skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finra| Software Engineer/Data Scientist | Salary: 120K-160K| Onsite NYC http://http://www.finra.org/

We are looking for a software engineer that will be working with a team of statisticians, machine learning experts and financial engineers to solve complex business problems. The ideal candidate must possess solid knowledge of web application development and some computational aspects from large scale data concurrent computing, graph representation and computer algorithm development

•	Experience building full stack of front end and back end web applications using tools such as React, Vue, NodeJS, Django/Flash, HTML/CSS
•	Experience in fast prototyping using common data scientist toolkits such as : Python, R, Plotly, Shiny, Scala, Spark, Presto, Hive
•	Knowledge of machine learning and deep learning
•	Knowledge of NLP and information extraction
•	Experience in handling large amount of data in Unix/Linux environment
•	Familiar with Unix scripting environment such as AWK and Perl

For those interested, please reach out directly to richard.liao@finra.org
You seem certain that they won't look at cloud storage. I say Snowden revelations suggests we assume they can look at cloud storage. Even if NZ can't, US or EU or whoever else has access will share with an allied state.
Updated link to application: https://jobs.lever.co/autofi/15272996-4185-4174-ad97-29e76a8...
This one is great; easier to understand than the often quoted one. I shall steal!
He's a pop-psychologist and likes to throw big words around, pseudo intellectuals love him. He bases his ideas off of sketchy social science and if you have even a modicum of exposure to this material, you know he's just a slick talker looking to make a buck.
Why only women? Why not men? Why not all 30+ genders? I think public companies should be required to have representation from every gender. Shame on the governor for being so transphobic.
Microsoft started providing security updates regardless of activation status to all versions of Windows from XP forward because of the botnet problem years ago.
Most excels I use are automatically generated as a build pipeline/Jenkins step (except 2 and 4)

1. Accumulating results of performance tests over time. Add columns with results for each nightly regression and keeping additional columns like std/worst/avg for last10, last100 etc.

2. Keeping indexes with locations of our data, and their meta data. So we can quickly find data that matches to specific problems we need to solve.

3. Specification files for our performance tests. Listing KPIs for specific cases, KPIs per type of machine, how to measure (bst5, avg5, single), tracking what should show up as red/green/orange in our dashboards.

4. Running FMEA using an excel FMEA template that automatically fills/calculates certain columns based on answers in the other.

5. All sorts of automatically generated regression overviews for our unit tests over periods of time. Showing trends, violations with specs, etc.

6. Sheets that are connected to our TFS so we can have overviews and do mass updates on items.

7....
Does this mean companies with no women on their board need to fire a current board member on the sole basis of their gender? Isn't that discrimination based on a protected class?
if you've scratched someone else's car and they're asking you to pay for it

That's a perfect time to use those negotiating skills. When I was buying a car, I just told them the number I'm willing to pay, and two weeks and 5 calls later they agreed. On the other hand, had I scratched someone's car, I'd want to use some negotiation tricks in case they wanted me to pay too much.
>By the end of July 2021, a minimum of two women must sit on boards with five members, and there must be at least three women on boards with six or more members. Companies that fail to comply face fines of $100,000 for a first violation and $300,000 for a second or subsequent violation.

This is so utterly bizarre. I suspect that this law will be struck down in court fairly quickly, and the politicians who pushed it through were just doing it for the sake of virtue signalling.
Automating Observability Metrics in Serverless
I think the smarter terrorists will easily find ways around this. For instance by encoding the secret info inside of publicly accessible images via Steganography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Just deck-chair rearranging for elites. What if corporate boards were required to include non-managerial employees? What if corporate boards were required to include random low-income people? What if corporate boards were required to include a random selection of consumers of the product? Maybe then we'd see some real change. This is a mirage of progress, unfortunate that it's adequate for so many.
Reminds me of what I use, http://hckrnews.com/
First, an example:

Decades ago, a friend of mine at the time (female) met a guy. She was really beautiful and a genuinely nice person, so lots of guys would ask her out. She told me about a date with this one guy, and he didn't call her again. Even though she hid some of the details, I was able to ascertain the general contours of what happened and was able to figure out his agenda. How? Because of something he said to her.

She told me that he picked her up and they went out for diner, but when he dropped her off at home he became concerned about parking, wondering if a garbage truck might pin him in the next morning. At the time, she thought nothing of that. But she explained to me that she hadn't planned for him to stay overnight.

But what he said was a pretty BIG siren. It was obvious he already intended to stay the night, otherwise why would parking the next morning matter? My guess is that if she had known his agenda she would have viewed him differently and maybe been more wary.

End of story? He never called her again. She was mystified as to why. I thought: well of course he didn't call--got what he wanted!

