skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating story, thanks for sharing!

"we realized that there will always been a better resourced or more dedicated team willing to fight you for your alpha"
- that's part of what makes financial markets such a fun and interesting challenge but agreed, intermediary risk at the timescales you were operating at in this kind of unregulated market is real and not fun

I'd love to hear what problem you moved to that you believe you can build a long term competitive advantage on if you can talk about it?
Generally UI is smoother on Windows due to the really mature desktop compositor that's light-years ahead of eg. Xorg. WDDM is actually a very good display driver model, UI crashes are really rare nowadays compared to eg. Linux (and this is not just driver quality).

So Linux is definitely faster for my development tasks, but slower when I'm scrolling in the browser.
I can see CDNs colocated inside ISP's internal networks shifting to be IPv6-exclusive at first because there will be guarantees of IPv6 connectivity to the ISP's customers.

...if not residential ISPs then certainly mobile-phone/wireless providers.
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It's kind of blowing my mind how different the prices are state to state. $900 for a family plan in New York? I pay $1600 in MN for my family plan in MN.
While I agree with the rest of the article, this bit isn't true

> Your Windows 7 is likely running on an older machine that might struggle with a resource hungry operating system like Windows 10.

> To run Windows 10, you need a 1 GHz processor, 1 GB for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit RAM, 16 GB for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS, and a 800 x 600 resolution display. And that’s just a bare minimum.

Windows 7 has the exact same minimum specs. And in my experience, Windows 10 runs better on a system meeting the minimum specs than Windows 7. Of course neither of them comes close to something like Lubuntu or Puppy Linux, but that's a different tanget. They also recommend Ubuntu as a first distro (which I agree is a good choice for newbies), but I moved away from Ubuntu to other distros during 16.04 because of how bloated it was. The Unity UI was sooooo slow on low end hardware. Is it still that way?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10737/windows-7-sys...

> 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor*

> 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

> 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

> DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Maybe we should talk about Rawl’s veil of ignorance [1]. If you did not know where you would be born or in what socio-economic class, what time period would you want to live in? Because it’s clear to me living in a 3rd world country (and, formerly, America), that the best time to be alive is now, in aggregate. If you could decide, maybe it would be great to be a king in the Middle Ages, or whatever. But if you didn’t have that choice and instead you randomly became someone, I think most people would agree that today is the best it’s ever been. Empirical statistics back this up as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
This is basically blogspam fueled by the Win7 EOL to get more people to try vivaldi. Personally the Win7 part feels like FUD to get people to try vivaldi, but that might just be my reading of it.
Yes, and that was largely the subjective opinion of those US-based map publications.

A US-adversary might want to call Puerto Rico a US-occupied independent state and they’d have similar justification.

What is “right” in global politics is highly subjective.
Author here. Let's assume you cannot got short (which you can't in most crypto markets) and can only make money when the market goes up. The best you can do is avoid losing money when the market goes down.

But there are no pure market downturns. On a daily scale the market may be down, but that does not mean that on a millisecond or second-scale you will only see downward movement. There is just an overall downtrend, but there is still almost the same upward movement to make money. For HFT systems, it really doesn't matter if the market, on a daily scale, goes up or down. There is no difference.

In fact, on many markets the system does better in downward trends. Probably because there is more liquidity on that side of the book, a bias that may come from certain market participants.
> If Tim was an open gay Joe Schmo waking around in st Petersburg he would be considered a criminal.

It's not true. There are some laws against LGBT in Russia, but being gay is not prosecuted.

But there are sure some anti-gay laws in Saudi Arabia, which, AFAIK is not suppressed by any of US sanctions.
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Except of course that there is no such thing as "the firefox foundation". There's the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that works with lots of people and other organizations, both online and offline, on programs and projects that line up with the Mozilla manifesto. Stuff like this Buyer's Guide is what the foundation has always been about.

What it doesn't do is "make Firefox"; it never has.

There's the Mozilla Corporation (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/), which makes products, like Firefox, and then there's the Mozilla Foundation (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/about/), which is all about furthering the Mozilla mission, not making products.

And of course, most news articles completely gloss over the fact that they're not the same thing, and just call everything both organizations do as something "Mozilla" does, so if this is the first time your hearing about the fact that there's TWO organizations, not just one: now you know.
I think my argument boils down to realism.

In a country of 300M people, you will never, ever get rid of some injustice and tragedy. You will always have some rapes, some orphans, people wrongfully jailed, stuff like that. That's just a harsh truth of human existence and I accept it as a mere mortal.

