skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends. Yes, the salaries are lower, but so are the expenses on average. The fringe benefits are usually good. There's a legal minimum amount of paid holiday days, in my country the minimum is 20/year but some unions have close to 40. There's also a legal maximum amount of allowed overtime, the employer pays a part of the employee's pension in my country et cetera.

It's probably true that it's easier to upscale a company in the US. The hire and fire strategy wouldn't work here as it would only attract poorly educated people that are willing to take any job. It may be a cultural difference, but most middle class people like to have financial stability here, even if payment is lower in that case.

I think that for software companies, the history of computers plays a big role as well. US has always been at the forefront when it comes to hardware, (military) investments and research of integrated circuits and computers, which led to big companies like IBM and subsequently Silicon Valley companies like Apple and MS. I think it may not be the best example because there isn't really any other country or continent that equals the US here, regardless of wages and labor rules.
"The market" is just a set of order books. I don't find it weird that technical analysis work some times in some markets.

Fully systematic traders exist and make money. Efficient Markets Theory says they shouldn't, but they do anyway. EMH is probably written under stricter/ideal conditions though.

If one wants to take a systematic/technical analysis approach though, I would look at the entire universe of stocks, whereas use a fundamental approach in individual stocks.

But yeah. I'm just an amature. What do I know.
Fat people are a much larger problem (lol). I wonder how much money could be saved if 1% fat people lost weight? It's a huge problem.
Algo trading is a hoax?
Fun fact: Former smokers are more likely to be obese than both current smokers and never smokers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4401671/
If you want to balance personal liberties with reducing government spending, why not implement a large(r) federal tax on cigarettes which is refunded at tax time if you’re not a Medicaid recipient?
Thanks, I was looking for that video that was referenced in https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2307/2307.12037.pdf

It's unlisted as well but published back in January of 2023. I wonder what they are going to think with the influx of views on it, (43 views as of this post)

Is it just me or is it odd not seeing the normal condensation of the surrounding air due to a chilled superconductor like you get with a YBCO.
Site-to-Swagger
Wanted to show this small project off that takes a dump of your network panel in Devtools and parses it to Swagger API.

I'm sure I saw it done here before, but here's the typescript version for the less pythonista inclined here.

I recently used it to reverse the Reddit r/place websocket server and create some magic pixel services. (Bonus link: https://github.com/dougwithseismic/r-uk-royal-mail)

PS. Is anyone hiring? I'd love a job building things.
Is Signal App Killing My iPhone Battery?
Mind-reading machines are coming – how can we keep them in check?
In Beijing the situation may be slightly better as all the major stations are not terminal stations (after 2015).
>>> I should had used stations instead of terminals in my original post, sorry for not native English.

I also don't think transiting between stations is particularly difficult, as in most situations there are massive transport lines (S-Bahn and U-Bahn, RER, metro...) connecting them.
Retirement age increase, easier/cheaper to fire employees, relaxed definitions of extra-time, the usual.

We ended up with a recession and less rights.

Don’t want to reveal the countries, but it’s a common tale.
I quit smoking years ago but I always liked the taste and smell, still do. If it weren't for the obvious health reasons I'd smoke for enjoyment. Which people have done for thousands of years, it may be one of our oldest cultural practices.

It's also a good social ritual and icebreaker that's not actually easy to replace. Just sharing a cigarette with a stranger and talking for five minutes is nice and these little interactions we don't seem to have a lot of any more.
Are there studies that point to obesity being the main cause of this?
I think I had 4 slots with 4x1MB so $400 would have been 4x4MB for 16MB. I made do for a few more years though, I didn't have anywhere near that much cash for "just" memory.

That 486/DX33 ended up being upgraded to a Cyrix 5x86/120 (?) and I think I went to 16MB at that point. Memory prices were cratering around this time (99?) so in the end I think that whole upgrade was cheaper than the 16MB would have been a few years earlier.
It's the least you can do for our North Korean comrades
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work that way in this case. For example, there was an incident just a couple of months ago that was discussed here:

"Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360)

"Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36085642)

That's another incident that just shouldn't have ever happened to begin with, in my opinion.
Imagine how much they could save if people would stop spreading COVID-19
It has less features, but Plausible[1] is pretty good at basics.

