skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heard it went through some winter sports locations. If you've ever been in such a place you know that you will at times be transported in jam-packed cable cars and buses. I can imagine one person can infect the whole car/bus, and they all leave in a few days (most people stay <10 days) and bring the virus to new lands.
I always try to have at least a year's worth of living expenses in my emergency fund. And that's in cash not in stocks or index funds - a lot of people on places like reddit criticize this ("You're missing out on much higher returns you'd get if you had it in the market!") but on days (weeks) like this I'm glad it's in cash.

Beyond that, I tend to live by this maxim:
"When times are good prepare for them to be bad. When times are bad prepare for them to be good."

So the question to ask soon is how will you prepare for the post-recession recovery? Asking this will keep you from despairing. Yes, this recession could last a while and be quite nasty, but it won't last forever.
"because PHP" is absolutely not the answer. I haven't touched PHP since 5.5, but even since then, PHP had a very solid SQL interface (mysqli and most importantly, PDO), which offer a very beautiful and fully functional interface to parametrized queries à la JDBC.

And even then, the PHP documentation was ALWAYS telling people "PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS HOLY MOVE TO PDO AND STOP USING NON-PARAMETRISED APIs"

But the problem is that with PHP, a LOT of the problems are usually resolved by programmers using the age old "copy pasta from a stackoverflow thread that's 10 years old".

However, I do concede that for someone who's in a security context, it is absolutely narrow minded to allow ANYTHING beyond parametrized queries.
Looking at Korea's numbers, they are reporting 7478 cases, with 53 deaths. But they are also reporting only 133 recoveries so far. So looking at Korea's death rate so far is in no way, shape, or form accurate, as more than 97% of their cases have not yet resolved by dying or recovering. It takes time to die.
Do you hate filling your car with fuel? Do you hate buying ham in a packet instead of a person slicing bits off for you as you wait?
His film I've watched was an old Danish one, Pelle Erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror) from director Bille August.
Yes, absolutely. I wasn't trying to suggest the actual motive, just note a possibly beneficial side effect.

At the same time, there will be massive unintended negative side effects caused directly by the impeded movement, particular for people with existing medical problems.
Ask HN: How to move from Manager to IC?
I'm currently a Product Manager with people-manager like responsibilities. This is my second company to have this type of role. Before that I was purely a people manager, and before that a project manager. I have basic coding capabilities but it's been several years since I've done real engineering work.

I am tired of the meetings, of pestering people to get things done, of having surface level knowledge about a lot of different things but not deep knowledge about one particular thing. I want to be able to sit at my desk and build things, not move from meeting to meeting talking about why things aren't being built.

This leads me to think I should move into an IC role, and away from management. Has anyone done this before? How can I do this at my current org (a series B startup where I definitely am not strong enough engineering wise to jump right into coding, but could feasibly do something like technical writing). Or do I need to start over somewhere new? Spend a few months re-learning to code? I'm really lost but I know I need to make a change, soon.
> Casting a `proper' actor as the villain in a silly movie is always a great idea.

Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West. (Not sure if that example supports or refutes your claim.)
I've used Dash professionally for the past few years and I think it's mostly terrible.
It's really easy to pick up and you can get an interactive dashboard going quickly but past that it's useless. The API is completely undocumented, all you get is a few examples which you can't generalize to your use-case because none of their functions' parameters are described anywhere, on top of that they introduce breaking changes seemingly every version. Some plots are only discoverable through obscure forum posts by random users. Unless you plan to reverse engineer the library don't bother for long or medium term projects.
In the end I was so frustrated I dumped it and made a custom dashboarding library which serves Matplotlib figures from a http server (everyone says their documentation is terrible but I think it's alright: it's complete and it's mature).
Mean is a type of average. And for communicating to the public, unless there's a strong reason otherwise, statistical jargon should absolutely be avoided in favor of more universally understood terminology.
> to having broad testing availability

What are the costs of this testing?
> It's a little funny comparing a language with another language+plus-its-entire-ecosystem

This is pretty much my point: any ‘reimplement this weird built-in thing in $OTHER_LANG’ is going to involve overheads unless $OTHER_LANG also has that thing. I don't think keeping most types out of prelude should be a downside; you can always ‘from myprelude import * ’ if you disagree.

> How would you do this in Python?

