skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lockdown without adequate support to mitigate the known negative effects, sure. We know what can happen from a lockdown and can plan accordingly. We also know the long term effects of flu (not nearly as severe as what known about Covid, so even loosely comparing the two is irresponsible).

We may overreact for the unknown effects of Covid, but it's sure convenient to say we should do nothing instead and oops later if you underestimated (which is interestingly exactly what happened at that start of the pandemic and got us to our current death rates). Sad that your preference is all for the sake of leisure and convenience, perpetuating a system dependent on low wage service laborers that are offered no choice in the matter.

We have other options, but a flat refusal to offer or consider any does indeed leave every man for himself. But careful what you ask for, because when you force people into such desperation they will only put up with so much before deciding to take back or destroy it all.
I just started using MindForger which is very similar. I will definitely give Obsidian a look because I love these ideas - thibkjng notebooks.

check out MindForger - it is open source and quite simple to review as it's mainly one maintainer.
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I think the markets aren't amazing right now, but that shouldn't deter you. Getting a job is not really a numbers game in a good market but right now it seems more competitive than typically. The more quality applications you're submitting the more you'll weed out those "We'll pay you under market to start but you'll get to work your way up!" kind of offers. How many are you applying to each week?

Also if you find an interesting startup (that's not too big yet) see if you can find the founders' emails and email them directly in detail about why you want to join and what you bring. Then negotiate/bring remote into those early conversations once they see you bring value to the table.
Same here — in the early days, I’d spend hours each week on it. There felt like a turning point, around 2018, when it just sadly became “too mainstream”, for want of a better phrase.
This is a road that can lead to some interesting places. However, I have a feeling the spectrum of responses you"'ll get from humans will correlate to the degree with which the person is already prone to self-identification with, or development of emotional bonds with regards to the respect of and proper application of tools.

Can't tell you the amount of controversy that surrounds the whole "machine soul" ideation and "car people" in general. There's also the factor of the possibility of provoking an outright hostile response if it is even perceived a set of Robots may be acting in a networked fashion, and processing data in ways unbefitting for their intended purpose. If my Room a suddenly developed some sort of objection to my treatment of a robotic dog toy, say, I would be highly alarmed at why the device is processing that type of broadband sensor data in my home.

Same with something on the street. If a street sweeper and delivery drone saw fit to react to a human making "life" difficult another system, I'd once again be alarmed at why all these apparata purportedly for one job, we're having most of their design constraints centered around the capacity to socially engineer a particular response from other humans.

It's sorta squicky, but at the same time awesome.
You need a CC attached to buy stuff on the Oculus store.

I've got 100+ VR games and never bought anything on the Oculus store. Steam games work just as well, and will be easier to use if you ever switch to another VR headset.
Entrepreneur Raised $230M to Transform Real Estate with Machine Intelligence
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Building and maintaining an “emacs distribution” (even for a single user like yourself) is a huge effort which is rarely worth it.
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Could you link to some non-monospace font rendering that you find accessible and attractive?

In my experience, code in non-monospace fonts are hard to read and is hard to navigate because the letters don't line up.
Thanks! After the past few months with our heads down it's been so great to share what we've been doing with the world!

Variety is absolutely something to shoot for. Personally I've always been big on 'adventure' sports - I find that the distraction from the fact I'm working out allows me to have fun, and still stay (reasonably) fit! Not so easy to do when I'm back around home though - all these activities require time away...so building Quell allows for a more exciting workout whilst staying indoors (something that became a lot more relevant this year!)

One thing to note is that whilst the Gauntlet delivers resistance to upper-body motions, boxing is very much a full body workout. We're exploring a few different ways to maximise the core and lower-body elements of this within the game, but this is no case of skipping leg day!

Which streaming video service are you using? Any key parts of it that you think make it stand out against everything else you've tried?
I think this is simply dividing the cost of relief packages by the number of taxpayers. It’s oversimplification of government budgeting to the point that it doesn’t mean much of anything other than to give a sense of scale.
In general, Musk's approach seems to be: force an industry to be leaps and bounds better by succeeding in that industry in a new way thought very difficult before.

Worked for Tesla as well as SpaceX. Same goal for Boring / Hyperloop.

Seems like ubiquitous satellite internet would also be a good thing, and SpaceX would make money on the launch to fund Starship. Win-win? Silly logic from an armchair quarterback, but I don;'t think it's as weird as you think.
Once hardware acceleration is enabled it will be very snappy :) :
https://social.librem.one/@dos/104218666011152589
1. Stock markets are forward looking. Prices reflect expectations about the company going far into the future, not just right now. So yeah, this year and next year are going to be bad, but we expect that five years from now things will be back to normal or better and prices reflect that.

