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Yes sorry I was going to do that as an edit after I had a chance to read other comments.

First, the article meanders through a lot of unrelated stuff like crypto markets and interest rates and inflation. These add nothing to the subject, please do not be confused by it.

Second, what’s being quoted is a notional on a swap, which is the reference amount being indexed on in the contract.

Some background: There are different types of swaps, some of which have been standardized via ISDA agreements, or are being cleared on an exchange or other multiparty platform that provides some standardization and doesn’t require a “bilateral” contract that’s between two counter parties, often paired by a securities market maker - but historically they’re “over the counter” and bilateral in that there’s no market or exchange, it’s just an agreement.

I’m that agreement or contract there’s a reference currency pair in the case of fx swaps. Say it’s USD/EUR - I.e., the exchange rate between USD and Euros.

The notional is the amount of that indexed pair. They’re are often enormous amounts. Much more money than either actually have on hand. But, they’re often used against things like non repatriated earnings - which can be enormous. Those earnings are never involved in the contract mind you, but are instead referenced as the notional.

The two counter parties in the contract agree to swap a risk in a swap. Typically they can be conceived of the seller gives the buyer currency at the current exchange rate. The buyer simultaneously issues forward contracts to the seller. The difference between the two is the swap point. This swap point is where profit and losses lie, and it’s a very small percentage of the notional. I’m not as familiar with OTC swaps in FX, but typically there’s no need to actually swap assets but rather agree to pay the PNL without owning the underlying assets.

What’s at risk is the payouts, which are no where near the notional value of the swap.

The article however implies notional values are somehow debt owed. They further imply that they’re “hidden,” but generally bilateral contracts aren’t disclosed securities by many participants in the market. The real ask is embedded deep in the article which is BIS wants to see more of these transactions settled via a standardized clearing house or exchange that usually have reporting requirements. The BIS is worried this returns us to some of the opacity before the financial crisis.

As someone who worked many years as a quant in the space of credit default swaps, which has largely standardized to my understanding, I do not agree. OTC has its place and cleared has its place. Some markets don’t have a successful place to clear in the open. But it’s not hiding anything, and it’s absolutely not hiding debt, nor are these instruments dangerous.
80T in 'debt' is not 'debt' in the way most lay people would call debt (in fact most industry people would not consider this debt at all). Further, the lead about 'pension funds' is just a straight up bad pull quote. The BIS report uses a pension fund as one type of financial institution that uses swaps, without singling them out specifically.

A better headline would be "Central Banks should spend more time researching US Dollar domination of FX/Currency Swap market)".
Fermentation specifically sterilizes the food. That's what alcohol does.

It's analogous to the process of cooking the duck, not the process of hanging it out overnight.
For some things sure. For others, for example recipes, newer is not necessarily better.
It's only impacting some ISPs. Outage varies by my office locations. At my location, it is out, however I was able to get access via Cloudflare warp VPN.

Edit: Sounds like AT&T
What decentralized social media feels like
Agreed, 6 was the high point, 7 wasn’t bad and 8/9 were skeuomorphic slow lipstick on the core OS pig. Gimme 6 with original iPod any day of the week.
There is usually no forcing: they are typically hired because of their AWS knowledge - the business has already decided to go AWS, the new hire is doing what he's expected to do.
No matter how good anything is, it has to be resigned every year/major version/etc because it is far more "fashion" based whether we like it or not. And fashion is all about creating novelty by changing stuff not for utility but for the sake of generating a different neural firing pattern in our brains so the item doesn't simply fade into oblivion even if it is designed and works perfectly
Biden did sign the bill, which sucks. But the only way it got to his desk was that 42 Republican Senators and 1 Democratic Senator (Manchin) voted for it. The President is not a king. POTUS gets too much credit and too much blame for things like this.
Not necessarily arguing with your point (it may be that of said legal experts) but a KKK event is not held, or run by people, because of any sort of protected status or attribute, as far as I understand it. Hence it's a fallacious comparison.
I'm the creator of the site, thanks for the submission.

