skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's currently our policy to not shut down free sites during traffic spikes that doesn't match attack patterns, but instead forgiving any bills from legitimate mistakes after the fact.

The legitimate mistake sounds to be on _your_ side if anything. You failed to match the attack pattern after all.

> Apologies that this didn't come through in the initial support reply.

The support email said you normally discount the attacks to 20%, but in this case it would be discounted to 5%. Are you here publicly claiming that your policy is to in fact to forgive (i.e. discount 100%) these bills? Was the support reply totally incorrect in claiming that you normally discount the attacks to 20% or are you lying when saying that your policy is to forgive the bills? You might want to clarify your position here.
They can discount to 5% since their fees are 10,000% higher than what it's costing them...
The couple who make the best pizza in my city opened a (pizza) restaurant but they eventually decided that running a restaurant wasn't part of what they enjoyed, so they're back in a van outside of a pub. The pizza never really changed, a wood fired pizza oven fits inside a vehicle or a restaurant kitchen the same, and beyond that it's about the skill and judgement of the person making the pizza.

If you want to do what you love, and it makes enough money to live on, turning that into something you don't love but which makes more money is a grave mistake. We are mortal, this is all temporary.
Practice. One hour under debugger teaches more than reading 10 books.
Tom Nicholas has a really good breakdown of Patreon's longevity

https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-the-rise-and-fall-of-pa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXyN3-gQwJw.
The intricate matter of the name of the Greeks :)

To be pedantic, the soldiers might have probably said Hellenes, not Greek (γραικοί). But Roman was also a common ethnonym back then, used by the Ottoman society. In Greek (Helleneke) it was spelled Ρωμιός https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%8... . The point of confusion was probably that, I suppose?

I grew up in Greece, no one uses any name other than Hellene anymore. To the point that "Greek" sounds more English than Greek to a native Greek speaker.
Buildx bake deep dive: Bake all your Docker images with one command
C&H is basically the '90s in a nutshell.

Coincidentally, Watterson himself was very punk: he started drawing for his own sake, got famous, refused to accept the capitalist growth imperative, and dropped out. He never sported a mohawk or pierced his tongue, but was more punk than several generations of punk-rock wannabes.
Could start with self awareness/identify formation or even self determination but that's too high a bar for AI.
Yikes. I always had a weird feeling about Requests looking from the outside, but it's worse than I thought.

If you're looking for alternatives: https://www.python-httpx.org/
thanks for sharing this, I guess Gigaya was announced and axed in such a short timeframe, that I've completely missed it
For learning new stuff or deeper understanding old stuff I use "browser tab based backtracking".
I research some books and articles on the topic. As soon as I realize that I do not understand something (it doesn't click), I open new tabs researching the points I don't understand and so on. After understanding I backtrack by closing the new tabs.
The important part is the meta analysis: does this rabbit hole serve my initial goal? Given what I understood, is my initial goal still valid or should I revisit it?
Learned a lot, works great for my brain.
A through eh.. breakdown of the study:

Massive New Study shows Niacin and NAD+ cause Heart Disease?? Is this true?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xInw3F2AVTg
Sewing technology is something that preserves quite well in the fossil record though. Maybe some Neanderthal group somewhere had a needle, but we really don’t have any evidence for any sort of widespread use of that tech, as we later find in Homo Sapiens sites.

Sure, maybe they just did something else. I think people have proposed them having used birch tar as an adhesive that could be used to craft clothing.

Or, maybe, you know, they didn’t need to do that in the first place.
> 1. Yes. We've forgiven lots and lots of bills over the last 9 years and they haven't gone viral

This isn't what you said in your first post, you said:

> It's currently our policy to not shut down free sites during traffic spikes that doesn't match attack patterns, but instead forgiving any bills from legitimate mistakes after the fact.

