skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at this number in a vacuum and not in light of total spending/borrowing, and looking at it in a linear scale, makes this not as interesting. To be clear, this is a huge number and generally government debt is the problem. But this is a record amount of debt only because EVERY YEAR is a record amount of debt.

The article says that this "represent[s] the fastest growth in the amount of maturing debt since the Financial Crisis", but that's not true. Looking at the numbers, this represents a 10.0% increase from the previous year but 2012 gave us 10.7%. 2008, 2009, and 2010 represent bigger jumps, but you can argue that the financial crisis extended to 2010 (although you can argue that it's still not really over now -- definitions are hard). Pre-crisis we had 2003 13.5%, 2002 12.5%.
I think hand-made "artisan" products is going to continue to be a large part of the future of "Jobs". Automation can mass produce high quality items that aren't unqiue, and 3D printers can make unique products that aren't high quality... but humans right now are the best at making high quality unique items.

But I do think things like UBI are still necessary, hand made items are always going to be in-demand, but unless you're selling only to the 1%, it's hard to charge enough.
I'm mostly talking about the kind of ads an adblocker can take care of. Those are the ones I'd like to be outlawed, anyway. Oh, and the ones people stuff into my mail box, despite a clear label to not do such a thing. And the ones plastered all around the city on big boards. Basically everything that is annyoing.
I downloaded FIFA15 on PS3 years ago, and I've only played it a couple of times for this reason. They have completely gimped the out-of-the-box features in terms of what you can do as a single player. Majority of gameplay revolves around Ultimate Team, which requires packs.

Makes me long for the days of FIFA 96-09, where you didn't have to buy a damn thing other than the game itself to play in tournaments with you favourite team.

The "recurring revenue" model has really soured the experience of playing video games.
For those downvoting bitwize, get a life. This is an accurate and impartial explanation of the arguments actually at stake in the legal case, clarifying an ambiguity in the post it's replying to.

Apple has two possible customers in this issue - the developers it provides distribution services to and the consumers that buy the apps. The point in question is which of these two customers has standing to sue on the basis of the specific harm in question. Under US law the answer cannot be both.
Pay a living wage and offer humane working conditions.

This is not rocket science...
CMR Surgical completes first set of robot assisted surgical procedures in humans
Have they made that threat?
I said I prefer a financial transaction tax. That is not an income tax, but something that taxes (at a reasonable rate) the churn in our stock markets. It greatly dissuades front-running and HFT.

It hits the corporates and rich where they actually care (passive gains), while not increasing the tax load of anyone's income (active renumeration).
To my understanding, anti-trust laws are generally designed to discourage the ability of companies to use success in one area to capture customers and thus have monopolistic pricing ability in another area.

In this case I think it is going to be a hard sell to demonstrate an anti-trust issue, but "A vertical arrangement may violate the antitrust laws, however, if it reduces competition among firms at the same level (say among retailers or among wholesalers) or prevents new firms from entering the market."[1]

I think claiming that Apple has some kind of monopoly on the smartphone market is a nonstarter, since they are well below 50% of the smartphone market in every country, including the US.

It's not clear that Apple's policies reduce competition among firms at the application creator level. However, Apples policies clearly do prevent new firms from entering the market. For example, Apple has explicit rules forbidding entire classes of apps that it believes compete with it's own services.

I think you might be able to make the following case, although the lack of an actual monopoly makes it more difficult (but not impossible) to frame it as an anti-trust issue: The levels of this vertical integration are 1. selling phone hardware 2. providing phone operating systems 3. reselling of applications (app stores) 4. production and sale of applications (app developers). Apple doesn't allow competing app stores at all on the hardware it sells, so it's clearly using it's control of a large segment of the smartphone hardware selling market in a way that discourages competition in the application store market.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
>In some ways this is actually great for the government because interest rates are at very low levels right now...

Just what I came here to mention. The debt that matures will almost certainly have had a higher interest rate than whatever the amalgamated rollover rate will be.
DeepMind and Google Graph Matching Network Outperforms GNN
There's nothing illegal about having a monopoly, is there? Don't you have to abuse that power before regulators step in?
> He's not doing damage control, he's just being a supreme court judge.

As of last week, Rasmussen (a conservative polling firm) was sampling support for impeachment of Kavanaugh.

It's possible that Kavanaugh is completely ignoring the topic, and has dedicated himself to the high-minded topic of jurisprudence. It's also possible that he is aware of such polling and is building support should the winds change.
I'm in the same boat (although I never managed to ascend in nethack). DCSS is really a great game with stellar design and UX. I think the problems with NH go beyond the UX, it's the whole balance and progression that's clunky. In particular a lot of very important mechanics are very difficult to figure out without reading spoilers. Simply figuring out what cursed items do and how to get rid of the curse is rather complicated. Meanwhile in DCSS it's extremely simplified, IMO for the best.

