skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue there have been plenty of examples of large corporations delivering rosy figures, until they could no longer sustain the lie.

Some years ago, I got an investment club to put some of our money in Harley-Davidson, based on numbers that hit our criteria perfectly. Too perfectly. A few months later, the CEO resigned, revised numbers came out, it became clear they'd been more or less cooking the books, and the stock tanked. This happens a lot. Worse, it happens with stock market darlings. Remember Enron?
Interesting how divergent perspectives can be on this. Your dystopian view is my utopian view. As a California native, I literally exclaim "it's a beautiful day!" every single morning when I look outside and see it's perfectly sunny and blue.

For someone who probably has mild seasonal affective disorder, sunny days really make a considerable boost in my mood.
It's CPU only for now, but we'll be rolling out memory dumps soon!
"It netted them ZERO economic growth over a quarter century, and ZERO improvement in their standard of living"

That's just total nonsense. Regardless of the performance of the broader economy (which depends on other factors) during the last few decades, it's obvious to anyone who looks that Japan's investment in the Shinkansen has played a huge positive role in the dramatic growth of their post-war economy.

You can certainly argue that the situation has changed, but arguing that high-speed rail never benefitted them is the economic equivalent of arguing that it snowed last week, therefore global warming is a hoax.
Atlanta, Raleigh and Dallas are all in states whose statewide electorate makes them a governor's veto away from passing "religious freedom" laws that would make hiring difficult. Maybe it would be good for Atlanta, but I don't think Amazon would risk it.
Did you make bank? How did you get into it?
If one doesn't trust Google as a data steward, I can totally see one being deeply concerned about these data-request notifications and about the system knowing their geolocation.

... but I can't follow why one would then continue to use Google Maps.

... or a phone running an OS that Google writes and maintains.

... or, in the case of this particular blog-post, https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.26/webfont...
How can there be an entity that isn't bound by the constitution?
That sounds interesting. Are any of these stories available online in English?
The article specifies that the customer didn't want a cross-platform framework: "I want the mobile apps in native to make sure the responsiveness of the app is good."
It's not enough for government to sit back and assume tax dollars are going to cover economic growth. Government needs to be active in participating in growth, and that includes understanding what businesses need from their business plans and assisting them in becoming successful - from startups to large businesses.

Jobs are the goal for this competition. They're the prize.

Be thankful that governments are participating in this process. You can't make money without spending money. Don't be angry that your city paid $1 to earn $5. EVERY business has a cost-of-sales associated with it, and government is basically a really large business.

If your city wins, the local revenue from economic activity from these new employees will far exceed any costs and tax incentives given to Amazon.

Don't be the guy that thinks taxes is enough. Your own skills at business planning applies just as much to government. You got a lot of revenue via taxes, now what? How do you spend it? What causes the most tax revenue return and highest population satisfaction?

If you actually write down all of what these governments are doing in a business plan to win Amazon's headquarters, you'll find that it's as much a business plan as anything else, and that government's cost calculations are likely worth it. Business planning is never easy - it's far easier to screw it up - but nothing worthwhile is easy. Be glad that government is doing hard things, instead of easy things.

Edit: To give an idea on the kinds of business-plan data government needs to understand to determine if Amazon is worth it or not, consider that: Are Amazon R&D employees high-crime people? Do they murder other people a lot or die from opiates? Will the HQ create pollution and destroy the environment? Are there dangerous chemicals that might explode if stored unsafely? Will their operations cause birth defects?

Use this kind of data to calculate how much government services these people are going to need and to determine if their tax-incentive costs are worth it?
> If I pay for my outgoing bandwidth (even if I don't) I am under no obligation to give my content/data/whatever to any third party source, even academic.

Aren't you? You put a server on the publicly routable Internet. And made it talk over HTTP. At this point I believe you've already chosen to waive your rights not to serve content.
I'm surprised services like AWS don't have a CloudFlare option from a dropdown menu when setting up a firewall.
No net benefit of the local population. I forgot to include that one word, net. I admit it does make a difference, but perhaps not to the point where people will fixate on that and ignore everything else.

I understand what you are saying, but these things can be quantified and accounted for in economic models. We can wave hands all day about "I think the economy would do this" but that is often the enemy of applied economics (heavily mathematical) and progress. There is a point when the incentives for the company can turn negative for the community. There is also the consideration in the community that those taxpayers (and voters) do not want to subsidize a massive corporation's shareholders.

