skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont I think that is the right way to think about this, but I agree that the government grossly overspends.

A one time expense of 8% GDP for a 4% growth is great. That means it would get paid back in two years, or faster if you consider compounding.

The problem is determining if the 8% spending is related to the 4% growth (and how much.

Another way to to frame the whole topic is that the US government spends %40 of GDP in taxes, plus another 8% borrowed, per year. Even this could be a good deal, but it comes down to how much of the growth is causes by govt spending, which types of spending, and if the growth is permanent.
I’ve always imagined that the adjective was needed because under a desk somewhere, perhaps pedal powered, was a “small hadron collider”

Robert E. A. Harvey, Comment on The Register, 28th December 2011
> I have never in 5 years heard any CTO of any company of any size worry about “lock in” when considering their cloud choices.

The company I got laid off just decided they are going multi-cloud and that anything on their original cloud offering which is vendor specific is verboten in the middle of multiple in flight projects which now probably will never complete because they basically just did it by fiat in an unfunded mandate; no new deadlines, no new thought around how.
Yeah but this just describes AWS UI. I even clicked on their demo, saw some dashboard for creating VMs, pretty unimpressive.

It wasn't obvious to me you can own the stuff where it runs (I hope I understood it correctly)
It's reasonable to assume that any coffee that is served fresh will be scalinging hot, and that if you grip any disposable coffee cup too tightly, then the top wil pop off.

The staff didn't spill the coffee on the lady, she did it to herself.

I doubt this would go to court in other developed countries where healthcare is free!?
No. The USA is set to succeed in the next 10 years because of geographic and demographics.

Perhaps you're a pessimist.
> Just look at the statistics of people living in the streets of big cities and the situation looks more like the great depression.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-homeless-people-are-i...

There are fewer homeless than before 2008, which was a period of economic boom.
What are the absolute numbers?

The percentages don't appear comparable here. They also don't allow for future multiplier effects from the spending.

No agenda, just holding that sentence up to a little scrutiny.
For a descriptor verbose is superior. It's way clearer what you're looking at. Matching a named end tag is much easier than matching a }. Also, XSD means you can strictly type and enumerate valid values and you will instantly see if you've written something invalid.
Yeah, and that’s totally reasonable. I’m one of those people that thinks signatures should be used for software updates and nothing else though.
Some time ago I made an animation of a Hilbert curve with sections transitioning between levels. As simple as it is, it's kind of fun to watch.

https://ehq.com/rloop2.svg
Somehow a lot of haves were mixed in there too, which may have been the problem.
The title should probably be “Viagra use associated with lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.” There is an association in the large correlational study[0] on which TFA is based but causality isn’t established. There are other experimental data out there in mouse models that suggest a therapeutic benefit though.

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37203519/
For someone who's not familiar with what you get from AWS, this appears to be similar, on the surface anyway. Can someone explain how it's different?
If you're unemployed in the US then you'd most likely qualify for Medicaid though
> I wonder how Japanese businesses avoid recognising this value

Current employees are experts at the code base and processes. They have way higher value for the company than other equally good in general non-employees, who would have to spend alot of payed time to get into things.
Not at this point.

The Chinese don't seem that bothered by them, it enhances their national security posture to have all such chips developed and fabricated locally. They now seem to value that over the near term economic consequences of being a few generations behind for a little bit.

Fact of the matter is China has access to everything it needs to become ridiculously good at chip fabs. Money, talent pool and more critically motivation/government support.
I predict that things are going to be very rosy next year since 2024 is an election year. The propaganda that the economy is doing great is going to flourish (even this 5% gdp increase is artificial if you consider the amount of debt that was taken on).

After elections we will all of a sudden have troubles and talk of recessions will be back on the table.
Available to buy turnkey, not just rented out.
I wonder if they aim to target small operations and startups initially.
I think you'd at least want to get a 1-1 ratio for spending to drive growth and ideally an actual ROI. The government is operating like a VC funded startup right now
>The truth is rarely revealed via order.

At some point I wonder where exactly you think truth comes from...

The reality of how life works is closer to somewhere in between. 100,000 screaming shit flinging monkeys aren't finding the truth, they are there to maintain the status quo by out yelling everyone else. The authoritarian leader censoring everything but what is approved doesn't care about the truth either.
Fair enough. There's a 'start here' sidebar with some of the most popular and best advice.
And what are those ignored steps?
Unfortunately theft will still happen just because "apple = expensive". The coded parts makes it seem like it's a disposable/single use computer unless you send it in. Also most people I would venture can't/don't want to take apart their computer eg. need heat gun/remember how to reassemble it... So it's like pick a side fully support or don't...

