skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much money are you moving out of the market in 3 days? If you invest your e-fund, you've lost value over the past couple of weeks. And removing it now means, especially if you've been investing over the past couple years, selling at a loss. It's better to let that money ride so it can recoup value when the markets recover, and use cash (hopefully not sitting under a mattress) to cover emergencies.

The actual ways to use cash are to find high-yield savings accounts (over the past few years some online accounts have hit 2.5-3%, though that's not common), CDs (which again you've had to go with online-only accounts to get decent returns), or some forms of bonds. These offer guaranteed returns (or at least guaranteed not to lose you anything) which is exactly what you want for your e-fund.

Absolutely invest the rest and reap the rewards (or losses, but over a couple decades should be rewards). But it's a good idea to leave the e-fund in a more stable form. Don't be like my colleague in 2008/2009 who went from being worth almost a million to being worth 200k and needing the money. He couldn't let it sit and recoup value, he just lost. His retirement was pushed out years as a result.

Admittedly, his retirement still would've been pushed 1-3 years anyways due to the financial need at the time. But he used almost half his investment's value at that point ($100k), which in a few years would've been back to $500k or so in value. If he'd even had $50k in cash (less than his annual net income), he would've only lost a quarter of his investments instead of half.
Every investor wants an instant monopoly and the ROI to go with that. It's just not possible. Can't say I'll ever shed a tear over my VC subsidized Uber rides.
Licensing software to customers with thousands of employees (B2B)
YouTube ad revenue topped $15B in 2019
I use it to secure a web app. I’ve customized the instance so that when the validation succeeds, it returns an encryption key used to encrypt the data in the database. The idea was to keep the encryption key off of the app server save for mem in session. This key functionality is why I’m using it rather than the Yubico provided service. It’s an internal app not exposed to the net.

It’s not using the sync service and the server is ip locked via iptables.

Thanks for the info.
Coronavirus: Israel to bring in 14-day quarantine for all arrivals
> a FOSS-focused instance .. people who also considered this instance to be their haven

That sounds wonderful - any hint how to find/join that instance? (Searching for mastodon/pleroma FOSS instances doesn't return anything useful here.)
Thankfully the U.S. doesn't have specific long term problems.

(Edit to make this less flippant: like bubbles in education, housing and stocks.)
As the summary says, it's an informal and arbitrary term. In non-human biology, I haven't seen it used for anything except pet categorization for laymen.
The Feminine Mystique Revisited
Led Zeppelin Scores Big Win in ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Copyright Case
It happened to me. :)

I managed to avoid an exempt plan when BCBS screwed up my auto-pay. Ironically, I did that by leveraging a mistake I made when I first signed up for an ACA plan: I'd mis-entered my kids information, which screwed up the registration, and when I called for support to fix the problem the Marketplace team just created a new registration for me. After BCBS screwed up, we were able to use the original stale registration to enroll in a new plan. I got pretty lucky: the exempt plans retain the ability to DQ applicants for preexisting conditions, and while my family is healthy, my daughter had an unexplained seizure when she was 4 and is, for all intents and purposes, excluded from exempt plans.

The thing I think people don't know and really need to understand is that if you let your health insurance lapse, you can't simply pay up to reinstate it; you can only alter your insurance during qualifying events. That's because if you could lapse and then pay up later, lots of people would exploit that to avoid paying for insurance until they needed it, which defeats the purpose of insurance.

None of this has anything to do with your startup, of course.
I know of at least one person that has been fined in Milan.

People are not actively trying to bypass the patrols, they just do not understand that shit is real. Therefore they are not even ready to lie (I would also say that they are not exactly the sharpest, but let's put that aside for a second).
Another technique is to insist on an agenda before any meeting, both for time to prepare and to see if it's pertinent, or the default answer is "no."

Standing meetings are 99% a waste of time, usually about someone/s trying to climb the career stripper pole.
one of the features of influenza is the neuraminidase protien [sialidase].

our cells have a "fuzz" of molecules around them refered to as a glycocalyx, and the influenza virus can digest its way through the glycocalyx, using the neuraminidase.

coronavirus doesnt have this feature to assist in fusion and entry.
> you don't have to be as popular as the top handful of languages to be mainstream.

I thought being in the top is the definition of 'mainstream': 'most people use it, know it, learn it, ...'.
Vstr: C string library designed to work optimally with vector I/O
Learning how to unlearn
Bonds have both an income return and price return component. If interest rates go down, Treasuries go up in price. TLT (20+ Year Treasury ETF) has been up nearly 20% since this bout of panic set in.
Ask HN: Data / articles explaining Scandinavian socialism?
Do you have good data, charts, or intelligent articles that would help one understand Scandinavian socialism, particularly as it relates to the US?

