skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea, but there's several problems.

- Uber is one of AWS's most important customers. If Amazon does a move that directly competes with Uber, to the point where Uber loses significant market share, enterprise customers will certainly lose trust in AWS. This is already an issue for AWS - Satya just gloated about it during the earnings call - but such a high-profile case as Uber vs. Lyft will only drive this point home further, allowing Azure to accelerate (which is already growing faster than AWS).

- Amazon makes no money, except through AWS. Purchasing Lyft is a significant investment over a a long time, and the money has to come from somewhere. If AWS lags during this critical juncture, this could cripple Amazon hugely.

- And Amazon has no giant cash pile sitting around like Apple. It cannot afford to cannibalize customer trust in AWS when it is imperative to their survival. See: their stock dropping, partly because their growth slowed slightly, and partly because it seems Azure's growth is faster.
Millions of frogs are factory farmed in shocking conditions
>there's plenty of talent that wants to live somewhere other than an urban core

That's true. Although I'm not sure you can build a campus on this scale that doesn't need to function as an urban core in at least some respects. I'm not sure how you plop something like this down on a prairie someplace and expect it to function. (Especially given that employees may not want to live in an urban core but don't necessarily want to live in a company town in the middle of nowhere.)

I agree that, if something like this is as reported, it's sort of a boring outcome in that it was entirely expected and safe.
iOS, Android, PWA
VA was chosen for its proximity to regulators.

Consider that if Microsoft had put an office in the DC area in the mid 1990s we would all be shopping at some e-commerce behemoth owned by Microsoft.

The reality is that for a company like Amazon, regulatory risk is the biggest existential threat to the company's future, and the only way to fight regulatory risk is through extensive lobbying and various legal forms of bribery that involve lots of face time with powerful officials.
I fully admitted I don't have proof of my theory that the vast majority of ads that meet Google's definition are scams / malware. Do you have any examples or even anecdotal experience with ads with fake mice, misleading click targets, fake close buttons, auto-redirects, etc that turned out to be legit? I very much do not.

Why isn't it a reasonable thing for a browser to do? I do a search and get some results. I click on site A. site A has a link to site B. I click on this link. Site B is full of ads that meet Google definition of an abusive ad. I'd appreciate my browser blocking those ads on site B even though I didn't get there via a search page.
In my view the deeper point of okmokmz's comment is that it's just crazy to only consider the most blatantly obvious health effects of pollutants.

We're still learning a lot about the hormonal effects of consuming microplastics and plasticizers (among other things) but it's all pointing in some pretty nasty directions, and until recently we didn't have much awareness of how much of the stuff we were consuming. We have to decide how much of the stuff we're going to try and prevent from entering the environment and our water supply, and I wouldn't want the people making that determination to be informed by ideas like "well, it's not as dangerous as uranium or lead so let's just not worry about it."
Influence is gained and lost in proxy wars
Thanks for clarifying. I chalked up the difference between 'a bit' and 'can't kill it' to mitigations that have happened since the LM383 was designed but now that I'm reading up on lateral transistors it looks like you're almost certainly right.
AWS Price List API Update – New Query and Metadata Functions – AWS News Blog
Amazon also has a lot of government work these days for DoD and intelligence services with AWS. So I imagine that's another motivator for the location. That area of VA will be a great spot to recruit people with the right clearances and backgrounds.
If you have an infinite spreading plane of cars moving all in the same direction at the same speed, and if nobody wants to join or leave this infinite plane of cars, and if none of the cars ever breaks down or runs out of energy, then this works perfectly. Back here on Earth it's not going to solve anything.
A lot of people want to live in NYC, that's why it's so expensive to live in NYC.

Amazon cannot replicate NYC in the middle of nowhere, or even the middle of somewhere. The confluence of geography, history, commerce, culture and sheer verve can't be bought.
Long Island has almost 3 million people living on it. I think some posters here don’t recognize the sheer scale of the NYC metro area. If they pick LIC for half a headquarters NYC isn’t going to be a company town. They probably won’t even be the largest private employer.
Not OP, but I've read a ~200 fiction books and ~50 nonfiction books over my life.

Usually I pick books by the following:

- If I haven't read a single book for fun, I would pick a popular fiction or nonfiction book. Its a good starting point. Things like "Top 10 books in X category" from goodreads are good examples, or "r/askreddit favorite books"

- After reading 5-10 different books, I'll get a feel for what I like and don't like. I'll search "site:reddit.com similar books to X" and grab recommendations. Compare these to amazon's bestsellers and goodreads.

