skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise. I _did_ sell those stellar tokens they gave to (longtime?) users for about 50 bucks though, before deleting my account.
But there are decent OSS alternatives that can rival it's functionality, so why go with Tableau and it's baggage?
https://upcloud.com does pre-paid billing.
My limited experience with Tableau is that it felt like Excel on speed. And heavily burdened by legacy (just like Excel or any Microsoft product is by the way).

While what we wanted was something that was SQL-native.

Back in the days we opted for a tool called Chartio which was later engulfed by Atlassian/Jira. Not sure what happened to it after, but it suited our purpose fine enough. Just line-charts and easily editable SQL.

I have some experience with Superset, but it was not really built for customer facing dashboards. Mainly useful for internal use.

Blazer as someone else posted sounds interesting. May check it out.
Atleast let us read the whole thread instead of a single post (with or without top replies).
You never used Perl I see.
Heroku is one of those things that if someone tells me their still on it without a plan to migrate I question the executive leadership at their company.

Shade of its former self, expensive, and there are plenty of better options. Really seems like the company is in zombie mode until it's eventual slow demise.
Companies like these give out ridiculously huge free tiers in the hopes that very few users end up using the high free bandwidth limits. In most cases, they do. However, they do need to make their money back somehow.

I don't really get why people put their tiny static sites on hosts designed to never fall over no matter the traffic generated, no matter the situation. You're running a blog, not a government service. You don't need AWS or Netlify.

The ability to withstand almost any DDoS attack for a high price is a valuable service. It's not a scam. The people who get these huge bills just picked a hosting service that doesn't fit their requirements. I can promise you that the $3 shared hosting providers won't charge you $5k, five minutes after the DDoS starts your site just goes down.
I was asking whether you thought it was unkind because you disagree the part of the argument is fundamental (so being wrong there is fundamental) or you agree it's fundamenal, but just saying it out loud is unkind
Would love to hear from you!

I actually pondered going down that road. There's heavy competition though. Getting LLMs in touch with the web, not so much. So I decided to stay in that niche, as almost all customers come from there as well. And I'm integrated into langchain, that drives a big part of the traffic ;)
I also take advantage of their free services and only pay for R2 on Cloudflare since it's the best value managed provider I could find.

I prefer to keep my App's stateless and running in Docker containers which means storing all uploaded files and generated assets in R2 managed storage - which is also used for Litestream backups of our SQLite databases.

Blowouts are minimized when using low cost services, e.g. we had a rogue process that ended up causing 1.5M writes to R2, which only ended up costing us $4.50 in that month.
Not really, I've gotten full plates of delicious chicken and rice in Colombian slums for ~2 USD.
Yes. I worked a side job to pay my way. You bet I wanted to get the value out of what I was working and paying for.

Another effect we see these days is the government education loans encourage people to sign up for expensive and useless degrees, and then they are apparently shocked that they have to pay back those loans. Hence the push for loan "forgiveness".

Without these loans, I bet there would be far less demand for these degrees with no market value.
There seems to be a lot of shade here at Power BI.
Forgetting Microsoft’s dominance in the market, I’ve much appreciated Microsoft’s approach to data visualization which is soft on the visuals, but gradually improving them and hard on the programming aspects, such as Power Query or “M” and Data Analysis Expressions (“DAX”). The former they have opened to anyone to create via Power BI visuals SDK.

The reason I say this is because something that would take me hours to do in Tableau maybe only take a few minutes with Power BI’s mashup language (Power Query) and the Functional Language DAX. The ability to create temporary tables on the fly and utilize variables and the hundreds of other things you can do with DAX to create complex measures, calculated columns, etc. feels empowering. Most people I’ve spoken to who’ve gone away from Tableau to Power BI and used it long enough start to really appreciate it for the vast capabilities.

Additionally, the latest Power BI visual calculations feature released has made the learning curve a lot shorter for those newer to DAX and all our lives much easier.

On the visuals side there has been a lot of entrepreneurship to create custom visuals with the SDK to do a lot of visuals that just weren’t available in Tableau. So many that I have a hard time going back to Tableau because its missing a visual I need.

Lastly, not many talk about the fact the IT loves it in that its got so many capabilities for providing data governance and security through its various features.

Update and one final thought: there is some genius to me in how Microsoft seemed to have created an abstraction that allows the platform to grow independently and greatly on so many fronts - DAX with new functions and features, the Power BI Visuals and their SDK to do more and keep in with user interface changes, and their BI model approach (which now allows GIT versioning with readability changes).
They better not try to enjoy YouTube though.
Your numbers are very specific, in Sweden for example you can get lower interest rates and have very low property tax, but your point still stands- buying a house to live in is expensive.

