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We lost a mirror in n-gate that was reflecting some of the ugly faces here back at some people that really needed it.

Did the product manager look at this before it was released? We have a lot of work to do here! We need to create a sprint for optimizing it, otherwise no one will like it. Be sure to put the texel fetches in a user story. This should be top priority. Lots of users are very angry.

/s

Chill out and have some fun

50,000 requests in the span of ... 21 days? It might be interesting if it were 50 million in those 21 days (even then, 27 RPS is ... nothing). Drop a report to AWS T&S, block, drop, reject, and move on. This is like less than background noise at this point.

Edit: tamping down a bit of my prickliness because it looks like this individual is a relative newcomer to running internet-facing services. This is actually a pretty good intro to that: the place as a whole is a cesspool and any conceivable “attack”, scan, probe, pentest is, has, or will be happening at all times. Some you can mitigate yourself, others you’ll need to bring in a specialist service (see DDoS sinks and mitigation services, for example) or contact someone’s abuse address, others you just have to ignore because it’s just not directed at you personally, or just not worth more than three seconds’ thought beyond a firewall rule. This is the latter. Maybe interesting if this is the first time you’re seeing something like this, but for more grizzled operators like myself, it doesn’t even register as notable anymore.

> I don't understand why these companies automatically get a pass.

Because these companies have lots of dollars and if I treat them sympathetically enough I might get some of their dollars too.

But my local is a 8xH100, you insensitive clod!

Dozens and dozens of times. And having the bigger pipe has always saved it, along with the supporting infrastructure to churn through that traffic.

> But again, those sort of attacks seem to happen seldom

[citation needed] and direct experience suggests otherwise. The wider internet is a cesspool and you never know the inanity that will spur a bored, annoyed script kiddie with some booter credits to take it out on the local cake shop, like another commenter put it.

I think he was telling something called a joke. It's funny because S3 is expensive and they just got some money.

Give me a break. Sympathy? For microsoft? That might have flown when github was like seven people, but they have nearly unlimited resources to make it better. They're just choosing not to. Let's talk contracts and money before we pull the sympathy card.

I used to be on-call in a high-traffic environment where single customers pushed more bits than entire nations. I chose the role. I didn't want people's sympathy, if anything, I wanted them to complain to management.

If it gets too bad they can quit. Maybe that would be for the best, just wear the thing down until it outright fails and no one wants to touch it. One less bullshit service sucking all of the oxygen out.

So this is like the government attacking journalists for surfacing damning information, when in reality it's the government doing bad shit? Don't go after the interns doing the leaking, it's just easier to malign the messenger.

Then let the Banhammer of the Sanctus Capitalista strike this parrhesiastes down!

Lighten up, man. These people don't care about you, and I assure you they're not reading your comments waiting to hire you. Why should I care about them when they are doing everything in their power to make this world a worse place?

So I'm guessing that's the same $billion passed around these companies 30,000 times, then, right? If we're just pulling numbers out of thin air, I think I want to make $6723 kajillion dollars this year, and if I don't, I'm going to whine!

This shit is getting so fucking exhausting. No, you're not going to make $30 trillion. Ever. It's second-hand embarrassing how high these idiots are after huffing their own farts.

I hope it crashes and burns -hard-, and the 'wealth' of these insipid billionaire sociopaths 'leading' these operations evaporates so they're just another crank on the street corner so they're easier to ignore.

Do you even adblock, bro.

Keep on lickin' that boot, Boot. Maybe if you swallow the entire thing, he'll look your way!

They (the ones wanting to make privacy illegal) are just the ones that want to develop the tools and consume the data for it because it'll be good for their resume or some bullshit, or they're just intrinsically broken humans.

Just make them owe $134 Trillion or whatever the evaluation was years ago suggested by the RIAA for their estimation of 'damages' for music piracy. It's about as meaningful.

The biggest problem of a sTaFF eNGInEeR can be solved right away: stop writing about this crap. All of these titles are so meaningless where one organization's staff is another's junior is another's CEO, it doesn't matter because all of the organizational insanity that lead you to your coveted title means jack anywhere else. I should write a big ol' think piece from my perspective as a Senior Staff Distinguished Principal! I will get lots of clicks.

