skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one would be talking about it if everyone was still earning a good wage, able to live a decent middle class life, have a family, had no issues visiting a doctor, etc. etc. But they aren't. People in the bottom 90% (or whatever) are feeling very much like they're falling behind, while they watch the top 10% (or whatever) get richer and richer.

If the system were working for most people and they felt they had good lives, I don't even think people would be particularly concerned about the concentration of power that comes with the concentration of wealth because they would see the system working for them.

Certainly we should talk in terms of ensuring there is an adequate floor, rather than in terms of bringing down the ceiling. What's the point of lowering that ceiling if the people at the bottom still can't see a doctor? And raising the floor is indeed what a lot of progressive proposals do aim for (Medicare for All, or Living Wage, or UBI, etc.). But providing that floor requires funding. Funding anything is always redistribution of some kind with the wealthier paying more because that's where the money is.
The only "hard" part I find with running my own mail server for the last 25 years is switching platforms.

Deriving a large part of my income by supporting Microsoft software in small business environments, I have been running Exchange versions all that time. I have enjoyed Outlook as a primary business tool, and looking at the conversion strategies to move over to a *nix mail server that will support that client and the 25 years of horded emails I now store (don't mess with my jokes folder, dude) has been the most daunting part of it.

Even though I have been on Debian releases as my primary workstation OS for over 12 years now, I still have virtual Windows sessions to keep using Outlook. And granted, that also lets me simulate what my clients "see" when I am assisting.
I'd just like to say that The Pudding is amazing. Anyone who isn't already familiar with them should spend a few hours browsing their amazing articles.
Comparison of Programming Languages
Those seem pretty high ceilings for middle class, but would someone who has 10B in assets really pay out? I am skeptical in practice it would happen. But you never know, in Canada taxes seem to work.
The Fry’s Era
Somehow I interpreted and pronounced it as [r]esour[c]e
Site doesn't work.. Just redirects to a GDPR page, where you can't do anything.
So 'run commands' is the historically correct interpretation.

For me, I've heard it explained as 'run configuration' many years ago and that is the explanation that stuck because rc is in essence used for config files no matter if they run commands or not. Others have found different expansions, which are probably equally obvious for them. The ones I stumbled upon by a quick search [1,2,3,4]:

run commands

run control

run configuration

runtime configuration

resource control

Maybe there are more.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3467/what-does-rc-i...

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/144339/vimrc-screenrc-bashrc...

[3] https://askubuntu.com/questions/23482/what-does-rc-in-bashrc...

[4] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s03.html
> you could easily have people living in medium density small towns.

Yes, you could have those things if you had... a thousand years of history with vastly different agricultural economics, socioeconomic pressures, political pressures, and climate pressures that led to the development of those "medium density small towns" in Europe. Oh, and of course on top of those things (and largely as a result of those things) you also now had a culture that predisposed people to remaining in the communities of their birth and childhood, a much more consistent (and much higher) population density (with large cities being uniformly extremely nearby by American standards), and rural communities that benefit from exporting large amounts of high-end agriculture products.

It's absurd to imply that the only difference between a place like rural Oklahoma and rural Bavaria is "zoning rules" and "property taxes"...
That's the Big Lie of economics - that this is just how it is, and people don't/shouldn't care.

In fact mainstream neoliberal economic theory has always been about rationalising political actions that operate against the interests of most of the population.

The origination and promotion of these economic myths is calculated, deliberate, and absolutely malicious in intent. The Chicago School didn't just happen - it was created, promoted, funded and nurtured as a dogmatic political movement opposed to Keynesianism.

Individual actors may not care, but that's exactly the problem -they've been incentivised not to.

Under a more humane system, they could just as easily be incentivised towards other actions.
Are people getting wealthier, or more indebted?

Getting people out of poverty is good, but not if it's simply by throwing debt at them.
There will be always some avenues to get around any given tax policy, but not all of these methods will be equally effective.

If one policy results in half the amount of avoidance as another policy, this is a very meaningful difference.

It's really important to not overlook this.
A no SDK CMS for your React components
I don’t have DMARC setup and can still send to Gmail.
All other paid mail options are better, such as protonmail etc. It's just too expensive for me though. So I use GMail. Google can beat competition with storage space, integration and infinite money from Google cash cow etc. But the products are crap and I concur with the other person who commented on it that it's just another Google product to show ads and track me.
> As a full-time firefox user, I commonly find that sites have bugs, and when I boot it up in Chrome just to check my hunch, they don't manifest.

