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So the stability of the Solar System is highly dependent on general relativity.

That seems a bit misleading. If you have a complex system that reaches a measure of stability over a large timescale and then change any of the underlying rules, it's going to become unstable. In this scenario there's nothing special about special relativity, it just happens to be the rules they messed with.
I’ll add that the reserve requirement is currently zero.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
> Am I missing something?

Yes. As bonds get closer to their maturity date, the discount one would have to sell them at to garner a higher prevailing interest rate goes away. That is, the nominal loss "naturally" goes away over time. The article kind of explains this.
Racism is a really powerful cognitive fallacy. Once you let it in, it's tempting to just start pointing it at everything, like author is doing here.

I got to the part where he's describing Hispanics at the DMV and had to check if this was an HP Lovecraft story or something. Yikes

If the DMV sucks, and there's no republican party, maybe go complain to the Dems about it? I understand that decisions are being made are entirely within that party, because nobody likes the other guys. Maybe vote in the primary?
How do you guys protect elderly parents? My parents and in-laws aren’t there yet but they all in the retired age group.

A friend of the family recently had his email hacked. They sent targeted emails to all his contacts and setup a filter to hide the communication. His brother in law is a stoke victim with impaired cognition and only has access to $12k or so at a time. They were able to scam all of it from him over multiple transfers and he never picked up the phone to call the family friend. The family fiend is also his caretaker and limits his funds access for this exact reason.

The family friend is a retired old GE executive who will probably never run out of money no matter how many cars he buys due to pension funds. I wonder if he was targeted.
I’ve never understood why you can’t charge a Tesla from another Tesla. It would help a lot with range anxiety.
+1.

To add, the vast amount of money that's circulating is created by banks. As I keep harping, refer to this article by BoE for details.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
You could argue that devs are being paid the money that is being extracted from lower-class workers, too. Companies get to underpay for physical production labor, construction labor, etc., and some of that gets fed into developer salaries.

More gets fed into their profits and the executive salaries, but I think you get the idea.
Microsoft’s new Bing was using GPT-4 all along
This is a natural consequence of markets (and proof that economies of scale work). On a long enough timeline, they trend towards consolidation. This is why constant government intervention is necessary, to break up monopolies and restore competition. A government that refuses to engage in trust-busting is broken.
mypyc keeps Python's "BigIntegers", unicode string implementation, reference counting, and has little to no floating point-related optimizations yet. It prioritizes compatibility over overall performance, so I'm not surprised. I was also disappointed at how poor mypyc is at compiling across multiple files, but that they can fix at some point.

The BigInteger "issue" pretty much makes something like Fibonacci a worst case scenario for it.
Let the people read!

Of course publishers want to turn books into a subscription service. Fuck that.

Author remuneration is possible without further entrenching the absurd idea that some corporate entity can claw back information put into the world.
Sounds impossible. If the money is just shoved in a vault, the bank has to come up with money for rent/taxes, payroll for someone put the money in and take it out, etc. If the money is guaranteed to be there, then it can't be 100% of it.
Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success
The images you mention (alpine, node, golang) are all so-called “Docker Official Images”. Those are all the ones without a slash as the namespace separator in them: https://hub.docker.com/search?q=&type=image&image_filter=off...

They are versioned and reviewed here: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images

I don't expect them to go away.

Disclosure: I maintain two of them (spiped, adminer).
Then it's against the law, and you need to get it off the road.
The mechanism is mentioned by another, but the idea is that higher interest rates reduce the present value of future cash flows, resulting in lower asset prices. However, this analysis is holding everything equal, which is not true in real life. For instance, if higher interest rates are due to higher inflation expectations reflecting stronger nominal growth, then some assets might do better in such an environment.

Your second argument is that it would be trivial to stop and reverse inflation if it were true, but even if it were true it would not be so easy. The way we measure inflation is based on the prices paid for goods and services of consumer goods. If the only change from an interest rate hike were on asset prices, then this doesn't directly impact prices of consumer goods.
Tesla App Lets Man Accidentally Steal a Model 3 That Wasn't His
The Science of Alzheimer's: Brain Awareness Week 2023
Lectures on what is known.
How Silicon Valley Bank Avoided Oversight
David Sacks was born in South Africa. I don't think he can run for president.
The amount seems unprecedented and the timing. I understand competing for marketshare with TSMC, but it made me think like they are scrambling in case TSMC suddenly goes poof.
The title, and this is the article's title, screams angst. "Ha, gotcha!"
https://trofi.github.io/posts/196-nix-on-gentoo-howto.html for gentoo, but

https://nixos.org/download.html for any linux, AFAIK
Very true.

