skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are interested, I use a configuration for zsh that I see as "a shell with features like fish and a syntax like bash"

In .zshrc:

ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"

if [ ! -d "$ZSH" ]; then
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git "$ZSH"
fi

DEFAULT_USER=jraph

plugins=(zsh-autosuggestions) # add zsh-syntax-highlighting if not provided by the system

source "$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh"

PROMPT="%B%{%F{green}%}[%*] %{%F{red}%}%n@%{%F{blue}%}%m%b %{%F{yellow}%}%~ %f%(!.#.$) "
RPROMPT="[%{%F{yellow}%}%?%f]"

EDITOR=nano

if [ -f /usr/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh ]; then
source /usr/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh # Debian
elif [ -f /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh ]; then
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh # Arch
fi

Relevant packages to install: git zsh zsh-syntax-highlighting

Then:

zsh

WARNING: it downloads and executes Oh My Zsh automatically using git. You may want to review it before.

If it suits you:

chsh

Works on macOS, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Termux and probably in most places anyway.

You may need this too:

export TERM="xterm-256color"
If you are doing a self-owned grid tie installation and have limited space, premium panels CAN make a big difference in your cumulative kWh produced per month.

Let's say you have room to mount sixteen, 2.0x1.0 meter size (72-cell) panels.

320W (cheap panels) x 16 = 5120W STC rating

370W (more expensive panels) x 16 = 5920W STC rating.

In the above i'm comparing cheap polycrystalline panels from a not-very-big Chinese maker to a well known manufacturer using high quality 156mm monocrystalline cells from a reputable cell manufacturer.

Edit: Others in the same thread have pointed out there can be aesthetic considerations as well, a cheap panel will look like this:

http://energyinformative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sola...

A panel built from 72 x 156mm mono, black cells will look more like:

http://www.cirelectric.com/content/images/TouSilevoPanel.jpg

This can be a big monthly and yearly kWh-fed-back-into-grid difference.

Now, "super premium" panels will be a lot more expensive, like Sunpower, which might have a STC W per sq meter rating even higher (390W in the same space), but you'd be paying literally double per panel.
Good, Amazon shouldn't be getting any subsidies just for having their offices in a city.
Good luck doing that campaign but for Islam on Facebook.
Amazon will not build a headquarters in New York after mounting opposition
I flew first class on the Emirates A380 earlier this year. It's an experience like none other. It's completely absurd and unnecessary but simultaneously incredible and nearly unbeatable. It's an unreal feeling to take a shower at 40,000', or to drink a Manhattan over Iran, or to experience a lively cocktail bar at 3AM over Northern Greenland. Unless you own a Boeing Business Jet, you're probably not going to be able to do that. It's a taste of the 0.1% that's in reach for mere mortals if you know the right routes. The typical first class A380 ride from the US to or from the Middle East or most of Asia will run anywhere from $9,000-15,000 one-way. However, if you're willing to fly out of Colomobo, Sri Lanka, you can sometimes do this trip for less than $5,000. A flight from Bangkok to Houston via Dubai will get you a 777-300ER ride (itself an experience) plus a 16-hour A380 ride.

If you want to see what it's like, I posted some pics:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721577066639...
Sighs, I've been trying to skip paying the apple tax for years but still like this still keeps in looped in.
I agree with pretty much everything, except maybe (I'd need to think to be sure) #4.

A few kind of unrelated points about innovation within large, established companies.

(1) A lot of these hard things (incompetence intolerance, flat but strong leadership model) are the easy default for a small, young company. So... a lot of this is about making large, old companies culturaly similar to small, young ones. No surprise that this is hard.

(2) A lot of these points relate to "legibility^" issues. I wrote this one three times and it still doesn't make sense, so I'll just leave it to Venkat's awesome blog to explain.

(3) the Economist Ronald coase's "theory of the firm" starts (paraphrase) with the question: if competitive markets are so efficient, why do companies run like Marxist states internally.

Large company culture isn't arbitrary. It also isn't dictated by proclamations, value statements and such. It's a product of their structure, incentives and such. You can't fundamentally change the culture without changing the environment that formed it. ..the social and economic incentives, the feedback loops...

I'm surprised there aren't more radical ideas in this space, to be honest.

^https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call...
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This is neat. For anyone wondering why not just record the moves on your phone: Digital devices are not allowed at over-the-board tournament games.
In science and code, metric shows large teams develop and small teams disrupt
They probably found a better deal somewhere else.
What Happens When Techno-Utopians Run a Country
Even if the city gets back much more in tax revenue?
1) premium (high power density) panels can still make sense if you have limited roof space to work with, especially limited south or west facing.
To be fair, it's possible to make this block simpler and more readable than what you have there. The problem with a lot of bash scripts I've seen is that they just duck-tape layer after layer of complexity on top of each other, instead of breaking things into smaller, composable pieces.

