skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point, but you not buying them a smartphone is not the same as them not beeing able to have one. I was in school when Gameboys were the thing everybody had. Besides the fact that I know many kids who grew up to be exceptionally fine people without having had one – many kids just had to save up their pocket money or earn it by mowing the lawn.

I remember having had deals with my parents like: If I pay half, they give me the other half as a birthday present. And my parents could definitly afford it. The neighbour kid, whose father worked for my father after he gave them the place when they sought shelter (Bosnian war refugees), got literally everything he wanted. Our parents explained to us why his parents do that and why they don't. And although we also would have wished for these things we understood.

This is the responsible way to act in my opinion. It shows your kid that they really need to do something if they want something. It teaches them to value the thing that they got and if they spend their pocket money on rubbish it teaches them not to spend money on rubbish. And if it is something that makes sense for them to have (e.g. teaching material, books, a raspberry pi you can still be generous).
One major flaw in this reasoning..

Some group of people are guaranteed to become brain surgeons.. the demand is there, the training is there, so it is a near certainty. In fact in the US at least, you can know very closely how many brain surgeons there can be per year. Who will fill those slots isn’t too kind to all takers. It is dedication, hard work, and luck (ie ovarian lottery).

Also the majority of those that “fail” at obtaining a neurosurgery training. If they were on the path to medical training will end up falling back to any number of high paying jobs in medicine or surgery.

This study found no one did terribly well at day trading. Random chance implies there will be some outlying outcomes, but that is a fundamentally different objective than having too many people for few slots.
even when it's your own
Whys Refinitiv so cheap?
John Lennon famously loaded a tape reel backwards while stoned and discovered how cool backwards music sounded. This led directly to the recording of Rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA&feature=youtu.be...
Pretty sure it would have to be software if it happens at all. I don't believe the sensors in the camera degrade or wear out.
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I find it interesting that all the comments on here seems to corroborate this evidence.

It doesn’t seem like a large percentage of comments are saying “this is false, because I make a living day trading!”

Instead most of the comments say something like “this story is untrue because I know someone who makes a living day trading”

Knowing someone != being someone
For anyone interested in a great story about a world class mathematician who built a company that has used algorithms to beat the market for the last few decades, James Simons has an impressive record:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_simons_a_rare_interview_with_t...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons_(mathematician)

One other thing, the Simons Foundation funds Quanta Magazine, whose articles frequently appear on HN:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/
I don't see the issue here.

Would we be so hard on him if he was knowledgeable about blood testing and had tweeted about Theranos when they ultimately failed?

The less silence is the norm, the better.

We need people to publicly call out bullshit when they see it (at least he waited until they failed rather than when they were trying to succeed)

Some people who thought they knew better than actual experts failed and took 174m of somebody else's money with them.

It benefits certain angels & early stage VCs to have a culture of relentless optimism and fantasy in the face of reality, and to ensure silence is forced on everyone except those who succeed.
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1. find a weird and absurd hobby, nerd out into it hardcore, and then go to the off-topic board for that hobby's shitty old phpBB forum run out of some dude's basement.

2. Freenode is still alive and well.

3. Fark, SomethingAwful, etc. are still more or less in good health.
Some comments, since this post is generating some discussion:

1. If you squint, the inflation model is something in this spirit. The "inflaton" field corresponds to the harmonic oscillator like variable that ismovingunder a potential, and causing space to expand.

2. The quantization of frequencies for a harmonic oscillator (or a particle in a box) comes from spatial bounds on it's profile -- through some potential function. The quanta are separated by inverse of the region size (like aliasing effects a la Fourier). If we're imagining a field spread all throughout space then the "harmonics" are very closely spaced enough to be considered a continuous spectrum, sort of.

3. All that was just quantum mechanics. A more appropriate framework to have this conversation is quantum field theory (and not just in flat spacetime, but curved spacetime). In that context, quanta refer to number of inflaton particles at a specific frequency, and that goes in a direction different from what we're interested in. So that was just a paranthetical aside.

4. As far as we can tell from observations space hasn't been globally oscillating. So it's more like an overdamped oscillator (with a lot of "friction") than an underdamped one -- see "slow roll inflation". (For examples of where space was locally affected by underdamped oscillations, see baryonic acoustic oscillations).

Beyond just a few technical nuggets, what I hope to have conveyed is that the way to research these things is to take every word/facet seriously and try to operationalize it in an appropriate framework (which is very hard) and verify whether it matches our experience of reality.
If you loose the lottery you end up with a piece of reciept paper, but if you buy a stock you have it for as long as you want.

