skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One interesting thing: they normally sell the course with a private platform to trade the stocks included. I believe that they use that platform to collect data and operate against the traders that use that platform. They know the strategy that they are going to use (because they teach them), so it is easy to operate against.

You’re assuming a complex strategy is needed when a simple one can easily suffice: simply pretend that you executed the trades, give the clients their profits, and keep the losses. In other words, the broker can take the opposite side of every deal and keep the spread and commissions. If, indeed, the client is trading based on no information whatsoever, then the broker wins and the client loses.

To improve this, the broker can throw out the best performing clients, since they might genuinely know what they’re doing.

I’m not suggesting that this is what any particular broker does, but it’s a strategy that works very well, at least in principle.
It's absolutely an issue when multiple applications or users write to the same data from different locations, or when users move around.

If the application only lives in one place you are paying for the latency to reach the application from the remote client in the first place, even if the latency from the app to the database is "fast".

FaunaDB gives you local-latency reads and minimum global write latency from everywhere.
Ha. My ancient mother, who is English, was conducting some mundane transaction in an English bank the other day when the teller asked her "You're not American are you?". She was so surprised she didn't know what to say.

AIUI, it's not just reporting requirements but the potential for massive fines that's driving this.
wow.. Is it true.. if so then Twitter is very problematic because it more often blocks crypto users than something vulgar.
In the whole paper, there's no mention of whether the market itself was growing or shrinking. This makes the results kind of hard to trust. Assume the market lost money for these dates, then it would follow that most traders on that market lost money as well. The results should at least be controlled for the overall rate of change of the market.
I was wondering the same thing. My thought was that if there are enough GEODEs evenly distributed, they would account for it.

My mental model of this is that if there were a lot of GEODEs created early, they explain acceleration (DE) with simple gravitational attraction. LET ME KNOW IF I'M CRAZY!
PA would be the absolute worst place in the world for a low margin business to expand into. I really have no clue how they arrived at such a conclusion. I can only imagine, it had something to do with investors.
Oooh, that's a great one to add to the list!
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (2016)
What do you hate about discord, too chatty and ephemeral?
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Or communism 2.0? But who am I? I haven't even read the Gulag Archipelago!
This whole idea of observers just brings to mind things like culling in graphics rendering, perhaps that's what's happening
There are prop firms[1] filled with traders regularly making money hand over fist. Many of those traders also make a killing on their personal account.

So while certainly not easy, it's possible.

Trading suffers from some of the same problems of web development: few barriers to entry leading to an abundance of low-quality participants, and the mostly autodidactic nature of skill development.

Like 10x engineers, 10x traders exist. But getting there requires thousands of hours of deliberate practice, discipline and conscientiousness - traits typically not found among the get-rich-quick crowd who discovered trading after clicking a Youtube ad for forexbillionaredaytrader.scam

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_trading
The game executives noted in the beginning of the article don’t work for Apple. They’ve always had guests presenting games/apps. Some good...some bad.

I do miss the days of Apple Keynotes actually being a surprise. These days, everything is leaked weeks before.
I do well with options trading for a fairly long time now. Anything over 25% a year is good for me but I aim for 100% per year. I am a hit over that this year at this point. Firms have a huge amount of money so they have to use other strategies. For someone with less than $1M to trade with going long or short depending on the market conditions is adequate. Also money management is a large factor.
That's probably the DEFCON talk the parent poster is talking about:

Massscanning the Internet - Defcon 22 (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM
As an American living in Canada, I'd say the rural-urban divide is more-or-less the same in Canada.

It can be pretty rough in places. People seem to forget that Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny are set in Canada. The Wolverine's (X-Men) backstory involves cage fighting in Northern Alberta -- which is absolutely truth-in-television, cuz I live in AB and damn near every oil worker is waiting for their MMA career to take off.

This carries over to immigration -- there is a lot of eye rolling and subtle dislike of the temporary foreign workers ("TFWs"). My in-laws in rural AB have, uh, strong thoughts about foreigners. Quebec is a notable difference too, as they have a reputation for not being fond of non-European, non-Francophone folks in their borders.
Oh yeah, you'll need root ofc., add 'sudo !!' and enter pass.

Joke aside: I misunderstood what was asked it appears. Re-reading the original post I'm still unsure what is asked.

But to be clear, you shouldn't use these commands if you wish to erase sensitive information, albeit if you use full disk encryption it will not really remove or add any value I suppose.

If you want to be sure you could overwrite the disk with random random bits or use a degausser which is properly the most complete/sure method of erasure.
I had a fairphone about three years ago (I'm guessing fairphone 2). The software was for a very old version of Android and the update was very slow coming. I tried to update but had huge problems. There were no custom ROMs for it either - hopefully there are now.

