skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I think you take my comment more seriously than I intended. It's a suggestion meant to provoke thought about the nature/reality of U.S. presidential elections. With the suggestion one sees that my belief is that large corporations have far more influence on presidential elections than ordinary people like me have. But we have the facade that its actual humans that elect leaders and not the economic entities that are called persons in U.S. law.
I can't imagine this was simply due to a vocal minority that opposed the move. Instead, I'm more inclined to think that the powerful NY unions who were dissatisfied with the deal were seen as a long term threat: They represented a likely avenue to unionization of Amazon employees in NY that would, from Amazon's point of view, be a very dangerous precedent.
I don't have a strong opinion one way or another.

I did however love the protester's signs:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/02/14/nyregion/14nyamaz...
> We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville

Wait, where'd Nashville come from? I thought the choices before were NoVa and NYC?
I think it may be that the decentralized control structure makes organizations who would normally be in competition with JPMorgan more willing to be on board with using something that they developed. For instance, if you are say, Goldman Sachs, would you want to use a private database at JPMorgan for you and your clients funds? Or would you prefer to use a semi-private blockchain, where although it's not open to the public, each participant in the network has equal stature to one another? I think that is the true innovation here, and I do think that it is important. It solves some of the corporate cooperation issues that prevent certain types of value from being created, because nobody wants to let their competitor control the space.
It's not mainly Bezos. It's mainly investment/index funds - entities that that hold people's saving and retirement accounts.
That is a nice Grasshopper project. This application of Plateau's laws is limited to an idealised and very regular geometric situation, though. More general problems can be solved with the Surface Evolver, which, like Frei Otto's form finding experiments, can evolve membranes (starting from a certain initial configuration and geometric constraints) under gravity and particular bending energies.
http://facstaff.susqu.edu/brakke/evolver/

The Willmore energy is a neat way to get smooth or "fair" bubble-like surfaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willmore_energy
For the record, oneononemeeting.com is still available, and probably only another $10.98 on namecheap.

Forget SEO, try word of mouth. When 99% of people hear about your website and mistype it in, they'll fail to convert into paying customers.

This doesn't just apply to you, but it always amazes me how hard people will work to justify tanking their own marketing effort.
It isn’t about the net loss or win for NY.

The problem with subsidies is that they needlessly cost money in a zero-sum competition between cities. It was always clear that Amazon would build somewhere. A race to the bottom competition over the exact location leaves everyone but them worse off than the alternative, which is coordinating to refuse to engage in it, like any sane economy like the EU does.
The problem with this is that there isn't a standard format forced on the args that following the command name "cut".

What makes it worse is that there are seemingly patterns of standard format that get violated by other patterns. It's often based on when the utility was first authored and whatever ideas were floating around during the time. So sometimes characters can "clump" together behind a flag, under the assumption that multi-character flags will get two hyphens. Then some utilities or programs use a single flag for multi-character flags. Plus many other inconsistencies-- if I learn the basic range syntax for cut do I know the basic range syntax for imagemagick?

Those inconsistencies don't technically conflict since each only exists in the context of a particular utility. But it's a real pain to sanity to see those inconsistencies sitting on either side of a pipe, especially when one of them is wrong. (Or even when it's a single command you need but you use the wrong flag syntax.) That all adds to the cognitive load and can easily make a dev tired before its time to go to sleep.

Oh, and that language switch from bash to python is a huge risk. If you're scripting with Python on a daily basis it probably doesn't seem like it. But for someone reading along, that language boundary is huge. Because the user is no longer limited to runtime errors and finicky arg formatting errors, but also language errors. If the command line barfs up an exception or syntax error at that boundary I'd bet most users would just give up and quit reading the rest of the blog.

Edit: clarification
I think I'd be willing to make it open source? I'll talk to a person that worked with me on it.
Would the tax breaks eventually be offset? Amazon paid zero federal tax for the last two years running. They're experts at tax avoidance. I don't see any reason to assume they wouldn't do the same in NY.
An unfortunate missed chance for NYC to diversify its tax base away from a dangerous reliance on the financial sector.
Yes, it is really that different.

What you're talking about is better connecting with a customer's needs and promoting the product's benefits. There's no losers in that situation, just a customer with more facts of which to make their decision.

What that training manual is describing is exploiting someone's primal fears to manipulate them into something they wouldn't have otherwise done: apples and oranges.