The market always goes up. Even if right after this comment, if the sp500 tumbles and we enter a recession, your share of vix doesn’t go anywhere. Youd just wait for the market to recover and hit the price you bought it for.

However, day trading isn’t really viable unless you have a lot of money to take advantage of every dip and hill and get around day trading restrictions.
Absolutely. It's made worse by the two anointed parties being enshrined in state laws that provide special privileges and benefits to them and their candidates.
It would be interesting to know if the mother herself has and uses smartphone. If yes it seems like smartphones for me but not for thee, 14 year is too old to protect from harm of phone usage. It's not too different from fundamentalist parents banning their kids from having outsider friends/watching TV/dating. It seems that the mom is just flexing her power over the kids.
There are lots of unexplained things that we already know about that are outside of the standard model. For example:

- The standard model doesn't explain any of the rest masses of the fundamental particles nor any of the coupling constants and a bunch of mixing angles. I think in total there are more than 30 input parameters that are completely unexplained

- Neutrino oscillation/masses are NOT part of the standard model as it predicts them to be massless

- Gravity is just not part of the standard model and currently cannot be combined properly with the other fundamental interactions
> " I am a lot less concerned..."

On one hand, I hear ya and agree.

But the reality is, the deck has been reshuffled such that while we're focused on that front door about rights are being sucked out the back by the likes of Big Tech, social norms, etc.

Yeah, the means differ. But in the end, the ends are the same.
Unfounded claims, calling someone incredibly uninformed and ignorant, with zero evidence to back up these admonitions, shouldn't be posted here. If you have a claim to post, back it up with some kind of evidence or data. No one should have to be called "kidding" when they call out a lack of any kind of data.
Not in amount, but in degree; I would want a higher level of care than Medicare.

That being said, "Medicare for all" is kind of a slogan, rather than a single, uniform plan. Obviously it all boils down to the details. All people should get the care they need without fear of being bankrupt.
Not legal advice but...

Usually in your situation you will have your own computer, your own workspace (except for meetings with the client), and deliver things based on a predefined scope (or predefined set of expectations). That's good enough to make you a freelancer.

On the other hand, if the company told you to use their laptop, show up in their office, work using their methods—effectively manage how you work... that becomes W2 territory.

Taking a step back, you're respecting the spirit of things. The company has a need, you have a solution, y'all have a transaction. On the other hand, if they were to integrate you as part of a team, within their processes, that's a W2.

Of course in practice there's a third way that is common: large company A makes use of an intermediary contracting company B that they can pay as needed[0], and the contractors are W2 salaried of B, while A maintains all their flexibility.

[0] Generally for all the crappy work that they don't want to do themselves. If you find yourself working for B, make it a learning experience and a personal goal to move beyond it.
Can I ask why advertisers care? You do realise everybody understands that YouTube videos are tailored to them and not an endorsement of the content, right? It's having the horrible side effect of destroying independent journalism which has nowhere else to go but YouTube (and neither does anyone else).
Interesting move. Kind of escape ?
Honestly most people I meet in real life (so not representing at all) who enjoyed C++ where technically skilled but had to fight with following problems:

- bad at keeping code simple

- to much focused on details instead of the broader picture

- bad as team leads due to missing some relevant management skills

- bad at producing solutions which where "just good enough" (instead of perfect)

Some of them where aware of their weakness and learned to improve on that areas, setting them on a path of becoming excellent software engineers.

Others where obvious about it or even in denial about it.

In a certain way they had been examples about how a person can be both a technical skilled programmer, as well as as bad programmer who on a subtile way accidentally makes it hard to produce a good end product in any reasonable amount of time.
I store my TOTP in 1Password... I think it's still more secure than SMS (because to restore 1Password vault you also need a Secret, not only your password) and so much more convenient than a separate app, because 1Password auto-copies the TOTP code to your clipboard after filling form fields, making signing in a very smooth experience.

It is a security tradeoff that I take for most of my accounts. For a few that a much more sensitive I use a Yubikey.
I've done ok trading stocks and FX, probably enough to live off. There is a caveat however; you need to have a sizeable portfolio to begin with. Otherwise, the risks you'll need to take are simply too large.

If you think you're going to turn £5k into £500k in a year, forget it! But turning £5k into £5.3k is certainly doable.

Scale that initial portfolio to £5m, and you can take home £300k with relative ease in a good market- that's a very comfortable income for most people.
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Wouldn't you need a basis for believing that day trading Brazilian futures has unique properties not present in other markets to assert this? E.g. the volatility or spread is significantly larger than European futures or the information flow is more tightly de/regulated etc.

