skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as if the person who wrote the email doesn't know the actual meaning of the word.

In my country, "tariff" is seen in several contexts:

* A tax on imports, much in the news since the recent US election.

* A pub or bar's price list is known as the "bar tariff"

* Energy companies offer a selection of "tariffs" i.e. agreed contract rates for usage-based pricing. e.g. a 3-year-fixed-price tariff, a 100%-green-energy tariff, and so on.

* The portion of a 'life' jail sentence which must be served, before a prisoner can be considered for parole.

So I don't think it's incorrect to call a price list a "tariff", merely unusual.
True, so what gives? Just them wanting more money now that they got enough customers? They probably did some calculations and realized that damn, they could pocket more money so might as well try their luck. Like yeah, let us assume they have 10k customers: 7.05 * 10000 is 70500, 8.99 * 10000 is 89900, that is 19400 USD more for them, and that is just for one!
Sure, that is going.to be true for anything with moving pats. Yet I would also imagine that design and materials are a factor here. Let's face it, these covers aren't exactly common on laptops. There is probably a lack of good design practices for them.
The actual law doesn't fully rule it out (there was an amendment to kind-of add that but it's fuzzy so ID could still be part of it).

But it's basically unenforcable without doing ID, it's going to fall in a heap eventually. The Australian Governement talks big game in tech regulation but almost every single thing they do (like the 'eSafety Comissioner' with their truly extradorinary powers) fails because they are very, very incompetent when it comes to technology.

I think former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accidentally summed it up (talking about encryption) when he literally claimed that "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia".
Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging
The one thing that absolutely won't be getting cut is Musk's huge government contracts.
I run a dedicated server with them that does about 1 TB inbound / 50 GB outbound daily.

If they start fucking people over on the dedicated servers as well, this product is basically dead because I can't find anywhere else that allows me to do this at the current price point...

Unless of course I slap a box under my desk and hook it up to my fiber internet.
Pooling and winsorizing machine learning forecasts to predict stock returns
I think it's safe to say that, in under-16s, cyberbullying and susceptibility to intentionally addictive social media algorithms are a bit more of a common problem than revolutionary activities. Any would-be Che Guevaras can put in the time arousing the working class in person until such time as they can grow facial hair.
That's cool to hear! Was there anything specific that sucked about how you had to do it then?

We'd love to hear more to understand what problems we could solve better.
Possible theory why they did it: To my understanding, you don't pay for traffic, you pay for network capacity. Maybe US instances aren't getting the uptake they had hoped for, and they are looking lower some costs by reducing their network capacity (they are a very German company and care a lot about efficiency).

Hetzner is very cheap and still profitable because classic "economy of scale" and vertical integration. They own, build, and operate all their data centers. This comment goes into more details[1], but it's possible this doesn't really work out in a foreign location like US.

[1]: https://forumweb.hosting/13663-why-are-hetzners-dedicated-ho...
I personally lived in a very backwater state, surrounded by racist conservatives, and was raised hardcore Catholic by extremely abusive guardians. I owe every single ounce of my rationality to the web and the ideas and people I encountered there.

Facebook, etc are definitely terrible for kids. But the wording of these laws is intentionally vague, in order for these kinds of laws to be used according to the whim of the incumbent, as a tool of oppression.
I've recently been teaching kids to code (in Aus) - 7 year olds already know about VPNs, and use them to circumvent various roadblocks to playing roblox!
I think I'm missing something then. If that were true, wouldn't you lower the network allowance and then make the product cheaper or at least priced the same? This would have the no-traffic users paying "their fair share" and the overage costs (or higher traffic addon) would make up for the heavy users.

The current plan makes everything more expensive for everyone. They would do this if a) they never had a sustainable model in the first place or b) they were just being greedy
Then we attack the systemic issues, instead of pushing through intentionally vague legislation. Some of the similar legislation being explored by multiple US states is frightening.
It’s not perfect, but carefully choosing DNS resolvers/profiles can get you a lot of the way there.

Even Mullvad ad-blocking DNS is available for free, no app (and def no account!)

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

Nice thing is you can set your DHCP to hand this out to all devices.
Do 1970 instead, over50 years of stagnation.
what made it good?

Less good, more fun. To 'prove' that you were over 18 you had answer a series of multiple choice questions [1] about pop culture that most kids almost certainly wouldn't know. Pre internet, finding the answer was surprisingly hard without asking an adult. The main result was that 10 year old me knew a surprisingly large number of obscure facts of about US culture, like who Spiro Agnew was and that Ronald Reagan once starred in a movie with a monkey.

Eventually we found out that you could press some magic key combination to skip the question all together.

[1] https://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.ht...
I think there was a ton of bullying depending on what part of the internet you spent your time in, but importantly it was very easy to find inclusive, safe spaces.

