skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are very much right in thinking this.

I lived through collapse and dissolution of one state, civil war, disintegration, and (belated) birth of a new state, with its own currency. The monetary aspect (hyperinflation in the old, change of currency in the new) is only a small part of that. You are correct - in that scenario, there are other things to tend to, more urgent.

I also witnessed that gold did not replace the collapsing currency. Other, non-collapsing currencies took on that role.

USD is safe and sound for as long US is safe and sound. The fiat currency is creation of the state. In collapse, I'd say causality goes 99% state->fiat. Only a small (2nd or 3rd order) effect in the opposite direction.

For the parent - "Hyperinflation – It’s More Than Just a Monetary Phenomenon" by pragcap.com

https://www.pragcap.com/hyperinflation-its-more-than-just-a-...

reads right for me. Even general inflation (= increase in P/y) does not necessarily follow from the exchange equation (M V = P y) and money growth (M). There are other possibilities too, examples discussed in https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2011/05/14/money-gr....

To end on a more upbeat note: I also witnessed the hyperinflation tamed, the economy booming, without seemingly much effort and in short period of time. Looking back, I think the most important part is the right diagnosis: where is it coming from. Otherwise the cures end up worsening the disease.
North Korea is only stable because China props it up.

If the whole world were like North Korea there would be no external entity to do the propping-up.
“Can’t talk”? Talk is all the blathering rubes and crooks do.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/great-barrington-declaratio...
«I am kinda crazy when it comes to my brain» Mobile Head at Dodo Pizza on drive
the thermic engine would amaze the next generations
har har..
Problem 1: most (if not all) of the plants we eat have been intentionally improved upon at some point in their history. Many of the varieties that we consume are quite recent, so this is not a recent phenomena.

Problem 2: an EULA is a dangerous twist that goes beyond patent protection. At least patent protection is of limited and reasonable duration, while an EULA is of indefinite duration.

Problem 3: especially considering the scale of modern agriculture and the limited variety that reaches consumers, this is dangerous for food security.
> By the way, I have noticed multiple occasions when alcoholic intoxication temporarily made generally liberal people far-right. I have even experienced that myself a couple of times when I was younger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Waterfall-ish: how not to build a Cloud-Native organization
Thanks for the thoughtful response.
"Until...all major modern OSes come with a built in scriptable headless browser engine, which would be a game-changer."

Ah, yes. Internet Explorer, they called it. Built right into the OS. A game changer. Funny how the meaning of something (goodness/badness/motives/...) can change as circumstances change.
Curious statement - why don't you support it financially with small donation? This OS project literally has a page enabling it. Man the entitlement of this community.
> - The $20k price point hasn't been much of an issue so far, but happy to hear more feedback on that. We're thinking about setting aside a few PoPs where a group of people can pool money to purchase one. Would love to hear your thoughts on that.

I think the biggest question for the casual retail investor would be how well will a given PoP perform. If there is high revenue variability between PoPs due to housing density, per capita income, etc., you will start facing disgruntled investors pretty soon. The other issue with smaller investment size is that the "management fees" are likely to be higher - you need to address more questions and concerns from individuals about your product. Pooling PoPs might solve both of these issues elegantly with a more complicated financial instrument.

Edit: I also noticed you used the term "franchisee" agreement. I think this might be slightly misleading to investors because franchise owners generally have a lot of control over aspects of the business, whereas what you're selling is a more traditional financial instrument.
Im going to move off fizzbuzz because I feel that I have explained my position well enough.

Regarding the developer with the broken english, how long a developer stays in a team is not necessarily a good sign, the others could have left because she was hard to work with.

However you said the new company liked her, so thats good, maybe she was great.

When you made your last point about "going deep on technical content being good" I don't think you've understood my point of view very well.

I'm not saying not to ask technical questions, Im saying ask complex ones, where possibly relating to the developers experience.
> What we're experiencing is the limit of freedom of speech.

What we're experiencing is what happened with the printing press and every communication technology since - the democritisation of communication. That always leads to unrest because it moves power towards the masses.

> You can say that this enabled a level of censorship, but that also enabled to filter a lot of noise.

I would say that because it did, but on the noise point, I cannot listen to or read more than I did then, I only have 24 hours in a day. I can choose from more sources but the volume has not gone up. I am the filter now - should I not be?

Are you going to tell me what I should read and listen to? I have to tell you that I think I can do a better job that you at that, thanks all the same.
It is clearly labeled "level 2" so calling that "autonomy" is misleading.
Basically, the HN "community" likes to complain and snob about code purity and memory efficiency, but won't support an alternative. They just like to complain and have others pay or work on alternatives.
> reminder of my favourite thing-I-picked-up-from-a-bit-of-history, the other big advantage of democracies is they tend to be pretty reliable at winning wars. Voters are remarkably good at making armies work.

