skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is saying that reference counting is the best. What I am saying is that reference counting tends to offer a good set of advantages (predictable memory performance, no hogging of memory, no pauses) for a minimal cost (more frequent GC, more overhead to store reference counts).

The comment about "does not scale in multi-core NUMA" only applies if you have objects that are shared between threads because otherwise there's no atomics going on. For example, Rust has a generic ref-count mechanism that automatically uses atomic operations for ref-counts when an object might be shared between threads but otherwise does simple arithmetic. Non-atomic refcounts are most likely also going to be faster than any other global GC algorithm. Other languages require explicit differences but are still able to offer the same thing.

The fact of the matter is that the majority of objects do not require expensive GC of any kind & can live on the stack or have explicit ownership guarantees. Choosing defaults where everything might be shared is not a good default for systems languages as it pessimizes memory usage & CPU performance to a drastic degree.

That being said, GC does have its place in all manner of applications and has other advantages like making developers more productive which isn't a bad thing but these are domain-specific decisions. There are plenty of techniques - reference counting, memory pools, static memory allocation, various GC algorithms, etc, etc. Each has tradeoffs & every single GC system I've encountered means variable latency/stop-the-world and greedy memory usage (optimized for the 1 application). That's valid in some domains but certainly isn't desirable. If there were an awesome GC system like you claim that could perform that well it would have been deployed already to inemurable applications like all Java vendors, Javascript VMs, C#, etc, etc. It's an extremely complex problem.

Most of your links are niche commercial systems or even pure academic research systems. They're not proof of anything other than GC being possible to implement for various languages/machines which isn't a claim that's been disputed at all.

> Go at Google (Fuchsia)

AFAIK Fuchsia does not use Go for any systems-level portions. Those are written in C/C++/Rust last time I checked (with Rust being the official default going forward). Do you have any links to the contrary?
By not taking 70% of their income.

That's not how taxes work. You take 70% of their income after they've already made a ton of money that is more than enough to live in comfort. The effective tax rate for the median Swede is 27%
Isn't that the case for any desirable city? The Vancouverites complain about "The Chinese", as do the Bay Area folk. The Londoners complain about the oil royals. The Miami people say everyone buys there.
Notably, tax records are also kind of public:

> In Sweden, a single anonymous telephone call to the tax authority is enough to find out what someone has paid. Almost all income tax details are public and Swedish tabloids often publish lists of the highest earners in different neighborhoods, and who paid the most tax each year.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-nordics-idUSKC...
Schrödinger, a Quantum Behind the Secret of Life
In other words, it can be partially attributed to aristotle's philia
An excellent point. A look at the annual "Golden Fleece" awards will show that the government doesn't spend the current revenue wisely. Why add more?
I was hoping for a direct translation to CMOV. Anyway, the assembly has to be analyzed to be sure.
There's no reason to be angry at your mistake.
It's very common to want to minimize taxes on consumption for two reasons: first, it's very regressive—someone making $1,000,000 a year probably doesn't spend 100x as much on food as someone making $10,000 a year-and it's common across the political spectrum to consider regressive taxes an anti-feature. Second, encouraging consumption encourages a vibrant economy by keeping money moving. The amount that consumers are willing to spend is generally seen as positively correlated with the strength/quality of the economy. So people don't want to disincentivize consumption.
This. The Republican perspective is that these are not actually different groups of people, but the same people at different points in their lives. The people making salary are younger. They save, then go on to live off their investments when they get older. It is reasonable to tax younger people with earning potential ahead of them rather than older people.
Where is this idea that nouveau is crashing coming from?

And don't be ridiculous. All software has bugs, including Chromium. Should I detect Chromium and blacklist it on my sites in preparation for future bugs? Just a few weeks ago I found a Chromium bug when I was working on a website. I did not blacklist the browser, naturally.
You only pay FICA up to $127K currently....
Have they ever had a lower tax rate? I mean, what if things would go much better have they 30% rate?
By that logic, Google Safe Browsing had already balkanized the internet. You may be right, though.
He shouldn't be in the startup game if his circumstances means he can't perform his duties at the startup to make it successful. There are plenty of other software jobs more geared towards flexible schedules and a slower pace.
It's way more complicated than that.

AFAIU, Nvidia's legal argument is that their driver can't be 'derived from' the Linux kernel even though it's linked into the kernel since it's older than their Linux port and only is linked against their GPLed (and if push comes to shove, dual licensed GPL and proprietary) kernel abstraction layer. Judges don't care about linkers and the GPL doesn't actually say anything about linking.
> intention to "support democracy," ...
raise awareness about the opportunities and risks of AI ... where they want their government to invest.

