skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel the need to show being realistic about the past instead of having an emotional response.

What's wrong with an emotional response to an atrocity? Is it irrational to cry over the Holocaust because, hey, the Tsars didn't some pretty bad pogroms, too? No, emotional responses are perfectly fine and are a normal mode of thinking. Your fetishization of reason is dangerous and echoes the same rhetoric that enabled these atrocities: oh, they're not people, they're savages because X, so cut off their hands if they don't bring enough silver. The correct response here is to denounce colonialism, not to say, "oh, hey, it's not that bad because other people have done bad things."
I thought of another way to put a reason I am not quite moving to FF yet: If I change my habits around browser use, over to FF, then switch platforms, I again get DNS-over-HTTP (or DoH) which I think I don't want the browser to decide for me, preferring to make that decision at the user or system level as I have done with my non-expert use of DNSSEC on my desktop, which is at the system level. Sending all DNS queries to a single location is another concentration of power. Or, is DoH user-configurable in FF?

So, summarizing, pros/cons as I see them for my usage:

Iridium/Chromium pros:

- ability to create exception lists by domain for JS, images, cookies is built in in a way I know of, without adding plugins or extensions that might get less code review or bought by a malicious maintainer w/o my knowledge (maybe rare, but has been reported for some).

- if I switch platforms and continue with my current usage habits I am not forced into DoH (yet?).

- has pledge/unveil support (limiting risk today on a platform I trust more to do that right, with fewer privilege escalation bugs etc and less complexity/knowledge required than SELinux etc. (many fewer zero-days at the OS level).

Firefox pros:

- avoids mononoculture (a big one).

- Maybe has fewer zero-day bugs than Chromium or the older Iridium (at the user and application level only).

- will probably have OBSD pledge/unveil support in the next OBSD release or sooner.

- Does not send metrics (or other tracking) to Google in the current version (true? I actually don't know, I might have read some accusation that I didn't investigate)? (Does not apply when comparing to Iridium, but that seems to lag Chromium bugfixes by some months.)

I plan to think about weighting these for myself. Corrections welcome on whatever I have missed or forgotten. Thanks much for the discussion.
The success rate of those predictions is ... low.

At 60+ years, only a couple are commonplace or in effect, mostly the inducement of sprawl.

Virtually all the rest assume vast amounts of free power which never materialised. The automation examples are only now, and with great difficulty and challenges, appearing.

Litho-annealing / vitrification remains a fantasy. Lasers serve as alignment aids, not boring mecganisms.

Any idea who commissioned/ contributed to this?
The thrust of the NY Times piece was made clear in the first paragraph: FedEx isn't just following tax law, it's influencing it with a great deal of lobbying cash. It isn't a neutral player, but trying to rewrite the rules in its favor.
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I'm confused - is IQ a reliable way to measure intelligence between individuals, or is it a culturally biased measure that is scientifically bankrupt? I guess it depends on the context.
Why would they lower prices? Wal-Mart could lower prices now for cash or debit card purchases but they don’t.

> Wal-Mart/Visa don’t eat the fees

Well, in Wal-Mart’s case either they pay the fees, or they raise prices to compensate. If we assume that they raise prices to compensate for transaction costs, then anyone who doesn’t use a rewards debit/credit card eats the fees in the sense that they don’t get any sort of reimbursement yet pay the same price.

> Also, money transfer infrastructure is just as important as healthcare. As is water, electricity, and transportation. I’m assuming you wouldn’t want the electric or gas company to charge what the market will bear when it’s -10C outside for a few weeks.

Eh I don’t think it’s as important as those items. But that’s besides the point, unless you want to nationalize money transfer or something. It’s not a necessary service, it’s just very convenient and good for the economy. When someone creates Venmo you want to legislate the prices they can charge per-transaction?
>> Gotcha. No practical use of your work.

I find this unnecessarily provocative and it's certainly not what I said.
I recently heard an economist make a point about induced demand which I found interesting.

While it's true that building more roads doesn't always reduce traffic, the bit that most people miss is that even if induced demand fills up the new capacity, in the new equilibrium more people are able to use the road, so there's more utility being gained.

Put another way, at the margin there's a lot of latent demand that is unfilled. If you were to keep building roads, then at some point you'd meet all of that latent demand and traffic would go down. The fact that increasing supply also increases demand is not necessarily an argument against building more capacity; you could actually use it as an argument _for_ building a lot more roads.

(Of course, without dynamic pricing it's really hard to figure out whether it's actually worth building more capacity; you could build a new road at a shared cost of $100 per new driver per month, when they would only choose pay up to $10 per month to drive instead of do what they did before. Dynamic pricing models tend to be unpopular though, particularly as they can be construed as a regressive tax-like burden.)
I think a pay-as-you go road tariff would be a nice way to introduce some 'nudges' in the right direction.

