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> Mild correction, but AWS lambdas are limited to 15 minutes of execution

Whoops that's what I meant

> Lambda can have 1,000-3,000 concurrent burst invocations for most of the popular regions and 500 for others[1]. Are you saying that's not enough?

No, that's plenty for most use cases. I'm referring to "cold starts". When you haven't used a lambda function in a while, it takes a few seconds for it to get going. But when you hit it a second time, it responds more quickly.
>They certainly aren't capable of doing magic tricks like writing an app for you.

It's the money-men that need to realize it. Practitioners know that it's simply rebranded statistical methods. The usage is exactly the same. That said, some of the things these guys offer are useful; but branding it as "AI" is another story.

By the way, is SoftBank going to implode, or what?
If you started your filings in December of last year, right about now is when your public disclosures hit.

Why December? Because if you made less than a billion dollars in calendar year 2018 and filed in that year, you can carry over your "small business" (I don't remember the exact name) status to 2019. Under the JOBS act, qualifying businesses aren't required to disclose executive compensation and a bunch of other stuff.
Here's the meat and potatoes:

> We have experienced significant growth, with our revenue increasing from $84.8 million in 2016 to $134.9 million in 2017 and to $192.7 million in 2018, increases of 59% and 43%, respectively. As we continue to invest in our business, we have incurred net losses of $17.3 million, $10.7 million, and $87.2 million for 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2019, our revenue increased from $87.1 million to $129.2 million, an increase of 48%, and we incurred net losses of $32.5 million and $36.8 million, respectively.

Compared to the numbers we've seen for recent tech IPOs, being on track to lose about $72M for 2019 seems reasonable.

Also, haven't read through it all but I'm curious how strong this clause will be for future control:

> The dual-class structure of our common stock will have the effect of concentrating voting control with those stockholders who held our capital stock prior to the completion of this offering, and it may depress the trading price of our Class A common stock.
Well, revenue of ~$130M, net loss of ~$37M. They aren't bleeding money like Uber or WeWork. You can imagine many ways they could close that gap, and in fact, the ratio has improved over the last few years.
Zoom and Twilio as well.
There is not a finite amount of screen space there, scrolling lists exist.
> For all those people asking why the VCs did not catch this: what sort of diligence would you do?

I mean, it claims to do 80% of the work to create an app in an hour. I'd have them demonstrate that - "OK, have it generate one for this random concept I just came up with" - and provide the resulting code for an independent developer to look at.

If the answer is "that'll take a week", there's your tell.
It's inaccurate to say that GE outsourced all their engineering. That's not true at all. GE Aviation is a powerhouse and their engineering abilities is still world class. Despite all of China's advancements, creating engines like the type GE Aviation created is still beyond their reach (although they will eventually catch up).

GE Power made a bad bet against renewables and went with gas but that's a business mistake, not an engineering one. They recently hit a milestone with one of their biggest wind turbines. So they're slowly fixing themselves. This is again a management error, not a lack of engineering abilities.

GE Healthcare is still a leader in their field and also VERY valuable (along with Aviation, these two parts are the best parts of GE).

What the problem for GE is that they've saddled themselves with financial engineering and moved away from their core competency to generate the numbers they want. At one point that made a lot of sense because it enabled their customers to make those large capital investments but then GE managers started using GE financial engineering to smooth over earning reports. Anyone remember when GE was the darling of Wall Street? GE was touted as this well managed firm that gave steady dividends. Well part of that steady dividend and growth came from these financial engineering methods and rather opaque accounting practices (to be fair other companies did similar things).

I can't tell you if GE is a good investment or not. I am long on GE but this new report is pretty damning but as someone pointed out, the person behind the report is far from neutral. Then again, having followed GE for so long (I was long on them starting 2008, sold it all before the plunge, and now long again), there are no real neutral voices in this debate. This though is the fault of GE management, which is not as transparent as they should be.
How to know when unrelated domains are actually part of the same site is a hard problem. The Public-suffix List approach works okay-ish for cookies, but no one's really happy enough with it to trust for riskier features, and it doesn't help organizations with multiple names (apple.com and icloud.com, google.com and youtube.com, facebook.com and fb.com, etc). As that example list shows at least two major browser vendors have a vested interest in making this work while preserving security.

One conversation-starter folks are discussing is https://github.com/mikewest/first-party-sets
Do you generally look down on everyone who needs a job, or just the ones who need a job and are old?

I’m 45. I stayed at one company way too long until I was 35 and didn’t get aggressive about my career until 10 years ago.

If you can't find work as a senior, and your options are junior or not working, which would you choose?

