skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is the first time I heard someone complain Amazon UI being slow. And Amazon sales or stock are not dropping.

Probably you are not part of the 99% of users that Amazon is targeting.
I guess I'm not trying to disentangle them? The past should be recognized, but there is a limit to how much accountability we can hold peoples and countries to now
Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?
They could, but why would they?
Given that they call the non-S3 linked version 'ephemeral', I'm not sure there is a plan. I think S3 is the plan.
The TB-03 provides a fairly faithful and accurate reproduction of the TB-303's sound.

The TT-303, on the other hand, despite being "circuit identical", can sound downright weird at times (as can Roland's other "analog modeling" 303 reproduction, the TB-3)

Here is a 4 way comparison of the 4 synths I just mentioned complete with waveform visualizations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8CAEUU_ics
I have doubts based on my experience with Lustre and a certain understanding of AWS operations. I'm guessing they're going for the Iranian minefield clearing technique - get a mob of kids, hand them plastic keys to heaven (or RSUs), and march them through the field.
Atlanta. Have you spent enough time in rural and low density suburban areas to warrant your skepticism? You don't tend to see much of this kind of area when you visit because it's not near anything except houses.

Plenty of people out here (most where I'm at) live in subdivisions off of highways that would be absurd to bike on, and almost nowhere in my county has sidewalks.

>Are you sure you're not just being too picky about what kind of green space qualifies for you?

There's a cemetery that shows up as green on Google maps that's a bit closer than the park I mentioned. Still not safe to walk or bike to.

You are vastly underestimating how hostile most of the US is to biking/walking.
Ask HN: Is Amazon using Hacker News for advertising its products
today almost 30% of the posts on first page of hn was from amazon.com . Is this genuine or amazon using hn for advertising over here. or is it just me being overly suspicious.
Where would I go to learn from scratch how to launch a cube sat of my own? edit: or "iphone size level similar"
These tunnels could solve the traffic problem. That is the whole point. They can be stacked to great depth to get traffic congestion to zero. People are willing to pay for this and it is only our ignorance and stupidity getting in the way of at least trying. The point of cities is that one has a huge number of people you could potentially interact with. With horrible traffic, this is not the case. With mass transit, you can only go certain places at certain times.

Just call a tunnel with automatic pods in them mass/public transit (that is what it would be) and fell good about a better future for all of us.
Is there a need for high throughput in some domain?
> Maybe something like this is why whites commit suicide so much more than blacks in America

Whites officially commit suicide more than blacks because blacks who are even slightly inclined to self-destruction find it all to easy to get into situations that produce death by means that won't officially be viewed as suicide.

> Blacks suffer in many ways but at least they're allowed to make a community just about themselves

Whites can, and do, make communities just about themselves. Now, it's true that the ones that aren't purely and nakedly about virulent racism usually do it about some more specific subset of Whiteness (like a particular national/ethnic identity like Italian or Irish, etc.), probably because Whiteness as such (in America, at least) is not a particularly strong shared experience and identity (some other racial identities, particularly Black identity, are, but largely as a consequence of extended subjugation by the broader society which deliberately destroyed other identities in the group and produced a new common shared experience.)
The clever thing to do in this scenario would be to keep every spike but delete all the data between similar data points after storing. So you get low granularity for identical/nearly-the-same data points and high granularity when something interesting happens. I don't have any experience with time-series data so maybe this is commonplace.
It's worth noting that the Teva device that's the subject of the article is what the FDA considers an 'Authorized Generic'. From the press release [1]:

>"An authorized generic is made under the brand name’s existing new drug application using the same formulation, process and manufacturing facilities that are used by the brand name manufacturer. The labeling or packaging is, however, changed to remove the brand name or other trade dress. In some cases, a company may choose to sell an authorized generic at a lower cost than the brand-name drug product."

While this is different from what common language calls a 'generic drug' [2], in some cases either kind of "generic" could, may, or must be substituted by pharmacists, depending on various circumstances and the particular state's regulatory regime [3].

This interacts with the epinephrine autoinjector market in two ways. First, there is little upside for the manufacturer of the authorized generic to make the list price significantly lower, as the list price is rarely paid by the end-user out of pocket, and frequent mandatory substitution laws cause makers of Authorized Generics to gain marketshare as long as they're slightly cheaper than the brand

Second, Authorized Generics of combination devices are only subsitutable for a corresponding brand, so different devices like Auvi-Q and Adrenaclick are technically a different market entirely: the doctor's prescription will note the exact sort of device. Therefore, while there are other epinephrine autoinjectors, the marketshare among them is decided in doctor's offices and insurance plans, rather than by direct consumer choice through the end-user's own spending.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/u... [2] https://www.fda.gov/drugs/developmentapprovalprocess/howdrug... [3] (2008) (for illustration only) https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/generic-substitution-la...
Yea, I currently count 10 articles about Amazon on the front page, with 8 of them being posted by the same user [1], who happens to be an Amazon employee. The keynote is happening, but it still seems excessive.

