skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how often outages really happen. The official page is nonsense, of course, and we only collectively notice when the outage is big enough that lots of us are affected. On AWS, I see about a 3:1 ratio of "bump in the night" outages (quickly resolved, little corroboration) to mega too-big-to-hide outages. Does that mirror others' experiences?
So the Twitter lead engineer said "We're gonna learn from this". So they gone from 15 minutes (Smyte) to 4 days (Quill) - a 38400% improvement. /s
I landed on MikroTik for a recent build because you simply can’t get Ubiquity right now. And I’m glad I did, what a great product. Checkout their newest RB5000 and CCR2000 series. Very powerful arm cores with sfp+ options at an incredibly reasonable price.
The Life 'Aristocats' of St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum
Good luck if you’re currently on a holiday
>Loneliness isn't a problem.

This is a weird bone to pick. It's similar to saying "obesity isn't a problem, overeating is."

Like, yeah, sure, you can frame it that way if you want. But what utility have you added? So that you can build up to the conclusion that lonely people ought to go socialize properly? That's pretty tautological advice there mate.
I can't access anything related to Cloudfront, either through the CLI or console :

$ aws cloudfront list-distributions

An error occurred (HttpTimeoutException) when calling the ListDistributions operation: Could not resolve DNS within remaining TTL of 4999 ms

However I can still access the distribution fine
> unless explicitly silenced.

Which is what "On Error Resume Next" was doing by overwriting the current error handler. Seems to me that it was simply overused. Implicitly ignoring errors is more a C thing.
I usually go on Twitter first for outages.
fair enough, and rereading my comment, it does come off that way. I was more curious what his background was, but that is not how I worded it.
If you're not multi-cloud in 2021 and are expecting 5-9's, I feel bad for you.
If people actually think their country has a chance of upcoming civil war (or many other crises like ecological collapse), they should expand their in-person social network -- mutual aid is an important resiliency strategy.
Pornhub has nothing even close to the kind of monopoly YouTube does. XVideos, XNXX, and xHamster at the very least are similarly gigantic in terms of content. The only thing Pornhub may have is more mindshare, being the more recognizable brand. By contrast, you simply cannot expect to find what you're looking for, or much of it, on YouTube's competitors.
"You see your honor, according to this spacetime diagram..."
Ohio's actual motto funnily kind of fits here:

With God, all things are possible
I noticed no subtitles or captions on videos and no obvious way to turn them on. I was able to watch the same videos on YouTube with closed captions but on my TV instead of my phone.
Let me guess, you’ve done it with ARM microcontrollers.

Pretty much until ARM, support was terrible.
Yeah, low power draw is kind of the M1 Max’s thing. My desktop PC crushes the M1 Max when doing workstation type tasks. But for content consumption and even light workloads it’s very efficient.
for me the clickbait title had the opposite (of their intended) effect. I was going to pass until I saw your comment that it's about "worms", which is actually interesting and if they are making claims about worms, it passes my bullshit test. I understand why people use clickbait titles, but I feel it ill-serves them by attracting the wrong kind of audience.
Not OP, but I think it makes very little difference whatever number you pick between “none” and “forever”.

Earlier this year a few authors whose work I enjoy tweeted furiously about this topic. Similar arguments may apply to audio and visual copyright.

If, for example, copyright lasted 14 years, then The Atrocity Archives (Stross) would already be public domain, which reduces incentive to create more in the series (not sure why, I would have expected new novels have new copyright, but I trust an author to know what their own motivations are, and I refuse to second-guess).

Now, these various authors on Twitter argued that being an author is poorly paid (it is), and that they would like to offer someone an inheritance comparable to a widow/er pension.

I can sympathise with that.

But, sales in most things decline over time. Sequels more, apparently (I wouldn’t know, one of the authors tweeted that). If income falls off exponentially with time, half the income for some specific work will be in the first x-months, 75% in 2x months, 99.9% in 10x months — I’m saying months rather than years because of how fast best-seller lists change, I don’t have real data.

Conversely, the reason for such a decline is that almost all the people who care will have bought the work soon after it is published. Making copyright last 100(average of all x) fails to harm society by preventing the work from becoming public domain, but only by the same[2] as it fails to help creative people commercialise their creativity, and for exactly the same reason: almost nobody cares any more. This remains true even if the income curve isn’t exponential, as the benefit to society is simply not having to pay for it[3].

Certainly I’m not rushing out to download some copy of inter-war music, radio broadcasts of whatever category, or newspapers; and I don’t even know if that’s for lack of money because I don’t care. I suspect I’m not alone in not caring.

