skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, moderately. This year I gave about $7k to each sibling which is life-changing for them and not really a hardship for me other than slightly delaying my home-ownership goal.

For one sibling, I'm the safety net when crises happen that they can't afford. E.g. can't come up with their car insurance deductible, water heater broke, etc. They don't ask but I always offer when it's clear that a small outlay would spare a huge amount of stress for everyone. Because what am I going to do, let these very minor issues send their financial life spiraling out of control? Of course not.

Other sibling is more financially responsible and trying to work through college part-time. I'm paying the car payment and car insurance while they go because I am 100% on board with this self-improvement plan. I proposed this because these expenses were keeping them from enrolling and I think it's in my own financial interest to invest in broadening the base of financial stability in my family.

Other context: My dad has a decent job (government job paying ~$80k/yr in small town America) but mom is a lunatic when it comes to money so they have nothing saved. Her idea of being able to afford something is being able to afford the payments. So far I haven't had to bail them out but only because my dad is too proud to ask and would rather go to his mother whenever there is a budget crunch.

Edit to add: I see lots of people saying things along the lines of "keep money and family separate". That is a very privileged attitude. It's very hard to enjoy money when people you love are going through hardships that would be solved by an infusion of cash. Obviously it's important not to give more than you can afford but you would be surprised by the number of people in tech who are sending money home in one way or another.
Dear Billionaire’s Club: 800,000-Plus Need Your Help
Working under a studio published by EA was very much the opposite experience. It was crunch till you drop, don't dare put the studio logo in the game or you'll be fired, shit-show rodeo from beginning to end.

Coworkers I had from other parts(Nascar, NFS/EA Seattle, etc) all had similar stories and of course there's the infamous easpouse.
Hell, I'm 26 and see/think this. It's definitely one of the major reasons I never want to have kids, too. I fear for the future of the students I'm teaching, especially coming from a rural area that's fairly anti-intellectual...
What a Broken Wrist Taught Me About Drawing Skills
How can you meaningfully ignore the thing that people spend most of their time doing? Nearly 60 hours of approximately 110 waking hours in a week are doing something work related. You spend more time in pure hours with coworkers than you do with any other group of people in your life. All of that shapes you as a human being in various ways. Where people work is absolutely important and I don't shy away from talking about work. Even if you're a simple fisherman, that's interesting. It leads to talk about area of expertise, and ultimately talk about the world and perspectives.
I gave short, concise, layman's terms, user's terms, on topic descriptions lots of places in this thread: Going for the rest of search, the 2/3rds currently served at best poorly, and based on the meaning of the content. I said all that.

I'm not pitching VCs here: As I made clear, I wasted months on VCs and gave up. The short, simple, ..., description of why is that (1) they won't evaluate and, thus, won't invest in technology and (2) they want to invest in traction significant and growing rapidly and by the time I have that I won't accept an equity check or a BoD. As I wrote, the VCs don't want me now, and when they want me I won't want, need, or accept them. Nice and short.

Want a shorter elevator pitch? Google and Bing are good in about 1/3rd of search. I'm going for the other 2/3rds.

Elevator pitches are for investors, and I spent months sending pitches just this short, with more below, longer, varied, etc. The conclusion was simple: The first requirement for any check is traction. Many VC Web sites were deceptive on this point; as a determined entrepreneur I kept trying; but I've learned my lesson -- no role for VCs.
When you look at the salary data for full-time-employed white men of prime working age the statistics aren't much rosier: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0253204200A

Median salary: USD 34270.
For anyone who was disappointed by the initial reviews for Destiny 2 (sans expansions), I would recommend taking another look at it. There's a bundle for sale now which is destiny 2 + expansion 1 + expansion 2 + Forsaken, for around $35 USD. The "Forsaken" expansion is a significant overhaul of the entire game, is at least as long as the original campaign, and introduced a great deal of story detail.
Not everyone has the means or luck to "escape poverty".

I really don't like your implication that it's just "their fault" if they're worse off than you. In a system that is designed to exploit "low skilled" labor.

"Codependent" is a really weird choice of word too.
I occasionally think that some people on this website are insane. Usually it's the extremely liberal views. This post is different. I can't wrap my head around it at all.
edit: I think this actually falls into the usual increadably left case. Its just straight up communism. Or perhaps a universal basic income equivalent.
Lawyers do not learn anything about the practice of startup law in law school, with a few exceptions where there are good clinical programs as at Brooklyn Law for example. Are you building a business around your product or just a product? If you're building a business, you need to understand the structure of your business intimately. Or someone does -- maybe not you, but your cofounder. Otherwise how are you going to evaluate the advice you get from your lawyer (and others)?

