skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A executive has a OKR around uptime and a automated system prevents him or her from having control over the messaging. Therefore any effort to create one is squashed, leaving the people requesting it confused as to why and left without any explanation. Oldest story in the book.
Religion. Some religious sects of Christianity have some teachings about the importance of the "holy lands" and their control by the "chosen people", the jews, or some other nonsense.

Or said in another way, something that has no place in a modern developed country. Religion should be an entirely private matter and shouldn't have anything to do with policymaking.
Well not letting people export and purging all Quill DMs is not a good start.
Their commercial paper would make them one of the largest players in the global market if their numbers were true, but nobody knows what they have invested in, they say it is in crypto as well (eek!), they've been found guilty of fraud multiple times, including faking assets by using temporary bank transfers, and the amounts we're talking about make it very hard to believe they could function at that scale without making lots of noise in the global commercial paper market.

So basically, like most other things they say, it's simply not credible.

https://www.ft.com/content/342966af-98dc-4b48-b997-38c008042...
The AWS console seems kind of broken for us in us-west-1 (Northern California), but it seems like the actual services are working
Intellectual property can be used without depriving the original owner of its use.
Getting 500 errors across the board on systems trying to hit s3
I'm thinking about using Starlette directly. It doesn't look that much more verbose than FastAPI and I already disagreed and bypassed a few FastAPI features. I wonder how much work would it take to hook the Pydantic models with their SchemaGenerator.
Makes you wonder if they have to manually update the page when outages occur. That'd be a pretty bad way to go, so I'd hope not. Maybe the code to automatically update the page is in us-east-1? :)
I think there should be some third-party status checker alliance.

It's a joke. Each time AWS/Azure/GCP is down their status page says all is fine.
What I find even more interesting, was that the US demonstrated for Japan the winning tactic to attack Pearl Harbor...

> Unbeknownst to the U.S. military at the time, we now know that Japan had been watching Admiral Yarnell’s 1932 mock attack with keen interest.

> Tokyo’s spy organization in Oahu had observers across the island that relayed information back to Japan - which studied and absorbed the lessons the U.S. Navy failed to learn.

This speak volumes about how the results of war games need to remain classified. ...in the same way you would want a pen-test you've contracted out to remain confidential. If it's public, you give your adversary a blueprint for attacking you.
No wonder I could not read books from amazon all of a sudden, what about their cloud-based redundancy design?
Cool! Is it open-source?

Reminds me of Flash.
4 days is still a joke, in the middle of December on top of that.
Maybe do away with tabbing and just give out sheet music.
https://odysee.com
Absolutely. I've often felt like an outsider in places full of people, and an insider with just a single friend. I think it's about tribal affinity.
I think it's a bit simpler for AWS- there's a big red "I have a problem with AWS" button on that page. You click it, tell it what your problem is, and it logs a report. Unless that's what you were driving at and I missed it, it's early. Too early for AWS to be down :(

Some 3600 people have hit that button in the last ~15 minutes.
I think the idea is to draw a parallel between something we're repulsed by, find abhorrent, and feel we ought to eliminate (like a violent death from being ripped apart by a dragon) and something that we consider a natural and inevitable part of life but that doesn't really differ much from the first thing(death from aging).

It's a pretty common metaphor in transhumanist circles. I remember this piece comparing the elimination of "natural" unhappiness to the advent of painkillers making a strong impression on me: https://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm
I'll translate the text to honest one.

> We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication

We started Quill with hope someone buys us one day.

> Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone.

We sold our data to Twitter so they can make more money.

> We’d like to thank everybody who has used Quill — if you came on board during our beta, or if you just sent your first message last week. We can’t wait to show you what we’ll be working on next.

We can't wait to use the data you supplied us for free to get even more money from Twatter.
Yeah that is quite the downside. As someone living in the EU working a remote job for a foreign company on an hourly basis it's impossible to get a loan. Credit score doesn't exist and banks tell you to go fuck yourself if you don't have a full time job. Hell they even limit you to like 300€ per month on credit cards, I had to start using a prepaid card to actually pay for anything.
I appreciate the push to expand address allocations a bit, so that providers aren't charging a monthly fee for every /128 and the like. But /64 seems like ridiculous overkill. Even for a premises network connected to an ISP, the optimal thing to do is to continue NATting to hide information about your network. Privacy wise I'd rather have 2^16 separate /128's scattered throughout a provider's address space, than a single /64, which will inevitably be treated as a single address by the surveillance industry. Ultimately discrete public addresses are really only needed for services, and the services I want to share are few and enumerable. At this point I do more work making sure individual nodes aren't fully connected (eg Internet of Shit) than making services reachable.
Because Amazon has $$$$$ in their SLOs, and it costs them through the nose every minute they're down in payments made to customers and fees refunded. I trust them and most companies not to be outright fraudulent (although I'm sure some are), but it's totally understandable they'd be reticent to push the "Downtime Alert/Cost Us a Ton of Money" button until they're sure something serious is happening.
Skepticism is always good, right? Wrong
How your skepticism stops you from acting
In addition to the other comments pointing out the moat, it's also just a good product. There's some controversy here or there, but the watching experience is fast and good, it's available almost everywhere (phones, laptop, smart tvs, consoles, ...), and it just works well.

