skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYT has been publishing articles about big corporations evading taxes for many years, including during the Obama administration. This is not new, and it's part of the NYT's social agenda, not the election year.

Here are some examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/business/economy/corporat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/business/yesterday-outrag...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/apple-avoided-bi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/panama-papers.html
They could use a technique like Google Safe Browsing where you send a partial hash of the url, and they send back the subset of the map containing only urls which could match that hash
Do you have (or suspect you might have, but be undiagnosed) ADHD?

Nicotine is a stimulant. It improves concentration for individuals with ADHD, for much the same reasons that prescription stimulant drugs do. I picked up nicotine gum, and eventually switched to vaping myself, as a form of self-medication for my ADHD. If it really helps you block out distracting noises and sights from a busy office, that might be part of why.
This is literal, low effort advertising.
After living in Europe for some years now, I find whenever I am back in the US, it is really irritating (not misophonia-level, more just a "what the fuck are you thinking") how unnecessarily loud everyone seems to be by default in the US. Seems common that people are speaking easily twice as loud as is necessary to accomplish the communication required.

Lower your voice.
Juno ridesharing company shuts down its operations in NYC
It should be based on public protocols/networks running as a decentralized system rather than relying on a private for profit entirely. It may be possible to have businesses run on top to provide added value, but the core should provide transparency and auditability.
Article mentions many others besides Norbert Wiener but omits

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Stafford_Beer

and his

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_System_Model

Not sure why (not)?
I cannot wait — I cannot, cannot wait — for my cat to _finally_ fall in
I'd be fine with that as long as we get to start referring to "journalists" as priests or clergymen or whatever, at least then things would be a bit more honest.
A startup putting out a technically interesting product seems relevant to me.
That's not true. BD-J is limited similarly for instance.

They forked the shit out of it too with tons of base functionality being in org.dvb. and javax.tv.
How many people will read the NYT article compared to this blog post? They don't have equal footing.
This is probably just a coincidence. Stock markets perform lower on Mondays: https://www.macroption.com/stock-market-performance-volatili...

Traffic is probably generally higher on Mondays, though I have only anecdotal evidence.
That said, it is still probably the correct place to put my observation (unless original author comes around to post it too ...):

At one point I sat for months in a radio room, next to a really noise rack. Temperature was often 30 degrees C.

The reason I sat there was because the sound of the fans were much easier to block out than people (without support contracts : ) popping in to ask questions while I where supposed to help people who had support contracts.
Just google brands and find that they may be not so accurate or may be calibrated for some specific region of China

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/how-accurate-are-common-...

So may be better solution are local laboratories with calibrated equipment

Masks are tricky.

Most "light" masks are for huge particles and can't defend against most of dangerous chemicals

Military and science masks are working good against some chemicals and do not protect from another. Except solutions with O2 tanks on your back
> “Sometimes we think crafting the perfect email will be the best way to persuade people,” he said. “But what we find in our work is the voice can be quite impactful.”

Conversely, I think this is a large part of why I agonise over emails, and generally prefer to just go and talk to people. When I talk to someone, my attention is on their reactions, and I choose how to say things in response to that. In writing, I'm speculating about how every word will be perceived, spending effort imagining fictional readers.
Considering the comment he responded to I interpreted the cost being ... the truth. Toss out the truth and I'm not sure you can count on anything.
Oh my goodness, that header! I opened it in another tab and didn't see the initial animation or the huge, idiotic header. No wonder everyone is downvoting me! All I saw was the map, and the rightmost scrollbar was off the screen, so I missed the crap at the bottom too. Apparently I don't know how to use a web browser this morning!
How do we know that distant galaxies are not composed of anti-matter?
6! / 5! = 6, which is way too big. So, instead try X=15. The leading digits of 16 is still too big, so go to X=105. Repeat this process until you get a sufficiently small change in the leading digits between adjacent numbers - 10,005 barely works, so might as well go to 100,005 instead and be sure we're hitting every number.

Now the problem is that you might not have enough small increments you can make. You can always replace X=100,005 with X=1,000,0050 - multiply by ten, and the leading digits behave the same on multiplication, but you have ten times as many numbers you can multiply by.

