skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn’t a long term equilibrium state. Eventually it’ll either die down, one side will be crushed, or there’ll be extensive violence that could end up in a civil war. See the European wars or religion or the Dutch Revolt. For a less violent result see pillarisation, where different religious or political groups have parallel institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation
Are you sure, this sounds reversed - Northern efficiency, and Southern Charm?
So Apple prices themselves out of the market and now they are shocked the market reacted with lower sales.
> Google can (and has) ocassionaly placed banners suggesting a switch to chrome, influencing the browser market.

But so can anybody else. Google sells ads on their search engine to anyone. If you asked nicely enough with a large enough pile of money they would presumably even sell you a banner placement.

What is the objection supposed to be? That Google didn't pay itself for the ad space? How would it have changed anything if they did?
It is a joke, but one that I take very seriously. https://i.imgur.com/wmjrQV8.png
The article is about what happens in China. It does not claim the phenomenon is exclusive to China.
Why Chips Die
> there is a lot wrong with the idea that you need to work until your health is impacted to succeed

Know your pay-offs. Gambling your health to enrich someone else, while you scrape by with pennies, is a last resort. Gambling your health for tremendous gains is a fair choice.

These are gambles humans leaving Africa and navigating the oceans made. (The cost of loss was death.) It’s a risk we’ll face expanding to the Moon and Mars and Alpha Centauri. Be thoughtful about the risks you take—not all are offered equally—but don’t discard them outright for being risky.
It means nothing. Most of big companies have multiple big offices, with big autonomy and owned parts of the business in each of them.

It's all just marketing buzz from amazon.
Aren’t the new iPhones approximately the same price as the premium android phones?

Edit: Note to self, don’t ask questions here. I had thought the top of the line Samsungs were close. Good points below about cost per supported year.
I'm normally not in favor of side stepping the processes in place, but I can guarantee you that if the community board was allowed to inject themselves into this process, you would be unlikely to see Amazon in NYC in 2050, let alone this decade. Nimbyism would never let this kind of thing progress.
Every decision is a trade-off. Proprietary software with support from a vendor can greatly speed up your product viability and market profitability.

For most companies, and especially startups, that is far more important than the very unlikely risk that a vendor completely disappears overnight, and the even more unlikely risk that their software also stops working completely before you can migrate to something else.
I watch a decent amount of YouTube, but if it went away, I don’t think that it would be a net loss to humanity given what YT shows to children [0], and how YT radicalizes viewers [1]. It’s actually Patreon that pays my favorite creators, not YT, so they could protentially distribute videos via any other site. A new site for discovery would likely rise up, if Patreon didn’t do that themselves.

This is the entire platform vs publisher argument that tech companies have been hiding under for years. No one is responsible for content, and look what that’s gotten us. I would shed no tears if YT ended operation in the EU, where I live.

[0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-prob...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-youtubes-far-right-radi...
That is a bit of a simplistic conclusion.

The hypocrisy is clear, but hypocrisy is not sufficient to prove that one does not care at all.

What is pretty clear is that the USA takes a strategic and occasionally very partisan view when making their choices of alliances as well as their use of power and force. I'm not sure they are very unique in this respect though.
You forgot to adjust for the standard NYC ego inflation. Each NYC developer is worth 2x what any other developer is worth so NYC would win with 125k developers.
I agree. An hour is considered a slightly above average commute in the Bay Area. However in NYC its considered way above average. When I was interviewing there, I was low key shocked that the interviewers considered 30 minutes to be a 'long' commute. Thats when I knew I was in the right place. Density + transit is the way to go.
How did you eat shit exactly? a failed startup?
“Fun” must be a bizarre elite perspective I’ve never understood either. The same stuff is available in Seattle as it is in NYC or Boston, just with an order of magnitude more people. Whenever I ask people about this they just talk about nightlife or something that I can’t relate to at all.

I don’t know, maybe it’s because I didn’t hobnob with the well connected in college or “have fun” in college either.
Lol someone’s defensive. I believe this is called being insecure.
NYC is a very fun place to live. Recent grads who are making a good income have every reason to want to live there.
>> "Southern Efficiency, and Northern Charm"

and don't forget "Amazon Humidity" and "Mexico City Traffic"
Obviously, I do not use RAII, operator new or exceptions in a code base that compiles as C or C++.

Here let me note that I have not gone out of the way to disable anything in C++. I have not disabled EH in the compiler, or RTTI or anything. Yet, the executable size is close to the C one, and the performance is basically the same.
Michael Albert - Participatory Economics.
> ideological purity gets you no where.

While I also disagree with the parent, these facts are not in evidence.
Consider splitting a tract of land into four fair farms.

That had two dimensions and a naive extension will clearly fail.
What do you think this means for software engineering in NYC? IMO it's a good thing; more tech talent and the most legit tech company in NYC (besides maybe Google).

