skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were asking for one good example of an innovation over HotSpot, not an enumeration of all the differences. That seems like a reasonable request!

The “number of tiers” difference doesn’t seem quite substantive enough, I would say, although I’m definitely no expert.
I don't know what this is (name? movement?) so I'm going to say probably not.
I used to think Flickr was great, until it became free, and then not free anymore, and they told me they'd delete all my pictures unless I paid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_France

Does an alright job imo
A lot of overlap, but some other details in this Air Force press release from May: https://afresearchlab.com/news/air-force-investigates-using-...
Why would you even force a specific name writing convention on the user?

I really hate it when websites change the way I am writing my own name. Some sites use similar solutions to goof up my last name. Nothing worse than getting letters or emails from then were they write your name wrong. Hard to take them seriously.
>There's no way he could make that guarantee. How can you prove a negative?

don't make third party sales data available to Amazon at all? Can't exploit data you don't keep. The same way Signal prevents data problems: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1280166087577997312?s=2...

The method is so good, it would even save Amazon storage space!
I don't think that is a concern, I think a concern is them looking at traffic patterns and network infrastructure setups within AWS so they could potentially one-up them on that front. They aren't going to steal someone's code from their own servers.
>Top tax is not the same as effective tax rate. For example, when Reagan lowered the top brack from 50% to 37% while also closing taxable shelters,the amount the rich paid actually went up.

This is something a lot of folks miss. The US has the most progressive tax system in the western world. The top brackets pay a much larger percentage than anywhere else.
I feel like these panels always try to make you answer 'gotcha' type of questions without providing a full answer or context.
Well, the US isn't interested in taking anyone from anywhere, so that's kinda definitely not going to happen.

It's much more likely they'll end up in the other four of the Five Eyes (The UK, CA, AU and NZ in rough order of how many people will land in each).
Actually, if my memory serves me, a ruby hash can use any object a key! And considering everything in ruby is an object (even the class `Object`) it’s really quite elegant
Not believe as in he can guarantee they didn't?
Heh, clever. But you'd be even smarter to hook A19 to ~CS and A18 to ~EN to get the same effect without the conflict.
The space will get stale, people move on, trends change. Snap generated 1.7B in revenue FY2019. People were hyping it up the same way years ago.

IG made 20B in 2019, but it's revenue strategy may not work for Tik Tok's demographic. I'd like to see them capitalize a little more before claiming they should be worth 300B.
True in principle but there's more inventive for a user to ask for a refund on a $100 purchase than a $1 purchase.
My Pixel broke suddenly after an update. Android debugger console clearly showing a spew of ALSA errors. Hundreds of other people having the issue on forums - been 3 years and no patch has resolved it. I hang onto the phone as a cautionary tale not to purchase anything from google... Have never been able to get a customer rep on the line who can say anything other than "sorry, cant help". No refunds, no RMA, nothing. So... What customer support are you referring to?

If it was an open platform, I'd fix the issues myself. If it was a closed platform, I'd get it replaced. Google fails at being non-Apple and also fails at being Apple.
Spin off a separate/independant company thinking and producing the goods?
Like IPv4
I think you misinterpreted the part about automation. I think the argument is: How does an automated build determine what version number to assign the build? The answer is generally that a human has to be involved.

This follows from the preceding sentence, emphasis mine:

> Another small note, when dealing with automated CI/CD pipelines, the developer must always specify the semver to the automation.
Commenting to save to show my employer.
I'd say the core is that anyone could link up and start talking with other parts of the network; the arp/ip technology was the stepping stone of course, but a key differentiator from previous machine networks[1] is that you can just hook up to the internet, it was truly decentralized from its ideation.

[1] ie. stock tickers, terminals of time share mainframes, or see plan 55-A for a wider interconnected switched network
this russian idea
I'm one of the maintainers of the DVC.org tool and was even trying to find a person CLI UI/UX engineer to get UI to the next level. Have someone heard about people specializing in this? It should someone who just feel pain when UI is not good, someone with great empathy to end users.

