skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were to accept the numbers as real and accurate. Am I correct to assume $951k over my "working" lifetime? Assuming if I start working at 18 and stop at 67, is that 951K "owed" over that time period? ~20K/yr in taxes owed to repay the debt.

Is this correct thinking? Asking for a friend. :)
R Kelly did some horrific things and it took 20 years to stop him. Money helps regardless of color. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40635526
God, that's so infuriating, particularly given that for many people I know, the concern with Muni/BART is that it's oftentimes too empty, which can be a little freaky particularly as a woman.
With random delays, strikes and a selection of standing room in which you can share body warmth - all thrown in upon some commutes (no luck involved).
No, I didn't. This is in the context of a discussion of what happens if AWS lowers egress fees to compete with Cloudflare by going "modular".
Yev from Backblaze here -> we have more than two data center locations, but we do have two regions (US-West, which is spread out across California and Arizona and EU-Central which is in Amsterdam). Slight nuance, but very different!
Some of the higher end IKEA stuff is not bad, I have a bed frame that's solid wood, looks great and I could easily keep it for decades. Most of the IKEA furniture I bought in my younger days is compressed cardboard and have been replaced because it was starting to fall apart after a few house moves and wear and tear.
Depends on who gets those flows. It's clear right now it's the rich.
I suspect Cloudflare and any clones could set up their peering agreements with Cloud providers in such a way that they're exposed as a feature. First tier Cloud providers probably won't bite because it would open the door to people migrating out of their data centers.

Second tier Cloud providers would eat that up, since it would democratize things more. Even if a competitor gets the customer, at least it's not the guy who is waging a war of attrition against you.
> My parents are in their 70's and they still have furniture that was (second hand) given to them when they got married. Can you imagine an piece of IKEA furniture being used daily and lasting for >40 years? My point about "cheaper alternatives" exactly...

Part of this is cultural.

People now consume more than they used to. For many generations people patched their clothes. Now they throw them out. It's a culture of consume, toss it, consume some more.

That culture influences personal decisions and those we influence for our companies.

You can still get high quality furniture. If you're going to replace it soon due to style changes do you care about quality?
Heck, why not? It’s a market economy and we are a commodity. Why resist your price going up?
In my area people will ride the commuter train (without paying) for hours and sleep on it. There isn't enough fair enforcement or will to remove them. Makes the train pretty unattractive for its actual purpose. I imagine that issue becoming even worse if it's just free.
This topic has come up so many times we almost need an HN FAQs or something..
Transflective screen? Standard straps? 4 week battery life?

Finally a worthy Pebble successor.
It's very sleek, responsive, and friendly! Kudos! Please don't let it die like many other Show HNs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682173
You don't know that. Maybe someone didn't need it any more for whatever reason.

I'm typing this on a computer that was given to me by a company that didn't need it any more. I could afford to buy a new one. But since the one I have is more than enough for my needs, I don't need a new computer, so I don't buy one.
These are my favorite outages
Numerous good responses already, but basically the first thing you should do when you see anyone talk about The Debt is say "Okay, now do assets and revenues."

The second thing you should do is note that talk of "unfunded liabilities" is a 10 year old debunked talking point that invites you to imagine future spending over an infinite horizon without setting it side by side with future revenue. Nobody will ever give you a clear, simple explanation of why you should think that way.

The third thing is take to heart some good points being raised here - debt is an investment in U.S. growth and not just a bad loan you are carrying around, the whole thing gets reframed if you consider what the U.S. is "worth", and probably many more after this post has been up for an hour or two.

I think articles like this really highlight the value of a place like hackernews. The instinct to tear apart assumptions and unstated premises is at its best in response to articles like these, so I tend to upvote these items even though I disagree with their framing.
Ask HN: F***ing 2021 Front-End Dev: How to dev faster?
Hi all, Hi, dear 2021 folks.

