skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point @udev, I'll just add a few extra points.

'Idea guys' can come in different shapes and sizes, people on average need to be able to understand the areas in which an 'idea guy' is a net positive or a net negative. Since a large part of comments are pushing the negative experiences I will list a few positives. I have seen cases where an idea guy creates synergy around coders that are heavy on execution,'idea guys' helping teams go through certain design thinking phases or helping them understand how design thinking benefits them, 'idea guys' helping a team tackle their hurdles throughout the implementation.

Most of all, I think it is worth noting that most 'idea guys' are likely adding value in other ways too, since most jobs are not dependent on only one variable you bring. It is also more likely for a person to only see a small % of the value someone may bring to the business

Oddly enough, just saying that people should see things in a different perspective is an idea or recommendation. Does that mean I will now be labelled as an 'idea guy' with a negative connotation?
> These noun declensions are not where it ends, though. There are many ways to derive adjectives from nouns and nouns from verbs and verbs from adjectives, so you can generate technically valid new words for quite a long time given just one root.

You have verbs like "dogged" and adverbs "doggedly" in English too.
From their S-1:

Cost of revenue primarily consists of insurance costs that are generally required under TNC and city regulations for ridesharing and bike and scooter rentals, respectively, payment processing charges, including merchant fees and chargebacks, hosting and platform-related technology costs, amortization of technology related intangible assets, certain direct costs related to bikes, scooters and the Select Express Drive Partner program, and personnel-related compensation costs.
Amazon HQ jobs are very firmly in the category of "yuppie jobs"
That’s kind of a mischaracterization of why Amazon left: it looks like people were getting ready to oppose their plans and introduce bureaucratic roadblocks.

Why take a PR beating for an unsure thing that looks increasingly likely to fail, and become the center of a political circus? That’s definitely not NY doing it’s end of the proposal. A business needs stability and safety to plan and grow.

It’s unclear why Amazon would want to fight NYC to be in NYC after NYC threw up roadblocks to NYC’s proposal actually happening.
They would still be playing in the the old guard's backyard. Now they'd have to worry about floor-space, and GM / Ford / Chrysler playing games with placement, or restricting which dealers can carry Teslas and which can't.

The fact that so many states have laws saying Tesla is not allowed to open a store is ridiculous.
Heuristic: if your premise contains the phrase "Ricardo proved mathematically", your conclusion is likely fucked.
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I was so sure this was about some naming convention debate in a commit message or column/variable choice somewhere where it would be translated into, in Swedish, to "died" (=dog) without fluffy ears. "DogUsers"
"Sometimes you have to walk away" (tm). That $3B in tax breaks is about to turn into $4B, much to the chagrin of one Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In ~1987, I had an AI professor who described the Fifth-Generation Computing Project as starting from a plan written by two researchers. One wrote "We need to do speech recognition, natural language understanding, X, Y, Z, etc." The other followed that up with "So, we will build a Prolog machine."

This was shortly after the demise of Lisp machines, which our CS department had a fair stack of. The gist of the discussion was that a) language doesn't matter that much, and b) this was yet another example of special-purpose hardware being unable to keep with general-purpose hardware.

This was also the professor who gave a talk at the computer science department of Texas A&M and came back saying, "that's not a real school." :-)
Same applies to LineageOS. Most images of LineageOS also have patches for driver support etc. Only small number of images are official.
> reminder

Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkV6IpV2Y0

Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

It's like asking a 2 year old to count way... way past 10
As for the OpEx vs. CapEx argument, that's a non-starter.

If you have $100m OpEx per annum, it'll cost you maybe a point or two to convert that to $300m CapEx.
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A company that made boatloads of profit, not revenue, profit, wanted tax breaks was opposed by someone who cares for the average joe. Not the software developer. The guy working at the deli. Don’t be surprised.

It really sucks how amazon played the game. If they agreed to no tax breaks, all that is mentioned in the link above would be headlines instead. But no. They never wanted to commit to that. Both sides are at fault and the general public suffered because of politics.
As I learned the hard way, you probably don't see them because they are too busy working 2-3 jobs making ends meet, or they were forced out of their neighborhoods due to gentrification .
You just need to generate memes that people will willingly copypasta into their private groups.
Yes, a "Trusted Platform Module." Now that I'm looking around it doesn't look like Google Authenticator actually does this, but it does make it more difficult to copy the TOTP secrets than this 2FA on the command line thing.

