skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My team of traders, quants, and devs is over 50% PhDs, so it isn't that far off.

Depends what segment of the industry you call home, but I can think of several options market-making desks where no trader has a PhD, as well as several hedge fund traders and founders that don't have PhDs and trade options frequently or as their core competency.

"Good at math" doesn't require a PhD; I have some college friends who went on to do engineering PhDs at top research institutions, and they suck at the kind of fluid/heat math and probabilistic analysis that option traders think about. I have worked with PhD mathematicians who were good quants but lacked the stomach and mental clarity to run risk, and one who was so caught up in his math that he needed others to remind him about basic realities like earnings reports for his own positions. That last guy tried to start his own hedge fund and failed.

Outside of a few particular research advisors and fields of study, most of the math that you need to know to trade vol is faster to learn by reading papers and explanations on the internet than by studying for a PhD.

Ultimately what makes someone a good or bad trader is based more upon trade and strategy ideation, backtesting/validation, position sizing, etc, and the P&L is the scoreboard. Take a famous contemporary vol trader like Harsh Padia (or whatever other person you choose) and lock him in a room for a year with Excel, Robinhood, cable internet, a phone line, and a few grand, and he'll still find a way to make money.

> Someone playing with options on Robinhood isn't in a different league, they are playing a different game.

If this is true (I believe it is not) then it's yet another data point suggesting that the market is rigged against certain participants for the enrichment of other participants. Lest you think I'm being hyperbolical, I give you the example of that kid[0] who figured out that HFTs front-run large CME orders and placed his own spoof orders so that he would be able to trade the reversion. On the HFT side, you have many of these "traders, quants, and devs...over 50% PhDs" but their business model may well depend upon front-running new trades right when they posts to the order book, but before the higher-latency public can receive the information. Regulators protect the HFTs by treating the order book as public information, while treating retail practices that defeat their strategies as unlawful.

How much of that depends on a PhD?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-51265169
A better question is what if your tax evasion savings had been stolen by your friend who has already paid taxes on the property he had stolen, but not returned, last year?
There are a lot of advantages to designing a better nuclear plant to be built than to retrofit one that is designed wrong from the beginning
Not at all true in this generality.

Germany allows a few 100k tax free every 10 years depending on the exact relationship.

+ "Usual" Christmas / birthday / marriage gifts etc which can be substantial
incoming mass cancellation of Deliveroo accounts
Leed gold is all about gaming metrics by not making enough bathrooms and then building them on after the certification
Tiddlywinks is one of those things that is too good to actually monetize. It's amazing software. In you can run on it on a server or on an a flasdrive. Or just from dropbox.
though a few modern books are translated into latin, including Harry Potter! But I bet scholars are doing that just for fun
I wonder how the "without revealing its precise source" part works.
Probably it's this form, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s1.pdf do you just add it in line 8 with type = "stuff"?
What happens if they need to audit you if it's the correct amount, won't you have to reveal the source then?
Might be wrong about this, but I believe how it works in practice is that a tax return just can't be used as evidence in a court of law (for non-tax related reasons). So if the FBI just so happened to obtain these tax returns through some means, then found /different/ evidence, then using that instead would be fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/no-really-spac...
I recently finished The Problem with Software by Adam Barr, which is about exactly this issue. Here are my notes: https://www.briansnotes.io/book/the-problem-with-software/

The author makes the argument for empirical research on software engineering just as you're describing, and references relevant studies.
Yes, this is possible and legal in Sweden.
The other way to obtain cheap alcohol is to take a cruise via the island of Åland, which is not in the EU. If you plan to visit Åland, make sure to pick a ferry that actually stops there as opposed to just symbolically tossing out a mooring rope for a few minutes to satisfy the legal requirements.
The phrase "It guarantees to everyone: Economic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work" originated from the "What is the Green New Deal?" FAQ page published by AOC.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190207191119/https://ocasio-co...

The exact text within the final resolution is: "providing all people of the United States with economic security"
I've lived in places where cops don't even show up for theft and burglary. If you want a police report, you're visiting the station where they begrudging take your report and roll their eyes at any implication that they should investigate the crime or look for whoever committed it.

What were the biggest line items on those municipalities' budgets? Police salaries, benefits, pensions and the purchasing and maintenance of law enforcement equipment and assets.

If you visit the police departments' Facebook pages, they frequently celebrate months long investigations on literal children who sell pot to their friends. There's apparently no time to solve potentially difficult-to-investigate crime when there are easy targets out there like kids smoking pot and people speeding.
Please define you acronyms. What is TMI and PA?
> Once Jack has been shown to be willing to oversell himself just to make a quick buck, it will immediately devalue everything associated with him, including the original NFT. You're buying into the quality/credibility/longevity of the creator here, and once it's shown he's a shill there's not much reason to value any of his original "work" highly.

