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WordPress is Resilient by Design
Recent legal filings have stirred considerable attention. Be assured:
WordPress will continue to thrive. The ecosystem is strong and resilient, supported by thousands of contributors and millions of users.
Silver Lake and WP Engine are outliers. The overwhelming majority of WordPress users and businesses operate ethically and collaboratively—or at least neutrally.
We’re working to protect you. Our actions are focused on defending the WordPress community.
How You Can Help
If you care about the future of WordPress, we encourage you to support the spirit of open source:
Choose ethical hosting providers: Hosts that prioritize open source principles help keep the ecosystem healthy.
Join the conversation: Engage with the WordPress community to stay informed and contribute to efforts to protect the open web.
Support the community: Whether through contributions, advocacy, or simply staying informed, every action helps ensure WordPress remains free, open, and community-driven.
Private Equity vs. Open Source
Private equity firms operate with fundamentally different incentives to the community-driven, open source ethos that makes WordPress so powerful.
Their goal tends to be maximum profit via return on investment, which requires minimizing the investment of resources while extracting as much value as possible. Their approach can be thought of as “Loot and Leave”—where their focus is to optimize exit valuation without care for the long-term health of the community or ecosystem, or the destruction they leave behind.
“These companies are run to maximise profits for the owners [….]. Attention is not directed towards the common wealth, but enriching the management, buyout partners and their institutional backers. That is the nature of the game. To argue otherwise is bogus.”
– Luke Johnson, Co-Founder of PE Firm, Risk Capital Partners in the Financial Times, 2012
The Private Equity Playbook
Private equity firms tend to follow a playbook. Their primary goal is to maximize return on investment (ROI) as quickly as possible, often at the expense of the community they invest in.
Profit focus: Private equity firms typically aim for return on investment within several years. They aim to invest a certain amount, then exit for more, by selling companies they have invested in or taking them public. This practice has led to a spate of bankruptcies and failures in industries like healthcare, retail, and local newspapers.
Power consolidation: Private equity firms seek to centralize control, acquiring key assets and consolidating power. When done to excess with the wrong priorities, this undermines the balance of open source projects.
Taking, not giving: Private equity firms often use acquired assets to drive aggressive marketing and monetisation, focusing on profit, at the expense of reinvesting in the community.
Examples of Private Equity vs. Open Source
Other open source projects and ecosystems have been adversely affected by private equity activities:
Example 1: Magento
Magento was once a leading open source ecommerce platform with a thriving community of developers. After being acquired by private equity firm Permira, it saw a sharp shift towards commercial interests:
Free features became limited, and users were pushed towards monetized solutions.
Developer contributions to the open source version slowed as Magento’s focus shifted towards its enterprise product.
Magento was eventually sold to Adobe, garnering Permira a 5x profit but leaving behind a fragmented and weakened open source community.
Example 2: Talend
Data integration company Talend, another open source project with a strong community, experienced a similar fate after a private equity firm acquired it:
After the company went public, community participation dwindled, leaving behind a struggling ecosystem.
The project became increasingly focused on monetization, with many open source users forced into premium models.
Silver Lake & WP Engine: An Overview
Once upon a time, WP Engine was aligned with open source ideals.
“Open Source has shaped who WP Engine is and the larger internet is greatly affected by it. […]
One of the values at WP Engine that we hold dear is “Aspiring to lead. Committed to give back.” In the spirit of this we will contribute to a number of open source projects like WordPress Core, NGINX and HHVM.
Our first effort in this is to hire two full time contributors to the WordPress Core.” WP Engine, 2015 to 2019
When Silver Lake placed three officers on a four-person Board, the focus changed.
2018: Silver Lake Invests $250m in WP Engine
In 2018, Silver Lake invested $250m, acquiring three board seats. With a controlling interest, Silver Lake possessed a means to change WP Engine’s ethos and strategy.
Let us be clear—there is nothing wrong with running a profitable business. Yet doing so at the expense of an open source community becomes destructive.
Acquisition & Consolidation of Power
WP Engine proceeded to acquire key assets across the WordPress ecosystem. These include advanced custom fields, Better Search Replace, WP Migrate, Flywheel, Array Themes, and StudioPress (Genesis Framework).
It then leveraged these acquisitions to extract maximum value from those ecosystems and their communities through aggressive marketing, promotion, and cross-selling.
Profit Extraction & ROI
Through this pattern of corporate acquisition, monetization and consolidation, WP Engine quickly moved to the next step: extraction beyond contribution. It systematically re-deployed staff contributors to for-profit roles within the company, and despite growing quickly, reduced contributions to the WordPress project to just 45 hours per week.
WP Engine’s Facade of Support
One of WP Engine’s most insidious tactics has been to present itself as supporting the WordPress community. Its marketing materials position the company as champions of the WordPress ecosystem, presenting carefully curated stories that suggest alignment with open source values. WP Engine claims to be “the most trusted platform for WordPress” just as WP Engine previously stated their commitment to give back to the WordPress core. However, this messaging is designed to mask the reality that due to a private equity firm in the background, its incentives are driven by profits and exit-valuations, not giving back for the sake of community health.
Risks of Invisible Erosion
WP Engine’s marketing machine ensures that users remain largely unaware of the deeper impact its business model has on the ecosystem. The erosion happens slowly and invisibly through the methods described above, in a way that creates confusion and misunderstanding.
Through its acquisitions and messaging, WP Engine has actively interfered with the broader WordPress ecosystem, often steering users towards its own services and away from others.
Promoting hosting via free plugins: WP Engine has acquired plugins, hosted on the .org plugin directory, then used them to nudge users toward its own hosting services, even offering three months free hosting to entice users to their paid products. What began as a free or affordable plugin hosted in a community space, is now a powerful lead generation system for expensive hosting packages.
Cross-selling and bias: Once within the WP Engine ecosystem, users are bombarded with subtle messaging that suggests they need WP Engine to fully optimize their WordPress experience. Other options are minimized or not presented at all.
Drama vs Serenity: WP Engine has positioned its services as calm and meditative, painting others as dramatic. The power of its messaging machine to affect customer sentiment is visible across social media.
These tactics are not in the interests of the WordPress open source project. Over time, the private equity playbook erodes our community, turning contributors into customers.
Calling out WP Engine
For nearly a year, Matt has attempted to constructively engage WP Engine on proper use of the trademark and the need for them to contribute to the community from which they profit. Not getting anywhere, Matt suggested that WP Engine either execute a license for the Foundation’s WordPress trademarks or dedicate 8 percent of its revenue to the further development of the open source WordPress platform. This is a modest request, considering WP Engine quadrupled its revenue between 2018 and 2024, now generating $400M ARR by leveraging the value created by the WordPress open source project and its trademarks.
WordPress Trademark
The WordPress Foundation owns the trademark “WordPress,” along with names and logos of several other WordPress-related brands. Companies have many ways to use the trademarks fairly and in accordance with the Trademark Usage Policy. For example, saying “we develop sites built on WordPress” is fine.
Anyone, including WP Engine, can use the name WordPress to refer to or explain their offerings, but cannot use it as part of a company name, domain name, product name, or service name. Automattic holds the exclusive commercial license to use and sub-license the trademarks for use in those ways.
It’s important to note that a significant part of Automattic’s revenue, including any licensing revenue, is channeled back into supporting the WordPress community, as Automattic is currently contributing 3,552 hours per week to the WordPress project. This comes out to something in the order of $20M annually in salaries.
WP Engine & WordPress Trademark
In contrast, WP Engine generates approximately $400M annual revenue, while contributing minimally to the open source project. WP Engine trades off the goodwill associated with the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks—profiting from its use while contributing little back.
For over a year now, Automattic has been trying to resolve the matter in good faith. Unfortunately, WP Engine has refused to correct inappropriate trademark usage, pay for a license, or give back in kind.
Taking Defensive Action
After multiple attempts to solve unauthorized use of the trademark and redress WP Engine’s ratio of taking more than giving, at WordCamp US in September 2024, Matt Mullenweg shared his story, revealing how Automattic had been strung along, and finally called out WP Engine for its continued exploitation of the WordPress ecosystem.
He followed up with a number of public statements and—in his capacity as WordPress.org owner—blocked WP Engine from accessing WordPress.org servers. Automattic and WP Engine have issued cease and desist notices to each other, and litigation has commenced.
The WordPress Foundation has both the right and responsibility to protect the WordPress trademarks from misuse, and Automattic has the right to govern its commercial use in exchange for either financial contributions or contributions of time to the WordPress core and open source WordPress community.
Matt has the right and responsibility to deny access to WordPress.org services and to protect the WordPress ecosystem from systemic interference, powerful entities with misaligned incentives, and long-term risk.
Standing Up for WordPress: Defending the Open Source Ecosystem
At its heart, WordPress is a platform built on the principles of freedom, collaboration, and openness. It has thrived for over two decades because of the commitment of the community and its leaders to these ideals to ensure WordPress will continue to serve the many, not the few.
WP Engine has one of the highest revenues of any commercial service provider in the WordPress ecosystem, paired with some of the most aggressive marketing that historically has misused the WordPress trademark, yet one of the lowest ratios of contribution to the WordPress core.
Silver Lake and WP Engine repeatedly refused to improve the ratio of taking and giving—signaling clear risk to the future of WordPress.
This presented Matt with a difficult yet important choice: either stand by and watch WordPress be invisibly eroded by private equity’s profiteering, or take decisive action to defend the future of the platform.
Matt’s actions were not retaliation or retribution. They were to defend the future of WordPress from systemic interference and to draw attention to this cause.
While restricting access to the WordPress.org plugin directory may seem disruptive, these measures were carefully considered. WP Engine was able to deploy its own equivalent within days, and WP Engine users retained access to downloading and uploading plugins directly.
Transparency in Our Actions
Open source ecosystems like WordPress require a balance—a give and take in which contributors, users, and businesses all play a role in the platform’s success. When powerful groups take far more than they give, they threaten to destabilize this balance.
Throughout this situation, we have focused on taking actions that protect the community. We’ve been careful to minimize disruption to the broader ecosystem, and whenever possible have helped users and businesses transition smoothly and easily. However, we understand that some users and businesses may be concerned about the impact of these actions, or may have wondered if their roles were safe.
Let us be clear: the WordPress ecosystem remains strong.
Our actions target WP Engine, which is influenced by its private equity backer Silver Lake.
If you are using WordPress ethically and contributing to the ecosystem, or even enjoying the democratization of publishing, we wish for you to prosper.
