skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has numerous flaws that a block chain based solution legitimately solves.

This is false. It solves nothing. If you disagree please detail a specific example instead of vaguely claiming it solves lots of problems.

> For them to use a DB solution requires both parties to the transaction to be customers of JP Morgan

JP controls the network, so they must already have a prearranged agreement with JP in order for any of this to be possible anyway, at that point, the blockchain doesn't give you anything that couldn't be done faster and cheaper with public/private keys and digital signatures.
That is a fair point. We do tell customers who approach us about it that we can't guarantee that the app stores will accept their apps, and if we think that their app won't be accepted we tell them that, too. A lot of businesses care more about internal distribution, though, like Enterprise in the iOS App Store.
Still resolving for me in the Great Lakes region.
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>And yet there's a huge number of businesses that do have presences in NYC because the tax revenue funds all sorts of things that make NYC attractive to businesses that can't be gotten elsewhere.

Most of which were present there because they set up a long time ago. The current environment makes it so that you pretty much have to get a discount to make it worth starting there, per the famous reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/9wploz/ocasiocortez_bl...

>And businesses aren't actually easily-movable, not at all.

"Where they decide to locate new offices" is.
The script is specific to the client and campaign. They usually begin with some variation on "I am calling on behalf of <client> regarding <whatever topic the client is wanting us to talk about>."

It comes up as our phone numbers. If it came up as our clients that would require spoofing.
This is pretty awesome. I have a definite personal use case for it. Do you have a way to handle media uploads?
they estimated about 30B over 10 years
I have gotten really serious at trying to start a business this year.

I devote Monday through Thursday to working on my business. After work I take an hour to an hour and a half break. Then I work for five to six hours, then thirty minutes break before bed.

Friday through Sunday, I devote to writing, resting, or other things. Honestly it's mostly resting, because I'm way beyond burnt out.

The thing is I'm spent after my work day. I'm making more errors at night, causing more rework and frustration. I was also concerned about layoffs/loss of job. So I was dipping time into job searching.

That's not even getting into the existential what am I doing with my life. I'm early 30s and wasting the bulk of my youth trying to start a company. It's depressing to me to be locked to my computer for 13 to 14 hours a day. I love working on my business idea. But I have music I want to work on, novels, etc. Places I want to see.

This past weekend I went to a weekend startup accelerator. It has been years since I felt like that. My brain was firing on all cylinders, and I was working on a team. The past several years of my career. Have been death marches, and projects that are cancelled mid stream, and I'm flying solo. This is why I want to start a business, but I'm just so exhausted all the time.

I have done the quit and take a few months off in the past. Those were the happiest I've been in my career. But something has yanked me back to a full time job, because I need money asap.

Then the last portion as someone else mentioned. The inane invention assignment clauses. My last role took ownership of everything past, present, and future I thought. Irregardless of medium. My current role tried that, but I got an addendum to the contract. I had a past employer try and sue me because we left on bad terms, and they drowned me in legal fees.

Sure you don't need to quit. But if you want your sanity, and some legal peace of mind it's the best thing.
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Permissioned blockchain generally doesn't have wasteful mining because all the participants are known. So the nodes just end up signing transactions. Double spend attempts can then be prosecuted.
It had nothing to do with whether or not it was by a bona fide film maker. It was the timing of the ad and the fact that the movie was going to be broadcast. Movies in theaters were not covered by the law. Your premise is incorrect. The decision could have been narrow in scope. It wasn't. This is what people like me decry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGlzEavpTM
Whatever may or may not have happened, NYC's general economy is way too big for 25k jobs to significantly alter it (let alone "destroy" it).

Amazon would not even have been one of the top 20 employers in the city and finance would still be the most important economic sector by far.

It would have been a big deal for LIC, but not for NYC.
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But there is no reason for it to cost more than a private blockchain solution.
> I don't see how someone can come to the conclusion that this is actually helping data be more secure.

The fines are not what has made things getting more secure, the work done to avoid the fines is.

Before the GDPR pretty much every company I looked at had absolutely terrible security, since the GDPR is in effect most companies at least stopped seeing security as a cost to be avoided, with an associated increase in awareness at the rest of the company and better processes and controls to ensure that data does not leave the servers when it isn't intended that way.

It's 91 fines so far, and a whole pile of warnings and interventions, give it a few years and the cumulative effect will be substantial.

