skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CentOS was also huge towards allowing a lot of larger companies to just run CentOS in production instead of RHEL and avoid paying anything at all.

However you may feel about Red Hat's actions, I'd trust that folks at Red Hat have done enough legwork to figure out that "CentOS as a loss leader for RHEL" wasn't working out the way people like to imagine it would.

(Note: I am a former Red Hat employee, but I do not have and haven't had specific access to any data estimating what CentOS Linux was expected to add to or subtract from the bottom line. But I feel pretty sure that many deals won and lost have been examined, many customers spoken to, and numbers crunched to inform their actions.)
Aside from the humor of that page failing to load for me (Firefox), I also smirk at the fact that it would still be projecting the globe onto a _flat_ screen to view it (:

Something different about having an actual ball in your hands.
I don't really agree. RHEL is nothing special. Important for Enterprise and thus free availability is handy for people having an interest in becoming a sysadmin to learn it. Dogfooding work stuff is the only reason I'd consider using it or its derivatives at home. But I don't care even about that and my stuff all runs BSD :P

But other distros are much better IMO.

There's good reasons that a totally free distro like Debian is forked so much. It's just a really solid base. Software doesn't need to have a business model to be great.

I'd be a lot sadder to see Debian disappear than RHEL and its derivatives.
But then I’m laughing in OpenSSL.
> I could see Oracle being merged or bought by IBM.

Their market caps are almost identical, and personally I'd say it'll be a cold day in hell before Oracle merges with, nevermind is acquired by, IBM.
It's a pretty good deal. You can get GPT-4 access for a month for free.
Just use something like Calibre to back them up and break the DRM on them (for the ones you can). I've had Amazon remove a few titles that I couldn't down load later because of publisher disputes, and there have been many instances of them updating books for modern audiences that brought unwanted changes. The downside to always connected digital media - it can be ephemeral. In that regard books are far superior.
This seems like a shallow article. I have an intelligent, switched-on colleague who is also a great friend. If that colleague, who has a hard time expressing themselves due to factors outside of their control, cannot tell a story about something that they have uniquely experienced, it isn't real? Ridiculous.
Huh?

The FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) states that the average person drives around 13,500 miles per year.
"somehow we lost track of the science"

Weird way to say that oil companies mounted a conscious and well funded propaganda campaign to muddy the waters and prevent action.
Another advantage of handles is that they can often be made smaller than pointers, especially on 64-bit code.

In some cases, it can significantly lower memory consumption and improve performance through more efficient cache use.
> So the GPL [...] does not actually obligate the original distributor to also provide sources to other unrelated parties.

It seems important to note that the Debian Free Software Guidelines as applied by the Debian project specifically exclude any software that requires providing source to unrelated people this way (the “desert island” and “dissident” tests[1]). In practice, the “unrelated” people in license terms of that kind are usually the original copyright holders.

[1] https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html
Potentially. For example, Oklahoma now allows "public" parochial charter schools.[1]. The end game here is any district that can only support a single school pyramid will have a privately-run, religious school funded by public tax dollars.

I'll be following Oklahoma - it will be interesting to see how quickly Islamic schools, or The Satanic Temple get their requests for schools submitted. And how quickly Oklahoma approves/denies them.

1 - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/05/oklahoma-approves-p...
Hmm, Thorium should be fine, at the very least? Its very close to vanilla Chromium/Google Chrome, with nothing that should mess up rendering.

There are also experimental Windows builds of Bromite (another Chrome fork that is very close to Chromium, but with a light built-in adblocker.)

https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools#test-windows-vers...
I have a poster of a South-up map[1], which is fun to look at and wiggle those expectations in my mind from time to time.

Hobo-Dyer[2] is also an interesting projection.

