skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with most industries, it depends. But junior people typically make in the 200-500K range. Then as you gain experience, develop your own ideas/strategies and are able to manage risk appropriately, the sky is the limit. The closer you are to managing money that's being invested the more you make. If you can run a 1.5 - 2 Sharpe strategy and never dip below a ~5% drawdown, i.e. probably have substantial positive skew in returns, you can make in the millions or tens of millions at the right fund. Note that as the OP correctly alluded to, this is much more difficult to do live than in a backtest.
Another Forensics Blog: Detecting Lateral Movement with WinSCP
When the pension is an unfunded liability, it does change the calculus if everyone receiving it will be spending it off in Florida and not back into the local economy that's paying for it.
No, I believe vain, insecure people post lots of photos of themselves online. Many of them compensate for their ugliness by clothes, background and makeup. Most beautiful people that are busily secure in their lives don't have the time to post 10 times a day!!!!
This article would be better if be didn't use Google indexing Twitter as an example, since I can never ever find tweets I remember on Google.
You say "batshit crazy", I say bold, forward thinking and disruptive... (:
How about NYC show us the evidence and just settle it? If the WH had no contact they have no evidence to prove a negative.
I don't run lights myself, but I don't agree with the theory of perfect symmetry of moving violations. The risk one poses to others by breaking traffic laws is different for a pedestrian, a cyclist, a car, a semi-trailer, and a jumbo jet. Insisting that all violations matter the same is nonsensical.

In places, this recognition has actually been codified into law (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop).
What are the disaster vectors that the government should plan and equip for? What scale should be prepared for each?
"The stock market is not the economy"

As a result of the 2008 crisis, the US Government / Fed started pumping money. The market bottomed out just before they started pumping money in March of 2009 and then started recovering.

Someone in June of 2009 would have experienced the same emotions that you're experiencing now because foreclosures continued to mount, maxing out in the second half of 2009 with a significant number of foreclosures occurring in 2010 as well.

I read somewhere that the economy didn't fully recover until 2015. By then, stocks were already quite expensive.

This is probably what has been driving many people to buy stocks now. That and being bored at home.
awesome! love me some spirited away, totoro and ponyo, but the howl’s background seems the most work-like one.
That's a good point. The stated goals or objectives or values of a community or collective actually do have significant impact on the behavior of that community. It's too bad that HN generally doesn't recognize that when looking at things like Google's "Don't be evil".
Do you not understand that if there are not jobs to go back to there will be no eating tomorrow either? If businesses start to go under, and this cascades as it usually does, we could be seeing serious recession, or even economic failure? What do we do about food then? Also what happened to the economic stimulus checks and unemployment system? The systems are definitely taxed but that only shows you how big we’re getting hit atm.
What Is the Cost of Your Attention?
>I have posed an engineering solution blah blah blah

"Don't worry guys, all Nazi Germany did was invent and execute engineering solutions! they are free of all moral consequences!"

>harms zero humans
>You can't dissect or experiment on thinking, feeling humans! That's immoral.
>there is no god other than us to lift ourselves up to reach the stars
>Biology is a platform, a machine, an ecosystem.

let me get your argmuent right:

treating humans like mindless animals and dehumanizing them = immoral bad nazi experimentation, playing god. it's cruel! don't you know that people have dignity and can feel pain!

making humans like mindless animals and dehumanizing them = moral, good, playing god, the purpose of society is just to live forever so I can post on hacker news, if we make them into genetic abominations they can't feel pain, and can't have dignity!

You have the simplest understanding of morality that contradicts on the slightest inspection. the reason you think this way is because you never question the basic axioms of your belief system that was handed down you. It is clear that you have a completely meaningless understanding of cruelty beyond hedonistic "pain = cruelty".

>Biology is a platform, a machine, an ecosystem. We need to fully commandeer it so we can make it into a perverted abomination as soon as possible.

I think life itself has some intrinsic value (it could perhaps be described as a type of pervasive-yet-hidden beauty) besides just existing forever in a perverted and impotent form.

>You do know that humans are animals and that our time in the universe is limited?

yes I am quite aware
https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit/9071eebf0964...

Typo fixed! I think I've found at least 15 typos total now. Oops...
Flat depends on your perspective. The death rate per capita is higher than anywhere in Asia, despite many of those countries being denser
There is someone more informed to comment on this but the reason is the Fed. They are buying corporate debt. That’s a pretty drastic thing to be doing. This recent commentary by the Fed chairman describes the scene, the money tap is wide open. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/powell-vo...
AI Can’t Be Named Inventor on Patent
That's one (or two, for each elbow).
Data [1] vs. anecdote: Austin is one of top same sex metros in the United States and San Antonio is one of the top places for same sex couples to raise children (in Texas public schools).

