skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use this for a startup in a re-write of their solution. It simplifies my queries and mutations, and security concerns. It also drammatically reduces the complexity of my code. There's also ROLES (Guest/Public user, Authenticated, Admin) and combinding the roles with Row Level Security.

I like it so much I don't want to go back!
Traffic prioritization is expensive, but traffic accounting isn't.

It's a lot less work to bill on usage (or cancel accounts for high usage) than to throttle high usage users to keep the network responsive for all users.

The operators are likely paying for usage as well on their paid connections, or indirectly in that as connections fill up, they need faster or more ports and that comes at a cost. It's one thing if your peak traffic comes at their off peak times, but it's more typical to have peaks around the same time as everyone else.
I also like using support@, surprising number use that to create tickets which can annoy someone very quickly.
But they also have a responsibility not to lie in their marketing, don't they?
So you basically read that as nobody would actually mean "unlimited" or "1Gbps".

Do you live your day-to-day telling people lies or what?

None of that behavior sounds rational to me.

I can only imagine 'what? you thought I was going to paint the ENTIRE house!'
You should try that at your local fast food place that has free unlimited refills. Drive up a tanker trunk and trying filling it up with unlimited soda.
How does Hetzner lie here? They provided unlimited 1-ish GBit/s sustained for every month they were in contract. It is their right to choose to not do business with that user as laid out in the short ToS.
That’s true, but the free tier covers almost everything in our grammar checker, most of the premium features are on the paraphraser
Funny how I'm reading this on an app called Glider
I occasionally worry about things like that, but mainly because I sometimes write about ideas that I think some people would find very upsetting rather than because of possible legal issues as you mentioned in some other comments below. But in either case, one possible solution is to write about things metaphorically, such that you know what you're writing about, but anyone else would require some additional information to know what you actually mean.
I had that kind of megalomaniac fantasy in the past, but the started to think that xkcd.com/2347 (“random person in Nebraska”) should apply to NSA malware too, and there can’t be as much tons of people working on it as in my imagination.

Though I’d happily cooperate if me watching team did exist and came out of shadows to clarify their doubts and pass along the taxpayer money saved :)
cheap is not a license to lie. I don't understand why people are defending this, if these companies weren't lying about what they're selling then nobody would be complaining. "1gbps for 250TB" or whatever it is simply the honest way to sell a product.
Good thing you don't have to worry about tires being remotely crippled :)
Amazon has PrimeVideo, BlueOrigin, Trucking Fleets etc... so diverse. What is google doing with all the cash its sitting on? Is Waymo their only bet? They definitely aren't innovating with youtube, 3rd rate copycat features like 'shorts' etc... poor livestreaming/chat design. Maybe they'll just end up buying rocketlab for their space project ...
I don't want to offend anybody but for me this kind of graphics is very hard to look at.

I wonder why all the progress of aesthetics of desktop environments happened on windows and macs (also chrome) while linux desktop system did not introduce anything pretty.

Or am I missing something?
IIRC some (?) of their lower capacity cars come out of the factory with higher capacity batteries + a software lock and you can pay to enable the extra capacity ($4500 according to this post apparently).

So, the dead mass is there even in brand new cars. I'm guessing the 60 -> 90 swap is because they're not making 60 anymore and it's just all 90 with a software cap... The OP thread even mentions that essentially Tesla forgot to lock the capacity and just left it with the full 90.

Basically it's the whole issue about takebacks of physical features via digital un-licensing. There is no direct parallel in the past. A dealership removing accidentally installed physical components after an unrelated service is unacceptable. A digital provider revoking accidentally provided licenses seems pretty common (I still remember Dropbox giving free storage in very early on promos and later going "oops, that actually expires!"). So this is kind of in the middle. A digital license that controls access to a physical good.
I tried to work out with Linux. Got it running for cca 1 year, where every day I was forced to solve random weird issues. One day Linux wanted to install graphic drivers (Got NVidia card), tried to install by some random manual, ended up with black screen after restart, rage quitted, formatted, installed Windows.