This is an in-progress port of the SheepShaver emulator to WebAssembly/Emscripten, https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/34 is tracking the remaining work.

If you're interested in running older Mac software in the browser, the BasiliskII-based sites at https://system7.app/ and https://macos8.app/ may be better bets. They will boot faster and have fewer compatibility issues (especially System 7).

The main thing that Mac OS 9/SheepShaver brings is PowerPC support. There is also a variant of System 7 for PowerPC with more esoteric mid-90s Apple projects like OpenDoc and QuickDraw GX installed available at https://system7.app/?domain=system7-ppc.app.
The part where it has to do with Chess.com. Chess.com was very careful in its commentary about the Magnus event and constrained their commentary to their relationship with Hans.

From the outside perspective, Hans used Chess.com’s brand by essentially saying that Chess.com vouches for his credibility. Then Chess.com asked Hans to recant and came out with their fat report after he refused. Hans is trying to bring Chess.com into this by saying that there's a conspiracy against him.
> Vim is an amazing text editor.

Vim is not a text editor. It edits text, sure, but so does Outlook.

Text editors don't have 400-page O'Reilly books, and 280-page "pocket" reference manuals.

I don't know what it is, but Vim is not a text editor.
The joys of cloud connected smart thermostats: the cloud services seem to be unavailable, including the support page, so I can no longer change the temperature in my home via the app. Thermostat still seems to control the heater, as I can see gas usage in a different cloud based app. Would be nice if more thermostats would offer direct connectivity from app to thermostat without the need to go through a cloud service.

Any ideas what is going on? What smart thermostat are available that don’t need a cloud service?
I've seen something similar happen when I answer to an email address that's not configured.

Let me explain better:

- In K9 I only have configured to receive and send from my main address. Let's say it's 'main@domain.com'
- I have several different addresses to my main address. Again, let's say it's 'secondary@domain.com.'
- If I receive one of those forwarded emails and reply to it, in the FROM you'll find 'secondary@domain.com'
- It will go to the outbox, but never get sent... but without any error. So you never know it wasn't get sent unless you check the outbox, and you won't know the reason.

I guess it's because there's no outgoing email profile for secondary@domain.com and it's lacking some sort of error management for that.
Keep in mind AWS status dashboard solely reflects the product owning managers discretion.

And the number of yellow ("green I" if you're old enough) is definitely a material input to PIP :)
Berkshire Hathaway has beaten the market over the last 5 year. They're basically a mutual fund combined with a private equity firm.

But it seems like the criteria used is a bit weird:

> The team selected the 25 percent of the funds with the best performance over the 12 months through June 2018. Then the analysts asked how many of those funds remained in the top quarter for the four succeeding 12-month periods through June 2022.

That's different than not beating the market.

> And over a full 20-year period ending last December, fewer than 10 percent of active U.S. stock funds managed to beat their benchmarks.

So some firms do beat the market.
Are others seeing this?
In markdown

My favorite number is probably the number
1. It's the smallest natural number that is
> 0. With pencils, though, I prefer a
# 2.

is a paragraph, a list item, a block quote, and a heading (4 things). In djot it's just a single paragraph.

If you want it to be 4 things you have to add a newline between each one.

Personally I think djot gets this right.
And they would have been right.
That's funny, because that's what I say about them. As I see it, I'm not calling them names, I'm merely saying I think their arguments are shoddy and not at all persuasive.
I would find some doctors you can trust to speak honestly off the record, and talk with them.
Having worked as a data engineer before and now working as a data scientist I cannot agree with that article. Data Engineering was really boring. The most complex math I ever used was computing an average value of something. Most of the time your work is only ETL, just data in/data out. The most complex technology I ever used was a search engine.