> "That’s how society works — if enough people say they don’t like it, then we regulate it,”

Agree, democracy needs uninformed voters. But the above was just the origin.

Now the course seems more like encouraging people to see applications of AI in their regular work. Like pure vs applied maths. Agree: technology transfer/commercialization of AI will be the richest industry the world has ever seen.

[ Though it's a bit like applications of computers [funfact: many software ideas were initally called AI... like how subjects moved from philosophy to science when they got actual facts]. Although computers are an "industry", their applications are considered vertical, i.e. as part of the industry they are applied to. Same thing happened to physics. So AI applications won't be "an industry", but in every industry. ]

Another question is whether the application best starts from the AI end or the application end. You need both, but at this early stage, it's still requires an intertwined "integrated" collaboration.
I don't think we're yet at the point where you just add magic AI pixie dust to a problem.

But it can't hurt getting people introduced to it and thinking about it; and the democratic point remains true.
What's even more surprising is that none whatsoever is on the carbon emissions that threaten to crash the whole system.
That’s also a regressive tax poorer people spend more as a percentage of their income.
(Georgia is a coastal state)
But here's the rub: Where does the commitment come from? I could be the person you're describing, since I learned to program on my own, except for three tiny details:

1. My brother, four years older than me, was studying programming in college, and talking about it when he came home on breaks

2. My mom, realizing her teaching job was in jeopardy due to layoffs, learned programming, and a couple years later was teaching it for an adult education program organized by a nearby university

3. I did take one high school course in programming, which forced me to get past the familiar conceptual hurdles faced by beginners

From these relatively minor circumstances: I knew enough about what programming was, its value, the fact that it could be learned by a mere mortal like myself, how long it would take to bring myself up to an employable level, and where to find decent learning resources. I had a supply of motivation and encouragement to get past obstacles that might have seemed insurmountable to someone who is under social pressure to undervalue their own potential.

I had a ready supply of mental energy thanks to living under comfortable circumstances. In fact, an oversupply. Learning to program was not at the expense of other necessary activities such as earning money, supporting other family members, etc.

If a person comes from an underprivileged background, everything they lack in the list of things I just described, is equivalent to an obstacle, and the obstacles are multiplicative effects. If this is an exaggeration, I don't think it's all that much of one.
Interesting, but the article begs the question without answering it: if employer-side payroll taxes should count as part of the employee's tax rate (and I agree that it should), what is America's real rate? Also, unrelated, how do our utility and estate taxes compare? Sales and VAT? Regulatory costs passed along into the final price of consumer goods? Capital gains paid on retirement savings? There are a lot of variables, and if we're going to acknowledge complexity in making comparisons, we should try to really ferret out all of them.
What version of GCC/GDB were they using? I've been using GCC/GDB 7 for embedded development and haven't really seen a problem with it. It's also almost a hard requirement because otherwise the generated code is much larger & much slow which impacts the runtime behaviour to a significant extent.
Comparing the US to Sweden is moronic, given the wide disparity between the two countries and the fundamentally different structures of their economies.

It's the worst kind of argument, a false equivalence.
You're assuming rationality.
I don't see the problem. It sounds like I'm in a public setting. If not and this is some friend group gathering I could just ask you not to since we're friends. My friends and family that use facebook know not to include me. But even if they do, so what? It's not like a single photo of me uploaded by a friend impacts my privacy.
I'd expect that many of these people inherit money, or "spend" money by giving it to their children. If the argument is that people who worked hard shouldn't be penalized, then that argues in favor of an extremely high estate tax; children who happened to be born to parents who worked hard shouldn't be significantly better off than children who happened not to have that fortune.
To nitpick a bit, it is true that the richest apartments in London and Sydney are often owned by people who live outside England or Australia. But that is not evidence that "the richest Britons" live outside England; it can easily be the case that the richest Britons are happy to stay in Britain and the richest apartments are owned by a class of foreigners richer than the richest Britons.

Whereas, if all the richest Swedes live outside Sweden, that does tend to suggest that something made them move. (And doesn't suggest that the apartments they maintain in absentia are the richest apartments.) The default for Swedes is to live in Sweden.
Reflecting on a year of experiments
You can't tag someone in a photo if they're not on Facebook.
Yes it’s a marginal rate but at some point, after someone has earned enough, for every dollar they earn the government is going to take 70cents of that dollar to spend as they see fit. If the person does not pay they will send around cops with guns and the threat of violence to take that money or put that person in a cage for not paying taxes.

