skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cryptocurrency is valuable because it is the closest thing that you can get to an absolute source of truth.
The more participants you have in the network, the more difficult it is to change the rules and tamper with the records.
Nobody can devalue your money; the rules are laid out up-front and only you have the key to transfer your money.

Most people today store their wealth in either a national fiat currency or instruments which derive their value from it.

Fiat currency is controlled by governments; new money enters the fiat system in ways that are opaque to the average person.
The fiat system is not opaque to the global financial elites however; through social connections and access to inside information, the elites have a pretty good idea about how to predictably use the fiat system to maintain an unfair advantage.

The fiat money that you hold is being constantly diluted without your knowledge; costs of living are going up, opportunities to start your own business are disappearing and you are increasingly forced to work for corporations which are controlled by the financial elites.

There is a reason why corporations are so inefficient; they can afford to be - They're not in the business of creating value. The reason that corporations make so much money is because they've monopolised all the channels through which new money flows into the economy.

For example, companies like Oracle have monopolised government contracts (which is just one of many financial channels through which money enters the system); most of that money is poorly spent; the company essentially uses the profits to buy back their stock to make their shareholders and executives richer. You know that this is what's happening because very few software developers use Oracle products today and yet the company's stock price has kept going up. Their license fees are ridiculous (according to some sources, Oracle sell licenses for software which costs over $40K per cpu core annually).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_...

^ This list is made even more scary by the fact that it's not a complete list. Is it an accident that the list is so far from being complete? For example, it's not difficult to find massive failed projects which are not listed there. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INCIS
Thanks, very helpful. I do prefer local in general. If you don't mind, would love the name of your sales person..
You use “the world is full” twice. First to describe the high supply of software developers looking for projects and second to describe the high demand for said services.

So why hasn’t supply met demand? Why isn’t the market working more efficiently?

There can be various explanations for that, obviously, including the lack of information you hint at (“secret”, “have no idea”), but Occam's Razor would suggest we examine the assumptions first.

I’m not so sure that there is such a strong demand side in this market.
There's a reason you get superstar hubs, instead of companies and employees equalizing to somewhere else as soon as one metro gets a bit more expensive. Network/ecosystem effects are a real thing.

Google already has some dev offices in cheaper areas, like Pittsburgh, where office space is cheaper and the salaries they pay slightly lower. And yet, they still choose to double their headcount in NYC.

Just saying, "well I guess Google is just being irrational for no reason" would be simplistic, childish thinking. Google doesn't choose sites or increase headcount on a whim. They're going to do it because there are real advantages to the major tech hubs.

Educated guess, as someone who works at Google now and used to work at Amazon: it's easier to attract people to major tech hubs, because they offer more career stability in the form of having lots of other tech companies around. Being in Kansas City making a Google salary might sound great, until you realize that if you lost that job for some reason, there's nothing around in the same tier.

Also, the kind of person who wants to live in a cheaper city, with a big house for their family, is also the kind of person who's going to be reluctant to move from wherever they currently live anyway. That demographic is going to be hard to convince.
I think "populism" from us liberals is a euphemism for "whiteness," as in the socially constructed club called "whites." At least partially? I don't keep up with a lot of mainstream liberal writing these days.

Liberal populism on the other hand implies American patriotism and belief in actual democracy, valuing the ever-varying "melting pot" above concentrated power in corporations, law enforcement and the executive branch, and above any social differences (I think. May be misreading you!)
I was surprised and please how much I took to it, honestly; I went in cold and was prepared to not really get a knack for it.

But easy-looking is also a product of writing it up after the fact, and learning under good instruction; it was still a solid 20+ hours of work with a fair amount of cursing and bits of messing up and redoing stuff.

In any case, whether or not I caught on quicker than average, the process itself feels very accessible to me. I can recommend giving it a shot a lot more readily than I'd have guessed before I tried it myself.
Even without explicit subsidies, it seems like rooftop solar is still getting hidden subsidies? If homeowners were paid wholesale rates for the power they provide, with prices based on the spot market, would any of it make sense financially?
Hi, this is indeed really cool. Just a couple of questions:

1) I'm not really understanding how the apps are shared? Ex. when a user scans the QR code or opens the glide app link sent to them, do the apps open in a browser from the phone? The UI shown on the website don't seem to have a URL bar or browser navigation so I'm a little confused as to what actually happens...

2) I find that one of the harder parts of developing an app is getting the App Store/Google Play Store account/license/certificates/submission process. Do you guys have plans to streamline this with tools such as Fastlane? Maybe a developer portal to easily import this to App Store Connect or Google Play Console?
Just yesterday I needed to extract, sort, and categorize the user agent strings for 6 months' traffic to a handful of sites (attempting to convince a company to abandon TLS 1.0/1.1).

