skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trustchain.

This will replace Facebook, YouTube, Cloud, Google, Android, everything. (In a millennia or so. )

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3428662.3429744
Few. And those that do are individually expendable. The businesses will stay.
Agreed! I believe the path of popper.js should be of inspiration to a lot of people! Clean separation of concern, high focus, resulting in high quality and high reusability!
Those numbers were already adjusted for inflation.
This is a better way to say it and what a I meant thanks.
It’s unfortunate that getting rich is limited to entrepreneurs or otherwise business owners. I’ve known a few successful entrepreneurs who more or less hated their lives because their work wasn’t “personally rewarding” but ultimately they made the sacrifice because the financial independence would allow them to be able to do whatever they wanted later in life. It’s something I learned too late in life but I’m trying to catch up now and I’ve given up coding to focus on moving money around efficiently for my customers (for a modest cut). Ultimately my family will benefit and I’ll code when I’m 60.
In the United States, the measures we use for income inequality are outrageously flawed

In almost all measures of the Gini coefficient two significant flaws exist:

1. Incomes are counted on a pre-tax basis

2. Incomes are counted on a pre-government transfers basis

The consequence of this is that income inequality appears to be increasing _regardless_ of the level of social subsidies and redistribution.

When you correct for these measurement flaws, income inequality in the US has been decreasing over recent decades.

If you are in the “Tax the Rich” camp as a result of looking at the Gini coefficient, you may need to strongly update your priors.

Sources:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/incredible-shrinking-income-ine...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/economists-are...
My opinion about current wealth inequality, which I'm sure the entire world doesn't give a flying fuck about, so I started my own blog based on the comment so I can talk to myself like a loon in a dunce cap sitting alone in my little corner of the internet like the bad child most of the world seems hellbent on viewing me as:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028732
There is an expatriation tax for people leaving the US. It is one of the more clear cut wealth taxes that we have in the US.
I dunno, if someone presents me with two options:

- Annual plan, paid monthly: $50 / month

- Monthly plan: $75 / month

Then of course there is going to be a catch to the first one. I cannot imagine anyone being so naive they’d just assume both plans are the same aside from the price...
I know it's not actually a great solution but personally I've had no problems with remebering their DSL because I use the official Tailwind extension for VSCode which also uses your config file to give you autocompletion
It depends on the engine and how you set it up. But the big engines all support attaching sounds to positions and mixing is done in real-time.

I remember a lot of effort went into making sounds feel right in the NFS games. Including mixing engine sounds recorded from different parts of the car to match the camera's position relative to the car. We even had an article about the process of recording those sounds:

http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/10/recording-the-sounds-of-...

Speaking to the sound engineers was one of those wonderful glimpses into a whole other field that I love about working in games.
The graph is already adjusted for inflation, it’s in 2018 dollars. You can’t adjust it a second time.
yes. look at France
The particular method of turning javascript comments into a "literate" source view, used in the link under discussion here, comes from Jeremy Ashkenas circa 2009, e.g.:

https://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore-esm.html

https://coffeescript.org/annotated-source/lexer.html

https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
On Netlify I set headers in a config file [1]. With Pages, is the only free option to use the 3 Page Rules?

[1] https://github.com/reveddit/reveddit/blob/fdf159be0e98dbfba6...
Just goes to show you what moral hazards look like. The DOJ (and perhaps similarly in GB?) has repeatedly preferred to prosecute white collar crimes seeking fines instead of jail time. From their perspective it makes sense. The accused admit their crime, you get a quicker resolution, and the government gets more tax revenue. The problem of course is that everyone bakes it into the “cost of business”. What would the banking industry look like if HSBC executives had been personally indicted for the many money laundering issues they allow to happen? What would it look like if the HSBC’s corporate veil were pierced as a result of their malfeasance?

You don’t need conviction numbers to set examples around unacceptable bad behavior. Add enforcement and regular independent audits by regulators with strong regulatory capture protections, and you’ll have a better run system.
About half the companies you mentioned are cash-flow positive, so their economics work, they just have accounting for depreciation and other lines on their balance sheet. They are default alive companies using accounting practices to avoid taxes, but they have more money coming in than going out
It's a dependency thing.

JS (and as such, node) developers seem to love breaking everything down into little tiny bits and then having enormous dependency fan-outs for everything.

With so many different parts written by different people, the likelyhood that any project with have a part that can be affected by any eratta change increases substantially.

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I have a casual hypothesis that each person tends to settle with a subset of each programming language that they deeply internalize. As such, unless that one person is deliberately trying to, they're unlikely to write code that hits lots of the odd implementation corner cases that are natural in any language/implementation.

