skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That research is wrong.
http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=9781
https://www.cato.org/blog/debunking-induced-demand-myth
http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=5583
Note that even for private pensions the government is often on the hook, eg via https://www.pbgc.gov

They do some due diligence, but it isn’t debatable how good the asset liability management is.
Obviously there can be extreme cases where these things can be classed as an actual disorder, but I think that in most cases gagging is a result of the fight, the stress, and the kid psyching themselves up so much that it causes a reaction, not because there’s a legitimate issue such as an actual mental or physical disorder. They know that the more of a fuss they make, the more likely the parents will give in and provide chicken nuggets instead.

Also, you need to decide at what point you’re going to have that fight as a parent — because you will be having that fight. So you need to decide if it’s better the drag it out and let them get more set in their ways, or spend maybe a few weeks in hell and then finally be done with it. It’s not going the get easier if you wait until they’re in middle school.
What makes you angry about shopping online
I had a whole thing written up, but in the interest of brevity, maybe covering my ass a little, but balancing some public interest for people who read these articles:

1. Cassandra Capital is "somehow" getting to the top on HN quite frequently (this is not true of other communities I participate in)

2. Pretty much everything in this comment chain lines up with my experience https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/cz3w52/pension_f...

3. I'm no longer clicking through on Cassandra Capital articles and maybe some people here who care about how what they read influences financial decisions should also do some background research
Well this grumpy old man switched away from gnome when they went 3.0. I’d say I don’t know anyone who stayed. Some of us went to xfce and others tried out mint which ships something more like 2.
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It’s truly astounding to see the amount of people that Ed Thorp as well as his book Beat the dealer have influenced.

The amount of successful people in finance and other fields that mention him as an influence is not insignificant.
Yeah, at the moment, this sort of issue is an after-the-fact thing. Determining fault would probably be a diplomatic and multi-national legal fuss that stretches for years.
I find GPS most useful if I already know the route -- it can give me advance notice of traffic out of my vision, or it can tell me which of two routes will be faster (an example is picking either the car or truck lanes, or east or west spur of the NJ Turnpike, which has multiple mostly-parallel routes).

In cases where I don't know where I'm going, I try to set any GPS app to keep to freeways and arterial roads when possible, since those tend to signed the best.
>> With a team like that, Rambam says he has a near 100 percent effectiveness rate at finding people...

> I'm not sure how one could measure this.

You have a number of people you investigate N. You have a number of people who you find to be actually dead D, and a number of people who are fake dead F. Then there are some unknowns U.

F + D + U = N

If (F + D) / N is near 1, you have a near 100 percent effectiveness.
Yes we know how to make enough of it. You just need to build lots of wind turbines and put solar panels whereever you have room, e.g. on all roofs. If you're really in a pinch for space you can always build a few nuclear reactors, but I don't think that is really necessary.
Shameless plug, Cloverly has a air travel offset endpoint:

curl https://api.cloverly.com/2019-03-beta/estimates/flight
-X POST -d '{"airports": ["bhm", "atl", "sfo"]}' -H "Content-type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer public_key:47800ea0ee541b4c"
From the "about" section:

Spectral subtraction is a way of mixing tracks that will surgically "cut out" the frequencies of one or more tracks from another. The process will generate two or more tracks that fit together perfectly and whose frequencies never clash.

One of the main issues that arise when mixing tracks is when they share the same frequency bands: where these frequencies clash, they mask one another, in a phenomenon called Auditory Masking.

The solution to this is lowering the volume of one of the clashing track, moving it to the "background" of the mix. This is the visual equivalent of dimming one track to make the other stand out.

With spectral subtraction, the clashing frequencies are "cut out" from one of the two tracks by exactly the amount of the other track's frequency profile. Visually, it's like cutting a hole in one of the tracks to perfectly fit the other, or cutting a Dovetail Joint in woodworking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovetail_joint
Card counting is typically against House rules.

There's an interesting article on how security detect card counting[0]. My take is that it's not a science, instead the security/ pit boss' who spend significant time watching players would develop a 'feeling'.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-casinos-know-that-you_b_6...?
Elm and Bekk, towards a homegrown programming language
That site says digg is "hard". When digg had a comment structure similar to reddit, I used to comment quite actively, but too many political types were following me and creating a weird echo chamber, so I asked them to delete my account. 15 minutes later, my account and all my comments were gone. Maybe something changed when they removed that structure, I suppose.
Third paragraph:

> show off our moral virtues, ethical principles, religious convictions, political attitudes and lifestyle choices
Ask HN: What are your favorite travel sites, blogs, accounts?
There are so many of them out there and most of them are very similar. I am looking for the very best as far as content goes and design as well.

