skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the aging demographic trend over most of the world, both the number of and wealth of millionaires should be increasing.

What most people (and this article) tend to ignore is that a 65 year old should be richer than a 25 year old. 40 years of good savings discipline will lead to a nice number. Maybe not a million, but a large sum regardless.

Instead, this article wants to focus on the ultra-high net worth (although the article uses a $30 million cutoff instead of the usual $40 million). In the end, you have an article that is more likely to divde people than get people to say say, "wow, those older folks sure did a good job savings - I should do that so I can be like them." Instead we get the opposite.
59k is an average household income and average households have 2.5 people, which is likely two incomes (over 60% of households).

That becomes closer to something like 33 years, which nudges close to the boundaries of most people's entire working life.

edit: national average wage index for 2016 was 48,642, so I guess for a working individual thats about 20 years then.
MIT launches new tool for automated data exploration and visualization
TIL! I always assumed that was one launching onesself into an endeavor with so little forethought as to be facing the wrong way.
I have Business. I request a /56. It gives me a /60. I try to partition that out into subnets, but prefix-delegation (PD) fails at that point.
What's a doom?
I'd rather have an explanation than the original source video.
Or "Only $32,000/mo in ads!"
MooTools is in wider use on the web than Angular, React, and Vue.js combined. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library...

It's funny, to me anyway, that this post look at the developer/development side of things rather than the end consumers of apps/sites side of things.
It boggles my mind that companies don’t expect frontend devs to be able to transfer knowledge between frameworks. Do they just not have that skill or do companies really not believe those devs are capable of that? Or both?
It's very generous of you to sacrifice other people's family members in service of your vision of a new, more perfect society. But if you were all that serious about your "killing people saves lives" vision you'd be out there walking back and forth in front of Uber cars on their test tracks.

But since you aren't, I'm guessing even you don't really believe what you're saying. Which is good, because a key assumption of your theory is proven wrong by the article you're commenting on.

Yes, these vehicles will eventually save lives once their error rate drops below that of a human driver. But there's no reason to think that running over a bunch of real people is necessary for progress until these cars work well in simulations. As the article explains, they get orders of magnitude more testing done in simulation than on the road.

Uber's rush to test things in the real world was not about advancing the technology or saving lives. It was about getting a short-term commercial advantage on the cheap.
I wonder if you could do some of this with reshade 3.

I've used sweetfx/reshade programs for years, really can make some games look much more realistic. Theres an Ascii option and cell shaded also.
I’m particularly curious about the moral/legal aspects of serving websites run by others on one’s own machine. Who takes responsibility when illegal content is discovered? And how does one make sure that the illegal content is not redistributed?

(“Illegal” here is a euphemism for anything considered morally wrong to consume or distribute by most of society)
I'm gonna guess they use github and this guy just pinged an admin to have a few new github users called things like "Legolas66" added to the organisation.

Many orgs don't track github usernames to real human mappings well or at all, mostly because the single sign on version of github is 3x the price.
Wait, a company wants to make money on its free service?

Shocking.
Wealth concentration of this magnitude seems like an extremely inefficient allocation of capital. Dollars get things done and having them concentrated and controlled in a just a few spots seems like the worst way to apply their value. A person of this level of wealth has no problem using the wealth simply for personal gain.

The concentration of wealth seems to undermine democracy.

Democracy seems to be working out decently well, concentration of wealth seems to run counter to democratic ideals. I guess that's how it has always been in capitalism: undemocractically-selected application of larger amounts of capital.

For instance, if one of these wealthy people decides to spend on a $1BB on PR campaign to run for office and they win; they will have effectively bought the outcome of the election like any other off-the-shelf product.

This level of wealth inequality could be a national security risk.

If the level of wealth concentration gets too high, we could start seeing a new market of privately-owned paramilitary sharing the space with what was originally occupied by branches of the military.
> Who is going to spend a week doing a doc review to buy a phone?

There are algorithmic methods available for estimating reading time. Taking 80% of that value (or whatever) could then be used as a conservative lower bound for how long someone must take reading a document before it can be reasonably asserted that someone could have "agreed" to anything. If you haven't spent at least some minimum amount of time reading the document, it should be assumed prima facie that a "meeting of the minds"[1] hasn't happened.

