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I run a small service, ifconfig.io, that is now getting 200 million hits a day from around the world.

The response from it is about as small as you could make it, however at that volume it is about 150gb a day.

If I hosted this on AWS, the bandwidth alone without any compute would cost $900 a month. Prohibitively expensive for a service I just made for fun.

The cost of just sending the HTTP response headers alone is the majority of that cost to. There is no way to shrink it.

It is currently hosted on a single $40 linode instance and can easily keep up with the ~2400 sustained QPS. I think it can get up to about 50% more traffic before I have to scale it. And linode includes enough bandwidth with that compute to support the service without extra costs.

I don't see how anyone pays the bandwidth ransom that GCP and AWS charge.
> Since virtually no one drives gigantic american-style pickups in EU

Come to Romania. You'd be surprised.
Looks like it could be useful. However, the homepage design looks like a replica of https://www.figma.com. Did you use them for inspiration?
It seems to me, actually, the body position that seems most incorrect (eg in the Monarch poster). The body remains largely horizontal, and "above" the wings.

I saw this post first time around (on HN) and bought the complaint completely. But, having now looked at lots of slow motion butterfly flight pictures I think she's over-stating it a little.

Look at this [1], or a slow-mo of Monarchs: the white & black Tree Nymph (I think it's called) in particular, especially at first take off, or when gliding, has quite a swept forward wing. Perhaps about 120deg spacing.

Other butterflies, of the ones I saw it was smaller ones but the OP observes the contrary, have greater than 180deg spacing. That made me wonder if the wing sweep was more to do with flight conditions (wind speed, etc.)?

Projection, the angle you observe from, is a key factor in the apparent shape too.

[1] https://youtu.be/aBfJtTm_XD4
Does it make much difference if a car can crumple or not when it's hitting a sack of flesh? I don't think my skin and bones are going to stand up well in either scenario.
I agree with all that, the question is whether or not you want to get your way or roll over. If you want to roll over you can do so without consulting anybody, if you want to get your way you will need to figure out what your options are going forward and that will include talking to a lawyer.
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Since your project is open source, you should try to evaluate whether your employer could benefit financially from suing you to gain control of your open source project. If not, then they are less likely to do so. Also, you should factor in the PR/reputation cost to the company. If they're in the open source space anyway, it would be bad PR for them if they tried to suppress or discourage the independent open source work of their employees.

Ultimately, as the creator, it's in the best interest of the open source project and society that it remain under your control.
Ah, I read it as “sees profit”. How totally different.
You do realize that the activity of art-making and the field of aesthetics (defined broadly as philosophical thought about art-making) are thousands of years old? And that just as there are arguments for certain political systems over others, there are arguments for certain ways of interpreting and valuing art over others?

The idea that artistic value is only based on modern academics is really quite myopic.
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I don't agree. Perhaps an entity that is more intelligent than humans will determine that poetry is not worth it and there is a more advanced art form it uses instead.
Nowadays, most of us are not painting caves.
And I'm arguing that adding drones and crypto isn't going to move the needle very far. The US already has the Second Amendment, a thoroughly armed populace and a deeply ingrained cultural belief in the necessity of political violence to a free state (watering the "Tree of Liberty" and such.)

Violence isn't going to explode exponentially merely because an efficient market forms to enable it - if that were the case, the US would already be knee deep in blood, because having that is literally baked into its system as a feature.
There's some history behind that, the context wasn't a pure BBC project:

https://bbcarchdev.github.io/res/faq#faq-what
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Am I cynical to expect one of these in every Echo/Home/Portal "assistant" within a decade?
You know, strictly for 3D-avatar VR communication purposes only.
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The article is about an interview with one of the most senior road safety experts in Europe, saying that this does not conform to European approaches to car safety which aim not to protect the car from damage but rather to reduce harm on humans from the crash impact - both those within the car as well as potential pedestrians/cyclists/other drivers/...

Its rather obvious that a car that has a rigid metal structure does not allow many avenues to channel the force of impact - so woe the pedestrian that's hit by a Cybertruck.

No way European regulators - which actually certify and regulate rather than rubber-stamp manufacturers' own views - can let it go through in its current shape and form.
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Nice article, this looks like a useful parser generator. Though, as others have mentioned, error reporting is a very important point that should be considered even at this early stage.

Here's something that surprised me though:

> a parser toolkit that lets you create efficient parsers in multiple languages (currently JavaScript, Go, and Ruby)

> [some other approach] it looked very interesting, but it’s not completely smooth. First of all, all of the implementations have been in highly expressive, garbage collected languages (Haskell, Scala, Racket).

