skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing a game or watching a movie feels good — but at the same time, you're living someone elses' dreams. All this dopamine, all this adrenaline will feel so good and make you tired just enough to conveniently forget about your own.
Announcing that will cause a panic the size of which you cannot imagine!
Why catch a falling knife? I am actively shorting S&P to protect my other holdings. SPY is the largest ETF is now hard to borrow which is just crazy to think about.
It's not so shallow, the stock market is still bubbly, these are the prices of mid 2017, when everyone said that the stock market is a bubble...
If we assume that we need 1,000 dollars per month for every adult in the country that means we'd have to increase taxes on "the ultra-high-income" to the tune of [0]209,128,094 * 1000 = $209,128,094,000 per month. Or, $2,509,537,128,000‬ per year.

We're talking about 'giving away' (using the term loosely here) 25% more than the combined market cap of FAANG every other year.

Put another way, that is 76% of annual federal tax revenue at [1]current levels.

No way that's sustainable.

[0]https://www.infoplease.com/us/comprehensive-census-data-stat...

[1.1]https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-federal-government-ta...

[1.2]https://nypost.com/2018/07/12/universal-basic-income-would-c...
That's not a UI toolkit, it is/was a theme for existing UI toolkits.
Could be wrong, but my understanding is that the aircraft industry is supply not demand constrained.
So about 2008? Placing this crash is difficult and will only be clear in hindsight.
In Italy, they've actually banned bike riding as a training activity since you're not supposed to go far from home, and out of an abundance of caution: if you hurt yourself you might be tying up desperately needed medical services, and also going near the hospitals full of COVID-19 patients.

Seems like it'd be a good idea to limit really big, difficult workouts in order to not tire yourself out too much, and probably stay close to home as well.
Since when are Russians responsible for the guys currently in charge of them, is that what you ask? Since around year 2000. The same bastards are elected. Every. Freaking. Time.

Why shouldn't people who collectively, i.e. en masse, support their government by actively disrespecting other country sovereignty and border (e.g. visiting Crimea) shouldn't be hold responsible? I think they should! And it looks like I'm not alone, check out the list of countries who support sanctions against Russian companies and individuals.
As for the damage done to the OSS, I believe it's pretty minimal. He'll just move his stuff to GitLab, end of story.
Great point, all the "big boy" traders who have been raking in profits on put options, VIX volatility, and leveraged inverse etf's eventually will switch their trades to bull.

However, keep in mind, a market down 30% requires a 43% gain to break back even.
What people mean when they say "you can't talk about humans like that" is usually that a.) they don't think it works like that b.) it goes against their personal values when dealing with other people.

And to put in personal observation: the same community and people who tend to talk about about relationships in transnational way, is the community that also constantly deals and writes about loneliness.

The community where people generally think that "this is not ok way to talk about humans", is a community where loneliness is less acute problem. Even if they dont have full fledged philosophy of why it is so and could not win the "who is going to destroy who with arguments" game, it leads them toward strategies and behaviors that make average person less lonely.
It's "wrong" because the stock market doesn't follow a normal distribution but instead a power law.
Why don't the fed just print money, a program could order stuff on amazon and they could deliver it to a land fill (obviously the landfill would have to be automated by robots).

for services they could just automate making bookings with a deposit and not show up. or a little zoomba vacuum thing could show up.

wouldn't be inflationary as cash is being destroyed like mad as we are all replaced by robots, so that won't be a problem.
The folks in Point Roberts are going to have a hard time if the Canadian border is closed to US citizens. If the US does the same, a good number of Vancouver residents will lose access to their US post office boxes. Guess someone will start a ferry between Point Roberts and the rest of Washington.
I think there are more urgent testings the US is currently struggling to introduce. Also, this bill is very explicit about "every American"

