skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Speculation on my part as I still don’t fully grok repo markets and only have a vague sense of how the treasuries market impacts equities but I’ll continue.

From my understanding the US treasury market is the most liquid and largest market for any asset in the world. Up until recently these treasuries had a positive real interest rate, so if you are a corporation with large amounts of cash (typically a bank) you don't want to hold this as cash in a banking account but rather you want to hold treasuries and get a small return. If there aren't enough people trading treasuries anymore and liquidity dries up this can have devastating effects on companies because they might hold lots of assets in the form of treasuries but they need to convert them to dollars to pay their employees or suppliers and need to sell treasuries for that. The repo facility of the FED is a buyer (or seller) of last resort that can hand out dollars for treasuries thus ensuring that there's no shortage of dollars.

> On top of this factor, this move by the fed surely will push inflation higher and I would assume production would slow given all the virus affects mentioned above.

I don't think this will push inflation higher. This is not QE (though there is a meme that it is) where the FED buys treasuries (and MBS) outright and holds them until expiry. If a bank sells treasuries to the repo facility then it will have to buy them back until a pre-determined date. So if the repo facility works it will compress the spread in the treasury market and thus reduce funding costs for banks and ensure that enough dollars are around. Right now it seems like lots of companies are hoarding cash and drawing close to the full amount of their credit lines which means banks are short dollars. Because most of these credit lines will probably be used to fund ongoing operations (pay employees, etc.) or bridge a shortfall in revenues they are unlikely to cause companies to invest more or hire more and drive up prices.

Christine Lagarde today announced TLTRO III (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/implement/omo/tltro/html/inde...) which serves the same purpose. Helping companies and households to survive a shortfall in income. In short, you don't want to have a bunch of companies going bankrupt just because the economy stopped for a couple of months - the bureaucratic costs and resulting uncertainty for consumers would be much too costly.
first of all, what is wrong with intentionally making it look like a USB stick? second, is it possible that a flat rectangular box just happens to be the ideal form factor for a small electronic device meant to go in someone's pocket? of all the nefarious intentions attributed to juul, this seems like an odd one.
special place in hell for guys like this....
"That's crazy Paul. Have you ever done DMT?"
Scaling Data Science at Morningstar
Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 compared to SARS-CoV-1 [pdf]
What a treasure the long life of the HN archives has become.
You would have to pay rent with or without a bad economy if you're starting a start-up.

Someone leaving a stable job to start a start-up would've already factored in rent payments.
Cfg(doctest) is stable and you should use it
In April of 2004 I attended a multimedia performance at George Mason University called "Time Traveler Zero Zero - A Story of John Titor." It was directed by Kirby Malone and is still one of the more interesting theatrical productions I've ever seen.

Was anyone else here at the same showing?

Here's a review of the performance if anyone is curious -- http://www.timetravelreviews.com/theatre/traveler00.html
On the contrary, reading your side's politicians the way you expect (charitably) and the other side's politicians the way you expect (uncharitably), you end up with the divisions we have now. I'd suggest reading both charitably regarding interpretation, then being cynical regarding
whether it'll really happen/whether it's honest.

[edit: (charitably) and (uncharitably), not (charitably) and (charitably)]
App Maker, Google Cloud Print, Google Hangouts, Hire by Google, Fabric, Google Station, Google Correlate, Google Translator Toolkit, Google Fusion Tables, G Suite Training, Hangouts on Air, Google Cloud Messaging, Inbox by Google, Google URL Shortener, Google Realtime API, Google Site Search, Google Spaces, Picasa, Google Checkout.

I got bored and stopped before finishing 2012, but you can go back and find more.
That is a great feedback. I will change the wording in the post to clarify but they are actually white label cameras that Wyze is selling and we are using the same white label cameras.
Lamar Alexander was not against providing this support. He blocked it based on how it was going to be paid for.

It's very much a partisan issue because the Democrats want companies to foot the bill. The GOP thinks that if Washington DC thinks companies should do something then Washington DC should foot the bill. Neither side disagrees that people should have this support. All the Democrats had to do is introduce the same bill and divert funding from other congressional discretionary spending and the bill would have passed. It could pass today if they made this change.

Honestly, Lamar Alexander is right here. Companies are already going to be hurting financially enough as it is. Making them provide something new and foot the bill is just kicking companies while they are down and just going to worsen the fallout in this recession. Forcing them to fund this will contribute to phenomena like Chapter 11 bankruptcy for some companies and for others it will force them to lay off more staff.

There's no justification for Congress to increase the costs to companies while the Fed simultaneously injects $1.5T. That's just counterproductive when you're trying to help stabilize the economy.

