skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is, most of it is owed to Social Security and pension funds

After all that data, how did they come to this conclusion? Based on numbers in the article, SS and pensions account for only 13%. The clear largest holder is the federal reserve + government at 35%. Whether or not this means US citizens effectively own most of the debt is another discussion.
That’s just another method for estimating the same thing:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoracco...
> Social Security

Counting Social Security as a holder of the national debt is nonsense. Usually the cited debt excludes intragovernmental debt, since these internal government-internal IOUs are utterly meaningless with respect to the debt the country has outstanding. Most honest brokers will never cite the meaningless number, but rather the "debt held by the public".

Intragovernmental debt isn't what gets you to "most" or anything, but it should not be counted in any situation where we're talking about the fiscal or macroeconomic situation, rather than a political point.
Amazon dropped drug testing for delivery drivers.

Maybe they’re just feeling kind. More likely: they’re having trouble finding people to become delivery drivers.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/update-on-our-vi...
I think he's more angry at ARM templates than anything else.
I'm learning terraform to work with Azure. Primarily because one day I might need to work with any other cloud provider and I don't want to learn 3 different DSLs when I might be able to get away with learning 1.
But even that sounds like wishful thinking as I write it out.
I'd say so, yes, but it's definitely easy to start with it and use it just fine before you have to delve deeper.

So a more apt comparison would be that you can use it on, say, 5 to 8 levels, and you could be absolutely fine on each of them.

It does require a bigger upfront investment for sure but it's not as big as many claim.
That’s a better term to use. Thanks for the suggestion.
Latin America’s First Millennial Dictator
I think you're leaning too heavily on your own personal experience. You're stating things as absolutes that are very much relative depending on the context. The world of documentation is much broader than your definitions.
> but still a bit weird to call that one out as an impressive example

Everything else about the doors in TLOU2 is impressive, though. I don't think there's any game that exists that has doors that are as well engineered as TLOU2 that also properly swing in only one direction.
I'm almost totally in agreement. The part which I don't agree with is that we don't need to care at all about aviation being a part of the problem. Maybe you didn't intend it to sound this way, I might be mistaken.

I think we should think carefully enough about such problems before they become front row problems.
Most famously known as that dude who had the gal to ask a police officer for a gun during the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Depends on what you want to do with your phone. The first elephant in the room is your phone plan, I use Tracfone for my phone since it's no contract and pay as you go, you can buy service minutes from the store without ever putting your name on your unlocked device.

Next best thing I started doing was using my phone less, as if I didn't have a phone. I mostly only use it for text messages and nothing else. I don't answer phone calls, I do everything via email on another device. I sometimes even leave home without my phone on me. Basically offloading the privacy issues to other devices like your laptop/desktop as much as you can since it's so much easier to control things like location access compared to a phone. But you may not way to do this, it depends on what features you want while which you can forgone on a phone.
In the modern day Smartphone market you are practically dealing with three groups. Apple, Samsung and Chinese Brands.
These three represent over 80% of market and closing it to 90%.

1) Withdraw from EU market - I guess most people dont realise EU as a market itself is 2nd just behind US.

2) Reduce number of models on offer - Parts aren't that different across models.

3) Most likely answer - Although it doesn't cost that much at all. You can still get a 7 years old iPhone 6 repaired, it is just costly, as it did 7 years ago. The incentive pushes you to buy a new Phone.
Not the poster, but this is the one I got, works well, though it definitely can't compare to a mechanical keyboard: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MUTWLW4
Logitech K480 bluetooth.

Unfortunately I can't recommend boox anymore, a tiny crack appeared on my note air pretty much where my thumb goes when holding it and spread across the entire display; warranty was useless of course.
You can still live the dream :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc8hFLyWDOM
People investing in treasuries do not want your cash. Thayer had cash and spent it on treasuries. They want cash in the future to match their future liabilities.

There is a real utility to having a vehicle for investing free of credit risk.
It had a crazy battery time. 10+ hours.
> Why are managers paid more than us, when we clearly do the harder work?

If you're asking the question, you're not treating your manager badly enough.
> In fact if we eliminated all government programs except social security, medicare and medicaid, by the middle of this century our federal budget still can't add up. :-(

Citation Needed

From what I've seen SS can be fixed by either

- raising the retirement age (originally, life expectancy was barely older than retirement)

- applying SS tax to all income and even capital gains

The social security time bomb is a political invention.
Calling the Social Security Trust Fund's bonds part of the national debt is meaningless to the point of being intellectually dishonest. It's an internal IOU, not an actual debt owed to some other party. Any time people talk about the national debt and include intragovernmental debt, stop listening to anything they are saying.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/je_ne_sais_quoi

It's not simply a placeholder, but refers to a very specific Apple-ness which most are insufficiently articulate to describe in detail.

