skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exploring outer space is inherently risky, there's no safe choice and no guarantee you are going to succeed either.

Leaving a crapsack country is also inherently risky to a lesser degree. There are no legal, safe options to do it, but at least you probably know a buch of people who succeeded.

But, if you already are part of a profession where even mediocre practicioners have 50+% odds of making it into the 2-3% of top earners amongst the general population, it is an imbecile's choice to wreck your health for a lottery ticket to make it into the top 0.001% with 0.001% odds of winning; specially if you can still apply the same talent, passion and effort without the health wrecking by cutting an order of magnitude to your goal.

IF you did read the article and still came out thinking like that, chances are you are trying to rationalize a past (or present) bad life-choice.
Oh my....perhaps this backtracking to fix past inconsistencies could allow for a game environment in which "Mandela effect" events happen naturally from time to time. Could make for an interesting game mechanic.
> And since we’re asked about it occasionally, the lasers we use are well under the eye safety limit and have been certified as Class 1 eye-safe lasers by third party labs.

Oh geeze. I’ve never even considered the fact that there’s a possibility looking at these cars might cause vision issues!
It's a joke, it's not intended to be analyzed or countered.

I may as well point out that Britain has the third-most Michelin-starred restaurants of any country.
There's really nowhere for a ferry to dock that would be close enough to the proposed office locations for people to walk.
Very interesting. The one thing that stood out to me was this, though:

> It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.

What an unfortunate name.
Probably similar laws and penalties as if you flooded a drivers eyes with lasers.
"Every year, American cities and states spend up to $90 billion in tax breaks (...)" Is reducing taxes really equivalent to spending? I do not think so.
Nigerian firm takes blame for routing Google traffic through China
> With brain imaging, we will eventually be able to accurately detect lies.

That assumes that just because we have a distinct word for “lie” that that word has a clean direct correspondence with a detectable biological process.
The military provides COLA (Cost Of Living Allowance) to its members to make it bearable to live in more expensive areas. It's a different situation because they send you where they want you. It would be a hardship to send people to an expensive area they coudln't really afford and have no real say in being there.

But it makes me feel ambivalent about your critique here. It makes me feel like it is maybe more complicated than what is contained in your reasoning, which means the "right"/best answer isn't necessarily obvious.
I'm not sure I agree.

If it's made illegal to subsidize individual corporate interests through tax incentives, direct subsidies, what else can be done?

Zoning? That to me is actually a legit thing. If Amazon wants to build 5 buildings next to downtown, on land that isn't currently zoned for that - it makes perfect sense to consider that. For any company frankly. It's the cities job to accomodate various interest with zoning.

So what else is at a politicians disposal?

No much.

Maybe guaranteed contracts ... but even then, that's not such a bad thing so long as the company is getting value. Moreover, I don't think cities are big users of any of their local companies things.

Bombardier always threatens to leave Montreal as they try to get giveaways elsewhere ... it's not like Phoenix Arizona, which was going to give Bombardier a big chunk of cash to open a factory there is going be buying jets or snowmobiles.

So I think that 'making it illegal' would definitely quash most of this activity.

And FYI if politicos try to bend the rules, they open themselves up to lawsuits.

So I think it's possible.
Facebook took down the pages of a lot of legit people I know and follow. So did Twitter. The solution is not better AI or blocking, it's for people in tech to start encouraging others to go back to the way we use to find data.

Are you using an RSS reader? If not, you should be. Don't use those useless YouTube subscriptions, but use the RSS channel feed. Tell people about RSS. "You remember Google reader, well there are some great alternatives like Feedly and Newsblur .. and you can export all your feeds if you ever want to switch and they never block anything or change the order in which you view things like Facebook/Twitter."

Are you on Mastodon or run an instance? You should and encourage other people to find an instance. If you know how, you can run your own for your friends and family.

The solution is for people in tech that know how to latch onto, run and encourage more distributed systems of getting our news, blogs and entertainment that don't filter things for us.
That being said, both the Alchian-Allen effect and its opposite are a fairly direct consequence of basic supply and demand effects.
Tangentially related: Netflix's Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj had an interesting episode about Amazon.[1]

It's a little oversimplified, but it does a good job of explaining how large Amazon is to the layperson.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5maXvZ5fyQY
Agreed, there is a huge personal benefit when you're actively participating in companies evolution.
My workplace blocks your site because it has not yet been categorized. Medium on the other hand works just fine.

I'm not saying that's right, but it is something to consider!
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> EDIT: Not to mention that it's hard to see how increased rents lead to more revenue for the city. The state may be able to bring in more corporate tax income, but a more valuable property means that property owners can also claim more in depreciation etc.

