skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you're in many places globally, particularly the backwoods, you could displace or misread a digit, point out a location well away from your position, and still be pointing at "a forest".

Anyone can read a number? Hardly. A huge number of people would have trouble getting all the digits, precisely and in order without mistakes.

Also, words have audio redundancy. If I say "apple" you get the same data as if I say "a_ple" or "_pple" or "app_e" or if you don't, you know there was a glitch and can ask for retransmission. That matters when eg: using a CB radio, or there's a blizzard blowing into a phone's pickup.
Did you gain anything from them using your work?
Building a virtual auto-deployment pipeline using Jenkins and Ansible
I doubt these are bots.

One of them says:

> I don't get compensated per tweet. I get paid $15/hr whether I am answering tweets or out on the floor stowing. I do this 2 days a week and 2 days a week I stow.

While I think it's weird that Amazon is doing this, I also doubt that the warehouse jobs are bad jobs. I've done manual labor for less than $15/hr and I'd much rather have a job like that than, say, a job in a restaurant.

I also think it's ironic that the instigator here claims to care about "the working class":

> really like? cause your workers are liars? you’re not going to convince the working class that everything is fine by telling us where to avert our eyes, we already know what it’s really like. why don’t you really treat your workers better, you can afford it

She's talking to working class people and when they disagree with her, she accuses them of literally not being human.

If people want to advocate for the working class, they need to step outside of the simplistic fiction that "evil corporations are ruining people's lives by employing them and not treating them well". The truth is much more complicated and jobs don't grow on trees.
I see you man, we created this project for the exact same reason.
Instructions will be posted, with pretty pictures! :-)
Now you're thinking with ~portals~ monads.
Yeah, if this makes front page the odds are nearly 100% that paid amazon shills will fill the comments -- and odds are greater than 50% that it already has been.
Yes, but not because you'll never get it. It's just that at that moment the reality of your situation is different than what you expected (in a negative way).
Right but with ECS on EC2 you are still responsible for maintaining the underlying AMI. Security patches etc.

This was the major reason we wanted to move to Fargate in our org.
That's nice to learn about this alternative.

I haven't worked a lot with geolocation yet. But I'm driven to it because of my geography background, and I would be mad if every service for that kind of work was closed and proprietary.
I find it refreshing and frightening that target price is not known when attempting to build a commercial grade electronics.

Is component selection conducted without any price consideration?
Broken for me, too. Twitter's UI is awful. Altering the URL to 'm.twitter.com' worked for me, as I can now see the topmost comment by 'Amazon News'
I agree that it can work in cases where the business is actually well organized and knows what they want. However, what I've often seen is that nobody pretty much knows anything and/or they're afraid to make a decision and hence you need a product manager to go around various business units, arrange workshops etc. and try to pound out some definitive statements out of the business guys. This is super common on large multi-million (or billion) projects which are supposed to transform the whole org in some way. On the other hand, if the project is just for one business unit and they're the one driving it, then maybe product owner is less needed.
>been told I should worry about it for years now

There was people mid financial crisis who were still denying the recession. There are tons of people who are saying we are going to have a recession during market highs.

>but Australia's economy hasn't broken yet (it's weak, but that just means it's doing better than comparable nations but less than what it could be if we weren't being mismanaged by the most incompetent government this side of the black stump).

I'm not Aussie; love Australia though. Politics aside, that's the thing people don't understand right before a debt cycle. Housing prices go sky high, car manufacturing dies, debt becomes tremendously cheap, manufacturing isms crash or contract, prime rates usually just went up, unemployment at historical lows.

Literally all these indicators are pretty strong indicators and ALL of them are happening.

>how can I rely on a forecast that is eternally bad? I guess the economy will turn sour eventually, but I can't rely on a prediction that's always bad news since I'll miss all the good.

That's more a perspective. If you watch CNBC, they literally didn't believe the financial crisis was happened and it has been a bull market since forever. Zerohedge on the otherhand will have an article a day explaining how society's downfall is upon us.

The important thing to understand is that literally nobody has a clue what's going to happen.

We may never have another recession; ETFs and passive nature of investing could lead to markets just being completely stable from now on. Bitcoin could be the one picking up all the volatility, leaving the stock markets stable.

Personally I think the debt cycle is immutable.

