skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not an issue of corruption or necessarily incompetence of either party.

1) 'Tent pole' installations that employ a lot of people create substantial benefits way beyond whatever the investment is, at least on that basis subsidies can be rationalized. Of course there can be debate over whether they should be employed, the amount, and the means - and those details matter. But superficially, this is fairly normal practice.

2) You are probably smarter than 'most citizens of Wisconsin' but you're definitely not smarter than Foxconn's strategic planners :). A factory that makes one kind of screen can be adapted to another, and the world is massively bigger than modern markets and there are tons of applications for non-oled screens.

Superficially, again, their plans were within reason.

3) The political logic here, is that Trump was looking to make a 'big announcement' and 'foreign' companies wanted to placate him and give him his needed tweet, and then wait until the wind blows over to change their minds. An 'announcement' to me doesn't really have that much value anyhow, when they 'walk the talk' then we can count.

Remember that none of the '4 Billion' etc. will be realized unless Foxconn does make the investment, so it's not as though there's some kind of incurred debt, just possible lost opportunity cost.

...

Assuming the incentives are reasonably structured, and assuming Foxconn does actually start to hire in Wisconsin, well this might work out well. They may only end up hiring hundreds or a couple of thousand of people which case I suggest they aren't able to grab at the 'bilions' in incentives anyhow.

Consider that if Foxconn does not make an investment - even with billions of incentives on the table ... then it almost assuredly is not in their best interest anyhow.

Take these statements mostly at face value, with a grain of salt, but there's no reason to scream corruption or incompetence. There may be some ugliness in the terms of the subsidies, if someone wants to point those out that would be great, I'd love to hear about them.
Children’s Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps
If you're willing, consider using the 'Send Feedback' link in the lower right corner of the DDG results page to inform them when you were 'reaching' for a given helper-box and didn't get what you were hoping for.
Wars are fought that are a net negative to the world and scratching out a win for even the victors in the long run is implausible as long as a minority that controls the levers of power stand to gain.

The troops aren't coming home because of trump. In the long run it was a fight that was never going to be "finished" and will to keep spending money indefinitely isn't there. As well blame the sunrise for clearing up your cold instead of your immune system.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0934/5620/files/181126_Sho...

Your welcome
snopes has a bunch of breadcrumbs if you scroll down and continue to read them all, an interesting scenario emerges.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bre-paytons-death-strange/

I would also add, the Flu shot is not a sure thing it is a best guess as to the serotypes that will probably be in circulation based on WHO monitoring of global serotype observation. BTW im not an antivaxxer, I have very extensive knowledge regarding the particulars of influenza, and vaccine production.
re:re:suicide nets. The suicide rate in China is 8.0 per 100k people per year. In the US it's 13.7.
The conservative movement has a very vibrant intellectual sphere, particularly when it comes to economics, politics, and the law. Much of the Republican Party platform is nominally premised on the Laffer Curve (i.e. trickle down economics), "Taxation is Theft" (political meme delegitimizing government), Original Meaning (a particular vein of constitutional originalism), and Realpolitik (the zero-sum, might-makes-rights approach to foreign policy of neoconservatives).

IMO, these radical concepts (at least radical in the context of conservatism) were reactions to leftist intellectual movements, and also have served to supplant moralism.

The problem with intellectualism and moralism (which is being revived on the left with the social justice movement), whether from the left or the right, is that it makes is easier for people to think and speak in absolutes.

Absolutism is where intellectualism and anti-intellectualism can reinforce each other.
You have every right to be less than impressed with the company and its business model(s), but dont make baseless claims.
Lots of things are vanishingly rare, the odds of being in a mass shooting are a lot less vanishingly rare then I am comfortable with. If the odds were up near where tornado deaths are I'd prefer it. The numbers I saw gave a 1/11125 chance per year of being killed in a mass shooting in the US.
Thanks but I beat you to it :D :P
Providing evidence that is speculative for one country is a far cry from the evidence needed to support a definitive statement about several countries, particularly when I provided a source that strongly suggests something to the contrary. I doubt every country on that list completely halted the use of non-renewables in the last 3-4 years given that use was in the double digits in many cases.
> offer far more value i.e. premium branding and better interiors

This can't happen soon enough. Ever since driving a Tesla, I'm completely disappointed by the interior/control panels of most (all?) other cars. Buttons, seriously? A 9-inch screen?!
> A stupid move, but fair.

Are you're saying this from a short-term financial perspective?

I personally think it's too early to tell if it was a stupid move. Elon Musk had a plan, and his plans do seem to work out for the most part given some time.

It's my understanding that they recently cut a major sales channel, so it's perhaps not surprising that the number of installations have fallen.
The Soviets decided where the factories were built, how much to invest, in whom, what the products would be, quotas, volumes, suppliers, quality, etc. etc..