In 2019, in many major cities in the US - including Atlanta where I live - an experienced developer looking for a job is such a rare breed that you have to fight off recruiters. In the last 10 years it’s never taken me more than a month to find a job at whatever level I was at at the time (I was an “expert beginner” in 2009). I’m not a special snowflake, I’m just a bog standard “Enterprise Developer”

Shame on those not as lucky, extroverted, or with the same opportunities as you, eh?

I graduated from a no name college in a small town in 1996. What “great opportunities”?

The last thing anyone has ever called me is “extroverted”, I did what I had to do because I didn’t want to be at the age I’m at now without having the optionality of changing jobs.
One upside (and I'm just completely ignoring the fact that this is all thanks to spiraling climate change for a second)

This may make monetizing their insane amount of geo-thermal energy easier, perhaps?

https://time.com/4844086/geothermal-energy-iceland-deep-dril...

With the Ice melting off, it would be fair more stable to tap the country (ironically enough) for its green energy potential. I know there's a fair amount of energy intensive manufacturing that has been moved here for that alone. If they were able to extend long sea cable this would make for extremely cheap server farms too.
Softbank implode? Why?
Until recently I thought part of WeWork’s allure was they were a real estate play underneath the office value add.

Incredible to me this isn’t the case and they have this type of status. Especially with the recent “exposé” showing the CEO owns some of the buildings WeWork is leasing from.
Will the GPIO pins include the hardware SPI, I2C, or UART pins?

I'm excited about the extra compute available from the RPi4, but obviously the CM4 isn't out yet.
Your first point is actually part of my point- the fact that they have a single password means excluding people on the outside is basically impossible. If someone has a lease at WeWork but then leaves there's no way to keep them off the network without changing the password for everyone. Since the password is really simple (like, "easy to guess" simple), and since it's possible that people have shared it publicly, their network is not that far away from just being an open wifi network.

And yes, we did setup a VPN for all of our employees to use while we were in the WeWork office. I don't think that changes my point that the WeWork network is not setup well at all.
I mean, we're talking about amazon here... In a David vs Goliath situation always pay more attention to the side that has nothing to lose (hint: not amazon). Should you listen to these Ambassadors™️ or to the thousands of current/ex amazon employees expressing things that are going in the complete opposite direction ?
>They are building for a world in which everyone is location-and-asset-independent. Don't need a car because we have Uber/Lyft. Don't need a home as we have Airbnb. Don't need an office as we have WeWork. Etc.

It’s easy to look at current trends and extrapolate from there but when I think of Wework, I am reminded of the time when selling ones home and moving to a shared boarding house was commonplace. Trends reverse, often quite quickly.
> I am just going to drop The We Company’s org chart here because it honestly leaves me speechless...

Indeed, I suspect that kind of a weird org chart of inter-related legal entities is pretty typical for a real estate company... because, as the OP suggests, that's really what they are.
Program modes have even been available on Film cameras going back to the late 80s and early 90s.
The fact that he's shorting GE should probably give you more confidence that he's right. That demonstrates skin in the game. He's not just speculating idly - he's putting his own assets at risk in the bet.
I think the ultimate problem is Google doesn't pay anyone. Google is the default winner in this scenario, they always list for free. Essentially creating a scenario where no matter who is chosen, Google wins. Either the user selects Google and Google makes money off of them, or they select Google's competitor and Google takes money from their competitors.

An auction is a fair way to determine a group of options, but an auction where one party always wins for free is not. The solution is to break up Google, and force Google to bid for the right to show up on the list on Android-the-company's platform just like everyone else.
I always use valid but fictitious names. For example my mother's maiden name could be Roberts or my first car could be Chevy. Of course I use different and more obscure answers on different websites and save them all in a password manager.
> Technical fundamentals matter.

Centralization of the entire internet behind a single entity is a _bad_ thing for people who care about technical fundamentals.
Er, no you don't? You don't even know what the terms are.

Maybe you're talking about captive portals. Not all free wifi even has terms.
We aggressively use rollups to merge PRs into rust-lang/rust to mitigate the effect of the 4 hour build times. But it would sure be nice to bring it down to less. It would certainly make my life as the maintainer of the bors queue easier. ;)
Not everybody is trying to make money directly from their website. If you're an online-shop, you don't want ads from random people on your site. If you're a company/govt agency/non-profit etc running a website to promote your services, you don't want ads on your site. If you're a normal person with a personal site, you don't want ads on your site.
Another risk is that, as the singularity seems closer and closer, people are going to throw up their hands, stop learning math and science figuring the machines will do it all, and generally check out. If too many people do this too soon, sustainable recursive self-improvement won't happen and we'll be stuck with AI that doesn't quite work and nobody to fix it.
http://user works for me on Firefox, directing me to user.com. However, when I look at the DNS requests, my DNS server says there is no such name as "user". Right after that, a request is made for "www.user.com" then "user.com". I think Firefox is simply guessing the TLD in this case when just trying the name as provided fails and it's a TLD with no SLD (second-level domain).

