skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I ask a CTO if they have a backup (or plan-B) they say we're on AWS, we backup there and they will never go down as a company. And then I ask them what they do when their account gets shut (e.g. because they are selling something bad on Amazon and have the same phone number as the company account?) Or the instance some years ago where GCP closed because someone had wrongly classified image on their drive?

You should have all you backups in a different location and terraform tested with a different cloud provider, otherwise you're risking the company.

[Edit] Where I come from: That doesn't say anything about Hetzner, I have been with them for 20+ years, they have stopped individual servers in that time frame, but haven't cancelled my whole account.
> no attribution or financial contributions to the original creator

This is an interesting idea, but I don't think it makes much sense to apply that logic to classic kitchen recipes. Who, exactly, is the original creator here?

The common recipes I'm asking chatgpt about - crepes, homemade pasta or bechamel sauce - are hundreds of years old. We could extend your metaphor to say that the bechamel sauce recipe has been "pirated" by generations of cookbooks for hundreds of years. Chatgpt is just continuing the well established tradition of recipe piracy, in order to bring these amazing recipes to the next generation of chefs.

After all, allrecipes.com didn't invent bechamel sauce either. Do they make financial contributions to the original creator of the recipe? I think not.
Great question. We've implemented a series of extensible hallucination guardrails that are hyper focused on task completion, to deal with various error states, and ultimately get the user to what they wanted complete in the final stages. While AgentE and Skyvern are great platforms that ease the setup of task completion agents, they still lack in being able to get a simple task done. I've tried multiple times to book a restaurant on skyvern and AgentE, but the agents never got to completion. We've approached this very differently with Toivo.
The first line of the Wikipedia article on pensions is more accurate than wherever you’ve pulled that from:

> A pension (/ˈpɛnʃən/; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work.

A pension is a financial instrument. There’s no need to purchase an annuity, which means a pension organised correctly can be passed on to your children or spouse, and there’s no lottery or gamble angle.
It was a mistake because I got downvoted by issuing a correct statement (if punter is interpreted as a gambler).

I am from the UK but moved to Australia about 35 years ago
I've read my fair share of Namecheap criticisms over the years and remain unconvinced.

I point my nameservers somewhere else and then forget about Namecheap for a year.
Likely metrics and tracking of traffic flow (origin, dest, etc.)
What commercial failure? It's a free feature.
Adverse inferance. The company thinks it's better for them to keep quiet than to tell their side. That speaks volumes.
Seems like they should have used a compute module instead of building out a new PCB? Any idea why that wasn't done? Pretty damning not to dogfood your own product.
This would also be very useful for drone footage, since the audio is just enginge noise.

I looked up if someone is already doing this, and found this tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xgZeJlL3RY
hetzner is cheap, but cheap often has hidden costs / risks.

aws, azure, and gcp aren’t cheap , but they offer better stability—both technically and operationally.
Another great question is "When did you last try to restore from a backup?" which usually is answered with "It's the built-in tooling, why would we assume it's broken?" or similar. Then fast-forward some months/years, and they try to restore from backups only to realize the backups never actually backed up what they cared about.
I use Namecheap and sadly still Gandi for old domains.

The only issue I experience with Namecheap are included redirects which have something like 90% uptime.

Route53 domains is seriously not needed for anything - just add zone in AWS and point your registrar to new NS.
We always get a warning.
All caps gang loud and clear.
I read it as he was trying to be the CEO intel needed in 2010, not 2024.
Devalues the news agency along with Stanford. Students can make claims all day but it takes institutions to prop people or their ideas up.
In about 10 years, maybe :)
The big reveal documents show USD360k spent by a third party. There is no proof or claim that Georgescu did anything wrong.
When they receive a DMCA they will contact you and give you 24hours to reply and fix it. If you do not comply they will turn off your IP.

However this is more related to EU regulation rather than Hetzner itself.

Hosting things within the EU has become really tough.
No response usually means it's a legal case.
Over the weekend, I used Cursor and Claude3.5 to create a complete maze game based on an existing maze generation library. You can try it at [Maze Game, Online Maze Generation](https://gallery.selfboot.cn/en/games/maze). It has comprehensive features, supporting various types of maze map generation and online maze gameplay using mouse controls.

Previously, when having Claude write code, I used well-known libraries with detailed documentation. AI models were already trained on these libraries, making it easy to write code.

