skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mitigation strategy is I book calendar time for entire days to work on stuff.
"Want to get coffee on X or Y date?"
"Sorry, I'm totally booked those dates -- how about Z date/time?"

It makes me seem unavailable/scarce, and allows me to book things on my "manager days". The key is using the calendar to your advantage .. control your own time.
My half-baked opinion is that there should be a two tier system like US education.

Free primary and preventative care along with dental and vision, and have a government subsidized insurance program for hospital/long term illness coverage akin to the public university system (along with the in-state discounts).

And allow for a parallel private system to exist for those who want to pay more and get allegedly better treatment.
When I'm finally able to buy a house (in the bay area or elsewhere) this is my todo number 1.
Markets have been going up for a while now. So anyone with half a brain is making money. But long term, there are essentially 0 investors making money on day or algorithmic trading.
You do make a very good point about the potential for abuse. My vision for this would be be a dispassionate system -- driven by AI and untouched by politics-- that could create/assign the social score. A model could be created by the science community with inputs from the legal system.
I think people are reacting negatively to: "Though, I keep myself a kilometer away from any financial scheme in China, and advise you do the same."

The idea that "any financial scheme" in China is worse than a "financial scheme" anywhere else doesn't make sense.
If they permitted their land to be upzoned, the value of it would rise even faster than it already is, so I don't think financial incentives are the crux of the political opposition. Old home owners in the valley don't want anything to change and resent the change that has already happened.
Deep breathing. That's covered my the meditation recommendation, but since a lot of people won't try the whole meditation approach I wanted to call it out separately. No training is required, just breath slowly and deeply while focused on the air moving in and out.
No, this is because you chose to live extremely far away! There are plenty of places in Massachusetts that are closer and affordable, with decent schools. Every employee I've had who commuted from NH to Boston wound up pretty miserable because of the commute.
Price and quality are not strongly correlated because the variance is just enormous:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/21/a-kne...

> The report, which analyzed three years of BCBSA companies' claims data in 64 markets, found that the average price for a knee replacement surgery is $31,124. But that price, which doesn't reflect what the patient actually pays, can vary greatly within the same city. In Dallas, for example, a knee surgery will run anywhere between $16,772 and $61,585 depending on the hospital.
I would argue that "winning" here in general would be to play games where there is less randomness and more skill, where you will have a larger edge over someone who hasn't done their studying.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to apply yourself to areas where 90% of the result is determined by luck (unless you truly enjoy it).
if you've lost 100k, you had 100k to spare

Not if you're leveraging! For an extreme example, this guy lost $210k of borrowed money: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5934&s...
Be careful with volatility. I don't know what he's trading on exactly. But a big part of volatility trading is selling insurance, i.e. selling insurance against the direction of S&P. You can make a lot of money collecting insurance premium, but on the event of a payout, like a sudden big drop in S&P, the loss can be very substantial. See XIV and SVXY in February of this year.
Is it not possible to do hub-and-spoke with buses? That would cut the commute drastically without any infrastructure required. Buy the buses, find the optimum routes and go.
Your momma
WeWork documents reveal it owes $18B in rent
Eastern typography and charactersets have exceedingly different affordances to Western (esp. Latin alphabet) ones.

Whether or how this includes differences in degree, depth, or distinctions of, say, reading literacy, I don't know.

At one level, though, Ling's Carss reminds me strongly of Amazon's recent design trends (past five years or so).
>For my money, the best environmentally sustainable 'fuel' is

Of course there's also lots of really cheap, clean fuel, and ways to reduce GHG emissions, such as bicycling, sky sails, stairs/walking, telecommuting, etc.

I've never really seen the evidence that command and control style planned economies work very well.

Since undergrad, I've never heard a good argument as to why we shouldn't do what Musk recently supported: a tax on pollution.

Then let the market figure out where is best to put the money to solve the issue..? Then, if your ideas are correct--and they sound like they are--they would be more-widely adopted, and more efficiently implemented than bureaucrats would, as well.
The sad fact is that long as people are willing to put up with this nothing is going to change. The crazy rents and terrible commutes sound insane to anyone living elsewhere but people are continuously more than happy to continue doing them to work at companies that haven't been priced out yet either. It's not an issue of social mobility either, since people living in the bay area are some of the most socially mobile workforce there is. Housing regulations may not be efficient given the circumstances but it'll only stop when everyone says enough is enough and leaves.
Libre software is easy to use and it works too.

Proprietary apps have stronger lock-in and better marketing.

> the open apps, in order to gain adoption, have to compete with the proprietary apps by actually working better.

Yes. I'm hoping enough people will think Matrix's protocol bridges constitute “working better”.

