skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any aggregated source to see how Angel Investors and other startup financial investments are tracking?

I know it seems like an eternity, but we're only a few weeks into this.

Startups are generally expected to be unprofitable for a long time anyway. They're not going to implode after a few weeks of a slowed economy. The real effects will take months or years to see.
So ... What's wrong with hanging a cable on a tree?

If that question gets you angry, maybe you shouldn't talk to him.

But if you were more willing to INFORM than Correct, you'd be more gentle.
Population of Italy is 60m and the US is 327m.

Land size if Italy is 116,347 mi², land size of US is 3.797 million mi²

I don't think it's fair to make any assumptions from those infection numbers when the two countries are vastly different.
Not in the US, but yeah -- societies have safety nets for economic downturns. This also assumes the rest of the world is mostly functioning. A global pandemic that breaks everything everywhere is a different story.

If your house burns down but your neighbors are fine, it's easy to get them to help to pitch in rebuild a little. If everyone's houses are torched then you're on your own...
Yes, Google itself.

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-...

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointer...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/02/Android-11...

> We’re also enabling heap pointer tagging for apps targeting Android 11 or higher, to help apps catch memory issues in production.

As for iOS, while MTE is not exactly the same as arm64e, it fills a similar purpose on iPhone XS, XS max and XR.
Didn’t they also announce a QE program of at least 700Bn?

Fed funds rate at 0 and QE worth at least 700Bn resulted in an 8% S&P drop so far.

I’m not sure how much more effective the remaining monetary tools can be.
Thanks for replying! You gave money back to investors and open sourced your work. That's commendable behavior! I never forgot that story. As usual, the solution seems straightforward from 30,000 feet but once we go into the details, it turns out to be much more complicated. Noted about Kronos and Legion.

Have you done any further scheduling related work since Staffjoy?
Thanks for the heads up. I don't use any social media (except hacker news and reddit). So I didn't know what that experience was like.

If any front end developer knows what meta tags are best for this I'd love the help.
Yeah, this works like a charm for me.
I host daily with 5-10 people without any problems.

Jitsi beats anything else ,including commercial stuff. You don't need any account, just browser.
Nothing except your ability to procure new investment capital, borrow to pay wages which may or may not include premiums for health care.
I don't like the cleaning I have to do before I let the robot loose -- pick up toys; I could vacuum much faster than the robot does and without heavy lifting of items in my crowded flat.

But I usually don't vacuum, so overall I'm satisfied with my roborock.
They still have elicopter money. It will be quite unpopular in the US but I think they are gonna try it if the situation gets really bad
> So no, gloves are entirely useless for protection from this kind of virus.

Gloves, even if they do nothing else, act as a strong reminder not to touch your face. Breaking that habit alone can strongly reduce your risk of transmission.
Didn’t they also announce a QE program of 700Bn?
Idea to Minimize the Economic Impact of Coronavirus
I don't know how you can look around and seriously worry about complacency right now. Yes, complacency is very bad, but so is panic. We need to find a healthy, productive middle ground. A trip to my local grocery store is all the evidence I need to confidently say the pendulum has swung too far the other way.

People are exhausting our supplies of essential hygiene products and cheap, non-perishable foods. Scalpers are re-selling the supplies online with huge markups. Hourly workers are loosing their incomes and parents are struggling to find means to take care of their kids who are suddenly without school for the foreseeable future.

We need public awareness. We need people to take this matter seriously. But we also need a balanced approach to ensure we don't cause even more devastation in the long term.

Frankly, I'm happy for anything that gets people to calm down for a second and just commit to good hygiene practices and avoiding crowds for a few months.
> The 0% interest rate cut was supposed to be the last bullet and the Fed has very likely used it up too early.

The Federal Reserve isn't the only lever the government can pull to modulate this.