A good lawyer will have the benefit of breadth -- representing many different clients in different situations. If the lawyer is wise, this will be conducive to good advice. It is only advice. On what basis do you decide to follow the advice?
You mention havoc but i still notice Havoc being used for a lot of different games.
It’s effective but it has side effects almost as bad as chemo therapy. It can mess up your liver and other organs. It can also cause depression and suicide since it crosses the blood brain barrier.
NYC has "dollar vans", legal and otherwise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/nyregion/inside-the-dolla...
https://projects.newyorker.com/story/nyc-dollar-vans/
Markdown probably
Would be interested to know the composition of retirees subsisting on social security checks. Also, I believe this is individual income, rather than household. Wondering how much different the picture would be on a household income basis.
I've worked with filters and spectral analysis and you would often do this in CS in Digital Image Processing.

The point isn't what you use the FFT for but what the FFT does. The FFT does fast polynomial multiplication.
I think that many Old English works such as Beowulf had specific meters and patterns in how they used alliteration. I would guess that at least some of the more metaphorical kennings were created to fulfill those constraints in a poetic way.
With the current situation in America, there's really no other thing to do.

Yes they might become codependent, but if you look at the situation realistically there's not a lot they can do to change the situation. Being there as a safety net can take a lot of mental pressure off of them.
“Science fiction has become so central to our culture that it can be easy to take it for granted ..”

And has produced at least one UFO cult masquerading as a religion.
You need that income because others have it via rent, which you must deliver.
Tech Flashback: Diamond SM56LE-PCT V.92 56k Internal PCI Modem (I56PSP-F40)
30k is very high. That's above minimum wage in Wichita, Kansas, where the average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is $470.

see, anyone can make a sensationalist, obvious straw man.
> _Most_ people regardless of country of residence or origin want a peaceful and fulfilled, free life. You can never please everyone but arguing from basis of 'fear of the other' is a bit disingenuous and leads to these literal arms races.

This is all fine and dandy, but some of the most powerful militaries in the world are run by authoritarians who optimize for their own interests rather than what's good for their population. Russia's people generally gain nothing from Putin's belligerence, yet the belligerence happens. The CCP rolled the tanks on its own people; do you really think they'll hesitate to roll them on foreigners if it suits their interests?

I don't worry about the aggregate opinion of Russians or Chinese; I worry about Putin and the CCP.
128,000 Dominoes, Two Guinness Records
I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario where perfect hashing Vs a binary search tree is slower.

Also, yes, the very nature of perfect hashing means it will very potential need to be updated with additional keywords. However, that doesn't happen often and this is a small amount of work for what all would be entailed with a new keyword.
Helping your siblings is communism?
great tool! suggestions:

1. ability to set flex properties for the children (e.g. grow)

2. "templates" (if you go to Bootstrap, they have a few, e.g. with header, with header+footer, etc)
I have a member as described. Extra money and effort are wasted on them.

Some people do have a good head on their shoulders and just need _some_ help, but not a “subsidy”. Like I said, younger sibling needs some help? Sure. Need some money to tide over rent this one time, ok. No recurring stream though.
I think it's impressive, but maybe not for the same reasons as the OP : that means that keyword lookup accounted for at least 20% of total SQL parsing time. That's a surprise to me !
I just finished this book. It wasn't a bad book, but after Masters of Doom it seemed pretty mediocre.

Every story was about something interesting, but they were all pretty shallow. At the end, regardless of the actual outcome, they pretended it was a massive victory where the devs pulled off the impossible. In some cases it was accurate, in other cases the companies were financially successful, but didn't quite capture the magic of previous games.
Well he's not considering in a lot of the other cities that have the same problem. Example: Philadelphia and its suburbs.
American Phone Companies Are Literally Letting Their Networks Fall Apart
I am you. Every line of it.
Wait, so how is patriarchy not referring to male genderedness?

If something is a result of or related to the phenomenon of patriarchy (as that term is understood by a majority of folks), I don't see how labeling it as such could be construed as mislabeling.
$0.02. If you're going to subsidize, do it in a way that (1) isn't blatantly monetary, (2) is clearly time limited, (3) is private and the other party can be expected to keep reasonable confidence, and (4) carries with it no expectations (you're not righter because you're paying, pretend you're just burning the money).

E.g. discretely offer to pay X years of tuition, or for a trip, for a nice dinner for the family, or opening and funding an IRA for a year

Disagree with the 'never' remarks. Family is family. If they were there for you, it's laudable to be there for them. Just tread carefully and quietly.

PS: Just to point it out, if someone works hard and you give them more than they would normally make... don't trivialize it, because then you're trivializing what they do every day.
Camera systems with 100% local storage and drop dead simple remote access do exist.

For example - Unifi Protect.

