skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes the first 3 are existing programs. But the idea that those sums or anything remotely close to them would simply be made available to any company moving to NY is comical at best.

> $897 million from the city’s Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (REAP)

That works out to $35,880 per employee that Amazon promised. Per the REAP program website[1], the credits available are $3000 per employee for 12 years. That actually works out to slightly more per employee ($36,000). So yes, any company not currently in NYC that creates 25,000 jobs in one of the designated areas would get the $897MM in benefits.

> $386 million from the Industrial & Commercial Abatement Program (ICAP)

ICAP is a property tax abatement available to any company willing to redevelop qualifying properties[2]. The value of the abatement is based on the final value of the property and which benefit schedule[3] it qualifies for. Any company willing to put in the same amount of redevelopment in one of the designated areas as Amazon was will get the same abatement value.

> $1.2 billion in “Excelsior” credits

I don't have the time at the moment to calculate how this was arrived at, but looking at the overview of credits available[4] it appears to follow similar formulas as the NYC programs.

In short, I do not see it as "comical" by any measure that any company offering to create 25,000 new jobs and redevelop hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property in designated areas would get these same values. Amazon didn't get these numbers because they were Amazon, but because of the scale of what they proposed to do. Whether that is a good idea to offer to any company is open for debate.

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/benefits/business-reap.pag...

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/benefits/benefits-industri...

[3] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/pdf/icap/icap_...

[4] https://esd.ny.gov/excelsior-jobs-program
Do you have a link to the Fed Circuit's opinion?
How about New Yorkers who lived in Queens?
This is my schedule exactly. Cutting coffee made it so much easier to just crash out at 10, which shifts “me” time to the morning when I’m more in the mood to be productive.
The patent wasn't revoked. Blackbird can continue to collect from parties it has already sued who settled, and can sue new parties if it so chooses. The courts who hear those cases aren't required to respect the previous judgments -- the appeals court ruling even says "Note: This disposition is nonprecedential" right at the top. And even if courts would potentially find the previous ruling at least persuasive, respondents would still have to undergo significant court costs just to mount a defense, and many will still choose not to do so and instead to settle, which Blackbird knows.
the idea is not if copyright covers it the idea is the filter shouldnt be able to determine what it is.

look at a very old school example :
DEADBEEF becomes |)34|)13eeF
That can be kluged out easily but in its time it was the way to circumvent text string filters.

the creation step would not be in the server it would be on the users platform, after downloading. so the EU internet filter would not only have to look at uploads but would have to reach into a users machine and see what is in RAM or on the Hard drive. That isnt part of the article 13 text or the meme filter being proposed and i think that would be against GDPR
It sounds like you're not that into it. Plus the assumption that people should spend their free time trying to make more money is weird despite being taken for granted around here. It's one heck of a doublethink, if you consider the combination of aspirational self-improvement talk with bald careerism.
NYC has a giant statue inviting homeless and drug addicts in. And good for them.
Wouldn't you rather existing NYC residents build new companies to make it a tech center?

You're just letting the giant school bully take over your neighborhood for below market value (due to the massive tax breaks) and declaring "Look! We're a tech center!"
> Everybody has a right to a defense. But helping somebody attack another party is unethical.

What you call "attack" is also called "being made whole".

I don't know the details of the case. But unless there is egregious reason to forbid a potential plaintiff from filing, then let them commence. I have no clue who's right here; I wasn't in the courtroom.
That being said I must say I appreciate all the QoL features Github has been adding.
I could be wrong, but I feel this actually enables the wrong kind of behavior we should expect from developers. We want fast, continuously integrated code that is merged early.
Usually that means using feature toggles so that we can see compilation issues without the code being active by default.

This feature signals "yeah it's OK to take your time and not merge stuff incrementally - here's a feature just for that since it's such an important part of your workflow".
Yes, people have been doing it anyway but at least it felt a bit like a hack, like it's not supposed to work that way.

Am I crazy, or is this pushing back progress made in CI coding practices?
I send out a daily newsletter with short snippets of pain points in different industries - http://www.oppsdaily.com

Here is archive of sorts - http://www.oppslist.com

The ideas are of a mediocre quality, but I find they help stimulate thought.

Another idea is to go to a place like Fiverr and look at which services are most widely bought. Then build a saas solving one of those problems.
The whole opinion, such as it is, is right there at the bottom of the blog post. It just says "Affirmed."
One problem that intrigues me is Chinese-to-English machine translation. Specifically for a subset of Chinese Martial Arts novels (especially given there's plenty of human translated versions to work with).

So Google/Bing/etc have their own pre-trained models for translations.

How would I access that in order to develop my own refinement w/ the domain specific dataset I put together?
You're certainly right that advertisers and advertising platforms have little to no financial incentive to mitigate the externalities of reinforcing stereotypes by segmenting demographics on the basis of protected class distinctions.

