skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually working on a solution to plan entitlements among other similar functionality right now. While you can get a basic solution set up with feature flags, we've found that the organization and evolution of billing/pricing-related entitlements (E.g. plans, editions, etc.), especially over time, is increasingly complex with lots of requirements in the peripheral. Think things like varying combinations of feature, seats, and usage-based/metered strategies, team subscriptions, plan migrations, one-off enterprise plans, multi-subscription customers (E.g. promotion periods and layered subscriptions), usage aggregation, automated upselling, etc.

As you show in your blog (Nice post btw!), while you can have a flag with a numerical value representing a limit, the infrastructure for tracking usage is left to the business to implement. Imagine instead that you emit usage of that lever to an entitlement service and entitlements based on that usage are updated in real-time, even across teams. Also imagine that you have other entitlements that may be dependent on that entitlement that update as well. In addition, as limits are approached or crossed, you can choose to have soft enforcement (I.e. let them continue, but notify sales to reach out) or hard enforcement and display a prompt to upgrade.

In the spirit of OP's link, we work alongside existing billing solutions rather than try to reinvent the wheel there. We're bootstrapped via a previous successful exit and working with early customers, so if anyone's interested in chatting, even to just geek out on this topic, please reach out: trent at planship.io.
You're going to have to give some specific reason why though.

Why this would have anything to do with antitrust is not at all obvious to me. Especially when Google has been inventing and acquiring its own generative AI technology that it is competing with.
> Anyhow the customer signed the deal (https://twitter.com/cioontherun/status/1761882689886433742), implying they were underpaying and had the capacity to pay the true rate.

If they are sufficiently locked in, this might have been the best option to migrate away without major disruption.
First search result I get for “Amazon warehouse accident rate”: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/study-amazon-workers-serious...

Amazon is also notorious about exploiting workers. I seriously doubt you’ve never heard that claim or read anything about it and think it’s just another normal [warehouse] job.

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-wareh...
Yeah, the most interesting part is that lynx is in a vim terminal buffer, and then the same vim is opened from lynx inside the almighty vim terminal buffer to edit this post textarea ;)
> I personally didn't realize how fast other models would catch up to OpenAI.

They haven't though. Gemini is vaporware and other models are not as good as GPT-4.
I love Superset.

I've been running it in production since 2017, at two jobs, the current one a big corporation.

Best general-purpose, database-backed dashboarding system out there. I would never pay for Tableau or PowerBI.

Same for Airflow.
Everything isn't worse and horrible, it's just that the value proposition shifted so much that it's not worth the effort, you have to run faster and faster to maintain the mirage. You get a deluge of cheap bells and whistles gadgets while the fundamentals keep getting further and further.

The social contract holds when you know your kids will have a better life than you did, when you notice you don't even have your grandparents standards you know it's fucked
I'll believe that companies are the legal equivalent to persons when Texas executes one of them.
Self-knowledge, ability of observe and understand the work that others are doing, ability to influence, perception of your peers etc.
This guy has gotta read less theory.
"The package is corrupted. Please use dpkg to correct it."
> The variety in Walmart’s DVD bin is seemingly endless: and for a price of about $5 per disc that you can hang onto forever, you can’t really go wrong.

Am I the only one who thinks that this premise is flawed? DVDs, like any physical storage medium, have a limited lease on life. If I was serious enough about movies to go into a store and pick them by hand, the first thing in would do is to create a digital backup. And when you already have a social copy, why not just watch that one instead?
No. Man, quit trying to massage the definition to make yourself right.
Punk isn't dead, they just don't post it on Instagram
Interestingly the second time I've seen mention of Portsmouth (UK) on HN in a month. Previous time here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38988389
Bertrand's Box Paradox
In the UK and it is similar here if you live in a big city. A car is not worth the hassle, except when you have young kids (but people with kids tend to live in suburbs). I used to rent for trips.

I now live in a town, rather than a city of any size, and (apart from shopping) need a car mostly for trips between towns within the same county and a bit beyond which are fairly short but there is a lack of good public transport.

I think this is a situation that tends to get forgotten about by policy makers living in big cities - we cannot reduce car usage without either being unable to do a lot of things easily or without a huge improvement in public transport.
I can't stop finding such intense competition between the world's top experts in a single area truly fascinating.

I wonder whether witnessing the space race felt similar. It's just that now we have more players and the effort is much more decentralized.

And maybe the amount of resources used is comparable too..
Fair enough. It'd be impossible for me to argue that there aren't bad actors doing very bad things But to what extent are problems due to (a) bad actors, versus (b) structure issues, resource scarcity, trade-offs, collective action problems, etc

And even if we suppose bad actors are 100% responsible for the world's problems, the systems-level analysis (if I understand it correctly) would still suggest that the solution is "structural" (cut off all the leverage points that allow bad actors to manipulate institutions)

Say, in the case of the opioid crisis (which most of us agree was caused in large part from a bad actor), do we abolish pharmaceutical companies, or do we abolish the structural pathways (marketing, lobbying) that let them do bad things?

