skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're deploying VMs, which is the use case here, the substrate OS becomes significantly less important. Those VMs will mostly just be linux.

Yes they are using illumos/Solaris to host this but they don't sell on that, they sell on the functionality of this layer — allowing people to deploy to owned infra in a way that is similar to how they'd deploy to AWS or Azure. How much do you ever think about the system hosting your VM on those clouds? You think about your VMs, the API or web interface to deploy and configure, but not the host OS. With Oxide racks the customers are not maintaining the illumos substrate (as long as Oxide is around).

You could be right about demand, there is risk in a venture like this. But presumably the team thought about this - I think folks who worked at Sun, Oracle, Joyent, and Samsung and made SmartOS probably developed a decent sense of market demand, enough to make a convincing case to their funders.
Thank you so much for the recommendations! I have actually recently acquired this project and plan on expanding the issues to include the best newsletters, articles, videos, tweets, etc. as well. The focus prior was indeed a bit more on AI and startup tools, but I have a broader vision than that. Will be implementing the new sections into our issues slowly, but will be sure to update the landing page to reflect that as well!
Companies may be employers of contract, franchise workers under US labor rule
We would already need Clarketech to revive any dead brain.

If we are entertaining theoretically possible future tech: Provided there are enough neurons and it would be possible to reconstruct their connections, we could scan them, create a custom built model for the rest of the brain (the part that is missing/unrecoverable), plug it in and simulate it.

Consciousness debate aside, we might be able to recover some memories from it and talk to it.

But my guess is that all the data is lost already.
I liked the "romance" in Top Gun; but that was a long time ago. Nowadays I can't stand anything remotely connected with Tom Cruise.
We can only dream…
As a HPC guy, I really like the idea of one or two of these racks serving as the cluster front end, providing the login nodes, controllers, etc. You would still need generic servers for the main bulk of the compute for density and cost reasons, but it would basically make the back-end part of the cluster into an interchangeable blob of cores, allowing us to focus on the interesting bits of running a service.
> and of course this makes it completely ungoogleable

Do you really think nobody has ever been able to google a Go import path? Some of these arguments are ridiculous.
Pretty condescending attitude!

Folks ride insane trails all the time:
https://youtu.be/CNgOmcYCOPw?si=ohazg3Cl9poKLDNj

No kink shaming, please.
I'm kind of amazed that AWS is the cheapest on this list, as they're typically the first example people give when they talk about overcharging for bandwidth.

When I worked at Malwarebytes between 2008 and 2014 we measured our bandwidth in petabytes, but it was still only about $25k/month. This was obviously a custom contract, but it really is interesting how bandwidth pricing has remained relatively static over the last decade.
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.
I feel like spacex is the only group that has a chance at landing on mars this decade, and Starship is exactly what we’d want if we were trying to make a self sustaining mars colony right?
There's nothing in their answer that indicates this, you are confusing with the other person.
Don't harvest in the spring then?

Wikipedia says "It is very resistant to rot" and "In the Netherlands some other parts of Europe, black locust is one of the most rot-resistant local trees".
Yes, the definitions are part of my point if you read between the lines of my comment.

The definition of homeless I am using is literally "a person without a home". The person I responded to is using an incorrect definition.

That leaves two options. They knew this and they don't actually care about the problem of people not having homes. Or they didn't know that the "visibly homeless" are only a minority of all "homeless" in which case they can learn from this conversation.

>those who literally are living on the streets absolutely do have some sort of addiction or mental illness.

I don't know how you can say this as definitively as you are.
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A word of warning when it comes to Vultr. While they are listed as a member of the "Bandwidth Alliance", they don't discount egress automatically. You need to request the discount from support.

See: https://www.answeroverflow.com/m/1118148928915918990
>My wife once asked me how many customers I had. Then she asked how many email support emails I’ve handled over the same time period. They were about equal

That's similar to me. Roughly the same amount of support emails and customer orders. The funny thing is when I looked deeper most people raising support issues didn't buy and most people who bought never raised a support issue.

On the subject of label printers one of the things I'm looking forward to in retirement is never touching a printer driver for a label or receipt printer again. They caused me so much aggravation.
Not getting it. They increased readability, by limiting maximum line length! That is a colossally good thing. Surely, that's like a graphic design 101 kind of decision. (It's a design rule that significantly predates "UX").

The issue at hand is that overly long lines reduce reading speed and comprehension of the content[1]. The optimum length for a digital line of text is somewhere between 66 characters per line and 100 characters per line. I personally use the 100cpl rule. For reference, this HN page has ~185 characters per line on my 1920x1080 display at default scaling.

I do actually remember un-minimizing my browser in order to improve the rate at which I could read the text of ur-Wiki pages.