Look, There is a reason Romney is backing it - he knows this money will very quickly find its way to high-markup low-value businesses, will not address any structural problems but could be touted as trillion-dollars gift to the common man by the Republicans come November.
I'm pretty sure banks aren't going to start folding. The Fed is ahead of the curve this time (or at least not nearly as far behind it as in 2008). They seem to be pretty serious about doing whatever is needed to keep things from falling apart.
I was under the impression that the money supply can contract since most of it is in the form of debts and asset valuations and not in cash. If my house is worth $1 million but then because of a recession, less people are interested in buying houses and its price goes down to $500k, where did that money go?
They also explicitly talked about going out to walk the dog, go for a hike, etc, as long as you keep your distance. (presumably, not from the person you live with and will get infected by anyway)

I'm not particularly interested in getting in a bike crash and taxing the ER even further, but i'll be avoiding cabin fever for sure.
Your first two paragraphs are severe contradictions. If this is anything like 1929, the bottom will be around 340, after retesting highs from 1987. In that case, 2400 SPX is a bargain sell and still getting out near the top in the scheme of things.

Even if this is only a relatively mild recession like 2000 or 1973, we'll be seeing 1600 - 1700 SPX or at least 30% below today's close.
A book on casualty with no any single hint on mutual information.. hm
I presume that sometimes, it's a new account of someone who has been permanently banned for bad behavior.

Emailing a mod can't hurt, though.
It probably isn't the bottom. That doesn't mean expectation is optimized by waiting.
>I intend to break any sort of mandatory lockdown/curfew, without putting myself or anyone else at risk (e.x. going for a walk in a non-crowded outdoor area)

Going for a walk in a non-crowded area is permitted under the order. See https://sf.gov/stay-home-except-essential-needs :

>It is OK to go outside for walks if you are not in a group.
Yep. I’m nearly the only employee at my job and I’m trying to decide if it makes sense to work from home. The biggest issue is that I would need to go to the gas station every few days if I keep going to work. I’m probably going to pack up the 3D printers and some other stuff and just work from home to avoid unnecessary exposure. My roommate has respiratory issues.
Is the Green Starbucks cup green?
To add further perspective: The S&P is just below where it was in December of 2018. Do you still have the same optimism about the US (and even the world) economy now than you did then?

For me, the answer is a resounding No.
If you're having problems with Stripe, you're probably going to have more problems elsewhere.
In theory yes, in practice I'm not so sure: I've seen state machine implementations which were ten times more code than the few if/else/for loop needed.

Sure you can draw a pretty state machine diagram, but is the code really easier to read and maintain?
I'm not sure.
Many people think the world is rife with real estate bubbles, definitely in china if you don’t think there is a big one in the USA. The stock market rose very quickly with respect to earnings as well, and we’ve had over a decade of very low interest rates world wide, leading to lots of debt both private and public.
If this drop is related to a panic sell off, then it's deeper drop than it needs to be. If you sell now, you might be selling in a panic low and locking in your losses.

If. Make your own decisions.
Well, trade sanctions are a form of collective punishment.
All you gotta do is buy puts and you'll be able to ride a yacht in a few years when this is all over.
Facebook and Instagram are just the two most popular examples but stuff like forums, group chats, reddit, Twitter, tumblr, they're all social media (or social media-adjacent, I guess) and people make friends there all the time. I do think Facebook might be beyond the point of no return but even Instagram has these huge communities of people posting book photos or pets, which is vapid but innocuous and harmless, at the very least.
> Stock market crashes absolutely destroy money by any reasonable definition of the money supply.

Mind sharing that definition? I don't see that quite squaring with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Empirical_measure...
Oh, seems I posted in 'wrong' thread, as request was for originally for this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593168

Anyway, your project also is great! ;)
the person you live with

I wonder how this crisis and lockdown will affect dating and future birth rates.
Stay home except for essential needs
Yeah exactly.. people are saying it's the low today? Yeah good luck timing that.

