skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the mid-2000s I worked for a place where we were paying exorbitant annual license fees for this CA eTrust LDAP we hardly used. We mainly used Novell eDir and Sun JES LDAP, we were so happy when we could migrate the eTrust to Sun. Later on, Sun JES got replaced by Oracle Internet Directory, and Novell eDir got replaced by AD.

Say what you like about Sun or Oracle or Novell, their pricing was much more reasonable than CA’s. Plus we were a public university, and CA didn’t seem to believe in education discounts, whereas Oracle gave us a standard education discount of over 90% off list price.

CA was famously the place where mainframe software went to die. When I worked for Oracle, I had some very limited exposure to CA TopSecret and ACF2, which are mainframe security products (RACF competitors) that CA bought, which an Oracle product I was working on integrated with. No idea what the licensing was but I’m sure it wasn’t cheap.
Damn cute photo. "HOLY SHIT, LOOK AT ALL THE BLINKENLIGHTS!"
You should try green coffee and see what you think. Some roast on the coffee does enhance the flavor, make it more soluble, etc.. "underdeveloped" is definitely a thing.

I'm sure you will agree that raw beef and a steak taste differently?
> Binary exploitation is my field of expertise.

> Creating an entire language to prevent such bugs is excessive, especially given the current state of software security.

I'm having a hard time reconciling those 2 statements. I can imagine any 1 person having one or the other of those opinions, but not both at the same time.

> Meanwhile, the vast majority of security issues (around 98%) come from basic human errors, such as reusing passwords or falling for phishing, not sophisticated zero-days exploiting memory corruption.

We're not limited to doing just one thing, you know. Some people are working on improving the authentication space. Others are working on making it easier for developers to write safe code. Both of those can progress at the same time.
I hope "react forces you into the npm mentality hard on choosing random libraries..." isn't true. I'm just getting into a side-project using Vue and Vuetify components but not planning on using much else than commercial third-parties (which admittedly have free plans that I'm currently using).
Founder and CEO of DNSimple here. I'd like to clarify a couple of things about our business that may shed some light on why we've ended certain legacy plans when we have.

There are two key parts to our business: domain registration management and authoritative DNS. These two parts have very different price models in the industry. For domains, you pay a fee for each year they are registered. For DNS, you pay for each zone and then for the DNS queries.

The price changes around domain registrations have not been coming from us, rather registry operators have been raising many of their wholesale prices repeatedly in recent years. The operator for .COM even showed up in the news recently when Senator Warren called for an investigation into Versign for the price changes around that TLD. We’ve either kept domain prices stable for as long as we could, or even reduced them, as long as we were able to retain some small margin.

The price changes around operational DNS stems from the rising prices of infrastructure as well as changes by our vendors for various services related to DNS operations. Last year we overhauled our pricing to try to remain competitive in the DNS operational space by reducing minimum requirements (you can register domains with us and use another DNS provider which is something you could not do with our previous pricing model) and by aligning to actual costs (we were not charging for queries for a long time, but we are being charged for queries for things like DDoS defense and edge caching, so we had to update our prices to reflect these changes).

Operating a business means you have to keep at least 3 groups happy: the customers, the team, and the owners. Many times I have to make a decision that will make someone unhappy, and it sucks, but I do it to ensure we can continue operating and keep providing service to those that see value in what we offer. This is one of those cases. From the operational DNS perspective, our Basic Reseller plan has been operating at a loss for the last few years, so it had to ultimately go.

To Cory and any other customer who feels we did not communicate well on the changes: I’m sorry. I assure you we have tried over and over through emails and one-on-one conversations to explain why these changes were necessary. I, and the entire DNSimple team, have always been very open with any customer that is frustrated with changes we’ve made, and we will continue to do so. If you ever want to talk to me about DNSimple, my inbox is always open.
"Just" is a weasel word. I can't ever trust it.
Starchy nanofibers shatter the record for thinnest pasta
Of course. People are never genuine in their interest or preference of things. It's always about status, wealth, and their standing among their peers. /s

God y'all need to have some hobbies.
I agree with what you're saying, and you're absolutely correct, but purely in the interest of pedantry, there has been at least one case of a person surviving after showing symptoms [1].

Still, the odds are so close to 100% lethal after symptoms that you can very honestly round up to 100%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#After_onset
Lodash does a hundred different things and then people start using it in place of super simple code or native capabilities ballooning the third party API you need to learn
They absolutely did buy the site. I was moreso commenting on the "we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal" part of the article, but you can believe whatever part of the article you want to I guess.
Makes complete sense.

Iran/China/Russia all have more advanced missiles than the US has deployed like, ever. Iran and Russia have demonstrated recently hypersonics that are effectively unblockable.

