skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the non-emotional constant demand for Apple shares caused by stock buybacks combined with a 7% weight in the S&P 500. Every new dollar invested in an index tracking ETF/mutual fund needs to buy 7c worth of Apple stock from someone.

It's a huge supply/demand problem. At what price will someone forego Apple shares? What happens when Apple is 10%, 15% etc of the S&P 500 index? Where will these shares to sell come from? At this point, why would anyone holding Apple shares outright sell?

This demand may only lead to a self reinforcing feedback loop where: a greater market cap (3T?) -> higher index weight (10+%) -> greater buying pressure -> more shares locked up in index funds (not available for sale) -> repeat

This is explains why there has been increasingly volatile movements in Apple shares. This lack of share liquidity works both directions: buying and selling. Not enough active investors are available to step in when passive investors (who now make up an enormous portion of capital markets) decide to start selling index tracking funds in bulk.
How do y’all mentally process that fact? Why does the stock market think the company is “worth” that?

My rationalizations:

Profits are ~$88B/yr. would take ~22 years to total $2T, sooner with growth. ...but shareholders don’t receive that whole profit, so why own?

Apple has room for growth, up to 2x in mobile and 5x in computers (assuming static market), making a cap of $8T look feasible.

Thoughts?
Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
> while Mexico has suffered under one party rule for decades

Yet now we suffer under two-party rule.
I once brought my old 17 inch MacBook Pro into an Apple Store because it had died. Apple Care had expired. They fixed it anyway (exchanged the motherboard in the process), at no cost. That's pretty customer centric.
Netflix pays engineers a lot and presents an interesting technology challenge. But you're right. They're actually a pretty amazing story. Burned 10 billion in the last 5 years and probably at least double that over their life. And they're on their third business model at this point with the first two having, more or less, failed.
Craigslist.

You can usually find a threadbare heavy equipment tire more easily though since most people with stones just let them sit whereas tires need to be disposed of.
hi! I'm an amateur martial artist and this looks cool! a lot of the training we do is for instance a single kick 100 times and getting the form right. it'd be a shame if a total beginner put on the wearable and punched with awful form. maybe you can make correct punches cause more damage(like a crit) so that players can get instant feedback of their form. Mike Tyson for example should be able to knock out a baddie in half as many hits as me. Imho it's counterproductive to learn the wrong way and it's really really hard to unlearn.

another option is skills drilling like minigames for players who want to level up without necessarily advancing in the game.

During covid quarantine I haven't been able to train with my teacher and I really miss it.
The Anytime fitness near me is open and there are always 5-6 cars there. Not sure what policies, if any, they have in place for safety.
Slack; email; IRC.

I use all of these. Plus Facebook.
> The last couple months has done more damage than good to me.

Me too. I live alone, and for the first 110 days of lockdown in the UK, I saw another human being that I know in person for 6 of those days. The toll that has taken on my mental health is huge.

Combine the lack of human interaction with the loss of everything that has value to me and my life outside of my job: restaurants, museums, sporting events, theatres, gyms, sporting activities, all of these things disappeared overnight, and most of them haven't returned still.

Instead, I've taken up volunteering (while still holding down a 60hr/week job) with local charities, helping those in the community around me who are more vulnerable and more in need than I am. Mostly helping out with food deliveries, which makes for good exercise, but often collecting drugs for them and delivering to them, which can make for decent cardio if the distances are right.

TL;DR: There are ways to achieve the goals you need for yourself, and simultaneously helping others rather than endangering them.

EDIT: watching the count on this post is amusing. Maybe it's worth being explicitly clear: despite the volunteering work, I am absolutely still depressed, and will continue to be until I can make meaningful changes to improve my life. There's no magic bullet when you sacrifice the things that give you meaning.
In other words, we although "see" in a two dimensional planar projection, we comprehend our environment in a 3D rationalized world.
The article seems pretty esoteric to me.
> Now we have a lot of governors issuing decrees based on emergency authorities that they’ve been using for six months. This is quite simply a conflict with our basic notion of democracy. We do not have rulers, yet our governors are issuing rules purportedly carrying the weight of law with no oversight from legislature.

That was my biggest issue with the whole situation in the USA. All of these emergency measures were done without any mention of timelines, all the while a vocal part of the population was saying "fuck your freedoms", and "millions of people will die if they lift the lockdown". It's like everyone forgot about the Patriot Act overnight, and doesn't realize that the government doesn't like giving up control after whatever "emergency" situation happens. Something needed to be done, but this whole situation made me lose a lot of faith in the government and my fellow Americans.
Humidity is a consistent climatic factor contributing to SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission
Hey kabes, I'm running into the exact same issues and posted almost the exact same Ask HN a few hours after you[0]. You're not alone! Eagerly watching this thread.