First: this is not an invitation to an "I think" flame war. People on both sides are very passionate, and HN is the wrong venue for such discussions.

But HN may well be a good venue to find out how to easily learn about the subject. That's what I'm after.

Background: Scandinavia is often touted as a near utopia of social welfare services that the US should emulate. But that seems simplistic to me.

I'd love to learn what works in scandinavia. What doesn't work. Why might it work in scandinavia and why might it work or not work in the US. Life is tradeoffs, and I'd love to learn what those tradeoffs might be.

I'm looking for intelligent articles that get to the heart of it. Or good charts or data.

Any insights anyone?
Putting the emergency fund in equities really undermines the premise of having an emergency fund. A primary purpose of having an emergency fund is so you won't get caught in a liquidity crisis and be forced to sell assets when prices are low to raise cash, thereby losing money. The probability of this happening skyrockets if you invest your emergency fund in stocks because chances are the time when you will need your emergency fund is when you are laid off or facing financial hardship. This is frequently during a recession when asset prices are low and you don't want to sell. I'm somewhat concerned about my own cash reserves right now as it happens, and I wish I'd kept more cash on hand.
87 had a significant algorithmic element to it too though according to many accounts via "Portfolio insurance" products which were algorithmically traded, as well as traders arbitraging between the index futures markets and the cash market.
Does a machine's purpose change how the welding for that machine is done?
What is the price of a share that isn't listed for sale?

Emptying out all the asks is a thing that happens.
Conferences in the Time of Coronavirus
>The constitution explicitly carves out allowances for quarantines.

Where? I could be missing something, but I don't see that:

https://constitutionus.com/

The closest I could find was the part that grants Congress the power to pass any law that it wants, but I don't think that the executive arm could unilaterally lock down interstate travel. It also says:

>The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

We are citizens of the United States, not of one state in particular. We pull together, or we fall apart.
>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?

These same caveats apply to medical workers, who occasionally get sick while treating cases. Risk reduction isn't risk elimination but that doesn't make it pointless.

>The point I'm making is that the real way to protect yourself is to wash your hands.

You could also come up with scenarios where someone who was insufficiently trained would fail to protect themselves with hand washing. Here are some:

- Insufficient washing time.

- Touching handle before and after.

- Only using water.

No measure is perfect, and I think we can all agree that a measure with a less-than-100% chance of working (whether hand-washing or mask wearing) is better than nothing.
What the hell is wrong with the author of this article? If you aren't in a vulnerable population (60+, compromised immune system) you're literally spreading the disease by visiting multiple ERs.

If you're a healthy adult and suspect you may have coronavirus you should SELF ISOLATE! The author of this article is supremely irresponsible.
I did work in three areas: image processing, control systems, and bioinformatics.

The image processing was pretty simple. Object identification and cell counting, mostly. There are already good open-source tools to do this kind of thing, so my contribution was mostly integrating those tools into the lab's workflows to make people more efficient.

I wrote some simple embedded code and MATLAB programs to create a better user interface for one of our custom-built microscopes. The users could specify the types of scans they wanted at a higher level and the system would automatically gather the data, then present the results and let the user re-run with adjusted parameters.

The bioinformatics thing was the coolest and most ambitious project, although we only partially realized our goal in the time I was there. It helps automate some of the more tedious and easy-to-screw-up bits of planning cloning/transgenic experiments.
reddit wallstreetbets obviously
As someone already mentioned, mastodon.social is not the best entry point. Which is ironic, because it should be. But even if you find a cool instance, it's hard to find people there to follow or conversations you want to join, because you can only search for hashtags. #and #people #dont #write #like #this
I needed progressives (tri-focals). WP doesn't do lenses like that.

My brand name frames were $200. Lenses were more than $300 on top of the frame price.

It's not just the frames.
This answer isn't entirely practical, but it might be moreso in the coming years.

I believe one of the most compelling reasons to go vegan is to generally reduce the proximity between animals and people, which curbs the likelihood that something like this could happen in the future.

On a more practical level, just save a lot of money. If you can pay for everything you need, the recession doesn't matter (assuming things like civilization collapse, etc don't happen).
That’s my guess too. I’m guessing there was a provision attached to the Stripe investment precluding any investment in competitors. Sequoia may not have seen Finix at a competitor but Stripe did.

