skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One the reasons "not everyone can become a physician" is because physicians have one of the strongest protectionist unions in America, limiting access to the field and driving customers to fake doctors (chiropractic, naturopath, homeopath), hurting health outcomes.
For me it is impossible to get updates for High Sierra.

App Store is not working and manual install is impossible. It tells my Macbook Air has Fusion drive which is incompatible with latest High Sierra.

No Macbook Air has ever got Fusion drive..

Waiting for some free time to reinstall macOS.
I wondered the same thing. Best explanation had to do with the 32 GB dataset being on the system with 32 GB of RAM vs the 200 GB dataset on the system with 256 GB of RAM. Makes sense, but isn’t clear from the article’s perspective.
> Reformulating the question from a different angle: why did all the large sites whose password database got leaked (Yahoo, LinkedIn...) still use regular hash functions?

Incompetence.
Their business model is not complicated. They arbitrage office space. Office space is expensive to rent (operationally), takes a long time to find a tenant, and there's a lot of different kinds of leases (short/long term) and most office management companies are not equipped to deal with 100s of tenants in a single space. Similarly there's lots of pain points when you're the trnter, in terms of finding the space which can be time consuming, deposits, contract negotiations, needing to setup utilities (esp internet).

Wework opertionalizes all of things putting them in position of being able to arbitrage this disconnect in the market.
Thank you. I never understand why people complain as if good parenting isn't an option.
I truly think this is an issue with the touchbar/usbc MBPs, less an issue with HighSierra.

My MBP crashed all the time during wake w/ external monitor. Had weird video playback choppiness that required restart, TouchID profile going away on its own... This all occured before upgrade to high sierra and the issues persist with high sierra.
That's only the headcount for full-time employees. You've got to at least double it to account for all the contractors as well.
Parody accounts are generally satirical, often humorous, and fairly open about their deception.

Pretending to be jewish, to say unpleasant things and trick unsuspecting people into believing this is the view of a 'Jewish person' (quotes because the whole concept is very reductive at both ends of the interaction) is neither.

I would also say the issue almost certainly isn't limited to Jew-impersonators either, but since that's what the article is about I used that example.
> Is this an argument against the idea of estate tax or the implementation of estate tax in the United States? It reads likes the latter, but the more interesting discussion is regarding the former.

The general consensus from economists opposes the estate tax. There are a few aspects of its implementation that are particularly problematic, but there's no way to implement an estate tax that doesn't ultimately either (a) lead to these sorts of outcomes, or (b) defeat the entire point of an estate tax in the first place.

The short letter might read like it's arguing against the implementation, but if you're familiar with Friedman's work, he shows why estate taxes inherently lead to such undesirable outcomes.
I don’t think it’s linux raid software overhead but on the fly compression decompression of ZFS which could mean the BSDs are doing less IO than their Linux counterparts. I don’t know for sure it’s just a hunch.
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Scroll down the page and a pop up from the "Family Business Coalition" asks to sign up for their mailing list to help repeal the estate tax.

The main points they offer for why are `the estate tax wouldn't raise much money anyway because estate planners have hid the money well` and `it's too hard to enforce`.

Doesn't feel like a very nuanced argument.
The estate tax has been nearly the best way of reducing wealth inequality, second only to the income tax.

Like many wealthy individuals off of Hacker News, you more than likely have a Roth IRA account that houses Vanguard mutual funds. John C Bogle (or Jack Bogle), the founder of the Vanguard Group, has consistently and wholeheartedly supported the estate tax as a time-tested means of reducing income inequality. The estate tax has a deep and lengthy history stretching back centuries and (unfortunately) there is a dearth of economic data pointing to it being beneficial to society. It is nonetheless important to emphasize the mutual respect and shared responsibility between the wealthy and non-wealthy.

I am by no means a rabid Communist but rather a right-leaning individual that feels strongly about this subject -- there is most definitely precedent for the estate tax's usefulness. The basis of the argument against the estate tax is capital flight and that is just a weak red herring that ignores how immobile most wealth is.
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>It's not like people voting could choose only a part of politician's program or take different parts from different candidates.

No, but "going to war and killing people/invading other countries" should matter more than other parts of their program.

>foreign people somewhere far away

That's the problem right there. So it's not that they can't: it's that they don't care.
Probably different postgresql.conf-settings. For example, 32GiB instance has "effective_cache_size = 24GB", while 200GiB instance has "effective_cache_size = 144GB"
5K iMacs and the iNac Pro are amazing for their price. You can’t build anything to drive 5K to such a nice monitor otherwise.

And their fans/heat management is great for 99% of developers.
Counter argument. https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21731626-case-taxing-...

