skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an excellent question...absolutely it does! Not many people seem to pay attention to this fact. Every year we have a multi-trillion dollar deficit in our congressional budget.

To make up this difference, the treasury department has to sell bonds. As the FFR increases, so do the yields on treasuries. Our annual interest payments on federal debt is ~400B. That's over HALF our military budget for some perspective.

If inflation proves to be sticky, what happens if bond yields get pushed up to 10% ? Well, now congress has to borrow at 10% interest. That next 1T+ deficient would cost our country an extra 100B+ per year in coupon payments...AND we still owe the principle on those bonds when they expire. In the volcker era, we had to push interest rates up to almost 20%.

Our government has been incredibly irresponsible with managing our debt. Problem is fixing it seems impossible. We'd need to increase taxes AND cut social services. Can you imagine how painful that would be? Any politician who tried to tackle this issue would become the most hated person in America.
Terrestrial telescopes don't have nearly the degree of maintenance costs that a manned servicing mission in orbit entails.

If fixing your old terrestrial 0.5m telescope were going to cost more than a shiny new PlaneWave 0.5m, you can bet that you're going to replace.
The United States is not a person and you can't translate folk economics from your kitchen table to the nation.
Interesting article, under foreign debt one thing that really stuck out to me is how a tiny country like Luxembourg with a population of only 632k people is the 4th largest holder of US debt at $306B. That to me seems very suspicious.
The last time the US debt did not rise was the Clinton Administration.

At this point, the two party system means you pick between a party that does not care, and a party that pretends to. So far, nothing bad has happened either economically or to their electoral results.
It could be both, regardless, it's not proof that trade doesn't prevent war, since war between EU and Russia is being prevented by something.
It's worth noting that the reason this works well is that Datasets is backed by Arrow, which allows streaming remote data. More info in the base library docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/stream
The US has absolutely repaid its debts as anyone who’s held a treasury bond to maturity can attest to. I think you meant it has never decreased its debt load.
Where do you see a tripling? Are you mixing up the lines and their respective x-axis?
> They showed that vision could already outperform radar.

Except on emergency vehicles parked in a lane at an oblique angle, which Teslas did not recognize, and plowed into at speed. I wonder what unknown secondary effects this change will bring.
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Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. When you say statements like the one noted above which aren't true, but I mean..."hey, it sounds like it could be true and do you want to take that risk?"
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- materialistic adventures

- spending time with friends & family

- being alone in nature, finding a new song or book I like, the smell of rain
"In the past, rainfall was primarily limited to the edges of the Greenland ice sheet," Dou said. "In the future, this will radically change because rainfall will expand further into inland locations and be a catalyst for further ablation of the ice sheet."
An economist who doesn't study history well enough is the definition of a fool.
I mean, they unequivocally can continue to issue debt. The question is more "what will the consequences be". And I think the answer is pretty clear that the consequences will be convex upwards while the payoffs will be convex downward to issuing that debt at higher ratio.

We have a balance of trade deficit and our entire relative geopolitical position is based on the strength of the dollar. There of course could be consequences to us of high debt levels
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From what’s I have seen remote workers tend to survive layoffs more than office workers. I don’t know if this is a common trend, but remote workers are generally cheaper including overhead which is a major point when it comes to cost cutting initiatives.
For photos, Synology has a “moments” app which you can download on your iPhone and will back up photos to your NAS.

The only catch is that you have to manually open it to back up the photos, but I have found it to be the easiest way to get photos from my phone to the synology.
I didn't read this, but it's really tiresome to hear about having to "harden" systems in 2022. They should be "hard" by default. If you need to soften them to make them easier to work with internally, that should be what needs a checklist and instructions.
Hubble re-enters in 2037, and is useless because of orbital mechanics a few years before that.

I think it's unlikely the current reaction wheel system lasts to that ~2032 timeframe, let alone significantly beyond.

Of 6 wheels, 2 are working well, 1 is dodgy, and 3 have failed. 3 are required to keep orientation.
To play devil's advocate for a bit, what you said applies to jQuery as well. It has an enormous plugin ecosystem. I know, I know, people are going to now start pointing out how X or Y specific thing is "better" in React, but then isn't bundle size, application space code conciseness, etc also W and Z specific things?

