skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The AWS container services, including Fargate, ECS and EKS, experienced increased API error rates and latencies during the event. While existing container instances (tasks or pods) continued to operate normally during the event, if a container instance was terminated or experienced a failure, it could not be restarted because of the impact to the EC2 control plane APIs described above.

This seems pretty obviously false to me. My company has several EKS clusters in us-east-1 with most of our workloads running on Fargate. All of our Fargate pods were killed and were unable to be restarted during this event.
but what does "user_profile" tell you, as a developer, when you need to style the element?
I'll just loudly repeat my call that it would be great if someone put this much effort into taking apart the Roland D-50. Just sayin'...

...please?
The point of match-making is playing with people your same level. It doesn't matter what level tyler1 is, he'll be playing against people that will challenge and give him a hard time.

You're not matched against people less skilled than you where you can just "relax" and walk it in. When you reach your skill ceiling, you have to work hard just to remain there.
If you mean Linus from LTT, then wasn't he involved with some tech show which was "more legacy media-ish"?

But either-way, it's not really that legacy media has a lot of gatekeepers which are a mixture of "stuck in the past", "focused on questionable qualifications" and/or "not-impartial/corrupt".

I guess it's not surprising that such which benefit from being (with modern tech) unnecessary middle man and/or benefit from corruption are not happy about losing power and potentially becoming obsolete.
The right level sleep is important. I have a lot of difficulty with this.
Having an internal network like this that everything on the main AWS network so heavily depends on is just bad design. One does not create a stable high tech spacecraft and then fuels it with coal.
IMO that's why people pay good money for good smartphones, and travel with battery packs etc. They're essential to our day to day lives.
Like Magnus Carlsen said, do better :)
Working with consultants for years and that’s exactly the playbook, project might not even launch after 2 years of deadlines while status is yellow or green and never red.
I've found discogs to be especially dangerous to my wallet. It's extremely tempting to pick up <$10 cds and rip them.
Ask HN: Is This “Professional”?
Recently "discovered" this company jobs page:

https://skio.com/careers/

Do people want to work for a company that talks this way in their official communication? Does it cause them to question how they may be treated as an employee or how the company might deal with sensitive internal issues, conduct business, etc?
In my experience it is to the contrary. It's the leaders that can be angry without lashing out that get the best reactions from employees. There have been a few moments in my career where one of the teams has just genuinely made a big, avoidable, mistake one too many times and that has the respective leader's blood rise. They _demand_ to know just how we messed up, yet whilst visibly angry, they didn't raise their voice, they didn't need to berate. They just assertively demanded answers and I've never seen a roomful of people quite so eager to present answers and assurances in any other form of conflict.
Erm, Hill Street Blues.

I think I mentioned I don't watch much television?
In addition to what others have said, I think the fact that people can make a living from very very niche content is novel. Arguably, it works so differently that it could be considered a new sector.

> By "lauding celebrities", all we're accomplishing is consolidate consumer attention into fewer content production channels, solidifying the position of the platforms where these celebrities operate.

I think you're on point about the platforms, but not about the channels per se. In the past, you basically got to watch what 60-year old guys in the executive suite thought was appropriate, whereas now you can watch a lot more types of stuff. And I think people are wising up to the power platforms had. I think when OnlyFans said they were banning porn, people quite rapidly found new platforms to move to. Building these platforms has also become cheaper and easier, especially in the last 2-5 years IMO.
Web creator Tim Berners-Lee’s startup Inrupt raises $30M – TechCrunch
Dependency loops are such fun!

My favourite is when some company migrates their physical servers to virtual machines, including the AD domain controllers. Then the next step is to use AD LDAP authentication for the VM management software.

When there's a temporary outage and the VMs don't start up as expected, the admins can't log on and troubleshoot the platform because the logon system was running on it... but isn't now.

The loop is closed.

You see this all the time, especially with system-management software. They become dependent on the systems they're managing, and vice-versa.

If you care about availability at all, make sure to have physical servers providing basic services like DNS, NTP, LDAP, RADIUS, etc...
Depends on how dangerous the criminal is. For a serial killer? Yeah, it might be.
Latency is incredibly important in VR. If everything is streaming from a remote server, even if it's a straight fiber connection, it'll still be too much latency.
This was addressed at least 3 times during this post. I'm not defending them but you're just gaslighting. If you have something to add about the points they raised regarding the status page please do so.
AI Arcane style selfie filter
It could be a surprise because they always blame translation difficulties whenever they fail to predict important events e.g. fall of USSR, 9/11, no WMDs, 12-hour Taliban flash-takeover of Afghanistan, etc. One almost suspects that they don't particularly care to get "intelligence" right since they have other priorities.
> But, the DynamoDB team is running a mostly-regional service.

this is both more and less true than you might think. for most regional endpoints teams leverage load balancers that are scoped zonally, such that ip0 will point at instances in zone a, ip1 will point at instances in zone b, and so on. Similarly, teams who operate "regional" endpoints will generally deploy "zonal" environments, such that in the event of a bad code deploy they can fail away that zone for customers.

that being said, these mitigations still don't stop regional poison pills or otherwise from infecting other AZs unless the service is architected to zonally internally.
> This is the message to would-be activists anywhere: Stay out of the big boy pool or we'll make you regret it.

