skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one is saying “advanced” environmental laws directly conflict with building specific projects.

Why do you think I put quotes in my last sentence? Let's see. Perhaps because it was a quote? Literally?

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39510603

What I'm giving you is a sketch at how advanced environmental laws actually conflict with the idea of using cookie cutter designs. The ideas are at odds with each other.

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> The core of the argument is that the folks planning and designing those projects are responding to the threat of lawsuits. Most other countries have one feedback period

People keep saying this is impossible to do a) cheaply and b) cookie-cutter style because "laws" whereas the US is littered with cookie-cutter designs indistinguishable from each other in scale much larger than anything we're discussing.

It's not that it's impossible. It's that for some reason the US is a) ignorant, b) assumes it's unique and special in each and every shape or form, c) extremely allergic to any kind of infrastructure except roads.

And then that same US turns around, paves an area the size of Pentagon in a village with population of 1000, and plops immense cookie-cutter designs there and no one blinks an eye.
It will be available in India and most other countries by the end of March according to their own website, and I don't think they're going to change their rates in a month's time.
I don’t think Bubble has to imply lack of use. After all, the dotcom bubble saw tons of successful companies formed.

The bubble just refers to the speculative growth. The pop is often just the number of companies failing to capitalize on the hype, and the following pullback on investor funding.

I think AI is a bubble , but I think some companies will come out the other side with huge winning products. Many will burn their runways out.
I’d propose a general rule that no social responsibility can survive corporate scaling. As they get larger more people enter who lack the founders’ vision and the system becomes less driven by personal whims and more driven by things that maintain the system. Profit for a corporation is borderline tautological, like homeostasis for a cell. The most you’ll get out of a larger corpo is whatever appearance of responsibility is required to maintain profits with as little action as possible.
Florida social media law seems like "classic First Amendment violation"
The US Supreme Court today heard oral arguments on Florida and Texas state laws that impose limits on how social media companies can moderate user-generated content.
CloudFlare Pages/ Workers is pretty nice
You just posted it on Reddit and I already see few comments of people say they will never use it. Stuff like this can cause PR damage worth millions to a company. I'm pretty sure that it will go viral and they won't charge you.
Microsoft needs to fix their UX development platform urgently. WinUI 3 sucks compared to Apples SwiftUI. They don't appear to be investing anything much into it. Apple's efforts into improving their UX and development platform are orders of magnitude higher than Microsoft's.

Apple now owns the majority of the mobile+tablet+developer laptop market. Getting rid of Windows Phone was a VERY bad decision made by Nadella. A short-term gain in profitability for a long-term loss in marketshare. He completely ceded the OS/device competition and effectively made Apple the dominant cross-form-factor OS company.
I've always been a fan of cloudflare or firebase for static sites.
I use AWS, S3, Cloudfront, ACM with a budget alert.
Pretty sure gpt-4 is doing image-to-llm directly while Gemini also runs the image through Google lens which is tailor-made for OCR. I think that's a good thing to create a better product overall but the performance isn't really comparable
> And since my amount is too large, they offer to discount to 5%, which means I still need to pay 5 thousand dollars.

If they just reduce to 5% like that, it shows how disconnected this is from their real bandwidth cost. Really does feel like a scam.
>We use Zoom as our sole vendor for audio, video, and data transmission for call data streams including screen share and text chat.

Wasn’t Zoom a privacy sheetshow?
In what sense? The gold rush precipitates the bubble.
That discount to 5% is incredibly odd and hand wavy, I would escalate to their manager.

They should definitely be able to accomodate and account for what should be a very common issue (does).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422068
Doesn't Netlify have budget alerts?

I know during heavy DDoS attacks they might be too late, but also cache?
Woof. I was considering kicking the tires on Netlify, but they are officially out of consideration now.
Depending on your use case, Hetzner is as cheap as it gets while retaining high quality.
I don't see why people are surprised by this or why people are calling it a scam. Netlify and others are extremely transparent about the fact that there are no limits. I completely understand not liking it and can see why the lack of limits would make it a bad option for plenty of people, but I don't see how it can possibly be called a scam.
>> Sony really should have brought the minidisc to the pc as a floppy and cd/dvd rom replacement.

