skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also depends on what being in the bottom 50% gives you a claim on.

If you have no net wealth, but a Scandinavian-style social safety net (not just retirement income, but healthcare, free access to arts/culture/parks and so on), you can still live a good life.

"Does the 80th percentile have an outsize claim on lifelong wellbeing relative to the 20th percentile" is a better metric than just looking at bank balances.

Also have to consider age effects, to what extent people move naturally up and down through the centiles through early and late working life and retirement. Looking at net wealth centiles in isolation doesn't tell you very much about how a society works.
And Russian state is still bigger threat then the others (and current US leadership counts as almost Russian anyway)
I think this is a pretty good example of the vast disconnect between reasonably high wealth and low wealth families. If you're in the bottom bracket, it's very likely you don't even have a vacation in any meaningful way, at best you have time off. The lower you are in the division, the starker the difference.
don't fall into the trap of limiting the argument to inheritance, there are far more benefits to being born into a wealthy family.
Also Microsoft: your enum should have an explicit Unknown entry with value 0.
Reminder that the administration has began neutering enforcement of anti money laundering legislation.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-treasury-department-says...
Hey now!
house and shop here in Nova Scotia is solar pv, it just works. local old time foundry here built a solar fresnel lense and mirror rig, and did some casting in aluminum and bronze, "Lunenburg Foundry", there is a bit of non technical stuff on the web somewhere.
"Nova Scotia Solar" puts out a manual for passive solar construction that works in Northern areas, and there are many others tinkering, and succeeding with passive and semi passive building.
The main thing about solar is that once its up and running, there is no monthly bill, and if it's time to run outside and hang out with the critters, try and see things there way, it's no biggie.......bring...brrrrrring...."ya what?"....
"um I thought I should call and say I'm feeling great.... ,so I wont be in today"
$100 for two queen beds and continental breakfast. The way my family did it is the parents would sleep in one bed and then the siblings would trade off sleeping in the other bed and sleeping in a sleeping bag/on a couch/on a cot.
Meh, or it was meaning threat, it is just that Trump is myoptic and completely under Putins control.
I see, confusing multiple layers of defaults :)
That's why I choose my anitivirus software based on the jurisdiction, not on technical comparisons.
Fair enough, I misread your comment.
I'm more than aware of that. It gives one considerable flexibility however to have such a large fund. There is no suggestion in the discussions that the College will lose all of its other income, this would allow considerable time to weather and temporary storm
No conspiracy neeeded. The simple reasons they bought it was:

1 to buy the users

2 to reign in an upstart empire

3 to buy the goodwill towards a 'cool' brand

4 to be able to peddle 'Lync'

They mismanaged the entire thing spectacularly;
they changed skype from something to chase and desire,
to something to avoid :-/.

A background to this mess is that MS at the time had an unpopular crappy product called Lync,
which was supposed to provide internet phone for companies. But customer's weren't really enthusiastic about adopting their crappy product.
As soon as they had acquired Skype, they renamed and reskinned Lync to 'Skype for Business'.

It was annoying and painful to be witness to and to be subjected to.

For a range of years,
the machines I had to use, would have multiple versions of "skype" installed, all with the fantastic feature of limitations of which receivers of calls I could see and were allowed to call, and glass walls to avoid them being able to call each other..

/s So wonderful to be locked into various versions of 'skype', with arbitrary limitations on who I were allowed to call..

/s That is really what I am looking for in a replacement phone service

- "No, in THIS version of skype, you can only call people in your own local department, because your company is not paying the the variant where you can all people in your companies's other offices",

"you can't call your CUSTOMERS in THIS version of skype",

"you can only call SOME of your CUSTOMERS in THIS version of skype",

"you can't call people on real phones in THIS version of skype",.

So, skype going from
'this enables me to call people all over the place!' to
'this enables me to NOT call people all over the place!'

Enshittification galore.
Theoretically sure it could help. Realistically we know governments, who are largely controlled by the wealthy, will immediately start dumping money around when stock markets dip and doing everything possible to insulate the investor class from losing everything. But if something only hurts the lower classes, they will usually ignore it as much as possible.
the article says it's getting worse:

> These numbers have all increased since 1989 as well — total wealth (60.8% to 67.3%), stocks (81.7% to 87.2%), private businesses (78.4% to 84.4%) and real estate (38.2% to 43.9%).

So no. It has not always been like this.
Is that actually true? This SO seems to contradict that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44121593/sending-a-simpl...

