skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is known for doing this to early startups. They "partner" with a small team, learn what they do, and then copy it which screws the original team.

They have teams of lawyers so suing them does no good.

EDIT: I assumed this was a partnership. I have no clue if they partnered here. Just speaking broadly after watching a couple of my founder friends get screwed by Amazon.
So what? You can always isolate these things by removing the antenna or if all else fails putting them in a faraday cage
> But also in retrospect, stretching the budget to afford the computer was well worth it since it gave you and your brother valuable skills worth more than money.

I bought my Atari 800 and a disk drive using newspaper route money. Probably the best investment I ever made.
How does blocking Giphy in the UK remediate the situation? If they don't want to sell Giphy, then I imagine the regulator will start fining them and seizing UK based assets, including any revenue they derive from UK companies, or via UK based banks and payment processors.
Users revolt as Microsoft bolts a short-term financing app onto Edge
I wonder if NC ML can really retain loyal users.
Twitter is worth about the same as say a Bloomberg News or WSJ subscription to me. Perhaps slightly more. That is to say I’d pay a few hundred bucks for it.

But there’s no way I’m spending $1,000 a year on it if I can’t expense or write it off taxes (right now my usage is a mix of personal and non-personal, so it’s hard to correctly account for it).
So, the Hubris repo itself will show a bunch of that history, but in particular, Cliff used the "sketch" nomenclature for the earliest ideas. I think in those first days, our thinking was that we were hitting a bunch of headwind on other approaches -- and had an increasingly concrete idea of what our own alternative might look like. I think whenever doing something new and bold, you want to give yourself some amount of time to at least get to an indicator that the new path is promising. For Hubris, this period was remarkably brief (small number of weeks), which is a tribute to the tremendous focus that Cliff had, but also how long some of the ideas had been germinating. Cliff also made the decision to do the earliest work on the STM32F407 Discovery; we knew that this wouldn't be the ultimate hardware that we would use for anything, but it is (or was!) readily attainable and just about everything about that board is known.

To summarize, it didn't take long to get to the point where Hubris was clearly the direction -- and a working artifact was really essential for that.
In addition to the gear, would you have to license the spectrum from someone? I think the fcc already auctioned it all off? Or does that not apply here? Any idea what that would cost?
Different products, Azure offering competes against AWS Wavelength.
what a great link. Thanks for sharing.
These aren’t even the same offering. AWS’s main selling point here is that they provide the 5G hardware like antennas, etc and create your own 5G network. Soracom just provides you a SIM and piggybacks off of existing 5G networks.
Joyent?
It depends on how far either side is willing to go. The UK is one of the few countries with which the US has an annual trade surplus ($21.8bn),[1] which is worth a lot more each year than Giphy's purchase price or even Facebook's UK revenue, so there is a lot of room for retaliation.

Traditional British media will drum up support for anti-Facebook actions, and the current UK government was elected on a mandate of defending perceived British sovereignty, with economic considerations being less important.[2] The UK government has already engaged in actions that harm its economic interests to safeguard its sovereignty.[3]

1. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe...

2. https://ukandeu.ac.uk/new-polling-reveals-shift-from-immigra...

3. https://www.cer.eu/insights/ten-reflections-sovereignty-firs...
Do you ever wonder why that comic only goes back 22,000 years? If it had gone back just a little more, say 25,000 years (a rounder number), it would be much more complicated to explain what happened.

If it had gone back 400,000 years, which is basically nothing in geological scales, it would bring up some really interesting questions.
Not sure how big the market will be for something like this; apart from, well, drug cartels in Mexico </joking>.

5G uses multiple bands, and the most useful, and highest throughput one, doesn't have a great range (high band, 24 GHz and up). So, perhaps you use 5G tech/devices but not use that, and instead focus on low band (600–900 MHz, few kilometers of range)? Would a mining company use this to oversee a large property? Would a large cattle operation benefit?
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That's what pliers are for.
I feel bad now. I hope you get a good paying job. I was too rude.
No, I don’t think it would increase noise levels. The number of pixels the sensor captures remains the same, the resolution is cut to 1/th. Each individual pixel in the final image will be some sort of combination of the respective, superimposed pixels. In naive averaging, a noisy pixel would lead to a larger but less prominent artifact. That, already, is close to what noise reduction in post-production does. And I can’t think of a reason not to cut outliers altogether, which would eliminate noise.
Yeah I get that they want to go after Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery, but AWS it not known for delivering high quality software. They have few things that are very good (EC2, S3, Lambda) and the rest is done by their B-team and barely holding together.
> Don't think that's the use case. how would AWS deploy a base station to my home?

