skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt the SEC has a bunch of rules they use to flag suspicious transactions. The data analysis spits out a few names and they follow up in person to see who lawyers up and who cracks under pressure.

It's also why Matt Levine's "rules of insider trading" includes "Don’t do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money call options on merger targets".

Certain transactions are suspicious as hell, especially when they can look at your trading history and determine you've never really traded much and just opened the account 2 days prior and made a $100,000 bet on the trade. Or for the really clever people, they find out although you made a suspicious trade you don't work for Amazon, but LinkedIn says you're the wife of someone who works in finance there. Oops!

Though I wonder if that rule needs to be updated with r/WSB doing these trades all the time.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-08-12/the-10...
What for use?
This is an awesome article. Related phenomenon: platformization of a solution before even the first instance of the problem is properly solved. There are a lot of incentives for this in large tech companies for both engineers and managers to show broader impact, but in practice it often results in ill-fitting solutions that impose a tax on everyone else. A good rule of thumb I'd propose would be to require solving a problem three ways before anyone can propose a platform, then extract the best of each approach to build your platform out of and have the three owning teams all sign off that it is the right solution for their specific problem. Of course it's easy to argue against this in the name of redundant effort, but I think it's a small price to pay to avoid over-ambitious but under-qualified architecture astronauts imposing half-baked mandatory indirection whenever they can corner a gullible director.
The fact that we're squishy fragile hosts

If that describes you then you really need to be putting out some serious DPS, glass-cannon style. Otherwise you need bulk up on CON and figure out your dump stats so you can tank effectively for the damage dealers/buffers/de-buffers.
Intel Offers $2B for RISC-V Chip Startup SiFive
> When they [the SEC] get suspicious matches they run them down to see if there's anything there

This is correct!
I was sure the acronym was FAGMAN...
Stories like this boggle my mind. How do such people think that they are going to get away with this? If I were going to try something like this I would at least make some attempt to obfuscate my activities; trading through proxies, mixing in losing trades, something.
I like Good Ads. Non Invasive, Non Repetitive, Good / High Quality / Personalised ad. And preferably not slowing down the site.

Ads are also like news in a sense. And News is the most addictive form of media. You find new product, services, or announcement from Ads.

The problem is the quality of Digital / Online ads are generally quite low.
> Does anyone honestly care about a million dollar trade by some employee's husband?

Yes.

> this seems like a total waste of time and resources

I'm willing to bet that the investigation and prosecution cost less than the ~$1.2 million in excess fines Bohra had to pay. Not really a waste of resources if it's a profitable endeavour.
Not only that. On mobile, it meant that AMP delivered pages by google's domain were stripped out in a way that the publisher's domain was displayed, effectively MITMing the website from a user's point of view.

Maybe the next iteration of it will use SSL certificate hijacking, who knows?

I mean, this feature can be argued with from both sides: protection against scam and "UX MITM".

What I don't understand is why a web browser doesn't already include scam websites into their malware/badware reporting feature. It could have been so much easier.

In Germany we have a very restrictive law when it comes to imprints on websites, which makes it easy to spot scamming websites if you care to look for the legibility of the imprint (and required tax law identification numbers). Of course that doesn't apply for international law, but initially I didn't understand the importance of it...meanwhile I do.
> detailed domain mastery in contrast is difficult, time consuming, and highly contextualized

In its defense, it's also extremely intellectually gratifying
1. Not many comments are like that.

2. Many (most?) users here do more complex programming work than just signup forms.

3. Not everyone has the privilege of being familiar with both ag and programming. Plus, there are a lot of young users here. Today, a few people are learning more about silo safety. What’s impressive about that?
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I work on a plasma confinement device that has a linear regulator in its 100 kV gyrotron power supply that uses 6 kW just to keep the filament warm. The coils use 10 MW during a shot. And this is considered a small machine.

Science takes power.
Perhaps the husband and wife are not getting along so well now and one of them snitched on the other?
Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options
My oldest really struggled with math but really wanted to understand. I made things as physical as possible for him.

I also pulled out building blocks and demonstrated the concept of cubing a number or squaring a number. We did a lot of hands-on things to show him math in the real world.

I think I used CD cases to show him "times" and explained that "times tables" were originally people doing tile counting just like this and how if it was "4x2" it was 4 down one side and two down the other and it adds up to eight and you can count them.

I demonstrated for him that multiplication was shorthand for lots of addition and exponents were shorthand for lots of multiplication and learning this stuff would make your life easier, not harder, because it was a whole lot of shortcuts for stuffing lots of numbers into a small amount of writing.

He was so mad when I finally explained to him that "algebra is just them calling the blank space in your equation X so you can move it around." He was fuming and I don't think he has ever gotten over being mad because his response to that was "That's it! They made that seem hard?! I've been doing that in my head to calculate damage in video games for years!!!!!!" and he stomped off furiously.

