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You don't understand. If they go bust, that's it. The goal is to get big enough by skirting regulation and then welcome it. Think about it, if the regulators tell them and how much they should hold in reserves, much like they tell the banks, they essentially bootstrapped themselves into too big to fail. In 2008 all the regulators were fine with CDOs rated triple-A and having the applicable capital ratings of a very safe asset. And when it all blew up, they stepped in and made sure no one went under and they could continue operating as they did in the past.

Fun fact, a lot of those CDOs were on bank's balance sheets and marked down during the crisis but recovered over the last ten years. Not recovered to par, but recovered significantly. So there still exists some trading in the asset and banks still hold a fair chunk of it. So what traders do is they steadily mark up the valuation of these assets to smooth out and boost their P&L, which affects their bonus (which is often times already in the millions). There's a treasure trove of interesting content in this lawsuit from a BAML managing director that sued for discrimination because her total comp was only 2 - 2.5 million a year. [0]

> Until recently, the secondary trading desk owned, along with CLO’s, $4 Billion on the BAML balance sheet of TruPS CDOs and ABS CDOs which positions were acquired during the 2008/2009 time frame. These positions have been mismarked for years in order to ensure P&L every year. Trepanier and his traders have daily fights about marks (where the bonds are priced) with Pricing (another department who marks the Bank’s securities to the market price). When going through their business after being promoted, Messina asked Trepanier about the marks he had on the Bank’s trading positions. Trepanier boldly responded, “It is an annuity so that the trading book produces revenue every year.”

[0] https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rCaslipP...
> So when Bezos—in a possibly apocryphally, 128-word memo—wrote that “All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces,” it was a focused idea that led to Amazon building web services for which it’d be it’s own best customer, and turned AWS into the cloud computing juggernaut it is today.

Last I checked, almost every AWS api has a V2. And wait, I just checked, AWS CDK is on V2.28.0. I wonder why the last 28 versions of V2 didn't work if they wrote the documentation first?

Last I checked, Mac OS is on like version 11 or something? I'm not a Mac user so I don't follow this stuff.

Clearly, documentation is not a silver bullet. If it was, we wouldn't have to continue to rewrite and bump the versions of all of our tools. When I worked at Amazon, writing that 6 page document was like agonizing torture. They would ask me what the minimal latency of the API I was creating would be, and how am I supposed to know that?? I don't know what other APIs I may or may not have to call to actually get this to work. Implementation details matter a lot.

I don't remember who said this, but there's a saying that's something like ideas are worth nothing. Execution is worth everything. And the same thing goes for documentation, what good is documentation without a final product? It's useless.
Probably not a smart thing to say given the state of self-driving. And why would he even go there - what's wrong with just making a cool car with some neat features that people want to buy?
Because as this article shows, there is a large number of folks who would consider doing this type of work remotely but would not do it in person? Because it would enable folks who are handicapped to do this kind of work? Because it's simpler to do than perfecting an AI (hell you could train an AI based on this work)?
The quote from a prof upset that they only received 28 applicants in about 6 months is pretty rich to read, as someone who is in currently a PhD student. They should be delighted so many people want a job with indefinite length, uncertain prospects, and very little pay.

I just recently got a post doc offer from someone, which I will almost certainly turn down because I know the reality: academia sucks, science is great. For years, people have put up with the former to enjoy the latter, but I think we are hitting a threshold.
I'm a bit confused...

the readme of ocaml-interop says it's "inspired by" ocaml-rs

while ocaml-rs says it "uses ocaml-interop behind the scenes" and "also exports an interop module, which is an alias for ocaml_interop and the two interfaces can be combined if desired"

from a cursory look over ocaml-rs seems possibly the one to use, as the more comprehensive project
Well, if you want uncontrolled inflation, keep advocating for policies that push unemployment below the rate of sustainable full employment. It seems to be making people happy, after all.

Not like there are hundreds of years of economic history to learn from...
As someone who just got promoted into engineering management from development, the number one cause of frustration, delays, confusion was always lack of documentation - either in requirements or just how the system works in general.

It’s now my number one priority to ensure that we have a proper framework for documenting requirements ie. no more two-line “change this functionality because reasons” tickets and having a centralized wiki that documents all features and how the work, along with any quirks that exist.
UI in any moderately successful project is kind of like the dog and stick “No take, only throw!” Problem.

We want the UI to improve, but also the UI must never change.
IPv6 is core infrastructure, not a silicon valley startup. Just like renewables, the switching of infrastruvture is londlger than 3x of average startup life expectancy
M2 versus M1 Pro/Max/Ultra: The older chips still (mostly) win over the base M2
Crypto? Not necessarily. NFT? Absolutely yes, no doubt about it.

