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This feels like a propaganda piece written by a wealthy person trying to convince you, a not wealthy person, that you shouldn't support higher taxes on the wealthy because they are just doing it to prevent you from being as wealthy as they are.

There is no evidence presented.

I know a couple of billionaires. None of them are even trying to get richer. Their investments are all made in an attempt to make the world a better place, from their point of view. Getting richer is just a side effect of that. They want higher taxes because they think wealth inequality is bad, but they know that if they just give away their own money, it won't solve the problem, because there needs to be systemic changes forcing everyone to give their money away, otherwise the people who aren't giving their money away will just collect it from the ones that are, via middle class and poor intermediaries.
This is a pretty good analysis.

I hope that advances in biology will make fertility a choice and allow most human beings to enjoy life without constantly worrying about kids and mates.
yet they can't manage offline Maps and directions without internet connectivity.
The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying (2017)
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I think that's a call you make to maximize enjoyment. Take on what you're curious about, not what you dread.

Another part of the equation is - don't be afraid to ask for or hire help. Some people take on some projects because they don't want to or don't know they can ask for help.
Ye, I'm with you. To give the benefit of doubt to the author, maybe they were thinking of "turning to software innovation" as in optimizing / longer dev cycles that can result in less resource wastage. i.e. rather than needing the latest chip to run Electron based applications everywhere they'd spend a bit more time developing software that can run well on older chips.
That's pretty awesome. I moved out of embedded development many years ago, but it's always been my true love as an engineer.
Isn't there enough of these dumped? At least keyboards and mice, if not older LCDs.
No legislation is required to address Tesla's abuses. Auto manufacturers in the United States are required to make available repair parts for 10 years after production ceases for any car model. Those parts are required to be made available to the public. Those parts can also be freely reverse engineered by anyone who wishes to create imitation parts. Tesla originally did not make the repair parts available or parts list that is considered part of making the parts available. Begrudgingly they did finally do it but it's still not easy to acquire. Again because parts are required to be made available, parts lists and assembly guides fall into that as well because the factory assembly manual for any vehicle is a part of that vehicle that can be ordered. All the auto manufacturers in the United States complied with this because these rules were already fought and legislated and the courts decided back in the 50s and 60s. You can go buy your factory assembly manual anytime you want for your Ford or your GM or other manufacturer. The Magnuson Moss warranty act further clarified when the manufacturers attempted to say that a change of one part invalidates the warranty on the entire car. Again this is all ancient history no new legislation is required. Tesla actually goes one step further in their abuse than any other auto manufacturer has ever done where they remotely disable vehicles in such a way where they cannot be repaired without manufacturer intervention. This is an egregious violation.

This study is just lip service because no real actions are taken for things that have been a legislated and ruled on 50 plus years ago.
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The Wig punched himself through a couple of African backwaters and felt like a shark cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar. Not that any one of those tasty tiny eggs amounted to much, but you could just open wide and scoop, and it was easy and filling and it added up.

The Wig worked the Africans for a week, incidentally bringing about the collapse of at least three governments and causing untold human suffering.

At the end of his week, fat with the cream of several million laughably tiny bank accounts, he retired.
>> turning instead to software to handle functions that had historically been done in hardware

> That generally means doing things less efficiently. Devices will get slower and battery lifetimes shorter.

Not necessarily. For example, the original idea behind RISC was too move lots of complicated functions (and instructions) from hardware into software, so that the hardware could concentrate on doing the most common and simple functionality quicker.
LOL, no. It's hard to implement hardware functions in software if it's impossible to source the MCUs my software stack was built on.

What's really happening is that I (and likely many others) realised that Chinese-brand chips (which are not affected by the shortage) works just as fine as the western ones.

The other thing I realised was that non-authorized sellers works just as fine as well. Yep, I had to implement more thorough testing/QC, but I would not call that extra work innovation.
Barber licensing is done at the State level in the US, and also varies pretty widely between states.

https://www.barber-license.com/
> If someone says they get overwhelmed by something, chances are decent there is something overwhelming about it.

The numbers speak for themselves. I don't need to convince you. There are more web developers than in any other programming field. So it must have some property that makes it easy to get started or at least some kind of incentive to make people go through the initial hurdle.

Anything worth studying is slightly overwhelming at first, but to say that everything continues to be overwhelming once you know the basics is wrong. Knowing a little bit of the grammar and some words will help you understand better Mandarine. Not knowing anything about the language will make it appear as some alien technology.