However, this time, I used a [relatively obscure maze generation library](https://github.com/codebox/mazes) without documentation. Since the AI model had no knowledge of this library, getting AI to use it for my task was challenging.
Love to see and I've been waiting for the Pi500 release for awhile. I'm running my house on Pi400s so the Pi500 will be a huge upgrade. They are still silent, have double the RAM, triple the speed, so whats not to like? Plus they will fit into the exact same desk crevice where the current Pi400s live.

New Pi day is the best day!
Resist the urge to self-promote this way. It comes across as being very tacky.
I can't stress how important it is to own your own hardware and colocate. Also, if you are paying for a dedicated server, you can often save money by moving to colocation.
DMCA safe harbor means you don't get sued for posting copyrighted content. But in return it means you get a notice you gotta take things down. If you don't take it down then it goes down the infra. You can take down a post but your hoster can't. But they can take down your server. And they must or they get fines/jail. And so they will.

Now we need to know the full story. Did you have a public DMCA takedown link and actually handle requests and the complainers just ignored that and went over your head to Herzner? or did you just wing it running a server with UGC thinking it's surely gonna be OK?

I am not saying you were wrong but you only tell a small part of the story
It actually makes sense though. If they can get a usable phone for about $100, then they can break at least 10 of them before they are even close to the cost of a single iphone. With that kind of reasoning you can afford to do much more risky and fun stuff with your phone.
> i am always angry if i see articles about them here on HN because such a vendor should be blacklisted and not promoted.

Is it possible that maybe others had a different experience than you, and those experiences are as valid as your own?

Besides, what was your website about? I've received notices I had to reply to within 24-hours, otherwise they delete the servers. But I've always replied and complied, so never had any servers deleted.
I'm a native English speaker but i have no idea what you mean by that since the words are almost synonyms
I don't know what the future will bring, I said it in retrospect of the last 15 years.
Like this, maybe you mean?

https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein

They got the name right, anyway
My take (possible spoiler):

If he had no hats, then his statement would technically be true. Therefore he has at least one hat.

He may have some green hats and some non-green hats, but must have at least one non-green hat. He could have any number of green hats, including zero, as long as he has at least one non-green hat.

So the only derived statement that we can conclude to be true is A.
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> doctests are nonsense, just write tests

Why are doctests not tests?

> doctests like rusts that just validate example snippets are the closest thing to good I've seen so far

Rust's doctests don't seem to be fundamentally different from Python doctests, which is the language I've seen most commonly make use of doctests.
Since when it is registrar responsibility to take down domains based on third-party reports? I would think to do it registrar needs at least a warrant from officials, and not without a notice of domain owner.
They absolutely did. Back in the early 2000 everyone in my friend group would tell their parents that they needed a powerful PC for schoolwork and that's how they got gaming PCs.
>Both for Hetzner’s reputation

For what now?
That’s hardly any better.
Link to where any judge said that ?
Unsuprising. The crypto validators in the past were the canaries in the coal mine for Hetzner and almost no-one cared when they were cancelled off of Hetzner. Now they terminated your servers and the same has happened to them.

After all, Hetzner is now priotizing shareholder value and is removing smaller customers wasting their compute resources.
8TB isn't too bad to restore. At that scale they can backup on a local drive daily for very little money
> automated/semi-automated scans of open source software builds to check for unexplained high entropy files which could contain hidden malicious code

that's easily defeated though, you just "spread-out" the entropy.
A market has buyers and sellers. Corporate decisions are driven by politcs where market terms don't apply.
How and When Did Humans First Move into the Pacific?
> Whilst this is true, it looks like OpenWRT fixed the hash truncation but not the command injection.

They did fix both AFAIK, the command injection fix is https://github.com/openwrt/asu/commit/deadda8097d49500260b17... (source: https://openwrt.org/advisory/2024-12-06).
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...

Google Cloud accidentally wiped an Australian super[annuation] (pension) fund's entire cloud deployment earlier this year. I think that if you really want durable backups, they have to be reducible to object storage and put in someone else's cloud.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused there is no option "he has at least one non-green hat", which is what I would answer.

Perhaps that means I'm wrong.
I'm going to review my backup strategy these holidays, and look at how much downtime my services would incur if Hetzner shuts me down.

The reality that they have this power, and that they'd delete data irretrievably, scares me.

