skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely no. ETFs merely hide the fact that the underlying are futures contracts. ETFs make these futures contracts seem like stocks so any Tom Dick or Harry thinks they understand it and buys them. It's a very leaky abstraction.

> They can't go below 0

One month ago people know that futures can't go below 0. What guarantees ETFs will never go below zero? It's economically absurd to think an ETF holding negatively priced assets will still have positive value.

I would argue that if an investor isn't knowledgeable enough to trade an underlying, the investor shouldn't trade an ETF of these.
JavaScript DOM – Changing the Styles of HTML Elements
Just get it to run cobol and you’re golden.
World Health Organization (WHO) Covid-19 App
As someone who has been closely engaged in the tech world, but is outside of the culture of Silicon Valley, one cultural pattern I've noticed over and over again is the tendency for people in SV to state with utter confidence and conviction that we'll all be living our lives completely differently than we have been by this time next year, and it will be a permanent and culturally sweeping change.

The fact that inevitably only about 10% of those transformations turn out to be sort of true, and happen 10x slower than predicted, never seems to break this cycle of breathless certainty.

Maybe it's true, maybe this is really it, and the whole idea of closely clustered cities around shared commercial goals and people working closely together in the real world is finally ending. We shall see.
looks pretty good to me
You might want to reconsider that badge.

https://www.google.com/permissions/logos-trademarks/

“Google G: Third parties are not permitted to use the Google G. It’s reserved for Google products and marketing materials.”
Where did you get 2MB from?
I ask out of curiosity, not dismissiveness: What is the goal of this project?

Without context, it strikes me as somewhat akin to adding details to a Picasso. The reason I'd use TempleOS is to get a peek into Terry Davis's mind, so what happens when someone else adds networking support?

Is it seen as a research project? Just something fun to play with?
> My first "programming" experience was with mIRC scripts. I even wrote an IRC client using mIRC sockets at some point, and a dummy webserver / SMTP client.

Same here! The mIRC scripting language was incredibly rich, and the ability to create native Windows dialogs with it was a powerful tool.

Back in the 90s, a friend and I reverse engineered the protocol behind a popular program used to play Magic the Gathering online called Apprentice. The protocol was insecure and allowed users to cheat by controlling the outcome of coin flips and other elements of the game. The purpose of the research was to prove definitively that the client could be manipulated, in order to resolve some cheating accusations that had been thrown around.

I set out to write a program that would hook into Apprentice through the Win32 API and allow you to change the program's output, while my friend created an mIRC man-in-the-middle server that you could configure through a dialog box to connect to Apprentice and modify incoming and outgoing protocol messages.

My project never shipped and his reached widespread availability, eventually leading to the development of better clients [1]. The fact that he was able to get so much out of mIRC script (dialog boxes, sockets, event handling, etc) and was able to make it simple for others to use was impressive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_(software)#Backwash
Korean is especially difficult. Chinese uses only hanzi and you have a limited set of logogram combinations that result in a word. Japanese is easier because they often add kana to the ends of words (for e.g. verb conjugation) and you can use that (in addition to the Chinese algorithm) to delineate words - there is no word* where a kanji character follows a kana character. Korean on the other hand uses only phonetic characters with no semantic component, so you just have to guess the way a human guesses.

* with a few exceptions, of course :)
the problem was not bad to begin with. it was just overhyped by everyone especially the media. Now we have destroyed the economy and futures of millions of young Americans just so that some at risk people can live for two extra months, harsh but true
It's the usual hysteresis that results in what they did. The Nazis haven't gassed anyone in fifty years. They're still evil.

Ultimately, the AMA blocked residencies through lobbying and now maintains the position through small expense of effort because the status quo is a strong position. Change needs justification and you only have to block at the point of change. Things are the way they are because they put in the effort at the crucial moment.

And they certainly haven't undone their crimes. Just stopped being criminal. It's like a bank robber who stopped robbing banks and invested in the S&P500.
I agree that it's pretty bad. You're sort of making my point, though. People forcing the issue to be binned into either a "bad" or "not bad".

No one's saying it's not bad. At least I'm not. It's just a lot less bad than what we were told 3 months ago. Yet very few seem willing to admit that, because (I'm guessing) they think it might mean losing some amount of fear based leverage or control. Or don't want to give people false confidence to disregard rules. Or whatever the motivation.

And the public in general is perceptive of that, especially the ones less inclined to blindly trust government.

When the original concern was overcrowding hospitals, and the new risk is ERs closing or laying off staff from under-use, the nature and magnitude of the healthcare infrastructure risk has completely changed.

