skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High inflation due to government-initiated devaluation has happened even in the US, but it didn't result in a hyperinflation. The Weimar Republic is a good example of a government that got screwed because of this.

What makes hyperinflation unique is that the price is ultimately sunk by the actions of panicked citizens who rush to spend their fiat currency because they think that it won't have value in the coming days/weeks/months. This is like a domino effect and eventually everyone jumps on the bandwagon, thus flooding the market with currency that wasn't circulating or contributing to the GDP.

Hyperinflation usually comes right after a short-lived deflationary period which, in turn, comes after a very long period of high inflation (10-30% typically). You can clearly see the pattern in Venezuela's inflation chart: https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-hyperinflation-cha...

Because of this $1 equals 206941.00 Venezuelan Bolivar, up from $1=119k Bolivar from a month ago, which in turn was up from $1=10 Bolivar from February (according to Google - not sure how accurate it is).
Glad they've finally gotten to 1.0, been using it on and off since .3 with the same optimism I had when Rails jumped onto the scene. I really hope the community can start to mature beyond the bikeshedding that is typical of early language days, and start cracking more significant issues necessary for wider acceptance. Speed and multiple dispatch are great, but ability to roll standalone binaries (just don't mention it on Discourse/Gitter or risk Karpinski's wrath), streamlining documentation/onboarding, and more native/active package development are pretty big todos to tackle.

I've been working on updating a wide variety of engineering software apis/wrappers and a large informatics library for .7/1.0, but I'd love to hear any suggestions of must-need technical packages that users want from MATLAB, Python, or R.
I didn’t read the articles and my point is not to agree or disagree with either side. Also, my mom is a retired teacher so take that bias as you will. I’m just adding another data point.

Teaching does have its downsides, but I know a lot of people who became teachers or stayed teachers (like my mom) because it can give you a great work life balance. You’re off during the summer when your kids are out of school and your holidays mostly correspond with thiers.

When we got married, we were an “instant family” - my wife had two kids. We also got laid off at the same time before we got married - we worked together. I ended up with a contract job and she ended up with a job with crazy hours (nights and some weekends). That didn’t work for us. She took a significant pay cut to work in the school system at a job she liked a lot more and she had the same schedule as our sons.

She has a stable job with good - expensive benefits. That allowed me to jump around from contract to perm back to contract and chase jobs solely for the money without worrying about benefits or the stability of the company.

I know a small business owner whose wife works in the school system for the same reason - benefits.

There are other non monetary benefits to being a teacher - especially in a two income household.
Immediately, I'd be wondering what very powerful spy agency or organisation felt the need to break into my car, and why.
Honestly, no. What you are talking about is known as "ghosting" and games where that's an issue there is usually some way to limit "spectator" mode or put the viewing of what's happening in the game on delay. For everything else, it's just expected / wanted to have continuous voice communication.

There's nothing in discord that Valve hasn't had built-in to steam or other applications have been doing for years.
I'm not damning them - they are working the system to their advantage. Voters could put a stop to it anytime they wanted to, but choose not to.
Ask HN: Any chrome extension that removes previous replies when replying to all?
In that case this is an even bigger steal!
GitHub repository to track cloud GPU offerings and promo codes for free credits
Questions surface regarding Bitcoin's origin- Aliens or AI might be involved
Exactly. Modern pure math is extremely abstract.

I want careful, level-headed arguments justifying research in swath of pure math fields. Give me numbers, give me details. Not just vague anecdotes. It may be worth the cost, but I don't want that taken for granted.
That seems overly cynical to me. What GP was told is the honest truth. Even in STEM fields finding a faculty position is quite difficult.
Voice apps for games have been used for a long, long, long time. Most games don't really keep a constant voice connection (it drops during menus), and it can be very hard to coordinate to all be on voice together in a multiplayer game. Plus a clan may well be too large to fit in a single "squad" or "team" in a game, and require multiple levels of coordination.

