skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with Hetzner. It's because of the US tariffs.

"I’ve been a big fan of Hetzner. Unfortunately they’ve made a feeble attempt to dress this change up in the name of “fairness”."

Hetzner is a company know for it's precise pricing structure. An increase in prices would be correlated to an increase in costs, and in fact the next paragraph Hetzner writes:

"With the new tariff structure, we want to make conditions for our customers around the world as fair as possible "

Bottom line, the US imposes tariffs, this increases the prices of imported products, of which Hertzner is one, (Servers from Europe)

How can you write an entire article to complain about a price increase and not see that it was actually your country that increased the price.
It's not a cultural thing to accuse customers of committing fraud their first interaction.

Not being an absolute insane jerk off is a good expectation of people.
... but still, they have just about as much chance as the other guys, no?

Competition is a given usually anyway.

Maybe even in the same batch having very similar companies makes sense -- see the recent rush of YC funded companies that build on whatever OpenAI released -- because different founders/teams can be introduced to different contacts in the YC network.
Because they're so cheap they have to worry about spammers and other sorts of abuse. It's more cost effective for them to refuse dodgy-looking accounts.

The big question is, were you using real information or did you put in fake info?

They're still in business because they're cheap and pretty reliable. But being cheap means there are things you can't get with them but can with others. For example, you can't pre-pay for the entire year ahead of time.
What fraction of Linux laptop users do this?

Seems to me that in an ideal world, you would only have to add the public key, and an attacker wouldn't be able to forge a signature without the private key...
can cloudflare even be called a cdn anymore?
It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone.

You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.
Perhaps it's funny, but it's also a marketing coup for Ubuntu.

Yes Debian stable is old. It's frozen for over a year in testing before being released. That means while Debian is testing stable, Ubuntu has done two releases. But ... Debian also provides https://backports.debian.org/ which is current versions packages backported to stable. It's painless to use. Once you use a package in backports it is automatically upgraded as new version arrive, which is usually newer than the Ubuntu version.

Backports has been a thing forever, and it means you can run the newest version of a few choice packages while keeping everything else on a distribution that manages to be the most stable and bug free I've used, while still receiving security patches.

Yet, Ubuntu's main selling point is it is a more modern version of Debian. In my experience it's more of a snapshot of "Debian testing" (Debian's rolling version), at about the quality you'd expect from a testing snapshot, with some Ubuntu additions. The quality of the additions range from "not bad" (eg: Desktop manager), to "what are you thinking" (eg: snap).
Step 1: Create economic conditions in which vast numbers of people can’t afford medical care

Step 2: Offer them the “choice” of possibly receiving care by being medical guinea pigs for those who created the situation that deprived them of medical care in the first place.

A coerced choice is a not a free choice.
Yes this hit me. We use a ton of traffic. Any alternatives? Although the pricing isn't too bad even with the increase, nice to have backups.
This is also true where I am in Australia. There are very few Rust jobs.

However, from the first two comments on the article :

"We use Rust at AWS (in my org) for every new project that would have previously been written in c++.

[–]rigmaroler 104 points 23 hours ago

Microsoft is the same. All new services running on VM-hosting nodes (i.e. domains where C# is explicitly not allowed) have to use Rust now. It's a top-down mandate.

There's also AI investment in converting C/C++ services to Rust, but I have a negative opinion on that investment"

So there is clearly a substantial amount of Rust being written in some places.
Oh it most certainly is true - it's just something that has been happening for the last 30 years
So I should clarify - I was referring to new code. If the old code already works it might not be worth rewriting it.
> Suppose the same principle was applied to a home owner.

Norway does apply the wealth tax to home owners. Though there is a discount factor for different types of assets, and the value of your primary home is discounted by 75%. There's also a minimum threshold.
I think the rationale is that if you have unrealized gains, there is a high likelihood that you are well off, and can therefore be pressured into reifying your economic potential into a resource that the government can appropriate (ie money)

It’s not a straightforward tax like income tax, it’s more of a class based tax that has some aspects in common with income / CG taxes.

It makes sense when you consider that the capital owning class is and was always the most well off, even more so than aristocrats, since the Industrial Revolution anyway.
They didn't say anything about thinking that everyone has the same luxury.

How does diverting an infinitesimal fraction of the water flowing from the Great Lakes affect the water supply at a camp in Mongolia?
I was about to give it some credit for being thorough, even if overly so. But then I noticed these gems:

thinking about the phonetics, "strawberry" has three /r/ sounds...

For example, in Spanish, it's "fresa," which has no "r"s, or in French, "fraise," which also has no "R"s...

But to be absolutely certain, let's count them one by one: s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y. Okay, the first "r" is after the "a," then after the "b," and finally twice at the end before the "y." Wait, is that two or three "r"s at the end? Let's see: s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y. So, r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y. Okay, there are two "r"s before the "y." So, that's one after "a," one after "b," and two before "y," making it four "r"s in total. Wait a minute, now I'm confusing myself...