To be clear I don't personally see any value at all in an NFT that doesn't have legal IP rights attached. I think we agree that far.

However:

> it will immediately devalue everything associated with him, including the original NFT

It might. Kind of hard to theorize as to what the result would be. The reason I'm hesitant to jump to that conclusion is because of the timestampy nature of blockchains. It's not as if the market is suddenly flooded with forgeries and nobody can tell what's real. It's baked into the blockchain which one was first. In fact you might argue it would not be possible (economically) for Jack to do this in the first place since nobody would buy the second instance.
> It is like Python in that it is modern

That's a funny bit, what is modern about Python? A 30 year old language that predates even Java?
You don't die from obesity either, you die from the effects it has on the body.
Resilience test of the customer support department? heh
The above comment didn't say CO2 emissions, it said that coal use is "down enormously" with a "tiny bit of gas generation growth". The reality is that overall fossil fuel use remains largely the same, coal reductions were matched by natural gas increases.

Likewise, CO2 reductions aren't very large, and is still above average for EU member states: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...
HVAC has significant losses, HVDC has less losses and allows power to be transmitted efficiently enough over long distances (guess it depends on what you mean by long).

A good example is North Sea link, linking the north of England to the abundant hydropower in Norway, which should come online this year I think. HVDC links connecting European countries of the length 400-600km are becoming quite common, unfortunately subsea cables are prone to failures and can cause a lot of outages etc.
Rivers that flow northward mess up all of our brains a little bit,.
See the discussion above - it's very intentional that the control group wasn't hospitalized. It's the right approach for the question they are trying to answer, "how bad off is a person that got COVID and got hospitalized as a result of that".

(There are other good questions to ask too, of course.)
If there's any responsibility left in that company, it should allow the affected customers to claim the real contents of the fake orders for no-charge (no, it's not "for free", because these customers already have paid for this 'joke' with their stress and anxiety).

Then let the company accountants tell how well such a marketing stunt fared.
>But Boucher says her experience suggests publishers should prioritize a different relationship: the direct one they have with their audience.

I feel there's quite a bit to unpack here. Social media was sold to us as being a way to engage your users more closely... yet it seems the opposite is true.
So, back when I worked on the Google indexing team, Bing had some Flash games that would automatically fire off Bing searches in an iframe for every puzzle guess you made. They'd give you some points that you could redeem for prizes.

I suspected a major goal for the games was to artificially inflate Bing's search market share numbers, but maybe also to gather data for machine learning and/or old-fashioned statistical analysis.

I was curious... and we at Google were careful about machine learning because we knew that, for instance, if you had an algorithm that internally rewrote every query by appending "breast", it would almost certainly cause the click-through rates to skyrocket while harming search quality. So, on my own time on my own computer, I used these Flash games as a typing tutor to re-learn QWERTY keyboard layout, and would often append "breast" to the in-game searches.

I didn't learning anything from my poking around, though I did get enough points to get 2 Coleman tents, a mult-tool, a external hard disk, a record player, a bunch of DVDs, and a few other freebies from Bing with all of my game points.
Or one of those little CDs, business card size for example.
How do taxes work with civil forfeiture? Do the police departments pay taxes on that? Is seized money income?
If your plan requires 100% compliance to succeed, it failed before you even started. Good plans operate within the realities of human nature and respect people's inalienable human rights.
I see a parallel with socialism, every example of where it fails I see people saying “but they didn’t do it right”.
Oh yes and then right around the time 8x became possible (but cd-r only, cd-rw was still 4x initially I think) someone invented a way to continue after a buffer underrun instead of throwing away the disc. I think that really sold the faster burners because otherwise they were kind of useless for the increased risk of having a buffer underrun skmewhe in the process.
Some amateur clown is awaiting their termination check.
> My wager is that NWS is like every other gov't agency. IT is a necessary evil, not a core focus. They do enough to keep it going but until shit hits the fan it won't get enough attention from their leadership to receive the funding (for staff or systems) necessary to actually grow or even properly sustain it

Not just every other government agency, but every other non-tech organization.
At the end he argues that desktop software is not commoditized but look at Sublime Text vs VSCode - granted it was probably released 15 years after this article came out, but I think that's a pretty good example of commoditized/interchangeable desktop software.
You can also go further and decide what in said 'sea' is more or less important.

Compilation speed greatly effects your ability to iterate in your development process. Depending on your skill level, for most programmers this can be MASSIVE (its literally your development frame rate). Also depends on domain too, for example, something with a ton of IO/sideeffect needs more iterative development than say an algo.