One person's spending is another person's paycheque. When the automotive sector has basically started laying off people because people aren't buying cars; and it's happening to all Euros, Japanese, and North America car manufacturing companies are all laying people off. That's the beginning of the cycle downturn.
Symantec cannot handle SHA-2 and breaks Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
Don't know much about that pen thingy so no guarantee, but will definitely look into it.
Just switch after 10 years?
So they're just people who are paid to mimic chatbots.
May I ask what kind of stuff are you developing with it? I've been working on a WebRTC app myself with it, basically porting my app from RN to Flutter. So far I've encountered no major obstacles, just a little friction which is a part of the learning curve.
If you ripped off the ethernet and usb ports would it still be too thick? Maybe the hdmi also.
I, for one, welcome our lizard overlords.
human-powered automata, how novel.
Yeah watching a section of code over time was what I thought this was going to be initially. That sounds really useful for sharing the story of "how we got here" to new devs.
Show HN: Autocrypt Extension for Thunderbird
Theres a lot of evidence that they are state-owned. For example, a large number of board members being active in the CCP
"Nobody builds anything important with it, but it feels more pure to build toys with it than more practical languages."

The company I just joined has 99% of their software written in Clojure. Backend is Clojure, front end is ClojureScript. Their software is kind of important to running day to day operations.
You could also get killed by a drunk driver or shot in a random spree. It's terrible but the odds of it happening are too small to organize your individual life around.
It’s like one person was given control over multiple accounts, but forgot that every time they replied they’d appear to be a different person. It’s funny because every now and then they appear to remember, like the person halfway down saying “Hey it’s me again”.
Joel's Economic Forecast – Recession Impending
> (2) there's a nice product called LightDims that are removable. Little stickers that are about 95% opaque.

You can also use colored electrical tape as it is opaque (buy quality tape like the 3M brand). I've found that the best colors to use are white or yellow. Other colors work too but let less light through like red, magenta, and blue. Though those darker colors are beneficial for very bright LEDs.

I taped over all the annoying LED's on my router, switch, and low power server which live in my bedroom on my desk. It went from discotheque to barely noticeable.
https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Encarta_The_Complete_M...
If I can find some spare time in between pet projects, maybe I will!
only tangentially related, but one of the things I miss so much about Perl is that, as in English, you can add an "if" or "unless" clause as an afterthought.

$x++ if (!condition);

like if you start to increment $x++ and then you realize wait a second I only mean if....

"unless" likewise functions as an "if not".

This is such a "natural" way to write.

Let's compare what happens if you have the thought to add a "statement modifier" in any other programmer language.

you're written your statement, and now you have to go back to the beginning of your line, write your condition, open a brace, go back to the end of the line, and close your brace. Or maybe begin an entire code block, since you can't have it on one line anymore.

it is so much less natural. why can't other programming languages have that?
I'm not sure what you are arguing for / and against. I did not say that everyone who disagrees with you is a shill. However, I've worked in enough political organisations to doubt that large scale grass-roots movements are likely only grass roots.

I agree that the connection with nuclear weapons triggers powerful emotions against nuclear electricity generation.
But nuclear electricity and nuclear weapons are not the same thing. (Cf. do you expect much opposition against nuclear fusion electricity because of hydrogen bombs?)

Clearly opposition against nuclear weapons was in parts guided by the Soviet Union: for example the World Peace Council was set up by the Soviet Communist Party in 1948–50 to to campaign against nuclear weapons at a time when only the USA had them [1].

Given that oil and coal based electricity generation would have been vanquished by going full-in on nuclear electricity generation, I'd not be surprised if there had tacit or not so tacit support of anti-nuclear movements from ... interested parties.

Rainbow Warrior

The German Green Party was founded in 1980, Rainbow Warrior was in 1985. Much more important than the Rainbow Warrior event were the
Three Mile Island accident (1979) and even more the Chernobyl disaster (1986).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_...
A group of neurotypical humans.
Mythbusters also did an episode where they compared dropping (dead) pigs onto concrete and dropping pigs on to water, from a height where they reached terminal velocity comparable to a humans. Both pigs were Very Dead. IIRC, the pig dropped into water was slightly less Very Dead, but it was still Very Dead. They weren't actively guiding themselves to land feet first but I wouldn't expect much out of that.

Water could be a component of a survival plan (e.g., "my partially deployed parachute is slowing me down enough to make this the equivalent of a high dive"), but "just land in water" is not a survival plan on its on from terminal velocity.
That is what is some times called "Not readily believable" Huawei certainly isn't a worker coop as it claims.
What's the biggest difference between this and a regular tablet running linux (I'm not sure they exist but I'm assuming most android tablets can run any Linux?). Is it the addition of GPIO, or somethinbg else?
ahh, that makes more sense!
Lots of HN upvotes ;)

But no, they didn't contact me or anything. There was a thread on it, let me dig it up...

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19940349
The Subject / Object Illusion
Except the sentence clearly implies that MacBook Pros use a touchscreen keyboard. That's a hilariously wrong assertion, hence my sarcasm.
I'm waiting for someone to invent an egg-unboiler.
You are exactly right, serverless is very much like COM (and wow, haven't thought of MTS in decades), except (!) that there is no mechanism for defining standard interfaces provided by a component, and no registry in which to indicate that said component provides said interfaces...yet. The "ServiceCatalog" cloud product will be the vehicle through which the concept of interfaces is delivered to serverless. Absent interfaces, you might think serverless is spaghetti messiness, and you would be right.

