skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to be this pedantic, 50 is greater than 48. They're not wrong.
The only reason is because they are closed source.
Once I'm like 10 pages deep or hit a bunch of visited links I go to new
VLC is a transcoder and will convert from one format to another, or from one stream container to another.
VLC will capture and record a stream as well as restream.
VLC will record whatever media or stream is being played.
VLC has web interfaces to remotely access and controll the [VLC] application.

http://www.videolan.org/

http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html
students and working-age minors are about 50% employed and about 15% of the population. This means the real under 30k number is now 40%. Median salary is 44k.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this statistic. The article is sensationalist and misleading. I'm going to guess the person who wrote it is making 30k, for lack of marketable skills and being a liar.

I eyeballed all the numbers from here
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/average-salary-information...

https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip...
Sadly, Vizio made exactly this argument the other day about their TVs.
I think this is just the usual lack of familiarity that you'll encounter with any language that has any non-C-like syntax.

The do...end bits are "blocks" and are the most powerful feature in Ruby, not just because of what they do but also because how they do it. Similarly for other comments.

When I first looked at Rust code it looked weird to me too but once you are familiar with the language a little bit it makes sense. The only thing special about Ruby here is that it allows you to be very terse.
Do publishers have influence over monetization strategies? Are they typically the ones asking for gimmicks like loot boxes? I have heard mixed things on this, but had the impression that the development studio generally dislikes these mechanics, and publishers generally force them to include them.
Agreed. What is the solution to this systems issue, in your opinion?
> What is this new trend of belittling accomplishments down to luck?

I don't think OP meant as black and white as you see it. There is some luck factor involved in many of the successful projects. What people should be wary of is thinking of it as a formula for success - add x and then y and voila you win. It is not that simple.
I do not literally mean that there is an organized shadowy cabal of people wearing monocles sitting in smoke filled rooms scheming about ways to oppress low wage workers.

However, thanks to court decisions like Citizens United, the sheer amount of money in lobbying, and revolving doors between government decision-making jobs and industry executive positions, wealthy business owners have never been in a better position to propagandize.

Look at Sinclair's ownership of television stations for instance.
Have you heard of the FIRE movement? Basically, if you save 30-50% of your pay by reducing expenses, you can shorten that 45 years very considerably.

It generally involves becoming less materialistic than the average American, though.
Beware of the hubris of those surrounding Peter Thiel, whom are war hawks and pro military startups of all sorts... including Palantir which is used to target and eliminate dissidents. And even more troubling are a few of the Ukrainian and Russian "entrepreneurs" whom come to the Valley as being flag-waving capitalists, but it's difficult to ascertain their actual allegiances because the Valley lets people pop up out of nowhere without references, and hands them money and influence.
Grant's vintage electronics and electrical kit collection
I feel this a lot in my own family. I’m in tech at a fairly privileged BigCo. Siblings work retail gigs for a small fraction of what I bring home. I’ve had raises and bonuses equal to what one of my siblings makes in a year.
Many tremendously important things are non-quantifiable by think-tanks and economists.

How people make friends.
How many friends people have.
How much people feel they're a part of their community.
How much people touch each other in general.
How much people feel about their neighbors.
How people dispense care to those closest to them.
How large families are (extended/adopted family, etc)
How close people feel to their families.

etc.

All, I think, are rapidly changing.

You can see it in another comment in this thread. One person says, basically, my childhood was horrible. The discussion is entirely about what this person, in their self-contained world, can do to alleviate their stresses and pains. Eat more veggies! I'm not knocking those sorts of comments at all--you can't exactly turn back time and change the structure of society to give that commenter a community who cares about him.

I'm not sure about all this. It just comes from my observation. I think, though, that the feeling of life is changing and has changed in a big way. And it flys completely under the radar, because it's so hard to discuss, reason through, and quantify.
God, it's horrible as a single person. My roommate digs on me for what I eat (not superbly healthy, or, if healthy, in small portions) as well as for the fact I make multiple trips to the grocery (I get home at varying times, so don't always have time to cook and sometimes it's too late even to eat a crockpot meal), but also never wants to split and plan a menu for two to avoid costs.

Cooking for one is a bitch, and it sucks.
Anyone know the software package used to create this graph?
Was it photoshop :)
Never having done this I defer to your expertise but isn’t the highest leverage thing a founder can do is delegate specialized tasks? Fundraising and incorporatation are very important but there’s a reason lawyers went to law school. Seems like it’s a high bar to know more than your adviser, especially if it comes at the cost of focusing on building your product.
Here's a gif from a 1995 supercomputer simulation of the reversal process - https://imgur.com/a/jgpZZBF
"The tubes represent magnetic field lines, blue when the field points towards the center and yellow when away."

