skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an FYI that I'm currently getting an error after signing up.

When I click "New App," there's a modal popup that says, "In order to select an item from your online storage, please sign in." I click "Sign in" and another popup opens and closed immediately. I click it again and the same thing happens, but then the center modal is replaced with, "There was an error! Details: The feature you requested is currently unavailable. Please try again later."
They are also aggressively expanding into display ads, and the epicenter of the display ads ecosystem is in NYC. A lot of the hiring in tech they do in NYC was for ads positions.
What do you think of the BagNet paper? It sounds like the important thing for image recognition is just coming up with local features?

https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkfMWhAqYQ
These samples are freaky good. We're approaching some threshold very, very fast. I'm not sure what that threshold is, and whether or not crossing it is a good thing, but soon we'll be there.
Not just "What can you do for me", but "We'd never consider you for a HQ in a million years, but by all means give us a bunch of business intelligence gathered on your own dime we can use to site fulfillment warehouses..."
That's certainly a factor, but there's more to it.

- A380 is heavier, per seat, than newer aircraft designs which are making use of advanced composites, new technologies that reduce the weight of wiring, etc.

- A380's engines are older models which are less efficient than the latest-generation engines fitted to the 777X and A350

- Aircraft with 4 engines have higher operating costs than 2. Additional fuel burn, maintenance expenses, etc.

Obviously some of this could be improved if Airbus were to have developed an upgraded version of the A380 (and Rolls-Royce it's engines). There was talk of both a new-engine A380neo and a stretched A380-900 at one point. But clearly, the market was judged to be too small to justify the substantial development costs.
I flagged this because the claim seems to come from Sputnik, the Russian government-owned news organization that's probably not a credible source.

If you google the headline, all the news articles are rt.com, sputniknews.com, conspiracy blogs, etc. No mention anywhere else that I can find.

https://news.google.com/search?q=Riam%20Dalati%20Douma%20att...
I just built a house with solar panels. I had a bit of trouble with the bank, because the appraiser refused include the panels when appraising the home.

Ultimately, my state offered better financing than a traditional mortgage. I just wonder what's going to happen if I ask a buyer in 5, 10, or 20 years to pay for the panels. They clearly reduce the home's energy consumption, and thus have a clear demonstrated value.
If you keep participating in the race to the bottom, you eventually end up on the bottom. The belief that any price in tax cuts will benefit your citizens in the form of "jobs" is a particularly toxic form of economic fundamentalism, and its hollowing whole states out.
What they're gaining is interoperability with public blockchains. JP Morgan's permissioned blockchain—Quorum—is essentially a fork of Ethereum. They can issue assets on their private chain (which, yes, by itself is no better than a traditional database). However, they can then transfer these assets to and from public blockchains.

By doing this, they are gaining access to the greater crypto ecosystem while still maintaining centralized control when they need it.

Here's a little example of how this might work in practice:

1. You hold $100k in your JPM money market account

2. You convert $25k of that to JPM's stablecoin on their Quorum chain

3. You withdraw this $25k JPM-coin to the public Ethereum blockchain

4. You use it in Ethereum's burgeoning "Decentralized Finance" or "Open Finance" protocols.. some examples: https://www.dharmalever.com, https://compound.finance, https://www.augur.net/

5. You finish what you're doing, and transfer it back to your JPM account
Well, the NY football teams play in a New Jersey swamp so that didn't really work out for NYC either.
Considering the rate of change in this field, what would be beneficial to learn for people who don't actually get to use machine learning in their day to day job? I'd love to dive in and learn more about machine learning but I don't want to waste time learning something that will be totally irrelevant in a couple years.
This is Hawala but controlled by one entity. Where is the value and why does it need to be done in tokens controlled by JPM?
@adamfaliq here are my bulletpoint suggestions:
- find something people are doing in excel over and over, make it a saas (search google keywords for excel templates)
- find something that currently costs people time to do (some form of shopify work?) and automate it or make it a profit center for someone
- pick an existing marketplace (salesforce, shopify, magento, etc) and build something there so you're spending less on marketing and know there is a built in audience used to paying for things

at its core it is a matter of can you save people money? time? or can you make them more money? those are the reasons people pay for things. Also competing on price alone is a fools errand.

