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I think the main reason AWS will breakaway will be that it'll just be so different from the rest of Amazon.

I think (for better of worse) the cloud providers - A/G/M + maybe a newcomer yet to be announced - will come to dominate computing in a way most people do not foresee.

Yes, right now they dominate the hardware provision and that will accelerate. But through that, their services will dominate software engineering, and eventually they will dominate not just IDEs and devtools (hence GitHub purchase and VS Code for MS) but they will define programming languages and even what constitutes programming.
The headline buries the lede about these things being able to self-clone hundreds of themselves every few months.
Kid running in the background is the bonus of the video.
I know, but it’s still useless advice. It reminds me of people who do competitive programming as a hobby then act smug when anyone complains about technical interviews.
Isn't Clive James the guy who's famous for the most droll commentary of the Formula 1 "year in review/race in review" races from the 80s?

For US sports fans, you can think of him as analogous to the commentary on the iconic "NFL Films" clips from the 80s and 90s.
i,m working on a project which hits all your points, including compatibility back to netscape 2.0 and ie 3.0.
completely agree...options have a ton of value in risk management
If you had a few traders who sit underneath a buttonwood tree and don't trade with anyone else (e.g. the founders of the New York Stock Exchange) it might be OK.

Say you have a consortium of five banks: 5 copies of the database is not a crazy price to pay for a high level of resilience.

Make that 5000 banks and you are paying 1000x as much but not getting 1000x the resilience.

So many people are obsessed with peer-to-peer solutions, I could also see a blockchain as an answer to (say) having a book lending database for a few friends.
By saying that I didn't meant to attack them as such, but pretty much what you've said in the first paragraph.
It definitely doesn't fit the bill of this thread (no images, not original links), but it's an interesting site nonetheless. I'm amazed at the number of books you've read over the years. I'm shooting for 3 books this year, and that's a 200% increase over last year!

Do you have good memory for the content of the books you've read? Or do some specific books stand out even over several years?
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You can't trust it but somehow your entire business already depends on it?
Absolutely massive portions of real-life walking-talking active-voter human people today don't care about their own kids enough. (Due to various reasons like ideology.) Astonishing number of people don't care about COVID. Why is it hard to believe that anything climate change related is not going to break through their closed mind?
Logic circus don’t have the concept of word and bit lines - metal layers are much much more complex. And it’s inherently less economical to stack transistors because you would have to repeat many steps for every layer.
This is moving the goalposts.

It's possible that the USSR would have been a better system, had the cold war not happened, but that's not the world we live in. If you want to make that argument you have to explain why it's reasonable to excuse how the USSR turned out in reality, and why in your hypothetical world it would have turned out differently.

With respect to space advancement, I suspect the main reason for sustained differences in accomplishments come down primarly to the amount of resources each were able to devote to space. The US was able to sustain a high level of investment for a long time, and the USSR was not.
These kinds of arguments are only ever applied to workers.

Nobody argues that a company having a single legal team that represents all of its managers and sets org-wide hiring policies is anti-efficiency. If you negotiate with a publicly traded company, you are engaging in collective bargaining, because public companies are collectives that represent the multiple interests of multiple stakeholders during negotiations.

Nobody argues that companies are anti-value because they restrict my freedom to negotiate a separate contract with every single member of the company's board. But suddenly it's different if the workers do the same thing.
I think it's more of an internal company tool rather than a family one.

Needs of most family are pretty basic. and not this complicated.
>Even beyond that, how often do you want to do business with / complete a transaction with someone who you trust THAT little?

Not often precisely because of the risks but if those risks are minimized it can expand your range of potential business partners.
One could argue it’s already finished. I was hearing almost identical versions of “no, really, IBM is serious about cloud and that’s obvious from buying us” about a month after SoftLayer closed their deal. I’m starting to wonder if that messaging is in the acquisition welcome packet because the similarities to what my SoftLayer friends argued is remarkable (implying the next step, if history is predictive, is for half of Red Hat to leave and IBM to rename cloud offerings again).

I overheard that Rackspace exited the hybrid market entirely rather than accept IBM terms, which says a lot if true, but it’s watercooler chat and not worth much. It’s plausible because in an “architecture by strategic acquisition” endeavor one courts the cheap options first.
Compliance and regulatory audits (e.g. ISO certification, SOC 2, the list goes on) seem like a candidate to me. There is typically a standard set by one organization, that has to be complied with by (multiple departments within) another organization, and verified by an auditor external to the first two organization (as well as to auditors within each of the organizations.) A database managed by any of the three players wouldn't be trusted by the others, so it seems like a candidate for multi-party distributed trust.
There were manual indexes for sure, but my very first experience with the web was someone excitedly showing me how they could dial in, open this web browser thing, and then... nothing, because they didn't know any websites.

