skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We are a small, growing, tight-knit team of ~37 and have already won some of the biggest customers in our space (think bulge-bracket investment banks). Our product is cloud-hosted, and we do not version our product for customers, making the business model and product scalable, and enables us to avoid the technical debt typically associated with enterprise software.

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`man hier` is usually a helpful reference for things like this.
That's what I just did! Been loving it!
Man WebOS was ahead of its time. Palm just couldnt put out a piece of hardware that wasnt riddled with defects.

I guess it lives on in LG TVs but for the year or so before that palm pre broke it was great.
I'd argue everyone who has heard of Ford is most likely familiar with Mercedes, whereas the number of people familiar with Amazon will likely be many orders of magnitude larger than the people who know who invented cloud computing. Not quite an apt comparison, imho.
>While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented flawed worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one.

Forgive me if I am reading too much into this, but the tagline for this article feels weird to me. It feels weird because it implies that the "worlds" of Wells, Huxley, and Orwell were without flaw. Was western civilization in the early 20th century really without flaw? Isn't every great dystopian work essentially a thought experiment where the author analytically deducts the endgame of the most pathological tendencies of the society they belong to? I get where they are coming from, but I think this idea that America was perfect in the earth 20th century really needs to be fought against. Don't get me wrong, there were many great things that happened during that period of time, but implying that it was without flaw makes the dystopian conversation about nationality rather than the universality of human imperfection and how that is reflected in the greater society, often insidiously.

Anyways, I'm definitely going to pick up a copy of 'We' after reading this. I love dystopian novels and had no idea 'We' was the originator. I think the idea of dystopia is closely related to science fiction, both could be considered a subset of stories that project what the future or some alternate timeline might be like. I think the really cool thing about dystopian stories is that they can act as a sort of crystal ball where humanity can glimpse a gestalt of its potential future and make decisions based on that. For example, in Lord of the Rings, Frodo is shown visions of the Shire should he fail his mission. These visions provide a deep sense of motivation for Frodo's grueling mission to Mount Doom, and without the memory of his love for the Shire (which was reinforced by Samwise towards the end) it's likely that Frodo would have succumbed to the power of the ring and failed to destroy it. I think that 1984, Brave New World, War of the Worlds, We, and novels like this perform a similar function for the collective conscious of humanity. The only difference is that we are all collectively Frodo's and Sam's, the one ring is our own self-destructive pathology, and the Shire is the purity of conscious creation from which we originally emerged.
I'd really love it if the 10GbE cards would drop under $13 :) And especially the switches to become cheap.

It really feels like we've had 1GbE like forever (it was already standard on my 2004 PowerBook!!). But 10GbE is still hardly affordable.
Aren't solid boosters, like those used by the Shuttle, a simpler design than liquid engines?

On top of that, the Raptor engines used in the Starship, which seem to be considered state-of-the-art, are based on a soviet design from the 60s.
There are, last I looked.

I used Exceed a lot. Exemplary. That program did everything nicely. I even used a CAD app on Windows that actually was built for X and it was network transparent same as any Unix box!

There is a sub $100 one out there. Maybe a bit more now. Maybe gone too. It was very good.

The freebies are respectable and great for sysadmin.

Funding a first class X11 replacement that also does some new things people want for mobile and embedded makes a ton of sense to me, and I would sign right up too.

Maybe getting a bunch of us tossing a tenner a month at this would fund a project that just gets it all done.

And we need one.

It is obvious to me X11, used as it can be, sees way more than anyone may have thought today. When I was on IRIX, X11 was flat out awesome. Shit just worked, and was fast, and 3D graphics over the wire smooth, fast, performant.

It took a long time for the rest to get there and when they did, nobody really grokked it, unless they came from a solid implementation.

And nobody from the PC, Windows camp got it. Did not even understand what an app server even was.

No fault here either. People saw what they saw, worked how they could work. I get that.

But today, people still saw what they saw, work how they work and ripping all that up is painful enough to not make sense.

If it did, we would have seen this go differently.

So maybe this should not be a volunteer effort. Matters too much to way more of us than I also believe was expected.

If we fund something thwt does what X11 can do and that also will do the new, spiffy, lean things people want today, we would have a killer environment.

Having that be OSS?

Worth it to me.

Or, we can watch the carnage for another decade...

Good discussion, BTW.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61963
It is also quite cheap, which as well as needing less refrigeration boggles my mind why the EU sat on their hands for 3 months trying to negotiate down an already cheap cost.