If some people reading this thread are interested in trying a roguelike for the first time I strongly suggest not going for Nethack, unless you really enjoy not understanding 90% of what's happening and dying repeatedly on the first few levels. DCSS is definitely a good entry point, I think Angband is also easier on beginners (it can be very difficult to finish it but the early game is more straightforward than NH).
> "Kavanaugh siding with the liberal justices."

Not the first time he's done it either. I think he did something similar about half a year ago.
Yes, the people saying this is no big deal I think have failed to notice that SCOTUS just overturned a major previous SCOTUS decision that has stood for over 40 years and which is going to have a massive influence on a large category of class action lawsuits in the future. That this is understood to be an important decision is verified by the stock market response which was to immediately go into freefall. The reaction was swift and not anticipated in advance by market uncertainty because this decision was a huge surprise since no one thought they had the votes, the assumption being that conservative Kavanaugh would side with the conservative majority on issues of unquestioned corporate power. This may be an indicator that in many other cases involving corporations there exists a SCOTUS majority that will be overturning other past decisions and in general not be automatically deferential to business interests.
For those wanting to discuss solutions, and not just problems, how about a wide-ranging carbon tax?

Specifically, a carbon tax set at The cost of recapture that then goes toward recapture (within the US, audited).

So for example, if this were applied to gasoline, it would just over double the cost but give zero-emissions. This is something engineers like us could easily afford in our personal lives. Worst case scenario, I imagine all things we buy would double in price.

However, as billions (if not trillions) get spent on such a technology it would hopefully get more efficient.

So perhaps a rollout schedule of:
2020 - 1% of recapture cost
2021 - 2% of recapture cost
2022 - 4% of recapture cost
2025 - 10% of recapture cost (and so on)

Basic food items for survival could have their capture cost subsidized by the government, so as not to harm those on the brink of poverty.

The brilliancy of this simple economic solution is that if meat produces way too much carbon, the cost will start to reflect that, and people will gradually move to more efficient foods or have an incentive to find a way to make more carbon-neutral ways to make meat.
Err, it was not a hail mary.
It was almost certainly the main thrust of their strategy.
(I'm speaking as a lawyer who has strategized this exact issue before!)

They do get a shot at the merits. Their hope of winning on the merits is incredibly low.

The reason they fought so hard (and others do) is because almost all antitrust cases are decided by what the court defines the market as.
If you go look through appeals of antitrust cases, you'll see most focus on the definition of the market and only secondarily on whether they caused harm in that market.

It's only when they lose (or it's a foregone conclusion) on the market side that they argue heavily on the harm side.

In this case, the market is defined in such a way that apple is almost certain to lose. Apple is really not going to have a good time saying their 30% cut helps consumers.
This is why they argued the standing issue all the way to scotus.

For example, it is highly unlikely they will be able to show that the markup is to do things like "police the app store", because the markup is way too high for that purpose.

Court will almost certainly find it a harmful tax that is not beneficial to consumers.
The same could've been said about Powerbeats 3, but people usually dismiss because of the in-ear design.
That's understandable, but for the average non-professional buyer, it's not fair to sell the idea of a '80b company', because it's only that 10% that you guys are saying.
thanks for your response!
U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly
In point 1, I think it's worth pointing out that there likely will be immense suffering, it will just not likely be by those who cause/impact the problem. My grandchildren will lose their beach house. But they'll have robots build them a new one. A few dozens extra million people in poor areas will die of drought induced starvation. And on net, people won't care.

I'm not saying this is morally wrong I'm just saying we should acknowledge it.
China has fluctuated between being a net buyer and net seller recently (https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt)
Evil can function in the minibuffer too which is somewhat similar. Regardless, the idea that Evil is no better than IdeaVim is kind of ridiculous.
Why would it be misogyny rather than misandry or both?
It's not aggressive.
The case being allowed to proceed is a huge loss for Apple here.
Precedent was clearly on their side, etc.

Speaking as a lawyer, the merits of this one are an almost foregone conclusion.

(It's possible apple wins - that possibility is very small)
We have a person who has no other place to sleep. Right now we turn a blind eye to their sleeping in a park, and spend some time and money cleaning up afterwards[0]. Instead you would like to throw this person into a prison where we will spend even more time and money taking care of them from sunup to sunup? I don't see that as an effective solution to any of the problems at hand.