It could be managed by GPS trackers in vehicles, with the ability to charge different amounts in different locations and time of day (i.e. driving in cities or during rush hour should be discouraged), level of congestion, vehicle type (weight, length, self-driving or not), and selective emission controls (e.g. high polluters banned from city centres).

Fuel taxes are a simple, proportional way to target carbon emissions (effectively a carbon tax). However things like this should all be done with care (see gilets jaunes).
Thank you for the answer and maintaining Paraview! Paraview was super critical to me during graduate school
Wow, that's pretty sneaky.
The issue with tunnels has never been the tunnel itself but the cost of all the supporting infrastructure. You need regular access shafts both for emergency use and for normal egress. And the normal access shafts (subway stations/highway ramps) must be very large to accommodate reasonable throughput; Elon Musk wants to solve this with car elevators, but both cars and elevators are low capacity. You also need large ventilation structures even with electric propulsion because modern fire codes require the quick exhaust of smoke from a fire. And all this tunnel infrastructure has fairly large surface requirement, at least but not only during the time of construction, so in an urban area property acquisition is a significant chunk of the budget.
Don't buy the 1000XM2's. Although cheaper, there's lots of reports that the XM1's (and 1st gen) have cracking issues on the headband portion. XM3 appears to have fixed that. XM3's go on sale for high $200s often, so it's not much of a stretch to get XM3's.
Yep. The original Athlon and Opteron was the only decent period of time when it seemed like they had a decent edge. Really because Intel so horribly botched P4. So much so they buried the Pentium name they spent billions building up.
I'm not sure I believe that either. The reason that the article focused on 2018 numbers is that they provide a direct comparison pre- and post- Tax Cuts/Jobs Act. In 2018, Fedex paid less tax and invested less compared to 2017 - despite saving $1.6bn. On the other hand, investment in stock buybacks and dividends more than doubled. Not sure how those allegations are "carefully selected"?
Who is profiting from selling weapons in Japan?

Nobody. Because the government doesn't allow civilians to buy them.

Pass that law in the states and you'll see a big drop in weapon sales.

Rinse and repeat in other countries.
Can your startup take back your vested stock options?
I would love to see this debate. I don’t trust the media, and I don’t really trust corporations, so I’m not sure who to believe here. A public debate would go along way towards bringing transparency an open discussion. Those are not bad things.
It doesn't directly contradict what the NYTimes wrote, at all:

1. Fedex is bundling total tax expenditures (state taxes, employment taxes, who knows what, probably the whole kit) versus their federal income tax liability which is what NYTimes is discussing

2. Fedex has been in the 5-6B annual Capex range since FY 2015.

Further, someone could "spin" that 401k treatment, but this is an article about how Fedex rallied hard for specific tax treatments that had a specific effect. So if you wanna go out there and get some carve-out, expect to catch crap for it. If you're a normal person you'll go laughing to the bank with it, but if you're an especially hostile individual I guess you could, like, challenge people to a debate or whatever
This really bothers me. I live in a VERY polluted place, and unfortunately moving away won't be an option for me for at least half a decade. What can I do to minimise the health effects of such an atmosphere? I'm planning on getting an indoor air filter for my home.
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>It is like the difference between a salesman asking a bartender what type of drinks you prefer and them having a transcript of everything you ever said in the bar.

What? That's a difference in scale, not in kind.
but that's what IQ test are, standardized tests.

not sure where hilarity comes into play ... it has well defined statistical properties

perhaps you mean that the results of IQ tests can be, and often are grossly misinterpreted, that is not related to standardization
Actually I have worked on projects for major UK rail stations along these lines - how many people on this platform then go to this platform, and should we build a bridge / open up a barrier.

I can see that as useful - it is targeted and pretty simple to do (although the anti-tracking mechanisms in wifi now makes it harder)

but ... I struggle with the value of such data collected on such a scale. Cell Tower radius is on the order of kilometres - the interesting stuff to do inside cities cannot be discovered on that scale - you need metres or better.

This feels like a mass public holiday migration watch. And you learn that ... people live in different cities to their parents?
And even political parties. In Belgium the "Green" party (Groen) after the last election finally admitted they were not and never have been an environmental/ecological party after they grabbed control of the former real environment party (AGALEV) in 2003. They successfully bamboozled the green vote just by semantically squatting the name for 16 years.

Never trust a name, as more often than not it just has been hijacked by the most powerful/lucky marketing group.
> "paying as few taxes as possible"

Here lies the problem. One's tax burden should not be determined by your cleverness to dodge them, but some inarguable, tangible value. Like a bill.

