skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By holding interest rates so low, the Fed has created a double-bind: despite the systemic risks (which are very high) people who have investable cash have two options: the stock market or paying down debt.

The stock market is being "invested" in not because it is a good investment at this point (it isn't) but because there is no where else to go. If interest rates ever revert to anything normal, it will get crushed. In the meantime this means that large, multinational companies are flush and are able to destroy smaller, more local competition. This trend is aided by the lockdowns, as well as the fact that large companies have access to the extremely low interest rates, but smaller players do not. You will continue to pay usurious rates on credit cards and most small business loans, while Global Corp. can issue corporate debt as very low rates.

Paying down debt is the opposite of what the Fed wants: in our system debt is the true money supply, so when debt is extinguished the money supply contracts. You can see this clearly in 2008:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TCMDO

Steve Keen outlines our best hope, a modern debt jubilee, here:

http://www.profstevekeen.com/modern-debt-jubilee/
I think it’s pretty simple, actually. Start playing an instrument (or dig deeper into playing an instrument). Most “music buffs” I respect are decent musicians themselves. I great prefer a musician’s music recommendations to a music critic’s who doesn’t play.
Yep, most expensive part of local budgets by far.
I agree. Vim is inherently keyboard-focused. That Emacs is not, and instead focuses on the command as the fundamental unit driving everything, is its primary strength.

This is what makes Emacs more flexible than Vim to the point where there's a very faithful reimplementation of Vim for Emacs. Couldn't do the opposite, even if you wanted to.
Section 4 definitely starts with an actual audio recording. But it ends with Figure 7, which shows the relationship between all possible keys and their simulated sounds. The simulation was "based on real-world acoustic data", but figure 7 is not a property of a single actual recording, it is a property of all simulated recordings.

You could still be right. I've been reading again, and I'm having a hard time telling apart statements about how their tool works in general, vs. statements of a particular test of it.

If they actually tested this thing end-to-end, I would expect to be able to answer (i) how many actual key recordings did they test it on?, and (ii) did it work? Was the actual key found among the 3 (or however many) candidates?
Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs
GM says over 40% of new China launches in next five years will be EVs
Emacs is an editor construction kit.

Use your imagination and build a different editor.
From the New York Times this morning, about the irrational stock market:

"As irrational as it might seem, here’s the way investors rationalize the bullish stock market to themselves (we’ll only find out whether they are right or wrong in the future):

1. The stock market is forward-looking: Investors are betting on what the world and the economy look like in 12 to 18 months from now, not what they look like today, tomorrow or this fall.

2. The big get bigger: Much of the stock market’s success has been the result of a run-up in value for a few big technology companies — including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft — that make up a large share of the index. And retailers like Walmart and Home Depot are growing in part because small businesses have closed, allowing the bigger companies to take even more market share.

3. Betting on a vaccine: Given the daily headlines about the potential for a vaccine, investors want to be invested in the market when the news comes that there is a genuine vaccine, on the assumption that it will send stocks even higher.

4. The only game in town: With the Federal Reserve planning to print money for the foreseeable future, investors don’t want to be in cash or bonds, which are steadily losing value. So where else can they put their money? The stock market has become a default.

5. Help from Washington: As dysfunctional as Congress has proved to be, investors are betting that Republicans and Democrats will find a way to keep plying the economy with stimulus. (Anecdotal stories suggest some Americans have even taken their $600 unemployment checks and invested them in the stock market.)

Of course, all of these rationalizations don’t take into account the possibility of a terrible second or third coronavirus wave, a delay in the discovery of a vaccine, a constitutional crisis come the election in November, runaway inflation, the prospect of higher taxes to pay for the stimulus, a more significant trade war with China, or the dozens of other risks that seem to be bubbling just below — and in some cases on — the surface.

In the meantime, happy trading!"

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#4 I hadn’t thought of, and is a VERY troubling sign I think. Cash is devaluing because of inflation. Bonds are devaluing because of a loss of hope of future repayment (they are debt instruments).
UK consumers increasingly wary of cyber crime
4G is more than enough for what I need (I'm going to assume now that anywhere at all populated in these countries already have decent 4G or will have within the foreseeable future). This is the case already in e.g. Northern rural Sweden. It's far far less densely populated than anywhere in Italy.
If one isn’t actively forcing, what’s the difference between sitting on the loo and sitting on a chair?

Is there evidence that lingering on the loo in a relaxed state causes problems?
Something to keep in mind - experienced devops and security experts are extremely valuable, at the same time ML beginners are in oversupply. Do you really want to put yourself at a massive disadvantage in the near to medium term, especially if the future of ML is kind of uncertain while with your other skillset you can have a pretty stable career?