Riot seems pretty adequate already, although maybe it doesn't have enough emoji, animated stickers and poking for some people's liking. (Also, get off my lawn, bloody kids.)
> The vast fear and ignorance in this thread is amusing but the comparison of China to Nazi Germany is perhaps a new low, even for Hacker News?. It's interesting though how people develop such warped perceptions of the world.

It's amazing how you can deduce what I believe without me having said it. How long have you been able to read minds?

It is this hyper-anti-racism aspect of modern western culture that is enabling China to walk in and take over the world, and get the people from whom they're taking market share help them out in their endeavor.
I'm sending this to my wife!
UB only licenses the program to do anything if it is reachable. Unreachable, unexecuted, cant-be-executed UB simply can't change a program's behavior. I'm not sure why you think it can.

Do you think this program can "do anything" or "re-write any part of itself"?

unsigned int x = <input from user>;
unsigned int y = <input from user>;
printf("%u\n", x / y);

The compiler must output valid code for that program, and execution (not compilation) can only "do anything" if the user enters values that invoke UB (like "y == 0" for example). For all valid inputs this program must execute correctly and can not "do anything", even at runtime, do you agree?

What about this one?

unsigned int x = <input from user>;
unsigned int y = <input from user>;
if (y == 0) {
printf("%u\n", x / y);
} else {
printf("%u\n", x * y);
}

Same idea: this program can only "do anything" if the user enters "y == 0". The compiler can see that "x / y" would invoke UB, and remove the entire "if (y == 0) { ... }" branch (because the compiler can assume it is never reached, otherwise it would invoke UB), but the compiler can not do anything to change the behavior of the "else" branch - entering any non-zero "y" value must produce correct output, so the program can't just be compiled to "do anything".

Only the paths related to the UB can be optimized/modified/rewritten by the compiler based on that UB, and if those optimizations or modifications affect the proper execution of paths unrelated to the UB (i.e. paths where the UB can not be reached from), then the optimization or modification in question is a compiler bug.
Every nuclear bomb explosion in history
Not our choice, IT only lets us choose the newer models.
Implying high-density housing exists
Yeah I made 21.4% in 2017. I wrote my own algorithms and did back-testing with custom ruby code and data from ycharts.com ($) and brokerage.tradier.com (free if you have an account). Ruby is a weird choice in this area as most probably use r or python, but I love ruby.

The key for me is to focus on long-term trading strategies that are at least a year long. The HFT guys and people who spend their time on quantopia and the like have a day trader mentality.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for asking this question, I will look for you on twitter.
Australia works on this model.
The number of foreigners with green cards is really small, I’ve never met one before, so I have no idea about their situation.

I thought the whole point of the equity restriction is that you can’t hold A shares. What other kind of equity class is there besides outright ownership? And thats not even getting into the Huawei mess.
Oh, tech companies. If only there were a way to have conversations about, create, and transmit computer programs using some kind of long-distance network. Maybe we could break the data up into "packets". Just thinking out loud here. Then maybe everyone creating textual output for a living wouldn't have to transport their physical body to an office.

We can dream.
BMW unveils new all-electric iX3 SUV with 250 miles of range and 150 kW charging
The US is required to treat all critical condition patients under EMTALA since 1986. So the market does not currently decide in the current setting.
Confirmed: The stars in the background behind Comet #67P are in Canis Major: the cluster NGC2362 "falls down" past the limb at top-left; sparse cluster NGC2354 & the star 27CMa are also in the field.

Programming challenge: filter out (or otherwise remove) the sky from the video to isolate the comet surface for better analysis.
I grew up in a suburb on the outer edges of the bay area where my father commuted over an hour every day. I also had two jobs that required me to commute over one hour. These experiences led me to vow that I would never take a job where I had to commute longer than 30 minutes. I'm sitting at ~20 minutes now and looking to shorten it, and it has made my life so much better.
Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators
I think it's always valid to point out in threads like this that everyone on the internet appears to be a domain expert. Everyone is also an entrepreneur, and anyone who is unemployed is still a consultant. It can make it more difficult to evaluate the merits of a piece of software like Caddy because you have to wade through all the "this is awesome!"s which are somehow considered valid contributions to discussion.
Here's the link he starts on in the video:

https://webysvi.share.thousandeyes.com/view/tests/?roundId=1...
We have started something similar to the your question. It is project which generates useful signals for trading with Bitcoin and improves existing trading strategies with these signals. In case you would like to read more, we wrote a blog:
https://www.smartcat.io/blog/2018/bitcoin-trade-signals/
random guy on internet or PayPal founder, which one can I trust more?
hmm...
Government-funded health care suffers from all the same economic problems that privately financed health care suffers from