It’s not about how much money you have to live on it’s about other people claiming a right to money you have earned.
But poorer people will buy only groceries and cheap androids, all barely taxed.
What of inherited wealth?
Isn't that how it actually works in Norway and Denmark (don't know about Sweden)? "Luxury cars" are taxed like a 100%.
My understanding is that Tesla's are so popular over there because those are exempt of precisely that luxury tax.
The founder is also extremely competent at software development, but I am leaving him off of the development team for the sake of this story. I've worked with plenty of competent people, this employee is just not one of them. I don't mean it to sound like I'm the only competent person on the team, but the team is merely 2 people, so I am literally the only competent person on the team.
The thing that annoys me to no end when discussing these things is that people advocating lower taxes make their arguments as if everyone was an isolated island, living in some sort of vacuum, no interaction with others at all.

But, for better or worse, we're all in this together.

We drive on the same roads, we breathe the same air, we swim in the same waters, we use the same electricity grid, we live in the same cities, we share many, many things with each other, whether we like it or not.

Taxes buys you civilization, better shared infrastructure, better environment, less social unrest. If you are rich, these things benefit you too. You can't isolate yourself from the rest of the world and just hope that the bad outside goes away. Instead, if you invest in it, the world becomes a better place for everyone, and in turn, it becomes a better place for you.
Nope. I recommend you spend some time researching this. Tax has never worked the way you describe.

When states take in more tax than their expenses, they run a surplus. When they take in less, they run a deficit. Usually when they run a surplus, they find ways to spend it after not too long.

Raising taxes on any particular group or activity has no direct effect on the other tax rates.
How do I learn to think better?
If you were in the 39.6 tax bracket, you wouldn't be paying 15% in FICA because you'd be well over the contribution limit for Social Security (which is most of FICA).
Poorer people spend more as a percentage of their income on pretty much everything, however.
I suggest you take a look at this article[1] which reframes the idea of who “owns”, on first principle, your pre-tax income.

I’m not sure I completely buy into the article’s thesis. But I think it’s extrmely valuable viewpoint to consider on taxation.

And I do think it’s at least “coherent”, so if someone made it the moral framework with which they analyzed taxes they wouldn’t be being intellectually dishonest.

[1] https://www.taxjustice.net/2014/10/08/money-taxation-isnt-th...
And how many actually pay that rate?

Vs how many would if it was 40 or something non ridiculous?

In that income bracket you can live anywhere in the world. Could buy suite in Paris just on tax savings.
Mastodon seems to be the balance I've been liking.
Just chose to not use services that suck yourself

You don't even know which services do that. There are lots of apps out there that use FB's API and send off details of the user's phone and app activity to FB, whether or not the user has an FB account or not.

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-data-sharing-apps-priv...

For example, Kayak sends flight searches to FB. So don't fly maybe?
The "theft" are funds helping one have the benefit of roads, air travel, municipal water and filtration, hospitals, municipal sewer systems, mail, Internet, or any other service that either depends on public funds or started on public funds. None of us would be discussing this topic in this forum if this "theft" never occurred in the past, and doesn't continue to occur.
Airline pilots are not really comparable. They don't routinely hand off control of the airplane to another set of pilots in the middle of an in-flight emergency. Every intensive care patient is essentially a non-stop crisis.
Swedes in the US are materially better off than Swedes in Sweden, so you could say Sweden is doing pretty poorly.
Your ISP would usually have port mapping logs.
Most outlets link to their own prior reporting instead of source material. Drives me nuts
When looking beyond solely economic effects, studies paint immigration/diversity less favorably - that it reduces trust and social cohesion [0,1], and makes ethnic conflict more likely [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/juaf.12015

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1409
I thought the point was more about variance over time. Surely a camera would need to have consistent patterns over time for this to work?
Is it really that little?
Standard VAT is 25%. There are two other reduced levels: 12% for, for example groceries, restaurant visits, accomodation and 6% for culture (books, newspapers, museum visits, concerts, theatre, opera, zoos).
Education, health care, insurance and financial services carry 0% VAT.
H2h hackernews
The problem with that is that it's regressive and hurts those who earn less.

Let's say sales tax is 10%. If I'm a high earner and buy a cheap Android for $50, the $5 I'm paying in sales tax has a much lower impact on my budget than it does to someone who earns less than I do and wants to buy the same phone.
Taxation is not 'taking' income. It is basically fees for services provided by the government + a social insurance premium. That welfare program that you pay for is available for you when you yourself are down on your luck. That state education system that you pay for, is why your less wealthy neighbors and colleagues are also generally civilized people.
Using a publicly funded and regulated government institution? We are a nation of laws, and you don't get to reject laws piecemeal because you just want more money.
Medicare is uncapped and adds 0.9% above 200K.
It is rather amazing that smartphone cameras are so feature packed, yet still lack a lens cover. Something as old as cameras themselves.
Women on the pill don't 'need' to have simulated periods? (2017)
As toufiqbarhamov points out, your privacy is being compromised by other people all the time on the social networks you avoid. Facebook, e.g., keeps a shadow profile on you.