In my opinion, a wealth tax (of which estate tax is one example) is much fairer than an income tax. It is somewhat difficult to levy, but I don't think it's inherently more difficult than measuring income for income tax. It's just that we've spent a century working on income monitoring laws and regulation.
The estate tax is justified as a means of reducing the concentration of wealth. However, the truly wealthy and their estate planners avoid the tax. The low yield of the tax is a testament to the ineffectiveness of the tax as a force for reshaping the distribution of wealth.

Of course, those recommending the repeal of the estate tax are also probably of the opinion that wealth concentration is not a problem.
If you use a general meta layer preprocessor such as MyDef, you may be able to construct macros that comes from evaluations of code in any languages (instead of restricted in eg. C++ with rather complicated compiler mechanics)

A constexpr is a constant that is evaluated from a code at compile time, which is essentially just macros. Right?

A general preprocessor that just do language agnostic code manipulations are not difficult but rather useful. Much complicated syntax sugar I see in the recent language development become unnecessary if a general preprocessor is in place (where syntactic sugar belong). I wonder why it is often not used.
Not sure why this pops up here. It's a pretty old stemmer, and stemmers themselves aren't exactly newsworthy...?
"NP" stands for "nondeterministic polynomial time". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_%28complexity%29

(Not that I have the requisite knowledge to understand it).
This letter is disingenuous in its argumentation.

> the earnings on the assets were taxed year after year

Given the stepped up basis upon death, gains accrued during life are never taxed.
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I've been a dev for about 8 years, spent the last 4 years in cyber security.

One thing I've noticed throughout my career so far is I tend to get ancy after about a year or year and a half - and get pissed off at something in the workplace. A few of those things are:
* horrible mgmt
* pay
* not learning anything

I'm now back in the same position, except all three of these reasons are the problem for me wanting to jump to a new company.

Has anyone ever experienced this? What did you do?

Thanks.
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if we tried to stop them they would just send a gunboat up the river
It's obvious they're riding the fame of Apple/Steve Jobs and that's a shame but good for them if people are dumb enough to think these Jeans might be made by Apple. On a sarcastic note, why not ride the cryptocurrency wave and call your next pair of Jeans: Steve Job's blockchain jeans
Men favor men in job performance reviews
Two separate studies show that men are more likely to give a positive performance evaluation to a man than to a women.
Do you have leads to interesting debates in this? I've mostly only seen yelling and name calling. :(

I confess I'm predisposed to keeping it. My mindset doesn't see it as a "death tax" and my contrarian mindset may dislike the idea of repeal from the marketing that went into that label.
To be fair, the Nim community agrees with your assessment. Quite a lot of development is going into the nimx library for that reason!
Same here, I'm holding out.

You probably already know just how excited I was to hear they will combine Mac OS and IOS into one OS. I can't wait for all the new bu..err.. features we'll be getting!!

\s

How's Linux doing with battery life on a laptop these days? I think my 2014 MacBook may be my last.
" solved by faster hardware as well. "

Not really, for a few reasons. First, hardware is not getting much faster per core anymore, and in the case of python (maybe ruby too?) making efficient use of more cores is not easy. Secondly, CPU performance is largely limited by ram latency and throughput. The inability of high level, interpreted, safe language to carefully control memory access patterns means you run into the limitations of RAM more often, leaving your fast CPU idle much of the time.
I looked into Yubikey but it seems absolutely impractical for day-to-day authentication unless you only use it for a finite amount of sites.

For example, you'd want at least one backup. Maybe buried somewhere or in a safe deposit box. But the workflow for keeping it synced would be hilarious.

Ever since then, I can't take anyone seriously on HN who says "we shouldn't have passwords, just hardware key fobs". Not to mention your authentication security doesn't matter when there's a customer support line an attacker can socially engineer.
The concession "stands" in theaters in my area (Boston) all sell hot food and alcohol[0,1] these days, because the traditional popcorn, 1/2 gallon of soda and raisinettes weren't selling to most people anymore. I think people are much less likely to sneak in a burger, truffle fries and 3 martinis.

0: https://www.amctheatres.com/food-and-drink/dine-in/full-serv...
1: https://www.showcasecinemas.com/dining
I'm still wondering how to deal with password changes in that scheme. If you change the salt, you reveal the existence of that account and the fact that the password changed. But keeping the salt the same seems unsafe as well...
Thank you. It's been a while.
It has been ten years, since I had antenna classes in the uni, so I might be wrong, but I do not completely agree.

Gain is the same in both ends, but my concern about receiving is that gain is applied to everything. This includes interference and noise. So at the receiving end if the SINR is already bad, the antenna gain is not going to help much. This is why you apply the "Low Noise Amplifier" right after the antenna. To make sure that an already bad SINR will not get even worse in the rest of the receiving stages.
Consciousness is: what it is like to experience something. Note this is different from self consciousness which is: what is it like to be something which experiences and know you are that thing.

