skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great! Sadly it does not seem to be open-source.

I have wanted something like this for other data entry tasks like: tracking expenses or tracking body weight. I enjoy working with pen and paper much more than typing on a Phone or PC. Just give me a template I can print, let me write the data to it, and have it scanned.

Is anyone aware of a product (perferably open-source) that lets me do that?
>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.
For most businesses, people cost way more than hardware.
I love DO. Personally I don't understand the pricing/appeal over getting a 5 dollar droplet and setting yourself up with automated daily backups on the droplet instance.
Amazon is already in NYC and Newark though!
If the FCC were interested in the least this would have been done years ago.
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My experience (as a senior native Android dev) has been definitely bad so far. Configuration errors and inexplicable error messages popping up on a regular basis.
The amount of troubleshooting it constantly required - instead of focusing on the task at hand - started to feel cumbersome after a week or two. Simplest functionality such as breakpoints would randomly stop working. All these problems aren't exclusive to me, I would pretty much always succeed in googling them up, usually along with dozens of solutions suggested by the community (each of them different).

The documentation and tutorials leave a lot to be desired, too. A lot of this stuff is outdated, and the official documents are imprecise and feel like a draft (even when compared to what the much less mature Flutter brings to the table in this regard).

Tooling is far behind what you get if you go native. Eg. support for refactoring, whatever editor you use, will be more than rudimentary and virtually nonexistent in comparison to what Android Studio offers. The same goes for unit testing / integration testing support, it's rather iffy.

One of the more important UI Android features - Material transitions - is pretty much impossible to recreate in React Native.

I also don't find JavaScript - even with TypeScript on - nearly as good a language as Kotlin.

This isn't meant to be a rant: just an honest summary of my few weeks of experience fiddling with RN. You mention your native development was done in Swift; I heard that React Native is allegedly much more reliable for iOS than Android development. I can't really verify it either way, but potentially this might be why our mileages vary.

The upsides? React Native pretty much abstracts away the lifecycle concerns, which are still a pain in the neck for a native Android dev. Hot reloading. No obsolete APIs maintained for backwards compatibility; understandably. Asynchronous programming is simple enough (although with Kotlin's coroutines arguably on their way to become the go-to solution on Android, it's not necessarily a win over native). Nothing else has impressed very much me so far. I used Xamarin for a commercial project once, and it felt considerably better, even though it was three years ago.
I'm not sure it is. There was always a suspicion that Amazon knew from day one they wanted to open a HQ in NYC—they just put on this show to get cities into a bidding war to provide the biggest tax break. I don't imagine the publicity around having NYC tax-payers subsidize the world's richest man's business dealings is positive.
Surprise, backroom sweetheart deals between businesses and politicians are wildly unpopular.

And it was dumb for Amazon to seek out subsidies anyway. Amazon only needed one criteria to have a successful HQ2: A willingness to accommodate new housing demand. $3B in subsidies would be dwarfed by the increase in salaries from higher costs of living. If a city can allow housing to be built, and keep up with Amazon's hiring demand to keep housing prices flat, that alone would be worth far more than any city or state could ever hand over to Amazon in subsidies.
Shared. We're exploring using dedicated as part of our roadmap.
I've been a Linode customer for 10 years, but now this is too awesome. My next project will be hosted on DO.
Would be interesting to know how many employees Amazon currently has in NY. I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's already in the thousands.
Counterpoint: wonder how many people sold real estate that greatly benefited from this?
More power to those who enjoy writing control flow in shell, but if I need anything beyond a single line I'm going with an interactive ipython session.
> 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.

So this whole HQ2 thing ended up being a grand waste of everybody's time.
The big tech giants seem to be A/B testing different ways of opposing and working with the government. Sooner or later these tests are going to start showing they have more power than the government, and they will start ignoring laws because they are irrelevant to increasing whatever metric is important this quarter.

This may have already happened, it's really hard to say.
The goal is always to get the price down as low as we can ;).
Metaphorically speaking I have much more than a hammer and most things don't look like nails. But those who embrace free market forces should appreciate the proposed solution. Don't want certain types of people moving into your area? Then make it more expensive. It works remarkably well.
Countering my counter: would have been nice to have alternative large tech company to earn a living at.
It's a fund. Our basic bet is that way fewer companies will fail than a traditional seed VC portfolio (tons of reasons but not forcing them to hit growth targets that they need to show to raise the next round is one). A portfolio of this kind of businesses should be in the top quartile of venture funds (not actually that hard of you look at the numbers) with lower concentration of risk and faster liquidity.
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> Would be interesting to know how many employees Amazon currently has in NY. I wouldn't be surprised to find out it's already in the thousands.

