skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not unlikely we'll enter a period of hyperinflation soon that breaks all historical records for the US.

Hyperinflation is typically defined as at least 50% monthly inflation (about 13000% annualized).

The highest monthly inflation since it has been tracked in US history is a 23.7% annualized rate in June 1920 (not a monthly rate, an annualized rate), the highest estimated annual inflation (obviously, pre-regular-tracki g) is just under 30% for 1778.

So any hyperinflation would be orders of magnitude beyond anything seen in US history, sure.

But I’d like to see your quantification of “not unlikely” and the supporting analysis.
Don't put clauses that rely on subjective concepts (like "good" and "evil") in your software licenses, because they can render the license impossible to enforce.
The problem here was the regulator injected into the process has gone full snail speed on approving unleaded for aviation use. Oh, and as far a liability goes, that would be the FAA that held things up, not the engine manufacturers, gas producers or plane owners. So the regulator was the problem.
Ask them to download Julia and try it, and file an issue if it is not fast enough. We try to have the latest available.

See for example: https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/RecursiveFactorization...
Yes, but the thing is, the right therapist might help with the self-reflection you're talking about in paragraph 3. "Therapy" isn't one thing.
Fields of expertise have their own internal ways of determining authority; the Trump side of things has tended on the whole to not go with the most authoritative of thought-out views of things.
You report that "Amazon 'claims to absorb costs' but gave no specifics when asked". Or something to the effect.

Don't print a company claim without doing some digging to back up or refute it.

Or if you do make it clear that you (the reporter) made no effort to back up the claim.
The difference between a fact and an opinion.

1 and 2 are opinions

3, 4, and 5 are false

An opinion can't be falsifiable
Transitory RATE. The inflation that has already happened isn't going away.
Be sure to get the paperback. The design doesn't carry over into the Kindle version.

I found this amusing bio on the Amazon author's page:

Robin Williams spent twenty-five years writing computer and design books and was one of the top three best-selling computer book authors in the world. But the world changed and no one bought computer books anymore, so she went to London and formalized her long study of Shakespeare with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Shakespeare studies.
Quit work for at least a while. You can afford it. Get involved in giving back or helping the less fortunate. Whether it's tutoring disadvantaged kids, or helping the elderly, or getting involved in some other charity that resonates with you, giving back will help you feel like you're doing something meaningful. You don't have to give all your money away, just start with contributing your time.

I'm not saying it's the case for everyone, but depression can be a signal that you need to make a change in your life.
Or, you know, call it a shipping charge. If offering free shipping is too expensive, don't offer free shipping.
Spotify Song Recommender
This project leverages spotify's api and provided user playlists to create and tune a neural network model that generates song recommendations based off of song data in provided playlists.
> thinking about trying Ketamine

Do it. I just did psilocybin for the first time last autumn. It was life changing. Im 37. I didn't learn anything new, but I felt really different and that was the real truth. That I really could just feel different and still be me. I guess it was a perspective on my life that I knew but hadn't felt.
To me, statements like this perfectly illustrate a situation where at least one side wants a form of companionship besides "potential life partner", and that is totally ok if everyone involved is aware of that.

In the US our culture tends to really emphasize dating as a step towards finding the mythical "one" and getting married, and it's "bad" to have sex or really any form of intimacy unless you are in a relationship.
When you are younger this is normally the assumed basis for a relationship, and complicates having any form of companionship that is not based on "Maybe we should tie our lives together forever!".

Obviously as we get older and gain experience with the varied forms relationships can take it's easier to realize (and even admit/discuss!) that one partner is really looking for more of a good friend with benefits situation than a "life partner audition".

I translate "It is your business or me" as "I require more of your attention than I have been getting to continue investing myself in this relationship" - which is also very valid.

If sex work was not so stigmatized, arranging the attentions of a high class escort for a year would probably leave everyone involved much happier.
(I am not talking about simply sex here, but talking, attending parties, all the normal early date stuff, but starting from a position of "I want a companionship, but I can't invest my time in a relationship right now. I do happen to other assets I can invest instead if you are interested? )
It is better in a way that only people who can write HTML by hand are supposed to publish on the internet.

While it is questionable if they are any better than general population, they probably have the same traits and common way of thinking. So they would like the same people to be on the internet.

Web 2.0 allows anyone to post anything so eternal September is here alive and we are living it. But closing possibility to post stuff on the internet is not the way to go.
> In the end, I only took one and I won't know how it turned out until I develop it next weekend.

Did you take that one because you felt pressure to take a photo?

The old 8GB memory card I use is enough for about 300 raw files.

I frequently go on a hike, and not-infrequently don't take any photos even though I carried camera equipment with me.

otoh if I take 100 I won't know how they turned out until I process the raw files, sometime in the coming months. (I do move them to a computer and rename them asap to limit accidental loss.)