In response to your question, wouldn't say that there are telling signs, it's more about the content of what people say as the story above illustrates.

A few other loose thoughts about understanding people:

1) It's dangerous to assume that other people think as you do. In fact, people come from a range of contexts and backgrounds which are not obvious when you meet them. They are perfectly happy to smile and nod with you while completely disagreeing.

2) People are heavily self-interested. Unless it's your mother (and sometimes even then), expect people to look out for themselves first. Someone making a show of sacrificing for you? Hmm.

3) People enjoy feeling superior to others, even in very minor things. Shrewd people know this and use that information to their advantage. (Not advising this, just saying what people do).

4) Chinese proverb: the dog that can bite doesn't bark. When people have the capability to get you, they don't have to talk about it--they do it. The big talkers generally don't have the ability (though there is the occasional outlier).

You may want to look into some books on this topic. A useful one is 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Not saying that you should follow his advice, but it is useful in understanding games that people play at work.

Book link (not affiliate) - https://amzn.to/2dzBqXD
Game attempts to model modern sea and air warfare as closely civilians can
There is huge variation between companies. It's not atypical in a bank to be able to push a change in a few minutes, it's faster than most startups.
Hm. Wonder if they have a brainscan for aholes.
doesn't this completely rip off the authors of the content? it can't be legal
Technically, no -- the person selected to be fired could not be fired on the sole basis of their gender because they are the same gender as everyone else on the board.
Looks interesting, I'm excited to try it out. I had trouble parsing the "Understanding Mood" paragraph. Consider this a pull request.

> What if you could get a mood score for emails you receive or send? A way to quickly sense check what you are about to send without your bias emotion or when receiving an email remove your current mood or maybe a currently negative relationship with the sender.

ShouldISendIt provides a mood score for emails you send or receive? When sending, quickly get a sense of the mood that your message communicates from an objective algorithm. When receiving messages, our tool can help you see past your current disposition or preconceive notions of the sender's intent.
> “There have been numerous objections to this bill, and serious legal concerns have been raised,” Brown said. “I don’t minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation. Nevertheless, recent events in Washington, D.C. — and beyond — make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message.”

I feel like passing a flawed or badly-implemented law that forces companies to restructure their boards in order to send a political message will have the opposite of the effect you want.

Surely it'll just galvanize peoples' negative opinions of "liberal policies," and do little to actually change anything substantial?
No. You can expand the board.
I really don’t think that is fair. Wikipedia mods aren’t expected to be experts on research chemistry or theoretical physics. As had already been noted before you commented, in many cases, including the ones cited above, the researchers in question were credited in the pages on the research. I think that’s reasonable for a resource intended for a general rather than specialist audience.
I wonder how hard it is to legally change your headquarters. I hear Delaware is nice this time of year...
Something I noticed is that exams are what we're always coming back to in terms of education. Employers want a confirmation that you learned something. That's a university degree. Even with respected websites offering confirmations, how can you trust that and how do you keep track of every website's quality?

I noticed this about all those "machine learning courses" that are getting posted here. Facebook and Google basically hand them out for free, hundreds of hours worth of quality learning material. Top universities let you watch all their lectures online. So what's the catch? Why aren't we all machine learning experts already? Because it's hard to muster the energy unless you commit to earning a degree by, yes, studying for exams. Turns out that's actually thousands of hours of work so the "convenience" part of online courses kinda starts to fade.

I definitely noticed that the quality difference between a good university and a bad one is often about how much they value "education" beyond just being an "exam machine". Presenting facts from the point of view of someone new to them, presenting methods of how to deal with edge cases and traps, taking one-on-one tutoring sessions seriously.

But yea, the end result is getting confirmation for having passed a bunch of exams.
This is good for 49 states.
A lot of cars have Lane Keep Assist and Automatic Cruise Control, but most are not nearly good enough to rely on.

Yes. Here's a road test, from 2013, of three anti-collision systems.[1]
These things are all over the place on performance. As many Tesla crashes and deaths have demonstrated, Tesla's system won't stop for stationary obstacles. (Road barrier, street sweeper, stalled car, fire truck - the list goes on.)

There needs to be a minimum performance standard for these things. A reasonable minimum goal is to mitigate collisions down to a 35MPH difference or less. With seat belts, air bags, and crush depth, almost anything below 35 MPH is survivable now.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHM6PVTjXo
Nice work Hans, keep it up! We need this kind of work to improve UX in Linux ecosystem. Gonna tweak my Fedora 28 settings to have the same behavior.
Does that make the original 802.11 "Wi-Fi 0"?
Thanks. But one question. What is the chance that a drone in the path of an airplane will not be impacted by the force of some other object on, or design of, the plane that is not the wing? For example the engine or the landing gear (small plane) or the fuselage? So we hover a drone in front of a small plane and will the small plane hit the drone? And if a larger jet will the drone remain in place or move out of the way by some force (not the wing).

