skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that these kinds of transactions are regrettable and they leave a bad taste in my mouth. At the same time, you haven't convinced me that local governments are making a bad decision by playing this game.

I think perspective is key here. From a broad economic perspective, Amazon is going to build this thing somewhere, and so these kinds of trade-offs seem pointless. Economists likely object because the whole thing is economically inefficient from a broad (national) perspective.

But from the perspective of a local government, that may not be the case. A local government is concerned about the local economy more than the national economy, and so offering these perks makes sense.

Again, I agree that the whole thing is regrettable, and that it probably hurts the economy as a whole. I wish Amazon didn't play these games. But I also think it's worth pushing back against the idea that these local governments are clueless idiots. They may very well be making a good decision from their narrow perspective, and the city that Amazon chooses may very well see a net increase in tax revenue.
Half of the parameters relate to features Google doesn't support yet

- instance type - Google schedules you on whatever random CPU they have at hand unless you specify otherwise, with no ability to reserve capacity ahead of time, never mind tying it to a particular hardware architecture.

- placement - Google does not offer single tenant or dedicated placement instances

- scope - Google does not offer capacity-reserving discounts

- convertibility - Google does not offer reservation of particular hardware types, so this option makes no sense

But give it another a few more years, and let's see what their billing offering looks like then

The one thing it looks like Google really did nail here, though, is decoupling bundled licensing from their discounts. With AWS when you buy a RHEL reserved instance, it's a RHEL reserved instance.
FWIW, I wasn't trying to be critical. Or, at least, I was trying to be constructively critical. Getting to a Terraform setup is an excellent start...lots of companies can't get that far. I guess I'd just encourage you to view it as the beginning of a longer process that allows you to take full advantage of the fact that AWS bills by the hour and lets you launch as much infrastructure as you want.

Always-on non-production environments are, to my mind, a vestige of the time where you had physical servers that needed to be provisioned by a person and cost roughly the same amount when switched off. Or at least the time where OPS built and maintained each AWS VM by hand. On-demand just offers so much more flexibility...stuff like the example from my response to a sibling comment--you should be able to type a single command and spin up an environment from a pull request any time a code reviewer wants to do testing to ensure that what code looks like it does is what it actually does.

The more you can leverage the work you've done to get to where you are, the more you can drive down your AWS costs while giving greater flexibility and isolation to your non-prod workload.
Neutral would be everyone following the law and the tax code as it is laid out. "Neutral" should be the government getting billions from Amazon, as they are legally obligated to pay.

It's clearly harmful because revenue is supposed to be going up A LOT more than it will be.
It's from Rogue One, which is set just before the original and thus needed a double for young Carrie Fisher.
Sounds like a shithole country to me
Not really true. This is well inside the domain of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The Federal government could block it.
I find the airtable kind of cluttery. All the content is on the far left, why not use the full width of the page?

Then it opens the description in this tiny little window...
Have the Values, Have the Guts
With an infinite amount for investment I'd agree with you, no city would need or want to proffer incentives. But with only $x to go around for investment countrywide, how do I attract a percentage of that to my city? I'd like to see how that would work sans a centrally planned economy.
Detroit businesses have to pay extra for priority police protection
Ask HN: What simple tools or products you made?
I'm thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.
Mathematical simplicity is insufficient for truth in my epistemology. Sounds very Platonic.
I intend this to be a tool to be clearly see the data and do corrections when needed, even for not so very technical users such as managers and business owners. It could be a replacement for PgAdmin when you are only interested in manipulating the Data, as I have no plans of adding DDL functionalities into the project.
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No one's moving from Seattle to Newark, except people whose parents live there. They'd stop hiring in Seattle and hire more in Newark
I agree. I'm open to using another service, but Airtable seems to be the best fit for now.
>They don’t have a choice to “tolerate” it or not

Of course they do. They vote out the politicians that allow multi-billion dollar companies to avoid their tax obligations and they vote in ones that don't.

Americans have utterly forgotten they are in charge of their country.
Are there disks that can write up to 25gbps? What applications would need that much speed?
Are you considering taxes on Foxconn workers salaries in your calculation?
Multiple discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16244347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16240874
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It's both very expressive and readable, and it's the last part I absolutely love. I can understand Python code very quickly and I can often recognize the algorithm that's implemented.

And you can do composition easily, that's the main seller for me.
> bottom one is another actress + deepfake

You sure? Didn't they just run the deepfake algorithm (trained on photos of young Carrie) on the CGI scene? So it went from "Hollywood CGI actress" to "allegedly improved deepfake actress"...
Which test are you referring to? Googling returns nothing.
It depends on the complexity of the fixes. We're probably not talking additional instructions here, only some smaller microarchitectural changes (at least for Meltdown), which could conceivably take only 6-9 months to put into production after design.

