skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this argument is leaning too hard on a single example of a poorly-structured subsidy program. I don't think we should demonize all such efforts based on the Foxconn example. The Amazon HQ2 subsidies in NY are mostly from existing programs that have been operated for a long time, and those programs are structured so that the subsidy is available only when some requirement is already met (like a new job).

For example, most of the NY state subsidy is from the Excelsior program, which is issued in the from of a tax credit for jobs that were created (in the past) and other types of investment. See https://esd.ny.gov/sites/default/files/Excelsior-Regs-2818.p... (PDF) for the details of the program:

> "Net new jobs" means jobs created in this state that: ([1]i) are new to the state,(ii) have not been transferred from employment with another business located in this state including from a related person in this state or through an acquisition, merger, consolidation, or other reorganization of businesses or the acquisition of assets of another business,(iii) are either full-time wage-paying jobs or equivalent to a full-time wage-paying job requiring at least thirty-five hours per week,and (iv) are filled for more than six months.[and in excess of both the applicant’s employment as of the date the applicant is admitted into the Excelsior Jobs Program and the applicant’s employment base calculated as the average of the applicant’s employment in New York State for each of the four quarters immediately prior to the date it was issued a certificate of eligibility, or, if the applicant was not in business in New York State during all four quarters, the employment base shall be calculated as the average of the applicant’s employment in New York State for each of those quarters immediately prior to the date it was issued a certificate of eligibility in which the applicant was in business in New York State;]
On all sides of Amazon's planned NYCHQ are a million+ people living in neighborhoods that are predominantly working and lower middle class and that skew towards renters over buyers. Them.
Step 1: Don't use a smart phone.

The problem is it seems to increasingly become a necessity for participating in modern society.
I would recommend still reading books written by journalists since some can be very good. But for these books adjust your Goodreads rating threshold to something more like 4.2 or 4.3 for journalist-written books.
there's gnu smalltalk: http://smalltalk.gnu.org/
Cool! Yes, on the dexcom G6.

Thanks, I will check those out!
That's beautiful. Did it fall through?
I'm amazed it took three WaPo journalists and this still comes off as a biased screed that could have come from the mouth of Bezos himself.

I mean, casually referencing Bezos as "the worlds richest man" instead of calling him by name or title? Come on.
That's why I said tries the second time around, not succeeds yet again.
So how do you determine want amount of community service is necessary? Does picking up one piece of trash off the sidewalk count as community service?

As soon as you tie the payment to a certain type of task, you have to enforce a standard of time/quality.
I use twitter to follow people (usually scientists or public intellectuals) that tweet solid ideas or share essays with solid ideas. I only follow accounts with high signal to noise ratio. Noise is empty tweets that have no substance or buzzfeed like articles.

Here is a prime example of an account and tweet that has lots of substance https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10618244705564672...

He also has lists of accounts on his profile that have high signal to noise ratio. https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/10810700446483988...

Personally I would love to have the feature of following accounts for their self-written tweets but not retweets. Definitely will help with signal to noise. But that goes against Twitter's business model, so I doubt it will happen.
It would be even more awesome than it is, if:

* A "blame" column could be turned on at the left, showing output from "git blame".
* When hovering over a line in the blame column, the main window shows the historical version of the file when the commit was born. Commit message appears on the left (even more left).
* When it is clicked, the timeline jumps there.

I understand it would be a lot of work, but it would be a super valuable tool for browsing file history in git.
Apple's a little better, but anecdotally speaking after deleting facebook from my phone I switched to Apple's News application for reading news on my iPhone, and there are dark patterns in play, or maybe it could be called 'curating' the feed. Point is, there's algorithms and sponsored content hiding inside that app that I don't have much control over. I'd like to read a newspaper like there used to be where we're viewing the same version and the same ads. Apple's not completely innocent they're just not direct about it. I wish they were.
> Google very quietly shuttered the Google Translate for web plugin that made it possible to autotranslate sites.

