skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of ways I can think of real quickly that this is meaningless:

1. All money is debt insofar as it only represent goods as services yet to be rendered, an I Owe You as it were

2. If an entity is able to continue borrowing (more and more) money it represents a willingness of lenders to lend, which is a direct representation of their faith in that entities ability to service the debt

3. Whether a nation-state should balance it's budget is more a philosophical question coloured be ideology rather than a pragmatic concern.

4. If you believe the good times are going to keep rolling, and any bad times will, on average, pass relatively swiftly (people do have a tendency to persevere), then not borrowing money results in a lost opportunity cost.

I'm sure someone can respond with some equally convincing reasons as to why nation-states shouldn't run a deficit.

Go!
The interest rates go up on the new debt instruments issued to make payments on the old debts.
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That is partly because of the petrodollar BTW.
19k could be paid off by a single person, has this increased in the last two years?
> Everything is broken. Everything is fine.

This is the correct conclusion. The people getting outraged over this are the same that will hold long and boring monologues about how everybody does REST wrong.
These are some things that I generally keep in mind whilst preparing or giving a talk. (These are just things I do, feel free to disagree.)

Preparing:
1) Give yourself enough time to write and practice the talk. If you can get ~1 month, that (for me atleast) is more than enough time.

2) Say the words out loud when practicing. You may use different words or slightly improvise during the talk, which is totally fine. Just let yourself hear some version of it a few times (out loud) before presenting. In my experience this helps to avoid stutters, and keeps you in your place.

3) Watch talks of people online that you enjoy or by people that inspire you. We all have our own "style" when it comes to public speaking. You will never be able to straight up copy someone. But watch and take mental notes as you do.

4) (If you are preparing slides), keep them simple! It is YOU who is presenting the talk. Not a wall with a projector. Treat your slides mostly as an accessory. They can help illustrate a point perhaps, or outline the key subjects. Short and simple.

Presenting:
1) If you can, make sure you have a bottle of water handy when you go up.

2) When I approach the stand, platform or stage, I like to do so with confidence. This really does depend on the setting. But for example, as I walk up, sometimes I'll take my jacket off. Or do something that otherwise makes me feel like I'm owning the space. This makes me feel much more comfortable and puts me off to a good start. Even if you're not a confident person, walk up as if you are or do something simply to make you feel more comfortable.

3) Don't be afraid to use the space you have been given. This goes both for actually walking around, and using your arms to assist your words. Hands out of pockets. Use them.

4) Pauses are a good thing! Whether it's just to take a sip of water, or just a pause for the sake of pausing. This both gives you a few moments to collect your thoughts and also a few moments for the audience to digest what you have just been saying.

5) Slowww it down. It's almost too easy sometimes to rush talks when it comes down to actually presenting one. Take your time. They came to see you! So make it worth their while.

6) This is slightly tricky in some cases, but try to calibrate yourself towards the audience. For example, in my case, I've found people seem to pay more attention if I've just said something slightly amusing. If you can get away with it, go for it! It's a hard one to explain, but the bottom line is, try to get the crowd on the same page. I'll perhaps think of a better way of explaining this one and reply to this comment.
Usually a t-shirt, long sleeve thermal shirt, and a button down shirt on top, then jeans on bottom. Thick socks and probably my slippers for my feet.

I sleep just in my boxers, but we put another italian officers blanket and a thick quilt on our bed to keep things toasty.
LÖVE is awesome and Android port works great. The fastest interpreted language that also happens to be elegant and easy to learn, coupled with dead-simple input/graphics/audio/physics API you can actually remember. The APK is tiny when compared to other frameworks, some 4 Mb + assets.
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This is an inevitable consequence of basing the money supply on debt. The Federal Reserve banks are responsible for making money and loaning it out into circulation. There is never enough money to pay back the interest on the loans, so the federal reserve loans out a little bit more every year.

A solution to this quandary was figured out in 2011. Due to a quirk in the laws, the US Government has the ability to issue platinum coins of any value. These 'coins' never have to be paid back. The U.S.'s national debt could be retired by minting a couple "trillion dollar coins":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_coin

The Federal Reserve does a decent job at keeping the money supply growing at less than a hyper-inflationary rate, but the value of our money has collapsed since I was a kid, since we all were kids...
>It doesn't help anyone writing "this is broken" not offering any alternatives or suggesting ways to fix the problem.

Actually identifying a problem is of very much help, even without a solution.

For one, it lets people know of the problem, so they can get to an eventual solution.

