffers from a similar problem to Perl and other 20+ year old "get it done" languages that they need a strict-mode bolted on, and a bolted-on strict mode is strictly inferior to just having the language behave sensibly to begin with.
You can have a small screen with large letters and a big screen with small letters. You're conflating screen size and feature size. If you have a 4K screen and the features are too small, increase the UI size, don't decrease the resolution. If you're running a 4K screen at 1080p all you've done is waste a lot of money.
Is the surface of an iceberg, properly called 'an ecosystem'? A doomed iceberg that is melting? Seems a stretch.
Nikon needs a new D3/D700-tier body to get back into the game. Right now their bodies are just 'competitive' with Canon and Sony FF bodies... back when the D3 sensor came out, it put the final nail in the coffin for most analog film shooters.
What a DUMMY -- closed source pays the bills son.
Using an Oculus Quest you'd honestly have no idea it was using Android under the hood, they've created something that feels extremely slick and crammed full of the UX niceties people would usually associate with Apple.

The AR OS battleground is going to be very interesting.
I remember playing Lode Runner The Legend Returns as a kid. My parents had a Mac Performa 6200 sitting around gathering dust, so I would mess around with it when I wasn't playing NES. The thing is still sitting around, but doesn't boot. Even took the time to replace the PRAM battery with the custom part that takes AAA batteries :(
Docker support is now enabled https://github.com/andris9/imapapi#docker
> Once you accept Bash as a standard things become much easier.

They also become nonstandard.
I'm the audience for this article. I upvoted it. I enjoyed reading it and seeing how they did what they did.

I'll read an article like this one to see if I can gleam anything useful from a sales or marketing perspective.
As someone who remembers what the time before cell phones was like, having a hand held pocket phone is still miraculous. A slightly less aesthetically pleasing phone is not a big deal when it reduces the true ugliness in the production chain.

That said, I'm also trying to decide between a Fairphone or a Linux phone. There are options.

Kind of sad these companies are struggling to stay in business rather than struggling to keep up with demand.
Love the move to gemify standard library. This is a perfect mix of batteries included but also makes it easy to upgrade bits of the standard library over time between releases. Great way to prevent stagnation.
Used to shoot sports back in uni, circa 2008 (Just amazing how much things have changed since then).

IIRC, the pro lenses (white Canons) focused faster as a result of them letting more light in, as well as having
faster motors (USM), though mid-range lenses had these as well.

Around that time, the body also made a big difference since the 1D-series had ~45 AF points, and the lower and mid-range bodes had 9-20 AF points. Not sure if this is still relevant but I think even low end bodies have a ton of AF points these days.
Thanks for this book recommendation! If anyone else wants to read this book, I found a nicely cleaned up PDF here: http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/1474/homo_ludens_johan...
It is essentially the world we live in, save that the workers usually want their share of the profits before they are made, and so the determination of how much profitability there is to be and their commensurate value within is built on a best guess from incomplete information.

It is not always that way. Sometimes the workers are willing to wait to see how much profit is actually made before receiving their agreed upon share, but there is a good chance they will end up with nothing in the end, and so the aforementioned model, which carries far less risk for the worker, has become the most popular way.
It was only a lockdown in name. Schools were in. Shops were open. Ministers have even been supplying pubs with methods to skirt the rules (scotch eggs ffs).

Not saying it's not bad, just that very little is actually being done to prevent the spread. Govt care more about keeping people in work.
Blazor Create App
No, with the cloud providers - they manage the guests. You don’t have to know anything about how to manage the software. The difference as far as “turning on automated updates” and what your cloud provider does. Is that they manage the updates and have an entire team to test it.

Most of the services I named are just that services - you don’t even think about the underlying process.

It literally takes two clicks for instance to stand up a massively parallel data warehousing solution on AWS or an Hadoop cluster. It’s a few lines of yaml to set up most of it.

It didn’t take a “large number of people” to manage the software. It took two full time people - one in the US and one in India. For the most part, there is very little to manage or configure. Everything is provisioned with a set of yaml files.

Also, what happens when that one person gets hit by the lottery bus or goes on vacation?
We see the above-water ecological impact, and say "Oh no! The penguins!"

