skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at this page on Investopedia. [0]. All the examples are less than 24 months. Also, WEForum has some stats from 2019, where Venezuela has been in hyperinflation for a longer period of time. [1] and of course, Lebanon is probably the most current example. [2]

I’ve saved the best for last, though. Nicholas Kraus is probably the leading expert on hyperinflation, and has a great list here. [3]

[0] - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/12291...

[1] - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/inflation-deflation-v...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emerging-inflation-graphi...

[3] - https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/hanke-kru...
Well the key is fighting underconsumption.

Automation is a somewhat negative feedback loop in that excess labor reduces the demand for further automation. This is why anything shirt of general A.I.—which economically is automation that spills over from jobs one tries to automate to a significant portion of others—is not revolutionary.

So a declining working age population could shrink the economy, and this would be the orthodox economist position which doesn't recognize a structural underconsumption problem. And with underconsumption I think it's a not of a toss-up, but if the underconsumption is prevented, I don't the the demographics will get in the way.

tl;dr lock in your UBI before the population peaks.
IIRC, the stock is actually down since the announcement. Nvidia is buying ARM because of its high stock price. The stock already ran up thanks to the AI boom.

Honestly, I work at NVDA and I think the deal is dumb. I don't see what benefit it brings to us. The industry is beginning to move away from ARM, so buying yesterday's technology seems like a bad move.
Turntable – Music is better with friends
Wait so are you saying that all that terms like predicate calculus and algebra boil down to in practical terms is use a strongly typed language and and relational database? Okay so aside from choosing databases and languages, do these concepts explicitly come up in day to day programming or are regularly thought about?
"TL;DR? Why not just go watch another five second video of a kitten with its head in a toilet roll, or a 140 character description of a meal your friend just stuffed in their mouth. "nom nom". This blog post is not for you."

No, it is not at all hard for me to take you seriously when you TL;DR is just a rant that doesn't give me any information. Why would that bother me?
Huh? The Transistor, Unix, Speech Recognition was all invented in NJ
Don't let how easy it is to make fun of New Jersey distract you from how it's an enormous hub for lucrative pharma dollars.
It also loads very fast (close to instantly) for me on a pretty old mobile (moto g6). Most websites are slow to load for me on this device. This one isn't.
This is such a tired take. Logic has been moved from the backend to the frontend (again) which has justified the complexity.
I want him feel like he earned me
I’m sorry this is difficult for you, and (for better or worse) you aren’t alone. I have a family (wife, mum, kids) and live in Florida, USA which hasn’t shut down much at all, and this has been difficult for us, I can’t imagine being in your situation. Well maybe I can, it would likely involve a lot more alcohol.

Without knowing your local restrictions, do everything you’re allowed to, safely. If you can create a COVID bubble, or just hang out outdoors in some manner with others, that would help me in your situation.

Have you considered moving to one of the tropical islands that’s advertising itself as a good place to hide out during this time? That might be a desperate move but if you’re desperate maybe it’s the right thing to do.

I don’t know your solution but I do know this is difficult, and it sucks.
Welcome to Third Party Doctrine. A.K.A how to do an end run around the constitution by laundering the data collection to private entities.
DoItWithoutDues
Anyone else find it extremely coincidental that of all the millions of years of human civilization we could have existed in we all just happen to find ourselves at the most exciting period of technological innovation?

Coincidence or Simulation confirmed?
It depends a lot on what your product does, so it's hard to give an estimate. I've built SaaS products that only took a few weeks. I've built ones that took 6 months.

One way to save significant time/money is by using a SaaS starter kit. There's one for just about every stack these days: https://bullettrain.co (Rails), https://divjoy.com (Node/React), https://saaspegasus.com (Django), https://spark.laravel.com (PHP/Laravel). Ideally you're not wasting any time on this boilerplate.
> I now think that the best way to go is "paid-source"

Is that just source-available software[0] (sometimes also called shared-source)? I ask not because I object, but because it's easier if we all use the same words for the same things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
> Can you build up a short-lived production line for an integrated circuit and then tear it down but leave all of the infrastructure in place to pivot to something else?

Not at those margins.

Most fabs build will be running 24/7 until they crumble to dust.

TSMC still operates fabs built in eighties.
> Socializing is the primary activity that happens at work for the vast majority of workers. The gal or guy coming by your desk to "check in" or "see how your weekend was" etc... is literally where they find their social outlets and personal connections.

You have got to be kidding me.. You are at work because you have a contract to fulfil. You are not there to find your soulmate , stop saying things like "we are a family" , the second you get fired your coworkers will ignore you. Out of 99% of my interactions at work, maybe at best 1% of them even keep in touch with me, never mind actually building a deep connection.

