skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Losing to inflation" is relative. If inflation is 2%, your goal is to find a strategy that yields higher than 2% after taxes and expenses at a risk tolerable to you.

Your eBay endeavors are basically allocating your capital to a closely held business, which is perfectly reasonable though like you said, likely unscalable.
Aware of this. I'm not inexperienced, just skeptical of some modern investments.
When I clicked on a link it added an additional slash to the URL, I.e
https://news.ycombinator.com//item?id=15074526
Are you asking a person to justify the lives of three other people using only a financial metric?

The value of a person is never purely the financial cost.
Yes, which allows people to buy even more crap food. Though that doesn't answer my curiosity if financial planning and 'food' planning have some sort of relation.
Feels like Medium is clutching at straws after failing with the Members-Only content model...
Combining maps with road journey data is already an oligopoly, based on: first mover advantage, economies of scale, network effects, satnav products/apps, in-car systems, mobile device OS oligopoly, fleet management data and value added data analytics.

The 3+1 companies of sufficient scale to dominate the market are: Google (Android), HERE (was Navtek, was Nokia), Tom Tom (Apple iOS), and Inrix (startup) - which does not create its own maps, but has captured enough driving data to compete with the Big 3.

The only other major map provider is Microsoft Bing, but it does not (AFAIK) have significant products based on driving data, although it does have 'T-Drive' and various other research efforts. Losing the battle for mobile OSes has crippled its efforts.
I would not make it extremely scary. As you said, we know enough causes, consequences and solution to act. It's just interesting to have a picture of what's going on.

The thing is, most of the things you describe, I already do, in France, through taxes for health care, social aid and retirements. Then also insurances (for cars, flat, etc). Doing it myself would mean paying twice.

And since education is free and I don't have a car, I don't have a mortgage.

So my situation is not that bad. It can become bad if:

- the system fails. It will for retirements. It does for some health care / insurance / social aid situation.

- your issue arise outside of what the system takes in consideration.

Knowing that, setting up an automatic emergency saving wire is a good thing to do.

I don't believe saving for my retirement will help in anyway. I'll have to find something better, which I'm working on.

But again, remember than most people don't read HN or anything else than FB streams. They live their life as-is. Like my parents did.

The question is, why could they afford children, pleasures, and saving, while my friend can't. Neither my parents nor my friends are very good planners, but clearly their situation is vastly different.
> Basically I can't see Madsen straight up stabbing her with the clear intention of murdering her.

Given that he had no compunction about cutting her up into pieces I have zero trouble seeing him stabbing her. At this point in time 'all bets are off', he's been more than just a little bit erratic and has been doing a pretty good job of appearing quite normal after having just dismembered a body and sinking a submarine. You have to be more than a little bit strange to be able to stand there and pretend to be the victim of an accident while talking to the police knowing all that.
Probably it captures a screenshot only once per URL.

The person that made the site could manually trigger a series of new screenshots though.
Ponzi schemes are much more common in nature than humans like to think. The default population dynamics for most species are feast-or-famine: population grows exponentially until it exhausts all available food sources, and then mass numbers of individuals die off all at once, leaving more resources for the survivors. Hell, life is a ponzi scheme: our cells divide, accumulating genetic mistakes (= technical debt) each time, until our body's ability to repair the damage is overcome by the accumulated mistakes. And then we die, hopefully having produced a fresh new individual to repeat the process.

Assuming no great technological breakthrough, the same thing will happen on a societal level: we'll die. But then, we knew there was 100% chance of that happening from the beginning.
Are there any popular drone providers that don't have this kind of ability to phone home?
Retool sounds great. I've wasted so much of my time building internal tools that are relatively simple and are just a bunch of forms and always thought that finding an easy way to build internal tools is a massive market opportunity. But I wonder if it's even possible to create a one size fits all solution. Hope they find a way.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

"Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively"

For Apple's task of building a automated car, industrial design is an "unimportant but easy-to-grasp" issue since Apple's expertise is design. They should have focused on the harder core problem of a car that can drive itself.

In fact this seems almost like an archetypical example of bikeshedding.
Yes scalability is the problem. I'm expecting a shortfall within a couple of years so I need a new strategy. Currently this is running way above inflation which is good but the hill I'm pedaling up is getting steeper.
Maybe the author is referring to the apparition of the homo erectus
There's some business-related reasons why I don't (I don't yet make enough money in salary for it to matter wrt deductions) but also because I think taxes will be very high when I retire and that my Roth will be taxed at a relatively low rate, subject to some "fees" or something.

