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> Modern codecs are extremely efficient in terms of bandwidth, but that comes at the cost of computational complexity

Right, but as with every codec, the cost is always heavily skewed towards encoding the stream.

>Decoding HEVC or VP9 is far from a simple task; hardware acceleration of video decoding is absolutely crucial for power-constrained devices like smartphones and laptops.

I don't believe that decoding video streams should come anywhere close to saturating a modern CPU in 2018. The hardware acceleration you mentioned isn't magic, and doesn't use any crazy tech either. Its going to be some kind of low powered ARM chip on MediaTek SoCs like the MT8581.
Never argue with philosophy professors using scientific grade evidence. As you said, they consider themselves the authority and will brook no dissent.
That's a bit of an outdated meme.

There are lots of micro libraries because there's zero barrier to putting something on github and NPM, and there's a huge population of people wanting to practice and demonstrate their programming skill.

Many of those are irrelevant. Guess what? Me throwing a "cool-cucumber.js" library doesn't obligate anyone to learn or keep up with it.

It's like a random author publishing a random book. Who cares? you don't have to read it.

The rest is much more stable. There's a bit of fluff on the surface but underneath is not changing that much.
>Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way.

I think there's a reason societies haven't adopted them en masse, and resorted to the more traditional model all over the world and all around history, with few (and insignificant) exceptions.
This is insane. The ppl it is going to hurt the most are the tinkerers and innovators. As long as you assemble your completed phone / tv in China it doesn't matter. But for hackers trying to build cool stuff or develop ideas into products, they have to pay 125% more...
“Make your children interesting,” Faust said, while rubbing her thumb against her index and middle fingers and winking at the audience.
They tend to be $1 for the smallest and up to $7.50 for the largest machines. What I'd consider a normal load at home costs about $3. Then, dryers are .25 cents for 5-10 minutes, so it's usually $.50-1 per armful of clothes. That means it can easily cost $15 to do a couple's weekly laundry including sheets and towels, plus consumables.

Also, you have to get to the laundromat and spend over an hour there. Not a huge expense, but not really a few cents. On the positive side the best laundromats I've found supply WiFi, multi-game arcade emulators and free coffee.
> Personally, I think we'd all be a lot better off if we adopted open and polyamorous relationships in a large way.

Doing so is going to require a LOT of trial & error. Open/poly relationships introduce all sorts of emotional factors which (I think) most people aren't prepared for, even if they could be.

Our political institutions are wholly unprepared for a reality like that. Can you imagine the difficulty a parent might have instructing their child's preschool: "on of the moms or dads will pick Kiddo up at 3 every day" ?

Certainly it's possible that different institutions are possible, or even better. But it's not the case that our society has any historical examples of successful, publicly polyamorous (and especially, non-hierarchical) role-models.
Your cost of business does not include any labor, payments for property, taxes, etc?
I think later marriages is a big contributor to stabilizing divorce rates.

I got married at age 24 and after a very tumultuous time for us with economic hardships, a more hectic schedule (she was working two jobs at a time while I was doing my masters and working), death in the family, extended medical leave because of clinical depression aggravated by the death in the family, returning to school after her medical leave we grew into different people after just six years together. We decided to split.

Now that I have a stable job and I've experienced more of life, I know myself more. I know more about the type of person I would love to spend my life with and what type of person makes me miserable. And, of course, what makes me a difficult person to be with and what I can change about that.
I believe there is no such thing as a dream person cut out for everyone of us. I believe successful marriage is about honesty, expectations and compromises but I also believe that if we know ourselves better and are less shallow when we decide to commit to relationships they have a much higher probability of success.
Poverty is overwhelmingly felt by single folks and children of single folks -- especially in communities of color. Whether you're raised in a two-parent household is the #1 indicator of whether a child of color succeeds in life.

The traditional family has (and always will) be the strongest institution for children.

Not only that but the #1 source of violence and terror in the world are single males, marriage overwhelmingly acts as the cornerstone of the civilizing process for both men and women.
> Someone is always unhappy deep down

My experience is the same.

For married couples that became polyamorous after getting married, in every case I know of (3), the person initiating the polyamorous relationship was able to find outside relationships easily. The person's spouse wasn't able to. After a few years of that arrangement they've all gotten divorced.
And Heathrow express is nearly empty all the time...
Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all in Bay Area
I wish that congress would stop delegating authority to the executive.
Thanks for the link good buddy. I should have dug a little for an archived link before posting my comment.
>Sure it is. They argue that the commonly held claim that the divorce rate is 50% is no longer accurate.

The argue by obscuring the larger picture meant by those making the claim.
Because they want something that provides a subjective element for making decisions.