That said, http://ai does work at the DNS level. It's not that the domain has no TLD, but rather that the name is just the TLD.
ugh, vapourbug
You don’t have a culture if it doesn’t change, you have an ideology.
The Japanese makers still have that reputation. I think it's still mostly deserved, with one big exception: continuously variable transmissions. Toyota has done well on reliability there, thanks to their big head start with Prius. Honda might be catching up. But the other Japanese makers that merged with foreign rivals---Nissan, Mazda---have had more trouble.

Toyota and Honda have also had duds, of course. In particular, their up-spec engine options have often sacrificed a lot of reliability and serviceability, compared to the ubiquitous base options.
Garmin makes the tech.

Strava provides a tech service on top.

Ubiome - software for lab results
Couple of comments:

1. Fake it 'til you make it is pretty accepted in startup world. It's only a problem if you don't actually make it. If you do, then you're a hero---even if you made wildly unrealistic projections initially [and got lucky]. It's kindof unfair, but nobody said life is fair :)

2. Most software people (like me) assume that due diligence goes deep into software. I've been through DDs at several companies, including my own startup: it's not that deep. I would say growth metrics, financials, legal structure, executive team is more important.

3. If you haven't read the Theranos story, read it. It's a good example what can happen in the extreme, edge case.
Very common in the US unfortunately. And even if it's not explicitly prohibited, it's common courtesy to never discuss your wages at work. It has just become part of the culture.
Yes, but let's say they are just exploring the problem but they haven't solved it.

You can see that they are breaking the problem into various cost estimates, and other features, and just running a simple regression to figure out which features they should target for automation.

The problem with ML is that you don't know now if it will work. You just have an intuition that, eventually one of these areas will be able to be automated.

You notice that their approach to the front end is to make various modules (log in etc) that the AI can automatically deploy in various starter packages.

Kind of simplistic at the moment, but maybe it will yield something?
Ask HN: How to Get Crime Data
Greeting,

I have developed a website that finds neighbors, nearby events ... https://its-near.com

One of the things I want to add is geolocated crime data. Anyone know where I can get / scrape it from?

Thanks
> something way less accessible

This is subjective, but there are at least a couple big counterexamples. Non-lexical lifetimes are a huge benefit for newcomers. I've gone through my old projects and just deleted all the nested blocks that I used to need to satisfy the borrow checker. Everything just works now. Also being able to match on `&T` or `&mut T` without putting the `ref` and `ref mut` keywords in each non-`Copy` binding, is another pretty big win. That's an entire keyword that we no longer need to teach to newcomers.

> Basic crates use so many generics, impl Trait and abstractions over abstractions over abstractions that it's really difficult to follow what concrete types you need to satisfy these.

Again this is subjective, but not following concrete types it the entire point of `impl Trait`. The type of `foo.iter().map(...).filter(...).step(...).take(...)` is a monster. Life is better when we don't have to type it. There are also new capabilities that come along with it: APIs don't have to commit to returning a certain kind of unboxed iterator, and unboxed closures can now be returned.

> async/await don't solve much, as besides textbook examples

See the real code examples here: https://docs.rs/dtolnay/0.0.3/dtolnay/macro._01__await_a_min...
> I'm torn because I've definitely heard plenty of rumblings about GE Capital over the past decade so the accusations certainly seem plausible.

Back in the 1990s and maybe early 2000s, GE would 'beat' analyst profit estimates every quarter by 'a penny' per share (occasionally by a few pennies). This went on for _many_ years.

I don't have any special insight, but this always struck me as _fishy_. You have a stable of presumably competent analysts prognosticating on your next quarter's revenue and profit and you consistently beat their average estimate _by a tiny bit._ You would think that you would come in _under_ the estimate every-so-often, but that was incredibly rare and the consistency always had a whiff of impropriety.

It wasn't just GE that did this. Many Fortune-500 companies had similar behavior, so perhaps it has an innocuous explanation, but I always wondered how it was possible to consistently beat estimates like this.
I'm not sure the other user means they engineered "the dumpster fire" as much as their idea of engagement combined with the shallow text field, and the way retweets and etc work that it produced the inevitable.

Both could be "by design".
https://mrncciew.com/2014/08/16/decrypt-wpa2-psk-using-wires...
Smart homes are a broken mess and Nest wants to fix it
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> It’s odd to have these IPOs in the middle of August

Read my other comment further down. It is from doing your private SEC filings in December to use a loophole to avoid disclosing a bunch of information.

