skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graham, Buffett, Soros – sure, ok, although I doubt they're giving away the keys to the kingdom in their books. Buffet himself is notorious for saying that great ideas are proprietary and not to be shared. In the investment world, in stark contrast to the tech community, ideas are as valuable as execution. Even in VC proprietary dealflow is considered to be valuable.

There is actually some controversy as to how much money Taleb made from trading and portfolio management as opposed to writing.
Maybe don't read one parenthetical statement, assume it has any bearing on my argument, ignore the rest of what I wrote, and treat me like I don't know anything. That's just rude. I bought the damn thing specifically to manage a fleet of ~350 Macs. I know what it is.
Even when it lands on me?
> Also, the stock market becoming cheaper actually reduces inequality since it allows new savers to get in at a lower price. And the same thing for housing.

It increases inequality: people lose their jobs, people can't pay their rents, people can't pay their mortgages.

Most people can't put money in stocks and work paycheck to paycheck. Those people are going to get hit the hardest.

When the stock market is doing the best ever, these people aren't benefiting, but when the stock market crashes, these people have the most to lose.

It's exactly why our economy shouldn't be tied to the whims of the stock market.
That sounds reasonable to me, much better than what we have today. If you're not trusting your employees or practices to follow the law, you should either be improving that situation so you do trust them, or not operate a business.

Right now, working in a white-collar job, there is no fear of punishment, which is why we're seeing so many companies and executives skipping the law. Or they make a cost-profit equation, and figures out that the fine is worth the profits the crime would pay.

Edit: actually, the more I read and try to understand your point of view, the more I'm afraid of your position. You're already worried that your colleagues might be "doing something terribly wrong behind [your] back", but you're all fine with that, as long as you don't get punished? Isn't "I am responsible" one of the justification executives use for their high salary? The whole point of being the manager of others is to take responsibility over them. Sounds like you don't want that.
Iran Launched App to Diagnose Covid-19 but Instead App Collected Location Data
> - The news everyone wants now is fiscal stimulus

Market-clueless newbie here. How would fiscal stimulus help a market that is seizing up due to reducing supply side (factories close) and reducing demand side (pubs to be closed, airlines crashing because of border closures, & more) and a disease that is likely to stress many countries medical provisions to breaking point, and then beyond.

Didn't the US dump 1.5 trillion dollars in a few days ago, and the market bounced but briefly? I mean it was obvious to me that it wouldn't work, why do you (as an expert - and I don't mean that sarcastically) think more stimulus, or indeed any, would help at this point?
It dipped last week, but popped back up from refi surge. I'm thinking to give a few weeks to settle. Hoping to see 3.0
This may get downvoted, but I think the following judgement-free statement is true: this is starting to look scary/serious /solely/ because of the measures the governments are taking, and the media circus around it. Otherwise (while it would have almost certainly "started to look serious" eventually, probably for a short time), at this point, you would not have even noticed given the actual numbers.
Well those circuit breakers are the same thing communist governments used to do with the Berlin Wall, etc.
It is just that this time it is the investors and not the citizens who are banned from abandoning ship.

And as the entire stock market is based on trusth, the long-term and even mid-term results are horrendous and totally not worth it.
That's a reasonable argument then, and now I appreciate the metaphor.

If one is interested in the technical details of implementation for technical reasons, I would agree that a brilliant and interesting engineer wouldn't necessarily be in line to profit from their value creation although would be available to discuss mechanics of implementation.
Andrew Yang has been pushing for this kind of "trickle-up" economics for awhile now with his UBI platform.
Thanks! you too.
Ganeti is a virtual machine cluster management tool for Xen/KVM
You might have a point if people were simply pointing out facts instead of slamming enemies and pouring on the snark.

Even then, though, years of this job have taught me that everyone overestimates the overlap between their views and the pure truth, and that this effect grows, I would even say exponentially, with the intensity of one's commitment to a topic. To contribute well to a thoughtful discussion, each of us needs to take this effect into account and find some way to compensate for it.
Snap! is explicitly based on Scratch and started out as a fork, BYOB. Snap! was rewritten from the ground up. Snap!'s motto is "First class everything," and taking inspiration from Scheme, it supports first-class lists, first-class functions, and other types of data. Snap! had user-defined functions before Scratch added them, and unlike in Scratch, user-defined functions can return values in Snap!. Snap! also supports script-local variables.
One might call this a universal basic virus income.
They'd still be buying things.
Texas has been doing something similar for a while, it's really pretty when things are in bloom.

- https://www.wildflower.org/project/ecological-roadsides

- https://www.wildflower.org/plants-main

- https://texashighways.com/culture/people/a-runner-reflects-o...