So forgiving "lots and lots" doesn't move the needle. Do you or do you not forgive _all_ such cases where your DDOS protection doesn't take down the site? What was your employee referring to when saying that the usual discount is 20%? Are you saying that you _never_ discount 20% and instead always discount 100% i.e. "forgive"?
Talented developers will overcome the 1000 papercuts and build something worth playing. That doesn't mean it's the best solution.
In C++ that would be an "aliasing shared_ptr", for a reference counting example of the same idea.
free as in: AWS does not charge you

not free as in: you have to manage it (for example give a CI role access via OIDC, create a role for you to assume to do stuff via the console, etc)
Ask HN: How are you finding C2C contracts or high paid freelance work
What are some good direct/indirect ways to find freelance or c2c tech work. Mainly that kind of work where you just provide your service and get paid. My domain is Cloud/DevOps and I have recently left my full time job to get some freedom. So just curious how others guys are hunting these kind of work.
I was an early Tableau adopter and promoter in my org many years back.

At the time the incumbent, Qliksense, was lagging badly and there was genuine grass roots support for Tableau as our next gen BI tool. Adoption grew significantly and people were happy...for a while. I remember reaching out the founder/CEO at the time and getting responses back. It was great.

Fast forward today and its different, over time Tableau dissatisfaction grew, I think a lot of it was the fact that our use-cases got more advanced and performance dropped and not being able to understand the complex SQL it was generating didn't help. Also Qliksense got noticeably better UX and importantly was cheaper. Today, MS PowerBI which came from left field, is really the front runner for us.

Parking this situation for a second I think the real issue is that people are getting a bit overwhelmed with dashboards. I have access to near 100 across the three platforms, they more or less do the same thing and are thus somewhat commoditized, I don't feel passionate about any of them as I did back in the day with Tableau. Worse, I have to spend mental bandwidth figuring out which one I need to open to answer my query, then I have to spend time navigating the UX to get my answer so I can move on with the task in hand.

We don't necessary need more dashboards, just faster ways to go from question to reliable answer where information can be pushed rather than pulled, especially if data points start looking anomalous over time.

Note - If your a startup in this field looking to upend the BI space reach out, I have spent a lot of time in this space over the years.
To the author: can you elaborate on situations where the sales tax is recoverable?
As a typechecking enthusiast, this title was extremely confusing. I guess it's a good reminder of how our brains routinely jump to premature conclusions as part of their specialization.
What fumble of AI are we in with Google now? 10? 15? Like how many more fumbles on this tech that they had a decade head start on are they gonna make before someone does what needs to be done and trim the fat, fire the people causing the future of their company to slip extremely deep into irrelevance likely.
Supply and demand means it's probably not everyone. What it has meant is you have a much, much more diverse set of content than before. Realistically, attention-based economies are always going to have a few standout winners. What platforms like patreon give you is a much healthier middle section, where smaller creators that still have some audience can make a bit more than they normally would (which ranges from 'a decent living' to 'beer money'), and that does mean they make more stuff. You still have the long tail of people who mostly don't get enough attention to bother monetising it.
Data bias is giving way to training bias
Branch prediction and speculative execution can affect that. For instance failing on the first byte could cause more iterations to be thrown away and re-executed than failing on the last byte.
TL/DR: dogfooding is good, but you should still keep an eye on what your competitors might be doing better than your product, and be wary of NIH syndrome.
What it is today, codified in the aesthetic and cultural mores that the mainstream labelled punk in the '70s. 60 years ago, it was something very different.
> R2 as an origin

We front our distribution service with Cloudflare Workers fronting R2 fronting S3 / Lightsail Object Store (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-r2-super-slurper/). That brought our costs down from $500 to $2 serving the same amount of traffic.
I'm a huge Netlify fan, but stories like these are scary. Just spent the last hour building a custom serverless function that sends email / SMS at various bandwidth usages - potentially could be improved with an auto shutdown of the offending site beyond 75 GB:

https://gist.github.com/princefishthrower/4517ff44a9f4c5b2d2...