Sure there are ultra high experience devs who can make a thousand line edit, send the build and have it run perfectly 4 hours later. Even in that case you need to consider the cost of coding extra defensively to make sure it's right the first time.
Presenting the All-New Barebox Killer App
I hate these commercialization of April fools, complete with high effort, but cringe worthy "jokes"

Then you have these tech blogs("journalists") covering them like it's black friday sales. "All the April Fools jokes you've missed around the net"
I wish I could dig it up now, but years ago I ran a QA team that needed to validate that our equivalent of man pages could be downloaded on the fly with a command. The guy who owned it came up with a test plan that included setting up and maintaining a web server just for this purpose, and was dragging the project on for weeks until I sat through lunch one day and wrote him a bare bones HTTP server in Powershell that we could just start locally and talk to at run-time. I'm pretty sure the first cut of it was only like 50 lines of code.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Even if we wanted to, how do you stop April fools? You can't just call it off, it's not a national holiday.
Be careful taking anything UK Gov says seriously. They'll launch the satellites for this by climbing magic-bean stalks I imagine...
Black Square NFT
I find that porcelain has a very bad time in breaking when you least suspect it.

The same is true for server applications that have weird 3rd party dependencies that may go down when you least suspect it.
Maybe some, but I'd be willing to bet that most don't and this barely even shows up as a blip to the company.
I remember in ~2000, I went with my wife to buy some LEDs. The price of red, orange, yellow and green was $0.1 each, so we bought 10 of each.

We were very surprised that they also had blue LEDs, so we asked the price and it was $2 each. After some deliberation we only bought only 2 of them.

I'm still surprised when I see a cheap toy or device with a blue or white LED.
New Uses for AI
My point is that you can’t know the full impact of a code change without the full context of the change. Just a silly, trivial example: someone opens a PR to change a brand color on a website’s theme. You see one line of code changed but the effect is probably far reaching. Now, using only a diff, you have to trust that either the tooling or the human or both have validated every usage under every scenario to identify regressions. Is some placement of that color now too low contrast? Is it too jarring in dark mode? Is it being used for non-brand purposes because someone got lazy, and changing far more than intended? How can you know unless you have the rest of the code base in your head? Do you trust your test coverage?
A Review of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
I found myself taping over some blue LEDs because they were so bright at night!
> Since the intelligence test was invented more than 100 years ago, our IQ scores have been steadily increasing. Even the average person today would have been considered a genius compared to someone born in 1919 – a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect.

Hard to see this as anything but an indictment of IQ tests.

People have not gotten smarter so whatever these tests are measuring and however well they predict success, they're not measuring intelligence.
Well, it may be a case of what Jobs referred to in his quote about being able to connect the dots only when looking backwards, that in the present moment, one has to hope that the dots will connect.

What he refers to as IBM's RedHat strategy may have been their motivation, but it's hard to discount the value of a proven, growing revenue stream; they may simply have thought "hey, revenue, plus some possibilities!" Likewise commoditizing the PC peripheral market: I could buy it, if they had made big money in that market. The fact they went on to spend gazilladollars on OS/2 (which had its moments) and got M$ to write it (and gave Gates an opportunity to have his engineers learn the 386 in detail while not providing any transferable knowledge to IBM, since OS/2 was written in assembler...) makes me think Joel was cherry picking.

That said, it is an interesting argument: If you do a thing that makes something else desirable AND you can make decent margins on the other things, especially if they are consumables or have a repeating revenue stream, it may be worth quite a lot to do the thing.

I'm not wholly convinced, but I am intrigued.
I have a guitar pedal that uses blue and red LEDs to indicate mode. Part of my bedtime ritual is to stomp it to the red mode.
I have upvoted this only on the title, even before seeing the "Audio Fade".

+5 on the name and tagline. Will definitely try as part of my "sleep hacking/optimization".
If so, that's brazen and malicious. Would the fallout truly be worth the exposure generated?
That does seem to be the case here.

>the Third, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal require number generation in order for technology to qualify as an ATDS. [...] The Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, in contrast, have liberally construed the statutory text and do not require number generation.

https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2301/2020-0...

This was an appeal from the 9th Circuit, so provided an opportunity for the Supreme Court to overturn the lower Court's ruling.
...by stealing it.

I love the irony.
That he treated you nicely, does not mean he does this universally. For him the contempt is less about intelligence or competence and more about his extremely rigid world view. When he's surrounded by his admirers of course he doesn't do it. But when someone turns down his lascivious advances or offends one of his random moral positions he behaves entirely differently.