You can report sites broken in Firefox (or other browsers) at https://webcompat.com/. Mozilla web developers will debug the broken site and either file a Firefox bug report or try to reach out to the site developer.

Mozilla even has a convenient Firefox extension to make reporting broken sites quick and easy:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webcompatcom-...
I stated up front that it's the opposite of our current narrative, so telling me this doesn't actually add anything at all to the conversation.

The book was very well documented. At the time, I had no idea it said the opposite of the usual framing or might have made more effort to remember the title and author.

The book suggested the Federal policy initially failed in its goal because racist whites in the South simply fired blacks rather than "pay them a white man's wage." The start of WW2 helped it eventually succeed, but there was also a fairly widespread exodus of blacks from the rural South to urban centers elsewhere in the US as a personal means to solve such problems on an individual basis.

I was homeless for several years. During that time, I did piece work. Initially, it was common for my hourly earnings to be well below minimum wage, like as little as $1.25 an hour. Over time, this changed.

So I am actually a proponent of the idea that we need to make it possible for people to work for less than minimum wage so they have the ability to better than themselves. I don't think it's a good idea to allow wage work per se to be that low because it easily becomes an inescapable personal hell. But we do need to design work opportunities that can pay less than minimum wage if it takes you a long time to complete it, but also has the ability to become a more middle class income if you get good at and thus get faster or otherwise qualify for similar work that nonetheless pays better.
The Rickety Economics of Food Trucks
Iron Front T Shirt – Teespring
Practically no evolutionary biologist thinks that. All organisms living today have evolved for equally long.

You've described a criteria - "logical brain" - and then evaluated currently living organisms based on that, and determined humans to be the highest on that. That's not the same thing as being "most evolved".

Evolution has no "direction", no goal beyond the ability to survive. It's dysteleological.

Recommend The Big Picture by Sean Carrol for an overall overview of related questions.
“Money isn’t everything.”

That’s the short answer.

For instance, what about your husband/wife? They just put their career on hold to go live in the boonies for 5 or 10 years? That sort of thing will put an enormous strain on your relationship.
I'm not following your logic at all. I don't think it's a common phenomenon for retirees who once lived in urban or suburban areas to move to rural ones. I'm guessing the majority of these people have always lived in rural areas and just stayed put through retirement.
I think it's more complicated than that, at least from what I've seen.

There's a lot of people that have made significant contributions to art, science, culture, etc., while being awful people, and we have a hard time reconciling that.

No one would argue that we shouldn't use any of the science advanced by Einstein, yet he manipulated and cheated on his first wife while trying to totally control her, down to giving her a list of demands she had to follow through with every day. Lots of people have beat their wives. Lots of musicians - and certainly not limited to rock musicians - have raped young teens.

Do we stop listening to the music of anyone that's turned out to be a shitty human being? Do we ever forgive them if they modify their behavior? How do we reconcile our like or love of one aspect of a person with their heinous acts? What's the moral thing to do here?

These are tough questions to answer. So it's easy to chalk this news up as 'Man those decades were just crazy! Sex, drugs, rock and roll! The girls obviously wanted it - they set out to do it!' and not think about the hard shit while still justifying to themselves why they continue to listen to the music and support the artist.

It's hard. I've thought a lot and haven't been able to answer those questions, beyond coming up with a compromise for myself - I'll keep listening to the music, but I won't do anything to support an artist further if I learn of behavior like this. No concerts, no merch, etc. It's not perfect and I'm still contributing to their finances when I stream a song on spotify or whatever, but it's one that works for me.

I do hope that it's this sort of thing that leads to the defense of the behavior, and not them actually being envious.
This plus ActivityPub and data that's content addressed would be neat.
I realize you are likely using hyperbole, but in my experience managing my own mail server is trivial compared to the complexity of building your own electric car.
At what percentile in the net worth distribution?
The simplest is Yandex Connect. It's like GSuite, but the intro tier is free:

https://connect.yandex.com/pricing/connect
Even if you build more housing, having older people live in urban areas still increases the price of housing. Crucially, older people don't need to be near urban jobs, so it's much more socially practical for them to live in rural areas. At the end of the day, the question is which subsidy is harder to deal with? Cash payments to keep rural hospitals open seems a lot easier than wading into enormously expensive and distortionary urban housing policies like rent control.
> The middle class instead, trying to secure a better future for the family, will get hit the hardest.