feel free to email me for more help, i literally do this for a living (helping students generate and grow their businesses at a university).
What's nice about the move is that the reinforcement learning algorithm doesn't fundamentally change. The action and state spaces will be larger since a joint has more degrees of freedom in 3D than it does in 2D so learning may take longer so we'll need to also increase the size of the replay buffer and the episode length.

I'm planning on writing a followup post on 3D so stay tuned!
It's also important to name and shame law firms that represent patent troll clients.
Funny, you won't see "Mormon" ads anymore but not too long ago (2011) they ran the "I'm a Mormon" campaign: https://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/im-a-mormon
That trend seems to be (gradually) changing, although yeah, it seems like many municipalities still let themselves get shaken down by stadium-owners.
Ask HN: Would you find an accounting service for individuals valuable
Hi,
I am building an open source accounting tool here - https://github.com/alexjv89/cashflowy as a solution to my accounting needs as a professional software consultant.

Recently I have been listening to productize podcast by @briancasel and I am definitely influenced by it. I figured that Cashflowy as a product will take some time to get to a polished state. While it does, I can offer Cashflowy as a service where I augment what the product is not good at, by me doing it manually for you.

If you are a Consultant/freelancer/small business owner, I would like to offer my services to do all your cashflow accounting for you.

My idea is that the more volume of work that I do for others, the more I figure out how the product should look like. And over a period of time, everything that I find myself repeating I can add it to the product so that eventually I eliminate myself.

Can you take a look at the proposal and let me if it valuable enough for you?

Here is a more detailed write up - https://docs.google.com/document/d/18I0C19u6TnhY5qKoEblvHNlA425u2gu3p8Fup00hDJ4/edit#heading=h.hhbvhqnponw0 .
Well run the calculation the other way. It's 2050 and the passenger volume between NYC to BOS has doubled[1], but the number of runways or slots in NYC hasn't doubled (since it can't), how do they increase capacity of their shuttles without more runways to fly more 737s? A: Switch some of those hourly shuttles to a bigger plane.

[1] Hopefully in 2050 we'll have rediscovered how to build railways in the USA and actually have HSR from NYC to BOS making this example a bad one.
I was lucky and found a small little gem on 1kprojects.com that turned itself into a nice little profitable side-project in 5 weeks (not linking to it because i don't want to seem like I'm advertising). Making half my monthly salary at my day job from it.

Sometimes it's just the simplest, least technical and gimmicky things that make money.
Brexit: Theresa May Suffers Fresh Commons Defeat
Yes. Multiple times. I always found it pretty funny as I'd known they were developing their own right alongside it.

Granted, I think his criticisms are more specific than being about the technology in general.

I think he was more critical of it being penned as some replacement for existing currencies and monetary systems, and the whole use as an investment.

But don't quote me there.
100%.

Google wasn't the first search engine. But they were effectively the last. First to market is only important insofar as it's correlated with making sticky products, building a moat, and not dying. That's what you actually want.
Sysinternals tcpview for sockets side is easiest to use
Sounds like Nirvana?
Mars is half an hour away at lightspeed. It would be too easy to break the rover by conflicting commands.
But it's "krya" (кря-кря), "kva" is what frogs say.
A brief overview of Kademlia and its use in various decentralized platforms
NHTSA's refusal to release Tesla crash data erodes trust in driverless cars
Causes of Deferment and Coping
I think you're reading too much into that phrase. It's a bit condescending but I don't see how it erodes the discussion.
On the flip side's flip side, if people weren't so anxious about carving their life out, it could be that we'd have plenty more Edison's and da Vinci's inventing great things for the fun of it.
I really like Firebird's model where you can either access a database file directly (like SQLite) or through a server process (like Postgres). Switch anytime you want. Best of both worlds. How lovely it would be if Postgres were to support something like that.
Ye well, "empathy" is the art of understanding what other people feel intuitively or to share feelings (feel the same thing as the subject) more or less. It helps to have be good at that, but, when you are talking about people problems, if you allow me to be abit presumptuous .. :) .. it is most likely some kind of anti-social behavior (drama, turf war, pride, w/e), not lack om empathy.

