skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet still correct.

I am not a Red Hat user or customer (I've been living on Debian and using it at work for nearly 15 years now), but I can perfectly understand their decision to not play along so nicely with EL rebuilders any more.

Look at Amazon, who, until very recently at least, simply took what RHEL provided, used that to lure customers into their "RHEL-compatible" cloud platform, far away from any need to compensate Red Hat in any way, and contributed back into RHEL and its upstreams... what exactly?

I can see this only become worse with other cloud heavyweights throwing their 800+ pounds behind other EL downstreams (such as Microsoft with Alma Linux) to continue this play, which will bleed most of Red Hat's established revenue streams - and with it, RHEL itself, and all the projects Red Hat is funding development of today - dry in the long run. They are trying to stop the bleeding, and I sure hope they will succeed. There is a LOT of Red Hat-funded software in Debian that I actually depend on, and if Red Hat withers away, chances are those projects will not survive either.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36473217
A Superior Court justice has ruled that @MIT must disclose how much money was raised by the OpenAg Initiative, a high-profile project at the Media Lab that was shuttered in 2020 following widespread reports of misrepresentation of research.Don Seiffert - Boston Business Journal
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2023/06/26/mit-order...
IBM’s 127-qubit processor shows quantum advantage without error correction
No; Red Hat packages things - the rebuilders are just taking all the packages and rebranding.

More analogous (perhaps? I don't know) would be if someone forked an open source project you maintained and slapped their own brand on it.
If only. There's a ticket open with Microsoft's PowerToys to improve the anti-aliasing situation:

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595

And heres an explanation from the dev of MacType about how DirectWrite can cause different applications to perform text rendering differently from each other:

https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/wiki/DirectWrite-vs-GD...
then you know it's not a great article.
> I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit.

I'd go a step further and say a lot of the anger is general angst at the _everything_ of the world, but RHEL's changes provided a focusing point in the nerd world. Or at least that's how I've come to terms with my weird interest in this story (and Reddit nonsense and the submersible story).

When everything sucks, it seems very easy to misdirect that angst at whatever is pitchfork-trendy.
One may ask for sources... And the original Q in this case is so simple that even ChatGPT can easily answer it. It is not like there is room for opinions. It is basic CS projected on well known techs.
you can't expect someone who wants to be angry to voluntarily ingest information which would make them less angry, you know.
Not sure it's classed as "times that bad" (although the 70's weren't great), but more a political decision that people of less means could have affordable housing.

Then Thatcher allowed people to buy their council houses, and we are where we now are.
Just don’t buy closed devices if that’s what you want. There’s no shortage of open devices available to buy.

Complaining about iPhones and game consoles being closed is like complaining that your Honda Civic isn’t good at off-roading and won’t tow your horse trailer.
Exactly, who is this Geerling guy anyway? ;-)

(I'm kidding, of course, but a few days ago I had to google him...I don't follow many Tech YouTubers' channels anymore)
Way back when, it was pretty easy to recognize diagrams created with MacDraw. There was a particular visual style to the primitives it included that flowed through to the final product. This was of course easier to notice because there were so few alternatives at the time.

Given that Paella uses tokens instead of the source image, I wonder if the results will have a (human- or machine-) detectable "style" to them.
Asking if things were 'just that bad' is a bit of a value judgement. Yes, they were 'just that bad', but from WWII to 70s the view that the government _should_ be involved in things like housing was a lot more prevalent in the UK than it is now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_house
Tupperware was pure utility function in colours, but it failed to signify success. Snobs like me rather looked down on it (shamefully, I regret my past)

It is an unfortunate outcome of the sales and marketing of Tupperware (multi-level marketing). So the ecosystem of Tupperware was looked down upon, similar to Amway. And if you have Tupperware, then you have been to a Tupperware party. The upper crust, I am confident, do not attend Tupperware parties.

But the products themselves? Awesome quality and functionality...at least they used to be.
Not at all.

While 1550 nm falls between two absorption maxima of water, so it is not the worst choice, the absorption in water is still more than one hundred times higher than at e.g. 905 nm.

Because of this, 1550 nm is absorbed through fog or clouds at least 3 to 5 times more than shorter wavelengths like 905 nm. Even the latter is absorbed a lot by water, while being much more dangerous for eyes than 1550 nm.

There is no near infrared wavelength where the water absorption is negligible.

See the graphs at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption_by_...
>So effectively these were government subsidized jobs.

