skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.. the photo in the article is worth a million dollars ...
They didn't (and still don't) know the true financial impact of the virus (even epidemiologists don't know what it's going to take to get it under control), so the true effect of the virus wasn't priced into the market, plus now many investors are trading on fear.
Robinhood is nothing like Reddit. It has a much bigger valuation, more resources, strict regulations to follow, and the responsibility of safely handling money for millions of people. This should be fixed within days even if it means redesigning the entire system.

The last blog post blamed overloaded DNS so it doesn't seem like a major architectural problem, which is why it's surprising that they're down again.
I thought it was more about kicking automated trading bots to the curb for a while. Stop an algorithm-driven flash-crash.
There is a section which talks about the (perceived) negatives of rivers. In short: it makes the text harder to read.

> Typographers try to minimize or eliminate the river effect. In Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type, Canadian typographer Geoffrey Dowding explains as follows.

> A carefully composed text page appears as an orderly series of strips of black separated by horizontal channels of white space. Conversely, in a slovenly setting the tendency is for the page to appear as a grey and muddled pattern of isolated spats, this effect being caused by the over-widely separated words. The normal, easy, left-to-right movement of the eye is slowed down simply because of this separation; further, the short letters and serifs are unable to discharge an important function—that of keeping the eye on "the line". The eye also tends to be confused by a feeling of vertical emphasis, that is, an up & down movement, induced by the relative isolation of the words & consequent insistence of the ascending and descending letters. This movement is further emphasized by those "rivers" of white which are the inseparable & ugly accompaniment of all carelessly set text matter.
> In the era of on demand computing, near limitless cloud resources

Should be pointed out that BoA decided to build their own "cloud"
I also knew about it a month ago, I was more optimistic then. If no new information ever comes into play or if views and outlooks never changes then markets would be static. People knew about viruses for decades now also ... does not mean all possible consequences of viruses are already priced in.
That's the beauty of long-haul investing, though. Two years is nothing in terms of an investment strategy, and real estate, along with pretty much everything else, has rebounded since then.

There are a handful of hyper-geniuses that can make gobs of money by actively trading. For the rest of us, there's buy and forget.
Housing is not a household item?
And if the media would stop writing alarmist articles, there would be far less panic. We're in the golden age of yellow journalism. I've learned, in general, panicking creates more problems than there were to begin with.
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If that were true, why are other equity trading systems, and by that I mean every other trading system, doing fine?

The problem is RH itself.
Ah, thank you. That will help me research it more.
Show HN: Weekly meetings for founder's personal growth
> It's ironic to think that one of the main selling points of Blackberry was end-to-end security (the devices talked to an on-premises server via a dedicated mobile APN which had to comply with a number of requirements), and yet its on-device security model allowed an app to take over such critical functionality _by design_.

While true, the initial versions of iOS and Android represented a step down in security. (BlackBerry at least encrypted the phone, by default - maybe even required?)

I was always baffled that the tech media would never mention how insecure Android or iOS were.
To claim that RH would outscale NYSE, NASDAQ, and market makers like Citadel and Renaissance Technologies is absurd.

It's like saying Airbnb is taking down root level DNS servers.
"Increased oil supply -> Lower oil prices -> Everything gets cheaper to make -> Increased economic activity"

There would be increased economic activity if businesses don't close left and right because of a combination of decreased demand and supply as both consumers and workers self-isolate and live in quarantine, and the knock-on effects of China's reduced manufacturing capability (soon to be followed by reduced manufacturing capability of much of the rest of the world).

This stock market crash is just the tip of the iceberg.

The tops of political, administrative, business, and military hierarchies tend to be overwhelmingly old, and most susceptible to succumbing to this outbreak. As many of them die, as the bodies they govern are plunged in to chaos and societies around the world go in to crisis mode, the markets will respond even more adversely than they have already, as the markets don't like uncertainty, and there's no end in sight to such uncertainty for the foreseeable future.

There is little economic upside from this pandemic. Few ways of profiting from it except by shorting nearly everything and buying gold. The bond markets and treasuries are also likely to suffer as governments default.
Investing money that I don’t anticipate needing for decades, I’m happy to keep buying all the way down.
I have seen that sentiment about the BLM owning too much pushed a lot more following the lengthy velvet glove treatment of the Bundies (anyone in suburban or urban areas would have faced consequences well before millions of dollars in debts or years holding them and fleeing to a remote area would not help).

How exactly is the BLM holding vast amounts of marginal land and renting it cheaply a harm? Why is a large wilderness reserve an overstep or threat?
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Don't forget Strange Brew!

https://youtu.be/oMI23JJUpGE

He was also a good serious villain in Minority Report.
Fossil fuels for power at turning point as renewables surged in 2019: data
So you're never investing then? The market's a wild, unpredictable beast.
Would it have happened without COVID-19?
Wonder if this was developed for https://githubhackathon.com/ or not.

