skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, that sounds like a YC S20 idea.
Why not government bonds? Unless your country's government crashes, you're guaranteed to have your money back.
Roseville Case – How a Clothing Store Survived a Power Cut
> It’s also not working too well to keep Android devices secure.

There is no evidence that malware is utilizing these vectors to any measurable degree.

If you don't want to control your device, that's fine, but don't spread FUD that carefully design6 user-controllable devices are less secure than closed devices, when the opposite is true in practice. See XCodeghost and others.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there's no blood from the pessimists since they don't really lose what they have. They just miss out.
"powered" vs. "powdered"

"Powered milk" sounds like some kind of bodybuilder beverage that contains no actual milk.
Paul Singer, the CEO of Elliot, is extremely partisan and is a top donor to the Republican Party. Seen in this light these moves have caused fear that they are an attack on Twitter to turn it into a right-wing propaganda channel.

For example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-sing...
A 3-month harrowing journey into unforeseen circumstances is an excellent filter, indeed.

Please do not be flippant or purposely obtuse.
> OpenSilver is maintained by Userware and is not affiliated with Microsoft.

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> Please sign with your Microsoft account:

What gives?
It feels as if all these people were trained in a secret CIA guerilla training camp and spread across the world to champion the same bullshit. I find it creepy.
Expect a massive rally when the Fed announces QE4.

Let's hope, good chance to scoop up some cheap(er) put options.
It isn't bad advice to hedge your position with options, although doing it short term as suggested here is an active trading strategy and inherently more risky.

Contrary to popular belief that options = gambling, this is the #1 real utility of them. If 90% of your investments are tied up in S&P 500, it makes sense to hedge that with put options which provide a clearly defined max-loss over the contract duration of the option.

So in a period like this when those put options become valuable due to price drop and general IV, you can do as suggested and sell them to re-coup losses and maintain capital. It doesn't change the lifetime performance of your money placed in the corresponding security, but it most certainly improves the performance of your portfolio as a whole and limits the damage that can be done in any given downturn.

If you only hold securities, index or otherwise, your only recourse is time. I certainly wouldn't recommend trying to time the market, just like I wouldn't buy an insurance policy the day before a loss. That doesn't mean you avoid insurance altogether because you can't predict when you'll need it.
The circuit breakers also have an important function in relation to the role algorithmic traders play - it allows a bit more time for humans to step in and either switch off or tweak the algorithms if appropriate.
I have the same question for K aficionados as I have for Forth ones: what real-world, human-usable, important software has been written in it? A GUI framework, a web browser, a window manager, a text editor, etc. Anything?

I'm asking because the article is poking at C-like languages, i.e. implying that K is good for general-purpose use. Yet all I hear about is that K is good at multiplying numbers and matrices, which is a pretty limited playground.
Hodl, fren. Hodl.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar.

This guideline is worth remembering in a case like this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As a user, the people who's opinions I wanted to read posted about day to day matters. And the people who's day to day matters I wanted to read about posted opinions.

As a non-user, I'm affected negatively by all of the crazies that are radicalized on twitter.
Immigration is more controlled today than it was in the past.
I manage managers and engineers at twitter. Most weeks are 25-30 hours of meetings.
> Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is one of the ones that simply doesn't hold up.

At most, you should trust specific journalists who are covering topics germane to their expertise.

> Just like if I buy a crappy video game in Target, that doesn't mean that every single video game in Target is crap.

Consider video game "journalism" instead and you'll have a fair comparison.
That's just an opinion, and one far removed from reality at that. There's an entire world of content on there besides "American politics takes," one that you probably haven't interacted with.
> With most of the array languages, it is commercial, so I'd be cautious about building a business around it

K/Kdb/q seems very happy with this state of affairs, which is really strange: if they O/S'd it I could see a lot of goodwill/mindshare going their way, but I think their Morgan Stanley roots view O/S as commie nonsense. Meanwhile, it's definitely viewed as legacy in the bulge-bracket banks that use it b/c it's so hard to hire for, not to mention its limited applications for teams (kdb is NOT a good multi-user database). However elegant it may be, it's doomed to be a COBOL if this is where its main userbase stays.

J is open source, but I can't get a handle on how battle-tested it is. It always seemed like Kdb was the real product that got used in anger.

Personally I think array-heads should spend more time with Haskell, since it has the ability to be massively terse and point-free, has type inference, loves infix gobbledygook, can be tuned for great performance, and is thoroughly open-source.
This can lift a lot of employees in small companies from having no health insurance to having at least some level of coverage, and it seems to do so with minimal hassle for the employer. If you hope this fails, you're hoping those employees continue to have no real means of getting health care.
Were people under the belief that financial markets grew on trees or were formed by lithification?
I've been looking at the Shiller PE Ratio [1] with raised eyebrows as much as the next guy, I'm just not seeing how discount brokerages specifically are at fault.

