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> Also, to keep this all in perspective, we are talking about seven companies that made egregious engineering decisions to maintain their market leadership which has put their customers at risk.

Fixed it for you, the current list I have is AMD, ARM, Freescale/NXP, IBM both POWER and mainframe/Z, Intel, MIPS, Oracle SPARC, and maybe old Fujitsu/HAL SPARC designs for Spectre, with at least four of those CPU lines also subject to Meltdown.
According to this, the top 1% control 32% of the wealth (and the bottom 90% about 33%, a bit hard to see on the graph).

According to the previously discussed Bloomberg piece (about Zucman and Saez), the top 0.1% of taxpayers own 20% of US wealth, the top 1% control 39% (and the bottom 90% have 26%).

So, it might be worse.

EDIT to add: Bloomberg piece discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19991496
Well, several magazines would be like that until the age of the internet. The 90s was the last time when we saw a flourishing magazine market. Nowadays the very few magazines that survive are nothing more than a leaflet.
Apple did just that in Safari on macOS.
I ... surprisingly agree.

I generally am in favor of creators on HN sharing a new product with Show HN, or in threads when it’s relevant to what’s being discussed. Hell, when I’m happy with a product, I’ll be the first to chime into the thread and share my satisfaction.

I have different feelings about Polar. Maybe because it repeatedly gets front page every time Anki/SRS comes up, which isn’t rare. Or maybe it’s just because when I tried to use it to expand my Anki deck with peer reviewed papers, I found it unbearably inconvenient / difficult, -plus- it insists on being yet another privacy-invading cloud offering for a product for which cloud involvement feels forcibly tacked on. Quite disappointing, since this product really solves a problem for me.

I guess the combination of “how badly I wanted to like and use this product” + “how disappointing it was in use” + “how frequently it’s on the front page” adds up to seriously being sick of seeing Polar ads.
> astronomers will want to use orbital telescopes anyway.

Not necessarily. With Adaptive Optics, ground based telescopes are getting incredible results. Also, they can build much larger primary mirrors on the ground than what can be lofted into space. Ground based telescopes also have the ability to be updated/upgraded/fixed/etc.
Social mobility in the US is, by now, smaller than in many other developed countries, IIRC.

EDIT to add some sources:

> The key observation, based on a growing body of research, is that when it comes to upward social mobility, the U.S. is truly exceptional — that is, it performs exceptionally badly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/ivanka-trump-soci...

> Although the discovery of America’s low mobility, compared to similar countries, is relatively new, it turns out that mobility’s been low for some time.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/us-social-mobility-problem

> A new study indicates that from the 1980s to the 2000s, it became less likely that a worker could move up the income ladder.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-...
I disagree with the characterization that this is "not very hard" (and my initial assessment was "questionable incantations" which I think is also accurate):

https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Multi...

Definitely not handled "simple and well" as posited by the OP.
That’s simply not true. Viasat offers much lower cost per GB. The higher speed plans are less than $1 per GB. The cheapest plan is $50/40GB. That’s already far cheaper than mobile data.

Starlink and others are likely to significantly improve on that, too. Fundamental costs (especially for later versions) are cents per GB or lower, competitive with AWS transit fees.
I guess you could stick a very small sticker on it
Facebook is telling users who try to share distorted Pelosi video that it’s fake
No, he’s complaining about how frequently Polar ads show up on the HN front page. The blog post being an ad.
Figures like yours usually come from just comparing today's 10% to the 10% from earlier date, and just saying "new entrant" vs "existing entrant". But a new entrant from the bottom 10% would be more interesting than a new entrant from the second 10%.

You can get a more holistic view using, say, quintiles: (grabbed off Wikipedia)

42% of children born to parents in the bottom fifth of the income distribution ("quintile") remain in the bottom, while 39% born to parents in the top fifth remain at the top.[5] Only half of the generation studied exceeded their parents economic standing by moving up one or more quintiles.[5] Moving between quintiles is more frequent in the middle quintiles (2-4) than in the lowest and highest quintiles. Of those in one of the quintiles 2-4 in 1996, approximately 35% stayed in the same quintile; and approximately 22% went up one quintile or down one quintile (moves of more than one quintile are rarer). 39% of those who were born into the top quintile as children in 1968 are likely to stay there, and 23% end up in the fourth quintile.[5]

Children previously from lower-income families had only a 1% chance of having an income that ranks in the top 5%.[7] On the other hand, the children of wealthy families have a 22% chance of reaching the top 5%.[7]
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I had two accounts (done because at the time I didn’t realize you could change your account handle); one I rarely used and one I used daily. I went to log in to the rarely used one and the password didn’t work nor did recovery. It had been hacked. Nothing I did could get it back and Twitter just shrugged and said sucks to be me. So I cancelled the daily use one. Not just because of that mind you. Twitter has become a cesspool anymore and I realized it was making me unhappy more than it was contributing to my life. If, by some miracle I manage to get the other account back I’ll cancel it too.
So we know that this distribution is bad for the economy, and these trends generally precede a recession or depression.

