skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I sort of do the same, when I read a book I usually look for podcast interviews or book reviews about the book, and as a software engineer when I want to pick up a technology to learn before start following tutorials I look for podcast about the particular technology this is great because people is forced to describe the technology(framework/library/utility) in speaking words.
> Yeah but they will get that tax break regardless

I just don't understand this argument. It's like "Someone's gonna get fucked, so I'd prefer it be me."

That tax break is real money. Money that your community will not be able to spend on education, infrastructure, police, parks, all the things that make a place worth living in. Why would you hand that over to a company that doesn't need it?
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He is a bullshitter. His quotes are priceless:

https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/10/31/Photos/MG/M...
the moment you start using a private blockchain you miss the point of cryptocurrency. all of these enterprise coins make me laugh
To clarify here and from the launch blog post [0].

> Ingress bandwidth is always free, and egress fees ($0.01/GB per month) will be waived for 2019.

In other words, we're not charging while we build this out.

0: https://blog.digitalocean.com/announcing-managed-databases-f...
Amazon never intended to go with any of those "dark horses". It was just a play for a better deal elsewhere.
They were getting very near the same deal that any other company can get through a common tax-reduction program in NY. The difference was scale: 25k jobs was vastly, vastly more than any other company had used for this.

The sheer number of people from NY saying they are "proud" of this shows just how far removed people are from reality.
I wish vehicles like that were available in the US. I'm afraid the market for them might be tiny. Americans often view their cars as an extension of themselves and their lifestyle rather than a utility.
LIC is one of the most heavily redeveloped areas in the city with 40+ story towers popping up like candy. It didn’t need a development boost.

In fact they tore up an existing redevelopment plan for HQ2
It is good to see cheap managed PostgreSQL getting steam. Back in 2006, the startup I was with moved from PostgreSQL to MySQL because the support we were able to find was both expensive (300 USD/hr) and not satisfactory. Back then MySQL AB (this was before Sun) gave us a 10K two year deal on three servers and they had excellent response times and knowledgeable support. So for a long time I was biased against PostgreSQL because of support. It's time to put that to rest :)
agreed. the drive to squash this deal was mainly driven from <butt hurt> local politicians who were whining that they were cut out of the process.
Once you account for "genetics, luck and environment" the only thing left is free will. I think you are absolutely correct, "Does free will exist?" is a huge problem for politics, philosophy, sociology etc.
This seems mostly like a fallacy of the mean. The compromise between two positions is not necessarily the best, and may be worse than either of the two.

Compromise is a necessary part of any democratic system, but because it is necessary to represent all of the constituants and balance their needs. It does not mean that it results in better decisions on any particular issue nor does it provide a good way for an individual to get a cross-section of their viewpoints represented fairly.
All new employees would've paid income and sales taxes.
While parent (and others) may be attempting to revise history, I think this outcome is probably for the best.

Whatever growth occurs in NY will be organic. Not government-subsidized hyper-growth which can throw things out of whack.

Real growth brings with it real increases in public funding, that can be used to fund real increases in infrastructure demands and demands on other public services.

When a local government has to bribe their way into increasing local business, they tip the scales in favor of one thing (i.e. jobs) while burdening other things (tax base, transit support, etc.)

When companies choose to do business in your area—because it's naturally the best place for them—it functions as a market verification that you're doing something right.
> without taking the dangerous bet that the framework you have chosen won't be obsolete in 2 years

That's why I specifically mentioned React and its API, as it's generic enough to have drop-in replacements or even frameworks that apply its basics to completely different kinds of rendering (https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink). I find it unlikely that the basic idea of component trees, efficient one-way rendering of updated data, and JSX rendering will go away anytime soon, and none of that depends on the specific project named "React".
Can you cite an explanation? I'd love to read one.
I went with Clean Solar in San Jose. All companies I got quotes from were very similar; I wanted to go with a small/local company, but the smallest company I talked with turned out to be shady/on the verge of criminal, and for me, Clean Solar struck the right balance of being local and big enough to have tons of great reviews and presumably good financial resources, but not huge. The SunRun guy I talked to was also great but I just didn't get the greatest feel in the end.

In my particular case, I got SunPower panels, but (like most installers), you can get whatever you want. I went back and forth and was on the verge of going with 360w LG NeON panels but then a deal came up on SunPower 345s that were substantially cheaper per watt, getting close to non-premium brands (of course with that slight wattage discount; I suspect they're older panels being phased out in favor of new 360s as the top end). I had liked the idea of using SunPower but the 360s were even more expensive than the already-premium LG 360s, and the 345s at a substantial discount were just the ticket.

