skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wisconsin doesn't need to give out money, either. If anything, they need to not give out money.

The story of the Foxconn factory, for example, is one of Wisconsin acting as if you can give a bunch of money to a company that smells of technology, and they will plunk a bunch of jobs for highly educated and skilled people in the middle of a region with relatively few highly educated and skilled workers. Which, it never worked that way. It never will work that way.

Companies go to places that can fill their staffing needs. Wisconsin, which has been systematically defunding its education system in order to re-route that money toward corporate subsidies, is undercutting its own ability to fill those staffing needs. I don't know that everyone in the state realizes it, but Wisconsin is stumbling all over itself to become the darling dumping ground for companies that are founded[1] in cities and states with the kinds of intellectual and entrepreneurial ferments you get around well-run and well-funded university systems to put their call centers, distribution centers, big boxes mostly full of robots, and other things they don't want to waste money putting in a more affluent area.

[1] I think "founded" is a key word, here, too. Supporting local entrepreneurship is the key to prosperity. Which mostly means getting out of the way of your entrepreneurs. If you get into a bidding wars to acquire the office where a company puts all their jobs that didn't merit being located at HQ, not only do you end up overspending - the people deciding what to bid aren't playing with their own money, so what else did you expect? - but you're also draining the talent pool that supports their growth.

tl;dr: The cart goes behind the horse.
Amazon is notorious for paying pennies. 25k jobs paying 150k on average is a pipe dream. ask whole foods delivery people for Amazon fresh or whatever its called. they are counting their pay including $5 mandatory tip they collect from customers.
Pro: Great suggestion engine. Nice work.
Con: Lackluster .com availability checks. Several suggested domains are taken.

I'd personally send visitors to Porkbun [1] for registration.

[1] https://porkbun.com/checkout/search?q=hnewslink.com
I think what you literally need is a network that is "narrow" but also has many layers. This is because what PR features over simple linear regression is interaction terms, and multiple layers are an alternate way to get those. This also hints at one problem with true PR - in a multi-variate context, the amount of coefficients you'll need to fit is going to scale very badly given the number of variables and the degree of your polynomial. NN layers have natural dimenionality-reduction properties that make them more flexible.
> Pensions, medicare and social security are the bulk of the spending.

In aggregate, less than half, even if you add Medicaid and other public health spending on top of Medicare, so not the bulk.
Imagine a version of Donald Trump that was smart and competent.
Man... the misinformation is so stunning. They don't NEED bargaining power because these tax deals were done through programs that already existed in New York. The overwhelming majority of the money involved in this requires you only meet the eligibility requirements.

The biggest aspect of this deal for Amazon was reduced regulatory burden. That was Amazon's actual goal here, the tax offsets were just the icing that every company is going to end up getting by making a major move like this.
Using Panama “foreign” JDK
This is very clearly because of licensing.
Surely if it did, regulators would move quickly to close that gap?
Yeah, completely sidestepping your largest municipal government (and country's largest for that matter) and negotiating a secret deal with a private company should be completely fine and doesn't shit all over federalism in the slightest!
My understanding was that Amazon was intending to use existing city programs to fund $1.3B of the $3B in incentives, most of that tied to the number of employees they hire to work in specific zones including LIC [1].

Why do they have to involve the city politicians in the decision-making process if they don't need any special treatment?

[1] "While New York City has not offered Amazon any direct subsidies, the company also plans to take advantage of two city tax breaks that will further sweeten the deal by nearly $1.3 billion.

One is the Relocation and Employment Assistance Program, which offers businesses moving to certain parts of the city a tax credit of up to $3,000 per employee for 12 years. The program will benefit Amazon to the tune of $897 million, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The other is the Industrial & Commercial Abatement Program, which provides property tax abatements. It will be worth nearly $400 million to Amazon, Cuomo said."

(https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nys-amazon-deal-wha...)
There is nothing wrong with hoping something works out in your own self interest.

It is when you're not considering the adverse effects on others. And when you're already doing quite well enough, as it is.
I don't think that creating things on the side is mutually exclusive with doing a good job at work.
There's nothing "sudden", however. These housing problems in major metro areas have been going on for a long time, and there hasn't been any action at all to rectify it. No one's building good, affordable housing at a proper density anywhere, as far as I can tell.
I'd rather give excess power to my neighbors for free or just waste it on a giant spinning pinwheel than "sell" it back to the power company. No mention of local battery storage by the reporter or the "reported/reportee".
This is true, but sadly it’s democratic and lots of fans turn out in support. I don’t get it, but that’s probably because I’m not a pro sports fan.
You are correct that these sort of "private" and "federated" blockchains completely miss the point of Bitcoin (some intentionally, some not). The features they provide were possible before Bitcoin was invented, but no one really cared about finding uses for them until the blockchain hype train rolled through town.