For now it's still a workaround... looks like I'll be migrating to Hetzner soon...
Electron is a useful hack with the same resource problems as Chrome rather than an ideal solution.

More the point though, PWAs are part of the existing web ecosystem. Apple has dragged its heels bringing Safari and their Webview up to spec on anything that might damage the AppStore ecosystem for years. They've also forced browser developers to use their webview instead of the browser's engines and has kept the API broken for functionality which they support in Safari - I mean try running a webrtc application in both safari and either chrome or firefox on iOS and see the problems.

By enforcing the Webview on everyone they also ensure that all web developers need to have a mac to debug Safari specific issues that happen on a level unseen since IE7.

The EU is simply telling Apple they can't leverage this anti-competitive behaviour, just like they rightly did for Microsoft in the 90s and Apple are just trying to salt the earth in the EU. It's a joke
Looker might look attractive, but it is missing so many basic features it is not competitive. You can't even query a view in BigQuery, you can't use window functions in data sources. All error messages are entirely opaque. Access management is very limited etc.

PowerBI / Tableau is much more full-featured.
So the original support worker just pulled 20% (and then 5%) out of thin air? Given your internal knowledge, can you maybe explain why a support worker would ever do that if policy is simply to forgive the debt?
So I understand you experienced difficulties in dealing with developing intelligences, and you entailed that it should be difficult to create artificial ones.

But nobody said it was easy (also because ideas like "to invent the lightbulb is not easy" in that form make little sense), and yet the "right" people - not "«we»" - will probably reach the goal, partially owing to a piece of the "«we»" and largely in spite of a large piece of the "«we»".

Just like some achieved the lightbulb, and some (Columbus) achieved making an egg stand straight on the table while those nearby claimed it was impossible.

Now, the problem in the original context was not about those people able to create a hammer, but about the people unable to use it. The problem here is not about creating intelligence but using it.
All Ryzen 7000 have a small GPU. It is not meant for gaming but enough for productive work. You can get 12 cores at 65W with the 7900. Could be passively cooled for complete silence.

[edit] The 7900 delievers ~89% of the performance of the 7900X at 170W. 7700 & 7600 90% compared to the X counterparts.
It did happen in the EU where they have sabotaged web apps though...
I can confirm it was indeed caused by smooth scrolling. I didn't realize there was a setting.
What did you expect it to be?
When you don't focus anymore on performance, merit and excellence, I would argue, this is what you get.
And those geniuses in the "we" you described, how did they eat, how did they dress, where did they sleep, who gave them the paper they used to write their thoughts ? Who challenged them, by their stupidity even, to go further ?

We all work together to build the context that allows for this new knowledge to emerge. The individual who uttered the new concept the first time is immaterial: they are an element of a group, and the group gets the credit, in the grand scheme.

The fact that we have extremes, like crackheads or Feynman, doesn't make Feynman isolated in his success, or the crackhead isolated in his failure. And without abject idiocy we wouldnt have brilliance.
Adding insult to injury, while the Tideway project was ongoing the UK London area underground rail system was also being upgraded with new stations and track section requiring more TBM work of the same or perhaps greater order.

So the total London area TBM work during the past decade is pretty substantial and makes the work by Musk's company during that period pale in comparison.
This is unfortunately an uninformed opinion that pollutes the debate.

An example you probably should should think about: Who owns money and their value? What happens when the central banks decide to raise the interest rates to 20% and you loose everything? Just a shame? On the contrary, what happens when the central banks employ quantitative easing and that makes you rich? How does this interact with large-scale projects the government starts to create employment.

Not always are fiscal and monetary policies aligned. This creates either severe depressions or economic bubbles.

When an opinion is funded an understanding of to what extend the greater society defines the value of things it will have gravity. Until then, it is just noise.
So, Gemini has a "woke" problem, and on of the problem is that it wasn't criticizing enough Adolf Hitler's actions compared to Elon Musks tweets? [1] Defending the literal biggest nazi's boss doesn't seem very "woke", but I don't live in the US so maybe I'm wrong...

