skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truth. I took a lower paying job in the midwest, and I can now save a lot more money, while also living a less stressful life. NYC is a really cool city and I enjoyed living there. But I "did my time".

I think more and more tech workers are going to wake up to the fact that while mega-city life can be cool, it's not the only way to live.
> "very quickly"

This was over a 10 year period. New York City would have absorbed this just fine. Population projections for the city over that same time span is an additional 600,000 people.

The "small area" that Amazon was relocating to (Queens) is expected to get 150,000 of those people. And we can ignore the assumption that people making 150k a year all want to live in Queens (or LIC) and not Manhattan.
Winning the Blackbird Battle
> To be clear, since this point is being missed by so many people: This wasn't a special deal outside of the reduced regulatory burden. Any company that meets the eligibility requirements will get these exact same "subsidies".

Is there an article the explains this?
Why cooling though? It makes sense that it cools the ground, but the sunlight is still captured by the particles (as opposed to reflected by snow/water, on average), so the total Earth+atmosphere should be warmer?
like the gnu/linux/systemd/gnome/blink argument, this is a great example of why calling linkedlogs/dcash/proofofwork/byzantineFT/cryptokeysasidentity "crypto" kind of muddles the conversation.

In JPMorgan's case, using linkedlogs/dcash/cryptokeysasidentity might end up working out really well. They can distribute the tech to other banks, and the killer feature, besides being distributed ends up being cryptokeysasidentity, from a security standpoint. In my book, what they are doing is still "crypto" but it isnt the genius innovation the whole sum of all bitcoin was. (You might argue that its the proof of work that makes something a crypto, and thats fine.) What made bitcoin different was APPLYING a bunch of academic knowledge to a useful to solve problem. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559

If you look up the definition of TECHNOLOGY, its "the application of knowledge." Bitcoin is a PERFECT EXAMPLE of a technology, not because its digital, electronic, and computery, but because its taking a ton of knowledge from academia and APPLYING it. This new coin is more a reapplication of technology, than any sort of creation.
Here from the Wikipedia backgrounder:

>In response, Citizens United produced the documentary Celsius 41.11, which is highly critical of both Fahrenheit 9/11 and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. The FEC, however, held that showing the movie and advertisements for it would violate the Federal Election Campaign Act, because Citizens United was not a bona fide commercial film maker.
Your advise is good but often leads to products without real problems.

You don’t have to find a novel problem. Find a product that already exists and out-do them. If you can criticize a product, you can make a better version of it and create value for your customers.

Finding a novel problem also works but less often than going after an existing known problem with some unoptimized solutions out there.
Why not? Isn’t it the new Austin?
The quickest way to build an impressive SaaS project in 2019:

1. Find a cool machine learning project with preferably pre-trained models so you don't have to do much cleaning/moving data.

2. Get those models doing inference on a server and expose it as an API.

3. ??? (marketing/sales/business stuff)

4. Profit
This is a reason why I like languages that have REPLs, and perhaps an advantage of dynamically typed, and especially functional languages that I feel is often not emphasized enough (judging by the recent discussions on the issue).

I love how I can just open up IEx (Elixir) and work my way through various functions in my app interactively. If something doesn't work as expected, I change the code and run the 'recompile' command. Then, once things work and eventually stabilize, I add typespecs for at least some of the benefits of an explicitly typed language. In some cases I might make (unit) tests part of the process, but that depends on the situation.
I don't understand why these tech companies love building headquarters in areas where property prices are unaffordable even for their own high paid workers.
Book Review: The Evolution of Civilizations
The first car we bought with a loan was a 1994 Accord station wagon. We traded it in about the middle of January, 2012. I forget whether we took out a loan on the 2003 Accord sedan. It might yet be on the road, but somebody with 4Runner sideswiped it in April 2016.
Why is this getting downvoted? It's much more accurate than the parent comment.

Down voting because you dislike Amazon isn't a valid reason.
What's the problem with governments competing? That's not a "race to the bottom" any more than competition is a "race to the bottom" in market economics. It is a forcing function on efficiency and good governance where there would otherwise be no competitive pressure.
heh, not untrue, although most are bad shortenings.. ls:list, xargs:arguments, cat:concatenate

MS did try to avoid explosion of idioms but at a tiny verbosity cost. I believe that map/reduce is a bit a good middle ground
Were Neandertals actually considered to be less intelligent? Hadn't heard that before.
> ... some believe that perhaps the creatures were created when a human and a unicorn met each other in a time before human civilization. According to Pérez, “In South America, such incidents seem to be quite common.”

Man, the auto-generated text is hilarious. And uncannily good. Though I have to wonder if it's total random fluke or there's one among their 1.5 billion parameters that predict "likelihood of mythical bestiality in South America".
I'll concede that she plays fast and loose with the term.

