skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd disagree. There is a lot of new stuff to CSS making our lives HUGELY easier.

Classic example is CSS grids that is only recently starting to become ubiquitous in commonly used browsers, and the new units of measurement that go along with it like 'fr'. CSs does not feel stagnant to me, but is evolving I think... Perhaps not at the breakneck speed that JS libraries are, but then the core of ECMAScript is not going as fast as JS libraries either.
> As a general rule, taxation of returns on savings is always double taxation.

Not any more than any other taxation.

> Money today is not worth the same as an equal amount of money five years from now

That's a good reason for inflation adjusting basis values when computing gains, but it's not a good argument for not taxing them, or for taxing them at a preferential rate.

> an equal amount of money after it has been invested in a risky venture with a substantial chance of losses.

The loss either happens or it doesn't, once it has or hasn't, what is left is the same as the same amount of money acquired by other means.
> Nothing in the article is substantially new, as someone who's been following this story closely.

The stuff on the filing of formal charges is new. The (literal) date-stamp on the indictment is from Thursday: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rIz2tT7h...

Since there's some redaction (and the flurry of posts on this exact same topic), I'm guessing it took until today for them to be publicly released.

Another thing that's new (to me at least) is that they indicted Huawei itself, not just Mrs. Meng. A lot of the previous reporting that I read focused on her actions exclusively (probably due to extradition hearing).
>Like if you deal drugs, you will also evade taxes

And if they IRS finds out they are coming after you. They don't care that the money was made illegally.

Besides, these sanctions we're passed by the UN, not the US, and China is a voting member.
The person renting out property is exploiting a market inefficiency to the loss of the renter. The cost of renting property is, by definition, slightly higher than the cost of getting a mortgage on the same property and gaining value in the property, otherwise the renter has no motivation to enter into a contract, there is a bit of fuzziness in that owners are responsible for the lion's share of the maintenance but in general we can assume most owners price their property so that they can cover maintenance comfortably. The only thing that drives the cost of renting below the cost of mortgage + maintenance is the fact that the owner is investing their time owning the asset in subsidizing the price of having purchased the asset - a renter is always going to pay more money (barring crazy stuff like living in an area with frequent natural disasters, but the market will adjust to that)

It is a good life choice to try and recoup some of the money you're paying into housing as an accrued asset, if you're currently renting I'd suggest looking at the numbers in greater detail - if you move frequently the tax your government levies on selling properties may tip this equation the other way but generally property ownership is a good idea.

To return to your original question, a subsidy on renting allows property owners to shift the price point on their rentals in their favor and ends up going into the owner's pockets, they can reinvest and grow their assets faster while people who are in the rental market will find it harder to escape due to an increased growth in property values - also a rental subsidy is great for anyone who already owns but I don't really think that's a section of the population we need to actively subsidize.
> So, if Via is unsustainable and unprofitable, and was acquired by local government, that wouldn't really be any different from how the LA Metro got started.

Why would LA Metro pay to acquire Via when it can just run identical bus routes? Also, LA transit planners probably already know which areas would benefit from new bus route, but are constrained by their budget.

Unless advertisers are thinking it's profitable to blast ads to commuters for their 30-45 min commute, affordable transit will continue to need to be subsidised by tax dollars (yes, yes.. transit in Asia, real-estate).
The early Cocoa VM had this built-in: copy the VM app bundle, plonk an image in the bundle’s resources, done.
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I think that if we got rid of those incentives people would still innovate
Probably far from being "super simple", but I made a bot to automate different tasks in a online game.

Customers can either self-host the software them-self (min $5/month) or pay a higher price (min $10/month) and use my "cloud" service where I host and install the software for them.

I use Golang to build everything, caddy for https, Hetzner for hosting, and docker to deploy cloud instances.

https://www.ogame.ninja/
The ECMAScript specification (https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-S...) has statements in a separate chapter from function declarations. (Chapter 14) Furthermore, the function declaration grammar does not contain a semi-colon, unlike other statements.
In confidence, I’ve heard stories of simple cost-saving measures at fabs that have resulted in 9+ figures of damages. Honestly, I am impressed at how well these companies keep it out of the news. It’s a shame because the stories are really quite good.

You can have safeguards against contamination but these safeguards aren’t 100% reliable. The article reports “substandard” chemicals and that’s an umbrella term that includes contamination and many other problems.

Speaking as nothing more than a hobbyist, I can tell you that analog photography suffers from many of the same problems you might see in semiconductor manufacturing, only on a much smaller scale. I used to mix my own photochemicals from raw reagents and it’s a complex subject, to say the least. Exposure to air and minerals in the water have all sorts of effects, and the standard way to test your process is just to run film through it. I’m sure that fabs have better testing equipment than I do, but at the end of the day, it’s not feasible to test everything and I’m not surprised that a bad batch of chemicals made it through, ruining many batches of wafers due to the sheer depth of the manufacturing pipeline.

