skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't used to be this bad. The NYT revamped its editorial staff and got some controversial identity politics types (Google "sarah jeong tweets" and be your own judge), and also discovered that much like Fox News, running aggressive and inflammatory headlines and opinion pieces gets clicks.

It's depressing because the NYT was more of a mainstream liberal newspaper whose main crimes were a lack of critical attitude towards foreign policy (such as the weapons of mass destruction fiasco). Its domestic reporting was decent. Now the domestic reporting is pitting Americans against one another.
> why did debt skyrocket but debt% of gdp go down?

Because world GDP grew faster than world debt. The debt growth is also smaller than it appears from the graph (the y axis starts at 200trillion rather than zero)
I can barely control my use of caffeine. Without it, I turn into a raging psychopath. And I'm consuming more and more of it all the time.

Heroin terrifies me.
I don't have the reference at hand, but the rates of problematic use in the population seem to mirror alcohol. A small single digit percent of people will absolutely have a horrible problem, 8-10% will engage in disordered use, ~10% will over use in some way, and 80% will never develop a problem at all.
This sounds like dangerous clickbait. It's entirely expected that someone whose job it is to study the effect of drugs would have a much better understanding of how to not become addicted

His assertion the 70% of all drug users including alcohol and prescription users aren't addicted if anything seems extremely low to me. I'd say the vast majority of my friends drink alcohol and are more than likely on prescription drugs but I don't think any of them are addicts

Which means that the other less common drugs must be a lot more addictive to bring the number down to 70%

I get the point the article is trying to make, but its headline and opening paragraphs frame it more as a "decriminalise all drugs" article
Chrome doing caching and therefore taking some RAM is correct behavior.
What's not being measured is if and how much the chrome memory policy is adaptative to system memory contention, i.e
If I open another app that make the RAM full, will chrome adapt by doing less future caching, by freeing some of the existing caches, by tuning the JIT to reduce throughout for reduced memory consumption, etc
>Price seems to change to local currency if your country is not USA.

Doesn't change to Rupees in India despite being able to find the address. Still shows 99$ for me.
For a start, while your annual income can indeed be thought as your "GDP", a country's GDP is not the same as the government/state annual income.

Second, a mortgage is a secured loan used for capex: You have borrowed a lot but you used that money to buy an assert worth as much or more so your personal balance sheet still looks fine and the lender can repossess the asset if you don't pay. Basically for debts you need to look at 2 things: balance sheet, i.e. how the debts/liabilities stack up against assets, and cash flow, i.e. whether you can service the interests on the debts.

The issue with government borrowing is that it is largely used to finance a level of spending that exceeds income. So instead of a mortgage I think a more apt comparison with personal finance would be if you used your credit card to finance a life style above what your income allowed. The difference is that governments can get away with much more of that than individuals can, but it will still come back and bite them at some point.
If 1 bitcoin was worth 10000 USD last year and it's worth 52000 this year, where is all the extra USD from?

Do we all buy some bitcoin, wait for it to grow 5x in value, and then we all sell for 5x profit? Where is that profit coming from?

Or do we all buy some bitcoin and never sell it?
This makes the mortgage analogy worse. Global debt is not the same as personal debt. It’s even more complex than government debt.

Again, maybe it’s good and maybe it’s bad. But we can’t tell that by making analogies to a single mortgage. They’re just different beasts.
Your argument essentially boils down to "he only called it a hoax once--and c'mon doesn't he really deserve a huge benefit of the doubt as to which part he was calling a hoax?--and all the other times he downplayed it or called it no big deal he avoided using the word 'hoax'". If, as you contend, he hasn't been pushing that idea all along--in one set of words or another--why does his base believe it's a hoax?
If an app like Clubhouse wanted to hide communication with Chinese servers would it not be trivial for them to proxy all of the telemetry calls through a US-based AWS or Azure server?
I'm very worried about heroin addiction, but I am also worried about a pro-censorship culture. Reading the comments here, I see a lot of people worried about this 'dangerous' information. I think this kind of opinion is potentially dangerous, but I am very glad we are able to have it aired in public and discuss it rationally.
My interpretation of this article is that the author wanted to remind us to engage, and to contribute the conversation because we don't know how to manage the situation. It sounds like you have some format of a game plan to deal with this, would you care to share it? I'm legitimately interested.
You're being downvoted because you mischaracterized (I'm being generous with that word) what Biden said. You might refocus your attention on the word "just".