However, I think as a society, we should discuss whether these externalities are worth the value that advertising provides to society.
Obey! Obey! Obey! Obey!
That's about a third of what the realtors get on a $1.5M sale.
ok I misunderstood what you meant by "where [you earn it]". Still though, things get more complicated when you have residence in state A and spend a significant portion of your time working in state B. You're paying taxes which go to other people, regardless of whether or not you benefit partially. My kids don't get better schools, my family doesn't get better healthcare, etc.
The real data we have shows that incomes of the people who live in an area has more correlation with the cost of rent than the demand. Amazon will bring in workers that will earn higher salary than the average NYC resident. The only way prices could go down would be if developers made a huge error across the industry and oversupplied housing. What you are suggesting is impossible, unless the government steps in and starts to add housing supply with taxpayer dollars. I'm not sure your idea has much reality baked into it. And a resident of NYC is going to vote for real world solutions that benefit them. Not pie in the sky internet ideology.
Property taxes are generally searchable online. Redfin will tell you residential real estate taxes for a property, for example.
Why AI has yet to reshape most businesses
Wasn't the NY proposal to take $1.2 billion in Excelsior tax credits and give them to Amazon? And I think Start-Up NY is an Excelsior program?

I mean, I think it's great if there's now budget to increase support for small businesses.
If you have a Facebook account, you know their using your data in bad ways. If you don't know that already, that's on you.

As I've said before and will say again, a social network is not a human necessity nor a right. Delete your account and watch these problems go away in a flash.
I'd love to see what it would produce if you fed it the first sentence of your average Nigerian Prince scam. Fully-automated phishing- you could even automatically toss in a couple details about the recipient and let the AI riff on that for a bit.
You're right - the Prisoner's Dilemma is a negative-sum game.
> About a year ago I started commuting via commuter rail (Boston), and my side project productivity sky rocketed.
>
> I'm guaranteed a seat, and room to put my laptop on my lap for two 1 hour intervals, 5 days a week.

> This is an option not many people have, especially in the US.

Yeah. Those of in the Bay Area are stuck with CalTrain. You're not guaranteed a train (passengers are regularly "bumped", or denied boarding and told to wait for the next train, particularly bikers), let alone a seat; the trains are just incredibly oversubscribed / underprovisioned.

Also, IIRC, doesn't the MBTA commuter rail also offer free WiFi? CalTrain does not, and cell reception along the CalTrain corridor is flaky at best and outright terrible in some spots (San Antonio — Palo Alto…)

(The T, and the commuter rail, are compartively well run, IMO, and one of, if not the best, public transit systems in the nation.)

Does MA have anything close to CA's legal requirements that employers don't own employee's work when done on their own time with their own equipment?[1] (I.e., does your employer require you to sell your soul to them?)

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Have we? It seems like the number of employees has increased every year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/234488/number-of-amazon-...
This story brings to mind the propublica article submitted to HN a week ago on the USS Fitzgerald[0]. At what point does a ship’s captain refuse to put to sea because his vessel is unseaworthy? Does it happen frequently and these are just exceptions, or is it the norm to follow orders and damn the consquences?

A former USN sailor I know says it was the norm (in his experience), but I know of an infantry company commander in the Army who was replaced mid-tour because he stopped taking his company out on pointless “movement to contact” missions. Different jobs, but same principle — safety of one’s team.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094762
I made it as far as the picture of compound interest. https://xkcd.com/947
Thats a more realistic breakdown. So thinking out loud, this means that maybe one needs to think and figure out the "what to do" ahead of time, while during other mundane activities, to the point of very clear tasks. And then do the tasks during the 1.5 "me" time.

Just a suggestion. It has worked for me before, but I am with you in general. Most days in the 1.5 hr "me" time that I have, Netflix/Hulu on the couch/chair with an IPA sounds pretty great at that point :)
Algorithms = Programs and Programs are not “One size fits all”
I know it breaks HN protocol to leave a comment just saying thanks, but thanks. Those were very interesting/educational links.
Yep!

We had something similar show up in my Houston suburb.

I read the gist of it and tossed it in the trash. If I want solar panels, I will pay outright, or borrow as needed to install the system.

Why in the heck should I enter into a contract to park someone else's assets onto my own property, to pay for the privilege, and to risk a massive penalty to get out of the contract, a penalty likely linked to an inflated valuation on aging panels, and on expensive installation carried out by someone with every incentive to maximize the cost.