But that about the tech economy and SE profession? What will the impact be? More demand for SEs, sure, and more SEs will be attracted to NYC too.

These are all obvious first wave affects, but what will second, third wave affects be?
Regardless of Amazon's culture, it will still have an upward competitive pressure on your salary as a developer. That is always a good thing.
Interesting to think what a different conclusion the article would have arrived at if he'd chosen to look at GNU cat on Linux. A few sample points:

* 2002: 833 LoC (http://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html)

* 2013: 36kLoC, 2/3rds of them .h files (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510#11341175)

* 2018: 37kLoC of .c file dependencies going into libcoreutils.a and some LoC of .h files (coreutils has 60kLoC of .h files)

The methodology for counting lines likely isn't consistent across those data points. But the trend is still unmistakeable. Maybe I'll tree-shake all the dead code out and come up with an accurate line count one of these days..
And NYC gives a tax deal to the corporation, while the workers get to pay city income tax, state income tax and federal income tax, high property and sales taxes, while also having one of the highest costs of living of most cities. Not great for the future workers at all while Amazon gets to cash in on tax incentives. Amazon could have gotten great tax benefits elsewhere in places that don’t tax their employees so damned much. Unless you are single, New York City isn’t much of a draw due to either a long commute or excessively high housing costs. Amazon could literally locate in Mobile, Alabama and be able to recruit just fine. A $200k salary in Mobile is worth $600 in NYC.
You mean, analysts who typically claim sales are down based on hints and rumors are once again claiming sales are down based on hints and rumors.
No, Merlin Mann distanced himself from Inbox Zero once it got picked up by the productivity porn blogger crowd who reduced it to yet another lifehack and lost the spirit of the idea which is that your inbox should not be your todo list because then you lose agency over your own priorities.
People in Seattle don't hate amazon employees. I think engineers in Seattle feel sorry for them a little bit - it used to be a thing that no one knew anyone who had worked there more than 2 years (when the initial hire on bonus to cover the lower salary ran out and ended the clawbacks). Seattle has its pluses and minuses but it's got some serious differences than nyc.
I'm not sure what proprietary software has to do with limited time, other than helping you move faster in most cases.
Duplicate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18436808
Been on an Apple binge recently. The prices are out of reach. I’ve watched Steve on stage reducing prices! Whilst increasing speed. Steve talked about speed, ram, students constantly.
It's a Taiwanese company but who knows about Taiwan's status going into the future.
I have a (draft) article where I've dumped all of the technical nitty gritty of self-publishing: http://wiki.secretgeek.net/creating-a-book
Please do provide examples.
Revisions to the C and C++ have almost never broken meaningful backwards compatibility, at least at the language semantics level.
> This is actually pretty common in hypercompetitive commodity markets. The largest player has a slight cost advantage due to economies of scale, so they have the best price and everyone buys from them.

This is not true at all. Looking at actual competitive commodity markets for things like lumber, oil, copper, etc, we see a lot of players in the market. I can't think of a single commodity market where there is a monopoly.

Those times in history where a monopoly has occurred in commodities markets it has been grossly abused. IAR, from the trusts of the early 1900s to the cornering of the silver market one player controlling a commodity market has not turned out well.
What is that expected to change? Google is not exactly known for initiating patent litigation. They use standard SMTP, HTTP, DNS etc. -- all open standards, and when they do something like QUIC they write it up and standardize that too. They've had that "download your data" thing for years.

The biggest problem with Google is that they're collecting too much data on people. But that has basically nothing to do with market share or market power or competition. It would be exactly the same problem if they had a dozen competitors.
Huh?

This will be pissing in the ocean compared to the overall size of NYC. 10k employees added gradually? No one will even notice. Google has almost that many employees working within two blocks.
https://www.recode.net/2018/9/19/17878766/scott-galloway-pre...
But are any of these fixed with iOS 13 besides the storage? XCode would be really good to have. Pointing device I do not share the pain of, but like you said, it's a small audience for any of those. I think XCode might be bigger as that can touch the 'first programming experience' and educational space here. An actual mature environment that doesn't require all the setup and misery of desktop development.
Charge a monthly / yearly fee?
I have an enterprise account, so could I build my own "emulator" that actually just passes through ARM instructions using this work around ^ and then the only thing I have to emulate is syscalls and io?
DOORS ?
RIP Stan Lee the man who made comics co
Safari... cares about Linux?
The Appalachian trail really is a national monument. As I've hiked other trails over the years, I'm come to appreciate it more and more.

The AT has alpine shelters along the trail, usually ~5-10 miles apart. If you have a good guide book, you can plan your route accordingly. And if you get lucky, there will even be an outhouse along a blue blaze, a quarter mile or so away from the shelter.