What This Means for You
The actions we’ve taken are to protect WordPress, but we understand that they raise important questions.
WordPress Site Owners
If you’re a WordPress site owner, rest assured that actions taken only relate to WP Engine.
Your website is safe: The functionality, security, and stability of your WordPress site are not affected by these actions. WordPress continues to be a powerful, reliable content management system, supported by a vibrant community of contributors and developers.
You still have choices: There are many ethical hosting providers and developers who support the open source community and align with WordPress values. If your current hosting provider doesn’t support open source ideals, we encourage you to explore options.
No disruption to your tools and plugins: The vast majority of WordPress plugins and themes continue to operate as normal. Your day-to-day experience remains unchanged.
Developers and Agencies
As a WordPress developer or agency, you play a vital role in the WordPress ecosystem. It’s crucial that you be able to build, innovate, and provide services to your clients without the influence of bad faith actors undermining your efforts.
Your tools remain available: The vast majority of developer tools, APIs, and plugins remain unaffected.
The ecosystem will remain strong: Our actions ensure that the WordPress ecosystem continues to be a space for ethical collaboration.
Other Hosting Providers
If you are a hosting provider that supports WordPress, you are likely wondering what this means for your business and your relationship with the platform. There’s an easy answer: we see this as an opportunity to strengthen partnerships with hosts who align with open source values.
Ethical hosts are key partners: We value hosting providers who support the community, contribute to WordPress core, and prioritize the success of their customers over aggressive monetization tactics.
WP Engine is an outlier: Our only dispute is with those whose at scale systematic interference is harmful to the long term health of WordPress ecosystem. If your business contributes positively or exists without causing harm, actions are not intended to affect you.
FAQ
Will my WordPress site still work as expected?
Yes, the changes we’ve made are designed to protect the long-term health of WordPress. For the vast majority of users, your site’s functionality, security, and performance will remain unchanged.
Are all hosting providers affected by this?
No. Our actions are focused on WP Engine. Other providers remain unaffected.
What if I don’t want to switch hosts right now?
That’s entirely your choice. We encourage you to ask your hosting provider about its values, contributions to WordPress, and long-term commitment to the community. Staying informed is the first step.
Are plugins or themes being removed?
No. The beauty of open-source is freedom. WordPress.org has blocked login access to WP Engine and affiliates. The vast majority of plugins and themes remain available and unaffected.
How can I migrate my site to a new host?
Many ethical hosting providers offer free migration services. Reach out to them for support, and they will guide you through the process to ensure a smooth transition.
How does this affect my clients as a developer?
Your clients’ sites will continue to function as normal. We encourage you to educate your clients about the importance of ethical hosting and support them in making informed choices for the future of their WordPress sites.
How do I know if my host is ethical?
An ethical host contributes to WordPress core, supports open source values, and is transparent about its business practices. Ask your hosting company about its involvement in the WordPress community to learn more.
Are these actions permanent?
Our goal is to protect the long-term health of WordPress. The actions are not intended to be permanent, but will remain in place as long as necessary to defend the ecosystem.
How can I contribute to WordPress?
Visit WordPress.org and join the community of contributors. There are many ways to get involved, from code contributions to documentation, testing, design, translation, support and more.
If you aren’t able to contribute your time and skills, then you could donate to the WordPress foundation, sponsor or attend a WordCamp or Meetup in your area, or even just express your support for the spirit of open source by sharing this web page with your network.
Why did it come to this?
After years of attempted dialogue and engagement, it became clear that certain actors were unwilling to align with the community’s values. We took these actions to defend the future of WordPress.
We Want to Hear From You
The WordPress community thrives on open dialogue and collaboration. If you have questions, concerns, or feedback, we encourage you to reach out. Whether you’re a site owner, developer, or host, your voice matters.
Join the conversation: Visit our community forums and participate in discussions about the future of WordPress and how we can continue to protect the platform.
Stay informed: Subscribe to updates to keep track of important developments and learn how you can contribute to the health of the WordPress ecosystem.
Contact us: If you have specific questions or need support during this transition, don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’re here to help.
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42,044,792 | herbertl | 2024-11-04T18:48:06 | Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them | null | https://builders.genagorlin.com/p/fantastic-builders-and-where-to-find-bc7 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Fantastic Builders and Where to Find Them | 2024-10-28T20:19:51+00:00 | Dr. Gena Gorlin | Read the 1st installment for an introduction to the series + builder spotlights #1 and 2.I’d been wanting to sit down with Esther Crawford ever since I saw her legendary tweet about the time when she went against conventional wisdom and put her own savings into her startup.My first encounter with this tweet was through Paul Graham’s quote tweet commenting on it:For my part, I thought Esther’s story sounded like a great example of a builder’s willingness to bet on her independent judgment. But I also wondered what it was about Esther’s context at the time that would have warranted such a judgment—since it would in fact have been a foolish move in many similar circumstances. Did she have a backup source of financial support in case the company failed? Was she seeing early signs of traction that were clear from her customer conversations but hard to communicate to investors? Or was it in fact a foolish decision that simply looks good in retrospect due to survival bias?I asked Esther these questions over bagels last week, and her answers impressed and inspired me beyond anything I could’ve hoped for. Here’s some of the additional context Esther shared about her story:Despite being a single mom with 2 young kids at the time, she did not feel especially threatened by the prospect of burning through her savings; she knew that in the worst case scenario, she could simply get a job. In fact, she had done the same thing once before for a prior startup she’d also cofounded, and that time she did lose the money—and it was fine. It probably helped that she’d grown up quite poor and had managed to stay resilient through all sorts of family drama, from being kept secret by her biological father until age 7, to finding out her stepfather was sentenced to life imprisonment when she was 13. So the prospect of needing to watch her spending for a while did not exactly intimidate her.This was by no means the first time Esther had made an unconventional decision that worked out well for her in the long-run. Here were a few others:As a 21-year-old college student trying to lose a bunch of weight, Esther was dealing with a lot of shame about her body and yet knew she needed accountability. So she joined the predominantly much older crowd of people using Weight Watchers at the time, and started posting videos about her weekly progress on this small and esoteric (and thus, she figured, relatively anonymous) new video platform called YouTube. Her videos started gaining popularity with increasing numbers of viewers who found them inspiring, and eventually caught the attention of both the YouTube and Weight Watchers CEOs, who recruited her to help them promote their respective businesses in this new age of online video content.As a graduate student studying International Relations and looking for new ways to explore her interests in online media and film, Esther looked on Craigslist and found a receptionist job at a film production company. She figured this would be a good way to get her foot in the door and learn more about the industry—and she couldn’t have been more right. The skills and contacts she picked up at that company became the launchpad for what essentially became her first startup.As a 29-year-old with 2 kids and a husband of 10 years, Esther realized her professional ambitions required her to move to San Francisco. So she said to her husband, “I am moving to SF with the kids, and you can either join us or not.” He did join them, however reluctantly, and they amicably divorced sometime later.Today Esther and her ex-husband are both remarried and their 2 families are great friends, facilitated by the fact that Esther bought them both homes across the street from one another many years ago—another unconventional decision that has worked out beautifully for all parties, thanks to the years of earned trust and understanding between them.Some months after Esther’s decision to put her own savings into the startup, she finally managed to raise a round of venture capital, only to realize a few months later that the product they were building—which involved, prophetically enough, interactive AI personae—was about 5-6 years ahead of its time. (She was right; this was 2017.) So she made the hardest professional decision she had ever made up to that point, and told one of her lead investors that the product they had just invested in was not going to work.The investor was flustered by the news at first; then, after 3 hours of open, honest conversation, that investor looked at Esther and said, in effect: “look, I invested in you, and I believe in you now as much as ever. Whatever it is you decide to build, I will gladly back it, and will give you more money the next time you raise.” Esther spoke of this conversation, more than the initial decision to risk her own savings, as a critical inflection point: she had chosen to be completely honest with herself and her investors about a judgment that pained her to form, and the result was greater rather than lesser trust, both from herself and them. From that day on, Esther said, she never had any difficulty fundraising for her startups or making unconventional but values-aligned decisions for her own life and career. Her judgment had been tested in crucible after crucible, and it had stood the test of experience and time. After Esther told me this story, I expressed how much I admired the courage and independence of judgment she’s shown at so many junctures in her life. 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42,044,899 | PaulHoule | 2024-11-04T18:59:50 | Collateral combat damage more acceptable when bystander victims are unidentified | null | https://phys.org/news/2024-10-people-assume-unidentified-bystanders-war.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,044,907 | laksmanv | 2024-11-04T19:01:10 | Ask HN: What are some examples of good/modern landing pages for an eBook? | null | null | 9 | 2 | [
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42,044,908 | speckx | 2024-11-04T19:01:15 | Auto-texting STOP to unknown numbers | null | https://eieio.games/essays/autorespond-stop-to-unknown-numbers/ | 21 | 2 | [
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I’m sick of political spam texts. Here is a stupid solution.
I’m not telling you that you should do this. But this morning I made my phone auto-respond “STOP” to any unknown number:
Sharing iOS automations is weirdly annoying (it’s easy to share shortcuts via iCloud, but I built this directly into an automation and I can’t make an iCloud link for it), so here is the logic written out:
Make an automation that runs whenever a message contains " "
Have it do the following:
* Get phone numbers from shortcut input; call that P
* Find all contacts where ALL of the following are true:
* Phone Number is P
* Company is not "ignore" (this is mostly for testing)
* Assign those contacts to C
* If C does not have any value
* Send STOP to P
* Otherwise do nothing
You could imagine extending this to look for keywords (like politician names) before responding, or to send a follow-up message explaining that the STOP was automated. But I do think it’s kinda funny to need to explain this behavior when I give someone my number.
Anyway the video above uses fake phone numbers1 but the logic totally works. Here’s a vid of me scrolling through the automation if that’s helpful.
Anyway, uh, enjoy.