Expect to see some fiscal policy measures implemented soon. I wouldn't be surprised if Americans start receiving checks in the mail at some point.
This is a temporary idea to prop-up our economy amidst the current extraordinary #coronavirus circumstances:

Suspend all rent, loan and mortgage payments, between all parties, for a period of 30 days, without any penalties or accrual of interest.

This would help prevent individuals and businesses that are fiscally solvent under ordinary circumstances from being shocked into insolvency due to health measures taken to protect against the spread of the corona virus.

For example, a restaurant that is employs 15 people and typically earns enough to pay all its bills, but suddenly has zero revenue because all their customers follow advice and stay home.

A few points to consider:

This would benefit both individuals and businesses in a way that gets at the heart of the economic problem (sudden and severe dip in revenue that would otherwise not be offset by a dip in rent and loan payment obligations)
I’m not sure whether or not the government has authority to enact these measures for loans and other contracts between private parties.
The corona virus is probably a “force majeure” event, meaning it’s outside of a party’s reasonable control and prevents that party from performing its obligations under a contract.

If you think this is worthwhile, refine the idea and share it with influential people who could make it happen immediately.
my wife showed up with one she found on clearance and then with some additional discounts. I was skeptical but every time it runs the little dustbin is completely full. I figure if it didn't run, all that dirt, dust, pet hair would still be on the floor. I wonder if all the roombas gossip about how dirty our floors are to other roombas over wifi..
Modern video codecs support SVC which makes the computation of several lower quality levels computationally inexpensive.
How to live-stream meetups on Twitch without any special equipment
Impatience and one-stop-shopping are compelling motivators.
> The answer's pretty obvious.

It's not particularly obvious to me how gloves are all that different to hand-washing.

In both cases, your hands are disease-free until you touch something that isn't disease-free.
The DJIA has dropped another 2% since the 15-minute pause expired. We might see trading shut down for the day.
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Well. Now all the previous 10 years of growth through wild money printing, affirmative action, green subsidies, life-saving regulations, etc are showing their real 'worth'.
Ask HN: How can we scallably support health care workers?
Cook meals for them, do their laundry, let them borrow our cars when theirs break down.
The “system” may be amoral. But as humans we can choose not to admire people who use the system to immoral ends; and not to suggest that they are examples worthy of being followed.
It would be dope if someone could make this in brass.
> and a good coat

I guess if your coat is good enough at -40 with just base layer and a tshirt wouldn't it be too hot( and ineffective) when it isn't that cold?
If you read the actual article, what they speak about is not drops that happen in the middle of the day or something, but drops that were very expected as the futures-market for these stocks has dropped before even opened. That is, closes due to drops that happen during opening minutes isn't helpful for anyone.
The truth is that by printing money and stealing value from someone you don't make the pie larger...
Taking care of mental health when working from home
I, for one, would be immediately leaving my C-level position in a startup out of the fear that one of my colleagues is doing something terribly wrong behind my back. I - really - dont think that's the cas. But if there is the slightest chance that I might end up behind bars and get my life upside down because a judge thinks I am responsible as well, I will close the company and fire all employees - it's just not worth it.
“We need to be able to make value evaporate as fast as possible,” said Bobby Blick, a trader at Opportunity Traders LLC. “It’s just insulting to not be able to get our commissions off of this huge volume of panic sales.”
I don't think monetary policy is going to fix this. There is a pandemic and the ostensible leader of the free world literally got on TV and said "I don't take responsibility at all" about it. People are freaked the eff out.
Same here - we got a Neato one and I'd end up just standing there watching it. Totally fascinating - more than once I even got it out to show to people visiting! n:)

The Neato ones are a bit more methodical - they have a simple time-of-flight rotating laser sensor that does some SLAM-style stuff to map out the room which means it can do long continuous back-and-forth paths across the room (random image I found that explains it nicely: https://www.generationrobots.com/img/cms/Navigation-Algorith...) It has a charging base thing - it has a special pattern of stripes (kinda like a barcode I guess) behind a human-opaque panel that it uses to locate the charger.

