skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If NRJ/POP becomes stagnant either GDP/NRJ will have to grow rapidly or there won't by any GDP growth - and by extension population growth - anymore.

If i'm not mistaken that's a non sequitur. How do you link GDP growth and population growth? Why would an ever growing population even be a goal?

> there have always been such paradigm shifts that allowed us to sustain more people with fewer resources

No, paradigm shifts have allowed to sustain more people with more resources. Sure resources per people were smaller (eg more efficient processes), but global resource usage has always been growing (apart from recessions and other "bad" events where people actually died from stuff not working). This efficiency / resource usage counter-intuitive correlation is known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox.
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Jut in case anyone doesn't do the date-math/scroll down past the comments, all 5 of the following blog posts are finished and linked to half way through the comments (ctrl+f: pingback).
Speech source separation has gone a long way, thanks to Yi Luo amazing work. With Dual Path RNN, he now achieves almost 20 Signal to Noise Ratio for 2 speaker separation, see [1].
This is a bit of an artificial setting though, only two speakers and they are manually mixed together. I'm not sure if there is any good dataset of speech source separation in real environments (an airport, restaurant etc).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.06379.pdf
Indeed I don’t see how this exempts the custodians from any of the AML and KYC rules that represents the only real value proposition of crypto: crime.

> But why does this sort of advertising keep on cropping up on HN?

Enough people within the HN community also suddenly found themselves with a large amount of wealth in these digital beanie babies of late, and so have similar vested interests.
My second was born on November 30 last year. Stupid me thought I could do Advent of Code, manage a toddler and a newborn.

Let's see what excuse I have this year!
Perhaps surprisingly, neither capital stock nor asset price inflation is counted.
Why everyone is proud of a codeless solution?
I always find codeless solutions clunky. They basically limit you and passing to another system is always a pain.
And serviceability!
> It would seem to me that the ability to express one's views would be orthogonal to one's viewpoints on various matters.

Since when? I know quite a number of brilliant engineers in different fields. Most of them should never be put in front of a camera or a general audience for public speaking. Having strong and even well understood viewpoints does not mean you have the ability to translate them outside of your domain well. That is a rather rare trait.
I guess it depends on whether they have ads paid for by Singaporean based companies targetting Singaporean based audiences. If Coca-Cola sells their wares in Singapore entirely by remote operations based in the United States, we'd still expect them to abide by Singaporean regulations pertaining to the sale of beverages in Singapore, taxes etc.

The alternative would seem to be separate national internets. Data might be imported and exported, but it wouldn't be seamless like today.

You can say you're not subject to a foreign law, but if you want that market, you aren't really immune.
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Scratch is a great way to start teaching computational thought.

The visual nature of sprites on a stage with code blocks helps to bridge the abstraction beginners face.

The ability to open up many well made clone games and explore the code is one of my favorite features of the platform.

Since version 3 launched last year, there have been a whole host of extensions like Lego, micro:bit, google translate, aws text to speech, and a few more.

I have been working on a course for younger elementary kids, but there is plenty there for older kids in high school.
> I suggest that instead of obsessing with the NRJ/POP term in the equation we focus on GDP/NRJ instead.

That's what absolutely everyone has been doing for the past 70 years. What happens usually when energy efficiency is called the rebound effect. We will create more with as much energy, not create as much with less energy.

Also, note that creating as much with less energy will limit GDP growth as well, as the GDP is based on creation of goods and services.
Inflation, using the usual definition, cannot be 'masked by technology' as technology is one of the things that legitimately determine general price level. Inflation counts and always counted general price level with effects of technology advancements taken into account. So the poster you are replying to has it right: inflation is low.
Not anymore in this case since they replaced this with their own design. Upgrading older cars should be possible, but is rumoured to be prohibitively expensive for Tesla as the moment, since other components have to be swapped as well.
The film does show them mowing down soldiers with their claws and inspiring terror in others: https://youtu.be/HX4KKkSKZAY?t=197
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Religion has been around a fair whack longer than the printing press.
I cannot answer for most of the population, but I can hazard a guess — they do not care to think that far. We have our bread and ciruses, and that makes us complacent that our government will at least maintain benevolence.
I think the "competition" part stands out because of the nature of competition. But practically it's a supplement for the people who want that. I'm going to wildly guess that the overwhelming majority of participants aren't seriously competing.

I absolutely love and share your approach. Learn new stuff and grow.

