skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How so? I don't see how the average software engineer IQ being 100 vs 130 affects the (rather questionable) proposition that the large mass of average/mediocre software engineers MIGHT outperform the handful of Jeff Dean's (the claim made by the Ortega Hypothesis). Just based on the IQ population distribution alone, it's not unreasonable to think that Jeff Dean has a 160-170+ IQ.

It is still a questionable proposition -- "10x engineers" are a thing, and brilliant singular insights that unlock billions of dollars in productivity like the concepts of convolutional neural networks and MapReduce are the brainchild of rare chart-defying individuals, rather than a product of the masses working in tandem. The Pareto Principle still seems to hold, even for software engineering (just ask any Bay Area software company's HR department).

Regardless, as an appeal to intuition, there is some sort of minimum bar (software engineers are still a VERY scarce commodity, as evidenced by market dynamics), suggesting that the average individual (100 IQ) is ill-equipped to take on the sort of abstract reasoning and novel thought processes so readily discarded by billions of years of prior evolution (indeed, knowing C++ would not have helped you as a primordial human fighting off that hungry sabertooth tiger) needed to comprehend and write robust code wading through some of the most complex systems (the Linux kernel is millions of lines of code) ever fathomed by humankind. This is the whole premise behind IQ theory, which really just boils down to a simple statistical argument.
Buffett said that because he wants other to pay more tax. If he so wants to pay more tax as law requires it, then all he has to do is lobby Washington get rid of the “Dividend Received Deduction” or DRD, which he is the biggest beneficiary.

DRD is when a company, in this case Bershire Hathaway, received a dividend payment from a company they owned, Bershire can exempt up to 80% of the dividend from the income tax.

I love Buffett dearly and I think he is a great person. But when it come to tax, he is a hypocrite.
> Hamburger joints getting extra scrutiny at the government’s expense doesn’t seem like a problem to me, especially since they often already do.

The problem with "at government expense" is that it annihilates the premise that this is going to increase government income. If you audit someone, they not only have to hire a tax professional, they have to spend their own time on it because they're the only one who knows their own business. But because they're the only one who knows their own business, they also need to spend their time running the business. So the amount you would have to properly compensate them would be at something like the overtime rate, but worse because it's involuntary, and for someone whose time may already be valued at six or seven figures.

The government would never actually pay that full cost, so the idea that everything's fine because the government is paying for it is silly, and if they did it would immediately put the program deep underwater.

> The premise of the parent poster is that the IRS is underfunded to deal with real large scale white collar crime, and as I understand you argue that’s not possible without splash damage to small buisinesses. But they're unrelated: you can specifically target large buisinesses, and you can make the government pay for audit services for small buisinesses.

The problem is large businesses largely aren't the ones committing tax fraud -- hardly anybody is. Large businesses pay very low taxes because they hire very good accountants, not because they have fraudulent returns. The problem isn't that we need more audits, it's that we need better tax laws.

> The large Republican doners not only have large tax bills at stake but believe they should not.

Is it surprising that the people with the most money are the largest donors? It's basically a prerequisite.

> Each one of these doners individually spends hundreds of times more than the national small buisiness association on lobbying

Because small businesses don't have huge margins to be spending on lobbying. They're not a constituency because they donate, they're a constituency because they vote.

> The idea is we should be outraged at the tax law and fix it, instead of celebrating the loopholes for billionaires.

But that isn't where the outrage is directed. Nobody is actually fixing the laws -- either party. Even the Republican proposals (tax simplification, flat tax etc.) would fix it, but they never get enough votes to pass it because it's impossible to pass anything like that with the current level of polarization. If you can't get a single vote from the other party then it only takes a small handful in your own party to be corrupted by special interests and it's impossible to fix the problem.
Do you have to have your own netflix to use that or does it use the gym's login?
The BBC often congratulates itself on not showing ads. Instead, every radio show is 50% 'trailers' for other BBC things which you'll hear half a dozen times by the end of a workday.
If I'm writing a command line application then, most of the time, I just want to let the user know what's going on. It doesn't always have to be fancy and I don't want to track down a third party library to tell the user all went well and give basic statistics. I'd go ballistic if I had to download a library to print out "35 records processed." It just doesn't make sense.
The reason for this is twofold.
First, we don't have the capability to go after big crime, so we go after little crime that can't defend itself well.
Second, it's often the case that people will bend the rules to gain an advantage, instead of being 100% fair and open and forgo that advantage, with a small risk that said bending ends up as criminal. You always have the choice of being 100% fair and open.
So many people have had DNA sequenced they've put others' privacy in jeopardy
I have yet to use Zig seriously, but I'm pretty sure "defer" is its solution to this problem: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#defer
As someone else has pointed out the top 3% have about 30% of the income while paying 60% of the tax.