However, the subset each person settles on is different, so if you don't have some sort of overarching style/quality management, you will trend towards a project being sensitive to any change in any implementation corner as you increase the number of dependencies.

Dependency management (and possibly more critical, dependency quality) is becoming more and more important as things become more complex, and the tooling is not keeping up either.
Kind of data cleaning , any idea what the tech was?
That makes it sounds as if it's a bad thing. Instead read it like “HSBC bans customers from buying pyramid-scheme-backer MicroStrategy shares”.
Even if you bother to read the small print, it appears to be written to be deliberately misleading. Instead of positively saying that one enters an annual commitment, it only says that there is "No annual commitment required after the first year". "Cancel anytime" suggests you can stop your contract, not that you have the option to pre-pay the remaining months and forfeit your access.
Is it slowly going to turn towards like the OS in movie 'Her', how much of it is really possible?
Show HN: Open-Source Discord (Dissonance)
Actually each class does NOT always map to a single property. In what I consider to be its greatest strength each class is actually designed to do some very specific thing that can actually require multiple CSS properties and settings. For eg the breakpoint classes are fairly complex but allow you incredible flexibility in building responsive UIs
Thanks, I realized I never filled in my profile. Mail can go to anything at rombouts dot email.
Where do you think dragon is used to its maximum efficiency as compared to siri,alexa in places of home automation and other menial tasks
Absolute wealth has increased as the wealth gap increased. Standards of living for everyone have gotten better, but there is still an issue. Wealth is not just about your buying power it's also about your social status and power. A lot more status and power is concentrated with the few. This is a big problem if you care about individual freedoms. They tend to erode very quickly with a concentration of power.
I am going to assume the original comment-or simply didn't think about inflation (common mistake...which is further understandable since the graphic doesn't make it obvious whether or not it is nominal dollars or adjusted dollars).

So in that spirit, here is another resource which talks about minimum wage and even included an adjusted minimum wage graph within:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/minimum-wage-inflati...

The minimum wage is not the only measurement for this discussion, but it does seem like since the 1980's the purchasing power represented by minimum wage has been falling (but at the very least is less today than then).
Currently people owe capital gains tax on all their assets as if they were sold when they expatriate, which is pretty modest compared to any annual wealth tax. In my case, since being an arbitrageur or market maker means you pay income tax rates on all your gains, the expatriation tax is roughly 0.
> Few dispute that wealth shares at the top have risen in America, nor that the increase is driven by fortunes at the very top, among people who really can be considered an elite. The question, instead, is by just how much.

The Economist article concludes that the rich are indeed, getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That's the heart of OP's article.
Or not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion#:~:text=The%20....
If you’re certain my position is so ridiculous, care to make a wager for cash?
I may heave misread the article, and the first graph, but it appears that the article confirms that inequality is growing.

It just suggests that inequality is growing at a slower rate than the raw numbers suggest. The most generously adjusted estimates show a doubling of adjusted income for the 1% over the past few decades rather than the higher multiples that we are used to hearing about.

Is it really good news that no matter how you try to tweak the numbers, the income gap is growing?
I don't think there is a time in the last decade where I received a "relevant" ad. The most relevant they have been is spamming adverts for products I already purchased.
Great article, I wasn't aware the share of the middle class had dropped so significantly.

I think there is also another factor that plays a role in the de-democratization of wealth. In the olden days you could be the biggest fish in your pond, but as that pond grows it's becoming more and more a winner takes all ocean.

> As more occupations become scalable, jobs that were previously stable are becoming risky. Telehealth enables superstar doctors to serve customers in markets that were previously inaccessible to them. Connected fitness devices like Peloton allow superstar instructors to serve thousands of customers at a time, making the average instructor in your local gym redundant. The same dynamic applies to many other service and knowledge jobs.

- https://www.drorpoleg.com/the-ponzi-career/
I don't think there is a good short-term solution, otherwise you would already know about it.
Well, I would like to submit that we should not need a third party like Visa to do digital payments.

Because now we have math and computers. I am looking forward to Ethereum scaling out with 2.0.
Or maybe it’s because 2°C is 36.8°F
It is a fair point if the focus is on billionaires (Bezos, Zuck,...). The proportion of resources they consume is well below their wealth. They may even contribute positively to society through charitable causes.

The real issue is that tech/startup founders and workers who, while less rich, accumulate more wealth at scale compare to the rest of society. And given their number, I'm afraid this will have a real impact by greatly increasing inequality. That would be ok if the other part of the population would also be able to live better. But I do not think it will be the case.

Btw: I am a tech founder.
I’ve been using gnu pass for years and love it.
The bootstrap comparison is awful as they both do COMPLETELY different things
A quick Google search gives me this: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support...

