skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before Black-Scholes gets bashed too hard, people should keep in mind that it's nearly 50 years old. Of course it's going to be outdated and inaccurate (as all models are).

It's worth reflecting on what options markets were like before Black-Scholes: a lot smaller and valued through qualitative, "over-the-counter" measures. More like handshake one-off business deals than liquid markets.

Regardless of how you feel about options trading or the role of liquidity in financial markets, Black-Scholes was an intellectual achievement and should be remembered as such, even as newer better techniques replace it.

To his credit, Ed Thorp also realized this at the same time as Black-Scholes but chose the money-management route and didn't feel the need to publish his strategies as papers for the academic community (and probably giving up the Nobel Prize in Economics).

My two favorite books on these people are Perry Mehrling's biography of Black and Ed Thorp's autobiography.

Fischer Black: https://www.amazon.com/Fischer-Black-Revolutionary-Idea-Fina...

Ed Thorp: https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/0812...
Well functionality of some sites can be quite addictive. Addictive can be negative if you want it to be.

My idea with the term "addictive" is that the functionality of the board and overall experience leaves you wanting to come back for more. Thus empowering you to complete project tasks and items on time / increase your productivity. Which in reality is what a productivity tool is all about.
No, but I'd happily bring a bottle of beer along with me while I walk the dogs through a park.

I have my personal set of ethics/morals. Murder and theft are not allowed by those. The laws in Canada line up pretty close to these ethics, but not perfectly. The threat of punishment is what stops me from doing stuff in the "does no harm to anyone" category where the laws and my ethics disagree.
done, just in time!
They thought they would be able to IPO at $50 billion. Their problem was that the IPO process took long enough for people to realize how bonkers it was - it didn’t help that they were going to IPO after all the other loss making hype businesses are down from their IPO prices (so presumably people are viewing similar IPOs with suspicion).

What’s annoying to me is that these companies that are making huge losses were able to hoover up so much of the VC funding, while actual profitable businesses were not :-(

I recall reading an article a few years ago from a profitable startup talking about trying to get VC funding, and all their interactions were basically “you should stop charging so you can get market share”. Essentially demanding that they make their profitable company unprofitable.

I wish I could remember where it was.
At risk of adding little to this conversation; LMAO.
I'm not sure I've ever seen stealth sold as an "invisibility cloak," except by press lacking subject matter familiarity.

The pitch I've seen in settings that do have subject matter familiarity is that stealth decreases the detection range for a given power / bandwidth / noise tolerance. Could your opponent use more power? Sure, but then they're easier to missile lock and destroy. Could they use more installations? Sure, but then they have to maintain them and their communications. Could they crank up the sensitivity? Sure, but then they have to deal with false positives and increased vulnerability to jamming. That goes especially for passive radar. Don't get me wrong, it's still an arms race, but it's not as cut-and-dry as this piece would have you believe.

Also, it's a VHF technique, which is low enough frequency that I'd bet active cancellation is practical, possibly even through a software update :)
For windows, you can create an Azure DevOps account/team for free, and create pipelines against your Github codebase for Windows builds. You'll probably have to install extra pre-requisites for your build though, not sure what's actually in the box, using custom windows agents at work, or linux/docker targets mostly.

It's (Azure DevOps) not always the easiest/best, but it's pretty good... my preference when including the project mgt tools.
“Here I Stand, at Age 80”
If you want to be extra cheeky, you can use your opponent's radar emitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Heidelberg
I Run One-on-Ones
'Human Influence on Climate Change is Bigger than the Sun's' is a very bold confident statement on that 'skeptical science' climate alarmist site
Maintain? We will obviously increase our energy use, and not by a little but by order of billions and billions (non-accurate estimate). We haven't really even started consuming energy yet. We just came out of caves and are barely learning to walk as a civilization.

We don't need to cut our consumption until we actually run out of energy, i.e. have harnessed the whole sun with a Dyson sphere and used up every other source. After that, there are other stars to harness.
Enemies of the state in hostile countries, that's been standard policy for nearly as long as drones have existed. It's a new and improved form of assassination which is used for the same kind of things assassination has always been used for.

Petty criminals are another story entirely. We could easily let human officers fire at will if we supported it as a society, but we don't, so automating that is not a natural step forward.

On the other hand, simply using the recognition side of the equation is a more slippery slope. Wanted posters have been accepted for centuries, so this is in many ways just an improvement on what police already do. But just because something is accepted as a necessary evil doesn't mean that it is still acceptable at orders of magnitude greater efficiency.
It is difficult to determine whether he was alone in a 'Wilson' Cast Away sense or if he was alone while watching others do their activities and stealing from them to support his necessities.

These two environmental conditions can have varying impacts on a person's mind.
The vast majority of shares purchased at IPOs are by institutional investors writing very large checks, not retail investors.