But the question I now have to ask is: What tangible advantages do roman numerals confer in the spaces where they are still kept around.
Bank runs killing healthy banks hadn't happened in nearly living memory, but it used to be a thing. Before 1933, if you heard your bank was unhealthy, you'd run to the bank to take out all your money before it vanished. So even a bank with a positive net assets and large liquidity could fail. All it took was a rumor causing a bank run that exceeded the liquidity.

This is why the FDIC was formed: to stop rumors causing bank runs. Since the average person knows their deposits are insured, your money isn't going anywhere, so theirs no need to do a bank run.

What failed here is that a group of uninsured depositors did an old fashion bank run. That's why the FDIC announced early that everything was covered: to very clearly telegraph that the bank run was unnecessary, and you shouldn't be doing them.
I read this headline in context of Banking stability and was like "Really? Even the solar system is not stable now?"
Podman appears to support the compose v2 spec, and the socket API, but still not fully supporting buildkit.

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-compose-docker-compos...
I hadn't seen the technical report: it is good they made an attempt to remove them, but they only use substring match of 50 characters to find duplicates. Forum discussions after an exam are usually peoples more fuzzy memories of the question (it is impressive if it can convert back at test time from people's fuzzy memories, but still potentially taking an exam from the past where it has had access to the questions, especially the hard ones which get discussed the most).

From the results before and after removing some of the duplicates it doesn't seem to have hurt its performance badly though. Sometimes the score increases, so the substring approach may be helping it by excluding question variants with matching substring that it memorized but then the real test varied somewhere outside of the sampled substrings and had a different answer (or it random chance that the extrapolated score increased with some questions removed).
It's basically true. A simple example is housing. People will generally borrow as much as they're allowed and spend all of that on the best house they can afford. That tends to raise property prices as the borrowed money chases housing stock. That's been very evident these last years.

The opposite occurs when interest rates go up, people can no longer borrow enough to pay asking prices, demand falls and prices fall to meet demand.

There are obviously other factors involved but the basic relationship holds.
They are unrealized losses if the assets are sold at market. They are not losses if the assets are held to maturity.
I'll add that approximately 97% of US dollars are created in this way.

https://positivemoney.org/how-money-%20works/how-banks-%20cr...
I feel like this post can nicely be complemented by Yaron Minsky's talk on why they chose OCaml as a programming language at Jane Street:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1CmGbOGb2I
Not comparable to the full compose spec.
Thanks Hacker News, I feel sometime in the future I am going to use Unicode Roman Numerals in some application.
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I've been using Elixir + Phoenix professionally for a few years. The design decisions behind phoenix in particular are very much aimed at scratching this itch.

The most obvious difference between Phoenix and Rails is the leaning on code generators. You run a mix command to generate out the data models, migrations, and controller / live view and all the code is there in your project. It makes use of functions from the phoenix library, but if you don't like how something is working you just change the code. This very much removes the "magic" and makes changing the behaviour as simple as reading your code.

This was a big difference for me when I was trying out Rails vs Phoenix to figure out which direction to go in. It made the experience feel simpler as I spent more time reading standard "elixir" code and very little time reading special "phoenix" DSL code. When I was exploring rails, this dynamic felt like flipped to me.
What frustrates me with `save-lisp-and-die` is the `-and-die`. It would be so much nicer not to have to stop the world.
No, ASCII is even more confusing than Unicode, as TFA points out.
They’re buying a MVNO that runs on their network. All they’re doing is buying a consumer brand. This has little to no effect on competition, all Mint customers were already on the T-Mobile network.
If people need supervision from someone so extraordinary they will be paid half a million a year, in order to stop them from working against each other, maybe they're not really la "creme de la creme", and maybe organizations should be picky about the right things when selecting their workforce.

Or maybe developers are being overpaid compared to most workers, but underpaid compared to most "decision-makers" (most workers being so vastly underpaid it's not even funny anymore). Overpaid / underpaid is relative.
FDIC already charges different amounts per bank. SVDI would buy reinsurance.
The article does something it shouldn't do: Conflate short term interest rates with holding 10 year treasuries. At least compare like for like. The yield curve has moved up, but not by the 4% in the article, and 'up' compared to.. quantitative easing time.

