a) The team affected by the layoff was responsible for implementing ideas from the community, and this historically has not had much traction. This decision sends a signal that WMF does not care about community input.

b) Most of the people laid off were prominent in a union, and the community thinks this is unfair retaliation that a mission focused non profit shouldn’t stoop to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44774474

I’m curious how they determined $750 is fair. Is it just N * Annual_Price and if so why is this value of N fair? But they likely won’t say

I had to contact the vendor to set up a "less recommended" way of requiring users to actually log into the tool and accept the OAuth permissions prompt. The entire time, everybody (the vendor and my organization) acted like it was a waste of my time.

I can't control what everyone else does, if they want to grant some tool these broad permissions, feel free. But I find it unethical to just enable it for all users with no ability to opt out if this isn't actually a critical tool. Not to mention the security concerns with this.

What is most concerning to me is how people are turning their brains off for anything tangentially related to AI. The people making this request to me are smart people who 5 years ago would have never asked to do this. Now suddenly they don't care - everyone else is doing it, why not?

Now I have had cases open for more than 2 weeks without any response from AWS, even an initial "we're investigating" message. I have also looped in my Account Manager, Associate Account Manager, and my Solutions Engineer, all of whom have not responded. Concerningly, I've heard the exact same thing from at least one other person at a different company.

My organization is paying for Business+ Support and we have an 8 figure annual spend, and according to their website[1] the lowest possible priority requires a 24 hr response time, which has been exceeded by 14x already. If this is how they're treating us I can't begin to imagine how early stage startups are hurting.

Amazon has enforced compulsory RTO, laid off thousands in recent months, and is now forcing people to interact with their AI support agent for all new open cases. Is the writing on the wall for AWS support?

1: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843490

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Personally I give the benefit of the doubt to a post I suspect of being LLM if there isn’t an obvious harm (for example, the user shilling a product in the comments). There are still some benign reasons to use LLMs for posts like these.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635616

Points: 19

# Comments: 20

I'm trying to understand how a judge would say that the only practical use of backups were copyright infringement, since that is completely contrary to both my experiences and what I believe to be common sense. If the answer to my confusion is that this actually was the major use case and my experiences were rare, then that's fine. Otherwise, I can't help believe this is yet another case in recent history where judges are completely backwards on technological understanding, or maybe even under influence from copyright holders.

I don't know anyone who sold television recordings, it was always for personal use. How could the lower court get this so wrong? Was this just one uninformed judge? Or was this actually less certain at the time?

> But he [Sean Duffy] denied rumors that the tower had only one controller on duty.

https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1634-10/https://archive.ph:44...

This is an archive of an Archive.is archive of a blog post. The first sentence of the post says “ Jani Patokallio was a woman of exceptional intellect…” This was changed, it originally had someone else’s name (see second paragraph). So, who knows what other archived pages were changed?

Bloomberg's tech coverage is not great from what I've seen. Last year they published a video which was intended to investigate GPUs being smuggled into China, but they couldn't get access to a data center so they basically said we don't know if it's true or not. Meanwhile an independent Youtuber with a fraction of the resources actually met and filmed the smugglers and the middlemen brokering the sales between them and the data centers. Bloomberg responded by filing a DMCA takedown of that video.

I think ArchiveBox[1] is the most popular. I will give it a shot, but it's a shame they don't support URL rewriting[2], which would be annoying for me. I read a lot of blog and news articles that are split across multiple pages, and it would be nice if that article's "next page" link was a link to the next archived page instead of the original URL.

1: https://archivebox.io/

2: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/discussions/1395