skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the news says "China puts 760 million people on travel restrictions", you should look at the price of puts.
Probably not, no.

I could easily see myself becoming dejected after printing out a few cheat sheets and buying some relevant books. I would have attempted some exercises and done whatever toy projects with an increasing feeling of dread that I was simply aping what was before me only to find what I thought I had learned had slipped away in a weekend. Should I get much further than that, I would then try to solve an actual problem I had with it and that would be the end of it as I would stagger into realms of development environments and dependencies to try to get the right libraries in order, I would look for advice online and tentatively ask questions only to be blasted for using the wrong dialect of whatever, or have my questions misconstrued until I could be informed that what I really have is an XY problem, I don't really want what I asked for after all. What a relief to me.

At that point I throw in my hat and go back to what I am used to.

I know myself well enough to know that I just haven't the grit or patience to torment myself with trying to find an application for the befunge du jour and, as such, learning it becomes a Glass Bead Game for me. If my life depended on it, perhaps, but this reminds me too much of the "executable line noise" I escaped: Perl, with a kind of sly terseness I associate with any number of obfuscations as a kind of puzzlebox monument to the "cleverness" of packing something into a single line I have had to slam into while programming.

I lack the vim to tilt at these windmills.
They never did, just new sources of rumors.
Are they? The market reaches all time highs almost every year, so would you say that we spend most of our time in bubbles?

It is actually expected that the market will typically go up, not down. Otherwise there would be no difference between investing and gambling.
Every time people get upset because of reasonable behavior of others and unreasonably attempt to control that behavior, it is an opportunity for teaching.
I say at least two of France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain. Of course I'd be happy to be wrong.
I can move my money out of the market in approximately 3 days. Exactly which life experience is going to teach me I need quicker access than that?

As for volatility of the market I accommodate for that by having well over twice as much as I need in investments that I can liquidate.

The end result if I project using historical data is that I'm much wealthier.

If the market crashes to the point people aren't buying S&P500 index funds I highly doubt people with money in the bank are going to be in any better of a position than myself.

If it continues on trend, I'll stand to do better than them though.
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You are claiming that the masks are useless. They are not. They have some effectiveness, and that effectiveness is limited. This is well-understood. Aerosol-based transmission is well-understood. Claiming that there are "gotchas" does not change the fact that wearing a mask reduces your risk.

You are doing the very thing that I pointed out as incorrect: removing nuance.

A more honest expression of your position would be "the limited effectiveness of the masks and their limited supply means that it is reasonable for the masks to be reserved for those who need them most." The honest debate around this position regards how much supply there is, how much individual liberty should dictate demand, and other such factors. The latter half of your post comes around to this, even though the first half is incorrect.
Twitter is already a leftist propaganda channel actively engaged in crushing dissent. Perhaps it’s time to balance the scales.
In WWII it wasn't uncommon for rudder assemblies to jam when struck by shells or torpedoes, but that era is long since over.
> Gold goes down during a recession.

Everything goes down during a recession. The goal is to find things going down less.
Support engineer at my current role. All meetings are pretty ad-hoc as current issues necessitate. On call rotates for a week every 4~ weeks, and there's a 15 minute systems status meeting every morning. Most days that's my only meeting.

That sounds miserable and unproductive OP :'(
Reading training materials does not mean that you are trained. Who is going to slap your hand away from your face when you reach inside your mask to scratch an itch? What if you wash your hands, take of your mask, and then touch the door handle you touched with your dirty hands?

I can come up with these scenarios all day. The point I'm making is that the real way to protect yourself is to wash your hands. That's it. The mask does nothing unless you're literally being coughed on by someone who is infected.
This isn’t the economy
Still, it sounds like a reasonable amount for, as a company, designing a system that helped compromise an election.

If FB needs to declare bankruptcy and shutter their doors then nothing of value will be lost.
If your time horizon is 10+ years out, make like your 401k and invest on schedule regardless of whatever the market is doing. (Though you might want to rebalance if no one is doing that for you - i.e. if you handpicked your stocks)

And I would reword the 5+ year rule as: don't put any money in the stock market that you think you might need within the next 5 years.
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There's a great book on behavior like this, "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay. It was first published in 1841 but feels like it could have been written today. McKay was editor of The Illustrated London News in 1850's.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081ZD9CL1/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
I'm thinking of moving a couple silly side projects off EC2 to a spare home server to save $10/mo

Eating out less, cooking at home with family instead

Sitting on almost a year's salary in cash

pay off major debt, but I finished that a couple years back. If you have a mortgage, it's about to be a great time to refinance the way bond yields are looking.

