skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. And uploading / downloading large objects from S3 incurs tons of requests because S3 client does parallel chunking with a small number of other control requests. That client works on the same premise as SFTP client.

It’s amazing how often it retries.

Example from go sdk: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/blob/main/service/s3/s3man....
As far as anecdotes go, I'm 100% opposite I guess.

I have 2013 MBP, but have removed OSX and use it solely as a Windows machine. Nothing ever broke on it, and I use it solely for build quality and reliability.
Tangentially related book recommendation:

Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. It describes the importance of reference frames for intelligence, for locating limbs relative to the body, locating the body in space, locating objects in space (even abstract objects in abstract spaces), and a possible "implementation" of that in the columns of the neocortex (by, basically, if I understood correctly, positing certain neurons that encode location, eg via intersection of coordinates, and certain neurons that encode features, and then learning a connection between those).

A short and interesting read (with quite some implications for progress in AI).

Podcast with Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/podcasts/255-future-intelligence/

Jeff Hawkins at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins

The tech developed by his AI company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory

Book at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...

ETA: Oh, quite some previous discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326396

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19311279

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240901

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26794286
Meh, I know plenty of miserable rich people.
It has two extra chunks of screen where before it was just black bezel? I'm not a user of these machines, nor do I use iPhones, but I still don't understand why people hate notches so much.
Yeah, exactly, honestly is just a part of it. He failed hard on the other part by saying his own team was worse then some other team. Integrity is standing up for the people you lead, it falls under the moral principles part.
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This could be an interesting way to run mautrix-imesssage.
I wonder if they've got it hooked up to some sort of remote console solution; I've never been able to figure out how to get less-than-wretched performance out of the VNC server baked into the OS.
Somebody downvoted you, I'm guessing because they think this is a silly example and have never actually seen something like this. I have, in a production code base.
I don't see how the issues they bring up are going to materially affect the business or stock price. Everyone knows TSLA is overvalued but this isn't what would move the needle.
I'm just curious; why did you specifically say western countries, if you didn't mean western countries? Or say people if you didn't mean people?
> An absolutely enormous number (though slowly diminishing) number of people can’t switch away from their product

Aren't AMD CPUs more or less drop-in replacements for Intel though, as far as software compatibility goes? Yes, you need a new motherboard. But you probably need one even if you stay on Intel.
I have used Google app engine since 2009 and love it: $0 charged.
It powers my https://www.appblit.com site
I think the takeaway is to maintain your own database of references to objects if you can.
> If enough people do so, wages could be pushed down by employers. Thankfully for my mortgage, that hasn't happened yet and probably won't happen soon.

You know that already happened? Like 15 years ago was what it looked like before every started practicing, today most people are practicing. If they fail to take your job today then it is because they failed to pass the interviews even with extensive practice.
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I never understood the SSN-as-quasi-secret bit: isn't it widely dispersed anytime you need some medical stuff?
Perhaps for leaf blowers that it's all upside - but for good size chainsaws say something that can drive a 24" bar, electric just isn't available.

I love my electric 18"er, but most all of the ponderosas I have to fell on my property require my 24" gas Husquavarna. And if you look for electric alternatives you find nothing for actually for sale.
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it is not taxed on CO2 content, it is taxed by marketing category and those categories have CO2 as a factor.
Becoming a military officer isn't an option for me (I live outside of the USA). My military "career" ended more than 20 years ago at the mandatory recruiting event when I was considered to be unfit for it.
Yes, I think it's a good idea for government to have that info. Government needs to provide services and manage resources, which means knowing who and where people live, and have a proper ID number to manage that data.

The alternative is for government to have 90% subsets of the same data in a a thousand different databases, one per-department, per-jurisdiction.
Why? What does Cue have that older, more production-tested systems do not?

I'm curious as to what problems I'm missing today that may come up in the future that Cue is solving.
> Minimum wage is always expressed per hour - not per month.

That's a weirdly american thing to say. In many countries, people typically measure their wages per month and have no idea how much do they earn per hour or per year.
Well thats the whole point of the debt book. Taking that progression and poking holes in it. IIRC, Graber suggests that physical money came in too play when kings needed to levy armies.
You can use lifecycle policies to delete it for free, but its best to confirm it via support. Not saying this is the great way, maybe its intentionally hidden, but at least there is a way.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59170391/s3-lifecycle-ex...
> Most economists would probably relate a stylized “history of money” something like
the following: As specialization caused problems in coordinating trade, societies naturally
settled upon certain commodities, usually metals, as media of exchange.

