skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How young is your 'young'? House is normally by far the biggest investment in couple's lives, and if starting from 0 (ignoring common US debt from studying) it should actually take a bit of time to progress in careers and amass some money aside required for such a move.

I've never felt that I am entitled to any sort of property even when being software engineer to the core, even more a house, as a young person right after university. That was always a hard-won luxury, and I don't even mean some extremely well located place.

Some folks here often mention similar stuff and refer to some period in 50s/60s in US specifically where 1 salary could have done it in some more rural areas. Nobody mentions how rest of the population looked like, hardly whole US population was buying new houses with wife being stay-at-home mum.

When women started going to work too, suddenly such couples quickly outcompeted single earners from housing market. In Europe, this stay-at-home was never the thing in most places so we never even had such period, thus 0 such expectations. Properties, especially houses, were always a hard-won luxury.
The difference now is globalism and that the rich have private jets to take them to safe havens.

People's wealth were more geographically locked and tied to land back then.
I appreciate your tangent wrt US vs China in space.

TIL: I had no idea China had already launched their own space station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station
It’s possibly a clear strategy (“flood the zone”) by some people to cause the conflict and confusion. I read recently a comment that in media “sex used to sell but now rage and outrage are more effective”. Start the fire and exploit the situation for their own benefit.

So many people outraged but very few offering any context or insightful suggestions. Assisted by social media insane demand for controversy and dispute ( even without bad actors tweaking the algorithms), there seems very difficult for the sane rational voices to gain attention.
I used grok deepsearch for sure not to search google myself and I wanted to cite my source
Robust Wavefront OBJ model parsing in C
Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training
The pumping lemma debunks the myth that computers can parse nested parentheses. Yet for all the practical purposes computers can parse nested parentheses expressions.
Are there any examples of the W3C refusing a submission from Google?
I dont have the exact stats under the hand but if you look in the CAC40. There is not a single innovative company founded independently in the last 40 years. All offshoots at best, at worst companies literally founded between 1890-1920, similar in Germany, Spain and Italy. It's kinda crazy ngl.
A 555 timer makes a dandy solar charge controller...
Another way to look at is: email domains are like international country codes.

For example, you can't port a US number to a Korean number.

I'm sure it's technically feasible to port international phone numbers, but I don't think it will happen. Perhaps email portability is similar in this respect.

I realize there isn't much portability even within an email domain, but it does exist in some forms (maybe like how phone number portability may not be available in all countries):

- Very unique case, but I know a certain Google employee whose email suddenly changed from OLD@gmail.com to NEW@gmail.com in my chat history. A search for NEW@gmail.com results in emails from both addresses (both highlighted), so they are linked somehow. And emails to OLD@gmail.com are still received.
The top 10% owns the 66% of everything.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203961/wealth-distributi...
> .. or those that own stocks are more likely to be in a position to start a company.

probably. So I guess the real debate is inheritance vs self-made and whether inheritance is good or bad.
The proportion of people who will be in the top 1% of annual income for at least one year of their lives is quite high. I am too lazy to look it up now but I think it's about 20%.

The majority of people who earn a top 1% income only manage to do so for a short period.

As a consequence the overlap between top 1% by income and by wealth is small. They are (broadly speaking) different groups.
In the Netherlands, a financial advisory board (NIBUD) advises people to save 10% of their income. The average yearly income being around € 45K comes to a € 4.5K yearly saving. Deduct unexpected costs + that you want to spend part of this on actual savings _and_ realizing that many people don't manage to save that much due to increasing prices + senseless spending (subscriptions, fast fashion, etc.) makes it much less surprising.

Also, Hotels and Airbnb's are incredibly expensive (even for me, working a decent job with a good income) for families. That's why i chose campings over hotels and bought a decent tent.
Education alone will not stop the wealth inequality and deteriorating living standards.
"they will want change by force"

Won't happen in a society where elders are more numerous than young. In the past it required a lot of young males thinking they have not much to lose, but they are becoming extinct.

Old people won't revolt, middle-aged fathers that need to think of their children and mortgage won't revolt.
The Earth might flip over at any time
100$ for four beds including breakfast? I live in Europe, perhaps that's why the prices feel off. I pay around 100$ per night without breakfast here in most places, for 2 people.
https://folklore.org/Hungarian.html:

“The Macintosh used the same Motorola 68000 microprocessor as its predecessor, the Lisa, and we wanted to leverage as much code written for Lisa as we could. But most of the Lisa code was written in the Pascal programming language. Since the Macintosh had much tighter memory constraints, we needed to write most of our system-oriented code in the most efficient way possible, using the native language of the processor, 68000 assembly language. Even so, we could still use Lisa code by hand translating the Pascal into assembly language.”

