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awinder··on Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling
Apples phones have always said made in China, designed in Cupertino. This is an issue about parts coming into China from Taiwan that are:

‘Using the phrase "Made in Taiwan" on any import declaration forms, documents or cartons’

awinder··on Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab
I can’t remember the last time I allowed an unsigned app to run on Mac, I can’t even think of examples recently where I’ve gone “oh **, this thing is unsigned?!”. I’d love examples of high quality apps without a basic codesigned certificate, maybe we have a disagreement over the term “quality”.

“App Store apps are garbage” is also kinda rich, it’s not windows, the Mac App Store is the go-to source for distributing Mac apps at this point. There’s some examples of popular apps not on the MAS but they grow fewer by the year.

awinder··on Airflow's Problem
“We were on AWS Managed Airflow, but to stay on it and have a solid platform, I would have been writing Github Actions for CI/CD, standing up ECR and IAM roles with Terraform, setting up EKS to run Kubernetes jobs, managing infra monitoring with Datadog, etc., etc.”

DAGs can be published to S3 for cutting down on like half of these dependencies. And the nice thing about MWAA is log & stats publishing over cloudwatch, which should flow into any existing amazon integrated tooling.

For our team setting up terraform for iam & mwaa, some deploy pipelines to s3, and connecting some config bits to wire up splunk logs / monitoring pieces was not that much work. Initiating a separated vendor relationship & pricing out data ingress/egress costs would blow that work out of the water but maybe it’s a difference in company size/placement.

awinder··on You Don't Need Microservices
I would think that junior level developers are usually walking into an architecture put together by leads/seniors? Juniors should be coming into a well-architected monolith that they can be productive in, if they can’t that’s kinda on the senior staff…
awinder··on The Secret Service Texting Scandal Makes No Sense
The author was a senior council in the Clinton investigation which involved issues of SS protective immunity & records release. So yeah he may be someone with personal expertise.

There’s nothing here related to policing presidential behavior or decisions about who gets to be president. There’s executive & congressional branch oversight over the secret service. They received a lawful order to preserve data and then blasted it away. There’s a ton of moral hazard in that kind of brazen rule-breaking and you’ll likely see it reflected in the coming months/years.

awinder··on According to Atlanta Fed we're already in a recession
In your expert commodity pricing opinion/method, how much do you ascribe pricing deltas to each of:

1. General inflationary forces 2. Disruptions in the euro market due to Russia/Ukraine 3. Global output / pricing forces 4. Biden’s future/sentiment based policy positions

awinder··on According to Atlanta Fed we're already in a recession
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

Biden announced policies related to new drilling starts but none of that impacts pricing or output to the degree you’re suggesting it does. There was no “shutting off” of production for sure so consider this a serious argumentative point?

awinder··on House Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill Amid Fears of Court Reversal
From the next paragraph:

> For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U. S. ___, ___ (2020) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment) (slip op., at 7), we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents, Gamble v. United States, 587 U. S. ___, ___ (2019) (THOMAS, J., concurring) (slip op., at 9). After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated. For example, we could consider whether any of the rights announced in this Court’s substantive due process cases are “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

awinder··on 'I want your Instagram account': a deadly campaign over coveted handles
We should probably fix SIM swapping / jacking for a lot of reasons but can we also maybe up the seriousness of the legal frameworks at play? It’s almost unconscionable that a Bay Area police department has no real idea / interest in understanding that you’re being SWATed. It’s definitely beyond crazy that the only way this guy got 5 years was because of further crimes committed while on bail. The criminals think the laws are lax _even in the midst of being prosecuted under them_
awinder··on How about a Genius Basic Income?
I feel like this comment and a lot of other comments deal with a repulsion to this not being a very egalitarian idea, to the point of maybe missing the forest for the trees. The GI bill is awesome and lead/leads to upward mobility that can benefit all. It’s an egalitarian program available to everyone. That’s fantastic and a good thing that we have done.

Other programs like universal income could also be egalitarian and lift all boats, and might be fantastic or a horror show, depending on your stance on motivation and it’s relation to money.

A universal income for geniuses would not be egalitarian but could provide outsized benefits for its cost to society. If the government (us, collectively) own the results and IP, it might pay for itself / run a profit. If it expanded human knowledge faster than without it, it could provide a sort of compounding effect to how fast our societies advance.

I don’t know that these things would happen but they could, which seems worth exploring rather than discarding immediately due to historically-rooted moral systems.

awinder··on A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
Uh because I didn’t know workmail came out, thank you kind human.
awinder··on A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
This is awesome & I totally intend to play with it :D

Do you have any plans / any ideas on feasibility to plop an imap server on top of the s3 store? I have really wanted a serverless aws solution and this moves the needle on work I did not wanna do so I’m reinterested again. Something like an s3 object change -> dynamodb index might work well for latency concerns and keep the serverless spirit alive. I just have such a starting problem on “building/learning imap intricacies when it may never work”.

awinder··on TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
When you jumped between these AWS instance types did you tune / monitor to see what resources were becoming constrained? Or can you provide some details on network / VPC setup and changes to http connection pools in the AWS SDK? Since timescaledb is communicating over HTTP through the AWS client, I'm wondering how much you can tune to eek out performance there. I've been burned so many times across AWS services on classes of error like this that I'm just casually curious, not that anything was done "wrong".
awinder··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
I mean that’s just patently untrue in the US with programs like medicare/medicaid. There is not no one thinking about these things and arguing for making them better, so the rest of this is fruit of the rotten lazy argument tree as far as I’m concerned.
awinder··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
Right, I understand the pull towards individualism, and I default towards it. We are in a pandemic. We’ve been here for months. It’s not a time for individualism, and in fact, poorly expressing individualism will merely reinforce collectivism.