And if that’s the situation, the startup shouldn’t have to suffer because the lead investor messed up. Pulling out but letting the startup keep the money and get the board seats back is really the only correct move.
It’s really more a protection against recursive trading loops by HFT systems.

In the flash crash (2010), it was later determined that the largest part of the drop was driven by competing systems racing to the bottom solely because competing systems were selling off too.
Stripe is presumably close to dropping an S1 and wants to prevent another WeWork due-diligence finding that "our primary investor is building a competitor".
My non-expert opinion is that the size of most game installs is tied directly to the amount of voiced dialog in the game, and in a similar context, how many languages that voiced dialog has been translated and included in the install.
People say this a lot. But where are the examples of all the "stuff" that would benefit by being linked into a single global PKI? Many of the most important public key crypto tools people actually use --- Signal, SSH and SSH CAs, U2F and WebAuthn, OAuth2 --- have little or no PKI at all.
Some source code is available here: https://github.com/cshtml5/CSHTML5
Those "standups" sound like pure hell. How many people are on your team? You should be complaining regularly until the situation changes.
They didn't say they never invested. They said they don't invest their e-fund. That's a very different thing and it's dishonest to try and conflate the two ideas.
Wow I didn't know he played Kynes in the movie. In my head I pictured him for the role the whole time I was listening to the audiobook.
> Maybe, but at best this means... buying a few more things, taking a few more trips.

I can think of some better effects than that. How about a bunch of California homes coming on the market and collecting property taxes proportional to their current value for the first time in decades?
Design is still about words (2013)
Since it runs in the Browser JS sandbox there will be a lower security footprint than the NPAPI Silverlight plugin. JS libraries can certainly still cause other web security issues but you shouldn’t be able to escape the browser just because you’re running this library.

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/npapi
Now THIS would be a fine that Facebook would surely feel!

I am assuming this is some Class Action suite ? Or is this different as its from the privacy watchdog ?
> $529bn would just not work.

If the fine structure's purpose is to prevent companies from doing extremely illegal things. Then it seems to work just fine. Facebook would be unable to repeat this mistake.

It's not like there are such things as corporate death sentences in much of the world. So there does need to be a mechanism to ensure that a company that repeatedly flagrantly violates the law is stopped from doing so eventually. Excessive fines are a way to do that, to make it so economically non-viable that it is avoided.

Now again, one can argue whether this violation is worthy of that. But on the face of it there is no reason why feasibility of payment is necessary for deciding the amount of a fine.

Capitalism has problems with pricing external costs to society. The more common example being things like pollution and climate change (something ironically that Australia is particularity bad at). The price for privacy violations here might be a bit high, but it is an externality worth pricing. The amount of money the government will need to spend fighting identity theft in response to this is just the first order effect. Economic damage from both the identity theft and loss of trust. Mental health damage done from the identity theft and leaked data being used. According to the article the government of Australia prices that at 1,700,000 per person. Which actually sounds like a reasonable amount once one considers paying police to track down thieves, prosecution, jail time, the potential for social services to have to help that person while their life is put back together, and so on.

It's the multiplication that screwed them here. That's the part that might not track quite correctly.
I'm in my 40s. My "emergency fund" was up like 200% then back down 15% of that high. Selling now at the bottom I'm still way, way ahead of where I'd be if I just had it in a savings account. I'd have to go calculate how far back I'd have to go to have beaten interest rates, but it's probably not more than 2 years or so.
Yes, exactly this. And if you have any concern for the at-risk populations in your area, rather than just yourself, you should quarantine yourself if you get sick, and you'll want to have the supplies on hand to do that.
Reminder that markets are human creations and not some natural phenomenon.
The USS San Antonio just left BAE Systems NSR within the last 6 months. In fact, this week it has just returned from sea trials to NAVSTA Norfolk. There were plenty of issues during the availability, including that damn stern gate.

:-)
That browser extension exists, or at least it used to. Of course, you run aground of the fact that nobody signs their zones (other than European domains whose registrars sign them automatically, which is, when you think about it, just theater).

I don't know what you mean by "Firefox doesn't enforce [CT]". Mozilla has been instrumental in dis-trusting misissuing CAs.
According to Guy Steele, if you're a C++ programmer using Java, you've been dragged halfway to Lisp.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...

So by that estimate, if you switch to Python you're another halfway to Lisp (three quarters of the way from C++).
What in either of these articles is wrong, or shows that The Atlantic has "lost it"?
From what I remember from skimming one of those submissions on /r/COVID19, it wasn't smoking that was considered possibly preventive, but nicotine (by blocking something the virus uses to enter the body). Nicotine is most commonly ingested through smoking, but there are other ways that also don't carry the health damage and addiction of smoking.