You missed two things though:
- If you buy more than one property as investment you can rent it out, covering your expenses.

- You didn't mention risks, those are non negligible over 30 years. City plans change, surrounding population change, areas grow and fall in value etc.
> Pandora

That's a name I've not heard in a long time. I had no idea they were still in business, I may give it a try.
A pattern that will keep you guessing till the cows come home.
> This is not what medical school is like from the people I know.

And those are people who are paying tuition.
If you search Google Scholar you can find numerous studies on the impact of unionization. Generally any non-market intervention is found to impede the efficiency of the economy.

As for the Nordic countries, they are a cautionary tale. Singapore now has a huge lead on Norway in per capita GDP, despite the latter having previously been far ahead of the former, and the latter having been one of the largest oil exporters in the world for several decades:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

Sweden similarly has failed to maintain its world leading position in global rankings:

https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/scandinavian-unexce...
Ok. Check back tomorrow.
Point-in-time supply chain vendor risk assessments are nice, but they cannot control realtime website behavior. Customers may want more configurability in this area so that they they can remove certain dataflows instead of only being able to bluntly remove whole vendors.
They could have, but I can promise you that if they have Tableau visualizations _at all_ at this point, they're shit.

Letting something "die on the vine" is the only way to describe Salesforce's Tableau acquisition.
> Cute

Sorry, this is childish and you don't substantively respond to the core point. I am not going to waste my time.
The front page says to use Pilot Frixion pens. Aren't these toxic (to high levels of lead, iirc)? Are there any other pen types one could use with these notebooks?
Same here, using DigitalOcean instead of Vercel to host my Next.js app. I have a billing alert to notify of unexpected bills, but I don't know what DO does if somehow TBs of traffic are sent to my apps or Cloudflare, because DO App Platform actually uses Cloudflare behind the scenes.
The design pattern of maximal separation of thing that holds private keys from thing that needs access to secrets is great. That's my main lesson learned from this article.

I think this space is ripe for significant evolution.

Authors point re hashicorp vault being marginally better than checking keys into source control hits home. Eg often infra is one stolen ssh key away from having code committed that can select * from vault. That also comes with crappy provenance that doesn't integrate well with gitops.

My hopeful view is that we can incrementally fix this bottom-up:

1. ssh should use the mobile phone biometrics as HSM and expose that via ssh-agent

2. From there simple projects should use sops to commit their ssh encrypted secrets to git. I wrote https://github.com/tarasglek/github-to-sops to make it easy to share secrets this way. One can even use sshd private keys to separate secrets for infra from dev ones.

3. For more complex projects one can loop aws kms type hsms.

4. For more complex orgs we then need to borrow some cleverness from crypto ecosystem as they actually made a lot of progress in various tricks to derive trust/ownership...but instead of stupid blockchain one should keep using git.

5. This then can be extended down to database level mods where one could extend row-level ACLs with signature-based provenance checks in 4

Note I am in no way a security person. Just have a desire for someone to make this problem go away for us mere mortals.
I understand the lack of limits but I haven't accounted for DDoS attacks on Netlify infrastructure to impact me. I was assuming this only included real, "organic" traffic.

What I think Netlify needs on their Plans page is to include "DDoS attacks is included in your traffic" as well as their 20%/5% charge system.

> and can see why the lack of limits would make it a bad option for plenty of people

Just out of curiosity, can you see any scenario where it WOULD be a decent option to use a free tier where you may be hit by a $20,000 or $5,000 bill out of the blue and outside of your control? You say "plenty" so I assume you consider this a reasonable system to some?
Same, CodeLlama 70B is known to suck. Deepseek is the best for coding so far in my experience, Mixtral 8x7B is another great contender (to be frank, for most tasks). Miqu is making a buzz, but so far I haven't tested it personally yet.
It’d be nice though if the images were also understood as just acts of imagination.

You could take a chimp skull, use the same techniques used to ‘reconstruct’ Neanderthal faces, and you’d get a similar result - a smiley fellow with a tad narrow forehead, big teeth, and long hair.

Why can’t we just accept that we have no idea?

Take fur for example. We have a species of primates that evolved in frigid conditions, who seem to have had skeletons indicating adaptations to cold, who most likely couldn’t make clothes, nor the type of shelters that can be efficiently heated, yet they didn’t have fur.

We have woolly rhinos and mammoths, but Neanderthals didn’t have fur because obviously lol, they’re our cousins after all. We don’t even know why we don’t have fur, and at what point we stopped having it. The leading explanation is basically just conjecture.
So you've read it?