Though it could and probably should. (Really, this 2FA CLI app could probably do so as well, most modern laptops probably have a TPM.)
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> Maybe not totally aligned though as it’d be in your interests to be as aggressive as possible with write off claims while the customer would presumably be on the hook for any rejections or audits.

It'd be refreshing to have a model of "we have specialized liability insurance, if you're honest with us and we make a mistake in your filing, we'll cover it, including any penalties".
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She was the loudest voice in this contest and a lot of influence on the public perception of the project. Her Twitter comments about the $3B tax break for Amazon were pure uneducated FUD, pretending NY was giving Amazon money that could be somehow better "spent" on other projects like education (except you can't spend a tax break).

She further exaggerated news stories about Amazon's treatment of fulfillment center workers without bothering to mention that current conditions for existing FC's are much worse than what Amazon brings to the table.
Details of the intense ignorance or the decent early track record?

Because I'd be interested in hearing about the latter.
OEM Equipment and MRO costs.

There are currently 4 steps in the manufacturing process, with a final inspection at the end. They have about 35 production lines in total, and will likely have over 60 when they finish. New lines will have higher output.

They run two 12 hour shifts a day, 7 days a week.

The bottle neck is MRO at the moment. Material costs are a factor, but I know nothing about that.

In the space of 3 years they implemented these 35 lines. Getting them up and running to meet the demand and timelines required massive investment, and cost savings measures were sidelined.

They’re just not beginning to figure out ways to cut costs in order to achieve profitability.

I don’t know if Tesla has a contract that dictates the cell price, but I know Panasonic production is not profitable at the moment. They will be, hopefully in the upcoming years.

Their battery production is the most state of the art. Not only the battery technology, but the manufacturing process. It’s unparalleled by a long shot. The scale is breathtaking. Around 3.5 million cells a day with a target over 10 million.

From what I know, bottle necks are costs. High equipment manufacturing costs, and high maintenance costs.

Space isn’t the issue. They have plenty of space.
Wealth is zero-sum. We've just been ignoring the ecological impacts of our economy since the industrial revolution. I think that the true mark of wealth is the amount of high density energy you can use: Those private jets, huge homes, yachts, etc. require massive quantities of energy to use.

Should the human race decide to fight climate change, for real, then it will be one of the greatest wealth equalizers of all time: we'll all end up a good deal 'poorer' than we were before.
While not ideal for the described scenario, if you are say scanning from a pool of limited form templates, it could be very useful and faster than ML methods, at least for an earlier pass. But this is a 2D scenario even then.
It totally depends on what you mark good and bad.

If you mark shallow, screaming articles as bad and they continue serving them you’ll soon switch to another platform.

It’s in your responsibility to use the tools wisely.
LineageOS also has proprietary blobs inside.
Duga radar: Enormous abandoned antenna hidden in forests near Chernobyl
Except that tax breaks were astronomically dwarfed by the additional tax income that would have been created. She didn't care about the "average joe", she cared about her image and grandstanding to score political points.
Frankly, the problem is not AOC. It's the rest of the country.

Small businesses can't get the tax break Amazon is demanding. Why should we allow big businesses to play by a different rulebook? The only reason Amazon can get away with it is that other jurisdictions are prepared to debase themselves for the economic benefit Amazon brings. In effect, big businesses reap the rewards of living in our society without shouldering the burdens.

(Not even going to go into the "race to the bottom" that is created or the ugly optics of parading HQ2. Both warrant a discussion of their own).

Not saying that the way things turned out is ideal, but I lost much more respect for Amazon than I did "progressives". I say this as a firm believer in free markets and limited government.

[To the people downvoting my comment or the children comment I'm engaging with: please join the conversation with your voice instead of stifling our discussion. Downvoting is not how you express disagreement]
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You don't need to work at the deli. I work in tech, live in the neighborhood, and oppose Amazon landing here.
"Incredibly, I have heard city and state elected officials who were opponents of the project claim that Amazon was getting $3 billion in government subsidies that could have been better spent on housing or transportation. This is either a blatant untruth or fundamental ignorance of basic math by a group of elected officials. The city and state 'gave' Amazon nothing. Amazon was to build their headquarters with union jobs and pay the city and state $27 billion in revenues. The city, through existing as-of-right tax credits, and the state through Excelsior Tax credits - a program approved by the same legislators railing against it - would provide up to $3 billion in tax relief, IF Amazon created the 25,000-40,000 jobs and thus generated $27 billion in revenue. You don't need to be the State's Budget Director to know that a nine to one return on your investment is a winner."
If you stop reading then you’ll live in a world where everyone shut up.
There is an incredible amount of data, compute and DB hits required to manage dispatching, route planning, cost estimation, dynamic pricing/LTV optimization, ETA estimation, resource positioning and many other optimizations related to every market and every request within a reasonable response time for the customer. Products like Lyft Line are particularly intensive on this front.
I doubt it had anything to do with hurt feelings. Clearly, the opposition was gearing up to cause a lot of problems and delays for Amazon. And besides, why go somewhere where people hate you?
How to know where one word ends and the next begins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word#Word_boundaries