Empathy can even be utilized used to fuel drama. It doesn't have to be used for good. If you are surrounded by asses no amount of empathy will help.

The advice can just as well be "work with nice and kind people - they make great teams together". Empathy in this case is just a buzzword for something obvious.
Yeah but a lot of this is because the US has a very self-centric world view, they think everyone is coming to visit them and have no concept at all of an international transfer. In particular they don't have real international departure lounges (that you can't just walk out of without going back thru immigration) like the rest of the world.

Anywhere else on the planet you would pass through a metal detector to get upstairs to the departure lounge and get on your plane.

This is why if you are travelling to Europe from NZ (as I will be on Monday) Singapore/Hong Kong/Shanghai/Tokyo are better candidates for transfers than LAX/SFO
If they bought before people knew Amazon was coming and sold now would they really lose anything? Probably still kept up with the price of inflation even now
Started a Google colab with the interactive text generation script.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1da54684tFMjPbR5idbv...
This was one of the common critiques of the LIC HQ2 plan - LIC doesn't _need_ Amazon to continue redeveloping well, but a nearby city like Newark gets access to the same talent pool and a big anchor tech campus could do a lot more good there. If you're gonna throw tax incentives around, it seems prudent to do the most good with them.

(Granted, Newark is in NJ... and the proposed tax deal was from NY. Thinking as adjacent states instead of a region bites.)
$100k in taxes is maybe 6.5 yrs of a tech worker's state income (using 6.85% state income tax @ 220k/yr).

That's before other taxes, like property (directly or indirectly through rent), sales, etc.

They don't need 25k jobs to support AWS clients in NYC. It's not like they're supporting on-site installations.
Let dissect this a little,

1. List 3-5 things that you enjoy doing routinely
2. Now imagine how you can improve some of its aspects
3. What would that ideal world look like?
4. Everything can be improved!

Mine
- Meditation
- When I was starting guided meditation options were limited, still are to an extent. Some are expensive and some are limited with options. It does not have to be a solo journey like mine and many others' were.
If I did not have anything to work on I'd create a database of guided meditation tools resources, there are 1000's on youtube. I'd categorise them by mood, skills-level etc... Have a basic social aspect to it by adding a community that share the passion and I then can introduce paid features such as Journaling etc. By leveraging the free database of contents out there one would have a decent competitive advantage. Just a thought...
You've got it backwards.

Sports are very popular, and stadium-lovers are vocal with their representatives.

But they are an outspoken minority. The majority of tax-payers do not support subsidizing stadiums.

And stadiums will get built regardless of whether the city gives them free money, because they're profitable. So why subsidize private profits from public coffers?
Which side do you live on, the houses on the east side are up there. Taxes are that bad. I lived there for over a decade, and my family is still there.
Repeat after me: A blockchain without decentralization is just a database.
Saying that Tesla has best user interface seems to be a bit too strong... Touchscreen controls pretty much suck compared to just about any other alternatives.
I had solar panels for 13 years that I bought up front. Never cleaned them, never had to do anything. We had 1 cataclysmic hail storm (Colorado) that destroyed our roof but the panels had zero damage. We had to pay $5000 to get the panels off to fix the roof but the insurance paid for it.

We also paid no extra insurance for the panels.

