skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't just pay DO for servers, I'm paying them for a cohesive integrated UX, decent support (for the price), and nice hosted database and load balancer options. That's always been what separates DO from the rest of the market. Servers are cheaper elsewhere, that extra stuff is all pretty competitively priced.

All of those things are subject to the prices of people, which are nuts right now.

I also have deployments at hetzner and OVH and the management angle is day and night (although Hetzner is almost there now). Multiple different logins and dashboards by product, country, etc.

I'm sure some of it is just driven by being public as well. I'll keep paying them if they can keep those other factors great, but little things like wasting my time on the pricing table above are damaging the one thing that I really like about DO.
Previous attempts of de-escalation have gone nowhere: Russia continues to attack its neighbours and annex their territory, or create puppet separatist states (Moldovan Transnistria in 1992, Georgian South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 1990s and 2008, Ukrainian Crimea and Donbass in 2014 and now the entire territory of Ukraine).

If the Russians had succeeded with Ukraine, Lithuania or Poland would be next. Or Finland, or Sweden, or any other neighbour Russia deems weak enough to conquer with direct military force. You get my point.

Russian territorial expansion is a recurring pattern, and no amount of western self-humiliation via "de-escalation" was going to end it.

It had to end somewhere. As a Ukrainian who had to spend several weeks in evacuation in Lviv this spring, I'm glad it ended in Ukraine. (At least the new US Lend-Lease Act gives us hope that the wave of Russian territorial expansion will end in Ukraine.) Otherwise we'd have mass executions of civilians, as we had in Bucha, all over the 40 million country. A new Holocaust. For Ukrainians, as a nation, US Lend-Lease Act, military equipment aid from UK and other western nations who participated in Ramstein defence conference is the real salvation. And the day the Russian invaders are expelled would become a second Independence Day, as in the history of Kuwait and Iraq.
$1000 bill invoiced:

- Hitting the machine with the hammer: $5

- Knowing where to hit the machine to get it working again: $995
If all you want to know is what fraction of all twitter accounts are spam accounts, it should be really easy:

1. Select 1000 accounts uniformly at random. Either from among all twitter accounts, or from active twitter accounts for whatever definition of "active".

2. Classify these 1000 by hand. Do as much investigation into them as you need to classify them accurately; no need to use heuristics here.

You will (with very high probability) get an estimate accurate to within a percent or so. If you do statistics you could find the actual bounds.
As a customer for years, see ya DigitalOcean! I've been meaning to check out Hetzner for a while, but this is the motivation I need to move.
Russia has uniformed soldiers in there conducting war -illegally, if wars are other than illegal, or at least not sanctioned by the UN and also committing war crimes.

But I don’t think it’s terrorism. Terrorism usually has a few criteria: not a regular army, and typically don’t use heavy military equipment but rely on guerrilla tactics and aim to terrorize because they are incapable of taking over a territory —because of a lack in numbers for control.

They would also qualify if they “export” terror by training, providing comfort and logistics to terrors groups. Maybe the latter applies more than the former. Though a few other countries could easily be labeled as such too.
In French as well, FWIW.
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I remember when I found out I was a bot. It was during a harrowing judgement conflict with an image-based captcha about traffic lights, and caused a complete shutdown of my higher order processes. To this day, I still don't know the threshold of how much traffic light actually needs to be in a square to be considered for selection, so I just stopped logging in to everything.
> of the accounts that are active ~20% are fake/spam.

Nope. ~20% of accounts that tweets are fake. A lurker (aka read-only) is by all meanings an active account.
Not for cloud services. Cloud prices have been deflationary for decades. And this makes sense as software has a near zero marginal cost and efficiencies in hardware and data center management are occurring faster than “normal” inflation.
What if you know a few fields, like some "id" or "name" at the top level, but the rest of the JSON is highly nested, tree-like?

Instead of mapping it onto relational tables and keeping indexes, and then running a complex query, you can just put them all into a ready-made, well, blob.

Note that it only makes sense to have a relational column if you need to (1) use it as a query condition or (2) update it independently of others. In many tables, many columns are neither, and can be safely stored as JSON.
the fact that you can tab/navigate through autocomplete instead of having it fill up your screen every time you move
For me a RPi lasts about a year on average, while an SD card lasts about a month.
> You decide to store the raw JSON, as normalization is non-trivial.

You lost me. If you have to build the index, normalization is immediately trivialized. This is just always a sloppy hack so this advice is just a big “temporary workaround” until normalizing for hot paths.
Universal Login: while some corporate login controls are anti-competitive, most blocks are due to spam and phishing. Web3 / crypto has yet to provide an effective sell against fakes and whitewashing. Sure blockchain is cool, but the actual product is the design of the collision to stop spam.

