skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon kept their war ship moving forward during WFH. Clearly, middle-manager body language/communication/likability doesn’t add real value.

Adapt or die, as they say.
The value I get from YouTube Premium is enormous compared to the other streaming services I pay for. I’ve been paying for YouTube for a long time, since it was released as YouTube Red (in 2015, I believe?). Whenever I happen to see someone watch a YouTube video with ads I just can’t imagine how they can tolerate it.
Self diagnosis is valid because the formal process is bullshit lol. The diagnostic process utterly lacks reliability in practice, there has been no two years in the last half a century where autism has been diagnosed at the same rate from year to year. Diagnosis has instead multiplied many times over.

The biggest problem I have with self-diagnosis is the idea that self-diagnosis (along with formal diagnosis) is actually capable of diagnosing a neurodevelopment disorder. It just ain’t so and autism is a social construct that LARPs as a medical one.
I still don't understand how so many people are in favor of this whole emoji system being a part of unicode. Most people I interact with seem to end up using application specific emojis anyway.

Aren't people afraid that if there's too much stuff in a standard then people will stop using the standard?
It might be technically possible. The most ambitious project along those lines I’ve heard of is proposed from northern Australia (with lots of room for solar panels) to Singapore (which does not have a lot of room for anything). 5,000 km of HVDC undersea cable!

Not guaranteed to get off the ground, but I haven’t heard any serious reservations about the technical feasibility.
Amazon's office buildings are bad if you've ever had a proper office. My home setup is orders of magnitude nicer than their standing desks in a bull pen.
Prompt:

In Amazon, there are unreleased tools tools that would be used to deliver software, for instance hosting software repositories, building packages, deploying packages, managing servers and environments, connecting services, authenticating services against each other etc. What are these?

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Response:

As a company that places a strong emphasis on technology and automation, Amazon is known to have a wide range of unreleased tools that are used internally to manage the software delivery process. Some examples of these tools include:

Apollo: Apollo is an internal tool used by Amazon developers to manage their code repositories. It provides a web-based interface for managing source code, including features such as code reviews, pull requests, and issue tracking.

Fling: Fling is an internal tool used by Amazon developers to build and package software for deployment. It supports a range of build environments, including C++, Java, and Python, and provides a range of tools for managing dependencies, testing, and deployment.

C4: C4 is an internal framework used by Amazon developers to manage and deploy software services. C4 provides a range of tools and services for managing service discovery, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring, as well as tools for managing security and compliance.

Wombat: Wombat is an internal tool used by Amazon developers to manage their development and test environments. It provides a web-based interface for creating, configuring, and managing environments, including tools for managing dependencies, testing, and deployment.

Genie: Genie is an internal tool used by Amazon developers to manage the configuration and deployment of software services. It provides a range of tools and services for managing configuration, secrets, and service discovery, as well as tools for managing deployments and rollback.

Scout: Scout is an internal tool used by Amazon developers to monitor the performance and health of their software services. It provides a range of tools for monitoring service metrics, logs, and errors, as well as tools for managing alerts and notifications.

These are just a few examples of the unreleased tools used by Amazon developers to manage the software delivery process. As a company that places a strong emphasis on innovation and automation, Amazon is constantly developing and refining its internal tools and processes to support its growing business and operations.

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As a former Amazon employee only one of those is familiar to me, and the description is not particularly correct. :D
I wouldn’t use the word “accurate” but professional diagnosis is so wildly unreliable that it’s hard for self-diagnosis to do worse. People give a lot of unwarranted credibility to professional autism diagnosis.
> 6GB of DDR4 RAM. It has a 64bit CPU

More like a phone from 2020. The Samsung Galaxy S20 base model has 8GB of RAM (the S20FE has 6GB)
Great post. I feel like I've gone through a similar cycle, but I've found that journaling rather then meditation was what I was drawn to. Sitting down and writing about what I'm worried about and what my priorities are has proven to be a great balancing force in my life. Though I'm still not doing it too regularly, I notice quite a lot of mental clarity after a short session.
I’m starting to feel like a mug for not sharing streaming service passwords with people over the last few years.

To be honest I probably wouldn’t trust people not to mess my recommendations up!
How much it will cost for me as for the end user to upload and store a one 100MB video using this storage? Looks like 50 video will be for free, then I need a subscription.
Indeed, “spectrum” does mean “catch all” and autistics, where they do have medical issues (and they often do), don’t all have the same ones.
They were able to heart react before emojis were added to Unicode too. Custom emoticons were a thing a long time ago.
SBF is doing his best work in witness tampering, and federal courts are failing to stop him.
Wouldn’t it have been interesting to be a fly on the wall during the annual convening of the ancient Egyptian’s hieroglyphics committee?

