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I'm trying to find ETA for solving the issue, but they didn't post it on Twitter.

Anybody knows ETA?
Isn't it legally required that you carry your ID at all times unless you are within 200 meters of your home?

There might be a country somewhere in Europe that has that law, but it's certainly not normal.
> removing the value Kick-start adds

What value?

> no one decides if the project delivered properly

Same as Kickstarter. They release the funds to the creator after a certain deadline, after which they do not get involved in deciding whether the project delivered. Which is what I wrote above.

EDIT: I should add that I do very much agree with the general point you're not making: Smart contracts are only smart inside the closed world of the computer system running them; they don't magically know things about the "real world", and they cannot affect the "real world". I agree that many smart contract aficionados act as if they didn't understand this basic point. That's why I deliberately chose the Kickstarter example, which is also a system that does not make guarantees about the real world once payments have been made.
It would be easy to introduce a pin protected chip card and use 2FA all the time for everything. But in the US even credit cards do not have chip and if they do it does not have a pin. The rest of the world using these security measures for almost a decade.
How is that even a thing? Don't you have separate routing for every switch? Otherwise you don't have redundancy? I'd even expect data centres to use different hardware for networks to avoid having a single point of failure.
Someone with access might wish to update the title of this post, because all OVH datacenters are definitely not down.
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It's not lie if everybody accepts and supports it, merely a convention.

There's father-by-birth, and then father-by-adoption, and then father-by-convention.
That sounds interesting - if I can compile to everywhere from linux, I might give it a shot.
The language itself or its reputation is not a problem to me, as long as the syntax isn't quite brainfuck-like and the performance not completely abysmal, I'm fine.
Spot on.

Having one AWS account scares the crap out of me as well. It’s never a good thing if all your eggs are in one basket.

My money is on stuff spread across Bytemark, Linode and DigitalOcean with a DR plan involving mostly automatic recovery.

AWS doesn’t get a look in as it is extremely costly to port away from anything that isn’t bare metal and pipes.
Then they could call it one DC. A DC can have more than one building. But by saying you have several data centres you imply redundancy, similar to AZs at AWS. And (at least to Amazon), two AZs are far enough away from each other so that one building could blow up without affecting the other one.
"It just felt like something that could hit anyone"

That's why addiction is a problem. Once the central nervous system is compromised by addictive substances, it's no longer only a matter of personal life choices. It does not matter whether the addiction was started by a leisurely experimentation or by a medicine prescribed by a doctor.
exactly, german datacenter is operational without any problems yet
They haven't posted any ETA yet.
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Replica as in Read Replica? Are you using V2? We are using read replicas and are not facing any such problems
OP here - we made Tavern as an internal tool at overlock, due to problems of running RESTful integration tests with postman in our CI pipelines, as well as needing to rely on a CI.

What really kicked this all off was the javascript testing functionality in other projects which we found to be nearly unusable in more complex tests where say, you want to verify the contents of a JWT. We liked the ability to write simple tests quickly, but needed more power to be able to extend when needed - that's why we wrote the ability to hook in to python functions with Tavern as required.

We're just getting started with tavern and the next things on our agenda are:
1) Reference schemas from Json schema or OpenAPI documents
2) Command line deamon to ping your API regularly for functional uptime monitoring

We'd really love to know what you think - either in the comments or github issues!
In my experience of living on both continents: European credit cards are much more like debit cards in the US and US-style credit cards are super rare.

Everyone I know in Europe with a “real”credit card just has an Amex.
So what would ensure you keep using that tech for good? What if no clients turn up and you still need to produce value for your investors?

In other words, how would you go about solving the 'just trust us' problem others in this thread have described better?
"fungi!!!! did you just assume my gender?"
Just an good advice: Never ever trust a single point/server without backups. Do backups, do snapshots (check if and how you can do that), store them somewhere else. Try to do automated reinstall with e.g. Ansible so that you can move easily. It's an investment at the beginning and during running the server but if the stuff is critical you should always do that.
WebSite Auditor Enterprise for $39 for life? Anyone tried this yet?
My server hosted on OVH had some problems (DNS lookups) but has stayed up and works fine right now.

EDIT: Hosted in EU.
> Americans, the argumentation for interception correspondence and private life perlustration provided by your 3 letter services and whole executive branch in general is laughable.

I doubt anyone on this site disagrees with you. We're not the ones you need to yell at.
> "Sexual harassment is endemic not just to the entertainment industry, but to every industry, whether you're a software engineer or a European model or a receptionist," she told Deadline. "If women don't have the resources to file a lawsuit, men in power will never feel the consequences of their actions."