No skill starts growing at the middle. Nobody teaches mathematics by starting with abstract concepts. We don't learn new spoken languages by studying literature from the get-go. So getting the pedagogics right is part of the success.
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I'm beginning to wonder why mice shouldn't be considered persons - with rights.
Creation of entirely new brands of compatible hardware is innovation too - or maybe let's call it progress.
> The central thesis is that the shortage will lead to innovation, but in my experience it has put a HUGE strain on everyone doing R&D. I suspect it'll instead lead to rising costs and stagnation as people wait for supplies. This is already basically what we have in the consumer hardware market, where last year's consoles still aren't consistently on store shelves.

I think there's some truth to creativity being enhanced by constraints. Certainly, if supplies are limited, and especially if the limits are uneven, there's going to be incentive to design around the chips that are limited, and some of that might be innovation that could be useful even after supply goes back to normal. Of course, CPU shortages are hard to design around, especially if all CPUs are in short supply; but some applications might be able to make use of different CPUs that might have more availability.
What type of evidence are you thinking of? If they found something like child sex abuse material, or chat logs with gang members about trafficking drugs, how would the defense attorney convince you Signal might have planted that?
This is why we need a right to backup our CDs and DVDs.

At least iTunes rips CDs into music files.
I have some that are well over a decade old. Just a few weeks ago, I used a few. They worked.

But, I never use optical media for secure storage. It is always opportunistic. Use it, until it fails, make more.
So the government should have the right to rifle through your shit and can deny you access to e2e encryption and we have to put up with Cellebrite or else they'll just start banning encryption and mandating backdoors, along with the horseshoe theory that the Anarchist is helping out all the Fash. Oh and he's not directly worried kiddie porn he just accepts that the governments will get whatever they want in the name of kiddie porn.

This is how moderates get you to give up your rights, because they'll convince you that if you don't give up some of your rights, you'll wind up losing all of them, and nobody wants that to happen. It is very Good Cop / Bad Cop.
Definitely agree with this type of approach - and my experience as a freelancer (thankfully in charge of my tech stacks) is that clients are happy to pay for fast, reliable software built like this.
A great example is the Chengdu J-20, which was a direct clone of the F-22 using plans stolen from Lockheed Martin. The J-31 is heavily inspired by but not a complete clone of the F-35 because the latter was still under heavy development when the plans were stolen. (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-who-conspire...)

The J-15 is a clone of the Russian Su-33, reverse engineered from a physical jet they obtained from Ukraine. The only real modifications are the use of lighter composite materials so that the inferior launchers on Chinese carriers could get them in the air. (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/high-cost-china-payin...)

These examples are all military because private companies are unwilling to publicize their designs were stolen, and the government is unwilling to admit they couldn't protect private industry.
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100% my read too. The fact that the author doesn't make an effort to identify which taxes is a signal that they aren't really being truthful.
Had they not explicitly said hardware innovation I would have thought that as well.

I hope it does lead to debloating though, when mouse config software weights in over 200MB we're long overdue for some trimming of the proverbial fat.
I think you'll find lot's of people from North and South America would take issue with your definition of "American".
I offer 3 different reasons why FPGAs might make sense to consider:

1. (general) application reconfigurability where the benefits of SRAM performance, integrated hard IP, fabric real estate, and/or cycle-accurate RTL control cannot be easily replaced by other roughly asymptotic solutions;

2. (general) offloading massively/embarassingly parallel compute architectures where commodity GPGPUs are either physically incompatible and/or power-wise too inefficient;

3. (enterprise) overall volume/performance/budget/schedule objectives fall short of the sort needed to justify pushing a bespoke ASIC design through process pipeline.

Relatively speaking, "blazing fast implementations of algorithms" is possible iff the compute bottleneck can be effectively parallelized; I'm not certain what was meant by "hard to run otherwise".

To put this into perspective, reliably clocking a non-trivial FPGA application at 200 MHz is objectively hard in a way that hobbyist types outside of the professional domain can't seem to understand (or arrogantly dismiss). And yet for the right class of problems, such an application may have the potential to put a GPGPU clocked in the GHz to shame on both compute throughput and power consumption fronts.
I'm having a hard time parsing your sentence. Do you mean only poor people would want to raise taxes?
And not this?

https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY

Interesting... :)
Yes, but your local government struggles with technology and has the flag active when it shouldn't be and absent when it should be.
Your math is wrong. If the company makes $1 in profit, they will pay 36 cents for federal and state taxes. Then they will distribute the remaining 64 cents as a dividend, assuming they don't just hold it. Then you'd pay 27.52 cents more for federal and 8.32 cents in personal taxes.

