skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virginia thanks NY for those extra jobs. The issue here is NY’s leaders are idiots and don’t understand the fundamentals of economics. Deferred or reduced taxes on Amazon (investment) in exchange for many thousands of good paying jobs (return) and all the down stream economic benefits as those employees pay taxes on good salaries, buy houses, buy cars, and participate in a plethora of other economic activities in the local environment (further returns). Keep electing clowns that want to keep raising taxes, adding regulation, and are unfriendly to business and you get a free market result - companies leave or don’t come to NY in favor of other more business friendly locations. Brooklyn loses a set of very good jobs due to political blundering yet people people want to blame “evil” Amazon. Sorry, that’s not how this works. Good for Amazon.
That seems overly simplistic. I doubt that Amazon are the only ones with any likelihood of bringing new jobs to New York in the near future.
If you handle it like that (which is the same way I do it), it doesn't make much of a difference, if you bill hourly vs. daily, does it? The maximum of money your're going to lose out on, is the few hours of rounding up to a day, which with any significant client are going to be peanuts compared to the rest.
How much was AOC responsible for this?
As I age into my mid thirties, I'm ok with large screens and fonts.
I also wanted AMZN to come to the city. Yes you are right its doing whats best for them by taking advantage of the tax code. However you can’t just say that the system is broken and Amazon is just a bystander taking advantage of it. Amazon is partly responsible, through lobbying, for why the system is broken.
Nonsense. If he was against the deal, he wouldn’t have mended fences to be a face of it.
Both you and your manager have failed the rest of your team.

It’s on both of you to get at least one other person trained.
I was about to buy a new fridge but held off due to a lot of complaints about pieces of ice falling down the back section of samsung and other refrigerators. I've got a shitty 90s ge fridge, that has a wierd defrost drain. Basically the issue is it freezes down the drain line. A bunch of googling and one dude had a gem, take a piece of 8 ga copper wire, hang it over the defrost coils, and run it down the drain, copper conducts heat amazingly. Hasn't been a issue for 5 years since.
> These two products have completely different life cycles. The iMac forces me to replace them together for, what, aesthetics?

I have a 2009 iMac that I still use daily as an external monitor. I haven’t used the computer portion in years, but it’s still a great screen.
Interesting: I just did laundry, including six long-sleeve shirts. Four of them had spare buttons at the bottom: made by L.L.Bean, Nordstrom, Kirkland, and an old Eddie Bauer denim picked up at a thrift shop. The two with no spare buttons were both from Arrow. The problem is, I can't remember the last time I owned eiter needle or thread.
It’s unfair to the companies that don’t get the tax breaks. Politically, I’m not sure having an environment where special rules are granted or exempted by government officials on a selective basis is healthy either.
> Your reports will treat you with respect

On your downside list you need to clarify that being treated with respect isn’t the same thing as being respected.
> Amazon coming to LIC would have been a net benefit for everyone.

Only in NYC, if you average over the whole country, far more poeple benefit if amazon don't get massive unfair tax breaks.
But seriously, what do you think is more resilient? new or old hardware? do my laptop will continue working in 30 years without maintenance?
Be mad...

at the people who made it, "not illegal".

That's not Amazon. The anger, to the extent that it's justified, is misplaced.
In “reasons for going SPA on a greenfield project” I would add:

- Need for a mobile app is close on the roadma and there is an opportunity to build server code in an API first fashion.
The corollary to this is that much of the current paradigm of anything even of all of society may be considered completely insane in a short period of time, say 100 or more years. There is no way for humans to know any truth, they simply have appealing rhetoric which according to current norms or methods of inquiry seems reasonable and believable. Many of them don't even currently stand up to scrutiny but that doesn't stop anyone from accepting them at face value.
Why would Amazon try to make things right in NYC, when they can just go somewhere else that welcomes them with open arms and no complaints? NYC didn't offer them anything of particularly great value that they couldn't get elsewhere. I wish they were being better about helping the communities they are moving into, but I can see why they would just leave.
Jason, thank you for Wireguard. It is just awesome!

