skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Hampshire is great; unlike California corruption, whatever hypothetical corruption there is here, I don't have to pay for with my tax dollars. The place is run with Prussian efficiency, so hypothetical corruption doesn't impact my daily life. It's an astounding upgrade.

Unlike California, the roads work (the potholes start on 93 as soon as you cross the border to Massachusetts). Let's do a full stop there. California basically doesn't have weather, meaning the simple governmental function of road maintenance should be trivial. Here we have snowstorms (yes, yes California does too ... in the mountains where nobody lives), and somehow the roads are vastly better. Building new lanes or new stretches of highway also takes months instead of decades. Beyond that, despite the existence of copwatch in places like Berkeley, and the lack thereof here, somehow NH police are not insane stormtroopers. Housing outside of Portsmouth is zoned to be easy to build in, so property is what it should cost. Small businesses aren't regulated to death. Streets are safe despite the fact that you can walk around with a submachine gun in your pocket. Water is clean. There is no pollution to speak of. There aren't vast seasonal forest fires because the state doesn't have lunatics preventing normal forestry management practices. I've been here a year and there have been no pitched street battles between gangs of thugs over ... people talking ... in the entire state; a regular fall occurrence in Berkeley (and no doubt other towns in California). Oh yeah, and it took me 20 minutes to get a NH drivers license and register a car; something that would probably take me multiple days in California.

You can talk about corruption as if it is "well this many people went to jail for corruption" -IMO that is a lousy proxy for corruption. Nothing works in California; it is "failed state" level corruption; anarcho-tyrrany except for Google/Facebook oligarch tier people who probably don't pay California taxes either. If I could bribe minor officials like I could in other failed states, it would actually be an improvement over the way California works now. California is an IRL dystopia. Nice weather though, and some interesting people live there out of what I assume is inertia and provincialism.
This remembered me a story someone told in Reddit months ago, which may or may not be true:

Said guy had a wild hog family persistently ruining his crops, until he decided to camp and shoot them. When the family finally arrived, he aimed and shot the first in the head. The other hogs became curious, but continued eating while their relative lay bleeding right there. He shot another with the same effect, but missed a third shot, which hit a metal container and scared the bejesus of the remaining hogs, which fled. He was curious about why they were more scared from a loud noise that their brothers' heads mysteriously exploding.
OpenAI Guards Its ML Model Code and Data to Thwart Malicious Usage
This is not an error on JPM's part. It's not that they don't get the whole decentralized part of cryptocoins, it's that they just want to cash in plain and simple.
It's true that this can be a pain; but this flexibility is also bash's greatest feature: a bash script can make use of almost any other program, regardless of the particular idioms that that program's author was partial too. This is exactly why bash has been so successful for so long and likely will continue to be so for a very long time.

Any attempts to tighten this down would raise the barrier for entry and therefore reduce the ecosystem that bash can operate in.

Also, it's a bit of a false dichotomy. Any other language is also susceptible to these sorts of inconsistencies. For example: Do I specify a range as [min, max] or as two separate parameters? Is it inclusive or exclusive? etc. At some point all programming interfaces come down to conventions, and if your language only supports one then you'll only be able to interop with the subset of the broader community that agrees with you.
I use slack on my second screen.
I'm largely supportive of nuclear power, except for one problem: All new plants seem to require large public subsidies, both direct and indirect.

To get Hinkley Point C built, UK taxpayers have to guarantee an electricity price well above market rate, and the taxpayer has to underwrite all the loans, and the taxpayer will be on the hook for any accident cleanup costs above the reactor's $1bn insurance, and the taxpayer will be storing the waste, and guess who'll be paying for the decommissioning? That's right, in all probability it'll be the taxpayer.

In nuclear is the future, we're in for a very expensive future.
I would say that we were too eager to jump on "Learning" term. It implies that those things are somehow close to us, humans. In reality NN don't learn anything, it is just a optimization problem on the simplified model. And all the issue with them just proves that we are mostly brute-forcing it.
They state (1) free daily backups and (2) restore to any datapoint within the previous seven days.

But if they only create a backup once a day i can only restore to any point in time before the last full backup. Did they mean the constantly backup the postgres WAL files so effectively you have backups only a few minutes old?
The savings that Sunrun advertises seem rather... meager. $2000 over 20 years?
Literally the next sentence, the commenter talks about more than just their salary and how it's a shame that Amazon didn't want to be a part of their community and pay their fair share.
Love this idea, and am excited to play with it. I have a few questions around how updates and changes are propagated, plus if you're planning other types of auth (okta, google domains)
The Proverbial Murder Mystery
Then why create a currency if it isn't as a currency at all?
How the heck did this end up on the homepage again?[a]

This paper makes broad grandiose claims, backed only by tiny toy experiments on tiny toy datasets with tiny toy neural networks.

