skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to plug my own product here, but I'm working on a todo list + calendar app (https://getartemis.app) because I think I am the same way as you (even though I don't have diagnosed ADHD specifically) with regards to todo list apps. I want to know exactly what I'm doing at all times, as it's too easy to procrastinate with a todo list ("I can just do it later..."). Google Calendar doesn't have the same advantages of tracking even though it works well for knowing what to do when; it can't for example, track that you're working in a specific project with its own subtasks, as each event/task in GCal is discrete and has no semantic connection to another.

Additonally, why can't I say, for example, that I want to work on a project for 10 hours a week, and my calendar automatically schedules it for me, to work on an hour and a half each day, based on some preferences like morning, afternoon, evening time periods? These are some of the things I want to address with my app.
I don't understand. If companies (pensions, banks, funds) regularly trade and make profit (ie: for a living), why can't individuals? I think this study is flawed, more likely the Brazilian market had problems during the study's time period.
Swing trading with baskets as opposed to daytrading seems to be a better way to go according to historical performance, for example https://www.elastic.co/blog/generating-and-visualizing-alpha...
I wonder if they could please make a law so that Google's publishers are considered employees as well?
This reminds me of the joke: How do you make a small fortune? Start with a large fortune.
My son is 8... there is no way in hell I'm going to let him have a smartphone. I mean, he poops in pants still and can't hold his pacifier in his mouth on his own. Why am I going to give him a $1,000 smartphone? His crib wasn't that expensive... 8 is too early to a kid to have a smartphone.
If it bubbles up to their attention it would be pretty routine:

* A cease and desist form letter to the author

and

* A DMCA Takedown Notice to Github to remove the repository
This is true. Many people think that you can just get rid of livestock and grow kale. It doesn't work like that.
Still others think you can get rid of livestock, which eliminates the need for feed crops, which then allows you to grow kale. That isn't reality either. Land with low-quality soils used to grow crappy field corn (which is not suitable for humans) cannot simply be converted to grow kale for humans.

Livestock are part of an integrated agriculture system. Livestock and agriculture depend on one another. Cattle and ruminants, for example, convert low quality wild scrub, fescue and leftover agricultural byprods into high quality human-edible meat and nutrients.

About 50% of the corn in the US is grown not for humans or animal feed, but to produce ethanol fuel. The residual of that ethanol process is then processed into feed for livestock.

Quite a bit of the Amazon region is used to grow soybeans. The soybeans are shipped to Asian countries where they make soybean oil out of it for cooking. The residual soy byproducts from that process is then turned into feed which goes to pigs and chickens in that region.

Also mentioned in an earlier reply that about 50% of all fertilizer needed for crop cultivation comes from animal manure and byproducts. The remainder (and alternative approach) is to synthesize the fertilizer from fossil fuels.

It's important to realize that livestock aren't simply a standalone component in the food system. They are a key part of the total agriculture picture.

Food also isn't simply calories, it's about nutrition-- getting absorbable animal-format vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other key nutrients. There are quite a few nutrients which are essential to the human body and yet are very difficult (some virtually impossible) to obtain from plant-only sources. So reducing meat does come with costs/risks in terms of nutrition, I think that shouldn't be overlooked.
I think there is going to be a major technology gap next generation.

Nerds vs Luddites vs Apple users.

Each will have a vastly different understanding of technology.
In practice, DNS is already sort of not-centralized (even if it would be incorrect to call it decentralized). One can decide to use specific name servers that do not follow ICANN's rules. See for instance the OpenNIC project. They even operate non-standard TLDs.

Using a blockchain has little benefits. And I believe it's energy cost is really not worth it in the current situation.
There are some very nice Discord communities. It's obviously more active than a message board, and some of the better ones are invite-only or you have to submit an application to join.
That belief seems like it would be obviously justified. The same would be true for pretty much any geographically restricted set of day traders on a specific exchange tied to the geography, likely even for huge exchanges. There are huge effects from correlation with that country’s equity markets, currency policy, political events, etc. to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to assume they aren’t present until they are proven present. That’s reversing the burden of proof in a terrible way.

The number of confounders you need to control for before you could confidently not make this assumption is staggering.
U2F requires the presence of SMS fallback. It cannot be disabled as of two days ago when I tried it last.
There's no feasible preimage against even md5 still.
I assume this means you were taught a very strong form of the efficient market hypothesis.