So far the S&P 500 has lost just one year of gains. I havn't done deep analysis but to me that still seems consistent with expectations that the economy will slow down for months due to sickness and lockdowns all over the world caused by the pandemic (+ this weekend's oil price thing).

The PE ratio of the S&P 500 is still 20, so there is still some way down to go before I would call this the bubble busting .I don't have to hubris to predict how much more the market will fall tomorrow or in 3 months.

[1] https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
What if this market rout is just getting started? Given the mix of problems at hand (not the least of which is a global pandemic) it definitely can get a lot worse.
Well, according to some Thomas Piketty r > g.
Wouldn't whatever legal entity Facebook has set up in Australia just declare bankruptcy? They can't exactly levy fines at a company that's not in their jurisdiction.
You would be surprised how common missed payment issues are. Many carriers will only notify you via paper mail, so it's easy to miss. We manage the carrier payments for all enrolled employees to make sure that this doesn't happen.
The US almost certainly would, at least it did most recently when France wanted to put a digital tax: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078574/france-us-digita...

A consumption tax is a pretty good way to tax foreign companies though imo, as long as your domestic market is desirable.
> And if the US prevents them from doing so by retaliation or sanctions, that would actually be closer to warfare.

So? It's about power, the US has it, Australia doesn't.

Australia can fine them a hefty sum, but nothing that looks like an existential threat to the company.
So? I have an emergency fund that I keep in a high yield savings account and don’t touch except in the event of... an emergency.

I’ve missed out on some money by not having that in the market, but during this time I’ve also been working and investing my income so like... I’ve still made money?

Why the greed, man? I can keep a bulk of money for retirement, long term planning, et al. in the market _AND_ keep a small amount of funds wholly liquid in case shit hits the fan without seriously impacting my quality of life.
The idea that the little guys largely have a chance actively trading in a fast moving market like today’s where they are gonna be crushed by algos is ridiculous to begin with.

If anything this is helps the little guy, by not completely crushing their stock value, and hurts the big guys who can outlast huge swings (something little guys cannot).
Tiller is fantastic
Daily standup, weekly Kanban board review, weekly review of PR's, twice per month team retro. And that's about it. And it's a big company too.
People own Kias and Lamborghinis.

People eat at Popeye's and also at Whole Foods

No one bats an eye as long as both cars work as advertised and the food is edible.

When did it become mandatory for employers to pay for lmborghini-level service?
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Thanks. Autocomplete changed it silently. Cheers.

PS: It's either "Beefcake. Beefcake! Weight Gain 4000!" or Impossible Milk.
> amusing or has some worthwhile quality I cannot discern

The President's concerned/confused/concentrating look is definitely amusing, especially given his previous skepticism/criticism of vaccines.

But among the punchlines his presidency has given us, this photo is merely a chortle.
Didn't Raul Julia do that because one of his grandchildren loved Street Fighter?
God I hate clickbait.
Teach me your ways. Literature ?
Here's why masks are useless: You are going to take your mask off with your dirty hands. You're going to wear your mask dutifully while outside, then you're going to walk inside your house and the first thing you will do is take your mask off - with your dirty hands.

There are so many gotchas with wearing masks that it's best to just leave them for the people who are closest to the crisis. They're the ones with the greatest need and they have the training to make them effective.

And besides... the coronavirus is not airborne, you need to be hit with a droplet from an infected person's cough or sneeze. There's such a small chance of that happening while you're out-and-about that it's not worth it to wear these things. The real solution is to wash your hands because that's the main vector of infection.
If you mean the subthread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527801, that's indeed much better.
Good point. I do have some in US iBonds. Some of those are yielding in the 4% range but those were bought quite a while back now.
Ice Stupa (Artificial Glacier)
Surely as someone from the area you've seen the countless folks with cargo bikes transporting their kids? I live 1.5 mi. away from my grocery and I take panniers and shop for a family of 2 (though I understand that kids need a lot more things than adults do, so this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison). And if you're coming from 15 mi. away, you're a guest, not a resident, so either take transit and a bike share or circle the block for parking. I don't demand a house in your yard, and neither should you demand a parking spot in mine. Also, what about the folks that physically can't drive a car but can ride a bike, or the folks with poor reflexes or vision that should not be allowed to drive and yet are given a pass in the US because it's so driving centric?
> It's best to talk to a lawyer instead of asking on this orange site for advice.

Seconded. And talk to a lawyer with experience regarding this sort of contract. These things can be tricky sometimes.
> I have empathy for the engineers there.