Are they really? WWII was won by alliance of democracy and dictatorship. Same for WWI. Vietnam War does not seem to be clearly won by democracy either.
The real overhead now is in interfacing: your CLI screen still needs to output (probably) VGA graphics, you'll need USB host support, wired and wireless networking, more sophisticated file systems...
Very nicely executed device with a good price point. Of course it's an utter nightmare with regards to privacy and I'd be very nervous regarding security and safety when I'd hand over the controls of my car to basically an android phone. Maybe I skimmed over it but I'd be interested in knowing which phones they use exactly.

So I applaud the engineering but it's not a device I'd buy (and yes I do own and carry around a cell phone).
The wisdom I received in childhood was to put your knife and fork down between bites, to regulate eating speed. Is chewing longer better? That's what I wished this study told me.
Used to have my own name domain but eventually registered a business LLC and now do everything through there.
I think that what John Nagle's answers was suggesting:

> A delayed ACK is a bet. The TCP implementation is betting that data will be sent shortly and will make it unnecessary to send a lone ACK. Every time a delayed ACK is actually sent, that bet was lost. The TCP spec allows an implementation to lose that bet every time without turning off delayed ACKs. Properly, delayed ACKs should only turn on when a few unnecessary ACKs that could have been piggybacked have been sent in a row, and any time a delayed ACK is actually sent, delayed ACKs should be turned off again. There should have been a counter for this.
Skepta, JME, Julie are the Adenugas Britain's most creative family?
What a strange world. Whatever about the cake shop, being an aspiring "micro-influencer" sounds awful.
It seems like a doable side project to generate a bunch of followers with their own names, faces, posting history, and relationship graphs, even for a beginning student of ML. It wouldn't surprise me if one had already done this in order to get freebees like the ones discussed in the article.

There's probably already serious efforts to weed out such people.
An influencer sending a cold email asking for free cake seems pretty analogous to a company like Yelp making a cold call looking to sign up a restaurant for premium features. Or in decades past the Yellow Pages reaching out to local businesses to sell ad space.

I suppose the difference is that traditional advertisers are looking to be paid in money, while influencers are often looking to be paid in free goods and services. Also, while I have never dealt with an influencer personally, it sounds like many of them may come across as unprofessional or lacking courteousness (to be fair, many traditional salespeople do too). It's a seemingly glamorous career with a low bar to entry, which probably attracts a fair amount of hacks.

I would have to imagine that the most successful influencers out there do tend to favor monetary transactions, and can afford to hire dedicated sales people to handle their business dealings.
There's a short novel by Austrian writer Leo Perutz[1] called "St Petri-Schnee" (The Virgin's Brand in English) from 1933 which deals with this. It's about someone trying to bring forth a popular religious and monarchist reawakening through a drug extracted from ergot. It was written before LSD was discovered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Perutz
It’s one of those trapdoors that people continually fall down: https://gocardless.com/blog/in-search-of-performance-how-we-...
One Letter That Changed Indian Railways
It didn’t work out so well for the Athenians...

My naive guess (as someone who is not at all a historian) would be that democratic states historically tended to have more functional economies and thus won wars more often.

On the other hand, democracies can be particularly susceptible to demagoguery during wartime. This is what caused the collapse of the Athenian empire (at least if we’re to trust Thucydides’ account).
I have persistent anxiety and every few months my body will either revert to one of the symptoms you described there or invent something entirely new and fun for me out of the blue. It took a while for me to realise what was happening and actually start taking care of myself - it's criminally easy to get stressed behind your own back. You don't realise you're in the thick of it until it's too late.
Your suggestion makes sense when you control both end-points.

If you only control one end-point, you might be stuck with TCP. See also the write-ups around BBR, like https://blog.apnic.net/2017/05/09/bbr-new-kid-tcp-block/

For BBR, it's about server-side changes to TCP with unmodified clients.
Global capitalism? Pretty sure the article was talking about authoritarianism, whether by capital, by the proletariat or AI.
Actually that would be amazing. But it has to solve privacy, cover cost of wrong items and never ship crocked fakes.
Isn't this longer than the average life expectancy of that time? I wonder what kind of incentives they had for such long-term projects.
“Neon is a high-level, statically typed, garbage collected, imperative programming language intended for teaching and learning the craft of programming.”

and:

“TODO: Tutorial goes here”

Says it all, really.

..

Pascal is [thataway](https://www.freepascal.org/) for those that care.
Brain Turns Off Your Inner Critic
There is one fundamental difference between credit cards in the US vs the rest of the world.

The United States has legislation protecting credit card holders. It limits out-of-pocket expenses for any fraud to $50.