That’s the root problem. If I was blinded by the medical system, I’d shut the hell up in a global pandemic, because it’s not all about me.

awinder··on Empathy and perspective taking: How social skills are built
The first part of this is kinda funny. The problem is that you’re squinting too hard to try to make out the problem and now everything is fuzzy. The real value of empathy — why we’ve been using this social tool for thousands of years — is that you don’t have to become the actor to gain understanding. This tool also has a learning aspect, usually you try to empathize with people who you’re gonna be around a bit, so while you may not be able to check an empathy box right away, you could use empathy to further understand genius than you could without it.
awinder··on Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
> Using smaller companies which charge honestly for the services they provide is probably more sustainable in the long term.

Smaller companies also commonly get acquired, shuttered, or become big companies in their own right. There's no panacea here. I think by the third or fourth time I was migrating from "the honesty priced option" the reality settled in that "honestly priced" is usually just an uninventive advertising moniker used for overpriced underdeveloped products.

awinder··on I don't care what Elon Musk thinks anymore
People are imperfect, but people who truly delight themselves in their own imperfections have a problem and aren’t role models. Give _me_ a break, after thousands of years of forming groups humans are going to forget how to toss the assholes out? Nope.
awinder··on Show HN: IsRicherThanYou – Whoever pays the most stay on the front-page
If I can kindly suggest, pick the charity and put “all proceeds will go to ___” on the page. It might save you some headaches later. Best of luck!
awinder··on Playstation 5 review: Not just a more-powerful PS4
It’s not all operating system. Space reserved to avoid ssd performance degradation on full drives, keeping it open for future software updates, cache etc.
awinder··on Playstation 5 review: Not just a more-powerful PS4
This is an interesting way of looking at it, but couple of numbers jump out:

1. Average next gen console purchase estimated coming with 3 games, which would put you at a 50% discount at year one. That’s a big discount to amortize over the rest of the years.

2. PS4 had a software attach rate at 10 games per console. That’s in the neighborhood at least.

For me it’s worth it because I don’t have to weigh an economic decision. I just download the game and figure out if I do like it and want to continue. So it’s a complex product to evaluate for sure. I also have to rerun my math because $5/month on pc was absolutely a no-brainer.

awinder··on Ask HN: As a person, what can I do to improve a city?
Become mindful of local-independent shopping options. Putting dollars into the places in your community where it will stay in your community is one of the better options that is well-controllable by individuals.
awinder··on Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service
They’ve been around for quite some time so they have a much wider customer base & bigger teams supporting them. AWS services can be a bit choppy in the beginning so imo, especially with queues, I’d wait for it to bake.
awinder··on Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service
AWS has sqs & kinesis which are much better queueing options in that scenario where you’re in AWS doing new dev and can pick a technology. This is more likely to do with opening doors for large and complex applications that can’t be rewritten to come into the AWS cloud. Unsexy stuff but there’s some fun engineering to be done in that realm, if you find like puzzles and shitshows to be fun anyways :-)
awinder··on AWS pre-announces public container image registry
The tale of Docker is the tale of a non-success business, and unfortunately in those stories, a lot of problems created a lot of bad fallout. So depending on the lens you come and view it through, you can find villains all over the place. IMO, one of the biggest problems was that the Docker moat was primarily about mindshare. The core tech popularized containers, but it was thin enough that there's now the OCI, many other competing container runtimes, and docker plays completely no role in many large container usage scenarios (large public cloud operators). Kubernetes and really a lot of other clustering solutions always seemed to outweigh docker swarm, which was unfortunate too because that was probably one of the better monetizable vectors for the company.

If you compare all of this to a company like hashicorp, which in my opinion is just expertly run from the top, it's just a night-and-day tale. You can build great developer businesses, but you have to be careful, and probably still a little lucky. Docker had poor luck but I think they also had a lot of problems with not fully ideating the business of the product.

awinder··on Unpopular opinion: Weekdays/weekend split isn't for everyone
Beware of history when mucking with weekends: https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-lab...
awinder··on Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
"HTTP servers will often support compressing the response, but almost never do they allow compressing the request body"

What doesn't have great support for Content-Encoding headers?

awinder··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
https://i.redd.it/ptxs168d2gn51.jpg
awinder··on Coinbase Card
I wonder how smart this system is going to be — it’d be wise to have the rewards & purchasing happen on a stablecoin to avoid this. Then make users have to choose to then stash it somewhere they won’t draw from and trigger these events, if they want to “invest in a crypto”. It’d also be wise because coinbase can then charge their fees as they so do.

This is also fundamentally not so different from e.g. having spend vehicles with your brokerage. But the addressable market may be higher / different for coinbase which could cause a lot of headaches, like this one, if not carefully managed.

awinder··on Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?
Fox News black viewership population through 2018 was fully 1% https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-white-audience-immigration...

I’m not discounting your life experience but statistically speaking most black households do not experience Fox News. And if you lived in an environment where most black households did experience Fox News, then that might point to an even more skewed environment, statistically speaking.

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