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Re:Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:53AM (#44005555)
FWIW, llama.cpp links to and fetches models from ollama (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/tools/run/...).

This issue seems to be the typical case of someone being bothered for someone else, because it implies there's no "recognition of source material" when there's quite a bit of symbiosis between the projects.

Re:Open-source is where dreams go to die on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @09:44AM (#43184055)
I blame this on the recent development of "open source as a marketing strategy". I'm getting tired of "open source" products that have restrictive licenses, or that are open source but lock features behind paywalls and subscription plans. It seems open source is just an excuse to ask for "stars" and to get some good will from potential users.

The Open Source world has become what the startup world became: more posers than supporters.

If you're worried that people will steal your code, your idea, or use your product for free, then don't claim it's "open source" and say "source available for auditing purposes" and start paying for contributions.

Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:10PM (#42267806)
Everyone talking about Kubernetes as if it was merely a "hyperscaler" and the biggest benefit of Kubernetes over a bunch of custom scripts is consistency and the ability to have everyone work on an industry standard, which makes it easier to onboard new hires, to write scripts and documentation against, etc…

Repeat with me: K8s is but an API.

To answer your question directly: yes, that's the point. You may have different clusters for different logical purposes but, yes: less clusters, more node groups is a better practice.
Re:From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:19AM (#38127090)
We moved entire infrastructure to AWS last year, to speed up/simplify/rethink it. We lasted 3 months on S3/CloudFront. We are still heavily invested in AWS, but moved our production storage/distribution to R2/Cloudflare and couldn't be happier.

Next up: moving our cloud edge (NAT Gateways, WAF, etc) to Fortinet appliances, which licenses we purchased bundled with our on-prem infra.

I know Corey Quinn always harps on AWS' egress pricing but you really can't emphasize it enough: it's literally extortionary!

Re:Charm has raised $6M in funding on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:12AM (#38127039)
VC funding is where cool products/ideas go to die... or sell off to be assimilated.

I don't think VC funding exists if "premium support/enterprise consulting" is the monetization strategy. Either they see monetary value in the product itself and intend to maximize it (aka subscriptions, paid features, etc), or see the IP value and intend to have the business "flipped" for profit.

Spot instances for dev environment???? "Your instance will be terminated in 1m" sounds like the new "Can't work; code is building"… haha
Re:Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:44AM (#37941523)
This kind of explains why Epic sold them. This still doesn't explain why Epic bought them…
Re:Duck DNS on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:30PM (#37017276)
That announcement is… from 2021! :X
Same thing with the argument "instead of spending $44B on a cesspool, that money could've ended world hunger".

The reality of poverty, homelessness, hunger, etc, is so much more complex than how much money is put into solving it, that promoting "monetary investment" as a solution for any of these problems is disingenous at best, and downright corrupt at worst.

Re:Storage on Vercel on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:40AM (#35787251)
Can vouch for this. The Discord support, aside from specific account/platform problems, has been most helpful and super friendly, both community members and staff.
Re:Storage on Vercel on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:39AM (#35787241)
Our egress bill from Cloudfront last month, inc. the 1TB/per region free tier, was nearly $2,000. That's egress traffic ALONE (~20TB of it).

Needlessly to say, we're wrapping up testing on migrating our production (public) buckets to Cloudflare (R2) taking our cost from those $2,000 (and going up every month), to (drum roll)... $0,000/mo.

Have I mentioned AWS egress charges are borderline "extortionary"? :X

Same boat here. Care to share what switch you ended up landing on? I'm still searching… :'(
No need for tinfoil hats. This is a very basic networking consideration: peering. I've worked at ISPs and we would see traffic struggle through some of our contracted peers but not others all the time. It would take a while for all routes to update, and that if we had rerouting setup properly (not always the case). It gets extra complicated when you add BGP to the mix.

Long story short, most ISPs run or are well peered to data centers nearby, which is where speed tests are normally hosted at. For traffic outside of those hops, peering issues can lead to a multitude of issues... and you don't have to be evil for that to happen. No ISPs control the entire IP path between the client and server (with extremely narrow coincidental exceptions).

Re:Sublime Text 4 [video] on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:16PM (#26650043)
FWIW, Textmate itself gets pretty frequent updates (latest one was on Feb 25th). It has also been open-sourced[1].

[1] https://github.com/textmate/textmate

Re:Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:27AM (#26645519)
To be clear, Unsplash never provided images: they created a website that accepted user submissions, that's it. All content in Unsplash is user generated.

What bothers me about this sale is exactly this: Unsplash cashed in on their user submissions without guaranteeing their users (and use!) would be protected and perpetuated.

