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siilats commented on ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies signalbloom.ai/etf/stats... · Posted by u/GodelNumbering

verteu · 2 days ago

Wealthfront does US Direct Indexing for tax-loss harvesting, they're 25bps/yr.

siilats · 2 days ago

Or you just buy the largest stock in each one of the 7 largest sectors and it pretty much correlates to the sp500. ETF have some nasty hidden fees related to the etf price being more expensive than the basket when you buy and less than the basket when you sell.

Sector Company 1 Company 2 Information Technology Microsoft (MSFT) Apple (AAPL) Financials JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) Health Care Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) UnitedHealth Group (UNH) Consumer Discretionary Amazon (AMZN) Tesla (TSLA) Communication Services Alphabet (GOOGL) Meta (META) Industrials Boeing (BA) Caterpillar (CAT) Energy ExxonMobil (XOM) Chevron (CVX)

siilats commented on GOP omnibus bill would sell off USPS's EVs washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/dabinat

i80and · 2 months ago

Obviously this is extremely bad and dumb and performative, but putting that aside: who is going to buy them at the needed scale? They're custom purpose-built vehicles for mail delivery, not exactly something I see the marketplace absorbing.

siilats · 2 months ago

I think they only made 93 for the $10bn so it doesnt matter who guys them

siilats commented on Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children thetimes.com/us/american-... · Posted by u/mnewme

siilats · 3 months ago

You have to understand that Boston University is not a real school. Even the article says “ She readily recognises the shortcomings of her modelling. The numbers are not recorded deaths, but rather predictions. “They’re modelled numbers and I recognise the limitations that that comes with,” she said. “We don’t have routine data sets that we can measure someone as ‘killed by the US lack of funding’.”. Doge Cuts are necessary so the USA doesnt default on it’s debt

siilats commented on Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts mesoscalenews.com/p/torna... · Posted by u/aaronbrethorst

Aeyxen · 3 months ago

The thread keeps circling around the politics, but almost nobody has dug into what actually goes on in the NWS tornado warning pipeline.

It's worth being specific: the National Weather Service operates some of the most robust automation and radar ingest pipelines on Earth, but the final go/no-go warning call is almost always human—often a single overnight forecaster on a console, monitoring a swath of counties. Automation (e.g., Warn-on-Forecast guidance) can surface threats, but the NWS intentionally doesn't have an 'auto-warn' button for tornadoes, because of the asymmetry of false positives (blow credibility, cost lives in the long run).

Budget cuts reduce redundancy and experience in those overnight shifts. When you have only one person monitoring instead of a team of two or three, you get decision fatigue and coverage holes, especially during clustered, multi-cell outbreaks. We've seen near-misses in the past, and every pro-meteorologist I know says they're playing defense against process errors, not just technology failures.

Before we point fingers or blame 'technology/automation' shortfalls, let's quantify the concrete bottleneck: skilled human decision-makers are the limiting reagent; machine learning warning aids are still years away from majority trust.

siilats · 3 months ago

yeah why cannot that guy sit in california or new york in a normal time zone? not like there are tornadoes in every state, its so silly to keep a person at night in an office when weather is good

siilats commented on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order cpb.org/pressroom/Corpora... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

bhouston · 4 months ago

The US is so weird right now.

You have a President who is ordering the defunding of tons of groups (universities, media, aid, institutes) while not clearly having that authority and often doing so for what he views as ideological crimes.

Also arresting and trying to deport people for things that are not clearly crimes (newspaper op-eds, etc) and without due process.

Very strange times.

Right now I have some faith the courts in the US will stand up to this and get the US back on track but I worry that dam may not hold forever.

Saving grace is that his is not widely popular, although that is more for his tariff moves than for the others.

siilats · 4 months ago

The anti trump money groups have infiltrated HN or you really think the government today should be spending money on CBS?

siilats commented on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other fuelarc.com/news-and-feat... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames

lightedman · 5 months ago

"It’s not just that self-driving cars in general are dangerous for motorcycles, either: this problem is unique to Tesla. Not a single other automobile manufacturer or ADAS self-driving technology provider reported a single motorcycle fatality in the same time frame."

Doesn't matter when mileage isn't what's being compared - it's whether or not others have caused the same problem - PERIOD.

siilats · 5 months ago

so if the other cars have 5x less miles on autopilot compared to tesla you expect to see 0 crashes even though the probability of a crash is the same

siilats commented on GitHub Copilot is now available for free github.com/features/copil... · Posted by u/ksec

siilats · 8 months ago

For JetBrains IDE-s the open source CodeGPT plugin works much better. Many more models to choose from

siilats commented on The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany vincentschmalbach.com/the... · Posted by u/vincent_s

siilats · 10 months ago

in USA its qualified small business so tax is 0

siilats commented on Learning not to trust the All-In podcast passingtime.substack.com/... · Posted by u/paulpauper

siilats · 10 months ago

Well he doesn't know how to divide. If private sector does 2% and government does 1% then government is 50% not 33%. Similarly he displays the level of government spending, not the change. If government is 30% of GDP, then automatically its 30% of GDP growth no matter what. And again 30% is really 50% of the private sector. Now if the government grows from 30% to 35% like it shows on that chart, in addition to few quarters of 50%, thats how you get to government being 100% of the growth. Just use $, the % is clearly too hard for HN. Economy was 100. Government 30, private sector 70. Economy grew to 105, government 35, private sector 70. So 100% of the growth was government. I hope the author reads this comment, HN is being a weird echo chamber. Bayesian probability people, what is the chance that All In is actually wrong based on a random blog post.