As someone working in ML (a couple of years of experience), I'd much rather be in your position than mine.
>We've gone from ~4% unemployment to 10-15%. Which sounds bad. But if you flip it around, we've gone from 96% employment to 85-90%. The vast majority of people are still employed and the economy is mostly still humming along.

This is not how it works.

The US measures unemployment using levels, the 10-15% are U-3, which only counts people without jobs who are in the labor force. To remain in the labor force, they must have looked for a job in the last four weeks.

The U-6, or real unemployment rate, includes the underemployed, the marginally attached, and discouraged workers and is at 25%.

There are plenty of deeper explanations online but basically politicians love to talk about U-3 but the true unemployment is U-6.
I was able to find the store that offers these, and a bunch more. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music
Right but Munich is the worst in all of Germany, rather than a typical example. It's like quoting SFBA housing costs as an example for the US.
Looks like you edited your comment with a lot of alternate systems, but all the examples you gave are ones that aren't expensive to develop. You have to prove drugs work and take a significant amount of risk that you don't take with software projects like those.

And you've added this idea of a prize based system. Who gets the prize in a system without ownership of IP?

Again, having a clear alternative before tearing down a system that produces things you want (e.g. new drugs to cure diseases) is kind of important. Just eliminating the system because there will be "opportunities" to figure out better ways of doing things later basically just means eliminating the system completely. Drug development is not a net negative to society. Having a new gene therapy to cure a deadly rare disease that costs way too much and isn't accessible is better than just not having that therapy at all.
I think you should just use old.reddit.com

There are annoying quirks like some links in comments and wiki/sidebar can take you to new reddit site and it is harder to solve this on FF mobile. But I strongly prefer that over whatever abomination their new design is.

Even leaving aside the UI aspects, the annoying thing about their new site is, it progressively keeps turning bad, earlier it was just that ugly banner for app install or the collapsed comments, or the new page redirection. But now for some reason a lot of communities fail to open in the new design. I don't know why Reddit hates the web so much, they can very well show the ads there as well.
Bao is a mancala.
Free markets are just something you say. The voters who claim to care think the free market are coupons at the supermarket or something anyway.

The political contributions of the sheet metal shop in your district that stamps some widget for the F-35 at 50x market price definitely matter.
Are you on iOS?

I was on Android until a few months ago. If I was sent a Reddit link it would open in the Reddit app I liked, no need to ever even look at the mobile site. I was shocked that that seemingly basic feature ISN'T available on iOS. Instead my options are view the Reddit link in browser or on the official Reddit app.

Most of the time I just choose not to click the link because of that.
I think framing it as a punishment is a bit disingenuous. The idea is not to punish rich people, the idea is to change how the tax burden is distributed. I would turn the question around and ask why we as a society are intent on punishing the middle class with the tax burden?
Start off with the beatles and branch off forwards and backwards from there, I guess?
I was initially skeptical of Obsidian, but...

(1) It’s not proprietary - it’s a browser +/- IDE for markdown files. I point it at the folder in my Dropbox directory where I already keep all my md files. It’s a new front-end, but doesn’t lock me into anything.

(2) As an extension of 1, I can continue using NotePlan as my calendar/todo on my phone (which builds everything into md files), and Kiwi to access all of the above on my phone as a personal wiki.

(2) was already my workflow and knowledge base; Obsidian just made for a nicer editing/browsing tool on PC.

The key is that, as what is essentially a wiki, both the files/notes and their interrelationships are conserved/non-proprietary, regardless of what happens to the chosen software in the future. No lock-in for any part of my calendar, workflow, or knowledge base, and all three can point to one another because it’s all just md in the same folder.
Weird, how did they pay these people without emergency covid funding??
New Glenn is a lot bigger than Falcon, though. It has twice the capacity to LEO by weight and more than twice by volume. So if a Kuiper satellite is the same size as a Starlink one, they should be able to launch 120 per flight. 14 flights to get above 1618. That could be done within a single year, although that's a big ask for a company that hasn't hit orbit yet...
> Like I said, the Scandinavian countries attained the highest standard of living ranking in the 1960s, when they were still very free market oriented and had moderate tax rates, and had just had a century of the best economic growth rates in the world, again with free market economic policies.

As a Scandinavian that is an absolutely ridiculous claim. The free market period is now, with its quickly widening inequality, and the more socialistic period was during the period you claim to be "very free market" oriented.
Requiring strict adherence to arbitrary bureaucratic norms, and particularly berating someone for daring to question them, is absolutely abusive.

An awful lot of corporate culture is abusive, and designed primarily to give managers a warm fuzzy feeling of absolute control over their subordinates. Much of it derives directly from the assembly-line era, and much of the overall philosophy behind it is just thinly-veiled feudalism.