Humans are certainly self conscious. Crabs are certainly conscious. Crystals certainly exist.

Where the boundaries are is an interesting question, but the categories certainly exist even if I can't draw a clean boundary around members.
>However, "Faster Ruby" or "Faster Python" is, in practice, solved by faster hardware as well.

That ship has sailed years ago.
Wow, this is pretty eye-opening for anyone looking to use FreeBSD in production as a database server.

Anyone from FreeBSD devs have any thoughts on why we're so far behind?
Well, sure, that argument sounds reasonable to me, but nothing in the study actually supports it. And that's why this reporting is particularly dangerous. It gives us a fact that's not really a fact, further dividing the polity and making political reconciliation more difficult. Us versus them sells papers, but it's bleeding the republic.
Mine is to write at least two articles per month on my blog http://mez.cl/a
This kind of argument from authority is well parodied by 'Project Steve', IMO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Steve
Do they show that the games are NP hard, or that it is possible to construct puzzles using the rules of the games that are NP hard?
> Spend your money on riotous living – no tax; leave your money to your children – the tax collector gets paid first.

What about sales/excise/VAT taxes? This letter seems disingenuous at best.
I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. And why people are not revolting. There is a clear nexus between pharmas and doctors. Something should be done.
A nice new filesystems, and no headaches for me (MBPr 15").

If anything, it solved some Sierra headaches.
Nearing the Babel 7.0 Release
I'm unable to find a satisfying definition of "fairness" when it comes to taxation. So for now I try to think about a tax's likely consequences.

Honest question: Have you had more luck?
"Death tax" is the best PR campaign ever. This is an inheritance tax. Nobody is taxing death. They are taxing the post-death transfer of wealth. And why complain? You will be dead. If you really want to avoid this tax, give away your vast wealth while still alive.

I think we should apply a death tax only to dead people. A 100% tax on post-death income to the estates of the dead. That should speed up the settlement process.
Nope, Time Machine isn't enabled.
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Yep. The claim that the estate tax is a double tax has been a lie for decades.
The article says that the Alexa economy is increasingly important to Amazon, yet if you go on the developer boards, most of the complaints from last year are still there. The flaws in the system keep serious developers away. Those on Hacker News might remember this conversation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10876409

It's also disappointing how much of this system remains vaporware:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10719202/amazon-alexa-ces-...

It's also disappointing that Amazon continues to resist the changes necessary to make the Alexa a good Enterprise eco-system:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-amazon-echo-will-pr...

On this last point, it is frustrating that we have not seen more competition. Most startups lack the resources to build their own voice system, so they want to build on the back of service being offered by Amazon or Apple or ...

Apple promised to open Siri, but so far you can't build Enterprise apps with Siri.

There is interest among managers. Among the ideas that business leaders have asked me about:

1. An Amazon Alexa in every hotel room, ready to answer guests questions

2. A salesperson leaves a meeting where they made a sale. They get in their car and drive home. They talk to their ______ device and all of the data is sent to Salesforce, the app creating a new Opportunity or new Tasks.

3. An Amazon Alexa skill that can reach into the companies Salesforce account and generate a report for high level executives

Of this last one, we had a working demo in early 2016, but we need some extra tools for specifying the phonetic sound of a company name, as Alexa mangles the names of companies such as IBM and CNET.

As to #2, we worked on a text interface for Salesforce in 2015. I wrote about that extensively here:

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...

We then investigated how to do this with voice. At the moment, it seems the best option is to use voice-to-text on an iPhone or Android. It's an open question whether it is best to use IBM Watson's NLP tools or build a specialized tool just for dealing with Salesforce.
Can a deep learning system play these particular NP-Hard games well?
Heroin is a Schedule I (in the US) which means no medical benefit, and its a 20 year felony for distributing it. There is also the Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, which is supposed to group similar drugs in the same category. So, how do these companies get away with selling analogs of heroin? Shouldn't the people who work there and make money off these opioid drugs be arrested? Why haven't they?
I suppose there is some room for interpretation left by the article, but when I read "sexist or offensive" I don't think "sexist or (anything unrelated to sex that is) offensive". I think "sexist or (sexually, in the sense of harassment, sexism, etc.) offensive". There's no good reason, in my view, to take the broader sense of "offended" as the meaning behind "offensive" here.
I'm a fan of Turbolinks too (started using it on its day 1 release), but nowdays you don't even need Rails to use it effectively. It integrates with any framework very easily.