But let's be concerned about an agency abusing it's power and harming 151 people per year. Student loan industry makes millions of people miserable each year, and contribute to "young people in US dying at high rates", but since it's all within the law and said industry not abusing it's power at all, we can just disregard it.

Honestly, it's just a crazy talk to me. Let's abolish ICE and death rate for young adults in US will improve instantly, right? Or maybe let's fix that 1.5T of debt which literally kills mostly young adults?
Yes I am. I'm not alone in that assessment.

The soundness of such a tactic is moot when one considers the subject(s) at hand.
https://github.com/fedeliallalinea/gallifrey/tree/master/dev...

I thought Gentoo people despise plug-and-play. This is what I have for xorg

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "KeyboardDefaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,apl"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvp,dyalog"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle,caps:hyper"
EndSection
Ok, we've clarified that in the title above.
>Microsoft has teams doing boring whole-system benchmarking and holistic optimization.

Their UX and QA teams, on the other hand, are absolutely nowhere to be found. They've arguably been on a permanent vacation since the release of Windows 8.

- I can't yet re-open all my windows that I had open when I shut down my computer in Windows (by the time I've logged in on my KDE system all of the windows I want are already open and ready for use, much like they do on a Mac).

- I can't open an Administrator command prompt with a single button when navigating a file structure in Windows. In Dolphin I always have a console as part of the window.

- I have to accept updates when Windows thinks it's time for me to accept them, and also have to deal with telemetry. These updates have undesirable effects on the system because they can flat out uninstall programs, and re-install some programs you may have removed.

- Ads for Office, Candy Crush, and some other things are pre-installed.

- The search in the Start Menu is non-deterministic and does a bunch of other stuff I don't want it to do by default, like searching the web. Open applications do not clearly show they're open (they act like the OS X dock) by default, though to be fair it was Windows 7 that introduced that default feature.

- I only have to search one Control Panel for settings, and the themeing options are better in KDE. Dark mode wasn't done as lazily as it is in Windows and the visual theme of the system is far superior.

In my experience, Linux boots up and runs faster than Windows does, but even if it was slightly slower the performance hit would honestly be worth it simply because the system is so much nicer to use and its development actually bothers to align with user goals.
Some editors allow you to create regions of text which you can collapse/expand. You can do this in Vim, for example. So you could use these regions for comments which are not visible when you're coding.
You’re right. Although in this case I asked vaguely so as the question would be open and people could insert their own connotations.
They're backpedaling until they figure out an archive/memorialization strategy for people who passed away: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/27/20986084/twitter-inactiv...
You are the wind beneath my wings.
I find this argument pretty funny, because despite all the borders if you look at Crimea on OSM, it looks Russian alright: cities have Ukrainian spelling on the Ukraine part of the map and Russian on the Crimea.
Hippocrates's actual quote: "If you feed a cold you will need to starve a fever."

Translation, when you are sick you should fast.
I'm really curious why so many people complain about Nvidia GPUs under linux.
I've been running several Nvidia cards under linux over the last 10+ years without any serious issues. Back in the day Nvidia was really the only option and Fglrx was a total mess (So it's really nice to see how AMD cards under linux are now coming along...). And I don't have the impression that the quality has gone down over the years.

But is it because many distros don't ship with the Nvidia drivers and then people run into issues with Nouveau, or break something by installing the closed source driver manually or from a 3rd party repository and then get incompatible/broken libraries, wrong kernel versions and stuff like that?

Or is there really something wrong with the drivers themselves? (let's ignore optimus...)
You're not wrong, but did this really require a throwaway account?
"I just don't understand why people think the US military would act in unison. I'm sure there would be factions that would go along in this (crazy and unlikely) scenario. But I'm fairly convinced the larger faction would protect the people."

I'm not sure why the US military would be an exception in the history of hundreds or thousands of years of militaries being used against domestic civilian populations. Politicians are very good at getting militaries to heel. That's why militaries exist in the first place.

"We had a hard time getting soldiers to kill civilians in Vietnam. We had a hard time shooting others in WWII. How can you convince me that the majority of these soldiers are going to shoot their friends and family? That scenario itself seems ludicrous."

