skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ad-hoc production troubleshooting is a reason to keep, at most, 7 days of logs. Usually you want the most recent minute or hour. Troubleshooting usually does not need collection, aggregation, and indexing because either the problem is isolated to a host or the logs of a single host, pod, or process are representative of what is happening in the rest of the fleet. Even if you want to access all logs, it's still better to leave them where they were produced and push a predicate out to every host; your log-producing fleet has far, far more compute resources than your poor little central database, no matter how big that DB is.
AOC calls for ban on US military Twitch recruiting in impassioned floor speech
This way is very, very wrong in how it resets the scroll position: it essentially assumes synchronous scrolling, and falls apart completely if that isn’t the case—and it hasn’t been for some years.

By “synchronous scrolling” I mean that reading scrollTop gets you the true current value, and that setting scrollTop sets the value immediately. These used to be the case, but scrolling is handled off-thread now, so the values you read may not be the actual values, and your setting the value may clobber scrolling that has taken place since your code started being called. (This also means that any fake scrolling you do will lag behind reality—one of the reasons to use fully native scrolling if you possibly can. This has been unavoidable since asynchronous scrolling came in.)

The effect is that on devices with precise scrolling and inertia especially, it will make scrolling extremely slow, because essentially most of the scrolling delta is being lost. I see this problem very commonly in systems that have tried to implement their own scrolling. For reference, I’m using Firefox on a Surface Book. A generous two-finger swipe that should scroll by several thousand pixels is in your demo (when further instrumented to keep totals of deltas) only perceiving several dozen pixels of delta.

In short: you mustn’t ever reset the scroll position.
You are just a memory of an AI trying to understand itself.
Tavis has never attempted to educate an entire company about password security.

No one cares about it, most are people who will never be reading hackernews, who barely know how their computer works, and write down one password on a stickies A taped to their monitor and reuse it everywhere because they are in a hurry to do their actual job.
I think your statement is right. Things really have changed.
It's all different markets. There are some apps which cost only $10,000 to develop but there is demand from a billion users at a price of $1. Those markets would still be saturated with apps even if Apple kept 99% of the money.

Then there are apps which cost more to develop but have demand from a smaller number of users. There the 30% can easily be the difference between viability and not.

More than that, it takes 30% of the revenue away from the developer, so even if the app exists, the developer has fewer resources to improve it, so it's not as good. Or then that market can't support as many developers and the customer is deprived of the benefits of competition.
The idea that you shouldn't play music because psychologists say it won't make you smarter by some quantitative metric is so on-brand for this site.
Amazon Earnings Result 2Q 2020 [pdf]
I think you mean Tim Apple.
You are right! We may spend days and hours on triaging some bug, but it only needs one-line change. The researching and investigation are more valuable than the final deliverable!

For me, I will basically say anything from getting the idea, to doing some research, to implementing, then to demoing it. It's all about the journey!
"Overflowing" is a relative term. There are something like a billion websites in the world; compared to that, a million iOS apps seems downright paltry.
What’s the strategy for operating systems, compilers, and/or language runtimes to figure out what a RISC-V chip supports? It used to be one thing checking which SIMD units an x86 had, but the nature of an open source processor lends itself to a near infinite listing of /proc/cpuinfo flags.
I wonder how much of this is the mode being based around low value one time purchases, that have now been replaced with subscription models.

.30 cents on a single purchase makes sense from a marketing cost perspective, it just seems like apple isn’t bringing enough to the table to justify the 30% cut after the initial sign up.
Ask HN: Are you dropping your rate during Covid?
I'm negotiating a new contract, and they asked if I could reduce my rate "during the challenging times of COVID-19".

They're a large global company, with a rising stock price. I know they're fine. If anything I'm tempted to raise it due to "trickle down economics" being important now more than ever, from $4 trillion of stimulus packages sent to corporations in the US.

Should I drop my rate? Are you dropping yours?
https://github.com/KartikChugh/Otto/issues/18#event-36052230...

Made some small improvements today as a quick fix; we'll still be working on better support long-term
Amazon could say 30% commission on selling all Apple products on Amazon!

Or reduce the app store cut.
As I see it, it sort of hinges on the constraint of what is exogenous. Clearly the privacy initiatives in Europe and California have cost them data revenue, the various fines they have been paying have cost them revenue. Is it still exogenous if it is indirectly a result of what they are doing? (this is actually a serious question on how to draw the line there)

They also have a history of burning through money (both opex and capex) which makes them very very susceptible to revenue dips.

So my expectation has always been they would post some record revenue one quarter, and then the gas would run out of their various tricks and they would post flat to down revenue the next. That it went from record to year over year down in a single quarter, sure. But during the "Great Recession" in 2009 they didn't even go flat, so perhaps a more accurate statement is that their resiliency has been removed.