Unless people start buying NFTs a) understanding it's just a glorified donation or b) we figure out how to attach legal consequences to an NFT, they will remain mostly a scam.
You can bet on that happening over long periods. Shorting the 2024 bitcoin price isn't hard at all for a consumer.
No, Russia doesn't have factories this modern. Elbrus and Baikal (ARM) were made at TSMC.
When you speak of monogamy and chastity being a rarity in antiquity, you’re talking about men, right? Were the women involved in these polygamous relationships expected to engage with other men freely?
The garbage collector is nice because sometimes you don't want to think about memory management or the borrow checker.

The syntax is really cool, it looks like python but it's completely whitespace insensitive.

The module system is neat, and I actually like writing module interfaces (which are basically analogous to header files in C/C++). It makes dependency injection trivial, because you can have a module say "I depend on a module with this interface, but the caller can choose which one", which is more useful than it sounds.

It's also a functional language, so you have very little mutability, and it supports """monads""" with its super innovative "monadic let" syntax. (It's basically like overloading the semicolon, which probably doesn't make any sense, but it's really cool.)

Dune is a very pleasant build system and Esy is a very pleasant package manager. The language server is good. I'd say in this dimension it's competitive with Rust.

There's really quite a lot to like about OCaml. My biggest gripe with it is no typeclasses/traits. But I have hope that modular implicits will land within our lifetimes.
That's a very uncharitable reading of the headline. I think it's pretty clear that it's talking about particle physics, not physics as a whole. At any rate the article makes this clear in the first line:

> Unless Europe’s Large Hadron Collider coughs up a surprise, the field of particle physics may wheeze to its end
The article already mentions this:

> The concept recognises that working without the bother of deadlines or micromanagement can be a lot of fun.

And they're right: building things is indeed fun, it's the pressure of deadlines and handling your boss/clients/etc that can make it stressful. But I don't think you can take that out of a "job" situation; other people paying for your work is the entire point of jobs.

If you are just doing things because you like it without anyone paying you for it, that's called a hobby even if you do the exact same things that you can also get paid for. (There is an obvious parallel here with the "getting paid for FOSS" discussion that pops up regularly on HN)
Humans have a choice and the ability to consider and reason about morality. It doesn't matter what we technically are, because we have a choice in what we eat and how we treat animals.

Vegan bears and native tribes are irrelevant, you live in a modern world/society and both are poor attempts at deflection that don't hold up under even the slightest scrutiny.

Even if you refuse to consider the argument for veganism, the way we treat the animals we eat is an abject horror, modern animal farming is indefensible.
Unsure if the conclusion here naturally follows your premise.

Doctors require lots of qualifications which is a barrier to entry into the career. This significantly drives up compensation.

Are most doctors really more than human frontends to webmd? Probably not.

Source: my doctor told me this (really).

Extending this to SWE. A degree may not be necessary to enter the field anymore, but I don't see how it should be less of a requirement than for a regular consulting GP. Both are expected to understand fundamentals well, and both can cause harm if they do their job badly - I'd argue the SWE can cause a lot more harm to be honest.

If it seems like I'm suggesting qualifications should be mandatory for SWEs, I'm not. I'm saying other professions are revered in a way that we aren't - and I don't see the evidence it's especially warranted.
I meant more the "simulator" games like Train Driver Simulator, Truck Driver Simulator, etc. that only really took off in the last decade (AFAIK).

But certainly Harvest Moon has been a genre that's now entered the western mainstream much more, and took a while to 'take off' in the western markets with things like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing in recent years.
A PhD can mean a lot of different things. Personally, I'm employed as a research associate while doing a PhD, which in theory means I should do the PhD as part of my job. In practice, I do not get to do any actual research during the job and the PhD is relegated to weekends.

What I find curious: I get paid to do lots of things which are clearly complete nonsense, but the funding comes with the requirement that these specific nonsensical things must be done. I could do lots of useful things, but I do not get paid for those.

I'm far enough into the process that I've decided to just collect the stupid credential before I move on. Which is funny because I did not get into this for the credentials, but dropping out at this point would just look weird on my CV.
See also the Real World Tech analysis for a bit more depth.

https://www.realworldtech.com/intel-4/
Right. Are we done wasting resources on that now?
Well true, but then the answer one doesn’t want to read is that the “language doesn’t matter”, at least not in any significant way.

Which is in line with the famous “No Silver Bullet” article.
I once watched a documentary where a polar bear was unable to hunt. In one last ditch effort it tried to hunt a walrus from a large group but failed. He didn't have enough energy left to kill. Felt so bad for him. The narrator said the bear Wouldn't survive long. Nature is brutal.
I believe it's region-specific. In Italy, in my experience, most teens communicate through voice messages (citation needed :-) ).
OpsGenie's Android app does this. Wouldn't be surprised if OnCall has this as well (or is coming soon).
This is so true. The middle is the best for most things in life. Too much pleasure can also mean pain
Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren't ready
The Ilyse Hogue speech wasn't at some fringe event. It was at the democratic national convention, so not people I'd consider "whack jobs."

