skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every generation doesn't need the same skills and every generation complains that the next generation doesn't have the same skills they have. Somehow society keeps functioning.

"... the more I realize they are the worst prepared generation." Has been said about the next generation since the beginning of time.
The treasuries I've seen are adjusted for inflation, so this won't happen to those.

Not sure if there are also un-adjusted treasuries though. Probably?
You seen to be confusing two different issues.

The current situation with social security is that the expenditures for benefits exceed the revenues from taxes. The difference is being made up by the social security reserve fund.

This fund consists of the US Treasuries referenced in the article. There had not been any issue with the government paying these debts. They are an expected part of the budget.

The point at which we get into trouble is when the reserve fund is exhausted. Then the government will have to spend more money to keep social security benefits at their current levels. This additional expense is not currently budgeted for.
The Dreadful Flying Glove (Yellow Submarine, 1968) suddenly feels all the more menacing.

https://yellowsubmarine.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dreadful_Flying_...
Yes, because I'd expect HN readers to understand an ad hominem when they see one.

I could be living in a ditch down by the river, or I could be the leading researcher into how people learn calculus and it wouldn't make a difference with regard to my argument (though, practically speaking if I were the lead researcher on how people learn calculus, I'd be more likely to back my argument up with objective research, and that would strengthen my argument).
I mean, Al Gore broke the tie in the senate to balance the budget in 1993, after which the Fed and Treasury had to seriously consider how to implement their policies without being able to buy / sell federal debt, because a lot of US debt is short term and as that debt matures without rolling over the debt payoff snowballs fast (for a government anyways).
I assume it means letting the economy run at the highest sustainable level, rather than insisting on a certain velocity of progress.
"abandoning"?

it's still there.
Confluence's code blocks are hot garbage:

* Selecting a language on one code block changes the languages for other code blocks on the same page, sometimes. (I've not figured out the exact conditions on this one yet.)

* Whitespace is not preserved / rendered the same as the editor; we have several Confluence pages with YAML where the rendered version won't parse, but it looks fine in the editor.

Give me Markdown in git any day.
I'm sorry, I don't understand why you are saying this? This would not be about me copying something or you using something, this would be if you had a feature request to Matrix or to Discord.
Patent is for the three combined.

Filed (applied) June 2018.
Granted March 2020.

There is plenty of prior art for each.

I didn't think "this+that" patents were allowed...
I'm not quite sure what you're saying, but it seems like you're suggesting that having a flexible, non-"set" goal or plan "breaks the iron triangle". But... the iron triangle says that quality is subject to scope, cost, and time constraints. Scope is, loosely, how ambitious the project's goals are, so the inclusion of scope already implies that the iron triangle not only allows, but anticipates, flexibility in the project's goals.
Can I ask what movies you have in mind?
Social security is a pay as you go program. The amount of money going out is limited by the amount coming in plus what's in the trust
can you explain further? In my experience other people's half-baked commit messages are just noise while the pull request is more carefully written, so the squash merge is more intelligible. Additionally, the PR is typically used as the "atomic" code change rather than the individual commits.
Basically all water storage in NYC is rooftop storage. The water system needs to maintain a pressure gradient, and converting cheap electricity to potential energy is much more economical than running twice the number of pumps to meet instantaneous demand.
Intermediate Algebra
When they make an acceptable product:

- easily serviceable (not just by Apple, like for example getting windshield fluid refilled - no, I’m serious)

- properly usable; you shouldn’t have to flip it over to charge it (like their current mice) and other silly things like that.

Given how much of a control freak Apple is, and how their motto is basically that they’ll tell you what you want (instead of simply giving you what you want), until that changes drastically (read: management changes), I don’t see a release happening anytime soon (unless they want to risk it potentially being another flop[1]).

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438754
> They can't be trusted with these powers. If they want to catch criminals, they should have to go out there and do real police work instead of imposing their abusive surveillance on everyone.

Real police work like collecting records for transactions to piece together how a crime happened?
Sure, inflation is fake growth but the system needs endless growth so fake growth that employs people is better than real growth that abandons them on the streets.
I always wondered why the poem wasn't one hundred and sixty-seven words long. Perhaps this was all he could save for us.
Seems odd that the Priority is "Low" on the ticket

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-67940
I'm genuinely curious to know what you find severely lacking in fetch compared to $.ajax.

- handling cookies

fetch('https://example.com', { credentials: 'include' })

- HTTP status codes

fetch('https://example.com').then(response => {
if (response.ok) {
// Response is 200-299
}
if (response.status === 404) {
// Status code specific handling
}
});

- CORS

fetch('https://example.com', { mode: 'no-cors' });

- JSON handling

fetch('https://example.com').then(response => response.json()).then(json => {
// Do something with a parsed JSON object
});

I've used all of the above patterns regularly for several years now and never found any of them particularly cumbersome and certainly not lacking feature wise. If async/await syntax is available to you, it's even more succinct than the Promise style above.