MacOS was clearly Pascal-oriented, with its ‘Str255’, ‘Str63’, etc. data types.
Not sure why the personal attacks, I believe you can and should do better. Also please stop incorrect claims about what I am doing.

Also you switch goalposts, I've reacted to parent's claims and not ones you are making up as you go. And so on.
It’s fairly easy to open. They designed it so a cheap and inexperienced worker in the Apple Store can replace the battery quickly and without issues.

They also made a massive improvement by designing an adhesive for the battery that detaches with electricity. So you no longer have to use pull tabs or heat.
Ok, lets say you have saved up 10 000 USD in an index fund, and maybe 500 USD in cash in the bank. You car breaks down, you need it to get to work. The heck you going to do?

Education can only help so much when you are poor.
Trump's crypto czar is heavily invested in crypto of a US Government reserve
France : top 10% own 60%, Bottom 50% own 5%
USA : top 10% own 72%, Bottom 50% own 2%
Sweden : top 10% own 60%, Bottom 50% own 5%

Source : https://wid.world/country/france/
Not sure how you can call nuclear power more efficient?

It is extremely expensive, boasts a 30% thermal efficiency and uses more raw materials than wind and in line with solar when factoring in the uranium supply chain.

Yes, if we ignore everything but the uranium in the fuel road we can call it efficient. But that would be like measuring solar efficiency based on the weight of the photons.
Then, you can always blame the libtards and the Bidens harder.
Am I the only one who thinks that maybe tapping the planet for energy may not be a good idea? Every time we dig really deep we discover new things that surprise us, but we're 100% sure that this is perfectly fine to do?? I'm pretty sure this is how Krypton exploded :|
I was actually surprised it's this high (more equal than I expected). But then I clicked the article and of course the title failed to mention that it's top 10% in the US
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...

Even if adjusted by all those things the median American is doing very well while the Japanese are about on par with Southern/Eastern Europeans these days.
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in question is a federal law enacted in 2021 to combat illicit activity such as tax fraud, money laundering, and financing for terrorism by capturing more ownership information for specific U.S. businesses operating in or accessing the country’s market.
I'm European too, and I also usually don't spend more than 2000€ on holidays per year, but when I compare myself to friends and colleagues, I always had the impression that how we go on holidays (camping, traveling by bicycle/train) was relatively uncommon. Therefore I didn't think that 80% of the population went on holidays like that.
In mice.

And it was applied topically by rubbing the substance on their fur.
The problem for the Democrats is on the one hand they just have to wait for Trump to crater everything and then take over or they could work against it and be blamed for preventing the Trumpish golden age.
Broadcast AM stations sometimes have to pay other towers in the area to install a special ground match unit on their tower legs, that makes the non-broadcast tower "invisible" - otherwise there'd be a null in that direction. Like a cardioid shape.
Wow, that was my first PC HDD. (I had a 10MB HDD in my Sirius 1 before that)

Bought at an Egghead somewhere the Computer Museum in Boston while on vacation from the UK -- about half the price of something similar in England at the time due to exchange rate.
No one cares they can afford a filet mignon once a month if their boss is spending more money on lunch than they make in an entire year
The funny thing is, 200 billion seems like pocket change compared to what is about to happen with the Republican budget now.
Are we sure? For me it looks like article uses ownership.
You can rent the 2 bedroom house across the street from me as a foreigner for $200 per month on the local platform. It is 200 meters from a nice empty beach. If you speak the local language and are willing to compromise (alley and 700 meters from the beach) then half that may be achievable.
I agree with the author. But can't the risk be minimized somehow by asking LLM A to generate code and LLM B to write integration tests?
Because the wealth is unequal, sure, but look at how much better the human quality of life is compared to even 50 years ago.

What is wealth when everyone is fed, watered and entertained?

Only stating this as an explanation to why there has not been a civil revolution. People are still dying in poverty with no way to escape every day, and we need to address it.
> Entities must manage the risks arising from Kaspersky Lab, Inc.’s extensive collection of user data and exposure of that data to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government that conflict with Australian law.

That's not concern of possibility. That's acknowledgement of exfiltration of data, back to Russia. Past tense.

This is political, yes. But only insofar as all actions of one nation against another is political. Australia go to some lengths not to piss Russia off. If things were not so political, then the response would likely be much greater, not less.
And yet there's hundreds of entire villages in Mediterranean Europe that are empty apart from a few elderly people, lots of small rural towns with tracts of empty property. Usually because they're hours away from the nearest good jobs.