But an iceberg has a profound impact on the ocean ecosystem its melting into. This enormous iceberg is having a continuous impact, for better or for worse, just by existing.
Do you envision having a way to administer rooms like muting people or kicking users, for example ?
Depending on when your justifiability timeline begins, Palestine is occupying the area illegally.
Awesome early Christmas surprise!
My dad was in US manufacturing his entire career. He retired at a pretty high position and was largely responsible for keeping that manufacturing from going overseas. He said by far his biggest difficulty was that he had to pay a living wage, conform to rigorous environmental standards, and worry about pesky things like people losing hands or digits, where none of his competitors had any of those concerns. We’ve passed much needed internal regulation without requiring the same standards from importers. This is one of the reasons the blue collar middle class has vanished here, and it’s a real shame.
You are misrepresenting the WHO statement. It’s covering a small technical issue that setting the Ct threshold for PCR tests can vary the false positive rate, particularly when there is low prevalence. Because use of this, it can be helpful to consider the Ct value of a positive result. It does not say the Ct threshold has been set incorrectly, or that PCR tests “are faulty.”
Investors get convertible stock etc. If its a unicorn, maybe an employee has a chance. Anything less, the investor turns their $1M investment into a $10M debt or whatever, and soaks up the entire buyout.
Without context and without knowing what was her job, I'm very surprised at how poorly written this is. It should be much better organized, the points she makes should be made clearer and it shouldn't read like the rough first draft of a rant.

She should also include the excerpts of the judgement since they sided with her. If she was tasked with rewriting the text announcing Stallman's departure and she produced something this bad, it's no wonder it wasn't published.

I'm not saying that there isn't a problem, but in a story about an employee who was fired due to discrimination instead of incompetence, competence does matter and if her job had anything to do with communication then she does fail spectacularly at this job.

If, however, she was a software developer, then it's another story and her complaint has probably more merit.
I heard that too! How I wish that my country will do the same thing.
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> As a software eng. in those spaces, you're required to grasp heavy math (quaternions, Lie Algebras, you name it), find suitable numerical algorithms and implement them them bug-free in a hard-to-work-with low-level language such as C++ (because performance matters).

None of that is particularly hard though. Quaternions and lie algebras sound esoteric but are simple to work with, C++ is standard basically anywhere that cares about performance including a large part of Google, and finding suitable algorithms and implementing them bug free is the absolute minimum of what is expected of people.

Now, the work people do at Google isn't that hard either, but it isn't like your average engineer could easily do the job. At Google it is expected that a typical mid level engineer can design and build systems to handle millions of QPS, be fault tolerant to prevent errors from propagating and bringing all of Google at once, know how to write distributed scripts to do operations on user data like migrating it without bringing down the service, know how to debug errors in distributed systems, track it between servers and try to find its origin, create useful health metrics for servers so you can see what is going on since you have thousands of them at once and you can't look at them individually, etc. In practice the end result is that they just copy data between servers, but copying data at reasonable cost to the right places on live servers when you have many thousands of servers all over the world is hard.

And that is just the typical boring backend job, a significant part of Google is only low level libraries, algorithmic performance, machine learning, databases, compiler optimizations for C++, video encodings, etc etc. I've worked on both at Google and I wouldn't say that one is harder than the other, however working on algorithms and libraries is more fun and less stressful than backend work so I prefer it. Also the team working at the more "fun" stuff wasn't that much better either, I don't think the people working at backend would have a terribly difficult time doing those jobs either. After all Google does interview and hire everyone as if they would work on interesting technical stuff, so everyone knows at least the basics of maths and algorithms.

> Of course, there are some ambitious roles in the FAANGs (the algos behind distributed databases don't figure out themselves), but they come into the picture later, once the startup is already scaling up.

You talked about the typical FAANG engineer though. They aren't geniuses but they are still pretty smart. You shouldn't underestimate them.
Old fashioned and archaic? You realize this subject is centuries old and there is nothing new? It is important to study the original texts to get the real "kernel" of the subject before practice (lacking an accomplished Guru). It is the "modern" authors who are responsible for muddying the waters of this subject since most of them have half-baked knowledge and then market their "experience" (a lot of which is frankly fad/hyperbole/BS) to the gullible. Other than a few scholars like James Mallinson, David Gordon White, i wouldn't trust anybody else's translations/interpretations/websites.

PS: I took a look at the AYP website. It is junk and i wouldn't trust it. When the author is advertised as "Yogani, is an American spiritual scientist" and equates "Tantra == Sex" it is nothing but a marketing scam. Stay away and read the original texts and form your own interpretation.
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, during the years 1844-1845
My favourite part of the bash(1) man page is it's BUGS section. Just the first sentence. Bash users should take a look at it from time to time.
Could someone familiar with the Fiber/Async thing explain how does this differ from Python's (or Node's)? How come Python (and Node) needs explicit awaits but Ruby seems to "just work"?
Did that in the past in the UK at BT.A (and the forced split of cellnet) and RELEX more recently and I am in an EMI scheme at the moment that will pay out on the sale of my current employer

Having said that there are significant protections in UK law for employee share schemes
I've been writing Python for close to a decade off and on. I'm just now dipping my toes into Ruby and have found it quite fun- excited to dig deeper into this and Rails :D
I second this. Something like a quantum computers will, at least for most computing applications and consumer market, be something that is a peripheral to your "classical" computer just like FPGAs or GPUs today.
RC1 is a little bit late for a Christmas Day release (which is a long-running Ruby tradition). I wonder if they’ll make it, and if so, if 3.0.0 will be less stable than usual.
For scale prototypes, it's great. I have a 3D printed 1/100 scale sailboat hull on my desk right now. However, you aren't going to beat building hulls out of fiberglass. With a large CNC, foam/starboard/coosa, and a roll of fiberglass you can prototype a full scale boat in a weekend.