By the same logic, I could claim that neural networks are equivalent to lookup tables, and then run a few experiments showing how look up tables are a better choice for tiny toy problems in which the answer for every possible combination of inputs is known in advance. That would be silly, wouldn't it?

I bet the author's polynomial regression library would do horrendously bad compared to SOTA deep models in cognitive tasks such as language translation, photo generation, unsupervised language modeling, playing Go, Dota2, or a similarly difficult game in a reinforcement learning setting, and so on.

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17385383
Amazon cancels plans to build New York headquarters
Yes that's all the poster can think about. If you refuse to read the next sentence.
>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...

This.

That's exactly why what's now going to happen in NYC is what should happen in all cases. Wish we could get this going in Wisconsin.
His talks are great, I have listened to hours of them. He is pretty funny too.
Corporate culture emminates from the top.

You can't have a leader that rewards/punishes one way and managers who pick a different approach.

So it only really works if those at the top embrace these ideas, otherwise you end up with this system where they communicate they value innovation, but in their behavior fail to do so.
According to this, I'm a data scientist. I've done and do everything on that list except for "put python in production" and "Scaling sharing of Jupyter notebooks". I've put R in production (albeit not my code, I am responsible for making sure it runs correctly and surfacing errors to the system/developer of that code). I maintain a data lake, multiple SQL servers, deal with gobs of json, version control my SQL Schemas, vc our data types (admittedly they change quite rarely), etc. etc.

But I'm really just a developer who's good at databases and ETL, along with my regular tasks of writing near-realtime background processing systems, web api's, SQL, etc.

I think the data science industry seems to have been massively overhyped, and now they want people who can use AI and statistical learning methods and all this other stuff I don't know to do plain old data engineer work.

A sad outcome for a discipline that once held so much promise.
This already exists. It’s called the DTCC and everybody uses it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearin...
This reminded me of a casual conversation with an acquaintance about how they sold their home, with (older) solar panels and had some sort of agreement where they still got paid for the money generated by the panels.

It sounded odd, as in; who would buy a house where something on the roof was generating income for the previous owner? - Wouldn't you (the buyer) just buy them out? No idea how this was structured - anyone have any background?
I'll toss a link to repl.it here.

It supports a large number of languages. I started using it while I was working through SICP. I've used the python and JS environments a little as well.
I rather the money go to bringing tech jobs to NYC and making it a true technology hub then leave it in the hands of the city to spend billions on useless subway lines that are 3x the construction cost of anywhere else in the world:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
In the UK you only really see those sort of salaries for high pressure financial IT jobs (well, last year I looked 3-4 years ago). Whether those jobs will suddenly disappear soon is a good question.

Or you become a contractor, which pays almost double what a salaried employee makes, but is less stable.
I just have a bike shop in the basement, man.
Ever notice how only government services have hours long wait times: DMV, immigration, passport services, city hall, etc. Government has no incentive to optimize.
>Turns out outsourcing everything is not so ideal after all.

The crazy thing is that this has been the primary business model in the automotive industry for decades at this point and it (generally) works exactly as advertised. If I had to posit why the benefits failed to materialize fot Boeing, it's that the Aerospace industry's approach to and competence with supplier development and quality control is sorely lacking in comparison to that of the automotive sector.

It took decades for the major OEMs to get a handle on the mechanations of the tiered supplier system and they were also operating in a sector where production volumes are measured in the hundreds of thousands. It's far easier to absorb the cost of a "learning moment" when you can spread the cost of a new iniection mold made to the right spec over 100,000+ units. There are also far more opportunities for "learning moments" to appear when you're making hundreds of parts a day versus one a month. Not only can you play catch up without incurring too much of a cost penalty if a whole days production is scrapped, you can gather far more data to help you refine your process (statistical process control).
I'm curious how solar could have put a dent in overall power production needs as peek energy usage comes around 6-8pm when solar panels are producing almost no power. And since utilities need to plan their production around peak usage far more than around overall usage, has solar really done that much to lower utility production requirements?
I don't know if you can say "never". The relationship between Dell and Round Rock, TX was based on such a deal and was a significant boon in the growth of a small town into a reasonable size suburb with a good amount of industry.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20161125/this-day-in-tech-his...
> Unless I'm mistaken and the national debt is actually the national assets, the money is obtained through taxes now rather than taxes before.

