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hipadev23on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

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

Price discrimination has a clear definition. It’s not illegal in the US (when consumers are the victims anyway) but it has a clear meaning and you’re blurring the lines for I’m not sure what reason. Your example of a video game doing regional pricing is a perfect example of textbook price discrimination.

Pricing a good or service at a level that inherently excludes those unwilling or unable to pay is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excludability

hipadev23on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

Because it's frustrating. They do it to belittle the projects and shame the authors for trying to make a living.

Not every project wants to end up as another bloated abandonware in Apache Software Foundation.

hipadev23on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

Price discrimination is when you charge different amounts for the same thing to different customers. And usually the difference in those prices are not made apparent. Like when travel websites quote iOS users more than Android because they generally can afford to pay more.

This is just regular ole pricing.

hipadev23on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

Is there a reason you drop this comment on every product mention that’s not 100% OSS

hipadev23on Using AZs can eat up your budget – From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

I assume it’s to discourage people from architecting designs that abuse the network. A good example would be collecting every single metric, every second, across every instance for no real business reason.

hipadev23on Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing

Because it's the start of the runway, not the end.

hipadev23on I automated my job application process

Latest rebranding of “sysadmin”, which became “devops engineer” or SRE a decade ago. It’s the people who shove kubernetes, datadog, and CI/CD tools into every corner.

hipadev23on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

did you get it conflated with pakistan maybe.

hipadev23on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?

wtf is a KZ foreigner

hipadev23on Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law

Sorry no. Because China. The US gov should be keeping their code, including their shitty overpriced contractor shit-code, private.

hipadev23on Lua is so underrated

Luau [1] developed by Roblox is a backwards-compatible fork of Lua 5.1 with some very significant improvements to speed and QoL [2]. It also mostly alleviates the nil-terminated array problem.

[1] https://github.com/luau-lang/luau

[2] https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/tree/master/docs

hipadev23on Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road

Why did you have so many issues in Croatia? Traffic police and ID checkpoints?

hipadev23on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

The developers themselves are anyone who wants to make and publish games is my point, and unaffiliated with own another. And those developers are free to build and monetize games however they want. Just like other closed-ecosystem (e.g. iOS) game devs.

hipadev23on A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events

Clickhouse's revised JSON type is still quite new (in beta currently), but I'm hopeful for it. Their first attempt fell apart if the schema changed.

[1] https://clickhouse.com/blog/a-new-powerful-json-data-type-fo...

hipadev23on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

There’s nothing to say it was predatory games. Roblox is a platform with a vast number of games from unaffiliated developers.

hipadev23on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

Yeah I don't know how you preserve much-needed anonymity, while also binding humans to their personas and holding them accountable for their actions.

hipadev23on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

When I was 13 I had a paper route and mowed lawns, and with those earnings I spent about $75 per month on video games and comic books, easily exceeding $500 over a year.

hipadev23on More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market

online games aren’t the problem imo, it’s disposable identities and ~zero repercussions for bad actors.

hipadev23on Xerox to acquire Lexmark

Is this comparable to when two extremely old widowers decide be roommates and live out their remaining days?

hipadev23on Litestack: All your data infrastructure, in one Ruby gem

I think this speaks more to a fundamental issue in ruby’s default redis. How is it only able to do 4k/s sets?

hipadev23on Introducing S2

Fivetran is going to zero because they don’t offer anything of actual value and their CEO isn’t a good person.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434450

hipadev23on GitHub Copilot is now available for free

Yeah I'm happy to check it out, Cursor isn't perfect, but at least it feels like it was created by people who code for a living versus people tasked to inject a LLM into an IDE.

hipadev23on Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022)

Dan never called out Fivetran, he wrote a couple sentences about problems he experienced with an anonymous ETL provider. That was it. Hell we don't even know that he's actually talking about Fivetran.

George however should not allowed to come to HN and start talking shit about random people who had the professional courtesy to never even mention the provider in question. The fact that his post isn't flagged, is highly upvoted, and dang hasn't swooped in to chastise him is a prime example of why HN is so fucking ridiculous and hypocritical.

hipadev23on Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?

I fully disagree with suggesting ridiculously overpriced for-profit SaaS solutions in the context of choosing among open-source tech.

hipadev23on Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?

I’m sorry what? Clickhouse is crazy easy to deploy. Single node is just a binary. “Cluster” is single binaries on individual nodes plus clickhouse-keeper (the one extra layer of complexity). Altinity and others offer k8s operators or managed solutions to do all this on-prem to make it even easier.

Your data catalog point remains, it doesn’t offer anything other basic SQL describe functionality.

hipadev23on Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?

Or just use Clickhouse.

hipadev23on Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work

Why do you think you need a CTO? Contract a full-stack dev.

hipadev23on Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work

Like any job site, it costs to list postings. And once they amass a newsletter audience that’s something they can sell ads into.

hipadev23on Htmx 2.0.4 Released

> Changing the default behavior feels like a breaking change

I'm fine with breaking changes personally. An adherence to maintaining backward compatibility always is what leads to bloat and criticisms of "poor design" from HNers in the future.

Keep it slim, have one way to do things, and avoid the disaster that is js and python today.

hipadev23on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

> Now that Elon is competing, and involved with the government, he’ll be under a lot more scrutiny.

That's the cutest fucking thing I've heard this year. In what world is anyone going to scrutinize Elon Musk? He's the right-hand man of the most powerful person in the world. The time for scrutiny was 8 years ago.