Today, it is not as easy. This is probably part of why so many have moved to group chats and direct messages for online interaction in recent years.
That's correct but assuming you want > 300 MB/s from EU to NA that will be a struggle.

If you don't care about high upload/download speed from/to NA<->EU then yes, that's a good move. Otherwise closeness in geo is still king.
> That is utter nonsense.

Hardly. Some level of cross subsidisation happens in all service of this nature. Depending on use youre either paying or receiving

Most Providers and customers just ignore it as inconsequential though.
The per capita GDP of Germany is $52,745.76. The US is $81,695.19. The EU as a whole is $43,194. Median household income is $38,971 in Germany and $80,610 in the US.

When people cost twice in one place versus another companies will focus on more expensive but less people intensive approaches.
The problem with their old pricing structure is that it attracts high-utilization customers who will max out their transfer every month. But yes, they raised prices for all of us. Their pricing was so low, my guess is it was never profitable enough to be worthwhile long-term. It brought them a lot of business, some of which they'd be happier without under the old terms.
What about keyboard shortcuts? I’ve only realised why some shortcuts were chosen after using an English language QWERTY keyboard.

On a German QWERTZ keyboard, most symbols are in completely different places, require modifiers, and thus you almost get cramps when typing some keyboard shortcuts. On a “default” English keyboard, they’re easy and the placement makes sense.
Original article, with the technical analysis of the bootkit:

https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/bootkitty-an...
What do you mean?

News Hacker isnt representative sample that also understands the insustry and the business?
I'm from the opposite world, the US, where religion, education, and the state have been at nontrivial risk of becoming the same things, depending on where in the country you live.

Needless to say, those are all very different reads after experiencing an attempted ethnonationalist theocracy as a member of a non-dominant group. I'm not against religion, but I don't care for Christian apologism or its blindness to its effects; like political centrism, it seems to unify towards incumbent power and authoritarianism, only entrenching factionalization and incompatibility.
500 Million is also the figure quoted on the Georgia Guidestones which are no longer a thing :)
Craft 3 is a notes, tasks, and calendar app that does almost everything right
dont pretend its not niche tho
Its still a really good price though.
We tried both WC1 and 2. Played both to death.

WC2 worked mostly well but just kind of slower game speed.

In fact I got Diablo running on the LC3. A level took like 10 mins to load and it ran at 1fps though. :)
> I actually can't learn from rote memorization, as I cannot commit something to memory that I don't sufficiently understand.

I apologize but I don't believe these things to be literally true. You can clearly speak at least one natural language with native-speaker fluency, and that inherently involves committing a large amount of raw data to memory that may never be "fully understood" in a complete sense. More generally, memorizing stuff effectively that one does not clearly understand happens all the time in all sorts of education, and my view is that genuinely effective methods can indeed make this roughly as easy as memorizing the lexicon of one's native language.

(The success of spaced-repetition software is at least an existence proof that such methods are in fact possible, though the context is not exactly the same as classroom instruction.)

Of course whenever "sufficient understanding" happens to be feasible it should be included; I have never said otherwise. What "Progressive" education means when it pushes "open inquiry" and "students learning by themselves" is something radically different, that in practice amounts to letting the students 'sink or swim' with no effective support whatsoever.
That wasn't in the original bill and it was only amended to add that yesterday, because it wouldn't get past the Conservative (Liberal/National Party) whose votes they needed to ram it through Parliament with almost no scrutiny otherwise (the hastily drafted bill only having been introduced the Friday before the final sitting week of the year).
I often use Photos album link sharing option. Have never tried to embed in in an existing page, is that the problem it is solving at the moment (and relocating the images though I am not sure what that entails in terms of usage rights)? I must have missed something otherwise.
I could swear i've seen EFI Bootkits for Linux a decade ago.
Right. Let's do the same for drugs.

Irony aside, these platforms are addictive and polarizing by design. I doubt a little test will change anything.
Missing The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. Mind fucked…
Godloader a malware distribution using Godot Engine
The Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel
Careful there, you've potentially just thought about this more deeply than any of the politicians in our Parliament has...
There's another, more global research: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-edtech-revolution-has-faile...
If user delete photos on Google side, are they also removed from your service? And also what's the retention of user data on your service once I cancel my account?
a rage blog post to be able to move on with my life
Search for good games in the vast pile trash mobile games: Gorogoa comes to mind

Start developping apps for your phone

Start modding the hardware of your phone (e.g. build a custom case)

Read books (modern phones with bigger screens are surprisingly comfortable for reading)

Research all the birthdays of your friends and safe them in the contact information. Your phone will remind you to send them a message on their birthday;)
i developed rsi pretty bad in like 2018 and went all in with an ergodox and it didnt help really. true ergo + better posture and actual breaks (and some time off) is the only thing that worked for me

but i will say split keyboard is very nice but ortholinear seemed to reintroduce some strains

i use a normal keyboard with good floating hand posture when typing a lot w no issues these days
I don't see any serious "right way" as you describe it. In particular I don't see a lot of motivation from social groups, and the Internet is horrible for good feedback because lots of people respond to things from a purely emotional place.
That's Graeber for you.

