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by CharlieDigital | 2025-11-03 14:38:20+00:00
Not related to this particular reason for suspension, but I had a friend who's GCP account got put on pause a few weeks into his project because his payment method was flagged for suspicious behavior. This friend had an incident of stolen identity in the past 24 months which caused a lot of issues and basically any CC linked to him seemed to be problematic for GCP. Swapped CC linked to the account to his business partner and fixed everything.

Lesson: if you use a CC with GCP or cloud services, firewall it from everything else you do to be safe.
by bArray | 2025-11-03 14:38:30+00:00
Wayback-when, I used the Arduino Yun [1] for a project successfully. It took a USB web camera and streamed it via a browser with a button overlay to remotely control a robot. The OS was OpenWRT and was very limited, but just about good enough. The Arduino side was doing the tight control of the motors and reading the sensor data.

Why was the Arduino Yun cool? It allowed me to use WiFi easily in an embedded project (this was pre-ESP32). It also allowed me to interface with a native USB device.

The Arduino Uno Q has failed on multiple fronts (in my opinion):

* You cannot leverage the enormous number of Linux USB drivers for an embedded project. It needs two USB (A) ports for interfacing with interesting devices on the SBC. A single USB-C port for power, display and peripherals is crazy.

* It makes a large point about having a GUI, but does not offer a HDMI port. Why would you do that? On the HDMI output you would have a bootloader in ROM that tests the system is okay and tells you if it cannot boot. ARM systems have an awful feature of just not booting at all and providing no feedback. "No valid OS detected in main flash storage."

* No micro-SD to flash the SBC seems like a large oversight. You want to encourage people to experiment and break the OS, and have it be super simple to restore or experiment.

* 50 euros [2] is too much for what this is. It probably should have been a single-side surface mount

* If you're going to make the HDMI output a large part of your project, do away with the LED matrix. They should be asking themselves "does this add value to all users, or could it be a shield?".

[1] https://docs.arduino.cc/retired/boards/arduino-yun/

[2] https://store.arduino.cc/products/uno-q
by bluGill | 2025-11-03 14:38:43+00:00
The suburb was invented by/for the train. We called the first ones "street car suburbs" for good reason - the rail was why they were even possible in the first place. Cars work better than rails in suburbs (no congestion) and so rails have mostly disappeared, but rails absolutely could work in suburbs again if we invested in making them fast and frequent (which is expensive so we won't)
by antman | 2025-11-03 14:39:00+00:00
People consider google as a trusted partner whereas it is designed as a retail factory. Mass serving of millions and protectioms whose false positives can destroy the lives of thousands. Still they are statistically correct. Nuking everything instead of the offending service? Convenient fir them. Unavailable support reps? Convenient for them? Meaningless automated answers? Convenient for them. Its not a solid system that has defects, it was designed that way. Their unavailability and abrupt cruelty does not serve as cost optimisation, it serves as liability optimisation.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-11-03 14:39:22+00:00
So, what happens to an account that is registered with said suspended email account and with a passkey-only login?

Does Google-synced passkeys on Google Password Manager still work even when your account is suspended?

Can't recover your accounts because you can't access your email, unless Google still allows existing email client access even when suspended but I'm not unfortunate enough to test this out.
by footy | 2025-11-03 14:39:24+00:00
Same. I work 4 days a week, and most weeks I work 32 hours (some weeks I am excited about what I am doing and end up working later than I intended to once or twice). The flexibility is amazing. I have time for personal projects (some of them coding related, but also music or home improvement or really anything I want), I have time to lift every day, I read more than almost anyone I know.