I believe there’s some good evidence for weak form efficient markets hypothesis in the most liquid markets, which implies you can’t make money by trading only on ‘technical signals’ in the price. This is what you might expect day traders to try to do, so in that sense it’s not a particularly surprising result this paper demonstrates.

But the consensus is, I think, that the strong form of the efficient market hypothesis might not be true in real life - being good at fundamental analysis can lead you to outperform the market.

Illiquid markets are a bit different again - you can potentially get ‘paid’ a lot more just for providing liquidity to the market there, which is different again.
So basically, you need £5m to start with, which most people would consider pretty wealthy. Plus, it doesn't seem that much different from the old idea that the rich can just "live off the interest."
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> GDPR is purposefully structured in such a way that consent is needed only for things that are abusive to users, or were found to carry a significant risk of being used to abuse users.

What the regulators intend is one thing. What paranoid legal teams, particularly common law legal teams, think is another.
It'd be a pretty tone deaf political move to allow a foreign power to buy a well known UK institution given the current little-island campaigning by the government (even if they try and spin it as the idea we trade with other countries outside the EU).

Politics aside, there's often the mindset that a foreign company would look to increase "efficiencies" and then offshore elements. Not many people will cry tears over lost City jobs, but there'd be an interesting narrative at play.
You may be interested in my app that has subtasks as calendar events: https://getartemis.app
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You won't get 5 years without at minimum replacing the battery, and a large fraction of people will probably end up with a broken screen in that timeframe as well. Of course it's not impossible to replace these parts on a normal phone, but it is significantly easier/cheaper to do on something like the Fairphone.

Readily available and easily installable replacement parts are certainly useful for anyone planning on keeping a phone for more than a few years, just like with cars.
I'd like to praise you for listing what you bring in, what is expected of the co-founder, what the product does and how to contact you. There have been many similar posts in the past where some, sometimes all, were missing.

You could try adding 'Ask HN' to the title. Posts in https://news.ycombinator.com/ask needs less upvotes.

And add yourself to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20926006
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yeah, but let's not mix too many things together.

you can have a smartphone (I don't) and be very miserable and lonely (i’m not). I bet that's even the daily experience of a lot teenagers.

A smartphone may help to get in contact with people, but it's not a necessity by a far stretch.

Again: a (sometimes painful) emotional and social education is what teenagers need. Soft skills are hard to learn.
Have you solved the lunar lander environment? It's been kicking my ass for a few months off and on. I finally solved it with vanilla policy gradiant ascent without a baseline, it just took 30,000 episodes.

Does what you've created in the blog post solve the lunar lander?
This year has been unusual but it is pretty wild as someone fully invested in stocks (including individual picks) how many times I found myself making more than my rent or paycheck in a day.
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There's a plug-in called RedditEnhancementSuite (RES) that adds infinite scrolling with the URL bar being modified. RES has a pretty large userbase and it's well done so OP probably uses it and just forgot what's base Reddit and what's RES.

The new redesign also adds infinite scrolling.
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Isn't it possible that there is simple not enough information in the system to successfully day trade (at least in this particular market). Considering that the daily movements of stocks are like a random walk, I don't find it hard to believe.
You might just have been making money from a long bias there. Even if you try to balance your long/short exposure in monetary terms, you can still have beta to the market by e.g. buying $1k tech stocks and selling $1k utilities.
... provided that she permits the 14 year old to buy one.
Here's a quick guide to employer regulation in NYC. With one part-time employee you would be exempt from many statutes:

https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/labor-employment/b/...

Also, part of the purpose of incorporation is to provide a personal liability shield as a catch-all.

Any policy has benefits and drawbacks. Yes, somebody is losing out on beneficial employment with you. But somebody else is being saved from being paid $5/hr under dangerous conditions without workers comp.
If everyone moves from long-term office spaces to short-term ones, at the same time that overall office demand declines, then the price of traditional office space is going to crater... taking with it the price (or demand) of WeWork space, which is already not exactly operating at the best margins ever.
Interesting, so in France you can't fire someone but can legally make his life miserable through constant relocation? Brutal...
The Redmond Doctrine
Theoretically, the long term effects of everything ever should be priced in.

Brexit is a whole great big seething can of uncertainty. Just look at the last few years.
>Searching on Google, I found the database from the LinkedIn 2012 hack. Each record had a user id and an email without additional information.

>The link to the LinkedIn user profile was missing and personal information was lacking. As a result, it was not very useful.

I think he is downplaying the value of that hacked database. Without it what would he have? userid and profile url combos...
The voting thing is important though, as allowing buildings to vote is very different legally to outside the City.