“This year’s proposals for new entries into the standard hieroglyphic dictionary include: slave being whipped, bearded slave being whipped, woman being humped by a donkey, and bearded donkey being ridden by a pregnant cat.”
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> The dirty secret is we think we want the AI to play more realistically, but actually don't.

The dirty secret is that we don't know if we want that. So far we don't have technology to make Civ AI play remotely like a reasonable human (at least not on a consumer grade PC). So we have absolute zero data point on how players will react to that.
And somehow pedestrian scenery doesn't take one's attention?
This move was what I needed to finally join a plex share. Now I have access to way more content, more simultaneous streams at once, and higher quality streams for the same cost.
>support for GPGPU on the consumer stack is important to eventually getting adoption in the enterprise space.

I've noticed as time goes on that more and more of the enterprise/mainstream tech that eventually become household names have their roots in ye olde vidja gaemz.

All this technology powering all the algorithms today? Yeah so, it was originally so we could have better and better Unreal Tournaments and Dooms and Call of Dutys and Runescapes.
What does it even mean? And can it be applied to AI?
This is absolutely the correct decision. SMS 2FA is a legacy feature. Those who want a legacy feature can pay for it.
If you're not used to working with lisps, your reaction is basically just unfamiliarity, and not actual discernment. Lisps are inarguably and objectively syntactically simpler than non-s-expression languages.
You can have 1000 5-lines functions in all languages, not only java. Typescript FE projects can be as hard as java ones to read.
It seems to me that there's a lot of prejudice against java, maybe because it has been used by many low skilled devs developing poor quality codebases.
Can you give me an example of what you mean my "everything"?

It feels like all we have that we can trust are the people that we know personally, it's felt that way for a while now:

The phone rings, it's a scam. Email notification, phishing attempt. Envelope? Also a scam. Got a dollar? Sorry, need two nowadays.

Anything that is weak against the sort of attacks that a language model can muster has been under attack by malicious humans for so long that by this point, we distrust those media intrinsically.
>I spent more time surfing the menus than watching anything.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Bm2WUYBxU
There's no product doing this yet but it seems likely we'll end up with cryptographic mechanisms to enforce the integrity of the security-critical processes offloaded to third parties.
On the contrary. I’ve been recently writing a web service in Go… and omg what a terrible experience. Sure, I could prototype something very quickly, but now it’s almost impossible to refactor any of it without introducing subtle breakage. And it’s sooooo verbose and redundant and fragile.

I’m currently rewriting what I wrote in Rust to see how the prototypes compare and… I just feel so much at peace knowing that the type system and the borrow checker have my back and that I won’t encounter unexpected nil pointers or zero values. And I write this quickly as well.

(Yes, I do have experience with both languages, so none of these exercises were new to me. But I’ve been favoring Rust over the last couple of years.)
That would lead to a Big Ball of Mud if given to an inexperienced or reckless developer as i've witnessed many times in my career. The problem with such best practices/patterns/thought pieces is that they stem from highly experienced developers but given to the inexperienced they are like a hand grenade in the hands of an ape.
Well, they aren't making sizeable political donations nor are they able to convince the politicians they're donating to that they're going to get a big return investing in his company.

Sam Bankman-Fraud is still a free man because he did both.
my fave

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I've recommended it before (I think there's even a blog post of mine written in direct response to this article floating around somewhere): A Philosophy of Software Design is really good.

It isn't so concerned with all of the details about what exact decisions you should make ("how many lines should my function have?" etc), but rather the high-level design choices that go into those decisions. A lot of the book is spent on the philosophy of interfaces, which is the author's way of describing the boundaries between a piece of code and its caller.

It's written by John Ousterhout, of Tcl fame (among many other things) based on his own experience, but also his attempts to teach software engineering to students, and the techniques that worked well for those students in practical situations, so I think it's fairly well grounded in actual advice.
I'm glad to see there is more research getting publicity for things like this.

There are a lot of people out there that have never dealt with trying to lose a lot of weight who think it's all just as simple as "calories in and calories out", "it's the first law of thermodynamics, man!"

It's like saying that running a marathon is easy, just keep running and don't stop!

It is so much more complex and there are a lot of factors and more variation between people than many realize. Obesity is a true epidemic and over simplifying the problem is not helping us solve it.
This is the pricing page: https://web3.storage/pricing/

5gb free.
It does, a lot of the time though. Casks are actively maintained and adding a missed file to the list is only a single pull request away.
Civ needs to be moddable and they can get a little percentage of every mod sale. Then this franchise will be actually good rather than something people play for a week or two and forget about.