I just want to fetch publicly available information from my client-side app, but CORS gets in the way and forces me to use a sketchy CORS proxy. Makes me really hate CORS
For non-German speaking, here is a summary of TFA:

In June of the previous year, Russian hacker Oleg N. was arrested in Yerevan, Armenia, at the request of U.S. authorities who accused him of large-scale fraud. However, he managed to escape during a court session and disappeared. Later, leaked chats revealed that Oleg N., known online as "Tramp," was the leader of the notorious hacker group Black Basta. This group specializes in ransomware attacks, targeting over 500 companies and institutions worldwide between April 2022 and May 2023.

The leaked chats also showed the group's internal discussions during an attack on the U.S. hospital chain Ascension. Members expressed concerns about the ethical implications of their actions, especially regarding potential harm to patients. Despite these concerns, they decided to decrypt the affected servers but still demanded ransom for the stolen data.

Oleg N. was previously involved with another ransomware group, Conti, and used his experience to establish Black Basta. The group is considered a significant threat to cybersecurity, having extorted over 700 companies globally. Oleg N.'s escape and continued activities highlight the challenges in combating cybercrime.

Additional details from the chats reveal that Oleg N. claimed to have high-level connections that helped him escape. He mentioned having friends in the Russian intelligence services, FSB and GRU, who assisted in his release. This suggests that Russian intelligence agencies might have intervened to prevent his extradition to the U.S., protecting their interests and ensuring he wouldn't testify against them.
If you are the one serving the website, then you are the one generating the hash. If you want to serve different stuff then you could dynamically generate the hash for that different stuff rather than hard code it statically.

Specifying a script hash says that you as the owner of that site agree to load the content only if it matches the hash. Presumably you trust the content enough to serve it to your users.
Lady bird is such a positive development. Turns out people can just make browsers. Wish them all the success in the world.
Yes that's what I said, but estimating material quantities of a design is something that you'd want to do at the beginning of the process as close to business development as possible, not at the end of the process during subcontracting. So wouldn't it make the most sense to be applying AI to the data models used by designers, or at least the closest derivative to them?
I think this is definitely get them an iPad and use FaceTime territory. They seem to be the least invasive in terms of just letting you get on with the task in hand, instead of having to understand what a OneUI update is and what each of the 5 different TOS checklist items means.
I still use it. Even have it set up with Jujutsu. Only complaint is that you have to explicitly exit the app after each use.

It's still free, too.
I made my own distributed render orchestrator that supports Cycles + custom plugins. It uses Modal’s cloud compute APIs to spawn jobs on up to 20x containers with an L40S GPU (like 80% as fast as a 4090 with tons more VRAM) each. It ain’t cheap but it’s absurdly fast, and much easier in terms of cash flow than outright buying the equivalent GPUs.

https://github.com/stoicsuffering/distributed-blender-render...
Uh there are plenty of people with constructive ideas about government reform.
I don't understand why the author doesn't prefer CBOR, isn't doing things according to an RFC standard better? MsgPack and CBOR are pretty much comparable, feature-wise.

Anyway, I work on IBM mainframes, and big endian is so much easier to read in hex. Not sure why anybody would want little endian, honestly.
it's not sarcasm or an argument, and it's not a morality criticism

i'm just saying that there are reasons why people can "calmly" and "rationally" view inequality. when those reasons change, they will lose their composure.

and this is not new

> In a letter to Kautsky, dated September 12, 1882, Engels wrote: “You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market and the colonies.”
Unsafe is concerned with unsafe blocks. NonZero::new_unchecked requires unsafe even though it’s not concerned with mem safety.
90th percentile 21-year-old has nothing. With college debt their assets are net negative.

90th percentile 65 year old has perhaps $1M+ in accumulated property wealth and retirement savings.

There is some generational inequality at work, but that 65 year old also had ~zero at 21. The 90th percentile 21 year old will likely be doing very well by the time they're 65, hard to say whether better or worse than today's cohort.
i wonder if this guy ever imagined he would be on hacker news
Pretty neat. Did not thought that it is possible. Thanks.
do they? can you give some examples?
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As true and important as that it, there are more harmful and more direct effects wrapped up with our record inequality than jealousy and resentment, or even hate; like the capture of our political system.*

And most Americans have no idea how unequal wealth distribution really is, which means that those emotions are being easily redirected onto vulnerable groups by the people actually responsible for the gross inequality: immigrants, trans people, foreign powers etc.

* See, for example, the vast gulf between public opinion on issues like Israel, public healthcare, free education and housing for all, vs the opinion of the political and media class.
The calculation seems off by almost one order of magnitude. Even investing 10$ a month for 50 years (!), and managing to get a net return of 7% for such half a century, will build up only about 50K. Except that, by that time, even a modest inflation rate of 2.5% will make it worth less than 15K in real terms.

Which makes sense, otherwise any childless person in the West with a decent job could save 1k a month and retire with 10M, or a Google SWE5 living with a SWE4 lifestyle could save 10k a month and retire with 100M.
Just more sluggish than on Chrome.
Those numbers exclude airfare and other transportation costs.

