cavisne

47 ms·

511.
by cavisne 7y ago
Amazon is the second most trusted institution in the USA, behind the military. It's fairly obvious how the above "draconian" conditions benefit customers. Employees that take long breaks or pick items slowly leads to delayed
512.
by cavisne 7y ago
If your concern is about installing an untrusted executable. Zoom actually has a web client now. For the others you could pick a platform that’s already sandboxed like iOS or Android. Or these platforms tend to support dialling in from a ph
513.
by cavisne 7y ago
The magic mouse is certainly painful to move, however it would be interesting to see the actual impact on people's hands from it. Since getting one my behaviour has changed to move the mouse with a few fingers, and basically never move
514.
by cavisne 7y ago
Places with affordable housing is a synonym for rural areas without government services (or drug dealers). The best place to be homeless is Seattle or SF because drug use and dealing is legal (or at least not enforced), and there are plenty
515.
by cavisne 7y ago
This is a US only limitation. The rest of the world has long since moved to Paypass. The terminals are the same (no Square needed) however the US refuses to support it, i guess because of tipping.
516.
by cavisne 7y ago
The Amazon Go stores are controlled access, you need to swipe your app to get past the gate. There is also (at least at the original one) plenty of staff, just they are helping people through the gates and restocking shelves. You could stil
517.
by cavisne 7y ago
Was jet.com ever a thing? The brand means nothing to me, where walmart.com does at least have some brand presence. I suspect it was simply the founders ego that kept jet.com as a separate site (rather than focusing on walmart.com). That alo
518.
by cavisne 7y ago
Revenue neutral carbon taxes are a fantasy, because they are pushed by progressive politicians, yet are deeply regressive in their impact. Inslee admits this, and simply wants to add a new tax, and refund it selectively to people who he thi
519.
by cavisne 7y ago
Yeah these companies always have some sort of dodgy trick, like unroll.me that was advertised as an email unsubscriber. Reading the docs I would guess they use their gps polygons and wifi addresses to help apps spy on users, and in return t
520.
by cavisne 7y ago
Would not be surprised if this strange FAQ is part of the puzzle
521.
by cavisne 7y ago
The randomly generated email is a user choice, they can also provide their real email. The randomly generated one would not work for things like slack sso etc.
522.
by cavisne 7y ago
This is very cool in terms of security principles (no email that can be used to track you by default, mandatory 2FA, mandatory SPF for emails). The mandatory inclusion if you use third party SSO already (smart I think as otherwise FB and Go
523.
by cavisne 7y ago
It seems the email part is optional (ie you can choose to share your verified email with the company if you want). The above scenario goes against what they are trying to achieve though 1) If you support SSO and email/password - then t
524.
by cavisne 7y ago
The availability of CreateBucket shouldnt effect the availability of customers apps. This tends to be true anyway because of the low default limit of buckets per account (if your service creates buckets as part of normal operation it will r
525.
by cavisne 7y ago
Lambda containers serve 1 request at a time, so the number of JVM's tends to scale out a lot quicker than you would expect. This is more of a broader problem with Java on lambda, as the classic Java way of creating a bunch of singleton
526.
by cavisne 7y ago
Bookmarking this for next time there's a HN comment "why is Netflix using AWS, they should just get some cheap VPS's from DO" The rise of the public cloud is pretty fortunate for companies like DO, they can make the same
527.
by cavisne 7y ago
Another cool thing about this is it avoids the connection pool issue with Lambda (where concurrent requests cant reuse connections). Aurora is already pretty good at handling a lot of connections but this is even better.
528.
by cavisne 7y ago
This stood out to me also, things that are unique about the US compared to other countries 1) Relatively low personal and corporate donation limits - a lot more phone calls are needed to raise the same amount of money 2) Low rate of voting
529.
by cavisne 7y ago
I remember interviewing there during the peak hype (late 2015). Crazy environment. According to Crunchbase they havent raised a round since then. I would guess the main reason we haven't heard much is: * The ACA employer mandate has be
530.
by cavisne 7y ago
You can limit the max concurrency of lambda functions which can help a bit here. Imo the reason is this is for business/enterprise use cases configuring this wrong could be catastrophic, for side project/personal use cases its pre
531.
by cavisne 7y ago
Well the cynical view would be. 1) This still lets you have personalized models, just trained on more than 1 user, thats fine at google's scale anyway 2) Their competitors (FB, AMZN) dont have the edge compute (Android) to do this, and
532.
by cavisne 7y ago
I still remember the first tram I caught in SF, an elderly asian man boarded the tram and bumped into a homeless person. He apologized profusely, and the man turned around and the punched him directly in the face. No one (including me) did
533.
by cavisne 7y ago
Nothing is affordable when you are addicted to opiates, and have to spend every cent to get them. No one who has been to SF within the last few years would contest that the majority of the homeless there are drug addicts, due to the effecti
534.
by cavisne 7y ago
These stats are nonsense. * it’s self reported * it ignores that people drift in and out of shelters and public housing, they move to SF for that exact reason! Homeless people absolutely come to SF and Seattle from elsewhere, because there
535.
by cavisne 7y ago
I've found the app recommended by wirecutter https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-sleep-tracking-app/ Quite accurate, at least for time to sleep, and time asleep. I think the REM, NREM etc is mostly noise,
536.
by cavisne 7y ago
Might not be true as more problems are solved through machine learning. Amazon has or could generate the largest and most diverse dataset to train the object recognition problems needed to automate a warehouse. They also have the end to end
537.
by cavisne 7y ago
Thats the nice thing about Amazon, because of the "flywheel" (customers will always want lower prices and wider range) they've built a reputation of operating like a utility, and customers love them for it. I dont see why the
538.
by cavisne 7y ago
The issues with these bootcamps are 1) Developers tend to sneer at this model, because they learnt themselves online (and dont think sitting in an intensive bootcamp would help) or went to a university for multiple years. This means these b
539.
by cavisne 7y ago
Route53 is the exception, compared to Google Cloud where the vast majority of api's are anycast through googleapis.com It's a good choice for DNS because DNS i a single point of failure anyway, see yesterdays multi hour Azure&#x2F
540.
by cavisne 7y ago
I think they should explain this a bit better. That said For core services like compute and storage a lot of the price to consumers is based on the cost of providing the raw infrastructure. If these path style requests cost more money, ever

More ›