Well, the part of the national debt at issue (at least as regards Social Security and Medicare) is also part of the national assets; since “intragovernmental debt” sits on both sides of the balance sheet.
A new surreal, violent novel rejects stereotypes about Korean women’s writing
You have to be really careful with bringing a sudden influx of high-paying workers into an area that does not already have that kind of income distribution (generally speaking, COL on the coasts is higher than that in the heartland). If you don't increase housing supply enough, you can price out a lot of the current residents and things can go downhill quick.
How do actual numbers pale in comparison to a number that was nothing more than projected for some hazy undetermined future date? That 25K number was only ever qualified as "over the next decade."

Google on the other hand bought 111 8th ave 8 years ago(houses 7K employees) and now they are opening a new space in the same area that will house an additional 12K more employees[1]. That will bring their total to 19K employees in a 10 year time frame.

And this was all done without extracting corporate subsidies and without all the pageantry.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-plans-large-new-york-cit...
Amazon's spectacle reminds me of Lebron's "The Decision". It's one thing to work out the details and make an announcement, but to purposefully turn it into a show about "What can you do for me?" instead of "Here's what I can do for you" made it not sit well with people.

Also, the pull-out letter also basically dumps the blame on state/local officials for not wanting Amazon, despite not all stakeholders being present at the table when discussions started.
Hey, remember those Amazon insiders that bought property on the cheap?

"...Amazon employees are apparently eager to get a head start on the New York City real estate game.

Condo sales in Long Island City are soaring following the announcement that the Queens, New York, [a] neighborhood will host part of Amazon's HQ2, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to The Journal, one brokerage firm sold 150 units in four days last week — 15 times its usual volume — after Amazon announced plans to open a headquarters in Long Island City...."

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-buy-apartme...
I'm currently working on building an open source library for building backend GraphQL APIs in Python. I'd love to hear your use cases! My email is in my profile, if you're interested.
>Install the plugin for your editor, see metrics on your personal dashboard

So it seems like the "personal dashboard" is part of a SaaS product, meaning all of the metrics about how I work and operate are uploaded to a 3rd party server?

No thank you
I was honestly surprised by the quality of the generated text. While I can't say I've been following the state of the art in the last months, this seems like a pretty important step forward. Furthermore, at the end of the post they note that the samples are somewhat representative of their results. Maybe they should consider releasing a text file with some more (not hand-chosen) samples? Whatever the case, fantastic work, my congratulations to the authors.
It will lock me out of the websites because it requires me to enable Google Javascript code to execute, which is something I will not do. I allow very little JS to execute at all, and I don't allow any from advertising companies or entities that report to advertising companies.

I understand the reasons why sites may want to do this sort of thing, but personally, the cost of allowing this to happen in my browsing is simply too high.
Ignoring the lack of positives, can JP Morgan reverse erroneous transactions on this? This is an important part of the financial system. Are they just going to hard fork all the time? Send the money back?
>is "Why would I want to write a complicated mess like that?" Just use ${FAVORITE_PROG_LANG:-Perl, Ruby, or whatever}".

Some discussion on the pros and cons of those two approaches, here:

More shell, less egg:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...

I had written quick solutions to that problem in both Python and Unix shell (bash), here:

The Bentley-Knuth problem and solutions:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-proble...
I don't think it's loose at all. In fact I think it would be tight if Amazon moved there.
I appreciate the clarification, but this reads less as “DO is chill” and more as “wait for your surprise bill in a year”
> Whatever growth occurs in NY will be organic. Not government-subsidized hyper-growth which can throw things out of whack.

It's not going to be organic. Instead, these same deals are going to be spread out to a bunch of other companies, most of which will pay less than Amazon on average and the "subsidies" will take longer to be a net positive.

Again, people confuse bribes with standard deals. Any company is eligible to receive the tax breaks that Amazon was going to. So New Yorkers have really "won" here. Same subsidies paid out to lower paying companies at a significant slower scale and significantly less economic upside.

There's no way to turn this into a positive here.
I know nothing about finance law, but I know that governments typically have a "blind spot" for new technologies.

Sometimes this can be a good thing, and I think it's what kind of led to the internet being such an interesting place with things like BitTorrent, but often businesses will see it as a quick loophole.
Or, you'll lose out on all the businesses that won't start or expand there because the baseline level of taxation is too unfavorable for the economy (in either sense of the word) that the city offers.