So that's a 72% effective rate. Which the company has the option of getting to 0% by just spending on new equipment, or hiring more people, or anything else they can write off to reduce profits to 0.

Which is kind of the point. They want to force corporations to spend all their money so it gets redistributed. The owner of the company still gets "richer" because they own all that stuff that was purchased or the IP produced by the extra workers.
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I get how those concerns would apply to a C dialect, but not really to Rust. Since Rust is an entirely new language you shouldn't expect it to work exactly like C, unlike you would expect of a C-derived language.

Most of Rust's safety features are handled at compile time, and they are usually handled explicitly, not implicitly. A few examples about initialization:

* An instance of a struct is created by giving an initial value to each field. Leaving out any field is a compile error. Since structs are always completely initialized, you can't accidentally pass references to partially initialized structs like you could in a C++ or Java constructor.

* All local variables must be initialized. Accessing a variable before initialization is a compile time error.

* Structs have no implicit default value. The default value can be defined by implementing a trait, either by yourself or by deriving it with a macro (which would default integers to 0 and so on). Default values are only used by a fixed set on functions in the standard library, and never implicitly.

The overflowing case is one of the only cases where Rust is a bit more implicit. Integer overflow is checked at run time in debug builds (so over/underflow causes a panic) and defined to wrap around in release builds. However, the standard library also defines methods on numbers which explicitly use wrapping, saturating or checked (either return a Result value or crash) semantics.
what niche language?
Those common computationally complex functions generally get abstracted away via CMSIS or the like, I've yet to beat the hardware implementations of common signal processing algorithms in software despite actively trying. Anyone trying to fill in for missing DSP hardware is going to have a very bad time.

I can't imagine it's much better for other hardware-->software transitions, given the cost of specific hardware implementations they're generally only used when actually necessary.
Do you roll your auth and stuff?
> Cars come from behind much more quickly than anticipated.

But that isn't what happened (or would typically happen) in this type of situation. Usually the car blocking the lane will be enough of an impediment that a queue of traffic will build up behind to overtake it. Cars at the back of the queue will be coming to a stop more gradually.

Human drivers should not have critical failures just because there is an unexpected queue of traffic on the road.
I had the same impression, it's not like there are a limited number of rungs of wealth. Furthermore, I doubt that rich people believe that supporting higher taxes will have an immediate effect in ensuring 'usurpers' don't get rich - it will probably take a few years to come into play.

The most confusing aspect of this is the fact that taxes are often progressive. Increasing taxes would then definitely hurt the wealthy more than the usurpers. This aspect of Hoffman's argument didn't make much sense to me.
> JavaScript is such a polarising topic and I wonder why

Probably because it's a gatekeeper language - in order to run code in a browser, you have to use this language[1]. That means a lot of developers that dislike it enough that they would switch to another language if they could, are stuck with it because they need to target the browser. This "captive audience" is effectively forced to engage with the things they dislike on a daily basis - at that point you either develop Stockholm syndrome, or the resentment grows into hatred. Thus the "warts" that JavaScript has (by nature of having been thrown together in a couple weeks originally, and being iteratively turned into a "real" language over the following decades) have a chance to cause much stronger negative feelings than they would if people could just switch to something they liked more.

[1] I know, I know, WebAssembly may change this, and there are already niche alternatives like Scala.js, ClojureScript, Blazor and Reason - but for the most part, you still can't effectively run things in a browser without knowing JavaScript, even if just for debugging
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The article is trying to provide a framework for why it is that very wealthy people might be vocal supporters of taxes. The observations you are making of your billionaire friends are more specific but broadly in line with the reality the article is arguing for; so it isn't obvious what more evidence you need.

EDIT And any billionaire who says getting rich is a side effect is lying to someone. Possibly themselves. A billion dollars has never happened by accident.
> The prevailing theory is that ratio of brain mass to body mass is more telling than the absolute size

A bit weird nitpicking when you yourself make an insubstantial claim about some "prevailing" theory. I think we can both agree that reducing meat consumption is the right thing to do, it's just sometimes to convince people you need to show some leeway.
It depends on the nature of the material. What if the booby trap went and downloaded random files of 100k+ size from some dark web site?

On the other hand, if it's chat with names in it, it's likely not from the booby trap.
> The idea that there is always a right answer has been a fiction for the entire history of the game.

