skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That number is calculated without including info about any theory/evidence regarding the Higg's [sic] boson.

That's not true. You can see plots in the 2011 and 2012 papers that give these calculations as a function of mass. It's basically impossible to make a mass-independent calculation. (Not withstanding the fact that there's no Higgsless theory to do calculations for the background).

>As an example, I'd imagine detecting the Higg's [sic] boson at 1 eV energy levels is theoretically predicted to be even less likely than billions/trillions to one odds, therefore detector noise would be a more likely explanation for such results, despite the low p-value.

You're right, the p-value is much lower. Previous experiments have long since excluded such a low Higgs mass. Also, if the Higgs mass were so low, we probably wouldn't exist.
> is consistent with estate taxation reducing either wealth accumulation or inducing avoidance, or both

That's correct - as per the very first point in the article, people structure their assets to minimize their estate tax liability.

> On a more meta level, it is interesting to observe that for "several decades, total revenues raised by estate and gift taxes have roughly equalled those raised by excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco" [3]. The estate tax attracts attention because of a fundamental disagreement, regarding taxes, in our politics.

I'm not really sure why that's relevant? Unlike estates, we don't tax tobacco because of a desire to generate revenue or reduce wealth inequality. Tobacco taxes are actually incredibly regressive: the burden of the taxes is almost entirely paid for by the poor, so they increase inequality. But we tax it regardless, because we believe that the taxes contribute to a decrease in smoking nationwide.
For some airlines, the price of the front seat is more than the back seat. So the inequity is factored in.
Something like this [0]? (Disclaimer, I made it)

[0] https://franciscouzo.github.io/image_colors/
Never seen this, was on a Qatar 787 recently, and an a320neo, and freshly densified 777, where is this magical seat you speak of?
It's just a more "educated" version of Bart's favourite saying "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything." [0] And from there they segue into it's too difficult for you to do anything so let's do away it (implying of course that inequality doesn't matter, or matter enough to even take a stance on). Even in its current "broken" practice it stops the worst of inequalities and is revenue positive even if only by a small amount.

So the real question to be raised by this letter is, does inequality matter, and if so how much does it matter and more precisely how much does it cost society as a whole. Maybe a yearly wealth tax for all people (natural and legal) of 0.1% would work better? Such a tax in the US would raise between USD40B to USD45B a year.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTbgsoHDc24
Here's data that says otherwise. Guess you are free to believe whatever data you wish.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/mari...
I'm not working, I'm trying to sit without too much pain.

But let#s turn it around: if you need to recline in order to sleep, buy first class. Normal people can sleep sitting upright.
That is a much better patent. Sorry for the confusion. The "index into a random data block" is already a primitive cryptographic operation in key expansion and hashing algorithms, but the block is deterministically generated pseudo randomly from a seed. It would be interesting to replace the seeding operation with an offset into a large static pool generated from a source of true randomness.
actually, most of my patients were not interested in reimbursing me for the cost of the usb stick, although they would gladly accept it for free. I was willing to provide their ENTIRE medical record, but they were not interested. I think people are just as happy to be spoon fed and not knowing what they are eating as long as its free.
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For things like auth/signup/forgotten-password flow I'd agree I've been more productive with server-side frameworks than client-side, and the out-of-the-box solutions for those things from Rails/Django feel more solid.

Also basic blog and structured content 'pages' sites.

For building anything that requires complex client-side interaction, i.e. the sort of things that even warrant looking at React (e.g. a calendar app, or a music player app), then you're going to get yourself in a real mess attempting that with 'javascript sprinkles'.

> Also, Redux as "self-congratulatory" had me dead. XD

Also completely wrong if you've ever read/heard anything Dan Abramov has ever written/said [1].

[1] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
That's a great idea. The color sets themselves are actually compatible (you'll see that there are eight monochromatic colors and eight accent colors in both systems) and I think there is some low-hanging fruit for interoperability between the two. Fantastic feedback, thank you!
There's a great tool called Docker which allows you to not have to worry or care about a toolchain.
I'd like to have slightly shorter hair I think.
Another year has gone by.

I haven't done a company, or anything, really.

I should just do something. Hmm.
4 Years After Target, the Little Guy Is the Target
>I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis.

$$$

> And why people are not revolting.

Drugs are an effective and subtle form of chemical warfare. They keep the people docile and apathetic.
Sorry, but your testing methodology needs some help. Were you testing OSes? Postgres? Storage configuration? I suggest investigating FIO first, use it to isolate the best performing disk configuration (Storage+Kernel+Filesystem+whatever), then do some pgbench tests with different postgres tuned parameters, to show the best way to tune postgres.