2. Companies in the S&P 500 (which is what people often mean when they talk about Wall Street/the market/etc) are by definition are big and have easy access to the capital markets. Consequently, they are the best positioned to whether the storm and seize the opportunities as they come. When things start recovering companies with money/easy access to the bond market are going to be the ones who can open new locations and capitalize on pent up demand.

3. There are a bunch of big companies that have actually done well for the last six months. The obvious ones are companies like Amazon, Netflix and Zoom, but for instance Target and Walmart have benefited from being allowed to stay open because they sell essentials while also selling everything else so they were often the only option other than Amazon.

4. When people talk about the S&P 500 recovering unbelievably fast, they often mean vs. the lows in March. Those lows were not reflective of the reality of what was happening (definitionally: nobody knew the reality of what was happening, lack of testing, etc.), but there was some concern that the actual apocalypse might have occurred... and everyday as merely bad news poured in that actually restored confidence because the news was not apocalyptic. So, the prices rose.

5. There really are a bunch of bored people buying stocks on their phone because they can't bet on sports anymore [1]. It's not clear how big an effect this is, but there really does seem to be extra retail demand for stocks.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-07-09/inside-the-m...
> is getting a drug that nobody will use

That's silly. Of course society will want to use it. It's just that if they're wise[0], they'll use it as needed not spray it about (sometimes literally)

[0] If. Big if.
Idea for Sci-Fi novel. Man made wormholes are possible, but we don't have any true FTL travel. This means that humanity's expansion is limited to it's "light cone", at the time we get wormhole tech. What we don't realize is that there could be aliens limited by their own light cones, that by co-opting one of our wormholes they can essentially combine the two light cones into one, doubling their rate of expansion. This provides a hard-scifi setting where there can be a vastly technologically superior enemy, but where humanity still has a chance, as the initial wormholes act as natural choke-points and destroying them would stop the invasion.
... When I think "youth market monetization", no one knows "the kids" like Oracle does....Its fresh.
Real estate has intrinsic value but does it have returns? Residential real estate is fundamentally limited by wages but we are seeing huge unemployment.

And demand for commercial real estate is low due to the whole pandemic situation. If you want to invest in commercial real estate then you are betting that these tendencies towards doing things online are a temporary blip. That could well be false, people are developing new purchasing and working patterns, it's entirely possible that this pandemic will lead to permanent changes in real estate demand.
I definitely consider myself a music buff. Here's my suggestion: start with what you love and explore the graph from there.

Consider an album a node in the great graph of music. The links to other nodes are plentiful and will likely lead to other things you love. Explore other artists on the same label, other groups composed of members of the group, other albums recorded in the same studio, etc.

Don't just listen to the music but get interested in the context, just like any work of art, the significance is often relative to the context in which it was created. Learn about the history of the members, read reviews, etc.

Learn an instrument, you don't have to be good, but a little knowledge of how to play some of your favorite music can really help to understand the craft.

Find some of those '500 best albums of all time' type lists and do my graph exploration for the ones that resonate with you. It's fine to not like everything but awareness of the really impactful landmark albums will help you understand the evolution of music. It can be interesting to learn about what an album is a _rejection_ of as much as it is a homage to.

tldr - bread first explore from what you already like
I don't think you need the /s tag there, that's exactly what I expect to happen.

I really don't understand what Ellison is trying to accomplish here? Aside from making more money, of course, but I'd be hard pressed to think of a less synergistic combo than Oracle's aging dinosaur enterprises and TikTok's fickle teenagers.
Presumably the 6 Trillion collectively authorized, divided by the population of the US.

Or we could've all just worn masks and saved most of that but ya know...
Wait, what happens to the formulations after the company goes out of business? Is all the effort really just lost?! Surely it’s just bought by another org?
>You mean to pay for teachers

This is going to be a very interesting and telling litmus test for the future of the Country in the next few months.

If public schools go the route of remote teaching, which I think they will...then I don't see much choice but for State, County and local governments to go to war against the Teachers Unions and lay waste to upwards of 75% of the teacher workforce. Lets ballpark about 3M teachers losing their jobs and the entire educational system reformed where there is very limited public school in person attendance. As bad as losing 3M jobs would be to the economy, there will be untold negative impacts on children and parents that will have to leave their children unsupervised during the day.
The synergy of using AWS ground stations for customers as well as their own use is an interesting advantage. SpaceX has to spend on ground stations and won't make it up until their service goes online, while Amazon can begin recovering their costs right away. And it just plugs in to all their other AWS services as well. Plus Amazon of course has all the best on the ground network infrastructure already in place, SpaceX will have to develop that.