Admissions is high-stakes for everyone, including Harvard. Having some opaque, non-mechanical criteria lets them pick and choose without giving as much of a lever to lawyers.
Musk always runs over budget by a multiple, it’s how he rolls. Maintenance is probably three times or more the initial outlay over a 10 year period. So, it probably won’t be profitable or revenue neutral.

But it shouldn’t be. A brand new transportation mode is going to run at a loss until people figure out how to deploy it at scale. It would be weird for it to be profitable from day one.
>People aren't being very fair to you here and I'm flat out embarrassed by HN.

Me too, it probably the just world hypothesis at work.

Hang in there and don't listen to the negative talk.

They cannot possibly understand what you are going through, because they aren't going through it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
Reminds me of Alan Kay statements regarding 'new ways to kill the geese that lay golden eggs' (previous HN discussion)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040127
Fair enough. Skimming over your post, I don't feel too bad as remembering it as having significant code, since it is pretty detailed with a lot of discussion (it's a great post!), but your correction is valid.

I do encourage people in the Rust community to have the confidence to just be in Rust and let people find it out, like you did. There's good reason in the early days to wear the language on your sleeve, but there's also good reason as time wears on to project quiet confidence. Rust is, in my opinion, quite solidly there, at least relative to HN.
25% more, 125% total.
It's 37 minutes if you happen to be in the Loop and time the train perfectly. Oh, then it's another 10 minute walk to the gates. Oh and almost none of the Blue Line stations are accessible, so hope you're not in a wheelchair or carrying big bags (who takes luggage to the airport, after all?) Speaking of...where exactly do your bags go on crowded CTA car?

I keep hearing this argument about the Blue Line from people who really don't sound like they've tried it. I'm happy we have it as an option but it's really not ideal. A 12 minute express with short headway and space for bags would be a total game changer. Everyone within ~25 minutes of the Loop would now be able to take transit to/from the airport in 40 minutes, not just people who happen to be going to/from the central business district.

And the city isn't paying any of that $1B, they're really just giving Boring Company permission to try to pay for it on their own. It's not money that would otherwise be spent on CPS. I'm not completely convinced this is really the right solution. My personal pick would be using the Metra NCS route to run an express train and then moving the the O'Hare Transfer Station to be actually inside the airport, which would also make transfers with Amtrak and other Metra services easy. But that too would cost a lot more than $1B, and no one's jumping up to do it.
Ok, but say you are parent and want what's best for your future kid. It's better for your child that you be #34 partner of Bill Gates, than #1 partner of Joe Jobless. Now apply that realization to everyone.

Soon, only the wealthiest will be able to find partners.

One way would be to raise kids in commune, but even then a super rich commune will beat any other. They would have access to best medical care, the best trainers, the best pretty much everything.
> why do all these comments read like advertisements

Enthusiastic users of new programming languages with small communities, generally want more people to use it as well, so that the community will grow and 1. produce more libraries; 2. produce more tutorials and other resources; 3. have more people for them to talk to about the language.
If you are long distance driving on straight empty highways, it is easy to get into the wandering state. I find these features only useful in those cases where engagement is difficult to maintain anyways.
Doctors are exorbitantly overpaid relative to the value they provide

Really ?
1: I'm not advocating in favour of spending it front of the TV. Both are a waste.

2: The damage being done by social media and the rise in narcissism, toward society at large, towards children and towards mental health, is pretty well documented at this point.
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Don't apologize for the pun. It was a beautiful pun. Be proud of it.
I'm not familiar with Dr. Marston, but Wikipedia tells me he was "an American psychologist, inventor of an early prototype of the lie detector, self-help author, and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman."
He was in a long-term polyamorous relationship with two women, but that only adds support for Erik816's point that polyamorous relationships benefit high-status men... do you disagree that Dr. Marsten was a high-status person during his lifetime?
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If I were tasked with adding signature verification to an application I maintain and could only implement it by writing my own parser for GPG output, I think I would decide that something is catastrophically wrong with that design and I cannot support signature verification for the time being.

Am I being naive here?
This case is important because many elite American colleges have quietly copied Harvard's 15% cap on Asian students.
I can't help but think that college admissions based solely on test scores (as done in India, Russia, maybe China?), and nothing else, might be the least unfair way to judge applicants.

Every admission system is unfair in some way but tests are a yardstick everyone understands and can optimize for. In India they publicly post the list of admitted students and their marks. Richer students may benefit from higher-quality test coaching but a) that happens today anyway and b) the Internet will ensure rapid dissemination of test-prep strategies for cheap or free

The other downside is it might give you a more, for lack of a better word, boring student body at the higher levels. Fewer non-academic interests and achievements because every bit of spare time in high school was spent on studying.