I think the Roth will still exceed the value of a traditional IRA (plus it's only $5500/year, hardly huge as I get older and my net worth increases), but I would be willing to bet that the Roth IRA will not exist in the form it does in 20-30 years, and that existing ones will be subject to a tax/fee to make it "fair."
A huge part of the appeal of the standard HN page for me is the simple, straightforward, sensible headline without the discration of images. The title guidelines and the insistence on adhering to them are a big plus in this regard.
And possibly also a restriction. It appears to say that if Facebook infringes your patents, you can't defend your patents.
> Or just almost in the region of the semi-plausably concievable, an accident followed by a gruesome attempt to cover it up.

The accident theory is being stretched beyond the breaking point by now, I find it hard to come up with even a remotely plausible theory of what kind of accident it would have to be to justify the subsequent events. Such an accident would have to look so suspiciously close to murder that he responded just as if it actually was a murder.
Yup, from time to time. I also use data science in one side of my business (online marketing), but as a hobby I periodically do data analysis of the computer game DOTA2.

There's a large (huge, actually) available dataset, and lots of interesting information you can mine comparatively easily.
I think your points about expenses as a ratio vs your investment principal and/or investment yield is a good way to view the magnitude of expenses.

Your concentrated stock exposure requires someone to be a professional trader, which generally speaking is a losing game for most of us.
My heart goes out to the family and friends of Kim Wall, I cannot begin to imagine what they're going through. I hope the truth of what happened comes to light and the family at least have some answers. Given Mr Madsen's evasiveness and his unwillingness to answer questions honestly I wonder if we'll ever know for sure?
come one - 50 years? :D I'm beyond 30 - in 50 years I'm likely calling a little wooden box my home. So, let's say 20 to 30 years. That's the horizon I calculate with.

You are totally right with performance to be looked at for long periods of time. But I sometimes reflect on my ETF prices in relation to the news and I feel like there is a deeper and deepening fundamental issue with economy that might severely handicap my funds even on a long time scale.
If we applied this CoC to Linux, Linus is probably long gone by now.
4chan style makes it easier to see which comments are new. However it does so at the cost of separation of subtopics. IMO 4chan style is not a good fit for HN because we often have many different conversations going on at the same time within the discussion of a story. If HN switched to 4chan style comments I believe that it would dramatically change the nature of the discourse for the worse.
After listening to
http://gcaptain.com/intense-bridge-conversation-porter/
after the Fitz collision I was surprised we don't see more collisions. When I sail with my mates the cockpit is more disciplined than their bridge.
I propose that we change society to be fairer rather than have people suggest living on half your income is a viable retirement plan.

Failing that, 5.56mm rounds and canned goods.
"work hard and you will be rewarded in the end"

An alarming number of people I know who had high flying careers and who retired with huge pension funds died within a relatively short time of retiring.

Maybe its something weird about my extended family....
Capacitive screens were less responsive than resistive screens.

The difference was that you used your physical finger instead of a stylus. Personally speaking, I preferred resistive screens for their responsiveness and accuracy.

The capacitive screen was needed for "pinch to zoom" and other gestures of the modern era. The delay in the UI compared to resistive screens (as well as the higher-CPU time required for processing) turned out to be a smaller deal than multi-touch technology.
Put that way, the recent dogma of spending on experiences, not things is a great trope. You can literally never have too many experiences and the consumption shall be limitless.
This makes the future even more scarier. In India where I live, there are colleges and schools aplenty in too much abundance. To a point you could say most institutions are bad replacements for MOOCs. The problem with things like these is Universities and college education, offer time based deadline within which you need to finish your academic work.

Most people aren't that disciplined, if left on their own, many will procrastinate heavily.

But those serious will make great progress, the gap between the two groups will too high. You will arrive back at the inequality problem.
Why the two downvotes without explanation? It hardly seems in the spirit of discourse to say "You're wrong but I can't argue my point."

Especially as my post is on topic and enlightening to those who have similar misconceptions to Perterson, while it is also gentle and balanced.
I wouldn't like 0 threading, but I strongly dislike the depth of threading on HN for some reason, I find it hard to follow as it gets progressively narrower.

The 4chan post referencing (>>>/g/565645674567/) which allows you to reference any post from any board and it embeds itself on hover is a very underused useful feature I believe.
I think it is a pretty shallow view at standard. CL implementations grow and have agreed interfaces (or portability layers). A few examples:

- sockets via usocket

- threading via bordeaux-threads

- metaobject protocol via closer-mop

- foreign function interface via cffi

all these are not mentioned in the standard at all, but are implemented and used in production environment.