Everyone in IT who likes to do some math and statistics at his workplace, even if it simply a linear regression or some histograms should go for data science. Also instead of nonsense discussions about what is agile and what not, I enjoy talking with my colleagues about the newest papers in ML, even if nobody understands the details.
In fact they have a name for it internally: "Cover my ass assignment".

Just come to provide the results the boss wants to have for him to rubber stamp and justify the cost cutting.
Absolutely NONE of your sources quotes anyone claiming that N95 masks don't protect against disease.

In several cases, (early on) the statement was made that "drugstore" (surgical) masks won't protect the wearer, and only those with symptoms were recommended to wear them. That changed when research showed asymptomatic people were spreading COVID-19, then it was suggested that EVERYONE wear a (cloth or surgical) mask, not to protect themselves, but to protect the public from you. Other than that, everything said was and is still true.

Nothing about N95 masks specifically... Probably because the public just couldn't buy them at the time.
What's the solution, though? I live in California, and my state-issued ID doesn't say anything about my US citizenship. When I registered to vote (online), I had to certify that I was eligible to vote. Yes, the penalties for lying are steep, but if the state can't verify if I'm lying or not, how will I get caught?

If SCOTUS says states can't require proof of citizenship for voter registration, how can they exclude non-citizens from voter rolls? The state hasn't created a catch-22; the federal judiciary has told the states that they effectively can't use citizenship as a requirement for voting.

I feel like I'm missing something here, because this can't be the state of things.

> We have a national ID issue which needs to be fixed.

What issue is this? Why do we need a national ID? What purpose would one serve? Plenty of Americans go through their lives just fine without any sort of federally-issued ID. Pretty much all you have to do is never travel outside the US, and many Americans don't.
IIRC Ukraine suffered pretty badly from notpetya as they were the primary target. It is possible that event caused the country to take steps to protect against similar attacks.
Just a hit piece, not even a very good one - simply a pile-up of unfavorable anecdotes.

A waste of time. Could not even figure out what "going to the border" was.
Suddenly it all makes sense.

Is putting "tip" lines on receipts in situations that, until quite recently, definitely wouldn't have called for a tip, part of a similar scheme?
I love that color too. Fun trivia that I discovered doing pixel art way back then: That color is blue.

It appears purplish, but it's actually a desaturated blue with hue right at 240°. Something about the lack of saturation and brightness gives it a purplish cast.
Aren't there pinball games any more?
I remember spending a lot of hours playing Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions in an Amiga 1200.
AFAIK this isn’t just 2-year-old-GPT3, it’s been referenced as “GPT3.5” the model much more up to date (2021) and it clearly has some new capabilities.

Good point in the article regarding confidence/accuracy though.

That said, I’ve been impressed with its usefulness as a spam filter as the first page of any web search is often heavily saddled with SEO-baggage.

Answers to simple questions like “how do you make a Sazarac? Is a much nicer experience than on web search.
Plus a port, excellent rail infra, and a massive international airport. There's a reason that Detroit was once the factory of the world.

I think that _something_ like this will eventually happen, as SEA moves up the wealth ladder.
CVE-2022-4170: rxvt-unicode code execution via background OSC
What is the coolest project you worked on?

Will the big3 be around in 15-20 years or is it a dying industry with many of the best people leaving for exist opps in tech/finance/etc.
Doesn't look like the index really matters.

> The team selected the 25 percent of the funds with the best performance over the 12 months through June 2018. Then the analysts asked how many of those funds remained in the top quarter for the four succeeding 12-month periods through June 2022.

> The answer was none.

So it's more that being a top-performing fund in one year doesn't predict you'll be a top-performing fund in the next. 2k is a pretty significant sample size (though it's functionally less since many are tracking the same benchmarks & so should be highly correlated), large enough that we should anticipate dumb luck.
Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
These changes are a pain but i have mostly achieved a copy of my Windows 10 setup which is much needed to stay productive!

Getting the old right-click menu back is done through a registry setting.

