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> In Europe you pay high taxes but you get free healthcare, free college and the same for everyone in the country.

Firstly, college is "free" but at the trade off of not everyone being able to go. Instead the government decides who gets to go. In USA anyone can go to college. It's not uncommon for people in their 30s and 40s in USA deciding to go to college. In Europe you have to perform well enough on exams very early in your life if you want free college, otherwise no college for you.

Secondly, I would argue Europe can spend so much on social services because the US buys so many aircraft carriers (and jets and bombs, etc). Post WW2, Europe's military is very weak and can't really project force at all (just look at how well Europe responded to muslim genocide happening next door 20 years ago). Without the US military presence in Europe, Russia would have annexed a bunch of eastern European states by now.

USA isn't perfect, but USA has unique problems that are hard to solve.
I'm similar, but I wonder how many people stream often enough minor artists or minor songs from the past. Maybe keeping the engagement up is the only way for non-unforgettable artists to make enough money to make a living?
This is not long term thinking.

I find DD to be repelling- but moves like this are more repelling than yet another asshole on Twitter.

Twitter apparently wants to save its users from ever being critical thinkers.
That’s a real nice straw man you got there.
You get what you vote for, I'm afraid to say.
He's being downvoted because nowhere on that page does it mention that it's a web browser. If I didn't know what opera was before hand, I wouldn't of been sure if it was a web browser, game browser (like steam), or something else.

Also, From the HN Guidelines:
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Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I just saw an EDC video[0] that featured a Komuso Shift[1], which is basically just a small metal tube that acts as a regulator to slow your breathing.

I don't know what component of HackerNews enjoys "luxury" EDC items, but the idea of a hysical breath regulator is somewhat interesting to me.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVMGOfKdHQg

[1]: https://www.komusodesign.com/
Incidentally, he just released "America"... https://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/america
That would be really cool, but I think enforcing that is undecidable. My gut tells me that having that language feature at compile time is the same as the Halting Problem.
There is no degree can guarantee a good life. But college degree can increase dramatically for that possibility.
It becomes a reflex. Commercial lawyers all do it, tracking time this way is a fact of life, not least because if you end up in court arguing about costs the judge is going to throw out hand-wavy "I spent about a week on this" claims from professional lawyers who should know better.
And yet, the problem isn't fixed, even after 20+ years of this "natural market solution".

Turns out, these people have to live somewhere, so now they travel from further out by car, causing a bunch of traffic congestion. They had to move, but the jobs are still in the same place.
Fair enough, but the trend in everything does seem to be in favor of increased "credentialization". Heck, you need a license just to paint someone's toenails for a few bucks. And in most cases the primarily benefit of credentials is to limit and control the number of individuals in a given occupation. An added benefit goes to rent seekers like governments and credentialing services make a pretty penny too.
As someone in the process of moving to California, this actually makes me more happy to go there.

I guess because I'm assuming the money will help improve things like infrastructure and homelessness problems, which are some of my main worries.

But then I'm also from Europe and would prefer if they increased taxes even more ️
I get the feeling you're only really thinking about machine learning style workloads. Your statement doesn't seem to take into account scatter/gather logic for memory traffic (including combine logic for uniforms), resolution of bank conflicts, sorting logic for making blend operations have in-order semantics, the fine rasterizer (which is called the "crown jewels of the hardware graphics pipeline" in an Nvidia paper), etc. More to the point, these are all things that CPUs don't have to deal with.

Conversely, there is a lot of logic on a modern CPU to extract parallelism from a single thread, stuff like register renaming, scoreboards for out of order execution, and highly sophisticated branch prediction units. I get the feeling this is the main stuff you're talking about. But this source of complexity does not dramatically outweigh the GPU-specific complexity I cited above.
Intel has started offering "F" SKU processors without integrated graphics only very recently with 9th and 10th gen Core CPU's.

But yes otherwise, nearly every Intel CPU has integrated graphics whereas only a few select AMD CPU's have integrated graphics (and AMD brands them as APU's not CPU's).
These satellites are temporary. Internet connectivity is a vital service these days and global connectivity will do a lot to lift a lot of people out of poverty.

The ability for people to take pictures being diminished is unfortunate, but if I had to choose between the two options I'll choose the one that significantly increases a lot on people's standard of living

Maybe in the future when we aren't ruled by capitalist overlords that make expanding traditional internet infeasible we can stop launching and replacing these satellites and can take pretty pictures again
I knew a programmer who was all in on DRY and it was the heart of many stupid debates. Not only did result in a crazy inheritance and dependency tree, there were tons of many useless functions. Like having "logger.log(obj.read_stream())" in a few places would be "WET" the API got cluttered clutter with crap like obj.read_and_log_stream()
Africa lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment
I think that the percentage income tax rate is, largely, an arbitrary number.

