skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting seeing how their mobile app handles the problem. Instead of showing an error page, you're just mysteriously returned to the Amazon homepage when trying to view a product.

For a huge outage like this, the app’s behavior is a confusing experience, with users likely blaming themselves. The desktop web’s error message at least makes it pretty clear it’s an Amazon issue.
I'm interested to check this out but for me simplicity is more important than features when it comes to note taking software in general. I've tried apps like Notion, Evernote, etc. but I always find myself going back to Simplenote; it doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of those other apps but it works well for my use case of quickly writing some text and having access to it across all platforms. When it comes to Vim, I get a ton of use out of vimwiki [0] with Markdown syntax. It may not be as powerful as Org-mode (or Neorg in this case) but it's had the most "stickiness" out of any comparable plugin I've tried.

[0] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
I had a job a bit like this in the early days of Chegg. I got fired after a week mostly due to incompetence in new areas I had never worked in before. But I learned a lot and at least got paid for the week! Interesting that they checked my reference and my referee told me that I should avoid working there under any circumstances!
All of this is intuitive at first sight. The only question that matters is what powers do central banks have to fight cryptocurrencies? Because they are extremely powerful institutions, and they will fight to the death using every tool they have.
Ah OK - that can make some sense in case name and password are very difficult to type. Thank you for the explanation.
Only if the short term cash flow problem doesn't bankrupt them. Which temporarily cratering the stock price right at that moment can cause.

Where this happens is under conditions of uncertainty. Your factory is gone. It will be a year before you can build another one even if you can raise the money. Will your customers still be there by then? Maybe a 50/50 chance.

If you rebuild the factory and they are, you're back in business, and the returns would more than justify the cost. If they're not, you rebuild the factory and still go out of business because the customers couldn't wait that long. So once you account for the risk, the expected value of investing in the rebuild is effectively at the market rate of return.

Until the short sellers lower the share price. Then the company would have to issue more shares and find more investors each willing to invest despite being more diluted. Can't raise the money, no factory, failure immediately instead of a 50% chance of success in time.
You actually think that startup blogs on dropshipping are written to make others rich.
Is that interesting? Seems pretty standard and could even be handled relatively trivially in response to specific HTTP codes of any given individual request... Pretty sure nginx /whatever reverse proxy/load balancer they are using could do this natively without any special logic
And Apple crippled the web on its locked-down as chastity iOS devices.

These companies -- all of them -- are fucking with each other. None of us matter in the end. It's all about which company can screw the other out of engagement and eyeballs.

Meanwhile Firefox, the open web, open source, right to repair, and digital ownership all wither away.
> Your point is the standard that "optimizations shouldn't fuck up working code" is unreasonable?

By "working code", do you mean code that the standard and/or target implementation promise will do what you want, or do you mean code that just happened to do what you want the last time you tested it on your system? If you mean the latter, then yes.
Product pages on amazon.cn, their website for China, still appear to be working fine. Which demonstrates it's clearly using some separate infrastructure.
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – June 2021
You have that wrong about rule of thumb:

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/rule-of-thumb.html
Let me preface this by saying that different publishers likely have different implementations of Denuvo checks, and also there are lots of different iterations of Denuvo.

But from what I've seen there are quite a number of titles with performance impacts out of using Denuvo. Overlord Gaming [1] has some videos with before and after comparisons for games where Denuvo got removed by the publisher. Of course, there could potentially be differences in test methodology or other stuff in the Denuvo removal patches, but there is some pretty interesting findings, eg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKsesO3bdv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08zW_1-AEng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnSavmI3knQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/OverlordGaming/videos
It isn't only Amazon.com, they are also down for amazon.com.mx and amazon.co.jp (the other two Amazon stores I use frequently).
A decidable variant called Datalog is becoming popular thanks in part to Clojure and Datomic / Datascript. See also Flix and Datafun.

[1] http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
[2] https://flix.dev/
[3] http://www.rntz.net/datafun/
The modern version of this is https://nostalgebraist-autoresponder.tumblr.com/
“I continue to work with faces” is incredible in the context of installing spyware on Apple Store computers that secretly photographs customers.
The website(mobile) does the same thing.
Ask HN: Can a small town be self-sufficient?
For example: a town of 5000, high rainfall, high skill, lots of fertile land.

Could such a town be entirely self sufficient in terms of food, energy, medical supplies, technology, etc.

If not entirely, what products would need to be "imported"?

Edit: some concern over the vagueness of the question. I’m looking at this in the context maintaining order locally during a global catastrophe.

