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> > Companies with large amounts of cash keep very little of that in bank accounts, it's in money market funds and other cash-equivalents.

Companies above a certain treshold (and all citizens for that matter) should be able to bank with the Fed, and have peace of mind that the money they deposit there is not being put to work in any way, shape or form.

What developed over the last week is a victory for those who long for CBDCs .
Why on earth would other nations be ahead of the US just because you personally can't use ChatGPT to build killer nanobots ? I don't get it?

They US government or military would just hire the best people to work behind closed doors?
How does that even happen? Don't they have salaries to pay or marketing campaigns to run, pay rent? How can he sit on a pile of money and still grow the business?
I’m sorta the opposite, I still use my out-of-town credit union. Best investment for my life: been getting $5 every year on my initial $5 share (got in as a child) for a few decades now.

Have a line of credit with a big bank that I don’t really use, but means there’s a bank everywhere I can walk into if I needed a large amount of cash or a bank draft, and I pay it off the same day.
> sargassum contains arsenic, which, if used in fertilizer, could potentially make its way up the food chain

> doctors on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique reported thousands of cases of “acute” exposure to hydrogen sulfide
It becomes effectively "random" (arbitrary) when higher order effects take over. We saw this with ActiveX controls. It becomes a game of chicken that eventually leads to an imbalance where website operators always win.
Virtualenvwrapper used to do this. It worked pretty flawlessly if I recall.

Not doing much Python now so I don't know what the current situation is.
You should be escrowing any Docker images you depend on, I'd have thought.
Why Apple and the Carriers Want Your Old iPhone
How is that different from Ruby or Elixir?
DOE Wants a Hub and Spoke System of HPC Systems
Facebook-parent Meta plans to lay off another 10k employees
If I was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, I would've picked "just desserts" as my final answer without hesitation. TIL
One great move I've discovered recently is to simply type annotate the python thoroughly and use mypyc to build a c package
I was responding to the parent comment which suggested that Python "should look for a .venv directory in the current working directory".

Doing this "only when you actually run python" doesn't help. It would make it unsafe to run for example (looking at my /usr/bin) "ufw", "hg", "smbinfo", "samba-tool" or "routel" without first making sure that the current working directory (i.e. the one that you have currently set with "cd" in your shell) is not writable by any other user and doesn't contain anything unexpected.
I.e., it's all made-up resume-driven development funded by woo-huffers with too much money that needs to be thrown somewhere.

There are enterprise B2B niches where a single small shop can service hundreds of clients, without needing uber-scale (see: you will never exceed 1mil concurrent users).

You can run everything on a single bare metal server if your dev team knows how to not waste resources (see: no ORM/toy databases, sane/strong-typed and compiled back-end language, use a mature package environment and tools, etc.).

Give a decade, and you can then cash-out when a bigger enterprise B2B shop buys you out. It's not an adderall-fueled manic-depressive roller coaster of a time; but it's honest work.

Best part: the only problem I've ever hit with scaling was people being stupid with their databases.
Yes, a future stream of cash flows will be worth less now if interest rates rise, because the time value of money has changed. But not every asset (let alone every price) represents a future stream of cash flows.

Monetary policy could be performed by a couple of NAND gates if it were genuinely the case that any interest rates rise would necessarily lower the price of everything.
He seems to say that the fractional reserve system is the only way society can work. But is that actually true? Quite a few banks (e.g. Brex) now allow you to keep your money in a money market fund, which invests in short term US treasuries that are protected by the full faith and credit of the US government. Importantly, in this setup, you own all the assets and the bank just acts as a custodian. And you tend to get better interest. That just seems so much saner than the bank being allowed to invest your money in risky and illiquid assets, and then we just hope that those investments don't lose too much money, or that a lot of people don't want to withdraw their money all at once.
Elsäkerhetsverket imposes sales ban on Easee wall boxes in Sweden
Wait, "X-ing" means "crossing"? Now those nonsensical "XING PED" road writings make more sense: I thought it was weird to have some random Chinese or Vietnamese phrase written in Latin on a road in the US of all places... but it's just short for "crossing pedestrians", right?

