skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RedHat licenses are just too expensive by sticker price. Beancounters haunt us for deploying RedHat because "the Windows license for that box would have been cheaper in our licensing model". That there is support included which we never use doesn't matter to them, the usual suggestion being "buy support for one box, test everything on that one, and open a support case for that one box, replicate the solution everywhere".

If you want to fix this, make a RedHat license be significantly cheaper than the equivalent Windows product. Charge for support by ticket/case and only support licensed boxes. You'll earn a lot more because it'll look cheaper to the beancounters.
I was introduced to pledge via SerenityOS and it really is amazing
> It looks like "How" was accidentally dropped from the title so as-written it doesn't quite make sense because today Guernica is hardly considered a "flop".

I don't follow how adding "how" modifies the meaning in this way—making it clear it's about a historical and not ongoing situation.

Also, I think "how" is dropped automatically by HN because it's usually ugly and meaning-free clickbaitese.
Arcade games are fun. It's great that we have more thoughtful, artistic games now, but not all games need to meet that description. I can still walk up to a Robotron cabinet and have fun, but I'll probably never play Braid again.

I'm speaking specifically to your criticism of Vampire Survivors, which as you said doesn't have microtransactions. I'm strongly opposed to the use of "compulsion loops" to generate revenue via microtransactions.
A QR code carrying a universally standardized and unskippable instruction to "blur whoever wears it" should suffice. "Permission levels" could also be added so that for example I can choose to be filmed/photographed only by family and/or friends but not strangers. It doesn't seem out of reach with current technology.
Yeah! It was also cool that this let me discover new secession movements; I had never heard/thought about the Maryland/West Virginia one[1], or the New York/Pennsylvania one[2], until the simulation showed how stark the voting differences are.

[1]: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/maryland-counties-...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150219175611/http://www.wbng.c...
Even if let’s say you agree with the politics behind this, shouldn’t the best outcome of undoing the “mistake” of spending taxpayer money on those charging points be to auction them off as to hopefully recoup the money that was “wasted”, as opposed to spending more money destroying them, leaving everyone worse off?
What to do now about tomorrow’s code-cracking computers
Why do people insist on specifying a tiny font size that I can't read? (Or for that matter, specifying a font size at all, instead of just leaving it to the default, which I, the reader, can adjust appropriately for my preferences and eye capabilities?)
> There wasn't right-wing news and left-wing news, there was just news.

Perhaps in part due to the revocation of the FCC fairness doctrine [0] in 1987. I wasn't old enough to understand what news broadcasting was like _before_ this, and there are some criticisms of the doctrine, but what we have now _feels_ so much worse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
> - Asset store. I totally get it, handling payments, curating, etc. are a huge task... but man, I'm a coder, and I don't have the funds to pay an artist or a musician full time. Being able to just go buy a pack of trees for $20 or something is a huge timer saver.

Heh I mentioned this in another Godot thread a few days ago. It sounds like a potential YC funded startup for anyone inclined and something that could be with the knowledge and collaboration of the core maintainers of Godot as a simple means to fund Godot.
> society sends no signal that I am a problem beyond outrage when I admit it

Aren't you only admitting it to people who can't DO anything about you, except express outrage? Why don't you tell your boss your scheme, and see if they only thing they do is "express outrage"? Your behavior is very anti-social, and your rationalizations for why it's OK are very weak.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive/flamebait comments and breaking the site guidelines? I don't want to ban you again, but if you keep doing these things, we'll end up having to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Explicit references to a "compulsion loop" make me want to delete all my non-indie video games and take a shower.
If they can make it available they will be doing well.

I cannot find any Raspberry Pis for sale anywhere I can buy one.
I don't necessarily agree with at least some of your thesis, or would maybe interpret them differently, but I'm somewhat optimistic about some changing views on urban development, particularly in cities that are plagued by decades of bad patterns. To that effect, I'm optimistic that there will be a return to downtown areas in cities that have been crippled by suburbanism, and those cities will start actually trying to realize the economic gains from that, prioritizing cosmopolitanism instead of the sort of isolationist myopic hellscape they've been rollin with for 50 years
Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future?
Inspired by
Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future?
A truly massive interest rate hike is now on the table
Did you mean to reply to me? I am not committing the Fundamental Attribution Error.
I'm not sure if this is well known but you can actually dig (AXFR) the whole .ch and .li zone. Are there other tld that allow this?

https://www.switch.ch/open-data/
1TB OneDrive in familly plan is 2 USD/month + office 365.
The Law of Averages

It commands that 50% of things will be better than average. For some reason, being realistic is a really positive world view.