Coordination isn't cheating.
I always thought that while speed of light was more or less constant, space was/is expanding everywhere at the same time. For distances big enough, that's faster than c.
Why are pensions not based on base salary? That seems like an easy and obvious fix.
A new chapter of growth: A close-up on NYC’s startup scene
Man, if you could cash that voucher in for other educational materials, that would be an idea. What a library I could have had... Even in the broke, rural, low-cost-of-living area I came out of, the last school budget works out to more than $14k/year per student, mostly funded by local taxes.
Should the U.S. Air Force Bomb Forest Fires?
really cool, never had a number for this. thanks for sharing!
Merging research and anecdotal experience, I can say that east Asians tend to understand life in terms of duty. Happiness and satisfaction are understood as intrinsic to the fulfillment of those duties, and as a result any perceived shortcoming in emotional payoff is seen as the fault of the feeler, not the fault of the stimulus. Not happy? Just get check whatever box on the "what you're supposed to be doing with your life" list. Still not happy? Sorry, you are a broken failure. Unless you pretend like you're happy. I suspect many who subscribe to such a worldview can at least somewhat successfully make themselves happy through pretending to be happy, because acting the part fulfills yet another order of social duty. If everyone around you subscribes to this worldview, then indeed you can feel the self worth boost that comes from the authentic contribution of fulfilling your socially prescribed duties. However, if you are torn between this worldview and another whose members do not consider your fulfillment of your Confucian duties as valuable, successfully subscribing to such rules becomes much more difficult.

You see this when Asian high schoolers very much not hypocognitive of the concept of Friday night elect to spend it studying (east Asian duty mode), catch heat for it at school the next week (western mode), and then eventually go on to either build a mental model that successfully navigates the conflicting worldviews they're caught between, completely shun one or the other, or suffer a host of mental health issues as a result of being hypocognitive of what's going on in their emotional worlds and feeling deeply and intrinsically hopeless because of it.

Cultural perspectives can be seen as boss level problems of hypocognition. As the article notes, they underlie everything from the immigration-fueled sociopolitical rifts the entire developed world seems to be experiencing right now to other less globe shaking but still mysterious and wicked problems like romantic and familial relationship issues. The way forward is not to assert that any particular perspective is correct, it is to fill in the hypocognitive holes we all possess. Which is unfortunately very hard since not only are the holes invisible unless you are directly invested in finding them, but people are also naturally averse to the notion that their ideas and mental models could possibly be incomplete.

I am a super headstrong first generation child to Chinese immigrant parents. I have a host of mental health issues, and exploring their genesis through a variety of avenues has helped me begin to address them through arriving to some of the understanding I currently hold.
What type of masters degree is it? Course-based or thesis-based? If you are interested in continuing on to a PhD, a thesis-based masters would give you a much better insight. Even better if you try to publish while you are getting your degree. If it is a course-based masters, it will take you a lot of extra work outside of classes to get a taste of research.

Do you already know your area of interest? This would be tremendously helpful for trying to pick an advisor.
I was imagining even lower tech than that: bus drivers would have a wheel mounted trigger, and thumb it every time they drive by a double-parked car or a car in the bus lane. The NYPD would have a person whose job was to load the bus-mounted video, jump to the triggered time stamps, review and issue tickets… I figure they could get through about one citation per minute?

Then I imagine the legislature of Albany dying with laughter…
Here you go: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

Real computer with 4G voice and data, open source, isolated baseband, runs Debian, qwerty keyboard, size of an original Gameboy.

Only catch is some drivers require blobs. And it's not out yet. Any month now...
> How long did it take to fire Mark Berndt? His behavior had been flagged for decades but the school couldn't take action.
Why did the school district choose to pay him $40,000 to drop his appeal when he finally was fired?

Because of management negligence (and worse) in dealing with, documenting, and preserving documentation of earlier incidents, including the district at one point systematically destroying records relating to sexual abuse at district schools.

The problem was not the rules requiring documented cause for firing, the problem was management repeatedly covering for him and other abusers, including by destroying evidence.

Management misconduct doesn't justify giving more arbitrary power to management. Though, of course, that's what management likes to argue for whenever its own misdeeds are at issue.
If this is an issue than you solve it by not allowing members of the same team to view an opposing teams views.

Not allowing external voice chat is a horrible idea.
Buyers like government bonds because they are low risk of default. At the federal level, the risk is nearly zero. The yield of a bond is a reflection of the demand (inversely proportional), which itself is a reflection of risk (also inversely, so yield is proportional to risk).

The federal government funds itself through bond sales and taxes. They could choose to do all of one or all of the other.

But they could just keep rolling over debt into more bond sales, in perpetuity, since the dollar is just a concept, and not a voucher for anything physical. There is essentially no risk, beyond the dollar itself becoming worthless. So if you need to park a million dollars for a few weeks, treasuries offer a nearly zero risk option.

So government could run completely off bond debt. It might even be fairer than taxes... the poor usually don't have a million dollars they need to park. Government funding would come from the rich.

The reason for taxes is power. You can use taxes to control and direct the population.

Before the US federal government believed they had the right to make drugs illegal, they controlled them through taxes. You had to buy a tax-stamp to move marijuana, but the government would rarely sell any such stamps. The drug itself was not illegal, but not having the stamp on it was. [1] Later they just went ahead and declared it "controlled" and didn't bother with the stamp shenanigans.