This reminds me of SpaceChem, Magnum Opus, or other games like that. I get a solution and then I optimize the solution and explore other methods of getting there.
Where are food prices going up? I can't say I've noticed it where I live.
Should we restrict toothbrushes to be only available with a prescription from a dentist to encourage regular cleaning and inspection?

The added burden may also dissuade people from getting either thing in the first place.
BMW also does OTA updates now as well.
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I guess we should give some props to Malthus - he may actually have the single most successful/impactful Zombie Idea (per Krugman's definition) in the history of the world.

It's rather telling that even a place like Hacker News has trouble understanding what technology is, what it has done and what it can do.
I think a lot of the comments assume too much about the team lead. We've only heard one side of this situation.
I suggest talking to the founders but I would involve the team lead as well. Try to strike a positive chord, you want to improve the work environment by identifying problems, solving tensions and most importantly communicating properly and not circumventing parties. It might turn out the lead also has something to say even though his actions might paint a negative picture.
I also suggest a holiday before doing it without telling anybody about the burnout. Revitalize yourself, reflect on the situation and also look into what you can do better.
Be positive, proactive and suggest solutions. If it turns out that the founders side with the lead at least you tried your best and they can only blame themselves for driving a good engineer away.
Best of luck!
Its generally thought that trust in media was dropping before the advent of the blog. Massive consolidation in the media industry along with the event of 24 hour news where something had to fill the channel at all times is considered a precursor to the situation we are in.
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It seems the author also missed the fact orcs are perfectly alright with cannibalism, which further alleviates the supply problem, perhaps even to the point of not requiring the supplies at all (a few thousand orcs eaten along the way wont make much difference). I doubt this has much precedent in history.
I don't follow. The "Big Lie" is a conspiracy theory devised (or at least advocated) by Hitler in order to justify antisemitism. It's not a true phenomenon -- like the Illusory Truth Effect -- but something Hitler falsely asserted the Jews did.
You are confusing the right to legally sell and trade cryptocurrency in Germany and the control of it.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will not be regulated by the Deutsche Bundesbank (Germany Central Bank).
First of all, the purpose of Bitcoin had more to do with creating a censorship resistant method of transferring money, and much less to do with central banks.

And for the purpose of sending censorship resistant transactions, it works pretty well. Bitcoin transactions are basically never censored, where as other types of transactions (such as bank, credit card, and PayPal, ect) often are censored.

Seems like it has worked out quite well.
To quote what I replied to another user:

If you disagree, try telling the police that they have no right to infringe on your personal freedom when they stop you for drink-driving. Or theft. Or even jay-walking. To be in a society, any kind of society, involves giving up personal freedoms in exchange for something, usually safety or stability. We just have a different idea of what's an acceptable loss of personal freedom.
Thank you for the support.

Regarding the high level stuff, do you have any specific points that you'd like to be addressed, or it is just a general feeling such as "everything's in Python so it must be good (for everyone)"?
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Be careful, because banks and central banks are not the same things.
Are you just referring to FAANG silicon valley circle jerks? You must be? Ain't nobody in large companies taking advice from some manager who leaked mental health information about an employee. I think you're working in a very circle jerk world and/or completely paranoid. Even if what you said is true, it's illegal and unethical.
Ask HN: What can I reasonably expect to make at a FAANG?
Say I am a mid to senior developer. I've heard people making ridiculous amounts of money. Where do I get the cajones to ask for a price that high?
Which again, has a multitude of problems.
> I would also like to point out that if there were to be no growth and no inflation (edit: and a static population level!), then the only way to add a dollar to your pile is to permanently make someone else a dollar poorer.

Is this really true? Aren't you mixing up production growth with production?

Imagine I live alone on my small farm in the middle of nowhere. I produce 20 bags of wheat every year. I eat 19 and save one. So every year I add one bag of wheat to my pile. No one else gets poorer. Or does the existence of the wheat in my barn somehow decrease the value of all other wheat in the world?
We're back to Picketty and "r > g" here; you're not holding the pension as cash, so you're making a return, so what rate is the return at? And how does the aggregate rate of return compare to the rate of growth in the economy?

Or are people seriously proposing having 0 GDP growth and 0% interest rates and 0% expected stockmarket returns? A strange world that's almost certainly unstable.

(There is a much broader question that if you expect a dollar to buy you a loaf of bread today, is it really reasonable to expect the same dollar to buy a loaf of bread in 40 years? And what level of stasis would be required to achieve that?)
Yes I am. Without more detail about the case it's hard to say what was the issue. Binance has what they call "machine learning limits": https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360004492232.