This is by far the most interesting Action I've seen yet.
Thanks for the thorough feedback! This is very useful and helping me having good negotiation talks with them.
Commercial Objectives in the Age of Automation
yeah, i figured it out eventually. since you seem knowledgeable about K, would you mind taking a look at my second comment in this thread (about inverting permutations) and seeing if it makes sense? thanks!
That's exactly what is happening right now anyways. Except in the past week many new positions were opened on a broken platform.

If this was Wells Fargo we'd see the pitchforks. But it's a SV company so all is good.
It is, there was this HFT firm I interned at once that rebooted all their servers at the end of the trading day to make sure they would start clean and fast the next day.
Also, Reddit can afford to queue and buffer like crazy.

Nearly every write-action on Reddit appears to hit a queue. If your vote or comment doesn't go up for 30 seconds, that's not a problem.

If your trade takes 30 seconds, that could be a huge deal.
Containment is absolutely appropriate - and can and should be done within the country as well as border restrictions.

But it doesn't seem there has been much focus on that at all. Containment requires rapid large scale testing. The US doesn't seem at all prepared for that.
HD because many tiny games like this do not stretch to fill the whole window. It requires extra code to do this and have everything scale properly.
I think you're the only person in this thread presenting arguments based on facts. I would just like to say that I really appreciate that, especially when everyone else is running around like chickens with their heads cut off like the sky is falling.
Right or wrong, the school district is taking preventative measures in an attempt to protect public health. Suing them over that would not look particularly good for the union.
I love this one.
There's also the saying though of "buy when there's blood in the streets, especially if it's your blood". All got to go up sometime. Just how much capital do you have to wait out the drop?
All good things get eaten by the majors eventually, it would seem.
If Apple understood the concept of network Hypercard would have been a killer app back in the 80's. Glad that didn't happen though.
> Plenty of junior engineers use Vim and Emacs

Pretty sure that’s not the case anymore, I have been a developer for 3 years and have never ever seen anyone use either of these for work
Contrived Debian shootout benchmarks:

http://www.kparc.com/z/comp.k

https://web.archive.org/web/http://shootout.alioth.debian.or...

Note that the relevant k program here is contained entirely on the last line of code and denoted by a comment telling you what it does:

http://www.kparc.com/z/fun.k

http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WardNumberInManyProgrammingLangua...

Most Joy people are also k people, and Joy appears to be the only one similar, although still very large.

The C++ program is lost to link rot now, but by the author's own admission, was substantially larger than even the substantially large examples within that page.

1 2 29 k
23 70 498 scheme
25 111 768 otherhaskell
44 135 1096 erlang
53 125 1043 rb
67 190 1419 ocaml
74 346 1693 haskell
80 357 2586 java

Keep in mind that by their own admission, everyone in the c2 thread's code was hard to read (outside of the Joy program), and many were buggy. Meanwhile, the k program is quite simple to read.

These are just some basic examples, though.
Oddly enough, when I first had money for a computer I picked whatever was closer to an UNIX. The Mac won because Thinkpad came out of the box with Windows and they never officially supported any Linux flavour. Today I would compare the Mac with the Dell XPS which is Linux certified. Different times.
Trump runs huge deficits during boom times. He'll probably run even huger deficits during bust times.
check out these

https://honeypedia.info/honey-ingredients-a-comprehensive-li...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey
uh, parametric modules? Haskell tends to use Typeclasses instead. (Yes, I know each file gets called a module, but that's not really the same as seeing a "module" keyword in the file). Unless backpack counts? I haven't been following it.

I know there's a thing in Coq/ML/OCAML which uses the keyword `module` and can do some of the same things Typeclasses can do but aren't exactly the same. I don't know them well enough to explain them, but I know Haskell doesn't have them.

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/backpack
> your average Grandmother

Please don't do this. Use a perfectly adequate and more correct term "layperson". My grandsons are equally capable of ruining their system with trojans and misapplied hacks
Yes! We do this with pretty much all vegetable, fruits, onion peels, egg shells, etc.

Of course some fruits skin don't compost at all. Like watermelon skin, pineapple leaves and skin, but you can definitely cut down on trash.
Don't forget that Wells Fargo was purchased by Wachovia in a merger after Wachovia was caught laundering billions of dollars in Mexican drug cartel money.
No, it's not. You can't buy houses at WalMart or Costco because they sell household goods, not housing. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_goods
But not for options trading, which is the main allure.
Why Warren Buffett’s 2008 message to American investors was timed perfectly
Nope! It is not a raycasting engine at all, but instead built similar to old school racing game tech.
Exactly they would be pretty stupid to alienate devs that develop for the server x86 world while they can easily extend the iPad pro line more and more without touching the MacBook line.
I think even the most delusional Catalyst fan would admit Catalyst is nowhere near ready for prime time and will not be in the timescale for these supposed ARM Macs to launch, if ever.
Presumably because you rely on google to direct users to your website.