Except the biggest one: the need to maximize the extraction and distribution of profit to shareholders, while funding the cheapest and least amount of care possible without jeopardizing that imperative.
Doing things doesn't really earn money these days. Perhaps someone is better off playing the game to earn money and then doing something positive for no money.
90 minutes is now a "super commute"? hahaha.... HAHAHAHA... bwaaaaahahahahahahahahaha gasp haaaaahahahahahahahahaha.

a few years back, when i was working in palo alto and living in SJ/milpitas it regularly took me 90 minutes to make the 20 mile commute home.

needless to say, i quit that job, moved to the alameda county and found a job a mile from my house. now i actually have a SUPER commute, which means i can take the bus, ride my bike or walk depending on my mood. :)
Ha, that's a lovely story, and good to know. :)
No, if you have ordered keys and only you know the order, there is no way to do it unless you give the order, and even then there’s no way to confirm the order is correct without trying it.

The way around this is to threaten not to kill the target, but rather kill their whole family or those they care about viciously and painfully, and be ready to do it, if the order is wrong and there is an automated leak.
Holds for some of the first shows too. House of cards was a disaster even before the Kevin spacey thing, Orange is the new black has been going downhill (I blame that on Jenji Kohan), etc.

They are making up in volume with new shows though.
That presumes they'd want to live in high-density housing, doesn't it? There is high density housing available with shorter commute times already at costs similar to low dessnity housing further out. Granted, it's not zero commute, but I' not sure how much difference that would make.

Some people choose a lifestyle for their families that differs from what might be optimally efficient, for reasons that other's don't prioritize as highly.
I am, it's awesome with Fedora 28. There a couple of things to twiddle, mainly regarding sleep, but after that it's flawless. I can detail it a bit more if you like once I'm not on a phone.
Yes, made more money last year trading, than for all my previous jobs combined. Probably got lucky by betting big in an up-trending market, but I'll take it.

I use an automated inter-day scalping bot and a collection of scripts to help with manual longer-term technical trading or jumping into a P&D for quick profits.

Generating alpha was easier for me than setting everything up. I did not use any complicated model or strategy.

I suppose it will get more difficult, if not impossible, once the big boys jump in, but right now it is a market for makers.
Article persuasive prima facie and arguments plausible. I've had to reinvent a structured method of managing threads a number of times, unfortunately.

Author is a PhD student, which bodes well for not reinventing wheels dumbly. Therefore, I look forward to the lit review of other concurrency & parallelism work through the last 40 years, which this writeup notably lacks (author mentions his stack of papers to review).

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

ed: author has phd, not is a student.
90 minutes is common if you work in NYC and have a suburban home.
Facebook apologizes
Sounds like living in the GTA
Efficient market theory prevents predicting prices to a certain extent. But algorithms can take out emotions in trading and can limit your losses.
In my experience, it boils down to a few things:

- maintaining a healthy lifestyle

- regular exercise

- maintain a (somewhat) healthy diet

- get enough sleep

- do outdoor activities

- build habits/routines such as a morning routine to get a strong start to the day

- engaging in activities which you love

- what are your interests? You should focus on doing something that you love in your spare/free time.

- have some level of social engagement

- Friends/colleagues/family/counselor/significant other - any of these will do. As human beings we are naturally social creatures, the extent of this depends on an individual basis. But certainly having someone to talk to (and I mean personally, not just via text messages/applications, but hearing someone's voice, interacting with them in person).

- helping others

- When you help other people, it in turn provides a good feeling within yourself. Have you ever made someone else smile or laugh? How does it make you feel.

Ultimately, as human beings we tend to feel as though we are here to serve some purpose. I am not going to digress down that rabbit hole of a discussion, however I think that sometimes this can become a void that we need to fill. Performing activities that we consider meaningful help to provide that sense of purpose in our lives which ultimately can push us away from the feeling of depression, loneliness and feeling estranged from the world.

*Edit: meditation is a great way to close the gap between yourself and that annoying voice in your head. It's not an easy task to accomplish, but IMO if you can achieve success in meditation it can make a world of a difference
This is increasingly common in the Boston area as well. Cambridge/MIT is a massive biotech hub, meanwhile we have huge companies with many large offices in the downtown or in surrounding suburbs. Many workers live in RI, NH, or Central Mass, and getting to work for 9 am consistently will involve leaving at 730 for many, many workers due to congestion, construction, and the god-awful mess that is Boston infrastructure.

For those who aren't aware, many of Boston's intersections and squares are terrible intersections, remnants of the crossings due to actual cow-paths. There's also a massive amount of old housing property and relatively little new housing stock. There are high density apartment or condo buildings sprouting up here and there, but by large, you're going to be paying over 1 million for a small/old house in/around Boston, possibly 2 million depending on the location. If you're willing to commute 1.5 hours, you can get a fixer upper in a semi-rural area for around 300-400k. If Amazon came to Boston, it would be compound this problem exponentially, though whoever owns property currently would definitely make a good return.
Don't be so sure. The rate of advance of new technology slows over time. Look at processing power.