The Transition From Barter to Fiat Money, Saint Louis Fed WORKING PAPER SERIES, 1994: https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/1994/94-004.pdf

This idea is widely accepted to be wrong today, but as you can see it wasn't the case not so long ago.
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Yes and:

> ...farmers often get out ahead of the ag schools.

Rogers' book Diffusion of Innovations is the seminal text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

"The study of diffusion of innovations took off in the subfield of rural sociology in the midwestern United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Agriculture technology was advancing rapidly, and researchers started to examine how independent farmers were adopting hybrid seeds, equipment, and techniques. A study of the adoption of hybrid corn seed in Iowa by Ryan and Gross (1943) solidified the prior work on diffusion into a distinct paradigm that would be cited consistently in the future. Since its start in rural sociology, Diffusion of Innovations has been applied to numerous contexts..."

My introduction to "innovation" was Geoffrey Moore's pop biz book Crossing the Chasm. Derivative work that doesn't even cite Rogers' work. Moore spins "just so" stories. Rogers explains the research, concrete and actionable.

Imagine my chagrin when I stumbled onto Rogers. If it's not obvious, I'm still grumpy about Moore's omission. I don't mind that he profited from popularizing important ideas. Not acknowledging the precedents is something like theft.
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I travel a lot. I hate having to babysit the tethering and to worry about using up my phone's battery when I am trying to get some work done. It would be awesome to have an Internet connection that works all the time, as with iPhones, iPads, Watches, and laptops from other companies.

It is obviously not a significant engineering challenge to put another radio in the laptop if the Watch has it.

I read somewhere that Apple has to pay Qualcomm a royalty based on the price of the device and that this is why MacBook Pro buyers cannot have an LTE modem. I don't understand how other vendors are able to ship an LTE modem if this is the case. Can anybody enlighten me?
I only glance at quantitative things like once a year come review time. Talking with people is a much better way to assess their performance. Usually people are hardest on themselves. Everyone is different, has different life circumstances and performs differently.

In general I think the premise of the question is wrong. It's taking a factory building widgets approach to a creative process. You'd have to have standardized measurable inputs like product requirements that can be worked by anyone on the team. Everyone on the team has to have the same level of experience with the technology used so any learning curve is the same for everyone. Proper standardized estimation needs to be done on every piece of work and then measure the time used to do the work. This is like CMM Level 5 type of utter nonsense, in my opinion.

Also, its more often the case that the inputs (requirements) shift and change as they get worked on which will not be reflected in any quantitative way.
Italian ID cards too, as well as the owner's signature, the fiscal code (an unique identification code similar to the SSN in the USA) and the fingerprints (though these latter are stored in the chip only, not printed on the card).

It's very likely that this data is also stored in some government database, which I hope will never get breached.
Nonetheless, we do see evolutionary examples in-between pure barter and government-standardized metal coinage in the historical record.

The Aztecs had a complex system involving cacao seeds, strips of cloth, and "hoe money" for larger values. But while all three of these were used as a unit of account, they were also consumed directly as commodities.

Prior to the technological migration of metal coinage, ancient East Asia used shell money. These were almost exclusively used as a medium of exchange, and were not directly consumed as a commodity.

Standardized metal coinage was almost certainly invented only once by the ancient Mediterranean culture. Part of why the story "money replaces barter" is told is because this invention disrupts and rapidly replaces every other system that it touches for the next several hundred years, until the entire Old World is using metal coinage of some sort.
Incorrect apostrophe’s in headlines really grind my gears! ;-)
How many games run well on ARM?
Another great one is 'Storm': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
But also being famous could still make them even MORE miserable!
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This is a great overview of what to measure, at least for business metrics.

(Shameless plug…) For folks wondering how to measure, and also how to track product metrics for their SaaS, I wrote a thing: https://www.tabbydata.com/book
right, my route changes throughout the year as I optimize for more/less shadows to avoid hot/cold
I agree there's probably something there but if truck and more expensive SUVs were driving the price increases wyou'd expect to see a very different list.

Other than Chevy and Ford the list is dominated by brands that don't really do trucks and the demographics who are over-represented on HN proudly turn their noses up at.

I think the trend we're seeing is that people who formerly would only consider a Civic or Corrolla and wouldn't be caught dead in a Sentra are being forced to consider the latter because #EverythingShortage
Doesn’t include stats for Volvo, which is weird
Jobs' Apple tended to simplify the product lineup. Cook's Apple tends to rationalise product lines based on manufacturing lines, which is why you still see vestiges of older SKUs stick around—because the tooling cost for the motherboards, chassis, etc has already been amortised and it's cheap to keep it going.
> I get paid absurd sums because of supply and demand, not because of my skills

This is how everything works. You can get paid a lot for selling a stock that has appreciated (demand for it went up) without having any skills in investing, just luck. You can also be an incredibly talented musician or artist and get no money for it because there's no demand for classical musicians these days (I've seen this happen to every single one of my classical musician friends. They all have to go into teaching or change careers).
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Year over year? I don’t think that’s disingenuous. Pertinent maybe, but not misleading. Every automaker likely has some asterisks. GMs trend away from small vehicles has been in process for decades.