A better analogy might be those beauty ads that call the customer ugly then offer their product as a solution. Seems both that and the Sunrun technique rely on primal fears and worries to get sales.
Manhattan is a very different place than Queens. Most of the subsidies that Amazon was using was only open for businesses in LIC.
This is likely due to the new canvas fingerprinting protections introduced in iOS 12 and Safari for Mojave. Google's NHT analyzers probably don't take well to these measures that attempt to defeat canvas fingerprinting.
Why would that be an either-or thing? I'd rather have Amazon here with no tax subsidies so that total tax revenue increases so that there's more money to fix the subways.
This is a risk with Sunrun too, though, and the risk that it will happen is undoubtedly factored into what they charge.
One thing it could do would be to let each participent in a transaction verify the transaction itself... which I suppose is a nice feature, maybe everything goes into "escrow" and then is released when everyone ( the participtors in the transaction who can mine? ) can agree on the result.
good riddance. This was a bad deal for NYC. 2-3 billion in corporate welfare to the richest man in the world who heads a company that made 10 billion in profits and paid ZERO federal income tax. Against all odds I suspect NYC will survive. Now that Cuomo has an extra 2 billion or so in his pocket maybe he can fix the transit systems that are the lifeblood of the City.
What does 'in geometry' mean in this context? There are numbers which are not constructible with compass and straight-edge constructible but which are constructible by other means (e.g. 2^(1/3) is origami constructible).
It's very different because a large amount of NYC residents rent as opposed to own. To a resident that rents in NYC, Amazon moving in means they will have higher rents and less money on their pocket. It ends up costing many NYC residents actual money in rent to host Amazon, regardless of the subsidy. I think this one is a special case.
Regarding #1, see this from an Amazon release:

As part of Amazon’s new headquarters, New York and Long Island City will benefit from more than 25,000 full-time high-paying jobs; approximately $2.5 billion in Amazon investment; 4 million square feet of energy-efficient office space with an opportunity to expand to 8 million square feet; and an estimated incremental tax revenue of more than $10 billion over the next 20 years as a result of Amazon’s investment and job creation.
As an outsider (to both Amazon and NYC), I always assumed NYC's motivation was wanting to diversify its industry.

Right now it seems heavy in the financial sector to me. Arguably tech is a big part of the economic future, so one view is that it would be smart to have some of that.

It's my understanding that while NYC isn't really a tech hub, the startup / tech scene there has grown stronger in recent years. So I pretty much assumed they were trying to capitalize on this momentum and do a big push to achieve something like critical mass.

Whether that's a worthy goal is very much for debate, but it seemed like that's what they thought they were getting in exchange for the sweet deal they were offering.
Writing moves down on a scoresheet is a requirement in chess tournaments anyway (in classical time control at least).
I'm assuming this is a response to GitLab's concept of a WIP merge request.
I guess it may be mass times the Boltzmann constant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_constant) BUT I HAVE NO IDEA. And maybe he is handwaving some arithmetic manipulations. (?)
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And how do you fix the rail system? With money from... taxes... from well paid workers, for example.

I think a lot of people get so caught up in hating on tech workers and opposing gentrification they forget where the money comes from.
Sure, if you run dedicated PostgreSQL hardware you also need someone to maintain it (probably).
Looking at map of Virginia.

Awesome fractal: Mobjack Bay!
The counter-point to race to the bottom, is this is an important aspect of pressure in a democratic capitalism to prevent government as a leviathan. The government has a natural incentive to want to raise more revenue, and increase power. A strong market that can stifle these, at times potentially inefficient taxes, can provide a natural check on this.

Obviously the truth is that there are bad aspects of a race to the bottom as well as positive attributes. Finding the balance requires nuance and grace by the leaders who navigate these uncertain waters.
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Hmm... I see why it's a hassle. How does it defeat he purpose though?
I suspect Alex can't envision living anywhere except in the suburbs.
Whether or not this will hold up over time (I'm skeptical, but I'll keep an open mind), it's appalling that a report with potentially enormous implications for agriculture and public health is locked up behind the Elsevier paywall where I can't read it. I can't believe it's 2019 and I'm still complaining about this.
I'm not so sure it wasn't the initial intent. What was the "HQ2 search" but an experiment in new ways of dealing with governments and seeing how much you can get from them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

But what about.....just kidding couldn't help it
Original reCAPTCHA images were used to transcribe text for Google Books, and later to transcribe house numbers for Google Street View.

I don't think Google's publicly said what they do with any data derived from the new "I'm not a robot" reCAPTCHA, but, given the content it usually uses, it seems likely that they're still using it for image classification in Street View, or for their self-driving car projects.
I don't even think they're really gonna scale up in Nashville. At least not in any meaningful way. 10 years from now, both Amazon and Google will have right around 25 thousand workers each in NYC.

The reality is that NYC is not Wisconsin, they don't need to give out money.