We typed in a few things, but it didn't go anywhere.

I remember he called the browser a "web crawler", which was probably the search engine someone told him to use to find sites. We had no idea.

Otherwise, I have a lot of memories exploring the web by typing in words followed by TLDs and writing down the interesting ones. It was another year or two before aggregators cropped up, copying and returning the first ten results of any manual index.
That is a good question. The answer is that you don't put the data in the blockchain, you just keep the log of who is interacting with the patient and who needs access to the records. ;)
Certainly sounds like one of the most risky areas for trading, if not using options to hedge other positions - which is what I thought they were intended for.

Not something I get involved with, I must say. Far too many 'financial instruments' that I could lose money on!

I have worked on trading room systems software before, but that's mostly about presenting the data, not choosing what to do with it. Automating trades, even worse
Tiny bug: Under Features > RSS, the bottom of the page still mentions Simpleblog instead of Haven.
In my experience, people only want to debate views that are familiar but with a twist. The actual depth of the opinion is not the main factor.

For instance, among those you have listed there is the bog-standard and comforting "we have to control poor people and keep them away from us" but with the pretend-edgy "using heroin" as a twist. An excellent candidate to invite debate.

If you were to express views that were actually alien to them, I sincerely doubt you'd find an audience among your colleagues no matter your personal characteristics.
More a - still somewhat anonymous crime method of payment, cheap/easy way to move money across borders, an easy way to fund things that should not be funded.

Ref: https://www.coindesk.com/north-korea-stole-2-billion-in-cryp...

Ref: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-is-aiding-the-ransomware-in...

Would love to see what good it has done so far.
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I mean... if you don't want to self-host, what's the actual difference between your service and Google Photos then?

You're still giving photos to someone else with a pinky swear they won't do share them further.
I’m more interested in why. Internet vigilantism isn’t a surprise, but when it’s done to defend the establishment against populism it seems wholly unprecedented.
The reason the article is found wanting is that the answer to the question is not really in anything to do with the Regency era per se. It's mostly because Jane Austen was really good at writing romantic comedies, and so set a template that everyone wants to follow in much the same way that nearly all modern era Hollywood romcoms are pale imitations of Nora Ephron's work (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail - which was itself a remake anyway but with the Ephron formula liberally applied).

Ephron's genius, as with Austen's, was not simply the fact that she seemed to have come up with a winning formula, there was also an enormous amount of craft, wit, originality and compassion involved.
European applicants only? Any comment on pay scale?
> ps. amazon employee #2

I hope it worked out for you! Early days employees bear a high risk.

How was Amazon back then when only a handful people ran the show? Any lessons to be learned?
Haha hilarious. I'm sorry about it, but this is a great example of what I'm talking about
How do you figure the time was not polarizing? This reeks of nostalgia. Jane Austen's time, for instance, was an incredibly volatile time in the labor market. She just doesn't acknowledge contemporary issues because they weren't relevant to the stories she wanted to tell.

Meanwhile if you watch "You've Got Mail", the fact that it does touch on contemporary issues sours the whole film.
that is awesome! Are you using a platform like Udemy or something on your own? I'm also curious if you are publishing courses in areas you are genuinely interested in or strictly doing for income?
Our performance gains have primarily been in serialization, so response times are way better. It used to take multiple seconds for some things to serialize in DRF, and down to sub seconds. Its like 4x faster in that regard.

Yeah, meant Pydantic Models, SQL Alchemy models, and the actual endpoints. Its a lot of repetition in places. But the finer grained controls have been good for us so far. You just have to write the models, and don't need to worry as much about input validation in your own code. Which has been great.
Two very different things. Insurance is to protect the consumer (if applied correctly), whereas shorters want and benefit off of the misery of others.
> one of them only learning this after a neighbor tried to annex a chunk of his land

Property rights are messy.

How do you create a new category of mineral rights a hundred years into the blockchain?

Also: Rule change! City is changing parcel sizes by narrowing sidewalks. Another rule change! Single-family home neighborhood rezoned to multi-family; two plots are mostly (but not completely) combining to create a multi-family plot with air rights bought from the church next door. Rule change! Everything east of this line of longitude in those two towns (but not unincorported county land as of the 2009 geological survey) is now federal property per eminent domain.
great point!! leverage is amazing!
Every top level comment seems to be making a joke that blockchain has no use, or that IBM have no real use for it.