This would require much longer delays before sales/etc, which encourages companies to use shorter, easier to read legal documents.
I'd say the following points need to be made about "gaming" because the perception does not reflect reality when you play a videogame:

- the classical "neurotic player who doesn't like distractions and spends hours on VoIP getting angry at the game" is the reflection of a lot of the people who get into real-time multiplayer in MMORPGs or now games like Fortnite. This isn't quite how it stands for a lot of games, genuine one-and-done experiences like God of War or going back a bit to the Wii didn't have this continuous "one more" feedback or ridiculous length of content (3 hours a night raiding is tiresome and stressing for some people)

- The fighting game community has the oddity of gathering in large tournaments, building community on them and treating their games with immense discipline in learning to the point where others complain the barrier of entry to being "good" is too high. More than any other genre, fighters offer real-life experiences. E-sports is picking up on this*.

- Something to consider when determining the "why" of prolonged play is also the community or social aspect of the game. I play a lot of videogames, I admit, and one of the things that makes me commit a lot of hours into a game is when I can talk about it, talk to people in it, build a common interest and execute it. I live in a country where I speak my second language more than my first and hopping online to play in English is definitely some strong escapism. This is my experience, but so many people get online these days for the strong community tools (Discord, subreddits). It's primarily this aspect that makes me question any attempt to compare it to gambling/watching sports/binge watching movies or what have you. Gaming is built on a huge internet infrastructure because social features build long-time users.

I totally appreciate the definition of gaming disorder being sacrificing other healthy parts of life to continue feeding your need to play videogames but maybe this made sense if everyone was still playing the Super Nintendo (and even then we mocked it) but the world, and maybe it's just because enough huge corporations threw enough money at marketing to make it happen, has managed to genuinely change real-life because of videogames. This is far too dismissive.

Other posters mention this and I'd probably say that they refused to consult people in the game development industry/competitive gaming organizations/prominent players because they'd like to poison the well by assuming they'd never admit they have a problem (Although I suppose that might have to do with EA and the like refusing to have ethical debate instead of filtering us through an endless marketing machine, taking notes from Hollywood)

Side note: First post on HN after long time browsing. Feel free to rip this apart.
Farming, steel and a few other industries are strategic. A country fails to protect them at its peril.
I think that he is probably playing up threats like that in order to distract from what appear to be systemic problems at Tesla.

But, to be blunt, I've seen what organized activists in the bay area are both willing and able to do, and so I'm not comfortable with writing off the idea of sabotage as _absolutely_ impossible
From the log it looks like the desired link was http://www.cupery.net/SH.html, so we've added it above.

It's a great submission. Obscure but curious things that haven't appeared on HN before are some of the scarcest goods here.
Bad implementations of things are always going to be problematic. That’s an argument for doing them well, not for avoiding it completely.
What is your cutoff? Bird is not yet a year old and is definitely a startup, but has a $2b valuation. It's a wacky world.
I once had a retinal vein occlusion (basically, a stroke in my retina) while driving. I recognized that my vision had deteriorated and got off the road. Humans have heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and other systemic failures while driving, too.

Detecting sensor failure is child's play. We have over a half-century of experience at detecting and handling sensor failures in computer systems. Hell, I left the gas cap off my car once, and every idiot light in the car flipped out on me. Cruise control stopped working. Etc.

Detecting glare, flashing lights, and other visual interference is likewise well-established technology. And how does the autonomous car respond? By slowing down, staying within safe parameters. Meanwhile, one of the most common causes of fatal accidents is humans driving too fast for conditions, often due to poor visibility. I trust the self-driving car more than the human driver for that.
I love the part where he talks about people thinking the installer was broken or didn't download fully because it was so small. They ended up padding it with some assets to make it feel more authentic.
I don't believe these are flimsy tents in the typical sense, rather semi-permanent structures added on to the bursting at the seams factory. Seems to me Tesla will need more factories, whether build from scratch or acquired, if they want to mass-produce model Y's, more 3's, cars in China, etc.
There's a bunch of Salad Fingers videos on Youtube.
Depends on the definition of interaction.
In professional chess you aren't allowed to interact with opponent (talk etc) at all. All you do is greet, make moves, record them and offer draw, resign or accept resignation.
You can have some interaction later.
Same quality control that allows the shackle to be snipped with a 12" set of bolt cutters? It's almost as if at every turn, of two possible decisions, they consistently chose the wrong one.
> However, you should just learn JavaScript, even if you're doing nothing but designing components, will explain why.

I think you are reading wrong between the lines. There are no vue users who dont know javascript or are not using with it. The concern is really how are you mixing the two. vue is more of js inside html, while react is html inside js.

And its just a matter of opinion. I work on both vue and react apps and personally dislike writing html inside js. But if the project started earlier using react, I am not going to suggest a rewrite just because of this single preference.
> I want you to think about all the technology we use every day. Our phones, desktops, laptops, are full of bugs. Hell I found bugs in the ticketing system I buy metro cards from the other day. We see display kiosk crash all the time.

