skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is where it gets hairy: bitmex was 100% synthetic and denominated in btc. There’s no part of what they did that related to usd except that the trades were denominated in usd pricing, but all monetary flows in and out of the exchange were btc.

It may be the case they the US has jurisdiction over US customers anywhere in the world even if they aren’t transacting in US dollars. I guess we’re going to find out?

To be extra clear, it would be hard to call what bitmex sold a commodity futures contract because there was never a way to take delivery of the asset nor intention to do so. Their contracts were perpetual futures, which is to say: fictitious markers of value that can only ever be btc at the end of the day. This is why so many people referred to it as Arthur’s digital casino.

Edit: lastly, IANAL, it could be possible that the bsa includes Bitmex perpetual futures and this is open and shut. The interesting thing to me is the btc component but maybe that doesn’t matter at all?
Asynchronous schemes don't need to propagate clock through the whole scheme, so they don't have this limitation.
If Google's goal is to make sure that future regulation forbids them from ever banning an account of real person or company, they're on the right path for that.

In a few years we'll have spammers with legit companies able to legally force Google to deliver emails to their "customers" inbox, to abuse compute resource, etc.

Just because Google decided not to act on its kafka-esque banning process.
Developer exposes multiple million-dollar scam apps on the App Store
There are several possibilities.

1. If having gay relatives improved the chances that you will have children and they would survive to themselves reproduce, then evolution could favor maintaining a gay gene.

Remember that for nearly all of our species' existence, and that of the pre-humans we evolved from, we've lived most of our lives in arrangements where our close relatives lived near us and most people in the region were also related to us.

Your children have half your genes. Your siblings' children have a quarter of your genes. So in effect two of your siblings children are equivalent to one of your own as far as getting your genetic material into the next generation goes.

If being gay meant that your sibling does not have their own kids to take care of and so they devote effort that would have gone to raising their own kids to helping their straight siblings' with their kids or to doing things that help the village that those with kids don't have the time for, that might greatly increase the survival rate of those kids enough to make up for not having kids of their own.

2. Being gay doesn't mean you can't have kids. Throughout most of our history, many many people have had kids with people they have not been attracted to. That goes for both gay people and straight people.

3. What if it were a bisexual gene rather than a gay gene? Having people in your tribe that can form with both men and women the kind of close bonds the people form for the sexual partners has some obvious advantages.
...but you can delivery boxes...?

so put mail in boxes?

I mean, there's DHL, Fedex, and others...
As the ship also has an engine, the wind situation probably more decides about the amount of fuel used rather than the schedule.
But indeed, it would be attractive to have a passenger section.
My Croatian friends still complain that Serb girls don't give them the time of day. I guess things aren't fully resolved yet.
Yeah, this is very good advice.

I think if revenue or product quality is tied to a VCS, having an active-active or active-passive setup is the way to go.

Fortunately, I'm on an on-prem product so that investment hasn't seemed worth it yet.

This doesn't mean we don't escrow our code, but rather than try to rebuild from source, I just take a short coffee break and wait for the impacted service to come back up :)
Because many people here actually use the affected services?
Ask HN: How would you define an “amazing” Developer?
I often hear people talking about the amazing or awesome/rockstar/ninja/leet etc. Developers they have worked with, especially at FANG-type companies where money is not an issue.

However, in an industry that really struggles to objectively measure how good a Developer is and since there are frequent criticisms of the way in which companies try and measure how good a candidate is at interview, what are your practical examples of someone who was "amazing"? What did they do that made you think that they were so good compared to us mortal developers?

I understand why someone like Linus writing Linux is amazing (ditto for most of the authors of new programming languages) but I suspect that even these rare breeds might have arrived at their destination by sheer hard work and above-average intelligence and a bit of good teamwork rather than any particular magic!
No, it just means that within the population they studied, the variation in whether individuals identified as gay could be explained more with environmental factors than genetic ones. It doesn't say that being gay is 25% genetic and 75% environmental, that's a huge misconception. If parents all treated their kids the same way, and they all had the same treatment in schools, etc, then you'd probably see more influence of genetics than environment. That's how heritability works, it's relative to the population and how homogeneous it is.
> If it would take 8.5 yrs to review, it's probably god awful, and should never ever ever be used to convict someone of such a crime.

It's not like you review all scientific evidence and re-do the experiments that lead up to the discovery of <insert some evidence method> in the first place. Validating all that would also take years and much of it can be established as generally accepted by all parties. Similarly, there will be some trust involved with this source code as well. Getting the opportunity to look for bugs is essential in my opinion, but it needn't take multiple years. Focus on the parts you doubt, similar to what you'd do if you were reviewing the scientific method used in analog evidence.

