skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, fair enough, I was probably taking your wording a bit too literally.
Hey nice resource but this is more of a tutorial on how to optimize font loading etc...
>The browser performs layout and paints content to the screen.
This is the step I want to understand more thoroughly..
My personal view is that the pro-differential-taxation theory mostly argues for zero taxes on cap gains. But you're right that this ignores political and economic realities. In particular, I find the discussion about the difficulty of distinguishing between capital and wage income (the topic of Fred's blog post!) particularly compelling. So a compromise is in order: lower taxes on cap gains but not all the way to zero.

This is, not coincidentally, the status quo in the US and most other western/developed nations.
I love "the human element". I might be in the minority here, but I actually like taking public transit to see a city. Meaning not just the geographical features, but also the people in it.

I would prefer a bus or train to a private car any day, assuming it's reasonably clean and not overcrowded.
takes the 6502 ten to twenty bytes to do something which its closest rival, the Z80, could do in about five (and which an 8080 can do in two).

What operation takes more code on a Z80 than an 8080? It's been a while since I worked with them, but I believe the Z80 was an enhancement of the 8080/8085.

Overall this is a good explanation of how very limited the 6502 is compared to something like a Z80, especially from the perspective of a compiler writer; it's really best programmed in Asm, where a human will be more easily able to apply some "lateral thinking" to reformulate problems in a way more conducive to implementation. Nonetheless, C compilers for the 6502 exist (and they are still common as IP cores in embedded systems) --- but the dialect of C they accept is very much non-standard.

What the helper function does is to pop the return address of the stack, copy the next six bytes into a parameter area, perform the computation (remember that the parameters here all point at the destination variables), and then push the updated return address back onto the stack.

That reminds me of how compilers for the 8051 (another 8-bit MCU that is not "HLL friendly") deal with pointers: it has several separate address spaces, so pointers can be up to 3 bytes long, and thus the necessary dereferencing is accomplished by calling library functions:

http://www.keil.com/support/docs/1964.htm
I think you're getting at utilitarianism versus some idea like Kant's categorical imperative.

From an idealistic standpoint, RMS's views are consistent and sensible, honorable even. But from a utilitarian view (which I support incidentally), we evaluate the actual real-world consequences of each decision. In that light, RMS's overall concerns still hold up completely but his emphasis on each person individually rejecting all non-free software uncompromisingly is non-utilitarian.
For fun I have been implementing a 6502 emulator in the last few days. It's a very strange platform in some regards but also the first assembler I learned (many years ago) so I'm confused at how I should feel. My goal has been to try to learn more z80 and x86 so I have something to compare it to.
This is probably a sign that the situation is more complicated than it appears to be.

I mean if they have hundreds or thousands of engineers, billions of dollars etc. they have surely considered these heuristics before, and there's probably a reason they haven't done them "right," we just are not privy to that reason.
True, but that's because the comment you are replying to is being erroneous and sloppy with the term "open source". GitLab EE is source-available while not meeting the full "open source" definition.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about doing 16-bit arithmetic with the 8-bit carrying or simply multiplying numbers since that requires adding multiple times. I mean this code here is the "fast" way of multiplying numbers:

http://www.6502.org/source/integers/fastmult.htm
6502 was from a different era. Not really designed to be a great compiler target.

Most other old 8-bitters have comparable issues.

One nitpick, decrement 16 bit value by one. From the article:

4 ae a0 aa ldx a+0
2 ca dex
4 8e a0 aa stx a+0
2 e0 ff cpx #ff
2 d0 03 bne label
6 ce a1 aa dec a+1
.label
(20 cycles maximum, 14 minimum, 14 bytes.)

It'd be better to do something like this, 11 bytes, (max 24/min 12 cycles, assuming article cycle counts are correct):

4 ae a0 aa ldx a+0
2 d0 03 bne label
6 ce a1 aa dec a+1
.label
6 ce a0 aa dec a+0

4 more cycles for the worst case, but that occurs only every 256th time, in which time the best case has already saved cumulative 510 cycles compared to the article version.

On 6502 one should really keep the variables on the zero page. Same operation would take just 8 bytes for that case.
iOS/safari
That has good and bad points. Two really obvious ones:

- A flat tax defined by features would erode away with inflation, unlike a tax on market price.

- Feature taxes seriously affect the features that houses express. The English window tax raised money and suppressed windows, with noticeable health effects on the people who got to live in darkened houses.
Less accountable governments? You mean governments that are significantly less armed than their populace? Only way I know to keep a government accountable...
postmarket is so cool. I need to try again to get it running on my nexus 7. Had a problem with pmbootstrap the first time I tried
Care to elaborate what will come soon? A gitlab instance would be my preferred tool. Or gitea, both MIT.
The Savannah UI is really annoying.
No.

