skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not seeing any evidence that the ML approach doesn't have the same or similar biases. I'm sure the results are different but we can't say they're better just because a computer generates them. In fact, we've seen many times that ML may often tend to give implicit biases even more emphasis, because in an attempt to create "objective" measures against which to judge a dataset, ML creators inject their own biases, or rely on data which is itself biased in its collection or categorization. (So, for example, if zip code is a major indicator in the ultimate ML algorithm, it may be completely "objective", while still reinforcing biases against minority applicants, simply because of how wildly self-segregated many US cities are, or because of self-reinforcing effects of systemic bias in other, human-controlled parts of the economy.)
Well. You can seize the means of production, or you can tax 100%, and then dole out 100%, which is the same effect.. so that the different is merely an intellectual one.

It would do you well to move out of a big city into a small town.
> Employment relationships are fundamentally exploitative though. While it's absolutely true that smaller companies can do a lot better in treating their employees right, the fact of the matter is that there is an asymmetrical relationship between an employee and the company due to a large power gap between the two.

Yes and no. I don't think our society does enough to protect and help the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, for the reasons you state. But, I also think if it weren't for our capitalist system, these same people likely wouldn't have any jobs at all, and that a lousy job is usually better than none.

I'm absolutely not in favor of tearing down the entire capitalist system, as your parent comment implies. And I certainly don't think it's immoral to look at diversity hiring as a competitive advantage—quite the contrary, in fact.
It is not fine

There are many good reasons to live in Sweden but tax rate and winter are not among them

The marginal tax rate used to be over 100% in some cases and it is caused by too many years of too populistic socialism

Political economy has it tax rate should be no more than 50%
and that corporate tax rates need to be far lower

populism has a problem with taxing workers, but real estate, workers and consumption should be taxed acc. to science. Middle class workers must be taxed because they are so many they steer the totals

In such calculations, per the article, worker taxes paid by employers need to be included as well as significant deductions

they also used to have a wealth tax causing the rausings/milk carton to move out and kamprad/ikea to claim religion. If your rich enough and have to pay 4% of your wealth you can never catch up and instead claim your living in Brussels yelling from your condo on Strandvagen

How you tax rich individuals depends whether they move or not. If they move, everbody lose. In the case of US, it is unlikely richies will leave because of tax rate, there is really nowhere to go with similar opportunities. Imagine Larry Page on punta del este: he'd be bored to death inside of a week

populism is a curse
+1 these are awesome. I have them on all my devices.
The heights marginal income tax rate in Sweden is 56% where the hell are they getting 70% from?

If they include things like VAT then yes, but a 20%> VAT is pretty much universal in Europe.
Many sibling languages in the era all of them originally appeared did so - Pascal (not the core language, but real-world implementations with their extensions, like Borland's), Modula-2 etc.
The moral implications are important. That's why it's a marginal rate being proposed in the USA, only on income over 10 million.

Taxing higher rates on much higher income amount is morally better than taxing that same rate on a lower income.

This is because of the impact it has on the earners well being. Income after 10 million has a much lower impact on that persons well being than say, their first 1 million.
If we expect "everything should be fair and everyone should be nice," it's because parents and schools teach this. It doesn't happen by accident.

Then when people discover ways that our society doesn't live up to that, they try to fix it.
They are making Chrome work for nouveau users by disabling the hardware acceleration.
I think increasing economic stratification is very natural and happens often in history. It's just that historically when it gets too extreme, the poor kill the rich and start it all over again.
I didn't misinterpret anything - the study author says so, not the study itself. And he failed to show it in that or any subsequent study. He also delayed publication for 6 years because he didn't like the results, so it's not surprising he said so.

The second citation doesn't examine the effects of 'geography', but the effects of borders and boundaries between ethnic groups, finding increased conflict where those boundaries are missing.
Life isn't fair but the legitimate purpose of government policy is to shape society in the ways people want it shaped. Otherwise we'd just have a monarchy and say "Life isn't fair." (And it is worth remembering that the people can always revolt and slaughter the rich who don't like their policies, that's a legitimate way of establishing a government.)

I'm a fan of saying, first, that people did not earn their money past a certain point (my income has more than doubled since I entered tech and I am certainly not working more than twice as hard, I just joined a hedge fund instead of an unprofitable startup, and as a result I am firmly comfortable with any of these high tax brackets affecting me personally). Then you can say, we'll tax much more heavily at the point that you don't need the money to live. Then you simply don't accumulate the money needed for your children to live off passive income, and the question doesn't arise.
>No, but like I said I don't think many nouveau users are actually affected by bugs of this scale. The bug which prompted the blacklisting and being discussed today is not such a bug.

