skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It helps reduce the number of potential exposures. For those with a high risk factor, the CDC actually recommends stockpiling.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/hi...

FEMA also recommends you always have days or weeks of supplies stockpiled in case of unpredictable natural disasters. Everyone in my main circle of friends knows you should have a stockpile for this reason, and the lack of one is talked about more as an embarrassment. But online not having one seems more like a badge of honor. Its just weird to me.
> And that's in cash not in stocks or index funds

When you say cash it's money in the bank or bills under the mattress ? (I'm not an American)
I just googled that to inform myself.

> The efficient market hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

The efficient market hypothesis seems easily disproven with a number of modern examples. Climate change for example - there is significant information available, but markets act as though the information is fake. Leading investors and corporations have for decades denied the risks associated with economic growth backed on non-renewable, polluting and greenhouse-effect-causing energy sources.

The hypothesis does not account for common irrational behavior among people; that real news is considered fake, or real crises considered non-crises.
Or maybe reserving limited testing capacity for severe cases in which proper diagnosis makes all the difference? Would sound legit to me. Not saying that limited testing isn't a problem, the very least of which is biasing the numbers.
> The actual question is whether the market thinks that future efficiency gains are on the way or not. If the market does, then that efficiency is already priced in and you can't make any money off of it.

Isn't this ignoring opportunity cost, uncertainty, etc.? If the expectation of future gains is priced in, wouldn't treasury bonds sell for face value + remaining interest on the secondary market?
Physiological implications of variations in the genetics between Africans, Europeans, Inuit, Pacific Islanders, South East Asians, Native Americans, etc are a very relevant reality to medical researchers, who are part of the scientific community.
Perhaps the best thing about Warby Parker is their pricing transparency. It's near impossible to get a quote from a traditional optometrist without going into a store.
Ready Education (YC S16) Is Hiring an Integration Platform Engineer in Montreal
I'm confused,the article itself says she signed a confidentiality agreement and that she broke the agreement. What did she think would happen? She got 36k for signing it. Was that just free money in her mind!?
It is amazing to me that this is the technological solution to eliminating scanning barcodes at check-out lines. The obvious alternative is RFIDs, i.e., just push your cart through a scanner like airport security and all your items appear on the display. (The "automatically bill your Amazon account or credit card" part is optional either way.)

From talking to a couple supply chain people, the best explanation I have heard for why RFIDs aren't ubiquitous, even though they now cost less than a penny (EDIT: I'm wrong, more like 7-15 cents), is that barcodes are too entrenched; RFIDs aren't nearly as useful until everything has one (since if you have to barcode scan half your products, and they are intermixed with with the RFID'd products, you might as well scan them all), and even retailers like Walmart weren't able to pressure all their suppliers to switch at once.

I wonder if this could have been fixed years ago with a collective-action solution like a stronger industry standards body or government regulation.

EDIT: Huh, could have sworn the cheap passive RFIDs cost less than a penny now, but apparently they are still 7-15 cents. That would explain a lot. Presumably the price would fall quite a bit if every product in America had an RFID on it, but we're not there yet.

https://www.rfidjournal.com/faq/show?85
And they didn't just do that with AWS. They did it with ecommerce as well. Become the biggest online retailer, nail the implementation, then get everyone else to jump on your platform.
Aren't all of these factors true for China today?
> It's real; it's serious and we should be taking rational actions to mitigate and contain it.

How does that differ from a widespread flu outbreak? All this says to me is that you don't take the flu seriously.
The last 20 years I have been working in heavily regulated environments; in cock-ups like this were your Retail clients got royally screwed (for a second time in such a short period), on a repeat issue, the hammer will fall HARD on their heads. Anyone wanted to sell to minimize losses has been severely damaged.

There are many ways to resolve these issues FAST. The easy way is to throw money at this. Go tomorrow (literally) and bypass all procurement controls and go to a mega big provider and scale this asap. Any financial services with a half decent IT has done the paper exercise to this scenario (at least for the purposes of BCP/DRP). The slow/better/mature way may be too slow, especially with the current market conditions.

The RH folks will definitely get a visit from SEC, their external auditor, and their external auditor will get a visit from SEC.(their auditor will be in the deepest of shits)(how come they failed to spot such a going concern issue?)(what the hell were they looking for on their audits?)(did they only send juniors over there?)

I feel sorry for the retail traders that got knocked down. I think that anyone locked in buying at 27-28k (US30) should wait 6 months to breakeven and after the US elections (irrespective of the winner) there will probably be a rally.
As your link points out, and as is widely acknowledged among the phylogeny and popgen communities, there is no single definition of race and the notion is largely discredited in modern classifications.
If you're trading options, you are not an average retail investor. Discussing puts isn't relevant for GP's situation.
Why Homes in the Bay Area Are Unaffordable
While I agree with listing tax inclusive prices. Is it really that much of a mental effort to add 7%?
> Sure, it happens, but it's a 0.0001% use case.