He wasn't that old. He was in elementary school at the time and he's really bad at math.
I've been using mine for many years. The only big problems I've had is that sometimes the scale doesn't work perfectly and I have to reset the weighting and that after so long the blades have been getting a little blunt; but they can be sharpened.
YourSQL = MySQL. It's so simple but it made me chuckle for a sold five seconds.
Something being technically legal under some conditions doesn't automatically make it sound financial advice.

There's a lot of companies out there. It's easy to pick one that definitely won't get you in to trouble instead of one that probably won't get you in to trouble.
Because we don’t force people to get all vaccines to travel. Requiring a vaccine passport for the covid vaccine forces people to get it, which is the real reason people are advocating for it.
> Now CHIME has reversed that trend, he says, “I don’t think theorists will catch up with us.”

Funny stuff. I like to imagine they're virtual galaxies resulting from perturbation theory of gravity field theory. With ordinary galaxies described in terms of exchanges of virtual galaxies. Of course, they wouldn't necessarily carry the same mass as the corresponding real galaxies.
> A surprising number of employees get duped into accepting part of their pay packet as options in their employers' private (and highly illiquid) stock

I'd not heard this stated so clearly before.
If there were space crafts jumping into warp speed or shit like that, then how that would look like?

Imagine if FRB’s were signs of cosmic traffic it would certainly change “life out there” conversation :)
> They're willing to ban Trump from the internet but not raise the minimum wage, abolish the drug war, really come after companies for their industrial scale damaging of ecology or cease trade relations with countries like China, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

I think 'they' is way too broad. Some companies banned Trump from their platforms. Those companies aren't particularly involved with the policies.

> the thing they fear the most of all is armed and genuinely effective resistance

I strongly doubt it. Such things are so rare and unlikely, not only in the U.S. but in democracies in general, that it's not too far off saying 'what they fear most is a giant meteor strike'. Well that would be a big problem, but not what is most feared. There hasn't been one in the U.S. since the Civil War, and that one came top-down, from the power structure.
Where do we look for these remote jobs. any specific websites to checkout the openings?
My suggestion for getting SD card support is using a USB adapter. I'm using a Sandisk one [0]. It's quite small and hardly sticking out at all, and I just have it plugged in to the radio permanently.

Otherwise, my Pioneer DEH-X6650BT let's you switch between directories with a button press. Basically you have previous and next track, as well as previous and next directory. The toplevel is simply another directory. It also remembers where it left off after you start it, and it is super snappy with 19GB of MP3s that I have in various directories. Also, the manual is very explicit on what file system is supported, how many files and directories and in which order files are being played. See this page and the next one [1]. The only downside is that I can't seem to turn it off. As in it the radio is always illuminated, even when you are not playing anything.

[0] SanDisk MobileMate USB 3.0 Reader

https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-au/products/accessories/s...

[1] https://www.manualslib.com/manual/730613/Pioneer-Deh-X6650bt...
Nancy Pelosi’s story is her husband does the stock trading without her involvement (or even her knowledge prior to her regular reports to Congress about trading activity). If true (and assuming she’s not giving privileged info to her husband), that means no insider trading.

Having said that, I really think Congresspeople should be prohibited from trading in individual stocks entirely, and restricted to just investing in index funds, if for no other reason than the PR problem of congresspeople appearing to profit off of their position.
Today’s Money Stuff was on exactly this. Under “Insider Trading”: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-10/maybe-...
This is complete nonsense. For example, Berkshire Hathaway plans to probably not issue dividends.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021615/why-doesnt-b....
Astroturfing, Dr. Evil, and NYC’s Elite Schools
While the article is overly combative and goes off the rails at times I’m glad to see it on the front page of HN. Remote work changes the nature of first line/ middle management and the many of the players that were well suited to the in person way of doing things aren’t going to do as well in a remote forest environment.

The author hits one important difference- people who are energized by social interactions won’t get as many of them in a remote first world. Doubly so if they feel rewarded by power dynamics. So the things that pushed them toward management in the first place get taken away, no wonder so many of them want to get back in the office.

However, we are going to see more remote first companies and I think we’ll see different management models arise from that. One one hand, I could see a hellscape of technocrats trying to micromanage metrics on people emerging. On the other, I could see a more humane set of managers less interested in power dynamics than in team success. I’ve seen both and we’ll see what becomes a norm and where.
I can't answer the mRNA half (because they're brand new and we just don't have that data yet), but I'm pretty sure I know where the "infection does not create long-lasting immunity" side came from:

Around 9-12 months ago, a study came out that said antibodies from infection last 3 months. They couldn't say any longer though because that study only had 3 months of data. Unfortunately, this was largely reported on as "up to 3 months", making a lot of people think immunity only lasted a maximum of 3 months.

