skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn’t citizens united essentially try to overturn a previous BCRA reform which disallowed a non commercial entity from publishing a political film? Basically they were trying to “answer” (a la rap battle) Moore’s 9/11 film, but got knocked down by BCRA regulation because it was considered “electioneering” while Moore’s were okay because they were published by a “bona fide filmmaker”.

I think it gets complicated but the decision had merits, I think. Obvs, the SCOTUS believes it did.
If levels.fyi is any indication, Google NYC comp is only marginally lower than SV, if at all.
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters https://nyti.ms/2UYaeSh
I much prefer the old trope of starting in your garage. But I don’t know if VCs killed that or overconsumption just filled up all the garages.
Nice! It wasn't available when I first registered it (a year ago). At least I think it wasn't, as it was my first choice, as it is exactly the term that people search.

Already bought it cheap on Namecheap :)

Thanks a lot for taking the time to research it after my reply!
I imagine you could add keyboard navigation with a bunch of radio inputs with the same name (and hidden to screen readers)
Yup, he meant 10 milliKelvin: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4121#comment-1804067
Does this have PostGIS support?
Austin here they come. <ducks>
Calm down, it was part of the skeleton crew.
> Why would that be an either-or thing?

ask the state government, who's happy to give Amazon the tax break but not nearly so happy to fund the agencies running its largest city's transit.
Not really. Remember DHH started and built Basecamp 1.0 and rails while still working on his consultancy business 40 hours a week.

Not every company needs to be next Fb/Google/Amazon. Nothing wrong with having revenue in millions and not billions if you are profitable.
It’d be like building a factory around a music box.
I really like the idea of GraphQL. The concept is understood in a few minutes (which is why the linked source is of no particular interest to me). But every once in a while I try to find some/ANY good resources on how to use it with a RDBS backend. There is nothing, so I immediately stop caring.

Maybe someone can enlighten me?
Semantics. The “supposed to” part means it was designed for 90 days, not that it was expected to fail after 90 days. I was pointing out the marvellous over engineering
Because they have been doing that for decades. The issue is that the tech used is relatively slow, antiquated, and expensive. Additionally, the transactions that the coins would be used for are complex and fit nicely with the ledger model of blockchain tech. As pointed out in the article, they are going to initially use their coin on a trial basis to compare it to business-as-usual.
I think most people on this thread are in agreement. It's not the tech people who are "to blame", it's the companies and politicians for not developing a sustainable growth strategy that includes housing for all the jobs that support those tech workers.

Suddenly bringing in 25k high paid workers without a concrete plan on how to support that growth (including not giving gigantic tax breaks which would impact the necessary schools/police/transportation/etc of the area) is the root cause of the housing and traffic issues in Silicon Valley. I think local politicians are becoming a bit wiser to that kind of thing after seeing how gentrification is causing issues in other cities. NYC local politicians are probably the most aware, given NYC's history.
How the UK MoD Deploys IoT at Scale, Securely
> VLC etc: looks terrible.

I've never heard anyone say that VLC or qbittorrent or obs look terrible. Seems like a way to shift the goal posts and have some sort of ephemeral impossible standard of 'looking good'. There are plenty of GUI frameworks that are very fast and perfectly simple to use.
Does that mean this is the lowest tier we will see?
> It's not going to be organic. Instead, these same deals are going to be spread out to a bunch of other companies, most of which will pay less than Amazon on average and the "subsidies" will take longer to be a net positive.

Only if you assume those other companies collectively hold the same bargaining power that Amazon did, which is an assumption I can't agree with
I was hoping they would move to my city for the same reason. There is nothing wrong with hoping something works out in your own self interest.
Co-founder here. We propagate changes in the sheet to the app with about a 5 minute delay. Right now the app doesn't update automatically when it's running, but it will get the new data once it restarts. We'll obviously fix that.

Other authentication types are on our roadmap, but I can't give you a timeline.
I was thinking this too; a large part of the original bitcoin paper is complaining about how centralized authorities like banks are problematic. I don't really see how adding another central authority makes any sense.
> Otherwise we'd get meaningless glue code like

> pony | lulee --pew | eels | cyan ..

I mean we kinda do, it's just that we're used to the bits.

ls | xargs cat | grep main >> /dev/nul 2>&1

is not inherently more meaningful than what you wrote above, you just have the experience to interpret it.

Incidentally, powershell commands tend to be more "self-explanatory" in their naming, at least in theory.
I guess I didn't realize how many commentators here were New Yorkers. XD

Everyone's moving to more comfortable places with lower costs of living. NYC is not an attractive place for job candidates unless those candidates are already in NYC. Even companies with a strong presence in NYC are expanding in places like Nashville, Omaha, Dallas, Denver, etc. rather than in NYC.