Indeed, I only oppose zero/infinite duration because of the edge cases.

The point of copyright is to give creators an incentive at all besides the default of creative people being patronised or commissioned. This is already a thing — furry art by commission; stories[0] and YouTubers supported on Patreon. As this is not the status quo, if we switched to “no copyright” I expect this will break stuff and bankrupt people who have come to rely on it (this also means I oppose sudden changes in general).

If copyright was infinite, all works world eventually become lost in a legal quagmire of e.g. mergers and acquisitions where the actual owner ceases to be known.

[0] https://www.patreon.com/HamboneHFY

[1] except where the income per unit is too small to process ($0.001 per person times US population is still a lot of money).

[2] or losing track of who owns it, or [1]
I wonder how well known this is. You'd think it would be hard to hire ethical engineers with such a scheme in place and yet they have tens of thousands.
Uhm, isn't it still true for Slack? Every message to the channel itself is kinda a thread.
At this point I believe they'll use any excuse not to refund you. Had you stayed they would have asked the question above.
The rules about the 21Million which is the only thing that matters here can't be changed.

What would stop it being changed?

It's been a house waiting to collapse for 12 years now.

Tether has only been trading since 2015 and only prominent the last few years. Other cryptocurrencies have seen multiple bubbles and collapses. The thing that would convince me personally is that all the get-rich-quick marks and scammers leave the space and people start using it for actually useful things like payments.

Unfortunately distributed consensus with a global public ledger is particularly badly suited to payments or a currency, though it seems well structured for a ponzi scheme.
For non-dedicated in the US? I can think of at least 2 reasons why not:

- crappy network (advertised 300-500mbps, usually lower)

- crappy cpus ("benchmarked" several providers, hetzner was lower end on cpu-bound loads)

Dedicated ones are baller though, unfortunately no US.
Looks okay right now to this UK user of amazon.co.uk
Could you maybe expand a bit on why you think Tether is not much of a problem or link me to a ressource making that case?
Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews
PaaS and managed services let you trade money for time and effort - patch management, backups, security, config optimization, simplified scale-out/availability/etc. all take time, effort and skill to get right and keep running well over time. With RDS/Aurora/AzureSql/CosmosDb (and the like) you get to focus on your app/service/product instead.
It all ends up being a question of how much your time (and being able to focus) are worth to you. If this is an actual business and not a hobby, and assuming market rates for your time - I believe the managed service offering ends up the cheaper option overall.
Yes that's fair point. It is not very ideal if you want a USD or EUR stable store of wealth at this point.
Class views are fine. Even just a TemplateView saves some effort, but it comes with learning some Django magic about the life cycle of the view to load data in and out and what methods to implement. I still recommend it. You don’t have to fully embrace it and it lets you avoid repeating a lot of code.
We both know it's better than a guess. Most of the users here are Americans, no need to have a cow over it.
I'm going with "BGP error" which is likely config-related, likely human error.

Seems to be the trend with the last 5-6 big cloud outages.
Stripe was founded by Patrick and John Collison. I’m guessing you’re confusing it with Square, another payments company, which was co-founded and still run by Jack Dorsey.
> We use SQLAlchemy for database interaction, a lot of direct usage of Pydantic, Celery with RabbitMQ/Redis for task processing. FastAPI provides a really lightweight interface to gluing pieces like this together.

Just wondering, why have you not gone with Django directly if you’ve essentially ended up reimplementing your own version of it?
Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 26 July 2021
Insightful article!!
"AWS Management Console Home page is currently unavailable. You can monitor status on the AWS Service Health Dashboard."

And then Health Dashboard is 100% green. What a joke.
It gets more odd for the next few years.

See 'Sound Recordings Published' sections
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain
> /64 seems like ridiculous overkill

The idea behind the /64 minimum was to make auto-configuration easier - you could just stick the layer 2 ID (i.e. the MAC address) in the second half and not have to worry about collisions or stateful assignment system like DHCP. Remember that IPv6 was designed in the mid-90's, so both of these decisions seem silly now - using the MAC would be a serious privacy issue (modern operating systems use a random ID which changes frequently) and DHCP is very mature.
Programming languages: This old favourite is gaining popularity again (C#)
Can I run MacOS on a super powerful cloud instance with this?
Lots of criticism of the short export window, but no one knows how many customers they have. Quill was early stage, trying to get into a competitive market, and they've exited in what looks like an acquihire. From this I'd interpret that they had low enough traction that the business couldn't continue. They may only have 10s of active teams, and it's fairly possible that they are in good contact with all of them and helping them do manual exports.

