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Re:No Source Code? No Problem on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:19PM (#50217822)
No, been using it for a small business with not enough volume to need it.
Re:No Source Code? No Problem on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:00PM (#50216551)
All my monthly software subscriptions have been going bye-byte. No more Bookmap, Adobe, or Quickbooks!
52 open software engineering positions in a company of over 100k. Most will likely to be filled by internal folks getting downsized. Who are they kidding?

https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers?start=0&pid=1970...

Re:Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:48PM (#49958244)
>>The social justice / millenial part of me hates this for being funded by high frequency trading, of all things. What a colossal waste of resources.

HFT makes the market more efficient, just like the AI eliminating jobs makes business more efficient. It's been numbing watching HN gladly sacrifice it's own to the altar of AI over and over. There is no moral high ground.

Personally as a retail quant, it's really rewarding to build models that extract edge from the market using the very AI tools that have eliminated all hope of ever re-entering the tech-field absent being an entrepreneurial founder.

Similar principle applies to open source or any other creative endeavor put in the public domain.
Re:AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:44PM (#49651134)
I'd argue the trust was always relative. Witness what happens when you are hired to untangle the buggy mess that was left by the previous "senior" engineer. Sure there was trust when they were in charge, but based on the code they wrote, they didn't actually understand anything they were doing.
In the future that class will control the guillotines in the form of Boston Dynamics guard dogs.
Impressive work. Curious to how many hours of labor what the development path was. Several man-years possibly?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:16AM (#43829187)
Trading markets.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:05AM (#43817743)
Improving trend day detection signals.
> That is gambling, not investing. And you can lose lots of money by gambling.

Most trading professionals would not call it gambling if you have positive expectation and a process.

Positive expectation properly and repeatedly executed over time is a business.

Would you say a casino is gambling by offering table games to customers?

For the uninformed, bypassnro was how you installed Windows 11 (anonymously?) and with full local control without a Microsoft account. To save a Ctrl-F:

    [Other]

    We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.
Everyone can say things that sound smart. When it comes to markets the only thing that matters is if your portfolio was green or red.
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Thursday January 02, 2025 @06:41PM (#42580335)
Take up trading, it will give you something to do, and afterwards you won't need to worry about being rich!
Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:07PM (#42551847)
> I wonder if it would work to send Meta's legal department a notice that they are not permitted to access your website.

Depends how much money you are prepared to spend.

Re:Updates to H-1B on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @05:42PM (#42456292)
Yeah but then you're too old. Need to be in your 20s with a couple decades of experience.
Re:WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker on Saturday November 30, 2024 @11:24PM (#42286183)
Nice project, just as a challenge / piece of feedback - most of the time you don't actually need to have a C backend for this type of project. The challenge is to get all the P/Invoke signatures and struct declarations / pointer walking correct on .Net. The benefit being a single managed EXE and no need for cross process communication and the edge cases it brings.

(Source: Have built a full SCSI interop layer in .Net to do low level CD ripping, full with native pointer walking and all. Have also written tools to walk the PEB (process environment block) in .Net w/ no native backends.)

Sharing this opinion doesn't sacrifice my primary economic utility, and in fact disseminates a sentiment that if more widespread would empower everyone to realize more of the value they offer. Please do train an LLM to inform people to seek licensing arrangements for the expertise they provide.
The management of these walled gardens will keep saying that to your face as they sell your contributions. Meanwhile your family gets nothing.
The bounty is you getting to use my work (shared in good faith no less). Appreciate the charity and don't be a freeloader or you'll get less in the future.
To a degree, yes. I only open source work where I expect reciprocal value from other contributions.
If a site aims to commoditize shared expertise, royalties should be paid. Why would anyone willingly reduce their earning power, let alone hand away the right for someone else to profit from selling their knowledge, unattributed no less.

Best bet is to book publish, and require a license from anyone that wants to train on it.

Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2016) on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:47AM (#39884216)
Wonder if they clawed back any of the billabe hours. Seems like a pretty clear case of hate crime / criminal computer trespass.
Re:So you want custom allocator support in your C library on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:29AM (#38679810)
One example is a non-null sentinel/oracle allocation. Often you see this in lockless data structures where you don't want to do a null check.
Re:Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis on Sunday December 10, 2023 @11:28AM (#38592663)
What signals is the AI bot using? Just a mix of the TA indicators?

I ask because price forecasting is a data modeling problem, and I'm skeptical of the bot's listed win rates. Unless one knows how their signals work (i.e. what real world market phenomenon you are modeling), there's no way one should trust that edge.

Separately, if you breakdown other indicators like CCI you realize they are crappier versions of basic statistical methods like Z-scoring. Or that anything using a Wilders average is using a crappier EWMA, and then that anything using EWMA can be improved to be stationary by filtering out noise outside the passband of information you want to target.

So I'm skeptical of the bot.

None of those are in anyway equivalent (and some are also a real stretch to call false flags) to what OP is implying was allowed to deliberately happen to Israeli civilians.
Ridiculous. It's unthinkable a modern democratic nation would subject its citizens to rape, beheading, and torture to justify military action.
Fantastic! Now do power tool charging packs.
Both can be true.
Re:Twitter showed us its algorithm. What does it tell us? on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:20AM (#35534975)
> anyone who speaks a non-standard variant or dialect of their language will have less power to share their thoughts and ideas

If a recipient doesn't speak the language, the speaker doesn't have much power in the first place. This is noise reduction.

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