skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the cost of DynamoDB (and other components) compares to other options that you considered, especially at scale? Would economics works with the same architecture say at 100X scale?
The whole idea behind WinHEC early on was that Microsoft was guiding hardware manufacturers to the plug and play standard.
The Tron man's biker shorts ripped right in the crotch, and they're rushing to repair the split in his pants.
Good luck Muneeb! It's always nice to see a fellow Pakistani doing great things.

I particularly have to give you props on all the effort and investment required to be the first SEC qualified token offering. The vertical has been dominated by bad headlines and bad players, so this legitimacy is a great step forward, and you guys are trailblazing here. Highly commendable.
part of me wishes it was the fediverse

part of me hates the idea
"rationalization that works for all kinds of terrible things?" This isn't a concentration camp, it's ads at the bottom of a page that you can choose to ignore, either by literally ignoring them or installing an ad blocker.

I work for an advertiser and believe it or not I know people who directly benefited from some of the ads. There's bad ads, even "terrible" ads, but in the end they're just ads.
And their status page is finally reflecting it: https://status.twitterstat.us/
This kind of makes sense in the same way that AirBnb does. There are more users looking for work than employers looking to hire, just like there are more tourists looking for cheap accommodations than landlords willing to rent their space. The platform will cater to the group with the higher bargaining power.

However, the surveillance just seems like an absurd waste of resources. The author quotes $400 for the job, why does it matter how many hours it takes them? If you think $400 is too much, then bid on the project.
Yeah, I'm sure it's all a big coincidence. If someone was targeting them all I'm sure the effects would be entirely different.
LVT and VAT are considered effective because they're hard to dodge and easy to collect.

They pose major problems in terms of tax fairness though. The reason for this is that VAT efects the poorer disproportionately (poor people spends almost 100% of their income, while richer people won't spend a larger fraction of their revenue) while LVT targets the middle class (AKA those that don't have enough capital to diversify their assets and invest beyond their home).
We'll have to do our own jokes.
Let's see. according to https://www.lifewire.com/megabytes-for-one-minute-conversati... , VoIP takes around 240 kb/minute, which is about 10GB/month.

Lowering quality and simply not recording when no one talks, should bring that seriously down, say 1GB/month.

Which is a lot today,but prices are falling rapidly.

If it's mandatory by law, implementing it in hardware would make sense, which will also lower the battery drain.

I don't like what I'm saying here, but recording and sending everything by law seems technically viable on the near future to me.
Often, yes? Idlewords had a good post about this a few years ago: https://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm
Trump mute US support for Hong Kong in exchange for progress in the trade war
Mastodon, in my case.
Twitter is down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414407
Guess for some media outlets - it's going to be a slow news day.
cool- I guess there is some concept of a snapshot/diff to show you the before and after?
Literally 0 negative consequence.
>Tesla vehicles disengage the high voltage contactors when an accident is detected.

Great! Is there a visual indication that has occurred (see for example F1: https://www.racecar-engineering.com/tech-explained/f1-2014-e...). If not,

>You still don't want to cut through parts that can't be de-energized (ie do not push through the floor pan into your energy storage system).

You're right! That's why these things are standardized and labeled (http://www.solotogrouptravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/...)

>There is also a "first responder cut loop" which does the same, similar to the mentioned "RESCUE" lever on an aircraft cockpit.

The point isn't the function it's the labeling. As noted in other discussions (https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-teardown-by-engineering-f...) of the model 3...there are no externally visible markers of where to cut until you open or remove panels and the markings themselves are unclear. The front first responder loop requires a 12V battery be connected to the vehicle if the frunk won't open under vehicle power.

None of this is about whether or not such systems exist...all of this is about the design and indication necessary of those systems in emergency situations. All F1 cars have different manufacturers...but they all have the same iconography and processes for disarming potentially energized systems (e.g., put the car in neutral, put out a fire, check if car is electrically safe). That commonality means it is easy to train first responders AND for first responders to know what to/not to do in an emergency.
This analogy fails with the holster — as it is an explicitly deactivated state more aptly comparable to the voice assistants being muted/off.

Maybe you would be less surprised if the gun went off because you were waggling your finger inside the trigger guard rather than methodically squeezing it. The solution might be a higher trigger pressure threshold — akin to a more accurate voice trigger.
I prefer mmorpg.social.
Regardless of the intent in this case. Don’t connect your personal iCloud account to your work computer.
While I prefer my languages statically typed, if you're going to use a dynamically typed language, Racket is far superior to Python.
I run deadinsi.de. Hi.

(please don't join if you're a bad person)
Where is twitter when I really need it? :D
I can believe that, but NYC is just as bad, maybe even worse, isn't it? Seems like "out of the frying pan into the fire".
Down on a plain Thursday with no major news or anything , so definitely doesn't look like a infrastructure spike or anything.