I honestly don't understand why the Democrats are so consistently anti-business in so many things they do. "After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world." (Calvin Coolidge)
yeah at this point it seems reasonable to me that increasing ICU capacity is going to become top priority soon. We missed the boat on testing and containment. We should continue to educate and modify behavior to lesson rate of injection and also increase ICU capacity to handle the inevitable severe cases.
Except that people become contagious before they have symptoms, and we don’t really have a good testing regimen.
What? Can somebody explain this like I am a software engineer?
Exactly. This is just the beginning, and our efforts are a lot more lax than these other countries combating this issue.
Did we read the same article? The author discusses three main ways that trump could fail in the face of a pandemic: 1) he could spread misinformation about the disease and its prevention and treatment, 2) he could shut down travel from affected countries, vocally stoking xenophobia as he does so, and 3) he could fail to empower and financially support disease research and prevention programs and government organizations. On those three points trump has certainly performed as poorly as the author anticipated he might—-and in some ways even worse than the author imagined.
So much this. I left my last employer because of just this. A 'fat waist' of middle-management that delivered no value and created nothing but inertia. Major incidents were a shambles of managers demanding updates over a conference call while engineers couldn't communicate effectively. Ugh
Yup.

It's funny, because for the first 2/3 of my tenure there, WalMart Information Systems Division did move extremely fast....and yet almost never broke anything.

It was an amazing thing to see.
Amazing how this relief just materializes. Student loan debt in the United States, a financial catastrophe waiting to happen, is at about $1.5 trillion.
Dirac Large Numbers Hypothesis
> We need different lengths for different patents - we shouldn't treat how rectangular a phone is the same way as a life saving drug.

We don't treat them the same. A design patent protecting an ornamental feature of a product has a term of 15 years from the date of issue. A utility patent for a useful invention has a term of 20 years from the date of application.In both cases, the rights granted are in exchange for disclosure of information and for a limited term. After the term ends, anyone is free to make full use of the design or invention and to make improvements without paying any royalties and without fear of infringing.

> Instead of risky "trade secrets" a company would make the knowledge public for a short monopoly.

Some inventions are suited to being kept secret (e.g., Google's search algorithms), while others are not (e.g., any product that can be reverse-engineered). Patents can protect the latter, for a limited time, where trade secret law cannot.
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Tangential question for everyone. I recently had to file a small claims case by myself (i.e., no attorney). It's still in the pipeline, but the process made me realise that the legal world is a different universe altogether. From the tech perspective, everything is stuck in the dark ages. I had to create a pdf, print it, then go to the court, only to scan it again on a windows 8 computer with silverlight that would keep timing out. Similar experience with the website (run by a company called tyler technologies). I was not successful in doing much research on my own about the laws and precedents regarding such cases. The instructions on the court's website are not precise. Why is everything so siloed and inefficient that only lawyers can navigate this? Are any startups working in this space ?
The biggest upside of programming with objects/classes is dependency injection.

And no, I don't mean DI frameworks like Spring.

I mean simply the dynamic (i.e. runtime) composition of program behavior, typically by passing collaborating objects into the constructor. (Functional programming languages have something similar with higher-order functions.)

Contrary to prior claims, objects aren't great at representing real world entities: to do that you would also need to add a notion of time and concurrency to those objects (e.g. actors, processes, services). However, they are a great way to represent the components and capabilities of such entities.
Can someone please flag this person?
Deep Dive: Load Value Injection
>And by "Left" they mean the very minimal/basic social services, such as don't let people lose two legs but only one because the $1k insurance per month doesn't cover that. I wonder how failed is the USA when countries in EU have achieved that with $100 contributions per month. Miracle!!!

This isn't really true. You're going to get medical help with an urgent medical issue in any developed country, even if you don't have a penny to your name. Doctors/hospitals cannot turn you away for not having money.

There are also very few countries in the EU where insurance payments are $100. The only country I could think of would be Bulgaria and that's because they're the poorest EU country. Virtually everywhere else you're going to pay more than that and everybody has to pay it, including the poor. Depending on the country, if you don't pay that then you won't get medical care (other than the urgent kind) in those countries either.

The US has a lousy health insurance system. The cost is too high, insurance paperwork is ridiculous, and insurance doesn't always even cover you. But healthcare really isn't as amazing in most EU countries as you want to think. Many of them have similar problems.
It strikes me as rather pretentious for someone to think that the 'stream of people that are interested in ideas and make new stuff' is thin
The bot panic is IMHO overblown.

This comment is however NOT a defense of bots. I think bot detection and deletion of bot accounts would be a good thing.

But the concern seems out of proportion.