I wouldn't think so, because you don't seem to know the first thing about equational reasoning, namely that it is ALWAYS ABOUT EQUATIONS.
At least in my tests, GPT-4 also seems suspiciously good at reading text so it’d be surprised if they weren’t also doing this.
People will throw up all sorts of excuses for not just renting a VM for a static site - scalability, ease of use, security.

But in the vast majority of cases you could just take a $5 VM, apt-get install nginx and be absolutely fine. A tiny bit more effort and you can make sure it's always up to date and very secure. Plus you get a VM you can use for other things when needed.
No they don't do Ddos protection AFAIK.

I think the main difference to me is

Netlify $550/TB [0]
BunnyCDN $10/TB [1]

You preload your account:

"In order to keep your service online, you are required to keep a positive account credit balance. Our system will automatically send multiple warning emails if your account balance drops beyond a certain point. If you fail to recharge your account, the system will automatically suspend your account"

[0] https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress

[1] https://bunny.net/pricing/
Asian countries probably likely have a high level of enforcement against people who try to destroy public property.

For another data point, look at how clean and well-kept public "free" housing is compared with privately owned housing.

Or how those experiments with free bicycles were a miserable failure.
yes, you need to spend the time to learn about the environment you are hosting your app in and then suddenly it won't seem like "voodoo" as much. you absolutely can set this up in 10 minutes (probably much quicker if you are adept with various infra tooling). theres even wizard dialogs for most of the things you've described right in the AWS UI nowadays.
Slack seems to be surviving thus far at least
Full fledged BI tools like Superset and Metabase are amazing for their intended use cases.

But they may be an overkill if your primary use case is to infrequently build semi-interactive reports for non-technical end-users and your use cases are are mostly covered by standard graphs & tables. Esp. so if you are familiar with SQL and have access to the underlying data source. Two nifty utilities I have found to be very useful for latter kind of use cases are SQLPage and Evidence.

They make it very convenient to whip out some SQL and convert that to a neat professional looking web ui that can be forwarded to an end user. In case of Evidence it is a statically generated site, and in case of SQLPage it is a web app that connects to a live database.

SQLPage: https://sql.ophir.dev/

Evidence: https://evidence.dev
Yeah it changed mid-2020. Youtube was a nice place to go.

Cheap entertainment is getting boring.
Isn't it inevitable that one person will decide the fate of many ? If we get rid of billionaires through wealth tax, then politicians will have more power to decide the fate of many.

The US seem to choose their presidents not based on policies or track record but rhetoric. That doesn't seems better than capitalism.
How’s traction with Pop? Love the landing page with the animated cursor that gives a preview of what the product does!
The higher the price of labor, the more incentive there is to match the labor schedule with the need.
I think the 8xxxG parts are 65 W, which means you have a better chance of being able to listen to a game even if you play without headphones. Also you'll annoy whoever else lives in that house less with the vacuum cleaner noise.
Vercel will happily tell you how much you are spending in pretty much realtime as it sails past your budget
German tourists...who did make it out alive.

Recalling a family of German tourists in America, who sadly did not - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans

(And if you've not read the tale, and have some spare time, this is a classic - https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu... )
Every time I see a company/startup claiming to do an AI about X or Y, I wonder how they can be trusted at all. What about all the hallucinations, false positives, etc.?
Aside from some sort of tool that classify cases, or extract key points from an agreement, and talk in probabilities rather than asserting things I don't see a use for these. And I don't know if we will be able to 100% trust these tools one day.
Not really. AWS has budget alerts right? And I can read those budget alerts through their API.

So it would be trivial for me to poll their budget API for an alert, and immediatly trigger a shutdown of my Cloudfront service. Why can't they do that for me?
Netflix severing ties with Apple's App Store billing system for good
That’s a free tier that doesn’t sound sustainable then, so that raises alarm bells to me.
I don't know many people knowledgeable enough to read and understand legalese. Except lawyers ofc.
So anyone whos site might be posted to HN should be on a business plan.
One thing always bothers me when reading about Neanderthal extinction.

The fact that we have proof that interbreeding occurred between Sapiens and Neanderthal should open the possibility that they quite simply were blended into a larger Sapiens population instead of mysteriously disappearing.
I thought we stopped blaming the computer for idiot drivers 20 years ago when it was Garmin and Tom Tom rather than Google.
Great follow-up. It is odd to have this inconsistency in behaviours, and a bit scammy from openai, as these are paid features.
More than half of college graduates are working in highschool level jobs
Hehe.

I should have specified it's wild mushrooms, we have a lot of funnel chanterelle[1] (do not confuse it with deadly webcap[2] which can grow alongside) and regular chanterelle by our cabin, so usually that's what we use.

