skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like there's a lot of misinformation in this thread, not about the article necessarily, but markets and trading in general.

Stocks are kind of the "beginner's" asset. They're fairly easy to understand conceptually. "Trading" them is even easier. However, trading them in isolation for a profit _consistently_ is very difficult or just a product of luck. I don't know anyone who does it and wasn't burned eventually.

The thing to remember is, people doing funds or "trading" professionally aren't just buying and selling FANG stocks all day. They're balancing these trades with futures and options or options on futures and other alternative assets. They're hedging their positions and setting themselves up so that their probability of coming out ahead is much greater than you're standard "it either goes up or down" stock movement.

A simple example is the "wheel" strategy in options. A short put at a .30 delta on the underlying, assuming 1 stddev movements gives about a 70% chance of collecting the premium without assignment (of course this isn't perfectly true, it's an approximation). This is already better than buying the stock, which under the same methodology, would have a 50% chance of profit (either going up or down from the purchase price). When assigned, turn around and open a short call against the assigned shares at a similar delta and repeat. In the flat market we've seen the last year or so, this is reasonably profitable and very low effort.

Edit: The reason the "buy and hold an index forever" strategy is recommended is because it's the lowest effort, highest probability of profit strategy one can probably take. I agree with it entirely for 99.9% of people. But that's not to say there isn't other opportunity out there if you're willing to learn about it.

Source: spent a few years at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange working on these sorts of things exchange side and now trade regularly on my own.
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I don't understand your point. Draper and the FDA were fooled by it, therefore it wasn't a fraud?
that Mr. Weathers and other employees are required to work during paid time off

WTF?
The Mindstorms RCX used that same contact system and had light, rotation, and touch sensors as well.
It is. "Discriminate against everyone" is oxymoronic.
But serious damage to the overseas perception of US employers would result regardless.
Glad to see there are people on HN who are going out there and propagating the formula.
As it happens, this particular incident does appear to have a religious-observance aspect. It is also the case, however, that religious observances have specific protections in US law (stemming from the 1st. Amendment), making this aspect of the incident particularly suitable for making a case against the employer. If this is so, then, regardless of whether one is particularly religious, one should reflect on the implication that demanding 24/7/375 fealty is not regarded, prima facie, as abuse.
I think the answers are, essentially:

> Is he legit?

Yes - but he's amazingly full of himself and incredibly self-serving.

> Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading?

Not really, no.
And the cards are on the table! Pro-Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys eh?

Typical projection. I'm anti-violence, and to the extent people in those groups committed violence, they should be prosecuted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6RDQ02AzLw

Boy, I can't imagine why people are just ignoring you and insulting you

Apparently, a lot of people like what I write here.

instead of engaging with your obviously bad faith prompts to discuss Nazi rights.

Hmm, I think you're the one laying cards on the table this moment. I've had my cards on the table the whole time. Pray tell, what Nazi rights have I been advocating for? Can you provide quotes?

Bit insulting to the intelligence of HN in general to think this reddit-level BS would fly isn't it?

Thanks for showing your true colors and resorting to name calling. I guess I touched a nerve. Thanks as well for letting your authoritarianism leak out. It seems like you can't help it, and it helps my case perhaps more than anything I can write.
The issue is there is great software such as [0] Supercollider and [1] Pd. As interfaces are class compliant the drivers actually work suprisingly well on Linux, its just stability and edge case bugs that will catch you out.

[0] - https://supercollider.github.io/

[1] - https://puredata.info/
Of course businesses pass their costs on to customers, including the cost of credit card processing fees.

But that doesn't mean I get a discount today for using cash, so I'll use the card and get cash back.
It's not really fair to call them "hard right" - overall I find they still exercise a very balanced centrist opinion set. Moreso what happened is that the media became even more focused on a strict left-wing narrative that merits serious deconstruction.
I can’t speak for Christian interpretations, but the Torah is very clear on this subject, and Saturday is Shabbat. Because of how Jewish law is structured that leads to it being from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. I’m also under the impression that Christians more or less don’t follow the original law, and that includes Shabbat.

