skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s the point of this comment besides being inflammatory?

All those things are always discussed tirelessly in HN every time there’s something about Amazon. We get it. And it’s ok to bring them up here. But how about adding something useful to the discussion, instead of just making that statement and posting a bunch of links?
https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/1222032740897284097

Jeff Dean seems to disagree.

Also, I think it hasn't picked up steam because it just isn't mature enough yet
I currently just let my desktop run constantly. It runs Windows in a KMS for games and sleeping breaks it so I never even suspend. It only seems to use about $10/month in power. I have been considering using DDNS through my router and Cloudflare and trying to create a iOS/Android app that will automatically upload my photos to the my DDNS for storage on my desktop. It feels a little crazy but the idea of syncing my photos to my own machine with no middle man is comforting.

DDNS seems like it's a local too good to be true for solving the dynamic IP problem. I'd prefer to have a static IP for my gigabit Internet but sadly Webpass doesn't allow it. Does anyone have experience doing something like this?
Billing department pays everyone's salary. The billing system in the US is so complex that it eats up a huge part of administering care.
What exactly a margin of %9 to %56 tells us anyway?
The gentrification boogeyman comes off to me as privilege masquerading as the voice of the oppressed. It's regularly used to bludgeon the poor into homelessness, while the areas that are rife with actual gentrification seem to have far more diverse and affordable neighborhoods.
Interesting - while I can make myself do the ‘silent talking’ thing, my normal internal monologue is usually disconnected from my movements basically completely.

It’s pretty normal for me to be thinking ahead or of other things to say while speaking at the same time. I do some music gigs here and there, and if I know a song well enough, I find my mind drifting and monologuing on random observations about the venue, or people around me, or even something completely random, while also singing the normal words to the song and playing guitar!

I’m not sure who is more “normal”, or if there even is a “normal” here!
Can you link to that please?
>3. Deploys are very difficult, and as you scale to over 10 developers increasingly becomes difficult to push up (it takes one persons bad commit to hold everyone in the organization from deploying).

I feel that is a way too low number. If don't have good enough engineering practices with branching, pull requests/code reviews, unit/integration tests to handle 10 people then microservices will be painful as well.

I would say like 3+ teams at least to really justify it? You can do it earlier but I don't see it as a necessary benefit.

>7. Microservices can be cheaper when you scale, you don't have the GCD of memory/CPU/disk requirements as you do in a monolith.

Yes, but by default they are more expensive until you reach a certain scale and it needs to be a specific type of scaling.
> Wow those margins are shockingly thin

That's by design. Amazon has found it's far more effective to deploy their excess capital toward company expenditures in the form of acquisitions, real estate, capex, employees, stock buybacks, etc rather than letting it get taxed as corporate operating income.

Those dollars do ultimately get taxed, to be clear, but in the form of employment taxes, individual capital gains, individual income taxes, and property taxes.
> Reporting on a bunch of different databases is a hard nut to crack.

Maybe, but your business analyst already needs to connect to N other databases/data-sources anyway (marketing data, web analytics, salesforce, etc, etc), so you already need the infrastructure to connect to N data sources. N+1 isn't much worse.
Unless I'm reading this wrong AWS generated 47% of Facebook's total 2019 revenue in Q4.
It depends on the team since some are more mature and focus on stability. It means the teams dont have much room for promotions, but good work life.
It's also viable because it's the convention. Library calls are likely to return {error, {the bad data you sent}} so it's easy to write receive {error, _) -> {missiles, {launch false}} end.
It is not only healthy, but a great ability to be respected and cultivated. It is also good to learn to not do this. Saying it's unhealthy is like saying /dev/random is unhealty, but /dev/null is, or stars are bad but empty space is good. Both are quite useful. (let's please not have that talk about cryptographic qualities of /dev/random). My experience is that if you can easily tap into endless creativity and also experience the calmness of no-thought at will, you will have greater abilities than average in most situations. Meditation, among other things, can help you be more adept at either.
Its true that running independently is getting more difficult, but that's not "on the market" but on the insidious regulations around insurance, malpractice law, etc.

A doctor can't open up an office and tend to patients with pen and paper anymore, and they have to pay thousands of dollars a month to systems that are truly terrible to be compliant.
Your architecture is similar to something that we want to get towards. How do you handle standing up all these pieces (or even a subset of these pieces) in the dev environment?
I'll add something useful! All of the above are cold, business sided stories. Let's get personal. If you're an employee and want to share your personal story, go check out https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home
Parties do not win elections, people do.
For me personally it seems to make it impossible to get to sleep. Which makes me tired, and less resistant to rambling trains of thought. Repeat ad infinitum.
Meena is Google's attempt at making true conversational AI
OK, fair enough. And it is your site.