Feel free to ping me if you like, I was super happy with my sales guy who was far more patient with me and spent far more time on the phone with me than I think most people would, and the install was done in one day, they arrived early and finished early, and left the place spotless. Can't say it wouldn't have been the same case with anyone else, but I was still impressed.

It's pretty cool how they do the quoting and measurements; get up on your roof and use specialized cameras to 'view' the sky from all corners, find obstructions, calculate sun angles, etc. They gave me an estimate of per-month production that's been amazingly accurate. (the guaranteed production is on a per-year basis with production declining at a certain annual %)
> why are we adding in older controversial studies with less power and sample size?

Because if meta-studies only get to include the single most recent and largest study, they wouldn’t be very ‚meta‘, would they?

> however, other studies have not confirmed this association [18,19]." This is why we should approach this with skepticism.

I love how you’re trying to appear all scientificatious while really just saying „some say A, others say B. No way to know. Be sceptical!“
totally agree. Have been consulting in the data world for some years now. Most companies want to do data science but they have so many low hanging fruit that it makes no sense to do any ML. If they actually manage to get a senior data scientist hired then they typically torture them with boring BI dashboard creation.
Thirded. A wonderful experience that made me proud such a feat of engineering could be partly executed in the UK.
NY has multiple programs to attract small business:

https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program
https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program
Yes! In addition to doing this I write commentary on websites in the hopes of spurring action in others. I do this in real life as well.
Highly-paid professionals need service people, so bringing more of them into your city creates more demand for other careers to support them.

If there isn't enough affordable housing for those lower-paid people, that's a failure by the local politicians. Don't blame the highly-paid professionals; they're not the ones controlling zoning and development.
As an NYC resident I'm glad my elected officials are "butt hurt" at not being involved in a political process that would affect the city in a large way. If they weren't "butt hurt" they really shouldn't be in their jobs.
Some of the largest colo tenants like Internap already left years ago: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/07/29/inte...

At Google's densities, they would never run a datacenter in Manhattan. POPs, sure, like their peering with https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/16, but that's it.
And not a bit of Javascript in sight! love it.
I got paid $175/hr as a data analyst contractor to basically run bash, grep, sed, awk, perl. The people that hired me weren't dumb, just non-programmers and became giddy as I explained regular expressions. The gig only lasted 3 months, but I taught myself out of a job: once they got the gist of it they didn't need me. Yay?
It's still possible to simultaneously acknowledge the fact that we need to repeatedly convince people of space exploration being important while also disliking that this is necessary.
Not sure what to make about this idea of going off piste with your own elements.

Next there will be people wanting to roll their own 'bus ticket' elements, 'parking-ticket' elements, 'food-label' elements and so on. Div soup will start to look hygienic again.

Can't people give the elements in the HTML5 a fair go?

Besides 'css-slide' is actually quite a thing to type, might as well use 'section' with it autocompleting in the editor.
No idea about talks, but I've had two chances to participate in a living room group discussion with him, and I remember both fondly. He is one of the smartest people I've met, and on top of his field.
Thanks.

SFO hasa their passsenger data online with Tableau-BI like tools...

https://data.sfgov.org/d/rkru-6vcg/visualization

Trying to determine passenger counts per week between SFO and [biggest destination] and see what if you just had an A380 ONLY doing that route back and forth, with low cost tickets if you can fly 500 people there each flight.

RyanAir for SFO, so to speak.
Classifying CNNs as just a form of preprocessing is not a legitimate view IMO. The breakthrough with CNNs is that they provide stronger gradient signals because of weight sharing. Essentially, CNNs made the first deep neural networks possible, they were trainable in areas where plain fully connected layers were not.
I'll bet it's async replication with streaming. Anything else costs too much in complexity and performance. Of course the cost of such a setup is a small window where data loss is possible -- but if you're ok with this service you're already ok with data loss because the daily backups lose any add+delete operations you do in a day (unless you have triggers that copy the deleted data in a shadow table)
Basically NY will be treated like any satellite campus. It will grow, but slowly as it has for years. The big "deal" with this move was bringing 25k jobs to NY, which has 5k now. That isn't going to happen, at least nowhere near the timeline it was.
They are cheaper in general though, so it's probably still cheaper than most alternatives with similar services.
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Not really a con based on the use case, right?
The idea is you'd write down the moves during the game on the Scoresheet. Ideally, if people don't think it's too big of a change, we could just have tournament directors hand them out. Otherwise, print, bring to game, scan and throw away
I don't know if it's at all embarrassing (though there are some HNers that definitely did not at least skim the paper, which is a whole other thing).

