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Russia's debt to GDP ratio is 20%. The United States' debt to GDP ratio is 123%.

It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on another YC-related post that conveniently got scrubbed from the front page.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510285

Setting aside the political reasons for less advertising revenue, it's still running and there are 200M DAU. Many ex-employees swore the servers would catch fire by now.

Letting 80% go seems to have worked for X.

I used this to index and store a subset of Wikipedia's archive and it works great.

Does anyone have some real-world use cases for something like this? The algorithm is cool but I'm struggling to see where this is applicable.

"Any previously failed messages via SMTP would need to be retried."

8 hours is pretty awful.

There is no cost, overall it all raises US GDP. Military lives are not considered.

I thought the non-random nameserver assignment was interesting. Seems like a flaw, actually.

The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.

I doubt more than 2% of the fentanyl in the US comes direct from China. China just ships to Mexico, which makes it to the US through the wide open southern border.

"AI reminds me of the internet in 1999." -- Peter Thiel[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRunzR9fbk

Yes, it's misleading to share averages for power-law distributions. Median take home pay is probably $20 annually.

Mike Pompeo told him it was a bad idea. Why would he do it this time? He'd pretty much have nothing to lose.

There's a 50% probability that RFK Jr will be a part of the future administration, and I believe he is sufficiently motivated to force Trump to uphold his promise.

It's promising that RFK Jr could potentially be in a future administration and push to declassify these documents[1]. It would really only take an executive order. He probably has enough of a chip on his shoulder to accomplish this.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/23/trum...

I am eagerly awaiting the complete declassification of the JFK assasination documents, which will further damage the CIA's reputation.

It was at #3 for me and then suddenly demoted to the second page. It's pretty common for these touchy-YC threads.

> Pave is a YC-backed startup

This thread is getting removed from the front-page in 3... 2...

> "take a screenshot of my webpage with Chrome | set it in isometric with nice shadow using Photoshop | send it on my iPhone Twitter app"

This is basically Apple Shortcuts. It would be nice to have a CLI interface for Shortcut "actions".

This is why Textualize[1] concerns me. I've tried a few of the applications using their framework, and they have noticable keypress latency. I didn't think it was possible to make a bloated TUI, but they have somehow succeeded. This might just be a Python thing because of the GIL, because VisiData[2] has the same problem. It's physically jarring to use VisiData because it's such a cool idea, but takes 500ms to register key presses in my 120hz terminal emulator.

It's reminiscent of scroll-jacking, excessive animation, and other web GUI bloat, just translated to TUIs.

[1]: https://www.textualize.io/

[2]: https://www.visidata.org/

> ~ an actual antitrust guy

So, unfirable? Essentially useless and beholden to little if any performance metrics?

I'm having a hard time understanding what this is about. Is it about Kubernetes tradeoffs?

The keypress latency is infuriatingly noticable for me with Chrome + Sonoma. It's beautiful though!

> It's not enough simply to have elections.

The elected representatives also need the power/will to change things, which has unfortunately not been the case in my voting lifetime.

The King of England is technically the king on paper, but has 0.5% of the power Henry VIII had. President Biden has 1% of the power FDR had.

A lot of things, in the US at least, are more and more dictated by unelected (and unfirable) bureaucrats in agencies.

Yes, the administrative (deep) state sometimes needs a "rewrite".

I'm a fan of including benchmarks in CI pipelines. The Windows developers should have a historical record [1] of the performance degradation and be forced to look at it daily.

[1]: https://x.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960

> We need more optimization in this industry.

The Windows 11 context menu lag (and overall Windows bloat) is a product of Conway's law. Microsoft creates bloated software because it's a monopoly. So, "optimization" in this case would essentially be antitrust action.

I actually have the code written for my own payment processor (including crypto)--that's the easy part. The hard part is the money transmitter license fees, which are insane and make it impossible to bootstrap.

I was in college a few years ago and it was pretty common to see portable mechanical keyboards...