Society is full of disingenuous message amplification systems: a large subset of advertising (TV, magazine, billboards, direct marketing, etc), biased news media, spam, and now twitter bots.

Twitter bots are a bit worse than the others because we can no longer tell what opinions are actually popular and which ones are manipulated... via Twitter. But the ability to make such judgements via Twitter has only been with us since 2006. The basic problem is not a novel one.

The bot problem cuts both ways because people will overly compensate. I've been accused of being a bot, signalling to everyone that it's perfectly OK to ignore the content of my argument. I fear many other right-leaning people are getting the same treatment. This treatment further divides society (actual bots do too, which I am NOT defending; I'm just showing that the issue cuts both ways). Other commenters in this thread have been flagged and their comments are dead apparently because (if you believe surrounding comments) they are seen as a bot.

The day that Twitter becomes a voting platform, or voting platforms allow bots... that is the day that I will panic about bots.

All that being said, carry on. Let's squash the bot problem. Let's also fix advertising. Let's also fix news media bias. And spam.
I think the DART and Luas trains are roughly equivalent to BART. However when I was in Dublin as a tourist I was impressed with how thorough their bus network was. Part of it was that there were lots of lines and stops, but the buses were also fairly frequent. Getting rid of the "Oops, I missed my bus by 5 seconds so I have to wait 30 minutes for the next one" factor probably does a lot to increase ridership.
There's too much demand they had to put up higher rates to slow down applications so they could handle/process the existing applications
Slack down 20% on revenue miss
We don't even know who's sick and who isn't because we don't have enough test kits.
It depends on the person. Not everyone needs code review to strive for better and know when you're doing poorly. Collaboration is an easy way to get that, but it's not required. The same people that have the personality to learn things on their own often are the same that will improve their code over time without someone else.
A good CEO seems to be able to separate the theories that bring value. Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs with Jim Collins for example. Maybe management science is still in its early days.
If you truly believe ANY Chinese data, I have a Great Wall to sell you.

China is lying.

The "Start-up Party" is over. Startups will need to plan make profits within 3 yrs. There will never be another WeWork or even another Uber.

The world is returning to normal. Capital will not be free. People will need to earn it.
Computerphile did a video on it which I enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrKKrsIpQw
It is limited to any well-monied adversary.

So, every serious company should be concerned that their competition (maybe abroad) will be able to eventually decrypt a lost / stolen laptop with trade secrets. So every corporate laptop needs its full-disk encryption upgraded. It's large.
The concern is not exclusively about the players' own health. Most of these players interact with other human beings.
A thing to note is that there are major metros in the US without anything resembling a functional system at all (hi, Houston).
This is going to have a cascading economic impact. There are the channels that cover the tournament (e.g., ESPN), the tournament bracket sites that get ad revenue, the local businesses around the stadiums that host the games, and so much more.
No matter how you look at it, somebody who is not the Fed benefits from this. If market participants didn't think that they will benefit financially from this, they would not participate. This kind of "zero-sum temporary money" theory doesn't add up.

The situation is exactly as kylebenzle inferred; the Fed is injecting new fiat money into the economy and it's going straight into the pockets of rich financial institutions which add no value whatsoever to the economy or society.
Haven't used Chartio in a while but when I did the reverse ssh tunnel was just a standard reverse ssh that you could deploy on any server in your vpn. It doesn't have to be on the actual db server, it could be on its own server acting as a bridge between Chartio and your db. Also, you could use whatever ssh client you wanted - you didn't have to install anything from Chartio in your vpn.
They never unwound. The two main tools of monetary policy are the federal funds rate (FFR) and the assets side of the Fed's balance sheet.

The FFR started to rise in 2016 but never reached 'normal' levels before declining again in July of last year.[1][2]

The balance sheet started shrinking in 2018 but only managed to reach 2013 levels before expanding again in Q4 last year.[3]

All the while, the FOMC has been talking about "policy normalization", but they've punted on it again and again.[4][5]

It's not clear what kind of event we're seeing now or how much they'll be able to help. It's not even clear how much they helped last time. Counterfactuals are hard.

Edit: There's also the IORR rate, which Bernanke created in the last crisis.[6] As such, there's no historical 'normal' for it (other than zero, perhaps). I've never seen an economist even claim to understand what's going on with IORR -- and not claiming to understand something is a big deal for economists.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=qkTu

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

[3] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

[4] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/policy-normali...

[5] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/policy-normali...

[6] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IORR
I honestly don't understand how you read snobbery & condescension into my post; I certainly didn't intend them (as an aside, saying that your point of view is a 'no brainer' might be a tad … condescending).

I just like having something I can rely on for years and which doesn't violate my privacy.
> So, yes, I am still learning Rust.