At some point, New Yorkers ought to ask themselves why everyone wants to move to these nice midwestern cities.
Great news! The richest man in the world and his company should have to play by the same rules as the rest of business in New York.
Gotta love New Yorkers for their no BS attitude.
I would completely agree with you except that this person has made a point of being a zero-tolerance firebrand instead of extending charity and a presumption of good faith. I think it is fair to highlight the hypocrisy of that.

I think we all deserve the benefit of the doubt, and it has made me angry when I've seen Bryan judge others so harshly and unfairly, just as it made me angry when I saw the way he treated David Miller in 1996. For what it's worth I didn't "dig up" anything, I remember these incidents from around the time they happened.

It's particularly disheartening for me because I have huge respect for his engineering skills. DTrace is extremely impressive work.
Well, while I appreciate you coming here to clarify, and waiving charges for 2019 sounds nice, there’s nothing in that post that says those charges won’t come into effect for the long term.

I guess I personally would want more color on that whole post-2019 egress situation before committing to using the service. That’s just me, though!
Set operations are very useful. Here's a summary:

http://https://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#sets
Given a standard for moving assets across chains, this starts to become really interesting.

"What can be achieved by HTTP that can't be achieved by any random binary protocol?"

Plasma could facilitate this for Ethereum-compatible chains, including Quorum.
That's great to hear! I always thought only econ people read that blog.
Did you find stratechery through MR yet? If not...Ben Thompson is worth a read for sure.
>She said "talent can be developed" in multiple presentations and interviews.

I think she's simply being informal. Right after your quote she says:

>With a growth mindset, kids don’t necessarily think that there’s no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others.

The way I always read her work is: If a person has talent, having a growth mindset is much more likely to realize the talent than a fixed mindset.
For sample efficiency, there are many tests where people are shown a projection of a novel 3d object for a few seconds and then are able to pick it out from a collection of other projections of various objects (from different poses). This is not simple memorization (since a person must solve the inverse-rendering problem and then compare the 3d representations).
If they didn't back up the WAL files, point in time recovery wouldn't work at all (not even beetween full backups).
Ah yes, "useless" subway lines that carry [checks notes] 5.6 million trips a day.

I'd rather have money go towards our public transit system, no matter how fucked up it is at the moment, than spend another cent on bringing tech jobs that will come here no matter what. NYC's been a "true technology hub" for a long time, regardless of one giant company deciding to abstain from coming here.
My guess is they are using NYC as the hammer to get concessions from their 2nd choice that they've been negotiating with behind the scenes.
777-8 has 53 sales, and 777-9 has 273 sales, so a total of 326 firm orders. The 777-10 is not for sale, so it's certainly not selling well... 326 firm orders is pretty good, don't get me wrong, but the order book doesn't look super healthy: only 8 airlines, and 46% of the orders for Emirates. With Etihad troubled finances, that might go down to 7 airlines.

The order book has depth, but lack breadth. I've often heard the critical size for a widebody is at least 400 sales to 20 airlines. 400 sales to achieve economy of scales, and 20 airlines to have a healthy secondary market. The 777X is not far from the 400 sales, but has some ways to go to find 20 customers. The A330NEO is in a similar but reversed situation: 278 orders for 15 customers (including a couple of lessors). The breadth is nearly there, but not the depth.
I understand your sentiment, but I have to disagree. No matter how bad things are, we can always do worse.
Create some ID that's supposed to be unique, and due to a race condition, it's not. Then, before you know it, the data is a mess.

Unique keys, foreign keys, check constraints, and DDL changes were all meant to solve real problems. I guess some apps might not benefit as much, but it seems like asking for trouble.

Given how easy it is to just use postgres, why invite all the risk?
You seem to have no understanding of local culture or the present state of Manhattan and Brooklyn as already massively gutted by wealthy transplants. Ask the majority of people who grew up in San Francisco and Seattle. This is a win. You also seem to have little understanding of the current situation of the NYC subway system infrastructure. You could argue Amazon’s workforce would have forced improvements, except this hasn’t happened in decades despite the increasing wealth and foreign investors here. Just read about Cuomo using $5mil of MTA to bail upstate ski resorts three years prior.
LIC is essentially a neighborhood cut from whole cloth - it used to be all taxi yards and vacant warehouses, bit of high end printing.

No one lived there until very recently, and the people that do are rich as fuck - it's basically a discount Midtown East. The poor people who live in the nearby projects came out strongly in _favor_ of Amazon opening up and lobbied the city hard - turns out Amazon also needs janitors, cafes etc.
A water well was the first thing I thought of as a possible transferable lease, I could see septic systems possibly being leased too.

