skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If 60% of the residents of a city leave, you can bet the city will quickly lower or remove taxes to try to attract more people.

That's exactly right. E.g. Michigan has designated NEZ zones[1] offering tax breaks (e.g. sometimes half the tax rate) to attract potential homeowners to distressed neighborhoods like inner city Detroit.

Sure, residents in another wealthy city (like Bloomfield Hills) in Michigan might complain they don't get the same tax subsidies as downtown Detroit but it still doesn't change the fact that governments will offer tax incentives for certain people (not just companies) to justify a desired economic outcome.

Detroit has to make those tax concessions because residents are fleeing and the city suffers from a lower tax base. The more desirable cities like San Francisco don't have to make the same tax concessions.

(I make no comment on whether NEZ actually works as intended or whether it is a net positive economically.)

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/06/22/detroit-...
> They’re tracking my location and correlating that, ads seen, spending patterns, web activity, who I associate with, and all the rest?

But you agreed to that, didn't you?

Do you remember agreeing to your credit rating agency collecting your info?

> Except as a shadow profile.

Interesting, source?
Wow, I've heard about meat allergies from ticks but I didn't realize they were common enough for 2 people on HN to have them. Permethrin really is amazing, isn't it?
My favorite visual gdb interface is the one build into emacs esspecially with gbd-many-mode
Soon I will be able to be monitored by Google without my consent. Since now it will be hard to know what word will trigger it or even if I will hear the result of the trigger word.
>Intel seems to be ok with being mediocre

I have a lot of complaints about Intel and their mediocrity, but the Intel HD graphics have gotten good in the last 10 years. The Intel GMA was awful and could barely run Quake 3. Intel HD will power through quite a lot. Not up to snuff with a real gamer's card, sure, but good enough that a casual gamer won't have a problem with it. And you get it for free, so bonus there.

I play relatively recent games on my Macbook and it's a lot better than you might think.
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why not just tuck your pants into your socks, and no more ticks. or you could use Eucalyptus in the shower and no more ticks. WTF are you talking about the next global health threat. Like wearing a condom protect your self and buy some eucalyptus ticks hate that and lemon oil works better than deet and all natural non toxic.
I'm reading the comments about people spraying their yards for ticks and I'm astonished. I've been bit by hundreds of ticks throughout my life. My wife has never been bit and has a terrible fear of them. But for me it was just growing up in the woods. You went out and when you got back you pulled a few off your ankles and back. Now that I live in suburbia its much rarer but even when it does happen I just remove the tick and move on. I've never thought to seek medical treatment for it.
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The cars’ power output is electronically limited, this limit is raised during the 5s of boost.

The same thing could be done for normal F1 cars - for example, by raising the RPM limit, power output or drag reduction for a few seconds. In fact, with KERS, F1 drivers already have the same kind of boost but without the voting.
Sure but we can always find an arbitrarily 'better' use of any donation by looking at it from a utilitarian perspective
This is cool, but I'm annoyed at yet more intentional overlapping of names in the JS ecosystem.
Ask HN: Should Torvalds and RMS start an open source CPU factory?
Given the recent trust issues with Intel, perhaps it’s time for two of the most trusted persons in technology to join forces and together raise the money and competence necessary to create a processor factory built from scratch using open sourced hardware and software components?
> One could argue the same about AWS for a long time

Yes, and it took them years to get it right. Which means Google is years behind, and doesn't have the benefit of a forgiving early market.

> Google has gotten way better in this regard, and are hiring like mad. I wouldn’t presume the above is true any longer.

Let's hope so for their sake. Personally I'll believe it when I see it. You can hire all the sales reps you want... If your top leadership doesn't understand or respect enterprise buyers, or know how to scale the entreprise distribution "machine", then it won't matter.

I've spoken to several enterprise IT buyers - commanding billions of dollars in aggregate budget - comparing the benefits of AWS and Azure. When I asked them "what about Google Cloud", the room burst out laughing. This happened several times.
New China Data Privacy Standard Looks More Far-Reaching Than GDPR
As I'm sure you know, there are urgent care clinics everywhere in the USA for minor ailments and injuries, where you can be seen on a walk-in basis and pay cash if you want to.
>San Francisco’s hotel owners and managers are increasingly frustrated that their gorgeous city, with its many museums, fine restaurants and scenic vistas, has an ever-deteriorating, dismaying flip side to the postcard. In a city that spends $305 million a year to combat homelessness, those who serve as San Francisco’s hosts struggle to explain why the problem isn’t getting any better.

I wondered where the 300+ million being was being spent on and came across this article.[1]

[1][http://www.sfchronicle.com/aboutsfgate/article/Despite-money...]

I think this statement accurately sums up people's attitude towards homelessness in general.

