skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My elastic block service elastic cloud compute machines are not playing nicely with elastic load balancers (but my elastic file system ones are), I think it might be to do with elastic map reduce, or maybe elastic kubernetes service."

"My elastic services are not working. Cloud compute machines..."
It is over 10 years per job. That will ideally by tax by an amazon employee over 5 years. Doesn't reflect the passive economic growth and indirect jobs that gets created over the time.

Also, Amazon and the new Google's expansion will invoke chain reaction in terms of tech activity and new start-up's.
Before Crostini this is exactly what my setup was, just using a droplet on DO.
It seems the US cannot have so many nice things (like preferential voting, and therefore a diversity of candidates) because someone might feel that their freedoms are under threat.

(I have thought this before about other things I have come across. Universal healthcare, and taxes to pay for it, come to mind)
I totally agree with this position, as it will lead to job in the surrounding area. The overall tax revenue the local government receives will dwarf the incentives. But all I've seen online is short-sighted criticism.
Side note, I'm getting fed up with Uber...

I'm a decent user, I use it 1-2 a week.

Drivers have become worse. They used to have clean cars and were of all ethnicity. There also used to be a lot of women drivers. Now it's basically taxi drivers with their mate's cars. Cars are now often dirty, greasy interiors, dirty outside and bad smell.

And as soon as you have a 'usual' route, or you use the app a lot, you get charged more!! It's so disgusting.

I tried to book a trip to the airport for my inlaws using both my account and my wife's account. She rarely uses Uber, and hers showed a 10-15% cheaper rate. Do they think we're stupid? They targetted 'smart' people for using ride sharing as opposed to taxis, and now they try to play us.

Let's not even get started about dark UX patterns. It's hard to see peak rates now, and unless you get a bad gut feeling, you wouldn't know you're currently paying more than a cab rate.

What about that '3 mins away'? They're always 3 mins away for 10 minutes. Unless they fly close to a black hole it's just lies and horrific UX.

The same ride I used to pay $8 for is sometimes $25-32 now. Let's be honest, if anything better came along, I wouldn't look back.

At best now, my Uber rides always seem to be just about 10% cheaper than a cab.

I must be at "max milking rate".

(update: I went from +10 to -1 in 15 mins... I guess I touched a secret society)
Why would their tech sector employer not rehire for their position?
This looks promising - I wasn't remotely aware! Thanks for sharing
Why wouldn't the previous employer rehire though? Unless the employee is someone who was just sitting around and not contributing to the company.
We should never accept standalone numbers. They are incredibly deceptive and don't tell the whole story.

1. What is the return that NY is going to get from increased tax revenue?

2. What is the time period that $48,000 is going to be "paid out" over?

3. How many jobs does this bring to NY? What's the average salary of those jobs?

Context is king, but doesn't make for sensational headlines.
Pfft, they haven't tried hard enough.

Why not just break accounting laws next? Then you can have $1T profit each year without even have to worry about any other laws.
Based on the Googler's comment above, I think both are true. I can fully believe that test data has to be obtained from certain sources for development and whatnot. But once the algorithm is in production , I'm sure its sifting though your stuff as you are browsing just like everything else.
> (hint: it's not)

Speaking as an SRE who less than 1yr ago was tasked with evaluating public clouds as burstable capacity for our traditionally bare metal server infrastructure; this comment is flippant at best and harmful at worst.

Azure is absolutely not comparable to the others, their performance characteristics are nowhere near consistent between equivalent specification instances, their API's are equally inconsistent _and_ they have a terrible usability model on most of their services (not all, admittedly).

In fact when it comes to technical competence, I would (and did) rank Google #1. The drawbacks of Google are:

* It's google and they have a habit of sun-setting products.

* They don't have as many features as AWS.

* They don't have developer mindshare like AWS, meaning FOSS tools will almost always work flawlessly with AWS but rarely have support for GCP (or, if they do it is a little b0rk)

* Google tends not to give human support. (but this is alleviated if you're buying support contracts)

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FWIW we chose google on technical merits alone, although my company is working with all three cloud providers in some fashion. Azure is the one we constantly mock internally for their absolutely maddening warts. Almost as bad as our own internal "cloud". (providing cloud services is not my companies core competence to be fair)

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Digression;

I would assume that a big chunk of Microsofts cloud money is coming from office365. I know my company recently started paying them in the order of 10's of millions of dollars, I assume others would too as this is "the future" of microsoft exchange/sharepoint etc;
Maybe my bash just isn't good enough anymore, but I do this all the time. In fact, I was just doing some work this morning where I needed to load a CSV into SQLite for analysis.

