skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a smart move. What's price of the put BTW? Did you feel that people were concerned about an immediate fall that Put was expensive at that moment?
I bought S&P puts at the wrong time so many times that I just gave up, didn't trust my gut in early Feb, assumed the market would find some strange way to keep going up. Oops.
As someone who expected to find some things to agree with in this article, it was terrible. Just dripping with vague insinuations about how everything is always terrible and probably racist and ugly, but brought nothing at all of substance. It was a remarkably terrible piece of writing. There is probably a lot of great articles that would be written on this subject, but this wasn’t one of them. Don’t bother reading it.
I hear panic all around me about the coronavirus (covid-19). However I think this epidemic/pandemic is something that the USA can easily handle.
There is no _cure_ and none is imminent, but good people are working on that, so let's forget about cures for now. A definitive test is a nicety but not a requirement.

Hospitalization should be symptom-based rather than disease-specific. It matters not if disease is a consequence of Covid-19, SARS or bacterial infection - in all cases the individual needs hospitalization and observation.

We should focus on what remains: managing the outbreak. People fall into two categories:

- Those who can easily die from this flu (or some other flu, e.g., SARS): the elderly, the immune-compromised, those with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancer.

- Everyone else.

The hospital care gatekeepers' protocol:

Those patients who exhibit signs of the terminal phase of flu/pneumonia should be quarantined: hospitalized, observed and treated until they are out of danger (or die). This is the phase where specialized drugs: antivirals, antiinflammatories et al are used.

Those patients who do not exhibit signs of the later phase of flu/pneumonia should be sent home with instructions.

It seems that this is well within our capabilities: we have the knowledge to manage the outbreak, we have the skills and we have the hospital beds. If we need more hospital beds it should be easy to turn various facilities into temporary hospitals in short order. We have organizations that do this for other disasters: tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, etc.

Passengers on cruise ships should be examined by gatekeepers and either released or hospitalized.

I've got friends calling and panicking over this unnecessarily. I see people on TV saying "We don't even have tests!" when tests IMO are not necessary.

We have all we need to handle this - let's do it.
What’s the point? Instead of spending money on stocks and puts against the same stocks (which costs money), why not just allocate less to stocks in the first place?

The reasons I could imagine is if the stock is illiquid (401k, lockup, etc)
When learning some new tool or OS related function that requires reading a lot of documentation, I will spend a couple hours just reading the documentation. I consider that part of the install/configure process. Even if you don’t get to touch the tool on day one, it will be much easier on days two, three, four, etc if you have a solid understanding of how things work. This goes for anything, really.
I'm already seeing a gallon at $1.89, so the pocketing seems minimal...
As a long-time PHP developer, I love Laravel, all of its features, and how the community has built around it, but there are a couple of pain points I felt when I used it last year, not sure if these have improved:

1. Very difficult to get running in shared hosting.

2. Feels a bit heavyweight for a SPA (Single Page Application) where the Javascript front-end framework (e.g. Angular, React) is doing most of the work, and the PHP Laravel backend is just processing the CRUD APIs in REST.
Congrats on winning the lottery.

Long term yours is a losing strategy.
The president couldn't be bothered to interrupt his golf game this weekend as the crisis unfolded, except to tweet a clueless reference to Nero fiddling while Rome burned.

That is some unimaginably bad optics.
OP might not want to lose his positions I guess.
Crying gentrification is just one more way the housing crisis is exacerbated by folks that already got theirs. We need to build denser period.
So, do you think a policy like the OCP in the PRC is the way countries should go? How would you run it to ensure it's not an unforgiving cruel singly numbers oriented goal which will run roughshod over actual people?
I’ve bought and sold at different strikes and late March/April expirations for last 2 weeks. At end of Friday I entered $270p for 4/17 at around $6 or so.
We are already moving into temp WFH and I'm really scared that a near future recession will hit us hard.
Samsung Releases Expanded 2020 QLED 4K and 8K TV Line
This article, and the whole website looks so suspicious. Quotes come mostly from its own organization, "Emission Analytics", and there is no reference to an existing or upcoming publication.

In addition, and I realize I'm nitpicking, the stock photo, the composition of the copy and the general... feel of the website seems off.

The overall effect is to make me actively distrust their conclusions and want to ask about their agenda and source of funding.
> But all you for-profit types are runining it

As someone who loves the internet largely due to all the cool things people have made for profit, I can’t imagine how they for profit people have hurt the internet more than they have helped it.

You and I wouldn’t be talking right now if it weren’t for a company making hacker news for profit.
I’ve sold some stock earlier this month but not everything. I don’t want to sell some that I’ve been holding for a long time for tax reasons.
Having worked with that kind of arrangement, I highly doubt if it _really_ worked outside of a MBA manager's presentation.