>> Can I export my team’s Direct Messages (DMs)?
> No, we do not allow the export of Direct Messages.

As for this, this is very much in the "feature" category rather than the "bug" category. As much as communication on a company provided platform may not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, people still use these chats for private communication that they don't necessarily want all their coworkers knowing. Well done to Quill for taking this design approach. It may not even be technically possible if they're doing E2E encryption with DM participants.
This is mostly an urban legend. Yes, some amount of the increase in life expectancy is due to reduced infant mortality. But it’s nowhere near the bulk of it.
> to censor content that is legal to publish in most places, but not Germany

We don't really like if somebody thinks Hitler was kind of a cool guy and that he should have continued "his work". Besides that you can say lots of things in Germany without getting too much trouble.
>The historiography (how we handle the narrative of history and how that narrative has changed over time) around the attack on the Philippines and the subsequent defense is very confusing and interesting to me.

I am with you. Blame Douglas MacArthur for that one. it's inconceivable that his planes where still lined up just waiting for the shots to be fired. I get that it's hard to figure out how to stage aviation forces so they are not on the deck at a bad moment (see Midway, Battle Of), but by any definition, it was incompetant then.

On Midway, I think Shattered Sword has the correct narrative. Midway is amazing not in that it a miracle, but rather that we almost still bungled it, despite having total and complete surprise, a great battle plan, and a significant advantage in airpower.
It's not really dishonest though because there is nuance. Most everything in EC2 is still working it seems, just the console is down. So is it really down? It should probably be yellow but not red.
The problem being that often times you can't actually update the status page. Most internal systems are down.

We can't even update our product to say it's down, because accessing the product requires a process that is currently dead.
Everything fine with S3 in us-east-1 for me. Also just not able to access the console.
Hi everyone, I’m the CEO of Biobot. I’m a computational biologist, passionate about leveraging wastewater data and analytics to improve human health. I’d be happy to answer any questions you have about the COVID-19 data that we’re generating at MWRA, what we’re up to at Biobot, or wastewater epidemiology generally.
If you're frustrated by homelessness and you hold scientists who are working on a totally unrelated problem accountable for that homelessness, you're either participating in an absurd amount of Whataboutism, or you're not actually serious about what it takes to solve homelessness.

Plenty of countries have solved homelessness, and it requires a very well funded social and economic safety net, fueled by high taxation. Be angry with people who oppose those safety nets, not some random scientists who have nothing to do with this problem.
So... performance was sub-optimal, hence the rewrite in C++.
The book preview webservice or actual ebooks (kindle, etc)?
Actually, can you expand on that? The paper makes some broad statements about how existing methods are unstable and need to have a good starting point etc. This is not my area, but in the past when I've used (quasi)newton methods, it "just worked". What are the kinds of strictly convex functions that cause this bad behavior? For "strictly convex" in my limited, low-dimensional imagination I just picture a bowl-shape. They mention failure modes, but I'd love a clear (ideally visual) example of when it goes wrong. Robust global quadratic convergence seems to be the main value proposition here, so understanding the non-global fragile non-convergence of other methods seems important.
https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/

looks like only four 9's
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This is also my experience. Best technical person I know recommended it.
Tldr:

1. When working on any kind of problem, task or question, embed yourself in a small group of peers with broadly similar concerns.

2. Get mentors.

Copied here because I think these are actually excellent candidates, whereas Bloomberg is usually clickbait.
booker.com/mindbody random areas are affected
To setup port forwarding you have to understand how to configure the firewall, yes. This is both a drawback for simple use cases but a boon for more advanced ones. It cuts both ways. Personally I think it’s rather unfair to call the UI unintelligible. If you don't like it just ssh to it and configure it that way. Everything you can do is packaged up in a nice command structure.
Does this imply Virginia is Godless?
I often want to see some of those 5 later, but just not now. I suspect that’s common enough that YT’s algorithms have learned that.
Convergence exercises. Had nasty headaches last year and difficulty focusing on text after a couple of hours on the computer, turns out my eyesight had less than perfect convergence. Did the exercises for some months, worked wonders. Still do them every now and then.
Is there an extension for rewriting links like that? like old.reddit, nitter, etc

maybe just hosts file..
This gets posted every time there's an AWS outage. It mind as well be a copy pasta at this point.
Oh, I thought the 3rd gen had the same kind of fit as the 2nd gen? I do like the pros for when I'm working, the noise cancelling is really great. But I can't use them for exercise, since they just fall out so easily.
Not sure why he would do that. Seems like the issue was more or less bad performance, and that has been fixed by using C++.
I think the only company that could probably compete with YouTube, although long term, is TikTok. If you think about it, it's like YouTube, just with smaller videos.
x86 assembly re-write in 3.
The majority of our errors stem from:

