skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Set-Up Fees are eye-watering.

The monthly fee I can understand (but also feel there is a bit of mark-up on it to nudge customers towards IPv6).

I guess since it's their service, they have an absolute right to charge what they like (and let the competition decide) but the set up fees are just not going market rates.

Point I'm trying to make is - charging € 435.20 per month for a /24 is expensive but sort of ok ... but the € 4864.00 set-up fee?

Seriously? It costs € 152.00 for a /29 subnet but it costs 32x MORE to set up a /24 subnet? Is it really 32 times more work to set up?
Another ServiceNow developer here -- I feel that no-code tools are great for internal tooling, but that they fall quite short when it comes to crafting a proper user experience. To put it another way: there will always be a crossover point where the platform goes from helping you to hurting you. You'll usually have to rely on forcing your users into training as a crutch, unless you're willing to invest considerable time in hacking around limitations and maintaining those hacks. This works just fine if you have a captive audience (internal employees, customers with contractual lock-in), but is basically unacceptable when it comes to the cutthroat world of commercial app development.

I think this tradeoff is pretty well reflected in how ServiceNow's workspaces feature failed when it first launched in 2018 -- and why it has since been overhauled. Sure, they kept the original plug-and-play no-code UI, but they retooled it to work on top of a full-code framework that fully interoperates with the no-code UI. It's the best of both worlds: you can rapidly slap together a UI, then replace individual components of the UI with your own code as you go.

Most no/low-code tools also really suck at version control, in my experience. That's enough to make me loathe working with them, even when they do save me time :/
> Please, put your camera on and end this creepy behaviour.

This is plain stupid. I never put my camera on unless there is a specific need, usually for small meetings when I actually participate instead of just listening someone talking for an hour. One of the best aspects of remote work is that you can actually be very productive during these corporate rituals without offending anyone (except the guy who insists everybody should turn on the cameras).
It doesn't need to be in a couple minutes if the chargers are where people tend to stay for a while anyways. Stick a fast charger at McDonald's and Chipotle and Target and Safeway, then people will be able to charge while doing the things they already would be. It doesn't even have to be especially fast. It just needs to give a reasonable amount of charge for the time that people would be at the location. If I'm going to be spending an hour at a restaurant, I don't need to have it be done charging in 20 minutes.
Not at all. White collar criminals often serve longer than even violent criminals. Look at Bernie Maddof, Allen Stanford and others
there's simply no way to build cities in a way that accomodates bears or cougars, because they need a territory far larger than the area we could possibly provide in a city.

building for cougars or bears means building dense cities that perserve as much wild space outside the city as possible for animal habitats.

i like the idea of adapting buildings to be less hostile to animals that find themselves in the city, but anything that increases sprawl is the worst thing you could possibly do for wildlife.
By it's nature you can only be so diverse when you've decided to build.

The system is wonky to begin with, the opportunity to put wolves in my area is ... pretty much 0.
US States Ban Certain Alienware PC Sales Because They Use Too Much Power
Usually, but not always. I've been to rooms that don't have this and there's just a pile of phones sitting outside.
Yeah, I don't know what corporation would be happy with a license where the cost is nebulous like this.

I would suspect lots of Hollywood Accounting is likely; putting all the PostOpen software in a subsidiary that has no revenue, or developing your own software under PostOpen but not distributing it outside, so that the majority of the usage is apportioned to affiliated companies.

Plus, apportioning by usage is a negative incentive for optimization. If your DB reduces query runtime by 10% in the next version, it reduces its revenue, assuming other PostOpen software is in use and doesn't optimize.
HN was the way you describe. But I think that it is becoming less so. I feel the difference from, say, five years ago. It's not the same. It's more strident, less thoughtful, more reacting by reflex.

My own suspicion is that, as HN has grown, it has become more influential, and therefore more worth manipulating, and therefore more people are trying to manipulate it rather than just participating in it.
There's a lot you can do in terms of building for biodiversity that will benefit 10s of thousands of species before you have ti to worry about the handful of apex preditors that harm humans.
If you figure this out let me know, I've wanted to invest in IP/V4 for years.
Covid-19: Keeping a Close Eye on the Models
Using artificial intelligence to combat climate change
CivBase had a good comment below about why this article may not be properly balanced, and I wanted to add this:

I see two things that can stall EV growth:

(1) Grid capacity. The US has been taking down nuclear power plants and replacing them with renewables has caused problems in both availability, cost and carbon impact. Ideally we would be able to build clean nuclear power as our grid demands growth from EVs, but it's questionable whether we can. Playing this forward, if the nation starts to have brown-outs or the cost of electricity goes up for this reason, people will not buy EVs obviously.