And complaining about downvotes, particularly legitimate uses of the downvote, is frowned on here.
Any multi-process browser is going to be an extreme RAM hog. Any JS-engine priority browser is going to be a CPU hog. Modern web browsers are not browsers, they are bloated virtual machines with a bit of browser tacked on.

If you want a browser for the web instead of a JS virtual machine you have to look backwards, not forwards.
I recently read a great book called "The Price of Tomorrow" - Jeff Booth. The author discusses how credit and debt is the main driver of growth over the last 20 years (Inflationary) because technology is deflationary and as it exponentially increases so does deflation. Governments who are terrified of deflation and dependent on a system that encourages incessant growth and higher prices, can only maintain that growth through credit and debt (inflation). Considering that almost every country in the world is participating in uncontrolled borrowing and spending, it's going to get very interesting.

An quick and interesting read...would recommend.
We’re literally discussing a blog post where the author makes extensive and detailed predictions about the future. It has exactly as much legitimacy as astrology. It’s anti-intellectual.
Read Stephanie Kelton’s book “The Deficit Myth” for an elaboration on your questions. It’s a non-technical introduction to Modern Monetary Theory. Spoiler: you are correct, the rules are different for nations that control their sovereign currencies (eg the UK, Canada, Japan, the US, China, etc., but not EU countries).
Alcohol is very addictive. Its one of the few drugs that can actually kill you on cold turkey. Your body will sign that it wants it and it feels very bad.

I generally tried to explain what addiction is and what it feels like. It really depends on the matter.
I was kind of surprised at how simple it was to cancel my Netflix account. I was even going to fill out the standard "why are you leaving?" box because I had some strong opinions on changes they had made but they didn't even have one.
Everyone cannot be repaid at the same time. So there is a risk of a scenario where many lenders get scared and try to get their loans repaid and stop making new loans.

If that happens is becomes much more difficult for people to buy a house, car, college tuition, construction loan. That could cause a recession which causes businesses to do layoffs and spend less because they are worried about future income.
>it may be the case that no stable coin actually is stable.

gemini dollars, maybe?
Or Ada or Wuffs

But I have always used Pascal for that. It has memory safe strings and arrays with refcounting, so long as one avoids using other features like pointers, classes, inline assembly, it is perfect.
I really don't think we need the stimulus package congress is trying to ram through. At this point we just need things to settle down.
This article is about total global debt, which includes the private sector. Many of the comments here have misinterpreted this as government-only debt, which is not correct.

Only about 1/3 of the debt is government debt right now (a little under $100 trillion globally).

If you look up where your federal tax dollars go, there is a significant line item for servicing debt. Those interest payments go to holders of the government debt, which range from US citizens to foreign countries. You can find charts and estimates of who holds that debt if you want to understand where it goes.

The popular narrative about governments printing free money isn’t really true in the simplified meme-style presentation that we hear online.
8 cores and 32 GB of RAM is a seriously big computer. That's close to maxed-out for any off-the-shelf laptop or desktop, especially considering it's using a recent CPU architecture and chipset.

Edit: as of Feb 18, 2021, you can't even buy a 13-inch MBP with 32 GB of RAM. The 16-inch model with 32 GB of RAM and all other specs set to their minimum/default comes out to $2800 on the Apple online store. That is far, far outside the range of what most people have access to.
Weird that he claims to be a heroin user. Anyone that would write this and publish it to the world comes off more like a crackhead to me.
> Do you send him off to go look for new ones or do you make him mine manager and task him with hiring people who spend the whole day digging.

