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PaywallBusteron Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data

flying condom /s

the idea sounds great tho!

PaywallBusteron CockroachDB license change

at least should still cover a lot of businesses under the free tier

> Individuals and businesses, under $10M in annual revenue, can use CockroachDB Enterprise for free

PaywallBusteron Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'

I think they mean they couldn't automate the retrieval so getting the required data would be too onerous?

PaywallBusteron Italy's Sun Motorway (2021)

https://archive.is/z79rC

PaywallBusteron EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

not all of them are zero click :)

PaywallBusteron Why are people paying so much for Vercel?

premature optimization

Vercel works fine if you're starting out and have low volume apps.

Also depending on what's costing you most, i.e. CDN you could easily swap URLs around to use Cloudflare or some other alternative

so you could go a long way before considering moving :)

PaywallBusteron A Journey into Rebel-Held Myanmar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

Myanmar is ranked 179 out of 230 countries ranked by gun ownership rate

PaywallBusteron Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider

> direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in many states by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by independent dealers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes

not a monopoly per se, but "forced demand"

PaywallBusteron Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab

> Big rigs are limited by federal regulation to a maximum loaded weight of 80,000 pounds including cargo

over 10x heavier than the maximum allowed by law

PaywallBusteron FBI has obtained 7k Lockbit ransomware decryption keys

> We're sorry... The request has been blocked

PaywallBusteron Google's Moonshot Factory Falls Back Down to Earth

is not difficult?

looks like before they're just funding the whole project until some sort of conclusion

now looks like they'll focus on early stage funding (angel/seed) and spin off companies to gather funding from 3rd parties to further develop

which means Google will let go off of equity at early stages

PaywallBusteron Backblaze Scales Storage Cloud

does that mean that they run hardware as long as it lasts?

and in this case made sense to proactively move to "denser" storage?

PaywallBusteron Migrating Uber's ledger data from DynamoDB to LedgerStore

Maybe find more articles like the above

try connect to the respective people at said teams via LinkedIn and ask feedback

PaywallBusteron Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources

There's been only 1 build in 2013 and last one before in 1978 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...

so nuclear wouldn't affect those 14%

PaywallBusteron A low budget consumer hardware espionage implant (2018)

can't find in aliexpress?

PaywallBusteron Cost of Living Index by Country 2024 – Numbeo

They should publish their own inflation index and compare it with the "official" numbers published by the governemnt

PaywallBusteron Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/S on FreeBSD [pdf]

Any significant developments since the presentation was done in 2021?

PaywallBusteron Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?

2 buckets:

- upload bucket

- processed bucket

upload bucket has an event triggered on new file upload which triggers a lambda, the lambda will re-encode and do wtv you deem fit and upload to new bucket

your app will use the processed bucket

PaywallBusteron Tesla retreat from EV charging leaves growth of U.S. network in doubt

Maybe Tesla doesn't need to be in the charger business anymore :)

It was useful while introducing a new product to the market, but now there's plenty of alternatives, standardization, competition and advancements everywhere.

Maybe makes more sense to divest

PaywallBusteron Tesla retreat from EV charging leaves growth of U.S. network in doubt

technologically the charger was good enough for any upcoming demand I'd say no?

the most challenging is the "deployment" / installation of it and turning it more (price) efficient which I guess would be done by different department hence firing

PaywallBusteron Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink

join forces to counter Starlink = more like: M&A leftover the space industry players

Doesn't look like they could counter starlink in anyway anytime soon

PaywallBusteron Tesla failing to deliver Semi-trucks on time to PepsiCo, Sysco, UPS, and Walmart

Nonetheless

I have to agree with both you and parent reply

it's possible if it wasn't or trade wars it would've been easy to source batteries from china but who can control geo politics :)

PaywallBusteron Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards?

what's the closest you can get to Grafana like looking?

PaywallBusteron City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout

Europe is the continent

EU is the exclusive area/group/wtv

PaywallBusteron The darker side of being a doctor (2017)

it's a monopoly end of story

in portugal, public workers are one of the biggest lobbies

medicine

- can't be taught at (non public) private universities

- there's limited growth in class sizes/etc

- it's nearly impossible to get into due to grade inflation at high school, which means only the richer paying for private high school pass it (requires grade 19.x/20 at least)

At the same time, there's 100s of nursing schools (can't be too different can it?), there's way too many nurses and way too few doctors.

We're importing doctors from cuba and other countries to fill the gap.

Some people decide to study abroad (within EU) because yay, you study medicine in eastern europe, you may come back to work in Portugal because EU, and again only the richer people could afford this

PaywallBusteron 301,000 Gbps Internet by Tapping New Fiber Wavelength Bands

They compare it with broadband to come with big numbers such as million times bigger, but actually it could be a mere doubling of fiber capacity?

> 4.5 million times faster than the average home broadband.

> alongside the commercially available C and L-bands, we used two additional spectral bands called E-band and S-band

anyone have better sources?

PaywallBusteron US judge says FTX can sell its Anthropic shares; FTX invested $500M in 2021

For anyone interested to follow the drama

https://twitter.com/sunil_trades/status/1758750047296962913

My lawyers Moskowitz and Boies have filed a 106 pg class lawsuit against Sullivan and Cromwell for FTX creditors

Causes of Action:

- Civil Conspiracy: S&C long relationship with FTX, entities and insiders

- Aiding and Abetting Fraud