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I am finding that I have a very bimodal response to "He did it". When I write an RCA or just talk about near misses, I may give you enough details to figure out that Tom was the one who broke it, but I'm not going to say Tom on the record anywhere, with one extremely obvious exception.

If I think Tom has a toxic combination of poor judgement, Dunning-Kruger syndrome, and a hint of narcissism (I'm not sure but I may be repeating myself here), such that he won't listen to reason and he actively steers others into bad situations (and especially if he then disappears when shit hits the fan), then I will nail him to a fucking cross every chance I get. Public shaming is only a tool for getting people to discount advice from a bad actor. If it comes down to a vote between my idea and his, then I'm going to make sure everyone knows that his bets keep biting us in the ass. This guy kinda sounds like the Toxic Tom.

What is important when I turned out to be the cause of the issue is a bit like some court cases. Would a reasonable person in this situation have come to the same conclusion I did? If so, then I'm just the person who lost the lottery. Either way, fixing it for me might fix it for other people. Sometimes the answer is, "I was trying to juggle three things at once and a ball got dropped." If the process dictated those three things then the process is wrong, or the tooling is wrong. If someone was asking me questions we should think about being more pro-active about deflecting them to someone else or asking them to come back in a half hour. Or maybe I shouldn't be trying to watch training videos while babysitting a deployment to production.

If you never say "my bad" then your advice starts to sound like a lecture, and people avoid lectures so then you never get the whole story. Also as an engineer you should know that owning a mistake early on lets you get to what most of us consider the interesting bit of solving the problem instead of talking about feelings for an hour and then using whatever is left of your brain afterward to fix the problem. In fact in some cases you can shut down someone who is about to start a rant (which is funny as hell because they look like their head is about to pop like a balloon when you say, "yep, I broke it, let's move on to how do we fix it?")
> This idea of having software check things is dead in the water,

I accept that people have to make the judgement calls and sign-off, but if the maps are in fact accurate why couldn't the computer at least issue a warning / red flag or similar when there are obvious problems (requested depth within some threshold of the actual depth).

I came across a scenario editor for a land training simulator that didn't provide any way of testing intervisibility between two points. The course authors wasted vast amounts of time when assigning vehicle positions clicking around maps to see if potential targets were in fact visible to the trainees. An auto check would have allowed the course authors to use their expertise to do things that couldn't be automated, building better scenarios faster.
It's still ongoing. We have a hearing scheduled for March to challenge the jurisdiction of the UK courts and move to strike out his claims.

Background: Wright has sued a dozen former and current Bitcoin developers, demanding that they publish backdoored Bitcoin software to allow him to take coins which are unambiguously not his, and failing that he demands they pay him roughly $7 billion USD in damages.

Obviously the case isn't even intended to be successful, it's intended to take a long time so that Wright can continue selling shares in Bitcoin he doesn't own and will never have access too, and to harass people who wouldn't aid his fraud in the process.
1 - Can you give a specific example of a right that Arab Israeli citizens are missing but in your opinion are entitled to?

2 - Israel is a Jewish state just like Italy is a Christian state, and Iraq is a Muslim state. So what, given all citizens have equal rights?

wrt apartheid claims, Israel is at war with both Gaza and West Bank. West Bank is partially occupied because there is no will on either side to come up with a permanent peace agreement. Gaza is in perpetual armed conflict with Israel as per Hamas(ruling party of Gaza) founding chapter, there is no peace between the two, only temporarily cease fires. Is blockade a valuable war tactic?
This. Plus some really cheap rigs with older hardware. For 30 euro you get a fourh gen i7 with 32 GB RAM and 3TB hdd.
That's a regulatory capture issue isn't it? Car dealers have legislated themselves a piece of the pie.
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> Red Force was ordered to turn on their anti-aircraft radar in order for them to be destroyed

active search radars would be very visible targets and be targetted by any opposing force, especially if they are planning for an air drop, no? I don't disagree there was some egregrious rules, but I don't think it was one of them
> There was a rather documented political context back then, of erasing the local name to crush the local population.

I don't know of any emperor who renamed provinces as retribution. Do you have any examples?

> I do find it odd the Romans used two names when switching 'Judea' to 'Syria-Palestine'.

Syria was a greater region back then and contained many provinces. See the Wikipedia map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coele_Syria_(Roman_province)#/...
Yeah…sure…it hit a "seamount" – it's definitely not out-classed and out-matched by Chinese unmanned submarine drones.

https://metallicman.com/uss-connecticut-black-operations-sub...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJLwUfLcEU
Is it just me or is it becoming more and more frequent, outages involving large websites?
There's really no complexity. Our deploys are blue-green (i.e two ASGs and a load balancer, no need to make it sound fancy). You need to do this anyway because instances in the cloud are inherently unreliable.