This isn't the author's only reason to dismiss that alternative approach, but it's still a strange point to spend almost an entire paragraph on. If all the targets the author currently envisions are GC'd languages, it's premature pessimization to worry about how other, hypothetical, targets might be accommodated.
The only architecture astronaut around here would be the one who makes up requirements like “needs to validate every request against a backend auth server” and “network calls to an auth server are cheaper and easier than local token verification”.

The crypto used for JWT not some brand new space age thing. Public key cryptography has existed for decades now.

JWT is a very elegant solution to the problem space once you understand what it does. I get the feeling the actual architecture astronauts are the folks around here dismissing it.
Wonder how firefighters/paramedics would try to extricate casualties from a cyber-truck in the event of an emergency. Usually the standard practice involves tearing the vehicle down.
Excellent "civilian" explanation: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-heater-scie...
Nice post, so you are still writing vim plugin in python but search mechanism is compiled in rust which is much faster.
Url gives 'Server not found'. Try:

https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/social-architecture...
While I think your response is overly harsh, I could have phrased my argument better. What I'm getting at is that the JWT spec has issues, JWTs are complex to get right, and they have (notorious) encryption footguns. Connecting to a database is a relatively simple affair.

For the record, I'm not a JWT "detractor" (if you look elsewhere in this thread you'll find a comment where I used it to good effect).
You make it sound like customers don't care about safety. If company will deliver better customer satisfaction they will get more profit. If anything I would trust a for-profit motive more than a feature forced by regulations.
Thanks to the EU Laws this is not really true. You can buy and drive a street legal two-seater Go-Karts since 2002...

There's a lot of loopholes they can use to get this approved, if they should need them.
We where on top 10 earlier this week and it generated somewhere around 100-125 concurrent visitors. Seems like OP needs to beef up the servers a bit. If one of those presentations go viral it will be a shit show.
I'd looked at that but understood that the Buddhist parts were from 200CE, added to dharma inscriptions from 300-200BCE. Thanks for sharing, do you know other BCE sources?
How much of those 50$ get taken by the publishers, managers, etc.? I'd much rather pay for stuff if i knew it actually went to the person who wrote it.
Disgusting person your father.
In Berlin, just a few weeks ago a whole bunch of people died because the driver of a huge SUV had a seizure and the SUV made crumple zones out of cars and people.
Get a lawyer ASAP!
When you are an employee, the employer owns all your time. There is no such thing as "spare time" or "side project on my own". That's why employer can tell you that you have to be there and then, can call you at any time and can drug test your to ensure you are 100% committed to the company.
It's just modern slavery.
Sure you can negotiate such clauses out, but it would be still difficult to claim ownership to anything you make "outside work".
For the future - if you are entrepreneurial, create your own company and work on a b2b basis. It is much healthier and you wouldn't run to such problems (or much less likely).
I think Safari's content has a greater value density than Audible's. For example, I've been referencing a half dozen textbooks the past month or so on theory and implementation of risk models for the insurance industry via Safari. The information I've learned from some of these books is easily worth $49 and then some.

I could imagine someone learning to code for the first time might find better value elsewhere with that $49 a month, but in my case I think that it works out.
Thanks.
BTW, do you use some formal linguistic theories such as the ones from Noam chomsky?
I have this concern too that by putting something out there without permission as an employee you may have done harm to the company. You need a lawyer. You may also want to consider hiring a coach to help you develop a voice within the corporate setting so that you can better influence the direction of products without having to build an alternative in your precious spare time. And if the company doesn’t currently have policies like described above maybe this example can be used to help shape them with your input.
Very few customers care about pedestrian safety, and pedestrians can only control what sort of cars other people buy with regulations.
> Since virtually no one drives gigantic american-style pickups in EU

Farmers and other people who work in land industries use them all over the world. Have you been out of a city much? What do you think they use instead? The brands just tend to be Japanese outside the US.
> why test quest failure for if the companion is dead, if in principle companions can't die?

The game's hardest difficulty setting - "Supernova" - allows companions to die [1] (as well as a bunch of other changes that make the game tougher, not just stronger enemies)

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/which-the-outer-worlds-difficulty...
> Given that Tesla have designed and currently sell the three safest vehicles ever produced in the history of the world, I think it's safe to say they thought a little bit about crash safety on the Cybertruck.

What's your evidence for this extraordinary claim?