[1] https://www.sanantoniomag.com/a-family-town-for-all/
Nice. I will check it out.

Quite a while back, I did away with all sorts of Clipboard app, after discovering Alfred's "Clipboard/Snippet Viewer".
> What is it with people and willingly accept argument from authority just because there is a PhD or MD next to the name?

Because this is how it worked for literally hundreds of years and it seemed to work just fine, and only NOW does it seem we have a problem
>a false positive for an antigen rtPCR is essentially impossiblee. The primers are extremely specific and can't find something that isn't there.

I read somewhere that among the reasons for a false positive would be cross-contamination among samples.

Just because the primers find something in the sample, doesn't mean that that something isn't in fact merely a bit of cross-contamination from another, true positive, sample.
This is an example of one of those frustrating things where Apple and most other USA companies really care about how their products don't work well in other countries.

All my Japanese friends have complained about this issue since iPhone X shipped but of course complaints were ignored because people in SV don't wear masks. It's only now that people in SV are wearing masks the someone cared to deal with it.

I've seen other issues like this. Google Docs PDF support had all kinds of issues with Japanese. I think Google has 3000 employees in Japan so it's hard to believe none of them ran into these bugs but it's not hard to believe that Google USA didn't care about them.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22541960

I have seen this actually happen IRL
As an example, Amazon is fairly well-known in the industry as having a set of principles and with the fact that those are often described as having been weaponized to support people's positions. I actually think that weaponization of principles or slogans or mottos is not uncommon. Different principles, though, have different flexibility on how far they can be used to justify things (i.e "focus on the user" has different flexibility than "move fast and break things" or "don't be evil").
"Someone who is friendless, childless, powerless, weak, and ugly will simply not be able to find many opportunities for virtuous activity over a long period of time, ..."

This is B.S. I don't believe in categorical statements like this. Life is not a constant. A person may be friendless, powerless, weak and even childless for two decades. But all of that can suddenly change. As for ugly, I've seen the ugliest people marry the most beautiful people. And some of these ugly people were total shy, introverts.

So if you are ugly like me, and if you're down in your life like I've been at times when my startup failed, be patient and continue on with life. It will get better. And for love of all that is holy, stay away from these sorts of nonsense absolutisms.
Salesforce cancels Dreamforce, which brings nearly 200k people to SF each year
Why not do use django or rails for auth with JWT/token based auth recommending to use them for the other parts?
just like keeping people fed shouldn’t be conflated with keeping businesses operating and solvent. your logic cuts both ways and businesses shouldn’t have been brought up by the grandparent in the first place
>Other countries do not even have the concept of freedom of speech/assembly embedded into their founding documents.

Many countries recognize such rights as part of their constitution or primary legal framework, and those rights are recognized by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The First Amendment itself was inspired by the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the English Bill of Rights.

The premise that the United States, alone, recognizes freedom of speech as a legal right is simply absurd.

>I agree with this, although I would probably soften the language around forcible imprisonment slightly.

I'd soften it a lot, because as far as I know, no one is being forcibly imprisoned in their homes under shelter-in-place orders in the US. At least in my case, the orders for my city don't prevent me from moving freely. I have to wear a mask in public, and my local supermarket opens later and closes earlier and has item limits to stop panic buying, and there is an 11pm curfew, but those are hardly what I would consider to be the signs of a totalitarian police state.
I often had to share passwords to services with students so they could work on a project. We all had shared access to a Google Docs area and a wiki, both password protected. So once a student was allowed access to either of these protected spaces I could use them to transfer a password. I'd type the password in some random document, tell the student to go look at that document, they'd email that they had the password and I'd remove it from the document. Getting the students access to the Google Docs or wiki was a simple process, they could request access to the Docs and my boss would vet and grant it, or a sys admin would add access to the wiki for them. So once you establish one relatively secure channel, you can leverage it for other secure purposes. Probably not highly secure, but we weren't protecting nuclear secrets.
A private certificate authority for secure automated certificate management
I personally feel there's a big overlap between Jobs and Musk—but none more so than the fact that they had the key combination of sufficient intelligence, clear vision, high self-confidence and (most importantly) strong influence over corporate direction.

One of my favourite Steve Jobs quotes is just after he returned to Apple and began dismantling the massive pile of legacy cruft. When asked about a particular (terrible) technology that Apple scrapped, Steve went on a particularly insightful rant that holds numerous insights into what he believes to be key to a successful company. And history proved those insights to be exactly right.