There's something very freeing about having the space to experiment and learn and play, at minimal expense.
Can You Insert Hardware Trojan Spyware IP into an IC at the Fab? Yes
Yeah, pricing is always inflexible near noticeable points, and I suspect a decent amount of the inflation we're seeing is those points breaking down, so prices surge past to a higher bar.
Owning hardware is hugely overrated. Renting it is clearly superior.
Who is forcing them to fly this plane? I'm going to have to side with the rights of the people to not have lead dumped into their air over the right of someone to fly their own plane.
Ultimately, the existing banking system will either eat crypto, or crypto will become the basis for the new banking system.

It's not really any better or worse. People are excited about it now because the power structures aren't so entrenched yet. It looks like a chance to re-write the same history, but with yourself and your friends on the New Wall Street by dint of your cleverness and honest (ok, maybe not honest, but ) work... two things which no longer get you anywhere in the traditional finance sector.

I can't in good-faith argue very strongly _for_ crypto, but I can't argue against it either.
My argument: just let the fucking back-button work
Did you go through it alone?
Since it's for work I was hoping to pay someone to do it. Have to run it by management but I think 90% they'd go for it.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check out qemu.
I really hope twitter burns to the ground.
You’re right in the sense that people often use the term imprecisely and hyperbolically, but in this discussion they are more right than wrong, at least by this measure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy#Putative_oligarchies

> That’s entirely different than determining agricultural policy, or putting people in jail, or conducting the census, or maintaining the border, or doing anything else that a ruler does

You’re making a mistake of your own by conflating oligarchy with tyranny. They often go hand in hand, with the former generally preceding the latter. So it’s probably better to cry oligarchy before it’s a given rather than afterwards.
That is certainly one way to kill twitter
> I don’t think he’s an idiot though, so there must also be some other upside here.

Maybe he's just petty? There wasn't an upside to calling that diver a "pedo guy", but Musk was nursing a vendetta due to perceived slights in the past.
Do you try starting a family? It is a lot of fun, it is rewarding as well and distracting. I find it centering and gives me perspective. I didn't see any mention of that in your post.
You can do it in minutes, in Las Vegas. Go to the roulette wheel, put all the money on [red/black]. Keep doubling down. Win 7 times (2^7=128).
Microsoft's been agitated that the Windows source gets put in a torrent every few years. They haven't been able to rid the planet of that, yet. IPFS is a less-efficient DHT, basically. They might "win" a case legally, but they won't actually be able to take anything down. The value of that sort of technology isn't actually the hosting (very easy to keep something available even over traditional HTTP), but a stable URL/URI (less easy to do, but still solved by BitTorrent years ago).
Turned 34 today and feel similar, minus a loving partner and millions in the bank.

The only way I keep going is to keep an intellectual and creative pursuit at all times. Currently I'm trying to build a deep understanding of public healthcare system since it's relevant to my life experience, and also learning a new instrument. That seems to get my mind on more important things than how I feel.

Otherwise I just try to accept that this is how I am. Some people are annoyingly bubbly, others grumpy. I'm melancholy.
Generally speaking, if you don't know how to solve your own immediate problem, and you have the means, it can be helpful to solve someone else's problem. A lot of people are suggesting volunteering, etc, and that's what I'm getting at too.

Specifically, when people use capital letters and an indefinite article to refer to "The Wife" it is also usually time to get a divorce.
Use fshalt -r in a Rio window to restart
Right about the time Nautilus was Eazle, something like that, some other effort had Navigator as your desktop/browser/file manager.

But I can't recall much else. Anyone?
> Xi and the CCP/Chinese Government make a bid to buy Google, for a 20% premium.
They also bid to buy Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft. All for 20% premium.
Should shareholders do 'the right thing' and sell?

The right thing isn't necessarily selling. In that case the right thing is to consider the offer and decide if it's worth it or not. In this case the answer would probably be "No" and the US Government probably wouldn't let it happen either.
Your summary is simply not what took place above. I suggest you re-read the comment thread. Here are some specific links to help you improve your notes:

"Ah, well I wrongly assumed you worked ... Congrats, you’re now living off the efforts of others," https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31010666

"You feel your interests are different from someone making 30k/year, ... you have much more in common with a warehouse worker ..." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31010143

The entire comment thread centers around ad-hominem appeals rather than substantive analysis.
> shitty twitter clone

I doubt you can make Twitter shittier, it's not just dark patterns, it's downright hostile to the user
Become a viral politician
Yes, but also, we used to have to develop around IE6. StackOverflow wasn't a thing. I recall debugging IE6 display issues for days as a junior. It was horrible.

That's not to say the web doesn't currently have issues, it does. I just think it's healthy to be careful of embracing the past too hard.
The only "huge downside" of any tech listed is low-ish round-trip efficiency, somewhat limited material resource for some battery chemistries, or somewhat limited geographical placement for some tech.

