Pretty sure not sure equals, "sure!"

Some things are just regular spam. :)

(But, to be fair, I find this content really interesting and a great fit for HN.)

This made me LoL so many times. It is the best thing to come from AI.

Having a government operated emergency stock and a military with the capacity to move it is how Switzerland does it.

And we stock coffee too, not just grain. :)

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/mandatory-reserves_why...

they (the gov) also provide a calculator which shows you how much stuff you need for your household for a given amount of days :)

https://www.notvorratsrechner.bwl.admin.ch/en

This is why analog was better, easy hacks.

... so they can pivot to AI.

The new eIDs in Switzerland and the EU will allow this use case.

But are not completely anonymous and can share your browsing activity with the government. At least with the EU's system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870161

The source behind that comment doesn't verify the claim that your browsing history is being shared. Only that the app currently being developed is a temporary app for use until the full app has been finished.

In fact, the linked article links to the EU website where it is specifically stated that the final protocol will be compatible with the temporary app (the anonymous age verification protocol).

The final app will also serve as a method to identify oneself (i.e. to a police officer) but that's separate functionality from the token based authentication.

The current lack of zero knowledge proofs does pose a potential privacy issue when websites and governments work together to track you across a length of time and re-authentications, but it's not like you're inherently sharing your browser history with the government. As far as I know, the temporary app intents to implement ZKPs but ran into standardization issues, so it's not like this is an intentional shortcoming either.

Not to mention the other leading cause of outages: UPS's.

Sigh.

UPSes always seem to have strange failure modes. I've had a couple fail after a power failure. The batteries died and they wouldn't come back up automatically when the power came back. They didn't warn me about the dead battery until after...

That’s why they have self-tests. Learned that one the hard way myself.

My UPS was supposedly "self testing" itself periodically and it still happened!

Oof, sorry.

I work for a cloud provider and I'll tell you, one of the reasons for the cloud premium is that it is a total pain in the ass to run hardware. Last week I installed two servers and between them had four mysterious problems that had to be solved by reseating cards, messing with BIOS settings, etc. Last year we had to deal with a 7 site, 5 country RMA for 150 100gb copper cables with incorrect coding in their EEPROMs.

I tell my colleagues: it's a good thing that hardware sucks: the harder it is to run bare metal, the happier our customers are that they choose the cloud. :)

(But also: this is an excellent article, full of excellent facts. Luckily, my customers choose differently.)

Fortunately, companies like Hetzner/OVH/etc will handle all this bullshit for you for a flat monthly fee.

Pardon me for the low effort post, but... Duh.

I mean, what did people think would be the ultimate result of fully dematerialized, depersonalized, delocalized remote first company? Obviously there needs to be a certain rhythm of human interactions as a foundation to build remote interactions on.

At $WORK that's one week in presence with your remote team when you join, followed by one week every six months in the presence of the whole engineering team, at minimum. Exceptions to this policy are... exceptional.