skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it you don't do a lot of walking. People in cars are routinely assholes to pedestrians, presumably because they feel invulnerable.

Why wouldn't folks on space ships visiting a primitive planet-bound race not be 10,000 times worse about fucking with the locals for kicks?
What do you think your top couple most controversial opinions are? Anything outside what's generally accepted?
Which is exactly what professional sports teams do often even if they've been somewhere a while and have no intention of leaving.
I’m not even going to be polite about it, any employer who feels the need to micromanage and audit their employees to this degree can go right to hell.

If anyone wanted to know the exact time I was in the bathroom and when I would tell them to go screw themselves and turn in my resignation.
Once you do that, you more or less recreate C++. IMO C vs. C++ is fundamentally an issue of RAII and arguably templates. This proposal would add RAII to C.
Banking, ads, modeling. Not tech. No Fry’s.
New Study Details Toxic Particles Spewed by 3D Printers
You could always offer the subject a hundred bucks (or some other significant amount) if he is able to obfuscate it.
yes， works on both PC and Mac
Very faint point which I predicted the keen HN audience would be quick to contend. My reasoning to assume so is a wholly intuitive instinct that all ultra-high technology societies converge in their moral and ethical norms to a common limit. That to have survived the gamble of existence long enough to reach such a point, this civilization almost certainly needed to adopt a set of values wherein the "Prime Directive" incidentally coincides. Though I concede that it betrays my personal beliefs more than any tangible insight.

For example, my hippie confidence does nothing to explain the likes of the Zerg or Tyranids, that's for sure. :)
A historically counter-factual proposition. The Japanese had possessed and been using both cannons and matchlocks in battle since the 16th century.
They have Microcenter and B&H, what more could you need?
Quantifying reputation and success in art
I'd suspect the choice of NYC has more to do with the available talent pool there. At this moment, with the scarcity of available engineering talent and the scale at which Amazon needs it, there might not be a city outside of SF that better fits their needs.
I get a survey every time I take my car to the dealer. I like it. Sometimes there are some chuckleheaded things a dealership does, or maybe they are very helpful, but either way, I can provide feedback to the manufacturer on my experience, and I like to think maybe they'll be able to change things for the better.

In a world where every other site tries to infer what I like or I want or what they think i want to see on my feed next, or put me in some marketing bucket, it's a breath of fresh air to just be asked what I like or don't like or may be interested in.
New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization and the planetary capital of finance, media, business, fashion and culture. It’s easily the largest city in the country, and iconic globally.

But you’re finding it hard to understand why people might want to live here?

I’d post more but my New York life is veritable cornucopia of novel and enriching experiences and I’d better get back to it. Enjoy your stripmalls.
Your theory about WWI is hard to reconcile with the fraction of the upper classes in the relevant age brackets who were in the army and were casualties, especially on the western front. In WWI, a lot of the people making the decisions in fact ended up sacrificing their own children.

Or to make this concrete, the prime minister of the UK in 1914 (and through 1916) was H. H. Asquith. Looking at the wikipedia articles about his sons:

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Asquith -- killed in action in 1916.

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet) -- served in the artillery in the British Army.

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Asquith -- wounded four times, lost a leg.

4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Asquith,_Baron_Asquith_o... -- was in the army, but not on the Western Front.

5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Asquith -- was 12 years old when the war started, 16 when it ended: too young to serve.

I have a hard time seeing Asquith here as "sacrificing other people's children", or at least any more so than sacrificing his own.

That said, I agree that there's way more war-making going on recently than there should be and that it's no longer in style for the upper class to actually put their own skins on the line. But WWI is just not a good example of that tendency.
The already planned Amazon Seaport expansion actually makes more sense than the HQ2 proposal did. We'll see what happens with the GE HQ in the area anyway. Suffolk Downs was always a bit of a weird location for the HQ. Technically on the subway (Blue Line) but north of the city in working class areas that would presumably not have been preferred young tech worker housing in the near term.
No more F-111s in service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvar...
It’s not that hard to imagine why someone would want to move from a mid-size tech city where you are often hated for where you work, to NYC.
Marine here. Sounds like a perfect description of a missile.
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NYC is a very mixed bag on quality of life. It depends on what your priorities are.
Considering how NATO, The Gulf Countries, China and Russia are behaving, seems that in 200 years we will be still learning how to build the wheel again. If were are lucky.
Kintaro Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome"[2] good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa

tldr--to protect the white women from the sick man of asia. being asian male in anglo parts of the world vs francophone or colombia really opened my eyes .... it taught me a hypocrisy of our society .... its socially okay in vancouver bc to be anti-asian or anti-semetic but god forbid if you make fun of muslims or black. i speak from experience working at a 'diverse and open' startup and witnessing racism homophobia.... from ppl who openly describes themselves on social media as champions of social justice....exclusive of those that perceive to not have it rough....sometimes i wonder what the fuck im still doing here....time to find a place where i feel proud to be a citizen....i certainly do not feel canadian anymore ithought i was canadian....but i was dead wrong. i dont belong here and lot of my asian canadian friends feel the same. some have led violent criminal lives but i no longer feel judgement infact i feel they have far more success than i ever will....its hard not to feel envy...while i toiled through university they were able to use proceeds of criminal opportunities to invest in thee local real estate and are now multi-millionaires ironically investing in startups themselves and crypto. meh, lifes not fair i need to be happy with what i lack. c'est la vie.....
>unpleasant weather

I mean I've visited both Austin and San Francisco so I understand the appeal of temperate climates but plenty of people not only tolerate but enjoy less temperate climates, myself included
Hahaha. I'm from New Jersey. Go fuck yourself!
I'd also like to notice that while the article says some good things it nonetheless falls itself into the trap of "generational thinking", where it clearly says that life-hacking hustling is the problem of some ghostly "millenials". Then suddenly equating "millenials" with "young people", obviously forgetting that if you say A you cant escape saying B and if you argue along the lines of "generational logic" (and that's failed logic) you can't not mention "Z" people, who also work hard already these days. Aren't they "millenials"? Why? Ah, I get ya, they have been growing with tech, while "millenials" only picked tech just before teens. So that makes "Z" totally different brand of people /s. Not shared environment, not shared culture, but the year you were born is what defines you and defines whether you were growing "with tech". And growing with tech makes you completely (or very) different /s. Totally makes sense. I've read that some of the people going along the lines of this failed "generational" logic even go as far as stating that anyone born in 1998 is a millenial while anyone born in 1999 is already a Z.

In all serious, this "generational" bullshit stereotypizes people, similarly to how racism tries to solely define people in terms of their skin shade. That's total bullshit, there are completely different people among people born in 1980-1998 and some were already growing with tech, some didn't, some born in 1999 haven't seen tech to this day, some did, some've grown with it. Some of those born in 1960-1980 grew with tech too, they also are very prey-fallible to these types of "motivational" videos. And it's plain ridiculous to call someone a "young, cause millenial" cause they were born in 1980 but a 1979-borns are "not young, cause boomers". "Generational racism" (I'd go as far as to define it like that) just doesn't add anything to any conversation, enforces stereotypes and need to be fought against.

I encourage you to fight against it too. Generational racism wont do any good to people. Thanks!
why would anyone share their thoughts opinions on sites like HN for free? Simple. People want to be heard, and sometimes people like to think they can change things for the better.
This is no longer an HQ2 it’s a satellite campus. Amazon took advantage of cities vying for this HQ and in the end of the day its 20k employees maybe.
Do you have any good books you'd recommend on what you feel is the proper approach to testing? I feel that I reach for feature/e2e tests first, when perhaps I really should be building up a solid base of unit specs before moving on. I'm always a little unsure what specs I should have vs. are unnecessary.
The legislators in the EU are an example of what happens when the clueless, make law. Their GDPR has apparently only benefitted Google, with Facebook taking the smallest hit of the rest.

Many want these behemoths to get less power but these EU guys give them more.

Now this.

One answer it to ghettoise Europe and block them from receiving your content. For one thing that would get rid of those stupid "we use cookies things".
I have been wondering if any of the cities that proposed will make their proposals public now that the final decision has been made. My own city, Orlando, released only a redacted version of the proposal. How should cities and states manage the tension between their duty to transparency and the competitive advantage of keeping proposals secret?
At least we have five of them. Pity those poor English, for example.
LOL, you have a point. What kind of individuals would volunteer for a possibly one-way mission that gets them in a stasis pod for a century?
Using an instant LongPress seems like sort of a hack though.

Interesting though, how do you transition from the instant LongPress into the "Pan" gesture? Or does the LongPress by itself also get the 'moved' events?
Dang, veritable cornucopia eh? That sounds pretty good.
Northern Virginia is full of data centers and tech workers and has been since the dotcom days.
Here's my take as a 40 year old always trying to keep pushing through the next hurdle. Hustle early and often when you're young. Yes, do it. Try, and don't be afraid of failure, fail often, enjoy failure, and push yourself harder when you fail. That's my message.

Anyone that has a deeper understanding of Gary V, Simon S, know that that they have quite a bit more background than just a message of go hustle yourself to the ground. I don't necessarily agree with everything they say, but that's where my (your) personal judgement comes in. Nobody is has all your answers.