Reverting the taskbar back to Win10/2000 style for things like ungrouping of task bar items, items in multiple rows, items with titles and a quick launch area i use this: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
It would be very interesting to compare this with 'stock' GPT-3 Davinci. ChatGPT had a bunch of additional training that seems to have been a lot more opinionated, ostensibly for "safety" purposes.
> Oh, and I'm one of them. You're welcome.

Holy shit. This is some top-level smug right here.
Oh boy. Those extensions loading. So many times I held my breath when adding a new extension. If it doesn’t then you have to restart in Safe mode, or something.
I won’t miss the extensions. OS 9 was cool. I used it a lot on my lime-green imac.
The flying parts part gets it wrong from the very start: "Before reading the book, I had assumed that the flying car was one of those ideas that sounds good on its face, but turns out not to work or be interesting in practice"

Well, it's exactly that.

But the book "concludes that there is no technological or economic reason why we can’t have flying cars with existing technology—indeed, why we couldn’t have had them already, if sustained work on them had continued past the 1970s."

Actually there are very good technological reasons, and attempts in 2022 would have the same problems as attemps in the 1970s or 1950s etc faced: namely, that flying and driving are different actions with different physical needs and tolerances from the vehicle, constraining the design, and making it ultimately inpractical except as novelty.

Except if we come up with antigravity or similar (or, perhaps, magical unicorn rays that lift the vehicle, which is pretty much the same wish, just without the tech-like jargon that makes the former sound plausible).

It's not a "they said heavier than air flight was impossible too" thing. It's a "they examined the domain every way possible for a century, with experimental, commercial, military, and other approaches, and they found it was a pipe dream due to inherent competing air and road vehicle needs".

The argument the post (and the book) puts forward is how useful it would be, if instead of using it like a car (e.g. to get around town) we used it to expand our radius of possible travel within an hour or a day. But that's exactly what they tried to use those flying cars for, and is just the same a no go.
You just made a claim, about a claim, about a claim, about a claim.

My claim is that it is getting too deep.
>It's like Deloitte consultants referring to MBBD.

I'm pretty sure that's just a reddit meme, but I guess it's funny someone took it seriously?
> I've often wanted a VB6 equivalent for the web, but open source.

That's Gambas, it can create web apps.

https://gambas.sourceforge.net

Some more links here:

https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas
Flan T5
Let’s say you have a big pot of boiling water and you put a raw chicken in there. What temperature is the water now? What if at the end of this process, your goal is to have a raw chicken?
The second example is indented; line-wrapping doesn't introduce indentation, so an indented line cannot be 'interrupting a paragraph'
Voting is a state concern. The federal government isn't really involved, certainly not at the level of identifying voters.
This is such a non-excuse for forcing the Unions to work. The fact that US can't afford a rail shutdown could just as quickly be used to say that the railroad companies have to give the union what they want to avert a shutdown, but it went the other way ... Because you know, oligarchy.

If their service is so essential, they should be granted some sick days.
What's the higher standard? "Megacorps are expected to actually honor their agreements"?

I'd love to hear you articulate what the difference here is that Megacorps would be expected to catch with their "MBAs and lawyers", but the author of mIRC wouldn't?
I wonder what the overlap is between people who hate Starbucks for shitting on unions and people who want to be able to get other people fired over Twitter outrage. Really, the whole reason outrage mobs can get companies to fire people is because the people who were fired don't have a strong enough union.

And, no, a union which caves to social media pressure isn't strong.
The Big 3 distinction isn't based on firm size (McKinsey, Bain, and BCG only have 38k, 25k, and 15k employees respectively) but rather on prestige and type of work done.
Really? It's like if you keep downloading "Linux ISOs" and conclude your hard drive has a p*rn addiction.
Personal anecdote, but I have a strong feeling that if you never clean your ears, you never feel the need to. But once you start cleaning them, and you feel the difference it becomes something that is hard to stop doing. I wish I had never started.
>The reality is that any amount of nuclear war is the end of humanity…

Maybe I’m not understanding what you mean, but on the face of it that’s absurd. If N Korea nuked S Korea and the US nuked them back, or if Pakistan and India decided to toast a few of each others cities, the impact on the rest of the world would be mostly economic.
Ooh, when are the NextCloud bundles coming to the US? I see they have them on the German based datacenters.
> I think living in a flat is great if that's your thing, it's definitely cheaper to heat!