"Once that homeless panhandler is moved inside, you never think of him again. But if that tent encampment is on your block day after day, frustration mounts."[1]
I have read a small bit of Talebs work. He seems focused on haplogroups and genetics, which I find to be a Pandora's box. His book Black Swan I found very good, though I disliked his tone. I think everyone should read it because it discusses two kinds of knowledge, Techne versus Epistme. Techne is how to do a thing. Epistme is future prediction or past prediction. He claims man has a horrible track record at predicting and that due to the nature of the backwards process is likely just as bad at looking backwards. So in short It's odd to me Taleb is trying to look backwards.

How this relates to Hacker news? I believe it should be Techne focused and not Epistme focused.
Ultimately the problem is that their incentives aren't really aligned with yours. They're only incentivized to do the absolute minimum it takes to keep you around. As they control more and more of your world, they've increased your cost to leave and they can do even less to benefit you explcitly.

I like google's services. What I want is the ability to pay for them and not be a part of the product they sell in ads. Basically a freemium model.

I don't know how much money in ad revenue I earn google, but I'd probably happily pay it for a more transparent, less sketchy, and more commonly-aligned product. (This would also give me recourse for all the times the google services I rely on go down....)
except we're not talking about jet engines - I was asking at what point does basic become deep, hence the next remark referring to 'years of experience' as a benchmark
I don't know if it is only me but I like when the graph changes as you scroll down to give you more insights.
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I have no information as to what the parent is referring to but 2^10 is 1024. That seems roughly in line with what a double-page spread of a phone book could show you; I don't think it's unreasonable that a trained human could search through one of those in under 10 seconds.
The problem is that you can't hold your breath if you black out. So if you black out while submerged you're in grave danger, even more so if you're some 30m down (then you're as good as dead).

Even if you have a buddy while this happens and they manage to grab you and drag you out instantly, then start CPR the moment you're on the surface there's nothing guaranteeing you're going to survive.
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A lot of Tumblr porn is actually very specifically (and astutely) curated. The few times I've visited, it's actually a much nicer experience than porn websites. If anything, I think Tumblr would be wise to lean into being, among other things, a space for the sharing of erotic content. Maybe there's some spam but it's pretty easy to find your way into non-spam on Tumblr in my experience.
Did it get outline mode yet? That’s what always held back my colleagues that write documentation. I use it when I need an office suite, though not often.
FWIW I have been treated for early-stage Lyme twice, both times with amoxicillin, which is often a little gentler on the body than doxycycline (and you don't have to give up alcohol or sunlight). Fortunately it seems like Lyme isn't (yet) too picky about which antibiotics should be used to fight it.
>I’m from Massachusetts and spend a lot of time on Nantucket, which is like ground zero for Lyme (lots of deer, no predators).

Give a 100% discount on ferry tickets to anyone with a valid hunting license during deer season. The problem will solve itself. The people with money don't care what the locals shoot up over the winter. I don't see why they care what the locals shoot over the winter.
There seem to be two types of status-pages:

Really great ones show that all services are up, and often have timing information, graphs, or metrics, etc. An example of this would be https://status.bitbucket.org/

More basic status-sites generally only show useful detail(s) if something is currently broken, and perhaps will show you a summary of recent problems over the past few days. An example of that would be https://status.github.com/messages

(I wrote a simple status-page for my own site, but I elected to go the simple route. I do monitor availability and response-time(s) of various parts of the service, but I only update the site when there are problems, manually. This works for me because problems are rare, and my site is small.)
> I feel like they are good stewards of my data (encrypting even internal traffic, severe restrictions on who can get access to my data, doing useful things with that data)

The more info someone has on you (your preferences, habits, how price sensitive you are to certain products, ...), the more disadvantaged you are negotiating with them.
To be fair; their biggest example is a company pulling out after functionally going bankrupt. That's more to do with 'be careful who you play ball with' and general risk of doing business at all than method used. They complain they aren't getting tax revenue they planned ~15 years later - but that also is compared to not getting any revenue from the company not being located there in the first place.

Do i want my city to give Amazon a huge incentive package? Probably not, I think we're moving in a good direction already. Would I be upset if they promised significant public transit improvements as a lure to Amazon? Not at all; long overdue civic improvements that likely will never get approved else-wise.
I don’t mean extracting it - I mean destroying it.
Eh, I've been in the consumer electronics space a while and it's pretty common for a SoC/CPU vendor to offer a time-based tiered price as a part of a procurement contract.

As your chip goes from cutting edge process technology($$$) to mid-tier($$) and commodity($) they usually pass that savings along, otherwise they would incentivize going for a mid-cycle refresh and suddenly a large revenue stream for your chip dries up as a product moves to a (potentially) different vendor.
Great suggestion - that is a great read and I used it quite extensively the last time I wrote a security policy.
> If people are electing the people they want and those people are doing what they are elected to do then democracy is working.