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itOyNXaN9ah...

edit: downvoted for providing facts. I take it we have marxists here.
The Ring devices are frequently pointed at the outside of people's houses. Its effectively giving Amazon a bunch of surveillance cameras all over the street from people's doors.
World Chaos and World Order: Conversations with Henry Kissinger (2016)
Yes, IANAD, but most antiobiotics that treat H. Pylori will also kill gram positive bacteria.
How does this compare to BouncyCastle?
Harvard calls for more than 30 retractions of cardiac stem cell research
Why I am finally switching from chrome to Brave
How to Do Engineering Estimation in Product Development Process?
There still trying to hold up with such a silly idea, which is not supported by the standard model, measurements and not common sense. Time to admit that MOND is the better theory.
The discussions I saw on Reddit were strongly in favor of `check`, and the link you provided seems to show a 50/50 split, so your summary surprises me. People suggesting changes doesn't indicate that people oppose the idea, in my opinion... it means they're interested in making sure the execution is good.
And if you want the models that get pre-allocated, you'd better get an Instagram following.
It feels a little misleading to not emphasize that this is reported income.

On paper the top 0.1% appears to pay more than their fair share (2x proportional vs. their median counterparts paying closer to parity). But as recent articles about Donald Trump and Jared Kushner have highlighted they have both engaged in schemes (legal or not) to reduce the amount of income they have to report to the government.

What would be interesting here is determining the proportion of individuals/households using expensive tax advantaging techniques by each quantile and then try to make some estimate of the actual income for each group is...
Heh, Comic chat still works you just point it to an IRC server and it works!
Ring is owned by Amazon, not Google
Yes, crimes that are only punished by a fine are "illegal only for the poor".
That's assuming those audits are actually deterring anything. The idea that significant numbers of people are looking at detailed IRS audit statistics before choosing to commit tax fraud is somewhat farfetched. Especially when they're still busting the largest offenders and offering huge bonuses to insiders for reporting fraud.
These labels are getting tiresome. There is not a single socialist state on earth today. It's completely out of the question that the US would ever become such a thing.

The often-cited examples of Scandinavia are capitalistic through and through: It's private enterprises deciding prices, creating products, and generally competing.

That they levy rather high taxes and use them to soften some of the edges of that system's outcomes does in almost no way affect the dynamics within the system. If you're a baker, and your bread isn't good, you still fail and society will be spared suffering your products. You just don't starve.
At policy level, is this the most robust tax system you want to build heading into the future?

What happens when one of those people/families decides to shift their residence?

It happened to NJ a while back https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer...
What kind of anti-capitalist talk is this? How can you justify saying wealthy people receive more benefits? Poor people receive money from the government, like straight up cash on a debit card. They receive an hourly bonus through the earned income tax credit. They can receive free health care through Medicaid. The court system makes contracts fair and equitable precisely so that poor people aren’t taken advantage of. Check out all the mortgage/ home title papers you have to sign to get a house. And police are absolutely not providing better protection. If anything, they use the well off neighborhoods to raise some speeding ticket money.
" Not trusting 'Science' because scientists produced a good model that wasn't perfect is a stupid regression."

Um. Well. I'm glad you said that. It's not any more stupid than ignoring data sources and producing model after model that only aimed to confirmed the prevailing narrative. "See we were right" but failing to list the caveats - as ALL data has - is negligence. With that said, I'm not going to bother with your second paragraph. It's absurd.

Science's #1 job is to ask "What did we miss?" Failure to intentionally not do so - so that hard becomes easy, my peers remain esteemed, my career nudges upward - isn't only stupid, it's lazy and actually violates the definition of Science. You just can't act like a hobbyist and demand the respect of a scientist. That's unreasonable, at best.

Yes. I think it's perfectly fine not to trust someone who deceived me, is lazy and is unapologetic on both accounts. As good Science already tells us: Trust is earned.
I'm no expert but Jeff Hawkins' theories seem a bit dated to me.

The concept described in this article is the same one in his book "On Intelligence", which was written long ago.
Before we knew the impact of neural network arrangement and architecture on its performance.

Examples like that paper that described a task-specific region of the brain that handles face recognition is not supported by his model.
Q: Will X be invaded by ads?

A: Almost definitely.

Even some major automakers seem to assume that the car of the future will include ads.[0] Amazing that car companies could’ve survived all these decades without them!

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/10/15947784/audi-25th-hour-a...
Indeed, and how much of the income did they make?

