skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I think I realized the fundamental problem with that article: the assumption that the purpose of tax policy is to acquire an amount of money from a person and not to, say, influence the purchasing power of a dollar.

If in 20 years goods have become more expensive as a result of one tax policy and not the other, there is a significant difference in the behavior of this hypothetical person, and that's a significant part of answering which policy we should choose. They may not change total consumption but they may spend significantly more money on the same basic things everyone else is spending on, and less on luxury goods/services. Or they may consume more to maintain their standard of living, and save less. (Or they may decide whether to consume more as a result of one policy or the other.)

High taxes on income at the highest bracket have the effect of reducing the number of people with a certain high income, and thereby reducing the number of people able to participate in a market for very-high-priced things. This causes downward market pressure in the price of such things - for instance, the number of people willing to pay millions for housing in a city like SF or NYC will go down, so it limits the bubbles in those cities. It meanwhile does not affect people below those brackets, which in a sense is equivalent to scaling up their incomes (and the price of goods) while leaving the rich alone.

I (and many people here, I would guess) work in an industry where our own salaries have gone up significantly, and housing prices in our hubs have gone up significantly, and e.g. minimum wage hasn't gone up proportionally. As a result we negotiate for higher compensation so we can afford housing, mostly to maintain our purchasing power and not to increase it—or in other words we're effectively devaluing the dollar as this happens. This is a problem taxes could solve, and many of us think it's a legitimate use of government taxation power. If we get taxed in a way that depresses the after-tax incomes of everyone who's competing for the same housing we are, and as a result housing is cheaper, I think we're going to notice the increased tax out of proportion to the actual tax revenue.

Consumption taxes would maybe solve this for the rental market but wouldn't be as helpful for sales; if anything we'd rush to buy even more quickly before prices go up and before we'd have to pay higher consumption taxes. I realize I'm picking a very specific example here but I think investments like real estate are what people expect the "fat cats" to be using most of their wealth on. If we reduce the gap in purchasing power between the paycheck-to-paycheck taxpayers and the fat cats, then we've achieved the "logically impossible" goal in that post. You may not be boosting consumption per se, but you are changing the prices of goods and making better products/services available to the non-rich for the same amount of consumption.

Of course none of this is convincing to the author of the post, who readily admits that "brilliant" economists disagree with him but is setting his own simplified understanding of the world.
I don't see anything "bizarrely wrong" with observing a quantifiable doubling of productivity and improvement in enjoyment of life, all from taking a very small dose.

When (and where) I was growing up ADHD wasn't really a diagnosis you could get. I strongly suspect I have it, at least the attention deficit part, but apparently the only way to properly diagnose it is before you're a fully grown adult, so I'm kind of SOL since I'm in my 40s.

You, on the other hand, seem to be quite judgmental towards people you don't know. That's what's "bizarrely wrong".
Well, hello from Saturday! I'm glad you're reasonable and not a troll like I feared. I think the post you made was inflammatory for 2 reasons:

1) It was short and didn't explain your position well. I'm sure it made perfect sense to you when you were writing it, but to me it was just a low-effort concern-trolling. You should explain yourself more. Notice what clarifications you had to give out in your other comments.

2) Indelicately including higher-impact, emotionally-charged topics. The appeal to morality is a tired and obnoxious trope when the subject of discussion is not a moral hazard. Additionally, the inclusion of violence was unnecessary; in this context it's not important how the government gets your money, go ahead and assume the government gets it.

With that out of the way, I took the time to write a real response to what you said. In another comment you mentioned "pay their share of the roads, defense and police", and I think that this concept is interesting and not at all obvious. I mean, we need these things and they cost money, but what does it mean to pay one's share? Dollars have a distortive effect on the conversation I think.

When you measure people's success in dollars, you see something interesting: a log-normal curve. Log-normal is the distribution of independent variables that multiply together to get the output. The implication of this is, that factors in your success (luck, hard work, skill as a Java programmer instead of a coffee barrista) multiply together to put together your money. People making much more money than you aren't the same as you but more hardworking, but rather are being vastly amplified by other factors. People making much less money aren't just lazy, again it's other factors that put a ceiling on their income, even if they pull all-nighters at their McJob. So this compound accumulation of other factors, many of which are out of your control, by and large affect your standard of living and how much you pay in taxes.