Any other great resources on this topic?
They're mostly thumbnails of Web sites people have recently visited or visited frequently, i.e. they look familiar. I don't think they look like ads to most people, and I certainly wouldn't conclude they do without actual data.
Two explanations I read in the late 80's.

When the decision was made you had the 8088 and the 68000. 8088 had an 8 bit bus and needed 8 DRAMs. 68000 had a 16 bit buss and needed 16. And memory was about half the cost of a PC. So the 8088 minimum BOM was cheaper.

Second I think the 8088's instruction set was designed to make porting 8080/Z80 assembler easy. I can't say that was important in practice once things were bootstrapped. But might have got them to market faster.

I also think partly the dominant OS in the late 70's was CPM which ran on Intel/Zilog processors. 8088 was of course the manufacturer of the 8080. And my experience with Motorola in the 80's is they weren't exactly eager to sell into smaller markets. Of course now Intel is far worse and has been for the last 35 years.
It’s taking a really impressive tech toy and making it a product. You’d be surprised how much work the second 80% is.
Are there indicators we can use to differentiate people who actually have embargoed knowledge from people engaging in puffery?
win10 install nukes it sometimes as well. its a PITA
This feels like hyperbole, though I hope Congress gets to the bottom of it if it’s really true.

On one hand, I can see an employee who maybe has performance metrics that incentivize this behavior. Without sufficient oversight, any policy against using this data would become pointless.

I can also see that Bezos wouldn’t want to make a strong claim guaranteeing it doesn’t happen. He would perjure himself if it’s occurred even once.

I’m more interested to learn if it’s systemic or if it’s just outliers. One is a company incompetently benefiting from not enforcing its own policies whereas another is more egregious.
A Short History of Uniswap
Ask HN: I started a SaaS – now what?
I started SaaS that is generating revenue. It is all bootstrapped and I feel at my limit for managing a company that needs to grow and can flourish.

Looking for advice on how to bring on the right team and partners to help grow the company with the right trajectory.

I am also interested in learning about talking with investors or developing best business practices.

I've never had a SaaS before. I've managed a business before and currently do so but at most I've had two employees.
He should have said he can neither confirm nor deny.

Not sure I am against commodity goods being driven to razor thin profit margins.
Founder of https://fairpixels.pro, we run a UX/UI design firm like a SaaS. Started out just by myself but grew to 5-figures a month in about 3 months if I recall correctly. We are profitable. In the process we niched down to work with mostly B2B Software companies.

To give a bit more context on how we run the business. We basically eliminated almost all the cost and extra work that normal agencies have. Agencies spend time networking, run ad campaigns, pay for expensive offices, etc. Most of their unpaid hours then get forwared to their clients. These are hidden in high hourly rates. (I know this because I have worked for agencies for years).

At Fairpixels we eliminated all of these things so we don’t have to make customers pay for unpaid hours so we can lower their expenses. We then get to focus on the work we love. Designing awesome proeucts. It’s not our goal to build a billion dollar juggernaut. I want our team to spend time with family and friends. Be fulfilled at the end of each day. Not worry about stuff that is not related to their core skills of designing world class products.

I think everybody benefits.
How is this possible? At the very least you need to store each customer's order history. From there you can work backwards to get sales numbers for a particular product or seller. Access controls don't work either, because at the end of the day it's stored on a server somewhere and someone must have access.
Now they openly hire them as pundits and give them guest slots on the evening news circuit!
I'm surprised that people are surprised.
Many plants have seeds with ample sugars, fats, and/or protein, yet no nutritious or enticing exterior. Is the preferred evolutionary strategy falling to the ground and poisoning anything that dares to eat you?

Obviously spreading doesn't work if all of the seeds are eaten, but I've seen walnuts spread far and quite effectively (multiple saplings yearly) - presumably by crows failing to crack a nut, mice not eating some of their gatherings or similar methods.