But round-trip efficiency doesn't matter much, given top-line electrical abundance from epochally cheap solar, wind, and maybe geothermal generation. Geographical placement doesn't matter much, given grid distribution. Battery technologies will yield to better ones. Cost for every kind of storage will only ever decline, and efficiency at every stage will only ever improve.

So, it will come down to cost and value: i.e., what do the batteries or the synthesis and draw-down equipment cost (tankage is always cheap), and what is the industrial value of excess synthetic output after local tankage is full?

Cost for every energy use will be substantially lower than today, as each provider competes to deliver from unlimited energy sources more cheaply than the others. Nukes and fossil fuel have already been priced out of the market.
The point of Arizona iced tea is volume sales, and they maintain or increase that volume by pricing under Coke/Pepsi. Bigger can, smaller dollars.

That business is all about scale. They probably make more per unit than coke as they spend zero dollars on marketing.

I did this with an email service. We had runway and sold at 30% under cost. After about two years in our little niche, we had pushed enough volume that we were making a healthy profit. Then we sold the business to a bigger fish.
My father was a metallurgical engineer though unfortunately passed away when I started high school. Recently after reading a story on melting iridium in an e-beam furnace I am now finding myself fascinated by metallurgy. One thing that interested me is the seemingly simple yet complex process of vacuum metallurgy where alloying and/or purifying is done in a vacuum using all sorts of exotic heating and handling methods.
I can assure you that the CEO and the board has much more insider information than Elon.
It seems like you're in a good place financially and career wise, maybe focus on your physical health and make improvements there.

If you are covered financially, you can do a long trip somewhere to get a change of scenery and have some self-reflection
All you have to do is ask an author of a paper in medicine or psychology that quotes a p-value to define p-value for you. That will open your eyes if you’re not already clued in.
Wouldn't the very situation of a platform like Twitter censoring or moderating the speech on the platform represent a kind of middle-ground?

It's a private company, and one can start another one that caters to a different crowd (see Parler or w/e). The government is in no position to stop that, and nobody in this thread is arguing they be given such power.

As far as truly public spaces go, the law still allows all speech. Government can't stop someone from voicing their opinion at a public meeting based on content, etc. Even if it's Covid misinformation or something.
Good question which had me slightly concerned for a moment; there's official documentation of the upcoming change here[0]. It does seem that this is only applied to "fulfilled by Amazon" products (and will not apply to third party sales shipped by the third party), and is an additional 5% of the existing fulfillment fee tacked on.

An example they give is of a small, standard 6-oz package where the fee will increase from $2.92 to $3.07.

[0]https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/GABBX6GZPA...
First, regarding inflation surcharge, well that's the norm in business contracts. I can't recall ever reading a business contract that didn't have an indexation clause.

Regarding other surcharges e.g. fuel, I would say, to be fair to Amazon, that they are coming late to a game that has been going for a while now.

Once in a while, I get a phone call from $well_known_international_shipping_company trying to lure my business away from their competitors.

Shipping salesdroid sends me a nice Excel spreadsheet showing the breakdown of all the nice cheap shipping rates for various weights and destinations. All designed to make you think "that looks awesome, where do I sign".

But for the last few years or so, the spreasheet has changed to include some small-print at the bottom "A fuel surcharge will apply to the Rates, calculated in accordance with the methodology at $url unless otherwise specified in the Rates, $shippingCo may from time to time elect to revise its fuel surcharge table".
"We are given 70 years, and a bit more if we are strong" - some greek philosopher, if memory serves me right. The first half of those 70 years is ascending, and the second half is descending. The root of your anxiety is the fear that you'll disappear into non-existence at the end. Many say that mushrooms dissolve this fear, even in absence of proofs, but I wouldn't rush to mushrooms until your mindset is fixed. Knowledge backed by direct experience would be better, but you're a some 30 years too late for that.
Is it worth trying to apply pressure at the local level? I read that Santa Clara County banned 100LL in January.

I have young kids. We live near Hanscom Field and spend a lot of time near Barnstable Airport. Should we try writing our local airports/cities/counties?

At Barnstable Airport, the big operator is Cape Air. They make a big show of being green, so maybe they'd want to be early adopters of G100UL. Does anyone know if the existing G100UL STC applies to Cape Air's fleet? Could they switch to it if they wanted to?
Pick any news story and a journalist (from an outlet like NYT, Politico, etc).

Watch the timeline of that journalist's original opinions (and their level of aggression/assertiveness) and then watch how that cascades to either more extremism—if the evolution of the story agrees with their chosen narrative—or, to absolute abandonment of/ignorance of the thing they so fervently held an opinion about a few hours earlier.