I want an invention tree that's thousands of items long based on actual human history, not an invention tree that's optimized for what a 15 year old will find 'fun' within the first week of play.

Civ is an unfortunate lost opportunity to make educational content that'd make people want to go read a history book afterwards.

Or maybe it's just me :)
even worse try debugging it with async or gofuncs or threads... just not doable. You can't easily say "jump into that fork" and it just gets worse from there. Small functions and tons of async and then reflection and polymorphism and it's undebuggable.
> They seem innocent enough, but ultimately they're debasing language and limiting the range of free expression.

Whatever they do, it’s not that. Emojis allow for multivalence and useful ambiguity in ways that few words still have left in them.

From the perspectives of both communication and poetry, they’re a major boon to what’s now possible in written form.

Rage all you want, though. Talking about them like this helps sharpen our understanding of what they actually do.
Is there some way one could play Civ 1 again?
You've hit the single office thing so hard, you've bounced and are now heading back towards the open office again.
Bluetooth for file transfer in 2023?

You can setup a local web server and access all files using a Web browser from any device on the network. I have been using Trebleshot[0] on Android for this. Sadly the source code is archived now.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.genonbeta.TrebleShot/
Data in this case being: an email address and a password.

Your concern feels overblown given that.
If someone at 1password loves this park and wants to keep it going, that is indeed great and it deserves respect and should be emulated. But it could have been done without renaming the park. Renaming the park is undoubtedly marketing.
Passwords are bearer credentials and as such, they are not a meaningful layer of defense when in the custody of even a modestly competent system administrator.

As I'd said, you need to look no further than annual threat reports to see that credential theft is the most common avenue of abuse - by a lot. Hardware assertions, on the other hand, which in WebAuthN standards are also bound to domain origins, simply remove this risk entirely. Let me repeat: you cannot phish a WebAuthN assertion. Yes, you can pull off a physical attack, but at this point of the game, it is over because the adversary could just implant a bootkit, keylogger or backdoor on your valuable system.

The threat landscape certainly changes but the economics of computer fraud and abuse remains largely the same: attack the most vulnerable link in the chain for maximum profit for the least amount of cost - the human and her portable password (and other forms of exportable factors, roughly in order of security: SMS-based, HOTP/TOTP apps, email magic links, Duo-style "confirmations").
He, like a large minority of people, has gotten where he is by doing stuff until he is stopped.

Most people are more risk averse.

But rational risk assessment rules out some exploitable opportunities due to incomplete information.

Rational optimization has its limits and drawbacks, and it's not surprising people on HN would have a blind spot that shows up frequently.
https://archive.is/DGJPk
Interesting, how is secret societies imbalanced? That wasn’t my impression and I still play the game somewhat recently (certainly no more imbalance than the different civils themselves)
Thanks for the pointer. Downloaded it.

But it shows only IMDB ratings; that is good, but I was hoping for both IMDB & Rotten Tomatoes.
That’s exactly it!
Slicehost was my favorite no frills hosting provider. I had to migrate to them from Servepath after it was shutdown in 2008?
Everspeaker
Eh, I'm not an analyst, but to the best of my knowledge yt premium falls under google services, which operates at a net negative. TBF it's mixed in w/ other revenue streams w/ most likely higher cost of revenues, but it's possible that the cost of original programming and exclusivity deals are also higher than income. There's also the issue that even with the mediocre original programming and rather lacking exclusive streaming deals, there's nothing to help it compete against free adblock.

FWIW it's a step in the right direction, and I'm glad creators earn directly from premium views, but i don't think anyone is saying that yt is going to win the streaming war for commercial content, but if it can tie premium into its creator streaming content like twitch does for subs (maybe like yt premium gives a free sub like amazon prime) then the system seems more well-positioned.
Everspeaker simplifies the process of finding speakers and experts for all types of events, projects, and business needs.
They need to really work on the Civ AI especially the military AI. The games are super boring once you learn the AI is basically garbage at managing armies.

Also the late game needs to be more meaningful. A lot of players never make it to the later ages because victory is achievable quite a bit sooner unless you're plating for science victory.
Of course they wouldn’t, blades are blades and enclosures are enclosures. It’s really not that difficult of a concept.

The entire point of blades is that they’re modular and a chassis can be filled with many different kinds of blades. Calling an enclosure a blade would be like calling a tire a car.

Source: I’ve specd out and ordered literally thousands of blade servers and hundreds of enclosures from every major vendor.