The Chinese gov. is mostly centrally planning strategically, i.e. with investments, loans, subsidies, de-facto monopoly rights - which is another thing entirely.

In some ways, what the Chinese are doing is kind of like what Japan, S. Korea and even Europe did after the war.

But it's likely they are heading into a 'different stage' now where that doesn't work so well.

Also, Foxconn is Taiwanese, worth noting.
People regularly confess very serious crimes on social media. It's quite astonishing.
/r/incels comes to mind in this regard.
I've been focusing on saving a lot lately. The biggest thing that has helped me is having a checking account with all the money I'm budgeting for the month and using nothing but that. It includes all spending outside rent/bills. It has forced me to really look at what I'm spending money on, and I've been able to slash my spending by 75% this way. I used to just put everything on a credit card and pay it off at the end of the month.

The biggest savers have been around food: eating out less, paying attention at the grocery store, and cooking in bulk.
What China Threat?
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Kind of disappointing that so many people just want to downvote this thought, but no one can quote (or even seems to care about) the actual terms that Google (and Facebook) are alleged to have violated.

All hail arbitrary Apple, unbound by contract or law! Save us from ourselves, Tim Cook!
Couple of points people are missing:

- The biggest problem with Facebook in terms of immediate impact is not loss of privacy, though that’s real. It’s behavioural manipulation, which has lots of very negative outcomes for you as a user as well as society. Don’t think you’re not been manipulated, you are, and you are susceptible to it. Your behaviour and emotions are negatively impacted by the fact you use facebook.

- This is not “capitalism” or “consumer voting with their money”. Firstly, due to network effects Facebook has a monopoly on their kind of product. The choice is Facebook vs no facebook. Second, the currency is time and attention to sell ads. Finally, most people are addicted to social media by design and it’s arguable whether they have a truly free choice. Is a gambling addict voting with their feet? The gambling addict knows they won’t win and usually knows they’re addicted; social media addicts people very subtly and manipulates you over time. Few people would admit to being addicted, but if you really think you’re not - fine, if it’s no big deal then just take a month off from social media and see what happens.

Good summary is Jaron Lanier’s interview https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q
"It is unfortunate that we don’t study them further, as we humans learn much more from our mistakes—both individual and collective—than from our successes.”

It is... though success is what breeds interest.
> A vpn app can tunnel network traffic, but it doesn't meddle with system certs or the CA. It doesn't doesn't get to decrypt TLS connections by default. So which one did fb do ? Did they just tunnel traffic, or did they MITM TLS traffic as well ?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Most VPN apps tunnel traffic, but the Facebook app is going further and inserting its own root certificate, allowing them to intercept TLS traffic. Some apps, like Charles Proxy, do this, but it obviously has a legitimate use for this.

> are the modifications that it made in the past (such as enrolling a CA) also reverted

I haven't tried it, but I'd like to think that this is the case.
and today Microsoft's "Xbox live" cloud service is down and it's causing Xbox's to fail to boot: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/xbox-one-black-screen/
Actively lying about numbers in the prepared remarks of an earnings call...? Probably not (unless you think Facebook is actually a scam ten times bigger than Enron waiting to be exposed.)
Nevertheless, he does have the hair for it.
Department of Homeland Security Confirms Changes to H-1B Cap / Lottery Process
Avoiding items that cost more than $2 at the grocery store if the cost per oz is good. Eating and cooking the same kind of cuisine can save you from having to buy special ingredients all the time. I've been eating a lot of mexican food. I found that refried beans, flavored rice, enchelata sauce is pretty good all by its self, low calorie, low cost and easily upgraded with tortillas guacamole sour cream. I've forgon adding cheese and been saving a lot of caloric intake. Mexican without cheese is fine.
They didn't get anything.

In fact, if a company is not going to invest after such massive subsidies are offered, then it's probably a huge valid signal that it really doesn't make sense for them.
> That's the majority of people, not the majority of the work. I said majority of the work. The PhD supports my assertion that the majority of the actual work is done paid.

The PhD supports that the majority of work on KDE and Gnome are done paid. Those are not typical examples, though, and I don't believe the conclusions apply to OSS in general.

Projects like those make up a tiny percentage of the OSS ecosystem, whether measuring by people or by work.
Joke's on you! As we've seen in the credit rating system if there is a fake profile sharing your information the company is pretty likely to assume it's just you - I'm not certain how being known as a v1agr4 reseller will impact your insurance prices but it'll be fun to find out together.
DONOT signup for any online subscription service with your credit card. You will not know when and how much money you are loosing from your credit card, unless you are diligent about checking credit card statements.