And remenber that the drone has to exactly strike in a particular way.

As an example (of 'in a particular way') think of a nail on the road. The nail needs to be in exactly the right position to puncture a modern tire. That only happens in a very small amount of cases (or with a screw). Normally if it doesn't randomly happen the nail or screw gets pushed aside and does not puncture the tire. [1]

This is not a statement based on expertise I am just offering another point to consider and am curious.

[1] This I think is what happens with a paper cut sharp edge and precise angle.
Extinction is (much) more severe than extirpation. It's not guaranteed or even likely that using genetic engineering to eradicate a species in the US would also eradicate it in China. Suicide genes shouldn't last long in a population. If accidentally introducing one or two self-destructing lanternflies to China (via shipping) was going to kill them all, we'd probably be rid of mosquitoes already.
If you think that conditions in your group would be substantially better off if everyone in the group did a certain thing, you're likely to both do that thing and advocate that others in your group do that thing.
Ask HN: Best Tax Hacks for Wage Earners?
Living in San Francisco and working in tech as a wage earner, has anyone had any success with above board but little know tax strategies for deductions or credits (similar to mortgage interest, IRA) Looking to reduce burden this year especially with changes to federal code negatively impacting wage earners in high tax cities.
..unless there is a woman on the board?
So if a board position opens up and a male is denied an opportunity solely on hos sex, how will CA reconcile the lawsuit?
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Peterson at the University of Toronto in March 2017
In response to the controversy, academic administrators at the University of Toronto sent Peterson two letters of warning, one noting that free speech had to be made in accordance with human rights legislation and the other adding that his refusal to use the preferred personal pronouns of students and faculty upon request could constitute discrimination. Peterson speculated that these warning letters were leading up to formal disciplinary action against him, but in December the university assured him that he would retain his professorship, and in January 2017 he returned to teach his psychology class at the University of Toronto."

-Wikipedia

Whatever, close enough.

"He takes the long view of things"

Nonstatement.

"and discovered that some religions got some things right"

Funny that you brought religion into this - he is a lot like religion, that is - he has a lot of fans, and gets some things right, infrequently.
This legitimizes tokenism for every diversity agenda. But it raises the problem of how do you set up, say, a 5 member board with the correct numbers of white, black, asian, women, Indian, gay, hispanic, etc. on it?
Some one made a 3d engine using excel:
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CBel/20180208/308549/3D_engi...

Here is someone doing paintings in excel:
https://pasokonga.com/
If you're going to hop a fence to take a shortcut to your friend's house to play Mario Party after your last winter exam, check how deep the snow on the other side is first.
There are all sorts of ways that correlation between brainscan images and skill might not be causation. This might just be how familiar a surgeon is with the setting, so an experienced but incompetent surgeon shows as "skilled" and an inexperienced but competent surgeon shows as "unskilled".

I don't know if this using machine learning but one might see the whole machine learning field as resulting in a rush to correlation-based "cargo-cults" of various sorts (see "racist AI" and etc).

(wsj paywall articles are annoying)
I think it’s really detecting who has more connections in a given region.

That being said, I was born with a condition which leaves the sections of my brain loosely coupled. Usually this leads to dyslexia, schizophrenia, retardation, etc.

Luckily, the mutation that runs in my family is not the kind that lowers your IQ (it increases it, with a ~30% schizophrenia chance).

Because of that, I assume this scan would detect me having low skills. When I’m reality I’ve always excelled (as has my whole family). My only symptom is I don’t read linearly (kinda bounce all over the page).

I hope this doesn’t become a thing, else it’s kind of like judging job fitness based on genetic markers (I.e. race)
Interesting. How come all the consumer routers I've used have always required 5ghz to use AC capabilities? Are the rest of the ac features enterprisey? Or have I just not interacted with enough routers to see these?
The blockade is because Gaza is in a state of war with Israel, if they declare that they are willing to live in peace and stop the hostilities against Israel and recognise Israel there will be no blockade like there is no blockade on Egypt or Jordan. It is their choice, Israel not suppose to give them anything until they recognise Israel. If anything it is the Gazans that blockade Israel, if any Israeli cross the border to Gaza they will be killed.

But so far the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel, they are like the Nazis and if things go their ways that's exactly what they will do, a complete annihilation of all the Jews in Israel, the same thing Arab countries did all over the middle east which is now ethnically cleaned from Jews, most of them found refuge in Israel.