If someone hosts something on Vimeo, I always perceive that as giving users a worse experience just to make a point. Vimeo embeds don't sync how far I've watched across devices. It doesn't even remember it in a single tab on a single device. (Maybe that's because I don't have a Vimeo account but I do have a YouTube account. But that's part of the mount.)
Yeah, got hAP ac^2 and it's literally plug and play. Port forwarding etc. are all really easy.
4 hour tests are a nonstarter, but ponder this: how can you guarantee that bug will never happen again? You can be pretty sure. You can reason about the code that you’re now familiar with and infer (based on your current understanding) that something like that won’t happen again. But you can’t guarantee it.

Some bugs don’t really deserve tests that run all the time - that I’ll grant you. I frequently have tests for stuff like that as a form of documentation for myself down the road. A year from now, will you remember the specific steps you took to fix your case sensitivity bug? I wouldn’t. But my VCS will. Future me will be very grateful if I write a “verify this annoying case sensitivity thing isn’t a problem” script somewhere so that if I’m seeing weird behavior in the future, I can be reasonably sure that it’s a different problem (or that my fix got reverted or overwritten).

I also don’t find a lot of value in unit tests or having 100% code coverage. But that doesn’t invalidate automated testing altogether. I cannot tell you how often tests - even just simple end to end, happy path tests - have saved my ass.

I’m willing to bet that you’re already testing your software manually, right? Like if you change (for the sake of example) a form, you’re probably going to submit that form a few times with different inputs. Somebody else down the road is going to do that too. Why wouldn’t you write down the different inputs you gave so that the next person has them available? Maybe that person doesn’t have the same context that you do. Maybe they just aren’t as thorough as you. Either way though: if you’ve already done the work to figure out how to fully exercise the form, why would you make someone else do that work again?

The next logical step after writing that stuff down is to automate it if for no other reason than to avoid having smart, expensive people sitting around doing data entry when a computer can do it for them.

That seems extremely uncontroversial to me and I have a hard time understanding why someone wouldn’t be on board with that.
Only if you're so socially dependent you need other peoples validation to exist via "like."

That advice is spot on. The internet is a destination, not a lifestyle. What happens online probably reflects 1% of what really happens in the world. Far too many people have gotten wrapped up in it that the only people I'm aware of that truly live in the "real world" are boomers and die hard linux/open-source-only people.
It's brilliant until the information is bad.

When Facebook's properties all went down in October, people were saying that AT&T and other cell phone carriers were also down - because they couldn't connect to FB/Insta/etc. There were even some media reports that cited Downdetector, seeming without understanding that they are basically crowdsourced and sometimes the crowd is wrong.
What is your point here? Should they instead have been happy about dying? Is death acceptable or good because it's been around for a long time?
Intel and MS Fix Most Games Affected by 12th Gen Alder Lake DRM Issue on Win 11
(Title slightly shortened.)
EC2 or S3 showing red in any region literally requires personal approval of the CEO of AWS.
Yes, on Linux this capability is built in to X-Windows. Using xmodmap and the Compose file, you can map any key to anything. Using xbindkeys, you can bind keys and the buttons and switches on your device to scripts or commands.
I think one of the major issues is that people associate longer life expectancy with old age.

For most people, the idea of being kept alive by machines, bed ridden for decades into their 80/90s as far worse than death. They never consider that improvements could promise them a strong body and agile mind in addition to the extra years.

Who ever does the life extension technology marketing really needs to push the "keep people younger, longer" message.
So it was basically a message board?
Awesome, I asked for this on Twitter recently and now we've got it!

edit: this is only for dedicated servers, not VPS's :(
this is all accurate and i'd add that it is deceivingly hard to make something that sustains itself via advertising. when youtube was acquired google had a large part of that already figured out.
Their firewall is essentially iptables. If you can work iptables, you can work the routeros firewall.
Yeah, strange, my self-hosted server isn't affected either.
I think that it's perfectly possible to be thorough without being an ass about it. You can grill someone without bringing them to tears.
Personal preference is @username

I have all the content off the root and I don't want a collision between /articlename and a user with that same name.