Since then I am using Linux only when there is no other option possible - either in VM or on RPi.
thread from May 2022, 252 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31512496
Can you explain why it was committed when the Tesla cut the range?
Russia to quit the International Space Station after 2024 and build its own
Not really that crazy when you have 174,000 employees. A 20% increase in employees isn't really that high when you also have a 13% increase in revenue.
Sometimes people are just discouraged because of teaching style. I was never a "math person" but in my 20's I became fascinated with discrete logarithms. And then when I turned 50, I took a course that was really heavily into differential equations. I shocked myself for a) understanding it, and b) enjoying what I learned even though it was so mathematically heavy.
The traditional solution to this problem is to sell a fractional circuit with bursting and average billing for overage to let the economics work things out. It actually is quite a bit harder to run a network _well_ at 80% than at, say, 60% because you have to deal with reboots/etc. in your network as well as routing issues if your peering changes and the excess capacity hides a world of sins. Lots of issues.
250TB/month means this person is, basically, saturating a 1Gbps link 24/7. It's 761Mbps, which probably accounts for some overhead/latencies (f.e. downloading many pieces of a torrent or many articles of an NZB).

This is blatantly NOT fair use. I doubt that they in fact have a specific limit (having worked for large hosting companies with "fair use" policies in the past, it was "you'll know it when you see it"), but whatever limit you might choose is frankly well below this.

Yes, calling it unlimited is a bit misleading, but they truly can't compete with everyone else (who do the same thing!) if they don't. At this point, with how widespread it is, you should frankly assume that unlimited = fair use, and be working for it to change politically, not getting mad at companies.

I would also note that it sounds like their use has been consistently high over several months, which (IMHO anyway) lends some credence to calling it unlimited (as opposed to f.e. AT&T where "unlimited" means a set number of GB each month...).
Lots of insurtechs - including Root, Lemonade, Policygenius, Next, and Vouch, just off the top of my head - have had layoffs this year. Insurtech is a really broad field, and the unit economics vary wildly depending on where in the value chain a particular company is operating, so it's hard to generalize.
LibreSBC: An open-source Session Border Controller
For that money the Lexus NX 450h+ is probably viable. And would probably hold a higher resale due to the Lexus badge.
>Yeah, morally, but we need to start working to make this guaranteed legally.

Good luck with that. The main reason it isn't illegal is the people who have been in charge of the Federal government are too old to understand computers. They've never updated most laws for the computer age, which is why it's legal to eavesdrop on someone's e-mail but not their paper mail, why corporations aggregating huge amounts of data together to know more about their customers than the customers know is legal, and why it's legal for Tesla to do what they did here.

Get the money, geriatrics and religion out of the US government and make it functional again, then we can fix things like this. Until then, lotsa luck.
It is only fraud if it is intentional deception.

In this case I suspect they assumed reasonable interpretation and customer interest: No realistic hosting provider can have the capacity to have every server utilize network 100%, but despite this the customer still benefits from increasing the uplink speed.

In my opinion, their limits are perfectly reasonable, the configuration is in the interest of the customer, and what is provided seems to be a reasonable interpretation fitting with existing definitions. It is only lacking documentation or unclear policy (one rarely plans for the unlikely, and I don't think they expected this), and something that should just be resolved by their customer service department.
At Google? Cross org coordination, identifying and prioritizing opportunities, work trading with other teams (you do this and I'll do that), communicating why the team's work matters to mid management that has no idea, helping engineers avoid pitfalls, helping engineers craft project portfolios and a narrative for promotion. Helping engineers develop the right skills to succeed at Google.
You are right in many situations, but some other situations change and you may be stuck in what sounds like learned helplessness.
Eventually it electrifies its power cord so that if you try to power it off you get zapped.
The extended version where he sends signs up his list of other spammers for each other's newsletters should get around that problem.
Their cloud platform is fantastic if you're trying to stay on vanilla k8s and standard managed DBs without getting into vendor lock-in territory.