While it was nice to just set the thing off and leave it to do its thing, it is not without problems though:

- it would very happily suck-up and chew cables or errant socks etc, and/or push low stuff around in front of it (e.g shoes). You had to spend time picking up phone charging cables and shoes etc before starting.

- it was not very accurate when it came to working around slanted chair/table legs (since its laser beam would only pick a point approx 5cm off of the ground, it would often hit the lower part of the leg that was in its path but that it could not see)

- it would often get stuck "under" things since there was about 1.5cm of extra height above the laser, and it feels like a lot of IKEA furniture is all just high enough for it to drive under and get wedged because it could not see it.

- it would sometimes get stuck in situations where there was a very tight space between two things (e.g. dining chair and a wall)but where in theory it was wide enough for it to drive down - it would end up trying to reverse out, but actually managing to reverse into the wall and jack its self up so the wheels lost traction.

- it does not know if it has "missed" something or done a good job, so often stubborn bits of fluff don't get picked up.

We've now had to retire ours because we got new carpets and it seems to get stuck a lot on the new carpet that is a bit thicker, often doing wheel spins for 30 seconds at a time. This seems to really confuse the SLAM algo since after it regains traction it ends up just driving straight into walls and stuff, despite having a laser sensor to tell it there was a wall there ... I guess it used some sort of encoding from its wheels as input too (perhaps as a effort to ignore "unexpected" laser returns - e.g. perhaps intended to ignore people pets when it has already mapped a room?)

We've replaced it with a dyson cordless stick vacuum thing with a wall-charger-dock thing. It doesn't take that much longer to do it by hand when you factor in the prep-time (picking up cables, moving dining chairs away from the table, moving things far away out from the wall etc etc), rescuing stuck robot time, or manual pick-ups of things it missed required afterwards, and then moving all of your chairs etc back into position. It is also nice to not have to bend down so much to move the robot one around, or empty its dustbin.
Lots of restaurants have "open" kitchens, where you can see the food being prepared. In my experience, it doesn't influence people's opinions of how clean they are.

> like, I clearly won't want any chefs using dirty hands to mix/cook my food

How would you know if their hands are dirty? You can't visually see whether they washed their hands when they went to the bathroom.

The system we have now (random inspections, fines, forced closures for unsafe conditions) seems to work well in the US. I think people go to restaurants not wanting to obsess over hygiene.
Boeing never intended to build a product that an average American can afford. Ford set out to do exactly that.
This is why I'm asking on this forum. If folks have good data sources to watch for to disprove this, please let me know.

You can see my perspective on why I have this hypothesis below. I give good odds that I already had covid. Hit me really hard, but the same symptoms for the rest of my family have been very mild. We all got fevers. We all got coughs. I couldn't breath well enough to say three words at a time.

Could be plenty of things, so I'm socializing this hypothesis to help disprove it.
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Yes, I hope that would work.

If the 700 billion dollars for quantitative easing went to 200 million U.S. adults, that'd be $3,500 apiece. If spent at the rate of $700 a week, that'd be five weeks' worth.
I feel bad for the Fed folks because they were stuck in a terrible position.

Their options were basically:

Don't do anything - "Fed won't save us!"

Do something as scheduled (March 18) - "wow, we already priced this in and that's really all they're doing?"

Do something ahead of schedule (Sunday rate cut) - "they're panicking! They have no other tools left! I thought the Fed was supposed to be independent of the President!"
I don't understand this at all. Stock prices are supposed to include estimates of all futures earnings of a company, discounted for distance in the future, right? Even in the worst case where four or five percent of the population die and the economy is impacted by quarantines for a few years until we reached herd immunity, I don't see how this lowers future earnings by 30% and more.
This would make a pretty awesome large format wall clock. Anyone know if anything like that exists? If so, I imagine it would be pretty expensive since it's value would mostly be aesthetic.
Covid-19: Patients in Australia respond ‘well’ to Chloroquine
They always keep 31, but skip past it:

var fdate = (d.getDate() - 1.0) + fhours / 24.0;
document.getElementById('date').setAttribute("transform", "rotate(" + fdate / 31.0 * -360.0 + ", 400,300)");
> I have a jacket that can make you sweat in -10

Isn't sweating the worst thing that happen to you when you are cold ? What do you do when its slightly warmer?
Mmmh... I was a CTO at a crypto-exchange which as everyone knows don't have circuit breakers.