Having that extra day off for Whatever I Want is invaluable, and there's nothing that anyone can offer me that would make me give this up.
by immmmmm | 2025-11-03 14:39:26+00:00
As an occasional organiser of techno parties point 21) made me gently laugh. After decades of experience I’ve resorted to:

1) get the best quality, ultra high headroom, system money can rent

2) get a high quality monitoring system for the DJs

3) find a venue as remote as I can

4) go turn down the master volume on the main desk every now and then :)
by sixhobbits | 2025-11-03 14:39:43+00:00
I think that's an over-simplistic view - at the moment there are many, many software engineers hired by companies who are betting on AI being madly profitable. If those expectations change, we could see more cascading layoffs, which will mean those engineers will go looking at more traditional places like banks, which means they'll stop hiring, which means it'll be harder to someone who is looking for a new job to find one, even though not all jobs have yet been automated.
by refulgentis | 2025-11-03 14:40:16+00:00
Up front: it is a fine perspective! Please take following as indulging your active curiosity because I find it compelling, not talking down.

If I sat down for a coffee with my favorite economics professor and they were doing a Socratic education thing, they’d ask:

- What happens if someone refuses to work less?

- Does that strike you as a stable state, or, the first turn in an assignment you gotta sketch out for that Game Theory class you’re taking.

- What happens if we automate all of someone’s job?

- What would it look like if we did this with ATMs? Would excess tellers be at home with same salary in perpetuity? Bank employment held stable with ATMs, even though tellers decreased. Under this proposal, would it have increased, as management couldn’t be automated and now can focus on loans?

- What happens in a more factory-like setting, where automation of manual work might entail constant monitoring?

In terse form: we’re instituting a more complicated form of communism with more moral hazards, and any analysis of what happens beyond the first step reveals a nest of complicated questions that result in less efficiency any time we build tools that could make us more efficient. The only thing I can think of is it would “resolve” generationally. I.e. if we needed 4 Grugs to carry the harvest, then invent the wheel and only need 1 Greg, 3 Grugs get to do nothing till they die and the generation that invented the tool reap no benefits of the invention, only their offspring will. (Their labor can get reallocated like the 3 Grugs normally would have)
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-11-03 14:40:21+00:00
Like Uber drivers' using their girlfriends' ID verification because they have a criminal record, you can also just cut in some random guy to borrow his ID for another chance. There should be plenty of dudes available willing to sell an ID verification for cheap in poorer countries but there's also plenty in wealthy countries because very few anywhere were ever going to have a Google developer account in the first place.
by phkahler | 2025-11-03 14:41:18+00:00
>> Each layer of that strip has a different cut in it, so its much more complicated to make.

You can roll a spool of that material and then machine the shape out of it. I've seen this done for axial flux motors. There are other approaches as well, and the cost differences get even smaller if you throw automation at the production process. I used to believe axial flux motors were one of those oddities that won't win in the end, but now that I work with them I'm not so sure. They are at least competitive with radial flux machines.
by jonway | 2025-11-03 14:41:30+00:00
I have all of this. You need a google account to use GCP and I used my google account which was created with a gmail invite code shortly after gmail was released.

Some things are still using this email. Hey, I'm not perfect. Sometimes I exceed posted speed limits, too.

Edit: I have to choose a tech giant to get a phone app with decent push notifications as far as I can tell (I haven't scoured the earth for this .... yet) The gmail app is pretty good.

Here are options I can recommend: Proton Tuta Apple (iCloud)

All of these withh be your MX with DMARC/SPF. If you use an android cellphone you'll almost certainly need a google account anyhow. The tuta experience is not as advanced as the others, but is servicable and likely offers better security guarantees than the others. You get a lot of bang for your buck from Proton (personal wireguard tunnel vpn included), and apple is apple.
by imtringued | 2025-11-03 14:41:44+00:00
Why would AI companies prefer $1 billion of Nvidia credits over $1 billion cash?

Liquidity preference.

This might be a bit too convoluted, but here is a way to get straight to the point. Assume there is a perfectly liquid asset and its nominal value is $1 million. Now imagine you have stocks that are worth $1 million, but the market price fluctuates over time.

