skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has value only if you know what it is talking about, thus it can only assist.

If you ask it about AWS - you need to already know AWS, same with business etc.

And if you can't make your own elevator pitch - the odds that you will be able to run a successful company are little to none.

Website builders and ready-to-use templates have been around for decades and they only increased the demand for devs.

Even if GPT will be able to produce complete system from start to end - those systems will need support, fixes, etc. Sure you will need less engineers per system but the amount of systems will increase.
Never do multiplayer on Linux/WINE or on a VM.
No doubt it's greener, but not by an order of magnitude. Looking at the car: A large part of emissions are produced during manufacturing, especially for electrical cars. Driving less helps, but not an order of magnitude. Same with heating. A heat pump just needs (generally speaking around) 1/3 of the energy, so you really need a large size differential to get to an order of magnitude.

People living in a large city also have better access to an airport, which generally leads to more flights and more emissions (in total still less, but not great).
We are all still here.

I run a small BBS on the internet. The link is in my profile. (It's not the traditional terminal based kind, but the idea is the same.)
>Hard disagree on the storytelling abilities at least with the current capabilities I found the storytelling to be extremely predictable, linear and not really able to come up with unusual or interesting plots...

But so is modern TV (that includes streaming services for the nitpickers) and look how much money they're making...
Not sure what you're implying with this. Specs have remained exactly the same and now, they've actually delivered on the spec they advertised in 2017.
And there is people working on challenging the legality of different ways they "make" their users agree to storing data in countries that does not meet the EU's standard for "privacy protection".

Currently we haven't had a clear ruling but at one point there might be a Schrems 3 ruling disallowing any accept by click-wrap license.
make that another +1
> The hard truth is that these "for profit businesses" wouldn't use many of the projects if they weren't free and open source in the first place. This is why the moral argument falls on deaf ears.

There is no evidence for that. If something is good for business and cheaper to buy than develop in-house, business will buy.

> Relicensing is an increasingly popular choice for OSS devs to to try to monetize usage, and it works since it is oftentimes cheaper to just pay than to rewrite software.

This is great to see that more and more projects offer dual licensing, but this really should be regulated, so that developers won't be bullied into giving up fruits of their work for free.
This would also create the level playing field where developers from disadvantaged background could participate in OSS knowing they'll be able to put food on their table if they commit time and their skill into it.
Currently, OSS is really a domain of people with privilege, who have the luxury of being able to spend time doing unpaid work. They then often get advantage when being hired, by having OSS projects in their CV, whereas someone who is struggling financially can't afford to work on OSS. Many employers look for OSS contributions and that gives people with privilege an edge.
I guess you watch Adam Something, this line is something he repeats a lot and I agree with most of it but as someone who grew up in maisonette block housing (like this https://www.flickr.com/photos/rogersg/44549465930/in/faves-c...), it is not nearly as nice as living in your own house (even a terraced house).

You are at the mercy of your neighbours, shit neighbours, shit time.

It's not a bad thing to make compromises. Yes flats are more energy efficient than detached houses, it's also a less pleasant experience unless you get lucky.

living in a miserable shithole (which is what commie block housing was for me) isn't the future I want
Hetzner was launched [or may be got popular] after DigitalOcean took off.

Since then they priced their boxes competitively relative to DO. A little bit less. That's still holding.

Also note that at that time hosting in Europe wasn't a popular option, unlike what we see now.
Tesla's electric Semi faces a long, slow, uphill climb
Love the two years experience with ChatGPT. And of course using ChatGPT for ChatGPT job application written by ChatGPT is completely appropriate!

You are hired.

Or... Wait can we use ChatGPT to generate its own prompts?
Sorry, can't find anything in English on the quick. But loading whole trucks on trains definitely exist, is logistically not very complex and a major component of North / South (and vice versa) freight transit through the alps.

Here's a picture :

https://www.eurotransport.de/artikel/kombinierter-verkehr-ro...
I would specifically argue that the word "response" is itself contextually inaccurate, in the sense that it triggers ambiguity as to whether the change in reproductive rates is _intentional_ or not. My headline removes that ambiguity.
Theres already designs for doing quick swaps, like always its the challenge of standardization:

https://youtu.be/g4EbWRDXzZw?t=49
> The exponential advances in technology and their convergences are making it possible to solve some of the grand challenges of humanity: problems such as disease, hunger, lack of clean water, energy shortages, and poor education. Amazing things are now possible.

Exponentialist technosolutionism at its best. Unfazed on the face of the technology hype of the past decade contributing nothing substantial on the very real and growing challenges humanity is facing and actually intentionally degrading various critical social contracts.