It just made me realize that my circles may tend to self select to leave out a large segment of people that have a very different view.
I hate the helplessness of this. You have agency. You also have responsibility.

You have a chemistry phd. You don't have to build your career on other people's crushed financial futures. Either find a job where you can pay people well or find a job where you don't need to manage other people's labor to stay employed.

I have A LOT of dubious pet projects I could convince NSF to fund and would love to work on if I had the moral stomach requires to convince highly educated broke 30 year olds to give me hundreds of thousands of dollars in free labor. But I don't.

So instead I turned down TT offers and went to industry where I spend a lot of time convincing people with the money to actually pay living wages with good benefits to people who can work on slightly different things. I don't have a lab with my name on it. I don't have an office. I will never have tenure. No on calls me Professor or even Doctor. But I'm also not exploiting the shit out of 20-35 year olds. My post-docs are paid $100k-$200k.

Stop relying on broke kids to fund your dreams. Leave academia and find a company who will fund your work. Or stay in academia and don't hire people to help you unless you can pay them even close to what they're worth.
I agree that this isn't a tech problem. The only part that the tech is for is for having feedback on the document. It is meant to be printed out and not stored online. There is a spot on the document for a power of attorney in fact.
Everything is a risky bet and there is always subjectivity involved in prices, but what I mean by "intrinsic value" is that the the asset has so tangible use that is valuable to people directly. Oil has intrinsic value because people can use it to generate electricity. As you say, equities have (theoretically) some cash flow associated with them so you are buying a cut of future profits.

But what is the theoretically correct price of Bitcoin? In some sense it's just like every other asset, the right price is what someone else will pay for it. But what you actually care about is what someone will pay for it 1/5/10 years from now (especially if you plan to use it as a store of value). And how do you even begin to model that?
Bond Traders Challenge BOJ with Biggest Futures Rout Since 2013
> Have you had a good look?

Are you aware of how hilarious it is in the context of high energy physicists verifying the standard model to ask if they had "good look"? I don't think a collective effort to look any harder has ever existed in the history of humankind.
Fair chunk of the cost is people working for slave wages in Asia and has nothing to do with with ancient Mesopotamia, let's be honest and not disingenuous here.

Are you actually interested in discussing the topic at hand?
We could reduce the population of college admin which has exponentially increased in the past 40 years.
There will be a mixture of beneficial and wasteful uses. Ppl will say the good outweighs the bad bc they don't know how to measure environmental and personal health outcomes. Ppl who question it will be villified and called luddites for besmirching the godly triology of Innovation, Science, and Dopamine. But the true crazies will be the ones connecting it to defending our country and saving children.
My grandmother grew up during the great depression and often went hungry as a child.

Decades later when she had plenty of money she still refused to ever throw anything away. Her huge house was stuffed full of balls of old string, used popsicle sticks, ancient newspapers and wire.
To have some data : https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

While progress is slow, it is constant and we're reaching 40% of IPv6 availability in 2022, from pretty much 0% in 2010.

I'm confident we'll get there.
> I was in a bit of a stupor for the rest of that week, because I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. I kept waiting for someone to emerge from the mist and explain that I had somehow bricked Thunderbird or something. But no, it just worked.

I think a lot of us can recognize this feeling when you have deployed big changes. Everything seems to be working fine, but you just don't trust it.
Cheaper than not doing it
You're correct. On the other hand, college tuitions are ridiculous, and the modern university is literally a billion-dollar corporation.

There's no excuse for the academic job market being this lousy when universities have so much money coming in from so many different sources.

The problem is that they spend it all on administration. Paying a "Dean of Multiple-Choice Quantum Intersectionality" $600,000/year is a way for rich white elitists to pretend they care about things they actually don't.
Nothing. It’s pseudoscientific nonsense.
My impression is that Haskell's laziness and focus on purity though make it rather a pain to work with, whereas OCaml is a lot more pragmatic like Rust.
Sure... replace any barcode with one and it can remember its history of scanning.
For https://curvefever.pro we actually decided to store the state of the world for undo purposes, this way you can go anywhere back in time in constant time, and to redo you execute the commands again. The big advantage is that you don't have to create an undo function for each command (which might be tricky in some cases, as many times it still involves storing state) and you don't have to iterate through/apply all the commands to go back at a specific time. To save memory, we actually only store the state every 5 ticks (so if you want go to back to tick 23, you go back to tick 20 and run the simulation forward for 3 ticks).
This is good advice especially for developer tools.