Sounds like they keep repeating the feminist propaganda that sexual harassment almost always happens to women. I assume that they wouldn't welcome men calling the hotline?
not all of them, I have some servers in Canada, working OK
What is SBG? A CDN of some sort?
The daughter doesn't support it
It's the location of one of their data centers. SBG for Strasbourg.
Mike Abbink shows up as Creative Director at IBM, in addition to being at Bold Monday.
In this case, I wouldn't be to hard on them. As it appears they lost their main power line, the backup power line and both generators failed and one generator has been restarted now.
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It's a collection of datacenters in Strasbourg.
But no one knows which DCs and services are down. They lost their internal network and have no idea themselves.
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Now this status page is down as well. Sucks to be them right now =/ (I'm in Europe)
Wow, this was a surprising article. I am shocked that they are renting themselves out and lying to children about who their parents are. It's unethical and he speaks about it as if it's just fine.
> The approach we're using here is parsing the minified JavaScript source from the error location backwards in WTF-16 units, then compare that to the token we see in the unminified source and doing a reverse lookup

What if instead of that you’d actually compile all JS files once to some sensible format that would allow you to do lookup of variable in any scope?

Then you only need token to token map to find the proper location in your precimpiled data.

> However we're different. We're not handling a single app, we're handling tens of thousands of customers and their apps and websites. We can't just have all the debug info files resident at all times, they are too many. Likewise the events we get constantly are from vastly different versions. I don't have numbers right now but I guess we store terrabytes of debug data we use for processing.

So how much do you have of it?
All in all, precomputing space-efficient index and storing it in some memcached-style solution should deal with that. I bet you don’t need full debug info as in complete DWARF data.

> Ops can better attest to that but we're not huge fans of depending too much on pinning customers to single workers.

Shards can be rebalanced. Also a memcached or whatever DHTs can used to keep shards. This way workers stay uniform but lookups are still fast.
ETA is now 30 min for RBX

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928552251458818048
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My guess is they are competing for the nascent consumer vr/ar market, which may not require top tier gpu performance for that much longer.

Microsoft's Mixed Reality platform has the stated goal of running on integrated graphics and even a mid tier card in a year or two should do fine for usable vr/ar.
It's in the Gravelines datacenter, which is not actually down contrary to what the initial reports said (only Strasbourg and Roubaix are, and for two different reasons).
> compiled PHP with better concurrency support

...and simpler syntax and without the quirks. But that's one of the best descriptions of Go I've seen so far.
> No expert on the field but that's the first time I can remember that a provider of that size loses connection to most of their data centres at once.

It happened to GCE last year[1], though it only lasted 18 minutes.

[1]: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007?post-...
So what? Losing main power is a standard case for any DC. That's why you have generators. Even a generator failure is nothing out of the ordinary. But that no generators in a DC work kind of indicates that they don't test them as often as you would expect.

They just announced that they want to be a "hypercloud" provider on the scale of AWS and Google Cloud. I really hope that a power failure in Virginia couldn't bring down all of AWS.
Interesting read for you.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/19/psycho...
So regardless of the possibility that somebody gets simply part of your number, it can be anything but difficult to make sense of the rest. Analysts in 2009 composed a calculation that could foresee a Social Security number effectively 44 percent of the time in the United States.
I really wish that there was a language which had these features:

- simple (so not Scala, Haskell, Perl 6, etc.; no Rust either, unfortunately)

- clean (nice syntax, preferably Python inspired, but consistent)

- modern (generics, some functional features, string interpolation, etc.)

- decent concurrency/parallelism story

- good IDE, preferably supported by the core dev team

- compilation to a (possibly static) native binary

- decently big ecosystem

- and a big enough community of contributors or commercial backing from at least 1 stable entity

- also preferably didn't have a lot of historical baggage

From what I gather C# might actually be close to this, 2-3 years from now, if the .Net Core transition happens smoothly and the OSS community adopts it... Who knows, maybe even Kotlin 2019 or so?
Update:

SBG: 2 routing rooms are UP powered by gen. EDRF still down. ETA: 15min RBX: the DB of the optical node in RBX is corrupted. All links are still down. We upload the backup. ETA: 30min

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928552251458818048
My experience with OVH VPSes is that they are cheap and reasonably reliable. But when one starts failing support never helped me to get it fixed.

Just fire up another one, install everything on there, switch off the old one and forget about it. This means never paying for more than one month in advance.
> All event processing (currently) takes place on three 32 core Xeon machines. But it has seen much worse days when we had many more before we optimized critical paths.

Finally I could understand what kind of efficiency you guys have. Not bad at all I’d say though not exactly “high load miracle” the article title would imply.
For many people it's fatalities, yes. For others like me, it's about not leaving nuclear waste around for many thousands of years. That is, "factoring in secondary and tertiary costs", including ones not necessarily expressed in today's dollars.

