skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real answer:

1) Registering a company in Switzerland requires a Swiss address and Swiss national as a director. See https://www.companyformationswitzerland.com/register-swiss-c... and elsewhere

2) Registering a Swiss company wouldn't by itself allow them to escape US DoJ enfoncement actions. see https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ubs-enters-deferred-prosecuti... for example

3) Registering a Swiss company wouldn't exempt them from KYC requirements http://bankersacademy.com/pdf-aml/amlswitzerland-law.pdf for example says that the swiss AML legislation includes non-bank financial institutions (such as exchanges)

Edit to add: It's also non-trivial to get a Swiss work visa if you're not a national. I had one for a while and it required a Swiss company to use up one of their finite central allocation and show that the work wasn't replacing the job of a Swiss national and was being paid the average wage or more (this to prevent exploitation of migrant labour apparently).
What alternative would you claim is better with equivalent liquidity?

I pay a thousand a year in trading fees to my stockbroker in Australia and they don't even offer an API.

Last tax year my trading fees were low double digits with bitmex.

The volume with both is about the same.
My blood pressure dropped from 135/85 to 115/80 after I got COVID.

I haven't checked it recently because I'm left with tinnitus in my right ear (that rings very loud when stressed or when exerting myself) and I was stressed about that, but I'll do an ultrasound checkup on my heart.

You did not mention an ultrasound exam on your heart, I thought it was pretty good?
Go back to the 1960s and people were already talking about i/o vs cpu bound. The units for measuring both have changed but the tradeoff is evergreen.

Supercomputer: device used to turn compute-bound problems into i/o bound ones.

Mainframe: device used to turn i/o-bound problems into compute bound ones.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury

>The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly E-6 Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-320. The original E-6A manufactured by Boeing's defense division entered service with the United States Navy in July 1989, replacing the EC-130Q. This platform, now modified to the E-6B standard, conveys instructions from the National Command Authority to fleet ballistic missile submarines.
German Marshall Fund Launches “Digital New Deal” Initiative
He did, his statements (translated to English) were:

-"Don't send PR to popular repos, they'll mark it as spam"

-"Send PR to repo with little activity, it'll increase the chances that it'll sit for 7 days. The lesser known a repo is the better, 4 out of 20 is doable"

-"Hacktoberfest has had seasons when they didn't get enough participants and had leftover merch. I request every single one of you to go grab one"

The thumbnail can be translated to "Big Co. distributing free t-shirts, go grab 'em"

Also, his previous pinned comment asked people to tell him about swag-grabbing tactics from other events so he can make another video on it (There was a comment where he was enquiring a guy on how to get Azure merch). His entire video was appalling to go through.
> a 90% probability of losing half your wages is generally not worth a 10% probability of making 7x your wages.

this is a fairly bad expected value:
10% * 7 * wages - 90% * wages/2 = 25% * wages

So you expect to lose 75% of your wages! Nobody is gonna agree to do that!

A more realistic scenario is
10% * 100 * wages - 90% * wages/2 = 955% * wages
My dad always jokes about being... Irish and possibly Catholic.
Show HN: Irritate a irritating boomer with the press of a button
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Reeder on iOS/Mac with Feedly as the back-end and a handful of private feeds being fetched directly. Has a great Read Later feature as well as a working Reading Mode that save me a lot of time.
90% of your 2020 salary.

I would not be shocked if next year the people who took this deal were not given raises as high as Bay area employees because "lower cost of living".
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There's a lot of depth in it, but here's my version for laymen. I was a derivatives trader in the financial markets and also did some work in crypto exchanges.

Imagine someone offers you a deal where instead of buying stocks, you agree with someone to pay you the difference between the price of a stock today and whenever you decide to exit the deal. PnL should look a lot like whatever the stock did over the period.

Add to this that of course when the trade starts, it's worth about zero to either side. But there's a chance you're gonna lose money, so the exchange wants you to put up some money. Not the entire amount that the shares cost, because you probably won't lose that much. And we can adjust the margin according to how the market moves.

So you can then get a much larger exposure than if you just bought the stock with the same amount of cash.

Now add to this a minor wrinkle, that is you don't use the cash dollars to buy the bet, you actually use the stock. And if you win, you get more stock.
Question to anyone more knowledgeable about swift, why does it recommend against using atomics? It makes a joke about thread sanitizer, but what actual steps do you have to go through to use atomics in swift safely?
> Only case with victim from lower class and culprits from higher class is getting all the media attention

Or maybe it was because of the exceptional brutality of the crime itself, and the shocking behaviour of the police - cremating the body at 2:30AM without the family's approval.
Because users keep flagging it. That's really all there is to it.
I understand that this is a tough topic to moderate, but can we expect that there will be no discussion of this development on HN at all? Every related post is getting flagged and dying.

