skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at “Algorithms for the Intelligent Web” - particularly the second edition.
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Well, one reason to "keep up with trends" is because if your direct competitor does use ML to unveil some market/product/business opportunity or optimization, and you (executive/CIO/CEO) weren't at the least looking into the technology, heads are going to roll.
Ok thanks. I must have missed it.
Simpler to use, really?!
What is "proper platform knowledge"? Certifications are generally far inferior to hiring actual good engineers, which in my experience Google does. Comparing AWS to Google, our Google support is way higher touch and they give us way more experienced people (actual engineers).

Most enterprises don't have a clue about computing though, so I can buy that they would prefer bling like certificates to getting a contact who is a real engineer.
In a sense, the state is the landlord of all the residents of the state. The state provides services to the people, and in return the people pay rent (taxes) to the state.

This is not directly related to the point I'm making though: the point of these tax deals is not to help Amazon's business (though that is likely a side effect). The point of these deals were to entice Amazon to set up shop in that location. Thus, it is better to call these deals incentives rather than subsidies.
Nope. local channels continued to have ads but cable did not.
Cable TV was advertised as being ad free because you were paying for it. It was part of the sales pitch.

My household was a subscriber in those early days and I remember the concern that ads were coming. I remember that they started by putting the ads between shows and only advertising upcoming shows on that channel. Then it moved to general ads about shows on that channel, then to ads about shows on other channels. At that point I knew the cause was lost and sure enough soon it was normal TV ads interrupting shows.

Here is a newspaper article from around that time asking how much longer cable TV will be ad free

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
Im interested in seeing if I can use this to help my home automation system figure out how many people are in my house, or at least if Im home.
I was living under the rock and didn't know GCP CEO was female. It makes a lot of sense now because the whole GCP has this caring touch to it. When using GCP you feel like it cares for you. Anyhow.
"The images you see here were all taken between 1996 and 2009"

9-22 years old. some of them were well within the internet era.

I looked up more info on the shutter sound accompanying photographs taken on smartphones. This has been in effect since 2001. But I was wrong about it being a law. It looks like all the cell phone carriers in Japan self-regulated and made it a requirement themselves.

source: https://theuijunkie.com/japan-camera-sound/
Your metaphor is wrong. Say you're a car dealer. Hundreds of poor people show up who need a car just to get by. You offer them nothing but the sticker price. Sorry, we gotta make money too. A rich guy shows up, who could probably purchase the dealership, and you offer him 90% off the sticker price of whatever cars he wants. You won't make any money off of him, but maybe he'll tell his friends and they will come to you for a car.
Yeah, that kind of extreme lack of transparency makes a free market utterly impossible. Particularly if you ask explicitly, they should be able to tell you a price, or you should be able to tell them up front that you'll only pay the part that's covered by the insurance.

Springing costs on you that you never agreed to and aren't covered, should be illegal. you're literally being forced into a transaction you never agreed to.
I think this is the In-n-out effect - people who grew up on it see it as a vastly superior version of McDs, Wendy's etc for the same price, and are understandably effusive about this. But visitors expect something profound instead of a well executed fast food style burger.
William Goldman, author and screenwriter of “The Princess Bride”, has died
> Amazon is not going to be more productive in New York than in New Jersey

That's a humongous assumption and one that I think simply isn't true. Not specifically that New Jersey is a worse place to run a business, but in general he seems to be assuming that geography is complete non-issue. That's just obviously not true. There's a zillion businesses that have set roots in NYC or other industry hot spots and most of them received no specific incentives. I mean, why did they even conduct this search if everyplace is the same? They could have put their HQ2 in the Nevada desert and saved way more than their tax breaks were worth.
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There's a BBQ place here in the warehouse area south of the Phoenix airport similar to the described. Every day, at open, there's already 45-90 minutes of people in line. I've been by several restaurants that face similar issues.

In my mind, no restaurant is worth an hour wait before you can even get an order in. I'd just assume go to the #2/3 on the list over facing that.

On the one hand, it's nice when you find a place with really good food that makes it into your normal rotation. And you're really happy when they're always busy. But it's when you get a line out the door and around the block that you start to look elsewhere, and sometimes you miss it.

The Chino Bandito on 19th and Greenway was a bit like that at lunch for a long time... Of course I discovered the mediterranian place right next door to it (man, it takes nerve to open a restaurant right next to a hot spot). But the food there is really good (one of the better options in phx) and it's usually not too busy.

Of course I've seen the reverse too. A place with incredible food that you love that never seems to find it's regular footing. Often due to an awkward location more than any other reason I can think of. Just as often as I'd see a place I love blow up, I've gone back to a place I haven't been to in a year or two (usually in an area I'm just not near very often) only to find it's gone.

