skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the 0.00000001% of people who control now half the world's wealth

This is nonsense. Your source compares the wealth of the richest few people to the net worth of the "poorest" 50% of people. Net worth takes into account debt, and it happens that the half of the population with the lowest net worth has a total amount of debt about equal to its total amount of assets, so its total net worth is almost zero. A little more credit card spending, and an eight year old with a nickel in his pocket will have "more wealth than the poorest half". Needless to say this is not anything like half of the world's wealth. The total wealth of individuals is (according to my quick Google search) something like $250 trillion, and that presumably doesn't take into account wealth held by governments.

It's also silly to use net worth to identify the "poorest". Supposedly Donald Trump had a net worth in 1990 of negative 900 million. Your source's calculation would presumably call him the "poorest" person in the world and his presence would subtract $900 million from the wealth of the "poorest half". Is that sensible?

The richest people are very, very rich compared to most individuals. But no individual has much compared to the wealth of the whole world, and I suspect the share is shrinking. In the 19th century JP Morgan bailed out the US government, rather than the other way around!

A more interesting analysis would be to look at the distribution of total lifetime consumption.
Each panel is a financial cartogram that compares things within the panel to each other by showing the amount of money as an area. That's exactly what the top comment was doing -- making an analogy to a physical unit to make the comparison more visceral and intuitive.

You may notice that comparing things across panels is more difficult than the effortless comparison of two categories within a single panel. It's easy to understand conceptually when you study this map that the insurance industry in the US is a lot more money than Kate Middleton's wedding dress. But you don't see visually and immediately how much more money, because they're not side-by-side in the same units.

On a log scale, plotting everyone's income puts Bezos and Gates side by side with very little visible difference, while the difference between someone who makes 20k a year and someone who makes 10k a year has a larger log difference. That emphasizes the ratio of difference, rather than the absolute difference. The log scale completely hides the fact that you could pay 75,000 people 20k a year with only the amount extra that Bezos has over Gates.
(author here) I think this was misunderstood. I don't mean the _entire_ Chromebook or OS was unstable -- just the opposite actually. I was referring to having to restart Termux twice in two weeks. Two weeks of constant wake/sleep cycles on and off battery, and plugging/unplugging from an external monitor.

In one case it was a hard kill and I lost one ssh window that had been open for a week. In the other, the Termux gui came up and I never dropped my session (the ssh process never died). I'm not yet familiar enough with the Termux internals to understand that. As far as the Chrome OS stability, it's been one of the most stable machines I own, and I say that as a long-time MBP & Librem owner. 99% of the reboots were intentional as I reinstalled the whole build from Powerwash to Erlang hello world, to make sure I got the details right for the post (and to help troubleshoot some minor install roadbumps a couple of my reviewers experienced).

On the presentations, I joined multiple Hangouts & BlueJeans (WebRTC) video client calls with zero trouble. Signal and Wire voice worked like a champ too.

So while I certainly understand some of the comments here, for _my_ use case — a reliable $160 multi-week travel/burner dev notebook with strong security, I'm more than satisfied. And of course it's not in the same league as my $2K++ MBP. I would never try to run a big JDK app, but for offline Go and Python work, it fits my bill.
Start another one and move one. It must be a challenge and giving you satisfaction. For me, every day i have to go to work with a smile, if not, i quickly move on. Life is to short.
I believe it. If he owns everything free and clear--I'm betting he does--and he avoids big purchases and fancy trips, he can basically get by on purchasing nothing but food, electricity, phone, and gas. Tack on some clothes and reasonable eating out, and you can live well on $25,000 per year. Everything else was probably paid for by the team.
nfl players cant start collecting that pension until they are 55
Raven Ridge.
One thing to keep in mind as well is that the net worth numbers are using stock value which most of the ultra rich cannot actually liquidate.
The general public shouldn't be interested in watching people give themselves brain damage for millions of dollars. Without the monetary incentive, people wouldn't be playing football at this level (or the high school and NCAA feeders), which sure looks like exploitation to me.

If the NFL has known about the risks for years and continued with its business model, it should absolutely face lawsuits and financial ruin.
Right. This is mentioned near the top of TFA:

> We understand that there are licenced components you can not release. Simply leave them out with a note explaining what was removed. We will either bypass them, or replace them with open source alternatives.

As bdcravens and ghaff allude to elsewhere in this subthread, the question is whether Adobe can be convinced to put in the effort required to strip out licensed IP. Maybe a crowdfunded campaign with a bounty to cover Adobe's costs would be more compelling than a slacktivist petition like TFA.
Author here. Pretty overwhelmed and astonished with all this. Can't wait to read through all these comments!
I like to think about it like this: With a wealth of 92.3B, even earning a moderate 8% net return on that wealth, Jeff Bezos needs to spend $20.2M per day just to not get any richer.