- https://texashighways.com/wildflowers/
A single ventilator for multiple simulated patients to meet disaster surge
I love this story. I don’t see why they need to reinvent the wheel with the sucking machine and taking the clippings to an anaerobic digestion facility though. A method for removing clippings and doing something useful with them has been around for centuries, it is called baling hay.
The 1.5T wasn’t fiscal stimulus, just cheap loans.
I'm not sure it was premature given it happened a week after China quarantined Wuhan.
which no or both no?
More spreading means more survival. A virus that we could reasonably live with would have more surviving copies than this one.
It's definitely at an advantage over systems like the US, but the NHS is far more federalised under the hood than you might imagine and there are lots of countries where the government or other regulators can take control of private healthcare when needed so it's not as much of an advantage as you might think.
> Stock prices are supposed to include estimates of all futures earnings of a company, discounted for distance in the future, right?

Keep in mind that these future earnings for a given company might also be "zero forever", if the company goes bankrupt. That is, for each company, there are two main scenarios: the company recovers together with the rest of the economy, or the company goes under. If the probability of the later scenario increases, the stock price should decrease to match.

And there's also the second-order effect that this probability of going "zero forever" becomes harder to calculate in these times of high uncertainty, which makes holding stock of the company riskier, so those with less tolerance for risk sell the stock.
I think one cool feature Medium can introduce is enterprise permissioning. If you have an enterprise plan and pay Medium oodles of money, you should maintain your own permissioning control and who sees your articles while still having access to the Medium social network. Best of both worlds.
I guess the implication that the US military and also non discretionary fund won't be reduced based on the last 50 years of data is probably a status quo bet.
:)

Any estimate? Well... WASP was apparently a turbofan, and thus likely quieter than these small turbines - less high-frequency noise from shear. Quick googling turns up [1], which has a CJR900 small airliner as 78 SEL dBA @ 400 ft @ low 1k lb taxi thrust. So perhaps take that as a low bound. And [2] suggests an upper bound of 120 db at 9 ft for one of those small turbines. So...?

I was going to say "No idea, sorry", but when encouraging estimation and rough quantitative reasoning, I argue that one should never say "no idea", because its almost always untrue - one can almost always get some bounds. And surprisingly often, they are satisficingly narrow. Though perhaps not these.

One notable thought from [2] was the high-frequency noise attenuates rapidly with distance.

[1] https://www.nap.edu/read/22606/chapter/6#19
[2] https://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-jets-120/9317226-need-de...
Read a paper: The VM that powers Amazon's Lambda
An extremely large saber-tooth cat skull from Uruguay: body size implications
This takes a different approach than the Ampere 1T/C, but interestingly feels like a PR reaction to Ampere taking some of the limelight for now.
The only intentional use. However when writing generic code you often have code lines that after several levels of code inline reduce to that example.
Author completely lost me at "I'm gonna keep her" … the ability to type that sentence out into the public domain. #smh
An unfortunate truth that not many like to acknowledge. An untested military is much like an untested backup tape or emergency generator for a datacenter. Is it going to do what you need it to do when you need it...?
I think (hope) he means: help the people directly affected, like bartenders, who are going to not be working real soon.
Not sure with all brokers, but I have seen some agreements where you do agree to let someone borrow your stocks (somewhere in the fine print), for interest, just by using the platform. I believe with Interactive Brokers at least it was an explicit opt in process though. I would be interested in a break down of trading platforms and what their stance on that is though. Let people make better informed decisions about it.
I almost understand this, but not quite. The reason is likely that I lack the prerequisite understanding of what constitutes an order, how it's different from a limit order, and so on. Either way, I would like to understand it better because they way you put it makes it sound rather elegant.

This feels like something that could be very intuitively explained with visuals. Does anyone know of such a visual explanation of this?
>>taking a 7 year car loan to buy a car and using their saving to buy mutual funds

Those are two extremely different things, and you're being very disingenuous by implying they aren't.
> The difference in effectiveness is huge, to the point where it's ridiculous to be healthy and wear a mask.

I think the point is that you have no idea whether you're healthy.
POSIX's does: https://linux.die.net/man/3/pthread_mutex_timedlock

So does parking_lot: https://docs.rs/lock_api/0.3.2/lock_api/struct.Mutex.html#me...
I admit I love reading about these sorts of things because I (naively) thought I'd "invented" the next awesome thing as a teen in the 90's when I thought of a similar concept.

It was during the mainstream of DOOM and the peak popularity of "Laser Tag" when the home/toy version of the game had given way to warehouses with backpack-powered systems and centralized scoring/tracking.

I figured you could build a laptop/small form factor PC that would fit in a backpack and power a VR rig to overlay a virtual environment on the "warehouse". Since the play space was a known environment and could have tracking beacons, orientation would be relatively simple and the computers could communicate with a central server. Since laser tag was already like a first-person shooter, it wouldn't require much more than graphics to visualize the "laser beams" and maybe add some texture to walls and surfaces. No need to simulate movement or the tactile feel of platforms and such because they exist in real life.