Hahahahaahahaha! No thanks!
Examples:

- Park Slope brownstone, $548/month: https://streeteasy.com/sale/1375411

- Park Slope condo, $1740/month: https://streeteasy.com/building/105-8-avenue-brooklyn/3

Note: if you look into this a lot of condos have deceptively low monthly taxes due to a tax scheme (now defunct) called J-51 (IIRC) where property taxes started at 0 and would go to normal levels over 20-30 years.
When there are hundreds of towns in the US able to offer tax breaks to get companies to relocate you're never going to persuade everybody to not defect. It would be nice if there could be some enforceable agreement put in place but as far as I can tell US federalism prevents that.
Honestly, it's a bit like a doctor giving someone a sugar pill.
https://youtu.be/r8miwsWtzRw

Homer: (in his new role as supervisor) Um, are you guys working?

Employee: Yes, sir.

Homer: Can you . . . work any harder?

Employee: Sure thing, boss! (tapping of keys increases)
I don't see votes as useful signal on Hacker News: for example, during the course of some comments I make, the vote starts out as very negative (from people who skim the comment and think it's insulting) to very positive (from people who read it more carefully and realize it's insightful). So there is a temporal aspect to votes (I'm sure you know more about this than me).A

And often when I get votes, there's no signal whether it's due to tone, or content, or whether it's because I'm expressing something that is true, but makes people feel sad (seems to happen a lot, makes no sense to me).
Can't you just define polynomials as finite sequences of rationals with nonzero last term? E.g. encode x^2 + 2x -1/2 as (-1/2, 2, 1), and define evaluation at a given point in the obvious way.
That's not a fallacy, it's the well known concept of opportunity cost, which rational decision-makers always consider.
Page 4: https://riscv.org/2016/04/risc-v-offers-simple-modular-isa/

RV32C and ThumbV2 have equal code sizes.
> you don't need a set of rules to identify that he's an idiot, and to have a basis to kick him out

afaik, a code doesn't exist because of an inability to identify or to (attempt to) exclude a person.
Find a market where the leading product could be/should be better. If you can do it (pulling a Shia LaBeouf)...just do it! Most of the ideas I've had were already developed by others so you better get used to it and not wait until you find a "virgin" niche.
CDL sounds great. Writers won’t stop writing in any case. And if they did, well, there are already too many books to read in a lifetime.

It’s only natural that authors/writers use their skills and connection to publish moralizing defenses of current copyright laws. It’s in their own interest. It’s also easy to see through.
Did they try and sell you anyway?
It may not be in their interest to stop it, as those are generally used for testing and building software to target ARM, which helps with their potential market share.

Similarly, MS offers free VMs to developers for Windows so that you can build and test against Windows without cost.
cooool.
And vastly more of them are not on the Forbes list.

People have done studies on income mobility and inter-generational income mobility. The studies say that it's getting worse, not better.

Yes, people can move up/down, but most don't, and it's happening less over time.
Socialism versus the Family
Seems to me like they are asking the wrong questions here. In my experience people work hardest when they are coming in every day really excited to work on a problem. If nobody is feeling that way towards the product then that in and of itself should be a big red flag. I'd be skeptical you can pull enthusiasm out of thin air with forced culture changes.
Except under standard industry practices each hashed password has a unique salt.
That's an interesting point. I guess if I ask a question on an Amazon product page, I expect a person who has one to answer it. I kinda expect a chat box on a store site to open a web chat with customer service or sales (even though I know many these days, do not).

What you're trying to do here is replace "open new tab and Google the product", with bringing those results into the store page. And I definitely gleaned the "this looks like a web search result" from the answer in the box, it just felt disjointed as a chat reply, since it wasn't phrased like an answer to my question.

A search box definitely conveys a different expectation, but the problem is people will also then expect full links, which might lead one to a competing place to buy the product.
honestly, I worked it out between commute and family responsibilities, plus taking care of myself I have 500 ~ 750 hours of "me time". Not 3000. 500 ~ 750.
And actually, you did sign up for it. You might not have read it, but every credit app you sign gives them permission to do exactly that.

Do you need credit cards to survive? No, you don't. If you sign up, you get what you deserve.

While consumer credit is a useful service, Facebook is not. No one's life or business is going to be affected because they don't have FB. If you oppose their business model, simply quit and they will wither away and die.

Facebook will not be "a thing" in 10 years. If more people quit today, it could have a shorter lifespan that that.
If you are using python in your pipeline, might as well go all in!

from pathlib import Path

all_possible_filenames = {f'{i:04}A.csv' for i in range(1,10)}

cur_dir_filenames = {Path('.').iterdir()}

missing_filenames = all_possible_filenames - cur_dir_filenames

print(*missing_filenames, sep='\n')
I have a very similar schedule. I use 5am to 630pm to work on my side project. Sure, I only get 1.5 hours a day but it works for me, and over the past 4 years I've made enough progress to keep me happy. My primary motivator is the joy of working on my own idea, but hope to launch this in the next 2 years. (I'm working on an app.)
> but I don't see the vector for getting them into general distribution

There once was a time when Linux was this teeny little player. Many people thought it would never amount to anything. After all Microsoft was the big player, support and tooling for it was everywhere. It was possible to license it for embedded use. The only benefit of Linux was freedom, and that can't possibly be enough of a benefit.
Almost everything most mathematicians do can be done both in ZFC and your favourite non-kooky axiom system.