Thanks, hopefully this is helpful to the whole community.
You might not be able to predict the year fair enough, but when all the trends point to a recession you can make an informed prediction.
Anytime I hear about Forth I will forever be reminded of this:

http://www.atarimania.com/documents/FORTH-on-the-Atari-Learn...
How would that be possible? My sister has a new VW Polo with a 1.0L 65bhp engine, the official time to 60 is a glacial 16.5 seconds. I'm sure its acceleration profile would match that of a fully loaded HGV.
Love Letters to Computers
more alarming news is that people still let tweets form their opinion on public matters.
I often think, why don't online games deal from an 'infinite deck'? That is, every card is simply random from among 52 choices, regardless of the previous cards dealt. Then card-counting would be pointless.

I know - it would change the games entirely. So? The games are arbitrary. They would be new games, and it would defeat many modes of cheating.
Yes, it's indeed the case with many websites. I didn't even bother to check slashdot with JS enabled :).
>Am I missing something or is this named individual really stating that he and his compatriots regularly break the law?

Any lawbreaking involved is done in service of the system, he has nothing to fear from doing it or publicly admitting to it.
>This is where environmental engineering comes in but God forbid someone suggest us actually making intended changes to our climate to fix problems to the current breed of environmentalists

The only environmental engineering that can bring back the world our civilization is used to is sucking carbon from the air or water and sequestering it.

All the rest have rather large tradeoffs. Sunshades/aerosols? Still leaves the oceans to acidify. As well as any other negative effects of CO2 (there are some preliminary studies showing cognitive effects). Not to mention any unforeseen side effects, and also then that our survival depends in continual geoengineering with bo interruption due to war etc.

The parent you're replying to is also wrong though. We can't just "use less" for two reasons.

1. We're already past some tipping points. We basically need to use zero

2. Keeping the current population alive depends on carbon use at present

We probably will geoengineer if we fail to figure out negative emissions, but I think you're far too blasé about the consequences.
Mass production essay grading was a disaster before AI showed up. AI is just automating the mistakes of the past.
I think it's short-sighted to view “tragedy of the commons” scenarios as some sort of rhetorical wall. The “tragedy of the commons” is not a fact of nature but rather a product of the prevailing beliefs of our society. We’re not going to be able to meaningfully address climate change without reevaluating the ideologies that got us here in the first place.
I'm curious, what would your objection be to having the government switch to defined contribution plans? as in, take the same amount of money used to fund the pensions, and use it to fund employees retirement accounts instead. if I were the employee, I would greatly prefer the second option. would you prefer the pension?
Not as useful when a primary point of the vacation is to get out of a snowbound winterscape and onto a warm beach. Or to visit family who lives in another state.
I think this is silly. Quality of life in America is orders of magnitude better than it was back in the '50s when our per capita carbon emissions were significantly higher [0] - there's no reason why we can't have even better quality of life with lower carbon emissions. Most carbon emissions are "invisible" to end consumers, i.e. through container ships, electricity generation, and manufacturing efficiency.

[0] - https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf
Yeah, that's the conclusion I am coming to as well. The people with good models aren't going to talk about them. Even if they need investment they'll seek it privately. I guess I was thinking of a market where you can 'invest' your money in someone's model and they take a percentage of your winnings (that's their incentive for adding your money to the pool). Then it's a democratised race for whoever has the best model.
Yes, they definitely both take traffic into account when calculating a route. My suspicion is that they're actually using the same raw data, but Waze is tuned to be more aggressive. Waze routinely guides me off a main road onto a side street to avoid two blocks of congestion for a net gain of maybe 1 minute, Google Maps doesn't.
Laziness kicks in with years ;)
It doesn't matter, the level of detail is so good that no camouflage can hide your secrets.

This tweet says: we can see anything we want to see. We know when you're lying, don't even try.
Thank you very much for this explanation !
DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videos
Show HN: Bitmelo – A free tool that lets you build 8-bit games with JavaScript
When my X270 was new I could get about >20 hours of battery life out of it on Linux with programming and light web browsing (e.g. Hacker News, etc.) It's a bit less now that the batteries have worn a bit, but the other day I accidentaly forgot to turn on the power socket while working all day and I didn't even notice until the next day.

I never tried Windows 10 (although I'm kind of curious now), but I think this is pretty impressive, and at these kind of levels a bit extra battery life is still nice, but hardly critical.
I agree, but I think this highlights a structural problem with our economic system, specifically when it comes to population growth.

There are plausible reasons to decrease populations in regions or entire countries. With climate change getting more serious, we'll soon start having to move populations away from flood prone areas or areas with increasing desertification. Many of those towns and cities started their own infrastructure projects paid with bonds that assume a certain population, and thus tax base, growth.