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

As I said, what I don’t know about the daily practice of Christianity could fill volumes, but outside of some obvious cherry picking of Leviticus it seems that they have their own thing going. Certainly a whole host of laws from keeping kosher to keeping the sabbath seem to be on a pick and choose basis, which has always made me a little cynical about the choice to pay lip service to Leviticus only where homosexuality is concerned.
1% vs 0.6% for the market... clickbait-storm!
typically, "toxic" employees are created by management failing to control other employees...these "other" employees typically seek to exploit smart, hard-working co-workers so they can do less work themselves...this dysfunctional dynamic is created by management malpractice...and results in the creation of many "toxic" employees...
Christians have observed a first-day (sometimes "eighth-day") Sabbath since the second century AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_in_Christianity#Early_...
Same thing happened at a company I work at. We got a quote back from Segment, the price was ludicrous, so we rolled our own in a week or so. Increased our Azure bill a bit (500/mo), but still soooooo much cheaper than Segment.
This is the relevant California law:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

It says that if you do the work on your own time, with your own equipment, and without using any of your employer's trade secrets, the employer can't claim ownership of it unless it relates to the their business or R&D.

I think the issue is that large companies like Google do so many things that almost anything involving software or the internet would relate to their business and not be covered by the law.
its integrations. you drop one javascript snippet in there, and instrument the app with their sdk.

Want google analytics? add it in their UI and its there. Mixpanel? Click a button. Trying a new ad network? Click a button.

Basically, all these SaaS companies want some bits of your data and have some custom integrations.. instead of needing an engineer to implement it your marketing team can edit a UI. And you do it once, so you don't hit as many 'oops we forgot/implemented wrong conversion tracking for Random Service X'

None of it is that hard to do, but there's probably better things your engineer should be doing. Also, as the engineer whose done it, on the tenth marketing platform integration the engineering team will hate the marketing team.
Jackson benchmarks? I've heard it's twice as fast as rapidjson.
I read it as "see, didn't require forming a union to get something done in the tech industry"
OK, I was wondering if you were a complete middleman between me and Sonos. I don't own one, but I would consider it if there were a way to keep their paws off my data.

Btw, this is a tough crowd, getting downvoted for a simple question like this. Sheesh.
High likelihood it was this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Router

The Arch Wiki is pretty awesome, generally, and I used this pretty heavily as a reference. I will say, this was not 100% perfect and I had to use some other outside sources, but most of the info is here.

I did consider writing my own step-by-step post (if for no other reason than for me to not have to remember it), but haven't gotten around to it yet.
He's not obligated to provide a free service. He's trying to run a business here.
Thus national holidays ("holy days").
> Privacy is something I control by not exposing sensitive information in areas where recording is a possibility.

The problem is that this attitude will ultimately mean that the only place where you might have any chance of privacy is in your own home. And even there, privacy is getting more and more rare.
The S&P 500 is up 15% from 60 days ago which is considerably more than all of the positions in your screenshot.
I think most people know, and they don't care. Look at UK as an example, it's literally 1984 with people on cameras talking to pedestrians to pick up their litter. Home voice automation with non-stop voice recording is the biggest privacy intrusion, and yet it's the biggest hit in the last couple of years.

I really don't think people care as much as you think. HN is not a good representation of how regular people think or feel.
Isn't there something similar in all Terms when loading something like Outlook Exchange etc. onto your personal phone with your work email? You basically sign over all privacy and content for them to do as they please with no granularity.
It says so in the signature, but Go code tends to have long functions, so it's kind of a fallacy to say that it's going to be easily recognizable 50 lines in because it's in the signature. Now if this were Haskell and it was a single small expression, it would be different.
it seems reasonable to me that there's an
expectation you are 'on-call' outside of
normal work hours for a role like that

If that's the case, I'm sure the job advert will have said it explicitly and this will be a slam-dunk for Yelp.

If it didn't? Well, if the job advert writer didn't know about it, it's hardly reasonable to think applicants would know.
Let's rephrase it as "when they act in furtherance to committing a crime", then (i.e. the definition of conspiracy sans requiring multiple people).

And yes, it does mean that you won't catch all such people, only most. It's the case of diminishing returns - you have to radically increase surveillance and police state intrusiveness to go after fewer and fewer people, while also affecting more and more people who aren't actually violent.
So, would you say it is particularly repeatable in this industry? I.e. that while those other industries need unions due to lack of leverage, this one may be different?

(of course one instance is too small of a sample size to support either direction on its own)
So they can kill these companies faster?
Then say "some people" if you don't want to be deceptive in what you're portraying. Just saying "people" implies that most people believe it, which is not the case.
into a token stream?
None of this really addresses the question. Despite all this, its still a better option than starting from scratch with no hardware.
Does anybody know if there have been, or there should be, any consequences for members of the Board of Directors? Talking about Kissinger, Mattis, William Perry, etc?
The Conversation about Diversity in Tech Is Getting Hijacked by Bad Research
> given that our system is what it is, I do donate quite a bit to charity because I can afford it and because I see worthy causes around me.