I lean towards the latter, but don't know if it's any more feasible than the former
launchctl is a strong example.
Reading the threads about this on here, I suspect we're in some kind of bubble, in that outside of HN I've honestly never met anyone who uses this feature or would care if it disappeared. Can anyone enlighten me?
Thereby proving that checkbox security is pointless.

What threat models does AWS server-side at-rest encryption protect against? Someone breaking into an S3 data center and walking off with a box of hard drives? AWS reselling obsolete hardware on eBay and forgetting to wipe a disk?

And yet what does it not protect against at all? A misconfigured load balancer that can access 169.254.169.254 and dump your AWS access key straight to an attacker, who can then use it to ask AWS to politely decrypt all of your data.

What does it really not protect again? The US.gov issuing a National Security Letter to Bezos threatening jail time if they don't decrypt and hand over the data.

To reach the spirit of the "data must be encrypted at rest" laws, I believe you should encrypt the data using your own keys which are maintained in an HSM that AWS cannot access. This means that you cannot run your entire stack on one cloud, which would be a huge driver of cost and complexity.
>I’ve checked.

My point is that the only way to really check is to talk to someone who’s done both jobs without a lot of data points.

Can you disclose the ranges you’re talking about?
Your own sources show its not violence. Again, you would need to show intent to harm. But instead the intent was to increase yields by eliminating pests.
> no method of removing Chinese sellers from the search results

I don't think there'd be much left if you were to remove them, so much of Amazon is just Chinese products and sellers
Honestly? Don't worry too much about it. It's not worth the stress you'll give yourself.
My rule of thumb: Always ask about rounding. If they don't have a sane answer, it's basically guaranteed that their system is broken in countless ways. Pretty much the only sane answer: Until you realize that every jurisdiction, bank and organization you interact with financially can and might round pennies differently, you don't understand financial systems enough to implement one. i.e. rounding is configurable or you are doing it wrong.
The M-series? My company doesn’t have those so I can’t attest.

My Bose Bluetooth headphones are great except the mic. I think it’s optimized for noise cancellation so it kind of sucks for voice - and for some reason forces noise cancellation to high when using the mic so it’s feels really weird in my ears - even other peoples voices become more tinny somehow
Total aside here, but this article is a good example of the problem, so I just want to point it out.

People go digging, usually pretty hard, to find insults to use as capital in whatever point they are trying to make. In this case, yes, she received a lot of criticism and ad-hominem attacks for her correct answer. But she wasn't really criticized for being a woman, despite it being repeated multiple times in the article.

Look at the given list of people who wrote her angry letters and what they wrote:

Ph.D
Ph.D
Ph.D
Ph.D
Ph.D
Non-doctorate professor?
Don Rivers from Sunriver Oregon who made a sexist remark.

Why is a comment from Don Rivers given so much weight? Who the fuck is Don Rivers from the town of 1,400 people in central Oregon? Man or woman, if you receive 10,000 hate letters from the general population, you can surely find whatever criticism you want if you dig hard enough. But why pay attention or give any weight to these absolute nobodies?
Funny enough I’ve seen the Bertrand paradox called the Monty Hall.
You could start with the ones who were forced to sign treaties under the current constitution under duress, or treaties they couldn't read, or treaties that weren't respected.

https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties
Satya is known to play 4-D chess. With this deal, MSFT is at least two dimensions ahead of the competition. /jk
Such things happen more often than people like to think. The image from this 2019 incident is almost unbelievable.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/pilot-uninjured-after-plane-get...

And Florida 2021:

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/09/24/florida-p...

Ontario 1986:

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/32617

Power lines seem surprisingly good at catching small aircraft without shattering them.
A baby sling helps.
Agree 100%

The hardest part of PID for folks to get a handle on is how to tune it, ideally automatically.

People often just twiddle with numbers and get frustrated
For hobbyists, the availability of correct automated tuning algorithms is sparse, even though the algorithms are well known and actually not that hard once you translate "control theory speak" into "computer science speak". Most folks would be better off autotuning for their systems.

I actually wrote and published some auto pid tuning code years ago that uses the relay method here: https://github.com/dberlin/PLC-PID-Autotuner
(It's in PLCopen, but i can give you codesys versions/etc if you want, and converting to something like arduino would take no time, but someone finally made a working arduino library i think)

Nowadays you can find a few more working libraries, but still.

