skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be interesting for embedded scenarios where you need an always-available database but can't guarantee there will be a connection available consistently to a central database server.
> I'd like to see how many people in this thread saying "but they promised UNLIMITED..." have ever actually worked in network engineering for a colo/hosting ISP.

Raises hand

The fact that these kinds of lies are normal doesn't make them OK. Instead, just... don't lie.
Perhaps the RAV4 Prime just defaulted to a more tame "Eco" driving mode, whereas the Escape was tuned to behave more aggressively by default. I tend to always switch the Escape to Eco mode anyhow. Now that I think of it, I'd be curious to compare them again with this in mind.
We tried to buy one in fall of 2020, and we weren't able to get one until June of 2021, although we did actual buy it for MSRP (and after state and federal incentives, I think it was ~$34k total). It replaced a 2005 Honda CRV, and it's been great so far. We pretty much only buy gas on road trips (in hybrid mode it gets ~40 MPG), the car has crazy acceleration and is very fun to drive, and the final price was great. We had also considered a Model Y, which we would have wound up paying at least $30k more for - at its MSRP, especially with incentives, the value was great.
It's their cash cow. Why would they stop?

But that 20% isn't advertising is much better for Alphabet than compared to 10 years ago. Waymo is the next big bet.
This feels a bit like a case of "this is why we can't have nice things".
every isp ever since the dawn of the commercial internet oversells its capacity, you rely on 98% of the users not actually trying to max out their circuit at near line rate 24x7.

if they did not do this an ordinary residential last mile connection would be $250/mo not $50/mo.
A while ago, when I discovered litestream, I played around with it and just setup cloning to a local file://; is this the same idea?
I couldn't agree more. I see this with React too. You can go a long way without knowing much about JS as a language. You can also get a lot more out of tools and frameworks once you understand what problems they are solving.
> Is having to write "SELECT [...] WHERE user_id=<123>" really considered a security hole? Isn't that how like every service in existence operates? Coming up with complicated auth systems and patterns just because you are scared you will accidentally skip that WHERE clause seems bizarre to me.

Is having to avoid use after free really considered a security hole? Isn't that how like every program in existence operates? Coming up with complicated languages and frameworks just because you're scared you will accidentally use a variable after it's been freed seems bizarre to me.

As it turns out, humans are bad at being consistent, whereas computers are much better. Maybe this particularly solution isn't "the right thing", but it's at least an attempt at modifying the environment such that mistakes no longer happen. And at a meta level, that is precisely the right thing to do.
nice article, I agree Deno is probably not going to win, especially after watching this pretentious talk [0]. I personally expect WASM based solutions to take market share from JS/TS by enabling any language to be used. Still a bit out in time I suspect, but the interest is definitely there on the user end.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NR9Spj0DmQ
Henry Ford was a jerk, but he died decades before most of us here were even born. Buying a Ford today does nothing to further facilitate the gross things he did 90 years ago.

The elongated muskrat is out there today being an ass; spreading misinformation during a pandemic, perpetuating racist behavior in its factories, and a growing list of sexual improprieties. I think it is fair for someone to not want to give money to someone like that.
In many states car dealers are either the single largest or one of the largest groups that donates to state and local politicians. They use those markups to make massive donations to politicians ensuring there are middle men laws on the books guaranteeing they can continue to charge more markups in the future.

Many people would rather their money go to the people actually designing and building the product their buying, ideally maximizing the value of their purchase.

From many consumers perspective they're just paying extra for someone to rip them off in order to be rip them off again later.