We are still a ways away from the convenience of chemical fuel because of energy density and refueling time.

But the future is indeed bright, pun intended.
I would totally agree with him though. You don’t want to get entangled into opaque Chinese financial schemes as a foreigner. You just don’t have the knowledge (inside or otherwise) or guanxi to do it well. If something goes wrong, the legal system isn’t going to help you out.
Is it possible to criticize China without it being classified as "ignorance and fear"? Seriously, what "ignorance" are you referring to? Is it perhaps your mind interpreting specific criticisms as claims of pure evil?
Agreed. Pollution management should always be more cost-effective when done at power plants, vs distributed across every vehicle on the road. Let's get there as soon as we can.
The issue here is not is the theater still relevant, but can the economics continue to support theaters.

If the trends in ticket sales continue, it seems like theaters by and large could be a thing of the past. It really is not about whether a large group see it as still relevant, its can the theater business maintain a profitable industry if it loses x% of its patrons.

If ticket sales decline, profits shrink or losses grow. Changing the model another way might increase revenues for theaters (say a all-you-care-to-watch pass, which would likely increase food sales), but only if Holywood changes its revenue model as well. If they continue to charge theaters the same rates, that model likely wouldn't work well. Further, if Holywood had to lose revenue, would it be more interested to work with other streaming services first, or create a competing service, versus go to the theaters?

To me the MoviePass subscription company is almost a Trojan Horse. While they continue to burn and lose money, and grow subscribers, they are making their subscribers see their experience as the new norm. If they go out of business, these subscribers now have to chose if they want to pay for each pass again individually (very expensive in comparison). Likewise, if theaters and Hollywood make a deal, it cuts their own revenue significantly. Its almost a lose/lose situation.

All this is just some of whats hurting Hollywood and the theaters. You also have personal politics growing sharper, a Millennial generation that doesn't value these experiences as highly, a fundamental change in how reviews are looked at, no longer being as easily controlled (RottenTomatoes), 3D movies not holding peoples interest, etc..

Its a bumpy road that doesn't seem to be getting much smoother.
It really depends on your values. If you honestly think the nuclear waste we produce now will make a significant difference in people's lives 10000 years, then sure it's a problem. In my opinion your epistemology is suspect, but within that value framework, it makes sense.

Regardless of the questionable assertion that people won't have figured out a way to safely contain nuclear waste 100 or 200 years from now - I'm more concerned about civilization still being a thing in 100 years from now to be worried about the effects of our waste on the cockroaches that remain when we are gone.

I think if you take an honest look at likely scenarios, Coal is not green in comparison to nuclear regardless of the relative weight you place on the value of human health and lives now vs. 100 years from now.

Nuclear is safer for the far future and is safer for people now.
How would you then hedge against unexpected high-cost procedures? Your assumption is that ridding the world of insurance would magically, dramatically lower the cost of every drug and procedure on the market.

Not everyone gets cancer, the medical insurance profit model is predicated on a bet that most people won't. The more people in the coverage pool, the less likely you will be paying out for every single person.

Socialized care is just the expansion of that model to encompass the entire country's citizen population. What would have been privately-captured profit from people that were healthy members of the pool can instead be used to reduce the premiums paid by all members of the pool.
A lot of companies have been moving to LA/SD recently for this reason. There are plenty of cities that offer more than the Bay Area without the NIMBY attitude toward building new housing.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, the S&P was up slightly more than that in 2017...
In 2017, the S&P 500 was up 18.74% - not that the extra 2.5% you made is nothing, but it's not a get-rich-quick type of return.

How many trades did you do over the course of the year? Was your volatility lower than the market overall?
I think you are fighting a metaphor with another metaphor. Saying that ants form a society indeed implies assigning them human characteristics (anthropomorphism) but saying that they are neurons basically suggests that there are common models to represent an ant colony as well as a neural system. Frankly, I am not sure that the latter approach is more helpful.
Were you responsible for that debt? Why did Medicare cover so little?
Oldie but a goodie. Play it again, Paul.
There will always be a market for diesel, at least in the US, because the US don't give a fuck about the environment ;)
New buildings sequester carbon, especially if it doesn’t use recylced wood.

Additionally high density housing and cities are vastly more energy efficient than sprawling suburbs based on at least one simple factor: cars.
That the Rothchilds exist is not paranoid conspiracy drivel. This line from your original post, however, is: "... use your network of contacts to entangle governments in wars while financing both sides and then stretch the wars out so the government has no choice but to accept your private banking control of the country?"
I always thought HFT profits were a parallel construction for people who were either insider trading or front-running orders and it was an easy dodge to explain their consistent gains as "we have an algorithm."