skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only convincing things here are healthcare advancements (obviously).

Meanwhile, the 1916 billionaire can spend 95+% of their waking time in leisure or doing things entirely of their choosing, even if raising kids (various staff do the hard and not-intrinsically-rewarding stuff like prepping food, cleaning up their messes, shopping for them, and so on, you just play with them if you like, the drudgery is entirely out of your hands). I'd be lucky to average 25% leisure time over a year (including quality time with kids in that figure). This makes the health thing seem less obviously an unacceptable trade-off that it otherwise might.

Yeah, I'd miss Indian food, but I'd get over it. The media stuff--I mean, there's so much I'm practically drowning in it, and it's not like there's nothing to do for the 1916 billionaire, it's just that less of it is watching screens or listening to magnets vibrate cones. I'd get used to not having AC, and buildings were designed for it back then so it's not nearly as bad as when the AC goes out in a modern house (source: have actually lived in a 1914-construction American house on the NHR, with no central AC). Just don't buy a vacation house in Florida then visit it in August. If you can manage that, you'll be fine.

[EDIT] and my 25% (again, optimistically) free time is much lower-quality that that of someone whose time is almost entirely free, since that other 75% is always looming an hour or so away, generating anxiety, breaking up free-time into tiny, nearly useless chunks, making me feel guilty that I'm not working on one of the many things that'll be in that 75%, and so on.
Don't mid-sized and large companies benefit from this alike?
Power of customizability and Time management = Smarter task management
Except not all "value" is created or appreciated equally.

Hedge funders, for example, do not create any clear value to society despite massive windfalls (especially those automated algorithms that look for arbitrage in pennies, but as massive volume and frequency). Those who provide power by coal compare to solar or wind significantly shortchange those who buy the same electricity because the "value" does not price this in (humans are terrible at choosing for long term gains compared to short term anyway). Those who save money (it's all value!) by dumping their toxic waste products in oceans and rivers do terrible harm to the world yet stay rewarded. All that value allows them to buy off politicians (more value!), which gives a cyclical effect.

I wish capitalists wouldn't speak in such abstract terms -- reality must be confronted.
In search of familiarity
Ask HN: Anyone know a RSVP SaaS offering, ideally working offline?
Agreed - it's less for the 'this isn't obvious' than the 'this is a well-placed intuitive reminder (or hint) that this number swings around a lot'
You can also use the Flutter plugin with the free, community edition of IntelliJ or with Webstorm. (But WebStorm does not have any Java or Android support.)

Also, the Dart plugin for VS Code is starting to add Flutter support. In that case you'd use the command line for hot reload.

- a Googler working on Flutter plugin.
Thats what I really value about them.

It removes all of the below and then some.

"That never happened.

Forget I said that.

Can we start again?

I’m just going to pretend you didn’t just say that."
I wrote a script a long time ago that turned a chunk of text into a pseudo Babylonian text. At the end of the line the letters of each word reversed so your eyes could scan back and forth to reduce eye strain and losing place.

I thought it was quite readable and beneficial but others didn't.
Maybe the two cancel each other out and things don't change as much as they seem.
Comparing a tiny region in California with a continent... Typically American.
"Saying German success is mostly based on the Euro is a great narrative but completely ignores the reality that Germany's economy was already strong and getting stronger in the decades before that."

Which part of "it wasn't just the Euro, reunification had the same effect" was I unclear about?
A book can only be oriented portrait, I don't have a choice.
None of these are the correct document?

I think you've inadvertently just helped make my case for me.

I don't have a link to share unfortunately, the only way i could get access was by going to ST directly.
Healthcare is partially what it is elsewhere because the US subsidizes it by having such expensive care here (e.g. R&D for new drugs and treatments, the entire FDA process that others leverag, etc).
"Not everyone. German industrialists (like the guy who wrote this article) love lower wages."

That's one of the keys for understanding what is going on. It's surprising how little we heard it.
I don't think it's as much the fact that the US invested in the military sector as it is the fact that the US invested in something.