You know it when you see it, even in non-Apple products (like DJI, for example).
no different than SV itself. How many Clubhouse clones did we have exactly, not to mention just about every established giant suddenly coming up with 'spaces' and 'stage channels'?

That's always been the game, inside and outside of countries.
Systems Performance 1st edition sold over 10k copies for the English edition, and that was half Solaris when it was falling in market share. 2nd edition is more Linux focused, and shows how eBPF fits into the toolset, so I'd assume it'll sell more than 10k. (The publisher has been changing their author's portal and I haven't been able to login for months now, so I don't know the current numbers for 2nd Edition.) Various companies make it required or recommended reading for new engineers, which helps a lot (thanks!).

How much pirated PDFs hurt these books I'm not sure, maybe a little, maybe a lot. With my BPF book, a "rough cut" was published on Safari and then that did the rounds as the PDF (and still does) even though it was unfinished and buggy. That's what annoyed me the most about it, was that people were reading a broken version and may be thinking it's the final version.

Thanks for getting and recommending it!
Huh I was using Camino during the PPC 10.4 days.
Managers are paid more because they are higher in the hierarchy of an organization than engineers, and therefore they know how much engineers on their team are paid. If you paid them less than the engineers they would be emotionally unable to do their job. The cost of paying them more is lower than the trouble that would be caused if you paid them according to how much you would need to pay someone to do that job given the supply of talent available.

Most managers in software organizations aren't very good software engineers, and they aren't better managers than managers you find in other related fields. The idea that a mediocre to poor software engineer who is in a management role should be paid 3x what an equivalent level manager who manages mechanical engineers is paid is an absurdity, since the reason software engineers are paid so much is that there is far more demand compared to the supply. They aren't better at managing projects or teams than a random manager from another engineering discipline, yet they command much higher salaries (but don't really contribute significant domain specific knowledge which might justify such a situation). This is sufficient demonstration of my point, I think.

If engineers had access to the pay information of other engineers the average pay of engineers at most companies would go up 50% to 100% (the lower paid engineers would see a 50% to 100% increase in pay, the actual average across all engineers would go up something like 20% to 50%), since that is approximately the differential from the lowest to highest paid engineer at the same level with the same experience and skill within the same organization. I'm bringing up the pay differential of engineers to demonstrate how valuable the knowledge of other's pay is when negotiating your own.
My problem isn’t that ProtonMail followed the law, it’s that the company’s marketing has gone to extreme lengths to hide what exactly it will log (when compelled by the courts) and when it will fight.

It’s also concerning, legal or not, that logging was required in this case, which is not about drugs or the murder or corruption. But climate activism. By very young people. If the Swiss police will demand that data for something so small, that’s a a concern about trusting their laws and authorities to be “better” than the alternative.
cool combination ,

Nassim Taleb and Rene Girard are one of most of the profound intellectuals I've come across, the world never looked the same after reading the black swan. and I'm still digesting Girard.
Why does genetics just stop at atoms? An atom or a nucleus can enter excited states. How can we rule that out?

Also we limit with one brain. It will be interesting if you looked at genetics of groups, or even the genetics of people in history who influence others from what they wrote and built and left behind.

A lot of work. Progressive is defined here as what they are not. Not church. Not military. How about what they are? No rules. Endless ambition. Utilitarianism. Empiricism. Wouldn't it be easier to say that there are rules, as in, it's never okay to burn down your own city and bin Laden doesn't get a vote?

Know this. The true heart of progressives isn't nice and tolerant. It's power telling you that you're not allowed to leave prison until you convince me you are going to do everything you can not to end up back here.
The old "X" but with new cool restriction "Y" startup idea. Like Twitter or Snapchat.
>Hasn't TikTok been proven malicious in it's excessive user tracking and data theft?

Try watching this video on Youtube without giving Google your passport or credit card info. I found it impossible, even with youtube-dl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhmoyoOR1s
i've even heard that some people use some kind of federated packet-switching network these days to communicate. it'll never catch on :)
This sort of argument is heard the world over.

- When I worked construction: "Why is the foreman paid more when all he does is lean on a shovel?"

- When I worked as a line cook: "Why does the back-of-the-house manager get paid more when I'm over this grill sweating my ass off and he's over there just pushing salads."

- When I worked grocery: "Why am I paid less than the manager who just rides a floor jack all day?"

Most recent is similar to what's being discussed in the article.