It’d be nice if there was a real way to opt out of texts like this!
| 2024-11-08T11:29:04 | en | train |
42,044,915 | perihelions | 2024-11-04T19:01:55 | H5N1 bird flu has infected a pig in Oregon, officials say | null | https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-30/officials-say-h5n1-bird-flu-has-infected-a-pig-in-oregon | 2 | 1 | [
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42,044,920 | belter | 2024-11-04T19:02:38 | Microsoft to invest $10B in CoreWeave by end of decade | null | https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-to-invest-10bn-in-coreweave-by-end-of-decade/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,044,925 | laurex | 2024-11-04T19:03:02 | Moving in with someone cuts chances of being depressed, finds study | null | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/04/moving-in-with-someone-cuts-chances-of-being-depressed-finds-study | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,044,935 | jasim | 2024-11-04T19:03:44 | Live Types in a TypeScript Monorepo | null | https://colinhacks.com/essays/live-types-typescript-monorepo | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,044,945 | bookofjoe | 2024-11-04T19:04:44 | Sweden scraps plans for 13 offshore windfarms over Russia security fears | null | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/04/sweden-scraps-plans-for-13-offshore-windfarms-over-russia-security-fears | 6 | 0 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | Sweden scraps plans for 13 offshore windfarms over Russia security fears | 2024-11-04T15:31:42.000Z | Miranda Bryant | Sweden has vetoed plans for 13 offshore windfarms in the Baltic Sea, citing unacceptable security risks.The country’s defence minister, Pål Jonson, said on Monday that the government had rejected plans for all but one of 14 windfarms planned along the east coast.The decision comes after the Swedish armed forces concluded last week that the projects would make it more difficult to defend Nato’s newest member.“The government believes that it would lead to unacceptable consequences for Sweden’s defence to build the current projects in the Baltic Sea area,” Jonson said at a press conference.The proposed windfarms would have been located between Åland, the autonomous Finnish region between Sweden and Finland, and the Sound, the strait between southern Sweden and Denmark. The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is only about 310 miles (500km) from Stockholm.Wind power could affect Sweden’s defence capabilities across sensors and radars and make it harder to detect submarines and possible attacks from the air if war broke out, Jonson said.The only project to receive the green light to was Poseidon, which will include as many as 81 wind turbines to produce 5.5 terawatt hours a year off Stenungsund on Sweden’s west coast.“Both ballistic robots and also cruise robots are a big problem if you have offshore wind power,” Jonson said. “If you have a strong signal detection capability and a radar system that is important, we use the Patriot system for example, there would be negative consequences if there were offshore wind power in the way of the sensors.”A Nato maritime commander said earlier this year that the security of nearly a billion people across Europe and North America was under threat from Russian attempts to target the extensive vulnerabilities of underwater infrastructure, including windfarms, which he said had “system vulnerabilities”.V Adm Didier Maleterre, the deputy commander of Nato’s allied maritime command (Marcom), told the Guardian in April: “We know the Russians have developed a lot of hybrid warfare under the sea to disrupt the European economy through cables, internet cables, pipelines. All of our economy under the sea is under threat.”skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionSweden’s energy and industry minister, Ebba Busch, said it had been a tough announcement to make, but that security policy was paramount. While many Nato countries are rapidly expanding their wind power, Busch said they were “cleaning up an incredibly messy system”.Nato recently established a centre dedicated to undersea security at Marcom’s UK-based headquarters in Northwood, north-west London. | 2024-11-08T01:49:10 | en | train |
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42,044,950 | mkmk | 2024-11-04T19:05:12 | Digital "AVATAR" therapy for distressing voices in psychosis | null | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03252-8 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,044,956 | impish9208 | 2024-11-04T19:05:50 | Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI | null | https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/perplexity-ceo-offers-to-replace-striking-nyt-staff-with-ai/ | 46 | 34 | [
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The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.
The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers represented provide software support and data analysis for the Times, on the business side of the outlet. They have been asking for an annual 2.5% wage increase and to cement a current two days per week in-office expectation, among other things.
“But the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices,” the guild wrote on X.
“They have left us no choice but to demonstrate the power of our labor on the picket line,” said Kathy Zhang, the organization’s unit chair, in a statement.
The NYT’s publisher, AG Sulzberger, criticized a strike two days ahead of the U.S. presidential election, saying in a statement, “Hundreds of millions of people are depending on The Times’s journalism on Election Day and afterward, and it is troubling that the Tech Guild would try to block this public service at such a consequential moment for our country.”
Picketers demonstrated in front of the NYT building in New York as negotiations continued. Meanwhile, on X, formerly known as Twitter, Perplexity’s CEO offered to step in for the striking workers.
Replying to Semafor media editor Max Tani quoting the publisher, Srinivas wrote: “Hey AG Sulzberger @nytimes sorry to see this. Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. DM me anytime here.”
Many on X immediately castigated Srinivas for acting as a scab — a derogatory term for people willing to perform the jobs of striking workers. It is widely considered a disreputable behavior in matters of labor and equity. By undercutting collective action, scabs limit the ability of workers to bargain with those in positions of power.
Srinivas may simply be trying to make sure people have the information they need on election day. The company has lately unveiled its own elections info hub and map. But to offer its services explicitly as a replacement for striking workers was bound to be an unpopular move.
Though TechCrunch asked Perplexity for comment, Srinivas responded to TechCrunch’s post on X saying that “the offer was *not* to ‘replace’ journalists or engineers with AI but to provide technical infra support on a high-traffic day.” The striking workers in question, however, are the ones who provide that service to the NYT. It’s not really clear what services other than AI tools Perplexity could offer, or why they would not amount to replacing the workers in question. (However, in response to the clarification, we have opted to change the headline to reflect the claim that this offer was not necessarily specific to AI services.)
The NYT and Perplexity aren’t exactly on the best of terms right now. The Times sent Perplexity a cease and desist letter in October over the startup’s scraping of articles for use by its AI models. In a conversation last week with TechCrunch, the normally outspoken CEO declined to define “plagiarism.”
| 2024-11-08T12:32:50 | en | train |
42,044,962 | remolacha | 2024-11-04T19:07:03 | Show HN: Fuzzy deduplicate any CSV using vector embeddings | I made an app to fuzzy-deduplicate my Google Sheets and CRM records<p>- No manual configuration required<p>- Works out-of-the-box on most data types (ex. people, companies, product catalog)<p>Implementation details:<p>- Embeds records using an E5-family model<p>- Performs similarity search using DuckDB w/ vector similarity extension<p>- Does last-mile comparison and merges duplicates using Claude<p>Demo video: <a href="https://youtu.be/7mZ0kdwXBwM" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/7mZ0kdwXBwM</a><p>Github repo (Apache 2.0 licensed): <a href="https://github.com/SnowPilotOrg/dedupe_it">https://github.com/SnowPilotOrg/dedupe_it</a><p>Background story: My company has a table for tracking leads, which includes website visitors, demo form submissions, app signups, and manual entries. It’s full of duplicates. And writing formulas to merge those dupes has been a massive PITA.<p>I figured that an LLM could handle any data shape and give me a way to deal with tricky custom rules like “treat international subsidiaries as distinct from their parent company”.<p>The challenging thing was avoiding an NxN comparison matrix. The solution I came up with was first narrowing down our search space using vector embeddings + semantic similarity search, and then using a generative LLM only to compare a few nearest neighbors and merge.<p>Some cool attributes of this approach:<p>- Can work incrementally (no reprocessing the entire dataset)<p>- Allows processing all records in parallel<p>- Composes with deterministic dedupe rules<p>Lmk any feedback on how to make this better! | https://app.dedupe.it | 5 | 5 | [
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42,044,964 | belter | 2024-11-04T19:07:37 | Astronomers urge FCC to halt satellite megaconstellation launches | null | https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/astronomers-urge-fcc-to-halt-satellite-megaconstellation-launches | 9 | 2 | [
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42,044,998 | CrankyBear | 2024-11-04T19:11:55 | OpenPaX, a New Linux Memory Security Patch, Arrives | null | https://thenewstack.io/openpax-a-new-linux-memory-security-patch-arrives/ | 1 | 1 | [
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42,045,046 | mrzool | 2024-11-04T19:16:32 | 404 Media Is Partnering with Wired | null | https://www.404media.co/404-media-is-partnering-with-wired/ | 53 | 13 | [
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42,045,049 | worldvoyageur | 2024-11-04T19:16:41 | Down in the Mantle | null | https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/down-mantle | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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42,045,072 | marklar423 | 2024-11-04T19:18:20 | Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run | null | https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/nvidia-ousts-intel-from-dow-jones-index-after-25-year-run/ | 5 | 1 | [
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42,045,078 | rntn | 2024-11-04T19:18:44 | MA could be the next state to get rid of the subminimum wage for tipped workers | null | https://theconversation.com/massachusetts-could-be-the-next-state-to-get-rid-of-the-subminimum-wage-for-tipped-workers-242097 | 4 | 2 | [
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42,045,100 | mostech | 2024-11-04T19:21:00 | null | null | null | 1 | null | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,104 | AnhTho_FR | 2024-11-04T19:21:23 | Chinese researchers build military AI using Meta's open-source Llama model | null | https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-researchers-build-military-ai-using-metas-open-source-llama-model-chatbit-allegedly-performs-at-around-90-percent-of-the-performance-of-openai-gpt-4-llm | 5 | 0 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | Chinese researchers build military AI using Meta’s open-source Llama model — ChatBIT allegedly performs at around 90% of the performance of OpenAI GPT-4 LLM | 2024-11-01T15:42:45+00:00 | Jowi Morales |
Chinese researchers with ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have built an AI model called ChatBIT, designed for military applications using Meta’s open-source Llama model. According to Reuters, some researchers are associated with the Academy of Military Science (AMS), the PLA’s top research group.Three academic papers and several analysts have confirmed the information, with ChatBIT using Meta’s Llama 13B large language model (LLM). This LLM has been modified for intelligence gathering and processing, allowing military planners to use it for operational decision-making.According to one of the papers that Reuters cited, the military AI is “optimized for dialogue and question-answering tasks in the military field.” It also claimed that ChatBIT performs at around 90% of the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-4 LLM, although the paper did not reveal how they tested its performance or say if the AI model has been used in the field. Nevertheless, its use of open-source AI models could potentially allow it to match the latest models released by American tech giants in benchmark tests.“It’s the first time there has been substantial evidence that PLA military experts in China have been systematically researching and trying to leverage the power of open-source LLMs, especially those of Meta, for military purposes,” says Jamestown Foundation Associate Fellow Sunny Cheung, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that looks at China’s emerging and dual-use technologies, including artificial intelligence. Meta’s license explicitly bans Llama's use for military applications, but its open-source nature makes it nearly impossible to enforce such limits.However, Meta said in a statement that this alleged use of the Llama 13B LLM — which it says is an “outdated version” given that it’s already training Llama 4 — is largely irrelevant, especially given that China is investing trillions of dollars to gain an edge in AI technologies. Furthermore, other researchers noted that ChatBIT only used 100,000 military dialogue records, a drop in the bucket given that the latest models are trained on trillions of data points.Some experts question the viability of such a small data set for military AI training. But ChatBIT could also just be proof of concept, with the involved military research institutes planning to create more expansive models. Aside from that, the Chinese government might have released these research papers as a sign to the U.S. that it is not afraid of using AI to give it a technological advantage on the global stage.No matter how big or small this development is, Washington has been afraid of this news — the use of American open-source technologies that will give its opponents a military advantage. That’s why, aside from expanding ongoing export controls in China, many U.S. lawmakers also want to block the country from accessing open-source/open-standard technologies like RISC-V. It’s also taking steps to stop American entities from investing in Chinese AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing.Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.This is the two-edged sword that American policymakers must contend with. They naturally don’t want to give opponents access to advanced technologies via the open-source route; however, open-source technology is also a major driver of technological advancements, and curbing it could put U.S. companies at a disadvantage.
| 2024-11-08T11:29:49 | en | train |
42,045,107 | hn_acker | 2024-11-04T19:21:40 | Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks on Community Broadband Networks | null | https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/04/telecoms-bankroll-more-misleading-attacks-on-community-broadband-networks/ | 16 | 2 | [
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42,045,130 | eproxus | 2024-11-04T19:24:00 | Intoxicating fragrance: Jasmine as valium substitute | null | https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100708104320.htm | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Intoxicating fragrance: Jasmine as valium substitute | null | null | Instead of a sleeping pill or a mood enhancer, a nose full of jasmine from Gardenia jasminoides could also help.
