skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The second, less known, reason is that between compute, storage and network, network is actually the hardest part to scale for cloud providers. Thus they need to find a way to incentive their customers to optimize their network usage by themselves. And what better motivation to optimize something than taking a huge chunk of your profits?

This doesn't really make sense as an explanation.

Cloud networking has two components:

1. The network connecting the datacentres to the internet (the datacentre edge infrastructure).

2. The network connecting the servers and virtual machines to that edge.

1 is a solved problem and the variable costs are going to be based on any transit connections used. What cloud providers charge for bandwidth here is out of proportion to that, and they don't bill for ingress anyway, so this makes no sense.

2 is a technically more complex area, except it's very clear that getting people to use this infrastructure less is not the motivation because cloud providers don't charge for intra-DC traffic. You can ferry data around between servers in the same AZ as much as you like and not pay anything. The same is true of transferring data to and from e.g. S3 and EC2.

In other words, the more technically complex and sophisticated network component is the one which isn't billed at all. Meanwhile, boring internet connectivity is billed at an exorbitant rate, but only in one direction.

It's really quite obvious at this point that the motivation is vendor lock-in. You are penalised if you take data out of a big cloud provider but not to put data in. This means as soon as you put anything in AWS you are suddenly motivated to do as much in AWS as possible.

This is fundamentally anti-competitive. If AWS starts offering some infrastructure service, it can offer free bandwidth to that service for its own customers, but some third party providing a comparable service can't, at least unless it also starts using AWS.

But that's not even the best of it. If you want even better proof that these charges are BS, just look at Snowball. This is a service where you can transfer data to S3 by having AWS mail you a hard drive. Amazingly, they have the gall to charge per GB for this in addition to the fixed fee you pay... but only for exporting data.

In other words, I can pay $150 and get loaned a SSD, fill it up with 14TB of data and import that data to S3. If I pay $300 to get data out of S3, I also pay $0.03/GB. Internet transit is not even involved here!

It is pure anti-competitive lock-in. It's also really against the principles of the internet, in that the internet couldn't have developed as it did if we accepted different billing for communicating with different IPs (can you imagine "I don't want to send traffic to a foreign IP, I'll pay international rates!"). Yet cloud providers work on this principle. If you think about it it is effectively a net neutrality violation, just not on the part of residential ISPs - they charge you less to communicate with their own services than with others (zero-rating).
I disagree with almost all of these conclusions. I appreciate web pages that are sparse and concise. High information density is _not_ generally a good thing.

I like clean websites with lots of space. I don’t mind long scrolling websites, though I don’t particularly like the trend of stupid animations that happen as you scroll down.

I appreciate that “mobile first” has forced web designers to simplify web sites to be concise. Less is more!
Without JS this site's text is a weird mix of upper and lower case letters, even within the same word. Even large lowercase mixed in. The underlying text is perfectly normal. Can any web devs suggest why this is? TIA
Absolutely nothing wrong with closed subcultures. The need to draw as large an audience as possible in order to satisfy investors, is part of why discussion on sites like Reddit is so flawed.
Absolutely! What exactly do you want to know? The rendering pipeline is the most standard one: Mapnik, Postgres, openstreetmap-carto, renderd. Everything is hosted on the own servers.

By resolution I mean exactly this - resolution. High-resolution tiles, also known as retina tiles. Low-resolution tiles are not used at all. All of that is not related to zoom.

If this wasn't clearly communicated by me: all zoom levels are rendered by the own servers.
i2pd it's preferred on low devices because of performance.
Anyway, current i2pd works perfectly well with irc, mail, nntp, gopher, web and telnet.
A fun aspect of this space filling curve is that it can be used for the infill pattern of a 3D print.
Gamblers are more honest, they take risks with their own money.
How do you feel about Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic?
^multitasking

"We suffered for years waiting to get true multitasking and this newb doesn't even use it!" ;-)
You need a better name and brand, vertosh is not very discoverable.
This requires a massive amount of electricity, unrealistic until maybe fusion is commonplace.
Consumption taxes do still tend to have disproportionate effects on those at the bottom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax#Savings_effect), but there's more logic to step 2 if gas prices are increased across the board than my initial post.

That does make some sense, thanks for replying and elaborating!
Can anyone take a crack at why the hell you need a company and its computer farm 3000 miles away to merey sync your calendar, CalDav or whatever it is between two devices that are oerfectly capable of taking to each other or with a local-first mediating process or tool? I don't get what is about syncing things (particularly the basics like Contacts, Calendar/Reminders that requires you to send the data thousands of miles away and back when its all in the same room
I've looked into this, actually. I was trying to develop some lots that were zoned multifamily and wanted to build some duplexes/triplexes.