I never got to the point where I replaced a hardware component because the software problems, especially software update problems, and perhaps some mild hardware problems, meant I eventually gave up and used another phone. I hope FF3 is a vast improvement.

Edit: I see lineage has a ROM for FF2 giving it Android 8.1. That wasn't there when I used my FF. It may have given me a good experience.
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That is so misleading! I have been day trading profitably for the last 6+ years. It is more than enough to cover my living expenses for a family of 4. But I also work (freelance dev), because it cannot cover my home EMIs.

My returns are not too high, but much better than bank interest rates and probably much below professional traders. The only thing stopping me from earning my EMIs or more income is the allocated capital, which is limited to stay in the game long term without losing my shirt. Even though I had a profitable strategy even before I started trading profitably, it took me 2.5 years to align my comfort/tolerance level with risk management. i.e. its not just about having a profitable strategy. I did minor tweaks on my strategy only 2 times in all those years.

I do not doubt that many fail with day trading. In my case, day trading is stressful and takes anywhere between 5-8 hours of my time daily including time spent outside market hours. It is stressful, exciting and frustratingly boring while waiting for opportunities. And to add to the stress I freelance too, mostly before trading hours and some after. Doing both feels like slogging everyday and on some days I have an internal struggle about increasing the trading risk. And there are times where other traders will (unintentionally) gaslight by telling me how their monthly returns are equal to my annual returns.
I've heard of this too. This talks a bit more about it https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega... and also https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega... that mentions more different ways.

For some cases it sounds like only if you have the intention of giving up your citizenship, then you have to get a "Certificate of Loss of Nationality". But I'm not a expert in this area, but I can see where this idea is coming from.

Such employment, however, will result in one's
expatriation only if done voluntarily with the intention
of relinquishing U.S. citizenship. Running for foreign
office, even foreign head of state, is not a potentially
expatriating act; only accepting, serving in, or
performing the duties of a foreign office are potentially
expatriating as described above.

The Department has adopted an administrative presumption
that U.S. nationals intend to retain their U.S.
citizenship when they naturalize as nationals of a
foreign state, declare their allegiance to a foreign
state, or accept non-policy level employment with a
foreign government.

Also:

The presumption that a person intends to retain U.S. nationality is not applicable when the individual:

1. formally renounces U.S. nationality before a consular officer;
2. serves as an officer in the armed forces of a foreign state engaged in hostilities with the United States; or
3. takes a policy level position in a foreign state
Cases in categories 2 and 3 will be developed carefully by a U.S. consular officer to ascertain the individual's intent toward U.S. nationality.

Kinda confusing, but sounds like if you were elected prime minister of Canada (which would be policy level), then there's the presumption you wanted to give up citizenship, while working as a employee for the Canadian government such as driving the snow plows would be ok but things are reviewed by case by case.
I doubt such a certification would have any correlation with ability. Maybe the platonic ideal of training and testing that you're thinking of, but not a certification written by the US government. Even competent parts of the government like NIST take forever to update their standards. It would be worse for a licensing bureau with practically no in-house software expertise.
Wouldn't a flag on the ACH that makes it irreversible accomplish the same goal with considerably less overhead? I think it's already possible to do this with a wire transfer.
Going by that standard, 95% of all Russian peasant farmers are "Russian Agents" and that's pure ridiculousness from any angle.
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Kind of not all exchanges are equal, professional investors still don't trust the main Chinese exchange.
He wasn't "just trying to damage the NSA", he was trying to get the truth out about surveillance, the fact that the NSA was damaged was tangential and they shouldn't have been spying on US citizens. The NSA and other gov police entities were basically breaking half the dictates and the entire spirit of the US Constitution.
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A great article, thanks!
Longecity.org/forum is one I've been visiting for many years. It has some pretty knowledgeable regulars and has never gotten popular enough to attract a ton of corporate interest
I’m confused. Doesn’t the recipient pay these taxes, so it wouldn’t show up when comparing fund returns?
Smartphone addiction is like alcohol addiction. Why do some countries (the USA) have more problems than than others (the rest of the world)?

Because in most countries, a healthy, controlled exposure is what most teens experience, so that they learn how to handle alcohol responsibly.

In almost all of the USA, it's illegal to drink until you're 21.

Not teaching your children how to responsibly use a smartphone is the current problem.

Denying a child a smartphone, and then expecting them to magically be able to control such an addictive substance is arguably worse.