The quote— "Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because at least some DECISIONS are being made along the way, and we'll find the mistakes and we'll fix them." https://youtu.be/yQ16_YxLbB8?t=3286

In other words, as long as you're right often enough, being decisive is more important than being right every single time. Musk strikes me as sharing that mentality. He's right often enough that it's more efficient to "fix" the mistakes than to suffocate big decisions with big committees. And it's not like any big committee is sure to be right more often than Jobs/Elon anyway.

(That YouTube video is fantastic IMHO. Watched with the benefit of hindsight it shows that Apple's success wasn't an accident. Steve really did understand the formula that ultimately led to it.)
You realize everything what you say holds true on the opposite side of things, yes?

All of the media coverage I've seen and read played up those protesters as valiant, the suffering workers of the world uniting to stop the government from destroying their career.

Your argument that this is the result of a unified media doesn't exactly work, unless you're referring specifically to media you disagree with.
Well, being the author I am certainly biased, but I don't think you've wasted your time :)

Thanks for the feedback. I think the dog-whistle part is quite true. I will need to circle back and add citations where I can. Particularly given that one of the thematic elements is that the lockdown is not based upon evidence.

> There seems to be excessive use of bolding random segments of sentences. I don't know if this is just a stylistic thing, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I was worried about this being distracting. I think particularly bolding segments within a sentence is definitely distracting, so I will (eventually) try to clean that up.

> On suicides, it seems like most of the argument should be verifiable from data (i.e. by its claims, we should be able to see an actual increase in suicide deaths). Is that data not available yet?

As far as I know it's not, but I'm not entirely sure where to go looking for weekly suicide data. I've only been able to find data over much longer intervals. This is where being an actual expert would probably help! :P

> this is clearly a plea to the emotions of a specific subset of the population

Just to bite of a piece of this before I conclude here, I personally think that a shift to censorship on such a wide scale is absolutely something to raise a bit of moral panic about. The new usage of the term "disinformation" has hit a point of Orwellian double-speak.
What I don't understand is, what are the consequences are? If there is no, why didn't this just always happen and we'd all be rich?

I've read other articles which say that essentially we're losing the ability to really valuate equities because of all this free money being injected into junk bonds etc hides the true valuation.

As far as I can tell, stocks are more valuable, but only numerically, they're actually more worthless than before because the company and the economy as a whole has stopped.
If you spot out anything you might have articulated differently, it’d be great to hear

I'm not a native speaker, but I'd use "spot" rather than "spot out". Don't know why, just looks a bit unusual.
Weed eater
A major thing the DOE does is keep track of where the world's plutonium is— it's energy-related, but also a national security matter. Michael Lewis's excellent book The Fifth Risk examines some of these agency functions in the context of what was lost when there Trump administration stepped into power with essentially no transition plan or concept of how to run them.
Show HN: Go module for current/historical exchange rates and currency conversion
In reality, it doesn't always work quite like this. Japan has a system of assigning a percentage of blame to both parties in a traffic accident. "He was 80% to blame for not yielding, you were 20% to blame for being too far out in the road."

While in general this system works fairly well, there does seem to be a lot of pressure to share blame as much as possible. The only person I know how got 100%/0% was T-boned by a driving going through the middle of a red light.

Also, cars are often judged to be be much more at fault than cycles. Perhaps this is why bicycles can often be very reckless on the roads: taking blind corners without slowing down, cycling on the wrong side of the road against traffic etc.
I'm sorry, but this is complete bullshit, written by person who have no idea of what boredom, depression, apathy is.
yeah, abolition of slavery is a noble cause, obviously, but the rhetoric at that time put a lot of emphasis on the importance of preserving the union, as if that in and of itself was a valuable thing. I propose that it wasn't, and isn't.

Humans are happier if they're grouped together with their own tribe, and not with other neighboring tribes they don't identify with. In this way it's like some of the problems in Africa and the Middle East where the groups there had borders imposed on them that didn't follow this simple principle.
Yes =(

Pros and cons to everything.
Unrelated, but that fake, dramatized departure from quarantine that Cuomo did really bothered me.

He was leaving his home well before that, violating doctors orders. It made me question how much of his "ordeal" was dramatized as well.

I don't necessarily blame him: CNN producers are likely at fault.
I don't get it - if you have accurate historical data, how is this different from having access to current real-time data? Why can't you pretend you live 20 years in the past and use the data you have as if it were real-time?
> Combined with the difficultly of creating coronavirus vaccines. I've read people attribute the lack of a good SARS1 vaccine due to the economics/capitalism, but there seems there more to it.