I've also noticed that a few other Amazon employees are popping up in the threads promoting AWS products, which seems a little shady as well.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mcrute
> all of these articles are advertisements for mundane shit

What do you think hacker news is supposed to be? Anything that isn't mundane to a lot of people isn't interesting enough for those in the target audience. Amazon is having its annual AWS conference and thus has a lot of announcements, of course they have a lot of new niche products.
that's still theoretical IIRC
I liked the example given in the book Extreme Ownership. In this case the executives recognized that two brilliant jerks were at each others throat. They vetted members in each of their respective teams, then fired the jerks and promoted those they vetted to replace them
Short code is greatly underrated. It doesn't have to be an "obtuse and clever hack", usually it just amounts to using the right tool for the job.

For example, it is impressive how much code can be simplified by just using the correct API calls.
Also, some language features are explicitly designed to address a specific problem, and yet they stay unused, even when the problem arises.

As for your two points.

- If you forget about how it works in an hour, you never knew how it worked in the first place. It can happen when you write code at random and tweak it until it passes the test. IMHO, that's the opposite of a clever hack.

- I love to see clever hacks in code I maintain. Like everyone else I start going "WTF?!" but a few minutes later, it usually turns into "oh nice, I learned something today".

To illustrate, this is the kind of code I like to read https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit . This guy's code is short, clever, takes advantage of everything the language has to offer, and still manages not to be too cryptic. Note that these are educational videos and the author spends a lot of time to get to that level. I don't expect to see that in a typical project, but that's kind of an ideal for me.
I'm aware of the Debian's Technical Committee, but I was unable to follow them all-along during that so-called discussion.

During this period, I was a developer and so-called tech lead of a Debian derivative distro. We were working on some absurd requirement about generating system responses on some events, pulling continuous all-nighters. One day systemd packages arrived to Debian (sid or testing, I don't remember), and using it solved our problem. This is how I became aware that Debian packaged systemd, and it's gonna be the next default init, that's all.

As I said before, I don't blindly support systemd or anything. I'm just using Debian for 14 years or so, and I'm riding on what comes along. I don't have time to devote serious development time to them, however I wish I was able to contribute into Debian or any serious FOSS project. Hmprhf.
Gotta love "feminism" when it represents equal rights. But yet when the very idea of alimony is "I'm a lesser woman because I married", puts to rest any idea about it being equal rights.

Say.. How many men get alimony?
Once you hit 6gb, you stop paying till you hit 15gb. After that, you're rate limited, or you can call up Fi support and have them put you at full speed and charge the usual $10/gb
Funny, I owned one. Would still use it if our dog hadn't eaten the coils.

Most electric blankets have overheat protections built into them these days, reducing the risk of fire hazards.

Aaand after some research I don't see it available anymore on Amazon or elsewhere. Interesting.
Kusto is architecturally closer to Dremel (or BigQuery). It's a columnar compressed datastore with a nice query language. Not the most efficient way to store and query timeseries data though.

Back then (internally) we actually had a lot of issues with ingesting and querying time series data at scale.
browser cache solves this problem
The cycle continues and will continue to cycle. The only proper browsing hygiene takes place between the chair and keyboard, or touch screen. Sadly, it won't change. Humans are humans.
Macroscopic states are not a complete description of physical systems and the same microstate could be part of different macroscopic states.

The thermodynamic variables are not properties of the microstate (the "physical reality"). They are properties of the macrostate, which is a model of the unknown "physical reality".

If you don't like the original phrasing, let's say that "Thermodynamical entropy is not a fundamental property of a system. It’s a property of our description of the system as a macroscopic state."
Did they just ship Trillian, or is this an AWS-exclusive design?

The webpage says they use SHA256, but it doesn't go much more into detail than that.
I'm okay with the 30-minute Wi-Fi policy, but the loud music just makes it unpleasant to be in a restaurant even for a short date/meeting/chat. If restaurants really want to make sure customers aren't staying for too long, they should just make it a matter of policy instead of ruining the experience entirely.
Another Amazon Ad?
This is exactly what re:Invent is. Most teams dream of launching a new AWS product at re:Invent (and not missing their date and launching at a later time)
Depends heavily on the state (community property vs not)

They do all have standard asset division and support/etc calculators
This is the goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97411.Letters_from_a_Sto...
Billion-dollar project nearly compromised by employee in Folsom, Intel alleges
> This sounds great but you have to factor in that up to very recently

Has that changed?