What's happened is a massive shift from a small-scale agricultural economy to a mix of urban and large-scale agriculture, and the building of homes/apartments hasn't kept pace.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing
anyone here working for intel? they already banned AMD...
A lot of people don't realise that monetary inflation is a tax on everybody and affect the poorest the most.
> Luteolin was applied to the skin on their backs for 16 weeks. The results showed that mice developed gray hair less frequently than those that did not receive luteolin. Oral administration of luteolin provided similar results.
As much as it sounds like a nice future, I've come to the painful realization that solarpunk triggers the same trap that the "Technology will save us" mind virus lures us into. A future where we get to keep doing the same destructive practices that abundant evidence suggests are the prescription for the termination of life on earth. Concepts like "Abundance without waste" are like saying "Humane torture", sorry that's an oxymoron. We have absolutely zero idea how to maintain current lifestyles for N billion people across tens of thousands of years. 10k years of heavy mining to replace solar panels will poison this world, and that's just the tip of the iceberg of problems with ideas like solarpunk.
We could tax the wealthy
> When you move, do you expect to be able to keep using your previous postal addresses? (Perhaps there could be some benefits...)

In some countries you can tell the postal service that you're moving and, for set period of time, they'll forward the mail addressed to you from your old postal address to your new one. It's very useful for catching all those places you didn't remember to update your address for when moving.

You can do the same with email by setting up an forwarding rule on your old email address so that it forwards on any emails it recieves to your new email address.
So, are young people buying their 1st home now? If not, is it actually easier for them to buy?
DVDs use organic layer for data storage (that rainbowy part IIRC). There is no way in chemical reality that that layer can last more than 2-3 decades, apart from very few outliers. I'd say half-life is somewhere around 15-20 years from what I've witnessed.

If you have anything worthy still on DVDs that still works, make a backup to keep it.
The worst part of the aesthetic is the actual cost of building in it.
Solarpunk designs are notorious for being expensive to make, compared to native ones they try to crib off of.

Some of it could be reduced with say 3D printing, or more advanced ground engineering. Some of it requires particular local conditions.

See, solarpunk is distinct from classic futurism in that it is supposed to be both bespoke and green. Zero waste is not the goal.
None of it scales... Which degrowth advocates think actually helps.

The question of cost brings out its shadow - colonialism in a green paint. Someone pays the costs of manufacturing, mining and transport.
It’s also worth mentioning, that these people/organizations hide very well. For broad society they don’t exist and if you mention this, you get a label “crazy conspiracy theory lover”. Funny thing, even law for such constructs exist and they’re real. Look at “Familienstiftung” (English family foundation or similarly). It’s absolutely their system, they law and their game. But I also want to get there!
Also after reasonable period if you are stuck you can actually ask them what were they thinking and why was it written that way and what are the constrains they thought of.

And you can discuss these, with both of you hopefully having experience in the domain.
The US has turned towards enabling Russia’s imperialist war, and the Pentagon article explains how it will unilaterally disarm in the face of Russian cyberwarfare, leaving Russian criminal groups to run rampant in Europe and even the US. Abetting conquest and criminality is not the sort of collaboration we should cheer.
Look, I don't know if you have seen the movie, and I get that both the film and this TikTok video contain 1) a black cat and 2) a lush green backdrop. But one is a feature film that marvelously captured the mannerisms of its animal characters, has made countless adults cry and just won an Oscar. The other is a vacuous, seconds-long video where 2 static animal models rock back/forth a couple times on their Z-axis and spin a couple times on their Y-axis. Do you really think the similarities are striking, enough so to raise questions? Do you actually think there's a chance they are made by the same creator?

I think to most people, the film and this video look like polar opposites.
Have you forgotten about this, Brin? It was invented at Google:

Nudge management: applying behavioural science to increase knowledge worker productivity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41469-017-0014-1
The US, while hardly benign, have not orchestrated multiples of "largest attack in history", for multiple previous years in a row.

Russia and China, have.

The threat scale here, is not an even playing field.
> certainly not dumb

Perhaps but IMHO it’s a very high risk strategy and I doubt it’s necessarily optimal if more wealth is his primary goal (as opposed to his other seemingly highly megalomaniacal ambitions..)

So far his actions haven’t really been that beneficial for Tesla (of course its sales growth might have significantly slowed down even if he stayed out of politics). SpaceX can only make that much even if it gets to appropriate the entire budget of NASA. Also at the end of the day his and Trump’s relationship might fall apart any day.
Command-Shift-N
Should You Hire Developers Who Don't Use AI?
It's the other way around for me. "Psalm" and its sequel dialed up the coziness in exchange for anything resembling stakes. I feel the Murderbot series strike a better balance, where there's still some sort of conflict side dish to go with the hygge.
For comparison, the war with Iraq (a far less formidable opponent than the globe-spanning British Empire) cost the US-UK alliance $1.1 trillion [1]. Musk's net worth is $353 billion [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_of_Elon_Musk
If the goal is sparking the imagination, these flaws are often a feature, not a bug. You have to do a little bit of work to complete the picture. That's also why the original book is almost always better than the fully rendered movie inspired by the book. No matter the budget.
Using an aspect of an African religion as a metonym for "worthless nonsense", sonorous as it is, is still pretty fucking colonialist.