I’m trying to buy a suburban, and there’s a $5000 “market up charge” OVER msrp and the vehicles sit on the lot for mere hours until they sell. We’ve missed out on several because someone else beat us to the dealership by minutes.
There's also https://prestigemad.com, a text based API testing tool, like Postman. I'm the developer behind it and is open source at https://github.com/sharat87/prestige.

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That acetone flavor is ethyl acetate, which can come from some wild yeast, stressed domesticated yeast, and some bacteria. Commercial yeast doesn't eat lactose tough, so I'd assume a different micro organism. Have you improved sanitation in your process since?
That was a great read, thanks for sharing it! I saw his Back tour in 2019 and it was amazing, would definitely recommend his live shows to anyone. He also wrote and starred in a 2019 TV show called Upright which I'd definitely also recommend. One of my favourite TV shows for sure.
Unless you provided a social security number to AWS at signup, going to be a pain for them to ruin your credit.
> This basically sums up everything that is wrong with Tech thinking vs User Thinking.

Are the cables actually accurately describing themselves? I'm more concerned that products are obsfucating what corners they cut rather than that a lawyer should "know" the nuances of the USB-C industrial complex.
> Can I have productive discussion with the candidate about designing his solution? Can the candidate converse in a clear and precise language?

> Can the candidate recognize and make use of an advice?

I must admit that following those two criteria helped me make the most effective hires.

I used to ask a question that was mildly confusing, but only to the kind of people I was trying to screen out. The people who I was trying to hire would usually get the question right away.

Basically, in one of my questions I had developers use a lesser-known threading API in C#. The people I hired either got the answer right away, or could quickly adapt with my advice and answer the question.

Another interesting anecdote: I used to ask candidates to discuss tradeoffs of the XML APIs built into .Net. The point was to discuss tradeoffs and to demonstrate more than superficial knowledge of serialization. (Most .Net developers have some exposure to its XML APIs at some point.) One candidate quickly hopped into a JSON is better than XML tirade. I ended the interview quickly.
If s3 was any service the general public use, it would be banned for sure.
The first thing everyone who tries using cloud services should learn: everything costs money. Even the service that tells you how much it costs: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/
I do not disagree. Kafka is kind of a monster to fully configure correctly. Once they get rid of zookeeper it may be nicer to spin up and 'set it and forget it' sort of thing like the others.
I always find it funny when someone tries to influence teslas stock price with an idiotic article, but it's even more funny when nobody buys it.
Here's a slightly helpful tip. USB-A connectors have a USB logo on them. Look at or feel for that logo on the connector and always have it face up when you plug it in. It should always work.

There's a few exceptions. If the USB-A jack is rotated sideways on the device, then "up" could be left or right. And if it's a cheap off-brand sweat shop connector, then the logo may be on the opposite side. A sign that it could break quickly too.
Indeed, in Iraq there were just one million dead, not six million. Entirely different thing, isn't it.
Sorry, I forgot to mention about the ever-increasing glasses problem. The perception has changed from "close distances cause myopia" to "low sunlight levels cause myopia". That's what I was talking about. Specially important with the increase in work from home jobs.
Alcohol damages more than our brains.
Actually, in the UK the minimum wage seems to be defined on a per-hour basis too: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates
Another reason that I'm very hesitant to run anything on Amazon.
The goal is to create an Internet of home servers. You want to have your own NAS or rpi you deploy apps on. The p2p turns those devices into a network
Why can't we bill them for wasted time and stolen money, send those bills to collection and ruin their credit? Something seems unfair about the power dynamic.
There are many paths to account recovery, and using real world identity as the cost comes down is a legitimate path forward versus "Facebook identity."
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I'm honestly completely fine with this, and my worry is that the industry wants to move towards a more "accredited" role with organizations similar to doctors, lawyers, or other professionals to keep others out.

Why am I worried? Because if you're a competent programmer you can spend 3-months to a year studying for these interviews and make $200k+ in TC. You don't need a degree or even much work experience to achieve this.

You don't have to come from an ivy league school or have powerful connections, you simply need to understand a few common leetcode patterns and system design.