I feel two ways about bricked devices too. Those stacks of devices that are fine hardware-wise but locked so essentially useless.
The Eastern front of the Roman Empire is full of surprises. One fact that always impresses me is that one of the largest hippodromes in the Roman Empire is found in modern-day Tyr, in the South of Lebanon. The entire region is dotted with Roman presence.
This says nothing of economic output. If you just hand out money to people, that has an economic output of zero. Short term this might work, but long term, I believe it would shrink the economy, and leave it saddled with people that don't produce according to the markets' demands. Why would they?
How would you define self interest?

I would say that they have a different value system, or what they're pursuing might be more conducive to their long term survival instead of chasing the almighty dollars.

It reminds me of corporate raiders destroying companies by jacking up prices and reducing costs until it's no longer a functioning business.
I don't understand this... you would qualify for Medicaid. And it covers everything. No copays. Better than private health insurance.
Build and test caching is one of the few compelling advantages that Gradle has over Maven. It's a shame that this is still an issue.
Its not tacit acceptance. Corps are amoral and always looking out for their bottom line. If that just so happens to mean they align with what the people want then good. And if it doesn't then its on the people to pressure politicians to change the laws and regulations to incentive they do and punish they don't. Cynicism over corps lacking no morals will get you nowhere. They don't and wont. So instead of complaining the world isn't perfect its better to try to make it better. I'd rather live in a world where bad people do the right thing for the wrong reasons than one where bad people just do the wrong thing because they are bad.
I am supper impressed with how well-rounded they are. Wherever you look from git repo to the website and everything in between.
Would have loved to live in the US but dread the idea of H1B. I find it paradoxical that living in the most free country in the world required living in servitude for a good number of years. So the investor route is the only option it seems, one which i am still considering once capital becomes available.
I suppose.

I do remember stories from undergrad engineering about the development of the first moon landing and the associated technologies. That and maybe the Manhattan Project.

In both these projects, budget was essentially unlimited, and ultimate success absolutely required planning around yet-to-be-invented technology. I see enough similarities to think something like this is possible. If, for instance, we thought seeding farmland soil reduced emissions by 99%, we'd probably do it. It's a leap of faith, but there is absolutely precedent.
It didn't take Microsoft and Sony a decade to make a dent in video games. With games, it's not about the hardware anyway. If it were we'd all be rushing to buy the Dreamcast V.
Brawn BGP 001
A couple years ago, I also worked on bootstrapping the Rust compiler from the last OCaml version. I managed to get it up to an early 2014 snapshot, before I got stalled on a particularly tricky issue with the forked LLVM, and decided to drop the project for the time being. I still have all the 200-odd scripts to patch and build everything; I should probably get around to publishing those.
More like the reverse. We mixed a lot of cultures in the Mediterranean area of Europe, discarding the non-useful crap and keeping the good traits, such as algebra, architectural techniques, medical techniques, hygiene...

But some people just want to impose the worst of their cultures to the Western world. At least we god rid (partly) of the idiotic legacy of the Christianism in Western Europe by arranging a new set of humanistic and universal values at the French Revolution, but some people want to destroy these values back.
I'm very skeptical on this despite so much praise yet no-one has used it.

It seems the only reason why people are getting too excited is because of the team members and the name.

What if this venture becomes yet another VC pump and acquire scam to get you to purchase a massive room heater?

They better not get themselves acquired like the rest of the hyped up VC scams out there.
Maybe they were just waiting for federally-enacted regulation so they could compete on a level playing field when it comes to repairability and parts production? Many companies _want_ to do the right thing but there’s no business benefit to them doing it so they wait until the regulatory conditions are correct, and might even support them.

I can also see the same company fighting against state-level regulation because a patchwork of laws for this kind of thing is silly.
Saying "inflation is gamed" because of what you observe in your own life isn't exactly a convincing argument.
I like roundabouts but American drivers on average have no idea what to do with them, not even from a common sense perspective. To be fair, American drivers are vanishingly able to handle four way intersection, but I digress.

There are two roundabouts near me. The same two problems are rampant.

1. Failure to yield and yoloing into the circle at or nearly at full speed. One of the circles has a full stop sign, where some drivers seem to think that just because they stopped they are entitled to go next and the traffic already in the circle should and will stop to let them go, like a four way. The other doesn’t have stop sign, and I think people take the lack of one to mean they don’t have to yield or in any way pay attention because, hey, no stop sign. Admittedly, part of this is due to shitty design of the circles themselves.

2. Cars in the circle suddenly exiting without signaling, often veering across the outer lane of traffic. Part of this is driver’s education issue (I don’t think they taught us about roundabouts when I got my license several decades ago), part is the fact that in general people are allergic to signaling and have no awareness of other vehicles around them, as we have the same problem on highways.

