skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a securities lawyer. I'm well aware this is not insider trading nor did I ever say anything at all related to insider trading. The opinion I expressed was one of policy, not criminality.

My issue is that the transaction goes against the concept of a fair market where everyone has equal access to information. When a company buys back stock the market takes it as a "signal" that the shares are undervalued for reasons that are unknown to the public. Maybe management is aware of key information and the shares are indeed undervalued but that isn't always the case. It seems to me that stock buybacks serve a mixed purpose of paying a dividend while also artificially boosting market "confidence" in the short-term.

I'm of the opinion that the market shouldn't be manipulated by subtle hints from management that way.
It's part of the COVID-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 [1] that was passed today.

[1] http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=653228&f=109&s=277...
It's more likely that the tests that cleared him were false negatives.
I would have really loved to see this for some of the more obscure services in the AWS panoply. The ones listed here are pretty well understood.
What about prior year contributions? Those normally have an April 15th deadline too.

I’m not sure how much I’m going to contribute until I finish my taxes and run the numbers.
> DynamoDB is a non-relational database that has two main features : it’s immediately consistent and ...

that's ... only true if you're exclusively using strongly consistent reads, but if you're exclusively using strongly consistent reads, why are you using DynamoDB to begin with?
Nobody could have seen this one coming. People thought a recession is coming soon, but not like this, where the economy is basically shut down to prevent transmission of a pandemic.

Hopefully people have insurance to protect against some of this, but a restaurant owner that didn't plan for their community being shut down by a pandemic within a couple weeks of the first cases in town hitting the news wasn't being reckless
I'm assuming the loans are to make payroll for work already done. Many businesses don't have the cash on hand to pay for the work that was already done, they're relying on revenue from that work or past work that is now being paid to pay their employees.

Frankly, I think the restaurant industry is over built and many of them deserve to close. The margins are non existent, most of the food is terrible, it's the ultimate bubble economy business.
This kind of thinking astounds me.

What kind of margins do you think landlords are making so that they can afford to ‘eat’ 3-6 months of rent?
You cannot reduce any decisions on any markets, at some point you're going "huh, I guess free will or the universe or randomness? idk", but that doesn't make the models useless. They can be tested. Take Tinder, make predictions how people behave differently if e.g. you change the gender balance, test it.

My point about "you cannot reduce it" isn't about the model, but about relationships themselves. You can't just go "look, here's the fact sheet" because it's way too complex and we don't know all the variables etc pp, but overall, in larger numbers, you can very much use models to predict general behavior. Not on an individual level, but very much so on a group level. Much like in any market, where you will always have outliers that act totally different than what your models predict, but you'll also have the bulk that behaves the way your model predicts. If they don't, your model isn't good. That's not the case for models looking at relationships as markets though.
I don't think my point is that we're not prepared for an alien invasion - obviously a ridiculous example. Someone was saying this experience is comforting, someone else said that's a great perspective. I on the other hand am distressed. This is not a really serious event, and our irrational reactions to it show we are terribly unprepared for a more serious event, any event with more death and trauma immediately visible to more people.

> Usually there is some build up before you wipe out entire cities. That build up let’s people get prepared.

Yes. We have runs on toilet paper and lunch meats now. What then, when people are preparing for a nuclear strike.
Also, I'd like to point out that historically speaking it's quite common for mints to substitute cheaper metals in new issues of the same coins; this has happened since at least the Roman empire. The most conspicuous case of this in the US was when in 1965 the mint replaced the silver quarter and dime with silver-plated copper and the copper penny with copper-plated zinc; of course silver-plated copper quarters had existed in the US since at least the 1800s, but at that time they were called "counterfeit quarters". You can read about them in Huckleberry Finn.

Of course coin collectors and anyone dealing in bullion will not treat the coins as equivalent, and historically speaking this is one of the reasons for stamping the year and mint mark on the coins, but this is entirely at the discretion of the mint; there's nothing stopping them from issuing new "gold" coins with a lower percentage of gold and the same year mark, except for the same kind of social pressures that prevent the government from simply expropriating the contents of your bank account (as they did here in Argentina in 2001) or refusing to pay its bonds (as is happening here in Argentina right now.)

You might object that the United States isn't Argentina. But until just before 2001 Argentina wasn't Argentina either, not as we know it today; its troubles were behind it and it was the model country the IMF would show off to demonstrate how effective its economic recovery plans could be, even as the economy was gradually hollowed out. People living in the US, a country whose stock market just fell by 30% in a month and which didn't manage to produce or allow the importation of a reasonable number of COVID-19 tests until this weekend (although Korea, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and China had no trouble with this) may find this sounds familiar.