Yes, amazing things are now possible, no amount of realistic pessimism can negate this. But are they remotely probable?
As someone who has customer service experience in both the USA and Germany, I can tell you that there are, indeed, cultural differences. There are certain situations in the USA where Germans and other Europeans don't always have the best experience because of a cultural misunderstanding.
I am also the in-house English teacher here at Hetzner. (Most companies have no in-house teacher.) Something that I personally work on with my students in my conversations class and customer service class is intonation, which can cause spoken language to come off as sounding "arrogant" by accident. In addition, written responses may accidentally come of as sounding too direct or "arrogant" for the same reason. We work on these situations in my classes.
So if you ever have a ticket that you think might make for good learning material for one of my classes, or that you would like to see escalated because of a serious language/cultural misunderstanding, please write to marketing@hetzner.com and mention my name (and include the relevant ticket number). --Katie
In this case it was an actual DMCA notice, not ContentID. Real people were involved in this incomprehensible decision.
> I've discovered recently that tire wear actually creates about as many particles as exhaust fumes,

> And the worst part for the wire tear (and I think road tear), apparently it scales to the POWER OF 4 (!!!).

That's very interesting. I'm a default sceptic, but would love to learn more, because if true, that could nullify a lot of the local air arguments. Do you have any sources for these?
In the UK I imagine electric trucks will first be involved in deliveries between regional distribution centers on routes with known logistics.

I'm not convinced we'll see electric trucks take over the world in the medium term but I'm sure they'll be visible on our roads in the next 10 years, if only in limited roles.
We had a similar problem at Hetzner, we were using their consumer grade systems and this was over 6 years ago. To Hetzner's credit though, after we decided it had to be a hardware problem (dmesg would log something about cpu states before every crash) we sent in a ticket and within a reasonable timeframe (I think within a day or a couple, it was long ago so don't know for sure) a Hetzner sysadmin went into the BIOS and changed some feature (I suppose he disabled some sleep mode) and the systems ran perfect after that.

I chalked it up to our decision to run our databases on consumer grade hardware and didn't give it a second thought.
A different attempt: "Tusked elephants breeding less than before due to poachers. Tusk-less ones unaffected" (85)
I think the entire point is that it shouldn't "help search engagement" if it's an older article that's been "updated for present year" just to game search results.

>cursory updates to the body of the text

Still pretty straightforward to algorithmically determine if this has happened.
The ones which are not checking their phones can't detect semis or cyclists for quite some time. So You're replacing the 10% with their electronic versions.
Professional bullshit at its finest
Recently I was thinking about how the Netflix software strategy of hiring only experienced engineers [0] (and paying them really well), is pretty beneficial for almost any tech team/company.

Things like the CS experience that Reed Hastings has, seems like the key driver here.

[0] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Why-Netflix-only-hires-senior...
What I'd really like to see is cyclists giving themselves that much space. If I had a penny for every time someone's squeezed through between my wing mirror and the kerb in start/stop traffic with just an inch or two to spare...

As with many other things, the way forward here is to copy the Scandinavian countries and separate cyclists from motorists entirely. Sadly, though, there are too many groups fighting this kind of change.
> That inherently means short haul trucking which parent says is feasible.

The parent put a weird disqualification on it that it will only work if demanded by the state. That’s a weasel word word of saying that it will be terrible and nobody will use it unless forced.
Hetzner Online GmbH and Hetzner Cloud GmbH are fully owned (resp. majority-owned) by ENSoXX Holding AG of which Martin Hetzner is the CEO and which seems to be the parent company[0]. I cannot find any indication in the publicly available documents that any US company (or any other company for that matter) holds more than a 25% share in ENSoXX Holding AG. (25% is the reporting threshold.)

In the 2022 annual financial statement they do mention expanding to the US, though they don't go into the legal details. As the link posted in the cousin comment mentions, though:

> Hetzner US LLC, as a subsidiary of Hetzner Online GmbH, provides data center services within the USA for the parent company, Hetzner Online.[2]

So there is no US owner.

[0]: https://www.northdata.de/Hetzner+Online+GmbH,+Gunzenhausen/A...

[1]: https://www.unternehmensregister.de/ (enter "ENSoXX Holding AG" in the text field)

[2]: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/general-terms-and-condition...
Torrentfreak.com seems to have built its business upon benefiting financially from media pirates.

Massive media piracy seems to be what enabled (if not necessitated) the DMCA process in question here. As well as numerous human-hostile technologies and legislation.

I don't know about the situations in other countries, but in the US, this whole dynamic driven by media piracy the last 2-3 decades has always seemed incredibly stupid and shortsighted.