What I mean by that is that yes, the US likely benefited from investing trillions of dollars in the military. But it could've also benefited, perhaps even more so, if it had invested trillions of dollars in infrastructure. This would have made it easier and cheaper for businesses to ship their products across the states, as well as creating a lot of blue collar people jobs. Perhaps the same would be true if the US invested trillions of taxpayer dollars in other industries, too (healthcare, manufacturing, solar industry, etc).
Would you still be upset about it if the Earth was using renewable energy sources for almost all of its electricity needs?
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I feel your pain. In fact, the reason why bitcoin took cryptographers so long to come up with is the sheer inelegance of the scheme: normally you want the attacker to have to expend exponentially more resources to crack your security. Not just slightly more (ie 51% of the total).

The bitcoin design sat in a blind spot, perhaps deservedly though.

However, history has parallels: digging up gold out of the ground is enormously wasteful just to use it as a currency. Paper mostly does the job just as well. But just like bitcoin, the very expense can buy you certain security features. 'Gold' is the original proof of work?

History however also shows solutions: for commodity money, fractional reserve banking was one. For example, at its heyday the Scottish free banking system had a gold-reserve ratio of about 2% and was virtually crisis free. So the expense of digging up gold was all else being equal reduced by 98% compared to using gold directly for all trades.

Now, I wonder how widespread fractional reserve banking would work for bitcoin. At the moment, bitcoin exchanges holding your money in escrow come closest to the kind of institutions that could start this kind of banking for bitcoin.

I also don't know how fractional reserve banking would impact the price of bitcoin and the incentives for mining. As a bigger proportion of transactions would be off the bitcoin chain, eg mediated by trusted third-parties, mining incentives would perhaps go down?
Yeah, GDR doesn't mean what you think it means.
Mobil phone numbers are like what social security numbers were, only global and without any pretense of legal protection on other use. The majority of people will start worrying about this when you start being able to open credit by providing your phone number instead of social security number. Then identity theft will start occurring by the phone number vector. Be wary of 2FA via phone.
This one idea is a massively pervasive, invasive meme. It is not remotely true and it is used to justify so much of the harm caused by current neoliberal policy and the growing inequality in wealth and power it creates.

Most major advances we now take for granted were the results either of government research funding or passion projects of lone researchers and inventors. Often they were a combination of the two. Many of the lifestyle changing inventions we now take for granted were invented long before they became broadly marketable and often their creators never profited from them.

Markets are handy distribution tools and individual freedoms are important. But profit is not the primary driver of innovation. Passion, curiosity, and desire to make the world a better place -- these are the drivers of innovation.

Of late, the drive toward profit has become a stifler of innovation as "competitive" capitalism, when unregulated under neoliberal policy, moves inexorably towards uncompetitive monopoly in the pursuit of profit.
Some people have looked into securing a blockchain currency with some other more useful computation. So far nothing much has come out of it, and there are some theoretical reasons why we shouldn't expect too much.
This is the broken window fallacy.

Every dollar spent "investing" in military r&d, Is one less dollar that can be invested elsewhere.

Why not just invest all that money directly into the economy instead of doing it in an extremely roundabout way.

Or, I don't know, just pay people to dig holes and fill them back up again, if you believe in the idea of economic "stimulus".
Impressive 3D shapes
Well, here in Venezuela Apple Maps is practically useless. Traffic data just arrived about a year ago to Google Maps and it's been a fantastic tool to get on time to most places. Apple Maps doesn't even give directions.
> All the Hartz reforms did was suppress wages and make the average German poorer.

That's exactly what I'm saying. (edit: on the wages and poorer part; it's of course _NOT_ everything they did)

> Germany's industrial success was evident years before they went into effect.

> Hartz is like trickle down economics and a lower minimum wage: the wealthy have good reason to love it and the wealthy will make up spurious reasons why you should love it too - which many people will believe.

Without those reforms Germany would be part of the European crisis. It was called "the sick man of Europe" not long ago, not without a reason.

> China achieved a similar measure of manufacturing success with an education system that was a great deal worse

They did mostly mass production by hand while german factories are mostly automated and people there do a lot of higher-value work that requires much more knowledge than the chinese kind of manufacturing.

> while the UK has an equally good education system and did not achieve anything like Germany's manufacturing prowess.

The UK is and has been much more focused on finance. The brightest will join a bank there, while in Germany they will engineer new things. Germany has 2-3x the number of patents per year compared to the UK

> Not everyone. German industrialists (like the guy who wrote this article) love lower wages.

Sure, everyone is wrong. Nearly everyone would be right.
Haha, I don't think I would want to! I would have to suddenly deal with a lot more stress and responsibility. I also love being able to walk around a new city and go to restaurants without a team of bodyguards. I definitely don't want to be a billionaire, but I wouldn't complain if I had $4 million.

