skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the lead developer is the manager
What is the equivalent phone today to the X86 Linus did his work on? Neither iOS or Android is anywhere near this, so what are the alternatives?
> It's like taking a random byte sequence from some binary, shoving it randomly into another, and the new binary gets useful new features.

If you think about it for a moment, our genetic code is kind of designed to work that way.

You get half of your genetic code from your mom, the other half from your dad, and somehow, all of these genes "just work" together. It's kind of miraculous when you think that there are very many genes that encode how your brain works, and how your liver works, your muscles, etc. Somehow, provided the baby can be born, a mishmash of genes from two different individuals almost always works out.
How can it be that unlimited high costs can arise with AWS?
Hello all,

I would like your opinion on unlimited costs at AWS.

One of my customers, had, the perfect use case for the Step Functions I read about. I worked with it for a few days and was able to see the first results quite quickly. Shortly after that, I started the service that used the API gateway to accept data and process it through multiple processes using Step Functions. The cost was about 50$-100$ per day. Due to another feature request, from my customer, I extended the Step Function with a waiting loop, which looked ideal in my mind. Unfortunately, my idea turned out to be a big mistake. I built some kind of loop in one of the steps. At the beginning everything looked fine and my workflow worked exactly as it should. I watched the Step Machine for another day. Everything looked good and I took a few days off after a stressful time. However, in my absence the queue kept growing and suddenly I had 1000 tasks running in parallel and the costs shot up to $2000 a day. On the last day of my little break, I pulled up the AWS iOS app and frightened when I saw the "Estimated Costs" for this month. 33,000 $.

This project is my first contact with AWS and went completely wrong. I directly contacted the support and hoped that I can be helped. I hoped they could give me a refund.

The whole ticket was opened on 01.06.2021 and closed on 10.06.2021. 9 days I hoped that I could be helped. At the end they apologized for the waiting time, but they could not offer me a solution.

For me as a self-employed person it is a disaster, since it is my fault.

- What would have happened if the infinite loop, would cost $10,000 per day? When would AWS respond? For every credit, no matter how small, the credit rating is checked, why can I incur unlimited costs with AWS?

- What can I do better in the future and more importantly, how can I prevent that costs could rise unlimited?

- Is there a way to turn off all services at once?
Nothing I can show of it yet, but I encourage you to look into the WebUSB and WebBT APIs with an open mind.

I know a lot of HN users don't like them because they see it as a gateway to fingerprinting, not sure how much truth there is to that but for me I see there is a huge benefit to devices being able to communicate with our computers over open and understandable protocols.

Currently today, say you buy an IOT device you have to download a smartphone app. On a long enough timeline that smartphone app will stop being updated and then eventually it will stop working after an OS update, especially if its iOS and then at that point the device basically becomes landfill fodder.

If it were WebUSB or WebBT you just need to ship a web page, there is a greater chance that web page will still work down the line with newer browsers, if it doesn't rely on a server you could even archive that web page and at least it's easier to reverse engineer. Not to mention the web app will work on Linux too, no need to ship platform specific executables.

For me WebUSB and WebBT are great moves towards more sustainable and maintainable hardware.
Silly me, I thought from the link title that this article would help me understand buy now pay later finance.
The new tool seems like an early version as well, with pretty basic functionality.

In the example where it is supposed to "viewing a message, marking the message as read, and finally calling reactions.add"...it doesn't really do those things in a real chain. They just have a 5 second delay after "view a message", then run the "mark message as read", then a 60 second delay, then calling reactions.add. I'm not sure that mimics real end user behavior terribly well.

It seems like they could have used jMeter rather than making a home-grown web sockets test client. Perhaps there's some requirement where existing tools don't work well.
I know this is a joke, but the "park" in parkway is meant to refer to a common area with neatly kept greenery.
Thank you HN for helping us reach $21M Series-A milestone
Generally there's a dropdown to select your country, often next to or integrated into the language and currency selection
I agree. Social media sucks. Zuckerberg, you here? Facebook sucks. Twitter boss? Twitter sucks. Haters hating on each other while people make money. Sort of how prisons work as well, just a different context. Prisons for the mind. Keep people locked in. Make money. Haters gonna hate.
>Is that functionally different than channels for the purposes of turning off marketing notifications?

I don't think so, it's just built into the OS which I personally prefer.

>The problem I have are the apps which don't allow that, which presumably also wouldn't allow to separate them into channels for the same reason they don't let you turn them off.

I think Apple is in a good position to enforce this though, given how strict their review process can be. They could easily reject apps that didn't use notification channels properly. I'm sure some would find a way to abuse but I think that would be a minority.