Edit- Some houses are also still heated by oil that has to be delivered on a routine basis and I could see that having a lease as well.
> Your compensation is access to the website that uses Recaptcha

Which is one of the reasons why the presence of reCAPTCHA is strong push to avoid that site.

> since you're here and HN uses Recaptcha on its register/login form, it seems like the compensation was adequate.

Perhaps so. I don't remember doing a CAPTCHA to sign up, but I don't dispute that I did it. However, I've never been presented with one after signup. If I was, I wouldn't be here.
In this story I am only sorry for people who bought up all the real estate around the future campus, ouch! Remember all the "insider trading" condo purchases, just before the announcement, that is going to hurt...
That's a massive false dichotomy. There are many ways to get solar panels other than Sunrun.
Figure 5.
Ask HN: Does syntax highlighting help users read english?
My code editor/IDE is awesome and helps my eyes parse code and find errors..

Do writing apps need syntax highlighting for verbs, nouns, punctuation, etc, and would this be helpful for english writers/readers?
I think that there really was likely to be a net benefit to New York for the deal, if not the city than at least for the citizens (and even then probably close to break even based on roundabout increases in city income). Apparently there's often a "local multiplier"[1] for good paying jobs like this that enter an area, in this case approximately 5 more jobs per high-end worker to service the area in general through meal delivery, wiring, elevator repair, etc.

This was all covered in a Planet Money episode[2], so you can listen/read it and make your own decision, but if it's true, it seems a shame that New York was denied what should be a favorable outcome because of FUD, spite for Amazon/Bezos because they are large, or some combination thereof.

1: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/multipliers.pdf (Note: I haven't read this, but I tracked down the most likely source for the reference as I got it from [2])

2: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
But it's also not the case that the increase of "income and sales tax payers" for NY would be zero without Amazon, so the benefit would have to take that baseline into account. It's not an easy calculation, and there are reasons beyond pure money as to why you wouldn't want an Amazon HQ.
Our early target market is small to medium businesses. Right now Glide is still rough around the edges, so being a little technical definitely helps, but we'll make it a lot easier to use. Right now we're charging monthly for apps that require sign-in, need to remove our branding, or need to be published to app stores. See https://www.glideapps.com/#pricing
Honestly I'm surprised that so many people have come out against this, but no one seems to care about the Excelsior job program in general. I haven't even seen a person suggest that the program should be amended to preclude a company like Amazon from using it.
It's hard to imagine getting a worse Pres than the one we have now...
How does this product operate for free? Who's paying for the miners?
I faced this recently when my card was skimmed and I saw some fraud transactions. After blocking the card, I tried reaching customer support, but my bank's IVR refused to recognize the card number (mandatory to talk to fraud folks apparently) and thus, didn't let me through.

Had to reach out to them on twitter to get things moving. Horrible stuff.
I feel like the problem isn't time... it's energy.

If you slack enough at your main job to have the energy to push your side project you're doing a disservice to your employer.
Ugh... any company moving into NY can get these same large tax concessions. Amazon got nothing special outside of reduced regulatory burden. Why is this not understood? This same subsidy is now going to go to 15 companies who all probably pay less on average than Amazon.

There are skilled workforces outside of NY, believe it or not. And they aren't going to go through the regulatory burdens to expand NY to a major campus, since that's really what this was about.

To be clear, since this point is being missed by so many people: This wasn't a special deal outside of the reduced regulatory burden. Any company that meets the eligibility requirements will get these exact same "subsidies".

What happened here is a bunch of local politicians and local people who are absolutely clueless about how corporate tax reductions work pushed against something that's still going to happen just, at least potentially, not with a high paying company like Amazon.
Vim has a TUI, not a GUI. Unless you're referring to gvim.
My sites use a spam filter as well. I find that it's perfectly adequate.
This post is entirely premised on being single and not having kids.
Hub and spoke models still dominate for all major carriers. True point to point routes, where neither the origin nor destination are hubs, are an extremely tiny minority of all routes flown. Some regional airlines (such as southwest) fly pseudo point to point, but really that is just spoke->hub->minihub->spoke and isn't feasible outside of the short routes that regional airlines make.

What has actually happened is that hubs became more numerous and smaller. A major airline might have 6 hubs instead of 2. And most long distance trips are done with 2 legs instead of 3.
see prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19155655
Well yeah, of course. I was hoping they would offer something managed to compete with Heroku's free/$9 tiers, but this is the cost of three droplets and isn't worth it for me at the moment. I'll probably test it out for a bit though but it will be too expensive for hobby/throwaway projects.
I don't think it is even fruitful. We already know that mappings that don't contain poles can be approximated in various ways: Taylor expansion, piecewise linear, fourier transforms.. Taylor expansion is the polynomial fitting for authors, piecewise linear is NN with relu activation.
The thing that bothers me about this is that banks have a monopoly on this type of business. Outside of being a bank you need to register as a money service business which is extremely cumbersome.
If the relentless (Media) attacks of DJT are an indication, there are few "outsiders" who are going to get involved in the future.