Oh, and that 10K number is only the breaches that the companies are aware of and that have been reported, the real number is likely to be much higher. And without the GDPR it would be much higher still.
Hey Glenn, would you mind sharing why you were unsuccessful? What were your biggest takeaways from the experience?
I have been a data scientist for the last 4 years.

I think (one of) the problems with the data science career field is that there are a lot of juniors who want to run sklearn and call it a day, following the tutorials that seem to 'just work' that real-world data doesn't without a fight.

To get value out of the work, you have to be methodical, careful, and really dig into the data. The observation that 85% of the time is cleaning doesn't eliminate the need to know what you're doing, what approaches to use, how to judge success, how to communicate results, etc.

Another thing to consider:
I've found big, boring companies are usually better to do DS at than small ones. Big, boring companies have better discipline in collecting and managing data. Also, a 1% improvement to an existing process matters a lot at BigCo, and very little at a startup - and a lot of DS models are that sort of incremental progress over rules engines or heuristics.
I am still working on my tutorial set for teaching young kids how to program and do problem solving in Scratch 3

I have been stalled a little with a new baby, but I hope to restart soon.
I had such high hopes for the Dow Solar shingles. Maybe the Tesla ones will work out better.
I found a reference that the primary turnout was around 11%:
http://www.gothamgazette.com/state/7774-a-closer-look-at-vot...

> With 98 percent of precincts reporting as of Wednesday, the State Board of Elections shows 27,826 registered Democrats cast votes in Tuesday’s primary in New York’s 14th District. With 235,745 registered Democrats as of April, according to the BOE, this comes out to a turnout of around 11.8 percent.

NYT shows roughly 150,000 votes in the 14th precinct for the actual election:
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/new-york-house-dis...

The population of the district is around 712,000
https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_14th_Congressional_Dist...

So, the actual percentage is indeed higher than 4%. Even still, it's quite low.
Thank you!

Do you mean uploads from the app? What kinds of media are you interested in, specifically? Right now we don't handle that, but we'd love to learn more about what you need.
Doesn't always work - if you're not a write-access collaborator on a repo, you can't add labels.
Kids are a pretty big thing you make yourself with 1 cofounder and a couple team members tbh. Few other maker projects last as long. 18 years is a lot to invest in an MVP
> I'm really just a developer who's good at databases and ETL

On the other side of things, this might be rarer than you think.

My experience is that a lot of newish programmers have very little database experience. What they do have is often centered on Mongo or other non-relational stores, used more for persistent storage than as interactive entities. The ability to get info out of a SQL database is pretty standard, obviously. But handling aggregated or joined tables are not entirely standard. (Interviewing for an entry-level backend dev job at a major company, I was pretty startled to have the databases section cap out at 'group by' and 'join'.) And anticipating error sources (e.g. MySQL's rollup handling), reading and responding to 'explain' plans, or knowing about backend issues like InnoDB settings is well outside a lot of developers' familiarity.

I assume part of this is the heavy focus of bootcamps and some college programs on building web apps, and the optional status of databases classes in many college CS programs. But I could imagine a lot of other factors stopping people from picking it up elsewhere, like the changing divisions among DBA/SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE.

So on one end, a data science boom turned out a lot of people with advanced skills in a field with lots of simple work, and at the other there's a gap in developer knowledge which makes it convenient to hire highly-trained people and dump them into roles that are a mix of analyst and DBA work.
Not to worry, they'll make a 3-3-2 configuration for the American market.
Huh? Seattle has one of the best-performing economies of any major city in the US.

And how does building a bunch of offices in LIC hurt the rail system? If anything Amazon would be a new major constituent that would benefit from improved rail service.
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I'm not familiar with academic Data Science programs but I've worked with statisticians for over fifteen years and they are usually very involved on the data engineering side. If they aren't running the systems then they are working closely with those people to test and confirm inputs and outputs before running analyses.
Does it matter what encryption was used for the passwords? I'm really lacking on the subject. Impressive results nonetheless.

Also besides using a longer password, is there anything else that can be done to harden my passwords?
That will send notifications to all code owners, which a draft PR will not
> Hugh Bromley, a solar analyst at BloombergNEF, says Sunrun and its competitors offer solar, sure, but can be better understood as having created “one of the most sophisticated financial engineering industries of any sector of the U.S. economy.”

While this is just a prejudice and their financial engineering _may_ be totally sound, this makes me think of CDOs and the mortgage crisis and all that.