BTW the fruity part of walnuts is definitely poisonous, as are the leaves and maybe even the wood, but the nuts are fine and nutritious.
Damn you work at jango?
I've been a happy customer since ~2009.

It's the best kept secret on the internet. I wish you guys blogged about your engineering, I bet there's lots to say.

Keep rocking
The handover treaty did not promise "an erosion of civil liberties in 2047." What it promised was that the territory would retain its basic law, constitution and freedoms until at least 2047. What was to happen next was to be up to the CCP and HK. You seem to think that moving to authoritarian control of HK was a foregone conclusion in 2047, but the past and present have shown great benefit to both of retaining 1C2S. Domestic peace, and an sort of a no-mans land where the rest of the world can meet the (relatively) insular CCP and do business.

The future, indefinitely, could have been 1C2S. In theory, it could still be.

It's really the CCP that's choosing to impose its will on the people of Hong Kong -- to your point, prematurely, but also objectively as a belligerent in this conflict. I suspect that most of the people of Hong Kong would have happily continued to live their lives on the island as they have for 50+ years, an enclave with a different way of life.
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/permanent-resident/vis...
Why not use PouchDB and have that sync up with your main CouchDB server? It seemed like a very powerful paradigm to me, so I am always curious why it did not catch on.
I agree. I like their pre-Digg skits "thebroken" and "hacking with Ramzi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNQ280Zkk4
Define "we". Many a rich man was made by picking a poor man's pocket.
encrypt the data by default and let the third party sellers and customers have exclusive access? Why does Amazon need access to anyone's history?
Header files suck. Anything is better than a separate file.
Isn't this the point of secureboot? Shim/Hashtool both work with systemd-boot, you can/must sign it yourself.

If you are talking about editing config, you just disable it in the config (editor no) and then nobody can just add an entry at random during the boot process.

Seems pretty simple to me.
Have you been on Amazon recently? Third party sellers dominate it.

Amazon is fundamentally a bazaar that does a good job of pretending to be a store, but the mask is starting to slip.
> And, crucially for military applications (and unlike GPS-based systems), it is unjammable by the enemy.

Is it entirely infeasible for an adversary to disrupt the local magnetic field enough to interfere with the readings?
Two ALUs?
Electronic goods disappearing and turning into money piles. Wish this happened to everything after a couple years.
I haven't left my home since early March.

Have gone in the yard though.

Very risk averse.
Does anyone else think that LILO was more intuitive?

I feel at the whim of my BIOS with this whole efibootmgr situation. My laptop was suddenly unbootable and I had to repair everything manually. I had not changed the system at all, so something must have changed in the BIOS.

Never happened with LILO, which also was better documented.
Macintosh Garden is available free on its own site, with browseable pages full of screenshots and descriptions of everything, too. http://macintoshgarden.org/
I mean he could mention what controls they do have to prevent this, that’d be a decent start.
> It's an idea around a rising tide lifts all boats where an extra $1k a month or baseline income could bridge gaps

Prices increase in this case - that is how markets work.
"Facebook Moderator Boasts Deleting Users For MAGA Hat"
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/facebook-moderat...
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The key is "access controls." The best Amazon can do is ensure brand managers don't have access to this data.

Rep. Jayapal was pressing on this, and Bezos mentioned policy but never access control.
Really hard to say. There was a project veritas(which is a sad joke of an outfit) video with a Google employee where they got her to say all sorts of untrue things about the company because....she wanted to impress anew acquaintance? Puff herself up?

It happens all the time. Honestly I'd be inclined to disbelieve secret knowledge shared with me unless it was by a close associate who I knew well and trusted to be honest.
They could stop being a platform for sellers AND seller. Maybe you can only pick one.
Is it possibly for any idea to be anything innately? Or are all attributes of an idea dependant on the connections made between that idea and other ideas?
(One of core devs on Sorbet)

Agreed. But don't read too much in RBS details yet. RBI is currently very early and will need to change substantially learning from experience of actually typechecking real codebases. Stripe and Shopify are helping with this.

