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> The process of building an MVP includes the process of figuring out distribution.

As blindingly obvious as this is, I've never seen it put quite so concisely. Fantastic. I could've cut short so many bullshit discussions this way

The quoted paragraph reminds me of something I once read from a blog post by the WhatsApp team

Sorry, you don't get to market to folk who're willing to read the words "Magic Quadrant" and post that shit to HN at the same time. Pick your poison! We're a technical crowd, remember? Shudder. I wonder if the CloudFlare folk will be returning to their offices wearing suits when lockdown is over.

Trying to sneak that diff in was a hugely wasted opportunity, it sticks out like a sore thumb. If they were going to commit anything, it should have looked like a legitimate change. Another option might have been to wait until just before a release and fiddle with the tags or the newly opened QA branch (if any).

Check out https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-... for another attempt, that one at least requires careful review to notice the problem

Worth a read if you're interested in backstory: https://lwn.net/Articles/825598/

I thought there was a newer LWN article that touched on more recent developments but can't find it

The nexus of unsafe programming languages and exploit markets, where for the right price you can purchase undisclosed bugs basically ready to use. Modern offensive security is essentially a bit like shopping in Ikea

9 times out of 10, through the front door. Some shit in a .doc, .html or .pdf. The Google-China hack started with targetted pdfs

There should be a name for the obscene guilt felt when shitting on something in public only for the original creator to turn up reminding you there is a human on the other side. Sorry!

This article is clearly garbage, just from looking at the first graph: https://www.storagereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sto... .. that DB benchmark is most certainly bottlenecked on something other than IO, the full result range (including the one laggard drive) fits in a 1.6% range

edit: what where they thinking https://www.storagereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Sto...

What has WebRTC got to do with me personally? Please try to speak to the topic, it makes for better reading, and threads much less likely to lead in the wrong direction.

> If you do both STUN and TURN it works on most networks

TURN requires clean outbound UDP/TCP connectivity which is far from ubiquitous, there are numerous corporate firewalls where "CONNECT <x>:443" is the best that could be hoped for, and even in some of those, where if the resulting connection did not include an obvious SSL handshake the connection would be immediately reset.

It's possible to implement all of this without inheriting the additional infrastructure and networking complexity WebRTC brings along with it, not forgetting WebRTC still relies on centralized components to coordinate. Don't use WebRTC unless you really need the features it offers, routers in many scenarios hate it and even where they allow it, the combinatorial explosion in possible configurations to support and diagnose between peers is a problem nobody should willingly invite unless they can't achieve a solution any other way

With WebRTC you give up the nice ultra-low-common-denominator "outbound port 443/TCP needs to work" requirement and replace it with "UDP networking generally healthy, possible to establish port mappings, possible to maintain stable port mappings over time, possible to not have mappings go away due to lack of traffic" etc etc

Given the huge amount of free coins floating in the system from the prehistoric days, chances are the guy who created this is also the guy who bought it, or a close friend. That was even already shown to be the case for the massive sale last week -- the purchaser was the owner of an NFT startup.

The entire thing is a scam designed to get time in the news. Never forget what kind of folk you're dealing with in this space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

They're only thing they're feeling is the pressure of multiple regulators analysing the fine print

It is my dream to some day release an app that garners a review like this

Do you have a few links to share? Pretty sure you triggered quite a few folk here! Loving the idea of a TV dumbification movement

As a customer I understood the video perfectly. Those names appear on every invoice and during every order

tl;dr UPS maintenance was performed by a vendor the day before the fire. Fire department used a thermal camera to isolate source of fire, it seemed to originate with 2 UPSes, one of which was the recently maintained UPS

Hilarious, I seem to have randomly pattern matched the wrong comment to reply to after logging in

One of my favourite (and simultaneously most depressing) documentaries, Icarus, leaves no doubt professional sport is riddled with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(2017_film)

> In the case of Roubaix 4, the Datacenter is made with a lot of wood:

> Finally, we have other photos of the floor of the OVH "Roubaix 4" tower. It is clearly wood! Hope it's fireproof wood! A wooden datacenter ... is still original, we must admit.

> In France, data centers are mainly regulated by the labor code, by ICPE recommendations (with authorization or declaration) and by insurers. At the purely regulatory level, the only things that are required are:

> - Mechanical or natural smoke extraction for blind premises or those covering more than 300m2

> - The fire compartmentalization beyond a certain volume / m2

> - Emergency exits accessible with a certain width

> - Ventilation giving a minimum of fresh air per occupant

> - Access to the firefighter from the facade for the premises are the low floor of the last level is more than 8 meters

> - 1 toilet for 10 people (occupying a position considered "fixed")

https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/ovh-et-la-protection-inc...

He posted an update, seems SBG2 is totally destroyed.

Ouch https://twitter.com/Onepamopa/status/1369484420982407173

> In conclusion, people are finally beginning to understand the hard way:

> Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things.

Aged like milk

100dpi in color mode.. not the end of the world, but certainly going to be noticeable.

Still, 100dpi color display without batteries to keep it refreshed, OMG yes please.

> you can't simply dump semi-structured data (csv/json/documents) into it and worry about schema (index definition) + querying later

Unless you love rewrites, you can't simply dump semi-structured data into ElasticSearch either. Seen multiple apps with 5x or worse ES storage usage tied to 'data model' or lack thereof, and fixing it inevitably means revisiting every piece of code pushing stuff into and out of ES.

I love ES but this notion of schema free is dumb, in practice it's a nightmare.

Optimally positioned, as most mining happens in China and the only other candidate is the Yuan? :)

I wonder if the Citi analysts knew of the mining farms installed in Iran by Chinese businesses in order to access cheap electricity. If Bitcoin's value is derived solely from narrative, it's going to be great to see how the world reacts to that story finally turning up in the mainstream press.

Doesn't the US have its own weirdness of this sort too? I seem to remember being charged a tax during checkout that was not part of the advertised price of an item in a retailer.

Random dislike of pets in public spaces puts a smile on my face as regular folk get a little taste of what it's like to live with social anxiety

> If it didn't, there's no particular reason multi-billion dollar

This is true in theory but in practice it seems much more commonly false. Even in vastly more mature and liquid markets, straightforward arbitrages can persist for years and in some cases decades, even after an inefficiency becomes public knowledge

The most damning detail I've seen comes from US treasury TIC reports, which fail to reveal matching bond ownership inflow to the country that is the reputed host of Tether's segregated bank account.

It is possible that Tether holds funds in some kind of strange non-interest-bearing account, but that seems highly unlikely. Another possibility is that the primary bank is actually a wrapper around some overseas correspondent bank where the funds are really held.

Occam's razor: a company selling a 1:1 hedged coin should have absolutely no difficulty whatsoever proving on a daily or hourly basis that all coins are verifiably fully hedged. It should literally be the company's prime directive, and in this particular case, especially following the endless stream of controversy. The fact they haven't managed to convincingly achieve this even once in 7 years is all I need to know.

The whole thing stinks terribly. Good luck for those who invest in it, but I'll be there if/when it blows up to quietly feel smug about it all

It also documents all their attempts to verify the peg required mixing funds with an exchange known to have a running $500m+ hole in their balance sheet