[1] https://plausible.io
Ah this is silly. Technical analysis hmis grounded in sone level of useful information and technique. But it is ultimately a game of informed guessing, so in that respect, its a bit like astrology
VR is just too scary. It obliterates your vision and gives full control on your attention to the company owning it. It's literally total mind control
Guy is still running a SPARC4? In 2023? No wonder it’s slow!
Kids these days have no idea what cars were like in the 1970's. Starting a cold car in the winter typically went something like this:

1. The door keylock is frozen over with ice. Chisel way at the lock with your metal car key until you can unlock it (15-20 mins)
2. Put key in ignition lock, turn and
3. rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr
4. rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr-rrr
...
5. wroorwr-wroorwr-wroo, @#%!
6. get jumper calbes and running car from family member/friend/stranger
7. remove the air filter cover (big round disk on top of the engine back then), and spray starter fluid directly into the carburetor.
7. start car
8. car immediately stalls as soon as you let off the gas
9. start car again, this time hold at 3000 rpm until engine heats up
10. Enjoy the sweet sweet smell of tetraethyl lead in the copious exhaust while you wait
11. Start driving
12. After about 10 mins steam starts to appear under the hood and temperature gauge maxes out as improper water/coolant mix (sometimes just 100% water) boils
13. Wait 30 mins for radiator to cool enough that you can open it safely and put proper mixture of antifreeze/water (you carry several gallons of each in the trunk)

Once you do get it going, don't forget to stop at a gas station as your car probably gets less than 12mpg. The full service attendant will check your oil and let you know it's "a quart low". Not bad, it's been two weeks since you last put a quart of oil in.
At that point I'd think the general opinion is that they're operating as a company _instead of_ a family. Pitching investment ideas and getting cut off from support doesn't sound like a family. I think this is just something you kinda need to do with that much wealth, but I don't think it's an example of how any average family operates
> Top pay of market has significantly shifted to hybrid

*In the U.S.

In Canada, top pay is mostly full remote.
Growth makes people rich, billion dollar companies create a lot of wealth and the US is a very rich country in part because of this.

Some employees that capture a piece of that wealth funnel it back into more startups/growth (Silicon Valley) creating more jobs, more growth and more wealth (not to mention whatever the new startup is doing is usually creating a new thing people want too).

Software salaries are extremely high, but software companies in the US pay a lot in non software roles too.

On net you end up way in a way richer society that operates this way vs. one that incentivizes not operating this way.

That doesn't mean there should be zero protections from abuse, but it's important to be cautious about the net effect of these sorts of regulations and how you can end up trapped in a worse local maximum because of them.

In a society where you can take bigger risks, make bigger bets, you can get a lot bigger wins at scale. I think that's a good/important thing.
You aren't getting anything from a youtube video thats in academic texts either. But you can certainly get academic textbooks from library systems. Are they on the shelf at your local library branch? Maybe not. Can you order it from the library system for free and get it sent to that branch in a few days? Sure. I just looked online at what one of the seminal works for a field I don't understand but might be generally useful to homeowners or people seeking to upskill: carpentry. I found the title "Building Construction Illustrated" recommended a few times. My library system has just about every edition of this book published over the decades, in good supply, even in ebook form. This is what I mean with how the library system can easily serve you very high quality information on a variety of topics.
See-through blockchain's biggest problem might be that their coins are not fungible, as their history affect their current value. A protocol solution to this problem is to make their history opaque.
Have you been to Europe? Smoking is much less prevalent in America and has been declining for decades [0], clearly the policies we've implemented have been working. What you don't want to happen is a tax so egregious that it sends the whole industry underground.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1717/tobacco-smoking.aspx
47% of Americans don't pay federal taxes (excluding payroll taxes). That's obviously even much higher for people of Medicare age, and retired people aren't paying any payroll taxes. Also, when people die, so does (at least most of) their social security payments.

Smoking is in fact pretty well aligned if all you care about are government revenues: it minimally affects people during their prime working age when they're paying taxes, and then has it's largest effects (i.e. death) when people are older and likely to be a net negative when it comes to government expenditures anyway.
Would be so nice to have the ability to do accounting like this. This house and car are free, no money down! No need to take into account the future at all.
The federal government has taxed tobacco probably as far back as the founding of the country.
https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/58706#:~:text=The%20feder....

"The federal excise tax on cigarettes is just over $1.00 per pack."
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Punishing the people who are suffering from addiction with a tax isn't ideal.

I think we might be better off with a national tax that goes towards funding the healthcare necessary to support people moving off. Want to stop smoking? Here's a clinic that will work with you to develop a plan, supply you with materials, provide the counseling and community support, all for free.

And sure, if you've got that in place, dial up the costs to onboard into smoking. Prevent new addicts through price and regulation, address existing addicts with huge outpouring of support. It's expensive up front, but gets us in a healthy state long term.
Do you know who is the biggest problem? The one with bad genetics, let's test everyone and charge them.
Smokers get charged a hefty tax on their cigarettes this tax is federal and state taxes. They also pay more for health insurance.

