skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At that point ... why not drop RHEL5/6 support? Or, if p2v works on them already, why can't you have a rhel-5/6 branch and only touch it if somebody gives you a pot of 24 Karat gold?
Anstrex – Keep an eye on your online competitors
I didn't realize that concentration camp victims were building rockets?
After 1mb.club a week or two ago, should I just beat the rush and register 1kb.club?
Alternatively, you could buy an Oculus Quest 2 for $299 and a
Magene Cadence Sensor for $20

https://www.amazon.com/Magene-Cycling-Cadence-Buletooth-Wire...

Then download this game for Oculus Quest https://www.virzoom.com/

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJU0vRtug4&feature=emb_logo
> How do you propose you correct your kids?

It's not hard. You just talk to them. It takes a little bit of patience and self awareness. Sometimes they're still gonna fuck up. But then, so are you.
One of the surprising things from working at home, was how noticeable the pollution was when venturing back into the city for in-office days. Just one poorly maintained diesel 4x4 or an older bus and you can taste the particulates/VOCs in the air.

On the other hand the neighbour's lawnmower would often send clouds of burnt oil through the yard requiring a frantic closing of all windows.
Every year between 2009 and 2017, Canonical lost money. In 2018 after several rounds of layoffs they finally made a profit of ~10 million, but their revenue actually dropped from the year before.

Whether or not it is a good plan in theory, it clearly doesn't seem to be working that well for them in practice.
I feel this site shows why websites need more than 512kb these days... Most of these are just unaesthetic, simple personal sites with a few blog posts. Nothing wrong with that but nothing to glorify either.
That seems like a very circular answer. I'd clarify to say that patents are considered anticompetitive practices. However, they were (as originally envisioned, but certainly not since State Street, possibly earlier) anticompetitive practices that were specifically and purposefully limited in two ways:

1. The filing of a patent requires the filer to disclose the operation of the patented invention such that any art-practiced person could replicate it. Any non-disclosed secrets are protected only under trade-secret law, where the thing is secret only until the secret is out. That's how Coca-Cola has kept the Coke recipe a secret for generations.

2. The patent is enforceable only for a limited period of time (20 years), much like copyright originally was (14x2). Due to innovation pressures, and the fact that companies recognize they build on one anothers' works, that enforcement window hasn't been extended. Instead, companies rely on patent thickets to keep competitors out for the proscribed period of time.

As mentioned above, modern patents aren't actually subject to these limitations. Modern drafting lawyers do everything they can to exclude required information in the patient itself so that it can't be used for reproduction, while still claiming patent enforceability on the result. Additionally, patents are also awarded for a vast array of inventions that would've been previously considered unpatentable descriptions of ideas (software and process patents in particular). See Jefferson (e.g., knowledge and candles) for some of the original reasoning behind the system.

In other words, since there's no billion dollar industry buying laws requiring fewer and smaller patents, the scope of patentability keeps increasing to the benefit of already entrenched players.
> If one member state spends "too much" (i.e., injects "too much" money into circulation), it challenges and threatens the economic capacity of other member states because it devalues the Euro because the Euro is less scarce than it was.

This would make sense if only Eurozone members were part of the Stability and Growth pact, but as it turns out, other EU countries like Sweden or Poland, which neither are part of nor intend to join Eurozone any time soon, are also subject to these very same debt limit obligations stemming from the pact. Poland in fact has its own debt limit written into its national constitution.
>The engine is a General Electric Model T58-8F with some internal modifications and a custom tailpipe.

Car guys always have to have their custom exhausts, don't they? :)
I miss the old days of RTFA.
Commoditization doesn't need to be "make data public".

Can simply make a separate company that holds the data and offers using it as a service to other companies, of which Google is one.
If you're into gaming + exercising I very very highly recommend you consider getting an Oculus Quest 2 (or, if you are anti-facebook, a Valve Index).

There are so many great games which will really get your heart pumping!