In collaboration with Dr. Olga Sergeeva and Prof. Helmut Hass from the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, researchers from Bochum led by Prof. Hanns Hatt have discovered that the two fragrances Vertacetal-coeur (VC) and the chemical variation (PI24513) have the same molecular mechanism of action and are as strong as the commonly prescribed barbiturates or propofol. They soothe, relieve anxiety and promote sleep.
The researchers have now been granted a patent for their discovery. They report in the current issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (online).
Every fifth German takes a sedative once a year
Sedatives, sleeping pills and relaxants are the most frequently prescribed psychotropic drugs. The difference between calming and hypnotic effect depends solely on the dosage. The classes of substances that exert a calming effect include alcohol, barbiturates, opiates, and since the 1950s, the benzodiazepines, which are now among the world's most widely prescribed drugs. In the course of a year, about 20 percent of all Germans take such drugs or are treated with them for anaesthetic purposes. However, benzodiazepines are not only potentially addictive, but can also cause serious side effects, e.g. depression, dizziness, hypotension, muscle weakness and impaired coordination.
Drugs enhance the effect of the neurotransmitter GABA
Benzodiazepines, barbiturates and anaesthetics such as propofol act via specific adhesion sites on receptors that lie at contact points of nerve cells (synapses) in the brain and increase the effect of the inhibiting endogenous neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). In order to act like GABA itself, the medication would have to be highly dosed, but even lower doses are sufficient to increase the effect of endogenous GABA two to threefold.
Fragrances instead of tablets
The RUB researchers have now performed a large screening study in which they tested hundreds of fragrances to determine their effect on GABA receptors in humans and mice. The two fragrances vertacetal-coeur (VC) and the chemical variation (PI24513) were the strongest: they were able to increase the GABA effect by more than five times and thus act as strongly as the known drugs. The "cross check" with genetically modified GABA receptors in transgenic mice which no longer responded to propofol confirmed that the mechanism of action is the same: the altered receptor also no longer responded to the fragrances.
Fragrances for sleep disorders and stress
Behavioural tests with mice in Prof. Lübbert's laboratory in the Department of Animal Physiology at the RUB then eliminated the last doubts concerning the qualities of fragrance as a sedative. Injected or inhaled, the fragrances generated a calming effect: in a Plexiglas cage whose air contained a high concentration of the fragrance, the mice ceased all activity and sat quietly in the corner. Via the air breathed in, the scent molecules go from the lungs into the blood and then transmitted from there to the brain. Electrophysiological measurements of neurons in the brain areas responsible for the sleep-wake cycle showed that the GABA-effect on those nerve cells active in sleep was enhanced by the fragrances.
"We have discovered a new class of GABA receptor modulator which can be administered parentally and through the respiratory air," says Prof. Hatt. "Applications in sedation, anxiety, excitement and aggression relieving treatment and sleep induction therapy are all imaginable. The results can also be seen as evidence of a scientific basis for aromatherapy." By changing the chemical structure of the scent molecules, the researchers hope to achieve even stronger effects
| 2024-11-07T07:23:27 | en | train |
42,045,133 | goles | 2024-11-04T19:24:20 | The man who risked everything to report from IS-controlled Mosul | null | https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-man-who-risked-everything-to-report-from-is-controlled-mosul/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,140 | amadeuspagel | 2024-11-04T19:24:50 | Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores | null | https://altered.substack.com/p/walmart | 136 | 98 | [
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42,045,154 | paulpauper | 2024-11-04T19:25:40 | What Caused the Great Inflation? | null | https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/what-caused-the-great-inflation | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,179 | RyeCombinator | 2024-11-04T19:28:37 | I'm Going to the Disneyworld of Open Source and Cloud Native Conferences | null | https://beatsinthe.cloud/blog/im-going-to-kubecon/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | I'm going to KubeCon: An Illustrated Guide | 2024-11-04T16:40:42.000Z | JKHZ |
It's happening, y'all. I'm going to the Disneyworld of Open Source and Cloud Native conferences. Yes, I will be GOING TO KUBECON! Time to dust of my crispiest Kubernetes T-shirt, fresh Hokas and decide between cargos or chinos. Mickey Mouse step aside, I'm going to ride the cloud native roller-coaster and have an AI robot draw my picture. Ok I get how that doesn't sound exciting, but I love conferences...and the Fall Trade Show season has officially started!Pictured: Not KubeconSo on my checklist is:Attending the KeynotesTrying to make it to some workshopsHanging out with a giant inflatable giraffe dancing next to a DeeJay on a segwayPicking up my wardrobe for the next 12 months at booths (I'm looking at you, Oracle, love your shirts!)Rolling my eyes at all the first-timers with the red hat fedoras (there's SO MANY of them)Attending ancillary parties/events and getting wine and dined and sixt....never mind. You get the point. Networking and learning.I'm also going to be letting you know who's hiring on the job board to share with those who couldn't make it. Also, I'm gonna be doing a daily SWAG REVIEW. Let's see who's got the good stuff, who's got the cheap stuff, who's recycling and who's giving out those god-awful red fedoras. I also will be giving out my first official Beatsinthe.cloud stickers at the conference, so be on the lookout for these:Courtesy of DeathbyStickers.comHit me on twitter so we can meet and collect your sticker, I'll be arriving Monday afternoon, so sadly I'll be missing Cloud_Native Rejects, a pre-conference to the main conference that is rapidly becoming an integral part of the KubeCon experience, which I absolutely LOVE and recommend....plus it's free.But in all seriousness, if you're undecided or have 2nd thoughts, this isn't my first (or 2nd) rodeo, so let me dispel some myths and clarify some things about this conference, and ALL tech conferences for that matter. I've been going to plenty of them since 2019 (except for a brief period in 2020 obviously).A lot of the sessions are presentations from companies with a pure agenda to sell their products.
You are referring to the solutions showcase. If you spend most of your time there, of course you're going to get pitched. But you have to go after the workshops, sessions, keynotes and breakouts. You will actually discover best practices and new tools there.It's just a massive sales conference and I don’t get any real technical value out of it.
You must not be attending any sessions and spending your time in the solutions showcase, which isn't bad, but you're not making the best of your time at the conference. Talks and sessions are important. Look at what tools you are working with, and what talks pertain to that, as well as what workshops pertain to them, even if they seem below your level, because you will get perspective and uses that perhaps you never saw before.What some people think the salesmen at KubeCon are...they're notNetworking doesn’t happen much at these events. Everyone’s focused on attending the talks they’re interested in and grabbing vendor stickers.
That's true if you don't try. This line is one I cannot relate to, and many of my peers can't either. No one will approach you if you are not approachable. No one will say hi if you don't say hi first. It's like I tell my kids at the playground when they complain the other kids won't play with them...the easiest way to engage with someone is say: "Hi, I'm ____, what's your name?". I have made many friends from conferences, and even have coordinated meetups when we know we are attending the same ones....all from sharing a table at KubeCon or Google Cloud Next for lunch. And I am someone who's social battery drains fairly quickly, yet effort goes very far. And it pays professionally in dividends. Also there are literal networking events in and out of the conference in itself outside of the solutions showcase. You can do it."Not much playing happens in these playgrounds" /sCompanies are just trying to tell you how their product was the perfect solution for a problem
Yes, in the solutions showcase they are. In the talks, no. It is why they had their talks accepted. They have to keep a code of vendor neutrality in their presentation even if they are vendors themselves, they are simply not allowed to advertise to you on stage. This is demonstrably false. Once again, it is important to make the most of your experience and maximize your schedule.The talks are vague and don’t really provide much info past what you would get from basic docs
This is the reason they have coffee outside of the halls. You have to pay attention, take notes if needed. They don't just ramble, come on now. Maybe look into the hands-on demonstrations, panels, and breakout sessions. The schedule can be overwhelming, but there is something there for you."Typical Kubecon presenter" /sIt is a better investment to buy a Kodecloud acloudguru subscription or buy some books to learnWhile those are excellent platforms to learn cloud, containers and Kubernetes, it is unrealistic to expect to walk into a conference for 4 days and walk out a platform engineer. It's not a bootcamp. It’s an experience. It‘s an industry event where you get to meet the top developers, hear about the newest developments and releases up close, network with other professionals, and expand your mind to see how far the cloud-native rabbit hole goes. You won't get this type of experience with a learning subscription alone. It's apples to oranges, and they are complementary.You get what you put into itExactly this.….Say It Louder….which is to say this is a work related trade event no matter what vertical you’re in and how much you enjoy the technology. So if you go for the free drinks and food, that’s all you’ll get from it. If collecting shirts, stickers, pins, plushies, pens and hats (those awful red HATS) is all you’re interested in, that’s what you’ll get out of it. Students should attend Kubecon to learnWell yes and maybe no. Hear me out. If your university teaches containerization and orchestration (and mathematically speaking in the USA, that’s a super low probability) then yes…but if you’re a CS major NOT specializing in cloud computing, maybe hold off. Because there’s cloud computing, and then there’s cloud native, which yes, is a sub-domain but also an entirely different beast in itself. The feedback I’ve gotten from Uni students is that the cloud native novice track is not exactly for novices. And taking a glance at past year’s schedule….they might be right to have felt lost….at least to those who have no knowledge of Kubernetes outside of knowing it’s the K in EKS. So if you’re a new Kubernetes student, yes, go….otherwise learn the basics so you get more out of the next conference.It's easy to feel this way if you don't know the basicsSo in summary, people who don't like conferences tend to stick around the sales floor. Don't do that. There's so much more to do. Plus it's a fun experience. So if you're on the fence, I hope this pushes you off of it one way or the other. Also, Salt Lake City baby! Who doesn’t love salt? Who doesn’t love lakes? Who doesn’t love cities? Gonna enjoy Salt Lake, the nature walks and try out some good food because the internet man told me they have good oysters. I really hope that's not some dark reference.So if you're going, once again, follow and hit me on twitter for a free sticker to litter your Thinkpad or Macbook. Are you nearby and need a ticket? These guys are doing a ticket giveaway. They don't pay me, I simply found them looking for posts critical of KubeCon on Reddit.
