skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial reaction was "these guys are crazy and have no compassion", but honestly if this is what needs to be done to make their start-up get to a necessary goal then maybe I can come to terms with that.

My biggest concern is this kind of "push hard" mindset and behavior becomes normal for them even after they are a well established business. Even worse is if this behavior is encouraged for all startups; one size does not fit all and that's something shouldn't be forgotten.

I worked at Intel for a few years, "push hard" was the norm and it was ruthless - they couldn't care less about my physical or psychological well-being. That was the worst work environment I've ever worked in. I was virtually at war with my colleagues every step of the way and no matter how hard I worked or outperformed my peers, it was never enough. Terrible way to run a company.
I suppose that's true, it'll probably get adopted on those "embedded yet invisible" uses.

Still, I believe that does bode well for more general adoption, once it starts replacing ARM on the OEM side of things, by having a positive effect on its hardware price.
All that's missing now is an affordable Linux RISC-V development board.
Awesome suggestions, but the background animation is making my CPU run at nearly 100%.
There are many Christian sects that sync their day of rest with the Sabbath. I believe current Eastern Orthodox Christians observe Friday Evening to Saturday Evening as the day of rest and there are, as well, sub-sects in Catholic and Protestant Christianity which follow sabbatarian notions. I grew up near some Methodists which held the Sabbath. Then there's Messianic Judaism which is a whole other level of observation.

> And current christian dogma is that the law is no longer required to be kept (Grace). So whatever mainstream christian religions do today in terms of what they "allow or do not allow" is just whatever they decided they wanted to allow or not allow.

There's some truth to this and there's some over-simplification in this. There's a long, anguished tradition in Christianity with regard to figuring out what was meant by Christ coming to fulfill the law. James the Just, brother of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem church, was clearly of the opinion that the Law was still valid and must be followed. Paul held that the Law had been superseded, though having been a pious Pharisee he can't help himself from re-introducing 'superseded' things back into the true and moral way for the new Christian community to live. That Pauline Christianity is the norm these days is very much due to the actions of the Romans in 70CE+.

I'd argue that most sects, at least at their outset, are attempting very earnestly to discern the Will as best they can but slight differences in emphasis will have outsize impact over time. Consider that the difference between Lutheranism and Catholicism can convincingly be argued to be rooted in an emphasis on Augustine's notion of the Individual Before God in the former and an emphasis on Augustine's notion of the Church Before God. Look at all the difference in relationship to worship that has blossomed out of that.

> So these people are not reading the Bible and taking it literally, they are reading the Bible to get ideas on how tell others to not do, or do, whatever they approve of or don't approve of.

Some do. Others behave this way because they've never lived outside of sect-specific hegemony, let alone Christian hegemony and it doesn't occur to them that they're enforcing a very specific way of life that should be chosen. Others follow a very ritualized faith and are, at some level, aware that it is only ritual and therefore fear people outside of the ritual. Kierkegaard spent a good chunk of his life thinking about this kind of ritualized worship and its degradation for the faith of a community.

Anyway.

I've read, though I can't for the life of me remember where, that the best thing for Christianity will be the utter destruction of Christendom. I quite agree.

> It is rather...what would Christ say, Pharisaical?

This would likely be Scribe-ish, given the lawyerly behavior. Luke and John tended to paint the Pharisees in a bad light -- amusingly, often, as stand-ins for the Romans -- but Jesus was sympathetic to the devout, even if he was unsparing in his criticism of hypocrisy.
Sports facilities are a shared multi use venue that a city could make use of for decades. Amazon can and would move their staff whenever they want, and all the subsidies given to them just to have their people sit in Queens for 8 hours a day would be pissed away.
Man, the blog designs are so good.
All of that wouldn't cover what Amazon would end up costing the area.
I get the privacy implications, but this article adds unnecessary fearmongering with sensationalist racism (apparently author is unfamiliar with non-white neighborhoods b/c just as whites, non whites will also report suspicious activity).