I was curious if anything comes out of it, but I guess there's still nothing significant.
Comments moved thither. Thanks to both of you!
I get your objection but I don't agree with it in this case. As someone who is neither you nor OP, I see GFC as a pretty well-known acronym, especially in this context (recessions, financial troubles).
And the decade following the spanish flu epidemic -- which killed a massive # of people -- was great (financially).
Is there any evidence that a temporary trading halt will help to stabilize the market?
Plot a basic best fit line for the DJIA or S&P 500 over the last 30 years and see where it says we should be in a rational market (about another 10% below today). If you need more evidence, plot a second line showing GDP growth for comparison. The markets have been in an unprecedented situation for the last decade since the Fed cut rates to the bone and then left them there. Effectively, money has been so "easy" that all kinds of weird things have been happening to boost the markets without much actual underlying structural support (actual capital investment, median wage growth, GDP output, etc.).
First hand experience... move fast and break thing, forever in beta, etc. does not always work, especially when you have proper SLAs
His exorcism scene in The Exorcist is one of the most powerful and terrifying scenes of all time:

https://youtu.be/bWyi3ShHxzM
I think it's spreading faster than a typical wildfire, actually.
The level of uninformed populism is reaching Trumpian levels.

How anyone thinks that FB should be fined in any of this is ridiculous.

"We hate Facebook, they make too much money, therefore fine them!"

FB had APIs, that everyone in the entire world knew about. There maybe a little 'too open' for some, but nobody was screaming fraud. It seemed reasonable to most.

Then, a sneaky company inevitably came along and used the APIs to break the rules somewhat (arguably even then CA may not have).

As a result, FB did the prudent thing and nudged the APIs a little bit tighter. By the way - FB did the appropriate thing long before there was any scandal, any noise, any blowback.

FB investigated CA to make sure they deleted the data, in turn out CA lied and hid copies of the data.

There wasn't any material harm to anyone - even if CA was able to use the data to help target people (they weren't really), there are innumerable opportunities for companies to do that anyhow.

From the article: "Unless those individuals undertook a complex process of modifying their settings on Facebook, their personal information was disclosed by Facebook to the “This is Your Digital Life” App by default."

This is misrepresentative to the point of being a lie.

Facebook enables users to upload data and will only share such data with apps which the user has given authorization. In this case, users absolutely had to provide CA with the authority to access certain data, in the same way, they would have for any other app.

When Mark Zuckerberg visited Congress for his smackdown, it became clear very quickly that almost none of the Senators had a clue how FB even worked.

Of all the things I don't like Facebook for, there's nothing wrong with what they did here. They had a set of APIs unlike anyone had ever made before, the realized that they were probably a little to lose, so they tightened them up by their own volition.
You're missing my point. In OOP every object is computation represented as data. It's not some kind of "unnatural" design pattern programmer should concoct in a special way. Erasing the distinction between data and procedures (or getting rid of both, if you look at it in another way) in one of the fundamental ideas that lead to creation of OOP in the first place. It sounds like Alan Kay was more interested in getting rid of data, but it does work both ways.

Thus, saying "let me explain this to OOP developers" is highly ironic.

If that's not clear, let's go back to your description:

>Sometimes, you can improve your code by having it return a description of what to do

Every object is (or at least should be) "a description of what to do" in the exact sense you're using here. This is crucial to understand for properly using OOP.
This is what all countries should do. Can't believe how many people still travel for non-critical reasons.
They lacked turbo charging which is necessary for diesel to make modern levels of power due to the low max rpm of the engines.

Naturally aspirated diesel where relatively efficient they simply lack power.
BIW even gets to triple dip by being the planning yard during repair availability while never being the yard to actually do the work. Same goes with HII. Usually it's Pascagula yard instead of Newport News.
> It's people who need the money for something and are worried about liquidity.

Then they're doing it wrong. You shouldn't have money that you need immediately in the stock market. Yes, people will do that anyway, but I'm not sure we should cater to those people when the health of the markets as a whole are at stake (assuming circuit breakers are effective; up for debate).
Only training to do what they are supposed to do anyway - use the cutoff switches when experiencing runaway trim.
I have to imagine that all of those will be rare enough situations that you don't really need to worry about it.

Many of them happen when you're checking out in person too.
You can simply go to the receipt kiosk every time if you're worried about being charged incorrectly.