skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you speak your mind? It might be in your best interest to voice what you're sensing/feeling.

OTOH, are you looking for something new with the same excitement as the early stages but with product market fit and growing? I'd love to speak :)
Cooperation between cities and cartel is no illegal. Cities were caught in a prisoner dilema and forgot to cooperate.
> What Amazon did was playing the field; why not get a bonus for letting others compete; rather than taking nothing because it was already decided?

You are assuming they were seriously considering the other cities, rather than making a show in order to secure as favorable terms as possible from the cities they were already planning on.
Google is more likely and already a significant investor.
For most employers satisfied, happy, and content workers are just underexploited. If they aren't miserable you aren't getting your monies worth.

Its a legitimate mindset way too much of the business world in the US believes despite the psychological evidence that content and happy employees are more productive.

The consequence of such a widely held backwards rewards structure is that in almost any job there is someone else doing something even worse that is more than willing to take your spot to reduce their misery by a fraction.
But even if the state and city come out ahead, they could have benefited even more if cities weren't allowed to compete for these types of contracts - without these tax breaks, Amazon would still have to build a headquarters, and a similar amount of jobs and tax revenue would have been generated, without requiring any incentives. It may not have been in New York, but someone in the US is still benefiting.
Young people are having less sex
Does the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment apply to laws that affect businesses? If so, then these kinds of perks may be illegal. But I suspect that equal protection only applies to humans. Lawyers?
I feel like there is some selection bias there - you certainly aren't going to be interviewing very many people who are happy with their current job at Amazon.
There are already more software devs in NYC than in Silicon Valley. There's also triple the amount of people in the NYC metro area, and a lot of other industries. I'm not sure NYC needed to give a lot of money to attract them. It isn't like NYC is some former steel town or something looking to bootstrap an industry. On the contrary, NYC has added 375k people to its population in the last 10 years which is about 40% of the SF total population.

NYC also has a Gross metropolitan product 3.5x the bay area. I think Silicon Valley would like to be the NYC of the west.
I can't even imagine the dumpster fire this would turn into post-IBM or Oracle acquisition.
>You are only valuable if you can align those well with company goals.

As I see it, that's my manager's job. He's always blathering on about aligning with this or with that, but I have more than enough work to keep me busy and if he wants me to work on something else, he will tell me. This has worked well for me for 2 decades and I'm more than satisfied with my benefits and compensation that I'm happy to just keep plugging along.
For a while I had a process to extract the top ten highest-WPA plays from my favorite team's (Broncos) most recent game. But then my data source dried up. I'm glad to find out about nflscrapR, it seems like that I might be able to figure out how to do that report again with recent play-by-play data.

Incidentally, that report was really fun during the 2011 Broncos season. Normally when you are finding the plays with the largest WPA swings, you'd expect them to be distributed among both teams. But since Tim Tebow became starting quarterback, I searched for the top ten largest WPA swings for the rest of the season - and from what I recall, every single one of those dramatic plays was in the Broncos favor. Weird. :-)
Honestly a ferry across the Potomac could make a lot of sense if it runs frequently enough. Could be a release valve for a lot of that Metro congestion, and otherwise the 14th St bridge would be nightmarish for 4+ hours a day.
That's a good way of putting it.

If your goals are too closely aligned with the company's, you risk devaluing yourself for your own or the next company's goals. If your goals are too different from your company's, you risk finding yourself out of a job.
This went by on HN a few days ago:

"Strange snafu misroutes domestic US Internet traffic through China Telecom"

> China Telecom, the large international communications carrier with close ties to the Chinese government, misdirected big chunks of Internet traffic through a roundabout path that threatened the security and integrity of data passing between various providers’ backbones for two and a half years, a security expert said Monday. It remained unclear if the highly circuitous paths were intentional hijackings of the Internet’s Border Gateway Protocol or were caused by accidental mishandling.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/stran...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18403999
ETLS specification [pdf]
EFF, Human Rights Watch, Urge a Way to Appeal Censorship on Facebook
So, for example, can I replace my network traffic with a file for testing, by binding a scheme to a file on disk?
The UK prime minister's office is a hot potato. No one actually wants to be in a position where they have to make the hard decisions; they instead want to be in a position where they can criticize the decisions for being wrong (without having to offer any alternatives!).
You are saying that it is impossible to implement auto-pilot? How does human pilot fly something planes? You think that human mind can deal with infinite states?
Re: "If someone finds a culture oppressive he/she ought to be able to say it so."