Once you start observing this behavior, you will see it happen for nearly all stories. It's like watching rats press a lever to release food pellets and then scattering off to a corner to digest.
I rented a place where the walls were lined with chicken wire. They used it to hold the plaster to the lath. I ended up needing to run a POE wifi AP to each room.

When I moved out I told the landlord that he should use it as a selling point, as some people in the area had just tried (and failed) to sue the library for not respecting their wifi allergy.
The business opportunity is in software that's inseparable from the hardware. Academics won't work on that because they don't do product development.
The poorest 70–90% of Americans effectively have no representation – there is almost no correlation between their policy preferences and the voting record of their representatives.

On the other hand, enacted policy aligns quite well with the interests of large corporations, and I'm not aware of any causal explanation besides the obvious one.

If Elon steers Tesla and SpaceX, he is indirectly steering congress (or at least has his hand on the wheel).
Honestly I've never really had search performance issues in Nautilus. Windows on the other hand...
Correct. In internal Twitter jargon, some data is "perspectival" and some for performance reasons isn't. Actually viewing a tweet is calculated on the fly based on your personal perspective, as honoring privacy settings, blocks, etc, is crucial. But that's not true for counts, so those will be off.

People who find this a shocking and objectionable sign of bugs are generally people who have not build software at such large scales.
Fair enough, but by the same token OP mentioned that he is sure he is depressed.

Depression can get in the way of finding joy in things, even things you once found joy in. This on top of other symptoms that can contribute to OPs feeling of dread so to speak, such as a lack of energy.

In therapy, you learn techniques to learn to manage this, and meds can help with this. They can have a number of different effects, and some can definitely have a positive effect.

Successfully managing symptoms can free up mind space to actually take action to alleviate the issue, such as your proposal to take inventory of what's actually important and carefully reanalyze and reassess how you're measuring success in life.

I'll end this by making sure it's understood that I'm not saying you can find a magic potion that will cure all your woes. Rather, medication is one weapon in the arsenal that can sometimes work successfully.

Anyway, this is all complicated and evaluated on a case by case basis, so I'm glad OP is actually in therapy.
>Unless they want to argue with customers, they have to sell it at 99 cents like it says on the can.

Thank goodness for a couple companies marking their product like they do. Back in college, if you lived on campus, you were required to get a few hundred dollars of what amounted to University Currency. USD -> University Currency (CyCash in the case of Iowa State) was 1:1, but CyCash expired at the end of the school year, could only be spent at vendors on campus, and only on food or items at the convenience stores.

Cosmic Brownies were like $1.29 as marked on the box. A box of Oreos was around $7, with all other pre-packaged item being 100-200% of a normal retail price. I bought a lot of Cosmic Brownies for exactly that reason.
Is the mid life crisis a bad thing? You've got the money to spend on things and memories you've wanted. Why is doing it seen as a negative. Better to save that money for medical expenses when your body is failing?
I'm sorry, but in what world does having a plan constitute insider information?
Low volume enterprise software is effectively selling perpetual professional services for a company, with access/using a very specific proprietary tool. Selling the software is a lot like dating, the company buying your professional services wants to know who you are and how effective you'll be, before the commit to you for 3-5 years, maybe longer.

If you were just selling an API to a voice transcription service, that's great but there's very little economic moat and now you're in a Race To The Bottom with every other voice transcription API service out there. At least with professional services, there's options for customization and the revenue stream becomes more sticky.
Musk is (to me) exactly what a billionaire should be: fixing all the things government can't be bothered with.
I bet some of those who advocated "it's a private company, it can deplatform whoever it wants" are probably re-thinking their stance on deplatforming from a major social media.
> "how can we be sure 3rd party batteries won't explode in our tools?"

Hopefully the response to that would just be laughter.

IIRC, many of the proprietary batteries used in power tools today use commodity cells internally, either 18650s or 20650s. Not many (any?) are developing their own proprietary cells. Their secret sauce is the plastic shell and connector shape.

What we need, IMO, is standardized sizes and quick-connectors for batteries that are about 10-20x the capacity of an 18650. Big enough for the kind of power a tool needs, small enough that there's not much excuse for a hand tool or lawn mower not to fit them.
per hardware compat page https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility , most recent fully supported device is 2018 device from a company called positivo, supported devices from mainstream manufacturers are 2017 and earlier

I wish there were a foundation that worked on linux support for more recently released devices (laptops + chromebooks), I would fund this

fwupd / ubuntu certifications seem close, but they also seem more about supporting specific devices within a machine, and less about supporting the whole machine
> Boards have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. As an all-cash offer, this generates for the shareholders a substantial return with NO RISK, and so the board has a serious legal obligation to carefully review this offer and make a decision.

The fact that their primary concern has to be for their shareholders and not whether the sale will be good at all for the rest of humanity is a huge problem in my eyes.