I'd also be curious to hear how I can make my system more robust in the face of these issues. Right now, Sendgrid reports these emails as "successfully processed" and so I don't have a good way to programmatically retry these jobs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24212202
I wasn't really saying anything about hndex, apart from that it indexes the contents of external articles submitted to HN, as you said.

The correction I was making was about HN Algolia search (which is linked from the search box at the bottom of each HN page), which only indexes content on news.ycombinator.com itself – i.e., article titles, comments and text-only posts like Show/Ask HN – but not the external content in submitted articles.
This kind of thinking is what leads to genocidal government policies.
I have seen somewhat successful attempts (in international markets) that used a similar approach. There are still some hard questions: how do you make sure that your clients receive consistent levels of service, what is the plan if a driver breaks the law (if/when something _really_ bad happens, clients typically don't like position "it's not us, we are just the app - blame the driver")
Very interesting, but what stops an adversary from spoofing a key 6' that was derived from 5 in the same way the network might? The same verification would derive 5 from 6', then 4, down to 0. What secret does the network have that allows for the next keygen to be done only by them?

EDIT: Does the network generate all X keys in advance in reverse or something?
When I injured my back (years ago), I had to go to physical therapy and use specific machines that isolated the muscles in order to help regenerate muscle in the area. The physical therapy office was connected to a health center which was essentially a public gym. Together with my trainer, we used the facility's weight lifting and resistance band machines in a safe and controlled manner.

It has since healed, and I am better now. However, there was a point in time where I had to continue going to the gym and keep using those weight machines. It took a few years before I was back to normal and could start working with more generalized equipment. So there's more than just a sports-focused need (like MMA fighting or football) for gym equipment, and that equipment cannot easily be substituted, nor can it be done safely with a bike or a heavy stone.
You deny the fact that at least 172,000 Americans have died from covid?
Ah awesome, thanks!!
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I was hoping this would be about how difficulty scales with piece count (I doubt it's linear), and what a practical limit for piece count would be in terms of the time to solve it. If I had to guess, it would be n^2.

Anecdotally, my grandma finds 500 piece puzzles a lot harder than 300.
> I thought it was more insulting for that person to value the work of hairdressers and manicurists and yoga instructors on an equal basis with firefighters, doctors, paramedics, and actual real "essential" workers.

Part of fairness is in treating equal things equally, and unequal things unequally.

Even talking about non-first responders, the folks in supermarkets are more essential on this spectrum than beauticians of various niches IMHO.
I think it's more than just optics, though. If they were called "authorized" businesses, it wouldn't just look bad - it'd be blindingly obvious why the specific set of shut down businesses should be responsive to public pressure and desires, rather than staying at some fixed level until public health authorities say otherwise.
You're just again repeating this same unscientific fearmongering as everyone else.

Yes, there are possible outcomes that are absolutely terrible and potentially even permanent! Nobody is debating this.

However, what we need to have a real and fact-based discussion is that how prevalent these outcomes are, what are they based on, and what groups are most affected.

Then we as a society can come together and choose what the appropriate response is.

Of course this all breaks down when you have a country of 382M people that refuses to even attempt the creation of smaller, more manageable communities.
It matters of course how many of how many are reporting that?

1/2 not worth it. 1/1000 - will take my chances. Covid seems to have flipped a switch in people's brains that make every probability 1.
Yes, I agree. Which area are you in which does this? It would be a good counterpoint article.
If that even works today (open wifi? Xfinity, AT&T, etc. hotspots?), it surely won't work in a few more years when cellular radios get cheap enough to just stick them in every TV.
It is a failure of imagination to think that everything can be bought. Many things do not have a monetary equivalent.
Why do essential workers all have to be valued on an equal basis as firefighters, doctors, etc?

Because that's what the word "essential" means: Things you can't do without. Not "things I really really really like."

How are you measuring value?

People who save lives > people who don't save lives.
Most people use the reddit downloader bot to download and send the video. You'll see it summoned in every popular video thread.
8. Don't overtly screw people on the way up.

Most 'wealthy & successful' people I have known screwed people and never learned how to not do that and ended up paranoid about everyone since they don't know who they screwed.
Unfortunately, a good machine learning trading method would never be revealed publicly, and one would have to start from scratch if one wants to learn how to do it.
if you can't make a 1-min poop, apart from other specific physiological reasons, it means you should check your diet, in my opinion. If you get the right amount of fiber and enough water, the whole thing shouldn't take more than that.
This and a squatty potty have been life changing for me.
I've heard it mentioned before, will definitely have to look into it - thanks! :)
Is the app store really valuable ? How often do we read about app store devs becoming millionaires (they don't). Users spend 97% of their time in the top 10 (free) apps from the usual suspects. App development is a dead end business.