These arguments don't make a lot of sense to me:

- Do you think display kiosks would still crash all the time if the industry spent a few hundred millions at improving them?
- Do you think the metro ticketing system would have as many bugs if the transit agency spent a billion on it?

If not, why are you comparing very different situations?
Maybe we need to use average number of bugs per amount spent on dev instead of average number of bugs per project or per # lines of code
PeerTube fundraiser: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free...
You're right. Edited to remove personal attack.
More like if you're a particularly popular channel with revenue and a budget. YouTube isn't a service for nonprofits to use to offload their bandwidth costs. If you have money to pay for your other expenses, it's not reasonable to expect this one supplier to do it for free. Morally, Google deserves some kind of reimbursement here.

Advertising is certainly one way to square that. Honestly I don't see what the big deal is here.
I'm in a similar spot - you can also stream the MP4s from archive.org as a workaround (they're usually linked on the lecture's OCW page.)
Every company I've worked at had a responsible person who was the only one able to push code into production. If you allow anyone to do that you are an idiot.
Angular, ngrx and Schematics
Variable fonts are the future of web type
I’ve been exploring the idea of an alt-prison startup.

I imagine things like nature, skills, community, art, trauma healing, etc. could all be a big part of it.
Yeah, but much like with live streaming, that ship has already left port. Twitch.tv (aka, Amazon) has like 80% of the market. YouTube's streaming has only recently been good enough to use.

Patreon's also got inertia for crowd funding and donations. Twitch has had paid subscriptions for a fairly long time and you still see Twitch streamers talking about their Patreon. Twitch only recently added multi tier support, but their bits for donations has essentially killed PayPal (largely since PayPal's service isn't very good).

There are people throwing cash at the screen, and YouTube is taking the slow road and they're going to end up as far behind as IBM was in the 90s.
Pretty good primer for newcomers, though it seems to take it as a given that blockchains are (or to hear them say it, "blockchain is") just fully as amazing and applicable as the hype suggests, and here's what you are going to have to do when you inevitably get with the program!
For those not familiar with this fundraising platform, it appears to be legit. I asked them about it last month: https://cybre.space/@Riley/100131447697085131
At least in the US, those old folks definitely did not do a good job of saving. The boomer generation did not save money.
Also ndscheduler: https://github.com/Nextdoor/ndscheduler/
The human factor of cyber crime epidemic
Not to mention that the industries that could be most transformed by adopting blockchains -- banking being the obvious one -- are among the most slow-moving and change-averse.
Great idea, spam the shit out of every folder with useless files even more.

that's just what we need.
Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data with Third Parties
Sure they do. There's a donor list at https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/ (click on "2017"; most companies donate rather late in the year); Netflix is listed in the "$25,000 - $49,999" category.
Doh, you are right. That's what I was thinking of.
And even if they do lack review processes, it can't be said that putting in even the strictest of review procedures would stop a determined attacker.

It's almost childs play to hide a security vulnerability into a large 1000 line PR, down some error path, through a use after free, hidden deep in a library, a buffer overflow, a debug handler, or anything else really.
Unequivocally, C. Futhark is clearly meant for reasonably high performance computing and I don't know of a single person in that domain that isn't a competent C programmer even if they spend a lot of time writing code in other languages (C++ mostly, also Fortran, Julia, Python with Cython/Numba, etc.). Functional programming, on the other hand, is something many (most, I'd contend) people in this domain consciously stay away from, myself included.
The slice approach should be pretty readily doable today with e.g. libx264 (which you can force exactly N rectangular (full-row) slices with, using i_slice_count), and calculating N based on the resolution of the eleven vertically and horziontally stitched clips and their boundaries. (And with VP9 using some craft tile-column/tile-rows setup, maybe...)

This is assuming the videos are stitched pre-encode, of course... From the post, it almost sounds as if the idea would be to stitch independent H.264 streams into a new unified one using slice mangling + slices... which would be pretty crazy stuff.

(As a side note, it's a shame flexible macroblock ordering is only in the baseline and extended profiles... I still don't understand that decision at all.)

EDIT: Dawned on me that the hard part is on the client/decode side. D'oh.
He means he disagrees with the people he downvotes. Afterall, anyone acting in good faith would agree with him lol
I was surprised to see that as well. I thought it was for particular group, not as a replacement for 'Latinos'.

Similar to people getting upset at using "guys" which the dictionary defines as referencing all genders, and only male when used as "guy". Latinos makes perfect common sense in the same way.