Is there a basis for believing this?
If you're into fantasy football, footballguys is still very active, and tends to be a mature forum.
My parents we're very authoritarian. Not really your typical helicopter parents, or religious fundamentalist parents, but aspects of those did make their way into parenting. The strangest thing to me was hearing about how things were much better when they were kids because kid did this and that, but then discouraged us from doing similar things.
No.

I'm implying that rather than laying off top performers you find them a different role in your organization.

Granted if the skill set is incredibly niche--such as hand optimizing HC12 assembly and you've moved to ARM then perhaps not.

It's hard to imagine a scenario where an entire project teams skillset is so niche that they couldn't find a home for top developers in other parts of the org.
This is true in more than just psych. A strategy for systems papers is to select the system that is second on the graphs. The author's results are not trustworthy, but the second place system was usable and ran reasonably well in the hands of somebody other than the original author.
I have a son around the same age as the authors and I've definitely thought about it. It's an addicting device to both adults and children so there is some merit to not having one. That said, my kid is a musician and gets to connect and collaborate with other kids in different states and countries from all walks of life. I find that pretty amazing and a plus to him having a smartphone.
If for each of those people, there are dozens of long tail traders who lost their shirt and tapped out after a few thousand, the point stands. It could be just random chance.
>Apparently 2FA for Apple ids cannot be rolled back!

Apple removed the option to turn off two-factor authentication on some Apple IDs created in iOS 10.3 or macOS 10.12.4 and later.

A couple of years ago, I forgot the question/passphrase sequence for two-step verification and subsequently got frozen out. I had initially set it as samephrase1..2..3 in an effort to refrain from supplying PII. In order to reset, I managed to opt-in to 2FA and then revert back to initial setup.

I would have continued to think of the above process as the norm, until I read your comment and followed the support link provided by the other commenter, which states that the 2FA process cannot be undone anymore! However, there seems to be a slightly convoluted alternative i.e. unlinking existing AppleID and attach a new one for iCloud only, thus keeping the (old) existing one for the App Store and other services.

https://support.ikeymonitor.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150008243...
Super smash bros melee's wave dashing and l canceling were bugs that super charged the competitive scene
For the last few days I've been trying to make as many associations as possible between (the big bang, the progression of the universe, and the end of the universe) and a black hole's progression. For some reason this makes me think yet again that the universe might be inside a black hole.
I want to know more about bhaskara
This definitely won't attract any attention from sue-happy Nintendo.
>For all we know, we might need a solar system size collider to attain the required energies.

We just need to observe the collisions happening at these energies - we don't necessarily need to produce them ourselves.

Some physicists are starting to think about how we might be able to observe naturally occurring collisions at these energy levels rather than producing them ourselves.
Oh no workers will make a reasonable income!
The way to protect workers is to shift the burden of health care and other costly benefits onto the government, supported by taxes. Then there is no risk to hiring a new employee beyond the wages you pay them.

The US public does not want this, though, and the war of words over universal health care has led to incredibly deep entrenchment on the side of those opposed. All this despite the mountain of evidence from other countries, showing the greatly reduced total costs and improved life expectancy as well as a lack of bankruptcy and financial ruin for those caught in an emergency.
I think you're spot on, and this is part of the reason I will have "no phones* after dinner/school/whatever" when my kids become smartphone age. I expect I will have similar rules about headphones in cars, or tablets at restaurant tables.

If my relationship with my kid's is falling apart, I want to have some sort of signal that alerts me to it happening. I want it to feel awkward, so that I know to fix it. If the damage is masked behind a screen, I might miss it and never know to repair it.

* or whatever the new distracting device is in ~10 years.
Also, if you have a regular work task you need to do, block out time in your diary for it.

And the absolute joy than can come from having children.
You sound like someone trying to justify lazy parenting.
It is sometimes said that the typical university lecture is way to transfer the notes of the professor to the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either party.
That's less then 10٪. Long term stock market returns are around 7% and considerably less riskier.
I think it's amazing that on a site that's supposedly filled with tech geeks, so few commenters seem to know the difference between spending time alone in your room in front a non-networked PC learning to code, and being glued to a networked smartphone no matter where you are, taking in a feed and waiting for the dopamine hit from a "like" or a share.

Anyway, the public-spirited side of me sees responses like the ones here and is depressed, but my secret inner libertarian sees them and thinks: "Score! My three kids will have attention spans and social skills, and will out-compete the smartphone-addicted children of these fools in every arena of adult life. So by all means, cripple your kids by handing them one of these pocket slot machines. Mwuahahaha"
I have a couple friends that do day trading on "technical analysis". As in, they only trade on the chart movements. Both claim to make money consistently. I generally believe them, but it seems like black magic to me. Especially when they explain what they're doing in detail.

