skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may seem weird, but I believe ToS ae the real problem here. I call it the "car rental" problem.

When I rent a car in person, I am often given a contract. And this contract is filled with tiny print, and pages of it.

There are often people behind you, waiting, and bored/annoyed people behind the counter, waiting. This is beyond unreasonable.

A point of sale contract should be short, in readable text, and understandable. For example, renting a car? Under a page, easily parseable, and if the person behind the counter cannot explain it, it is null and void.

From a legal side, you can do this. And you can explain legal terms. Of course this means you are describing intent, which limits one in court, oh boo hoo Mr Lawyer. Cry me a river.

Well the same should be true of any retail contract. Sign up for a service? One page with costs listed.

At least then, there is hope of an end-user sort of understanding. And as one could claim that a DoS was actually targetting the provider, and not the website, that should be described too.

So back to the topic at hand. I would write a demand letter, insistong Netify explain the charges, and ask them if they and their IP ranges were DoS, and if so that the charges be reversed.

Because you shpuld not be paying, if someone attacks Netify.

This letter should also be sent by mail, sig required, to the corporate address too.
> extremely transparent

> they probably should have a giant warning page for new users who don't know that this is how this kind of service works

Pick one
Writer's block is not real
In answer to the question of:

> What's behind the evolution of Neanderthal portraits

the answer is:

> Science braided with sociopolitics.

But I would say the answer is only a little to do with science... It's really just acts of imagination. The idea of 'Neanderthals' allows for an opportunity for different human groups to help guide how humans think of themselves. So it's an interesting narrative pivot point.
I use Vimium as well! It's very frustrating when I need to reach for the mouse to navigate a website.
This is very exciting. Do you need beta testers? How do we track your progress? Ship it!!!
Vervel charges $400/TB for excess bandwidth, it's not even DDoS you should worry about, just moderate success.
I do! I use Vimium C for general browsing. But, considering the time I spend on Hacker News, I needed something to optimize my procrastination even further!
Looks nice but then so does Netlify at face level! Seems like it is pay as you go, and there is a settable max spend per month.

Does their ddos protection work differently than Netlify and could Bunny ever pull the same stunt with billing?
Just tried this on the eBPF code I am working on. Works great! This one is going straight into the toolbox.

Even though eBPF is super fast, I have found triggering complex probes many times will have performance implications, which can not easily be tracked down to the instrumenting application. This will help with that a lot.
Sure. It’s not a complete solution, and there could be schemes to deal with this. But much of the issue with NIMBY-ism comes from the outsized influence of land owners in the political process. Even if outsiders can’t vote, regular renters are more likely to favor building extra capacity than landholders are. But I also believe in other schemes, not pure local politics, which would address these issues more completely.
iirc GDocs mostly uses a huge canvas: Rendering is still client side, but you don't need 100 garbage collected DOM nodes to render any particular part of the page.
I see parallels to the AppStore where the dynamics are similar but the return on spending money to attract attention works much more effectively. Basically discovery is totally screwed because the stores/platforms are oversaturated and no one has figured out a sensible way to curate content in an algorithmic manner. The only thing left is to be a first mover, already have a big audience elsewhere or to be able to pay for eyeballs and focus on retention and monetization metrics to get costs below revenue. For the average “gig work” creator the latter is basically out of reach whereas mobile games spend hundreds of millions of dollars on customer acquisition and got incredibly sad when the privacy changes Apple made reduced the effectiveness of ad tracking.
you know what? one factoid that just came to mind is that he listed an @gmx mail address on the original Bitcoin paper. I genuinely don’t know a single person using GMX without some sort of connection to DACh (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).
Reaction I: "Mystery" only if you live in some distant bubble, conveniently insulated from grim worldly realities. Perhaps with a comforting ideology, which explains why the less-fortunate deserve to suffer.

Reaction II: The article is in the New York Times...
The very fact that you expect that making front page of hn will make them cancel that bill means that it will soon be over.

These kind of stories (alongside cancelled accounts) repeat over and over again and will soon become so not newsworthy that they will either not end up in front page, nor people will check on the eventual outcome which means these companies will get away with not moving a finger.
I believe you can replace most cases (static sites) with Cloudflare Workers [1].

