skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument is disturbing in a number of ways. The first and foremost of which is that it finds acceptable the fact that the middle class may only be better off from the ultra-rich from 100 years ago. In other words, the author thinks it's fine that the middle class is slightly under 100 years behind the ultra-rich in terms of quality of life.

The article makes no attempt at resolving the underlying and more important question: why is it okay that the ultra-rich of today have the ability to buy so much political power, have access to healthcare that is far more advanced than that which is available to even the middle class (let alone the poor), can live in such a way that causes so much harm to the environment or generally does damage to shared resources, and can have so much influence over information whether via the internet or through articles such as this one? In other words, why is okay that there inequality is so great and progress is applied so unequally?

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
The article does give an example of how it works in Spanish. There is an audio sample linked of the sentence 'En todo el mundo hay hombres que hablan silbando' being whistled.

https://soundcloud.com/bbc_com/entodoelmundo
It's interesting, because many of the neighboring countries were in much better shape after the war, but since they were forced by the Soviets to reject the Marshall plan, Germany got ahead economically and Eastern Europe became the "poor part of Europe" again.
It's the nature of the computation that bugs me.

We have a network growing exponentially relying on the fact that we're hashing random numbers. Academic research aside, it sounds very useless.

That has nothing to do with the way banks are doing their maths or maintaining their infrastructure. Again, I'm also very grateful of bitcoin demonstrating we can exchange value without a 3rd party, but it looks like nowadays we could do better.

Now in regard of the destruction of ecological areas, mining gold etc... I simply agree with you.
I'm including everything you need to deploy in those numbers. You included only React and not React-Dom. My own try at setting up React results in a 750k js file when I follow the instructions below. I realize this isn't minified yet and I welcome feedback on how to make it better.

https://www.joeldare.com/blog/post/create-a-react-app/

The top search results for react minified size show similar numbers to my 250k. There are a lot of people throwing out a lot of numbers that are different. Versions likely play a role, especially after 15. Here are some references.

https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19807946/why-is-reacts-f...

Nothing I can find references a size as small as you mention with react and react dom. Most recommend writing with ES2016 which probably adds Babel overhead as well. When I build "Hello World" myself, I can't get anywhere near the small sizes.

I'd love someone to give me a proper smack-down on this. I want to love React since it's a recent requirement of my job. But with my current knowledge of it, I can't seem to get the size down.
I think complaints about wealth distribition are substantially about enfranchisement and regulatory capture. Material well being is important, but so is autonomy. If being disenfranchised and not able to control our labor or our fate is an inadequate cause for compliant as long as we have access to the material necessities of life, then we ought to be perfectly happy in prison.
In insert mode you can paste with cmd+V on macOS or ctrl+shift+v on other systems, just like anywhere else in the shell.
You are right and wrong at the same time.

The DM was pretty strong and was used as a reserve currency in many european countries, that regularly devalued their respective currency.

The current german export strength is based (at least, there may easily be more) on four factors:

1) The weak Euro. Personally, I hate it because the other european countries cannot compete with Germany. Historically, they would have devalued their own currency and thus gained competitiveness relative to Germany. There is no such mechanism left now, and that's terrible for Europe. However, the salary in Germany is way higher than in the South-Europe (say Spain), so these countries should still be able to compete. They can't though, and that is mostly due to productivity, which is very high in Germany.

2) The Hartz IV reforms that added flexibility for companies and deconstructed some of the welfare state under Gerhard Schröder (the welfare state would now still be seen as hardcore-socialistic by some americans)

and last but not least

3) A highly educated workforce (free university + a sophisticated apprenticeship system) + A high workplace efficiency (germans tend to be very productive at work) coupled with long recovery periods (most have 30 days off (24 days is minimum allowed) + unlimited sick days + strict rules on overtime) and a high level of automation + universal healthcare -> Workers recover quickly, have more energy when at work and are less stressed.

4) Inflation-adjusted wages have actually declined in the last ten years making german products even cheaper for other countries. That' terrible for everyone.

Most Germans would rather see a stronger Euro - there is no way to make that happen though. Currency markets are no longer adjusting properly which is a huge distortion and leads to many problems
This may be your opinion but this is not a fact.
Or just make it the default:

set clipboard=unnamedplus
That quote stood out to me too. My question is, if there is a new capability (Bitcoin is a good example) then how do you invest in that capability? Sure you can pick a company working on some application, but they will almost certainly miss the real value of the capability.
I wasn't suggesting limiting it two cameras but cameras should be more than enough to solve self driving. You don't need lidar with costs thousands of dollars.
> post-WW2 policies to ensure that Europe could be at peace

What do you mean by this? According to Wikipedia, the other Western European nations semm to have received more funds from the Marshall Plan than Germany did.

