skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you're trying to say something, but until you spell it out, we're left to guess.

If what you'd like to say is that you think credit risk and ESG aren't related, well, Fitch disagrees.

And rightfully so. Lack of ethics impact credit risk, because it means more graft. Lack of governance impacts credit risk, because it's harder to know where money even went, or to ensure it's well spent. Lack of sustainability means the concern won't exist at some point, which, well, pretty large risk if your credit happens to be long running.
I'm really hoping Aug 30 is a clear night in Colorado. Hiking by moonlight is something else.
I think it's time to revisit MMT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

MMT paired with UBI. You can essentially wipe out all debt by printing as much money as you need, but compensating for inflation by covering everyone's basic living costs. It seems like one of the only plausible ways forward into post-capitalism.
Thanks for responding!

> My wife’s car was $670/month

I assume you mean this was the payment on the loan for the car? Should this not be amortized out to the full lifetime of the car for this sort of calculation though?

> We spent at least an average of $1100+ for car notes, car insurance, gas and maintenance.

Per month?? That seems very high to me. Even if I double my monthly costs, I'm still well under that amount.

All that said, if you did the math and Uber is cheaper for you than owning a car then..not really much to argue with is there?
Jeff Bezos has been quoted as saying his favorite job, or one he learned the most from, was working the breakfast shift at McDonald's in high school. He allegedly can still crack dozens of eggs like a pro.
The only real difference is that the government has the option to print its way out of debt. Which simply has different devastating economic effects than defaulting, but the effects are still there.
I think at this point it's just best to assume that "dude", "man", and "bro/bruh" in slang are just gender neutral.

There seems to be something about the English language where people think gendered language relates to gender. But in other languages, a table or a bridge may have a gender. A cat may be referred to as a she, despite its physical sex or gender identity.
I don't recall any instances of Microsoft hitting a "debt ceiling" and ceasing payments to employees and other parties on a regular basis every few years. Twitter might be a better comparison.
>Also, stripping out the plus is risky for sites, as it might actually be a part of the address, especially if it's not @gmail.com.

Sure, stripping out everything after the + isn't specified in the RFCs, but I know of zero public email providers that allow + in email address AND treats them as separate address (eg. foo+bar@example.com is a different account than foo+baz@example.com).

>You can get a tad fancier and automatically mark mails without + as spam (only works for new addresses, obviously)

Sites that reject + in email address preclude you from doing that.
Huh? The incentive hasn't been removed. You only lose it if you aren't producing the patented product for commercial sale.
I think that downgrading the US rating is more funny than practical.

I can't help but quote this again: «The U.S. has a comparative advantage as a safe financial haven. We have the world’s strongest military and a stable government. Thus, we have a comparative advantage in producing debt, primarily government debt. That is not necessarily a good comparative advantage to have.» (Arnold Kling)

If there was time to downgrade US debt it would likely be the time when the US rapidly moved and even outsourced its production to China, shutting down local factories. That was the time when the risk for the US might was increasing, should the US-China relations sour (as they have). But of course downgrading wasn't happening then; I suspect it was the other way around.
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Whole lot of assertions here that a lot of people would disagree with. Why does "right" presuppose an objective good? Why is harming oneself objectively evil?
I don't think folks want to hear or think about why shame has gone, or is going, away. Having shame will only ever interfere with the pursuit of money. As we live in a capitalist society money is the only important thing in life. You literally cannot live without it. Why would I have shame? Why would anyone? Love? Family? Friends? Those do not pay the bills. As we are hyper individualist and capitalist there is no moral or ethical cohesive force beyond the ability to secure money. People don't seem to grasp that and rely on outdated nonsense like God or Religion. Guess what? Shame is only a detriment these days because of the society we've all agreed to participate in.
> Simply put: fuck the social contract. I didn't sign it. It doesnt get me any benefits, and all it is a whole lot of "costs", all of which are ill defined.

All of your "polite" behavior is modified by shame. To use an extreme, contrived, example if you shit on the floor your parents probably shamed you into using the restroom properly. You can, of course, continue to shit on the floor but you also can't act with such righteous indignation when no one wants you around. Perhaps you find a group of people who shit on the floor. But then they, too, will have their own shame-based norms that will you either comply to or be ostracized from the group.

Now, scratch the example of shitting on the floor and replace it with any other behavior. Depending on the group you belong to (or are trying to belong to) shame is an effective way in enforcing expected behavior. It's one of the things that separate us from other animals. If you don't respond to shame (rather than just acting like it) you are not quirky and original you are likely a sociopath.
If my workout clothes are sweaty, they come into the shower with me. A rinse is good enough until washing day, and uses no extra water/power.
There's nothing unapproachable about a 100% static site with some server-rendered navigation elements, much like livejournal was in the early 2000s. Much like HN is today.