If you're not on the AT, then you pretty much just find a place that's not up hill from a water source and go to town. I recommend carrying wet wipes of some kind. Definitely worth the extra weight. If you're on a moderately trafficked trail though, it's very important to "leave no trace." That means you dig a hole, and you hike out any used toilet paper. I usually use a gallon ziploc bag for trash. This becomes especially important when it's below freezing and you can't really dig holes.
The story says Crystal City, which is close to DC but has a lot of nearby residential and transit options. And it has been losing tenants for a while so there is some slack for Amazon to take up.
The D.C. Metro area has pretty much the most highly educated workforce in the country and something like half of the top-25 highest income counties in the U.S. IIR, the D.C. Metro is something like 3rd or 4th in the country for total software engineers after SV, NYC and maybe Seattle and is fed by "nearby" Virginia Tech, CMU, UMD, Johns Hopkins, UVA, NCState, and GMU (among others) which are all highly ranked CS and CE schools.

Silicon Valley East is basically the 30 mile stretch from D.C. to Dulles and it's basically an unbroken chain of tech and engineering companies, mostly fed contractors, but chock full of people clawing at the walls to work for non-fed tech businesses.

D.C.'s main issues are traffic and absolutely abysmal weather. But other than that it's an absolute no-brainer of a location even if you subtract all the political co-location and lobbying factors.

NYC makes sense for different, but some similar reasons...it's also chock full of people wanting to work for tech companies that aren't fintech and LIC has long been an underdeveloped part of the city that's just a bridge hop away from basically everything you'd ever want in Manhattan. If you can stomach living 20-30 minutes east, housing prices become much more affordable even if the inventory is uninspiring.
This is not accurate, you probably meant to make a different point. Whether or not something is junk food has nothing to do with how much of it you eat or how much you work out. Doritos does not magically stop becoming junk food because you only eat a one chip, or because you run for 10 miles after every chip. Junk food is junk food, the contents of the food is the only thing that goes into the definition.
You're setting a high bar for belligerence. The US is diplomatically & militarily sophisticated enough that it frequently exercises rational restraint. It also is an admirably open society, undergoing strategic policy shifts as internal arguments get won and lost.

But no-one (for other than ideological purposes) ever mistook the US for a fundamentally peaceable nation (internally or externally).
Sometimes you do have to work that hard. Sacrificing personal health for some future gain for you (and your family) is not strange nor rare, it's reality for many people.

There's no moral judgement necessary as each individual can, and should, make that call for themselves. I only wish more had more opportunity to do so.
But evidently flu deaths are not so rare. Just as starving to death is a consequence of economics for the farmer, dying of the flu is a consequence of economics for the poor in the United States. One cannot pay for food during a famine, and the other cannot pay for health services during the yearly epidemic.
> The average salary for these employees will be many x greater than the average NYC resident - you need to compare the relative size of the +25k employees to the ~200k subset of residents that make $200k+ in NY, not the entire 8M pop.

NYC isn't known for small salaries, partly because it's not easy to live in Manhattan on a small salary.

A major industry in Manhattan is banking, and folks in investment banks pull salaries that easily rival engineers, even fresh out of school.

In fact that's a big reason that tech stayed out of NYC for a long time. It used to be that even senior engineers made half of what a junior investment banker would get.

Not all among these 25k employees will be paid over $200k. Not even among engineers. Amazon doesn't pay that well, for a FAANG.

This isn't the Bay, where if you're not an engineer, you're a starving artist. More than anywhere else in the US, engineers who think of themselves as "handsomely paid" will be up for a rude awakening in Manhattan.

For the sake of argument, let's say 5,000 of the new employees will be making $200k+. That means that their effect will be less than 15,000 employees making about $80k each, which I bet is about average for Manhattan.

Not a ton of effect.

> And yet they still submitted a bid, even while Mayor de Blasio was badmouthing the company

It would be outrageous if they didn't. Even 100 well paying jobs should be enough for the mayor to try to court them. He's a public servant, and these jobs serve the public.

Moreover, this will help establish NYC as a tech hub, something it's been striving for for quite a while, generally without great success.

Finally, I bet the incentive package isn't as aggressive as others that were submitted. Amazon wants to be in NYC quite as much as NYC wants Amazon.
How Google is slowing innovation
Not really, there is a fairly significant drop when you compare top end Android phones to top end iPhones.
City council != community boards. I agree with you about community boards, but to sidestep the city entirely feels wrong.
It seems like I'm the resident Dallas apologist on these Amazon pieces, but Bezos is no stranger to Dallas. He has spoken fondly of Dallas many a time, just had the honor of speaking at SMU's Business Conference and offered personal anecdotes of why he likes Dallas, and, as Dallas Morning News has reported by tracking his flight records, been to Dallas many a time this year alone.