Could be bad deployment or someone decided to pull few plug(s)
Isn‘t Shopify a Fastly customer? Do they still use Cloudflare?
Nobody's asking why they're attractive to finance though. These ads pay for themselves on a cost-per-click level. It isn't views that makes the money off these ads, it's clicks. That means that people are clicking on them. What's more, people continually click on them, which implies that they are getting some sort of benefit from them.
I dunno about everyone else, but 90% of my email is things like automated alerts, team mailing lists, etc.

I reply to maybe 1% of my actual email, and I can't filter it for the once in a never that its THE WORLD IS ENDING, and they need a response.
Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) kills 1/1000 people w epilepsy/year
Ah, twitter politards.

The true deplorables.
Looks like an interesting push to build up a new community. Based upon the general tone of the pitch it seems to be directed more at freelancers, though I imagine that could change. I'm not personally a fan of slack, so I'll pass, though best of luck with the experiment.
Thank You.

1. Do you see the Market for shopify apps growing? Any indications would be helpful from your experience.

2. Best way to get started on Shopify apps for developers?
Python Is Eating the World
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20410756.
In a slightly better alternate universe it stays down.
Various reasons usually boiling down to an obscene cost of living. For most of the other major cities in the US (excluding maybe NYC, Boston, Seattle, DC) a salary doubling wouldn't make you whole for a move to the Bay Area.
WiFi calling is supported on iOS devices across carriers and without T-Mobile making os level modifications.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204039
Thanks. We'll merge that thread into this one.
> So that the phones don't randomly shut off because their lithium ion batteries were old. Yes, they should have told people but it wasn't done maliciously.

"old" - they were less than two years old. They were used up significantly faster than on other phones because Apple was pulling more power to get better benchmarks. This significantly lowered their lifetime and then "forced" them to make phones slower than advertised way before normal lifetime ended.
Definitely your second point, although it's worth noting that mobile authentication apps are still weak (although not as weak as just a password) to remote phishing attacks where security keys aren't.

Mobile authentication apps rely on the user only typing that code into the right website—and people suck at noticing if they are on the wrong site. Right now, this is mostly only a problem with spear-phishing as most don't bother, but if 2FA becomes too popular, they'll start to adapt.

Security keys, on the other hand, get the host directly from the browser. This means they should be safe even if you fall for a phishing attack.
Note: Mastodon isn't the best thing to call it, it's the Fediverse and Mastodon is one piece of it.

There's also Pleroma and Misskey.
Looks at folder marked "projects" in dread
I'm counting three in these comments so far :)
Will you be opening your documentation and legals (where possible), so that others might follow a similar regulatory path with the SEC?

Thanks
Are there actual money set aside? Could checks holders bankrupt Donald Knuth in coordinated action?
And here I am thinking I got suspended again because ~right-wingers~ lame people report every comment they don't like.

FTFY. In my experience both sides of politics have weak minded people that can't experience critical thinking.

ETA: Awesome. The downvotes and "flagged" status are great to support my statement. Thanks for the fish!
I have to disagree to an extent about the "war machine" bit. This is about a toilet, not a torpedo. Every boat at sea needs a toilet; this is a basic need for supporting human life unless you want to have people relieving themselves over the deck railings (which of course isn't even possible on a submarine).

If you have to have a specialist flush a toilet for you, the design is bad.
I've scraped a lot of tech news from twitter if anyone needs it https://uptopnews.com/
I'd say Racket is a general purpose multi-paradigm language that is well designed.

Good for use cases where you otherwise might find code written in JavaScript, Python, Clojure or Ruby.

You can do web development with Racket
https://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/

One thing that makes Racket somewhat special is that it can be used to build your own languages (e.g. domain specific languages) with it as it comes with the tools and a community that has experience in it.

https://beautifulracket.com/

There also is a great introduction to programming online course with Racket by Gregor Kiczales https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x
There's tabletop.social if you favor the offline kind.
Pretending you're based in Switzerland or some other tax haven to avoid local sales tax gives you a massive advantage over national companies.
What does jailbreaking phones have to do with updating them?
Driver status aside (no idea how to judge that), stats for regular vehicles rarely include only less than 5 years old, premium cars. A 15 year old unmaintained clunker is probably more likely to catch fire in case of an accident. I would imagine that considering models from the same years and same price range might paint a different picture.
I wish I could upvote your comment more than once. We need to find new revenue models or else help remind readers that advertising does not (or at least should not) affect editorial except as a means to fund it. Like I said in another post, the chum at the bottom of a news story is no worse than the garbage in the back of pop-sci.
It should. And if it were just that, then we'd not have this conversation at all.
This is a very specific law targeting specific economic activity.

