skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Have you not considered that China made an exerted effort to withhold information about COVID19 from the world? How is that not an act of aggression?

Though I have issues with some of the early reporting, I do not think their aim was to attack the rest of the world. At worst, which I'm still not convinced of, it was prioritizing their own citizens over others. Hardly an act of aggression.

>Hundreds of thousands dead.

Presumably you live in the US. If killing hundreds of thousands makes you a threat unworthy of influence you might want to look at our actions. Or consider what the results of your desired actions against the Chinese might be.
Instead we just assume this is happening and extend 0% credit to all the investment banks so that they don't blow up on their fraudulent bets and shady accounting

Since we'll never prove anybody had the necessary knowledge of breaking the law and ignorance is an excuse when you write the law specifically that way
The three biggest skills aren't directly tech: learning fast/efficiently, communication and execution under pressure, and perseverance/discipline to finish/deliver.

Where I work, our devops use a mix of python/ruby/golang/bash for day to day debugging and development. Ability to read, understand, and modify Python (or a similar scripting language) and a familiarity with Bourne/bash are probably the minimum for devops.

For operations, you'd want to bring some skills that add to the team in new skills or redundancy. You'll likely be trained/cross trained in many more. Familiarity with and ability to debug some of the following: databases, networked services (sometimes a pcap replay is all you have), systems troubleshooting, monitoring, queues, or specific hardware and software platforms we use.

At the HFT I work at, we hire Jr and Sr people. For systems people, there is a bit of a divide between trading systems engineers, who work directly with devs and traders on the care+feeding of some corner of our software stack and infrastructure systems that provide shared tooling and substrates (k8s, deployment tooling, continuous integration/delivery, configuration management tooling, additional debugging help, etc). We also have network teams, traditional IT service desk teams, and performance monitoring/improvement teams.

If you're not coming from trading, we still need all of the standard sysadmin and devops skills. We have SSH, Kafka, Zookeeper, MySQL/Maria, tcpdump/wireshark, Linux, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, etc. We have misc custom file formats but also loads of json , some xml, etc. We integrate open source and proprietary as much or more than we build. Outside of the execution stack, you'd recognize a lot of what we do at any medium-sized tech company.

If you want to talk about life at an HFT, my email is in profile. I came into HFT as an experienced hire from the startup world and currently do builds development.
I think OP is saying that's the problem, companies like Twitter may prefer paying a salary adjusted rate of $150k to someone in a cheaper city than $200k to someone in SF who's not going to come into the office anyway.
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Like that "part of good health" really exists, right?
> from which the supposed egalitarianism stems. The whole premise is that utility monsters don't exist.

Yes, but you took the wrong lesson. Utility Monsters prove that utilitarianism is a bad model for reality.
In that time period is was perfectly legal for members of Congress to engage in insider trading.
> Altered Carbon actually disappoints me, a bit. I loved cyberpunk back in the '90s, but watching something like that now feels almost... dated?

Agreed with the thoughts on Altered Carbon. Worth noting that the books are fairly different from the TV show.
Unfortunately that isn't easy with the way government procuring works. Basically, you make a specsheet what you want (e.g. spare components must be available for a duration of X years) and then have to publish tenders, and usually the vendors offering bids have to fulfill certain conditions (e.g. must have a reliable history working with governments).

The last part alone excludes many cheap vendors as they don't have government contracting experience, and the spare parts requirements kills the rest as they can only be so cheap because they don't have to build much of a spare parts infrastructure. (Note: this is not specifically relating to LiMux in any way, I have no knowledge about the contracts/tender process that happened back then)

Also, the scale matters: 15.500 PCs are even at 500$ apiece 7.75 million €.
One of the most common geographic data viz failures.
I lost faith in all the major media outlets. I used to hold NYT in high esteem, also Bloomberg, but they have been publishing stuff that borders on nonsense lately (because it gets clicks). Unfortunately the left vs. right tribal stuff seems to override common sense for a lot of people.