The question is, how can I strengthen my community against global disruptions. If a covid-like event occurred which hit civilisation with much greater impact.
That's true but parent is complaining about the use of "submarine", which I agree isn't an accurate description.
Why did you get in trouble? (That is, what was the stated reason)
Would you argue that any interview without an interview of a contra opinion is also just a PR piece?
According to:https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/article/amazon-sales/

"The online retailer’s net income shot up 219.8% to $8.107 billion, exceeding the company’s previous record of $7.222 billion set in the fourth quarter of 2020"

8 Billion * 4 / 365 /24 = $3,652,968/hour.
Some part defiantly care, I read many stories people cancelling theirs The Economist subscription because of flashy animated ads they put on every article.

No way I would pay $300 yearly for seeing gif advertisements each day.
It doesn't help that there are many out there who are cocksure (they did the research and found all the blogs supporting their theories) that Covid is spread by Bill Gates and his 5G antennas, that Biden stole the election with the help of China, the earth is flat, steel beams, etc, etc. And of course these blogs teach "critical thinking" by telling them anyone saying otherwise is in the grand conspiracy.

I tried to fix a Covid-"truther", her mind was so warped she doesn't even believe in germ theory, she started by reading blogs about nutrition, when some of these got banned by Google for spreading misinformation, the blogs claim Google is involved with big pharma/big agriculture trying to keep humanity from eating healthy. She told me to use DuckDuckGo, I told her "you know they use results from Bing, which is from Microsoft?" (Although in reality BG isn't involved with Microsoft any more). She basically dismissed this bit of information, because hello confirmation bias!

So I don't think telling people to use their brains is enough...
I kind of agree. If the topic is niche enough, then it will never get popular.

My commentary was on niche community that cover topics of general interest to people. (Think Anandtech, Some meme subreddit or hot-technical areas like r/machinelearning or r/cscareerquestions)
It’s not a simplification, it’s observing a basic category error. It’s confusing the procedure and the process. Consider for example how the same procedure executing in the same runtime on different processor families will result in highly divergent executing processes. And practically speaking even then they may not even be equivalent up to the explicitly or implicitly specified behavior. Nevertheless ideally when we talk about a language we are talking about a set of semantics that is independent of whatever mechanism executes the processes specified by procedures written in that language.
As someone who focuses almost exclusively on backend development, I look at complex ui code similarly. Mad respect to the people who have the vision and skill to design and write well incredible UIs.
My wife asked me to buy some things, and after getting frustrated by Amz doing this I just bought from Walmart online.

I wonder how many others did something similar, or how many millions of dollars such an outage cost them.
Even amazon.in (India)
Quote:"...but some overzealous publishers do frequent lengthy checks..."

Since when do publishers have access to source code to do those checks themselves? Developers do that. And yes, I am aware that in this particular case, for RE:Village, the developer and publisher are the same.
This seems like a major global outage. Good luck to those poor sysadmins over at Amazon, this must easily be in the millions lost per minute.

Let's see whether this outage takes out HN with it once again ;-)
This is mostly what I meant by the first issue, sorry I wasn't clearer. And that was after re-writing that sentence a few times, even :-/
Coincidentally happens on the new CEO's first week.
Paging Jeff Bezos. We need you to get to the office. We have a slight problem. I may have pushed the wrong button.
"You simply can’t get rid of certain types of productivity that only come from face:face interactions."

All of the studies seem to say that this productivity claim isn't actually real.
Competent in what? Writing bespoke systems management software? Who’s going to work on delivering value to the customer?
Whoever caused this has got to be really stressed out right now.
I started experiencing gradual, random errors on .com a while ago. Now it's down globally?

.au app works.
Agree. Make Windows more Linux like where possible, not the other way around. Understand that most of us will never use Windows Server products but we will use Windows 10 if it works well enough as a development platform. Do away with the Teen Titans design aesthetic - carefully study what macOS is doing. Keep the fast, keep the low power consumption and keep the solidness however.
Amazon restores services after multiple users face outage
> ggplot

One day I’ll have a whole week free so I can sit down and learn an entire graphical grammar so that I can remove the egregious amounts of chart-junk in the ggplot defaults.
Someone working in Retail is having a no good, very bad Sunday.
Idk why any politicians arent picking up on foreign price controls as a means of lowering costs in the US. It should be a part of the discussion during any trade talks with Europe.
Havent heard from Amazon itself ? I dont seem them respond - not even on their offical twitter channel - https://twitter.com/amazon
Google might be taking this PR angle as a psyop to position themselves as a savior of open internet instead of the enemy of it. They clearly are the latter.
This is also the behaviour of the mobile site on iOS. I don't know what the mobile app is like but it sounds like it could just be a webview to the mobile site.
To be honest, I expected it to be larger. 4 million is an insanely big pile of money, but it's nothing that will show up in Amazons budget, even if we're talking about an hour or more of downtime.
.ca as well.
> That's a good question, ask them?

you're making wild claims, and cannot offer a coherent theory that explains what you think is happening. not a good look.