Perfectly 'approachable' even on mobile devices.

The only thing that makes sites like this and that 'unapproachable' is stunningly high (genuine, not stat-massaged) levels of functional illiteracy.
A tesla owner I know recently mentioned saving money on fuel as a reason they love their car. I was curious about the difference and asked what they pay for the equivalent of a gas tank charge. They had no idea.

I have also heard it claimed by others that charging is much cheaper than gas, but they never back it up, it's just taken as a given.

Given the variance in both gas and electricity prices by time and region, the answer to which one costs less is almost certainly "it depends". Interesting that electricity being cheaper has largely become conventional wisdom.
> it's also the only speed bump left to unlimited money printing.

I have never once heard during the budget negotiation process, "we cannot increase this budget because it will put us over the debt limit."

The debt limit restricts the US from paying for things it has already purchased. It in no way stops the US from purchasing them, or budgeting for them, in the first place.

Using the debt limit as a means of controlling future budget negotiations (in other words, "adopt my budget priorities or I will tank the economy") is exactly why Fitch downgraded US debt, thereby increasing the cost of debt service and exacerbating the problem you're concerned about.
Mine is about $12 to fully charge for about 200 miles (62kWH) vs more than twice that for 200 miles worth of gasoline in a typical gas car.

This is at home paying residential electricity costs. At fast chargers it’s still cheaper than gas but by a much smaller margin. You’re paying a large markup on those.

Junk article.

The only places this might be true are places like Hawaii with crazy expensive electricity. Of course I bet gasoline is more expensive there too since it has to all be imported by ship.
The headline is a lie.

> First, minor drug possession was downgraded from a misdemeanor to a violation, similar to a traffic ticket. Under the new law, users caught with up to 1 gram of heroin or methamphetamine, or up to 40 oxycodone pills, are charged a $100 fine, which can be waived if they call a treatment-referral hotline.

It doesn't sound like decriminalized use to me. They are handing out pretty hefty tickets.

Traffic violations are illegal; it's a crime to run a red light.

> Selling, trafficking, and possessing large amounts of drugs remain criminal offenses in Oregon.

I.e. not decriminalized.

Trafficking and manufacturing cannot be decriminalized. I mean, think about all the prescription drugs out there.

What you have to do is to provide them as cleanly produced pharmaceuticals that can be provided to someone who is addicted, and at a reasonable, low cost.

You cannot just do the following and expect great results:

* the same thugs are selling the same shit;

* nobody knows where the shit came from or what is in it;

* only, the users aren't hard criminals now, only perpetrating a $100 misdemeanor.
> thus black market weed is considerably cheaper.

In Canada I can order weed online (gray market, online isn't "allowed"), it shows up in a a week or so. I also get an email when they have sales (30-40%).

Why would I bother doing the song and dance with a dealer, and I prefer edibles; good luck getting those with a set amount of THC.
Are we superconducting yet?
Sure, but it's not desirable. Among other reasons, federal debt is considered the safest kind of bond an investor can buy. It's nearly the same as parking your money in an FDIC insured savings account, except there's no limit to how much of it you can own. In recent memory corporations, banks, and some investors have made requests that the federal government issue more bonds because the demand is so high.
Reading the comments here, I am not seeing a lot of awareness that Portugal’s “decriminalization” and Oregon’s couldn’t be more different.

In Portugal drug use in public is not tolerated. Shooting heroin in the park will result in arrest and a choice between treatment and jail.

Oregon’s approach seems to be what someone imagined Portugal was doing without actually finding out.

You can believe people have a right to do what they want with their body while simultaneously believing they don’t have the right to impose upon other people by acting in antisocial ways.

This may be a difficult distinction to make, but many people don’t seem to even try.

Just because something is acceptable, or legal, should not mean it is necessarily celebrated or even tolerated in public.
It's so weird. I don't know anyone in real life who pines for the office.

When I meet someone new around my neighborhood, I usually don't offer information about my employment, but if they ask, I tell them I work in computers from home. 100% of the responses I get are approximately "Wow, that's amazing," "you are so blessed/lucky," "our boss dragged us all back in," and "are you guys hiring?" and exactly 0% say "Aww, sorry to hear that... you must really miss the office/your commute."
Because I wanted to learn more about CGI. Below is the script, I'd appreciate pointing out any weaknesses in it.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mehdisadeghi/mehdix.ir/mas...
Mandate drug recovery programs for opioid/stimulant and various hard drugs.

