skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electrical and mechanical engineers should also be competent with coding, even if it's just Arduino, Python, or (ugh) matlab. Whether that's to automate some SPICE simulation or data processing task, optimize some design parameters, or something similar, it's part of almost every modern engineer's education across disciplines. Electrical engineers in particular will also typically have experience with C or C++, for writing firmware.
The WSJ points out:

"Complexity is one reason European countries, including France, Germany and Sweden, abandoned broad-based wealth taxes. Many of the rich dodged wealth taxes by exploiting carve-outs or moving. The very rich will find ways to avoid confiscatory taxes, but bad tax policy distorts investment.
Sweden abolished its wealth tax in 2007 following an exodus of capital and business tycoons. France repealed its net wealth tax in 2018, estimating that some 10,000 people with 35 billion euros worth of assets had left in the previous 15 years for tax reasons. The government was losing revenue from income taxes that the wealthy would have paid."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-democrats-wealth-tax-mirage...
Actually most billionaires manage to reshuffle their assets to that their estate, such as it is, is under the limit by the time they die. The main people hit by it are those holding large amounts of valuable land, and there are very few of them.

Almost all mentions of the estate tax in this thread has been generic whining about the fact that there is an estate tax. For almost all US persons, there is no estate tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study
Any chance of an audiobook coming soon?
> Because we will not know what the best practices are for using generics,

Well, you could... take a look at languages created these past twenty years that support generics, learn lessons from that, and see how these lessons could apply to Go.

But well, the Go team is not exactly known for paying much attention to the state of programming language theory, so I guess that's out.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t think the decision problem “does an optimal path in TSP have length K” is in NP (as it likely cannot be checked in polynomial time).

Otherwise, we could solve optimal path TSP in polynomial time by binary searching over K.

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2014/01/is-travelin...
This sounds suspiciously vague. What experts? How did they become involved? Did they stop it because the study proved an effect, or because it was clearly not designed to be able to prove an effect?
Six-month sequelae of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection [pdf]
Yes, as a matter of fact, it does demonstrate statistical significance.
Serving them where? When? At what price?

Can an individual buy one of these young adults, or is it only corporations?
Notably this study found there was no reduction in long covid odds once a breakthrough infection occurs. Contrary to an earlier study which found a 50% reduction.
There's been a surge in real estate values lately. I've yet to see any homeowner decide they owe part of that gain to the people who built the house or the folks who mow their lawns.
That's definitely a "glass is half full" view of the MacBook keyboard quality situation. :)
I disagree. It's true that the management style he had during the 1980's definitely would have had a stronger and faster backlash in the 2020s - he would have been forced out of the company even sooner than he really was. But this style also didn't work all that well in the '80s and led directly to him being ousted and Apple entering a slow death spiral they had to be rescued from a decade later. His second act really was different and he was much more mature as a leader; certainly he still worked people hard and was unusually blunt compared to some other current FANG CEOs, but you didn't see the sort of petulant and intensely personal abuse that you would sometimes see from him in his first act.

I think if he was CEO of Apple in the current environment, certainly there would be less hero worship outside of Apple, and a lot more people would be writing pieces critical of his leadership style and effect on the world, but there wouldn't be anything serious enough to force him from the company given how well things would be going. In other words, he'd be much closer to Musk than Kalanick both in terms of the severity of the criticism and his ability to weather it.
I often get slightly angry when the Mail is in the format of:

Hi normal,

Do this.
Thanks.

Greetings,

projectmanager

This implies to me that the other Party has decided my course of action and my time alocation without any discussion about my availability and if the approach makes sense.
We know less about the oceans on our planet than the surface of the moon. Does that make lunar scientists “crackpots”?
They seem to have (somewhat) controlled for it:

https://blog.boomerangapp.com/2017/01/how-to-end-an-email-em...
You got it in reverse then.
Speaking as a user of languages that have exactly this, it can’t possibly be any worse than the situation in Go right now.
Almost all drugs are tested in animals before humans. There's a huge overlap between "horse drugs" and "human drugs" (et cetera -- a snake of mine got infected by mites, and they don't make snake drugs, so the vet gave us drugs "made for rodents.") While certain drugs have been politicized, and that's bad, your comment is little more than an association fallacy driven by that same polarization. Please don't.
... with rates at most half the 40% being cited here for federal estate tax.

State policies differ, indeed. Almost all discussion of estate taxes in this thread has focused on or been exclusive to the federal estate tax.
Not criticizing the article in general, but:

>I found myself working for a software startup in Harvard Square. As a… wait for it… … project manager.

>Yes, the guy who makes sure people are checking off their tasks! The most hated and useless person in an engineering organization, right? The very definition of OVERHEAD.