The market price of the perfectly liquid asset is always the mean, the variance is zero. The value of the stock follows a probability distribution, e.g. a Gaussian distribution. The mean is the same, but the variance means that you can't just sell the asset at any time you want.

Even when the nominal value is the same, people prefer more liquid assets over less liquid assets. The reason is obvious. More liquid assets can buy less liquid assets at face value, meanwhile less liquid assets require you to find a willing buyer to trade, which is costly both in time and effort spent on planning the transaction. If you're impatient, you'll have to sell your asset at a discount.

The opposite is also true. If you are an investor, you prefer handing out less liquid assets first, such as credits that can only be used to buy your own products.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-03 14:41:50+00:00
This is good to know. I haven't used R2, it's been on my radar but I haven't taken the steps to start using it. Partly because my experience with the rest of Cloudflare has been middling to poor. I'd love to save on our S3 bill, which is substantial, but it's going to take significant development to get there and it's an unknown how much it'll actually save. There are too many stories of people getting called by enterprise sales when their usage crosses some line in the sand that only the sales people know.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-03 14:42:08+00:00
Communication is arbitrary to begin with. It can't be made more specific using more words in more combinations, that's basic linguistic science. Tech can't solve this.

'Social' media is not social, it's disengaged from the basics of socialization: eye-contact, listening, gestural observation of non-verbal communication.

AI hallucinations are of course about discrepancy between semantic and prediction.

The idea tech has no grasp of maladaptive cultural evolution and game theory outcomes is telling.

Evolution has two aspects: tinkering and function. And the problem in tech is these aspects are in confusion because value is always being extracted in short terms when in genetics, fitness is a long term issue that can rarely be seen short term.

Downvoting the maladaptive urge doesn’t make it disappear.
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-03 14:42:34+00:00
> you can have democracy without them

Wholly disagree you can.

> I know, it's more exciting to play the worst scenarios in one's head, but… _maybe not_?

I don't know where I read this recently that russians never believe that something good can happen and americans never believe something bad can happen. It feels so real these last couple of years. You are obviously having democratic backslide and going into a bad place, but the absolute inability to realise this (at least from a large segment of the population) looking from the outside, is bordering on the absurde. There have been many dominant empires that fell. It is the peak of hubris that it can't happen to you.
by WaitWaitWha | 2025-11-03 14:42:51+00:00
I would like to understand the first half of the demands, fight for living wages. How much do the union members currently make? It is very easy to understand 32 hours workweek in 4 days, but there is nothing I can find in the article about what is their current wages. I did find the minimum they are looking for is $85,000.

On one of the pages the demand is written as "Codifying the 32-hour, 4-day work week that has been our reality for over three years". So they work 32-hour workweek just not codified in company policy? Are there US labour laws or health insurance agreements that doing 32 hours officially will create problems?
by cogman10 | 2025-11-03 14:42:55+00:00
> most people lived on farms

Not in the UK but yes in the US (in the 1900s, only 10% of the UK population farmed. Most were in the service industry and manufacturing). There's also a very different city layouts in the UK vs the US.

If you were a farmer in the US in the 1900s, you'd mostly likely ride a horse.

> How many of the customers of the Warhammer store walked there from their house?

Almost 0, but a very large percentage got there via bus and walked from the bus station to the store. For these older cities that's just how it has to be because there's no room for parking.

In the context of the 1900s, biking and walking is how people would get around in the UK, they'd simply not go downtown as often. In that city in particular there are a TON of old walking trails from the outskirts to town center. I know because I walked them.

You might think "Well, it's a 1 or 2 miles away, that's just too far" but honestly when all you are used to is walking it's not. It was just more expected that taking an hour long walk happens.

> How many came from a different cities because it was the closest store?

For that city, almost 0. It's way too isolated. Even today in england you'll find a lot of people that very rarely leave the city they were born in.

> but I expect the majority of customers are not walking. Maybe they drive, maybe they take transit.