Keep in mind when a company "succeeds", they're succeeding on top of trillions of dollars of infrastructure - human capital (enabled by education! try hiring the same talent in an underdeveloped country), the transportation, subsidized energy production & grid, and municipal infrastructure underpinning movement of physical goods & digital goods; and finally the public order that assures safety of people, and the enforceability of contracts.
You Really Shouldn't Be Running Adobe Flash Player Anymore
I'm not sure about that. Rust's use of a Result type instead of exceptions is one of my favourite things about Rust. Before I'd used it, I'd not realised how many reliability issues in other languages were caused by overlooked exception cases.

Exceptions are great when you don't want to handle errors properly, but when you do want robust error handling I find the "return a value" pattern much better. Notably even C++ is looking into implementing this!
Easy DNA Identifications with Genealogy Databases Raise Privacy Concerns
The top 1% paid about 37% of income taxes. They also own over 38% of the wealth and 'took home 85% of income growth between 2009 and 2013. In 15 states, the top 1% captured all income growth during the same four-year period'. Based on this I would argue that they are in no way being taken advantage of and that income disparity is a very real problem that is only getting worse. This also does not include payroll taxes which are almost always paid by the middle and lower class while only sometimes by the wealthy as they are able to leverage their wealth to generate income.

https://www.businessinsider.com/top-one-percent-every-us-sta...
Jeffreys / reference priors also have some weird behaviour in high dimensions. You may enjoy this attempt to do better, without giving up reparameterization invariance:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01166
Yes. I agree. Where we disagree is I don't see leaving out data / data source as a viable means to filling in the gaps.
Bottles are frequently banned from public places due to broken glass hazards. At least here in Cali.
As a European I'm genuinely not sure whether this is satire or not.
When I heard Netflix was cracking down on household accounts, I didn't realize they were going to go this far into the weeds ;)
Don't sh*t where you eat, newspapers.

Eventually, you'll get sick, and die.
YouTube is becoming unwatchable due to ads.
Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: The Knight’s Dialer
I’ve been very clear in my statements in this thread and I stand by them.
Nobody has a problem with paper or paper-like ads, aka ads don’t stalk you, that the newspaper has actually vetted, and is happy to have its name associated with.

The problem is that web ads are nothing like that. They are orders of magnitude more scummy, can’t be vetted in advance and stalk the shit out of you in order to serve you “better” ads next time, whatever the hell “better” means in advertiser’s perverted minds.
Mind if I ask what server you use? I currently use ngircd when I do use a server, just find it easier, I dont have any services for accounts setup is the only downside for me but usually they seem to be a pain (never is it just an apt install) and I did have a bouncer setup ages back, I wish more people were IRC friendly.

IRCv3 really needs to hurry up, we need at least simpler account registration and all that as part of the client if possible, it could go a long way.

Another thing I wish would happen is for a WebSockets compatible spec for IRC so you can just use it in-browser without a "bridge" and it could be easier for most newcomers to just spin that up and connect.
Is the point of the article to demonstrate that the tax system is unfair to the rich? If that's the point to be made, they're only looking at the most progressive part of the tax system. Add in payroll, property, state income, unemployment, and sales taxes, and the picture looks quite different.
Indeed many of the exact claims are not to be trusted, though on the other hand keeping this sort of mentality/thinking framework when analyzing the world around us can still be helpful. Putting it as a "conspiracy theory, rebellious and anti-establishment" is really quite a mischaracterization. I'd say quite the contrary, those who sit at the top of the society, of the "establishment", definitely think in very different manners than the population. We all know we need to look beyond what's being mass produced and fed to people on the surface to understand how a lot of things truly work. You may be one of the minority that are closer to the truth, but you're not alone in your understanding of the matters. This is very different from some bunkers conspiracy theory that is dreamt out of nowhere.

Basically, being "rebellious, anti-establishment" means denying/rejecting everything about how the society works and searching for an alternative. Being "smart" means understanding exactly how the society actually works instead of how it's "claimed" to work under propaganda and falsehoods, and maybe using the mechanism to your advantage as much as possible. They are very, very different things.
How have you reserved space for future instructions? Your first version has some instructions which don't have a specified discrete value, and are condition based. Does this mean that programs written with this first draft will no longer function if the instruction set changes?

What would happen if Radiohead were to suddenly remove all songs from Spotify? Would this break the applications?
Jared Kushner also doesn't pay any federal income tax. Is he not rich?
There are reasons to believe that the free market isn't healthy at all when it comes to labor. Low salaries for low-skilled labor enable companies to delay modernization, automation and other increases in efficiency. High salaries for high-skilled labor creates inflationary spirals for things like housing.

There is absolutely reasons to believe that equalizing pay, across companies rather than occupations, could be part of the solution. Less efficient companies underpaying their employees would fold. More efficient companies would get more money to hire even more people. Prices would stabilize, careers would likely be more predictable.