I can verify that at least parts of this list is correct. I remember getting jump scares when hearing monsters behind me in Dead Space 2, F.E.A.R., and as I mentioned earlier Left 4 Dead 2.

One thing I will say is that settings screens usually do a poor job at showing whether they're using surround sound. Games often just query the system for audio setup and show little more than whether you've selected headphones or speakers.

edit: since I thought it strange that your experience was so different from mine and that Fortnite wouldn't support it, I googled it and found an article from 2019 about how Fortnite, originally built for 5.1 surround sinds
sound, now supports 7.1. My guess is there's some configuration issue with your PC.
Well, I'm using the word as it is used today. That doesn't really address my confusion.

Patreon is a world were value produced is both determined and rewarded by a free market of consumers choosing where to spend their money.

I do find it ironic that a socialists are at the top of the Patreon food chain and yet the comment:

> it's not ironic if you really understand socialism.

says I shouldn't. I'm looking for someone to explain to me why.
Fair point, I had honestly never read the docs page on restore.

But, I still have to disagree. They may not have landed on the final shape of the API, but they are clearly encouraging people to use restore for this purpose.

There is no ‘warning’ message in the CLI. In fact the opposite, the help text in every ‘git status’ message explicitly states to use ‘restore’ for the case of resetting the changes of a single file, where it used to say use ‘checkout —-‘.

Yeah I’m used to using checkout —- like the rest of us, and sure we can all still do it if we want. But I would never recommend ‘checkout —- filename‘ to anyone in 2021. It doesn’t make any sense that that would be how you do that. It’s confusing trying to explain it to someone.

“Yeah I know you usually use this to completely change branches, or go to a particular commit hash. But if you use this weird ‘—-‘ flag & a file name, it does a mini ‘reset’ on that one file”

Why would you use some random flag on a command (checkout) that is typically used for a totally different use case? If anything, this should be a flag on ‘reset’.

I’m not a git ’complexity hater’, but it’s a perfect example of why a lot of people complain about git.
Link to your blog?
When I was in kindergarten, I would draw pictures of dragons and give them to girls, saying "I drew you a picture of a dragon, it's not very good". And of course they would say "Oh no, this is a great dragon, thank you so much!" Very deliberate on my part.
While I agree to some extent with the point your trying to make, the way you phrase and portray this sounds like more of an excuse than a strong argument.

>Because they have family obligations that take priority

This is on you. If your serious about it you should see this coming. Elons familial situation isn't exactly all flowers and roses. A lot of my friends who managed to start successful business started yong precisely because they saw this coming and new it would be difficult to do with a family. I would argue the exception is if you have parents who are sick or need heavy financial support or whatever. If this is the case, would be a fair argument in favor of being rich (or at least middle class) helps you get rich.

>Because they live outside high-income countries

I would argue this goes both ways. If anything a lot of countries are trying to pile into developing countries now cause that's where the growth is. Similarly I used to work in hk where living costs are absurd. Then I was relocated to China and after a while I quite my job to try my own thing because it was affordable to take the risk. You could live decently by being frugal with some savings and the benefit is still vastly in favor of being an owner than an employee. Access to education might be a differentiator but so many things are available for free online now.

>Because they have no access to support network, so when they fail, they fall all the way to bottom

I think this is related to two somewhat. It's also totally feasible to position yourself so that even if you fail you can still land on your feet, you just have to be conscious of it.

>Because they may have made a crippling mistake in their pasts that now prevents them from reaching their full potential

Again this is the same for everyone and is on you personally. Don't do anything stupid.

But like I said, I generally agree that being rich or middle class definitely helps you become rich, but if you can go on and on about all these reasons your probably want to adjust your mindset as well
Here's another story, which includes several related links.

https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal...
Thank you for sharing, I think you raise some good points.

With regards to the OSS point, I am forced to lash at both Redis Labs and AWS every time I want to say something about Redis to avoid easy exploitation of my words by either party, but I think the problem with open source goes much deeper than what companies like Redis Labs are doing.

AWS is in many ways being a good OSS citizen, and yet it too has devastating effects on a lot of OSS projects and not just because of conflicting business models.

Here's some writing I did on the subject:

https://redislabs.com/blog/aws-vs-open-source/

(thread) https://twitter.com/croloris/status/1363121008371249156
> which is further understandable since the graphic doesn't make it obvious whether or not it is nominal dollars or adjusted dollars

Except for the part where it says "Median family wealth, in 2018 dollars"?
> If you don't like it you can find another broker

It's like saying that net neutrality exists, because "if you don't like throttling you can find another ISP"
Ask HN: Fully-managed GitHub alternative on a custom domain?
I am looking for a fully managed GitHub alternative that I could use on my own domain, but without having to handle or maintain any server (full-saas).

