skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of college being a way to connect remarkable people with resources has always seemed sort of suspect. Remarkable people seem to find their own way; it's the rest of us that need a structural on-ramp to the professional or intellectual classes. If anything, credentialism is a roadblock for true geniuses, but it's also a necessary evil, in that regard, in order to protect the public from charlatans.
Was the comic Dilbert? Curious to lookup the original
First time I took a vitamin B supplement, I had brief concern before remembering that I had just started taking vitamin B and searched [vitamin B bright urine].

Don't do this, but I read online about some chemist getting pranked by his daughter putting Prussian blue in his coffee, turning his urine blue to blue-green.
The government should spend when consumption/investment is low, and reduce spending when investment is high. For obvious reasons.
pagerank was implemented as an iterative mapreduce on classic hardware (and sibyl later adopted this model, using MR as an engine to do what is really an HPC job). Not sure I really consider it HPC, more like high throughput. HOwever, the MR approach worked really well when google was scaling super-fast in the early days; if they'd chosen to solve the problem using MPI and infiniband on expensive SGIs, they probably wouldn't have become the company they are today.
"Our findings demonstrated that individuals with weaker performance in working memory and cognitive flexibility are more inclined to embrace various conspiracy theories"
Incorrect, according to their FAQ[0] and the original article I linked[1]:

> What does ABI/binary compatible with RHEL mean?

> In July of 2023, we announced (opens new window) that we were shifting our goal from being a downstream rebuild of RHEL to maintaining ABI compatibility with RHEL. For the AlmaLinux team that means that everything from software applications to kernel modules that work on RHEL will work on AlmaLinux, and if they don't we would consider that a bug.

TL;DR: they are using CentOS Stream as their upstream.

EDIT: Sorry, you're correct -- I was thinking you meant their original goal of "bug-for-bug" compatibility with RHEL.

[0] https://wiki.almalinux.org/FAQ.html#what-does-abi-binary-com...

[1] https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
> For a typical user, this will mean very little change in your use of AlmaLinux. Red Hat-compatible applications will still be able to run on AlmaLinux OS, and your installs of AlmaLinux will continue to receive timely security updates. The most remarkable potential impact of the change is that we will no longer be held to the line of “bug-for-bug compatibility” with Red Hat, and that means that we can now accept bug fixes outside of Red Hat’s release cycle. While that means some AlmaLinux OS users may encounter bugs that are not in Red Hat, we may also accept patches for bugs that have not yet been accepted upstream, or shipped downstream.

* https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
I would be interested to know about their executive function and self-regulation skills. The ability to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, working memory, mental flexibility.
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You're not wrong! There's just nothing that be done accounting for free will and a loose societal contract. If help is there, it might not be offered when you need it. If the help isn't there, you're gonna have a bad time. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Discussing how things "should be" is one thing, and how to support people who have made the irrevocable choices they've made is a different conversation.
As I understand it, Alma is following the stream release, which is slightly upstream and less stable than RHEL.

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/07/29/0214234/almalinux-...

Rocky and SUSE Liberty Linux aim to be bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL, which has become more difficult.
The deal seems obvious: parcel a pay raise for the Congress with anti-corruption measures. Perhaps even a revolving-door cool-down period (together with paid gardening leave).

These are senior decision makers. Going to Congress shouldn't mean not being able to build wealth by simply doing your job.
The worst cost of documentation is that it often generates extra work for you in terms of complaints and updates. Not always reasonable ones, either. More than a few personal projects have been taken offline because it's too demoralizing to give things away and get negativity back.
> Bluey very clearly punches her dad square in the stomach, he lets out an audible sound of pain, and......nothing happens.

What would you like to happen? I’m not sure I understand here. I’m completely ok with Bluey’s dad not retaliating. Being a Dad means sometimes, you have to take a punch.
Pretty much every variation of "live with more people in the housing unit" makes financial, societal and ecological sense. The problem is always that then you have to live with those people, for various values of "those people". Insert Huis Clos quote here.
Paging Jason Scott, @textfiles
If you can't justify the cost of RHEL for your use case, I believe Fedora would be the best alternative at this time since its development has not been affected by the changes recently made to CentOS, and it provides a near identical feature set.
My intuition is that this finding is correct. This is dangerous; in the social sciences, results that match your intuition will most likely have garbage methodology that does not support their conclusions [1].

I haven't read the study yet to confirm this, but the abstract is unencouraging:

> We conducted a meta-analysis of the mean IQ scores of college and university students samples tested with Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale between 1939 and 2022.

Wechsler first published the WAIS in 1955.

[1] This is similar to results that conflict with your intuition; in those cases the studies will most likely have garbage methodology that does not support their conclusion.
>"Acquire competitor, just to shut down competitor"

There was 6 years in between those two events, and by all accounts CentOS got much better post-acquisition.

