skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author posts some charts about wealth, then writes:

> Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s.

If you don’t know the difference between wealth and income, maybe you shouldn’t be blogging about these topics.

This is not meant to be some low-brow dismissal. How can you have any serious discussion when two completely different things are used interchangeably?

P.S. a chart that shows shares each class’s percentage shares of total wealth is pointless. It doesn’t actually tell you if the middle class is getting poorer. The middle class and lower class can have a constant inflation adjusted wealth (or even wealth outpacing inflation) and this chart will still look bad if we have more people moving into the upper class.
Also look at their job ads. If they are looking to hire a devops to own their ci/cd pipeline, that means they don’t have one (and, with that approach, will never have one).
I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until hearing this admission of his: https://youtu.be/l1jTUhwWJYA?t=802

In a technical field such as physics or mathematics, "the technical details" are at minimum of paramount importance, and perhaps even constitute everything of importance. You can't cry victimhood over your colleagues not filling in the gaps and taking care of the "technical" problems for you (presumably with the credit flowing to you anyway). Now that he is very wealthy, I don't see why he couldn't hire a few young physicists to do this work for him, if he had enough confidence in his idea, btw.

Horrible attitude which puts him in crank territory, imho.
> He wants to control […] how trans people are referred to, against their repeated requests

Show the source or "it didn't happen", as they say on image boards. I want to make my own conclusion given the evidence.

I place this obligation on you because previous anecdotes or attacks by other people turned out to be unsubstantiated or outright fabricated when investigated, and because I hold HNers in esteem not become part of a mob.
This essay is distasteful more than dishonest.

If I were to read an article " How seaweed is making the entire human race more productive"; one trying to reason why you should consume seaweed if you want to be more productive, penned by someone who actively owns portions of companies involved in growing, packaging, promoting and distributing seaweed, it would feel suspicious and distasteful.

This is in the same league.
More than 10k rows in your postgres? Better start paying!
Oh yes, but depending on where you live, these effects kick in way under the "being rich" threshold. (America with its strange and expensive healthcare being an outlier in the developed world, I understand that.)

What I was speaking about was the simplistic "more of X, more of Y" approach of the OP, though I understand that it was mostly sarcastic in nature.

I would even argue that there is a sweet spot where you have enough money to live comfortably, but not enough to be a promising scam/crime target.
Many things driving housing pricing (nothing is monocausal!), but the main thing driving housing pricing in the locations where people constantly talk about housing pricing (SFBA, NYC, London, etc) are restrictions on building. That's basically it. Housing is a relatively poor investment vehicle compared to broad equity market indices; the only reason you'd want exposure as a "rich person" to it is for diversification, and for that you wouldn't really care to buy in overinflated markets with significant political risks.
Surprise to see someone revive things like this. For me, it's not gonna be useful (maybe I can do a little sketch up for stress release). But still, there are some great memory about it
"The latest addition to the platform in 2016 has been Hyperloop, a technology to access native API's on iOS, Android and Windows with JavaScript."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appcelerator_Titanium#History

Work on NativeScript began in 2014 with first public release in March 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NativeScript
> And telling someone to "help them" when they themselves are looking for documentation to get help? That's just laughable

I'm telling exactly the same thing, if you are not comfortable with reading the source code to understand something, then you shouldn't be starting with a project that doesn't even have a documentation.

> 3. Then you're not very familiar with the OSS economy, are you? There are frequently paid support plans available for major OSS projects.

This is not right, you are talking about mainstream projects, except from people getting paid to contribute open source (like people working on Kubernetes, Firecracker, Gvisor, Bottlerocket, Podman, Red Hat's stuff, Linux Foundation etc), they are doing "free work".

Yes, author is completely free to do whatever criticism they want, but for a project that doesn't even have 2 donators, author has a too offensive language and basically expecting too much.
People install random Node modules every day.
You seem to be making the assumption that "A is easier if B" implies "A is impossible without B", which is not what is being said. I guess the question is, of the new wealthy, how many came from a situation of already having access to wealth (either directly or by proxy)?
I wish common sense was truly common... overtime, I've come to believe it's not[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjcHW7SHaI
If you want a value add for your resume, add sumologic. 500mb/day + 7 days retention is free for a non-gmail account and the insight you can get out of it is enormous. Especially if you json your logs (it busts all the fields out and does mouseover statistics all for you).

And it can become the brains of your alerting system (no logs for x time? Email me, etc)
So it's possible to find bad examples, I get it.