| 2024-11-08T04:28:34 | en | train |
42,045,191 | PaulHoule | 2024-11-04T19:30:03 | Mobile Application Development for Prepaid Water Meter Based on LC Sensor | null | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/20/6762 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,201 | laksmanv | 2024-11-04T19:31:22 | Ask HN: What is your goto website builder? | Do you use a specific framework to code landing pages, or perhaps squarespace/wix/wordpress/webflow? | null | 3 | 3 | [
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42,045,208 | alDuncanson | 2024-11-04T19:32:05 | Industry leaders break down what's next in open source as a business model | null | https://techcrunch.com/video/industry-leaders-break-down-whats-next-in-open-source-as-a-business-model/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,224 | MirceaOprea | 2024-11-04T19:34:07 | Show HN: Self-Hosted Funding Platform | I built a funding platform that you can self-host and fully control. It's built with serverless AWS technologies and written in Rust and HTMX, and can be easily deployed by simply forking the GitHub repo. | https://grabnoodle.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,225 | SpeckToTaste | 2024-11-04T19:34:14 | Fish, Foot and beyond: a terminal setup that smells right | null | https://www.hypertesto.me/en/blog/2024/11/fish-foot-and-beyond | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Fish, Foot and beyond: a terminal setup that finally smells right 🐟👣 | 2024-11-04T19:09:35+01:00 | HyperTesto | HyperTesto/Blog/Fish, Foot and beyond: a terminal setup that finally smells right 🐟👣/Picture this: there I was, happily using Tilix for my terminal needs on Fedora.
Split panes, dropdown terminal, the whole shebang. Life was good… until it wasn’t.
Recent Fedora updates started making Tilix throw tantrums, and suddenly my trusty terminal setup felt like that friend who keeps flaking on plans.After some soul-searching (and a lot of Reddit threads), I realized I needed to break down my terminal needs: a rock-solid Wayland-native terminal emulator, a shell that wouldn’t make me hate scripting, and a multiplexer that could keep up with modern workflows.Enter the new trio: Foot, Fish, and Zellij. Yes, I know - between Fish and Foot, this setup sounds like it came from a very weird pet shop. But stick with me here!Sometimes less is more #For terminal emulation I wanted something simple, stable, and Wayland-native. Foot checked all these boxes and then:is blazing fast thanks to being written in Cis hardware accelerated rendering (hello, smooth scrolling!)has minimal dependencies (goodbye, random breakages!)has simple configuration in a single filehas Sixel support for those fancy terminal graphicsNow, I’ll be honest - when people talked about “fast terminals,” I used to roll my eyes. How fast does a terminal need to be to show some text? Well, turns out I was wonderfully wrong - you don’t realize how much terminal lag affects your workflow until you try a faster one.Life’s too short for boring shells! #Remember the first time you saw someone’s terminal autocomplete something magical? That’s Fish, all day, every day; no hacky setups required.
Here’s what made me fall hook, line, and sinker for it:Fish remembers your commands and suggests them as you type. It’s like having a very eager assistant who actually knows what they’re doing. Autosuggestions feel like mind-reading!Colors! So many colors! And they actually mean something (unlike my old prompt that I made pretty but couldn’t remember what anything meant)No more if [ -f something ] syntax that looks like it came from the 80s. Fish makes scripting feel like actual programmingSure, there’s the occasional “this shell script isn’t compatible with Fish” moment, but let’s be real - when was the last time you looked at a bash script and thought “wow, this is so intuitive”? Fish makes the trade-off simple: give up some backwards compatibility, get a shell that feels like it was actually designed in this century. And for those rare occasions when you really need to run a bash just prefix it with bash and move on with your life.First things first - let’s get our Foot in the door (sorry, not sorry).
On Fedora, it’s as simple as this:sudo dnf install foot fish zellij
Easy, isn’t it?And of course, CTRL-ALT-T still spawns my terminal - some habits are worth keeping.Shortcut configured on GnomeFoot configuration #My Foot configuration is straightforward but purposeful. Let’s break it down:[main]
font=JetBrains Mono:size=16
initial-window-mode=fullscreen
shell=/usr/bin/fish
The main section is minimal:JetBrains Mono because it’s a fantastic monospace font with great readabilityterminals starts fullscreen because that’s what I ended up doing as first action every time I opened a Tilix in my old setuplast but not least, of course, Fish is set as the default shell because that’s the whole point of this setup.[colors]
# A wild variety of Catppuccin Mocha colors...
While I’m unsure about the theme interaction with zellij, it’s working fine, and so I’ll briefly give an overview of it. I’m using Catppuccin Mocha - a soothing dark theme that’s easy on the eyes. It provides:A dark background (1e1e2e) with light text (cdd6f4) for good contrastCarefully chosen colors for different terminal elementsNice selection colors that don’t make you squint (I am colorblind myself)Special colors for search and jump labels that actually stand outThe URLs are highlighted in a gentle blue (89b4fa) - because clickable links should be obvious but not screaming for attention.
Nothing fancy, no transparency effects or padding tweaks - just a clean, functional setup that gets out of your way while being pleasant to look at.Fish configuration #My Fish config is minimalist but gets the job done. Let’s see what’s happening here:set -x ZELLIJ_AUTO_EXIT true
if status is-interactive
# Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
eval (zellij setup --generate-auto-start fish | string collect)
end
The first line sets up Zellij to automatically exit when the last pane closes (as easy as pressing CTRL-D). It’s a quality-of-life setting - when you’re done with your last terminal window, Zellij closes cleanly instead of hanging around with an empty session.Then, we check if we’re in an interactive shell (as opposed to running a script)Lastly, we auto-start Zellij using its built-in Fish integration. The string collect bit ensures all the output from the setup command is handled properlyThe result? Every time I open Foot, it automatically launches Fish, which automatically starts Zellij. No manual steps, no “oops I forgot to start my multiplexer” moments - everything just flows.
You know those tiny tasks that seem insignificant? “Oh, it’s just two keypresses to start Zellij…” But when you do them 20 times a day, those micro-interruptions add up and break your flow. Now my terminal setup just works, and I can focus on what I actually opened the terminal for in the first place.Zellij configuration #Nothing, it works out of the box! No question asked.Zellij in action with 1 tab and 2 panelsOut of the box, Zellij shows you what shortcuts you can use right in the status bar.
It’s a nice way to learn while you work, until your fingers start doing their thing automatically.A small note about SSH #Here’s a little gotcha I discovered when working with remote servers. By default, Foot uses its own terminal type (foot or foot-direct), which is great for local use but can confuse some remote hosts. Adding this tiny bit to my ~/.ssh/config:Host *
SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color
This tells SSH to identify as the widely-supported xterm-256color when connecting to remote machines.
It’s a simple fix that prevents those annoying “unknown terminal type” errors and weird formatting issues when SSHing into servers.
