skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With the current state of the economy, I'm not expecting anything better after a bust.

As someone who has another couple decades until retirement, a drop in asset prices would be great for me personally (though I'm sure it would be painful for many Baby Boomers).

For better or worse I wasn't very liquid when the stock market indexes tanked in March. Another lessons learned: invest in bonds at least a bit, not only to reduce volatility, but also because you'll have some 'dry powder' available to be able to rebalance when you equities take a hit.

Though total returns on bonds isn't too bad:

> The Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQ) is up an astonishing 25.5% this year during a pandemic and that’s including a 29% peak-to-trough drawdown. But the long-term treasury ETF (TLT) is up 27.3%.

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/08/why-would-anyone-ow...
> In my experience, puzzles are rarely/never simply exact columns and rows

In my experience, they exactly are.

Of course, there are plenty of "unconventional" ones too, but the majority has rigid row/column layout.
So Agent Cody Banks was realistic after all: https://www.icollector.com/item.aspx?i=16246907&mobile=0
I have a gargantuan phone now (which I can't stand, but anyway), but I think my typing accuracy is worse than it was on 2013-era Android, and I think that it's because the keyboard software is getting worse and worse.

Virtually every single time I have to enter anything more than "ok" or "5m", it's a frustrating experience.

The only reason I put up with it is that I never need to write emails or engage in long chats on the phone. I just use a computer for those. If I'm not home, well, you might have to wait until I get home to chat with me. This is a rather stark difference from the Blackberry days, I was happily emailing and chatting away on mine even at home with a computer within easy reach.

Since the pandemic started, I only use my phone for the 2FA app. It's regularly a chore to even find it, when it's been a week since I've used it and the battery is dead, so "Find my phone" can't be used.

Side note, I just got a new phone in December... considered the more expensive S10e, but ended up with the dirt cheap ($150 shipped) Moto G6. Man, was that a great decision in hindsight or what!
Smartphone could tell if you are drunk by analyzing your walk
Warrants aren't given out to several types of people with a legitimate reason to need the access.

A better alternative is to have strict recording and auditing of requests and legal accountability for abusing the access (such as renting it out on fiverr).
> One interesting thing I noticed is my kids who have grown up with touchscreens think that everything is a touchscreen.

I had a cat like that once. he had been playing a cat game on the iPad and managed to get pretty good at it. later, I was doing a project that involved several small touch screens. it became difficult to work on the project when he was around, as he saw images on the screen and started pawing them, trying to get them to move and make sound.

not just kids. cats as well.
Wait for the last minute Kodak bid (which, while improbable and bonkers, would also make at least a kind of sense)
Is this really how Harper's distributes its content digitally?
Show HN: Mockito Object Injection JUnit5 extension v2.0.0 released
https://github.com/exabrial/mockito-object-injection

One of the big problems running Unit Tests with Spring is what to do about @Value String string; fields. Since String can't be mocked, a lot of people are forced to use constructor injection or legacy getters/setters, leaving remnants of test code in their codebase.

Mockito Object Injection is a JUnit5 extension that can set arbitrary fields on your objects under test. This cleans up your codebase and avoids the use of poor-er alternatives, such as usage of reflection APIs in tests, constructor injection, getter/setters, package visible fields, etc.
How to host a safe photo shoot during Covid19 and meet with clients safely
You can choose to put less sugar in your homemade pastries. I sometimes bake cookies at home and I use less than half the "recommended" sugar amount, and they still taste sweet. I've never really liked commercial sweet baked food because the high amount of sugar causes a "burning" sensation when I eat them.
Would this make the cartels even stronger?
for classical music there was a really cool site I stumbled over years ago called getintoclassical exactly for that purpose, it somehow vanished from the internet, but it still is on archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140313070112/http://www.getint...
Same deal. If either of those groups tell you to close (and they already have, in the case of speakeasy gyms), who do you think shows up next to make sure you’re closed?

It’s not men carrying clipboards. They’re carrying pistols, and they have machine guns in the trunk of the vehicle they drove there.

DO NOT call the state to solve your problems.