Although on the other hand, now that I think of it, what's wrong with the zebra crossing?
This vehicle weighs nearly 4.8 tons, has a 212 kWh battery, gets 330 miles, and takes 600 Wh to go one mile.

The Ioniq 5 weights 2.1 tons, has a 56 kWh battery, gets 220 miles, and takes 264 Wh to go one mile.
>It seems like Asian cultures are much less likely to treat housing as an investment

Isn’t China one of the most prominent examples of using real estate as investment? There’s even whole ghost towns of apartment buildings that are constructed for this purpose.
Are they even aware of where their data is? Opening a web browser might be a big hint for them, but how about editing something in Microsoft Office? Does the data there ever touch the cloud? Do Chromebooks make it clear enough where the data is?

I imagine lawyers knowing about where document data is stored as a bit like software developers being sufficiently aware of licensing. There's plenty who are paying attention, but there's also plenty who are simply unaware.
The link above is to a different section of the page, giving the mistaken impression that this is unfettered access to the local file system, which it isn't. Quoting the appropriate section further down the page:

The origin private file system (OPFS) is a storage endpoint private to the origin of the page, providing optional access to a special kind of file that is highly optimized for performance, for example, by offering in-place and exclusive write access to a file's content.

Storing data in the OPFS is similar to storing data in any other browser-provided storage mechanism that's private to the origin of the page (for example the IndexedDB API). This means that files in the OPFS differ from files selected using a picker in the following ways:

- Permission prompts are not required to access files in the OPFS.

- Clearing data for the site deletes the OPFS.

- The OPFS is subject to browser quota restrictions.
> it would be trivial to stop and reverse inflation (i.e. deflate) with any increase in interest rates (?).

As trivial as it sounds it is exactly the premise with which fed operates. Their mandate is price stability (~2% inflation) with low unemployment rate. And interest rate is a key lever they have. So yes they are going to keep rising rates until they see inflation come down to around 2%. They harp on this at every FOMC meeting[1]. They believe raising rates to around 4.75% will bring down inflation to 2%.

Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Sole humans can still trace every gate on a modern chip, or even the gate's components, and how exactly they work, to some explicit specification. It's completely deterministic and a human can fully understand all details. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to debug it, or manufacture it in the first place.

OTOH we can't track or understand the results of AI. It spits out results but we can't understand how exactly it deduced those results, usually. That's the unfortunate current state actually.

So the analogy doesn't hold.

But this seems not even relevant. Because no level of technological progress will invalidated the old "garbage in, garbage out" principle. If you make a loop out of it, there's more or less only one thing to expect…

An AI would need to know how to teach itself "reasonable things". But to be able to do so it would need human level intelligence.

Growing AI is likely like growing children: Children can't teach themself in the beginning. You need to teach them some basics before they (maybe) learn how to teach themself. AI is not even near to "know" any basics. So it will need a lot of well thought out human input before it can proceed to teach itself.
Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

Capitalism is failing and its on its way out. It doesn't work and only enrichs a hand full of people. No matter how many rules you put in place to regulate it.
I do not think we can agree on that. I learned to do math in Roman numerals in grade school which is stupid simple and really beats it all into your head, for addition just pile all the numerals together brute force and reduce.

XIV+XXIII = XXXVIIII = XXXIX

To multiply just break up one numeral and use the other to say how many .
of each you have then add them.

VI*VI = VI*V+VI*I = VVVVVVIIIIII = XXXVI

That is to say VI*VI is six Vs + six Is.

Subtraction is a little tricker since you need to convert numerals first but it is very simple to do in your head once you get it down and is easier to do in your head than on paper, same with multiplication and addition.