This was part of economic policy in Sweden in the ~1960s and as far as I can tell generally considered successful. Though it will, and did, also created large wealth inequality without other measures.
It sure doesn't feel that way to some.

$1 is a very different amount depending on your income.
One core part of CRAM originated with that article; more has come later.

I'm involved in BAM and CRAM -- it feels like a collaboration to me!

These formats are a collaboration between bioinformaticians at a number of research institutes and companies around the world, with various charity, governmental, or other funding. They are maintained under the auspices of GA4GH, which is indeed something like W3C.
There’s a lot of talk about wether this is ‘fair’ or not - let’s set that aside and ask if it’s good policy to have so much of the country’s revenue depend on the income of so few people.

Does this make the government more or less beholden to the rich? Does this put the government more or less at risk of exposure to financial events that only impact the wealthy? And does this incent the government to enact policies that increase the wealth of the top 3% over the bottom 30%?

Those are the questions we should be focusing on - not what’s ‘fair’. Life isn’t fair - if it were the wealth of the top 3% would be determined by how hard they work and how much good their work does to society. That’s not how we live, so let’s get back to crafting our society based on what’s good for it as a whole instead of how we feel about how much tax someone else pays.
> All exceptions have to be handled, but they don't have to be handled at the call site, you can have them propogate back up if you want.

Implicitly?

> When you say assertion, do you mean, that you want to program to exit?

No, I mean that in some cases I know better than the compiler. For example, in a case where something is T or None, but I know it's T. If T is None, it's a bug - but I don't want my whole program to crash. Ideally it would propagate up to some boundary where there's little enough shared state (the actor boundary) that I can restart my process without having to go through the whole program being restarted.

Otherwise my actor boundary becomes the entire process, and I feel like that sort of defeats the purpose of having extremely cheap, efficient actors.

So definitely not a 'kill the program' but a 'this feature has a bug, wind up the actor and restart it, but no other actors should blow up unless this is a direct dependency of theres'.

Basically the way Erlang does it afaik

I say this as an outsider. What you have may work for you, and maybe it's the right decision. That was just my impression as someone trying to use the language.

Also OOM killing my program.
Thanks. It looks really cool. Simple and does its task well.
No method on earth necessarily gives you the right answer to a problem. You first have to represent the problem correctly, of course.

Check out Scenario 2 here https://medium.com/@ProfessorF/visualizing-the-solution-to-t... for a correct tree.
50 shades of grey in Google Chrome – no, really
I was frustrated by all grey low-contrast Google Chrome palette and estimated 4-5 grey colours at first sight. But then I decided to be precise in my frustration and counted how many colours designer chose intentionally (picked from palette).

I found 11 shades of grey including white and excluding gradient content (only boundary counted).

No, Google, really, WTF?
This was my impression as well , just wow, this guy seems to be so full of himself. He just constantly wants to belittle other people's work and all that snarky mentions of other companies... just wow! :O
His article on Medium [1] references this [2]

[1] https://medium.com/@Numenta/the-secret-to-strong-ai-61d153e2...

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2017.0008...
As an American I can’t tell either.
> Wealthier people also receive much greater benefits from the government.

I've seen this said a few times before - I'm kind of confused on what this means? I'm technically in the top few percent (idk exactly where) and I receive less from government than I did when I was an undergraduate in college. I'm from a poorer family, so the government was straight up paying my family in the past.

I don't think this is remotely true, and if you're arguing that it's protection or something, I'm also calling B.S.. for my taxes I can easily hire a full time body guard, buy a few machine guns and make my house and car a fortress, and after some napkin math, I could still probably pay 10% taxes to keep the roads up (as opposed to the graduated 45% I pay).

The vast majority of taxes go to medicare, Medicaid, social security, and payments to foreign countries. I honestly do not see any benefit to me from any of the above. And the people who benefit from the prior mentioned, are also zero threat to me (retired, sick, etc.).

Not saying we should get rid of it, but it's definitely not benifiting me.

Edit: just for reference, I refused any government grants for school and took up a job to start paying for my own food / clothing when my parents started getting welfare. I didn't want to be a hypocrite at then (at 13), so I can say stuff like this now.
Electron apps on linux will soon have ASLR
I don't know much but a rudimentary Google led me to this college of Rockies. There might be others like this. GOod luck !

http://www.cotr.bc.ca/programs/
Mastodon today could be used to power this. All instagram does is have an app.
Very nice. They seem to be tracking React's API changes.

The original Inferno developer, I think, moved to work at Facebook. So the new maintainer seems to be keeping the effort well and healthy.

It is nice to see same well thought out React API implemented with different tradeoffs to accommodate widening use-cases.