> most of Germany's industrial capability had been destroyed or damaged

Source? I remember my history teacher telling us the exact opposite.

Anyway, I don't understand how your points shed light on the differences in ecomomic structure to other Western nations, e.g. France.
I think the most important factor has been missed: planned luck.
All the countries (in Europe) who are having success today are the ones who had a crisis (each for a different reason) in the '90s and made structural reforms. During the crisis in the 2000s and 2010s, these countries (Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, etc.) were leaner, more flexible than their "competitors". Fun fact, most of these countries are protestant. It would be interesting to have an explanation for this correlation.
Another geopolitical factor unaddressed is the more recent export growth of the other CE4 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic) in to Germany since 1990. The growth of these supply chains to the east play a big part in the German global export machine, largely at the expense of the competitiveness of southern European countries.

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=40987....
If by cool things you mean "improved cancer treatment" and "inexpensive access to entertainment" then yes, inequality IS less important because people have these "cool things". The idea that there is a gap is much less important than ensuring that those at the bottom have enough. Unfortunately they don't always, and that's a problem. Wealth disparity isn't always the right metric, though sometimes it is.
The "enterprise edition" is AGPL. Feel free to interpret it differently then Neo does, but the license is AGPL [1]. Anyways, I don't understand the hostility. They're tying to walk the line between a profitable company selling software while still doing it all in the open. The fact that they kept things open source and not closed was one of the things I loved about working there.

1. https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/3.3/README.asciidoc
Great observation.
> I recently watched your video citing all the mathematical evidence that correctness may not decompose

For myself and others, are you referring to the video here:
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity ?
>Germany is far ahead of other large countries with regard to mental internationalization. This includes language competencies, international experience from student exchanges, and university studies. Countries such as France, Italy, Japan, and Korea lag far behind in these respects.

Don't know much about France or Italy, but know enough about Korea and to a lesser extent Japan about how important language and international studies are for an already overly rigorous education system.

That along with the bombshell assertion without evidence that the inheritance tax is the greatest burdens companies face today removes any credibility from the rest of the article.
I recently started forking the github package for atom which is built with react. I found it very confusing that render methods pass scope variables to controllers using directives. The number of times a variable gets passed back and forth from a JavaScript class to a template directive is just silly.
If we didn't have GIL issues, then you may have written python in additional domains that the GIL makes impractical or weakly advised. And then, thought experiment, if the GIL were suddenly introduced, we'd be pissed.
My understanding is that AT&T is a pipeline that routes you to the pizza place. The pizza place and you being endpoints.
You probably shouldn't be searching for that. To be free of all reminders that crimes have been committed, think of all the people that would have to die. Perhaps crimes should be punished more effectively instead of trying to get meta-crime to do the work. For instance, money laundering is mostly used to just add years to peoples normal crime sentences. You could just increase the normal crime sentence. Imagine how violent the USA would be right now if violent video games caused violence. The violent gaming industry has more revenue than the movie industry. Metacrime enforcement takes money from real crime enforcement.
I can't lay my hands on the source just now, but I've read the polar opposite to what you say - measures such as GDP show ongoing progress, whereas measures of happiness looking back hundreds of years (as I say, I cannot lay my hands on the source so cannot attest to the methodology) show that if anything we were happier a few hundred years ago, pre-industrial revolution: less complexity, greater sense of community, stronger familial bonds etc. etc.
The most basic of everything is that REST assumes that you won't ever try to
call an operation on the resource, apart maybe from creating or destroying
it (and God forbid running an operation that is not tied to any resource at
all, or works on multiple resources at the same time). So your REST service is
basically a passive data store. Once you go outside of this realm (and more
often than not you should do so), you have remote procedures, and REST, being
a pattern instead of protocol and working on individual object, gives
you nothing useful.
> (most of Germany's industrial capability had been destroyed or damaged)

Tony Judt in Post War (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29658.Postwar) actually claims that this is patently false. That Germany actually came out of WW2 with most of its industry intact (it was away from the most bombed cities and majority of fighting actually happened in France/Poland/USSR) and was in significantly better shape than Frace and UK industry-wise. As an added bonus, the industrial lines were freshly retooled, significantly more modern than the ones in France and UK and its wartime focus could be rather rapidly converted into highly profitable peacetime industries that were highly sought after in 20th century economic boom (chemistry, car manufacturing, electronics, etc.)