If you wouldn’t solve the problem by taking a gun over there, don’t call someone else to do that.
In terms of usability, it's been said that Google Maps isn't about being a useful map application, but being a business directory with a map interface.
Thank you. I came here to call out this.
I will say that implementing a phone is not easy. Just look at the issues Palm and Blackberry have had to stay relevant. Nokia did for a while, but finally went with Android. At least in the American market, it seems that Motorola, Samsung, Google, and Apple are the winners these days.
How is it possible that the key announcement of this development includes absolutely no photo of the purported keyboard?
Reddit:

1. Amateur porn aggregators.
2. Financial noobs with Robinhood accounts.

Fight me.
Where is that money going to come from, if we've destroyed the engine of the economy? Small business is the engine of the economy, and since they can't afford FAANG's Irish Double Dutch sandwich tax dodges, they actually pay most of the taxes. With small businesses and their employees gone and not paying taxes, there is quite simply no money to spend. History shows that you can only print your way out of such a situation for a very short time...
31M people just recently lost the $600 weekly unemployment boost that was keeping them afloat. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/06/600-dolla...) Tens of millions are facing eviction in the coming months. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eviction-23-million-october/)

The damage from this is just getting started, we're already in recession, and the stock market is setting all-time highs. It's a bit bizarre.
The U.K. used an algorithm to estimate exam results; calculations favored elites
Ellison must know something otherwise he probably wouldn’t be a Tesla board member.
>Not sure where you're getting your numbers from

Google's info cards. I'll have to just pull them all from Yahoo and edit the original, I guess.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass this on to our web developer and we'll try to get those items addressed ASAP.
Seriously? Have you read the doctrine of equivalents?

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

And moreover, patented drugs are repurposed all the time and always by their original developers. Show me a counterexample!
Keeping sync fast with automated performance regression detection
The Fed is printing money and giving it away. The only way for most people to become one of the recipients is to buy stocks.
> The virus that causes COVID-19 is thought to spread mainly from person to person, mainly through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs. Spread is more likely when people are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html#Spread

What, without evidence of it ever spreading from one person to another in a grocery store, you believe it isn't possible? Is extrapolating the knowledge of how it spreads to the possibility of encountering that situation in a grocery store not viable here? Shall we wait for evidence of spread in every single possible permutation of leaving the house before we consider such an activity potentially dangerous?

I was challenging isolation. I go grocery shopping - I think it can be done safely. But, I wouldn't do it if I lived in some red state full of pandemic deniers with huge spread rates - it's too dangerous. In my area, everyone wears masks, everyone makes sure to social distance, so it's not as much of a risk. But I acknowledge that I'm not isolated, and that was the claim that was made.
Releasing model weights is more powerful, but far less accessible than releasing an API. You can easily waste an hour trying to get a model from a research paper running, even when everything works smoothly, just having the wrong environment or dependencies. And that’s for people who are already savvy with ML. Releasing a Docker container is a lot closer to making things easily accessible but still not close to an API. If you look at the audience using GPT-3, a lot of it is software engineers who are experienced but don’t have AI-centric experience. In practice, making an API available is making the model available to many more people.
Running around causing total havoc in the hotel's dining room, like we did as kids 30 years ago, might have been beneficial for us, but I'm sure it wasn't helping with my parents' high blood pressure condition. And I'm sure other guests would appreciate more us sitting quietly and looking at the screens if it was possible at that time.
Are people using LinkedIn messaging for anything other than occasionally responding to recruiters? Can't that just wait until you get home?
Well, sure. You can also switch to Robin-Hood linear probing to work well at high load factors and retain the almost never >1 DRAM hit. These are just various hash table options to claw back some load factor ratios of space usage.
I don't think that rage has anything to do with addiction. If someone took away the healthy foods I like to eat I would be enraged too. People just don't like outsiders micromanaging their daily lives.
Two parties at least can compete with each other.

One party would only have internal competition.
As a non-American in a more or less socially unified country, I am really enjoying all the responses from Americans in this thread.
This is why I would never want to be a businessman, much easier to just let the big dogs handle it while I focus on the code.
Hi everyone, one of the authors here! Happy to answer questions about the post, our framework, or how we handle sync perf in general
Hey! There's no way to share a direct link to a section of the KS page unfortunatey, but it's section 12, right after the "Reward tiers" :)
What kind of flour has sugar in it? Most flours are a mixture of starches and protein from grinding up a grain. Starches take more work to digest than sugars, so they don't spike blood sugar levels as quickly.
Not a single word about how literally all these problems only exist because miners try to suck out as much money as they can. Miners are the leeches in the system that blockchain tech claimed to remove. And they suck out millions or dollars every day. If you look at the most popular coins most of them still have these leeches.
Apple's PE right this moment is 35.13
We live in a society. There are rules and consequences to breaking them.
I think of coding as being more commonly associated with playing an instrument, but there may be something here too.
Mizar System
Starlink has probably 1M+ customers lined up. Their base station will be plug-n-play, no technicians needed. Plug in, point at sky, order independent.
The stock market and the economy have never really been converged though. Stock prices are based on nothing more than the supply and demand of the stock itself. That supply and demand has nothing to do with how well a company is actually doing. It usually tracks company performance but if everyone wanted to buy the stock of a bankrupt company, the stocks value would still rise. It’s all an illusion and it never had anything to do with the economy which is actually just the aggregate confidence of consumers and businesses in the future.
What is dangerous about banning products with added sugar?