Examples of how the system works in Finnish and in other languages on the continuum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination
It is refreshing to see Cuomo actively woo Amazon back, despite direct opposition and PR blitzkrieg-ing from the likes of Alexandira Ocasio Cortez. The state of NY & NYC could use the projected 25,000 jobs (at an average of $150K), $4 billion wages, and $12 billion in new economic activity which will directly feed the state tax coffers.
I think thats pretty obvious.
Hopefully this will stimulate the economy.
I just need one person to explain to me: why should Amazon get better tax breaks and deals than the existing local businesses?

Someone just tell me.
Wemo has a mini plug that you can use with your existing lighting. If you have Android, you can set it up so that your lights turn on when you hit "dismiss" on your phone's alarm.

Not sure about iOS.
I was part of the un-slacking task force at my previous job. We gave Rocketchat a test run, but ultimately decided it was just a less-polished Slack. We also took Twist for a spin, which I really enjoyed. However, our support department relied too much on real time chat to abandon it completely. Zulip was a really nice compromise that I highly recommend.

If every Slack post had to be either the start of a thread or a reply to a thread, you'd basically have Zulip. The hardest part is conditioning everyone to use good thread names and not establish topics that are overly broad or narrow.
I thought the middle-claas was the bourgoisie. (I had to look-up what "bougie" meant)
Thank you! Repro'd the localStorage debugging and you're right - we'll clean that up.

Thanks for sharing your story re: 8k on 30k - that's pretty bad :) either you claimed next to nothing in write offs, or you were in a very high tax bracket ... maybe both.

Nice to meet you Rob.
My experience in 2000 was that experienced, hard-core coders and systems guys ended up dumped on the market with a ton of HTMLgrammer chum and simultaneously all of the big employers had instituted hiring freezes. Good people on the street for 6+ months, not just the pretenders.
> 1. Invite Amazon to NYC for free. 2. Invite Amazon to NYC with subsidies. 3. Do nothing.

How is 1 different from 3? You buy a nice card from Papyrus and write an invitation with calligraphic letters?
CDK does a lot more than just be an object oriented abstraction. Often times one of the constructs in CDK actually makes many different underlying AWS resources.

In CloudFormation its always a 1:1 mapping: one CloudFormation resource typed out as YAML, one resource created on your AWS account. In CDK you can make something like "LoadBalancedFargateService" and just plug in the path to your local Dockerfile, and it builds and uploads the image to ECR, makes a Fargate service, makes a load balancer, connects the service to the load balancer, and returns the URL to you.

The other power of CDK is it sets things up right out of the box. Rather than having to explicitly created all your autoscaling rules it can create sensible default ones for you automatically. It also automatically creates the right IAM rules, and security group rules that you would otherwise have to define manually.

As a whole I'd say comparing CloudFormation and CDK is like comparing assembly language and C++. You could write your code as a bunch of hand rolled ASM for the most control, but realistically that's not feasible for large projects as its error prone, slow, and quickly gets unwieldly. CDK is like higher level C++ that synthesizes back down into the lower level assembly language that creates all those cloud resources
Back when I was in high school, events like someone slipping and spilling soup all over themselves would be repeated forever and ever.
This just seems like such a messy clusterfuck for Amazon. Their stupid competition did a great job of raising awareness of sweatheart corporate deals, and they gave the left a great stalking horse in the run up to 2020, and they failed to even get the capacity they wanted!

The outcome of this process is incredibly bad for Amazon. Seemingly what they achieved was a deal with Virginia. Virginia didn't offer the best incentives but Amazon needed to be there for the lobbying opportunities. Their second HQ plan has collapsed in NY and now they have to re-plan their expansion. Meanwhile the process seems to have been tailor made to damage their corporate image and create a movement against corporate welfare. Now this drags on with it being obvious that Amazon can't go to NY now, but they're still getting headlines to remind everyone of how badly they mismanaged this process.
I've wondered about that -- my partner and her cousin both grew up in the Midwest and need white noise and eyeshades to sleep. For reference we live in the SF Bay. I grew up here and can sleep through damn near anything. I'm curious how much of the difference is due to childhood locality vs genetics vs child-rearing practices.
> I've spoken to YouTubers who started off keeping backups but quickly realized it was nowhere near cost effective for them to do so.