Last year I had a misconfigured port on a Docker service, and someone was able to exploit it and run a port scanner.
It was during a period that I was away from home, so if I hadn't seen their service abuse emails in time, I could have returned home after a few days to find all my data wiped out (or uptime monitors complaining).
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Do you have to choose between direct binding -or- controlling them through HA, or can you still control them through HA even when they are directly bound? Because I directly paired a switch with a light before (in Philips Hue), but then wasn't able to control it through the app anymore. Since switching to HA and Zigbee2mqtt, I just used triggers with switches, but wasn't aware that direct binding is a possibility. Gonna have to look into that now :)
Or, it's 13:00 on a Monday in Berlin, customer support/PR department just got started and are working through the weekend backlog, haven't had time yet to respond in any reasonable way.
They recounted the votes and found no difference. Someone uses big words (like cyber attack) to create fear and justify their actions.
No, we know what Itch say was on there.

You and I have know knowledge of what was actually on there. Neither of us have seen the complaint nor the page itself.
Hetzner was always like that, even before the AI wave. They lowball people with cheap pricing and arguably this attracts a lot of "unwanted" people, so Hetzner always acted strict on such issues.

Last time I used them (pre-2020) they were going as far as requesting customer's ID and rejecting them on the basis of country of origin, and I assume this also includes facial features that may resemble "an average scammer". Obviously this did not happen to European/American IPs so they never faced such issues, and as such this practice was invisible to the world.

I can say for sure OVH and Scaleway would try to negotiate with you before erasing your data - this may have changed over the years.
Hetzner did something similar a couple of years ago, suddenly disabling 1000 Solana validators that were using their service:

https://www.theblock.co/post/182283/1000-solana-validators-g...
Is ipadOS really a distinct OS these days?

I always had the impression it's just iOS with a slightly different configuration.
Of course, this is very concerning. I'll wait to see what their response is. I do understand there's many reasons to trash Hetzner as they are much much cheaper than the big 3 hyperscalers and many HN posters are employed by them.
You can configure Shellies in basically every possible useful way - switch, button or detached (wifi independent of the switch). The two gang variant (2PM) can control blinds or garage doors.
> what's the purpose of the stocks at all?

Dividends

> dividends are highly discouraged by taxation

This is only true today because buybacks aren't taxed

Buybacks are ultimately a way of saying "we don't have a better way to spend this money." Consider that, in a world without buybacks, execs have two choices. One is to pay dividends, and eat the tax implications. The other is to find productive ways to spend the money to increase the company's earnings. The taxation of dividends strongly motivates companies to innovate. Buybacks weaken that motivator significantly, because there's no tax implication. It's financial engineering and not a productive use of money.

Buybacks are also a pretty neat way for insiders to enrich themselves at the expense of shareholders.

Example:
Insiders schedule a sell of their shares to occur right after announcing a buyback plan.
> you don't need all types from JSON

JSON has a very minimal set of types and I regularly use all of them. I guess you could argue that integers and numbers could be combined, but I think that's it.
If you are in a tribe not hating on pp-macros, you might find this approach for testing/debugging data structures (or even the surrounding pp-based "CTL"-like C templating idea or abstract ways of dealing with the BST zoo) interesting:

https://github.com/c-blake/bst/blob/main/test/bst-interact.c

Essentially, you just write a very simple (some might say trivial) interactive command-shell that can include an auto-checking upon edit of (in that case tree) invariants keyed-off an environment variable. The only missing piece is some little tool to generate random inserts/deletes/etc.

If the micro-shell has a pretty printer then it is easy to "replay" any failed series of edits with some "p" commands before & after invariant failures.
I would bet that Google will also add rate limits once they've burned enough money to attract users
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Not the first time this is happening:

- Ask HN: Hetzner banned me with no explanation. What can I do? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32318524)
- Hetzner didn't even provide a detailed info on why they deactivated my account (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40781617)
New Yorker piece from 2011, titled "Laughing at the Dead" at https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/laughing-at-the-...

> Can we laugh now at Osama bin Laden? We always could have, and should have; it is harder to be scared or cringing when you are dissolving in laughter. A joke can be a powerful counter-terrorism measure. For Exhibit A, see the collection of post-September 11th cartoons that Bob Mankoff, our cartoon editor, has put together.

Which leads the question of what "in cold blood" means. "In a ruthless and unfeeling manner, particularly as applied to first-degree murder committed without provocation and with malice aforethought." says Wiktionary. For bin Laden the killing was with feeling and was revenge for the 9/11 attacks, so not in cold blood. OTOH, we don't know if there was provocation for the NYC killing.

FWIW, New Yorker also made jokes about JFK's death, quoting https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-humor-in-...

