skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a case that was promptly labelled "bogus" by one defendant, Craig Wright is demanding that developers allow him to retrieve around 111,000 bitcoin held at two digital addresses that he does not have private keys for.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-court-allows-austral...

In a related case, he's trying to get them to 'give' him the Bitcoin he doesn't have a key for. Weird sort of thing. It sounds unlikely that any fork that permits this would have any sort of support.

EDIT: Never mind, here's the actual case https://casetext.com/case/kleiman-v-wright-14

I read part of it but it looks like they mined a huge bunch of BTC and put it in a trust and the Kleiman side argued that Wright impersonated him (in some way, didn't read too deep) to transfer that to himself. If this is right, this guy is rich as fuck. Sounds weird for him to be suing the bitcoin devs to get a tenth as much through a hard fork so one can assume he fucked something up along the way and lost the keys to that stuff.

It's like 1.1 million BTC (50 billion USD at current price) right now. That's wild.
This clown sued the bitcoin developers in May for the coins he cannot access. Anyone know what happened to that?
How does Incoggo works under the hood? How it bypasses paywalls?
You're right that Netflix and Pornhub have both been able to replicate this.

IMO, it might be wise for Netflix to start their own YouTube-like service. For example, subscribe to Netflix, get access to user-created videos on a separate app. The best part is that users would then generate content for a fraction of what they currently pay to produce content, and they could have basically what YouTube has, but ad-free.
I think AWS will be at least 10x more if you include the traffic charges.
I just went to look up how many people file the 1040EZ, and realized that it doesn't even exist anymore. Today I learned.
It's crap but it's better than email for remote team communication. And once you're in it's a pain in the arse to change to a different service, so people don't.
Apparently he sued for that back in May https://www.reuters.com/technology/australias-wright-launche...
Then we would drown in a sea of meetings and 'lessons learned' emails. There is a reason for post-mortems, but there has to be balance.
I love your comment. I think the same.

> When you are in a position of power, you have to hold yourself to a higher standard of communication. One drop of deception in a sea of science will ruin the whole batch

If I may borrow from the old Spiderman movie and adapt the key line, "With great privilege comes great responsability"
Not if you’re AWS. At this point I’m fairly sure their status page is just a static html that always show all green.
Ditto, it's always annoyed me that their status page is useless, but glad someone else mentioned it.
They did more of it starting a few years back. It has been interesting to see how some services evolved far faster when retail started to use them. Seems that some customer are far more centric than others if you catch my drift...
A court would have to force Bitcoin users and miners to run a patched version of the software that unlocks those coins. Not likely to work; it's in literally every other Bitcoin user's best interest that those 1.1M coins don't move.
Elon Musk says Biden's “Build Back Better” plan shouldn't pass
Odd. We generally love Slack. I think you have to use it a little while for everyone to adopt sane norms for it, though. Among them is being quick to join and leave channels. A sales person has a question for me? They summon me to their channel where we chat for a bit. All done? I leave it so that I don’t see the rest of their chats. By now, if I see a conversation at all, there’s a 90% chance it’s relevant to me.

Not saying that it’s the best possible solution, just that we’ve been pretty happy with it for the last several years.
This is also effecting Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic Container Registry. We're getting 500s via API for both services.
I would LOVE a laptop that ran linux well and had an eink screen. I'd buy it today.
Viagra may be useful against Alzheimer's dementia
Which is in part why building youtube competitor is so difficult. Bootstrapping with pirated content is not something that will fly as easily in 2020 as it did in 2005
Being a tenant in Germany cannot be compared to being a tenant in the US.