"Bullshit Jobs" should have also remained a blog post.
But, really? What are you doing, that your VMs need more than 1TB of data per month? That's a huge amount! That's 23MB per minute, continuously.

If you have a website with that kind of reach, the prices seem entirely reasonable.
Take everything "Russian officials" say with a mountain of salt.

If it's ~15%/week, that's 1.15^52 = 143300%/year.

Other signs of Russia's decline and Putin's weakening hold on power:

- Butter is now gold [0]

- Russians wait in lines for 5+ hours for cheap eggs [1]

- Steam, water, and sewage pipes are breaking everywhere and getting worse [2]

- There are a lot of western goods still sold in Russian grocery stores because smuggling in violation of sanctions is an ineffective speed-bump [3]

- Local officials officially announced preparation for the likelihood of winter power outages by buying generators, stoves, and firewood [I can't find original sources because they are in Russian]

A government that can't pickup the garbage or keep the lights on won't stay in power for long, no matter how ignorant or ideologically-radicalized the populace has become.

0. https://www.newsweek.com/russians-resort-stealing-butter-ami...

1. https://www.newsweek.com/videos-show-massive-lines-eggs-russ...

2. https://www.ft.com/content/81985842-e20a-4f2a-96b6-69aeddbe5...

3. https://en.thebell.io/coca-cola-quit-russia-but-you-can-stil...

PS: There will be no use of nuclear weapons for many reasons. Firstly, the Russian military cannot keep a secret and there have been zero signs of mobilization for a nuclear attack. Secondly, Putin likes living not dying. Third, it would spoil his legacy. Fourth, Russia would immediately become a pariah worse than North Korea. Fifth, fallout drifts unpredictably. Sixth, conventional forces do more damage. Seventh, they are more internationally normalized than nuclear ones by being allowed to continue without a stronger, more direct response.
And, as we know from Hyrum's law[1], every change might be breaking ;).

Oh, you added a bar() method to Frobinator? Shame, this other project depends on the fact that Frobinator only has one public method. And that project distinguishes Frobinators and Barinators by checking bar() method existence.

And you fixed a bug where username returned from API had a space appended at the end? But my frontend developers used that for layout and now my site is broken.

Written partially in cheek, but it's true that every change is breaking for someone if you have enough users.

[1]See https://www.hyrumslaw.com, Wikipedia entry, recent discussion on HN, and of course that one xkcd.
that just spoils it
This seems to be a huge PR blunder. As a single data point, I have to say that my first reaction is illogical.

I have two hetzner shared instances and I am royally pissed by the 20x reduction in traffic allowance. It is also irrelevant to me: over the last 12 months I never exceeded 1TB. My unhappiness on the traffic reduction is purely of a "what if I start using more" type. For which two rational answers is "well you can explore alternatives then" and "d'oh, your average is way under 100GB, it's not going over 1TB". But I still started looking at alternatives.

My feeling is that the reduction is aimed at a small group, but upsets a much larger set of customers who now will start looking for alternatives. Which indicates a typical marketing screwup. My 2c.
From the article: "To date, ESET has found no evidence of actual infections in the wild."
It was uploaded to some service though.
Fictional accounts of the oppression of women in the western world are so unimaginative and uninteresting that it does not even come close to capturing the real horror of the oppression of women in the non-western world.
S3 is still hdd? Cached at least?
It might be Grooveshark that they're thinking of, it was notorious for quickly reuploading content that was taken down by DMCA requests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark
Traveling to the U.K. next year? You need to get authorized online.
https://archive.ph/IpiJH
It's always amusing listening to techies' musings on law... lots of misunderstandings, I suspect due to the helpful but inaccurate "code but for humans" analogy.

Obligatory/relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
It's vibes based - the definitions could cover almost any online service, but the Minister of Communications gets to decide who will be targeted.

They have zero detail on how to verify anybody's age. But massive fines if the tech companies fail. Basically the only reliable way to do it would be to ID everyone, but then they had to sort of mostly rule that out in a rushed amendment yesterday to get it past the Conservatives (Liberal/National Party) because they neeed their votes in the Senate.

