skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think distractions are just the beginning of our issues, a much bigger factor on how much I can read is Time.

As we become adults, with responsibilities Time is incredibly hard to find. Big readers tend to be productive people and as such the more active and busy we are the harder it is to sit down and read. This might sound like a straight forward problem but I find myself bookmarking great articles or
writing down great books I heard about only to never really find the Time to go back and read them.

As a little shameless self promotion this problem of not having enough time to read led me to build an App that lets me listen to any article from the web. It converts the article to Audio using some amazing open advancements in AI/ML. Now when I’m standing on the train with a coffee in my hand and holding a pole with the other I can get through a ton of this content from the web distraction free.

You can check the app out here: https://articulu.com
I got four 24s and four 62s, but only one 66. It's pretty obvious that OP is not on to something suspicious about that particular number.
Sovereign debt isn’t the same as personal debt. You wouldn’t want the country to operate with zero debt. With that said, debt is a claim on future productivity. Do you believe that we will be productive enough in the future to service this debt? Or that there will be more workers to pay for this debt than there is today? If not, consider how that changes the risks involved, as well as the risk the federal reserve inflates away the debt (ie your purchasing power drops through the printing of money to pay for the debt).

Politicians today keep spending my kids’ future (both their inheritance and a claim on their time through US tax policy on foreign earned income), and that’s unsustainable.
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Amsterdam to Paris is about 260 miles as the crow flies vs. around 350 for SF -> LA. By practical rail routes, it's more like 310 vs. 520.
The best way to conceptualize it may be via MMT and not attempt to compare it to personal debt because it never gets repaid, the debtor owns a printing press, and so on. MMT is unorthodox as noted in this link but gaining traction. As you note the high debt burden isn't translating into higher interest rates on US debt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
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Yes, seems odd to publish this with the title guidence. Should be SEC ICO recap.

However, I think very shortly the sec will be publicly supporting a legal framework for using ICOs/Blockchain to raise funds without having to register and not limited to the current exemptions (reg. D).
Yeah, but it doesn't necessarily have to. If the US can keep servicing the interests on the loans via an economy that's growing proportionally faster than the debt it doesn't matter.
One thing I often wonder about is how far the world's financial system can be stretched with debt before it just simply breaks. I know it seems far fetched, but could a global debt reset be a thing?
This is not necessarily true for fiat money (currencies that are printed by some entity and can be created from nothing).
IE 11 is not a browser. It is a compatibility solution.
> And yes, if you are unwilling to work; you are unwilling to live.

How do you propose to enforce this on recipients of trust funds?
Not to go all MMT here, but so what? We print our own money, have the biggest economy in the world, and despite all the pearl clutching we're one of the most stable economies / governments in the world with a lot of highly skilled workers and a reputation for innovation.

If you're betting on governments you can do worse than the US. The absolute number of debt is scary, but do you doubt we'll be able to pay back our dues?
The only thing that's new is that the debt keeps getting higher during growth stage.
Previously the idea was we loosen the policy and borrow some money when the economy is slow and we tighten when things are moving better again.
But there is no proof that the austerity actually is a good thing for the country or the economy - after a sovereign debt, especially in the case of US which is still denominated in USD is a bit of a fictional concept - an act of law could abolish it, for example.
Also the interest rates are still so low that it kind of does make sense to keep expanding the balance sheet further as it's easy to service such low rated debt.
They should cut everything outside the NEC and dump that money into improving the NEC. It's one part of the country well-suited to trains.

If some hicks in Cali lose train service, I'm comfortable with that.
It's unfortunate, as Blizzard used to be one of my most respected companies as some of the core attributes to their games was their high degree of polish unseen in many other developers.

Now it's increasingly being eaten by micro-transactions and riding popular franchises.
The parent is one of “today’s lucky 10,000”

https://xkcd.com/1053/
There are like 2 airlines in the world that are profitable. Nearly every airline is either supported by the state or losing money.

I don’t think airlines losing a ton of money is unique to the US and so I don’t think the US airline industry’s state tells us much about the effect of US bankruptcy laws at all.
Who we the 14 people who approved?
No, you can't take open-source code back
What was the big issue here? It seems extremely expensive but I'm not sure how connecting two big and wealthy cities by high speed rail can be an issue or unprofitable.
One man's 'bloat' is another man's features.

Consider both Microsoft Word and Notepad.

Which is more bloated? Which is more light weight?

Which has more powerful features, some that you don't even notice right away, like spellcheck, grammar check, etc?

Which has fewer features?