What problems smart contact solve?

With my brief experience, they compute the state of a transaction in which everybody agrees. Why is that cool? You don't need an authority to tell who is right.
Water Ice on Mars
The Mini has an M1 cpu
How to Test UIs
As the article mentions there's extensive records of the climatological effects in the Middle East and China, and there's also recordings of drought affecting populations in South America at the same time.
> Are you sure? From what I see around me, people who have money are a constant target of other people who want to drop their beaks into it, so to say.

I'd say that's largely a new-rich problem. People born in rich families generally have the wealth management groomed in. I'm far from being rich, but that's something I'll teach my kids, as I believe one major driving factor in poor families staying poor is lack of education in economy and finance.
So? Is this somehow related to the fact that getting rich by creating these companies is now an option? Just because you can think of 99 reasons people can’t do this doesn’t mean app people shouldn’t.
> Putting aside that the circumstances of your birth are already a huge matter of luck

This is another one of those points that sounds superficially plausible on the surface but makes little sense once you think it through. The circumstances of my birth weren't a matter of luck. My (married) parents decided to have 4 children of which I was one. Before doing this they both finished high school, and stayed away from drugs. They also tried to live healthily etc (but certainly weren't monks). They weren't going to have sex and then a child might pop into existence in Uganda. The only way the whole "your birth was luck" thing makes any sense is if you perceive yourself to be an atomised individual with no deeper ties to the family you came from or the choices that were made by your ancestors who preceded you.

Like I said, people are EXTREMELY comfortable with the handwaving of "it's all luck anyway". They won't even take responsibility for themselves and their own lives, so asking them to also feel responsibility to their children/grandchildren/descendants is even more of a foreign concept.

As for "I'm not looking down on my underemployed peers as inferior beings for their struggles" those are your words, not mine. I certainly don't look down on my struggling friends/family either, but I am also not going to withhold judging them based on the actions they take. Because very often they also KNOW they shouldn't be doing what they are doing, but choose to do it anyway.

Weakness corrupts as much as power, and it is wise not to forget that.
It is surprisingly hard to find out what this "ROS 2" thing is. It appears to stand for "robot operating system". The tutorial talks about "interfacing with ROS 2" from your ESP32 microcontroller, or rather from code you run on your microcontroller.

So I am guessing that it is a firmware system preloaded and running on microcontrollers built into robot hardware that your own code, running on your microcontroller, sends commands to, and collects reports from.

Achieving a blinking LED is a good start for working out the mechanics of getting code compiled, downloaded into your microcontroller, and running, but I would really rather that tutorials took it a step further and got the LED blinking under control of interrupt service routines triggered by hardware timer events. That is where you need to get to actually start doing real-world embedded-system programming.
optics/lenses solve this problem in a framework that is jargon-heavy and difficult to understand, and most implementations I've seen use languages with very strict type system.

The XSLT+XPath approach is more dynamic, easier to grasp (imho) and can probably be learned in an afternoon.

Tradeoffs, tradeoffs... I wouldn't want to write most programs in Haskell but you could write pretty much any program in, say, JavaScript ... :-)
I'm always reminded of this quote by Stephen Jay Gould:

> I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
To play devils advocate, surely removing the artifical limits won't help in the long run as the city will just continue to spraw until it hits natural limits?
It's illegal to put on the price the customer is actually going to pay? My search attempt failed ("illegal to put price with VAT" neither g nor ddg liked it), please tell me more!
> But there is nothing about pricing in there.

Sure, but that part immediately follows - there was a good piece from a property developer working in Los Angeles (which has a lot of those kind of regulations) that was posted here a couple of months back. Because of all these regulations (parking minimums, max heights, setback requirements and so on), the only kind of housing that is profitable or even possible to build is luxury housing - the land costs x, the things that the regulations require cost y, you have to charge a lot more than the city's existing housing stock (most of which is grandfathered in) so you can only justify that by targeting the high end.

There is definitely speculation in the housing market, but most or all of the price rise can be explained by simple supply and demand. And since housing demand is fairly inelastic (everyone needs a house), a small amount of undersupply means a big increase in price.
I am not supporting RMS. However after what I have read from him and FSF I just accept what they say. Because I try understand what happened and not to be distracted by outrage. After all outrage is just words.

I think:

- RMS did or said something neurotypical people tend to avoid.

- There was no malice in what RMS did or said.

- People either don't understand, have a beef with RMS, or are riding the bandwagon of outrage and cancel culture.