Permissionless composability: Copyright ensures there will always be the need for permission if you wish to compose in a country that has copyright.

There are some good ideas here but there are also some very critical flaws. The problem is not so much web3 itself but that web3’s most vocal proponents—- particularly investors—- have refused to grapple with things like spam and copyright. It’s probably because they want to be middlemen who collect all the profits and are left without liability when the pyramid collapses.
Right, I don't mean worse on a per case basis. Just worse overall number of cases if they respond the same way as the US. Instead they are basically forced to do these harsh lockdowns or else it would be way too devastating.

If covid continues to mutate as the rest of the world keeps getting infected then China will keep having to have more aggressive and longer lockdowns. Everywhere else is slowly building natural immunity.
Who are "we" in your statements? And can you elaborate on which other country you mean, and what their needs are? Because it doesn't seem like Russia needed to invade a Ukraine that it already had very close political & economic ties to. When Ukraine decided it wanted a leader who would also be friendly to the West Russia couldn't handle it. They viewed expanding economic interests as a threat, and rather than try to win out on diplomacy and friendly trade deals or any other economic approach they chose war. So please, get away from your vague statements of "we" & "needs" and be specific. Otherwise it sounds like you're reading from a script of talking points without any deeper justification on your difference of opinion.
A nice write-up, however it looks to me that the Compute@Edge tests were being run on a free tier service (adding a credit card to Fastly account does not upgrade your service automatically, I know because I work at Fastly).

I'd love to see results from the same tests run on the full version of the platform.
It's been ongoing for months, so I would not expect it to stay on the front page.
Discord isn't ephemeral like IRC, that's a big part of why people like it. Why would they auto-delete old messages?
FMA can't be broken on Windows because FMA is implemented in hardware by Intel. What's broken is the compiler that Julia uses on Windows.
It has a lot to do with the fact that a cat's meow hits many of the same frequencies as a crying human child.
"The web app was so sensitive in nature I can’t really even describe the contents, but it was a big find by itself."

Maybe that's true, and certainly the vulnerabilities described in more detail are already quite a big deal, but the author probably should have omitted the above quote from their post as it leaves the reader with some suspicion that perhaps this is a bit of a "Fish Story" (fisherman exaggerating the size of the fish they caught) https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fish%20Story
I'm not sure how is that relevant here?

Because if you're trying to say that US is to blame for this war, here's the newsflash: causal relationships and moral responsibility are not the same thing. Even if you knowingly provoke a criminal to do a crime (for example, by leaving your home unlocked, or by going around a bad neighbourhood in very sexy clothing), it does not in any way absolve him of decision to do the crime.
tbf I ignore my cats too.
In my case, I have a bunch of data in the JSON, but found users need to filter requests based on just one field of the data.

In specific, I'm loading Postfix logs into the database, I parse the logs into JSON and then store that JSON in a column. The format of that JSON comes in ~4-5 flavors, depending on the exact log event, but most of them include a "to" field (the envelope recipient), that the API users need to filter on. I ended up adding a "to" column and mirroring the JSON "to" field into that, but this would have worked as well.

The API users still have access to that additional rich data, and the whole thing overall is simpler because I don't have it exploded out into a bunch of fields that have many of them NULLs for various log types.
Wow, that's about 1/5 of the price of my current DO test droplet. Think i am going to switch soon if there isn't a catch - i wonder why there is such a huge gap in prices?

I wonder if you can go even lower as i've never heard of multiple companies mentioned in this thread, Hetzner being the other one that's about double this but half DO.
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Most people wont run their own servers sure, but a large number of people and organisations will (and do). The more meaningful questions are around "how many people do we need to make this work?", there is a limit where the amount of security is good enough (and this is found through adjusting difficulty mining / or reducing block rewards).

There is also a lot of work being done on light clients and faster proofs, so we can bundle them into browsers/apps and not rely on third party nodes for messaging/transacting. This would solve quite a few of moxies concerns right away. Alongside this the work being done on rollups shows us ways of facilitating services for others, without them being dependant on it or locked into it.

For comparison, signal is great example of cryptography protecting users, but users being dependant on signal. there is no exit- so in critical situations what happens? Thats the kind of power-dynamic people working in crypto are grappling with. This is a hard problem but it is something worth attempting to solve.