I'll put a prediction here we can come back and look at and see how wrong I was :-). If they have more than two quarters that are down year over year, they will have a significant cost restructuring activity of either a layoff, or selling off one of their sub-businesses, or both.
Amazon only needs third party sales data if it is acting as a middleman for third party sellers. There is no requirement that Amazon act as a middleman. The company was founded as an online bookstore.
uhm, nope
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]
A cashier gave me a tip once. Try pushing on the face of the card so the chip end is levered up against the machine tighter. It seems like there is something wrong with the contacts in the reader and do not make appropriate contact with the chip.
I have been flying planes for 20 years. I own a plane. I worked for the largest commercial airline maintenance company in my country.
Just an ad for a service, with a sign-up form.
Opera 70 Is Here with Major Improvements to Its Existing Features
Right, how does GP suggest we undo the act of giving out information? Deploy an ICBM to the geolocated IP that we just accidentally handed out private information to?
Introducing SchoolHouse
Waaay better name! Good choice. :)
> Google of course is famous for doing this with many of its products

There are even complete websites dedicated to it:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

https://gcemetery.co/
The largest benefit of 2FA is that if your computer gets compromised it does not automatically to lead comprising of the online bank accounts and such. There still needs to be user interaction and a bot cannot read SMSes itself. Often this time window before a user is fooled is enough to neutralise the attack. It prevents massive user account compromise in scale.
Isn't the old line that you deserve whatever you can convince people to give you?
Perhaps worth noting is Armada

https://github.com/microsoft/Armada

which is built upon Dafny and targets a C-like language.
I'll say it again because apparently no one's listening.

We're working more and getting paid less for that work. This isn't because of the standard of living. Standard of living can still increase while pay tracks productivity, and it does in other developed countries.

This is the most frustrating HN discussion I've seen in a while. People are coming here to peddle this "quality of life" argument with zero evidence. You're not even stopping for a second to consider that the US isn't the only country in the world.

If you compare the American GDP to other countries, the average individual is getting very little bang for their buck as far as quality of life goes.
"Crypto community" is not a unified group of people, holding hands and singing "kumbaya", you know?

Quite the opposite - fights and accusing almost all competing projects of technical and/or moral failures are a bread and butter of crypto.

It's safe to say that most people in crypto space admits that the space is somewhat shady. How else could it be? Money are involved so it attracts people trying to exploit it and brings the worst side of many, otherwise decent participants, and anyone can create yet another crypto project and there's nothing to stop them. And it's always "your word and opinion against mine" kind of thing.

BTW. It's funny how many people on HN, have no problem with "regular" SV companies often based on: praying on dark marketing patterns, human dopamine addiction, data collection, overly optimistic return projections and so many other "sins", but are quick to discredit "crypto" as a whole, to the point where they would ban it from using their favorite programming languages. :D
Every company at that level has the resources to execute. The CEO decides what to execute on, what to nurture. Ballmer got Mobile so wrong. Ballmer didn't push this much on cloud. Ballmer didn't get game streaming as an idea. Nadella is a god send for Microsoft. He's the best tech CEO and he's in house so knows how to get the ship moving.
Quip is not open source whereas CodiMD is.
You will have to be more specific.
Warning Sign of a Failing Company – Invincible Career
I'm blind, so can't comment on the color scheme. However, screen readers depend on semantic elements like headings, list items, and so on to navigate the page. Currently the search results are not organized as any such entity, but are a few links that are related visually. The graphics are not marked as such, lack alt text, and an example how one of them reads is:

"9c064f09d669c4a7ec0da2bb54c16a…"

Setting aria-hidden might be the easiest way to deal with this particular issue.

"Popular" and "newest" are not marked as control elements like buttons, combo box, or a radio button so they look just like plain text to my screen reader. It is experience that suggests that hitting enter on them will produce any result.

The search button is not labeled and it reads just as "button". What you call a quick bar (a guess) is a line of buttons represented as links but with no text inside them and no apparent function.

PS: Great idea for the site btw. I'm bitching so much only because it seems as something that I might use and wish to have as comfortable as possible.
• Net sales increased 40% to $88.9 billion in the second quarter, compared with $63.4 billion in second quarter 2019. Excluding the $582 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 41% compared with second quarter 2019.

• Operating cash flow increased 42% to $51.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $36.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.

• Free cash flow increased to $31.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $25.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.