For example, "copyright" has two "r"s, "arroba" has one "r,"...

Wait, perhaps I'm confusing it with "arrowroot," which has two "r"s. Alternatively, maybe thinking of a word like "corroborate," which has four "r"s...

and

Alternatively, thinking about Middle English "strawberie," still three "r"s.

It's not being thorough. It's just trained to sound like it's being thorough. It's producing the same garbage as any other LLM, this one just happens to get the answer right because it's been trained on data that includes discussions of the strawberry problem.

There's certainly a unique mechanism which might make it better at searching a space for answers, and that's pretty neat in its own way.
I replaced all my wardrobes with washing machines.
> A non virtualized Linux install isn't more locked in than a docker install

Again, sorry for my ignorance here, but if not virtualized, how does one move hosting providers otherwise? My experience is limited to either running all the bash commands in an install readme, or installing a docker image.

So there must be something in-between, to recreate a linux install elsewhere?

> Replying here as your other question is at max thread depth:

btw, you can click on the time of the post, and reply there when there is no reply link in the main thread.
Secure boot prevents this proof of concept but it doesn't prevent all UEFI boot kits and this particular kit will likely evolve.

On window: It took several years until the first two real UEFI bootkits were discovered in the wild (ESPecter, 2021 ESET; FinSpy bootkit, 2021 Kaspersky), and it took two more years until the infamous BlackLotus – the first UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on up-to-date systems – appeared (2023, ESET).

Per article.
Kernel is in "maintenance and focussed on upstreaming" mode for a few years already, after getting nearly full HW support about 2-3 years ago.

As for phone feature, reliability of that depends on reliability of firmware of the modem, which was always shaky.
They're not importing the VMs from Europe. And there are no new tariffs yet, inauguration is in January so there are only various announcements so far.

They're using tariff to mean price, which is an unusual choice and likely because it was written by someone from Germany. This would not necessarily sound out of place to a German speaker as "Tarife" is a common way to describe differently priced plans for any kind of service.
Cool idea! It sounds like you're offering it for free, with the option for a donation. How are you going to deal with the influx of what I imagine will be hundreds of free requests? Won't that get pretty expensive fast?
Because of announcements of tariffs?
> Well if you're trying to sell me "compatibility" you've got to do better than that

No, I’ve got to sell you what you want. And if you don’t want a compatibility relationship between package versions, then it’s an easy sell.

You’ve clearly not worked anywhere where this would be an easy sell. And that’s fine - it’s a specific kind of system that benefits from this, but don’t waste your time writing thousands of words when a simple “I don’t get why this is useful” would be enough.
Widespread disruption in Denmark after mobile network outage
I thought Netcup either colo'ed at or rented servers at, Hetzner? Maybe this was a ways back or have they always had their own DC?
Mostly. Sometimes people will do what's good for them, externalities be damned. I like leaded gasoline as an example. It wasn't an oopsie. We know it was bad from the day it was introduced and lead producers fought to keep it known as safe.
Nature is much too complex to fit into people's anthropocentric perspective. Either we dial back the production of industrial poisons or the natural world will continue withering from our consumption of natural resources. The fundamental problem is that industrial activity is unsustainable but it's neither politically nor economically expedient to actually address the root causes of why that's the case.
Norway is uniquely located among those, though.
Yes it has:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-intensity?tab=chart&t...
Nitrogen gas is for most purposes chemically and organically inert, particularly in the absence of oxygen.

It's also abundant, cheap, and non-toxic, so long as the surrounding environment has sufficient oxygen that leaks don't put personnel at risk. Glovebox construction and use is also much easier than with vacuum.

A positive-pressure nitrogen environment will also limit infiltration of oxygen or other contaminants, something which cannot be said of vacuum chambers.

Past experiences (see Nasa SP-88 below) show that vacuum handling provides few if any benefits and numerous risks and complexities.

Nitrogen-flooded environments can be made arbitrarily large, again a characteristic that's not true of vacuum chambers.

A StackExchange question addresses this topic in more depth:

<https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/29727/why-does-nas...>

That sources a 1965 Nasa document: "NASA 1965 Summer Conference on Lunar Exploration and Science" <https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/documents/65_lunar_conf.pdf> [PDF] (NASA SP-88). See p. 255.
This and also what people don't realize is that because right now Rust is a passion project for most people almost everything in it is of very high quality.

Jobs will come soon because stability and speed is good for business. And then we will have a bunch of lower quality stuff but more jobs. So enjoy the good things at each stage.
> with the aim of creating a more secure platform.

What a bullshit... this is an abuse of the language.
Daemon series by Daniel Suarez: I can’t believe I slept on this book for so long. It would have altered my worldview fundamentally if I had read it at a younger age.