Perhaps this is more of an awkward transitional period for their use in the States, but honestly I think the bigger problem is we on average have very poor roadmanship and inconsistent road design.
Maven stores every version of every library you've ever needed in a central location. It doesn't pollute your working directory and it caches between projects. And this is more of a Java thing than a Maven, thing, but backwards compatibility between versions is way easier to manage. There's no incompatible binaries because you changed the node runtime between npm install and running your project.
The ISS is heavily dependent on regular resupply from Earth, is teleoperated from Earth, and depends on large Earth laboratories to analyze air and water samples. We can keep humans alive "indefinitely" there in the same way we could keep people alive indefinitely on the ocean floor; it's an expensive stunt entirely reliant on support operations from the surface that does nothing to advance our ability to explore.
I agree. I stole some of their stuff from here https://github.com/oxidecomputer/third-party-api-clients/tre... when I needed a SendGrid integration. High quality code and proper use of Rust types.
Also future datacenter builds are going to be focusing on specific applications which means specific builds. I think Nvidia has a much better chance here with their superpod than Oxide. The target use case is pretty unclear.

On-prem buyers are doing cost reduction and cost reduction targets things like, as one example, the crazy cost of GPU servers on the CSPs. Your run of the mill stuff is very hard to cost reduce.

You can see their sort of lack of getting it by using Tofino2 as their switch. That’s just a very bad choice that was almost certainly chosen for bad reasons.
The biggest problem is there isn’t a critical mass of dynamic, global companies that can move the needle. This creates a feedback loop for the economy in general.

There’s only so many luxury bags and apparel that can be sold. Europe needs to come to grips with their risk adverse investing culture because there’s a great pool of talent there. But it isn’t being utilized well.
It is also unsustainable in the long-run for the primary budget deficit (I.e excluding taxes interest costs) to grow faster than GDP growth.
AWS outposts have been there in the market for a long time .. though I am sure there are differences but to say extisting cloud vendors were blind to on prem requirements is a stretch.
Because tax revenue is fairly consistent as a percentage of GDP as well, so if deficit as a percentage of GDP exceeds faster than GDP growth then our debts are growing faster than our ability to repay them.
As of this week, it appears ChatGPT now reports its knowledge cutoff date as April 2023.
Awesome, let's test!! <3
No! We haven't! I'm nitpicking but we saw the upper stage prototype.

Besides, I believe their landing method is to catch the booster with the mechazilla which should be quite a show.
> Under Chinese law every Chinese citizen is obligated to spy for the state in such matters

Could you point out which law? I don't think there is something explicit like that.
We can also increase government spending by $1 trillion and therefore increase our GDP by $1 trillion.

The US government is running a deficit that is equivalent of the GDP of Spain, while Americans life expectation is similar to third world countries. I don't see this as wealth generation.

The US choses to have too many suburbs which incurs a huge cost to maintain so many streets, and typical US states are completely brankrupt, so federal government needs to constantly save and help (like Biden's Build Back Better campaign and infrastructure package).

Because of this, US will always have a huge GDP that will just keep growing, but whether this is really better for the citizens, I have my own fair of questions.

It's very cheap to get some running shoes and go running and stay healthy, but some countries think they need protein powers, gatorade and Crossfit gyms in order to maintain a "healthy" lifestyle, maybe even take some testosterone, that all become GDP numbers, that's why GDP is a useless metric when comparing countries.
I'm not moving the goalpost. I explained my examples in another reply. Want to write an engine mostly from scratch in C# and you need libraries that are low on allocation and for niche data/algorithms that games need? You're going to have a bad time(TM).

Sure you could use YAML parser, but it allocates everyone and their mother.
Can you find a Fluent localization in C#? Sure, but its outdated and archived.
Ok, but basic RoaringBitmap implementation? The repo is archived and not fully complete.

Why C# is used in game dev is incidental. It has more to do with Unity and XNA/FNA than any concrete quality of language modulo value types (but then again, most C# libraries don't focus on avoiding allocation and are just as happy as Java to construct a complicated hierarchy of classes).
Earths core spins slightly faster than its surface. If Mars core is locked with its surface speed because it is more viscous then this may kill the field generation ability.
The deficit is on percentage of GDP! Part of this GDP is direct consequence of government deficit spending. If you remove the 8% deficit you remove a big chunk of this GDP growth (probably all). But the situation shows that the gov is spending way more than the resulting growth, so this means it is a completely inefficient investment. You should expect at least 1 to 1.
Future money is cheaper than current money. The approach totally works in a low rate environment. But as rates get higher in relationship to inflation expectations it becomes unsustainable
If your assets, lets say your house of value grew by 5% , you would say yay me.

