skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Headline made me think that it was an unintended emergent behaviour where the robot found out that melting its legs would make it better at achieving fitness scores, alas this is still pretty neat!
I wonder how many Queens residents sold their apartments/condos before this news broke? Talk about timing. I know of one person who was drooling at this unexpected windfall and will now be very... sad.
Doesn't what just happened indicate the opposite?
I think this is fantastic for both as they don't deserve each other. Residents don't want a company getting breaks and Amazon wants breaks. Amazon has plenty of other places where the residents value them more and NYC has plenty of other companies to fill the coffers/employment.
I would't feel too bad for Amazon. They are the ones that made it a big spectacle and dragged it out for far longer than necessary or wise.
> on the other hand, everybody understands that out of hundred people in the department there will be a couple of underperformers.

That's the theory. In practice, what happens is that underpeformers who are good at puffing up their accomplishments or people who maintain good relationships with managers get ranked higher than people who are performing at an average level but are working on unexciting projects or are less capable of selling themselves (e.g. introverts or shy people).
"if you’re doing superconducting qubits, which is maybe the most popular approach today, then at a bare minimum, you need to cool everything down to 10 mKB,"

Anyone know what that temperature is supposed to be? Googling for "mkb" doesn't come up with anything I can scrounge up. mK for milli-Kelvin doesn't make much sense, as you don't need to get that low for superconductivity in general, and that's a pretty hard temperature to reach.
It's not clear to me how this comment is relevant. Northern Virginia is the DC area, and if this cancellation means that all of the jobs that were previously slated to go to NYC will instead go to the DC area office, then that will have huge effects on DC.
nashville was a logistics hub for them, i think.
Yes it does. It's extremely common for businesses to be offered incentives like this. They are usually bounded in a way to ensure it's beneficial to the city. The ones I've seen are requiring a certain number of headcount be maintained over a specific duration, a certain amount in salary be paid out over a specific period of time, and certain infrastructure be installed within a certain period. If these obligations aren't met, then the company is required to pay back the incentives plus penalties.
I would fail that interrogation. :-)
Translated: "Fuck you, New York."
It shouldn't but can be
I think you've misunderstood. GP is talking about time to break-even on purchase, and that despite having purchased outright, the panels being worthless as far as house-valuation metrics went
It's much slower, and doesn't lend itself as well for building the program up from small, independently tested and refined pieces. The speed of that feedback loop really matters - the slower it is, the larger chunks you'll be writing before testing. I currently believe the popularity of TDD is primarily a symptom of not having a decent REPL (though REPL doesn't replace unit tests, especially in terms of regression testing).

BTW. there's another nice feature of Lisp-style interactive development - you're mutating a living program. You can change the data or define and redefine functions and classes as the program is executing them, without pausing the program. The other end of your REPL essentially becomes a small OS. This matters less when you're building a terminal utility, but it's useful for server and GUI software, and leads to wonders like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj5IzggEWKE

It's a different way of approaching programming, and I encourage everyone to try it out.
I don't care to find out.
All the exact terms are negotiable. We make a spreadsheet available for any founder to run these numbers before doing a deal. Hyper committed to transparency and educating founders to make sure they know what they're getting into.

I will readily admit that if founders intend to raise multiple rounds of follow on equity (VC style) we will not be the most competitive form of capital for them.
Whatever real estate may have been purchased in or around LIC is still going to be valuable even without this deal, but may take a little longer to recover.
It was news to me that California actually voted in a law requiring all new houses built after Jan 1, 2020 to have solar panels.
They were already going to get 5,000 jobs for something to do with automation.
God I hope this comment ages well, but my skepticism is very high. We still have cabals of corporate paid lawmakers at every level of government and there's still tons of lobbying money putting a finger on the scale of the fight.

But fewer Foxconn style deals and race to the bottom HQ2 publicity stunts would be great for everyone (except the mega-corps).
I think the data science role was always vague. Depending on the company it could mean Analyst, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Machine Learning Researcher or a combination thereof.
I think you assume too much. Humans can identify pictures of cats and I'd be hard pressed to assume that sounds, smells, touch, taste and feel matter during that evaluation.

I'm sure you could identify a large number of animals you've only seen on film, a snow leopard perhaps.
do you have a link to that data?
They do! Audible is headquartered in Newark, and there are lots of larger Ads, AWS, and Video orgs in the city too.

This isn't internal information, you can look it up on the career page.

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?offset=0&result_limit=10&s...
> Not the company I want to be stuck in a 20-year contract with.