And you need both time and money for a vacation. The average American family probably can't take 2-3 weeks off to travel every year, which makes their vacations shorter and cheaper.
Is it why in Stargate advanced alien computer/memory is from a crystal?
Hands-On
While this may be a jarring response to many, I dont find this response to be far off from my reality.

My father is compulsive about accumulating wealth via stocks, property, etc.

My father in law could not care less about wealth accumulation, and would rather have lunch with friends outside of work.

I dont know who is happiest, but from the outside they both appear very content and satisfied.
If you need windows enough to dual boot I'd just use wsl for the linux
I wouldn’t necessarily go as far as directly comparing Musk and George Washington. But I suppose there are some parallels [if we take the more cynical] perspective. Both were willing to take on significant risk to upend the established socio-economic order primarily for the benefit of their respective social classes (wealthy landholders and tech-oligarchs).

But yes, confiscation of all his property and even the gallows (fortunately or unfortunately for everyone else) is not a risk Musk is facing yet.
That's great to hear for young Fins - other countries, unfortunately, are not as lucky when it comes to the price developments of real estate over the last 15 years.
> the screen is maliciously connected to the board with strong adhesive

That’s not necessarily malice. Using lots of glue makes the device stronger, and making glue that a) glues really well (if there’s as good as no bezel, how is the screen staying attached to the phone otherwise?), b) lasts for years in any climate and c) can be easily removed isn’t an easy problem.
No, you should hire developers who can code independently without AI, yet leverage it effectively as a tool.
Surely this must be to some degree influenced by the prevalence of ETFs that give small-scale investors access to diversification, at the cost of no direct ownership for the small-scale investor?
Nowadays there are 3D print files for a lot of devices.
> the definitive planet-killer weapon will be a really big rock,

Sounds like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.
Agreed. Let's include family benefits in inheritance. What is the percentage of Billionaires that inherited/were born in wealthy families compared to the completely self - made ones, and I think we should nuance that with the time they became wealthy as it feels like many made it recently, as suggested by the fact that a new billionaire was minted every 17 hours in 2021.
Thats why you do design o DB and decide if this data is really needed to be stored, for how long, now sensitive it is etc. You don't just add data to DB as you go (well ideally).
How does it compare to something like Katalon studios?
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This is kinda misleading as to just how bad inequality is (ie, at record level and rising, with global irreversible consequences starting to hit us).

To see how bad wealth inequality in the US is, look at this graph [0] from 2023 and see if you feel any different.

0 - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wealth-distribution-in-amer...
Probably because vulnerability research is binary - you either have an exploitable bug out not. The fact that people write in depth about things they've found means a culture of openness, IMO.
Why is there an always an exponential distribution of wealth?
Even with boring tech that's been in the training set for ages (rails), you can get some pretty funny hallucinations: https://bengarcia.dev/making-o1-o3-and-sonnet-3-7-hallucinat... (fortunately this one was the very non-dangerous kind, making it very obvious; though I wonder how many non-obvious hallucinations entered the training set by the same process)
yup. You didn't imply it but just in case -- this token shouldn't be the same as session token. Session tokens should be `HttpOnly`, so that we don't even expose it to javascript
Just recently my mind went back to shop class actually. In the middle of southern sweden in the 90s we had annual theme days and one of them was candle making. Probably went there because of all the "stearin" that is thrown out with modern disposable candles.
They violate physics by the use of transporters. This is how replicators really store the enormous amounts of resources - otherwise the ships would be full of material storage.
>Rough (not absolute) wealth equality is a goal in and of itself we want a capitalist economic system to function.

No, it's not. Capitalism has nothing to do with equality. We can have extreme inequality as long as the workers actually get enough to satisfy them. That of course depends on many things like their productivity, supply and demand for labor, and preventing monopolistic abuses by corporations and labor.

>Capitalism only efficiently allocates resources if the market value of a good or service closely approximatatoon its "true" value to society. And that ceases to be the case when wealth is very unevenly spread.

Wealth inequality has nothing to do with market efficiency. Every person in the market makes decisions according to their own estimations of what the true value of a thing is. That's basically a democratized hive mind at work. If any individual spots a market inefficiency, they can try to exploit it, and in so doing increase overall satisfaction of market participants. This distinguishes capitalism from other systems like communism, which rely on a small number of central planners to make necessarily imperfect decisions for everyone based on limited understanding of the entire economy and all its participants.
Its probably not easy but I think a policy that protects the workers instead of a policy that protects the corporations / shareholders. You can let corporations go bankrupt - thus causing shareholders to get wiped out, and compensate by protecting the workers and poorer people with government checks until they can find new employment.
Banks are probably the only exception , I don't think you can let the banks fail without risking an economic collapse.
Git is the radically different architecture. Before it we had RCS, CVS, SVN, and a host of others that were simply striving to improve on the RCS model... a model that was simply unable to scale to large distributed projects with many collaborators.