Yes. The reason there is no SARS1 vaccine is because SARS1 burned out after a year:

"The SARS global outbreak was contained in July 2003. Since 2004, there have not been any known cases of SARS reported anywhere in the world." [0]

[0] SARS (10 Years After) [2016] - https://www.cdc.gov/dotw/sars/index.html

There is no need for a SARS1 vaccine because that virus disappeared before the vaccines became available.
Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years
Stadia’s latest woe: Its PUBG port is overrun with official, crappy bots
Most drivers are taught to assess the junction before they arrive and decide if they need to come to a stop or not. The thought process in the heads of drivers approaching the junction is "I have good visibility in both directions and there are no other vehicles. I will go through." This works for most situations but fails tragically here.

Yes, the drivers should stop for the stop sign but they clearly don't. It's a UX problem. The junction should be fixed not the user.
I still remember how when the pandemic was breaking out, I and my colleagues in the lab were not taking this seriously because we were so confident we'd be able to get it under control. All we had to do was test rigorously, and, like c'mon. It's just qPCR. I remember overconfidently asserting that, like, the USA invented PCR - we know how to do it. laugh out loud. Hell, I had a plate in the machine as I was speaking! Colleagues agreed. After all, it only got so bad in china because they were covering it up, right? We just gotta run more tests, trace, and isolate. The stuff we were working on the lab was hard fundamental questions - the science needed to stop the pandemic was some PCR and quarantining people. And, the CDC was developing our own diagnostic instead of using the WHO's, but that makes sense, they're the CDC. What were the odds that they'd screw up so badly that the FDA would describe conditions as so bad they'd be reason enough to shut down the lab if they weren't the CDC? What were the odds that our friends in testing labs would find themselves describing the CDC as having "simply failed at molecular biology" [0]?

Of course, I use the past tense when describing our feelings about our research since we're certainly not working on it now. It's all nonessential. We're not allowed to go to the lab now unless you really need to water the plants or feed the mice. Just to keep a sustaining gene pool of our model organisms alive, so we can breed back what we need when we get back.

We really learned a lesson in humility. Part of miscalculating is having the wrong set of assumptions to derive calculations from. I don't think we were the only people who should have known better that were arrogant and overconfident.

We're hearing from some local labs that they have enough reagents to run tests, they have the right primers, they have what they need. But they can't get the cotton swabs they shove all the way up your nose and the little plastic collection things they need to administer the test. Cotton swabs. And little plastic vials.

We're talking about developing a vaccine, a cure, privacy-respecting contact tracing, fighting a once in a generation pandemic, keeping the hospital system from being overwhelmed. And we don't have the cheap disposable plastic and cotton things we need to run a test.

Truly a lesson in humility.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3
The why isn’t important. HN would be better without current events. Banning current events would solve the political threads. Without current events the site would be a respite from rather than extension of whatever the current rage is (which is mostly politics).

Current events also encourage repetitive topics. Every day is multiple coronavirus threads. During an election it’s daily election news. During the 737max thing it’s multiple daily threads on the same thing.

Every current events topic just turns into a flame war. Coronavirus is a good example. Every thread is an argument about whether lockdown is good or not, how deadly the virus is, etc.

Ban current events. They dominate every other medium. HN doesn’t need them.
No. Elon can’t won’t sell his existing shares because he doesn’t want to dilute his voting power. Therefore, to spend money without borrowing, and to repay the debt he has already borrowed against his existing shares, he needs new shares. This makes them very valuable to him.
Why do you think I underestimate the diversity of places where I or other members of my family have lived, where we have gone to school, and where most of my parents generation have been school teachers?

I know there is plenty of diversity in small monocultural towns. But it is of a qualitatively different type.
Nice. `Match exec` is one of my favorite things. It's too bad the command being passed to `ssh` (if there is one) isn't available as a `TOKEN` (as far as I can tell). That would put a bow on everything.
If the market flips against me, I just double my bet on the next play.
OK. But the thing to do is test, using https://browserleaks.com/ or whatever.
>Your world view is very bizarre to me

the idea that people should simply live and die naturally is becoming increasingly antiquated

>what society would ever produce decephalized humans when they could produce cephalized humans? a weak society that could not possibly adapt or grow.

The primary driving force behind growth and change in society (by proxy of individuals attempting to fulfill the power process) is competition. The conflict that causes this motivation is death- that is to say that the root reason why people do things is because they will eventually not be able to do things. In a society where no one has to compete in the "sexual marketplace", and no one dies within a reasonable lifespan, there largely is no reason to change or grow

>How? Going from killing conscious beings to not killing them anymore is the opposite of cruelty.

Is the alternative to this kidnapping people and harvesting their organs? No of course I don't support that. If you are suggesting that letting people die because they needed organs harvested in a gravely unethical manner is "killing". then yes, I do support that form of "killing" because it is so far removed from the actual meaning of killing that it no longer bears meaning.