The reason I'm pushing back is that as we are talking about talent in the innate sense, there is (AFAIK) no scientifically valid way of measuring it (beyond perhaps a binary measure). So taking a stance either way on whether it can be developed further is a bit problematic. I'd be curious to see how her actual journal papers discuss the matter.
Fun fact: I was seeing pyramids in the center of faces on all pictures until I searched online to look what is a menger sponge!
Apple advertising legend Lee Clow is retiring
I feel like considering all this is very shortsighted of city people who objected to this.
I think in the long term that condo will have value. Queens is reasonably priced and a decent commute to Manhattan. My suspicion is long term, it will be commute time that dictates housing prices. (Look at cities in Europe, where there's excellent public transit - the "nice" areas are downtown, and the "slums" or "rough" areas are often in the burbs.
I agree with you here. After 8 hours of intensive coding, or whatever I could squeeze out of myself that day, going home and doing more of the same is the last thing I want to do. I doubt we can code for 12-14 hours a day steadily for a long period of time.
I had never heard of glass bandsaws before, but this looks amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyqfO7GdyJ0
It depends on the business. If you’re capitalizing a big facility, even things like sales tax exemptions are big value adds.

As long as some places in strategic areas do the incentive thing, it’s hard not to.
The generated Unicorn story has about the writing quality (in both senses: standard and feel) of fanfic
I can offer a counterexample. In the city I live in, there have been several major tech companies that were given enormous tax breaks and other gifts in exchange for moving in. They'd move in, build their buildings and factories, and everything would look rosy for 3-5 years. Then they'd cut and run, leaving the city worse off than if it had never done the deal in the first place.
Kentucky was a perfect example of this. They gave the best corporate welfare money can buy. And everyone left. There were no decent roads, schools, police. So there were no decent workers. The companies were basically given the best deal in a place with no workers.

If anything the workers left even more because there was even less attractiveness to be there.
(Draft) Specification for short title-less feeds
I'm not expert by any means in this subject, reviews and feedback are very welcome.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/z0al/naming-is-hard

Spec (Draft): https://github.com/z0al/naming-is-hard/blob/master/spec/draft.md
The generated text sounds too good; is it possible that the model overfit the source material (especially since the n-previous-tokens value is infinite, while other approaches like char-rnns/textgenrnn use a fixed window length)? It's something I've encountered many times while working with text generation.
Essay seems to imply that the author is famous and give no further details, but I've never heard of her.
Looking at it from a strictly "benefit to government's tax coffers" standpoint (since that's the argument for the tax breaks):

Would those new Amazon jobs cause 25k people to move to NYC? Or is it more likely to just make the local market more competitive? How would other businesses react? Would they move? Embrace remote? If they increase salary across the board and live with unfilled positions, how does that affect tax revenue? Even if those people do move, how does that influx affect people with lower paying jobs? Will they be pushed out? How does that affect tax revenues?

Those are the kinds of questions I saw raised by opponents, and it seems like there weren't clear answers to them.
I suppose if we ever sell our house we will need to remember to advertise that the solar panels are totally paid for.
Just as many pesticides mimic the hormonal and chemical signals of pests to drive certain behaviors that lead to eradication, this work mimics the linguistic signals of humans. I think viewing it metaphorically as the most sophisticated humanicide discovered to date is probably appropriate.

Consider that conventional munitions make an effective pesticide but are not used due to their side effects. Instead, chemicals are used to destroy or mimic the perception and production of various signals so that populations of unwanted critters effectively self-destruct.

Imagine a war fought with a weapon like this that left entire cities perfectly intact!

# end hyperbole
We are all up in arms about modern tech companies “selling data” by offering targeted ad placement. I propose that this outrage properly belongs with older and more traditional institutions, from your telco to your supermarket, who are literally exchanging spreadsheets of personal data for money.
They do skip the mining. Mining defends against Sybil attacks, which you don't have to worry about if you know who all the participants are.
It's been a while since I've played in a tournament, but I think I'd like your score sheets better than the traditional. I've been in situations where I tried to analyze a game I played a while ago, and some of the moves were illegible. Your grid forces legibility, which is something that you probably had to compromise on for the OCR, with an unexpected benefit. Really nice product and congrats on the launch!
Totally fair, I was also thinking of this kind of claim in "An-capistan" without a state enforcing bankruptcy as an option. The imagined regulatory environment is critical to how we think about his kind of thing.

I do think you underestimate how accessible bankruptcy is for most people who are served by payday lenders.The folks I know who are forced into that market aren't well educated, and may not even know where to begin. I find that they view bankruptcy as a way "fat cats like Trump get out of the debts while working stiffs have to pay"

As a tool it's really only available to middle and upper-middle class Americans.
I mean a simple calculation shows that ny state would have break even in less than 10 years.
I saw leftie Twitter refer to it as "insider gentrification" which I thought was a hilarious and clever observation.
Love it. The experience for creating is great as usual (for DO).