You presume incorrectly.

The sites I'm talking about have no advertising. They are not ad-supported. They do not rely on Google or any other search engine in any way.

There are other business models.
I work at a largish company (~2K employees, many of whom have been here for 20+ years). We have lots of information silos, and vast amounts of tribal knowledge exit the door with retirees every year. Recently we learned that StackOverflow offers their engine for private companies. "StackOverflow for Teams" allows you to set up your own internal Stack Exchange with all the benefits and conveniences that come with that tool. We are just now getting buy-in from IT and Senior Management, and we plan to start rolling it out across the company within the month. It's not cheap, but we calculate that it will pay for itself if it saves every employee an hour or two per year. I'm confident it will do much better than that.
Trial of programmer accused in CIA leak ends in hung jury
He also did Esbern's voice in Skyrim. RIP
FYI, there is no jump button. Also, those are rocks, not ramps. Jumping is not a gameplay mechanic in this game.
So not a "thundering herd" this time, eh?

https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2020/3/3/an-update-from-robi...
Its easy to play connect-the-dots. Rarely is that the whole story. There are many other dot-to-dot paths that result in very different effects. The sum total of all the chains is what makes the economy so hard to predict.
One of the problems with Bitcoin is that there is a finite and fairly low limit of transactions that can take place per block. You have to get the bitcoin onto an exchange before you can trade them (and it is not recommended that you leave them there due to risk of scams/hacking) and during a time of crisis everybody else is trying to move their coins to the exchange too.

This means that transaction fees spike to 10-100x their normal rate during those crises, or else your transaction just sits and takes a week to get confirmed (if it ever does at all - eventually it will just time out after a few weeks).
Hi HackerNews! I noticed here entrepreneurs would often discuss mindsets and different approaches to improve oneself. Which makes perfect sense to me, as ability to think clearly, make fast and good-decisions and be productive are critical for entrepreneurs. I believe that actually as much as we focus on company growth we should focus on our personal growth as the main success factor for your venture.

These personal growth conversations happen mostly spontaneously, like in r/Enterpreuner. Can we make the effort to consciously grow & improve ourselves as a weekly practice?

I started to build a platform focusing on the founder's personal growth. Founders sign up and paired-up each week, connect via videoconference to coach each other on their unique goals, whether it is to improve discipline, focus, creativity, decision-making - any kind of meta-skill goal. Every week you will meet a different founder - to maximize diversity of viewpoints on your situation and exchange tools & approaches different founders use. To facilitate interactions we would regularly send bite-sized content about frameworks and tools to have better conversations.

So far it is a basic system and we just started. I wonder what would you like to have in your perfect programme for founder’s personal development? Any ideas for a better way to facilitate the whole process online?
Even Rational Wiki, which is hardly unbiased, doesn't consider it an extreme or unfactual source.
The issue a few days ago was not related to the leap year. That was only a theory at the time. They have since claimed it was a DNS issue.
I did just that early last year when I realized that they simply don’t have the infrastructure, support personnel or sense of urgency I needed from a broker to handle my money. This is pre-free trades — I decided that I rather pay a fee than roll the dice on when they’ll clear trades and bank transfers (in one instance an ACH took 2-weeks, with canned messages from support).
I think the transition will happen, but I don't think the post above worrying that "an ARM MacBook Pro will just turn up one day, unannounced" is going to be correct. It's not impossible, but the PowerPC-to-Intel transition didn't happen that way -- they shipped developer-only machines in mid-2005 and didn't start shipping consumer Intel machines until January 2006, and took nearly all of 2006 to make that transition. I'd expect an ARM transition to be similar, and if anything, slower.
RH doesn't fill anything, they only forward orders. All of the exchanges and other brokers are up and running just fine.

This is strictly an RH problem. Their last blog post said it was a DNS problem.
Yeah I left years ago.

It's telling that they have since sent me 3 different checks for what I think were significant amounts ... for 3 different scams they ran while I was a customer... 2 I had no clue about until they sent me the check.
For weeks I've been hoping to find a way to quickly compare log-plots of numbers infected (optionally normalized to population size) for different countries. IMO the best way to look at world-wide spread, but doesn't seem to be available anywhere. Would be a great addition to this.
Hi and thanks you for your feedback! The account is used so that your information is stored in the cloud so even if you lose or change your device your data is still there. I understand this may be a privacy issue, but you can always use the manual sign up method and type a random email, name and password to login and try the app :)
When beauty products were radioactive
If you work in a position that requires prompt, professional responses, the UX apex was the Bold 9900. With the touchscreen, touchpad, and highly ergonomic physical keyboard, profession email responses were a cinch.