At what point is the argument for one toolchain over another simply circular reasoning / backpatting? Trade-off analysis isn't just pointing at X, it's about looking at the balance of X and Y vs W and Z.
I've been using Obsidian for a year or so now.
I only take notes for meetings / planning agendas for meetings ahead of time - I also have the notes automatically committed to git on the hour. I actually got inspired to do this by James Comey's well documented use of contemporaneous notes. I don't know why I'm not important - in fact, what I need to look for in obsidian is the concept of having notes `expire` after a bit.
In anycase, all these articles about note taking are always about how they work (or don't) work for the individual author of said article. It doesn't mean it's the right solution for you. Take what does work for you and abandon the rest without giving it a second thought. This comment included.
To put some numbers on this, down in the large quadcopter/fixed-wing size of aircraft, you can expect about 200W/kg of power required for the quadrotor/VTOL phase and more like 20W/kg once you’re in fixed-wing mode, assuming you have wings and speeds that provide a reasonable L/D ratio. Literally a factor of 10 (or more, if your fixed-wing design is more like a glider.)
Everyone experienced the pandemic differently and your experience is just as valid as anyone else’s. I don’t have kids and walked to work, so my experience wasn’t very different working from home (which I still am). The difference it made on the fathers I work with was profound. They are able to drop off and pick up their kids from school because they’re close by now, they spend 0 time commuting vs over an hour before, and generally seem less stressed than when they were in the office. Productivity has soared as well. We’re never going back.
Should misinformation be amplified?
http://letstrack.you/?id=grooot

Throw that to disk for me so I can map where you are, where you go, when your machine is up and how often your search indexing runs.
The proposed "better Hubble" that would launch in the 2040s is projected to cost $11 billion. That's a fair few servicing missions; it sounds like we can probably afford to do both, and if so, why not? Keeping Hubble around doing science longer is still useful even with a successor planned.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/science/astronomy-decadal...
You can use the mdimport command-line tool to manually index individual files.
I use React.js because no need to use `extend` from OOP.
I'd add decent search (looking at you, Reddit) and the ability to easily share and discuss MULTIPLE articles/resources/etc at once as a single topic.
There is a mathematical certainty implied here that I believe many people here can understand. Compounding interest is exponential. We are borrowing money to pay the interest, this will continue until something breaks.
Some tricks I've seen for this:

- Increase transparency of background windows

- Tint background windows

- Decrease saturation of background windows

- Darken background windows

- Change the titlebar / menu / buttons only, in the ways above

Personally I don't use extreme darks for dark mode, just some deep grays, so I can still see the shadow & the stacking effect works just fine.
You can always cut debt down with some inflation. Ten years of 10% inflation, and your debt is just 38% of what it was before.
China is currently around 75%, Japan just under 100%, US at just over 100%. For comparison the UK was at 340% in 2017 (not sure what now).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_...
No surprise for anyone paying attention. In fact, it's folks like Paul Krugman that have espoused and supported policies that have lead us to this point. We have continuously elected and elevated people who are happy to spend beyond our means from the government coffers, and primarily spend in ways which do not actually directly help the citizens of the US.

We have had ineffective and irresponsible leadership in this country for a very long time, nearly my entire lifetime. Unfortunately, the factors that lead to these irresponsible leaders getting elected are only accelerating, so I don't feel positively about the future state of US national debt or fiscal responsibility.
I not sure if the brain is really able to distinguish between what is important and what is not in a world where there is heavy competition to hijack people's brains.
Those jobs sort of found me...

My path involved working at a series of tiny startups through the first 15 years of my career - the 1990s and early 2000s. At the smallest, I was the only engineer. At the largest, there were 8. At that scale, you learn to do everything (seriously: front end, back end, databases, assembling servers, networking the office, setting literal rat traps, cleaning the cat litter after "upgrading" the rat traps, ...). You also get an opportunity to get to know people very well and build a lot of mutual trust with some of them.

In 2005, the head of engineering from the "big" startup was helping to start a new subsidiary of an established tech company and needed someone to develop indexing and search for the device mentioned above. He asked me to join.

In 2010, the head of marketing at one of those startups was now an executive at a soon-to-IPO company who needed to scale their ad delivery system. She asked me to join.

Both of those relationships had turned into friendships long before they asked me to join their newer endeavors. They knew what I was good at and what motivated me. That resulting in me being deeply trusted the day I joined and being given a lot of freedom to create solutions. So, I guess one way to get this kind of work is experience, relationship building, and some luck.
Just because you don't want to believe it, doesn't make it not true - its human nature to be more protective of the people you know better/personally than those you have never met.
The fed rate is, roughly, the rate for new government borrowing. So newly issued bonds will have to pay higher prevailing rates. Also, most bonds only pay interest over their life, so the government still owes the initial principal when they mature. That principal has to be paid, usually by issuing new bonds, which will pay the new, higher prevailing rates. Average time-to-go for US government debt is something like 5 years[1], so that process moves pretty slowly.