With that said, I've not used $.ajax in anger for a good long while so I may be missing out, particularly as I note there have been API changes in newer versions of jQuery. Are there some specific use cases that you've found fetch to be particularly inept in dealing with?
Or cut social security payouts
Similarly fun to have to spend days at work doing "Myers Briggs", "Clifton Strengths" or variations thereof. Then have it woven into unrelated conversations for months until the novelty wears off.
> That's the biggest thing to learn from bullies like Linus - he hates everything and thinks everyone's an idiot, so where does he go when he actually needs to express something strongly?

When he has a list of complaints, that is his strong reaction. And why would he need to go stronger?
A debt being sold from the original lender to another entity has nothing to do with whether or not the debt will be paid back.
Would you say that Rust's learning curve is also still an obstacle to widespread adoption?

It was a while ago, but I haven't asked around lately.
What's ironic...is instead of educating and offering a workable alternative, you actually made the problem worse and the sale easier for Atlassian!

No, the rest of the company shouldn't be required to enter the complex and esoteric world of Git and fire up a terminal + a bloated code editor and deal with merge conflicts just so they can collaborate on a simple text doc.

This reads like a horror story I'd find on the landing page of some Saas tool under a heading that reads, "The Problem"
No, it's not.

Chia is just "proof of prior work" and as such has the same arms race problem as bitcoin. People aren't just buying a few TB, farming it and being content. They're building farming rigs and piling on the storage constantly. It just consumes power AND storage.
I once spent a week troubleshooting a pair of routers that were part of a NASA Mars mission. They were using firmware over a decade old at the time, which was causing issues with the internet facing edge devices, which had automatically updated a few weeks prior, and that started causing massive packet loss.

There were redundant paths with redundant hardware, and the node I worked on wasn't particularly important, but I got a taste of what the engineers and scientists at NASA must live for, the sense of contributing to something historic, profound, and deeply human.

The fix was simple at the end, a firmware rollback and disabling further updates, and most of the time was consumed in conversation and carefully assessing each step and action, but I count it as a high point in my career. Just to touch the edge of it was special.

The people whose code and engineering get sent to space are contributing to the betterment of mankind, literally making the universe a better place. Kudos to those guys. To write code that's part of a critical system is a meaningful in a way
A Discord compatible backend would allow existing bot frameworks to work with the platform.
Partner dancing is so great. It is fun, good for fitness, and genuinely useful as a social skill… it really builds confidence.

If done alone, it’s an easy way to meet people, or if part of a couple, it helps strengthen connection. I love swing and salsa!
Yes. They should have to do it in person, not by pressing some button on a computer. It should be hard.
Diamond is even better in terms of bandgap and thermal conductivity (one way jewelers verify a diamond is real is by checking to see if the gem has ridiculously high thermal conductivity). But diamond semiconductors are much too expensive ATM.

Gallium Nitride is the closest competitor to SiC now; it's better than SiC for high frequency applications but worse for high temperature applications and GaN is somewhat harder to manufacture. But that's changing rapidly.

https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/silico...
This is a good thing. There will be a smart kid who says "Why do I have to save a file, this should happen automatically and I shouldn't have to think about it" and they start a company and innovate on an inefficient process.
His talks on youtube are also worth a watch. Comes across as very charismatic which I think is a win for *nix
An absolutely iconic figure from some of the best television that's been produced in the past five decades.

(I write that as someone who's absolutely no fan of television.)

Williams's character, "Omar" Little, in David Simon's The Wire was phenomenal. For anyone who's not watched the series, I heartily recommend it.

"Omar be dead."

The farmer in the dell...
In the US, State occupational licensing laws for one. You can't cut someone else's hair without a license in most states. In my state you can't even dog/cat sit for someone for money unless you are going to their house because you need a kennel license to have them stay at your house if they aren't your pet.
That's my point. You can 'get your money out' without 'getting your money back'.
The original idea was to assign a name to a unique set of techniques and tools. That way you can collaborate with other organizations and have a common language to describe attackers. Many companies decided to start using their own naming schemes to avoid giving free marketing to the first company to name a group, so you have to do a bit of work to know that all the names I mentioned in my previous post refer to the same group.

CrowdStrike has a naming scheme that includes implied classes for specific countries of origin. For example you may have heard of "FANCY BEAR" which is part of the BEAR family but different from the "COZY BEAR" group. Everyone in the industry knows FANCY BEAR is the Russian GRU and COZY BEAR is Russian SVR, but by using the code names nobody has to come out and say it publicly (or face the consequences of being wrong).