[1] https://www.mapsinternational.com/upside-down-political-worl... (just an example; you can find others)

[2] https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343348
If you look closely, it's actually putting the Maldives in the center. And the description in the bottom right doesn't mention shipping lanes at all (which anyways would go overland if you were to simply draw straight lines on this map) but instead mentions that a latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitudinally_equal-differenti... is used to prevent the distortion near the poles that appears in commonly-used maps.
And B12.
> people not 100% supportive would be banned if there had been a woke mod crew for this subreddit

FWIW, the trans community (at least as far as anyone I've spoken too) doesn't want children getting surgical medical intervention either. There's a growing trend of saying "the gays want X" or "trans people want X," when in reality X isn't supported by the communities.

> a woke mod crew for this subreddit

I want to conclude by mentioning out-group homogeneity bias. I don't think "woke" is a meaningful term anymore. Instead, it seems to be used by "anti-woke" people to refer to an amalgam-person, who holds a set of beliefs, which seem rare in practice.

This isn't helped by "woke" people who seem to follow the Anakin Skywalker school of thought when it comes to people who don't already agree with them: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."

> I just want to say that I support peoples right to self-actualize and we should all be loving and supportive to anyone who is questioning their gender.

FWIW, I think this statement is pretty "woke" :)
I’d be curious to see that as well. I loved math until it became too abstract for me to grasp so I lost interest in it. And that worked pretty well as a self selection for the field, well, a large part of it. I wouldn’t want to be in the academia anyways…
Especially the southern hemisphere, as their head is normally above the globe
Awesome. There is no better way to slow climate change, we need to stop the endless waste of energy that is modern industrialized livestock agriculture. I genuinely believe that this can be a cheaper and easier alternative to real meat, when the time comes.
Recyclers will pay good money for books since they tend to be high quality/clean paper. If they are outdated tech books in particular, I have zero guilt recycling those.
Two things that are real but aggressively story-resistant are quantum mechanics and the self-stability of bicycles.

Tens of thousands of pages have been written in an effort to provide an intuitive, natural-language story about what is happening in a double-slit experiment, but every one of them is broken. Of course the math is simple and superposition/entanglement are real, but none of the stories are good.

Similarly, when you push a bicycle with no rider, it recovers from a partial fall surprisingly well - but there's not a good story about how. Stories are told regarding various real effects such as gyroscopic forces, the rake of the fork, caster effects, and so on - but it is also possible (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1201959) to build a bicycle which inverts each of those effects and is still categorically self-stable - at that point it is hard to tell a good story.
I won't say I'm utterly rigorous about it but, yah, I increasingly transitioned to bare feet or indoor crocs with socks depending on the season. And, if I'm not going out (and even sometimes then), sweats or something along those lines.
Some of those comments are pure hilarity: "C got popular because it turned out to be ideally suited for DOS. C could deal with near/far pointers. No other language could". Yes, C was very good at having two (or even three, "huge" being fully-normalized far pointers) completely differently sized kinds of pointers, without any proprietary extensions, absolutely, and it caused no problems whatsoever because C memory model indeed presupposes a segmented address space.
As someone who does both… why make the comparison “a pot of coffee every few hours” versus just “drinking coffee every few hours.” Personally, I can’t drink coffee after 2pm.

Long-term coffee usage is just fine. It is actually protective. Same with ADHD meds. Fewer heart problems, actually, on average.
There's already a social network out there like that.

It's called Rumble.
No, Gab.
No, Truth Social.
No, 4-chan.

Turns out there's a lot of them. They all suck because they're a product of the people who post there and they in turn reflect the quality of said individuals.

You believe that you have a right to be seen and heard. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with that. You're free to start up a new subreddit any time you like, and in that respect, reddit is far freer than almost any other forum / social network of its kind, which is why people have made such a big fuss about it to begin with. So go, have your freedom, create your own sub and build your own community.
We have the following validation:

let form_email: Option::<String> = /* ... */;

match form_email {
Some(email) if !email.is_empty() => {
// ... send email with validation link
},
_ => {
// report missing email
}
}

If you (can) click the validation link it's a valid email. If not... it's invalid. Saves me the trouble of debugging all the regexes.
They're free but not accessible, it's a universe away from compassionate use access wrt practical availability.
I can imagine people being fired for going with Oracle.

