Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | whaleofatw2022's commentslogin

One could still plug holes.

E.x. if the data breached was not critical to legal retention requirements, the penalty is more severe. (Ofc this assumes good definition of what is critical for legal retention).

At the very least it would encourage companies to keep such data less or for shorter times to minimize damage.


Let's not forget GloFo although they are more interested in bulk at this point.mm


Global Foundries sent their EUV machine back (and paid a fat restocking fee to do it), they've stopped trying to compete at the leading edge of logic processes.

SMIC has a DUV multi-patterning 7 nm node which is already economically uncompetitive with EUV 7 nm nodes (except for PRC subsidies) and the economics of DUV only get worse further down, but at least they're trying and will certainly be the first client to use the Chinese EUV machines, whenever those come online.


> 128MB (minimum), 512MB (max from radio shack)

I think you meant KB here but now im also wondering how many MB you -could- actually scale tp and what the overhead would be due to the numbers of banks to switch between...


I fixed the mistake… thanks!


Early Hybrids used NiMH because Chevron was holding on to a lot of the patents around using Lithium Ion for the purpose IIRC.


Dangerous curiosity ask, is whether the number of folks off for Diwali is a factor or not?

I.e. lots of folks that weren't expected to work today and/or trying to round them up to work the problem.


Northern Virginia's Fairfax County public schools have the day off for Diwali, so that's not an unreasonable question.

In my experience, the teams at AWS are pretty diverse, reflecting the diversity in the area. Even if a lot of the Indian employees are taking the day off, there should be plenty of other employees to back them up. A culturally diverse employee base should mitigate against this sort of problem.

If it does turn out that the outage was prolonged due to one or two key engineers being unreachable for the holiday, that's an indictment of AWS for allowing these single points of failure to occur, not for hiring Indians.


It's more worse if caused by American engineers , not on holiday


Seems like a lot of people missing that this post was made around midnight PST time and thus it would be more reasonable to ping people at lunch in IST before waking up people in EST or PST.


More info is claiming the problem started around 9:15 the previous day, but brewed for a while. But that’s still after breakfast in IST.


Sometimes I miss my phone buzzing when doing yard work. Diwali has to be worse for that.


Seeing as how this is us-east-1, probably not a lot.


I believe the implication is that a lot of critical AWS engineers are of Indian descent and are off celebrating today.


junon's implication may be that AWS engineers of Indian descent would tend to be located on the West Coast.


North Virginia has a very large Indian community.

All the schools in the area have days off for Indian Holidays since so many would be out of school otherwise.


This broke in the middle of the day IST did it not? Why would you start waking up people in VA if it’s 3 in the morning there if you don’t have to?


I bet you haven't gotten an email back from AWS support during twilight hours before.

There are 153k Amazon employees based in India according to LinkedIn.


Missing my point entirely.


Then I missed it too because I let my Indian coworkers handle production issues after 9,10pm unless the problem sounds an awful lot like the feature toggle I flipped on in production is setting servers on fire.

My main beef with that team was that we worked on too many stories in parallel so information on brand new work was siloed. Everyone caught up after a bit but stuff we just or hadn’t demoed yet was spotty for coverage.

If I was up at 1 am it was because I had insomnia and figured out exactly what the problem was and it was faster to fix it than to explain. Or if I wake up really early and the problem is still not fixed.


Not terrible unless you are lead footing both the accelerator and brake.

Also as far as Stop and go... its typically also lower speed; wind resistance is not linear based on speed, so 'crawling' is not that bad.

Im in the US and drive a hybrid rather than an EV, that said 'stop and go' is when I will often seem an MPG -increase-, so long as I gently accelerate (in severe stop and go, just letting my foot off brake and not touching gas).

That's also some of the justification for 'mild hybrids' that have an auto stop and maybe at best a 11kW/120Nm electric motor to kick things off. If you don't drive with a lead foot they can improve efficiency (but overcomplicate things compared to Toyota HSD)

I suppose main counter condition would be in low temperature conditions; AC is fairly efficient, Heating less so, and then in severe cases the batteries need to activate their own self heaters.


We had a whiplash effect in the US.

In late 2020 and early 2021, Used car prices plummeted due to so many people trading in 2nd vehicles. I remember tire kicking a 2008 vehicle that was 2000$ then...

Whiplash on used cars started later in 2021, as people were starting to go back out more and in some cases beginning to RTO.

The combination of rising new car prices and rising interest rates in 2022 only further hurt the market. On top of that the newer cars are in many cases less reliable so people are holding on longer.

Fwiw I just double checked and For reference that same 2008/make/mileage is now more like 5000$...


Just to be Mr pedantic here, the same mileage means you have a much better vehicle 5 years later. I would add 25-40k extra miles to account for typical mileage added per year


Sorry im not following; unless it is a 'special' car, a 2008 car with 120k miles, except accounting for inflation and market dynamics, would be worth less in 2025 with the same mileage. Except of course for the factors I mentioned (as well as inflation)


Op was comparing the same mileage 5 years later. Being pedantic about an apples to apples comparison would require adding additional miles.

Sorry that was difficult to grasp I will try to be clear in the future!


PS2 had export limitations put on it by Japan. There were also rumors that Saddam was using them for a supercomputer.

I do have the odd anecdote, way back in the day, I was in a CompUSA in Dearborn MI and overheard a middle eastern guy at the counter asking if they had any PS2s. When they said no (this was a point where availability was low) instead he bought bought at least 5 (might have been 10?) PS1s.


Many fond memories at that CompUSA. Sad all those retailers are gone now.


Honestly, might have also been just to resell back home to consumers - I doubt it would’ve been easy to import, too.


I mean FWIW they could probably make those folks happy by just spitting out a list of everything to short because of ai disruption on each new release lol


Once upon a time I took an afternoon off to give a coworker a ride home when they got laid off mid day; their ride was a coworker who was required to finish his shift due to circumstances.

It was honestly rough because it was immediately raw for them however it was a good thing.

Fwiw my manager was the one who had to do the layoff and they did not have any issue with me suddenly taking the afternoon off to do the deed. That shop really tried to be as good as they could about it.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: