skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ascent of Money is indispensable as a foundation for the whys and hows of banking from it's origins and first principles. It's a history book.

Anything technical (mathematical finance) is really not going to provide a foundation without the historical why of the instruments creation and use. One you have that, the most efficient way to understand it after would be with Quantlib (https://www.quantlib.org/docs.shtml)

There is a lot of middle brow commentary (krugman, piketty, reinhard/rogoff, dalio, taleb, etc) that will be entertaining and philosophical, but only that. The guts of economics (Keynes, Galbraith, Mises/Hayek) are very dense, and provide a very narrow, depth first plunge into something you won't be able to apply well without a more complete education.

Functional grasp of (re)insurance, securitization, liquidity, and the bond/debt markets is the best royal road, I"d say.
I studied economics in college, then I worked for a few years as a business journalist before I finally switched careers to IT systems engineering. The following is a list of my favorite books on financial securities, banking and investment theory. These books are generally comprehensible to anyone with an interest in the subject, regardless of their educational background.

Arrighi, Giovanni (1994) The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Brealey, Myers, Allen (2011) Principles of Corporate Finance, 10th ed.

Bruck, Connie (1988) Predators' Ball: Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and Rise of Junk Bond Raiders

Fisher, Philip (2003) Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings, 2nd ed.

Fridson, Martin and Fernando Alvarez (2002) Financial Statement Analysis, 3rd ed.

Graham, Benjamin, J. Zweig, D. Dodd (2006/08) Intelligent Investor, rev ed; Security Analysis, 6th ed.

Greenblatt, Joel (1999) You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, Biema (2001) Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

Henwood, Doug (1997) Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom

Levitt, Arthur (2003) Take on the Street: How to Fight for Your Financial Future

Lewis, Michael (2010/1989) Big Short; Liar's Poker

Lynch, Peter and John Rothchild (2000) One Up on Wall Street, 2nd ed.

Mishkin, Frederic (2004) Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 7th ed.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (2005/10) Fooled by Randomness, 2nd ed.; Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2nd ed.

Vilar, Pierre (1976) A History of Gold and Money: 1450-1920

Tracy, John A. (2009) How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs out of the Numbers, 7th ed.
First, the feds should not limit the freedom of movement of a human person even if said human person does not own or rent a house. One of the messed up things about being homeless (I was for several years) is people thinking of you and treating you like some other kind of creature, less than fully human. SF is doing it right now by making a special "homeless card" complete with computer-aided bureaucracy to manage the permanent underclass more efficiently. There's a tech company implementing it for them. <Snark omitted> To me it's so weird that a city that really is kind and caring will mess up on implementation.

Second, let's say that SF's $250B homeless policies work, meaning people get their lives together, get off the drugs or into a place where they can cope w/ their mental|emotional|physical problems or whatever it is that messed them up in the first place (and a lot of people just need a home, as they are perfectly normal and capable but e.g. some debt or a death in the family or something threw them for a loop and now they're stuck living in their car or the park or something and it's hard to get back on your feet w/o a support network, etc.)

Let's say it works, and more homeless people do move here to take advantage of it. That is a good thing. God forbid ol' San Francisco should become a continent-wide renovation center for human lives, eh?
I guess connection IDs are that large to allow the use of stateless cryptographic identifiers similar to tcp syn cookies. And stream IDs are assigned sequentially and variable length encoded, so they shouldn't take up much space most of the time.
Tell me yours and I’ll tell you mine? Old wives tales usually have some science behind them that hasn’t been tested yet. No one is saying they have the magic cure-all.

I make a mixture of turmeric, horseradish, ginger, garlic, habanero, hot onion, and apple cider vinegar. Chop finely or blend and let steep and ferment for as long as you want. Doesn’t go bad. I take shots of it when sick. Actually really good to put in stir fry and stews too.

All of those ingredients have proven health benefits. Doesn’t replace antibiotics or medical treatment but can’t hurt. I’ve noticed it reduces the time I’m sick.
Make it like a turtle shell, hooked up to something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_woofer

That lets you use both positive and negative pressure. You could even support fast pulses for clearing out gunk from the lungs.
Is there a significant amount of testing going on in Austria, compared to other countries? I'm suprised that you mention these people were tested without symptoms.
How is Tyler Cowen's textbook? I figured that'd be better.
Sure, but they were parallel requests in the first place, so in terms of wall time you're still only taking the latency hit once. And if they're larger in aggregate than the connection's BDP some of them would only have finished by the time that it has recovered from the loss anyway.

So... it's complicated. I'm not saying that HoL is a non-issue and that TCP is perfect. It's just that you're not eating the latency penalty N times and for anything that is dominated by throughput rather than latency it's even less relevant.
Of course our currently attention model is poorly developed, because the companies developing it are literally competing for your attention. Capturing attention translates directly into money or power for them. To realize your vision, we need FOSS-based models where the software serves the user, rather than exploits her.
On mobile Safari, the mic & camera permissions pop up, but after clicking Join Room the page goes blank. Any ideas? It works perfectly using Desktop Chrome.
Yeah, keep in mind that the output is a fully-fledged object, it is not the text you see. The text is generated by the PowerShell host if the returned object makes it back there and the host is set up to present that object to the user that way.

Take the following in PowerShell:

ls | sort DateTime -d

ls returns an array of objects, sort then sorts the array by each object’s DateTime field (and here I’m asking it to sort in descending order with -d). The point is that sort isn’t depending on any text output, so it works with any array of objects regardless of the command that returned them.

The other cool thing this enables is auto-complete awareness in the shell. If I typed:

ls | sort <Tab>

then the shell knows what makes sense in auto-completion here as ls has an actual return type and in this case it will give me a list of available fields that I can sort on.

For those unfamiliar: ls and sort here are shortened aliases to more wordy verb-noun commands. These (as well as a large bunch of others) are given to you by default.
>Do you know how many 'broadband' customers you can get out of a 1000/1000 strand of fiber?

Yes I do know a bit about GPON, but my comment was referring to wireless. Where Data Cap is common, I see no reason why wired internet on fibre should have Data Cap, when terabytes is referred to was not that much at all.
Here is an interview with one of the first patients in Germany: https://www.br.de/radio/bayern1/coronavirus-in-bayern-100.ht...

The interview is in German but maybe Google Translate can help. His symptoms however have been very mild.
My best wishes for your family, i hope they don't experience any worse symptoms! Just out of curiosity, how long is it since they have been tested positive?
I hope you can update this this in 5 days, 10 days, and 15 days so we can see if/when symptoms change or appear.
Thats 99% profit chucklehead.
I do think that logging is indeed a serious business and should be the subject of more serious study, including the formatting and timing, what to write, how to analyze, etc. Sadly, the article haven't even scratched its surface.
Bagging is hard to do for extended periods.
Even if it's only flu people should try and avoid spreading it around at the moment.
> We didn't know why they worked so I agree it's hard to call them science.

Science doesn't always tell us why something works, but it may tell us "whether". The theory of whether something works is much easier to understand and test than the theory of why or how.

It may not be rigorous science with good experimental design, that's all.
And how long ago, or what day, were they tested?
Not just in the US. In most countries tests are extremely limited so they screen out massively.
Elsewhere in this thread posters are talking about users losing their "life's savings", but you're right perhaps they weren't investing. Maybe they just wanted to park money someplace they viewed as safer than a traditional savings account or treasury bonds.
NHS Doctor Gives Reasons to Be Optimistic About Coronavirus
I read somewhere the rate of colds and flu has fallen in Hong Kong.
> ie you cough since your throat is sore and irritated

The cough is probably because of lung issues. Apparently sore throat is only a symptom in 1/6th of cases but the dry cough is present in 2/3rd. There's also sputum in 1/3rd of cases, that's lungs / trachea mucus.
Can you please elaborate? Are you referring to the F@H CPU "cores" being outdated and inefficient?
There is a manufacturer of emergency ventilators. Why they aren't working triple shifts to make millions is beyond me.
Those two tables contradict each other. The first says runny nose is not a symptom of COVID-19, the other says "sometimes".

This just shows how little we know (and/or how much misinformation there is about it), and that a differential diagnosis based on symptoms is basically impossible (at least for a non-expert).
> If someone saw it coming, and acted early, there would be no pandemic and the action would have been seen as an overreaction.

I admire your optimism, but I don't share it. Many are right now (and have been for decennia) foreseeing catastrophic effects of climate change (floodings, mass migration, disruption of ecosystems) and yet we fail to act. Health experts have apparently warned for years that we're not prepared for a pandemic (I believe they recently discussed this in NYT Daily https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/podcasts/the-daily/corona...). An additional problem is, like the other commenter points out, that many people see many crises coming all the time and there's no objective way to tell who's right and who isn't.
It’s so hard to dislike Apple when they do things like this, AND seem to (somewhat) give a damn about privacy.
I think this is the ideal scenario for Ansible— one-time configuration of throwaway environments, basically as a more hygenic and structured alternative to shell scripts.