I have family members on the spectrum so I understand that people are often clumsy, boneheaded and annoying, and so is RMS. I also learned that narcisstic people like to exploit the ineptitude of people on the spectrum. One way is to raise a ruckus about something unimportant but exploitable to raise outrage.

Please suck it up as a mistake and forgive them.

And! It's not about the real evil wrongdoings of certain other people!
The owners generally want profit, where does it come from?
As someone living in ClojureScript land, I’m really happy that someone is giving me a decomposed/decomplected option for these things.

Headless UI is some of the nicest React components I’ve worked with via interop, and to me it’s really valuable that they don’t come with an opinionated way of styling them.
To add to what the sibling comment already said:

- If you don't have to work two jobs to survive, you have the time to pursue other things, and you're more "lucky".

- If you have the ability to not work and can spend a year/two/five working out of a "garage", you're more "lucky" than those who can't.

- If you have the ability to send your kids to an expensive college without you or them going into life-long debt, then those kids can create lasting connections (a.k.a. networking) and be significantly more "lucky" than those who can't.

- If you have the money for good food, leisure, home, travel, medicine, etc., you're significantly more "lucky" than those who have to balance those things, and may not even have access to those things with all the consequences: chronic illnesses, stress etc.
How big is a bitcoin miner when written in Javascript? What you're describing sounds quite doable.
I've personally never heard of a case where you'd pay out the year's lease. Usually you just forfeit a portion of your deposit, which half a month's rent or so, in Canada at least.
Now that is a good reply. Where I live (Czechia), pretty much everyone rich is new-rich, the tradition of old money was interrupted in 1948.

That is a possible explanation for why I see this pattern fairly frequently, while other commenters seem to disagree.
Income equality tells you nothing about the conditions of the middle or lower class. An economy in which all classes grow income and wealth can still increase inequality if it allows more people than before to become rich.
Wrong. XACE is independent of SELinux and LSMs. It's just a protocol for writing plugins to X servers that filter which events X clients can see.

That there exist SELinux plugins does not mean that XACE itself depends on it. Like, try reading the actual documentation instead of regurgitating FUD: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/Xserv...
Funny. I find this to be something I appreciate and look out for when buying things or services in Germany, even if it's more expensive.
Inside PayPal (2010)
> $2200 is still a ton of purchasing power compared to almost any other country.

$2200 is the income, not the purchasing power. Purchasing power is income normalized by domestic price level. This isn't to nitpick, it actually means purchasing power is quite different when compared to other rich nations. For example PP in the US is 25% lower than in Germany: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PRVT.PP?location...

In other words: With a household income of $2200 in the US and a household income of $1650 in Germany you can buy about the same amount of things.

The more important point however: Most rich countries use the concept of relative poverty as the poverty threshold. This has the nice benefit of automatically updating itself if wage and thus price level increases. It usually is defined as 60% of the median income.

US median income in 2019 was $31133. For a household of two adults that means the poverty line for the US should be set at $3113[0] - quite the difference.

[0] $31133 * 60% * 2 adults / 12 months = $3113
"Twelve easy payments"
That new technology benefited someone besides the entrepreneur. All the consumers of that technology benefited from it. Some of that technology was directed to providing services for the wealthy but a lot benefited people widely. That is blindingly obvious: smart phones, covid vaccines, cheap screens, etc...

A wealth tax of 100% has been tried before. That definitely disincentivized wealth creation. We have run that experiment before.

In fact, various experiments have been and are being run around the world. Go look at Europe to see how it is doing. Less wealth creation and less technological innovation but a higher floor.

Also, a wealth tax as others have mentioned is a very narrow minded approach. It reeks of envy and is not a considered approach. It makes far more sense to look widely both at ultimate problems and solutions.
> Tanking your credit has very real consequences if, say, you need a home loan in the next 7 years. You'll end up paying for that $100 "savings" x 1000 in the long run

Coïncidentally (and anecdotally), I was recently proximate to a situation where a new hire had their offer cancelled on account of their credit report. It became clear they had a habit of entering into and defaulting on small contracts. Nothing obscene. But enough that, as a financial services firm, the employer found it to be an unacceptable risk. If that person were sued in any capacity, that fact pattern would come to light and illuminate them in a negative light.
Not really.

Some countries have wealth tax. Some countries don't.

It's sensible to park your money somewhere, where it's not taxed.

If you build more of it, yes, you will meet some of the housing demand (basically just for the richest), but housing is competing with rich people saving.