In practical terms, you notify your credit card company and they just remove the charge and there is no cost and very little hassle or drama.

A similar situation is probably car insurance and car theft.

I think because we have car insurance, we probably have higher levels of car theft. It has probably become sort of decriminalized because the harm is likely less and the insurance companies treat it as a cost of doing business.

Meanwhile 200 years ago horse thieves, who were probably not caught, did real damage to people even though the penalties of being caught was probably hanging.
Show HN: Video Series on System Design
Your comment echoes one aspect of the article discussed here recently (authored by Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl), arguing that "AI is an Ideology, Not a Technology": people should be compensated for generating data used to train models.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24753664
Likewise. In one interview, I was given a short task to write some simple multithreaded C++ application before the interview. IIRC it was just a bunch of timers running in parallel to trigger events. During the onsite, they said here's the code you gave us, now here's a laptop, make it a client/server system in the next couple of hours.

The time pressure didn't hurt. Had to remind myself about the order of all the necessary system calls on the client and server side to set up the sockets, listen and connect, define a suitable message format, and whatnot. But I had a working client and server talking to each other doing their thing.

What I like about this style of interview is that it demonstrates your ability to be given a high-level problem and then go through requirements, design, implementation, testing then when given new requirements, iterate over the process to meet them. It's much more representative of day to day job requirements than a whiteboard. And being thrown that challenge shortly after coming onsite demonstrates that you can handle the pressure of being given new requirements and new tasks out of the blue and roll with it.
Then rename twitter to DemocratTalk, or something more accurate. They cant keep pretending they dont try to tilt the scales.
Interested, but few questions - There are several "traditional" financial instruments you can use to fund this rollout across Bangalore.

This includes but is not limited to - Bank Debt, Venture Debt, Equity, Revenue Share based Debt, indie.vc style debt (revenue share debt payback), ads on billboards below/above/next to the wifi towers and so on.

Why go the public retail investor/franchise model route? Are all of the above exhausted or infeasible? If so - why?

Further, the network doesn't require a city coverage for it to work. It can be added piecemeal over time. Thus, you don't need the entire city coverage to start with - but major population dense areas to make the $20k payback in a few months. And the profits there on can be reinvested into more PoPs. Starting capital is $1.3M - its not hard to raise with a working solid business - in debt format if you don't want to give up equity.
This GIF has been making rounds on Twitter for a few days already. I think if I had not searched Youtube for the video, I would not have seen any other version either.

Among others, I'm quite certain that it was also shared by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimo [0] who has quite a few followers on Twitter [1]. (More people might know him from a (few?) cameo appearances in Big Bang theory though.)

It is easy to have seen this on Twitter by now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Massimino

[1] https://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
All it takes is for someone to make a threat of violence in the comments section of a known service, or to post links to abusive material.
I expected there to be some kind of "foundations"?

i.e. once the water is out of the enclosure, you have a surface that is likely to be soft wet mud or sand. Surely you want to scoop some out, dig down and lay some big blocks of stone under the river bed level?

Or maybe that happens, but was just not shown. Or maybe, once you start building up, the sheer weight pushes the whole column down until it settles.
I wanted to say there is an underlying problem. I don't know what it is, but I cannot see why it has to be IP. I didn't said that I disagree.

I did said that I cannot understand the relation between social media problems and intellectual property. This was a chance for you to explain better (I you were willing to). But... nevermind.
For others, their name is in their bio and is John Nagle.
So why didnt the trump tax return articles get blocked? What about the "damning" Russiagate articles?
Linux has a MSG_MORE flag for sendmsg() which sort of does the opposite. https://linux.die.net/man/2/sendmsg
They just hid the resolution constraint disclaimer one click away at the end of the [usage instructino / "how to use" guide](https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/instructi...):

The resolution is 1,024 × 576 pixels.
Did you say 'Thank you' today?
Outside of certain niche areas, there doesn't seem to be any real evidence of "influencers" having measurable impact on sales.

The strongest areas where they can make a difference is in makeup, styling products, and some fashion brands, but you really have to look hard at the demographics in order to figure out if your products are going to fit in the market that the "influencer" is catering to.
It depends how big the effect size is. You can conclude that falling off a 100' cliff is harmful with as little as n=2. Here, the effect size is big enough to get significance with n=21. For tiny effects like in priming studies, you need much larger samples.
And then Jon Stewart went on to discover Trevor Noah. It's a fine tradition we have here.
You can alter a book by changing the ink on the page. Does that make the book's contents no more than ink?
Also Helios:

https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2019/07...

Yeah.

No.