I assume you get the actual property, not just the house sitting on it. The land is what japan generally values.
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The backend has to handle all of the scale. That's where the real difficult engineering comes in and if you're using JS there, you're going to pay a huge price. It doesn't seem like many front-end JS developers understand that pulling data from different places isn't actually a hard problem but instead correctly storing and managing that data at scale is where the actual engineering happens.
I wouldn't jump the gun on this. I've been working within Amazon cloud for years and every year they make massive claims about new services at re:invent. Not saying this isn't going to be a good product, just saying it will probably take a while to be as useful as you're hoping.
I forgot to add that they have to be a good programmer!
QLDB != Blockchain. It does not use blockchain at all.
Azure Data Explorer/ Kusto is more of a database that is optimized for the log use case than a service. There is a front end tool and a lot of the use-cases are around log management, but it is database you can do general SQL or KQL things with. Time series is one of the core use-cases for it also but it has less marketing around it.
Not sure why this post is getting flagged to oblivion, but it is technically pretty interesting.

GPUs remain expensive, and their use is typically prioritized for training, and then inference is run on CPUs. This provides a cost effective way to attach GPU resources on demand to regular instances, rather than having to run dedicated GPU instances.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
Their annual conference is happening right now, where they are announcing new products.

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
How does that work for apartment buildings? Surely they don't casually demolish and rebuild massive structures made of reinforced concrete?
I got a new phone less than a month ago, and this was a reason I got an android one phone. I can just use my phone (and unrelated, Uber) when I go to India (or anywhere else so far).
Not really; there's a few substantial differences between shared objects with SONAMEs and link-time vs run-time file system names and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and /etc/ld.so.conf vs DLLs and searching PATH (starting with ".").

I don't know much about modern Windows (SxS, etc) so things may have improved there, but last I looked (a while back admittedly) DLL hell and shared object issues were in different leagues.
Yup! rust/regex has had this for a while. More recently, its error messages have also gotten a lot better, which I'm proud of!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
regex parse error:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1: (?x)
2: (?P<y>\d{4}) # the year
3: -
4: (?P<m>*\d{2} # the month
^
5: -
6: (?P<d>\d{2}) # the day
7:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
error: repetition operator missing expression
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Playground link: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Seriously, Can you give some addresses ( or Zillow web url links) of Detroit home addresses where the home prices are so cheap
In the UK, private membership clubs are a thing. I'd assume it's not just a UK thing, but I have a friend that is a member at one just to have a place to get out of the house and have a quiet place to go work. Cheaper than renting an actual office, and he doesn't need it everyday. For people that do not work from home, it is quite shocking when you realize how not-quite home can be. Primarily if you have family. Other family members "forget" you're actually working, and have no problem interrupting. Not to say in an office co-workers have no problem interrupting either, but that's a different conversation.
I wish!

CEBIT is just being replaced by multiple more targeted indirect successors. One of them being the Smart Country Convention[0] which happened last week for the first time. From what I've heard SCC has been created directly following the announcement of the changing concept of the CEBIT this year.

DISCLAIMER: I was tangentially involved with SCC via organizing a Hackathon there.

[0]: https://www.smartcountry.berlin/
They claim support by popular ML frameworks. I think that means you will be able to switch easily.
Insane, every 22 years house goes to zero value. Probably adding relatively little money can extend the life to 40-50 or so. If I'm 30 and buy a house, makes no sense to need to tear it down when I'm 52.
I get the feeling this is for important data (banking etc) so I have a feeling this is 200x cheaper than whatever else is available.
"Semiconductor industry watcher David Schor shared SciMark and C-Ray benchmarks for the 16-core Graviton. In the SciMark testing, the AWS system-on-chip was twice as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on Linux 4.14."

Yip, at 4x the core count it is only 2x as fast. I also suspect that 2x RPi's would be less power usage than one of these platforms.

But then this is it's first generation dip into this area and they will be seeing what people actually want to run and will fine-tune their custom silicon from that for version 2.

As for pricing, they need to make this more tempting so they can get the metrics they need to see what version 2 should focus upon.

What I'm wondering is would such a chip marry up with an FPGA and present a more flexible and appealing option.