Be a better parent.
That's actually the opposite of good practice; good practice in security is to base your planning off of facts and research. Throwing away your whole setup after every gig works for Mission: Impossible, and I guess it makes people feel extra-super-ninja, in practice it just perpetuates the endless (and pointless) culture of I-know-something-you-don't.

Opsec should be based on reality and threat modeling, not endless rounds of whatabout.

Edit: if you (the rhetorical you, not parent specifically) actually know something here, chime in!
I'll trust techies the day they actually are in the job of protecting people and have to deal with real danger of bad actors continuously trying to blow up Western democracies.

It's funny the tech/security/sysadmin guys complain that their work is appreciated only when things go wrong, but fail to give the same benefit of the doubt for US law and order.
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This is why I don't understand why people take gig jobs. Think of the opportunity costs. First off, Uber drivers don't make that much. Then you have vehicle depreciation and maintenance costs. You need to carry an insurance rider that covers rideshare driving. You also need to pay for your own health care. When you add up all these expenses, plus the desire for a living wage, there is no way drivers can be making enough with current rates. When people say you're essentially borrowing against the cost of the vehicle, I don't think they're being gratuitous. There may be low friction to entering the rideshare space by being a driver, but there are plenty of hidden costs.
I think the term "for a living" is more important.

How would you interpret the phrase "It's impossible for an individual to play the lottery for a living"?

Technically we both know it IS possible, technically. But in the real world? I don't know, but I wouldn't be suggesting anyone out there try make a living playing the lotto.
By getting publicity he builds social capital, which he (presumably) can turn into real capital through his work.

From his bio "...leading the evolution of startups and enterprises to achieve the highest level of security and compliance."
That's a pretty good multiple for their sector.
A shower thought after watching some recent PBS Space Time videos: if the (hypothetical) inflaton field of the early universe is associated with certain high energy density conditions, could the interior of a black hole (specifically the region near what would be the singularity under vanilla general relativity) reproduce those conditions and return the inflaton field to the inflation-era state?

Related thought: what would it look like from the outside if a patch of the universe returned to inflation? Does it make any difference from the observer’s POV if this change occurs inside or outside an event horizon?
"Making decent money" doesn't mean crap it's about risk, expected value, and opportunity cost.

If you've got a million dollars and put it into an index fund you'll make ~$100k/year. If you day trade and make "Decent money" of say $70k/year you're still at a loss vs if you took the less 'risky' approach. Even if you made $150k (50% over the index) it's still a loss due to lost opportunity cost. As the $100k index + a job at McDonalds making $30k/year still puts you ahead due to long term vs short term capital taxes. And if you've got the knowledge to day trade and earn more than 50% over an index you can probably command a better job than fast food.

If you don't have a million in capital it becomes harder and harder the less money you have.

Your friends would need to consistently beat the market by a percentage of their capital for it to be considered a 'win' imo.
What a huge drag on people’s livelihoods, making a broad swath of mutually beneficial business relationships illegal until someone goes through a multi year legal battle with the state.
I don’t think this is about the smartphone so much as lack of etiquette around the smartphone.

Unless his son is too young to have a phone he should be able to discuss ettiquette like no phone at the dinner table or while we are talking.
I was about to tell you to just replace the battery, but it turns out this is quite the ordeal with a Pixel XL: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+XL+Battery+Replace...

Awful. Who came up with the idea of going through the front? Took me like 10 minutes with my last two Xiaomi phones.
> Get rid of duodecimal profile ids. Obscurity is not a solution here.

I don't think it's meant to be a security element, but to disambiguate same name collisions, right?
I'd also be very interested to see what would happened, hypothetically, if everyone just stopped trading after some fixed number of hours, held that position until the point when they decided to give up trading, and then liquidated it.

My hypothesis is that their average returns would end up being much higher than the returns they realized by day trading that whole time, due to less money being lost to fees.
Maybe the "US law and order" shouldn't be acting like Stazi all the time and spying on citizens and tracking them without warrants.
Every single business uses the roads or benefits from them, and we pay for them mostly through gas/diesel tax, tolls, property taxes, and vehicle registration fees.

You aren’t subsidizing Uber/Lyft just by letting them use the roads like everyone else.
Victoria is also surprisingly expensive relative to its size, and has comparatively few jobs.

Great place to be if you can swing it, though. Better weather than Seattle/Vancouver.
I mean, the aerodynamic drag is going to be forbidding high. One can't today make a low flying 20M cruise missile, no such technologies by a long shot.
No it isn't. Copenhagenists insist that the wave function "collapses" upon "measurement" and so measurements only have one outcome in point of metaphyisical fact. Many-worlders insist that the wave function does not collapse, and hence measurements have many outcomes in point of metaphyiscal fact.