Nothing else is a realistic option 'round here unless I want to live in a village (which doesn't necessarily mean far away, maybe 20 minute ride by car to the city, but there isn't much there and your first neighbour might well keep animals). Barely anyone I know lives in a house.

> it's definitely cheaper to heat!

There is nothing cheap about heating heating here, lol. Fortunately, it's not that cold most of the year. But no one heats their homes properly, so you are still leaking heat in all directions even in an apartment.

> But the argument always seems to be this sort of dogmatic "do this if unless you're a shithead who hates the planet" and I just don't think that it's true for everyone, or a healthy approach to enjoying what limited time we have alive.

I don't pretend to do it "for the planet" (and would gladly live in a house), but that's a valid argument, if a little hyperbolic. I don't think it makes anyone a bad person but that doesn't lessen negative effects. Especially the effect of housing scarcity - you've basically taken entire column of Earth for yourself in a (presumably) desirable location, where that same column could have housed 20x people if it was a highrise.

Failure of civilisation here is not having sound-proof apartments. If I could play drums or blast karaoke at full volume in mine at 3 in the morning I couldn't care less that it was not a house.
> Not having to call the cops to tell them I moved to that their records are up to date and so that they can come to my place of residence to see whether I actually live there is a breath of fresh air.

Eh. In most states you are required to get a new DL if you move. So, in fact, you have to tell the state where you live.

Whereas with a national ID, that wouldn't be tied to a place of residence.
3D Printed Film Video Camera
I was shopping for a car/SUV recently and was given the story about tire technology changing and tires being so good they never fail :) wish I could remember the precise words but good discussion since I never bought the car due to supply chain issues and now I will remember to ask the details.
I use it on some self-hosted domains (all IMAP) but have used it with Migadu, MXroute, and others.

I generally like it more than FairMail (simpler, fewer options that I seemed to need to set). But I have tried to sell it to other Android users, and not having swipe-delete made all of them give up. I'm fine without it, but would probably adapt to it if it was Thunderbird standard; I use the iOS email app a lot too.
If some firms beat their benchmarks, but no firm is consistently in the top bracket, don't you think that suggests it's noise?
According to Wikipedia, one liter goes for 2.23 USD [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_chemical_elements
From the outside perspective, Hans used Chess.com’s brand by essentially saying that Chess.com vouches for his credibility. Then Chess.com asked Hans to recant and came out with their fat report after he refused.
Consquences of pushing for STEM vs. art in a childs foundational years
Everyone seems to overlook the point here. That yet again Amazon were slow as hell to be honest with their customers. I get it up down reports help but why do you keep using a service which lies to you about availability. I've read on HN in the past how the dashboard can only be updated to reflect an issue with approval. (Comments section on a similar posting, believe it if you wish).
So why not move to a hosting company that is transparent and open about their status. I'll not make suggestions as I don't want to be accused of trying to shill for a specific provider but there are plenty out there. 45 min to update their public dash is too slow. They either don't care, don't monitor or they are trying to hide their stats for fear Jeff will beat the staff for SLA violations.
If any other provider lied to customers the way AWS does they wouldn't be tolerated why do you tolerate this behaviour from AWS?

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EU allows passengers to make calls during flights
If you change your name, you need to update your information with social security and with the state department. That's how the two IDs can get out of sync. E.g. if someone was like "please bring your social security card and passport for verification" you could potentially have a name mis-match if you only updated your passport but didn't update your social security.
Am I the only one who found this game to be super frustrating for some reason? Still tons of memories though.