With photochemicals, a small change in the developer formulation can result in what is more or less a completely black and unworkable negative, or possibly a blank negative. I expect semiconductor manufacturing to be similar, since both processes rely so heavily on knowing reaction rates. Kinetics is complicated, to say the least. For photochemistry I rely heavily on using known developer / film concentrations and being borderline religious when it comes to temperature and time.
Are there any replacements for CSS on the horizon?
China stole trade secrets and technology from US Steel and Alcor (aluminum) that allowed them to catch up in technology at an unreasonable pace. This is just one huge example. They don't innovate, they steal and then copy, undercutting others' costs.

The US metal producing industry has taken a huge hit and they were the ones to put the R&D money into the production technology.
There's also Pharo (pharo.org) which forked from Squeak some years ago and is chugging along at an impressive pace.
I’d be very happy if my investment income was taxed at the same rate as my salary income.

I’d be even happier if it was taxed higher. My time (labor) should be worth more than my money (capital).
The majority of things in patents could not be kept secret. What we end up with is disposable products because every part is patented so you can't make replacements or other devices that are compatible.
It is weird how things have flipped, but at the same time makes sense if you look at it from the bean counter's view. It used to be that companies would start with the luxury brand. These would cost premium prices, and would last in a time frame in line with their prices. They would then take features away (or just disable them) to make the lower tiers. Sometimes this meant replacing a metal something with a plastic something. The prices would be cheaper reflecting the missing options. It might not last as long, but it was a fraction of the price. Now, it seems like everything is just a cheap plastic something, and the entire thing is cheap enough to just buy a new whole thing instead of repairing the broken component. The prices are now in the middle pushing back up towards the premium pricing, but for much lower quality product.
Short answer is that, on a very long time horizon, I think drug laws probably are just a phase that will go away. But socially- or religiously-enforced policing of conduct is as old as human culture itself, so even if drugs become decriminalized, the tendency to proclaim some substances or actions "taboo" is unlikely to ever disappear. The specific actions/substances in question can change fairly quickly, however.
Huh. Chalk me up to the bar on the graph of having never heard of it. Until now...
Ya how dare anyone make money from their well researched work!!!
It’s obscurity in the same way a password or a bearer token is obscurity. Which is not what anybody would reasonably call security by obscurity, as your definition includes any use of a secret.
The closest Americanism that comes to mind for this term would be "grit", which I think is a bit different as it's more about enduring hardship (or hard work) than actually working hard. I think the word "hussle" is used similarly sometimes.
IMHO recursive ascent is both easier to write and faster.
Well, if they're aiming to solve the last-mile problem for less advantaged people, competing on price becomes even more essential. And while the standard answer to this is always subsidization, I think the program needs to at the very least be sustainable from a business perspective so it doesn't become beholden to the whims of the next fiscal-hawk to take city office.

I agree with you otherwise: ride-hailing is expensive and inefficient as a last mile solution. Dockless electric scooters are a great idea, and I think if the city can do a managed rollout that doesn't frustrate residents in the area (basically, the opposite of Bird), they could be great success.
FTA: "The average Facebook session lasted less than 90 seconds, according to people familiar with the matter".

How can you make money from people who are going to your site in 90 second segments? You have an ad in the beginning of your video, that's at least 5 seconds there. Assuming it's not skippable, that leaves 85 seconds at most for the rest of your video. The only kind of video that can go for 85 seconds or less are meme videos, and people who watch meme videos sure as hell don't have the patience to watch unskippable ads before watching memes.
This is right on the back of nVidia's stock taking a beating after admitting that the global market for GPUs has become soft from the collapse of the crypto bubble.
Tesla Service Center Expansion Stuck in “Infrastructure Hell”
My favorite story in this genre is an employer that would force employees to take vacation in order to make quarterly numbers look better (fewer obligations on the books) in order to juice earnings so that targets could be “met”. Every time they did it, they promised they’d never do it again. And then 18 months later they did it again.
First page of the 1707-1711 editions, I found this sentence, sure there's likely more ...

"A proposall was read by Dr. Papin concerning

a new invented [deleted] to be row'd with oars mov'd

by heat. The farther consideration of It was also referred to ye. next meeting.