Sure, you lose some of Foot’s fancy features on remote connections, but it’s a fair trade for having everything just work™ without
having to install terminal definitions on every server you access.Future experiments: down the Zellij rabbit hole #While this setup is already solid, I’ve got my eyes on some interesting Zellij possibilities. First up is the SSH client multiplexing - being able to manage multiple SSH connections in a single Zellij session, with each remote server neatly organized in its own space. Gone would be the days of juggling terminal windows trying to find that one production session.Zellij’s plugin system caught my attention too. Since plugins can be written in any language that compiles to WebAssembly, I might try my hand at building something that scratches my own itches - maybe something to streamline my SSH session management or Git workflow. The project is still quite active, so there’s room to play around.I also want to dig into Foot’s session management. The idea is to have a single main Foot window that all new terminal instances connect to when I hit my terminal shortcut. Should be doable with Foot’s --server mode and some window manager tweaks. That way I could keep my workflow exactly the same but avoid the window clutter.These might be solutions looking for problems, but hey - isn’t that half the fun of terminal customization? Plus, unlike my Tilix tweaking days, if something breaks, my base setup remains rock-solid. Stay tuned for potential updates if any of these experiments turn out particularly useful!Final considerations #After a few months with this setup, I can’t imagine going back. The combination of Foot’s speed, Fish’s smarts, and Zellij’s flexibility has genuinely improved my daily workflow. Sure, it took a bit of tweaking to get everything just right, but that’s the beauty of it - each piece is simple enough that customizing doesn’t feel like solving a puzzle.Looking back at my Tilix days, I realize sometimes “just works” beats “works with all the features.” This setup is faster, more stable, and honestly, just more enjoyable to use. Plus, there’s something satisfying about having a terminal setup that’s both modern and respectful of system defaults. If you’re on the fence about modernizing your terminal setup, consider this your sign to take the plunge - your future self will thank you.Oh, and here’s a neat thing about this setup: it doesn’t touch your system’s default shell at all. Bash remains as the system shell, handling all its traditional duties, while Fish only kicks in when you’re actually using the terminal interactively. It’s like having your cake and eating it too: the system keeps humming along with bash while you get all the nice Fish goodies.P.S. No Fish were harmed in the making of this terminal setup, though some bad shell scripts were rightfully abandoned.1 | 2024-11-08T12:18:41 | en | train |
42,045,236 | nsagheen | 2024-11-04T19:35:03 | null | null | null | 1 | null | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,243 | mooreds | 2024-11-04T19:35:33 | Wall Street Investors Enter Single Family Rentals | null | https://arpitrage.substack.com/p/wall-street-investors-enter-single | 35 | 48 | [
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42,045,247 | paulpauper | 2024-11-04T19:35:40 | Writing is not the same as thinking | null | https://greyenlightenment.com/2024/11/02/writing-is-not-the-same-as-thinking/ | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,250 | tomohawk | 2024-11-04T19:36:08 | German Navy Confirms Its Supersized Frigate Will Avoid the Red Sea | null | https://www.twz.com/news-features/german-navy-confirms-its-underarmed-super-sized-frigate-will-avoid-the-red-sea | 16 | 14 | [
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42,045,251 | blacktechnology | 2024-11-04T19:36:12 | Tetris turns 40 this year – let's play it to honor the legacy | null | https://tetris.ing | 9 | 3 | [
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42,045,253 | raskolnikov99 | 2024-11-04T19:36:27 | null | null | null | 1 | null | [
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42,045,277 | null | 2024-11-04T19:39:26 | null | null | null | null | null | null | [
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42,045,282 | adamscafe | 2024-11-04T19:39:51 | null | null | null | 1 | null | [
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42,045,284 | todsacerdoti | 2024-11-04T19:40:05 | Jspin: GUI for running the SPIN model checker | null | https://github.com/motib/jspin | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,339 | yankcrime | 2024-11-04T19:46:10 | MegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10k GPUs [pdf] | null | https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi24-jiang-ziheng.pdf | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,356 | gth158a | 2024-11-04T19:47:10 | VisionOS 2.2 Beta Adds Wide and Ultrawide Modes to Mac Virtual Display | null | https://www.macrumors.com/2024/11/04/visionos-2-2-beta-ultrawide-mac-virtual-display/ | 9 | 4 | [
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42,045,371 | _spduchamp | 2024-11-04T19:49:12 | Ask HN: What to do when Facebook 2FA is hijacked to an unknown WhatsApp account? | It seems weird to post for help here but I don't really know where else to ask.<p>I received an email from a friend saying they saw a weird comment posted from my Facebook account. My account was protected using 2FA, but somehow was hijacked, and they changed the 2FA to be a WhatsApp account. I don't use WhatsApp, and I don't have any way to turn-off or change my 2FA on my Facebook/Meta account.<p>I've gone through all the help pages and cannot find any way to contact support to help get this fixed. Any suggestions? | null | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,373 | ZeroGravitas | 2024-11-04T19:49:16 | HPV vaccination: How the world can eliminate cervical cancer | null | https://ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccination-world-can-eliminate-cervical-cancer | 80 | 54 | [
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42,045,374 | AnhTho_FR | 2024-11-04T19:49:22 | Zero Setup AI Coding with OpenHands | null | https://openhands.daytona.io/ | 4 | 1 | [
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42,045,400 | vaneyckseme | 2024-11-04T19:52:00 | Show HN: Turn Scripture Memory into a Fun, Daily Game | Hey HN! I’m thrilled to share *[HideTheWord.app](<a href="https://hidetheword.app)\" rel="nofollow">https://hidetheword.app)\</a><i>, an app I built to tackle a challenge that’s been close to my heart: creating a consistent, impactful routine for scripture memory.<p>### Why I Built HideTheWord<p>For years, I struggled with staying consistent in memorizing Bible verses, often forgetting the ones I’d learned or feeling lost on what to memorize next. HideTheWord was born out of my journey to cultivate a deeper, more intentional approach to scripture memory.<p>### What HideTheWord Offers<p>1. *A Library of Verses*
HideTheWord keeps track of all your verses, whether you’re currently working on them or they’re already memorized. This feature has been invaluable for me to see, at a glance, what’s in my heart and what I’m working toward.<p>2. *Verse Suggestions When You’re Stuck*
Sometimes, I don’t know what verse to memorize next, so I added a feature that offers verse suggestions tailored to my needs. Now I have a reliable “next step” every time I want to deepen my knowledge.<p>3. *Personalized Micro-Lessons*
I wanted a way to interact with the verses daily without feeling overwhelmed, so HideTheWord generates bite-sized lessons each day. These lessons come in three formats:
- *Read and Reflect:* A moment to read and jot down reflections.
- *Fill the Blank:* Test recall by filling in missing words—great for sharpening my memory.
- *Multiple Choice Questions:* Thought-provoking questions that get me thinking about the verse from different angles.<p>4. *Goals and Daily Reminders*
Consistency is everything in memory work, so I built in reminders and XP-based goals to stay motivated. I set my personal goal to 150 XP and 15 lessons daily—something that keeps me pushing forward in a manageable way.<p>### How HideTheWord Has Impacted Me<p>HideTheWord has made scripture memory feel attainable and genuinely rewarding. It’s no longer just something on my to-do list but a meaningful part of my routine. My hope is that it can help others find the same sense of growth and accomplishment.<p>Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts!</i> | https://www.hidetheword.app/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,406 | mixeden | 2024-11-04T19:52:46 | Gradient Descent Boosts Cryo-EM Refinement | null | https://synthical.com/article/Efficient-high-resolution-refinement-in-cryo-EM-with-stochastic-gradient-descent-598ba2a4-f7c0-44a0-ab13-d080aa1e1b3b | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,414 | jarsin | 2024-11-04T19:53:55 | Unmanaging Unity | null | http://blog.s-schoener.com/2024-11-02-unmanaging-unity/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,415 | OmarShehata | 2024-11-04T19:53:59 | Criticizing your own people is how you have maximum impact | null | https://defenderofthebasic.substack.com/p/criticizing-your-own-tribe-is-how | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Criticizing your own tribe is how you win | 2024-11-04T19:52:58+00:00 | Defender | (1)A stranger at a party criticizes your joke.“Wow, what an asshole” you tell your friends.“You were kind of punching down there…” they admit. You feel bad. Maybe they’re right. Your significant other tells you the same thing later in private. You re-calibrate your behavior.(2)Google CEO says “ChatGPT sucks, for reasons X, Y, Z. Our product is better”OpenAI employee says, “that’s not true. Our product is definitely better”In their private internal Slack someone says, “they’re right about Z. Why haven’t we fixed that yet? Our users are also complaining about that”They fix it. How does Google CEO respond to this? “ChatGPT sucks” is still the company motto, they find new reasons to maintain that narrative. But it doesn’t matter.ChatGPT is a better product. ChatGPT gets more users.OpenAI wins.(3) Trump supporter shares an out of context video clip and says “Kamala Harris says we shouldn’t celebrate Christmas, she’s nuts!!”Democrat says, “this is not true” Trump supporters do not believe them, they don’t trust them, “every time your candidate is caught doing something bad, you say it’s not true!”Another Trump supporter comes in and says, “I hate Kamala Harris, but not for this reason. There’s a million true reasons why she would be a bad president, this one just isn’t true”Trump supporter listens. He switches to spreading things about Kamala that are bad AND true. Their message resonates with more people.It becomes harder for democrats to downplay it, because it’s more true. Trump wins. It’s obvious to me that criticizing your own tribe is a winning strategy. I want my friends to do this, because it will help us win. I’m giving this away as “free advice” to my enemies too, because even if they win, it still creates a world that’s better for me. Like, I’d rather live in a world where the best product wins, than a world where I win because no one can compete against me. I know I’ll find other work & I can trust that I will succeed if I make the best product. I choose to create the world where I’m still better off even if I don’t win.I think we should normalize intra-tribe criticism. It doesn’t matter if it spreads in the wider culture, as we talked about in “building culture tech”, this helps you and your people, even if no one else does it. It’s actually a GOOD thing if it doesn’t spread, it gives YOU an advantage.I’ve been collecting examples of this as I find them. If you know of any, please send them to me, or start your own list! All of these have the general shape of:“I am on your side, and agree with the general point you’re making, but what you’re saying is not right”Hank Green often debunks right wing misinformation, but in “I Believed These Four Lies” he debunks liberal misinformation Matt Walsh is right-wing, but here’s a tweet of him condeming right-wing rhetoric to arrest the liberals for protesting If you’re arresting them for an illegal encampment or for making threats then say that. But arresting people for “antisemitism” is obviously a clear violation of the First Amendment. I can’t stand these protesters but you can’t arrest people simply for having “hateful” views.Pro-israeli / zionist account criticizing another zionist for celebrating the destruction of BeirutWhy do our right-wing friends act like this? Beirut is a beautiful and multicultural city. Israel doesn’t want destroy it. We scrupulously avoid hitting Lebanese infrastructure and civilians. Why do we pretend to be more evil than we are? It plays into the hands of our enemies.This one is not a real example, but is publicly calling for republicans to criticize fellow republicans for their own benefit: They have the right brand to say to Long Island Republicans “look, I know you’re annoyed by liberals calling you racist because you oppose housing deregulation — we don’t think you’re racist, but we do think you’re wrong on the merits.”From: “YIMBYism can liberate us from anti-capitalism”Twitter user defends Kamala’s out of context clip, even though he hates herJihadalHaqq is anti-Israel but criticizes the pro-Palestinian movement […] If I could criticize pro-Palestinian movement on one thing, it is that they exceptionalize Israel's existence. What we are seeing Israel do is what almost every country on earth has done or is currently doing.[…] there's no such thing as "real countries." The thing I would criticize pro-Palestinians the second most on is that they respond to Zionist ethnonationalism with Palestinian ethnonationalism. Israel is a "fake country" while Palestine is a "real one."Arab criticizes Arabs in the wake of the war in LebanonIf now isnt the right time to talk about how Lebanese people are abandoning their domestic workers & not giving them their passports so they can evacuate, then when will be? If you worry that talking about this will cause division, then stop doing it so that we wont talk about itCriticizing your own people public can & does backfire (causes division, or is weaponized by your enemies). We should have a list of examples of it failing so we can understand when it is good & when it is not. This science Youtuber is criticizing Sabine, he says her criticism of science is being used by anti-science people, and that’s badSabine’s retort:You are right that there will be more content about the problems with academia on my channel because I think it is a huge problem and someone needs to talk about it, exactly BECAUSE there are so many science deniers. You will disagree I expect, but I think that people like you -- who deny that academia has a problem -- are the ones causing the problem. We can't solve it unless we face it. | 2024-11-07T22:50:14 | en | train |
42,045,420 | olayhabercomtr | 2024-11-04T19:54:49 | null | null | null | 1 | null | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,442 | yresultadmin | 2024-11-04T19:57:56 | Why new websites struggle to attract visitors: overcoming AI-driven challenges | Why is it so tough to attract those first few visitors to a new website? Traditional strategies like SEO, social media, and blogging don’t seem to deliver like they used to, and AI-driven algorithms now favor big brands, making it even harder for new sites to stand out. So, if the usual routes aren’t working, how can we still get free, organic traffic?<p>What happened to SEO and social media?