Maybe printing a hull buck would be a good move? But you just as easily could CNC foam blocks for that too...
> So it would be interesting to see what evidence you have for such a strong broad statement?

The entirety of the field of evolutionary psychology.

I had a huge post typed up, but I realize that because you immediately went on the attack:

> You clearly have very limited experience with woman.

You're not interested in actually learning anything. You think you already know. You think you've read all the literature. You actually think you're well-informed.

What you want is for people to shut the fuck up and agree with, because you don't want your worldview challenged.

> Claiming that all woman are or are not X (for any X) shows that your view of woman is simple enough to almost be a caricature.

You talk about being a caricature, then immediately go for a statement like this, which is a combination of the worst kind of pedantry and high-functional mental disability...

Here's one for you. Fact: Men are stronger than women. When a biologist says this, they don't mean every man is stronger than every woman. They mean almost all men are stronger than almost all women.

This is one, of many papers in the field: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265407513487638
“We asked a professional shopper about BB&B coupons and you won’t believe what he had to say”

“This one weird trick you can only use at BB&B”

“10 things you can do with a BB&B coupon. Number 8 will amaze you”

“BB&B managers hate him”

“BB&B coupons considered harmful”

“BB&B coupons are an anti-pattern”

“BB&B coupons now available on npm”

“BB&B coupons with Tensor Flow”

“CSS-only BB&B coupons”

“BB&B coupons in 6 lines of JavaScript”

“Paul Graham on BB&B coupons”
Sorry for answering my own reply.

Zero overhead cult is pretty strong. People should profile instead. Sigh.
Cellebrite only claimed they had broken Signal to the extent that if they can break the phone (in particular the OS keystore) they can provide convenient access to the saved Signal data.

The context here is that Cellebrite provides a magic box that technically naive people can use to crack cellphones. So you hook up the box and you get what you get. Interpreting the data thus revealed is part of the service.

Interestingly enough, things that use a separate passphrase to protect the saved data are immune to a Cellebrite style attack. Since Signal relies on the security of the underlying device there is still a distinction that can be made here.

Another point that falls out of this is that Signal is more secure on systems with an unbroken hardware enclave. It is also more secure when you have it delete your old messages.

>Cellebrite’s details will make it easier for the Signal developers to patch the vulnerability.

There is no actual Signal vulnerability here so Signal has nothing to patch.
There are a lot of interesting laws about what transpires if you stay somewhere 'too long'. And most of these laws are suspended for college students, simply because if they were enforced for students, then the out of state students would suddenly be candidates for in-state tuition.

My wife and I plan to travel extensively in retirement. We have traveled a lot so far in life, but only one week here, two weeks there, limited by vacation time. When we travel in retirement, we plan to stay two to four weeks in each place we visit, away from home for months at a time. Except that if you are in your home state for less than six months plus one day, residency becomes and issue (in almost every state) and can have tax implications. Most people never have to face that situation, but I have one close acquaintance that has dealt with this issue for the last five years as a resident of Florida. He says that if the state suspects that you are skirting the edge of your residency requirements, they can request your non-specific state-based cell phone data for the calendar year, and it will be provided to the state. It won't be fine grained location data, but it will say how many days you were in that state.
Thank you very much for this. I've been looking for a way to understand this perspective for a while.
Let's not be apologetic towards oligarchs. Apple had broken EU privacy law by allowing iPhones to track users for advertising purposes without obtaining consent. Apple is doing the rIgHt ThInG just because they got caught. Facebook is complaining because Apple got caught and now their revenue has to suffer.
Ah! So they still exist.

I was just commenting on the OP bold assumption that we're all the same, even to the point of ridiculing my mother in law. A strange article.
>The US is a stable and functioning democracy.

Our current president and almost half of the country explicitly doesn't think so.
And sales commissions are very rarely contractual and open to massive fiddling by the employer.
According to their own description: "Planet Storyline is a website, which provides you information about Technology, DigitalMarketing, Graphicdesign and more about Lifestyle Blogs." so it's more than a random human studies researcher lacking tech skills.

As @pepemon points out, the free tier of CloudFlare is probably sufficient and most of the non-tech people running their own variant of WP I know of stopped after being attacked (successfully...) by bots at some point. If you lack tech skills, I think it's best to go to wix, squarespace etc. anyway but platforms are definitely not a requirement and you'd be surprised by the amount of (again non-tech) people who can learn to use a static site generator (with premade theme) and host it using vercel or even S3. At some point, if you want to spread a message, it's worth learning how to do it.