~ just makes me feel too old-school. And of course @ is used everywhere to indicate a username now.
If you really want that in C, you can either use functions and wrap everything in (incompatible but internally identical) structs, or use Sparse and annotate those integer types to be incompatible. Not that you must prefer that to C++ (even if I do), just to note that you can make do with C if you want to.
I'd argue that Youtube is a strong video discovery mechanism and "People don't really choose where to watch videos" is very much false. Many people watch videos by directly searching for them on youtube and by subscribing to specific "youtubers" (perhaps it's different between various ages/demographics, though); and, IMHO this is the largest part, when watching the next video people stay on the same site, at least in the case of youtube; they'll just pick one of the recommendations and it's not going to be on another site.
I disagree wholeheartedly. The purpose of copyright is to shift money made from selling copies back into the production of new works; and anything else is just blatant rent-seeking at the expense of the larger economy.

High-budget songs, movies, and video games will either make back their budgets immediately, or they will be written off as a loss. There are very few cases where a work's financial success is predicated on money made five or ten years out. Hell, for video games, ten years out and you need to port your game to a new platform, which costs money, since the industry's investment into emulation technology[0] is piss-poor.

Furthermore, the production values of a work don't have much to do with it's longevity; you can't spend twice as much to get a work with twice the relevance decades down the line. In fact, most of the works from the past that still are relevant today were made on budgets that would be considered shoe-string today. If anything, I'd argue that longer terms make cheap cash-ins a safer bet than riskier experimental projects, even though the latter is more likely to be relevant. Do you really think that, say, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is going to last longer than the original Ghostbusters?

[0] Counterexamples: PC gaming, Steam Proton, and Xbox Series/PS5 backwards compatibility. All of these rely upon having built their games on technologies with long-term compatibility support built-in (Windows, x86), or upon community re-implementation efforts (WINE). The game industry cannot ever seem to afford to write their own one-off emulators.
On paper? Yes. In real life? No, not really. It was not about censorship, but about getting an ability to imprison whoever they want
I'll look that up. Thanks for the recommendation.
The modern SV startup treats users the way that a coal miner treats a mountain or an LBO guy treats a middle market company. Just a resource to be exploited as they go from Engineering Manager at Salesforce to VP at Twitter and given nothing but the middle finger for their troubles.
Joe Rogan moved away, and it seems he is losing influence.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-monthly-listeners-joe-r...
try aws ecr describe-registry and you will get an error
In 1941, the New Deal Works Progress Administration surveyed most buildings in New York. Now, the street level photographs are mapped over the current site.

Prepare to lose an afternoon exploring.

Also available is a 1980s version.
Wargaming removes Belarusian red-white-red flag emoji from corporate slack
This got me thinking, are there any major chat services that would go down if a particular AWS/GCP/etc data centre went down?

You don't want your service to go down, plus your team's comms at the same time.
Company wide can't log in to console. Many, many SNS and SQS errors in us-east-1.
Sorry if I come across too confrontational, but I'm really don't understand how your proposal offers a solution and I'm trying to understand it.

> > The author suspects differently, he does suspect a state actor behind KAX17. Do you have better Information?

> FWIW, I also expect them to be a government... but not the NSA. They might not even be a government, though.

> > KAX17 at times had bandwidth capabilities of 150 Gbit/s that is getting awfully close to the full bandwidth of the uni and would get noticed and shutdown pretty quickly.

> You can do this with a botnet of a mere few thousand cable modems, which means that people like me (look into who I am if you haven't) can pull this in our spare time... it just requires being a bit evil, which these people almost certainly are.

I would argue that the size of the tor network actually would be an advantage in this case. You would need likely need to double the number of nodes in the network if you want to provide that sort of bandwidth using cable modems, that likely would be noticed quite quickly. However I agree with the general argument that the tor network is way too small to be considered "safe".

> > You seem to ignore the fact that running nodes with this capabilities requires significant resources.

> No: I just have a realistic model of how large Tor is, which is "ridiculously small".

> > If the tor network was big enough all this wouldn't be an issue, no need for any crypto currency constructs.

> So, I did cover the things Tor has right now to get this kind of scaling, and while they aren't insane they are clearly precarious: they rely on the scarcity of IPv4 addresses and manual curation by a very small cabal of people whom I would not trust to protect anyone if actually threatened running on a handful of hopefully-secure machines.

> If you correctly discount the weight of these precarious solutions, the size of Tor doesn't matter. If you want to build a system where it costs a lot to register a node, you don't do "proof of IPv4"--which might not make sense at all in the future and is easy to forge--you just do something as close as possible to "proof of a giant pile of cash", as that will always have value and always be difficult to obtain in quantity.

I still don't understand, if you require "proof of giant pile of cash" you're reducing the number of nodes so how does that help?

> > Effective at what? Keeping the NSA out? I suspect the NSA (as well as many others) have a good idea about a significant portion of bitcoin ownership.