I still occasionally peruse these sites, but I'm also good at separating opinion from fact. "The news" is about 80% opinion these days, with a few facts sprinkled in here and there.
Love 'searching for value in dark place.' great point.
I don't know about XPM/PBM/XBM lost but AIUI PDF is just a subset of postscript with compression. If you think MS's binary excel file format is all that secret, I suggest you try unzipping it - it is no more than compressed XML. I have rescued parts of corrupt excel and word files by doing just that.
The lockdown might prevent some infections, but this sounds like it also potentially causes more severe outcomes due to less activity at home.
sigmoid(x_1 + ... + x_n) != sigmoid(x_1) + ... + sigmoid(x_n)
The NYT has a laser-focus on class and identity politics. Nearly every article is framed through that lens, and it seeps into everything the publish such as movie reviews. However, if you read the comments on articles, a lot of readers express frustration with this focus. Not sure if it matters though, their subscriber levels have been up since the change.
Never used RSS. How would you go about that? Also, could you list some of these blogs?
Dynamic stimulation of the visual cortex allows blind people to 'see' shapes
It does not require an invasion unfortunately. It only requires a naval blockade, which would effectively starve the island until they concede to defeat.
What frustrating practices? I'm a developer (and mathematician), and I love puzzles :)
> How does that sound?

It sounds hypothetical. You said herd immunity involves a good fraction of the population dying which you don't know. Serious complications for the non-risk population is neither known nor expected.
>we shouldn't punish a thief because they might steal even more?

We shouldn't punish theft in a way where stealing now becomes their best option to survive.
> The fact that we can do server-side rendering and communicate with databases and what-have-you using a language native to the web is a wonderful development.

The author isn't just a React apologist, but also seems to want javascript everywhere.

So much of this debate - sever side rendering, etc. - has to do with the inefficiency of DOM. Mobile and desktop UI toolkits aren't DOM for a reason. They do application UI and have application concerns, meanwhile JS is sitting in this weird Frankenstein ducktaped documents-and-apps markup world. An ecosystem that has to support a million (often competing) things, but all slowly, and with decades of legacy we can't break.

It's going to be interesting change of landscape when we have isomorphic Rust/Wasm delivering truly native web apps that don't render on top of the 30 years of DOM kludge.

The Rust community is just getting started and hasn't had a long time at this, but there's already some really impressive UI work being done in the browser with Rust/Wasm [1]. Once Rust frontend frameworks begin to arrive, it'll be a whole new ballgame. It's so damned fast.

[1] http://makepad.nl/
Bethesda installs a kernel mode driver for Doom Eternal Anti-cheat
This makes complete sense and there’s no question commercial restate is turning into a bit of a house of cards.

In some big cities you have many large buildings where their primary tenant was WeWork, which appears to be imploding, and now adding onto that the whole covid WFM shift where companies are starting to cancel and downsize future leases. When you start to dig into the revenue streams behind these buildings and the owners ability to pay the mortgage back it starts to look really shady in some cases.

Most buildings need a fairly high percentage of the floors to be leased out for the building rent to cover the mortgage and moving forward it seems a lot of buildings will struggle to hit that number. It’s going to be an interesting time for commercial office real estate.

On the plus side if you’re looking for office space there are going to be some amazing deals!
I doub't her detainment had anything at all to do about Canada, so in this case Canada was, it appeared merely toeing the US line, rather than having a specific stake in the matter.

Really though the crux of the matter is wether Meng is held due to a real criminality as per Canadian/US law, or is being held as a political move, and signals from both US and Canadian administration has been confusing in this regard. Some statements from US and administrations give a feeling that she's being held for political reasons.

"Several well-known Canadians, including former prime minister Jean Chrétien and former foreign minister John Manley, have suggested that Canada let Meng go or orchestrate a “prisoner exchange” with China."

From WaPo on this issue:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/extraditio...
Jay Foreman's videos are all amazing. Well researched and incredibly entertaining.
Judging by comments, the majority of HN readers have very low testosterone.
Wow never heard of it before. The biggest problem is Excel and text editors rule the small data world.
Thank you. It was a sincere question.
Upvoted because you ask a great question. I'm just speculating here, but here are a couple points for further questioning:

1) How many people transfer to rather than from the Europe or India office? I'd wager that it's mostly in one direction, which is towards the higher wages.

2) Are RSU grants are adjusted downwards after the transfer? I believe the answer is no. Which means that the total package is not decreasing significantly until cliff.

3) What's the pre-existing financial situation for folks that move towards a lower CoL area? If you've already made a significant enough amount of earnings in the US that you could survive off of them in your destination, the base salary is going to matter a lot less.

4) Is there lateral incentivization in terms of trajectory? If you get to start a new office in a different country (or head a new team or something along those lines), the clout you develop long term may be enough to balance out the temporary salary loss, as when you return back to your origin country, you could have leveled up substantially and retain your level. You're effectively engaging in arbitrage here.