When it comes to B2B VAT is inconsequential for Amazon. Amazon is only affected by VAT when Amazon is the seller of a physical product to a consumer. Otherwise there's literally no impact on Amazon.
Racket also supports several statically typed languages... look up Turnstile, Typed Racket, and Hackett
As a Twitter-junkie, I find this depressing.
Convenience outweighs infinitesimal downside
Reddit too :(
http://archive.is/8qW4B
What are the best library's for data science in Racket?
-Finding it hard to step away from Julia when operate on a amazing large data file and not kill the CPU.

How about packages to convert Racket to WASM?
Hi Muneeb, curious to take your take on the following: (1) main reason dapps haven't found an audience yet (2) if you see a way forward through 'hybrid' architectures, say like coinbase but for non-financial applications?
but where are we gonna go to get live status updates on the issue??
No. The internet is in a box and Jenn broke it.
Since we're talking about Racket, don't forget that it's RacketCon this weekend: https://con.racket-lang.org/
> Steve Jobs famously cared a lot about user experience, security and reliability. Remember that Apple under his leadership took a firm stance and loudly and publicly refused to allow Flash on its devices, despite the fact that many websites back then relied on Flash.

A less generous take on that would be that he/Apple also wanted to push their app store. At the time Flash was popular for publishing apps and games on the web. Yes their decision helped move everyone away from Flash but it also meant they would be getting their 30% cut from iOS apps.

Edit: I stand corrected. "While originally developing iPhone prior to its unveiling in 2007, Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs did not intend to let third-party developers build native apps for iOS, instead directing them to make web applications for the Safari web browser." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)#iOS_SDK
Does it? Amazon chose NYC because it wanted to be in NYC.

The whole point was to show what the movers and shakers actually think of Middle America and every culturally irrelevant place on this continent. It succeeded.

Were any of those places whoring for yield ever in the running?

No.
Ask HN: Math books for someone who barely knows High School math?
Mercury is in Retrograde through July 31.
> Unrelated, but for some reason the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream" just popped into my head

That phrase was coined by Harlan Ellison in his classic scifi short story to represent a situation of complete despair and powerlessness.

I don't think a lack of Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook or Gmail -- however inconvenient -- would fill me with that kind of existential dread :)
I don't know if Python is the best tool for the job, but with modern tooling it is leagues better for complex applications than old python.

https://trio.readthedocs.io is an extremely good python concurrency library based on the model of Structured Concurrency (https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...).

The typing issues are far improved in current Python with annotations and attrs/dataclasses.
Nice to get some articles on product management on HN.

Biggest issue I've seen in different companies with hiring pm is not really about choosing them but more about empowering and trusting them when they start working.

If you assess them on being a product manager, and then ask them to do project management stuff it is a lost of time
Quick un-release it and rerelease after it's up!
The main reason I don't use Shopify is the merchant fees. I can do better paying a developer to WooCommerce. and we have a pretty good system for doing all the patches and everything and haven't had any security problems or anything like that. and if I'm not happy with my hosting or with some feature I can just change myself. I don't depend on this other company which has already done a few things that were kind of heavy-handed in my view.
I was also under that impression until the Cloudflare event happened. I do not actually know what their dependency was, but all shops were taken offline.
Beautiful Racket 1.6
But it seems there is this general problem with long term strategy that led to the board configuration misevaluation.
It's probably a Belgian television news item that initiated this, was all over the news today. +1000 clips were leaked to the reporter, who found some addresses in the clips, and went to these locations to confront the people living there.
They also had some Google employees anonymously speaking about the things they hear: identifiable information, private conversations or actvities...
Nothing shocking really, if you are a bit into IT stuff, but apparently most people aren't.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2019/07/10/google-luistert-mee/
give radical.town a try : it has a gif picker that most mastodon instances have not.
I didn't get into Clarity in my summary above but really into the decidable smart contract language design. The reason I didn't mention Clarity is because most programs on Blockstack are not smart contracts. We think that smart contracts are only a subset of use-cases and should only be used when needed vs. making smart contracts the only way to program decentralized apps.

For any readers that are intrigued by what is Clarity, it's Blockstack's smart contract language that is different in two mains ways:

a) Clarity is a decidable language i.e., it is intentionally Turing-incomplete. This allows for complete static analysis of the entire call graph of smart contracts.

b) Clarity is interpreted. The contract source code itself is published and executed by blockchain nodes i.e., no compiler.