And then they provided an escape for old men shaking their fists at the sky. Given a choice, I would, without hesitation, choose the new design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length#:~:text=characters...
Can you relate that to specifics from the article? To my (admittedly non-designer) eyes it appears to be a great example of how science can be used to improve design, and I happen to agree with the findings presented, so I'm curious where you see this breaking down.
Very interesting data. It makes sense for India to have some of these companies given its location and geopolitics on that side of the world. Interesting that French companies are growing pretty fast too.
I've recently acquired this project from the profile you tagged. I will be removing those websites from the landing page and adding examples from our issues instead! Not to worry, our issues do not include any promotional picks at all. Thanks a lot for pointing it out!
She was clearly expressing a sentiment that she felt to be true at the time, even though it isn't backed up by the data -- much like this similar scenario.
I wonder how to break into it.

I bet the trick is to keep the perfect balance of high profile wins and and losses. You want to be defensible as an expert to the non-technical folks while obviously a fall guy to the technical ones I guess.

I think these guys aren’t that, though, they seem to be selling a real, cool product.
With the rack being so quiet, I wonder if they would ever sell these in smaller versions for more local installations. Would be pretty niche, but it would be interesting. Same kinds of markets that ui.com tries to serve.
Put more charitably, it’s not surprising that a particularly driven and motivated subset of people tend to do better than the average population.
Truth, of interest

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4273988-hamas-just-learn...
Searching for terms like "wholesale bandwidth transit" might be a better reference for comparison of actual cost. The providers you mention are depending somewhat on customers that statistically underutilize what they have and using obscure TOS clauses to chase away heavy users.
Unless it is a piano keyboard, because musicians are aware of this and so the only pianos with ivory keyboards have ivory from nearly 100 years ago. There would be interest in new ivory by a few (generally because they have an antique piano with one broken key), but they will demand proof that the ivory was sustainably harvested (There was a park a few years back overcrowd with elephants that was looking into providing such certification, though last I've heard they haven't figured out how to do this)
I don't have the stats in front of me, but when you factor in immigration the us is over 2.0 while Europe still lags.
> Take this for example: https://www.fdcservers.com/

You took "as example" literally the cheapest provider that exists in this space. (and lowest network quality/connections)
It isn't that hard if you know anything about modern CSS. Sure, for some people that hate writing front-end code, it's going to be a real pain. But for anyone that focuses on front-end, it really shouldn't be difficult at all.
had gsuite in a job, and office365 at another job.

I'd be okay with office365 if teams wasn't such a shitty piece of software.

slack so far has been the best corporate chat experience.
Nope, the whole point of the memorizing algorithms to gain access structure is to show that you're great at grinding away thanklessly. Just saying it isn't enough.
I guess I just expect the web site to at least not deliberately make itself terrible such that users have to resort to big hammers like extensions, "Disable Styles", "Disable JavaScript" and "Reader Mode".

Web sites are fast, flexible, responsive, readable, scrollable, accessible, and respectful of user preferences... by default, from the moment you add text between <body> tags. Then web developers add code and CSS to make them worse. Sometimes they make it better, but very often it's worse.
In the case of that particular incident, it seems that the pedestrian was “thrown” into the lane with Cruise when it was hit by another (human) driver.
Back in the day... Sun Micro was a GOAT and pushed the envelope on Unix computing 20-30 years ago. Solaris was stable and high performing.

I don't run on-prem clusters or clouds but know a couple people who do and, at large enough scale, it is a constant "fuck-shit-stack on top of itself" (to quote Reggie Watts). There is almost always something wrong and some people upset about it.

The promise of a fully integrated system (compute HW, network HW, all firmware/drivers written by experts using Rust wherever possible) that pays attention to optimizing all your OpEx metrics is a big deal.

It may take Oxide a couple more years to really break into the market in a big way, but if they can stick it out, they will do very well.
Mostly doesn't matter though, they sound entirely different compared to the letters without those changes. And you can't just replace them either, lots of words would suddenly have multiple meanings when written.
If you chop the head, there's no way to identify the body, so when you loot it, you can just say it was a random passerby who was already dead, instead of getting the tribe the person belonged to to attack you. Hang to kill. Chop the head off to get the body down, toss the head, loot the body. That's my guess.
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.

My personal box is a 6C/12T Xeon from a few years back, 128GB ECC RAM, and about 24TB usable disk plus 2TB NVMe, for running a lot of other VMs that I run actual services in (remote backup, my web presence, communications, game servers, the works). Then a 25Mbit/100Mbit burst connection at a local datacenter for a bit over $100/mo.