To be honest, I'm not big on having my name in history books, or having statues made in my image. I'd like to help a lot of people if I can, but I don't want to start a foundation in my name. Everything is fleeting and ultimately meaningless, so why put your name on it.
Before making a comment which begins with:

"Why don't they just..."

"Can't they just..."

"Haven't they heard of..."

or other similar phrases, please

1. Read through the linked content (or if it's a video, watch it or find a transcript), and

2. Bonus points: familiarize yourself with the problem domain.

Doing (1) will usually answer these questions all on its own. If it doesn't, doing (2) will help. In this case, we're not talking about a random amateur starting fresh on a problem nobody's considered thoroughly yet. Python's global interpreter lock is extremely well-trod ground; the people working on it are not just experienced programmers but experienced with Python; and there's a lot of background out there, available in an easy Google search, explaining what's been tried and what's been ruled out over the history of the problem.

In particular, the two problems you'd learn about from following the advice above are:

* A lot of important existing Python code consists of modules which are partially or entirely written in C and depend on the documented Python/C API remaining stable. Breaking the C API, and thus forcing all that existing code to rewrite to a new API, is considered an unacceptable solution (this rules out many "why not just use (insert your favorite GC technique here)" approaches).

* Prior attempts at removing the global interpreter lock while not breaking existing Python/C code have caused major performance degradation for single-threaded Python code, which is also considered unacceptable.
Mist: There is no C in Smalltalk [video]
Give a try to Orgzit. They can help you in that matter.
An anecdote on this: After the second world war, 93% of Volkswagen's equipment was still usable (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_AG#Nachkriegszeit).
To help put this in perspective, how heavily did you use React before switching to Vue? How did you feel about it at the time, before you were aware of Vue?
Ok sure.. Costco v sams club; uber v lyft
There is no actual theory of trickle down economics. This is a derogatory term used as a distraction from discussing real economics.
What else would be more important to maximize than happiness?

Means of getting happiness are a different discussion, and what happiness is might differ from person to person. But why would you e.g. accumulate more money or power if it didn't bring you any happiness?
Similar use to reg ex based find and replace but with less thought needed. Useful for those that prefer just editing rather than composing regular expressions.
Simplest way to verify, launch visual studio 2015, press Tools/Spy++, in Spy++ find the visual studio’s main window, you’ll see that Win32 thinks visual studio is a single window with no children, with class starting with “HwndWrapper[DefaultDomain;”

Unlike that, Spy++ itself uses Win32 (wrapped by MFC but it doesn’t matter) for GUI, you’ll see these SysTreeView32, msctls_statusbar32 and other native controls there.
Perhaps this means Germany could suffer disproportionately as a result of automation. It's also worth pointing out that Germany is not immune to global trends that may erode the ability to sell based on quality - I recently bought a 2001 BMW E39, thought by many to be the best BMW ever made. In fixing up the E39 I've come across the same opinion over and over again: BMWs/German cars in general are not as well made as they used to be.

Edit: I'm not saying my E39 is thought to be the best BMW ever made of course :D
It's simplified Germany took a few years, policy changes, and loans to really get back into shape. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder Longer term it benefited from both good longer term policies and positive cultural influences, and the Korean War.

But yea, Germany had more intact industry than often portrayed.
I find that both have their uses.
It must be possible to change instruction sets when branching, in order to call or return from a function in the opposite instruction set.

There are branching instructions that can't change instruction sets for two reasons:
1. A direct branch can have more range if you can assume it's going to a 4-byte aligned address.
2. For compatibility with code written for ARM7DI and other really old pre-thumb processors. Since the original direct branch instructions ignored the bottom two bits of the target address, new direct branch instructions were added rather than change the behavior of the existing ones.
Though I wonder how these changes have actually had effects on these sectors, as this basically just produced a low payment workforce that these days benefits low paying unicorns like Uber, etc.

All that Germany basically did was to change social law so that a higher amount of people would end up within the lower range of the work force and make it harder to get out.

E.g. effectively these days losing your job for longer term means you have to liquidate all your assets as a German until you have nothing left before social service would help you.