I don't know what the answer is, as commercial interests will usually corrupt what starts out really cool. I still use yelp, but the horror stories about their pushy sales really leaves me wondering.
There may indeed be a ceiling. It's not even near whatever he's charging that leads to a 5 hour lineup.

Similar situation, my mother is a lawyer mostly handling wills/estates and real estate deals. Small town law firm, sole practitioner. She's got too many clients, too much work, and she hates turning people away. She's got a small army of secretaries working their asses off. It's good business, but she wants to do less so that eventually she can retire.

She's trying a new strategy: raising prices every 3 months until there's exactly as much work as she wants to do. If things get a bit dry, she can lower prices a bit again. But by fluctuating ever so slightly, she can choose how much work she wants to do.
And I thought I was having a bad day! Thank you for sharing this article. Does anyone have any good sources that explore life during this time period? Surely people would have seen this as a cataclysmic, world-ending event. I'm curious as to what this did to cultures and myths and whatnot at the time.
I marvel at the power of NYC.

We in Wisconsin have been shouting this from the highest rooftop since the day Walker inflicted the Foxconn "deal" upon us. But there was not a single word from places like U Chicago. I mean, Walker is part of the GOP, so if conservatives had spoken up it might have helped. Who knows?

Now, the way it stands, we're obliged to pay more than three times as much money as NYC, for less than HALF the number of jobs. And, again, if all that weren't bad enough, the jobs at Foxconn will likely pay much less than the jobs at Amazon.

How do you get marketing like the people in NYC have? Because man, we got HOSED on that deal. I'd, at least, like a law that would restrict governors or mayors or whatnot from making deals like that without putting them to a popular vote.
The Smithsonian channel runs a weekly show "Aviation Disasters" which shows in detail how this is done.
Let's hear from a local about what really happened to Stanich's:

https://www.metafilter.com/177718/Sometimes-its-better-not-t...

"Anecdotally, I went to Stanich's a few weeks before the shutdown. They certainly weren't getting overrun with customers at that point. The place was maybe a quarter full on a Friday night, and it was filthy. Dust everywhere, dishes left on tables, stains on the floor, the crust on the ketchup bottles indicating it had been at least a week since anyone bothered wiping them. We watched our food sit at the pass for five minutes before a waitress could be bothered to serve us. The place had all of the hallmark signs of a restaurant going under."

"Did Kevin Alexander hurt Stanich's business by giving them the press? Maybe. But Kevin Alexander isn't responsible for running the restaurant. It isn't Kevin Alexander's job to clean the tables or the floor or the dishes or the ketchup bottles. Stanich killed Stanich's."
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> Thus, it is better to call these deals incentives rather than subsidies.

Note the added emphases:

"A subsidy or government incentive is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy." [0]

"a grant by a government to a private person or company to assist an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public" [1]

"A subsidy is a benefit given to an individual, business or institution, usually by the government. It is usually in the form of a cash payment or a tax reduction." [2]

I don't think there's nearly as bright a line between "subsidy" and "incentive" as you're trying to paint here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subsidy

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subsidy.asp
some people start a business for reasons more complicated than making the maximum amount of dollars.
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Oracle and TK understand one thing that GCP does not: the importance of great support. Oracle charges a ton for top-tier support, but if you have a problem they can't solve remotely, they'll send a team of engineers to your site and work night and day until it's fixed. In extreme cases, they'll duplicate your hardware and software setup at their expense and run in parallel until they can duplicate and solve the problem. That is serious enterprise commitment.

Google has no cloud counterpart to that level of service. If TK brings an equivalent orientation that makes customers believe that GCP will do whatever is necessary to resolve a problem, he'll have contributed significantly to its success, IMHO.
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it will be a real bummer the generalized pattern of harmful organism developing resistance in commercial setting as opposed to medical setting (like antifungal resistance, or antibiotic resistance) turns out to be "The Great Filter" of life in the universe. Hopefully we will learn our lesson after a couple of instances and rigorously ban non-medical use of drugs reserved for human medical use.
A 155 carat diamond with 92 mm diameter (2017)
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https://i.imgur.com/Fz8RwgQ.png

Or you could just click the x
While I believe they receive some kind of coating, Weber themselves refer frequently to them being cast iron.

From their site, “how to care for your cast iron cooking grates”. Quoting Weber’s website, “All our 2017 gas grills except for the Summit and Genesis II LX come with porcelain enameled cast iron cooking grates.”. The spec sheet on the site for virtually every gas grill lists a cast iron grate.

https://www.weber.com/US/en/blog/tips-techniques/how-to-care...
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All those taxes not paid by Amazon will have to be paid by someone else, because the services, from roads to hospitals, will surely be used.