You know what?
I actually find that 2021 front-end development has a problem of productivity.

A. Big. F*ing. Sh*ty. Problem of productivity.

Read below, my dudes.

Front-end development is better than back-end to making deadlines fly away like gulls. ;-)
-> Front-end choose their techs by thinking about speeds. But not the good ones. i. Speed of frontend execution at client-side. ii. Speed of transfer of the frontend from the server to the client. iii. Even speed of execution of the frontend... backside (NextJS).
-> BUT F* MY GUYS. YOU KNOW THE F*ING WHAT? Nowadays, Internet taken as a whole is so fast, servers are so fast, clients are so fast, all is so fast that looking for fast front-end fetching queries to the server and/or for execution gains of the frontend is shallow, overengineering, USELESS. So why are you thinking about those speeds again and again and again. You would have better to throw your watermelon to the trash.

What would be welcome and ACTUALLY USEFUL?
I answer you in two words, 7 letters ;-).
FAST. DEV.
FAST DEVELOPMENT, fucking JESUS.
(Well the whole list would be: fast dev + super UX-design).
The other speeds? Don't care. Blablabla. Don't. F*ing. Care.

Trust me. Trust the speed of dev. It's the FUTURE.

1. What would be very useful: a kind of WYSIWYG to create responsive and UX-designed GUI for webapps and websites. You would be able to bind your WYSIWYG widgets to some logic (NodeJS Nest.JS or PHP Laravel) and both frontend and logic would be bound to some model (Strapi). You would choose the good techs in order to maximize speed of development. Should this WYSIWYG tech be open-source, proprietary, self-hosted, cloud-hosted, should it output dependent webapp/websites or actual, i.e. self-sufficiently executing webapp/websites, should this WYSIWYG be subject to versioning, all of these questions = I have my own opinion but yeah;

2. What would be useful if this tech doesn't yet exist in 2021: a fast dev frontend framework (or more exactly I should rather say: a fast dev frontend widgets&design library).

NOW MY GUYS. Read again bellow AND TRY IT.

1. Open HackerNews. Or Google. Type "low code frontend", "low-code frontend", "lowcode front-end" and whatever the syntax you want. What you will find are only 2 or 3 solutions. All except one cost the ass and are proprietary (not even open-source wtf). The last one, AppSmith, is for internal projects only (don't allow us to do responsive designs/widgets).

2. Open HackerNews....... Google.... Type "frontend" and read 10 first pages like I did. You will mostly find Next.JS + Ant design or Svelte. But are they really fast dev? Nooope my dude, nope nope nope, they just have a learning curve faster than React ;-).

You guys, I actually find that 2021 front-end development has a problem of productivity.

A. Big. F*ing. Sh*ty. Problem of productivity.
Until money no longer becomes a reliable measure of value and then everything goes to hell.

Right now we are benefitting both from the stability of the US Dollar, as well as from the benefits of pumping more and more of it into the system (rising asset prices etc), if they lose the ability to maintain this balancing act it won't be pretty.
This feels like the Microsoft Word problem - Word users only use N% of Microsoft Word, the rest is needless bloat wasted on them. The problem is that the N% of features is different for each user.

Some people like blind spot monitoring, others are annoyed by it. Some people need to have satellite radio, others never use it. Some people won't buy a car without Apple CarPlay, others would never so much as buy an Apple product. And so on... but for your product to appeal to customers in general, you need all of the features.
Chicago's pension debt continues to expand while its revenue is in peril [1] [2]. They will eventually need to reduce services and maximize revenue transfer to these obligations if they're unable to default or renegotiate them. Typically, your mortgage balance does not grow more rapidly than your household income (unless you have a negative amortization mortgage). The state attempted to pass a progressive income tax [3] increase to help fill some pension gaps (with PR help from the governor's own finances to the tune of ~$56 million), but it failed, and those dollars have to come from somewhere (income tax, property tax, etc).