Coming back to the article, as a German I actually do not remember any larger structural reforms that would have had beneficial effects on mid to high skilled workers. Looking at my own 25 years of working I would say... I notice an increase in costs for maintaining the high skill level and income completely being almost irrelevant because of devaluation of currency and almost no increases in the market in the past two decades.
True, but I don't really want any of that. I'd rather spend time with a few good friends instead of going to events and cocktail parties or whatever these "social status" people get up to.
Every blockchain in existence was altered or forked at some point.
A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated the Ottomans
Max Weber has you covered: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the...

However, the German economic powerhouses are the Southern states - all of which are predominantly Catholic
Germany didn't really exist as a nation until 1815 so I'm not sure what you're arguing. Also the Eastern borders of Germany changed a lot until 1990.

Also the current economic situation of Eastern Europe has likely more to do with the failure of the Soviet Union than with whatever happened in the 1700s.
I think the benefit is exactly the keybindings. And the fact that it is non-modal. It works like a text field in a desktop GUI, there is almost no state. You can't mess the state up. Contrast it to vim, where I got into the habbit of bashing ESC three times to be sure I'm not in a mode. Or emacs, which is nice until it's abstractions leak, and you accidentially start editing a configurations pane or something.

I am a part time vim user, and generally like it, but sometimes I find the mental load of the key bindings too high. Anything more complex than d<End>, and I have to stop a moment and think about it. In that time, I can just hit the cursor keys (and Home, PgDn, ...) a couple of times.

It's a trade-off: Do I use a bit of mental power, and save some finger movement? Then I go for the vi way. Or do I use less mental power, and delegate tasks to my fingers and eyes to do autonomically? Then I go for the sublime / notepad / VS way. I might press the arrow key a couple of times, overshoot, go back, ... it may look inefficient, but it's not slower, just a different use of resources.

I've been looking for a Sublime style editor for the terminal for ages. Actually, way before sublime, I've been looking for an edit.com style editor - Nano is one thing, but I want one that respects CUI-like conventions. Shift for selecting, CTRL+C for copy, .... I will definitely check this out.
ARM and Thumb are just different encodings of the same instructions, mostly. Having switchover be done implictly via branch instructions is convenient for interworking -- you can link an ARM library with a Thumb application and it all just works, with function addresses having the low bit set for Thumb and clear for ARM. Generated code doesn't need to care beyond making sure it is using the right interworking instructions for call and return.

This is distinct from x86 32 vs 64 bit and ARM 32 vs 64 bit: in both those cases there's really a different processor mode with extra registers and so forth, and switchover is correspondingly more involved.
I fully agree about the insinuation of posting in bad faith but suspect poster didn't really mean "at all costs" but rather something more along the lines of "in spite of this evidence".

(which I wouldn't agree with anyway for reasons others mention above).
How can you insert text in a column-wise fashion? Not using a macro or some such.

In vim, it's:

(navigate to column)

Ctrl+v

10j (or whatever)

Shift-I

(insert text)

Escape
It was clarified later that the "hacker" was a security professional who put up all that data on the Dark Web to draw Zomato's attention to loopholes in its systems.

http://blog.zomato.com/post/160986258541/security-update-wha...

Edit - Turns out the OP's article mentions the same thing. Might as well confess a personal bias - every time I see a Daily Mail article, I can't help but think about how they served as a Nazi mouthpiece for years before the war, so all their stuff's got to be inaccurate/biased.
If you're looking for AD, samba4 can do it on Linux.
I really, really hope this takes off. Current system is so flawed...
The one direct exposure I have had to the issue of inheritance tax was with a small Midwest-based distributor. The owner was very old and wanted to pass the company to his daughters, who had actually been running the business for decades (and when I came along, his granddaughters were working the office).

His issue was that what the government decided his business to be worth could only be paid with more cash than his business generated in 5 years. This meant that his heirs would have to mortgage their shares to cover the inheritance tax, which places ownership into a different category of investment.
Work environment toxicity isn't really related to where you live. Many Microsofties commute from Seattle, and they have Connect/Kinect buses to support that (like Googlers who commute in from the city, only that Seattle is much closer to Redmond than SF is to MV).

I mean, if you are going to ding Microsoft for that, you might as well ding Google and Facebook as well. Heck, only Amazon and some smaller companies have true urban campuses.
Well, in that case:

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting" -Ernest Rutherford.
Helen Keller on Beethoven's 9th Symphony