Which is to say, I can't find any anchoring, or a priori justification for, say, a 28% rate over a 32% rate, etc.

That is, until we cross 50%.

I feel that there are fundamental issue of fairness and proportionality that are incompatible with taking, via tax, more than half of any particular income - even marginal income.

Two immediate reactions I have, related to these concepts of fairness and proportionality are:

1. What does it say about the fundamental relationship of the state to the individual if we are crossing the halfway point in a taking such as this ?

2. What does it say about the economic and budgetary functions of our government (their relative profligacy) if they can't make things work at 35 or 40 or 45% taxation rates ?

Taxation is not my issue. I prefer to live in (relatively) high tax jurisdictions with robust government services and high quality infrastructure, etc., and I would like to help pay for that. There is, however, something about the halfway point that disturbs me.
We are the chosen ones, we have Right on our side, we need not listen to anyone who disagrees with us. Better in fact if they did not even exist, no? Maybe if we're vigorous enough in protesting our orthodoxy while tossing the heretics in the fire, no one will think to question whether our thoughts are utterly proper.
millions of people own telescopes (most with internet access already) and for 99.999% of them there is no upside.
Note that before the 2017 federal tax changes, California incpome tax was deductable at the federal level without a cap (but subject to AMT), so a 40% marginal federal tax and a 13% marginal state tax did not add up to a 53% marginal income tax like it does now.
New Covid-19 notification app rolls out in Ontario
> What's to stop someone from obtaining a useless degree that doesn't contribute to the nation's economy, and then discharges the debt in bankruptcy?

Nothing, and that's exactly why education debts need to be dischargeable like anything else.

Dischargeable loans makes loan companies have actual responsibility and consequences in deciding who to give loans to. Otherwise, they blindly give out loans (why not, there's no risk!), putting all that much money in the system, which college institutions are happy to absorb in higher tuition.
You're forgetting all the expense of printing the CD's. It can be thousands of dollars, for a basic bi-fold paper cover. Selling CD's at $10 can, and often is, a loss.

"Mid-level" band playing to 200 people who don't know who they are, and might buy a few T-Shirts isn't making much either. Plus they have to quit their jobs and travel, or settle for local shows once a month (or right now, zero shows for practically the entire year). The bar or "house" might pay the band $250 for the show, split 4 or 5 ways... plus deduct any overpriced alcohol and food the band consumed. They often walk away with barely enough money to put into the gas tank.

Heck, most of the professional, full-time "mid-level" bands can hardly afford their practice space monthly rent.

Very, very few "Mid-level" bands make money. It's a passion project. Very few get lucky enough to make it to the next level and tour with some known bands.
ISA is just about the instruction set that the silicon is designed to interpret. Aww compatibility does not imply any shared heritage in the silicon between apple and arm LTD cores. Just like AMD and Intel share no silicon design even though they are both sell processors implementing the AMD64 ISA.

(The silicon implementation of an isa is referred to as the microarchitecture btw)
Here are the working proposals for the privacy-safe replacements for 3rd-party cookies on web. This conversation has been happening in public for over a year. Mobile will likely follow similar solutions, but Apple accelerated the timeline of IDFA deprecation and caught the industry off guard. https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising
Just because there's examples of successful usages doesn't necessarily mean that it's "good" or even a model for how we do things moving forward. Picking that specific example [NS|UI]Button, they're dreadful to work with. Honestly. Customizing them is difficult to impossible. It's often easier to just compose them into a different container because the extension points couldn't possibly be designed in a way that gives you all the flexibility you need.

Yes, it works, and yes, there are great systems built with OOP patterns. The same can be said of C++. That doesn't mean they're good, or we should choose it as our tool moving forward.
> $540/pair

Tool?
Yeah I'm sure you would be very happy to get services that exclusively other people are paying for. Who wouldn't? How about a broad tax increase on the middle class and above which would actually generate the revenue necessary to pay for these types of projects sustainably? Funny how when that gets suggested, support for public spending tends to evaporate.
And that’s also how you hear about how much writers hate writing and are only happy when handing in a manuscript for publication. (See: Vonnegut)
Well my point was meant to be that it is not a good indicator. I don't know if they fail as much as non-phds, but there are just so many better signals than the PhD itself to go off of, a PhD by itself is not impressive.

And it's well known that if you are smart and start working out of undergrad instead of getting a phd you usually end up significantly ahead in terms of earnings and on the corporate ladder.
> Well, at least for reasonably big integers, it is.