“As expected, we spent over $4 billion on incremental COVID-19-related costs in the quarter to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers in this time of high demand—purchasing personal protective equipment, increasing cleaning of our facilities, following new safety process paths, adding new backup family care benefits, and paying a special thank you bonus of over $500 million to front-line employees and delivery partners. We’ve created over 175,000 new jobs since March and are in the process of bringing 125,000 of these employees into regular, full- time positions. And third-party sales again grew faster this quarter than Amazon’s first-party sales"
Quantity discounts are normal. The reason is pretty simple - your costs to deliver a quantity product is lower than an individual one.
I'm a professional developer and I use Nano as my main text editor, entirely by choice. I've never missed the cool features that other editors like Vim and Emacs have, even though I've used both in the past.
Someone just posted that Spotify does work with Siri on the iPhone and Siri on the watch uses the same system so that kind of throws the argument that Siri doesn’t support it out the Window.

Apple also has been adding third party intents for years.

With Shortcuts users can add their own Siri actions and third party apps can exposes programming actions.
Not quite a problem as per se but it would be nice to have some kind of SMT solver inside a compiler to verify well-behaved-ness of certain functions. I'm not exactly sure whether you'd need something a bit more advanced for control flow analysis but beyond simple variable assignment checking (imagine Ada style bounds) I would quite like a language with a verifier like eBPF uses to reduce bug surface area (i.e. Not all code needs to be Turing complete). I think there are langauges with features like that but none aimed at mainstream use beyond research and/or defence etc.

I would like to write a language like that but I don't know enough about computer logic / hard ai etc. to know where to go in terms of the internals of the compiler (Bolting complicated analysis onto an existing compiler is really really ugly if there is a lot of global state - e.g. some parts of the D compiler although that's still WIP to be fair to the programmers)
> often, the reward for doing well on them is... being put on the spot in front of a whiteboard.

Ha! That can be true. So for me personally, I had candidates do a little bit of whiteboarding, but all I do is ask them to walk me through the execution of the algorithm they just implemented using minimal input parameters. Really what I'm looking for is the ability to explain how their code works (and to make sure they didn't copy someone else's work).
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I've seen posts on HN about open source software that led to finding contributors or projects.
College dropout,23,claims he’s become millionaire after joining trade Forex here
You mention economy of scale - that's why quantity discounts exist. It definitely is the invisible hand at work.
In this case, Amazon does run its own app store. And as far as streaming platforms go, it sells its own devices (that use Amazon's app store).
Amazon sales soar as pandemic fuels online shopping
I am prepared to put down MTW and dream
I would probably agree, but saying something is difficult to test is not the same as saying that many theories don't seem to be true in practice.
> Besides. They. Dont. Pay. Taxes. In. The. Country. They. Claim. To. Be. Protecting.

Besides being an incredibly annoying way to state your point (leave the hand-claps on Twitter, please), note that their very highly paid employees pay a ton of tax.

Abolishing the corporate income tax entirely is something I'm in favor of and it has its proponents across the political spectrum:

https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/the-progressive-case-f...
That's really not true.

Have you tried applying for a mortgage and renting?
> It used to be one thing checking which SIMD units an x86 had, but the nature of an open source processor lends itself to a near infinite listing of /proc/cpuinfo flags.

I mean, x86 sets a very high bar for the sheer number of feature flags. Most ISA extensions of interest to compilers are standardized with the RISC-V Foundation †.

The mechanism is similar to other chips, and the situation so far seems to be about the same, except a couple orders of magnitude difference in the current number of flags.

† Seems it's now RISC-V International
> There's also that a^3 + b^3 == c^3 problem that was solved in a few weeks by brute forcing every number (or something like that).

Huh?
Bacteria live despite burial in seafloor mud for 100m years
So much this.

There was a memory etched in my mind of a clueless Congressman questioning the General Counsel of Alphabet/Google in a committee hearing (perhaps during the SOPA fiasco). The congressman said something to the effect of "Google can do anything! They store a copy of the entire internet. Why can't you just identify all of the copyrighted material and not show it without approval?"

I was dumbfounded by how this grown man seemed to think Google basically ran on "tech magic" and how little comprehension he seemed to have for what intellectual property is and how it's registered/identified.
Here is something a bit more informative:

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/08/portable-mri-machine-comes-t...

There are quite a few articles on hackaday.com about MRIs.

You might also do a search for DIY MRI on your favorite search engine.
There would be even greater antitrust concerns if Alphabet had a non-ads business that also brought in $100B/year.

Ads is down to 85% of their revenue - they have created vast non-ads businesses which are still dwarfed by their 20% YoY ads growth.

If Google Pay/Checkout/Wallet/etc had been as successful as Stripe, would anyone have noticed? Stripe is worth $35B - 3% of Alphabet. It would just be lumped in the above 15% non-ads business and people would still say that they can't do anything but ads.
>Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17330-1
> In a system where money is power, and the economy encourages its concentration, you always end up with such unbalances.