The standard deduction essentially establishes a 0% rate on a "minimum $ necessary to live" salary. Marginal tax brackets establish a progressive tax system which is consistent with diminishing marginal utility of money.

The problem that valuearb refers to is completely different. Because of inflation I could buy an asset in 1 year, sell it 5 years later and show a nominal gain (sale price > purchase price) but have actually made any real money. By most standards it would be unfair to tax me on this sale.
Fascinating. Search for “cargo cult” on google images for visual impressions
At the end of it you lose the property, which means there's nothing to pass on. Also, there's the potential that the person in question is young enough that the situation could cost them their home before they are ready to leave it.
Right. Conversely, if you are a foreigner in China with a non Chinese Apple account, you skip the Chinese server as well. This is just a matter of setting your country, and you can still use the Chinese App Store if you wish (just set it to China, install app, then set it back to the USA).

Skype and TomTom are a bit different though.
HBO Now still requires flash. Discovered that yesterday.
To clarify, I’m actually not all that interested in the day-to-day of national politics - I campaign and vote for the candidates that I support, but I largely don’t care about the specific ways in which Trump is embarrassing the country at any given time. My impression is that news.google.com is a good source for that sort of thing, however.
Not at all. Neither of these account for how long you've held something, which is what implicates inflation.

For example, Person A buys stock in Company A and holds it for just over 1 year. Person A's gain on this stock is $1,000.

Person B has held stock in Company B for the last 50 years. He sells at exactly the same time as Person A and has the same $1,000 taxable gain.

If we accounted for inflation, Person B would pay much less tax than Person A, because Person B's gain is mostly (if not completely) inflation. Person A's gain, on the other hand, is mostly real gain, not inflation.
This article tries to cover for Tesla by relying on the fact that competing systems also cant avoid similar objects. Sorry, this is further proof that the engineers and managers at Tesla willingly put unsafe technology on America's roadways. A hard stop and prison time for someone is in order at this point.
sounds like a pretty bad deal... I am glad I never accepted stock options in lieu of compensation.

EDIT: after reading more about it, it actually makes sense. What really employee is getting is an "option" similar to one can buy for publicly traded companies. And whatever option price is already reflected in employees tax situation - it is an actual expense which lowers tax base by the cost of this option.

Now - the cost of that option (i.e. different between full salary and limited salary when getting options) is something that can be very incorrectly priced (which I assume is the case in the majority of startups)

So it is not tax code discriminating against these employees. It is actually employers taking advantage of these clueless employees.
I never said that less efficient resource allocation would result in more utility. That's a straw man. My claim is the argument that more efficient resource allocation would result in greater utility is almost certainly false in a hypothetical situation where capital gains tax is eliminated.

What evidence have we ever seen that allowing wealthy individuals to make more money results in increased utility? There is literally no reason to believe that any of the marginal increase in resources would be expended on environmental and social concerns.

The only reason you could justify eliminating capital gains is if you literally believe all government is evil.
There is a bit of human nature in there perhaps, but from the beginning, subdivision into groups has always been a means for the wealthy to maintain their power. Here is exhibit A[0].

That it persisted to the point it became culture is one thing, but from its inception, subdividing the working class into groups (one of them being black and white) has been a means for the elite to maintain control. The KKK also had a similar start, being funded in part by former wealthy plantation owners fearful of white and former slave alliances during reconstruction.

The subdivisions into class (middle class vs. working poor) is very similar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion
This sounds like the gross argument that it's more efficient to tax labor because they have no recourse. The rich can move, hire lawyers, etc. to avoid taxes, so more it's efficient to focus on the hapless poor!

The rebuttal is to simplify the tax code as to eliminate loopholes, such as preferential income taxation.

You're right and I was mistaken that tax brackets are indexed for inflation. I'd support indexing capital gains if it eliminated their preferential taxation.
Without Prop 13 everyone would have a huge tax bill not only those just buying a house but also those who have owned their house for 30 years. There would no way way to live in California. To suggest that the Government is going to reset the tax for everyone to a fair and just amount is fantasy.

A 2% increase a year seems fine to me which is the way it is now, inflation.
The point I'm making is that my opinion is that the founders here were unfair and that American laborers should expect fairness, not that they paid them some specific amount less than they should have- though I suspect you know this. If you'd like to have a genuine discussion with me then feel free, but whatever you currently appear to be after I have no more interest in pursuing.
The Snowden leaks showed us that the US already have everything you just described.

