Hacker News Reader

CubsFan1060on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

At least according to: https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?selected=db.r6g.16xlarge,d...

It looks like a reserved instance is 35% off sticker price? Add probably a discount and you'd be around 40% off.

CubsFan1060on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

The new Aurora pricing model helps, and is honestly the only reason we're able to use it. It caps costs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-aurora-i-o-optim...

CubsFan1060on Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

This isn't true, at least not anymore.

You can peer two vpc's and as long as you are transferring within the same (real) AZ, it's free: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-vp...

Even peered VPC's only pay "normal" prices: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/#Data_Transfer

"Data transferred "in" to and "out" from Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), and Amazon ElastiCache instances, Elastic Network Interfaces or VPC Peering connections across Availability Zones in the same AWS Region is charged at $0.01/GB in each direction."

CubsFan1060on Postgres as queue

https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....

It allows you to wrap it all in a transaction. If you separate a database update and insertion into a queue, whichever happens second may fail, while the first succeeds.

CubsFan1060on Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it

The counter argument would be "Why not let the customer choose?" As in, why not let the customer choose if they want to buy a Mac or a Framework laptop? Why do you need to take away a consumer's choice to buy a non-repairable device? For those consumers where repairability is important, there are options.

CubsFan1060on Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

Except you already have one of those pieces of information -- where you are. Depending on how much privacy we are referring to, it's perfectly reasonable to regularly download the location of all busses in a city. This would locate you to a city, but then on-device you could figure out what you actually care about.

Same with the super market. It's _very_ reasonable to download an ad for one store. Even for multiples.

My argument is "It would likely only download what you look at and now the store knows what you looked.", IS one way to do it, but it does not have to be the way that it's done. If your argument is that you need 100% perfect privacy, and therefore need to download all the data in the world all the time, then that doesn't seem realistic.

CubsFan1060on What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner

Agreed. I've found this setting to be difficult: https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/default_statistics_targ...

Too low == bad query plan. Oddly, too high == bad query plan.

CubsFan1060on What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner

There is this extension which gives you some flexibility: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...

CubsFan1060on Hyper-Reality (2016) [video]

I don't think it has to be like that.

You already are giving "someone" that information when you look up a bus schedule on the web. But, downloading a bus schedule for an entire state doesn't seem unreasonable, and only locates you down to a state.

I don't think the supermarket needs to know where your eyes wandered. An app can have information in it about all the products in the store and handle it on-device. There's no need to transmit real-time eye tracking to the store just for this purpose.

I'm sure that stores would _love_ this information, but it's not needed for the experiences mentioned. I don't think you'd need any more information than you'd already provide by searching the web.

Also, though I don't necessarily think Apple is altruistic in everything, if I'm guessing today, I think Apple would go a similar direction to iCloud Private Relay, and Meta would go the direction that you're worried about.

CubsFan1060on I looked through attacks in my access logs

Yeah. Sadly the WAF can't solve organizational problems.

CubsFan1060on Thanksgiving 2023 security incident

M247 is commonly used by VPN providers (https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/8xwn...)

CubsFan1060on I looked through attacks in my access logs

Your best plan is to start with all the rules in count mode. Let that sit for awhile and analyze anything that was counted. As you feel good about it, slowly start to move things into block.

CubsFan1060on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)

This only feels like a positive thing if there are no “bad guys” in the world.

CubsFan1060on iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, browser engines, and more

Everywhere.

CubsFan1060on Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries

Maybe take a look at this? https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT

It's meant to do exactly what you want. I've had mixed results.

CubsFan1060on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission

If there is no fundamental difference, then did you just define the market as all phones, tablets, and pcs? If so the the iPhone is a small minority and can’t possibly be forced to change anything, right? You can just replace your iPhone with a pc if you want to install things?

CubsFan1060on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission

Right. RIP Reddit. Can you remind me what that accomplished?

CubsFan1060on Beeper Mini users find Macs banned from iMessage network

That’s awful.