$140 billion to vaccinate the world is not a large cost, and many nations will choose (have chosen) their own solutions, for the remaining, perhaps $60bn, that's not a large amount for developed nations to pay compared to the costs of reduced trade and potential further mutations, that's $60-$100 per person in developed countries in cash, or more likely however countries want to amortise that.
Ολυμπιακός vs. Παναιτωλικός, τελειωμένη υπόθεση
Η πρόκριση στο ζευγάρι μάλλον έχει τελειώσει μετά το 0-3 του Αγρινίου. Δεν φαίνεται ο Παναιτωλικός να έχει ελπίδες με την απόδοση του, ακόμα και αν ο Ολυμπιακός παίξει πάλι με πολλές αλλαγές στην αρχική σύνθεση του και γενικότερα στην αποστολή του. Πάμε να δούμε τα σημερινά Ολυμπιακος – Παναιτωλικος προγνωστικα κυπελλου.
You mean the phone I can't connect to the computer out of the box?
I agree, what I personally think needs to change is high speed/algorithmic trading on the millisecond (microsecond?) level. It should be humans trading, not machines. Sure they can listen to the machines but at the end of the day it should be on human time, say at least 10 minutes for transactions to complete without possibility of any changes to the transaction
> Many scripters who need wide compatibility of "which" fall back to the builtins `type` and `command` as they resolve any bash aliases set

When wide compatibility is needed it is best to avoid bash specific solutions.
In a field where the spread of outcomes is as wide as software, it seems reasonable that the right tail of practitioners would be very impressive.

In practice, no company requires their equivalent of principal engineer to hit 100.00% of the defined marks, but rather a comfortable majority of them with no glaring weaknesses.

Principal engineer roles should be filled on ability and impact not seniority/experience.
But why can't customer B's money be used as collateral for customer B's trades? I guess because the collateral is all comingled when it is supplied to the clearinghouse?
I think the point is that Robinhood made a promise to net out trades, by bringing some balance to the buys and sells in their book.
Or actually the other way around - what will be in the news, another successful Atlas V or Ariane 5 or a nice big powerful explosion during a test flight ? That can bring a lot of interest from people not to mention disseminate the news about Starship far and wide.
1) The name "Amazon.com" was chosen in 1994 (or possibly January 1995).
2) Subsequently, the company never considered any other name
3) I'm older than you and Jeff
4) I don't have a photographic memory
5) I've been asked twice in court, on Amazon's behalf, to remember things that happened/took place/were done back then.

[ EDIT: added "subsequently" for clarity ]
Monopolies deserve special discrimination
Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
They sent the email to literally everyone, even people without amazon email accounts through the employment website but yeah you are right. There is a caste system within Amazon that even working out of corp office or having a tech job won't save you from.
Any plans to allow references / citations?

cite-proc or bibtex style reference processing would make this very useful for keep a research/science log
I'm curious, what was the reason for starting with books?
That would be pretty amazing if Xorg ever rendered in a way that was even equal to other platforms (mutter, Windows, android, MacOS, ...) given how crazy the separation of concerns in X is and how many silly boundary crossings need to be made to process events and render them.

It would have to rely on compositor and driver bugs in those other platforms.
> the idea didn't grow over time

I always find retrospective and hypothetical discussions of idea genesis and maturation fascinating.

Amazon retail aside, I wonder if you (or anyone else) would be willing to give perspective on AWS:

Was it similarly fully formed on conception?

I’ve heard the (potentially stylized) stories about holiday traffic bursts, selling off-season compute to startups, etc.

But assuming AWS the idea did need to grow with increased perspective, the times, and experience - do you think AWS could have become what it is today if that had been the goal from the onset?
Convert customer commits into consumption.

Mature the ISV and SI ecosystem so partners build the business for them.

Acquire profitable companies to fill critical gaps.

Create differentiated industry solutions and products and sell them based on business outcomes (value based pricing, consulting model).

Just a few ideas.
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That’s nonsense, even the US has trademark laws. They wholesale ripped off parent’s app.
you're right, there are more important numbers when considering headphones, and I forgot or neglected to mention them.
> I don't believe they'd care to censor anything at all.

Old Google maybe. The kind of Google employee who broke down in 2016 asking “How could we let this happen?” has a very different approach.
Tim Cook Speaks at Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference
If I may be so bold, this is in fact one of the very reasons why my team and I have created sharetheboard.com

I have lots of kids and some of them have been forced to spend much more time in front of screens, as schooling has gone fully remote. The problem is that these lessons often take the form of staring at some presentation or someone's screen... broken up only slightly by a myriad of small faces or icons.

Our goal was to help make the remote learning experience a bit more natural: allowing educators to use intuitive, analog tools such as whiteboards and blackboards and, in doing so, keep eye contact with their students. Kids behave (and, I reckon, learn) differently, in this user experience. There's something familiar about seeing your teacher at the "head" of the class, expounding ideas on a board and looking right back at you as she address your question.