The three companies I named are the only US based ones I know of that have publicly assigned named to US based threat actors. Kaspersky Antivirus (a Russian company) calls them the "Equation Group" due to their love of complex encryption, and the Hungarian government calls them "Tilded Team." If you ask Mandiant or CrowdStrike - they don't exist.
Building a strawnman and then attacking it makes for poor content.
That was one reason I was such a big fan of Andrew Yang - a minimum amount of consumption guaranteed for everyone, funded by increased costs of nonessential consumption, and redefinition of what makes a healthy economy so the resulting decline in net consumption doesn't ring any alarm bells. From an environmentalist standpoint it was an elegantly simple set of policies he proposed.
it's not as easy as it looks

I'd love to see Apple try, even if it's just for the lulz.

Apple struggled for years to deliver a functioning laptop keyboard. A car is a bit more complicated.

How many dongles would you need to buy before the car had reasonable functionality? Would the power source be optional?

The other confounding factor is that an Apple car might feature "self driving". I'd also lol at that, but Musk has demonstrated that vaporware is quite acceptable there.
Something I ignored for a long time was relaxation and adequate sleep. I also have a tendency to obsessively deep-dive into rumination and rationalisation about my career path, which was keeping me up nights. I would come to conclusions off the back of this process, but they wouldn't withstand the test of time, or real-world application, creating yet more ideation as a result.

Recently I spent some time with a combo of these techniques: books over phone use, spending time with my partner over being alone, and adequate sleep over staying up late. These things resulted in a feeling of being refreshed, and the quality of my insights and conclusions during the day increased markedly. Probably because I had tapped into an increased level of perspective as a result of these habits.

In short: consider how some basic health practices could improve your baseline for being resilient towards the challenges you face during the day, and don't make the mistake of dismissing them out of hand like I used to :)
That means that I need to pay myself in order to be paid?

At the risk of sounding pejorative, and understanding that there are volumes of sophistries in support of the status quo: how is this not effectively a Ponzi scheme?
MMT is a junk theory created by silver spooned academics with no real life experience. It has not been proven in practice, or when something close to it is practices it does lead to inflation or devaluation of the country’s currency (Think Argentina, Turkey and today Lebanon).

When communism fell, I remember how the west promoted the ‘shock therapy’ to former communist countries, which was devastating to them.
Another junk science that lead to a ‘lost decade’ and misery in eastern countries.

It was a ‘rip the Bandaid’ type of approach, which failed as it didn’t account that some countries needed time to adjust to the new capital system and it led to the closure of many lines of production that were actually profitable, as it was a ‘hard reset’

Be very wary when someone peddles a new ‘theory’ which is unproved, as a magical cure.
Communism was one of them as well.
It's not entirely a straw man, now, is it?
MMT is just something the ones in control of the printing press made up to convince gullible people that they're not being outright robbed by quantitative easing.
Why does the pimp make more than the prostitutes?
Does this mean I don’t need to pay taxes until the productive capacity is at 100%, because we can print it?

How do we know when we’re getting close to full utilization
> The flip side of Social Security owning the US national debt is that Social Security's solvency is entirely dependent upon the USA being able to pay.

The obvious counterpart here is: assuming social security was invested in non-govermnent US-based assets, and the USA was no long able to pay its debts, how much would those assets actually be worth (i.e., the economy/country is likely in a very bad shape)?

[My personal conclusion is that really, at the end of the day, the currently-retired people are intrinsically supported by the currently-working people, and all the money-tracking is about keeping this exchange reasonably fair. But if the currently-working people are unable to support the retired ones, no financial magic is going to fix that.]
There's support because Google uses Bazel and Rust, so they need a way to use Rust from Bazel.

I haven't really used Bazel much, but the features it brings are really huge: reliable pure compilation, so you can actually do globally cached and distributed builds reliably.

Maybe I should try it.
The US government (hence the people of the US) repay their debts all the time, and issue new debts all the time. Just like a home mortgage gets sold from the original lender to subsequent lenders, the borrower still usually pays back the mortgage.

If the debts were not paid back, then why would anyone want to buy the debts from the original lender?
That part of the media is more than happy to propagate a hoax without checking just because it supports their political narrative is worrisome. Which part depends on the story, both sides are prone to this behavior.

That the narrative is fractured along political lines is worrisome. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl...

What is unexcusable is that part of the media propagated with glee a hoax depicting by association their political opponents as worm infested animals.
No, I'm arguing that if these "principles" are tied to profit or allegiance (the "who" rather than the "what") [0] then it kind of chips away at their value. All the way down to nothing.