Which means either:

1) we were wrong and it isn't as bad as we thought, or

2) that we've been so successful in flattening the curve (and scaring people from going out, including to the hospital for critical treatment), that we've overshot our goal to the point of doing more damage than good. And that's strictly looking at healthcare, before even taking into account economic considerations beyond the hospitals being able to stay open.
The squarish glyph-shapes aren't a good fit for spaces. Scripts with spaces have unevenly shaped letters so that one can quickly scan a word by its length and pattern of ascenders/descenders. In Japanese spaces do not aid this type of scanning, and conversely the uneven densities of the glyphs allow for fast scanning without the aid of spaces.
Why wouldn't data centers switch when they can get more computing power for less energy and at a lower initial price point? That's happening now with the current offerings.
>On top of that, a lot of people won't want to go back to the office, not because they enjoy working from home, but because they will still be afraid of getting the virus. Being at the office probably won't feel normal anyway due to continued social distancing and the use of masks

That's where I'm at. My workplace put out a survey to see how people felt about going back to the office next month, and I don't think anyone was willing to risk it. We'd be wearing masks, taking public transit to/from the office, and sanitizing our hands every 15 minutes.

Having spoken to some management people, this survey is mostly being done just to confirm that we should discuss getting rid of the office entirely. Which would be a huge cost saving for us.
I think the only HoC I consistently use these days is `connect` from `react-redux`.
You act like this wasn't always true or that celebrity never existed.
Covid-19: Face Mask Detector with OpenCV, Keras/TensorFlow, and Deep Learning
> vim is a similar rabbit hole, maybe less deep.

Vim was for a long time and still pretty much is mostly a text editor. It is light, work well with large files and is installed on most Unix machines. I don't think trying to turn it into an IDE makes much sense but if you want to develop with it, installing a language server client takes two minutes and you don't need much more.

As a text editor, Vim is really nice. Modal editing can be very pleasant if it clicks with you.
I don't remember the details offhand, but there was that amendment that passed since then which changes what the state can do when it runs deficits.

Both of those recession deficits were after years of economic decline. This economic decline is less than 8 weeks old. I was hyperbolic, but I'm not sure by how much.

What we haven't seen yet is that Fauci and others have stated there will be regional lockdowns when there are "outbreaks". I suspect that as soon as the business community sees this, many more will just close up permanently, even if they aren't in the locked down regions because many can't survive another lockdown and are risking almost everything to open up now.
I don't entirely blame the media. Some of this is over-pessimism on public health officials.

For instance in the Bay Area, the SIP's argument was justified primarily from hospital capacity (https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-offi...). It wasn't (as has since become) suppress the transmission rate until a test, trace, isolate system can be restored. [1]

Even on April 7, Santa Clara (https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/07/coronavirus-santa-cla...) was still projecting 2500-12000 cases by May 1. The higher end of that was highly unlikely even then (that would require cases growing faster than Seattle had been pre-SIP). In retrospect, even the best case scenario was also too pessimistic - at current rates Santa Clara won't hit 2500 until after May 21 -- double the time the "best case" had estimated.

Compare the communication to say Germany or New Zealand, where clear numbers, confidence metrics, range of possibilities, and objectives are outlined.

[1] Which actually has already happened. I'm not exactly sure what the goal is at this point - we have metrics but it's a bit unclear what they are based on (esp. the hard to reach testing numbers).
Upward or downward?
> It's not time wasted if you enjoy it and have something to show for it

Yep, agree! I really enjoy it, my only problem is that there are too few hours in day :)
I guess it depends on the goals though -- it's perfectly fine to build something just for the sake of it, as long as you have fun. One of my goals through is to stop/pause the active phases of building and spending more time using it. Partly because of the lack of time, partly because it means iterating and reflecting on whatever I've already built. So ultimately I agree that it's important to improve your life instead of building something that may improve it one day.

I mean, do I want my time back? Yes, sure, like with any learning in hindsight it always feels that I spent more time than necessary om this.

But the thing is, I did improve my life while building this! I've learnt so much: obvious things like building better and more resilient software to my preferences in terms of tools and services. I've started the blog to share this system and the related things, which made me appreciate writing, and I feel like I'm getting better at it. The whole quantified self thing was super useful: it motivated me to think and learn how my body works, to eat healthy, etc. However stupid it is, self-tracking gives me extra motivation for the regular exercise and trying to pish my limits.

Every new bit of data I'm adding is easier and smoother, so I can easily imagine myself using this system for years (and fixing minor bits that break once in a while, just like people fix things in their homes). Sharing it also means I can potentially improve others' lives, which makes me regret the time I spent building and researching much less.

> "if you wanted to canoe, why did you spend a year making your own"

I feel it's more like "you can rent/borrow a canoe, but you only have a spoon instead of a paddle which you can't switch. Oh and it can also collapse anytime. Why would you spend a year making your own?"
> Nobody is suggesting the creation of a police state.