There is no "just" here. Originally it was considered a good idea, and (years) later they changed their minds.
Thank you for the suggestion!

I've always avoided non-App Store distribution to keep things simpler. It's a nightmare to manage many different licensing schemes.

Now I don't have to have any backend. Everything is done via the built-in, robust App Store mechanism that just works.

I hope Apple will figure something out in the future. And I think they will since they want to increase their "Services" revenue as hardware sales decline. Making stuff easier for business customers seems like a low-hanging fruit.
> Your original assertion that Apple wasn't rewriting anything.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I made no such assertion.

Perhaps you're confusing me and "toyg"?
Someone who is truly happy is likely to be happy in any situation.

Someone who is unsatisfied, is likely to be unsatisfied in any situation.

You can't fix internal problems with external solutions.
Never made that connection! Thats hilarious
Yep, I agree. And I agree that designers can't "code", but to be more specific, it's more that they shouldn't be implementing functionality. So if a designer is designing a calculator, and the calculator returns 1+1=3, then the designer is not liable for fixing it.

On the other hand, if by "writing code" we mean the literal act of writing something that both a human and a computer can understand, then that's a different question. Designers need to express nuance, and GUI tools are limited in their ability to handle complexity. There's a reason visual programming tools haven't overtaken code.

What I'm getting at is that there very well could be a "language" specifically tailored for UI/UX designers, that allows them to specify their design decisions for the presentational layer of the application. If you had such a language, you could create a toolchain on top of it, which produces real code for developers to consume however they wish.

I'm (slowly but steadily) working on this exact thing: https://matry.design
Steering Large Language Models with Pydantic
>> but it's not humanly possible that they get ~40,000 times as much done in a day as I do.

But you do understand why a popular singer or a football player get that much more than you?
What music were you using before? Was it not sacred? As someone from a christian tradition that uses exclusively a capella liturgical music I'm having trouble understanding what this distinction means.
Personally it would not be my first choice since I am somewhat allergic to anything with the word Oracle in it, but another option for those in the enterprise space might be Oracle Linux:

https://www.oracle.com/linux/

They claim full compatibility with RHEL and don't require a licence/login to download and install. And they offer paid support if you need it.
I’d be curious. I feel like one should be able to estimate this based on life experience. But maybe not.

E.g. if you’re effortlessly in the top 10% of any academic or mental performance setting, does it follow that you’re likely in the top 10% IQ (120+?). If it does not follow, what does that suggest about the measurement?

At the risk of hubris, I’d be so dumbfounded by something saying I had median intelligence that I would be inclined to say the test is simply wrong. I would not expect the test to be calibrated well enough to differentiate above 90% well. So I’m in that bucket of 120+ estimators. I’m probably not that different from the rest. Kind of makes me want to take a test tbh.
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> there's a ton of misinformation being actively spread.

Considering the debacle that was the Energy Secretary's 650-mile EV road trip[0], perhaps the misinformation isn't quite that. It doesn't matter if you can go 10% to 80% in 20 minutes, if none of the four EV chargers at a highway stop are free.

I personally rented an EV for a weekend trip to a major coastal metropolis (certainly one that professes to embrace the energy transition) a few months back. I picked a hotel that claimed that it had EV chargers. The reality on the ground was that only one of eight or so chargers was working, and that one was occupied by the same car during my entire stay.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1187224861/electric-vehicles-...
> Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

I think we need to bring back sticks and stones in primary school so people understand the difference.
And sometimes stop at a gas station to ask for directions. One of the memes that probably makes near zero sense to a young person today is a woman annoyed because the guy driving the car refuses to stop and ask how to get somewhere.
I tend to make web apps, since deployment is so easy and seamless, and its super easy to pass links around.

The stack is usually: Vue.js for frontend hosted on cloudflare pages, flask on backend hosted on hetzner via docker. Simple to set up and manage and been very reliable.
Well, yeah, and people use gas generators in remote places occasionally. But I meant at utility scale. :)
You should bring it up to the Architecture Committee
Not all issues are complex, some are complicated
And yet here they are, with a great app, some amount of sustained revenue, and a front page post on HN. Is that an accident?

The word that comes to mind after reading that post is “intentionality.” Many deliberate decisions, including for hard tradeoffs like this one. To me, that speaks to the importance of vision and judgment over the apparent correctness of individual choices.
> if you are running ERP Systems, LOB Apps, or other critical functions that measure their code life in decades

That's really what confuses me about the people who use CentOS or Rocky, they want or need the stability of RHEL, so that they can run these crucial applications, that mostly aren't cheap, yet they refuse to pay for the development of the operating system they run it them?