People usually complaining about 'bloat' in a high level language or its runtime are really complaining about features that they either don't use, don't understand, or don't even realize are there.
There's not enough disincentives (punishment) for politicians who jack up debt and pensions. A typical political career having direct power is roughly 7 years. Thus, if you can "borrow" from 8+ years down the road to improve the here and now, it will benefit your personal political career at the expense of the next generation.

We thus have to find incentives to punish existing politicians for debt and future-unfriendly decisions. Maybe require Congress to wear a chicken suit for 1 week for every 1 trillion in debt every year. Embarrassment is a powerful incentive. (An exception may be made for recessions that need a stimulus.)
Think of juggling you don’t touch all the balls at the same time.

Debt is useually paid back over time. I borrow 100$ and pay you 1$ in interest and 1$ in principle. You now spend, loan, or invest that 2$ to somone that I can trade somone for to get one of these 2$ to pay you another 2$.

Over time I end up paying you 200$ even if there are never actually 200 different dollars around at any one time.

The only confusing bit is assuming when you loan banks actual money (A.K.A. deposit money) the amount listed in your account is also actual money vs a simple IOU. The difference is only important when the bank runs out, so mostly it’s irrelevant until something unusual happens and it’s not.
Thx for the suggestions. I’ve tried their jre as well. I’ve disabled almost all the plugins, except vim.
It is probably just a consequence of Project Zero being made up of experts on different topics. The iOS experts are quite prolific.
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I honestly think they may have felt that if they built part of it, it would be easier to convince everyone to finish it.

There might be some validity to this thinking:

(1) If you build part of it and show that it works, it makes it more of a concrete reality. Instead of asking people in urban areas to give up precious right-of-way to build something hypothetical, you're asking them to give it up to build something they can see.

(2) You're also asking the urban areas to wait less time between when they give up the right-of-way and when the system is built. By pushing the rural areas to the earlier part of the schedule, you can move the urban areas to the later part of it.

(3) If it's built in one part of the state, it creates peer pressure for other parts of the state to build it. It looks bad to be the one part of the state that is blocking it.

(4) While the sunk cost fallacy isn't rational, "we've spent this much and we're half done already" will still convince some people.

I'm not saying that overall this was a good strategy, but I can see some advantages. In any case, it seems like the main issue was massive cost overruns.
how about the economist?
I wouldn't say 'predict', but definitely painting a negative portrait

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/08/30/why-startups-ar...
I don't get the impression that this headline and metric is useful.

My understanding is that there are various ways of calculating the National Government's long term and short term financial obligations. This particular metric excludes large underfunded obligations, while containing obligations that are never intended to be paid? The proportion of debt to GDP is also only marginally useful and it is unknown if there is a level where market confidence is shaken. Isn't that the direction all threads on this topic go?
I think you should mention that you are talking about non novel non fiction stuff, like self improving and technical books, which is an entirely different world of reading (as in more learning than pleasure), at least that's what I understood from you.
Good question. I don't know a good answer.

Converting cars to LNG might be a good answer, but I don't know enough to know.
Just to complemented my previous comment, Android is probably one of the most secure Linux based devices in the world, probably only losing to ChromeOS.
That's exactly correct, from my understanding. Though it's biased, there's a great documentary called 'Money as Debt' that explains the process in an understandable way.
That’s probably one reason. Amtrak just also isn’t utilized heavily on most routes. Basically the Northeast Corridor profits subsidize Amtrak’s losses in the rest of the country.

My understanding is that Amtrak does own its tracks in the Northeast but they can price Acela high enough to just be competitive enough with planes for business travelers.
Just out of curiosity, do you have multiple independent teams working on your app? Do you use a monorepo, and if so, do you feel like it makes refactoring and bug fixes more difficult?
I encourage everyone in this thread to read about Modern Monetary Theory, an economic framework becoming more and more popular among professional economists that provides the clearest way to understand the nature and purpose of the national debt — which by the most sensible measure is much too small.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/deficit-tax-cuts-...
There's no question that China is still an authoritarian country with a powerful military, but that's beside the point. You have to look at what has changed to stop making them poor. It's the new policy of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" (their euphasism for capitalism)
My guess is it's some of both, really. There's the old saw about levels of SWE expertise:

* Beginner: doesn't know much and knows it

* Intermediate: knows a lot, hasn't lived with the consequences

* Expert: knows a lot, including when not to use what they know

The two comments here seem to be articulating the community shifting between I->B and I->E respectively. I think it's safe to say we have both a maturing developer base and a huge influx of newbies. That intermediate "look what I can do!" stage still exists, probably as much as ever, but is being professionally tempered by the caution inherent in the other two cohorts.