Politicians can be aware of this point, but with a massive corporation trying to pit them all against each other for its own gain, competition will erode those profits to or even past the point of neutral cost-benefit to the community. As Peter Thiel likes to point out "Competition is for losers."
Gaming is a big one, or any programs that need direct access to the GPU, which can't (feasibly) be run in a VM with good performance.
I think you're overestimating the trumples. He has an abysmal approval rating, and the types of people who tend appprove of him (e.g. rural poor) aren't exactly big spenders/prime consumers or whatever. Trump will raise a stink about it, but I'd be very surprised if anyone normal/reasonable felt Amazon opening hq2 in Canada to be like a personal attack against America or something.
I'm in Denver and your post is not accurate.
I believe the solution present on this linked page will help you: https://www.vincedes3.com/save.html

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There are a couple pictures from the article that are in Hoboken, NJ. (My home-town although the article doesn't call it out.). The city is consistently rated among the most walkable cities in the US. It's right across the river from NYC but feels even more walkable than NYC.

This said, the only reason why Hoboken and many other walkable cities can get public-support for being so walkable (and encouraging city planning as such) is the ample public-transit options.

This leads to no need for having a car which leads to most people not having one which leads to most people preferring walkable versus drivable. It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem.
Gives back so many feels of bored painting projects I've done before
I would love something similar but without CSS files and classes. Something that makes it CSS-in-JS.
I second that about Montreal. The language laws are absurd. Getting a temporary work permit to work in Quebec is even weirder. The permanent residents of any other provinces cannot get health care in Quebec without Quebec's CSQ certificate which will take ages to get after you apply. The infrastructure is in ruins. Amazon will have a hard time getting skilled workers in Quebec than the rest of Canada.
I'm not entirely sure of that. Kids have excellent bullshit detectors, because a.) they haven't been socialized to keep their mouth shut when they see bullshit and b.) they don't have incentives to keep their mouth shut when they see bullshit. (cf. Emperor's New Clothes)

On one level kids think their parents are stupid because they don't have experience with the constraints their parents live under (eg. getting a job, keeping a job, putting a roof over your heads), but on another level the parents are stupid because they've let themselves internalize those constraints beyond what's rational (eg. working so hard that you're unhappy all the time and don't have time for the kids, not looking for another job when you hate your current one). I've seen a number of instances - mostly surrounding racism, classism, overwork, violence, corruption, or misaligned incentives - where kids will say something both profound and naive and I'll think to myself "Yes, you're absolutely right, and unfortunately humanity is filled with idiots."
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> google doesn't do things like look at your specific address, preferred colors, etc

Who are you to say they don't try and figure out your favorite color based on all of their input data? If Google shared exactly how their secret sauce advertising algorithms work, they'd be out of business.

> You can opt out of all behavior based advertiser very easily: http://optout.networkadvertising.org and http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/

If these companies wanted to respect users' wishes in a frictionless way, they'd just look at my DNT header. This is bread and circus.
I use calling too and it works fairly well. However when sharing my screen i have to share "all my monitors" does anyone know why it's done this way?
I was surprised too.

This issue[0] basically says the team is too small to rewrite and remove jQuery as a dependency.

[0]: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/23204
Would there be any interest in a before/after run of LMbench on a Haswell box?
That only works if the scrapers are either in a country where you can do something about it.

Also poisoning only works for a while. As soon as they detect the poisoning, they can easily figure out what tripped the scraping detection, and now you need to poison in an even more subtle way because the scrapers know what to look for.

You can't win this game. Especially the "obvious" type of browser checks, where you can tell the js is checking your browser are so easy to circumvent, because you can tell what they're doing.

Really though, I've reversed a few fingerprinting libs in the wild and also looked at some counter measures that are being sold in the blackhat world. Both sides completely and utterly suck.

The fingerprinting stuff is easy to circument if you're willing to reverse a bit of minified JS, the browser automation 'market leader?' is comically bad and it took me 15 minutes to reliably detect it.

That browser/profile/fingerprint automation thingy in the default option sometimes uses a firefox fingerprint while using chrome. Protip: Chrome and Firefox send HTTP headers in different order. Detected, passive, without JS.

