skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a matter of need. If you get more companies there is more local demand for labor, which means more jobs and higher wages, which means more tax revenue. Giving a company that will bring in a billion dollars in new tax revenue half that much in incentives still nets you half a billion dollars.

The real issue is that this is true of everything. Cities compete with each other, but major metro hubs have such an intrinsic advantage that it allows them to suffer a large amount of corruption and waste and still not be uncompetitive. Until you're negotiating with a company large enough to bring with it its own economies of scale, and then it does make you uncompetitive, because Amazon could build HQ2 in the middle of the desert and a town would spring up around it regardless, in a way that a guy operating a food truck absolutely could not.

They don't actually want to do that because NYC still has its intrinsic advantages, but if it also has very high taxes which then go to waste and not toward providing useful services, the benefits have to be weighed against the costs. (And realistically there are also better alternatives like Virginia rather than literally the middle of the desert.)

Then the city becomes concerned that their high taxes and low efficiency are costing them Amazon so they come up with some kind of carve outs which they would need to keep Amazon but not the food truck or the real estate developer or doctor's office, and so it applies only to huge corporations and not to everybody else.

Which then creates an unfair advantage for major companies with that kind of leverage, and then they start eating everything and driving out small and medium businesses who can't compete when they're the only ones paying high taxes. And that's what makes people upset.

But you're never going to get Amazon if your offer is to tax them heavily and then waste the money. The way to be competitive on a level playing field is to cut out the waste in general so that nobody has to pay high taxes for low benefits.
She sounds out of touch with reality. First of all, she is using the Microsoft example to justify breaking apart the companies, when Microsoft itself never got broken up. Microsoft’s mismanagement contributed more to their decline than any regulations.

I guarantee that if we wait 10 years the landscape for these big tech companies will be very different.
Most people considering these alternatives may not have dealt with credit card chargebacks—which are a completely opaque process with extremely long processing times, and a fee, even if you win.

That being said, from a consumer perspective chargebacks are easier to obtain than paypal disputes, if the transaction is small. For a lot of small dollar amount chargebacks merchants don’t even bother.
Let's include pressure to work remotely in the whole equation.

I see no reason why humanity must crowd trample each other in tiny metropolitan areas when there are so many affordable -- and likely more beautiful -- places to live in.

Have basic infrastructure in place, internet excluded, and the problem is solved.
I was glad that the article got into the definitions of irreducible, prime, and unit in more general algebraic structures! This question is all about these three concepts.

A unit is an operation you can apply multiple times and get back to the starting point, for example multiplication by 1 or -1. So these are units in the integers. Units are really important, but they don't get you anywhere on their own. We can think of non-units as building blocks.

So then the question comes up which building blocks can be broken down into smaller blocks, like "times 6" can be divided into "times 2, then times 3". Using a unit doesn't count, because you're still equally far from the starting point (so 6 = (-6)(-1) is not really breaking down 6).

Blocks that can't be broken down any farther are irreducible (like 7). But in common parlance, that's what we think of as the definition of a prime number. It doesn't include units like 1, because they're already broken down.

More generally, being prime isn't about being broken down, it's about building up. Suppose I tell you that n is divisible by 2, and n can be broken down into two pieces, n = ab. Then you know that at least one of a or b is divisible by two. So two is prime because anything that is built from two, when broken down into pieces, has a piece that can be built from two. (Example: 6 divides 12, but you can break 12 up into (3)(4), so 6 isn't prime.) This definition of prime also doesn't include units like 1 because they're not building blocks in the first place. Everything's already divisible by units.

Prime integers have both the prime property and the irreducible property. Either way, I think it makes sense that 1 isn't included -- being prime and irreducible are properties of building blocks, and 1 is a unit.
I am not talking about ballsy moves. I
am talking about middle managers blocking things because they don’t understand them or they want to keep their own pet project relevant.
If the body's response to the current diet in the US (not necessarily in other countries) causes system wide inflammation, then the cause of the damage is diet/food, not inflammation. Inflammation is the symptom, regardless if there are cascading effects, they still start with the root cause.
>A brief examination of the materials did not support the claim of cultural artifacts or of bone processed by hominins. The assemblage from the site can be much better explained as a natural deposit, likely disturbed by other mastodons soon after the death of their comrade. Given the brevity of our study, it is important that future studies examine the data, fossils, and lithics to test the initial hypothesis. Additional excavations are also recommended.

Doesn't sound super conclusive.
When I think of "normalization of deviance" I focus more on mundane things like speeding.