You basically can divvy up things in as many fine increments as you want, so you can always find some number that does things properly.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what a paid shill smells like.
Brilliant! Thank you! This will make my life just a tad bit easier for a project I admin.
Large differences of scale are difference of kind. This holds true for information (it's crucial that e.g. property records be available at your local planner's office; it's not clear things are similar when talking about large centralized databases that are searched from anywhere). It also holds true for systems, especially biological systems. (There's a great book called "Scale" that talks about this.)
Start here: https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2019reports/2019...
Ooh, that observation that the antigens are not known sounds like a really promising field for analysis and discovery tools. Reverse engineering the antigens from the cells that have evolved to recognise them.
Our Personal Data Needs Protecting from Big Tech – Rana Foroohar
Their house is in order. From the original article:

> The public face of its lobbying effort, which included a tax proposal of its own, was FedEx’s founder and chief executive, Frederick Smith, who repeatedly took to the airwaves to champion the power of tax cuts. “If you make the United States a better place to invest, there is no question in my mind that we would see a renaissance of capital investment,” he said on an August 2017 radio show hosted by Larry Kudlow, who is now chairman of the National Economic Council.

FedEx lobbied for these cuts, and argued they'd invest more capital if they were made reality. They got what they wanted, and didn't do what they said.

The NYT wasn't lobbying in this fashion.
It’s common internet terminology.
As of now, very few buildings have separate grey and black water plumbing. In the event that you did have separate plumbing in the building, you would need separate plumbing in the street as well.

Unless you live in a very water constrained area, it's pretty unlikely. In the US, plumbing for reclaimed water is available in some areas (purple pipes), and seems like an easier intervention, it's often used for landscape irrigation, which has easily accessible plumbing to retrofit. It can be used for toilet flushing as well, if that is plumbed separately from other fixtures in the building.
It's a review article. The paper you mention was just one of many cited. And sure, those are all different papers written by different authors and it's surely not unlikely that there are errors in there. But the reason for reviews like this one is to point out that all these different results support the same basic hypothesis.

As far as stocks, specificaly: really? People with cognitive trouble make bad stock picks all the time. Most of us have grandparents who have exhibited exactly this kind of mistake. While it's surely true that the bulk of analyst-driven trades are checked by methods that aren't sensitive to pollution (or just by analysts in different climates), there are certainly enough single-decider trades going on to show a small effect like this if it exists.

I mean, no, one oddball stock market paper doesn't prove much of anything. But in combination with a bunch of other research like this, it's worth taking seriously.
I wonder if it really is a "social" agenda vs. something else. They clearly do have some sort of agenda though, and while they no doubt always publish articles through that lens, I'd say they crank it up on election years, especially post-Trump.
I don’t think that explains it. Especially when you compare results with other countries with a large Chinese population like Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Based on my reading of the table, the PurpleAir II sensors seemed to be the best of the sub $300 for PM1.0 (field R^2 of 0.96 to 0.98) and PM2.5 (field R^2 of 0.93 to 0.97). The PM10 readings were not as good (field R^2 of 0.66 to 0.70).

After skimming the rest of the table, it looks like the PurpleAir II sensors might have some of the best field R^2 for PM 2.5 and PM 1.0
I can’t stand mastication noise. I must leave the area or drown it out,
block any visible signs of eating, and take a few deep breaths.
The current PSD2 implementation at most banks is just terribly annoying.

On things which require authentication every 90 days (like checking the balance via api), almost all banks require one after every attempt/api call.

Even worse: Many banks don't support their app's 2FA for the api calls, but instead the old tan lists. (ING does this AFAIK)
That is the accepted terminology for wallstreetbets style trading, is it not?
> more money could flow to investors

Is that a bad thing? I'm thinking it is good.

Why do people want higher taxes for?

I'm thinking lower taxes reduces the amount of money going to the government is good. The government is horribly inefficient due things such as bureaucracy, corruption, etc. No matter where they operate, it hasn't been good. Whether it's US or China, the gov't is not where I think money should go.
Can you tell us more about the active countermeasures? How do they work and what makes them very obvious?
My biggest hurdle—aside from undocumented code—at my new company, is fucking mouth noises from coworkers and the sound of crumpling snack bags in an open office. It's to the extent where I have to leave the area and regain composure before mentioning it. If I can't find a way to manage, I'll leave, but I'm not in the financial position to have that luxury yet. What will probably happen, is I'll work up to a slow competency with their codebase, and they'll fire me before I get to quit. Optimistically I'll find a way to cope, either by dampening the noise or leaving the office for a coffee shop; something I've started doing.
Agreed. They also post continuous anti-tech coverage. They are definitely yellow journalism at this point and I wish they'd stop being voted to the front-page of HN as if they're an impartial source.
Heh, a rare example of the "proof of correlation isn't proof of the absence of causation" fallacy. No reason that stock markets couldn't perform worse on Mondays because of the extra traffic pollution.
> It’s difficult for me to characterize what “cybernetics” is, probably because it doesn’t really mean anything. Norbert Wiener... more or less defined as a hand wavey general study of systems of feedback and control mechanisms. Stafford Beer was a proponent of “management cybernetics” which, as far as I can tell, meant “using data to make business decisions.”... the field of cybernetics was condemned [by the Soviets] as “a science of obscurantists, a pseudoscience wedded to obscurantist epistomology.”