The quality tends to be lower, the floorplans are very limited, and there isn't much of a price advantage vs building on site.
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Show HN: Instant Banner Images for Any Blog Post Using GPT3.5 and SDXL
BannerGPT is an AI agent that can auto-generate banner images for any blog post.

The premise is pretty simple. You paste your article into BannerGPT, it analyzes the text and generates a banner image that can complement your article.

Under the hood, the raw post is sent to GPT 3.5 with a prompt to describe a scene that illustrates the main ideas in the text. The description is then sent as a prompt to Stable Diffusion (hosted on Replicate). Finally the title is framed on the image and turned into a downloadable image.
There’s always rate limiting. Cloudfront supports it, API gateway support it, and it’s super easy to set up.
Ah yes live migration, off course. We design "ephemeral" applications that scale horizontally and use load balancer to migrate. With 99% of traffic serviced from CDN cache updates and migrations have a very different set of challenges.

As to your question, I meant to say that as volumes and scales economies increase they can source materials far cheaper than regular shops. Possibly similar to AWS, gcs, Azure, akamai etc. It would be nice if they were able and willing to translate some of those scales economies into prices commensurate with comparable public cloud instances.
No matter how much hot porridge went into my pants...

Natalie Portman never stopped in for a visit

My only /. regret

c'est dommage Natalie, the loss was yours I am sure
"Sober-curious"

I've always wondered how this is a thing. Aren't most people sober more often than intoxicated? Shouldn't most people know what being sober is like, at least from their childhood? Maybe the terminology is just odd to me.
Absolute nonsense.

Our oceans are full of Sodium in very high concentrations. Sodium Choloride, aka. NaCl, aka kitchen salt. About 11 grams per kg in ocean water. And about 90 grams in the average human body. Lots of salt deposits in former salt lakes, mineral deposits, etc. Neither scarce nor hard to harvest.

You would literally die without sodium in your body. Very common mineral and pretty easy to get to.
Is it? Are your referring to the varnish that's applied after?
Sex Education explores sex positivity, which includes consent, respect, and just not having any. It also deals with the subject of sex crimes and reporting sex crimes. Anathema to Wenstein types. But you say it's "definite".

Assuming adults are watching in general for the purpose of being titillated by teen sexuality or, worse, that its producers have the ulterior motive of "grooming" teens en masse is cynical as shit.
A new generation of mathematicians pushes prime number barriers
What are some examples of sound programs you want to write in Rust but are unable to write?
I assume you're not referring to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles as a theory of dark matter - what does WIMP mean here?
Yeah this I’ve seen everywhere, but more related to the company size. In a 50 employee company, it’s hard to pull that off. As organizations get larger, you get this as inevitable part of human nature. If the salary table is flat, then highly ambitious people will ask for more skin-in-the-game.

The skin-in-the-game bit can be promotions, equity, stock compensation, etc.
AWS does that already for the defense industry: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-aws-mod...
There's quite a few reasons why it happens though. Perhaps the feature was available, perhaps there was no documentation or poor documentation. Perhaps this is more complex in some way? We don't really know.
Not only are good frontend engineers rare, but I've also noticed that it seems to be common for the best ones to migrate out of frontend work. They get tired of spending all day fighting with colleagues who have coding skills but not design acumen, and the same traits that make them a good frontend engineer also make it very easy to transition to a role that comes with a less psychologically costly work environment.
> I want to add as well, that you will all deride Elon Musk, but in secret you want to be Elon musk, you want to be that same person on top of the hill. So, even though you’re not him, you’re no better than him.

Yes, this is what America is built on. American culture is winner take all, and we generally want to be the winner.

We don't deride his success, we deride the fact that he acts like a child on social media
Unfortunately I could not find data on prices after discounts -- I would love if you could point me to some! I find it hard to believe the average discount in 2019/20 was $8k off on a base trim GT, but if you actually bought one with that discount then fair enough. Note that's still a significantly smaller increase than my parent comment indicated.
Hi John, thanks for asking, after beta phase ends we will increase our transaction fee.

Users registered during the beta phase will keep a 0% rate.
Cities also benefit from local growth. More people means more funding for local schools and roads and everything else that makes a city a city. What has happened in recent years however is that local elected city leaders do not think in terms of the best interests for the collective. They think in terms of keeping their jobs, bending over backwards towards those who donate and vote in these local elections. A demographic that is by and large older, whiter, richer, more conservative, and more likely to be an existing homeowner, who in California stands to benefit from exponential increases in real estate values on top of a fixed tax rate based on their purchase price vs current valuations.
If you are working within a code base that uses fd and fp, then it's expected to preserve the style. However if it's a new project I would use filePointer and fileDescriptor to have consistent naming scheme along all variables.
To me, these are a bandaid solution to a much deeper problem: it is, somehow, socially unacceptable to abstain from alcohol in some situations.