That doesn't mean they're completely useless though. If Bitcoin eventually inspires some real innovation in fintech, then great.
That is a very shortsighted blame-the-victim mentality. You're conflating the power of the individual voter with that of the entire voting bloc. Besides, even if new affordable housing was constructed (which is getting harder and harder in nyc as people are being pushed further and further out geographically), it's not easy to just up and move, even in nyc.
What needs to happen now is that we need to use the Commerce Clause to make it illegal for a company to cut this type of deal with a city or state in the first place. It just creates a race to the bottom where cities have no choice to subsidize corporate bottom lines with taxpayer money or else have businesses leave.
I mean, clearly we haven't signed up for the money-losing deal, as the deal has been canceled because of opposition and no give-aways will ever be made to Amazon.
First Im Canadian and I like Canada. My personal views are reflected best by someone like Noam Chomsky. So obviously im non of these apply "apologist for the rich, or has no empathy for the working class, or is a doctrinaire "free-marketeer" "

However this is almost wrong by definition "I strongly strongly disagree that unions violate the ability of the capitalist to engage in voluntary transactions" Perhaps your thinking of unions that dont have scab laws backing them?

I think worse still is this concept "I don't believe that Capitalism creates r>g. I believe human greed creates r>g. "

Greed is an individual choice and it has very little to do with the structure of capitalism. I think Marx even points to the lack of choice that the capitalist has in their pursuit of profit and the inevitable resulting exploitation. Charity in capitalism is like vegetarianism in Lions.

related is a doc on negative liberty:
https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-trap/
A cardoid is a popular way of plotting a heart shaped curve. However, I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the heart plotted with Python and Matplotlib in this repository is not made of cardoid. Instead, it is made of semicircles and quartic curves. Here's the comment with more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19162360.
I read it also but on balance he did say, after all -- "A shame".
I recommend adding these points to the website once you know them.

Especially not knowing whether it's synchronous or non-synchornous replication makes it impossible to design systems on it, as that decides whether you can lose some (likely small) amount of data on a failover, or whether the system guarantees nothing is lost.

I also don't understand another key thing:

On the Pricing page you write "Standby nodes with automated failovers". At the same time, the pricing table offers 0, 1 or 2 standby nodes. So what happens if I buy the offer with the 0 standby nodes, and a failure occurs? Is my data gone? Does DO replace the failed node, and how when there are no standbys?
You've got something confused here. Google's current occupancy in NYC is >7K. They were/are planning to more than double that to ~20K.

So it's absolutely an expansion of a similar scope.
Sorry, there may be small fees paid to the miners. But those fees will presumably be dramatically less than this current company charges.
Sure but the Sabbath is Saturday not Sunday. And current christian dogma is that the law is no longer required to be kept (Grace). So whatever mainstream christian religions do today in terms of what they "allow or do not allow" is just whatever they decided they wanted to allow or not allow. So these people are not reading the Bible and taking it literally, they are reading the Bible to get ideas on how tell others to not do, or do, whatever they approve of or don't approve of. It is rather...what would Christ say, Pharisaical?
>Can you honestly say with a straight face that there is no theory behind why convnets are the right choice?

There is theory of convnets, but it's more of a post-factum analysis, really, and I'm not sure it's behind much of anything at this point. Researchers use convnets because they work in ways that work for them.

Theory: 109 citations.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Mathematical-Theory-...

Practice: 42,551 citations.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ImageNet-Classificatio...
> And that company is exactly what this tech. replaces. That company does not provide its services for free. This blockchain product does.

There’s no such thing as “free”. You’re either paying directly or indirectly. The DTCC is owned by its member organizations so it does not have a direct profit incentive anyway.

I highly suggest reading more on the topic and the problems it’s meant to solve before pitching “But blockchain!” as a solution.
Funding ESLint’s Future
>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.

You actually think that's going to happen?
hundreds of thousands of people commute from new jersey across the hudson every day
Living in the DC-NOVA area, Amazon coming here seemed rather inevitable. There's a confluence of infrastructure, cheap office/datacenter space, and a stealthily growing engineering talent pool that Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon and the general smorgasbord of government contractors have built up over the years.

Additionally,it wouldn't surprise me if Amazon has seen the obscene amounts of money Microsoft is making pitching cloud security and general technical support to the government, and wants in on it.
Provided she's not lying it's hard to imagine that 4% number being believable. I don't think a House election ever had this low of a turnout.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkuxZsylioX/
Yes. We changed the title back.