Yes, international talents are there, but unless you're willing to develop a local agency that are up to par with the quality standard of US, it's not going to be of positive value. At which point the cost might as well be the same.

This of course doesn't apply to relatively non-technical work like call centers.
I've done that. They catch fire, after a while.
Does that mean a new version of Microsoft Frontpage is imminent?
Me too. I bought 10 contracts on SPY puts 5 days before the drop, expiring January. My first target is the Dec 2018 lows but I expect a 50% drop before the end of the year.

I love how people are self righteous about the timing but I have been wildly profitable over the last 20 years picking my spots like this.
I don't think you can call it a study. They say they performed, "initial testing".
I use options as a hedge not a bet like some people. These hedges are short term tools.
Iraq had a decent human development index before Gulf Wars 1 & 2, and the intervening sanctions. (I don't want to downplay the brutality of Hussein's regime, guilty of some genocides, but.)
Why can't we belittle faith?

Or, why do we have to tiptoe around clearly inferior thought?
Based on issue polling, we know that a majority of people who are opposed to the individual mandate also strongly support a ban on pre-existing conditions clauses. And also those same people oppose any form of universal healthcare.

But abstaining from health insurance right up until the point where you need it is the same as having other people pay for your healthcare. A ban on pre-existing conditions without an individual mandate is a form of welfare. So in actual practice many people who are nominally opposed to universally subsidized HC are in fact not opposed to universal subsidization of healthcare... as long as there's some nominal involvement with the insurance industry prior to use.

The broader point: many people don't realize that just because you're paying into something doesn't necessarily mean it isn't welfare. In a democratic society with a lot of individualism and distrust of government, sometimes this "hack" is the best way to deliver a welfare state. See also: social security.
This is a fair point. If the goal is avoid community spread then we really need 100% wage coverage and quick testing. Otherwise anyone without an emergency fund still has a very difficult choice to make if they come down with symptoms.
I agree with that but do you know you’re going to take a 20% hair cut? What if you get out of the market after it drops 6% at the bell tomorrow and then it goes up 1% the day after and 3% the day after that? Do you panic buy back in? What happens if someone finds out that a cheap readily available drug cures it and this whole thing is over in three weeks?

I’m extremely pessimistic about the market right now, but I’m more pessimistic that if I traded that I wouldn’t lose more money.

I’ve had a big chunk of my 401k sitting on the sidelines for months now. I’m going to wait to see how this virus thing shakes out then use it to buy back in after it looks like the worst is over.

Until then, there’s way too much uncertainty to try and trade this. I’m not retiring for twenty years. Whatever happens it should bounce back in 2-3 years or so.
I've started writing down those ideas of interest so I can see if there are themes, or better still a meta-idea that connects some cluster of them, to start work on.
Not an aircraft safety expert but I am curious if shifting the wires may not introduce more potential issues in existing planes, as the existing risk factor seems to be proven low (i.e. they are not requiring all 737-NG airframes to have the work)

I would imagine there is a non-trivial risk of a worker introducing a higher risk factor (drilling a little too far, creating metal shavings, putting too much weight on a support).

The rules were made for a reason, and Boeing should follow them. However I wonder if it would be safer to simply fine Boeing a similar cost to what the rectification would cost and grandfather it in for existing airframes.

I am just glad there are people more qualified to make this decision.
What Is Privilege Escalation?
Fascinating. It seems to be supporting a hypothesis I read a while ago (https://www.amazon.com/Next-Fifty-Years-Science-Twenty-first...) on pathogens being a possible cause for depression.
I can more-or-less WFH whenever I want/need to. It's nice because I can do laundry or whatever around the house throughout the day and still do what I have to do as far as work is concerned, but I don't think I'd want to do it exclusively. At least not at my current job, though I think it's just the nature of my role more than it is anything else.
No.
The above is it.
Interesting assertion, less shallow than the article's premise, is that Guns, Germs, and Steel (and other research) asserts pet ownership significantly increases human immune response. Does that mean more humans consuming more cattle, or less illness-driven carbon emissions? It's super complicated to assess all the alternatives, I guess.
> How are people actually getting started in this space?

Depends on your needs. Do you need near-perfect uptime? Most don't; their products aren't so critical, so they settle for a cheaper option. Do want to run a data center? Most don't; it's so much easier to push code to AWS and let them handle the infrastructure demands.

Startups historically survive because of adaptation and speed. The mainframe may not fit those operational principles, though that's up to a given startup (see below for industries which might benefit the most from a mainframe).

> Is it "worth it" financially?

The System Z series excels at transactions and updating records. Industries which deal extensively with these types of computations are banks, airlines, credit card companies, stock brokers, insurance companies, and certainly others. If you're in one of those lines of business, you probably should look into mainframes. More generally, if you need to maintain system state at all costs, mainframes are probably a good option.