Of course I had no concept of the processing power needed to do this or how it compared to a laptop/sff PC of the time. I also had no idea of just how tough it would be to achieve usable latency on such a system. But hey...it was 1994 and I was 16. I thought we'd all be playing VR DOOM laser tag within a few years as soon as someone got around to building it.

I guess my timeframe was off by 25 years or so, but maybe in another 5 it'll be commonplace.
> You get this bug because the compiler doesn't know that the function will not return and therefor assumes that the de-reference will happen even if the value is NULL.

That would be even worse reasoning.

If the compiler doesn't know that the function will not return then how could it possibly implement optimizations that remove this code?

Not returning from a function is well-defined behavior in C.

Dereferencing a pointer after a NULL check condition which doesn't return is well-defined behavior.

I understand that changing an "implicit else" to an explicit else will clue modern compilers in to the fact that the code shouldn't be removed. Regardless, removing the code in the author's example is dead wrong (quite aside of what one makes of Linus' quite persuasive argument about not even touching NULL checks which follow undefined behavior).

Edit: clarification

Edit 2: Ok, I need a sanity check.

Let's forget about functions which never return. Instead, let us change "write_error_message_and_exit();" to "return 0;" which will signal an error message to the caller. Also, assume there is a "return 1;" somewhere below the author's example.

Is there any compiler at any optimization level which would optimize out my revised conditional?
Increasing ventilator surge capacity in disasters
I don't need to experiment with it, I'm doing it every time I cut onions and I don't cry anymore. It works.

If you want to try, next time you cut onions put some water in your mouth and keep it there until you've finished cutting.

It will get a bad taste, spit it once you're finished.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bl... has a more nuanced look at it than "Trump fired all the experts," but it is telling that avian flu and SARS had a completely different response a decade ago.

It's not always political. However, sometimes it is.
Or like sitting at your friend's house while they pick some entertainment?
Sweden is, on the other hand, not the only country that doesn't let minors or people in a position of dependence "voluntarily" yield anything. The problem in those cases is that it's hard to determine how voluntary the yielding actually is.
I tried your application and it gets choppy at <80 records on my phone.

It's not "my abstraction" - it's a general problem that many people have been trying to tackle - vDOM is just one of many approaches.
Halting only happens for fifteen minutes. It's meant to be a speed bump, an opportunity to assess, "wait, do I really want to sell right now?" If the market drops a lot, they'll halt for the day. Gives leaders a chance to make adjustments.
How the Great Firewall discovers hidden circumvention servers (2015)
Trapping implementations have a long and honourable history on platforms where the hardware supports it. Ironically, the whole reason most undefined behaviour is undefined is to permit trapping implementations - implementations that do something safer than just continuing with an implementation-defined value - but instead modern compilers treat it as a license to do something even more dangerous.
The NYC subway’s new tap-to-pay system has a hidden cost – rider data
Serious question: what's the reasoning behind naming scheme of Xboxes? Only serious, non-ranting explanation I've found [1] is that they're rebranding it back to just "Xbox", which somehow makes even less sense.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/microsoft-only-using-xbox-...
God, as a normal consumer investor this is terrifying because I don't know what to do without contributing to the problem - if there's even anything I can do.
It's quite impressive, beautiful and smooth in motion.

I have to second what someone else said, it could be made into an amazing wall clock (and even a small desk unit). There is a lot that could be optionally (settings) done to manipulate its aesthetic qualities in various directions to match personal preferences, times of day, events, and so on.
Many thanks! Fixed.
Compared to other crashes where there seemed to be an underlying economic issue - this one feels like it will bounce back quickly at some point in my amateur opinion. Am tempted by some 2022 SPY leaps for this reason.
Snap! is just a JS web app, it works just fine on iPads. Snap! is also the closest to "real programming" in my experience because you can make custom blocks and reporters (aka functions), lists are first class so you can nest lists or pass them to blocks or whatever with them, has lambdas, and can call JS so you have full access to the browser APIs and the JS ecosystem.
http://pexip.com/
Problem is that dollar cost averaging becomes nigh impossible if you loose your job because of the situation.
For x86 and XMD64. What about arm, Mips, Sparc, alpha, whatever what in the IBM mainframes... All of the above have C compilers and each does something different. I don't know the rules for each, but I know some of them have really weird rules in specific cases.
1) Why? Futures do not prevent the market from "deciding for itself". Global equity markets don't just trade on New York time. Getting rid of futures would not fix the problem you are trying to solve, while creating many new problems.

2) If short selling actually did exacerbate the situation, wouldn't that create a buying opportunity for other market participants? In reality, short selling does not systematically force markets to price things incorrectly.
The Snap! mascot is named Alonzo after Alonzo Church, and the "horn" is a lambda to symbolize Snap!'s functional programming features. I just checked, and both Alonzo and Gobo have three feet.