Apple is a premium products company and software was (and will be) always cheap so there s no way they will make their usual profit margins on that. They need to keep selling premium stuff, which has to be physical. At best they can add some premium content , but that's it.
I don't think it's nearly that easy. I find myself constantly struggling with the balance between proper precaution and not completely shutting down my life.

Do I invite friends for a nice socially distanced lunch in the park? Maybe or do that quick trip to Home Depot to get supplies for my projects at home. That feels easy to justify, one quick trip and these projects could keep me busy for weeks. But is it easy to justify because I WANT to do it, or because it's actually a good idea. It's always easy to rationalize something you want, and often hard to know your doing it.

Sure, my trip to Home Depot is probably fine. I'm probably healthy, and wouldn't pick up anything on the outing, but on the other hand it's optional, and what if I picked up Covid on my last trip to the grocery store, and wind up passing it on to some 70 year old who HAS to go to Home Depot because their toilet broke.

It's a hard line to know what is the proper amount of caution. At least for me. Very much unlike walking out a space station airlock, where the proper precaution is very clear.
I don't think metrics like P/E ratio are as useful as before any longer when analyzing companies like this. The FED printing money and lack of other investments in this zero-interest rate economy has a significant role in raising stock/asset prices.
Wealth of ‘Oligarchic Dozen’ reaches one trillion dollars
How isolated are you? You only eat food you've stored? You've been doing that the last 4 months?

If you go to the grocery store or receive deliveries, you're not isolated, and government policy that reduces viral spread benefits you.
This law is way way way overdue. American Corporations are killing Mexico's youth with junk food. I know kids who exclusively drink soda. Healthy, beautiful kids who deserve to go out and play and live their best lives.
How is a reckless driver endangering you, if you are driving safely?
> > That is not much higher than flu.

> It's pretty locked down. You have an app that unless it's says healthy you are not allowed into any public place.

The explicit comparison to the flu doesn't really seem to hold, since the conditions applied to the infected aren't equal. If those carrying the flu were subject to the same conditions as those carrying this covid-19, the comparison would hold up a lot better.

> I illustrated it as a place in which there is so much mass testing that the mortality figures are more fact than fiction.

Mortality numbers as a % of tested peoples are hugely variable due to the differences in testing between nations.

Mortality numbers as a % of the population (deaths per 100k/1m) make for good comparisons, and unless the nation is engaging in outright deception, those numbers are reasonable to use as a comparison.

According to https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality the USA has 52.52 deaths per 100k. In line with your previous, Qatar has 6.94 deaths per 100k.

10x more people have died in the USA vs in Qatar. What's going on?
I'm not saying Phase III is really expensive, it is. But you're also ignoring the failure rates of Phase I and Phase II. If you only count the success rate of Phase I's that make it to Phase III and beyond then you're ignoring >80% of the basic research cost.
> I'll be honest, this is probably the most ridiculous argument against anything I've ever heard on hacker news. This is like saying C/gcc sucks because Javascript exists. What the fuck?

Well, sorry you feel that way. /s

The difference is that C and Javascript are widely implemented open standards. Lightroom, Darktable and RawTherapee are using three different opaque, undocumented approaches to developing raw images. Neither one has been reimplemented in other software, and it would be extraordinarily difficult to actually do that, because of all the specificity and quirks. You basically need the original software, which means making sure you can still compile it, making sure you have a platform it can run on, and so on. This is more complexity than most people ordinarily expect when they talk about "backing up photos", and that's exactly my point.

> So... it's a non issue? I don't even...

I should probably not even bother responding, since you already showed with your original comment that you didn't bother to even read my post, but I really don't get this. I explained a very specific issue: that there's a lot of complexity to developing raw photos, which means you have to take extra steps to make sure your edits are properly backed up. Open source software has a distinct advantage because you can archive a copy of the software yourself, but it doesn't change the fact that you do need the original software. And in fact you might need the same version, that's what the example of DNG conversion is supposed to illustrate.

