CaptainJack

Said farmers were family of the founder of a large HFT firm.

Author is on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eigenvalue

Curious about the specs of servers that you are buying. We are looking for some non-GPU HPC servers, but there's always the question of whether second-hand servers will be good-enough/power-efficient for our use case.

Amazing thing, bookmarked! Will save me lots of time, thanks.

Nice site, could see myself using it. But please, allow also changing to usec and nsec. Plenty of software uses uint64 for nanoseconds since epoch, it'd be nice to be able to convert these as well.

Having first hand experience of all of the named public services, I beg to differ heavily. These corporations tend to be heavily left-leaning, with no real guardrails preventing this. The consequence is pretty biased coverage, under the guise of a "trust-us, we are here for the greater good".

Look at the handling of Middle-East by BBC, the Zucman tax at France Television, or the current allegations of fraud in some communities in the US.

My current take is that it is really hard to get a fair unbiased coverage, unless you actually state that you will strive to hire and promote both sides. If these corporations had to publish the composition/promotion/pay of their newsroom across the political spectrum (as they do for example by gender), you may start to have fair unbiased coverage. But many journalists working there see it as their job to describe "not the reality as it happens, but rather as it ought to be" (to quote the CEO of France Television). We should acknowledge that people are biased, and measure the balance of biases rather than assert there is no bias because they serve the greater good.

All experts in restoration/conservation have argued that the tapestry is too old and fragile to be moved.

Macron has pushed for it (to announce as part of his state visit to the UK), the director of the Bayeux Museum has accepted (he is a civil servant, and more subject to politics).

Experts agree that any move is likely to worsen tears in the cloth (a superposition of linen): https://www.latribunedelart.com/bayeux-tapestry-let-s-listen...

The museum where it is exposed is supposed to go through renovation, and experts are worried even to move the tapestry within the same museum just for renovation purposes... one can understand their fears when it's about packing and transporting to the other side of the channel (notwithstanding the amazing level of the British Museum conservation team, among the best in the world).

That's great, I really like it. My main thought is that most of non-american engineers favor SI units, so getting values in cups, ounces and pounds is not too great.

A possible improvement would be to replace freedom units with their international counterpart (with sane rounding to a two digits precision, or similar).

I've used beancount extensively, spent many hours a few years ago. Built importers parsing bank PDFs (in UK, plaid doesn't work. Plus I'd rather also keep all the original statement PDFs).

Probably built 10+ importers, plus some plugins to do automated transaction annotations.

I have not made any update for many years now, because: - Downloading statements is still a pain, have to manually go through all websites. Banks are bad at making the statements available, and worse making it possible to automate it. - The root of the issue is actually that beancount is too slow. Any change/update takes ages. Python is both a blessing (makes it easy to add plugins/importers etc), and a curse (way slower than some other languages.

I believe the creator of beancount has started working on v3 with a mix of C++/python, relying on protobufs, a C++ core for parsing, etc. AFAIK, that is not production-ready yet.

Being in the uk, we were fortunate enough to choose rust as a main language with my co-founder about two years ago. We chose it after trying it out for some toy projects, and with no real experience with it (but both of us having heavy experience of C++, C#, Python, Ruby, and having tested many others).

We chose it because it felt "right", giving us c++ performance, productivity when writing, and a feeling of cleanliness from its type system I had not experienced since ... Ocaml.

But what we did not expect was how great it was from a talent perspective. We started hiring at a time where lots of rust developers were being laid off crypto, and the caliber of candidates is just ... amazing. Rust devs enjoy working with the language, and you get a type of developer who likes producing good code, and is usually quite passionate about coding.

So, I understand rust jobs are not easy to get by, but being on the other side of the table, it's a wonderful talent magnet for our team, allowing us to hire great developers.

Yes. Close to us, there was a landslide-caused tsunami in Nice, France back in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nice_tsunami

Numatic Henry's are a classic of design [1], are built to last with the same design for 50 years. All parts can be changed, spares are plenty, and they were built with janitors in mind, so meant to handle daily use.

[1] As-in, they design is iconic.

The UK has had a government call for evidence on the subject of non-compete, with the aim of limiting them as well, but nothing has been done so far.

I'm myself in the long, lengthy and costly process of trying to fight a two years non-compete (well, 1yr garden leave + 1yr non-compete), and it's taxing. It adds stress, makes it harder to market yourself, and on top of that there is this clear asymmetry where the costs if it was to go to high court (£150k) would be huge for you, but petty change for your employer. On top of that, they'd get to claim these as expenses (so pre-tax), but you couldn't get any kind of tax-credit (so effectively post-tax). System is biased, it's about time they would change it.