Alas, the kids/family, once you have a deeply rooted family, that will take over. Time will start shrinking and it becomes harder and harder. Not saying it can't be done or others don't favor their mission over their family, just that it's an issue, so address it.

Don't blindly ignore the encouragement to work hard and don't ignore how that affects you.
What a bizarre comparison, albeit a novel rebuttal! I do think your argument rests too much on the typical assumptions/biases a human brings to the table given our experience in this specific time and place. See my reply to andrewflnr for a nuanced response.

Also, I do walk a lot! About 4 miles daily in fact. People in cars also happen to be assholes to each other. And to wildlife. Heck, they can even be assholes to others in the same vehicle!
It sounds like you're arguing that a lie detector only detects lies that the subject considers "meaningful".

So now you have two problems: Detecting whether a subject believes a particular topic is "meaningful", and then detecting whether they are lying about it.
Why Microsoft, Tencent, Intel are growing cucumbers in autonomous greenhouses
Google home minis $5
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I mean there are a lot of economic reasons for that, right?
This whole "contest" has to be greatest PR and marketing campaign of last few years
ah there we go, ESOP. Not to be mistaken with a cooperative.
Well they've done it, remember when they took half Mexico?
One of the great parts of being in NYC is having friends who aren’t “in tech”. Tech is an industry here, and there’s a massive network where you’re not tying yourself to one company though your move, but it doesn’t define the culture of the city.
The US shouldn't have to do the job that Europe could share the burden in. They can't keep passing off the costs and responsibility to others.
Ants no, but ticks are habitual hitchhikers.
has anyone here used Enpass? I use it and like it very much, because the UX is decent, and there is no "cloud" component whatsoever - it simply has a local DB which can be synced using Google Drive or Dropbox across all my devices. However, I am a concerned with their lack of a 3rd-party audit. So I've been eyeing BitWarden for that reason, but the need to run a server turns me off (especially since I'm not clear how that helps me sync the mobile clients). Those who host their own BitWarden instance: how do you approach the problems of backup and mobile sync?
Saying things like, "Enjoy your stripmalls", actually hurts your argument by indicating a lot of insecurity.
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Sure - I started re-read Neuromancer recently and just felt a sense of wonder at knowing it was written in 1984. It was so conceptually solid for the time. So far on the edge.

Who’s doing that now?
For some quality of life means being able to get a drink at 3AM. For others - house with a backyard.
Ask HN: Is it harder and harder to be an entrepreneur as time goes on?
In the late 90's and early 2000's seems like a golden era to be an software entrepreneur. Internet was still relatively new.

Nowadays, any cool idea or problem you want to solve already has multiple solutions. Now, that's not completely true but I feel that it is harder to be a solo entrepreneur or have a small, lean, and efficient team that does more with less.

Maybe a particular problem is already solved in the United States, but maybe it is not in Europe. So maybe that's a way to think about it. Maybe pick an existing problem and make it better.

Will we ever reach a point where a solo entrepreneur is just a pipe dream? Where every problem is saturated with several solutions.

My dream is to bootstrap a company and never have to rely on investors. Create something that nets me a decent passive income and then never have to worry (as much) about money as I do now. This seems possible for a pure software solution but anything non trivial that involves hardware or tangible things, one needs investment.

I wish I had the knowledge and mindset I do now 18 years ago. I am 29 years old. But I feel that nowadays I will have little choice to but to work for someone else and make that someone else rich.

I just wanted to see what you all think.
Did the world’s smartest company really need 13 months, and applications from 238 cities, to reach the striking conclusion that it should invest in New York and D.C.? The former is America’s heart of capital, and the latter is America’s literal capital, where Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, already owns a house and a newspaper.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/amazons-hq...
Good luck with filtering algorithmically. There was a recent stupidity that Sony was claiming all to rights, to all performances of the work of long dead, famous composers. Now if they got hit with a few billion bucks for such blatant nonsense this thing might work...
or just have little guys publish their own, decent laws about fair use and no Internet behemoths getting in the way.
For most of that time China was not a "large economy".

That said, your "50 years" number is conveniently eliding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War which was closer to 40 years ago. Just because China failed to invade successfully doesn't change the fact that it invaded.

As for China's future actions, we'll see what they are. So far, the territorial claims they are making are not looking like they will lead to peace in the future.

For the rest, the people not worrying about invasions by US/UK/Allies live in those countries, I expect.
> I feel this choice is a mistake for the company long term, they're putting resources into two very hot housing and real estate markets, that have no real draw (in my opinion) for technical employees.