The only times it was required to "reply when I get back to my computer" was when document editing was required.

Plus replaceable batteries and especially high capacity batteries meant pretty much never worrying about charging while out and about.
The API for BB app development allowed you to have UI elements like text labels or buttons, stacked vertically on the screen. That was the whole thing. If you wanted a table you were on your own. The web browser was very similar to MSIE 3, or NetPositive: it laid everything out vertically, didn’t support tables or CSS. When the iPhone came out with a real web browser it was like it came from another galaxy.
From a first glance it does not scrap the web UI, and uses public APIs only. So mentioning that it ignores robots.txt is not a solid argument. These APIs are there specifically for automated use.

I agree that this "ethics statement" is of no use, though. The author should have ignored these people who get upset because of their posts being copied.
Obviously they mean professionals who partner with computers that perform specialist tasks. Software developers, 3D movie animators, etc.

A lawyer with a camera is a "professional" "photographer" but not necessarily a "professional photographer"
If one wonder whether the WuHan Virus are created due to test against SARS, one may wonder what these synthetic one will do. Any control. Or just another epicentre of another Coronavirus-20a, b, c ...

Putting Trump does not add authority, btw.
I would not be surprised if many trading places have been told to shut down temporarily.

[1] https://www.ccn.com/dow-crashes-so-hard-might-close-stock-ma...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.de/international/stock-market-ne...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-08/rout-in-u...
Buffett isn't exactly the cleanest financier out there. His company is famous for owning the space of predatory finance options for low-income Americans. He's specialized in it, in fact.
Oh yes, he played a great Liet Kynes. Appropriately regal and expressive.
Yes, nobody has a crystal ball. It always feels like other people do though.

It's good to make decisions with a sober view of risk and reward. I feel so much market advice that filters down to us laypeople is whether we should or should not buy or sell, when really it is all based on our level of risk tolerance, how much in terms of assets we have, what our time horizons are, what our expertise is. I would say a healthy young person with plenty of cash to burn might well look at buying stocks now. But a person nearing retirement, perhaps with health issues, they should probably board up and get ready for the storm. Most people below retirement age should probably just stop freaking out and keep contributing to their retirement plan as they (hopefully) have been doing, and make sure to have some cash on hand.

Our society does not do well with self-control or with gray areas. We want easy answers, which, unfortunately, don't usually exist.
> So either we just forget about notarization on developer tools and we just tell people to disable everything or Apple has to figure out some better way.

What would be a better way?

A computer either is or is not allowed to execute non-Apple approved code. If you want your computer to execute non-approved code, then let it do that by disabling Gatekeeper.
a reporter once asked me to write a bunch of programming buzzwords on a whiteboard for part of a transmission, you sure this isn't the bioversion of that?
In ~2009 I worked with the engineering manager for this class of ship. Can confirm it was chaotic. Not in the sense that we didn't know what we were doing, but in the sense that every other week some crazy issue would come up.

At one point I had to inventory every... single... weld... on the ship because we questioned their quality.

At another time (2007), a diesel engine en route to the ship fell off a truck and crushed a car, barely missing a woman who was sleeping in the back. Nothing to do with the ship's quality, but imagine getting that news while already putting out so many fires.

On the bright side, I got to be onboard one of these ships during a multi-day sea trial, which was a lot of fun.

With all that said... It is completely unhelpful to compare the cost of a military ship to a commercial ship. The commercial ships are very simple and cookie-cutter[1], unlike military ships that are almost always new designs and involve complex, integrated systems such as communication, defense, hospitals, refueling, etc, etc.

[1] I wrote about this just last week: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/simple-systems/
You could do that, but it would not compress as well. For example the word const is not use anywhere in the 2k version, while Math. is used about 40 times so it becomes essentially free when compressed.
That’s true, it’s less of an issue than the others, but it’s still a per-device difference that the kernel needs to know about before you bring the system online. If you’re trying to make an installer that’ll run on any ARM device like those on x86, that’s a problem - how does the installation image know what device tree to use?
Indeed, what is possible to do in a private or moderated/curated web is quite different from the limits of an open web.
One of the most chilling monologues he gave at the end of that movie.
The Saudis are trying to break the back of US fracking by piling on. This won't free up room in the US economy like it used to.

If you lean bearish, you’re thinking 80s oil bust, S&L Crisis, and the Spanish flu.
Well, I only got mine at Vodafone after the Bold.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China ... Wuhan. The US one seems argued different. I am not sure I trust the Wuhan one.
That’s true, I was mostly looking at this from a Linux-centric point of view. You won’t be running Windows or macOS on your phone.
lol, how convenient.