A 12vCPU/96GB RAM GCE N2 box with similar specs as my box is about $1800/mo. So... given that "a few months of cloud spend" buys my system, I genuinely don't see the case for "cloud" if you're using a lot of data, or a lot of RAM, or a lot of CPU. Yes, it's managed and convenient, but it's horridly expensive for what you get compared to "owning your own hardware."

I'd been spending quite a bit more a month on various cloud instances to do the same thing I do with my server.
I know one company who offers that (there might be more): https://www.grando.ai/en/container
CLIP is a big part of generative AI models as well like stable diffusion and DALLE.
They have regions outside of Germany too. And IIRC, the people being wire tapped were doing some illegal stuff.
Totally agree. I've been thinking about this a lot for several years, so I pay attention to how often it's actually at all useful to the plot - I'd guess one in a hundred.
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I love putting hilbert curves into various simulation and building games - you often get interesting results! And if you don't, it at least looks cool.

One time I wrote some ruby and some lua to generate a hilbert curve in Factorio - I'm pretty happy with the result:
https://github.com/kkuchta/factorio_hilbert
> College educated adults have a higher earning potential than non-college-educated adults.

This isn't true.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/podcasts/the-daily/is-col...
Care to cite/summarize some of the studies?
I once visited a HP site in Italy where they had hundreds of inkjet printers on racks running tests. I think it was reliability testing rather than software.
interesting analysis.
I there evidence that Chrome currently sends anything beyond any other browser where I‘m logged into Google Mail?

In any case I have switched to Safari and it feels far less sluggish.
Indian gov has taken a lot of steps in recent years to leap frog its manufacturing industries
If Facebook all of a sudden shut down and laid off all Reality Lab. They would have increased their profit margin by ~35%.
Okay, then here's more:

Hetzner, Datapacket, Hivelocity, Reliablesite, and OVH.

I did pick them as an extreme example, but even the more expensive bare metal and colo providers are like 100X cheaper than cloud. VPS providers like Digital Ocean and Vultr are ~10X cheaper.

Cloud sells egress bandwidth at an enormous markup. Meanwhile ingress is free. If this were a technical limitation ingress would be billed too because there's nothing asymmetric about the Internet. The asymmetry you usually see on home connections is mostly a DOCSIS (cable modem) limitation or a way of segmenting personal vs. business accounts.

BTW we run a few things at FDCServers (among others) and monitor them and they seem fine. We do use multiple providers in case one of them has a huge issue.

Edit: these providers can't be overselling too much because the fact that they have such cheap bandwidth makes them a magnet for bandwidth-heavy work loads: game servers, seed boxes, DIY CDNs, TURN servers, etc.
Lucy and Ricky were both Caucasian. I don’t believe an interracial marriage would have been permitted on TV in the 1950s. (The idea that your “race” is determined by your accent or place of birth is pretty recent.)
Yup, thanks for pointing it out! This project was founded in January, however, I am now taking charge and making changes such as:
New content style to include the best newsletters, articles, videos and tweets.
A hashtag community on Twitter (X) for everyone to share their favorite links.
I think the word is being stretched a bit, but not much. Space is not inhabited by any meaningful number of people, and very few have been, so for the foreseeable future anyone simply leaving Earth could be called pioneer - among the first to explore a new area.
People see FIDI and think that level of density is happening in Pac Heights or Sunset and don't realize how thin things get once you get out of the main downtown strip.
Being in SF makes the market for your labor more competitive. If I'm living on a ranch in rural Idaho, I would interact with very few people on a given day, and most of them would be the same people I interacted with yesterday. In SF, I'd be interacting with far more people, and far more new people, with a much higher probability of those people working in tech, some subset of whom will be willing to offer me a job.
My porch is made of that newfangled plastic wood and as much as I hate the idea, I love how long it will last.
Many companies have started to provide parts for repairs even before this though.

Google, Samsung, and Microsoft have been officially partnered with iFixIt for a few years now. Heck, even Microsoft has been redesigning their laptops to use magnets instead of glue, specifically for reparability.

Not to mention this is a problem more unique to the portable electronics industry.

Anyway, the regulation that is forcing change is coming in the EU. These companies don't want
to design multiple variants of the same product. So change is coming regardless.

Removable batteries in phones is going to be sweet too.
Give me a sec - just trying to hide a link to a, er, goat-related website in a comment and pretending it's related to the story.
Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study [pdf]
Interesting paper that suggests moving from a standard American diet to an Optimal Diet at the age of 60 could still increase your life expectancy by as much as 10 years (95% will see an increase of between 6.8 years - 10 years life expectancy). If you started at 20 you could see an extra ~15 years in your life.

There's a little info on what an "Optimal Diet" supposedly is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension#Optimal_diet
Haha, come now. The obvious trick of packaging a failing product with a growing product and then reporting the aggregate?
Eh, maybe you're right. The thread is starting to devolve. I'll delete it .
That video animation is bizarre, because it seems like the asteroid changes the direction of its orbit around the sun.