Higher rent means higher property valuation, which means increased property taxes. In Manhattan (and other places like Florida), there is also a tax on all commercial rents that would grow. I don't think Long Island has one though, so just the property tax growth.

Regarding gentrification, Economist has a great article on the unsung benefits and highlights some studies showing displacement is not as widely perceived. People's opinion changes when you call it "revitalization", "redevelopment", or even just "development".

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/21/in-praise...
> This is only a bad thing if you assume that tax dollars in the government's pocket benefit society more than those dollars in the bank accounts of private individuals. I think that assumption is far to generous to the efficiency of government, especially in the US.

That makes the assumption that the government won't just raise taxes for everyone else and simply move the money from private citizens bank account to Amazon's bank account.

> IMO having Amazon in paying half as many taxes in Buffalo is probably a lot better for NY state than them paying full taxes in NY[C]. (I'm assuming you dropped a C at the end of that sentence)

In practice NYC just drops it down to 1/4 of the taxes and Amazon moves back to NYC and everything is the same as before accept they got out of paying 75% of their taxes.

This exact thing happened in Kansas City where KS and MI both used tax breaks to lure companies across the state line.
Why China Is So Good at Building Railways
Programming languages and intermediate representations are about a lot more than representing floats. I think that it’s true that the best specification for how to store floats is a binary one. But programs have a lot more than just float literals and text wins at most of the other ones.
Which SF tech company pays SF market rates for say someone living in Poland or Ukraine ? Haven't heard of that.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/build-a-crud-web-app-with-python...
Google is using AI to help The New York Times digitize 5m historical photos
I worked on this a couple of years ago to make it easier to create deb packages.

https://github.com/ticketscale/ramcloud-deb-packaging
Your salary is set based on the amount another company would pay to poach you. The value of a stock is what someone will pay to buy it from you. The value of your car is what you can sell it for. Etc. It has nothing to do with unmeasurable intrinsic values.
> No, why would you?

I would because it's discriminating someone by their identity and not necessarily their merits. By your reasoning, does is it only rude for Christian employers to discriminate against Muslims, for example? Someone can declare themselves to be of a religion they don't actually believe, but that doesn't mean that we should accept a society that fractures itself based on arbitrary lines of identity. Would you want to live in a society where you have a public race, a public religion, and a public gender while being intimidated to hiding your private identity for the sake of employment or so much as eating at a restaurant? (assuming one could change those things at will)

Perhaps there shouldn't be specific protected classes, but I do not agree that the mutability of a person's traits should open them up to systematic discrimination.

Being a Rick and Morty fan or dressing unfashionably are generally not considered valid identities by most people, although I'm sure many who have such interests would say those things represent their identity.

Anyway, I'm sorry for dragging race issues into a thread about GitLab. xD
>Anyone who can bring as many jobs of that much value should be welcome.

i'm curious why a 10 employee company with the same $109K wouldn't be eligible for the same tax breaks, etc.?

Foxconn is getting from Wisconsin close to $300K per each of 50K/year job ($4B for 13K jobs). Why such a perk isn't available to a 10 or 100 employee company?

Interesting that be it red or blue state/government when it comes to Big Business both are completely overpowered and taking the position of full submission. And that is why laws limiting such overpowering are needed. It isn't laws limiting the power of local/state government, it is laws limiting the power of Big Business in dealing with local/state government, i.e. limiting the perks/breaks Amazon/Foxconn can extract from a government.
I've never seen anyone cite convincing evidence that there was a real problem with students declaring bankruptcy to get out of their loans.[0]

On the other hand, having our bankruptcy system not apply to a meaningful portion of U.S. lending does create some incentive problems, like the fact that lenders have no incentive to make sure you'll be able to handle repayment, so you can take out huge student loans and find out at the end you have earned a worthless degree and that it will be massively difficult or nearly impossible for you to repay the loan.[1]

[0] For example, https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg52412/html/CHRG-11...:

Currently, a debtor may discharge student loans in bankruptcy only upon establishing that repaying such loans would impose an undue hardship, but this has not always been the case. Prior to 1977, student loans were automatically discharged in bankruptcy.

Perceived abuse of the bankruptcy system, as opposed to any real abuse, drove Congress to change this state of affairs. A 1976 GAO report had found that less than 1 percent of all
federally insured and guaranteed educational loans were discharged in bankruptcy. In other words, no abuse.

[1] For example http://law.emory.edu/ebdj/content/volume-32/issue-1/comments...
> employees in hotter job markets have more leverage because they could more easily find a high paying job where they live.