I thought the American system sounded better when I was a high-schooler in India with not good but not great marks ("surely they'd recognize my specialness despite my lower scores, even if these hidebound colleges in India won't!") but it does leave more room for implicit bias.
It certainly makes sense that those societal structures would be oriented towards families -- throughout history (and in modernity), families have always been the atom of democracy. The sanctity of individuality is a relatively new phenomenon and it is weak when compared to the sanctity of families.
This is a nice joke.

However I've seen it for real too: a former boss calling me about a problem with a Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere problem. So I tell him I've forgotten it all but it is all documented in the wiki I set up with the guy who supported the system after me so, just search for Sybase.

Well... Turns out that documentation is gone.
I think this statistic doesn't say a whole lot. It means that they were the legal petitioner asking for the divorce. It doesn't mean they were the one who wanted out of the marriage.

My ex-wife had an affair and said she wasn't happy in our marriage. I was the one who did the legal paper work even though I didn't want the divorce, or initiate it in the relationship, but I was the one who initiated it legally.
I get what you're saying, and I think I have a decent (enough) analogy to illustrate the difference.

The memory gaps you are talking about are sort of like lossy compression. The gist of what happened is there, even if you can't remember every detail. Blacking out is more like having a significant chunk deleted from the middle of the file.
For me it answered so many questions. His lack of attention, impulsiveness and constant wriggling was stressful for us, but also made people think he was just badly behaved. His scout troop threatened to throw him out at one point and he has been sent home from birthday parties and summer camps.

We always suspected ADHD and now that we have the confirmation we can deal with it properly.

On the flip side his IQ is 140 (SB5 test) which is nice, but also adds an extra burden on to how to manage his condition. Luckily he loves coding and building things - but we have to always be looking for something new and stimulating for him to do.

We've been lucky to get him accepted in to a number of schemes to help him manage his condition and harness his abilities. He's only eight so its early days for good quality intervention and help.

Of course the bullying is inevitable. Kids at his school call him autistic, plus he has two different coloured eyes which just makes him more of a target. Luckily his younger sister is a bruiser and sticks up for him.
Men are romantics pretending to be realists, women are realists pretending to be romantics.
Institutions like Harvard play the same role for the aristocratic elites as Trump does for his base: keep things more or less the same as the good old days.
sure... price * 1.25 :) still... crazy.
I wish they would shorten the gap as traffic slows. It makes adaptative useless for any kind of driving under 60.
Every additional lane and rail is a good thing because it is a net increase in capacity. Even if it's an expensive road or rail it removes the traffic that considers it a good value from everywhere else.

>Roads suffer from induced demand [1].

Demand is a good thing because it's economic activity that wouldn't have happened if the piece of infrastructure in question wasn't built out. Crappy infrastructure increases the cost of geographic distance and that's bad for everyone.

> You can't build your way out of traffic

Reducing traffic isn't the point. The point is getting more people and goods to and from where they need to be. You can slap a $100 price on a subway ticket or a $100 toll on the highway if you want to reduce traffic. That doesn't help anybody except the people rich enough to regularly pay it.

> The only solutions are tolls or quotas.

Which themselves have a bunch of negative side effects because you're basically forcing that traffic onto other roads or other forms of transit and many trips will be forgone in the process.

You can't create capacity out of thin air by manipulating the cost (money, time or some other metric) of the different transit options. You can only create the illusion of capacity by forcing traffic elsewhere.

>In any case, if you can't find anyone willing to pay to use your infrastructure (at a price that recoups the investment), that's a sign you overbuilt.

Or a sign that your prices are so high that other options are still less worse by comparison.
> Reward people that do well and hold them up as examples for other people to follow.

FTFY

Also, I think that quote speaks more to what Edward Blum is trying to do. Blum wants to challenge "race-conscious admissions" at the level of the Supreme Court. But Harvard will probably try to prove that being "race-conscious" is only a small part of their admissions process, and not a make or break aspect of a candidate's application.
I wish countries would sanction Trump's companies.
In comparison, it costs about ~$8-12 for the 80km between Tokyo and NRT (~1.5 hour ride).
NO U!
>We're talking about running a business, not a safe space.

Most seem to have become disconnected with this reality in the era of our massively inflated economy (and tech industry).

It will be interesting to see the absolute meltdown that occurs when the next recession rolls around/investment moves on from tech.
Outline's servers are not a public space. The idea that discoverability by protocol implies ownership or a grant of license seems faulty.