A letter was read from Mr. Leibnitz concerning

Mr. Papin & this new boat."
The problem with tech is that if you did something just a few years ago you are considered "outdated" and this experience doesn't count. For example I wrote heavy duty C++ code until 2012 for more than 10 years but during interviews I often get zero credit for this experience. "You haven't used C++ 17".
The following quote is perhaps telling, in it Azaña, (president of the Republic) tells Negrín (prime minister, overseeing the evacuation due to the civil war) that:

> The Prado Museum is more important for Spain than the Monarchy and the Republic altogether... consider the embarrassment if the paintings were missing or seriously damaged... you would need to shoot yourself.
You are correct, all of this benefit would end up being taken by landlords due to their ability to dictate prices - btw government subsidized housing can be a different situation and the government can be an intentionally inefficient market actor to benefit the renters. I think there are still more accurate way to subsidize the lower class though, a reduced income tax is more likely to directly translate into a higher savings rate and more consumer power - and that last bit benefits us all by increasing the velocity of money.
Two interesting facts are missing from this story. First is that the TU-144 was copied from stolen Concorde drawings. Once the consortium (now known as Airbus) building Concorde found this out, they deliberately planted false information in their design documents which lead the Soviets to creating an inferior and essentially unusable airplane.

The second fact which is rarely mentioned in TU-144 write-ups is that the primary reason for its withdrawal was there simply wasn't (and never could be) a market for the seats. Russia and its communist allies didn't have the per capita income to pay for tickets on the necessarily-expensive Concordski. While Western countries didn't have a large market for the tickets (priced the same as regular first class seats), at least there was some market. In Russia, there weren't enough people (any people?) with the wealth to afford to fly the TU-144.

As a side note, you can see both planes together at the Frankfurt airport where they are on display outside and visible from the tarmac when you take off from your Boeing or Airbus flight. :-)
Not the poster above, but using Clickhouse for similar purposes (archival/analytics on huge data that started out in MySQL and gets imported to Clickhouse for the long term). Some real-world numbers on our end for the same time period, roughly 2.5 billion rows:

InnoDB Barracuda - (logical data + indexes 583GB, physical ZFS LZ4: 386GB, ~1.51x compression radio)

Clickhouse MergeTree - (logical 349GB, physical ZFS LZ4: 279GB, ~1.27x compression ratio)

The MySQL version of the data has a few different compound indexes which certainly contribute to the size difference, but regardless Clickhouse is dozens of times faster on complex queries against this data.

We run both our MySQL and Clickhouse servers on ZFS (Clickhouse accesses its datastore over NFS on a 10gbit link... in practical terms we have not seen a severe performance penalty for doing this, even though we know it isn't encouraged by the Clickhouse maintainers).
> Even the best most precise cursive tends to be more difficult to read than modestly competent print.

That's purely a practice effect, like the fake finding that lowercase text is easier to read than all-caps text. (People you pull off the street do indeed read lowercase text faster. After a minor amount of practice, this advantage disappears.)

There are a lot of cases here where a series of letters appears to have been reduced to just a wave pattern. But the biggest problems I have at first glance are

- You can't zoom in far enough

- Some letters are written in an unexpected (consistent, but not modern) way. Look at how e is always written like you'd expect a cursive o or a σ to look. This difficulty will be easily overcome if you spend any time reading the text, but as of now I have a lot more trouble identifying what letters have been written than identifying what word a sequence of known letters is supposed to represent.

On the other hand, a lot of it looks perfectly fine. "This occasioned much discourse of the cause of Fountaines, and Dr Robinson was of opinion that (stormes?) occasiond by a subterraneall heat, either of fire or" (eighth bullet point at the beginning of 1686).
The downside of decimating attention span rears it’s head.
its not about attending a funeral ... its about not being there with your loved ones. you cant buy that time back...for a million or a billion..time is the most precious asset we own.
That wasn't the proposal. The proposal was to warm the CDN's cache.
> I think that if we got rid of those incentives people would still innovate

Yes, but then they'd keep their innovations secret as trade secrets or they would only innovate when it was cheap and unrisky.
Glad you brought this up. It feels, at least to me, like FUSE is only for...hmm...gimmick or science-fare projects. Maybe something useful on your development machine. Indeed, at a previous employer, several problems were addressed using a handful of FUSE filesystems, quite elegantly. Of course the caveat was "this ain't prod, duh, it's FUSE". But this doesn't NEED to be the case. Tangentially, microkernels pop up here often, and arguable, moving some filesystems to user space makes sense in a related vein.

I'll admit, I'm all talk and if it really mattered, pull requests are probably welcome.
I've seen repeated countless times recently that the marginal tax rate on the rich used to be as high as 91%

Between 1950 and 1959, he notes, the highest earning 1 percent of Americans paid an effective tax rate of 42 percent. By 2014, it was only down to 36.4 percent—a substantial but by no means astronomical decline.