The tax law holes that allow for "creative" corporate financial "solutions" (like moving HQ to Ireland) and their ilk should be patched with dramatically simpler tax law.

The government should simply bill people and corporations for their tax, outright, like they do in many other countries.
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>The gathered data shows the amount of arm exports

The data covers exports, not domestic civilian purchases.
Just because a test might have some component you can vaguely articulate as having some cultural influence does not make the test itself invalid for comparison across cultures. Claims that basic pattern recognition is somehow not a valid means of assessment across cultures are dubious at best.
I've never used credit cards; only debit cards and bank cards. I'm not so sure they sell my data, given GDPR. They might've in past though.
More like "who arms the world via exports." The vast majority of arms are built for domestic consumption. There are only around $100 billion/year of arms trade. The US alone spends more on more weapons for domestic use than all global arms exports combined.
PowerPoint , I often use animations to explain complex diagrams.
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH of Rails fame) gave a great talk on this recently, though he focused more on indoor air quality and its cognitive impact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqh8oLY7Ik
Yes. We set it up to bring in her husband, and then he was murdered by a racist moron that thought he was middle eastern (as though that justified anything). Out of basic human decency and compassion they should continue to process her husband's original application.
Thanks for checking it out!

The points you raised are why I wrote WHY, but I'll do my best to summarize the weaknesses of channels+goroutines that I believe this covers:

- fan out, because channels don't support it

- error chaining between goroutines. The solution I've often seen here is an error channel and another way of cancelling workers. If an early promise returns an error, later promises won't execute and the early error will get returned on Wait()

- complex graphs of async operations that are only executed once

re: type safety: this library will make sure all your types line up before executing your functions. With generics/contracts it may be eventually possible to make it compile time safe as well.
I highly suspect toluene has something to do with it, seeing as how it's a potent neurotoxin and a byproduct of burning fossil fuels.
Yeah, the reality is that you'll never be able to get reliable/unadulterated data on something that is both as personally impactful and as loosely defined as "intelligence". Everyone is going to bias toward interpreting the mode of thought that is most similar to their own as the definition of "intelligent".

Very few adults are comfortable with the idea that any substantial group of people are objectively more intelligent than themselves, because admitting that comes uncomfortably close to relinquishing autonomy, at least in contemporary Western understanding that says the more intelligent should rule.

European history throughout the 20th century shows the horrifying, depraved danger in capitulating to a ruling intelligentsia. We should earnestly hope that no group allows their self-interest, protected by native instinct, to be overridden by the despotic, unfeeling ideologies of "intelligent" rulership. That philosophy has shown itself over and over again to be a quick route to starvation, genocide, and widespread desolation.

Nevertheless, IQ is the most general/objective measurement we have, and it seems to be a reasonably good approximation on aggregate.
It is out out of touch arguments like this that prevent good management of many of our forests. We can have healthy forests, jobs and resources to build with, but when people too far away sit around with a calculator and make a decision, we don't get any of them.

All your math doesn't change the fact that there are too many* trees in my area.

*Too many does not mean endless supply.
I see you are using a new and creative definition of "free"...
It always “starts with” terrorist atrack, because those are such a powerful excuse for any kind of violent excess that if you want to do something otherwise indefensible and don't have those handy as an excuse, you first generate some for the excuse; see, e.g., Operation Northwoods.

And if you do have them, but they don't implicate the right targets, you engage in a propaganda campaign of conflation and false association—extra points if it can leverage common racial, ethnic, and/or broad religious identities—until they do, see, e.g., the US efforts re: 9/11 in the runup to the war with Iraq.
I’m surprised a tiny city-nation-state like Singapore is on the list. They don’t manufacture anything. Must be just a billing/money routing stop because of its low tax jurisdiction.
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Because collecting data about streaming service usage makes sense when you operate a streaming service. I don't see anything inherently wrong with it so long as the information is anonymous.
Bolsonaro has a long history of not having the slightest clue about how to manage an ecological emergency.
I understand Hong Kong uses seawater to flush toilets.

The chlorination process is simple: just pass some current through the salt and voila, chlorine.
Intelligence researches don't use normalized IQ when they compare intelligence across target populations or across different times.

They use raw IQ score data.
I thought IQ was not a reliable measure of anything?
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Not velocity - momentum is what is conserved. So the black hole could have absorbed the equal and opposite momentum, but being more massive, not gained much velocity. Or, a hypothetical scenario in separating the two it could have flung them in opposite directions, in which case it would be net zero momentum. (But I don't know if - and kind of doubt whether - that is a possible outcome of a three-body interaction.)
I second this. I have used PowerPoint for some very complex architectural diagrams and transitions over time and it has been a great tool. Definitely not perfect, but is pretty fun to use most of the time.
I tend to be a bit skeptical when studies are based on extroversion and introversion, if only because I can test on all parts of the spectrum depending on my mood.