Obviously if people are drinking these because they just like the taste, that's fine, but I think most people have these because it lets them look like they are drinking.
> As we discovered over the last 2 weeks, though, many colleges (including at least half of the ivy league) are also okay with pro-Hamas rallies -- not because they believe in free speech, but because they've chosen a side.

Were the rallies actually pro-Hamas, or pro-Palestine?
Batteries aren't pure sodium. Pure sodium bonded with something (eg: chlorine) is less explosive.
Hopefully I find this again in my bookmarks when I am 50+, looks like an awesome thing to try one's hand at.
> I have an issue with advertisers bullying platforms to remove bad guys

If businesses don't get to decide how to spend their money on advertising, who does?
This is an important point. The only solution we're ever offered for security concerns is centralizing more and more control in the platform companies hands even though those same companies are increasingly abusing their power.
Is Crash Overrides Chalk any good?
I saw this a few weeks ago but not found time to play. It's written in Nim FFS. Is it worth the time to invest ?
> no one rules over anyone else

This is impossible, because in this scenario, someone will get weapons and will forcefully take over and rule everyone else. This is just how human nature works
I'm mostly a backend engineer, but I occasionally have to make UIs. It's not only that it's the hardest part of the stack (I agree with that, but it can also be an interesting challenge), it's also that it's the part of the stack where everyone and his dog think they have a say. It's infuriating really.
I mean, I did like it but I'll be the first to admit I cannot judge anything related to that series anymore after the absolute trash fire that the last season was. Don't think I'm alone there either, I have never seen something so rapidly and thoroughly remove itself from pop culture the way Game of Thrones did.
Sodium would be the Na part of Na Cl.
Eh? If you're delivering video at scale there's no way anybody is going to do that for free?

Whereas with AWS they charge you for traffic between AWS regions last time I checked?
Because it sort of is, I guess.

Capitalism by itself won't allow us to change course.
That was a team making gameboy games switching to making home console games, it will take a bit for them to adapt. But letting them adapt and learn new skills is probably better for the economy than firing them like we would do in the west.
I thought the article hinted towards the companies making drinks that don't pretend to be alcohol, and are just good-tasting drinks as an alternative to alcohol but I saw the opposite. I don't see why anyone would want non-alcoholic rum.
I don't know where you got this from, but I can assure you that's not correct.
> The user was just on that website

No, the user was not just on that website. You didn't look at the example closely enough. The contextual menu was on an external link.
What would be the additional massive amount of energy usage to capture the sodium output of the many, many already existing and economical desalination plants?
It's not just about maximizing revenue, it's also about getting it into developer hands early (homelabs, side projects, college students, etc) so they can become familiar with it, and become an advocate for it within their company. Cloudflare is a good example of this.
btw, if you like, I'd appreciate if you help me share it, just for the sake of seeing one's work being useful!
It won't. In the same way that AWS customers aren't debugging hypervisor, or Dell customers aren't debugging the BIOS, or Samsung SSD customers aren't debugging the firmware. Products choose where to draw the line between customer-serviceable parts and those that require a support call. In this case, expect Oxide to fix it when something doesn't work right.
I'm not dying, and this is your hill, not mine. Words have meanings, yes? Then use those meanings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)

The design developed at Xerox Parc.
I mean, I have no idea what they were doing but they literally said (in a deleted HN comment) that what they were doing was illegal.
That to me sounds like VR is selling a home theater system when 95% of the market is happy with what's coming out of their TV+soundbar.
Yeah. unfortunately the word trolling sometime over the past 15 years started to merge with what was customarily referred to as griefing or flame bait or flaming itself. The crucial quality that a troll is best executed with as much subtlety as possible so as not to be detected by the intended target (but amusingly obvious to everyone else) was completely lost in the mainstreaming of the word.

Now it's used mainly as something like "being a dick online" or even without the online part, as if English (and every other language) didn't have enough slang for this behavior already.

I submit that what has happened to the word trolling should be exhibit A in the counter argument against the claim that language evolves over time, or at least challenge the idea that evolves is analogous to "improves" or "becomes better suited to its purpose."
Many people enjoy the taste and/or effects of alcohol, and consider the tradeoffs acceptable.

Also, in some places and times, moderate consumption of e.g. wine was/is believed to be healthful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
You can get it down to ~1c/g at best then if you want cheaper you gotta build your own
People can't make cost-effective options appear by sheer willpower.

They can bike short distances, but longer trips would depend on access to vehicles they don't own, whether transit or other people's cars.

If you give them enough warning they can adapt. But for a change like this the only solution for many people is "don't live there, good luck moving".
> Looks like car payments were the first to go.