Second, it lets people know of the problem, and avoid those areas, even if there's no solution available.
Yep, that's all you true. I loved Band of Brothers and The Pacific. These days we watch a lot of old movies on films truck/criterion collection and mubi which sometimes even partners with festivals to bring their movies to steaming. I do miss going to the cinema more often though, especially during summer days that are too hot to do anything outside.
I guess it varies by person. I don't find alarms jarring or panic inducing.
They've also gotten much better at hiding, laundering their money. The smart ones, at least.

I grew up around a lot of rich people. Old money knew how to blend in. New money (nouveau riche) stood out. Then, it was just gauche. Now, I think the dummies flaunting their wealth engenders a lot of resentment.
I don't remember Iraq having quite such a problem with its territorial integrity before the US invaded, disbanded its army, and allowed its munitions dumps to be looted by anyone with a truck.

The June 2016 incident, the "Pulse" nightclub mass shooting, is a good case in point. The person involved wasn't "sent" to the US, he was a US-born national living in the US who'd never visited the middle East. He seems to have been radicalised by speech in the same way that other mass shooters were.
This is precisely why my goal is to set up my children better than I was and teach them to do the same. As long as I am constantly improving and can share that with my children I am happy. Comparing yourself to others, specifically to the super rich, is not a healthy strategy long term.
Prominent artists having an array of assistants and understudies who do most of the detailing, while they themselves focus on more important matters like choice of subject, medium, technique and composition seems to have been the practice in the times of the Florentine and Roman masters, as I read from "Agony and Ecstacy".

Even architects do something similar, did Zada Hadid design every cornice and every pillar? I guess its the same with law firms also.
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I'm holding off until I don't have to define types in 3 places:

1. TypeScript

2. Document database

3. GraphQL

I know there are things that do two of these. I want all three.
you should take a look at the caching policies (fetch policy) apollo client provides as well as the error policy. neither are easy to find

for the error policy, you basically control the behavior (for each client instance or each request) when a request is considered failed. none, ignore and all. [1]

fetch policy allows you immense control over caching. this all depends on what you're doing but in some instances it can even make sense to never cache any requests, depending on how you application is structured. the docs are hard to google for this, but here's a link for you [2]

[1] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/features/error-hand...

[2] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/api/react-apollo.ht...
Syntax is different from abstraction. The problem in doing those things in turing machines and assembly is the low level of programming. Otherwise their syntax is pretty simple: commands and operands.
It's absurdly douchy of Apple to not to install the membrane on older MacBooks in for keyboard replacement, due to the design flaw. [1]

Fixing a fatal design flaw shouldn't be a unique selling point for the newest models.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577478/apple-replace-ma...
>Could we rephrase the message of the article as "If you write really broken code in Java, you might be not guarded by the type system"

The very idea of the type system is that it makes "broken code" of a certain type a compile error.
Sounds like you had a few problems.
Perhaps more people are qualifying for government assistance, because they're making less money.
In tiny print above that: (Millions of dollars)
> That is partly because of the petrodollar BTW

No, it's not. It's because Americans are massive consumers. We buy things, domestically and internationally, with U.S. dollars which in turn fuels demand for U.S. dollar-denominated assets. Attributing the dollar's hegemony to its use in commodities pricing reverses cause and effect.
Why? You sincerely think the world would be any better off if governments managed hundreds of billions more?
The whole system is awe-inspiring. Have a medical emergency? We'll send a several-ton box on wheels speeding your way within minutes. If you're in a city, the traffic lights will turn red as the emergency vehicle approaches to make passing safer. Paramedics trained in evidence-based pre-hospital medicine will perform the interventions most likely to save you based on their field impression.

And when you arrive at the hospital it gets really cool - at a level 1 trauma center, they should be prepared to give you a CT scan and treat you in 10 minutes or less. That might involve snaking a tiny wire through your arteries all the way from your leg to your head, or administering one of thousands of drugs that has exactly the desired effect.

It's easy to take it all for granted but the technology and systems in place to take care of us are amazing.
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Don't know if this is the case or not in Jackson Hole, but in general if a bunch of extremely rich people control most of the property in a municipality, they will elect a government that gives them low property taxes. It's not like they really need city services.
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I was almost hired a few years ago to work on OpenStack at BB HQ, any word on how that project went? I've heard through the grapevine that the project was scrapped.
We have, so far, only made a GraphQL endpoint for internal use. It has been awesome for quickly finding things in a medium-complexity database schema (30 or so tables, bunch of different relationships). It has become my preferred way to quickly find things in the database.

That being said, there are cases where a join between ad hoc subqueries is the best way, and GraphQL doesn't really offer a way to do that (though I don't see why it wouldn't be possible). E.g. arbitrarily combining two GraphQL queries that return lists where some field in one is equal to some field in another.