I think people shackle their identity to their *version, and it can be limiting.
This doesn't really showcase how Arms flow for a variety of reasons including the reality that a huge portion of small arms are sold outside of official channels without being disclosed or tracked.

Do you think this sale got into the data set?
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696561255/heckler-koch-fined-...
whatever skills IQ tests measure these do correlate (and better than other readily measurable predictors) with various long term successes

what throws most people off is that the skill that IQ test measure is not a just an innate ability but a learned skill that is in demand and often needed for success in that society
Not actively looking at the moment, but exploring opportunities - currently residing in the Bay Area.

We can keep in touch on twitter - @pemakenemi
Wasn't the original link already posted under - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560916 yesterday?
I'm usually in bed 9:30pm. I find it hard to go to sleep that early though, so sometimes I get behind on my sleep and I notice it immediately.
This is all explained very well in e introduction to the book, which IIRC you can read in the online preview.

Basically learning the meaning and writing of all characters first, then their pronunciation is faster than learning each character fully, one at a time. Experience bears this out.
Wouldn't it be easier to make with straight zig-zag sections than with wavy curves?
This appears to be a terrible interface put on top of a very simple table.

Why am I scrolling around on my phone just to see the map? What are the underlying numbers? What do they mean? Is the actual number I’m looking at the area of the circle or the radius?
>> Do you have an alternate method to suggest? What's the calculation you would use? Note that "I'm seeing this with my own eyes" should only give you so much change, because you might have accidentally taken a whole bunch of hallucinogens.

I don't understand. How would it happen that I've accidentally taken a whole bunch of hallucinogens? I never go near that kind of stuff.

>> Not for that reason. But you have to factor in the chance that you got confused, or your brain is failing to make new memories and it's actually 2022, or you just woke up from a really detailed dream about the wrong president.

I don't see how that would happen either. Why would my brain fail to make new memories? Why are you saying that this might be the case?

I think this is just enhancing the deep unreality of what you are proposing. If we need to assume that I'm in some kind of weird mental state that I have no reason to be in for your whole proposition to make sense then I really don't see the point of it, other than perhaps an interesting theoretical game.
Isn’t that what you’re replying to?
Find one that can filter nano particles.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191113-the-toxic-killer...
To you it's more liberal, to others more exploitative.

People get really upset about license changes, as Linus so nicely observed.
They could go into a lot more detail about exactly which provisions of tax reform helped FedEx, and how.

They did not explain the 100% deduction for asset depreciation, or the fact that it's only a temporary provision of the law. They merely included a brief statement from FedEx referencing this provision in sort of generic terms.

They also mentioned very briefly that a large part of the reduced tax bill was FedEx's pension contribution, but didn't provide any additional details about how tax reform encouraged this behavior.

They also include misleading statements like this:

> “Something like $1.5 billion in future taxes that they had promised to pay, just vanished,” said Matthew Gardner, an analyst at the liberal Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington.

The idea that FedEx had "promised" to pay that money is just ridiculous.
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I have a personal blog and a privacy/security blog where I post zero-day exploits. They have been on Blogger and I am looking to switch to self hosting, most likely as static HTML.

Need some inspiration.

What great blogs have you seen? Or what great parts have you seen?
> The idle cash that corporations have aren't generating jobs.

But that contradicts the claimed raison d'être for the 2018 tax cut: that corporate direct investment was being restrained by corporate income taxes.

A call to lower corporate income taxes so more money could flow to investors would have been consistent, both with economic orthodoxy and with the observed outcome.
Eh, real-time live debates are terrible formats for this because they encourage and reward Gish Gallops. This is why scientists stopped debating creationists, because they discovered through repeated trials that it just rewards people who have less shame and are always willing to spout more lies. In theory, the other guy can call BS, but generally it takes a little bit of time, even with Google, to figure out where the lie is, and then even longer to explain it, by which point the liar simply moves on to another one.
The South Coast (California) Air Quality Management District does some really thorough tests on the quality of the various low-cost sensors: https://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/summary-pm
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Large cities tend to concentrate IQ as smart young adults come to seek better fortune. Furthermore Chinese party selection system, which involves standardized tests and relocation of gifted children to better schools in big cities also contributes heavily.
Radar can detect ships that don't cooperate with it, but not identify them.

Ships are supposed to actively cooperate with a system called AIS (which is like aviation's ADS-B).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste...

If they use AIS as required, they will be identified by receivers that they pass nearby.
Because America bad.
Reading his bullet points, I am not sure why the correlation between daily stock market returns and air quality supports the argument that air pollution reduces IQ.
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