Big integer calculations are the bread and butter of GPUs now?
That's great, but the environment doesn't care about the cost to offset just that it has less CO2/etc in the air from humans.
5G will also help some but it's become pretty clear that there isn't the public interest to generally bring broadband to rural areas the way telephone and electricity was (in the US among other places). The only real option today is conventional satellites, which for a lot of people are unacceptable because of latency/data limits/cost especially as video is increasingly not really optional.

Of course, we'll have to see how good these efforts of relative to normal broadband but they do offer hope that you won't have to choose where to live based on the broadband options.
Being anti-racist isn't a far left position, it's a civilized human being position.
Certainly, but lots of places do.

The non-flagship state uni a lot of my friends went to had fantastic project-based coursework in CS. Acceptance rate is like 70% and tuition is very affordable.

Agreed that ENG departments tend to do better at this, especially at mid-tier state schools. CS departments need to take project-based work and especially capstones much more seriously.
> that can be made against any and all taxation

Only if you assume the wealthy have zero resistance to moving, and would leave for a country with lower taxes at any level of taxation. You're essentially saying nothing can be described as expensive without the same complaint being valid against anything not free.

> It is obvious in extreme examples

That extreme example only applies it to 2 people. Applied to all Americans, and the dollar becomes worth less.

Your PP equalisation has the exact same effect of heavy taxation, although it feels more like revolutionary redistribution. Whatever you feel about that, it's still short of redistributing PP because it only applies to currency, and not other investments.
My understanding is that there's a great deal of R&D behind optimal waveforms for e-paper. It takes careful tuning to avoid visual artifacts like ghosts and afterimages. And much of the progress in visual quality and longevity over the last several years is from better waveforms. So it's not very fact-like in the sense that anyone could derive the same waveform from theory.
I was going off the Best Places COL Calculator [1]

Seattle housing: 67.9% cheaper [2]

San Francisco housing: 83.4% cheaper [3]

[1] https://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/

[2] https://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/seattle-wa/chicago...

[3] https://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/san-francisco-ca/c...
There's this "bastard OOP" where "ellipse isa circle" going around which completely doesn't work in practice. But there's "true OOP" that follows SOLID principles (particularly LSP) that actually makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately, this "bastard OOP" is the more popular variant, with many "bastard OOP" examples from the late 90s and early 00s running around textbooks, polluting the minds of student programmers at the time. This article does a good job poking fun at it, with "class Dog extends Animal", which is complete nonsense.

Actually learning SOLID principles, as well as the historical 80s style of OOP, goes a long way towards fixing problems.
Do other nations have to agree on this? I assume not, but they're obviously not just blocking the sky over the US.
(2) sounds very similar to the way I have typically handled db access in C++. However the kind of state I was referring to is more about the internal computational data used by the program than about external resources.
It seems like we should make the debt conditional on the degree pursued. How much you’re allowed to take out in federal loans ought to be a function of the pay associated with that degree. I’m sure it’s not a perfect system, but it seems a lot better than the status quo or solutions that involve burdening society with the economic liability of a glut of (economically) low-value degrees.
Stock market valuations are forward-looking, but they aren't always predicting the right future.

Personally I won't be betting on or against Intel - it wouldn't shock me if they follow the Nokia route, it also wouldn't shock me if they come out with a new generation that puts them back on top within the next few years.
I’m in full agreement with the social and political concerns you raise, and I think it’s the strongest argument for breaking up these companies, but I don’t think the economy is as flexible or pliable as you assume—especially when the small companies that would try to replace some of the services the big guys offer often rely on a subset of these very services (e.g. cloud services).

I’m not convinced a start up can get to the same level of quality as these big four within a year or so—and that dip in quality will have palpable economic effects, sure it may not cause a collapse, but you’d experience a slow down of the economic engine for sure, and it'd last longer than a year—basically it’d last as long as it took for some other company to reach monopoly size—concentration of wealth and economic power is a flaw internal to the structure of capitalism itself and is the inevitable telos of capitalistic structure.

I think a better way to place limits on the social and political power of these companies is to put in greater data protections. Make these companies pay for user data, make it incredibly difficult for them to abuse data or users, that would help restrict their influence and open up avenues for competition—a smaller company may not have as great of a service but if they offer users greater compensation for their data they can draw in customers.
That was the leadership call. In the US, current leadership might do the same. It's likely a national poll would support an electric solution though.
Texas: Can confirm, many people have left CA because of high housing cost and tax rate.
> FB … helping Apple sell iOS 14.

That's exactly the right way to put it.
Random Forest on GPUs: 2000x Faster Than Apache Spark
Happy to see this.
But aren't there safety nets in Europe? Why would there be homeless?
It's already 54% for folks with a 7 figure income deriving their income from short term investments (say, stock options). This is almost always the case in tech.