Car repo rates are an extremely reliable signal for an impending economic crisis. Problem is, right now, the signal has been active for an unusually long period. Maybe it's just the previous administration's "free" money drying up?
I’ve just never seen bandwidth be a significant part of the bill for any sass I’ve built/worked for. I’m super curious about this. What kind of sass businesses use huge amounts of bandwdith but don’t provide enough commercial value to the customers to make it viable? Can folks with first-hand experience please share here?
I hope they responded with a poo emoji. That was classic.
This makes that debt really hard to measure. These debt bombs that retroactively make you have carried a balance for years in the past.

Don't include them: you're missing all the people who transform into high debt carriers.

Include them: you sweep in all the people who set an automatic payment to pay it off with a couple months to spare and forget about it.
Not 1U but perhaps a box design that isn’t noisy like a pizza box server.

Don’t know if oxide would want or be able to compete in the low cost market but a bigger a more expensive desktop/workstation as a mini homelab cloud could be a great option to get people trained on the oxide platform.
I switched from beer in the evenings to kombucha. I feel so much better the next morning.
Minimalism in the sense of overuse of capacitative interfaces is purely a cost cutting measure, not aesthetic. Moving parts == things which go wrong and need a lot of tedious installation and testing.
Is Foreign Policy Rational?
I understand. The headline is a tad misleading. :)

Do you have an idea of what your fees will end up being?
Do you think it should be illegal for companies to make advertising decisions based on the politics of the content their ad might run on?
> What you can do about it is go back to the early 2000s and rack up your own boxes in a colo, with some reasonable unmetered bandwidth allocations, and skip the whole "cloud" nonsense.

Yep, we used to pay about $35/mo for an unmetered 1Gbit 1U slot at our local datacenter. What surprised me (but maybe is a standard these days?) is that you don't even need to install the server physically yourself. You just buy it, ship it to the datacenter, and wait for the remote access.
Soda water and bitters is a good hit too. Bit more interesting than plain water, every bar will be able to make it, seems to help with an upset stomach too.
I’m somewhat confused as to what is exposed, as the description in the quote sounds like a blocking call, but with a busy wait, which seems like it couldn’t be the only or main thing that PyTorch exposes.
In the early 2000s before Google even IPO'ed, they experimented with such colo with unlimited bandwidth allocations to run their search crawler. It turns out something that's labeled unlimited isn't truly unlimited.
Is there anywhere where I, a consumer, can buy sodium ion batteries online right now at any price?
> I refuse to go to restaurants that have QR-code menus that download a PDF with unusably small entries.

I either go on the restaurant's website directly to find the menu or ask for a physical menu. I've never been tripped up by that. I understand I'm still rewarding the owner for their bad choice, but I'm not going to force my friends and family to get up and leave a restaurant we all wanted to try out because of it.
Russell is a weird creep but governments should not be going around and asking companies to censor people without a legal basis.
Battling Drone Threats: Metal Cages Are Reinventing Tank Defense
If you include caffeine, probably not lol
The word "sober" here is being used like it is used by eg NA/AA; "sober" = exclusively sober (excluding caffeine and nicotine).
Twitter's free speech ideals are arbitrary at best. Asking Twitter to take action before this man will eventually be convinced is wrong, but portraying Twitter as some kind of free speech activist when Musk will ban and block as he sees fit when people are mean to him is just wrong.

From what I can tell this has very little to do with free speech in the first place, this is more about a company entering a business partnership with a man under investigation for sexual crimes and stalking. They're not asking Twitter to ban him, just to (re)consider their position on doing business with him. Twitter decides per account if they can or can't make money by tweeting, so their decision in this regard do reflect on the company.

Brand having proven to be a conspiracy nutjob during COVID should be enough reason for any business not to to business with him, but Musk does seem to attract a certain crowd.

I can't say I'm very surprised by Twitter's response other than the fact they responded in the first place; I thought Twitter fired their PR team during the mass exodus when Musk took over.
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I think that's great for hosting your own stuff. Just personally not something I'd want to do once I really need high availability (power outages/network outages). But I suspect it might actually be a great way for compute bound startups to start for cheap.
Treasury issued $600B in debt in one month to accomplish this. Congrats. Can't wait for their "revision" in ~2 months.
I could say the same about web on desktop. Desktop native is still the best for desktop. Browsers insert friction and are rent seekers.
Put simply: There's no incentive for most organizations to implement this like this.
>It's the problem with classical stage-oriented compilers. A compiler designed for diagnostics from the beginning

I'm not sure any compiler, even one "designed for diagnostics," can gather the "necessary metadata" from inside my brain based on my original intentions. If the compiler could unambiguously interpret what I meant to write, it wouldn't have needed to fail with a compilation error in the first place. Whenever I see something like "perhaps" or "maybe" in a compilation error, the information just didn't exist anywhere the compiler could possibly get to, and it's just a suggestion based on common mistakes.
I fear I couldn't launch Spotify today because Apple is a barrier to innovation