skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass sell offs tend to create unorderly markets, which is not beneficial for anyone.

The concept was introduced in US equities after the ‘87 crash, but was only consistently implemented for NYSE-listed stocks. In ‘13 these were made consistent and market wide (thus MWCB), set against a widely published value of the S&P (so that the control was predictable; thus how it executed today).

FYI, there are also bidirectional halts that exist intraday (Limit-Up/Limit-Down) that serve a similar purpose and control rapid, uncontrolled movements in individual stocks. These are also defined in exchange regulation and are well defined so that they are predictable.
I never felt enslaved on the 16 bit single vendor home computers.

By the way, PC "openness" only happened due to IBMs mistake and Compaq's cleverness on how they reverse engineered the PC.
Oh wonderful - more for-profit exploitation of people's need for healthcare.
This business model is only possible because of deregulation by our current Federal Government.

I hate to sound mean, but I really hope that this business fails. I know people worked hard on this with an expectation of a financial return, but 68,000 people die every year because of this illusion of choice being exploited here, and if we can fix the system and eliminate the health insurance industry altogether we're all be better off.

The problem with ventures like this is that they claim to be healthcare companies, but their entire model is based around minimizing expenses and maximizing profits. Absolutely no emphasis is put on ensuring that human beings get the healthcare they need without going bankrupt - just that employers can pay as little as possible and insurance companies can get as many members as possible.
Complexity in what sense? Level of hardware integration? # of embedded controllers? Amount of time necessary to familiarize oneself with the operation of the system?
This is kind of the problem. Tbe symptoms are basically the same as flu and many other things at least in mild cases, pretty much nowhere is testing all patients who have them, and the reaction of medical professionals to the idea that they should tends to involve words like "dangerous" and "irresponsible". But the mainstream media, including publications like the Times, fed the idea that not aggressively testing was basically asking for an epidemic, tied it to powerful partisan narratives, and now there's no going back.
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Of course not... that doesn't help the rich get richer...
My experience had been that it can vary quite a bit. Most of the time it’s pretty quick, but occasionally it can be over an hour.
is it worth waiting for definitive proof? there are plenty of CT scans out there showing damage. i am not aware of a nicely written trusted source for it. at this point it's not an unreasonable model to assume, and avoid it. if everyone wants to avoid this, and changes behavior now, we will all be safer.
they say you need 5 people but its just me and i pay $12
The market was up over 30% last year, but GDP growth was certainly not 30%.
There are two photos in the article.

`dsign` refers to the one with President Trump, not the laptop displaying the protein.

Caption is "President Trump is shown a vaccine model during a tour of the National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Md., on March 3. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES"
The possibility that it won't merits consideration. It's entirely possible that new industries will spring up, but it would be dangerous to rely on that and plan as if it were certain. Even the "long tail" that people predicted for artists to make a living in a widely-connected economy has thus far largely failed to materialize.

The fact that I can't imagine it is no proof that it won't happen, of course. But I feel that we've gotten lucky in the past, and I hate depending on my luck.
Arg! My bad, that's what I get for commenting while pissed off. I'll edit the original post but thanks Internet stranger!
It is genuinely frightening to me that influential people apparently believe this. Twitter is terrible. Even smart people sound like idiots on Twitter. The format deliberately rewards controversial hot takes and inaccurate garbage "breaking news". I can't think of another major internet property that's less in the public interest.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/twitt...
This has nothing to do with being racist, unless it's racist to acknowledge that we do have different genetic material.

The more we know the better we can protect ourselves. For example why Russia has so few cases, when they are sharing border with China?

I read somewhere that Asian males have large number of receptors that the virus uses to infect, but I consider this unreliable given that from other sources we still don't exactly know how the virus spreads.
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Now thats a really good question.
I think you're better off trying to predict when the Coronavirus epidemic will be over. In a way it's more predictable, because we have a fairly good understanding of how it spreads and under what conditions.
I think you need way more than a few days to be talking about dollar cost averaging lol
If it's a tea planting area its probably more rural. Just having fewer people around is going to lower infection risks -- density is one of the reasons it's spreading fast in China.
How exactly are you getting personally screwed by a 15-minute stop in trading?
Can you explain how you think fear will kill more people than the virus?
It's incredibly amazing people think Twitter's problem is dumb partisan bullshit related to the United States. Industrial-strength bikeshedding.
What I don't understand is how you didn't consider this possibility when deciding to use robin hood as an investing paltform.
The R0 of the disease is more of a statistical problem. IMHO the question is actually not straightforward. To answer that question implies that the data that we have is representative, or that the current disease model is accurate. The number of asymptomatic carriers, suspected, confirmed, false negatives, deaths, (deaths falsely attributed to other diseases), etc are not known at this point.
The stock exchange is privately owned, the owners/management of the NYSE and other exchanges chose to implement circuit breakers like this. The exchanges still have to operate within the bounds of regulations, but nothing is stopping Joe Blow (other than capital, expertise, navigating regulations, etc.) from setting up his own stock exchange that doesn't have any circuit breakers put in place to prevent flash crashes.
Amazon will have some record of all the transactions, at least initially to help in the transition, and that means it can figure out what’s selling best where, then undercut the stores online. Allowing Amazon inside your transactions is not a strategy for long term survival. Having said that it’s hard to see what other options retailers have when their competitors start using this tech and improving margins. High end retailers can differentiate by saying “we have actual people”.
I am not the original poster but I think they are expressing that we were ready for some reversion to the mean after many years of gains including a spectacular 2019.
It's not Windows itself that people want to run (need to run, actually), it's Windows-based x64 software.