Of course, the two aren't identical. Validating scientific methods and validating a program is different in that the program is proprietary and the science (usually) merely behind a paywall. The latter can then be replicated by others and becomes established. The former will only ever be seen by that company and doesn't become established. So scrutiny is necessary, but after a couple cases that used an identical version, requiring access without articulating particular doubts would unduly delay the case. It doesn't seem unreasonable to start trusting the program after a bunch of defendants had experts look at it and found no way to cast doubt on its result. If you don't think software of 180k lines can be used in court under such circumstances because it would take too long to review, we should throw out pretty much all software anywhere in the judicial system. (That's not what you said, but some of the replies including yours hint at that.)
For now I'd say

the advanced cache statistics (will help us reduce traffic sent to the S3 origin, in one case, and reduce bandwidth cost)

Traffic is served from the closest location to the user (instead of the bigger central locations, where they can serve traffic cheaper)

Plus paid suppport, for sure
Ok, so you don't have any answer except misdirection.

> so it's no wonder they want to go to Germany or somewhere else where they won't be attacked.

They want to go to Germany, because the welfare in Germany is higher than average wage in EE. That's it. They get more money, easier.

> you spew bullshit

Nice and thoughtful rebuttal of my points. Where did you learn to discuss like that?

> As these places are often significantly Christian

Some of them. Others are not. I've yet to see a budhist attack a christian. Or vice-versa.

That's because they are not and never were treat to each other.

> What this tells me is that your standard of behavior is countries with non-free theocratic governments,

Like, for example, Arab countries? Which of them are not theocratic?

Even if some of them in the past dared not to be (like some of the regimes of 80's), movements like Muslim Brotherhood appeared. Can you point out similar movements in other religions or nations? Appearance of such movements means, that the issue is not even the governments, but goes much deeper.

> free democratic country would never lessen itself to this.

Free democratic does not mean stupid.
Probably something about centralization and relying on a company for keeping your business running. But, of course GitHub Enterprise Server deployments aren't down, so anyone that really needs uptime can pay for the privilege (or can pay for GH One which has a "30-minute SLA").
Somehow that same effect has made it in many ways harder to find the primary material. A million secondary sources (and search engines that recognize that most people just want secondary sources) means that instead of unavailable, now it’s a needle in a haystack problem. I think a deeper problem the internet created was that you’re just as likely to read the New York Times as your local paper now, hurting your local paper. Or if not NYT, then something else brought to you by the non—local Twitter/fb/Reddit/apple news/HN/etc aggregators. That and the whole expectation of freeness that they have to compete with.
There is a pretty big collection of Hungarian historical photos online, a bit more than a terabyte, well above 100K of them and the photos are on B2 with Cloudflare fronting it. There's many terabytes of traffic each month and it's on the free tier. Since the hosting costs are covered by yours truly, I can assure you the project couldn't possibly afford cloud storage traffic prices. We would need to store it on a VPS and all the problems that come with it -- disk size, availability, reliability etc. I am so grateful for B2-CF to do this.

Special kudos for allowing the -- very cheap, only $5 -- worker addon without forcing a paid plan.
In all honesty wouldn’t we? We might have been refining sails and sailing for a millennium, but only recently did we get steeled hulled container ships with vastly different hull profiles and CFD modeling to tell us what’s actually effective.

Biplanes worked great for most of the history of aviation, but we can do better now with math.
That's a really cutting edge way to be incredibly rude.
You love to see it. Huge congratulations to everyone involved, to the rust maintainers, community, and admins.
You are ignoring Sam's objectively excellent performance at YCombinator.

I have one big problem with Altman which sullies my otherwise incredibly high opinion of him: he explicitly denies the orthogonality thesis and has created a culture at OpenAI that, to analogize scaling modals with nuclear energy, feels like one that knows something cool will happen when you collide large enough enriched uranium lumps together at high speed, but does not believe nuclear explosions are possible.

How he can deny the is/ought distinction when his own organization published Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild is beyond me.

And now many of those most concerned with safety, such as Paul Christiano, appear to be leaving OpenAI.

To accuse him of being incapable of building and scaling is incredibly obtuse. How much did YCombinator grow under his stewardship? I am more worried that he is too good at that.
> Your example of Israel is the most troubling because they have the highest proportion of vaccinations, but their statistics of cases/deaths are not falling as fast as the rest of the world (or even the Palestinian population that isn't getting vaccinated). Does it mean that the vaccines don't work? Not necessarily. It could be as you suggested, not yet.