As opposed to... your electrical utility?! Do people not remember the electricity crisis? It was an enormous, deliberately engineered market fixing scam that produced widespread power outages and a $40B windfall for the power producers financed by emergency state spending. Yet it was totally legal because they managed to get their lobbyists to fool the legislature into writing it into the law before pulling the trigger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

Seriously: I'm sure Sunrun is scummy. But... come on.
Wasn't their CEO the one most proponent critic of cryptocurrencies.
FinTech isn't always all it cracks up to be. I was looking forward to selling people Amazon-branded Toothbrushes.
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French public broadcaster selects Streamroot for peer-to-peer streaming
> almost entirely from curved pieces (a near impossibility with traditional scoring and breaking)

I was a little surprised when I read this because it means the people at my local makerspace are magicians. There are tons of examples of curved stained glass as well as a lot of howtos on how to do it. The came glasswork page on wikipedia is full of stained glass with curves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Came_glasswork

What am I missing?
Loose, loose: Amazon would have won had they come to NYC without any subsidies but also NYC /NY would have won despite paying some subsidies.

But to save face, AMZN now has to pull out of NYC that has a great pool of talent.
Who cares? If you indulge in speculation and then get hurt by it, well then, you knew the risks going in.
That's ancient sales wisdom, not anything new. MCI and AT&T perfected those techniques during the long distance wars in the 80s and 90s, and it was ancient sales wisdom back then.

A corollary is that they are your family. That's my favorite red flag: some employer or vendor or other non-family entity tries to tell me I'm part of their family. Uh, no, I'm not.
That's a pretty utilitarian outlook: "if we value Z, and approach X gets Z more efficiently than approach Y, then we should take approach X". A lot of ethical systems (e.g. virtue ethics) don't obey this rule. I wouldn't see any reason to expect the Mormons to obey it.
NYC Subway is already falling apart. Fix that first! Less corruption, and get rid of de Blasio while we're at it.
Cool. Hit me up. Let's see if we can work together to help founders. Excited to see lots of new models and help founders find the right fit.
New York becoming like California? Isn't the problem that California is becoming like New York???
Worth noting that Google owns all of 111 8th in NYC. They're slowly not renewing leases for existing tenants and taking over the whole building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue

111 8th is a major internet traffic exchange point. It's also gargantuan, it's 2.9 million square feet and occupies a whole city block.

One of the interesting things about 111 8th is that it was designed for much higher than normal pounds per square foot floor loading. Which means that Google could convert the entire thing to datacenter space if they really wanted to. Already a significant portion of it is conditioned datacenter/telecom space run by tenants.
If you've ever participated in track and field for any length of time, you realize that the genetic component is more important for the type of events you can successfully compete in with enough practice.

Sprinters definitely have a fast twitch advantage that you can't get with any amount of training if you're not born with it. Sure, you can improve your own sprint times up to a point, but you can't really make up the gap. You just choose an event that's better suited for your body type, such as longer distance or throwing, etc. And sprinters can't compete with distance runners either.

Assuming similar amounts of training. If there's a huge difference in training, one might be able to overcome the differences. Particularly if you're more middle distance with decent speed and endurance.
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I feel that more succinct and quicker to write does not mean simpler.

Fish tries to have a cleaner syntax and probably succeeds in doing so. It may even be an attempt to bring some change to the status quo that is the POSIX shell syntax.

I didn't try to fish anyway, because I like to not have to think about translating when following some tutorial or procedure on the Web. Zsh just works for that, except in a few very specific situations (for a long time, you could not just copy paste lines from SSH warnings to remove known hosts, but this has been fixed recently by adding quotes).
There is not a shortage of Software jobs here. You're also misrepresenting the intent of his comment.
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Amazon also got a lot of free, confidential data on growth prospects from midsize to large cities all across the US, which would be useful for planning other facilities like warehouses and retail outlets like Whole Foods.
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Most polls had residents supportive of the move even with subsidies.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/12/majority-of-new-yorkers-want-a...
we quitted our jobs to make, it is a very challenge but fun journey. Now we make a decision to come back to work and still being makers. Nice article Stepth!
Talk about being tone deaf and missing the point...
not the cities they want to move to though...

Pretty widely speculated that they were going to go to NYC and VA regardless of what the other cities did & the HQ2 gambit was just meant to maximize their bargaining position with these governments
Curious fact: in the City of London, companies vote in the election of the local council, with a number of votes which depends on the number of employees within the City.
Fair enough, thanks for the info. I wonder if this change means they'll simply be expanding those existing offices more rather than (presumably) moving many of them into the new space?
Mine rhymed with "grim soup". To be honest, although there was a portfolio management tool of sorts, it only had one customer, and the company's real focus was on trade ideas. It sounds like the top brass had similar levels of ambition, though.
Thanks, I missed that (I stopped after a couple paragraphs). I did do a quick Google Search after I searched for how many Googlers are in NYC. (Was verifying there's actually 7K.)