The bug being discussed today is just one of "some bug reports on other rendering issues with Nouveau". It fails the conformance tests, a quick search showed that same bug about crashing having been reported to chrome. Let me say that one more time:

There is a set of conformance tests to verify API compatibility. Nouveau fails them. It's not just buggy, it is literally non-API-conformant. You can't keep pretending its API conformant when it fails the API conformance tests. When Nouveau is actually API compliant, perhaps it will get un-blocked.

Until then, Chrome is doing exactly what you'd do if Nvidia claimed to implement the APIs but just made the system crash instead: block a nonconformant API implementation that lied to its clients and degrade gracefully instead.
should cities not have entertainment venues that are welcomed by local residents?
If you can produce income in the wilderness without any aid from society or any interaction with other humans in any way then I would say you're entitled to not be taxed. Otherwise we all owe society for what it's provided to us and taxation is a morally upstanding concept.
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labor doesn't exist in vacuum either, low skill immigration lowers wages up the chain. In the past people could earn a good living right out of high school. Now more people have to take out loans, go to college, and then there's more people competing for those "high-skill" jobs, plus a mountain of debt on their backs

I know older people who made $30/hr out of high school at local factories with full benefits thanks to unions in the 70s and 80s. Illegal immigration was used to break those unions and today those jobs pay $10-15/hr with no benefits
Jenkinsfiles. Helps a lot when growing to more environments, toolset versioning in the code and environment reproducibility via Docker containers.
Also best practice is to fork the Dockerfiles and build and host your own images in a registry.
Eighteenths amendment prohibited selling of alcoholic beverages nationwide. Would that be active today, would that stop you from buying beer?
Do you know https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql? It mounts remote cloud storage like a local filesystem and promises a bunch of optimizations against network latency, including a local cache. Apart from the thumbnail feature that should fit perfectly to what you are searching.
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Not having a hierarchy of good and bad universities is a deliberate policy decision. Before ~1968 Germany had elite universities, like Göttingen, Tübingen and Heidelberg among others, equivalent to the position of HYPS or Oxbridge, with other excellent universities in the rank below, like Columbia and Cal Tech or LSE and Imperial. After 1968 there was a deliberate effort to make that irrelevant. Now there are good departments and there are better and worse universities but the range is so small that which university you went to isn’t worth mentioning. Germany is still a research powerhouse but it’s all about different branches of the Max Planck Institute, not universities.

You think the US can deliberately reduce the funding and prestige of universities like that? They don’t even have a federal education system.
I mean, sure, CSAIL might have been wrong. (Worth mentioning this is just a single building, not all of MIT.) But if even the MIT computer science network isn't set up "right," there's doubtless a huge amount of technical debt for everyone else who's not an MIT nerd to clean up before they can make IPv6 work. And IPv6 would have been more successful if the designers had taken that into account.
Exactly. Nvidia have been relentlessly hostile to Free Software for ever. No one who wants an easy life or a stable, upgradeable operating system would buy an Nvidia card.
Chase Center is a pretty sorry scapegoat for SF housing problems. It's 100% financed by the team and was welcomed by residents. You can instead blame the thousands of acres of property in SF zoned for single family residences and all the empty plots in the Mission near BART.

There's nothing wrong with building entertainment venues in cities if they're financed without tax payer money.
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If you make bad decisions by offering loans at too low a rate, you will lose money on average and eventually go bankrupt.

If you make bad decisions by offering loans at too high a rate because you have high overheads or you’re cautious or your actuaries are wrong or you’re racist then people won’t take out your loans because they get a better deal elsewhere or the loan is too expensive so you lose money by not profiting from making the loan.

Now there’s a balance here: you want to be competitively priced so people will take out your loans but you also want higher margins so you can make more money for investors or expand or make less money in other places to attract customers.

I think in this case “make better decisions” means either morally better (ie less racist), or better in the sense of “make better deals to win more customers to make more money”
It's true they don't literally do nothing, but are Noveau developers getting the information they need about newer hardware? I think these benchmarks are illuminating:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-...

You get 3x better performance with a GTX 780 Ti than a GTX 980 Ti. From reading the explanation from a Nouveau developer in the comments, I get the impression that NVIDIA just wants the open source drivers to work well enough that you can boot your computer and download the proprietary drivers.
> The address space is still enormous: a couple billion for every currently living person (yes, I know allocating isn't 100% efficient, but even at 0.001% efficiency, that's still tens of thousands per capita).