It's almost like taxing easily-moveable economic activity is a bad idea.
NY Times' reporters aren't a good source for you? What do you want, a BUZZFEED meme, because it's "free"?
HN users commenting with anti-corporate sentiment is not indicative of some fresh new change of attitude.
How we built our Fintech, pivoting 4 times
Tell me how A/B testing a button's color and placement "better connects with a customer's needs" over maximizing primal attentiveness circuits. Or how implementing decoy pricing and measuring relative price plan conversion funnels "promotes the product's benefits." Tell me how running multiple ad copies for multiple persona-tailored landing pages on a platform that's programmed for automatically rebalancing ad-spend with conversion-maximizing optimization algorithms doesn't trend towards finding the primal fears or urges or whatever that best gets sales.

I'm not saying any of this is good, I'm just saying lets not do holier-than-thou mental gymnastics to pretend the tech industry isn't built on taking these traditional sales scripts and industrializing their effectiveness.
Not to get off topic, but given all the talk about climate change and rising oceans, the LIC selection always struck me as odd. Why dig in (with a HQ2) that's so likely to be compromised by storms, rising tides, etc.

Yeah. It sounds odd, but it's certainly not crazy / wrong.
> Well, calculus is a bunch of logic propositions and it explains physics pretty well.

I mean, it is true that you can construct a Turing machine using predicate logic, and thus all computer algorithms can be expressed in this way, but what matters is the relevant level of abstraction, and thinking about things using predicate logic is not always the best.
>What is scary about solar panel maintenance?

I don't remember the details, but whenever a solar company reaches out to me they list all the maintenance they will perform on the panels (a not insignificant list), and that they will charge for it if I buy it instead of lease. And that's where I tell them they just convinced me not to get solar.

Where I live, every few years I get roof damage due to weather. These would be covered with a lease, but not with a purchase.

Then there are things they don't cover at all. My roof will need to be replaced in the next few years. They said that they'll remove all the panels and reinstall them for a fee (even with a lease). When asked for the amount of the fee, they usually give me a range ("it depends on each situation"). The problem is that fee wipes out quite a lot of the savings. My electricity bill is only about $60 at the moment. With their lease plans, I'll save perhaps only $10/month. A fee of a few hundred dollars wipes out years of savings.

I don't honestly know if maintenance will be a problem in reality. I just know that I can't trust them to let me know what kind of maintenance is involved.
What you're missing is glass grinders (router) and band saws. Grinders use diamond abrasive bits and flood cooling. Glass bandsaws same deal. With those you can shape flat pieces any shape you want.
I have to agree with some of the points you made but disagree on some others. I definitely agree that you should never use a PPA, get the loan or pay cash. But I have to say they whole process for getting my solar installed was really nice. I purchased my first home three years ago almost now and had solar installed back in the spring of 2017. It was on my short list of things to do as it seemed reasonable to do. I had one guy come to my door from a competitor but I was very put off by how pushy they where. So I called Solar City (Now Tesla) to talk to one of their sales people. They came on time and was very professional. In terms of financing it all I asked them to run the numbers for everything just to compare. When it came to the PPA I quickly realized that it basically meant I was replacing my normal provider, PG & E, with them for electricity. That didn't set well with me as I was gonna end up paying roughly the same for what I was currently paying. I had just bought the house so I didn't want to take out the loan. I had the cash so it seemed like the logical thing to do. It was nice and comforting to know that I had some time to decide how I wanted to pay for it, and that I could cancel practically up to the day they installed my system. Since then my power bill has been great. I paid just about 200 dollars for the first year since the day they turned it on. And I am on track to pay even less this year. As far as customer service. I don't have a huge opinion on that yet. I haven't needed to call them, though I probably should call and schedule my panels to get cleaned.

Probably the most interesting part of the whole process was paying nearly 10k dollars through PayPal. That was something interesting.
I saw somewhere that the turnout for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's election was somewhere around 4%. The voter turnout for most American elections is really quite low, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were distinct differences in turnout between income percentiles. Perhaps that might go some way towards explaining it.

Edit: I did a bit of research below, and 4% definitely does not seem accurate. I have no idea where the source for that 4% was :/
Why do people not think that cross platform GUIs don't 'just work'? The effort to get something that already works to another platform really isn't much.

Also electron doesn't 'just work'. A simple program being 300MB with a laggy sluggish interface is not 'just working'.
The crux is how you define success. There's a reason business is so cut-throat and usually amoral—it's hard to make a scalable business. If you want this kind of outlier success as an entrepreneur you need to go all-in.

On the other hand, keeping a day job and modest lifestyle enables a broader range of success where you build stuff on your own terms that maybe makes a few bucks or improves someone's life, but without the pressure to go big. The vast majority of ideas can't become massive corporations, but a lot of them might change the world in a much more positive way if you can find a way to take money out of the equation.
And that company is exactly what this tech. replaces. That company does not provide its services for free. This blockchain product does.