But in terms of replacing REST, where you have to do all of that anyway, it is far and away the better option (for ad hoc querying, at least).
I worked mostly on setting up our backend, and more recently dived into the frontend. We use Apollo in our frontend (with React), and I quite like it. We usually wrap stuff in high order component constructs, and for our needs the caching things work great. The ability to modify the cache manually during mutations are really handy to ensure that changes reflect locally (without needing unnecessary refetches).
That sounds like a side effect of the wealthy holding more passive assets and spending less of their income than an inherent virtue. Of course the real question is why inflation? Real wealth creation should cause inflation. There are far more goods available today and just subdividing the old currency won't cut it as a medium. "Was there earlier and held onto value doing nothing granting disproportionate gains" isn't a very good basis for resource allocation even if it personally works out well for some people. Or is the inflation from heavy spending devaluing the currency to try to pay everyone without any corresponding value? Inflation is just a symptom and may be beneficial, neutral, or pathological depending on context and cause.
Interest payments go to whoever holds the relevant debt security when the interest payment is made. But since the size of this payment is known in advance and the United States is (so far at least) a good debtor, this will be priced into the security before the payment is made.

In the case of T-bills, this is just baked into the price. The way that works is the US government says OK, a year from now we will give you $1000 for this piece of paper, now, how much will you buy the piece of paper for? And maybe they can find buyers for $985, so they get $985 now (which they can spend on stuff the United States needs, now) and they pay back $1000 in a year, by which time it's very possible that they've benefited by far more than $15 in practical terms.

If you have a generic investment that can't afford to accidentally fall in value massively overnight, but does need some liquidity, particularly if you're American, there's a good chance it's invested in buying these securities, whether T-bills, notes or bonds, because the US government has, so far at least, been good for the money. For example if you're going to need your pension funds in two years, you can't afford to have them tied to the NASDAQ just as the dotcom crash smashes it, but Treasury notes are a much safer place to keep it, even though say MSFT _on average_ makes more money over a long time.
When I go in Best Buy, the only people in there are old Boomers and boy do they love Best Buy and talking to the workers there. That generation has nothing but problems with their devices, it's like a mini game for them.
One of my personal favorites was episode 11 about how React was created. The dawn of a new abstraction is always a good story. http://futureofcoding.org/episodes/11-how-reactjs-was-create...
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This is a BS cop out to avoid having to think about ethics.

Some tech is inherently good or bad. If you create platforms that spread misinformation and rage much more effectively than information and reason, you shouldn't be able to walk away saying "it's a neutral tool!"
Everything looks impossible until someone does it. And keep in mind that flying is actually safer than driving. Yes, if you have an accident the odds of being lethal are increased but keep in mind that it is not the same kind of flying. 10000m vs 100m and the speed is also different. Have you ever looked at the fatalities in commercial flying in the early 30s? Better systems were implemented and it is perfectly safe now. So even if there is still a long way to go, someone has to walk that way and take the rewards.
When you have that spirit, you enjoy connecting with other punks. I was a guitar player in a punk band in my twenties and we self-published our music. When I had the idea to create a company at the end of the nineties, I had that punk attitude to move forward and create a company even if the business around it was new and full of question marks. All my friends recommended not to create that startup, and in a true punk spirit I didn't care and moved forward, I can now say 25 years later that it was a great decision. Even today I keep that punk spirit when I make my decisions, if you feel you're doing something right you should just trust yourself even if you are alone on the market, avoid beeing a follower.
They price match anything sold directly by Amazon and you can get some pretty good open box deals if you know what you want (e.g. people buy and immediately return MacBooks all the time)
I think it would be difficult to implement that argument without a weird slippery slope of forcing SAAS companies to sell their cloud infrastructure.
> going down instead of up appears much less disruptive/dangerous.

How so? Messing with the ground under tall buildings seems a lot more dangerous than messing with the airspace around them.
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I'm not seen much traction on this story in any of the main stream sources this morning. Sorry if this is a duplicate post but I think this is important enough that it needs to get out there more especially with the events of the week.
Well, it dates back to when the gold standard ended in 1971, and then there was the oil crisis in 1973 etc.
The worst thing about this is that it teaches patients to ignore bills from hospitals, because so much of the time the bill is bullshit. They're just fishing for rubes that will pay it without realizing that the insurance is already paying for it.