But... couldn't any dev easily just move to San Francisco? This isn't 1900; it's easy to move to a new city.

Maybe we should start a service that lets everyone receive mail in SF, so you can put a SF address on your resume.
It's not an issue because loosing GPS or cell phone coverage is in the vast majority of cases just an inconvenience. Also, no critical system relies on it blindly (part from emergency calls).

A high speed collision is not comparable.

A human has tons of options being blinded by a laser. Obscuring it for one.

Also the ease of which an attack can be performed is of immense importance. It is quite the barrier to pick up a rifle and start to shoot at vehicles. A handheld laser is something people do just for shits and giggles.

This is something that helicopter pilots are quite aware of.
For a psychologist, you've easily suckered yourself into a common cognitive bias: appeal to authority. (and likely Dunning-Kruger)

You've presented only anecdata, then incessantly restated your credentials to shroud them in authority. But there are a lot of psychologists, and a decent proportion of those are crackpots. How can I trust you're not a crackpot?
>>As I see it, that's my manager's job.

No, it's your job, because it's your future at stake.

Never put your destiny in the hands of others.
I used to live near the Terry's factory in York. The smell of melting chocolate wafting over the river was divine. Sadly, that was shut down and sent overseas just like Cadbury, despite being a well loved company and great local employer.

Kraft/Mondelez might be good at cut-throat capitalism, but many people in the UK (including myself) despise this type of nasty and unethical behaviour. Buying a company only to trash it completely is just not on.
> ... I'm not seeing how this fact will influence cities/public servants to not be so dumb in the future

this whole episode makes me reflect upon the Tesla Megafactory bidding process where Musk played California off against other states. Ultimately Governor Brown made some comment about how Tesla was just asking for too much and it didn't make sense for California. So it went to Nevada.

And, what I wonder is: is there a consulting firm that serves as an intelligent counter force to Tesla and Amazon et al? Musk and Bezos are supposed to be hyper-smart so is there, say, a branch of Goldman Sachs that can hyper-intelligently advise state/city leaders about this particular kind of divide-and-conquer corporate predation (if that's what it is)?
At least 1) debugging in a numpy-like env and 2) multi GPU training on a single machine with multiple GPU (last time I was using TF it was such a nightmare that people had to use horovod, a wrapper library developed by... Uber).
No it can't. Flying an airplane on Earth is a very limited exercise in every possible dimension and it can be easily automated without AGIs.
Thank about that. This thread starts by saying it’s unfair to pay based on location and a given person provides the same value from anywhere, yet the worlds most successful companies choose to hire in the most expensive locations. Programmers in SF must be more valuable or companies wouldn’t hire there. In fact wages are high because of demand for that location itself not justness the cluster of talent there. As a remote company owner who hires in both North America and Asia, Timezones matter a lot. We have some incredible devs in Asia who I’d pay twice as much if they moved here. It’s not about living cost, it’s about opportunity cost for both sides. Salaries are a negotiation, and location matters to the extent the parties involved say it does.
The "rude" thing seems like more of a meme than a reality. I find New Yorkers to be remarkably pleasant, much more so than the grumps in my Midwestern hometown where everybody has a chip on their shoulder and basically nobody is excited to be there.
I wouldn't care if it was 100 feet closer.

I think it's going to be easier to build housing than to make network effects in industries not matter. You can just smear the companies across the country like they're butter.
Ok, assume city A offers Amazon one million dollars in tax breaks. If Amazon moves to city A, city A will not receive one million tax dollars from Amazon. If instead Amazon turns down city A and moves to city B, then city A will STILL not receive one million tax dollars from Amazon. City A will NEVER receive one million tax dollars from Amazon, no matter what Amazon decides to do. What am I missing?
> I'm amazed at how many people here say that people should simply use a static site generator instead of wordpress or medium.

I don't think the author (or the people writing those comments) are claiming that medium is going to go bankrupt vs static sites.

Most people commenting here probably could set up a static site if they wanted, and the author simply hopes people use something else.

Of course medium is gonna continue to thrive on people who think it's the best option, but this is a plea for people who can and know how to do better.
It adopted the same CoC as the Rust community.
Is there any advantage to be gained from that versus having file:// urls? With the latter, every file is also a url.
Maybe it’s not wrong to pay based on race or gender
Good on ya mate. Keep going and remember: the nay sayers simply aren't your market. Just move on from them and only pay attention to the people being positive.
Yeah, what allows the Safari app creators to display arbitrary web content?
When Arthur Ashe died, a sportswriter told of years before talking with Ashe near some courts. Another prominent American player was practicing his serve, working his way through a shopping cart full of tennis balls. Ashe said, roughly,

That guy doesn't know who the president of the United States is. He may not know how many planets there are. I can't live like that.