Suffice to say, I don't have a great answer, but I will note that this is a pretty specific exception, enough to make me repeat that platitude that "it's the exception that proves the rule."
I admit that my example is flawed for a few reasons and autoindex is another in that list. While obscurity and security are not identical by any means, and therefore not semantically equivalent in general, I'm just pointing out how the "something you know" factor inherently utilizes what common ground they do share, whether you call it a secret, a key, a password, a URL with a long random portion.
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But that doesn't actually address the question. Why not women, who have less testosterone? Just because men have less than a generation ago, they still probably have more than women.
> it seems to be working now.

Which is why to not post this sort of thing on HN. Not interesting.
Are we talking "fast", or merely "fast for Python"?
even better - "duh"
Seems to me as simple as this: the quantity and quality of options a person has is generally proportional to the liquid wealth they can access.
Not the best immediate source, but it identifies a study which you can look up if this isn't satisfactory:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59fcc5fbe4b0d467d4c224b3
Hi all, Alex here, CTO at Covve. Just got alerted of incident db8151dd in . We’re investigating as top priority with our security experts what relation this may have with Covve. We are monitoring the feedback in this blog and would really appreciate any additional information you may have on this as we investigate (alex@covve.com).
Show HN: Do you track net worth? If so, then my side project may interest you
> I conquer you and you become slaves regardless of race

"you" in this sense means tribe / village / kingdom. In ancient times this is not unconnected with race. It is likely an ethnic group with it's own language, customs, shibboleths etc.
The web is not only html documents rendered server-side though. You need much more advanced interactions.
The real summary of it is just:

"Is low testosterone a promoter of COVID-19 infection?

Is high testosterone a promoter of COVID-19 infection?

The elucidation of the role of testosterone in the battle towards COVID-19 infection turns out to be an urgent need.

"

But the answer can still be neither-nor in spite of the fact that "difference in the number of cases reported by gender increases progressively in favor of male subjects."
I hope that someday, more devs/designers will realize that adding more Javascript to change the web's document centric nature doesn't work, and just makes things worse. If you want an app, make an app, not a website.
Mescaline’s Bio, Soberly Considered
I did WISP work for a while in snowy rural California. My biggest surprise is that my time was 90% construction (drilling through walls, snowshoeing out to climb towers, running cables, etc) & customer support, and about 10% fun networking and hardware configuration. We used mostly Mikrotik equipment for the backbone because it is dirt cheap, with a combination of Ubiquiti and Cambium radios. My favorite tool that I discovered is the open source "Splat! HD"[1], a radio viewshed generator that you can use to optimally place your towers, and find out if an end user should be a able to connect. Ubiquiti also has a similar tool commercially available.

[1] https://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html
Hello everyone,

I was looking for a good net worth tracker that supports multi currency accounts without bank account linking for a long time to replace my google spreadsheet with a ton of different formulas. Since I was not able to find anything that will cover my needs I've decided to create it by myself.

BalanceViewer is a simple IOS application for net worth tracking which allows you control all the changes in your finances in a few minutes per month.

You can check it out on the AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/balanceviewer-finance-tracker/...

Site: https://www.balanceviewer.com/

The app is a mix of net worth tracker + classic tracker with income and expenses. The main difference from other trackers is that you don't need to waste time tracking hundreds of expenses every month. All you have to do is keep track of your account balances once a month and add all your income. The total amount of expenses will be calculated AUTOMATICALLY based on account balances and income.

How you usually track your net worth? What apps/services do you use? What is most important for you there?
I read the comic and I get why people complain about the movie... but taken on it's own it's decent.
Nice!

Any particular reason you picked using selenium+chromedriver instead of an http lib (like requests) and beautifulsoup?
Is their data public? The US publishes this data about their senators but I’m not sure if the UK does as well
> Investors don’t comb through financial statements, added Riordan, who used to manage the CMBS portfolio for retirement fund giant TIAA-CREF. Instead, he said, they rely on summaries from investment banks and the credit ratings agencies that analyze the securities. To make wise decisions, investors’ information “out of the gate has to be pretty close to being right,” he said. “Otherwise you’re dealing with garbage. Garbage in, garbage out.”

Is there a way to add incentives so investors don’t analyze information from summaries?
You control weight primary by food intake.
Larry Ellison would be more appropriate. He already has the yacht fleet and the mind control systems, too.
Streamed music is driving the comeback of vinyl
> It's an invisible war of nations and we dont really have a clue about allegiances nor what is right or wrong.