>Except I wasn’t. Instead, I was the person standing between the engineers and the business people, translating in both directions.

Reminds me of a quote from a certain movie...
> worthy of Doctor House,

They knew since March.

People died because they didn't get on top of it.

How is this Doctor House?

How many items do people own, imported from South Asia, recently, it will probably not be from big companies.

This product literally had rocks in it and was aerosolized from India.

Once they had more case genetically linked they also know it was a nation wide supplier. And the slow amount of cases meant it probably was not a common product, and you'd expect the same batch, nothing fresh.

House would walk in and see the product, a more realistic (in TV land) show like ReGenesis would barcode everything, digitise receipts and crosslink it with the intern a week later.

This is also a bio weapon that has actually been deployed in the USA, so there's also that, as a reason to be better.

The contaminated product has probably sold out and naturally moved on to an uncontaminated source.
For what minimum detectable effect?
> Why should VS Code work on Linux??

Because it's heavily marketed as "runs everywhere". The .deb package is flawless, honestly.
You can drop images to the editor and it will automatically save in an `assets` folder in your notes directory.

Is that what you were asking for?
> Actually most billionaires manage to reshuffle their assets

I was talking to some people sufficiently wealthy that this is a concern, and their point is that the only reason some don't transfer their assets like this is fear of their own children. Unless you really are a farmer, or small business owner, the estate tax is completely optional if you trust your kids.

In 2019, there were only 2,570 estate taxes filed.

> Almost all mentions of the estate tax in this thread has been generic whining about the fact that there is an estate tax

There is also whining among people that they need to spend so much on accountants and lawyers to avoid what is essentially a completely bypassable tax.

So you can see how socially it is not a good use of our human capital to create this enormous tax avoidance industry, and how it would be much better to pass laws that didn't need to do things like value privately held businesses or artwork in order to determine your tax liability.
“The Blog of Scott Aaronson

If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't
solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel.”
That isn’t quite how the decision problem is usually phrased. It’s usually “Is there a path of at most length L?”, which is pretty easily in NP.

Minor difference in wording but a big difference in complexity. Asking for the optimal solution of most of the classic NP problems will make them not NP.
Not really. Amazon, a company I once knew a bit about, showed gigantic growth in stock value with minimal or zero profit. This is hardly a new story.

But it wouldn't matter anyway, given GP's point. Taxes on corporate income are not taxes on the capital gains of those who hold corporate stock.
Sure, some people will move their assets around in order to avoid wealth taxes (to which there are, of course, solutions). That being said, in France revenue from the wealth tax grew at more than twice the rate of GDP from 1990-2018. Which means that even though some people were avoiding the tax, and oversight was extremely lax, there's no evidence that it was being serially evaded. And this is in the context of the European Union, perhaps the most hostile environment to wealth taxes that you can imagine given the free flows of people and capital.
I don't know why but 'please do the needful' really gets under my skin. It feels very demanding for some reason.
> Also, the last update was in 2001.

As a result, I found myself reading the entire page, all the way through to the end.
Hmm, I don't see "profound pain and melancholy" in the Anne Sexton picture. I see somebody happy to have a visitor. But I have not read her poetry.
You've been breaking the site guidelines a ton - posting flamewar comments as well as routinely being snarky and aggressive. This is not ok on HN. I've banned your account until we get some indication that you intend to, and will, follow the site guidelines in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you review them and decide that you want to actually follow them, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
People do change, and I wouldn’t dismiss the capacity of anyone to adapt to new circumstances. With Apple growing, Steve would have grown, too.
Given a solution to the decision version of TSP, you can verify whether that solution is valid in polynomial time - just check if it does visit the nodes and is of the claimed length.
A normal Turing machine could perform this check in poly time, and a nondeterministic one could check all solutions (exponentially many) in poly time, hence NP.
US has and continues to do the same.
I suppose it’s due to two primary reasons:

1. It integrates best with their company groupware server, which is probably some variant of Exchange.

2. A lot of people (inexplicably to me) seem to really like using Outlook. They understand it well, the UX is relatively static, and it is powerful.
Well that guy probably does end up as the biggest winner in the movie
He did not realize that he would owe income taxes on the difference between the option price and the value of the stock the day he bought it. He thought the option price would be his basis and he'd owe capital gains when he sold the stock.

That was the way things used to be, but Congress had changed the rules.

Quite a few people have been caught unawares by that.
For petitions like this I wish there was a way to say "I don't support this" somewhere.

Same with donations, if X asks for donations, but I don't agree with X, I wish there was a way to find an opposite of X, and donate there instead.

Startup opportunity?
If there are taxes, there's a tax avoidance industry. I mean, c'mon, there's a gigantic tax avoidance industry just for regular income tax.