That's what progressive income tax does as well. Not all that unexpected the middle class is shrinking.
The power went out causing blackouts.
The Virtues of the Semicolon; Or, Rebellious Punctuation
Don't some investments benefit society? For example: Invest in real estate that turns into housing or businesses that weren't there before, or investing into businesses so they have the money to grow to a larger building or hire more people to meet demand.
This one is my fav. Can easily spend an hour on it alone https://pudding.cool/2018/12/3d-cities-story/
I used to think bash RC is for Remote Control.

RC files were remote control files for m. I am pretty sure, I can't be the only one who asssumed that.
Wikipedia Category:Comparisons
Perhaps worth noting, there are certainly telescopes of this scale in space--they're just radio telescopes, where the reflector can conveniently be unfurled after launch.

You can glance at this thread [0] for comparison of commercial and speculated military antenna scales (up to 100m!)

[0] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/32884/what-is-the-...
I like how it was termed a fossil when it was added to Unix.

Now we seem to be flooded with them. TTY, terminal, core dump, floppy disk save icon.
They also had the drone ship names around the landing circle in the earlier days. Seems pretty much to be the same point.
reminiscent of runcom (Louis Pouzin alpha shell)
Check out speed reading guides. Even if you find they don't help you read faster, some of the techniques help you feel more engaged:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159985.The_Evelyn_Wood_S...
The voting record of most rural areas indicates they don't believe they have a right to healthcare.
People inheriting wealth is not a problem. People inheriting poverty is. The real solution is to make it illegal to have kids if you make have less than a certain income. You can enforce this by sterilizing people who choose to have kids they can't support after the first one is born.

The only alternative to this that is actually fair to the rest of the citizenry is to just admit that wealth inequality is not really a problem. If poor people choose to have kids that they can't afford to put through college, that's their choice. They are not entitled to sap the wealth of the rest of society just because they didn't want to use a condom.

Taxing the rich to punish them for the mistakes of the poor is just plain unethical.
That doesn't matter--the point is that because retired people don't need to be near urban jobs, we can reduce pressure for housing in urban areas by leaving retired rural people where they are. (Or, conversely, we can avoid increasing pressure for housing in urban areas by moving retired rural people into urban areas.)
This is almost two months old and was posted at the time.
What does {some strange Unix command name} stand for?
Another instance of Google being user hostile?
Agreed 100%. Reading is far less daunting on a screen for me. Initially it may take getting used to. I also designate certain electronic devices for "immersive reading"/working only, and therefore I do not mess around or get distracted when reading/working.
The big ones (MS, Google) mark your mail as spam even with SPF, DMARC, DKIM and the like.

This is such a canard. I have almost zero problems delivering to anybody from my closet server, and the only thing that has happened in the last several years was getting notices that AT&T was blocking me. I did a quick relay check and emailed postmaster@. It only took a day or two to get an email saying I was clean to them again, and that was without the DNS security extensions you mention.

Maybe cable modem users are held to a different standard? Dynamic IP addresses? I have DSL with static IPs.
That's why I open comments first.. hypetaker +1
Saw this guy referenced by Scott Manley the other day. Ralf Vandebergh has apparently imaged the USA 24 spy satellite that purportedly took the (classified?) photo that Trump posted to Twitter.
I do not work for the grid and last involvment in that area was working for Eastern Electricity Board as an analyst/programmer upon a COBOL DPS7 mainframe circa first half of the 80's and worked upon a new plant management system mostly (distribution level so upto attaching to the main grid). I've had no involvement in that industry since then. I have also worked for the Department Of Health, RAND, and numerous other industries and involvement.

I have no axe to grind. Hope that adds some clarity.
What he probably wants is this: http://archive.is/euOjX
Spurred me to find out that the ht in .htaccess is Hypertext
Unless they are slaves, their labor was already paid for and the exchange was voluntary.
I know that what you're going for is to solve inequality by working within the means of the established political system, and that you're wondering if there could be something like a startup or company that somehow makes a profit by reducing inequality. After all, when starting a company the first problem anyone should solve is "What is the need" and economic inequality is a pretty big need.

Unfortunately, I just don't think every problem can be solved through that lens. Companies can earn money by creating something of value, or by making something cheaper. Facebook connecting the world together was creating new value, and Google making information easily/freely available was a drastic reduction in the cost of discovering information. Both of those services created value. The problem of economic inequality is not a problem of needing more value, it's a problem of poor distribution of value. That's a problem companies are not good at solving. Companies are usually terrible at solving those problems.