. . .

Early this week, with the country reporting a clear and sustained drop in the number of people age 60 and older who are severely ill, experts became confident they were seeing the effects of the vaccine. People over 60 were prioritized in the initial stages of Israel’s vaccine rollout, so this was where the signal was expected to show up in national COVID-19 statistics.

“We say with caution, the magic has started,” tweeted data scientist Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, on Feb. 1, noting that COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and severe illness were all falling among the over-60s.

What’s more, follow-up studies conducted by one of Israel’s largest HMOs, Maccabi Healthcare Services, suggest that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, which has been used for most of the shots given so far, is working almost as well in the real world as it did in clinical trials, with over 90% efficacy after two doses. This was not a guarantee: Drugs and vaccines may perform slightly differently outside of the controlled bounds of clinical testing.

As the charts above and below show [see article URL], the decline in severe cases began in mid-January, shortly after a steep rise in the number of older Israelis getting their second vaccine shots.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/israel-cor...

. . .

Only 31 out of 163,000 Israelis vaccinated by Maccabi Healthcare Services were diagnosed with COVID-19 in their first 10 days of full-strength protection, its top vaccine statistics analyst, Anat Ekka Zohar, told The Times of Israel on Thursday.

Maccabi found that an equivalent sample of unvaccinated Israelis was 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with the coronavirus, which allowed it to calculate the effectiveness rate.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/vaccine-found-92-effective-in-...
Air outside is -40. Windchill brings that to -57. My work is shutting down all activities that require being outside for more than a couple minutes. Forget the health benefits, until it warms up I am not going to walk anywhere other than to my car. Even that can be dangerous at these temperatures.

https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/index_e.html
If it is the interest of FBI,
also according to this article, in some places an email address is enough to open an account:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/booming-crypto-market-a-potentia...

so not sure about the claim.
You are designing language from scratch? Is it too early to show screenshot or a sketch?

Often I get the urge to make spatial development environment, but I always envision it as lisp with 3D rendering/manipulation.
Very sad someone had to die, but it was an extremely poor decision on the part of the youtuber. I don't blame the shooter at all. Sometimes tragedies like this happen. Hopefully others learn from it.
Apple’s Dan Riccio Shifts from Hardware Chief to AR, VR Headsets
Ask HN: Development agency vs. product company, what's better for a first job?
Hi HN,

I am a long term HNer but recently converted hacker. I am now in the interview process with a few companies for engineering jobs and getting more traction than I expected.

At this point in my career I'm looking to deepen my knowledge of engineering rather than receive any immediate payoff.

It looks like I might have offers from a company working with a big monolith code base and also from an agency which has a bit of a mix (they only work with long term customers so they do get to know the code bases instead of churn them out).

I am quite familiar with building small applications, and have never worked on a monolith. I can see the pros and cons of both sides - something brand new + more steady with the product company vs. getting very good at building rails applications quickly + gain some monolith experience with the agency.

What would you do and why? I know both pathways will make me a better developer, but I'd love some guidance choosing the right path.

Thanks!
A few comments before, I've seen someone recommending to sign up for an (advanced!) (Microsoft's) LinkedIn account to solve an issue like this one. Then I guess to solve a problem with LinkedIn you'll have to sign up for a Twitter account, and so on and so forth..?
> Google has already decided to cancel Stadia

I believe you were going for hyperbole, but it reads more like misinformation instead. Please reconsider saying misleading shit like this, especially on HN.
Do you plan to develop more detailed manufacturability feedback for quoting? For example, too-thin walls or areas that may not be cleanly machined on a CNC part.

Also, any plans to add injection molding services in the future?
An inspirational story that anyone, at any level, can always reinvent themselves given time, patience, and a plan. That said, "demotion" doesn't seem like the right word. Yes, going from Director to general population is technically a step down, but more realistically this is a lateral move. In a lateral move sometimes you get to keep your pay but almost never your rank.
It is also the practice in some Asian countries. I applied for a job at a Japanese university and they wanted a photo.
"170,000 lines of MATLAB code" (used as software to determine if humans are spending their lives in jail).

Well if that's not a line to make you feel awful on a Monday morning.
> 5) On money: Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom

I strongly disagree, but only on a technicality or matter of perception of what freedom means.

To me, money has nothing to do with true freedom. Money in and of itself is a prison, like any external currency, and something I have influence over but virtually no control.

Today I have money. Tomorrow, my currency could become worthless or my home could burn down by no fault of my own. I could lose my job, and what money seems available for me to enjoy myself with will become essential for supporting myself in an uncertain future.

