skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding necessities such as healthcare and education, yes, sticker costs are rising faster than inflation and wages, but one must also take into account that:

Individuals seldom pay the stick price. A $10k/month drug does not mean one pays $10k/month out of his or her own pocket. Same for a $1,000 emergency room visit. Or college tuition, due to generous financial aid and payment deferment programs (some universities have huge discounts for low and middle-class students).

So one must adjust prices for what one actually pays, not the MSRP.

Second, although people are spending a lot on healthcare, they are getting more healthcare and better healthcare, which is the key distinction. This means cutting-edge treatments for diseases that decades ago would have been fatal (a notable example is CML, which used to be fatal within 3-6 years of diagnosis but can now be managed as a chronic condition like diabetes).

Healthcare would be very cheap if drugs were limited to Advil and Aspirin, but also very bad. People would be irate if those were their only options. Not saying the system is perfect or that drugs are not overpriced, but one must take into account quality and quantity than just the price.

Rent, however, is an example of a cost that has exceeded inflation, but where there is no notable improvement in quality, and there are no payment deferment programs. People are paying more and more for the same 2-bedroom apartment. I suspect part of the problem is due to the difficulty of evincing deadbeat renters and due to regulation, so landlords pass the costs to renters both in the form of high rents and huge, upfront, multi-month down-payments. But also, the housing bust in 2008 created a construction shortage, so people who lost their homes in 2005-2010 found themselves with no option but to rent, and this created more demand, but also due to less housing constitution. Housing starts plunged in 2008 and never really recovered: https://www.census.gov/construction/img/c20_curr.gif
I pretty much disagree. how exactly would that work? more regulation? so people just click though more yep, it's creepy but I don't care buttons.

charge them as a monopoly? when you have google and apple?
Today’s developers are screwed, just like they were in 1976
Pirates Are Valuable Customers, Not the Enemy
I feel your on the wrong tack here, shown by looking at company profits which are still growing at healthy rates in the wealthiest nations.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/corporate-profits

And I believe, though recognise this has counter arguments, if we kept (or implemented depending on region) better tax redistribution and worker wage support the first world economies would be growing at a better rate. The trickle down policy we see in most western countries has been disproven time and time again yet the politicians still rebrand and implement it as its good for short term gains for the people funding their political careers.

You do have a point that developing economies have a advantage in they have more upside to gain and this lets countries have those 10%+ per annum growth rates. But also its worth noting, and this may be 'causation does not equal correlation' type scenario, but no country has become developed as we consider it now without having a significant improvement in financial equality.

See this graph: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Top-In...

Article here: https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality

And while its not as simple as one variable, its going to be interesting to see what happens if we continue to allow inequality to grow.
If you have already passed the 10 article limit, Bloomberg lets you read more in private mode.
Case in point, Apple's ARM chips are huge (and hot) compared to the stock ARM chips and that is because they are throwing transistors at the problem.
According to Wikipedia, "first century AD is the most probable guess" for the stele's age. By that time, pronunciation was probably nearer to the modern language than to Ancient Greek, although, of course, not exactly the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek_phonology#Popular_...

Even Modern Greek, despite the homogenization effect of modern communications, still has local dialects which sound very different from one another and aren't easily intelligible to speakers of the standard dialect.
To be even clearer, v2 service names are just a part of the RSA key hash whereas v3 service names are a full ed25519 pub key and a couple of other bytes.
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Facebook is using internal fork of phabricator (with facebook specific modification) for (almost) all the code-review (there might be exceptions). It's much better code-review tool than github.
The pie is growing slower than it ever has. Per capita GDP growth in the US has been close to 1% over the past 20 years. The majority of GDP growth has come from population growth rather than increased personal wealth. The purchasing power gains made by US consumers, as cited in the article you linked, have been a result of an unsustainable current account deficit and growing national debt. Dollar strength is great for people who have a bunch of dollars, but for the working class it can be difficult because it hurts the competitiveness of US exports (and eventually domestic employment opportunities).

The rich are consuming an increasingly large percentage of a very slowly growing pie, so while you are technically correct, you seem to be unfairly dismissing a real issue here.
With warrant.
You get locked up

No, what the parent is getting at is, you should say "I get locked up." You personally, whether you think you're schizophrenic or not. Are you happy with this situation? If you think you're sane, how do you prove it and how do you get out?