Now I've spent a lot of time daydreaming about how awesome it would be to be rich. One day I added up what it would take to have the most obscene, ridiculously opulent lifestyle imaginable...private jets, presidential suites, chauffers, megayachts, basically anything and everything imaginable that I would possibly want if money were no object. I never surpassed a requirement for more than $20M per year. $20M per day is ludicrous...and that's just what it would take for him to not get any richer.
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We very strongly believe they don't grok recursion because they don't use it.

We have countless hours of recordings of dolphins, parrots, whales etc... communicating and none of the vocal patterns are complex enough to indicate recursion.

Recursion implies the ability to create infinitely complex language constructs--if animals have this capability they are communicating via some method that we aren't capable of recording, or they've just decided not to do it when we're listening.

You might as well say that mice are more intelligent than humans, they just do a good job of hiding--sure I can't prove that you're wrong, but I wouldn't bet much money on it.
The world will soon be a much much miserable place.
So, the solution to the uncertain threat of airlines picking your luggage and stealing your computer or its data is... giving over your data to somebody that it's certain it's spying on you and whose business model is to comb over your data.

How is this not "you won't catch me, I'll just throw myself off a bridge"?

Also, termux has ~600 packages. Debian has 50,000. Besides the basics, you're liable to need packages you just don't have in termux, which makes it a serviceable environment in a pinch, but not one where you want to do your work on.
Can you please report your findings in this thread?

https://community.amd.com/thread/215773
You can't patent software so thanks for making my point. You can't patent math either. Crypto is math based money so now the SEC is basically trying to regulate math. Any reasoning person will see the futility in that.

Paradigm shifts require new rules. You can't regulate a car the same way you regulate a horse. But when we allow buggy whip manufacturers to influence regulators for the interest of their personal bottom line, then the public looses while the intrenched interests win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
Agreed. I think the rise in sales of vinyl is a (small but visible) rejection of today's passive consumption of music. People still see value in actively experiencing albums, and are turning to vinyl for that.
Gotta pump up those numbers. Can't show growth without people signing up for accounts.
Spain alone had four Linux distros funded by different regional governments.

How is that efficient? What a waste of public funds.

What I am talking about is making ONE operating system for every level of governance. I'm talking about agreements by all party involved to pool their resources to make ONE OS, not 56.

The most popular desktop OS in the world is Windows. People are familiar with it and Win32 apps, so why not use ReactOS as a starting point?
the Soviets were hampered in many ways. One of them was a fundamental misunderstanding of genetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Is their firmware really noticeably better or have more features than competing chipsets?
Or not, you cannot know until you try both.

You should know the scientific method from the science club. ;)
From this, we can conclude that John is not your roommate.
Yeah, the thing is that our health insurance has a deductible still, and it's generally a percentage of the cost of the visit. Since prices aren't published, you have no idea how much anything will cost until afterwards. Even the doctors can't tell you how much anything will cost.

It reminds me of an old joke about things that don't have a listed price: "If you have to ask, you can't afford it." I think that mentality is really prevalent in the US when it comes to healthcare, regardless of how expensive the procedure would actually be.
> I drive a used hatchback Nissan Versa and live on less than $25k a year

Sure as long as your needs remain stable, prices don't rise and most importantly someone else is paying for your healthcare.
I guess i'll be the only contrarian here and say that Twitter has become the preferred communication platform for some notable political figures (including the current Sitting US President). On that simple premise alone, I can't for good reason work up the nerve to use it anymore.

There was a time when I relied on Twitter to get details about life in a rather medium-sized city. We had tweetups and I even used it for business networking. As it grew bigger, I felt less interested as the value increased on other platforms like Reddit and LinkedIn. Even now, I still find dedicated Subreddits more valuable than Twitter.

To me, Twitter is now a space for low effort comments and input on media. I'm sure it works well for others, and good for you. But I have no time to cultivate relevant trends, and it seems philosophically wrong to suggest a platform should enable or mandate the culling of an audience. Especially since by design, Twitter is supposed to be the cross section of humanity (with its inherent downsides).
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> Twitter isn't even good for news because most of the time you enter half way into the conversation

I also don't like it for news because a single piece of news will appear a thousand times in my feed.
Thanks a lot for your thoughtful review! Here's some feedback:

* Great to hear you like the design and UI! Contrast is not easy to get right with all the different screens and layouts, but we'll improve this.

* Editing the item title in place is planned.

* The current behavior of the uncategorized items is intentional, but as you noted it's not ideal and we're currently working on ways to improve it.

* We're already experimenting with different approaches to the graph visualization like visualizing the links between items. Stay tuned :)

* We're planning to add versioning, which will allow you to retrace how the content evolved.