The HN guidelines say: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe a cultural thing? For me, "you're over thinking it" is a familiar/friendly way of expressing an idea, similar to how you would approach a friend. It was not intended to be dismissive.
Sounds like Toptal has some good employment agreements. One restriction keeping people from making, side hustles, etc. are the onerous rules that larger tech companies place on their employees. There are agreements around non-competition, intellectual property ownership, conflict of interest, and other little gotchas. These can be very broad since modern tech companies sprawl across a lot of industries, so even if your specific role is far from the side hustle you want to do, your company might be quite close to it and therefore that is a conflict of interest.

I've actually had the situation where I was blocked from getting paid for tutoring on Codementor.io because it was "getting paid on the side to use skills and know-how that is part of his job".

Of course, this probably doesn't apply for things like bike shops or other types of maker activities that aren't technical. It also probably doesn't apply for pro bono things like open-source contributions.

[EDIT]: added "probably doesn't apply" since it seems like in some cases it can cause problems.
But the first thing they will do is ban it for regular customers while leaving it available for use by farmers.
> There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island

How many of those are working in tech? When I interviewed at Amazon NYC in 2016, I think there were only around 100 software engineers there. Has it grown a lot since then?
Good article!
Just work 70+ hours a week!

Yeah, no thanks.
Agreed, but here we're talking about how difficult it is to become "technically proficient" and my answer to that is "not very with current tools and education methods". The biggest obstacle for most people is drive and interest. If you spend the time, you will get good at playing.
> There's no way to turn this into a positive here.

I dunno. It seems like an unambiguous positive to me. The giveaway to Amazon was enormous -- so much so that it seems extremely dubious that New York would ever have been able to recoup that money, let alone increase it.
And yet there's a huge number of businesses that do have presences in NYC because the tax revenue funds all sorts of things that make NYC attractive to businesses that can't be gotten elsewhere.

A lot of what makes NYC great (like the 24/7 public transit system, the best in the country) costs serious money to operate. You need to get that money from tax revenue.

And businesses aren't actually easily-movable, not at all.
Is it just a coincidence that the Giants and Jets both play in New Jersey. Maybe Amazon should just move across the river and call it the New York office.
That video is an introduction to the concept of CNNs for beginners. It explains in informal terms the structure and mechanics of a CNN, and probably gets around to discussing why it might work in very broad terms.

This is extremely far from what academically inclined people are talking about when they are using the word "theory".

People are hoping to see, ultimately, mathematical proofs that neural networks can e.g. efficiently learn target functions given a certain amount of training data and a certain number of trainable parameters.

To address your chemistry analogy: no, it doesn't discredit synthetic chemistry as an enterprise, it just means there is a gap in the theory. Similarly, the people bemoaning gaps in the deep learning theory aren't trying to discredit deep learning as an enterprise: the practical successes are very real; the theory is just lagging, as it often has in application-led fields.
Charging for data transfer within the same DC is really unusual - AFAIK, none of the big cloud providers do this. Like you, I just can't understand the rationale behind this decision.
Tether 2.0? :3
>There's no way to turn this into a positive here.

Well, if you believe Amazon coming to NY was good, it's no more negative or positive than me not winning the lottery today, and I didn't buy a ticket either.
LIC has some amazing parks. Stop by Socrates Sculpture Park sometime — really cool art installations, great waterfront views of Manhattan, across the street from a cool museum (Noguchi of the coffee table fame), and you are quick walk down Broadway to some great restaurants in Astoria.
The public is so muddled about what an effective job creator yields. They could move a small niche of AWS to Newark, restore some warehouse into office space, and claim they are adding a projected 10k jobs to the area.
Well, I guess there’s nothing wrong with Github replicating good ideas, considering Gitlab is pretty close to an identical clone.
In theory yes, but in practice the game is pretty constrained, so it likely wouldn't work. For example, I assume that the AI message never reaches an AI-controlled paddle while it's moving. If it did, the paddle might tear in half, trying to go 2 places at once. With only one ball, it's a safe assumption--the speed of the ball and message guarantee it. With more than one, it would probably get broken quite quickly.

If you wanted to support doubles play, it might be possible with enough tweaks to the rules, but it would not be as simple as just drawing more paddles.
Nice, I tend to like having pull requests created early so people can follow what is happening and give early feedback.
Pretty much all sales and advertising is built around creating a perception of pain and/or fear and offering relief for that.