This isn't an abstract question. Locking healthy people up in asylums is something that has happened many times in history.
hn@ycombinator.com, found in the guidelines and behind the "Contact"/"Support" links in the footer.
We don't need a congress full of subject-matter experts. What we need are people who respect and can work effectively with subject-matter experts.

I agree with the spirit of this argument, but there is a clear downside to not giving subject matter experts a vote at all. Ultimately there is then nothing to stop political expediency overriding facts and understanding, and the elected representatives are free to discard the opinions of the SMEs no matter how valid or correct they might be.

Obviously most representatives still couldn't be true experts all the different subjects that lawmakers vote on. You'd only ever have a limited number of representatives who were voting fully informed on any given issue. Still, at least that number would be greater than zero, and if you're a politician voting for a "health" law that 100% of the qualified medical practitioners among your colleagues are voting against on the same record, that tells everyone something.
Carbon 'bubble' could cost global economy trillions
I am not familiar with the terms of these kinds of data sharing agreements, but I know most US confidentiality agreements include a term that enables companies to share confidential data with governments if required by law. Most agreements if not all also contain a clause that companies take reasonable best efforts to try to resist or narrow such requests. I believe I've heard that tech companies can successfully do this on occassion

So even confidential company info can be taken by the government. In the US I think there are practical limits on this and companies have some ability and willingness to resist. From my limited experience the latter is not always the case in china, and I'd imagine the former is less true as well
You mean cue. A queue is (for example) a line to the store. Yes they sound the same.
Is amazon or flipkart better for purchasing a macbook pro?
I am gifting it to a developer friend who expressed desire for a macbook. Need help from developers.
I spent $9k out of pocket (hospital stay and doctors) for my son’s birth in April after insurance. My friend paid 5£ in the UK. No, I am not getting substantially better care for what was paid.

It has been proven fact that we (Americans) pay more than every other developed country for healthcare with poorer outcomes. It’s a racket, plain and simple.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more...
> Even if the program did drop color when not sending output to a tty it still is a crappy way to remove color as the pipe would need another program as a receiver such as pager.

You don't need a pager. cat works. Compare

grep --color=auto hacker /usr/share/dict/words

with

grep --color=auto hacker /usr/share/dict/words | cat

The same applies to GNU ls, which actually changes more than just colors depending on whether it's printing to a tty or not.

Programs that emit colors by default when not sending output to a tty are buggy.

A wild card in this mix is Windows. On UNIX-like systems, detecting a tty is simple. On Windows, it is... not so simple. But the OP's tool, blush, doesn't appear to support Windows at all anyway. (Which is totally cool. I very much understand why you might not.)
"It's not like the rich a consuming an increasingly large percentage of a fixed pie. https://greyenlightenment.com/the-99-vs-1-who-is-exploiting-...

They are consuming an increasing percentage of a much slower growing pie. This is a problem. Nobody is talking about enforcing equality but about avoid inequality growing even more.
Could Zuckerberg argue that this is not what he meant with 'piece of content that you share'? I imagine not, but just wondering.
'Software Defined Electricity' and an 'OS for power' can double grid efficiency
I can't tell if you're a troll or you just show an utter lack of empathy. Which ironically is a symptom of sociopathy and would warrant a lockup according to your views.
> is it fair to say things are this way due to no gun control?

I don't think so. Maryland isn't the most restrictive state when it comes to firearm policy[1], but it's a long distance from "no gun control." I'm also not certain that the chance of armed encounters is terribly high in Bethesda, though I'm uncertain if those crime statistics are recorded or what terms I should use to search for them. To give a comparison, the homicide rate per capita (which I suspect would correlate to some extent with police interaction with armed individuals) in Montgomery County (where Bethesda is) was 1.4/100,000 in 2016 [2]. For Australia at large, the rate is 1.0/100,000 [3], so pretty comparable. These police officers don't seem to operate in an area that is notably more dangerous/violent than Australia.

I do, however, think the issue is cultural. Many police officers in the US seem to perceive that they are in danger 24/7, and this effects how they interact with people on a daily basis. There is a preference for an overwhelming show of force even when it's absolutely uncalled for. This probably contributes to a feedback loop that causes the general population and the police to trust each other less and be more confrontational. And I don't seem to be alone in identifying this as a problem; if you search for problems with police culture in the US, you will find a large body of criticism for the default behavior of police officers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Maryland

[2] https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/POL/Resources/Files/MCPD%... (Page 4)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Australia#Murder
Like the business model and the notable lack of candy-colored features. Looks like it basically gives you the tools to run an open source project the way the Linux kernel developers do?
Great feedback!