The first half of the job was exactly the process you described: start with one log file, craft a grep for it, craft a `grep -o` for the relevant part of each relevant line, add `sort | uniq -c | sort -r`, switch to zgrep for the archived rotated files, and so on.

The other half of the ass was done in a different language, using the output from the shell, because I needed to do a thousand or so lookups against a website and parse the results.

Composable shell tools is a very under-appreciated toolbox, IMO.
We'll see, sure.

Though when you're looking at a 20 year term it's easy to get solar panels reactively instead of proactively.
I'm glad they won, and I applaud them for fighting for the good of everyone else. Thank you Cloudflare.

Unfortunately by not going to trial, they didn't set any precedent, and sadly I don't think they did much damage to the patent troll system. Hopefully I'm wrong. :(
It would seem that unnecessary distinction has severe first amendment rights implications.
Esports has a diversity problem but these pro gamers are inspiring real change:
Yeah, this isometric rendering has nice hints of Necker Cube illusions to it.
If you're talking about the 2nd Ave stub, yeah, it was crazy expensive but it's serving 200K passengers a day, alleviating crowding on the Lex (entire Lex is like 1.3m), and UES to Times Square is hella faster.

Anyway, for me it hinges on how much special treatment Amazon got, $100K in tax abatements per job seems excessive, but others say it was pretty standard, would have been a huge anchor tenant for NYC tech and LIC, so much smoke blown on both sides it's hard to say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

If they want to sell and support AWS to bigcos in NYC they are going to need a major presence regardless, not sure how much sense it makes for their other businesses to have a big HQ in NYC.
It's a Bird. It's a Tesla. No, It's an Arcimoto
Using a verified human Google history to allow people who would otherwise be flagged as potentially a bot to skip the CAPTCHA is justifiable. Setting up your reCAPTCHA such that the lack of a verified Google history is used as a "probably bot" signal is really quite awful.
Or you can just sell the house and live like a king in Patagonia...
I mean, again I'm not a lawyer and I don't spend time reading EULAs, but to me that seems like a pretty uninteresting hold-harmless agreement that happens to specify the harms from getting hacked and distributing malware, like what happened to Transmission and Piriform.
Amazon's Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals”
well how many servers that you interface with financially allow you to audit all of their transactions in a mathematically verifiable way?
The tweet was about NTLM, so presumably MD4, but other common hash algorithms are likely only going to add a few hours to the result at this point. This wasn't some crazy amount of hardware either. A more modest single GPU setup could still crack the password in less than a day.
I love this! I draft pull requests as an ad-hoc branch management scheme at work with a [WIP] prefix, and reviewers are notified when I make a change (small team so not too spammy). When it's ready I update the summary and remove [WIP]. There might be a better way to do it (and I'd love to hear suggestions), but this is how I do it right now.
LeBron's Decision 1 was a lot of money for him. He had the talent to back that up.
> almost every good idea that touches your entire realm of experience been attempted 10 times

I strongly disagree with the implied defeatism here. There have been many attempts and many failures with many popular ideas for non-obvious reasons, and it is worth being #11 if you can A) identify why the previous attempts failed, and B) find a different angle that avoids the issues.
I guess I will never redevelop my salons booking app. I do appreciate how it easily emails me back my forgotten password in plain text tho.
Victory!!! Now, wtf did we win?
> they are working closely with those people to test and confirm inputs and outputs before running analyses

In terms of data science training, at least, this is often a missing element. It's easy to create classroom tasks that focus on teaching how to do analyses and neglect practical aspects like validating data and sanity-checking results. People pick it up on the job, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if statisticians get a better academic grounding from things like reasoning about uncertainty.

(It's not a problem specific to data science, either. I've heard plenty of complaints about new engineers who are so used to made-up problems that they don't balk at ludicrous data or results when they start doing real work.)
You are right. He made an arrangement to have the seller remove the equipment that SunRun itself said was rare. People don't often accept surprise problems in homes with less negotiation. Don't do that.
I do recommend Arnold Bennet's 'Living on 24 hours a day', though written almost a hundred years ago, his ideas are even more effective today.
Energysage website is broken and requires an email - seems like it's main purpose is to harvest PII. I'd be wary of using that site. Gave fake quotes after I gave fake email...
Pay one person a salary of $1m and you can pay 9 people $55k to average $150k. The average means nothing. Will there some site lead earning $20m/year bringing up the average?
Don't tell the folks in compliance that. They won't be happy until margins are negative and no one has a job--including themselves.
even if that is true (which it isn't) the HQ2 deal had no conditions like that attached.
My point was exactly this.