New York election law has been engineered to the point where it's actually impossible for voters to have any influence on the outcome. (That's why New York perennially has the lowest election turnout in the country).

Even our primary elections are essentially coronations for the candidates that the parties themselves hand-pick[0], with no real way for voters to override that choice. That's just one law, and if it were only that one, it might not be such a problem, but it's part of a carefully-constructed system that leaves New York residents with truly no control over our government.

[0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/new-york-poli...
You're absolutely right! Many cultures have different attitudes than ours. Pain is an excellent example.

Are you aware that it's also a cornerstone of Western Imperialist Medicine that the patient has the right to refuse any treatment, such as palliative treatment for pain? In this way, our attitudes are not forced on other cultures. Members of other cultures are offered personal choices. Though I recognize that some regard this as a cultural imperialist imposition on cultures where personal autonomy is not valued.

Personally, I think that western cultural imperialism has drastically improved lives through items such as anti-retrovirual drugs, mosquito nets, and drinking water filters. But I understand that some might choose to value traditional ways of life and ways of knowing and folk beliefs - and the attendant human suffering and deaths - over imposing our cultural that values human lives and the reduction of suffering.

It's just perhaps possible that, having carefully considered this issue, and aware of the historical context wherein this is not assumed but thought about, some people may have concluded that this is an acceptable imperialist imposition. Thank you very much for your kind, caring, thoughtful ideas!
Let's say that winning ALL slots on a market dominant platform does have a value unto itself, and the total value is V. Then Google can consume the spots itself, but it is giving up the ability to sell the package of all slots to someone else for V. So it still costs them V.

If Google is the only one who can extract V (likely the case, since they are the ones consuming the spots), they are reaping the benefits of that fact, not of being able to sell to themselves.
Stepping back from the whole arab spring thing: Let's think about what identity verification actually means for the user.

Let's assume for a second Twitter has a magic wand that, without consequences, automatically deletes fake users used for marketing purposes.

Now what does identity verification actually do for the remainder of the users? In what way does it benefit them? In what ways does it inconvenience them? In what ways does it put them at risk?

Should there be a process in place, that is required of the entire userbase, just to fix the fake user problem? A problem that most users aren't even sort of aware of (otherwise the NYT article wouldn't have been as successful as it was).

We do a lot of reactionary things as a society that follow this exact pattern: Put massive processes in place to remove tiny bits of risk. Governments do that and justify it all the time, cf. the "Terrorism" or "For the children" memes. You often read people's complaints here on the ridiculous security theater that the TSA is, how it doesn't solve anything and inconveniences everyone for something that happens to people less often than winning the lottery.

This, is that. The pattern is: You have a tiny problem, you fix it with something which impacts your entire userbase because you didn't stop to think whether there are more targeted solutions, or even whether it's worth it.

[Note: I argue lower down that AI and statistics aren't the correct fix for this either... gotta keep digging. Maybe the "correct fix" is a mix of identity verification and statistical analysis.]
"Candygram..."
If you don't mind me asking, in what capacity were you affected by the Intel Meltdown exploits? Was it an issue in terms of security, performance, etc?
> Netflix can deliver unlimited views of thousands of tv shows and movies for $10/mo

You're valuing the service that Tinder is providing in the wrong way. Netflix is offering you the ability to watch movies on demand. Tinder is offering you the ability to get laid.

The fact that Tinder is only $10 more than Netflix is the bit that's amazing.
Much worse relative to what? An actual point in the past where people’s lives were less “bubble-y?” Or a hypothetical scenario where Facebook and Google took it upon themselves to upend the natural tendency of people to prefer identifying and associating with familiar, like-minded people and ideas?
Thanks for sharing.

I eventually moved into Java/.NET stacks, but still follow on C++, as my to go tool when they need some unmanaged help.
Creating a Google Cloud Platform Billing Dashboard
I'll be more specific and say the DC area, either eastern Montgomery county, along the red or green line; or near the yellow line in DC or NoVa.
Openpilot port guide for Toyota models
> To stop people from dying.

To improve people's quality × duration of life is probably more accurate; stopping people from dying (if you maintain positive quality of life, which is a big if) is the limit case of that, but not really the purpose of healthcare; real healthcare systems may delay death but don't stop it and remain valuable.
That's good news! AMD can finally have full stack.
...or, they'll be a momentary novelty that Generation Z will view as the 21st century equivalent of sticking your head through a cardboard cutout to pretend you're Dale Earnhardt or Santa Claus or whatever.

https://img.etsystatic.com/il/c435d0/942014524/il_570xN.9420...
Sharing Software Licenses and Modules on Blockchain
For journaling, I use a markdown file in a private git repo. I can access it on MacBook easily enough but use mosh app on my iPad to login to a private server.