With respect to Outline's terms, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't speak to whether they're necessarily legally binding. My guess, based on how they're presented, would be 'no'.
Apples to apples? I don't do Elixir but this is what I think it's doing:

io:fwrite(string:join(string:tokens("Hello,How,Are,You,Today",","),".")).
Does this apply to small quantities imported for personal use?
"Go work at McDonald's/Walmart/whatever retail for a few weeks/months" is generally not great advice.

Hiring is an investment at all levels and oftentimes restaurants (especially chains/corporations) and retail stores don't want to invest in training someone with higher level skills out of the fear that they'll just leave immediately when something that more closely matches their skills comes along.

Not to say that food/retail jobs can't be found, but in my experience you need to a) not go try at a chain and b) make a more personal connection with the person doing the hiring, not just filling out an application.

If OP is able and has a bike or car (and doesn't mind doing non development work), food delivery through postmates/caviar/whatever has a lower barrier to entry and doesn't require certain models the way ridesharing apps do.
I think it is configurable but I haven’t bothered yet. Really, I want it to vary with traffic speed.
This too was a problem for me (and sometimes continues to be). I've been using `hosts` (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) to block all of the social sites so I have to rethink my decision to visit one. It's enough of a hiccup to stop the mindlessness of it. Thankfully, Hacker News still feels valuable and worth the time I spend on it.
Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
I don't think this actually follows from poly.

It definitely follows from situations where women are expected to have one partner and men have many.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. On the one hand, you cite induced demand, on the other you say "cars going through this tunnel are cars off other roads".

Isn't that a contradiction? Or are you saying induced demand only works for cars?
Too many examples.
I firmly believe that no matter how healthy you think you are, how young & fit you feel today, you should never underestimate the complexity of human body biology. It is unpredictable and there's nothing we can do about it, but try our best to minimize the risks.

So sorry to hear about your misfortune. How is the recovery going ?
"Alumni interviewers give Asian-Americans personal ratings comparable to those of whites. But the admissions office gives them the worst scores of any racial group, often without even meeting them, according to Prof. Arcidiacono."

I can't imagine the feeling of working so hard through elementary school, middle school, and high school to get into an Ivy League school, only for an admissions panel to declare me "low in personality" or too introverted.

Harvard's admission criteria seem heavily based on outdated stereotypes of what makes an individual successful. I question if Ivy League schools are choosing the best applicants and by extension, how much prestige Ivy League degrees really deserve.
I know it's not the main focus of your question, but since the eviction hasn't happened yet, it may be worth continuing to work on making it not happen, by consulting a tenant lawyer familiar with Colorado law. There may be legal resources available to you at low or no cost that could improve your chances of a favorable outcome in court.

https://www.hud.gov/states/colorado/renting/tenantrights

http://theactioncenterco.org/program-services/tenantlandlord... (although "helpline navigators do not give legal advice" it sounds like they might help with some of your questions and might also be able to help you find legal help)
>everyone with a new child gets (very long and equal) parental leave.

Is offered or is forced to take?
The Marsten family lived at a time when societal acceptance of alternative lifestyles was much lower than it is today, and it caused them a lot of grief. Polyamorous relationships don't work for most people (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17320556) but that's not a good reason to adopt rules that discriminate against the minority for whom it does work.
Many organizations create processes that are essentially random number generators. It allows bureaucrats to insert their personal preferences under a veneer of technocracy. Hang out at a corporate budget allocation meeting sometime.
But why they need it?
A lot of argument against tariffs seems to assume that prices in the US will rise and stay increased permanently assuming production stays in China.

Wouldn't the downsides of tariffs actually only remain until production moves to say, Vietnam, etc.?
Seems to me they're doing it to achieve the opposite effect (Asians are stereotypically the most docile).
We aren't free people. Not really. Am glad he's getting his cash back, but it shouldn't have happened to begin with. What a horribly stressful situation to have to live through.
His bottom line just went up in proportion to the cost of his materials. Clearly all of those things still affect his bottom line.

On a relevant note -- I hope that consumers are still willing to buy his products now that his prices must go up. It's a bummer that this is really going to stifle the small business innovation from tinkerers like the OP.
Meanwhile uchicago decides to ditch sat http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-univers...
RadioLab ran an interesting episode about the person behind this lawsuit and other lawsuits against affirmative action in schools. His activism a double edged sword. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/more-perfect-plaintiffs/
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This chart shows that for example, someone married for 10 years in the 2000s experiences a ~15% rate of divorce compared to those in the 70s and 80s who faced a ~20% rate of divorce at the 10 year mark. The trend I see looking at the 10 year mark is that the 60s had the lowest. The 70s and 80s were the highest, the 90s subsided, and the 00s are lower still, heading back to 60s levels. That seems like a surge that is over to me, no?