If I as a dedicated individual can’t get a single license for a single concrete item, how is a general website able to automatically and generically obtain copyright-licenses for all the copyrights in the world?

It’s simply not a reasonable proposition.
How convenient this coming on the tails of blockchain poisoning...

Now way they could possibly be correlated.
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Investigate Saudi Arabia's Absher App
The information in the second and third paragraphs is great, but it's being downvoted because the first sentence is unnecessarily antagonistic. HN has succeeded as a place for productive discussion for as long as it has because it still has an ethos of a joining together in a search for the truth. Prefacing a good comment with an insult (even one that might be true) damages the fragile ecosystem of cooperation. It's not that this particular insult is so bad on its own, but its presence encourages others to reply with escalated levels of confrontation. Downvotes help prevent the incivility from spiraling out of control.
>I can manage about 3-4 hours of concentrated problem-solving a day at work.

>In the evenings I sometimes don't have enough mental energy

Here's my solution: Take your most valuable hours for yourself. Work in the morning and sell your less valuable hours. Is your employer going to notice? Extremely likely not.

I am sure your job isn't just heads-down code monkey and involves meetings and other planning that aren't as draining.
Activity Monitor makes it reasonably easy to check which files a process has open, but does not reasonably handle the inverse case of checking which processes have a specific file open.
I assure you, we know exactly what that is like when we watch things like MTA funds being reassigned to save upstate ski resorts. And gobs and gobs of money being spent on the East Side Access train tunnel, at the expense of our failing subway system.

New York State has plenty of control over things that matter to the city, and doesn't hesitate to prioritize state concerns.
I expect the number of tech workers and high income workers will be much less without hq2.

Although I hope that it’s a bustling tech hub in 5 years.
This is... Simply not accurate. NYC job market for tech is extremely hot and getting hotter.

Consider that your perspective might be skewed because people in lower COL areas tend to be those who place more emphasis on COL?
> Unfortunately by not going to trial, they didn't set any precedent

The article says:

> We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech.
The average employee in that 25k cohort would need to be paying $12k worth of state taxes to NY every year for ten years in order to recoup the $3B tax break figure.
You know if you're going to be wrong you should be less vociferous about it. Compromising SWIFT credentials allows you to send money from any account. Compromising a customer's private key would only allow you to send money that's in that one account.
Copyright law covers this easily: there is a creative step, being the content, in the result, so the result is copyrighted.

Besides, even reading the work creates a copy in RAM and that copying act is forbidden unless the author allows it.
Deep feature extraction is important for not only image analysis but also in other areas where specialized tools might be useful such as listed below:

o https://github.com/Featuretools/featuretools - Automated feature engineering with main focus on relational structures and deep feature synthesis

o https://github.com/blue-yonder/tsfresh - Automatic extraction of relevant features from time series

o https://github.com/machinalis/featureforge - creating and testing machine learning features, with a scikit-learn compatible API

o https://github.com/asavinov/lambdo - Feature engineering and machine learning: together at last! The workflow engine allows for integrating feature training and data wrangling tasks with conventional ML

o https://github.com/xiaoganghan/awesome-feature-engineering - other resource related to feature engineering (video, audio, text)
That's nice to state, but it simply isn't true. JPMorgan controls access to the network, but once you're in the network, you're now on equal footing with them. If you want to, you and the other participants can fork away from JPMorgan and do your own thing. JPMorgan controls the network only in the sense that they initially extend invitations.
GitHub is a good example of a software development tool that is a cloud service instead of a local program, and thus has an easy and effective monetization strategy. Still, though, the vast majority use it for free.

IntelliJ and Docker give most of their products away for free. Why? Probably mostly because there is no good solution to licensing local software. They rely on the patronage of a relative few corporations, who have legal departments that will enforce the licensing rules on their behalf to avoid legal risk. Unfortunately that means that their business is an enterprise licensing business which is difficult to break into. Success in enterprise licensing is less about product quality and more about sales. That's not the kind of business I'd like to be in.
>"Ugh... any company moving into NY can get these same large tax concessions."