Although it's a valid point, most of the dodgy stuff is now done in a weird off-the-books theoretical location (or downright explicitly in the whole city).

Still interesting the Queen can't go inside without permission.
I have an 8 and while the X is subjectively better, a moment or two in snapseed can more than make up the difference.
>> This observation I don't really follow, I would say the bar to match human reasoning abilities is extremely high for exactly the reasons you described yourself.

Sorry I should've phrased it better. I was trying ti imply that just matching human reasoning abilities is indeed an undertaking of incomprehensible complexity, _and_yet_ it is still highly error prone. I believe a system that replaces humans will be under close scrutiny and just being at par won't be enough.
I'm not familiar with that book, but I can say that Dr. Carroll's book is far better than any previous book on the subject I've read, in terms of getting rid of the confusion inherent in QM.
It’s not the dozen websockets in a literal sense that are the problem; they’re more an especially-visible consequence of their design choices that is easily noticeable during a design audit—a “canary” that shows the flaws of their model.

Slack has decided that each team workspace must be firewalled off from the others: such that it needs its own websocket, its own client-side sync session, its own open channels, etc. This is because Slack was first-and-foremost a web-app, and in the Slack web-app, you’d just have one browser tab per Slack team. Slack built up its infra assuming this “one tab per workspace” model, and it crept into their backend API design, and now they’re kind of stuck with it. So now, even in the native mobile app (let alone the desktop Electron app), when you have 12 Slack teams open, you have basically 12 copies of the app’s view-controllers open and idling in the background, 12 background sync controllers, etc. In the case of the Electron client, that’s also 12 renderer processes, just as if you had 12 literal browser tabs open!

You might not notice this at first, because Slack won’t initialize all those resource for a workspace’s “tab”-equivalent until you actually focus the given workspace at least once. But if you just skim through all those workspaces once in the morning, and leave Slack open, it’ll be hogging those resources all day.

(And, on mobile, that’s especially a concern, because despite what you say, web-sockets themselves have heartbeats, and 12x the heartbeats is 12x the reasons for your phone’s modem to wake up. If you’re ever wondering why the part of your phone around the antenna is getting hot even when you’re not actively using data—it’s probably that you have several active Slack workspaces in a live Slack app-container.)
This is a common misconception. Futures contracts are very often used for nonspeculative purposes (e.g. Starbucks locking in prices for buying milk or farmers locking in prices to sell wheat). This is a form of insurance. While the end users are ultimately may net with each other, the intermediaries who take risk matching these parties charge a fee (the spread) for doing so.

Why can't the end users trade with each other directly and avoid such fees then? Often they are not in the market at the same time or want to trade different quantities, relying on the intermediaries to resolve these problems.
> The MWI literature is festooned with references to "copies" or "versions" of yourself, and "the branching structure of the multiverse".

Many MWI advocates will describe that physical wavefunction in those terms, but that's a metaphor/model/aid to understanding, not a "point of metaphysical fact". The only thing that MWI demands we take as metaphysically real is the wavefunction. Given a wavefunction like 1/sqrt2(|experimenter who observed a live cat> + |experimenter who observed a dead cat>) many people find it convenient to think of this as "two Everett branches with ...", in the same way that people who hear a particular pattern of sound might find it convenient to think of it as a chord of two or three notes. But if you prefer to think of it as simply a unitary (in the everyday sense) wavefunction that's fine, you'll make exactly the same experimental predictions.
Good question. For doctors (in my country at least) it amounts to a government-enforced monopoly that keeps rates high.

It would probably cause the low end of pay to go up for software engineers, but not affect the high end.
Depends on the kind of difficulty. If it's quantitative, as in requiring orders of magnitude more energy, mass or time, then yes.

But it might be just more difficult qualitatively, like some different and non-intuitive way of interpreting everything, which might only require switching a few equations and changing some procedures.
Exactly this, I have a grant that is quite open ended and am interested in any and all interventions that can do good, even those as unconventional as buying police forces portable xrays to detect illicit goods
> But if the apps worked eventually like a reverse auction, where drivers got to set their own rates and you could then choose based on distance and cost, that would be much more of a true marketplace model with independent sellers.

It's interesting to think what kind of efficiencies could be unlocked with a more versatile and robust driver-client interaction. Could clients order a ride at X time to Y location and have drivers bid down to fulfill the ride? Could the bid-down process be performed automatically based on the driver's personal settings on pricing and location?