If dealership provided an genuine value the should be able to charge what they charge in fair competitive market conditions.
Fed doesn't hike the rate so inflation can be high for many years.
But why they want to cancel the contract and won't offer the customer to pay for the traffic?
There's not much setup with the plug and play distros like the Ubuntu derivatives .
If I’m doing my math right, Hetzner advertised approximately 298TB/month on a 1Gbps link (1Gbps * 30.4 days = X Tebibyte). This user is only at 250TB/month.
Yes, but the article was mostly about what tools do you use to get that section into the ELF.
“With so many hostile actors”

Like Microsoft? And like government actors compelling Microsoft via things like NSL’s?
Hetzner is probably paying ~$300/mo/Gbps for their transit capacity. While I’m sure this particular account isn’t profitable for them, they’re not losing a boatload of money from it either. Hard to blame the user if they advertise it as unlimited.
Population One is awesome, great first person shooter in VR.
Lightning Launcher
Probably the most customizable android launcher ever, and if all the different options and the canvas-like layout isn't enough, you can literally program it yourself with the included JavaScript engine interoperable with Java itself (Rhino).

Unfortunately the developer have been missing since the pandemic, and on android 12 has some minor issues.
Still, I went back to it after feeling constrained with other launchers. This is the Arch linux of android launchers, the DIY master, and I'll probably keep using it until it no longer opens. When that happens...I'll really miss it.
cardserver, storefront renderer, remember-me... the list goes on.
I never thought about naming me with potential spam words :o
Slightly OT: Suppose you want to deliver a couple of 100’s Mbps to people in EU on the cheap, how would you do it? Assume it’s static files, so the server doesn’t need to be that beefy.

Hetzner would probably be my first choice. Even though I’ve hade some strangely slow connections there sometimes.

Other more enterprisey providers like Datapacket seem to be significantly more expensive.
I imagine they take a round trip, there and back, once a day.
I work with a few former-Oracle DBAs in a PostgreSQL-flavored consultancy now and they are aces. All the root-cause analysis and organization skills transfer handily.
How are their systems designed to make controlling cost difficult? I've found it exceptionally easy to find places where things are suboptimal and it's always quite clear to me how much something will cost before I do it.
reaching out nicely to a customer that's probably in the top 0.02% of your bandwidth users for their package/plan and asking them to move to a more serious/expensive service is not a lie...

i should also note that a very common reason for a dedicated hosting company's server to go wild on upstream bandwidth is something misconfigured or compromised, and being used maliciously by some external 3rd party. not actual bandwidth usage from the paying customer. this is mentioned in a nicer way in the email.

they probably could have just cut them off arbitrarily. nothing obligates them to keep a customer.

this is actually really nice on the part of the hosting ISP in my opinion.

If you have a sustained near 800 Mbps of outbound traffic you should be doing it from something much more serious than an absolute bottom of the barrel lowest cost no-SLA dedicated server.

this is "unlimited" in the same way that an all you can eat buffet restaurant is unlimited, with some caveats.
I’m honestly not sure how OpenPilot is gonna stay in business on the long run. As others has mentioned, any of the new Toyota cars are eventually going to have encrypted ECUs. Also, I paid like $1K for Ford’s lane centering and it has been amazing on highways. I can’t imagine spending $3K for a comma 3 anymore.
To give you just one example as to why it would have an outsize impact on my life. All parent association and much communication from school comes over a WhatsApp group with ~60 parents in it. If I were to be excluded then my son would miss out on lots of important information about upcoming events like birthday parties. It would be difficult for me to convince the parents of every other child to send their birthday invite especially to me by MMS or some other means. I participate in a handful of such groups. My sports club for example, certainly wouldn't inconvenience everyone by shifting to Signal or some other service just because I got banned from WhatsApp.
Gluing wood in a vacuum bag is kinda a special case - the moisture doesn't go into the vacuum pump - instead it absorbs into the dry wood.
Sure. One is clearly padding. The other is we're going to add a massive surcharge and if you don't pay it someone else will. I actually consider myself lucky getting a semi-reasonable deal in a not too extended timeframe on something I'm happy with in a supply-constrained environment.
> The car handles very well and remote app is free