Apparently I can guess an awful lot about how you grow up based on your estimate of how infrequently that happens.

I'm betting you can guess something about how I grow up that I know you're off by quite a few orders of magnitude.
What if there was a country flag or something, indicating where the CA was located -- in which country / jurisdiction?

Then, let's say it's in China or Turkey or Kazakhstan, etc etc, then I would know that the politicians/police there might have decided to man-in-the-middle listen to anything I type into that website.

And what if there was a Freedom of Press index number (or sth like that) next to this flag? (because who can remember all flags)
Wouldn't this be closer to a "transpiler"?
Ask HN: How did you immigrate from the USA to Canada?
I'm a full-stack developer looking to move permanently from Portland, OR to Vancouver, BC. I am curious how people here handled this type of move and have some specific questions.

1. Should I expect a Canadian company to pay for my relocation, or is this hit or miss depending on the company?
2. Were there many unforeseen costs involved throughout your move? How expensive was the move, overall?
3. Did you hire a relocation company to assist with the move or handle all details yourself? If you had a good experience with a relocation company, can you leave a recommendation?
Any fine against Facebook is good.
Well the authorities haven't agreed with each other. And they have changed their tune over time. So no matter how you slice it they have been wrong.
La classe américaine. http://cyclim.se/
As far as I can see, there is no support in any web browsers yet, despite the format being finalized a year ago... Whats the holdup?
I didn't think it was legal to not have an option for a printed receipt, unless these kiosks have that feature which they didn't mention.
the WP glasses i tried a few years ago via mailed preview package all seemed like the very lowest quality i had ever handled -- flimsy plastic, cheap-feeling hinges. totally pleased with my 40$ pair from zenni though.
But sadly, will no longer be able to get a job there...
Please do not be flippant or purposely obtuse.

If you're saying this, the real conversation is taking place over your head.
Where exactly is this in the range from running an actual JVM on a GPU to scheduling some tasks using a restricted Java subset limited to specialized libraries on a GPU? The title seems to suggest the former but I'd be quite surprised by anything other than the latter?
As someone with a chronic illness, thank you for this. I don't want my employer to be responsible for my insurance. I want portability and privacy. I want more than just the options my employer decided to pick.

If this becomes a trend, we could see the individual ACA marketplace strengthened. Right now part of the problem is that they are missing a lot of the healthy people in the group market, which is partly why the big insurers have left the market - for example, the California exchange is missing UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, and so on.
In my part of the world, tell your broker that you’ve done a deal with someone, tell that someone to tell their broker that they done a deal with you. The brokers should be able to report it to the exchange for publishing. Then they should see through the clearing and settlement. Of course your brokers might feel that your little deal is just not worth the hassle, and ask you to take your business elsewhere.
Yes - the real medium of art is culture itself. "Content" is just a means to that end.

AI is culturally blind, tone deaf, and dumb. So although it's going to be capable of generating adequate content at some point, it's not going to be changing the foundations of the cultural currents around it in the way a groundbreaking work of art does. (And no - producing "content" mechanically is culturally trivial. It's a change of medium, not a change of message.)

That won't happen until it understands and can influence cultural processes as a personality with agency and something original to say, and isn't just spinning its wheels on MIDI notes and virtual paint splotches.
Maybe I am the dumbest. The official world gouvernance plan for this time is/was(?) to freeze paying dividends; debt-repayment, interest, ...

To accomplish the commanded view, the companys will stop given quarterly reports to the share market and start to give half-yearly reports... yearly... telling us: "We do this for your customer satisfaction" ?!
Saying that it is "arbitrary" is not helpful here, and can imply that it is "wholly arbitrary" which is wrong.
That was only possible because BlackBerry cut their prices to the bare bones. They basically resorted to only competing with basic non feature phones. As such they enjoyed a fair bit of popularity, they were better than phones with only basic call and text capabilities, but they weren't making any money.
The alternative is your health system gets overwhelmed and you have a 5% fatality rate. So, which do you pick?
Some Hospitals Are Close to Running Out of Crucial Masks for Coronavirus
The marketing spend actually scales faster than linearly. These companies do a lot of direct response advertising where acquiring the marginal customer becomes more expensive as you scale up.
Warby really does have a good deal compared to other glasses options (IMO this wasn't true until they developed bricks and mortar stores to fit the glasses properly). If the only thing a new company is selling is that it's not your parents' brand, then failure seems like a matter of if, not when. Generational advertising can't beat a better, more efficient, or lower cost product.
2020.10 The Videos – Rakudo Weekly News
I recently read The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker. It's a little less individualistic than Carnegie or Covey but does have some really great concrete ideas about how to get people together.