Is that so bad? Plenty of other countries use tax dollars to pay the poor to do busywork. And Oregon is an extremely rural state outside the Portland metro, with very little agriculture or industry other than logging and fishing, so gas stations are most likely one of the few decent options available.
Exactly.

And even if you were to blame companies for raising prices, the only reason they had the opportunity to do it was because of excessive monetary policy which started the inflationary spiral.
I don't disagree or agree, but it often seems like the economy is 1% actual innovation and 99% phony innovation. For instance, most business apps are all the same app under the hood (e.g. a CRUD app) with the only difference being the type of data being stored. A lot of technology is fundamentally "done" but keeps receiving cosmetic changes presumably so the employees can justify their paycheck and business folks have something to market. None of these are "innovations" despite being marketed as such.
I recently got to speak with my friendly (ok no actually kinda annoyed with me) 911 operator because my power button got weirdly wedged which triggered the 5 tap panic mode and started up a 911 call faster than I could get my phone out of my pocket and swipe to cancel.
Related. Others?

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33001242 - Sept 2022 (1 comment)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559618 - June 2021 (31 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11936058 - June 2016 (24 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796142 - May 2014 (13 comments)

A Brief And Mostly Wrong History Of Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149634 - Jan 2014 (22 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953863 - Dec 2013 (12 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504217 - Oct 2013 (8 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5695816 - May 2013 (33 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3503896 - Jan 2012 (45 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327746 - May 2010 (13 comments)

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1310127 - May 2010 (1 comment)

A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599164 - May 2009 (14 comments)
Also PowerSync: https://www.powersync.co/ (disclosure: co-founder)
> Currently we have A LOT of capitalism AND very uncompetitive markets.

I've been bemoaning lately the degree to which we ('ordinary folks' as they say) are essentially shut out of whole industries.

Want to open a grocery store and go against the local Kroger? A drug store and go against the local CVS? A hardware store and go against the local Lowe's?

I think the only way I can get into the new-car dealership aristocracy here in LOCAL_TOWN_USA is to marry into it.

Restaurants, nail salons, small trades, franchisee.... It's good that they left us a few scraps I guess.
What's the latency NY to Australia all over Starlink with laser interconnect now?
This may be the case, however somehow it seems it is usually wages which stagnate while profits skyrocket.

Either the government is unable or unwilling to enforce this equally. If unable, they are incompetent, if unwilling, than they are corrupt. In either case we live in a corporatocracy not democracy.
I guess I'm still not convinced the "reasoning" has anything to do with it.

If a company says the reason is inflation they can only maintain that pricing power if every other firm does the same thing. If no firm decides to keep prices the same, to steal more of the market, that suggests to me that either inflation is real (perhaps in a harder to quantify way than just supplies) or companies have much more consolidated competitors than they used to (perhaps start up costs are now high so new entrants become impossible).
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Ive been apart of that project but it's been dead for years, seems like it's unmaintained now :(
> The differentiator is what one does when it's discovered.

This is the point that many, so so many, either miss or refuse to see.
I've actually had a successful test with the water method. The lead coloring shows immediately and remains dissolved or in suspension or whatever for days, possibly forever. Turmeric doesn't usually color water at all.
Github for those looking for the code https://github.com/dome272/Paella
I'm not so sure. It could be considered a DoS if nothing else, and throwing porn up on an ATM screen could certainly cause a company enough problems that they would consider it a security problem, and if you can load youtube on an ATM you could probably also load a different site with a fake ATM screen that collects pins and/or other personal information (account numbers would be more difficult unless you have a way to access the card reader) but any full featured browser in an ATM capable of being instructed by an attacker to load the attacker's JS is very likely a major security issue waiting to happen.
In all advanced economies - majority of money is created by bank loans (including mortgages) rather than by the the central bank.
Am I the only one who thinks HFT should be forbidden? Stocks and investments are a nice thing to have, since you can buy a share of a company you believe in, they get the money, do stuff, you get dividends and in the end can sell the stock after some time too.

HFT changes these "beliefs in company" to "beliefs that the stock will go up", and the timeframe of those "beliefs" is sometimes in milliseconds. This turns classic "investment" into a computer game with a lot of real money.
Look at excess reserves at the Fed.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXCSRESNS

2.8T dollars being held at the Fed. It never entered circulation.
We don’t simply take upstream packages and rebuild them

Are they seriously claiming they contribute to every one of the tens of thousands of packages they include in their repo? I'd like to see some proof of that.

If they're taking any open source app, and just including it in their repo without at least 1 RH patch.. then they are "simply tak[ing] upstream packages and rebuild[ing] them".