I don't see any doubt regarding "allegiance". The Chinese regime is a totalitarian nightmare that not only became a massive surveillance state but also has a long track record of human rights abuse and extrajudicial assassinations. Between what the West enjoyed in the past half century and the oppressive hell that countries have endured in the hands of the Chinese regime, the choice is pretty clear, even if we take into account Putin's pull on Trump.
Interesting take and I kind of agree.

My take is, however, that the web as we know it is going to be split in apps and websites.

Sites is stuff that works fine with an 'old classy' request->response method, stuff like blogs, newssites, wikis, information sites, simple booking sites etc. You can make a great living just doing that. Probably most content available on the web will fit in this category. However I think Wordpress and similar frameworks / libraries will continue to dominate this field.

Apps is stuff where you practically need a SPA, where there is no choice. Things like music players, photo editors, file managers, chat applications etc.

Old mom n pop shops will still be around and never need a SPA, but a lot of applications being ported to the web do need it. If you do old style websites, there is nothing wrong with that and it still works fine for a lot of stuff. But if offline capability is a requirement (as an example), it is very hard to make a compelling case without making a SPA.

I like both, I find the old style apps to be a lot quicker to develop but the SPA, PWA style app gives the user a much native feel which is important for a lot of apps.
But women have lower T.
Well here’s a real density map https://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/general-u-s/6696...

Pay particular attention to Bronx and Harlem up in the north, Chinatown in the southeast.
My understanding is that after 9/11, a lot of federal law enforcement resources got retasked away from white collar crime and just never went back. And I think it's part of a general decline in interest in holding people with money to account; in the 1970s, the IRS used to audit 2.5% of returns. Now that's down to 0.45% and falling. This makes a fair bit of sense when you look at who has influence with legislators and elected politicians: the donors.

But what I think a lot of this misses is that the more a financial system is prone to cash extraction, the less good it becomes at value generation. As an example, we can look in software at the era of Microsoft's dominance. Microsoft was a great cash generator, but its dominance (and misuse of its market power) discouraged a lot of startups). Then antitrust enforcement and the rise of the browser unleashed a whole wave of innovation.
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If Rockets Were Transparent [video]
I don't think the DOM is the bottleneck as much as JavaScript is.
You can draw a knob, urethra and frenulum in pretty explicit detail and it won't realise this is a penis.
Yup! And reference Ivar Jacobson's OOSE: Use Case Driven Approach for just how long of a history this successful approach has had.
So...I drew a flaccid penis, front view, in front of a scrotum. To give it context I added in legs and a body...and that appears to be when it became recognized, and began erasing itself while audio warned me about drawing inappropriate images. Neat.
The “loophole” was this:

“Under the new rule, any foreign company that uses American technology to produce microchips would need a license to sell to Huawei. That makes it difficult for major chip contract manufacturers like Taiwan’s T.S.M.C. to sell to Huawei, because its supply chains rely heavily on American manufacturing tools. It could also clamp down on sales by makers of semiconductor equipment, like Applied Materials and KLA, and chip design software companies like Cadence.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/business/economy/commerce...
Good catch. If you refresh the page and click the button, it should show the activities. If not, try the Library page to see the whole list of activities. I'll fix that bug ASAP.
That's probably a little too inclusive. You can be healthy and still have a body nobody really cares to see shirtless.
It seems not all in Twitter is evil after all. I will have to create an account.
Make fund managers partially liable financially for failure to do due diligence on the assets they’re investing in, versus relying on abridged information and credit rating agencies.

You can’t fix people, only incentives.
Practicing bluegrass mandolin, adjunct teaching, and running online classes for my commercial drone school. NOT programming.
We never did, no. But could you ever do that trading if one kid in class had 95% of all the candy from the off-set?

I was not advocating nor (intentionally) suggesting utilitarianism meant everything identical for everyone.
> your 10k npm dependencies

Believe me, you're preaching to the choir. Nor am I advocating for every website to have an API. But unfortunately we part ways here:

> The web is a success

The web is not a success. It's dying. Consumers vastly prefer native apps — one recent study (https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web/) tells us that 90% of mobile time is spent in apps vs 10% in browsers.
Walk to work after getting off crowded busses tubes and trains
The city being so quiet also means that a lot of people aren't there to actually see it.
Ask HN: VPNs for Hosting?
Are there VPN services suitable for hosting a web server behind the VPN? Eg, a VPN which will provide a public IP and accept connections on ports 80 and 443? The intent is helping a friend setup a home web server that she does not want to be geolocatable due concerns over stalkers. I realize this is a niche use case.