Amazon already has an office in New York City, as well as a sizeable presence in New Jersey just outside the city limits (within commuting distance), split between two New Jersey offices, last I checked.
So is this basically like a loan, where I eventually have to pay back up to 300 to 500% of the initial principal? This assumes I don't go broke...
I agree that the logistics involved are not that simple. However, it _does_ appear to be a regular occurrence at SeaTac and there's not much that's different (went through that 3 times in 2 months and the experience was the same each time). Anyway, at risk of this going way OT, it was my colloquial evidence that not every airport is equipped to handle multiple concurrent international heavies.
Unfortunately, I think they learned that cities will bend over backwards for them and offer up tons of free data and tax incentives.
2,000 salaried and 3,000 warehouse at the end of 2017: https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2017/09/21/amazon-b...
> Stack ranking ... is also the opposite of a good policy as it literally encourages sabotage of peers instead of cooperation

Sabotage is the wrong word. I would say more that it rewards doing things that are flashy and look good (which can involve cooperation with like-minded ambitious peers) than boring but important stuff that keeps the business running. There's little "sabotage" in an active sense because if it gets perceived as such, it will backfire onto the saboteur. What's more likely to happen is people not bothering to help out others where it doesn't advance their own interests even if it's the right thing to do for the team or the business.
New York does gain something, the much more vibrant and robust collection of businesses that will occupy that area instead and pay their fair share of taxes.
>The coin will be issued on the Quorum blockchain which was developed by JP Morgan over the last year and is a private blockchain inspired by Ethereum. This means only selected miners will be able to process transactions, unlike public cryptocurrencies where anyone can.

[...]

>The purpose of the JPM Coin is to allow businesses to make near-instantaneous transactions of value across the internet without having to move fiat money in the background.

I genuinely don't understand what the blockchain does here that couldn't be implemented by any random database system. I mean the euros that I have in my bank account are also just a number that could be moved "across the internet" instantly if they so desired.

The big innovation with Bitcoin-like blockchains is that transactions can be done trustlessly but the whole "private blockchain with accredited miners" turns it into basically a slow inefficient database with extra steps.

Is it just a buzzword to generate interest or is there an aspect of this I'm missing?
"We do not intend to reopen the HQ2 search at this time."

I wonder if this is to let some of the news cool, work behind the scenes with some of the previous offers, then surprise announcement down the road.
Concerning 1. I believe that is often overlooked. It would not be hard (I suspect) to figure out the future effective tax revenue a municipality would receive.
Did not know about merge, will def check that out, thx!
Was I too snarky?

How about a little more? The planet is sad because 25,000 people won't be taking the subway to work.
This one? https://magneticmktg.com/
That seems strange to me. People on forums like this often describe Data Science practitioners as "statisticians that can code". If academic Data Science programs aren't emphasizing data engineering as part of their curriculum, what differentiates a Data Science program from statistics or business intelligence?
Nash equilibrium rediscovered?
If Amazon had just quietly announced plans to expand to LIC without the "HQ2 Search" dog and pony show they almost certainly would still be here.

Google buys entire city blocks and nobody bats an eye. Turns out that publicly shaking down cities across the US tends to draw out the opposition.

More publicity = more scrutiny = more angry opponents of your business decision
True, you’ll still have your 80% but that will be compared to the state of the art at the time as a trade off. The production of contemporary panels should (hopefully) be much much better. Imagine the advances in the next 2 decades: higher efficiency, lighter weight, more module, standards we can’t conceive of.

Like the other poster in this thread said: sure your Athlon 500mhz is still runninnfine, even at 80% efficiency
It was (originally) for localization: ja.reddit.com would (for example) give you a Japanese interface. Eventually they realized what a horrible idea l10n is for a community-oriented site, and dropped the translations, but kept the `lang` that it would apply attributes. Eventually subreddit moderators figured out that you could use this to provide multiple variants of the per-subreddit CSS, such as dark modes, custom filters, and other silliness[0].

[0]: For example, see /r/CrappyDesign with (https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/) and without (https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign) Comic Sans.
I have a tendency to get air sick on my first flight after not having flown in a while. Not with the A380... virtually no turbulence and that flight felt solid and smooth. Take off, landing, and everything in between. Toronto -> Dubai economy class.