[EDIT ADD] It would appear this set of tests are heavy on single threaded usage and with that, fair results and like many, got taken in on the jonalistic spin. So it's in this test effectively comparing a single core, so mentioning it is a 16 core cpu compared to a RPi, does twist how the results are viewed.
It definitely was a set of unfortunate circumstances for the author. If he was told about the messy divorce, it would have been standard procedure to get the ex-wife's side of things, especially since she had been a manager at the bar for nearly 2 decades. But I'm assuming she's dead, if she had stage 4 breast cancer in 2014. And that might have led the author understandably to think that "messy divorce", and drinking problems, was as problematic as it got.

I completely agree with you that the author still had a good point. I think his article is particularly resonant today, with the growing fear and resentment of social media oversharing, online harassment and doxxing, and even data retention (e.g. "Right to be forgotten").
I feel like three-to-four weeks may be a better minimum, but also clearly a luxury that most can't afford.

Not only are we accustomed to the two-day weekend, but there's also the rest of life to squeeze into a couple hours a day and then two days every week.

Due to strange sleeping habits, I have an extremely flexible schedule. I still put in an average of 40 hours a week, but sometimes it's nights, sometimes days, sometimes all within a couple days.

Even if I have four days left for a "weekend", I still have to account for all the things living in a modern society entail: paying bills, buying groceries, doing laundry, washing dishes, managing accounts, maintaining my house and car, mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, buying toilet paper and paper towels, etc. Sure, I can automate some of these things by way of a dishwasher, laundry services, and grocery delivery, but there's still attention required†.

Of course, and more importantly, there are the things I _want_ to do, like spend time with my wife, see friends and family, make fancy bread, tweak my home automation, sleep, and so on.

Even without a commute, all of these things fill my entire week. I think this is the source of time going by so quickly with age. The responsibility of maintaining a happy and stable life takes a good deal of maintenance. Add to that, the fact that I now require 6-8 hours of sleep when 4-5 used to be plenty for me, and the fact that we want to start a family, and I don't think 2 days a week will _ever_ cut it.

> I often likewise waste time on nights and weekends

Although it wasn't clear in my wording, I don't actually feel this time is truly wasted. The brain and body require time off and I'm more than happy to oblige.

† I have a note on my Instacart account that says "please use your best judgement - never call me unless you can't get to my front door"
If you look a couple years out, if there's an a2, etc. there are a few things that could notch up performance. There's the 7nm process (unless Amazon's a super early user of it like Apple--seems unlikely), there's newer ARM IP, and they could have accelerators off to the side for compression and public key crypto, as the Seattle chips were planned to do.

I don't think the goal of ARM server chips should be core-for-core near-parity with Intel big cores anytime soon, because those have much bigger die area and power needs, so you potentially pay in number of chips per wafer, yields, density, and power use. Instead you keep something reasonably small, try to get single-thread perf good _enough_ for a chunk of apps, and try to provide much better cost per unit throughput.

(They could also go for efficiency improvements to further cut power-related costs or make up for more consumption by faster cores. These seem far-out but theoretically: mobile-like big/little arrangements so light loads use even less power, or boxes with low-power RAM, or (least far-out) more of their Nitro IP moved onto the SoC. Who knows, just saying it's a wide-open design space.)

If this takes off enough for Intel to really pay close attention (not a certainty!), they do have their own cool scale-out experiments in Xeon D (an SoC Facebook originally wanted with relatively few cores and low clocks, with some SKUs including compression/crypto acceleration) and their Atom server chips. Getting something good and Intel responding with something better isn't the worst possible result.
The closest café to me is a 'concept café' being run by a local coffee roaster. I'll often go <2 hours before close and grab a coffee, tip well, and sit until close. Some days if I wasn't there it would be empty, so I'm pretty sure having my body in the café brings more people through the door.

The problem with that café is their hours miss both the before-work rush, and the after-work rush, with them closing shop at 6pm. You have to be _open_ to take money.
Amazon could leak your secrets stored in Secrets Manager, or KMS.

ACM could leak your private keys.

EC2 hypervisor could have a 0day that allows China to steal all your data.

CloudTrail could drop audit logs.

At some point, you have to trust the company who's software you're using. Sure Amazon could easily drop the last N transactions, but what motivation do they have to do so? What behavior in the past makes you think this wuold happen?
No sure if it could be faster than react but you can check what is accomplishing by reading this:

https://www.telerik.com/blogs/first-look-angular-ivy

Or watching this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxknqPOWms&feature=youtu.be...
Meet Google Fi
There have been a lot of amazon links this week
Writing down what you need to work on the next day in a list has been very helpful for me.

I usually pair this with Pomodoro technique if the items are programming related.

If they are management related, I usually use some form of GTD to ensure that I am on top of things.