>Sony did. But...

If it was from Sony, it was probably ridiculously expensive. Everything they sold had (and still has I think) the "Sony tax", making it uncompetitive with other standards, especially for something like removable media where the per-unit cost adds up quickly.
The most bizarre thing is that this is a known issue that folks have asked them for ways to mitigate, to no avail. The reddit thread even links to an extremely weird dialogue where Netlify's response boils down to, "if you're hosting a small site that gets DDoS'd, don't."

https://answers.netlify.com/t/limit-bandwidth-to-avoid-high-...
There's no way in hell anyone should ever under any circumstance use a free service that might, for reasons entirely outside your control, suddenly bill you 5k, or 104k... or any non trivial amount really.

Just suspend service on excessive overages...
I just bought a 80s pickup truck off Facebook marketplace a few days ago. Couldn't be happier. And probably more reliable than some cheap cars being sold these days.
AI craze has so many parallels to the .com bubble. But unless you are all in on nVidia stock I don't think it is nearly as financially dangerous as it was.

The biggest parallel it has is that the world of AI is like the web was in the 90s. Merely a glimpse of what is to come. VCs and angel investors are likely to get killed, not so much public markets.

.com craze had a ton of public companies being valued at outrageous numbers. Not so today, even nVidia's P/E ratio is not so crazy. During the .com craze a ton of fiber was put down which at the time could not get used. But it was used eventually. Something like that is going on with GPUs.
Wait why? Do you really think the number could be reduced below the requisite amount to do good reverse engineering? That number can’t be more than a couple dozen, and good luck preventing that.
[footnote] If this part of the explanation is bugging you, consider these related problems:

Problem 1. There are two opaque, externally identical bags, each containing 2 marbles. One bag contains 2 black marbles. The other bag contains 1 black marble and 1 white marble.

You choose a bag and draw a marble from it, without looking inside. The marble is black. What should you conclude are the odds that the remaining marble in the chosen bag is black?

Answer: .elbram kcalb dnoces a dnif ot ylekil sdriht-owt era ew oS .gab etihw-dna-kcalb eht morf si eno ylno dna ,gab kcalb-lla eht morf era elbram kcalb a werd ew hcihw ni soiranecs elbissop eht fo owT

Problem 2. There are three opaque, externally identical bags. One bag contains 2 black marbles. The other two bags each contain 1 black marble and 1 white marble.

Again you choose a bag and draw a marble from it, without looking inside. The marble is black. What should you conclude are the odds that the remaining marble in your chosen bag is black?

Answer: .tnecrep ytfif era elbram kcalb dnoces a gniward fo sddo ruO .gab kcalb-lla eht nesohc gnivah fo sddo ytfif-ytfif ta won era ew oS .sgab etihw-dna-kcalb tnereffid owt eht morf era owt dna ,gab kcalb-lla eht morf era elbram kcalb a werd ew hcihw ni soiranecs elbissop eht fo owT

You can connect Problem 2 to our random door opening and a goat being revealed, in the Monty Fall (with an F) problem.
VPP (tnsr) and FreeBSD (pfsense) user / dev here.

The FreeBSD scheduler is at fault here. It’s that simple.
Who uses this and can compare against FastAPI?
The amount of profit a utility makes is usually regulated.
https://render.com/ is free for static sites with custom domain support and SSL included. been happy so far!

used to use s3 for the longest time, but aside from costing a nominal fee, it's so unnecessarily complicated in this day and age.
For me it’s interesting because in the general case, nobody is perfect at opsec and eventually slips up. Satoshi is a super prominent counter-example.
That is actually the same idea as the (now) popular "Mixture of Experts" approach.
Maybe try the Docker installation to keep the dependencies off your system:

https://superset.apache.org/docs/installation/installing-sup...
It's pointless to talk about that 8 minute warning because the speed of light is effectively the speed of causality. There is no way we can signal back faster than that initial wave of radiation hitting us. There is no way to alert us that that 8 minutes is starting because are theoretical fastest communication will still take 8 minutes to get to us.