Windows is just one of many pieces of software people would need to run on an ARM-based Mac. Seems pretty clear that this can only work if the ARM-based machines have a pretty decent way of executing x64 binaries.
Windows might, but I doubt the majority of Windows software does.
I don't know why you call it dumb. This is what happens in every down turn. The people with money take advantage and increase their possessions while the people without money lose theirs. The rich get richer. The more severe the down turn, the more drastic the swing.
> It's not clear to me that it has any use at all if you don't have higher-order functions.

The very origin of defunctionalization is to emulate higher-order functions in a language without them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defunctionalization

> defunctionalization refers to a compile-time transformation which eliminates higher-order functions, replacing them by a single first-order apply function.
This is creating one of the best buy opportunity ever. It's just sad that only the rich will benefit. The poor will just get poorer.
One should be seeking out primary resources and reviewing facts independently for any non-trivial bit of news. In my experience when doing one's own research into an article you'll find that approximately 75%+ of articles contain inaccuracies and about 30% - 40% of articles are flat-out wrong.
I never said you should trust me. I said my observation is that the virus has not spread like wildfire through the population in China and appears to not be spreading like wildfire through South Korea either, having infected significantly less than 0.1% in both countries, with new infections apparently diminishing (and definitely not exploding), so based on what has actually been happening so far, in the country where the virus has been the longest and in a nearby country that has been dealing with it longer than most, there doesn't seem to be much empirical support for the idea that this is the kind of virus that will inexorably move through the entire world infecting 30-60% the entire global population. By all means, appeal to whatever authority you want, and certainly don't trust me.
> If you haven't already, put your retirement into bonds and hold on.

Are you advising to sell equities right after they've taken a beating? Sounds awfully close to "buy high, sell low".
Agreed. The temptation is there though. I almost jumped in today to capture some of that, but then I saw that the things I would consider are still very much overpriced ( nnn, berkshire, apple ).

I may end up being wrong, but it seems like we are not near bottom.
thx, fixed it.

Edit: English is not my native language, and after reading up about race vs ethnicity, I think the word race was correct here. Ethnicity we can derive from the countries themselves although that could be messed up by tourists.

I can no longer edit my post, but showing both would be useful.
> I hate to sound mean, but I really hope that this business fails.

I feel bad saying this, but I'm inclined to agree. Part of the value prop with mid-large businesses subsidizing healthcare is the ability to bargain collectively. Individuals can't do this, and just paying that employer contribution to individual subscribers for them to find their own healthcare plan will result in net-negative benefits year over year.

The more I think about this, the more this startup concerns me.
Vanguard now has free trades. Their UI isn't as slick as RH's, but AFAIK their back end is battle tested and has a lower liklihood of going down.
Ah sorry, the quote was totally lost on me. I'm afraid my knowledge of classic French movies is very limited.
Indonesia, for the longest time, boasted (yes, they, the govt, the health minister, literally boasted) to have zero Covid.19. The moment the country found out that they have 2 Covid.19, they acted as-if the current administration was "ready" and threw an elaborate press conference detailing the steps to track down the infected patients only to be ousted by the patients themselves.

This is the news about how the Indonesian government "was ready to track" and ensure "proper steps" were taken:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/first-coronavi...

This is the rebuttal from the infected patient themselves (This source is from the #1 newspaper in the country):

https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2020/03/05/09025741/sejumla...

Essentially they're saying that "no, the govt didn't track down coronavirus, we went to the hospital and check ourselves as soon as we heard about our dance partner who was positive".

You need to talk to the locals regarding these news to learn the nuances/truth. We can't rely on NYTimes, BBC, or any international medias.