(2) There's a risk factor that we need to think about as a country. We rely on our vehicles for a lot of really important things - eg emergency services, commuting, business, etc. We have developed fairly robust gasoline supply infrastructure, and it's pretty good to know that even if my house/town loses electricity, I can still get fuel for my car, get around, travel elsewhere, etc. If we get into a place where our transportation is tightly dependent on our power grid, just as our grid is aging/overloading/etc, that could be a risk on the personal and national level.

These are solvable problems but we need to be solving them. Otherwise, EVs will plateau as more people start to recognize these factors.
You might benefit from a Kinesis Freestyle Pro keyboard.

The spacebar is split (the whole keyboard is actually) and all the buttons are completely configurable: remap and macros.

If you don't use home and end keys, or the left-side spacebar (or any key!) you can bind them to whatever you want.
I honestly didn’t realize that DSL was still a thing. I’ve been on fiber optic for so many years that it’s hard to imagine that people still use DSL. I pay less now for gigabit FIOS than I used to pay for dial up. Clearly everyone having these kinds of speeds is not a technical issue but a money issue.
With microservices the other team can easily accidentally ddos your server bringing down the system. Ensuring they don't do that require them to build their microservice properly. And if you can trust them to do that then you can trust them to be a good steward in a monolith. So I don't see how microservices are better, it just lets you easier ignore problems but those problems are still there.

Also if you want to stop the other team from abusing your code then you can easily fix that. Most languages lets you deliver code in an interface that they can't easily break either, try that before microservices.
What dns block are you using?
Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions [pdf]
Zerotier is one answer.
The response cites a table showing that desktop PCs sold after 2021-07-01 must consume no more than 75 kilowatt hours per year (base rate, with adders allowed for some features). 75 kWh/year is only 8.6 watts of continuous power draw. Even a basic budget desktop will drastically exceed 8.6 W if it's on continuously with significant load, like running folding@home. Since practically every desktop computer can draw more than 8.6 watts and sales of only a few computer models are restricted, I conclude that the restrictions are not about power consumption in the fully active state.
The concept of "building for wildlife" doesn't mean picking and choosing the cutest animals - it means trying to understand that balance and maintain it. The people who study ecosystems understand a lot of these second order effects well, and we're always learning more. The concept here is to start listening to those people.
You can't do this.

The thing that's saleable is routable IPv4 address space. That is, blocks of addresses which can just be announced somewhere by a new owner. I can't meaningfully sell say 81.2.89.126 even though that address is "mine".

The RIRs still manage this namespace. Their rules only allow transfers of space to LIRs that have a justified need for the addresses, the "sale" just allows you to bump their request to the top of the queue matched against your return of those addresses. At exhaustion (where most regions are now), the queue won't move unless either some kind soul gives back some addresses or, more likely they sell those addresses to somebody not at the front of the queue.

So, you can't really just buy 1000 IPv4 addresses. You would need to create an entity that needs 1000 addresses, that could buy them, and then it could use them, but then that's not really an "investment in IPv4 addresses" it's a company (ISP? Cloud provider maybe?) that you founded and provided some capital to in the form of the address space it needed.
Yes! If you're behind ex. cloudflare, you should 100% look at running pure IPv6 with no listening ports, just their service locally.
Well echoing what the author wrote - it’s quite easy to learn Elixir.

We have a new guy who started a bit less than a month ago.

He’s now already writing functional Elixir (no pun intended) and contributing to big code base.

One of the first things I told him is that “there is no magic in elixir”. What you see is what you get.

If you understand that everything is literally a function - life is easy and using the language becomes fun.
No. It's an open source low code platform for building internal tools / business apps.

Hugo is static site generator for building websites.

We use Hugo for the Budibase website.

We use Budibase for a multitude of use cases, include: Applicant tracking
Api documenting
CRM
OKRs
Growth management
Onboarding
and about 100 other use cases (dashboards, admin panels, data collection, client portals, and more)

Amazon, NHS, Deloitte, F1, Audi, and others have used it. We had 50,000 downloads last month.
Is it that they're suffering a car shortage, or everyone else is, and they're getting cleaned out because that's where people can find cars?
I'd venture that half of SpaceX's success in the traditional government contracting market has been due to using their own capital rather than government capital for product development. Government funding seems to slow everything down in this space, which as with all high CapEx projects immediately translates to cost via interest rates.
My droplets aren't down, my own status page didn't notice anything.

DC Netherlands

( Didn't login yet)

Ps. Status page+ checks have no dependency on DO
Yes, obviously. Safer to drive a diesel truck on Jet-A than a Chinook on diesel.
I appreciate seeing more people understand that density is our way to preservation. Thank you! :)
Can we build for people?? And not cars??
Used to get that a lot.
Leg once cramped super hard which smashed my knee into a metal railing. Double agony that night.