Side note: Its funny you cannot get real time updates/SMS when money is deducted from your bank/credit card account.
Studying the Personal News Cycle
that aren't selling nearly as well...

https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Basically, people were tricked into installing fake Fortnite APKs.
This is the reasoning for RCS, unfortunately. They could have implemented it everywhere a long time ago but wait for carrier support
How's it being enforced, though? Short of outright arresting people, the usual enforcement tactic is to use fines
It doesn't surprise me. It does not have a strong selling point.

I go on to the documentation page, and see that yes, it is nice clean lisp-like language, but I can't see what problem it solves that Clojure doesn't already solve. (And clojure has the existing library/community support to give it the edge.)

EDIT: That's not to say that there isn't one. I just am not immediately seeing it.
>whether or not software is proprietary.

I think this has made a huge difference, not so much if it is open source our not but how much things have become locked down. Before if you made a cool program you could hand it out to your friends on a usb stick and run it. These days you have to pay $100 to apple and go through a long approval process before you get listed on the app store. Its the same with all the platforms people use now. They have become more and more locked down pushing the regular user in to simply consuming content and only the corporations with large dev teams are able to make anything.
You're missing the point completely. The deprecation of flash and the push for CSS are the unique reason things have changed
Looks like shares dropped a bit in after-hours. Likely related to the CFO planning to leave during 2019, which was not in the earnings letter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/musk-says-tesla-cfo-deepak-a...
My favorite thing about the 10NES is how the easiest way to get a Famicom->NES adapter is to open one of the first wave of NES carts, because those were made on Famicom boards and then have an interposer with the 10NES chip on it. [1]

Though in digging up a source for this, I discovered my new favorite thing, which is that Tengen (infamously) made a (mostly) cleanroom duplicate of the 10NES and got sued over it, and when a company recently wanted to make NES cartridges, they reverse engineered Tengen's chip in turn. [2]

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/frpyh/you_m...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#Nintendo_Entert...
> I am an Apple Developer, but that still requires me to use open source apps, since I have to compile it myself.

As I've mentioned in another reply, you want to use Cydia Impactor to resign apps.
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The technical side of HN isn't insurmountable, the moderation side is harder but the community side is the hard part.

I could build a HN, I could maybe moderate it (though probably not as well as dang and co, they are rather more even handed than me) but getting people to come and use it without attaching it to a VC fund not so much.

If I wanted to make a profit though then things are different.

Good community projects can self fund, lichess is a good example, hundreds of thousands of users, millions of games a day and zero advertisings, scheezy tactics.

Completely funded on donations, even pays the lead developer a liveable salary (though certainly not what he'd earn on the open market working for said scheezy social networks sadly).
Same, at the start I regularly dropped back to Google if I couldn't find what I was looking for, the last few times I tried that the Google results were even less helpful than the DDG ones. Maybe my Google-fu is just rusty, though.
better still, the router hardware google sells as a product (onHub) requires a Google account to work [0-

So consumers are paying to buy a router that will allow google to mine and link all browsing behavior to their google account.

Also, if you own a google home, it won't work without all sorts of permissions being enabled at the account level, including web activity and app history [1]

Both of these fantastic privacy violating products are available for Purchase at an electronics retailer near you.

[0]https://on.google.com/hub/support/

[1]https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/864293485439893505
Then that system is not finitely axiomatizable (there are infinitely many truths in that model) so the original claim is still true. It's true for all finitely axiomatized theories.
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Because there is no financial incentive not to.
Some companies, like Chase, do offer real time updates/SMS alerts.
Can you say what problems there are?
A quick analysis of “question time” in Australian Parliament in 2018
(nope, I just like the sound of it)
I think it is a small subset of people that see things that black and white. I agree it is not simply "wanting less javascript", but I think a large number of people would not mind small ads that have minimal bandwidth requirements, minimal cpu usage, minimal slowing down the page, that don't pop up in your face, are not visually distracting, and are relevant to the material on the site.

I don't think "get a different business model" is a reasonable option for many web sites, unless the whole point of the site is to support a product (for instance Adobe's Photoshop web page, or whatever).
Apple has iCloud@Work, but I don't think it supports iMessage and FaceTime.
the article doesn't help sluice that out much... "Another alleged Chinese spy has been caught apparently trying to steal secrets from Apple’s mysterious self-driving car project."
Right click on the item and choose Inspect Element. In the code, you'll see the image URL as either an <img> tag or a background. The URL will be underlined. You can right-click on the URL and choose Open Image in New Window. From there, you can right-click the image and download it.
I would encourage everyone to give an Arduino a go. You can pick them up for a few bucks each, and even kits full of sensors and hookup wires are quite cheap. The range of micros available now is huge, and many of them have useful stuff like built in WiFi (like an ESP8266). You need very little electronics knowledge to do a whole heap of fun things, and tutorials and libraries are absolutely everywhere.
> Side note: Its funny you cannot get real time updates/SMS when money is deducted from your bank/credit card account.