My experience trying to manage longer lived systems like robot computers over time with Ansible has been that it quickly becomes a nightmare as your playbook grows cruft to try to account for the various states the target may be coming from.
I know people that work on that end of things, and honestly the majority seem to be well meaning people who are trying to do the right thing and not be mean spirited in their pursuit of convictions. Of course that doesn't mean they're perfect, but in (my admittedly not comprehensively systematic experience) the majority are not malicious. But it only takes, say, 10% to paint the whole group that way. Same with judges. The extremes get publicity, but I am close with a few lawyers who tell me the judges they deal with are fully capable of exercising compassion when it comes to dealing with individual circumstances.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3023118/
And it takes 3-5 days for CDC results to come back. My whole family is in isolation due to potential exposure while we wait to find out if the sick person has cov-19.
One Finnish entrepreneur describes his so far mild infection: https://perjantaikokki.fi/2020/03/14/greetings-from-a-corona...
A Godot reimplementation of SuperTux
Sky News ran an interview with a woman in London diagnosed with Covid-19: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-london-woman-who-caug... It doesn't seem like something that can really be spotted based on the symptoms, which is probably why it's so hard to contain.
I just wanted to chime in and say that this is incredibly inspiring and I hope it takes off.
does it have to be illegal to be bad?
Wonder why log analyzing companies worth billions? And the ones who done it right 10x above amount?

Because real world is hard to change and everyone and their cat will continue to do logging in their own bad ways and won’t change that and logging is important for everyone.

DO LOG.

Deal with it.
> The panic buying of items like toilet roll + pasta in places the virus hasn't even taken hold yet is a stark reminder of how utterly selfish some people can be.

I disagree… "before the virus has even taken hold" is the perfect time to do long-term shopping. Avoiding crowded areas (read: THE MALL and the public transports to get to the mall) is key to reducing infection.

Yes, hand sanitizer/face mask markets are ridiculous right now, but that's to be expected. It's not people being selfish, there's clearly genuine needs for it. When there's a fuckton of needs and not enough being produced… how is it people being selfish that you can't find hand sanitizer at a decent price? All those have been bought.
Gmail does?
Of course it will in time spread. By having a quarantine right now, that time would be shorter, not longer. That’s the point being made.
I'm talking about the Viewer message system. There's a "coarse-grained view" on pg. 46 of https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.p...
On a page about usability, which explicitly talks about text contrast and similar layout issues, their box about cookies has the same background, apparently the same font, and overlaps the main text with no obvious separation of concerns.

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/UX_Failure_teamsuccess.png

And the site is the now-to-be-expected difficult-to-read dark grey on light grey.

Nice sentiments, noble and worthy objectives. I just wish the page were more readable, accessible, and adhered to its own guidelines.

</rant>
These are the victory gardens of our new home front.
What if it's systems programming or HW design?
‘I was stupidly overconfident’: a South Korean coronavirus survivor’s tale

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/30...
In retrospect I think three things could have been handled better. Screening for fever at airports and clearer rules for self quarantining of people after traveling. Third point is control of medical and hygienic supply chains.

Otherwise okish response I would say. Also no indication for dow playing. Maybe a bit reluctant with shut downs of Carnevale, clubs and ski vacationing
Re the operations & fulfillment side, here is an example of volunteer sign-up via Google forms. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G5JcyxmywcTdNeaSGxUNycl9...
Are we supposed to have sympathy for a war profiteer
In many cases testing shouldn't actually change the result, either. Suspected patients need to self-isolate, regardless of whether they actually are positive or not. Being positive doesn't necessarily require additional treatment and anyone who is sick enough to need hospitalization will need it whether they are positive or not. The main benefits I see of wider testing are a) better handle on spread of virus, b) despite the above, knowing one is positive could make the patient take self-isolation more seriously ("oh it's just a cold, I'll continue as normal" doesn't bode well).

I don't see much point in using limited resources just to satisfy the curiosity of people who are able to isolate themselves and recover unaided. In fact I had something with COVID-19 symptoms a week ago and I am certainly curious to know if I did have it or not. But I have since recovered and nobody I was with (so far) is sick so there's not a lot to gain by me being tested.
"An open label, noncomparative clinical study" from the Indian Journal of Pharmacology isn't doing much to disprove my point.
‘I was stupidly overconfident’: a South Korean coronavirus survivor’s tale
At least in Javaland, the "should I log" condition test for most logging libraries takes nanoseconds. Unless you're in an extremely tight loop, performance is fine.
> This will be a wonderful source of pre-processed nuclear material. No way any of that would ever go missing in the field. Or get hit with a shell and spread all over.

FYI depleted uranium projectiles are already used in the "field". The problem is that nobody talks about them and the effect on the environment.
Trump deliberately sabotaged efforts to protect the American public at almost every step along the way. He fired the team tracking pandemics and tried to gut their budget, and when the virus broke out he stopped the implementation of large scale testing in order to reduce the numbers of people who tested positive, and forbade use of the UN tests. This past week his CDC has completed 77 tests, as compared to Obama, who had completed one million tests in the month after H1N1. He’s also classified information regarding the disease in order to hamper the spread of vital information, and has actively lied and shifted blame regarding the availability of testing, the timeline to a vaccine, and even the efforts of private companies.
Acknowledging that he is the single worst person to lead America through the crisis isn’t partisan, it’s objectively considering reality.
Corporate Finance - Stephen Ross
git works well for coordinating important changes in a codebase but it's awful for quick ad-hoc changes like these most of these tasks
I use Ansible, mostly because it works pretty well for deployments (on traditional, non-dockerized applications), and then I can just gradually put more configuration under management.