It would be very interesting to us if you come up with a specific reason. Don't hesitate to contact me directly :)
To be fair, I believe all of MMM's calculations exclude housing, since they own their house outright.
Here's a screenshot of the Ghost Dashboard [1] from the original Kickstarter campaign. As well as a mock video of the Dashboard [2]

[1] https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/011/492/835/b2e56fd9584d152...

[2] https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/487539/video-234630-h26...
Excluding housing and healthcare, our annual expenses for the last year were roughly $11,800 for a family of 4.

Not fun, but doable.
that is not correct.
Jeff Bezos becomes world’s richest man
People need adversity to have purpose. I think AI is Musk's way of coping.
Capitalism != corporatism.

Capitalism: pro competition, pro markets. Corporatism: anti-competition, Freedom Markets™.

Conflating the two is the biggest failing of modern leftists, such as myself. We can hardly criticize, mitigate our modern winner-takes-all economy until we stop defending it.
More info on the new CLI / installer here:

https://docs.ghost.org/docs/ghost-cli
@bjoernm Nuclino is beautiful, reminds me of this (at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AXaFlIFQA

I love how you've enabled users to take down ideas in a very quick way without forcing them to make decisions about what "category" or purpose the information has at that moment and then they can freeform build on that information to take it from something amorphous to something with utility. This compliments the way humans actually tackle complex work.

Can't wait to see where Nuclino goes from here!
You actually cannot take that content at all, since the leaders in "that part of the world" are so fearful of such coverage that they censor it entirely.
At-least, someone got it
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I'd estimate he set the software world back about 5 years. Hard to estimate what the result of that was, but it's probably pretty bad. His post retirement work might have made up for it by now. I'm willing to consider him breakeven.
Hey hey hey, let's not blame floating point here ;).

Floating point is completely deterministic (as you note by getting the same behavior every time you run the simulation in the browser). I'm looking at the js spec, and there shouldn't be any freedom in evaluating floating point expressions (but overly clever browser vendors may have ignored that and reordered them anyhow).

However, I do know for a fact that the implementations of the Math.sin and Math.cos functions are browser specific,

https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-math.sin

so that alone will remove any chance at browser independent reproducibility, without additional controls.

Be interesting to see if replacing Math.cos and Math.sin with your own implementation would remove the cross browser dependency.

Btw, spec conforming implementation of Math.sin

function sin(x) {
if ( x === Infinity
|| x === -Infinity
|| x === NaN) {
return NaN;
}
return x;
}
There's also no shortage of the Ethereum community patting themselves on the back too. The Ethereum community isn't toxic because it hasn't encountered serious questions about the future of the protocol yet and the price is constantly going up (in the medium/long term).
At least in the USA it is in no way FU money unless you are over 60 or something. Assuming you invested it all and didn't spend a single cent, that's 12K a year from interest (generous 7%). You can probably spend 30-40K for 30 years if you decide to dip into the principal. But if you are young, you will have to get a main income source.
Breeding humans takes time, especially if you have to wait for at least a decade between producing an embryo and finding out whether it's useful for further breeding and can't meaningfully preselect them. The Soviet Union probably didn't exist long enough.
It seems like at some point we're just going to end up re-writing Java - But for the web.
You would think that a graduate student would debug (or at least fix to the point of being interpretable) the work that they spent months on before publishing it as finished and adding it to pip.

HA ha ha ha ha. No. Not even a little.

There are a bunch of reasons for this, but the big ones are:
1. Scientists aren't developers (some of us are exceptions, but we prove the rule).
2. The objective function of a grad student is "publish and graduate" not "write good code and use it forever".
Basically, the publishers asked for this. Denying open access to old papers from humanitys point of view is wastefull. The planet is full of hungry minds. Who knows where the next Ramanujan comes from and which discipline he or she chooses but given the non existent transaction cost of reading an old paper it would be beyond silly if they could not do it for free.
If the expected benefits of the eugenic selection over the lifetime of the child are more than the cost of the medical procedure then we could expect bank/insurance/state to finance the operation.
Log scales are interesting for lots of reasons, and they are incredibly useful. Everyone here knows that, and nobody disagrees. But you asked why not think about log scale in response to someone who was attempting to demonstrate absolute differences. Log scales are for showing ratios, they are not for showing absolute differences.

The point here isn't to say that Bezos will buy a billion baguettes, but it is show to show that he could buy 90 billion baguettes and feed every single person on the planet several times over. There are only a few people who could do this. And, of course, they won't.

EDIT: I meant simply that 90B baguettes would go as far as they go, and 90B baguettes is several times more than 7B people. I was only demonstrating magnitudes in the context of a thread about magnitudes. I am not suggesting that either baguettes or Bezos are a permanent and global solution to world hunger & politics, but either way I can't afford to buy very many people baguettes.
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LinkedIn also uses a similar WYSIWYG. This design has been around longer than any of these companies have been using it.