RedHat absolutely makes money from upstream OSS contributors, and not all of those projects get money or patches from RedHat.
It's hard to go wrong with Penzey's : https://www.penzeys.com/pages/consumer-reports
How do you explain weird markets like the luxury sector then?
Thanks for the more detailed information. I double-checked and it seems you're right for the states I could find data for - industrial users have some extra per-month fees to cover the baseload made available to them (billed per kW rather than per kWh) but these don't offset the far lower rates per kWh that I found.

There is often a difference between "industrial" vs. "commercial" but both seem to pay lower rates than residential.
Feel free to write your own analysis of the original question!
There never was an incentive to innovate, unless by "innovate" you mean drive the cost of production down below that of your competitors.
It's because if you are involved in economics, you've already bought the "markets are the most efficient by definition" dogma, so you cannot question that maybe untestable wild ass-pull theories from some dude writing a book aren't actually an accurate model of the real world.

Economics is at the level of aristotlian physics: "Surely lighter objects fall slower, it just makes sense and I have demonstrated so with this feather!" was the law of physics for millennia until someone actually decided to measure it in a way that could isolate the force of gravity.
> Surely it’s a question of which tax payers. Is it the tax payers using national parks (and entering lotteries or making reservations) or all tax payers? Charging for service also allows non-tax payers to contribute too.

The thing is they aren't contributing to anything but booze allen hamiltons bottom line. None of this money goes into the parks department. Them taking a "reasonable profit overhead" amounts to parasitic loss. There's no magic sauce with web development, plenty of people understand it. This can be done in house at cost just as easily as its done in booze allen hamilton's house.
Ok, you are pushing your definitions into unreasonable territory.

A central bank saying inflation is caused by high wages is exactly the same as the government telling people they should get a lower wage. There is no practical difference.

It is in fact worse, because the central bank tends to act on that phrase. So the government not only tells people they should earn less, but forces their hands into that.
Sure. But there aren't generally criminal penalties for gross negligence in filing DMCA notices, as far as I'm aware. So that's not really relevant.

However the corporate veil I'm referring to goes beyond the legal doctrine. I'm referring to the protection that comes from having a bunch of people doing something, so that errors get written off as constructive emergent behavior rather than pinned on singular willful actions. If an individual set up a script that generated a bunch of DMCA notices based on the possibility of infringement with no verification, then signed the requests and sent them off, they'd likely find themselves in court and pinned with a finding of bad faith (regardless of say having set up an LLC or not). Whereas when a group of people does the same thing, each only contributes part of the action, they all point fingers at each another for who's responsible (A: "I said the output of the script had to be verified", B: "I wasn't responsible for the output of the script", C: "I thought everything I got from B had already been verified"), and any argument of willful bad faith becomes much harder.
I would love to but I'm planning to make it a living off it and haven't really figured that part out yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kpD7om_aQ
Hello :)

It's not clear to me if I do, actually. The backdrop to all this is drastically dropping outcomes for men, including mental health. TFA, in broadest strokes possible, implies that a lack of emotional empathy for boys is to blame.

Who am I to argue with psychologists? But as a parent and, well, man, I think the anguish is coming precisely from the effort to reinvent masculinity, banish the "bad" bits like competitiveness or assertiveness. Wherever I look, and I'm happy with my life, I see celebrations of women, complaints that there aren't enough women in key positions and so on - many of these valid! But I'm a white guy from someplace random, no one cares - and worse, a key pillar of my happiness and sense of worth, qualities such as bravery, cool-headedness, reliability, are discounted and mocked.

Now, if the white guy from someplace random is Warren Buffet, well, he'll be fine. But if it's an unemployed blue collar worker, no surprise he is in poor mental health. It's like getting a dog that likes to bark and run around, and sticking him in a small back yard, then wondering if he needs therapy.

I'll note that these dropping outcomes for men are a relatively new thing. Historically this was somewhat inflated by the suppression of outcomes for women, but IIUC this is not the whole story. So the past "toxic" upbringing of boys didn't, seemingly, cause that. Maybe it caused other issues, but not this.

I read an article by a leading feminist, whose name sadly escapes me. She wrote, candidly and seemingly without seeing the irony, how feminism managed to suppress the bad bits of masculinity and patriarchy - which she thought was good - but still needs to invent a new role for men in the society, and that's the next challenge for feminism.

This article smells to me a bit like that. Yes, boys need emotional support, but it has to be boys-specific. They need space to grow up as boys, with boyish attributes. To learn what character traits and decisions lead to good and bad outcomes. They need schools that cater to their needs, not in some condescending manner, but as a matter of equality. Hugs and kisses and listening - that too. But I don't see that denied to boys these days. But oh boy, so to speak, are they denied their masculinity!