So it's a very good tool to gradually get a legacy system under configuration management and thus source control.
Your comment about not being older than 60 to get tested made me so angry and shows how fucked the US is. Testing has nothing to do with protecting you (the current treatment for Covid-19 is the same as any other severe respiratory illness), it's about deciding who needs to be quarantined and have their contacts tracked to protect other people. While the severity of symptoms varies by age, the transmissibility does not.

The numbers are many multiples of what is being reported.
My product which I want to share with you
I'll bite... what about the Sega Saturn's blitter?
I used to use Puppet back when they were ruby based. I dropped them once they switched to Java, not interested in pushing Java onto every host when it's not in our stack.

It's still good in Enterprise land where taking the time to work out the declarative style and dependency chains is worth it (and you have the people to put on it and the CAB process to review infrastructure changes). For a small to mid sized company I find it gets in the way of iterating fast. I spent waaaay too much time there either fighting the tooling or having to work out dependency chains. Redhat and I-think-AWS-but-I-might-be-thinking-of-Chef also have tooling in this space.

I'll take Chef or Ansible's imperative approach in the environments I work in any day (Mostly ansible playbooks for baking hosts only, I've never been entirely comfortable with having one Ansible Tower/Chef Server/Puppetmaster/etc be authoritative over everything, too large a failure pattern if security controls fail). But again, I'm working in many younger small environments and not large mature ones.

Most of this is also irrelevant for us as we're all in on Docker/ECS for anything new. Config management plays a limited role there over having your tasks/services checked into the individual repos.
Please try to understand where i am coming from. I live in China and i am concerned that our political elite, who just six weeks ago were being widely blamed for causing this outbreak, have silenced all dissent and are now pushing a new narrative that paints themselves as the heroes.

Perhaps the propaganda has not been as successful overseas, but here in China it is gaining legs. Having a proud party member donate gifts to foreign countries is very much a part of changing the narrative on this crisis. The government here is allowing the conspiracy theory to spread that the origins of the virus were foreign, and that it was all just a stroke of bad luck that Wuhan got hit first. But - never fear - Xi Jinping rode in to save the day! This is an extremely damaging take on what happened. Whether you support the one-party state or not, it bodes poorly for the future of China to have leaders who cannot accept responsibility for their mistakes.

The CPC had the opportunity to learn from SARS, and it appears they did not. They now have an opportunity to learn from COVID-19, but if the story is twisted in such a way that people only remember the great success of Xi and the great magnanimity of people like Jack Ma, then that will not happen.
One could argue that science is about falsifying hypothesis - and terby narrowing in on not just if something works, but how.

But an important part of that process is trying to determine if something works or not.

I'd say doing that well is difficult without at least some theory and hypothesis of how - because of the need to determine significant factors.

To take a silly example, you could take a group of diarrhea patients and serve some copious amounts of green tea, and another group a limited amount of water; you'd probably observere severe dehydration in the group that is served water. But it does not follow that green tea is better than water for treating diarrhea - sufficient hydration is.
Jesus fuck I’d stay away from anything that man writes. Honestly my advice is not to bother with academic macro at all. Or if you must, read it like a scientist. Demand evidence for every statement. Ask how one would actually measure whatever quantity is in question (e.g. a supply curve, when most of the time only price is observable).

There are a few financial journos that I have time for though. Matt Levine is good, though he has a particular domain of expertise and tends not to stray from it. Michael Pettis is good on all things China. But as others in the thread have also noted, the industry is so full of bullshit that it’s hard to separate the good from the bad.
I think the issue is that people are using DAI to leverage what is an "investment" (or gambling, depending on your perspective) in ETH. But this isn't a failing of DAI. DAI merely allows you to leverage an existing position in ETH into a higher risk / higher reward investment, the DeFi way. This is only one of DAI's use-cases.

That's probably not a good idea given how risky ETH is on its own, but again, it is not a unique failing of DAI when people use it in very risky ways. For example, you could take out a personal loan to achieve the same level of financial irresponsibility (as many people did when they used their student loans or whatever to buy crypto).
A lung CT can be done at about 1/5th the radiation dose of a chest CT. The future will decide if we took the correct risk with extremely limited testing in the early stages.

In my experience, “not my job” , “too much risk”, and “need more data to make a decision“ is the default attitude in the medical profession. People choose that career because it is safe, and very few doctors have military experience these days. That being said, people adjust to a new reality very quickly.
Lazarus is a lot closer to Delphi though.