A few thoughts:

* You weren't testing OSes which the subject implied, you were testing Linux kernel variants and their stock OS configurations/kernel scheduler setups, and FreeBSD was tossed into the mix. Whether you are running Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian or whatever you should have the Linux kernel tuned to perform well, so adding the distribution as a variable is just a red herring. I'd be more interested in removing that variable and comparing different storage configurations (such as XFS, and LVM).

* Clients connecting over the network adds a huge variable at play (the network) -- ideally you would want to remove this.

* I may have missed it, but it wasn't clear if you had a warmup period to your benchmarks. Especially with a system like ZFS which has COW, you need to do a few benchmarks on the same blocks first, to break past the cache.
"We won’t protect jobs. But we will protect workers.”

This seems really important. The social infrastructure to support education and relearnig will be vital as many jobs are automated away.
6’5” is something like 4 SDs above the mean for adults (male & female), FWIW.
Sorry, I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm aware what a DSL is (like View dialect), but no clue how to start creating one other than it has something to do with blocks and Red's homoiconicity. There needs to be a specific spot on the documentation page that gives a good overview with simple examples and finally a more complicated one. In fact, I hope they do that with all the planned additions of erlang like concurrency...etc. You know what I mean?
Haskell Weekly in 2017
> I'm not really sure why that's relevant?

The author is contrasting the disparity in attention given two two relatively-minor taxes with similar economic burdens.

> we don't tax tobacco because of a desire to generate revenue or reduce wealth inequality

Tobacco taxes are absolutely marketed as revenue raisers. They aren't intended to reduce inequality, but another perceived societal ill--tobacco use and nicotine addiction.
I'm pretty sure it _is_ an inheritance tax. It's paid by the living, not by the estate of the dead. If you receive a gift of more than $22 million (in the US, after the new tax bill goes into effect), then you pay tax on it. Everything up to the $22 million is tax free. So, you could receive $22 million from your parents, $22 million from your aunt and uncle, and $22 million from your grandparents, leaving you with $66 million tax free.
I find it hard to believe that many would use SW RAID with Postgres in production, especially under load conditions that were tested for here. I have seen little hope for performant SW RAID on Linux in the past twenty years. It would be interesting to see the same tests run using stable HW RAID of some sort (preferably, with SSDs)
I wish there was an airline that offered 'All Business Class' flights. It'd really just be a marketing trick to try to escape the High Volume/Low Price vs. Low Volume/High Price dilemma. I don't know if it'd work, but I would like to see someone try.

(Arguments saying it can't work because thats how flights used to be and ended up where we are ignore that those changes were gradual with all airlines competing together to erode their quality. A new market entry of what I describe would be sufficiently different to have marketing reasons to not compete on price, etc)

EDIT: Welp, apparently its been done and doesn't work or is simply less profitable. Still makes me sad there isn't a middle ground between sardines and sheiks.
> For desktop/mobile apps, they need a UI framework

I don't know about the mobile story, but there are Qt bindings for crystal.

As for parallelism, it is not done but it is in the works, so it is not ignored, it just is hard enough that it isn't possible to just wish for it and it appears. The concurrency story is already pretty strong though.
You can still download old versions of macOS from the Mac App Store, eg Sierra is available here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202
You might be a youngin ... these cramped seats are a modern phenomenon. Did you know air travel was a highly regulated thing? Airlines squeezed every drop of efficiency they could post 9-11 ... they did it and no one complained because people wanted to support them (patriotic reasons and general decency). The airlines took it too far with all these charges, cramped seats, etc. They also implemented dynamic pricing and demand management which I think is a great evil as a consumer.
A lot of apple orchards, this one included, are very busy on the weekends because people come out to visit them. As stated in the article:

> "The farm sells homemade apple pies, fresh cider and warm doughnuts. Schoolchildren arrive by the bus load to learn about growing apples. And as customers pick fruit from trees, workers fill bins with apples, destined for the farm’s shop and grocery stores."
As pointed out, 25 years later was in the 80s. I wonder if some of the delay in adoption was due to the relevant patents, which were filed around 1959. Maybe that gave a two decade monopoly to Texas Instruments making it hard for others to adopt or innovate around the technology?
You can calculate yourself the efficiency of scrypt ASICs vs CPU mining based on published performance numbers. For an explanation of the many reasons why this is the case, here's two starting points for that rabbit hole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3n5nws/research_pa...

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/29890/memory-hard...
If you guys are going three days without testing a release build (let alone three months), then you probably have bigger issues to work through than what constexpr is doing...
From my perspective, the backlash has already been more significant than expected.