I try to organize my entries pretty well, so they are easy to search. However, there is no folder hierarchy. No links or images.

I was using Pages for my journal, it was good solution if you are in Apple’s ecosystem. But I like automatic builtin back in git’s workflow. Sometimes, I take notes in Pages for a few days, then move them over to markdown file. This is slowly becoming my preferred workflow as it allows me to review my previous notes instead of just continue to add at the end of the file.

And when I jotting down random ideas, I prefer pen and paper. Stuff like things to do, random ideas for projects, etc. If I store them electronically, I will never look at them again.
That's great for you. But do you not agree that every user should be properly educated on what Google does with her data without having to read through pages of legalese, and then she should also be able to give her consent for that tracking and data collection?
Somewhat off topic, but the idea to show the examples as diffs against the prior one was based on this block post: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/23/diff-views.

I would be interested to hear people's thoughts on the effectiveness. I like how it is clear what is important in each example, but there is perhaps too much noise and it's a shame the regular syntax highlighting does not work.
The problem is deeper than that. This isn't Chicago competing against St. Louis. This is St. Louis competing against St. Louis. There's a reason I don't separate the finances of my kitchen from the finances of my living room. The whole household is the right unit of measure. Chopping up one "city" into 90+ smaller "cities" is a legal fiction. In some very real sense -- in almost every real sense -- it's just one city. All these nonsense ways of chopping it up further are an historical accident. It's all contingent bologna.
This article attempts to prove something that doesn't apply to the decentralized networks that the Lightning Network is expected to form, and so its conclusion that it cannot be decentralized is flawed.

It relies on a definition that "decentralized" means "many hops". However the principle of six degrees of separation[1] demonstrates that this is commonly not the case in a typical decentralized network. Social connections are generally treated as "decentralized" but do not require a large number of hops to get across the network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
To me the killer app for this is to empower data scientists to create useful, ad-hoc visualization apps for their results. Right now the html / presentation story for Jupyter notebooks is awful.

Mike, Jeremy, and Tom, this looks awesome. I'm looking forward to put it through the paces.
>Much like a culinary hash of corned beef and potatoes, a hash algorithm chops and mixes up data in various ways

Perfectly obvious in hindsight but I never made the connection.
It seems like the average contributor to open source projects doesn't have enough interest and skill in the visual design aspect of things.

They tend to be the stereotypical hardcore old-school C developer who is not aesthetically oriented.

Everything from their website, their logo to the UI/UX has an aura of "designed by a C programmer who just wants to code and doesn't really give a shit about how fancy things look as long as it works".
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> Most documented cases have occurred in athletes involved in contact sports such as American football, wrestling, ice hockey, rugby, and soccer.[1] Other risk factors include being in the military, prior domestic violence, and repeated banging of the head.[1]
I tend to soft-block (block and then immediately unblock, it removes them as a follower) most new followers, because most are either brands or fake accounts.
To help out, let me point you to the English phonology page on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology . Specifically, look into the 'Voiced alveolar sibilant', the 'z' in English. That's the sound you're looking for, as it's the one used by Raph in the linked talk.

For completeness, the vowel is the dipthong 'aɪ', pronounced like the 'i' in the word 'price', discussed on the same wiki page.
I didn't say anything that conflicts with this. If you have symptoms of Lyme, such as the circular red rash, definitely get it checked out.
If only the states could form some kind of "union" where they could avoid this kind of thing.
Is the opposite also "age discrimination"? McDonalds sells coffee at a discount to people over age 55.
Haha presumably if you’re wiring the money directly to the US Treasury they would make an exception!
Let's not pretend like this is unique to AMD though: NVIDIA products can be undervolted too. And if you are willing to drop 10-15% performance, you can cut power down by 40-50% on Pascal, just like Vega.

The same voltage-vs-frequency curve applies to both products.
Cheaper GPUs for me then. I don't see a difference between buying used parts from someone that browsed the internet versus playing games. CPUs/GPUs don't just 'wear out' on a normal time scale before they are obsolete. We've got companies that have been running the same mainframes for 50 years.
Automatic visual diffing with Puppeteer
The UX for interacting with Ethereum apps is slowly improving. The most interesting work going on in this space has to to with getting web3 available on mobile devices which is starting to make dApps useful on the go. This might lead to many more micropayment apps being developed. Best practices right now are centered around using your phone to scan QR codes to quickly add payment addresses.

Additionally, all these web3 providers who are developing browser based solutions are trying to provide a psuedo app store to make their platforms more useful.

Some examples I've been playing with lately are:

https://status.im/

https://www.cipherbrowser.com/

https://www.omise.co/go

A competitor in this space is blockstack who is pushing the dApp model hard: https://blockstack.org
Would it be possible to do a 1-time verification, and then throw away the data? Twitter needs to see a driver's license or passport once, not keep a scan of it.