- writing to Firehose (S3-backed)

- publishing to eventbridge

- terraform commands to ECS' API are stuck/hanging

Other spurious errors involving kinesis but nothing alarming. us-east-1
if you cannot access the control plane to create or destroy resources, it is down (partial availability). The jobs that are running are basically zombies.
Note that the issue is about blocking of the Tor project site, which is not directly correlated to blocking of connections to the Tor network. However, local news sites have already reported that connections indeed fail: e.g. https://meduza.io/news/2021/12/03/zhiteli-rossii-pozhalovali...

Anyway, the actual baffling situation is that Tor was not blocked before, despite DPI being already kinda available—not everywhere, but mandated and progressively implemented. All proxy services that don't duplicate RKN's blocking are supposed to be blocked themselves, for couple years at least (iirc). Some VPNs already were blocked, and a bunch of major ones got blocked recently. Notably, this blocking of Tor seems to be implemented based on IPs, as people report that new connections succeed sometimes—so DPI isn't even necessary.

With DPI being available, the non-blocking of Tor makes one wonder if the use or Tor wouldn't cause police to knock on the door one day. Cooking up a search order is a well-established procedure.
I can totally picture this. Poor guy.
Jesus… I'm glad I didn't get my team to switch to Quill when I was evaluating Slack alternatives.
Just curious does it still make sense to claim that up time is X numbers of 9? (e.g. 99.999%)
> But having taken $14.5m in investment, you'd think they'd try a little harder.

I thought this was how startups work? Rake in some VC cash with empty promises, sell off to some big company, execs retire, everyone's happy.
Anyone else could create their own digital master though, so no.
It should be costing them trust not to push it when they should though. A trustworthy company will err on the side of pushing it. AWS is a near-monopoly, so their unprofessional business practices have still yet to cost them.
On the retail/marketplace side this wasn't my experience, but we also didn't have any public dashboards. On Prime we occasionally had to refund in bulk, and when it was called for (internally or externally) we would right up a detailed post-mortem. This wasn't fun, but it was never about blaming a person and more about finding flaws in process or monitoring.
Plenty of UK nobility has no substantial assets to speak of other than a house that’s ten times bigger than they need and a constant money pit.

The traditional way out is to marry a rich commoner who wants their children to be titled.
I am still getting 'Invalid region parameter' for resources in us-east-1, the others are fine.
Most (all?) of the cheap online retailers allow to (some require to!) enter a PD value and also provide instructions on how to measure it. I personally use https://www.goggles4u.com/, they are cheap but not quick since they probably order from China.
Maybe virginia is for lovers, ohio is for God/gods?
C++ is a fully compiled language, and will not compile code that has type errors (barring you hack your way out of the spirit of the type system). Templates are no exception - they are type-safe once instantiated because they transform at that point into normal C++, which is type safe. Templates themselves are not types and are not meant to be, they’re meant to be templates, yes, more akin to macros, but not at any cost or defecit because of it. Frankly I don’t understand the criticism; I don’t care if I get a compiler error during template evaluation or during compilation or during linkage, a compiler error is a compiler error. Code that works works and code that doesn’t doesn’t.
What you learn after 350 hours of Joe Rogan
Microsoft's C# has always been popular language thanks to .NET developers, but this year it has seen something of a surge in popularity. Tiobe Software CEO Paul Jansen says C# is "by far the most likely candidate" to be named its programming language of the year, given to the language that's seen the highest increased in ratings in a given year.

Single binary executables in .Net 6.0 that run cross platform are the killer feature. The target machine does not need any supporting shared libs. That and the speed improvements.
I can tell you that some processes are not running, possibly due to SQS or SWF problems. Previous outages of this scale were caused by Kinesis outages. Can't connect via aws login at the cli either since we use SSO and that seems to be down.
Getting strange errors trying to manage my amazon account right now, could this be related?

494 ERROR
and
"We're sorry
Something went wrong with our website, please try again later."
I wouldn't be surprised if, given the volume of new domains to be blocked (like for a malware list), there's some automation involved. And since malicious domains can be absolutely nutty it seems particularly hard to manually review for an attack like this.

Ultimately I suspect that getting fuzzing integrated, lots of testing, etc, would be wise. It would also make sense to limit the lists you subscribe to - there's not really a ton of reason, in my opinion, to subscribe to more than a basic list.
OpenWISP looks to be the furthest along, though right now I think it only supports OpenWRT https://openwisp.io/docs/index.html