RBS has better syntax, but has features that don't have clear semantics or feasible implementation. And doesn't support inline annotations that are necessary in practice.

RBI is limited by ruby syntax and thus isn't as nice, but has good semantics and support inline annotations. And has been tried on hundreds of real codebases including those with dozens of millions lines of code.

We'll need to gather benefits of both on our way forward.
How do you get beta access to this? I applied AGES ago and I’ve heard nothing.

It looks like so much fun, I WANNA PLAY!
If someone could set GPT-3 up with a bunch of known riddles as a prompt, and then ask it an entirely novel riddle which it would have never trained on, I would love to see the result.
We’re in agreement about all the basic premises, I think the key points I’d push back with are:

(1) I can’t “easily” register as a seller with Costco, but I can with Amazon (Or so I believe)

(2) The ease with which non-company merchants can enter is a key property of the bazaar vs store dichotomy. Easier to enter, more bazaar-like

(3) Given (2) and (1), it seems like Amazon wants to be both a store and a bazaar, which my initial post articulated as a “problematic” state, at the least. Even if only problematic through novelty

This doesn’t make Amazon good or bad, I can just see where it leads to new discussion
Hi pencilcode, here's the passages that led me to my conclusions:

From Pessoa himself: "They are beings with a sort-of-life-of-their-own, with feelings I do not have, and opinions I do not accept. While their writings are not mine, they do also happen to be mine.”

"...heteronyms, a term he eventually chose over pseudonym because it more accurately described their stylistic and intellectual independence from him, their creator, and from each other—for he gave them all complex biographies and they all had their own distinctive styles and philosophies. They sometimes interacted, even criticizing or translating each other’s work. Some of Pessoa’s fictitious writers were mere sketches, some wrote in English and French, but his three main poetic heteronyms—Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos—wrote only in Portuguese, and each produced a very solid body of work."

The first is not only depersonalization, but someone who has come to grips and comfort with his symptoms of depersonalization. This takes a lot of time for many people with DID to accept as a symptom, as holding but accepting strongly opposed inner conflicts is quite a difficult skill that many dissociative personality systems both have to acquire and struggle with.

The second yields consistently in personas, these passages both have the consistent "fingerprint" of someone with DID, from my experiences both in the literature and in interacting with people that are DID/OSDD systems.

It is like talking to an experienced software engineer vs a novice out of college eager to prove his own worth and head knowledge. There is a subtle (or sometimes not so subtle), but obvious difference, and there is a set, or a particular "flavor" of tells that shows someone is an incredibly experienced engineer vs someone who is not. However, explicitly quantifying those tells is a difficult task, so my apologies if I don't do so as clearly here as I might hope to do.

Were it not for the first quote, I might think it would be something like Mark Twain, where it's a little more clearly just a literary act for some reason or another. However, I suppose it is wise to apply some level of skepticism or otherwise to backdiagnosing anything, as with anything. We can only presume beyond a certain point, I believe.
Errr....try starting with Rogue and Roguelikes.
That's 1/3rd of the time the Web itself has existed.
Tech CEOs Invoke the American Dream to Obscure the Nightmare They Created
68k was too new, too large a die (lots of articles at the time saying it might be unmanufacturable due to low yield) too costly.
This is why you encrypt, it’s not impossible to bypass but it would make it a gargantuan task.
If your mother caught you sneaking a cookie from the cookie jar with chocolate and crumbs stuck to your face and a quarter cookie cupped in your palm, would you expect to get away by saying "well I can't prove that I didn't sneak a cookie..."?

Given the mountains of anecdata on this subject all pointing to Amazon openly and intentionally mining third party sales data, it seems overwhelmingly more likely that Bezos dodged the question because the answer would make Amazon look bad, not because Amazon is mostly innocent and just can't prove it 100%.
Unix. Linux. Python. Emacs. Vim. Databases. SQL. Bash.