I'm a cyclist. People often ask me why cyclists break the law so frequently. The studies I've looked at don't suggest cyclists break the law any more frequently than drivers do, but they do break different laws. (To my knowledge I follow every applicable traffic law.) When I ask the driver I'm speaking with if they speed I frequently get a justification of speeding as if it's perfectly safe because "everyone does it".

In terms of problems people should focus on, cyclists tend to break laws in ways that mostly harm only themselves (e.g., running a red light), while drivers break laws in ways that tend to harm others in addition to themselves (e.g., speeding, failure to yield, etc.). The fact that drivers vastly outnumber cyclists also makes the priorities even more clear.
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>So, the gig economy is reducing the number of "classical" jobs.

Sure, but the gig economy started from displacing jobs that were caught in regulatory capture. Most of the people that the earlier post talked about wouldn't be able to get a job as a taxi driver due to regulations. I think that, so far, the gig economy isn't pushing heavily into areas that aren't suffering from regulatory capture.
How to use the Pug templating engine
No, it doesn't at all. The reproducibility issue in psychology has mostly to do with p-hacking, which is a very specific abuse of legitimate statistical analysis in which statistical significance is brute-forced and cherry-picked (rendering it no longer significant), and is often applied to otherwise sound experiments and hypotheses. The paper in question is literally gibberish.
Can't you divide any number by itself (multiply by its inverse) to get 1? Or does that not count?
And what will be the source of the water for additional California residents to subsist on? We just went through a 7-year drought, and they seem to be becoming more frequent and longer; never mind that climate change is making it all worse, as the snow-pack gets smaller and melts quicker.

We can cut agriculture and build more dams somewhere to buffer more snow melt, but these are politically difficult to pull off, and of course have other negative effects on various constituencies (including migrant workers, like the ones who used to pick the crops where Silicon Valley now sits).
weird o'reilly doesn't list that on their own website.
Pls someone do this. I despise Amazons stranglehold of product reviews, esp. books. Sometimes half of the ratings are on the condition of arrival.
We're a family of 5 with 3 teenagers. When traveling with kids, we've found it nice to stay in apartments so that we can cook, do laundry, etc.

In the US, we've also found that extended stay hotels work well. They tend to have a lot more room, a kitchen, etc.

We've had problems booking hotels in Europe because Expedia or Booking.com will say one thing (5 in a room? No problem!) and when we arrive the hotel thinks it's a big problem (only 4 to a room, you must rent another room).
Appreciate the discussion even though I'm sure I won't convince you of my viewpoint. I don't know why you would seek input from these types of people but you can, just not on the mainstream platforms. Your desire to inform yourself just does not outweigh the danger of extremist recruitment when giving these views a platform according to current consensus.

I see moderating who can participate in a group as part of the opinion that this thread seems to try and uphold. If reddit (as the more or less democratic whole, not the company or technical system) prefers not to give terrorists, white supremacists or whatever fringe group that is based on hatred a platform you're free to see that as a problem, it's just not one the mainstream agrees with.
The symptoms of gum disease (a generic term) can be inflammation (I am not a dentist). But suppressing the symptom of inflammation doesn't cure gum disease.
> they have increased cost of labour by a lot,

Though not in real costs
There is a difference between creating laws that deliberately exclude a large portion of a country's citizens (America and South Africa) and laws that as a side-effect make it difficult for immigrants to get jobs (Europe). The citizens of a country should not be subject to exploitative labor practices simply in order to make life easier for low-skilled non-citizens who choose to immigrate.
You are still using some extreme example and generalizing.

Say the word online, troll it has a well known definition, I don't care if you or that dude there is using it wrong, the definition is clear and the majority of humans are using it right.

Second if a community decides that behavior X is not allowed then that community will ban X and fck your freedom of speech or whatever , on the community forum,sub-reddits, IRC the community rules apply, you don't like it don't join the forum,sub-reddit
If you look at the number of upvotes and comments on any given post on voat.co, it's clear that very few people are actually using it. If deplatforming drove >50% of affected users there it would be troubling; my guess is that it's <5% though.
I take issue with the word 'quietly'. The gig economy is pretty much designed to do an end-run around worker protections, starting off by denying the workers so much as an employment agreement.

The difference is all the more striking in countries that had above average worker protections in place. A large contributing factor here is that due to the internet's international nature it is very well possible that the enabler is in a jurisdiction that is entirely different from the one where the work is carried out.

Free-market fanatics see this all as a good thing but I'm really not happy with this rapid return to piece-work, which was outlawed in favor of hourly rates and minimum wages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work
while worker protections had their use a century ago, they have increased cost of labour by a lot, making many low skilled workers unemployable

Outsourcing with maybe a dash of mass immigration made them unemployable, not workers protections.