> I don't understand this... maybe you are trying to draw some haphazard analogy mapping to anonymity networks? What Bitcoin provides is a distributed ledger, and having a sizable control of it isn't about deanonymization but about delinearization: if you own more than 50% of Bitcoin you can reorder recent transactions (which lets you buy something expensive and then undo the transaction). You have to analyze these systems by what they intend to provide based on maintaining their trusted subset.

I understand bitcoin, but I don't understand what you claim it is effective for and how it is relevant for this discussion.
No but if you're big enough, you can get YouTube and other tech companies to enforce your non-existing right for you.
eu-central-1 as well
I think that what frustrates me about the "cure aging" crowd is that they quite easily step over the homeless opioid addict on their front porch in SF on their way to the latest lecture. "Aging can be defeated! Oh, but this individual in front of me represents an insurmountable problem." It's quite easy to justify anything you do if you've already decided that an infinite number of (hypothetical) future people will benefit...
There's also the option to spin up a tiny VM with pfSense/OPNsense and have it act as a bastion, is there not? Or would it introduce too much latency?
They stopped selling the Dell UP2414Q! What a shame. So it looks like the only option is the pricy LG Ultrafine 24MD4KL.

There's also only a single 5k display on the market (also from LG).

It's a shame that there are so few high res displays on the market, and they are all 16:9...
In my experience, if you mention to people there's not enough testing, most of them will agree. They've probably been fighting that fight for a long time.

Cut your team some slack. Before you go telling them they're doing it wrong, do better yourself. Make sure your code is well tested. When doing code reviews, request more tests strategically. (Meaning, don't complain that there are no tests. Point out specific tricky or dangerous areas where an extra test could make a difference). If they don't know how, help them.

ASK about current practices ("Hey, is there a style guide I can use to help me get up to speed?"). DON'T tell them you know better. If you make them resent you from the beginning, you'll never make any progress.
Orchestrating Facial Synthesis with Semantic Segmentation
This is a constant problem, publishers go out of business all the time. I have a lot of photocopied sheet music that cannot be purchased anywhere, at any price, but it will be decades before any of it can be legally shared. Just ridiculous artificial scarcity - I wonder how the composers would feel about it.
No they're not.

Step 1: deploy status checks to an external cloud.
Curious, What games do you play?
No, it's not enough because you end up needing Proxy NDP for your traffic to reach other subnets smaller than a /64 (e.g. a /80) if you have the /64 on your wan interface and carve it out. Normally, you'd have a /64 on your wan, then another /64 for your containers or multiple /64s for different container deployments or virtual machines. Then traffic would route properly between your networks with ipv6 forwarding enabled.
How have I not heard this idea before? I find it a brilliant balance between capitalism and socialism. It reminds me of 99-year land leases. It’s enough ownership to pass on wealth for 1-2 generations, then it goes back into the public trust.
I design services which are way more complex.

I would argue that developers giving up on simplicity and accepting complexity is almost the reason why teams like the GDS exist. That way of thinking is how things spiral into being so complex everyone hates using the service. It needs someone to reframe the problem as one of "How do we make this simpler?" in order to improve. Until you think about things that way you can't make them better.
AWS OpenSearch is also returning 500 in us-east-1.
Our instances are up (when I poke with SSH, say), but the console itself is under the weather.
While I don't totally disagree, physical items add some practical issues due to their individual scarcity that digital ones don't have.

What actually happens when my car goes back into public domain? Is it just fair game for everyone? Does someone from the govmt come to pick it up? Would there be some kind of library-esque system for all public domain'd property?
I bet they also know a lot of problems we are not even aware of, because these were fixed in trade offs they’ve made. Content id claims may even be beneficial to US-based creators because even if false, it’s still a [manageable] alarm before a real lawsuit, which creators couldn’t stand against anyway. They have a hegemony no doubt, but why wouldn’t another platform have it in the same position and under same legal circumstances. Investors be like “ah yes, it’s not youtube, so we’ll refrain from pursuing our goals and safety policies”?
Does it come with SMTP?
Fighting it is one thing. Slaying it is another.

This article is meant to gather together a group of groupthinkers who delude themselves.
I regret getting the 12.5in screen, it’s terrible for posture. The t460s is about the same weight with a 14in screen. I am sure it will perform fine, but the screen is really small and bad for posture I hope you’re using the dock and not using it too often as a laptop. I love it as the epitome of the best half netbook/ultrabook with excellent performance with a few tradeoffs like 1 ram slot.
> What if someone they know is in the hospital or they’re in some other high priority issue? What if a close friend of theirs is in a tenuous health position? What if they’re checking on their children?

Even if any or all of that is true you can still put your phone away. If it's an emergency someone will call you.