When I finally caved and joined (something I hope to undo shortly) I was immediately informed of all the people I know who are already on the network, not from the contacts I explicitly didn’t share with them, but from the people who searched for me before I made an account. I’ve never given FB my phone number, but I’m sure they have it in a database somewhere. They probably knew my face before I ever signed up.
>You say you're willing to walk away. Do it.

Given your first line, this sounds like a bad faith suggestion. Why should I walk away from something promising vs helping our team become more productive?

And given the context of the person in question, who was fired from the last startup for lack of productivity, I don't think this will do much to my reputation. My reputation is pretty good right now. Yes, I feel a little dirty about how this situation is going down, but it's not out of malice. It's out of wanting to work with excellent people and build an excellent product.
The comparison between Ocasio-Cortez's proposal and Sweden's tax structure is misleading. As far as I know, Ocasio-Cortez is not espousing other key features of Sweden's tax system:

1) Top marginal rates that kick in at just $98,000, so the upper middle class bears a significant portion of the tax burden.

2) A 25% VAT, so that the middle class carriers a significant portion of the text burden. (The net result of this is that the average effective tax rate is effectively flat through the income spectrum.)

3) Low corporate taxes, almost the same as the U.S.'s after Trump's tax cuts (22% in Sweden, 21% in the U.S.).
It sounds like I'm in a public setting

There's a difference between being a random bystander in an individual's photo and mass surveillance of the public space through millions of photos. Just like lots of photos become something else - movies - lots of photos of public spaces become something else - a surveillance state.

You're sitting on one principle and riding it to the point of absurdity. There are lots of other principles, like the right to live in a free society. Sometimes freedom requires lack of freedom - sometimes we have to apprehend criminals. You can't ride this principle all the way without taking off your blindfold.
I'm not particularly familiar with the tax code in Sweden, but there is such a thing as inheritance tax, so people that inherit fortunes do get taxed.
Yeah exactly. And at the very least an EU 6 year med bachelor model would pay you something for years 7 and 8 (counting feom high school).
If we were talking about generating similar level of services from taxes, it could be discussed.

Just to name two big ones, Sweden has free top rate healthcare and education. Imagine wiping out all student debt and health payments?!
IIRC in the novel Tau Zero the world kind of decided to let Sweden govern everything because they were so good at it. It's not central to the plot though, it's just mentioned in passing (and again I'm not sure I'm remembering that correctly).
It would do you well to learn the difference between socialism and communism.
Where I live it's 10%. I wouldn't say it's "little". That's on top of like 45% total tax that gets paid before the money reaches me (in the form of payroll tax, social security, medicare, income tax, etc), as well as on top of taxes the retailer pays, and in addition to $10k/yr I pay in real estate tax for my home. At some point you just end up suffocating the economy with this nickel and diming. I'd rather everything was consolidated into a single, predictable rate with no loopholes that I can easily calculate and pay, and all of which every tax payer will see, meaning the whole thing not splitting it into "employer portion" or other bullshit. I would basically like each taxpayer to know exactly how much they are paying, and how all that largesse is being spent. Currently that's not the case in part because the system is deliberately so complicated not even tax accountants can figure it out sometimes.

Not to mention that taxes on consumption are strongly regressive and they disproportionately affect the poor. I certainly don't spend all my money, and that's not the case for the vast majority of people. Add more tax, and they can afford even less.
I don’t really follow. You just have to go to your bank to get a cashier’s check. I couldn’t even do that when I first got the notice, which is why I had to pay another day late. I was lucky in that I didn’t work the next day, so I was able to go in the morning.
I'd feel more accepting of Sweden-level taxes if we spent the money like Sweden does, instead of spending trillions on questionable wars.
Every time a discussion like this comes up I see a reply like this. Yet, it never offers a counter point, or suggestions on how to make things in the US work as well as they do in Sweden.
This was brought to light in that excellent NY Times piece several months back[0] about the relative cost of train line infrastructure in other countries. Even the ones with strong unions and first class living standards were able to get it done for a fraction of NYC estimates on even older urban topologies. Something is seriously rotten in American govt. spending, both in the public sector union agreements and private contracting oversight for why we seem to get so little for paying so much.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...