As I said I was surprised on Android by how many apps actually used them, despite not being enforced. I can only imagine they would be even better on iOS, which is why I'm so confused as to why Apple hasn't.
> We're talking about a new type of car feature, one that needs constant work and updates.

Why would it need constant updates? They should release and sell the feature when it is done.
> NASA's shuttle contractor, Rockwell, built a "main propulsion test article" for the space shuttle in the 1970s, and it underwent more than a dozen test firings at Stennis. However, this test campaign ended in January 1981, three months before the first space shuttle launch. In other words, the shuttle test article, with its three main engines, served to uncover any problems before flight.

> That will not happen with the SLS test article. NASA is planning the first launch of this rocket, with its core stage, within the next nine months. After this test flight, launching an uncrewed Orion around the Moon, a second flight with astronauts is due to follow in 2023, with potentially a third mission in 2024. The whole point of a test article is to test the system before a high-stakes launch, not afterward.
If I remember correctly that depends a lot on the interpretation of the word linking in the GPL. A lot of the license language only works reliably for C code and expectations around it, and things tend to break down in more dynamic languages.
VAT is uniform across all of Germany. Therefore detailed location information isn't necessary. The country can be inferred reasonably accurately from the IP. You can have a drop-down somewhere to correct the country if necessary.

~~And I don't think there's a law that requires you to show the price including tax, but it's definitely expected.~~ I have been corrected: it is indeed required.
Assuming you happen to have one of those products that need to move in the exact same place as oil once did, sure. But a lot of these pipelines go between wells and refineries or docks, a path useless for anything but oil.
I think yields are ~100% actually, I've read the chip is architected in a way that if any of those cores doesn't work the rest of the chip still works.
"Helpful" tips when you get a new iPhone for one example. I also think I vaguely remember being very surprised that Photos advertised to me about being able to buy printed photo albums or something like that once? But I may be mis-remembering it with Google Photos.
Right, that's what I was thinking of. They created an opt-out system for publishers.

The reader can guess how Brave expects to make money with a free browser that is handing out BAT :-)
Agreed. Payhip is another one.
Does this mean we won't see lawns in Scottsdale that look like they belong in Florida?
You underestimate how much of effort and money it takes to maintain fork of a browser. Chromium is project as big as Linux kernel (if not larger), but it's primary developed by Google emplyees so they have huge influence on direction of the project.
This looks great. Implementing Avalara for tax calculation was a large pain across multiple dimensions.

Stripe Tax integrates with TaxJar for automatic US tax filing [1]. I wish TaxJar had clearer pricing [2], as 12 filings a year is tiny.

[1]: https://www.taxjar.com/pricing/
[2]: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/reports
It sounds like you've gone from one extreme to another. None of the things you mention pale in comparison to software engineering at all. They are all solvable problems that many people can do. Sometime they are difficult, often they are not. Managers are certainly not useless and do work for certain types of organizations. They are not always needed though. Believe it or not there are people capable of managing and programming at the same time. You seem to be one of them so your view point is very strange.
Inexperienced developers can be delusional especially if they see their role as 100% banging out JIRA tickets
Thanks for pointing that out -- I've updated the title :)
Because it seems to cause cortical thinning https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135731/ which is correlated with psychosis https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/952628 and so has been associated as partly causal?
Definitely agree with never, but I'll let Bret do the talking!

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
Well said. 100% agreement.

Last year, I found myself in an unusually unhappy place. Partly COVID lockdowns, partly changes at work, partly politics (US resident). My wife noticed and told me to get off Facebook/Twitter/etc - they were making me visibly agitated. As I weaned myself off those platforms, my happiness and stress levels improved.

I'm glad to be (mostly) off the platforms. It's been a massive improvement.

Facebook was the biggest culprit. I unfriended anybody I didn't know in meatspace. I unfollowed anybody I hadn't spoken to live in a year or more. My feed is now mostly photos my parents post, a few cycling groups, plus some marketplace activity. I no longer feel the need to check daily (or more) - once a week is plenty.

I do find I use Instagram more now. But, because it's "just photos", it doesn't stress me out like Facebook.

Twitter only gets visited when somebody links me to an interesting thread from elsewhere (here or other forums). I never go on my own.
I wouldn’t be so confident. I think you’re drastically underrating how much convenience will drive changes in behavior and social expectation. If self driving works (big if, I’m dubious about this), then the vast majority of us will switch over to using it for regular trips very quickly. As that happens, the perception about what is safe and socially acceptable will change quickly, as will the types of vehicles consumers demand.

This type of change isn’t instant, but it can happen faster than a human lifespan. Think about someone born in the 70s and what they’ve experienced with cigarettes. They were born into a world where close to half the US population smoked, and they’re now retiring in a world where smoking is de facto banned in most non-residential buildings. That is a drastic change, and remember that tobacco is addictive, which hampers change much more effectively than habits like driving.
>Some new APIs proposed by Google is bad

What's the greater evil? Some APIs that have to be approved by the user that give greater access to hardware.