Edit: if there will be no allowed discussion, you should at least sticky a note to the front page stating the intention and rationale.
Brief Firefox extension.

Very rarely though. It comes in very handy from time to time, like for instance when looking for something specific on Craigslist. Much easier to scan a bunch of feeds than to muck around with the website.
Trump, First Lady test positive for Covid-19
How do you decide the number of companies you invest in each year? Is this simply a function of the available capital or do you take future capital requirements of the companies you want to invest in into account?

Let's say you only pick the top 0.25%, do you do any statistical analysis afterwards to see if this percentage gave the best ROI? Because I would assume that the top 1% at least gets funded by other VCs so it should be possible to do this? Although at the same time I wonder if outsized returns can really be made if there is a VC consensus of the top 1%, my understanding is that the best returns are made in firms that people disagree on.
Aviation Enthusiast Predicts Trump Covid Result Based on E6-B Sighting [Twitter]
Agreed he most likely won't die, but Boris Johnson had a very severe case, and was in pretty bad shape for a while.
I'm very open to using Electron, actually it looks like the best option so far, just wanted to know what else is there.
I'm not interested in webapps in the sense of maintaining a server, user accounts, etc.
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I don't think Relus are the proplem. Relus are good, but artificial neural networks can work with sigmoid activation fonctions instead. The neurones in an ANN with sigmoids are somewhat close to what is described in this article.

The main problem is that the neurons in this article are not trainable (you can't update the weights dynamically) and not differentiable (you can't use the usual gradient-based training procedures to update the weights). They could be used for inference only though.
I've lived long enough in North India to know that outside a couple of cities, being out after dark is a big no-no if you're a single woman.
There's a 6.2% federal tax for a government-backed pension (social security) that may or may not be around by the time people need it. Most Americans are responsible for their own retirement funding, usually via an employer sponsored plan (401k and others)

Either way, it has nothing to do with a state-level income tax.
For reference the E6-B is a “doomsday” plane that can serve as an airborne mobile command center even if the situation on land is compromised.
Thunderbird. Yes, the e-mail client.

Adding a new feed is neither user friendly, nor obvious, but it's nice to not need an extra program to read feeds.
I heard that it is very hard to slack off at FB with design meetings. And that even many Xooglers were put on PIP at FB.

Everything is possible in the stories of "friend of friend of friend". Just like those fakirs who mastered climbing ropes!! Evidence: my friend said so, etc.
Show of force. Basically telling everyone that the US is still ready for war even though Trump could be sick.
I never claimed that Australia didn't bring cases down. It did. Then cases shot back up. Like I said: it "worked" once, then it came back, and now you're doing it again. So it didn't actually work...it just postponed things for a while.

We've eliminated one human virus in all of history, and it took two hundred years and a vaccine. The final push took a really effective vaccine, and decades of intensive effort to weed out the last cases. You're not going to eliminate this one by locking people in their homes for a few months.
Same here.

I use the pay version because I have so many feeds but I suspect that's more a sign that I have a problem.

The 64 free sites should be enough.
> Would I ever personally want to write the "raw" code to work with the Shadow DOM (not from the looks of it) unless I were a developer of some low-level framework that needs to be optimized to not manipulate the real DOM?

You probably won't write the raw code yourself.

These web component APIs are generally low level and with few conveniences. The idea is that your Framework of Choice would do the raw code and you dear application developer would get it in some handy "cooked" way which matched your framework. (For example, maybe outputting isolated components could be simple boolean in your build configuration.)

Too many people think that the raw web component specs are meant to compete with frameworks like React etc. But that is huge misunderstanding. They're low level APIs which frameworks can build on.
This makes a lot of sense, because RSS is quite e-mail like anyway in so many ways: the feeds look like an inbox, where items are marked read and such.
President is chosen by the electorate and not the voters directly, they cast in their vote at a specific date (I need to look it up). So, even if voters have voted, the date I am referring to is far away from now.
The news article mentions that the student on the paper has passed away. He died of suicide in his lab just a couple weeks after the paper was submitted to Nature [0]. Grad school is hard for a lot of people. Find someone to talk to if you're struggling.

[0] https://padailypost.com/2019/02/16/engineering-student-found...
I love the this to be honest. More people should build with a sense of fun and whimsy.
They did there job and did it well. What users were happy? I thought US govt was saving as from bitmex? The US govt criminals charges against the owners is a disgusting overreach
Your math is wrong.

0.5 * 90% + 7 * 10% = 1.15 average.
Even better, put this in your ~/.bashrc

function bashquote () {
printf '%q' "$(cat)"
echo
}
This is a good point, but I think the point being, you'd 5x your staff and 5x the size of your funnel, thereby ostensibly keeping the same ratio of 'good deals'.