One example: I use a PID to control a vacuum motor on my CNC machine being used to hold down parts, set to achieve a certain amount of PSI in clamping pressure. The system is basically undisturbed for long periods of times, but a hole gets cut in the part and the amount of vacuum needed to maintain hold-down goes up.

This is a very simple system - it needs fast response, but the response is very straightforward - there is a very direct relationship between speed of vacuum motor and hold down pressure. It can also be safely overshot, but not undershot.
(IE if it goes wild and moves the motor too fast nothing bad happens, but if it wildly undershoots it the parts move and get ruined :P)

Simple autotuning methods work great on this kind of system. I watch people twiddle with values, you name it. It takes about 2 minutes to auto-tune a pid here (mostly swapping a part with no hole and a part with a hole) and the result will be better than anything you come up with manually.

There are more complex methods, as GP mentioned, but they won't drive much better results than you are already geting for this kind of system.

The place where PIDs fall down (in systems hobbyists might use) tends to be something like controlling the temperature on a big green egg. They can maintain a steady state to within 0.1degrees or whatever once warmed up, but they get super-confused by the warm-up time. They can also oscillate into chaos very easily because of the lag time between "blowing on fire" and "temperature probe notices result" (which is highly dependent on accuracy and response tme of the probe). Overshoot is also bad because the only way to make temperature go down is to stop blowing on the fire, etc.

The result is that most smoker controllers have a warmup time/phase before they engage a PID, and then carefully adjust to avoid overshoot.

While more advanced methods might control this completely without the need to do the initial warmup phase, it's not obvious to me the complexity is worth it for that sort of thing. You are talking about going from simple loop that you can plot and reason about to often much more complex mathematical formalisms.

It can quickly become an even more magic box that you can't touch.

There are of course, places it is worth it, i just doubt most hobbyists will run into them.
I'm doing the same with music. But streaming of music is not so bad. I just think I want to have access to my favourite music for the whole my life
Interestingly enough, I'm reading this and posting in lynx. I have both vikeys and numbered links set...
If you already have a process for repackaging entitlements in plans and addons whenever some bright mind in marketing has an idea, the it’s completely fine.
My very first startup (early 2000's) was a SaaS billing platform. It was acquired long ago, but I've yet to work on any system that approached that level of complexity. Ignoring all of the challenges of taxes and such, things rapidly scale in complexity as soon as one needs some level of flexibility.

For simple cases where entitlements are limited and the billing is generic, I think it's fine to built it yourself as long as you're aware of the time and cost of doing so vs. buying it. As others have said, time spent on building billing is time NOT spent on building products.
Totally agree on the response time. OpenAI etc have been non starters for me.

I'm excited/experimenting with attaching https://ollama.com/ though. It is so much faster it's starting to feel ok. A lot changes when we just assume that everyone's computer can run LLM locally I think.
It’s more intuitive than the open source alternatives but is not as intuitive as tableau and others.
How Fear of Regret Influences Our Decisions
That seems like a bit of a strawman, honestly. The era of $10/MB international roaming faded back in ~2015, effectively crunching the demand for global roaming WiFi hotspot rental. Current pricing is somewhere around $10/day for 5-10GB for that model.

For US customers, T-Mobile US went to included global roaming at EDGE speeds (email, messaging), and Verizon is at the other end with $10/Day for 2GB at high speed (dropping to “3G” speeds after that).

Any business jumping into this space has to contend with that pressure and assailability, possibly relying on less-lucrative advertising bases of users outside of North America, Western Europe, etc. That doesn’t make it impossible, but I’d certainly be interested in the upper and lower estimates for the business potential. It just strikes me as a business where the network operators are really well-positioned to extract potential value while optimizing for the defense of their position. And when it comes time to re-negotiate terms, if this business is successful, network operators in regions with insufficient competition will be able to put the squeeze on, possibly forcing unworkable costs or loss of customer trust.

I hope this works out for them, for the reason that I also think that basic connectivity should be available to all, always, but those are the business concerns that immediately come to mind.
"This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal"
This is a serious post, and I think it belongs on HN, due to its timeliness, and also because it is the first time that I can think of that Twitch has been used to livestream this kind of protest, if it's fair to call it that. I'm not making light of this, nor am I making any kind of value statement or judgment on the actions of anyone, but this event is concerning for many reasons, among them being mental health of service members as well as national security.

> On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell.

> It read,

>> Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people. The below links should take you to a livestream and recorded footage of the event, which will be highly disturbing. I ask that you make sure that the footage is preserved and reported on.

There is more to the post, and I would advise all who are able to do so to read it.

Original title edited for length:

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” : On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

https://web.archive.org/web/20240226154129/https://crimethin...

https://archive.is/mDd8i
> All they had to do was not not change things

I'd argue they should have changed things more.
I love Marginalia!
PowerShell on *nix is a hellscape realm I wasn't previously aware of.
Boy wouldn’t it be nice to take a train literally anywhere in my Province?

