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Is this the first instance of Amazon offering an end-user (i.e. non developer) SaaS style product?
I'm always wary of these kinds of ideas, but honestly this looks pretty cool! I feel like the Press Release[1] actually quantifies why companies would want to use really well.

[1] https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
It's why the antivirus industry exists despite continuously failing. They're pretty much fighting that impossible battle every day.
K, but that doesn't mean the person you responded to doesn't know how it works. You are the one that doesn't know how it works, so why are you expecting people to listen to your opinion about the Secure Enclave?
Wow, that was a thrilling read into the mind of a group of psychopaths who all happened to find each other.

I wonder how many times similar things like this have happened (maybe even by the same people) but they covered their tracks successfully.

One final note - I'm very impressed with the professionalism and skill of the NPD(the local police department of the victims).
I would argue that it thrives in those most basic cases, and isn't really suited to building truly complex systems. But I also don't think there's anything wrong with that. There's a use-case for simple pieces that are easy to snap together, and I think that use-case has been greatly under-served because lots of things that aim for it end up as complicated, multi-faceted APIs.

You could almost say that micro-services are trying to follow in the Unix tradition. But the problem is that a) they don't really get used in that ideal, small-scale use-case because they're almost always written and consumed internally, not exposed to the public, and b) they do get used in those huge, complex cases where their lego-ness stops being a virtue and starts being a liability.
I agree, but I also think that, if successful, the law could have the knock-on effect of criminalizing all unsanctioned (read functional) crypto tools.

edit: *leading to arguments like "Oh, you have Signal on your phone, only criminals use Signal."
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

A group of sociopaths decided that their personal gratification was more important than outside factors, and then they got caught.
Would be happy to connect to discuss more. There are plenty of opportunities in India for improvement, it is just that is a complicated market. The humanity improvement aspect here is bigger than the financial one for sure. The only way to start is with something that works low tech and cheap enough for average farmers to get into.
Well then. From my comfortable seat outside the arena, this seems like a squandered opportunity for Wal-Mart.

(Also: is it Walmart or Wal-Mart?)
This is like a movie you know 2 minutes in, is going to be a complete disaster, give it another 5 minutes and finally turn it off. You stumble upon it's imbd page some time later to discover it has a 3/10 rating and nobody went to see it.

I don't see a single innovative idea in this product and I see plenty that's worse than the experience I had in Dreamweaver in year 2000.
Sometimes I imagine a secret meeting that happened some decades ago between Republicans and Democrats, dividing up the Bill of Rights.

"Well, we have to at least look like we're fighting for them. If we all just agree to protect the Bill of Rights, then we aren't really working for them. How about Democrats get 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9; and Republicans get 1, 2, 3, 6, and 10?"

"Hey, why do we get the Third Amendment?"

"It was our idea."

(This comment is not meant to be taken literally and I'm sure that others will have a different mapping between Amendment numbers and parties.)
I respect your purism! But do try Duskers, regardless of classification. It's a cool game and shares some traits with roguelikes: autogenerated world, stuff to find and equip, permadeath, and high difficulty as the game progresses (though it's deceptively easy when starting).

Teleglitch is punishingly difficult from the start, and pretty fast paced too, so maybe give that one a pass.
Others have correctly pointed out the threat presented by key loss. I would like to add that I don't trust the government to properly follow the law once they have the keys. If law enforcement, the justice department, or intelligence agencies hold the key then the only things stopping abuse are administrative controls. That's not acceptable to me as we have seen repeated bypass of administrative controls from all 3 of these groups. The only acceptable solution would be to have the data holders control the keys and process law enforcement requests for data, and then you still have to worry about key loss or theft of keys by intelligence agencies.

A far simpler solution to this problem would be to change the law to mandate disclosure of encryption keys / passwords if served with a warrant. I don't agree with this either, but at least it's more elegant than what is being proposed.
I came across [1] some weeks ago, which (although didn't give me the flexibility to choose my topic), did fulfill my need to look at the view from both sides on, presumably, the hottest topic of the day.

They have a "curation"-method to selecting the articles to show. I am curious as to if this extension uses pre-selected websites (e.g. WSJ will always show the Right-leaning view), or is there something smarter than that

[1]: https://www.theflipside.io/
Ask HN: Freelancers, what is a story of you not getting paid?
Sure but how is that different from JUST logging in with touchID or faceID? Without attestation?
To be honest i had to think about it..but no, would be a waste of resources, but i chose Comic Sans and a light gray Matrix-Code background...it looked really Blackhat'ish ;)
Article discusses how they were not joking but, instead, paranoid that she was getting funding from Amazon, their competitor.
This is the first time I've seen one his posts. It caught me really off guard but I completely agree with your sentiments. It is refreshing to see and I wish more blogs took this method to heart
There is a niche of companies that are starting to let software eat biology. It's one of the latecomers to utilize the improvements, but they do exist.