Most major credit card providers have email and sms notifications for transactions. It's pretty much instant.
Right, but my point was that during that early internet period, you just happened to be in the niche group that was on it. There are new niche things out there now, but you aren't in the right group to be in that niche anymore.
" no comparable anti-intellectual streak in the American left as there is in the right"

Wow.

Intersectionalism, as it is applied popularly, is a massively 'anti intellectual' exercise.

Authoritarianism, controlling speech, banning speakers etc. at campuses all across the US is largely driven by a specific group of leftists.

Those actions are quite fundamentally 'anti intellectual' and 'anti liberal' to the point wherein it has quite a number of people in those communities afraid to speak out.

This has spread from academia into other institutions such as government and media and has significant impact upon us all.

I'm not taking sides, other than to point out that there's some roughshod everywhere you look, it just takes different forms. The hard part is most people might not want to have the self awareness to consider that some actions may be corrupt, i.e. banning 'Jordan Peterson' from speaking may be considered a moral act by some, hence, they see nothing wrong on 'their side' only 'the other'.
You have a trailing - and also neat!.
How many people here actually realize Foxconn is not a company from China, but from Taiwan?!!
Farming is a holdover from the days of slavery too. Almost everything is.
Some other less obvious title options pulled from article quotes:

> flagging sketchy URLs

> changing the way site identity is presented
Trust generally isn’t by default, it is built. I’m not sure there’s anything wrong with that.
Giving them the information could certainly help, and it is a good first step.

Mammographers would still be missing the motivation surgeons get when they see a patient die hours or days later. The emotional kick in the pants is harder to provide.
I'm in a private forum and its funny to see how strangers with anime profile pics are able to discuss topics that would be flamed to death in seconds on most of the internet.
HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
It's helpful to contrast what sorts of information people will put on LinkedIn to see a nice demonstration of this... some people are a bit odd but most people keep the "social" portion of LinkedIn to a minimum since they are aware what sort of effect it can have on their livelihood.

Social media is just _super weird_ and I think as a societal experiment we're closing in on the realization that it doesn't have any value, people like to communicate but - just like in real life - people generally like to partition their lives. Social media companies gain no value in allowing a partition of activity, the only social media-ish company that seems to make an effort to actively support it is reddit and that's mostly because the focus is never on you as an individual.
Though I agree about the structure (and keyboard shortcuts) being helpful, derping around endless is still how I use trackers.. and after hating it for a long time, I actually now love it to not ever consider anything "finished", and trackers are perfect for that.

Instead of a mess of giant files of things bounced from various programs or even hardware, it's just a file... and though with Renoise the VST matter a lot, since I still have those I still can load up and work on things I made over a decade ago. I can try to touch it up some, or steal parts I like to make something new, with filesizes ranging from a few hundred kilobytes to a few dozen megabytes at most. That's my bliss. I know the listener doesn't and shouldn't care about that, but it's a trade-off I make gladly. I think my music became much simpler, too, maybe "worse", but more fun for me, because instead of layering instruments that play the same melody in another octave and a lot of effects, I now remove things with equal glee as I add them with. The less I use to achieve something I can shake my butt to, the more I like it... having a rich sound is nice, but seeing all columns on one screen is awesome, as is rendering a 5 minute song in 20 seconds instead of 3 minutes. I like the agility of this one-person studio that starts up in like 1 second too much, and even if I had the ability to master well, I wouldn't want to render tracks from Renoise to then master them in another program. Other than denoising samples, I do it all in Renoise. Considering what other people are doing with it and the legacy of tracking in general, I don't feel like a king of the nerd hill though, but I do feel like the captain of my bathtub.

I recommend it to everybody, and I recommend sticking through years of feeling completely useless at it. It's what I did, and I think if you like music enough to enjoy it, and if you are making it to entertain yourself, practice might not make you perfect, but it will gift you some things you wouldn't have thought you have in you. As far as hobbies go, this is like owning a dog, it does everybody good (should they have any affinity for it at all, that is). I say that because a friend of mine thinks making music is somehow translating the music we can compose in our heads into reality, and at least for me, that's not the case. I can sing in the shower, or "think music", but when I sit down with a tracker, I'm still surprised by the results, like, I didn't come up with this, I just found it. I think the key is to not be shy... if in doubt, just don't show it to anyone (yet), but do make music regardless. It's one of the most wonderful things you can do with a computer, IMO.
Rape and sexual assault come to mind, since that's what happens far more often than blackmail for petty ends. Plenty of studies have shown how bunk your claim is. It is a sexist conspiracy theory.