However, to make things simpler assume you don't have cash, for example, because you are unemployed.

So, if you are making the mortgage payments using the credit card and the total CC payments this year alone are 8% of the value of the house, you can see problem.

Eventually, the debt becomes due, and no amount of house will repay the incurred debt.

So the relationship is, you may buy any house (assets) that grows in any amount, but if your CC hole is growing faster, you are actually worse than you started out.
This comment reads like it came from 2021 when Carmack was still there and it maybe looked like they were serious about it. Absolutely nobody is interested in VR anything from FB as long as Zuck is the pitchman.
Wouldn’t discovering a massive supply of gold on Mars instantly devalue it?
So if you add the iPhone SE you have in there as just another smartphone it's on the lower end to middle of the range?
There's also the issue that the cheaper something gets, the more potential it has for uses that simply didn't exist before. Take airflight. Imagine planes/flights were about 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than they are today. So many things we take for granted in society would simply no longer exist. Air shipping - gone, trans-Atlantic vacations - gone (or spend a month both ways on a ship), even military air forces would probably no longer exist - kind of weird when a new jet starts costing in the ballpark of an aircraft carrier.

Try to imagine society without affordable airflight. It'd be so different that it's literally difficult to even begin to imagine all of the implications. And the same thing will be true of affordable spaceflight, but to a far greater scale. One of the most simplistic and "boring" examples of this would be material scarcity - gone. There are asteroids idling around, in reachable distance, with metals and other elements amounting to trillions of dollars on value. Of course the first mega-load coming back will completely crash the market, but that's entirely the point. What we view as scarce no longer will be, thanks simply to lowering the cost of spaceflight. Get it low enough and you could even conceivably create a world where various highly polluting industries could simply be off-planeted, with the resultant products being shipped back.

And I'm actively avoiding anything remotely sci-fi. These are the boring, almost certain things, and they alone already are making the future look utterly alien, based on nothing but cheaper spaceflight.
I discovered their podcast a month ago and binged through the backlog -- it's one of the best technology podcasts of all time! Really like the way these folks think and communicate!
You're missing that a man with a shovel can find out in a day what a robotic probe cannot find out in a year, unless you're talking serious AI.
>Adjusted by what? Official inflation figures. Look at official inflation and they restrict the measurement to items that are probably less than half of what the average person needs to buy.

Here's the basket that the bls uses for cpi: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2022.htm

What specific issues do you have with it?
This is a great take. Just like learning anything else, getting context and foundational software engineering knowledge helps accelerate further learning.

I would never counsel a beginning programmer to learn vim first, but after 6 months or so when they have their bearings, it can help text editing speed immensely. Is that the biggest problem a new dev has? It depends, but probably not. Their time is probably better spent getting up to speed on software engineering concepts and practices.
When I moved a few years ago I decided to try existing without a microwave oven to see how it went. I haven’t bothered to buy one, and I don’t miss it. I don’t eat crap like frozen TV dinners, so I have little use for this appliance. My point is, try going without one for a while. You may find it’s one of those things that you think you need because everyone has one, but in fact has little utility, and is just something else that you need to clean. Then, get rid of your garbage disposal.
The immigrants I know who become US citizens know this to be true. Many of natural born citizens I grew up with either aren't aware of this reality or are misinformed about it. Many natural born US citizens don't know what makes America so special. Yes there are problems in America, but how many of those problems are the result of an apathetic, nihilistic American population and not the foundational systems America is built on?
> "You" as in "the organisation as a whole" don't get elasticity. "You" as in "your department" or "you as an individual" do get elasticity.

Right, but to the degree that you get elasticity, it starts to look more and more like "someone else's computer", no? If multiple people/departments/etc are provisioning virtual instances on one shared cloud infra, with nobody who's using the provisioning API caring about the underlying capacity (and capacity is planned indirectly by forecasting, etc), then it really starts to sound like "someone else's computer" to me. That "someone else" just happens to be another org within the same company.
That being the second level really set the tone for it.

My boyfriend was watching me play and "forced" me to replay it a few more times after that happened. We were both just shocked.
When I say “enterprise”, I’m talking about large F500 companies with lots of moving pieces.
I am not a pessimist. I don't believe the geography/demographics argument. Brazil had that and yet the performed really badly. Argentina has a great geography with no demographic tensions and have performed catastrophically. Also, the US is coming from a high point, not 0.
Servitude implies no payment and little freedom, whereas with an H1B you have often high payment and complete freedom in all ways besides your actual employer. However, your employer is still bound by all of the employment laws of the nation and state, so real abuse is quite difficult to pull off.
Not if you control how much you mine and bring home.