XXII-IV = XVIIIIIII-IIII = XVIII

Division is not much fun with Roman Numerals unless you have an abacus which work quite naturally with the system and when doing addition, subtraction and multiplication in your head you quickly realize you subdivide and reduce the numerals in your head as you go in the exact same way and abacus works.

I bet you love both Roman's and their numeral system now. Next up, Vernier and his wonderfully accurate scale that lets your eyes see a difference of microns or even thousandths of an inch.
> they might not detect an eminent failure

*imminent.
The original AI had its goal to understand and improve (make more systematic and predictable) the process of human thought / discovery.

Modern day AI tries to imitate humans w/o comprehension.

In some extreme cases AI researchers believe that imitation is all there is... but looking at how modern AI works, it definitely lacks the same ability we ascribe to human comprehension. So, even if there's only imitation, AI still isn't as good at it as humans are.
What if your car is not in the best condition and will possibly fail the test?
If your business is depending on these open source projects to exist, shouldn't you be paying them so they can then pay for Docker?
I took their fib example and ran it in mypyc too out of curiosity. I got speedups of ~10x rather than codon's 100x. Still pretty good, I like mypyc.
> The claim that, "when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall" seems, uhm, somewhat off.

Of course there are instruments like interest rate derivatives where you can make money when rates rise, but he's talking about ordinary assets like bonds and equities.

The reason all prices do indeed embed an interest rate is that all future cash flows need to be valued somehow, and those values go down as interest rates go up. So your equity that (somehow) is guaranteed to pay 10c next year is worth less if interest rates go up, just like if it were a bond.
That's a really expensive jump from free to $150/mo
GPT won’t replace your job, but with time it’ll lead to tools that increases developer productivity significantly. So when each developer is more productive you don’t need as many of them. And as we see with history increase with productivity is not tied with an increase in pay.
http://archive.today/2023.03.15-050147/https://www.wsj.com/a...
There is allot of financial illiteracy regarding the banking system. For example, heard an NPR reporter this morning talking about a bank not having money to loan because of depositors fleeing. These are vestiges of the Gold standard. There is no loanable funds market. That is, the funding for loans does not come from deposits. It comes from thin air. Banks create loans which then become deposits. So called "Bank Money" . In order to create loans and stay in the lending business, banks are required to have certain levels of capital.

* The Fed has control of quantity of money . No. The Fed controls the direction of interest rates via interest rate policy or simply put the Fed determines the price of money.
They also disallow aftermarket parts. Aftermarket parts keep parts cost-effective for other vehicles. Blocking them dramatically increases cost while failing to ensure quality.
a new kind of science; they don't tell you anything, you just have to believe that it works - somehow.
Rootless networking is still a mess with no IP source propagation and much slower performance.
So for most users docker with userNS-remapping is actually a better choice.

Also systemd integration isn't a plus for me, I don't want to deal with SystemD just to have a container start on startup.
I'd argue it's been dropped from the places where the other system has clear advantages.
Emeritus a University of Chicago finance professor John Cochrane has been screaming for years that the whole design of more and more regulations combined with all sorts of implicit ex-post creditor insurance is structurally unstable and all but guarantees bank runs and collapses every decade or so. That the only thing that can work is much higher capital (not reserve!) requirements, i.e., a lot higher shareholder equity vs debt on the balance sheet. He mentions that existing bank regulations already number hundreds of thousands of pages, yet the regulators apparently got blindsided by duration/convexity risk which is CFA / MBA finance textbook material. Just like generals, regulators are always fighting the previous crisis.
Dang, how does this title not qualify as flame bait?
The economics of hosting an image registry are tough. Just mirroring the npm registry can cost $100s per month in storage for tiny little tarballs.

Hosting GB images in an append-only registry, some of which get published weekly or even daily, will burn an incredible amount of money in storage costs. And that’s before talking about ingress and egress.

There will also be a tonne of engineering costs for managing it, especially if you want to explore compression to push down storage costs. A lot of image layers share a lot of files, if you can store the decompressed tarballs in a chunk store with clever chunking you can probably reduce storage costs by an order of magnitude.