Legalize psychedelics and promote anti-addiction and therapy programs using psychedelics such as Iboga, Ayahuasca and Psilocybin.
>stable government

The previous administration attempted a coup to retain power....
I don’t know how you can accomplish either, but breeding is much easier to detect than releasing into the wild. Basically if someone is selling animals, they’d need a license…which now that I write it, doesn’t seem all that impractical.
Are you saying ransom sign-ups can convert 99% of a site’s visitors?
Can you elaborate? Are these examples of "lack of shame"?
Checking the home charging calculation, specifically on the Model X's EPA rating, indicates that they're assuming a $.40 per KWh price for home electricity. The US national average is $.23.
Worth noting that this and other similar content published by author Jim Hinch is written from his perspective as senior editor of the heavily Christian rehab-evangelist outfit "Guideposts".

Not a criticism, merely contextualising the presented editorial position.
Flags should seriously be removed. They only serve for mindkilled censorship voting by political partisans.
Interestingly, it's somewhat cheaper than buying via Amazon.
People seem to confuse passion for being obnoxiously self-important.

You get the same comment about vegans, cross-fitters, runners, skiers, sailors, sourdough bakers, etc etc etc. anytime someone has a hobby they are passionate about doesn’t mean they are obnoxiously self-important. They are happy and want others to find the same happiness!
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The overlap would be due to the JS obfuscation. This makes it both hard to debug and hard to run the debugger. What is needed is a way to unravel the obfuscation. This is mostly driven by a massive lookup table which contains text strings to be substituted for the coded vars in the JS. For example, a var called _0xff09b8 might be the code for 'toString'. Harder examples may involve coded vars that are used to call a function which generates the array subscript needed for the table lookup. It is literally mind-bending.

What I'm saying is that we need a way to get that table (array) and perform the substitutions in order to recreate the original code as text instead of numbers. This is likely way beyond the scope of a debugging tool. Or is it?
You’d actually be surprised how many people have experienced various forms of trauma since they were infants and just don’t remember it, due to their defense mechanisms, and naturally gravitate towards substances and other addictive activities like gaming and porn to suppress past and present emotional pain.
No, it's possible to ask rather difficult questions and receive deep answers. To make an analogy, one can ask the programming equivalent of "why can alternative current flow without a closed loop" and receive a summary of classical electromagnetism and Maxwell's equations. For some actual examples, I've read some questions and answers on how to interleave x86-64 instructions in a way to maximize instruction-level parallelism, some of the answers are comprehensive enough that they can easily be expanded into a conference talk or research report (or rather, these answers often summarize them).

So if a question can be answered with a braindump, either from facts or from (highly agreeable) experience, and doesn't look like homework, it's probably a good fit of the site's model. But if the question requires many rounds of conversations like many threads you see in a forum, it's definitely not going to end well.
Am I reading the insinuations properly, that people are blaming Republicans for the rating change because they dare to question printing unlimited money, and belive if Republicans were more "responsible" and just allowed money to be printed unchecked there would be no problem?

I see no evidence that either party wants to restrain spending when in power, but pretending this is a partisan issue and that one party is at fault for questioning spending as apparently some are doing is reality distortion to a new extreme.
Incentives are fine. Misleading and deceiving people about them is not.
Yes, but the search space is mind boggling.
> In this case, the individual forsake his parents and his kid. What about the rights of the teenager having to watch / know their father will likely die because the powers that be will do nothing

Do you want to live in a world were the "powers that be" can force medical intervention and/or forced detention for a competent person who's opposed to it? As the cops mentioned: being a dick isn't illegal, and there's no societal-level solutions to dicks, the best we can do is try to avoid them as individuals.

I'm all for rehabilitation - but it has to be voluntary (and humane, probably has to be well-funded too) - that's what liberty is. Anything less is too authoritarian for my tastes.
The Democratic Party has historically not opposed raising the debt limit, so this is one of the few occasions where “both sides” is objectively wrong.

(I’d argue that “both sides” thinking is usually lacking in objectivity, but this seems unarguable.)
> Folks made the exact same arguments about alcohol and marijuana.

Maybe those people were right? Prohibition decreased the amount of people addicted to alcohol and the number of people who beat their wives. If we had a more hard-line response to alcohol instead of the half-in/half-out wishy-washy nonsense that was Prohibition enforcement maybe less people would have their lives ruined by alcohol to this day. Singapore famously goes hard even against cannabis and they are a vastly more functional society crime-wise than Oregon. I know from personal experience that when cannabis was decriminalized where I am the drivers in my area became much worse. I don't use Uber anymore here because almost every time I enter a car now it's too often clear that the driver is high.