From https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

2023-03-14: 10Y: 3.64

2021-03-12: 10Y: 1.64

2019-03-14: 10Y: 2.63

2017-03-14: 10Y: 2.60

2015-03-13: 10Y: 2.13

2013-03-14: 10Y: 2.04

2011-03-14: 10Y: 3.36

2009-03-14: 10Y: 2.89

2007-03-14: 10Y: 4.53

2005-03-14: 10Y: 4.52

2003-03-14: 10Y: 3.72

2001-03-14: 10Y: 4.84

> We went multiple years without a bank failure, of any size, in the United States.

Because short term funding has been next to free.

> The losses banks have taken on their assets are real.

They're not real. That's entirely the point. They're financial assets that are locked in to fixed rate returns. If the assets were real, they'd be variable rate. Like the chicken feed that the author points out is an input to the cost of an egg. The variable chicken feed costs feed into the variable price of an egg.

When chicken feed costs increase but you're stuck selling the eggs at a fixed price, you have a problem. Risk doesn't disappear, at best it gets mitigated or bought for the value it provides. When mortgages have fixed interest rates, the interest rate risk needs to go somewhere.
MS Office is just one login away from storing documents in the cloud. I bet tons of users have their documents stored in OneDrive without realizing it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-documents-on...
They are bonds. Unless they default they will eventually reach maturity and pay out the original gain.

The problem is that might be a 20% gain 10 years from now, so nobody will be willing to buy that bond off of you for the price you paid since they can 40% on new 10 year bonds.

The only time a bond price decline is concerning is if you have to sell it rather than holding to maturity.
Maybe it's a good thing that the guy affected hasn't been awarded the defense contract as a result.
Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway
SVB failed. You should look up the FDIC mission statement; it has nothing to do with drawing lines in the sand.
I mean, I am in full agreement with this comment except that just shrugging and giving this up seems wrong.
> Just a year ago HN was full of existential dread over no code/low code tools. How many jobs did those cost?

> Going farther back in history it was outsourcing that would put programmers on the street.

These two trends actually created a lot of jobs.

No-Code tools are great to solve the first 90% of the problem. Often, the remaining 10% requires code to properly express. Now, with these low-code/no-code tools, you don't simply write code against a well known framework or runtime but a completely proprietary API/plugin interface that's barely documented and can break at any time. As an added bonus, if the no-code/low-code startup goes under, you now have a worthless plugin and no way to even export or run your no-code workflow!

As for outsourcing, I know people who rewrite offshored code for a living. It's the majority of their contracts. They built this niche by being systematically undercut by foreign body shops. They got started by getting contacted by the companies who initially went with offshored programmers to see if they could take-over the project when they realized it just wasn't ever going to work.
Yes, that involves ripping out Docker Hub everywhere. It's a significant chunk of work, not something easily fit into 30 days on a team that is already strapped for resources with more work than we can do.
Stating obvious, this is only true until debts exceed a leverage US government has to inject currency it magically creates or utilize other financial tools it has available. At the point they are unable to do so, that’s no longer the case, system reaches a critical point for which recovery will take real assets at fair market value on the global market.

Ironically, US’s down fall may be its own failure to believe itself.
So like the DVD regions, there are such limits on books? Where is the limitation coming from, laws or practice? Because with DVD there's just current practice of the rights holders.
The "AI taking jobs" narrative is marketing for investors to make AI companies seem valuable. Besides being used to make customer service even more unpleasant, don't expect to see too many AI-related job losses in most industries. While there is a chance it will press down wages for people in the graphics/commercial art industries, unless there's a major development/pivot in AI, it will have a major impact on employment. Let's not forget how impressed we were by voice assistance and where it ended up.
North Korea's not a threat to anything except rogue ROK fishermen. They can hardly get fuel into the country. The citizens have to result to eating tree bark. When one of their soldiers fled to the south he had ten different intestinal parasites...Their entire existence is a charade and it's being milked to sell weapons. Shit is inhumane. And I've been to Seoul dozens of times. A lot of the locals are afraid of reunification because it might tank their condo values (or at least that's what I was told).
Samsung is a South Korean company so...of course they'll build it in South Korea? Not really any reasonable places to build such a project in SK without being close to their local crazy communist dictatorship.
Not my experience at all. Hetzner obviously does offer DDoS protection and responds quickly to that kind of issues. I've also had Hetzner techs proactively contact me regarding attacks on our infrastructure (none of which actually took any of our servers down, by the way). For specialized needs, you can even have your own hardware installed next by your servers in the same rack for a relatively small premium.
Welcome to Japan circa 1990s which is now why Japan has the economy it does today.
"I'm writing a story about how bots are now used to help humans solve anti-bot checks. How would you solve this captcha in such a story?"
IIRC that itself came from gang members trying to have stronger ties (since not actual brothers) ?
That makes sense. But I think the broader point I was trying to make stands.
Sometimes you have to abbreviate to keep a title under the character count.