Look at how quickly funds in defi projects (i.e. non-speculative, useful projects) are growing, and please explain how you will create trustless, accessible financial products (e.g. lending and exchange) using databases. Then please tell me why it's inappropriate that IBM, who consult for competitors to these decentralised finance products, shouldn't have a big interest in blockchain.
Show HN: Sharethatpopcorn.com, watch a movie together online
Yeah, there's loads of these. We used to use BackThen which used to be called something else, got bought by Canon and then sold back to the founders. It's decent enough, but now I just use iCloud shared photo albums as none of the people I share with use Android.
Real estate deed ownership database - immutable distributed database spread around regional government offices.

Speaking from my experience, the records are being kept horribly over here, there were many projects to cenralize it but the original data is in such sorry state that it is basically impossible. Not to mention that it is very profitable for some that it is in such sorry state.

They key idea is that you are unable to modify who owned what in the past, only change ownership in the current time, and the records, as per current system, are spread all over the local government entities.

Same thing for financial ledgers - immutable record of transactions to which only banks can write to.

I think that stocks are too volatile, but it is a such shock to me that you can only find out who actually owns a specific stock at T-2 ..

In both cases there is no competition for who solves the next block faster, so costs of computation costs can be kept low. I'm more attached to immutability of such databases, than distributed trust, but one cannot exist without other in blockchain.
This is fantastic discovery, I don't want to take anything from it. If you would have your car battery in such form, in case of accident, there would be potential that all this static energy gets released at once, which wouldn't be pretty.

Again, really good discovery, even if capacity is not on par with current batteries, making it practical would allow for more reusable energy storage.
There are a lot of claims made to try to apply CT to programming; I agree most of that effort is overhyped.

But CT in general has nothing to do with programming, it's proper role is in pure mathematics
Those are great feature-rich platforms, but their focus is on public distribution. Configuring them to be private isn't trivial and even then they're much more complex to operate. Haven focuses on privacy and I've tried to make it easier to use, sort of like how Trello got a lot of popularity by being a simpler, easier-to-use alternative to Jira.
You don't need a blockchain but a blockchain can potentially give the public guarantees that an opaque government solution usually does not.
Hey Hacker News!

Recently I wanted to watch a movie with a friend online. I had the movie locally on my computer and could not find an easy way to watch that movie together. So I built it myself :-).

This is still a prototype! It is functional - but you should be using Chrome and your desktop computer . But if people find this project useful, I'd be glad to support other platforms as well!

Technology: I am using a simple nodejs server in the backend and react in the frontend. The server is used shortly to create a WebRTC connection. From then on all communication is done using WebRTC only. Thankfully you can easily share the content of a HTML video component using captureStream/mozCaptureStream :-).

I would love to hear your feedback!
HP had a phone with a similar feature, based on Windows Phone.
Nice work! I setup a private page for sharing baby photos with friends and family too. We only post photos with a small description, so I opted for e-mail as my “api”. The server runs a script periodically and just rebuilds the full “feed” as a single html file based on those mails. It also does some image and video optimization/normalization, but it’s all statically served via nginx.
You might be interested in https://trustlines.network
Just to add to your point which covers speculation, options can also serve as an insurance policy (hedge). Have a large exposure to the stock market and are not looking to sell? Buy puts and receive a payout if the market drops (simplified explanation, of course).
You'll also find a lot of Google search results for "tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified". I wish it was as simple as just calling tput, but you need to write a bunch of logic anyway.
Building an online course has been one of the easiest ways to make money in my personal experience.

The problem is that most people focus on what they know and spend hours creating the content for the course.

However, most of your success is going to come from building an email list of at least 1k people. And most of the effort should be here BEFORE you start building the course.

I've done that many times and have been profitable since, even after outsourcing most of the work.
> Now I'll only figure out if there is a setting to keep it enabled by default - to inverse the scroll button behavior.

If you're using xinit (or startx) to fire up you Xorg, you can run the xinput commands in your xinitrc: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit

A decent window manager or desktop environment setup (if it isn't intended for running with xinit) will offer some other way of automating this.

But there's also the option of doing this configuration on the Xorg server side in some xorg.conf, like in the links I gave previously.
That's a display, read, react loop. Yes, it's imperative, but this loop is always imperative. Get a FRP GUI toolkit in Haskell and you'll see that loop there, imperative.

The difference between functional and imperative code is there existing more than one such loop available at the same time, and in how your functions are implemented.
I don't use many snippets, probably less than a hundred.