The examples they gave in the paper were all tiny: MNIST was the biggest with 784 features (Crossfit has <40, Forest has <60, Taxi has ~11), so this is an absurd comparison. You can get better results than all of the models presented, in much less time, using random kitchen sinks (also sometimes known as 'random features') [0].

Plus, it's a little weird to me that their polynomial regression "runs out of memory"—they're solving a least squares problem for which we have a ton of good algorithms for. More specifically, there's no need to generate the data all at once (e.g., why they mention the "polynomial matrix would be huge") much less run QR factorization on this super dense matrix... rather, you would do this in a streaming fashion (e.g., generate the points, one by one, and proceed via SGD, or a nice pre-conditioned version of it since we have a good approximation of the Hessian via some simple streaming dimensionality reduction).

At the risk of sounding a bit harsh, this paper reads like someone recently found out about least squares and tried a few of the bases until they realized that simple things do pretty well in small cases when compared to fancy models like NNs (which is something almost every researcher that I work with knows—though I don't work directly in ML).

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[0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/papers/08.rah.rec.n... , perhaps a shorter, much simpler exposition can be found in 11.3 of here: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/ under "Random Features."
You’re being tremendously naive about this. There was never any chance of Amazon locating to St. Louis or whatever: NYC and DC were always the only options on their radar. The entire “HQ2 search” malarkey was just to extract the maximum possible tax breaks from whichever one they chose.
The Terminal is probably the best and greatest app that's ever existed. There's just this ineffable feeling you have when using it.. like all the knowledge in the entire world is available at your fingertips. Using it just feels good, you feel powerful, and in control.

For people that haven't used it, I know it sounds like porn. But it's incredible.
The people that created the command line weren't L33T H4XOR NOOBS. They were brilliant PhD scientists. Let's not confuse the two.
All three are linked to earlier wage deductions, though one of them is in an extremely course grained way.
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Just a suggestion to not say "You're overthinking it" it can be considered pretty dismissive.
In addition to the pushback against the tax incentives, the cancellation of the L-Pocalypse made a massive expansion in LIC less desireable.

LIC was a perfect location to recruit folks whose easy commutes from Brooklyn to Google were going to be complicated.
As shame. As an employee of a Big N company in NYC, this would have provided upward pressure on my salary.

The fact that that's all you can think about ...

is exactly why people are starting to lose their love for Big Tech in general.
Apple removed Facebook's "spyware in VPN's clothing" from the App Store over user privacy last year.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/apple-facebook-onavo/

They yanked Facebook's enterprise signing certificate for using it to continue distributing that spyware to end users even after it had been banned from the App Store.

Enterprise signing certificates are Apple's method for allowing companies to sideload whatever apps they like, but it is made very clear that you may not use your "get out of walled garden free" card to distribute apps to anyone outside of your company.
If it was primarily a deal to ease the regulatory burden of building such a big thing, I'd be all for it. Admittedly NY has an issue now with too many layers of bureaucracy. But this isn't entirely what it is about. It was also about large tax concessions when plenty of large companies are hiring tech in NYC without any of them. A skilled employee in NYC does not last very long at all on the job market. The 25k employee campus thing was a sham that was geared to an area like NY from the start. They could never move to a smaller area and still get who they need at that scale.

The commodity these days is skilled workforce. Amazon will still be where they can get that commodity, economic incentives aren't needed. Cash is not the limiting factor it is the people they need. It was a smart business move to try to extract some cash too but they did not need that to expand in NY.
The code is pretty clear though. It is well laid out and doesn't feel cluttered.
Saw this recently:
Neural Networks seem to follow a puzzlingly simple strategy to classify images
https://medium.com/bethgelab/neural-networks-seem-to-follow-...

It is no magic
You are correct, but there is a tremendous incentive for them to save on costs by using their own blockchain.

"The blockchain potential in financial services is huge, and has several applications which span across payments, capital markets, trade services, investment and wealth management, securities and commodities exchanges.

Blockchain technology can be considered as one of the main drivers to achieve a substantial cost saving.