If someone is concerned about the banking system expropriating their savings, it is not a reasonable response to offer them an alternative that makes it easy for banks, stockbrokers, or the government to expropriate their savings. That's precisely the kind of threat they want to defend against.
If you think the value of your company is going to increase faster than the 0.05% interest on a loan from a bank, you should buy the stock then sell it again later when it has appreciated.

Another important detail is that you only have so much stock you can issue. When you pay back a big wad of debt, you can take out some more debt. When you issue stock, that stock is basically gone unless you buy it back.
Getting A Handle On Portable C Extensions With hpy
Doesn’t GitHub itself give you an option to switch to desktop?
Android recently rolled out a change which sometimes requires you to update the preference to "Always open *.com links in this app" in the application page in the system settings dialog. This might be what's causing this issue.
Depends a lot on how people get to that factory. If they take public transport I think you're exposing a lot of people to a lot of contact.
At least in this thread the naysayers aren't really saying anything.
If it is cold of flu, when it passed, it passed. 7 days and you are fine. Corona is can get better and become worst and take weeks. So it is still a difference.
Fancy Context Menu for HTML
On iOS at least, the "Request Desktop Site" option has been moved under the reader options in the URL bar. It seems to work for me, though is annoying.
I work for Facebook and a lot of employees were quite stressed with all these changes (especially the ones with kids). I can tell you that this has been a huge boon for people's morale.

(Just an insider's point of view, as I feel like HN doesn't get too many of these.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68

Until this happens, I won't really think it was a "big deal" at all, and more along the lines of being merely a flesh wound.
Maybe it's ironic, or maybe I am a poor searcher, but I can't find the source code for the app anywhere.
dr. Campbell[1] (the guy on YT explaining the situation every day) said that this seems to be because some people do not clear the virus effectively the first time ... and are picked up again on a later test, but that no proof has been shown that people can get reinfected and will probably be immune for at least a year.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/Campbellteaching
We have seen each of these in the past 2 weeks without any government price fixing needed!
I've read several articles on this over the last few days. The consensus is that we don't know yet if heat and/or humidity reduce transmission of Covid-19 in any meaningful way. But it is certainly possible it will be suppressed in warmer or more humid weather as is the case for many similar viruses.
IIRC all or almost all of those 7 were over 80.
Nice idea, but I see no pricing. How will you support the service?
I was one of those people discouraging masks a while back here. I was wrong. With what we know now asymptomatic people should have masks if there is a supply available. At the present, that supply isn't available in the US and many other countries, but as soon as it becomes so we need to normalize mask wearing in public for the duration of the pandemic.
What is the rate of false positives given a positive test result for these tests?
What are EC2 "saving plans"?
Building a New Foundation for CouchDB – Episode 124
"Computer science could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems." (One of my favorite jokes. Dijkstra's I think.)

FWIW, the foundation of it all is the act of making a distinction.

"In the beginning was the void, and the void was without form."

Operationally, if the thing in your brain that makes distinctions is suppressed (by e.g. a stroke) you literally lose the ability to distinguish between your body and the world and enter into an "oceanic bliss".

> "My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientistʼs Personal Journey", (2008) is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning book written by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist. In it, she tells of her experience in 1996 of having a stroke in her left hemisphere and how the human brain creates our perception of reality and includes tips about how Dr. Taylor rebuilt her own brain from the inside out.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Stroke_of_Insight

(There's also a TED talk.)

Semantically, distinction is the sole act required to produce logic (and therefore computers and teh science thereof.) See "Laws of Form".

> "Laws of Form" is a book by G. Spencer-Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form
> I assume some aerospace professionals still consider them jokes, which weights on definition of professional. But SpaceX really does things differently - the pioneers of space era (like von Braun, Korolev) could, I'm sure, understand Musk, but aerospace professionals of 1990-2000 were trained in rather different world.

My dad recently retired as an aerospace professional. There was an event which he said removed any doubt from the entire industry that SpaceX was real; I don't remember when exactly it was, but SpaceX had a launch, aborted the launch fairly late in the countdown, and then re-prepped and launched in time to make the launch window.

He said any other orbital rocket would require a minimum of several hours turnaround when aborting that late. Fixing this in a legacy rocket was just not going to happen, and SpaceX made it look easy.
There should be a link in the footer that changes it to the desktop version.
Ask HN: Prometheus-Cortex Technical Expertise
We are looking to solve an optimization problem related to cost, performance, and capacity of Kubernetes workloads.

A customer asked me "you have my data on my workloads, why don't you tell me how they should be distributed?"

If you are a distributed systems engineer with golang and python experience and knowledge about Kubernetes, Prometheus, Operators, and are interested in this space, please reach out.
Hmm does not really seem to be a git client, more the social fluff.