Also taxing removes the leverage that bond buyers have (which would be the decision not to buy). China owns a lot of us treasuries, and routinely uses that as a bargaining chip.

Ultimately the fed uses a mix. Bond sales for monthly adjustments in spending, taxation to control the populace. And there are various economic theories on which is better, but I doubt anyone with such pure motives actually controls any policy.

[1] http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/hemp/taxact/mjtaxact.htm
Aggregation Theory, Thin Protocols, and Recentralization: Augur Edition
That can be checked by enforcing regulations. Grocery stores don't compete over circumventing food safety regulations.
Functional Bits: Lambda-calculus based algorithmic information theory [pdf]
>"Long thought to be genetically stable and identical, cancer cell lines harbor significant levels of genetic variation, which may help explain why it can be hard to reproduce findings in cell line-based research."

Who thought this?
I could swallow the 3%, the networking opportunities are probably worth that to be honest (especially for a 'project' that isn't a tangible company or product yet), but the option is ridiculous.

I also don't understand the system. I have to put my idea for a project on some leader board for other people to vote on? If I feel my idea has any worth why would I do that?

I actually just planned on starting up a project, and I'd be interested in applying - but I don't want to put my plans out on a forum full of ambitious, eager, and talented people.
This is an opinion piece and not very informative.
"$420" - pretty sure this is Musk just being his hilarious mad lad self as usual.
The general way this gets solved is to disallow dead players from seeing anything that alive players cannot see. This is how popular games like CounterStrike work, even with the in-game chat.

An old anecdote...

Back in the day, in SOCOM 2 for the PS2 (5v5 slow paced shooter), there were "alive" and "dead" chats for the players on each team. The dead players could look at alive players in the 3rd person, but pan the camera to always watch their back instead of what they were typically watching.

Dead Players found that they might spot something that alive players didn't notice behind them, so one of the dead men would go into the menu and vote to kick the alive player. The alive player then saw this notification, and knew to check their back.

So future games made sure dead people's POV cameras === alive players, ideally. Then dead people can talk and there's no trouble with messaging or skyping outside the game or anything.
I had a similarly disastrous experience with Revolut. I signed up with my US passport and everything went downhill from there. I was able to lodge €50 in to the account but couldn't verify myself (Revolut don't accept US passports as policy) and found myself in a awful situation trying to recover the €50. Revolut took two months to return the money to me.

I'm a massive fan of these apps though -- I use N26 personally . It works and I like that it's German (savings are guaranteed by German gov)
I'm on X so no more Home button, but good suggestion. For last 9 months I had my phone on grayscale, which was nice, but still a bit high for my taste.
Wow that's totally what I have too. I didn't think there was a name for it.

I mean the delayed phase sleep disorder. Will talk to the doc about it.
Education isn't underfunded. The U.S. spends more per student and more as a share of GDP than most other OECD countries: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-glob... https://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2016/sep/21/donal....

Teachers and other public workers have definitely created for themselves a bubble where they're insulated from the competition and stresses of the private sector, and they've done that at the public's expense. It's not a scam, but it's not innocuous either.

At the end of the day, tax money is a scarce resource. Money that goes to providing retirements for teachers more comfortable than what people with similar qualifications could get in the private sector is money that doesn't go to school lunches for hungry kids, etc. Teachers use the plight of disadvantaged kids to get more funding for schools. But that funding goes primarily to paying teachers, who are relatively privileged to begin with (being college educated and disproportionately white).

(Which is not to say that everyone shouldn't have a comfortable retirement--I'm all for raising taxes to Norway levels and funding a proper welfare state. But until we have Norway levels of tax dollars rolling in, our current expenditures on public employees is a misallocation of resources.)
How ironic for nyt for blocking eu. Maybe eu should get real about onerous and unrealistic regs and stop trying to regulate the world. got to love the dumb cookie notice reg let's go back to using static html and no user interaction
It’s pretty easy to make `dehydrated` use `nsupdate` for DNS challenges: https://github.com/fanf2/doh101/blob/master/roles/doh101/fil...
And that leaves poor, sometimes young kids taking long bus rides to other parts of town. The more affluent districts are already well funded enough. Those parents are going to do everything they can to keep “them” from thier schools.
Hm, I'm a little surprised, I actually opened up Discord to diagnose some windows / bluetooth headphones issues, and checked when the bytes were being sent to see if the mic was being connected.

It made it a little easier to tell if it was me or the other end at fault.
Was checking out the website and thought how it would be nice to check this place out but all these tech startups are in SV. And then scrolled down and saw you guys have a location like half a mile from my house in Portland!