[0]:Which I agree, it would be better we didn't have to.
Better yet, do both
GraphQL Nexus Overview and Tutorial
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In the UK, before Facebook we had Friends Reunited which many, many people were members of. It seemed to pass a number of hands after the original developers sold it - ITV bought it but it was beginning to lose members and interest, and they eventually sold it on to someone else. I reconnected with one of my old best friends from school who I'd not seen or spoken to in about 15 years so I certainly have it to thank for that (and we're still in touch).

There was another social media/networking site called Faceparty that was a little closer to Facebook and I used that for a short while before eventually going on to MySpace and then Facebook. And now I've dropped social media entirely - don't miss it in the slightest.
Ironically, giving a thumbs down on a YouTube video actually helps its' organic rating within the site. As far as I am aware, they basically add both upvotes and downvotes together to show total votes and rank it on engagement based on the total number.

I know this from my own videos. Some of my best ranking organic videos are videos that have the most downvotes.
I would rather do:

export default foo(theGlobalProp) {...; return ...;}

Why should a module reach outside its own scope?
To add on to what you said - understanding is a subset of fluency. You also need to be able to adequately explain/communicate your thinking in order to be considered fluent. This requires a sound "theory of mind for language" in order to be able to figure out when someone is misunderstanding you, and avoiding potentially confusing diction choices, which a lot of non-fluent speakers struggle with.
There are a number of all clay or stone structures that have been around for centuries/millenia. I think they'd survive a few decades without maintenance, but for the most part I agree with you.
That certainly could be true. I like to believe supreme court justices remember that with that role comes with the truest ability to be impartial and unbeholden.
Download+Musty+Grass+to+Grace+Album
> Please don't ruin our valuable trash.

How valuable could it possibly be? I challenge you to calculate the net present value on all of that nuclear waste.
more people loosing their jobs will be unable to buy products, no matter how cheap, from amazon, hu?
While I mostly agree, I think the PHP world it depicts is too rosy. The language itself is a bit chaotic and its enhancements are often half-baked.

For exemple, PHP5 introduced type declarations for functions, but only for arguments and custom types (object classes). PHP 7.0 extended these declarations to return values and internal types[1]. But having nullable types was implicit and restricted to some arguments and forbidden on return values, so PHP 7.1 had to introduce a new explicit syntax[2]. Now there are two ways to have nullable typed parameters, and, outside of the migration notes[2], only the old one (incomplete) is documented.

The post is right about the performance of modern PHP, but in the same time it advocates the use of the most prominent frameworks, which are rather slow. While Yii2 or CodeIgniter have a 20% overhead over raw PHP, Laravel and Symfony have a 80% overhead, i.e. 5 times slower[3]. YMMV, of course.

Composer is not mentioned in the post, though its main source is (Packagist). I think it has largely contributed to the better PHP ecosystem. Having worked recently with Python, I was frustrated by their lack of a similar standard tool.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functi...

[2]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration71.new-features.php

[3]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...
Oh god, I hope not. My webarchived geocities from 1997 is cringy enough. I don't need to remember what I was saying on EFNet in 1993.
Indeed it is, and not only for kids. iPhone, BMW, Armani are status symbols that opens doors in many countries.
Is this not similar to when you buy an item from a department store? When you buy a jacket from say, Tommy Hilfiger, in Macy's.. . who are you buying from?
That is true, but that part is an almost foregone conclusion on the merits.
Maybe, but China only holds about USD1T in US bonds. With the majority of that not maturing in the next four years.
from the description:

"Amazon.com works with manufacturers to box products in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging, which reduces the overall amount of packing materials used."

Also:

"It’s designed and tested to ship to customers in its own packaging without the need for additional Amazon packaging."
It will simply be refinanced, like all other debt with sizeable balloon payments. The underlying problem is not the so much the maturity, which can create liquidity issues, but the continued use of debt to finance government deficits.
Oh, wow, thanks for pointing this out, not at all clear from the summary of the parent.
Yep, I was on IRC from about '93 onwards... I remember it from the mid-nineties, I can't lock down specifics, but I remember the computer I was using at the time.

Can confirm the word "skid" too, and searching for any of these words is going to be problematic with all the bullshit l3375p33k.. So good luck using a regex or text search

but yeah holy shit winnuke/back orifice... wow that takes me back!
Microsoft Word will change your words to be 'gender inclusive'
I mean Google and China's various state run tech corps is basically choosing whether to get punched by Lucifer's left or right hand. It's a matter of preference between two organizations whose stated goals are mass surveillance, one to sell you crap you don't need, the other to reinforce their social hierarchy. I don't get people who are on the Google train but anti-China, there's so much overlap between the two it's genuinely amusing to see people so hard up on one and so opposed to the other.