Being a tenant in Germany is essentially as stable (if not more stable) as taking a mortgage on a home in the US. This is still the type of stability the state provides, which is quickly disappearing worldwide as all funds go into real estate due to a decade of zero (or negative) interest rates.
Same happening right now with Goodreads
The 'Forum' link goes to https://github.com/invictus2010/fixvms/issues which seems to be a private repo. Is that intended?
This is a particularly silly argument. You could apply this same faulty logic to any hard problem anyone is working on.
Uncle Sam: “Accept this change”

Node: “No”

Sam: *ICBM rolls out*

(I’m not saying they would, I’m saying they could).
Or just take responsibility. People will respect you for doing that and you will demonstrate leadership.
You can get new tokens. Image pulling times out after ~30s, which tells me that maybe ECR is actually up, but it can't verify the caller's credentials or access image metadata from some other internal service. It's probably something low level that crashed, taking down anything built above it.
Ironically, YouTube is about to lose its Roku app. Contract expires Dec 9 and the two children seem unable to share a playground.
Consider for example the functions f(x) = x + 1 and g(x) = e^{ln(2) * x}. Then f(0) = g(0), f(1) = g(1), and f(x) > g(x) whenever 0 < x < 1.

It is easy to show that for any function whose derivative is continuous and positive at 0, there is an exponential function (properly translated such that they agree at 0) that has similar properties.
It might not be a strict precondition, but it's still a pretty strong precondition. Maybe "precondition" isn't the best word here, but I think my original point still stands. Suppose someone claims that people are deciding not to have kids for whatever reason (eg. global warming, unaffordable healthcare, expensive houses)[1], and I retort by saying that people aren't bothering finding a partner[2], so they're not meeting their "precondition". Sure, you can theoretically raise a kid without a partner, but if you're not even bothering to find a partner, then maybe it's fair to say that's the main reason, rather than blaming global warming or whatever?

[1] analogous to your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473019

[2] analogous to my reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29473223
A lot of good objective points are listed here, but the biggest element to retaining a great team is showing and practicing respect for all people, both colleagues and clients. (I didn't see this mentioned in the article.)

"3. Be empathetic and curious." was mentioned briefly in the article. In my view the soft factors merit much more attention and discussion.

Just some example questions I would consider: Do you speak regularly with everyone in the company? How is respect at work practiced and shown? What is the quality of the community at work? How are conflicts resolved amicably? How are team building and quality work relationships supported?

This list is of course just a starting point.
Side question: How happy are you with API Gateway's WebSocket service?
> they they should be able to recoup their investment in a timely manner and 10 years is not that huge with all the means of electronic distribution we have today.

It’s neither fair nor accurate to point at the speed distribution as an indicator of the speed of building a viable business. It’s a fact that it’s common for a business to need a decade to build it’s business pipeline before the business is viable and fully supporting its employees. Don’t forget this system needs to support small businesses and not just megacorps.

From the perspective of law, and of copyright specifically, it’s also a mistake to assume that all business can move at the pace of electronically distributed software. Physical hardware goods frequently take more than a year to design, manufacture, and stock prior to distribution. Today we can add in an extra year of COVID related delays for the ordering and distributing pipeline … how many things are on insane back order delay as we speak? Copyright needs to be long enough that things like today’s situation don’t prevent a business from even starting to recoup, right?

> I would call it pretty fast when you think it took several years for congress to vote the last “infrastructure law”

The point I was making is that law moves slower than tech. You would agree that infrastructure funding happens on a glacial pace compared to what’s hot on GitHub or what new ideas are being incorporated into neural network training, right? It’s fine to think of a few years being “fast”, but that’s a subjective opinion that isn’t relative to something specific. I was trying to make a comparison between law and the things presumably parent was calling “breakneck speed”, which is clearly referring to things that move faster than law.

I also mentioned “existing” laws for a specific reason - new laws can and sometimes do come up quickly. But laws we need to know in order to comply with need to be mostly stable. And by and large, most of our law doesn’t change every year, we have small nips and tucks mostly in places that don’t affect the majority of the population.
It’s hard to measure what five-9 is because you have to wait around until a 0.00001 occurs. Incentivizing post-mortems are absolutely critical in this case.
> Vimeo seems to have found a good niche – professional video hosting.