Which is the whole point of the government encouraging donations to charities by giving tax breaks, your worthy causes aren't my worthy causes so would go underfunded if they were up to majority rule. As it is you get to "vote with your pocketbook" which is about as pure as democracy gets.
You wouldn't sue and claim to have been discriminated against; the lawsuit would claim that your religious obligations could have been reasonably accommodated by the company but were not.
It still works, because not everyone is in it for the long term. Some want to chase profits on shorter timescales, so will use their capital in other ways rather than sit and hold.
> The software will (I believe) be a rolling release, so they only really have to get the hardware right before shipping.

PureOS is based on Debian testing so it is a RR. Aside of hardware there is a problem with baseband firmware because there is no way to change it after phones are built without attaching to the chip itself.

> What API design is there, beyond "Linux apps, probably GNOME with libhandy"?

None. Every internal part is supported in mainline kernel, the only thing not there is the library for calls, UI has 3 options as of yet.
Great. Looking forward to it. Would love a write up if possible.
I prefer using tabs because the space constraint forces you to actually choose what's important to read. When there is no space constraint everything just gets dumped into a pile and there's no real way to prioritize what you truly do and don't want to read. You just end up with a long list of stuff you don't care enough to actually read.

At least that was my experience with Pocket. Maybe it works for some. I do the same thing with physical books. I don't keep a list of books to read. I keep a bookshelf full of stuff I'm making my way through over the years. Spending the money forces me to choose what I actually feel is important I read vs what I think I want to read.
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In the last year, which is 251 trading days, NKE has closed more than 1% away from its previous close 118 times.

So, in other words, NKE moves 1% or more 47% of the time.

No news here, except that it held up rather well given the negative publicity.

Calculations done in Excel based on the link below:

[0] - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NKE/history?period1=15192570...
This is fascinating. I wonder if the collection process could be automated a la google’s book digitization initiative.
you know what's insane about that video? the CEO of a 100 (200?) person software company is writing docs. but then again i'm not surprised that wolfram is a micromanager.
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Funny how people are so different.

My desk has to have exactly, 1 keyboard, 1 mouse, 1 A4 5mm graph paper pad and that's it.

I used to struggle to work on a slightly cluttered desk but these days it has to be basically empty.

In terms of paperwork, it goes behind me on shelves sorted by "Important, will need soon, Important, will need later, Not important" everything else goes in the bin.

Periodically I rip the pads apart and put them through the bypass scanner on the MFP in the main office and store the resulting PDF's.

First time my partner saw my office at work she was positively shocked because at home (other than my work space) I'm a messy, "leave it where I had it last" type.
having on call responsibilities and being available 24/7 are significantly different. On call is a structured rotation that is usually explicitly part of a job description.
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on NKOS: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
Lessons Learned for Project Managers
It's interesting to read how Buffett and Munger made their money. They definitely didn't make it by investing in index funds.

What Munger is really encouraging in his talks is intelligent allocation of money, knowing the boundaries of your knowledge, educating yourself, and recognizing basic human psychological shortcomings (like mistaking speculating for investing).
Is there a good open source database of people and things like the pBase Wolfram mentions in this article? I've been thinking of hosting an instance of Monica myself.
If there was an important function that relied on the availability of a single employee, with no bus factor, that rather implies Yelp is incompetent to me.
Insanity. There should be competition but compatibility. It shouldn't be about "one true player" as in one proprietary platform everyone uses (youtube vs spotify vs whatever), but rather every player is compatible with all of the formats.

The proprietary-lockin epidemic is a serious issue. I think part of the problem is open standards don't often focus on the payments problem.
I propose that there should be no limits on what's available or permissible that cannot be objectively defined. You can ban alcohol for people under 21, for example, but not for "people that I know when I see them shouldn't have alcohol". If you want to ban violence, you have to be specific about what this means (e.g. "no blood", "no slaying", "no physical struggle" etc).

If some legislation cannot be so rewritten, it should be thrown out. Yes, that goes for anything with "vulgar" or "indecent" in the title.

Speaking of standards for movie ratings - they aren't law in US, just industry guidelines. So they're subjective, but people have a choice of following them (e.g. because they believe the board that rates stuff has the same subjective opinion of what is "inappropriate" as they do) or not. Similarly, movie makers can, and do, release unrated movies. Since it's all voluntary, there's no problem here.
Digital Advertising in the US Is Now Bigger Than Print and Television
Usually the reverse is true. This really should be retitled to underscore that this is a working example of Node.js outperforming Golang and Rust by a long shot.
Looks like it's up around 5% from Nov 20th, not 15%.
Isn't that just lexing?
So, if an employee was not at work, not expected to be at work, do they need to apply for and get PTO to avoid getting calls in that off time?

