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Ask HN: AWS account suspended, able to access via keys with no console signin
I have my entire life backed up in AWS, but apparently my account has been suspended for 3 months? Not sure how this is possible, but when I tried to contact support, I am told I must access support after signing in.

There must be some way to get my account reinstated. I have buckets that I've had backed up for literally a decade and losing this would be unbelievable.

I am trying to backup what I can but was wondering if anyone knows someone that can look into this at AWS? I tried contacting support but was greeted with this message:

"Hello there,

Greetings from AWS!

AWS account security policies don't permit us to discuss account-specific information unless you're signed into the account you're asking about.

For your sign-in credentials, use the email address that's associated with the AWS account that you'd like to discuss. Then contact us from the Support Center through the following link. Even if your account is suspended or has been closed for 90 days or less, you can still open a case.

https://support.console.aws.amazon.com/support/

If your sign-in information no longer exists, then your account was permanently closed after being suspended or closed for more than 90 days. You can create a new AWS account:

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/

Note that if your account was closed or terminated, you can't use the same email address to create a new AWS account."

I am pretty sure I've been paying AWS regularly (around $120 a month for the last year or so) so I can't imagine ever receiving any suspension emails.

When I tried loggin in yesterday, the captchas seemed insane and I was completely unable to login.

I really need help resolving this or I'm going to be in a really bad spot.

Any help appreciated.
> Because then they have to buy it?

I would love to "have to" buy a bunch of apple stock at much less than the current trading price! Most companies would also love that.

> I think the issue is your assumption that they think it’s worth less than $150 and you aren’t factoring in time or potential business factors that will influence the price, or risk for a so citric portfolio size or exposure.

I'm not assuming that, I'm just wondering why they wouldn't buy more if they think it's worth much more.

If they think it's worth quite close to $150 I can see why they wouldn't bother. But that leads back to me being confused on why they bought more in this indirect way, because if they got a big discount I don't understand why.
This has been going on for a very long time, and IMO the scale of the impact firmly lodges this in the Evil category.

Another reasonable framing is that Intuit is the primary reason your taxes aren't automatically filed for you (with an opportunity to provide corrections later, if necessary).
Given that we're talking about Flex, I guarantee you that those systems are changed and upgraded way way way more often than every five months. (I would be surprised if they went an entire month without any significant deployments, let alone five.)

Regardless, I'm glad the title has been changed, as it was just unnecessary editorializing.
Zig Bits 0x1 – Returning slices from functions
Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time
Speaking of Erlang ... it's not just what the startup does, also where it is.

i.e. In a University town I'd pick Elixir/Phoenix ... great tech, but no dev pool ... but if your strength is abundant smart juniors, you offset the main downside.
Did Twitter heavily depend on growth? They seemed to flat line for an awfully long time.
The scene mentioning the big EMP-reset in Blade Runner 2049 made me wonder just how much would be lost to us in such a scenario. Much that we care about is currently on highly sensitive storage.

What format should I invest in (developing/purchasing/etc) that would A) be easy-ish to read from B) be dense enough to exceed the point I might as well just be using paper/glass slides/microfiche/and so on, and could be ramped back up from pretty crude tech.

Combine "end of civilization", "time-travelling with tech", and other thought-experiment scenarios for fun.
clickbate.

that which inflames or causes controversy gets sent around or reposted.

clicks == money.

as does "sponsored content" aka "post this to everyone who meets demographic groups X and Y". just so happens that some of those people want folks angry about some topic.
Probably just capturing the extra CO2 that will go back into the atmosphere now that they’re making us come back into the office

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Not saying whether I believe it or not, and I personally work remote 100%, but one of the arguments for RTO is that remote work diminishes "social capital" in a company, where the social capital of a company is the combined value of all the social connections between the employees. In other words, if Bob has to fix the database and he knows that Zoe created it and is in the next cube over, he's going to be able to get through that problem a lot faster than if they've never met and he doesn't know what she works on. The idea being, of course, that at scale it could have a big impact on the effectiveness of the company.