I mean, I'm against it. A lot of traditional foods, like fruit preserves, have added sugar.

But what is danger, exactly? People would just not have food that tastes as good...
Their video hosting service is pure garbage. It is slow and very often I see pixelated videos even though internet speed is not an issue.
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That works out to 2.06% a year. That's not "igniting".

I'm old enough to have seen 14% per year inflation in the 1970s, so 2% doesn't impress me as inflation igniting. More to the point... where's the inflation from QE in 2008? It, um, never really showed up. We continued creeping along at 2% a year, sometimes less. So I'd regard that as experimental refutation of the "Fed printing money, so inflation is going to ignite" thesis.

More precisely, I think the Fed printing money can ignite inflation, if they print more than the economy grows. In 2008, they didn't do that with QE. They created $4 trillion, which almost exactly offset the $4 trillion that vaporized in the crash, and the result was that we avoided another Great Depression without igniting inflation. The Covid crisis... well, it's too early to tell, but they might pull off the same feat.

2% inflation per year since 2000 is evidence of great stability, not of out-of-control Fed money printing.
What you are suggesting is completely mad.

The average US citizen cannot be expected to have a nuanced enough understanding of pharmacology to make informed decisions about the safety and efficacy of drugs. Even trained and licensed physicians often have difficulties making such decisions in non-mundane situations, and rely heavily upon their pharmacy colleagues (either by way of consulting practice-specific literature, or actually consulting with a qualified pharmacist) to assist with making determinations about what would be safe and effective to administer.
> Covid just frontloads some death for old people and ones with comorbirbidities

When the actions to prevent these people from dying, uh "just earlier than they would have," are as simple as wearing a mask and social distancing, it is unethical to not do so.
Since you were anti-tv you probably kept an eye on what they were watching. TV or tablets aren’t the concern themselves, but the content pushed on them. I learned quite a bit from TV back in the 90s, luckily back then I didn’t have access to addictive junk.
Those things aren't sugar though.
BB10 had the opportunity to support security and the open web, instead of chasing the app store quagmire. WebOS is now open-source and based on OpenEmbedded, which can be minimized. Blackberry has already ported some of their special sauce to Android, they could do the same for WebOS, extracting suitable components from both BB10 and QNX/automotive.

Instead of worrying about apps (previous war), they could invest in a Rust-based browser and WebAssembly for mobile devices, building on their security strengths. Allow the 'mobile' device to dock with USB-C to a desktop display and keyboard, and you've got a WFH story for security-sensitive apps/data. They have enough proprietary security software to sell on top of WebOS.

Convert Blackberry Messenger to IETF MLS (open-standard E2E encrypted group messaging) and enable interop with Matrix and other apps/platforms that embrace MLS, while (re)creating a business identity network. By focusing on open standards and honoring their heritage in email/chat and physical UX, they could provide a usable alternative for high-end users who favor productivity and security without lock-in. Yes, BB was once the king of carrier gardens, but Apple is now a garden to be escaped, not emulated.

There may be Firefox browser engineers recently on the market, who can hit the ground running with variations of the above strategy. LG, lead developer of OSS WebOS, does not compete with QNX or Blackberry. QNX remains an undervalued gem. A hybrid OSS+proprietary model can bridge BB past & future, but it requires vision from Blackberry, not only a new brand licensee.
That's true, thanks for the input! :)
By my rough calculations, for a 35M, going to the gym during Covid for an hour a day, for 160 straight days (so 6.67 days of gym time), can be expected to cut one's life expectancy by about 10 days.

Odds of dying this year: 0.002138 [1]. Odds of dying this year if they get Covid: 0.00271 (~n*1.3) [2]

Odds of contracting Covid over 160 days if going to gym: 60% Odds of contracting Covid if not going to Gym: 43% (assuming 10 people at the gym each time, 1 hour workout durations, odds of someone at Gym having it in any one session at .025%, and odds of catching it 20% at gym).