But we're not worried about that part of things anyway - it's the mass part of the CME that is the issue.
In The Netherlands normal savings (retirement/pension savings are taxed once you retire), stocks, crypto ...etc are all taxed to everyone except Dutch Royal Family.
This kind of ridiculousness is exactly the style of nonsense we hear during bubbles. You're really making the claim that the addressable market for these word guessing machines includes every person who hires plumbers, drain layers, house painters, hookers, massage therapists, chimney sweeps and MotoGP riders. This rhetoric is out of control.
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (DeepMind)
I use BunnyCDN to host several sites, they have a minimum cost of $1 per month and I usually pay $1 per month.

I run my sites [0] on Hugo and copy the generated sites (Makefile) to BunnyCDN with their command line tool.

It's a plain CDN, but does include DNS hosting for easy SSL certificates and has scriptable DNS [1] where you can run Javascript for dynamic DNS.

I went with them b/c they are in the EU, but I've stayed because I love them.

[0] e.g. https://www.amazingcto.com/

[1] https://bunny.net/dns/
Things are already hyper optimized in corporate wonderland.

There are not enough customers with cash to milk. So to keep up appearance of growth they cultivate a subprime market propped up on credit thats never going to be paid back. So the illusions and delusions stay alive.

Efficiency is always a double edged sword. The more efficient the predator or the parasite gets, the more unstable the whole system gets.
What the hell. Netlify has implemented all these customer-hostile billing changes. Literally the worst. I migrated my company's site off of Netlify when they tried charging for per user on one of my repos (a documentation site). Glad I left them and never looked back.
Bitcoin Breaks All Records with a $1.347B Transaction
I tried to use codellama 34B and I think it is pretty bad. For Example I asked it to convert a comment into a docstring and it would hallucinate a whole function around it.
> On a large scale a 5% average return is very conservative

Any return above GDP growth is not conservative. On average, real world GDP has grown at 3 to 5% per year since 1964 [1]. (We use real GDP because university costs will increase with inflation.)

600 students would have paid $35.4mm in tuition a year at $59,000 per year. That's a 3.54% drawdown per annum, right in line with real GDP growth. A 4 to 5% real return target is doable, but not conservative and certainly not a figure with a lot of margin for error.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/gdp-growth-r...
Yeah, that was the thing with Afx, kind of forgotten it, thanks.

ATL was and is, anything but nice, unless one is into deep love with COM without tooling, to this day Visual Studio still doesn't offer anything to alleviate the pain of dealing with COM, IDL and generating C++ stubs, because just like MFC and Afx, it seems there are many internal feuds against having nice tools.

The only time Microsoft finally created something nice to use COM from C++ (C++/CX), those internal feuds managed to kill it, replace it with a developer experience just as bad as ATL (C++/WinRT), and then when bored left the project to play with Rust/WinRT.
Pulling my netlify hosted stuff today. F that. Sorry to hnbadges users!
Fine.

Give up.

Don’t chase a dream.

Just go find some drudgery for a paycheck. Don’t bother saving. You won’t need it.

You never had a shot anyway. Your ideas are stupid. Any time you think of a thing, someone else has thought of it first.

There’s no point in trying to make anything better. It’s all as good as it can possibly be.

Such a perfect world doesn’t need your contribution; can’t be changed by the likes of you; won’t care, even if you do manage to come up with something novel.

You’re too young to be taken seriously, and too late for everything, so why bother?

So get out there and fulfill your failure, and don’t worry about dreaming.