Deploying new code: publish a new container, scale up green, switch, whack blue at your leisure.

Patching: publish a new AMI, scale up green, switch, whack blue at your leisure.
it's basically a (somewhat) pretty gui around iptables and /etc/network/interfaces

everything more or less maps directly onto raw Linux functionality
Well the NixOS idea is the opposite of what you describe, minus the implementation which does have mutable data.
How did you come to those numbers? I did my own benchmarks and Hetzner definitely came on top of Vultr. https://github.com/freemin7/discount-cloud-geekbench-5
In my experience this is the actual reason for fear of the formal error correction process.
> changes in skin colour

I can already envision the long and growing queue of badly angered, badly sunburned tourists leaving any number of places in the Caribbean
Is there a way you could do a “Wizard of Oz” or “Concierge” type of MVP for your first 5-10 customers?

So instead of building something functional, you could use no code tools to design a custom front end for these early adopters and then hardcode (manually type in) the parts that will require real code to scale.

You could then deliver these as consulting style projects, and use the revenue you capture from these customers to pay someone to build a code-based version.

Upside to this would be bootstrapped funding for development, a clearer sense of what the app does and the user stories associated with it, and validation that people will actually pay money for the product.

Downside is you will have to manage the customers and the delivery, which can quickly get overwhelming. Especially for a solo founder.

Personally, I’ve found the concierge MVP route to be really effective. I used these early adopters as a Product Advisory Board, and they became excellent advocates and case studies for our product.
how about openwrt/openwisp?
Some of it is just a turn, a lack of will & spirit, an exploitation, as Tom seems to say:

> That fewer startups are interested in contributing to open source in any significant way. Fewer still will open source major components of their product. And major companies with lots of existing contracts have started building their fortunes on open source in a way that feels - to me, on an emotional level - exploitative. Startups shouldn’t be their unpaid R&D department.

But also, particularly with code, we are a much higher tech civilization than we used to be. We have much more advanced tools & libraries to help us, but the expectations & demands of users are much higher, what we make tends to be much more complex. It's harder for open-source to feel relevant, to want to get going on an open source path when the effort & expectations are going to be so much higher.

I also think currently open source is out of sync with the demands of the time. Open source software- the application- is consigned to the margins when what folks expect from computing is connected, always-on, available computing. For open source to do what the commercial offerings do, we'd need to tell folks to set up SQL servers, hole punch their firewall & to set up dynamic DNS. Open source still thinks of itself as a competitor to win the desktop, but the desktop is irrelevant: computing has moved into the cloud. We haven't gotten significantly better, significantly more consistent at turning users into operators, into making operations better. With some rare exceptions like Yunohost[1], open source software remains stuck in a fairly legacy mode of computing, even though we have countless open source libraries for building cloudified computing.

Even the computer geeks have mostly stopped caring. They run out & buy $1000+ of wifi gear, rather than learn openwrt (which now with DAWN[2] multi-AP controller, i regard as viable). WSL means less and less geeks will dabble with actual Linux environments, since Linux tools just work with little adaption & effort. The systems knowledge to make computing happen has turned into a skill of navigating AWS consoles & Terraform scripts, rather than hugging servers. The real world of computing, of doing for ourselves effervesces away, up, into the cloud, and it's hard to see how the idea of open-source can remain relevant when computing itself is dematerializing around us.

I do think some general systems research & creative computing fabrics could start to tip the scales some. The long half-century of the application will, must, eventually meet some kind of reckoning, more general interconnected, intertwingularized, user-respecting forms of computing must start to emerge. I'm hoping open-source has a more viable role to play in that. And I think that eventually a resistance will form, will gel more; that works like Kubernetes are preconditions for personal users being able to build acceptably-modern computing capabilities for themselves & each other. Hope is far off, but I still, for sure, feel it.

[1] https://yunohost.org/

[2] https://github.com/berlin-open-wireless-lab/DAWN
It's an interesting dilemma. Satoshi has billions in Bitcoin, but moving any of it would shock its value. They either haven't cashed out because they truly believe in Bitcoins principles, or they cannot.

My belief is that they've sadly passed and were either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist... or another relatively quiet engineer.
> Wright claimed in 2016 that he was Nakamoto, which was a pseudonym. The claim has been disputed.

It's beyond disputed; the man can literally sign a message at any point in time that he likes that would definitively prove his claim, and he refuses. This to me is proof positive that he is lying. Someone who built a cryptosystem for artificial digital scarcity, who relied entirely on digital signatures to prove pseudonymous identity would absolutely 100% prove their claim using these methods. Craig Wright is an obvious fraud.