This seems like a bit of activism by the author rather than entirely necessary, especially considering it links to an article about "Gender Inclusivity" from within an article about Kansas accents... Unless I missed the notice that using "Latino-majority community" is no longer correct?
In the end, Nashville will suffer. More and more young people don't want to be handcuffed to cars for 3+ hours a day. Good luck with your highways.
I don't remember any variable-length encodings being proposed, but it was a long time ago.

I don't think the 128-bit length was ever an issue, that is just a field length, one parameter amongst many. It's all the other details that make a protocol (and it's surrounding infrastructure) more or less difficult to implement.

One of the contending proposals literally modified an existing TCP/IP stack with a constant in all the relevant places, and was then compiled twice. It had

#ifdef IPV6
#define ADDR_LENGTH 4
#else
#define ADDR_LENGTH 16
#endif

and then you could compile the same source twice, once for each protocol, just passing a -DIP6 on the command line for the IPV6 version.
For free?

YouTube gives Google _unparalleled_ access to what we like, how we think, what we want, ... It's the best profiling tool there is.

Let's not say "for free" when we are paying a price for it already.
Krita as a proprietary, for-profit software venture could probably bring in closer to $38k per day, although some of that would have to flow right back out to marketing. Whenever I see someone with a Patreon link, I click just to see how well it's working, and it's far more likely to be $5 per month than $500.

It's great to see attempts to monetize creative output more directly instead of subsidizing it via advertising and copyright enforcement, since the creative output is what people actually want, but I don't think anyone has hit on a model that truly works yet (a few notable exceptions notwithstanding).
It is divisive to point out that the hype behind crypto currencies has to do with empowering the poor?

My apologies for bringing up facts when parent brought a personal attack.
Problem is, any license that wouldn't enable such "freeloading" would not be Open Source. And as it turns out being Open Source is pretty important to FreeBSD community.
It seems like Google is pretty conscious of their own PR, presumably actions like this alert Youtube employees that everything they do isn't in the best interest of humanity.
It really depends on your business / niche but what works for me is:

- Get to know potential customers. This means talking to them, making friends with (some of) them, getting involved in the community around your product etc.

- Build up a solid blog, instagram etc. for inbound and discovery marketing

- Giveaways / discounts can give you a temporary boost

- Tell your story well, if you're a small business people love to buy from you, and they even accept slower delivery and issues if you personalize your support

- Go to relevant events / shows, try to get featured on podcasts etc.

- Work on SEO

- Pay for ads directly to bloggers, vloggers and relevant content sites

- Send free samples to targeted influencers

- Use but don't abuse your mailing list

What doesn't work for me is buying traffic from google/facebook, they just tend to send junk through with an appalling bounce rate.
Ya, youtube is obucating this, but it seems they are changing the terms to force monetization on certain kinds of content where they never did before. As in, force the creator to take a cut (as well as enable more ads to be shown.)

It seems like an odd play, increase supply of ad slots while dealing with a demand decrease from random companies dropping ads during drama. They must have signed some kind of deal recently.

If they are trying to increase the ad slot supply expect actions against ad blockers to come next.
Aside from the fact that Blender is a non-profit backing a free, open-source application -- you're right. YouTube does have that right. And I have the right to think holding the dissemination of free educational material hostage to make a quick buck is reprehensible.

Also don't forget that YouTube gave them the option to not advertise on those videos. It's so arbitrarily capricious I was convinced it was a technical mishap when the news first broke.
Why would the industry feel threatened?

And this is Taubes's initiative - it's an attempt to prove his insulin hypothesis. It's his doing.
If an autonomous car can't read speed limit signs and see stoplights (and doesn't have an up to date on-board map of them), then that system has no business being on the road. But I'm assuming that low-hanging fruit like reading traffic signs and signals is a solved problem.

Assuming that it isn't a solved problem is kind of irrational. If your argument is "Well, maybe the car won't see the traffic light it already knows is there", then perhaps your argument isn't very good.
They did invest in bonds and have massive pensions. Lack of savings hasn't prevented them from growing wealth.
Could you explain what services, primary and secondary income mean in this context and why they matter? Im sorry I don't read German.
You wouldn't download a car
Additionally, even if you could turn off GPS and other data services (i.e. a flip phone or similar) that data is still collected because you are always connected to a physical tower that has a physical location. So looking at these records, your location can be inferred, as well as all your usage data can be aggregated together and sold.
Ground scanning radar can look into lakes down to about 60 feet deep and find metal objects rather easily.

One would think a murder investigation would (a) know this, and (b) have the ability to get data from a military or private satellite, both before and after the suspected incident.

Failing that, tracking data from the pairs phones would likely indicate which lake, and probably which part of the lake even.
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The ones I know personally all did...

Much of HN likely lives in a similar bubble.