Obviously, at some scale, you literally tap out of opportunities ... but not at just 2K pitches.
They should pay me $20K to stay away.
Instead of making unsubstantiated claims, how about presenting an item of misinformation as you perceive it and show us why it's wrong. That would be a positive contribution. 'Strawmen', 'misinformation'? Why take your anonymous word for it?
Yes. Compassion above all.
I don't know enough about this to comment, but is there not an argument to be made that satellites should run the least code possible? I picture a misconfigured Kubernetes setup irreversibly taking out an entire fleet of satellites.

The mission sounds cool, and I understand its application:

> KubeSat is an open-source project for building a cognitive, autonomous framework for satellite constellations and swarms.

But couldn't the cognition layer run at a ground station? The ground station would then control the satellites using a limited control layer that's as robust and bug-free as possible. Debugging a bad Kubernetes setup in space sounds like a nightmare.
Bar exams involve a significant element of speed and time management; being able to consult reference material on a secondary device doesn’t give you a huge advantage and may not be worth the risk of getting caught. Some bar exams are open book anyway. But being able to send a copy of the whole exam to someone else who can work on it in parallel, and send you completed answers to paste in, would give you a huge advantage. Locking down the only computer that can read the exam or submit answers creates a significant barrier to this.
Donate money to whom?
Who Started World War II in Asia
There are two sides to intellectual curiosity at HN: the article itself, and the opinions of the HN commentariat. In this case, I agree that the news itself isn't particularly intellectually gratifying, but this is seismically important news with many potential non-obvious ramifications, and I would be quite interesting in seeing those HN opinions that aren't just "lol die pumpkin".

For comparison, the HN story announcing that Trump was chosen as president-elect had 1800 upvotes and 2200 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
When we hear the word caste, we think of India, of poverty, inequality, and discrimination. But caste is a European non translatable, from Spanish-Portuguese "Casta". Racial purity or limpieza de sangre was at the root of this system.

When Europeans colonised the Americas 500 years ago, they established a casta system in Mexico. France had three castes - nobility, clergy, and peasants. This unjust system came to and end with the French revolution. The Dutch established a caste system in Sri Lanka. After colonising Philipines, Spain started a caste system there. The unehrliche Leute were the outcastes of Germany, the latrine cleaners, skinners and grave diggers.

England had four castes - king, nobles, knights and peasants.
Gongfermours, the toilet cleaners were outcastes in London.
The Romanis were outcastes for thousand years.

Caste is quintessentially European.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48619734
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659548
Yes. Jaati, jaat. "Kul" as well. People often ask "kis kul se ho" - "what lineage you belong to" - it's supposedly a politer way to ask someone's caste.

And in the region, your last name (sorry, it's just a knowledge I picked up while growing up) is endemic to, it's called "jaayat" or "jaait".

> In Hindi I think

I assumed you are either not Indian or not from that region in the North.

Also, what I meant by saying there are not really terms one should look out for is in professional setups, at least these days, caste is not asked openly but indirectly.
You mean it was a pain in the colon? :)
The E-6Bs make it seem pretty authentic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659548
Maybe https://www.besang.com/ ?

(Arrgh. They redesigned their already bad website into something even more bad)

There were some talks at semiconductor fabbing conferences with them, some presentations directly from them on youtube, some papers, some press(very little) over the past years.

I've seen no implementations, samples, not even prototypes so far. No design wins either. All theoretical. But seems plausible to me. So does vaporware.

At least they have an office address almost next to intel in Oregon :)
HN’s got to be a pretty intellectually barren place if it cannot find anything to drive intellectual curiosity in what is a pretty unprecedented event.

When was the last time a sitting US President contracted a deadly disease with no know cure?

And happened to be within spitting (and therefore contagion) distance of the other Presidential candidate who, if he contracted the disease was also at great risk?

And it’s likely the VP is also at risk.

You have a situation where the President and the VP may be incapacitated. You may have a situation where the presidential candidates for both the major parties may have to drop out of the elections.

And that’s just my immediate thoughts about unprecedented possibilities.
“Schadenfreude” Google Trends Spike
Edit: Language ID fail. See below.
Interesting to hear this. An acquaintance worked for a big Telco, and one day his director walked up to him, and asked him "why he was idle yesterday". That's how he found out that every one is being monitored. This was not a remote job.
It has been a recurring issue in previous years. It’s apparently worse this time but they were very much notified, they simply do not care.
Yes, he was taking it prophylactically not sure why you're being downvoted

https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-prophylactic-hydroxychloroquin...