Check your expenses before waging war.

Or, you need to band together with an international band of investigative journalists like the ICIJ: https://www.icij.org (who released the Pandora Papers) or do it intelligently like Snowden.

The most Ballsy of people in this category has to be the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny: https://youtu.be/kHgI6um1BMc IMO.
It's $0.01/GB for cross-AZ transfer within a region.
> A while later the same mag gave away a copy of Delphi.

Funny you mention that, was it PC Pro? I bought the same magazine a long time ago, I remember the CD. I really wanted to make windows appear and things happen on screen. But I unfortunately couldn't figure out the programming. It only came to me much later and long after Delphi (and winforms) had fallen.
I’d accept this as an answer if I received a timeout or a message to say that.

Permission denied is something altogether because it implies the request reached an authorisation system, was evaluated and denied.
700k losses on 1b in sales is a 0.07% hit to their margin...

this barely sounds like a problem from that perspective.
Depends. If your failover to another region required changing DNS and your DNS was using Route 53, you would have problems.
Jesus. How did this guy ever manage to become a CEO?
WebSockets are not an appropriate medium for VR in the most common use case today: real-time video games.

Even if you're not building a video game today and want to do something other-VR esque, I guarantee that you will inevitably end up recreating something the video game industry has done in the last 22-23 years.

Everything real-time the author of this article suggests is in the realm of something you would want for VR.

It makes sense to just take what both industries of web development and game development currently understand and build on that.

So let's take that to its logical conclusion. Let's say you wanted to navigate virtual worlds. You're going to end up having some sort of "navigator" or "explorer" or end up going on some sort of virtual "safari" of sorts.

You'll do that probably initially with HTTPS or talk to some HTTPS-based server. WebSockets are not sufficient for real-time VR based work, so you'll probably end up with some sort of, let's say, WebUDP or WebSockets with UDP functionality.

Everyone will end up wanting to build their own layers of abstraction over and over again and again so entry-level web and game developers have something to do, so it'll look like some incarnations that build on or supersede Three.js. Why?

Because everyone will have a different interpretation of what they want their camera, or user entity or actor to be able to do.

So, you'll need HTTPS, web-based UDP, some sort of localplayer series of libraries or framework, then you'll need levels or maps, because to do any sort of VR, you need a world, or worlds you can navigate.

Huh, weird. All of this just sounds like someone porting Quake to the web with VR. How boring.

Of course, if someone says "OK, yep, let's do it then," it won't be anything like that, or it will, but only superficially, because that's what happens when you live long enough to see people take technologies the broader population already knows about and cram them together.

The alternative is that Zuckerberg is an old person and no one was asking for a metaverse, just video games that don't suck eggs, and that Meta is just Mark's way of graduating Facebook to an Alphabet-type conglomerate in order to keep growth moving forward.

I seriously feel bad for kids today. You have what, Fortnite, Minecraft, and Roblox to play and that's it? Too many micro transactions and low quality games.

No 30-something is asking to put on a headset and go to the VR equivalent of Something Awful, which would probably look like a back alley with players farting on each other Jaykin' Bacon-style. You want a metaverse? That's what it would look like. There's always going to be some Something Awful/4chan/Facepunch equivalent.

No one is like "oh yeah I wanna go to work and sit in a virtual cubical with my Meta® Quest 3," and yet there are some people really disconnected from reality who think people are actually asking for that instead of, like, affordable housing or something. Weird.
Should be noted the leak only contained money earned directly through twitch. But most income from bigger streamers is coming by other means and external services. Though, there is some correlation, so the twitch-only numbers can be still be used to make an educated guess. After all, if you are not making significant money via twitch, it also means your community is usually too small to bring you money through placements or other money flows.
do you prefer the structure in the styling or the styling in the structure?

i prefer the later. with styling in structure if i make a change in one place, it effects the one thing i intended it to

with structure in styling, if i change one thing, it may impact many other things, some of which i might not intend to and are sometimes unknowable at the time of the change
If you consume any media, you're still getting hit by plenty of ads, they're just more subtle.