Claiming you're on windows while actually running on a Linux VM, your TCP fingerprint gives it away... Detected, passive, without JS.

Really, both sides, step up your game, this is still boring! Or, just stop fighting scrapers, you can't win.
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> I don't think it pays to continually be outraged at Trumps never ending provocations.

I don't think that everything Trump does deserves the ire it inspires, but I think there's a cost to just accepting outrageous things without being outraged. What's happening is not normal, and I don't want it to become normal. If people stop getting outraged for valid reasons, and I believe that this is a valid reason to be upset, then this behavior becomes accepted and that's not something I want.

There's a way to have a conversation about immigration. That conversation does not start with the President saying "Why do we want people from these shithole nations, we want more people from great countries like Norway", and I think it's reasonable to hold the President to the standard of starting the conversation in the appropriate way. Doing that is literally his job, and just because he and some of his supporters think it's funny to "LOL triggered yet libs?" doesn't make it appropriate, doesn't make it right, and doesn't make it just.
Similar experience, but from the opposite perspective. I was a designer, but didn't know how to code in 2012. Bootstrap was the primary way I learned CSS and JS. I'm glad it's still around.
I personally am a huge advocate of this vision.

This stuff is a bit hard to get into at the moment, as it's early days, but as things coalesce, we're also working on making everything well documented and super-smooth to use. It's already reasonably easy, but we want it to be trivial.
I ran Linux natively as my sole workstation OS for nearly 10 years, and spent a lot of that time tinkering with WINE, including developing and submitting some patches, but eventually I had to give up because advanced things like Photoshop were too spotty in Wine and too slow in VMs.

My solution was ultimately to set up an Arch-based KVM hypervisor with a Windows 10 VM running as the main "workstation", with USB + GPU PCI passthrough and paravirt. The hypervisor also runs Linux VMs, from which I do development work via VNC and/or SSH.

This is the most convenient workflow situation for me, and allows the best of both worlds. It essentially makes Windows act like a desktop environment for a Linux box while maintaining practically-native overall performance for all workloads, including gaming and photo/video editing. It also grants the admin convenience of virtualized environments, since I can use zvols to snapshot everything at once, place clean resource limitations on each environment, etc.

It would only not work for Linux-based graphics development, but even then, you can get a second GPU and pass it through to another VM, running on a separate display.

Before I got the hypervisor set up, I ran Windows on the hardware with Linux VMs hosted in VirtualBox. The biggest issue with this (aside from the general shame and guilt of using Windows on the hardware) was that Windows would decide it wanted to turn off for MS-enforced updates and bring everything down. Now, Windows is separate and it can crash, reboot, or hurt itself all it wants, and rarely causes any real loss.
There has been a Firefox Flatpak for a long time: https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/

And there has been discussions about getting an official one from Mozilla.
I think you can reassure people by taking us how you handle and treat the data and also how you guys make money off of it.
Using this rule

A suicidal person can say "I don't want other people to save me from dying therefore I will not stop others from dying."

A rich person can say "I do not want charity from others therefore I will not give charity to others."
Is Bootstrap 4 worth using if all you really want are the responsive utilities and classes? I'm aiming to make pages with less than 50KB of uncompressed CSS. I don't need all the components Bootstrap has but I find the responsive utilities and classes helpful.
Hi from Argentina!

We tried that too almost at the same time that Brazil tried the Real. If you are lucky and it is well done, you can convince people that "1 (ARG)Peso = 1 (USA)Dollar". It worked for 10 years ... (1991-2002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertibility_plan

The main problem is that you must reduce the government deficit (that is usually not popular) or get external credit (but you must not be angry with the international banks).
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Apparently it's a Windows limitation, rather than hardware one, since Linux supports it on x86_64. It got broken at one point, but then Linux kernel developers enabled it back, with even Linus Torvalds himself inquiring about this issue.

See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/14/207
I got one the other day asking me to click on the “crosswalks”.

Seriously, Google, amongst the vast trove of information you hold on me/my IP address will be “in Britain”, so maybe try writing in British English rather than using a word that 90% of us won’t understand.
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Depends on what you're memorizing, too. You can be good at remembering some things, but not others. Lots of fields have specialized training exercises for memorization - consider how you learn vocabulary in a new language, for example.