EDIT: Also this came out just 2 days ago and found no effect: "Efficacy and Safety of Hydroxychloroquine vs Placebo for Pre-exposure SARS-CoV-2 Prophylaxis Among Health Care Workers"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
RIP Quino, such a witty and talented artist.
My 2 cents about my experience in growing up in rural central India, which hosts several major Scheduled Tribes (Adivasis) and Neo-Buddhists (erstwhile dalits).

* Modern caste system isn't the same as the one in 19th, 18th and 17th Century. Different groups climbed up and down the ladder, aided by the socio-political movements.

* The modern version of caste is more about social prestige, and status. In my experience whenever people were curious about my caste it was to know what tribe you belong. Just like people asked me regularly where I was "actually" from in EU and US.

* A lot of rural Indians aren't well versed with the metropolitan western concept of egalité, because the Dharmic system functions differently. This means the closest frame of reference is the caste system to know one's place in the pecking order. Same structures can be found in Japan and Korea.

* The Dalits are a formidable political force now and a lot of caste based discrimination is done by non-Brahmins who fear the reduction of their share of the pie. I've seen brahmins being on receiving end of the caste based discrimination, countless no. of times.

* Caste system in corporate world is cloak-and-daggers game and goes hand in hand with using language, region, culture etc to further their aims. A Marathi Kunbi might be favoured by a Marathi manager over a Bengali Kayastha.

* I studied in a Govt. college which has more than 50% seats reserved for SC/ST/OBC/NT and I have first hand experience that caste is not an indicator of talent.
This is exactly the way that video had been demonstrated.
The cartels filled the vacuum left by the state. This is exactly my point. Have a look what ancap looks like in real life in the link below.

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1284577448332603392
If I understand this correctly those planes play a role in coordinating nuclear strikes; is this just normal posturing in case someone might think of launching at the US in the confusion a severe progression of Trump's illness would cause? Is this something to be worried about?
Move to a new city or probably a new country. That will pull you out of boredom. I am also stuck in a rut right now but I did these about 3 times in my career till now. I remember I felt the most excitement at work and in life when I am in a new city and new environment.
As opposed to an old school flight computer. :)
What about stock refreshers? I believe stock grants make up a pretty big portion of one's total compensation at large tech companies. According to data shared by Google and Facebook employees [0], it seems like stock makes up ~40% of your compensation for a Senior L5 role.

Would those also be CoL adjusted?

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook#
Glad you liked it, I found it useful as well, lets hope they'll make the android version soon as well.
Yes, I also don't think the poor virus deserves to be extinguished by something as horrible as Trump.
If a Presidential Candidate Dies or Is Incapacitated Before Election Day
Thank you. Trump is a narcissist no doubt, but I thought the most illuminating moment of the debate was when he told a white-supremacist group to "Stand back and stand-by."
I don’t have first hand experience in the world of game programming, but I’ve heard that smart pointers aren’t used and old fashioned new and delete are standard practice. (Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m curious if what I’ve heard about game development is really true.)
Trump and wife Melania test positive for Covid-19
Capitalism as we have it today is inherently authoritarian. If you have no money you do whatever money tells you to do or suffer the consequences.
Yeah, with discs with holes in them.
Nobody is mentioning that Joe Biden took the day off today. I wonder if he is infected as well.
I have a few predictions: He will twitter-cancel the presidential debate; He will slide the fear fader up on the population in hopes of diminishing the polls; He will be "cured" reinforcing the image that he has strong genes and was a good choice for his base.
I am guessing you havent been on the internet 20 years ago when Indians were barely on the internet and email spam and forwarding was a huge thing.

The issue was solved by Google (and others) stepping up their spam detection game. The spam problem can and should be stopped with the technology, but I am not sure if Facebook has the motivations to do this.
I bet the tire range is understated though. Just as the battery lofe is overstated. And how about getting twice the range for retreading your AAA tires when they wear out? The article is unnecessarily rigid.
Its from Latin:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laevus#Latin

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dexter#Latin
> Aligning public and private incentives through platform data sharing, increased competition, data portability, accountable cross-platform codes of conduct, and risk-mitigation efforts.

With such initiative the net will become vastly less free and content more controlled. It is the only theme digital policies out of Germany were able to deliver the last years. Sad, but I don't see Germany becoming a relevant country for digital services. And no, privacy protections mentioned in the constitution (basic law) aren't relevant. The US has the same problem to a degree, you can just ignore protections for national security.

As a German I would like to strengthen transatlantic corporation but the US should lead with their principles of freedom, not Germany with their principles of being afraid.
Modern NNs run like that because all we had was a hammer so we tried as hard as possible to make the NNs look like nails.
Kappos propose to restore software patents via Covid stimulus bill