For examples, see:
https://upgrader.gapminder.org/
Is the dude an asshole? I don't know anything about him other than this discussion here. I'm certain most people have said something to the effect of "those people are fucking clueless" in their lives. Does that make them assholes?
The radical plan for vaccine equity
Having a game where I guess the missing word from a tweet about the Uvalde shooting was an unusual side effect of the profiles featured
I made pessimistic assertions of the people's ability in general to estimate relative security.

I hold the belief that the LONG term future will be good because capital will be allocated better.

Do not see the conflict between these 2 statements. Also I was 17 in 2007, not sure if it's called ignorance but I didn't understand much of the economic environment at the time.
Until recently, most of the thermostats I've seen in newish buildings (in US northeast) since I've been aware of thermostats (1995?) have been digital with clocks and timers.

Older buildings have had the electromechanical thermostats you describe.
It's worse when that stranger is also surreptitiously filming you to paste it all over the net as evidence of how 'kind' they were to you.
> Is programming going to go from a creative endeavor to make the machine do what you want, to a job which mostly consists of reviewing and debugging auto-generated code?

Maybe, in some organizations, sure. However, there are still people hand-crafting things in wood, metal, and other materials even though we have machines that can do almost anything. Maybe career programmers will turn into "ML debuggers", so perhaps all of us who enjoy building things ourselves will just stop working as programmers? I certainly won't work in the world where I'm just a "debugger" for machine-generated crap.
Alma Linux has always been faster for releases since the beginning. I believe their first release was 8.3 and was very ahead of Rocky and they've maintained that pace to this day. Security updates are within a day or two, point releases are within 7 days and I think the 9.0 release was less than a month.

This is probably because the project was initially founded by Cloud Linux, which I believe already had the expertise to do RedHat clones and basically donated the setup - whereas Rocky started from scratch from what I can tell.
Practically every profession in healthcare has equivalent exams - physician, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, occupational therapist. You must have the degree to take the exam, and you must have the exam to get a license. I know of quite a few nurse anesthetists who had graduated and taken - and passed - their boards, but had not yet had those results blessed by the credentialing committees. Most relied on their still-valid RN license to pay the bills for a month or two until the committees could do their work.

At least in nursing they have the nurse licensure compact; if you are a certified RN in any NLC state, you can practice in any other. It's not perfect, but it's a lot easier than medicine.
> And this is a part of why it should be administered by governments and not just let loose to market forces... There's no real financial incentive to build 100,000 houses in the middle of nowhere

That's exactly what the Chinese government did, only at a larger scale. It hasn't worked out well.

> They actually suggested recently to offer multi-generational mortgages... That's how crazy the market is getting.

I saw that, it's absolutely wild.

> Those are risks your landlord should have insurance for. In a world where property isn't such a commodity, those risks don't really have the same meaning or value.

There are risks that can't be insured against. Suppose my employer relocates to another region, and I have the choice of following or finding a new job. If I own a house, I now have to sell it (incurring a 3-6% transaction cost and lots of headache). I can only sell it if there's a willing buyer, and there's no guarantee there will be any.

My rent is covering the building's mortgage, taxes, and maintenance, which I would be paying if I owned the property. It may be marginally higher than the cost of ownership, but I have a strong preference for flexibility. That flexibility is worth the liquidity premium to me.

> What happens to people that are 'undesirable' to landlords

In the US, there’s legislation that prohibits discrimination across a variety of protected classes (race, religion, sex, etc.) Does the UK have similar legislation? Putting aside ethics for a moment — discrimination is inefficient. It’s in everyone’s best interest to eliminate such behavior, whether through market forces or legislation.
If the system automatically disengages prior to collision, wouldn't Musk technically be telling the truth?

Things may get worse for FSD after today:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/tesla-ai-leader-andrej-karpa...
My thoughts go out to the sys admins patching this on a Friday
It's out there - look up "Islamic finance" (or Islamic banking)
My guess is you don't know this woman or even live on the same continent as her? This is a thread of 500 comments from strangers, more or less unanimously condemning the tiktok media culture that led to her abuse. It's possible most people here know more about the incident and how it affected her than what happened this week in Ukraine.

