skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-to-determine-if-am...

It is best in extreme cases. Some types of high scale use and super super cheap serverless/bootstrapping startup smaller scale.

Low-scale - it is easy to create a table and just start writing to it. The pay per request pricing is simple and plays well with IAM, other AWS services and the serverless framework.

High-scale - scales easily up and down, global replication is easy, backups and high availability are easy - it is all self-managed so a lot of this is baked in or very easy to toggle on. Depending on your ops resources, the easy tooling may be worth the extra costs or maybe your data lends it self particularly well to how dynamodb works.

Some of our use cases ....

- user profiles to supplement cognito user attributes

- chat/chat groups/chat group memberships/chat websocket watchers/chat messages (this one was not good. I would do it again with just messages and the websocket watchers)

- tenant data with lots of custom attributes

- forms and form submissions

- event webhooks from 3rd party services - catch/store/process using dynamodb streams

- step function states and logs - it has some nice versioning write patterns

- web scraping data from ebay

- web scraping data from golf tee time sites

When you need search or flexible querying you can put elasticsearch in front of it and use dynamodb streams to push items into the index. If you need analytics you can use another layer like redshift.
The most important thing about humans is which ones I'm allowed to attack.
That ignores cash transactions entirely.

You can also cash a check, of course.
Travis-ci shuts down the free tier for cURL
When you're, like 2 years old, and you want a toy in the sandpit, you grab it. And if some other kid has it, too bad for them, because you want it, and that's what's important.

Somehow, most people manage to figure out that this kind of behavior isn't appropriate, and hide the issue under the blanket of being-a-decent-human-being.

I don't understand how dealing with sexual or romantic feelings is any different.
Amazon Basics is top quality.
Big companies are redesigning their offices in response to Covid-19
the problem is there’s always someone knew who hasn’t been fooled by it, and it can sound good at first.

i remember i believed in it in 2013 before becoming disillusioned. but there’s people who first bought it in 2020 who tell me i don’t understand ot
Please consider my application for member status at your society for epeolatry. (always liked that one)
We can tell people the money goes to their kids, but tax it after the parent dies, so their feelings aren't hurt.
>>things that can also be leveraged and positively.

And, exactly how is this NOT overcoming human nature?

>> should avoid is cramming people into functionary roles and instruct them they must act as would a machine

What in that quote, or its context, ever suggested cramming people into functionary or mechanical roles?
You didn't notice? This chat is mostly composed of people salty because they didn't buy when they had the chance. Oops!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction

https://freakonomics.com/2008/12/16/an-all-pay-auction/
This is what consumers' associations do all day. You usually have to pay to read their research, which helps them maintain their independence.
The problem is the auction mechanic is too complex for young kids so it rarely gets taught.

The second problem is young kids make dumb moves causing themselves to go bankrupt really quickly which causes crying/tantrums/etc so parents and older siblings do everything possible to make the game eat up as much time as possible (e.g. house rule - giving out cash on free parking)
I'm not even sure I understand what you're trying to say.
I'm not surprised by this anymore. They've gone from full anti-trust lawsuit for Internet Explorer, to just riding the cliff edge of what they believe they can get away with. See: Skype, Teams installer, Office.

This will continue as long as it's in their interest to be in control of as much of the software stack as possible.

Another side of their underhanded marketing is where decision makers looking at collaboration or business apps are faced with the question of, "why bother evaluating something else (i.e. better) when we get this included in our Microsoft E5 license?"
AI doesn't need weapons.

Just shutdown the grid worldwide for one month. 90% of the population will die.
Mine, this goes away if I restore windows factory image or boot to linux.

The windows refresh joy typically lasts about two weeks and then the jet engine starts again, laggy, some long waits - something in some windows apps/drivers it really does not seem to like and I havent tracked it down yet.
This is another thing cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been doing for a long time: name dropping some companies who are supposedly embracing bitcoin but without any evidence of actual user adoption.