- For nonfiction books, I generally am more picky. I usually have a list of people I follow, some write reviews on books they read. I have had a few people I respect read "Ego is the Enemy" so I picked that up recently, and its something I struggle with sometimes so it's ideal for me. Nonfiction books are most powerful when you read it at the right time

- For nonfiction more textbook-like books, or something more informational, I usually let reddit / goodreads /hackernews decide what's good and what's not.

I started to read less fiction now, I've seen the same plot rehashed too many times. Nonfiction books are interesting to me at the moment.

I guess it really depends what you want to get out of your book. Do you want escapism, inspiration, or change?
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Really hard to read that chart. The font is like 4 pixels tall total with massive compression artifacts.
I'm also an MS employee. Are you sure no Office service revenue is included? I assumed from the size of the gap they must be piling it in. If not, that leaves an even larger unaccounted-for gap between Azure and the claimed 24 billion.

Under C+E, the last time they tipped the hand on cloud revenue it was ~18 billion with about a third from Azure AFAIK. To me, that is woefully misleading to compare us on 1:1 terms with AWS.
Four Roses doesn't make a rye of any sort. I think you're thinking of Midwest Grain Products (the old Seagrams distillery), which does in fact supply rye distillate to a large number of whiskey bottlers.
"it"? They're people.
You don't need engineering proximity to hire lobbyists. You need engineering proximity to win contracts on the basis of engineering proximity.
> This city attorney seems... extra.

Good. Extra is what you need to stand up to SV clout

How do you propose convincing propertyowners to finance their own vertical construction?
Is GraphQL experience a must have?
There are actually more than one reason. I know at least two.

1. The classic Scheme based courses used to bootstrap an OO-DSL embedded in Scheme based on procedures and message-passing (you literally send a symbol by calling the object, which is a lambda, of course with an argument and get back a closure to run - a method). This is an invaluable experience to realize that there is absolutely nothing special about OOP and there is no magic.

2. There are still some gems (which leads to very real a-ha moments!) which cannot be taught in other languages. Here is one:

(define partially (lambda (f . as)
(lambda xs
(apply f (append as xs)))))

and then

(define reverse (partially foldl (flip cons) '()))
Plotinus' "Enneads".
chat function has XSS vulnerability
Source docs:

Release: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354933A1.pdf

Letters: https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-demands-industry-a...

Background on STIR and SHAKEN, which is basically signed caller ID: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17408406
As an Amazon employee, I will only believe it when Jeff says it's so.

"Sources" that aren't specified or provide any evidence tend to have a poor track record.
I always read the top HN comment or two, then read the article for 10 seconds or so, and then usually switch back to reading HN comments. I find HN comments to be more informative and interesting.

There are some rare exceptions when I actually finish the article, but it's rare.
There is good reason why its called the LAW of supply and demand.
All the time, to be honest. I find myself reading way too much at work, instead of doing other things (grading papers, proctoring a test efficiently, etc.) I read at home, at the gym (and sometimes skimp on running to do inclined treadmill or bike just so I can read) and even when I'm in a car with others driving. Hell, I read during a board game meetup the other day (it was at a bookstore!) because I was close to finishing one (yes, I do realize how rude it was, and didn't read except while waiting to start up a new game).

I read at night mostly though, and it's a nice way to wind down before bed. During the summer, while I'm off, I'll also walk and read as well. I generally don't tend to pass of social events to read, though (boardgame night was an exception because I had, like, 20 pages left), so that cuts me down some.
Is it time to is pull the plug on hate speech online? Can AI help?
People want zero short-term visitors as neighbors, and the law reflects that.

Landlords, under existing US law, are only really liable for tenant nuisance if they should have known that the nuisance was likely (e.g., an aggressive dog in the apartment.) It's hard to really argue that you could tell anything about noisy short-term visitors, since fine upstanding members of society on a weekend trip may turn out to be party animals at night.

Short-term rentals are even more difficult to enforce against just because there is a shortage of police and inspector manpower in most major cites; by the time one is able to get to you the visitor may have left already. And first offence is generally just a warning, but a warning is of little use to people taking a plane out the next day.
Bezos is probably very careful about how much time he spends in NYC. Both the State and the City charge income tax based on their definitions residence. They don't mess around, either.
Assuming that the campus is in or around LIC proper, there's a lot to work with in the immediate area. Given recent and future development of proper high-rises along the waterfront, plus further re-zoning of formerly industrial areas to the south and into Brooklyn, you could see the long-awaited revitalization of the old shipyards.
True, but they're also two cities that are 200 miles apart in a country that is 2500+ miles wide.
I love VSCode, but the plugin system is probably its weakest feature. Opening any new file type and VSCode will say "we have an extension for this file type!" and then open the sidebar with 200 extensions with random vote counts, and you have no idea which ones are good, official, supported, or even suit your needs. And the in-editor documentation pages, and plugin hosted web pages, reek of Microsoft. It needs a major change, maybe like separating plugins into official ones, full IDE extensions, and simple commands.
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EKS is, without a doubt in my mind, among the worst products Amazon has ever released. You pay $0.20/hour for the "benefit" of a managed high-availability control plane, no matter the size of the cluster, then are forced into a seemingly incomprehensible mess of CloudFormation templates to spawn a set of VMs which you now have to manage yourself.