I really like the built-in pgbouncer, easy to configure connection pooling thing too!

https://i.imgur.com/zcS6a3a.png
How to Stop Procrastinating
Thats hard to answer. And to be honest, if I had any good ideas, I would probably work on them myself.

Sometimes you just have to compete against existing ideas and try to do better than them.
Try googling sentences.
> With a blockchain coin it would require the private key of the customer to send the coins.

There are no "customers", this is a private blockchain where only banks participate.
I doubt it. I've heard interviewees for years on podcasts talk about opening a PR as a means to discussing something long before the code is actually ready. Seems like this is just a feature following a common though informal common practice.
It also matters because of flight connections.

A high frequency mainline flight + a low frequency regional leg = You can get a short/optimal connection time with at least one of those mainline flight choices.

But if both flights are low frequency, you wind up with a lot of connections hitting unappealing layover times that drive business to the competitor with a shorter layover.
Or you could use ChessNoteR

https://www.chessnoter.com/
Local battery storage is nice in a power outage, but right now it isn't remotely competitive with net metering.

I pay US$7.94 a month to my utility to "store" megawatt-hours of electricity over the course of a year. Brand-name home battery storage is still well over $500 per kilowatt-hour installed.

So yeah, I'll engage in shameless commerce with the evil corporate utility if they'll loan me a $2.5-million-dollar "battery" for less than 8 bucks a month.
Reminds me of NIMBY’s celebrating stopping new housing to “preserve the character of the neighborhood”.
> a person exposed for less than a minute would be a dead man walking.

Yup, fortunately robots aren't alive

We know how to fabricate telezooms to take a photo to an animal at 400m distance. We use periscopes rutinely that do not need electronic necesarily. We know how to take a photo to the reflection in a mirror and zoom it later. We have the technology to make a mirror with a very finely polished metal surface (would be that sensible to radioactivity?), and we have all the time in the world to make a big photo secuentially from many small simple photos, ommatidium like. with less info encoded ...

Why we need electrons when we could use photons and an optic cable to translate the info at 100 km in some fractions of second? What happens with an optic cable when radioactivity hits it?
Communities have had published standards of conduct since the bronze age.
Sure there is, simply by virtue of being the only solution available. All of a sudden, a simple database becomes a sprawling corporation with a multimillionaire board of directors, waging political war among themselves for resources, power and an ever larger number of underlings.

The private sector is not magically superior to a state bureaucracy, without any competition or political pressure to reform it can act even worse.
Some people figure out the utility of this right away. Many don't. Whenever I show my coworkers the 10-command pipeline I used to solve some ad-hoc one-time problem, many of them (even brilliant programmers and sysadmins among them) look at it as some kind of magic spell. But I'm just building it a step at a time. It looks impressive in the end, even though it's probably actually wildly inefficient and redundant.

But none of that is the point. The end result of a specific solution isn't the point. The cleverness of the pipeline isn't the point. The point is that if you are familiar with the tools, this is often the fastest method to solve a certain class of problem, and it works by being interactive and iterative, using tools that don't have to be perfect or in and of themselves brilliant innovations. Sometimes a simple screwdriver that could have been made in 1900 really is the best tool for the job!
Wasn't Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan CEO) a vocal skeptic of bitcoin and crytocurrencies a year ago?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/jpmorgan-...
That's a GAN.
Imagine a continuum, with California at 0 and Texas at 100. You live in California, but you personally, are philosophically at 75. You leave California and move to Texas, because it's more your style. But when you get there, it's closer to what you want, but to you, it's too far the other direction. So you try (perhaps unconsciously) to move it partway toward California.

The locals don't agree, and don't like you trying to do so.

Note well: This does not mean that a state income tax idea would be a good idea or a bad one for Texas. It only means that it would be a foreign idea.
It would also be nice to have a way to link multiple PRs together so they can be merged simultaneously. A ton of people are working across multiple repos which makes reviewing and coordinating changes really annoying.
I prefer using phrases for a couple years now whenever possible. Makes remembering easier. Spice it up by inserting a symbol somewhere or capitalizing every nth word.
So you also assume an exponential increase in solar panel efficiency ? Or in your energy consumption?