I agree on most things but I really do like the sidebar. It can be hidden if you don't like seeing it (arrow on bottom left). It also allows you to hover over the sections and drill into the page you want without having to click and load pages. It's definitely an improvement over the previous arrangement they had.

Agree that tags is an annoyingly unintuitive place to go when looking for releases. Just call it releases and place it prominently on the repo landing page like Github. The fact that releases are also tags is understood. The icon gives it away.
Hi, let me introduce you to this new thing called the Internet, which lets everybody publish their speech for free. You should try it sometime.

(And clearly they mean a limit on political contributions, which is something that many countries do successfully. Ours used to be one of them. I hope you're not as ignorant on the topic as your hysterical straw man suggests, but if you are I'd suggest a little reading. E.g. this Brookings working group has many perspectives: https://web.archive.org/web/20010406114712/https://www.brook... .)
Think bigger:

* You have backlinks that point to your github repos, that need to be updated (not all of them are under your control).

* If you were foolish enough to also host your blog/project website/whatever on Github Pages, moving means starting somewhere else from scratch (again: you need to update all your backlinks, not all of them under your control).

* You have to update your build servers when your repos move elsewhere.

* Your issue tracker is stuck on Github

* Your discussions are stuck on Github

* Your (developer) social network is stuck on Github.

* Your statistics tracker is stuck on Github.

There are a lot of lock-in features hidden in plain sight.
Just because they're called hidden services doesn't mean they have to be hidden. Tor hidden services offer a lot that the clear web and normal domain system does not. For one, you own your domain rather than lease it on the whims of some institution that can be easily pressured to kick you off (like cloudflare and registrars did against stormfront, for example). And of course going completely within Tor is a great speed-bump for preventing massive surveillance.

I run all of my clear web sites as tor hidden services too and publish the domains for both publicly on both.

But I wouldn't trust Cloudflare to not censor anything controversial. They're already proven themselves an enemy of free speech and an enemy of tor by their behavior. Words mean little.
I don't find it as pretty as Phabricator's

"Merge branch 'dev-hello' into 'master'"

Phabricator makes it so that the squashed commit summary is the summary of the diff (merge request)
Does it work for any bank in any country?
It's almost as if someone planning an unlawful (however unjust the law) rebellion wouldn't be deterred by gun control laws.
Yea, but each of us aren't multibillion dollar corporations significantly influencing governments.
What happened is that all the manufacturing jobs that used to supply middle class lifestyles for the unskilled got shipped to China (or otherwise overseas). Mass immigration has expanded the labor poor diluting earnings for all, and massively increasing competition at the lower ends of the wage scale. "The rich got richer" because there is less competition than ever. Housing will only ever get MORE expensive as more and more people take up more and more space making single family homes pricing more resemble the luxury that they actually are. You could reverse all these trends and fix inequality but I can all but guarantee that you wouldn't employ any of the policy tools necessary to make it happen. Such as restricting immigration for the unskilled and enforcing border controls, thus reducing competition at the lower end of the wage scale and directly improving the lot of poor people in the US. The reduced competition might even incentivize employers to raise wages.
Autopalette: Terminal palettes and themes, without tears
from the link

"These days companies know literally everything about you, your friends, your interests, and they use it all to sell ads."

I am not surprised there was a culture clash. I am more surprised that they sold to FB, and that it lasted so long with the difference in vision.
What do you mean 'meddle'? GitHub was looking to sell. Pretty badly by the numbers, considering how much money they were burning. GitLab has the issue of slowness, as their free service just isn't as good, because they can't afford to just burn VC money. That's why GitHub was good.
So far I've been only concerned about code's simplicity until I understand what there needs to be done. This is not going to be grep or ripgrep. My intent was to make a tool I needed so I started working on it. I thought someone else might like it, now it is joyful to see people are looking at the project.

There are a couple of places I wish I would have done better. Using bufio.Scanner actually bothers me a lot. Also in the Read() method it reads everything from all readers into a buffer instead of pulling what it needs to check.