We are in a very messy infrastructure stage at the moment, which really just revolves around 3 concepts- being able to run code on a lot of machines as "easily" as one machine (kubernetes), being able to support in that context multiple runtime languages consistently (docker), while also protecting the machines the code is running on from malicious and/or poorly behaved code (kubernetes and docker together). So maybe we will soon get back to a place of "simplicity" with a stateless function-oriented programming model that looks a lot like COM/DCOM, hopefully with better ergonomics.
>This wouldn’t be the first time CCP uses armed forces against civillian protest

Europeans have killed how many American Indians and ended up just fine. But can they do that today? Coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada had been legal for as late as 1970s and do they dare to do that today [1,2]?

What I'm saying is the world has changed quite a bit and so do CCP.

>and on every previous occasion they ended up just fine.

Really? For starters during previous conflicts CCP rarely had an economy to crash.

Again, the legitimacy of CCP within mainland is almost purely lay on its power of economy growth. There are many Chinese people who are not content with it but bear CCP because of the economy growth [3].

You probably knew the 2014 Hong Kong protest, which had a similar scale? If CCP can wait that one out, why can't it do it again this time? [4]

1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-la...

2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sterilizat...

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148705

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Central_with_Love_and_P...
I see this complaint a lot, but I absolutely disagree. It's a conversation back and forth between "Diana Wilde @rulesObeyer" and a series of different accounts in the format @AmazonFC<Name>, culminating in "Diana" saying the tweet that was linked. The lines connecting the tweets very clearly show the flow of responses. There are instances where conversations can be hard to follow if you're not involved, because the replies are more of trees than lists, but this is really not one of those cases.
The takeaway that many students have is that the equals sign if equivalent to the -> sign, which definitely implies simplification. I know I was set straight as a university freshman in the 1980s, and I have read many things since about that same confusion.

Outside of math it probably doesn't matter. Inside of math it matters a lot. Programming is math.
The TL;DR is that Svelte overpromises. They can't possibly write code for every transformation combination as code size would grow exponentially (I'm not completely sure, but I think predicting transforms would involve the halting problem).

(thanks to whoever bothered to do this writeup).

https://github.com/gactjs/gact/blob/master/docs/long-live-th...

EDIT: if anyone has proof this is not true, I'd love to hear their counterargument.
Ohh we did exactly that! https://i.imgur.com/QTRagEP.jpg

But it's not scalable, and I'm not particularly good at soldering. ;-)
Cool, he's using some of my code.

https://github.com/drmpeg/dtv-utils/blob/master/dvbt-blade.p...
A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots: 4 Types of Pivots
These accounts are not costumer service, they are specifically paid to talk up how nice it is to work for Amazon, amidst reports of incredibly terrible working conditions.
So close!

"I Can Explain: Cash Rules Everything Around Me."
“Never Go on Reddit” by Neil Cicierega
I'm very much in the cross platform is a bad idea camp. It's fine for sharing business logic and other non-UI code, but having tried several cross platform UI kits I've never found it to work well. Cross platform UI always ends up compromising on the native UIs strengths and uniqueness resulting in poor UX, poor accessibility, unaccceptable resource usage, bloated binary size etc. Just a few concrete examples:

- Non standard UI/UX is super common because cross platform UI targets the lowest common denominator. Flutter is the quintessential example of this, it throws away all native UI support and renders everything from scratch with low level graphics. In React Native I've observed several cases where iOS UI has been re-implemented, poorly, in Javascript and shipped on Android and iOS.

- Poor accessibility. Native iOS apps get a lot of accessibility for free because Apple has done a great job, with RN and especially Flutter you don't get this benefit.

- Resource consumption. Electron is terrible in this regard as is the common meme. React Native runs a JS VM for every app which surely has a negative impact on both battery and performance.

- Binary size. A basic Flutter/RN app easily pushes you past 20MB in app size on iOS, whereas a complex and complete app like Tweetbot is ~7MB.

It's certainly possible to build great UX with cross platform UI frameworks, but the amount of work required to do it well starts to get into the territory where you are better of just doing it natively in the first place.
Except Propofol was discovered by a Scot working for a British pharma in the 70s and Fentanyl was discovered by a Belgian working for a Belgian pharma.

I stopped checking again at this point. As a reminder your first claim was 80% of the list. I think your reliability has clearly been established at this point.
Open door policy means nothing if you'll be fired if you actually make use of it. (Not saying Amazon is necessarily like that.)
This is a striking example of someone being so concerned about a group that they don't listen to members of that group.
They don't seem to be regular FC employees, but I also don't think they're bots. Instead, they appear to be humans with a limited understanding of english who are required to reply based on a manual (like call-center workers).