IIHS rates the model S as acceptable to good, the model 3 rates good across the board and is a top pick alongside dozens of others, and with six vehicles above it for year 2019. IIHS CRO stated unambiguously:

> I don’t think that our results bear out that it’s the safest car ever

Going with EuroNCAP instead and looking at just 2019 large family car[0] the model 3 does stand out in "safety assistance", it's on par for occupants and non-occupants, and widely beaten by the BMW Series 3 in that latter category.

[0] https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...
tech is anything made, invented, not natural. So, the stirrup, eyeglasses, agriculture, our control of fire.
> Tesla have designed and currently sell the three safest vehicles ever produced in the history of the world,

I've never seen anything to suggest that Tesla cars are the safest available. They generally appear in the top group on rankings but I've not seen any where they actually had the top spots.

Maybe you could point me to some?
Fantastic quote, thanks for sharing.
Honestly, have you seen a rigid car hitting a crumply car going full force?

In a situation where maybe both would have survived otherwise, now at least one party is goo.

It's a Prisoner's Dilemma. If everyone drives fat, rigid SUVs, I gotta do to.
That's why there is a law
He is not my “superhero” and I certainly am familiar with physics given that I studied it. Insults like that lower the level of discourse here. I’m simply suggesting we wait for some evidence; you’re the one making baseless accusations.
Thank you!!

Really cool, I needed that :)
> While the launch of the electric pickup proudly demonstrated that even a strong blow with the sledgehammer does not leave a dent on the car door, this would pose a security risk in Germany.

A security risk?
Could someone briefly compare (pros/cons) this project with Poetry?
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Yeah maybe not the safest cars ever, but certainly got high scores for safety on every model.
lol. It’s tiresome to argue like that. Replace benefit of the doubt with “high prior probability of designing a safe car.”
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Open source offices are a result of companies not willing to train. Everyone wants to hire someone with experience in their tools, and also only hire young people, so what are young people going to do? They're going to teach themselves free tools.

EDIT: I'm apparently a blind idiot in the morning. Misread the parent comment.
No need for them when jaywalking is a crime. Just blame the pedestrians and call it social darwinism.
Oh no! Another thing to get head-aches from. I alread get head-aches from bad kerning and badly tied shoe laces, and now I'll have to watch out for badly depicted butterflies.

Anyway, it's a beautiful and interesting article!
I'm sure the senior road safety experts in Europe are completely unbiased when they are calling for an inspection of this truck publically based on visual appearance alone
> 'noun noun noun noun noun'

If your sentence has five nouns in it, it ends up with far more entropy than this, but easier to remember.
Can you give some examples other than C, C++, and C# where this is true? Most languages either don't have them as definable types, are C based and therefore map them to integers, or actually limit values.

AFAIK, python, java, rust, ocaml, haskell, and swift all have enums that actually limit values.
There's http://www.hnreplies.com/ (via https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news)
This assumes the employer is only motivated by money, but there may be big egos that would sink the ship just for the sake of enforcing the contract. May be delicate and ugly.
title should read: TUV seeks so somehow justify its existence
Looks like a SVBIED to me. Maybe Musk got inspiration from ISIS.

Do an image search for "svbied".
IANAL, but it's definitely not that simple. I've worked in salaried positions and still retained ownership of my side projects. There was also one instance where I refused to sign a NCA that threatened my IP, so YMMV.
Just a couple of minutes ago, this article was on #2, now on #19.

It must have been flagged or triggered something.
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And we do not know how the front crumbles until we see real tests. A hammer is not the same as a car crash. Different scale of energy.
So, if you intend to sell in the EU, don’t forget the reader will need to give consent to be tracked. And thus is an option you should build in globally too if you believe in people’s privacy.
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Mine are always things I've already watched, and YouTube knows it. I suspect I have somehow crashed their 'AI' recommendation engine.
It seems autocarrot did not only change one word in the beginning your text but fittet the rest of your text to find a new meaning.
Wonderful write-up! I just love articles like this, when a person takes a tiny thing and examines it as if under a microscope. Not only have I learned something about butterflies today and gotten a grim chuckle out of thinking about all those gaudy dead butterfly products, I've also gained a bit of appreciation for butterflies and I'm sure this will lead to me looking up scientific papers about them.
Roll over isn't the only alternative to lawyer. OP could always just say "no" and see what happens. Maybe lawyers come in to play eventually, maybe they don't.
In this case the tracking is the only USP. If someone sent me a link to one of these I’d decline.
I know this is a little pedantic but this article reads like a trainwreck to start with.