What lowers my concerns is that such issues might come once the bot is profitable, and by then I might have found other ways to raise capital (I'm doing a trading bot as a way to raise capital to create an AI research lab). Being able to setup a profitable crypto trader is a good thing to add on a resume or for personal branding even if I shut it down at some point. I'll be in a very different position by this point so it's a bit premature to be concerned about that now, although it's still somewhat of a concern.

On the positive side, I hope this scares the competition away.
You might want to learn about the country specific caps and how bills like S.386 were passed in congress buy blocked by Sen. Durbin to keep the "casual racism" going.

This is also the reason why people from India enroll in colleges that have weekend classes in order to maintain their legal status while in-between jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6LGNijSCCc
And paywalled apperantly?
Does this happen with non-premium articles or is this a premium one somehow?
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Without inflation, how would governments shrink their debts? Paying it proves enormously unpopular. Educate people so they understand the importance of running a balanced budget and sound monetary policy. Most politicians have no interest in this though as they believe (probably rightly) that it's too complex or dry for most people, so they just bribe the populace again and again (see UK Labour Party for an current egregious example).
> Inflation is already zero in much of the West.

There is no way this is true. Real world inflation (the kind all working people experience directly) is somewhere between 5-10% year-over-year in the US + Canada today.
I seem to recall that one of the names for Angmar was "The Captain of Despair" - literally a terror weapon.
pinMOS memory can be written and read optically or electrically
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They had ghost reinforcements that executed a textbook flank[1].

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanking_maneuver
There's a really great animation done on top of a talk by David Marquet which summarizes the book, I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4mCn5x5iM
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OLEDs are used to achieve this.
A key point made about its performance characteristics and potential applications:

> Currently, a lifetime of more than 104 read-write erase cycles is possible, and the memory states can be maintained and differentiated over 24 hours. Experimental results show that the pinMOS memory principle as a reliable capacitive storage medium is promising for future applications in electronic and photonic circuits such as neuromorphic computers or visual storage systems.
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This is where I get annoyed at Tesla. Everything is a wear and tear part.

When I was considering a Model3 they harped on how reliable it would be. I still passed.
Funny how it’s always private spending that’s being targeted by the people who want us to become poorer to save the environment.

And yes, becoming poorer is what giving up on GDP growth means for most of us, since the population is growing.

How about we started cutting the fat in the public sector? All that debt-fuelled overspending western governments engage in has a massive climate impact.
> Or does the existence of the wheat in my barn somehow decrease the value of all other wheat in the world?

If you are so remote that the wheat is guaranteed to remain off the market forever, no matter if your starving neighbour comes and offers you a fortune for it? Perhaps. Otherwise the answer has to be yes.

It's not just me saying it, it was one of the more important cases the US Supreme Court heard in the 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
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It's not terribly hard to get around the paywall if you want to.
Magic beans that live in your computer, or, uh, digital Chuck E. Cheese tokens. On a side note did you know the E. stands for Entertainment? Entertainment is literally that mouse’s middle name.
I thought the whole idea of Flask was to keep it simple. Reduce the amount of boilerplateing and potentially "useless" features of other frameworks, i.e. Django + DRF. For what I've seen so far, it looks like you've put the Django + DRF features on top of Flask.

My question would be, why should I use Assemby instead of Django + DRF?
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Yes, but a person who exchanges using cryptocurrency has to pay taxes in euros to the German government, so you cannot escape. Every transaction in Germany binds you to the central bank.

This is also true of exchanging five eggs for some butter, so anyone who thought a new currency would somehow exempt them from tax laws (and the currency in which the tax is denominated) was always foolish.
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And BTW, if you could develop an at home microscopy based test, that could TRULY revolutionise UTI testing. Inspired? ;-)
Can we use that to garner public support for cryptography under the banner of digital currency / cryptocoins?

Something like this:

The five eyes are trying to ban crypto! The government wants to be able to access your life savings when it inevitably all goes digital!
Your growing pile of wheat incurs increasing storage and maintenance costs over time. This will be measured as positive growth, and if growth is 0 in the overall system, by definition it needs to be negative in some other locality.
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Housing prices in my region are up 33% in 10 years. But I can buy a µC with internal memory, ad converters and countless I/O ports and interfaces for the price of a coke. The coke is actually significantly more expensive.

I like µC, but housing is really great too.
I just rewatched the battle scene from the movie, and the wraiths took out a few trebuchets and a decent number of soldiers on the wall. They weren't effective against soldiers under any sort of cover, but picking up and dropping soldiers on the city would be a good psychological warfare technique. Gandalf is seen riding around the city telling soldiers to return to their posts.