...so do I agree with it? Not sure. But clearly it made me write a lot!
What takeover? While I agree with you that Red hat are being scummy here there are plenty of non-corporate distros like Debian and Arch which are very healthy. I do not see any takeover, just the usual greedy corporations which have always existed.
You can ultrasound and radiograph CF to do NDT. I think the challenge is just more that we have over half a century headstart working with Al in aircraft to understand their failure modes and how to adequately test for them. Our understanding of CF (+CF's inherent nature of having more sudden failures) makes designing adequate NDT regimes more challenging.

That said, we are seeing much more CF (and CF composites) being deployed into commercial aerospace (famously the 787 wings, but also the A350,
The cleaner cut the power at the circuit breaker. It isn’t like they had an extension cable running through the middle of the room that they tripped over. In what world is that equivalent to “making customers with children traverse the artisanal glasscraft section to get to the toy section”? The RPI campus does have UPS and emergency generators because it is important, so the whole lab is protected from power failures. They put a sign on the fridge for the short period of time that the alarm was going off while waiting for repair just in case someone wanted to do something crazy, like pull the fridge out and unplug it. You can’t account for every single thing someone might do. What if instead of going to the circuit breaker to cut the power, he opened the fridge and pulled all the samples out so he could clean inside? Or did just unplug it? or something else stupid?

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of businesses that would lose a lot of money if staff members started flipping off random circuit breakers to various systems and pieces of equipment.
“Tone deaf” is too charitable.

The whole, literally entire point of open source is copying and redistributing.

Open source is a threat to open source companies? Yeah kinda. Many of them make money selling things that are free and, as he says “not adding value”.

Ironically Red Hat does add a lot of value but now instead of trying to sell that value they’re trying to put walls around what is free.
> gaiaId (Google Accounts and ID Administration ID)

Wow, someone at Google is undoubtedly proud of coming up with that for what I assume is essentially a Google world wide unique ID, and for good reason.
> I have a project in RHEL that they 'rebuild' but I don't see that as a 'threat'.

They address that in the blog post:

"We don’t simply take upstream packages and rebuild them."

Rest assured they're adding good juju to your upstream code! This is 2000s-era Microsoft-level wordsmithing.
This sounds like a load of bullshit. We are talking about sub-Sakharan Africa. "Corruption" is a very underwhelming accusation in the land of racial segregation, endless wars, genocides and hyperinflation on wheelbarrows-of-banknotes scale.

I also do not care about all that signalling nonsense.
There was a competing theory that scurvy was prevented by eating fresh meat, and that's easier to get in the arctic: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
With the right approach, performance can be good.
My co-founder wrote this overview of SQLite performance optimizations: https://www.powersync.co/blog/sqlite-optimizations-for-ultra...
The terminology we use is important. We call this "inflation" - things cost more. But it is not "things costing more" it is corporations extracting the wealth of the citizens. The cost of gas did go up, but the profits that gas companies went up at least as much.

Money is like water, you need it to flow to do good. When it is dammed up by corporations it does no good. We will not survive if we allow corporation to continually generate larger profits while paying wages that do not provide a living wage to people.
Graham Christensen here, cofounder of DetSys. Happy to answer any questions! The Magic Nix Cache has been a huge boon to us internally, and we're really excited to share it with the world today.
Car Parking
Unpopular opinion: I see their point.

When Larry Ellison created Oracle Linux, he said this explicitly: given RH's then model, Oracle can take RedHat's work for free and sell it for money.
I genuinely don't understand why anyone is using rhel or rhel-derived distros anymore.

'we' (and by 'we' -- I can only speak for the small slice of uk/eu companies I've worked at for the last ~18 or so years) were /forced/ to use redhat when running stuff like SAP, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, various terrible BI systems, ERP stuff, and so on for 'support'.

Then the cloud happened, and rhel/centos came along initally as we knew the tools, and we were running mostly the same stuff but on other peoples gear.

Slowly the application estate exploded and now I think it's fair to say we target k8s instead of 'rhel' as the place where our software is running, and rhel and it's brothers go absolutely nowhere near my k8s estate or any I've worked on (typically, ubuntu server nodes if I have to build my own, and alpine for contiainers).

So; people who are upset by the recent developments (and lets be honest, did you expect a thriving community around an IBM product?) -- why? What's rhel got that debian doesn't? Or ubuntu?