>According to a TUV expert

for anyone reading this outside Germany, thats a Technical Inspection Association. pretty vague as to what it does in the 21st century pertaining to vehicles specifically though...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technischer_%C3%9Cberwachungsv...

>because the inmates were not safe.

the nearly unilaterally agreed upon english definition for an inmate is not the same as passenger.

>sees black

in english, seeing black is a finance colloquialism at best. at worst, its a pejorative for racist tendencies. im guessing its a different sentiment in Germany entirely.

>Nothing is deformed in the event of an impact, instead enormous forces act on the occupants," says Teller in the "Automobilwoche". "Airbags will no longer help."

This is wildly speculative conjecture based on a single marketing event. No technical authority would ever dream of basing their evaluation on it...unless you wanted to get your name in the press alongside a hot new vehicle.

The concept we're trying to get at here is called a crumple zone. Tesla S, tesla 3, and virtually every other mass produced vehicle on the planet have them as part of a standard safety requirement. There is no reason to propose teslas new truck would not include them.

The article also completely ignores the long standing tradition of safety approval for bullet-proof vehicles. Mercedes G500 and BMW 7 series fitted with rigid armour plating and bulletproof glass are all approved for use in the EU and US. As for unibody vs body on frame construction, youre wrong. body on frame vehicles cannot BY DESIGN have crumple zones to protect pedestrians, and often score lower on crash tests as a result. https://autoreviewhub.com/unibody-vs-body-on-frame/
My eyes don't work this early apparently. I completely misread the comment I responded to.
I suspect mistranslation from the German "Sicherheit", which can be translated as "safety" and "security". The translation generally seems pretty bad.
I was just being understanding, I don't mind walking in a bit of rain but 5 miles under water can often be a problem (catching a cold, soaked clothes etc).
This article uses the terms "visit" and "pageview" in unusualy ways.

They give the example that when a user clicks through from yourwebsite.com/ to yourwebsite.com/page then the first is a unique visit while the second is a non-unique visit.

I would neither call a "visit" but rather a "pageview".

In my book, the visit is what started from the first pageview on yourwebsite.com site and continues to the last pageview.
Good branding taking the nuclear out of fission
The flag is required until Chrome v80 (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=680046)
So soon you do not need the flag anymore.
I think it’s been found that people who pirate a lot of music, often buy a lot too, and just because libraries existed, people didn’t stop buying books, in fact it might even encourage it.
I read "nothing but email and IRC" to mean "without in-person meetings" as opposed to "without more capable communications tools".
The bootcamp student no longer needs to learn garbage collection, how memory works, hash maps va arrays vs linked lists and all that.

They really just learn to tell the app what to do. They tell it to open a camera, save the photo, what format to save it in, submit it it which server, how to store it, when to resize, a balance between quality and size, how to inform another user when the photo has been submitted, how to politely inform the user that it's not going to abuse camera permissions, how to gather user data while staying within legal restrictions, and so on.

A good developer with the best tools might do this in half an hour. A newbie developer could take half a week. The good developer can easily demand more money.

Sure there are things that will simplified to a $25 action. When I started programming, we were building our own push notification services and chat servers. A lot of this is now $25 or less, but a developer can still get paid $1000 to assemble it - the code is there but you still need to pay someone to read documentation.

And maybe through some miracle, AI can do all this work in the future. Then you still need people to manage AI, to communicate with clients/customers, understand what they want, and tell the AI to build it. AI will likely be as smart as some cheap foreign labor who can barely speak English, so someone needs to slowly explain to them what they mean, possibly in their own language... which is a lot like programming.

So let's fast forward 1000 years, where we can reach 90% project estimation accuracy and all this assembly is just blue collar work. We'll get something very similar to the construction industry now, which still hires engineers with a degree, to build complex megaprojects like getting a skyscraper done in a couple years. Maybe a CS certification and the word "engineer" might actually mean something then.
If a lawyer is too expensive then just read up on your local law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
Blindly going to a lawyer can also be a bad advice. From my experience it opens a huge can of worms: first the situation may switch to a full on conflict for years. Your lawyer is incentivized to make you angry and fight to death, open other fronts etc... Another aspect some people might not understand too especially in low litigation countries is that "legal" and "fair" are different concepts. Reserve this kind of misery for when the outcome is actually life defining for you.
I don’t think this is necessarily untrue - but I do think you need to think carefully about what your talk track is on this.