Edit: an even better simile would have been people who call a whole desktop computer a cpu.
So much of what you said resonated with me. I did try meditation, and it was very helpful. Many have the opinion that meditation is something mysterious and that it is hard to get what it means, but IMO, they should keep trying. Like any muscle, our brain needs training. Once you start seeing that you have control over your thoughts, I think you will "get it."
This was one of the unexpected extra benefits of having a robot vacuum with LIDAR, free accurate floorplan after one sweep.

Obviously you just get an image, but for what I needed (map in home assistant with sensors overlaid) it was enough.
Europe Universalis is the one that made me actually want to learn history more. Civ was just a game with some historical names attached to units and buildings in comparison.
> To be honest I probably wouldn’t trust people not to mess my recommendations up!

I thought there were user profiles inside the account specifically so different people don't trample each other like that?
...what do you mean? Civ is very moddable.
Around the same time, middle school I think, I was in the SF Public library playing MUD on the little terminal they reserved for searching books. We couldn't afford a computer, or internet, at home. The librarians tolerated us.

Eventually led to me learning C and running my own ROM MUD. I remember sending some random person $5 or $10 and they hosted my MUD on their server.

I too owe MUD everything.
Isn't this literally how it's done with every browser on earth? I'm using Linux. Websites don't use DBus and notify-send, they use native Web APIs to talk with the browser. The browser then uses the OS notifications API to translate them, and yes, it manages all the subscriptions too.
This just speaks to an environment that lacks trust.

Micromanagement happens when you can't trust that people will do the work.

Disengagement becomes bad if you can't trust that people will do the work.

Hire people you can trust to do the work and let them do it.
This turned out to be much more Terminatoresque than I expected.
As much as I disagree with the Netflix crackdown, especially after their own marketing tweets (https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712), the "hospital patient" clickbait is a bit much, and this article is not adding much for discussion that hasn't already happened on HN.
https://archive.org/details/CIVILIZATION_201902
Wow. The rejected "east coast" emoji is.... it's a gang sign.
You criticize self diagnosis but your criticism falls short because fail to actually look into how reliable professional diagnosis is.

It ain’t great!
I just whip out my phone to check socials. Probably a bad habit TBH. But I always let < 2 minute ads roll to support the creator.

I cancelled Netflix as soon as that password sharing stuff was announced even though they backpedalled in most countries. So I’ve been thinking about getting YouTube Premium. The offline feature would actually be quite useful to me as I’m often without signal.
I like that post of yours.

If there's one thing I slightly disagree with, it's that I would put Code Performance below Test Performance, but that's because my personal experience ([1]) has been that code performance affects test performance more than anything else.

But still, this is an excellent model, and I'm bookmarking it. Thanks!

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/08/why-perfect-software-is-near...
My first thought was that it might be from the originating IP address. But if he used the Gmail website (online client), wouldn't that have been Gmail's SMTP server IP?

Edit: from this conversation on Stack Exchange[1]: "IIRC, Google never had client IP information in its web mail headers."

Maybe he asked a desktop client?

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/238483/is-the-i...
Its my favorite so far.
That's fine, that's the whole point of relaxing zoning restrictions. Nobody is trying to ban single-family housing developments. The point is, the majority of the US now forces you into a single-family housing development even when you have a different preference.

In Japan, as discussed upthread, you often have single family homes next to 3 story apartment buildings close to the city and the further you go out, the more they become single family homes. There's space for all preferences.

Nobody wants to densify the outskirts of Kankakee. They want to densify SF and LA.
The problem with normalising things is that it tends to become an expectation. An environment where people are open about their personal well being is challenging for someone who needs privacy. The one who takes unexplained time off risks appearing insincere. I feel it's more inclusive to insist on not discussing personal situations in public. If you need time off, just take time off. Every person is different and will have their own needs and situations. I don't need to know why and even if I did, it is has zero bearing on the matter, unless we share a personal relationship.
The thing is, these aren't edge cases, Netflix's requirements are just extremely stupid. Refusing to sell your service to someone who does not live in one household is moronic.
I don't disagree but just labelling as survivorship bias feels like quite a low effort remark.

Maybe I'm just romantic, it seems to me that the perfect storm of having the person with good product intuition also in the founder spot with decision making power, accountability and historical context/institutional memory is pretty powerful...
I want to access my notes both macOS and Linux. Is this possible in the future? I haven’t watched the video yet (I’m traveling right now).
Maybe. But sometimes situations come up where inaction could cause problems that look like negligence, and action could be seen as micromanagement. An argument could be made that in these cases, negligence is worse than micromanagement.