I don't really know what "persists the unique index of f" means, but this seems similar to shelve. I can misuse that to give the same effect as what you showed.

with shelve.open('x') as db: db.setdefault("f", len(db))
>>> 0
with shelve.open('x') as db: db.setdefault("g", len(db))
>>> 1
with shelve.open('x') as db: db.setdefault("h", len(db))
>>> 2
with shelve.open('x') as db: db.setdefault("f", len(db))
>>> 0
Sure we have to wait for non urgent matters, but my step-mom died of cancer nearly 2 years ago, so I can attest of the efficiency of the system in her case. Each time she felt bad enough to go to the hospital, she was taken care of in matters of minutes in the emergency. Any necessary scans were done quite quickly.

Getting a diagnostic was a bit tough though, she had to get multiple appointment before they found the cancer, but I think that's mostly because cancer can be hard to diagnose. Once they found it, it was too late and what was initially potentially treatable lung cancer, became 4th stage and reached her bone.

The day she was asked between fighting or not a lost cause is the day I understood how our system is so much superior to the US one. The government bought us 4 or 5 more months with her. There 4-5 months that would have cost so much, 4-5 months that she wouldn't have agreed to if they had to pay.

Once I forgot to renew my insurance card. I was still insured, but I just couldn't benefit from it directly, which made me postpone it later and later, until it was needed after hitting my knee quite bad. That day I also was thankful for our system, because I hesitated to go... it was the first time I experienced what so many people have constantly experience in the US. If I still had that card, I would have never ever thought of any of that, I would just go. That was for a situation where I would have been able to get it refunded too, imagine that. Finally it was only about 80$ to get a scan of my knee, the people at the reception didn't even know how to charge me, that was funny. The funniest is that you would probably save money by getting that scan here in Canada, I have no doubt that it would be much more than 80$ in the US and you would still have to pay your full 100$ copay.
A List Apart was quite a nice resource back in the day. A lot of better writing about web standards back then is still relevant now. Keeping presentation separate from the structure of the document is a must and seems to be forgotten today. It also helps with you JavaScript if you keep everything nice and separate. I don't particularly like the Asian guru terminology but It was all the rage at the time and everyone thought it was cool for some reason.

> When a new medium borrows from an existing one, some of what it borrows makes sense, but much of the borrowing is thoughtless, “ritual,” and often constrains the new medium. Over time, the new medium develops its own conventions, throwing off existing conventions that don’t make sense.

This was quite apparent at the time IIRC. A lot of places at the time wanted a web page to almost like a printed page in a magazine and there was even a lot of magazine and newspaper style layout demos that you would find dotted about the web. Many of these designs are quite dated today because the designers were used to designing things for print rather than for web and never assumed that the content would change.

So the page looked great until you put some real content in it that was too long and then the nice layout wouldn't work.

I also remember Lorem Ipsum was used everywhere because it "flowed like real text". Except it really didn't and you quickly found that it was utter nonsense.

Lorem Ipsum would look like it took the space on the page quite nicely and things would look decent on the PSD. Once you put in English or God forbid a RTL language like Arabic it didn't work and everything again looked off and half arsed.

> But beneath questions like “how do I make my pages look the same on every platform” and “how can I make my fonts appear identical on the Macintosh and Windows” is an underlying question – “how do I control the user’s browser?” Indeed, the word control turns up with surprising frequency.

I remember in the mid 2000s (I only just left University). I thought it was the absolute height of skill to have my website look the same on every browser that was available. Then I encountered a Macintosh and I realised that it was I was trying to do was impossible because Mac OS Snow Leopard had different mechanism for rendering fonts than Windows. It shook me to the core at the time, I think I barely said anything to anyone for 2 days as I didn't really want to accept the fact that what I thought was pinnacle of ability with CSS wasn't actually possible. I find it quite amusing that I was once so absolutely naive.
I won’t stay at home when I’m sick
Just because it's "normal" doesn't mean that it's not a crash.
IMO this is a sort of gamblers ruin that happens in the markets. If you can wait long enough you usually will see a positive return (across well indexed purchases) . However, often times you need the money sooner. This could be because that money was actually for a major purchase (like a home) or because a recession means you lose your job and are on the brink of financial disaster (meaning you have to sell out at lower than cost).
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This one is more contagious than a common cold?
It seems to me that falling 7% is qualitatively different from opening down 7%. Oil fell 30% over the weekend because of OPEC issues, and it seems like this could just be a response to that. "Plunge" implies a sort of velocity (as opposed to falling 7% over several days) which wasn't really the case here.
No one would self-impose the limit on themselves, because you could profit if you trade while everyone else isn't trading.
All three may account for higher number of fatalities, but not for the speed of the virus spreading.