[1] https://workers.cloudflare.com/
Compete with NVIDIA is not only a matter of build and sell GPU. If you want to compete with NVIDIA you need to develop your proprietary GPGPU platform (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA) and convince thousands of developers that their software (totally based on NVIDIA API that are around since 2007) must be redesigned and reprogrammed to support you new proprietary API and Hardware.
I really hate Clouflare and at the same time love them. Love them for their free, generous 500k req./day pages and workers, hate them for not having spending limits (or at least I can't find them). I get that they probably don't care about individuals and small businesses paying them peanuts, and corps can afford to pay extra if something blows up, but for me it just means I will only use a free account, and they get none of my money.
Sure, but the electricity overhead of keeping one host running just to run an idle VM is not as trivial.
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or we could just break up companies involved in anti-competitive practices regardless of their size. you know, rule of law and stuff
I've heard it justified as a safety measure - those machines are carefully balanced on installation, and if the sensors detect it being moved, the machine locks itself out to avoid damaging itself, workpieces and/or operators.
Are those not afraid of GPS spoofing either? Spoof GPS near a big CNC machine shop that a big competitor relies on, disable their machines...
ChatMusician: Fostering Intrinsic Musical Abilities into LLM
Freedom of speech is not the norm in most countries and not the norm historically. It does strongly correlates with democracies in contrast with feudal or monarchic societies where the elites needed to suppress diverging voices.

I am not from the US, but the US is just plainly more advanced here. Maybe it is even a reason why it is the most successful nation.

Nobody should be proud about the intention to curb freedom of speech because of "hate speech" or comments on the internet. It is just majorly short sighted.
The big, professional, business cloud providers aren't designed for small hobby projects with expenditure limits.

You should look into going old school and just renting a VPS with any VPS provider that's not AWS/GCP/Azure. I know the big three are super popular, as are all of these "serverless" cloud companies, but very few of them offer the most important service for a small project: shutting down before you owe them a fortune.

Depending on the guarantees you want, Oracle has a free tier with no time limit. It provides 4 ARM cores with something crazy like up to 6GB of RAM for free. You may have a few days if downtime during maintenance, but once you've allocated the resources, you'll eventually get your services back from what I can tell. Best part is, if you only use their free tier, you need to manually upgrade your account to even be able to buy anything extra. Just make sure you have backups in case Oracle pulls an Oracle.

Or you could get a VPS from a budget hoster like Contabo, which isn't free but will fit most hobby projects I know just fine. They may shut you down if they're suffering from a DDoS because of you, but you won't get a $100k bill.
AI book is free for Kindle-app: Applying AI – The Practitioner's Handbook
Playing ”devil’s” advocate: tracking spend in real-time is not trivial. It adds complexity to stack. Bugs in the feature can cause sites to go down (for long time) without a reason. Larger online businesses likely rather sort out the problems later than risk shutting down in the middle of unexpected success.

(But I also would like to see this feature)
I have a bunch of pet projects on netlify free tier and I could never afford to pay this amount of money. What are some good alternatives that don't have this issue? I've already noticed cloudflare pages mentioned in these comments.
Why is there no self-hostable Netlify yet?

Is it just that no one would pay for it? I'm well aware of how terrible a customer developers make, but has to be nearly a non-issue with Hetzner in the USA now, with how much free traffic they give you (or any other provider, DO, etc). There's even Cloudflare R2 nowadays.

Your blog probably doesn't actually need sub 100ms serve times.
These may be useful

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars

https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance?tab=readme-ov-file#c...

https://github.com/eth-sri/lmql/issues/172
If you use Netlify in the free tier you cannot automatically go to pro tier either. Yet they will charge you for bandwidth > 100GB, and THERE IS NO WAY FOR YOU TO SWITCH THAT OFF, even in the free tier.

"Should be fine" is exactly what is not the case here. Better check your Vercel terms again.
For folks that don't recognize the author (Ian Stapleton Cordasco), he's one of the core maintainers for python-requests (sigmavirus24 on github).
Yes, "tuition" is the act of teaching, which I hope was not eliminated. Someone does not pay tuition, they pay "for tuition", Americans seem to have dropped the for.

Linguistic divergence is not a new phenomenon, perhaps we will have two completely different Englishes in a few centuries?
I half agree with you. Yes, the panel segmentation can be an element of the storytelling, but the truth is that lots of comics out there are not exploiting this ability, sticking to a square grid instead.

Yes, Bill Waterson used his fame to get out of the standard grid [1] but in a world where people read comics on their phones this technology is necessary. And if this stuff helps comic artists reach more readers, so be it. We can always hope that making simple tasks easy today will encourage artists to try harder things tomorrow.

[1] https://www.leaderonomics.com/articles/personal/bill-watters...
SponsorBlock can also tag entire videos of the kind you cited! It won’t block them by default, but the choice of what to do when you find out will be yours.
You don't need a static IP. You can use dynamic DNS or a free product such as Cloudflare Tunnel.
Thanks!

And I agreed that this is not “pure” Vim.

But I did need to find a compromise. There is little point in having an “insert” mode, like Vimium does, since I am targeting a very specific website and not overriding any existing shortcut (AFAICT). If you think it's important to you, I might consider implementing custom key bindings so that you can use with “pure” Vim shortcuts!