You need to tax unproductive behavior to rid of it.
Agreed. It is not only about discrete circumstances ... environment also nurtures and affects development of people over time. Being exposed to better odds over time is also a factor (ppl that were able to create good networks in their youth vs ppl that somehow "made it" later in life...).
> Because at least old money understands the concept of noblesse oblige.

Source please.

> it's that this mentality of earned wealth completely rids the owner of any sort of responsibility.

Allow me to offer a different view. If you're one of the lucky few who went from nothing to millions (or even billions) you'd be pissed if society came and started talking about responsibility and equality _now_. Where was society _before_?

And that, I think, is the crux of the issue - society feels responsible for your successes but not for your failures. If you went from nothing to riches - society feels like you owe it some. But if you went from squarely middle class to being a drug addict on the streets then the fault is yours alone. Society will of course try to help you, but it will never consider the idea that maybe, just maybe, it is responsible for what happened to you.
> Auto manufacturers need 380nm production lines.

I think you mean 350nm.

This isn't surprising; a lot of nifty features got axed after 350nm, like having two full-fledged polysilicon layers (a few subsequent processes technically have two poly layers but one of them is totally crippled and can only be used for flash cells).
I do agree that it is harder to correctly parse/import a gradle project into an IDE (though I haven’t got a bad experience lately), but when running the actual build tool, gradle will correctly identify previously compiled files and the like, and clean is absolutely not required. It is not true of maven.

But I do apologize, in my prev-prev reply I was way too cocky and wrong; actually building with the IDE is much more common (but depending on the project it can introduce subtle bugs, so do try out the build tool built version as well from time to time)

And build speed on large projects do matter, so there is a point where I think gradle is worth using over maven, because it can mean an order of magnitude reduction in build time.
Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment
> Any reasonable person knows it's impossible to pay rent and feed and clothe two adults and two kids on less than $2200 a month.

Step outside of your bubble. This is very feasible in low CoL areas all over the US. And remember that’s the line so it’s going to be difficult, but it can be done.
It's unusual for B2C subscription services to charge a cancelation fee and withhold access for the remainder of the period.

It's another mental obstacle for the customer to overcome on the sunken cost fallacy, it's slimey at best.
I would be interested to hear a response to your V8 memory limit question. Years before Cloudflare workers we isolated Parse Cloud Code workers in exactly the same way, at least at the beginning (multiple V8 isolates in the same process). One of the big issues was not really being able to set a true memory limit in V8. There was a flag, but it was pretty advisory--there were still codepaths that just tried to GC multiple times and then abort if not enough space was freed up. Not ideal when running multiple tenants in the same process.
"The point is that you start to think how your words could be taken, not just assume people magically know your intent"

But where do you draw the line? Is it not reasonable to assume that the intent will be understood when using and extremely common phrase?
Great thing!
Do you support rss feeds, so that I can stay up-to-date?
3. Intel does exactly what Gelsinger outlined in his recent presentation (did you even watch it?). They fix their process tech (by moving from Immersion to EUV) and catch up with TSMC, they move to a similar "system-on-a-package" design as AMD and catch up on design, they build their new fabs in Arizona and use those to compete against TSMC in the custom fab business.
Ah I see it now, thanks for the heads up!
“You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed.”

This is listed as a quote from the PG essay. It seems to represent a fundamental misunderstanding of what “labor” means here. When the left fights for “labor” it is for all laborers to get a fair shake. PG seems to be talking about the fact that a tiny fraction of laborers get wealthy for their work. But that is not at all what the left fights for.

It’s amazing that rich people convince themselves they are so right about the world and they don’t even understand the critique of their position. For PG to say that the left should be happy with a tiny few getting super rich is to demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of what “the left” even means.

I’ve long wondered if even a single billionaire on Earth actually understands even the basics of Marxism from a Marxist perspective and I bet the percentage is very small.
I mean, what I see is: A$76.99/mo

The word "annual" doesn't even appear on the first screen anywhere. It's even very easy to miss the word "annual" on the little dropdown on the checkout screen (2nd screenshot). If you are in a rush, it's VERY easy to see numerous line items for "$___/mo" and miss the single instance of the word "annual" in this entire checkout flow.

Where is the link to an agreement that the user has to read to even complete this purchase? Is it just on another step elsewhere in the process?
There are actually loads of mainstream economists today who recognize and are looking to address the wealth gap. Most of the pushback I've read about has been objections that specific policies proposed to solve it have side-effects that create a whole new slew of problems.
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