I have always been very cautious about how much I tout my skill with C++. Sure, I know a bunch. Probably a good bit more than the average bear. But the scope of C++ is enormous (even if you stop at C++03 there is a lot to know). And with new language standards it keeps growing.

Despite ~two decades of experience, I list my skill level with C++ as "intermediate" because "expert" paints a bullseye on your forehead. I could imagine tons of C++ questions that I could not answer off the top of my head. Those probably disqualify me as an expert and would involve a lot of embarrassing backpedaling in an interview.

I wonder how many times my resume was discarded because they needed someone with more than "intermediate" level experience with C++?
The number of affected people is pretty large, but it's also worth remembering that about half of American households have no direct exposure to stock markets: no pension, no 401(k) plan, no direct holdings. If you're trying to prop up the stock market you're only directly benefitting, at most, half the people.
Validation functions are pretty easy to write, as long as your data is being handled in a predictable way.
All private, public K-12 schools in King, Pierce, Snohomish counties to close th
This should result in an immediate extra year of scholarship eligibility for any of the kids effected.
I was a cellebrite certified operator/analyst. The answer is a combination of "The iPhone is that secure" and "Androids usually aren't".

The tools that Cellebrite sells will handle all but the most recent iPhones and maybe the most recent Androids. The newer the iPhone, the less likely a law enforcement officer is gonna have the tools to get into it. Cellebrite offers a service where you can ship them the phone and let their techs go at it. Whether it is because of legitimate limitations in their technology, or purely a marketing/commercial limitation, is unknown.

In general, any non-i{hone is Android. Most Androids are garbage phones that are sold by the dozen in the bottom of a bin at a gas station. Security isn't something its creator or buyer is really concerned about.

I have been out of the field for a few years, so things may have changed slightly in either direction, but I imagine its the same general concept. Newer is harder to break into, brand new iPhone model is probably impossible for now.
>This is laid out clearly in last few sections of Federalist 41.

It doesn't matter what the Federalist papers say, as far as the Constitution is concerned, since the Federalist papers are not a body of law.

The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Powers not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution and also not prohibited by the States are not prohibited by the Constitution. The states can literally, and perfectly legally, vote to grant the government additional powers as they deem necessary, without holding a Constitutional congress and ratifying new amendments each time.
Depends on how much of a discount you want and how fast the rebound will be.
The S&P 500 has now given up 2.5 years of growth. I don't think it will spring within a week of bottoming out
Ditto on Patrick Tull, he's one of my favorite audiobook narrators. I've listened to the series three times. I have this little problem where I just want some comfort listening so put on the first book "for ten minutes" and then can't stop until the end of book 21. It's really one novel in 21 volumes. And then when I still can't get enough, restart Hornblower or Honor Harrington. I wonder if there is a cure for this syndrome. Or a name.
Tidal force is the force that causes an object to stretch in a nonuniform gravitational field. If the object is rotating relative to the field, tidal forces induce dynamic stresses on the object, heating it up and slowing down its rotation (which means something else in the system has to speed up because momentum is conserved).
> The point of the USPTO is to provide a mechanism for carving up the universe of ideas into plots of land where ownership is clear and backed up by the force of the state. You can charge rent on it, you can develop it yourself, you can leave it idle, it’s yours.

The point of patent laws is to encourage the spread of knowledge. To put it another way, it's NOT yours, but we'll let you act like it for a bit in order to make sure the knowledge gets out. If we've created a situation where the "land of ideas" is remaining fallow, then the process isn't working as intended.

> The problem I believe, is that software innovators are taught not to worry about patents

Who's the innovator? What side of the worry?

The software companies I've been in have been all about MAKING patents. Teaching special classes, polling workers to see if they've done anything patentable.

Worrying about violating patents is a different story.

Meanwhile, as an individual coder doing anything outside a corporate market, the message is that it's too expensive and difficult to "worry" about violating them.
Do any companies think they will keep doing remote after COVID?

I have delayed sleep phase disorder (sleep-in late; fixed by camping / sunlight) and live in a van in (roughly) CO, so the perfect job for me is working remote with a team in San Francisco. I currently work in-office with a fairly major start-up.
"Eat yogurt for breakfast and you will be a successful lawyer" is survivorship bias, which I think is fine to call out an ignore.

"Reach out to all of your rich friends and family" is privilege, which I think is also fine to call out but shouldn't completely be ignored. Your individual "privilege" might be from participating in a veteran's group or knowing someone with special needs. Something that puts you in a unique position to address a problem better than others have. Having money is one of the most generic forms of privilege, so offering insight to when and how to best use it is useful.
I would like to see him on lex fridman's podcast