I wouldn't expect anything before Q3, but Q3 or Q4 shipping does seem plausible.
Not my experience at all over several years now.

Some things are busy, but there's usually plenty of others that are interesting or the chance to take a break and/or a beer and chill a bit.
Tax relief doesn't do any direct harm and comprises the largest share of most incentives packages.

Infrastructure spending that isn't paid for by increased tax revenues is clearly harmful, but people aren't exactly tossing out case studies about how that always happens.

The real issue is that local governments have a long history of spending beyond their means. Infrastructure isn't crumbling because of all the businesses that have been granted tax incentives, it's crumbling because taxes aren't high enough in general when you look at the obligations that local governments have entered into.
For those who want an accessible introduction to the South Sea Bubble, Extra History has a video series on the causes and aftermath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kndKWJKB8&list=PLEb6sGT7oD...
STEM is relevant to economy development, not STEAM.
Sorry for asking, what is Silicon Validation? and how it is related to Meltdown, Spectre?
Can you tell a lullaby from a love song?
Mandatory post: Finding a Co-Founder (https://medium.com/p/259bb428377f)

The best co-founder is someone you’ve already worked with.
Speaking of Delyo Haydutin, and I'm not Bulgarian, but I can't get enough of the Bulgarian Idol version by Nevena Tzoneva. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuaE8i-aFJU
I agree with this sentiment with regards to more formal businesses. Like you say, you don't want to screw those up. But for smaller, side projects, I think this is usefull.

I also believe in the "shotgun" method of pushing out an MVP, guaging the response, and seeing what sticks. This could be the perfect thing for finding someone to build "shotgun" kinds of projects with.
I wonder about reconstructing "off-screen" or muted conversation/noise in Youtube videos. Or CSPAN video.
Also to give more context: Back in the late 90s I remember I had a linuxmail.org web-mail account. It featured a whooping 4MB of space. 4MB!

That's why when Google released GMail with 1GB of storage in 2004 ( https://slashdot.org/story/04/04/01/0038200/googles-gmail-to... ) it really blew everybody's mind.
Considering the number of delays, push-backs and holds on this rocket, don't be surprised if it doesn't. And that's okay- once a rocket is more than a meter off the ground, it's either going to space or exploding, so caution is the right trait to have.

All that said, I'll still be watching live whenever it happens. If they pull this off, it'll open up a lot of new possibilities for the space industry.
this is a big tragedy of the commons. if all cities would agree to not offer incentives, wed basically all be better off
The good news is that the majority of cities bidding on the Amazon project will get that deal!
> I wish Amazon didn't play these games.

This has nothing to do with Amazon "playing games" and everything to do with politicians making deals so multi-billion dollar companies can avoid their tax obligations. Hilarious, anywhere else in the world it's called corruption, but in America "It's just business"

>They may very well be making a good decision from their narrow perspective, and the city that Amazon chooses may very well see a net increase in tax revenue.

There is no universe where that is true. It just means all the cities are in a race to the bottom competition. Sure their tax revenue may have net increased, but it will be by a much lower amount than it should be.

"Net increase in tax revenue at all costs" is not the goal here.

What do you think is going to happen when this happens all across America, and every time a monster company does something they get out of paying billions in tax?
I hear this was the director's original intent, but he didn't have the budget.
Can't wait to watch this one.

It will be absolutely amazing to watch 3 boosters come back down to earth and all land. Even if they don't all land this time, they will one day.
Python actually does have a kind of "anonymous function" feature, at least in a way that replaces most common use cases. It just happens to be bundled in a unique Python-like way. A lot of people don't seem to know about @contextmanager (contextlib.contextmanager) - it's what provides the functionality for "with" blocks. You've probably seen with() used with file operations (open file, run block of code, file is closed automatically at end of block), but I suspect many developers are unaware that you can create your own context managers.

While they are not true anonymous functions, I have yet to stumble on a scenario where a context manager did not fit the bill. They're easy to create - nothing more than a try/except/finally with a "yield" call to execute... you guessed it, essentially an anonymous function block. It's a little mind-warping the first time through, but it winds up creating clean code. PEP 343 is a good source to learn more.
Poutine is an example gentrified food. I guess sometimes you can’t stop the spread of a good idea.
I use my nav system for the live traffic updates not because I can't navigate to a nearby address by reading street signs.
Lyft and Uber displaced all the old carpool services, because professionals work better than amateurs
iirc Gnosticism and Manichaeism were both heavily influenced by eastern thought and took root in parts of the eastern Mediterranean all the way to Persia. The early church was very effective in labeling them as heresies and stamping them out.
That's precisely my definition of beneficial. Neutral would be when the cost of additional services are equal to the benefits.
Governments also prefer having a trusted ‘central’ authority to sue and censor. This way they can force ‘illegal’ listings off the platform.
NB: US federal corporate tax rate is now 21%
So an alternative might be to try to hide the danger, rather than announce it. Bury the waste as deep as possible in an area with few natural resources, and then restore the site to a natural state. This carries other risks, of course...
Why should anyone collect this data? Can you imagine the first time it's hacked and we have complete details of everything that anyone watches and when? It will be awful, hilarious, and horrifying all at once.