This is a false dichotomy. If he is excellent at finding mining locations, the best fit to help him scale out his capabilities is to give him larger responsibilities over the mine finding operation. If he's inclined to lead, that means potentially managing the team who finds mines so he can mentor them and pass along what makes him great at finding those locations and effectively multiplying his impact. The explorers will have more respect for their manager since he's been out there finding effective mines and has demonstrated that he has skills to teach them.
This is partly why I really like my Zilent switches. The tactile bump is at the top of the keypress, so you can let up as soon as you're through it. Cherry tactile switches require pre-travel.
And public sector money props them up each year when they pay little if any taxes, and we also fund their research endeavors because corporations are notoriously shitty at that sort of thing.

99% of private sector "innovation" is repackaging the stuff created under DoD/DARPA research projects. Then once that's done, they corner cut.
So, nearly 100%.
Let me explain. The PUBLIC SECTOR is in debt. It won’t be able to continue borrowing on the same terms unless it prints more money (leading to inflation unless done during a crunch of the money supply due to defaulting private sector loans etc).

Even before this pandemic, by cutting taxes the US Government got larger deficits under Trump (after Bush’s $1.5T a year deficit, Obama era got it down to $500B only, and then Trump’s and Republican budgets ran it up again.) The public sector deficits add up to the debts.

The northern cities - forget about it, they can’t even print their own money, and they shus down their businesses - they are screwed.

Now, everything is relative, so US sovereign debt instruments compete against, say, China’s in the open marketplace. But, there are alternatives to US treasuries - like Bitcoin and cryptos and gold etc.

If banks start to keep those as reserves, then the public sector and central banks will have decreasing power unless they FORCE the banks to have higher reserve requirements of base money that they print.

Btw in the USA, the vast majority of dollars is issued by banks (to businesses whose cashflows back this money supply, so bailing out businesses is a priority for the economy).

People are taking all that fiat money being sent by the government created by banks and plowing it into assets, which the government doesn’t have laws to seize, dilute the value of, etc.
You can read a bit about this in quite some detail in this pre-print from the 80s: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1033420

".. radiation, diurnal and seasonal temperature".

"Convective cooling by the Martian atmopshere, even on a cold windy day makes only a relatively minor contribution to heat rejection"
> So I'm not alone. I really can't understand the appeal of a mechanical keyboard.

You feel when the key was pressed . All new keyboards that you find in stores are horrible. Pressing on their keys is like pressing on a mat. Why do i always have to look on the screen to see if the press was registered ?
Then you don't know anything about C++, only the C legacy it is built on. Modern C++ has good data structures and good memory management.

To be fair actually using those features of C++ instead of the C legacy is still catching on. Most instructors aren't even teaching it.

Using C in C++ is like using unsafe everywhere in rust - you can do it, but you lose all the advantages.
I know its not really the point, but I struggle and am conflicted about crediting the LNP with gay marriage. Yes, they did pass the law, but in the most laborious and drawn out way possible. They did not do it "willingly".
What do you mean? If it's allocated to chrome it cannot be reused by other software.
Even if it's allocated but unused
This doesn’t change anything, as the additional yield by reusing binned chips is not enough to meet inelastic demand from miners. They will buy anything
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Space is cold and yet getting rid of waste heat is a challenge for any spacecraft. The ISS has giant radiators to dissipate heat. It doesn't matter how cold Mars is if it's difficult to transfer the heat away, such as in a very thin atmosphere which has less capability to carry away heat than Earth's atmosphere. There needs to be some kind of medium for the heat to transfer away (aside from radiation), regardless of ambient temperature. It's why a vacuum-walled thermos can keep things warm even in a cold environment. That's what they were asking about.