Search engines and social platforms have shifted to algorithms that push established accounts to the top, making it challenging for new sites to break through. Posting consistently is still important, but it’s no longer enough to guarantee visibility.<p>What can we try instead?<p>Consider cross-promotions and partnerships with others in your niche. Collaborating can introduce you to an audience that’s already interested in what you have to offer. You can also get involved in community spaces where your audience hangs out, like Reddit, forums, and Q&A sites. Instead of promoting directly, contribute value, answer questions, and build genuine connections.<p>Streamlining your links for a better user experience<p>A great way to make it easy for visitors to explore your content is to use a single link hub. This approach means visitors only need one link to access everything you offer. It’s a straightforward way to make sure people can find and follow you on different platforms.<p>Personally, I use Selfolio (https://selfolio.com/splash/) to organize all my links in one place. But I’d love to hear from you! Do you know of other tools that help new sites bring in traffic or organize links better? Share your recommendations below! | null | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,445 | ioblomov | 2024-11-04T19:58:44 | JPMorgan Undercharged for a Trade | null | https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-04/jpmorgan-undercharged-for-a-trade | 3 | 1 | [
42045799
] | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,455 | clarionsong | 2024-11-04T19:59:54 | Show HN: A communally-constructed digital archive and ode to long-distance love | Just deployed my first webapp! A <a href="https://www.queeringthemap.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.queeringthemap.com/</a> -inspired digital archive + mapping site where you can leave anonymous notes about people you love who are far away from you.<p>Some other features:
- when you make a note, you can send a secret link to your friend for them to reply
- when you make a pin, it gives you a secret friend code you can share with others for them to write to your "inbox"
- pins are stored locally on the browser but you can get an editor link for each pin -- if you open this link in another browser it provides that browser edit access to that pin<p>(it might be a little slow since i'm currently not paying for a very expensive server) | https://notes-from-afar.onrender.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,459 | todsacerdoti | 2024-11-04T20:00:27 | In Search of Types [pdf] | null | https://www.humprog.org/%7Estephen/papers/kell14in-author-version.pdf | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,465 | yuezhao | 2024-11-04T20:00:53 | null | null | null | 1 | null | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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42,045,469 | nyclawyer | 2024-11-04T20:01:05 | Is this an idea worth pursuing or not? | The social scene in big cities like New York or LA can be daunting. Drinks are expensive, places can be crowded, lines long and the service sucks. So I was thinking, what if you have a platform that enables people to turn ordinary private spaces such as their home (or really anywhere) into social settings? For instance, turn your apartment into a bar with 4 tables and guests can reserve a spot (either with a group of friends or to hang out with strangers) by paying an admission fee (will be byob to avoid liquor license issues). This concept can be applied to different social settings such as hosting a mom’s night for other moms with kid care included, hosting a mediterranean dinner party, hosting a games night etc. The platform would enable guests to see what events are happening in their immediate vicinity / or a particular location on a specific date and reserve spots at various events they want to attend. Guests can also see if their friends are attending a particular event (if the guest makes their attendance public) and over time see if any guests that they’ve met previously will be attending. Guests and hosts can leave reviews on each other's profiles as feedback for future users. Some immediate issues I’ve identified are the usual market place chicken and egg problem and potential security concerns about letting strangers into your private space (though the same was true for uber and airbnb). Are there any other potential issues? I have several ideas on how to monetize it but wanted to hear what people think about the concept. | null | 10 | 41 | [
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42,045,477 | mooreds | 2024-11-04T20:01:57 | Blog Writing for Developers (2023) | null | https://rmoff.net/2023/07/19/blog-writing-for-developers/ | 243 | 41 | [
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42,045,480 | PaulHoule | 2024-11-04T20:02:16 | Could happy relationships hold the key to less stress in aging? | null | https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-happy-relationships-key-stress-aging.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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42,045,493 | kranke155 | 2024-11-04T20:04:09 | What I learned from 130 hours on a Waymo | null | https://www.mattbell.us/what-i-learned-from-130-hours-in-a-waymo/ | 1 | 3 | [
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42,045,494 | plural | 2024-11-04T20:04:14 | BlueClod | null | https://www.blueclod.com | 3 | 1 | [
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42,045,497 | seanfobbe | 2024-11-04T20:04:23 | null | null | null | 1 | null | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,505 | mjomaa | 2024-11-04T20:05:00 | Hetzner Server Comparison: Which Server Delivers the Best Value? | null | https://achromatic.dev/blog/hetzner-server-comparison | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Hetzner Server Comparison | null | Achromatic | Cloud
Virtual servers that provide CPU resources within a shared physical host server. Prices do not include VAT.
CategoryServerCPU modelSCore MultithreadRAMStorageMonthly priceSCore / M. priceRAM / M. priceStorage / M. priceDedicated vCPUCCX13AMD Milan EPYC™ 7003 or AMD Genoa EPYC™ 965430758 GBSSD 80 GB€ 12.492460.646.41CCX23538616 GBSSD 160 GB€ 24.492200.656.53CCX331227432 GBSSD 240 GB€ 48.492530.664.95CCX432455264 GBSSD 360 GB€ 96.492550.663.73CCX5349227128 GBSSD 600 GB€ 192.492560.663.12CCX6373650192 GBSSD 960 GB€ 288.492550.673.33Shared vCPU AmpereCAX11Ampere® Altra®36084 GBSSD 40 GB€ 3.799501.0510.55CAX2172368 GBSSD 80 GB€ 6.4911151.2312.33CAX311445616 GBSSD 160 GB€ 12.4911561.2812.81CAX412911832 GBSSD 320 GB€ 24.4911891.3113.07Shared vCPU AMDCPX11AMD EPYC™ 700215252 GBSSD 40 GB€ 4.353510.469.20CPX2179814 GBSSD 80 GB€ 7.5510570.5310.60CPX31106688 GBSSD 160 GB€ 13.607850.5911.76CPX41619216 GBSSD 240 GB€ 25.202460.639.52CPX511246332 GBSSD 360 GB€ 54.902270.586.56Shared vCPU IntelCX22Intel® Xeon® Gold19954 GBSSD 40 GB€ 3.795261.0510.55CX3234628 GBSSD 80 GB€ 6.805091.1811.76CX42750616 GBSSD 160 GB€ 16.404580.989.76CX521220032 GBSSD 320 GB€ 32.403770.999.88
Dedicated vCPU
Hetzner’s Dedicated vCPU options offer good value for projects needing consistent, high-performance CPU access. Dedicated vCPUs allocate exclusive CPU resources to each instance, while Shared vCPU means performance can vary based on the demand from other users on the same server. Steady and reliable performance is crucial for workloads like production applications, large databases and performance-sensitive tasks.
Shared vCPU
The Ampere-based CAX series emerges as the undisputed value champion. The value scores consistently outperform both AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon alternatives. What's particularly remarkable is how the CAX line maintains its cost-efficiency as you scale up which is rare in cloud computing where higher tiers typically come with diminishing returns.
When comparing with other CPU architectures, the contrast becomes stark. The closest competitor, the AMD EPYC-powered CPX21, reaches slightly lower value scores, while Intel Xeon options trail even further behind. This data clearly demonstrates why the Ampere-based CAX series has become the go-to choice for cost-conscious businesses seeking reliable cloud performance.
Dedicated
Physical servers exclusively reserved for one user. Prices do not include VAT. Lowest options have been chosen for RAM and Storage.
ModelCPUPassMark Multi-threadPassMark Single-threadRAMStoragePrice / monthPassMark Multi-thread / M. pricePassMark Single-thread / M. PriceRAM / M. priceStorage / M. priceAX41-NVMeAMD Ryzen™ 5 360017748256764 GB2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD€42.80415601.5023.92EX44Intel® Core™ i5-1350031857388464 GB2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD€44.00724881.4523.27AX42AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 8700GE27882363264 GB2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD€49.00569741.3120.90AX52AMD Ryzen™ 7 770034622406364 GB2 x 1 TB NVMe SSD€64.00542631.0032.00EX101Intel® Core™ i9-1390047017432764 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€89.00528490.7243.15AX102AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D625024149128 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€109.00573381.1735.23SX65AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X22542266064 GB4 x 22 TB HDD 2 x 1 TB SSDstarting €104.00217260.62433.04EX130-RIntel® Xeon® Gold 5412U525573119256 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€134.00393231.9128.66EX130-SIntel® Xeon® Gold 5412U525573119128 GB2 x 3.84 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€139.00378220.9255.32RX170Ampere® Altra® Q80-3044425882128 GB2 x 960 GB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€179.0024850.7210.73GEX44Intel® Core™ i5-1350031857388464 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD (Gen3)starting €184.00173210.3520.87AX162-RAMD EPYC™ 9454P959182993256 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Editionstarting €199.00482151.2919.30AX162-SAMD EPYC™ 9454P959182993128 GB2 x 3.84 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition (Gen 4)starting €199.00482150.6438.59SX135AMD Ryzen™ 9 3900307962623128 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition 8 x 22 TB SATA Enterprise Hard Drive€209.00147130.61200.87RX220Ampere® Altra® Q80-3044425882128 GB2 x 3.84 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€229.0019440.5633.54SX295AMD EPYC™ 7502P508182017256 GB2 x 7.68 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition 14 x 22 TB SATA Enterprise Hard Drive€399.0012750.64423.58GEX130Intel® Xeon® Gold 5412U525573119128 GB2 x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition€838.006340.154.58
The standout performer is the EX44, equipped with an Intel Core i5-13500. At €44.00 monthly it offers a compelling combination of 31857 PassMark points in multi-thread performance, a strong single-thread score of 3884 and comes with 64GB RAM and dual 512GB NVMe SSDs.
Following closely is the AX42 powered by AMD's Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE. At €49.00 per month it delivers 27882 PassMark points and matches the EX44's storage and RAM specifications.
The AX52 featuring the Ryzen 7 7700 maintains strong value at €64.00 monthly, offering enhanced performance with 34622 PassMark points.
What's particularly interesting is how the higher-end models maintain relatively good value despite their premium positioning. The AX162 series featuring the powerful AMD EPYC 9454P with 95918 PassMark points at €199.00 monthly - impressive for a server of this caliber. With extremely high storage value, SX65 is excellent for storage-heavy application despite a lower PassMark.