That SunRun included that in their sales manual just indicates that they were addressing a sales force that was significantly staffed with sales novices who didn't already understand that, not that they were particularly nefarious.
Why would you upvote me if you didn't agree with me?

QT is what i would suggest over electron
Amazon drops plans for NYC headquarters
Yo dawg we heard you like merging so we put some pull requests in your pull requests so you can merge while you merge!
I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed by the pricing. It doesn't seem any cheaper than AWS's managed SQL offering (through Lightsail), nor cheaper than Cloud SQL.

I'm trying to run a side project at a low rate, which is usually why I go to DigitalOcean - it's much cheaper, than, say, spinning up a bunch of Heroku dynos. In fact, I just moved a project from Heroku to DO to go from a $14/mo hosting bill to $5/mo on the cheapest VPS.

My one problem has been Postgres - I don't want to self-manage a database. However, Cloud SQL is ~$9/mo at the cheapest, and RDS/Lightsail are both $15/mo at the cheapest. I'd really been hoping that DO would provide a lower-cost alternative.

I'm really sad that the pricing structure doesn't bring managed databases down to hobby-tier. I don't even want a free offering; I'm happy to pay gig of space for $5/mo to run in perpetuity, with restrictions on backup retention or something.

Right now, if I'm an actual startup or even bootstrapped company with money, I see _zero_ reason to use DO's offering over your more-established competitors, and as a hobbyist user, I can't justify spending money on it for a no-income side project.
They recommend the 8 Tesla, but would a 2080Ti work? That's not too bad. I might try this at home with my gaming pc.
i think "to keep someone like him away" is a bit of a red herring.
> But, many modern Christians insist that the Bible must be taken literally, and that it should be taught as science, or presented as an alternative to science. Those are the people atheists are making fun of, and they deserve the ridicule.

I think where people went wrong with this is that what at the heart of it people really want to mean is that the Bible is something they use to base their life around. Then other people come along and tell them that science is what they base their lives around. And instead of realizing that the two are different and there is inherent value in both, they responded by saying, "Well, my Bible is science."

At their heart, religious texts are accumulated wisdom that has held up over many generations. It is different from science in its ability to predict the world, but fairly similar in the way it can guide personal experience and expectations within the world.
Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
Hi there HNers,

Last summer I worked on a startup as lead developer. I learnt about running a startup and talking to users while working there. I have now quit working there to focus on my studies (second year university in London).

I would like to work on a side project that eventually would lead to some revenues this summer. My question is, how did you find problem(s) to solve ?

I have read books and blogs suggesting that the best problem is the one that I have faced before. I find it difficult to do this when almost every problem that I found, there has always been existing solution or the solution can be solved with some quick searches.

Any idea or thought is really appreciated. Thank you.
This seems suspiciously low, do you have a citation for that?
It has already been rumored that Dallas is working with them, still. The head of the initiative, from the start, has stated, "We have never ended talks with Amazon, they are still ongoing". That was as of earlier this week/last week.
Sure, which is good information - if you want to keep that "extra 8 hours," don't have kids.

But surely the basic principles of organization and removing distraction can also be applied to those with kids? Kids are time consuming but not all-consuming, I suppose unless you don't have a partner to help out.
People who choose to have kids are making a commitment to a long-term maker project, so that makes sense.
If you can afford a garage in the Bay Area, you can't afford to run a startup because you're too busy paying your mortgage ;)
From Wikipedia:

In the case, the conservative non-profit organization Citizens United sought to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton and to advertise the film during television broadcasts shortly before the 2008 Democratic primary election in which Clinton was running for U.S. President.

The federal law, however, prohibited any corporation (or labor union) from making an "electioneering communication" (defined as a broadcast ad reaching over 50,000 people in the electorate) within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of an election, or making any expenditure advocating the election or defeat of a candidate at any time. The court found that these provisions of the law conflicted with the United States Constitution.

They were prohibited from airing ads 30 days before the election. The decision in terms of effects and scope was terrible. It was a broad decision and had a very wide effect.
You're on hacker news and don't understand the difference between the salaries of software engineers and whole foods workers?
Letter from NY Governor about Amazon tax breaks (2018)
Robinhood API Easter Egg
My position is that if it doesn't exist, it is a necessary fiction to keep our laws and social norms working. They are based on what feels just and right, the rationalization of which requires free will.

I don't see how laws and social norms would work without the assumption of free will. I'm not saying it would be absolutely impossible.
No ads, JavaScript, etc: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/45
all people who would qualify to work at Amazon getting 150k per year are already working somewhere making something close to that. this was not going to change employment rate or boost income taxes. this was going to drive housing prices, especially rent thru the roof though.