skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see some compelling evidence that supports the seemingly prevailing economic theory that the US can issue an unlimited amount of debt just because it's denominated in USD and interest rates are historically low. From another NY Times opinion piece (in [1]).

> And the new paradigm suggests both that public debt isn’t a major problem and that government borrowing for the right purposes is actually the responsible thing to do.

> Here’s where it becomes crucial to realize that the world has changed: Interest rates are much lower than they were in the past, and all indications are that they’ll stay low for years to come.

The phrase "for the right purposes" sounds like a scape goat for government spending. What is a right purpose? Morally speaking - almost anything. Economically speaking, I imagine only things that are likely to increase net GDP over the long haul.

It seems clear to me that you can draw a pretty clear line between quantitate easing & government bailouts of companies during COVID to a sizable quantity of current inflation. Asset prices rose in the market, which bubbled down to housing, rent, and consumer products. Supply shocks for oil and trade commodities were part of the equation but only a part. From everything I've read on federal bank history, the more money that's in supply means the higher inflation - almost by definition. You can only issue so much debt out of nothing before dollars are fighting over the same core commodities.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/biden-republicans...
When you have debt you have to make payments. If you don't (can't) make the payments, the people you owe money to get upset.

If you didn't make the payments because you were just irresponsible, people are less likely to lend you money in the future. That's a big problem if you depend on people loaning you money.
> that data is being exfiltrated

Multiple bits of information are exfiltrated actually, and to a 3rd party (if it turns out the behavior is as described). The obvious one is your IP, which allows for some coarse geolocation. Also implicitly they would know you're running macOS.

The main thing this breaks down is that it assumes that if you have a QR code with a URL saved, then you must trust the target enough to let them see your IP. However, clearly not everyone agrees.
The next gen space telescopes are already being planned. It just takes a long time to get them completed. In the mean time, we have a working telescope. We should just let it die and not be used while we wait for the next to come about?
"only" for the photoelectric effect?

That was one of the most fundamental scientific discoveries (well, explanation for an unexpected failure of theory to predict experiment) of all time. In particular, the idea of wave packets replacing particle and wave representations was quite helpful.
I thought it was OK because countries are allowed to operate ponzi schemes?
Keep an eye on Japan. Their debt ratio is twice as high. If they belly flop, then start sweating.
Fed funds rate and total interest paid on outstanding treasury bonds are not a 1:1 relationship. The coupon payments of a bond are determined at the time of issuance. So for example if a 30 year bond was issued 10 years ago, the ongoing coupon payments that the US treasury is paying today on that bond are a fixed amount that was determined at the time the bond was issued 10 years ago. Every individual issuance of bonds has a specific coupon payment which is determined at time of issuance.
I second this, as personally I believe that async is an anti-pattern. It's an unfortunate result of the programming world choosing easy over simple so it could recruit vast armies of inexperienced programmers for profit:

"Simple Made Easy" by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtk3HCgTa8

I'm old school, I want the runtime to do as much work for me as possible so I don't have to. Basically that looks like the runtime providing things like process isolation and concurrency, even if the underlying hardware can't do that. Especially if we're using a high-level scripting language like Javascript anyway. Rust I could maybe see at least providing access to async functionality, but I'd vote specifically against that footgun and go with lightweight threads and message passing (how Go does it) or scatter-gather arrays (there may be a better term for this) with the compiler detecting side effects and auto-parallizing everything else like loops. The simplest way to facilitate that is to use immutable data as much as possible, passed via copy-on-write (the Unix way).

The idea of async being scattered around operating systems and kernels and such is anathema to my psyche. Code smells setting off my spidey sense everywhere I look. To the point where if the world goes that route, I just don't think we'll have determinism anymore. That makes me want to get out of programming.

Note that I feel the same dismay about stuff like the DSP approach used by video cards, where the developer has to manually manage vertex buffers, rather than having the runtime provide a random-access interface. Not being able to make system calls from shaders is also tragic IMHO. We've lost so much conceptual correctness in the name of performance that it breaks my heart. The cost of that is the loss of alternatives like genetic algorithms, which could have provided a much simple roadmap to get to the inflection point we're at with AI, 20+ years ago.