I really don't see the point in any of these clones, other than as an educational tool. I see the point in RHEL and while expensive, that's the price of developing this platform. You can buy SuSE, Ubuntu Pro or Oracle Linux, if you feel that RedHat is to expensive (perhaps not Oracle), but that's not what some people want, they specifically want RHEL, but for free.
reject modernity, return to tradition
Not to steal your thunder about a MacOS-specific text editor, I would say that many Windows devs would say the same about Notepad++ and Sublime Text. While I am not a Windows fanboi, when I am forced to use that platform, I am always searching the Start Menu to run those text editors! I agree: The "TLC" (tender, loving, care) is well transmitted to users over the long run. The endless number of "hacker-friendly" features slowly builds a rabid fanbase.
same for me but with Medievia... in elementary school (thanks older bro)
That's odd, I thought the intention of Steam family sharing was precisely to enable that use case.
My ears are ringing.
A big part of it is remembering at all times all the balances.

It's quite easy to forget something like "paid the down payment" or "helps with dinner" when you're dealing with the frustrating side of things, but those can be major.

And the kids get a closer experience with grandparents, which has a value all its own.
The Lion King is more Hamlet than Kimba, I think. Royal family, brother of king kills king to get throne, queen not happy about this turn of events, the kid is elsewhere, ghost of king tells kid to sort it out, kid returns to royal court and after a fight ends up offing the usurper.

But in Hamlet Shakespeare kills everyone; while in The Lion King, Walt disnae.
You realize that the folks at Disney put in thousands of hours to create their own version of the story. Yeah, they borrowed a bit, but they put in plenty of their own work.

But go ahead and pretend that this is the same as the cheap-ass behavior of some stoned pirate who can't bring himself to pay for content and uses Lessig as a justification for his thievery.
> there are a lot of episodes that are actually art.

Indeed, I can't emphasise enough just how much this is underplayed in:

> One storyline contrasts the adult dogs struggling to construct flat-pack furniture while the children create their own adventure

This is a short episode that's fun for kids to watch with some adventure and a bit of parents struggling to build some furniture. It also covers the evolution of life on the planet and futures beyond, growth, aging, letting your children go. It's like 5 minutes and entirely self contained, it's truly incredible.
Ask HN: If I buy a physical book why is the eBook not free?
Genuine question. I understand there may a small marginal cost to host a ebook site for downloads, but other than that what are the drivers that disincentivize this practice?
I've never thought much of that narrative argument against the Apollo space program, since the Vietnam War cost at least 4X as much as the Apollo program, with much less to show for it and far more negative social effects (e.g. all the homeless Vietnam vets with unrecognized PTSD, etc.).
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True, but there's something weird about this one in general. I've never seen an EV article get this much activity here.

And a lot of it is highly charged (no pun intended).
I see you citing usb armory a lot, but I haven’t yet seen any acknowledgement that it too is a go fork. Not everything runs on that fork, some things need patching.

It’s interesting that you raise collaboration points here. When Russ was getting in go modules design he reached out and I made time for him giving him a brain dump of knowledge from working on ruby gems for many years and the bundler introduction into that ecosystem and forge deprecation/gemcutter transition, plus insights from having watched npm and cargo due to adjacencies. He took a lot of notes and things from that showed up in the posts and design. When fuchsia was starting to rumble about dropping go I reached out to him about it, hoping to discuss some of the key points - he never got back to me.
No one said anything about retaliating - a simple "look you hurt dad, you need to be careful" would have been 100% sufficient, and as another comment said - it would have been a nice counter lesson to one of the previous episodes about rough play.

>>Being a Dad means sometimes, you have to take a punch.

Sure - but as a dad you are also responsible for making sure your child understands that hurting other people is not ok, and they shouldn't do it again, pretend play or not.
>RedHat acquired CentOS, saying that it would be good for CentOS[1].

>RedHat shut CentOS down.

It should be noted that six years passed between point A and point B, during which time Red Hat did invest quite a lot of additional resources in CentOS. Red Hat did not acquire CentOS and then immediately shut it down.

CentOS Stream is also not a wholly different thing from CentOS, although it is obviously not exactly the same thing.
> It matters if they’re working contractors like FTEs, which the NLRB said, yes, Google did

You're being really slippery when you reword this to "working contractors like FTEs". What, exactly, did the NLRB filing alleged? That Google asked TVCs to return to the office, set their time off, etc. The NLRB focused most entirely on how Google was controlling the conditions of Cognizant employees' work. That's a very, very different claim than saying Cognizant employees were performing the same task as FTEs.

Nowhere does the NLRB report say "Cognizant employees were tasked with _______ just like FTEs".

"Google is using contractors to perform the same work as full time employees."

"Google is setting contractors' conditions like return to office, time off, wages, etc."