"Cybernetics" reminds me a bit of "artificial intelligence", in this sense that it's "whatever doesn't work yet".

When Kantorovich brought linear programming to industrial production, it was clearly just a mathematical optimization. When Glushkov proposed running whole planned economies on it, that was cybernetics because the required computations were unachievable. But when businesses and militaries use it for design now, it's just operations theory.

When Jay Wright Forrester applied models of feedback and imperfect information to supply chains, that was simple economics. When he brought them to urban design and the environment, and Beer brought them to business and government management, the appropriate computing power and datasets were unavailable - so that was cybernetics. Now that environmental models are meaningfully grounded in reality, they're back to being mere models.

Of course, I have a bit less sympathy for the cyberneticists than for AI researchers. ML/AI work frequently follows a pattern in which research is explicitly speculative, then realized, then dismissed from the outside as "just algorithms". Its worst excesses are predicting major advances like NLP on very short timelines, not misrepresenting the present. Cybernetics seems more prone to over-promising what it can do now. And rather than researchers making advances which are then dismissed, the common pattern seems to be outsiders implementing techniques, at which point cyberneticists retreat to some new speculative claim where there's no competition.
Duke University has a wonderful misophonia research initiative. They hold webinars periodically.
We do grant asylum. This should be considered as such.
Yes for active radar. As ships aren't flying, passive radars have a very small range.
No but I agree, it seems a little risky. I would wait for the next generation of web assembly changes to come down the pipe before investing in this too heavily.

Very interesting experiment though.
Did you read the NYTimes article? The article is more about how FedEx didn't re-invest the money saved on taxes like they claimed they would. Instead they put used it for stock buybacks and dividends. The NYTimes article was about the very thing you said it should be about.
New Geoglyphs Discovered on the Nasca Pampa and Surrounding Area
There is also an element of people (esp. on this forum) who strongly dislike big tech companies, and want to use inflammatory language to strengthen their point.
What's funny about this topic is that chewing sounds don't bother me at all! Not a bit. Yet some sounds drive me crazy.
I have also used N26, ING and DKB, which are mostly the best/most modern banking experiences in Germany and can only confirm what you said.
Thanks. Definitely worth the 120 billion nanoseconds it takes to watch.
Never know when a good idea comes up, my twitter is @freefreecocaine
I feel like one could say the same about cafes in the netherlands. There's no option for "weak" stuff.
Where does the name Objective-Smalltalk come from? Isn't that a bit of a pleonasm? (about to watch the video, maybe it is addressed in there)

Anyway, very curious about this!

EDIT: first slide: it's because of its relation to Objective-C. Still a funny pleonasm to me though ;)
Haha and much much worse
Read the linked journal article; the authors don’t actually claim it is about cognitive ability, they attribute it to lower risk taking on those days.
I was mainly attacking those think tanks for providing air cover for tech industry interests. I'm sure there are actual examples of tech companies also donating to EPIC, as well as employees of tech companies.
Real Welders and the Sky Haven Airport Tycoon Kickstarter
It has been removed 4500 Tons of oil from the northeastern beaches already, according to the Brazilian Navy (https://www.marinha.mil.br/sites/default/files/nota_gaa_17no...).
Great idea. Thank you for sharing! I’ve had this same thought with Tesla’s stock
@birgitt: Instead of a labor intensive process of spraying and paper or cloth, could you not include the lubricant in a separate reservoir and apply a bit with each flush, avoiding the need for a manual process? Or perhaps have an automatic cycle where the bowl drains, the lubricant is applied, and then water is supplied to refill the bowl after a period of time has elapsed (if necessary)?

It seems manual application is likely to slow adoption IMHO. If automated, seems like a slam dunk for heavy use/commercial/public applications though.
I figured it might!
Mark has some really great advice and insight, I've always found it to be useful - especially related to B2B sales. I've also pitched him before.