Do they have option of not remotely controlled car? )
I think this is mainly an issue when you're using RAW SQL statements. If you're using an ORM, there are many ways to add a where clause to the statements automatically without having to update your code every where.
The Guardian is largely funded by a sort of specifically set up investment group, but that obviously isn't viable for less established operations.

there's also the donation model, which The Guardian used to operate on.

there's also a charity model, where the newspapers are funded by grants from a charity. that's somewhat similar to the government model, with its own up- and downsides. this is probably the model a conservative would argue for if it became clear that paid subs and adverts weren't serving popular needs.

you've also got the sort of hobbyist/industry blog model that's very common on Hacker News, where people do it in their free time, sometimes as an accompaniment to their main job

the only other model I can think of is scientific journals, where universities pay the wages, and the scientists/unis pay the damn journals to publish their work, which then sell that same work for extortionate sums and don't give any of the money back to the creators
People don’t want to buy other cars just because the dealers are colluding and raising the prices despite adding no value.
When they do decide to avoid a car just because of the leeching dealerships, it hurts the manufacturer too
Still on Catalina. Tried the "new" macOS skins. Don't get me started. I am specialist in generating macOS related downvotes in HN:)
I had a student ask me if he could work with me for free so I gave him a few tasks to do. He did great work on them.

When he graduated he asked me for a letter of recommendation and I gladly wrote one for him. He used it to apply for a job at a big corporation and they put him to work fixing Y2k issues in their very old software.

I've long since lost touch with him but have no doubt he's done well.
Is this advice only to be hired by FAANG-like companies? It seems so.
https://archive.ph/OfDbg
Thats how these unlimited offerings work though?

The 99% pay for the 1% that actually uses the unlimited traffic

Can't have your cake and eat it too.
When you have to go one more level down to debug (Twitter/vector art)
If I were leaning into RLS today I would do it through PostgREST
RDP nowadays uses TLS.
Wouldn't this introduce a vast amount of security challenges for both parties? Additionally, what if the code you produce also has an unintended bug?

Obviously there's a lot of outstanding questions!

I love the idea in isolation. Perhaps I'm missing something but this seems difficult to accomplish.
I dont dispute the profitability, but I do think Android is a major contributor to Google’s bottom line and shouldn’t be discounted as worthless.
Don't forget that they'll advertise it as "15k off!" on their website but really they're just taking off some other market adjustment. It's ridiculous. Dealers cant go away soon enough.
I mentioned it above but I doubt it, it’s been an outstanding issue for over 2 years. It’s really difficult to circumvent the encrypted ECUs
> but at some point you need to convert it to a 'real' currency to pay for food or gas or server costs or whatever.

No you don't.

> And if you find a service that lets you buy food with crypto, eventually they will need to pay their suppliers with 'real' money.

No they don't.
Is it my fault they hitched their wagon to a person who turned out to be crazy?

If Tesla somehow folded overnight I'm sure all the other car companies making BEVs would be ecstatic to scoop up that newly available talent.
Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’
Hard disagree. Back then, market leaders were small companies that had to take risks to differentiate, and where you could fundamentally still self-fund if you had enough savings to live for a couple of years. Now the quality of a top-tier game requires a huge team, a huge amount of funding, and guarantees to the source of that funding.
I've been helping someone shop for a car and the Escape PHEV has been on the top of the list of considerations. Agreed its a great alternative, but its basically impossible to find as well. Most ford dealerships are charging ~20% over MSRP for it and there are also wait lists for it. I've never seen one in person.
Kherson population is 280K people Mariupol 400k
Major city would be Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnepr, Odessa or Lviv
I usually use the char from https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/iLKwm :D
I bought an SUV at MSRP in August 2021 and, after a year of use, can sell it today to Carvana/Carmax/Vroom for at least $5-10K more than what I paid for it, and probably even more if I negotiate a private sale. The car market right now is bonkers.
> I personally would assume that "unlimited 1Gbps" wouldn't include using 80% of the link's capacity

Why ever not? If you sell someone something but only let them use less than 80% of it, that feels like fraud.
cloud traffic pricing is a massive ripoff, especially in europe where bandwidth is cheap
I recently purchased an EV, and there is an emergency high voltage battery cutoff in the rear. Do you guys know about those, or if so, are they effective?
You are also using a language function to read the file. In the 'official' github implementations they have to accept the data line by line from stdin - stdin likely being slower than reading a file directly.
There is the basic use case of getting something like weather sensors broadcasting conditions over time. That could be useful. The way I think this will be used if it ever got market traction is to spy on you.