The feature still seems to be built into Chrome: https://random.spillett.net/stuff/tmp/translate.png

Or was there a plug-in for other browsers too, that is now AWOL?
A modern Mustang GT is absolutely built to go that speed.
Mir is not GPL. It's GPL+CLA. Tiny, but very important difference.
Diabolical.
> 3Blue1Brown, and I wouldn't know where to find this elsewhere

Check out LBRY (https://lbry.io). 3Blue1Brown's content is available there, along with lots of great Youtube channels. If your favorite channel isn't there yet, reach out to the creator and encourage them to sync by visiting https://lbry.io/youtube (its a one-click process and they can get paid for it). Or let me know who you'd like to see there and we'll do our best to convince them for you.
I'm a big fan of RISC-V but HiFive completely ruined the whole point.
I was excited for a _proper_ open ISA because it would open up super low cost hardware development. But looking at the $35 raspberry pi with a license-bound ARM ISA and a supposedly open source board for $1000 it looks like HiFive is playing by intel's or ARM's rules.
No chance for risc-v adoption with this ridiculous overpricing
Are you storing a large amount of offline music on an SD card? I've had that cause issues for me in the past. Their guide to fixing issues[0] is generally worth giving a shot.

[0]: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/COMPLETE-GUIDE-How-...
Incredibly accurate. The author sounds like the weakest, laziest man ever except as an illustrator, at which he is actually quite good. Also, how do you not realize that it’s going to be a pain in the ass to carry (possibly dozens) of scooters up and down three flights of stairs to charge? Here’s an idea. Drop an extension cord out your window. Sit guard outside while they charge at ground level.

Big ideas!
> That's why I said tries the second time around, not succeeds yet again.

OK, point taken. But do you have evidence that AMD has plans to do a second attempt?
Of the potential ~$3B NY subsidies (this is what it is projected Amazon can claim, not what is promised), I believe only $505M is specific to Amazon (capital grant from state). The rest is from pre-existing programs including Excelsior, ICAP, and REAP. Chances are, Google, Apple, and the rest are all going to be taking advantage of these programs.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-and-mayor-de...

> To bring this transformational, multibillion-dollar project to New York, the State offered a package of performance-based incentives totaling $1.705 billion. The package includes a $1.2 billion in tax credits through the Excelsior Jobs Program, which is directly tied to Amazon's commitment to create 25,000 new jobs and no less than $2.3 billion investment over ten years as well as a $505 million capital grant that is directly tied to Amazon's commitment to invest $3.6 billion and create up to 40,000 new jobs over 15 years.

> Under pre-existing as-of-right programs authorized by law, Amazon is eligible for a partial property tax abatement through ICAP and an annual credit of $3,000 for twelve years per eligible employee under REAP, a program available to all companies to encourage job growth outside of Manhattan. REAP benefits for Amazon's 10-year expansion are projected at $897 million through 2038, and ICAP will abate approximately $386 million.
Besides the effect on the housing market, I think many towns and cities are regulating short term rentals (AirBnB) in a manner that falls prey to the classic XY problem. (You want X so keep suggesting and focusing on Y) This often tags the form of enacting severely limiting occupancy limits in the name of reducing parking demand despite the fact that the majority of the occupants are often children. (Family reunions are very common so having 6 adults + children can quickly _seem_ like a lot of people).

I would argue that local municipalities should _actually_ enforce noise, parking, and other peace keeping ordinences _instead_ of (heavily) regulatting short term rentals directly. If the current laws are insufficient at keeeping tourists/renters in check, they should enact additional laws based on actual input from their constituents to address real complaints instead of regulating AirBnB and short term rentals.

A shitty neighbor is a shitty neighbor independent of if they are a home owner or a renter. If local ordinences were actually levied against the owners of properties with misbehaving guests, they would have an economic incentive to regulate their tenants more carefully.
Yes, the rents in popular areas will rise. Since people have a basic income to support them regardless where they are living, they can move to areas with lower rent (thus increasing the rent — and net rental income — of the area they move to).

