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I'm continually baffled that so many companies follow RHEL compatibility to this day.

I've been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Admining as a profession for at least a quarter of that. 20 years ago, it made a ton of sense. Today, less so.

The 'stable version but we backport patches' mantra doesn't make any sense today. I can't even describe how many things that have broken that you can't even find an answer for because it was some RH specific patch.

Between Debian, Nix, Arch, and others, I can't figure out why RHEL compat is so desirable. I'll go as far as to say that my Arch boxes have been far more predictable than my RHEL boxes.
> Sure, it's not part of the math, but it is part of the physics.

"the physics" here is a specific interpretation

> Decoherence helps explain certain things directly from the math without appealing to the extra Born rule, but not fully, and not quantitatively (not the specific probabilities).

You can derive the Born rule using decoherence
I guess the unwritten part of that press release is the fact that Red Hat are taking RHEL in some sort of proprietary direction? Is anybody able to TL;DR me an explanation of what's going on?
And how long after Google stops directly selling units as new anywhere in the world does Google offer security updates? That’s the more relevant number, no?

At the very least, marketing and packaging for units sold as new near the end of the security lifecycle should have a disclosure like: “We will try to keep this phone secure until [EOL DATE]. Beyond that date, use of this phone may leave you vulnerable to cyberattacks.” Honestly, that would be a great disclaimer to make a legal requirement for all phones, or even all connected devices for which the concept even makes sense.

(Disclosure: I used to work for Google over 8 years ago. But I never had any involvement with Android in any way, other than trying some versions of Android before they were released outside of Google and maybe giving some feedback internally. I’m certainly not speaking for anyone but myself here.)
> Seems that this website blocks any access from HK completely through cloudflare...

Isn't it ironic for a website promoting "free" and "libre" software?
I thought the detrimental effects of pfas on immunity was accepted fact by now? Even the mechanism of toxicity is well understood. Surely, we can agree that you don't need instant dead effects to establish a compound to be accepted as detrimental for your health? And not only your health, but that of your offspring as well. The internal documents of 3m and Dupont actually acknowledge as much. That's what the actual outrage is about, they already knew for decades, then tried to hide it because liability costs.
Dropshipping is a great business idea. Amazon's price fixing has made it a zero sum game
The typical tax-related depreciation term for computer hardware is 5 years over here. Which is already half of what typical office equipment is expected to last. After which it is usually resold or given away to goodwill. 2016 is just 7 years back, so there will quite certainly mobile phone where the tax writeoff period isn't even through which are affected by this. Truly hilarious!
i'd rekon cow fs performs somewhat poorly with db workload, so, both
In my view this makes it very difficult to use AWS or Azure for fun or as part of a small operation. It's fine when you have a big organization monitoring this stuff and a support team, but how will you feel if you get a billing alert at 3am when you're asleep or out at a nightclub telling you there is a massive overspend. Are you going to put yourself on 24hr support?

I'm just moving from somewhere with AWS and a large team supporting it onto Azure with a much smaller team where I'll have full access to creating any component and the billing information, will be interesting to see what happens. Even then though it's not really publicly accessible so we shouldn't get anything too unexpected.
It seems you're running on apple. I really can't reproduce since i don't own one, and unless I get it as a gift I never will.

Anyway no server code runs on apple, so it isn't that important to win benchmarks only on apple, I think.
> Seriously though, it’s your choice how you live your life, but there’s no escaping that humans are omnivores and should eat both plants and animals for proper nutrition

There are millions of vegetarians and vegans around the world.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1678545170508267522.html
Lol no. This is a wholly disingeneous move.

"[SuSe] ... announced it is forking publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and will develop and maintain a RHEL-compatible distribution available to all without restrictions."

How will they confirm that their fork is compatible? Probably using RedHat supplied UBI docker/container images. So they're just becoming another add-no-value clone. Wow, give whoever came up with this idea a nobel peace prize.

Instead they could focus on their own offerings which add value/different value propositions than just being a clone of RHEL. I can't believe folks would be okay with companies coming in and undercutting your validation work -- even if you see RHEL as anachronistic and obsolete in teh world of containers and such it still has value for some folks for its RHEL-ness -- and then coming in and selling clones undercutting support and other licensing/revenue streams to pay for the QA/R&D/devel, etc.
I wonder how this will affect openSUSE, will they announce a new product based on this RHEL fork from SUSE?
if qubit counts are doubling every year then why is 21 still the largest number ever factored with a quantum algorithm
I have met a lot of idealist linux evangelist but I was yet to meet the Machiavellian linux evangelist. I am glad to meet you and support your quest for world desktop domination.
Sure, but that affects other things too - why can't I just turn this one annoying animation off completely?
Ask HN: How to Move While Working?
Or perhaps, how to work while moving?