One can word it based on the behaviors alone: "I don't like it when people do X and Y" versus "I don't like it when Mormons do X and Y" versus "Mormons are bad because they do X and Y". Why single out Mormons when others may do the same? The first can communicate pretty much the same as #2 and #3 without potentially offending groups. I don't think the first two should be banned, but #3 is stretching it. If I ran a discussion forum, I'd consider banning #3, perhaps first with a warning and a how-to on rewording.

If somebody believed "Hollywood is possessed by Satan", saying so wouldn't do any good. It's not objective and doesn't carry useable information. If you instead focus on specific behaviors, such as having too much violence & sex in movies, then a fruitful discussion can form without demonizing specific groups. If Mother Theresa produces movies with sex & violence, she should be held to the same criticism and standards, which should be based on observable actions/results.
More and more, I find myself relying on "follow the damn money" to understand how increasingly weird the Internet is and how to unweird it.

If you're a writer and you want your words to get in front of people, those words need to be on a server somewhere. Someone's gotta pay for the electricity and maintainance on that server. If you don't know who pays for that and what their motivation for doing so is, you don't have a clear understanding of how your words get to your audience.

So many web horror stories these days — privacy violations, shady business practices, broken user trust, companies "losing their morals", etc. — stem from the fact that the users deriving value from some product weren't paying for it and were unpleasantly surprised to discover that the people who are paying for it expect something in return, whether freely given or not. Even many startups that begin with their hearts in the right place eventually go wrong once those early "angel" (an ironic term if there ever was one) investors want to recoup their investments, somehow, anyhow.

Fortunately, there is a solution. It's not in wide use yet on the Internet (it is a long-established mechanism in other industries like food and consumer goods), but I have some hope that adoption will grow. I call it, "pay for shit". ("Macropatronage", "c-to-b", or "crypto-free currency network" might be better terms for the HN zeitgeist.) The way it works is like this: If you want some product or service, you give a company some of your own money and then they give you the thing in return.

This system is not without its flaws. Every time you use it, your total wealth goes down by a measurable amount. Companies often end up incentivized to give you the minimum value in return for maximum money. But it least somewhat aligns the interests of the companies you do business with because you are, well, actually doing business with them.

When you buy sausage from the sausage factory, you may not be exactly sure of what you get. But it's still probably better than being the sausage.
I’m sympathetic to that view. Anyone who can bring as many jobs of that much value should be welcome. Not Amazon alone. If you can bring 25k employees at an average wage of $109k, we’ll be happy to have you. I’m even all right with some sliding scale with a reasonable minimum.

If You’re afraid of public officials gambling with private money, force referenda.
This conundrum is no different than the moderation conundrum of social media. If you leave things to themselves and allow a social media forum to "evolve," it becomes a dumpster fire.

If you leave a publishing journal to optimize for views and/or clickthrough revenue, it becomes a dumpster fire.

If you don't want dumpster fires, somebody has to establish a set a of values and enforce them, even if they have "costs" in terms of popularity/clicks/attention.
I meant our. I edited my post to update.
Probably because geographic location is not an intrinsic, fixed part of who are you, and is not a protected class either.
>What you're missing here is leverage. Janitors don't make much money because most people are capable of basic janitorial tasks, and thus they have little leverage in the job market because they could be easily replaced.

Janitors often make more than you think (both in terms of compensation and benefits), because while their job is easily replicated, they also require a great deal of trust.

I think this concept can extend across all jobs - you're not just paying for skill. If someone is dependable and trustworthy, it might be worth paying a small premium to keep them around versus an unknown quantity.

Every time an employee who might have stayed if that had a slightly higher wage, you run the risk of a toxic person coming in.
I know this is why do not have auto-pilot.
Gitlab has a similar feature. (I haven't used either Github or Gitlab directly to publish a blog, but they're also usefully integrated in the Netlify/Hugo blog workflow.)
So banks in Germany should be allowed to lend huge amounts of money to countries with the same currency but much higher bank rate without regard to loss?

'Moral Hazard' is something I have reservations about.
https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet

"Nebulet is a microkernel that executes WebAssembly modules in ring 0 and a single address space to increase performance. This allows for low context-switch overhead, syscalls just being function calls, and exotic optimizations that simply would not be possible on conventional operating systems. The WebAssembly is verified, and due to a trick used to optimize out bounds-checking, unable to even represent the act of writing or reading outside its assigned linear memory."
Thank you for the reply!