I would not recommend mainframes for heavy, laborous computing loads (scientific computing, rendering boxes, etc.)

> Is the mainframe skill shortage ("dreaded COBOL"?) a real thing?

If a company wants to add a new feature to or fix a bug in a 40 year-old COBOL program, they'll likely have a hard time finding a young programmer, sure. Some older COBOL coders are helping fill the game while they can. Don't forget that the System Z mainframes have a level of backwards compatibility that makes x86 blush; your COBOL program will certainly still run.

I wager most new programs (<15 years) have been written with Java or C++, given z/OS supports more languages than COBOL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ib...

COBOL is dying, as it would be ridiculous to start a new project in COBOL. But many legacy systems still work, so why change them if they aren't broke?

I've made a comment in the past about IBM mainframes which you also might find informative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978305
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I would guess the measurement is more like how much dirt and dust is involved with a car driving driving down the road. Like brake dust, tire stuff.. and then that stuff being kicked up from the road surface by other cars and so on.

And yes it's super filthy and gross. I live on a busy street (but not a main street, so not THAT busy)... and my bathroom windowsills turn black after about a month because of brake dust and other car grossness.
You can belittle faith all you want, that doesn't mean it won't warrant criticism when it's not useful to the topic at hand.
The range for disability insurance payouts in California is $50-$1300 per week.

> For claims beginning on or after January 1, 2020, weekly benefits range from $50 to a maximum of $1,300. To qualify for the maximum weekly benefit amount ($1,300) you must earn at least $28,145.01 in a calendar quarter during your base period. Your WBA may vary if you receive other income (such as sick leave pay, paid time off, etc.) while receiving DI benefits from the EDD.

https://www.edd.ca.gov/Disability/Calculating_DI_Benefit_Pay...
The entire world has collectively decided that recessions are unacceptable, so all central banks will print as much money as necessary to ensure no pain is ever experienced by anyone except prudent savers. Watch the printing presses get ramped up, I assume everyone in the USA will be getting a few thousand bucks in the mail soon.
In the US I have gotten or been part of getting a driver's license, building permits, government jobs, and government contracts and have never paid a bribe, been offered one, or seen someone else do so except in a newspaper story.

I don't know if the cynicism is warranted or helpful really. Of course every country has bad actors and every system has problems but there are real differences and improvements possible.
“I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol, and wild women. The other half I wasted.” - WC Fields
> but we need to get over this idea that WFH is the best option for everyone.

I don't think anybody is claiming this. The argument is more that WFH is best for people who prefer to WFH and are able to do so effectively.

Last time I checked, most big tech companies have little tolerance for WFH, only allowing workers to WFH at most once or twice per week. There's clearly a middle ground between "no remote workers" and "WFH is the best option for everyone".
You swallowed that propaganda hook line and sinker. Shame.
>If you’ve done a bad job coupling your data tier it’s because you didn’t know/follow best practices we’ve had for at least 30 years. Don’t blame the architecture for that.

Well that's exactly my point. The author is saying this architecture will save them and it wasn't the architecture at all.
Well yea, none of those anecdotes you referenced are office jobs.
Bring in the helicopter money.
> There is no such thing as new traffic capacity anymore. You can only take it from someone else.

JetBlue started in the late 90s, and according to the wiki [0], "was awarded 75 takeoff/landing slots".

Sunwing Airlines [1] started about 15 years ago, with departures from Toronto Pearson. They targeted the southern vacation niche. I don't know the details of the traffic capacity at Pearson, but they didn't get their landing slots by buying some other airline.

I'm not disagreeing with your comment about the limitations of dividing up a limited resource - many airports in North America are at capacity, and there's no room there for new competition to start up. But you followed it up with an absolute "You literally can't start an airline from scratch", which I took issue with because there are several examples that disprove it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwing_Airlines
microdata and microformats aren’t the same thing.
Even in CA, Nearly All with Vaping-Related Injuries Used Black-Market Products
That's fair enough.

But I was really just wanting to show, via irony, that the structure of the original argument is self-annihilating.

That is, "X almost never stays as just X therefore X is bad" applies to both branches reasonably, and is therefore invalid as an argument in support of one branch.
It's maybe hard to know "what you love" but it's easy to know what keeps floating back up in the top of your brain, even if rational you says it might not be the best use of your time.

Then again if "Dance Monkey" won't stop playing in your head... doesn't mean it's great art.
The US is 80% services based which is why we were immune from the China trade war. China has a lot more to lose than the US because they don’t import from the US as much as they export.