Regarding the scrolling, it could be two things:

1. I do not update the address bar on every key press, to avoid some kind of rate limitation I encountered when I did so initially. Instead, there is a very short delay so before it happens. But the viewport should still scroll immediately.
2. If it's smooth scrolling, there is actually a toggle you can change in the extension settings. If you still have the behavior without smooth scrolling, I would be curious to know more, to see if I can make the experience more pleasant.
From the outside it looks like Unity lacks focus and stamina more than anything else, lots of (what could be groundbreaking) projects started, but then semi-abandondend half way through with the key people behind those projects leaving the company.

And TBH, the 'chasing AAA' strategy was one of those things. IMHO Unity would actually be better off if it did focus on mobile. That's where the money is, where they are established, and where they don't have much competition.
I did not know of Haxplore, thanks!
I’ve used and quite like it. We switched because it has better documentation and is designed in a more extensible way, common patterns weren’t supported in FastAPI are here, unfortunately it’s been a few years so I can’t remember details beyond things like lifecycle events being missing, etc.
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I deleted all my Vercel project, moved to Cloudflare, send this support message to Vercel:

Vercel seems like the perfect solution, and I love how it supports the development community.

I am moving all my current and future hobby projects away from Vercel due to concerns raised in this discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776

Although I am a very small customer of Vercel, I have been advising larger organizations on IT and data infrastructure for the last decade or so.

I can say with very high certainty that spending limits are a critical discussion point in every large organization when making IT decisions. I've observed multiple instances where a potentially better solution was not selected due to the risk of overspending.
I had no idea the other style existed
Damn, I better buy some tech stock if it’s gonna go up 13x in 4 years.

Actually if everyone just does that, nobody will need to work!
It's called supply and demand. If the demand for something drops to zero, so does the price. This goes for anything in the world.
Have you tested it end to end? When was the last time? I'm slightly worried about solutions like that. I like when it's all host's responsibility. (Having your own system on top is nice though)
A few years ago I taught an introduction to website developmment module at a university where students built jekyll sites. I got them to to host on netlify. Now that I no longer teach at that uni and their email accounts will have expired I'm wondering if there's any way I can contact them to tell them to take their sites off netlify... Disaster if they get hit by charges like this.
The author claimed Netlify's own support agent said it was an L7 ddos and offered a 95% concession because it was a ddos.

There is no reason to question whether it was a ddos or not because, allegedly, both parties in this dispute already agree it was a ddos.
Ask HN: Would you use Samsumg The Frame as a PC Monitor for simple daily tasks?
Due to remote work we have to set a PC monitor in the living room for my wife. She only uses simple SW like Microsoft office and the like.

For aesthetics reasons, she wants to place a nice looking device, most likely the model Samsung the frame.

I know a TV is far from ideal as a monitor for gaming, video edition, art work and so on... But if the device is enough just for a good working experience, we will definitely go for it.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance.
No need to be patronizing. Pointing out that an argument is not a good one doesn't necessarily mean one holds the opposite view.

Just because people though once that situation A was the case while it was actually situation B, and now it seems again that situation A is the case doesn't mean it is necessarily again situation B, only that it might be situation B. It also actually might be situation A. But if it is actually situation B, extrapolating from the past is not a good argument. Doesn't mean that there are no other good arguments.
> Growth is a useless indicator. The whole point of Piketty's argument is that the return on capital tendentially outstrips the rate of growth

I'll sidestep that Piketty measures wealth and calls it capital. Because that observation says nothing about how risk is distributed across those returns.

> large investors have access to especially high return assets

$1bn doesn't make for a "large investor" in institutional terms.

> OP is right that a 5% average annual return is conservative

No, they are not.

There are objective measures for this. I've worked closely with endowments the world over. A manager pitching a 5% target return on a fund with a 3.5% annual drawdown as conservative would be fired. A banker pitching the same would be subject to professional sanctions.
if you have long term fans that really love what you make I think making most of your money with merch is an area worth exploring. Most bands make their money that way, it's what made Star Wars rich, it's where most of the pokemon money comes from too. I don't think a game has to make money just from the game itself.
I think the point is that he thought it was too late in 1985, then people thought the same ten years later (1996), then the original article (from 2014) tries to explain how 2014 is not too late either (“the best time is now”).

In other words, it is always easy to think it is too late when looking back. But it is never too late if we try to look forward and imagine the things that have not invented yet and which will be around in 10-20 years time.
You've convinced me. Getting away from Windows as quickly as possible in the fastest direction is definitely the goal.
Yes this is what I'm talking about.
Nice. Very fast. Sensible.
Scheme has Guardians for this. They're available in Guile[1], and have recently been submitted as an SRFI[2] for standardization. Original proposal is from Kent Dybvig et al in 1993[3]

[1]:https://www.gnu.org/software/guile//manual/html_node/Guardia...

[2]:https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-246/

[3]:https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/250RTS/archive/kent-dybvig/gua...
BH is perfectly happy to run predatory loan businesses. It's also worth remembering Munger's nightmarish forays into architecture.
> there’s a reason it didn’t get 100 million users.