Retail investors shying away had nothing to do with the IPO getting pulled. And even if this wasn't the case it's still not fraud: if retail investors have all the data (which they did) but still want to buy something, it's not deception.
What does "let things happen on their own" mean in this context? One person can pivot a culture, just as one researcher can pivot a field. What's the difference?
To be fair to anyone that denies something, if they don't directly observe it, why should they believe it? Especially if they have to alter their day to day lives around that statement? The media makes contradictory sweeping claims time and time again over small bits of data. Why should anyone believe "the science" they pose? With the media being the leaders of dialogue, why should people believe in something that alter's their day-to-day practice? I'm not even getting into the fossil-fuel fueled propaganda. Just a human nature perspective. Not being able to observe an action/event is meant to be suspect rather than held as doctrine.

Again, I'm not saying global warming is a lie. I know it's real. Not a belief or held in faith. Just knowing. But part of the discourse as to why people don't believe it, I see from articles like the NYT article. It's just a realistic stance on the issue. Articles like these give zero benefit. Even those who believe in global warming are arguing against this article in HN. It definitely won't bring the deniers into the light.
Could be cool, but this has zero screen reader accessibility. I hope this gets fixed.
I worked in an investment bank (Barclays Capital) in 2008, and at the time we were already developing models which could handle negative interest rates. The idea that this is somehow a new problem that has "broken the pillars of modern finance" is bizarre.
Looking for more toybox gcf. files
Cloudscript was a system first introduced around 2010 as a way to use entities without heading to an external source such as garrysmod.org and having to install an add on for a simple fun little entity. Later, it was renamed to Toybox for unknown reasons, presumably due to it being a more fitting name. It had a basic rating system, no weapons, no map support, no custom content, no comments, etc. but as time went on, it grew and grew with features. It had many classics such as The Friendly Gnome, Escape the Box, Rave Box, Dr. Hax, and a lot more. What happened to it was unfortunate, as around the time Garry's Mod 13 was being made, the Workshop was being explored. It had better compression utilizing the gmad system and has the ability to mount materials/models/sound in-game. Unfortunately, this came with a cost. Toybox was planned to shut down a little while after GMod 13 released, due to the Workshop being superior. Garry knew that there was too much content to go, so a torrent with models, maps, materials, and sound was released. It was basically the in-game garrysmod.org, the in-game workshop. It's unfortunate what happened, but a few modders out there are trying to pick up the pieces left in old GMod installs here and there. Projects such as Funbox, 400+ pack, Old Toybox Stuff and Toybox Classics intend to restore not only old Toybox but Toybox content too. but with the help of the users named Hds46 and Lead they has finally brought back the toybox in gmod 12. so i need help finding more toybox gcf. files so we can have more old stuff from the toybox.
god i hate elon musk
Let me unpack my way comment:

a) Erlang (as opposed to something else) is only useful for large distributed systems.

b) If your organization is at the scale where you need a large distributed system, then the problems in your project aren't related to code or to coding speed.
> Both [these bugs] were fixed in Firefox 56, which was released in the fall of 2017.

Might be worth clarifying this a little higher up on the page.
Why don’t we pay ships for the pollutants they collect? Wouldn’t that motivate them to store it?
> ISPs are trying to undermine the standard simply because they want continued access to users' data, Erwin said. Unencrypted DNS helps them target ads by tracking your web habits, and it's harder to thwart DNS tracking than cookies and other typical approaches.

Is there any other serious argument against encrypting DNS? The only other one I heard was it makes filters harder such as child protection filters on the ISP level.

It would be very ironic if ISPs are successful in making our communications less secure by using anti-Google sentiment and anti-trust laws.
Ideally, yes.

It's not that they should face no consequences - they should face consequences in the circles in which they express those views, ideally in the form of people disagreeing with them, but possibly also wanting to dissociate with them. If they try to keep those views out of the classroom, I don't have a problem with it.

In the classroom, you are the instrument of a consensus view. You must do your job. If you do it well, that's great. Your views outside the classroom should be irrelevant, and I can't help but notice that a lot of the time when people get in trouble for their views outside of work, it's because someone de-anonymised them.

We cannot have a world where people's actual opinions are forced to be equal to those their employers would be comfortable with. Your extreme examples are extreme indeed, but there are many examples, particularly in authoritarian regimes, where the extreme view is the correct one. So extreme-ness is not a good metric for whether views should be allowed or not.

I think the solution for everyone is to stay silent, and to discuss their views anonymously online. Their views will still have force at the ballot box - as they did at the last election (as much as I did not like the outcome, it was evidence that social shaming has limited power at changing how people vote). We should be suspicious of attempts to de-anonymise the internet.

Basically, dissent is important. So important that it is worth tolerating bad views to ensure dissent is not suppressed when it is needed.