That's explicitly what's being suggested. What else is a centrally-planned, police-enforced, compulsory lockdown and shutdown of the civilian economy? What's worse is indefinite house confinement.
I’ve also wondered about that sort of hoteling system. It would seem to make sense if the companies get their own sanitation and testing protocols operational. It could allow them time to slowly ramp up the number of employees who share common space, rather than some kind of grand, onetime reopening.
While I mostly agree with you, I wouldn't call the comparison useless. I want to add a few additional things as well that add to the difficulty of these comparisons (and why these simple comparisons people are making are potentially wildly inaccurate)

1) Testing is all over the place and mostly done only on people that are hospitalized. This creates a huge selection bias in official numbers, especially when we're talking about a disease where we're seeing claims from 25-80% of carriers being asymptomatic. There's plenty of evidence to show that many people that suspect themselves (i.e. they show symptoms) are not getting tested because they aren't "sick enough". So all we can do is guess that official numbers are on the low side. This is part of why we see wildly different CFR numbers (as opposed to IFR) in different countries. (Obviously there are other factors as well, but this one captures effects like living conditions)

2) Deaths are being attributed in different ways. In some areas any pneumonia death is being counted while in others the person must have tested positive for covid. In America the attribution even varies by state. What makes this more complicated is that when the metric changes these tend to be deaths added on a single day (creating spikes). This makes it difficult to do 1 to 1 comparisons.

3) The disease's fatality rate drastically changes with the victim's age. There's strong evidence to show that if you're healthy and young that you have little to worry. But if you're relatively healthy and old you should be concerned. There are drastic differences in country's age, and thus this makes a big difference in comparisons.

4) The number of cases isn't exactly a bad thing. Let's take Sweden for example. If their method for containment (develop herd immunity in the general population, isolate the elderly and immunocompromised, and social distance strictly to not overwhelm hospitals) is effective you'd expect a faster rate of new cases AND deaths. But if their method is the better solution they will have less total deaths by the end. But are they right? No one knows yet because we need time. Time is a difficult factor to work into these comparisons, which are often single snapshots rather than growth rates and inflections.
The line of thinking 'well there was a risk so any amount of money was worth it' - doesn't really hold.

People are rightly upset by 'mask gougers' why would they not in the face of 'hospital bed gougers' charging $500 000 / bed?

Resource utilization always matters, even in the face of life and death, costs have to be justifiable in the context of risk.

I agree that given unknowns, we have to err on one side, but there are and were ways to deal with such unknowns, for example, we have Spain, Italy, Korea etc. as guides.

It's also possible to 'stage' the creation of such projects without having to fully build them out, putting stages in places as necessary.

A 'million or 1/2 million dollars a bed' is utterly outrageous gouging, there's no rationalization for it whatsoever.
If you can setup a dedicated work area, even if it's temporary, do it and restrict work to that space. That means you only use that space for work, and don't use the rest of your home.

Your sofa is for relaxing, don't let work ruin a perfectly good sofa.

CCP Grey [^1] has an excellent video on this.

[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck (Video warning)
At all times I said "federal government," someone else injected Trump into the thread, and the person I replied to replied directly to me saying my statement was wrong not the other poster, but clearly my statement references "federal government" and he says "no Congress." Last I checked, Congress is part of the federal government.
Our offices have been "open" but absolutely no one is going there. I actually wonder when people will start going back because it doesn't really make much sense to go there if no one else is there.
And computing technology is not beholden to oil/car interests and NIMBYs.
If you can write an IRC bot from scratch, you can do an authoritative DNS server, don’t sell yourself short.
A generalization, but accurate enough. Disappointing to see it getting downvotes. Intel 10nm and TSMC 7nm have similar characteristics, as a brief Wikipedia search reveals.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975856/
Building miniature mainframe installations is very cool. Much better than a model railway set. I'd like one that works, of course, with blinky lights and tape drives spinning. The electronics can be modern and buried in a box under the table, but I'd like all the lights and switches to behave like the original.
DrChrono (YC W11) is hiring a director of engineering to help fix healthcare
Residential traffic and related activities are unaffected.
I made the script-fu to generate a color hex triplet before it was part of the color dialog box. It was the first time I write scheme as well. I still love scheme even though I never got to use it
I would say downward because it's decreasing the demand to be close to these giant tech company campuses, but the bay area housing market has and always seems to defy typical economic patterns for housing.