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/07/27/projectin...
I suppose OP will be pleased with your comment. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and all that.
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As you can see from the graph, the tripling of the debt ratio did not triple or even raise the service costs, because the debt market was absorbing debt for free or even at negative cost. The United States would have been very foolish indeed to have not borrowed under these terms.
The mechanisms of calculus probably don't matter, but calculus is the study of change. In particular, how things change over time in non-linear ways. Calculus is the abstraction of multiplication in the same way that multiplication is the abstraction of addition.

THIS is the real reason why calculus is important. Knowing how to study, describe, and understand changes that are not constant.

If that isn't important in real life, then neither is counting or multiplication. Unfortunately, calculus is so deeply embedded in the vocabulary and forms of mathematics that even people with a "full education in calculus" often can't describe that. So they resort to stupid metaphors. They only unconsciously understand its value and fail to describe it.
I hadn’t gotten sick until about three weeks ago since the start of the pandemic. Office work is somewhat biohazardous.
US Household Wealth: 1989-2019
did you keep leave your computer idle? Afaik most of the photos functionality executes when the computer is plugged in and is not executing anything else..
Nice to see how our allies have our back. /s

How many more weapons are we going to give SA and how much longer are we going to provide military support for SA's war crimes in Jemen?
It's pretty bizarre how, at least in the US, we've allowed robocalls and spam to basically make phone calls useless. Everyone I know gets multiple spam calls a day, most people just don't answer their phones anymore unless it's someone they know. Everyone hates this yet no one in power seems to even care.
Having used both I would say ip is the same thing but better. The old tools are inconsistent and often do not show all info you need.
Fair enough. But I just want a place to put dotfiles that I can share between machines. If I had more complex needs than that, I would probably not have had to ask this question!
I have never been in a company that was able to deal with backlog. Albeit I have not worked at all companies, there's got to be some that successfully deal with backlog... but how many?

Is Scrum a solution that really works, or merely a great concept?

I agree with and swear by the agile manifesto (it's really amazing) but IMHO, all of its byproduct methodologies fall short in the real world, with no exception.
> The name was inspired by Ian Fleming's character James Bond, who famously prefers his martinis "shaken, not stirred." STIR having existed already, the creators of SHAKEN "tortured the English language until [they] came up with an acronym.

lol
> How about stop giving away money period…

That would be very convenient for the ruling class, after all most of the printed money was handed out to them. This would result in some form of feudal system.

Right now government either has to hand out money to workers directly or tax the rich further.
Thanks for this info about industrial robots, I suppose I can understand this difficulty. I have heard a rumor that when they were having trouble getting the line robots to work properly, Elon personally came and sat next to the people who knew how to program and run the robot, grew frustrated with them, and fired them one by one until no one on staff could program the robot… so the difficulty might have been magnified at Tesla. Who knows if that’s true, but I can definitely see that fitting his personality.
That's true, but it's more palatable to Americans than tax increases.
Wayyy too many things to list. Engaging with things or people that provide the appropriate energy might be one way to put it.
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Yes, I sometimes spend way to much time in Trello, it's the only app/system i've ever stuck with.

Sometimes I can spend much longer than I would like to admit, 'figuring things out' writing things down, going through a lot of thoughts then organising it all into Trello, only to find out, it was likely what I already knew anyway and despite the feeling like i was missing something or needed something extra, that wasn't the case.

However, it does help me process, massively, mentally, although it might not increase my productivity as much as I feel like it should, it does help me make sense of everything and the world and therefore able to actually go do things without feeling so confused or if i'm doing the wrong thing all the time etc which allows higher productivity as a by-product.
one component you overlooked is the cheap cost of money, in the form of low interest rates, juicing the economy for the past decade+.
It isn't that it exists for that reason, it merely has that effect as a callous side effect of not really caring about the power imbalance it causes on said poorer people. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" 100% applies to people trying to protect other people from none other than themselves.
then they are not 'similar' people are they? if the cost structure is completely different - that is a completely different calculation.
Yep. We used to dedicate 20% of story points to tech debt, when we had quite a lot of it.
My guess is that it's some part of the spotlight indexing process.
countless countries have defaulted on their debt and still get $

see greece, latin america, russia, etc etc
This proposal (by being part of Polaris) is implied to be manned as far as I can tell.
10min troubleshoot time * 10K devs troubleshooting GitHub Actions right now... there goes one year for comunal dev productivity.
A charlatan? How so?

He has a Nobel prize for his work in economics. He has been a professor of economics at multiple prestigious universities. Surely that makes him qualified to opine on economic policy, even when it is a bit outside of his specialization.