Most of it will be park and walk. You are correct in assuming that they'll likely take transit or drive to a closer location. However, because not every store has parking like the US, it's most likely that they'll have to walk some distance to and from the store however they decide to get there.

If you click around the shrewsbury city in google earth street view, what you'll notice is very few cars in the city center and a lot of people walking around.
by arccy | 2025-11-03 14:42:57+00:00
The google docs they point to say

> You can access data from your users' Google Cloud projects by creating a service account to represent your service, and then having your customers grant that service account appropriate access to their cloud data using IAM policies. Note that you might want to create a service account per customer if you need to avoid confused deputy problems.

If you look at most SaaS services, they rarely use a service account per customer. IMO it's no different than any part of your own services where you need to handle multiple customers. Creating multiple service accounts is just overhead.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-03 14:43:13+00:00
For personal or family, I think Fastmail is fine. I use it for a family account (paid years in advance), and admin other Fastmail tenants "family office" style for those who trust me to and offload the responsibility. I can get ahold of someone at Fastmail easily when issues crop up, which is rare. O365 is what I recommend for anything SMB and up. You can at least get support from Microsoft when needed. AWS is fine for cloud resources and infra, again, you can get support from a TAM or similar. But Google? I have never once had a good experience attempting to get in touch with a human when resolution is needed, hence my position on the topic. You cannot self serve critical business infra (imho), and Google is allergic to providing human support.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-03 14:43:16+00:00
even as a full-time manager I have never had anything like 35 hours of meetings a week. No developer has that either. IME a developer who says "I have a lot of meetings!" is at < 10 hr/ week. Something like standup (1hr) planning (1hr) refinment/definition (2hr) 1:1 (1hr) staff/all-hands (1hr) practice groups (2hr) adhoc (3hr) is what I might see on their calendar and that's a heavy - not regular - week.
by MisterTea | 2025-11-03 14:43:18+00:00
I doubt this is aimed at hobbyists but looking to court developers looking for a quick and dirty hammer to drive their IoT nails. Remember those Spin scooters that were running off a Raspberry Pi? That's the market they are after. People who want a cheap low effort embedded computer that runs Linux. They can run a webthing in a container that talks to a cloud thing and bangs on some IO and you have a product.
by hliyan | 2025-11-03 14:43:23+00:00
If you reframe this as: a commercial entity progressively dominates a service that is increasingly becoming necessary for survival in the modern world (e.g. primary email / identity provider) or in a given profession (Android developer), and then denies that service to some individuals, while also keeping the cost of switching away to competitors high, then there is a case for natural justice, even if there (still) aren't laws in the books to cover it.
by Yie1cho | 2025-11-03 14:43:46+00:00
nextcloud just feels abandoned, even if it isn't of course.

maybe paying customers are getting a different/updated/tuned version of it. maybe not. but the only thing that keeps me using it is there isn't any real selfhosted alternatives.

why is it slow? if you just blink or take a breath, it touches the database. years ago i've tried to optimise it a bit and noticed that there are horrible amount of DB transactions there without any apparent reason.

also, the android client is so broken...
by conductr | 2025-11-03 14:44:00+00:00
Hrm. You probably know better than me, but I always assumed that since my cooling cost in Summer is 5x the cost of my heating cost in winter (with similar differentials, eg. heat+30 degrees, cool-30 degrees) that it was a less efficient process.

The napkin math still doesn't make since if I have to increase the cooling of house ~half the day (would be more since summer has longer days.) Other considerations would be extra wear on the HVAC equipment and just the comfort impact of increased fluctuations.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-03 14:44:00+00:00
> People consider google as a trusted partner

Haha, what "people"? Even people who aren't computer techies seems to be aware having a Google account is "a privilege lost at any time for any reason", almost everyone seems to know at least one acquaintance that somehow lost access to their personal account at one point and if you bring up any Google products in discussions, it isn't uncommon to hear "Yeah, I'd give that a try if I want to use a product that only works for a year".