And the communication and intelligence that flying wraiths would allow is no small asset. Part of the advantage of a walled city is a view of the enemy approach while hiding your own formation. Good areal surveillance eliminates that advantage for the defending side.
The sequel to the book on getting one's culture from a boat full of people prepared to blow huge chunks out of the world, potentially killing millions, is a wonderful look at the managerial qualities of the Nazi party in 1933.
Agree in principle, but I have an issue with your use of the terms "logical/quantitative". A pedantic nitpick to be sure, but the "logical" mindset you describe is one of the most prevalent logical fallacies, that of the "false dilemma" [0]. Maybe there are even better ways to describe it than as a logical fallacy, but calling it "logical thinking" leads down the wrong track IMO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Maybe take 2 weeks off for "holidays", practice Advent of Code, start thinking about working for their competitors

> I can’t see how this can be resolved beyond creating a new role or transferring out of my area of expertise

Would doubling your equity literally not solve it? Triple? Figure out what it would take to put up with the Lead, or get outta there.
> Whenever economists claim inflation is low, they're almost always exclusively talking about traditional consumer goods (in which case it is low for the most part). They comically go out of their way to ignore the inflation in housing, healthcare, education and various asset classes.

This is false. The CPI weights the basket of goods that comprise the index based on the types of goods that people actually consume, which includes housing (either in the form of rent or mortgage payments), energy, as well as food and consumer goods. It adjusts for consumption patterns monthly, and re-weights the entire index every 2 years.

The BLS surveys rental prices as well as calculating something called “owner equivalent rent” for owner-occupied housing.

> The OER and Rent indexes have the largest weights of the 211 item categories (item strata) that comprise the CPI market basket. As of December 2008 their shares of the total weight (their relative importances) in the CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were 24.433 percent and 5.957 percent, respectively.

[1] - https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
Yes! I think it is a no-brainer that we immediately cut all defense spending to a small fraction to what it is now. If we do, we can decrease the total public spending and at the same time provide good education and health services to everyone.
Nerves is too resource intensive, but that's the right idea. AtomVM is closer to what I'm thinking, except ideally I want static typing that's interoperable with C, and the readme for the project would be something like: Here is a bunch of C code with some functions you need to fill in. Compile these two files for your device, and fill in all of the second file's function bodies. We maintain versions of the second file for common boards. If you add a c function to the second file, our tooling allows you to call it from the runtime.

C FFI is really critical, as that allows you to use all the existing libraries on a given platform.

So, a runtime language with elixir/erlang features, but with the C FFI of Nim. But Nim is compiled, and we need bytecode for rapid iteration.

The challenge is that what is nearly universal right now is a c compiler, but the board is always different. S7 scheme has the right idea with a single c file, but is too resource intensive and wasn't built for embedded electronics.

There is definitely an unfilled niche for rapid embedded application development. We're either going to get a $4 RPi in a chip someday, or the platform I'm describing needs to be created. Those are the routes I see to embedded RAD.
I agree, especially with the uneasy feeling that it wouldn't last much longer; the challenge of the first 50 years of Singapore was economical, and the heavy-handedness of the government was a result of that. The challenge of the next 50, in contrast, is cultural and about her people, and I don't think the government as it is, is capable of shifting gears.
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The privacy policy answers these questions:

https://almond.stanford.edu/about/privacy
I've been following it for a few years. Couldn't agree more, it brings about a quite unsettling feeling of melancholy for me, seeing these now quite old people talking about their ups and downs, having seen them so recently as energetic, enthusiastic kids.

I think there's something about the sheer pace through youth, adolescence, early adulthood, prime adulthood, middle age, and then into old age, which hits our own understanding of mortality at a very deep level.

Deep stuff!
It does remind slightly me of Amundsen's approach on his south pole expedition of killing dogs and feeding them to the men and the other dogs.

Lord Curzon was rather rude to him about it.
Could a chess engine do retro analysis?
There's a real discussion to be had here, but we have to be careful not to move the labels too much. The economics term for differential inflation in various goods is "Baumol cost disease": https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/5/4/15547364/baumol-cost-...

Tremendous graph there.

Basically, services that have to be provided by western labour in the west have got much more expensive, while goods that can be imported have got much cheaper.
Make sure your package sizes aren't getting smaller. 12oz cans are 10.5oz cans in most places now. Also in commodity foods, research if the government has increased subsidies to farms so the price stays the same for the end user.
It’s quite risky to do so. Tesla has locked people out of super chargers for unauthorized repairs before.