It seems about everyone ponders a similar question at some point in their (early) career.
I didn't get much experience with these aside from playing Bugdom[0] on them, which was a lot of fun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugdom
I don't see how if you can agree that it requires varying degrees of effort for different people to run a marathon or learn calculus, that you then think it is impossible that some people won't be able to do those things. Just like the amount of effort required will be small for some, it will be impractically large for others. Even in the theoretical sense, there is only so much time in a day.

I also don't think "healthy" and (presumably) "not healthy" are useful categorizations. There are many people in that fuzzy in between area between "healthy" and "not healthy", for both physical and mental health.

Is it really worth so vigorously arguing the semantics of "some people are incapable of learning algebra" and "it requires an impractically large amount of effort for some people to learn algebra"?"
As a twitter non-user isn't this how twitter is supposed to work? You put your take out there and some people tell you you are right and other people tell you you suck.
There is no role for shareholders other than the simple fact that they (as a group) own the company. That's all it means. It means nothing else. There is zero obligation or expectation that they do anything but simply own.
What Is Caching and How It Works
Let’s see why caching has become one of the most crucial concepts in computer science. We will dive into the concept of caching, understanding what it is, how it works, and what are the most important types of caching.
Amazon does not employ delivery drivers. They recently suggested to the delivery companies they pay to deliver packages to homes not drug test in order to find drivers.

I assume the drivers Amazon employs are actual truck drivers under the purview of the Department of Transportion, and are probably still drug tested to satisfy whatever federal requirements they have to satisfy.

> We will no longer include marijuana in our comprehensive drug screening program for any positions not regulated by the Department of Transportation, and will instead treat it the same as alcohol use.
fwiw we are on a bit of a bug quest currently, so please file bugs as you see them and they will get rapidly triaged & wrangled and maybe even fixed.
The essential element of a ponzi scheme is that investors are deceived.

> A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.

In contrast, the Social Security model is pretty transparently a wealth transfer from workers to the elderly and disabled.
That's an interesting template, wonder what happened here:

v9.2: from V8’s Git master

v9.3: from V8’s main Git branch

v9.4: from V8’s Git master
Important distinction between chia drives used for plotting versus storage. The intensive write use is during plotting and would be on the smallest and fastest drives, in the 1-4TB range. Personal experience, I generated almost 400TB of plots and never had a drive go bad or experience any major performance issues. The massive storage arrays barely get touched, small reads only.
>It's not the recommended devops tool for any cloud provider.

What is the recommended devops tool for azure in your opinion?
This is somewhat off topic from the article, but why did the web designers for this site choose such an awful font for the title?
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bjwBPw...
What the customer wants is not often what they need, listening to your customers without understanding what they need can be the killer of innovation.

Henry Ford has a famous quote:

> If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

I don’t think anybody needed a mouse that needs to be flipped to be charged. However, among the dozen things Apple got terribly wrong, there are also a handful ones that they got so right, that became fundamental pillars of technology.
It really isn't. I get only normal people on my tiktok, but I also only follow normal people and tend to "not interested" all checkmarked accounts when they show up.
I'm amazed. I recall the mid-2012 Macbook[0] also had 10 hours of battery life, but I didn't know the same feat had been achieved by earlier Apple laptops.

[0] https://support.apple.com/kb/sp584?locale=en_US
It is highly unlikely BlastDoor is using much of those, except when interacting with system frameworks.
He doesn't mean the vocabulary. Swedish is structurally very similar to English, and both contain lots of Germanic words. The difficulty with Finnish for English-speaking foreigners is that Finnish is an agglutinative language, while English is an analytical one. That is, English mostly uses helper words to adjust word meaning, while Finnish appends modifiers like lego blocks. It also has less Germanic and Latin loans than Swedish does.
Oh, and for a practical example of the second approach, check out this blog about how Shopify rewrote their rendering engine: https://shopify.engineering/how-shopify-reduced-storefront-r...
Invention and Innovation
This is why Im actually disappointed by the headline. Affirms people would rather watch a mostly degenerate freak show and blatant materialism than maybe learn something or view something reasonable. And its mostly kids ingesting this. Can you tweak your account to view normal content on tiktok...sure maybe? But thats not what its known for or why its popular. Its to feed you the most extreme content possible and keep your eyes there.
Objective-C can run into other issues, though: NSSecureCoding exists for a reason ;)
desalinate exponentially more water every year and you'll run out of ocean on a surprisingly short time scale. Any exponential progression gets absurd on a surprisingly short time scale.

In actual fact, most markets and technology follow something more like and S-curve, with exponential growth in the first half and exponential decay in the second. We need a viable economic theory for the second half. "resource usage is starting to decouple from GDP growth" sounds like it's referring to being in the second half, without recognising the absurdity of pretending something is growing exponentially when it's value is still measured in terms of whatever is still rare.
By the same token, a person who happens to use Facebook can also "send messages" to a person on Mastodon. They just won't be FB messages from the FB account.