I can understand why Government "tries" to act as if they're ready because they don't want the citizens to be panicking and creating further chaos. They (the govt) have no choice but to lie.

Take a look at Los Angeles Costco news recently.
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Late reply, but that's still very slow and cumbersome compared to hitting Alt and then a couple of keys on Windows.

I can give more examples. The default on Mac, for a very long time, has been to not allow tab to navigate all controls in windows and dialogs (the default is only text boxes and lists). This has to be changed by the user in System Preferences.

Another point on keyboard support is how it's missing on macOS in certain places. An example: Download a DMG file of an app that's already installed (say you're doing a manual upgrade), open it using Cmd+Down Arrow, and then copy the app into /Applications (let's assume the keyboard is used for this entire flow). If your user account is not an administrator, you'd get a dialog to authenticate first, and then another dialog in response to the fact that an app with the same name is already there in /Applications, with options to Keep both versions, Stop the operation or Delete the older version. On macOS Mojave, I find that this dialog cannot be navigated using the keyboard at all (hitting tab or space or Enter does nothing)! The trackpad is the only way to respond to it. I have never seen this kind of behavior on Windows dialogs, whether they're from an application or from the OS (for UAC or other permissions).
i guess if you take this idea to its logical conclusion, we will end up in a post-scarcity economy where nobody "needs" to work, yet all their needs are met. So far, it's unclear whether this outcome will occur, and I do agree it's unclear what the outcomes of the information revolution will be, in terms of overall economic comfort of individuals.
The breakers were originally implemented as a response to Black Monday in 87, which was before algorithms were so dominant, but it happens that humans are really good at panicking and acting irrationally too.
The market has just been unhinged lately, because there are a lot of huge positions that would love to sell but just can't unwind. Consequently there has not been an effective downward pressure on asset prices, and a lot of garbage is overpriced.

I still don't expect a major correction here because there's so much underused capital flying around out there and it will pour into anything that looks even remotely like a bargain. We have entered a regime where the world's economies have more capital than they are willing to use, which is novel and weird. Expect markets to act in novel and weird ways.

One thing I can easily predict is American governments large and small will take the wrong actions. They will cut taxes and slash spending when the bond markets are begging them to spend more. States and cities should be out there right now selling as many bonds as they can.
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This, it's not 1940 anymore, the average Joe can setup an investment account in 5 min on his phone and heard his buddies talking about "buying the dips is a foolproof way to become a millionaire".
Growth for growth's sake doesn't have anything to do with fake news, astroturfing or bots.
IIRC this was instituted after the crash of 1987, when they realised that automated trading could set off a crazy plunge. At any rate, it's public knowledge, not some sort of ad-hoc manipulation.
> So don't worry, it's only us regular guys that get screwed. Big firms can still contact each other to make deals.

And when everyone is selling, who do you think is buying? No one is moving much of anything for those 15 minutes
The most truthful comment of all time.
> Honestly, the car manufacturers might not be amused at the concept of selling fewer more reliable cars.

I wouldn't worry about it at all. One EVs become truly mainstream, car manufacturers will start removing redundant components and reducing the amount and quality of input materials, until the reliability curve again reaches the shape they desire.
The most important rules to follow when investing in stocks:

The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent

and

Don't bet any more on the market than you're willing to lose
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I haven't either but as someone who plays games occasionally, the definition makes sense to me (lots of games don't scale well). Definitely not something I'd have guessed, though.
The second definition of module Expr appears to have a typo:

| TwoArg of OneArgFunction * Expr * Expr

Should this instead be:

| TwoArg of TwoArgFunction * Expr * Expr
Please don't shuffle your retirement investments based on market volatility. Best thing is just do nothing and ride it out.
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>Don't you know it's not good to be racist? That it's bad? That we shouldn't discriminate racially, it's bad. Judging people on their religion is bad. It's bad to judge people by their skin color, their social background, or their nationality.

Evaluating the impact that race-specific genetics may or may not have on a disease is not "judging" anyone. We are still in the early days of understanding this disease, with many unanswered questions, but eventually information like this could be helpful to improving our models and predictions.

Edit: you explained elsewhere that this is an attempt at humor by quoting a French movie. While I prefer more serious content on HN, I understand others may disagree. At the very least, would you please make it clear when you are quoting?
These rules are chosen by the participants. By the owners of the property. They are not government imposed.