NVR: https://store.ubnt.com/collections/surveillance/products/uni...

$200, rated to support 20 cameras - some use more with no problems.
Pretty nice box. 8 core ARM, 3GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, POE powered, built in battery backup for clean system shutdown. Well made, metal case feels like a piece of Apple kit.

https://store.ubnt.com/collections/surveillance/products/uni...

$80. They have others in the $150 - $250 range depending on capabilities. They even have a wifi one, but wired is always better.

$100 switch gives you four POE ports - the DVR and three cameras: https://store.ubnt.com/collections/routing-switching/product...
There are other switches that can provide more POE ports if you need 'em.

Pretty decent system. No monthly fees - slightly higher up front cost will pay for itself over time, especially if you have more than one or two cameras.

What's really nice about their system? Create a free account with them. Set up the NVR and log it into the free account. Load their app on your phone, log into the account and boom. You have access. Whether you are remote or not. Their cloud service brokers the connection from your device to your phone. No firewall ports to forward or other configurations. NVR connects to cloud, uses that connect your remote access back to the NVR. Slick as snot. Once you connect their cloud is out of the equation.

There might be other vendors with solutions as easy to use and set up - I haven't found them. I sure as hell don't need to store my video in the cloud.
Do you also assume that every single Web framework in the world are forked from single code base because they are all HTTP-compatible, too?
Been smashin Flexbox lately, it's a significant win for frontend, and now widely supported.

I usually have this cheat sheet open:
http://yoksel.github.io/flex-cheatsheet/#display

I like because it has the "applies to: container/items" clearly shown for each property, which I always forget...

The next thing I want to try is using css transitions to "animate" flexbox containers so that dynamic content inside smoothly expands the height of the container down the page, instead of the abrupt jump we're used to. I haven't managed to crack this yet, but heard a rumour that it's possible. So if anyone has tips.... (edit: found this which details the issue, and describes said flexbox trick: https://css-tricks.com/using-css-transitions-auto-dimensions... )
Massive sites like pornhub get millions of hits per hour using php. I'd say php scales quite well too.
I worked there for a bit and as its been a few years since I last swiped my badge in Bellevue, but I think there are a few tidbits I can add.

- Independence has always been a priority for Bungie, the leaked contract and the relationships with Activision/Blizzard/HalfMoon were always "at most we are peers". Bungie got what they wanted out of this deal, a bit of a mentor relationship with Blizzard and some knowhow on large scale publishing and marketing from Activision. I dont think the endgame was anything less of getting out after Destiny 4+

- Leaving might have to do more with sunsetting and moving on from the Destiny franchise than creative freedom for it. I still have a few friends (Hey guys!) there and there has been a bit of burnout. The community will either reward you with riches and praise for something as simple as a cool looking weapon or dump hate and death threats for what should be a needed stats nerf. So people's eyes started to wander on other things. After the departure of the long time studio head onto his garage game experiment, you saw a lot of exits and shuffling.

- Destiny was slated for 4 milestone releases, each with point releases. This was laid out on a conference whiteboard at one point, where every two years you saw a new Destiny release with a core gameplay mechanic added (dogfighting spaceships in the expanses past Pluto?) and point releases that seem to dance from one race story to another. Something about having your future lined up and being contractually obligated to draw out an already gutted story over 8-10 years can be a bit draining, especially when revenue takes a significant hit after Fortnite and you are still expected to maintain the same AAA dev costs.

- Some of the old timers hate being known as the "Halo" company and departing means that they don't have to just be the "Destiny" company. These designers, from Jason, down to the tester who makes sure you dont get nausea from an ingame fall, care more about the art and experience than the microtransaction potential. They would rather build new IP that sold itself than something that keeps you on the treadmill.

- The culture there was easily the best in the industry for a studio of its size. They put a serious effort to bring everyone to the table, from the Pentathlon and playing some random Wii game with a Senior Executive and getting a bit tipsy, to having lunch and probing questions with Jason as he mowed down a bowl of frozen peaches and quinoa. Bungie did what it could to make you feel like you were a part of the family, even if you didnt work on HaloX or if you were just a Tester, or if you were just a tester. When I was there, I never felt like I was a part of Activision, and from what I gathered in the years since, that hasn't changed much. Artists, designers, and engineers always came before the marketing and profiters.

I know they are building something new, and given the frustrations they had with Activision and the lessons learned on Destiny2, its going to be a piece of fun art.
If a company goes to Epic they'll have to be careful that after success Epic doesn't clone their game but make it perform better and take their marketshare.
Yep, w nit:

1. Get a corporate lawyer w startup discount for formation , core docs, etc. Keep using for big stuff like fundraising.

2. Use carta or whatever for stock

3. Use upcounsel for anything non-core or boring like office space. You can get a per-topic specialist for each thing fast and cheap.