You may consider this a distinction without a difference, but the fact of the matter is that people do argue about this. A lot.
All those other cues are present in images from cameras as well. The only one I can think of that typically aren't used much for computer vision is focus distance, but for objects far away I don't think that helps us much in object recognition since all of the object are in focus anyway.
From what has been published, secrecy within Renaissance is so extreme that perhaps only 2-3 people actually know what is going on. So for an outsider, I say it's pure speculation.

And I speculate that their outsized gains are due to market manipulation, front running, or other insider activities (as in, illegal/unfair).

No one is smart enough; no algorithm or model is future-proof; nobody gets returns like this unless they define the scenarios themselves.
To put my views into this perspective. Am I glad that Snowden and others leaked information on government programs? Yes.

That said, I think it's amusing when people need to call out "Under president <whomever>'s administration..." as if it makes a point by itself and implies something directly about the president that was named. Let's not pretend here, that's exactly what you were doing. Using this same logic, I hope you blame George W. Bush's administration entirely for the 2008 recession. I want to be clear, I'm not pretending that the sitting president's policy decisions and other influences don't have an effect. But inherited legacy, context, and the surrounding details play a huge role in how these things play out.

First, the people you are talking about (Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Chelsea Manning, Donald Sachtleben, Stephen Kim, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Edward Snowden) all have different circumstances surrounding their cases.

Second, they all stepped forward roughly around 2009 and later. Most gathered the information they leaked between 2000 and 2008 working on programs for the CIA and NSA. They all leaked information that wasn't supposed to be leaked. The default in our government is to handle that with punitive measures. If they had stepped forward during any other presidency would the outcome have been the same? Yes.

Third, alluding to some sort of hypocrisy with regards to transparency when talking about intelligence programs initiated by the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc is ironic. Just because an administration wanted to embrace transparency doesn't mean it's fine to free-for-all leak information from those agencies.
> There's quite a few I can think of, but most of them I'd rather not mention so the eye of Sauron passes them over.

You've piqued my interest. What are they?
If the author's bio is accurate, it is in fact a bizarre US-American knock-off.
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This was confusing to understand, because multiple bad things happened. Normally:

* Step 1: Transfer funds from each Employer's account to Cachet's holding account

* Step 2: Transfer funds from Cachet's holding account to each Employee account

Both of these steps are handled with an 'instructions file'.

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The crime (or horrible mistake that really looks like a crime):

Step 1's file was changed so that the funds went to an account at Pioneer Savings Bank (controlled by MyPayrollHR)

Step 2's file was sent as it normally would be.

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Mistake 1: The file for Step 2 was processed, and funds from Cachet's holding account were transferred to employees, despite funds from Employers not coming in.

Apparently Cachet had at least $26M extra in their holding account for this to work.

As a result of this, Cachet tried to reverse these transactions, since basically they hadn't actually been paid.

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Mistake 2: The reversal file was improperly formatted. NACHA rules say these files should be ignored or rejected, but..

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Mistake 3: Some financial institutions processed the improperly formatted file anyway.

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To fix Mistake 2, Cachet submitted a new reversal file, which was then also processed by the companies.

It sounds like this "reversal file" was actually just a transfer in the other direction (as opposed to "undo transaction ID 937641745"), so of course it would make sense that it was processed.

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As a result, all employees paid via MyPayrollHR were paid, then had that payment removed. Some also had the same payroll amount removed a second time.

One thing I haven't figured out, is apparently the MyPayrollHR account at Pioneer Savings Bank is 'frozen' -- but I can't find any reporting about whether it has $26M in it or not. Meanwhile the CEO has disappeared.. So did he get the money, or just cause a massive life disruption for thousands of people?
It would be helpful, if GitHub made it clear that repositories without an explicit open source license grant fall under the full scope of Copyright restriction. It seems there is a common misconception that any code simply shared on GitHub is free to use.

However, it seems the case for this DMCA takedown is probably not clouded by the "publicly available means free use" misconception.
You have no idea, in EU projects, even big ones, sometimes 66% or even more was from EU restructuring or agricultural funds, at least in Poland. A few extra from innovation and science funds, but those are peanuts.
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Leaving the percentages aside, lots of people use photocopiers without owning them. In countries like India, there are many photocopying shops that will make copies of anything for a very small fee. People use them to make copies of ID cards, certificates, bank statements and what not regularly. Anywhere some kind of documentation proof is required, photocopies are usually involved (electronic submission is still not as widespread).
DM and DE matching observational data is like a ML model match its training data. Okay sure, that's necessary, but it's not sufficient to actually believing they're a good model.