Younger generations, for several reasons from despair about ecological future to high costs of living to stagnant wages, are opting to not have children. Other countries, like Japan, have struggled economically because of declining birth rates.

If we (the US) had a more open borders policy with an easier path to citizenship, we could use immigrants to boulster our population and tax base.

With migrating and shrinking populations, I can't think of other economic instruments to pay for local infrastructure projects that have routinely been paid with long-term municipal bonds.
>> If only there was a standard for DC they could adhere to.

There are. 12v automotive (13.9v) is one. Then comes 24v, a standard in aviation. There was once a push for 48v in cars so that air conditioners and braking systems could be made all-electric, but it never became widespread.
AFAIK, it's a known issue with retina screens and scaled resolutions. If you use the default resolution, you should not see any issue.
Online casinos can shuffle cards without having to use automated shuffling machines and set the cut card earlier[0], which makes it less profitable/ harder/ worthwhile to Card Count.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-casinos-know-that-you_b_6...?
Hey y'all I just launched Bitmelo, game editor to build pixel art games with Javascript. You can code, draw tiles and tilemaps, design sound effects, view the documentation, and playtest your game, all without having to break focus by switching applications.

It works in your browser, but there's also a windows version available: https://davidbyers.itch.io/bitmelo

I built it in react, and you can check out the source code here: https://github.com/byersdz/bitmelo-editor

Bitmelo was born from my desire to have the most friction free game development experience possible. It's heavily inspired by fantasy consoles such as Pico 8 and Tic 80, however while I love the simple nature of their API's I wanted to have a development experience that wasn't constrained by the same limitations as the games you make in them.
Improve Your Cloud Infrastructure with Entr, Terraform, and Tflint
What the hell does "decrease by factor 3x" mean? Did power usage previously decrease by 1% and now by 3%? Is power usage now -200%? Seriously, I do not get it.
Bill to Stop No Deal Faces a Significant Dilemma over Queen's Consent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)#...

Such pretexting is a fairly typical beginning for social engineering "hacks" we hear about all the time.
Probably because Aeolus is a more expensive asset than a StarLink sat, their threshold is also higher.
Go Micro – A microservices development framework in Go
Getting Your Medical Records Through an App? There’s a Catch. And a Fight
I Am Amazon Cog #257 and I Love My Job Here at Amazon.com
Thanks. I seemed to have missed that as I was expecting it to be something that every human does and this kind of thing doesn't resonate with me.
Yeah, not in 12.0. it will in 12.1, I just didn't know if it might be out already. I don't follow releases, CURRENT all the things :)
How the producers of Despacito use samples to create global hits
> allow them to keep their exact same current lifestyle instead of looking for solutions that require lifestyle changes

This is why I support a carbon fee & dividend, which puts a price on carbon emissions and then sends an equal share of the proceeds to all citizens:

- If the fee incentivizes people to change their lifestyles and travel less or consume less, my future (and my child's) is improved.

- If the fee incentivizes industry to replace existing technology with carbon-neutral technology that allows everyone to maintain their lifestyles without forcing me to live in a worse world, my future (and my child's) is improved.

- If people and industry both decide to continue business as usual and simply pay the additional price on carbon then, yes, global ecosystems are in for a terrible time and food becomes way more expensive and cities will have to relocate or disband etc, but at least we are all properly compensated for our share of the ensuing misery.
Think of all the comedies you'll never read because even knowledge of their author's existence is lost to time. This is just how the universe works and the real marvel is that we can preserve anything at all over these time spans.
A casino makes its money on the house edge which is for example for European Roulette 1/37. If you win on a single bet you get 36 times in winning. But you do have the number 0..36 on the wheel so 37 numbers. If you are good at counting cards the casino will have a negative edge and if all customers would be doing that it would lose money over time.
It's not cheating, but it does circumvent the assessment value of the test imo. The quote in the article about shallow heuristics can totally be appropriated:

> [Good test takers] are prone to adopting shallow heuristics that succeed for the majority of [tests], instead of learning the underlying [facts] that they are intended to [assess].

Semi-related, I wonder where one draws the line on which heuristics are deep vs shallow in test taking. If a question assesses vocabulary knowledge by asking you to pick an appropriate word from several choices, "these are words I've seen before even though I don't know what they mean" && "here's a choice whose Latin roots plausibly give it the right meaning" seems shallow to me. It allows the test taker to select the right answer without actually knowing it. At the same time, it's not shallow in that you're incorporating quite a bit of knowledge of the language as well as the context you've developed over years of reading.

---

As soon as the conversation here turned to test taking, the thread immediately reminded me of the scene in The Wire where the students pick the right answer from the blackboard by seeing one of the choices has a lot more stray chalk marks beside it, indicating it was pointed at during the previous period.