The fact that the deal may not actually be all that good for the consumer -- and may complicate sales of their house since it's effectively a lien forcing future buyers to take a deal which may be _more apparent as bad_ in the future -- only makes me again think of the financial hijinx that led to the mortgage bubble/crisis.
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Well, there's a pretty cool DJ with the username "mkb" across a few different sites. Aaronson is correctly noting that any superconducting quantum computer needs to be at least ten times as cool as that guy in order to work.
"Data science", as originally conceived, is something that requires an existing base of engineering infrastructure and scale (and decision-making culture) that's typically only found in a capital-T Tech Company. But 5 years of HBR think pieces and McKinsey studies later, execs all over think they can just hire a bunch of statisticians, put them on their own team far from engineers, and get intelligent software systems out of it.

They, in turn, realize their predicament and set out building their own such infrastructure to the best of their abilities. Sometimes they do okay and squeeze out real value, but they're never going to produce the cutting edge ai and prescriptive analytics that execs think they will.
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If that's true, then fix it for all businesses, not just for Amazon. Amazon deserves the white glove treatment the least.
> 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

That's because they want you to lease, not buy (and not just “lease in preference to buying”), because of their business model (and quite possibly sales agent incentives that exaggerate preferences in the actual business model.)

Sort of like how (well, before most of them went belly up because of internet competition), brick and mortar chain computer store sales staff would prefer driving off a sale to making one without an extended warranty.
It's not just you. Paying for egress within the same DC/vendor seems crazy to me.

Edit: It sounds like that might not be the case though. Eddiezane said "We do not plan to charge for private network / VPC traffic."
Don't forget to do some research to see if it already exists, often it does.
>"The value proposition is gone, so now Amazon will slow-roll growth in NY like they will any other office."

So the "value proposition" had nothing to do with access to a talent pool of qualified candidates to fill those 25K jobs? Because that would be odds with the reasons Google, FB et al have set up shop in NYC.

>"This tax deal was all about Amazon expanding very quickly."

Yet there was never any specifics of when Amazon would arrive at that mythical 25K job number. The closest you can find to any time qualification is the phrase "within a decade." I guess you have a very different idea of "quickly."

>"The fact that you (and many others) consider this a win is an attempt to revise history."

No the "win" here is not giving out corporate subsidies, more especially to a company that absolutely does not need it. NYC will be just fine without Amazon. There is no shortage of tech jobs in NYC these days. It been that way for over 10 years now.
This is very impressive. The decision to not release the model is questionable imho. There are labs, companies and state agents which have way more compute than OpenAI and therefore can do even better.

Perhaps we need some kind of competition for detecting machine generated vs human generated content?
And again and again, @AOC is completely correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNjckHXBNBI

There's no laws federally preventing corporate collusion and corruption regarding federal congress. And I would also make the claim it's also true for states as well.

This Sunrun contract they peddle isn't good for anyone, except for their wallet books. Just how many homes will have unattachable liens from this debauchery?
I disagree. Politicians, like everyone else, simply respond to incentives. As long as the incentives aren't changed, it doesn't matter much who's in office. Changing the incentives in this case means limiting corporate contributions to politicians, for starters.
I thought Gil Kalai had a very reasoned opinion on this considering the need for error correction, which estimates were about ~ 100 noisy qubits per "true qubit". Current progress is nowhere near the required 1000s of coherent qubits, nor has it proven effective for "noisy" problems like chemical simulations.
Right. That's what I said. You get taxed where you earn the money. If you aren't in California when you earn the money then you don't pay California tax. If you are in California when you earn the money then you pay California tax. (I know there are reciprocity laws among some of the states but there aren't between California and Texas.)
While censoring the full data set seems in some way to support the rationale of the OpenAI charter, it also means that only state actors and very well-funded entities will be able to use the work to create models of the size necessary to do the impressive stuff in the write up.

Based on the concerns, it would seem that restricting the capabilities only to state actors would have the opposite of the intended effect. Why not let thousands of amateur researchers, undergrads, etc., use the model to detect instances where the model was used to generate text, etc.?
SWIFT transactions can be slow depending on the banks involved.

If a bank's SWIFT credentials are compromised the attackers can transfer all the funds a bank controls. With a blockchain coin it would require the private key of the customer to send the coins.
Referring to the second avenue extension.
The world is full of people in your situation who's main area of interest and experience is primarily in software development or start-ups. Because of this, almost every good idea that touches your entire realm of experience been attempted 10 times. There's tons of competition even for really bad ideas - just look at how many start-ups in SF tried to offer "laundry as a service"!