Now for the losers:

Web browsers will be gone. Windows will be gone. JavaScript will be either a painful legacy language or have been transformed into something entirely different. JS frameworks will be an anachronism that old programmers chuckle over while drinking beers.
Disclaimer work at AWS.

Customer disputes? Returns? Presumably you'll need some sort of history. At the very least saying Person X bought Y product
Not believe as in “this is not a good faith answer”.
I think 24 billion was enough positive reinforcement.
I have tried programming in Clojure :) I just prefer strongly typed languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

> No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition in an ad hoc fashion to exclude the counterexample.[1][2] Rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule: "no true Scotsman would do such a thing"; i.e., those who perform that action are not part of our group and thus criticism of that action is not criticism of the group.
And what are you going to do when the customer wants to see their purchase history? Tell them "unfortunately, we can't show your purchase history for third party sellers"? What if they want to do a refund?

Even if you didn't keep purchase history for customers, Amazon would need to keep purchasing records for accounting purposes. In a multinational corporation you simply can't have money going into a black hole with no audit trail.
Looks Amazing, congrats. Can't install since I'm still using OSX Mojave :(
Rockset shatters operational barriers for real-time analytics
Amazon doesn't manufacture their own Amazon Basics goods. They pay for it, albeit at a lower price.
I don't think it is bad luck.

People doing deliveries are probably the most at risk right now, and the outside of deliveries, the plastic bags, I always treat them as if they are full of Covid-19.

And I'm sure most people don't go to restaurants any more, but they get food deliveries all the time.

I cook instead. One risk less.
Nothing I said is in conflict with that.
See this comment elsewhere on the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23992485

If you charge $10, you get paid $7, and if the customer refunds, Apple removes $10 from your account – you'll be $3 worse off than if the customer never purchased anything.
I think Mochi[1] does this. It's pretty slick. Browser, desktop, and mobile clients all sync up accurately. It's always very responsive.

[1] https://mochi.cards/
Scaling a social video platform on MongoDB and Rockset
> then slowly decline.

Yeah, hopefully. In all likelihood, it will be "sharply decline" because of overheating (wetbulb temperature for more than 8 straight hour predicted around all tropical zone for 2080), and probably war for natural ressources (well, water and food mostly).
This was my impression too - without incremental update, I don't see the benefit ?
Truth be told, I have a cushy tech job and I'm still scared s_tless every day of losing everything. Also, economically speaking, I'm probably who should be having a kid right now. Hard no. Not with these risks/anxieties. Get sick, lose it all - I've experienced it first hand.

I feel like I don't have any sort of social safety net. I need so much more than I do right now to responsibly have a child and actually provide for their future (in the US, in 2020).
Nice catch, Google searched it:

> Not everyone realizes this, but the COUNT function will only count the records where the expression is NOT NULL in COUNT(expression) . When the expression is a NULL value, it is not included in the COUNT calculations.
Thanks for the correction, but the point still stands. Two out of "over 2000 YC companies." [1]

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/
Fake Reviews
Some weird packages from China got me looking at why they were sent. Apparently, it seems like a type of scam. The article here talks about it, but doesn’t talk about how it’s pulled off on the technical side. Just curious if anyone else had some insight.
Basically the government keeps asking for more centralization, they do it every year. Each year the privacy people in the actual custodians of these data get more and more demoralized, and replaced with yes men.
Weird and sad to see Reuter’s using such a clickbaity headline
You have to work with good companies that have a track record and clear policies. My last employer was pretty generous and timely AFAICT, including sometimes paying for stuff that was useful but clearly out of scope for the program.
A lot of people think art degrees will pay well because they see the explosion of interest in anime, web illustrations, comics, and graphic novels. They don’t see the supply side though, so they assume good demand means a good career path.