Is there any indication of how many customers they have or how much revenue they get from it?
GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger
So....it's like an over priced version of the wii version Punchout with a built in heart monitor?

Why would i get this instead of just buying a used wii or a vr system?

No offense, i thought the Peloton was stupid too and their ads were horrible. I was so happy when i stopped getting ads for that thing.
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It is with people moving out of cities. But a hot market is exactly when you probably don't want to invest, especially when there's at least some possibility that a couple years from now, the exodus from cities will be seen as a panic overreaction.

As for real estate in cities, property prices mostly don't yet reflect people moving out and a likely commercial real estate collapse. The other question is whether, to the degree prices in cities come down, people who have been pining to live in some city will still want to do this with so many businesses permanently gone and city services in shambles.
This doesn't make any sense, there's no Ask.com toolbar for Oracle to bundle on phones.
Yes I agree, could've been clearer upfront about it being a premium feature. Thanks!
Could you rephrase?
(thanks - note, link doesn't seem to work? )
Fortnite’s epic battle with Apple could reshape the antitrust fight
Yes.

You need to distinguish between burnout and working at a dead end job (Sorry to say FAANG are dead ends)

Take three months off, companies allow this. Once your burnout is reversed after a month in, you will get your answer
I've learned so much from the Sound Opinions show. It's a weekly hour long music show where the hosts (Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis) interview musicians, producers, historians, and also review albums - both new releases and the occasional classics. Mostly centered around rock and pop they do branch out into hip-hop and jazz occasionally. All of their past episodes are online. They're on NPR once a week.

soundopinions.org
Because a military is one of the few things that the United States government has the constitutional authority to do (the list is extremely limited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...).
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It happens ever so often but not always -- maybe they're still phasing it in?
Coding and drawing
Give a Squatty Potty a try and you'll only need that 1 minute with no forcing.
This is known as the “oracle problem”; actually getting the correct real world inputs into an immutable smart contract is a serious hurdle to adoption.

If you pay attention to most smart contract pitches, they polite side step this issue.
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I'm still waiting for Google Reader to come back.
I agree, I don't understand the international arrival cap (especially in relation to Australian nationals). I would have expected unlimited right of return for citizens.

This is a direct impact of the Australian governement limiting the number of persons who can enter the country per flight.
Money markets are extremely low risk. In the 37 years before 2008 only three money market funds had ever failed to return the full investment (“broke the buck”).

You may be thinking of forex trading.
Neat. Although I feel like https://news.ycombinator.com/active accomplishes more or less the same thing, sans graph.

Though it would be interesting to see when things shoot up to the top, such as how Chinese apologist articles somehow wind up near the top for a day then falter. Or if financial type posts start zooming north after the NYC finance crowd have had their coffee.
You didn't mention classical, but I find many of the YouTube videos featuring Benjamin Zander (Boston Philharmonic) to be delightful. Particularly the interpretation sessions with younger musicians.

I'm not generally a classical lover, but the energy he brings when discussing the music, with a bit of context, works for me.
I've heard the economics of developing new antibiotics making it difficult being mentioned a number of times but this is the first time I've seen an article explaining the economic difficulties so clearly. I do like the sound of some of the proposals, like rewarding new products so they don't have to be at the mercy of a slow introduction to the market.
Palmer Lucky did not create Oculus. He was a Masters student at USC and 3D printed a pretty case for a prototype developed by an international research project. I would know, because I've personally tested one of the early prototypes ...in Hamburg, Germany. He took it and ran and came up with some BS about having created it from scratch all by himself in his parents' garage in Silicon Valley. He's a liar and a fraud.
The Only Thing 'The Simpsons' Predicted Is Our Stupidity
The article talks about sending first-party analytics events to an analytics provider from your own servers. So the server-side tracking the article refers to is similar to the server-side tagging Google recently announced[1], not the analysis of server logs.

[1] https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/serverside
This is one of the only times I’ve seen someone mention a debt jubilee and lay out the case seriously. Happy to see it!
> And they need start launching soon. FCC rules give Amazon until 2026 to launch and start operating at least 50% of the licensed number of satellites - 1618 satellites - or risk their satellite constellation license annulled.

I am curious what would happen here. Lets say they get 45% of their satellites up and miss the mark.

Do we just end up with a hundres of useless satellites drifting in space doing nothing or are they forced to sell (Who would buy) or?