Some soldiers may have had a hard time killing Vietnamese civilians, yet despite that nearly 200,000 died. In WW2 tens of millions died. As for shooting friends and family, see the viciousness and bloodiness of the American Civil War.
There's nothing about GPS that says it should provide continuous information to others about one's location.
I wonder if there is actually any correlation between height and IQ among otherwise healthy adults. There are developmental diseases, as well as malnutrition, which simultaneously lead to both smaller stature and lower IQ. All of the problems that I can think of which lead to above average height don't really affect IQ(acromegaly, marfan syndrome, etc).
Or option 4a, where like me you have it but for whatever reason it bluescreens with an unhelpfully generic error on first boot.
No, but their peers influence behaviour, and behaviour has a strong influence on whether you learn anything in school (plus other important things like whether you wind up in jail or on drugs or pregnant at fourteen).
Baidu map shows Taiwan as a province of China wherever you are....which probably contributed to it not being major league.
I've made it a point to ask my drivers (usually Lyft) in every ride, "How's driving going?" and "Been driving for long?"

As a result, I've heard drivers lament about actual vomit and other weird problems. From my (much) experience as a rider, all of the vomit stories have been very legit sounding. (Of course, if there were fraud they probably wouldn't mention it)

Surprisingly, one of the things mentioned most often is passengers still trying to drink in the car. Like they will open new containers discreetly or conspicuously, at times even against warnings from the driver.

In one story, they charged the passenger for cleaning not because they threw up, but instead because the opened beer cases they brought in to the car had leaking beer cans so now the whole car smells like beer.
Ah thanks. We've unleashed the mice into the title above.
There's also Solaborate although I haven't tried it. https://www.solaborate.com/hello2
> Poorer populations have less access to sex education.

This is likely an accurate thesis based on macro and micro studies.

TLDR Education, empowerment (contraceptives), labor force participation = decline in fertility rate. Provide access to all of the above, fertility rate drops off.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-... (Fertility Rate: What explains the change in the number of children women have?)

Outside of Africa, there are only a handful of countries where the fertility rate is > replacement rate.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tim...
bicycles have a cassette of gears
That's horrible to know. How does something like the Chromecast do this then, if it is just a glorified browser?
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What do you mean when you say 'Russia' then? Do you mean the Kievan Rus? That's the only 'Rus' name I see applied to Ukraine on its wiki page. If so, that was 8 centuries ago, and the Russian ethnic group at that time was spread over Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.

Or perhaps, are you saying that the Russian empire isn't truly Russian because the Romanovs were German?

I get what you're saying about country boundaries and composition changing over time, but it seems like a stretch to call Ukraine the true Russia.
Honestly the UX of the privacy not included blog is pretty terrible. It is seems as if the blog is simultaneously sarcastic, shaming, and endorsing all at once. I would strongly suggest removing all of the unnecessary visual formatting, adding iconography to indicate Mozilla's stance on a topic, removing the personal tone from the articles, and overall restructuring the information to communicate the important information more swiftly and clearly.
Would you think measuring general alertness / focus would be a close proxy (or accurate derivative depending on how you frame it) to what you propose?
Wow, 97% of salon.com is ads!

Page size: 1.86 MB vs 0.05 MB

Energy used: 0.109 Wh vs 0.003 Wh

https://webtest.app/?url=https://salon.com
It has been known for quite some time that CDNs like akamai are basically 3rd party tracking mechanisms.

What's funny is they have basically gone 180 degrees from their original design.

Originally they were meant as caching mechanisms.

Now they are cache-busting tracking mechanisms.
I suspect this age group is one that is relied upon for care (some would say it's a societal expectation/burden) - either daycare for grandchildren or caregiving for aged parents. The need for both of which would increase when extended families are stressed by economic conditions. Sort of mindboggling that this barely even gets touched upon as a hypothesis in this economic analysis (maybe I'm missing it in the article, rereading now...)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/203358/food-and-drinks-s...

I’d say fast food isn’t the only culprit, normal restaurant portions are enormous too with the exception of a few health-focused salad chains.

Consumption of restaurant food has continued to increase over the last 30 years as the country gets more and more wealthy.

There are probably a lot of factors involved here of course.
You're not saying they're wrong. You're saying that two parties whose opinions you recognize have different opinions on the matter. That's literally what a dispute is.
Author here. Perhaps if you already have existing HFT infrastructure and connections to efficiently trade on such exchanges. But such infra costs millions. If you don't have this, you're probably at too large of a disadvantage to find any alpha.

