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I'm not a git expert, but how was the attacker able to push the stability branch directly to the Amazon owned repo? The PR would have been to merge the modified branch to main right?

Not true. They are widely available and used in Australia.

Is anyone familiar with the matter able to comment on the use of Torq-set fasteners? Are they a standard for these sort of use cases? They seem to be used frequently in Aerospace? I tend to use Torx whenever possible, are these better? Or should they have used something else to avoid such issues?

Amazon has a reuse program for old hardware[1]. Disks will be shredded on-site and then recycled. [1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-aws-data-centers-re...

I remember my first professional job in 2008 and noticing the lifts in the building had ashtrays in them. I couldn't fathom smoking in such a confined space with others!

My sister-in-law swam the channel a few weeks ago, under the supervision of a pilot from the linked association. A direct point to point swim is around 33km. Due to the tides and the timing of her swim it was a 58km crossing. Incredible!

I feel folks overcomplicate this. At least for the the HN crowd, it is totally possible to eat mostly non-processed, fresh food, don't drink too much booze, and get an average of 30 minutes of incidental exercise a day. Those three things and you are head of 90% of people.

The email is to exec staff, not the entire company? Perhaps a BCC, or maybe just wants the execs to set an example?

Ha, I did have hassio running on a pi, but it killed the SD card twice. Apparently a common issue just due to to the volume of writes...

I'm using an Acer laptop that must be 15 years old for pfsense, never misses a beat, built in UPS! I've got a second laptop, a MacBook air from 2012 running a bunch of containers for Plex, hassio, etc. Works fine. I've got it all in a 19" rack I built out of wood. World's cheapest homelab. Haven't changed it in years.

Not just startups[1]. AWS, among others I'm sure, have at least attempted to turn this man's intuition into a little yellow box and an algorithm. Scaling to many thousands of machines at once, instead of just the ones he happens to touch.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/monitron/

I previously worked in this space and have a fair bit of experience optimising AWS spend for customers.

Cool idea! I see the pain point you are addressing here is friction in the marketplace, rather than simply cost optimisation? Traditionally the use of standard RIs was a pain, due to the inflexibility of moving between instance families. And the fact that the marketplace requires a US bank account which made it a no-go for non-US customers.

However, these problems were addressed first through the use of convertible RIs. Which allow exchange of instance types, but can't be sold on the marketplace (from memory). But, to be honest, they were still a pain to manage. You needed a good cost person, or a good TAM to keep on top of the required conversions. So, secondly, savings plans were introduced. I generally recommend compute savings plans these days, as they are much more set and forget, though I acknowledge provide less discount than standard RIs. My personal opinion is that EC2 based RIs will probably be deprecated by AWS at some point in the future. For this reason I don't think its likely they'll release this automated marketplace as a feature in future.

I work almost exclusively with enterprise customers and see very little use of standard RIs these days, which given the marketplace angle I'm assuming is the only purchase option you are working with? Are you doing zonal or regional scope? But if you can find an angle that means customers can make more efficient use of standard RIs all the power to you, that is a win!

Recommendation wise, the native tools (Cost Explorer and the CUR) can deliver reasonable recommendations that are good enough for most customers. Especially when using more flexible purchase options like compute savings plans the need to be super accurate just isn't there anymore.

I'm not familiar with Hetzner at all. But it seems they are running a single self managed VM to serve these updates globally, and then comparing that to the cost of egress on a globally distributed content delivery network? What am I missing here? This is not the same thing. Nevermind the fact that AWS is an ecosystem with hundreds of products working in tandem to deliver solutions not just EC2.

Yes, one of the core benefits of a provider like AWS is that they provide tooling to treat individual instances as immutable entities that you simply replace without any interruption to your users. You should focus on expressing the infrastructure as code and using mechanisms like ASGs to roll out new instances based on the latest Amazon provided AMIs.

I'd be curious to see the typical rate of hearing degradation due to age graphed against typical income growth with age that would be required to support systems of this standard. Audiophiles are synonymous with diminishing returns, but I wonder if that is even more acute with age of the listener. Super cool nonetheless.

As a non-American I'm always surprised at how quickly people are fired there. I cannot imagine such a severe action been taking in any country I've worked in, thanks to robust workers rights.

Disadvantage of this is that the DAC in the echo dot is quite low quality. On a quality HiFi it doesn't sound very good. I started with this, and then moved to an Echo Link, which allowed me to output digital and then use the DAC in my amplifier, I may upgrade to an external DAC at some point, though I suspect I may have diminishing returns here, given the source is Spotify.

Thanks. What if I purchase a home, to live in. Then I take a job overseas and move for 2-3 years. Must I sell the house rather than rent it out on a short term basis?

I don't understand how this would work. How do people rent? Obviously many people can't or do not wish to own their house for any number of reasons. Who will own houses that are rented? I used to live in Amsterdam as an expat, and rented from a landlord who owned several homes in Amsterdam. Would she not be able to own and rent these homes under this scheme?

The social housing system seemed to be abused when I was there. I had a number of Dutch friends still living in social housing places they'd rented as students on very low incomes, and were still renting 10 years later. For the same 300 euro per month, when they were now earning 6-7000 euro/month. I could never understand why this wasn't means tested continually.

I'm a hobbyist tig welder. 1-2% thoriated electrodes emit alpha particles that won't penetrate skin. It's really only a risk if you breath in a lot of the dust created by grinding the tip of the electrode to a point. That said, ceriated, lanthanated and pure tungsten electrodes are widely available.

The referenced research mentions Belchatow power plant in Poland as the most polluting of all. This was an interesting fact about efforts toward carbon capture at the plant I found. [1]

"Carbon capture initiative at the Belchatow thermal power plant PGE signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Alstom in December 2008 for the design and construction of a pilot carbon capture plant (CCP) at the latest unit of the plant.

PGE signed a grant agreement of €180m ($245m) for the installation of carbon capture, transport, and geological storage facilities in May 2010.

The project was expected to be completed by 2015, but canceled in 2013 following environmental opposition to underground storage of carbon.

If completed, it would have captured 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 a year."

I don't understand why there would be opposition to storage of carbon?

[1] https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/belchatow-power-pl...

Not OP, but I have an MSR Hubba Hubba NX that is pretty amazing. I've had several backpacking tents over the years and its my favourite.

I enjoyed this article, and had never heard of Bowie Bonds! But isn't the sharing of risk in exchange for value just the concept of a full time job in any country with labour laws?

I work for a large multinational in a country other than America. I put up with additional bureaucracy compared to the life of a freelancer/contractor because I know that A) The company has a high chance of existing in 12 months B) I won't be fired without cause. In exchange the company is provided value in excess of my wage, training and other overhead costs. How is this different?

That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I wouldn't call Cloudfront bloated. It is under featured if anything, the product has seen little change in the past few years.

Iceberg != Glacier. AWS manages to market Glacier without people expecting S3 to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic

Services that actually matter don't use this model. Over an appropriate time period AWS availability is exemplary.

However do note. Avoid us-east-1 if at all possible. Understand that despite the documentation, service control planes do not operate in isolation between availability zones. If you need higher uptime you need to have cross regional deployments. When AWS says a service is global, it actually means us-east-1 :)

Curious about this comment? Why? I've never lived in one, nor even been in one. But they look beautiful. What are the draw backs?

*Austria. Australia is 500.

Ed is an absolute legend. Can't imagine the courage it took for a 19 year old to head out into the world like that. Would highly recommend checking out his youtube channel, on which he has hours of very well edited video documenting the entire trip.