> If the borrow fee was enough to compensate the stock owners for the damage done by the short sellers, why would any short seller ever pay to borrow the stocks to sell them short?

for the same reason that heaping piles of shares of stock trade hands every single day, at a price agreed upon by both parties.
I would legitimately probably cry.
I put everything on GitHub, with no expectation of ever releasing things, finishing them, or anyone using them.

Epeople put things on GitHub because it's free and useful
Did they fire too many engineers?
I have a simpler explanation.

How much would it cost to clean a coin so that it won't spread Covid? How much sanitizer, already in short supply, would it consume?

It just wasn't worth it.
If you actually believe your investment thesis, why do you care if someone invests against it? They are paying for the privilege of telling you that you are wrong. If shorting stock could reliably move it below its fair market value then everyone would be doing it to make a quick buck.

It is very difficult to short a stock into oblivion because there is an almost unlimited amount of money that will happily be the counter-party to an obviously stupid trade.
> If authorities are 'good', anonymity is 'bad'.

> So for the part of the population that believes in individual rights and ability of an individual to decide what to put into their bodies, how to defense themselves/etc -- the authority is bad.

> For the part of the population that trusts pundits, government intelligence agencies, government's health organizations -- the authority is good, therefore anonymity is bad.

Most things are pretty grey - not black & white. So there's not a clear good/bad side. Which is the reason people want personal freedoms and you could want anonymity regardless of how "good" you think your government is.
An Oregon Wildfire Is Pushing California Toward the Brink of Blackouts
I program mainly in Go, Python, TypeScript and some C/C++. A year ago I would have agreed with you, but one extension for each language now gives you almost everything you need. I bounce back to Goland, Webstorm, CLion and PyCharm occasionally as they have much more reliable refactoring, and have some really nice features missing from VS Code, but being a Polyglot VS Code makes it so much easier to use similar keybindings and processes across languages, I don't have to fight the IDE to get it to do what I want. Both great tools but my daily driver became VS Code a few months ago, it's pulled ahead in my opinion despite being free.
>They are worried about cryptocurrencies.

More fundamentally, they are worried about maintaining their status-quo power.
Having worked on the systems that make Amazon.com function previously, all I can say is: Awesome! Burn baby burn.
It's literally a webpage with some javascript, so if you save it along with the asset files, you can just open the page in browser from your filesystem, no need to specially host it or start anything.

But yes, I agree running a command like qrencode from terminal is easier in the long run.
Google's main product is letting people find stuff on the web. What benefit would a walled garden be to them unless everything was on Google infrastructure? They would need to control everything.

They lose the most if the internet balkanizes.
Or an organization dedicated to offering training and subsidized equipment rental. Something similar exists in NZ
I mean and it's Amazon of all places, the least forgiving of the tech companies.
That’s net income - gross income is likely an order of magnitude higher.
I think some tech health platforms like Capsule will even have a pharmacist call your doctor for a refill for you.
If you want to try on a positive spin for AMP, it was Google's awkward attempt to defend against Facebook Instant Articles (which the feature set of AMP almost at times felt like a direct rip-off of) in a world where people preferred to read news articles inside of the Facebook app instead of a browser; which, in comparison, AMP was massively more open than. The issue is that, in the end, Google always feels like they get to decide the response of the web--with their search engine and browser standing in somewhat for the walled garden social network and app of something like Facebook--and then it all gets twisted to benefit them in some unique way, which sucks :/.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/792/
Amazon net sales were $386B in 2020.
So you are saying that we should throw away every single optimization, and go back to C being a fancy assembler? As if we consider the memory layout at all times inspectable, pretty much any optimization is impossible. Also, the compiler produces code for the CPU not a debugger — here you can’t implicitly view memory at arbitrary places.

I personally prefer to write code that is more readable to humans that will get translated to the optimal instructions over having to learn some tricks known only by some elite C hacker that will actually be inferior, since CPUs are finicky. Even with very good understanding of the CPU one can not really guess which instructions are faster to execute without benchmarks.