Heat can be conducted away by contact with another object, probably not what you want if you're using an RTG to power your spacecraft, you don't want your RTG to heat it too much. It can be convected away, which is more difficult in a thin atmosphere like Mars has. Or it can be radiated away by blackbody radiation, which some certainly is, but that is limited and isn't much.
At least in Argentina, we use LATAM only for the Chilean Airline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LATAM_Chile

PS: In the main text, remember to add https to make the link clicky https://www.ontop.ai
Oh, silly me, they weren't? Then what do you call the occupation of your country under a foreign power?

It's not like the Austrians asked the occupied regions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Romania: "Hey, are you guys OK with us ruling you? Because if not, we're totally cool about it and we'll just leave you be, no strings attached."

In case you missed history class, WW1 started because, among other things, due to Serbian revolts against Austrian rule.
Money laundering, scams, insolvency, lack of regulations, lack of clearinghouses, etc. Lots of reasons. Tether wouldn't exist if Bitfinex was able to cash out dollars on demand.
If the referrer has a valid cf_captcha url parameter, then they shouldn't be popping captchas for resources.
They are mostly concerned with the incidents that Belarus tried to hide during construction, showing that corners have been cut and the safety of the plant is in questionable state. A fair thing to be concerned about.
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I really don't like expressing debt as % of GDP. It makes it sound like when you pass 100% all the money is gone.

I prefer "44 months of GDP" over "356% of GDP".
80% backed by high quality liquid assets is pretty good. But insolvent banks avoid bank runs partly because lots of the money is sticky. Many people and organisations won't participate in a run no matter what, either because they think it's antisocial, or they believe the system will look after them, or they just aren't informed enough. A bank whose depositors are all cynical speculators has a much harder job to stay afloat.
Long ago man landed on the moon using 4 kb of ram. Today it takes 1 gb of RAM to open a chrome tab.
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Isn't government debt extremely cheap compared to 20/30 years ago?
Should we not look at how much interest we are paying compared to GDP for a better outlook?
they're already abusing our data. adtech sells to the US army (pointedly: data from apps that are marketed to Muslims). if you wait for the exploitation to be absolute before dealing with it, you'll miss the opportunity to deal with it at all
> inefficient private sector die

This is factually wrong. We've been miraculously efficient since 18th century.
I'm OK with this. It's not as if these petitions gave the people any actual power or influence over the government or policy, just a PR response for reaching 100K votes, which is bread and circuses.

If people want to be engaged with government they should do so through avenues which actually matter, local activism and voting.
It’s a no true Scotsman scenario. Obviously working on a “startup” in a big company isn’t the same as starting a new company.

But... you get to enjoy the bigco benefits and security while avoiding a lot of bigco bullshit. I did something like this in a public sector org. We got to do something new and exciting, many of the team ended up getting promoted, and the big shots got to pay themselves on the back too. We did not get rich, but we did not risk much.

Generally speaking, if you want to build wealth on a short horizon, working for someone is the hardest path.
It is a solid piece of work, but the blaring visual pollution is probably not our biggest worry.
> Governments who are terrified of deflation and dependent on a system that encourages incessant growth and higher prices, can only maintain that growth through credit and debt (inflation)

Money is cash and credit. The government has been printing cash for a decade. You don’t need, and we haven’t only had, debt.
https://chromeisbad.com/

I did not have time yet to schow whether the claims are true but i found this when searching why i have insanely high windowserver cpu activity.

Seems chrome on mac is heading into a strange direction. For normal browsing i use safari since a long time as the battery will last the longest compared to firefox and chrome. But the chrome developer tools are so damn good i can‘t get rid of it for development.
>And then all exchanges do it and when you look back at it, Tether is the only way to redeem BTC [...] the bubble burst you rush out and what s the only way? Calling Bank of China to beg them to reinstate yout exchange? Or take the USDT and go elsewhere?