The rule is right there. If the rule is a lie, it should not be there.

> And frankly, without the box there, many people wouldn't have batted an eye at this pitch

It's moving fast and involves tracking something in 3d space from a far-away camera. You could trick me super easily, but I'm not sure what that proves.

> One of the great things about sports is that it isn't fair

Yikes.

I'm really unconvinced that if things were more fair, you'd be arguing they should become less fair.
I'd be pretty sure that the "ethical choice" between swerving to hit a cone and slamming the brakes to maybe hit a person, all else being equal, is a pretty straightforward and can be ethically programmed.
Maybe. I would have to read the FIDO group’s discussions on this to be confident in my opinion. :)

I personally enjoy the ability to use my employer-provided authenticators on my personal accounts. I think this is both convenient (only one thing to carry) and helps adoption (I got a key “for free”). So maybe enterprise use is a Trojan Horse to promote consumer adoption?
This seems the other way. The umpire hears what the machine said and I guess makes final determination?
Does the "MOS Cross-Assembler" survive (in either source or binary form?)
It may not say "stop" but it seems like they have something fairly close ("pull over") to that.

https://www.theturnsignalblog.com/blog/waymo-design/
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Why do you need unfair umpires to have what ifs??
I expected the appeal to authority to be followed up with some counterpoint but no...

No one needs to question the law portions of this to question the underlying premise.

Saying things like "this is bad because Cellebrite is currently being used on rioters" right after you claim what Signal may or may not have done will have no effect on evidence is a flimsy argument you don't need a law degree to oppose.

Ditto for implying Cellebrite should somehow be seen in a positive light because by... enabling and normalizing the invasion of privacy it... somehow preserves privacy?

As if politicians aren't more likely to wave the successes of Cellebrite as exactly why backdoors should be required than the opposite? And even worse, wave the failures that naturally occur as reasons for backdoors?
May I ask what your hobbies are? And perhaps I phrased that wrong - progressive in a technology sense. But I suppose also politics, assuming civility remains.
This system seems to pre-assign the strike zone for each player, regardless of current stance.
This is exactly where it's going. You are right
Even without code syncing, running more than 5 or so Docker containers can eat up a lot of RAM and even more CPU. It's just not worth it - put them all in a Linux VM.
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no one said cost was a metric, it's a barrier
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Fish is still meat even if it has long been said otherwise so that certain religious people can cheat on their dietary restrictions.
I can’t edit this but I’ve scrolled through my threads several times and a mistake I made keeps bothering me:

> A hypothetical test run with one test module with 100 tests is ~100x slower than 100 modules with 1 test each.

This was really bad math. For CPU bound cases, it’s ~N cores times slower give or take HT and otherwise ~X times slower given whatever other overhead/contention.
That's a pretty low yield. That same investment in an index fund over that period is probably worth ~$40k and that's assuming you have no dividends.

Kind of a weird example to pick. Also, even if your investment lost against inflation, you still made money. Stuff that $10k into a mattress and you'll have $10k after 20 years.
The pre-distribution tax is absolutely unique to capital vs wage. Even at the top end of the wage side; 43+13.3 is a net rate of 56.3.

At lower income brackets you could throw in payroll taxes, but marginal rates go down considerably at payroll tax phase out levels.

My statement stands. There is a pernicious lie that the investor class pays low tax rates because their capital gains rate is a particular value. It’s just _one_ of the taxes paid on profits.
This kind of thinking makes a nice sci-fi flick but not a good predictor of reality. Just the pandemic should've given you a hint that people at large don't like being confined to their homes and living in a virtual world.

You'd have to override millions of years of evolution to do that, and I'd argue a society like this would collapse due to its general non-viability, even before our psychological health ruins us.

Also no matter if you live in a virtual system or a real one, your body needs are real, and tied to an ecosystem. Taking a brain and putting in a jar works in Robocop, but again, not in reality. It's not a matter of technology. everything is interconnected.

Anyway.
They will do that even when they are fully fed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTh0m2GalRw The human here takes his cup around after they are done feeding. They still fight over it, probably because they are curious.
True! Yet there often permeates a respect between people, even those that disagree.

So while it’s rare to make friends, everyone seems to be for the most part friendly.

Do you think a more informal social version of HN would be appealing?
Therefore, the assembler could not output a binary file, but instead wrote a portable, hex-encoded text file, like this

That looks like a simplified and slightly altered version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_hex_format , which is still relatively common in embedded development today.