Here's a quick refactor for the block that I would say is simpler and easier to maintain.

function xform() {
local dir="$1"

ls -1 "$dir" |
grep '\d\d\d\d_A.csv' |
cut -c 1-4 |
python3 parse.py |
uniq
}

comm -1 -3 <(xform dataset-directory) <(seq 500)
A shame. As an employee of a Big N company in NYC, this would have provided upward pressure on my salary (even if personally I wouldn't want to go work for Amazon).

But I didn't like the big tax breaks, and as a taxpayer of the city I'm glad my money won't go towards subsidizing the expansion of one of the world's most valuable companies.

It's too bad Amazon wasn't willing to pay their fair share.
Google didn't need any dog and pony show or significant forms of corporate welfare (that we know of) to announce a doubling of their presence in New York.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/17/google-...
I use SequelPro for Mac (and love it!). Has anyone used both and can explain whether it is worth switching?
Can they get a polynomial regression to play mariokart from screenshots and button push data?

https://www.kevinhughes.ca/blog/tensor-kart
> When does widespread ’70s/’80s computing stop being impressive?

When the majority adopts it, or at least knows about it.

> You say “unknown” as if we were talking about some research software, or some old and largely forgotten software. Unix shell programming doesn’t have hipster cred.

It's unknown to those that are only experienced in working in a GUI, which I believe is still the majority of developers. In my experience, anyone of those people are always impressed when seeing me work in my screen filled with terminals, so it does seem to have some "hipster cred". :)
Very interesting story about the rise of Cinque Stelle in Italy. Thrilling read.
You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
Because it has some effect, just not nearly as substantial as people here keep claiming.

Does corruption happen? Definitely. Is it rampant? No. It's not "some members who stand strong" it's "almost all members stand strong with some small exceptions, many of whom are no longer in office as a result."

Politics is mostly pretty boring, routine stuff. It's nothing like what's portrayed in the media, stop assuming the most interesting parts are more common than they are...
Not going to miss them. Local governments giving huge tax breaks in exchange for stadiums, businesses relocating never works out.
I wonder if this means they'll expand the plans for the north Virginia hq
Except nowhere in the Bible does it say that you can not buy whisky on Sunday.
I wonder how many Amazon employees sold their nice new condos in the last couple weeks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503434
Yes. It's insanely inefficient, but some spots are better than others. Seattle has some very real, physical bottlenecks that cause very long delays. We thought we were safe with a 6 hour layover, but we very nearly missed our connection.
> Assuming a person is healthy, there's nothing that makes playing in the NBA literally impossible.

Well no, but there's a reason that those short people made it to the NBA, they had other potential that got them there. Mugsy was incredibly fast. If it was all about heart we'd see an equal distribution, unless somehow being taller means you have more heart.
Lol dude that never happens.
This could be an interesting development for the DC metro area.
BA A380 first class is pretty lacking. The saying is that it's "the world's best business class". I flew it over and back from ORD to LHR and it was enjoyable but it can't touch the Emirates A380 experience in F.
Is there a press release or any statement from Amazon about this? Paywalled here (and would prefer a direct source anyway).
No, because then it's a race to the bottom and all other companies start expecting these same deals (or even better), and eventually you do end up with a situation where the city does not get back more in tax revenue.

It's simple negotiation; you may lose some money on that one deal, but you'll gain more in the end by not decreasing the value of all subsequent deals.
Of all the places, why did NYC offer Amazon subsidies? NYC actually has too many good jobs for the amount of space...

I am also proud of my cantankerous fellow New Yorkers who fought this.
"This also sounds slightly nightmarish once every faith will start bidding wars for some piece of your soul."

That doesn't sound that materially different from the world we already live in....
I think the purpose of an article like this isn't so much about delivering facts as it is about proposing a useful mental model.

This one is working through the concept of companies having innovative cultures and pointing out that each of the (presumed) positive/happy/fun attributes of innovative business cultures come with aspects that aren't so nice.

It is all hand waving but the purpose isn't to get anyone (I assume the main audience here is executives and managers) to take specific actions but to get them to adopt this mental model.

To me, the general message is a pretty good one: the good/positive/happy/fun things you want probably also have less good/positive/happy/fun implications and you have to deal with those implications effectively or the good stuff won't actually end up being good.

The article just iterates over a set of things considered positive traits of innovative cultures and applies this concept. Each of the positive traits are vague, ambiguous, and ill-defined so the counter-point traits can't be better.