How can we provide services to users but have them be able to leave with all their assets when then need to (not when its convenient to us who run the servers). I hear a lot from non-crypto people about how they agree with these ideas but you dont need blockchains to do them, but it seems most of the work to do with this is being done in the crypto/blockchain community (look at who is funding/doing the research on zk-proofs/snarks/starks, which can have a much wider impact outside of the crypto space too! => https://0xparc.org/blog/zk-mnist )
The reality at the moment is that practically everyone is going to get Covid at some point, Delta and now Omicron are just too transmissible. The only practical way for their zero Covid policy to work was to shut down all people coming into the country before Omicron arrived. Eventually they are going to have to move to a strategy of managing the virus to minimize the load on their medical system and prevent as many deaths as possible.
Twitter isn't claiming of all its accounts less than 5% are bots. It is claiming less than 5% of their mDAU are. Without exposure to their methodology we are just speculating.

It is entirely feasible that at any point in time 20% of accounts are bots. It is whether they have counted them in their mDAU that matters.
> "As far as I've seen, job seekers in most industries rarely hire agents."

If software job seekers hired agents, it would be the agents (the reputable ones anyway) that would require stringent testing of the seekers. One has to know exactly what one is selling to get the best price for the sale; they're not going to take the seeker's word for it any more than an employer would.
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Prices should be going down, not up. Infact, I would expect out of my cloud provider a commitment to drop prices by some percentage each year. A $100 workload from last year should not cost more than a $100 this year. We are still on exponential curves for compute, storage and DC bandwidth.
Nothing wrong with p2p. But often it's simply overkill. Skype started out as a p2p thing. But ultimately, video calls became a commodity where orchestrating them centrally proved to be good enough. I can make video calls with meets, facebook, whatsapp, signal, slack, etc. Not a big deal. I even still have Skype somewhere and it still works even though they ripped out the p2p bits ages ago.

I'm not sure what web3 is other than a label that people started slapping on the collective efforts of people vaguely doing anything with or depending on some kind of block chain thingy. IMHO it has very little to do with the web and little or no relevance to end users.

From a technical point of view, I don't see anything wrong with having a distributed store of ownership of stuff. There are all sorts of useful and valid uses for that. The problem is all the hyena's with dollar signs in their eyes floating around any companies active in this space. It's hard to see the forest for the trees because of this. Doing anything with a blockchain almost automatically buckets you with the fraudsters, utopians, and other people plaguing this space.

Most of the companies in this space are a combination of naive, fraudulent, or misguided. With a few notable exceptions where you might squint and see some potential of some actual economic value. But most of them are obvious duds. I actually briefly used Stellar for some actual applications. Great tech. Mostly works as advertised. Not that expensive to use. Etc.
And I'll add "What changed here of course is that after Putin...." started getting his arse kicked, several western companies now dont wish to be seen as Russian-friendly (they still are, of course - they just don't wish to be seen as such).

Had the Ruskies taken the ukraine in a few days, as predicted, you can bet there'd be golden arches all-the-fuck over Mariupol right now.

*oh, and finland and sweden could get fucked, too. They didn't give a hoot until for quite several years.

If any western company actually gave a crap, they would have been out on day 1, or 7 or even 30...not 3 months later.

And, as for Renault being called out by Zelensky.....
I signed up at Twitter 9 years ago and use it every day, but have less than 50 tweets. Either you want to engage in discussion (to a varying degree) or you simply don't. But the latter doesn't necessarily mean you don't observe the discussion.

Of course an active Twitter account can be one that never tweeted in 10 years. Such an account may as well see advertisements etc... So I think any outside studies are fundamentally flawed since they don't have access to internal data like last login time.
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Is it getting cheaper? Pretty sure the chip situation is driving up prices.
McDonalds is a symbol of US global hegemony. Exiting from Russia is maintaining that status quo. Protesting an ally of the US, or the US itself, would be a significant political statement, and probably contrary to their interests.
Sounds low.
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I read a hypothesis, a few weeks back, that Elon doesn't want to buy Twitter, but rather wants to mess with the price to thumb his nose at the SEC.

Perhaps all this uncertainty is intentional.
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What is the point of having a NATO member who illogically rails against new members just because Russia tells them not to?
Elon Musk 'violated' Twitter NDA over bot-check sample size
Elon Musk waived his right to due dilligence ... more fool him.

You can file this in the 'pedo guy' cabinet of his life story where his child-ego got the better of his undoubted business skills.
> lurkers exist, and in my experience are usually the majority of users...this step removes them or ignores them entirely.

I've spent many, many hours lurking on twitter, don't have an account at all, and mostly access it through nitter instances. Are they "biased" for not including me?

edit: should inactive users be counted as active users?
> What does right prompt do

It displays configured text at right side of your terminal. My example displays current directory truncated to 40 characters.

> and what happens if the text you're typing runs into it?