37% federal

13.3% state

3.8% Net Investment Income Tax

54.1% total, before this new tax.
I had always uses this[1] as a way of double-checking my GLTF output during game jams, but this looks really nice! It's nice to have more variety in this space. Blender's GLTF output works nicely with three.js or other WebGL libraries.

[1] https://gltf-viewer.donmccurdy.com
Yeah, I, too am worried about this. I would have rather had a conglomerate of companies with Apple being one buying them and keeping them private. But oh well. Hopefully Nvidia does right by all of ARM’s existing customers.

With this buy Nvidia has GPUs, CPUs, networking, what else do they need to be a vertically integrated shop?
Lots of people get these degrees simply for the status aspect. I take meaningful Github OSS contributions much more seriously than PhDs, given all the garbage I have seen in academia. I don't understand how that can be called anecdotal when you can pick up any scientific journal and see that most of the papers are usually trash.
This should be testable

There have been music resembling Bach written before Bach (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUcdBz3LIuU). How much more of resemblance you hope for?
This feels a bit like "we'll all drown in horse manure by year 2000" kind of issue. Given the way SpaceX is going, we'll probably end up with a wide range of space-based observatories that offer much better tools than current ground-based observatories that are limited by Earth's atmosphere, noise from radio local transmissions, overflying satellites, etc.
Employees have zero incentive to fight extra hard to save the company an extra $20. They're getting paid minimum wage regardless. Same way the cashiers at the grocery store will scan their bonus club card to get you a discount -- they don't get paid more or less if you get charged differently.
What the hell is the deal with HN and Tool?
Apple also fully controls the hardware and software stack for both CPU and GPU.
It's not far-left to be against the KKK terrorist group.
Having lived and worked for almost 20 years in different Asian countries, I would be a lot more nuanced than you are. First, I completely disagree that suffering is the mark of success...

And, I would be hard pressed to completely generalize between say China, Taiwan and Japan. While you will find a lot of overtime and overwork in those countries, the way they happen is different and the cultural/social pressure behind that are different. And having worked with Asian Americans (both ABCs and people who came a bit later), I would vehemently disagree that you can easily generalize their behavior solely based on the culture of their country of origin, especially since they have lived in the US, spent time there, gone to school there and will have changed their values and culture over time just from this.

So, I don't think that saying Jerry Yang is taiwanese therefor will overwork his employees is a useful heuristic or likely to be true...
Was he really prominent? I had totally forgotten about him having not seen his name in the news for years. Most of what he was known for happened twenty years ago. Since then a few lame attempts to ride coat tails and pretty much disavowed all the time.

What we should be happy about is they have to dig this far off the mainstream to find someone like him.
Most of the residents you are talking about were "invaders" one time too. The difference is that when they showed up, more housing was built for them.

Today, more housing does not get built, primarily because of strict zoning laws supported by the existing residents, so newcomers end up competing with existing residents for housing.

On the other hand, if new housing was built for the newcomers, they would contribute to the economy of the city and pay taxes, and their presence would be an overall net positive.

Something is really wrong with the way a city is run if an influx of high earners is considered a bad thing.
There's basically two directions that people are going... Splits with lots of keys so you can have keys dedicated to whatever you want or going more and more minimalist.

The minimalism idea is that since these are all programmable, we can design them to require much less finger/hand movement by taking more advantage of layers, various strategies of key activation, key layouts, etc.

There's an active Discord for the whole genre of the smaller, 40% keyboards.
I made up the examples, and IIRC it was able to explain most things I tried.

If others want to experiment with this, I used the "davinci" model with temperature 0.5, and here is the prompt / initial context I seeded it with:

This is a test to examine your common sense reasoning. A statement will be provided, and your job is to explain why it doesn't make sense.

Statement: His foot looked at me.
Explanation: Feet don't have eyes, so they can't look at things.

"""

Statement: The 8th day of the week is my favorite.
Explanation: A week only has 7 days.

"""

Statement: I fell up the stairs.
Explanation: You fall down stairs, not up stairs.
You can go to college in most countries in Europe even if you are a 40yo High school dropout for little money compared with US prices (2500€/year).

The real difference is that in general you get what you pay for, and most college education is just licensing.
Not very compelling. Your point that people have been able to leverage something to build something applies to everything. Doesn't mean it's good nor that there isn't a whole rest-of-the-continuum of things that are better. Look at all the things humans built before 21st-century tooling. So what?

GUI frameworks like NS/UIKit and CoreData aren't good. They're quite bad, actually. That's why we are moving on.

It's just that the pendulum has swing so far away from OOP in our zeitgeist for enough time that the new audience is feeding a new wave of "X is actually good!" We can see the same with PHP-related HN submissions right now.