(Edit: Just to be clear, last time I saw a presentation on this, they did have actual metrics. But numbers on a slide deck should always be taken with a big grain of salt.)
For those with an interest in this topic, but a disdain for "science news", I recommend checking out Sabine Hossenfelder's youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

She's a theoretical physicist, and covers topics such as this from the point of view of a real expert, and doesn't "talk down" to the audience at all. (Though I must say, she does engage in clickbait-style video titles and thumbnails, but the video content is much better than that implies)

I guarantee she will have something to say about this topic in her next video :)
In my neck of the woods, the higher up you go, the more "Sales" is part of your job description. And I think a lot of people are finding it hard to do sales (formal or informal) remotely. A lot of sales is about building a relationship and being near the potential customer and informal conversations and to your point grapevine etc. I 101% understand how they are struggling in doing their job effectively, remotely.
The bacteria causing the erosion have actually been discovered there and are named after the ship. It wouldn’t be at all unusual to be somewhat wrong about that estimate in such a unique situation. It rather seems like a typical case of a researcher making a wild guess and media presenting it as proven fact.
1.5 MB for a stub binary which does nothing but load and call a symbol from another file seems a little excessive in its own right.
... To the surprise of no one. That's what regulatory capture + corrupted democracy (ie "lobbying") looks like.
I have a far simpler solution, the same happen with great success in the past, united people. Witch means:

- a company can perfectly ask for work in the office, even if that job is eligible to be done from remote;

- if there are peoples accepting that, good for them. If not they'll have no choice.

That's a classic and big social issue: people do not know anymore to be social. So you see a certain "unionization push" but at a bureaucratic level, not at mere human level.

If enough IT pro, especially those with a bit of skills, not necessarily genius, gurus etc, decide that ALL WFH-eligible jobs will be accepted only from remote there is no need for a law.
Meta Quest 2 has 6GB of DDR4 RAM. It has a 64bit CPU. I'd say it has more in common with a server than with an embedded device.
You can't and really should not expect this kind of speed from a large company. In this case he used a service where you can pay 170$ to get a custom satellite image from space. My guess is they treat every customer individually and the technical issue reported was obvious.

At Meta you have hundreds of millions if not more users and any issue largely isn't so obvious that you can just go and fix five lines of code. When someone comes around and says "hey I'm Bob xyz isn't working" you probably need to figure out first if that's a real issue at all and if fixing it doesn't break ten other things.

The potential downside is much, much larger if you overreact to individual complaints at that scale.
Honestly they're terrible people, but their software is okay. If they're going to continue to undermine the IRS' efforts - and the IRS wants to provide clean modern tax filing software - they should just buy the business off Intuit.

You heard it here first folks: I'm calling on the US government to nationalize TurboTax.

It's the pragmatic choice.
You seem to be under the impression that the vaccine is effective in preventing transmission, it isn't. Even if you were spending time with people who were all vaccinated you are still taking your chances to the same degree if they hadn't been, except for the fact that the vaccine suppresses symptoms so presumably someone who was really sick might have stayed home instead.
I did this with various different apartments trying to figure out which layout worked best with the furniture I already had (and the use cases I wanted to meet).
> Let's explore the commute to work, some 60km away...

Well. There's your problem.

The idea of travelling 60km to work is a very modern phenomenon. Like a lot of people you've built your life around car travel. It's hard to get back from that.
Hardly a glowing recommendation for his reputation management capabilities
For NORAD and other air defense platforms, they're a ton of filtering that must be done to ignore cruft, otherwise they'd be responding to floating plastic bags, birds, etc, constantly.

From the missile system and fighter radar perspective, that's not something they heavily (if at all) test these platforms against, because that's not a threat there's any expectation to face.
Right - it would be an interesting demo without the silly "BREAKING DOCS RELEASE" angle that apparently relies on the twitter account of a realty TV star trying to gin up followers to her OnlyFans..
OVH is always an exercise in broken UI including terms of service that seem to be copied from a pdf and have random artifacts. It's probably the worst buying experience I've had since the naughties and nothing changed in the years I'm with them now.

...but they're cheaper than other registrars known for being cheap, and I've monitored their nameservers (and a few others') for nearly a year before switching away from my previous registrar and they were consistently fast whereas others had spikes, outages, or constantly round robined across oceans or some such.

Quality servers at very low prices makes me put up with some broken UI for a few minutes per renewal.
Minor detail, I believe it’s supposed to be well ‘heeled’ because how well ones shoes were made mattered when the phrase was coined.
They’ve been doing this for decades now. This isn’t a surprise in the least nor do I expect them to stop unless someone speaks up for our rights.

I have a very simple tax situation. I get a paycheck twice a month and sometimes I buy and sell shares. The idea that I have to go through a multi-hour exercise when all of this should be accomplished via computers automatically is stupid to me. It’s companies like Intuit that are trying to protect their moat and hurting us when it should be a quick payment or refund form we get once a year like a Costco rebate check.
Indigo, Canada's bigggest bookstore still offline 9 days after security incident
Haven't seen much coverage of this - the website was down for much of the week and is back now without purchase options, rewards and order tracking down, and the physical stores lost payments for a day or two.
Arguing about icache utilization is a little silly here - the code will be laid out for you as though the branches are not taken (or you should force it to do so). In that case, the only "waste" of icache is the CMP and JMP, an additional 4-8 bytes per return, and literally 0 cycles.