Might be worth at least skimming if you're interested.
> Based on the rules it cannot drop _more_ than 20% in a day

Asset pricing is not continuous. A single trade can take pricing from -18% to -X%, with X having any value between infinity and -100.

The breaker triggers at -20%. If the market crosses at -18% and then trades -25%, that trade will cross and then trip the breaker.
So we went from "everybody should stockpile" to " high risk people should stockpile" and "general FEMA and similar guidelines may have a reason". Which sounds a lot less dramatic already, doesn't it?
Do you have a reference for that ~8 cent figure? I thought it had dropped below a penny.
UC Berkeley BAIR Improves Large Transformer Model Training and Inference
Asia sneezes and America gets a cold...
"Rule By Law"

This is sorta what all the mass surveillance and tracking is about, or at least enables: To ruin the life of any potential dissident. If they can't dig up any dirt from your history, they'll inject it.
Well at least they are trying for a change so that's refreshing
Looks like any organ with ACE2 receptors.
Why would Amazon sell it? If you think advertising - think again.
> Baez claims that Lambda tried to fire her in 2018 for not living up to a performance plan. When she told her manager she hadn’t received any documentation about this plan, she claims he walked back his comments and said she could stay. Baez says she decided to leave anyway because she no longer felt supported in her role. She was five months pregnant at the time and signed a nondisclosure agreement to get severance. Because of this agreement, The Verge agreed not to use Baez’s name in the article. She has decided to come forward publicly in this piece since the school is threatening legal action.
Does certificate length really matter? It seems like other factors related to certificates are much more important than the ability for a cert to be stolen, reused, and not revoked.
When I shopped with my wife for the first time, I was a little surprised that before leaving any store, she pulls her cart to the side and carefully goes over the receipt. The reason? Mistakes are made in pricing all of the time. I can’t count how many times things ran up for us at the wrong price. She would always go to the customer service desk and get an adjustment.

I probably missed out on hundreds of dollars just blindly trusting the receipt my whole life. It’s nothing nefarious. Systems have bugs.

Takeaway for me is that I can’t use a technology that doesn’t let me verify the price.
Thanks for the xkcd link, I loved it!
I have always had a bad taste in my mouth for Lambda school. I bought into the YC hype though and when friends asked me for a bootcamp I reluctantly told them that Lambda was a good place to go.

Really regret ever spreading that advice and glad that none of my friends actually went into the program.
"Due to limitations in the underlying programming model, TornadoVM doesn’t support objects (except for trivial cases), recursion, dynamic memory allocation or exceptions."

Given Objects are not supported, I am having a hard time seeing any valid use case for this over C,C++,Rust etc...
> So the question to ask soon is how will you prepare for the post-recession recovery?

I have decided to put every penny that I don't need for another 10 years into a handful of accumulating ETFs (and 3 stocks I personally believe in), every single week, for at least the next 12 months and, if possible (i.e., for as long as I have surplus money), for the whole next 10 years.

If this time is anything like 2000 or 2008 was, then I will be buying relatively cheap for the first part of these 10 years, and will see a solid return in the second part. How long the first part and the second part will be, this I don't know.

My bet is that after 10 years, this won't have mattered that much.

Would love to hear what HN thinks about this.
GMail solved a thorny problem: convince users to browse the web while logged in, preferably with their real life identity. To then collect and aggregate an extensive personalized dossier of their online activity without any fear of legal repercussions. This is priceless.

Then just play the trends: how much space the median user actually uses, user adoption trends, planned storage capacity, storage cost. Possibly the whole GMail never used more than 1% of of Google's total storage capacity.
Oops that was what I meant! Thanks for the recommendations.

Do you know if there are any books that are inspired by (or squeals of a sort) to Phoenix Project?
CDC: Coronavirus spread could last into next year
What is your basis for this? My understanding is that an N95 mask, worn by following the directions on the box, provides significant protection to the wearer. Also, if it has a vent for exhaling, that would suggest it is not necessarily such good protection for others.
Benchmarks against HEVC and WebP are included in the metrics section of the article.
Show HN: Ferp, a Functional JavaScript Framework
Thanks for sharing. I wanted to know more about the HN moderators and was pleased to read your profile in the New Yorker from 2018[0]. Keep up the good work.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
Armorsmith Designer – Cosplay Software Made for Cosplayers
Probably want to change the mix in a few months, not right now.
Naturally the article is leaning towards putting Lambda in a bad light, but honestly if she signed a document saying “don’t do X, collect Y$” and then goes and does X, it’s pretty simple, she should give back the money. You can’t both take the payday, and then am also try to take the high moral ground, even if you try to do it anonymously. “I didn’t think you’d figure out it was me” isn’t a valid defense against breach of contract.
Agencies encourage financial institutions to meet needs of customers and members
Yes, wildfires are O(n²) at worst.
https://www.google.com/search?q=no+wireless+less+space+than+...
I moved from Seattle to the midwest.