Which hosting provider is recommended for running your own wireguard server? I have tried various cloud providers like (digital ocean, google, aws etc)
I noticed that Apple ID and app store does not work when traffic exits via these cloud instances. Has anyone else faced this issue? Any solutions?
Yes, I would expect unix/linux to be the majority now, since that is what people are running on their phones.
Iridium NEXT satellites have ADS-B receivers.[0]

Also, Spire Global, with a network of cubesats, have ADS-B receivers in their sats already. [1][2]

I proposed something similar a few years ago, using cubesats to track airliners, but it didn't go anywhere because Spire Global was already working on that.

[0] https://aireon.com/resources/overview-materials/iridium-next...

[1] https://www.spire.com/en/company/news/2019/03/spire-s-first-...

[2] https://www.satellitetoday.com/mobility/2018/10/03/spire-glo...
Came here to mention this. I loved rkt for the fact that I didn't need a special syntax for a file. Instead, just a shell script that built the image I needed. Honestly when it comes to deployments, it was much better for us to just get everything into one big layer and move on.
Most of the tax breaks Amazon used are open for pretty much any company, and have been around for a very long time. But no one seems to want to repeal or fix these laws. In all of this, I haven't seen a single person talk about them. You can't agree to a set of rules then complain when someone actually follows them.
Amazon would not pay less NYC tax than other businesses. The NYC tax breaks that Amazon was planning to take advantage of are open to every company that qualifies:

https://www.nycedc.com/program/relocation-and-employment-ass...

https://www.nycedc.com/program/industrial-commercial-abateme...

These programs are designed to encourage specific behavior, like companies moving to and making capital investments in particular areas of the city. Any company that does so qualified for a formulaic tax break. NYC did not offer any tax breaks to Amazon beyond its existing incentive programs.
What if I am the machine and you the last human left alive?
Reality doesn't allow people to have it both ways. Either be upset that the system incentivizes the behavior, or be upset that the incentives failed.

In both of those cases, the blame lies at the feet of the elected officials. Granted, the implication of that is the blame lies at the feet of those who cast the ballots (George Carlin, we miss you). People always have trouble blaming themselves.

Corporations are jello. They take the shape of the mold they sit in. If they get big enough, the mold is the whole world's economy.
Well, we can do both. FlightAware has nice tutorials and client software for setting up an ADSB feeder on a Raspberry Pi, but I feed to ADSB Exchange as well with minimal extra effort.
I grew up in NZ where the attitude is one should at least try to do most everything. Every guy needs to learn how to knit, sew, fix a car, grow veggies, cook a meal, and fix/decorate a house. These are so staple one is almost considered less-manly for not having tried to do all of them. One can fail miserably and turn to professionals but no lose of face for saying so.

Decades later I have lived in China 20 years and Hongkong and I still take the attitude of fix before replace. Clothing, shoes, electrical gear, showers....often to the amusement of partner ("you can do that?!") or "that won't work"(and years later is still working).

What ALL kids need to be taught in school is basic principles and skills for repairing things. Its fun, builds new skills, maybe gives them a hobby, and creates more rounded people for the future with more environmentally friendly attitude to possessions.
Business accounts can sign up for something called “positive pay.” You set a default rule (e.g. accept below a threshold amount and otherwise deny). You can review transactions on a daily basis and override the default. This works for both ACH and checks.
I mean I do this with regular clothes. Tho I bought a $700 bernina 930 record cause I wanted to do kevlar and denim and other stuff.

I've got several sets of dickies I re-sewed with stronger thread, kevlar, and soaked with beeswax as works pants. They're running strong.