That being said, I'd love to see a retrospective on the check they cut to uBeam. I believe you learn more from your mistakes than from your wins; he surely learned a bit from that investment.
You mean diesel engines? They're trying that in France.
I'm a data point that favors surrounding noise. For years, my most productivity-dense time of the week is when i bring my laptop to a local sports bar for prime time NFL games. Something about the consistent noise, available momentary distractions and wandering eyes keeps me on-task and cradled in thought in a way no office (home or formal) does.
Good Javascript is like that quote in Futurama:

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
I'm aware of CL-like lisps that compile to JavaScript which are likewise incomplete and incompatible.

Oh look, a comment in this submission Github's item points to JSCL, for example.
This is already flagged, but for those interested in a more substantial read, I can't recommend "The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade" (v2) enough. In reality the US, UK and Israel are the main arms exporters for the world.
Do you identify as someone that has misophonia?
Sure, but I think it’s interesting to point out the trade-off since you can apply the same principle to antenna design.
Wait, I'm supposed to get paid for this? Who sends me the... is it a W.2 or a 1099? Somebody call my agent. I think I'm getting ripped off.

That's funny. Was that meant as a joke? It's like the reverse variant of the fallacy of the article. You imply that I'm getting paid based on my positions, the article implies that they're taking positions based on getting paid. No consideration of the possibility that the same positions could be held without compensation.
The journal article explicitly calls out day of week and controls for it...
It's not strange, it's the banks fighting back to prevent "cannibalization". Kind of like how Intuit lobbied the government to gimp the free tax tool.
If I could go back a few years and warn you against using nicotine to self-medicate ADHD, I would. I also have ADHD and kicked a 5 year vaping habit about a year ago. Nicotine might help you focus in the very short term, but if you can't re-up every half hour, it makes it a lot harder to focus in the long term! I spent 4 years as a developer, unable to vape in my shared office, being interrupted every hour by the need to consume more nicotine! Every time I'd come back in from a smoke break it felt like a race against the clock to get back into "the zone" before the nicotine cravings kicked me out again.

You know what has really helped my focus? BREAKING THAT ADDICTION. Please, if anyone else is reading the parent I'm replying to and thinking about starting to use nicotine to self-medicate ADHD trust me it is NOT worth it. It's not worth not being able to enjoy a whole movie or show because you need to intake nicotine. It's not worth being trapped in airplanes without being able to vape. It's not worth the chemical dependence, even if you "only" get addicted to the gum or patch. Please hear my appeal to what a terrible idea the parent comment is proposing! Nicotine is the absolute worst drug.
>In a few years they won't even have access to teachers nor a properly functioning classroom. There is an entire demographic of teachers approaching retirement and we don't have enough qualified teachers entering, and staying, in the field to replace them.

Yeah, for good reason: the career is terrible, so it shouldn't be a big surprise that no quality people want to go into it, and when someone good does get into it, they burn out quickly and leave. But government and society don't want to do anything about that.

Teachers in this country face lousy pay, uninterested, disrespectful, and sometimes violent students, occasional school mass shootings, incompetent coworkers and administration, etc. Why would a well-educated person want to go into this field?
Not sure how controlling for noise pollution affects studying air pollution - can you elucidate? Still, I don't understand how noise pollution anecdotes are relevant to an article on air pollution.
Humans light 85 percent of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it
Show HN: View remote work trends for US cities with census data
There appears to be a glitch / bug here. When the map first loads, it states the data is for 2018 and lists 50 countries, but the 49th country is blank and there are only 34 circles on the map. When you switch the year to anything else and switch back to 2018, the list has been truncated to 34 countries.
> The first, dynamic linking exception, could maybe be patched up with some effort by FSF resulting in a new LGPL license.

The Common Lisp world already has something like this, the "LLGPL"[1], but it's use is discouraged[1] because (among other reasons):

> 2. In 2004, the Free Software foundation affirmed that "the LGPL works as intended with all known programming languages" and that "LGPL contains no special provisions for inheritance, because none are needed." There is no need for the linking and inheritance provisions that are in the [LLGPL].

1: https://www.cliki.net/LLGPL
Up to now the price has been much, much smaller than with the previous government.

My vote in particular went to another candidate, but if popular pools are to be trusted, the low, middle, and upper classes are all mildly satisfied with him.
Jandê Saavedra Farias and the Team Developing Sky Racket
> ...the ability to carry more cargo...

I'll grant you that a car is more convenient for carrying cargo. But with a bike trailer, a bicycle can pretty easily handle most people's cargo requirements—anything from groceries to large appliances like refrigerators. Check out some of these bicycle trailer plans: https://bikecart.pedalpeople.coop