Surely a bitcoin millionaire can afford an offshore bank account to withdraw USDT to?
That’s a solid point, though I think there is still a shorting opportunity. If they only have 10 years before revenues start to decline drastically, then their value doesn’t increase. It’s possible that the downward revenue spiral starts sooner than 2030. Maybe. Who knows.
This headline is total global debt, which includes private sector debt.

Many of the comments here are mistakenly assuming this is only government debt, which is incorrect.

The article mentions the government portion of debt further down:

> Government debt accounts for 105% of global GDP, up from 88% in 2019, rising by $12 trillion in 2020 or nearly triple its $4.3 trillion increase in 2019.
The grim joke among cyclists is, "If you want to get away with killing someone just be sure they are riding a bike and you're driving a car."

Paraphrasing, if you want to get away with killing someone with your massive, high-velocity robots just be sure to make them look like cars (and maybe put a human "test driver" in there as a kind of moral "crumple zone" to deflect blame. They don't even have to be good at their job. In fact, it works out better if they're watching TV on their phone when your robot kills someone.)

Automotive death and mayhem was normalized in the USA by a deliberate campaign of domestic propaganda: "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM Since then cars have killed more Americans than all the wars we've fought.

A self-driving golf cart that cannot go fast enough to hurt people could be built and deployed safely today. Fast heavy car-shaped robots are a fetish. Please, snap out of it before your robots kill. Again.

(Also, can we please call self-driving cars auto-autos? Please?)
At least in this case, it seems that there is disagreement on opinions, period. You think that something is outright immoral, and another user thinks that the same thing is moral - so you have a disagreement in opinions. If someone is - in your opinion - outright immoral, that's okay, you don't have to agree on a shared morality and can keep disagreeing, but it is not a sufficient reason to ban someone.
A (slightly contrived) example:

> rsync --e«TAB»
Completing file
some-file-with-extra-hyphens
Completing host
a-n-example.local
Completing option
--cvs-exclude -- auto-ignore files the same way CVS does
--delete-excluded -- also delete excluded files on the receiving side
--exclude -- exclude files matching pattern
--exclude-from -- read exclude patterns from specified file
--executability -- preserve executability
--ignore-existing -- ignore files that already exist on receiving side
--ignore-non-existing --existing -- ignore files that do not exist on receiving side

There are various ways to present the completion; I have the simple "keep typing letters" way, but Zsh can also present a table with an entry to highlight.
My daily driver for years and years was Kinesis. I redid my desk a few months ago and have been experimenting with a Keychron, which is MUCH smaller and thus saves space. I suspect I'll drift back to the ergo model eventually, but for now the conventional one isn't hurting me.
We've borrowed from our future selves, as well as our children. We brought consumption from the future into the present.
Highly recommend getting news through either AP news or Reuters. Both are non-profit journalism groups and I find that the headlines that pop up from those apps are straight up boring (and I mean this in the absolute best way possible).
> Some tasks require parts preheated for X time, which depends on ambient temp, they use a lookup table for the time of day instead of measuring the temp directly. (Assume this is for reliability purposes)

That's an interesting one. Guessing that there also must not be that much variation of temp and weather conditions?
Addiction controls what you want, regardless of whether you like the thing you are addicted to. That's what makes it hard to beat by just white-knuckling it; whatever strength or will you have gets redirected against you.

You might enjoy some of the accounts in The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_the_Realm_of_Hungry_...
Kid has made a 'racist' ransomware that insult Italian/naples people
One's debt is other's asset. In my understanding, such large ratio of debt to GDP means that the world's economic system is highly interconnected without enough slack in it, which increases risks of avalanche effects. Meaning that someone's failure to service his debt with increasing probability will cause a ripple effect of bankruptcies throughout the system.

Note that this view does not include the existence of the money printing press, which currently runs at full throttle. In theory it would mean destruction of the debt via inflation (i.e. debt yield will be smaller than inflation), thus preventing the avalanche effect, but this approach is by no means a free lunch.