The goal was never to optimize for employee housing or quality of life. The goal was to get concessions from already urban areas where 25000 engineers might want to live.

>If I were picking, I would have picked Atlanta and Detroit

Atlanta and Detroit have arguably lesser draw than NYC or DC.
I don't think this is a good idea. Most people would watch it over video, and we can already do that.
I don't know why the person you're replying to thinks their viewpoint is representative of a wide swath of people?

I love NYC, if I was looking for a job this would be a draw for me.
The west has a lot of strip malls.
what you've written is totally false. It worked fine on the old UI, and also still works fine in simple HTML mode.

You can see this yourself here: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ (direct link to html view. you have to already be signed in for this link to work.)

Side note: I'm sure you would have mentioned it, but you don't happen to work at Google on the new Gmail front-end, do you? (Since I could see someone who is, trying to deflect blame for their current bugs by "blaming the back-end".) Just want to make sure...
shalom...i was joking but yeah i do feel proud of what my people have achieved and you should be too. i love watching historical documentaries on israel, especially i feel a certain kinship towards both korea and israel because as underdogs surrounded by not so friendly countries historically have made it and fiercely protected by the people.
Counting the Bugs and Bacteria, You're 'Never Home Alone' (And That's OK)
Did either NY or NoVA offer significant incentives for Amazon?
How do you create re-livable festival experiences?
> New York is literally the greatest city in the history of world civilization

!
The plan9 cat is nice: https://github.com/pete/cats/blob/master/plan9-cat.c
And why wouldn't you just do a colo then? From my experience, cloud infrastructure is always more expensive than the equivalent on prem/colo infrastructure unless you depend on hosted solutions and you're willing and able to operate with fewer infrastructure people and it doesn't help you move faster.
I’m willing to pay. Do you know how to get a book bound using that paper?
"NYC has a lot of developers, more than the valley" - do you have a source for that? Seems highly unlikely. My quick googling suggests silicon valley has 2x-5x more engineers than NYC.
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How much of this is really going to be a "second HQ" and how much of it is going to be a handful of engineers and a small force business/lobbyist folks?

The locations seem to suggest business and lobbying interests. I'd be surprised if any of these offices number more than 20k. It feels like one giant sham for some glorified satellite offices.
I agree. My objection is to amelius, whose claim seems to be that money is automatically or inherently unfair (as opposed to your statement, which is that it can be used that way).
Show HN: Pie Chart Label Layout with Graph Algorithms (and Rust)
There is 0 proof that these mandates are not curtailing development

And there's 0 proof that these mandates are curtailing development. Why do you presume one and not the other?
> Life is too short to run proprietary software.

Agreed, but Datomic uses Datalog as query language:

> In practice, a Datomic Database Value is not implemented as a basic list; it's a sophisticated data structures comprising multiple indexes, which allows for expressive and fast queries using Datalog, a query language for relational data.

Hence the article should still be relevant to free Datalog implementations, such as the Racket Datalog package[0].

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/index.html
A Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region Is Now Open
However your implementation based on std::function might allocate, which is then non-zero cost compared to normal exit statements. Better directly store the lambda inside the class, which requires that to be generic (Finally<LambdaType>).
That can be hidden by using the class via a templated function which uses types interference:

auto cleanup_socket = make_scope_guard([&]{ close_socket(s); });

Searching for scope_guard yields lots of alternative implementations.
I really like this line of questioning as a response to the gp. hopefully I will be able to use this myself.
Still pissed that they registered .dev as a TLD
So does the state of New York.
I see from your comment history that you've been looking for a job in New Zealand, and have been applying for jobs through Seek and TradeMe.

I'm from New Zealand myself (although I've now moved to Australia). I wish I could give you some positive advice on finding a job in New Zealand, but all I can say is don't be disheartened that you haven't had any success in finding a job applying from overseas.

Most recruiters in NZ will as a blanket rule just trash any resumes they receive from people not in New Zealand. A lot won't even take resumes from people in different cities. You really need to be in the country and ready to start work, most recruiters will require you to actually turn up in person for interviews, which isn't so bad if you only need to fly from one city to another for a day, but isn't practical if you're overseas.

It's just not worth recruiters time to work with international candidates. Often they aren't actually serious about moving countries and are just fishing.
For me, pizza's biggest strength in the context of a meetup is its ease to eat, especially with one hand.

Salad can't compete with that.
Then I guess you won a lot of money betting that these would be the two locations. If not you missed out. Let me know who is going to win the Super Bowl!
I enjoy a fatty meats as much as anyone but giving up veggies entirely even though it objectively hurts ones ability to go to the toilet comfortably turns this into farce for me.