I'm just a little surprised that Firefox would have changed enough since last May to break your site.

And there's also the other tweaks I've made. For example, I don't allow WebGL or WebRTC. And I spoof referrer to a site's root. Plus other stuff that I don't recall offhand.

But anyway, now I'm curious, so I'll test in some otherf VMs, with different browsers.
The value of that fact depends on how the margin compares.

Half (I made that number up) of AWS revenue is passthrough to hardware vendors.
shrug I do both. Depending on the context, I might think about some subjects verbally and about some subjects non-verbally. If I am thinking about something social, having to do with people interactions, I will generally verbalize things in my head, replay or imagine dialogues, etc. If I am trying to understand something I just learned, I will often try to explain it to myself in words. But if I am solving a logic puzzle or trying to work out an algorithm or look at something beautiful like a painting or statue or a flower, I don't verbalize my thoughts. I can still feel myself thinking, I get the results of the thinking process, but I only start verbalizing again when the non-verbal part is done.
I thought it was insightful. 4 and 5 are what made me boycott Amazon and shop at, gasp, Wal-Mart. Amazon might be surging now but they are eroding consumer trust with this BS.
During the SARS outbreak in April 2003 the reported rate was around 3.5% (58 deaths on 1622 "probable cases").

Source: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/press2003_04_01/en/
I checkout playlists of artists I like and go down that rabbit hole. I never have gotten stuck in a genre. Quite diverse.
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Interesting tidbits:

- 150 million amazon prime users globally (equivalent to to combined france + germany population (or) half of US population). Impressive!!

- Rivian is integrating Alexa into its electric vehicle lineup, including its upcoming fleet of 100,000 all-electric Amazon delivery van. Amazon has made investments in Rivian. Going to compete with Tesla?

- Amazon Music has more than 55 million customers worldwide. Collectively, in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan, Amazon Music customers have grown nearly 50% year-over-year;

- Prime Video received eight Golden Globe Award nominations, with Fleabag winning Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy, as well as Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy, for Phoebe WallerBridge.

- AWS announced three Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered by AWS’s new Graviton2 processors, that deliver up to 40% better price and performance than current x86 processor-based instances. Threat to intel?

- AWS announced the general availability of AWS Outposts, a fully-managed service that extends AWS infrastructure and services to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility. On-premises is gaining strength?

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/static-files/f3589a21-d023-4e4c-9...
As a hypothetical customer please don’t send me 4 emails a day. Or week for that matter.
Ah thanks for that. One of my biggest concerns right now is that since SIMD won out in the performance wars, and has come to be dominated by the video game industry and proprietary players like NVIDIA, that we are missing out on a whole possible tree of evolution in computer science.

For one, that we don't have easy access to MIMD, so we can't easily/cheaply experiment with our own simulations for things like genetic algorithms.

20 years ago I wanted to go into AI research and make a multicore FPGA (say 1000+ cores) where each one could run its own instance of an OS, or at the very least an isolated runtime for something like Lisp. But the world has gone a completely different direction, and that's great and everything with all the recent advances in machine learning, but it's like comparing rasterization (what we have) to ray tracing (what we could have had). Current implementations are orders of magnitude more complex than they need to be. I've written about this a bunch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759391

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17419917

So I guess short of this, I hope that PyTorch can at least provide a cross-platform performant SIMD implementation. Which I had hoped OpenCL would be, but maybe it's too much like OpenGL and we need something a level of abstraction higher for easier vector processing without all the worrying about buffers and moving between CPU and GPU.
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Another thing that happens is that when someone else is talking a lot of the time I've already thought through what they are saying to the point that they don't even need to say it for our conversation to continue and keep track. This makes me extremely annoyed by people I deem long winded. I used to try and hurry the conversation along, but it turns out people don't like that and it definitely makes me look like an ass hole. Also, sometimes I'm wrong and I not only look like an ass hole I definitely feel like an ass hole. As I've matured I've gotten better at listening and not looking annoyed, but my mind wonders as soon as I know where the convo is going. Haven't quite figured that one out yet
I took mushrooms once and only about a month after the trip did I realize I hadn’t been using an internal dialogue since the trip. It started up again and hasn’t really stopped since.