Throw in unemployment and upcoming inflation with the fed cash dump, and it's still very unpredictable.
The site recently got discoverability of projects (less than a week ago); it's had a bunch of projects laying about for a few months now, but you'd have to use site:*.sr.ht on a search engine to find anything. It's more navigatable and has far fewer ethical problems than both Gitlab and GitHub, which makes it more enjoyable to search through.

The site itself has actually had many links over the course of the past two years:

- 46 from sr.ht

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sr.ht

- 22 from sourcehut.org

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sourcehut.org
Dockerizing React Apps
The answer depends on a lot of factors e.g. where are you based? Some states in the US allow you to do whatever using your own resources and your own free time. Even though it might be legally allowed, companies' contracts generally forbid you from doing anything competitive. So:

- Are you doing this using your won resources and time?

- Are you building a potentially competing product?

- What does your contract say about it?

- Can anyone still claim IP on what you've built so far? As in it seems you worked for someone before to build it, did you get compensated for it?

Of course, IANAL, so you'd want some professional advice.
You can make a single-page app that isn't bloated.
Yeah this is a fantasy for introverts and hermits.

This will not happen.

The world is run by Chads, who are by nature extroverted.
By hand using a native speaker.
I wonder, if we decriminalize drugs and give priority for licenses and rights to ex dealers and gangsters if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.

In a way it kills two birds with one stone, 1. Eliminates the criminal element, 2. Offers a financial incentive towards legitimizing their enterprise.

In another it might reward people who may have done a lot of bad things, and puts them in a legitimized position of power over people they may have been terrorizing for decades.
I mean, an 80% loss isn't good, but a 400% gain is pretty excellent. Growth like that is how you get to the moon!
Only if you allow click-bait to be a part of the A/B testing in the first place, which is where a sense of serious journalism comes into it.
still from working from home here. our office is open but my side boss said for the group to stay home. Im sure he will let us go in June but probably wont pressure people so WFH will probably be extended.
It's not entirely unprecedented. Modern cyrillic shapes are in part influenced by the printing press - when it was being imported in Russia, they didn't want to mill an entire new set of characters, so they repurposed the latin ones that look like cyrillic characters and only added the ones that were missing.
Of course, parent's suggestion will never pass, as it will require everyone everywhere to start using spaces, which is more trouble than it's worth to native language users.
10% is still pretty good.
Perhaps it's just a figure of speech, but I feel you should be challenged on the use of 'been conditioned to'. I see conditioning misused as an explanation all the time in tech discussions. This isn't an example of conditioning, but of anchoring, which if you want to view it through the lens of learning theory is an example of modelling rather than conditioning. But really it's better understood through the lens of behavioural economics. A value has been established and normalised, and other values are judged against it.

The reason I bring it up is that in changing user norms, it's much less helpful to think about them in stimulus response terms, than in terms of modelling other users behavior - which itself is guided by limitations on our capacity to process information, and heuristics which though adaptive are poorly adjusted to the modern media landscape. So people didn't flock to facebook initially because they were conditioned to prefer it - they used it because (in addition to offering a peek into the lives of others, it was cool). Conditioning is an important part of why people become addicted to the reward loops of social networking sites, but it's an insufficient explanation for their appeal and often misapplied.
Agree. I think you’ll still have young workers coming to the city.

But there’s less pressure to stay once you establish contacts and a solid job.
Ask HN: Tools for Researching Nasdaq Prices?
Can anyone recommend tools for researching nasdaq prices?
How do you imagine proximity to work becoming irrelevant affecting housing prices around job hubs?
I'd say that behavior is similar to if an individual in, say, a school or assembly, shouted "FIRE" upon witnessing a chemistry demonstration involving a controlled flame. If that somehow caused a stampede resulting in loss of life they might be held accountable by the courts. These acts on social media can be quite similar philosophically, so one would expect that the legal treatment should be similar (albeit perhaps adjusted proportionately for impact and reasonableness of the held belief).

I don't necessarily think that's what should be done in practice, but it seems consistent with how western society responds to this behavior in other settings.

I don't necessarily think there is a good solution, either - I just mean to say that people who do that, even if they are well-meaning, are behaving unethically. That's because they believe in their own perspective with 100% probability, but that's obviously unreasonable from a Bayesian perspective. If they accounted for even a small probability that they are wrong then their behavior would change dramatically.
This doesn't seem terribly surprising. If there's no vaccine anticipated for 2020 and office layout was never designed with social distancing in mind, it seems like those who can work remote should. Personally, I know I rather work in person with my teammates, but I also wouldn't want to risk my health or theirs (or any of our loved ones') over it. This feels like the responsible thing, to just allow the remainder of the year to be remote/from home.

I'm curious what this means long-term for other industries, though, and what a potential recovery looks like. From real estate to hospitality to services, I can't begin to comprehend the ripple effect that's currently taking shape.