Server Auction
This comparison intentionally excludes servers listed on Hetzner’s Server Auction platform, which employs a descending-price (Dutch) auction mechanism. In this model, server prices progressively decrease over time, optimizing cost-efficiency for users willing to trade instant availability for price variability.
Seasonal patterns such as holidays or promotions have historically impacted Hetzner’s pricing. My personal recommendation is to look out for an i5-12500 or i5-13500 (EX44) at a price point around 36€ / month during the Christmas week.
Recommendations
For startups / small projects: Start with the CAX series (CAX11 to CAX41), as they offer the highest value scores and very competitive pricing.
For medium businesses: Consider the EX44 or AX42, which provide excellent balance of performance and cost.
For high-performance needs: The AX162 series provides enterprise-grade performance, offering excellent value despite the higher price point.
For storage-intensive applications the SX series, particularly the SX295 with up to 14 x 22TB drives, delivers massive storage capacity at a premium value, while the more budget-friendly SX65 offers a solid alternative with 4 x 22TB HDDs and 2 x 1TB SSDs.
| 2024-11-08T08:19:02 | en | train |
42,045,509 | greenie_beans | 2024-11-04T20:05:19 | Machines of Loving Grace | null | https://www.clunyjournal.com/p/machines-of-loving-grace | 230 | 55 | [
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42,045,515 | martynassubo | 2024-11-04T20:06:42 | Lightweight Model Serving | null | https://github.com/martynas-subonis/model-serving | 1 | 1 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | GitHub - martynas-subonis/model-serving: A comprehensive guide for implementing efficient and lightweight model serving. | null | martynas-subonis | model-serving
This repository demonstrates various model serving strategies, from basic PyTorch implementations to ONNX Runtime in both Python and Rust.
Each approach is benchmarked to compare performance under standardized conditions. The goal of this project is to illustrate how different
serving strategies influence model service load capacity and to evaluate secondary metrics, including image size and container startup time.
An extensive write-up with detailed explanations about the technologies used and approaches taken can be found
here.
For eager readers - please refer to Benchmark Setup, Benchmark Results and Conclusions directly.
Table of Contents
Pre-requisites
Software Requirements
Domain-Specific Requirements
Served Model Context
Applications Context
Running Applications
Benchmark Context
Host System
Containers
Benchmark Setup
Benchmark Results
Performance Metrics
Deployment Metrics
Conclusions
Pre-requisites
This project builds on top of ml-workflows, and assumes that the following criteria are
met:
Software Requirements
python 3.12
docker
gcloud
poetry
apache benchmark (ab)
Domain-Specific Requirements
The ml-workflows pipeline was executed successfully.
The models torch_model and optimized_onnx_with_transform_model remain accessible
in Google Cloud Storage (GCS) buckets.
Local .env file is created, with the following values set:
CLOUDSDK_AUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN=... # Run "gcloud auth application-default print-access-token" to get this value. Keep in mind this token is valid only for a specific period.
GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT=... # Your GCP project.
ONNX_MODEL_URI=gs://... # URI of optimized ONNX model with tranformation layer.
TORCH_MODEL_URI=gs://... # URI of torch model state dict.
Served Model Context
This project serves the small variant of MobileNetV3, a lightweight model with only 1.53M parameters.
The model was fine-tuned for weather image classification using
the "Weather Image Recognition" dataset as part of
the ml-workflows project. For fine-tuning, only the model head was modified and trained
while all other layers remained frozen. The model was trained for 10 epochs using an 80/10/10 train/validation/test split.
For more detailed information, please refer to ml-workflows repository.
Applications Context
Three different approaches are benchmarked in this project:
Naive Model Serving with PyTorch and FastAPI (Python): This setup uses PyTorch
with model.eval() and torch.inference_mode() enabled. No ONNX or ONNX Runtime optimizations are applied; instead, we serve the model directly from its
saved state_dict after training. Although this approach is less optimized, it remains common in practice, with Flask or Django being possible alternatives
to FastAPI, making it a valuable baseline for our benchmarks. Please see torch_serving.
Optimized Model Serving with ONNX Runtime and FastAPI (Python): In this approach, we leverage ONNX
Runtime for serving. Input transformation logic is embedded directly into the model’s computation
graph, and graph optimizations are applied offline,
providing a more efficient alternative to the naive approach. Please see onnx_serving.
Optimized Model Serving with ONNX Runtime and Actix-Web (Rust): Here, we use a Rust-based setup with ONNX
Runtime (built from source and utilizing the pykeio/ort wrapper) and
Actix-Web for serving. Like the previous setup, input transformation logic is embedded in the model graph, and offline graph optimizations are applied, aiming
for maximum performance. Please see rust_onnx_serving.
Running Applications
To start the applications locally, simply run:
# Unlike --env-file argument, the first command exports env variables in a manner that works with docker compose secrets.
export $(grep -v '^#' .env | xargs) && docker compose up --build
This process may take some time on the first run, especially for the Docker image of the Rust application.
Benchmark Context
When interpreting benchmark results, avoid treating them as universally applicable values, as absolute performance can vary significantly with different
hardware, operating systems (OS), and C standard library implementations (e.g., glibc or musl), which affect the Application Binary Interface (ABI).
Furthermore, performance metrics can differ based on the sizes of the input images; therefore, in a production environment, it would be important to
understand the distribution of image sizes. For the purposes of this exercise, the focus should be on the relative performance differences between different
serving strategies.
The most reliable way to assess model service performance on a specific host machine is to conduct direct testing in that environment.
Host System
Hardware: Apple M2 Max
OS: macOS 15.0.1
Docker:
Engine v27.2.0
Desktop 4.34.3
Containers
CPU Allocation: Each container was allocated 4 CPU cores.
Memory Allocation: Memory was allocated dynamically, providing each container with as much memory as it required.
Worker and Thread Configuration: To maximize CPU utilization and ensure that each container fully utilized its allocated CPU
resources (achieving 400% CPU usage corresponding to 4 CPU cores), the following configurations were implemented:
onnx_serving:
Uvicorn Workers: 4
ONNX Runtime Session Threads:
Intra-Op Threads: 1
Inter-Op Threads: 1
torch_serving:
Uvicorn Workers: 4
rust_onnx_serving:
Actix Web Workers: 4
ONNX Runtime Session Threads:
Intra-Op Threads: 3
Inter-Op Threads: 1
Benchmark Setup
Benchmarking tool: apache benchmark.
ab -n 40000 -c 50 -p images/rime_5868.json -T 'application/json' -s 3600 "http://localhost:$port/predict/"
-n 40000: total of 40000 requests.
-c 50: concurrency of 50.
Payload image: images/rime_5868.json:
Original size: 393 KB.
Payload size after PIL compression and base64 encoding (~33% increase): 304 KB.
Benchmark Results
Performance Metrics
Metric
torch-serving
onnx-serving
rust-onnx-serving
Time taken for tests (seconds)
1122.988
156.538
121.604
Requests per second (mean)
35.62
255.53
328.94
Time per request (ms)
1403.734
195.672
152.005
Time per request (ms, across all concurrent requests)
28.075
3.913
3.040
Transfer rate (MB/s)
10.54
75.58
97.28
Memory Usage (MB, mean)
921.46
359.12
687.6
Deployment Metrics
Metric
torch-serving
onnx-serving
rust-onnx-serving
Docker image size (MB)
650
296
48.3
Application start time (s, n=15 mean)
4.342
1.396
0.348
Conclusions
ONNX Runtime Significantly Improves Performance: Converting models to ONNX and serving them with ONNX Runtime greatly enhances throughput and reduces
latency compared to serving with PyTorch. Specifically:
onnx-serving (Python) handles approximately 7.18 times more requests per second than torch-serving (255.53 vs. 35.62 requests/sec).
rust-onnx-serving (Rust) achieves about 9.23 times higher throughput than torch-serving (328.94 vs. 35.62 requests/sec).
Rust Implementation Delivers Highest Performance: Despite higher memory usage than Python ONNX serving, the Rust implementation offers higher performance
and advantages in deployment size and startup time:
Throughput: rust-onnx-serving is about 1.29 times faster than onnx-serving (328.94 vs. 255.53 requests/sec).
Startup Time: Rust application starts in 0.348 seconds, which is over 12 times faster than torch-serving (4.342 seconds) and about 4
times faster than onnx-serving (1.396 seconds).
Docker Image Size: Rust image size is 48.3 MB, which is approximately 13 times smaller than torch-serving (650 MB) and about 6 times
smaller than onnx-serving (296 MB).
Memory Usage Difference: The higher memory usage in Rust compared to Python ONNX serving stems from differences in
implementations and libraries used:
Image Processing Differences: The Rust implementation uses less optimized image processing compared to Python's PIL and NumPy libraries,
potentially leading to higher memory consumption.
Library Efficiency: The Rust ort crate is an unofficial wrapper and might manage memory differently compared to the official ONNX Runtime SDK
for Python, which is mature and highly optimized.
Threading Configuration: The Rust implementation uses more intra-threads, which contributes to some additional memory consumption. However, this
accounts for only a minor portion of the overall difference observed.
The last memory point is just a consequence of a more important factor: Python’s mature and extensive ecosystem for machine learning. Rewriting these
serving strategies in Rust can introduce challenges, such as increased development effort, potential performance trade-offs where optimized crates are
unavailable (or one has to write them), and added complexity. However, Rust's benefits may sometimes justify the effort, depending on specific business needs.
Using inference-optimized solutions like ONNX Runtime can significantly enhance model serving performance, especially for larger models. While this article
uses a small model (MobileNet V3-small, ~1.53 million parameters), the benefits of ONNX Runtime become more pronounced with more complex architectures. Its
ability to optimize computation graphs and streamline resource usage leads to higher throughput and reduced latency, making it invaluable for scaling
model-serving solutions.
| 2024-11-07T23:52:02 | en | train |
42,045,533 | azhenley | 2024-11-04T20:08:54 | You too can write a book | null | https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/write-a-book/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,535 | _tk_ | 2024-11-04T20:09:02 | They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out. | null | https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/01/face-search-privacy-pimeyes/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
42,045,536 | benshumaker | 2024-11-04T20:09:07 | Ask HN: How do you manage feature flags? | I'm trying to learn how other people manage feature flags & rollouts. Basically:<p>What do you do?
Do you use a platform?
Why do you like that solution?<p>Thanks! | null | 4 | 0 | [
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