Product placements in TV and movies continues to grow each year, and an increasing proportion of seemingly organic social media posts are bought and paid for by companies, though never disclosed. I have a friend who has basically spent the last ten years helping brands to pay influencers to promote their stuff in subtle ways (first on YouTube, then Instagram, now TikTok), and her business has never been better.
Multiple AWS employees have acknowledged it takes VP approval to change the status color of the dashboard. That is absurd and it tells you everything you need to know. The status page isn't about accurate information, it's about plausible deniability and keeping AWS out of the news cycle.
Lovely.

I do have 2 C64 but, too bad, this isn't open source, so I won't be going anywhere near it.
Your username gave me flashbacks of terribly designed web stacks lol
The AWS summary says: "As the impact to services during this event all stemmed from a single root cause, we opted to provide updates via a global banner on the Service Health Dashboard, which we have since learned makes it difficult for some customers to find information about this issue"

This seems like bad faith to me based on my experience when I worked for AWS. As they repeated many times at Re:Invent last week, they've been doing this for 15+ years. I distinctly remember seeing banners like "Don't update the dashboard without approval from <importantSVP>" on various service team runbooks. They tried not to say it out loud, but there was very much a top-down mandate for service teams to make the dashboard "look green" by:

1. Actually improving availability (this one is fair).

2. Using the "Green-I" icon rather than the blue, orange, or red icons whenever possible.

3. They built out the "Personal Health Dashboard" so they can post about many issues in there, without having to acknowledge it publicly.
> "Gimp" can be an ableist slur for someone with a walking impairment in US and Canadian English but also to someone engaging in BDSM (hence "gimp suit").

The sexual term's etymology is the ableist slur. The gimp suit gimps you. It's the same thing.
let say you are an oracle, and you have access to all the truths.

if you pick and choose which ones to release, you absolutely are propagandizing, trying to use selective information to misinform.
I wouldn't even say performance is all that different.

Something that is unique is the idea that a website is a single document where as a virtual website might take the form of an interactive object and/or an interactive space.

I would say it's an open question how we want these web based virtual objects to interact with each other. Would we want to physically pull a video object off the Google Drive shelf and drop it into the YouTube workstation? How would such an interaction be possible? Even if, as today, they just never speak directly, could those objects live in the same space or would each website fully immerse the user?
I take some guidance from this quote from the movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth":

"This is 20th century America and we're going to keep it that way"

The powerful will resist change that threatens their power. So change will only come via paths the powerful do not control. So look at everything that is not centralized and expect change to start to manifest there. Look at everything centralized and expect it to stay the same. Apply grains of salt as necessary since any generalization will always be imperfect. It's one way to think about long term change though.
A comment from a passerby. You say it like this is something you don’t have agency over (at least early on). It’s like saying that “yeah, you cannot be a good painter if you are solving math problems all the time”. Same with childless multimillionaires - it’s not like you are born into being one.
I've had a similar experience but, but my takeaway was: what does it mean to solve something? Consciously? You still skip so many steps; often, I think we just "think through" the state of the puzzle in order to load its configuration; the solution pops into our head, which then think through again - and we call it conscious thought. It's like an idea popping into your head: You instantly take credit for it, but frankly, did you come up with the idea? Didn't you just start feeling like you got something and you started talking, and the words kept making sense? lmao
> Plenty of people in all careers don't know how to run their lives at 26

I mean take a look at the movie artist, musician field and see how many people there have problems running their live.

Having the skills to run your live, is a separate skill set. And the more stress and irregularities you job entails the harder it is. Hence why e.g. successful actors often have people helping them managing their lives.

> but it's deserving of a lot more respect than it gets here.

yes, it's a hard job. For each successful case there are thousands which fail.
I can't speak for other jurisdictions, but Norwegian law explicitly says that you can't demand payment in that case, even if you have a contract that says otherwise.

æøå
> it would simply be forbidden to build a house driveway onto a highway.

Sometimes the house comes first and then the highway is built later.
A USB security key such as Nitrokey could be handy for code signing, git and Github access.
Made my day.
Thanks.
I experienced such states on several occasions, usually randomly once every two or three years. I resolved to explore it if it happened again, and sure enough I was ready when it did.

I soon discovered you don't have to wait years; it can happen a few times a week.

Simple technique:
- wait until you've woken up after a dream. (so technically hypnopompic, not hypnagogic, but more powerful imho)
- Any dream will do, but be careful not to drift back into normal consciousness (so don't think of work, taxes, todo's, etc)
- instead, imagine something fanciful. Like swinging at a baseball in dodger stadium in slow-motion, or, my favorite, imagining you have the worlds smallest record player between your fingers & playing a song you like (funk music is good for this)
- stay with the humorous feeling, let it grow awhile
- after a minute or two, you should find the dream state has stabilized
- once it's stable, and only then, call up a problem or life situation you'd like insight into, or just explore the landscape (what's behind that circus tent?)
- try not to get too intellectual or willful, it can dispel the state

NB: no drugs required. But caffeine in the evening can increase the odds of waking after dreaming.
Disagree on two counts.