Mind Hunter: Somehow even better than the show.

A Brief History of Intelligence: Packed with so much knowledge about the evolution, mechanics, and different forms of intelligence. One of the best non-fiction books I have read in a long time.
I really don’t get what your obsession is with compatibility and package managers. Stop and actually read what people are telling you before replying.

Repeat after me: the use case that fits this does not involve package managers, external distribution or any form of compatibility constraints.

Repeat after me: the use case that fits this involves the need a versioning scheme that’s better than a meaningless incrementing integer”

Repeat after me: the use case that fits this involves a need to integrate with a deployment system or tooling that expects semver versions.

Repeat after me: I want a semver compatible versioning scheme.
What a nice way to preserve feudal classes. It'd be just terrible if someone not rich attempted startups.
ed advocacy and useful tips: https://x.com/ed1conf
I'm not advocating for anyone being a nasty person, but there are significant cultural differences again for what it means to be rude. In Japan the cultural expectation is that saying "no" is rude in a customer service situation, which is far beyond the expectations of most of the world. This is particularly tricky when the answer is actually "no".

If you're used to American customer service, you may find European customer service to be blunt or curt, and many people would perceive that as rude even though it is not intended that way. Again, if they aren't trying to win every customer, this isn't really a problem.
If they can look it up then so can you! Maybe it filters out lazy scammers, but it doesn't sound like solid KYC to me.

In fact I don't feel like a hosting service should need to do this at all. If you pay your bills and aren't on the Stasi blacklist you should be good to go. I don't want or expect the likes of Hetzner to be responsible for policing.
Not really scared as I take action the second I hear about nasty things. The most recent events were people creating shared links pointing to FTP servers that had revenge porn and sharing those on a whacky telegram account, another annoying one is people who keep trying to brute force other people accounts on cloud providers even though there's a protection in place to throttle to 20 connection attempt per second, effectively degrading the free service for everyone else and getting me kicked off from cloud provider like the most recent one being Hostinger
So when a scene is described, what happens in your head? You take it all in as a sort of dry list of facts? If someone gets punched in the face that conjures an image of a fist connecting with a face for me.
This is using purego which is still using FFI, it is dynamically linking the C libs so you still have the same shared library issues. You don’t have to setup a C compiler toolchain though which is nice.
Indeed. It is shocking how little money it takes to buy influence in the UK. I reckon I could afford my own MP.
This. It's not a political issue at all for me. I just find that X has become full of dumb and trashy stuff, with no way to turn it off. The problem isn't that it's right wing or left wing or whatever—it's that it's lame.
It's British English. Tariff is used to mean import duties, business prices (e.g. "phone tariff") and also prison sentences (e.g. "whole life tariff").

Though given the political context, it would probably have made sense to use a different word.
Perhaps I'm paranoid but this has multiple red flags that make hesitate to install - even the "too good to be true" aspect of such comprehensive features makes me wonder (which is probably irrational and taking it a bit too far!)
If I created the perfect language tomorrow the very first problem is that absolutely nobody would have any experience in it.

It would also have no other ecosystem. No books. No tutorials. No mentors. No libraries. No frameworks.

And even as it got those things, they would remain immature and incomplete for a long time when compared to the ecosystem around languages that are decades old.

I could also make an operating system that was superior in every way and it would fail because there would be no apps for it.
And a lot were straight out manipulated, including by foreign agents (Russia).
Is C++ easier to prototype in? Of course there's the borrow checker, but I feel like Rust at least shows up with some expressiveness niceties that gets you some productivity wins in the prototyping stage.

Though really I suppose "comfort with a language " is such a big factor, seeing people really belt out stuff in C is always a bit impressive to me (yeah yeah, bug filled etc)
occurs to me that sample return missions
should ,not end up ON, earth, but in orbit
where they could be retrieved and studied
initialy, befor bieng packaged for earth
landing, therby vastly limiting any possible cross contamination, and having a pristine storage environment for control
samples
Most people in London don't care because they are not English and have no connection with the thousands of years of history the city and country have. Only a third of the population has any connection at all to the London of the 1950s, never mind the 1100s. They are not stakeholders in its heritage, the explanation is as simple as that.
Bit of a shame to see almost all manufacturers do subscriptions.

Hope it’s a fad.
> sell if off

To who? How?
All tax regimes, including zero tax, are social engineering.
> But Rust is better in the same way that Betamax was better than VHS, Mastodon is better than Twitter, Dvorak keyboards are better than QWERTY, Esperanto is better than English and Lua is better than Javascript

Esperanto is certainly not better than English; and I really doubt Lua is better than Javascript.
Because they provide good service to most customers.

Your case is unfortunate, and I totally understand why you'd be taking you business elsewhere, but probably an outlier.