Newegg and Overstock don't even take payment in bitcoin. They allow you to use a third party processor to exchange bitcoin for USD then immediately transfer the funds to the retailer. There's no evidence that these payment mechanisms have ever been more than a rounding error in these retailer's sales.
As your application gets larger it's not that easy. Even if your code hot reloads all the time, getting to the piece of code that breaks might take 10 clicks or you are working on some feature that has quite a few combinations for use and/or settings that influence it. Maybe some feature flags thrown in. With this setting off and that feature flag on, suddenly your integer is a string. Boom runtime error but only because your QA thought of it when testing it 3 days after you already moved on to another ticket.
I think it's like movies and videogames - something new that comes out is interesting and novel, and a subset of old games are good enough that new people joining the scene will want a copy
I like this page layout, especially with the "footnotes" in the margin.
You could probably do worse
> where’s the real economic activity?

If all the speculative activity isn't real enough, how about the ransoms being paid to ransomware authors?
Check you are using proper rules. There are many house rules prolonging the game (no auction, money collected on free parking, uneven house building, limiting numbers of houses in the game, ...)

After reading the rules you can use the time they save arguing rules and why some wants to use house rules ...
How do you think your bank manages to make billions of dollars in profit every year? Do you think the money that millions of Americans lend to them for effectively 0% returns has anything to do with it? What do you imagine they do with that money, and how does it differ substantially from what DeFi calls yield farming?
Intel used to just have branch hint prefixes but they decided to ignore them on modern (from Pentium 4) models. Perhaps Apple found a corner case where it does help, it could be Intel can do some optimization that Apple cant implement due to patents, or it’s just an experiment that is destined to fail as well.
Tell me then, why does usage in Venezuela (and other countries) as a hedge against hyperinflation not count as real-world positive usage?

You can also tell me, as a nerd who has lived through both eras, why my experience doesn't count?
Everybody who's buying that electricity has a reason, and everybody sending those people money has a reason, and so on down the chain.
Reasonably private online payments. It's the closest to cash on the internet in terms of privacy.

(HN is a very pro-privacy community, judging from Apple vs. Google discussions, so I take it for granted that a desire for privacy doesn't need further justification or elaboration.)
I’ve always wondered what the difference between “orient” and “orientate” is... apparently there’s no difference, it’s just a UK vs US thing
Does the following scenario often happen with value engineering or is it just my mind playing tricks on me?

A product category exists at around $450–500 and there are plenty of household who do without. It gets value engineered down to a $100 product and sees mass adoption. However, 90% of the market for the original $500 product also chooses the half-broken $100 version, leading to the $500 quality moving upmarket (such that it now costs $1000) or disappearing altogether (or moving to a commercial appliance that is unfit for household use).
>end up reading the source half the time, anyway; documentation is often incomplete, dated, and possibly incorrect.

I'm a pretty firm believer that documentation has to live next to the code. Otherwise it's nearly guaranteed to be out of date and/or incomplete
Chris Bloomstran on Social Capital's 2020 Annual Letter
Because people are willing to pay a premium on interest to avoid cap gains.
Forget about it, it's a fluff piece to advertise his new book.
The other side is interested in the premium they charge for their trouble.
No it did not, but art did and still does. A lot of art in the future will have a non-fungible identity on chain. It's starting and will only grow rapidly.
For those who can't find the video on the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auRlh-f2wwQ.

As hn_throwaway_99 mentions below, the "Slaughterbots" video is not too far off from how STM presents their equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg.
What is the advantage here of doing the metaprogramming in a different language from the one you're manipulating?
The US outspent the USSR. China is outspending the US.

The USSR went broke and collapsed. The US is broke and will collapse.
18,000 watt-hours isn't much for an entire year either.

18,000 watt years is far more than a typical house would use, but perhaps a big house with AC or heating jammed on all year while mining bitcoins could manage it...
I simply cannot stand to use my phone as a remote. I hate it with a passion every time my real remote's batteries die and I have to use the phone app for a while before I get around to getting more AAAs.