Unless I'm misunderstanding how this works, it wouldn't need a base station in your home, just a commodity cellular modem with a network-specific SIM, and an uplink tower somewhere within range.
Now imagine a future

- where every device you use belongs to a private company

- connects wirelessly through a network owned by a private company

- to services owned by a private company

- that loans you even more stuff owned by a private company

- and entertains you with content owned by a private company

- and all the websites and news and games and podcasts and chats are hosted on servers owned by a private company

and the democratic power that helps you control this private company is funded by the success of such a private company.

I fear a world where we have neither individual nor collective control of our everyday lives.
Mythic white sperm whale captured on film near Jamaica
as crazy as it sounds, look for a cheap used nintendo 3ds. they have a stereo camera for the lenticular display and some photoshop filtering could turn them to anaglyph
Yeah I can totally imagine the average consumer opening the back of their TV to find an antenna or setting up a faraday cage in their living room /s
> it wouldn’t make sense for any one person to go to a free Twitter clone

True, but they may leave microblogging behind altogether rather than pay. Twitter just isn't that valuable. Then again, I deleted my accounts four or five years ago.
There is, if you

- don't focus on what their news sources are saying but instead

- you focus on why the old way is bad in general (across both left and right news media).

Thats the new message. Not "your news sources are bad" but "the entire approach of most news media today is bad. here is this new media utilizing a new approach where anyone can do the work and is fully open source so harder to manipulate"
Another significant factor is the belief we are in the end times and thus whatever we do doesn't matter (or worse, may delay the end). A large minority believes this[0], but they have outsized influence among politicians, at least in the US.

Further, they believe that their holy literature is perfect and because science changes, science must be wrong[1]. Therefore, we should just follow what the book says, which is that there will be a rapture.

0: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/07/14/jesus-chris... where christ's return means the end times.
1: unfortunately I don't have a citation for this, but it's something I've seen a lot.
There seems to be widespread misunderstanding between encryption in transit and encryption at rest. This tweet is focused on data at rest. The connection between your phone and Apple is encrypted.
They don't need this for that. Instead they are using rings and echo devices that allow devices to connect and send small data out. You can't black hole them without black holing the ring/echos (making them useless). You can disable this feature but it's opt-out, and it may just connect to your neighbor's instead.

I dont' remember the exact feature name though.
> It was clear as a bell to 22yr old me

For sure! Pumping and dumping overvalued equity to bigger fools together with his cousin.
Absolutely. For a platform with a relatively high engagement early on, they made so many missteps: awful photo/video tools (instagram, tiktok), messing up live, messing up developer experience, stagnant product (awful thread management for YEARS).

However, I still believe it can be fixed. As an example, my consumption of news related information has moved significantly to Twitter. Why not do a better job there, in trying to provide a kick-ass way for content creators/consumers, and charge them for it.
The bottom line is that the real impacts of climate change strike real, existential fear in a lot of HNers and many of them simply cannot handle that cognitively.

People are drawn to tech in a large part because of their belief in the power of technology and the limitless possibility of the future. The very real potential impacts of climate change in our lifetime pose as serious threat to this.

Rather than struggle with this most people here (or maybe a few loud, happy to flag comments they disagree with people) find it much easier to simply dismiss everything as excessive hyperbole.

Climate change unquestionably posses a real threat to our way of life, and at this point mitigating it does as well. People in tech are used to only thinking in terms of optimism and finding a way to solve problems and really can't deal with serious problems that might not have a solution, but rather only different forms of compromise.

Unfortunately the skeptics here are very aggressive. I have had several comments this week flagged for no other reason than disagreement (I know this because they have all been unflagged upon review).

It's somewhat ironic because this bizarre extreme reaction from this community really makes it all the more clear that something is really wrong.
The workers simply have a lot less leverage than you think. Globalization and automation has made work less scarce than labor. The pandemic reduced the supply of labor, and accordingly, wages for low-skill workers have skyrocketed, which proves that the market is working as intended.