The biggest problem with IPv4 is subnetting inefficiency. IPv6 had this large address space precisely because they wanted to have smallest subnet so big that we don't have to worry about it. This is why it is told, that in IPv6 you don't allocate IP addresses, you allocate subnets.
The image that's gathered when the camera is completely in the dark, is a unique fingerprint of the camera chip. This is something called "fixed pattern noise."
The "Bait Post" is from a New Zealander. I live under socialized health care and generally in a very socialist society similar to most European countries.

I wasn't trying to start a flame war but a discussion on the morality of taking such a high percentage. I knew very well that this a marginal rate but still after some level of earnings they're suggesting taking 70% of someone's income. I just think that's far too high to justify.

topher515 has provided an interesting link to a well thought out and articulated article. That while I don't agree with it entirely I do think that sort of thing is a sign of a fruitful discussion.

The position "tax is theft" is hard to justify but I'd say the other extreme where a 70% marginal tax rate is suggested is also hard to justify.
If you have problems with duckweed smothering, azolla will probably be worse. Duckweed has to pull nitrogen from the water, azolla harvests it directly from the air. It makes a good feedstock and fertilizer though.
The issue with using data about a 90% style tax rates is that nobody will ever be paying that rate. Why would anyone continue working for an income if they were paying 90% of it in tax? They'd find some way of organising their affairs so that they are compensated in some manner that is not income, or they'd stop working.

Eg, Maybe a company director is being paid $300,000 per annum, then a 90% tax rate for incomes >$100,000 is bought in. Suddenly his wife and son have a job at the company as advisors on $100,000 per annum each, their jobs are remarkably work-lite, and the director's salary drops to $100,000. Adjust as needed to be compliant with local law.
1) Not thieving. Jesus Christ.

2) Ocasio-Cortez brought up a 70% tax on income over $10,000,000. Literally no one is seriously talking about taxing a straight 70% of anyone's income. Except for the people who are trying to confuse you into misunderstanding the facts.
You're mixing up a bunch of different issues.

I'm not saying it is irrational for the author to advocate raising taxes for everyone, including themselves. I'm saying that if the author really thought donating that extra $X to the government (when other people do) was such a good idea, they would be donating it right now even if other people don't. The reason is that the marginal benefit to the government of the author handing them an extra $X when other people do the same is no higher than when they don't.

Unless, of course, the author plans to dodge the tax themselves once taxes are raised for everyone.

The prisoner's dilemma is not a valid comparison because donating when the other person doesn't yields an equal or higher marginal return as donating when the other person does. In the prisoner's dilemma it's the other way around: cooperating when the other person defects results in a lower marginal return than when the other person cooperates.
what is the usage of these things?
What kind of function ML is optimizing? Who specified that function? Lenders made their decision from the dawn of time, so we have some data to compare. Now (say, last year) they made decisions with help of ML - what changed? Who got a better deal?
Even Litmus isn't great here AFAIU. The issue is that you kind of need to design the kernel from the ground up to not have potential long times between preemption points.
And that's precisely why I'm so interested in projects like GNU Taler[1]. We need a privacy-focused payment system for the internet, and something like GNU Taler tries to imitate cash, which I think is a good fit.

- [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/taler/
Disagree. The "startup game" is a job like any other. It's a contract between you and the business where you agree to provide a chunk of your time in exchange for monetary compensation and some extras. Its a business contract that will be terminated at the drop of a hat if some numbers on a spreadsheet don't add up right. That's not malice, or evil. That's just business. It's also why you shouldn't give your life away to it because you will regret it I assure you.
Nope. They can pass them to their kids, and it won’t trigger reassessment. > 60% of houses like that in the LA area are rented out for tax arbitrage reasons by the kids that inherited them.

They can buy multiple houses rent them out, and then let the kids live in them when they grow up.

Also, businesses can own multiple properties and sell them without reassessment (there is a well-known loophole involving shell companies that makes this possible).

Basically the only people that get hit by prop 13 reassessments this are young working families that need to upgrade, or want to buy into a stable housing situation to raise their kids.
You seem to assume racism is always an active choice, rather than largely (these days) a set of systemically biased policies as well as implicit and often unconscious prejudice. It's also not all about rejecting loans. Rather, it's that the terms offered are different for every buyer, and the groups that are being discriminated against are charged higher rates, and thus pay more, for the same product.