Magnesium supplements really helped a lot. Later on, stretching lots and lots of stretching. Now a massage gun. Cramps are a thing of the past.
Strongly agreed in theory, but…

That goodwill ends when the company is found to be uploading all footage to the cloud to evaluate everyone’s physical fitness and body shape for future insurance company use, and to build a picture of your social web for Facebook one day, and heck, whatever else people will pay to know, including to serve warrants against other people incorrectly identified by other ml systems as commuting some crime

I’ll become 100x more pro-machine vision once severe laws get made to restrict how it’s used.
Sounds like unchecked IIS SMTP transport logs but hey it's been years since I maintained an on-premises Exchange server
Nazi Germany and Rwanda weren't communist. What are you saying? It would help to have a grounding on what communism is before repeating tired talking points.

>with not a single example in favor.

Soviet Russia went from a couple of potato farmers to a global super power in the span of 30 years under communism before transitioning to totalitarian dictatorship. Likewise there was nothing inherent to communism and more the lack of a strong republic.
He was literally "stoic" which is a wisdom that you can't change most things in the world so you survive as best you can and if you can't you accept that you can't control when your life ends either.

If people still read the Classics, this would be widely known as table-stakes.
This is a perfectly reasonable approach that mirrors that of the current ipv4 reputation scheme.

Treating individual v6 addresses like individual v4 addresses is silly and nobody serious will take that approach.
Hetzner is a host living at a price and popularity point where they always have to consider massive scale abuse.

I'd imagine this is a major incentive for long-term ownership of their freshly acquired IP space instead of churning them through customers to end up on every blacklist for every conceivable type of service.
ARIN has been constantly raising prices on both IPv4 AND IPv6 registrations and fees. It's really annoying because you'd think you'd get a break for adopting IPv6 but nope.

I've expressed my disagreement on the public mailing list but it seems like it is happening anyway.
True, though a few months back, a ton of DOD space started being announced.

See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/penta...
That muckerfother ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02-BtZ1bxE
Why is GPL 3 objectionable for personal uses?
Eagle eyes spot kestrel chicks in jet plane exhaust
The wildlife evolved to operate in an ecosystem with other wildlife that building alone makes impossible.

I don't buy into the idea that they can just 'balance' it without many of the species.

You can't tell deer to stop eating what they like, or raccoons to stop breeding / living in denser populations in suburban areas.
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If you are willing to go ipv6-only on Vultr.com it brings the price of their smallest virtual-server option down to $2.50/month (the same server offering with an ipv4 address costs $3.50/month). It's nice to see them offering that kind of discount, but I have no idea whether or not there's anything similar for their more powerful offerings.
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>Also no terrorist is interested in a weapon which takes 10 years to kill their target population, maybe.

Not necessarily. If you can somehow pull off a food supply chain attack which creates the perception that a lot of food may have been contaminated with prions, that could potentially very effectively induce a state of mass terror. Symptoms take years to manifest; can't be fully diagnosed until you're already dead; inevitably fatal.

It could potentially turn half of a country into (somewhat rational) hypochondriacs, even if almost no one actually became infected. And if it were confirmed that a lot of people were infected, that'd ramp up the fear much more. Also, the cost of pulling it off is probably much lower than the cost of detonating a dirty bomb or even a full nuclear bomb, while potentially achieving a much stronger effect.

>The threat of WMD terror hasn't materialized in a meaningful way: intact, state-manufactured nuclear weapons are the only plausible weapons non-state actors can realistically handle without killing themselves with them, and even that's pretty questionable: it's not easy to detonate a nuclear bomb.

I kind of disagree. Nuclear weapons seem like they probably won't be viable for terrorism for a very long time, if ever, but I don't think they're the only plausible weapons that can realistically be handled. Look at Aum Shinrikyo and their various planned, attempted, and successful chemical and biological attacks in the 90s. They killed 27 and injured over 6,000 people, but they came very close to potentially killing or debilitating tens of thousands.

There's definitely a risk of being injured or dying in the process, but they took (largely effective) precautions to prevent that. You can also do things like use binary agents which only activate when combined. But, perhaps most importantly, terrorists (regardless of motive/ideology) often fully accept and welcome that they may be harmed or killed in the process, so the risk isn't a big deterrent.

I suspect that within this century, at least one terrorist/cult/lone wolf chemical and/or biological attack is going to come close to, or succeed at, killing a large number of people, and I think the threat of future attacks may paralyze a lot of societies.
This is exactly why most of us are more than happy to pay a premium to AWS, GCP, and Azure. They reduce all what you listed to a handful of checkboxes for us plebs. You have to have a few discussions about how you as an org will manage your keys, and you're a couple of terraform files away for having access to this (budget notwithstanding).