Otherwise, we'd need to ask the same about AWS et. al. as we've definitely seen more than enough wrong account closure complaints on here.
Where are these C++ jobs? I've only seen Rust jobs :D
> have a competitive advantage in the market

In theory, yes, but there are two problems:

(1) You need to either hire or train someone to write in Rust, and neither is trivial amount of effort. And at the end of the day, you need to push features out. Let's be real: you can find someone to write JavaScript to do full stack development, anywhere in the world, for a cheap price. Rust? The code may be more robust and easier to maintain in the long run, but it's hard to do that unless you already set up a team for that.

(2) Most software companies don't actually care that much about the language they use, the tech stack, or their infrastructure in general. Remember there are lots and lots of software companies that are not Google/Meta etc, and they are not at the bleeding edge of have state-of-the-art infrastructure. Saying that as someone working at a company with thousands of developers, and there are millions of old, ugly, almost unmaintainable Perl code in our core infrastructure running right now. From outside, it all looks fine.
"Tarif" indeed roughly translates to "plan" in this context and can be used for all kinds of plans/rates/tariffs, not just the import duty kind.
I fired Spotify when they signed Rogan to that ridiculous contract, and I switched to Apple Music. Great UX, great audio quality. Not prefect, but better than what I left behind.
It's actually not hard to eat a diet that doesn't have a lot of fructose. More difficult to avoid heavily processed carbohydrates that are absorbed too quickly.
It is. Unfortunately it never worked at scale.
Good for them! Continue to be profitable and competitive so I can keep using them 20 years from now when they still decimate big cloud at 100x pricing or big cloud value add layer companies at 200x pricing
It’s not surprising, but I don’t think people of Norway care about entrepreneurs so it doesn’t matter.
It's most likely imprecise wording due to a linguistic false friend from German (Hetzner is a German company); see also my other comment.
> Esperanto is certainly not better than English; and I really doubt Lua is better than Javascript

Doesn't that depend on how one decides to "score" a language? And I think that's what the author is getting at, too.
I should say that unlike the author of ninja though, I am _very_ interested in user complaints and criticism, even if its not fully articulated and respectful. I _need_ contradiction and opposition to go beyond the bounds of my own conceptions as a almost-always-sole developer and sole maintainer of the library. I may not accept/agree with everything, but I'll at least know to take the concerns into consideration. And I've already refactored quite a bit over the years based on use cases user have pointed out to me.
Quite simple for the psychopath is nothing, nada, zilch, nil, nix.

Sociopath, well. The world is cruel, including for children.
The tetanus vaccine is mandatory in many places and it’s a vaccine that doesn’t work in the supposedly “normal” way that the old CDC definition describes. So your statement that the Covid vaccine was the first one is just plain wrong. The fact that the tetanus vaccine is part of a combined vaccine doesn’t change the basic facts.
I've started several companies in Norway. When I moved to the UK, the wealth tax was not even remotely a consideration, even though my shares were at the time valued in the millions - we moved because getting the size investment we needed to grow in Norway was too hard at that time.

Yes, it can be a challenge for fast-growing startups where the secondary market is not very liquid, and is something people need to be aware of. It's not generally a major problem, in that if you can't find ways of structuring deals in ways that allow for ensuring the founders can afford the tax bill, the company just isn't doing very well.
Isn't a Docker image an OS image and a bunch of shell commands?
These tests always make me wonder: What qualifies as a valid pattern rule?

For example, why wouldn't "0" be a correct answer here (rule being "every other number on the right should be 0, other numbers do not have a pattern")?
It’s using purego: https://github.com/ebitengine/purego

And linking against libtcl and libtk.
Having worked with Lua and JS professionally for years, Lua is far, far worse than JS.
This wouldn’t prevent you from voting on your own. The problem is if everyone is doing their own thing it’s a pretty noisy signal. Getting rid of an incumbent is really hard.

This is a way of organizing many people who do have similar interests and putting some force behind it.

A lot of these interest groups already exist, they just haven’t gone the extra step of getting voters to commit to them.
Theatrical version just kind of abruptly.. ends.
Talos Linux, Flatcar Container linux...
The language seems to be heavily branding itself as "data-oriented", mentioning it front and center on the website and repo, but never mentions in the docs what makes it data-oriented, or what it even means by that. Is it data-oriented in the Clojure sense, in contrast to "place-oriented"? Or is it data-oriented as in programming with tables of rows, or something else?
Apple is positioning Swift as this (and are also moving it from Apple's space on Github etc. into its own and gradually trying to build more of a community), so I wonder if it will catch on more. If people are already using it in the app space, it might be able to branch out into other areas.

Over the last year and a bit they've also been working on strong C++ interop to be able to start using it in their own projects without having to do rewrites, and also better cross-platform and static linking support on Linux which could all make it a lot more attractive.

(For context, like Rust, Swift is both memory safe and data-race safe)