> Maree gave her consent to publish the video with this article

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-14/tiktok-video-maree-me...
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're predictable, tedious, repetitive, and almost always turn nasty (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). That's why the site guidelines say: "Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Re "HN appears to lean pretty heavily":

HN users have a variety of ideological points of view, just like any large-enough, distributed-enough population sample does. Most perceptions about this are in the eye of the beholder, i.e. strongly affected by cognitive bias - lots of past explanation at these links if anyone cares:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32069498.
DuckDB is included in this benchmark. But there were many OOMs in this benchmark and it was not easy to make it working: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/3969

The data size is 75 GiB in uncompressed CSV and 13.7 GiB in Parquet.
That's a good point! I came here from the other HN submission about hybrid Kubernetes clusters, I guess that's what I'm really wondering about.
Besides IN and CH there is also HS aka Hesiod

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod_(name_service)

which is from Project Athena:

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

> Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use.
This question doesn't even reference the various texts produced in the recent past the contradicts the premise of the submission.
You “by all metrics that are people centric”.

If you look at the other 99.99999% of species, the world is exceptionally bleak.

Mass death everywhere, total ecosystem collapse, etc.
militias marching heavily armed in the streets? marching in military formation up the capitol steps?
This happened to me and I sent a notice to Upwork's legal department demanding a takedown. Using my likeness to make money is a violation of Massachusetts Right of Publicity law (https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/massachusetts-right-publici...) so I would be entitled to any profits made by Upwork for using my likeness. It is possible and likely your jurisdiction may have similar laws, and if your likeness is being used, do not hesitate to deploy them to expedite these takedowns.
Did CentOS not do the same? RH bought them, right? Then changed it to a rolling release experiment. I guess that was a talent acquisition? So RH benefited off the previous attempt to do this.

Also RH packages open source project and also does not necessarily gives back to every project.

The right to help your neighbor is important to open source. I find Rocky does just that.
that is so patronizing. you can't "educate" when people find something disgusting and saying that's "educating" is arrogant. like if that's objectively people's preferences you can't say your preference is right and therefore you're "educating" them. and there's good reason, it still smells. so no imma keep flushing it.
If we imagine that at some point in the future, the majority of code would be produced by ML code generation, then where will the training data for future ML models come from?

With the current way of ML code generation, it seems that there will always need to be a critical mass of coders who produce code on their own, to be able to serve as new input for the ML models, to be able to learn about new use cases, new APIs, new programming languages, and so on.

ML code generation may serve as a multiplier, but it raises questions about the creation and flow of new knowledge and best practices.
Not sure why that matters to be honest. Gambling is a form of addiction. GaveDevs are tapping into that rush. That's how it breaks down for me. It may not be an illegal/scheduled substance that they are pushing, but they are pushing a product specifically made to trigger addictive behavior. It's no different than social media algorithms in my book either. They all are designing their product to be consumed by an addict to ensure they continue using their product as much as possible. We've just been dealing with drugs/alcohol/etc for much longer and society is much more aware of the addict problem in these cases. Social media/gaming addiction is a much less understood and/or acknowledged.
Don't sell the steak. Sell the sizzle.
This bit me badly - An application that did significant autoscaling, and hit a peak of 30,000 read/write requests per second - But typically did more like 300.

The conversation with the Amazon support engineer told us that we had over a hundred partitions (which even he admitted was high for that number), and so our quota was effectively giving us 0 iops per partition. This obviously didn't work, and their only solution was "scale it back up, copy everything to a new table". Which we did, but was an engineering effort I'd rather have avoided.
Celsius acknowledges $1.2B hole in balance sheet
Netflix ad deal could hint at a future acquisition by Microsft, says analyst
I think you need to turn off the day to day news cycle and focus on the macro. By almost any metric people are better off today than they were 40 years ago.

Even the war in Ukraine- Putin will likely win in the short term, but he’s already lost the future- all my smartest friends in Russia have left or are figuring out how to leave, the economy outside of natural resources is in shambles due to sanctions. What’s left of Ukraine, if they can fix their endemic corruption issues, will end up reaping the benefits of a new Marshall Plan and will show the ordinary Russians and potentially the Chinese the benefits of an open society and a much higher quality of life.
CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and reading the crap produced by other media corporations.

Reading news about politics is a great way to fuck up your mental state and become extremely pessimistic.
To be honest -- and this is not the ideal world I would wish to live in -- my hopes as an American mostly lie in technological solutions to climate change, plus political systems that make most bad changes incredibly difficult (because they make all change difficult).

We have a crappy culture and our democracy is threatened, but things could be unfathomable orders of magnitude worse. Over in Russia, kids are being forced to kill their neighbors and relatives to inflate the ego of their wannabe Peter the Great II.

Somebody will come along and say "well actually we do the exact same thing here"... no we don't. Vietnam and Iraq were awful in their own ways but they weren't that.