EDIT: I'd even go a step further, and predict that both Amazon and Google will also have ludicrously large presences in the DC-NOVA area in 10 years as well. In fact, Amazon's presence in the DC-NOVA area will be even bigger than they initially said it would.
It certainly looks final, but that line struck me as odd. It's either a "final jab" as they walk out the door, sort of a message or lesson to other cities or regions, OR it's just a very hard-line negotiating tactic.

Honestly, them coming back to NYC wouldn't be any less of a shit show then the process of them coming to NYC.
https://www.chess.com/blog/ReineChess/scannable-scoresheets-...
Man, what is up with that UI though? Like 20% of the top space for the program name??
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Except how big is the Electron app going to be?
There's absolutely no way they are scaling up NY to the same degree they would have with the subsidies. There's no reason to. The value proposition is gone, so now Amazon will slow-roll growth in NY like they will any other office.

The fact that you (and many others) consider this a win is an attempt to revise history. This tax deal was all about Amazon expanding very quickly. That deal is gone. But feel free to pat yourself on the back for not "falling for it". Maybe it works out great as other companies will lease those buildings and hire a combined ~20k employees averaging $150,000 in compensation, but that's likely not going to happen.

Cut off your nose to spite your face.
I have a system from SolarCity that also came with my home when I bought it. This past year was finally the point where "buying it out" was possible, but I procrastinated. In retrospect, it's actually a good thing I did. My panels turned out to have a manufacturing defect, and now all need to be replaced. Because of the arrangement, SolarCity is doing it for me.

That being said, their monthly cost is fixed so it's more a philosophical issue for me. I may still just buy it outright someday, especially if I want to expand it.
> Yeah but they will get that tax break regardless

Evidently not. Their tax break in Northern Virginia was not nearly as egregious (northern VA resident here; I'm totally fine with what we're paying for what we're getting). By contrast, what they were getting for LIC was insane.

And by not having anyone else lined up and by looking at the backlash over the size of the tax break, I'd be surprised if anyone else approached that amount, so it doesn't look like they'll get that tax break regardless.
This is needelessly contrarian. Really, he's offended because someone implied that individuals could be great? They never said teams couldn't be, but unless he's planning to bring his team of kernel developers from 15 years ago to YC, the question is about him, not them. In any case, I'm sure it would be acceptable, maybe even expected, to credit his team when talking about his accomplishments. No need to be "offended".

"The implication here is that my obituary should say I was at the YC 120".

I see no reason to think this. Does he assume YCers are a bunch of heartless workaholics who value professional accomplishment above all else, things like family and community be damned? This is a "get to know you" type question. They want to know what's important to you. That's all.

I also find the grandiloquence about his heroism in "standing up for Silicon Valley" pretty ironic after he put so much effort into showing how humble he was in the first question.

I don't know what was going through this guy's head, but the sole function of this video seems to be as a soapbox to talk about what a man of integrity he is.
This is already happening. Corporate Lawyers exist solely for this reason. What can we get away with? How much will it cost? What is the opportunity cost of doing this in Location A, B, C. Strategies are employed to save money. Fines are the cost of doing business.

And lest I forget to mention the lobbying that happens everyday.
IBM's scientists say that quantum computing won't be here for another 20 years. IBM's latest PR campaigns say 5-10 years. Who do you believe?

Google promised quantum supremacy um... well... last year. Made for some great headlines, with the press breathlessly announcing that the quantum era has arrived. Only, it didn't. Internally, there are two quantum computing groups who are competing for resources and don't seem to collaborate.

Rigetti plans a 120 qubit system, but has yet to calibrate it, so I'm not holding my breath. And their qubits still have astonishingly low connectivity and the fidelity of their gates is so low that a larger qubit count won't get them anywhere. In other news, they laid off half of their software team because their chip isn't actually useful, so a full-fledged software stack was somewhat premature (if quite elegant). Ex-employees have some great opinions about the culture; check glassdoor.

Microsoft's QC efforts are fascinating, but AFAIK they don't even have a plan to build a computer. Word on the street is that huge egos and a lack of production experience are conspiring to prevent progress.

And the funny thing about these quantum computing efforts: nobody even has a plan for error correction. For all Scott Aaronson rails against DWave... he doesn't dig deep into gate-model efforts, to expose their flaws. And strangely, he's still focused on coherence time of DWave's qubits.

There's a fundamental difference between gate-model and adiabatic qubits: gate-model qubits in the "0" state are at a ground level, and "1" is an excited state -- whereas DWave's qubits have "+1" corresponding to clockwise current, "-1" corresponding to counterclockwise current; and both are ground states of the qubit. Coherence time is roughly the amount of time it takes an excited state to decay into a ground state. Adiabatic transitions begin, remain, and end in ground states, barring external perturbations -- and if such an event occurs, a low coherence time is actually preferable. Higher coherence times are still beneficial to adiabatic quantum computers like DWave's and Google's G-mons, since it boosts long-range interactions between qubits, but it isn't the showstopper that Aaronson hypes it to be.