I guess someone could potentially study the success of adopting the general approach implied by this article. (That is, whether focusing on dealing with the negative implications of a business approach helps the approach be more successful.)
I've heard Jordan Peterson saying that, which makes sense but, It makes me sad as well, about 1/10 people are just not able to learn skilled tasks.

I wonder if we evolve kind of similar to ants, which some are just explorers, some hard workers, other just defend the nest.

I think genes are the code that render us inside of the matrix :)
I dunno. What if the right found out that poor people are poor because of genetics, luck and environment, i.e. no fault of their own, rather than laziness? Oh man, that'd be a problem, wouldn't it?
This seems cool, but maybe I don't understand something... Wouldn't your frontend and your backend be in the same kubernetes cluster?
Upward pressure on your salary. Ew. Keep that to yourself.
Interesting. I guess they estimated that the battle to retain the tax breaks wasn't worth the fight. I wonder if they'll continue to expand in Seattle, or wait a few years before putting HQ2 elsewhere.
Wonder how many people started real-estate speculation who might be hurt from this?
They're still going to be getting subsidies, just not from NY.
They’ll still get subsidies, just somewhere. The system being what it is, you can’t fault them for finding the fair market price of setting up their campus at you location. It’s a mutually beneficial deal, but now Mew York gains nothing at all.

That said the system could be changed and laws written to prevent subsidies all together. Then competition for large workforces would be based on other factors.
I did hot code upgrades on a server with WS connections active and I don't remember connections being broken.
So is this a boon for Northern Virginia or will something similar happen there?
There is plenty of room to be dissatisfied with the current state of deep learning theory without making absolute claims that there is "no theory" whatsoever, which GP clearly isn't.

If you wish to challenge GP's comment, you could do so constructively by discussing any specific theoretical contributions you feel GP may have overlooked.
I would have liked to have had Amazon become a bigger presence here in NYC, but I strongly disagreed with their tactics and use of a contest to facilitate a race to the bottom among municipalities.
I think that's a very good point. Yes, you can approximate any given clasical NN with a polynomial, but how does the number of terms in the polynomial scale with the network size and the desired accuracy? There might be a very good paper there.
https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/update-on-plans-fo...
>> We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville

Weird.
Totally anedcotal evidence, but the first 5 top level comments (make that 6 now) are all against Amazon for NYC.

Looks like we’ve reached our “Gettysburg” moment against corporate welfare. Terrible years of war still left, but the tide has turned.
Relocate to a city in which the cost of living is heroically expensive. You'll earn much more than 2500€/month.
It's well known that the best teams are the ones that eschew using the kit of parts and have their NASA/SpaceX/Autocorp sponsors laser cut their robot chassis for them.
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10k hours of practice - including a lot of “directed” practice, where you have some advice on what to work on, and no small amount of thoughtful critique - will generally get you to “hireable in your craft”. There’s still a lot to learn. I passed that point in my art skills around 2000, and can crank out a much better drawing with a lot less thought than 2000 me could.

10k hours of fiddling around by yourself will get you somewhere, to be sure.

(Quick math: 10k/5 = 2000, divide that by 365 and you have about five and a half years of spending 5h on your craft every day. Which sounds a lot like “majoring in your craft at a four-year college, then learning how it really works on your first job” to me.)
I wonder if the victory for local organizers here will provide a model for anti-tech movements in other urban areas?
You're getting downvoted, but it's true. If I recall, the city/state would've broken even not that far into the future, and then everything after that would've been pure profit for them.
From Amazon

"After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens. For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term. While polls show that 70% of New Yorkers support our plans and investment, a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.

We are disappointed to have reached this conclusion — we love New York, its incomparable dynamism, people, and culture — and particularly the community of Long Island City, where we have gotten to know so many optimistic, forward-leaning community leaders, small business owners, and residents. There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we plan to continue growing these teams.

We are deeply grateful to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and their staffs, who so enthusiastically and graciously invited us to build in New York City and supported us during the process. Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have worked tirelessly on behalf of New Yorkers to encourage local investment and job creation, and we can’t speak positively enough about all their efforts. The steadfast commitment and dedication that these leaders have demonstrated to the communities they represent inspired us from the very beginning and is one of the big reasons our decision was so difficult.

We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. and Canada.

Thank you again to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and the many other community leaders and residents who welcomed our plans and supported us along the way. We hope to have future chances to collaborate as we continue to build our presence in New York over time."
As a counter, I don't have to worry about or co-workers exiting for this fierce competitor with hiring.
I think it means we're on to something if we have folks in this thread arguing from boths sides that we're so founder friendly we'll never turn a profit AND that our terms are "predatory" and worse than a bank loan :)

The secret is there's a huge opportunity in between and tons of amazing founders and businesses we're excited to back.
Are there any big differences to this compared to Heroku’s Postgres? (Not that there need to be, just curious if there’s reason to prefer one.)