I have multiple educators in my family and they've provided great feedback from using the tool. I myself use it for visual collaboration with remote colleagues.

So, I guess, my point is: remote learning is here to stay, in one form or another. But there is a lot we can do to help make it more comfortable, natural, and effective.
Amazon won't spin off AWS, and that's too bad for AWS (2019)
I don’t disagree that he is/was super smart (and hardworking), but he came from a fairly wealthy family too. When he was starting Amazon, his parents invested $300,000 to help get it off the ground. You don’t have $300K to pour into your son’s startup if you aren’t wealthy. Also, when he was growing up his maternal grandparents owned a 25,000 acre ranch in Texas, which suggests significant wealth too. From what I understand his family wasn’t ultra wealthy, but they were well off.

Creating a mega-successful company is extremely difficult. Most people who do so are incredibly smart, incredibly hard working, got very lucky with the idea they chose to pursue (right place, right time), AND come from a wealthy family that can invest in their idea and make it feel like much less of a risk to found a company. Bezos fits all of these criteria, as do most successful tech founders.
I can't say I agree.

They're developing this thing in stages; they've developed and tested the engines, they've developed and are testing launching the thing, they've developed and are testing the re-entry flop. They have partially developed the whole "landing" thing and if you're going to be testing the belly flop, you might as well put whatever you have with regards to landing through its paces as well.

By having a small team develop and test individual parts in stages, you avoid needing a giant team, and you avoid needing to have all of the schedules line up to be ready to go all at once. And it's the engineers who develop the rocket that is expensive, not the manufacturing.

IMHO the benefits of having a completely flexible schedule greatly outweigh the expensive of assuming failure.
elogind from what I could tell started as a hack to get gnome to work outside of systemd. It now provides a way to use gnome without systemd but it's definitely going against the grain. Your comment implies it's easy for gnome to work without systemd. I remember the early days, it was pretty buggy since gnome essentially was built to run with systemd.
Never mind the computer, how do you get power into it?
This story is incorrect. I don't know how Brad Stone could have got this wrong, because I told him the actual origin of the name. It did not come from looking up words in a dictionary. It came from a documentary that Jeff watched about the Amazon river. The concept that particular stuck with him was that the Amazon is not just the biggest river in the world, but is 10x larger than the next largest river. In addition to the alphabetic sorting benefits of the name (important back then), Jeff loved the size metaphor.
Yes, one of my all time favorites.
The principles of architecting code and system design are timeless.

That I emphatically agree with. Some of my favorite programming books are decades old.

There are definitely people out there who don’t “code really well on command”, but can ask the right questions to design a solid system.

There are?

I can't say that I've ever met one.

The problem is that people don't know what they don't know. A non-programmer can know exactly the business problem to solve and exactly how they want to solve it. But they can't tell the difference between what is easy for a programmer and what is hard.

They don't have to learn a ton of programming to fill that bit in. But if they never fill it in, that limitation will keep them from being able to be a good software architect.
Am I missing something or do CSS media queries not solve this problem by providing an actual physical measurement?

What's wrong with using something like:
@media (min-width: 8in)

To determine if someone is using a larger screen (or window)?

Edit:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/css-length-explained/

Seems like 8in is just short-hand for 8*96px. Thanks for nothing, web standards.
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Ah so that's where the train station is...
As with other commenters, I feel like Software Architecture is a bit of an anti-pattern. Software just isn't like buildings in the end. The analogues of space and physics of materials etc are not solid enough in the software world that you can have someone disconnected from the "builders" lay out the whole building and then hand over the designs to be "built". As with agile approaches etc., there is a need for a far more incremental and iterative approach needed for most software projects and even if in practice that is how the architect role works, it is unhelpful to have it named in a way that implies a "waterfall" type process that you would see in building design.

I think most of the advice in the article is actually reflecting this sentiment and in my organisation I am deliberately not creating roles that bear "architect" in the title. The software industry should move on from this term, I think.
Exactly- IIRC the problem with martian atmosphere is that its too thick to ignore (hello Mars Climate Orbiter) yet not thick enough for landing havy craft with parashutes or aero surfaces only. See the crazy sky crane system the latest Mars rovers use to work around it.

That they (at least on paper) have a solution for this problem good enough for a 60 metrr craft weighting 100+ tons makes the whole thing even mord remarkable! :)
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When I read your comment I had high expectations about narrows.

After I looked at it, I have a sour feeling in my mouth. Why there can't be a way (or a library) to do very easy type guards in TypeScript? Something as simple as the keyword `is` in C#
As far as I can tell, the state of the art is to run it for a month and see what the bill is.