I work from home and I spend a lot of time sitting at my work-provided PC. I'm finding myself getting more and more sedentary and I want to find ways to move and be active during my core hours at work, so that I'm not continuously sitting at my PC for two blocks of 4 hours every day.

About 50% of my work must be using proprietary software at that PC, but there are also the regular documentation and administration tasks and that's where I'm hoping to spend some time simply not sitting.

I don't just mean stretching every 20 minutes and taking regular breaks (which I try to do). I want to know if anyone has found a way to, for a hypothetical example, write documentation while walking the dog? Or planning sprint tasks on an exercise bike?

I find dictation software patchy and that it's hard to exercise while typing, but perhaps you've found a combination of techniques and technology that works for you. In which case I'd love to hear it!
Feels like, if you can't get a person who understands the tech to buy the equipment and get it running correctly, there's something very wrong with this system. I get that even experienced people can make mistakes (I sure made many in my field), but if that's a specifically researched content for publication... you tend to be careful with those.
>we continue to reinforce societal structures that continue to let this sort of thing happen, largely without consequence.

People are morons, generation after generation, what else do you expect?
I ate some. They were fine.
Idk, has anyone tried falcon yet? The support for running it remains nonexistent except for one fork of llama.cpp that isn't integrated into anything. This trend of every new model breaking compatibility really needs to stop.
It's not the unprofit, it's the fact that Uber's app, where you knew the price up front, it wasn't renegotiated at the destination, you could pay safely on your phone, you knew where your driver was, etc etc was all a million miles ahead of the awful experience of taking a taxi before Uber.
It's just been the corporate default for so long that people learn it for their jobs and get comfortable with it
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> 3 years of security updates at least from the US release date

Which means that after an initial period of half a year of "production is still slow, you have to wait" and another half year of "we maybe start selling this to Europe now", for the device I've bought today, updates will last a mere 2 years.
> I'm trying really hard to come up with a scenario where optimizing the desktop experience for the average user is a bad thing.

Again, maybe I'm a sore loser, but it definitely feels like a lot of software is becoming increasingly hostile to me, personally because it's being optimized for a presumed average user. I have no beef with this average user and it's globally a totally correct optimization to make stuff work for them as well as possible, but it means that software makes tradeoffs that are inconvenient for me personally.

The most common use case is streamlined by removing options that clutter up the settings menu or banishing the buttons I press a lot into some tertiary menu, or niche features I rely on become unsupported and then get removed (of course with forced auto-updates, because the average user experience is improved by them) to free up developer bandwidth for the core features. And then I end up using a different off-brand window manager with the serial numbers filed off that barely works in general, but works for my specific 'workflow" exactly like I want it.

Of course, at the same time I also benefit from general improvements targeting the average user. It's only about the tradeoffs.
Red Hat announced that they are no longer providing updates to the downstream repo at git.centos.org and blamed that a lot of people are taking the sources and not contributing back, essentially just rebuilding and rebranding "their code".

To obtain access to the git repo you now need to subscribe to Red Hat Developer Portal, but there are other ways to obtain the package sources as Rocky Linux is going to do in the future.

This move by RH is not proprietary per se but it does indicate that they are growing hostile towards open source as a whole because it is affecting their business model, and since they were acquired by IBM, now they only really care about the revenue RHEL generates.
Yep you can. I have mine configured so that it will only search when I use one of the search prefixes. So to search on google I type "g example.com", and this is unambiguous with actually wanting to go to example.com.
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>STEM exists, everything else is just bullshit

'M' is also largely bullshit. Worse, it's got immediate consequences.
I've been liking the recommendations. They should, of course, be configurable.
> I vividly recall someone bringing a 700MB hard drive back from a local computer store. It cost an astonishingly paltry 700 quid or thereabouts.

I ... do not know. That sounds very low. Look at https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm and note the pound was 1.8-ish around this time so the price should have been well above 1000 pounds even in early 90s. We are talking of a 5.25" full height drive, here's an 1987 model http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/maxtor/MXT8760E.pdf rare in personal computers, it was definitely for workstations / servers.
Have you ever maintained a product popular enough that lots of people try to hack into and abuse? If yes, you should understand the reasons for protective measures like this.
> are you sure about that?

Yes, I am sure about that, because I used to study Biology before going into IT. And we had a lovely lecture in which we used to discuss theoretical setups for lifeforms at a molecular level.