Its a rather simple calculation, where do you think the cost of energy will be in 20 years and how will the amount of energy you consume develop in that time.
Good tip: I define multiple DNS servers (6 actually, CF+Google+ISP). Most resolvers query all and return first reply.
please cite a source
thats a very common phrase, used in high schools across America. Don't know what 4chan has to do with anything.
2018: Billions in tax breaks to amazon will add thousands of jobs

2021: After hitting 2020 growth targets, Amazon quietly lays off 5000

It’s not like we haven’t seen this before.
just curious what version(s) of plv8 you're supporting.
Basically just uploading a photo. I can definitely see that being a convenience I might pay for. My particular use case is just inventory - I want an app to take stock of where my inventory is, what condition it's in (hence the photo), a name, and if it expires, the expiry date.
Their entire deal, which was released with the initial announcement, is predicated on them creating those promised jobs and building those promised buildings. There are benchmarks along the way and all the incentives are based on meeting those benchmarks.

In short, yes, they would have signed a contract stating that.
On that point, I agree.
We bought panels outright with Solar City, end of 2007. Overall, we're satisfied.

We didn't get exactly the rig we wanted. As a typical HN reader, I learned more about solar than their customer-facing staff, and had to periodically be put on the phone with a techie they usually insulate from customers. One problem was working around a revered shade tree we had no intention of hacking to optimize solar yield in late afternoon. One shaded array in a string is like one bad battery in a flashlight; that string's output crashes. I determined that we wanted two strings on independent converters, so half the panels would be unaffected. I was willing to pay whatever this cost, but they wanted a simple pricing model. They agreed to my request. Studying the wiring after installation, it was clear that the strings couldn't possibly be independent. It took calls to Germany to understand that the converter algorithm was tuned to "fake" two independent strings, like someone learning to walk with a lame leg. As spelled out in the manufacturer manuals, the algorithms claimed to optimize for the better string, even though they only saw the combined output. They lied about what they were actually installing, or more likely, the customer-facing staff were too ignorant to understand the swap being made without my consent.

There was a full-court crush to get our contract signed by the end of the year, ostensibly to have a chance on a limited number of expiring state-sponsored favorable time-of-day rate plans with PG&E. The state office was swamped with a backlog of unprocessed requests, though it strained credulity that SolarCity wouldn't have some idea about our chances. Of course they knew we had no chance; I found out through a back channel that they never filed until January 7th, making us ineligible. This deception speaks for itself.

Our panels cover various roof vents. This is not allowed by code in many locales. One day, a plumber snaking our bathroom sink drain gave up on the new snake his boss was making him use, and said he'd just go up to the roof and snake from there. (This is standard drain geometry in a house.) He came back down mortified: Our panels were blocking his access. He managed with a different snake, then we discovered the cause for his mortification: Our solar was out as of his visit. His original snake had gone up, not down, and shorted a panel. The panel was fine, but some component near the regulator on the side of the house had literally exploded.

SolarCity repaired this promptly, without charge.
I really like Chess Score Pad for iOS, but it's not approved for tournament use.

I like ChessNoteR almost as much, and it's USCF-approved. Not FIDE-approved yet, but they're working on it.

https://www.chessnoter.com
Four things you need to know about mobile dapps
I'm Irish and I like Canada.

> First Im Canadian and I like Canada.

You can't extol the virtues of the US healthcare system and then say you like Canada. That's contradictory. You can't say that you "like" Canada (a social democracy) but also say you admire the US healthcare system (non socialised healthcare). Make up your mind.

> However this is almost wrong by definition "I strongly strongly disagree that unions violate […]

No. That's not defining something, that's stating a belief. Your have opposing beliefs. Neither of us is wrong by definition. When you think about it, that's not how belief and ideology works. My point is though that the overwhelming majority of Canadians and Americans agree with my position even if that position is not reflected 100% of the time in the social policy of the day. We could be all wrong, but hey, you got to either convince us all (and you're not doing a good job of it) or hope that the powers that be prevail. And history tells us they won't

I know about negative and positive liberty, I studied philosophy.

I've also read Chomsky. He's a frickin' anarcho-syndicalist, he's on record as being an anarcho-syndicalist. A syndicalist is someone who believes in unions! How can you say your views are reflected best by someone like Chomsky and in the next breath decry unions.

Everyone is self-interested. That's as close to a law of human nature as any that you can get. Randian capitalism relies on the fact that people ought to only look out for themselves, and invariably do. Capitalism is a _system_, humans _animate it.

It's been great debating you, but please read over what I've written a couple of times before you reply to me. That might sound really condescending, but I don't mean it to be, I swear. I think we actually see eye-to-eye on a lot of things …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-36

It was an experiment to test radiation effects; the In-flight Radiation Dose Distribution (IDRD) experiment:

This joint NASA/DoD experiment was designed to examine the penetration of radiation into the human cranium during spaceflight. The female skull was seated in a plastic matrix, representative of tissue, and sliced into ten layers. Hundreds of thermo-luminescent dosimeters were mounted in the skull's layers to record radiation levels at multiple depths. This experiment, which also flew on STS-28 and STS-31, was located in the shuttle's mid-deck lockers on all three flights, recording radiation levels at different orbital inclinations.