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Re:Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:34PM (#49886418)
Isn't telecom kinda the same? Lots and lots of capex, turned into dumb pipes that can't extract value from their customers.
Re:People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:38AM (#49814039)
> Most people simply can't chain smoke and they need about an hour break in between smokes.

Major skill issue.

Re:A Note from LWN on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:39AM (#49537943)
In general high quality niche stuff is very expensive e.g. Heavy Reading for teleco or Willmot magazine for quant finance.
Re:EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:10AM (#49522250)
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 anyone should claim they are Coca Cola.

Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:47PM (#49452150)
Congrats!
Re:Gloomberb on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:57PM (#49291093)
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 has a service that let's you buy equities via SWAPs, if a fund can't hold said equities for regulatory or operational reasons. The whole service is a series of menus within the terminal.

3. Many brokers offer automatic trading services like "sell this notional but do it very slowly" etc etc... they do that via bbg

Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @07:13AM (#49181194)
You can even buy some paint and build dedicated bus lanes. Some alien technology shit.
Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Sunday July 19, 2026 @07:10AM (#48966938)
Or just use free props if you are a hobbist.
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 lowering risk by selling equity for fixed income.

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 portfolio in a downturn, exactly when I'm also most likely to lose my job.

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.

Re:OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:23PM (#48809296)
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.

Re:DeepSeek Introduces Vision on Thursday June 18, 2026 @07:50AM (#48583959)
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 brought the new valve. Then I described what I was seeing as I swapped the old valve for the new one to make sure everything was right. Really cool experience!

Re:Epic Games announces Lore version control system on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:36PM (#48575666)
No.

The maximum granularity is also 'per repo'.

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...

Many security/privacy nerds don't own end consumer gadgets etc...

Some folks go vegan after seeing how the sausage gets made.

Re:Python Data Science Handbook on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:40PM (#46129287)
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, unreadable, hard to refactor and impossible to reuse.

Trillions of dollars are wasted every year by people having to rewrite pandas code.

> 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 a bad actor to impersonate those users. That could be used to scam others or to kickstart some social engineering that could be used to compromise other systems.

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 context.

> 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.

Re:Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack? on Friday March 07, 2025 @07:44AM (#43289709)
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.

Re:Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack? on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:19PM (#43282669)
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.

Re:Merry Christmas Everyone on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:08AM (#42508414)
Interesting, I had a similar experience as an exchange student in Britain.
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 analysts.

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.

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. Times are hard and the value provided does not justify the cost.

I wonder how many companies will do the same.

Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:56AM (#42338554)
That particular issue also exists in GitLab. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/2797
That was not my personal experience. CS and Warcraft 3 community lobbies featured rampant cheating. Way more than CS:GO and Dota 2.
Re:Multiversion Python Thoughts on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:15AM (#41706557)
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, '~/libs/libfoo_v2')

import libfoo as libfoo_v2

sys.path = original_sys_path

There are caveats of course. But works for simple cases.

Re:Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @11:39AM (#41648614)
RPG Maker brings me so many good memories... highly recommend!

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