This is equivalent of me building a little lemonade stand, inviting a neighbor that makes a good lemonade but doesn't have a very visible stand to come give away their lemonade on my stand, and then selling the entire stand (with lemonade) to Lemonade Store down the street.

Re:People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @07:54PM (#26641998)
Blockchain is a useful tech. Crypto currencies are an interesting idea, but easily manipulated by launderers, i.e. the guys over at Wall Street. NFTs are basically a ponzi scheme: most of headlining ones are bought by artists themselves, or folks who stand to benefit from NFTs becoming popular.

As with everything, the rule still stands: don't spend money you're not willing to lose. Crypto and NFTs are NOT an investment: they are a gamble… just like most of the stock market "game". :X

From my personal experience, you have another month to wait… I waited 6 months for a withdrawal to be handled. To be fair, I withdrew to the wrong account number (to Simple, to the old account number with Bancorp), but the bank bounced the transfer and the funds were returned within the week. After that, Coinbase drug their feet for 6 months before I finally got the money right around Christmas time (i.e. I initially withdrew in June).

What bothers me even more than horrible communication is the fact that I converted BTC to USD and withdrew the money because I need the cash at the time (baby + move) and never saw it until much later. Had I kept it BTC–which I would've had I not needed it–that same BTC would've been worth about 8x what I got.

I don't want to scream "foul play" but it REALLY seems that way. There's NO WAY it takes 6 months, including a lot of pointless repeated "Have you checked with your bank? We're so sorry it's taking so long."

So yeah… good luck with Coinbase support. FWIW, Coinbase is the reason I'm done with crypto for good (as currency/investment). It's a minefield of bad actors and greed, incredibly susceptible to foul play and literal criminal activity. I willingly paid more fees with Coinbase because I thought they were a legit business… Nope!

I would normally end this with "…but mileage may vary." Not here. Good luck and godspeed, my friend. o/

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to trade your cryptocurrencies? on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:40AM (#15132457)
I would've told you Coinbase until not long ago, but they seem to be going down the drain in terms of support (and I promise: you will at some point need it). It's been over a month for me to even get a single reply to a ticket where there are hundreds of dollars in limbo, and I'm not alone (check their @CoinbaseSupport reply threads)…

Previously, my setup was USD<>BTC at Coinbase, and BTC<>AltCoins at Bittrex… Might try some of the other suggestions for USD<>BTC in the future.

Re:Oyster is shutting down on Monday September 21, 2015 @09:32PM (#10256172)
Oyster was interesting but not a really interesting option: while the app was gorgeous, it didn't allow you to import books. I'm sure most people would rather consolidate their ebook purchases, and Amazon or Apple are better options for that.

I still miss Readmill, though… a LOT!! :(

Re:Comcast Automatically Enabling IPv6 in San Francisco on Sunday June 14, 2015 @04:13AM (#9714160)
Comcast customer in Maryland here. I've had IPv6 fully enabled for at least 6 months now… :)
Re:Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:37AM (#9538792)
I've been trying to get friends and family to switch to Telegram from iMessage and WhatsApp. Their native apps are great platform, speed is awesome, and, above all, it's a platform-agnostic system. I highly recommend it.
Re:Ask HN: HN for DIY'ers? Is there such a thing? on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @03:03PM (#9376529)
As someone who has recently gotten super interested in soldering and other DIY matters, I would too love to have a central hub for news and relevant stuff in this subject… :)
Re:Arch Linux – Do it yourself on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @10:39AM (#9334337)
So glad to see this on the front-page of HN! Arch is a great distro but, like Linux in general, is struggling for support and promotion.

Now, I'm no believer in "Linux on the Desktop" any time soon (will it finally be 2015? :P), but I'm a firm believer in Linux as a multi-purpose tool that any hacker worth his/her salt should not only have in their toolbox, but also be proficient on. And not just for server usage, which is a bit more common, but on the desktop. I learned a LOT about computers from running distros like Gentoo and Arch, where you have to make decisions and learn the process and components that make things tick.

I highly recommend Arch. It's a super flexible and clean distro, that requires a bit more upfront investment to get installed, but I find it easier to maintain, with the biggest and friendliest support community, and very customizable.

Re:There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @05:29PM (#9071398)
FWIW, I haven't resorted to drugs simply because I've avoided drugs my entire life for anything psychosomatic. I guess one extreme is the whole "deal with it" approach (which is obviously insufficient) or the "there's a drug for everything" (which is pretty bad and carries terrible consequences). Haven't found a middle-ground…

"Focus" is an alluring yet elusive thing for me… :\

Re:There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @05:22PM (#9071361)
This is totally me (without the Microsoft junk :P). Ouch… :( I've thought of drugs for helping me focus too because this lack of focus has grown into all sorts of areas of my life… :(

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