"But everyone does it this way" is not a valid defense against "this behaviour is abusive and designed to squeeze the agency and will to be more than a drone out of me."
> Oracle's chairman Larry Ellison is a supporter of Mr Trump and held a fundraising event for him in February.

The article in a nutshell. MS isn't as friendly to Trump I guess?
No motion tracker for legs

cries in Muay Thai
Reddit = China
So they can track you more covertly with their app.
Maybe, but from experience I can assure you that engineers are just as capable of ruining user experiences all on their own.
> If you only save it on the server, not on the client side, it's not PII. But then it's almost useless for analytics.

You can get a lot of useful information by only saving stuff on the server. e.g.: number of visits per day, user behavior on certain pages, etc etc...
Why not? Some things make a lot of sense, like the context menu. The current right-click behavior just sets the text selection mark. This doesn't make much sense anymore: every other editor uses click and drag to select text using the mouse. This frees the right mouse button, and a context menu makes lots of sense. Emacs is a highly complex software, which is then customized with lots of modes. Making functions accessible via a context menu would be awesome for both usability and productivity. The menus could be easily customized to further improve user workflows.

As for the rest: maybe some of the features are nice to have. I don't really care for tabs, and standard shortcuts are usually a non-issue, since everyone ends up using whatever they prefer ("standard", Emacs, or Vim). In any case, most advanced functions are usually accessed by name, whatever the editor.

The important takeaway is that every Emacs user should acknowledge the fact that the mouse is underutilized. We may not need it, but it's a huge barrier to overcome for new users.
Because everyone is investing except you.
hahah, yeah, like we're gonna find out there's a piece of alien technology buried inside charon or something.
I tried to do something similar. I didn't want to accept Google's terms of service because of all the data collection, but since I wanted to cast to my TV from my devices, I had no other choice - the TV's interface would just not let me continue
> Their redesign is insidious

I must somehow be immune to the charms. I find it intentionally, aggressively irritating.

I used to lose hours there, but now don't browse around at all anymore. Follow a link in, find what I'm looking for, and dismiss the junk-pit.
Learnings on how to create a team structure for agile development
People didn't need any encouragement to browse longer on reddit, they actually built user solutions to infinite scrolling (RES) years before reddit incorporated it proper.
"With Amazon, it’s a whole different ballgame," says Zac Manchester, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. “The thing that makes Amazon different from SpaceX and OneWeb is they have so much other stuff going for them.” If Kuiper succeeds, Amazon can not only offer global satellite broadband access—it can include that access as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), which already offers resources for cloud computing, machine learning, data analytics, and more."

Does that quote sound fishy or what?
Long term, index funds. Short term, money market (or high-yield savings accounts that do the money market stuff for you).
>> Who hurt you?

TypeScript hurt me.

>> However, it allows you to extend existing code with confidence

This argument is often used and cannot be disproved but the words "with confidence" betray the case for its objectivity.

Confidence is a subjective emotion; I can tell you that I feel confident about extending my JavaScript code without TypeScript and you can't argue with that. So this is a subjective argument and my extensive subjective experience of both languages disagrees with the premise.

The most innocent explanation that I can come up with is that TypeScript caters to developers who are not good at coding and thus lack confidence in their coding ability. For me, TypeScript has 0 effect on my confidence and the transpilation step makes things more complicated and makes me less productive overall. Testing is the only thing which increases my confidence in the code; nothing else has any effect on my confidence levels... Not even the language (and I used many over the years). This leads me to think that the confidence which TS gives developers is an illusion, I remember a time when I was younger and used to harbor such illusions about static typing so I'm just drawing projections about other people from my own experience. And yes, your first observation about me is absolutely correct, my skills as a developer have been thoroughly battle-tested and this has hurt me. To me, the existence of this tool is like reliving a past trauma.

>> I'm not sure if you work in a team, but your general attitude isn't exactly conducive to a constructive, open and efficient working environment.

My team is very productive (I'm CTO). We're productive because we're pragmatic. We don't use TypeScript because we're pragmatic. I don't have to resort to this attitude because my team members were carefully selected for having high level critical thinking and so they wouldn't make such big mistakes as creating this tool.
Space is hard. Even with the best people and resources there is a high probability of failure. The only way forward is to launch -> fail -> learn -> repeat.
> It’s like dropping in on a bar I used to enjoy a decade ago, to find out it has been redesigned a few times and everyone’s a new face.

That is honestly the best analogy I have heard to describe my feelings towards the site. It's still reddit... sort of, but its not my reddit. I joined during the digg exodus and I don't know if it's because I was younger or what, but for a while reddit seemed like that go-to bar: always warm, inviting, and socially enriching.
Well, in Denmark, government officials are part of the board of directors, so it's not independent either way.
Holy shit does that headline make it sound like an ugly quote about "shutting down legitimate rape".