Fail to make your budget work 5 quarters in a row and see how long you last. ;)

Or wait for a legal case to come up: someones getting fired, wether its you or a scapegoat you sacrifice.
What do you mean by “very significant”

“Significant” from a statistical perspective typically means “not 0 effect size”. It does not follow that the magnitude of the real life impact is particularly notable.
There's a similar phenomenon of terminology creep with language terms like 'High German' and 'Low German'. This nomenclature has been adopted into fantasy literature to suggest a more noble vs. fallen version of some ancient dialect, but all it meant originally is that 'high' speakers were upstream (and therefore uphill) from the 'low' speakers.
It will require a license
https://twitter.com/Chris_Smeder/status/1671566245190303744
Data caps are largely a scam... they could easily QoS or otherwise throttle their heavy users at times where total bandwidth is exhausted without creating a total cap, or overuse charges, or throttling the rest of the month.
Why are you still sending your kid there? Those are atrocious conditions. Complain, loudly, to your school board and vote with your feet.
I wanted to post this, as I was a bit amazed that "banging noise" is still the best way to locate the missing submarine. Maybe making devices that comply with JANUS is too costly for small subs, but I would have thought they have a connection to surface crew in this day and age.
When I think of "post-truth" I'm thinking of systems that people mistakenly lock themselves into where they're fed simplistic and surface level facts that have to align with the systems goals. classic example being an activist for a political system (1960's Maoist or whatever)...
Why can't I use AI to analyze the immense amounts of content I'm being faced with so as to gauge bias and innuendo? Maybe ML could help me parse this article to understand what milieu this author belongs to and what his biases might be?
I'm not sure if I understand this completely either...
And he’s alienated virtually all third-party apps, putting those 3% user at high risk of just leaving the platform, destroying that supposedly huge opportunity cost.

A competent CEO would have found a way to keep them in the family.
Correct link :

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230620-the-mid-career...
To expand a little: chlorophyll absorbs red and blue, but reflects green and NIR (near infrared, just beyond visibility), so basically it measures how "green" the plants are, but using NIR instead of green as its a more robust measure.

Also infrared photography is cool because plants are bright white.
Looks like the site is currently blocked by Quad9 DNS.

> www.kodytools.com
Server: dns9.quad9.net
Address: 9.9.9.9

** dns9.quad9.net can't find www.kodytools.com: Non-existent domain
Posted this in another response. Oklahoma is testing the waters with publicly-funded parochial charters. The end-game for many proponents of school choice, vouchers, and charters is absolutely a parochial education for everybody. Or at least parochial education for their family and friends, and everybody else can get fucked.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/05/oklahoma-approves-p...
Not sure if you're being facetious or just don't understand the reality of living in NYC...

I can probably walk to a dozen different big grocery stores in 15m and they're ALL more expensive than the cheap fast food in the same area. Not including the smaller expensive bodegas where you can pick up stuff 24/7 every block (kinda like the equivalent of a gas station). A half gallon of milk is $4 at any of the big stores and even more at a smaller place.

Anything cheaper requires a subway ride, which adds more walking and is annoying to do with multiple grocery bags, not to mention adding a flat ~$5 additional cost.
This looks real neat.
I wanted to make a point about Prime videos recommendation engine.

In several years of membership it still has not managed to recommend a single thing I'm interested in. How are they so bad at this?

On the other hand, none of it is quite as bad as Marketplace Web Services, or even SP-API it's replacement.
It’s also a variable rule when you have guests.

I (n=1) don’t wear outdoor shoes at home but I’ll allow my guests to keep them. I’ll clean when they’ll leave.