> The brute facts of the killing, filtered through the lasting obsessiveness that they’ve inspired, had become funny unto themselves—as the late New Yorker cartoonist Leo Cullum showed in 1994
Agree it must be true that it has at least one hat, and it must be non-green (he might have other green hats).
Surprised to see Apple can create the M cpu series and that it has a hard time with this. What makes it particularly difficult?
What if you don't want to host your stuff in the same jurisdiction where you live because you don't trust your government?
Ok fair enough. But please explain like you might to a child, since these fund managers are exercising their power and since they are picking short term focused, parasitic, extractive boards like the Boeing/Intel ones, what impact are they trying to have on their funds? What fruit will the Vanguard 3030 fund reap when Intel and Boeing tank, say, maybe this year?
Unfortunately, it seems it cannot be used just as a keyboard for other devices.

I have a similar gripe with iMacs and most all-in-one PCs that they cannot be used as a monitor for other devices. Once the PC/Mac inside becomes obsolete, the whole device becomes useless even though it has an excellent display that still works.

This is kind of the keyboard equivalent of this.
Highly recommend the documentary on General Magic. They were actually trying to build the iPhone as early as 1989 (and into the 90s). My former boss Meghan Smith was part of that team, she loved it — and so many Silicon Valley companies came out of that project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdyb-RWNKo
Mastodon has nothing to do with this.
no, I'm pretty sure that's basically it.

"we found something that kinda looks like a coke spoon in some Germanic warrior burials, let's see what drugs were available to people back then - opium, nightshades, cannabis and various fungi, notably ergot".

That was what I got out of it.
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It is either that:

a) they don't have any hats, i.e. that they are lying about having any hats at all.

b) they have some number of hats (n >= 1) and at least one is not green, because they are lying about the color of all their hats.

I would be happy to learn how I am wrong.
This happens literally all the time with Hetzner, I can't tell you how many times I've heard some variation of this story (or seen it here on HN), but they're cheap, and most people aren't going to find the people complaining online about it even if they do actually try to find out more about the company, so I'm afraid it hasn't hurt them much.
No, the liar having no hats would not make the statement true. ‘All my hats implies’ implies the liar stating they have hats.

The liar either has zero hats or some amount of hats. The only thing we know for certain is that if they do have hats, there is at least one non Green hat.
If you have 1000s of lines of yaml you're restarts will be delayed by multiple seconds. So YMMV.
"The tiny minority of people who want this do not form a market large enough to bear the amortized engineering and manufacturing cost of adding those niche features"

I beg to differ, Fairphone thinks it's economically viable to make phones that are upgradeable by changing modules. The company is doing it now!

All I want is a spare slot inside one of these phones that I can insert a specialized module. There would be no problem in getting specialized manufacturers to make those modules, witness the fact that there are already thousands of small modular devices on the market already.

If Fairphone were to provide a slot I'm damn sure there'd be call to use it. Think Raspberry Pi and all its ports, just transfer the concept to a phone that's almost suitable now.
Zen1 was 20% behind skylake but cheaper per core. Zen2 was 5% behind. Zen3 was faster.
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Only reputation Hetzner has is "cheap".
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02844 this paper is for you
He was actually proposed multiple times for the role of prime minister, not once.
He has also represented Romania at the United Nations for many years. The critics cannot decide between "he's actually part of the system" and "he appeared from nowhere".
See also: https://revdem.ceu.edu/2024/12/05/rise-of-calin-georgescu/
Why is every startup's website so darn useless?
You forget networks and atoms, and the horrible failure that was x86 android.
Thanks for Porkbun suggestion, I'll keep that in mind; it doesn't support .at but I'm now tempted to move my other domains there. Gandi used to be good, it's a shame what it's become.
When people talk about banning social networks, I fully support them because of stuff like this. You cannot be a social network and literally ignore threat actors on your platform and expect to ride into the sunset with your ad business. Democracies have been falling all over Africa and Asia because of this garbage. This company's "social network" has been used to organize genocides
There are colocation datacenters all over the world.
The difference there is they funneled a lot of marketing dollars into pseudo education and astroturfing campaigns to create a sense of hysteria that the boogeyman was coming for the guns, specifically the now dizzying array of AR-15 derivatives and pistols.

That essentially contributed to a gun buying bubble and solider cosplay.

This
It's absolutely tiresome having to keep up with that rat race for everything. And if that principle actually worked then enshittification wouldn't be profitable to engage in to begin with.
"hosting content going against their ToC or similar"

Or hosting content that Hetzner misclassified as against their ToC. Or that they decided was because of a string in a random file name. Or, in one Mastodon instances case recently, because Hetzner saw that users could upload their own images and decided that was risky (nevermind that this is common and they have moderation and a strategy for if someone tries to host anything illegal, but that one employee reviewing it was twitchy that day and there is no recourse), etc.