Consider the possibility that he isn't being attacked. That his actions/statements are being reported on. That what you call an attack is indicative of the nature of the man. When you cause George Will to leave the party then....
>My current pet idea is that the Electoral College ought to be replaced with the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies. That way we could do away with the facade that presidential elections currently create.

So basically a "house of lords" for America, but instead of bishops and lords it's tech CEOs and celebrities? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
Sorry you're apparently not capable of having a discussion in good faith. Since it's just you here, there's no point.
Any tips on where are they going next?
I think it was JP Morgan himself who said this (paraphrasing):

"There are two reasons for any action: the reason that sounds good and the real reason."
I think NYC (or SF or any high cost of living area) is a crazy place to put HQ2. In terms of subsidies, while it's easy to dunk on Amazon, and no business should be getting subsidies IMO, there is a real issue here:

Cost of Living in NY is higher and Amazon will have to pay higher wages if it puts jobs there rather than a place like Nashville. That's higher wages for the same job. Pretty much every company has a cost of living multiplier and pays different wages for the same position based on where you live. So given that Amazon has a choice to locate in the low wage or high wage area, it seems reasonable for the high wage area to offer to offset some of those extra costs. Otherwise why would AMZN even consider a high cost of living area like NYC?

Now to me it's clear that the market signal is that they should open the new office in a lower cost of living area, which is what's going to happen now. A small victory for reason. This means more Amazon workers will be able to afford to buy a house and Amazon will be able to pay them less. Good news.
No paywalls, or use of JavaScript (for that matter): https://beta.trimread.com/articles/44
There are fields (veterinary medicine, psychology, pharmacy, HR, accounting) where the proportion of women shot past 50% and reached a significant majority. Other fields, like medicine, are well on their way as older generations retire. If the working population in total is about 50/50, it’s mathematically impossible to have some fields with a gender imbalance one way without the rest of the workforce having an opposite imbalance.

The main difference is one of status. In the 80’s or so, doctors and lawyers were high in status so it became a point of pride to prove that women could succeed in those professions. And they have, to the point that the male majorities in those professions are largely accounted for by the older generation. CS has not traditionally been a high-status field. If anything, the decline of women in tech has (or had?) a lot to do with women in general rising to a level of professional status where they didn’t have to pursue marginal, low-status jobs.

Now, at a certain point they started giving us money, and then everyone noticed the gender imbalance. (Previously, it went about as unnoticed by wider society as the gender imbalance in logging.) And, of course, now that there’s been a huge push to get more and more women into tech, the prestige of the career is being torn down once again, though the money doesn’t seem to be going away yet, so who knows what the future will bring?
>I saw somewhere that the turnout for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's election was somewhere around 4%

That's extremely common for local elections. For all the talk of money in politics, neither party could afford to fund opponents in every district.
Come to my town of Oshkosh, WI. We have some of the highest rates of drunk people.. I mean.. uh.. we have lakes!
The latest brain research pretty clearly shows that all decisions are emotional first, then layered on with the necessary reasoning in our conscious mind to satisfy us. In fact, I recall there is a study that people who have had the emotional center of their brain damaged or destroyed are simply incapable of making any decision at all.
It rarely happens, but it's always refreshing to see when real estate investment doesn't just equal free money.
Another fare and another point of failure in what is probably already a long commute? Sounds unappealing.

LIC will never become a second Midtown because its transport connections are so poor.
This is exactly correct. Private blockchains create efficiency between large institutions like JP Morgan and other banks who are constantly moving large volumes of money around by eliminating the traditional processes in place required to move that money. A private blockchain is essentially a shared database (distributed ledger) used by an arbitrary number of private institutions, each of whom has an interest in participating to reap efficiency gains by using a shared database that they can trust, more than they would trust a traditional database owned by a single party. It's not game changing innovation in the same way that crypto futurists think of Bitcoin as a new type of decentralized money, it's incremental efficiency for existing processes. It's more accurate to think about this as blockchain technology for JP Morgan than as cryptocurrency in the sense that Bitcoin is an application of blockchain technology. JPM coin is not like Bitcoin, or ripple for that matter.

The important thing to understand here is that JP Morgan thinks about blockchain technology completely differently than libertarian futurists. Blockchain is not a movement for them - it's a technology that reduces friction for things they are already doing.
People have too much faith in their opinions. Exempting yourself from a general human behavior is dumb...

That second phrase is gold!
What is the critical question? Why am I not testing it?
Thank you! We've released 500 random unconditional samples from GPT-2 at https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/gpt2-samples.txt