Since then, now that we have more data, further studies have come up that keep extending that duration. Last I recall I think there was one that got to "at least 14 months"..? But these ones don't get as much spread as the original wrong reporting, so it got kinda stuck as "don't create long-lasting immunity".
I don't recall that coming up as an issue for him. I don't see why that would be a problem. You can just explain that 8/8 is one whole, leaving 3/8. I don't see why that would be hard to demonstrate.

"These are two pies. Let me cut them into eight pieces each. Let's count to eleven pieces. That's one whole pie plus 3 parts of the second pie, so it's the same as 1 3/8."
A US socialite who gave it all up to become a Carmelite nun
I don’t see it as lying in any meaningful way. Specifically in the article the problem was that there was technical feedback from many parties that have very little, if any stake in the matter. I’d be willing to bet that none of them even bothered to look at the product roadmap to check on the progress or status of their suggestions.

Rather, the “cause of all the calamity” in the article seems to be the fact that the business has a culture of requiring feedback from random individuals who have very little stake in the project or product delivery.
You are right in that the amount isn't constrained. But the net value of a derivative contract is zero. Ie, it's not right to say the "value". The term "notional value" is used for this reason. To further make the point - there isn't always an asset underlying a derivative - for example there is a notional value of weather derivatives.

In summary, the word "value" gets thrown around loosely.
I’m pretty sure if I go to the ICU it’s my insurance company paying the bill.

Also suddenly we care about how much tax revenue we spend?
I have been in that position before, and with certain groups it has been difficult. My, perhaps optimistic, hope is that post-COVID even those that return to the office will be more understanding for the challenges of those that are remote, it is an experience we have all lived now.
How does the browser determine the category of a website?
The initial insider trading analysis is automated. Dude traded in front of 11 straight earnings calls. That’s gonna get you put on a list.
Makes sense, and a good extension of the Rule of Three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...
Even if you do have access to insider information it should be (in my opinion) still legal to trade the stock.

There should instead be restrictions on the time for an order to go through, not on the act of insider trading.
Statistically, people who are not vaccinated contribute to the spread of the virus. The fact that any one person who isn't vaccinated may not be infected is not relevant. You're using the existence of a few exceptions to prove the rule. We know there are a few people who were born immune to the HIV virus. Does that mean it's ok for everyone to assume they have this kind of immunity and not practice safe sex? Crazy.

> It is not true that getting vaccinated is the only way to help limit the spread of COVID-19.

Except that the people who don't get vaccinated overlap with the people who refuse all of the other mitigations -- many antivax people are also anti-mask, anti-social distancing, anti-lockdown, etc.

> There is another issue, that many people do not want the vaccine, but they do want natural immunity. Those people actually want to get infected, by a weak variant of the disease, and let the nature do its process and get natural immunity.

You have no control over which variant you get infected by. If you're not vaccinated, you could get infected first by the Delta variant for example. I mean, you're proposing a quite frankly bizarre process: 1) "natural immunity" vs "vaccine immunity". In many cases, these are identical, for example if you get a vaccine based on a weakened form of the virus. 2) An assumption that "natural immunity" confers some kind of better protection than vaccine immunity. This is unscientific, and in the case of COVID-19, factually wrong.

And that's the point of Linus's rant A lot of antivax people use pseudo-scientific reasoning. It's like you bring the same rigor to pandemic prevention that some quack brings to analysis of GOOP supplements.
Is this perhaps a COVID specific issue? Even during COVID I've kept in touch with a group of friends, albeit smaller. I still have the chance to go get a coffee or head to the gym, but I get to decide what those interactions are now.
What's the effective lifespan of a new car now? Software will likely shorten it in many ways. Especially with subscription models being so tempting for manufacturers. As the decades progress, will we care? But the street will find uses for these future old cars. Those powerpacks will be reused. Parts will be swapped.

Limiting factor: will manufacturers lock down components so they have a shorter and finite lifespan and/or compatibility? Very likely. The Right to Repair movement is still gaining traction. How this plays out will be quite a story.

I hope its not a repeat of most IoT where stuff frequently turns into junk within five years and usually heads off to some sad landfill.
Yeah, I don't get this "lost trust" line, that's like a military commander telling his soldiers to go left, then when gunfire comes from the left, tells them to go right, but the soldiers object to his new order and lose confidence in him because he already said go left.
I can’t speak to the conversion costs, but let’s pretend there’s a creative solution (modular construction?).