It makes no god damn sense. They had every opportunity to look at how Azure or Google were doing it and just straight-up copy it. For Christ's sake, they were over a year late to the game.

I remember during the original announcement, maybe its documented somewhere, they announced that Fargate was coming to EKS "eventually". They don't even have managed worker nodes for normal VMs, if their intention is to bring Fargate as well we literally won't see it for another two years. It took them over six months to get from announcement to GA.

The only good thing I have to say about it is that it's pretty reliable. Which isn't saying a lot because it doesn't do much, but they're happy to charge you $150/mo for what it does.

Did I mention it takes over 20 minutes to create a new cluster? Well, actually, they "call" it a cluster, but its really just the control plane. The actual cluster can take up to 30 minutes for everything to actually connect and be usable. My company was interested in doing a "pristine" staging environment for every/some PR, throwing it away afterward. Interesting idea. Not worth it on EKS because their performance is so god awful.

EKS is literally the reason why we abandoned AWS in favor of Google Cloud. I'm not suggesting that the rest of AWS isn't overall pretty great, but when nearly all of your workload is defined as "90% inside kubernetes, a few cloud-managed queues, and blob storage" Amazon isn't doing themselves any favors by ignoring the most interesting infrastructure technology to be released in the past five years. Oh, and our bill dropped by ~50% because preemptible instances on GCloud are actually easy to use, instead of the sheer insanity of trying to integrate spot fleets with an eksctl cluster.
>density of high-quality information in a book is unmatched.

Do you not get tired from this?

Books I read 3 years ago are typically purged from memory by now. What remains are understandings and intuitions on a topic, which have value, but sometimes I wonder if the time is always well spent.
The statements in this thread are the Hacker equivalents of "flyover country."
A single person can only stuff one ballot box.

A single person can write code to change ten million votes.

Which would you rather be vulnerable to?
October surprise
> Personally, I find Amazon's decision disappointing, and I regret getting caught up in the hype. I was hoping that they'd do something bold and interesting, not open a couple of satellite offices in obvious places.

I share this sentiment. I feel sort of silly about thinking that the outcome would justify the groveling and begging that Amazon invited. But at the end of the day it is the same as it ever was.
This is mostly blogspam, actual source is https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-m...
TLDR: Perhaps MIT should reinstate Scheme and 6.001, and get rid of Python and the new C1. Somehow I feel that MIT is risking creating a new generation of idiots by getting rid of Scheme and SICP from their curriculum just for the ostensible reason that the recursive style of programming does not reflect the way that programming is actually conducted in industry. Students do not learn programming just to program; learning programming also has important ramifications for the structural thought processes underlying other technical fields, even those that do not seem superficially related (such as patent translation), and it seems that watering down a core programming course for such ostensible reasons undermines the crucial patterns of thinking which are cross-applicable to such other technical fields as well.

I wonder if Richard Stallman would have invented recursive copyleft law if he had never programmed in a lisp/scheme.
anonymous usernames...
Have you been to LIC recently? It’s not like it’s bereft of coffee shops right now.

Posters are here are making the same posts as they would have made if this article was about Akron. But NYC is not Akron, even if it happens to be NYC across the East River.
Why shouldn’t gov’t have to compete for business?

The only other alternative is to force companies to stay in an area, regardless of how attractive the business climate is.
True, but winning those contracts is also a very good way to be viewed as too big to fail, too essential for antitrust intervention.
There are more people that don't want to live in NYC than do. What's your point? At no point was there an HQ2 requirement of "be as cool as NYC"
Most SaaS software arent that unique. They solve the same problem other companies are trying to solve. Once you use MailChimp, you arent going to use Constant Contact too. Once you use Stripe, there isnt much reason to use Braintree, etc. Thus when a competitor gains a customer, it usually means one less customer for you.
Yeah, but it's a short hop between nearby airports and a pretty easy train trip. That said, depending on the real estate situation, I could see a lot of reasons for splitting a campus between NY and DC. Same time zone, pretty easy to get from one to the other, but quite different cities with much different industry focuses.
I mean, that's a fairly easy question to answer.

The rooted pay taxes, provide stability to a neighborhood, and are invested in the upkeep of their properties.

They also tend to be better neighbors than a constant flow of random people who may not care whether they make noise, or disturb others.