It's pretty amazing how large some of the non-home offices are at these mega tech companies.
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Apple was within it's right to stop sales of the iPhone in China, and protect Chinese citizen's privacy - and follow through with it's pompous advertising on privacy protection. But it chose to abandon privacy, morals and ethics, and remain in the country.

Apple's selective enforcement is indicative of the impact on it's bottom line. If banning the Saudi app leads to a ban on iPhones in Saudi, Apple will gladly cower to the kingdom for more money, as it has demonstrated with China.

Apple DOESN'T care about morals, or it's customers or the horse shit rules governing it's store - it just needs a worthy adversary to put it in it's place, else it'll gladly be the biggest bully in the playground, and claim moral authority while doing so.
I've very much enjoyed his talks. I find him to be quite eloquent, sorry he hesitates more than you enjoy.
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Cool, thanks for the reply. Doesn't look like you have any professional investment management experience. What was the most difficult part of raising the fund? How long did it take?
Also, being a positive gain doesn't represent a good deal. We don't know what the lowest deal was that Amazon might have accepted (2 Billion? 1 Billion?) so even if NYC winds up in the black, they might have been leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the negotiating table.

It's just like anything, you might benefit from the price you pay but you might have been able to get it cheaper.
There's nothing wrong with the data science industry becoming different, as long as expectations are managed. Specifically, as this article notes, the probability of getting hired due to the increased competition, and the realities of the real-world job.

Both are currently not transparent enough for the data science newbies; which is why on my end I try to be transparent as possible whenever the topic comes up (I wrote a post similar to the OP last year: https://minimaxir.com/2018/10/data-science-protips/).
Was it amazon, or the national media?
And Chelsea Market too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Market

These real estate acquisitions were so large that they explicitly needed to be called out on the quarterly earnings calls to explain why CapEx exploded for that quarter.
Except this: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-wisconsin-foxconn...

Maybe an extreme example of a "bad deal" but these aren't always a slam dunk, and some of the math to justify (especially sports stadiums) can be a bit iffy.
Are reCAPTCHA images used to train or classify data like Mechanical Turk? I thought at one point the word ones were used that way and was a major incentive for their usage.
> we just mean an option to participate in a sale

By what instrument though? Are you offering a stock option at a strike price? Is it equity at a priced round? Or is a convertible note? Other? You can just say "if you sell we have the option to take a %"...
This is more true than people realize. I'm not sure if it's entirely the case in this situation; as in that wasn't the initial intent but that's the way it turned out.

Things like Uber, AirBNB, even Google Waymo are all examples of this.
This already happens with many automated service call centers: endless key tapping before an actual carbon based lifeform who can understand the problem picks up.
How to Halt the Growth in Federal Debt? Eliminate All Discretionary Spending
The differentiator is breadth over depth. Not getting much into theoretical underpinnings.
And thank you for shopping at your Goleta Home Depot store.

I respect what you say, but it'll be $532.78 for that window air conditioner. Cash or charge?
the issue for me is that the main benefit of the tax breaks is capitalized by owners of AMZN stock, mainly Bezos, the wealthiest man in the world. AMZN is going to grow somewhere, they should pay taxes where they grow.
I am left jumping to the conclusion that you don't speak a second (living) language. There are very often thoughts in one language that can not be directly expressed in another specific language. I have those problems quite often between English and German (meaning the modern versions). Sometimes you need multiple sentences to explain, even in approximate terms, things that need only a single word in the other language (e.x.: "genau" or "gemutlichkeit" in German, or "subtle" in English). And here I am not talking about idiom (which can change rapidly). And German and English are contemporary languages, with cultures that are driving them together (think all of the U.S. films that are translated into German).

Now add that the Bible was written in a few now-dead languages, with 1900-2200 years since it was first written, and you are going to get a lot of differences in thought, much of which requires you to have knowledge that you are not going to be able to come up with thinking through it yourself.

Two examples of how fast things can change:
1. When I first went to Germany the word "geil" explicitly meant someone who was attractive, or good at sex. So it was not really part of polite speech. 10 years later I went back to the same part of Germany and the word now was used in normal conversations and meant "really good", without any sexual connotations.
2. If you look at American Pilgrim literature you see a lot of references to "God is great", usually alongside the phrase "God fearing" when talking about religious people. This is because just a few hundred years ago the word "great" in English specifically meant "powerful" in a violent way. Nowadays if you listen to a Christian sermon in the U.S. they will still say "God is great", but will be talking about how gentle and loving God is.