The Intermediate stage is the most fun to watch, though, and probably a lot of what drives innovation. The coolest projects come from people who ostensibly should've known better than to try that thing.
> you feel you have the real world experience to understand the expected rate of an IT project in Mexico?

not OP, but a risk vs reward calculation should probably go into it ...
China understands that this debt accumulated due to the populist/socialist US policies will never be paid. There are two ways out of it:

1. China will let the US save face to avoid war, and will favor (hyper)inflation of the dollar by ~100x, such that the debt will eventually be paid nominally. They will want the end of dollar as the global reserve currency in return.

2. War. That will be the preferred scenario of the new Chavista democrats, such as Alexandria Of-Color and Ilhan Omar.
These are my favorite kind.
The national debt belongs to someone, and for them is an asset. The debt is a source of income for some, and when they spend that income they are spurring the economy.

For those unable to print their own money, there is a definite limit on how much debt that one can carry, though the total amount of debt that can be carried varies based on the prevailing interest rates.

On December 19, 1980, the prime rate hit 21.50% [source: 1], and in such situations it is difficult to run up large debts. Right now the prime rate is just over 5%, which makes large debts easier to manage than 39 years ago.

However, the USA government can print as much money as it wants to, and in that sense it can fund infinite debt. It could issue hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt and then print the money to pay the debt. The result would be inflation. For that reason, economists often point out that the only limit on USA government debt is how much inflation people are willing to tolerate. Since inflation has been in decline for the last 30 years, the presumption is that the USA government could print a lot more money, and cover a lot more debt, than it has so far.

[1] http://www.fedprimerate.com/wall_street_journal_prime_rate_h...
Hmm but Prozac was never that great anyway.

There is very little evidence that depression is caused by chemical imbalance in the brain, it's something that big pharma have sold you so they can sell their drugs.

Great book on the topic, check out lost connections.
I'm not a huge fan of snark as a stand-in for everything non-bland either. But that's beside the point, when you start telling people how they are incapable of reading or absorbing your great insight (which is basically what both of your responding comments say), you're past snark and into snarl.
Ah, so what we really need are Boolean operators for multiple URL rules.

On the handy operators note, do you still know people on the Search team, and could you ask them to give us + back now that Google Plus is shutting down?
> It's against Slacks ToS to recreate the main app offering

Please provide a reference. The ToS suggest that your are not allowed to produce a competing _service_ (i.e. a server replicating the API).
The Slack API even provides special client tokens to application vendors, so you would assume this is considered OK?

> I'm pretty sure they even killed the slack terminal client someone created awhile back

I'm pretty sure they didn't (why would they?). Just a claim anyways ;-)
Also a good idea - but it's not necessarily an either or sort of thing, since the (potential) issue with CO2 is toxicity not lack of O2.
Out of curiosity, do new debt records surprise anybody? We've been running a deficit for a long time now. So we'll have higher debt every year until that changes (or until it all crashes down).
Do you have a well-defined goal in terms of dollars and years? If not, you might always want a bit more money, and thus never quit. You'd miss out on the chance to raise a family. It's safest to get that done before age 30. No matter how much money you get, you can't buy back your younger years after they are gone.
That’s the way I use it already without jquery.

It’s just nice clean flexible sass to start from.

I prefer a 24 col grid as well which takes about 4 lines of sass.
That's actually a pretty interesting point. Never considered it from that perspective.
Exactly. Ads are a legacy business model of a legacy distribution system. Too few people have read JPB's excellent "Selling wine without bottles", but that is in full effect here.

The problem is that new content-centric business models have not yet emerged. So, some people remain chained to the old paradigms.

The crisis we have is a gap in vision. People don't realize that driving cost of information distribution to zero means that it no longer has enough scarcity to force the economic transfer of other scarce resources. Basically, what OSS did for commercial software, the Internet did for anything that fits within a 2D screen. Netflix, NYTimes, Fortnite, JK Rowling, and Jenna Jameson are all competitors in a space whose Pixels*Seconds value is commoditized.

Capitalism doesn't thrive unless there is an exponentiating dynamic. The only one available on the Internet is bandwidth capture. Which, for now, translates into attentional capture.

With the imminent arrival of P2P web software (e.g. Beaker Browser) and mesh networking, the tides will turn back towards a creator-centric peer network.
Likewise. Sometimes it doesn't make sense to stitch graphs together. We have a gateway that proxies different services and exposes their graphs individually.
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> populist/socialist US policies

Oh yeah, well known Socialist policies like tax cuts for the rich...
Relax. The United States could easily pay off its debt if it should be necessary. Inflation makes it cheaper to delay paying it off for as long as possible. There are still debts out there from the 1600s being paid off. In the 2400s, we will likely still see debt from today being paid off, should we be alive somehow.

There will be another market crash, it’s not a big deal it happens every so often and life moves on.

