skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, I think over the last few years, GCP has lost its way.

There was a time several years ago where they were a meaningfully better option when looking at price / performance for compute / storage / bandwidth when compare to AWS. At the time, we did detailed performance testing and cost modeling to prove this for our workload (hundreds of compute engine instances etc).

Support back then was also excellent. One of our early tickets was an obscure networking issue. The request was quickly escalated then passed from engineers in different regions around the world until it was resolved. We were very impressed. It was a change on the GCP end that ended up being reverted. We quickly got to real engineers who competently worked the problem with us to resolution.

The sales team interactions were also better back then. We had a great sales rep who would quickly connect us with any internal resources we needed. The sales rep was a net positive and made our experience with GCP better.

Since then, AWS has certainly caught up and is every bit as good from a cost / performance standpoint. They remain years ahead on many managed services.

The GCP support experience has degraded significantly at this point. Most cases seem to go to outsourced providers who don’t seem able to see any data about the actual underlying GCP infrastructure. We too have detected networking issues that GCP does not acknowledge. The support folks we are dealing with don’t seem to have any greater visibility than we do. It’s pathetic and deeply frustrating. I’m sure it’s just as frustrating for them.

The sales experience is also significantly worse. Our current rep is a significant net negative.

We’ve made significant investments in GCP and we hate seeing this happen. While we would love to see things improve, we don’t see any signs of that actually happening. We are actively working to reduce our GCP spend.

A few years ago, I was a vocal GCP advocate. At this point, I’d have a hard time suggesting anyone build anything new on GCP.
GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager
Artificial photosynthesis: A pathway to solar fuels
CSS Responsive Multi-Line Ribbon Shapes (Part 2)
What is this “researcher” saying though? There’s nothing specific. It’s just some vague thing with a dash of social justice signaling thrown in.

Who decides what a spot calls for? How do we communicate with it. What is “right” and how do we ensure the right tree was put in spots that have been classified as “right”?

Is this a serious person?
US credit unions offline after ransomware infects back end cloud outfit
Thiel is the closest we have to a comic book villain honestly. I find it incredible that he mostly manages to stay under the radar. Maybe it's just because all Musk's antics are easier to cover.
10,000TB storage cartridges could become mainstream by 2030
> Nothing is ...

Fair point. I'm a dreamer ;)

I believe the lack of great clients for apple platforms is due to how little the overlap is between people who see value in using a self-hosted, federated, lightweight chat system and people who want to use apple products.
This was beautiful. I was expecting a post about how financial bonds work, but instead it was a great story about game shows, connections, and how short life is.

Made me want to hug someone.
> Domains with HTTPS records are hosted in more than 2.3 k ASes and name servers serving the records are in more than 1.6 k ASes. However, most records are hosted in and served by Cloudflare (98 %).

Having bitten Nginx 1.25 by the horns in getting HTTP3 going, I was looking for a DNS host / nameserver with support for HTTPS (and/or SVCB) record types, but my search didn't turn up anything. I'd rather not use CloudFlare, Google, or any monopolistic companies.

Does HN have any to recommend?
Peter Watts zombie coming to life, with the consciousness completely deactivated for combat effectiveness?
... obviously. And a lot of flights that do stop in the UK. The point is you lose the flexibility and you have to make sure every time you book a flight

Not to mention that you are always anxious you don't have an inflight incident. Bad weather, medical emergency (there are 300 people aboard), mechanical issues, etc
There's some friction in moving my passwords, which are stored in my Chrome profile. Before you say "just use Bitwarden to sync passwords", I can't, because they block me from logging in based on "unusual network activity". I don't want to spend $3/mo for 1Password. I _could_ spend the first day after migrating resetting all of my passwords as I use different sites and probably will once ad blocking stops working for good on Chrome, but until then it's simple inertia.
Creative. I probably have the persistence and interest to pull something like this off, but I lack the fantasy to come up with such cool projects. Luckily there's the internet to see what impressive stuff people come up with.
That is a planned feature because I really want that too! I believe it should be possible and not take years to develop, especially because Onyx does have its own WASM runtime that I can completely control how and when certain things happen, like pausing for a hot reload. This runtime is currently Linux only, but I should be able to address that relatively soon. I don't know if it would be possible with Wasmer as the runtime, without Wasmer making severe modifications to its code generation and runtime. Hot reload is a tricky problem, but I believe for the developer experience, it is worth trying.
That doesn't really state if that's a self-imposed limitation or limitation of Mv3.
Simple and intuitive. Love the scrolling animation of the user profiles. I guess if it were slightly slower, perhaps it would be better.
What is the alternate of GPT4V? Llava?
I just saved my team and myself from a severe depression, lots of money & time.