We also know that the policies that fix this, namely a wealth tax and or extremely high taxes on the wealthy generally don't produce the results you want (the ultra-rich tend to find ways to avoid said taxes so only the minor-rich end up paying).

So what do we do?
When somebody presents me with a new shiny solution to a hard problem describing it as a silver bullet, I immediately become suspicious. So, it depends a lot on how good Pat says that Y is.
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Choice of operating system won't affect whether or not people type away their details into random websites. Putting Windows and Linux in the same box and pushing iOS over them is also puzzling.
Why would someone's non-technically literate parents happen to be running a Linux distribution on their personal computers and why would that make them more susceptible to giving their details away than running OSX?
Living beyond your means doesn't mean you are poor, just that your current style of living cannot be supported by your current income.

If I moved into a 500k house and bought 2 new cars, I'd be beyond my means.

I have lots of coworkers who do just this. I would wager they are making less than me, yet have a bigger house and better car.
My own impression is that you likely think it's being "papered over" because you live in California. If you lived out here in flyover country you'd probably be able to see that for a lot of people, there has already been a collapse of the old economic order. Things for a lot of people right now are not all that great around where I live.

A lot of them would love to be able to deliver groceries. Even that in some areas would be too risky though with the opioid epidemic being what it is around here.
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>The top US tax rate in the 50s was over 90%.

Yep, but the effective rate was similar to today because of so many deductions.

Also, what is a “large company”? I would rather Tesla makes a profit despite it emitting carbon and some small coal power not be allowed to profit just because it only employs 300 people.

Just tax carbon output, don’t create all of these half-baked rules trying to punish companies for being large rather than trying to solve the solution of CO2 output.
Young White Dudes Are Decidedly Opting Out of the Whole ‘Job’ Thing
We do nothing special, and have a recession/depression cycle.
> up to now weren't able to directly use their solution in production.

That’s exactly what you __cannot__ do with their new “free wolfram engine for developers” license.
My favorite piece on this topic is “What can a technologist do about climate change” http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

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Turbo Boost can certainly apply to all cores- the limits you hit are TDP and time based, there, not strictly thermal.

So, for example, my old laptop CPU would clock itself up to 2.7GHz on all cores... well, okay, it was a dual core, so that's not saying much, but still. But it'd only maintain that boost for a few seconds- under sustained load it dropped down to 2.5. This wasn't because of thermals, but rather because 2.7GHz was a Turbo Boost frequency, and once the PPL timer runs out...
Starlink could provide global connectivity that can’t be censored or regulated in most countries - and that’s huge.
In other terms, top 1% owns 32%, leaving 38% for the 9% below that.
Updating the firmware.
Build apps and technology for responsible investing. The Trump tax cuts have put the onus on corporations to be social and societal stewards. Investors need to make sure corporations are held to a higher standard
Wait, why the hell is the ‘race to 5G’ even a race?
> ...there was still that nagging feeling that if you could only get a system with just 64k more memory, you could do WONDERFUL things, instead of the mundane things you were working on.

To me, that feeling only really went away in very recent times, when common desktop platforms stopped being starved for RAM. Before we could have 2GB+ RAM on our computers and not even think about it, it really was the case that adding more would make for a "wonderful" experience; there's just no comparison between running with free RAM vs. without! The transition to 64-bit compute everywhere also helped here, of course - no more address space constraints.

On the peripherals side, USB was a huge advance in retrospect. It did come at a bit of a price, in that every peripheral now has to run a fairly complex microcontroller just to deal with the high-level communication protocol (and in turn this led to the rediscovery of GPIO as a "thing" - it used to be the case that GPIO was how you did device interconnect!)

The next real advance will probably be software that actually uses heavily-multicore systems and even GPU compute effectively, for general-purpose tasks not niche special cases. Basically an equivalent to Firefox Quantum, for everything else that we do on our machines.

(Oh, and of course we're still waiting for a mobile platform that runs a genuine general-purpose OS. But hopefully we'll solve that shortly anyway, thanks to efforts like Purism and pmOS. And even the ubiquity of "smart" mobile hardware is in fact somewhat recent. This is linked to the upcoming advance I was just discussing, because power-efficient platforms like mobile are big on multicore compute and the use of GPU.)