[1] https://news.wttw.com/2021/07/07/chicago-pension-debt-increa... (Chicago’s pension debt soared by approximately $1.1 billion in 2020, according to the city’s audited annual financial report for 2020.)

[2] https://wirepoints.org/new-irs-migration-data-illinois-third... (New IRS migration data: Illinois third-biggest loser of people, biggest loser of incomes, to other states in 2019 – Wirepoints)

[3] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illin... (Illinois Lt. Gov. Stratton Warns 20% Income Tax Hike Possible if Graduated Tax Proposal Doesn't Pass)
My bet is that they'll swap for something ultimately blockchain based, using Bitcoin's fixed inflation curve to rebase the dollar on going forward. (eg BTC-ETFs, central bank digital currency, etc)
I tried to buy a car without AC, but as it turns out that’s almost impossible. They had never imported that model without AC and the waiting time was pretty long, because they where not really built in large numbers.

The models without AC mostly exist so they can produce ads saying “available from less than X“
No question based on that quote that people should get vaccinated. But to make vaccine passports to eat in restaurants (popular in Canada right now), doesn’t seem to make sense in terms of vaccinated people being less likely to transmit the virus. Though I suppose as a carrot to encourage the unvaccinated to get vaccinated it might work.
In many places in Europe, four out of five items on that list are provided or managed by the state (child care, education, health care, retirement).

Which IMO explains why Europeans tend to feel more comfortable even with salaries that, on paper, are significantly lower. The American middle class is getting squeezed by this particular class of costs.
Good point. Radically libertarian is a nightmare. In general, radically $ideology usually is a nightmare. Some cultures even have a word for moderation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagom
They’ve pivoted to a huge software play to make “the one quantum programming language to rule them all”—which is a pie many are grabbing for. IBM is similarly doing huge and protracted marketing campaigns to attract software developers to their platform, not unlike Java in the past 25 years.
The nationalism is for the plebs.

The entire point of the United States is for foreign investors to come to this continent and lever up on the resources here. That's how this reign started, culminated into the United States, and continued.

Over the last 600 years there was a brief moment when Andrew Jackson was like "hey stop that", and then 80 years later they all came back and got the second central bank formed and slapped his face on a $20 fiat bill for the lulz.

Its actually an ongoing gag, when you see it from that perspective.
Many people use the transit system associated with the local city on a very occasional basis. Cost has nothing to do with it. It just doesn’t go where I normally travel day to day and the commuter rail is just too infrequent and to slow to use outside of commuting hours.
I would say that calculus is more relevant to the sciences, is it not?

Possibly not Calculus 2, but at least getting an intuitive understanding of rates of change, second derivatives, and area under a curve seems pretty critical for all the sciences.
> most times I'd rather just walk than catch a bus

Which honestly is probably the best outcome any way, at least from an environmental and personal health perspective.
We introduced some opt-in telemetry in dolphin-emu.org several years ago. I remember several times we discovered things we would likely have completely missed otherwise:

- We found out by looking at the distribution of software version that we had a strong holdout on one specific revision. It turns out we had a regression in a niche feature which was very important to a sub-community of our users, and users were basically telling each other to just use that old version. No bug report was filed until we found out via analytics and asked.

- We have a "game quirks" mechanism where the emulator reports weird edge cases that happen very rarely. Current list: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/Source/Co..., example usage: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/ffdc8538a162b1ca... . We used this to find games that use currently unimplemented or stubbed features.

- The list of popular games being played on the emulator was extremely surprising because it turns out there's a huge disconnect in what most NA/EU players are playing and what JP players are playing. This led to us adding a bunch of new games to the list we regularly test for performance and stability regressions. Would you have guessed that Inazuma Eleven GO: Strikers 2013 is in the top10 of emulated games on Dolphin?
All of those things are figured into the Consumer Price Index. It's not like they're just guessing over at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The one thing that's not included is retirement. You're entitled to Social Security, which is inflation-indexed with the CPI.