I wonder if Americans are ever going to realize their incessant penchant for 'freedoms' with regards to drugs/guns/speech/ certain corporate policies / etc are harmful to the only goals that matter to a society: the flourishing of the population. I wonder if America will ever have an adult in the room.
> My criticism is that, as a first soldering iron, you shouldn't have to have a bunch of background knowledge just to know what parts are missing. They should at least sell a kit with all that stuff.

I guess that's fair for someone who is completely new to the world of electronics such as teenagers or older people who just never really did a lot of tech stuff.

But for many tech-y people without a soldering iron the Pinecil is fine; I don't currently own a soldering iron and I've never really been into electronics, but the Pinecil would be brilliant for me because 1) I know about tech-y stuff in general, and 2) I do know the basics of electronics and how to solder. I think this probably applies to most of the sad losers on HN who don't own a soldering iron.

In general Pine64 is explicitly aimed at hobbyists and people who "know what they're doing" rather than the mass market.
I feel like that the same for the fracking companies -- the small no-name companies have more of an incentive to do a poor job because they are under more pressure to make money or go bankrupt and not clean up the sites. Whereas the bigger companies have a brand to worry about and also they will use their muscles to force regulation on their competitors.

Not saying its good or bad - just how it seems. Companies out of the limelight and too small to notice have more leeway to cheat.
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean bad behavior related to it should be. Or that it should be legal in all or most or any public areas.

This distinction allows us to keep alcohol legal, but punish people for getting into bar fights or urinating on the sides of buildings.

We could legalize all drug use while criminalizing illegal behavior around it, such as shoplifting, littering, etc.

Might not work but what if we just tried that. Only make things illegal that overtly affect other people negatively.
That sounds like Ontario when they first legalized it, they did a lottery system for stores.

I can walk 5 min and be inside a pot shop.
> You can't continue to fund the country on high levels of debt or continue to grow the economy and eventually pay off the debt by continuing to leverage the country.

Sure you can. The UK has been doing it for four hundred years: they have in several instances been over 150% debt-to-GDP, and twice went over 200%:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_national_debt#H...

Given the UK has never (AFAICT) had a surplus, that means they've simply continued to roll over debt, dating back to the South Sea Bubble (1700s), Napoleonic Wars (early 1800s), Crimean War (late 1800s), WW1 (1900s), etc:

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/blog/2014/oct/31/paying...

(There current woes are of dumb decisions unrelated to fiscal issues, though the decisions are not helping the economy.)

See also Japan, who no one is freaking out about:

> As of March 2023, the Japanese public debt is estimated to be approximately 9.2 trillion US Dollars (1.30 quadrillion yen), or 263% of GDP,[1] and is the highest of any developed nation.[2][3][4][5] 43.3% of this debt is held by the Bank of Japan.[6]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_Japan

* https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Japan-s-growi...
Looks to me like GDP is growing faster than the debt, at least over the past 2-3 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
What does “conversion” actually mean in this context? Does it mean bullshit “growth & engagement” aka the numbers of (mostly non-consensual) subscribers in the spam list going up, or does it mean actual profit?

I could definitely see it working for the first case, which is all that your typical product/marketing person needs to justify their salary thus why the practice is popular, but I wonder if this actually ends up translating to actual profit (whether the spammed people end up buying stuff they wouldn’t have otherwise bought, and whether any prospective buyers that would’ve converted otherwise were driven away).
Hey, thanks for answering. I actually came across this term for the first time on this platform itself; Saw it again here and ended up asking.
It seems like you may not understand how budgets at the federal level work in the U.S. Congress passes spending bills and the President signs (or vetos) them. This has nothing to do with the debt limit as such. Eliminating the need to vote on a debt limit will not in any way lead to a situation in which runaway spending can occur that is not already present in the current system.

The grand bargain you speak of has already occurred. It occurs when Congress passes a budget that is signed by the President.
The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove [pdf]
It’s people who work for the Linux Foundation. Basically they offer this kind of organization standup as a service.
Have you seen videos of pyrolytic carbon? A thin sliver of it barely hovers on top of a huge magnet. It doesn’t stand erect. Same effect as LK99 but much smaller magnitude.
What is this "post-capitalism" you speak of?
It seems you are the one pushing extremes and calling it moderation.
Well that's the nitty gritty of the specific history I was looking for, thanks!

All these comments are great, though.
Interesting speculation from Andrew Cote estimating boundaries for market potential. Since I have no domain expertise, my question for HN is: Assuming LK99 replicates, are these rough estimates reasonably plausible, especially regarding "The two limits on superconductor performance" yielding three broad scenarios for likely SC performance?
Recreated gerbers for the Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard
> But the library in question will also eventually break the existing API / stop supporting compatible releases with security patches.

Maybe. I have more faith in a Rust library to maintain API backward compatibility than a Linux distro, is what I'm saying.