If there's a news story about a DMCA takedown Kafkaesque process, can we get a more objective source?
> two years go by, the latest available linux version is 1.5 years old now

You still get support 6 months after release? Last time I bought an <other-fruit>Pi it came with a kernel that was already 2 years out of date on the day it was built (including binary blob proprietary drivers which only worked with that version), and that was it...
Banks are tech companies, the business leadership just don't know it.
http://dhmontgomery.com/2018/02/obscenities-oaths/ for anyone who finds this topic interesting
Please don't take offence at this, but... really try to avoid thinking about this on the weekend, absolutely not worth it. And try to be nice to this person even if you find them annoying. As Steven Covey says, “Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood.” -ironically that's mentioned in a sibling HN article today. (I have to admit to failing to do that myself of course... ;) ). I'd hazard a guess they might be finding it a rather intense work environment that's stressing them out, hence, not entirely rational response when challenged about StackOverflow code. Give 'em a way to save face. Be nice :)
Contexte ? C'est une référence à une mauvaise date de Tinder. C'est un peu mignon si vous citez des choses de mon histoire de post, c'est une cause de violence si vous citez des choses sur le disque dur, surtout si la raison pour laquelle vous essayez et ne parvenez pas à m'intimider est que vous balancez un TSSCI et une prédilection pour l'abus de drogues. Dois-je donner plus de contexte ? Je ne suis pas occupé aujourd'hui.
I think it depends on how you read the Schrems II ruling and how you read Hetzners words.

Any of the big cloud providers can claim that they comply with EU legislation, but they also have to comply with US-legislation and if 3-letter agency wants to have some data from one of their subsidiaries in EU, then they can/will decide which contract to breach.

I read Hetzners statements as being that they can no longer guarantee that they will not be forced to do the same - but that can be my reading of their statement that is wrong.

If I already had them as hosting-partner for a solution that fell under Schrems II, I would have them confirm this, to be sure.
The dude was in a cabin in the woods for a week on vacation. It was off-grid, but he insisted on glamping with his family and carried a bunch of his own tech in.

That's the sort of thing that people go to remote off-grid cabins to get away from!
Average cost of ChatGPT probably less than 10c per chat
I wish we had more control over cheap smartphones.

That'd be ideal replacements. Similar spec to SBCs with a touchscreen and battery backup. But WiFi not ethernet.
This is terrible. Spam will be terrible. The internet infrastructure for interperson communication will be dead as it works today.

You will never know of you write to e.g. a sales rep or a bot if the conversation is shallow.

Support call centers will be decimated to bot chats.

Thankfully the bot does not speak my language so I can watch the shitshow from the other side the fence.
Cloud is nice but dedicated servers would be better :).
If you really hate helmets, you could use one of these instead: https://hovding.com/
To be fair, Wikipedia also “speaks with confidence” and makes no attempt to make it easy to understand exactly how confident one should be in the facts presented. At one point they had said the would, but never did to my knowledge. Google has TrustRank, but to my knowledge it’s on a source-level basis, not fact-level basis.
hi there, I am very sorry that we could not approve your account. We also do not publish a list of things that may or may not make your account accidentally appear fake. So I can't confirm whether or not it was the Protonmail or something else that may have triggered a review of your account. I am very sorry for the lack of transparency on this. I understand that it is frustrating and disappointing to be rejected as a customer. We are purposefully non-transparent about what triggers a review of new accounts. Why? If we published a list like this, it would very quickly become much easier for scammers and spammers to create realistic-looking accounts that they could use to abuse our products, and naturally, we don't want that. I glad that you have found another provider who could use to host your mail server. --Katie
No, it isn't. Not yet.
While it's never going to replace the man behind the machine.

It still seems highly likely that "stitching libraries together" development workflows in 10-15 years will involve large amounts of copy-editing the output of large language models.

The trajectory of improvements, from GitHub Copilot to ChatGPT, is too steep.
+1 on managed DBs.

I currently have hybrid DigitalOcean / Hetzner setup to take advantge of load balancer and managed database at DO. If Hetzner provided some of those, I'd gladly switch.

I am not managing replicated postgresql myself ever again.
That's reason enough for me to avoid these products. (I recognize that others may have different preferences).

I have several old (5-15yrs) laptops still providing useful service. None of them is on the original HDD/SSD.
The Tarnac Nine
"Significantly better than what we have now" is the hard problem to fix.

We can fix autonomous driving today if we give them dedicated roads not shared with humans (no cars, no bikes, no pedestrians). Works perfectly fine with dedicated tunnels under cities.

An emotional and imperfect decision-making 19 years old can pass a driving exam where they drive around for 45 minutes in a mixed traffic environment without the inspector being forced to take control of the car. This is kind of absolute minimum standard is one that autonomous cars struggle with, especially when people try to make it cheap by removing radar and lidar.