CubsFan1060on CLI user experience case study

https://github.com/Textualize/trogon

> Ultimately we would like to formalize this schema and a protocol to extract or expose it from apps. This which would allow Trogon to build TUIs for any CLI app, regardless of how it was built. If you are familiar with Swagger, think Swagger for CLIs.

CubsFan1060on CLI user experience case study

https://github.com/Textualize/trogon

CubsFan1060on Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

I'm not sure there's any reason to mandate that exact solution.

It seems more likely that they would mandate age verification. This would be one way the government could support to do that. There's no reason PornHub couldn't support this, or other methods (or just one or the other). I think the law would say "a site has to verify the age of the user", not "everyone who wants to look at porn has to have age verification via a smart phone".

CubsFan1060on Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

I believe this is just based on: https://www.iso.org/standard/69084.html

Some information: https://www.ul.com/sites/g/files/qbfpbp251/files/2021-08/mDL...

I've never tried it, but there's an implementation here: https://github.com/walt-id/waltid-identity/tree/main/waltid-...

From: https://walt.id

I don't think Apple did anything magical here, and from what I can tell there's no lock in. You could load your ID to any number of places for this verification, it's not just locked to Apple.

CubsFan1060on Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

I think this is what Apple introduced in iOS16: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-unveils-new-way...

Keys and IDs in Wallet get expanded support. Users can use their ID in Wallet for apps requiring identity and age verification. To ensure a private and secure experience, only the necessary information required for the transaction will be provided to the app, and the user can review and consent to share it using Face ID or Touch ID.

CubsFan1060on Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

I use the Flighty app (it's not super cheap), but it notifies me what the planes are and when they change.

CubsFan1060on A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy

I’m slightly confused. Are you saying that after October 7th a un resolution would have gotten hostages released and Hamas wouldn’t have attacked again?

CubsFan1060on Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

I'll try to clarify. I met a large number of people who had all the tools, facilities, ability, and help they needed to not be homeless and still chose to be homeless.

Just as an example, one young man I spent a lot of time with had a family that wanted him to come home, but who wouldn't let him smoke weed in the house. I wouldn't have called him an addict by any stretch, but it was something he was unwilling to give up. He was a strong, able bodied guy that could have gotten a job. Despite all of this, he decided he'd rather live on the streets and do what he wants. (Could he have had severe mental problems and be making all of this up? Sure, but I don't believe that he did).

It's actually the biggest reason I stopped volunteering. Over the years that I volunteered, I noticed a steady shift from people who really need and/or want help to a large number of people like the young man I described. When helping out the homeless people you can't pick or choose or make judgements, so you treat everyone equally. But it became very hard to hand out things like sleeping bags to folks like that young man and then see people who really did have nothing unable to get one.

But, yes, in your example if you offer anyone a free million dollar house they will take it over living on the streets, but I don't think that's a very realistic comparison.

Also, to be clear, I'm just some dude. I don't have any realistic answers to fix the problem.

CubsFan1060on Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

Oh, to be clear, I have no idea what a solution is. Some are straightforward (It was great to see when people finally got a job and got off the streets). But I'd say the majority of them are not easy solutions. Give a job to someone who is mentally not capable of ever holding a job, and there won't be any success.

CubsFan1060on Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

Having done volunteer work with the homeless (and helping with these counts in years past), I think the broad term of "homeless" isn't all that useful.

I encountered so many different types of folks. Some were people down on their luck that needed help. Some had mental problems that (I'm guessing) can never really be fixed. Some had addictions. Some simply enjoyed being homeless.

I think addressing the problem would need to address varying underlying causes. For instance, "just give them jobs" will work for some of these folks, but not for a lot of them.

CubsFan1060on Zero downtime Postgres upgrades

Or how much revenue will be reduced by downtime.

CubsFan1060on Zero downtime Postgres upgrades

I suspect it's likely that the services that the other posters use _do_ have downtime, they are just done at hours where they don't notice them.

I would literally have no idea if gmail went down from 1-2 am any day of the week. Hell. I wouldn't notice if it was down everyday from 1-2am.