Not sure there are many people left treating Google as a "trusted partner" unless you have a multi-million deal/contact with them.
by pavelai | 2025-11-03 14:44:02+00:00
The idea and syntax looks good for me. I like it's clean an minimalistic design. But still it's to early to say is it good or not. Because there is no obvious features. You should answer the question what's the goal of the language and find the auditory who is right for you.

Did you write it or generate? If the later, then it's could be even more impressive in some way.
by greggh | 2025-11-03 14:44:21+00:00
If you really need a lot of VRAM cheap rocm still supports the amd MI50 and you can get 32gb versions of the MI50 on alibaba/aliexpress for around $150-$250 each. A few people on r/localllama have shown setups with multiple MI50s running with 128gb of VRAM and doing a decent job with large models. Obviously it won't running as fast as any brand new GPUs because of memory bandwidth and a few other things, but more than fast enough to be usable.

This can end up getting you 128gb of VRAM for under $1000.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-11-03 14:45:37+00:00
I've played around with many self-hosted file manager apps. My first one was Ajaxplorer which then became Pydio. I really liked Pydio but didn't stick with it because it was too slow. I briefly played with Nextcloud but didn't stick with it either.

Eventually I ran into FileRun and loved it, even though it wasn't completely open source. FileRun is fast, worked on both desktop and mobile via browser nicely, and I never had an issue with it. It was free for personal use a few years ago, and unfortunately is not anymore. But it's worth the license if you have the money for it.

I tried setting up SeaFile but I had issues getting it working via a reverse proxy and gave up on it.

I like copyparty (https://github.com/9001/copyparty) - really dead simple to use and quick like FIleRun - but the web interface is not geared towards casual users. I also miss Filerun's "Request a file" feature which worked very nicely if you just wanted someone to upload a file to you and then be done.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-03 14:45:44+00:00
It depends on what you want. Machines increased productivity. What do you want to do with it? Do you want more stuff? Or do you want more time? You (plural, as in, society) can take one or the other, or some of each, but not all of both.

Traditionally we have taken the gains in terms of more stuff. (Not always, though - the 8-hour workday and 5-day week are in fact taking the gains in the form of time.) But we may be at a place where more stuff isn't going to make us that much better off.

That is, some of us may be there. Not all. There are still far too many people who don't have decent housing, nor any realistic chance of getting it. There are far too many people who can be ruined by one medical issue. There are far too many people who don't have food security. So maybe what we really ought to be spending the gains on is a better life for those people - that is, the "living wage" part. Living wage for all, first. Then we can see if we can reach the 32-hour week.
by lm28469 | 2025-11-03 14:46:21+00:00
> But basically 100% of algae's mass is consumable.

I'm not sure it helps at all regarding co2, you'll shit it and breath it out in a matter of days... co2 is only a problem when you burn fossil fuels, because you reintroduce millions years of deposit back in the atmosphere in a very short period of time. That's why things like burning wood aren't a big deal other than localised pollution
by rudderdev | 2025-11-03 14:46:29+00:00
As others have commented, all the mentioned issues are resolved, I will favour in using the PGVector. If Postgres can be a good choice over Kafka to deliver 100k events/sec [1], then why not PGVector over Chroma or other specialized vector search (unless there is a specific requirement that can't be solved wit minor code/config changes)!

[1] Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659678
by le-mark | 2025-11-03 14:46:31+00:00
> I'm curious why Lisp didn't gain mass popularity despite its advantages.

In my opinion Lisp is too flexible. I think the ideal use of Lisp is one or a few talented developers exploring the problem space and creating the MVP. Then a follow on team to reimplement it in a mainstream language that’s more maintainable by “mere mortals”.

Ime it’s similar to the fact that projects implemented with statically typed languages are easier to maintain than dynamically typed languages. Lisp is so flexible even lexical scoping (of variables for example) is a choice. Not what I’d care to have juniors or run of the mill seniors responsible for!