<...>

There are a few obvious reasons why the taxes the rich actually paid in the 1950s were so much lower than the confiscatory top rates that sat on the books. For one, the max tax rates on investment income were far lower than on wages and salaries, which gave a lot of wealthy individuals some relief. Tax avoidance may have also been a big problem. Moreover, there simply weren’t that many extraordinarily rich households. Those fabled 90 percent tax rates only bit at incomes over $200,000, the equivalent of more than $2 million in today’s dollars. As Greenberg notes, the tax may have only applied to 10,000 families.

https://slate.com/business/2017/08/the-history-of-tax-rates-...
For anyone else wondering about that formula.

https://exceljet.net/excel-functions/excel-sumproduct-functi...

All I can say is, I am grateful I don’t have to deal with other people’s spreadsheets.

My jam is programming languages and SQL, not obscure formulas and weird constructs made from surprising ways of using them.
ok, but the facts you present don't really isolate the cause (i.e., rule out other possibilities) of (the perception of) wobble.

you'd need to prove that all desks, when assembled by random people, have largely similar wobble characteristics (or the much harder proof that wobble varies with the perceptive tolerances of the observer). however, as you allude, the engineers were constrained by ikea's affordability (cheap), assembly (easy), and distribution (flat-pack) goals rather than precision around wobble.

as for the engineering, it's not support mass or surface area you need (read up on i-beams if this doesn't make immediate sense), but torsional rigidity at the joints, particularly tighter tolerances around the connectors when assembled by random people. torsional rigiditity in the spanning members is needed too, but that's less likely to be the issue since it's a steel frame.

this is a simpler explanation for the observed phenomena (apply occam's razor here). certainly more than one explanation might conjointly apply, but yours is the more complicated explanation and thus implores more observation and measurement.
They would indeed invest it, but they would demand dividends be paid in natura. There would be a type of business where, you invest 5%, you become a director there. With free use of a yacht, private plane, car (these businesses come in all sizes, you essentially get 5% from what would be dividends to be spent as you wish as long as accounting can make it work), a hotel/travel budget, ... all these would no longer be personal expenditures, but business expenses.

In actuality these businesses exist (even much more dirty: in practice, bank employees on occasion demand they be offered this, in trade for not sabotaging a loan. This is pretty common practice). But even "fairly", with actual investments, these businesses exist.

And no, this is not illegal, nor do you want to make this illegal.
Seems like they’d need a higher return due to higher tax.
FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
If someone stole their invention and made money off it?? Why the hell would anyone want to invest time into that? Its not like the Chinese are pursuing some ideology of free knowledge, no they are trying to scoop for profit.
You have a point, it would be disruptive. I believe it's the right move for the long term but there may be a better way to approach introducing it - suddenly cutting out any deductions for charitable giving would likely bankrupt those charities before government subsidization or non-tax deductible giving could pick up the slack, for instance.
Formula calculation speed.

I am interested in talking, as I work on ethercalc.

The big issue I have seen is formula calculation speed. I understand render speed is also an issue. I don't know your use case, but the use cases I see tend to have formulas. It is hard to makes formulas fast enough with JS.

The main speed problems with ethercalc are loading the data from the server and calculating the formulas. I did strip down the code to remove these problems to make web apps work.

Web apps as simple as spreadsheets. My aim is to make it easy to add a UI to a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets often have a UI bottle neck. I have seen many spreadsheets that would be much more valuable to business if it had a UI, as more people could use it. So I added UI formulas to ethercalc http://sheet.cellmaster.com.au/examples

Eddy.
At some point it is not realistic to expect everything should be free, you should be given the job you want and the salary you want or else you want the government to pay you the salary you want for the job you don't have.

That you deserve the latest cell phone, deserve the most expensive Macbook.

People mention AOC, but if you notice her followers don't seem to get reality.
There are lots of criticisms that you could level at Trump, but arguing that he's a terrible negotiator is a pretty hard road, given his career and accomplishments.

Better to take a shot from an ethics angle.
Squeak was, I think, the first programming environment I ever used. I spent so many hours making race tracks (2d self driving cars!) and other fun toys, moved on to other stuff soon after that but never really found that feeling of instant feedback again.
Sure but it seems I'm not the only Brit who was completely unaware of the American meaning.
This seems to contain no update on the hardware.
> I don't know if that sort of risk has been fully internalized by the tech sector.

It’s known and understood completely within any silicon company. If you can afford it, and it’s technically possible (no special deals or tech), you’ll require at least some functionality at a second fab. What you cannot do is immediately get a second fab up and running. There’s a surprising amount of process tuning, sometimes accommodating new device models, and design rule differences (they will not guarantee or sometimes even start if they’re not meet). It’s in no way turn-key if you’re anywhere near the limits of what the fab can do.