Israel is doing them a favour, America and Britain destroyed 3 countries, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya on much less than the risk that the Gazans are for Israel. At least when Israeli soldiers fight and "blockade" Gaza they can see their homes if they just turn back.
No, this is phrenology 2.0. (Have PhD in Neuroscience)
And yet you fail to summarize one profound discovery he made.
Do You Really Know CORS?
While I'm all for women serving on boards, I'm not keen on this being a legal mandate. I'll be sure to not incorporate in CA. Furthermore, how do they determine "female"ness?
Short answer: yes, crowd sourcing would work better.

Long answer: It's difficult to determine how good/bad people actually are at detecting the correct sentiment, as data sets containing phrase/sentence <-> sentiment pairs are often created by majority decision of human taggers. E.g. 7 people are given the same training examples and whatever most of them choose is then used as "correct" answer (gold standard). This might not be the real correct answer though. However, even if we accept this gold standard to actually be the absolute truth, most humans only have a correct detection rate of about ~80% (this is a very rough number, as it depends strongly on the source material, e.g. Tweets, product reviews, etc.). Still, this is way better than computers perform at the moment.
Waymo is about 5 years ahead of everyone else, so I think it's likely a combination of the two.
Of course, but the Chinese needed to do that a decade ago -- it is way too late for that now...

Usually the central banks serve that function by raising interest rates in better times as the economy heats up. China's? Not so much. Seems they might need to learn this lesson the hard way.
The point is, performance-wise, it's not the best choice on Mac OS. Not that I care much, I rarely dwell on Apple computers.
Texas is calling.
Your experience sounds like the start of stories I keep seeing on HN about people and companies losing their domains. I just saw this one today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18130832
It's similar to the question asked here before: "Can a dog kill a man with a cane?". I personally accepted the answer:"Depends on the dog, depends on the man, and depends on the cane".
What if you can't afford to?
This happened previously with "chocolate" diamonds. Those undesirable diamonds were often used in industrial applications. When jewelry stores started promoting them, the cost of "ugly" diamonds went up, making some other applications more expensive.

Also, I do a fair amount of work with a local neighborhood center that has as a part of their mission meeting the basic needs of local residents. I haven't been there during fresh produce bank they run, but I've seen pictures and been told by the management that they get some very high quality produce. Apparently the local markets aren't that great at predicting the desire for a product, so they get some pretty high quality produce from every chain in the city.
I know my prejudices. I recognize that a lot of people think OO is just dandy, and I'm on the lookout for a good argument in its favor. I'm open to the possibility that the
reason I think OO doesn't work is that I don't understand it well enough. Maybe somebody out there will explain encapsulation in a way that doesn't make hidden mutable state
seem like a nightmare. Maybe somebody's got a blog post that explains why inheritance only looks like it makes spaghetti code, but actually I can safely ignore the dragons lurking three levels up the hierarchy. Maybe there's some piece of OO code out there that embodies a beautiful solution to a problem I've been struggling with. If those things
are out there, they're going to get posted to HN eventually.
Especially when you end up in C++ template hell.
Mainstream advertising is still showing up on polarizing and misleading sites
Banning old cars from inner-city driving is a nessesity. With how densly cities pack both cars and buildings, suspended particulate matter is a serious public health risk. But we can still allow them everywhere else where we aren't already struggling with keeping particluate levels at a reasonably safe level.
The author's best arguments aren't articulated well. I will try and paraphrase.

Essentially, Imperfect Produce is buying scraps from medium to larger farms and marketing it to people that would normally buy produce from small farmers. They sell you on the concept of buying vegetables and helping the environment and farmers at the same time. They do this by claiming that the food would go to waste if you didn't buy it and they also imply through marketing materials that the food comes from quaint little ma and pa farms.

The thrust of the argument is not "boo, capitalism!", it's that it is deceptive marketing and it's hurting small farmers. Because 1) the food would not go to waste if it wasn't purchased and 2) the food they are selling does not come from small farmers but it's marketed like it does and it's marketed to the same people that would normally buy from small farmers
For me, the most important thing was to budget. I used the YNAB app and made a line item for all of my spending. It took a few months to adhere to the budget but once I did I got the ball rolling. I also did not know how to invest, so I did some reading on IRAs, mutual funds, 401ks, etc. to better understand this. I also started paying more attention to my credit.
So how were the customers or farmers hurt here? It sounds like they chose to switch services, and the only loser is the author of this post. It’s not clear to me how losing customers = food banks suffering.
I've read that only like 90 corporations are headquartered in CA for which this law is applicable. Most of the others are headquartered in Delaware or other states. One exception I've heard of is Apple.