It seems pretty clear that if the employer expects response in a certain time frame, the employee is engaged, and there may be issues even for salaried overtime-exempt employees with keeping an employee engaged 24/7/365.
I think the differences between the two industries are a bit overplayed. It's not like shitty software is any better, any more deserving of existence, than shitty blood testing machines. My best conjecture says she would've made shitty software and played it off using the same hollow puffery.
Today is Feb 21, 60 days ago is late December not November.
It seems like every plan, or nearly every plan, on the history page is the same, identical sample plan from the submission page.

For example, five chosen at random:

https://explain.depesz.com/s/9JNv
https://explain.depesz.com/s/jRXr
https://explain.depesz.com/s/cxjk
https://explain.depesz.com/s/FPur
https://explain.depesz.com/s/GD8

I think it should de-dupe identical plans at submission time.
That makes a lot of sense, and a legitimately personal decision. Some people don't want to share root access on the personal phone with their employer. Other people don't want to carry a separate phone for work.
It seems to me that in order to conclude that, one would have to assume that everyone in the world had equal access to the very systems of whichever societies made the rich people rich. Absent that, another possible conclusion and policy goal could be to simply keep the current systems and ensure that other people around the world (as well as more people domestically) had access to those very same systems.
Yep, a typo. Too late to edit it now.
Not that I necessarily agree with it (I'm on the fence) but doesn't sound like it.

Broken window fallacy is saying "if I destroy your stuff, I'm actually doing society a favour". So, damage to you = benefit to society, which is bunk.

This is saying, lets not be led by the nose by people who gain the most from what we are doing - because while it (arguably) helps society a bit, society could overall benefit a lot more from better balanced solutions that aren't stymied by those seeking to reinforce their wealth/power.

A wealthy person may "lose" if we tax them more, but that isn't breaking their window, that's balancing who gets what - which is what we do anyway, middle class already loses when a big company finds a tax loop-hole, to use a trite example.
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I have a tab opened in October 2016 that I still didn't read yet.
This is exactly why UBI works -- people need a purpose. The Canadian study I'm thinking of showed the only people who left the workforce left to pursue liberal arts or to be stay-at-home parents. UBI lifts up the bottom line in a society to a level we should all deem acceptable and freeing them to continue to find their purpose.
That's specifically due to Privatisation of Telstra though, which is exactly the monopoly being talked about.

NBN was supposed to fix this, not sure if it still will though with the neutering of it.
Disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice. I've dealt with this part of the code as both an employee and an employer.

California labor law section 2870

(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except ...[1]

It then goes on to carve out some exceptions. The one that Google leans on is this one:

(1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer;

Google argues that they anticipate researching and developing anything you might be interested in working on so its theirs. In my case I pushed legal to say, in writing, that even if I wrote an iOS kitchen timer application on my own time with my own equipment, then Google would own that app. My attorney suggested that if I sued them they would likely lose, but if I sued them they would stop employing me anyway, so if I really wanted to go into the Kitchen Timer app business I should just quit rather than risk Google making a claim to my IP that I would have to pay expensive legal fees to get invalidated.

This section of the code has been litigated many times and the general consensus is time that you are both not at work, and you aren't required to be at work, can be considered "your own time" by this statute.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I have to say, a few years ago I was the world’s biggest Segment evangelist. My absolutely favorite analytics service, and for any web project I worked on, installing Segment was step 1. I ran it primarily on my own company’s site (100k visitors/month, most of whom were not monetized) and I think I paid them $79/month. Worth every penny as a router to send up to GA, Heap, and others. Their data warehouse became a wonderful adjunct part of my analytics stack (and maybe my bill went up to $200 or so when they added that.)

Then they changed their pricing so that bill became $1200 (per month!). Total insanity. When I did some consulting work for another startup that had even higher traffic numbers (150k-200k uniques) but was also very lightly monetized, I actually lost some serious political capital with the CEO when he saw the Segment price quote of nearly $2000 per month. He thought I was trying to fleece them.

Sorry guys. I think you’ve built a REALLY awesome product and I / similarly small businesses are clearly not the target demographic anymore, and I’m sure you’re now making metric boatloads of money from big enterprise customers who don’t care about a $20k annual bill for analytics, but man, it’s disappointing to be so priced out of what was once a great part of my toolkit.
How would someone who enjoys algorithms but without a trading background get into the Tokyo HFT/Algorithmic trading industry? For example, do I need to be fluent in Japanese?