Unions don't magically create leverage out of thin air. They steal it from those outside the union by constraining the the supply of labor. The most effective unions are those that do this to the greatest extent. For example, SAG-AFTRA forces productions to give speaking roles to union members and also restricts union eligibility to those that receive these speaking roles.
Sad but true. Hackdays should be called Sketchdays. Judging is often very short, and can be easily constrained to happy path. My experience as a developer is that UI work is worth way more than backend for winning a hackday. Work is so UI skewed, that it's probably better to do an Invision mockup.
Google may ignore the quotes entirely, although it's not clear when.
Athena is BigQuery from AWS. I'd have to imagine this is for people already heavily invested in Redshift.
I've driven through places where the lanes change directions or get closed based on traffic flow, most often near sports/entertainment arenas, and they tend to have one or two lanes with dashed white lines which are always open and the rest of the 3+ lanes are dashed yellow. I've always wondered if this is an exception to a rule, or if there even is a definite DOT rule (or if localities can override DOT regulations, such as in the case of rainbow crosswalks). I do recall in my driver's education classes 20+ years ago that a dashed yellow is "allowed to enter and exit but not for travel" but again that may have been a local rule.
> It's pretty well established truism by now that start-ups are a business model where the founders and angel investors become wealthy once the business sells.

It's a pretty well established truism that startups in most markets would have absolutely no difficulty at all in selling their business via many different exit routes if one particular player wasn't able to go through with an acquisition for any reason. If it was too early to go public the could sell to Instagram Inc or WhatsApp PLC, or a private equity firm that wants to get into a sector where many, many firms have become stable and profitable. Facebook's statement that if they're not allowed to buy, entrepreneurs [in their market] won't be able to sell [to anyone else] is a truism specific to the social media market Facebook dominates, and a direct consequence of it having the sort of monopoly power that gets them scrutinised by the Competition Commission.
They did. A month ago.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/10/amazon-ec...
There's a whole legion of (underpaid) Search Engine Results Analysts out there that can tell you horror stories of why this is happening.
Per capita seems mostly irrelevant? And of course the auto workers in Canada, Germany, South Korea and Japan are all unionized...
The change is only on a cultural level though. companies have a very easy time exploiting people today, ad the people are getting unhappy.

No actual change has happened yet
(29 NOV 2021) "New – Amazon EC2 M6a Instances Powered By 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors"

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6a-instance...

"Up to 35 percent higher price performance per vCPU versus comparable M5a instances, up to 50 Gbps of networking speed, and up to 40 Gbps bandwidth of Amazon EBS, more than twice that of M5a instances."

"Larger instance size with 48xlarge with up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB of memory, enabling you to consolidate more workloads on a single instance. M6a also offers Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support for workloads that benefit from lower network latency and highly scalable inter-node communication, such as HPC and video processing."

"Always-on memory encryption and support for new AVX2 instructions for accelerating encryption and decryption algorithms"
Tacoma, WA is planning on deploying a private 5G network to make port operations more efficient.

You can imagine containers coming in and out of ports are slowed when someone has to physically inspect them for damage. There are a few companies using AI to detect damaged containers and having a higher bandwidth allows those images to be more clear which in turn allows the AI to be more accurate.
Telegram always uses GIFs very effectively for explaining new features.
The animations are always kinda cutesy, but still very good at demonstrating the feature.

https://telegram.org/blog/shared-media-scrolling-calendar-jo...
https://t.me/s/TelegramTips

(both look better in Telegram than on the web, but it gets the idea across.
There is a difference between the copyright standard of the language itself (which may not be a copyrightable thing, though the court left that for future courts to decide in the given case) and the copyright standard of custom glyphs used by that language though. The custom glyphs themselves to "write" the language are artistic design elements usually recognized to have some copyright protections as with any works of art. (There's also further protections in they way they are often used that sometimes trademark protections also may be applied and looser defined "trade dress" protections as well. Aurebesh, the custom glyphs of Star Wars is pretty heavily defended by such protections in commercial projects.) Unfortunately, the sources for the Klingon glyphs are copyrighted movies and fonts owned or commissioned by ViacomCBS and there's not much of an argument to be made that they aren't art designs they own.

I believe the same applies to Tengwar that too much of comes from artistic work written and/or commissioned for books still in copyright and owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Perhaps when more of the copyrights expire on these originating works Unicode can revisit them. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen soon. (Even Tengwar isn't expected to expire until 2044, 70 years after JRR Tolkien's death.)
the new generation of middlemen surrounding this have already been funded by VCs and have started putting themselves in the midst of all crypto stuff, it already happened
Same here. However, comparing what verbatim mode was before and is now, it has gone much worse.

I just want barebones keywords search, with just the caveat to index just the words on the main part of a web page, not the surrounding ads, etc.
As a backend developer. This is correct.
I’ve seen teams waste months building a perfect system that doesn’t do what’s needed.

Building a clickable demo that fakes is literally 1000 times better. When the feedback comes in you can change it almost in real time.

Once everyone is happy with how the UX and all that work then someone can build the actual requirements.

Which will look nothing like the original idea.
Alternate question: how do you get bored?
> Did Atari outsell Apple? In which years? Ultimately, the Apple II line sold 5.5 million units while the Atari line sold 3.5 million.