The world would be all over a nuclear fuel cycle that doesn't produce waste that needs very-long-term storage.
> Because what the Model 3 really is is about cutting costs to get the cheapest electric car on the market

I thought that was the case, but having seen a few in-depth video reviews there still seems to be plenty of fat that they easily could have trimmed without anyone caring. E.g. the charge port cover can be opened electronically; why? It seems pointless to me, since you have to get out of the car to plug the charger in anyway.
What is the point of backup generators if you do not verify that they work every so often? I have a very hard time believing that they actually tested that they worked, because a failure of not one, but both of them.
>During my internship on automotive cost engineering, I quickly learned that motorized anything on a car costs and weighs leagues more than its mechanical-only cousin.

That is not true these days, eg electric windows are cheaper than manual, and electrically adjustable mirrors are cheaper than the mechanical remote mirrors.

As a principle, electric actuation enables the componentry to be less robust, since the forces are lower and more predictable. Also, you can standardise electrical actuation across several models and lower the cost, whereas different designs may be needed for the manual option (windows are a good example here).
How do you do fail-over ?
Sydney is fine.
> it's really hard to make a somewhat passable forgery

It's not, I've held several. For EU countries.

>unless you've got contacts with organized crime

Or an internet connection!

>Getting a fake ID gives limited benefits and means jailtime even if you don't attempt to use it

My personal experience has been very different. But I guess this'll vary from country to country.

>there's not much demand among "normal people" for it

How many undocumented migrants are there in Europe again? Are those people not "normal"?

>Also, even if you could get one, it's going to cost thousands

Nonsense, hundreds.
Unfortunately not a brilliant analogy until guns start algorithmically deciding who to shoot at.
Huh, I was just looking at them too. Contrary to popular opinion, I kinda prefer it when these things happen before I sign up so that in the post-mortem usually whatever architectural failure lead to the outage is corrected and you get a stronger service.

Usually.
Moving the responsibility of combining data to the server is a huge advantage for many organisations. It allows application developers to move much quicker and provides a common data access layer for all applications. It sounds to me like you are over-indexing on the burden placed on the backend developer in your evaluation and not considering the whole picture.

From my experience, the biggest advantage of GraphQL is that having a well defined standard allows the community to build advanced tooling such as https://github.com/graphcool/graphql-playground by Graphcool and all the cool stuff Sashko is talking about in this presentation.
It's well known that drug dependency is a relatively good predictor of violent behaviour. People think severe mental illness predicts violent behaviour, but substance misuse is far better predictor.

Watch the video here: https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/917838820682489858?s...
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Nobody would ever question a broken chip. I don't think they
even read them in most places, perhaps Estonia? (before the Infineon thing anyway)
That's in the UK, which has a common law system like the US.
It's worth pointing out that Facebook tried the human curation thing and were accused of bias.
its OVH:
The Hardware is good
DDoS protection is good
The Prices are high

but

support/administration does not work well, i have a lot of really weird story's with them, from them plugging in a keyboard in our server to reboot it (without any reason) to taking down a server for a requested maintenance only to notice after 4 hours of downtime that they did not ask their bosses if they were allowed to even perform the maintenance requested (and then not getting permission to do so after another 2 hours ..)

For me it feels like there are some really deep issues somewhere in the whole administration that make incidents like this no real surprise

Problem is most other providers dont work any better, so ...

Everyone makes mistakes, let's just hope they learn from it.
Sure, that's what I thought

Wow, that sure make me think we can have a fruitful discussion.

because I don't know of any monopoly that didn't benefit from gov't subsidies or explicit protectionist policies.

Two points:

- What you don't know, is a lot. The inclination to believe that since you don't know of it, it must not exist or – to put it differently – that what you know is all there is to know, is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's a sign that you actually don't know much at all.

- Just because a monopoly benefits from certain regulations, it doesn't necessarily mean that those benefits was what helped create the monopoly. All companies benefit from regulation at times. They don't all become monopolies.

But you tell me: What in your mind caused At&T to become a monopoly?
Algorithms can have bias, too. Like for instance, in the last election, Google removed the more negative expressions that would be suggested alongside politicians' names. That wasn't just the Algorithm™ -- it was Google deciding that.

There are likely hundreds of such "manual" decisions within its search algorithms.
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To be fair people do test generators on a monthly schedule usually. Problem you find is it’s getting colder now so any problems are amplified suddenly. Might have been entirely tested a couple of weeks ago.
Good luck getting Grandma to understand that
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But that's one product, not the whole DC. As I understand the post, other services worked correctly during that time.
The generators did work but they failed. Both of them.