It's quite hard to say what someone's share of the social burden is. I will say that, in general, progressive taxes do a better job at making that share aligned with the exponential reward from properly cultivated effort. However, I do recognize the shortcomings of such a tax. An underpaid engineer that a company wants to do underpaid overtime so they can hit their deadline would be making poor financial use of their efforts, and hit unfairly hard by progressive taxes. Every dollar that engineer earns from the hardest work they do is taxed even harder! But there's no easy solution to that. My personal view is that progressive taxes should stay, and we should continue investing in financial literacy and supporting people in making strong financial choices (in the this example, probably switch jobs).

What am I not considering?
Hopes are completely orthogonal to reality.
Isn't the reclocking support for GM20x and newer the biggest pain point for last several years?
Okay, I get that it adds value to the company. But what do you mean by defense? How is filing patents that you don't intend to produce so you can win legal battles any different from patent trolling?
There is. Invert colors is very useful when reading HN at night.
> Large numbers of women entered the workforce. ... With that being the norm now, prices are higher and so people generally aren't financially better off.

Women are financially better off.
The GPLv2 literally defines itself in relation to trees of derived works:

> The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language.

The argument that I've is that even when linked together, the Nvidia binary driver isn't a 'derivative under copyright law' because it doesn't have Linux specific entry points, and is older than their Linux port, and therefore isn't part of "The 'Program'" as listed in the GPL.
Yeah, I've seen it crap out now and then, but generally works.
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With something like Tasker this doesn't need to be laborious at all (I have location turn on while certain apps are in use, e.g. Osmand~, and turn off otherwise). And, tin-hattery aside, it has power-saving advantages.
I took the table to be a handy guide to where arbitrary precision is the default vs. hw accelerated math.

Filtered by languages I care about, I guess I have no choice but to learn perl 6 if I want correct (but presumably slow) floating point with elegant syntax (my taste might not match yours).

I’d be curious to know what the random GPU languages and new vector instruction sets do with this computation. I don’t think they’re all 754 compliant.
Serious question, in that thread some guy is attempting to have an old blog with his face pic deleted... id suport that. But then if some other news or political or corporate arm was seeking to get something deleted to prevent them from looking bad, then im against it...

So what is the middle ground here, or how should one view this dilema?
Don’t forget our community colleges, which are perhaps even more impactful. Even an average student can go to school and later transfer to a CSU or a UC. Beyond a standard 4 year degree, they also help with getting younger students ahead and older ones continuing their education.
And also see morphine use during Vietnam war
I sure hope they don't go under (Resilio). Why do you say it's "quite likely"?
Dark-Signal Non Uniformity (DSNU):

https://harvestimaging.com/blog/?p=814

So likely to provide a few bits of entropy.
How detailed, if I may ask?
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an employment agreement is between two equal parties looking for a fair value exchange.

That you can believe and type that with a straight face, makes me boggle. Ideally, maybe. Employee-owned cooperatives, maybe.

One side is a non-human entity, a multi-multi-millionaire with on-tap access to an economy full of high spec legal, financial, and any other kind of consultant. Working on decades of procedures and organizational habits buit from the experiences of hundreds of humans, with many human brains and many years of time-horizon to research any given topic, fronted by the humans selected for being good at "playing the selction game" - convincing, manipulating, looking the part, extracting as much as possible from employees.

The other side is a person, who can spare a small fraction of one human brain, with very limited money and access to resources, who has a Hobson's choice of "work or die of starvation".

It isn't two equal parties. It's barely even two /comparable/ parties.

and when was the last time you talked to someone who felt their employement was "fair value exchange"? Someone at the pub who felt their employer paid them enough, didn't ask too much of them - and wasn't boasting about having an unusually good situation?

In fact, when was the last time you talked to someone who /didn't/ dream of getting enough money to never work again? Would that be such a popular meme if people generally felt fairly treated, equal partners, in value-creating systems they participated in by choice?
A lot of self-assigned IPv6 networks just tack on the device's 64-bit MAC address on to the end of some 64-bit network prefix. So if you're going with self-assignment of IPv6 addresses then you will have difficulty if your assigned prefix is already 64-bits, since you can't really use any of the 64-bit suffix bits for your own network.
Bitcoin is terrible for privacy. Every transaction you make is distributed in a global database and preserved for all eternity. If you want privacy you're much better off with a real privacy-coin like ZCash or Monero.
We agree Nouveau is completely blacklisted right? That's the main problem here.

And the test suite failed on a minor issue where the cause was uncertain, which gets in the way of checking for the bigger definitely-the-driver problem.
Actually having my name on a few patents I feel like I can speak with a bit more authority. Yes, companies file patents all the time on tech they have no actual plans to implement in production. They may not even have a proof of concept. This happens for all sorts of reasons.