It all just makes me so tired that I feel like some guy yelling at clouds now.
I would get a rapsberry pi and at first put it behind your provider’s firewall to make sure only specific ports are open to the internet (ideally none at first). Then i’d link all my home devices to that rpi and configure it to manage routing, at first with dhcp and then manual static ip addresses. Maybe add a bit of bandwidth throttling per device just for fun, and bandwidth monitoring and reporting. For hosting git and such i’d install gitlab and maybe for photos i’d add an external us device for file storage and perhaps a shared mount.
Then they'll be pushing uphill against the already established brands
List of latencies, throughputs and micro-operations for Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs [pdf]
It seems like every day there is a new article on Business Insider or Forbes or Fortune about how remote workers are the scourge of all things workplace related. Almost feels like a semi coordinated push from executives (especially those with commercial real estate interests in one form or another) to pay to have stories in these outlets to shift the hive mind in a direction that favors them.
More silly than that. It’s like saying they can’t get ERP from Oracle or whomever to work, so they are going to build their own ERP from scratch, it’ll do more and be 1/1000 the price.
Just knowing how software development works… this will never happen. Few dev shops have the resources, time or inclination to migrate code bases… and for what end game?

I guess Google can dream. But, while where dreaming in hypotheticals…

By that time, apple will have their own search engine along with all of Google’s iOS mobile ad revenue. And today, iOS accounts for 80% of Google’s mobile ad revenue.

And while this migration is happening… Apple’s AR and VR devices will be competing with meta’s… Google won’t even have a device… they’ll be disinter-mediated. And in serious financial decline. As ad revenue evaporates for them.
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‘The find [of the early interviews] comes as McCarthy is preparing to publish two new intertwined novels, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” — his first since 2006, when he released “The Road,” a best seller that won the Pulitzer Prize.

‘McCarthy will give no interviews in conjunction with their release. Instead, here is a look back at a less guarded time in his life.’
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I wish I had a better mental model for thinking about national debt. Absent that, it's too easy to pattern-match it to personal debt, and automatically you get all the usual judgments and moralizing along with it.
Because the negative consequences of inflation and disdain for inflation are not felt by the people who create it.
Can't share yet but enough to start a new product with an 8-people team!
Yes.

The idea of censoring anyone strikes me as extraordinarily distasteful, but I understand that there's a grey area there, i.e. we don't allow kiddie porn, violent threats, etc...

Censoring a former president of the United States because you disagree with his politics?

I can't think of any reasonable justification for this in a liberal society.

The only societies that are interested in doing this sort of thing are the kinds of "one-party" autocratic authoritarian regimes who fear dissent as a threat to their power.
Some are just good salespeople. Selling is a large part of gaining traction. I think a lot of good salespeople go out with an idea, try to sell it to potential customers, come back with feedback on what the potential customers actually need and adjust the product accordingly. Being able to get your foot in the door with a lot of potential customers is a very valuable skill. You don't need the world's greatest idea when you start.
I experimented with NixOS for the desktop and ran into too many paper cuts too fast to be motivated to continue. Mentally put it in the "try this again next summer" file.

But for server stuff it might be a good way to go...? Maybe I'll try it.
Judging from the amount of infrastructure that’s been built around background text-mode processes, job control does half a thing and sucks at it. It’s still mandatory, so I wouldn’t blame people for wanting to streamline the process of disassociating from that half-baked builtin support and substituting it with a replacement mechanism.
https://file.pizza is nice.
I could be wrong but... if inflation was 8% year over year, doesn't that mean our national debt (nominated in dollars) got "eroded" by 8%? aka, inflation is good for the debt?
How about stop giving away money period…

- Inflation reduction act is a joke. All it does is add more inflation, increase regulation and costs, and increase government spending.

- Student loan forgiveness what an absolute disaster of an idea and a terrible message to send. My tax dollars are now going to six figure millennials (if married up to 250k income) to pay for their bachelor of arts degree. Where is my free money for college that I had to pay for?
They were using PUT instead of POST for orders?
I'm not saying a sprint is required. You were asking why visibility and predictability would be a good idea. Sounds as though I've convinced you!
Sure, the sentence itself, "National debt surpasses $31T" is totally factual and without value.

The act of it being a headline at ALL is where I think the OP is saying that it's dishonest/political.

Choosing WHAT to report/highlight/headline can be just as much of a statement than the actual story itself.

I've noticed this is especially pronounced with Fox News compared to the other 10 or so news sites I look at near-daily.

An example of the point I'm trying to articulate is if I said to a friend "Hey, I lost my job today" they'd probably feel bad and buy me a beer but what if the real story was "I won the lottery and then I quit my job today"

My first statement was factually correct but it wasn't the full story and it would connotate a much different meaning to the full scope of the day's events.
Why would the US invest in anything other than the safest bonds on the planet?
Very little pressure.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=UtqF

Interest payments relative to federal tax receipts are at multi-decade lows.