"Your Royal Majesty, according to the recent Mindgeek hack, it appears you.."

NO ONE in their right mind wants that.
‘The Shed at Dulwich’ was London’s top-rated restaurant. But it didn’t exist
What do you mean by "deep-blue-brush"?
How to Fact Check The Atlantic
The era of self driving cars will be fun when GPS goes down
A lot of people are in need of a partner / cofounder including myself. However just like dating, this is a hard problem to solve. I hope this helps!
No, because it's a decided question. As a society, we've already chosen that we'd rather see a perpetrator walk free than imprisoned without proper evidence.

We shouldn't have to revisit that decision on the merits just because some police officer who disagrees with it unilaterally breached the social contract. We should just punish him. Severely.
This is a major plot element of the 2013 film "The Congress". I highly recommend it.
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Sorry bloatedcarpel, but I've always thought this is a terrible idea...

I've been a solo-founder for 15 years, and I'll admit a co-founder would be awesome. But starting a company is not a walk in the park.. things are going to go wrong. It's not going to go as planned, you're going to feel like quitting at some point... And you have to trust this person you just met to handle that, resolve differences of opinion on the company, etc all while barely knowing how this person behaves under pressure, with their livelihood on the line (or their unrealistic dreams of riches).

It would be some kind of miracle if it actually works out with a random person. I would never do it.
Don't forget mercurial: it's not used much for FOSS due to GitHub, but has a pretty strong hold in private companies. It's better than git (historically, not sure if it's still true in 2018) at dealing with Windows and huge repositories. And perforce for the truly humongous code bases...
Not a drug so not a lot of money to be made long term. I’m really surprised this even got funding to be studied. Spend money marketing something that isn’t unique or patentable is usually a loosing game. For example if you pitched this on shark tank you’d have no investors because it’s not defendable.
I never got that to work somehow. I'm sure I have the wrong OSX version.
Ask HN: Do tech media/individual bloggers ever cover unknown products?
All I can see is either start-ups, that have already been funded or products, that are new, but already quite popular...

Do any of them actually cover new products that are BARELY KNOWN (if at all) to anyone?

Maybe anyone knows a media outlet or individual blog specializing on covering unknown/just-launched stuff...
So you have a case like this: the funds were moved with the private key. 24 hours after the owner comes and says: ‘I didn’t do that! Someone else must have copied my key and made that transaction!’

How does the exchange handle that? What’s the dispute mechanism?
Someone please gentrify giardiniera

Spicy advocates demand it
Author here. Feel free to ask anything and feedback is very welcome.

This package is not yet fit for production usage, it is just a short exercise I did on weekends.
Fosdem is great, I’ve been there many times. If you have the chance you should definitely go. What I like is that is it very low-key/accessible. Over the years I ‘met’ / talked with RMS, Robert Love, Tim O’Reilly, Wietse Venema, Timo Sirainen and Larry Wall by just walking around on campus and bumping into them.
IIRC the movie The Congress (2013) is about this (before it transitions into a full on acid trip)
That's a sinister use of the word "they".

Do you allow non-Jewish Americans to resent Jews for their dramatic over-representation in positions of power, influence, and information gate-keeping (e.g. journalism, entertainment media, the Supreme Court, Congress, academia, the Federal Reserve)?

Do you allow non-Black Americans to resent blacks for their disproportionate violence and anti-social behavior; for their dramatic over-representation in entertainment media; and for the astronomical net tax burden they foist upon everyone else (just over $10,000 per black American per year)?

When you abuse the word "they", it's going to be abused back at you.
Does anyone else get this error?

"An error occurred during a connection to projectboard.xyz. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG"
A potential link is a link.

And elevated sugar indicates excess sugar, and excess sugar is a form of sugar.

So the headline is fine. You’re projecting things onto it which weren’t said and then complaining those things aren’t clarified in the title. That’s what the article is for.
Android is getting a National Roaming toggle
Censorship is a popular stance all over, depending entirely on who/what is being censored.

In the UK, it's porn. In Germany, it's Nazi memorabilia. In Canada, it's pronoun use and "hate" speech. In Iran and China, it's government dissidents. In the US, it's companies instead of governments doing it but the result is the same.