When I was in college, a carton of cigarettes cost $10. Now they cost $80 last time I checked. I quit smoking 5 years ago, but smokers have been taxed enough. Every few years the government wants to squeeze more blood from that rock.
Same could be said about alcohol, coffee, spicy sauces, candy.

If you never tried one you'd think it's disgusting
You've pretty succinctly demonstrated in synecdoche the fallacy of hardline reactionary conservative talking points.

Things aren't problems until they are. If we can see them coming, we should do something about it. But the conservatively-minded always seem to want more evidence before devoting any resources to anticipation of problems.
This is why I always liked Netflix's outlook (both stated and practiced):

We are a sports team, not a family. Perform well and you will be paid well, perform poorly and you will get a nice check to go elsewhere. And sometimes you might perform really well but we just don't need someone with your skills anymore, so we'll still give you nice check to go elsewhere, and that isn't a reflection on your abilities.
The difference isn’t due to obesity though, though that might be part of it.
A smoke and a coffee is delicious! At my peak I've only ever smoke about 10 cigarettes a week during college. These days I smoke socially or when my brother comes over during our long walks. Two cigs.

I recommend you try a cigarette and a black coffee sometime. Obviously don't overdo it like a dummy and smoke a pack a day.
> Isn't a last generation Camry just as discontinued when they start making the new one?

No, because you will still have parts and trained technicians for it.
Wow, that really does make it sound like a potentially world-rocking discovery! (if it turns out to actually work in reality, of course).
Heh, neat. They were all Solaris (SunOS?) back in the day.
Verified boot chains are one thing, but say you're a bank and you wish to reduce the rate of people falling victim to malware that uses kernel-level privileges to snoop out credentials. The user benefits (at least from your perspective as the bank) from being less impacted by fraud as the banking website will no longer even let the user enter their credentials.

Either you build a massive database of "known good" combinations of hardware, OS, kernel modules versions and corresponding TPM checksums, or you leave that job to a third party - and that is what remote attestation is at its core. Apple has it the easiest there, they control everything in the entire path, while Google has to deal with a myriad of device manufacturers.

Note I massively dislike the path that more and more applications take to restrict user freedom, but I do see why corporations find it appealing.
I guess it's an explainable reaction given it was the other way around for years.

Go back 2 or 3 years ago and the level of idolization and fanboyism was just incredibly high.

Tons of 'Elon is a genius' or 'Elon could fix [insert global issue]' like comments.

It was just really annoying for a lot of people. And now, with Musk's recent 'reversals', some of these people are becoming very vocal, swinging things at the other extreme.
It's not. Smoking among those over 65 has always been relatively rare. It used to be that the highest rates were among those under 30 but those younger adults today don't want tobacco and the current largest cohort of smokers is middle-aged. Less than 10% of over-65 Americans smoke tobacco according to various surveys.
If you can't engage constructively then that is probably for the best. But you should reevaluate your assessment because you have come to an incorrect conclusion.
Just tried the compact tabs in Safari and that’s a great design!
It’s also extremely hard to solve. I don’t know any stats but I suspect to quit overeating is way harder than to quit smoking.

That or I’m projecting :-)
>not using Chinese astrology where every person born in that year has the same characteristics

ngmi
We're in the middle of finding out. GLP-1 drugs are revolutionary and are close to "curing" obesity.
Attaboy! Let's prescreen people and designated roles to them based on genetics. Terrific idea.
HFTs generally consider shorter timescales (both in the feature set and the forward horizon) than human TA would lean on, and make tremendous use of microstructure information rather than outright price movements.

Having said that, “let’s take difference to EMA” is pretty the one-size-fits-all solution, and there are no shortage of firms looking at minute to hour long trades to gobble up anything human TA practitioners would ever try to trade.
You can read the paper in question here [1]. In cases like this where there's little to nothing in the way of experimentation or generalizations, all they're doing is assessing the evidence and offering their opinion on whatever they believe is most likely. The catch being in this case, what they said they believe is probably not what they did.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
My friend made a great comparison that seems to agree with your take: chatGPT for coding is like when ruby on rails came out. Or wordpress. felt magical and boosted (a certain kind of) productivity through the roof.

We don't think of rails as the second coming though.

same with code editors. of course a rails for all of code is cool. but iono, it's a code editor. i still use sublime.
I have proof, it's not 'rubbish' but truth thank you.
(see other comments replied with links and read them)

your statement of "Cloudflare hosts 4chan..."