Ultimately these efficiencies would make the driver's life better. The UI for the rider may be similar and the price may be similar (or higher!) as well.

Uber and Lyft had their chance to show leadership and empower their drivers if they truly believed their drivers were contractors, rather than leaving them in some gray zone of partially contractor and partially employee.
Maybe I shouldn't have voted this up. :/
It's devastating how many platforms require a mobile number in India. Many platforms also use the mobile number as the sole user identifier (try registering on Flipkart or Bounce or any other service — there is no way to do it without a mobile number and with just an email address). Many platforms also make assumptions that people's mobile numbers don't change. I gasp and scream every time I see these on a site or service, and then promptly abandon it and navigate elsewhere!

A correction: Aadhaar is available to all residents of India (those who have spent more than 182 days in the country in a year). It has nothing to do with Indian citizenship or being a proof of Indian citizenship, though with the completely broken design of the system, Aadhaar can be used to get a passport, and thus proving that one is a "citizen".
It doesn't look like Brexit is going to happen as of now.
At least in the western United States, scraping is fine: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17... . LinkedIn was even a party to this case!

The UID->email data dump was not, AFAIK, legal though.
5k into 5.3k is 6%. You can get much more than that in the long run by just putting it in an index fund.

Why bother day trading?
But I could also sock £5m into VBIAX, with 7% annualized returns, and clear an extra £50k. At that point, other than "I like day-trading", why would you want to do that?
Absent that flexibility many people wouldn't be working at all. Both because their life situations don't allow them to take another job as employees, and because the companies' labor needs do not justify the cost of adding additional employees.

> Uber and Lyft have repeatedly warned that they will have to start scheduling drivers in advance if they are employees, reducing drivers’ ability to work when and where they want.

>Experts said that there is nothing in the bill that requires employees to work set shifts, and that Uber and Lyft are legally entitled to continue allowing drivers to make their own scheduling decisions.

>In practice, Uber and Lyft might choose to limit the number of drivers who can work during slow hours or in less busy markets, where drivers may not generate enough in fares to justify their payroll costs as employees. That could lead to a reduced need for drivers over all.

>But Veena Dubal, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said it would still generally be advantageous for Uber and Lyft to rely on incentives like bonus pay to ensure they had enough drivers on the road to adjust to customer demand much more nimbly than if they scheduled drivers in advance.

I think the experts cited in this article are not getting at the crux of the problem. Offering employee benefits means that each driver has an overhead cost to the rideshare company. Drivers need to generate a minimum amount of revenue for rideshare company, otherwise the driver is a net loss for the company. So Uber and Lyft are going to have to start scheduling drivers to generate a certain threshold of revenue, and if drivers don't meet that they'll be let go.
Renaissance Technologies did not use algorithms to beat the market... they used tax schemes to do so:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/renaissan...

When you factor in the money they saved from dodging taxes and how they managed to compound the growth on that money, their returns end up being no more impressive than any other hedge fund.

Even if it turns out that what they did wasn't illegal, the bulk of their profits beyond what would have been made just investing in an index fund came from their tax scheme rather than from any kind of insight into the financial markets.
Yeah I played a lot of games too, but it was still a machine that was geared toward you doing work – even when playing games (besides qbasic, configuring .bat and .ini files were my first foray into hacking and programming). And reading USENET was not as addictive or as mind-dulling as infinitely scrolling on Instagram and Facebook
Leverage.

You’ll quickly get big or go home.
It depends on the book, really. There are some very deep books which one should totally take the time to read slowly, comprehend the ideas and retain them to some extent. But lately I've been noticing that the majority of recent non-fiction books are basically filler added around an idea which could have better been an essay. I would definitely speed-read those. My latest example would be https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Peter-Gawker-Anatomy-Intri....

Not to mention the numerous pop-sci books which are a detailed history of science in disguise. I'm actually abandoning those. I'm tired of reading about the personality quirks or life stories of Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrödinger whenever I pick up a book about quantum mechanics.

Life's too short to invest your time (slow read) in filler material.
Yes, long term 7% is the quoted number, however that can be over a couple of decades (maybe more) and you may need to endure a recession or two.

With a bit of active management, I manage to achieve 6-8% each year, but I avoid large negative hits that an index fund might endure in a bad market.

So, I'm sort of returning similar returns to market, but with less volatility in the bad times. I'm sorta happy with that.
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https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-2720-flip something like this seems like a happy medium
Probably a bit negative-sum when you take into account commissions and other transaction costs?