How?

I stopped them from building a product on GPT-4v API because it is not yet production ready and they didn't know it.

Question?
What is the alternative of GPT4-v? Llava?
How good is it? Is it production-ready?
> I'm really not sure what you thought those links proved.

1. Pick any domain from the website

2. dig A <thedomain>

3. dig CNAME <thedomain>

4. ???

6. Proof

You know, it's not like how to DNS is a secret or something. You can easily confirm this yourself whether or not the author of said article told the truth or not.
This is just a nerdy reference to the activity of gathering intelligence.

> But again, to me this shows the danger of making decisions based on spying technology.

Having more information is rarely a bad thing for making decisions. So that was probably not the point.
It is changing fast. Now that the lead free avgas is available for a trivial paperwork STC for all engine types, almost all the pilots I know are pestering their fields to switch. For GA aircraft.. things are in a wild shift first now.
They're beholden to Congress funding them, if nothing else.
https://youtu.be/CCuybyAO8fs?si=xBLYy5zKEEcloqeA
> Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

> Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?...
Would it theoretically be possible to create a nano-scale (or pico-scale?) electric generator that converts heat (atomic or molecular motion) into electric current?

It sounds too good to be true to have a refrigerator that generates energy, but I lack the education in quantum physics to understand why it would be unreasonable or impossible.
I have a direct cross connection to Google in a colocation facility (aka Dedicated Interconnect). One issue I found is that Google would randomly shuffle around their BGP routers which would cause BGP to flap and briefly losing all connectivity. When I raised this issue with support their answer was that this is expected behavior and we need to purchase a redundant connection. Mind you this isn’t cheap, we’re talking around $2,000 per month for a 10G connection when you add up all the GCP/colo fees.

It’s pretty laughable that they can’t preserve TCP connections when they migrate their cloud routers around. I have had BGP uptimes on direct cross connects for over a year with other vendors on bare metal.
Most funds lose money. It's rare for a fund to do better than the DJIA.
Thanks so much for this...
> The Safari color picker, in particular, is so bad

What's bad about it? Can't test it on desktop right now, but on iOS it opens all the bells and whistles, including the "pick color from anywhere on the page".

What used to be horrible across all browsers is the date picker: tiny buttons, tiny numbers etc.
There's gotta be some way to replace the rack-of-leds-spinner with something lighter. Mirrors? Acrylic light pipe matrix?
Exhaled SARS-CoV-2 aerosol infectivity enables Covid-19 transmission in minutes
Wait, is that[0] MS Sans Serif? MS PGothic? What version of Windows would fall back to that in 2013?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210826103144/http://www.crimef...
It would be hard to manufacture at scale, but what if the LEDs were mid-mounted into a slot cut into the PCB?
not supporting a particular browser just means that if a bug report comes up about your product with that browser then nothing gets done, but since everyone develops towards standards bugs in FF will probably be minimal, especially if they do support Safari (because unlikely something does not work in both Safari and Chrome)

also the Teams link describes ways to work around limitations with teams on a particular browser that does not support the teams web app, which is what the article says FF etc. does not support.
> You're either misremembering, or have some thick rose-tinted glasses on.

> The late 90s were times of the Wild West Web.

Or we are talking about different eras. I'm on about early 90s.

> Every browser had custom behaviour and rendered pages differently.

They did. But there was less of spec to have to concern yourself with. The biggest day to day differences was around frames (which was a pain in the arse) and tables (which was easy to work around).

> JavaScript and CSS were still new, and it took years for the implementations to be standardized.

You didn't need Javascript most of the time and CSS incompatibilities were easy to remember (I'm talking about cognitive overhead here)

> Even as late as 2005, projects like jQuery were needed to make web development easier.

That's in the region of 10 years after when I'm talking about. A completely different era. By that point the web had already turned into the shitshow it is now.

> I'd say that it wasn't until the late aughts, well after "web 2.0", that web development didn't feel hacky.

I couldn't disagree more. By that point people had Stockholm syndromed themselves into believing web technologies were actually good. But it wasn't.

> So I get the sentiment that modern web development is difficult, bloated and buggy

Its not a sentiment. It's a fact

> the good news is that the web is fully mature now,

No its not. We're just Stockholm syndromed into thinking its mature. But half the technologies we use are constantly churning. That's not the definition of mature.