I did a whois and it says 4chan DNS is CONSTELLIX - I'm pretty sure that's not cloudflare, but I admit I could be wrong on that (I do not know all of CF's nameservers) - (also they publicly booted 8chan, (maybe you did not know this) so similar others I would assume also lost thier ddos protect from CF)

If you have proof they protect the other kinds of sites you mention then it would not surprise me to see them all pulled from CF, they are not the free speech champion they were 7 years ago.
Sounds familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequacy.org#Adequacy_style
I have a pet theory that there is a link between anti-smoking campaigns and the obesity epidemic. Nicotine is a hell of an appetite suppressant.
Insurance companies routinely deny NYC buildings with subsidized tenants
This is the correct answer. Selling "advice" and managing portfolios is by far the easiest legal way to make money on the markets.

There was a newsworthy situation in the UK a couple of years ago where a star manager crashed and burned. He locked his trading account, with everyone's money still in it, and continued charging fees.

Apparently this is quite legal.
I think feudalism is a misnomer here. Feudalism is a historiographically messy concept to begin with and many Medievalists reject the term outright. But even if we were to distill it down to some simplistic yet workable definition I still don't think whatever we come up with would be applicable to the present situation without seriously torturing the analogy. 'Rentier capitalism' would be more apt.
They usually do. Even if you don't realize it, you're being sized up in an interview and common feedback is "I can't see myself wanting to grab a beer with him". I actually had a conversation yesterday about it with someone I interviewed and the hiring manager that reports to me. I like the person, he said the comment about not sure about getting beers with the candidate. I told him to focus on the other 90 days a quarter when there are no beers.
What's strange to me is that tobacco left to its own devices doesn't smell terrible like cigarettes do.

Unadulterated tobacco smells rich and savory, not unlike freshly ground coffee. What in the hell do they do to it to make it smell so bad?

The FDA has some materials on this, which is horrifying:

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/products-ingredients-co...
The distributed computing class had a history of distributed computing component.

But it was an elective, and as I found once I got into the real world, one that most people either opted out of or didn't have the option to take. I spend way too much time providing Cliff's Notes to a class I took almost thirty years ago.
The funny thing is, HN is one of the few forums where the average user has close to enough mathematical maturity to discuss this sort of finance. Quantitative finance folks rarely come from a pure finance background, it is very different from investment banking or typical bread and butter bulge bracket work.

To do well in quant finance you need the same intuition and talent as a reinforcement/probabilistic learning practitioner — good grasp of statistics and instinct for complex systems with feedback loops like differential equations and dynamics. Market making for example can be formulated as a bellman equation.
What about flight distance? Cargo capacity? Navigation ability?...
It's a poorly worded message, but the idea is that you press F1 after plugging in (or otherwise fixing) the keyboard.
Sounds like a job for Apple Computers.
tax people who sit in front of computers too /s
Why stop at smoking?

We can charge people for health insurance based on how healthily they eat, whether they consistently wear sunscreen, how much exercize they get, how dangerous their hobbies or habits are (motorcycle? skydiving? oh boy), etc etc.

In fact, health insurance in USA DID do things like that before the 2010 ACA -- but limited by incomplete information. With smartphone surveillance (hey, why not require smartphone surveillance to get a certain product), the amount of factors you could monitor and charge based on go up a lot.

Except the ACA prohibited this... EXCEPT for smoking, in fact. "I wish people who smoke could be charged more" for health insurance -- in fact, they CAN. It's about the only thing the ACA allows differential pricing on.

Why is smoking different to you, or to the policy-makers who decided on that in the ACA? I don't really get it.
There seem to be a fair number of sellers on ebay that perform this task on out of support chromebooks and then sell them.
Make way for Solein, a new vegan protein on the menu
Interesting theory but I wouldn't be so sure. I've been through healing journeys where the websites suggested all sorts of deficiencies and supplements, but in the end I came to believe I just needed to slow down.
> Additionally, you take an equity stake in the entire fund, [...], because it further incentivizes you to help out other people in Neo.

Interesting.

Like many people, my natural inclination is often to try to help. But that often goes against self-interest in a way that the modern tribe/community/society doesn't always balance out.

With this Neo fund equity deal, you might see a little monetary upside as a side effect of behaving in a community-oriented way.

And someone else might see that same upside because they were seeking to pick up that upside. Maybe they tried to calculate how much time&energy they should invest in that.

Maybe the motives of the two categories are compatible enough that they get along, and the more innately altruistic don't get alienated?
Bookmarks and saves have become like snooze buttons
I often find myself lacking the energy to read, watch or listen to something potentially valuable - but looks like bookmarking has become a habit to indefinitely put something off vs. actually revisiting it.

Is it just me?
I'd agree that "family" implies you're going to put the relationship itself over most rational reasons, and businesses can't do that. If you want to say they're family then the business should also plan for a pension that all employees get or something similar - otherwise it's just a tactic to manipulate people

Of course you treat family members well when they "deliver" for you, the real part is when they can't deliver and you still support them.
They would still save money
People dislike the smell of fresh coffee? That must be one of the best smells there is.