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Unironically, peaceful secession is the best answer to the majority of the problems in the United States.
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Is 2% what we call “widespread demand” these days?
> In the USA, given that the vast majority of apartments don't have to pay energy bills,

This is false.
How about starting small ? People in my state would love to have our State sold to Denmark. As a bonus, I think it could be the closest or maybe 2nd closest state to Denmark!

Also I hear our politicians come very cheap.
Yes, of the host opens a door, it will always be a losing door. Nobody is disputing that.

The part that is underspeified is: does the host always open a door and if not, does the player's choice of a door impact whether the host opens a door?
By my math the test for hEDS has a very high false negative rate and it will cause issues with future insurance so not only would I not bother with it I would recommend against it. This is how bad math in medicine flows on to create more bad math.

It's generally not the hypermobility that is the problem, it's all the autoimmune conditions that come with it. Here is a list of the most common ones, https://ohtwist.com/about-eds/comorbidities. The comorbidities often have specific treatments and it helps to know the name of the things when looking for the treatments. The one that I think limits people the most if they have it is the ME/CFS that is very common in people with hEDS. I'm of the opinion that ME/CFS is downstream from dysautonomia. Low Dose Naltrexone should be step one for dysautonomia, after that weak ligands such as modafinil in the morning and amitriptyline at night - these medications seem compliment each other rather nicely. Modafinil can cause gut issues though so if that's already a problem modafinil can make things worse. A very strict zero sugar diet as well, dopamine dysregulation can cause strong sugar cravings which does make this rather difficult. I think semaglutide will likely be shown to be effective for auto-immune conditions and is probably the best medication I've taken for mine - but I am extremely sensitive to it and had to start at 1/20th the normal starting dose and still had pretty bad side effects. I'm basically 100% except that I have to still be careful with PEM - I'm in the process of building up a tolerance to PEM with the hope to eventually fix it. For the actual hypermobility I think weightlifting is the most effective. I was getting Craniocervical instability for a while and did a year long course of hGH peptides and Test Cypionate and that seemed to resolve it - but I have a severe form of hEDS and was worried about it putting me in a wheelchair. I was willing to take some risks to avoid that.
I don't really think I'm terribly special. As I said in sibling comments, I have been trying to break into more of the software side, not the quant stuff. I don't think I need to be special in order to try to break in, as long as I set my expectations to "it's a long shot" mode.

I do think that I could learn any level of quant if I really wanted to, but I would rather focus on the software stuff.

I have about half of a PhD in theoretical computer science, but that's not usually the "math" that's useful in finance, outside of the software side.
A professor I had in college, whose first published result was from a piece of homework he turned in where he incidentally solved an open question about bound on a problem, had a curious habit.

I ended up failing and taking his course again (because I had A Lot going on in college), and thus, noticed something.

Each semester, on one of the assignments in the latter half of the class, he assigned one problem out of, perhaps, 30 in the problem set, where as written, it was actually an open problem, and then a day or two before they were due, he'd send out an "oops, my bad" revised version.

I suspect that this was not an accident, given that it always happened only once.
Consider two fields with vast amounts of literature: medicine and law.

Medicine faces two key challenges. First, while research follows the scientific method, much of what makes a good doctor—intuition, pattern recognition, and clinical judgment—is rarely documented. Second, medical data is highly sensitive, limiting access to real-world cases, images, and practice opportunities. Theory alone is not enough; hands-on experience is essential.

Law presents a different problem: unknown unknowns. The sheer volume of legal texts makes it nearly impossible to be sure you’ve found everything relevant. Even with search tools, gaps in knowledge remain a major risk.

Compounding this is the way law is actually practiced. Every judge and lawyer operates with a shared foundation of legal principles so basic they are almost never discussed. The real work happens at two higher levels: first, the process—how laws are applied, argued, and enforced in practice. Then, at a third, more abstract level, legal debates unfold about interpretation, precedent, and systemic implications. The first level is assumed, the second is routine, and only the third is where true discussion happens.

Self-teaching is easier in fields where knowledge is structured, accessible, and complete. Many subjects are not.
Plex has/had a long standing problem that playlists are bounded in size, including smart playlists based on SQL matches in the DB. We're talking 5+ years marked down as "yea when we can"

Google had a perfectly cromulent music system which included uplift of your own MP3 and a very good UI. They canned it to combine into youtube. From memory it did not have this problem. Classic enshittification.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008216
What’s a to-list?
Good for France. The fact this isn't an EU venture, matching Stargate in size, feels significant somehow.
> Why should we have to OCR something that exists already in a perfectly interchangeable digital format already?