Since I still had the file, I ran some queries on the same file via Q to test it out. And it works great! (With some handholding to get quoting and delimiters right). The major downside was it's pretty slow, presumably because it reloads the file into a SQLite database each time you run a command. So, I'll probably stick with loading CSVs into SQLite myself, but I could see this being a useful tool for running one-off analysis on data from stdin.
Actually the structure in Nginx that the authors attacked is laid out exactly in this way:

struct ngx_http_request_s {
uint32_t signature;
ngx_connection_t connection;
...
ngx_http_log_handler_pt log_handler;
...
u_char lowcase_header[NGX_HTTP_LC_HEADER_LEN];
...
unsigned http_minor:16;
unsigned http_major:16;
};

They underflow lowcase_header (or rather, assume the existence of an underflow bug) to overwrite log_handler, a function pointer that is called when an error occurs.

I do find the authors' presentation a little disingenuous, because the purported underflow bug does not actually exist - the authors assume it does, then proceed as if they have full control over the function pointer (including the ASLR leak necessary to obtain proper gadget addresses).
Who told you that? Keep applying pressure, is the only way they will ever improve.

As long as you don't believe they can moderate an e2e channel you're fine in my book. :)
In the same manner that you can reply and say it's "sluggish" and "confusing." You can deploy something in Azure using the UI far faster than you can deploy on GCS or AWS using strictly UI. In GCS, especially, it's hard to even tell where you even are or where to go back to where you were just seconds ago. They turned their new API dashboard to match the GCS dashboard too and it's basically impossible to find anything without clicking around or doing it so often you have it memorized. It's not inuitive. On AWS, spin up something on EBS and then spin something up on Azure's webapps using ONLY UI. Tell me which takes less time. The search feature on Azure also makes finding anything incredibly easy.

Further you can use Powershell (from the UI, no less,) if you are all about CLI.
Amazon could have chosen anywhere, somewhere where they could make a difference, create jobs, kick-start the economy. Serious bummer.
$48,000 is the cost per job, not the cost per resident.
How have you done transcripts?
I mean, you can bloody well hate some business and still patronize it. I'd wager most Americans hate their cable company.

I agree there's little risk of users deserting Facebook en masse, but what we may see is lawmakers coming down on FB like a ton of bricks. It will be popular, too: Heavily regulating social media and slapping them with massive fines will be winning issues with constituents on both sides of the aisle.
You ban way more than the worst.
Not without tech companies paying them to live there, no. As romantic as living in NYC is, tech workers wouldn't live there without tech jobs.
It's time the Federal government passed a law treating these inducements as taxable income.

If communities had to throw money at Washington, DC every time they threw money at Amazon/Foxconn/Apple et cetera, they'd be more redicent about doing it.
Could you explain why adding to the end of an array results in O(n^2)?

If an operation does that n times, then it's O(n^2). It's very common for self taught programmers to write operations that do the naive addition many times. There have been entire consulting trips caused by basically that, including, so I heard, the one that brought a consultant into the Chrysler C3 project and sparked the invention of Extreme Programming.
That's because pirates care more about user experience and know more about digital packaging than the publishers do. People getting content from pirates can just switch to another source at any time if one pirate does a bad job. People getting content from official publishers are stuck with whatever they put out.
> If I want to vote for the Green Party candidate, then I want to vote for the Green Party candidate and make it known that that's who I want to win. I don't want to be stating that I equally approve of both the Green Party candidate and the Democratic candidate since that doesn't accurately represent my opinion.

I'd probably check off both, personally, because I don't care. See, the system works!
I find it hard to believe that 25,000 people are moving jobs and their previous employers are saying "we're not replacing them."
There's a hole in the bucket... dear liza dear liza.

I suspect the circular never ending problem song might not have been what they were going for (or maybe it was).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_Hole_in_My_Bucket
Economic growth for whom?
I think what you'll see is a similar divergence to what we now see with obesity rates: uneducated/low income people experience higher rates of obesity than more educated/higher income e.g. low income or less educated people will remain oblivious and continue using FB normally while higher income or more educated people might start using FB less and less.
Don't presume consent or support based on lack of vocal opposition. Queens isn't as high income as Seattle or the part of Virginia that Amazon is in, and the people who live there may just be making ends meet, not paying attention to how gentrification of their neighborhood may eject them from it.
> The question is what effect does coddling vs doubting have on an individual's personal development?

That is false dichotomy. Not just that you contrast complete extremes, you ignore options like "say what you really think". There is also massive difference between who says it, whether that talk is same as other say or rather outlier.

For example, in here, we are talking about kid meeting high level person in a chess official situation organized by school or camp. Bad chess players would not even go to that meeting to be evaluated. Quite clearly the kid was already in program, already seen value in chess and likely was once in a while praised by others.