If we can technology our way out of climate change somehow + avoid becoming some flavor of fascist or communist in the next few decades, I'm pretty optimistic about the future. Progress will continue.
Fujinon XF150-600mm Lens (Official Promo Video)
One of my favorite moments for this painting is the time it was hanging in the UN, but was covered while Colin Powell argued for war in Iraq[1]

[1]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/02/guer-f08.html
A more practical one might be this contracts library https://github.com/Udiknedormin/NimContracts
What are you going to do when support for CentOS Stream 8 ends in 2024? Alma Linux 8 is supported until 2029 at least - for me it's a no brainer to use Alma for something like a database server.
It's an impressive technique. Direct imaging finds planets that would be unlikely to be identified via other detection techniques (such as measuring the wobble in the parent star's radial velocity or measuring photometric eclipses as the planet passes between us and the parent star).
Ask HN: Do powerful CPUs encourage you to watch unrelated videos while you work?
And if so, does this negatively affect your work performance?

(On older laptops, watching a video in the background while you work would increase fan noise and shorten the already short battery life.)
I thought it was interesting how they were patting themselves on the back for getting a solution in place in "only 7 weeks". I guess because they aren't in real production yet the timelines can slip, but I have to wonder if they had consulted with a farmer they may have found a solution at the Tractor Supply the same day that would have left their operation running while the rest of the team did the work back in CA of tracking down and negotiating with suppliers for the final product.

Farmers are often masters of mechanical improvisation because they have very narrow windows in which they can plant or harvest so breakdowns have to be fixed or worked around in just hours or at most a few days.
Can you expand on that? Not for my nephew, but for me. ;)
From where I'm at, Raspberry Pis are plenty available, just selling for 30-40% more than they might have a couple years ago.
I read Red Notice and found myself really annoyed by the author's enormous ego and self-righteousness. He talks about how Putin and his cronies have corruptly siphoned of massive amounts of wealth for themselves at the expense of ordinary Russians. Which is probably true. But then, without a hint of self awareness, has paragraphs about his 1990s investments in Russia like:

“Tell me, Mr. Prutkov—how much does one of those boats cost?” I asked,

“We got them for twenty million dollars new out of a shipyard in East
Germany,” he answered.

“How many do you have?”

“About a hundred.”

“And how old are they?”

“Seven years on average.”

...

I was amazed. These people had hired me to advise them on whether they should exercise their right under the Russian privatization program to purchase 51 percent of the fleet for $2.5 million. Two and a half million dollars! For a half stake in over a billion dollars’ worth of ships! Of course they should! It was a no-brainer. I couldn’t understand why they needed anyone to tell them this. More than anything, I wished I could have joined them in buying the 51 percent.

Where does he think deals like this come from? His buddy Prutkov was obviously paying someone off. He also tries to paint Khodorkovsky as some kind of a saint which is not true at all (the only reason he owned Yukos to begin with was because he bought it for 90% off in a rigged auction). Later I found some reporting from Der Spiegel which casts some doubt on his side of the Magnitsky story too. I don't know if this guy just gets off on writing opeds and getting profiled by the WSJ or what but I get the impression he's not telling everything about his little "adventure" in Russia.
The silent downvotes only prove my point.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Red Hat can develop a closed-source OS and sue people who copy it, but then no one would use their product. If one of your major selling points is open source, not to mention benefiting from all of the non-RH developed code that is in RHEL, you can't complain about the perfectly predictable consequences of that.
IIRC UberConference used to send a report after the call listing the time each participant was talking. I always found that super insightful and entertaining.
Don't smart thermostats take into account how long it takes to change temperature? Mine certainly does. Since each building will have different properties, they effectively have jitter already. I therefore don't see this as an issue.
Hardware documentation and developer software not generally available, and expensive.

Internally, Atari did development on minicomputers and cross-assembled the output. For me there was just (slow) BASIC. Information on low-level features (Display Lists, I/O, etc) only came out in 3rd-party magazines & books years later.

I experienced the same mindset on the Atari ST & IBM PC later. Reading about GNU was a very novel idea.
The word 'massive' was removed (automatically?) from the title on HN
Everything works great until the real world gets involved.
Postgres schema comments (COMMENT ON COLUMN mytable.mycolumn IS 'spline reticulation coefficient'). Otherwise, I've given up on ever maintaining data model documentation and generate ad hoc graphs from different perspectives in the foreign key network: https://di.nmfay.com/exploring-databases-visually
Nailed it. I see AI-coding is like hiring junior devs. It'll split out code fast, but unless carefully reviewed, it's just a means to push the tech debt forward. Which isn't bad in itself, as tech debt is good when companies understand the cost. But both are bad if there isn't a true understanding.
Indeed:

dig Esoterica*
Ah, like that you mean. Thanks. I was thinking of embedded third party code on a website (which might better not be included on sensitive pages).