Original source: https://www.psc.edu/science/glatzmaier.html
It took them a year of computing on a CRAY C90 and 2000 hours of processing.
Epic Games and Improbable: Working Together for Developers
Gradually, then suddenly
Agreed 100% - although I didn't like the normalization of a bug (BxR) not getting patched out.
In practice, almost everything that you ever want to achieve with Grid can be achieved with Flexbox. Time and time again, I’ve encountered examples of “what Grid enables”, and been able to replicate it precisely with Flexbox.

Not always—there are definitely practical things you can achieve with Grid that you can’t with previous layout options, I’ve made a couple myself—but almost always.
I am curious. I live in a place where ecom is just taking off. While there are lot of brand dependency I see a chance to actually to do private/white label stuff. So curious if you know some tips on how to get started on Amazon FBA.
I was just about to post the link to this New Yorker article in response to GP's question. I believe this is the one you're referring to:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/do-proteins-ho...

Under the right conditions, proteins can survive for millions of years. In recent years, proteomic studies of art works and archeological remains have yielded biological information of startling clarity, revealing gossamer-thin layers of fish glue on seventeenth-century religious sculptures and identifying children’s milk teeth from pits of previously unrecognizable Neolithic bones.
there is still state government, which is apparently supposed to be the real governments. we are a union of states not a state of the federation.
The EBS-260 handheld inkjet printer already kind of does this: https://youtu.be/Va3A7QcBlLE

Built for industrial use, but don’t see why it couldn’t be used for basic tagging. I’m not affiliated in any way. Just stumbled upon it the other day and thought it was neat.
It is a sad situation. But the article doesn't support the title. Because I only see one time point. And "vanishing" requires comparison.

A few decades ago, at what was arguably the peak of the US middle class, relatively few adult married women worked outside the home. But of course, they did work. It's just that they didn't get paid.

Or rather, they got paid through sharing their husbands' income. What's happened since is that both partners often work, but aggregate inflation-adjusted income (aka household income) has stagnated. Maybe even declined.

Anyway, the point is that, a few decades ago, maybe 30%-40% of workers earned nothing. So to get meaningful results, you need to look at aggregate household income over time. Including both partners, and children. And you also need to net out childcare expenses.

Also, I note that TFA relies on W2 data. So what about consultants, whose income is reported on 1099s? But maybe they're a minor factor, and can be ignored.

And finally, it's my impression that executive incomes are typically capped at a $million or so. With the rest paid as stock options and such.
"To assist developers who are left in limbo by the new engine and service incompatibilities that were introduced today, Epic Games and Improbable are together establishing a US $25,000,000 combined fund to help developers transition to more open engines, services, and ecosystems. "
With 30% probability
> eventually one will need to sign up for a plan, which range from $2 to $10 per month, to stay on the hosted service

Torn: at least I can hope/assume that advertisers aren't the real customers, but it's infinitely more than free/gratis.

> The build and CI component, builds.sr.ht, is what DeVault calls "the flagship product from sr.ht".

Hmm, that's a compelling addition.

I can't help thinking that this is ~12-24 months late for striking at a critical marketplace. CPython's moved to github. LLVM's nearly migrated there (for a while now). Rust-lang has been on github for a very long time. Gitlab seems to work well, with an integrated build feature. Github private repos are free now.

But, hey, it's AGPL and you don't even need to use the hosted version. It will probably be better than Gerritt/Buildbot/Jenkins/Travis/etc. Sounds like it might be better than Savannah or Launchpad, too.
Uh what? The 1% are in favour of immigration as it increases the supply of labor which leads to a drop in the equilibrium price for labor.
Russia Buys Quarter of World Yuan Reserves in Shift from Dollar
Ooooh nice find! Thanks!
Another place where I would need to update my status before leaving for a holiday. Ergh..!
Yet many talking heads insist that cheap (under the table) labor from undocumented workers has negligible effect on earnings of poorly educated Americans (rural or inner city). They still think abandoning TPP was bad, that playing tough with China is bad.

Dems used to protect the working class till the 80s, they used to be anti-globalists (till Clinton) then they got the fever for corporate money and sold them down the river and only half heartedly pay lip service to them. The only one left caring is Bernie, but he’s too far left for traditional labor.
Out of curiosity, do you subsidize your siblings? I'm going to be in the same situation and I'm not sure what I'm going to end up doing but I think I'm going to end up doing it.
An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
Not everything is competitive
Disagree. Regulators would be first on the chopping block.
(2010) Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
It sounds like you have an irrational, faith-based belief in the absence of group differences. You’ve said that any evidence of their existence is probably bogus, which suggests that there isn’t any potential evidence that would change your mind. I started out not believing in the existence of group differences and changed my mind after looking at the evidence. Now I realize how silly it was for me to believe that groups with different ancestries differ only in superficial ways.