If there is a war, the size and strength of the US Military virtually guarantees we will win.

It’s not so bad. Nothing can touch us.
If the global market enters another downturn and the USD falls, the US could actually get downgraded. That would increasing the cost of this debt, and make it more painful to continue with a budget deficit.

Essentially the US is riding on its reputation, but as good as that reputation is, as debt continues to raise relative to GDP international banks may grow wary of loaning, or simply want to diversify if they have a lot tied into US bound debt.
The national debt belongs to someone, and for them is an asset. The debt is a source of income for some, and when they spend that income they are spurring the economy.

For those unable to print their own money, there is a definite limit on how much debt that one can carry, though the total amount of debt that can be carried varies based on the prevailing interest rates.

On December 19, 1980, the prime rate hit 21.50% [source: 1], and in such situations it is difficult to run up large debts. Right now the prime rate is just over 5%, which makes large debts easier to manage than 39 years ago.

However, the USA government can print as much money as it wants to, and in that sense it can fund infinite debt. It could issue hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt and then print the money to pay the debt. The result would be inflation. For that reason, economists often point out that the only limit on USA government debt is how much inflation people are willing to tolerate. Since inflation has been in decline for the last 36 years, the presumption is that the USA government could print a lot more money, and cover a lot more debt, than it has so far.

[1] http://www.fedprimerate.com/wall_street_journal_prime_rate_h...
The proven solution here is to have long-distance trains and short-distance trains running on separate tracks. No need to go crazy with anything way more complicated (and thus pricier and more prone to failure).

Like, in NYC, we have the subway, which has normal trains and express trains (on separate tracks), and then we've also got regional rail like MetroNorth, LIRR, and NJT, and then we've also got long distance rail like Amtrak to DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and others.
The plants you are thinking of are F1 hybrids. Obviously wild trees are by definition not F1 hybrids.
Interest payments get bigger and there's less money to pay for other stuff.
So much of U.S. debt is effectively

A) an investment in the future of the country
B) future obligations

that it's hard to really compare it to personal finances.

When people are buying bonds it's generally a good sign for the perception of the country, but it obviously tacks more debt onto the ledger.

We tend to look at mortgages differently than, say, credit card debt because it's an obligation into something that ostensibly grows in value over time. One could argue that the same is true of social security and health and human services. You could also argue the cost is lower to fund those outright than to deal with the free-market implications. This is also an (the?) argument for Medicaid-For-All.
Capitalism? Are we really going to continue bashing capitalism for what is not its fault, but people's? Seriously?

I recommend:

https://mises.org/library/left-right-and-state-0

and

https://mises.org/library/anti-capitalistic-mentality

Should clear up the misconceptions, that is, if you really want to have them cleared up. :)
Printing money to fix big debt creates a lot of side-effects and risk, including that of run-away inflation. If you want the US Dollar to mean something consistent, it has to stay relatively consistent.

That being said, inflation has been relatively mild of late such that a little extra "printing" may not hurt much this time. I just don't like printing as a general fix.
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A relatively small construction/infrastructure project (920M) will not maintain the same cost efficiency when the project is 80 times larger.
I think its a bit more complex than that, maybe something like

if (memory.timestamp < YESTERDAY && memory.significance < 0.1) {
delete(memory);
} else {
dream_playback(memory).then((score) => {
memory.significance = score;
})
}
The Founder of the Haynes Manual, John Haynes, Has Died
Yaks present infinite opportunities to shave them. This is the benefit of Yaks. You never run out of stuff to do. Plus you have all that delicious yak fur.
Rsync was developed by the Samba people, it is under the same license (GPL).
This is absolutely good. If they don't need JQuery why should they package it together with Bootstrap. The only reason to use JQuery would be if you need it :-)
I would finish reading this article, but first let me scroll the Reddit front page once more.
Even if you use monero to buy a widget online they still need to ship it to you. How are you keeping your transaction history secret?
This is one of the best videos to understand the economic machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
Uneven distribution seems like a sign of a good random number generator.
One simpler way of achieving this is to lower the voting age. Younger voters consistently weight the future higher than older voters, because they'll be around for more of it. There are active efforts now to lower it to 16; I would go further and lower it to 10. Combine that with efforts to improve voting accessibility (eg. make election day a national holiday) and you significantly shift incentives for politicians to weight future consequences over present gains.
This is nothing in dollar value compared to buying generations of votes with entitlements.
Assuming climate change keeps going the way it looks like it will, servicing the national debt will be the least of your children's concerns.
> replace the user's custom ROM with a stock system?

Yes. I can't see any technical reason why Google disallows factory resetting my device without re-flashing a ROM.