I can not imagine they weren't tested.

But even the most rigorous testing can never reduce the total failure risk to 0. It seems OVH just got very very unlucky.
There's a computer called a Mac, and it's run OS X since 1999-2000, which was NeXTstep back to the 1980s, which is where Objective-C & Cocoa (NS = Next Step) come from.

I'm certainly better than average at geometry & visualizing a grid, but that's a skill most people can learn.

Those who do not learn history are doomed to be the butt of Santayana jokes.
If the founders were such as well off already, then then taking risk in the same quantity of time and/or money isn't the same as the employee trekking the same amount of time/money. The founders that are well off can easily move on after failure, but the employee have lost out (it's not very useful to list a failed company in your resume).
> What if instead of that you’d actually compile all JS files once to some sensible format that would allow you to do lookup of variable in any scope?

An enormous amount of javascript and sourcemaps we are dealing with are one hit wonders and/or need fetching from external sources. We have no impact on the format of the data there and as mentioned converting it once into a different format does not at all help here.

> I bet you don’t need full debug info as in complete DWARF data.

Correct, which is why as part of making processing of iOS symbols faster we wrote our own file format that we can efficiently mmap. It's 10% of the size of the average DWARF, gives us all the information we want without parsing or complex processing (https://github.com/getsentry/symbolic/tree/master/symcache).

The reason I'm writing this is because as you can see we're very far away from "just handling boring events". There is a ton of complexity that goes into it. We're not idiots here ;)

> Shards can be rebalanced.

That changes nothing about the fact, that unless we have to introduce any form of affinity we are better off writing faster code that does not depend on it.
Just wanted to concur that Blindsight is an awful book. I see it recommended everywhere but I've found it thoroughly uncompelling.

As far as recommendations go, Mote in God's Eye is hard to beat.
If it's not you it will be someone else. People upvote the title, not the content.
1. Typical prescription route. Thought I'd "never" do heroin. Tolerance grew and grew, and after realizing it was basically morphine (which, I had had prescribed before), it seemed less scary. I didn't seek it out, but literally found a gram on the ground and immediately realized that this was the best ROI for releasing pain (both the physical pain and the pain of living.)

2. 22

3. Currently can get a really good quality (lab tested) gram for $50; this is cartel type pricing

4. Doctor, darknet, in person

5. I haven't. I should, most likely. I should let my tolerance go down but I'm so, so scared to be stuck in bed with pain off the charts combined with the temporary depression.
When I've seen things like this before, it's often been the switchover hardware that fails, not the generator as such. it's much harder to test that as you don't want to tell your customers "sorry your sever went down, we were just testing if the switchover worked and it didn't"
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The acquisition of wealth is not a zero sum game so why would you want people/families to get poorer ('stop them from staying wealthy forever'). How about getting people to climb up rather than forcing some down?

Your idea of the 'point of a wealth tax' is a curious one. I am not aware anyone has suggested this aside from failed communist regimes where remarkably, some families at the apex who make/made the rules continue/continued to live rather well.
I'm pretty sure they know exactly which services are down.

Even if they didn't, clearly many services are up and running normally, so saying "all datacenters are down" is just a lie.
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Thanks for that link. I must say I deem it maybe not completely outdated, but at least worthy an update.

But I'm in awe of the what one can read there.

"This vendor[Nvidia] is extremely savvy and strategic about embedding its devs directly into key game teams to make things happen. (...). These embedded devs will purposely do things that they know are performant on their driver, with no idea how these things impact other drivers.

(...)

Vendor A[Nvidia] is also jokingly known as the "Graphics Mafia". Be very careful if a dev from Vendor A gets embedded into your team. These guys are serious business."

So, basically Nvidia is sabotaging OpenGL to fuck up the specs and then implement other working variations and make the game developers use their version? If that is true, fuck Nvidia.

"On the bright side, Vendor C[Intel] feeds this driver team[Windows Driver Team] more internal information about their hardware than the other team[Linux Driver team]. So it tends to be a few percent faster than driver #1 on the same title/hardware - when it works at all."

What the fuck is going on in this industry? Intel is sabotaging its own Linux driver team? Why?

"I don't have any real experience or hard data with these drivers, because I've been fearful that working with these open source/reverse engineered drivers would have pissed off each vendor's closed source teams so much that they wouldn't help.

Vendor A[Nvidia] hates these drivers because they are deeply entrenched in the current way things are done."

That, now finally, makes sense. Nvidia is strong-arming developers to not support Mesa because they are afraid of it. Nvidia is afraid of Mesa. I think this should be more widely known.