The NLRB is alleging the latter. It is not alleging the former (which is what the grandparent comment wrote, and what I insisted is incorrect). And if you can't comprehend the difference between these two claims, there's no real point in continuing here.
On the one hand, that's a selected group of people who sit at desks and can chat on a web forum during the day at their jobs (as I am right now), so I wouldn't take them as representative.

On the other hand, the trades fucking suck - there are posters here who I will generously interpret as being a bit... touched perhaps? when it comes to the realities of work and particularly pay that the average tradesman must face. I'm sure somewhere, some tradesperson in the world is making a couple hundred thousand a year, but statistically speaking, basically none of them are. There's a reason they want their kids to go into a different line of work.
The previous owner had got it new for AU$6,000 around 1980—serious cash! I got it for $100 (and then spent about an extra $150–200 on fuel &c. due to living some hundreds of kilometres away), and it had been listed on Gumtree for a couple of months, with only one other bloke having expressed interest (he played and enjoyed it, but declared himself a Yamaha man). There’s just not much interest in these beauties.

There was a full-on national news article a year or two back about some suburban house somewhere with a pipe organ that was for sale but only for someone who’d appreciate and use it. Pipe organs are part of the house; but these organs, I dunno, I feel that they’re big enough most buyers wouldn’t want to let you leave ’em behind.

Oh look, another interesting one in the Melbourne area now, https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/frankston/keyboards-pianos/c.... Uncommon indeed. Hmm, if it’s still on the market when I get back in March… even if I need to get rid of some furniture to fit it conveniently… drawbar organ, electric organ, upright piano and digital piano quartet? Sigh, really wish I had more space to conveniently fit all this and a grand piano or two. They’re all such different instruments despite seeming similar in some ways that I kinda want ’em all.
> The individualism and “nuclearization” of the western family is the root problem.

It's probably not a problem or a root problem, it's just a cultural feature that's experiencing challenges due to changing economic factors and bad regulation. It's ok and normal that the expectation in some countries including the United States is that people are more individualistic and that nuclear families tend to be the norm.

I'd argue that the problem that's evading us here isn't solved by increases in communal living (although boarding houses and single-unit apartments with common spaces could help - but good luck enforcing cleanliness standards since we're a bunch of animals), but instead is solved by building with appropriate levels of density such that regardless of your living arrangement preferences you can still live near enough other people, restaurants, doctors offices, work, etc. and activities that are appropriate for the stage of life you are in.

If you are single you might be renting or living in a small studio apartment. You don't have to hate living alone when you don't have to spend all day cooped up unless you want to drive 15 miles to participate in society. You can walk out your front door.

The married (and obviously wealthy) couple can invite the neighbors over for a BBQ and to hang out by the pool. But you can't do that really in the suburbs.

The four Catholic girls can still live in their long house and probably have an easier time participating in local charity or prayer events since they don't have to drive to go participate in those activities and make them a chore.

Etc.
But in 1969 it was not settled that the country should fix civil rights. Probably Apollo would have been received differently by many people if other, more humane areas had seen as enthusiastic spending. Not saying it was wrong to do Apollo, though! It was important, another great outcome was that it made the Soviet system crack faster.

It was also not clear from originally that Apollo would be single time limited project, in the beginning there was a lot of talk about moon bases and such.
>The Vim commands are: ...

You forgot the time you spend learning a counterintuitive way to edit text. The microscopic time you gain while editing text is nothing in comparison to that.

>just what to edit as the language is very intuitive once you got it down.

Everything can become intuitive when you spend hours and hours learning it. The question is whether it's worth it.
nope, phthalate-free cans have been a selling point for a while now. standard for canned beans at Sprouts or Whole Foods
I have two data points for you:

My wife and I banned Bluey in our house a couple years ago. We use TV as "quiet time" for our kids (currently ages 3 to 9) after lunch, replacing the time when they used to nap, and Bluey seems to make them go crazy. I haven't even watched any of the episodes, so I can't object specifically to any of the content; we just observed a consistent, counterproductive effect on their behavior.

My neighbor, another dad of two toddlers, expressed something to me a few months ago that was similar to your opinion.

I'm honestly stunned by the overwhelmingly positive comments on this thread, and I'm wondering if I should actually try watching a couple of the episodes mentioned here.
This is turning into a silly argument… but anyway there's a blogger who has been tracking the number of binaries written in the various languages (and appkit vs catalyst vs swiftui etc.) for years.

Sonoma is 13% Swift (up from 11% in Ventura), 53% Obj-C (down from 55% in Ventura). The priority actually appears to be eating away from the C/C++ parts of the codebase (currently 33%, down from 42% just two releases ago).

https://blog.timac.org/2023/1128-state-of-appkit-catalyst-sw...
Thanks for the clarification on the panic function signature - I missed it when checking the spec but it's definitely in there and defined as taking `interface{}`

https://go.dev/ref/spec#Handling_panics
Very interesting article! I was really interested in your pricing experiments!