2 nucleotide DNA isn't necessarily less stable. AT-rich domains have less bindings, but if stablity is the issue, use CG instead (3 bindings)...although that is also a compromise, because then opening DNA for transcription gets more difficult.

> your answer is just a hypothesis, not a proof.

My answer is what we observe in evolutionary biology.

I have given an example outside of the molecular world for a reason. There is no real advantage to the inversion of the neural architecture in Chordata, it just didn't matter when the neural tube formation mechanisms came to be. Now, with mammals having huge brains and complex sensory organs, the warts in that design show.

The proof for that is easy to come by, (also a reason btw. why the neural inversion is my favorite example for this): Look an any Protostomia. Their neural system isn't inverted. Consequently, Squids don't have a visual blind spot.
I know nothing of DLSS (I use AMD parts) but 100ms sounds extreme to me. Like way above playable. Did you try Nvidia's reflex experiment? At 85ms it feels like the mouse is stuck in tar. I read that the increase in aim precision was near 60% and often up to 80%(!) in the low Vs high latency.

I don't know what my current systems total latency is, but I use a mouse with custom internals and an LG OLED screen for the lowest input lag. The difference between 60 and 120 Hz is huge even with my at least low-ish input lag system.

This isn't meant as a criticism, as I stated I have no clue how DLSS feels and I quite enjoy playing games on my PS5 too (with LG OLD and VRR), but the 100ms just sounded off to me.

Actually, before posting I just had a quick look at Nvidias article. Their example of worst system latency was 77ms and the best is 12ms.

100 and I'd throw it out the window.
I remember when the first spam message showed up on usenet. People weren't happy, complained with the admin of the spammer's system, and the spammer lost his account. That's why spammers started to create their own spam systems and everybody else started to block those systems.

The internet was open and unmoderated when nobody was abusing it. Once people start abusing it, it will be moderated. It's unavoidable.

> It's also interesting that the zeitgeist at the time favored conservatives

I don't think that's true. The 1990s saw the rise of conservative talk radio and of Fox News, but they weren't as dominant as they became later, and the 1990s were a pretty liberal time in much of the western world.

> liberals were the then-staunch supporters of free speech.

Still are. But even then, they didn't tolerate intolerance. It's just that at the time, intolerance was universally seen as bad, and not central to a rising ideology as it is now.
You know HN very well if you create an account here to vent about them. You must've read about them here in the past. You've therefore knew about their shortcomings. If it comes to business, you have to make the adult decision instead of going with the cool kids over in SV. There are real companies out there that would gladly take your business.
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"Nobody ever got fired for buying CentOS". Till recently.

In terms of actual, material benefits I believe it's simply because transitive "certifications" (hardware, support, continuity, ...) that are implied by Red Hat's corporate presence.
Well, nobody's stopping IBM from retaliating by offering a SUSE clone :)
GM ditching CarPlay could go bad, complain car dealers
Show HN: Automated Reporting for R&D teams
Hi HN! Marple here, we wanted to showcase a new feature on [http://marpledata.com](http://marpledata.com/). We do telemetry visualisations (enormous datasets @ high frequencies-friendly), as well as being able to analyse across datasets using a Data Miner (customisable metrics and filters-friendly)

As things progress in the R&D cycle, it's time to test!

Introducing the Automated Reporter. Select a folder (either with files on it, or with files that you'll upload periodically using our SDK), then set out bounds for tests to pass/fail (think CI/CD pipeline) and see Marple automatically test and present them to you in PDF or as a trigger notification over email.

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Running Linux on Mac solves most of my issues.
> If you have kids Google is a no-go

I was expecting this to be Hacker News hyperbole but god that is TERRIFYING. Apple's CSAM plans were using a database of known images and got enough backlash, but Google trying to use AI to detect abuse? What a HORRIBLE idea.
ASML slams brakes on mass recruitment as demand for chips slows
Also, many servers didn't carry alt.* at all (or very selectively) because it was such a wild west.
Yeah I admit at this point in my life, much like I used to start up the SNES to play Zelda back in my parents' living room, I start up my Windows system to play Monster Hunter or whatever, while trying really hard to ignore the whole desktop thing on that system.
Show HN: Open-source Python 3D game sold on steam
Hi, I’m making my game’s entire source code available to any other who wants to take a look.
Here’s the steam link:
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And here's the github link:
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3.6M speed tests rendered at 120 FPS over a Mapbox layer
This is very positive news, I wonder though how far will compatible mean? My biggest problem with opensuse is the lack of cockpit support and integration that RHEL has.