Maybe they are right.. but like you just said- these are prices just a couple years ago. The modern world has never seen what is going on, and the economic impacts are almost unfathomable.

Claiming we are near a bottom just because it's dropped a lot is naive.
Feature request: add date/time as text string at the top of output table table:

$ curl https://corona-stats.online/
Last updated: Monday (March 16, 2020) 19:00 GMT (UTC+0)
╔═════╤═══════════════════════════════════════╤═══════════╤═══════════╤════════╤════════╤═════════════╤═════════════╤══════════╤══════════╗
║ │ Country │ Confirmed │ Recovered │ Deaths │ Active │ Mortality % │ Recovered % │ 1 Day ▲ │ 1 Week ▲ ║
╟─────┼───────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼────────┼────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼──────────╢
║ │ World │ 167,449 │ 76,034 │ 6,440 │ 84,975 │ 3.85 │ 45.41 │ 11,352 ▲ │ 57,654 ▲ ║
╟─────┼───────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼────────┼────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼──────────┼──────────╢
Also:
NYSE Composite (-11.84%) https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ENYA?p=^NYA&.tsrc=fin-srch
Finishing an entire album is a great achievement. Even with the tremendous improvements and price reductions in modern home-recording equipment there is still numerous hours of effort required. It is a marathon like effort and anyone who completes it should feel proud.
More like, generally follow it, and don't be an asshole, so that you get the benefit of the doubt when you choose to break it for a good reason.
How do you keep a space station clean?
Website Development Tool
Paddle don't list their prices.
My rule of thumbs is: If SW companies don't list their prices it's probably too expensive for me. This proves correct for me more often than not, so I'm not going to stick in an email address to find out. Can anyone share indicative pricing for paddle?
What if 90% [n.b.: this is not a real statistic but I do believe 97% of deaths are in people older than 60] of the deaths were of people older than 70 with pre-existing conditions?
This is only the first round.

The second round will be over-leveraged investments being uncovered, as any leverage they had in stocks evaporates.

Given that the over-leveraged loan situation was out of control during the 2008 GFC, and nothing structural was done to change behavior, it's extremely likely we're going to see some secondary changes.
Practice significantly complicates theory here.

A price crash that forces a bunch of miners off the network means that, not only is a 51% attack cheaper, but the spare capacity to launch one exists, and is just sitting there unused, losing money.

A volatile combination.
> Passive voice is easy to spot.

A whole list of evidence to the contrary:

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/grammar/passives.html#passivepostlis...

For example:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1504

> "On religious tolerance, he gently referenced the Christians of Lebanon and Egypt, then lamented that the 'divisions between Sunni and Shia have led to tragic violence' (note the use of the passive voice)."

The only way that statement is in the "passive voice" is if you want to ding the speaker for not blaming someone specific; that is, it's only in the passive voice in the political sense. Grammatically, it's in the active voice.

Here's a piece on what the passive voice is:

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922
'A disaster': Airbnb hosts blast decision to refund guests amid coronavirus
So only connect with people who think like me... where's the fun in that?
> If a vaccine is found and is effective, likely the market will calm down and hit the bottom.

Realistic timeline for this seems months.
You really think that 50% of the population is the high end???

Per https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... it seems that the basic reproduction number is over 2. Which means that herd immunity only sets in if under 1/3 of the population is vulnerable. Which means over 200 million Americans get it.

The alternatives are permanent lifestyle changes, or a successful eradication of the disease worldwide.
Most of the SP500 movements come from small number of companies too.