What kind of knowledge do these arms export controls really do other than make it more difficult to compete with defense contractors?
I can not imagine my life without books to read. It is the greatest joy in my short life. I have so much pity for these poor crippled people who cannot experience what I do when I read. Such a small, mean world that they live in.
Who knows, maybe they are thinking we’ll buy VMWare for $x, use the implicit lock in to extort customers until there’s nothing left in three years, get a tax write off, and pocket $3x.
> but right now it's a bit too new

Too new? It's 8 years old!
research doc: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/na/d4na0...
The type of workloads large companies are dealing with have different constraints, compared to a homeserver and or minecraft box.

Sure, we could use physical boxes. But those will go to procurement. The budget will have to be approved. Orders are sent to suppliers. Hardware arrives, it is a colo is not so bad, but it will be installed according to the colo timelines. If it's your own DC you may have staff on hand, or it could very likely be a third party, and now you have to work with them etc etc. It can easily take months for any non trivially sized company. In the meantime, _we need capacity now_ and customers won't wait. I can provision thousands of machines on demand with a simple pull request and they will be online in minutes. And I can do that without exceeding the pre-approved budget, because those machines may not be needed forever; as soon as they are no longer needed, they are destroyed very quickly.

And then, a random machine fails somewhere. Do you have staff to detect and diagnose the problem? I don't care how good your monitoring system is, there are some thorny issues that are difficult to identify and fix without highly specialized staff on board. Staff that you are paying for. Me? I don't care. If a VM somewhere is misbehaving, it is automatically nuked. We don't care why it had issues (unless it's a recurring thing). That happens a few times daily when you have 5 to 6 digit number of machines, and that's either initiated by us when our system detect health check failures, or initiated by AWS (either planned or unplanned maintenance).

Don't think just how much an individual machine costs. It's all the supporting personnel that matters, with their (expensive) specialized skills. Managing one machine is doable (I have a few servers at home). Managing 50k? You have a beefy team now, with many specialized skills. You are probably running more exotic hardware.

You also need to measure apples to apples. You 'disk measured in TB' is a locally attached disk almost certainly. In the cloud, that's likely to be a network attached storage. That _is_ more expensive (try buying something similar for your home lab), but it gives a lot of flexibility, flexibility that may not be necessary in a homelab, but it is certainly needed in larger environments. That's what allows our VMs to be fungible and easily destroyed or recreated, as they themselves don't store any state. That storage will also be more resilient too (AWS EBS backs up snapshots on S3, with 11 nines of durability, and can automatically retrieve blocks if they go bad).

That said, even for large enterprises, the AWS egress costs are extortionate (more so if you use their NAT gateways). And there could be uses for workloads that don't change too much where it might be a good idea to have a hybrid model, and some physical boxes (but please try to not make them pets!).
It was clear to me from the article. The very next section is about how being economically sustainable is important if your goal is to maximize the amount of art you can present to a community.
Bletchley Park in the UK is home to the National Museum of Computing - they're both FANTASTIC to visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Museum_of_Computi... has a working rebuild of a Colossus Mark 2.
That was Broadcom's plan all along, they weren't buying VMware to compete, they were buying it to wring more than $61Bn from the customers who are stuck.

This[1] from 2022 says "Broadcom's stated strategy is very simple: focus on 600 customers who will struggle to change suppliers, reap vastly lower sales and marketing costs by focusing on that small pool, and trim R&D by not thinking about the needs of other customers – who can be let go if necessary without much harm to the bottom line. The Register offers that summary based on Broadcom's own words, as uttered at a November 2021 Investor Day."

and "Krause said Broadcom is content to have those 100,000 customers "trail" over time."

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/broadcom_strategy_vmw...
A typical McDonald’s costs over $1M — just in salaries.

Here are the 2023 numbers.

https://www.franchisechatter.com/2023/09/25/fdd-talk-mcdonal...
> If it is not profitable for companies to build such infrastructure

I didn't say the government would build out charging infra, did I? But they can make it easier.

> most of the world can't afford such cars either due to price

The sun is free. Oil costs dollars. Most of the world is dollar-constrained. Until now capturing the sun's energy was costly, but China's manufacturing scale has changed that.

Their manufacturing scale has also produced EVs that are way cheaper than your average Tesla.

> and/or due to non-existent infrastructure

Most countries have cheaper labor and fewer environmental constraints than the developed world. If they have a reason to build infrastructure, they'll build it.
The Tube Computer
We at https://syself.com have made a platform with "one-click updates". 100% vanilla Kubernetes on Hetzner.
Quick google suggests it was https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~hasti/cs368/CppTutorial/NOTES/PUR...
Sure, but comparing big cloud to physical box is kind of pointless. The reason for cloud is to save on things like reliability, compliance, maintenance, security, ease of development or scale.