Today if I don't put my tv or my fridge on my home wifi, they can't call home unless they had a phone modem - I hope that doesn't make financial sense (I just realized I was hoping they only spy on you with wifi). I can put my own streaming device on the tv with a defined privacy policy. I don't want my tv showing me ads, and it doesn't, and that's one reason I'm using a 3rd party streaming device. Because I'm paying them there's a much higher chance it will only do what they say. If this ever got popular, your tv would have a direct connection to broadcast outside of your control what you are watching. I don't want devices doing more corporate surveillance things not in my control.
Why tech workers are quitting companies like Google to fight climate change
This is one of the most fascinating things I’ve seen in my life. Truly, what are they thinking? How could they ever reopen borders ?

The only conclusion I can draw from it is they’re using the pandemic as ultimate population control?
Maybe, but that would be better than accepting them and then doing this.
I wonder if it’s sensible to make a distinction between private and public air travel. For private, I could see it being more of a “who is allowed to fly on this jet” rather than actual attendance.
$60 price point for games spans back nearly 2 decades. In today dollars those games would cost $90. If you would like developers to release games with source engine graphics, and charge $90 for them, then just say that.

Back then games had a huge problem with equitable access. You needed the equivalent of $90 disposable income in 2022 just to try a game sight unseen. Gamers were incredibly wealthy and privileged in those days.

The industry dealt with rampant piracy from those who wanted game experiences but couldn't afford them. Gamers relied on written reviews by a handful of curators to derisk purchases.

All the while the table stakes to develop a game were rising. The nature of the console games industry is a technology reset every decade which undermines economic efficiencies in development tools. Development costs were kept artificially low by poor working conditions for those in the industry. Poor job security and stolen wages.

I haven't yet mentioned that gamers' expectations for control schemes, camera behavior, animation fidelity, environmental realism, and much much more have only grown and contributed to table stakes.

I think you are putting the momentary happiness of a niche gaming cohort on a pedestal and it blinds you to what the industry has become and just how many it benefits.

Lastly your claim that whales are gambling degenerates or people with poor self control is FUD. This claim is itself part of the gatekeeping from capital G Gamers because it assumes people spending money on games in novel ways can't possibly be enjoying those games. Whales are wealthy people with loads of disposable income. The same people who fly private jets or hire famous musicians for private parties. And everything in between. Why should games miss out on monetization models benefiting other entertainment formats?

A much simpler explanation is that Gamers who had grown accustomed to being the Alphas in a hobby they self-identity with, are grappling with the economization of their hobby and being priced out of Alpha status. In effect, the games industry has sold out, man. A naive position that overlooks all the economic realities I outlined at the start.
Row-level security is always a tricky and hard to enforce assumption as this not how we relational databases really.

Much bigger fan of the approach described here:

Scalability, Allocation, and Processing of Data for Multitenancy

https://stratoflow.com/data-scalability-allocation-processin...
Yeah thats a pretty good write up. Dude should have shorted the stock, would have made a pretty penny.
I tinkered with it a little bit. It is surprisingly modern for a language built in the 80s. Unfortunately the development stalled. Would be worth of a new modern implementation.
Thank you for introducing me to the term scare quotes aka shudder quotes, quibble quotes, and my personal favorite sneer quotes.

People here love passive aggression.
Did they test this in Rome? Because that’s probably a city with a good sized addressable market.
I have run an ISP network, and I feel their pain. But if they sell it as unlimited and have no fair use policy, they need to honor their contract.