That doesn’t mean I hate any particular groups, or that I’m incapable of treating people as individuals.
but hey capitalism, is the greatest invention since we discovered we could wipe our behinds. Problem, with America is there's a lot of embarrassed 'to-be' millionaires. Once everyone accept it's okay to be average and life a average lifestyle safe-guarded by the a social net, a lot of people will be lifted from poverty.
const fn has already landed, though a minimal version whose powers we are expanding upon almost every release.
You're making the classic fallacy based on your
anecdotal experience. Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, Palantir, Thales, SSL, Redhat (IBM) and more definitely make a good living off the MIC in the Bay Area. USARL, DARPA and the national labs also do a bit of work in the Valley. Heck, Stanford and SRI grew out of the MIC.
This is part one, but the author has also written 4 other parts. They are also pretty interesting, and some more focused on the visuals. The author also made the in-development game called Aqua and Ashes open-source on GitHub (https://github.com/InvisibleUp/AquaAndAshes)

* Part 1 - https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/18/

* Part 2 - https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/19/

* Part 3 - https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/20/

* Part 4 - https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/21/

* Part 5 - https://invisibleup.neocities.org/articles/23/
I can vouch for this.

(Hi, Matt!)

I spent 17 years at EA among a number of teams and found the most challenging parts were the BigCo related issues; things like cultural mismatches between groups that have been ordered together, or politics. The working hours were standard for the most part, occasionally there would be a fire to put out but all the management I had was fair about compensating for any extra hours.
Ask HN: Is there an end to the dumbing down of user interfaces?
I'm noticing more and more over the years how difficult it is becoming to perform power user tasks like copy/paste, moving the cursor around, switching windows, copying and uploading files, etc. Especially with the predominance of smartphones.

This is while the number of people working on software is at a all time high.

I get that designers want to make things easier for beginners, but it comes at the expense of those of us who want to do more. And I think future generations of users will be stymied in the potential to develop their skills in using computers because it becomes less obvious or convenient how to do things beyond the bare basics.

The programming world is no exception. The growing popularity of of Macs among developers is another example. Macs are great for many things, but they are terrible for coding: no home/end/pgup/pgdn keys, poor or inconsistent support for various keyboard shortcuts found on Linux, difficulty in accessing system library files, etc. Hell, Xcode doesn't even come with gdb, which I found out when I compiled something with gcc and wanted to locate a segfault.

Meanwhile you get questions like this:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-professional-programmers-prefer-Macs
i don't know but for the case of bungie/Activision

the idea of everest (the micro-transactions in Destiny) was solely bungie (and they already admit it)
Xiaomi Mijia M365 Custom Firmware Toolkit
What about all the people who play from a poor internet connection in a poor geographical area? Should they just not play so as not to ruin other people's experience?
I mean, do you want a specific number? Because if you go to the Wikipedia page for "List of US Metropolitan Statistical Areas", you'll see the following

Amarillo TX population: 265,000

NY, LA, CHI, DAL, HOU, DC, MIA: 70,000,000
> 1) Let's say you could provide definitive data showing, without doubt, that intraracial relationships resulted in different longterm outcomes than interracial relationships, with an extremely high degree of statistical certainty. Would you say that consideration or utilization of this fact would be racist if done in a completely impartial fashion?

Probably, it meets most definitions.

> 2) What if we instead of simply considering intra/inter relationships we instead look the outcomes differences between specific ethnic/racial matchups over the longterm. Would consideration or utilization of these data be considered racist if done in a completely impartial fashion?

Well yes it would be.

˘ 3) Let's move away from algorithms and add a human element. There are a variety of, mostly ethnically homogeneous, religions that vehemently forbade marriage outside the religion and where joining the religion, as an outsider, is made extremely difficult. Are these religions inherently racist? Are their practitioners inherently racist?

Yep.

Pretty much anything that seeks to understand differences between races will inherently be racist by it's definition.
That's a good way to get everyone to hate you.
One would think from this title that I share more fake news than younger people. I'm 72. I don't share news at all.

What is "more fake news"? Is it that some individuals share more fake news than others or more individuals share at least some fake news?

I'm sure a better title could be composed.