I guess working copy is still the best git client for ios.
Davita Care Connect. Def. not 'my app', I just work on it.
Surprised Facebook Origami isn’t mentioned to bridge the gap between devs and designers.
Gig economy tries to hold on to workers during shutdown
Rust is funny because in one sense it's hard and clunky. However, it's only ever precisely as hard and clunky as it needs to be. Everywhere something can be made more concise, or readable, or convenient, without sacrificing any control, it has been. Anytime something is hard or inconvenient, it's because the underlying domain really is exactly that hard or inconvenient.

Contrast this with other languages, which are often clunky when they don't need to be and/or "easy" when they shouldn't be.
When I need more permanent notes, I use this other $13 ereasable notebook: "2019 Elfinbook Smart Reusable Erasable Spiral A5 Notebook Paper Notepad Pocketbook Diary Journal Office School Drawing Gift
4.8". https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32859074901.html?spm=a2g0s.9...

As for the previous one (single page scribble) then I found in the past that I usually have a new single page each day on my desk for tasks minor notes of that page and it's now replacing it - this is its main usage.
Welcome to philosophy. Here we can argue about what life is and how the utter meaningless life would without icecream.

Now, welcome back to reality. A overloaded health system will kill people. Doctors will need to triage. People with no relation to COVID-19 will die who would otherwise make it. Because of overloaded health systems.
Author here, just an old project finally finished and published.
It'll be used in my other project soon :)

If you like it please discuss here or open an issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748
While reinfection is ominous and unwelcome, the fact that individual cases like this are newsworthy makes me hopeful that it is a rare phenomenon.
They’re often cheaper because the store increases the price of the competitors’ wares to make their own store-product more appealing. It increases the price to consumers.

Can’t both practices be wrong?

Grocery stores shouldn’t be allowed to sell their own brands that compete with the otherwise free market. It’s an abuse of their position in the value chain. Heinz Ketchup can’t compete with the store brand on equal terms when the store sets the prices for both products.
This is not a delay in the filing date (yet, although many predict it's coming). This is a 90-day interest-free grace period for paying owed taxes.
Thanks for the info on R0!

From wiki "What these thresholds will do is determine whether a disease will die out (if R0 < 1) or whether it may become epidemic (if R0 > 1), but they generally can not compare different diseases."

If seasonal flu (type-B?) has an R0 of ~1.3 can we reasonably call seasonal flu an epidemic?

H1N1 (spanish and swine flu) is ~1.8 and had major outbreaks in 1918 and 2009.

Is it realistic to expect we can sufficiently influence covid-19 using NPIs to achieve R0 < 1?
In the current social climate (i.e, false positives perhaps being somewhat less likely, especially in a contrived situation like a cruise ship full of at risk patients) if we assume that the subject truly was infected, cleared, then infected again in such a short time window, what would that mean for all current containment strategies?
Reserve requirements are typically made more stringent while the economy is doing well. The history of these changes by the Fed is available at the link below.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm...
Sounds like you’ve never been to Albertsons. That’s why we usually drive to TJs, a few items are approx 40% cheaper.
> Well is there an official source to decide on this matter? However, culturally I'm pretty sure my answer is what the majority of Chinese think. If you happen to have Chinese friends you can ask them as an informal poll.

The Wikipedia article for the term several examples of the term being used to refer to other Asian countries without opium addiction problems, which wouldn't make any sense if the term was generally thought to refer to the "opioid addicted Chinese population at that time."

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

> But like the "sick man of Europe" term, it has also been used to refer to other Asian countries in the 21st century.

> For example, in an article entitled "The Sick Man of Asia" Michael Auslin refers to Japan, not China (writing in "Foreign Affairs", 3 April 2009).

> And in a 9 March 2018 article in "Consult-Myanmar" entitled "Myanmar No Longer the "sick man" of ASEAN - the Honour Goes To..." both Myanmar and Thailand are called the "sick man of ASEAN".

> In another example, in 2014 at the Euromoney Philippines Investment Forum 2014, President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines publicly defended his country from being labelled as the new "sick man of Asia", citing a Japan External Trade Organization survey that showed "the Philippines as the second most profitable among ASEAN-5 countries, next to Thailand."[3] Reasons for the perceptions Aquino was refuting include its unequal prosperity and serious poverty, since from 2000 to 2006 its nominal income grew by 37% while its Gini coefficient only fell by 5%.[4] Another cause for the "Sick Man" label includes Filipino political corruption scandals such as the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam.