Same Stupid, Different day
Political "blue" - probably means more "democrats, liberals, progressives". My guess...
Pondering the future of the space station, as Trump reaches for the moon
Supervised learning is great – it's data collection that's broken
> Soon we'll be able to make 100% convincing movies without any real celebrities whatsoever.

Being able to mimic particular people is quite different to being able to:

- make the AI act in a compelling way in a new movie (e.g. getting the emotion and delivery right for a particular scene)

- create a compelling actor from scratch.
A lot of people everywhere have a fascination with the US, I wouldn't attribute that to CIA money. Raggare in Sweden comes to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggare
Most likely, celebrities will hire nobodies to be body doubles for them, to do the hard work of actually making movies / tv shows, and then the AIs will fill in their faces later.
Have you checked out SkipTheDrive.com?
There is also a thing called AtomicSwap https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_swap
The Follower Factory
We could do that, if we could get an idea of the number of years that Foxconn is likely to continue doing business in Wisconsin. I'd imagine no one really knows that right now. So if we have a 50 year "y combinator" type fund, it might be a little unfair to compare the money generated from the companies started through that fund to the money generated by Foxconn if Foxconn only stays in Wisconsin for... say... 10 years.

We just have no good data on that. How long will they stay? My COMPLETELY UNEDUCATED guess would be more than 5 years, but likely much less than 50 years.

We could compare the income taxes generated, but my gut tells me that doing so would put the young STEM and business types even further ahead in terms of ROI. That's just a guess though.
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JNode, JX, JavaOS, Android are a fact.

Let us know when there is an OS with Python userspace that can compare to any of them.

Of course Python is a core component of any UNIX system, it is a perfectly good fit as scripting language.

As a replacement for complex shell scripts, libraries written in C and C++, or scripting GUI applications.
Believe it or not, it's partly thanks to you, HN, that I wrote this book in 2014 in the first place [1]! It's humbling to see it listed here again now that the text has become available under a CC BY-ND license. Thank you for your help in spreading the word.

All this attention (read: likes, shares, and page views) is making me wonder whether it's worthwhile to write an update (or even a second edition). What do you think? What would you like to see changed or added?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412190
I can anecdotally vouch for this. A friend told me about elderberry a few years ago when I told him I had flu symptoms. I went to Whole Foods around 7pm and bought the extract. Took a double dose with Vit C and D and tons of water every 4-6 hours. One ibuprofen as needed to keep my temperature down. Woke up the next day around noon and the flu was gone. Been using it ever since.
(1) The benchmark measured the point of discussion.

(2) Even not using asynchronity (which Go is heralded for), processes take <2ms to start and stop. Not nothing, but certainly something you could do hundreds of times a second.

$ time seq 1000 | while read; do sleep 0; done

real 0m1.644s
user 0m1.065s
sys 0m0.672s
So Intel just hit earnings records[1] for 2017Q4 despite all the vulns (AMT). And now, after recent events (Meltdown/Spectre) with no warranty losses, are anticipated in excitement to hit new records in 2018Q4 with new, apparently not much faster, but fixed CPUs. Awesome.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12371/intel-announces-q4-2017...
>Tax relief doesn't do any direct harm and comprises the largest share of most incentives packages.

Great, so the extra tax I'm levied to make up for Amazon's skipping on theirs, you'll be paying, I assume? You've said it's harmless, so pay up.

>Infrastructure isn't crumbling because of all the businesses that have been granted tax incentives, it's crumbling because taxes aren't high enough in general when you look at the obligations that local governments have entered into.

Yes, obligations such as the routine subsidizing of intensely wealthy employers in an acknowledged race to the bottom.
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Looks mostly comprehensible to me. A lot of the icons are obvious if you deal with this stuff a lot, like the ELB, Redis icons, and the ones with instance types written on them. Bit too zoomed out to read the small text, though.
What an incredible genius.
A Washington state bill that would make it easier to fix your electronics
Are Microschools the Next Big Thing?
And if the MVP is successful.. then what? Aren't you back to the 'formal business' problem?
I wouldn't bet the farm on this.

Toronto has a better infrastructure than most US cities on the list, saner immigration policies, wages low enough (even if you compare the total cost of employment) to possibly make up for any tax discount. Canada's image is good among European and East Asian tech workers willing to relocate. And its tech scene, while not huge, is decently sized.
I don't have data regarding the number of STEM grads though.

The only thing I know is that there are roughly 3 or 4000 STEAM and Business school graduates. So that's what I have to go with.

Besides, there are obviously LESS than 3 or 4000 STEM grads, so the program would last LONGER than 50 years in that case.

(Although I think cross functional STEAM/Business teams are a better bet anyway... but even if you believe the STEM guys are capable of going it alone... it only makes the guy's argument more strong. Because the funding would last decades longer.)