Dow Jones is bad index but the narrow number of companies is not the worst part. DJIA is price-weighted index which is completely arbitrary and there is no reason for that. They can't add Berkshire Hathaway into the index without completely changing the rules. BRK-A price is so high. Index would track only BRK-A after that.
Until you have 5 electron apps open taking 12 GB of RAM and half the power your 6 core CPU. The benefit of using an OS native library is that (ideally) memory can be shared between processes via various behind-the-scenes mechanisms (shared DLL memory, graphics caches, etc).
React app is a native app. JS performance is ~the same in UI part - just declare what you want to display and native part will do the rest. It is much much easier to write slow AppKit code than RN one. Actually it is really hard to achieve decent performance with AppKit.
They may end up doing that to prevent a collapse. They also ban short selling sometimes even if the stock market is kept open.
Here in UK it seems fine. It's 9pm here and I just placed an order for delivery tomorrow.
That would cause severe pressure on other financial institutions and invoke immense panic.
And pulling a package from a custom url is what, one line of code in this package documentation? And the moment it happens, this package will be on top of HN?

I understand the concern about MS business practices, but I don't think it applies to environment where transactions (as in, importing someone's package or submitting a pull request to it) don't involve any contracts or money.
I already do flash mine at drivers who leave theirs on.
I moved $100K to cash on Friday.
I should've been more aggressive.
What's your plan for pooping without flushing toilets?
The point isn't that they're valid words (you're right, they are), but that they're not commonly used words, and thus come across as formal and somewhat show-off-y. More people will understand a simple, commonly used word than will understand a more complex, less commonly used one, even if it's an exact synonym.

The people who write for governmental agencies tend to be highly educated people, and highly educated people have a bad habit of thinking that if they aren't constantly demonstrating how highly educated they are, someone will come along and take all their certificates away. So they lard their prose down with ten-dollar words, which makes sure that the only thing their readers will come away with is a sense of just how smart they are. (Or think they are, anyway.)

For a writer, the road to hell is paved with thesaurus pages. Use simple words, and anyone with basic literacy will be able to understand you.
PSA: The Dow Jones is a very good proxy for the stock market as a whole. If it were not people would have stopped paying attention to it years ago.
But what if I need money for food and rent but my emergency fund runs out? If I own stock but cannot sell it that would be a bad thing, right?
It sure would be ironic if the Trump Administration is the one that gets credit in the history books for passing the first large-scale UBI.
How Your Airbnb Host Is Feeling the Pain of the Coronavirus
Stressful times for temporary skilled foreign workers in Canada & international students on study permits.

Foreign worker visa extension delays and loss of work visa status will happen. Also those who applied for permanent residency while working in Canada are going to see long wait times.

Chrystia Freeland diplomatically dodged questions concerning the work permit holders & international students in Canada when asked by a reporter.
But since Windows 8 they've stuck with essentially the same XAML framework (albeit under different names - Metro/UWP/WinUI). So they've been reasonably consistent for the last 8 years at least.
That is opposite of what you should do. You would just be locking in losses (or greatly reduced profits). As long as you are reasonably sure you can hold your stocks for a few years then just hold on to them. Or better yet, go on buying spree and get cheap stocks.
Scientists learn awful lot without checking from books, articles and talks. Each scientist tests and verifies only tiny little part of he or she considers science. And they typically assume that non cutting edge parts are correct, unless there is very strong reason to doubt that.

It does cause too much inertia in some cases and it can be hard to overturn old theories, but it also makes science overall possible.
what do you mean by "stays cutting edge"? do you expect existing code to get UI update for free? I would love to have that natively, but I'm not sure how realistic it is.

I work on an application that targets both windows and mac. we have windows UI code that was written ten years ago that still works and looks more or less okay. on the other hand, every year we have to deal with breaking changes and new bugs from framework updates on the mac side.
I said I wouldn't be surprised, not I think they will.

For reference, I work at a bank. The opinion is my own. The problem has to do with a run on the bank.

All banks are currently reporting negative earnings. Most banks rely on credit, and revenue from said credit. If that breaks down (because people can’t pay). They collapse.

I think the fed can bail them out. I also think that requires printing money so inflation will be high.
> When margins are squeezed only the largest vertically integrated players survive.