I looked at GitLab and would gladly pay to support it, but even in the paid plans it does not seem possible to use a custom domain, the repositories are always on `gitlab.com/example` rather than `gitlab.example.com`.
I think, it's sort of a side effect. The ancestor's taste buds were optimized for giving them better chances of survival, and one feature was better detecting of sweetness. D2O didn't exist then and so couldn't influence survival, so detection of D2O is just an accident.
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. That's what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Discussed at the time:

Gitlet: Git implemented in JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8931984 - Jan 2015 (66 comments)

Also: Git implementation in 1k lines of Node.js - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16453979 - Feb 2018 (2 comments)
Paywalled, is there a better link?
Wow, I'm glad this isn't how it works where I live.
Why go straight to a wealth tax? In the US, there exists a comprehensive system for measuring economic activity and translating it to income. To measure wealth would require a huge invasion of privacy (not only of the wealthy but the 'suspected wealthy') and a whole new system of identifying and tracking things of value.

Why not fix the income tax? At least try fixing it using the existing system, before creating this huge new boondoggle.

Hint: the top income tax bracket is about 400K. It was 500K in 1913 (~13 million today adjusted with conservative, CPI-based inflation figures). There's your problem. Nobody should be making 10 times more than the top bracket in a year. If they are, you add a new bracket and skim an extra few percent. Right now, the wealthiest make ~10,000 times more than the highest income tax bracket, plus they are typically paying the capital gains bracket, which is even worse, so they end up paying less than doctors and engineers.

When politicians clamor for a wealth tax, it's because they are either A. clueless or B. don't actually care about the problem, but want more power and votes. I think it's the former for Bernie and the latter for Warren.
There's not much there and it's not very good:

https://butterflyeconomy.blogspot.com/

These are both related projects and I think they are vastly better:

https://projectsro.blogspot.com/

http://www.eclogiselle.com/

(If you don't see any relationship between the three: Sorry.)
Chia plotting improvements in version 1.04
You're getting lots of replies from (I presume) Americans, who are used to much scammier business behavior than what I know from Germany and you describe in Australia. One related example is the pervasive practice in America of displaying a price without fees (like "resort fees" for hotels that can be +50%) and of course taxes, with the actual price only becoming apparent after additional effort is invested in the checkout process.
You couldn’t possibly be sure unless you were involved.
Were you?
Normally I wouldn't comment just to say the equivalent of +1, but I hadn't encountered "The Inner Ring" before, and it's great! Thanks for the recommendation.
Indeed, mea culpa it is too late. I ultimately had to go to the source to confirm:

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

Where it was clearer:

> Even so, the gains for both lower- and middle-income families were outdistanced by upper-income families, whose median wealth increased by 85% over the same period, from $344,100 in 1983 to $636,000 in 2001. (Figures are expressed in 2018 dollars.)
"Racist Algorithms" implies the software detects race correctly, and then discriminates on it. It actually is just poor at darker skin tones due to low contrast.

If we're going so far as call basic math "racist", what else are we calling racist... that isn't?

Also Proctorio is garbage, but that's beside the point.
But it would also be against individual freedom to limit the amount of social status and power one can non-violently attain.

I think the limit should be put when that power and status becomes physical violence.
Copyright may or may not be a good idea, but arguing its merits isn't relevant to the question of its current legality.
"Better" like Robinhood, which, instead of firmly stating a position in advance, changes its mind day-by-day about which stocks its customers can buy or sell? And which was pretty damn close to going bankrupt earlier this year because it didn't have a sufficient risk management policy?
If you think I am deliberately manipulating people: You are giving me waaaay too much credit for Machiavellian savvy I absolutely don't have. I'm just amazingly stressed out and losing my shit Cuz Reasons.

But I hope you got lots of kindy dates and held hands often. Go, you.
Don’t worry about the intricacies of this article or that I’m shadowbanned! We will chew you up and spit you up. You nerds aren’t safe, you are going to be ground into a paste; look up, it’s your masters! Look down, we hate you dorks!
This. Poverty doesn't just cause immediate issues it
can also cause long term issues that can effect not only adults, but the children who grew up in that environment. This is largely because families in poverty tend to also abuse their kids at higher rates (this includes mental abuse) or at least foster an extremely unhealthy environment due to the stress it causes. So even a generation later it can be difficult for a family tree to be lifted out of that situation. It's brutal not having a support system in place for people. What sucks is that it's probably bad for overall productivity to not help people in these situations, but the usa has chosen to say screw it for many years (hopefully that is changing).

Imo forget being "rich", just growing up in a relatively sane environment is an advantage.
US government content is only public domain in the US, that same content exported from the US is then copyrighted.