The proposed law under discussion here explicitly excludes privately held businesses and artwork.
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” --Einstein (b. 1879)

Sometimes a divided country is better than a hopeless https://twitter.com/0x101/status/1317685559414972418
bind(sport, &Kangaroo)
Note the part about the wealth taxes generated less revenue than the ordinary income taxes would have, since the rich left the country.

The fact is, those wealth taxes were repealed. Because they didn't work.
In the US there's a maximum symbol rate? I guess I thought that'd apply. 1.2 kbps perhaps? My Google foo is failing me.
Yes, but is it right to approach this question from sequence just because computation implies sequence? Mathematics has an equals sign and suggests not the computational sequence, just the logical sequence of our axioms mapped to self-evident fact. Mathematics to Information Theory to Computation naturally goes from clear postulates and language-able axioms to water-wheelable traits. I suggest there is some room for exploration in between.
>A quantum computer is not "infinitely parallel"

Explain
Fun fact, NOAA (operator of linked website above) has its own federal law enforcement division with guns. Among other things, they enforce the Weather Modification Reporting Act.

If you try to modify the weather without permission, there is a chance that you will have to surrender to a gun-wielding federal officer wearing a NOAA patch.
In this case, there are 2 graphs/networks (3 if you count the "Orbs"), 3 different kinds of Sybil attacks, double spending, ECC signatures, and more. It's easy to lose track. I wrote it to check my own understanding.

https://xkcd.com/386/
20% is still far from "a world without an estate tax".
A combination of a few things, mental stamina, body need proper resting. As I got older, family becomes more important, wife, kids also need time. Also honestly you realize working more doesn't always make you more / nor does it make you happier. It's important to spend time doing things other than work. You just get wiser about spending your time.
> I mean, c'mon, there's a gigantic tax avoidance industry just for regular income tax.

Because we have an extremely complex tax code.

But seriously, eliminate all corporate taxes and replace that with a 10% VAT.

Treat all income the same -- I don't care whether it's a long term capital gain, or a meteor filled with gold crashing into your yard, don't distinguish at all. Put it all into a single bucket, get one number, look that up in a progressive rate table. Pay a percentage. No deductions of any kind for anything. Not for mortgage, not for kids, not for school, not for charity, not for solar panels, etc. But only tax income, not assets.

That would eliminate 99% of tax prep work.
1. I agree. While Apple hasn’t gotten rid of the scammy apps, they have introduced an alternative - Apple Arcade - where they do fund Indy developers so they don’t have to make scammy pay to win games.

2. I said that most app revenue comes from “whales”. Those are the players who spend the most money on play to win games. https://medium.com/shopify-gaming/mobile-gaming-is-a-50b-ind...

3. Indy developers are selling a product that has value. The “whales” are the 5% of consumers buying loot boxes and candy crush coins (?).

3a Most of their profits are not from the App Store. Most of their profits come from a simple ethical business model - I give them money they give me stuff. Unlike Google and Facebook or the aforementioned games.

4. Who are all of these poor developers Apple should be standing up for? In the link above (and the numbers were confirmed during the Epic trial), most money is coming from games with in app purchases. If you look at the top selling apps on the App Store now, the last one that I can remember that came from Indy developers is WidgetSmith. How many Indy developers would be successful if Apple took a 15% cut instead of a 30% cut?
Agree, it brings a proper closing to the individual discourse.

Regards, The Lannisters
> or run a bridge yourself

Quick question, is the code for the bridge opensource?
How do you alpha and beta test hardware? Should they have designed a few thousand MacBooks with Touch Bar’s and all USB C ports and given them away?

What hardware company does that?
I forget my CS in old age. Am I correct in saying, roughly speaking, that everybody knows that P!=NP but we just can’t prove it?

Sort of like Fermat’s Last Theorem: the proof is out there.
I was wondering why or how this would happen in Alabama.
The biggest question here is does apple care about gaming enough to challenge Nvidia / AMD / ?Intel? ?

Hardware is only part of the challenge on gaming GPU performance. NVidia and AMD spend huge sums of money working with developers to have code implemented to run efficiently on their GPUs. This isn't something I would be expecting from Apple. This is a big part of the performance delta between raw performance and game performance demonstrated. NVidia and AMD invest massively in their drivers optimizing games to achieve the higher level of performance. This is not something I can easily imagine Apple doing.