According to a Santander FinTech study, distributed ledger technology could reduce financial services infrastructure cost between US$15 billion and $20 billion per annum by 2022, providing the possibility to decommission legacy systems and infrastructure and significantly reduce IT costs."

https://www.pwc.com/m1/en/media-centre/articles/blockchain-n...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cost-cutting-potential-of-b...

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-banks-can-save-big...

https://www.globalcustodian.com/settlements-costs-fall-27-bi...

https://www.ft.com/content/b6171016-171f-11e8-9e9c-25c814761...
I don't see the problem here at all. If you have higher rents, that's because there's more demand for housing, and not enough affordable new housing is being constructed. Who controls that? Your local politicians. Who controls them? The voters who elected them, which is you if you live there. So you have no one to blame but yourself, and no cause to complain. You have the government you deserve.
Phenylalanine is not part of your yearly blood test (Complete Blood Count, Complete Metabolic Panel) and generally isn't tested unless you specifically ask for it, or if a pediatric concern for phenylketonuria is manifested. At least, this is in general N. American, adult primary practice. (I'm interested if any other providers regularly test, as i've not done it at all)
Sure. you can watch one that's in very easy to understand plain english.

prereq:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_zFhWdM4ic

substance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py5byOOHZM8

I mean what is the difference between like using 50 layers versus 75 layers? Ok, yeah we don't know, but to presume that we don't understand anything beyond 3-4 neurons is just nonsense.

By comparison. Go look at any synthetic chemistry paper. There's going to be crazy procedures. One time Phil Baran used Xenon Tetrafluoride as an oxidizing agent. And yeah, for some reason none of the other standard oxidizing agents worked. We don't know why. Hell it could have been that the grad student had bad hands with one of the standard ones. We can make a SWAG an to why XeF4 worked. But we'd be fooling ourselves to claim "we know", so we don't say we do. Does that discredit synthetic chemistry as an enterprise? Does that mean synthetic chemistry is not backed by theory?
Basic navigation from screen to screen shouldn't require any research. It doesn't for native platforms. Facebook doesn't provide a built-in solution, which speaks volumes.

Core navigation still doesn't "just work" for RN. At all. The pure JS solutions are garbage and limit what you can do tremendously. The native solutions have tons of other issues you have to hack around.
That wouldn't be The Avengers, would it? That movie was so bad that I've blocked out all memory of it, other than to remember how bad it was. It does tend to confuse people though when I tell them the worst movie I've ever seen was The Avengers.
>but it also has to pay for most other states’ stuff as well

Strange this point is so frequently tossed around, despite it being false:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-california-feder...

"Lawmakers have long lamented that Californians pay more in taxes than they receive back in services, hanging their hats on a 2007 report by the conservative Tax Foundation that California is a "donor state" that receives only 78 cents in services for each dollar in taxes paid. But state analysts point out that report added extra tax dollars from Californians — beyond those actually paid — to cover the state's share of the federal deficit.

Perhaps more accurate is a 2015 state-by-state review compiled by New York officials, one that puts California much closer to breaking even — about 99 cents in federal services for every real dollar in taxes."
> <butt hurt>

Is this 4chan now?

It's good when local politicians weigh in on local issues. Your comment is completely off the mark.
If the allegations are true, they should be held accountable for advertising for something they knew would go wrong, and for hiding criticism that would expose that.
I expected this to be about some killer feature for Excel for layout, or users preferring to do their layout in a grid, or something like that. I've seen a lot of documents written in Excel that seemed more appropriate for Word instead.

In fact, the title used for submission here ("More fiction is written in Excel than Word") is a twitter link from halfway through the article.

The linked article's title is "A Distracted Walk with Fundamental Analysis", which seems a much more appropriate title for the content.
They broke up with us on Valentine's Day. Heartless.
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Whoa. Let's back up a bit. The DNC and the GOP do a terrible job finding qualified candidates that can do the job. The system is designed to elect the electable. We The People don't have much say in who the parties serve up, who is willing to run, etc.

If the relentless (Media) attacks of DJT are an indication, there are few "outsiders" who are going to get involved in the future. And isn't that exactly what status quo'ers like the DNC and GOP want?
An interesting thing touched on in the article is that some folks' tax burdens are low enough that they can't get the full credit anyway -- or at least not in the first year. It sounds like you can take it over a multiple years, but suddenly the minimal up-front price of a lease scheme might make sense versus fronting a ton of money today, and taking your tax credit over years.
Cool! So who is the target user for this product (technical and non-technical?)? Revenue model?