[My company is one - we have pure software engineers on our team, we build synthetic therapeutic proteins]

Check out companies like Zymergen, Benchling, Synthego, Bolt Threads, Gingko, Riffyn, & Teselagen.

In terms of pure software, helping open source scientific libraries, image processing for science, and genomics software would help out what is otherwise an under-funded field.
They do and has been done before.
Historically imperative languages did have tagged unions (Algol, Pascal, Ada, Modula). Their disappearance is mostly because of OOP's takeover I think. It was thought that a tagged union should be replaced by a base class with one derived class per variant.

What they lacked was usually a nice way to operate on tagged unions, ie. pattern matching.
New Differential Privacy Platform Co-Developed with Harvard’s OpenDP
No it’s not. Settling a lawsuit where money goes to the plaintiffs is normal. A lawyer offering to switch sides and knowingly create a conflict of interest using a pretext of a consulting agreement violates a lawyer duty of loyalty to their client. Agreeing to do that in exchange for payment under threat of harm to the company is extortion that is totally different than simply bringing a case in court where there is a venue for objective judgment.
Hacker News search: 6.5M articles and comments at your fingertips (2014)
> Second, is this kind of horrendous antisocial behavior ("we can do whatever we want this side of legal with impunity") representative of behavioral patterns at the higher levels of large, prominent, powerful companies?

It happens a lot more than you might expect. Usually it's "just" a bit of sexual harrasment. But the combination of power, arrogance, and unacountability can cause all sorts of things to happen. Like the Suisse spying scandal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51411640

Or Carlos Ghosn being smuggled out of Japan in an instrument case. Or Shkreli. Or Theranos, Enron, etc. Most boardrooms are boring, but there is a big fiasco every year or so.
Google blew a 10 years lead – Because they only seek to hit competitors
IMHO conflating “systems” and “components” here. Module and package management has never been better and building “a system” from components, open source or otherwise, is extremely effective. Integrating software systems (with e.g. API’s, webhooks and event busses) is non-trivial, complex and difficult. They are not the same endeavor.
This would drop 5% of New Zealand's carbon emissions too
He's a concise blogger.
US agriculture is one of the most advanced in the world, its agricultural incentives and economics however ... are not. Subsidy to certain crops over others and do not even want to get into the health impact aspects.
today i think it has become a disease. now simplicity is disliked. people see complexity more useful.
I kinda doubt that parking lot management companies would be willing to pay Apple's 30% transaction fee though.
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us (2013)
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It looks like an Airtable replica to me. I might be wrong. But anyways, AWS getting into no-code (less-code) space is definitely going to impact a lot of small time players. AWS can complete the loop of development to Custom Deployment and It also has bunch of other things in its offerings that anyone would be happy to jump in. I'm just worried about how small-time No-Code players would survive going forward!
Malt-o-meal makes excellent imitations of name-brand cereals. For example, Golden Puffs = Kellogg's Honey Smacks -- completely indistinguishable, but much cheaper. They make about 30 different kinds of cereal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOM_Brands
Hey! After reading HN for many years, I figured I'd share something for a change.

Not sure if there's any other workspace-tech geeks/hackers out here, but I loved putting this together.

It's definitely a WIP, and would love feedback/suggestions for the next build.

Things I have in mind:
- Color-coding based on type.
- Filtering by type, and to show only nodes connected to X
- Full-screen browsing mode.
I miss things like Slashdot Ultramode. That was from the times before RSS and other syndication methods.
Speaking of incentives, why would Amazon want to place such onerous restrictions on their suppliers? Are consumers supposed to demand this? Would regulation require it?

Amazon's success at being "the everything store" is fundamentally opposed to vetting their suppliers like this.
Trial and due process are tools that are unavailable to most victims. In most cases, the only way to deliver justice and protect others from harm is to speak out.

And if you think victims should be silenced by a system that has been designed from the ground up to work against them, then you are part of the problem.

Alec was not executed by proxy. He killed himself after his pattern of abuse was revealed to the world. He did not deserve to die, but trial and due process were never an option.
The only laws that can't be broken are the laws of physics.
archive.today isn’t a frontend to archive.org, it’s a completely separate archiving site with no connection to Internet Archive whatsoever.
A note: the "Memory allocation flame chart" image isn't rendering for me in Firefox. It renders in Chrome.
Thanks for the pointer. Do you use yours for prose or also for more technical (or even research) text?
I learned that from James Burke on Connections:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x68uf3j

He says it was for treating malaria though.
Probably regular potatoes; they are incredibly calorie-dense and resilient.
Footage from the protests shows pretty extreme violence, and SPD shot and killed a black man in lower Queen Anne in May of this year after charging him with a dog. Yes, the suspect had a knife and was very loud, and may have been suffering from mental health or a crisis, but SPD definitely could have handled this differently.

https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-police-investigating...
FBI Expands Ability to Collect Cellphone Location Data, Monitor Social Media
The rosetta documentation and one of the talks yesterday said the a rosetta process can't be mixed architectures , e.g it's either all native, or all rosetta.