Our seats were just in front of lavatory but I had absolutely zero complaints (no smell, no nothing). Did not mind the foot traffic (peaky after meals) due to location but I can see how that could bother others.
Malcom Gladwell pretty much made the claim that talent is a myth and having the passion to practice enough made you a top expert. He backtracked a bit on that, but the claim was out there and repeated in the media.
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Uh, the statement itself says: "There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we plan to continue growing these teams."
it has already happened. it's not hard to say. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
Google's expansion doesn't require its employees to live in a part of the city that lacks adequate schools and parks. Whereas if you work in LIC it's not like you can really commute into the city from New Jersey or Stamford.
More like a cross between a Sparrow and a Merlin. Corbin motors was way ahead of its time. Went belly up I believe because they couldn’t get a stable power supply. Controllers kept coming back for repairs. Money ran out before the Merlin shipped.
A bit disappointed. The narrative really turned on Amazon during this process. But I feel like every organization shops around for deals - Amazon was the first company to do it transparently and openly tell cities what they have or are missing. There was a real opportunity to bring tech industry to heartland cities.

In the end all they proved was this kind of stuff should just stay in the backroom. And good paying tech jobs stay on the coasts.
Well there's the standby nodes with automated failover, and the fact that maintenance and security are fully handled. For a lot of people that's well worth the extra $10 a month. Plus setting up daily backups is one thing, but verifying that it is done correctly and that they are easy to restore is almost always skipped "until it's needed", which of course is too late.
> You aren't wrong, but, unfortunately a lot of consumers weren't aware of the real costs and were misled by companies offering these kinds of deals

This is the same model mobile phones have operated on in many countries for many years. Up front costs are subsidised by the carrier, who then proceeds to gouge you over the 12-24 month term to recoup that cost + a return.

> I feel like it has done a lot of damage that is going to cost the residential solar industry a lot of money over the coming years.

Possibly, given that the term lengths and financial costs are significantly higher. Unfortunately, the basic model itself is generally appreciated unless you've got the funds to pay up front. More unfortunate is that most people do not have the funds, so accept this trade off and move on.
I think this is more on the city and state government than Amazon itself. Of course Amazon was going to push for the sweetest deal they could get but Cuomo and DeBlasio bent the rules too far and the massive push back was justified, if I recall correctly the city council was going to use some really iliberal moves to get this tax package through.

NYC could've had Amazon, even with decent tax breaks, but the government just went too far without the support of its constituents.
As far as I know, the SREC is a one-time lump sum for the 10 year period, so you're looking at one payment of $1,000-$1,800 right?
Hey Glenn. I don't think there's anything wrong with VC per se, but it's no longer a fit for most software businesses (why the best firms are moving to crypto, robotics, AI, etc). We have an outdated association with software company needs capital = VC. https://tylertringas.com/a-new-default-funding-for-tech-comp...
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> Everything in mathematics is divorced from reality. Unbounded integers are divorced from reality. (Once you move beyond naive realism, bounded integers are divorced from reality, but that's a deeper philosophical debate.) The only question is whether these models are more or less effective for their various theoretical and applied purposes.

It's a matter of degree. You can't point to a particular large integer as being "too large" to matter in real life, but there are plenty of objects in measure theory (like unmeasurable sets) that blatantly violate physical intuitions and don't seem to exist in any sense in real life.
Is this really all that different than putting segment.io onto your site, instrumenting every button click, and A/B testing which color or CTA phrasing results in the highest conversion rates?

Just yesterday, there was a front-page post here about the top pricing experiments you can run, full of neat behavioral psychology tricks like decoy pricing and anchoring.

Our industry does the same emotional manipulation... we just call it "growth hacking" instead of "sales scripts".
Heroku's ecosystem around their Postgres offering is pretty advanced. It will certainly take a lot of time for DO to even catch up to this.
Amazon announcement: => https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/update-on-plans-fo...
It is in the Amazon statement: "There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we plan to continue growing these teams."

Disclaimer, I'm one of those 5k. Currently I work from home 99% of the time because the office spaces Amazon has in NY aren't fantastic. It would have been nice to have a new headquarters building, but I'll still be enjoying working from home now I guess.
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Not with any serious engineering presence of note. I'm a SWE, so other positions don't affect me.
"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"

Sounds like a negotiating tactic, to encourage residents in support of the campus to put pressure on their representatives in government.

The "politicians" are upset, because their constituents are upset. Amazon, attempting to turn the tables is an interesting tactic - sort of a reverse psychology. I wonder if it will work.
My gut feeling is that yes, this is pretty much self evident.