Because 1 TB drives are expensive?

I realize that wasn't always the case (look, I'm old enough to remember when a 5 MB hard drive cost close to $10k for a personal computer system) - but I still think it's a bad excuse. If the data is important enough to put up for others, then it's important enough to back up (even if only the edited and compressed version).

Today, it makes no sense at all not to keep a backup. Even using DropBox or Google Drive is plenty cheap.

Your other points do stand, however.
> If You Want To See Your Test Result:

> 1. Share this with 20 friends/whatsapp groups

Nah.
Part of me regrets this article because of how insane it is with the futurism and what not, but part of me also thinks it raises interesting possibilities about how tech could fix social problems in a few decades/centuries time.

And come on, real life macros/automation would be such a neat concept.
Actually, yes. We offer it as a pilot for folks who really want it and are willing to put up with some bugs :) Just text your bookkeeper "HN 2018 tax prep" and we'll set it up for you. It takes 1-2 weeks.
Looks cool!

How are you getting access to bank accounts? Eg are you using Yodlee or another aggregator? My understanding is there’s no inquire-only banking API available in the USA.
Did the church actually have a use for that system?
>because the only real winner in most general elections, whether HOA or national, is "apathy" as most votes are undecided or not even cast.

That simply isn't true. As bad as voter turnout is in the US, it's still over 50%. The winner is ignorance, as so many voters actively vote against their own best interests (e.g., poor people voting for the party that passes tax breaks for millionaires).

>why weren't the people responsible personally liable for fraud? White collar crimes are still crimes.

Now this is an excellent question here. I have no idea what the answer is, but it seems like the US is really bad about this kind of thing, and not just with HOA management. It seems like prosecutors here just don't want to bother with cases like this, maybe because not enough money is involved?

>There are also plenty of horror stories of bad property management companies out there.

Yes, but at least here, as you found out with your case, you can just hire a different company when you need to. It seems like the best case is what your HOA has going on: an HOA composed of owners, acting mainly as overseers for the professional management company that does that bulk of the work of managing the place. The HOA horror stories I've seen (and experienced) seem to involve HOAs which do their own management, so basically some busybody in the neighborhood who has time and interest gets voted in along with a few of his cronies, and then mismanages the funds badly.
…and the fines have to be big enough to matter, otherwise the occasional fine is just one more line of overhead in the project budget.
what about the credits?? who will pay for those?
I wouldn't mind finding out who created and posted the videos..
10-25% of people not saying "thank you" is acceptable. 10-25% of people spitting in your face would be totally unacceptable. Let's not brush off sexual assault as if it were a minor inconvenience.
Typo on final mockup "New pull Requrest" I like where this is heading, but you'll get pushback from folks on the all-white UI... eye fatigue. Include dark mode and you're good to go!
The question is whether it is viable for creators to earn a living through YouTube, or even to just host their content. With YouTube randomly shutting down channels and demonetizing at the drop of a hat, it's clear that it is no longer suitable for either of these cases.

As things are now, there is no other "market creators will go to" since I don't believe Dailymotion or Metacafe are viable either.
> Here's how ordinary, regular people can help. When people start being extreme and a bit divorced from reality and engaging in violence, unsavory almost-violence, and untruthful agenda pushing, people need to call it out, and also call it out from their own sides.

I've done this before on Hacker News (on a different account). I've pointed out that an asserted fact was untrue and linked to a PDF compiled by a government agency and pointed out which data table to look at. I agreed with the conclusion the original poster had, but not the facts he used to support the case, and I didn't mention what my political views were.

All I ended up with was a lot of downvotes and lots of comments accusing me of supporting evil policies and that I should read certain books and I'd get my eyes opened. No one even discussed what I said. The funny thing is that I had read the book that was recommended and had it with me in my bookshelf. I was thinking of taking a picture of me holding the book and posting it with the comment saying: "Hey HNer, I'm on your side! But when people use incorrect facts to try to push an agenda, it causes the whole side to lose credibility. There are enough reasons to support policy X that we don't need to make stuff up".

It opened my eyes that people don't engage with the actual content. They just make assumptions of a posters point of view, and then argue against stereotypes.