But services are going to dry up very very badly. Which will disproportionately affect the US, especially with how many minimum wage jobs there are.
Buying SPY puts when vol is at historic lows is not unreasonable.
I'm as much Stop Building Ugly Condos as the next resident in my reviv(ing) corner of the rust belt... but honestly, with the exception of maybe one photo, none of these are horribly objectionable or out of step with the existing architecture. Crying wolf anyone?
You don't necessarily have to relocate to a rural area or anything, but you'll have a lot more space and still be able to save money sometimes by living in a 2-3 bedroom in the suburbs rather than a studio apartment downtown.
Does this mean that OpenCV will be able to now include SIFT in the “free” modules. Or are there more roadblocks before including it?
We are quite overdue. We have an economy that reliably produces catastrophic crashes every 8 years or so and it's been 12.
Well of course I can’t predict the future but we kept hitting all time highs even well into the coronavirus outbreak in early Feb and it didn’t make sense to me. I didn’t think the rally had any more legs to it and bought puts to hedge. As the market kept going down I kept or trimmed the options.

The point of using options is that I’m still holding a lot of my stock, so if it bounces back up then it’s just my options that lose value.
Mostly agree, however I think Boeing should be required to engineer an approved and deemed safe remedy by a panel of experts comprised of international regulatory engineering staff deemed to be experts in this field.

The cost would be the greater of the approved solution or the envisioned cost of correctly re-working existing airlines. (The cost savings might come from a factor of cost not considered here, Boeing's liability to airlines for downtime of units or inability to sell new planes.)
predating them. everything you listed is inspired by/based on microformats
A study linked last time this came up on HN indicated most of the particulate pollution is "resuspension", or previously generated particles kicked up by the car passing. It makes sense to consider in some cases but I think it's misleading to quote those numbers in some contexts, leading to confusion like this.
How Yuri Petrov Successfully Piloted Yclients to Make It a $40M Company?
> Well, OP asked for source of truth. Nothing comes as close as the standard itself.

An unfortunate reality is that standards are not always strictly followed (whether intentionally or not). C is almost certainly better about following the standards than other pieces of tech (notably web browsers), but I doubt the C compilers are perfectly compliant if you look hard enough.
I wouldn't really count the fill buffer between L1 and L2 as a separate caching level, or at least if you wanted to do that you should do something similar for L2 <-> L3, L3 <-> memory controller, etc: since such buffers or queues will exist at all those places.
Another option to greatly improve that second scenario for people who can't or don't want WFH is giving the option to work something like 11 AM - 8 PM instead 8 AM - 5 PM, to miss the bad traffic. If that schedule fits in with the life outside of work, it could make that job a lot less frustrating.
Options have a cost and by using them, you are timing the market.
As much as I love WFH, the truth is that people will be more committed to their job if they're on site.
More like crashing you car and getting it fixed under insurance sorts out that rust spot!
Yeah, certain countries seem to be doing a very good job at keeping the spread at bay. SK is doing the best job at mitigation. TW, HK, and SG have so far been very effective at containment. CN dropped to the ball to start, but it turns out they managed to take it seriously in time and it may be under control. Their biggest risk, ironically enough is probably going to be spread from international travelers.

From today's new case report and death count (not to mention the 16M person lockdown of all of Lombardy), the worst may not be over for Italy yet (although I think they're doing the best job of the European countries from what I can see)... https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fffppj/italy_r...

Of the 133 deaths today in Italy, it appears to be primarily older folks atm, but the reports of running out of ICU beds is not a good sign (anyone in serious condition, regardless of age, requires intubation at least): https://i.imgur.com/VYWdjEI.png

For those that aren't taking COVID-19 very very seriously, I'd recommend reading a frontline report from an Italian HCW: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/ffa2tf/testimo...

I'd also encourage everyone to take as many reasonable steps as possible to reduce the spread of infection (proper hygiene, avoiding crowds/public contact as much as possible, social distancing when unavoidable), as lowering the capacity pressure on the healthcare system will be key to saving lives, even if your personal risk is low.

We'll be able to see on a country-by-country basis soon which governments/societies have responded the best, but as the WHO put it, "this is not a drill," and I hope everyone here stays safe.
This is a straw-man - I didn't propose the worst case. There are many cases which are far worse.

So already that is, on average, 1 hour lost per commuting. A huge portion would have commutes worse than that. That data would always be skewed by metro areas - that is where most people live, and where housing would force people to take long commutes.

> Now let's consider the worst case WFH scenario: you're paid less, promotions are less frequent, there is less comradery among your team, you feel lonely because you spent your whole workday alone. You get the point.

Why would you argue this, if in the very first sentence of your reply, you stated the worst case "doesn't really tell us anything?"

Back to the straw-man point - no one is suggesting that anyone be forced to do anything. Just pointing out why many would like an option to WFH whereas others may not. I agree overall that more choice and flexibility is good.
Insurance through options is not a losing strategy. They are designed for hedging, and some basic attention to trends (all-time highs and coronavirus) can provide nice gains or protection from losses.
Only 2% of the US workforce has a minimum wage job.