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FBISurveillanceon TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia

I've read that TSMC fabs are filled with explosives to set off if China invades so they wouldn't get their hands on tech and equipment. I'm pretty certain that's true, given how important TSMC tech is.

FBISurveillanceon Cloudflare is raising prices and introducing annual plans

Everyone is raising prices, in 12 years they not only expanded, but also were subject to inflation. When adjusted for 2.5% inflation, $20 in 2010 is $32 in 2023, so this plan is still cheaper than what it used to be 12 years ago.

FBISurveillanceon Cloudflare is raising prices and introducing annual plans

It's not unlimited free traffic - the threshold is 300 TB/month after which you're going to get an email from sales. And you most certainly breaking their non-enforced-until-you-hit-threshold-and-have-to-pay rule by using Cloudflare for something other than pure static content.

FBISurveillanceon Why does zsh start so slowly?

Ah yes, I wanted to play GPT-3 and posted what I think the summary is here as a comment.

FBISurveillanceon Why does zsh start so slowly?

Pro tip: add `zmodload zsh/zprof` at the beginning of your zshrc and `zprof` at the end, open a new shell to see those pesky long-loading sources as a nicely formatted trace with timings.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: GitHub Org Audit Tool

Quick feedback: Just noticed that you can get rid of one setup step at https://steampipe.io/downloads - you don't need to brew tap & brew install, you can just use one command: `brew install turbot/tap/steampipe` without doing `brew tap` first.

FBISurveillanceon Russia to Withdraw Troops from Kherson

Those guys who print their "Z" and "V" swastika everywhere.

FBISurveillanceon EU electricity production by country and source

There is, nuclear fission now _and_ invest into nuclear fusion.

Best time to invest heavily in fusion was 20 years ago, second best time is now.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: So what’s the outcome of NIMBY discussions in your town?

NIMBY is why we can't have nice things - it takes SF 3 years to build a public toilet for $1.7 million dollars and is considered a political victory [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33268748

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

That's too broad of a generalization tbh. Personal experience: I worked on large contracts with Google Cloud, AWS, DoIT, Cloudflare, and others. I have nothing bad to say about them: they do their job and we move along just fine. Except DataDog - intrusive, borderline stalking behavior.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?

No, it's a common story of what DataDog sales is.

Used to be a customer, 7-figures annual invoice with DataDog, not anymore. Heck, working with them for years, I still managed to make a mistake and get 4-figures bill on my personal account.

Their sales are worse than paparazzi who spy on celebs. Avoid at all costs.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here?

That's cool, I respect honest work. I'm sharing my thinking/feedback and apologies if that sounded ad hominem - it wasn't my intention at all. I hope you'll succeed in your endeavors whether it's Nomad Pass or something else.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here?

Price is not as much of a competitive advantage as some people think it is.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here?

I hurt because of risks/customer support or lack thereof, not because of a 17% fee. Last thing I want is to arrive somewhere 8k miles away to a closed door/canceled booking.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here?

Ending your sentences with "lol" multiple times in this thread looks childish to me. Also, your title says "no fees" and your comments say otherwise. Having "we'll charge maybe"-like attitude doesn't inspire confidence and says to me that you don't have a plan.

FBISurveillanceon Select * from cloud

I wonder if we can connect this with Hasura and query our cloud inventory via GraphQL. I'm only half-joking, actually.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Should source files always end in a new line?

Consistency is king - yes. Newline at EOF, trim trailing whitespace.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: We noticed a recent login” emails

Cargo cult.

FBISurveillanceon Revamped German stellarator should run longer, hotter and compete with tokamaks

Still sooner than Linux on Desktop if you'd ask me!

FBISurveillanceon iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS

Ah, I was just joking around my username!

FBISurveillanceon iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS

My team and I are watching you as we speak. Spoiler alert: Your tinfoil hat doesn't help.

FBISurveillanceon Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

Giggled, imagining all those muscle memory typos. It took me a while to start typing "myself" properly instead of "mysql", thanks to Postgres.

FBISurveillanceon The Kubernetes IDE

I'm not sure if that still holds true, but IIRC they've had some telemetry in place and refused to disable it unless you get an Enterprise subscription or something.

Wonder why would I use that instead of kubectl+kubectx (and power of "xargsops" on top of that)? I don't mean to sound like the famous Dropbox comment, genuinely curious.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

Like Dr Evil said: "One! Million! Dollars!"

FBISurveillanceon Removal of Heroku free product plans

Summary:

* Announcing Public roadmap launch - we'll probably see what they are working on.

* Discontinue free product plans and delete inactive accounts.

Rest of it: corpspeak.

FBISurveillanceon Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

Surely this is an option, but the risk is higher than ever. If you win the genetic lottery - good for you but cry havoc if you don't and not well-employed/have savings... chances are that you and your loved ones will have a miserable life.

I'm not saying people shouldn't take the risk, but it does seem that more people are either not willing to, or the risk profile changed since 70s, or both.

FBISurveillanceon Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

Apologies for ranting but this topic resonates too much.

Housing prices are 9x salary vs 4.5x salary in the 70s and it takes a while to save up. Personal data point: it took me winning an IPO lottery to start thinking about having kids for real. Having kids while earning minimal wage? Terrifying, especially in the US where getting yourself or your kid sick could bankrupt you in the blink of an eye - and if you want multiple kids you increase the risk.

So we think we have to have it all before we start trying having kids and have no sense of community whatsoever. Societal focus on hedonism and career leaves little to no time to raise kids. And at the end of the day you end up having no support from the society that slowly but surely ages.

FBISurveillanceon Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

Just passing feedback from my peers at the surveillance van: fantastic joke.

FBISurveillanceon Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

Except finance.

At certain scale (in my case, 5 figures/mo spend with a vendor and up), paying upfront is not something finance usually likes and NET-60/NET-90 is the norm.

FBISurveillanceon Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of CRDs

Answering my own question: https://crossplane.io/docs/v1.9/faqs/related_projects.html

Even though the FAQ says that Config Connector isn't OSS, it is now: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-config-connector