We build and sell multi-service business gateways, basically devices that do networking, VoIP, etc. all in one box. https://difuse.io/ if you're interested!
So, it sounds like you are in a perfect position to tell us whether Epstein's statement is right, THAT WALL STREET "makes trading way more complicated than it needs to be, because of all the money they make"
Nope, any modern modem have gnss builtin, even if you buy say quectel modem now you will have that included and how you can access the location through AT commands. Bottom line: anything that connects to operators tower should be assumed it is tracked.
I wouldn’t bet on it. If the baseband modem has access to location data then it could send it without the OS being able to intervene. I don’t know about Pixels, but many devices are highly integrated now that I would want some real thorough and specific research before I trusted that an OS could block the modem from sending location data.
How did your token spend add up? I'm hesitant with evil customers racking up ai charges just to shit and giggles. Even competitors might sponsor some runaway charges.
They don't care. Azure has a revenue higher than GCP, losing only to AWS. It's Microsoft's new baby, and they love it, no matter what you want to run there. Also, they're still the 4th largest company by market cap.
Honestly, only us nerds in Hacker News care about this kind of stuff :) (and that's why I love it here).
edit: also, the article cites OpenAI did adopt Azure Cosmos DB for new stuff they want to shard. Still shows how far you can take PostgreSQL though.
That ship sailed a long time ago, as Microsoft has offered Linux VMs in Azure for 14 years, and today, about 2/3 of VMs running there are Linux. In the public cloud era, owning the infrastructure and customer base is far more important than licenses.
It really is a good database. Give it lots of room. If you can distribute your workload on multiple machines though, you can't beat Postgres' licencing terms vs SQL Server.
Why is it a good database? Integration with Entra? I've heard arguments in favor of Oracle DB, but I've never heard anything good about MSSQL besides integration with the MS ecosystem.
The SQL Server query planner is head and shoulders above what Postgres offers in the types of optimizations it will apply to your queries. It also properly caches query plans.
It offers heap tables, as well as index organized tables depending on what you need.
The protocol supports running multiple queries and getting multiple resultsets back at once saving some round-trips and resources.
Also supports things like global temp tables, and in memory tables, which are helpful for some use cases.
The parallelism story for a single query is still stronger with SQL Server.
I'm sure I could think of more, but it's been a few years since I've used it myself and I've forgotten a bit.
It is a good database. I just wouldn't use it for my startup. I could never justify that license cost, and how it restricts how you design your infrastructure due to the cost and license terms.
I love Postgres and use it for _everything_. I've also used SQL Server for a couple of years.
I've lost count the number of times I'll read about some new postgres or MySQL thing where you find out that Oracle or SQL server implemented it 20 years ago. Yes they always have it behind expensive SKUs. But they're hardly slouches in the technical competence departments.
I found Oracle to just be a lot more unwieldy from a tooling perspective than SQL Server (which IMO had excellent tools like SSMS and the query planner/profiler to do all your DB management).
But overall, these paid databases have been very technically sound and have been solving some of these problems many, many years ago. It's still nice to see the rest of us benefit from these features in free databases nowadays.
As others have said, the query planners I used 25 years ago with Oracle (cost based, rule based, etc) were amazing. The oracle one wasn't visual but the MSSQL one was totally visual that actually gave you a whole graph of how the query was assembled. And I last used the MSSQL one 15 years ago.
Maybe pgAdmin does that now (I haven't used pgAdmin), but I miss the polished tools that came with SQL Server.
My sentiments exactly. Anyone at the low side of scale thinking about MS SQL, should seriously do a current survey of things in the dbms space.. there is absolutely no NEED to pay for dbms in 2026. Those old dinosours only still exist, because of the data hijacking nature of past db designs and coding. Everybody and their grandmother were obfuscating code and designs in order to bake in customer loyalty and repetitive patronage. Those old projects are keeping the lights on at proprietary DB Inc. AT the high end of things, you're gonna need db engineers, and if you get yourself Microsoftie hammersharks disguised as professional engineers, they gonna see everything as a nail.
That’s kind of my point. They’re not really in competition. I bet they’d have an easier time with this scale if they were on SQL Server, but obviously that migration isn’t happening and startups don’t reach for it for many reasons.
Azure offers Postgres “DBaaS”, so I’m pretty sure they are no where near that stage. It’s more likely that we should watch out for the Microsoft E-E-E strategy.
Amen to that.. those tripple-E bastards are likely to use that playbook again. Best advise is to seek fertile grounds where freedom grows. I can't wait for Europe's cloud offering, I believe they're gonna serve as the middle ground between greedy tech-bros and china's fake free as in free beer products. Pack up your bags IT HOBBITS, we're moving to middle earth.
i see this project more of a high security deployment. a sort of red phone network. in a post apocalypse scenario, we can do open networks on lora, plus at that time, we gonna need text manuals for agro, fabrication etc... essentially survival wikis.
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