The amount of emails we received from customers complaining they lost a lot of money while they were asleep was part of the reason I left, and now also part of the reason I think whichever traders WSJ interviewed (can't see article bc it's paywalled) are wrong.
Let's not forget, he called the pandemic a "Democrat hoax".
Then perhaps there is something you aren't doing correctly. It could be your abstraction. Even on old hardware I don't notice this blocking, unless the output is millions of items, when the code is using the native DOM methods.

Here is an application I wrote last year that can output a large table to the DOM pretty quickly even with hundreds of thousands of records: https://sparser.io/demo/

Here is one I am currently working on that can output thousands of file system artifacts to the DOM without any blocking to the user interface. http://mailmarkup.org/sharefile/demo1.mp4
Covid 19 Solution Challenge
Coronavirus Caused Dramatic Collapse in China's Economy
I don't think it's practical to insist that everyone wears a mask all the time.
But they do tend to need new rounds of investment every few months...

If those dry up, the startups will too.
Ask HN: Why Google and Amazon pay so much when they acquire a company?
Looking at Google and Amazon acquisitions, it looks like they pay way more than the textbook value from traditional accounting methods.

There must be a logic behind the price they pay in an acquisition (do they have a magic method, golden ratio?).

Do you have any books or good articles on the subject?

M&A by Amazon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Amazon
M&A by Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet
Israel is taking the quarantine seriously, and arrests people for breaking it. I suspect they know if they do "parallel construction" a-la the US it won't stand, so they're shining the light on the methods they'll surely use (whether authorized or not) to figure things out.

And of course, get everyone used to the idea, which will make life significantly easier for them once the Corona situation is long forgotten.
Cruise ships were the a primordial Uber -- regulatory arbitrage to compete in an existing industry. The put a hotel on water just to avoid hotel regulations.
Doesn't bing mean virus in Chinese? IIRC from the original launch
"To keep reading this story, create a free account."

Seriously? I know it's the Medium hustle but someone at Netflix should know better.
wasn't there a crowd effort to make and mass 3d-print ventilators? I guess I've seen in couple of days ago on reddit
I'm in the same boat as you are, with the same objections and all.

But overall I found we end up vacuuming the flat a lot more now that we have the roborok than before, so that's a big plus for me.

My wife spent half the money we spent on the roborok on a cordless samsung manual vacuum cleaner that broke in a year; I'm convinced I've seen the light now and that robot vacuuming is the future.
> Exclusive: Fed is ‘throwing money in the wrong place,’ says Sheila Bair, former top banking regulator | Published: March 16, 2020 at 6:50 a.m. ET

> Sheila Bair, a top U.S. banking regulator during the 2007-’08 global financial crisis, said the Federal Reserve needs to quickly shift its focus to getting credit flowing to U.S. businesses crippled by the spreading coronavirus and workers losing their jobs.

> “They are throwing money in the wrong place,” Bair said of an unprecedented move by the Fed on Sunday to slash benchmark rates to zero and start a $700 billion Treasury- and mortgage-bond buying program.

> “This isn’t a financial crisis — at least not yet,” she told MarketWatch on Sunday evening following the Fed’s announcement, which drops the target U.S. benchmark rate to zero and aims to shore up liquidity for banks and investors in the $15.6 trillion Treasury and $8.5 trillion agency mortgage bonds markets.