Or developers having to write platform specific native apps if they want to reach the gigantic iOS audience, oh and because it's then through the App Store, then pay Apple for the privilege and pay App Store tax on any income from the app.

I know some would argue both are bad, but I know which world I'd rather live in.
Also shortsighted. With increased ability to convert between hard currency and bitcoin it will be more practical for criminals to move large amounts of cash. The overhead of existing money laundering is significant -- the expression "follow the money" exists because it's a useful attack on criminal activities.
Southwest also historically flew a bunch of fairly short haul routes where even business travelers didn't care much about seating.

Whereas most of the flights I do, I absolutely care about boarding priority, seat assignments, and the occasional upgrade.

Once upon a time, I actually flew Southwest a lot on short-haul flights to Houston. These days, at least pre-pandemic, I care a lot about status on a given carrier.
Seconded, but I'm giving me the info up front. Who knows what kinda brain day I'll be having next high sev event?
Reminds me of the song, "Welcome to the Internet":

"Could I interest you in everything

All of the time

A bit of everything

All of the time

Apathy's a tragedy

And boredom is a crime

Anything and everything

All of the time"
It's important to remember that inflation hurts the poor most. The wealthy will have their money in assets that may benefit from inflation (stock market up 30+% since pre-covid seem a little odd to anyone else?). The poor spend a larger percentage of their income on consumer goods that will most likely be affected.

Inflation is a nefarious way to finance spending without hidden consequences and distortions.
> in no particular order …

And what follows is an ordered list. Of mostly unsubstantiated nonsense explained in bloated language. That opposite of what I'd expect from good tech writing.

Is this a satire? It feels like something out of McSweeney's.
Not quite the same point. Yep some bozo is me but needn't be. There's plenty who share that suspicion of AI research but have little else in common. And all of us may be wrong for different reasons.

The vague point was to show someone with zero reputation, credentials, specific expertise in the field or anything much seems to be pretty convincing in response to this hugely funded ivory tower exercise by spitting, cocking an eyebrow and saying "So you think so, eh? Wanna bet?"

This is a statement about the state of AI research credibility. Do you feel the first breezes of a deep AI winter coming on? (I don't know, I'm disinterested but not uninterested. Rising tides lift all ships etc. And vice versa). Neutral nets are cool. Is all ML a bit overrated? Is learning a misleading name to give to applied statistics?

I don't have answers, just suspicions. I could be very wrong, of course.
Bloomberg LP, NY – Sr Kubernetes Platform Engineer – Enterprise Data Science
Potential abuse is not a reason for not doing this feature. Bad actors will be bad in the current system or the new one.

A couple of years ago: Allow all or no notifications, hard to find settings to turn off

Current: Allow all, but easy to manage from home screen, apps that want to offer a choice of types of notification must figure out how, create config UI, make sure system is stable. Users must find, and each app is different and often report options are not working

iOS 15: A general framework that at the code level, each notification can declare. iOS unifies the UI for managing levels per app. Good actors will have lower costs, bad actors can be detected in device predictions.

I only see benefits, and you can still block apps abusing it
This is the CPI, it’s measured the same way it always is.

There’s value in watching it, not sensationalizing it.

The 12 month rolling chart straight from BLS [0] I think provides more info. And if you want more trends than just prices against the previous year, you can look at the absolute chart for some of the items they track [1]. Check out how bananas and electricity haven’t changed in 20 years, woot!

[0] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
[1] https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
> who all mean to do the right thing

And to some degree agree on what the right thing is.
This is an outrage! I demand my money back!
Do you have a kind of "What has been seen cannot be unseen" feel about this? For me, once I noticed this behavior in people, I now see it constantly, and not just with politics, but with any idea that supports the categorization of humans. And I think it's particularly sneaky, because it seems like people who do it perceive their thinking to be logical, due to it containing logic, which is a similar error.

I wonder if there is a way to fix this problem, kind of like a software patch for the nodes in a cluster. In this case though, the nodes seem to be resistant to patching, even if they might desire it...like there's some sort of other software (or something) preventing it.
Depends on how much debt the poor have.
Scientists find hundreds of examples of mysterious radio blasts
I figured there would be spare silicon on the die. I guess I was thinking more about the raw yields and how much over-capacity was engineered into the product to handle real-world physics. There has to be some pretty impressive engineering behind this thing.
Some people may suffer by their own actions, but I think a larger number of people may just get into the habit of living a healthier lifestyle specially if they fly a lot to make this worthwhile. Sort of like making wearing seatbelts mandatory, it adds years to your life, while making many uncomfortable an extra bit every time they drive.