But am I right in interpreting this from the perspective of the Earth being stationary, and actually the asteroid keeps on moving around the sun in the same direction but sometimes we were catching up to the asteroid, and sometimes it was catching up to us?
There are nitrates on mars, nobody is seriously proposing unconditional one way trips, mars has enough gravity to prevent bone loss.

But yes, it does mean bringing your own air and being self sufficient, but we do both of those things on the ISS already
No one want to admit this yet, but at least 1% of that GDP growth is due to the rise of Generative AI.
Surprised to hear it. I still get quite a bit of engagement on X, certainly have not seen a decline in the past year. Also, a few folks I follow on X, even if they claimed to "have moved to Fediverse", have all quietly come back and started to post on X again.

I joined Mastodon myself in the past year, and at least so far I have not been able to see much engagement there, though I am still trying to figure it out. The biggest issue I see is lack of cross-server search, aside from by tag, but also just not enough post activity. Maybe I am still not following the right people.
Why, oh why, is there not a "I'm feeling lucky" button on streaming. Just show me something I haven't seen yet with one click.
> objectively better

Is this some braindead new trope on HN? I'm seeing it the second time on HN today.

There is and cannot be anything objective about "better" unless the choice of "better" is explicitly and unambiguously stated. "Objectively taller"? OK. "Objectively more infectious"? Not impossible to show in context. "Objectively better"? Idiotic. My "better" is the opposite of yours, what now?
> Indeed. It's hilarious to see some Americans claiming things are so much better in "Europe" when their entire experience consists of a few weeks as a tourist or business traveler in first-tier EU cities.

Being specific in your comparison matters.

It is indeed facile to make the statement that "things are so much better in Europe". Blanket statements are usually stupid.

It's reasonable, however, to compare the efficacy of public transit of San Francisco to that of Copenhagen, or to compare the a population-wide health indicators of the US to Germany.
Amazon & Co. will always rule for the exact same reason Microsoft Office has/will. It's the combination of services effect creating a natural moat. There's nothing you can do about that other than to break up the large entities, it forms by default unless you do that. It requires a comically enormous burden placed on the entity to break it because of how fantastically strong the combination effect is for customers, cheap peering won't touch it.

So long as they don't put too many barriers up (raising the cost through unnecessary regulation to cut out the competition, which would benefit AWS), we'll always have competitive alternatives, including running your own infrastructure inexpensively with companies like Hetzner or Cloudflare (depending on what you need).
BP to purchase $100M in Tesla Superchargers
Thanks for pointing out you didn't got what the whole point of the wrong design is about.
name something that doesn't have downsides.

go on, I'll wait.
Well put. This is how I feel.
Haha, appreciate the comment. I believe we still do that to some extent, i.e. tweeting out links we like or sharing it to our stories. All in all, I am trying to put together a nice email every week to serve the same purpose you mentioned!
Yeah the subtitles move around and scream for attention. Very annoying.
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12
If Tokio was the final answer, https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-uring/ wouldn't exist.
Just to be clear, Illumos (it hasn't been Solaris in a very long time) is an implementation detail. It's not customer facing.
The Bay Area is expensive, but it's not THAT expensive.
ungoogled chromium my man
They say this:

> While the software is an essential part of the Oxide cloud computer, what we sell is in fact the computer. As a champion of open source, this allows Oxide a particularly straightforward open source strategy: our software is all open.

But their homepage says this:

> As soon as power is applied to an Oxide rack, our purpose-built hardware root of trust – present on every Oxide server and switch – cryptographically validates that its own firmware is genuine and unmodified.

That sounds like tivoization to me. The value of their software being open source is heavily diminished by their hardware refusing to run anything but their "genuine and unmodified" software.
More that synthesizer. Some are easy to emulate, while others require a lot more CPU cycles.
I think Bezos did something similar when he started Amazon. Every time they had a new book order they would buy it from a bookshop then ship it.

Apparently they had a bell that would ring every time an order came in. They soon had to turn it off.
In Europe, some of the very richest have remained the very richest for literal centuries

I read an interesting point recently: Austria's 100 wealthiest families have two thirds of the country's wealth, and zero have earned their money from technology; they've all inherited it.

How different would the same list be for Germany? One, perhaps two families earned their fortunes from tech?
Interesting, but is it even possible to optimize access to very sparse and unstructured matrices from finite elements?
"Microserver" designs have failed several times. AMD Epyc is basically twelve 7840s in an even smaller space and you can partition it any way you want.
Pretty sure we could design and launch a digging robot in 10 years, I dont really buy that as the bottleneck to mars exploration