Cloud is really expensive, but so is doing it yourself. Plus there is a plethora of regulations coming this way, NIS2, CRA and so on. If a software is down, it means a lot of lost revenue or extra cost.

If you just need pure compute or bandwidth, there no point in going to the cloud.

How much time was wasted by customer on-premise JIRA not sending emails. It was always... a didn't get email for a long time. Ask them to check it and restart it. Or my recent Win2012 (no R2) end of support and migration. At least the customer does pay for the Extended Security Updates.
Linux scanner support is amazing. I have a >10 year old printer/scanner/fax machine that I still use for scanning and faxing sometimes. Getting scanning to work in modern MacOS or Windows is ... an adventure. It's possible! But an adventure for sure.

I was delighted when I opened the scanner tool in fedora/gnome for laughs and it showed the (networked) machine as a scanning source. And I selected it. AND IT WORKED. I never even had to set it up!
I have been doing government work for a while and understand why they respond that way. Nation states can in fact develop very powerful kill chains. My entire start up was created and sold based on a vehicle kill chain but that took us a year and a half to do… Mean while some kid in his moms basement uses leaked credentials and sprays a network or phishes and boom. Major breach…
It would not surprise me if AT&T was playing with alternatives and just decided to pay up for a couple years while they learn more and figure out how to migrate. It is likely that the alternatives - with the influx of customers dropping vmware - get enough better in a couple years that vmware is much better.
For a nation of its size and power, the US was decidedly un-imperialist up until then.

Its empire was never on the scale of the major European Powers. But by that point in time, it still maintained explicit colonial control over the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii (still fairly recently subjugated) and numerous Pacific islands. Along with the Panama Canal Zone (which had its own postcal code, CZ).

It also exerted considerable influence over the affairs of many nominally independent countries in the hemisphere (Cuba quite notably), and engaged in several major military interventions up until 1933 (Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua). It also intervened substantially in the Russian Civil War, up until 1925, and was still engaged in wars of suppression against its indigenous population through the middle of that decade as well.

One could say its imperial project took a breather of sorts in the mid-1930s, and decided to rest on its laurels for a bit.

But "decidedly un-imperalist" it was not.
If I recall correctly, I thought there was some legal provision in the US for the military to disobey unconstitutional orders.
If it doesn't exist de jure, I suppose it always exists de facto, both in the US and elsewhere.

I think it is always interesting when the curtain gets pulled back to reveal how all of our political systems and norms simply overlay the fact that power is the ultimate law of the land.
I like to keep things as vanilla as I can because historically using languages that transpile into other languages has been quite horrible in my experience (for debugging reasons among many other things).
Playing a MUD was the reason I started making websites so my friends could "easily" share equipment stats with each other without needing to scan them in the game.
Like cockroachdb but with REPEATABLE READ instead of SERIALIZABLE as the default and only option.
Brain Stimulation Restores Walking in Two Paralyzed Patients
Out of curiosity, what's the use for such library? If you are on a desktop surely there is a better native library to draw shapes, no?
Show HN: robots.nxt – see, control, and convert bot traffic
Commercial websites live and die by audience analytics and conversion to revenue. Bots are the largest audience for most websites, but there aren't good tools for managing bots.

robots.nxt provides a free bot traffic analytics dashboard to see how many bots you're getting, what bots they are, what they're costing you, and what content they're crawling.

We provide rules for specific bots, bot categories, and specific content or content categories, and more.

You can modify and combine these, such as rate limiting or access denial to selected areas, and add a pricing model any combination of rules or identities.

For example, if ChatGPT tries to crawl your content pages, you can set robots.nxt so that your server will charge the bot $0.25 per page, but if an indexer crawls your pages there's no charge.

And if a bad bot shows up, you can serve it a 404 or dead, link-less homepage so that the bot thinks there's just nothing there.

If a bot pays for your content, you can include an AI training license.

You can dynamically render robots.txt, explaining what they're allowed to do, while ensuring they can't do anything you don't want. An iron fist in a velvet glove.

You can manage your server responses to, for example, filter any form submission element from any pages served to a bot. You don't have to challenge, because the form never gets served to a bot in the first place.

We can see any attempts to request insecure files or site areas, so you can see if someone is trying an exploit.

Humans will never be the largest source of web traffic ever again. The tools we've built with robots.nxt are an emerging standard for website and web app management in this new bot-dominated internet.

We're starting an open beta today, with all our released capabilities free for the time being. Sign up and tell us what you think!
Houses are fed split phase 240v. All big appliances have a dedicated electrical run with 240V and 20A to 50A.

Common 120V outlets are 15A max, with devices usually limited to 13A for some breathing room. That's 1.8kW and 1.5kW.

In France, the common 240V outlet is 16A. With devices at 13A max that's 3.8kW and 3.1kW.