The weighing could be done at the end of the flight.
It is essentially a B2B for a deep-pocket kind of customer.
Think energy, defense, or a big financial company (or fund).

If you can calculate and iterate fast something you want to build / identify where it is feasible to drill / etc. then the price of this is peanuts compared with doing the wrong thing (tm).
Demeaning behavior towards overweight people helps no one. Want to actually help instead? Try being their trainer or something.
It's worth noting that it's 5% annualized, ie. if inflation kept growing at the same rate for a year, it would be 5%. Prices didn't actually rise 5% in one month.

edit: it isn't annualized, but rather YOY

edit2: annualized == YOY, so either statement is correct
Bloomberg LP – NY – Sr Software Engineer – Equity – Full-Time
> read the papers I linked and you'll realize...

How about you read the tweet someone else linked?

https://twitter.com/SarahBelleLin/status/1370071520953835520
That seems odd to me. Are they arguing that the API calls themselves are under copyright, and so the GPL applies? That sounds like a similar situation to the Google vs Oracle lawsuit - which ruled that the API usage was fair use.

If I write a Python script which a user can use to interact with Blender, and I share it without sharing a copy of Blender, why does the GPL apply?

Taking this to its conclusion - if I write a Python script on Linux which uses any system APIs, those APIs are also licensed under the GPL. By that reasoning every Python script which runs on Linux must be GPL.

That's obviously not the case - which suggests that maybe the Blender declaration is also unenforceable.
That is a disingenuous comparison though. Compare X86 market share when Linus started coding Linux and Librem/Pinephone market share today. The difference is that to have a snowball's chance in hell to grow and spread you need to be able to thinker and invent on the hardware most people use.
Are you sure you did read my previous comment? You are replying to stuff that isn't there.

About rules, no, nobody pass rules down the stream. People communicate full designs of some issue (that is not the full design of the thing, designs are "sectorial" where people add their concerns into the overall thing). When it's done right, the design goes to and from those sectors changing the entire time. When it's done badly, somebody finishes a "general" design and sends it downstream for people to fill the other parts. A team does not work on the same issue, that would be chaos.
And the third kind who goes "this game is fun! but it's like my day job, why don't I just do that for fun instead?"

Of course Factorio doesn't come with obligations to document and hand over your glorious creation...
Middlemen all the way down. At this point I think the question is when does the fatigue start? Maybe it never does -- if 10 companies all take 0.5%, you're at 5% but what if you use them to run 90% of the work of running your actual business? For many businesses that would be worth it (and most SaaS-ers and proper business people would heartily agree).

I'm about to go off on a wild tangent here but I think this is the obvious endgame for autonomous vehicles (article from Ars Technical on this hit HN just today[0]). More narrative for that world where no one owns anything and everyone rents forever and if you didn't own capital by 2100 your chance to do so is now infinitesimal. Safety of autonomous cars will surpass human driving, human driving will be outlawed, and the toll booth behavior will kick in with either companies licensing self driving technology, or the cars, or just running the services. Yeah, you never pay the $1-2k to buy a beat up first car (that could have lasted you 5 years with careful care and proper maintenance), but you're stuck on the $8.50/day ($2040/year if you commute to work 240 days/year), forever.

Another wilder tangent (possibly too much of a distraction from the topic at hand) -- this future is one of the reasons I am skeptical of UBI. UBI feels like the fastest way to encourage every kind of company to take this route. If you know every citizen will get $1k/month, the monopoly-dominated markets will fight (initially, at least) to get their share of that guaranteed $1k, almost as a form of governmental graft. Differentiated work pools get rarer and rarer (people specialize up, but automation gets better, ad infinitum), and at some point a large mass of people are getting UBI + gig economy wages. The corporations who have carved their part of the daily budget out never stop winning -- they now don't need to worry about economic conditions for their now-somewhat-more-distant gig worker force, the government will step in to help citizens, and those corporations can continue to influence those proceedings. What breaks this cycle? Is the goal a utopian world where $UBI is actually enough to free people of work completely? That never seems to be the goal, or maybe I just haven't seen enough people play out enough steps in the UBI plan. I just know that when people doing really well in the current capitalism-on-overdrive system start to get behind something that really seems like a utopia for those doing not-so-well in the current system, there's a catch.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/06/volkswagen-plans-to-off...
Other people don’t like to drive, simple as that. Some people would like to fly but can’t afford the ticket so they have to make a long miserable drive. Or maybe it’s one of those destinations that is a 5 hour drive where a car clearly makes more sense than a 45 minute flight (that ends up taking 5-6 hours door to door). Im sure you can appreciate how pay by hour would be a huge upgrade in this case.