The fact that BRD didn't have to support and invest into standing army also funneled investment into emerging industries - investment that was way slower to come in destroyed France and exausted UK.

Was he wrong? Are there any sources contradicting his research?
Yep, I can see that being easier depending on what you prefer, I just wanted to point out that the feature wasn't unique to multiple cursors, since it was being described as "find and replace on steroids".
I remember a couple of years ago when people were posting about switching from Angular to React. Now it's React to Vue. I'm going to be honest and concede that Vue may well be better than React. But having used React productively for a couple of years now, I don't really see much point in throwing out something that works well in favour of something else that also works well. Back when it was "why we switched from Angular to React", it was easy to understand because Angular 1 is awful. But React isn't awful at all and I don't really see what I'm going to gain by switching to Vue.
Without privacy there is no democracy. Law for privacy should be established.
That and unions.

Daimler and Porsche have both had company wide 10000 EUR bonuses (this includes factory workers). It does not include ANÜ engineers and workers, who make up the major part of the workforce and are second class employees that have a lower base wage and no bonus.

Unions are hell bent on keeping it this way, to the detriment of ANÜs and the benefit of full employees.
It's easy to create equality: make all people poor. 10000 years ago we where a lot more equal than today. Was it better?

Almost any USA citizen is in the top 5% if compared with the rest of the world. How many of them are willing to share their excess of wealth?
Not being able to easily quantify the inefficiency of one kind of waste is a very simple reason to not be mad about it.

And, of course, one can express a desire to want to fix one problem without being obligated to express the desire to fix problems many orders of magnitude larger ("You don't want our town to cut down the trees in the park? Why don't you care about the destruction of the rainforests?"). You don't even know that the person you're talking to doesn't want to fix those problems.
The laws of the capitalist mode of production heavily favour accumulation of capital and inheritance of it, Oscar Wilde noted the hideous disparity even in the 19th century, Kropotkin did the same.

"In virtue of this monstrous system, the son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may till, no machine which he may tend, no mine in which he may dig, without accepting to leave a great part of what he will produce to a master. He must sell his labour for a scant and uncertain wage. His father and his grandfather have toiled to drain this field, to build this mill, to perfect this machine. They gave to the work the full measure of their strength, and what more could they give? But their heir comes into the world poorer than the lowest savage. If he obtains leave to till the fields, it is on condition of surrendering a quarter of the produce to his master, and another quarter to the government and the middlemen." (From The Conquest of Bread)
He is right in some way, but he also misses that german workers had to take a lot of cuts in pay, benefits and working conditions. While french workers only have a 35 hours work week and greece workers get to enjoy a long pension, germans work till 67 (soon 69) getting a lower pension (as percentage of pay) and mostly work 40 hours (for full time workers. Statistics are heavily skewed by (mostly) female part time work which is tax-incentized). Many countries did not adjust as hard to a globalized world as germany did (real wage loss in the last ten years while lowering pension, pushing back retirement age, etc.)

edit: I upvoted him, just for the record
Hack Account
I am Stuck since my brothers death last month I have since found out he was working on a family tree I had seen it before a while ago but would like to download it from Ancestry.com . How would I go about getting the password, especially as he didnt write them down. Please help.
With significant privileges for family-owned companies.
Well, first, vue.js doesn't force you to use components. So you can just throw your data into the HTML page and see what happens. It's a huge win in the early phase of the project, as most of the time your page will change so much you will not see any reusable components before months. It's a real time saver, and let you refactor only the important parts in components later.

Secondly, you are not tied to JSX. While you can use JSX with Vue, it comes with a very simple and clean templating language that is much more natural to manipulate than mixing JS and a fake HTML.

What's more, you don't need webpack, not even babel to use Vue. You can actually drop the 30ko (gzip + minified) of the lib and create a decent projet as-is. Of course you can later setup a whole pipeline, with even server side rendering if you wish. But for a start, you can just use it as easily has you used to with jquery. Which means people comming to the project will be easy to train to: it takes one afternoon to comprehend react hello world. It's the time to understand the whole Vue lib.

Eventually the community is great : the doc is well written, the tooling is full of small details (such as .once.prevent or the dict classes) that makes your life easier and the API surface is kept small. Most third party tools adopt the same philosophy: pragmatic, useful, scale down then up.

Honestly after so much react, I'm happy I found Vue. It's just better. Doing training for both, I can also tell you that training for Vue is 2 orders of magnitude easier than react.