- FitXR

- Thrill of the Fight

- POPULATION:ONE (lot's of very fast climbing if you know how to play well)

- Pistol Whip

- Until you Fall

The list goes on and on. There's many more than I share here.
Yep. I don't even need bespoke legal work; I'm happy if people just send an invoice with Commercial License as a line item and agree via email "Our Commercial License is the MIT license in the README and is available for $1,000 per year."

HNers often ask whether this is somehow dodgy, which it is not. Both of the tax agencies which care about my business give me virtually carte blanche to determine which products/services are necessary to keep the business running, subject to their standard regulations, and it is my considered judgment as a business owner that the software I use is necessary and that the amounts I pay are appropriate to the value received.
There's nothing wrong with a Google employee participating in a Google-related discussion (edit: I mean in an HN thread of course), same as with any company. It's nice if they say so, which jefftk did.

Edit: I misread. Corrected below. Sorry!
Don't forget the 5th row. My van has 15 seats. I'll fill the final seat this summer.

The safety problem is that most drivers can't deal well with a suspension that lets the vehicle movement lag well behind the driver inputs. Drivers would roll the vans over while driving on perfectly straight roads with good pavement. It's the same as pilot-in-the-loop oscillation. When the vehicle has a delayed response, the operator will overdo the input. That then needs to be corrected, but the correction may also be overdone. Each mistake leads to another mistake of larger magnitude in the opposite direction.

The extended-body vans like mine are particularly bad. When the body got extended, the rear axle didn't get moved rearward. Instead, the read tire pressure was increased to compensate for bad axle location.

Non-professional drivers often got asked to drive these vans for daycare, church groups, and other group activities. The problem got so bad that the federal government mandated that states act to keep the vans from being used for daycare and similar uses. Each state did something different. My state uses a $250,000 fine against the original dealer that sold the vehicle new, even if the vehicle was subsequently sold. This totally shut down new vehicle sales. The vans can be leased however, and they can be purchased coming off of a lease. As a result, all vans are provisioned as preferred by the rental companies. (white, naturally aspirated gasoline V8, cloth seats, etc.)
Yes. The money should gone towards dev, but also testing.

According to the author, the problem contributing to this misprioritization was that “Firefox exists just to give Mozilla a seat at the table when the web is defined,” such that they didn’t care if it was the best. I doubt that’s true. Few want second, third, or fourth place. So let’s assume they wanted it to be the best. Where did it go wrong?

As much as Rust is great and FF was a great project to try it out on, I’m not convinced that FF needed a full rewrite, and in my experience there were significant problems with performance as Rust wasn’t fully there and the developers didn’t test adequately on all platforms, which they should’ve pushed more for if the funds were there.
HEPA filters are actually more efficient at capturing very very small particles (<0.1 micron) than they are at capturing simply small particles (≈0.3 micron). The tiniest particles are light enough to be captured using electrostatic forces rather than the more typical mechanical filtration that is effective at capturing large particles.

More precisely, many odors are not particles at all but rather gases/vapors. Activated charcoal can capture larger organic molecules because it has an incredibly jagged/porous surface - just 100 grams of activated charcoal provides over 1,000,000 square feet of "effective" filtration surface area.
Looks great! Doesn't seem to be very functional on mobile - at least not the homepage. I'll save this for later!
When do we get the test that shows you have antibodies? Amazing how nobody in the world seems to know how a common cold works. Just google it.
I'm getting some Mars One vibes from this.
why people always talk about those "data structures"

and in reality they have basics in mind?

Seriously when you've been writting any software for e.g >1 >2 years then I'm pretty sure you must've been using almost all of them

who cares about details of complexity when very often just pick of the correct one (that suits the problem) gives massive boost.