Another feature of the non-chat model.

> asked it for

I feel like I just said how "asking for" things is a bad way of prompting AI.
What's wrong with anarcho-capitalism?
Blazer sounds cool, thanks for the link!
This was with ~ 3 or 4 years of XP. It was lower than my salary at the time.
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Not just game engines but pretty much everything else. Rust got good first-hand experiences with Servo in its early days. A lot of Blender features were developed in conjunction with its Open Movies.
I was just reading about the Weta digital acquisition for something like $1.6B. A year later they decided to give up on most of that and laid off most of the technical talent. After which Peter Jackson hired them back for his new digital effects company. So he basically got a billion dollars to take a break for a year.
Yeah this is actually a beneficial development for those of us who love the flavor of many peppers aside from the heat.

I’m a spiciness wimp but I can now eat a jar of jalapeños like they were popcorn and it makes me just as happy as can be.
Other UNIXes and mainframes did it first, in regards to emulating Linux kernel in some form or fashion.

WSL makes sense in the context that Microsoft was too dumb to keep improving Windows NT UNIX subsystem, and to throw away SUA as well.

Regarding WSL, it can't be used to admnister Windows systems anyway.
here's my recommendation to get better suggestions.

in your single account you can multiple yt channels. the recommendations are per channel, so if you like cooking you can make a cooking channel where most of you recommendations will be just that.

I have around 4 channels each attached to a Firefox container you different topics (1main + 3 for more specific interests)
There will always be winners, bu they're obvious only in hindsight.
aws support is not going to bend over backwards just to let you shoot yourself in the foot. it's more likely they grant an exception to one of the iam quotas.
Right. The marginal cost to the customer for leaving the lights on is literally zero, so they have zero care about it.

This is why modern hotels have you put your room key in a slot that enables the lights to go on. When you leave the room, you take your room key, and the lights go out.

Evidently, people leaving the lights on is expensive enough to justify these key light switches.
The often proposed EU with qualified majority voting and without individual veto rights would be exactly this kind of system.
Just looking at pages.cloudflare.com now and I think I'm going to be using cloudflare from now on.
How ironic that most of these people identify as “liberals”
Maybe the folks at Rerun [1] know something about it? I imagine at least some of their customers are Rust robotics shops.

[1] https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun
If we take 60TB / 24 hours we get roughly 5.5Gbits/second of traffic.

You can get a 10gbps connection, per month, for under $4K a month to a datacenter. For full usage for one month, not one day. If buying at the scale of a much larger bandwidth user, the price is much less.
Yep.

Ignoring stuff like charity raffles, I first saw such dynamics back in the 1980's, with this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonia_dilemma#Luring_Lotter... (in Scientific American, back when it was actually respectable). A huge-sounding jackpot, seemingly available to anyone with a postcard and a bit of luck...but that ain't how human nature actually works. A zillion wanna-be's entered, and nobody received enough money to even cover the cost of their postcard.
It’s probably worth wrapping the entity that contracts with these type of services in a separate anonymous LLC structure so a DDoS attack doesn’t bankrupt you.
smelled this company long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939931
How about letting the user decide whether they want to scale beyond a certain point or incur huge charges?

Not too mention: if the primary purpose of these services is to allow a DDoS and then charge the user for it — then, yup, you're guessing it right: it's a scam.

When their business model makes DDoS attacks profitable for them... They're not in the hosting business, they're in DDoS/extortion business.
I'd be curious to know the dropout rates compared with paid tuition university.
And it's technically not a 25 year old game, since this expansion is only for AoE:DE, not the original...
It wasn’t an option when I setup my S3+cloudflare sites. It sounds like an excellent solution now.
Yes. Yet another problem with finalizers is the question of "which thread does actually run the finalizers"? In case of some C libraries, objects must be released exactly by the thread in which they were allocated; this means that e.g. in Steel Bank Common Lisp it is impossible to use finalizers in these cases.
Yeah but it's more like the prisoner's dilemma vs. the iterated prisoner's dilemma. Some people think that what makes the modern world work is hyper-optimization, but what really makes the modern world work is reliability. If my counterparty, the hamburger stand, is trying to hyper-optimize their profit by doing dynamic pricing, now I have to run my own optimization loop to find the best value hamburger stand for that particular hour, and maybe I don't want to waste my time/energy trying to figure out what the best hamburger stand is at any given moment, so I just go to the one that charges the same prices all the time.
I was looking for a static site hosting option recently and tried out cloudflare pages. Fit my need perfectly. The generous free tier and the reasonable pricing model were the big factors.

Oh, and the ability to put some authentication in front of it was a big feature for me.
In any laptop I decide to try it on, or still stuck to desktops?
"simply" that's too far. Let the market handle it