Actual points from the actual article:

> A sperm's swimming motion, speed and viability are affected by the level of genetic compatibility between a female's cervical mucus and the male's sperm, found a new study that published Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal.

> A prior study by the same authors found the same thing occurred in a woman's follicular fluid.

> Think of it as a chemical "sorting hat" -- dictated by a female's reproductive secretions -- that help sperm who are most likely to give her offspring a genetic boost in survival.
Reddit is a wart on the butt of the Internet. Why bother to begin with.
The bull case is that by mid-1Q we have a vaccine and the crisis is over. Government fiscal and monetary keeps the economy on life support until that happens. If you value a business bottom up and you think 2021/2022 sort of revert back to 2019 then by now in 2020 you are basing your valuations on those numbers and decreasing the equity value where necessary for businesses that took on debt to get through 2020. The Fed has said it will keep rates low for longer and overshoot 2% which is an average target not a ceiling. If your money has to go somewhere (and it does) then fixed income duration at paltry yields looks like a bad bet if we get a tick up in inflation. In an inflationary environment stocks aren't great but they will preserve purchasing power better than bonds. Sure you can play with commodities and bitcoins but are you as say a middle-aged saver with a family going to put your entire liquid net worth into gold bullion and bitcoin (of course this being Hacker News I expect a good number of "of course" responses!)

For my two cents I was embarrassingly late the the bull party and couldn't believe the rally back so fast. There will of course be a jobs recovery from the lows as the virus threat ebbs but I suspect a decent number of the jobs lost are structural and employment won't quickly rebound to sub 5%. Gun to my head I'd say high single digit unemployment could linger a while which is pretty painful. If the Federal government remains deadlocked then state and municipal austerity will multiply the economic pain.
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That's my guess - but only sometimes. Most of the time they correctly compute distance traveled. If they consistently did it as a straight line distance, that's that - it's their stupid algorithm. In this case, it's a bug that pops up occasionally.

Verified this with phone support and the fact that 90% of my payments are correct, not based on the straight-line distance.
Really Reddit isn't doing anything that isn't already a trend on the rest of the web anyway. What you should be asking is why the web sucks so much.
Right-wing parties abolishing wealth taxes is not the same as "Sweden realized". It's fascinating how often I hear these kind of arguments. It's as if there have never been right-wing parties in power in Sweden that have adopted, well, right-wing policies.
One day I will right an extensive post (or set of them) about using Puppeteer to bypass sites' anti-bot measures. It's a fascinating (and annoying) cat-and-mouse game. But at the end of the day, almost all bot detection measures rely on using Javascript to report back metrics about the browser, but those measures are running in an environment where the bot completely controls what Javascript reports back.

One of my favorite tricks I've seen employed are detection measures that look to see if common detection bypass tricks have been implemented (like checking the toString output of commonly overridden native functions.)

https://theheadless.dev/posts/challenging-flows/#bot-detecti...
The point is the art that never has a chance to be judged because it never gets created on account of these barriers.
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One of my favorite moments when thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail a few years ago was coming up to a shelter and finding two young girls camping with their parents who had made a mancala board by outlining the pits with sticks and using pine cone scales for the seeds. I love how simple the game is, and how easy it is to create a board anywhere!
Because based upon WTO agreements and others, the US cannot force all contractors and suppliers to hire only or mostly within the US.

The one exception is “national security”. So military spending is the most efficient to create jobs in the US because you can prevent hiring in other countries.

An example in the opposite direction is US subsidies for solar energy. These subsidies do create some jobs installing them, but the majority of jobs end up created overseas in other countries like China.
It's a problem with many businesses and web sites (e.g. banks). That's why we have "U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO".

A lot of it is that they want to violate your privacy, particularly track where your body is. There are some legit uses: McDonald's can put your burger on the grill when you approach the 'restaurant', if you want to snipe an Uber driver you'll need to have somebody be bait for the trap unless you can figure out how to spoof your location...
LEO satellites have potential for very low latency over large distances which could be very valuable for multi-zone customers and Amazon itself. Lasers in a vacuum.
I assumed VR when I read "immersive". Is that just me?
I made a Twitter bot that tracks deforestation
It would be nice to have a goof working Tensorflow (non-mobile) version which would support Intel HD and Ryzen integrated videos . So much of untapped power...
Apple could acquire Peloton, pursuing Tim Cook's vision for Apple Health
I should have been more specific. Viewing it as a commodity, you can buy raw land and sell it to a developer in the future. It'd be a long hold and not a good idea in every region, but might be a good option as compared to government bonds or a savings account. Definitely riskier than an index fund.
No resistance for the lower body?

Can’t skip leg day.