Ofc you may need sometimes something trickier, but hey - there's time to find it.
This video by Columbia based researchers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3D7QlMVa5s says that Coriolis acceleration induced canal sickness could be a major issue, and we don't know exactly what humans can tolerate. In the worst case scenario such torus has to be about one kilometer in diameter, which is prohibitively expensive.
It was the unibody minivan that killed their reputation.

Full size vans were larger, yes, but due to their construction being based on legacy truck platforms, they offered a wildly inferior driving experience. They got single digit gas mileage (many had dual gas tanks to compensate), were clumsy to park, were rear-wheel drive, relatively more expensive to maintain, and offered a stiff and unrefined ride.

When the Caravan was introduced, it was better in every single way that would be relevant for the average family.

Stuff like the Ford Transit is a lot better than the Econoline it replaced, but they didn't bring it to the US until they were about 29 years too late.
Seems like Apple's Virtualization Framework supports some sort of memory ballooning mechanism (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/mem...), which could hopefully enables in the near future dynamic memory support like Docker Desktop on WSL 2 is able to do (if it's not already the case, I haven't tried the M1 preview).
IIUC github tokens are just a giant fiasco waiting to happen. Tokens are a password that "just works" and people are giving them out like candy to every company and service that integrates with github.

If stolen (just like a password breach) the thieves can use those tokens to check in whatever random code they want into all your repos. This means they not only effect you (like when your bank password is stolen), they also affect everyone down stream of you.

Tons of sites ask for effectively "Full permissions" and people give them full permission. They then get a token. If that token leaks the thief gets those full permissions
According to the documentary Happy [1], happiness is ~50% genetics and ~50% about what happens in your life. The most intriguing part for me was that major life events like getting married (happy) or becoming disabled (bad) don't affect so much happiness in the long run.

[1] https://www.thehappymovie.com/
Disney has been removing its focus on Mickey Mouse over the years as (I speculate) it knows at some point the mouse will be part of public domain, so it's been going on an IP shopping spree for most of the 2010s.

Mickey is still huge as the peer comment states. Mickey shaped beignets, Mickey hats, Mickey costumes, etc. Just that everything else grew up to have as much, if not more, brand equity than Mickey.
> - CentOS Stream is testing/RC area for RHEL patches.

No more than 'current' rhel is testing for centos patches.
> Most of these are just unaesthetic

Huh, I didn't think it costs kilobytes to buy aesthetics.
Trump Twitter ‘hack’: Police accept attacker's claim
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25449326 and marked it off topic.

Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The first part of the first question gets answered in the court room, if it isn't answered by a settlement first.

The second part of the first question has different answers, depending on who you're asking. The dominant position currently is that only anticompetitive things that harm consumers should be illegal. (If you only consume free services like, say, Gmail, by definition you cannot be harmed under this theory.) Less radical theories also hold that the marketplace should be competitive, and there are other theories.

Making patents illegal would be pretty weird, given that a patent is a monopoly that wouldn't exist without government intervention.
I use spacemacs, on Arch, all you need is https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+emacs/org/README.html#...

The org-mode spacemacs layer has support for a bunch of org-based tools

Be sure to use the spacemacs develop branch.
I think one of the reasons people don't really value "enterprise stability" is because it is mostly a myth.
I cycle in a city and a know several people who have been hit by cars. None of them went under the car’s wheels. Half of them believe their helmet saved their life. It’s not as though you automatically die upon contact with a car, and of course it helps to have your head protected.
Seems relevant, also by Eisinger:

https://www.propublica.org/article/robert-mueller-russia-inv...
Same happens with GIMP, it’s just not smart marketing.
Why Python 2 instead of 3? There are several distributions that no longer ship it, and AFAIK it's no longer supported as of 2020.
MATE with i3 as its window manager is excellent. No compromises, neither gets in the other's way. I wrote how to set it up here: https://www.mattgreer.org/articles/mate-and-i3/
Note, Docker will run x86 containers via qemu, so you can still use them. They'll just be slower.
I'm sure that helped someone, it isn't different from my answer and you only focused on patents not the "circular answer" for the universe of what the state says is anticompetitive. The real answer is a dissertation on enforcement actions and circuit court behaviors, which I was not going to write and there is no one answer.