But, the embrace of racism, anti-Semitism, historical revisionism, anti-scientific and neo-fascist ideologies seem to be both an expression of generational counterculture rejecting the status quo of "liberal" and "politically correct" thought, and a reactionary movement by the right-wing political establishment trying to maintain relevance in the face of changing ethnic, religious and gender dynamics in the US. I suspect real societal change will take much more than a year or two, or even a swing of the political pendulum from Red Team back to Blue Team. It might take generations, maybe long enough for children to reject the ideals of their alt-right and neoreactionary parents, the way the yuppies rejected the hippies, and the hippies rejected the beatniks.
Real estate is not a passive investment and not something to get into casually because you have money and want to grow it.
There’s all kinds of ediquettes and social contracts that exist without being technically enforced upon people. It’s not lord of the flies. People are capable of being okay to each other.

Side note, as also mentioned, raising the pivot point means that instead of my knees being crushed the person in front of me is now resting in my lap and has removed the space I had to work or read. It didn’t fix the problem, it just moved it.
No recline when food is being served or when otherwise instructed by the crew, full recline the rest of the time. None of this 20% nonsense. But I'm biased because I have a lower back problem, and I need all the recline I can get in economy on longer flights.
That is very typical of Lufthansa. (The FA barking at the passengers about this)

Cathay Pacific also asks for people to put their seat up during the meal time. However they're incredibly polite about it.
I firmly believe that if your seat reclines, you are totally entitled to use the full extent of that recline.

Even if the person behind you is made much less comfortable??
You had me at "sorry to break to you". You're a Euro-sceptic, good on you, but please spare me the condescension, it has no place in public discourse and I personally don't care for it.
Seats configuration depends on air company, not the plane. Check seatguru.com before buying tickets, or better buy/upgrade to exit row seats.
a basic Django CRUD app with social logins, an alexa skill using Node.js, and a few static websites
If they have a history of shitty security practices (this app), then why should we fully trust other apps they make?
I would learn react or angular first. I think the barrier to entry is the same (depending on your background) and you will get much more out of it.

Beyond that, I would suggest learning how to take a psd website design and turn it into HTML. This is a great skills to have. Adding functionality on top of the HTML with react or angular is easy once you know how to break a website down into digestible pieces.

That being said, it is your resolution. I'm not trying to force you into anything. Just giving advice from my experience.
People who know how the news is made resist conspiratorial thinking
I upgrade an old 2011/2012 MacBook Pro to high Sierra so I could download the latest Xcode.

there has been a few times since then that the machine will freeze then show a folder with question mark icon.

surprisingly it boots up fine after turning it off and on again, but I'm worried it won't last long.

its a bummer b/c even though the machine is old, I upgraded to 8gb of ram and 500gb ssd and the performance is comprisable to a new MacBook a just got.
I’ve found that committing to a single meaningful word for the year works better than resolutions.

Two years ago the word was “space”. I made more room in my life for growth and change that year.

This year the word was “presence”. I went on quite a personal development journey and being more present, particularly with my emotions and physical body, was definitely a strong element of that journey.

For next year I’m thinking of breaking my rule and having two words, because it feels like they will work best together: “patience” and “flow”.

I’m curious if anyone else can think of a word that seems to be calling to them this coming year.
Was it correlation or causation?
Rehab - after slowly burning myself out over two back-to-back startups, I’m taking a year or two break.
I have a Macbook 12" from 2015 with High Sierra. Works fine with the latest version. it took Apple a year to release a stable macOS for the Macbook. Now I have very little problems, but before it was common not to wake up reliably, running external screen had problems, etc.

My Quadcore i7 Mac mini is still a mess under High Sierra. I see it freezing very often and especially when the machine gets some load. It's basically not usable for anything beyond reading mail and browsing the web.
It was freezing once a month under Sierra. Under High Sierra it can freeze several times a day. Last days it was also rebooting on itself, twice.

I had filed a bug report, but Apple asked for a full system diagnosis report, which is not something I can give away because it would contain restricted information.
Some Things About Tech Were Good in 2017. No, Really
Did they ask women the same question, because I think it will be quite worse
I'd say there's a strong consensus that you can form a work that combines (3-clause) BSD-licensed and GPL-licensed content and distribute the result under the GPL - the FSF has been publishing its list of "GPL-compatible" and "GPL-incompatible" licenses for decades now, and copying BSD-licensed libraries into source trees (GPL and otherwise) without changing the license of the whole for a similar length of time. I'd agree there probably isn't any kind of clear consensus about what happens in the case where there is no substantive GPLed contribution in the first place, because that doesn't seem like a case that would come up very often. (To me it seems obvious, but I guess to other people some other interpretation might seem equally obvious)
I appreciate your response.

> None of this means we shouldn't try to help people where appropriate. But the way we go about trying to help people makes every bit of difference.

Agree that it makes a difference, which is why my style has evolved to what it is now. As I mentioned, it has been my experience that a more even-tempered, "civil" reply about water fasting simply gets downvoted instantly and rarely generates any discussion.