All the dreamers woke up ages ago.
The point was people thought it was too late then. And again at microsoft ten years later. I thought it was convincing.
Github works well for me.
Cloudflare. You will get a call if on a free or pro ($25/month) plan [1] if your bandwidth usage is so high it would warrant increasing your plan. Worst case, they turn you off. Preferred over denial of money attack based on your use case. Set and forget after pointing at your origin (time is money).

You'll get a call on any of their plans if your bandwidth usage exceeds certain thresholds, I am assuming your median usage is relatively tame.

Disclosure: Cloudflare enterprise customer, no other affiliation. I don't get anything for saying nice things.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
Mixed results. I think llama2 in general is pretty bad, especially at anything else than english. I've had very good results with Mixtral for Chat.

Of course all of them feel like a Frankenstein compared to actual ChatGPT. They feel similar and work just as well until, sometimes, they put out complete and utter garbage or artifacts and you wonder if they skimped on fine-tuning.
Doesn't make me feel great about Vercel either (which I was looking at)
I'm hosting a few large (multiple TB) projects on Cloudflare R2 with no issues for more than a year now. Super happy.
Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...
Anyone comparing AI to crypto has too short of a memory or too uneducated to provide value to the discussion.
What was the website that got DDOSed? https://jyutping.org/en ? (Since it's behind Cloudflare now, I guess linking it here is fine.)

At first I thought it might've been https://hanhngiox.net/ , but that one appears to have simply expired.
Cloud watch charges are the most enraging thing. What are they even charging for, storing and filtering some text files? I have seen services spending 30% of their costs on cloud watch. Absolute madness.
>Netlify and others are extremely transparent about the fact that there are no limits

Are they also transparent about the fact that they

1. Won't do anything about a DDoS, and

2. In case there's a DDoS (or some other unusual traffic spike), you'll only get notified waaaaay after the fact when you get the $100K bill, instead of getting a timely alert that would allow you to shut your site down to prevent getting extreme charges?

No and no.

It's a scam.
You can sell stock any day too, it's just not guaranteed you get out what you put in. What you needs is short-term bond so that you aren't stuck with the interest rate risk (when prevalent interest rate changes, your bond value changes too). Just to make a concrete example, if you buy VAB.TO in 2020, and you want your money now in 2024, you're currently down 20% from your purchase.

You need short-term bond (6-month, 1-month or even shorter) so that at worst you will get 100% of your money out by waiting for the maturity date. Money-market would be super short term: consider them as days-length bond.

But if we are talking about down payment money here, it's probably 100-200k something, which would translate to a few thousand dollars per year. Might not be worth your time, and definitely not worth it if you misunderstand and buy ETF bond or something like that. So yeah, keep it in a high-interest rate saving account is ok.
I have still all manuals from all Borland products, they were great.

In rainy days, I still browse through them.

For those that never saw them, they are available at the Internet Archive.
For less than 1% of OP's monthly bill, you can build or obtain a more-than-enough server, drop your static files on it, and serve through nginx. And you get to keep it forever; there's no monthly subscription fee!

Seriously, maybe I'm just old, but I look at the pricing of these hip and modern SaaS products for dead simple software and I cannot believe my eyes. The "old fashioned way" works just fine (and has always worked just fine) and is orders of magnitude cheaper.
Because you don't work 60 to 80 hours a week during an apprenticeship.
Spell it out, what logic specifically?
Like in the past, when you went over your limit your page went offline. The good old Slashdot effect
If it’s really pure static, github is great because it’s impossible for you to be billed. If you want some functions, Cloudflare free plan is nice because you can configure it to stop operating when the usage limit is reached, or pay $5 a month for more than you’ll likely ever need for a hobby project. Also bandwidth is free.
Yes, great news indeed.