Their management UI is an order of magnitude better than AWS garbage. It's clean, informational, and easily navigable.

Spanner great, but I'm not using it for my startup.
No, I just live in this reality. If the friends you have are not high enough on the food chain to get what you need done, then it's time to make friends in higher places.
> Why would it be a bad thing for it to be illegal to lie? Just don't call the plan "unlimited", and have clearly stated limits.

Maybe because the limits are not fixed and completely depend on the spending of the customer? If a customer is among the top 1% of the biggest users and – at the same time – among the top 1% of the smallest spenders, that simply raises the costs of the service for everyone else. There are only three choices here: a) get rid of the customer; b) make them pay more, or c) raise the prices of unlimited plans for everyone.
As an ex-CircleCI employee, this is really exciting because it marks a pretty significant milestone in a particular internal effort. Very much looking forward to what comes after this.

This might strike some as a weird event (Gitlab already has CI/CD!), but it _was_ highly requested and is (probably) of other similar things coming to fruition!
You're right. I did incorrectly read Walmart. Although I think the same thing probably applies to Walmart Labs in a lot of circles.
Github is social media for code; which is great for discovering things or fly-by addons..

Social media in the workplace is not as great, ask anyone using facebooks communication platform: https://www.workplace.com

I much prefer working with gitlab as a product 9hours a day on internal systems.
The message to customers is that they are on the hook for Tesla's mistakes.
I doubt there was a problem cloning GitLab-hosted repos on CircleCI before this announcement. But there are plenty of non-Git things that these hosts do; pull requests, status checks, etc. I am guessing that "support for ..." entails all of those extras.
Mostly glueing people around. Sounds like a mediocre job, it's as important as writing glue code. Not interesting, but most of the code written nowaway are glue code...
> i don't understand this part. you already have your salary, as negotiated. are you saying that such a positions are always underpaid?

Generalism is more difficult than specialism to leverage in that initial notification. And if you end up doing work that's spread across multiple departments then it's generally harder to advance within that organisation.
Zen saying: "You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."

Gandhi: "I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one."

Meditation is like a time-doubler for me. Something like 1 hour of meditation makes me able to do 4 hours worth of productive stuff in the next 2 hours. But the hard part is the initial investment of time. You have to spend time to make time?

I really like vipassana, but journaling is also a meditation.
After reviewing your ask HN, I have determined that merchants in all economies are subject to remarkably high rates of fraud, and if Wise are balancing risk here I applaud that.

In other economies, you do have recourse to "I changed my mind" but some appliances which are worn are not subject to this rule because it's really gross to have to accept back perfectly working goods covered in earwax.

They way you worded it is completely unclear if the ANC is actually faulty. if you were equally unclear in the complaint, I might be in "works as described" space and agree you have no recourse.

Was the device faulty? What was the specific fault? Was it that the ANC was too good? Is there no switch to turn ANC off?

What if this is an impedence mismatch between your ears, and Xaoimi's technology?
> This "let's add even more options to never leave the house" trend is backfiring.

People who don't want to leave the house already have plenty of options.

People that love the outdoors or being sociable probably aren't going to swayed either.

I don't think VR will change much in either direction for most people. Personally I like a mix of things. I value staying indoors and experiencing media that is rewarding. I like getting out in nature when the climate permits. And I'm not a total hermit. I don't think VR change things for me or others. Digital crack already exists.
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/19/15357290/juicero-400...
PhirePhly/Micromirrors: Tiny Software Mirrors
That says more about AWS than anything. It’s not hard to get wholesale transit under $0.1/mbps 95%ile.