Individual retirement accounts are usually based in the stock market, which has been doing gangbusters -- for those who can afford it. That is becoming unaffordable, and it probably is because of "money printing".

That's where the inflation shows up: asset markets. The increase the money supply but it disappears out of the consumer economy almost immediately. Consumer prices don't go up, but asset prices do.
You won't get downvoted just for having right-wing ideals, but you can't just assert controversial beliefs without backing, like "There shouldn't be a social safety net". The counterargument is simple: "I desire a high quality of life in my country, and that correlates with a social safety net. Most countries with high quality of life have excellent social programs: universal healthcare, universal youth education, robust unemployment [1]".

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/quality-of-life-r...
If it's nice and in good condition, then yes. Nothing "depressing" about that.

Even if tastes change, styles usually come back around, hence why good century- or MCM furniture is so sought after as antiques/vintage.

It's to be seen if laminate or pressed fibre board furniture will stand the test of time, even if it comes back into style in 25 years. HDPE might last longer, as long as it doesn't discolour or crack.
I always ask the same thing. How did you come up with the name? It does not make me think at all about what you’re selling.
I couldn't stop thinking about this link. Here's a stronger statement of the problems I see with the GNU guidelines: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/107022123346940723
People often get all full of bravado about this, but they miss your point. It isn't about the money already loaned, it is about the billions a year the US government needs to borrow to stay functional. Scare off investors and they'll find somewhere else to keep their money safe.
Who are those creditors? Who set's that interest rate?

It's largely the FED, right? What prevents the FED from keeping the interests low, if the US-Gov does not want to pay?
Wouldn’t the date it runs out of money be pushed out further due to increased deaths during the pandemic?
This is disingenuous, alarmist, click-bait, bulls**t.

The $28T figure consists of:

* ~$6T held by the Federal Reserve: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFRBN -- this is money that the government owes, quite literally, to itself, made possible by the independence of the Federal Reserve, which has been buying government obligations to keep interest rates low.

* ~$7T held by foreigners: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFIN -- this is money that will have to be paid to foreigners, over the long run.

* ~$15T held by US taxpayers, calculated as total held by the public (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGFDPUN) less total held by foreigners (above).

Thus the US federal government owes $15T to taxpayers. If you have a bond index in your 401(k), then YOU are one of those taxpayers to whom the US government owes those $15T. The federal government owes money TO you. Your share is how much you will receive.

The social-safety-net figures in excess of the $28T are future obligations... also owed to, guess who? US taxpayers. If you expect to benefit from Medicare and/or Social Security in your old age, then YOU are one of those taxpayers to whom the US government owes those future obligations. The federal government owes those obligations TO you. Your share is how much you will receive.
> Furniture is a great example. Another is home appliances. Refrigerators, washers and driers etc have absolutely tanked in quality.

We also have a tendency to replace them when broken for simple things.

When I tell people I repaired or had someone repair an appliance in my house they are often surprised. They just think of tossing it and getting something new. Repair isn't even on their mind unless their part of one of the older generations.
It was a fresh college graduate, I don't expect them to know shit about software development honestly. What I do expect is for them to work hard and show passion for what they're doing and the learning process. I expect to see prior experience of self-motivation and hard work which is easily teased out in the interview process.

This person became one of those legendary developers that could do the work of 3 without breaking a sweat. I interviewed tons of people from the same university with actual CS degrees and knowledge of data structures and algorithms. I actually hired lots of them and only a few were as competent as this person was. Your degrees and knowledge of a few data structures and algorithms mean nothing if you're lazy and don't show passion for what you're doing.
Not to distract from your overall point, but Sears was around 100 years ago. You could buy a kit house from their catalog in 1920.
Inequality is not necessarily a bad thing.

http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
And the real problem is that it is only a really small set of things one person can have even mediocre competence during one lifetime, whereas the space of things where you can be completely idiot is infinite. So, as a very good approximation, we all are complete idiots.
This is super depressing, it's crazy to see how much the flora/fauna have changed locally in my lifetime.