At least that's my understanding based on conversations I've had, I've never traded equities.
From working with multiple platforms:
- switching to linux is a good call if upstream tools have been abandoned. In this case WINE is a good toolkit for windows tools needed. Figuring out which linux is best - Ubuntu and Fedora have the most industry support though.
- switching to Windows 10 should probably be tested first. Performance-wise it's comparable to 7 in most scenarios and while its UI with all the ads and "bling" is confusing it's at least somewhat consistent and probably the shallowest learning curve. And most of those features can be turned off.

Mostly I'd probably just try and find out why Windows 10 isn't a valid solution. They've reduced its memory and CPU requirements to fairly comparable to Windows 7, in most circumstances.

Most of the rest of the comments I've seen here are FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) arguments based on fallacies. I know people have reasons to dislike windows or linux (I personally cannot stand working in windows 10 except for to play video games), but that's personal bias and it has no place in giving advice.
It's interesting that all of the prior polling by relatively politically neutral organizations (UNDP, Razumkov Centre), even dating back to 2009-2011 before the civil war, showed widespread support for at a minimum secession from Ukraine, including multiple polls showing a majority supporting joining Russia (consistently 65% to 70% in favour) yet the whole idea of Crimeans having a voice in their own statehood was rejected outright by the UN and others.

> Razumkov characterized Crimeans' views as controversial and unsteady, and therefore vulnerable to internal and external influences.

It's true the Russian run referendum is probably a very corruptible process and unreliable but there's no clear indication that the majority of Crimeans were actually against the idea. Which IMO should matter more than what the foreign UN diplomats and think-tanks believe is best for them.

> Gallup poll found only 1.7% of ethnic Russians and 14.5% of ethnic Ukrainians living in Crimea thought that the referendum results didn't accurately reflect the views of the Crimean people.

The other side of it is whether that even matters with in the context of Ukraine's sovereignty and other issues of statehood. Plus referendums should probably not be happening in moments of anarchy. But it's not a good look for the west when trying to win them over by blaming Russian interference while glossing over potentially legitimate local support.
Another good reason to pop out video. I hate watching it in the browser, I just want to send it to my preferred player.
Personally I love the design.

First thing I thought of is that it looks a lot like a stealth fighter - interestingly, does that mean it can avoid radar speed detectors too?
There is a White House in russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_(Moscow)
What used to be the web is now a toxic wasteland filled with increasingly obnoxious advertising backed by increasingly creepy/ invasive tracking. This makes using tools like Apple's News App greatly more appealing to me personally.
In mice.

Also unfortunately the study failed to control the protein. Control group had a diet made of 24% protein, keto group ate 10% protein.

Protein restriction has been shown to have profound immune modulatory effects.

Protein restriction is a massive confounder in such studies. Caloric deficit is often another. These often go hand in hand.
why does that even matter?
Fair point, but considering OpenBSD's goal is to be absolutely secure and NetBSD's goal is to "just work" on basically anything you want to run it on reconciling that would be at least as much work as just forking and then each project adopting useful things from the other as needed.
This is very spot on, especially if you use some standard Dalek lines. A good example to test: "The Doctor is detected: terminate, terminate! Seek, locate, destroy."
1 kid, plus spouse and I. It's a bronze plan, so deductible is typical for bronze plans. I check on healthcare.gov and Health Sherpa every year to make sure it's about as low as I can get for bronze plans.
I think the author is reading way too much into the design.

It looks the way it does to drive down production costs and because of the limitations of the processes used to manufacture it: https://electrek.co/2019/11/24/teslas-cybertruck-looks-weird...

If there is some concern that Tesla is predicting some dystopian future it should have begun the moment they introduced 'Bioweapon Defense Mode'.
idk man? I explicitly specified the country and time frame? From what I know, if we talk about USA in 1985-1990 (and not USSR in 1935), there were no genocide, no mass poverty or concentration camps. Just education and housing were affordable and music was good.

You had a good chance of getting almost any college degree, good job and ride the happy 90's without student debt and paying off your mortgage for a property that will increase in price at least x2 next decade.
The actual published study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...

N = 20 healthy males.
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> If you look at sports records over time, everything gets continuously improves.

Some track and field records set in the '80s still stand, e.g., Marita Koch's 400 m, Jürgen Schult's discus throw, Galina Chistyakova's long jump.
For the past few months 875 times we posted simultaneously
Found 875 duplicating timestamps for the past few months

Currently (learn to) analysing HN posts (stories to be precise). Among stories for the period of 29.08–23.11 found 875 duplicating timestamps (including originals). Max 3 story per second.

E.g. these three on the 3rd of September at 18:01:29:

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867121

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867122

— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867123

(note those IDs)