I've 4x-7x'd the life of a lot of clothes with this tactic.
In a nutshell. To add insult to injury look at the major shareholders. They are tied to banks that are helping to destroy the global economy as a result of said investment. This company is the result of bankers whose primary function is to scalp real wage earners. Once another major competitor looks good to these fraudsters they’ll dump Amazon like it’s bad news too.
So, is it just me, or are they dancing around the obvious suggestion from the evidence, that when someone died they would kill their dog and bury it with them? Perhaps because a strong bond with a dog sounds good, and "kill the dog when the owner dies" does not sound as great.
That is great. I remember having a microsoft keyboard back in the day that had a mouse click button and it was surprisingly useful.
It's actually quite a touching story! Among other things, this guy found a letter[0] that his late father had written to him on that Apple //e when he was 11 years old and away at summer camp.

[0] https://t.co/Aog3MiSnXN
this is sadly not the case. maybe 10 years ago it would have been, but plenty of people are now sincere flat earthers.

i suppose there are different degrees of belief and maybe on some deep level they realize it’s nonsense but they aren’t consciously trolling anyone.
It's unprofitable if you drive them out of town. If you can position yourself as a community liaison rep, it is a sweet gig.
Just change the name to "Demo Week." Problem solved.
Eating that popcorn watching Democrats out progressive each other. Long after AOC and her socialist friends have exited the scene, NYC will be paying for this. Amazon will simply take their jobs somewhere else. Somewhere else will get 25k six figure jobs and all that comes with them.

Personally, I hope they go to Philly to singlehandedly reinvigorate that city at the expense of NY. If not Philly, I can assure you Dallas will welcome them with open arms.
Just troll craigslist till you find a 80s or so bernina. It'll be more than worth the $300 you spend on it. Mine sounds like a new porsche engine running and destroys singers.

I got it because the plastic gears in my wife's singer self destructed when I was using it to sew camping gear. About the same size, 2x the price, just insanely better.

If you're not going to do anything heavy than then the parent's recommendation is fine. And it won't have a motor short like some of the old singers where the insulation is wearing out, but that's an easy fix.
I don't know a lot about Apple development, but there is presumably some way for developers to run these on their own machines for testing. An Apple Developer account is $99/year, including 100 iOS devices for sideloading, so I'd guess something similar applies to Macs?
Not Debian directly but one of their derivative: Armbian, they have great support for Allwinner SoC and it's easy to build your own image.
I once got a pair of stretchy jeans from Uniqlo for $20 that I wore roughly every other day for 2 years until I gained weight and they stopped fitting.
Reducing Cross-Team Blocking
Not everyone voted for the ballots which supposedly led to these decisions. Moreover, politicians lie. When government policy doesn’t reflect the desires of the public in an ostensible democracy, I find it odd to blame the people who are ruled instead of the rulers. I don’t know much about George Carlin, but from what little I’ve seen of his political commentary, I doubt he would so quickly jump to blaming the ruled instead of the rulers.
Are you wearing loose jeans or skinny jeans?

The nice fabric ones that I've had from tommy bahama, levis, etc that were "soft" wear out quickly. The rough ones I have like dickies and some levis are fine. My dickies last longer.

I think the distressed denim really weakens it.
If you can touchtype, you have the option to spend more time thinking. RSI is generally not a symptome of touchtyping per se. Instead, there are usually some underlining issues like not actually touchtyping properly (for example too much force involved, I know nothing about you so these are not directed towards you), bad keyboard, or just generally neglecting breaks. Regards, 20+ years of daily touchtyping with zero signs of RSI (I never skip breaks which makes my eyes happier too, money is just imaginary but the one thing I really can't afford is losing my health).
Redesigning roads for people
Many people may not even know about them. Encouraging people to channel these feelings into the ballot is well and fine, but let's not pretend there's anything close to a direct coupling between the will of the people and the will of their representatives, much less preexisting laws. People are allowed to be dissatisfied; they don't have to simply lie in the bed that they only had a partial hand in making.
Interesting. So which part of that do you feel is intrinsic to being a conservative, that would make the part of the TOS you quoted biased against conservatives? Is it the harassment, maybe? The unlawful conduct?

> I'm pretty sure your just arguing out of bad faith at this point.