I’m sure China, Russia and others have it as well, but right now, as you’re browsing HN on the toilet, a NSA agent could be watching you in real time through the camera on your phone.
If people spend a great deal of resources on something that's obviously stupid, you probably don't understand their reward function as well as you think you do.
I think Americans have this today via Social Security!
He could liquidate his net worth and give 18 dollars to each person in the world. There's no reason to give more to people in his supply chain. Nor does he have a duty to give these people free money. Besides, making an efficient machine for transmitting their goods to a customer has already benefited the manufacturing employee by increasing their wages.
That thing about Facebook blocking messages with links to the thepiratebay.org doesn't seem to be true. I just tested it. Maybe it's a regional thing (i.e. it works in the US but not in the EU).
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Your almost correct: She is barred from being an officer or director of any _public_ company for 10 years
Isn't a property tax an on going thing? Unless I'm misunderstanding, this proposal could easily lead to a situation where a home is worth significantly less than the taxes due on it. All that has to happen is for the person who presently ones the house to live there long enough for the taxes and associated interest to accrue to that point. In effect, if you stay in a house long enough, this proposal results in the tax authority effectively owning the property even though you've paid your taxes the whole time.
> Sadly, I can't use this trick for decrements. In this case, I need to decrement the high byte when the low byte underflows from 0x00 to 0xff. Sadly, the CPU doesn't let us check for this for free, so I need to load it into a register and do an explicit comparison.

Can you check the ~overflow~ negative flag?

http://www.obelisk.me.uk/6502/reference.html#DEC
Why I can’t (yet) teach engineering in ASL
That's a great point. I think that most people and organizations are identified with victimhood and poor performance.
I am genuinely interested in seeing something about "total taxes paid" (including sales tax, which hits the hardest low-income folks) but I could not find such research.

And I am certainly not saying hair cutting is not important. For once, without proper haircut CEO of the company will not be able to raise money to do a new project which potentially can employ a lot of people and pay a lot of taxes.
Why do you people keep calling it ‘Intellegence’, it’s ‘Insecurity’.
Oh yea, I agree that this discrimination existed for sure, and continues a little bit today (though obviously has improved a lot).

I guess I was more asserting it doesn’t happen to white people.
True, and that definitely causes plenty of rumbles.

Just thinking it would get 10x worse if it also formed the basis of cap gains taxes.
Aero spikes only make sense for single stage to orbit, and because of the rocket equation, SSTO doesn’t make much sense itself.

First, Aerospikes only have better efficiency over staged rockets over part of the launch to orbit. At sea level it has vurtually no advantage, it’s not until Tye rocket ge s to thin air that the Aerospike efficiency is higher. But guess what happens shortly thereafter? The first stage is dropped and a vacuum optimized second stage takes over, again reducing the aerospike efficiency advantage to near zero. And that slightly better efficiency over part of the flight isn’t free, it costs extra weight over bell shaped nozzles,

So the big win is for Aerospikes is SSTO, that’s where it’s far more efficient than fixed nozzles. But because of the rocket equation, SSTO doesn’t make sense. Dropping off a big chunk of mass half way up (the first stage) provides substantial efficiency gains.

Musk has shown that the key to making space flight affordable isn’t breakthroughs in engine performance, and its not reusability, at least not yet. Before SpaceX ever landed a booster they were 30x cheaper than the Shuttle, and 20x cheaper than the SLS. How did they do it when the Falcon 9 engine has very average performance, and when they didn’t reuse any of them?

The reason is same as Henry Fords, assembly line manufacturing. They mastered making Merlins cheaply by building them in high volumes and constantly improving at it. Nine engines per rocket made that possible, just as it’s a key to their making reuse work.
You need to consider that these PCIe switches you talk about are (afaik, at least there are big ones) single-die, compared to the probably even multi-board construction of the Ethernet switches. They do support and are in at least one document advertised to be used in a switching fabric, where you create a mesh between the nodes you try to connect. Basically, instead of plugging every computer into the same PCIe switch, you fill the PCIe switches half full with computers, maybe even a little less/add some that don't connect directly to computers, and add some interconnections between the switches. The mathematics that describe how one would want to arrange the small switches date back at least to when automated telephone switches became common. A similar version, though with separated inputs and outputs, is known as a Crossbar Switch.

Did you by chance come across something smaller than a full-blown, PCIe3x4 per node, TOR switch? I don't need that much capacity, but a cheap enough high speed switch would allow using some slower (individually) servers that got kicked out from the previous owner, instead of getting new, larger machines. A certain level of microservice-thinking/scale of (distributed) Haskell/Erlang does often require much faster connections than one would like to afford with Ethernet, to keep the coding overhead for the sharding to a minimum. At a certain point one can stop worrying about minimizing transfers, and just rely on page-faulting and similar things for less-critical (in a performance sense) data accesses.
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> Can you check the overflow flag?