You would be amazed at how many uniqueness and existence theorems in how many areas of mathematics require Zorn's Lemma. Which is, of course, equivalent to the axiom of choice. For example, "Every vector space has a (possibly infinite) basis." Or, "Every Hilbert space has a (possibly infinite) orthonormal basis."

It is rare for mathematicians to think much about choice. But it underpins key results in a surprising number of fields.
Do you think there are 25,000 high skilled workers in new york sitting around waiting for Amazon to show up? No, those workers are in high demand. So the only option is too pull from outside the region further driving up the cost of housing. Its pure numbers. What about the low skill jobs? Amazon doesn't employ cleaners and other low skill workers. They contract those jobs out, so the low skill employees see no benefit from working at Amazon anyway. Even if we pretend that Amazon can only employ native new yorkers, there aren't enough to go around. So they'll be taking jobs from other organizations, like small businesses, who can't afford to compete with Amazon.

So, what's the benefit to new york? Yea, there are 25000 new jobs. But the choice isn't 25000 jobs or no jobs. Its 25000 jobs with amazon and some number of jobs from other businesses. Other businesses will employ those high skill workers because there aren't enough to go around.
PG&E provides ~100 TWh of electricity/per year.

Rooftop solar kills ~1 person per 2 TWh of produced energy. Mostly from people falling off roofs.

If you were to look at the big picture, and not one outlier year - and look at the entire past decade, PG&E will probably have a better safety record.

Also, if you want to do fair accounting, you can't solely blame PG&E for California wildfires. The entire state is a powder keg - and they just happened to be the last people who touched it. It would have burned sooner, or later.

If your horse bolts from a barn, because there is no barndoor, do you blame the last person who went into the barn? Sure. Are they the sole point of blame? No. Especially if your barn has a history of horses bolting from it.
I'm trying to stick with the HN guideline of reading people charitably, unless they make false claims as a habit.
Subsidies are paid out of tax dollars. Surely you're not arguing that Amazon's 2.5 billion investment will go straight back to the city's coffers?

It would generate property tax (if not abated) and income tax for the workers (both hired after the fact, and hired to complete the construction), but at what percentage of the total investment? 10-20%?
The only reason I force myself to work beyond "inspired" hours is reckoning that my clients should pay for average productivity, not only my best hours (I bill by the hour). AND still I feel like cheating and end up not doing that.
> The opposite is true, 100% of those taxes will be paid by some other business.

Can you explain this some more? Are you suggesting that governments establish a target figure and adjust that year's tax policy to make sure it's met?

The existence of budget deficits suggests otherwise.
we have ~10 actively developed independent repositories, and this is one of the primary reasons I wish we had a mono-repo
I would guess this reduces the risk. Why would you say it does the opposite?

My argument: state actors might misuse this tech, but letting any script kiddie do whatever they want almost guarantees someone will misuse it.
Sure but the fact is when your mom and pop business is going to pay a higher effective tax rate than Amazon you're effectively subsidizing one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. You're not attracting amazon by slashing taxes across the board you're giving one company a sweetheart deal.
Which is simultaniously at odds ideologically with both libertarian and progressive thought. From a Libertarian perspective you can see the state as shaking down all of Amazons competitors to pay for building Amazon's infrastructure, training Amazons employees, and enforcement of Amazon's monopolies on IP. This is perverse.

The US and NYC specifically is approaching historic levels of inequality. If you want to reverse that you have to say no to giving one of the most powerful companies in the world a sweetheart tax deal. If NYC doesn't say no then who will? The scuttling of this plan doesn't reflect a lack of rationality. It reflects different priorities than you have. The more powerful Amazon gets thanks to these sweetheart deals the more leverage they will have and that can mean negative consequences for the populace.
Personally I find the idea of withholding civil justice from criminals to be entirely repugnant. No matter what their crimes are. I don’t think there is any such crime that would justify withholding justice from an individual.
Sure.

http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
It's not being made whole if it's a spurious case, which we now know it was (not because they lost, because of how they lost), and the lawyers should have known from the start. So they're either incompetent or unethical.
to be clear, this is the "politically innocuous" open sourced model. the results are not impressive.
Is anyone else troubled by them not releasing the source model/dataset/parameters here? Yes, the technology can be used for malicious means - but would argue that "DeepFaking" language is FAR less of a problem than "DeepFaking" video/photo/audio... which already occurs. Seems like they went back on their charter to share AI developments broadly ("not concentrate power") under the excuse of "safety."

(These results look fire btw)

Note: copied my comment from dupe thread