Vue is what react should have been really. But let's not blame react. The react dev created shoulders for the vue devs to stand one.
I'm one of those vim enthusiasts which installs vim keybinding in pretty much every editor i use and still agree.
The Human Fabric: Mapping social structure and power relations within Facebook
Building Standard Notes to be long-lasting
Maybe he didn't embellish his stories, but he certainly wrote down a lot of things that were clearly folk tales and hearsay and of which he had no way to check the veracity. You can't really make anything of his reporting of "Aethiopian bat squeaks".

Oh and btw- he was not the only (ancient) Greek interested in a more rigorous look at history. You have probably heard of Thucidides, Xenofon etc.
What I would like to see is an openly federated payments network that functions more like the Internet (and runs on top of the Internet):

https://interledger.org/
This article grinds too many axes to be as insightful as it could be. E.g., "[T]he inheritance tax in the U.S. prevent the accumulation of capital necessary for the formation of a strong mid-sized sector." is just casually tossed in there.
> why is it okay that the ultra-rich of today [...] have access to healthcare that is far more advanced than that which is available to even the middle class [...]

Citation needed. Last I checked, healthcare is still pretty much either (reasonably) cheap to provide at middle class levels of affluence or next to useless, statistically speaking.

(Not talking about America here---the US seems seriously screwed. But about what healthcare costs to someone who's willing to be eg a medical tourist.)
>Wealth is a measure of your ability to do what you would like to do, when you would like to do it - a measure of your breadth of immediately available choice.

This ties in well with what Oscar Wilde wrote:

"Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand ‘under the shelter of the wall,’ as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, are exceptions. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this."
Not really. Historically (especially in the massive growth period after WW2 and before the reunification) the largest influx of immigrant workers came from countries like Italy and Turkey. A large number of seasonal workers these days come from Eastern Europe but that doesn't explain the decades prior.
>So if you don't have an up-to-date and accurate list of instructions for installing ReactOS on VirtualBox

They have preinstalled image for VirtualBox.
People had entertainment way back when - and made their own if they had to. Also most diseases these days seem to be caused or exacerbated by unhealthy modern lifestyles. I don't think people are objectively happier than they used to be. Netflix cannot replace a sense of community.
Or Vim macros.
While interop is indeed available if you need to consume a Win32 control (not without limitations but generally works), by default WPF doesn’t use native controls. Instead it paints stuff on GPU with Direct3D 9, and on top of that implements its own markup, styling, layout, animation, behaviors, composition, etc…
What's with the branch instructions "Branch with Link" and "Branch with Exchange"?

What do they do? I haven't seen anything like this before.

I see some explanation in https://azeria-labs.com/arm-conditional-execution-and-branch... but the reason why branching must work this way isn't explained.

edit: I see "Branch with Exchange" switches the processor from ARM to Thumb in http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/beginner-s-corner/.... But I don't see why switching processor modes must happen on branch instructions.
I like to think about things like this. I also like to think about how Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg don't really have a quality of life that is much higher than mine, at least when it comes to technology and media. You can't buy a smartphone that is better than an iPhone 7 or a Samsung Galaxy S8. We all have access to the same shows on Netflix, and a practically infinite amount of music on Spotify. I think it would be exhausting to get dressed up and eat at Michelin starred restaurants every day - most of the time I just want something from a restaurant down the road.
The challenge of decentralized marketplaces
You say that like accumulation of capital is a bad thing. It's good: capital competes with capital to lowers its rates of return. We need more capital.

The real culprit is land: we don't accumulate any more of that, so it's rates of return don't vanish.
Anonymity Properties of the Bitcoin P2P Network
why does everyone here think I was suggesting that we should limit self driving cars to human capabilities? My comment was simply a comment on lidar v cameras. Obviously the cameras should cover 360 degrees around the car and have whatever additional sensors necessary for safety. Which would all be cheaper than lidar.
1. Redis is atomic, so we use the SETNX operation to ensure that only one write succeeds.

2. We have HLLs in Redis, so we just issue a PFCOUNT and store the result of that in Cassandra as an integer value. We don't use counters in Cassandra.
The transaction rate is not proportinal to the amount of power consumed.
Are Trump and Bitcoin Good Partners? [pdf]
You're conflating real
sales emails and spam again and really seem to hate sales people. How are the people who respond idiots for actually being happy to hear about a product or service that solves their problem and signing up.
Maybe in 1916, the ultrarich were writing articles that said, "Try being a millionaire in 1816" to mollify the masses.