Then when a real bill comes they get angry at you for ignoring it, even though it was mostly indistinguishable from their bullshit bills.
If writing a lot of support code is inevitable anyway, why not automate writing tests, etc? That is, why not write a proper translator from a more expressive language? Something like Elm, maybe.
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Given the data around interviewers making pass/reject decisions within the first few minutes of an interview, I would find it surprising if it wasn't true.

This is ludicrous, given that an interview and a tech talk are completely different things. In particular, an interviewer doesn't generally expect or hope to learn anything useful during an interview. That difference alone makes the situations not comparable.

it doesn't seem meaningful to involk anecdotal data

That anecdote is the only bit of data at hand. The comparison to interviews is mere wild speculation.
The US healthcare industry is more expensive simply because it is run for profit.

There are plenty of other developed nations with regulation that manage to grant healthcare to all their citizens without the cluster-fuck the US makes out of the situation.
which two?
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> This is an inevitable consequence of basing the money supply on debt

Not really. The U.S. government ran surpluses in the nineties. This led to hand-wringing as banks imagined a world without Treasuries, which would make collateralisation quite complicated. (We had the same "not enough safe assets" conversation after the financial crisis.)

The U.S. government could wipe out its debt. The Federal Reserve couldn't, as every dollar bill is technically a Federal Reserve note, but that's a different beast.
Also they do price match Amazon. I went to buy a Surface Book 2 and they lowered what I was going to pay to whatever Amazons price was.
Rye bread is fairly unusual in the UK, but I don't think you can criticize the country for that. Do they sell it in France or Spain? Tesco has some [0].

Most British bread is closer to the French style than the Germanic style. The majority of [1] has a hard crust but a squashy middle, like a baguette.

We should criticize most of [2] (the ones wrapped in film), this is the Chorleywood process bread where the whole thing is squashy.

(Links are to Tesco, but for anyone that does visit, Waitrose is the highest quality national, large supermarket.)

[0] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=rye%20bre...

[1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/bakery/from-our-b...

[2] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/bakery/bread-and-...
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The Gold Rush did indeed make a lot of people wealthy. Not the gold itself, but rather land speculation and the business bubble.

When I randomly recall old wealth families that I’m aware of, they pretty much all started from local business tycoons (newspapers, railroads, essential consumer products, etc.) that usually diversified through real estate. No different than the rest of the US.
The traffic over your head is actually many times bigger than road traffic.
REST as seen in HTTP has always been about resources (identified by URLs), representations thereof that take the form of a particular mediatype (selected explicitly or by content negotiation), and hyperlinks (with targets and rels).

When resources are obvious nouns already present in the backend's data model, this maps well to CRUD. The problem comes when trying to describe complex mutations, because to most people, this feels wrong, instilled by years of Dos and Don'ts of half-baked lessons about Object Oriented design.

In all this time between when Roy's thesis was rediscovered to promote an architectural style and when the trendiness of REST has finally run its course, there were far too many posts complaining about deployments missing hyperlinks (when usually, the API was externally documented, URLs templated, and its clients hardcoded, making many usecases of embedded hyperlinks moot), and not enough to reassure flummoxed designers that naming resources after verbal nouns or deverbal nouns is perfectly fine. Oops.
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If you lend money to yourself, why not just write the debt off?
> If Star Wars copyright had expired

Star Wars's copyright would have only expired if we were still under copyright law from before 1909. And even then, that would technically be only for the first movie. So the characters from that movie could be used, but not any characters in the later movies. You could have Han Solo, but not Lando. Obi-Wan, but not Yoda, etc.

And you'd likely also have to deal with trademark issues, which are separate from copyright.

And there is still plenty of Star Wars content out there and being made.
This reminded me of a documentary I watched quite a while ago:
The Money Masters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBk5XV1ExoQ
I always wondered which parts are an accurate description of the current monetary system and which are unfounded conspiracy theories.
Or hundreds, or even thousands
Why should it be dead? Poor management and bad money practices of some other competitors does not mean the retail segment is dead. Just that over leveraged companies are risky. No?
I can't speak for the Geek Squad (as I have never needed to use them), but they price match to Amazon (and several other online stores), and will generally have what I am looking for (at least for consumer electronics). I know that I will get it that day (vs. Amazon's "two day shipping" that regularly turned into three or four days) at an Amazon price, it will certainly NOT be a counterfeit, and I don't have to give my information so I don't feel like I am being tracked.
1) Can you get the industrialized farm lobbies on board with this? How about 3rd world rural clinics? How about 3rd world farmers using powerful antibiotics of last resort to make animals get a little bigger?

Successfully regulating antibiotics is a worldwide effort. I'm not confident we'll ever be more than moderately successful at that.