This can get tied to "muscle memory" as well. I'm currently going through a lot of this on guitar - two note per string pull-off exercises, in the interest of learning Eric Johnson style picking techniques. Much of the core of his playing is based on two notes per string, first the high note and then the low note. So deep muscle memory of that particular move helps me do other, larger things.
> multi-use paths that are used extensively

Is that really true?

I live in a smaller version of Boulder. University town, we have a walkable downtown, trails and paths, and yes you see people using them. But the reality is that it's a tiny, tiny fraction of the people who live here. Same with buses. There are a few routes that service big apartment complexes and go too and from campus. Those get used. The others drive around empty, or with a few people on them.

There is a ton of money being spent on this kind of feel-good-ism, for the benefit of (relatively) very few people.
The software center has the bug, the cli tool works fine.
Some context that might further illustrate OP concerns:

-Philadelphia already has major funding issues despite several unpopular taxes like the wage tax and soda tax

-Recently went through a huge gentrification cycle spurred in part by a 10 year tax abatement given to new construction or rehabs

-The city has already given huge tax incentives to another major corporation, Comcast.

What you have is a city that recently had to close many libraries, firehouses, and public schools due to budget issues potentially giving another gift basket to a huge corporation.
Yup, allocation and performance are tightly tied for a variety of reasons. Languages like Rust that have a nuanced control over allocation will exceed in spaces like this.
Interesting piece on the empty skyscrapers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
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For more recent games though, better use Wine on Linux. Something that relies on DX11 wouldn't work on macOS, because of its limited OpenGL support.
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It's a political compromise. Seattle has a huge housing crunch, and not coincidentally, half the city is zoned for single family housing. Upzoning single-family housing all the way to apartments is politically difficult, but ADU's (we call them "mother-in-law apartments" in Seattle) are an easier sell.
I think the more meta problem is that the people who agree that plurality is bad can't agree on what a better system should be :)

IRV actually encourages strategic voting, see e.g. http://mattbruenig.com/2014/11/15/instant-runoff-voting-and-.... For a concrete example, if in the USA we had an IRV election between Trump, Clinton, and Sanders in 2016, there are some (not unrealistic) scenarios where it's possible that your (honest) choice to vote 1. Sanders 2. Clinton 3. Trump would cause a Trump victory, whereas a strategic vote of 1. Clinton 2. Sanders 3. Trump would cause a Clinton victory.

You can argue that approval voting also can lead to strategic voting, but at least with approval voting you won't accidentally cause your least favorite candidate to win by voting honestly.

You should look at Condorcet methods, which as a group are conceptually similar to IRV but are more effective at capturing the intent of the electorate. For example, the above scenario can't happen with Condorcet methods. (Again the problem there is that there are actually many of them, and you have to agree on which specific one you want. But all are better than IRV).

IRV isn't the way forward, and it's unclear to me why organizations like FairVote don't endorse another method. (They have an article about it here but the reasoning doesn't really make sense to me. http://www.fairvote.org/why-the-condorcet-criterion-is-less-...)
There are actual fabrics made from stone. Here are some I've worked with for composite materials made in Russia from molten basalt extruded into fibers and woven into cloth.

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never change, hn
Ford still has its European division to keep pace on smaller cars. GM disbanded theirs a year or so ago.
I agree with your OP, but citizens get far more tax breaks than immigrants.

Citizens don't have to pay foreigner rates for public Universities. That's a nice $50k-$100k savings for higher-education that citizens get that universities don't get, right there.

What kind of breaks do immigrants get over citizens that are worth $50k-$100k? None.
Even better, look at Hong Kong. Almost every single high rise has a mall at the bottom with a dim sum restaurant.
You may want to check out https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...
People don't make decisions in a vacuum. I don't get to choose where I want to live based solely on what I enjoy. A big part of what keeps people in a city is the network effect; cities are where the jobs are, so the people have to live there, which makes companies want to move to where the employees are, which makes people live there.....

Plus, you have families, cost of moving, home ownership, etc, that keeps you in a place even if you might enjoy living somehwere else more.
Any plans on submitting this to flathub?
Coal isn't really stone.
Umm..I did implicitly mean official. Sorry, if I made it seem as if it was technically not possible.

I'm asking about why it was chosen not to.