Also, while he does share opinions about things outside of his area of expertise, I don't view him as claiming some unearned expertise in those areas.
Well, this is the process IBM consultants were selling around when Agile started to grow.

Anyway, Agile has that one principle that is focusing on people, not process... You can make any process agile.
so you are saying apple is doing something they already knew is a bad idea?
What state does a userspace thread have to capture in order to work that a coroutine doesn't?
I took this exact class exactly one decade ago (Fall 2012) when it was taught by Jeff Foster! One of my all-time favorite classes. The main language used was OCaml, and we ended the course by writing a compiler for a made-up minimalistic OOP language.

Funny story, I mixed up the due dates for one of the projects and didn't realize the correct date until the day before. Somehow I managed to do the entire project in one sitting, working from about 3pm-midnight. I basically took over an unused room in the math building and scribbled all over the chalkboards until I internalized everything, then the coding wasn't too bad. I even remember ordering DP Dough about halfway through, those were the days haha.

OCaml was one of those languages where I would stare at the problem for an hour, then realize the solution in a sudden epiphany, and it would only require a couple lines of code.
For those as confused as I was by the title. FCC will remove providers from the "Robocall Mitigation Database." This is a database of providers who are certified as complying with robocall mitigation requirements. Failing to demonstrate compliance results in removal from the DB, which in turn, results in your calls no longer being routed.
Who Owns the U.S. National Debt?
most of the photos context scans (face detection etc) occurs when the computer is idle and plugged in.. I am sure this is just another background task..
GPs tweet is from a few days ago, the one you linked is from June and was speculation about what Google will do.

Eich later in the thread you linked said this: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1534905779630661633
For the benefit of receiving less robocalls, I support this.

However, what interested me is the ability of the FCC to govern who can interconnect with whom. Could the FCC say that network providers aren't allowed to carry traffic originating from certain IP addresses or hosts? That would certainly have a profound cooling impact on the internet if they could.
You don't have to pay taxes, you just have to deal with the consequences.
One of the benefits of inflation is that debt becomes worth less!

A bigger crisis is the looming social security and Medicare trust running dry and benefits needing to be cut by 25%. It's scheduled to happen within the decade.
> That "last mile" of connectivity is fraught with challenges of dealing with your internet provider and all sorts of other things. It can be a headache, and it's very particular to your situation, and your provider.

> If you start "self hosting" on a cloud based instance, all that you learn in doing so will carry over to when you finally are able to move everything to a machine in house.

This has been my suspicion all along! Yes, my goal is to learn the basics before I pull the Pi out of the drawer.
No. I’m saying your information is outdated and wrong.
"Maybe there should be an entire pre-med degree."

I think there's something to that (but also it is applicable to some other professions). Trouble is it would change the complete order of things (having a 'higher' high school as a prep or similar). Unfortunately, it'd never happen as too much is already tied up in keeping in place the artificial dividing line that separates high school and higher education (think economics, whingeing employers, etc., etc.).
the young will eat the old, if you let them jerry
Obviously depends on jurisdiction, but believe some jurisdictions have traditional banks that specialize in being the “backbone” for some neobanks and the customers are really just customers of those banks.
The original Hubble servicing mission where apparently more expensive than building and launching 3 replacements. Those missions where less about cost than actually testing repair capabilities and some publicity.

Which may or may not still be relevant.
My understanding is that little snitch doesn't catch some requests by apple owned processes.
Quickly riffing on that, not specifically going into your points but in general: in case of changing dynamics at a specific company (job-to-be-done, mandates changed, etc) almost nothing bad about being let go in this market even.

Usually only upsides. New learning opportunities, remuneration, etc. Too much comfort isn’t good for the good worker either. Think occasional cold shower and fermented Sauerkraut.

Work on your safety belt though, but that should go without saying even during high times. You might miss the people, though you can still keep in touch.

We have it very good, still fight for your worth at all times. Peace.
I kinda see what you’re saying, but I also really think that observing that websites often act differently when you’re not focused on them is a pretty standard-level observation to make even if you’re not a programmer

also knowing how an internal combustion engine works is not equivalent to knowing that html code goes in angle braces. it’s more equivalent to knowing that you need to use a certain type of wrench when working on a certain type of car (I don’t know if this is actually true because I don’t know how to fix cars, but it’s more equivalent)
So much progress since the tamagotchi!!!
Oh yea for sure. I understand that you put in a lot of effort for the results that you mentioned.

> The doc basically said my latest bloods are outstanding

But I am not clear if you've had any lasting damage from the past or is everything is simply reversed. Is there anything that cannot be reversed with any amount of effort?