The article is not very informative about the case, I'd love to know more about why some bitcoin mined by satoshi nakamoto, supposedly owned by a man claiming to be satoshi nakamoto, was under the possession of someone else and needed a trial to return possession to him.
That same argument can be made about anyone that supports anything. There is always going to be something that others deem more important that they feel resources should be devoted too. Just look at the current argument stating space exploration is wasting money that should be spent on earth. Different people can focus on different problems.
Sadly nobody understands that central US is where your servers need to be.

The only competition to GCP there is IONOS where you cannot easily change your instance type!
I feel your pain. Two different possible solutions:

1. Turn off automatic image conversion, and then retry copying over USB: it takes a while to convert HEIC to JPEG, and an eternity to convert HEIC to MP4. It's something like Settings > Photos > Transfer to Mac or PC > keep original format

2. Install a file transfer app on your phone and computer, like Resilio Sync or Photo Sync.

My family's phones use Resilio Sync that sync with a NAS on the bookshelf and PhotoStructure (I'm the author).
My thoughts exactly.

I'm a customer of a company where I recently requested a relatively basic feature. They said they were putting together a team to implement it. That was bad.

Twitter, on the other hand, seems to need to buy a company in order to improve a basic feature. That's horrible!

What's up with management culture in tech companies!?
> As for Bitcoin: You're missing the fact that while Bitcoin can't be manipulated away from 21 million, the Bitcoin markets can definitely be heavily manipulated by sufficiently large players and insiders. And there does seem to be ample evidence that this is happening.

So what will the argument be when this market is regulated? Gary Gensler is obviously a fan of Bitcoin. He considers other digital assets in a different light, and seems to consider many of them to be securities. What happens when crypto exchanges are regulated and the level of manipulation is much harder, similar to traditional financial markets? The 21 million cap on Bitcoin is going to look more attractive then, I think, at least to those who aren't considering that now. Plenty of folks already consider the 21 million cap on Bitcoin very attractive, and I think this will only increase over time.

Also the other comments that I see arguing how Bitcoin could be changed tells me that those people have not followed the history of Bitcoin very closely. It seems one of Bitcoin's main goals over the past 10 years is ossification and hardening of the system, i.e. being very strict and careful about changes. This seems built into the ethos of the system. The Bitcoin Cash fork is an example of this. Bitcoin Core refused to change the block size and that led to a fork which has not done well in terms of price in comparison to Bitcoin. One could say that so far the Bitcoin Cash fork has failed in comparison.
This is fascinating, but also fascinating that submarines have been operated in real world conditions based purely on sonar for over 100 years.
I find it amusing that the page title is, "Twitter + Quill - Quill - Messaging for teams that focus". So the result is just Twitter, without Quill or messaging for teams that focus? That seems to be accurate.
Yes, mikrotiks separate bridges, vlans, interfaces.

If you want to set ether 3, 4 and 5 to untagged vlan called "Alf" with ID 11, ether 6 to untablled vlan "Bob" (id 12), and ether 7 and 8 to a trunk of both Alf and Bob, you can do

1) Create a bridge for Alf, and a bridge for Bob

2) Assign IPs for them (assuming your mikrotik is the router), and maybe dhcp pools, server etc

3) add ether3, 4 and 5 as bridge ports for Alf, and ether6 for Bob

4) Create a vlan interface on ether7 for Alf with vlanid=11, add to bridge Alf

5) Create a vlan interface on ether8 for Alf with vlanid=11, add to bridge Alf

6) Create a vlan interface on ether7 for Bob with vlanid=21, add to bridge Bob

7) Create a vlan interface on ether8 for Bob with vlanid=21, add to bridge Bob

But the killer is there are two different recommended ways to do it depending on the hardware.
> and are, on paper at least, in the top 10 richest people in the world.

That kind of wealth in Bitcoin is a strange case. After a certain point, money doesn't mean anything material and comes closer to a proxy for measuring power.

Typically, people who are worth tens of billions have a lot of power. A big voting stake in a huge tech company is, these days, probably more power than a senior US senator.

What does $50B in bitcoin mean (regardless of whether it'd be possible to liquidate)? It's an interesting question.
I've worked for Amazon for 4 years, including stints at AWS, and even in my current role my team is involved in LSE's. I've never seen this behavior, the general culture has been find the problem, fix it, and then do root cause analysis to avoid it again.

Jeff himself has said many times in All Hands and in public "Amazon is the best place to fail". Mainly because things will break, it's not that they break that's interesting, it's what you've learned and how you can avoid that problem in the future.
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I tracerouted to a host across the world now and poked at the routers along the path. All of the routers whose vendor or OS I can identify use closed source. So whatever the answers to "why?" may be, it's a common thing to trust.
Looks like Kinesis Firehose is either the root cause, or severely impacted:

https://twitter.com/amontalenti/status/1468265799458639877

Segment is publicly reporting issues delivering to Firehose, and one of my company's real-time monitors also triggered for Kinesis Firehose an hour ago.