Obviously the kernel has to take the native path :D
While what you say is true, it doesn't seem relevant to this thread.
Wasn't web components supposed to be the holy grail to bring us back to vb6 like composable front end applications? What happened?
depends - the alumina->Al part of Al production is often done in places with cheap, reliable electricity sources. Here in New Zealand it's all hydro power, no carbon emissions, but essentially burning carbon electrodes on the Al pot lines into CO2 is 5% of our national carbon emissions
I would say software integration is more like a docking mechanism between spacestation units that were designed in isolation by different countries than like snapping LEGO blocks. At least software pieces are products of human design and failure points can be identified without the many inscrutable emergent phenomena and often-unmeasurable unknowns of biology.
A few problems:

(1) for Show HN there needs to be a way to try out the product. Requesting a demo by email doesn't count (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)

(2) please don't delete and repost. A small number of reposts is ok, but deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

(3) it's not in your interest to use a corporate username - see more on this, and other tips, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638.
Please edit all of my writing. ;-)
If you haven't read about the Green Revolution [1], you probably should.

Basically, this is was a series of technological developments in the early 50s and 60s that completely revolutionized agriculture. High-yielding seed varieties, fossil-fuel fertilizers, chemical pesticides, etc. During the Green Revolution, the proportion of common feedstocks that are edible grew from 4-5% to 40-50%, and the number of humans that can be supported on earth by a typical 2000-2500 calorie diet grew from ~1-2B to 10+B. Most of the things we hate about modern agriculture - pesticides, GMOs, monocultures, Monsanto's dominance, the loss of small family farms, coupling between agriculture and fossil fuel extraction - came about because of the Green Revolution. But without it, 80% of the world population would be dead or never born.

Agriculture isn't really in need of Silicon Valley style disruption, because it happened in the 50s. We currently produce enough food on earth for everyone to have a 3000+ calorie daily diet, and we could increase the world population by 50% with current food output and still have enough to eat. The problems with agriculture today mostly concern distribution and tail risks - we produce plenty, but it's allocated inefficiently (wealthy people eat veal and foie gras, poor people struggle to get enough basic grains) and it could be wiped out by a blight or supply chain disruption. Silicon Valley doesn't really help with these problems, and if anything exacerbates them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
Yes exactly! Its what happens naturally, trees dies, falls, takes others with them with the fall, make space for newer trees and wood decompose... Natural succession.

If you don't have woody material, just leafs works too, the key is organic matter build up and photosynthesis. So we tend to cut weeds (when they start to mature/flower usually) very cleanly for them to grow bigger and better, not killing them, focus is to build soil for more demanding plants.
My first impression it's like SaaS version of Microsoft Access GUI "apps" (or better said, semi-smart data entry forms).
I don't think that's true. The 32-bit versions of Windows still run 16-bit binaries.
This is great.

I wanted to try it on macOS Catalina but was too lazy to copy my GOG game files over from Windows. I noticed the top Morrowind torrent already comes with the "Data Files" folder unpacked from the installation.

Download OpenMW, run the wizard, point it at the Morrowind.esm file (from the torrent or your own installation), and click play. We now have a Morrowind that works on all OS.

Amazing stuff. Even detects mods dragged into the directory and lets you click and drag their load order.
What a bad article.
C++ shouldn't be taught either because C++-98 (1998) isn't compatible with C++-20 (2020).
Don't attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice. It's only stupid if you accept their ostensible rationale, but it makes perfect sense if they're trying to pry open the data of the average citizen, not some mythical terrorist.
"[Education is] all telling people solutions to problems they don't have yet" — I experienced this exact thing very acutely in college.

In the first year of my EE degree, I had to jump back a quarter in math to relearn some concepts I just hadn't grasped in high school. This complicated the rigorous schedule laid out for the first two years, as it meant I was no longer taking the prerequisite math classes the quarter before the required EE classes — instead I was taking them concurrently.

Despite the troubles I had with the college of engineer's registration process (I wasn't following their rules), taking the classes concurrently with the EE courses that actually applied that knowledge (for example, taking Electricity and Magnetism at the same time as 3D calculus) was a completely different educational experience! Maybe I was lucky in that the classes were paced similarly, but learning theory in math class and then going the next day to a practical application of that knowledge was an amazing experience.