This seems like onf of those PR disasters in the making for the FCC in terms of space pollution with no benefit.
Money market is very low (but not zero) risk which is why it’s suitable for short term savings. And yeah, 1% is about the best rate you’ll find, subject to change at any moment.
Surprised that the Wikipedia page doesn't mention how Club Penguin (Flash social meetup game for young kids and teens) re-popularised mancala in the Western world. It was a big deal, not sure if the HN crowd's young enough to remember.
I absolutely LOVE this. Really considering backing the kickstarter.

Some thoughts I had off the top of my head:

- This seems feels like a good use case for VR to have something totally immersive. Not sure how steady VR headsets are these days though...

- Are there mechanics to "level up", like an RPG? I think that type of structure motivates a lot of people to keep playing and "grinding"

- What about P2P? It seems hard to pull-off, but could be really cool & entertaining on twitch!

Excited to see where you all go!
Looks fun, I have a Vive VR and enjoy workouts on it. Few questions:

I know next to nothing about being fit and working out, but would this workout target pretty much a single muscle group with resistance?

If it's all running on the phone, hows battery life? Between running the game and processing motion data what's the specs required?

I'm guessing a motion tracker in both hands and in the body to detect motion, but that'd drift if you allow movement. Are you planning on using any body-tracking ML with the phone's camera? Otherwise it sounds like the game will be a linear rail-road.

Finally, given it's elastic, how easy is it to hit yourself in the face if your arm gives out at full stretch?
Prosopagnosia plays an interesting part in my favorite game 999 (from the Zero Escape series). It's a great game for anyone who enjoys philosophy, horror and pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo.
“A Person Can Not Draw Up a List of Things That Would Never Occur to Them”
Various forms of mutualism [1], libertarian socialism [2], market socialism [3] and democratic state socialism [4] are all non-capitalisms. The only "communism" you are familiar with from history is Marxism-Lenninism and Moaism (a variation of the former.) Both of them are authoritarian state socialisms, although I'd argue that their historical incarnations weren't even that since there really was no social ownership, it was just capitalism with a single monopoly and black markets.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)

[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

[3]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism

[4]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
I have a tiny script added to TamperMonkey that redirects every reddit URL old.reddit.com equivalent. Funnily, the redirect ends up loading more comments faster than the redesigned "new" site with 2 comments
U-6 was 16.5% in July - it's improving. It was 6.8% pre-COVID, so it's not really any worse off then U-3. It's still about a 10% jump in both.
GTD and a knowledge base are 2 separate things that shouldn't be conflated. So your criticism of GTD could be valid, but it doesn't have any relevance to a knowledge base.
Trying to avoid these psychological tricks became a constant in my experience with my iPhone. Notifications were just the begin for the retention sociologists. Now Is like... much more subtle and well thought, as the modern stupid shows in television.

(I am addicted to a game from apple app store that is slowly becoming a gambling game. I realized how well thought is this kind of brainwashing and i feel cheated)
Imgur has stopped allowing (new, explicit) porn:

https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029648691-Mature...
And this is why blockchains will never replace courts.
Overconfident is an understatement :p

A large sales force was hired (probably far too large of one, and definitely larger than institutional investors cared for), but there was also massive growth and spending in departments that were not strongly contributing to go-to-market activities (e.g. massive laboratory expansions oriented towards development of future products, massive growth in many back-of-house business ops teams, and some jaw-droppingly frivolous investments in facilities that I don't feel comfortable disclosing in public).
Had you already told them your previous salary?
Mouse chording is no doubt an invention of the devil herself.
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Start playing an instrument and get some lessons.

IME there is nothing that makes you appreciate music more than learning how it works at a really intimate & deep level. You have a super deep connection with the music when you're playing it instead of just being a listener.

I know for me there are whole genre's of music I couldn't appreciate till I started learning to play pieces in those genres. You start to see the interesting and innovative stuff in the music and you appreciate it.

If you're just going to listen.. do not listen while multi-tasking. Sit down and dedicate time to appreciating the music.. put on a nice set of headphones or get a nice stereo system and sit down and listen to a piece all the way through and pay attention to it.

When you are learning to play a piece you will tend to listen to it very carefully to pick out the parts.. if you try to listen at that level it will really pay off even if you're not learning to play the piece.
Seems like this doesn't support anything but Chrome/Chromium?

Edit: I was kind of wrong already and it seems I will be completely wrong soon. Which is good in this case :-) As hlenke points out below Firefox support is on its way :-)
Also, they are paying a lot of overtime in health related workers or to make up for workers who test positive and for increased cleaning crews, so not only are the hours going up but they are paying the 1.5x rate more often. Sacramento is also relatively expensive and I assume there are a high number of state employees there since it's the capital.