When I’m at home I can wear slippers but my guests can’t so I allow them to keep their shoes.
That's an average across the entire population.

Most people barely drive further than the end of their street.
Since those kids have IEPs the main recourse you have will be lawyering up because there are a bunch of backwards incentives if someone at the top thinks they can excessively mainstream self contained needing kids.
>You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
I think the original criticism surrounding "teaching to the test" was that students were being taught useless shortcuts to answers rather than actually learning the material. I've never personally felt that the teachers I had ever did it though.

One contrived example might be, "If you see "states' rights" anywhere in the question, then the answer is most likely going to be Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, or Henry Clay."
Yes, anything the FSF blesses also qualifies as open source. Can you articulate what point you're trying to make, that this supports?
In what way is this not actual animal protein?
the closest you can get is old.reddit.com, which is the one I used all the time, but they've removed the nifty feature of listing the last 10 posts that I went to
As a chemical engineer, we would joke about using the worst units in problems. Had a professor specify a volumetric rate in hogsheads per fortnight for a problem once and density in stone per cubic rods
Its dead, Jim.
Giving USA revealed the largest drop in charitable giving for at least 40 years
Thanks for the feedback, I agree and it's something that we're working improving.

Currently most people are paying the $25 flat rate; for this we bump the per-backend memory limit to 2GB and give them a soft limit of 20 concurrent backends, up to 24h duration for those backends, and enable eager image pushing for faster start times. The pricing will become more sophisticated over time as we deal with a wider variety of usage patterns.

The bring-your-own-compute model is a bit clearer because it's simpler for us to model from the side of our own costs. That has a $25/month base fee plus $10 per “server month” of compute connected to the control plane. For bring-your-own-compute there is no cost or limit to the backends that run, since they run on our customer's own hardware.
The obvious solution to narrow socks is wider socks. Ideally also with an asymmetrical shape that follows the feets anatomy.

Surprisingly there seems to be only one company that makes them: Plus12Socks

Their story is quite interesting. The company is a spin-off of an Austrian research group on children's foot health
Fair enough, but maybe we should allow Maryland to take back most of the rest of DC.

The "no permanent residents" rule isn't necessarily bad
Sure, but in this case what they're taking is from clouds that are over land. I have a vague memory that western US weather patterns blow in from the pacific and drop it further east over the US, so an ocean drop may not be the destiny for this particular water. But I absolutely cannot assert this with any confidence without falling into the dunning-krueger hole. Although I do know just enough about water rights to know that doing this could get messy.
>The comments there are insightful and actually make me think this is the right move

They are not. Maybe this is how the YC/VC crowd sees everything. Dollar went in, two dollars come out. Two points:

1) RHEL is not an island. It uses (and contributes) upstream.

2) They undercut the spirit, if not the letter, of GPL by forbidding customers from releasing the sources. Don't want derivatives ? Don't use copyleft free software. Can't have your cake and use it too.
I'm not sure why the level of analysis is appropriate for the context here. We have an extremely specific objectives with metrics (call wait times and calls correctly resolved). There's nothing fundamentally scarce about the labor involved in responding to 112 calls, it seems like a job pretty poorly suited to automation, we as a group decide how to allocate our resources, and if we want to cut tax rates at the expense of ambulances getting to people with heart attacks, that's the right of the Portuguese population; but let's not pretend that this is any kind of revolution in business theory
I've been goofing off on twitter during down time between contracts and it's truly amazing if you go to a political "discussion" how many blue check "verified" accounts that are AI. I'm sure it's not just regular bots because they've responded to some of my troll remarks to them with a decent level of acuity and context. Going to their feed it's dead obvious that they are AI bots though, because their only reason for existence on there is pure mayhem and misinformation. I don't think Musk was talking about getting rid of bots, he was just talking about getting rid of non-paying bots
The copied data will one day get out of sync. And you will have a difficult and urgent issue to solve.