The big one though, trying to work up the resolve to put to bed either my netflix subscription or my hulu subscription. Probably hulu. Haven't pulled the trigger yet.
I'd love to see an ARM-based Macbook, especially if it can last 20+ hours on battery, is highly portable, and has great thermal/low heat output. I believe history can repeat itself, as in the past 4 decades, we've seen Macs transition from Motorola 680x0 to PowerPC, and from PowerPC to Intel x86, and from Intel x86 32bit to x64 64bit-only. This brings me back to memories of fat binary and PPC emulation.
I think 8,000 liters is a bit off?

2,113 gallons / 8,000 liters

1,849 gallons / 7,000 liters - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357553/

2,642 gallons / 10,000 liters - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398662/

2,642 gallons / 10,000 liters - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448375/

3,000 gallons / 11,356 liters - https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/news/air-water.h...

3,963 gallons / 15,000 litres - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398662/

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov+liters...
It is sometimes necessary to fine a company out of existance, for example when violations are so blatant they lead to death.
Investors have access to and get privileged (material non-public) information constantly. Non-board members would have less overall and less complete information but there would still be some. Having any position introduces unnecessary risk for everyone involved.

Sequoia backing out and letting the company keep the money keeps everyone's hands clean and mitigates lawsuits or bad blood from everyone too.

Not ideal but probably "cheaper" in many, many ways.
I can think of a couple of reasons.

1. Many people do not care about the deficit to a great degree on either side of the political aisle. This despite a lot of rhetoric by one party or another.

2. The party in power seems to always find a way to blame their predecessor for their ills. I've personally seen Trump supporters blame immigration for the current rising deficits.
No. Money is a scarce resource and modern algorithmic trading has limits to prevent another LTCM.
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It's sufficient if Australia believes that Facebook's existence itself is in violation of Australian law. In this case, an fine that is too much to be paid would force Facebook to exit Australia entirely.
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When will corporations, which are effectively treated as people, be placed in jail and or executed?
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.

What you actually have to figure out is: is there any unexpected future efficiency gains that the market doesn't expect. You have to know something that the market does not.
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A petition is calling on Pornhub to prevent non-consensual videos being posted
To the list of interjections you could add the Chinese "盡人事，聽天命" (do what's humanly possible and leave the rest to God's/heaven's will) or "順其自然" (let things go their natural way).

"Que sera, sera" or "what will be, will be" also works.
Dune is a great movie. It's just not completed. The first part, up to the meeting with the fremen,is great. Set, costume design, music are all top notch, and actors are all great. But it would be 6 hours long to fit all the book, and the producers didn't know they can split movies in two parts like "It" or "Kill Bill"
H1N1 pandemic from 2009 has infected 1.4 billion people, with only a 0.02% mortality rate.

Based on those numbers alone we can be pretty sure that it would have infected everyone on a boat.

If this coronavirus will have the same spread, we could be talking of 19,600,000 to 42,000,000 deaths, or even more if the infections happen all at once and overwhelm the hospitals.

So let's hope it's not as contagious as H1N1 or we're fucked.

I guess it could be worse. We could be talking of the Spanish flu, which killed more than 1% of the world population.
Note that that's the Shiller P/E ratio, which (even after today) is still at 26, which is quite high. The regular P/E is still only around 20, which is at the upper limit of reasonable.

The whole point of the Shiller ratio is that it's supposed to do a better job predicting overheated markets, and it may well be doing that here. The regular ratio is based on recent earnings, which will be uncharacteristically high during a bull economy.

That's not to say it's incorrect. I was just noting that your link indicated a higher value than I was expecting, and that's why. (It implies that the market could easily fall another 25% before reaching reasonable territory.)
I'm not sure it misses the point. Technical debt is always poltical too, whether it's system admin / database admin work being automated away (or not!), or manager<->engineer friction on costs and deadlines.
How big of a cash reserve do you recommend?
Why Square?
I'm not even sure what it means to 'exit Australia'. We're talking a website here.
Moneydance is another paid option (with free trial) - pay once, and you own the software. No cloud connectivity other than uploading file to Dropbox (Optional) for anyone who respects the privacy of their financial data.
I'm sad. He was one of my favorite actors:

Flash Gordon

The Emigrants

The Flight of the Eagle

Heidi

Hawaii
I don't disagree with you, but the risk reduction they provide is so little that you may as well call them "useless".

You should go buy a lotto ticket! There's a chance you could win!
It was repealed in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the...
> It obviously does because people are using these libraries in their projects.

Obviously it says nothing about the number. If we look at the number of downloads of the current version, it's ~40000. Now many systems may download it multiple times. So the number is not an indicator for a large user community.