We’re so far behind on infrastructure investment. The budget was announced the other week and no funding for any sort of inter city transportation to be found.
People forgot about scratched dvds, it’s been too long ;)
It’s not like the US passenger trains have the capacity to absorb those fliers though. I’m guessing Spain is the same…
"Coding" was never the source of value
Because there would be no article and thus no clicks and no ad money without the comment from Don Rivers from central Oregon.
No, metal is just another tent underneath the larger tent of rock. It has a defined place to be slotted in.
Interestingly I’ve correctly grow up more recently such that I instead see internet simps here rather than academic misogny as notable, seeing as the tables have largely socially turned since your (I assume by the username) birth year of 1875.
Partly, I guess in effect at least, but I would reject people are embracing lgbt rights because it is "cool" on the whole. It's more like, would you say women's lib was this type of fad? Or black rights? Etc.
Normalizing User Data
What improvement does your 1000-door variant have over the 100-door variant described in the article?
> The first element, that’s the one that used to be present but isn’t anymore, is a large public sector, because you need a large enough bureaucracy that can supervise all the contractors.

If a large public sector is a prerequisite for lower-cost transit, then the cost of that large public sector needs to be included in calculating the cost of transit. I suspect that would change the analysis quite a bit.
Ah but if you _do_ want to win a dispute with the state, you must not give up when you hit a logical contradiction. The only way out is through.
Available on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701
Amazon joins the Dow Monday, giving the 127-year old index a needed upgrade
How does an eSIM work? Does it require any special hardware (beside the cellular radio, of course) on the phone or is it a purely software thing? If there is specialized hardware, is it a thing that can be later deconfigured/uninstalled or does it modify permanently my device?

I would assume not, but this FAQ feels weird: "Unlike traditional removable SIM cards, eSIMs are built into devices during manufacturing and cannot be physically removed or replaced by users".
The pro is that MS buys more AI hype to pump up their share price.

The con is that MS attracts more attention from regulators.
No, it's mainstream pop culture. As the author alludes it's trendy even for straight people to emulate gay culture.
It's possible to modify binary executables; doesn't make them open-source.
How are you going to be different from all the competition? Why would someone want to do business with you instead of them?

Figure that out first, and build out to maximize that. If you're dirt cheap; then you might want to consider buying used hardware and offering "VMs" that're anonymous and easy to provision.

If you've got a secure location perhaps you could capitalize on that by not buying hardware at all; but hosting your customers racks black box style. Rent rack space instead of servers.

How many network peers at what tiers do you have? can you reach out and touch the whole world in 20ns or less from your location? that might justify spending big to keep your latency low in your switching and get intimate with routing daemons.

And so on. Build on your advantages.
All the best punks are on insta...
I'm not sure this is the same "type" of group.

There have always been those who neglect to adopt the technology of the day or buy heavily into the culture, without also buying into some sort of counter-cultural movement. Today it might be those who eschew social media and being terminally online. In the 90s perhaps it was those who limited their TV time.

In my view, it would be inaccurate to describe this group as "subcultural franchise[s] putting on against-the-grain airs" in the way of the punks and the goths and the "blue-haired pronoun bearers."

If anything, these are more likely to be people who've spent some time adopting and evaluating what the dominant culture has to offer, then wisely adjusting their participation to healthy levels (which may mean zero), despite societal pressure.

They're more "opt-outs" than "opt-againsts".
Not really that close, since the most important thing about the title is that it’s talking about cradling [babies].

This is a good example of how ChatGPT often gives answers that seem plausible but are incorrect.
Alternative would be libertarian socialism, with economy of some mixture of cooperative economics, decentralized planning, gift economy and library economy.
How? Its literally the dominant one. If Lockheed Martin is flying the rainbow colored flag, I have no idea how anyone would consider it counter culture.
The pricing on Humira in the US feels like a scam, although I'm not totally clear on who--the insurance companies? My insurance covers some % of the astronomical price, I put the rest on a credit card, and AbbVie deposits that money right back into my bank account, minus $5. After about two or three iterations of this, my out-of-pocket maximum has been reached for the year, and I've paid $10-15, minus credit card cash back. I guess having Crohn's has an upside.
Mistral Large is quite close to GPT 4 per the stats from today:

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

Now once OpenAI launches GPT 5 well I am sure other models won't look so good, but right now these other models are approaching GPT 4 capabilities.
Are you confusing the civil and revolutionary wars?
Really good article. Of course Capitalism will package and sell anti-capitalism if that is what makes money. It will try to mirror societies desires, which I don't think is a terrible thing. What should be feared is efforts to manufacture and control what people desire.