Having base standard and extensions which may be used portably (via portability layers) is better situation than having no standard (for instance python or ruby) and a reference implementation.
It was on homepage a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698187
What is it about javascript that seems to draw the SJWs like no other language?
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The United States has an exit tax to prevent such "problems" of capital exodus.
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Sounds good, but there is no information about how it actually works.

EDIT: They had a show HN post a couple of months ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494
Good code. Shitty people are replaceable. Good code are priceless.
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To be fair, in some games, Hackmaster for example, your character dying during char creation can give benefits to your next character. But then that game also had you roll a D10,000 for critical hits ;)
Thanks for sharing, that's pretty interesting.

My question is how do you typically invest your savings? Do you invest it into stocks, or something like Lending Club?
I do indoor biking, for this exact reason. But, it has a much lower impact on my health. Maybe it's because indoor bike don't move, thus not involving as many muscle groups as real bike.

The efforts are not distributed the same way. Obviously biking will exercise your thighs but not much else. While running uses abs, all your legs muscles groups. I also believe that we're wired to be efficient at running and thus running tickles your body in better ways. Also there's a nice feeling when your center of gravity lifts up.

Even if I can go fast on a bike for 1 min, I can barely sprint that long and surely slowly and I end up exhausted differently. In the end I prefered what running brought me. It may be very subjective though, even if I enjoy all sports, I always had a thing for running.

This is all crude opinion, I'd love if anyone with bio/biomech knowledge could shed light on the subject.
Yes, psychologically it is healthier to draw motivation from the fun of working with other contributors. I also like delegating stuff to others and that is a really good habit for avoiding burnout.
tl;dr: you'll have to buy new led lights over 5 years.
> For instance, if you plot (x0,y0) to (x1,y1), will it visit the same pixels as plotting (x1,y1) to (x0,y0)? Probably not, unless you take care.

Well, the simplest way around this is performing a x0 < x1 test and swapping (x0,y0) and (x1, y1) before running the algorithm if that doesn't hold true.

You'd still get artifacts due to snapping, but they would be consistent at least.

Alternatively, if you don't mind a bit of redundancy, wouldn't it suffice to turn the original function y(x) (which is what the standard Bresenham algorithm does) into two that go x(t) and y(t), and set the step-size of t to a small enough number to never skip a pixel?
Yes, it has. Isn't Social Security a similar thing in US?

For comparison: average pension in Russia is ~$220/month ("average" means there are people who get less than that). Wikipedia quotes average SS payments as $1,230/month.

I don't have numbers, but my feeling is that almost no one has retirement savings in Russia; it is uncommon to save for retirement. It looks much worse in Russia overall - majority of population hopes to work until retirement age, then work more, then live off those tiny Social Security-like payments.

On the upside, a lot of people is debt-free (though this is changing), and some level of medical services is also free.
>Norway's public pension system is now funded by every employee having 8% of their salary taxed away and earmarked to retirement.

Social Security payroll taxes are ~15% of salary per employee, so assuming Norway doubles the 8% (employee responsible for half, employer responsible for the other half) that's not much higher than the United States' system.

>The money is placed in a broad stock and bond fund.

Social Security is not privatized in the United States and efforts to do that by Republicans are regularly shot down. Social Security is an annuity that is tax-free and inflation-adjusted. The average ROI is about 2-4% for single, average salary employees who work full-time.

EDIT: Forgot to add, the United States excess funds in Social Security are loaned to the government for use for non-SS purposes. The government owes the Social Security program something on the order of $5+ trillion right now, which makes up over 25% of the national debt. Yes, you are reading this right. No, it is not a good thing.

You could argue that Social Security could do a lot better if citizens were allowed to control that money or if it was simply invested in a total stock/bond market index fund, but then you'd be incurring significant risk as well.

>In retirement, the earmarked amount of money for each employee is paid out in a monthly amount that matches the life expectancy of the retiree... The state covers for retirees that live longer, keep the money for retires that live shorter and provide a guaranteed minimum for people who reach 67 without saving up a minimum amount.

This is basically how it works in the United States, except:

> To offset this, the possible monthly payment is capped with a maximum for high earners.

This is likely to happen in the United States as the country moves more economically liberal (current administration excluded, but even Trump has some economic policies that old-timer conservatives would never agree to). We currently don't have this. But taxes and fees and other such efforts will be successful against the rich soon enough here.

>The system is self-contained and is not based on younger workers paying the pensions of older workers.