If you can understand for loops, variable reassignment, objects & arrays, and some other unique operators like modulo or booleans you can likely answer 70% of LC type questions. That's an extremely low bar, and all it takes is dedicated practice.

Even if you don't want to leetcode, there are still plenty of well paying jobs that pay more than the average household income whose barrier to entry is even lower.

What other job or industry honestly has this option? I honestly feel like software develop is the truly last "middle class" industry (if salaries kept pace in other jobs for the last 40 years).
Interesting paper!

I've also noticed that many insights also seem "obvious" in hindsight (the proverbial "egg of Columbus" thing). In fact, the better the insight, the more "obvious" it seems!! Thus, "hindsight obviousness" is not an argument against an innovation
You're right—my bad.
This is just woke special interest groups buying shares to be loud. Sell your shares if you don't agree. This kind of thing is going to make being a public companies less and less desirable and push more and more companies too remain private, further concentrating wealth because of misguided "investor protection" rules.
Who looked at a stinking frothing puddle of rotted grains, and decided to drink enough of it, repeatedly, to discover and evaluate the consequences & process?
...it turns out he was right.
Show HN: The Milho Language
Milho is a language that I've been working with a friend for a while. The idea is to a be an easy-to-implement LISP with various implementations (we have Haskell, Rust, Go and OCaml for now). Documentation and language specs are still WIP, but we are slowly working on it.
Terence Eden is British.
As a test of bare minimum coding skills, definitely. You wouldn't believe the number of people who apply for junior software engineering positions yet can't do an easy leetcode problem. That's like a medical intern not knowing how to install an IV

I don't go further than that (no complexity questions, no silly google-style "let's pretend you haven't learnt this by heart" knapsack problems). And I don't care about syntax. It's just a way to know who is a developer and who is a stackoverflow cut-and-paster
No it’s not. Deleting 4B objects costs $20, via DELETE and LIST requests.

As the article says DELETEs are free and you can do bulk deletes of 1000 objects at a time. However you need to have the object names. You get those using LIST, which gives you 1000 items for each request. LISTs are currently priced at $0.005 per 1000 List requests. So $0.005 to delete 1M objects. Using the “empty bucket” feature does this internally and charges you that exact same amount.

The only way you get near your price is if you try to delete by applying a new lifecycle policy to 4B objects that are not in Standard storage.
How do you authenticate to change your tramite number? With the previous number?
No, it's typically used for credit services, however.
In much of Europe commas are thousand separators, dots are decimal point separators. So what you're seeing is fifty eight euros and thirty one euro-cents.
I think their plan is to just always make a little bit more from every hardware customer

Plus, to make their hardware more attractive by having that service available.

Storing backups is probably also quite cheap to do since the data would be infrequently accessed. You don’t need fancy ssds. Cheapo hard drives will be fine.
Most things on AWS cost money and AWS makes pricing incredibly complex and opaque...where the monthly bill is usually the first way people find out about these things. While it is likely no consolation, S3 is by far one of the most complex AWS products pricing-wise with different object storage types each with their own rates, request costs with different rates for GET/PUT/POST/etc which this post mentions, and transit/egress fees.

I work on https://www.vantage.sh/ which helps teams get visibility on their cloud costs which may be helpful to folks here as well on this topic.
From pg:

“Whoah, I had no idea about any of this till now...”

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1449861338390466561
I am a huge fan of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saager, no lies to make a profit. Independent news.
Just a photo of ID sent digitally for me (I'm in the EU, might make a difference)
Yes. It even used to say on the card "not to be used for identification", but various agencies at all levels of government ask for it all the time.
Never experienced anything like that, been a happy user for about half a decade.
Same! I’ve got an email a month saying they are going to close my account…
There was a time when youtube wasn't around to shove "related" content in your face and videos still got shared, talked about and discovered. This would be by word-of-mouth (either real life or fora) and (as an another poster commented) searching.
In the UK I think most people would feel weird about "person of colour" in some contexts, but ok with it in others. E.g. if it's used to specifically call out a wider shared experience, then it can be fine (but mind your audience, and "BAME" seems to be more common in the UK for that, though it's worth noting that some also dislike that term as well for various reasons, but nobody seems to agree what ought to replace it), but I would feel very uncomfortable about describing a specific person as a person of colour, if e.g. trying to point someone out in a crowd. (EDIT: At the same time: Some self describe as person of colour, and if they do simply respect their preference).

But it'll depend on background, age, and attitudes, and really the best approach is to just ask people if unsure, as some terms are wildly offensive to one group and not at all to another (prime example of that is that is how "oriental" is deeply offensive to many in the US, while it's not at all uncommon for people to describe themselves as oriental in the UK)