Definitely checking it out soon!
> Meritocracy. The mathematicians at Princeton University are going to be producing potentially more valuable pure math research than a professor at name state university 145.

On average, maybe … but, if we just axe those at NSU 145, then we're definitely not going to be funding the proof of the bounded-gaps conjecture. Now, Zhang managed to prove it anyway (https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/05/bounded_gaps_be...), but who knows how many people at small universities have a big proof in them, if they could only get the funding to have time to explore it?

(I would also argue that this is dangerously close to the point of view that big companies obviously know something about doing business successfully, so the best way to save government money spent on business is to cut out small-business loans.)

> I don't know what the exact figure is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was less than 25% of math PhDs who don't go on to get a research job in math.

Did you flip a 'not' there? I suspect that it's the other way around, that less than 25% of math Ph.D.s do get a research job in math, or perhaps even worse. (At least, that's if by "research job in math" you mean "academic job in math with research expectations"; if you count industrial research, then maybe I believe it.)
> They are not using APIs to begin with. I'm not sure what else is there to lock down.

It's a bit like getting your app from the app store, or system repository, rather than downloading a random exe from the internet. Apple's walled garden comes in for a lot of criticism, but it does stop a lot of crap getting through. Getting your PSD2 enabled, regulated app from a curated list rather than any random piece of crapware is the same sort of idea.

> Maybe we should just let idiots be idiots...

Eh, if that was going to work it would have done by now. They'll only become a burden on the state.
Maybe the "hero" shouldn't be throwing insults on twitter like a child. I thought the insult was well considered because, in context, the diver was going after kids. It's a sly kind of funny that someone from another country might think is very funny.
People don't generally invest all their money in one company regardless of how confident they are in it.
Can you explain why you think that pensions and social security are Pyramid schemes. I view them more like insurance, but maybe you have an insight that I don't have.
First point is incorrect. Night Shift's color temperature is adjustable, which includes the blue level.
Honesty I don't get why a company has to go public and gamble its future on a herd of people that they have no clue about the business and just try to make profit out of you based on speculation. Stay private and get loans. At least loan rates will not change by 1000% overnight based on some nonsense that someone wrote on his Twitter.
Sure, that seems like a big win for her. I guess calling car service companies weren't an option, or there was no affordable reliable option nearby?

NYC has traditionally used that for the same purpose as Uber, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are underserved areas or racial discrimination by the dispatchers.

The biggest example of skewed information in PR (whether ads or official statements) is when they promote how much cheaper they are than the traditional alternatives. While it's often completely true, that's only the case because of their huge VC-funded warchest.

This is a major omission from many people's public policy opinion-forming: They're subsidizing rides and losing money in a way that local customer-funded competitors can't match, moving market share toward either a monopoly (as they'd prefer) or an oligopoly (including Lyft etc). Previously NYC taxi and car service companies were diverse small competitors.

Once they get enough of a collective stranglehold, or once VC funding gets sick of them waiting for self-driving cars to greatly reduce their cost of goods sold (drivers aren't cheap) in the rough and tumble real world, they'll raise prices and there will be either a captive audience or another rough societal readjustment period.

People might still think the speculative future pain is worth the tradeoff, but "cheaper" is a skewers truth without the context. The context lets them consider the full picture when forming their opinion.

But yeah, a frail elderly POC woman who needs a better way to go to the hospital has very different priorities than anyone thinking about long term economic and urban planning impacts, and I completely see why it's good for her. :) Glad her needs are better met now than they once were, even if through Uber.
It would be competitive too, and certain schools could target special needs children or problem children. Online schools could be possible too. I could see it being VERY economical.
Just wanted to say thanks for making such awesome stuff! I've used clj/cljs/datomic on several projects over the years and it's been great.

The Clojure core team does not get anywhere close to the praise it deserves.
http://captive.apple.com Another alternative
I work with reef aquariums and we use something similar for our reef tanks at the store to wake up the corals
(I forgot to link to "We the corporations", which is an interesting book, and far from the screed its name suggests: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294993473 .)
This is addressed in https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ – using Intel SGX, it's possible for the clients to verify that the server is running the code it should be running. I'm not sure whether this is already deployed, but it refutes any claim that Signal isn't serious about your concern.

I don't see how federation is related to this at all. We know you're bummed about it, you don't need to inject it into every subthread.
Something like the Fast Fourier Transform has had a much significant impact on society than a proof of the incomputability of the Busy Beaver function.

Saying that Turing and Church "invented computing" is too vague of a justification. I want numbers and details. Folks like Babbage were already thinking procedurally in practical enough terms that once the technological capability (not the theoretical capabilities) caught up, algorithms like the FFT could be discovered and put to use.