Further if you are praising being in stuck for hours in traffic for a sense of "normalcy" , you clearly have no idea how frustrating and time consuming it is. I've been driving to office for years and the exhausting dread of wasting 3+ hours of commute time in traffic gives my anxiety.

Finally, your home is your sanctuary, if you are escaping from home, you have deeper problems, going to the office is not the solution.

Stop normalizing inefficient office-busy-work over actually being productive, getting decent sleep, having more free time to spend with your family and friends which are huge advantages of remote work.
This was the HN thread I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883680
"... all but one of the documented cryonic preservations prior to 1973 ended in failure, and the thawing out and disposal of the bodies.". There are a decent number of articles and documentaries on the matter.

Even now it's a fringe psuedoscience with little support or even regulation. Expecting a company to be both able and willing to pay the bill to store and freeze your body in perpetuity seems... Naïve. Looking at average company lifetimes might be a useful metric here.
The best IDE is in my head. I don't need to type anything and it can even run buggy code without any error.
Inverters usually have a 12 year warranty you pay a fee to extend to 25 years. Panels have a 25 year warranty, and we'll produce at 90% of rated power after that point.
I disagree. Perl 6 changed fundamental low level syntax and semantics in the language. The 4 -> 5 transition in contrast was mostly syntax compatible, and in fact Perl 4 scripts are our there in the wild running on the Perl 5 interpreter just fine. Yes, it should've been called "Larry's next crazy experiment language" from the start.

The most that was ever promised about the 5->6 transition was that there'd be ways of using 5 modules in 6 (which more or less works for 'pure-perl' 5 modules, within reason).
> I think I am more of a Scheme type (I prefer C over C++, I like Go more than Java, etc).

Scheme is not more minimalist than C.L. in practice; it's standardization is simply more fragmented and has nested layers, often by different organizations, that implementations can support, and then most implementations go well above even that.

Different Scheme implementations tend to share a common base but then tend to provide functionality above that, often shared between different implementations as well.
Ah no. Directional GPS jamming is quite effective with an easily sourced satellite TV dish, a tripod and some straight forward electronics. You can even point it at a plane using their own ADS-B signal.

PPDs are omnidirectional, but quite hard to precisely geolocate when intermittent and moving, as was the case in the well known Newark events (which shut down a major airport).

Airports with difficult approach (like the old Kai Tak in HK) could easily result in CFIT with only small errors, let alone other aircraft.
I believe the function of this article, as evidenced by some comments in this thread, is to believably criticize media like the NYT or Twitter. If you take the authors world view as true, and you identify yourself as a laborer in the conservative notion, for instance maybe you like Donald trump or Jordan Peterson and hate critical theory, then you see the world clearly and you have friends in high places, unlike the clueless left academics and media who opposes you. The left, simply because they are in the middle, are universally wrong and mocked by everyone who isn’t as delusional as they are. I suspect this article and it’s author of having underlying (and deniable) partisan motivations.
Can private citizens buy the data? How? If I wanted to buy my own records, how would I do it? Do I need to buy a large batch of records or can the request be tailored?
Wouldn't someone at the start of the industrial revolution also think themselves in the most exciting period?
Sir, we call that cloud computing.
Well, someone had to be there.
It's not like everyone has the choice to not use JSON.
That just limits it for apps on your device, Verizon collects and does whatever they want with it regardless of what you tell them to or what settings you pick on your device since they create it first in their servers and then send the data to your phone.
I _wish_ guns were required to cause harm to others.
What places do you consider to be tech hubs?
pv tech is a fine source, as it's not paywalled like Bloomberg.
Searx.envs.net (good privacy replacement for Google/Bing)
Well, you can also use it to transmute your feelings of inadequacy into feelings of cleverness and insight.

It's not that life's passing me by as I punch a keyboard at a big multinational, no siree, it's those those people posting pictures of themselves having fun who are the real fools.
I will pass for now, but happy to hear about alternatives.

For time being (fast ads free internet on android)

Kiwi browser https://kiwibrowser.com/

Ublock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
It’s when you try to log back in with them
I think with open WiFi networks and city mesh networks, using a WiFi-only tablet (probably iPad given their treatment of unique device ID's and privacy to prevent tracking by commercial device catchers) with a VPN is probably the best way to avoid this type of surveillance.

Although it does leave you in a sticky situation if you can't find an open network.
This is a good example of how things can get illegal. I start Company A and tell AT&T I will obtain consent from users for any request of location data from AT&T. AT&T approves our partnership and grants me access to customer data. My Company A then starts taking data for other purposes (selling to bounty hunters) without informing AT&T. My other use is then discovered and I am shut down.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/at&t%20letter%20t...
People problems and technical problems aren’t so cleanly separated. People speak in pithy soundbites on Twitter in part because of who they are, and in part because of ergonomics of the platform (limited character counts, etc).