[0] https://64.media.tumblr.com/864c839058d5319d8b1333e613cac53c...
>But it's true that the left has its own troubles with being opposed to science, and genetic effects on behavior is one example.

That's probably the only example that I can think of. Do you have any more?

The right has tons of examples: evolution, climate change, vaccines, etc.

Does the left have any except genetics?
> And why would he need to go stronger?

If he uses his strongest reaction for normal work-day issues like drivers and interface design, where does he go for any potential existential community issues we face in the future?

If something comes up that threatens the future of Linux, and he swears and threatens as usual while trying to warn people about it, nobody will care because 'ah yeah that's just normal Linus'.
To say something is creolized
but not a creole is a bit of a contradiction given that creolization is the process by which something becomes a creole. Unless you mean that it underwent a change that has some characteristics of creole, but did not fully make the leap? That would make more sense, and pretty much in line with the "it is not a full creole" dominant opinion in the field. The minority opinion is that the others are splitting hairs about where the line is for a sufficient amount of simplification over a given time period.
It turns out most people are actually sheeple.
Thanks for sharing that video!
Even if the economy were dominated by the creation and consumption of .mp3 files, an exponentially growing economy would eventually run out of server space and electricity on a finite planet.
Yeah, that was also covered in the first (second?) paragraph:

> Most headlines focus on how much the United States owes China, one of the largest foreign owners. What many people don’t know is that the Social Security Trust Fund, also known as your retirement money, owns most of the national debt.

Kind of repetitive, but at least it's not clickbait.
Sigh, I grew up in a farming family. I didn't live on the farm, I only spent summers there before it was sold off. However, the issue with ivermectin is not new because there has been a history, predating the covid pandemic, of rural Americans self prescribing drugs from the local feed shop. Sometime they get sick from it and sometimes they don't, but even so it seems a decent risk because the drugs are cheaper than getting it from the pharmacy. Here is an article circa 2017:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bradesposito/fish-antib...

The problem isn't ivermectin consumption per se, its more of the fact that ivermectin has not shown substantial therapeutic value in covid cases, and therefore doctors don't generally prescribe it for that use. To get around that folks are getting the kind made for livestock to consume. That is what is dangerous.
There's a lot of misunderstanding about what is currency and what is debt.

All modern currency is debt. All of it. The amount of debt created and the amount of new money created is equal, because x=x for all x. It's just that simple - there isn't a difference.

There are the printed bills (that everyone has access to), there's the digital base money printed by the Fed that you keep hearing about, it's the liabilities side of their balance sheet (that only select large financial institutions have access to), then there are govt bonds and govt-guaranteed bonds (Mortgage-backed securities) (which again everyone has access to, but they're impractical for day-to-day conduct of business; they're extremely liquid though, you can convert them by the hundreds of millions to bills/base money by a single phone call). But all of this is money, just different types / quality of money.

Operations such as QE are just a means of conversion between the types of money. For example since 2008 we have continuous conversion of high quality bonds (govt and govt-guaranteed) into base money (the top quality money). All of it is still a government liability, since the Fed is a part of the government.

Similarly, the Social Security buying Treasury bonds is just an internal government operation. Pension liabilities are just like government bonds (it's a promise to deliver money at a later point in time), if you fund a pension liability with tbonds you're just doing some internal reshuffling within the federal government books. No actual funding takes place, i.e. no one is delaying their personal (or corporate or nonprofit) consumption in exchange for a future payoff.

If you don't believe me then please try to explain why hasn't Japan experienced a double or triple digit inflation. They are so much more advanced in the "central bank money magic".

PS. I'm using "quality" to refer to types money to simplify a bit, the more accurate first order approximation term would be "duration". Then there are further technicalities such as coupon structures, whether or not the coupons depend on the CPI (TIPS), whether or not they exist at all and maybe you just get a lump base money sum at the end, etc.

PS2. I've skipped the (actually larger) private credit. Yes, bank credit and the bond market also create money, though definitely lower quality than anything discussed above. Private credit is allowed to disappear at any given point in time. The Fed is currently not allowed to touch private credit whatsoever (this might change if the Congress decides so), they very briefly violated their own rules in March of 2020 by doing a weird type of deal with the Treasury (which is allowed to deal in the private credit, as the Treasury is allowed to spend; buying a bond that later defaults is effectively spending). And by the way: their announcement of an intervention in the non-govt guaranteed credit markets was the exact bottom of the covid market panic.
For corporate bonds, they are meant to be rolled until bankruptcy right? At that point they are repaid, fully or partially depending on how things go.
Cutting the military isn't really an option like that. They're the largest employer of people in the country.

You'd create mass unemployment of young people to pay out the unemployment of old people.