I certainly would be incredibly peeved if I paid a million dollars for a unit and then the person down the hall turned their apartment into a miniature hotel and had random people coming in and out at all times of the day that I'd never seen before.

Beyond that, these units drive up rental prices, and avoid luxury taxes which can benefit locals to enrich the owners of AirBnB.
Your conjecture that individuals can be biased under prezsure is not evidence of a vast plot to undermine Republicans and put Jews in power.
French uses GAFAM: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM (and leaves out Netflix). Funnily enough it used to be GAFA, but people eventually added Microsoft.
More on this point, there were a number of perfectly reasonable second tier cities in their 'final 20' shortlist already, which were lagging behind first tier cities only in transit, or, for all we know, in the amount of incentives they were willing to throw at Amazon's feet.

Raleigh/Durham would have made for a fine urban or suburban campus and would've capitalized on the presence of tech talent already drawn to the area; Austin would have been another obvious choice for pre-existing tech talent. A pick like Nashville or Columbus would have been bold, picking a rising star midsize metro with diverse strengths and no strong background in tech and lifting it further. Instead, it's looking to be NYC and DC. Much ado about nothing.
From the article:

Until the product is actually built and tested at commercial scale, it’s too early to say how well or affordably it will really work.

Moreover, merely producing a green version of a product for around the same price won’t be enough to transform the industry, given the billions of dollars in sunk costs in steel mills that can operate for decades.

Even if the perfect technology came on the scene today, it’d probably be several decades before we could effectively transition to it

Talk about playing the long game...

I wonder how much cheaper their method would need to be, given the above.
Would it be faster/cheaper to develop perfect scrubbers to retrofit onto existing mills? (Funded through donations, and/or to sell to offset carbon taxes.)

Still good to have this new technology available to transition to down the line.
Eh. Facebook and Google both have a lot of lobbyists in DC. You don't need to create a big HQ for that.
Building shitty housing is never a good idea.
Where is the comment in this thread that said votes were changed?

If you want to punch straw men, go find yourself a farm.
Not a physicist, but as I recall it's because the relevant curve describing energy states doesn't slope just one direction. It goes up and then down again:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/NucEne/nucbin.htm...

This means when talking about tiny nuclei (hydrogen and helium), moving to a bigger nucleus (fusion) takes you to lower energy (more stable) state and releases energy.

But when you're talking huge nuclei, it's the opposite, and moving to a smaller nucleus takes you to a lower energy state and releases energy.
People here have been worried about providers like GoDaddy when this excerpt arguably has the potential to be much worse; “Kavanaugh dissented from the ruling upholding net neutrality rules in 2017, arguing that the rules violate the First Amendment rights of Internet service providers by preventing them from "exercising editorial control" over Internet content.“
Fourier Series (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Georgi P. Tolstov
OK, that's fair. But one interesting case in that space is where the production code is highly optimized to be performant at the expense of simplicity. Writing an easy-to-understand but stupid-slow oracle is often a worthwhile strategy.
Can you briefly list what improvements you have observed because of more reading?
> in the next five years or so once self-driving cars are a thing

You have another thing coming if you think a) self driving cars will be here in five years or b) that they will make NYC traffic a dream to navigate when they do.
> Have you considered that maybe my concept of “few” is not “three”?

Yep. Hence "if few is three" earlier.

I'm not interested in a bet. I'm interested in adjusting my priors. Thanks for the help.
My point is that Amazon's making some place "a somewhere" is never going to be on the scale of NYC.

They want to attract talent and the way to do that is to go where the talent is or wants to be. The bay area is such a place. Seattle is such a place. New York is such a place. But they couldn't turn Mt Tinroof Springs into a world centre no matter what they did.
Global police isn't the goal it's the method. The goal is influence and access to global resources.
One might argue that sounds like software engineering, and that's mostly a separate activity from both programming and from computer science. Of course they overlap.
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The FCC is trying to preempt state laws to prevent that from happening.
> Crypto bugs of comparable severity have lived for many, many years in these systems.

Do you have any examples of bugs as bad as "password is checked with if statement" living for many years in widely deployed open source software?
Can you give me an example? I've only done .NET, HTML/CSS/JS, Vue, and go-lang, in VSCode, never had that happen.

I only have installed Beautify, C#, Go, Git History, Vetur.
It seems the new HQ will be in or near LIC. That is already a super tech-and-finance gentrified and expensive area a station or two away from Manhattan. Not exactly groundbreaking.
Yes, rail offers unparalleled efficiency at transporting people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be.
It’s debated, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_multiplier_effect
It hasn't always been the cycle of the city that it continues to get more and more expensive, though. I don't want the city to be taken over by luxury apartment buildings, banks and Starbucks on every corner, but sometimes it feels like it's going that way.