I’m still waiting for one of these providers to crack infinite scaling (similar to Aurora). Seamless patching is a good step though.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, "This is why we can't have nice things."

A person is courteous, responsible, intelligent, and even reasonable most of the time. Working with a person can be a downright pleasurable experience.

Problem is, people suck. You get more than one person together and analyze their behavior as a group and invariably there will be people doing things that, in the long run, make the whole group suffer.

I think it's something like what they used to call the "Tragedy of the Commons".
There's this typical entrepreneur story-line that everyone loves to tell. VC-backed entrepreneur that went "all in", quit their job, and produced a unicorn. TechCrunch loves this stuff.

I feel like this is so misleading and makes people feel like they need to quit their jobs in order to be successful in making side projects or businesses. In general, I feel like we need to eliminate dichotomies in life.

So I wrote from another point of view: one that I am currently living, working FT and building side projects. In many ways I think it's:
1) Doable
2) Perhaps the most healthy and thoughtful approach.

Interested to hear other people's thoughts. Do you really need to quit your job to build a successful business?
Depends on the tax breaks in the UK the government effectively guaranteed a 8% ROI for decades at one point.

On some sunny winter days we turn off central heating and use the free electricity.
She said "talent can be developed" in multiple presentations and interviews. Here's one example[0]:

>Carol Dweck: ", when students had more of a growth mindset, they held the view that talents and abilities could be developed"

An interpretation can be that one can have talent_level=100 which can then be developed into talent_level=200.

In contrast to Dweck, the people emphasizing definition #2 of ranking "talent" are usually talking about the innate aptitude that "can't be taught". Talent is not a "learnable skill" but an unchangeable raw baseline of aptitude.

Dweck is not wrong in how she frames "talent" (hey let's empower people to improve themselves). However, it's worth pointing out that different people attach very different semantics to the word "talent". This makes various books and blog posts look contradictory.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/12/how-pr...
Understanding the Bible by Stephen L. Harris is a great comprehensive textbook for any person trying to understand the historical and metaphorical meaning in the Bible.
It's formatted like a college textbook but i found it very readable for casual learning.
If Amazon hadn't turned this whole "HQ2" thing into a national drama they could have built a huge presence there without riling up so much backlash. Hopefully this ridiculous stunt is a lesson to them.
Before I click that link, what does it solve?

What makes it different, better, than other admin template packs?
Ask HN: How do you manage your time?
How do you manage your time across personal, work, social life, other projects etc.?
Possibly when we learn that a cat is called a cat. Without that, we may still learn to distinguish a cat from a dog, but I guess the label would be an internal one.
Is Apple too big to fail? Let's hope so as failure would be catastrophic
How to Deploy TensorFlow on Amazon Sagemaker
Any chance of a cheaper, low-performance tier for hobby projects? I was hoping to see something at $5/mo like the the lowest droplet tier.
This particular article is very short and pretty much the headline.
Cheers. I love this topic.
When I ran the numbers for my home back in the days, it more or less came out to a pessimistic 15%/year investment (give or take, it's been a while and memory is shaky. Your millage may vary depending on your power costs). You might be able to do better through other vehicles, but I was planning on using it to diversify my portfolio, so to speak.
Doubling their office there still pales in comparison to the headcount projected for LIC. 7K max vs. 25k targeted for Amazon.

Amazon already has a presence in NYC.
So massive amounts of corporate welfare and blatant handouts aren't enough? AFTER doing that, we're also supposed to play nice and continue to say good things about the most massive, powerful corporation in the world or else they will just take their ball and go home?

This whole thing is beyond stupid, no aspect of this model works for anyone. Just stop.
You won!
Any technical details?
Is it a new currency or an ERC20 token? What is their proof mechanism?
1. $3B in "incentives" sounds like a lot, but would this have been a good investment? i.e. would the city and State have gotten a reasonable return in the long run?

2. New York already has a lot to offer in terms of labor market, real estate for employees, and access to capital markets. Did Amazon really need incentives to want to be in NYC?

3. No huge loss for either party. NYC doesn't need Amazon, and Amazon can make the little people dance for them somewhere else.
This is the first time I’m seeing Nashville mentioned, so I wonder if they’ll benefit somehow from this.
Pre-orders are an awesome way to bootstrap a business.
Good riddance! NYC is already overcrowded. Let's build some subways to non-hipster neighborhoods first, then we can talk about adding more office space.
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