In the great scheme of things, 40 F-16s, 79 modernization kits for existing F-16 and four Gripen is a small price to pay.
> increase taxes and make institutions as vital as school be funded publicly

studying medicine is not a right. Basic education is - but k-12 schools are publicly funded already.
But how much does she make? 140k per year if you make 150k is of course not a lot but if she makes 900k or something like that. It's worthwhile. Although I do agree that sounds awfully much for just insurance.
For static sites my choice is usually CloudFlare in front of a S3 bucket. It costs pennies. With cloudflare R2 it might be even easier.
There’s a high quality, free comic reader app that doesn’t collect any data that implements this feature quite nicely: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smart-comic-reader/id151117521...
This is such a shame, I found the user experience pretty good on Netlify and now I can’t risk staying with them.
The Thiel fanboys are out en force, as I can see.
Any lawyer here can suggest if a class action suit is appropriate?
working link https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d...
There are lots of reasons to avoid Netlify.

https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/739
Hey! As a target/output language? As a source language, it’s already supported.
Not true for children
I don’t think AI and crypto are comparable other than the hype cycle. Crypto legitimately hasn’t found a use case, whereas various ML/AI models are already somewhat useful.

The big issue is: what is the product at the end of the tunnel? The really cool stuff is still too unreliable for day to day use because it hallucinates things. The cost to scale is also really high.
It is useful... in some respects. The true danger here is not in economic collapse but in what you succinctly described as a perception that it "delivers magic". It doesn't, but there's certainly a lot of momentum behind the idea that it does, leading to its implementation in lots of areas where what it actually delivers are hazards. We're still a long way from understanding how to deal with the disastrous consequences of its biases (see Gemini's recent drama for an excellent, if melodramatic, example) so promises of its ability to optimise workflows and decision-making are leading to its implementation in spaces where a lack of human oversight leads to nothing short of human rights abuses. Proptech, immigration, welfare etc are areas where AI might be useful, but the research right now indicates that it's currently deeply problematic. I'm not trying to fear-monger, I think if the promises can be delivered, of course the results could be extraordinary. But even nascent analysis suggests that more care is required and that the reality is it falls very far short of "magic".

And just to ward off any naysayers, I'm a GPT subscriber who finds it very useful in a variety of ways and uses it almost daily. But also anyone who's used this tech for a minute and approaches it from a viewpoint of cautious optimism rather than rose-tinted glasses knows that its limitations are quickly understood.
To be fair, he also mentioned ancient Romans as people who indulged in too much consumptive activities and not enough creative ones.

It's not about old vs new, it's about consumption vs creation.
it's amazing how they're blaming niacin now... in my mind, the key word here is "processed food" and "cereals" right at the start of the article... and then the picture is of a woman in the meat section. Smells funny this whole thing.

"...known risk factors for those events, such as high cholesterol..." - see https://cholesterolcode.com/ - cholesterol might not do what ppl think it does.
Put Cloudflare proxy in front of Netlify/Vercel deploys
Java and C# have been AOT compiled from yearly days as well, the difference to today was for Java AOT compilers were only available in commercial JDKs, and NGEN only supported dynamic linking, while being designed for fast startup times only.
Hetzner or DigitalOcean with Coolify [0] works great, it's like an open source Heroku that runs on any host, you get git push to deploy, and a bunch of other features built in. It only works on one machine at a time though so it's not like a CDN but for small sites, it's great.

[0] https://coolify.io
And it is not like at this moment there isn't reliable and reasonable targets for money. You might not get the tech numbers, but debt now return pretty good.
Current provincial government doing all it can to reduce social assistance programs. They exist but not like how they use to.
Well good for you! Keep up the good work!!
in other words, "if you're thinking of using netlify, don't".
Really uncomfortable with how many services like this are “we scale to your needs” and end up here. I guess capacity planning from oversubscribing bandwidth is its own can of worms but surely that is a bit… less surprise generating.
The name of the problem is obviously taken from the real game show, but the real show did not work like in the thought experiment. So you cant just apply game show logic.

The “monty hall problem” (in the form stated in the article) is really a trick question, since it hinges on some assumptions which is never stated.

Even when stated correctly, the problem is a fun and counter-intuitive problem. But when leaving out critical information, you create a very differet problem of guessing what the unstated assumptions are.