Regarding patents, the article of the constitution is an instruction to Congress to secure rights for a "limited time". So maybe you needed to explain that since I guess it isn't common for people to know what the constitution says, in my world I just assume that.
>I was only following orders.

It is not an excuse. What they did sets the nature of the penalty which may or may not even come out to being a substantial punishment. That they were told to do it, and knew it was wrong, but did it anyway merely fails to absolve them of guilt.
So you wrote 3 paragraphs to describe.. clickbait.

Yeah it's obvious the headline was written the way it was to generate a page view. IMO the addition of the "spoilers" don't detract that there's a poor tiny nation suffering. If they didn't know Niue, they would know after the headline that it's a small island country, and look at that, without needing to read the article (but oh no, what about their ad view!).
there's this related thread by Cory Doctorow from last week

https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/13368328196753162...
Flanderization
Google dominates online ad serving. Those ads cost more than they should with competition. That cost is included in the price you pay for products.

It's not that complicated and has nothing to do with Google's other ambitions or products.
fugitive + gv vim plugins
I have a hard time imagining this. To the front or under the bag? Also, wouldn't it just bang into you as you walked?
The problem with conversations is they sometimes end up turning into exactly what I was defining in my original comment above, a long drawn out attack on the child’s self worth. Just because something is quicker and feels cruder doesn’t automatically mean it’s lazy.
I think they should have named it PennyOS, but that’s just my 2 cents.
That did it, thanks. From a cursory glance, it looks like it fetches indeed the RHEL (rather than CentOS) sources. It looks like the mains questions for the clone builders will be how RH is going to provide RHEL code drops for their point releases (and updates) in the future. Since right now there are separate 8 and Stream branches, but presumably the 8 will be discontinued at some point?
Another important metric is the Time to First Byte (TTFB).

How about 10ms club?
Big Laugh here.. meanwhile I just can't wait for the 1byte.club this will be quite an achievement.
I live in house with larger room, but I don't want to use the room now because the room is cold and I need to warm the room before I use Quest. So I use Quest in my small room.
BTC is widely accepted globally, engaged with, and in use, as currency, by people and organizations in commerce. I've given examples of major institutions that prove all of the above is true.

Do you have a single reason to believe it's a hobby currency?
I don't have a question but I first heard about you because of Inconsolata (I instantly fell in love with it.) Also, your writing is just exceptionally good.
They don't expect. But usually some Gnome devs are GTK devs, so usually the whole things happens for a reason, and that reason is to have better APIs to be able to write better desktop applications.

GTK3 became "final" in 2016 with 3.22. That was when GTK4 development started. And many applications just started to be ported to 3. Then 3.24 as a maintenance release came out in 2018. And in almost exactly 4 years 4.0 is ready for general availability, but it's likely far from "final" and stable.

So GTK3 continues to be maintained for a good while. (Though GTK2 is now EOL.)
I wonder what markets WhatsApp is important to. In the UK quite a few people used it while briefly lived there, but in the US, Thailand, Vietnam, et.al. I didn't see anyone using or ever talking about it.
I submit "Steamdoku" for the video game equivalent: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/bargain-bane
The Guardian is 4MB because the front page has a dozen+ hi-res images. Turn them off if you want to optimize for size. Not every site has to be a static wall of text.

And why is 512KB acceptable but 4MB a problem? Yes the web is a bloated mess, but there's no point drawing random lines on meaningless metrics. Just focus on providing a good user experience. A few bytes of bad JavaScript can mess up your site's performance, while several well-optimized MBs can make it accessible and useful.
Right, that was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151773

There's a power law dropoff in how interesting things like this are as they get followup/copycat treatment (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang...). It's a bit like telling the same joke several times in a row.
Having a 100x multiples for clearance leaves a large safety margin but again take water, 0.5L per day is good, 1L won't kill you but above 8L people have known to die. That's only 16x. People also get get cyanide poisoning from raw almond smoothies, alcohol poisoning from binge drinking and caffeine poisoning at and also less than 100x regular portion.