> Does actively praising individuals, regardless of whether they 'truly' deserve it, encourage them to work harder or does it encourage complacence? Some research I've read has indicated that the praise itself is what ends up being desired, with a diminishing interest on the field from which the praise was derived.

How old the individual? What stage of learning the individual is? That matters a lot. Never ever believe anything nuanced about child raising and treatment unless age is specified. Are we talking 16, 12, 7, 3 years old? Are we talking about someone new to activity, trying to figure out whether they like it and whether they could be good? Or rather experienced player who already like it and all his socialization and identity centers about that activity? There are massive differences.

> Ultimately the preponderance of these 'driven by adversity' anecdotes is something that I do not think is a coincidence. It certainly also worked as a motivator in my life. Had Karpov been openly praised and supported from the start would he have become the person he did? Had Karjakin not been hailed as imminent world champion from his youngest years, might he now stand above even Carlsen?

Do you know that Karpov was not openly praised as he learned? There is an anecdote of a single criticism. Was the "you dont have what it takes" really the only feedback he got? That is unlikely, because such kids would never ever met Mikhail Botvinnik. Such kids would be removed from chess program and redirected elsewhere.

> And these are genuine questions. I don't know the answer and I don't think anybody does. But it's something that I think is important since, if this turns out to be the case, it could mean that the educational path places such as the US have set upon could be entirely regressive.

It is not that US is flawless, but they do have good results in education in a lot of places. They are country of differences, with both awesome results in some places and pretty bad results in others.
1) Incentives are not given up front. They are given proportional to the results Amazon has achieved. Amazon must make a report each year detailing their progress before any award is given.

2) The city-level incentives are available to any business. State-level incentives (I think 300m) are not.

3) Amazon has pledged to invest in the local community as part of the deal. There are plans for an elementary school and tech education center.

4) The NYC tech sector is more diverse than SV. 47% of tech workers in NYC are immigrants [0]. Is there any evidence supporting the claim that Amazon will ship in majority groups to displace minorities or immigrants?

5) There is direct investment in tech education for minority groups in the city [1]. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that they will receive a chunk of these jobs in the future. If you support increased diversity in tech, it is inconsistent in your beliefs to not support 25k more tech jobs in NYC.

6) LIC built almost 2.8k rental units last year. [2] I think they have built 6k this year so far. 28k units were built city-wide last year [3]

Please tell me what about this is bad.

[0] https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/our-immigrant-population...
[1] https://codenation.org/
[2]https://licpost.com/long-island-city-had-more-housing-units-...
[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/amenities-war-breaks-out-in-lon...
This plus the news that Waymo is starting its autonomous ride-share service next month is a one-two punch for Uber this week. Might be one of the largest unicorns to die in our generation.
> “Do they think we're stupid?”

Yes, it seems routine and unremarkable at this point to note that Uber continues to have a frightening contempt for its users and that this has not changed in a meaningful way after the CEO swap.
Isn't freedom great? Berlin can decide it doesn't want tech expansion, and New York can decide it does.
If they leave other jobs to work for AWS, presumably the jobs they have now will need to be filled by someone else.
Agree with the other comment, all of the UIs are pretty difficult. Some things are simple once you know exactly what to click on and in what order, but if you don't it can just be brutal. Amazon seems pretty static, but if my experience with Google's Ad UI is any indicator they are just going to optimize things in the direction where the defaults maximize their own revenue and important parts get buried and eventually deprecated.

Ideally cloud compute remains a commodity resource and all players earn a standard and pretty average return on their capex..

My anecdote is to Warren Buffet - buy commodities and sell a branded product. Don't get caught in a trap where you build your product with unique cloud resources which you can not easily migrate to other platforms when the conditions calls for it (price, performance, or even support.) Right now, there may be endless VC dollars, but there are some markets where the long term winners are going to win because they are paying commodity pricing on all of their compute.
I think tools like this don’t exist much because it typically makes more sense to just put it into a database or at least SQLite ... then do whatever you want from there.

Meanwhile for all your streaming, filtering and aggregating need there is awk.

I’ve never been board enough to write my own little sql library for awk, but I’d be surprised if it doesn’t exist.
How? I mean, you can argue against tax incentives for corporations, but you can also argue for them. For example, you could say (as others in this thread have) that $48k per job over 10 years is a good investment, and will likely generate much more than that in economic activity. How is it evil?
They should build a patch to update their documentation online, because they change the names of services so often and rarely go through and update docs, so you'll find confusingly outdated instructions and references without links when troubleshooting.

I love VS Code, but I'm really happy I'm mostly off of MS for development.
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These posts seem to always miss the big picture... like what do they get back in payroll taxes and other perks? How many other companies is this going to bring into the local eco-system over the next 20 years. What does this do to the local real estate and the increase in property taxes?