809Mbps costs $81/mo for a small provider.
Jobs were a lot more local, too. People didn't move around as much. In general, not just in software. You also couldn't just spend a couple minutes and get a ballpark for what employers were paying in another city, let alone get a decent sense of what a bunch of markets looked like—it'd take some real effort. Reduced mobility and information being much harder to come by kept salaries lower, I expect.
A turtle.
Imagine the AWS EBS bursting/credits applied to networking. It would be awful.

(It's also awful with EBS)
Aren't Google ads just businesses prioritizing their listings on Google search page?
Right, it's not AWS's fault that buggy code ran overnight.

It is absolutely 100% Amazon's decision to give you little to no tooling to prevent this in many scenarios other than going to their billing department and beg for a correction.

I do not use any service that can proceed to bankrupt me for personal use for what could be considered a normal use case. At work I'd pass the issue off to my manager who'd pass it off to a rep and deal with it that way, but there is no way I want to take that responsibility on myself to correct.
Every employee they add also takes potential talent away from adding value to a start-up or competitor trying to catch-up.
It's one way to protect your monopoly when there is a shortage of skilled labor.
It makes BI work an absolute hellscape as well. Tradeoffs.
Fuck that. I'm paying for time on an agreed amount of vCPUs as specified in the instance templates. I'm using them 100%, I'd be a moron not to.

It's also fraud because AWS get to charge me when I'm not scheduled, but they also charge the users who are scheduled on the contended CPU. They should bill by the CPU cycles I consume.

Anyway, we've moved from AWS. Lucky escape.
You must have a very narrow concept of "electronic music?" Otherwise, the second British invasion, hip hop, house, and freestyle, all huge in the 80s would like a word with you.

Even things traditionally not electronic like R&B and Hard Rock were significantly influenced by drum machines and synthesizers in the 80s. TR-808? Keytars?
That’s not even the bare minimum they should be doing. If it was some democratic process to allow employees to leave voluntarily or vote about the direction of the company explicitly, I would feel differently. These matters shouldn’t be solely in the hands of owners.
Amazon has a pretty developed video and display advertising market for publishers called Unified Ad Marketplace; for our business, it's typically in second behind AdX/Adsense for revenue and impressions won. That said, I'm not seeing any revenue breakout from Amazon that specifies how much this side of the business makes.
Curiosity is too strong. For what reason does Chevy want you to volunteer to lower your capacity?
No. You accept those 2% as cost of doing business.

Yeah of course you made certain calculations when you started your business, including that most people would start loading up their (small) trays with the first items, which are the cheapest and so not cost you much, but you also accept that not everybody is going to do that.

A business is a business and social acceptableness has nothing to do with one another. One is a business and the other is a social situation. If I know you personally, it is a social situation. If I have paid money, it is business situation.
What does this have to do with anything? If the user if paying for a service, they should be getting that service. If the operator is offering a service which they can't afford to offer, that's not the user's problem.
> and you just have to accept it?

No, just as you said with your underpaying hypothetical, the customer is free to drop Hetzner. A rolling term contract protects both parties. If this person pushing 250TB/mo can find a better provider, then they should move.

If they can't find a provider willing to offer cheaper bandwidth than Hetzner...well, that tells you everything you need to know about this situation.
Cool.

Any sort of defense of your contrarian opinion so we can better understand what you might be trying to communicate?
Yes, buy the Amazon gift card from a store with cameras, with an account set up with your burner SIM purchased from a place with cameras, and pick it up from an Amazon Locker blanketed with cameras. Use cash with fully-tracked serial numbers for all these purchases.

Sounds like a solid plan.

You guys don't seem to realize that tyranny won decades ago, and you're fighting a war that has long been lost.

We are all serfs and slaves.
It's usually easier to route around an accident in a car than than in a train. A blocked lane can be passed on the shoulder, but trains have a hard time doing that.
Who will advertise a concert or any various services on Amazon? Or a restaurant? A conference?