> “Lowering interest rates to zero doesn’t help if businesses can’t pay their loans back and they don’t have cash flow,” she said. “We need to get help out there, especially to small businesses and people already losing their jobs.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/exclusive-fed-is-throwing-...
This sounds like a dad trying to tell his kid how hard it was for them growing up. None of these bullets are a promise and most of them are pretty condisending and seems to just be a rant about all the things that didn't work out for him but that feels like it's because he was expecting to have his hand held alot more which is something I've never assumed.
I do not trust Eufy brand anymore. We had a Eufy RoboVac and within its warranty period, battery went bust. When attached to its station, it gave some sound errors which is apparently tied to its battery. I contacted support several times, reminded their obligation for warranty period but they did nothing. They asked me to find a "certified technician" to get a report such that this malfunction was present when I made the purchase. I asked what do they want as "certified technician" and where can I get one. They stopped replying. This took a week.

Fortunately I bought the item from Amazon. I issued a dispute and within minutes they created a return label and issued a refund.

I now have a Roomba. I'm pretty happy so far.
History tells me that authority creates facts far more often than scientific consensus and reality better conforms. We certainly had different teachers.

These "idiots" as you call them are just not relevant. Their main advantage is not their ideas that have difficulties on their own. It is the animosity from people humping their legs that many other people avert their eyes in shame.

The encyclopedia is dead and community resources are evidently the future. Fact checking has become a bit more important but I don't see the advantage in creating any authority that will fail at some point again.

My criticism wasn't directed at articles about evolution, it was directed at political hot-button topics, which are notoriously bad on Wikipedia. To which degree that is the fault of users or moderators, I cannot say. Doesn't matter, because reading them isn't that much important anyway.
Circuit-Breaker Halts US Stock Markets at Open 15 Mins
Both statements are intentionally taken out of context for cheap partisan political points. Look in the mirror to see the problem and ask yourself what it is you are trying to accomplish with this behavior.
Market these days is not about fundamentals or future cashflow, but is about sentiment.

Sentiment is what takes this all down.
Wasn’t there a case where a guy put up a webcam at his « He Will Not Divide Us » flag, so 4chan narrowed it down by flight patterns and celestial navigation, and had someone drive around town honking his horn until they heard it. Then took the flag down and posted it on 4chan.
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"Thanks for being a citizen. Have $1000."

Sounds a lot like a Universal Basic Income...
Nowhere did I mention upgrading. The example was meant to give a general estimation of how much RAM costs and establish a frame of reference for statements like "huge memory impact". If RAM still cost say $100 per GB the situation would be entirely different.
A few years? How would people run those companies? Not everybody can work from home right?
GTC News Can Wait
Linux kernel coding style (1996)
Most of the time is taken up by two trials: this safety trial of a few months, followed by an efficacy trial of about six months.
The difference in effectiveness is huge, to the point where it's ridiculous to be healthy and wear a mask. Like I said, they don't put masks on surgery patients.

And don't forget the social signal part; if everyone wears a mask all the time, then we don't know who actually considers themselves to be infectious. Whereas if just the infectious people wear masks, then we know who they are and can act appropriately (being grateful that they self-identified as infectious and kept the rest of us safer, for a start).
That's also my opinion, monetary policies have no effect because this isn't a financial crisis, it's an existential crisis because economies needs to stop with a lot of uncertainty, no amount of money can solve that.
Masks do protect you from getting sick.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968
Was surprised to hear it was China that was offering help to the EU first, yet none of the other countries seemed to care for Italy. So much for the United States of Europe ever forming.

Its also surprising so many people thought globalism would be with no significant downsides whatsoever. A virus wreaking havoc was waiting to happen, and we never thought about creating a plan. You'd figure these are the times you'd call people to duty; not to go to war, but to do the small things (medical, transportation or other essential stuff) that others can't do or to help handle to load. In case of emergency, I'm sure I'd prove a lot more useful transporting hospital beds than fixing JIRA tickets for a SaaS company in finance.
But maybe that's just me.