There’s literally no difference between writing about being a staff engineer versus someone writing about being a janitor. Honestly I’d rather read about the janitor, they actually make a measureable difference.

It's pathetic how hard people hold on to titles. What have you -done-? How much have you added to the bottom line?

Won't someone think of the shareholders of the oil conglomerates?

On second thought, fuck 'em.

Let 'em burn.

God, don’t tempt me with a good time, and twice, at that!

Ass-covering.

The same reason why most huge enterprises buy insane support contracts for every other piece of shitty software: support, and someone to blame when production goes pear-shaped. Because there’s no real management left anywhere, there’s no time to grow expertise internally and everyone just needs that hit of Risk Management (tm), they’ll go to whatever lengths to get it. Oracle is like the ultimate warm, fuzzy blanket where that fuzz is actually mold, it delivers the scared-shitless enterprises from having to think for themselves.

I do. The faster it happens, the faster a recovery begins and we can devote resources back to doing more practical things. Get it over with as soon as possible, rip the bandaid off, insert your idiom of choice.

It's come to a point (or has it passed it) that these numbers are completely meaningless. One hundred billion here, $750B there, $1.2T over a year or so, toss in $300B for a few hyperscalers there. There's no imaginable scenario where these are actually backed up with real profit to where the investments make sense. Just passing the same hundred dollar bill among everyone and all booking it as revenue. I can't wait until it pops.

Like another comment has mentioned, the field doesn't really lend itself to quick iterating jobs and loops and favors the long batch processes, for several reasons. Oftentimes, a structure calculation or optimization, if run using a "cheap" (computationally-speaking, say a semi-empirical or molecular mechanical) model, those can be done in seconds or minutes, sure. But for calculations that wish to approach or approximate characteristics of a structure seen in the real world, those can takes days or sometimes weeks, depending on the level of theory. There's also the interaction between different programs, or "codes" as they're called, feeding the output of one into another program to look at different phenomena, which is ideal for a batch system, especially if you are exploring a set of related structures or functionalities.

You will see a lot of similar procedures in, say, AI model training and refinement. Those depend on batch jobs as well, pretty heavily. So the batch process isn't really restricted to the weirdness of academia. My source there is actually working on the systems doing training for frontier models...

(Please forgive some of my hand-waviness or vagueness, it's been nearly 20 years since I last touched a lot of this).

But never underestimate the stupidity of an AI psychosis- suffering product manager to shoehorn it into the most batshit insane use cases in search of mOrE ENgagGeMeNt.

It doesn't. But as long as it's a vibe-coded slop product shat out by one of the tech glitterati using the latest marketing wanketeering and sucking up tokens to power the in-built AI nonsense, it'll be eaten up.

The bubble can't pop soon enough.

Same thought I had, and that is where I stopped reading. All of these looping/enumerating techniques, including the weirdness with null-terminating strings to get around the shell's inherent treatment of spacing, are muscle memory for anyone that has spent more than 27 minutes in the shell at any point in the last 30 years. Yes it's weird because it's old. Deal with it. Why make yet another tool with yet another set of quirks?

NO FUN ALLOWED on srsbznz hacker news!

This is going to just run up against the insanity that is tokenmaxxing every moment of the day. When people are incentivized (upon pain of firing) to get the LLM to vomit out as much as possible, they're hardly going to stop and ponder if schlepping the slop over the wall is acceptable if the alternative is a pink slip.

Which is going to win?

This and "How I learned to stop worrying and love ___". I can't identify what grinds my gears so much about it, perhaps it's the laziness.

What is even the point of having 2FA if it can be so trivially bypassed? Isn't that the whole point that it's sort of a last line of defense? Oftentimes, you can't change simple account settings without having to re-auth and then punch in your code again. Why would something as critical as a suspicious password reset be able to jump ahead of that? Mind boggling. But, I guess that's what happens when you lay off 10% of your people at a time.

Way to miss the point, there.