There is no real evidence that smokers or older people more easily get the virus, and of course if they stayed put at home they did not contribute to the spreading (they had no or however less contacts).
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We do not have more hospital beds than China does. China is at 4.3 hospital beds per 1,000 people. In the US we are at 2.7. Italy is at 3.18.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_ho...

There’s been no evidence so far that our social distancing measures have done anything to slow this down, and at the rate it’s growing we will absolutely run out of hospital capacity at some point (and that’s just regular beds, not to mention oxygen, masks and PPE for the hospital staff, or ICU beds for the critically ill).

A formal quarantine is just a matter of time.
> we just have a lot more hospitals per person than China does.

I don't think this is true, do you have evidence to back this up?

Hospital beds per 1000 people is probably a better comparison though: China 4.05, US 2.77 [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...
> Sometimes the "panic" is the correct reaction.

Panic is almost never the correct reaction. Deciding that there's going to be a downturn and you should prepare yourself for it financially is one thing, but under what circumstances would it be optimal for you as an individual to panic-sell?

In my mind, panic is the thing you do when you realize that you haven't prepared. That you don't have enough resources for an extended downturn, that you're financially over-leveraged, and that you are in danger of losing your home and being unable to feed yourself and your family. There are TONS of people who are experiencing this right now in China and Italy, and many others of us who will be experiencing it the next few weeks in the rest of the world.

But panic also implies that you don't have time to fix that, and there's nothing you can do as an individual to change it. If that's the case, you probably don't have a lot of investments in the stock market anyway. Or if you do, and you're over-leveraged in the markets because you were gambling with your money instead of investing with it, then yes, you're panic-selling right now.
It is possible I have not made it very clear. For the sake of the argument, I am ok with the definition presented by you.

That said, I am not sure what you disagree with. Please elaborate.
For reference, there have been 3,000 deaths out of 11,000,000 people in Wuhan. That's 0.03% of the population dead and the number of new deaths per day is declining. If the rest of the world comes even close to being as good at quarantine as Wuhan, we'll be way under 2%.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_ou...
Why use S.Korea's numbers? Haven't they lead the best response in terms of testing and don't they have universal healthcare? It seems to me fatality rates would likely be higher in countries that: 1) aren't testing so aggressively and 2) don't have universal access to care.

Maybe I am wrong though and there is good reason to believe S.Korea is the best example right now to use as a statistics model to apply across the entire world.
As an investor, if you believe the market is going to drop, there are various ways to profit from this. One of the easiest is buying ETFs that move inversely to certain market indexes (shorts them).

For example, SH [0] is an ETF that moves inversely proportional to the S&P 500 index. So if the S&P 500 is down 2%, SH goes up 2%.

More exciting are the leveraged ETFs that track double or triple the underlying index. SDS [1] moves 2X the inverse of the S&P 500.

ETFs can be bought like stocks. Unlike mutual funds, their prices change throughout the day. These funds can be used to hedge against losses in your retirement or option portfolios. Trade with care!

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SH/

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SDS/
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It's more than that though. APL symbols can operate on multi-dimensional data by default.
"it’s hard to understand why it felt compelled to give away $21 million — money that institutions like Stanford and hospitals give to Sequoia to invest on their behalf."

Does not seem that hard to understand to me. They led the round, that means other investors are in on the deal as a result of Sequoia. If they had taken the money back, they would have lost the trust of other investors in future fundraising rounds that they lead and left the other investors in Finix in a bad spot with a lot of capital in a company that is now, presumably, $21m short of their needs.

$21m is nothing compared to the loss of trust in Sequoia that pulling the funding would have caused.
The author is not selling you anything. He is not saying that hard work is bad. His _whole argument_ is that we should work on projects that excite us and benefit us, as opposed to working on Rails because it's trendy and has lots of stars on Github.

To be honest, I think you would agree with the author if you focused on the overall message rather than specific points in the post.
Yeah, this is essentially outsourcing the part that's hard for Amazon to do -- operating a retail store -- but allows Amazon to benefit from all that sweet, sweet data.

And as you point out, any time Amazon strikes up a "partnership" with outside parties, its ultimate goal is to conquer or cannibalize them.

Businesses should approach partnerships with Amazon with the same level of skepticism/trepidation as Native Americans signing a treaty with the U.S. government 150-200 years ago.
I was just going to say "I'm just getting off my ass and tightening up my financial habits".

For those of you like me, who like spreadsheets but don't know exactly where to start, I can recommend Tiller Money: https://tillerhq.com. Sometimes the best place to start is just "knowing where you stand". But there's lots of great tools for personal finance. Pick one and hop to it.