Query complexity on the other hand requires knowledge, to make the query work and again to make it fast. But it won’t be urgent, and having made it work you will be a better developer.

Of course, sometimes we need to copy / cache etc. but avoid it if you can.
Obviously if you add the banner #opentowork on your profile that will definitely expose you to your employer...Otherwise it's only supposed to be seen by recruiters.
XML gets a bad rap, and I agree that efforts to crowbar it into being a data interchange format were ill-advised relative to just making it a good text-based markup language, but it had plenty of good ideas, and it took decades for data interchange via JSON to reinvent things like schemas and XPath that XML had from the start!
I'm not pushing it as a total answer. My assertion, though, is that reading is a fundamental part of math. We talk about them as if they are separate topics, but learning to "read" a math statement is a big part of learning how to use a math statement.

In very "phonetic" style. You aren't necessarily looking for the phonemes, of course, but you are looking for what the constituent parts mean. For example, if you see "Sigma x", you almost certainly pronounce that as "sum". And you don't necessarily do that from "cues" around the symbol/letter sigma, but by learning how to decode it at a symbolic level. Same would go for "F = ma", you learn to read that as a relation of the three symbols. And you can play with it, "if that is F, what is m?" You can go further in the exploration and start learning units attached to the symbols, such that you can put it together.
Google calendar booking page for personal accounts
It's US, British, and EU antitrust regulators, yes.
This is the correct take. Copilot impossible without the years of work from the brilliant people at OpenAI, VScode, Azure, and GH.
The way children use smartphones today destroys attention spans for one.
The question, "Why do tech companies need so many employees" was asked on Reddit 2 years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/nw2ebf/why_do_tec...

The first entry is "Nacho Fries are back for a limited time only" which I feel is the perfect answer to that question.
If you're going to buy platinum / palladium reagents, which aren't cheap, I suggest printing the digital negative on Mitsubishi Pictorico OHP. Check which of the inks in your printing system is more opaque to UV to improve dynamic range.

Use the media that your already have to dial in your pre-processing to some extent.
Here's a couple more verified quotes since I dived down this rabbit hole:

- "I think most rational people agree with the decisions, regardless of possible fumbling"

- "We are living under constant anxiety waiting for the next round of layoffs that’s been planned by leadership at the beginning of the year"

- Another verified user disagreed with the above ^

- "Current employees are afraid to say anything as spez reads Blind and complains about it at all hands. 100% he will try to rat out who is speaking. Not worth it."

Last one seems most interesting. Looks like spez/upper leadership is monitoring what employees say.
I would predict that the chilling effect will be lesser for "unreasonable" voices such as trolls and extremists, and will be greater for the moderate voices.

This is not a good thing, as the past 10-15 years of social media has shown.
Why not make it a default state?

My default is all notifications off. I understand that for some people that's not really an option but for most it certainly is.
And taurine
I've seen an argument that collections of objects should be allocated field-wise. So an array of points would actually be two arrays, one for x-es, one for y-s addressed by index of the object in the collection.

I wonder how programming would look if that was the default mode of allocation in C++. Pointers to objects wouldn't make much sense then.
And I'm not sure I'd agree with their analysis, but they're clearly free to make the decision.

If larger companies can run CentOS in production, they also can run Debian or any other distro without a support contract. They could even use a competing loss leader distro like OpenSuse Leap.
25krps? As in requests per second? I.e one request every 3 seconds?
he forgot to mention all the white supremacists
Free Organ
I received a gift from a friend in Uruguay that is from the clockmaker Girosur. The clock runs backwards, rhetorically asking “why is North up?”

https://girosur.com/como-funcionan/
Call of Duty is a huge franchise that makes bucket loads of money on yearly games, season passes, DLC, other monetization, merchandising, esports, and more. It's so much bigger than the ZeniMax catalog. Microsoft have no reason to gate 50% of the playerbase for "hardware exclusivity" given that lucrative revenue channel.