As per the argument

> the Amazon employees will increase tax revenue

Will they? When every and each of their meals is subsidized? Where their transportation, their gym membership, even their kids' school is paid for? And Amazon pays almost nothing in taxes itself [0]

So, yeah, it's a subsidy, maybe not in cash, but in free city services.

[0] https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...
It seems like a common critique of Python is that there’s choice in which tool to use for a given task (serve web, fast numerical code, and here, visualization). This is ironic given a language that says there should be one obvious way to do it, but perhaps it reflects a diversity of applications, similarly to how enterprise Java seems overengineered until the day that that dependency injection mumbo jumbo allows you to cover a paying use case that would’ve otherwise taken ages.

If I want pretty web-ish scatter plots Bokey or Plotly, and if I need desktop GUI visualizations, PyQtGraph, etc. Thankfully there’s no one saying we need a single toolkit for everything (though Matplotlib does try to do this to some extent)
> This is also a national security risk. A nation state interested in war will have an easier time shutting down a small handful of things simultaneously to quickly cripple our economy.

If you take a broader view, you will note that the United States telling Visa and Mastercard to shut down all service in <country> will cripple that country's financial system.

The dangers of someone bringing your economy to a halt by 'hacking our systems' is overblown. These kinds of problems can be fixed, or routed around in a few days.

You don't have this option when the systems you rely on are completely controlled by another nation state.
Google Drive and AWS are not interchangeable tools. One is for use by end-users, the other by software.
What strategies are needed to ensure machines serve humankind?
Well, you can’t suddenly replace the quarterpounder with cheese with a royale with cheese.
It would be rational for cities and states to lobby for the federal government to introduce legislation which makes the kind of tax breaks that corporations are angling for illegal.

Note: it is rational for them to simultaneously compete for corporate investment by offering individual tax breaks and lobby for such tax breaks to be made illegal at the federal level. This is rather hard to explain to many even otherwise intelligent people, but it's one of the most important lessons that game theory has to offer.

The EU was acting somewhat in this direction when it forced Ireland to collect taxes from corporations.
Try slowing down a bit. Read a sentence together, then pause. Let the words sink in and talk about what it means.
I had a project like that once. I decided to use a chunk of a uuid in hopes of not getting inappropriate words in the codes. Of course, as soon as we start testing, we promptly get stuff with DEAD, FAD, etc in it.
Were there any businesses looking into setting up shop in NYC or Crystal City that were poised to bring anywhere near the amount of wealth as Amazon?

I think a more accurate metaphor is that you're a car dealer, and you're regularly selling Kias and Toyotas at sticker price, but you're having trouble selling a Mercedes S Class. A wealthy person - who can clearly afford sticker price - offers 90% of the sticker price and points out that all the dealerships in the area want to sell these cars and plenty are willing to knock double digits off MSRP. Is it wrong to sell the car at a discount?
Or you have someone whose job it is to stand outside and memorize the names and faces of local patrons and turn away any newcomer who can't present an ID with a local address. You can have a second entrance for everyone else, takeout-only, with an hours-long wait, which plenty of food tourists will happily endure.
Until march of last year Daring Fireball had The Deck[0]. Now it's just weekly sponsors, AFAIK.

0 - https://daringfireball.net/2017/03/the_deck_adieu
Super Zoom needs a better lens than what the sensor strictly requires. That was probably not the case on the Pixel 2.

Also, can the Pixel 2 control the OIS the way the Pixel 3 does? I own both, but have no way of checking.
> IMSI are printed on a sticker stuck to the phone.

My phones have the IMEI number written on them, not the IMSI numbers. I'll have to take the SIM out to see if it has the IMSI written on it somewhere.
Too bad this is from Google, so I can't use this; neither at work nor at home.
Most manufacturers no longer recommend an oil change at 500 miles for their new cars.

Japanese brands have also had their share of problems. For example Honda automatic transmissions were notoriously unreliable for several years leading to multiple recalls and class action lawsuits.
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I find it interesting that this tech is only just becoming available for flagship phones. It seems to be the same algorithm that BlessN900 was using for the Nokia N900, back in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20100903131550/http://blessn900....
> In 2001 Wired had an article about a company making a pen that could read microdots on paper while you are writing. It would then be able to uniquely identify the paper that you wrote on and correlate what you wrote with, for example, the form you wrote it on.

/me know that some laser printers use same type of steganography
Based on how Google is quick to mothball products, I can't honestly trust the GCP for production-grade services.