Radiation too, 2-30 is pretty typical and no statistically significant results but bring that to 300 and you get measurable increase in cancer rates.
It's a wiki page. An official wiki page, perhaps, but still a wiki page that anyone can edit.
I agree with the general sentiment about size, but page size isn't everything; it's really more what that size is contributing towards. If a multi-megabyte page consists of many high-resolution images, that clearly gives far more value to the reader than if the same amount of data was spent on tons of JS of which next to none actually gets executed. Likewise, the huge amount of video data on a YouTube page is of definite value to the viewer (perhaps excepting the ads).
well they were and it was quite horrific!

> The record of Nordhausen is a most unenviable one, and we were told that 250 of the slave workers perished every day, due to overwork and malnutrition. ... They also saw stretchers heavily saturated in blood, a room in which there was a slab on which the bodies were drained of blood, and the incinerators in which the bodies were burnt.

> Wernher von Braun, the Technical Director of a separate facility at Peenemünde Army Research Center, visited the Mittelwerk on 25 January 1944,[12] and a 1991 author alleged he witnessed Mittelwerk and Buchenwald war crimes.[6]

but by all means name this space station after the guy who ran the whole operation and claimed to have no idea. because they just can't think of a single person besides him!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelwerk
Once ze rockets go up, who cares where they come down? Zat's not my department, says Werner Von Braun.
People, at least here, want mainly to donate money directly FF development not their political junk. And it's not currently possible.
Prequel trilogy is basically about a war where both sides were controlled by one character, Chancellor Palpatine.
Thrill of the Fight is an integral part of my workouts.
> If we lose sight of that, then it will be up to the next generation of technologists to create it.

It's not clear this generation of technologists will be able to get there even keeping it in sight. Which isn't to say it's not worth plugging away at.
You can take donations from people you consider unethical, and still lament that that's what you have to do to keep a hospital open. In fact I think it's better than just taking money shamelessly, even if it is a necessary evil in our current economy. Hospitals are going broke with elective surgeries all cancelled-- now's not the time for principals. Principals can't treat covid-19.
> 141. Google also has violated users’ privacy in other egregious ways when doing so is convenient for Google. For instance, shortly after Facebook acquired WhatsApp, in 2015, Facebook signed an exclusive agreement with Google, granting Google access to millions of Americans’ end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messages, photos, videos, and audio files. As Google discussed internally, WhatsApp [redacted]. They did not know that Google [redacted]. As internal documents reveal, upon signing the agreement, Facebook and Google started [redacted], without letting users know. Rather than being concerned about this fundamental breach of privacy, Google internally was [redacted]. In an internal document discussing the deal, Google discussed [redacted] In other words, Google is more concerned about bad publicity than about users’ privacy

Oh my.
It would be better to evaluate the sites based on the size of non-image resources. E.g, load the site but discard all image files when computing the size so only text, css, js, etc are counted. Then add the images in separately. That would allow sites with useful images like a photo gallery to still be listed on this page. That would still endorse well designed sites that load the text & CSS instantly so that the reader doesn't need to wait for image loading.
What do we have to blame for that, do you think? Encouraging independence? Expectation inflation from social media?
> seemed to spend all their time and energy continually rebranding

So, what would have happened to Android, if Google didn't have the Maps / Play Store big stick?

Every device manufacturer wants to differentiate. None of them are good at it.
Show HN: Date Night Questions
I just shipped the latest update that includes a physical deck:

https://www.datenightquestions.com

This is a hack project I've been working on with my wife. LitElement web components + ParcelJS bundler + Vercel + Cloudflare.

Happy holidays!