Honestly, I don't. There is enough public information about the brash attitudes of this company's execs that anyone working for a company like this should know that the lowest level engineers working on a technical problem like this are eventually just going to get thrown under the bus.

I hope this is a lesson learned for smart and impressionable engineers about where to work.
Because extremely bull markets are a strong indicator of a bubble the laws should be equal to prevent bubble bubble bubbling.
I never thought that what made Warby Parker unique was that it was direct to consumer. I thought it was that they shipped you a bunch of glasses to try on for free.

I work for a direct to consumer lifestyle brand company but I've never thought or heard anyone mention Warby Parker in any conversation about us or our business model.
> that such measures are unconstitutional and anti-American

You're wrong. The constitution explicitly carves out allowances for quarantines.

A "nobody is allowed to leave their homes starting now" type order would obviously be practically impossible to enforce, but that's a different matter.
sounds like excessive fines/bail violation of the 8th amendment lol
It wasn't a secret CIA camp; it was the Internet.

We created systems for like-minded individuals who were previously geographically separated to find each other and cross-communicate easily, asynchronously, peer-to-peer, and globally. What you're seeing that looks like organized planning by a central office is more the effect of these people all reading (and posting on) the same news sources and message boards regardless of country of origin.
Facebook's revenue in 2019 was $70bn. $529bn is 7 times this. I don't think Facebook even generated close to $529bn during the entirety of its lifetime. This is not "probably say": $529bn would just not work.

EDIT: If the goal of the fine is to just kill Facebook's presence in Australia, then yeah, I guess it works. But in this case, Facebook won't pay that fine. They'll just stop operating in Australia - in other words, they'll stop taking advertiser money from there. At worst, Australia's govt will block access to FB.
You are misinformed. This is literally starting now. Jesus man open your eyes. Multiple states have declared states of emergency. At the very least that means the virus is here.

Now do you honestly think China would shut down it's entire economy for 2 months over the flu? Have you actually read any published literature on the virus, or are you just watching people around you prepare and laughing at them? 8% of the Iranian parliament was infected last week - two were dead by Friday.

Because this is all unfolding slowly, we still don't even know if any of the following speculation is true:

1. Multiple Chinese sources report reinfection after recover

2. Multiple sources report positive tests after recovery

3. Hot weather may not stop the virus (see Singapore)

This is not SARS. This is not just another flu outbreak. Global markets are crashing because they see what's happened in 6+ countries now. It's time to get your head out of the sand.

Do you know that fucking Mecca is deserted right now? I don't think that's ever happened before.
I'm guessing you have no basis for this comment, and are just trolling age discrimination.
At what point does a finite increase of the price turn it from a finite number into infinity?
I trust electricity to be generally a safe and efficient way to improve my life, but I also sure as hell want circuit breakers in place to keep my house from burning down.
The US Senate had a hearing over it and the FTC fined Facebook $5bn over the same scandal. Arguably that’s a start.
Leaked report says UK net zero climate goal may increase air pollution
The issue there is that you typically find some issues in testing, and need to fix them. That's why you test. You can either have a release branch and a develop branch, cherry-picking/merging fixes into the release branch as well as develop, or you can just hold off on merging any "not-for-this-release" branches for a few weeks. Just let the PR sit there. Alone. In the dark.
If enough countries start doing that, maybe the balance of power might be different. Especially in the West.
Your puts are going to expire at some point, what after that? you sell all your holding after expiration? or you buy more puts? puts are expensive, I started 2 weeks ago and paid 7% of my portfolio in premium just as insurance.
>You are going to take your mask off with your dirty hands. You're going to wear your mask dutifully while outside, then you're going to walk inside your house and the first thing you will do is take your mask off - with your dirty hands.

Now that you've warned me not to do that, won't masks work? I can access the same training materials as hospital workers.

Also, what if I get a little cough? If I'm walking by your house, I'm sure you would like me to be wearing a mask.
Fortunately slavery isn't legal. Just tell them you're not going to be able to complete the work due to personal reasons. If they press you, just tell them everything about the work environment and leave it at that. It's easier for them to find someone else than sue for damages.
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One of us is thinking about implied volatility wrong. My understanding is that it's not a measure of actual volatility, of either the underlying security or the option itself. Rather, it's a measure of how much the price reflects expected volatility in the underlying security. So in a security with ultra-low expected volatility (IV), options that are far out of the money will have much lower premiums than those where high volatility is expected in the underlying security.