Unfortunately, there's not much the Cloud team at Google can do. Google as a whole needs to demonstrate long-term support in a superior fashion before I can trust their products for building my products.

Why is this getting downvoted? Provide some input on it, has Google suddenly stopped killing projects that are in their infancy? Why should I entrust my platform to that behavior? Anything instead of just mass downvoting.

HN you're better than this.
I think what the commenter is referring to is why use Avogadro's number instead of say, just Sextillions or
Septillions.
I'm curious if it uses the Go GC for handling Lua objects, or if it has a Go implementation of the Lua GC.
There are very few cases where stopping a firm from functioning would be beneficial, as compared to it being destructive. Most of the time, we want flights, banking, credit cards, IT systems to function rather than go black; hackers have many more chances and time to disrupt all of these than a government will ever have occasions to consider halting a particular company's operations in the name of national security.
Anoto was mentioned at around https://youtu.be/u5ZmPzI0D2Q?t=63 in their demo video
It's not in this NYT article, but from this one (https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/business/boeing-lion-air-cras...) apparently Boeing's stock has slid 8% likely because investors worry that it will have a huge liability associated with this.
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Some SDR devices can go higher than 1800MHz, the HackRF One for example receives and transmits from 1 MHz to 6GHz and has been used to decode some GSM and LTE traffic.

https://sdr-x.github.io/Whole-20MHz-config-LTE-signal-is-dec...

https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/

Way different price though still interesting.
Diane Green put GCP firmly on the map as a cloud provider to reckon with.
OMG an interrobang, my eyes can hardly believe it. Haha. I love the idea (I constantly use '?!' in online chat) but they don't look so great. Also, in chess, !? and ?! have different meanings..
Eh, I would say creating one (or something similar) is a useful exercise to help break up large tasks and think more thoroughly about how to split work within a team. It also helps to highlight possible bottlenecks and is a useful visualization so everyone on the team is on the same page.
not sure you understand just how much GCP grew in the last few years
An example that comes to mind is that few think it's an accident that the most legendarily reliable automaker, Toyota, has almost completely stayed away from turbocharged engines (aka one of the flashiest "advances" in powertrains in recent years). As this newest generation of turbocharged engines reaches 100,000 miles, mechanics are seeing a lot of failures and performance issues. Some innovations compromise reliability.
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The idea of imaginary Boolean values is pretty striking, eh?

I find it fascinating that some people have a near-mystical experience with LoF while others sniff at it as just another notation that doesn't add anything fundamental.
a new leader from oracle? google cloud will be doomed...
it may be more accurate to attribute his longevity to his genes, instead of his reportedly rather poor lifestyle habits. his father lived to somewhere in his mid 90's.
I've also created a slack bot for fun to allow slack teammates to play chess within slack: https://github.com/cjsaylor/chessbot. The bot I built is a more traditional server setup, however I did briefly consider using a serverless setup for it.

The serverless pipeline seems a lot more complex than the actual application to send the message to a slack channel. I wonder if things like Github's actions would replace the need to have a serverless thing for notifications of this kind (at least within the confines of Github's ecosystem).
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Each fiber is linked with each other fiber exactly once. This is the property that first attracted attention to the Hopf fibration, and a pair of circles in this configuration is called a Hopf link.
The collection of fibers over a circle in S2 is a torus (doughnut shape), S1×S1, and each such pair of tori are linked exactly once.
The collection of fibers over an arc form an annulus whose boundary circles are linked. This is known as a Hopf band; it is a Seifert surface for the Hopf link.
The book The Pyramid Principle has the second part of the book devoted to logical thinking.

Try to find a copy of an older edition, the material is essentially the same as the newer edition
I wish we could see a breakout of what Microsoft estimates the advertising revenue of littering their OS with ads (I'm leaving internal quality related telemetry separate) is versus the brand value loss for those that don't want to use something like ChromeOS for privacy reasons.

I don't care if you can turn it off, if ad revenue is now meaningful enough to MS that it will be interleaved throughout the OS then it's now a non-option for me.
This. She did so much for both mindshare and market share. She will be truly missed!
Here's an idea. Make it legal to get lower quality service and pay less. Like every other good and service.
I don't think it's true that truth is always power and that revealing truth is always benevolent. You can skew people's opinions quite severely by selectively telling them things, especially when they are true, and particularly when done anonymously. You do not have to lie to be dishonest.
"These kinds of problems can be fixed, or routed around in a few days." a large scale IR could easily be months when state level APT is involved
I hate to be a negative nancy, but this is a huge blow to GCP. People really underestimate how badass she is/was. I really worry that GCP will really hurt Google Morale since they were so sure that they would win this market.

"Those the gods wish to destroy, they first make arrogant"