Really? Let look at what was offered:

1 $897 million from the city’s Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (REAP) and

2 $386 million from the Industrial & Commercial Abatement Program (ICAP)

3 $1.2 billion in “Excelsior” credits

4 $505 million in a capital grant

Yes the first 3 are existing programs. But the idea that those sums or anything remotely close to them would simply be made available to any company moving to NY is comical at best. Now lets look at number 4, a 505 million dollar capital grant. That's a pure giveaway compliment of the tax payer. And let's remember that both the city and state governments put together dedicated teams to find this money for Amazon. This was in addition to the work the city and state did for give Amazon data, such as "detailed information on the availability of machine-learning specialists, user-experience designers and hardware engineers."[1]

There is no way any of this is available to "any company moving to NY."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/technology/amazon-new-yor...
There's strong demand at a competitive price point and acceptable license terms.

Even though many software companies and startups are trying to push SaaS software "rental" terms, many of the market participants are looking for a one-time purchase more similar to "ownership"
America seems to have become the land of the free for only the largest organizations and political donors.

I found that out very fast when our household income, rather quickly, went up and put us in the top 0.01% of earners. Rather than pay even the measly 13-20% we owed for 2016 (about $100k) we structured things to reduce our "income" to almost 0, then got on a payment plan for 10 years. All in all it will reduce that years tax burden alone from $100k to ~$50k.

The next year we were able to show a large loss so in effect are now off the hook for paying new taxes for the next ~4 years.

Sure, we could "donate" a lot more to the US if we wanted but this was all done with a consultant and is 100% legeal, so why pay more than we need to when the system makes it so easy?
Suppose each worker makes $150k/year in income and spends $50k a year. That would come out to about $187M in income taxes and $125M in sales taxes each year from the directly employed individuals. There is likely to additional revenue as well. The economic impact studies commissioned by the mayor and governor put the expected revenue in the $20B+ range over 25 years.

It’s become very stylish to rage against corporations. I wish people would take a more rational point of view. We shouldn’t be hating on successful businesses for fun.

Edit: also, I’m not sure, but isn’t the $3B a reduction in taxes Amazon would have paid? So it’s not like NY had that money to begin with. It’s jist a reduction in what they would receive.

Ref: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/amazon-...
Turn it around: these cities had absolutely nothing to do with Amazon’s success. Now they want a cut of the revenues (taxes) simply because they want to hire in a location? If Amazon doesn’t consent to that and no deal is reached: how on earth is that a benefit?

If you stop seeing the tax payments as entitlements, it begins to be a lot easier to reason about.
I'm sure there's an argument where, on a personal level, releasing software open source can lead to financial gain by opening up opportunities to new jobs, fame, etc. It's good resume material, especially if the scope is smaller.

For an extreme case, it worked for Linus
Nashville and Dallas aren't quite midwestern (nor is Denver really), but your point stands. Costs to live and work in the big coastal cities just seem to keep rising, but many folks are not getting enough additional value out of living in those places to justify paying it. This pattern is probably going to keep up for a while, especially because remote work is such a good deal for both companies and employees if they can do it right.
There is always a risk of Salesforce shutting them down, though. Not that I think it's likely, but I wouldn't assume that having a large parent company means they will be around forever.
In a way this is good as we need to stop this race to bottom with government subsidies. Amazon should be expanding in NYC not because of some handouts, but because of the talent it has to offer. Also, Amazon's statement that they are not doing a HQ2 search really underscores what I always suspected - the dog and pony show is about maximizing handout for a natural increase in satellite office headcount
Full list of extensions and versions off of a live instance: https://gist.github.com/peterc/e4f7a288ed0eb7e4ffe2d8383a086...

Interesting to note that TimescaleDB is installed by default.
I don't have a business, but I have been working on a side project for almost 5 years after hours, I commit about 20 hours a week to it. At the beginning I tried what I called 'super days' that sound a lot like yours. What I found is that while I was 'working' those 5-6 hours at night I was not very productive mostly due to mental exhaustion. Then on 'off days' I was way too exhausted to do anything, and I never fully recovered. For my project (creative in nature) this caused crippling Creative Productivity Anxiety and depression.

About 1.5 years into the project I broke my foot (long story) which meant I had to change things, then I had a kid about a year later, which caused me to change again. Both of those were really good developments

What I found is that a far better schedule for me was to spread things out. Now I still put in about 20 hours a week, but it is in the form of 1.5 hours at night on week nights and 6 hours on Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday. The Saturday and Sunday time is generally split three ways (morning before family wakes up, kid's nap time, evening after kid goes to sleep) I feel like I get more work done because I have the mental ability to actually work for each of those pieces of time.

Schedule may look different for you, hobbies, family, etc. But I would definitely suggest with exploring smaller pieces of Second Work, especially on week days.
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Exactly, this was a huge communication error on Amazons and the politicians' side. Offering such huge subsidies to a single company will never go down well in the current political landscape - especially not in a city with a resurgent left.