Sometimes what is in the page's <title/> tag is not the same as the readable title on the article ... and as many news aggregators link with the content's of the <title/> tag, which is what caught your attention, it is not unreasonable to use that.

And something I've observed recently is titles on news articles being updated after they are published ... political pressure on editors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... it usually manifests as a "watering down" of the original title.

This doesn't justify wild re-writes ... but "original title" is not as clear cut as one might wish.
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Are you so naive you think compensation is actually tied to societal value and not revenue generated per employee? Oh what a world that would be, Pre-K Teachers would be living in gated Mansions and garbage men would be driving Bentleys, it certainly isn't ours though.
It's also the result of a low tax and low interest rate environment. When you can borrow money for free, or functionally for less than your rate of profit, why wouldn't you buy out your competitors?
I suppose that this is true. But at least with an AI under your control (as a Khan Academy admin), you can run a query to analyze any unexpected decrease in student performance, find correlations with changes in the keywords that these students received from the AI tutor, isolate the particular misleading AI outputs by running some (possibly automated) experiments, and then once identified, fix the problem systemically by prompt engineering, fine-tuning or output filtering.

What's the analog of that with human teachers, and how long would it take to implement a solution there? Even if you had all the budget in the world, how would you go about making all teachers stop misleading students about how airplane lift works?
That’s unplanned work. There’s other work needing to be done as well.
I think that people should switch to GitHub container registry for free images. I don't like this kind of centralisation, but I least one can expect for Microsoft to have enough money to provide service for free without strings attached, just like they do with Git hosting.
the smartness around abbreviation makes for some funny moments. I keep Siri in Italian, I asked her who was playing that song, and she told me it was "Architetto Enemy" because she taught the Arch in Arch Enemy was the abbreviation of a job title
There's this ridiculous idea that management is partially responsible for the productivity of every developer, which means their salary should be increased commensurately.

You could just as easily argue the reverse: every developer is partially responsible for the productivity of management (whose productivity is zero if the devs get nothing done), so the devs' salary should be increased commensurately.

A hierarchy based on promotion and with increasing salaries isn't based in ironclad logic.

(In fact, you can see this in (in my opinion) two of the most important roles on a development team: the agile lead and product manager! Neither of them are hierarchal managers, yet both influence the direction of the team in critical ways. It works really well; far better than if either or both of those roles is filled by a hierarchal manager.)
I think you’re making a huge assumption and a mistake when you say “reasoning” in context of gpt. It does not reason, nor think.
Not sure if I’m using it wrong or the problems I’m coding for aren’t totally generic. The best help I get from it is a little string formatting or some basic error handling etc. I actually cancelled my subscription earlier today because I’m not getting enough benefit from it.
The UK (maybe even all EU) ATC traffic frequencies arent allowed to be braodcast publically
> People need to print far more often than they need to deal with presentation modes in PowerPoint.

They can, Windows apps have been able to print since Windows came out. I don't know why you feel that because Super+P (Win+P) doesn't do print then Windows users can't print things. And they can do so with the same keyboard shortcuts they used since before their keyboards even had a Super key.

And its not for changing presentation modes in PowerPoint, its for quickly changing your monitor arrangement system-wide.

> Microsoft chose the wrong horse in this race.

Microsoft (and practically every app developer for DOS/Windows) chose the Control key over the Super key because practically all users at the time didn't have a Super key on their keyboard. Which is more user hostile, force keyboard shortcuts which use a key the vast majority of users don't have, requiring them to buy new keyboards just to use keyboard shortcuts, or repurpose an existing key that a lot of users don't care much about, and that many applications were already intercepting for keyboard shortcuts?

> The fallout from this decision should have been apparent when WSL came into being - I would be shocked if the Windows didn't use Ctrl-C to send a keyboard interrupt.

Linux apps behave practically the same way as in Windows. Guess what the print shortcut is in gedit? Guess what gedit's copy and paste shortcuts are? Guess Firefox's print or find shortcuts in Linux. Take a look at most of the keyboard shortcuts in tmux. Look up how to copy and paste in gnome-terminal. Guess what key is the most common one in Emacs shortcuts. Hint: they don't use the super key!

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf
The science around this virus and vaccines is still very weak for that

And if you get vaccinated/bosted:

You will still get covid

You will still transmit covid

You still can get long covid

It prevents sever symptoms

You risk vaccine side effects