Let's not pretend like this is some accidental outcome of well-meaning measures. This is the desired result of deliberately implemented policies.
Eventually you will get the cattle back and it's best to have the door fixed when you do. If you don't the cattle will just run back out.
Got any arxiv links?
> VCs have stopped funding startups because... they might exit?

I think her point is that big companies can essentially force startups to exit early under the threat of being driven out of business. You cut out part of the sentence that provides the context for that: "...it’s so easy for the big companies to either snap up growing competitors or drive them out of business..."
The actual domain itself cannot act as trademark, so I suspect it would not.
>handful of high profile temporary freezes

This is willful blindness. If these issues were indeed temporary, no one would complain.

Those high profile cases were temporary because of the PR storm they raised - just like it does with Google. People wouldn't mind much if PayPal didn't also steal their money.
"When all these factors are considered, each Tesla emits 156 to 180 grams of CO2 per kilometre, which is more than a comparable diesel vehicle produced by the German company Mercedes, for example."

Well, since they are considering all factors, the next step would be to consider the costs of diesel, too, starting with oil drilling, transport, etc. culminating in the subsequent burning of diesel in the engine.
This may be how China wins. While the West has capitulated to the hippies in moving to renewables and conservation, China is investing in increasing energy production capacity through nuclear. (Not just research into fusion, they’ve got 20 fission reactors under construction right now.) More energy means more economic capabilities and more war making capabilities.
I was talking about the investors not gaining anything from the company issuing new stock in order to pay fines in general. (Which also explains why this is not a common practice.) Fines that are threatening a company's existence are certainly a different beast as the investors' expectation value calculation then needs to factor in that if the company goes bankrupt they lose their entire investment. So refinancing the company by buying new stock then becomes more attractive because it will (or might) keep a shareholder's overall expectation value at least slightly above zero.

But even in these situations, I think a case can be made for why refinancing the company by having it take a loan is still more attractive. While from the perspective of an existing shareholder it will reduce future dividends in a similar way as new stock, there will at least be no opportunity costs. (If the company issues new stock, the investor has to consider what else they could do with their money instead of throwing fresh money at the company.)
The URL redirects to: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01307-2

Using a URL shortener makes it impossible to see from the article's summary line what the source is.

HN Guidelines say: "Please submit the original source."
When attempting to prove intelligence to aliens by mathematical proof, would we include 1 as a prime number?
I think because a symptom can be part of a cascade of problems doesn't mean we should ignore or dismiss the root cause as the most important thing. As far as I know suppressing inflammation is a temporary stop-gap, not a cure.

Can you demonstrate where inflammation does not have a root cause?
I know this is a bit of a tangent, but the motorcycle didn't happen to be a Royal Enfield did it? They seem to have lots of wiring harness abrasion issues.
>Fair enough, the implication doesn't go both ways. My point was that all things considered "toxic" are just things that are not being agreed with

Can you give an example because you make no sense or you are stating something obvious, yeah communities do not agree with toxic things because they are bad.

The toxic meaning is clear in the context of each community, if you don't agree then don't join, if you want to join follow the rules, if you just want to join and not follow the rules and you want to create harm then you are toxic.
Revolut also offers this: https://blog.revolut.com/introducing-disposable-virtual-card...
But the fact is that a lot of people ARE trying to use the gig economy to make a living. In many cases because it's the only option open to them.

When gigs represent an ever-increasing percentage of the employment available and steadier work is becoming harder to find, how are people expected to make a living?
Only 4% of people are paid minimum wage, everyone else is paid above http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-are-characteristics-mini... so even if there really was a "race to the bottom" it would only affect those 4% and then most people would refuse to work for a salary that is so ridiculously low that staying at home would be more beneficial.

The free market is the best (or less worse) system at giving people a wage as high as possible compared to socialism. Now, we're talking very low skilled people who can't seem to get a job anywhere, in this case, increasing barrier to entry only makes things worse. Given that most jobs require skills, most jobs are paid above minimum wage thanks to free market competition so no race to the bottom would happen in most case and even then the market would fix a limit (ie no one would accept your offer if it's too low, same reason no one in SV would accept an offer below $100k ;).

> Should workers be able to unionize to demand better from their employers?

Absolutely, there can't be a free market without freedom of association.
Income taxes: even if you own yourself and your labor, you actually don't.
I genuinely don't think that was the idea. Prop 13 was passed in an era when property values were increasingly rapidly and California was a fairly conservative place. The idea was also promoted by Howard Jarvis in an effort to choke state revenues and keep the state government small (oops).