There are 2 problems for me:
1) I cannot tell by feel what to press to quickly mute, jump back 10 seconds, pause, etc. I have to look at the phone.

2) When I look at the phone, my phone has locked. So I have to wait a second for face-id (or enter a passcode if its too dark).
Sticky headers/floating headers: I also like to use the keys to scroll a page at a time. Meta-CSS (which isn't really defined yet, nor implemented) would help to do what they are doing there. I don't like sticky headers and "fixed relative to screen" stuff like that, either. (I don't use the bookmark bar though.) (I also think that vh units should not be used.)

Cookie notices: You shouldn't need it. Mostly, cookies should not be needed at all. But if used anyways, the user should customize in the browser settings to enable/disable cookies, limit their duration, and/or to edit specific cookie values. If cookies are used, they ought to be documented somewhere in the web site, but an annoying popup notice or anything like that is not needed; just a simple documentation link with the documentation, like with any other documentation that they may have.

Scroll to top buttons: I hate it. If I want to scroll to the top, I can push the home key. Likewise, push the end key to scroll to the bottom.

Interstitial: Also bad. But, I like to disable the scripts anyways. Even if enabled, the browser should provide options to fast-forward (including to infinity, and beyond). The feature to get rid of them would then also gets rid of initial fades, CSS animations, and other stuff that is also annoying and that I don't like.

Being able to block scripts and cookies is not good enough; is needed the ability for the user to substitute scripts, cookies, request/response headers, etc, by whatever criteria is wanted (e.g. the presence or absence of something, or the URL, or the integrity attribute). And, many other things too.
It's certainly surprising to Stenberg, because up until now Travis made a big deal about how much they use curl internally, and generously donated more compute for curl CI.

And look, even if they weren't a huge commercial curl user, passing up a chance to sponsor a foundational library of the internet is such a short-sighted move that I'm actually amazed at them. I'd think companies would jump at the chance of recognition and developer goodwill that would come from sponsoring curl.
Skimming the free chapter and ToC I'm guessing it assumes some fundamental algorithms since it takes knowing how to sort for granted.
> At least as an optional setting (even though I have no idea why someone wouldn't want that).

Copy/pasting? At least each three zeroes could alternate in color, to make it easier to paste the numbers elsewhere.
No, economies based on gold or bitcoin can ONLY grow by inflating their currency ....

At the moment our economies grow because we can print more money ... and of course most national/reserve banks are careful to not print so much currency that inflation becomes an issue, just enough to cover the economic growth.
Interesting. I've been buying thinkpads throughout most of my career. However, my latest laptop is a XPS 13. I really enjoy it, I use it to develop and it works very well both in docked mode as well as on the go. It's lightweight and super powerful yet quiet.

Meanwhile, my business laptop, the one the company provides me, has been macbooks for the most part, recently I've got a dell latitude. The latitude is one of the worst laptops I've had, bulky, heavy, noise. Yet, in terms of performance, I can't say I really see any differences in my day to day usage. On top of it all, the bluetooth is constantly causing issues, which I've never had with any of my previous laptops.

What do you like about the dell latitude line?
I made tons of Desktop applications for Windows. Not a single one uses UWP. All are native Win32. Zero problems with acceptance / distribution for them not being UWP. Also probably worth mentioning that for Desktop Windows apps I use Delphi and its open source sibling - Lazarus. Those provide very nice GUI toolkits and are true RAD tools while producing reasonably fast native code.
I switched to a personal NAS that has ML categorization: https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/184909893

I think the Synology NAS do the same.
> You could no longer buy a pizza with it

I have bought a lot of pizzas with BTC (and other cryptocurrencies), as the local food ordering platform accepts it. Worked grear, but at some point the crypto payment processor started requiring KYC. I'm not gonna upload my passport to pay for pizza. I dont know if this problem is because of crypto or excessive regulation.
You have thing upside down. Crypto, its fast-moving technology and implications on the financial system, economics, politics and the media is so vast that it costs thousands of hours to study.