Part of the reason is that companies would rather err on the side of obtaining a patent on something patentable rather than miss it & get sued by someone else. Another reason is that it can easily turn out that there are significant technical challenges in productizing an idea but you don't find out until well after you've filed the patent.

There's also a defensive aspect. For patent trolls you want to beat them to filing the patent so you have a far easier legal defence - America was first to file until very recently so that was also a significant incentive in filing defensive patents. For competitors you want to have the patent so that if it turns out a successful product by another company relies on your product heavily you can use it offensively or defensively in case that competitor comes after you (traditionally the bigger Silicon Valley companies have preferred to stick to defensive use of patents against competitors but that isn't always the case).

Finally there's a financial incentive to this from the employee side. Patents bring you bonuses and prestige. That means you have an incentive to push even questionable patents through the process. The patent filing process is completely divorced from marketing AFAIK (haven't sat on any review boards) so no one ever considers the negative PR risk from articles like this (probably rightly so).

> And if you don't think such a thing would be useful to a company like this (if it could really be made to work) you aren't using your imagination properly.

Of course it would be useful. However realistically the engineer in me thinks that when deployed at scale suddenly it can become a lot less useful than other more straightforward methods; both in terms of compute & memory required as well as accuracy. There are cheaper more accurate ways to solve this so why bother wth something so complex/expensive that carries significant PR risk? In fact, FB owning & not using this patent means they can win PR brownie points suing companies that do attempt to use this technique.
Pay workers more. WAY MORE.
That's pretty nice. I'll have to see if I can find some designed for ThinkPads and Samsung phones.
IBM Decimals are the standard for finance applications. Integers, not floating point.

Floats don't have the precision required.
I agree with these points, however some level of quirkiness is defined as a hallmark of very effective workers here [1]
I wonder if it might be possible to misconstrue behavior and label off such an individual as toxic.

[1] https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/8-signs-an-employee-is-except...
The hidden factor is the racial diversity that has since increased.
It has even been found out in many studies that diversity reduces social trust.
Reduced social trust -> Less appetite for increased taxes

Even now you can see that as long as communities are homogeneous, they can get away with an insane degree of progressive policies that are extremely punishing at an individual level.
The "defense" part is that big company X with a large patent portfolio might sue you for infringing on a patent - unless you have a large patent portfolio because then if they sue you, your lawyers can review everything they're doing and compare it to your patent portfolio and find ways to sue them. This is something like mutually assured destruction.

It seems preposterous to me, but this is also the basic idea I've got from working at multiple big companies where they have training meetings to explain these things. You're very much encouraged to come up with ideas and submit them for the lawyers to look at and possibly patent even if it has no applicability to anything you're doing.
> or that the patient is going into anaphylactic shock because of a surprise reaction to anaesthetics, or ... or ... or ... or ... ).

And if I go into anaphylactic shock during my hernia surgery should I be grateful that my surgeon did a Pediatric, OBGYN, Neurology, Psychology, and Oncology rotation? Or that they can draw the Krebs cycle?
Bc?
I did a web project in the gambling space ~10 years back - we were legally required to perform all calculations as integers in ten thousandths of a cent (or millionths of a dollar).

We chose to _not_ do _any_ calculations client side in Javascript...
Not OP, but I'm guessing signal strength measurements, so if 2 devices report similar values they must be close to each other. And then just add the gyroscope info.
Two things can be equally true - systemic racial bias is a thing and has wide-ranging effects, and it doesn’t really make sense to discriminate on issuing auto loans in 2019. I mean, regardless of your personal feelings toward someone, you’re just losing out on commission if you deny the loan. Also, it probably doesn’t matter if you think they can pay the loan back as it will just get packaged and sold several times to other institutions.

There are probably other factors which weigh in more heavily than the loan processor’s person biases, e.g. the credit score system, minorities may be less willing to challenge the initial rate offered, people perhaps negotiating from a weaker position if they don’t have multiple credit options available (bank, credit union, heloc), etc.
At least Cbase Center will be better!
You can't un-ring a bell.
The common stimulus methods are have a negative impact on savers too. The impacts of high/low have a lag time measured in decades, so it is very difficult to debate what they are. Eg, memory suggests there is a pension crisis brewing in the states, but how does the lack of preparation interplay with demographics, government policy and savings rate? Complicated topic.

Personally, I'd expect that any anti-savings policy has a net-negative effect but that very few people would successfully link cause, effect and magnitude. At some point, people should be putting their efforts into forming and preserving capital to set up for the future.
Totally agree.