Some other important points to remember:

- $5.7 trillion of the debt is held by the Federal Reserve. The interest that they earn on this is passed back to the US Treasury. It effectively "doesn't count" except for whatever minor operating costs the Fed takes out.

- Inflation has risen faster than rates have risen. This means federal tax receipts will likely rise faster than interest payments as well.
Yet we hear stories of famous music stars using said note taking systems and touting such things as the reason for their success in song Writing, from my generation Steve Tyler for example.
I think the idea is that it is a way for your IP address to leak without a user-initiated request.

I could send you a QR code that I've setup specifically to get your IP address.
Which often happens with iOS
Hm. I'll take a look.
any fixed size multiplication algorithm has a corresponding general algorithm where you recursively divide a matrix into blocks and treat each block as an element. for any nxn algorithm that takes k multiplications, this yields a general algorithm with runtime n^log_n(k)
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I agree with you around the analysis, but how do you explain the success of Ramp in the US then? Re India, will RazorPay win on the neobank side as well? As they have the critical size?
Yes, inflation is good for debt holders. Unfortunately higher inflation is usually accompanied by higher interest rates making for higher debt payments.
I have been a d* bag since Daily Source Code.
Re: You don't need God to believe in Universal Human Rights and Ethics.

That's certainly true, at least for now, and Holland himself states: "Much of intellectual culture in the west over the past 150 years has been an attempt by various people who no longer believe in the Christian God to find a justification for the beliefs that derive from Christianity." He refers in particular to secular humanism as an attempt to do just that. I just don't think that will end well.

I also think you did a good job alluding to why this discussion matters when you said," in the catholic church I find organized religion is a bigger problem." I believe that participation in organized Christian religion is important to the continuity of our civilization, and that Christian organizations have done far more good than harm on the net balance. Also, evil things happen in every institution: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/forgotten-study-abuse-in-s.... Institutions can and do tilt towards corruption, and therefore need continual cleansing and renewal.

There has been an assault on Christianity, both against the general religion and the relevant physical organizations, for a long time, by the intellectual class. A lot of the negativity people feel towards these organizations today is manufactured by university professors, the news media, entertainment industry, and so on. I think believers should fight back. Not only do we have the truth on our side, but a rich history of good things accomplished through our religion and religious organizations.
I think you not start at home. 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. It will give you results faster, you will make all the same mistakes and have similar problems, without having to fight hardware. You'll also have the network expertise of your hosting provider to fall back on. As much as you don't want someone waltzing in and walking all over your system, they don't particularly want that to happen to you either.

The hosting plans are cheap enough that you can run for several years for the price of hardware in your home. And in the end, if you find you're unhappy with it, it's a mouseclick to get it of your life instead of now having a some extra hardware (even if it's a just a Pi and an SSD) lingering and collecting dust in your house.

I think the virtual hosting is a smoother on ramp to this journey, you'll find faster success with it (which can keep you motivated rather than frustrated), and it'll give you a baseline to compare against if and when you decide to take the final step and bring it in to the broom closet. You can readily transition incrementally as you go forward depending on how you architect it.
I was taught (in the 1980s) that the reason didn't win the NP for Relativity was because it was so controversial at the time and it took decades to be fully accepted.
I'd be curious to understand the interest rate the US government is paying on the debt verses some other highly indebted countries.

I poked around on google, and it looks like China has around 50% Debt to GDP ratio , Japan had something like 250%, and Russia's was around 20%. I have no idea what I should conclude from this -- other than I don't think it's possible for someone to foreclose on the US for not paying it's debt --- and that if we had massive inflation, and Debt is not inflation adjusted you could drastically reduce the debt -- but you'd have to increase the interest rate on new debt you were issuing.
"Without a boost, the thrusterless telescope is expected to re-enter and burn up around 2037"

If the government pays for this, hopefully they wait for the cost to orbit to fall after Starship is operational. Seemingly there's no hurry.
I'm curious. What was your original idea that you trashed?
Government interest payments as a percentage of revenue are much more important, because that's when governments actually default.
Older telescopes can still contribute to science in parallel, too. Even terrestrial telescope time is booked years in advance. More scopes means more time for secondary pursuits, hands-on time for more junior astronomers, observations for more speculative theories, etc.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? It doesn't make any sense.

I never said I disagree that language can be hurtful, and I never disagreed with content moderation (Both things, I have never said, you're putting words in my mouth).

All I'm saying is that guidelines and rules should be clear instead of hidden from public view cause then that leads to arbitrary enforcement, and clear bias.