Mastodon is a place as much as a product. The technology affects how we interact, and how we interact in turn influences design choices.
Two things to remember: barring a dark age, there will always be technological innovation, and the human population is at it's peak, so we're more likely to make advancements.
It is not so much as spying for law enforcement, but spying to protect their power. The military industrial complex invented the boogeyman and use their intelligence arm to promote it.
> Japan lends to itself

I meant to address this point separately. What you say is technically true, but if they just retired the debt, Japan would simultaneously become a much poorer country.

Remember, the owner of the debt gets to mark it as an asset, so while the debt would be canceled out, the assets would drop in an equal amount [0].

[0] the Accounting equation is Assets = owners equity + liabilities, so a reduction in liabilities must cause a corresponding reduction in assets. And yes, it’s that insidious, but it is spun by people who have an interest in people not understanding this.
It's a very very very annoying behaviour!!!
Do you not realize what the significance of Bell Labs is?

edit: This site is an Eero Saarinen design as well, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
Is there no sound?
> There are several definitions for Open Source that come from foundations and other groups

...and all of them do so because they really want to pretend that their software is "open source" without actually putting it under an open source license. Like, in the abstract I agree that it's weird having the OSI (or any one group) define "open source", but in this case I'm okay with it because every single "alternative definition" turns out to be someone just trying to pretend that their source-available software is "open source" for marketing reasons when it isn't.
Take a look at the machines required of a modern fab. Just turning the water on, ultra pure water, can easily cost millions. The actual litho machines are beasts the size of school busses and cost hundreds of millions to spec and install. Then there are dozens of little suppliers of the special reagents, each of which comes from its own billion-dollar supply chain. There are only a few places on earth where all of this is availible at reasonable cost, and silicon valley is thousands of miles away from all of them.
Is it open source? I've been looking for a headless web recorder for a while, with audio support if possible.
> First there is close to no easy to read content when you begin learning Japanese and there is demand for such thing.

If you know the alphabets (that is kana), you can try the easiest graded reader such as [1] and progressing from there. It assumes little to no grammar knowledge and comes with illustrations and narrated audio that you can follow along.

[1] https://tadoku.org/japanese/book/4155/
>A lot of markets are just gone

for tooling or infrastructure or languages this seems true, but most plain SAAS is proprietary, almost all end-user applications are and so on. I'm not entirely sure what percentage of the market that is but it's probably the largest one?
“Technicolor for Industrial Films” 1940 Process Promotional Film [video]
Mostly everyone elses, but yeah.
Sounds like a business opportunity. One for selling individual location data, the other for signing up to make that data private.
This sounds pretty sweet, do you happen to have any resources handy that dive deeper into these concepts?
In theory you could do this with an rpi zero w, if you were willing to write the USB gadget adapter code... but I doubt you could get much performance out of it.
This is super interesting, I didn’t know that Shortcuts could track apps opening and closing.
“Strava For Learning” exists; it’s called college.
Bosch has a semiconductor division which operates a few fabs in Germany.
Stand up is not (supposed to be) oppositional/conflict driven (but there are many toxic workplace cultures). Obviously some things "just take time", but what is the stuff that's taking up time? Assume it's all developers in the room and we're all familiar with the code base. Are you doing a stupid boring refactor of a thing tat "just takes time" but someone on the team wrote - and they have thoughts on pitfalls to avoid if they were rewriting it? Are you banging your head against an elusive bug that "will just take time" to tease out? The point of the standup is to shine light on any number of stupid pitfalls that every developer, even (especially) seasoned developers get stuck on, have dealt with in the past, and can give guidance with.

If you're just cargo-culting having a daily 15-minute meeting under the guise of agile or whatever, and it's just a status meeting, then cancel it, until after people learn to have a proper stand-up. Waking up just to go to a meeting and report "I'm still working on the thing", is a waste of everyone's time, and is a meeting that would have been better off as an email. (Provided people can send that email, which is not always possible, and is an entirely different topic.)
It looks like this should be possible with any Linux single board computer that supports acting as a USB gadget and has an appropriate network interface. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/usb/mass-storage.html which can be pointed at an arbitrary block device or file. (It appears that UASP support is not included.)
Quick question (and don't look it up). One government spends 35% of GDP, another spends 37%. Which is Australia, and which the USA? That's a normal year: COVID stimulus sent both off the charts, of course.

The difference is that Australians are, for the most part, paying the bills as they come due.
By some estimates, current living humans make up 7% of the total number of people who have ever existed.