I'm with you in spirit, but in this specific context I think it's because the alternative would require the ~~LLM~~ Agent to be an HTML parser, or be bright enough to write themselves a Scrapy crawler. I suspect folks decided it's cheaper (by some metric) to just use the normal browser machinery to render 45MB worth of HTML, JS, CSS, Cloudflare Spooge, etc into a PNG and then rip the actual content out of that

I was also going to offer as a counterexample: PDF
It also wouldn't work in the vast majority of corporate-controlled apartments in America for similar reasons. You aren't allow to fly flags or have decorations in most of these kind of units either, although this kind of rule tends to be selectively enforced.
> (Unless you secretly know that effective regulations against bot traffic are impossible.)

Have you tried register your phone number in the DO-NOT-CALL list (or your local equivalent)?

Did it stop anything?
Shared previously:

* yesterday, Feb 9, 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990401

* Jan 28, 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862468

* Dec 28, 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529701

Someone should say it, even if it amounts to a wordy "get" or "first". Proof of concept, attacks only get worse, risks here only grow.
Dublin airport is also terrible once you are actually at the airport. Security there can be glacial.
When CP/M was still a viable choice to run on an x86 machine, variable speed 5.25" floppy drives were still a thing. They were quite musical simply loading your executables. I believe the idea was constant linear velocity recording was "better" than constant angular velocity, by virtue of right-sizing the recording density across the entire surface.

This uses the stepper motor for the read head, as the source of the vibe. Different, but also very fine. I've only heard the star wars imperial march which felt entirely fitting for the instrument.
From what I recall when I worked retail, nobody cared until the difference was something like 2% or so. Then someone might care, or might not.
I disagree: a big reason Beijing is so keen to unite all the Chinese-speaking (Chinese-writing to be exact) lands under its rule is that Chinese history shows that when China is divided into multiple polities, war frequently breaks out between them and rivals like Japan can keep China weak by playing one polity off against another.
I think it's partly because "tech", as a career path, is relatively new, so its requirements aren't really as "solidified" as a lot of other fields.
> which may be worse than hedge funds

PE obtains higher returns than public funds simply because they have more options to invest in. They can put the cash into anything public invested funds can choose, AND a massive range of other projects.

CalPERS is not an ignorant investor. They see the results, and they allocate accordingly.

From your own link : "Over the past ten years, private equity has delivered an annualized return of 11.8%, compared to 8.9% for public equities, 2.4% for fixed income, and 7.7% for real assets. With traditional asset classes like bonds struggling to keep pace with inflation, CalPERS is looking to private equity to help them meet their long-term investment goals."

So yes, if you want worse returns, continue to believe unsupportable things. If you want to manage people's money, then choose well, and this is chosen well.

>Ordinary people have little control over what their pension funds invest in, and typically are not informed on these issues.

Which is good, because they also are not generally capable to manage their investments with as good as returns (otherwise every little mom and pop would beat PE, which is extremely far from the truth).

A google scholar search on PE returns versus public, top several hits that give numbers to the question:

https://www.joim.com/wp-content/uploads/emember/downloads/P0... - PE outperforms

https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A7%3A13677223/detailv2...
"The model illuminates why, over the short term, private returns are superior to public ones, whereas over the long term, public and private returns are largely interchangeable after proper adjustments are made, resolving a long-standing conundrum"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jofi.12154

"We study the performance of nearly 1,400 U.S. buyout and venture capital funds using a new data set from Burgiss. We find better buyout fund performance than previously documented—performance has consistently exceeded that of public markets. Outperformance versus the S&P 500 averages 20% to 27% over a fund's life and more than 3% annually. "

It's best not to invest with emotion, but with knowledge. Knowledge comes from analyzing markets and reading financial industry research, not repeating misinformed tropes.
That's not a subsidy, that's more like a time-based arbitrage.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815187468691316946?lang=en
Making fewer pennies means needing more nickels. Which have an even larger loss per unit: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/business/cost-to-make-penny-n...
Spoiled web developer here. Since I have no way to test this, I have some questions! It seems like this whole thing could've been simplified to calling exec. Whats with the whole pipe/fork thing if you are just going to kill one process, clone the other (with exec), and the kill the original. Is the pipe crucial to transferring the contents of memory, or something?
Now we just need a smart person who is somehow unaware of the halting problem.
Kind of?