Start with the API interface first:

1. Ask what problems the tool intends to solve

2. Then ask what's the best experience for developers to command or program it

"Best experience" depends on the context. A few factors worth consideration are:

- Succinctness

- Easiness to understand

- Memorability

- Clarity

- Familiarity (if developers are already used to some existent API)

Then build whatever is needed to make that API get developers from point A to point B.
I think Euro Truck Simulator was the first game of this sort that I can think of that really had some kind of broad-ish appeal to it. Not necessarily “mundane chore” but more like “job is a game” game.

My father in law is a trucker and the only video game he plays is the Euro/American Truck Simulator games. Which I find interesting because I don’t think I would ever be interested in a game where you write computer software as the main goal.
I certainly don't keep my money in crypto. But I do have a certain amount of my investment portfolio in it. I treat it as a physical asset that has to be stored properly. Giving instructions for how to access the seed and how to use it seems to be sufficient but I don't have a large enough amount to probably matter all that much. Also, I have worked at banks and it is a pain to get access to bank accounts. Providing a death certificate can take a long time and I have a large amount of logins.
industry can't hire enough PhDs

I think both are true. Academia is producing too many PhDs in fields that industry isn't interested in and too few with a background that industry wants/needs.
Did you mean to say this?

> There is nothing stopping the Spam/Bot community from implementing something similar.

I am a full time linux user, but I can guarantee you that if the bigcorps are going through with this it absolutely is going to lock out linux users, because the goal is to stop bots.

Evil.
Indeed and this time reduction is present in a great many forms. Imagine if a growing season in Stardew Valley took actual months instead of minutes, or if crossing a mid-sized kingdom on horseback took several weeks instead of the 20 minutes or so in most video games.
Ooh, I did not know this. Do you happen to know where the "no-out-of-thin-air" guarantee is for the 32-bit primitives? Presumably in the Memory model docs somewhere?
I like the physical keyboards so I'd go for a treo or a tungsten.

Or if you want ultra nerd cred, get the watch by fossil.
> The ones in control of money and the ones in charge of running their lab and hiring postdocs are not the same people.

Does this disconnect happen in other spending decisions?

For example does the maintenance department ask the administrators for money for new lightbulbs that cost $1 each and the administrators ask them to buy them for 25c instead, even if they aren't available for that price?

How can you even decide what to pay someone without looking at what the market says? Just pick a random number? If you're going to do that why not try to literally pay minimum wage?
Scientists Discover Plastic-Eating Worms That Digest Styrofoam
One of their examples lists such a span (septic shock is both Factor and Condition)
Oh, you might notice that I never mentioned a "job", only "work". Perhaps the concept of "job" is the friction that needs to be eliminated.
I'm not a physicist; but the GP mentioned consciousness as an alternative to matter as the fundamental "substance".

Well, I've come across that idea before; in certain kinds of Buddhism, consciousness is considered fundamental, the senses are created by consciousness, and the material world is projected by consciousness through the senses.

Well, this was explained to me in the context of a particular type of tantric Buddhism; but actually the basic idea is common across most mainstream Buddhism. Most schools teach that the universe is cyclical, and is completely destroyed at the end of an era, before being recreated ex-nihilo. The creation process is started with the appearance of Brahma, who then hallucinates the rest of the universe into existence.

So in that model, it is consciousness, not matter that is fundamental, because the material world cannot come into existence without consciousness.
I find that the quality of my output tends to increase if I'm Literate Programming. And in that regard, documentation is like testing: whether you do it first or second doesn't matter as long as you do it and integrate it into your process.

I tend to find that I'm chasing an idea and hacking code together without updating the docs. Then I hit a complexity wall and go back and look at the big ball of mud I made, and break it into pieces, updating the documentation for each piece, and then I get a refactor idea that helps me simplify the code.
Fair enough (the words "notifies everyone" probably should be chanaged.)

But that's not really the point - it's that I don't get what they are doing that beats me coding something in an afternoon. (Inam trying really hard not to do the famous Dropbox comment)

But afaik the main feature here is you can add a piece of metadata in a comment that says "if this module is chnaged in a release branch, then some other documentation file must also be chnaged in the same branch.

Now, yeah that's kind of good as a policy. But if I am using docutils and my index.rst has a reference to "foo.bar.addmoney" then I can see how to set up a pre-commit hook and some worker that will do the same thing.

Now this is a pretty good feature to add to say Jenkins or GitHub Actions.

I could see that being a desirable feature for some set of teams.

I just don't like the "add extra meta data" thing, and I don't see what the win is outside of the CI tools

(not too sure how they are hooking into the CI ecosystems)

But hell good luck to you guys, you are in the arena. well done - good luck and I hope it works out.

Just please stop and work on that elevator pitch so that I do get it. I mean Inam interested enough in this area that i watched a video, read thirty comments and replied a couple of times.

I should be the perfect target customer.
We used Gremlins instead. https://lspo.feri.um.si/teachware/internal/programming/palmo...