More details on Clarity are here: https://blog.blockstack.org/introducing-clarity-the-language...
https://www.pcworld.com/article/155984/worst_tech_prediction...
I never notice problems when I don't know about that, so I wish I hadn't read that. :)
While I'm impressed with racket on the whole, I can't quite agree to be impressed by the GUI bits. They're extremely limited, and once I got away from "how do I put a button on the screen" I didn't find the underlying implementation lent itself to being extended. In particular the drag and drop system only goes as far as file drops, and I quite quickly hit a brick wall trying to add anything more interesting.
It will, but it'll not be above what the market is willing to bear.
Right now digital services are charged at the level that a market can bear, but only digital services are the ones that don't get taxed.

To make stuff fair - you'd have to cut all other taxes or institute this one.

(I'd prefer no taxes, but that's never going to happen)
The main differentiator between Amazon and everyone else continues to be Prime. Having people paying $120/year to come back and shop on their site is an advantage that nobody can compete with. Shopify could try and compete by creating a similar membership service, and perhaps they will, but at this point I'm skeptical it would gain much traction. The main reason people use Prime is to buy commodity goods with fast free shipping. In this case I'm defining commodity goods as those where the supplier isn't that important and the alternative is driving to a local store and buying the same thing.

Shopify is almost at the other extreme: the sites that sell goods on its platform must differentiate themselves with niche offerings and consequently, I'd bet that the average Shopify customer makes purchases a lot less frequently than the average Amazon customer. People shop on those sites because the local stores don't have what they are looking for.

Another reason I'm a bit skeptical about the "Shopify is a threat to Amazon" narrative is that at a certain scale it seems that stores would leave Shopify and just manage their own websites and inventory. So Shopify is sort of a business incubator that is extremely valuable when a business' scale is limited. But the few that become huge hits would likely leave to save transaction costs, so Shopify would lose that business.

Totally agree with the Wal-Mart analysis though. They seem to be all over the place. I sometimes wonder why Wal-Mart doesn't at least try to start a subscription service. They would definitely have to undercut Amazon on price and eat losses for a while, but I don't understand the idea of advertising a no-subscription required model when that model clearly works so well for so many other businesses. The most obvious issue is that they are at a huge disadvantage in distribution center build-out, but why couldn't they start regionally in a couple of densely-populated areas and expand from there? Price the service aggressively and maybe give members discounts on groceries or other in-store products, an area where Wal-Mart has a massive advantage over Amazon.
I don’t see why this is an either or situation. You could do both.
Quite honestly, I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the fact that there are way too many layers of abstractions between the browser requests coming in and a cpu actually executing something to serve the request.
Moons that escape their planets could become ‘ploonets'
I posted the question on Slack "How do you spread the word when Twitter goes down?" People thought that was so hilarious... until they realized Twitter was actually down.

Honestly, "Hacker News" was my answer which seems to be effectively correct -- and today I learned about the existence of twitterstat.us!
I guess in that sense Microsoft really did their homework. Apart from niche usage, good Hardware support seems everything for an OS...
they should have thrown up the fail whale for old times sake
Hey man. I think you know the answer already - there is no way to make sure about it. It's the same questions as "How can I make sure that my software is not hackable". But are you going to live without any digital devices, probably not. Change your router password periodically, unplug devices when you don't use them, put tapes on cameras or deactivate them if not needed...I hope we can all own our own privacy. Unfortunately, it's impossible if you want to live in the modern society.
I remember once we were at three outages, someone posted that they thought three was a reasonably-sized random cluster given the rate at which services go down. How many outages have we had in the last 30 days, how many do we have per month on average, and how strongly can we reject the null hypothesis?

The formula for computing how unlikely this is is the Poisson distribution: `λ^k * e^-λ / k!`, where λ is the average number of outages every 30 days and k is the number of outages in the past 30 days. If you find the numbers, let me know what the answer is.
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Good question. At 100x, probably not. At 10x, yes would be better than managing services on our own. By that time, we would have a better prioritized list of which services to self-manage and which ones to leave to AWS. Are you specifically concerned about DynamoDB for some reason?
A comment made before by another user about Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outages offers an interesting perspective:

"This outage coincides with FBs PSC (performance summary cycle) time. I wonder if this is folks trying to push features so they get “impact” for PSC."[1]

I wonder if the recent outages on other well known services could be heavily influenced by a similar phenomenon. If this holds water, it would be interesting to have an article or study around this issue. I certainly would be interested in reading it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350579
This is the one site outage that might actually be a good thing for the world.
There’s a conspicuous lack of anything like “we ask permission to save data at setup time and don’t store anything unless the user clicks Yes.”
Idea is to prevent the Zoom Software from ‘repairing’ the ‘damaged’ app by overwriting it with the malware.

I would also set the ‘user immutable’ flag. If you want even better, set the ‘system immutable’ flag (see ‘man chflags’)
The market already rewards Google for their services by the absurd amount of money they make. The government is generally not in the business of rewarding businesses for their services.