So yes it sucks for tools. But cooking is just fine.
Don't worry more than enough grandmothers, young boys etc will be buying crypto as the market heats up and people like Marc Andreessen, Jake Paul etc look to offload their holdings.
Sorry yeah, I got the names mixed up. I recognized the documentation, and I do mean tanstack router with my description above. I don't remember why I didn't use react-router, but skimming over its documentation I think it may have been the focus on the odd non-React-y way of doing things ( https://reactrouter.com/start/framework/routing ).
This is also how it works in San Francisco (SFMTA Muni buses)
Super excited to see this, it'll make writing web-compatible graphics that can also run standalone so much nicer (and without needing a compile things from source using a second scripting language to generate the code needed to compile the library for the first scripting language).

It'll also be interesting to see how well this slots into things like VS Code for live-rendering canvas code (or code that has a translation layer for running on a web canvas)
You’re right that is an opinion. I said that to emphasize the opinion…
That supposedly better informed second vote did not undo what was defective about the first vote to award such a huge bonus.

Had there been another bonus agreement that simply said "Give Elon this many shares now" that would not even have required going back to the Delaware court.

I suspect they did not do that because it would have brought more scrutiny to a lapdog board.
I'm not an authority on the topic, but a somewhat similar concept to ECS is state charts, which I find far better suited to hardware.

Some might verbally assault me for calling these two things similar, but I mean that loosely. Someone who is new to both might notice that they compose systems which can communicate and respond to inputs, which is conceptually similar. State charts offer far more guarantees, consistency, reliability, and predictability though.

I suppose one is about propagating data (not state, specifically), the other is about state and state control. Both are hierarchical in a sense, but ECS doesn't place as much importance on hierarchy.

Apologies if I'm dead wrong.
Just to clarify, Dan Wright is the former treasurer. He retired from the TPRF board back in 2020 (https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/board_update_tpf_treasu...).

But to answer the bigger question, yes, I think this was a bit weird. I was also on the board for a while, and I think we did not do a good job of reporting on and monitoring financials. This was one of my frustrations with the organization, and part of the reason I stepped down from the board (though there were other, bigger, reasons not related to the board as well).

In fact, I had made the same points as Makoto does in his blog post maybe 1-2 years earlier in a board meeting. We were running a constant deficit and we didn't seem to have a clear plan for what we would do if that continued.
On top of that, the content itself—a spectrum of lean to rich—isn't all that informative, especially compared to its solemn presentation as the result of some kind of deep meditation.
More context: I help a friend who has been repairing stuff since the 1950s. I've learned from him, and from the germanium transistors we encounter (after decades in light service) that they tend to "go soft" with use, as do vacuum tubes. You end up replacing them with "new" germanium transistors, or re-bias the circuit to work with silicon transistor replacements that have no such issues.
Even if there's no rabies it's a vector for other infections.
The newest iPhone and Pixels have much larger sensors than older phones. That is the reason for the hump on the back. The sensors are bigger, and better, than digital compacts. They are half the size of the 1” fancy compacts and with newer sensors might be better.

The only difference with compact cameras is not having zoom lenses. But the telephoto and wide cameras on some models help make up for it.

There is a big jump to interchangeable lens cameras. But those aren’t what is popular as vintage.
Oh man, I feel you. Searching for good info these days feels like panning for gold in a kiddie pool—every once in a while, you strike it rich, but mostly, it’s just wet disappointment.

I’ve been down the same rabbit hole (tried Kagi, got sticker shock, and yep, LLMs are great... until they start making stuff up). One thing that’s helped me cut through the noise is sharpening my critical thinking skills—it’s like giving your brain a search engine upgrade. I wrote a newsletter - just started - post about this (with some hopefully helpful tips), so if you’re up for a quick read, check it out: https://bottedconversations.substack.com/p/critical-thinking....

Let me know what you think, please! Always looking for better ways to avoid the search engine struggle bus!
Without reason, you should assume that an intelligent audience can identify humor from malice or ignorance.
> Except for some basic wire compatibility with the postgres protocol, I'd hardly call this a "database", and more a key-value store.

Hopefully that keeps the pricing reasonable. :)

But seriously, for a smaller CRUD app, this could be sufficient, even "magical," if the price is right. For my part though, the lack of multiple databases per cluster puts multi-tenant systems completely off the table. Now that you mention it, I almost wonder if this is a giant hack on top of Valkey/Redis...
One of the great things about having a desktop is being able to get that much for under $300 instead of the price of a second laptop.
> there has been at least one case of a person surviving after showing symptoms

There appear to be some people with the ability to create antibodies to the rabies virus. Together with the Milwaukee protocol, which may keep the brain from frying itself (or do nothing, we don't know), we have the ability to turn it from a death sentence to--in a hair of cases--just a severely debilitating disease.