Yet I prefer websites use youtube to embed content. Whenever I encounter an embedded vimeo video, I'm asked to fill a captcha. This almost never happens with youtube.
But why? My point is rather that if you don't want sex, you're not going to co-pay for a drug that helps you maintain an erection you've no interest in.

If you do think everyone is popping these, I'd suggest this is maybe a side effect of years of being exposed to too much spam and way too much under-regulated pharmaceutical advertising. They're not without unwanted side effects, and again, don't overcome a disinterest in sex.
What? Why?

Even if the wealth tax is 90%, 10% of $50B is a lot better than 0% of $50B.
Thanks!

So what's the logic behind it? I mean - he must be able to see that it's a non-starter?
False advertising is narrower than some people would like it to be.
Didn't work for me just now. Same error as the regular endpoint.
Did you ever have to use Vue or other reactive frameworks with Django?
Do you use DRF at all or just mostly Django?
You think people would be nicer to others if they were prevented from socializing, a basic human function, and taught to fear their fellow man—for two whole years?
I think a big reason we don't do that is that our societal narrative is one that focuses on self. In the US in particular we have a strong cultural disposition towards "self reliance" and "individuality", which often shows up in our politics as throwing our neighbors under the bus to save a few cents on our tax bill. We are encouraged not to think about the effect we have on the people around us and believe that we 'deserve' and have 'earned' things as an individual because that mindset is easier to sell to. Self-sacrifice is for other people. We even idolize rich celebrities and sociopathic billionaires.

I mean, just look at this comment further down:

> I've chatted with a couple of people who feel that their country (USA) is descending into chaos, and they don't feel like investing in a doomed future. I agree with the general feeling, but I'm trying to use it to motivate myself to have more fun.
No. It's flagged as offensive in all caps. That means using it is the opposite of appropriate.
Street-sweeper ticked a lot of your boxes??? How close did your profession end up being to that?
99% of the users of any platform don't care. They want to see videos of cats, cartoons they can stick in front of their kids, and how to detach the door clips on a 2007 Camry. While I don't agree with the politics of the typical Rumble or Gettr user, I do believe sites like that are a strong part of a free speech society, but they'll never compete with the likes of Youtube or Twitter.
Every time someone asks to update the status page, managers say "nein"
I'd settle for just having the the little bugs of my 90's childhood back: fireflies, swarms of monarch butterflies, dragonflies, and large amounts of crickets and grasshoppers and bumblebees. I go back to my mom's 1950's-built suburban home and go to the same schoolyard and don't see these anymore.
They'll get a rude awakening and realize OP is being nice and that's not standard operating procedure.
I think you missed the point: the OP problem is that trusted source of information, even highly credentialled and respected, have shown some disturbing sign that they may not be fully honest or reliable.

That's the great tragedy of this pandemic: it has destroyed trust in institutions, by showcasing a few disturbing things.
Yep. In this case, zero nines.
dns records should be synced to secondary provider, and that provider added to your secondary/tertiary domain dns.

Multi-provider dns is a solved problem.
I'll just play devils advocate a little bit here and say that I totally agree with both sides of this budding argument.

As someone born and raised in San Francisco / Marin I can confirm first hand how infuriating it is to hear and see millionaires indulging fantasy narratives about eternal youth, enlightenment, colonizing mars etc while the world around them that their children are going to inherit is falling apart. For people my age at the time (early 2000s) it was especially hard to be in cities where the roads were all falling apart, public transit was even less functional than other broken american cities, you would have to sit in traffic for 30-90 minutes just to get groceries or a sandwich and there were literally no job / career prospects for young people (still very true for my friends living in Marin).