"The answer is B five. B five's got all the dinks"
IIRC card counting relies on tracking which cards have been drawn and thus inferring which cards are remaining in the deck. Shuffling by hand is a tedious process, hence it is done only so often and this makes counting possible. With electric shuffling machines, shuffling becomes easier and is done more often. This, in turn, makes counting cards harder because the remaining deck never gets small enough for you to draw any useful conclusions about the remaining number of cards. In an online casino, you would have the same problem I guess ...
>if you dont want to have a ton of traffic dont buy a house on a major road.

You're not wrong, but Waze directs traffic down roads that aren't considered main thoroughfares. That's part of the issue. There are paths to work that I would have never imagined had I not used Waze, and plenty of those routes take me through quiet neighborhoods.

A good example is the shunting yard I encounter. Most of the time, trains are short enough that if they stop, they don't block the crossing. There is a short way through a neighborhood that adds a couple of minutes to your commute (in either direction) that dumps you out on a highway just on the other side. There are also two longer routes (one for north, one for south) that goes around neighborhoods but adds 10-20 minutes to your drive time. I wouldn't call the short route a main nor major road, but I'm sure the residents who bought those houses more than a few years ago didn't know that the uptick in rail usage would cause much more activity on their street. You can even cut deeper into the neighborhood to save minutes by circumventing the line of cars.

On a related note, I stopped using Waze after watching someone roll through about 5 stop signs. The driver didn't hit anything, but that moment made me realize that I was part of a neighborhood nuisance that nobody asked for.
> Are most people able to take the money out of their pension early by just accepting some penalties?

Not really. I think a fairly typical pension plan you can withdraw funds from only if you leave employment covered by it, and the refund is typically of your contributions plus interest (not employer contributions made on your behalf.)

Note that this (and the article) uses “pension” narrowly to mean “defined benefit retirement plan”, not broadly to mean “retirement plan, including defined contribution plans as well as defined benefit”. Defined contribution plans can usually be withdrawn from at a penalty more freely.
I think what they are saying is: "Current stable Firefox release uses N battery power. The nightly build will use a third as much (N/3) by comparison"
I think the idea of games like Blackjack/Poker is that intuitively it feels like it's a skill game, rather than just a game of chance. It feels like if you played enough you'd get better - after all, with only 52 cards, how hard can it be to get an edge on the house?

This is different to a slot machine, where clearly it's just a game of chance.

In reality casino card games are 99.9% chance, but I think the infinite deck idea would remove the skill feeling and hence the attraction for many players.
Cryptocurrency traded volume dries up in August
>> Who's being convinced by statements like that?

CNN/MSNBC/Fox news. They are all looking for easy stories with numbers they can quote. Twitter provides that justification. I hear their talking heads say things like "X has been tweeted 10,000 times" as if that means anything. They rely on twitter because they don't do real reporting anymore. I'd bet good money they don't have anyone on staff fluent in the relevant languages. Twitter+Google translate has replaced all the actual reporters.
Honestly there nothing ambiguous about it so I don't get why you were confused.

Take the current power, divide by 3, that is the new usage.
To one-third the original.
Correct. At my Fortune 100 tech companies engineers are told to not look up patents, and asked to generate two patents a year at my level just to keep the war chest full.
I can really recommend you to look at Free Software Foundation website[1]. In a nutshell: free software is like "free will", not "free lunch". It gives users four essential freedoms: to run it any way one wants, to study and modify source code, to redistribute copies and particulary redistribute modified copies[2].

As you can see, "open source" give s only half of those freedoms: to study code, it is not mandadory that you actually can modify it.

So, not all opens source software is free. Check out licence comparison and approvals page at Wikipedia.[3]

[1] https://www.fsf.org/
[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...
Germany has outright said that the public pension (equivalent of US Social Security) will be have to be cut significantly if the contribution rate isn't increased, and the full retirement age has already been raised from 65 to 67, with some discussion about raising it even further to age 69. Germans can elect to start receiving their public pensions as early as 63, with a proportional reduction in monthly benefit.

One of the fundamental problems for all pension funds, public and private, is that with longer life expectancy comes markedly increased length of pension receipt. Germany has seen a doubling from about 10 to 20 years of average pension receipt since WWII.
Don't confuse professional with dry and boring.
It's not perfect, but I find it's in a good intersection between "simple" but still "fairly mainstream", which has its advantages.
Just like the feeling gamblers get that the table’s count is high.
How could they not justify paying for 10 months of diesel to never have to then pay for diesel in the 11th month and on? There are micro-finance options available in many developing areas, should be a no-brainer with your hypothetical math.
This Has Been the Worst Year for iPhone Security Yet
I will forever be reminded of this:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/technicpack/images/9/96/...
Not sure that reducing thruway and adding tolls is the solution to traffic..in fact it sounds counterproductive.