You get novel branches of thought, but in the limit case, you're also reinventing the universe to bake an apple pie.

So there's something of a tradeoff between attempting to ensure people can do more than mimic existing doctrine and efficiency of getting up to speed without having to re-prove existing math and science.

The Balatro dev also, for example, has talked about how he was heavily influenced by several specific other games.
its more like real-world hash tables are tailored to the specific pattern of querying and inserting data.

if you know empirically that 80% of your requests come to a tiny subset of hot keys - you make a specific hashset just for these hot keys with constant access time, while keeping the rest of the table cold.

your L2 cache is an example of such optimization - a high bandwidth and low latency memory on the CPU die, that is orders of magnitude faster than random DRAM access - a tiered memory model
Thank you for your feedback. It's a very good point.
Yes it’s been a startup office space for the last quarter century. I did a few startups in various spaces there. And Monster was HQd there in their heyday as well. There were many artifacts of DEC still around the campus.
On the contrary, not having to hang out with somebody at the airport before they leave is such a gift.
I actually run a MUD that stills uses this copyover method (primarily C code) for major code changes and migrations. We have about 100 players online at any given time! We've actually built in some more modern automatic copyover triggers and hooks related to recovering from crashes, capturing backtraces, performing database migrations, and sending/receiving systemd signals (among a lot of other modernization upgrades).
Do they really have write access though?

So far the only evidence of that is a wired article [1] with anonymous sources, even those source were not 100% sure about it.

Since then wired has posted another article [2] claiming the access have been revoked after announcements from senior officials, which again is from anonymous sources.

I'm really skeptical of these anonymous sources tbh.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-e...
I completely agree with you and will add that it super interesting to watch everyone completely rewrite his accomplishments because they don't like him and his politics now.

The amount of people who try and discredit the insane things he's managed to pull off is fascinating.

I can fully understand peoples hatred of him, but to write off the literal things he has accomplished is such completely revisionist and post truth. Noone in here will like this but he probably qualifies as schumpeters definition of entrepreneur of our century unless he destroys everything in the next time period which isnt zero but a low probability.
Alternatively: if you flew Southwest prior to 9/11, other passengers would absolutely murder you if you threatened to go in the cockpit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_17...

Post 9/11 everyone else just caught up (except minus the actually killing the person), see e.g. the shoe bomber guy.
Easier said than done! When I've reached out to finance recruiters, even for stuff that I'm more or less qualified for, they pretty much always ignore me. One of them flat out told me that they will only work with people with a bachelors from a "Top 20" school, which I definitely do not.
This is modern day tech ceo/politician playbook 101. And it's because of this that society in general is a shit hole. There is no semblance of honesty nor accountability at all anymore.

Grift and lie to everyone's faces because you know that it doesn't matter what the fuck you say, as long as your political stance aligns with the right people bootlickers will lick up anything you say for a chance at being noticed.
Doubtful. It's required to keep a running balance of net cash contained so that it can be manually counted and reconciled for creating that day's bank deposit. Percentage of money type is meaningless to this fact.
I think your numbers are something different (maybe a usage of 300 - 800 kWh per month?)

My whole house peaks at about 3 kW but the average is between 500 W - 1200 W when heating or cooling, depending on the outside temperature. Right now the AC isn't on so the whole house is literally only pulling 120 W.
Interprete gobal de expresiones regulares, as to my Knowledge grep stand for global reg ex parser.

My Knowledge come from some archaic Sun manual. I wanted to find it, and everywhere it says print… I had it wrong.

Anyway the idea is to show that translating is always partial, ans a full translation would be a titanic and unproductive work.

I’m a native speaker of a couple of languages, and learned some more. So i have used computers in many languages. I hate command line translations, all are bad.
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Sloppy managers and lax fiscal controls aren't pertinent to companies that actually do check.
35% of a million students in the USA is very different to 35% of a billion students across the USA, Europe and Africa.

Since there aren't a billion students in the USA, 35% of them is an impossibility.

If you scale your population above some recognized boundary you aren't sampling in the same space any more. After all the local star density to 1AU tends very strongly to 1. That's not indicative of the actual star density in the milky way.
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The biggest time delay is getting through security and boarding, then waiting for baggage claim.

1) TSA stuff doesn't keep anyone any safer

2) protectionism: foreign carriers are banned from flying many domestic routes. We'd have more capacity and throughput, as well as lower prices.

3) boarding algorithms are silly and could easily be improved by letting passengers self-select into fast vs slow boarders and letting fast get on/off first.