It makes me wonder how much worse it actually is. Is looks like most of these were initially listed in the 80s, not too long after Endangered Species Act passed.

Is there some sort of time limit before they officially declare something extinct?
That's the amount that went into the private sector. It's literally how much money went into the private sector, every penny of it. To put it another way, if the government didn't spend, then the private sector would get less income. Or, every American would be fiscally poorer. One's spending is another person's income.
I'm also interested in people's suggestions. I think the most popular choice is Confluence, which I don't like at all. The second most popular choice is probably Notion, which unfortunately is a bit too slow to consider great.

Two options I want to try are:

* Documize https://github.com/documize/community

* Nuclino https://www.nuclino.com/
Ah. Ok. There's this: https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/kubernetes/

Though I don't know how well it compares.

Edit: pricing: https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/#containers-and-...
Yeah, just strangle the golden goose and we'll eat like kings tonight.

Tonight.
wow, I've never even thought of such a simple change until I've read your reply (all comments collapsed by default as opposed to expanded by default), but I want it really badly now.

Many HN apps and browser extension by now have an easy way to to collapse comments (usually by clicking an icon next to the comment or tapping on the comment on touchscreens), but I don't think I've seen one yet where collapsed by default is an option.

P.S. And now that I am thinking more about it, apps and extensions (at least the ones i've used so far) don't even have the true "collapsing" function (or maybe I just wasn't aware of where it is buried in the settings, so please let me know if I am wrong here).

When you try to collapse on Refined HN (ff/chrome extension) or HACK (iOS app), it doesn't hide all child comments and then keeps the root comment (just listed those two extensions/apps as an example, because those are the two I personally use). It hides the content of all comments including the root comment that you clicked, but it leaves a small indicator that there is a collapsed comment, basically just the username and the number of comments.

To this point, I have a question to everyone. If there is an HN app for iOS that anyone can genuinely recommend that has a feature when you collapse a comment, it still shows the one you clicked "collapse" on but hides all child comments (as opposed to the text content of the root comment you collapsed being hidden as well), please post them.
Yes, Fortran was earlier -- in 1957. But ALGOL introduced structured programming with code blocks and programmer defined functions. These were later added to Fortran, but Fortran was originally structured like 1980s BASIC -- with GOTOs to various line numbers.
> And that car is worth $2000 on the market.

Yes, because the only reason a person would be willing to part with one at anywhere near that price was if was a lemon.
IIRC my parents IKEA dining table is solid wood and we've been using it 20+ years.
That's what shopping centers in California said ....[1]

[1] https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2008/08/union-access-to...
I suppose an indiscriminate damping mechanism could be a good thing in comparison to nothing at all
On the internet? Not really - every site is privately owned and controlled by some entity with the right to decide what does and doesn't get published on their servers. Even laissez-faire "free speech maximalist" platforms like Gab and Parler are in theory entirely private and centralized, they just choose to allow public access (under their terms of service) and lax moderation. But in practice that decision is entirely arbitrary.
Would also note that if you're incorporating unfunded future liabilities, it also makes sense to cancel out intergovernmental debt, e.g. Treasuries held by the Federal Reserve or by agencies.
Inequality seems like a meaningless metric. It's not a good measure of a society's well being.

For example, let's assume a country of 10 where 9 people have $1 million and 1 person has $100 trillion. The inequality is massive but everyone has a great standard of living.
> There were no alternatives to local carpenters 100 years back.

That's ridiculous - of course there were. Sears & Roebuck were selling furniture out of their catalog well over 100 years ago, and that was far from the only option.
What's the point of keyless entry? Mine comes with key, and yhe auxiliary immobilizer which will not let it drive without radio tag or typing in PIN.
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