Obviously a lot can live like that. It is hard to blame those who do, but there is a reason that athletes like Ashe are remembered so fondly.
For this type of thing - Is there any way to differentiate between a mistake and a deliberate attack in hindsight?
What specifically is unwise? I don't see any negative consequences of being skeptical.

And the notion of some grand government conspiracy is just ludicrous on the face of it. No secret could be kept that long by so many people without some more reliable evidence leaking out.

Appeals to authority in terms of the respectability of various witnesses are meaningless. A more plausible explanation is that they simply misinterpreted what they experienced, possibly primed by the ubiquity of aliens and spacecraft in popular fiction going back almost a century. Look how many people have been wrongfully convicted of crimes based on sincere but faulty eyewitness testimony.
But the API is strictly statically typed in reality.
The core is written in C++ and every operation requires a well-known type in input. As you can see from the error raised in this example: https://pgaleone.eu/tensorflow/go/2017/05/29/understanding-t...
Yes agreed. But my point is, between all the shady data practices within too many studies, and the click-bait "journalism", I find science's faulting of various non-believers (e.g., anti-vax, climate change is a myth, etc.) to be misplaced. That is, you can't do crap science and crap journalism and then blame the public their misunderstanding and/or lack of trust. It doesn't work that way.
I am not a Google employee. There're several reasons why it worked so well for us:

- It can take advantage of many cores which you have in your computers.

- It's polyglot. We have several languages in our project, and mixing several build systems were a nightmare.

- It's correct. Very rarely you really need to run clean builds.

It has its learning curve, but once you got it, you start to love it.
> I don't get why anyone still uses SAP, it performs like crap, is way, way, way more complex than needs to be, and costs a fortune.

Because it is the least worst option for businesses who need what it offers.
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Disagree slightly on the width. Perhaps a little wider, but I don't hate it. On the font size: Home page gets it, actual posts the font size is far too small IMO
> cities in the same country shouldn't be competing with eachother

I feel like the US government is set up to allow just this sort of thing, though. States running themselves like countries and all...
How machine learning systems sometimes surprise us
I don’t think Dallas is better than NYC in well, any regard except cost of living (which isn’t a huge draw in and of itself for the already wealthy), and I love Dallas.

I do think Dallas has so much potential though, and I think if you would look a little you would see the overwhelming number of similarities between Dallas and Seattle, both politically, economically, socially, and even traffic/transport-wise.

I just hoped, maybe naively, Amazon would want to move somewhere where it could harness that potential and help shape the city rather than merely rely on a city’s already established resources.

Dallas will continue growing without Amazon, just as Seattle would have, but I can’t say I’m not disappointed for my hometown.
Totally agree with you. I'd like to know what happens if a city doesn't hold its side of the deal, perhaps on a technicality; can the other party sue -- and win? Has it happened before?
If it's made illegal to subsidize individual corporate interests through tax incentives, direct subsidies, what else can be done?

Its really not that hard to make the incentive for all companies but write it specifically so it only fits one. Ask any HR Director writing job descriptions that they intend to hire an H1B for. We have plenty of laws that are rather easy to get around. It really would take some serious changes in how city councils are allowed to operate.

And who is going to limit them? Cities are not self limiting. Maybe a petition in states like California and North Dakota, but certainly not the state government since those politicians get to sit in the box seat too.
Having experience with bazel, I wouldn't say that tensorflow is the best possible use of bazel. You can use of it in other project, for example, in the bazel itself: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel
“If it cost $100 per pound to launch a 12-ton rod then each rod would cost $2.4 million.”

Just imagine how cheap and destructive it would be when payload to orbit costs reach a dollar a pound!
> In the case of Gitlab, employees in hotter job markets have more leverage because they could more easily find a high paying job where they live.

That's not real leverage. Leverage is provided by the minimum salary demands of the cheapest alternative supplier of labor that provides an adequate substitute. That you can walk away from an offer isn't leverage if I have someone else I can hire for the same salary and get the same benefit from employing.

Location has no relevance (it may be that desirable skill correlates with location, but then paying for that doesn't require a separate location adjustment.)

Now, for on-premise worker a worker in a higher CoL area may have more leverage because the minimum demand substitute workers is higher, but that doesn't apply to remote work where the employer can hire people from elsewhere.
This is a pretty incredible achievement. Be sure to follow the #3 "High quality ambient imagery" link too, if you haven't seen it before:

https://www.ouster.io/blog-posts/2018/8/31/the-camera-is-in-...