Of course, it quickly became the new normal. Now getting rid of it is the third rail of California politics.
If Firefox doesn't trust elements with position: fixed, one could use position: absolute or even position: static (the default value) instead and move element when scrolling.
article says “1,300 kilograms (2,866 pounds) of xenon isotope”

not sure if that was intentional..
I don't think it is as easy as you portrait it to be. (See my response to your comment's sibling.)
There are actually many circumstances in which we do want to treat 0 as a prime. For example it generates a prime ideal in the integers.

One way to state unique prime factorisation including 0 is to treat the set of primes as a pointed set with 0 as the point. The smash product makes the category of pointed sets into a symmetric monoidal category. Then unique prime factorisation can be stated by saying that the multiplicative monoid of natural numbers (with 0) is isomorphic to the free commutative monoid object on the set of primes.
We aren't failing people: unemployment hasn't been this low in 20 years.

We have spent 28 trillion dollars on welfare, yet the poverty rate is unchanged over decades. The only thing that supports people is work, and we need to eliminate as many impediments to it as possible: over-regulation, payroll taxes, income taxes. Make huge cuts to welfare with the savings and streamline healthcare to provide cheap, basic services to every citizen (in line with disallowing citizenship by birth).

Then, regulate the supply of labour by barring immigration from poor countries (establish a liberal visa regime with countries in the HDI top 30 though, to allow legitimate talent to come to America). You have the recipe for a reasonable, modern life for any American willing to work. It could be a blueprint for the whole Western world.
this is a cool idea. are you making money/profitable?
This guy invested $30k in getting a (very) run-down home into decent shape. He had a tenant within a week of putting it up for rent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8pf-Ad0w0

Not sure how his actions are evil or rent-seeking in any way.
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this is a segment that does not get too much love. kudos!
You seem to be confusing the fee simple notion of land ownership that we have in the United States with allodial title which doesn't happen anywhere because it's a terrible way to run a society

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_simple

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
> Scala was developed in Ada...

<head explodes>
I find the biggest issue to be events. About the only thing I have been excluded from by not using facebook is some of the more hippy end of events where sometimes the only access is through facebook and people are seemingly too high to realise that this may in fact be somewhat against their own stated ethos.
What? WhatsApp was $1/yr before Facebook bought it, which is hardly a "fortune." A lifetime of WhatsApp would have cost you less than one month's internet bill.
Yes, address generation can at the very least do [reg + constant], and on x86, much much more. These are bread and butter optimizations constantly used by compilers all over the place, because this is how field access works.
"...they had a committee who's job it was to review all the safety risks and decide which ones they could accept."

Having a committee dedicated to assessing risks seems like a good idea. Having a group consciously deciding between risks you can live with, risks you have to live with, risks you can mitigate, and risks that stop everything is a fundamentally good idea.

The problem is taking risks without thinking about them, or taking risks without knowing exactly why they haven't killed you before. And even more unfortunately, this is all on an experimental project That Cannot Ever Be Allowed To Fail, Ever™.
The U.S. seems to be the only country with this weird, masochistic inclination toward destroying the things that made it successful.
What about the size of the printer. We live in a small apartement, and I really enjoy the small size of my officejet 100 https://support.hp.com/fr-fr/drivers/selfservice/HP-Officeje... . And as i mainly print at work, and use it only when I've got no other choice, I find that it really fit my needs.
Some comments:

Poor motor skills seems to be associated with people on the autistic spectrum. I certainly fit into this mold, and I bet a lot of people here do.

My memories of PE are about team sports. Throw somebody with poor motor skills into team sports and they are going to have a bad time all around.

People with poor motor skills are not going to enjoy competitive sports. Competition might motivate some people, but if you always lose that's a pretty big demotivator.

Individual activities like running or weightlifting are probably a better match for a lot of kids. Something where your only goal is to be better than you started.
> I like the nod to Coinbase.

> the trust is already built with smart-contracts and there is no middleman to decide

These two statements seem to be contradictory. Coinbase is certainly a middleman.

I like (and use) a lot of Coinbase's offerings, but I think it's also a good time to start promoting a more truly distributed view of the merchant service side for payments.
It seems illogical to attempt to redefine inflammation from a symptom to a cause because of the inability to cure the known cause.

Suppressing inflammation is still temporary relief, not a cure for the root cause.
Some, but not all. So it’s no help at all.
Haha, This was the closest I've ever felt to being Batman
Fun fact: the word with an added "d" at the end is a very different word that actually means "cheapskate, overly parsimonious". I have a fringe theory that this is what all the music videos actually mean to refer to (it would kinda fit with the whole "bling bling" and "money is everything" theme) and that the whole thing is a really teh'ible misundah'standing which wee all vehwy sohwy about! (I would love for the entire black community to reclaim that word as part of promoting widespread awareness of good personal-finance practices.)