Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | pubg's comments login

Lots of shade being thrown, I'm surprised at all the toxic bile. All cloud providers are fundamentally in a race to the bottom for commoditization of compute infrastructure. The competition should be desirable.

Anyhow, if I had to guess why ClosedAI made this decision, well there are lots of big companies who like Oracle Cloud because if the spend is sufficient, Oracle will literally build and then support whatever configurations you want in any region across the entire globe. Good luck getting that level of care from AWS, Azure, or Goggle.

In my experience OCI is still better than GCP, not that it's really saying much, AWS has been the "best" IME :)

Clouds can't love you back.


What are your gripes with GCP? I've been using it for every project for a while, and am super happy with it, especially GKE.


Maybe you weren't burned by the near periodic massive GCP outages from 2019 - 2023. More power to you, but I'm not signing up for more of that.


6+ years on GCP across half a dozen kubernetes clusters here... very little to complain about IME. Have fun with Oracle.


You are right, and also Israel as a region is still highly unstable. Do you want to travel there today? I'll pass, thanks :)


100% would go back today.

Drove through Be'er Sheva in 2019 while Hamas was sending rockets (earlier the same day I was there, not at exactly the same time) and would go back again without hesitation.


You should go back often.

The tourism industry is effectively dead [1]. If your visit - even at the risk of losing a limb or death - can feed a single Israeli for a day, you must visit.

1. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240208-gaza-war-para...


This article makes me happy :)


I'm flying to Israel after shavuot, this Thursday. I'll feel much safer in Israel than I do in the United States.


Cool, that's your opinion (weirldly). Haven't seen many rockets landing in the USA or any missile defense systems needing deployed. Get a grip.


Strangely the website links do not work unless you enable Javascript (e.g. to the GitHub project page).

Why do people make things this way? Let a plain old link be a link..


> I am wondering why not take an existing language like python, and compile that to bash?

You'll run into the Alternative Implementation Problem

https://pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/20/the-alternative-impl...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337036 - 10 days ago, 84 comments

Relevant excerpt:

> You may read this and think that the key lesson of this post follows the old adage that “if you can’t beat them, join them”. In some ways, I suppose it does. What I want to say is that if you start a project to try and position yourself as an alternative but better implementation of something, you are likely to find yourself stuck in a spot where you’re always playing catch up and living in the shadow of the canonical implementation.

This concept doesn't exactly map 1:1, but gist seems correct. Who wants to program in a worse and very limited version of Python? Who's going to keep things up to date in e.g. Amber as Python continues to evolve? Not fun.


It's interesting Amber doesn't seem to be leveraging Bash-native Regexes via:

    if [[ "${foo}" =~ ^someReg[e][x][p][r]$ ]]; then ...
What value exists in going to such great lengths to target super old and anqtiquated versions of Bash? It becomes very limiting for this poor new language :-s

Maybe still just the earliest of early days? Javascript-style RegExs along the lines of:

    if (s.match(/my[R]egex[H]ere/)) { ..
Would be pretty nice and handy.


This is a well-informed observation.

It's unfortunate Amber doesn't have a Map data type, pretty big limitation.

I can think of ways of doing it, e.g. something along the lines of:

* Set the constraint that all keys must be of type String

* Then abuse /dev/shm/.Amber/${pid}/${func}/${stackDepth}/<put keys and values in files somewhere under here>


Discussed in the past:

Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555527 (April 23, 2016 — 241 points, 68 comments)


How do you hail an Uber or Lyft upon arrival?

Endpoint navigation is not optional for me. I suppose you could pre-login to only those apps, but still, there is nothing that interesting on my phone that I want to spend the energy to wipe, restore, and re-login to a hundred apps.


How is that a big deal? Half the time you'd have to install the local equivalent of those ride hailing services anyways - that is if regular local cabs aren't the preferred way to get around.

I use like 2-3 apps for getting around, depending on country. I don't know what you're doing with hundreds.


You just need to remember one password for your password manager account, and then you don't need to remember any others.


Buy a cheap phone at the airport? Or just phone a cab? It’s been a while but back in the day we used to travel without any phone at all.

There’s nothing interesting on my phone either - except keychain, which would give someone access to nearly all my online accounts.


What I've done in the past is just buy a new phone at the airport. Just make a new account or remember your login



This is the correct title, but a more informative one would have been:

OpenSSL releases will now be distributed through GitHub

Dmitry Misharov's reasoning:

> Safety first: The web’s come a long way in terms of security, and sticking to HTTPS helps keep everyone safer.

> Keeping it simple: Fewer methods of distribution mean less clutter and confusion, letting us focus on making OpenSSL even better.

> Watching the budget: Streamlining things cuts costs, which means we can spend more on improving OpenSSL and supporting you all.

I wonder what hosting was costing the OpenSSL project and how many servers will be decommissioned. I hope they really do follow through on point #3 of reallocating the funds towards improvements.

At first I had a very negative reaction to this news, because it further entrenches the reliance on GitHub (a for-profit company owned by Microsoft). Then after reflecting, I imagine if GitHub becomes unattractive (for example, the policies become unfriendly), it can always be switched back to host on openssl.org.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: