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Don't do it! If I understand it correctly, every time you use it, it takes away one of your valuable internet points.

(or any other fiat currency, which values are set by their country's central bank instead of backed by bullion reserves)

My insurance is literally more than 3x higher than it was 15 years ago. It's literally more than my mortgage, and I don't live in a shanty.

In which case that person would have no license to use it at all.

Your point stands, but FWIW, this is actually Globalsign GMO[0], one of the largest TLS certificate authorities (CA's), so certainly they have a vested interest in making sure OpenSSL is secure. (Globalsign also partnered with CloudFlare for TLS certificates[1])

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalSign

1. https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/cloudflare-globalsign-make...

I'm actually curious as to what people think about that. Is Meta "over", at least to the point of losing that much of its value, or is it just that investors overreacted to a couple of relatively minor misses?

This seems to really expand the scope of how keys are handled and authorized. It at least appears to be optional, however.

Or just use userify's public key distribution model (then you can stick with a simple and proven design that just automates the standard SSH design that's been around for decades)

Or just do it the old way, by hand: drop your teams' public keys on groups of remote servers, setup their sudo access, and you're done.

Or just use Ansible or Chef or Terraform, or any of those other server orchestration tools, too (just without the permission layer/bulk remote session kills/user deletes of Userify).

of course, if you really need an ssh terminal in a browser, then you have to go with one of these sorts of crazy things, and at least it's not using passwords!

That seems plausible, but it's hard to disprove the truthiness of non-falsifiable statements, especially at (to use your excellent choice of words) that paradoxical intersection of ego and productivity.

(On the other hand, I may not care enough about this topic to genuinely commit to it, which probably means I'm right. ;) )

> But that's always true, and the most valuable cases are those that work when most people don't expect them to. http://paulgraham.com/swan.html

If they are looking for swans that work when people don't expect them to, they should probably be looking for those swans somewhere else*, not the top 3% of an incubator that probably graduates proportionately more successful startups than any university.

The issue that everyone is calling out here is that they name themselves "Rebel" when they're doing exactly the same thing that every other VC firm is, but (apparently) not even as well -- at least they should say "Founder Friendly", etc.

* Generally startups that might become unexpected swans will be found outside of startup hubs like silicon valley.

Wonder if it runs on Twilio..

When a company has gotten so automated that the only way to get a solution is to beg and plead for help about it on social media, it's too automated.

This is absolutely a Twilio design flaw.

It's an incredibly common use case to forward text messages from one incoming line to another number that is controlled by your company, and it's impossible to tell at the point of receipt (when it's still in Twilio's network) whether it's spam or not before forwarding it on.

It's the same exact thing that you might do if you have a support@example.com email address; it probably sends incoming emails to a number of different inboxes, even if those incoming emails are spam (and even if there actually is a spam system in place that might block some percentage of incoming messages, and Twilio doesn't even provide that.)

Have you open sourced this anywhere? Sounds extremely useful!

Why is it up to the advertisers and publishers?

What is the most common iPhone? Should the common iPhone browser experience be scaled up to a desktop resolution, or should the desktop browser limit itself to the common iPhone resolution? What about mobile Safari bugs or misfeatures, such as webRTC shortcomings, or CSS bugs, or viewport resizing/scaling/zoom bugs?

There are so many possible variations that it seems like preventing fingerprinting by pretending you're something you're not would be an impossible task and makes you even more unique, not less.

How would recurring transactions or metered billing work? Does this only apply to merchants or providers that are not PCI-DSS compliant and cannot safely store cardholder data?

> You're confusing people building products with people building infrastructure

Even though I'm on the side of the "UNIX graybeards" here, this is a super-great point. We do need to recognize that it is a great time to be building networked applications, precisely because the younger ones these days don't need to understand TCP/IP or anything else related to infrastructure.

I confess that I got caught up in the hype as well and built quite a few "multi-AZ" apps that I thought would help me get to five nines that much faster. (for non-cloud folks, that's 99.999% availability, which was something to pursue before the cloud.)

Of course, when those abstractions break, those same younger ones are completely helpless, and my single-server apps have been running non-stop for years at traditional providers except for a few minutes for reboots following updates. I've never had a multi-hour outage, especially one that's completely out of my control where I can only point a finger at AWS and say, "sorry, it's not my fault."

The central bank (the US Federal Reserve) kept buying bonds and kept interest rates at near zero; inflation was a foregone conclusion. If it's great, why do we have to change how it's marketed?

"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation." - Milton Friedman

It's interesting that TikTok is a formidable competitor that focused on a different experience and a slightly different format (short form). Tiktok seems to work by choosing for you and only showing a single video at a time (esp on mobile, which is where it's really most at home), but allowing you to quickly reject that choice and learning from your rejections.

Is it possible to beat YouTube itself with a different experience but the same, longer-form, format? If so, what would that experience even look like, especially on mobile?

USPS is the only unreliable parcel provider in my location. UPS, DHL, and Fedex will deliver on time, every time, but apparently USPS just doesn't care enough and often causes my packages to be returned as undeliverable! It's literally impossible to switch even parcel delivery to a different delivery agent (even to pay more).

I'd rather see more competition here, not government-subsidized systematic elimination of all competition.

> public record

This is certainly not the case in all states. In Texas, the actual sale price is considered the private details of a private transaction (unless, of course, a public entity is party to the transaction). Companies like Zillow and Black Knight make a big part of their business by making educated guesses.

For example, here's an article explaining that "Texas REALTORS® opposes all legislative efforts to require the disclosure of sales-price information":

https://www.texasrealestate.com/members/government-affairs/l...

Still, there's a substantial amount of data out there (such as the last publicly offered price and how long it took to close, so you can get a pretty good idea for how low the seller had to drop the price to close the deal).

In Texas, appraisals (both tax and financing) are based, in part, on the estimates that companies like Zillow, Black Knight, Core Data, etc all provide.

Since it is germaine to the article, it's interesting to note that none of these automated appraisal companies record the race or skin color of the current home owners.

Because Redis' database is stored exclusively in RAM, which is an order of magnitude more expensive than even SSD.

Also, long-term maintenance effort and costs would be substantially higher. (Redis persistent-to-disk options, namely AOF and RDB, are notoriously unreliable.) These issues would persist (ha) even with a clustered setup (actually, especially then.)

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Apache Traffic Server (no relation to Apache itself) would be an excellent option: https://trafficserver.apache.org/

In that case, why would it make any sense to promote the person who was ostensibly most responsible for curing those ills?

And also every other smaller cloud provider provides at least 1TB of free transfer (OVH, Hetzner, Vultr, Digital Ocean, etc).

Even AWS's own Lightsail (which is so throttled that it's a far inferior solution to most of the other VPS/"cloud" providers) includes at least 1TB of transfer for free.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

In almost every case, inter-account and inter-AZ transfer will incur the same pricing as egress, especially if it travels through an IGW.

In our internal testing, it appears that AWS often applies the egress pricing twice, both when leaving the AZ where your instance(s) are located as well as again in the region where your customers are, after traveling through the AWS internal network; the first is an inter-AZ transfer, and the second is the actual egress from AWS' network.

So, it appears that the egress fees are nearly always not merely the oft-cited 8,000% greater than competitors, but twice that. AWS is not very transparent about this.

Understatement of the year: "Data transfer charges are often overlooked while architecting a solution in AWS."[0]

0. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/overview-of-data-t...

I agree, but that's assuming the whole concept survives to maturity and engenders public trust. At this point, I have my doubts.

That's one (gigantic) problem, but not necessarily the problem.

> Money corrupts everything, it replaces the original motivation.

What do you believe the original motivation was, if it wasn't money?