Consider an analogy. Suppose you were a stamp collector and you wanted to run a weekly stamp exchange. You and your fellow collectors may establish rules about how the trading should happen and the agreed upon behaviors. By-laws if you will. You could of course have no rules. Or you could choose some that promote the overall longevity of the venue and that encourage robust participation. The choice is up to the owners. Both are free. But one will be more successful than the other.
When you think about it, the whole market sort of follows these arbitrary-seeming rules. The actual prices of stocks are constantly changing 24/7/365, but the market is only open from 9:30am-4:00pm on weekdays excluding holidays.
Windows Phone was a victim of Microsoft for the most part.

Windows Phone 7 was incompatible with Windows Mobile 6, so developers had to start over. Windows phone 8 had a new prefered app framework, so developers needed to support two apps. Windows mobile 10 had a new prefered app framework that was ironically called universal; but windows mobile 10 was released without any of the polish of previous windows phone releases and without any low end phones, so it never had more users than windows phone 8 or 7.

If windows mobile 10 had a well organized release, it might still be a thing. The only company to blame for that is Microsoft.
I need Windows in a VM to test browsers. This should be possible on an Arm Mac with Arm Windows inside QEMU?
It is not incredibly common, but you see it every now and again.

It was was also used for the 1900-1909 decade as well.
Previous thread on HN (just hours ago) with more information and many good comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22525238
This is awesome!

Aside, does anyone know how to change labels to PRs based on merge status with github actions?
> I thought most MacOS applications compile to universal binaries that are something like bytecode, not direct x64 code?

No, "Universal Binaries" are still native code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary
So I was wondering whether "Hunstable" is some new technical term like "h-unstable", or some kind of wordplay on "unstable". Turns out it's just the surname of the creators.
No, because if the market is up 50% because we humanity has discovered an immortality serum, nobody is panicking.

There's no downside in great news (other than the possibility of a quick reversal thereafer...)
One of them is a war machine made by the world's richest country to defeat the war machines of other very rich countries.

The other is a floating hotel.
it was literally misery on scales that hadn't been seen before. children were expected to work in horrible and abusive conditions. everyone was working very long and gruelling days for next to nothing and had no way to protect themselves from exploitation.
Ha, snap! We did the same with the PhoneListener(?) class and our PBX client. Allowed us to cancel and make calls, send DTMF for call-back and call-through. I also had my own app which sent calls straight to speakerphone.

I look back on BB with alot of nostalgia, you really had to work to make things look good. If you didn't want your Views (widgets) black, white and blue then you were making them from scratch.
You sound a tiny bit like 2006-edition real estate agent.

https://www.millersamuel.com/wp-content/uploads/oldimages/NA...
In my experience it's always good to buy when sentiment is bad. If this is just a minor dip that will bounce back up, then you got a nice little discount on your equities. If it is the start of a major downturn then you have taken the first step towards buying at a greater and greater discount and can continue buying all the way down.

I don't consider this to be timing the market. You should always be investing but when sentiment is bad you just buy more than you would normally.
The stock market is a privately owned entity that does not represent the broader market referred to in the phrase “the free market.”
We have an in-app insurance market that offers every ACA-compliant individual health insurance plan in the country, and you can speak 1-1 with a broker to help guide your decision. In the case of someone who is already pregnant, ACA-compliant plans cannot deny you coverage.
> From reported cases it looks like certain communities are more endangered than others.

Italians?

I mean, this particular conspiracy theory never seemed at all plausible, but it seems particularly non-plausible _now_.
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Don't buy after the first big city is quarantined. Maybe after the second or third... But know you are taking an incredible risk unless you are using funds you can hold in that position for years.
> The cash equities market is subject to circuit breakers established by the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of the 1987 Black Monday crash. Trading will halt for 15 minutes if the S&P 500 falls 7% to 2,764.3 at any time before 3:25 p.m. in New York. ...

That's less than a 1% drop from here.

Right now, all eyes are on the Fed and the size of the bazooka they'll be deploying.

Anything short of outright stock purchases is not going to be received well. Despite the desperation that move smells like, the Fed would be merely following ground already trodden by the Bank of Japan, which now owns around 80% of the Japanese ETF market.

Edit: only 5 points to go.
The exchange is open from 9:30am to 4:00pm, but you and I are free to trade amongst ourselves at midnight on a Friday if we'd like
"No one will be able to time this"

"put your retirement into bonds and hold on"

facepalm
That's almost a tautology since the market never stops being irrational.
Depends on your retirement horizon, but if it's inside of 5 years the investor should have already tamped down the risk profile.
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If you look at the 100 year history of the DJIA, there's still a LOONG way for it to potentially drop.

It's about minimizing risk. Those with high risk tolerance I would advise to buy now, but be prepared to lose everything. If you're close to retirement you lose nothing by pulling out now.