One of the best decisions we ever made. We just recently sold the house and it is true the panels gave no extra bump to the sales price but the new owners are ecstatic which is also a warm fuzzy.
> The users of those mathematical tools (whether software implementors or people just calling some software library) usually don’t need to care about the details of the proofs

Oh for sure, and perhaps this is just a confusion of terms but i think that's what the thread parent was speaking with "applied statistics". In academia, "applied math/statistics" can mean "I'm doing theoretical math with an eye towards applications but it still requires heavy mathematical machinery", but it can also mean "I'm using mathematical tools to solve empirical problems, and I'm never going to need to worry about Lebesgue measures".
The tax credit thing as designed by legislation is nutty. It lets companies buy your tax credit and use it to offset their own income. Leading to all this zero value financial engineering.

But from a homeowner's point of view and Sunrun's point of view it makes sense. Lots of people might not be able use the tax credit because they already owe have low income tax (moderate income + mortgage interest deduction, or retired with a nice nest egg will get you to very low income tax).

(If you pay enough income tax to use the credit you should just get a loan and avoid this.)

This was legislated poorly, probably in order to call it a "tax credit" instead of "subsidy". A subsidy would be much cleaner, have the same economics and they should just do it that way. This whole mess and industry was created just for this one talking point. The government giving you $2000 off an installation is the same as getting a $2000 tax credit from the Treasury's point of view.

Sunrun sounds like not the best business to be involved with. Like "new buyer doesn't want the system" is an obvious thing for the customer service manual. (Referring to "...prepay the lease and leave the hardware ... I’ve been kicking myself ever since I learned about this latter option. It would have saved the estate around $12,000").

Also they are clearly selling this to a bunch of people who could easily use the tax credit and could easily get a homeowner's loan. Super dodgy. I'll bet a lot of the sales nonsense is to hide this fact.
> and therefore not actually decentralized

> The Quorum blockchain has been tested with other major companies including Goldman Sachs and the National Bank of Canada

It is sort of decentralized. but the access is not open to everyone. Most banks aren't comfortable with putting all their eggs in the basket that could end up under someone else's control. Decentralized doesn't really make the bank feel at ease when they back up their coin by trillions of their own money. They'll want some guaranteed form of control.

The purpose is actually to bypass SWIFT and their network with a network that is completely under the bank's control.
Why is everyone doing this ‘checks notes’ bit all of a sudden? It’s all over Twitter.
The opposition is not because some high tech firm, whether it is Google or Amazon, is expanding in NYC.

The opposition is because of the Massive tax breaks and other $$$ giveaways New York was going to hand over to Amazon. I don't recall Google extorting NYC for $$$ before they decided to expand....
Can someone provide a before and after example on how this technology saves money, reduces transaction failure risk or time taken for transaction to occur (either or all of these)?
I bet the person who invented the wheel did it whilst idling one sunny day.
I’m not sure why tech workers think they’re special. Almost everyone that moves to NYC for a good office job goes through this. Moving to a suburb or another city after age 35 is a stereotype. So is staying here and enjoying a DINK or single life (unless you have a lot of money!).

Job-wise, the NYC tech market is as good as ever.
Does this have some SLA?
To the extent you're willing to comment, I'd be interested in knowing about your criteria for selecting such a project.

- was the domain related to your expertise, or in a niche that was new to you?

- what made this project stand out from others / appear to have potential?

- was codebase quality a factor in purchase?

- do you inherit things other than software from the seller? EG customers, marketing channels, analytics, etc?

- what was the value-add that made it work under your stewardship but not the seller's Sales / marketing / dev / featureset / etc

- Are you interested in doing this repeatedly?
If they were going to buy the card for $30K anyway if you didn't discount it, yes. Even if they weren't going to buy the car without the discount, but someone else would likely come along and buy it for $30K, then still yes, you would have given away $5K.

