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My comment is mainly focused on a difference in government oversight in devloping countries, I make the assumption that less developed nations have less standard procedures and regulatory requirements.

The main issue being getting the technology and setting it up. Not talking with the IT department at a school.

Of course there will be some people that the poster should talk to, but I think that hurdle is relatively lower than getting extensive network equipment delivered to places which have underdeveloped infrastructure.

Great answer.

I think though that this response is predicated on the school's coming from a relatively developed nation.

If the poster is not from one and is talking about getting free internet in locations that don't have it at all for their school I think the answer would be different. Because then it's mainly about the cheapest technology that can get it done, and won't be touched or bothered by anyone because it's not worth it.

I have this pet theory that the idea of decentralized currency is a bit ahead of its time, and the best consumer use case is for frequent travelers since you could more easily sidestep foreign exchange issues, and hassles.

There's a bunch of backend and b2b use cases to be explored but those also take time.

All this assumes the volatility issue is solved.

The tarpit on 22 is amazing. I love looking at all the access logs every fee months and seeing connection attempts that last minutes.

Take the risks you can with what you have.

And it has a fun dolphin mascot!

Yeah I agree, the project seems like a decent enough idea to discuss, and by the amount of engagement it's getting here there is some data to back up that assertion.

Additionally I'm sure that those ("they have such a big ego") types of comments and thoughts existed in the early internet as well since its fairly human reaction whenever anyone tries to build or propose something that disrupts the status quo.

Side comment on that link. What's going on with female pacific islanders getting a graduate degree. Like it's 20k over the males in the same category. My guess is that it's an error since the total only adds up to ~600

Change? Impossible. This is software after all. It never changes. /s

Not the original poster, but the more frightening part of the sentence, is the "not understanding how something works part" over the "becoming my father"

Getting to a point where realistically you're not able to know something deeply but then still use it is pretty frightening.

When I say deeply I don't necessarily mean that for every device you need to know about all of its atoms, but to have a pretty good framework for how the thing works deterministically, and how it can fail.

It doesn't need to be more complicated than taking a lower end average for the range calculated and then removing a few extra miles for some safety margin.

Gasoline vechicals do this all the time with their range calculations. They typically exclude the last gallon from the range calculation so that the car won't stop immediately at 0 range.

Just write the action of writing a log to a different log file. Duh. /s

The same argument of UNIX design patterns (Single responsibility, well defined interfaces and communication protocals) vs Monolithic design patterns comes up a lot. I think that its mainly because both are effective at producing products, its just that they both have downsides.

I'm a yc techincal founder, if you want to chat some about the process and getting connected feel free to shoot me an email and we can chat about going from nothing to something, and how to get in front of people, a lot of it is actually really formulaic.

My contact info is in my profile, just mention this hn post in your message.

Sucks when you mess up in your commit message though and don't type the right thing.

Completely agree, the value with the message is really just to link an external ticket Id, the user experience is much better in external ticketing systems for all of the story telling that the article loves.

Don't read "external ticket system" as closed either, plenty systems are open to the public.

Love the small footprint, more databases should have this, I've recently gotten into building some applications with SQLite and its been a blast.

I went through the FAQ and read through the README on the github page, however I'm unable to figure out some really ideal usecases for proton. Ideally from a product perspective.

I like to have some examples so when I am building in the future I can quickly know off the top of my head, "oh yeah, lets just use proton for this."

Does anyone have a few different applications types which they've built or problems they've solved with proton? Bonus points for external examples with some code.

I read this as it being not that people are incapable. But at scale it's hard to track accidents, so tech needs to be used otherwise it's impossible. To do so at scale inside of a warehouse like Amazon's

Just a party gag so far with some friends. Like if I'm at a friend's house and they're using their phone I'll Bluetooth spam them to lock up their phone for a second to mess with them.

Can't agree more. Users don't want to run a server or figure any of that out. There is a person near them and they want to share a file quickly.

Some quick thoughts,

Usage based pricing with some sort of free tier ideally is typically is _best_ for individual developers and smaller businesses who are price sensitive but want to get off the ground quickly. Larger businesses can benefit from a usage based model but typically enterprises will want a more guaranteed price and stability quarter to quarter for planning purposes. This doesn't mean necessarily that usage based pricing doesn't work for enterprise businesses however it does mean that they typically are keen on having alerting and limits setup so that they don't accidentally go massively over budget.