> Web developers are spoiled with choice, so a hard task is simply selecting the right technologies to use.

The hard part is finding something that will still be around in 5 years time.

> or we inherit decade-old codebases that make maintenance a nightmare.

I've worked on plenty of decade-old codebases and I'd never rank web development in there precisely because of the aforementioned churn. Web tech goes out of date so quickly that it never gets to live past a decade...never mind multiple decades. It's simply not a mature platform to write software on despite what you claim.

> But it's never been easier to write plain HTML/CSS/JS that will work across browser

Who writes plain HTML and JS? There's so much bloat required to get anything to look modern that nobody writes plain web sites any longer (In fact I did for one of my open source projects and people hated it and rewrote it in Vue).

It was much easier to write plain HTML et al in the 90s. In fact that was exactly how web development back then was done.

> and deploy it as a static site that works reliably at massive scale

That's literally how sites were originally written. It's not a new invention ;)
The web was intended to be a static collection of documents. What we've since done is tried to turn it into an application framework. And that's what it sucks at.

> If you need more features, then complexity can creep in, but it is possible to minimize failure points with good engineering.

Sure, but again this isn't a new invention. This was the case right from the inception of the web. It's just gotten a hell of a lot harder to do good engineering for the web.
>I think it's the "public nature" of the thing. But how do we decide what is of a "public nature"?

There is no "public nature." Simply allowing the public to use a service doesn't make it public. MacDonald's will let anyone walk in and order food, and it's ubiquitous, but that doesn't make it a public utility.
https://youtu.be/mxyw6LkAtiQ?si=xK0x8-rEoG0KvzPp
> lawless foreign data-center

Anecdotal forest city / woodlands in Malaysia / Singapore note. The territorial dispute led to most organizations there doing shady business online, as nobody is ruling these lands, effectively.
They buy it so someone else has theoretically done all the nasty stuff to get it - they just take advantage of the opportunity.

Truthfully, the NSA should know at least as much about me as Google, or I don't know why it exists.
Java fails on multiple points.

First, my list failed to include web because of the context. Web is, by far, the largest and most important platform. Even if I'm building only native installers for a project, I need to be able to build web projects with the same tools to make this work.

Java also fails "one code base" requirement as desktop and mobile are very different. The poor iOS support is going to cause it to fail the "square on" requirement as well.

No on Java.
https://archive.is/oHh8V
I use Ting because it’s the only provider other than Fi that offers TOTP 2FA without SMS fallback. They wrote about their SIM swap policies here: https://help.ting.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360030105653-...
One brutally murdered journalist is irrelevant when the upside is the singularity, sir. You should be more techno-optimistic like Marc and all his billionaire friends.
The article linked by the commenter above addressed your concern. They mention the toggle should have an _immediate_ state change. I really liked the iOS airplane mode example the article used:

> When turning airplane mode on for iOS, Apple provides immediate results by changing the cellular bars in the upper left-hand corner to an airplane icon.

To summarize, it sounds like the toggles you've experienced haven't led to an immediate state change, which likely identifies them as better candidates for a checkbox like you mentioned.
Is your DNS on Cloudflare? Their network will proxy requests to your domain even if you don't use their proxy service. You have to add a WAF rule to prevent this (I also got DDoSed this way).
Yes. Some species actually need fire for their seeds to activate at all. I'm surprised this isn't more widely known. I wonder what would change about climate activism and wildfire management if more people understood this.
> no string concatenation operator

`||` is the SQL standard. IMO its biggest deficiency is a single NULL nullifies the whole thing. But at least that's consistent with how NULL behaves in many other cases.
TCP was introduced 49 years ago
Four is better than one through.
That is cool.

The code is lean too, seems like one could learn a lot by trying to do this themselves.
They're mentioned in the dialog section.
> There is no way that people could make the websites users expect today with only technology from the 90s.

That's my point though. The web should never have been bastardised into making applications. We should have seen the desires of web2.0 and built an entirely new software stack purpose built for online applications.

It wasn't fit for applications then and it still isn't now. It's just we keep trying to convince ourselves it is because we're too locked into the web now to ever move past it.
Brain and learning development of the population is also a collective concern, otherwise we wouldn’t have public school and IEPs.