Not sure I understand this study tho, and whether or not it relates.
It has been ATX12V/EPS12V since around the Pentium 4, which itself only added more 12V rails to the original ATX connector to supply more power. Moreover, ATX and ATX12V power supplies have the same dimensions, use the same mounting, and the original 20-pin ATX connector is still the same. The newer power supplies can generally be used on older system boards going back to the mid 1990s and many of them separate the 24-pin connector into 20+4 for exactly that reason.

It's not just the case and monitor. Drive bays have standard sizes and mounting (2.5", 3.5", 5.25"), the SATA connector has been the same since its introduction even though modern systems support higher speeds using it (and is also electrically compatible with the SAS connector and SAS HBAs typically support both), expansion cards have standard dimensions and use standard PCIe slots, etc.

They'll make breaking changes from time to time (e.g. PATA to SATA, PCI to PCIe), but it's typically a decade or more between them and then many systems will support both for years after that. PCIe was introduced in 2003 but you can still find new systems with 32-bit PCI slots, and SATA to PATA adapters are available.

If you want to you can build a PC with the latest CPU, install a SCSI HBA into it and connect that to a hard drive from the 1980s that will fit into the same drive bay as a modern 3.5" hard drive.

Granted there are more space constraints in a phone, but that doesn't mean you can't do it at all. And an iMac or Mac Mini is not ATX. There is no law requiring every device to follow every part of the standard if it's necessary to satisfy some other constraint. But a G5 iMac is basically slag; the contemporaneous ATX PC has half a dozen components that could plausibly be reused in a modern PC.
If I understand correctly, what you're saying is you use self-control to create situations where you don't need to rely on self-control? That seems like a good compromise between having a smartphone 24/7 and no smartphone ever. I've done similar things in the past; when I needed to study for an upcoming exam, I setup a web filter that would block distracting websites if I browsed them for too long.
It's time for London to start scrapping golf courses
Without looking at the GMail details, you don't know period, so you should neither agree nor disagree.

Others who do know have chimed in. For example: "1 is not even close to true. I was a Gmail SRE at the time. Sends did not take 5 seconds at the time, they were handed off to the MTA right away. The MTA had the ability to delay delivery due to other projects and Gmail decided to use that feature to build undo send."

So, not a bug.

As for Space Invaders, the game designer, Tomohiro Nishikado, knew about the issue from the beginning, and specifically chose not to compensate for the change in rendering speed. He could have easily done so. He liked the way it played. When you intentionally design a thing a certain way, it's not a bug.
Interesting. So hard to keep up.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/07/smash-and-g...
Makes it harder for any new competitors. This just entrenches the old guard.
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I'm in same spot. Willing to pay (ie, routinely pay reasonably big money just for Microsoft VLSC stuff and a bunch of other specialized software 10K+ annually and willing to do $50K investments in licensing), but want to have some $ around pricing.

The problem is there are too many players in most spaces.

I literally DO NOT HAVE TIME to handle all the inbound / DRIP / follow-up sales marketing, go through your qualifications process etc. I need to do a quick pass - and pricing is an obvious part of that.

Ironically, we have dual fiber options at our location. One sales guy - here are our prices. Not cheap. Other sales guy - we offer a broad array of services yadda yadda would like to schedule a time to meet. We already have VPN / 24/7 on-call help for issues with it etc etc. Called first guy back, said give us a gig, static IP etc - send me contract and signed within an hour. Perfect. I don't even care if we are paying more. I'll look again in 2 years and if I can get someone to give me an actual price I'll make a decision then.

The call for quote folks are HARD to deal with when you change things like seat counts etc. - just be prepared to spend a LOT more time on the licensing piece which is harder to delegate than the folks with clear upfront pricing.
The Standard Model works with two significant asterisks. It is almost certainly not mathematically consistent, due to the presence of Landau poles in the hypercharge and in the Higgs self-coupling. It also does not include gravity. Neither of these caveats is a problem at experimentally accessible energies, but they do indicate that there's something left to discover. It's a bit irritating: We know we're missing something. We just don't know what.
It's a short trip between 15 and 18 years old. Treat a 15 year old like a baby, and they'll be making up for lost time their first year away from home. A 15 year deserves a smart phone, but should respect the house rules on when it's ok to use.
You can make that much and more by passively investing in index funds. What's the appeal in day trading then?