> July 2009

> Thanks to Sam Altman, … for reading drafts of this.

Oh how times have changed!

Have they? Some say he's still reading those drafts, along with everything else on the Internet.

Can you describe what you mean by “stalker like lost art in navigation places”? This sounds cool!

In the 1979 Tarkovski film the "Stalker" is a person who knows the lost art of safely navigating a particularly dangerous area. People pay the Stalker to guide them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

An aside - do tools like this (or what it's modeling, the Bloomberg Terminal) really offer that much benefit to finance folks?

Here's an article. Basically if your trading stocks no. If you are trading different instruments or want interaction with the money folks (connections) yes. https://financetracked.com/bloomberg-terminal

From it: "Bonds and Fixed Income: It provides the best data for interest rates and debt markets. Global Economics: It easily connects data from different countries, such as currency rates and government debt. The Chat Room: The messaging system is the industry standard. If you want to talk to the biggest players in the market, you often need to be on Bloomberg."

Depends a bit how you're trading stocks - bbg is still an extremely attractive data provider so I'd not dismiss them out of hand.

There are alternatives that cost much less than 30k per year for just stocks. They need to prove their value proposition for that more generalized use case.

My dismissal is their problem to solve.

Bloomberg Terminal costs ~$24K per user per year, so the fact that people are paying for it implies it offers at least that much value. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, most of that value lies in the data sources.

I would really love to be able to explore this data, e.g. what is the "worst" driver? Is there an inverse Pareto front?

> Is there an inverse Pareto front?

Yes, trivially. Just look at the opposite end of each metric. Pareto optimality doesn't know/care what each metrics means, since it keeps them all separate.

All time great short story. Has shaped my world view since I first read it many years ago.

Perhaps this comment was intended for the age verification thread elsewhere on HN? Unclear how this relates to Department of War, Captain Underpants, etc.

Strong disagree — aggregate markers were super useful when browsing the map on mobile! Maybe need to add a flag for mobile vs. desktop, but the experience would be a lot worse on mobile without them.

I tried it on mobile. The clustering reduces it to 6 points for all of North America. My phone has over 3 million pixels, surely there’s room for more detail than that.

Cool stuff! I seem to have found a bug — often when I roll, I get this error and no roll happens:

  Error: The string did not match the expected pattern.

Hmm... I have not been able to replicate that... Can u screenshot it ? Thanks for trying it out : )

Considering the mention of AI in job searches and screening, I don’t know if this is actually from 2016. Some fantastic advice in here though, particularly on navigating political / technical landscapes

Ok, we'll take 2016 out of the title above. Thanks!

Correct the url has 2026, probably a typo