1) Like any utility, the cloud is predicated on the assumption that it never goes down. If AWS itself goes down, it causes knock-on effects more most mid-sized (i.e. 1 region, multi-AZ) services on their platform, so we can't have it.

2) If we're going to have to accept downtime (1) then yes, it IS time we rethink the cloud--either how we can achieve no downtime, or how we achieve fault-tolerance in some other way.
I was thinking about exactly this today! On the right of me I have an oculus quest which I got 2-3 months ago and honestly, it is gathering dust. Just the idea of picking it up and putting it on my face is enough to make me think meh.

I did though and I feel like I can't be the only one who finds it really frustrating to the point of making me furious.

1. I started with my eyes at floor level.
2. It moans about a guardian, this by far is the most soul sapping thing of all time. The thing is, I have dev mode, but I do find guardian useful (I punched some walls previously). It's just so annoying though.
3. It asks me to set up guardian every fucking time.
4. Followed by when I try the Oculus Link... do I want to trust this computer.
5. I start steam VR but it doesn't work as it cannot find my headset but at this point, I am strapped in and 2 meters from my desk (ala stationary guardian) so I take it off to restart steam VR and the Oculus app.
6. Sometimes the Oculus app simply doesn't work and I have to reinstall it.
7. For some reason my Oculus link cable is loose unlike other USB-C cables/ports so it disconnects from the movement of my standing desk intermittently enough to not be a problem but also highly annoying.
8. Sometimes things don't start in VR but in Flat mode, this means removing the headset to sort it out (see point 5). I feel like jumping in and out of the experience makes it almost unusable.

It really doesn't take me long to just give up.

On the news the other day there was a guy from Microsoft and Facebook talking about how like "WOAH AVATARS ARE THE FUTURE". Like it is something new. I actually stopped playing Consoles (PS3/360?) because of all the Avatar setup shit with profiles. It's just that but in a fake office or room looking at bad 3d avatars and somehow this changes everything....

There is a long way to go. The best thing I have ever seen on my Oculus was when my girlfriend sent me a porn film for a laugh and it was actually pretty good as far as experiences go.

In saying all of this though. Beat Sabre and Super Hot are genuinely good experiences but they are as old as time itself so I feel that very very few things work well in VR. They are either completely shit (Skyrim VR etc), or very good with no in between.
In reality it's more like $0.02/GB. You pay $0.01 on sending and $0.01 on receiving. I have no idea why ingress isn't free.
I'd doubt it works well for tasks that require concentration. A good period of sleep is important for these.
As a joke I once wanted to post a ray traced image per day, except the images were actually real photographs of things composed and lit to look like it was a ray traced scene. I still wonder if anyone would have noticed, and how.
Hell, no!

We Linux people just couldn't bear another case of "Eternal September" -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September - with millions of new lusers wanting a dumbed-down Linux.

If you want to move away from Windows, go somewhere else! Linux doesn't want you! Go Away!!

Go and buy a Mac instead!
Actually it's very easy to blow some millions. Sportspeople, lotto-winners and such are doing it all the time. Handling money wisely is a skill you need to learn and master.

That guy is in esports, so he is generally very risk-friendly, so chances are high that he is also investing and wasting his money on risky investments and potentially losing it.
In fairness, the US would be idiotic to renege on their assurances. That essentially would be a valid reason to block any future extraditions.

Saying that, we live in strange times where countries like the UK, which always used to play by the rules, albeit the ones they wrote, now backs out of treaties where the ink is barely dry.
> One of the most important changes I made to my bash setup was to change my prompt to multi line, detect whether I was in a git repo, include the branch in the prompt, and also include a summary of git status.

Check out starship[1] if you haven't already. It's a prompt that does just this and more, and works across shells like Bash, fish, zsh, etc.

[1] https://github.com/starship/starship
I don't mean to sound facetious, but what else could a Facebook fact check be besides an opinion?
Awesome thanks for adding that one. May I ask if you left for another processor or was there no longer a need for processing?
I'm wrapping up Ásta's Categories We Live By[1] and it's been fun learning about models describing the mechanisms which construct social identity and how people agree or disagree on their construction. Using the article as an example, we can see the institutionalization of age as a label though government documents, policy, and law, but there is also a communal construction presumably by way of Ratelband's friends and family celebrating his birthday and keeping track of his age. Even today, people at least self-identify as an age whenever they "lie" about their age to others. Who or what is the ultimate judge of age? Unfortunately I mean this in a technical capacity. Just like an umpire who is the judge of what is a strike or ball in baseball, who is and who do we want to be the judge of age? In a lot of ways self-conferral is the ultimate form of individual liberty. Why would I want someone else enforcing on me properties about myself?

1. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12744