Is money really the only power? For all I know these companies depend on consumers’ attention and consumption. Not only that, the people who run them depend on continuous growth of those to keep their positions.

To the extent consumer interests can organize (which includes democratic, legal, informational organization and organizing consumption behavior) there are always ways out.

> The invisible hand cannot help here

Maybe invisible hand was never there to help. Maybe that is the origin of such a defeatist perspective.

Companies are not gods, markets are not forces of nature. They are more like semi-useful entities and processes that can also parasitize our stone age psychology for their own ends. It is on to us to realize our own part in that equation.
Quarterly vuln scans don’t really make the cut in the modern world. Take CVE-2020-1350 (MS DNS vuln) as an example - it took about 48 hrs from publicizing the vuln to a working exploit to appear on Github.

If you scan per quarter, and it takes you n days or weeks (or months) to fix the critical stuff, it’s quite a window of exposure - per each vuln. Any midsize org will carry hundreds or thousands. Enterprises much more.
I was an early adopter of Thalmic's armband and love the idea of innovative hardware startups.

I don't know if it was marketing and Thalmic/North not getting traction for its products or if it was just that Google came in with such a large offer. Or a combination of factors regarding sales and a buyout offer.

I've heard hardware startups are a lot harder than many software startups but when we experience things like Roku and the Myo, it's a big wow factor. At least for me.

I wish some companies would have clauses when they sell their products to whatever big name tech that customers get support or minimal updates for x years or refunds or something.

As for Google's inability to make something of Google Glass (which I was also an early adopter of for development and paid full price), that's been a real shame. Not to mention Google abandoning developers who bought it and it was a similar case when we all bought into Angular (version 1).
Ripes: RISC-V instruction set architecture simulator and assembly code editor
The top 10% of taxes should go up radically. They've been MUCH higher in the past.
How about two-factor authentication as a baseline recommendation for online ACH? Even the infamously recently discussed SMS authentication.
I travel a decent amount in the Western US, mostly in California and Oregon. I have never once encountered this.
Bitcoin Investiment Thesis [pdf]
"...birds who never come down"

That's factually incorrect. They nest and sometimes hibernate. They can and usually do spend the majority of their lives in the air, but they DO come down.

Maybe it's too stupid to even bring this up, but they could have added an 'almost never' into that title for the sake of scientific accuracy.
> to be built in the U.S.

What about the global situation? Is it the same?
Amazon announces second quarter results [pdf]
The problem with safeguards is none of them are impermeable, and so how far is it worth going with them? Safeguards aren't free.
Microfinance is called microfinance, because $1000 can get you a herd of goats in poor countries.

Try doing that in US....
Amazon Q2 earnings blow past estimates as coronavirus boosts revenue, profit
It'd be a breakthrough, but only for problems big enough that the cost (polynomial & constant) of translating to and from SAT would be worth it for the problem at hand.

Also P=NP would be a very big deal.
Ampleforth tries to replicate fiat. We want to destroy it
Weaponising GDPR – a.k.a. Fixing the Neighbours
That's quite different from setting the prices.
Related, one of my favourite videos: Richard Feynmann explains fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
Revenue only down 2% from q2 2019 which is not as bad as I thought it was going be as I would assume ad budgets would have gotten slashed hard. Google cloud is up from 2.1 billion to 3 which is a nice 42% growth rate year over year and despite gsuite being included in that, that growth is probably coming a lot from actual cloud.

Oh, and they just authorized another whopping 28 billion dollar stock buyback.
Sure, but the companies he specifically named are working on similar projects that's all.

Edit: In fact I don't know of a single company using Haskell in the crypto space I'd define as a 'scam'
> I tend to wonder if there are ways to bring similar barriers to the US

The Constitution of the USA prevents states from erecting barriers to inter-state commerce, so I suspect if there were legal barriers, they would have to be at the national level.
> Yes, but it's relevant because Steve Jobs seemed to claim otherwise in his testimony yesterday:

You have a unfortunate typo in your first sentence (since your excerpted text mentions the correct person: Tim Cook).
"Fanfiction" comes with a certain baggage and implications of quality. I don't agree that unless you're getting paid, your literary work is fanfiction or unprofessional.

There are authors whose main body of work was only published after their deaths and who are considered literary masters nonetheless, and not fanfiction writers.

All in all, I agree with a sibling comment: we must divorce the business of writing with the art of writing. They are related, of course, but the latter doesn't require the former. Once one understands this, one is less inclined to claim things such as "if writers don't get paid, books won't get written".
This is not true. You're completely pulling this out of your ass.

Your job isn't paying less and outputting more because video games exist. When cars were introduced pay didn't suddenly stop tracking productivity.