The part of the T&C they point to just says they can terminate any contract for any reason. That's a pretty lame way to resolve what is basically a marketing problem -- they want to sell a bandwidth-limited service as unlimited i.e. lie about it.

Say what you will about fair use policies, but at least they spell it out.
Of course advertising one thing then saying, "well, actually, no" means you lied. Even if you're "nice" about it.

It's not that big a deal. People lie tons. It's not murder. But it's still a lie.
I tried to buy one last year. The dealer I went to said they weren't being allocated any and that I'd have to go to another dealer. The look on their face was basically "haha good luck"
Shoot. What'd I miss?
Wild. Reminds me of the lines for 2nd gen Toyota Priuses in the early 2000s, and also the early Highlander hybrids. What's so great about the RAV4? Subaru Outbacks are basically SUV sized these days, with arguably superior AWD to the RAV4. That's what I ended up with when I was buying a few years ago. It's not hybrid, but $30-50k buys a lot of gas, and we don't do many miles. If you did a bunch of miles (commuting?), I'd think you'd want something more aerodynamic.
What specifically about this particular earnings call will be interesting? I can't see anything of note that hasn't happened 20x before.
It is completely valid to optimize your life for metrics other than just income.
Assuming they are in the top 1%, that means 99 other customers are happy to overpay and subsidize them (and the provider pockets the difference).

What's the problem, exactly?
Compare that with having boot settings on a UEFI partition. Partition gone, boot not possible.
> Either there are a ton of Tesla fanatics out there who will put up with a lot of dubious behavior, or Tesla is severely limiting its upside with all of their anti-customer service antics.

I think it's both. There are a ton of Tesla fanatics who think Tesla can do no wrong. Some of them are commenting on this article here, others in the Twitter thread.

But there are also people like myself, who will probably never buy a Tesla due to current and past behavior like this. And there are probably at least a few people reading this who were on the fence, but for whom this battery kerfuffle pushed them over the edge.
An entire (sub)industry being predicated on fraud doesn't make it not fraud, and doesn't make it okay. If you can't actually sell that capacity, just say up front what you're actually selling people.
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This is great stuff, I would definitely be trying it out. If the owner is here, can I get beta access to MagicBoat?
Fake Vulnerability, Risk Aversion and You
> in what world

In our world? Based on the thread, Tesla did a battery service on a model of car with a 60 battery. Unless it was stated as upgraded, after the service it is still a 60 car to the manufacturer. A 60 car that just happened to be able to run at the performance level of a 90 version. They then state this is a bug and fixed it.

It's immoral on Tesla's side, for sure, but the previous owner selling it as an "upgraded" car without documentation is the real problem. We all know that Tesla does this market segmentation using software, so this should mean that just because the hardware's badge states something does not mean the thing will be guaranteed available.

> Am I required to ask the manufacturer if they will take back the Chrome wheels when I buy a used car just to make sure they didn’t put them on accidentally?

No, but if it turns out you mistook plastic for Chrome, it's on you (or on the seller if they misrepresented it knowingly). Just because you can't see lack of software license, doesn't mean it's there.

If you buy a laptop with a pirated copy of Windows, and later after a couple of updates the OS detects this asks for activation, do you go to Microsoft to ask them to enable your pirated software or do you go to the seller of the laptop?
Unrelated to price it's great to see PHEVs getting better and better on larger cars and drawing demand.

I've got a first-gen Volvo XC90 T8 PHEV which only gets like 17miles (ok more like 14 if the heat or A/C is on which is basically always) on electric but it makes a huge difference in overall mpg since I use the ICE on the highway and switch to electric in-town.

My one concern is that there's a huge question mark about what happens when the battery degrades over time. I'm happy to replace it when that happens but will be really bummed if my only option at that point is to put the same lower-capacity battery in.
Because they are an oligopoly/they are forced on the economy.