So basically they're asking tech companies to come up with magical technology to perfectly know how old someone is without any identification.
shame we dont do more cool stuff with builtins. so many times ive wished for something like

__builtin_regex_compile()
__builtin_regex_match()
I'm not clear why you are focusing on hashing user ids. Nor how you landed on a 50/50 split. When someone logs in, write a record of which one they got. No need for hashing. The algorithm for choosing can be any percentage. And yes, just a simple lookup table is fine.

But the work comes when analyzing the data later, so that is where you need to put in more thought. What are you measuring? How are you logging the events that will track that measurement? Those are both harder and more important questions. Based on what you are measuring, you might want only specific subsets of users to test things - why assign 50% of an entire userbase to a feature being tested that only 10% of the users touch? You need to assign a portion of that 10%, not a global 50%.

Basically, you need to start with the end data you intend to act on and work backwards, not start with a hashing algorithm that might not even help.
This is great! I wish other governments would follow. Until social media giants change their predatory business model, this seems like a perfectly good interim solution.
Or the cause is one step removed, for example the handful of giant companies that control all US internet infrastructure, versus the hundreds all over Europe.
Students who use podcasts, YouTube, and ChatGPT to complete their academic tasks aren't shallower or less educated than those who have spent years mastering the skill of extracting information from dense books

The problem is that while YouTube and ChatGPT will get you through high school and perhaps a year of university, you'll eventually reach a point where you need information that is only available in dense books. And if you haven't learnt that skill of reading dense books, you have a problem.

There was actually an article in the newspaper just today about how a record number of university students in Sweden are struggling and failing because they are simply incapable of reading and extracting the necessary information needed from the textbooks.
i think HN has a high bar for when somebody comments as a representative of their company. it's not uncommon for someone repping their company to step in with a comment like "i've temporarily added credits on your account so your post can stay up".

fwiw, i read your comment as just trying to be helpful. but sometimes there is an assumption that if you're publicly representing your company, then you're also enabled to make reasonable ad-hoc overrides as an outreach opportunity.
Please read my comment again.

I'm complaining about places to go within walking distance, such as this market, being removed despite declarations from the city authorities that they're making the place more liveable.
50 years of rising educational attainment, no gain in actual skills
However, we are also considering infrastructure costs. The median salary in Germany is approximately 60,000 USD, which should probably be taken into account when comparing company costs to those in the USA, which are around 70-80,000 USD.
> OF COURSE it was popular with communists

A long story short: it wasn't. Tarkovsky suffered from censorship and lack of support for the production of non propaganda movies, like many others.

> Edit: just started reading the movie's Wikipedia page

Watching movies and reading about them before commenting on them is usually a good starting point.
I don't think regulations and social behaviour could stop a Skynet style "AI go FOOM" future. It might be able to stop LLM filler from covering the internet, but given how it can't stop carbon dioxide filler from the atmosphere and "AI text" is less measurable, less easy to stop, and has less clear consequences, I'm not sure I'd bet on it.

Possibly in the sense of going to a small server where ID is verified and hiding away on Discord from the rest of the internet. That would be more like building a bunker to hide from the flying cars, rather than flying cars never happening.
Traffic over-usage is $1 per TB, so this is still quite fair, only in singapore is traffic really expensive at $8/TB.
>Time is sequential. Otherwise, sequential build numbers are kind of hard to orchestrate in a distributed architecture

Time is sequential, but this means that just building an older version is now a production breaking incident. That's weird to me, but I'm not a CD person.
I agree it is still reasonable.

But some examples of things that are profitable under the old regime, but maybe not at 20x the limit:

API services that consume media, whether to do some business logic specific thing or something specific, e.g. Transcriptions for videos, file conversion API, OCR API provider, etc.

If you try a video app without using WebRTC and peer traffic your bandwidth can blow up too. Even if you use something like push notifications with base64. There are lots of traps that use Bandwidth.
That's why I'm excited about the new batch of PineNote devices, e-readers running Linux with a custom GNOME theme and a passive stylus.

And yeah, no matter what note-taking and productivity software I try I still end up longing for pen and paper. Sometimes I think scanning my notes and tagging them might be a good enough compromise.
> Obviously, these accusations were baseless

Yeah, sure. That might be true. While there are definitely times when people are treated unfairly, I'd say 4 out of 5 stories like this turn out to be a scenario where the dev really was doing something sketchy.
You can get pretty cheap servers with massive storage (2x2TB for example) and use them as backup targets.
"Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources." ... This argument does not make sense. I use very few resources but have to pay more.
There is no way in hell anything built there will be for normal people.
That area is on the doorstep of the City, with excellent connections, it’s like the centre of a compass transport wise.
When completed, you can bet it will be 2m+ for a shoebox sized apartment, with yearly fees that would swallow any normal persons salary.
Inflation, the real inflation is 10%