It disappears.
Not according to the article, which is the point...
Interesting. This could be a bracketing error, because I read

> it includes analysis of many older accounts that haven’t sent tweets in the last 90 days and thus, likely don’t fit

> Twitter’s definition of mDAUs (monetizable Daily Active Users)

As implying that they think accounts that haven't tweeted in the past 90 days don't fit Twitter's mDAU definition. Given the placement of the qualifying phrase, I think that's a reasonable parsing of the sentence, but I see your point that they could be trying to imply their set doesn't fit the definition. If so, that sentence is very badly constructed.
Twitter specifically added the annoying feature of your likes being shown to your followers so that lurkers would be actively contributing to the algorithm though.

As long as lurkers are "liking" content, their local network will see an engagement increase.
And if you try to hold a referendum on joining NATO, Russia will be all over it like nobody's business. I'm glad that we decided to not have a referendum and considering how pro-NATO the opinion polling is, I'm not really worried for the death of democracy.
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> Consensus is only really nessisary for solving problems like payments or namespacing (e.g. namecoin)

Those are the only credible use-case(s) that the cryptocurrency folks should be looking at. I can see a few projects surviving like Stellar [0], Ripple (XRP) [1], Algorand [2] and Nano [3], ENS [4], Handshake [5] and Skiff [6].

Unlike the other projects that are slapping blockchain, crypto on to anything they can find and are filled with scams being reported, daily on web3isgoinggreat, there are a few that are not silly meme coins / tokens, or vaporware but stuck to their goals / whitepaper(s) and seem to be still useful and have a use-case.

This is what these skeptics won't tell you and will ignore and filter out.

[0] https://stellar.org

[1] https://xrpl.org

[2] https://algorand.com

[3] https://nano.org

[4] https://ens.domains

[5] https://handshake.org

[6] https://skiff.com
> ...we'd all be running...

I think this is not an all or nothing sort of present that we live in...and i think maybe there will be some (maybe non-trivial) slice of the computing population who might - at least for some of the time and for some tasks/work - be quite interested in tools like cyberdeck. I have no hard data to support my claim of course, its only my opinion...and in fact my opinion is based on the popularity that i'm seeing with a tiny portion of tech entusiasts more and more interested in things like TUIs, command-line based tools, Gemini protocol and associated Gemini sites for engaging with content, etc. Maybe its just a cycle of 70s/80s computing nostalgia, or maybe its a reaction to the annoying consumer web (the lay web? the layperson web?) and all its bothersome bells and whistles, ads, privacy invasion, etc...?
For most of Twitter’s existence, this was me. I used Twitter a lot but I never tweeted.
Have used them for a long time (I had their 2EUR VPS for ages, let go of it a few months ago but they honoured the price even when they were charging 4EUR for that spec). Very good customer support. I am a little worried about future prices though with electricity costs in Germany (although they have VPS in the US and Finland).

Contabo and Netcup are alternatives. Contabo has options in the UK/US/Singapore but is also German. Netcup is German, and I don't know where their servers are. OVH is another one but have had mixed experiences with their customer support.

DO prices are ridiculous (imo).
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As of writing, CoinMarketCap values TerraUST (the stablecoin) at $0.09. Needless to say, that 3B didn't do a damn thing. No amount of cash infusions are going to save Terra, because the problem is trust.
Did you read the HN guidelines? If not then I would invite you to do so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most of those deaths were before the vaccine was widely available or available at all. Is it really a great choice now?
They point out that's their definitions of active accounts is a flaw in their methodology (inside the article). However, I think it's fair to say that while TWTR has better internal insight into an "active user", it's the best approximation one can do from the outside.

I do wonder about, given perfect knowledge, how the bot accounts would shake up. What percentage produce content (presumably propaganda, automatic tweets using it as an RSS like announcement service, and spam) vs follow people (boost follow accounts, sell likes)?
> And you don't even border to Russia!

The Russian threat to Sweden isn't merely academic. There was even speculation a few years ago that Russia might invade the Swedish island of Gotland in order to better position their missiles towards Western Europe.
This doesn't come as a surprise; I was able to buy 1 MILLION fake followers on Instagram. The account is still alive and well.

I've been meaning to write a blog post regarding this endeavor. But moreso, I've come to the conclusion that social media needs to have verifiable audits for their userbase; similar to how there are audits done for financials. A lot of the value of these companies IS derived from their DAU/MAU and or userbase in general (example: WhatsApp - $19 billion for their 1 billion users).
Well, the threat was there to bypass the board of directors, controlled by big long-term investors, and go directly to the shareholders, many of whom would be happy to cash out for short-term gain. So the board was under major pressure to agree, even if they were somewhat reluctant.
But then... what’s the incentive to build a platform?

This is the part I don’t get. Use web3 to build your game, but you own no users. I get the value prop for users (in theory), but what is the value prop for developers?