4. For most deals -- nda, sub-100k contract, etc, have papers etc ready so no legal review.
Yeah, this makes a lot of sense, especially about the part about lawyer providing advice but the founder having to make the decision. You've convinced me.

Edit: turns out GP has a law degree himself. I'm further impressed.
You don't call teleporting across the map for free melee kills with the stupid sword thing a special ability? The introduction of that one item almost ruined the entire genre for about 10 years.
We probably have different things in mind. The best example of what I'm talking about is Bloomberg's reporting back in 2011 on the Fed's actions during the financial crisis, including their lawsuit to force the Fed to respond to their FOIA requests:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-12-23/fed-s-onc...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/world?pid=20601087&sid=afi7TJ...

That was not only hard work, but given that most financial media tends to avoid biting the hand that feeds it, uncommonly gutsy. One of the best examples of investigative journalism I'm aware of.
Arguably you're not doubling the hours. Because decades ago, women worked at home, but weren't paid.
I honestly wonder are people that delusional that they overlook the ridiculous debt that the country is in? Don't get me wrong, I am not from America myself but I have a lot of friends from there, and I generally don't hear anything good about the 'American dream'.

If you take a hard step back, like way back. And take a moment to look at the "situation" with an outside perspective, don't you think it's a little ridiculous that the debt keeps growing, and somehow the numbers get adjusted, and more loans are given.

And it makes me wonder, if this is not being actively resolved now, then when? In a 1,000 years? I have a hard time believing that society is going to survive that long with all the idiocracy that's going on.
Thank you for sharing all this!
Because it acts directly on your brain to produce intense pleasure and make you crave it, at the expense of making rational decisions? As opposed to systemd, which… doesn’t.
Russia withdrew its gold reserves from the US about 6 months before it first invaded one of it's neighbors, Georgia I think it was. In retrospect it is a clear sign that Russia's invasion was pre-planned.

Is Russia planning something similar now? Further occupation of Ukraine perhaps. Judging from current Russian activity it seems likely that Russia plans something there soon.

Russia seems afraid to hold dollars. This is ominous.
When I saw the previous submission of this as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853508 (which describes it as a "tool-assisted speedrun" of NetHack on the online server nethack.alt.org), I thought "wait, you can't have a tool-assisted speedrun of a nondeterministic game with hidden information...!" (particularly on an online server where you can't roll back history).

Then I read the article and saw that this project went to absolutely insane lengths to work around the "nondeterministic" and "hidden information" parts.
> The only advantage I find in LXDE is that it has a titlebar I can 'reveal' if I wish to mess around and fiddle with the window position

Unless I'm misunderstanding, you can use Alt + left click to move any window around, and Alt + right click to resize. No need to reveal the title bar except perhaps to read the occasional title.
>48% of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage

Isn't that how math works?
THank you - thats exactly what I was interested in.
This is weird. Some people claim that Firefox's dev tools are better, others claim that the Chrome dev tools are better and that Firefox doesn't even compare. I wonder who is right. Is this like comparing different car brands where you can never reach a good conclusion? I personally have always been using Firefox, so its dev tools are most familiar to me, but there have been times where I've run into unimplemented features that were implemented in Chrome.
This is great and educational. But I've noticed that many (most?) of the successful side projects were started by people who had some sales and marketing experience. Sales first, tech second (or third).

If you want other people to buy, rent, invest, etc., you have to be able to find the right people and communicate with them in a way that will lead them to become your customers/partners. Unfortunately, I doubt many of us with CompSci degrees and years/decades of experience have those sales and marketing skills.

So I guess there's a business just waiting (for someone who knows sales + tech)! Teach nerds how to market. I might be a customer.
It makes sense for security. If someone breaks in and steals your camera and local storage, what good is it?

I would like to see a camera where I can control the S3 account that the data is uploaded to.
Hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans shop from local markets and commute to work downtown every day. A single bus line has over 50K riders every day. I would guess 10’s of thousands commute to work by bike within sf.

This place is not Dallas.
Not nitpicky at all. It's a pointless, obfuscating blob of unhelpful colors violating basic principles of data visualization:

- Sequential income brackets are not adjacent. The wage of each blob can only be understood by reading every number

- Irregular shapes make it impossible to gauge size by eye

- White text on green and pink backgrounds does not score well on WCAG. At least they had the decency to make the text bold.
Is “Google” generic? If only there were a way to search for the answer
So maybe we should create a bunch of private Github repos and fill them with spurious 'good code' and spurious 'bad code'?
Television’s 1993 future is being recreated on the Internet
Additionally, there's only 144m people employed in the USA according to BLS, so 70 million is half the country :)