If this is the intention, then I'm baffled at how you intend your product to be used. Your advertisement of Zulip is completely at odds with... its fundamental principle? What I mean is, your website says "Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model", but it seems you're explicitly designing away the immediacy and requiring people to spend significant time thinking about what to type and clicking around to find the appropriate thread to reply to, just like with email. It can't function as a team chat system if it doesn't facilitate instant messaging -- "chat" systems are designed pretty much by definition to allow instant communication. (Like what "chatting" meant, before computers were around.)

What you really seem to have is a shared-inbox email service -- kind of like a mailing list, but in a shared workspace, which would produce something that's more close to the exact opposite of your description... something like: "Zulip combines the deferred/asynchronous model of email with the shared-inbox nature of a mailing list".

So here's my question: what do you expect teams to do when they actually need instant communication with the rest of the team? Do you expect them to have another (actual) chat system in parallel for that, or do you intend a model where you intentionally insert obstacles to make that viable somehow? I'm not talking about stuff you'd put in a email, so I'm not talking about something like "Let's discuss item 2 on the design doc. I think it would be better to approach the problem by doing X, then Y, then Z. This benefits us because Y helps us with Z and [blah blah]." I'm talking about stuff where there is something urgent going on and immediacy is the #1 priority, like "can s/b urgently cover me here I gotta run" or "what's up w/ the projector in C13?? I have a meeting" or "who's covering the slot rn? s/b's waiting" -- you know, the day-to-day stuff where the extra 10 seconds finding the right topic to reply to and the extra O(minutes) trying to articulate an eloquent email-like message for your team is going to tick everyone off (especially outside clients etc.) rather than please anyone. This kind of immediate communication is what teams need instant messaging systems like Slack for -- if your software is explicitly designed to discourage it, what do you imagine continuing to fulfill this need after teams switch to Zulip -- another parallel Slack?
> I turned down an offer with Gitlab at the final stage because they adjusted the geo-compensation calculation in the late stages of the interview

If you took the job, and then moved, how would they know?
Its not about locality, its about paying as little as possible to get the people you want. If you want someone from Podunk Kansas you could easily pay them a third as much as someone living in a major metro but yours will still be the best offer they have.

Hopefully this equalizes out over time as more tech companies can properly adopt remote workers and thus even out the employment field away from centralizing in a few specific cities but we are a long way from that.
Correct. But you don't want to eliminate municipal competition either.

The problem here is of representation. Ie. the city residents could not agree with their tax money being spent on this.

This is an example where a direct democracy shines, basically any decision which lasts longer than a current politicians' mandate should be voted directly by citizens to align the incentives. Any decisions with effect roughly contained within a voting period could be delegated to 'managers', ie. politicians voted for administration of public things.

The problem today in countries without direct democracy for longer term issues is that they elect these 'managers' to decide on matters vastly exceeding their mandate.
Some Users Locked Out of Their Apple IDs, Forced to Reset Passwords
But people are claiming you can't write a safe kernel in C, and point out safe languages which should be adopted in its place. This misses the point that, just like the theoretical safety of C is 100% safe, the theoretical safety of Rust as a low-level language is zero.

Those are all bugs produced essentially on request. That doesn't bode well for the security and robustness of the project. The end user doesn't care whether the class of bug is memory related or whatever else if the end consequences are the same. Despite having the benefit of safety and the decreased burden on the programmer this offers, bugs still abound in Redox, which points to it being written in Rust as incidental at best.
You mean you weren't deeply surprised by their decision to be near the actual and financial capitals of the US?!?!
Most functional programming languages don't make a distinction between values and references, so this is kind of a moot point since the copying/merging is never exposed to the developer.
> When people say something very easy like "Sources or it didn't happen", my normal gut reaction is to think "That person is just trying to waste my time because they have a contrary stance".

Agree. To me it almost feels like a pre-programmed response/reaction or, at best, something that might be said to try and be funny, which can be frustrating depending on the context.
What happens when multiple lidar devices start shooting laser beams at a scene? Will there be interference?
> Does the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment apply to laws that affect businesses?

Yes.

> If so, then these kinds of perks may be illegal.

Probably not; except for subject matter subject to strict or intermediate scrutiny, unequal treatment that has a rational relationship to a legitimate government function (which is quite broad for state governments, as they have general competence rather than limited purposes for federal Constitutional purposes) is allowed.
> Amazon is regarded as a top-tier tech company, but their pay is not on par with any of the other companies (Google, FB, Uber, etc).