The other side I see you going for is that the government seems unreliable, so you'd rather there was a solution -- ideally one that's scalable -- that didn't rely on forces outside of your control. My best guess would be volunteer work and activism, which doesn't have to go through the government. Supporting local businesses and encouraging your neighbors to do so helps your local economy. Food banks and homeless shelters are great, and so are public libraries. Big brother/sister programs, little league sports coaching, volunteering at after school programs -- all good ways to help.
> the popularity of communism and socialism abroad

Which took hold because workers were being abused. Various communist revolutions in history, and all the related violence, can be considered in part blood shed towards improving the conditions for the working class.
https://xkcd.com/1910/
This is the answer you are looking for:

the sacrifice to their personal and social life is too high.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20853670

It's big fish in a small pond syndrome. If you have multiple years of college and your interests are fairly intellectual, you are going to be hard pressed to find like-minded friends, etc, in a rural area treating farm hands and the like. It's also tough being, for example, the only doctor in an area because then everyone is your patient and you have an inherent conflict of interest when trying to make friends.
No need to apologise! Thank you for making such an awesome library - can't wait to try it out on some of my home videos :p
Yes, but this is the first time it makes the front page. Better late than never.
My go-to tools:

* vd (visidata)
* xsv (often piping into vd)
* jq (though I often forget the syntax =P)
* gron (nice for finding the json-path to use in the jq script)
* xmlstarlet (think jq for xml)
* awk (or mawk when I need even more speed)
* GNU parallel (or just xargs for simple stuff)
All the points he made about design up-front I'm entirely on board with: obviously it's difficult to say how much is necessary / right / overkill, but you definitely want to think about what you're building.

TV/film/studios as a model don't offer a particularly compelling vision (to me, anyway). Games work a lot like that, and I think they're probably some of the worst development jobs you can have (as a rule).
If everyone wants to become as good as they can at their jobs then why call out mentoring as a special activity? People should already be helping their colleagues perform better at their jobs without incentivizing it as a checkbox for career advancement.
> Actually inequality (of percentage of the world's resources amassed) between poor and rich countries has increased as well. The get richer compared to their own past, but less than the world is getting richer overall.

That's an interesting claim to make. China, India, Eastern europe... Africa is having a boom too. Ask any westerner who used to go on dirt cheap super long vacations. The today's gap is miniscule compared to the glorious days.
I guess you are on the same boat as everyone, but others are more willing to eat it up in exchange of money.

I still feel overwhelmed from time to time, with 10+ years of experience, degree, worked at multiple 'great' companies, led people, did literally everything. This doesn't really go away, but you get less of an issue with time and quite fast. I'd just give it time, software dev salaries are too good to pass. Other occupations can barely make ends meet.
Development Frameworks: Viewpoints of a Universal Metamodel?
I always thought rc files stood for ResourCe... in hindsight I realize how doumb that was.
Weirdly, the article didn't notice the very strong correlation between "states that didn't accept the Medicaid expansion" and "places with under-payed rural hospitals".

This seems like an absolutely elementary analysis to do -- places with the Medicaid expansion are more likely to have people with health insurance; places without are less likely.
Wow. I'm surprised that this upset anyone. I apologize for that. There was no disrespect or sarcasm meant.

I simply said that I don't run my own server because I'm not comfortable being an admin; mainly because a part-time admin (which is what I would be) is a dangerous thing.

It's bad for a Linux server to be run by an incompetent admin (that would be me), and even worse for an email server to be run by one.
OK, now can somebody explain to me the difference between .bashrc and .bash_profile?
Laundry Baskets Have a Shitty Stack-Based Architecture
All of them:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/publicint... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20295754)

> there are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain Tweets, even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules. On the rare occasions when this happens, we'll place a notice – a screen you have to click or tap through before you see the Tweet – to provide additional context and clarity. We’ll also take steps to make sure the Tweet is not algorithmically elevated on our service
Read Bogleheads, Intelligent Investor and Buffett's letters to share holders. Then buy index trackers and try not to worry
I'm talking about letting frameworks handle the space ratios for padding/margins/headline size in addition to grids. Whether they use golden ratios specifically or not wasnt the point rather deferring to the library designers who most certainly are aware of the golden ratio.
One argument: influence of big money on the shaping of politics.

Economic stratification is effectively a stratification of people's degrees of influence over the natural world, so unchecked economic stratification necessarily means that there's a breaking point where a system which was previously democratic stops being so.
It was definitely on the front page last time (664 points, 298 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
Well hypothetically each mouse button has a certain finite number of clicks in it before it breaks.

It could be in the future you'd need to click to send some crucial evidence to stop you getting sentenced to death. It could be that this saved click is the difference between the mouse failing or not on that occasion.

Of course the parent clicked send on their comment undoing the OPs good work.

This is all astoundingly improbable, but people buy lottery tickets each week.