You have no idea what that means, do you?
I'm not even a programmer (not professionally), but I "run my life" with Emacs and love it. Email with Gnus, writing and project management with Org. I used to use BBDB for contact management, then wrote a replacement package called EBDB. I also wrote a glue-code package for all three called Gnorb, and need very little else out of my computer. Being able to treat nearly everything I do as text, which I manipulate with the same interface, is a joy. As a package author I'm probably running a net deficit of time-spent-writing-Elisp vs time-saved-through-efficiency, but I enjoyed the hell out of it.

The two things I balk at are the terminal, and web browsing. I've tried text-based web browsing off-and-on over the years, but the inconvenience has overcome even my love of Emacs/Stockholm Syndrome. As for the terminal... I just can't help feeling like it's an added layer of buffering, and for what? And there always seemed to be some glitches in screen rendering... So I demure, despite cursing tmux's copy/paste mechanisms at least once a day.

Emacs, Firefox and xterm are usually the only three GUI programs running on my machine.
For equipment like that which you only use occasionally, they'll often have one at your local hackerspace, along with friendly people who can show you how to use it.

Or let you keep yours there where more people can get use out of it and it isn't taking up space in your garage.
are you wearing distressed jeans, or really soft denim?
I believe AutoLISP was derived from XLISP, a publicly available LISP written by David Betz. I had a lot of fun with XLISP, and respected the quality of the work done by Mr. Betz.
sadly in my experience I've met a few true believers and youtube being the source doesn't surprise me as "look it up yourself on youtube" seems to be the go-to response to my questions about things like iridium satellites or how GPS works.
Streisand installs around 70 different services. If all of them are not patched there’s a good chance your box becomes vulnerable over time. Remember, you’re piping all your internet traffic through this box.
Yeah, it's a challenge.

We as readers (and HN participants) need to rise to it and do better than resort to knee-jerk reactions. Without excusing the behavior, CNN (and other online publications) are in a tough spot: so much of their revenue relies on eyeballs and clicks on ads, so the incentive to write headlines that drive those metrics, which is often in opposition to writing more sober, descriptive headlines.

We complain about click-bait, refuse to pay subscriptions, complain about the quality of journalism which costs money to produce, often react only to the headline, sometimes click anyway. Regardless of what CNN does, we can't abdicate our role and responsibility in the relationship, both with the media, and here on HN.
I just wear unisuits when I'm in the garage. They're like $30 and magic.
One of the incentives was a $505 million dollar capital grant. That is literally money that state government was going to pass out to Amazon. This is the same state government that appropriated $118 million dollars of the MTAs funding back in 2010. This helped propel NYC's transit system into the dire straits it's currently in.[1]

The money for these sorts of capital grant giveaway always comes from "somewhere."

[1] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2010/03/09/albany-didnt-cut-the-...
Australia Says a ‘Sophisticated State Actor’ Hacked Lawmakers
> But I feel the ship has sailed on my food habits.

No! NO NO NO NO! It's never too late! Will power, yes, but you can do it, and I'll tell you, no exaggeration, your life depends on it. I know it doesn't feel like it at age 26, when the shear force of youth can power you through tremendous abuse and neglect. But that won't be true for long.

Your brain is an adaptive, plastic, brilliant fucking miracle of a learning machine, and you've spent 20+ years training it on a tiny, bland set of flavors and textures. It makes sense that retraining it will take time, but I think it'll happen faster than you imagine. I have often heard that children become accustomed to new flavors and foods within a small-ish number of exposures -- around ten or so. I believe this is true for adults as well, at least nearly so. Start small, and make it easy on yourself. Pick a dish or type of food you find challenging. A good prepared dish, not something spare and ruthless like a bowls of spinach, but rather dishes prepared with taste in mind, like a good curry. Eat at a reasonably priced restaurant or get it from a store so you can work on it with minimal effort. Appetizers. Don't force yourself to clean your plate, but give it a good try, every time. Take your time, let the flavors and textures become familiar bit by bit. I bet it won't take more than a dozen tries. Then move on to the next thing.