With that said now that Im in an infinitely more livable / walkable / functional feeling urban space (Sacramento) and can see the Bay Area from a distance, I can appreciate that there is an importance in a certain percentage of the population focusing on the problems of tomorrow. There are kind, sincere and intelligent people involved in those communities. At least in my first hand experience / memory.
> It should be costing them trust not to push it when they should though.

This is what Amazon, the startup, understood.

Step 1: Always make it right and make the customer happy, even if it hurts in $.

Step 2: If you find you're losing too much money over a particular issue, fix the issue.

Amazon, one of the world's largest companies, seems to have forgotten that the risk of not reporting accurately isn't money, but breaking the feedback chain. Once you start gaming metrics, no leaders know what's really important to work on internally, because no leaders know what the actual issues are. It's late Soviet Union in a nutshell. If everyone is gaming the system at all levels, then eventually the ability to objectively execute decreases, because effort is misallocated due to misunderstanding.
There isn't a single node to point to, it's a globally distributed network.
I don't think ph has any relevant similarity to yt.

Video quality is low.

Video amount should probably be 1000 if not 10000 smaller than yt.

I'm not aware of millions uploading hour and hours of high quality videos to their platform.

I myself only go there for a short period of time.

I know plenty of people who keep streams from yt running in parallel.
> I'm talking about a global, universal API layer supporting standardised contract enforcement and value transfer between applications.

What does that even mean? How is a global API going to support the enforcement of a rental agreement? Or of a bond indenture? Who is actually going to enforce the contract? And what is the role of a global API in that? And what do you mean value transfer between applications? You want to transfer "value" (like a bag of rice?) between computer programs??? None of that makes the slightest sense. Meaningless gibberish intended to fool gullible idiots into thinking that blockchains are some kind of disruptive technology that is going to turn everything upside down. Nonsense. It's a pump & dump scheme, and little else.
dprint
There is some vendor lock-in going on but you don't have to play along. You can always use the cloud as a simple, cheaper alternative to co-location or self hosting.

This way you keep your options open and can easily move from one cloud to another or back to self hosted if needed.
I mean, FWIW ~camgunz "expands" to /home/camgunzcamgunz (or /home/camgunz/camgunz), so it's a little incorrect? It's like "pixel graphic" games now that aim more for nostalgia than accuracy: Genesis games don't look like modern pixel graphic games, ~camgunz isn't actually how it works, etc. So I guess I prefer @camgunz for non-URLs, but blah://dir/camgunz for URLs?
In this situation, if he had lost, he would have owed his "business partner" half of the 1.1m BTC. Since he's not Satoshi and doesn't have access to billions of dollars, losing this trial would have meant he owed tons of money he didn't actually have.
> I don't particularly felt that VR is easy on the eyes since while the illusion says otherwise, you have 2 very small monitors directly in front of your eyes

Think of it as having glasses. Your focal point isn't in front of your eyes where the glasses are, you're looking "through" them. It's the focal point that matters.
Letter comparing parent protests to domestic terrorism triggers funding fallout
One time gcp argued that since they did return 404s on gcs for a few hours that wasn’t an uptime/latency sla violation so we were not entitled to refund (tho they refunded us anyway)
>I'm hoping to build a tool that can match flash in creativity with less of a learning curve, so that non programmers can use it too.

Are you familiar with Corel Rave? That was perfect Flash editor imho. I still miss it.
Because "uptime" and "nines" became a marketing term. Simple as that. But the problem is that any public-facing measure of availability becomes a defacto marketing term.
Python is just exposing the interface. It's like using Boto3 and calling S3 python based. You should write a wrapper for your favorite language.

Btw, what do you recommend instead of Python?
Yeah, it sounds impressive until you realize that only 8 nations have more than a dozen submarines, and most nations have zero.
Unless you think he's actually Satoshi, he doesn't actually have access to the $50B, so even a 1% wealth tax would require him to pay $500M... which he doesn't have.
I don't think it's a console outage. Goodreads has been down for a while
"I have to tell you about the Kalman filter, because what it does is pretty damn amazing."

