dtech

Born on February 25, 2014•8499 Karma

5 days ago

I'm so happy most modern language stdlibs decided having a guaranteed order for maps and other collections is a good idea.

Although I can definitely respect Go's decision to always iterate over maps in a random order.

dtech•

22 days ago

•on: SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

Their managed solution is pricey and especially the linear scaling with how much you use it is very meh. It's comparable with AWS lambda which also isn't cheap. However it's minor on a typical cloud bill.

Self-hosting is very easy in my experience, I've done it for 2 years but management wanted to move to Temporal Cloud. They have a helm chart which just works including upgrades. This does assume you have the whole k8s shebang set up and working in your company. I never had to touch is outside upgrades which took maybe 30m including validation.

dtech•

27 days ago

•on: Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout

Not retail ISPs, but many extensions and free VPNs route VPN traffic through the connections of those who use them.

joxdosba•

27 days ago

This isn’t correct, the residential IPs are a completely separate and vastly more expensive product.

giobox•

27 days ago

One such extension, https://www.tuxlervpn.com/faq/:

> Will other users of tuxlerVPN be able to connect using my IP address?

"When you use our free residential VPN, you automatically agree to add your IP address into the community pool. This means that you are trading your own IP address in return for the ability to connect via the IP addresses of other users. You can opt out of this by purchasing our premium subscription; once you upgrade to the premium version, your IP address will be removed from our community pool."

joxdosba•

25 days ago

It says that, but doesn’t actually do it. Just like Hola/Luminati used to.

You don’t want to route the non-paying traffic through slow and valuable residential connections you can sell, you’ll rent a few fast dedicated servers to do so.

Residential proxies sell for around $1/GB, nobody is running a free or cheap VPN service on that. The idea is preposterous

preinheimer•

27 days ago

I mean, most “residential proxy” providers are selling access to hacked devices, or sneaky plugins

https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...

Technical paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8835239

joxdosba•

25 days ago

Absolutely, they’re selling that access. Not giving it away.

dtech•

31 days ago

•on: Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previo...

In good faith I cannot see an argument here, it's either

Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine and it's region Y that's the problem, or

Region X is fine because they have less people, region Y should reduce even though they already have a fraction of per-capita emissions

Both seem like pretty shitty arguments

dtech•

52 days ago

•on: Where the goblins came from

I wonder if a proportionally large amount of RLHF was done by Indians which causes this behavior.

dtech•

55 days ago

•on: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Many nations/languages did not respect that rename until Turkey became an ally in the 20th century.

jhbadger•

54 days ago

Yeah - listen to the narrator in the opening on the classic Orson Welles film The Third Man (1949) - he says he never cared much for Vienna before the War, preferring the scene in Constantinople instead.

thomassmith65•

54 days ago

The American cut of the movie has an intro narrated by Joseph Cotton, who played Holly Martins. The wording might differ (since the movie is clearly Holly's first time in Vienna)

jhbadger•

54 days ago

Yeah, I'm talking about the version (which is even on my US DVD) where the narrator is some black marketeer neither Martins nor Lime. "I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the Black Market. We'd run anything if people wanted it enough - mmm - had the money to pay. Of course, a situation like that does tempt amateurs but you know they can't stay the course like a professional."

thomassmith65•

54 days ago

For some reason, I always assumed the British narration was Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), but now that you quote it, I realize it can't be Calloway. Interesting! The narrator must be someone we never meet.

cphoover•

54 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8&list=RD0XlO39kCQ...

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Official Music Video)

dtech•

56 days ago

•on: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on m...

More than a decade ago

dtech•

60 days ago

•on: Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows

Or they didn't want to commit to the extra shows until demand was clear

onlyrealcuzzo•

60 days ago

> Or they didn't want to commit to the extra shows until demand was clear

I think the whole point is that only Superstar Divas used to be able to operate like this.

Now, even "starving artists" are employing grey-area price-gouging techniques.

My anecdata is that concert fatigue is real.

I doubt this is going to bode well in the mid or long term.

My crystal ball doesn't work any better than anyone else's though...

javier123454321•

60 days ago

Would you care to elaborate on what you mean with concert fatigue? I've never heard of it and you're talking about it as though it's something that is so common, it is implied to be known.

kibibu•

60 days ago

I go to more concerts than ever, due to the well-known phenomenon of streaming guilt.

(I just invented that term, but it's real for me!)

elzbardico•

60 days ago

Logistically, it is complicated to do that unless it is a small venue and you are an indie band. It takes a lot of planning, contracts and advance payments to make a reasonably big show to happen. Larger venues are usually booked with months in advance, and most things you pay in advance are not refundable.

mrkstu•

60 days ago

Wouldn’t you do Friday first in that scenario?

afavour•

60 days ago

Venue might be cheaper on the Thursday.

nslsm•

60 days ago

I thought venues paid artists.

scarecrowbob•

60 days ago

Generally not outside of the bar-band level, but it is highly variable.

dtech•

62 days ago

•on: All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batt...

This is fully on Apple themselves. USB consortium asked apple to use lightning for what became USB-C, but Apple didn't want to give up the ecosystem control.

thrownthatway•

62 days ago

What does that have to do with the EU requiring everyone to use the USB-C connector?

The EU could have made a different decision. Or not got itself involved.

dtech•

62 days ago

•on: All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batt...

That's just plain bullshit? I just checked my local second hand marketplace, and 2 year old flagship models seem to go for about 35-50% of the current equivalent newest model price.