If you were running a business and you had a client that had 25,000 seats, would you give them a discount to become a marquee client that could take your business to the next level? Why are cities any different?

Is the end goal of the city to have a higher GDP and better services for the people living in it, or something else? In the USA it seems like the only conversation happening in politics is GDP.
Well, right now, the system only lets you express that you prefer the Democratic candidate, to the exclusion of the Green Party candidate, unless you want to 'throw your vote away'. So it seems that approval voting still represents an improvement over the current state of the art. It warrants consideration as to whether it's worth making the perfect the enemy of the good in this issue.
The status quo is terrible, that is not a good reason to add a "secure" national ID though, it is apt to make the problem of tracking worse.
I don't understand how this keeps happening where certain people get all this free marketing and mysterious drum-up, and then their panacea is frigging Instant Runoff Voting.

At some point the discussion is going to have to evolve past IRV.

One thing to remember - ranked choice voting is just the UI/UX. It doesn't mean you have to count it IRV style. The IRV zealots know this, which is why they re-branded it to name it "Ranked Choice Voting". It's a weak method.

And Condorcet is not complicated. If one candidate would beat all others head to head, that candidate wins. It's only the tiebreaking methods that are complicated, and ties (loops; smith sets) are rare in large elections. Much rarer than additional-round Instant Runoff scenarios.

There was a long discussion just a week ago here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391757) on voting variants.
I think that quote generalizes to "people don't understand large-scale socio-technological systems." Pretty much any technology that reaches a certain level of adoption becomes a double-edged sword that no single person can fully understand or control. I don't think any of this is unique to Zuck/Facebook in any way. They just happen to be the current punching bag.
Certain ports are bound to localhost from the container for "popular applications"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/99s3t9/wellknown_...
Where are you getting this "price hike" narrative for Google from? Google's presence in the cloud market is instrumental in across the board price drops.
I'm inclined to agree. I'm against it in principle (why should taxpayers be subsidizing large corporations at all?) but it isn't robbery.

I guess it get fuzzier when you factor in in harder to quantify costs like further increasing the cost of living.
> each NYC resident pays 48000 one time

Please cite a source which states this claim. Nobody here is forking over 48k "one-time".
You're either for it or against it. Stop wasting time with questions and pick a side!

Alternatively I will engage with you on personal / ad hominem attacks for as much as you like.
Their prices are often worse than yellow cabs in NYC. They act like locals won't be able to tell but it's pretty obvious when it's a $10 more ask at a time that isn't even busy and there are yellow cabs everywhere.
"The most important part is it cements NYC as the main tech center on the East Coast."

This has long ago been cemented...
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It's not a cost though it's tax break over 10 years and there would be no tax revenue if NYC didn't get the office in the first place.
You're referring to canaries, which are special values used to detect if overflows occur.

Canaries are usually checked on heap deallocation (resp. stack canaries are checked on stack frame deallocation, i.e. function return). Checking them at any other time is expensive and incurs high overhead. They also don't catch all overflows - an overflow with an attacker-controlled index could easily skip the canary and overwrite whatever lies past it.

The problem of memory bounds checking is solvable if you decide to forego memory, processing time, and/or compatibility with existing code. Trying to achieve memory safety while maintaining those three properties is very hard.
Race to the bottom between states (and governments) to attract big businesses. Tragedy of the commons.

It's also unfair for the smaller players, they never get the same kind of treatment.
the gentrification angle is predictable. people want a generous government sector but don't want the local economic growth thats necessary to keep it afloat.

for Amazon its seemingly a PR nightmare versus just quietly leasing some large amount of office space in satellite locations. Hope the incentives are worth it.

the interesting thing to me about HQ2 is its also a wealth transfer from future workers to Amazon the company which is facilitated/financed by the local government via taxes. They're selling future worker income/sales tax to the government.
Owners of an unprofitable company unfortunately in the case of Canonical.
Only if you think Amazon wouldn't have moved there otherwise. I think Amazon probably would have picked NYC no matter what so this is $1.5B straight down the toilet.
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I've never needed to drive. It would be mildly more convenient if I could, but not enough for me to justify spending another few dozen hours practicing to pass the test when it'll be an obsolete skill soon enough
Do you really believe that there isn't a tech sector in NYC aside from FAANG? Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been here for years (to name a few), along with tons of other startups.
Maybe when they are immortal.
It could, but I don't see that as the likely outcome. Dissimilarities with other countries are greatly exaggerated, and government is better at getting things done than many people give it credit for.

It is possible that the result would still be broken, but it is certain that the result of doing nothing will still be broken.

We can either just keep things broken, learn from what others have done use those lessons to take our best shot at fixing things, or we can completely ignore the hard-won lessons of others and go for an untested and novel approach. Which is most likely to work?