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by pid-1 14d ago
In general high quality niche stuff is very expensive e.g. Heavy Reading for teleco or Willmot magazine for quant finance.
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by pid-1 15d ago
I'm skeptical patents play a significant role at encouraging research. No correlation between stronger patent laws and more innovation has ever been found. I'm also in favor of very light copyright laws, e.g. I don't think an
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by pid-1 21d ago
Congrats!
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by pid-1 1mo ago
The terminal is also sort of an app platform for brokers and other firms to sell services to the buy side. A few examples: 1. As a researcher, you can develop indexes and portfolios, then make those available to customers via bbg 2. Goldman
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by pid-1 1mo ago
You can even buy some paint and build dedicated bus lanes. Some alien technology shit.
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by pid-1 2mo ago
Or just use free props if you are a hobbist.
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by pid-1 2mo ago
Retail investors do not have access to systems that calculate risk, margins, pnl, etc... and generally also don't have the necessary knowledge and market data to price such instruments correctly. Most ppl are better off KISSing and low
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by pid-1 2mo ago
Absolutely 100% agree. At the same time, one can make financial decisions based on risk rather than longterm expected returns. For instance, I'm happy with fixed income yields rn. What would scare me is losing a big chunk of my portfol
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by pid-1 2mo ago
Hold short term debt (e.g money market funds or SOFR ETFs). Then you will have cash in hand if either stocks fall or yelds raise. Never buy derivatives as a non institutional investor.
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by pid-1 2mo ago
Radio modulation / coding (at least for 802.11) benefits greatly from paralelism (lots of matrix multiplication etc). I imagine that using an ASIC is way more cost efficient vs using a CPU.
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by pid-1 3mo ago
I've been using ChatGTP by voice for things like cooking and house repair stuff. It's quite convenient for situations in which your hands are busy. Other week I fixed a a water valve. After planning the thing with ChatGTP I brough
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by pid-1 3mo ago
No. The maximum granularity is also 'per repo'.
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by pid-1 3mo ago
1 If you never rebalance, you're never adding new stocks to the index, nor removing stocks that do not belong to it anymore. 2 You need to rebalance to take corporate events into account: new stocks, buybacks, dividends, etc...
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by pid-1 5mo ago
Many security/privacy nerds don't own end consumer gadgets etc... Some folks go vegan after seeing how the sausage gets made.
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by pid-1 10mo ago
Pandas is cancer. Please stop teaching it to people. Everything it does can be done reasonable well with list comprehensions and objects that support type annotations and runtime type checking (if needed). Pandas code is untestable, unreada
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by pid-1 1y ago
> what's the consequences for HN of a user having their password compromised HN does not enforce anonymity, so the identity of some users (many startup owners btw) is tied to their real identities. A compromised password could allow
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by pid-1 1y ago
I think the biggest issue is M365 Copilot was sold as something that would integrate with business data (teams, files, mail, etc.) and that never worked out quite well. So you end up with a worse ChatGPT that also doesn't have work con
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by pid-1 1y ago
> and people were buying it! real corporations and governments were buying this crap - it's insane Anedote: in Wall Street, Global Relay and TeleMessage are the major players when it comes to achieving communication for compliance.
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by pid-1 2y ago
Like most things serverless Athena is cheap as long as you don't use it. My company has 100s of data pipelines that are executed infrequently. For this use case Athena is ridiculously cheap and easy to use vs most other solutions.
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by pid-1 2y ago
If you're already in AWS, why wouldn't you use AWS Glue Catalog + AWS SDK for pandas + Athena? You can setup a data lake, save data and start doing queries in like 10 minutes with this setup.
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by pid-1 2y ago
Interesting, I had a similar experience as an exchange student in Britain.
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by pid-1 2y ago
That's surprising. I haven't met a single user who found Copilot useful in Excel. I've found some that enjoyed using it a "smart auto complete" both in Word and Outlook, however. Most of my users are financial analy
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by pid-1 2y ago
Sorry, I think we are talking about different stuff. I was referring to Copilot for M365, which costs 30 USD / month and targets biz users. Github Copilot is definitely worth it.
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by pid-1 2y ago
I've brought MS Copilot licenses for my company in ~ February 2023. They were sold in a yearly commitment and offered no trials. A bad deal, but I was afraid of missing out AI productivity gains. I'm definitely not renewing those.
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by pid-1 2y ago
That particular issue also exists in GitLab. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/2797
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by pid-1 2y ago
That was not my personal experience. CS and Warcraft 3 community lobbies featured rampant cheating. Way more than CS:GO and Dota 2.
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by pid-1 2y ago
I have done the following in the past: 1. pip install libfoo==1.x.x 2. pip install libfoo==2.x.x --target ~/libs/libfoo_v2 # vendor libfoo v2 3. import sys import libfoo original_sys_path = sys.path.copy() sys.path.insert(0, &#x27
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by pid-1 2y ago
RPG Maker brings me so many good memories... highly recommend!
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by pid-1 2y ago
Why would any enterprise use e2e encryption? In most juridictions and industries you must be able to audit internal and b2b communication.
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by pid-1 2y ago
Then Twitter can migrate to AWS CloudFront.

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