However, the interesting part of the paper is that they use that equivalency to propose that properties of polynomial regression are applicable to Neural networks, and draw some conclusions from that.
> Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center to deliver a human skull

What?! I don't have time right now to read the entire article, but I did read maybe 1/4th of it and didn't see any other mention of this payload. There's also no mention of the word "skull" anywhere else on the page. Why in hell would a human skull be shot into orbit??
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It's worth switching. Autocomplete/autosuggest is faster, when conneting to a server they infer which credential is wrong.

I guess the catch is the software isn't free -- you have to pay or access it through a paid bundle like SetApp. If you query a DB everyday though the price it's worth it. If you only need a a few queries now and again then maybe SequelPro is the better option.
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The prohibition against conducting business on the sabbath might be where this comes from.
Yeah, I'll concede that's pretty good.
If Amazon moving in creates wage pressure, isn't there basically an indirect yet tangible advantage that both you and NYC/NYS would pay for?

Why should something that vaguely amounts to an arbitrage situation be free?
It's not debt. No interest rate, no repayment schedule, no recourse.
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Will this foretell how Amazon will punish NYC for its obstinacy?
Their dog and pony show almost netted them $3bn.

That type of payday might be worth a bit of scrutiny.
You’re overthinking it. I have had a similar experience. The worst were the “stop light” questions. Does it mean the pole, the light, the tiny corner overlapping another square? I used to try to include everything as it was technically true. Very frustrating – until I finally started to not care. Click on the most obvious pictures. Click click click. Done. Get it wrong? Click click click on the next one. Way faster with a much better success rate doing so. It usually only takes a couple of tries now.
After being a resident of NYC for 30 years and seeing the city change and become a technology hub and just a financial center I think this is a real loss for NYC.

It would also be in Long island City which would provide a huge influx of new workers and move that neighborhood forward in development rapidly. The down side would be that it would push some residents and business owners out but this is simply a fact of life in NYC where on a long enough time line every undesirable neighborhood eventually become desirable simply because of increase in residents and increase in real estate prices. That would also conversely make adjacent neighborhoods more attractive.

As for the tax breaks those would eventually be off set and it would still be cheaper than the amount that was spent on a useless Subway line that took a decade and really added no real capacity where it mattered.
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 what about the 25k jobs?
I do notice uptick in hiring, AWS and engineering in the Denver area. But that could just be business as usual
Menger sponges are neat! I once wrote up some code to procedurally generate them for 3d rendering.

https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/prims/blob/master/sponge....

(See readme for a rendering)
Stupid as the subsidies were your attitude is vile. We have a technology for increasing housing, they’re called apartments. New York does not lack space, it lacks enough housing. If this kind of crap goes on New York will get as bad as California where every municipality wants to build offices and nowhere wants to build housing.

This delight in pulling up the ladder after you and making it harder for people to get jobs is odious.
NYC had brains enough to do the right thing. Why invite a monopoly that should not exist, and give it subsidies? (unless of course the governance is broken - and can not make the right decisions)
They'll never get 25k workers to relocate to Nashville.
Heroku is part of Salesforce, doesn't seem like much risk of them going out of business.
It's a one-way bet for the Education Industry because these massive loans can't be discharged by bankruptcy.

We have similar problems (thankfully not yet as bad) here in England.

If the pieces of paper they are peddling are truly a gateway to a middle class lifestyle then surely the Education Industry would be happy to provide them in return for a fixed percentage of the above average wages that their recipients will be gaining?

And if not, why not?

As always, Incentives Matter. We need incentives to provide the best education at the cheapest cost. The Education Industry is ripe for disruption.
I would not personally phrase it that way.

When you say "brutal candor," the ones who understand how to create psychological safety will understand it as the ability to give real criticism without fear of retaliation. That's rare and refreshing when I see it.

However, I can think of several cases of managers I know who really should learn to create psychological safety, but they would read this as validation for establishing a straight pipeline from reptile brain to mouth as opposed to giving actionable criticism.

In one case, that literally happened: the manager read a book that framed communication with similar connotations to "brutal" and took it as license that he should continue to say things the way he did and expect others to suck it up. Unsurprisingly, it got so bad that all of his direct reports threatened to leave.
I tend to agree with you. I wonder though, does reframing as a crypto help them get around any rules, regulations or taxes?
I don't know much about this area, but I could imagine that even if the mining is selective, the transfers might not be. It could remove some overhead that large banks have to do in verifying transactions and preventing duplicates, etc.