When you do take an error, each RET takes you 1 cycle, plus the 10-15 cycle mispredict for the CMP+JMP because there's a stack engine in the CPU that tells you the address to return to. It's counterintuitive that doing "a lot" of things is cheaper than doing fewer things, but it's true.

In comparison, an exception involves taking the one control flow break to some cold control code (maybe page faulting), figuring out where to go using a jump table (slow), restoring the old state from that context (slow), figuring out the type of the thrown object (in many languages, also slow), and then handling accordingly. Each of these steps can easily take 100+ cycles, and may be more.

The math does not work out in favor of exceptions. Neither do the benchmarks in most cases. You do 1 slow thing to avoid doing 20 things that are trivially fast.
I don't think many people are ascribing it to maliciousness. What it looks like to me is a combination of two things:

1) Working in an office full of people is what they personally prefer, and

2) They have large investments in physical infrastructure that they need to use.
Personal attacks and name-calling are not allowed here. We ban accounts that do that sort of thing, so please don't, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If you want integrity join a church.

I am sorry that you have had the experiences that you have had.

On the other hand, I have had some obviously orthogonal ones.

My statement was a blanket statement that obviously does not apply everywhere, and I apologize.

However, I’d still suggest caution, if you act upon the assumption of weakness, indicated by Integrity or Kindness.

I won’t go into my personal story here, but I have very good reason, for my attitude. I’ve personally seen some of the very worst of humanity, but also have seen some of the very best.

You might be surprised at the places we can find the light.
How has Intuit avoided antitrust investigations? I'm not talking about TurboTax. Intuit's Quickbooks is basically a monopoly in the U.S. with all of the attendant characteristics of a monopoly ... poor performance, huge price increases, taking advantages of SMBs and sole proprietors that are forced to use it for their businesses.
It may benefit both parties, but it doesn't benefit either counsel. The plaintiff's counsel usually operates under an agreement which guarantees them a certain percentage of any resulting compensation (contingency), and financially punishes the plaintiff for dropping the matter. Once counsel is engaged on contingency, the matter only very rarely goes to arbitration (as arbitration eliminates the prospect of favorable settlement in advance of looming litigation).
Yes, I do agree with your point (1)... there is a class of non-STEM college grads that has solved the chicken-and-egg problem by essentially blanketing every industry at once, demanding "[xxxxxx] justice" on all sorts of topics, which sort of forces everyone's hand simultaneously. That's why it's been highly effective.
I wonder if there is a good answer for quick mapping using an iPhone’s LiDAR Scanner?
Maybe this document predates (discovery of) the linker limitation?

My understanding is that the linker didn't really limit the identifier length, it's just that only 6 characters were used to match them. So, shortening names create->create, execute->exec might have come afterward, as a clean up round to make it less surprising.
I was just rereading an old but still interesting article about something similar yet totally different, the "Green Wave" ocean farming project.

https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410650
That quote is damning to his legacy, whatever it might have been: we went to a war we started, that was unnecessary, and which will taint every history of the Bush administration.
Looks really clean I love the idea. Did you do this in SwiftUI/Native?
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Sad that politicians can be "bought" for a measly 3.5 million. Especially considering the cost to Americans is probably in the ballpark of hundreds of millions, if not more.
I don't think he's an idiot, but I equally don't think he's shown any signs of being a genius.
In my imagination, I always thought we could put a black box around a black hole, and it would be indistinguishable from any other mass - that is, any other mass that can be treated as a point mass.

I.e. put a black hole with solar mass 1 in a black box. Put a star with solar mass 1 in another black box. From a gravitational point of view, you couldn't tell the difference, yes?

But this result implies that the black box with the black hole will gain mass over time, even without adding any mass into the black box? So you could distinguish it from another mass?

Or do I have that wrong? My understanding is as someone who is interested but has no real education on these topics.
> Could you help me with this term? "mauve property damage"

I'd assume it's a typo plus a bad autocorrect for "massive".
That's right. When I worked there, I had a colleague planning to move away from Seattle. Our director wouldn't allow remote work, so this person switched teams into an official Virtual location under a director that would.
I still remember why I moved to Typescript.

Typescript was still 0.x "public preview" and I was knee deep in a codebase that was a massive amount of jQuery scattered across mostly inline script blocks in a huge number of ASP.NET templates many of which were "components" subcluded by other templates (meaning who knows how many final inline DOM-blocking script blocks per final output page). I had helped invest a ton of effort into an AMD infrastructure to start to modularize all those inline script blocks, but the conversion was pretty slow going (AMD modules were a pain to write by hand) even though the clear performance win of it helped keep it a clear priority project. Typescript even in 0.x made all of that so much better and easier if for no other reason that it made writing and managing AMDs so much simpler (and type checking helped code quality so much as bonus).