In my senior year, I worked with the professor I was doing research under to give feedback to the engineering and math departments about my experience, but sadly I don't think anything ever came of it. It's really too bad too — it's a pretty small change to make in the scheduling and I think it would help the people who are more practically minded vs. theoretically minded (builders vs. thinkers). My education was much more tailored to the latter, despite me being squarely the former.
A Speedy Quadrupedal Robot the Size of a Penny
No, there is the Amazon Connect cloud contact center https://aws.amazon.com/connect/
We truly are living in an area where the lines between truth and marketing are very slim.
So for Apple it's OK that you download a temporary app from a website but they refuse to give PWAs access to essential features such as push notifications.
Well, superpowers are quite boring if everyone around has them as well. For example, Harry Potters wand is not that impressive compared to a smartphone.
They do quite a bit worse on top of that, ctrl-f pixel.archive.is in view source when you visit any archived page.
Sure, that's fine. I was too unclear, I don't think jobs should be a reason to intentionally make farming less automated and that if fully manual or mostly manual farming somehow became the dominant approach it would simply not scale.

I am aware that family farms are more productive per acre and more sustainable usually, but there just aren't that many farmers or people who want to be farmers as a percentage of the population... it's hard work and exactly the kind of labor I'd expect to see automated right back away again ASAP.

Helping farmers with new automation tools that enable sustainable farming seems like a far better option than trying to disrupt farming in a way that intentionally increases the labor required to feed people. If the goal is to help people get back in touch with nature that's a great goal. It's just not a goal I think could be widely adopted.

Farmers are very smart, as the article mentions. If you give them the tools they need, they will use them if they make sense. Heck, farmers are pushing hard for the right to repair and modify their equipment (i.e. http://repair.org/agriculture/)

Edit: In case this is still unclear (it's hard to phrase right), I'm trying to make the point that you're better off trying to create a win-win with existing farmers rather than trying to start from scratch. If they are given better tools they will generally prefer to make their farms and soil healthier because it improves their bottom line. I don't think it makes sense to flip it around and completely change the agriculture system twice.
One of the problems with Google is that it’s hard to evangelize their products anymore.

I used to evangelize Macs with my friends and family, since the mid 2000s (before the iPhone revolution) and it served me and the people I pushed it to well. At least until a few years ago with the whole new MBP fiasco with the touchbar and butterfly keyboard and no ports and a minimum price in the mid 2000s. But it’s hardware and people can continue using what they already own for the most part till Apple fixed a lot of those issues.

But with Google I have been burnt. A lot. I got my family on Picasa to share photos, and Google stopped supporting it. Personally, Google Reader always stings. And whatever google did with GChat and Hangouts, which I pushed on all my friends, was embarrassing.

At least I gave up on recommending Google products before Allo and Duo. My friends who did that turn red when they are mentioned to this day.

And then there’s GSuite. A clients company switched wholesale on my recommendation right at the beginning. They’ve been using it for almost its entire existence (right from the days when it was Google Apps? and the first 10 users were free). They’ve been spending a ton of money on it for so long, but they couldn’t get a Google rep to offer them a discount on 5 accounts (basically they wanted tiered access and did not want to bring everyone onto the most expensive plans because a few users were not full time employees and using it for very basic purposes). It was a matter of a few hundred dollars a year, but between the fact that they could hardly get a rep to talk to them, and when they did the reps had absolutely no flexibility, MS reps swooped in, offered tiered access, discounts, and a full time rep and within a couple of months they were a complete O365 shop.

They still miss their email search, but overall it’s been completely worth it.

It’s still mind boggling to me how Google’s managed to screw this up.
I think Connect qualify as well: while you can create powerful flows integrating it with Lambda, basic flows are super easy to setup through the UI, just clicking around.

https://aws.amazon.com/connect/
> It’s original purpose was to

Side note: as a non-native speaker I’m always shocked by these basic errors made by natives, even more when they’re so prominent: here it’s the very first word of the lead.

Edit: as pointed in the comment the author is not a native. This was a general remark.
Really depends.

Building a system from components can be quite tricky, as the components tend to only play nicely together if they've been built for one another, or to some agreed upon spec. Otherwise you have to be very fluent in all of them, and write glue code. And there be dragons.

APIs tend to be all over the place, yes, but you can have a well defined API spec that really can allow specific implementations to be swapped out fairly trivially, such that it really is more like 'components'. Think SQL, for instance.

I think you may just be noticing that when things adhere to a spec, they tend to be able to combined pretty easily; if not, they don't.