> Wonder why you didn't mention anything about Clojurists Together, doesn't fit your narrative? https://www.clojuriststogether.org/members/

It 'fits my narrative' well. Just count the number of the members.

Don't get me wrong, that's all fine and useful in a small community, but to claim a handful of companies and a few hundred people is an indicator of a mainstream popularity is just massive overselling and looks 'silly' (to quote you again, sorry).
That's US, though. AFAIK, "ethnicity" is what matters anywhere else in the world.
Change the title to Finix please.

Sequoia is giving away $21M to Finix as it walks away from deal
How is this related to the 8th referendum[1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Australian_referendum
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Not quite, but close: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/businessspecial2...
And then there are questions like: Should trading be convenient? Inexpensive?
Most droplet born viruses are very contagious (e.g. efficiently infect a target). It wouldnt surprise me if the covid-19 virus is so contagious because symptoms are slow to develop.

SARS was effectively stopped because fever developed quickly so it could be easily detected.

Rubeola, pertussis, and TB are all incredibly infectious (R0 > 10) because they are truly airborne. They essentially can survive and still be very infectious in a desiccated form that can float in the air for a long time.

Molecularly you can look at the ID 50 (infectious dose) required to start an infection.

Epidemiologically speaking there can be broader causes like temperature stability, length of illness, severity of illness, amount of virus production, induction of coughing, etc etc.

My bet is on non molecular epidemiological reasons
As long as law and order doesn't dissolve I won't change anything. If anything I would have more dynamic behavior in a bull market. I may be delaying a job switch soon because my current employment is in a stable sector.
Comparing quantity of hospital beds is a bit of a red herring. Having been in hospital beds in three countries on three continents (US, Brazil and China), I'd take the US hospital beds over the other two every single time. Much better beds, much better equipment, much better training, much better practices, processes and protocols.
I agree this would be a good policy in this case, but in my opinion the real issue is "what should our general policy be for empowering leaders to make this decision, and on what basis."

I support the lock down in Italy because I am convinced of the threat of the virus. However, I can imagine an alternative scenario in which a viral threat is exaggerated and a lock down is used to consolidate political power.
Except there are often default feeds of public posts from the community. So, actually..
> which means trading would be more expensive

And how is that a bad thing in and of itself? It would presumably knock out some of the ultra-low-margin HFT but so what? If it would have the effect of turning the stock market into less of a roulette table, with fewer gamblers compared to bona fide investors - isn’t that a good thing?
For agreeing to do this (and having the capital to do it) the Market Maker for a stock typically secures certain benefits from the market in respect of that stock.

For a very popular stock on a typical day the market maker isn't really necessary. Your trades would absolutely execute immediately based on positions other people wanted.

When your stock is more thinly traded, or when things are a bit frantic the market maker is your saviour. When everybody and their dog is selling, the market maker will buy anyway.

Under some circumstances market makers can signal they intended to cease to make a market for specific stocks. When the market makers exit, all hobbyists should make sure they are gone too. Once there is no market maker for the stock you're holding, you will need somebody else to actually take the other side of your trades. "Prices" without a market maker are just a guess, there may be nobody actually promising to take your stock at any price, even if the last trade was for $1.40 your stock might be not sell even at 14¢. This makes for an exciting space in which to gamble with money you can afford to lose if you really know what you're doing, otherwise it's just a way to throw money away.
You can take that position after we all wait 15 min and take a breath.
Meanwhile in the US, the CDC appears to be resisting testing people, and as far as I can tell, quarantines are barely even being considered. Washington state is in the top 3 of cases in the country, but 30k people attended a soccer game on Saturday. I hate to contribute to the panic and tinfoil-hat conspiracies, but I'm really concerned about the US response so far.
This is an awesome idea! I like that it helps you connect with people in real life, not just online.
I feel like this is a fairly narrow view of the situation. In theory the CA "System" ought to be much bigger than just web traffic since a globally distributed hierarchical database of certs is neat and could be used for all sorts of stuff.

The fact that browsers have so much say in how the CAs operate that database makes me think that the public CA system is actually a wildly successful failure. If the public CA system has no other use than to allow someone to securely connect to one of a handful of web browsers then why all the fanfare over just having letting the companies stewarding the browsers run the show entirely?
I want to grind Leetcode and tackle FAANG interviews. Working at companies like Microsoft and Google looks very fun and the pay obviously goes without saying.
I think you are making the assumption that I am scraping content based on the fact that I am developing a free software content scraper that anyone is invited to use.
Having been a small business owner who has had to shop, I would have loved the "CostCo" quality model applied. I know that would be really difficult for a startup with the state of our healthcare, but to me it would mean getting in the largest insurance pool possible with above average customer friendly choices making it easy to say yes. That also implies a very few options to chose from, and maybe ideally one (that gets you to the larger pool).