From what I’ve witnessed, these services have indeed aided residents to cooperate against “dirtbag” criminals as well as supply imagery to police as evidence and has led to arrests and convictions (in my neighborhood, at least). It gives all types of residents some comfort that the perps will get caught rather than the police saying “sorry, we don’t have evidence, and don’t have time to follow up on non violent crime”.

Residents are going to deploy this. That’s a given. At this time owners control access. If there comes a time when one loses control over this content unilaterally, then it will be a problem.
Ok maybe instead of shame, it just important to document and track their history, in case it useful to future researchers.
So you can prove to me that my account balance at JPMC is actually $100 when I do a wire or do you take JPMC’s word for it when you see the wire details?

Whether or not the validation will be public could mean you still have to trust JPMC but now you essentially get an API to validate my account balance which you didn’t have before
Trefor Bazett, an Assistant Professor, Educator teaching mathematics at the University of Cincinnati

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHXZ9OQGMqxfUl0tcqPNT...
You're right. Taxing the cost of the land + the cost of the building is insane.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what every municipality in the United States is doing, right now.

Most economists believe that only taxing the value of the land would be better public policy.
This is the aveneue of questioning I'd really like to see more detailed discussion on. [Disclosure: I'm agnostic on the potential of blockchain]

Does TPS increase non-trivially in a private chain vs a public chain? If not, will a private chain's TPS at least substantially outpace the TPS of, say, Ethereum within 3-5 years? That is, will JPM's private chain reach 100, or 1k, 10k, 100k, etc TPS?

Assuming TPS reaches a sufficiently high-level (whatever that could be), would a private chain require fewer sysadmin/engineering/etc. folk, compared to what the DTCC model requires?

Does a semi-private chain (where JPM allows other partners or competitors to plug-in) have a faster on-ramp? That is, would it be faster to plug players in than a traditional solution?

Is there a cost reduction somewhere within the audit process? Other processes?

I have these types of questions, but it is difficult to find much substantive discussion on them. Typically, answers are Yes or No, but with little to no detailed explanation as to why.
yes - ARM ISA is copyrighted. To implement it, you need an ISA license. ARM typically makes this license cost almost the same as the license for an already implemented core, which is why most vendors drag-and-drop ARM cores into their designs
I meant tenants in that building.

"The Internap expansion represents approximately 1.3MW of additional critical power in a severely constrained downtown NY market.”

https://www.inap.com/press-release/internap-continues-green-...

That was 34000 sqft. Equinix has 36000.

Edit: they had 75K by the time they left. DRT says they have 110K.
The info everyone is missing is code density comparison with ARM. Risc-V is more efficient and has about 10% denser code, which translates to more instructions fitting in i-cache, less memory pressure, and ultimately better performance and battery life. Long term roadmap, thats a win for Risc-V.
They are? First I've ever heard of it. I just got a new furnance and some sort of contract wasn't even offered to me as an option.
I think the way git supports this workflow currently is to have a super-repo containing all the other repos as submodules. You can bundle all those changes together as updates to the submodule references in a single PR.
That's not what happens though. Amazon would be recruiting people from Ivy League schools, big consulting firms, other large tech companies.
Tech market is hot everywhere. NYC has been an aberration on cost of living for my whole lifetime and more. What's new is the plethora of tech jobs outside of NYC and SF. Again, ask yourself why great tech jobs would suddenly appear in Nashville, TN. Why would that happen? Why do you think?
This happened on a recent trip for us. We connected in San Francisco (to Kona, HI). Met up with my girlfriend's sister just fine. Her other sister and brother-in-law, however...

We flew from Toronto to SF, had a 7 hour layover. It was grand. We even went downtown and back with plenty of time. Her one sister flew in from Vancouver—also no problems.