OTOH I agree that not willing to write a job description for an oil company [2] is way, way too much.

[1] https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1761800684272308302

[2] https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1761832472357335068
Netlify's 2017 blog post says you don't need Cloudflare.

from https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/03/28/why-you-dont-need-cl...

"...Top to bottom, our infrastructure redundancies make sure we keep traffic flowing, so there's no need to add more redundancy with Cloudflare. ...

You don't need Cloudflare when you use Netlify

As you can see, we already offer what Cloudflare does, and more. If your site is not on Netlify, perhaps consider us for your one stop solution for hosting, SSL, DDoS protection, DNS load balancing, and continuous deployments. ..."
Building a Recommendation System Using ClickHouse and SQL
There are always different strategies for advertising what it is that you do. There's a streamer named Caseoh on twitch whose profile you can find here: https://twitchtracker.com/caseoh_ He doesn't do grueling hours, he isn't a top tier gamer who is constantly giving out tips, he's just a guy who discovered a goldmine when he decided to take the jokes his viewers were writing about him and posted his reactions from his streams to TikTok. Tiktok is particularly great about this sort of thing because once you've watched an entire clip, you're more likely to see more clips from or about the same subject.

In March of 2023, he averaged about 1200 viewers. Today, he's got over 2.9M followers and averages 60K viewers and over 50K subscribers. He's not vulgar, he's not rude, he just gets online and does about an hour of reaction videos from his Discord and a few hours of playing random games nobody's ever heard of.

This is a guy who lives in a trailer and hasn't changed his streaming setup in forever. He gets online, streams for 4-5 hours, and then gets off to go live his life. He's making between $60 and $100K a month. He'll be a millionaire by the end of this year after spending the last few years working for a company alongside his dad. He found a niche and owned it.
> it's 100% not sustainable

As a business for Cloudflare?

Cloudflare in 2014 blogged about how they work relentlessly to bring down bandwidth costs by peering aggressively where possible [2] (which apparently means $0 for unlimited bandwidth [3]). And where they can't / don't [4], egress is 5x (est) the ingress (one pays for the higher among the two), but this creates an opportunity for an arbitrage and give away DDoS protection for free.

This is pretty similar to Amazon's free-shipping offer for Prime customers despite it being one of the biggest loss makers to their retail business. Prime basically has since forced Amazon to bring down costs through building expensive and vast distribution & logistics network that spawns the globe. Doing so was a considerable drain on the resources in the short-run, but in the long run, it has become an unbreachable moat around its largest business.

Analysts like Ben Thompson (stratechery.com) and Matthew Eash (hhhypergrowth.com) have written in detail about Cloudflare's modus operandii over the years, with both agreeing that Cloudflare's model is so brilliantly disruptive that even Clayton Christensen would be proud of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337183
Italian Piracy Shield Adds Cloudflare IP Thus Blocking many Websites
I love the different font styles being used in the subway stations, there's a wide range of them, with each telling a story from a different time.

As a Berliner, I probably have taken 100s of pictures of them or, in front of them, shared many moments on those stations. They are a core aspect of the city for me, representing change and, at the same time, the past.
Vercel has had spend management for a while now: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-spend-management-realtim...
Nowadays for customers spending millions of dollars you'd expect (at least, Amazon would expect) that the customer has a FinOps department who are already working on getting the most 'bang for their buck' out of what they're paying for and minimising their spend, and they would jump to another platform in a heartbeat if they thought they could save money. It's not unreasonable to think that you don't need to do these customers any favours to keep their business, because those customers are big enough to look after themselves.