This doesn't really make sense. Your example describes this to a T.

Tell me: What happens when the "broad stock and bond fund" collapses in a thirty-year low for a period of six years and pension promises far outpace receipts? Who will pay for this? The state will cover, correct? Well, that's younger people paying for older people no matter how you slice it.
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Unless you get divorced and lose half. Divorce twice? Now you 're in really big trouble.

What if you die before retirement? You have made the mandatory payments, but got nothing for it.

What if the stock market crashes the day you retire?

The Australian system is not perfect - it's a compromise.
Right, you don't need Rust to do this. In fact, Qualcomm did this with C++ and TBB in 2013, see http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2442543. Rust does give you peace of mind that parallel styling won't be endless source of bugs, or worse, vulnerabilities.
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My sleeper out of the bunch: Loop Support sounds like a really awesome idea.

Companies will pay tens of thousands of dollars/month to hire good support staff. If Loop can automate easy tickets away with a knowledge base (with NLP/ML + humans), the unit economics of their pricing seems really good. Any company with a large volume of non-technical support tickets could benefit from Loop. Does anyone know how competitive the space is?

Some advice to Loop founders though: please learn how to design a website - looks like a badly clobbered Bootstrap job.
> It is inevitable that the best "product" wins. These people know it

How? By what mechanism? An opinion isn't a product.

Take ISIS as an example that's less controversial (here): do you believe that people willing to act as suicide bombers can be convinced, by rational argument alone, to change their views?

And considering there are still extreme right-wing extremists, adopting the symbols of their predecessors from 70 years+ ago: how long does this market take to do its magic?

Yes, I'm using the most extreme example, because obviously people shouldn't lose their livelihood for, say, complaining about the weather. But note that there's a fail-safe in this mechanism: to have a reasonable expectation that doxxing someone will get them fired, the speech in question must be outside the Overton-window of what society deems acceptable.

> If we silence people and destroy their lives are we really better?

For that memo: it would seem extreme, yes–and I believe the reason for the firing wasn't meant to penalise his opinion, but an attempt to quell the damage created inside and outside of Google by his ham-fisted treatment of a sensible topic.

But for neo-nazis: yes, we are better. Because they are motivated by hate, and seek to harm innocent people ("Jews will not replace us"). Whereas their opponents only seek to stop them. I, for example, frequently attend counterprotests when neonazis try to march through the streets of my city. But I'm not Antifa or a communist or Stalinist. When they stop, I will not attend some other rally calling for the death of bankers, or people with glasses.

Also:

> Word's don't hurt, they don't kill, they don't destroy lives.

Is somewhat in conflict with "but if you tell their employer, you're destroying their lifes!"

Of course words can harm. Otherwise they're either completely useless, or have only positive impacts. In that case we should connect a source of randomness with a text-to-speech synthesiser, and watch the world magically improve.
Didn't know that.
There's a couple of things you can realistically do:

(1) Mark branches as likely/unlikely to be taken. eg. debug code might be marked as unlikely. The Linux kernel does this, and it's explained here (for GCC): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/109710/likely-unlikely-m... [There is some question about whether this is really worthwhile, but I trust the kernel developers ...]

(2) Use profile-guided optimization (PGO), which involves running the program, collecting information about branches and other optimizations, then recompiling with these hints. See eg: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...

There are also two negative things to avoid doing:

(3) Some things like threaded code (used by FORTH interpreters) and bytecode interpreters reuse the same piece of code followed by a branch, where the branch jumps to the next high level instruction. This code structure defeats branch prediction.

(4) Don't do strange stuff to the return stack, because modern processors keep track of the return stack and predict branch targets (ie. of RET instructions). A CALL with an unmatched RET or vice versa can defeat branch prediction.

I would say that doing anything else is too difficult, or means that you have to become a compiler writer, but I'm interested to know if there are any other practical techniques.
>But those serious will make great progress, the gap between the two groups will too high. You will arrive back at the inequality problem.

Yes, but with several billion (trillion?) dollars less in debt. That solves a major inequality problem on its own.
Thanks for posting this - I quite enjoy browsing hacker news using thumbnails from mobile after trying it. On my laptop, I think I prefer the original homepage. I like to check the news once a day, but some days I'm short of time and use an alternative that cuts down results shown [1].

Overall I'm very happy to have now three good options for checking out what I consider to be a very good source of fuss free tech news and discourse.

[1] hckrnews.com - hopefully it isn't a faux pas to mention a potential competitor to your site in this thread.