Converting office space to mass market housing could be a huge long term win. Cities like NYC and SF already have a huge shortage of overall non-luxury units which has caused rents in previously less expensive further out neighborhoods to spike. These neighborhoods aren’t super exciting to live in now so they’ll naturally be more affordable to start. Hopefully over time by mixing housing and residential in these central business districts they’ll become more vibrant w/ an economic engine that runs on nights/weekends too.

If commercial vacancies really do spike it may be better for cities to incentivize these conversions rather then let their midtown’s stagnate.
It's really easy to look for trades before significant stock jumps. In this case, he made profitable trades before 11 straight earnings announcements. I'm sure their analysis flagged his trades, and then when they found out that his wife works at Amazon, they declared, "I choose you, Pikachu!"
I'd posit that the biggest risk for advertisers is "plausible bullshit". Their ability to say "look at our huge tracking profiles" is dependent on both quantity and quality of data. If ad networks can't accurately sanitize their data, advertisers are going to balk at spending $6 per click for misprofiled audiences, when they can spray-and-pray "good enough" contextual ads for 30 cents a click.

Give me a VPN that regularly geolocates me at a Starbucks 30km out of town. Give me plugins that stuff my search history with a fixation on the Cincinnati Bengals and replacement parts for a 2013 Hyundai Accent. Yeah, they might see my actual traffic patterns, but the goal is to make it expensive and hard to filter the real use from the elaborate story.
How can you make this decision for others?
Though the categories are defined [1], how does the browser determine a site falls into one of these categories?

[1] https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en
It's vertical integration. As long as we're wishing for fairness I wish Apple would share those tasty M1 processors with the rest of the non-Mac world.
Seems like the author of TFA submitted it to HN, so they editorialised their own title.
Considering he did this 11 quarters in a row, this might be the most rim-shaking slam dunk in the history of slam dunks.
I studied in Bologna, Italy, and I don't understand why you call that Bologna.
I remember when I first started trading stocks, I bought Amazon after Christmas 2013 or 2014 in anticipation that their earnings would kill it due to Christmas. I think Amazon was at around $400 at the time. After the earnings report, they dropped about $320 so I freaked out, sold and never touched Amazon again. I still cry to this day.
> So healthy people should partake in the vaccination as for them, the risk-reward ratio is definitely worth it.

How can you make this decision for someone else?
$30k a kilometer is not bad all things considered.
I don't understand why "wife" has any legal bearing on this. What if it was a girlfriend? What if it was a friend? What if it was some random dude on reddit?
When water stops coming out of the pipes
I've been working from home for the last nine years, running my own business. All of my contractors and employees work remotely. In one instance, I've yet to meet the person I hired physically (I knew them from a previous job of course -- they are not strangers.) I absolutely love remoote. So much less BS. My employees do their thing and I do mine and we're satisfied at the end of the day if we meet each others expectations. I don't care when, how and where they work or who else they are working for. It took a little bit of planning and setup.

We mostly communicate asynchronously. There is no expectation that a slack message will be answered in realtime. Before the pandemic, we used to meetup onece a month for lunch or a day out (no work) just to get to know each other.

I am also careful about sharing sensitive information that could hurt the business if misused. I assume that my employees have outside business interests and take the appropriate precautions. But for the most part these are precautions one should take anyway, remote or not.

It's a tiny business, so it really doesn't need a lot of control or supervision and I'm happy not to have to supervise if I don't have to. To me having to actively managec (and god forbid -- micromanage) an employee is a red flag -- I hired the wrong person.

The article is right the real reason people want their employees to work from the office is control -- ironically a misguided sense of control.
Was disappointed this can't translate from Python to Rust.
>By switching, you have a 2/3 chance.

I guess I need to read up on the Monty Hall problem again, because I always thought it was 1/2 chance if you switch (vs 1/3 chance if you don't).
Show HN: Ginger – a game to build eco-friendly habits with the world
If routine vaccination was re-started, the Modified Vaccinia Ankara – Bavarian Nordic strain would probably be used, it's a two-dose intramuscular injection, same scheduled as the Moderna vaccine, and is approved in the US under the name "Jynneos". No scarring either, I would assume. In an emergency, ACAM2000 is a single dose and there's a lot of it, so it would be used in people who's immune system is good enough.
I think of it as internally, where space and time converge to the same medium, each grain of gold has it's own filmstrip with very similar, yet still different frame rates.

For example, the Sun is on a slower frame rate than the Earth. The Earth needs to do something in those frames yet still conserve spacetime. So the Earth orbits it. You floating in space are on a much faster frame rate than Earth. You might look like you are going to float by it. But you need to fill those frames while the Earth doesn't. You crash in, sync frame rates, and feel that impact.

Those two grains are orbiting each other at really really small angles. It doesn't happen though as convection or electrical conduction fills the frames.

There could be gravity applications, as in using a tremendous amount of energy, all the energy that exists, to generate a particle. That could be considered communication.
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