Added: I just saw a sibling reply that talked about the crappiness of Windows 10 and recent OS X versions as proof that hardware innovation is dead, and a reply that in turn blamed the end of Moore's law. I think that both are missing the point quite substantially! Linux works just as well as it always did, and surely it should be the real standard if we're talking about innovation!
Yep, it's still definitely considered one of the most secure consumer platforms both in fundamentals and in the practice of the number of bugs it's had.

No security is perfect, a small handful of bugs over the last so-many years is about as good as any platform can hope for.

If you're a CIA agent or run a bitcoin exchange it might not be good enough for you, but for most people it's a pretty good set of options.
This isn't a problem. You're not "paying" by inputting your IBAN, you're "allowing" them to take the money out of your account. This worked pre-IBAN in most EU countries.

The burden or proof is on the seller, in this case Amazon. If they take money out of your account for an order you did not make, just tell your bank - the money will be back in your account in no time and Amazon will, if that happens more often, get a problem with their bank.

Here's another "security risk": at many shops, you can order and pay once you get the goods. And just like this "critical flaw", it's pretty useless because Amazon will just let law enforcement know and they will come knocking at your door.
I expect you must use a different Make from the one I do? Points #2 and #3 much more accurately characterise my experience with Make than my experience with other tools.

#2 may be universally true, but Make does seem to get you to the tipping point much sooner.

I've found #5 only true if the solution to #4 consists entirely of one phony target, listing the commands to be run, one after another. There's nothing wrong with using Make like this, and it does have some advantages over a Bash script with set -v -x -e at the top, but this isn't a great advertisement for Make's usability.

(In fact, regarding "if you just had a tool that handled all that minutiae and that if everyone used it that everything would be roses" - yes, I have found that everything is roses when you do this ;) Building stuff that uses Autotools or CMake, horrid as they are, is almost always pretty straightforward! Stuff that comes with a "simple" Makefile is rather likely to require at least some work. Even simple missing dependency/wrong compiler version issues result in much more cryptic error messages.)
My recomendation is create a block server for ads in this case pi hole is a good option for all your devices (PC, Laptop, Smartphones, etc). For navegation i recommend create user with control on windows, the reason is they can't install apps or changes things in the system that compromise your information or install addons infected in the browsers
And the speed of my overclocked 9700K. If anything, this is just a "Hey, some people can cool an 8-core CPU at 5GHz, let's make a new bin for the 40% of CPUs that can maintain that" release.
Prefer lexical/static structure over dynamic structure?
Make the tax code simpler. Eliminate all deductions. Have the government distribute grants for R&D, home ownership, childrearing or whatever other behaviors they want to incentivize — there’s no reason all these programs need to be administered by the IRS.
People are leaving the typical job market because the typical job market abandoned them. I don't know if this is me just glorifying the past, but I've heard people say that the the company they used to work for would somewhat look out for them and that it was expected that you would stick around for a long time. Nowadays it's more expected to hop from one job to another.
I’d say use AdGuard instead of 1Blocker - the latter pretty much never updates its blacklists.
Apple attempted to do that (I believe it was the Google security team’s MDS writeup that referred to it as a “Herculean effort” on the WebKit team’s part), but even they fell short.

The position that all of the browser vendors have landed on at this point is that mitigating this class of attacks in the browser is simply not possible.
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NDS: Ghost Trick, The World Ends With You, Ragnarock DS, Devil Survivor, 999, Rune Factory 3, Disgaea DS
If you already have a car, it only costs about 25cents/mile at the margin. Half the cost is just depreciation from buying it.
I'm pretty sure that higher taxes in general do reduce inequality. Inequality is far smaller in Europe than in the US, smaller still in Scandinavia.
Stanford scientists created a sound so loud it instantly boils water
It is well known in the academic literature that attacks "mitigated" by "there's too much noise, you'll have to try too many times, you can attack it in the lab but not on a real machine" are not mitigated at all. See for instance https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf .

A practical case where you have an extended amount of time to attack are when you're an ad in a background tab of a website with interesting credentials.
You raise a lot of points which makes it difficult to respond to your entire post. So I will focus on just a few key issues:

> [1] Y’all love telling other people they have to do xyz to save the world.

> [2] Are you ACTUALLY doing just that of which you say you must do?

1: No

2: Yes (I do what I think must be done)

I know there are a lot of people and news outlets that exclaim that we must change our ways. And I understand that it can be very tiring to hear the accusations again and again. I believe that convincing people through a bad concience is not a good way to make them want to change. I believe that making them feel empowered to contribute to positive change actually makes them want to change their ways. It is important to offer choices and not no force people to do things.