At present, most unemployment benefits systems require the recipient to stay where they are, or move to places with better employment opportunities. This places a large burden on the recipient since they might already be in a high rent area and are not allowed to move to somewhere they can afford to live.
As wolfgke pointed out, yeah. They claim that it was because of issues with the availability of the process they intended to manufacture on, and I'd sure like to believe that that was all it was.
> When we dream, we're activating our visual and auditory cortexes to create those experiences.

Right, and because there's little difference I generally refer to them all as perceptual. It seems perfectly cogent to say "electrode stimulation can create visual perceptions". I think "experience" in most such sentences is simply redundant. It either refers specifically to the activation of perceptual faculties, or it refers to something "beyond" perceptual faculties which may not exist (qualia).
Yeah there doesn't seem to be so much of that.
In my mind, yes! We would implement basic income to offset the number of jobs lost to automation. Because robots don't need to be paid, the cost of goods would decrease in a more-or-less proportional amount to the number of jobs lost.
is this the best we can do? to create better money making machines?

Of course not. The best AI we could possibly create wouldn't be a paperclip optimizer. Presumably, there could be another AI who would realize and say, Let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.

And what will that do to our old values - stuff like kindness, family values, creativity for it's own sake?

Actually, that's also along the lines of not being a paperclip optimizer. Some people are way too obsessed with sex. There will always be others who will realize that's a bit imbalanced, and decide not to be like that. There will always be people who ask, "Is that all? Is there nothing more?" That, or we'll die out sooner than we should. In other words, if the human mind is really that bounded and limited, some problem of our own making is going to kill us off.

Or is being an Elon Musk copy will just become a requirement for working as a barista ?

Didn't being a [famous hacker here] clone become a requirement for working as a programmer in the Bay Area? Aren't there towns where all of the baristas have scripts they're working on?
In a kit, LEGO pieces average about $0.10 each depending on the specific kit. Even a Mindstorms set (which this seems based off of) would only be a couple hundred dollars. Not bad for a customizable and reusable prototype replacement for a prosthetic.
> Then I realize it's even better than before because it demonstrates for a potential employer that you'll push whatever buttons you're asked to in exchange for money...

Well you don't know why the person left the company...maybe they were dissatisfied with its direction/practices.
Before that there was going to be an IBM Power chip to fit in an Opteron socket.
Not PR worthy. They took a look at your social media and determined that you were too outspoken.
I hope you still post those well written questions. They do add value. If you’re having that issue someone else may too.
> This means airbnb has a monopoly on available living space

Unlike Uber and Lyft, AirBnB doesn't set prices, condo owners do. If condo owners are colluding then that's a different issue.
I got a completely blank page running Firefox + uMatrix with no scripts running.
I don't agree with blocking users with ad block. Just embed ads in stream, it makes so much more sense.
This is just an excuse so Spotify can run ad spam on their clients. I'll stick with Google Play. 100 times better. Only play a few embedded stream ads (like Pandora).
Exponent Podcast: Why Exponent Isn’t on Spotify
Makes me wonder how long it will be before a license is codified that is as permissive as BSD/MIT/Apache2 but specifically prohibits using the code in copyleft code bases. The question has been posed elsewhere:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/6234/is-there...
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Competition – Round 2
How is blocking ads with software different from turning down the volume during commercials?