Your strategy is to say "you're wrong, prove me right". No, I won't be writing book-length comments here to convince some internet stranger whom is categorically against it.

I have no burden of proof. I'm not even a proponent or opponent. All I said is that it's complicated and two-sided, to keep an open mind.

I'm not here to explain you crypto.
Does XLST count then?
With full auctions and adults going at it, Monopoly is brutal, mean and not really fun for kids.

As a kid I would get knocked out super quick by my uncle, who would then typically have a 6 hour non-stop Monopoly throwdown with my mother after they eliminate the casuals.

Everyone else who played would get their feelings hurt but those two were absolutely brutal with each other and loved it.
It may not suit you for other reasons, but a cellular Apple Watch will call for help for you if you get dumped off the horse.

I think they're a no brainer for riders, be it motorcycle, bicycle, or horses. If it's not a bad spill, you can cancel, but opt-out is far superior to opt-in for this scenario.
Ah, that statement makes much more sense when you correct it to fintech.

I think I’d be inclined to point towards “neo-banks” as being more innovative in that specific sector, but that’s within “reasonable to disagree” range.
> The correct question would be: does it make sense to require the athletes to go through this.

Yes, that's what I asked. Does it make sense to make attending these events an obligation?

> These sponsors hold commercial rights to these events and require such interviews for their own promo goals.

Is that true? I've seen this repeated several times, so I guess I should assume that you guys know, but I'd rather have a source for what use the sponsors have for the interviews. It really seems to be for the media.
Amortise it.

How much does your shipping cost you per year? Set your profit margin high enough to cover that.

Why do anything more complicated than that?

People don't want to be bothered with shipping costs. They just want to get the item.
Because some viruses are ERVs and some are not. Those that are are "part of me" and those that aren't aren't. (Isn't that obvious?)
You're totally right
Get. Out.
If you write a message send in Objective-C, like [object doSomething], behind the scenes the compiler translates this to a call to the objc_msgSend function in the Objective-C runtime library. This function looks up what code needs to run, taking into account inheritance and all the other dynamic features and runs it. So this function runs really often and is an important target for optimization.
Its called "settlement" when its final. You probably dont need that ever or dont even know there is a difference between a payment and settlement but financial systems do know the difference very well. They just hide it from the end user. Settlement is the actually difficult part the rest is just moving numbers around. After all fiat is mostly digital.

And BTW no we dont need bitcoin for this at all its depreciated tech. But other DLT can be very usefully.
There is a reason CBDCs are a huge topic in global finance.
Thoughts on “Convergence” in Platforms
The ideal board game is easy to learn while being difficult to master.

Your friends put you through the ringer of what I imagine were overly complex games -- some people are into those, but I agree, they are not fun :)

Kanban EV, Brass: Birmingham, Feast of the Odin

Examples of recent games I've played which meet that easy learning / hard mastery blend
> I’m guessing most people learned to play without reading the actual rules.

Wait, Monopoly has rules?
Read the comments on HN and you will understand how early we are.
I don't we are there yet. I buy plenty on eBay because it is cheaper than amazon.
You're certainly welcome to try PhotoStructure! It's got very robust de-duplication, supports portable libraries (so you can automatically sweep your photos scattered across many drives and computers into a single timestamped folder structure), and a novel UI showing a random sampled view of your library.

There's also an active forum for both support and to discuss what and how new features are built out.

https://photostructure.com/

Disclaimer: I'm the (only) author.
Also Chevron is only a very small part of their portfolio. Another way to look at this is that Berkshire currently only owns $2.4 million of Chevron stock while BHE is investing $18 billion of their own money this year alone to build transmission lines to connect wind generation to populated areas.
I could write a bunch of words to explain why a non-financial pivot isn’t technically possible, but instead I’ll just ask this: “if the blockchain is so useful, why hasn’t anyone done anything with it beyond Ponzi schemes and fraud?”
Beyond cryptocurrency, how many other applications have either been built around or shifted to primarily function off of blockchain? This isn't meant as a gotcha question, but it is something that I can honestly say I can't think of any.