So gate-model quantum computing is promising, in theory. But there are some very real, very difficult roadblocks to clear before we get there. And for all that DWave gets omitted from such discussion... well, the theorists say that adiabatic and gate-model quantum computing are actually equivalent[1]. Wake me up when somebody else can factor arbitrary 10-bit integers[2] -- and even so... 10-bit factoring problems don't really scream "quantum computing may be here soon" -- more like "1970 called, and says quantum computing is crushing it."

[1] https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-adiabatic-and-quantum-cir...
[2] https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/14-1002A_B_tr_B...
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I guess for hobby projects, you can run your DB on the 5 USD droplet.
I woudln't call the process transparent, since in many (all?) cases, citizens were not allowed to know the details of the negotiated deals.
It's crazy to think of the internet without the Internet Archive. It's really fundamental work.
i don't see why an advertising agency should be held accountable for a failed product or event. they just advertise.
"Usually, HBR articles favor Captain Kirk style snap-decision-making, C-level-wannabe folks LOVE THAT.
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And the guy with the red shirt always dies. Kirk always gets away.
>Turns out that publicly shaking down cities across the US tends to draw out the opposition.

Unless it's for a football stadium.
Thanks! Definitely, the check and mate things should also be fixed long term. The nice thing is, I was able to put in tons of constraints to improve processing (for example the last two boxes must be a square like e4) if I ignore checks.
The exact visa doesn't matter. The point is, without immigration silicon valley wouldn't be silicon valley.
That's actually not a bad idea. We've already proven that the American people do a terrible job selecting a president with the current Electoral College system, so letting the F500 CEOs select the President surely can't be any worse.
Because the scoresheet you bring home from a tournament won't be in the format this tool expects? So you'd still have to rewrite it onto the "crosswords" sheet before OCR-ing it? (In which case one extra step gets automated away thanks to the tool... but at the cost of another one taking its place).

Unless I'm missing something
So vote for elected officials who will fight for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
Google doubled their occupancy to 7k. Amazon was promising 25k jobs. I'm stunned out how so many people in this thread are pretending thats equivalent.
> There's absolutely no way they are scaling up NY to the same degree they would have with the subsidies. There's no reason to.

There's now way to. Campus expansions are blocked by layers and layers of NIMBYs. The big selling point of the deal was the state government ensuring Amazon would have a campus that could hold 25,000 people.
Bezos practicing his pullout game sooner than I thought
I agree with you. But gifted has a particular and widely used meaning with respect to children's education and that's the sense of the word that I'm using.
I would really be surprised if they could meet that price point without making serious compromises in other areas. The battery pack cost alone is going to be a large percentage of total cost.
> random database system

Who would own this database?
The same reason why a lot of other industries and political parties use this playbook: It works more often than not.

It is much easier to influence a decision by catering to emotions instead of reasoning.
They wouldn't know the details if Google or Facebook quietly shopped around either! But when they do it behind closed door they don't open up anyone to criticism.
It's the same in the U.S., for the most part. But they'll say it to you privately.
Plus if it is backed by the dollar, it is subject to the same central bank manipulation than the actual dollar.
The HQ2 search was likely always a facade to try to leverage their real targets. Hopefully all those other cities now realize Amazon was just playing them. Corporations can and will lie for profit. Corporations just don't like it when they get caught.
Unless I'm mistaken and the national debt is actually the national assets, the money is obtained through taxes now rather than taxes before.
I think this states the case pretty well. I'm working with F# again for the next few months. While I enjoy the language itself, I have some gripes about the ecosystem, particularly when developing primarily on Linux. (Customer is enterprisey and wants .NET, I am less enterprisey and very impatient with Windows.)

* Old, inconsistent, and incomplete information about F# development on Linux

* Unfamiliar tooling that doesn't conform to standard ways of doing things on Linux. Can't I just write a makefile?

* gacutil: why is there a GAC in the first place? Why a cache, and why on earth would I want it to be global?

* the dotnet tool: so much XML! Why would I want to go with .NET core if it takes 5 XML configuration files to write "Hello World?"

* Mono versus .NET core: very little clarity on what the difference is or why I should choose one versus the other, or even whether it's necessary to choose? Two different compilers, same project, same language. Why can't I pick at build time? (Or can I?)
Seems to be that logic is about deduction and NN is about inference. Human are capable of both and I think both are required to achieve true ai.
If a city signs up for a money losing deal, that’s on them. They should have negotiated better.
I don't think I've ever met a single programmer that has ever used variable width fonts for code. Maybe you're the exception?

But the vast, vast, majority of people think otherwise.