Not really, no. Kalman filters are the optimal way of removing white noise from simulations you yourself are adding.

Good luck getting the covariance matrix right in practice. Usually it is diagonal and essentially a simple low pass filter with a fancy name.
A time machine to travel back to 2005.
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location = fully REMOTE

role = founding engineer

you'll take over work from our technical co-founder, executing in both growth & product teams. This role is a critical part of the broader founding team because you'll build the technical foundations of the company for the coming years.

feel free to drop me a line on richie @ joinfella . com

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Every incident review meeting I've ever been in starts out like, _"This meeting isn't to place blame..."_, then, 5 minutes later, it turns into the Blame Game.
Show HN: Type-level Regexp matching in TypeScript
That's not how this would work... I lost ~1,000 BTC and ~10,000 LTC in ~2011. I couldn't write it off at even the current value at the time if I wanted to write it off I would have to write it off at my cost basis which is the value when I mined them which was barely 50 dollars iirc. That's what my tax guy said at least if this is wrong let me know because I won't ever be paying capital gains tax again if I can write it off at current value.
Depending the workload being run users may or may not notice. Should be Yellow at a minimum.
Seems like the API is still working and so is auto scaling. So they aren’t really zombies.

Partial availability isn’t the same as no availability.
He is using the legal system to claim Satoshis coins. And also extract royalties from anyone using the "Bitcoin database" which he claims he owns the copyright to (the code has an MIT license). He and his loser friend Calvin Ayre (a washed up 90s dot com online gambling exit billionaire) are pushing "Bitcoin SV" as the real Bitcoin. It is both tragic and pathetic.
How did I just learn about this guy haha
So basically, IP is being logged? The rest of the comment is just GDPR-related discussion about whether consent was obtained.
This IMO is the biggest problem we have in this gig economy thing. It's not that people can choose what work they want to do and when, it's that the market is dominated by middlemen and rent seekers. Products like Uber and Upwork and the rest are marketed as platforms that people can network and professionals can find clients and people can find services they need. The vision is nice, but what winds up happening is these "platforms" cease to be platforms in short order and become a new employer masquerading as an unbiased order book to continue to skirt the responsibilities of a traditional employer.

There's a better way, a truly unbiased platform or set of platforms to enable people with services to offer and people who need those services to network with one another without the rent seeking. Perhaps that comes in the form of a non profit org, perhaps a distributed social networking system specifically targeted and certain kinds of work, I don't know, but I do know that if the middleman can be eliminated we can have something better than what we have now both in terms of gig work and traditional employment.
Way more fun argument: Outages just, uh… uh… find a way.
What a complete and total fraud. This guy has so many Bitcoin-related publications wrapped around his finger that it's frankly dizzying. I have no idea what he did to get this far, but the fact that he actually got them to settle in his favor is another testament to how utterly broken the US legal system is.
And the guy who doesn't take responsibility gets promoted. Employees are not responsible for failures of management to set a good culture.
Torpedos are not bullets, I don't think this is a good analogy.
They finally updated the status page: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Looks like they've acknowledged it on the status page now. https://status.aws.amazon.com/

> 8:22 AM PST We are investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console.

> 8:26 AM PST We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. We have identified root cause and we are actively working towards recovery. This issue is affecting the global console landing page, which is also hosted in US-EAST-1. Customers may be able to access region-specific consoles going to https://console.aws.amazon.com/. So, to access the US-WEST-2 console, try https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/
Steamboat Willie was in 1928 though, I wonder if anyone is sitting around thinking aw, when that comes out my evil plan can finally be put into motion.
There's already signed proof on the blockchain saying that Craig Wright is a fraud, from blocks that Craig Wright claimed to have mined:

https://craigwrightisnotsatoshi.com/
We're seeing load balancer failure in us-east-1 AZ's, so we are not exactly sure why this is being characterized as Console outage ...