If you want to use hardware acceleration then go to about://flags and search for blacklist

"Override software rendering list: Overrides the built-in software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android"

Simple and if you have telemetry logging on then you are possibly advertising that nouveau works for you.
Well, yes, and to go further, most of the famous philosophers had things to say about justice, and so do most religions. (So why single out Marxism and and Postmodernism?)

Do any of them say "power laws, what can you do?" That seems like confusing what is and what ought to be.
i didnt say it was the only factor. but it is a major factor. ive read alot of stuff about it, here is the first thing that comes up when i googled just in case you are unwilling to do it yourself: https://www.inman.com/2018/03/21/rising-home-prices-lead-to-....
NoT iN mUh bAcKyArD - “Historical Housing (we only want rising house prices and no “others”)”
I recall someone asked the Zuckholebot about shadow profiles in one of those hearings, and he avoided answering the question... Something about "my team will get back to you on thay, Senator.".
Somewhere along the line, we decided that risking some of one's disposable wealth deserved a higher premium than risking years of one's life in labor. Of course, the "we" making that decision was the people who have wealth, and policy makers who could be influenced by wealth. Because for everyone else it's obviously insane and unjust.
seems like vienna is a pretty good example of how you are wrong: https://crosscut.com/2017/06/homelessness-housing-crisis-sea...
Showing that the result of 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 is a number between 1.9999999999999998 and 2.0000000000000124 will not solve the problem. IEEE floating point doesn't keep track of loss of precision.
I often wonder what other technology like this has been lost throughout the years. Glad to see people trying to recreate it.
Well if by huge you mean 10ish microseconds, then yeah. There is also hysteresis built in so the transitions can only occur about once per millisecond. This puts a hard bound on the cost of the transitions themselves of about 1%.

So no, I don't think the transitions are a big problem for any throughput case, although if you are counting microseconds for some type of low latency thing then sure it can matter.

The bigger problem is usually the frequency reduction.
The PRUs run at 200MHz. So that is something like a 250ns latency, so four times faster than an Apple ][ for RAM access. (Maybe ten times faster, I think all the memory instructions took two cycles or more.)
Essentially there are two different sets of floating point instructions on x86 and x86-64:
- the x87 instructions, which descend from the original 8087 coprocessor (and have 80-bit registers), and
- the SSE instructions, which descend from the Pentium MMX feature set, are faster, support SIMD operations, and can be fully pipelined.

The x87 instructions are basically for legacy compatibility, or if you manually use long doubles on some platforms.

The idea behind extended precision registers was good in theory, but ultimately caused too much hassle in practice.
This has nothing to do with 50/60 Hz ripples, the point of having a personal power transformer is to isolate from high-frequency noise.
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Having a more robust reverse engineering community seems like it would be a national security objective, in a broad sense.

This tool lowers the bar for security researchers to analyze malware, and seems to be part of a broader effort by the NSA to share their tools and foster public-private partnerships.
You seem to have missed out the second link
I think what makes a little more sense is to see this as part of a moat-digging exercise.

Building a large user graph from scratch is the major impediment to someone coming along and challenging Facebook. This kind of thing is trying to head off alternative ways to build that user graph.
There's an example of this happening in the 2018 book Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. A doctor gets the scoop on what Theranos is developing and files a patent loosely based on what they understand Theranos to be developing. The patent was filed with the sole intention of using it against Theranos in the future when they release their product.
> trying to trick the software with falsified data is overstepping your bounds.

Fwiw, I agree with this statement only because Chrome lets users override the default behavior.

In the hypothetical event that Chrome was closed-source and forcibly disabling acceleration under a driver, I'd consider fakery on the part of the driver to be perfectly warranted.
They're basically the Google Photos team, now. Have you seen the ads about face recognition and auto-sharing? They've been working on the problem of photo sharing ever since they figured out that people didn't want to share contact info with Bump, they wanted to share photos.
I may be getting the wrong impression - but what is the point you’re trying to make - and did you just choose a shitty example?
The left, thumb, Two, carries so many problems - do you mean palmar or volar surface? Medial or lateral? I can accurately discribe a lesion at the base of the left thenar eminence and everyone who has studied anatomy anywhere in the world will understand the exact part of the body I am talking about. In another more specific example, I might describe petechial haemorrhages proximal to the iliocaecal valve.
These words aren’t in common usage but again, every medically trained human in the world would know exactly what I am describing.

I understand your last comment about languages changing over time (technical languages) - medicine is no different. See for instance the Dukes grading of bowel cancer, now largely superceeded by TNM Grading which carries specific histological and pathological meanings (as dukes does) but is applicable to all cancers.