These companies didn't just wake up in the morning and plan to IPO, it a good 18 months of planning that end with a public filing.
Fortunately, the current year is 2019. If you're having issues determining the current year, I would recommend running the "date" command, available on any UNIX terminal.
There definitely is a problem with some libraries using so many abstractions (traits) you have no idea how to use the thing.

I however do find writing rust to be quite enjoyable.

But I have so far entirely avoided the futures ecosystem and consider it a very good decision. One needs to have a very critical eye on what libraries to use
Ah, so anyone with a certain amount of experience applying for junior-like positions is just being dumb. I get it. You should let the OP know that they should be fighting off recruiters instead of applying for jobs you feel are too lowly for their experience.
>Software is much easier to read than to write

If you mean software is easier to use than create, sure. But if you mean it's easier to understand existing code than write new code, countless rewrites suggest it's not so simple.
great work! a little simpler minus the triangle conversion, have you seen the openFrameworks chapter for generating mesh from color saturation values?
https://openframeworks.cc/ofBook/chapters/generativemesh.htm...
Those marks are notice of a claim. Known, willful infringement carries much higher penalties than accidental infringement. There's also a protect-or-lose standard in the US for trademarks that is unlike patents or copyrights. "Vigorous defense" IIRC is the term.

Either the lawyers are having the copywriters maximize the notices to be very clear, or the copywriters are told they need to include the symbol and are being overzealous in how often they include it.

IANAL.
There is a finite amount of space for what shows up initially on the screen, and what shows up initially on the screen will have a HUGE advantage. (In the possibly small pond of ANYONE that changes the default).

I suppose deciding that "AAAAAdvantage Searches" shows up on the initial screen, like the old yellow pages, would be one alternative to the highest bidder. Someone might consider that preferable.
I am interested as to whether you consider doing differential equations a simple task, here? Presumably so, as your method puts it on a par with simple conversations.
It seems to me he is being paid by hedge funds to come up with research that supports their short positions. I see no evidence anywhere that he's shorting them using his own personal funds and even that would not necessarily give me any additional confidence he's right.

With your logic one might also claim that promoters of pump-and-dump schemes should be commended for having skin in the game.
I've read almost all of them. They're all excellent and some are great. To me, he writes tragedies disguised as spy novels.

My nod goes to "The Little Drummer Girl".
What is a "proper service" in this case? Many company networks routinely allow access using fairly straightforward and rarely rotated passwords. Of course, access to actual company resources like email require 2FA etc.

But as others note, the main purpose of having a password at all is to stop casual passersby from leeching off your network.
This is a risk report, and such statements represent a dire case outcome. It is the goal of everyone involved to make sure this doesn't happen, though its there because it could.
> PLUS sell YOU your OWN data

Yeah, sounds like credit bureaus :).

With the shear quantity of data analysis that goes on behind the scenes and affects citizens, I think we need a much better handle on transparency. We already have some level [inadequate IMO] of control over the established credit bureaus, I think that should be expanded to all data brokers that sell personal data like this. If I can't keep it from being sold, then I should at least be able to see what it is and make sure it's accurate.

Maybe it's time to look into how to pollute the data set instead.
Are these account really related to Amazon? How could anybody confirm this? Can't all these answering accounts be a part of a parody that wants to ridiculise Amazon?

I am asking honestly because the other possibility seems too absurd to believe.
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One of my team members in Miami is new to Go and might benefit from the training. I couldn't find any info online though.
thanks! that's clearly what the above comment was asking. . .
That is a good one. They should do that.

But, as I understand the claim, it doesn't do 80% of the work but are 80% of the way there. Even if you can easily see that they are actually 10% of the way there, and this is just optimism/hyperbole, you may think the approach has merit.
1a. As a bonus, offer coarse undo and granular undo (where granular undo always undoes an atomic operation, and coarse undo undoes the “multi-step” operation if applicable, to the user.

You can imagine a lot of quality of life improvements built on top of that depending on your application: eg if the user holds granular undo and there are many combinable operations (eg the user drew a single stroke that is represented by hundreds of single pixel additions), you may snap to a single coarse undo. Or you can offer a visualization of the underlying operations and what they map to, etc.

(see sibling comment by ‘reificator)
They selectively enforce scenarios where a material risk was not covered adequately. Harshly.
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You can profit from shorting and be completely wrong.

All you need to do is convince the market that you're right long enough for the price to drop and cover your short.
It doesn't matter to her so since she is not doing the back breaking jobs anyway. Part of the equality movements should be directed to the fact that there are not enough women doing dangerous and physical labor.