And yet, that's not what happened when it forked Bitmain (who may have had 70-80% of Bitcoin's hashing power at one point) was the one to take the hardest hit and essentially folded; its founder was exited and disgraced, and the company was pivoted to what seems to be primarily an AI business now [2] after that utter failure to 'prove' what you have said is accepted as 'Truth' when its not simply true when it played out in this space.

I think what many, especially those not actively working or participating in this space, seem to not understand is that Bitcoin, and to some extent cryptocurrency in general, is defying the supposed 'conventional wisdom' by just exisiting and then disproving them with these occurences.

Most of the criticisms are cherry-picked and mis-focused to react to it in a negative light--eg the ICO craze had nothing to do with Bitcoin.

After all this time I don't see any of those price drops as bad, its allowing newer participants to into this system if seen as investment, that they otherwise may have not been able to enter. And for those that were using to transact for goods/services during this volatility it may have hurt, but as someone pointed out merchant adoption is not so large that it could kill a business right now, not to mention there are ways to mitigate this with other instruments (tethered to USD and such).

Also, the thing most people don't seem to understand either is that Bitcoin mining has spurred on tons of renewable energy projects and has since migrated to that to capture said efficiencies [3] as documented by the International Energy Agency. The network is estimated to be operating on 70% renewable energy, and is growing with projects like Theil's backed bitcoin mining facility in Texas [4].

1: https://www.ccn.com/bitmain-jihan-wu-micree-zhan-stepping-do...

2: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-mining-giant-bitmain-...

3: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/bitcoin-energy-use-mined-th...

4: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/bitcoin-energy-use-mined-th...
The Founder’s Survival Guide in the Time of Covid-19
Disney's brand is a huge driver in the value of the company, and each of Disney's parts would lose a huge chunk of value if separated from the brand.

These sorts of liquidations aren't going to make economic sense for a massively successful brand and corporation
I don't think you need to physically move the headlights down in most cases; just point them downward a bit.
Please return to this post in a few weeks and question what led you to be so wrong.

It's sort of like when South Carolina became the last state to get rid of a law requiring all cocktails to be poured out of mini liquor bottles. There was much pearl-grasping about "what if the bars rip off their customers," and "what if bars pour too much alcohol and road DUI deaths shoot way up?"

When, instead of coming with implausible or unlikely theories, you could just look at what is happening in other places and act accordingly.
A few weeks ago this distributed systems course from MIT was posted on hacker news [1].

[1]: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
I think focusing on 1, 10 or 100 people double dipping or potentially getting funds they should not have is besides the point. We implement this to keep people from starving and going hungry. Plenty of time to track down people who abuse the system after the crisis. As far as distribution that's not an impediment. The IRS already has a list of people and addresses and we can mail them a check. Is it complete? who knows but its a start and probably covers 95% of people. Not doing anything because of bleeding edge cases is not a solution.

The existing systems you mentioned before are not setup for mass distribution. There is no way the local unemployment office can scale up to 100x. In addition we are not going to just give money to the other private entities to distribute as they are not equipped to do so.
I've had a bottle of hand sanitizer in my bag for years and they've never once said anything. Either their security is so bad they've never caught it, or they've always been lax about sanitizer.
For me, 'performing' meant going above and beyond at social events to be the person with a witty one-liner or good observational humour.

It felt fine initially and I enjoyed the positive attention, but eventually it became a chore. No one is funny 100% of the time, and when I started thinking more about "How can i get a laugh from these people next time", that's a sign that I need to re-evaluate what I get out of this relationship.

The feeling should be "I'd like to hang out with these people with no expectations from them or from me" but that's not always there unless you have a specific level of comfort with those people.
I think in practice this will be a warning or civil infraction unless you make a bad impression on the cop since that is basically how every other crime where the officer had the discretion to choose between civil/criminal goes.
This URL is receiving attention because it was shared by Elon Musk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947

(A reminder that Musk is not an expert on virology.)