Sure, maybe he doesn't own property in Dallas, but it also seems like it's more of a place he'd like to spend time in over Austin, or Atlanta, or Pittsburgh, or a whole bunch of other cities.

The fact that Amazon was in late stage talks with Dallas also makes me think Dallas will be one of the cities to get "other major Amazon facilities as well" as this WSJ article mentions.
Maybe just throw on a target='_blank', no need to do anything fancy
I think they were more used to hand cannons which look similar, see :-

https://www.military-history.org/articles/samurai-wars/milit...
The Pixel 3 and S9 are about $300 cheaper. That's a big chunk.
Looks good. It would be handy to adjust to include a slider to configure number of hours for work (e.g. I'm supposed to work an 8 hour day which doesn't include lunch break). The conflict could then be better assessed. Having said that I also understand it's a guide.
I am guessing most people browsing this are suddenly intrigued by the topic. This is the most interesting incident ever, by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident
No, the implication is that everyone in DC is an asshole with the slow pace of folks in the south.
I can remember folks in the Reagan adminstration regularly touted the possibility of winning a nuclear war and used that sort of rhetoric in elections. The other part of that is the fundamentalist Christians in the USA who believe in the literal interpretation of Revelations so for them there is greater glory in armageddon that begins with a conflict in Israel. And in power now, John Bolton is one of those guys who thinks we can win a nuclear war and need simply need to outbuild the other guys.
Also the food in NYC is fine but not head and shoulders above other cities. Especially when you factor in the bill.
I disagree with the article.

I got nowhere fast in life by just sitting around waiting for things to happen. I had all sorts of excuses on why I wasn't succeeding, the article likes to supply plenty, and they are just poisonous thoughts.

then i lit a fire under my butt. I wanted to be a principle engineer, so I did research by looking at profiles on linkedin and found a masters at a great school would make that path easier. I spent time waiting in the subway, nights, and weekends studying and applied. I got rejected. I kept improving my application, I got accepted.

I changed my mind on what I wanted to be and wanted to be a data scientist, preferably a top tech. lots of rejections, lots of no response. took me years of trying different things and spending my nights and weekends doing kaggle competitions and learning. eventually I got what I wanted.

hustling alone didnt get me where I wanted to be, but resting around on my laurels and blaming other things for my lack of success would have done nothing. worse than nothing, it would have made me a bitter failure.

the article suggests the hustle culture is a symptom of a failed work system because people are afraid to loose their job. I disagree. I think its because many recognize we are in a rare window in time that we can do so much with our effort. we may have to change our expectations, we may have to fail a bit before we get there, but if we keep trying better things will happen.
“Somehow” is probably related to how Texas or Beverly Hills wouldn’t be very effectively strategic.
Why You Hate Google's New Logo (2015)
> I have NEVER had to worry about bandwidth costs.

Well obviously you aren't using the right JS framework then. Modern technology will fix this problem for you. Especially if your pages are loading too fast.
The vendor disappearing overnight is only one of many risks from using proprietary software. Others include the vendor discontinuing the product, taking the product in a radically different direction, the company being acquired, or simply changing the licensing model (see Adobe Creative Cloud) to dramatically increase the costs of using the software.

Look, right now I am working for a company that is in the midst of attempting to transition out of a very old source code and release management system and they're having a hell of a time doing it. That system happens to be proprietary and the support plus licensing fees are astronomical while the actual tech support is abysmal.

Yes, the risk may seem like an easy tradeoff when you're starting out and you need to ship and you don't have any market share to worry about. It's a whole different story when you're dealing with a very clunky, yet very profitable legacy system that you're not allowed to fix because it's proprietary and yet your business depends on it.
Mexico City density: 6,000/km2
New York City density: 11,000/km2

Wikipedia
> I'd say that after all that hiking, especially on minimal food, your body would be accustomed to requiring less food decreasing your appetite and making it easier to maintain your weight over time.

Well then you'd be wrong. Weight gain is a very real problem for thru hikers after they finish.

The way I managed it after I got off the trail is something that I've since heard called the "warrior diet." Just limit yourself to eating once per day in a very narrow window in the evening. That's it. Your body will be in ketosis most of the day, which it's already used to from thru hiking. Anyway, it worked for me, and I've stuck to it ever since.
Well, not 'simply' for being honest, but for being (entertainingly) rude about it. You can be honest without being brutally honest, but it doesn't make such good TV I guess.
It is weird that microsoft is never mentioned in these articles, despite their monopoly on software in public administration, education and healthcare.
This is a good recent article about that Foxconn deal: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/did-scott-walker-and...
i tried to change google to duckduckgo. it was not sustainable. immediately noticeable poor search results. Searching an address brings me to a subpar open map site,
Text analysis is like a polygraph, it's not really conclusive in and of itself and it's not really grounds to convict someone. It might help point you in the right direction if you ask the right questions, which may help lead you to something more conclusive.