Now what about the negative second order affects of spreading it to others? I did not model those, but I think at this point there could be a compelling case that not catching it now might be net harmful to the folks at high risk, since they would need to remain in lockdown if there remains a large number of people around who are not immune.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v...
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This was to be compatible with the spreadsheet program called Lotus 123. At the time microsoft made excel, Lotus was very popular. As such compatibility was essential. Lotus 123 made the mistake.
So your bigotry is justified because conservatives as a cohort exhibit elevated levels of certain unfavorable attributes?
I think you're understating the impact of discount rates here. Long term interest rates are down ~70 bps from their previous all-time low in 2016 and something like 130 bps from their average over the period you're describing. That's a huge change, especially if you expect Apple's profits to come in over a long duration.

There's probably been a shift in investor preference in favor of equities too (which means decreases in interest rates are smaller than the decrease in discount rates used for investors' DCF valuation of equities), but I think "mania" is far too strong a word. I think of it more as a result of investors shifting to riskier assets as returns to capital decline in general, in part due to leverage aversion. I mean, how else are you supposed to deploy your capital? Buy the junk bonds that are currently being issued at yields below 3%?
> Why do randos think they understand the threat model better than the CDC and state medical authorities?

This is HN. We get a post on at least a weekly basis to the effect of: medications shouldn’t require prescriptions, anyone with an internet connection and a couple brain cells can manage their own care.

HN: home of “no one in management can possibly understand the technical complexity of software” and “who needs doctors, obviously I can easily understand that other enormous technical field.”
This timeline sucks
A 20oz bottle of Coke, which is a very common consumption choice given it's prevalence, has 65g of sugar. That is not normal sugar consumption. Fruit sugars are offset by the fiber content. Sugary beverages have no redeeming nutritional qualities.

WHO recommends no more than 50g per day for adults, and preferably less than 25g.
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-gui...
You can buy fractional stock in an ETF with Robinhood. It's the savings account for everyone. RH revolutionized this with their commission-free trading and app access.
Do they? The distinction may be lost on consumers, and if an uncertified drug harms people or fails to work and they die before further methods can be tried, it may harm people's trust in the medical system as a whole, causing them to turn to snake oil treatments with even less of a scientific foundation / vetting for harmfulness.

If snake oil can kill Steve Jobs, don't think you and your loved ones are immune.
They won’t buy companies that bring their margin down; automakers have been struggling on hair-thin margins for years.
Guessing some kind of device for stealthy Van Eck Phreaking.
The problem is, what's post-COVID? The virus won't be eradicated any time soon, even after a vaccine arrives; most experts predict a timeline of decades to never. I doubt many mayors are supervillains who want to keep people miserable just for the sake of it - but I worry that quite a few might feel like they have to as long as cases are being detected. (Why do we still have strict TSA restrictions, even though everyone agrees they make flying miserable and everyone knows they're unreliable at actually detecting dangerous objects in luggage?)
I don't think you interpreted my comment correctly. I was insulting the legislature by pointing out that they have no problem showing up and voting to curtail people's freedoms for nefarious reasons without a pandemic so there's no good reason they can't vote every few months on whether or not to continue to curtail people's freedoms to mitigate a pandemic.
Name, email, address. The form is on their site and they had to ask the FCC for 5x base station licenses after they put this up. I doubt they have to figure out much.
for a while I was traveling quite a bit, which meant a lot of rental cars (I drove so many cars in the fleet that I'd often get duplicates that my phone was already set up in).

the most annoying thing that I ran into was a ford running an early version of Microsoft's car dashboard (I think it was sync?) - when a popup came up in front of the speedometer with an "ok" button to dismiss it. it was on the freeway, and it wasn't until I made it to campus that I was able to get it to go away by powering down and powering up the car (rebooting it). it wasn't a touchscreen, so no idea why anyone thought a dialog box was needed, and it was cut off, so I still don't know what it wanted me to do.
By all means, stay healthy. But don't endanger other people's lives to satiate your vanity.

And let's be clear here: This isn't about the "health" of the gym-goers. It's about preserving their self-image.
Taking away someone's preferred food can mean taking away part of their culture, a connection to memories of their childhood, the only part of their day they look forward to, etc.

People can love and care about unhealthy things without being addicted to them. Most white people would hate to give up cancer-causing time out in the sun, but that doesn't mean it's an addiction.
And with this (finally) dies one of the few remaining serious usages of an AVL tree.
This is where the definition of "developing" matters.

It's also worth noting I would never try to compare the USA to other nations typically lumped under the now-vague definition of "first-world." The USA fails at many things.
The US doesn't have a history of defaulting on its sovereign debt, and I haven't heard any serious claims that that is going to change anytime soon. In fact, its a great time for the government to take on debt, since even very long term debt costs less than inflation - 30 year debt is 1.4%, and 10 year debt is <0.7%: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...