timcambrant

We have paid extra for support and had poor experience with support tickets that were regarding reliability. Simple questions on standard features are answered quickly enough, but we seldom need that kind of help. What we paid for was to get quick help when the AWS infrastructure caused problems for us, and that simply wasn't worth the money. It was much faster and cheaper for us to move to a different region or recreate resources. A proper support reply usually came in several days after we solved the issue ourselves. I guess the point is that if you pay AWS enough, your account manager would be able to speed up the support process. Possbly, if you spend enough on AWS the support team would prioritize your ticket.

I am evaluating Verda as a candidate for our main sovereign inference provider for batch workloads. It's a really nicely packaged product and your security/compliance/sovereign status is a perfect match for us so far. However, it's hard to sell management on a bet that you will be able to meet demand and have more inference available in the near future. The investment is for sure promising, but it will take time for you to grow ahead of your customer's needs. Have you considered publishing a public roadmap of what you are doing to meet demand?

I found it quite funny that people develop extensions that track the availability of one of the most important building blocks of the software industry, because their reliability is so poor.

You could have posted a warning to not actually install random extensions. Instead you came across as questioning why anyone would post links to them at all. The poster was clear they didn't actually recommend the extensions. Sharing stuff is fun, and hardly any software posted to HN is professionally reviewed beforehand anyway.

The browser history contains a lot of junk and I don't want that saved forever. Curated tab history is a bit different. It's stupid for sure, but also a bit comforting to keep the most important articles and such. For anything I really care about, there's always ArchiveBox.

The next logical step to ensure MBR quality would be to introduce MBR reviews before filing, also done by LLMs of course.

I've heard that companies that run enterprise Github instances on-premises have almost equally poor availability compared to github.com. There are probably plenty of reasons why they have so many outages, though I agree one of them is probably Azure. The outages started around the same time as the number of pushed commits skyrocketed, and the number of Dependabot vulnerabilities started growing as well, which in its turn increases the amount of PRs and Actions activity. Also, LLMs regularly import dependencies that are already out of date, meaning that when doing agentic development, one commit often results in several Dependabot PRs being created instantly.

Every 3-6 months I purge all my tabs, but always dump all URLs to an html file in case I will need them in the future. You never know!

They didn't recommend the extensions. They linked them because they were "merely sharing to build on for this discussion".

Is all content in HN supposed to be professional and serious, or are humorous comments in fact allowed when discussing a market leading company who has had regular outages for a year and a half? (Yes, I know the actual reasons why GitHub are struggling.)

But that's mostly because it's impractical. They do use dogs to sniff for drugs and explosives, so if CSAM smelled or was visible through X-ray then it would probably be a different story. And let's not forget snail mail is by far a more uncommon way to spread that material than the Internet is. The Internet came into broad use just ~15 years after commercial CSAM was openly being sold by mail order in Europe.

Personally, I am on the side of privacy, just to be clear.

25 Gbps is a silly (but illustrative / clickbaity) take in this context. The more relevant measures as others have pointed out is how well-covered clusters of population are, but also what their broadband quality is. I live in Sweden, where we have extremely well-built out broadband networks, especially in cities. (My professional take is that quality is often very poor, but that is comparing to the rest of the country). We are a small country too, but we have still chosen symmetric active ethernet over the assymmetric PON, we have largely discontinued DSL, our cable/coax offerings have largely been replaced with fibre, and where DSL was not profitable, 4G is generally built out well enough to cover most people. Swedes in rural areas buy Starlink not for their reach, but for redundancy or even price.

I would say most of those things are not true in the US market. The united states IS a much, much bigger country, but my guess is that the median reach, stability, and speed is way lower than the Swedish and Swiss examples, compared to what it could be. The US has way higher military costs, still relatively high taxes, and most of all a stronger buying power. I pay $35/month for 300/300 Mbps Active Ethernet FTTH, and consider that overprized. When I last looked, the median American could generally afford more than that, but had access to less. Sorry, I don't have the numbers at hand.

Looks human written to me. But if nothing stands out, then why care?

How do you approach the market with a random app? Posting on X/HN or something else?

I have a number of solutions from the past year that could be products and for sure would be sellable, but since they were so easy to build I just keep them to myself. It feels like such a long shot to throw up a landing page with a demo and start cold calling.

He said he was quitting tech, not retiring from work forever. I would assume if you're fed up with tech you could instead do carpentry jobs, work part time at a store, be a tour guide or whatever. Is it fair to say that he has 2 years to find a way to earn $50,000 per year? Sounds like that would be doable if you're smart and ambitious, no?

Doing performative things is not in conflict with expressing ourselves publicly.

People create art and write in various ways and they are free to do so. If he wants to announce to the world that he's leaving the Internet (which is more of a meaningful expression than doing it quietly, for sure) then he can be creative about it without it invalidating his purpose. He could have even posted a photo or a poem along with the message and I don't think that would make it less meaningful.

I would hope that creative expression doesn't die just because we now have tools that lets us express ourselves flawlessly, if we choose to use those tool.