Makes for a quite delicious sauce.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus_tubaeformis

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_rubellus
But, but, Your Honor, at the time I was traveling at 0.5 c and in my hyperplane of simultaneity transaction A happened after transaction B!
We don't need regulation for everything. Let customers vote with their wallet or even start a few lawsuits.

Adding more regulation makes the system slower.
Workers run before the cache so I would avoid this for static sites. One can use workers for dynamic routes on a static site though.
What use cases people use eBPF for these days?
This might have been marginally funny if I spelled McRib properly
> I've found a strong correlation between heat and flavor

Capsaicin is a preservative [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34751073/
Doom Is Now Playable on a Lawnmower
We haven't figured out how to deal with human intelligence effectively. It's jumping the gun to imagine we can do AI well.

/2 cents -- as if I need a "disclaimer" but the internet being what it is....
its too heavy for my walls or workdesk, but aside from that: maybe
Very true! When I learned PHP back in the 2000s I had a few failed attempts because I had no project. Then I wanted to make a browsergame (like galaxywars) and I have learned so much during that project.

Having a goal makes learning so much easier
Worth reading - thanks for sharing.

Arguably a non-profit (unless it was selling stuff from the site, which is unlikely) would be exempt from their list of prohibitions.
it's 100% not sustainable. Use it while it's good, but don't get vendor locked in, because sooner or later they will increase the prices
I have heard that they rather drastically constrain QoS instead, which does sound reasonable. So you are still not charged for abusive traffic, but your service will be much slower than what is actually possible with paid tiers.
I believe it's quite the opposite, cloud has normalized absurdly high traffic fees, and that is what should be raising alarm bells.
If they offer a platform as a service and they fail to protect that platform from ddos attacks, they should incur the cost and not the customer
I’m not an expert, but isn’t the current consensus that this is pretty much exactly what happened?
Wow that's indeed very bad from Netlify.

From every Vercel document that I can read though is that when you exceed the limits of free tier they are just locked for 30 days unless you upgrade to Pro.

So unless I am mistaken this cannot happen on Vercel.
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> You could take a chimp skull, use the same techniques used to ‘reconstruct’ Neanderthal faces, and you’d get a similar result - a smiley fellow with a tad narrow forehead, big teeth, and long hair.

Someone's already tried that!

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/19/science.scie...

>"Anthropology is going to have to completely revise its picture of modern man between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago," said Thomas Terberger, the archaeologist who discovered the hoax. "Prof Protsch's work appeared to prove that anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals had co-existed, and perhaps even had children together. This now appears to be rubbish."

>The scandal only came to light when Prof Protsch was caught trying to sell his department's entire chimpanzee skull collection to the United States.

>An inquiry later established that he had also passed off fake fossils as real ones and had plagiarised other scientists' work.

>"Their stories about him were increasingly bizarre. After a while it was hard to take it seriously. You had to laugh. It was just unbelievable. At the end of the day what he did was incredible."

>During their investigation, the university discovered that Prof Protsch, 65, a flamboyant figure with a fondness for gold watches, Porsches and Cuban cigars, was unable to work his own carbon-dating machine.

>Instead, after returning from Germany to America, where he did his doctorate, and taking up a professorship, he had simply made things up.

>In one case he had claimed that a 50 million-year-old "half-ape" called Adapis had been found in Switzerland, an archaeological sensation. In reality, the ape had been dug up in France, where several other examples had already been found.
Supreme Court questions Floridasocial media laws on First Amendment grounds
M2 mac mini on my desk uses 9.7 W right now at "idle". Quotes because I vnced into it to see the power consumption.

Under the desk there's a linux box made with a Ryzen 5600G, that one does 20W at idle.
> Point is that you can always make opportunities happen even in hard times.

Always?

I work harder than anybody I know personally. I am constantly learning new things. People ask me all the time how I "know this stuff", and that has been true since I was a kid in a desert town in the middle of nowhere that only had a library to learn from.

I have tried many, many ideas and failed. I'm halfway through life now. I've missed many opportunities in hindsight, likely due to my narrow fixation on details. This is an aspect of HFA, which is something I've only recently learned about myself.

I think what you've said is factually correct. But not everyone is equipped to exploit the opportunities that may exist, and may struggle to be aware of their limitations. Furthermore, life doesnt guarantee you anything - luck is always an element.

> Leaves more for people willing to work and to learn things.

> I upvoted your comment out of pity.

Even the hardest working people can luck out and become frustrated. That doesn't change the fact that their best stategy is probably not to give up, but maybe be a bit more empathetic?