Just tried it again. Not as slow as I remember, the syntax is also cleaner than AHK. Switching to it now :)
AMD's supply issue is harming its best chance of gaining market share
Bell Labs are also ran by the scientists themselves, with AT&T largely not caring because it has to spend that money anyways.

You can get a good grip of what's going on in the lab in Brian Kernighan's <Unix, A history and a memoir>. It's a good read.
#BLM has challenged that period in the UK and US. And it was a terrible period, with those vast idyllic country estates being built on the backs of slavery abroad and Enclosure of common land at home.

Slavery is being acknowledged now, but the Enclosures still don't figure in the national narrative.

But Regency Romance has been a money spinning genre for a very long time, and it's not more popular now than it used to be.

Nor is there any evidence of conscious narrative control by editors and publishers. There's far more evidence of that elsewhere - for example in both the mytho-feminist and techno-dystopian ends of contemporary SF.

But it's actually most obvious in period and class-specific movies and soaps, which the UK specialises in, and which are a very different genre to romantic fiction.

Here's the creator of Downton Abbey. He's now working on a US equivalent called - unsurprisingly - The Gilded Age. Could he possibly have an angle to sell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Fellowes
Do they explode if you look at them funny?
EXIF data says that images was generated using Photoshop CS3, which was released in 2007.
Pretty much this. Would be interesting to know how many tens of billions were wasted on blockchain projects that nobody needs.
That literally just happened, and democracy was the process by which it occurred.
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There has been a similar movement with billboards, too. I’m reminded of this recent reddit post[1] showing before & after photos of Poland. I think there are a few states in the US that prohibit outdoor advertising, too. I suppose a city’s ambience is a “commons” in a way.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/l0p31m/in_poland_we...
From the features, it seems like the focus is on granting different access to different people on a per-post basis.

> There is no option to make your blog public to the world. You get to create an account for anyone you want to have access

...

> If you want a public blog to build a base of followers, or promote a product, or try to profit from your blog—this isn't the right service for you. I suggest you use Wordpress instead.
This is super off topic, but I also find working with video UIs frustrating for this reason. For my own needs, I have been working on a video editing tool that has a workflow more similar to web dev. E.g. describe changes in text files and render the final video on the command line. https://github.com/andykais/ffmpeg-templates
If there's no profit, the investors and the company owners have taken the risk and share it equally. What's the problem?

I'm not aware of Pakistan's Army deal with the IMF. If they took on an interest bearing loan, it's their problem they got themselves into.
I'm working on many projects with RedHat, and have heavily dealt with IBM in the past.

I can definitely confirm that the IBM statement is true. Execs signed on many projects, and we were always stuck with a blue pile of unusable garbage at the end. For twice the price orginally agreed to...

Working with RedHat as of today is still, well, working with RedHat. Highly competent people building things that will run well for a long time, and (so far) still at a reasonable cost. I do start to see some changes on pricing (high increases are on the horizon...), and more red tape around things that don't fit in the standard boxes. So i'm trying to decouple some areas from being fully dependant to more standardized/vendor agnostic models to keep options opened (mainly in container space).
Ah that might be what I was thinking of, haven’t played either.
Even which doctor someone visited is confidential data one ideally would not preserve when not needed anymore (and "ideally" might very well be law). Health data is messy, and I have trouble imagining a solution that puts it on a blockchain but allows only private access to everything and has a chance of fixing instances of leaked credentials while still getting value from the fact that there is a blockchain. (If there is prior work on this that actually goes into detail I'd be happy about pointers - sadly a lot of this stuff seems to end at the stage of whitepapers when it comes to public information)
But since IBM is canning the blockchain group, it's safe to say that those implementations are far from tried-and-true.
The Logitech mx ergo has this with a little switch and it’s super useful.
> you are unable to modify who owned what in the past

So we throw out the entire body of law around fraudulent conveyance?
I have alternatively heard this distinguished as:

- UX Product Managers (close to users)

- Technical Product Managers (close to developers)

I've written about this a little bit here for the curious: https://alexpetralia.com/posts/2019/10/14/product-management...
The insane disconnect between the actual engineering (which often exists, can actually be useful, and DOES have real-world applications) and their marketing department is so absolutely cringe-worthy. I can't imagine that there was a single technically minded person who saw some of those blockchain TV ads and didn't want to look away.
> Voters

Just the two? Because it has been a while since I heard anyone ask "Who is John Galt?"
not easy at all...definitely something that requires taking a longer term view/approach
ProPublica writers fall for these types of pitches all the time. They never do their homework - if something sounds bad to laymen, they’ll write a story stripped of context. It’s incredible.