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Hunting Anomalies in the Stock Market

WestCoastJustin — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://polygon.io/blog/hunting-anomalies-in-the-stock-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054466

Points: 2

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Market Impact of the CrowdStrike Outage

WestCoastJustin — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:53:16 +0000

Article URL: https://polygon.io/blog/analyzing-the-market-impact-of-the-crowdstrike-outage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41320979

Points: 1

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New comment by WestCoastJustin in "2K earthquakes in 1 day off Canada coast"

WestCoastJustin — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:22:09 +0000

Map here https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php?tpl_r...

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:21:35 +0000

Imagine for a second, that you checkin at a Marriott/Hilton/Fairmont and there was a camera in your hotel room. It's amazing it even lasted this long with airbnb.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Ask HN: Where to ask feedback on a landing page design?"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:43:25 +0000

My question would be around how much does it cost? Maybe give examples of output without a signup. Basically, you're asking people to create an account for an unknown result and cost. I'd also maybe mention something like save X hours vs doing this yourself. What can people get using this that they cannot get with ChatGPT for example? Maybe have a demo video or something that walks people through it.

edit: So, after reading a bit more you crawl the customers website and find seo ideas? I'm not really sure how it works. Maybe have something up front that really walks the person through it.

I like the comic book design of the website. Looks very cool by the way.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:02:39 +0000

The next QBR with MS is going to be interesting.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman"

WestCoastJustin — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:09:34 +0000

Not really the money but expected return on the money from all these features being rolled out. You can 100% bet there was major estimations made on return on investment. Everything they are releasing has some AI magic on it now. The last thing you want to see is chaos in a company you're betting the farm on.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman"

WestCoastJustin — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:03:12 +0000

Link to MS statement https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/17/a-statement-from...

In my opinion, I'd say the shortness and lack of details backs up the story that they had no idea. You'd see way more words if a marketing department had it's hands on something like this. This was 100% a get something out asap job.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "A B testing: Epic rise and fall of two Sam Xmen"

WestCoastJustin — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:35:28 +0000

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Ask HN: Ways to make side income as a SWE?"

WestCoastJustin — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:34:32 +0000

Related posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150862 and has some useful ideas. My suggestion would be to get a second remote job. You know how to have a job.. just get a second remote one. Even if it's for 3-6 months and then you quite. A full second income is amazing.

I'd strongly recommend forgetting about the gig economy. It's a race to the bottom unless you're willing ti put in multi-year effort to build a portfolio so you can stand out and land larger consulting gigs. This is the reason I say if you need fast cash a second job is the fastest path.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Establishment of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute"

WestCoastJustin — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:44:12 +0000

Great way to understand how all this works is watching All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles[1]. Basically, regulate your competition into the ground.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "How to run 50% faster without external energy (2020)"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:53:23 +0000

Looks like initially was then wasn't re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Vaporfly_and_Tokyo_2020_O...

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain"

WestCoastJustin — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:04:53 +0000

Indexed and adjusted for inflation :)

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "USB-C head-to-head comparison"

WestCoastJustin — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:37:02 +0000

Hold on a sec.. I need to update the firmware on my USB-C cable. Crazy how miniature and advanced things are becoming.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:01:57 +0000

Reality is it is sort of mixed. For the OSS company actually building the product, you end up playing whack-a-mole in that anyone can spin up a competitor over the weekend. Look at what happened with Docker. They completely changed the landscape of running code locally and in production and was run out of town. Everyone and their dog took the code and re-packaged it and competed with Docker. Then compare that with VMware, they completely changed the landscape of running code locally and in production but they were able to protect that value and thrive as a company. There is definitely a lesson in there.

Sure, maybe this is a feature but if you're about to launch an open source sales model company you probably need to think really hard about that idea.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:46:17 +0000

This is a dumb title for a good article. In that it makes is seem like he is talking about OSS software. The software that powers the entire Silicon Valley tech empire. Linux and OSS power Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc, right down to your 1-2 person startups.

He's not talking about that -- he's talking about open source software sales model used by companies like Redhat and HashiCorp. The threat here is that you're developing in the open, trying to up-sell enterprise features, professional services, and support. Then you have XYZ startup appear, they take your open-source code, repackages it and then sells enterprise features, professional services, and support. They basically leech off your OSS code and community, provide nothing back, and actively compete with you. It's brutal.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "Alameda meeting where Caroline Ellison admitted the firm took FTX customer money"

WestCoastJustin — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:22:35 +0000

None, she made a deal in exchange for testimony right?

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "REI is Laying Off 275 Employees"

WestCoastJustin — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 01:54:50 +0000

Canadian version of MEC.

New comment by WestCoastJustin in "A drop in salaries and in the number of jobs available in the Bay Area"

WestCoastJustin — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:28:45 +0000

FYI for those that haven't read it before http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Building a Unix Top-Inspired Tool to Monitor the Stock Market in Real-Time

WestCoastJustin — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:24:16 +0000

Article URL: https://polygon.io/blog/building-a-unix-top-inspired-tool

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524461

Points: 2

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