For smaller customers, the friendliness of customer support and the flexibility to help them if they make mistakes is much more likely to be a retention consideration. And who knows when a company spending 3 digits a month becomes a customer spending 6 digits a month? You want to be the provider of choice in case the company grows.
I think it is a mixture of both celebrity worship and the fact that his stake within his invention is significantly high. He specifically stated that he didn't want to be associated with the project anymore, so I'm pretty sure he had his own reasoning behind that decision. Taking into consideration the fact that he used a nickname to keep his anonymity, I assume that not becoming a public figure was one of those.
"Fair" has many meanings. If there are 2 brothers, one super intelligent and the other retarded, should the smart one keep all his money for himself and the dumb one die from starvation since he is not capable of sustaining himself? The smart one got his gift for free and although maybe he didn't waste it while he could have, the retarded one didn't have equal starting ground.

The difference I see between US/EU worldview is that in US the biggest emphasis is in what "YOU" did, disregarding luck, chance, environment factors etc. "Bill Gates created the wealth himself". People like feeling like there is a chance for them to become super powerful and important and that there is no system holding you back, even though they never actually do it but the hope/idea is very important for you. I can see this in Eastern Europe where large percentage of people dream of winning the lottery; I guess that is something from which people here draw hope of power and influence, while the same people are ok with strong social measures, high taxes, free healthcare etc. while I feel in US all these social benefits are perceived to prevent people from achieving astronomical results and hence shouldn't be.
This sort of pathology is not present on all court systems. In many countries the prosecutor is not judged on "performance" metrics like conviction rate but on merit as judged by his senior peers.
Objectively the job of the prosecutor is not to convict the maximum number of people but rather to establish the truth and help the judge impose proportional sentences based on facts.

It's not a foolproof system but it seems to work much better than ones with "objective" criteria
I had the intuition that Netlify are extremely incompetent compared to Cloudflare, and this thread adds another data point. So no, if you value uptime you are not going to rely on them.
Frankly the only reason I can even come up with that Netlify wouldn't have such controls in place is exactly if they do _not_ simply forgive these sorts of jumps in costs (as the CEO here seems to be claiming). I'm pretty sure if they'd be left holding the bag, they'd manage to find some way to cut off these kinds of jumps in usage.
I have been using Netlify for years, for my own projects, but also recommended it to all my freelance clients to host the projects that I was building for them.
Going forward I will move all my static pages to other hosting providers.

The Netlify team must think:
we waive the fees, because in this instance we noticed the negative press and want to avoid this from blowing up. When this happens to other users, we don’t care, as long as it does not go viral.

Such a pity, Netlify has great UX and I was so happy hosting static pages on their service. But without spending limits, this is not an option for me any more. I could not sleep well when there is a possibility of a $10.000 invoice reaching my inbox.
So thats why CRA has been left to die?
it's possible to make good and big games in Unity, but you can't rely on many Unity features in that case. Like, I'm sure there is barely any "Unity" in Genshin Impact, I bet they replaced most of the engine with custom tooling.
Neither did the necessity to add cookie collection warnings to all sites that use them. In spite of what some Americans believe, if the EU sneezes, the US catches a cold (and vice versa, for the record)
Safe and Secure Autonomous Vehicle Development with Nvidia Drive OS (2022)
Nvidia did not even bother reporting its revenues in Europe
> before someone does what needs to be done and trim the fat, fire the people

Ah yes, the typical MBA answer. I don't understand the problem, I don't even know the company inner workings, but we can probably turn this around with a round of layoffs, agressive deadlines and a healthy scapegoating culture.
The climate changed and the hunting grounds the Neanderthals were most fit for, disappeared. Sapiens were better adapted to the changed environment. The two groups existed in parallel for a long time. Also IIRC Neanderthals were always isolated in smaller groups compared to how Sapiens lived, even before Sapiens entered the shared stage.
Total data collection and we still can't attribute copyright to the creator of the work.

Content creation is a free-for-all. No genuinely sane person would try to bring good content to this tech landscape.

We broke the old institutions that protected authors over corporations.