Frankly the whole thing reeks of misdirected racism or possibly red scare? Like you're okay with a multibillion dollar corporation stalking you but not a Government? Seems like an odd line to draw but okay.
Why the comma operator with the eval?
Why is this a news? Doesn't federal debt mature all the time?
It's so dumb we used to think of this as a form of securing our chat...

At least mum and dad couldn't read it.
And all those middle age workers will, what? Just be retrained? Who's paying for that? What happens when the retraining fails (as it so often does) because you can't magically turn a truck driver into a software engineer?

I don't think any of the comments here are anti-progress. But we do need a social and political plan to handle the automation of a large number of low skill jobs. Failure to plan for this future will result in large numbers of displaced and disaffected people.
Good I only use open office xD
Not to my knowledge, its all just speculation.
Yeah, it sounds like a hell of a lot of work to re-evaluate every law every X number of years. Probably not the best use of time...
No, it's not at all about who you are buying from, that is simply not an issue in the case. It's about what is allegedly being monopolised and who is directly harmed.
This seems like periodic api poll and db dump tool across a limited set of resources.

For folks interested in this domain, its worth checking out cloud custodian, https://cloudcustodian.io

Its open source and supports AWS, GCP, Azure and provides more functionality (imo) and supports more resources. Its designed for compliance as code gitops style workflows with policies in yaml that query/filter/take action on resources, and provides for reporting, notification, and remediation use cases. It integrates with all the clouds serverless runtimes to provide real time response/inspection of api calls, provisioned directly from its yaml policies, as well as integrating with the cloud provider's specific security/compliance offerings (ConfigRules, GuardDuty, SecurityHub in AWS, CloudSecurityCommandCenter in GCP, etc). Its got developers from AWS and Azure working directly on it, and a community of hundreds of contributors.
A lot of the new bonds will replace what's already been loaned to the government, so what will matter is the delta between the interest rates on the old bonds and new ones as well as whether the new bonds have different maturity times. So how much rolling the debt over will drive up interest rates is debatable though the issuance of new debt to finance the current deficit is more likely to do that.

Of course, that assumes that there are buyers for the rolled over debt. The biggest source of financing over the past 20 years (China) isn't exactly happy with the US government right now. That could drive up interest rates on the bonds and cause problems.
Ironic because paper bags are recyclable, and nature does it for free!
> The article is poorly written and rife with grammatical errors. English is tough and we didn’t all grow up writing so, so it’s in poor taste to point out another’s writing issues. But, speaking as someone who is pretty good at SEO, at this point, the only ‘trick’ that works is to release and promote well written articles.

Yep, this is how I read it too. The whole time this felt like a non-native English speaker wrote this article. It isn't just that it suffered grammatical errors and poor writing, but it certainly reads like it is a non-native English speaker. Since it is an SEO company in Seattle, WA - this seemed surprising to me.
This is because of the ECHR, which Sweden is also subject to.
"If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing ... you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country."

-Trump

"I’m pledging to cut the deficit by half by the end of my first term in office."

-Obama

"We must balance the federal budget. We can do so without raising taxes. What we need to do is impose spending discipline."

-George W. Bush

[ Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich actually did briefly balance the budget ]

"Balancing the budget is a little like protecting your virtue: You just have to learn to say 'no'".

-Reagan
Was their discussion in the book about home schooled kids? I'd be interested in how that changes the dynamic.
if this were actually true I'd be pretty on board. there is a mountain of half-assed code out there. cleaning it up and making sure its adequately tested can be pretty satisfying.

unfortunately those are things organizations like to make lip service about fixing. often times the state of the project is symptomatic of underlying structural issues in the organization that they aren't really willing to address.
Bang on. I didn't start with loads of plugins, but the ones I'm installing are ones to _help_ with being a fast text editor, such as UltiSnips. I don't install plugins to add functionality that should be performed from a shell. What's the point? You're only a Ctrl-Z or a :terminal away
Cache timeout limits generally apply to the data retrieved for a URL, not the URL. If you know that your clients will never "bookmark" or in any way store URLs, then you can change them. The same rule applies for all identifiers, not just URLs
That's capitalism, right? But I suppose the advantage is that the consumers benefit.
The most exciting news is that they made several extremely deep dives in quick succession, advancing the way to a future of regular deep sea exploration. Congrats to the team!
These are all cute folk-lore tales, but nothing more. Humans have used chili peppers and other hot spices for thousands of years on all manners of food, and commercially bottling hot sauce (in the US at least) since the early 1800s. To try and pretend putting hot sauce or dried pepper spices on fried chicken is something that originated in the post-war south is utter nonsense.
Overgrown lawn while tending mom’s estate leads to foreclosure, $30k fine
You can use any language, all the providers have sdks in available for common languages. Otoh, I think its telling that all three of the major public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) have their primary cli in python.