In this way, the poster you're replying to is right. The reason premiums were so low was that IV was so low, but that was because no one expected the S&P 500 to drop from 3350 to 2750 in a few weeks. The IV is pretty high now, but it's still bouncing around much more than the actual volatility of the SPY index itself. I've seen everything from 30-150% over the past few weeks.
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facebook could turn their public perception around in a second by declaring that it is not a political platform and banning political ads. I honestly don't care how much they market me to coke and pepsi, but the impact on democracies is way creepier...
... but roving armed police cruisers are, obviously, a good start to such enforcement, and most American towns already know how to do that.
Inbalances accumulated over the course of a decade of free money likely won't resolve within 2 weeks. There is a lot of junk and baseless speculation that still has to wash out. Many people will hold for a time in hope it's just a blip and goes right back up. When these give up and flush out, then things are nearing support and the market has a solid base from which to rise again.

My (non professional, this is not financial advice) opinion is it will take awhile (at least 3-6 months or so) for everything to shake out and reevaluation to occur.
Not all countries do politics the same way as the US.
I was almost offended when Facebook popped me an article named "The Game Of Thrones and Judge Dredd star died", and none of the hundreds of comments ever mentioned anything but the three-eyed raven. Sad.
That link is not relevant to taxonomy. This one is:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(biology)

>In biological taxonomy, race is an informal rank in the taxonomic hierarchy, below the level of subspecies. It has been used as a higher rank than strain, with several strains making up one race.[1][2] Various definitions exist. Races may be genetically distinct populations of individuals within the same species,[3] or they may be defined in other ways, e.g. geographically, or physiologically.[4] Genetic isolation between races is not complete, but genetic differences may have accumulated that are not (yet) sufficient to separate species.[5] The term is recognized by some, but not governed by any, of the formal codes of biological nomenclature.
I don't understand the notion of moving backward in order to keep jobs for people. I get why people say they want that (fear of losing their jobs), but I don't really understand the logical progression to getting there and I believe its influenced by:

a) Practically, this imposes a big problem to future society if low-skill jobs are gone.
b) I'm definitely privileged to have a "high-skill" job so my fear factor here is irrelevant.

That said - if this were really a concern people were serious about, I don't see why we don't just ban cars/trains/airplanes/etc. and have caravans to do all trading once again. It would create tons of jobs all in the name of regress.
Working from Milan, the last tests of the day are running in the terminal below this browser.

I'm definitely not happy not to be able to move freely (I like to go bicycling in the countryside and it's Spring) but, to be fair, the only way not to spread the virus is not to let people move around too much. Some politicians here want more restrictions in the areas they administer, others want less. The bet seems to be: we take a big economic hit now instead of a larger one later on if we let the virus run unchecked. Maybe other European countries are taking the opposite bet by not testing for the virus extensively or they are really only at the beginning of the curve. I don't have elements so I won't go further into this. Maybe somebody from other countries will add information about it.

About the reaction of the people here. I asked questions in chat groups of people I meet in RL (Italy is a WhatsApp country). Some 80-90% support these restrictions. Some want more, China style. The news today are that the government will deploy patrols to check people crossing city borders and that they are checking the people at train stations for fever.

The roads are much emptier than usual, probably like what they used to be during the summer vacations many years ago. No problem finding a seat on any kind of public transport. No more supermarket runs, that happened two weeks ago. Restaurants and bars are open only 9-18 but they point is that once you close theaters, cinemas, gims, etc, there is little for people to go to. It's really home-work-home for most of us.

It's going to be a long March, maybe a long April too. Anyway, my parents did they primary school during WW2 with bombs falling from the sky (10k people dead in this city) so this doesn't look as bad.
Heh, it's been thrown around so much the past few years it just doesn't register with me anymore.
> Why would it be taking much longer for the virus to spread in Germany than it is in Italy

Because that's how the exponential function works. Italy started earlier so its numbers are still growing by thousands every day.

But the numbers for France and Germany are almost exactly the same as the numbers that Italy had 10 days earlier, and Switzerland trails Italy by only 5 days once you correct for the smaller population.
Whenever I hear about some startup going under after absorbing millions I always wonder the same, "if only they'd invested that $75 million in 75 judiciously chosen companies"...

Of course the people making these clearly poor investment decisions have perfected their justifications.
I have 2 recurring meetings per week, standups MWF, and design sessions (I'm in software architecture). Other than that, really nothing, besides the occasional quarterly department all-hands.

My longest meetings are the design sessions. It's myself, another architect, and our director for 2 hours twice a week. However, I don't consider that a meeting as much as a productive working session.
At the very least the floating hotel can theoretically be built out of several nearly identical sections, since hotel rooms are largely all the same fore to aft. Cargo ships have the same benefit.

That said, most of the cost savings is probably just economies of scale. Civilian fleets are much larger than military fleets.
A bit of devil’s advocate: 15 years of experience as an engineer could still be 0 years as a manager. So the person you’re reporting to might be a lot more experienced at their job than you are at their job.