It was unnerving.
What's the difference between a cigarette butt and a plastic straw? The government makes no money off straws.
> 3.3 b earnings in a quarter. Most of which is from cloud I believe? They don't break down.

They break out enough:

"AWS generated revenue of $10 billion in the fourth quarter, up 34% from a year earlier. Operating income grew 19% to $2.6 billion."
http://archive.is/S3kmW
She was both.

When she was first identified, she cooked for a number of families. The outbreak that got her put away for life was due to working as a cook at Sloane Hospital for Women.

I cannot immediately find record of her being a short order cook specifically. However that is my recollection from https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Trust-Collapse-Global-Public...
Good to see an engineer taking helm of the company from the previous CEOs which were from sales.

Maybe we'll have a renaissance like what Satya did to Microsoft...
Yes, it should have been multiple aircraft, or the scope should have been reduced. It's hard enough to make an aircraft that's good on an aircraft carrier and on land. Adding the vertical landing (B model) version compromised the whole program.

VTOL is a very specialized capability, and there's never been another airplane that has VTOL as an optional feature. You have to design the plane and its engine around this capability, and you compromise on many other things to get it. The A and C models then have to live with many of these design compromises. Even the basic shape of the aircraft, with such a wide front fuselage reduces the performance of the F-35, even though on the A and C models there's no need to be so wide since there's no lift fan.

Meanwhile, it's not even clear that the Marines need a VTOL airplane. The B model has the ability to operate off Navy helicopter carriers, which gives them significantly more punch, but there's basically no real scenario where a helicopter carrier would need it. In a real war, there will always be full deck carriers anywhere a helicopter carrier is. In theory the helicopter carriers would offer additional capacity, but carrier air wings have been scaled back, and full deck carriers only go to sea with 60-65 aircraft even though they have the capacity for 90. If the Marines wanted more of their own air assets they could have just bought C models and operated them off the big carriers like they already do with the F-18.

The B model is also significantly lower performance. It has to takeoff at lower weights, and it has the huge extra weight of the lift fan. This means it has a much shorter range and carries less weapons. If they had simply bought C models and put them on the big carriers, the overall capability would be greater.
As with everything, it depends a lot on the team. But in general, in Seattle, yes. Amazon also has a ridiculous employee turnover rate in engineering for obvious reasons.
>I think being able to focus was a big part of it. The F-35 (and F-32) is a 'kitchen sink' of a plane: multi-purpose sounds great in theory, but rarely works out in practice. Especially if you try shoehorning VTOL into the picture.

if you look into the history - F-35 started as VTOL, ie. Yak-141, as Lockheed didn't have any VTOL and needed a response to Boeing/Harrier - onto which the "kitchen sink" of everything else was shoehorned/bolted-on. The Yak-141 was never intended and never imagined to be a good fighter plane or a good attack plane, etc., its primary and the only raison d'etre was VTOL as USSR/Russia just hasn't been capable of having real aircraft carriers.
Personally, I've found a lot of great music from https://www.youtube.com/user/theneedledrop

Approximately 30% of his likes are IMO absolute unlistenable shit, 60% is just pretty good, but the last 10% is pure damn gold that I usually would not have heard of otherwise.
> Thoughts are so much richer than any language can possibly express.

I'm not sure about that. Couldn't it just be that we sometimes don't understand our own thoughts? If you can't describe one of your thoughts with language, I would say that you must not understand that thought. And of course we sometimes have thoughts which we don't understand.

I think that understanding our own thoughts is something that needs to be worked on, both individually (we certainly should be better at is as adults than as children) and collectively (science and philosophy should allow us to keep improving our understanding of our own thoughts).
Did you read the article? It's mostly about the new features and data they've added, and less about a reskin.
B not M
Can you elaborate a little on that? SES looks reasonable from the outside; what problems does it have that other email services don't?
I would say flightradar24 is real-time plane tracking and wouldn't say that Reddit is a real-time news source. The difference would be that there's a system in place that consistently and automatically updates the information by gathering data from other real-time systems.
I misunderstand your vague handwavey definition then. What is the data or metric that you're basing your opinion off exactly? 7 of the top 10 best selling mobile devices of all time are made by Nokia [0]. How is that not changing how people live their lives?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_...
Unlike for author I am fascinated by it, because as I remember my whole life I am thinking in words. Maybe because I was reading since quite young age. I can imagine pictures as well, like people who have songs in their minds, I can imagine Rihanna singing "Umbrela" while imagining pictures from music video. I can imagine a lot of concrete things or songs but I cannot draw those or make such music. Only thing I can imagine and create is what I write.