Language can move really fast, and thinking that you understand something that someone wrote hundreds of years ago without a good interpreter is unrealistic. There is always going to be an interpreter in the way. And one who just "translates the words" is not doing you any favors.
Not average, but Davy Knowles cut his teeth doing Hendrix and Clapton covers in his garage. Now if only someone could convince him that guitar solos don’t have to be that long, he’d be a god.
I bootstrapped my current company to several million in revenue. Both are valid strategies, but require very different skills and tactics. If you have another source of income right now, I would implement a product driven growth strategy [0].

Give your product away for free for individuals. You'll remove all barriers to adoption and be able to grow your user base quickly. If your product is valuable, your product will grow virally inside a company as managers see other managers using it. Once you have a few managers at Company X using your product, that's when you call up the HR department and offer them a paid company subscription for features like teams/user management, single sign on, sharing one on one results up the chain, whatever. Your users at the company become your champions. You can also provide an upgrade path in app if companies decide they want access to those features before you realize it.

Use a tool like Intercom to track how many users you have within a company.

It will delay revenue for a while, but give you a chance to refine the product from user feedback. It's also a much more scalable sales/marketing strategy for solo founders.

[0]
https://expand.openviewpartners.com/your-product-is-your-go-...
https://mattermark.com/product-led-approach-sales/
Last i checked, they still issue a single IPv6 address to each droplet (eg a /128, not a /64) and silently block certain ports on IPv6, so no.
> I live in Europe, it is kind of mandatory, saving and working until you are 65

Who is mandating this?

> I would feel a bit like taking advantage of others, if I would just wake up everyday and enjoy life meanwhile I have a gardner [sic], one person to clean my swimming pool, buy everything on the supermarket(which was made by somebody), just getting services, but not using my fully capability in order to help society thrive

If you work 80 hours per week for 30 years, are you morally superior to someone who has only spent 40 hours per week working for 40 years? It's absurd and impossible to assign morality to time working.

Looks like you're asserting some sense of moral imperative that people work until they're 65. Moving the goalposts from a whether it's _possible_ to retire early to whether it's _moral_ to retire early seems to be nonsense to me. I don't believe there's any morality to be found one way or the other in working until age 65, it's a non sequitur.

> The US has been printing a lot of money lately [...] I think you would be better off asking your government how to make anything that you earn and save Today, will have ANY value at all in the future.

I completely agree; if we keep spending more than is taxed as well as printing money faster, then yes that will be the case. The debt is unsustainable in the US currently.

Where you and I differ is what we think the result of that increasing debt will be. I think the US will eventually cut social programs and possibly increase taxes to fix the debt problem. You seem to think that socialism will be the end result. I hope that isn't the case, as I have a hard time finding a situation where fighting debt with more debt works in the long run.

Thank you for taking the time to discuss with me!
> what the blockchain does here that couldn't be implemented by any random database system

It says "blockchain" on it, so it can be sold to some uniquely gullible investors?
Computationally cheaper, which leads to cost savings in many places for myself and my end users.
Here you go[0]. Some highlights:

1. $2.988 billion in state/city subsidies (so ~$48,000 per job)

2. The state estimated that Amazon will generate $27.5 billion in state and city revenue over 25 years, a 9:1 ratio of revenue to subsidies.

Using the numbers above, we can calculate that the state would break even in roughly 3 years if they're correct.

[0]https://ny.curbed.com/2018/11/16/18098589/amazon-hq2-nyc-que...
GCP Grey does a great video on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

Jay Foreman does another great video on the very weird situation with the House of Lords:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrQBTvRj0s8
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Honestly I think they had only a very few locations in mind when starting this "search" anyway, but wanted to frame it as this big, open-ended, national competition in order to wring the highest dollar amount out of their favorite spots. They were never going to take the risk of attracting workers to Tulsa, Detroit, or {insert other city in Middle America} over an existing large pool of talent in an attractive metropolitan area.
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> When does widespread ’70s/’80s computing stop being impressive? You say “unknown” as if we were talking about some research software, or some old and largely forgotten software.

That's precisely what I'm talking about. The 70s/80s produced tons of insight into computer use in general, and programming in particular, that were mostly forgotten, and are slowly being rediscovered, or reinvented every couple years. Unix in fact was a step backwards in terms of capabilities exposed to users; it won because of economics.