Funnily enough I would think Apple would be in the perfect place to make a play at Gaming if they were willing to invest the time and money. With the inhouse silicon, app store, distribution, money and brand. Everything except the culture and people. They could create a SOC with both reasonable compute and GPU and package it up in a Game console version of the Apple TV. They would likely be able to share costs across other product ranges, leading to better margins. They have the money to help with marketing and with their brand presence, they likely wouldn't actually have to spend much to get there.
Ordered. Thank-you!
Curious European here: what happens if you are "stronger"/more numerous than the NOAA officers ? I.e. can they rely on regular police ? Thanks
Juan Pujol Garcia
Any program cost has to be evaluated with respect to its benefits, even if it insignificant in face of most government spending. The question is if the cost to have this backup to synchronize time over radio to increase the reliability within Broadcast Outage limits of WWV is less than the costs that would occur due to time drift with all of the existing systems being unavailable given their expected reliability.
I think there's a greater risk of neutralizing the Western incentive to protect Taiwan by damaging the economic infrastructure that makes Taiwan a choke point for the Western supply chain. This is a few years off, but as China advances its high-tech manufacturing there will be less and less of a need for Taiwanese parts in Chinese-assembled electronics, and a large sustained interruption to Taiwanese semiconductor fabrication would cause demand to spike for Chinese substitutes.
> A brute force approach would be to provide an open source, self-hostable server

The server/bridge is not opensource? I see their github account has lots of code.
I don't think it's anything like the Python jump from 2 to 3. That changed the behavior of a lot of code (unicode vs bytes, various syntax changes, import changes, etc), and there was no way to automatically upgrade a codebase (2to3 didn't really work).

With the addition of generics to Go, they've been careful to ensure it's fully backwards compatible, so all existing code will still work as is. Major version bumps are for incompatible changes (like Python 2.x to 3.x).

What they're recommending with isolating generic code in existing libraries is so users of older versions of Go (1.17 and prior) can still use those libraries, just not any new functions/types the libraries have added that use generics, and hence require Go 1.18.
Money 20/20: API vulnerabilities found in 300 banks
That is when they call on Thor for backup. And then you are screwed. Better cooperate with the NOAA from the beginning.
Yeah, it feels manipulative. If I do reply, I'm more likely to be curt.
I can't stand "Best" as a closer. "Best wishes" is OK, as is "Best regards" but "Best" on its own is going to get your email into the "deal with it later" queue.
For anyone else interested, I found this tutorial really useful for learning to create a schematic and lay out a PCB with Kicad, then export it for manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5phi3nT8OU.

I created a set of small boards and had them SMT-assembled for <$100 shipped. Tools and services for hobbyists have come a long way in the past decade or so.

(the other stuff on his channel is good, too)
The Big Transaction for payments engineers: https://thebigtransaction.com
I believe they are heavy cooperators with other agencies including e.g. state and local agencies. They were only 200 strong last I checked, and that probably includes office staff.
> When the DSMC met on Aug 5, 2021, it recommended that the TOGETHER trial stop randomly assigning patients to the fluvoxamine group, as this comparison had met the prespecified superiority criterion for the primary endpoint (prespecified superiority threshold 97·6%).

This... is not how it's supposed to work.
I was aware of that distinction (of the decision problem), but I didn’t make the connection that solving the canonical decision problem in polynomial time meant that you could also solve the optimization problem in polynomial time with binary search, which is true.

But the linked post also claims checking whether a path is optimal is not in NP. Even then, P=NP would still imply TSP could be solved in polynomial time. So I was kinda wrong, for subtle reasons…
Hah, backseat statistician are we? The next sentence of the article that said experts recommended to end the trials early should make it clear to you that to them that's really promising. Your last sentence basically says you're sure you know better than the panel of experts.

I don't know what the point of my reply is other than to recommend to you to have some humility that you might not know stuff...
As I continue exploring that site I'm becoming increasingly concerned that it might not be satire.
Books deemed 'harmful to staff and students' are being removed
"A new ontological category"... more like multiple golf balls competing for the same hole. "Choreographing interference patterns" would not actually further computation, but simply suggest a new set of tools that could be, by accident or happenstance, calibrated to produce results where other devices could not. Is that your point?
If you don’t have a result type then you don’t have better error handling!
If you'll excuse the self-link, I have written about this at length: https://www.damninteresting.com/space-radio-more-static-less...

In short, even our largest, most sensitive radio telescopes are far too small to detect omnidirectional (e.g., FM radio) leakage from Sol's nearest celestial neighbor. Unless an exoplanet directs a coherent radio beam at Earth, we'd need an antenna larger than the planet to detect a signal amid the noise.
For the record, I went through a "boot camp", though it was the longest one I could find that was feasible (9 months), and I've been hired as a developer.

I think the program definitely bootstrapped me into this role. But I'm quite confident I only got it because I had a good attitude and was relatively humble, and the hiring manager had an attitude similar to yours.

Do you work for a large company?
5% is not a pointwise prediction at the individual level. You can't interpret it like you did.
"Cheers" is my favorite too, even though I don't drink alcohol. Some people probably take it the wrong way, but whatever.