In terms of cryptocurrency, from my perspective the problem for mass adoption comes down to stability of value and oversight. Why would anyone want their paycheque to come to them in crypto when a few tweets by Elon Musk, lord of crypto market manipulation can turn your 2k paycheque into a 1.1k paycheque?

On top of that, for good or for ill the big banks and credit card companies have decades of built up trust in that there is a centralised authority who can ensure that your money is safe. Irregardless of what the reality of crypto and the safety of your money in crypto, the wider public will not trust that their money is safe when there is no one to be held accountable if something happens.

Finally, the fact that crypto has, to the wider public at least, been shown to have significant benefits for criminal activity and speculators actively trying to manipulate the markets has painted the entire crypto space as something that the average person should generally avoid at all costs.

In theory, I liked the original idea of crypto. But the truth is that crypto was good-intentioned idealism corrupted by selfishness and greed.
'designed (apparently) by unregenerate misanthropes'

haha! I try to keep myself to one complaint or less per day, and ten cuss-words or less per day. The days I break my cuss-word quota are the days I use the microwave.
> ...without any evidence of actual user adoption.

For example of Square:

> Its mobile payment service Cash App has been its flagship product. However, in recent times, while Square reported that cash transactions at its U.S. merchants as a percentage of overall transactions fell from more than 50% in 2015 to around 30% today, the bulk of the company’s revenue this past year – around 56% – came from Bitcoin transactions. Over the past year, revenue from bitcoin was $1.8 billion – a whopping 10X increase over 2019’s revenues in this category. [0]

So this 10X increase isn't an indicator of adoption then, they just made up this figure?

[0] https://leverageshares.com/en/insights/square-paypal-catalys...
I think the real competition for a harmony is just HDMI CEC.

I recently moved and got a new TV. It can control everything (NVidia Shield + sound bar) with its remote via CEC. So I no longer need a Harmony for this simple setup.

If I had kept my old receiver, then I'd have needed to port my Harmony setup forward.
Neither is Sears/Craftsman. The stuff they're selling now under that name really doesn't live up to the historic quality of that brand in its heyday, and a lot of old-timers I've talked to don't seem to have caught on yet.

I have some older Craftsman tools that seem indestructible, and I really hope they are, because you can't get replacement parts or support for pretty much any Craftsman tool any more (even the newer ones).
> Prime customers get pretty much anything delivered in two days.

So? That has nothing to do with my comment.

Amazon used to let you select a shipping speed! The benefit of Prime was that two-day shipping was free, not that it made anything any faster.

You can no longer do this. Amazon will tell you how long they plan to take to deliver the item. Do you want it faster than that? Suck it up. Did it, in fact, take longer? Suck it up.
That’s commitment!

I would rather drive them to the nearest board game shop, have them pick any other game :)
If you are a client and have really bad service, you don't come back.

Are you a client and subscriber of Amazon ?
Yeah, I'm usually good at picking up humor online, but I see so many people wasting their lives trying to appease corporations in ways that ultimately don't matter. It's very sad to watch.
Nope. Don't think we should go this direction.
"Smart contracts" (public finance bots) are basically Ponzi-as-a-Service. Someone launched an explicit "PonziCoin" on ETH even.

"It's just overtaken" is not a great take. The problems are way more fundamental – the whole concept of trustless irreversible digital cash just does not work in the real world for normal transactions.
> Washington developed some well-founded complaints about Chinese economic behaviour — and launched a trade war.

The trade war started by China with the basis for those "well-founded complaints". But it was only called a trade war when the US realized it and openly retaliated - after much of their industry and know-how got outsourced.