Her other relatives flew in from Victoria, and got stuck in customs at SFO for over 3 hours when their layover was scheduled to be just over an hour. They had to rely on the graciousness of the airline to get them on another flight. They had to take a 4 am flight to Honolulu which had a 4-5 hour layover then connect to Kona. The Iron Man race was the next day that we went to see. They didn't get to sleep for 30+ hours. I mean, there are worse cases where you'll have to endure that kind of stuff. Calfornia->Hawaii is a pretty good place for it to happen. But still.

We were through US customs at YYZ in about 20 minutes.

On another hand we took the Victoria -> Seattle Clipper ferry and US Customs in the Seattle port just sort of hand-waved us through.
Do you have any plans for supporting logical decoding plug-ins? Would love if it was possible to enable change data capture out of Postgres on DO with Debezium (which currently supports wal2json and its own DecoderBufs logical decoding plug-in). Disclaimer: I'm the lead of Debezium.
Betty Ballantine, who helped popularize modern paperback, dies at 99
You can read it at https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.02.001
> not in a city with a resurgent left.

IRRATIONAL left. This investment on the part of Amazon gave way way way more to the city than it got back in subsidies.

It's kind of ridiculous. If I were Amazon, I would drop NYC in a heartbeat if they didn't appreciate that degree of investment.

The subsidies were 1.525 billion. Amazon's investment was expected to be around 2.5 billion. Only an irrational fool cannot do that math.
I felt it was incredibly self-serving to make the token JPMC only. An arcade is only as good as the games inside. If your token only works at JPMC, that’s a pretty weak banking arcade.
Link to GitHub is above, you can try out the demo as well here: http://subtle-asian-gen.herokuapp.com/index.html
>but to characterize our understanding of machine learning as not going beyond 3 or 4 neurons is just plain crazy.

There is a difference between understanding how something works and understanding why it works. Completely different levels of predictive power.
I don't mean multiple PRs for the same repo, I mean multiple PRs across multiple repos.
The blog post seems to specifically answer this question far better than anyone here could. It essentially formalizes a workflow like the one you describe.

Remember than anything GH does “can be done by email”, to cite some early commentary. But collectively, the ease of use, and defaulting to best practice, that GH introduced have vastly improved and enlarged the open source community.

I know I never submitted patches in the 10+ years in the industry pre-Github. Now, barely a week goes by without at least one PR.
A sheriff of a small town told me how they ended up spending thousands of dollars to SWAT team which he thinks he will never use. The reason ? After some school shooting in another end of USA the folks of his county wanted to know how their LEAs plan to defend the local schools. The correct response here was that they do not expect such law probability even and even if it happens there is very little they can actually do.

But public does not like it and hence they had to put together a fake plan and waste money. Which could have otherwise gone into preventing real crimes.
edit: I just noticed that the CAFC opinion is designated nonprecedential

> The court’s ruling comes in response to a preliminary motion filed by Cloudflare under Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act. That section defines what sort of things can be patented. Such motions are generally referred to as “Alice” motions because the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 2014 case (Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l) that a two-part test could be used to determine patent eligibility based on whether something is more than merely an abstract idea or at least creates an inventive use for an abstract principle. The Alice test helps to determine whether something is patentable subject matter or an unpatentable fundamental concept. Judge Chhabria found that Blackbird’s ‘355 patent was too abstract to be patentable subject matter.

(https://blog.cloudflare.com/bye-bye-blackbird/)

This ruling was then affirmed by the CAFC. In what way is it non precedential? I sure wouldn't want to be Blackbird trying to assert that patent in a new litigation...
Amazon's interface is pretty bad, though, especially in the video and kindle areas. I know I'm constantly frustrated using the site, and as far as I can tell, they don't appear to be very interested in reducing user's pain.
Yes, the architecture is proprietary, and anyone who uses it needs a proprietary license, what sometimes involve flat payments or royalties. Check this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Licensees
They went for the short term. To me a "high performance team" is one that can win the marathon, not the sprint (unless the boat is drifting towards the waterfall!).
This is incorrect:

"that otherwise wouldn't be paid at all"

The opposite is true, 100% of those taxes will be paid by some other business. Maybe you could make your argument about the New York City of the 1970s, but you sure as heck can not make that argument about the New York City of 2019. New York City is not starving for investment, rather, its biggest challenge nowadays is managing its fast growth. Other businesses will move into those buildings, and hire those workers, and they will pay normal taxes, which is a lot more than what Amazon offered.
What are we discussing here? Yes, Google wants to hire more people in NYC.