BTW costco quality also doesn't mean the absolute highest quality, just above average solid options plus using the volume to drive the affordability.
Yeah this seems to be the case.

Nobody is going to want to invest with them if they're known to round everyone up and ... walk.

Presumably the value of being able to call up other investors and get their money, guidance, thoughts in the game too is highly valuable.

In business very often the network type stuff is the most valuable. Give me $1B and someone with a good network $1B and we go out investing in startups or such ... dude with the network probabbly does pretty well compared to me.
My entire reason for investing heavily in the market right now is that if the economy collapses, I can use my earnings from puts to literally bribe doctors for an ICU bed.

Cus without that, I just won't get an ICU bed and may actually die
I want to dispute the 'modern' claim.

I don't know my dates well enough. But is there anything in here that isn't at least 50 years old?

The high-level is tokenize->parse->ast_transform->codegen.

The low-level looks like `char = input[++current];`
Italy's current stats show 463 deaths, 724 recoveries.

http://web.archive.org/web/20200309190730/https://en.m.wikip... (archive.org to show status as of my comment)

(WHO's SITREP 49 shows 366 deaths, doesn't list recoveries: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...)

The raw CFR represented is quite high. Whether that represents a virulent strain or insufficient monitoring (I suspect the latter) isn't clear.
Cease operation in that territory and refuse connections from Australian IP Addresses? And possibly pull the related Apps from the Australian AppStore & GooglePlay.

Additionally, Australia would probably come down hard on any attempts for Facebook to market or solicit customers within their nation.
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Their Prime Pantry service is grouping shipments together regardless of the guaranteed delivery date, which means that your order arrives on the latest date among the advertised delivery dates for items in your cart.

This is recent behavior and not a function of order preferences. I have placed three orders that were grouped together (send order as one shipment) despite having selected the earlier Prime delivery option. This started on the same day that I received an order that was broken up (ship as available), which is what usually happens with Prime Pantry orders to my address.

In other words, my Prime orders make me think that Amazon is experiencing a massive ordering surge, and is grouping items together in an atypical way because they want to reduce the shipping strain.
That is one factor in the low CFR, but it's far too early to say it is the only factor. It totally fails to be responsive to the low percentage of resolved cases in the South Korean numbers.

If the only explanation was that they were catching far more low-grade symptoms, then we should see a lower CFR with the resolved cases rising rapidly.

I hope that what you state is the case, and their CFR remains where it is while the number of recovered grows. But it's still an unknown, and we won't actually know until more data comes in.
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I get the feeling this coup is driven by new investors who don't realise what it is they have bought into.

Cough cough Myspace.
I went to buy new glasses from a classic optometrist and was horrified by the prices. I also tried the more corporate Lenscrafters. Both wanted to push $2-300+ frames with Nike, Gucci, et cetera branding that I didn't care about. Finally tried WP. Cheaper glasses with pretty solid customer service. Sure it doesn't have a little swoosh on it but I buy glasses so I can see good, not so I can flex.
It would at least need to stop taking advertising money from Australian companies and individuals. Probably let go employees and close offices.
If you mean the substituted amphetamines which have serotonergic activity (DOB and such) then sure, amphetamines and psychedelics aren't mutually exclusive, but those are very rare drugs especially in the modern day.
IIRC SARS was also most contagious after the victim was experiencing severe symptoms.

This had a couple effects:

1. It meant that it didn't spread as quickly because people were already bedridden during the worst phase

2. It was most dangerous to medical personnel. In fact, one of the top experts was infected while treating patients and it was considered a big deal. If an expert following top protocols to the letter could get infected then there was cause for worry.
> we truly believe that markets are about price discovery.

this is not incompatible with the believe that prices over a single day (or hour) can be dangerously noisy.
>“Buy mattress at $400. Sell at $1,000. Refund/return 20% of them. Keep $400, on avg. Then spend $290 of that on ads/marketing and $270 on admin (finance, HR, IT). Lose $160. Repeat.”

The unit economics of most of these companies just don't add up.
I wouldn't get into the Cruise Ship Business today.
Yup, the counter to it is India. With almost all of the 43 cases imported even after more than 17000 tests seem to indicate that it's not spreading there (it could be a variety of factors including under-testing).
Sigh... nothing you've said above is illegal in the US except doing so by explicit agreement and that's insanely depressing.