Can you expound on this?
Not sure whether legally binding but many of the contracts I've been given as an employee has included at least some paragraph about damages in case my actions as employee hurts the company (e.g. disclosing trade secrets, poaching employees, etc).
Read the subsidy agreements that the cities actually put out. They were clearly aware of exactly what they were getting even if the general public was not.
Haha, I imagine neither of our experiences has sufficient predictive power as to what works. Ah well, let’s hope the next decades don’t teach us both too many hard lessons about our respective philosophies.
Regardless the lack of communication from Apple about what needs to be done differently is infuriating.
Yes, it get's harder. All I had to do was buy a domain names and I would have retired. Today I need to write 50,000 lines of code across 25 micro services, running a hybrid multi cloud cluster of kubernetes instance consumping 100 other APIs with a sharded and replicated DB cluster to have a chance. :-) But it's still easier than tomorrow, tomorrow you will need to train a deep learning model that runs on 10k GPUs and using all sorts of Phd level maths. So start today instead of over thinking it. :D
I would imagine they are thinking longer term than you are. Crystal City is 3 Metro stops from downtown DC, 10 or 15 minutes, but still has room for Amazon to build and rebuild in their image. It has no culture or community, it's a blank slate. They can move in now easily, build their own buildings and remake the area within 5 years. There is room for housing as many of their employees within 3 metro stops/15 minute bus ride as might wish to live there.

They could have gone to Dulles and had a blank slate to build on, but they don't think their employees and prospective employees want to live there. It's at least an hour from downtown during rush hour. It's an exurb, and Amazon does not see that as the future.
The New TripAdvisor Goes Social, Gets Personal
Should be "The Man Who...
I wish Microsoft would update Windows to use a Chrome OS like update system with delta updates and read-only system partitions. When partition A is in use (mounted read-only), an update would create a copy of A on partition B. Then download a binary delta and apply it to B to update B to the newest OS version. On the next system start partition B would be booted, if there is an error restart to partition A (a known working state), otherwise B is marked as 'good'.

It's 2018 and updates are still slow to apply and/or break computers... what a strange world.
What If He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming “Free Solo” [video]
It can be tough to judge by who you stand with.

I like socialism and communism. I think it can bring lots of good to the world. But people who propagate it are some of the worst people to have ever walked the earth. I think they were just mistaken. 100 million deaths with errors bars bigger than the number of people killed in the holocaust.

I don’t want to be judged for propagating social welfare just because some monsters committed horrendous acts.

Similarly in the US, I support left wing and sanders. But I won’t want to be judged as if I stand with cop killers, antifa, the Congress baseball game killer, etc.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to use this formula frankly. It’s also easy to manipulate.
It depends on how innocent you think Nestle is. I can understand why someone would conclude that there is some "messing with the truthfulness" going on at Nestle. Both in the product design, and the marketing. It's why a lot of people call it a "scandal." I think this is less about laws for people who compare the two and more about morals. In one you have dozens dead, in the other, the claim is that millions died. Both are about corporations and profit and gaming the system and manipulating consumers, so in that sense, I think it's easy to make the case that they are extremely similar.
I'm from Raleigh but I"m not convinced Raleigh-area schools have the talent required and willing.
Yes but the US is a federation. The EU people don't want that.
The author wants to prevent a race to the bottom on taxes. A race to the bottom would be bad if taxes are fair or already too low. But if taxes were too high, a race to the bottom (or just the threat of one) would be a good thing, as it could keep unreasonable tax rates in check.

To put it differently: if companies and individual workers were not able to shop around for the tax regimes they prefer, what would prevent cities and states from raising taxes to unreasonably high levels? Taxes are kept in check by the threat of companies and high-earning taxpayers moving somewhere else.

I would rather live world where taxation is subject to a race to the bottom than in a world where nothing prevents unfairly high tax rates. The latter is definitely worse.
So is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, etc.
US Navy Pandarra Fog System: Carbon fiber clouds against anti-ship missiles
> Firstly, I hate sites that use such a narrow column on the screen.

FWIW most professional typographers recommend a column width of 30-40em. Much more than that seriously increases the distance the eye has to travel from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, and makes it harder to keep track of where you are.

The max-width of this blog's main column is... 40em.

And now you know why so many sites do this thing you hate.

(An em, if you are not familiar with it, is a typographical measurement equal to "the width of an M in this font".)
> I meant our. I edited my post to update.

Thanks, and sorry for being harsh in my original reply, I should have couched my language to be less accusatory.
Now that's how you do content marketing! Great original research and I definitely know Thousand Eye has great BGP tools :-P
Sounds like their problem is that you don't have permission from Hacker News to launch a Hacker News app? To be honest, this is a good policy - the app store is inundated with shitty apps that capitalize on well known properties in this way and monetize their users with ads for even shittier apps, with straight up scams being the plankton on which this ecosystem depends.