One common strategy to continue with usage based pricing for enterprises but have more stability is to have them buy the usage "upfront". As an example, to use this product you may charge them "tokens" which correlate to dollars, and they can buy 1000 tokens upfront which get burned down over their time using the platform.

Another reason why enterprise plans are not typically usage based, or at least why its less common, is that many enterprises want to self host the product in their own systems in order to meet their internal security and compliance standards for their data. If that ends up being the case, self hosted products typically are not usage based because the act of sending consistent usage data back out of the enterprise's VPC adds a lot of additional complexity for the product and both business parties. Typically an annual license based structure is the model most businesses go with for self hosted.

Just to disclose a bit, I help companies do billing and figure out their best pricing strategy. Also a YC company. Congrats on the launch, the demo is technically impressive, and the value prop to me is really clear.

If you want to chat at all about it, happy to just talk for a few minutes. My email is in my profile.

Im currently building a billing platform, also a yc company, I've talked with a lot of different people about price strategies. If you want to talk more about in detail feel free to email me. (In my profile)

Not really a sales thing. (Im the cto, awful at sales) I just enjoy talking about pricing models with people.

I hear you, and I agree we definitely bear some responsibility for our actions, so it seems fair to question it.

However I really do wonder how much choice we have. Ultimately what I am going to say next comes down to believing the market is actually inefficient and prone to mistakes / manipulation.

While we can buy a gas guzzling car or a smaller greener vehicle, there is a lot of time energy and effort spent to manipulate the perception of the smaller vehicle so that its seen as less attractive to purchase, as well as less attractive to make.

More deeply, I'm not totally convinced that changing an individual to act ethically actually changes the group dynamic or consumption habits. Because by stating we have a responsibility to make ethical choices as a consumer we assume people act rationally all of the time when making purchasing decisions, which really isn't the case otherwise marketing wouldn't be effective. Finally, companies don't really respond to individuals, they respond to groups of people that fit their ideal customer profile. These groups likely have a different set of ethics than us and likely will not change to fit a different world view, at least in aggregate. Individually, sure, but not the whole group.

Maybe more succinctly, I believe there is a real distinction that occurs by looking at group dynamics which cannot be inferred or changed at the individual level and because of that choosing to act ethically as an individual wont ever get the attention of billionaires or massive corporations.

Not trying to be argumentative, I live in the same way you describe, but ultimately I don't think its going to change how apple operates. No matter how many people I tell.

If you start saying that more, a bunch of games top investors will feel a need to jump onboard.

5 years is not a super long time. It just can feel that way sometimes.

I hear your point that the act or process of doing the learning is good, even if the end result is that you shouldn't do the thing again. Such as learning assembly but then only doing web development for a profession where you don't need to know assembly.

However, I think that the statement below might be better with a bit of nuance.

> It's not true to suggest (or to read these stories as a new bystander and come away with the idea that) "if I were smarter I never would have wasted time on that"

I would say its "not true always," in some cases doing the action really wasn't worth the time.

Related to this, I believe the sentiment people have about regretting wasting time on some endevour, is a misalignment of what their intention was to begin with.

For example, if someone wanted to compile their own kernal because they wanted to learn and understand more about their computer its unlikely that they would walk away from that experience with regret. However if they wanted to compile their own kernal because they believed that in doing so they would make 10x more money in the long run (through learning so much), and that goal failed to materialize. They would likely tell others to not waste their time learning to compile their own kernal.

Not trying to be pedantic, or argumentative, I aggree with your point deeply, however I wanted to discuss it a bit further. Let me know your thoughts.

Yeah it's hard to predict where the market will go.

It's possible that those forces are enough, but llm adoption at major institutions is slow. Everyone is interested in using chatgpt, but there isn't a clear beat use cases yet, or established paradigm to how it should be used.

Or just call a loved one for a chat out of the blue. :p

I did a migration like this before intercloud between es clusters. Just wanted to additionally confirm that this is broadly the way that I've seen it done before.

If you can afford downtime, or data loss that does make it easier. But that's not an engineering question, more a product one.

I mean this appears to be a similar model as a utility. Right? Basically a legal monopoly with a set of restrictions. I don't see how it's really a bad thing.