At no point has anyone said anything useful about the interoperability of either system, let alone how they compare to one another. All we have learned is that everyone is equally free to have a bunch of accounts, whether they be social media accounts or cryptocurrency wallets.
I know both TMobile and ATT frown upon this and have been known to shut down accounts that do this. Data only is for non-phone accounts in their eyes and anyone trying to circumvent that is committing some sorta fraud (in their eyes).
The US is very much not a household; long duration low interest tbills are almost a special form of high denomination currency. If the treasury stops selling them into the market and doesn't issue new ones, strange things happen, starting with the loss of control of interest rates.

You'd probably see a bidding war over the remaining bills, resulting in slightly negative effective rates. Especially for the 30 year ones, which are currently below 2%.

https://www.ft.com/content/a0482f69-be5c-4d92-ae59-17a8e2b2c...

(This is the modern version of "shortage of specie", shortage of physical coins, which occasionally paralyzed pre modern economies)
There are no privacy policy and ToS though.
I didn't mean the debts were not paid back. I used clumbsy language before. What I mean is as an owner of bonds you are not expecting to get your money back from the lendee necessary. Most likely your timelines wont match.

Say I lend you $1000 and you agree by contract to pay be back $1000 in 2030. I want my $1000 now. You have no obligation to give it back to me now. If you decide you wont, I will consider selling the debt it on.

If you are a government there is a market for me to sell it on easily.
Most treasuries are fixed-rate, not inflation-protected (TIPS).
I wonder why the article made such a glaring omission of Capote’s former partner, Jack Dunphy.
Nope, you're not going crazy. But the thing is every other social media company does the same thing. So railing against tiktok was ineffective because everyone already accepts this. And I was one of the people early on (even before the merger) talking about it.

Even the "china controls it" part isn't persuasive because, I mean, what isn't china influencing these days? And TBH I don't give a shit if it's Chinese or American powers collecting my information, I don't want either of them doing it. And consider that these American corporations influence other nations in the same way China may influence America and they accept it -- of course Americans would accept it too.

My word to people who hate TikTok's privacy invading tech and practices is to lobby to pass a sweeping privacy law or shut up, basically. But that would mean wrecking a huge part of the parasitic tech industry so it's not going to happen.

Money > ethics.
It's a currency. There is no underlying business activity, only transactions.

Bitcoin failed as a general currency but apparently banks are using it to settle accounts amongst themselves. Sometimes things develop in the most unintuitive ways.

> I believe this holds as I don't think most of the investors understand crypto. It is a magic black box so they don't know where the value comes from.

I don't think this is evidence of any scheme. It's just irrational market behavior.
You seem to have moved from "the government controls the issuance of money" to "a private organization that controls the issuance of money is sorta controlled by the government" really fast.
This are most definitely not the same thing.
Can someone explain to me what happened to Vine? I feel like it beat TikTok to the punch by ~8 years before it was bought and then unceremoniously killed by Twitter. Was that the first example of US innovation being suffocated by the big tech oligopoly?
Telsa, Fuji cameras, Italian bikes...
At one end of the spectrum you might read "Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear" by Michael Bazzell 3rd ed. or even an older edition might be enough.
Online mobs are so much easier to form up than IRL ones and they take so little effort or commitment to take part in. The scale of it can end up being pretty unbelievable
I've always wondered about the practicality of doing something like fidonet over AX25/some other packet radio system. It'd be fabulous to be able to ditch the internet and participate in something slower and more humane. Your post has reminded me of that ambition. These days, I'd love an e-ink display to accompany it. Slow computing!
This has been a news theme for some years. A few years ago the problem got some attention, as problems periodically do. I remember Home Depot and a lumber mill featuring. They had enough candidates for the jobs they had, but rejected many for weed. There was much believable hand wringing.

Of course now Amazon is in the news for asking their contracted local delivery "partners" to not reject driver applicants for weed. Although this time around it's not because of weed directly, it's the general lack of applicants; Amazon's already expressed concern that, due to turnover, they may have already cycled through most of their potential workers.
Let's say I have 1.5TB of ram, can I just do this in tmpfs? The reason this eats SSD is because they have to physically heat a chip to erase, right?

Also, does anyone want to buy my server with space for 1.5TB of ram? The 425W of idle power usage became too much and I am moving to Ryzen 5950k
This is worse though, not better.

Uncle Sam could cut payments to China or Japan in a crisis. It’s much harder to cut payments to your own people. It would instantly make any crisis much worse.