But thinking in abstract shapes that is something I imagine I would get after taking some psyhodelic drugs, where sounds, and words would become shapes.

Is there something you grew up you could point to the way you are thinking maybe?
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Only in the US. EU has very strict laws and most employees cannot be pressured into crazy hours.
The difference is that the projects mentioned by grandparent are under cost-plus contracts, while the Commercial Crew Program is under a fixed-price contract.
The gun is extremely precise, so precise that is useless: if you miss the first shell, all will be misses. They intentionally made it disperse the projectile to cover an area, not 1 square meter.
I wasn't really complaining. I just mentioned it. And that was unnecessary, and distracted from my real point. I only mentioned it to explain why I couldn't see behavior after answering the popup about location permission.
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Isn’t this an argument for raising the corporate income tax? It would motivate more companies to invest like Amazon.
I definitely have an inner monologue but my vocal cords don't move when I'm thinking or reading (this is called subvocalization [0]). There is a significant population of people that don't do it much/at all and you can be taught to suppress it.

My internal monologue doesn't seem to be constrained by my speaking speed, which aligns with your experience of being able to think very quickly when suppressing subvocalization.

Regarding your worries about people being able to tell: most of the time, the muscle movements involved in subvocalization are so small that they're not possible to see without the aid of machines [1] (though the speaker can often feel them, as you report).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography
>We get it.

Eh. Speak for yourself.

Either the vast market that they exploit is ignorant to their abuse of the world, or the vast market is knowingly participating in fairly a-moral behavior knowingly.

I prefer to think that people are generally good (moral) & naive, so i'll continue parroting the point everytime Amazon comes up, just on the off chance that i'll elucidate to someone Amazon's true nature that they may otherwise be unaware of.

Speaking of topics that are spoken of ceaselessly on HN : Amazon's success and profit. Where's your issue with that topic?

> What’s the point of this comment besides being inflammatory?

I think that's an absolutely atrocious response to anything human-rights related.
This conclusion you're coming to is quite the massive reach based on the logic you used to analyze that sentence.
I can only speak to my own experience but I usually work 40hrs/week and I got promoted last quarter. The office is usually completely empty by 6pm in Minneapolis. SDE at Amazon, opinions are my own, yada yada yada
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I'm not going to argue that IBM is currently healthy and performing as they should but they did have over $22 billion in cloud revenue for 2019 so they are evidently in the discussion somewhere.
Visualizing code is a pretty useful tool. I can't do it as easily for problems that I have yet to solve, but I can do it for problems that I understand well.

Interestingly enough, however, it's the playing around with the 3D structure in my head that makes it fun for me to solve problems. It's a pleasurable activity to noodle on problems that way.
Every smaller entity in the state has abjectly failed to create conditions under which housing can be built. That's why the state needs to set some minimal rules.

I personally think mandatory over-the-counter zoning approval for fourplexes statewide is clearly desirable. People who want to sell their rat-infested shacks[1] for $4 million dollars, in the same year that the shack had an assessed value of $65k, obviously prefer if local zoning regimes continue to protect them from competition.

1: https://socketsite.com/archives/2020/01/dilapidated-postcard...
Sure, the probability of a collision is exceedingly low if you use SHA256. And if you take care of hashing _the whole content_.

But in many programming applications (e.g. hash maps) you wouldn't use a cryptographic hash because it's too slow. Then it becomes important to design a hash function that is "good enough" and, unfortunately, it's quite easy to implement "hashCode" (or whatever your programming language calls it) in a broken way for your types and suddenly you have collisions. I've seen exactly this problem in my own code.
That's basically what I meant, sorry. It's an insight into what could have been a problem back then, and clearly became a serious problem.
It's getting very difficult to see how California works its way out of this mess. SB 50 like measures can be passed at the local level in theory but if I've learned anything from these fights it's that older, wealthy homeowners will cripple any attempt to do so.
I always wonder why Apple does not utilize its revenue and profits the way Amazon does by funneling it towards CapEx and ever grow more ambitiously with its acquisitions and new products and services. I have seen Apple keep buying back its own stock and giving ever more dividends to its shareholders rather than investing in itself.
> Well the only solution is a ballot initiative to repeal prop 13. That will change things.

This seems to always be stated as if stating it makes it true. Prop 13 has little to do with high housing prices and a lot to do with getting more revenue for governments.

Prices are influenced by supply and demand. The artificial limiting of supply by all of the governments in California is the biggest factor in why the prices are outrageously high.