In NYC there are are tax incentive plans for relocating and hiring that companies can apply for if they qualify. Just because Google doesn’t include that portion in their announcement does not mean they won’t pursue it if they can.

A good article would be one where Google states it won’t take any tax incentives even if it qualifies for it.
Their must-have time demands and wrecking-your-house tendencies don't seem to start to trend significantly downward until age 5 or so. Believe it or not they get much worse before they get better on those fronts, after the infant stage. Sleeping-through-the-night (call it 3 to 6 months) through ~18 months is a pretty great time. 18m to ~4yrs, depending on the kid, is... hellish.

I got a lot of reading done when my kids were infants. Way more than I do now, which is almost none. There's a good long span when you can just read them whatever, since they don't know WTF is going on anyway. Great time to knock a few titles off your own to-read list (yes for the record I did also read them plenty of picture books and such).
Lsof is Unix-standard, part of coreutils, and can be used anywhere, piped and automated.

Sloth exists only on OSX and is a GUI app.

I’d ask the opposite: Any reason anyone would anyone use Sloth over lsof?
So basically a B2B Venmo on a blockchain?
I mean, you could focus on whether the word "midwest" is accurate, or you could take my point that there is a reason why people are moving out of places like NYC in favor of less dense cities that don't smell like urine.
Hollywood terminal
I see PRs with titles prefixed "DO NOT MERGE" or "WIP".
People want the UI that goes along with a PR, prior to it being ready to merge.
As someone in Seattle, what excites me about this is Amazon hopefully thinking twice about trying to extort subsidies Boeing style.
The $5/mo is billed continuously by the hour, and you can store snapshots for $0.05/GB/mo. Basically, throw a few bucks on an account and you can do a lot of exploring so long as you shut down the droplets when you're not using them.

Personally I like the idea of putting up a bit of play money at first vs. the prospect of higher recurring charges for a site that doesn't sleep.
> so it must also depend on the question of how other states manage to do the same work the California Government does (having schools, roads and police) with much lower rates of income and sales tax and a much less smaller tax base.

(1) They don't do the work the CA government does, which is why CA has a larger tax base.

(2) They have higher property taxes; California has the third highest median home price of the 50 states plus DC, yet the 10th lowest tax bill on median priced home of the same 51 jurisdictions.
This is so cool! I really like it. Will save for future projects :)
From just reading the abstract, relative risk of 1.41 for the highest exposure groups when available in each study isn't something I would consider "risk". Even if it is statistically significant, the effect size is pretty small.

For comparison, the RR for cigarette smoking and (small cell) lung cancer is estimated to be around 21 (REF: http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/14/9/2125)
A few caveats here:

- It works (that well) only for vision (for language it sort-of-works only at the word level: http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html)

- "Do Better ImageNet Models Transfer Better?" https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08974

And if you want to play with transfer learning, here is a tutorial with a working notebook: https://deepsense.ai/keras-vs-pytorch-avp-transfer-learning/
So let me get this straight. Amazon, is allowing and partnering with law enforcement for this "Ring" product, so they can fight crime in neighborhood? (sounds innocuous right?)

.....But in reality, they can tie in their AI facial recognition back end (that they have rightly been criticized for partnering with police), to use with their Ring product. Thus creating a surveillance system so sophisticated that even the Chinese would be envious of.