And the example you give to point out what you think is a false equvalence, is itself a false equivalence. Nobody says sandwich toasters are eating the world, if anything they help to feed it :)
Protip: when you block a user in github it let's you add a note as to why that will show in their profile. It will also alert you when you see a repository to which that user has contributed.
Well, i don't see what is wrong with it. Apart that common people don't invest even a bit. This is what happens always with everything. Some people find joy in accumulating stock and others in drinking beer every evening.
All licences restricting commercial use will need to be cleared, that's the point.
And, to your edit: wouldn't take that dude for much of an example of anything really. Except "how do you do fellow kids" IRL - he's such an obvious plant!

All the people near and far who have been putting up with his existence for the past decade, now they could sure use a fat ass jolt to the ol' central nervous. Except they fear it would make their wives invoke Mumbo Jumbo!
Any risk Elon's taking is peanuts compared with George Washington taking on the world's leading colonial power...
Im going green!
Living standards are important, sure. So are democratic standards, and rich people often subvert them. There has been a long, long tradition of that in the US too, and everywhere else. Sponsoring their chosen politicians, being newspaper proprietors, often also being patrons of the arts and deciding what gets made and by whom.

That amounts to cultural and political hegemony. Telling people to accept that is a little like telling them to know their place.
I read it around that time and thouroughtly enjoyed it; IIRC is basically a pop-sci intro to number theory, physics, cosmology, biology, etc, with only the last couple of chapters attempting to tie it all together into the quantum-consciousness stuff.

He seems to have been stuck in that groove ever since, though.
Recently I reminisced about Blender foundations first(?) effort, Tears of Steel, with the script like "Look, Celia, we have to follow our passions; you have your robotics and I just want to be awesome in space!" - "Why don’t you just admit that you’re freaked out by my robot hand?!"

It's not about the textures and shadows.
No, they always win. A stock market crash could actually be a boon to them to grab free chips on the table.

They are only scared of one thing.
About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)
Here's some back of the envelope maths:

* Anything that goes to the Mozilla Foundation is not spent on Firefox or Thunderbird (by definition).
* Mozilla Corporation (which spends money to maintain Firefox, and used to spend money on Thunderbird and is now separate and hence not considered in these numbers) sends some proportion of its income to the Mozilla Foundation.
* We have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances which lists total revenue, total expenses and software development expenses (I did find https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/ that wikipedia page, but some of the links are broken, so I'm going to stick with wikipedia's numbers).

I assume (which could totally be wrong) that "total expenses" minus "software development expenses" goes to the Mozilla Foundation or is otherwise not available (note that "software development expenses" would have likely included things like FirefoxOS, Pocket, MozillaVPN etc. but I suspect it's all going to come out in the wash anyway).

Since 2010, that pot that wasn't spent of software dev is $1.89 billion (which assuming $300 million a year on software dev which is above what Mozilla Corp spent every year bar 2019, is more than 6 years worth of funding). That doesn't include donations (as they all go to Mozilla Foundation).

The numbers are somewhat rubbery, but let me leave this note: why is it NOYB that is ensuring that the GDPR is being followed, rather than Mozilla?
In any kind of non-uniform distribution of any good, the top x % will always own a disproportionate (wrt to headcount) amount of it (In economic systems, this mathematical fact is further amplified by other factors such as financial literacy and leverage).
What's always missing to me in these types of discussions is what this value should be at, and what the distribution should look like qualitatively (i.e. what should the ideal Lorenz curve look like).

Is there any discussion/research/case study analysis where this is explored? I.e. overall citizen satisfaction/economic productivity and how it relates to wealth distribution?
Sounds like my holiday budget. My primary school kid has never flown an airplane, nor been in a hotel, but a few airbnb's, road trips. I would say it's for climate reasons, but really it's the money.
The American people, the Constitution, Ukraine, Europe, the whole world probably. The US is about to drag the world into a recession or a War Economy.
I was also disappointed by inside out 2. I thought it followed the story beats of the first one a bit too closely. Flow was the better film.
Obfuscating Javascript is entirely unnecessary: it signals that the author thinks that they have something to hide.

At the very least, the author has delusional notions about the greatness of their source code and they worry about piracy, meaning that there is a high probability of stupid bugs and that they would be difficult to notice because of the obfuscation.

Of course in this case the default assumption should be that there is something malicious to hide.
Please feel free to point out where the CIA successfully issued directives to those companies to target foreign nationals.

Baring in mind, that Snowden's revelations did in fact cause outcry, and national responses to US companies. And helped push through various data protections in Europe, including stipulating non-sharing of data with the US.