Everyone who pictures the cancel-culture norms resulting in some sort of paradise where everyone believes nice things are delusional, they are simply ceding power to those who will use it for personal gain, and giving the currently powerful the tools to to cement that power.
Sure. So in our hypothetical scenario — as in the whistleblower complaint — let's assume that our secondhand informant is able to name the alleged perpetrators and details of the crime, conveying information given to them by six firsthand witnesses. What police officer wouldn't follow up on that?
Personal computing and hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson reflects on his life's work and the ways computer history could have turned out very differently.

From the video desc.:

‘What I want known about my ideals and work over the years. How a very bad career plan led to discoveries, hopes and adventures. In some ways this is an alternative history of personal computing and world hypertext.’
Honestly, I'll worry about it when I get there.
This is almost too perfect but SoftBank is, at the moment, trying to hire a valuations director:

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cf0378114e63aeb4&from=tp-s...

Sort of a "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" kind of thing . . .
"Beemer" for bikes and "bimmer" for cars is certainly what I have observed among BMW enthusiasts. At least on the US west coast.
it should. in the real world and online, logic is useless at convincing people. probably because empiricism is more effective at discovering useful knowledge epistemologically speaking
Should have made them get their realtor licenses.
This has nothing to do with an actual increase in crime, and everything to do with the reclassification of sex crimes in Sweden.
It was not at all obvious, and further, you made a claim ("gun fire and cluster bombs") that implied you had some direct knowledge of the topic. Do you, or did your claim just sound right to your ears?
The VA Linux claim is to the best of my knowledge false. It's also second-hand information relayed by Gruber.

Eric S. Raymond ("ESR") was an author of the Open Source Definition and a member of the VA Linux board:

https://www.linux.com/news/eric-raymond-responds-changes-va-...

I find no current links indicating Stallman was ever on the VA Linux, or any other corporate board. Neither his personal bio nor Wikipedia bio mention any.
Would add Permutation City. Shades of the matrix, anticipation of public clouds/floating markets for compute(spot instances), interesting 'what is consciousness' re: software copies of a person's mind, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
> but now JQuery is basically useless to me.

Probably not, because even if you don't use it today, the problems and solutions you learned while using it probably made you a better developer and you know what was good and not very good about it, so even if you are making something with React, you probably remember the "old jQuery days" and don't make the same mistakes.
Why not just take PhD off your resume and just say you were having a sabbatical
> so they pivoted to "secret Muslim"
Who is 'they'? The politicians or random citizens?
This has happened to me a bit too.

Along with the factors that @zdragnar mentioned, funding for industrial R&D isn’t very stable either. One place I interviewed lost the contract that would have funded my position; another place with a lot of goverment projects decided to freeze hiring due to “political uncertainty.” Neither place was particularly upfront about this, but their decisions do make a bit of sense.

There’s also a ton of misunderstandings between the academic and industrial folks. “Expert in machine learning” in a job posting might mean anything from “a few years experience” to “I literally wrote the book on this topic.” Likewise, it is also hard to present accomplishments in a way that impresses both sides. There’s certainly a lot of currently-empty room for specialized, savvy recruiters (and if you are one, looking for a neuro/ML person, let’s talk!)
What is behind the crisis in Haiti?
> Indeed, the biggest share of CO2 emissions isn't due to "rich Americans" living wasteful lifestyles, but people in emerging economies living a comparably modest lifestyle.

Not really https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/sc...

> We would have to deny those people the lifestyle that we enjoyed for the past 50+ years.

It's not like they have to go through the industrial revolution 1800s UK style to attain our level, we have the tech (and they're using it, solar/wind is becoming extremely competitive for example, hell even nuclear is better than coal/gas). But yeah if everyone's going to live like the current US/EU citizen we're fucked for sure no matter how many trees we plant.

> We could achieve far more by, say, investing into replacing more primitive power generation in those countries than replacing inner-country air travel with more primitive transport.

Or we could do both since these things are 100% unrelated and not enough anyway.

We're all responsible and we can all do better, so let's stop playing dumb games and do what we can. It's not like skipping your trip to standard_tourisitic_location_#231, eating less meat, buying local food, using public transportation or buying less useless junk on amazon/ebay is going to turn your life to absolute shit so let's do it ... Yes cargo ships, asian factories, saudi's oil fields, pollute a lot, but guess who's profiting from them... Don't you see the big picture ? How do you think your colombian coffee, ecuadorian bananas, chinese phones, thai clothes, saudi's gas, japanese cameras are made / get to you to you ? "Yelp, it's not me, it's the chinese/indians/saudis, look at the stats!!!". It feels like talking about pollution is like asking your 8 years old to do his homework, "I'll do it in an hour".
One of the many pitfalls between doctor-patient relationship. Thank you. Hope he's continued to have relative stability.
We've been seeing nothing but bullshit valuations for years. Twitter was a bullshit valuation.