Also that they use apparmor instead of selinux as default, I wish that selinux would become the standard MAC, with really good tools (cli and gui alike) for handling selinux policies.
First, do you suppose it's running at full pelt 24/7? If suggest the specs are that high to speed to batch operations. Most of the time it'll be idling.

And second, letting Google or Apple manage this doesn't mean it doesn't use energy. They're offsetting or generating? So am I.
I knew suse used rpm packages, but I always thought they were their own... good to know they are putting in the work to distance themselves from the IBM mess.
But if the title requires you to click, and then you find out it's uninteresting, why'd you upvote at that point? It shouldn't get your vote at all then, having wasted your time
This is a pretty basic article on feature flags, which doesn't really cover anything that a landing page for something like LaunchDarkly doesn't cover.

But, the chatbot on that article that sends an audible notification and animates my title bar made me close the page instantly.
Like with most of these things 'fear' is a powerful button. But ask yourself this: from the position of a native Canadian you're the intruder (by proxy), and yet you are empowered to decide who should or should not be allowed to enter one of the largest countries in the world, with a population density approaching zero.

I've lived in Canada for a relatively long time, the amount of overt racism and the amount of xenophobia are off the scale. I have a hard time reconciling that with the immigrant background of the average Canadian and think that if it was good enough for your (great) grandparents to displace the natives then it probably should be good enough for you to take a (minor) degree of mental discomfort if it helps refugees and others that have an actual need. And if you feel that that is too much of a step for your society to make then that's sad because it says that your ancestors did not manage to pass on their life's experience to a degree that you can benefit from it.

Less than two generations ago my grandparents were refugees, driven - on foot - with their children from the home they lived in to walk across the frozen country side. They were taken in by farmers who definitely did not have food to spare. But they did it anyway, and at a considerable price to their own well-being and health they helped these complete strangers through the toughest part of World War II for that region (the area around Arnhem, well known for operation Market Garden and shown in some detail in the movie 'A bridge too far'.

Refugees and other displaced people are welcome where I live, I'll be happy to pay more taxes if that's what it takes and I realize that with the housing shortage it means that my kids will likely not have a place to move to when they are of the age that they would normally do so. But my grandparents did manage to pass on the lessons learned from those times.
I'm sure this is horrible for you. But your account is 38 minutes old. You clearly have no ties to this community, and have just found some advice on the internet to come and complain here in the hopes of getting it escalated internally at Stripe.

Please don't. This is not a support forum for Stripe, or any other company, and your post is as generic a "complaining about being blocked by Stripe" complaint as it gets with no details to make it obvious this is somehow a more outrageous case than usual.
Many may know it but for those that don't: Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Funny but how does that help the community or businesses adopt Linux really?
2024 will be the year of Linux on the bathroom shelves if all electric toothbrushes will run it. :)
It only reads from memory,not swap directly. If it needs to read something from swap, it'll write out something from memory to swap, then read the swap into memory. Reading 1gb of swap, will essentially write 1gb to the ssd too. (rough numbers)

Correct me if I misunderstand swap?
> Tumblr is not easy to use

The UX is all weird and always has been. Maybe the hardcore users like it, but I personally hate having to "quote tweet" every response. Replies are there now, great, but they are a completely different post type and are unthreaded. You can't have multiple videos in a post. You can't use videos in a reblog. There are so many "what the hell why would it be like this" moments.

But the user base is pretty cool.

Besides: What happened to the ActivityPub plans?

I think it's great that y'all are thinking about this. If you succeed (hopefully without angering the current user base too much), Tumblr could house a lot of Twitter/Reddit refugees.
> By the way, a cow produces 120Kg of methane a year.

Thank goodness we're eating so many of them to help reduce their population.

/s
> file server or a local data archive

thats all you want from a fs, isn't it?

everything else is temporary data, living in memory.
This is based on the same premise as the "writing cure." Lepore & Smyth (2002) have a good volume on it. (https://books.google.com/books?id=3GeSRAAACAAJ)

I've read the literature on the writing cure and it appears to be very effective for most subjects.

An interesting side topic is treated in "Why Doesn’t the Writing Cure Help Poets?" (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1037/1089-2680.10.3....)
Nice one, thanks for that.
It is a standardized, known quantity.

Just like McDonald's: it isn't the best meal you can get, whether in quality, nutrition or taste. But you will know what you are getting, even when you appear on the other side of the planet. You would be better off with a meal in a some local restaurant, but that one is unknown to you.

So corporate will get something they know for their people. Most of them have zero interest in exploring better options, just want their job done today and go home.
A massive offshore wind farm just got approved off the coast of New Jersey