Torvalds dreamed up Git in a weekend, and it's radically different from the patch-tree stuff that came before it. It's not taken over the world for no reason.
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When I was at uni I read Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century", and parts of his newer "Capital and Ideology" (although I never quite got through that one).

The big takeaway for me was that wealth inequality never improves without some major catastrophe (war, revolution, plague etc). The proposed model is really intuitive and compelling (tldr; return on capital has historically always been higher than real growth, which guarantees indefinite concentration of wealth until there's a crisis).

Last year's Nobel Economics Prize winners, Acemoglu and Robinson, tell a similar story in "Why Nations Fail", which I am working through at the moment. Although in their case, they seem be suggesting a more causal link between erosion of political and economic institutions and the collapse of empires.

I wish these ideas were more broadly accessible and understood. The real risk of total societal collapse should transcend any partisan fighting about ideal tax rates, government inflation/unemployment targets etc. Everyone has a common interest in there not being a violent upheaval (arguably the rich most of all).

Last I checked the numbers, current wealth inequality seems about as bad as it was before the great depression. And its not enough to just say "well, absolute wealth is more important". As others have pointed out, its not stable to have such huge relative wealth disparities. And that's before you even consider corruption.
Why would people choose JSONP over CORS?

There are security risks with JSONP (a hack to bypass same-origin policy), and the successor (CORS) has been around since 2009, so phasing it out may be a good thing.

https://dev.to/benregenspan/the-state-of-jsonp-and-jsonp-vul...
The heart is in the right place, but the means to achieve it are incorrect and incomplete.

We should at least try to experiment with various social, ecological and economical approaches, as we're currently being held stuck.
Change the persons orientation (make him turn around) when going back up?
Fair point.

It's just we often see these "outrageous" statistics without perspective.

What has it been historically?

Are we still better off than soviet Russia?

It so easily becomes: capitalism = bad.
Don't worry, this debt will keep increasing, and will likely accelerate in the coming years.

Maybe the public will just not know the numbers anymore.

Either way, I am not from the US, so I read these threads for my own amusement. I am fine with what is happen over there, in a way I wouldn't be in my country of residence :)
There is not, but you can use a uBlock Origin filter.
I also didn't see anything until I realized that it doesn't work if you have browser-based dark mode because the character is black and the page background is black too.
That's not an answer as we're looking for choices available from "the 70s" to before SpaceX so let's say around 2000. This issue is literally why SpaceX was started. Elon looked into NASA's plans for sending humans to Mars, saw they didn't exist and wanted to get the public more excited in space. His idea was to use his money to fund the launch of a greenhouse to Mars, which would be live streamed. No company in America was willing/able to do this, and in Russia the costs were far too high. So SpaceX was born.

You're right that Space Shuttle was a nonstarter for technical reasons, but it doesn't change the core issue. Neither does the mass. Unless you can find other companies willing to share a launch with you, you're paying for a whole rocket. And that's if you can manage to contract a rocket in the first place. As an inconsequential nitpick, no lander weighs 200kg. You're conflating landing mass (of which there's been well smaller than 200kg) with total launched mass. Fuel, thrusters, and so on multiply the weight substantially.
Where do you get all this lithium and cobalt? :)

Seriously though, high density works for a good reason. Solarpunk mistakes aesthetic that blends into nature with actual efficiency.
As of now? I am making noise with my government on the US. The nation has dismantled their protections, they have an unhinged preacher of hatred in the White House, and he has a proven record of breaking international agreements.

Starlink and Tesla are security concerns.

The US' current attitudes suggest that they would very much like to see world war three. And would like to ally with Russia to make it happen.

Recklessly endangering international agreements will not be without consequences.
Still I can't work up a tear for universities with large endowments when the top 10 universities sit pretty on 304 billion dollars out of 840 billion total, while charging insane and exponentially rising tuition fees.
Not sure what the poster meant but DuckDB is an analytics DB, it doesn’t have a btree index - at least not last time I looked. You could consider it the OLAP embedded DB to SQLite’s OLTP embedded db.

DuckDB can read SQLite so you can even imagine using them side by side in the same system, serving point reads and writes from SQLite and using DuckDB for stuff like aggregates and searches that SQLite is slower at.
Because they’re ignorant of what’s out there. Being poor in America probably sucks more than in third world countries where there is atleast fellowship and shared reality of the masses.
So brakes not being used, isn't that a problem with all EVs?
Yes, that's why I said email and snail mail portability are about the same.

OP's question was about portability like phone numbers where you can keep using your old phone number indefinitely after "moving" to a new provider.