There are other interesting facets of this, like - how many people do you know who have much more money than you, but still want more? How hard do they work for it, or how often do they think about it? Are we ever free from wanting more of this kind of freedom?

Certainly if we find a good balance and we have the fortune of earning enough money to have disposable income, it can be freeing in a sense. But it's dangerous to conflate wealth with freedom in general. It requires a lot of good sense and responsibility to use wealth wisely, I think.

I don't mean to be nit-picky or overly critical when the intent of communication was fairly clear. I'm sure Sam knows better than to equate money and freedom directly. I only think it's dangerous to use language like this in a culture like the one I live in, where people want more money so badly in order to be free, but it never affords them anything you'd recognize as freedom.

> 19) Go out of your way to help people. Few things in life are as satisfying. Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.

27) Forgive people.

28) Don’t chase status. Status without substance doesn’t work for long and is unfulfilling.

31) Be grateful and keep problems in perspective. Don’t complain too much. Don’t hate other people’s success

35) Don’t judge other people too quickly. You never know their whole story and why they did or didn’t do something. Be empathetic.

I love this advice!
"Big X" is a snarl phrase in the first place. It basically that relies upon fear of the unknown mixed in with a victim and underdog complex. People find bigger things harder to understand but that doesn't make it bad. Warlord territories are smaller than governments but that doesn't make them better - it is the everything else.
Making Python CLI Apps Faster
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Likely because it's just an incorrect statement, and vaguely accusatory. If you have a dataset of people that asks them if they identify as straight or gay, with no alternative, you're going to miss a lot of nuance, but you'll still likely have a useful dataset for extracting genetic effects. Most people would not describe their sexual orientation as fluid at all. You absolutely can crop off valleys and call it good science.
I've always fought to stay a developer as well. It seems that as soon as I know a codebase well enough to be really productive, there is a "team lead" or "scrum master" role waiting. Once or twice I've even fallen for it but the result have always been more meetings, less customer interaction, more responsibility and somehow less power over the product. Pay has stayed the same of course.
Nike, Inc. Acquires Data Integration Expert Datalogue
They may have good hardware decode for web content, but whatever the circumstances, it's not kicking in for video conference. Maybe the use of low-latency codecs, multiple streams to decode, or other effects/compositing/analysis happening?
When did you first notice it?
Disclaimer, I made this! In our daily standups we try to do some ice breakers to help the team get to know each other.

We started to struggle to find good ice breaking questions, and most sites are just very long lists to parse through.

Over my lunch break, I threw this together, and we figured we would make it public in case anyone else wanted to use it.

Any other ice breaking prompts would also be appreciated!
Looking inwards, attraction feels like pattern recognition combined with catecholamine release. So perhaps genes, but also hormones/environment would be responsible.
The quote I'm going to remember:

"Doing business with Google is a liability"
This is not hacker worthy news. This is a "if it bleeds, it leads" post. Junk.
1. Thank you for the response and resources.

2. As a paid NYT subscriber, I am becoming increasingly aware that they make some big mistakes in their reporting. They deserve some criticism, absolutely. I continue to expand my sources outside of the bubble and think critically when reading the NYT.

3. In 2012, Mitt Romney was mocked after a debate with Obama for saying Russia was a threat to the USA. That has aged poorly. Let’s not make the mistake of dismissing Russia as a legitimate cyber threat. Not all of the reporting on Russia is incorrect.
I just get a feeling that no matter how privileged you are, how intelligent you are, how high or low a position you are in, or how much money you make there is going to be some random article on HN to make you feel insecure.
It’s quite tough to get this info reliably. There are entire businesses that focus on aggregating global “where to watch” data and it’s still a challenge.
Disregarding all allegations, Huawei is one of the bigger tech companies and is one that has its finger in every pie, especially across domains where rust is advertised as a better alternative to incumbent C/C++. I can see why they are on the board.
This is a great project but the fact that cloud pricing has led down this road is insane.

The only thing more complicated than cloud billing at this point is medical billing.
> That requires you to clone. It's a minor hassle if you search over a single repo, but when searching across an organization or the whole site, using grep is not an option.

Are you kidding? The finer granularity that searching over an organization or whole site makes grep the far better choice especially since its output can be fed as input to more filtering steps.
I guess they have to show this bug changes the result.

But if you look at e.g. the case against Toyota where they had expert witnesses from Carnegie Melon and NASA testifying that the code was a horrible mess, I think that was sufficient for a multi billion dollar fine. So I guess with the admission from the DNA company that their code is basically unreviewable, written in a language known for prototyping, if they get an expert witness to testify this it may be enough without showing how the software misbehaves exactly.