Update:

By my sniff of it, some “core” APIs are down for S3 and EC2 (e.g. GET/PUT on S3 and node create/delete on EC2). Systems like Kinesis Firehose and DynamoDB rely on these APIs under the hood (“serverless” is just “a server in someone else’s data center”).

Further update:

There is a workaround available for the AWS Console login issue. You can use https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ to get in -- it's just the landing page that is down (because the landing page is in the affected region).
I never got the attraction of mechanical keyboards until somebody wrote that they see a mechanical keyboard as a sign that they invest in their craft by having quality tools. And that every time they sit down and start tipping this thought gives them joy.

I liked this idea so much that I got myself Moonlander and haven't looked back since.
It is mentioned at 6:32 in the video. As other comments have mentioned though, its not clear that this article is a transcript of a video
> Their vlan stuff being 1400 mtu is also annoying.

does this suggest that their networking gear is also dirt cheap or is this just an artifact of legacy compat and/or not wanting to wory about jumboframes?
> 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.

He didn't. The jury found him civilly liable for $100 million USD in damages.

They didn't find that he had to hand over half the fictional bitcoins he claimed to have, -- presumably because they rightfully realized it was all a bunch of bullshit.

The fact that both industry and mainstream media articles are all just paraphrases of Wright's press releases is an example of how broken human journalism is these days.
> So you have read several times that this term is criticized as offensive, yet claim that in your perception the word is the opposite of offensive. What more would it take to get through to you?

Why do you want to "get through" to me? I heard the discourse, and disagreed with the arguments, it's that simple. I am perfectly capable of understanding a conflicting point of view without being convinced by the arguments.

> This is a such strange thing to double down on.

There is nothing for me to double down on, this is simply how I see the situation. Whether you choose to believe that I'm sharing my view in good faith, is up to you.

> Some people are disabled. (...) You don't get to call them irrational any more than they get to call you intolerant.

I already made it clear that I consider irrationality in the light of whether someone is capable of making the opposite (rational) choice. If they are not (for any reason, including disability), then there is no reason to call them rational or irrational, because you cannot measure their behaviour with this metric.
It depends on what you're searching for, I often even get bilibili videos in Google video search results
Ubiquiti seems to have turned into a complete shit-show in the last five years.
Not right now. I think they monitor if it appears on HN too.
Would that imply the aliens are also in a simulation?
From the announcement:

> "We will continue to improve this new solution and are already working on an IPv6 only solution for cloud servers, too."

I'm eagerly waiting especially for this! The cloud servers are pretty cheap, but costs for IPv4 addresses make a significant part of the monthly cost. The Hetzner cloud server would be much more interesting if they weren't each tied to a public IPv4 address.
Wow, I don't think I've been rickrolled since 2007.

There really should be a built in browser feature that prompts the user that the link they clicked redirects somewhere else.
Many people don't know how to even type `~`. `@` is becoming synonymous with "person".
already running one.
Honestly I think we should just work at doing away with the concept. The idea of it was to encourage the creation of works by providing a limited term of artificial scarcity so said works could participate in the market. But in the information age, where copying information is as close to free as makes no odds, I think that makes a lot less sense than it used to. That's without even considering that giant corporations have subverted this system and exploited many producers of works while profiting well past the deaths of the creators.

It is my opinion that we need an alternative mechanism for funding the creation of information-works that doesn't rely on artificial scarcity.
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This is because chasing immortality with expensive but questionable procedures has a thousands of years long history (it's a safe bet this stretches into pre-history) of being an obsession of the ultra-rich, so far without success, but with plenty of tragedy (for others), waste, and/or comical self-pwnage.

Eventually, sure, someone might get it right, but it's easy to see why people would be dismissive.
I think it was most likely Hal Finney. He's cryogenically frozen himself, so most likely dead, hence it is unlikely his coins will ever be recovered. Unless perhaps he's stored the key somewhere in the physical world (or a mnemonic), so that he could retrieve in the case of successfully being "revived". If that's the case, someone might find it, perhaps.
Current co is small. We are putting in the safeguards from Day 1. Well, okay technically like day 120, the first few months were a mad dash to MVP. But now that we have some breathing room, yeah, we put a lot of emphasis on preventing outages, detecting and diagnosing outages promptly, documenting them, doing the whole 5-why's thing, and preventing them in the future. We didn't have to, we could have kept mad dashing and growth hacking. But very fortunately, we have a great culture here (founders have lots of hindsight from past startups).

It's like a seed for crystal growth. Small company is exactly the best time to implement these things, because other employees will try to match the cultural norms and habits.
Agree - it's not actually clear which type is meant. If boomers then this is a indeed very small number (e.g. only four for the UK, which is one of the few non-US countries (four?) to operate boomers).
The first few weeks after the redesign had a lot of bad things that were fixed because people started raising issues.

It didn't show the last commit message, for example.