Add on to the fact that if you sold that one car for $25K, you end up with other people who would've paid $30K but now want that same discount, so you may have given away a lot more than $5K.
That's pretty much how my schedule works out too. The only thing is, by the time I get my kids to bed around 9 or so, I'm so exhausted, mentally and physically, that investing time in my side business is just not gonna happen.

I would guess in an average week, I have about 5 quality hours where I do not have an obligation to someone or something else and am able to spend it as I see fit.
Or the fact that their coin / Quorum IS Ethereum, so most of the work will be done for free by core devs
North Focals glasses review: a $600 smartwatch for your face
I think it depends on the business you are building and also on yourself. I don't think everyone will be able to build something good without quitting. I also don't think it's not impossible to build a business while having a job.

I think what most people fail to recognize is that building a business can take years. Everyone thinks (including me, welp) that you can build next big SaaS in a couple of weeks. The truth is that you can't. It will take probably a couple of months at least. The sooner you realize it, the sooner you will succeed.
You left out the part where the rich elites all know that the earth is actually flat.
My team recently started requiring an implementation proposal on the issue that has to be approved by their peers. It saves a lot of wasted effort by exploring the problem domain collaboratively before development begins.
For sure, if you are used to bash, use it, because you will ve productive.

But dont say powershell is not practical for simple things. Its very practical for simple and complex things. And I am productive with it.
Thank you. I have a SolarEdge currently... after two bad units (to their credit, under warranty) the third has been solid for a long time. I have heard mixed things about microinverters, and my installation has developed partial shading over time (damn trees!) so that's something else I've looked at.
I like that quote, but at least according to wikiquote it may be misattributed - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama...
They include the enwik8 BPC estimates. It may not be strictly comparable - the most obvious issue is that since the HP takes the compression paradigm of intelligence, the compressor size is part of the total, and those 1.5b parameters certainly are not cheap.

(This is one reason I think the HP is outdated. The corpus is not big enough to allow the superior asymptotics of approaches like RNNs or Transformers to compensate for their far larger binary size. HP is not measuring progress on an intelligence metric we care about, it's sort of measuring a 'demo scene' metric of intelligence.)
I don't work with time series data much myself. I would imagine you can get at least some transfer learning, since there are patterns that show up across different domains. It looks like there's been a little bit of work done on this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.01533.pdf .

According to them, transfer learning can improve a time series model if you pick the right dataset to transfer from, but they don't seem to be getting the same unbelievably strong transfer results that you'd see on images and text.
>to attract new business

No. Not "new business". "A" new business. It's a sweetheart deal for one company in particular subsidized by the taxpayers. They're not reducing their citywide tax rate to attract Amazon, they're just giving a handout directly to Amazon.

What you're describing is nothing close to the reality. It's the prisoner's dilemma. Cities that participate in this scheme take turns screwing each other over in an attempt to get a minor benefit themselves, but compared to the scenario where nobody played the game to begin with, they all lose.
Having millions of dollars at your disposal has nothing to do with my question. These businesses exist because there's a demand for them that is being unmet by traditional banking. I don't disagree that it's an unsavory business and fully support anyone perpetuating fraud going to jail.

That said, higher risks require higher returns or the alternative is the risk is simply not taken.
Oh yeah agreed, and also in other applications as well, and i tried to speak to that with the end of my comment - even with continuous time/space models, you're never going to encounter the truly pathological functions that require, e.g., the careful definitions that go into defining Lp spaces. Everything physical is much better behaved.
Puerto Rico to
This is good. We have been emulating this with either a "don't review yet" tag or by opening a pull request without setting reviewers, but it's clearly better to have support for it built in. More people will use it, and I don't have to train people in our particular way of indicating not-ready pull requests.
But they probably did. It was just behind closed doors rather than publicized.
I took the Overland a few months ago and discussed it with the train crew...after having to wait for a freight train.

When I was a kid we used to take the sleeper trains on that route but these days it's pretty much entirely freight. Most of the country stations have been shut.