This is the level of redundancy/backups/processes the large cloud providers have. It's not just "hey is this encrypted" – it's "what happens, how do you retire a drive, are the modules FIPS 140-2 compliant, how do we physically secure our HSMs?" etc

It's just so much more than "hey Digital Ocean is 50% cheaper"

AWS's egress bandwidth charges still feel criminal though.
Can I read it without signing up?
Never an issue here, no blacklisting, no bad IP neighbours.

If anything they are too picky on who they host.
Many developers have an unhealthy focus on execution speed. This article contains a nice discussion about multiple programming languages, but it does not contain the word security. Many programs are still written in C/C++ because it is "faster". Far too many security vulnerabilities exist simply because the system was written in these languages.
How is that solved then if no one setups any of the security parameters correctly? That sounds like the exact opposite.
> Even large deer can be a problem.

In the UK also - I've had several near-death experiences in a car at night with deer in North London.

Not that I want to get rid of them.
Yeah, 20 active users would still feel small. That's fair. I probably wouldn't recommend a Community Server with only 20 active users.

To answer your question, though: Community Servers get a couple more security and safety features that help with moderation. They get a "Welcome Screen" for helping new users not feel quite so lost on first joining the server. Discord is generally better about notifying Community Servers of upcoming updates and slower about rolling out new features to them (such as Threads).

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047132851-E...
I live in a Dallas suburb. Across the street, my neighbors have access to both AT&T 50mbps and Spectrum 200mbps services. The next subdivision over has access to those PLUS AT&T fiber. Spectrum never paid to have the work done to provide their service to my entire neighborhood, and so the homes on my side of the street merely have AT&T 50 to use.
Not sure if that would be useful, as there's no way to confirm whether a vehicle that was designed for leaded fuel was converted for unleaded, or if it simply runs on non-leaded additives.

Either way, there is this website, which used to really push for leaded petrol, it disappeared in 2009, but it almost reads like comedy:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090101030343/http://www.leadedp...

" Don't forget, if your local filling station doesn't sell leaded petrol, ask them to start!"

"Bayford is campaigning to have the extra duty on Leaded Petrol removed.
You can help by printing this letter and sending it to your Member of Parliament"
Oddly enough, this would probably also solve a lot of problems for wildlife as well. Reducing sprawl and increasing habitat.
They absolutely ARE fascist collaborators with the government. That's related to public utility monopolies but not strictly the same.
It’s to get rid of exploits that have no persistence.

For example, your running kernel space may be compromised but your on-disk kernel image may be still pristine due to a secure boot chain. That’s why rebooting can help remove such exploits.
> there are awful, miserable hacks they can do

They definitely did those, I've gotten everything from 172.* to CGNAT 100.* IPs to UK MoD 25.* IPs as NAT, all on the same carrier, hah
I would suggest you email that idea to dang. I'd like to see it tried here.
I have the Prius prime, it gets a little over 25 mi EV-only and the only time it needs to burn gasoline is if you turn on the windshield defroster because the heat pump can only do so much I guess.

But the performance feels much sportier in EV mode and it has no trouble pulling up to 80mph without any ICE
In your opinion, are the four principles of the "modern agile" manifesto any better, or do you predict that they will fail completely as well?
This is a weird idea I’ve had but… would it be possible to e.g. breed domestic dogs who will eat the deer but won’t be aggressive to humans? I have a pitbull who is really nice to people, other dogs and even cats but absolutely goes crazy when it sees one of these city rats coming out of a bush. I raised her obviously she wasn’t a wild animal.

Just a thought
> Their only one, the Prius Prime, is more expensive than its competitors and offers less than half their range. What's the point of getting a PHEV if I still spend half my commute running on gasoline?

The Prime has a 25 mile battery range, which is well over the average driven commute distance in the US (its about the average daily driven distance for drivers.)
> Open doesn't handle file paths, only directories, and doesn't work if I've got the File Open dialog going.

It opens as if you had clicked it in Finder. Are you wanting something like `open $(dirname ${file})`? File Open dialogs are oddballs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. I remember some Linux apps tried unifying them, but it was immediately obvious why they're different. FWIW drag d&d and Cmd-Shift-G work.

> These (and the need to research and review commands, instead of any GUI support) was what I meant by secret handshakes.

I don't think that dream applies to much outside of the core WIMP on any platform. Especially, when interacting with a command line. I feel like macOS does a better job by showing shortcut keys in more places, highlighting when they're triggered, and having Help > Search. It's unfortunate that gesture-based interfaces are way worse.

> while composing this reply in Chrome

Non-native apps are particularly annoying. Firefox notoriously had a bug open for 20+ years for adding native macOS context menus. Text shortcuts still don't work.