This explains why different accounts swap out -- the manual was designed for a single conversational thread, but employees are supposed to reply to individual tweets (as picked up from some kind of filtering system).

This is a sort of common pattern -- basically whenever I mention a brand on twitter, I get replies from somebody with "<brand> ambassador" in their display name, & those accounts never follow anybody or reply to their replies. It's gotta be a whole industry. The only difference is that, unlike the accounts run by Comcast or TD Bank or Steak-Umms, amazon's manual seems to demand that the service workers pretend to be regular warehouse workers (rather than customer service / PR).
that is exactly why the GE reset process is how it is, so you cant accidentally reset all the bulbs in your house, by flicking a switch 3 times. Ive even had bulbs reset being unscrewed while the power is on, because they flickered.

I have a lot of different brands of smart bulb, and I appreciate the GE procedure. The people complaining about it dont see why its the less bad alternative that 3-5 constantly timed power cycles.
> A hacker could try to reset my password for an online account by answering security questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” or “Which of the previous addresses did you live at?”

That's why you don't answer those questions honestly. My mother's maiden name is always a random 32 character string living in my KeePass database...
There are two perfectly valid ways of reading

x == y

aloud as an English statement:

> X equals Y

> X and Y are equal

The first sentence uses active voice - the second passive. Active voice ascribes agency to X; It makes a subject/object distinction between X and Y. Passive voice makes them both objects.

When reading code, it makes more sense to ascribe agency to variables than to constants, which is why people are more comfortable reading x == 0 than 0 == x. Zero can’t change, so it can’t do anything to make itself equal something. X can change, so it is capable of equaling things.

If you’re equally comfortable with either formulation, maybe you just prefer the passive reading of the sentence.

But I do wonder if you’d be equally happy if I went through your codebase and replaced every for loop condition from i < length to length > i...
> I also doubt that the warehouse jobs are bad jobs

I agree that these folks are probably real people, but you must have missed the last several month's worth of very public information about the conditions in their warehouses.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-describe-pe...

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/11/18260472/amazon-ware...

https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-drivers-warehouse-conditions...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/01/amazon-fu...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20696154/amazon-prime-day...

https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/amazon-prime-day-fulfil...
I love edge cases like these. I wonder if there's a collection of them somewhere.
The "Amazon Ambassadors" look extremely sketchy even without anyone criticizing them, though. They don't use Twitter except to praise Amazon, they are universally 100% positive without a single complaint, they all echo a few specific talking points, and they openly admit to being paid to make these tweets. (One of them claims that spending two paid days a week tweeting instead of working the warehouse floor doesn't count as "being paid to tweet," but come on.)

Even if @rulesObeyer is also a paid shill, all they're doing is drawing attention to the obvious.
> Pollution of any kind is just externalizing, out-sourcing the costs to others, its not fair.

That's way too simple, imho. Things come with side effects, usually. Of course, we should not pollute more than necessary, but the fact that there /is/ pollution is just a side effect of having

- a civilisation
- an economy
- better overall health (and, thus, more humans)
- ...

This all makes it possible to pay for welfare.
In that sense, collecting taxes would be just externalizing the costs (of being dependent on welfare, thus being unproductive) to others.

The question, if we should do both is not a question of what sounds more fair, more justified or whatever. If it would turn out that "repairing" is more cost-efficient than "preventing", then why bother with the least effective measure?

> We can achieve zero emissions. Its really simple to tax-more-and-more-if-you-pollute in whatever form be it air or pesticides.

Some emissions are simply unavoidable. E.g. producing meat produces methane. So, taxing it would certainly bring down the demand for high-emission products (because of their now higher price) but as long as these products still exists, you won't go to zero.
Disclaimer: I work for Salesforce, Heroku’s parent company.

When Fargate was released I was very curious about it as it seemed like AWS was moving up the ladder towards PaaS and I wanted to know how it compares to Elastic Beanstalk and also Heroku.

I started going through this AWS written tutorial:

https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/build-modern...

The app they use as an example is of course meant to demonstrate how a plethora of AWS services can work together.

I still couldn’t help but be surprised at the sheer number of different things I had to learn and configure, sometimes involving editing yaml.

For long time AWS users: is that tutorial representative of how you really build apps in AWS?
The article referenced presents a strongly-typed proof that the halting problem is compurationally undecidable. Nevertheless, Actors can perform computations impossible on a nondeterministic Turing Machine.
Poor 20-something grandfather Rafael also identifies as a nana and as a middle-aged woman.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...
Might be fine if all you want is to feel free in your own garden (nude is a common example, but also clothed, if you feel like you might be observed at any time...).