Also, nobody can be forced to listen to something.
Since HiFive is to my knowledge the only ones producing such kind of silicon chips with this instruction set, it is infinitely cheaper than other options, reducing the average price by NaN. I fail to see how more supply for an open architecture raises prices.
The Finland trial replaced existing unemployment insurance with a no-conditions payment of about the same value. No extra expense, in fact it would have been cheaper to administer since there was no compliance paperwork to process and police.
>Now you need a credit card or some other online payment mechanism, your real name/address/zip code will be associated with the payment mechanism

Do credit card companies also sell your data?
No, I think thats the situation. NYC wised up to the fact that Amazon wants to be in NYC more than NYC needs 25,000 jobs. Sure there are benefits to having Amazon in NYC for NYC, but not if its going to be net negative fiscally on the city, and not if it means they have to sell out unions.

At the end of the day, our reps job is to negotiate on our behalf. That said, we all know the mass of resources that Amazon can throw around. It would frankly be irresponsible government to preemptively compromise, or not seek the absolute best deal for their constituents.
When was it put there? Before or after the data was stolen?
6.5% of $250K x 25K = $406M/yr,

It only takes a minute or two verify that $250K is a completely unrealistic estimate for the average salary of a likely HQ2 employee. In fact the state's own estimate is around $150k. The property tax estimate is similarly skewed -- on top of the fact that you're ignoring the additional cost of services to support all these people.

I'm not saying there's benefit-to-cost ratio argument to be made in favor of HQ2 (if everything were to boil down to those terms) -- just that you seem to be, well... pulling numbers out of the air.
I read/skimmed the whole article with the sole intent of discovering who the expect will pay them once they're bootstrapped. I failed.
The ol' call-it-blight-and-seize-it trick is what happened in Wisconsin with the holdout landowners for the foxconn factory last year.

Here's the top google result for example:
https://www.wisbar.org/NewsPublications/InsideTrack/Pages/ar...

Yeah, in wisconsin the post-blight-declaration seizure was through eminent domain instead of bankers and private investors, but honestly, the wisconsin shennanigans really blur that line.
"Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility." (wikipedia)
Yep- it's in my family. Nothing to do with bodyfat. A body weight change of +/- 50 pounds makes no difference in fasting blood sugar. Hits later in life though (50s).
Could I use this to setup a TURN server with e2e encryption? My biggest problem with p2p signaling has always been that any traffic over TURN server is unencrypted. (Maybe I'm wrong/out-of-date about this?)

Or is the idea of this library that it implements its own encryption, so that an unencrypted TURN server is irrelevant? i.e. a TURN server operator cannot intercept a connection between two ca11 peers.

P.S. You might be interested in the IPOP [0] [1] research project, which implements VPN using p2p signaling.

[0] http://ipop-project.org/

[1] https://github.com/ipop-project
Show HN: Interactive recommendation engine for games has got website design
The memo idea is a brilliant idea when Jeff Bezos and his team use it. Unfortunately it has been bastardized by inept middle managers. I saw this firsthand at Amazon. People spending hours debating about spelling errors and sentence phrasing; talking about how a paragraph is going to confuse a hypothetical person who would in reality never read it. Instead of using the memo for what it is meant for...to communicate about your project in a clear way. I saw people spend 45 min on a paper about a product and then 5 min on demoing the actual product. I think the paper applies more in high level strategic meeting and is not a universal panacea for every project you do. But people are not that subtle and its either all papers or nothing.
Many people are in for a rude awakening when they realize that a free ISA saves them like 1% or less of system cost. It certainly can't overcome the ~10x cost difference between a low-volume prototype board and a mass-produced board.

RPi also kind of ruined the hardware world because AFAIK the SoC was being dumped below cost; I'm not sure if that's still true.
> The question is how many people want to live in Wyoming-level densities vs. Paris-level densities.

Do they get a choice? I want to live in Disneyland, but there's sadly a distinct lack of real estate available.
A small Swedish survey found at least 50 in common use:

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=411&art...
No new territory is covered in this article. It's a lot of words that skips over the central question: are CDDL and GPL incompatible and if so what does that mean for the user?

The article addresses this the wrong way:
>Sun deliberately made the CDDL incompatible with the GPL!