Your link states overflow flag is not affected by DEC.
It’s also present in Swift.
"If there wasn't $thingthatmakesowningpropertycheaper housing would be completely unaffordable!" says the person who doesn't seem to consider that part of the reason prices are so high is that government subsidy they get. As it goes with mortgage deductions and guarantees, so it goes with property tax reductions.
Maybe ROT13 is good enough?
They’d tell you that staging reduces the efficiency if Aerospikes enough that they are not worth the weight penalty.
Do you think that's working?

Once you take this position, and from the outcomes we see all around us, its very easy to reach a conclusion that the edu system is failing as a large part of the population can't parse what they are being fed. And that includes highly educated people btw. Cause they land up on either side on any issue you pick.

But that's just wrong.

People constantly expect the education system to solve the problem (of info overload - so many facts that not all facts are equal as the article does a good job explaining). The education system was never designed to solve info overload.

And social media/news media/Google are designed to overload everyone.

We need a bridging of the two systems.

Google/social media/news media has to understand they are constantly serving second graders tenth grade problems. And pretending there won't be any consewuences.

The education system is atlest able to signal to a second grader he is in second grade and here is a path to tenth grade with feedback constantly being provided to ensure he stays on track if he wants to get to tenth grade.

These signals don't exist on the internet of 2018 or are drowned out by 2000 other signals.

Most people are busy, distracted, coping with their own life problems and with the minimum attention they have to spare are told to pick facts from a large buffet table. The tech world has reinvent what signals it's providing alongside those facts.

Cause the highly simplistic current signals of upvotes/view counts/likes/retweets etc are not enough.
I use Claws Mail. It's simple, quick, uses the MH mailbox format which is human readable and where each email message has its own separate file, and it can go over inboxes several gigabytes in size without a hiccup.

https://www.claws-mail.org
Neither Amazon nor Bezos do not py them directly. They pay Foxconn for assembled devices. If they paid more, Foxconn would probably just have better margins.
What about billionaire retirees? If you replace retired with “means tested” this makes more sense. But simply preferring people due to age is a mistake.

Edit: Billionaire was a bit extreme... how about high-net worth? Say $5M+? San Francisco has plenty, and it’s a sufficient enough population that we should be attempting to garner more tax receipts. The same is true of the mental health income tax thing above $1M/yr.
> abolish the corporate income tax that justifies the "double taxation" argument that justifies the capital gains rate.

That's not the double taxation argument. After abolishing the corporate income tax, you still have to pay the personal income tax.

The double taxation argument is that money now is better than the same amount of money later ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money ). But the concept of the capital gains tax is that someone who defers spending their money must pay an additional tax despite not receiving additional value. Their larger amount of later money is the same money-value at a higher tax rate.

> the idea that there is one set of rules for the rich and another for everyone else is already stressing our nation.

Question: are you aware of any nation at any point in history which was large enough to have "the rich", but which did not apply different rules to the rich in the sense you're talking about?

This may not be a major source of societal stress.
That's strange. As one of most popular "crash management" systems on the market, one installed on Volvos is quite good at this, to the extend they put it's test video into their commercials.

A sponsored article?
Please keep us all updated on your work. Would love to see some blog posts or something.
Thid then has the problem that thr length is unknown, leading to well known problems.
What is your blog about, if I may ask?

Since it's about opinions, I'm guessing it's maybe about music and movies, where there is no "true" answer about if the music/movie/etc is "good"?

Would you expect blog comments for a blog post X of yours, to be more about opinions, than comments at a social news aggr site, about the same blog post X?
Considering the high cost of developing new analogue hardware, wouldn't it be cheaper to virtualize this on digital processors anyway?

Also there appears to be some dispute on the validity of "Spaghetti sort"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spaghetti_sort
This ends up being easily gamed. If you tax based on “rooms”, you end up with gigantic open floor plans (single room). If you tax on square footage, you find a way to count it as mostly outside / lawn area. Market value is the closest thing to “you can afford it”.
If it's not a physical phenomenon, how does it inform the actions of our physical selves?
You are incorrect about what is often referred to as a "double taxation argument."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double_taxation.asp

Double taxation often occurs because corporations are considered separate legal entities from their shareholders. As such, corporations pay taxes on their annual earnings, just like individuals. When corporations pay out dividends to shareholders, those dividend payments incur income-tax liabilities for the shareholders who receive them, even though the earnings that provided the cash to pay the dividends were already taxed at the corporate level.
Many food exporters are playing this EU rebranding game for profit. Eg. with wine it was very popular.

The best olive oil is still from Kalamata/Greece though. There they have farmers collectives with proper quality control.