Stimulus is a new upcoming framework for sprinkling in bits and pieces of JS. DHH talked about it on https://twitter.com/dhh/status/946184709528158208.
Embedded engineer here. Care to explain why ? Code generation is widely used, at least in automotive. Comparison of hard-to-read and hard-to-debug advanced template/constexpr machinery vs code generated by standalone tool that is easy to read and easy to debug would not be taken seriously
It may be related to the multi-threaded page daemon:

https://www.kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf_v2.0.pdf
Disclaimer: I'm a core Nim dev.

To be honest I am unsure what Pony provides that Nim doesn't. Perhaps I just haven't looked closely enough at it.

One thing I do know is that from my years of using Nim I never had any trouble with parallelism. There are no green threads, but there is a solid thread pool implementation[1] and a mechanism that ensures memory isn't shared between threads without a lock or a channel (GC safety)[2].

Maybe you could give me a TL;DR of what Pony does better? :)

1 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/threadpool.html

2 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#threads-gc-safety
> there is a dearth of economic data pointing to it being only beneficial to society.

Possibly you meant "wealth" of data?
In case anyone was confused as to how they use SHA-512, it appears they use it for password stretching. (I was unable to find anything about authentication tags, although I guess it's hard to get a chosen ciphertext oracle out of Excel files unless you find a computer consuming them?)
I think you meant so far ahead.
I don't think it's unreasonable to argue centralization is better because it in principle allows creation of currency without the requisite resource requirements.

This is a reasonable argument to have. Especially because the economies of scale from mining power may lead to something a little like centralization anyways.

It is fully reasonable to argue that the supposed benefits of decentralization via a Bitcoin-like system do not outweigh the benefits of centralization in the real world. As far as the "market deciding," well currently the market values centralized fiat currency far more than decentralized cryptocurrency, so I don't think that's a very strong argument. (Plus, "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.")
The 0.1% unilaterally owns the government. Better than half of all laws are made for them. Where do you think the 0.1% stands on the opioid crisis? It doesn't touch them. It is a poverty-problem, not theirs.
If an attacker is able to impersonate the server, then it is also able to ask the client for the password by modifying the Javascript sent.
> If this was attractive to tech folks, the hiring tests would include more business problem oriented questions than fizzing and buzzing

And yet business people don't get any tests. No one else on the entire planet gets tests for almost every role opportunity they want to explore. So why do developers have to?

Actually, I can answer that. The answer is because the overwhelming majority of a modern company's productivity is up to the performance of the developers. The business guys get away with under-performing because their underprformance is not a significant factor on the bottom line.

The commonplace testing of developers has nothing to do with ratios of good to bad developers, or the relative ease of assessing developer skill compared to other professions. It has everything to do with the fact that developers drive the lions share of modern business value so they've been singled out for shitty treatment with testing and kaggle competitions and similar garbage. I really hope to see a software engineering union rise in the next few years which cracks down on this and empowers developers to negotiate relative to their actual value in modern business.

People like you aren't needed in the world of high tech. Your role is redundant.
Um, just wanted to kindly point out you may not have meant “dearth”, which means, “a scarcity or lack of.” Perhaps “abundance”?
High Sierra is a mess, I had someone whose computer was un-bootable because of it. I went through many "solutions" only to finally roll it back to a previous OS version via backup (thankfully they used Time Machine regularly), and told them do the current system updates but don't update the OS.

I've worked through many update issues in OSX over the years, and the fixes were reasonable, but this one is really bad, and sometimes there isn't any workable solution than to roll-back.

I've noticed the OSX/iOS upgrade push is really affecting a lot of people in different ways lately, another has iPad/iPod issues because you have to update OS to get a never version of iTunes to talk to upgraded iOS devices that are now locked out of previously compatible versions of iTunes - and with device signing theres no way to roll back the mobile devices iOS... and with Mac App store theres no way to get an update thats not High Sierra anymore so Macs that can do say Yosemite but not HS are S.O.L. (unless you already have the install media) Blegh.
> The estate tax has been nearly the best way of reducing wealth inequality, second only to the income tax.

That's an assertion that's often repeated axiomatically by non-economists, but it's not borne out by the data. Aside from the fact that the estate tax raises embarrassingly little revenue[0], the number of individuals who actually pay the estate tax is pretty low. Furthermore, it's inherently a tax that doesn't capture the true benefits of inherited wealth, and there's no way to to turn death into a taxable event that does - even if you imposed an estate tax of 100%.

Friedman has written an entire book explaining why the estate tax is inherently broken and unfixable. His criticisms of the estate tax are only controversial politically; they are generally accepted by economists, even those that don't advocate repealing the estate tax for other reasons.

> and there is a dearth of economic data pointing to it being only beneficial to society.

I'd agree that there's a dearth of economic data pointing to the benefits of an estate tax.

[0] $19.3 billion, which is about half a percent of total federal revenue, and not nearly enough to make a dent in wealth inequality