Doesn't matter whether it's deliberate or not. And it's not merely one opinion, it's GNU, FSF, SFC, Debian, Fedora - quite a lot I'm not going to list them all, who do consider CDDL a free software license, but also consider it incompatible with GPL.

I have yet to read anything from Linux developers or users that they don't like ZFS, quite the contrary. And the solution is distros won't package pre-built binaries, you have to compile it yourself. And it's not that difficult.

The article seems to argue that some Linux people in power hate ZFS (no evidence) and use CDDL GPL incompatibility as an excuse to keep it away from Linux users (again no evidence).
Ask HN: Anyone intentionally turn off WiFi to play the dinosaur game in Chrome?
And when people use cups of Starbucks coffee as their internal metric for cost and then use that as a value judgement for those who are not paying, it really drives home how out of touch techies are.

For the record, I pay $20 or so for Google Play Music for the family plan, despite being single. (Or at least I do until they shut it down, leaving me with no option for mostly streaming plus artists that aren't on any streaming service such as Tool or Neil Cicierega.)
"Pessimistic" is a good generalization of the GPL mindset in my opinion: "If I don't make this thing GPL then some greedy-bastard company will make a fortune off of my ideas and never give me a cut, credit, or contribute back."

Maybe, but it's a dim way of looking at other people.
> But looking at the $35 raspberry pi with a license-bound ARM ISA and a supposedly open source board for $1000 it looks like HiFive is playing by intel's or ARM's rules. No chance for risc-v adoption with this ridiculous overpricing

This is the first revision of a developer board. It is intended for die-hard open source fanatics with money and (this is the real audience) professional developers who want to port operating systems (and perhaps their software) to RISC-V. Such developer boards are always expensive. Cheaper board will become available as soon as this audience is saturated. Then a next (cheaper) revision will be put to market that targets user mode software developers. This revision will still be expensive, but already cheaper. The following revision will target adventurous tinkerers. etc.

And so it trickles down and slowly the price decreases over time. But if you want to take a bet: it will nevertheless stay much more expensive than a Raspberry Pi for a long time.
Today We Learned You Can Sail in a Straight Line from the UK to New Zealand
> super low cost hardware development.

There are lots of things that cost money in hardware design, and ISA licensing is a very small part of them.

Edit: I wonder if I should do a rather confrontational blog post telling people why Open hardware is never going to be the free lunch that open source software is..
People don't want to pay for it because there are mechanisms in place that sustain these businesses outside of ads. Just think about how much VC money is dumped into these services that never or barely generate a profit and they're all free to use and have been for years. Twitter and Snapchat come to mind.
Blocking ad blockers is incredibly annoying and is just an excuse for ad spamming. Let me tell you watching Youtube without ads is a dream compared to seeing a 4 second ad on every video start and then 5 mid roll ads. It's insane.
Google Play on the other hand does 2 to 3 ads after several minutes of listening. And the ads are make 10 - 15 seconds long. That's proper ad play.
Latest Google Pixel AR ‘Playmoji’ Brings Childish Gambino’s Dance Moves
🇪🇸Spanish language added to the website. Would like to get some feedback
John Dingell: My Last Words for America
I find that...offensive. It's infuriatingly wrong.
GP seemed like obvious irony to me. 7 HN folks don't agree...
The funny thing here is that the park had a legit reason for taking a fingerprint - you can use it to enter the park with a season pass. They just failed to disclose it properly.[1]

[1] https://www.sixflags.com/national/biometric-data-tos
> UBI is too expensive to even do a proper small-scale trial.

UBI isn't too expensive to do small-scale trial, it's entire theory of operation (and the key criticisms raised, like the inflation-spiral one) is too dependent on universality and coordination with other policy changes to do a meaningful small-scale trial, as you can neither validate the claimed benefits nor refute the claimed drawbacks that way.

You can do a gradual ramp of benefits trial, but not a limited sample of population in an otherwise open environment with pre-existing policies generally applicable.