(toilet flushing noise!!!)
This works well on your own project, when you have permission to create branches... but what if you're trying to contribute to some other large and complex project? "Go look at my forked branch" isn't a great way to discuss a feature.
I have been dispatching the same arguments for the last 3 years. Schools have all engaged in Data Science programming flowing the market with statisticians reconverted into data science with basic programming skills, even lighter notion of data engineering, DevOps tooling and operational understanding. In 2015, our Big Data major was renamed Data Science, no matter if we are still teaching NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark... I've been careful to never engage Adaltas on the road of DS not because we didn't like it but because of the hype around it and the created market distortion. I tell my customers that we have Data Engineering who can excel in Machine Learning if needed, placing their models in streaming processing with Spark or Flink and pushing it into production with the expectation of operational constraints. Lately, we just engaged a young Data Scientist consultant with the right resume supporting it, first we did was to place him on a 4 months diet to teach him about how to deploy and secure a platform as an InfraOps and how to write data ingestion as a Data Engineer.
Here's their list of "behaviors", from their PowerPoint. (They could have put this in the article, but no.)

- Be challenged - This could look like: - Challenging and engaging in team and company discussions - Picking up work that makes you feel uncomfortable - Engaging in conversations where you feel out of your depth - Picking up new challenges, not waiting for them

- Give energy - This could look like: - Bringing energy to meetings - Offering solutions to others’ challenges - Starting discussions from a place of possibility rather than impossibility - Finding moments to support others in the business, personally or with their work Behaviour 2

- Drive for output - This could look like: - Always asking others if the quality of your output is what they were expecting - Working until completion, not just to your hours - Looking for ways to be efficient with your time - Pick up more - don’t wait

- Take responsibility - This could look like: - Recognising that if the work isn’t delivered as expected, that is down to you - Owning your fuckups publicly - Pushing yourself, not waiting for others to push you

- Better yourself - This could look like: - Asking for feedback weekly and reviewing it regularly - Acting on that feedback and communicating it with others so they can hold you accountable - Self-reflecting on areas for improvement, “how could I be better”

- Be wrong - This could look like: - Looking to others to help you disprove your hypotheses and assumptions - Flagging if you’re emotionally attached to a decision - Looking outside the business to be challenged on your thinking and for new perspectives

Notes:

"Drive for output" is a classic speedup.

None of those mention customers.

The company's product is a time and attendance system as a service, along with personnel records. Not payroll, insurance, or retirement, though; they don't seem to do the money functions. There's a "HR as a service" trend, and they're a minor player. It's useful, but not high-tech.

This sort of adds up to "how to look like a tech startup when you're not, really".
Disagree, this constant propagation of rigged system or unfair game is not accurate. I know lots of people who came from very little and were able to work themselves up to economic success. In fact many of the people on the Fobes list came from poor upbringing and backgrounds.
Yeah, I looked through the console. The only log is one analytics script that was blocked:

GET https://cdn.segment.com/analytics.js/v1/s5swIuWdyLEwzdp3HXwc... net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT
There are two versions of the poem “Ozymandias”[1][2]. They tell the exact same story but in two completely different ways. After reading both, I’m almost certain you will find one more effective than the other. So I hope you reconsider that some ideas are not simply reducible to plain statements.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Comparison_of_the_t...

[2]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQKUvv3bew (recited)
Yup, and there's an actual business cost to that burnout. Turnover can be brutal and if you push your key people too hard they'll leave and/or start making more mistakes. You're also limiting your perspective to the subset of people who can swing that sort of work/life balance.

There's a healthy balance to be found for sure but I much more subscribe to DHH's[1] point of view than what was presented in this article.

[1] https://basecamp.com/books/calm
Yeah, I think this pattern is pretty common. (Basilica's main business is an API that does deep feature extraction as a service, so we end up talking to a lot of people with tasks like yours -- and there are a lot of them.)

We're actually working on an image model specialized for human faces right now, since it's such a common problem and people usually don't have huge datasets.
I see. We're actively working on features to make that possible. We should have something for you in March :-)