One would think from these comments that younger people don't share fake news. There is a reason the words 'naive" and "youth" are often associated with each other. Youth trying to evaluate/judge older people is, in a word, naive itself.
I'm terrified of a future in which it's basically illegal to not have a phone. China has already done this to Uyghurs.
A meta-narrative doesn't require its promises to be realised physically for it to be "true" within a population. It's just a case of wether or not people "believe" it to be true.
Thanks for the super-informative replies. One of the nice things about HN is there is always someone that knows about some niche topic.
Seems like a port wine stain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-wine_stain
Keep your family and money separate. It usually always ends poorly otherwise.
One problem with the aggregate household income being added up is there isn't an accounting for worked hours (basically doubling the hours by having 2 people working for a company).

A different, but simple comparison would be to take minimum wage in 1968 ($1.60), adjust for inflation ($11.62 - 2017) and then compare to our current minimum wage ($7.25). So had minimum wage been tied to inflation, it would be right around $12/hr right now.
Show HN: Timeops, a fake API for testing or educational purposes
I'm sharing a side project made by a close friend of mine here, if there's any question, I'll ask him and answer them here.

Timeops is a small mocking API you can use in your code to either test some logic in your code or create fake errors to see how your code reacts. If you enjoy the project, don't hesitate to give any feedback on what could be added.
A lot of those part time workers are living on that wage, so it's not misleading to leave it out. Full time employment is quickly becoming something only office workers have.
Don’t you think they migh become codependent? I’d lead them in the right direction, give them advice, etc., but not subsidize, unless they are truly out in the streets.

I can see if it’s your little brother or little sister and helping out with some tuition though.

Also hand-me-downs are okay.
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.
Found it! It's an app called "Chill H2O" and the company is https://chill.net.au/

Make of them what you will
They also use the term “earn” but the numbers they are throwing around are entirely after-tax. That’s not even poor reporting. That’s intentionally misleading. No one thinks that money paid to the government in the form for tax is unearned by the individual.
>How can you possibly post comment on the elderly not having highly attuned bs detectors and then close with that paragraph? What irony!

Are you saying you think all those email forwards during that time period were all organic and none were the result of PR/propaganda/psyops operations?

I'm honestly not sure which is the null hypothesis here, and thus who owns the burden of proof.
In fact I don't care about graphics performance. Thanks for the tip. Not sure if I'll ever actually go through with buying one, but seems like a neat idea anyway.
Hmm… Stack overflow is certainly meant to be undefined behavior, because even if modern systems really ought to be able to catch it, there are many existing systems and implementations that do not or cannot – and the C standard is intended to be maximally compatible with old implementations, to the point of allowing compilers to only treat the first 63 characters of an identifier as significant, or set a limit of 4095 characters per source line, to name two of the more egregious entries under “environmental limits”.

However, you seem to be right that the program you linked is technically well-defined C, because the C11 spec doesn’t explicitly address stack usage. Not only does it not set a minimum requirement for the limits of local variable usage or function recursion, as far as I can tell, it doesn’t even acknowledge that such limits could exist! But if the program is well-defined, it ought to be able to execute to completion. Aborting the process, even cleanly, is no more acceptable than corrupting memory. Thus, a compliant implementation would have to have an infinite amount of memory. Since that’s a bit unreasonable to ask… it’s probably better to treat stack overflow as implicitly UB. The allowable level of stack usage could then be treated as implementation-defined.

Which is not to say that compilers shouldn’t try to handle stack overflow sanely. Stack probing was long overdue, and I’d love to see better support in mainstream compilers for static max-stack-usage analysis, among other things. It’s just that the C standard is probably not the right place to mandate such things, considering how conservative and compatibility-oriented it tends to be.
...which is exactly what they've described.
"The authors write that "the incomes of the top 1% collectively made up 11% of national income in 1980, but now constitute above 20% of national income, while the 20% of US national income that was attributable to the bottom 50% in 1980 has fallen to just 12% today.

Further, "while average pre-tax income for the bottom 50% has stagnated at around $16,000 since 1980, the top 1% has experienced 300% growth in their incomes to approximately $1,340,000 in 2014. This has increased the average earnings differential between the top 1% and the bottom 50% from 27 times in 1980 to 81 times today."

https://www.businessinsider.com/income-inequality-us-economy...

The Financial Times recently published this, which may also be of interest: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/01/04/2197227/eight-charts-...
21.5% is not what I would consider “most of the population”.
Absolutely do not do that.
Ah, good, there is someone else around who remembers Bungie before they were acquired by Microsoft!

I recall being so disappointed when Halo turned from a Mac-first game to an XBox exclusive...

I hope a more-independent Bungie can recapture some of their magic from those early days.
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Myth had a plot quality and replay value way beyond what I expected for the price point. Not really comparable to even the AI in Shogun, but still more replayable.
Halo was good, but the released product doesn't compare to the multiplayer open world that Bungie was teasing before the acquisition.