Yet on the flip side, here we are 40 or so comments deep, and trust me, this has already been food for thought for several HNers. They're not going to necessarily start fasting tomorrow (nor should they without doing their own research) but it planted a seed, and that's all I'm trying to do.

What gets me going on these threads is not a need to "convince one's self of their efficacy" as you put it. Based on my experience in this sort of parallel universe of the alternative medicine world, there is already no doubt in my mind that water fasting is what many people suffering from many of these diseases need. Its benefits are already well documented. I understand that we are all taught that we should wait for government agencies and pharmaceutical companies to study and approve every step we take in life. But any logical person can agree that we are not likely to get the FDA/CDC/XYZ to endorse water fasting any time soon. They're not in the business of telling people not to eat. I don't have any vested interest in getting people to fast. There's no "system" being sold. There's no kit to buy. No series of e-books to purchase. All the information is already out there, free for anyone to consume. And that's actually the point here - BECAUSE there is no industry around water fasting, it is highly unlikely to reach the mainstream any time soon. That's how messed up things are. You will see this in the CNN/NYTimes health section when someone figures out how they can productize not eating for 10-30 days.

I'm passionate about something I know will help people. I don't comment as often as I would like on health threads here and elsewhere because it often frustrates me how much ignorance is displayed online regarding alternative treatment options and how many people miss out on getting better when only conventional medicine that treats symptoms and rarely actually heals people gets praise and bubbles to the top.
Its something they've been developing internally at Basecamp. DHH sees Turbolinks handling "90%" of front end work related to full page changes. Stimulus (which I think he said they're releasing in another month) will handle on page interaction or as he calls it "Javascript sprinkles". Things like modifying existing elements, adding a new node to the DOM, filtering, etc.
In the absence of any other study, only if it is safe.

But a non common sense result would lead to more studies, that would either confirm or disprove it. That larger body of studies would very likely be trustworthy.
Fair enough. I assumed you didn't consider the more complex use-cases because you mentioned compilers already doing this for small functions.
Is it really a 1-2 hour project? 1-2 hours is enough to set up a repository, project files, boilerplate code, and solve perhaps very simplified version of a problem. Each time I really spent 2 hours on take home assignment, the recruitment process terminates shortly after I submit the solution. It’s asking for free labor. Never ever a fully functional web application solving some problem will take 2 hours to create and those recruiting know it very well, oftentimes they’re just arrogant cunts testing for obedience.
> I am arguing that it should be strengthened as it is important to our democracy

If the goal is reducing inequality, the estate tax is an inefficient battleground. It's politically-expensive territory and policy-wise ineffective compared to e.g. raising the top tax rate or eliminating the carried-interest deduction.

(I have come to this conclusion grudgingly, as someone who believes oligarchic dynasties are bad.)
Build a profitable side business. I have a couple started and in a couple months I plan on picking one or two that have the most potential.
Exmo Bitcoin exchange chief executive kidnapped in Kiev
I guess I'm not normal. I wonder why they added that button in such case?
Not so long ago, I use to justify to myself that:

* Mac is good hardware and software I can count on. Just pay and focus on your real job.

* Apple cares about privacy very publicly, so they are probably not selling my data or doing anything stupid with it. Although, there is no way for me to know.

* My work is buying the hardware for me. Why bother spending time building one that I need to maintain so much. Get the one that "Just works!"

But, recent weeks of blunders and annoyances in my Mac after updating to High Sierra is making me rethink. I'm going to spend my weekend configuring my Dell XPS with VoidLinux and set it up with open alternatives for most of my use cases.

True, I will miss some niceties like Retina Fisplay and crisp font rendering, but my self-made solution can be comfortably close to it. Although I will sorely miss the "Copy on the phone, Paste on Mac" functionality.

I will setup Tarsnap or something with crown and forget about backups except for restoration testing every year.

I will use Darktable on photo library that is synced to phone via NextCloud. Instead of Apple Photos.

Recent Firefox with Adblocker and Ghostery as a web browser.

Chrome for browsing Facebook and Amazon.

KVM instead of Virtualbox for VM needs. Docker for container needs.

Sublime Text for programming editor.

Clementine as Music player

VLC or MPlayer for media

Will figure out the rest. And put all the install/configure commands on a Ansible playbook and commit it to Github. So that next OS install is completely automated.
If y'all have any tips for including in my setup this weekend, I'll appreciate it very much!
I remember that too. While the triggering example was the Canadian site, my concerns are more about America's loss of credibility relative to the world, not Canada specifically.

I also understand that the science censorship issues in Canada have begun to swing back the other way, but I'm not sure if that's because of their current administration or if it began before that.
you having to work on an airplane is your problem. if you HAVE to work on an airplane, ensure you can do so by getting a business class seat or better. by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.