"Sprite" and "costume" are distinct concepts in both Scratch and Snap!. A costume is a texture, and a sprite is an actor associated with state such as a current costume, as well as program logic.
If games consoles supported Mouse & Keyboard, I'd legitimately switch to them as my main gaming machine. The hardware and value propositions are definitely "there."

Obviously controllers work extremely well for certain game types, I even use them on PC when the game calls for it, but I won't be convinced first person shooter-like games (with or without integrated "aim assist") are a good controller experience.
CSV has reached a critical mass that will not soon be displaced. Decades and decades of legacy software that consumes and produces CSV files and will never be updated.

I didn't even know the "DSV" acronym until I read enough of your post.
How JPEG Works in 4 “Simple” Steps?
Removed the expiration date from HashBackup today
I wasn't afraid of getting hit by a bus, but an expiration date didn't seem like a great idea during a pandemic that might take me out. -Jim
It may not be your style or price, but Russell Moccasin in Wisconsin will make made to measure shoes based on tracings/measurements of your feet.
as a normal consumer investor your choices are a drop in the ocean.
I can’t find the source I saw the other day, but the CDC ran out of a good chunk of its budget September 2019. Right before all this started.

We, especially the US, keep treating CDC like they’re responsible for fixing diseases after they spread when their focus is prevention. This has been happening repeatedly for at least a couple decades.

Every time, it gets worse because we treat disease as a solved problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/cdc-fundi...
Social Distancing Could Change Our Relationship with FaceTime
Yes, that's true it's not end-to-end encrypted as you say.

Here's more information about that https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/409
"The MTA maintains that it retains all information securely with triple DES encryption and that such data is never decrypted. "

https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2017/Update-to-Current-Use-and-De...

As of 2019 NIST has recommended getting off of 3DES
The difference in this case is that the stock market is a highly efficient process, where feedback paths are short, information is shared widely, and there is potential to make a lot of money on other's misjudgements, automatically correcting the price in the process. This means changes in confidence are almost immediately reflected in the price.

T-shirts, on the other hand, much more slowly change to match confidence, for the same reasons. If you think people collectively over- or undervalue T-shirts, it is rather hard to make money off of that mistake. In part because it implies moving physical stock, but also because they are a relatively refined product. Markets for natural resources see some of the same fluctuations as stock markets, although not to the same degree.
Just make a small ramp for it.
Commercial air traffic now down 7.2% in March
Not necessarily. Systems can become amoral even if actors in the system are moral. Consider corporations. Their fitness function so to speak is to amass capital, as much as possible in fact. Even if everyone inside were moral, they are tended towards actions that increase capital, while not necessarily having all the responsibility of the decision, and so their morality does not come into play, because they don't know the true extent of their decisions. Responsibility throughout the organization therefore diffuses. It is like an ant colony, where each individual performs actions whose combined effects give the entire system some sense of individuality separate from its components.
Agreed. Work is in most ways easier than school. If you're lucky enough to find yourself in a highly sane and functional organization (at the level you deal with it, at least) it's life on fucking easy mode.

High school's probably the hardest time of my life so far by a long shot, and I'm entering middle age. So, so much work, very little of it of any value to me or to others (and I have a pretty expansive view of what sorts of education are valuable, I'm not a "if it's not part of my narrow field I don't care about it, who needs the humanities" sort), terrible hours, high stress.

Even college was easy by comparison—15 hours of classes plus 15 hours of homework and studying (unless you fuck up selecting classes or get unlucky you shouldn't have it worse than that, and may have it much better) and often waking up after the sun rises? Rarely having something assigned one day and due the very next? Practically a vacation! High school was torture and I wasn't even bullied or anything. Worse there were people telling me it's the "best time of my life". No wonder kids are depressed.
> When a vaccine is found I'm sure the government/company behind it will make available to the world for free.

I am pretty sure the U.S. government (or actually Trump) will not do that. He will make the world pay dearly for that.
It is definitely an overblown concern. I just wanted to present the steel man version of the grandparent's argument.
HSBC allegedly laundered 800 million (not revenue, not profit, but total amount allegedly laundered).

They were fined 1.9 billion. People really need to stop with the 'cost of doing business' BS
It all depends on how long your investment horizon is.

If you have another 30 years until retirement it would be foolish not to buy stocks now. Not saying to dump every penny you have into the market at once, but increase your buying NOW. The dollar is being devalued as we speak, holding cash makes little sense.

When all the dust and panic around this virus has settled, many quality companies will still be around. Procter & Gamble will still be selling detergents and tampons, McDonalds will still be frying hamburgers and Microsoft will still be selling office subscriptions.
Social distancing could have devastating effect on people with depression