A lot of compile time tooling didn't fall out of the sky because they were solutions looking for problems. They solved real problems at the time. It's amazing to think how few developers today remember "the bad jQuery days" and "server-side template inline script block hell" and AMDs (good riddance, though they too solved important problems in their time). I don't think they can understand how much "our compile times are slow" is a better problem to have. I'm not sure if I envy some of them having missed some of the worst of those past problems.
I think they meant major
Aside: ZFS breaks at random times too (though I'm not running Solaris as Bill Joy intended)
People want single family homes in neighborhoods of single family homes, though; the value is highly contingent on the neighborhood those homes are in.

You might be fine with a given backyard in a suburb, but not with a highrise next door that can see right into it.

Zoning handles this in the same way that it handles preferences about people not wanting to live next to industrial shops or giant supercenters. It does this by restricting what can be developed, even if someone moving away doesn't care what happens to their old lot, and could make more money on the sale otherwise.

Whether we should respect those preferences is a fine question, but zoning is pretty much the only tool to enforce these kinds of commons-oriented preferences.
I didn't see that comment. I've responded now. We don't always read the threads sequentially.

But in any case, other commenters breaking the rules doesn't make it ok for you to break them. (I don't mean you personally there, I mean any of us.) That's just a recipe for a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Also, you broke them in several places, not just that one.
Shortly after I joined a company it was acquired by Birkshire. I witnessed how they transformed operations and streamlined processes and trained/equipped employees. I was quite taken back by how good they were at their job and that's when I realized the value of good management. They were very customer oriented and wanted to make employees happy. I was in the Real Estate industry, my biggest complaint was how they bought out brokers, title, insurance and mortgage companies and they would engage in an incestuous relationships that IMO broke the fiduciary duty that a broker has with a client.
If Intuit can get results with < $4m in lobbying that's an incredible rate of return. They made $2,066m in net income last year.

For the influence they've clearly had there's got to be other money flows.
That was dishonest. Fortunately, it probably didn't matter at all? Because there's not an evil spirit that condemns folks who eat beef products even by accident.
Yes it’s very different. The competencies needed to design a chip and manufacturer a chip at scale reliably takes a different set of competencies.

Even designing different types of chips require different competencies. Apple couldn’t just design a graphics chip to compete with Nvidia and infamously, Intel couldn’t design a modem chip to compete with Qualcomm
I worked in a "startup-like" team at a big company a few years ago. It was fun in that we moved quickly since we had fewer processes than typical teams at Big Co. Over time though, I realized we were just making stuff to make some higher-up happy, and not really chasing a customer.

I also found out we were funded just to light a fire under another team that moved very slowly. Whatever we made would be taken back to that team and we'd have to sell them on using it, and also show them what was possible.

Ultimately, we were just a cog in this larger machine. Nowadays I don't really trust anybody at big companies that says "our team is like a startup".
One can also change their name in that case. It might be one of the most effective ways of wiping one's internet slate clean.
I'm testing Twingate out now and I've gotten lot of good back from Engineers. Curious to know as well
I'd love to learn more about how you're using that Tandy 1000!
Sure, but in the life of a startup that's just one extra thing they'd rather not have to deal with, and the damage isn't just financial.
Apple needs this. Airtags could eliminate theft if they were undetectable.

Put them in a car for £20 and even if they park it underground it doesn’t matter… their own iphone will betray them.
I think you'd be surprised at how different individual arbitrators can be. Judges appointed by the same government and operating within the same laws can also vary quite widely.
Sounds like an opportunity for some competition.
I didn't think Fatmap was based on mapbox at all? I thought it was their own custom renderer
Can't reward this extreme rent seeking behavior, even if that means it would cost more for IRS to rebuild what Intuit provides. It's not about the money. You have to send a message. Otherwise you'll just encourage future poor behavior. Intuit has been up to this fuckery for two decades [1]. We build the public goods, then we defend the public goods.

I would rather donate directly to the IRS project to replace Turbotax [2] before giving Intuit another dollar.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764952
But that seems like a faulty reasoning, assuming I'm Bob, Slack and Email allow me to reach Zoe just as easily with the bonus that I'm not interrupting her flow.

> scale it could have a big impact on the effectiveness of the company

It does not though, if the culture is anything like Amazon's, Zoe will ask you to cut her a ticket instead of directly talking to her. There is nothing with in-person interactions that "scale".
Calling dlopen is perhaps one of the slowest way to bring in libraries on Darwin.
The futex_waitv() syscall and gaming on Linux