> I live in a city! I can do no such thing! Whose fault is that? Don’t live in a damn city.

The problem are not cities. The problem are foods that are transported all over the world. I do not think that the transport of food from a nearby farm to the city is much of an environmental issue.

> After your own damn carbon footprint is nill, then you have the right to start telling others what to do.

I do think that many people should improve the way they communicate climate problems. But given that the climate does not wait until we have figured out how to converse properly, I say we should strife for pragmatism instead of perfectionism.
These articles rarely go over what, if any, practical concerns there are. The Wintel market is even more fragmented, but that's not really an issue in practice because the abstractions are more or less in the right place.
$.6 is average not marginal. The first mile (initial purchase) is half the cost.
Ask HN: How to you participate in conversations on HN?
I've been browsing HN for about 1 year now, and even though the content is amazing I'm often frustrated by the lack of functionality. The main issue I have is comment replies.

Maybe I'm missing something, but on desktop it is non-trivial to find out if someone has replied to one of my comments. I have to click on my profile, click on "comments", scroll down and look through all the various comments I've made... if someone replies to a comment which has already fallen off the first or second page at this point I basically won't see it.

The situation on mobile is even worse. My phone runs Android, so I use Materialistic (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic&hl=en_US) to browse HN, which has been the best client I've found to-date (and I actually prefer it to the web interface on desktop), however it doesn't even show replies to comments I have made. I have to go back to the original thread and then scroll through hundreds of comments to find the one I made previously to see if anyone has replied to it.

Is there an alternative front-end available which adds this functionality on top of HN? Am I just missing this functionality somewhere, or are others really manually going through their comments all the time?
Why do you think such distributions generally precede a recession or depression? I don’t see the causality here as clearly as say a yield curve inversion. And follow-up, why is that bad instead of just expected?

People have more purchasing power and access to goods/services than ever before. Perhaps the relative ubiquity of smartphones is the most emblematic sign of this. Put another way, things are better than they’ve ever been and even in the last ten years, quality of life has improved in many ways. So is there really a problem?
People tend to die during those events due to lack of access to food and health care. So that may not be the best solution.
Intel has fallen so far. It's honestly a shame to watch at this point.

I remember back when Sandy Bridge was first released, and I was extremely pleased by the performance improvements my new chip was able to provide. Did they really manage to mess everything up within such a limited timespan? Or was there just always a hidden incompetence that never showed itself until now?
I locked down my dad's laptop. He thought it was broken so threw it out and bought a new one...sigh
Liberal America’s Single-Family Hypocrisy
Ask HN: What are some of the most successful one-man companies?
I now have a deeper appreciation for front-end (front-line?) developers.
A little bit of googling seems to indicate that the total household wealth in the US was $86 trillion as of 2015, and there are 127 million households in the US, so the average household has $700k net worth. If you have more than that (and many people in tech do), then you are a beneficiary of inequality, not a victim of it, and you don’t have the right to whine about the billionaires hoarding all the wealth at your expense.

A surprising number of upper middle class yuppies love to act like they are downtrodden proles just because they have less money than Jeff Bezos.
N=2, but I've apparently talked in my (very poor and broken) Japanese while going out before. It's just sort of gobbledegook of whatever thoughts are going across your brain apparently.
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Knowing correct compile commands for your project isn't minutiae. It's basically the point of a build system. It's not as trivial to get them right as you seem to appreciate.

You need topological sorting for that. And you need an accurate and detailed model of your build for that. You only need three or four moving parts in your project for that to become hard to maintain manually.

Most development automation problems are not simple. Especially if you want to be portable and readable. It seems really easy when you start but then you need to do debug builds, incorporate sanitizers, generate a little protobuf, link against libclang, run a linter, respect pkg-config, support install ands, or any of a number of other things.

These aren't especially academic or esoteric use cases. They're reasonable things to do in a C or C++ project.
I dont really take it this way. for me the 'nirvana fallacy' is that if we design a bespoke system, in the limit we will save work and end up with a better product than if we found a tank and a car, welded them together, and fixed them up.

whats not mentioned in the article is the 'never coming up for air' problem. maybe building a custom ruggedized car is worth the time investment - but the problem is that once your people get into that mode they always a new and interesting direction to take it, and never end up installing the seats and the taillights.

i still believe that an 80% implementation of some idealized system generally wins over 'just mash together some stuff to make a demo and we'll deal with the fallout later'...but since no one else does anymore its kind of moot.