What we have made slight headway on is that under very strict environments, with more restrictions on the driving than human drivers has to follow, with expensive sensors, and with a extremely good access to maps and information, then some autonomous transportation is possible. They still causes accidents and people will still get killed. It is debatable if they will kill less people than if human drove under similar restricted environment with access to equally expensive hardware and information, but it is some progress.
My approach at fixing Hacker News readability and UI
It's also not about how good ChatGPT is now.

How good will ChatGPT be in 5 years?

It's scary to imagine.
Whatever you saw a decade ago, it definitely wasn’t this.

I do recommend you play with it. But if you don’t feel like signing up with their free account, here’s a screen recording of me asking it some random general knowledge questions and instructing it to use a different language in the response each time: https://youtu.be/XX2rbcrXblk
You may be talking about their VPS offering.

Dedicated servers there were an option way before DigitalOcean, if I remember correctly (I recall at one point having some Linode and some Hetzner servers, DigitalOcean was not in the picture).
If only there was some method for easily modifying software to suite changes to the hardware! /s
I'm personally fine with this, if it allows them to continue offering such solid value.

Wasabi is a great, inexpensive object store for anyone who's looking for that. I've had a really good experience with them (we have a little over 80TB of data there), and have found their support to be top-notch especially when you consider the price.
As someone living in Sweden, for me getting as much sunlight as possible and taking 5000 IU vitamin D per day is pretty good at staving off the bad aspects of winter. Some short meditation sessions here and there gives me the clarity to avoid too much internet time wasting
The media pirates in this case are the nitwits from Uzbekistan who issued the groundless DMCA notice.
It's not that you'd necessarily want to use the ERP system as such. It just that many companies have base pretty much everything on SAP.

Perhaps you're a fields technician. Your assignments are managed by SAP, inventory is managed by SAP, the customer is managed by SAP, you, yourself is a resource managed by SAP. You venture out to fix a wind turbine, now you either need a laptop and remote in to enter things into a convoluted SAP setup and navigate the myriad of screen in that thing, or someone, perhaps SAP (the company) or some smaller company they bought attempted to bolt on a web GUI or a mobile app, as to simplify the work for the technicians.

There is an entire industry designed around building application to abstract away the SAP client and provide simpler interfaces.
I was with you and imagining you were talking about Ubisoft-style games (the last of which I played in 2014, but apparently they've been reskinning the same game since!). But Breath of the Wild's appeal to me is precisely the exploration! Why would you want to skip that x)

You can save anywhere, so you can make sessions as short as you'd like anyway. There aren't even classic Zelda dungeons anymore! Just 5-10min challenges in the form of a shrine.
Microsoft Azure at SC22 and the Enormous AMD EPYC Genoa Heatsink on HBv4
Any suggestions or feedback are welcome!
Must have at least 5 years GPT experience.
It’s sad that you think cliche tropes are a way to engage in civil discourse.

I’m not even slightly “attached” to Elon. That’s nonsensical. I just asked a polite question. He is as “hateful” as anyone else who has accumulated enough success to have a few enemies along the way. This thread was meant to be about the Tesla Semi truck a superb milestone and you felt the need to attack the CEO of the unquestionably successful company personally. Who’s being hateful?
Sealioning, indeed.

I have 20:20 vision, thanks. Not even slightly “blind” ... anyone can see that Elon is far from perfect. Has made many mistakes in public…

Anyway, as you say, “you choose not to listen”.

I chose to believe in a better future; because the alternative is grim. Elon is _building_ the future whether you and the Haters like it or not.

@daguava Next time your company puts astronauts on the ISS and safely lands reusable rockets on earth, talk to me about Elon not keeping his word.
Hetzner Cloud also has an extensive ISO library, and if there is something that is missing from that library that you would like to have -- including a specific custom image -- customers can write a support ticket on Cloud Console and our team can upload it for you. --Katie
The Raspberry Pi people really need to get a grip on their supply issues. It's pretty much unobtanium for as long as they've been in business, clearly the market is there, demand has been large and steady and yet they don't seem to be able to get this sorted out, and that has been the case for about as long as they have been in business. I've yet to see a Pi 'IRL' and I'd love to buy a couple but I do not see it happening.
> Intellectual property

So-called "intellectual property" is neither intellectual nor property. If I randomly mash the keyboard for a few minutes, the resulting jumble of letters can have its redistribution restricted by copyright law, despite not requiring any intellectual feat to produce. It is also not property, since I cannot own ideas that exist within your head or the sound waves that emanate from your mouth when you whistle a tune I wrote.

> You can steal them.

No you can't. The legal definition of "stealing" requires that the perpetrator takes someone else's property (which an idea isn't) without permission with the intent to deprive them of the property. You can't deprive someone of an idea by making more copies of that idea, much less is that the intent behind copying, so the label of "stealing" is completely inapplicable.
How can AWS claim they are GDPR compliant?
Go Bloviations (2012)