There's plenty of data out there proving that, for whatever reason, African American loan applicants with identical credit scores and income are routinely charged higher interest rates for auto and home loans than their white counterparts. The next question to ask is "why?" but we can't pretend the effect doesn't exist.
One person donating a $1,000 when no one else does could be more beneficial than if everyone donated $1,000? Interesting idea.
Untaxed fringe benefits (company car, extravagant meals on the company dime, etc) were much more common in the US when we had very high marginal tax rates on large incomes.
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There is also a huge delay for the core to shift into AVX512 mode, so interleaving it into regular non avx512 code can be a huge performance hit.
More antidepressants are not the answer. I’ve been on them, and while they do “help”, they’re actually quite horrible in the long run. Messing with your brain’s seotonin have all kinds of known and unknown side effects. I think they’re ok as a short-term solution, but resolving the root of the problem is the best way to alleviate depression. Students now, as in the past, have always had a lot of social, financial, and parental pressure to excel in school, however the financial burden for medical school has become ridiculously high, therefore the risk of financial ruin in case of failure or dropout is accordingly higher. Add to that the increasing course loads and complications arising from continual changes in local and national regulations, and it’s no wonder students are depressed at alarming rates.
Yes it would. Might not stop me from homebrewing though.
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Lemire has criticized this: https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/13/the-dangers-of-avx-512-thr...

OP doesn't seem to show any major problems in his microbenchmarking, which is a start.
No it wasn't. The German Zeppelin's always run hydrogen. At the time the US had the only real supply of helium and they wouldn't sell to Germany.
Yes we need taxes, yes we live in societies that benefit from commons that need to be paid for by taxes.

But if you were to tax someone at 100% even at a marginal rate most would not agree that is moral. I think 70% is getting to the point that it needs a moral justification. Not just a discussion on the feasibility.
I know you're making the point that just about everyone should be taxed, but to make your argument even stronger: a wilderness-liver probably has equipment (including clothes, shoes), knowledge/skills discovered/invented by others and learnt via others, and was raised within society. There may be a counter-argument for some knowledge/skill as a sort of "human heritage", like language, general knowledge, arithmetic, that isn't itself created by the state or this state (though its transmission may have been) and shouldn't be taxed.

I have some sympathy for this fellow.

EDIT also, there's no reason collaboration with other individuals should necessarily attract taxation. Human collaboration predates all states.
This misses the point of censorship. A party determined to sow misinformation can hijack a domain to do so. All the blockchain in the world won't solve that problem.
This is really easy to do.

At a hackathon in 2012 our team in just a few hours built tech that would detect who you were standing next to or walking past, all while your phone is in your pocket - we were trying to build a tool that would replace exchanging business cards at conferences.
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Why is it royally fucked up? Where are you from and how long have you lived in CA to not know this? Because the guy working at UPS who grew up here depends on these laws so he doesn’t get priced out of his neighborhood.

If you move somewhere especially the Bay Area be prepared to pay the transplant tax.
You walk slowly, like 1mph. Many people swear by it. But I recorded typing tests (https://www.gwern.net/Treadmill) and did find it impeded my typing. I also just felt like it was distracting me, and my cat hated it.

> Under desk cycles/bike, elliptical and other such devices are readily available

Interesting.
You could try reading the comment by mogadsheu, which currently is the top-rated comment on this article, which lays out quite clearly some of the differences.

It's incumbent on the author of the piece to lay out their argument - it should be self-evident that the structure of the Swedish economy and that of the USA's are quite different.
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Someone on the margin of affording a rental in SF isn’t homeless. They live someplace else that costs less. Why should taxpayers foot the bill to build more homes with the goal of making SF marginally more affordable when there are plenty of other good places to live? How is that better than some dumb stadium idea? And how long does it keep housing costs down? Those new homes will be gobbled up immediately and then the available inventory on the resale market will be back to about the same level as before.
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Great article, one big blunder except.
Good job otherwise.
Okay, I stand corrected about it flying on helium, thank you for correcting me, +1. However, the Hindenburg was designed to fly using helium as the lift gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg-class_airship#Lift_...

The article goes on to say the difference in lift between hydrogen and helium is only 8%.

Edit: drop the apostrophe on zeppelins
If one could remove spaces from JSON to create a so-called "Canonical JSON" one could obtain the same digest hash from the same data (even in combination with the hardware accelerated hashing offered by AVX!). Admittedly this is a strange case but I've run into it.
So you've now experienced something that lots of people who don't look like you experience far more than you do. The fact that you had a bad thing happen to you once doesn't mean you aren't privileged in 99% of your interactions.
Yes (on top of existing taxes). Are you familiar with the concept of diminishing returns?
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