Banning lead plumbing with subsidies for removal is a collective improvement
Reflectwalk is a Go library for "walking" a value in Go using reflection
I would quit my job tomorrow and move to Oregon to work on his campaign. No joke.
The dirty (open?) secret is that most software tech VCs are absolutely awful at their jobs. Just completely useless except as glorified rolodexes. It’s not like biotech where they’re forced to face their ignorance head on, software allows them to coast on weapons grade bullshit until the chickens come to roost (conveniently after the second fund has been raised). Even the big guys who have the clout to be consistently at the front of the line for the best deals like Sequoia are just fools with more money who invest in absolute disasters like SBF without a shred of due diligence. If biotech investors were this dumb we’d still be shooting up snake oil at the dentist’s office.

The tide coming out with interest rates will hopefully reshuffle the industry.
Crypto's Eternal Winter
Indexing Timestamps
https://every-layout.dev
shows how to leverage CSS properly, from first principles.
That's simply not true:

https://9to5google.com/2023/01/31/google-fi-customer-hack-st...

T-Mobile is still the weakest link here. Google Fi appears to be just as vulnerable to a SIM swap attack as seen in that article.
The Fall of Sports Illustrated
Deniability. The executives can claim third parties are abusing the platform while simultaneously enabling the abuse. Whether or not that’s true, the outcome is the same; cloudflare’s actions force smaller operators to switch to cloudflare.
Alternatively, they speak a different language with different terminology and are translating. I know a few climbing terms in French and they're quite different.

What would be helpful is commenting on whether their assertion is correct or not w.r.t efficiency.
There is much offer in the browser world, i don't understand what's the point of keep using google shit suite
Nice example of persistence of vision display. You can use large stick versions of this to “paint” images by waving them around.
Yep missed this " And like GPT-3.5, GPT-4 has also been conditioned not to present itself as human"
This is 100% true
These data are probably legally collected and sold, as mentioned in page 573 of the terms and conditions users have agreed with.
One user can have multiple clients. This is frequently the case, many to most users have both a PC and a phone. Also when one allows reasonable sharing of the account with family, 5+ connected clients is common.
You're right. But the anti-blockers code needs to be addressed with more code, not just lists. That's not a hypothetical situation, it's happening right now with YouTube.
How is Adam one of their biggest customers?
I wrote my first web apps in Perl, way back in the 90's! "use CGI" anyone?
The chapter on IE for Mac in iWoz has nothing to do with how the browser render engine worked. It is about how the OS behaved after it was installed.
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This has been discussed in a blog post there with discussion and context https://lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/notice-in-lumen-revea...

see also previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30648519
> If you think they're going to listen to me then you are ascribing an amount of pull that I simply don't have.

Whenever people are rallied to a cause, it starts with someone doing something. And if you take the issue to court, they have to listen to you.

Besides, you still have alternatives to not viewing their ads and still obtaining the content, just requires a few hours work to set something up.
If I'm generalizing. B2C products frequently fit but not always. B2B products generally don't but can in some circumstances.
All ads are disruptive.
That is not quite what your article says. The researcher found that if you look at the period of time after 1850, people with rich surnames earn about 10% more than people without, although the differences narrow rapidly each generation.

He then observed that if you go back to the Mid-ages and before, such convergence to the mean took a comparable amount of time. The example he uses is "Smith", which tended to be the last name of blacksmiths from simple villages in the 14th century. Yet by 1450 the share of "Smiths" at Oxford University was equal to their proportion across the general population (suggestive of upward mobility). And by 1650, there were as many Smiths in the top 1% of wealth holders as in the general population.

So his big discovery is that social mobility in modern times is, more or less, comparable to social mobility in ancient times, which most people would not guess. Personally I view this discovery as framing the past in a more positive light, rather than framing the present in a more negative light.
"I'm the Queeeeeeen of France!" for me.
Apple can scarcely pretend to adhere to it, but their HIG on checkboxes, radios, and switches is good: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Honestly, besides being standard, checkboxes solve all of your problems.

That separation between immediate and delayed effect seems quite artificial to me, and doesn't exist at all on other types of inputs. It looks like a bad, post-fact justification created just to placate some masses instead of for good fundamental reasons. (And yeah, I do know who I'm criticizing here.)

Anyway, it's a lost battle, so whatever, let's leave with the bad consequences.
Contact their support? I'd love to know what they say.
Avoid this shady app. Some years ago the developer removed OTR support without warning then casually claimed the app "never did any verification" without additional clarification. This is a dangeous attitude for someone responsible for developing privacy-minded software.
I've edited my comment to also include a link to the Chrome docs, but that FAQ entry also has the link to an issue in the webextensions repository indicating it's a limitation of MV3: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/112