I’ve seen a lot of very intolerable lines in the suburbs. It’s not unusual for me to wait 15 minutes to checkout at Target or Costco and last December I remember a 25 minute line.

I think this is a product. There’s about six different grocery store within a fifteen minute drive from my house. I’ll switch to the first one to implement this system.
Online support is good as well. First pair I ordered from them had a defective coating after the first 6 months (it was 'splotchy', it looked like water dried on the lenses but it wouldn't come off'). They sent me a replacement pair for free.

The only downside I have with online glasses is you making adjustments to the fitting of the glasses. Your eye doctor will usually do this for you when you buy glasses for them, but online glasses require you to do it yourself or go into a store (if they have one). With that said, still not a big enough negative for me to go back to buying from my eye doctor.
I created an interactive budget planner
> I can't honestly believe anyone that thinks spending twenty days on a problem is better than five minutes.

Nobody thinks that and I didn't say that. I was talking about that specific file (although the rest of them are equally unapproachable).

> If you can't get there, it's going to be really hard to talk about what's amazing in k!

Well, the thing is that at this point the only amazing things that have been talked about is that it's fast (in some specific use cases of data queries) and extremely concise. What more there is to K? What more reasons are there to use it, and with which downsides does it come with?
> Is it really spying if you are entering the store with full knowledge that your every move is being watched by a system in order to automatically track your selections?

Very few people going into retail stores understand the extent of the tracking going on. So yes, to the average person, this seems like creepy stalking and/or spying.
Sure, after Let's Encrypt posted initially at the end of February about their uh, bug, I responded in part:

> That is, how many certificates were really issued to multiple FQDNs (if a single FQDN the bug described
has no effect) more than 8 hours after initial correct CAA checks ? Intuitively this should be almost none, but intuitions can be misleading.

Jacob responded by saying that they were "working on this analysis today" although in fact the next we heard was a complete list of arguably misissued certificates a few days later in an announcement that was linked from Hacker News and which you've hopefully seen.

I wrote (in that Hacker News thread) that this was one way to answer my question :D
I think the real irony is that much of the time fences exist because of the quirks (fences) of some other system you are stuck with. Sometimes it feels like it is fences all the way down. Other times, you work your way down 5 layers of dependencies and discover that the whole pile of ugliness is because the core system is designed around physically mailing boxes full of reel-to-reel tapes. When that is the case, there is potential for a cascade of "lean modern apps" to de-cruft an industry.
But how do they control it? Is it just that they make a good product at a market-clearing price, or do they abuse the system somehow? In my mid-sized American city there are not just one but two local mattress makers that I could buy from if I felt like I needed to, and I did once but I don't feel like the choice was either denied to or forced upon me.
Robinhood's interface is much better than other financial institutions by far, It's one of the most intuitive interface design unrelated to financial products which makes it very pleasing to use. Robinhood disrupt fintech from every standpoint and we should give them credit for that. It opened the doors and allowed younger generations to invest in the stock market where other players failed terribly to do that. Bad days are happening for them in a terrible timing but I believe they will bounce back, I sure hope they do.
Cert revocation for the web is broken, which is why there's been so much emphasis on lifetime. Revocation checks are a privacy leak and reliability degradation and DoS vector, unless you use something like OCSP stapling, which fairly few sites do.
Facebook AI Researchers Found a Way to Give Quest More GPU Power
Can you make a technical post about how you get the info or the arrivals? How you take the photos?[1] Anything unexpected running the bot? It is a real bot, or you just type the message? Problems with name collisions? Duplications when a ship get delayed and arrive the next day?

[1] With the camera, from the shore. :) I guess there are a few technical details and anecdotes here.
They have a lot of assets that would be disposed, inheritance tax, capital gains. More selling.
Dude, I would tell Twitch.tv streamers about it, so their fans could call in and talk... I would promote it on college campuses... They're in need of something like this after the death of the Yik Yak app. You could push this project on Twitter, etc.

I'll personally shill this on my university's campus for you, but don't give up on this. I'm sure there are a lot of other people who feel the same way that I do. This is a REALLY cool idea!!
... ok, but I heard their Kubernetes services is the best there is. Perhaps they have some strong sides once you actually start using the services.

(No sarcasm or snarkyness intended)
I thought that the other benefit would be easy account setup for options trading? The brokers I'm aware of 'interview' you before giving you the ability to trade options.
I was hoping Apple would implement something like this given they had scan+pay-on-iPhone back in 2010 for Apple Stores.

I have to imagine there are considerable roadblocks for theft prevention and training your shoppers.

Ambiguity turns off paying shoppers and provides an opportunity for thieves.