The secret is to go out and make friends who work in different industries that are totally unrelated to your experience. The world is full of profitable niche industries that need custom solutions that software developers have no idea exist. The business and industrial world largely still runs on excel spreadsheets, emails and word docs. Those are all areas ripe for new products and many of the top companies in those niche areas have no idea how to apply technology to solve their problems more efficiently.
While this may remind some people of the mortgage bubble, solar is nowhere near as important to the economy as home prices are. The potential to take down the economy isn’t there, the numbers are too small.
No. You can have kids and still create things, even new businesses. It really is about choice, and good time management. Too often people don't have enough time, but when you really look at what they do, you see where they do have enough time, where they really do make choices. I say this having founded a startup before I was married, and having started a business after having kids, 15 years apart.

It's about the choices you make.
This is pretty honest and acute description of the industry landscape and prediction going forward.

I think DS has been abused by some people as an umbrella to not produce qualify code, yet they somehow they put themselves in higher regards in the value chain.

However I do see there is a real position for DS in the industry, but it should be a specialization of senior SDE when they decide to further their career, not its own job family. Otherwise it should be renamed as data analyst for clarity.
I think you misinterpreted his statement. "Cut off your nose to spite your face" is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_...

In this context, they're referring to the actions of NY (not the comment they're replying to), and TBH, there's nothing personally acidic; it's just a saying.
So this was (IMHO) a shit show from go to whoa. The dog and pony show was a transparent shakedown where Amazon would still probably go where they were always going to go.

The whole splitting HQ2 I think showed this. Like it's not even an "HQ" in any sense of the word. It's just an expansion.

Also with talk of "25k jobs"... what jobs? Are we talking software engineers or warehouse workers? There's a difference.

I don't know the inner workings of this but it seems like Cuomo was the driver here with de Blasio on board. This was a missed opportunity. NYC needs several things from NYS that are politically unpalatable upstate. Top of that list is:

- Property tax reform; and

- Congestion pricing.

NYS grossly favours SFHs for property taxes. For example, a $3m brownstone in Park Slope I saw had ~$700/month in property taxes. A similarly priced apartment would have more like $1500-2000/month taxes. A $100m apartment would be taxed at ~$15k/month.

NYC has on several occasions tried to introduce congestion pricing on people driving in or into Manhattan (something I 100% support) but the efforts have failed as this is the jurisdiction of NYS and NYS has no interest in this (so far).

Why not frame this issue as NYC supporting these efforts to fix issues with NYC like these? The deal may have gotten much more traction were this the case.

So I understand the need for government intervention in large projects, say if Amazon were to build 8m sq ft of office space. Regulatory approval can be nigh on impossible.

That much office space is hard to find in NYC. I think Amazon missed the boat with Hudson Yards (probably the last place this would've been possible in Manhattan).

I agree with other commenters that the net effect of this is about zero. Amazon is trying to have a PR moment. They'll still expand in NYC as it suits their needs. They'll still get tax breaks like any large corporation in NYS/NYC would.

This really is just a corporate tantrum.
> Pretty much all sales and advertising is built around creating a perception of pain and/or fear and offering relief for that.

No, pretty much all sales and advertising is built around finding some problem the customer has that the product or service being sold solves (or solves better than their current solution). But there's no need for the problem to be pain and fear--let alone pain and fear that is a perception created by a sales pitch that has no qualms about playing fast and loose with the truth.
>> When I looked into it in my country, the payback time for a solar system was 10+ years, and estate agents were reportedly estimated they added nothing to the value of the house.

If that's true, then your strategy should be to buy a house with solar already installed and paid for. You'd get the house at regular prices, but pay much less for electricity.
Deut here: For stop lights, thankfully the red is a lot different than the green. Often not that different than yellow, but it turns out that that doesn't matter so much.

The greens are all over the place, and often hard to distinguish from street lights. But again, not so important.

Bless you for thinking about this. :-)
LIC realty investment was free money even before amazon's announcements.
If this is true (I don't know either way, I've only followed this casually), why go through the whole dog and pony show in the first place? In that case, Amazon seems to have shot themselves in the foot here by playing a carnival game with the campus selection process. They gave everyone the _appearance_ that they got a sweetheart deal while basically not getting anything special?
I think they want data scientist to do plain-old-data-engineer work, but not just plain-old-data-engineer work. Getting / cleaning data is part of the job description, IMHO. You can't be a data scientist and entirely reliant on others to do data cleaning, or you'll programming through Slack messages.
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Launching a rooftop residential installation into space is kind of a niche use case, though.