Nonetheless, there are tiny C compilers that do next to no optimizations, feel free to compare the speed of the resulting binaries.
Amazon seems like the kind of culture that would fire them anyway.
So this crack disables DRM... does it means it is more likely to run under wine now?
I remember the first or second Amazon Prime day the entire site was down for hours and hours (and showing puppies as an error message).

Probably the closest I've seen.
They expressed the desire to put everything behind a digital id lock, from social media, travel to food:

- https://assets.weforum.org/editor/responsive_large_webp_Fh3F...

- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/davos-agenda-digital-...
> "I'm not really a computer security person, so I don't understand how that law applies here. Did Apple just call you up and say 'we want you to check this guy out'?"

> "Something like that."

> "Can anyone do that? Can I call you up?"

> The agent who had been taking notes chimed in: "I suppose so, if you just open up the Yellow Pages we're right there, on the inside cover."

Raise your hand if you've had trouble getting the police to even come out to do a report on property theft or vandalism, let alone take it seriously. But, if you're Apple, you can just call up and hire the Secret Service to go after some rando artist messing around in their stores. Another minor illustration of who the government really works for.
They didn't say they don't care about results.

The VS Code developers worked to make it what it is. Sublime Text shows it isn't about the technology. Emacs is just from a culture where non Unix and proprietary operating systems are 2nd class.
I'm more curious about why you hate printers.
> Generally in a software system you can't count on a time source to move forward, to move in consistent intervals, or to move at all.

By way of illustrating this point: C++ has std::chrono::system_clock, std::chrono::steady_clock, and std::clock, all of which give different guarantees on how the clock behaves.
Electric cars are heavier due to the battery.
>"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws."

Truth.

Distribute control of a nation's money, and distribute power more fairly & competitively.
And one of the hardest things in software engineering at scale, is organizing and coralling humans and groups of humans, possibly over many years with everyone involved being replaced at some point throughout, to somehow still cooperate enough that the end-product is attainable. Someone like Linus is more of a politician than an engineer, in some ways.
Neat, thank you for electroclarifying!
"Buy it again" seems to still work...
Perhaps they got tired of the stinky waterbottle smell...
Once is in memory, encrypted or not, it can be extracted, inspected and replaced (which is what a launcher crack style does).
A new effort to increase stability will be started by the VP of Engineering in light of this issue.
Processor bugs, power glitching, and cosmic rays affecting how the CPU executes a program are still in the domain of facts. Nothing says that facts must lead to deterministic outcomes, though we should have a way to quantify the distribution of outcomes in order to help us distinguish facts from opinions.
Or high-fiving his fellow state sponsored hackers… A lot of outages and problems in major sites these past few months.
More likely millions per hour. But even then it's not like all those sales will be lost. Most people will probably just come back later to make their purchase.
Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of building kick-ass web apps.
Obviously it is a coincidence but I have a funny vision in my head of Amazon systems relying on Bezos running a script or similar for the past 27 years and forgetting to have someone else take it over for him. Could probably be an Onion article.
Most of Amazon's net income comes from AWS, not their retail sales. This will mostly hurt gross sales, which will have a trickle down effect on net income, of course, but not at the rate you calculated.
Loading up on weekly AMZN puts this week sounds like a pretty good idea
Is the complaint just about

> It seems to me that there is no reason for doing so.

That seems really mild unless I'm missing something.
Clearly if they had written more unit tests, this wouldn't have happened.
It was announced and released (as an insiders update).
Well they can't blame AWS. AWS status pages shows no issues. (Although it never does even when there are)
I think there are a lot more of excellent Python devs than excellent Haskell devs.
>Even Bitcoin has much of the same issues, imagine if the U.S. gov blacklisted your wallet and anyone doing business with a given address would be arrested... the end results would be the same.

This is a widely held view, yet deeply misguided. A bitcoin is a bitcoin. A single account to account transfer means a disconnect & plausible deniability for the recipient.

This claim does not hold up legally.

Just as you earn & are free to use USD that was illegally used at one point.
What is the point of this article? Everyone knows that, it’s what we teach children. I at least expected some examples but it’s just a rant.

Excuse me, it looks like there was one example. The intrepid brain who wrote the blog post apparently doesn’t want to conform to best practices of web design, so their blog is a chore to read on mobile.
Since sales aren't evenly divided hourly, this is misleading. I'd imagine sales are much higher during the 6PM to 12AM EST hours than say, 3AM to 9AM EST hours.

This time on a Sunday night could easily be 3 to 4x that much.