But there's no secret magic there, and I'm not even sure I'm doing anything different now that I shouldn't have already been doing 2 years ago. I may not have spent so much money... but that's a me problem not the "result of a recession" problem.
VIX converges long-term towards 0, so you will be successful investing in this instrument only for very short periods of times with close to perfect market timing...
Regarding formal quarantine: you don't have to look far in this thread to see people saying if it's attempted, they'll try to break it on purpose just to prove the government doesn't have the right to enforce it.

The US's concept of individual liberty is unusual and, in some cases, self-destructive.
It's not always about the "smarts". You'll graduate. I crawled across the graduation stage. I had a low GPA. I barely qualified with my in-major GPA. Hell, not long after that I went to federal prison. I'm still here and I'm still an engineer. No one has ever even asked to see my transcript.

You will graduate. Just focus on what you need to do and once it's all over you will be just like the rest of us.
I don't think any society, no matter how libertarian or anarchic, is going to allow people to move freely and conduct business as usual in the face of a pandemic. As always "the right to extend one's fist ends where the nose of another begins".

At the very least, individuals with the disease are endangering their fellow citizens if they don't isolate. Arguably, employers that do not make reasonable accommodations for sick employees are also guilty of public endangerment.

Of course, their is always the risk that the drastic measures persist once the threat to public health dies down, but it's by no means necessary that such will be the case.

Remember: even a small decrease in the growth rate of a disease spread can result in a large decrease in the total number of cases that occur.
That is because there is no JUSTICE system. The system we have is not designed to make things right. It is designed to satisfy some things the governments and reaches like to be
Part of the reason their numbers are so low is because they're testing, which is revealing the stacks upon stacks of asymptomatic cases or cases which lead to the sniffles. That's why we know the actual mortality rates are so much lower than the media is screaming breathlessly about.

Think about it: not a single story about the myriad people who've recovered completely, right? There've been 114,000 documented cases so far and 66,000 have recovered. The number of active/unresolved cases remains well below its peak.
Has any stock or financial instrument ever been valued at infinity? I don't know enough about finance to rule that out and it seems unlikely but at least possible.

For instance here is a toy example of unbounded value:
Consider a market for a stock in which the only market participants are two bots with the behavior that they trade the stock back and forth at an asymptotically increasing price. The buys are backed by loans from a zero interest government bank. Since the bank is efficiently hedged to losses. Both sides of the trade owe the bank, the seller can also pay the bank the money the bank needs to back the buyers loan. Thus, the bank could allow both these loans to go to infinity causing the value of the asset to approach infinity.

Similar things have happened with flash loans in the cryptocurrency space.
There is no way to state with certainty what you’ve said or the opposite. It is prudent of everyone to exercise caution and avoid panic that increases the potential for harm. Being dismissive is just a destructive as being overprotective.
Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’
investors are herd animals and nobody has any idea what's going on. if everybody else is selling then i better sell too!
I always wonder how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy it is, especially now the yield-curve-inversions-precede-recessions thing is so well known, i.e. people see the yield curve inverts and therefore believe the market will drop, therefore it does. Markets are just a reflection of aggregate human beliefs after all.
My dad is taking all the low interest business/housing loans before some of the banks grinds to the ground.

Buying poor shares expected to bounce back. That's about it, I guess.
Infrastructure architect: Five 20 minute "standups" per day, plus a seven hour meeting once a month. Add about 20 hour-long ad hoc meetings a month. Just let me do actual work dammit.
how does one actually technically go about that? I have no plans to do it, just been curious about it over the past few months.
The WHO is reporting 0.6% in China excluding Wuhan so probably not.
I use an older, non-cloud version of MailWasher to monitor my eMail accounts (and using a hack to make it use TLS 1.2, which it never supported). This means that I touch all my Webmail accounts on a daily basis, even if it is only over IMAP or pseudo-IMAP.

There are other programs out there that can do something similar (so you can maintain your Webmail accounts without manually logging on), so there are options available. I just prefer MailWasher because of its ability to preview, and I run an older one because it’s non-cloud and doesn’t store my login credentials on their servers.
The trading halt is a result of previously established exchange rules. It's not a manipulation, it's a guardrail that is visible to every market participant.

If the price is going to go lower for an organic reason, it will go lower regardless of a brief delay.
Perhaps. You could also interpret this in non-positive ways:

* The technology investment isn't going to pay off unless they scale up to thousands of stores very quickly.

* Running a small convenience store is boring and not very profitable. The technology is cool though, so lets see if someone else is will to do all the boring stuff while we focus on the interesting things.