Additionally, many during the last 200 years probably thought they were in the most exciting period of technological innovation. When you factor this in the probability of existing during such a period seems much higher than coincidental.
I agree with everything but the last one! Some jokes are meant to grate.
OK, so maybe T-Mobile isn't selling your location. What about AT&T and Verizon? What about every app on your phone?
Well, the problem is there are still people around that would assume the old meaning is meant, so you can't convey meaning by using the word when it's in the weird transitional state. That, to me, just kills the word.
I wonder if it'd be a liability if they wrote: "we think it'd be a liability to reveal our reasoning"

At least I'd find that more polite
Commutes in your United Kingdom are much shorter than commutes in the United States. Average USA mileage is 13,500 miles, close to your 90th percentile.

It seems like your intuitions are correct for your country, and mine are correct for mine.
Or something like XFOIL for simpler analysis of 2D airfoil-like shapes. LGPL, too.
That's great. But you do need to put that prominently on your Github page. And you need an 'About' on the site itself, that explains to me what makes it different and does a better job.

When I am looking for something that solves a particular problem and stumble across it, or something similar, I eagerly put in the time to figure it out. But when someone else (eg you) asks me to pay attention to A Thing, I need its merits explained to me up front, because I have no prior incentive to invest time in figuring it out.

I don't know if this has had any bearing on your career stuff mentioned in the OP, but one thing I learned getting older is that asking someone to invest time in evaluating your work has a cost for them, so you need to offer some clear benefit up front. You may know your work is good, but they don't. Think of it like a buried treasure map; you need to emphasize the treasure part in order to get them to look at the map.
I think the difference is in how extensively you broadcast it. I like gardening, but I don’t care if nobody knows that I do. I think this is evidence that I’m not doing it for signalling reasons. So in that sense it’s falsifiable.
> Why can't they keep things going temporarily by spinning up those n-th tier fab wannabes?

It takes time to tape out over to another node, and by then they expect to not have the supply issue anymore with their regular suppliers.
???

There is absolutely nothing inherent to JSON that would cause the woes the author is experiencing.

Any data can be serialized with JSON.
De-Nerding Programming: Jonathan Edwards (2019)
WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
"The supply chain of that location data is not as simple as me just going to T-Mobile, buying the data and then getting it there. There are various organizations, companies in a trickle down effect." [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/3e6n7jDDmj0?t=240
Indeed, and the academic workforce helps too. For instance there's a premium on housing that's within easy bike commuting distance of the university, hospital, etc.
Before we had a theory of planetary motion, epicycles were used. While obviously we stopped adding circles everytime a planetary prediction was off, the fact that some waves can approximate any reasonable function *is* interesting in it’s own right. I take a similar stance with signaling.
> Why can't they keep things going temporarily by spinning up those n-th tier fab wannabes?

Years long lead times. Every 200mm fab around is booked for at least 1y+ despite biggest increases in capacity in decades.

A labs scale manufacturing can be setup within months, but it takes 3-4 years to setup AMHS fit fabs on a commercially profitable scale invariably of the technology level involved.
I want the computer to do as much work as it possibly can. My brain only runs at 0.0000001 GHz because it’s made of meat.

But I want to use a concise, powerful language that requires more work from the compiler, rather than an impoverished language that assumes an IDE will generate a lot of crud that isn’t worth reviewing.
Your response is technically correct but completely useless.

Of course if we all just programmed in the JSON data model everything would be simple. The author correctly points out the uselessness of that. He correctly identifies that the complexity lies in providing a useful JSON serialization library that is both compliant in input/output yet flexible enough to be configured to go from JSON object model to business model.

It's actually a complex problem, going from one type system to another. Want to know how complex? Just look at the compilers and interpreters that transform instructions for complex data types down to x86 (or M1, or RISC, or whatever) opcodes.
In Brent Staples's Parallel Time, the author documents Rupert Murdoch after he bought the Chicago Sun-Times. Murdoch points at people and tells them, "I own you and you and you."

Conversely, there's the Alex Baldwin monologue at the beginning of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.
> The phrases "innovation", "tech hub" and "New Jersey"... I don't think so

Don't be so parochial. Who knows what the places you consider to be "tech hubs" now will be in 50 years.

I recently learned that Minnesota of all places used to be a "tech hub" during the mainframe era.
One thing I dislike about language group classes is that you learn with other non-native speakers (and, in general, with the same experiences that you have).

In other words, you learn and re-enforce each others' common mistakes, misconceptions, mistranslated idioms, and ambiguities in the language that native speakers find instantly jarring. This worsens if the teacher is non-native: I wouldn't place much value in such a class.

I definitely think it's important that you teach your native language/that you learn from a native speaker. Learning Japanese from a novice is not something that I want to do.
I picture the peak when the moons of Jupiter are full with a thriving civilization. One trillion strong under one government. Building the ships that take humanity to other stars.

How small we will look to them.