What separates this is that you won't just get a dump of HTML from the editor. You'll get the content split into JSON https://github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit/blob/master/MOBILEDO...

This is beneficial if you plan to use your content in more than one place. For example, maybe the content is used on multiple websites, pulled into an e-mail newsletter, displayed on digital signage, integrated into an app or news services outside of your control. If you're interested in this idea, I suggest searching for the terms COPE or decoupled CMS.
I haven't been able to use Twitter since the election.

I was using it daily up until then. It seems like people have stopped treating politics as something you only talk about with restraint. And I mean smart urban people, not your crazy hippie Aunt on Facebook.

People have been sold the idea that they need to be "doing something" by complaining about everything into an echo chamber of people who agree with them. And everyone thinks they are a mini-Jon Stewart in the process. It just stopped being fun because I don't want to spend hours filtering through this hoise building up a new list of 100 people I like to follow...again.

I left Facebook under similar circumstances. Basically when all of it became baby photos and FW:FW:FW: email list quality news articles, instead of my friends having fun.
It doesn't boggles my mind at all, and I prefer Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates rather than more corrupted people.

"All the good you can do with this tons of money" Money at that scale is power. Bezos could give away a little each year to a science institut for example, but it would not work for short term stuff. You are not going to discover 1000x more stuff tomorrow by pouring billions in science. But for a long term goal yes Jeff Bezos could nudge more people getting into science if he wanted that. And that's what he might do for Space exploration / technologies (at least that's what he publicly says) and that is called... Investment.

So which investment is the best ? Who knows ? Who has the power to decide it ?

PS : not spending its own money is NOT throwing it away, it increase power purchase of all others people that uses the same money. Spending it increases money circulation and can cause inflation for example.

PS2 : "I just don't think anybody needs that kind of wealth" who said anyone was given money because he "needed" it ? We don't live in a communism utopia
During the season and much of the off season the team probably pays for accommodations, meals, transportation, healthcare, etc.

Also, this is Baltimore we're talking about. The only places you can reasonably spend that much in rent in Baltimore is luxury developments on the waterfront and around Patterson Park.
I have a 1700X with linux 24/7 running like this: https://i.imgur.com/KXARxUE.png, no issues so far.
Well sir, I am not. Good day to you.
> If he owns everything free and clear

So ok say he owns his house. You still have property taxes (in some places can run from 1 to 4% of property value) upkeep family costs and so on.

> and you can live well on $25,000 per year

Not with a family. Not in a safe area or what most would consider a 'nice' area.
That can't be attributed to playing to the lowest common denominator.
And this is a super important year for Elixir and Phoenix.

Erlang/OTP 20.0 was just release last month.

Elixir 1.5 was just released this week.

Phoenix 1.3 is just about out the door (currently in Release Candidate phase)

And maybe most importantly, the complete rewrite of Cowboy 2.0 is almost done. Cowboy 2.0 is also currently in Release Candidate phase.
His work in education in the States is awful.
The general problem is that there are some APIs which work differently enough between platforms that they leak sufficiently that it makes a difference above the stuff they're supposed to abstract. The browser is [sadly] as close as we've been in recent history to having APIs which mostly work across platforms by leveraging the browser (which is consequently made by the OS developers on mobile OSes) for abstraction over OS stuff. Combined with how "everything is in the cloud" and the decline of the importance of stuff like local file management for average users (now you can lose all your stuff in GDrive just as easily), it's becoming a good-enough choice for making software that works on whatever thing people try to run it on.

Java on a phone is nothing new, but the Java for Symbian you'd write probably wouldn't work very well on a desktop. VC++ for Windows Mobile apps wouldn't work well on a desktop either. The web is the lowest common target, even though it's quite a high level to target. We still run into plenty of HCI issues (why is there a big fat + button in the lower-right on my laptop in GDocs instead of "New" or File -> New action? Because Material is mobile-first and applied thoughtlessly to non-touch experiences), but if you play your cards right, it's now possible to have a codebase, and truly the same app, running on whatever OS and architecture the user has, without specifically building and packaging for 30 different target combinations.
8MB is the maximum size possible for full blocks. BCC supports 2-8MB maximums. the 400GB stat is kind of like calculating how much gas you would use in a year assuming 8000RPM 24/7.

Also disk usage arguments still apply to SegWit. For instance: see this 3.7MB block on the test network, containing 468 transactions.

https://testnet.smartbit.com.au/block/00000000000016a805a7c5...

so if we're extrapolating from worst case scenarios, that's 658GB per year!
We have battlebots.

Besides watching robots playing soccer being boring, you're ignoring the fact that people PLAY sports for fun. The millions of people in intramural sports aren't doing it so they can entertain family.