All kids can be made into picky eaters. The most stubborn picky eaters are created in an instant the first time parents give in and allow the kids to determine the menu. That's insanity. Every two-year-old understands clearly the kind of power they've thus been given, and they'll fight hard to keep it. For my kids, we enforced a simple rule: we never made them eat their entire meal, but they had to try everything. And I mean really try, not a token lick. We put some effort into learning how to cook tastefully, and we we made each meal for everyone, no substitutions, so we didn't train them to win PB&J by refusing to eat dinner. I forbade kids-menu food when we went out to restaurants. Starting as soon as they could eat solid food, they ate what we ate. As a result, I had kids I could take anywhere and eat any almost kind of food, even when they were toddlers. There were struggles, and they still have their preferences; my youngest still doesn't like salads, but she eats them without gagging or complaining. Most importantly, we've given them the foundation for expanding and refining their tastes. They're not hesitant to try new things because their palates are experienced, and they know they won't be punished if it turns out they don't like something. My oldest in particular loves food. She eats blue cheese with a spoon. She loves caviar. Fucking caviar.

This took patience and consistency on the part of my wife and me, and it's still a work in progress, but it's a fundamental, critical part of parenting. It's one of the few things I feel I didn't fuck up as a parent.
Why is this surprising? How is this much different from religion?
U.K. Lawmakers Recommend Harsher Penalties for Tech Companies
> Yeah, I start with an SPA and adapt to the use-case. It either needs to be a SPA

Aha, by mistake you corrected your grammar! HNers cargo cult everything, including grammatical mistakes like "an SPA" ( see literally everywhere in this thread). Just say it out loud, "I start with an SPA", does that roll off the tongue? No, neither does, "I'm going to buy an sailboat". However, "It either needs to be a SPA, ..." is totally natural.

While this comment may not seem on topic/useful, it's a useful meta comment -- please don't take offense.
Using this logic, people aren't allowed to be upset at anything, as long as it's a rational action within a system. This is a weird way to look at things!

You can justify all sorts of reprehensible behavior this way. "Either be upset that the system incentivizes slavery, or be upset that the incentives against slavery failed." But definitely don't be upset at the slaveowners!
See also Stimulus [0], from Basecamp.

[0] https://stimulusjs.org/
What about this title:

Why I? Analysis of the 9th letter of the alphabet.
Minor bandwagonning at the end by all sane accounts, but she's a convenient face for it, I guess.
> then they want to cheat as much as legally possible on their taxes when they're grown up.

If it's legal, it isn't cheating...
Do you mean greenscale?
It's impressive that those 5.25" floppy disks are still good. Most of my 3.5" ones bit the dust long ago, along with nearly all my CD-Rs.
There are some interesting parts in the videos that remain suspicious (kind like a lot 9/11) like the restricted fly zones over parts of the north/south poles where they claim the world ends, however they then take the scary hair guy from Ancient Aliens approach and clap their hands shouting "Therefore... it can only mean one thing..."
Yes. This doesn't feel new to me. I was just researching last year on "muscle memory" trying to understand what I could expect by getting back to lifting myself from an actual science and study point of view. This versus the bro-science-cum-common-wisdom of muscle memory.

What I was turning up didn't seem particularly new, but the consensus seemed to be you could expect return to previous performance levels(in strength anyway) in about 12 weeks or so of proper training and diet.. Almost regardless of how long you have been off. Obviously there are exceptions and extremes that probably don't play out that way, but this has also been about my experience of on-and-off again body building and strength training for the past 15 years.

Often the nervous system recovers too fast in my experience. One can ramp up work effort way faster than the muscles and tendons are prepared for, particularly stabilizing components, resulting in strains and pains. Sticking to a ramp up plan is, IMHO, almost as hard as quitting smoking but crucial.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19155826
Radio JJY Time Pulse Emulator
See also the other article currently on the front page of HN re Space Based ADS-B: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19187745
Sex-Related Extortion in U.K. Rose 30% in Past Year, Agency Says
Best advice - not to use C wherever possible. There are better languages for many areas. Speaking from my decade of experience as C programmer.