Thanks for suggestions :)
You also need to take care of:

Catalog/pricing/inventory management
Category/multiple product display/design
Search
Single product page display/design
Shipping options
Checkout, aside from payment (partial flow, or completely externally hosted?)
Order management (how to get orders out of the system and into a warehouse to be packed)
Promotions and discounts (will you have coupons?)
Customer feedback/product reviews
Contact me/us

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Source: I work for an ecommerce consultant (I use/live in Salesforce Commerce Cloud/formerly Demandware)
That would be a hell of a way to get people aware of the law and lobby against it. Just have that pop up for all users in Australia.
> armed resistance against the state

This is literally what terrorism is, though.
Hackable pattern recognition tool with cool UI for timeseries databases
It could run the Linux kernel model for sure, but it could also do several others. It's suitable for smaller projects as well.
It seems to be a little known fact in Silicon Valley that you can not buy Apple products and do all your computing just fine.
Wealth inequality is related/similar to income inequality but they are not the same thing, which the "cute" Wikipedia article would have informed you if you had read it.
If $400 a year isn’t a trivial expense for an ecommerce store, you are probably wasting your time.

You can go with woo, which is marginally free. But it takes a week to set up vs half a day with Shopify. So, wasting 35 $100 hours to save $400 is a bad decision. Then you have maintenance costs of a few hours a month.

You could go with amazon. But to list your own product costs $39.99 a month, so $480 a year there too. (You might be able to go with $39.99 then downgrade, haven’t tried it)

eBay and Etsy might work. Craigslist for sale postings are still free.

But at the end of the day, if the store isn’t bringing it at least $400-500 a month it should probably be shuttered and move on to the next idea.

There are definitely apps to do customizable combos and reserve but don’t pay.

Customizing Shopify (or big commerce or volusion) is almost always cheaper in total cost than custom work until you have a huge base.

I wrote software for 7 years. Now run 4 Shopify stores. I used to also run two woo stores. Shoping carts are complicated and boring. Shopify gets things right you wouldn’t know you need for three years. It’s the right place to start.
How many people do you have working on your projects? We tried fossil a few years ago but it was too barebones to implement our processes.
Disclaimer: I don't know the emails.

I am immensely curious how you're achieving better delivery rates - I'm browsing through the site now trying to understand this. I say this because at the end of the day, I thought any failures reflected poorly on the provider (SendGrid/etc) which puts the provider and the customer at a sort of war.

> The business model I’m experimenting with is to offer all of these features for free to developers and small teams, because I know what a pain it can be to choose a good email API. I plan to monetize this service by charging bigger volume users.

These plans scare me, fwiw. I appreciate trying to offer an affordable service to small teams where money is tight, but to small businesses like mine, our needs are often too big for the small tiers but too small to get value out of the next bigger plans. Many online services are expensive for us, despite us having revenue. Our margins our thin, I guess. This isn't a critique, I'm just trying to I guess advocate for a pricing model that fairly distributes the pricing load. Since we _(my company)_ always seem to get caught in the middle.

Appreciate your work here, and I hope I find better understanding to eventually use the product!
The person in question has shown themselves to be highly unstable while also being the beneficiary of military training.

I believe approaching the incident in a discreet manner but prepared for the worst was prudent.
Most populist leaders in history have been members of the elite.

Julius Caesar, after all, was far from poor.
I know this is three days later but I just saw your comment and wanted to leave a reply (though it may never be seen.)

>Essentially, I'm asking you to consider these two farmers "in a vacuum" such that their wealth is due entirely to their own actions and not to any outside forces. Absolutely nothing left to chance, or "luck." By my definition of the word at least.

I don't think it's enough to refute this by simply saying that 'people don't live in a vacuum' as others might. I think it's actually impossible to conceive of a person 'in a vacuum.' I reject this sort of individualistic view of a person in favor of a more communitarian view - which is to say a person is made up of their social attachments and environment as much as those social attachments and environments are made up of individuals. It's impossible to conceive of a person in a vacuum for the same reason it's impossible to conceive of a cat that's a dog. A 'person in a vacuum' just isn't a person.

>They are twin brothers and received the same upbringing. One of the farmers tends his lands diligently while the other is concerned with other aspects of life and only does the bare minimum to survive. As you might expect, over time the first farmer prospers due to the hard work he has put in to cultivate his lands while the second farmer stagnates because he has prioritized other matters. They both understood the benefits of tending to land diligently from their shared upbringing, but they made different decisions for whatever reason.

You seem to posit that they are exactly the same in upbringing and everything but then behave differently. What do you believe is the source of this differing behavior? If we traced it back far enough would we eventually reach a point where it becomes apparent that this difference originated in 'a thing' which the farmers had no control over? I believe so.