I'm pretty sure you're right when you refer to how Chinese people understand the term, but part of the problem is that I think that understanding is very specific to the Chinese cultural context.
No. Consider that the purpose of a ventilator in a patient with compromised respiration is to support their breathing, not to fully take over for them. The two patients wouldn't be breathing in synchrony, so a ventilator would end up providing pressure that prevented one or both patients from breathing normally, rather than supporting them.
> People using unproven remedies is not really a problem.

Yes, it is... Most people already think they have some sort of "Indian immunity" against SARS-CoV-2.

> I am moderator for super large fb groups and over dozens of whataspp groups and I find them to be a boon in the moments of crisis.

Not a boon! Not calling people out on phony, unproven remidies not only stands to aggravate the situation but incentivizes folks with an agenda to take control of the narrative.

What do they say about feeding fire with fuel? Yeah, it is absolutely a problem.
Ask HN: As a CEO do you have a personal assistant?
oh, it would be weird for a hacker to do that kind of thing.

the vast majority of "hacks", the kinds with efficient markets, don't have those kinds of consequences, almost negligible consequences really.

nobody is trying to overload internet-connected generators or some infrastructure where there are consequences.

I just can't imagine what kinds of hacks you think are actually happening to fit your dynamic.
India's Patient 31

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/techie-had-not...

In addition India has a huge population with hypertension, who are on ACE inhibitors or ARBs, and diabetes.
Technically speaking, nobody should have lost 30% of their retirement savings. Young people should have much more saving to do, so it will be a smaller fraction of their overall retirement savings. Older folks should have been pivoting into less risky assets already.
The proposed edits don’t assume good faith and don’t contribute to understanding the topic. Instead here we are in the weeds.
Each county issued the same order. The page you cite is explanatory, but not part of an official order. Any of it that is enforceable in SF is also enforceable in the other counties.
A better way would be to suspend all debt collection and rent collection for x months. That will keep lots of small businesses alive, and employees on reduced salaries will still be able to feed their families if they don't have to worry about rent.

Throw in food stamps for the unemployed and you're most of the way to keeping a nation going.
Social Distancing in the Age of Automation
"I would argue that someone who's job is to knowingly push [1] a false government narrative in newspaper articles is not a journalist at all."

The term journalist has definition that depends from country to country. Generally all foreign journalists are given an accreditation by government and recognized as such, giving them certain privileges and responsibilities. Your personal opinion about this matter means zilch to any government.
> Look at South Korea

No: look at Taiwan. They started acting immediately on the 29th of December and escalated very early January.

Did Taiwan have information that other countries did not? Or why did they act so quickly when other countries did not?
Right, but even without testing, if the progression had followed what we've seen in Iran or Italy, there would be hundreds dying from Covid-19. This is not happening in Japan, and the virus has been in Japan much longer than those countries.
They're also for sale on Amazon for about the same prices.
I love all the comments like this. It sounds great. But they all reference such tactile experiences that I’m left thinking, “huh, I might buy this, IF I could try it out.”

Where does one do that?
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Probably don’t even need to click to know which one it is...
It's cheaper and better for you, and you can cook for your own preferences once you understand the basics.

It's a great time to learn!
Yep! Serde allows us to cheat a bit since you can call for it to skip certain fields (such as password hashes), but my preference is for the field to not exist at all in your serialization structs. Less of a chance to forget that #[serde(skip)] flag
People often read at night before going to sleep. If reading in the Sun was a requirement, one could do that with physical books too. However, most reading happens indoors and for that an iridescent panel screen such as that on an iPad with full gamut of colors is suited better.
Hahaha life is exceptionally easy for people in the US. I had no idea working 2 service jobs and living paycheck to paycheck was the good life!
He started getting symptoms again, which is the most worrisome part. It is not just simple virus is still lingering around, but it caused an infection again 35+ days after he had it once.

I hope this is just a fluke
I'm having trouble understanding the use case here. If someone submits a pull request, don't I have to review that in a dev environment? Same for downloading / trying out a project. What is the utility of having access via mobile?
Which is a good thing, provided that public policy is good and wise. That's not a given, though...
Possibly if he had related symptoms from another illness and then caught the disease due to exposure in the hopsital. I don't know if this is more likely than a false that sent him home from the hospital.
> Can’t both practices be wrong? and an abuse of their market position?

Sure. But my point is that no one is railing Kroger for putting their cheap pasta above the DeCecco. So it's hypocritical to call out tech companies for doing what physical retailers have been doing for ages.

If we're not mad about the pasta, we shouldn't be mad about Flickr being #2 on the search for "photos". And if we are mad about Google Photos being #1, why aren't we mad about the pasta?
I think it is because it is cached, common on new releases. It will show nice and high after a few hours.
thats not an argument for calling tesla an essential service.
It looks better on the insurance claim when I'm not either party to the accident.