I'm just glad we finally had a sanity check on something.
or... "vision and language sure seem different, can you believe that networks of neurons in the brain do both?"
> So if there was no threat of punishment you would become a murderous, thieving, drug user?

Many years ago I worked in a startup, as it turns out the primary owner of the business is what a typical person would likely consider a con-man. I have a rolodex filled with people who were harmed by this man's lies.

Good luck seeking justice if you don't have a bank-roll to fund a strong lawsuit.

I've long since let it go, but for a solid year or so I was consumed by hatred for this man and very much would've loved to take a tire-iron to this man's knees. Some of the other people hurt are close personal friends, I can say with certainty that I'm not the only one who wanted retribution. These people also have family / relationships, some amount of wealth, opportunity, etc.

As it turns out, the risking non-trivial amounts of time in prison serves a deterrent for certain classes of individual. People with something to lose. That, statistically, it doesn't quite appear to serve the purpose should make you question the circumstances, the incentives at play as relates to the people committing those crimes.

Do be cautions when drawing black-and-white conclusions from statistics.
I feel like I see only the "1 star bump" distribution for nearly everything. Most people happily rate something as a 5 with little thought, and a few write a very long screed to accompany a 1; almost nobody cares to do anything in between.
The people at these companies actually handling individual contributor level execution are pretty talented. It's just that the plan/model they work under is not sustainable.
It should help the higher HF bands the most, as I understand it. 20m, 17m, 15m, 10m. I've been doing SSTV on 20m because you can just fire up the decoder program and occasionally check to see what's come in. I frequently get signals from California, Illinois, Louisiana, Florida, and the Northeast, plus the occasional message out of Canada.

I don't hear a lot of voice on 20m, but digital and CW are reasonably active. I can pick up CW most times of the day, and FT8 is always hopping at 14074 khz.

"Bad propagation" is a real thing, but it's also a feedback loop. Everyone knows the bands suck during solar minimum, so fewer people call CQ. Fewer people calling CQ = fewer people hearing the calls and answering = less activity on the bands = people continue to assume propagation is just impossible.
Hopefully they stay independent. They're better that way
I don't remember the source of the material when I took the class, but it's been built upon since then. Here's one example that used the Enron corpus:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4981627/
We believed in "spin", and figured if Uber could IPO, then so could they.
Because that would give them a reason to pollute even more.
The Theory of the Greater Fool operates in most asset markets, not only publicly traded securities.

And "the public" wields it as often as any private asset manager.
Brain chip created for US soldiers to take out enemies with their minds
Because the first party that cheats and starts killing other side's people wins. Settling wars by game (whether a robot conflict, or a videogame) is an unstable equilibrium, because it requires all participants to obey the rules. "War" is generally what we call when a faction throws out the rulebook.
Ok, that’s a terminology issue.

The term public ownership generally means owned by the government, it’s public in the sense that it’s therefore owned by the people. See the Wikipedia article on public property.

Dispersed private ownership is new to me. Huw would that work, mandatory dispersal of shares to all citizens? What happens for new citizens? How do citizens take advantage of their rights, just like any shareholder? What if the vast majority simply sell their shares? I’m not clear how this would all work.

I also don’t see how this brings corporate behaviour under control, without taxes and regulation which we can do anyway.
Show HN: Connect Industrial Sensors to Any Cloud
How does low radar observatbility help against IR missiles?
Supposedly, passive radar can use sources as weak and diverse as individual cell phone towers, the GPS system and analogue TV signals. I doubt there is anywhere left on land you couldn't get at least 2 of those signals. Though I'm no expert on the tech and I guess the manufacturer has a big incentive to overstate it.
Even if they wanted to, is there anything Twitter could do about the (potential/perceived/choose-your-own-narrative) conflict of interest?

I don't know anything about British labor law, but in the US it's illegal to discriminate, fire, etc. a person because of service in the armed forces, including reserves. I'm pretty sure taking any action on the basis of their role in the reserves would be illegal.
Will getting a PhD lead to a more prosperous life?

Will getting a PhD lead to a more satisfied life?

A have a PhD. I think I can say probaly yes to the first. But: Where others can earn black money next to their work, I can't. So go figure.

For the second: I am certain - no. When others go home and leave their work where it belongs to, I keep on chewing. More responsibolity leads to more stress Imho which colides with satisfaction.

Both answers do not answer the OPs question though.
Isn't the photo some bad CGI?
>It is in every nation state’s best interest to reduce the human and property cost of every battle.

It won't happen, drones killing drones will never be as effective a means of coercion than drones killing people. Human suffering is what makes war effective.
>Again, rent in cities that aren’t the hot, desirable coastal ones is quite reasonable

Wages are shit in a lottt of those places. Rents are reasonable as a % of SF programmer income I suppose, but the picture is a little different if it's mostly walmart jobs or nothing available.