Incident link: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KXXDNEAKEPRGFM661SBJJAM6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968762

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Remote: Yes - Sweden, EU, or international

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitOps, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, IoT, distributed systems

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: tomass@tomalaci.com

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Senior/Lead Platform Engineer and backend developer with 12+ years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, IoT fleet-management platforms, and infrastructure automation.

Recent work includes platforms managing 10,000+ distributed energy devices, telecom monitoring systems processing tens of millions of data points across millions of devices and sensors, and Kubernetes/GitOps platforms spanning AWS and private data centres.

Strongest in architecture and hands-on implementation: backend services, telemetry ingestion, time-series data, developer platforms, CI/CD automation, reliability, and cost-aware infrastructure. I have led small engineering teams, established engineering practices, and improved release frequency from weekly deployments to several releases per day.

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Interested in Senior, Lead, Staff, or early-stage founding/platform engineering roles. Open to permanent employment or B2B contracts through my Swedish company, Tomalaci Systems AB.

My main issue with Arch was that after installing and trying stuff it left OS dirty even after package removal. This might be because I had some things built and installed through AUR (e.g. latest mpv releases that sometimes broke). Eventually I went back to latest Windows 11 build wanting easy no-bs setup.

Of course, then MS decides to shove down half baked AI integration that somehow used half my RAM and randomly slowed my CPU. I am guessing it was busy indexing, searching or security-scanning something.

Got increasingly annoyed by Microslop and tried NixOS. Bumpy ride initially but after committing for few weeks I am finally settling on it be the last OS I need.

Revealing optimizations similar to these would pretty much reduce their competitive position.

There is also AVIF format which is newer and better but it needs to still mature a bit with better support/compatability.

If you are hosting images it is nice to use avif and fallback to webp.

I find that to be the best balance between challenge and learning something new. You will mentally burn yourself out if you keep bashing against the wall for hours or more, not quite a healthy thing to do :)

Meanwhile, people who actually try to compete on this stuff have already developed rich library of specialized algorithms to leap ahead of average programmer. Well, I guess nowadays a lot of it is LLM assisted too.

Like it or not but I feel like account logins, PII and payment stuff will have to be handled by central big orgs. Ideally, I would like that to be a competent open-source government service. For now it is big companies like Google that can shove its SSO around in accessible manner to other sites.

My point is that, even though we might find even more ways to improve/modify our bodies, they will come with slew of risks that are just not worth it if you can achieve it naturally.

On another note, I feel like there is severe muscle inflation in media which would distort how fit a person should be. You really do not need to kill yourself in the gym or hop on a some reddit-approved juices to get very fit. Just gotta experiment and find a comfortable full body workout that you can do consistently, like you brush your teeth every day.

That doesn't mean they are completely out of modern stuff but you just dont see it being used on frontlines anymore.

What is happening, however, is the rapidly developing drone warfare which is becoming terrifyingly efficient to conduct warfare in. I dont think we are far off from fully autonomous kamikaze drones at mass produced scale, at dirt cheap price.

It pretty much makes a lot of previously developed modern missiles or even defense systems (e.g. patriots) useless due to how cheaply and effectively you can launch kamikaze drone swarms.

The nice thing about latter is that the bandwidth, DDoS or other load-related issues aren't that much of a problem. Server maintenance also isn't a problem as you don't have any.

If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it is a Russian spy.

[0] https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Russia-linked-cable-cut...

That would put real consequences on users misusing platforms. Even a small fee for misbehavior would likely curtail vast swathes of bad actors. It would also make companies be less trigger-happy with their bots if such are allowed to operate in that ID framework (i.e. an identifiable bot being punished would be a fee subtracted from the company that uses it).

I pretty much expect that kind of system in the future, otherwise we will just return back to private networks and private communities.