4) incentives for crew flight time / overtime / limits create scenarios where passengers are made to wait on the tarmac for no good reason.
The dems outspent republicans by a billion or so, so 250M didn't do much. If it did, Kamala would've won by a lot.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/democrats-republicans-ad-sp...

Way more billionaires supported Kamala vs. Trump (83 vs 52).
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They are likely referring to Lysenkoism. This was the USSR's alternative to natural selection, partially because they believed natural selection was not compatible with Marxism. (There were other justifications, but this is the one relevant to the parent comment)

"Some Marxists, however, perceived a fissure between Marxism and Darwinism. Specifically, the issue is that while the "struggle for survival" in Marxism applies to a social class as a whole (the class struggle), the struggle for survival in Darwinism is decided by individual random mutations. This was deemed a liberal doctrine, against the Marxist framework of "immutable laws of history" and the spirit of collectivism."

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
That will be next year. The year after that, America be buying things in units of wheelbarrows of bricks of hundreds before switching to the Zimbabwean dollar. ;)
"installed by default" should never be a compelling consideration for an org with ten thousand machines, or one hundred. As soon as they have their own package repos and automatic deploy systems, it should be as simple as saying "fd is a fast file finding utility packaged upstream as 'fd-find'. Please add it to the deploy list for these classes of machines" or whatever else starts your change management system grinding.
Why would we need more nickels? Transactions will end up being rounded to the nearest nickel, which will end up being a dime on one side or a nickel on the other as the smallest necessary coin. Seems like it all evens out.
Two bets with the same expected value can have wildly different variance.

The OpenAI bet is clearly that they build AGI and become the worlds first $10T company. At this valuation you only need to think it’s P > 0.1 for it to be a reasonable bet.

Coke is not a “swing for the fences” investment.
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Nawh, it's austerity and socialism for the rich and technofedualism in all but name.
Careful... decreasing the number of states makes it easier for them to have absolute rule over something, don't give any ideas...
It's legal to melt them down now. You can't deface U.S. currency to try to make it look like it's higher value, or to shave small amounts of metal to combine with other coins shavings to the point that they have value. As per [1]:

> 18 U.S. Code § 331

> Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or

The key word is "fraudulently", if you're doing it for art you're good.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/331#:~:text=§%203...
Yes, it's about transferring the contents of memory. If you just call exec(), you get a new process with the file descriptors (connections) open, but you have no idea what the game state (e.g., which connection corresponds to which player) before the exec() call. The fork() is a way of keeping that memory around, and the pipe lets the forked copy send its state to the new code that's restarting.
We have a Hyundai Ioniq 5 and we test drove lots of cars, and love, love how this one feels. Great suspension, grips to the road, crazy fun acceleration. Granted, some 100k+ luxury sedans probably beat it out, but we're really happy. Volvos were ok? I didn't super like them, a bit more cockpit feel to them. Maybe that's the difference between us? You want it to feel more like a cockpit of an aircraft and I want something chill and comfortable?

The Kia's we tried were mostly great (The EV6 felt like a cockpit though) - the EV9 was awesome but we couldn't convince ourselves to get such a large vehicle.
No France didn’t have meaningful ev traction. California and Tesla pushed out the market for EVs. Paris agreement helped Im sure but Tesla really did bring the EV market muscle - its undeniable.

EVs have been around since the 90s but there was a collective effort to restrict their growth and production.
For those not in the know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
yeah definitely. Probably in reference to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians
AS/NZ standards prohibit these sorts of systems. Even most models of Victron inverters are not "approved" for grid use without an approved external anti-islanding device, which also vary depending on which energy distributer your are connecting to. Apparently Victron got fed up with dealing with CEC and paying the annual fees to be approved.
At least one guy is/was trying to get to Mars or something, potentially spending us all in the process…
Very cool - I thought it would be a forgotten technique by now. Which MUD, and have you written up the details anywhere? I'm very interested to know what a modern version of this looks like, particularly with the systemd integration.
Postdoc here at Stanford (Did my phd in Ivy). I agree with everyone that the advisor is the most important thing, but it's very hard to judge his/her character before joining the group, no matter how much you talk to people. Sometimes the advisor is very nice and his/her working style just doesn't match with yours. Also you kinda have to like your lab partner to have a good phd experience (I was extremely lucky with that). I like the Stanford's rotation system as you can try out different labs before joining (don't know if Berkeley does the same thing)
To be fair, so does Musk.
You act as if Trump will obey a court order.