The argument that making it public will make people "workaround it" is terrible, because thats the whole point of the rules. "Heres what you can do and can't do, if what you do doesn't violate the current rules, but shouldn't be done, then the rules need to be revised".
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I think this book is its own "for dummies" version: it starts at the very basic ("what is a HTTP?") and then slowly walks its way down to "how does conflict prevention in WiFi work?")

Most of those chapters are probably not relevant to you. All the wireless stuff is nice if you want to dig into setting up your own radio network but you can stick to the internet stuff. Not even everything in there may be relevant to your interests, I've forgotten most of the network/routing graph discovery stuff myself because it's not really relevant unless you're planning on running a corporate network or an ISP. I recommend just giving it a good go, and skipping the parts you probably won't ever need. You can always read them later if a later chapter refers to them and you need to understand after all.

As for Linux stuff, last month's Humble Bundle had a bunch of Linux related books: https://web.archive.org/web/20220913000217/https://www.humbl...

You can probably find people talking about this bundle online and find out what books/alternatives they recommend. There were a few Reddit threads about this at the very least, maybe a HN thread or two as well.
There is no guarantee of less beyond the word of funding secured $420 a share level. If anything it could be less, but worse depending who holds the power. It’s a fiasco no matter what hence the discussion around the inevitable “next” platform.
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There is a branch of economics that feels that is exactly the case -- that national debt could be unlimited as long as its going back into the economy.
Note that this is federal only: no accounting for debt carried on state, county, city, or public utility district balance sheets.
> Then I do a screen capture of the QR code, and save it. At that moment I see an http query to the ip.

The person they are replying to said it happened instantly in their test.
You're responding to someone who didn't mention censorship or any political party. It comes across as extremely defensive. Having unaccountable billionaires control the public discourse by digitizing the 21st century commons is shitty. It's just more centralization like the kind already seen for news networks, print media, and radio.

"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere
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Yet another "unprecedented" data point - that doesn't even make the Top 10 for world-wide public debt-vs-GDP:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/global-debt-to-gdp-ratio/
Thanks for the response.

And yeah, the [[keyword]] thing is something I'd like to replicate in my knowledge base. It would make life easier for the users, and thereby increase the likelihood that they'll, y'know, actually use the knowledge base.

You should be proud of your accomplishment. Even I, an international tax lawyer with negligible programming exposure (i.e., decades ago), was able to successfully get Docusauras installed and operational on my MacBook. :-)
Honestly I wouldn't put NKS in the same level as TAoCP. NKS is way more experimental, TAoCP is more of a survey of the entire field. NKS is mostly analyzing the results of his experiments, TAoCP is more about the complexity analysis and proofs of the various algorithms.

Also, there couldn't be a bigger contrast between Stephen Wolfram and Donald Knuth. Knuth rightly should have a big ego, but he is a very humble, generous man. Wolfram seems to have a chip on his shoulder, fights with other academics, seems to want to be given credit for being "first!" on things.

I love Mathematica, but Wolfram himself is a controversial figure who often gets in the way of his own work.
As a recent grad, I was going to say education on hardware optimization is lacking in universities, but then again there's a lot of snake oil on sites like stackoverflow. Although users like Peter Cordes have done a good job cleaning up, people still seem to eschew benchmarking for eyeballing code à la "Big O", ignoring the effects of compilers and hardware (CPU type, memory layout).

I wouldn't be too harsh on the prof for a throwaway doc: it reads as a perfectly fine intro to concepts like stack, heap, and basic assembly instructions. I'd argue most computer science students, with aims of a programming job, don't need to even know these concepts [1], [2]. With hardware advancements, most probably don't need to worry about code performance. Of those who do, they'll just google Agner Fog, and learn on their own just fine. Despite my opening sentence, I'm sure the Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering departments are much stronger in this area.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_interpreter_lock

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
Current average maturity of US debt is about 5 years.

So, it won’t happen immediately; interest payments will gradually rise over the next several years.
How is it malicious? “Malicious” doesn’t mean “unwanted behaviour”. You are saying that Apple intend to do harm with this. How?
When you control the currency the debt is denominated in you can just devalue it until the debt is no longer a problem. Ordinary debtors don't have that option. The comparison is far from apples to apples but sadly too tempting to make due to similar words, and the opportunity to moralize.
Unfortunately we are constantly issuing new debt to pay back the old debt because the government spends far beyond its means. So it doesn’t help.
There are tons of bigger ones [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots], [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots], [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Chicago_riots], [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot] hell even [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre]

Last 2 years have been nothing, except for the ‘implications for democracy’ anyway.

Pick any metric - deaths, injuries, property damage, etc.