But I mean, you can just go read the guys blog for content that would clearly bar him from ever holding a position of influence within most corporate businesses. No one wants an evangelist/spokesperson that is blogging about how "voluntary" pedophilia should not be a crime.

No one is canceling Stallman unfairly. What's getting canceled is a free pass he never should have been granted in the first place about this behavior.
I ain't really convinced by Jacobs' take; if they're having these issues with on-prem hardware, then they're going to have these same issues with cloud services. It's a matter of resource allocation, effort, and the organization itself, not one of specific implementation details like where the servers live. A cloud transition sounds like a boondoggle and a distraction from more fundamental issues - and when (not if) those issues persist, now we'll be in the same boat but with even worse results per tax dollar.
> Half a million dead Americans.

One of the hardest challenges of leadership is resisting the urge to DO SOMETHING when crisis happens.

> Fair to say what you're doing didn't work.

And yet western nations keep trying the same failed policies over and over again and getting the same results.
TBF, eSIM as you describe it is not "no physical sim card at all", so they might be confusing it with something else. (I assumed, based on their phrasing, that they were talking about a virtuallized SIM card running in a (hopefully suitably locked-down) VM.)
I'm blind and it's almost impossible to Google anything related to blindness. There just aren't enough of us to register. Everything is either about blinds (like curtains or whatever). And some idiot made a movie called "blindness" that doesn't help matters. The blind internet is like 1998, just passing links around and knowing which websites to go to. It's also hard to Google questions about the NVDA screen reader, Google corrects you to NVIDIA, you have to use the - syntax to get it to beleive you.
From Twitter feeds, it seems many people cancelled their credit card in case of a fraud. This is quite annoying. Hopefully, some of them also have been told about that by their banks.
It's not about money, but about replacing the coal and gas power plants. Renewable sources can't do that alone, they need massive energy storage facilities (which so far do not exist).
Speculation on a fictional universe, super
Similarly, I've been wearing my seatbelt my whole life and have never gotten into an accident while driving. My kid was placed on his back in the crib without any pillows or blankets, even though he hated it, but never once stopped breathing. I have health insurance but ... shit, there was that one time in high school where a kidney infection put me in the hospital and would've killed me had I not gone, was billed at a hundred grand or so, but insurance covered the whole thing.

There's a reason we pay attention to tail risks, where the low-probability negative consequences are far worse than the high-probability costs of averting them. The vast majority of people are not going to die in car crashes, or of SIDS, or of COVID, or from untreated kidney infections. They are lucky. But the consequences of death are so much worse than the costs of wearing a mask, or not seeing your friends in person, or dealing with anxiety, that it's worth taking some precautions even if the chance that you'll die from COVID is low.
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/03/31/egypt-sudan-air-forces...
Nobody is arguing that what the US did "worked". I am saying we don't know that what you are proposing would have "worked".
It was funny in the late 90s. Slashdot would go all wonky, everything was a lie, and it was mostly absurd press releases and wacky scientific "findings". You could say "bah humbug" and stay off the internet and mostly avoid it. Or, you knew what you were getting into after maybe the second headline.

But the voltswagen thing was way too early. Jokes and serious news are mixed on sites like HN. This shit with deliveroo is unthinkable. And all this in a environment where fake news isn't just rampant, it's been weaponized.

Yeah, count me out. It's gone too far. Companies really need to quit it. At least, we could hope that HN could keep this crap off the front page
Sigils and dereferencing /s
I hate to break it to you but most of our power stations are vulnerable to attack already. Certainly anything near the coast could be taken out by our major adversaries, even with conventional attack.

For a lot of plants, an anonymous cyberattack could probably do it. That'd be way worse than an attack to geostationary, which very few actors could manage, and probably nobody could pull off anonymously.

Space junk seems a more serious problem:

https://physicsworld.com/a/space-debris-threat-to-geosynchro...

I've seen various proposals to clean it up but it'd take some work.
They are engaging in the currently obvious right-wing syndrome: if it didn't happen to me it's not important. Once it happens to me, it's of primary importance.
You think joining an accelerator is a next step for you?
Windows 9x had preemptive multitasking bolted on as an afterthought. Same engineering flaw that made it so crash-prone, with much of the kernel exposed read/write to the application for backwards compatibility with Windows 3.1. And Windows 3.1 did not have preemptive multitasking at all. Everything was cooperative running in one address space. If an application used anything from that era, the kernel could end up wasting way too many cycles handling the request. This made multitasking under high load dicey at best.

Linux is a fully preemptive OS with a kernel designed to return from system calls quickly, without blocking all the processes in the system. No surprise it fared better.