Atari outsold Apple worldwide from 1979 to 1983 (two years after the IBM PC). The PC outsold everyone in 1983 except Commodore. Strangely, no ones talks about the TRS-80 outselling Apple from 1977-1982.

Steve Jobs has demos for NeXT about how good the graphics were (his drag showing the windows contents). They also built the NeXT Dimension which was supposed to support video and graphics. I seem to remember there was something that prevented its full utilization.
It's a feature comparison page, so that's the fundamental design issue.

The GIFs add pop, but the intent is to clarify. How does showing this info. on onHover or onClick in any UX achieve that result?

It doesn't.

As designed, it's an ad. It is. Look at it.

If I'm comparing a product with a full page of features, I'm going to be scrolling up and down. The one thing I absolutely won't do is hover over 16 onHover information panels while trying to compare and contrast an extensive set of features, costs, and licenses.

I'm just going to get aggravated that the information I need to make a decision keeps disappearing from view when I click or hover elsewhere.

Also, that's the kind of page you print and underline and circle things on, and give to your boss as a reason for purchase. If half the information is invisible when the page is printed, what use is it?
Become a telecom as a service!

Super cool. For those who are glancing over, this is a big deal. 5G isn't really like 4G upgraded. It's more its own thing. I believe this has been available though for a while and many telecoms have partnerships with FAANG beyond Amazon.

With 5G you can essentially split a network into multiple partitions and scale them independently on-demand called Network Slicing. (like cloud computing but just the network).

This could be extremely useful for security. Maybe even the death of VPNs. This is also useful for scaling network resources to services as they need it.

Short-term, things like "Tesla Free Network" could exist for their self-driving cars. Or, Uber offering free fast Internet to their drivers or a truly private device.

Long-term, I am concerned about the emergence of private networks with different access. Such as a "Google Network" or a "Netflix Network" that offer different services or privacy levels at different costs.

It's a crazy, scary, but also fun direction we are going.

Edit: Final comment. If you think this might be the death of AT&T with independent providers, think again . Amazon & Co. and others like Google are bringing their developer platform, while the telecoms offer their infrastructure. It's a gross partnership that makes sense. When you send bits over the network -- everyone will be getting paid except you.
FWIW, I've seen that suggestion a few times over the past 2--5 years or so.

You're likely not the first, but it's an excellent suggestion.
This assumes the "business-y" type hackathons that are popular these days. Back when I was young, we used to organize hackathons where the point was to hack together something cool, and "winning" was not the point. If you are just making a "clickable prototype UI" that's not cool in my books.
Blue checks are an arbitrary decree from above that someone inside Twitter likes you. The whole thing is a sham.
Newpipe is Libre Software, Vanced is not
Yes, sure...that's what I meant by "coverage issues". I wasn't sure everyone was aware of the route-to-my-private-network option that doesn't require a VPN, etc.
"Checking your browser before accessing www.michaelrinderle.com"

WTF? What exactly is it about my browser that you want to check? And why is it taking so long?
"It's worth noting that Warner Brothers' response to Swift re-recording her albums was to update their contracts to prevent any other artist from following in her footsteps."

Is there any indication how this is working for them and their artists? I would think given the massive publicity that the Taylor Swift effort has received, it would be quite the other way, with more artists insisting on getting those rights upfront. I know they're typically young and desperate/powerless when these things are being negotiated, but I would think the "go it yourself" route is if anything more robust now than ever before— no one cares about physical distribution, there are many paths to getting your stuff on Spotify and iTunes, and most small-time artists I know are doing the publicity/engagement side themselves with some combination of regular video content on YouTube and streaming mini-concerts.

What can WB or any other major label offer an artist like this in exchange for the gigantic ask that is "we own all your stuff forever and btw we also own any re-recordings of these songs"?
Not only that, the alternatives have vanished and have also become worse as they adopt the same algorithmic changes google has made over the years (or just outright scrape google behind the scenes).

This is shocking given the existence (now) of publicly available, open source indexing databases. You can literally build a search engine without indexing infrastructure, but everything out there is still crap.
Besides the fact that your average user will not be able to open these devices. Removing connectivity will probably irreversibly brick them.
For your off-topic: Maybe they are French.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Stylistic_varian...
I hope you succeed. I believe this space is massive. Especially considering the permutation space of recipes and how nobody has tackled the problem well, even though thousands have tried.

But maybe with food delivery, it’s a problem that can be successfully tackled since you’ll get feedback on customers. That’s a sweet data pipeline.