Very niche focus for Amazon vs broader set of customers for Google ads. Seems totally different to me
It's interesting to read semi-permanent HN comments recording how well individuals adapt to practical realities.
to be fair MBS is opening the society at a frightening pace, its no more required male tutor approval to marry (of "equal"status) or work (lmited by sharia decency), liberty of child custody (for minors 15-18), travel, study, etc...

[]https://www.thenationalnews.com/gulf-news/2022/03/09/women-w...

[]https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2021/02/15/the-new-saudi-persona...
Teens Drink Water from Soaked Flavored Condoms to Get High
Blue Origin is not part of Amazon.
> it is very unlikely that your ELF/mach-O/PE/... is still valid with added junk at the end.

I've written loaders for all of the executable formats you mentioned, and maybe a dozen more. I know of none where this would violate the strict interpretation of the word of the spec.

That being said, valid file != happy OS
Your Amazon ads / AWS numbers look annual, the other numbers quarterly. Just what kind of conclusion are we supposed to draw from that?
Unless they use different types of batteries for 60kWh that don't have the same energy density.

And assuming the software change didn't account for that by giving a bit more capacity.
The ML thing would not surprise me at all. ML is so hot that if you know the buzzwords and have done some hello world project, someone will give you a job. It is very much like "html coding" in 1999 and will probably have the same outcome.
Oh yes. Roll down windows, full blasting stereo with an ad, so you can "transfer the message" to as wide audience as possible. Obviously it will lock audio controls so you can't mute it. Employee of the month here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc#Structure
> It is only fraud if it is intentional deception.

Are you implying that this unintentional? That things like this are marketed without the full knowledge that such a service is impossible?
Lazarus for FreePascal is kind of close but its just for Pascal.
Imagine Apple replacing your broken Macbook Pro M1 base model with the upgraded model because they didn't have any exact replacements in stock, and then years later deciding to disable two of the CPU cores, two of the GPU cores, and half the SSD space (1 TB to 512 GB). People, especially on HN, would lose their freaking minds.

They would also lose their minds if Apple only sold the highest-end model but firmware-locked CPU cores and SSD space unless you paid extra for it, or, even better, paid a subscription for it.

Refresh rates up to 120 Hz, available for $4.99 per month!
You do see up front pricing. Please look harder, it’s there for every dimension they charge you for (instance type, network traffic, disk size, etc.).

Back to your analogy. You get charge for these other dimensions that vary when you rent a car:

- make, model

- miles driven

- toll usage

- driver’s age

- duration of rental

The more accurate analogy here for the GP is the person returned a rental car to the wrong lot and was charged additional days until they discovered their error.
Thanks for the tip, I will look into Evolution. Don't need anything fancy and my work flow is email, web, scan, print (labels and docs) and occasional spreadsheet so I think it is doable without too much pain. All my PCs are currently running Windows 8.1 right now (lol) which clocks out in January and I do have a Win10 laptop but mostly for service work, not my main computer.

I did a little research on Dymo and they kinda-sorta provide driver support for Linux so some have been able to get it to work.
That was one theory I had in mind. My guess is the organization developing these exploits form teams of people focusing on a single exploit, with each person on the team having deep domain knowledge in a single subject (UEFI, Windows Kernel, etc), and they use that knowledge to develop their portion of the exploit chain.

People who developed such specifications in the first place, like UEFI, would be great candidates for an organization looking for someone with deep knowledge of the subject.
"Aigu" does not take a trema. The feminine form "aigüe" does, and the trema is there because otherwise you'd pronounce it "/ɛɡ/" instead of "/ɛ.ɡy/". It does not change the sound of the "u" at all.
And I /just/ got my infrastructure bits and pieces running Litestream! Guess I'll have to figure out if it's worth switching to this -- my gut reaction is no, since I only really run one pod at a time, so Litestream serves the purpose of not only saving the database offsite but also restoring it. But I will be keeping a very close eye on this thanks in part to my love of SQLite.

Hats off to Ben and Fly.io, you're doing some cool stuff.
The TPMs on the other hand...