While AI can be impressive it has huge resilience problems, small changes of images cause AI to flip in a way very few regular humans would.
We are all standing on the shoulders of giants to be honest.
I do think many of the recent short-sighted political trends could be explained by heavy metal poisoning. Be nice if that could be cured by a pill.
> Which information should be highlighted to make sure artworks get as much clicks as possible?

s/artworks/artwork

s/much/many

Poor grammar makes users lose confidence in a product. Also, one of the questions is wrong. A hint below an input is better UX than a placeholder: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/
Had a song stuck in my head for weeks, I knew the Chorus and could hum it but had no idea. It found it though - Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs. I'm quite impressed, although it did think it was more likely to be Eiffel 65 - Blue, a song no one should ever search for. :/
> The lie may have already had its desired effect by the time the truth comes out, if it ever does

Yes, that's unfortunate. There is no way to consistently detect lies, which is also unfortunate for anyone arguing for censorship as then you cannot ascertain which claims should be censored and which should not.

> Lies about, for example, the stab-in-the-back, tobacco and WMDs in Iraq got the liars what they wanted at the cost of millions of lives.

I don't know what "stab-in-the-back" is but tobacco and WMDs are examples of lack of speech. If we'd all had access to secret documents then the lies about WMDs wouldn't have worked quite as well, I reckon.

> Overall this whole "free speech kills lies" idea sounds like religious dogma to me

Which is ironic considering you've stated it again, and again without reason to back it up.

> its proponents never feel the need to cite any actual evidence or address the horrific consequences of the edge cases

There are no edge cases because it's not promising utopia, it's promising freedom, and it does that because the alternatives are worse - I would rather choose free speech for all than your idea of censoring people based on which method? The abilities of the high priests to divine it, perhaps?

Now that would be religious thinking.

Edit: typo
According to the article it is a LeEco Le Pro 3
In theory I agree this is a good idea. In practice the type of application I'd want to build local first would involve users downloading 1GB of data before they get to do anything. This will never work on smartphones.

I also remember using an application that did this very poorly. It loaded all data into RAM causing it to consume 1.5GB for very basic functionality.
Well, as a guy who spend couple of years actually implementing chip & pin terminal credit card application from scratch, for a Polish acquirer, and a security officer at the same company, who had to read and internalize 17 thousand pages of documentation from Visa, Mastercard, PCI and EMV to do so, I can confidently say this is complete and utter nonsense (and it already was 10 years ago when I have stopped working with credit cards).

At every step Visa and MasterCard promotes highest possible level of security.

To give you an example, when implementing the terminal application you have to be able to support a range of CVMs (Cardholder Verification Methods) that might be presented by the card. The CVM list is a detail personalized on the card by the Bank, issuer of the card.

The algorithm actively promotes selecting the strongest authentication method that is supported by the card and always prefers PIN over signature (ie if PIN CVM is available it should not be possible to normally use signature).

This is verified during certification process and applications that don't meet this requirement fail certification.

There are also rules and internal memos which are sent to both acquirers and issuers, to which I have been privy to, which exert pressure on issuers to improve their security to deal with frauds. We were also regularly notified on new types of frauds detected and how to help preventing them.

The terminal application should also always prefers chip over magnetic stripe up to the point where magnetic stripe transaction is only allowed as a fallback after chip is found to be inoperable. So on a well implemented terminal you have to try chip first and only if it doesn't work the terminal should allow you to try with magstripe, if the magstripe says that the card is chip-capable.

Additionally, Visa and Mastercard both monitor rates of fallbacks (situations where magstripe is used with chip-capable cards) and issues penalties to entities that cross specific thresholds.
I seriously do not understand the moral indignation. It the business does not feel like the influencer will generate enough sales, it can simply refuse or ignore the request. Others might appreciate the chance to get in front of many eyeballs very cheaply.
The android phone they use for the comma two is a LeEco Le Pro 3.
I didn't realize one could pay to be featured in a news article on BBC, but then again I'm not such a cynic.
It could be self-serving (most opinions are), I'm willing to doubt myself about this too.

Anyway I'm not saying anything about "simpleness" but about feelings of certitude and answering the observation of the grandparent post.

Following this theory: It seems to me that we avoid incertitude when we have to act. We can not being subtle if we are in a crisis, so, maybe, it's the level of perceived thread what helps to determine your position in the political spectrum. I don't know, just thinking out loud.
> We're taking an AWS-like platform approach to our tech stack, our goal is to deliver deep APIs, network integration points, edge-caching and much more.

The website wasn't convincing, but this doubly so. What is your technology (which scales) that enables 10x savings, given that ISPs are operating on razor thin margins already?

Also, 20k*100 = $2million. If the technology is proven, wouldn't you be able to just raise it without a lot of trouble? I want you guys to succeed. It's just that you might need to provide better arguments here.
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Amusingly enough I wasn't being interviewed for a developers job - it was a jack of all trades Director of Engineering job. I didn't write a line of code when I worked there....