This is ... the opposite of a non-issue. In fact it's a very specific issue that I took quite a bit of time to explain in detail. Having to back up your software, or possibly even an entire VM along with your photos to make sure your edits are preserved, goes way beyond what your average person, or even many photographers think they have to do to keep proper backups.
Yeah, started avoiding reddit links just because of that and also because you usually land somewhere else than what you where after and have to scroll. Not interested
The big company was more vulnerable to systemic risk due to inflexibility, the small companies are more vulnerable to individual risks due to employee action or lack of controls.

This is incredibly well said and worth highlighting.
> Thankfully you don't need to go through the president to get this information.

Hospitals are sending their data directly to the white house bypassing the CDC. [1]

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/white-house-hospitals-...
You don't know that. The way we think changed a lot in the last 40 years.
Researching the causes and dynamics of these changes are very hard to study and even harder to correlate and then much more to prove causation. We basically don't have the scientific means or theory for this type of long term changes.

It could very much be that kids that grew on TV have some other thought patterns that caused the reality we live in today. It's extremely confounded on so many things. We cant really know for sure anything about it.

The fact that some knowledge and intelligence is not accessible to science (today) doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just that we don't have the tools to study it, yet.
How usable do you find the keyboard with a terminal? I had not heard about these before today but I am curious now.

Both the Gemini and the Cosmo look almost perfect as a portable terminal - the only thing I can see missing is usb-c power delivery for docking.
I feel like we were always taught that taxes were significantly better at curbing usage compared to bans or limits - the classic example being the cigarette tax
Once you start training weighted exercises it's very difficult to get similar workouts with bodyweight. If I'm squatting 250lb it's going to be tough to simulate that with my bodyweight and I'm not likely to be able to load the reps the same way.
Pineapples could be key to treating the new coronavirus
> You could have one pamphlet with the policy, and a separate book with the reasoning, and instruct people to check the book when proposing a change or exception.

That's still a significant trade-off: putting together a book with the reasoning would be a lot more expensive than just creating the pamphlet. Your organization might not be able to afford the cost, period, or your boss may not agree to spend all that money just to make a minority of engineers happy in a few narrow cases. Then there's the question of how many people would actually consult the book of rationales; maybe it'd only be a handful.

I'm guessing most organizations tend to pursue a "minimum viable policy" tradeoff: spend as little effort as possible to create a policy that addresses a particular set of high-priority problems (since that is easily justifiable), and ignore more theoretical concerns like worker education and the personality preferences of certain kinds of individuals.
'Coup 53' tells the story of 1953 campaign by MI6 and CIA to oust Iran's leader
in addition to margins and growth, their cash position and the very low interest rates play a role, Apple just borrowed $5.5bn over 40 years for 2.55%: https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-is-the-latest-to-tap-...
> plain Linux

> Netflix app

Choose one.
Yes, say for example few people have 2 weeks of food in their house. That makes the grocery store "essential" during a 15 day period. If the grocery store is essential for the 15 day period then all the activity that goes behind a working grocery store within a 15 day period is essential.
I recently found r/bodyweightfitness when trying to figure out how the heck to make the first pull-up happen. Tons of helpful information there.
I have had nothing but bad experiences with Lenovo ThinkPads, and refuse to buy anything else of theirs (especially in the wake of Superfish).

I had a T60 that had the both hinges snap in the case in normal operation, x230 screen broke and it refuses to start without reinserting the battery. I had similar screen issues with an x100e but at least that didn't have a quality persona around it, so I can't say I'm surprised.

I gave up a while ago and just use an iPad for everything (currently a student so I use the pencil heavily). If something warrants me using a keyboard then I just do at home with a tiny NUC I bought for cheap (HP EliteDesk 705 G2 Mini).
Amazon's own Android AppStore is not very popular and doesn't offer all important apps. They would need to implement the Google Play Store to be successful - at least in markets like North America and Europe - and they obviously don't want that.

It's why WindowsPhone and BlackBerry10 failed - fantastic OS but a lack of apps.
That's 172,000 dead with all the (somewhat) strict measures being taken.
Do you plan to avoid COVID forever? Do you believe you will never get it? Do you expect to isolate yourself until an effective and reliable vaccine is available to you? How long can you do that for? Are you most concerned with not getting it yourself, or with reducing the overall death count by not overloading the healthcare system?
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I also love this idea, and the body harness looks like a very innovative approach.

I agree with many of the concerns OP mentions, especially the need for a variety of engaging games. The demo game feels a little too cartoony for my taste, would love to see more titles in different styles.

Another concern I have is how can it help reinforce proper posture, body positioning, and footwork? I realize this is very difficult to address, but those fundamentals are extremely important and seem to me to be areas where many beginners could develop bad habits if not corrected somehow.
Fortunatley I've never surpassed 15,000 lines on a personal project!