But, at the end of the day, expect costs for this to shoot into the 6-7 digit USD range per month in storage and bandwidth as a lower bound for your community hosted image registry.
It's not just companies using the big 3 as simple VPS providers. A lot of applications are also hugely over-engineered for their actual needs, and unnecessarily ties themselves to the proprietary cloud APIs just for the sake of IAC or just for the sake of the simplicity of having the whole infrastructure at one provider. Or for the sake of using Kubernetes, for which I guess 1/10 of use cases are actually appropriate. I guess part of the problem is that using Big Cloud Provider X is the default in a lot of companies, and alternatives are not even being considered when starting out a new project.
I'm afraid that even the most obedient human can't readily dump the contents of their connectome in a readable format. Same likely applies to LLMs: they study human-generated texts, not their own source code, let alone their tensors' weights.
There's no APIs for managing notifications on either iOS or Android, you'd require a jailbreak/root to do this.

Discord does let you customize notifications pretty well.
> People are more predictable and can be accountable for their actions...

I would disagree. I think that at this stage, ChatGPT is very predictable, and we have excellent statistics on how likely it is to respond correctly to a particular type of question. I would have much less predictability about any particular human teacher, who might have an especially good or bad day.

Also, ChatGPT can be much more accountable, in the sense that when issues pop up, a filter can be implemented to prevent these particular issues for arising again. I don't see how humans are better in this regard - even if they are "accountable" in some vague sense, it can take many months to get rid of an underperforming teacher, and can take decades to change something across the system.
I think the AUM comparison is something everyone needs to be careful of. Vanguard has a lot of AUM from me (from my point of view anyway), but it’s (hopefully) 100% passed through to security issuing organizations. They only get to rake a fraction of a percent from me for their operations.

Wayyyyy different than a bank with $billions in checking and savings accounts where they can do ??? with it.
Wanted to write a top level comment to suggest Sunshine/Moonlight too. I've been using it to stream 3.5k@60fps from my midrange gaming PC (Ryzen 5, 3060 Ti) to my Macbook Pro.

I set up a virtual display with my Macbook's native resolution (minus some height because I don't want to overlap with the notch), and it's just perfect, with no perceptible input lag. Sometimes I need to restart Sunshine, but I could just move the PC to the basement and operate it completely remotely (Moonlight supports WoL).

If your host is on latest Win 10/11, you can even get by without a monitor or HDMI dummy: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonlightStreaming/comments/rzpcpc/...
Genuine question is that more to do with the regional bank knowing the market or more to do with JPMorgan Chase having more stringent regulatory requirements and controls? Maybe a little of both?
Also, "desert" as the present tense of "deserted". As in "All my friends have deserted me." Or, "The Sgt. Major punished the deserter."
Native English speaker here too.

TWL (Today We Learned)

I always assumed it was one one of those odd manglings that gained traction, like irregardless.
As soon as we switch to an economic system that doesn't put profit above all else.
Perhaps that is due to them mistakenly thinking that there is a delay between pressing the button and the door closing (rather then a minimum time the door is open) so they might as well press it early.
This is like pure corporate propaganda, "of course execs do much harder work than devs so they of course they deserve 10x the paycheck!"

It's completely silly, if the average employee at google is generating $1.5M in revenue per year but only gets paid $250k then there is a massive delta in value missing in that equation that is going to Sergey Brin or Sundar Pichai instead or some other Stanford MBA in the massive web of "totally useful and productive" middle management at Google. Surplus value 101.
So that's about 2.3x more money in 20 years than the U.S. plans to spend on the plant in Ohio that will supposedly create 50,000 jobs.

The minimum wage is $10.10 in Ohio vs. $7.28 with the latest increase in South Korea for 2023. That's almost 1.5x more wages for workers in Ohio.

And I wouldn't say we had the edge on chip manufacturing vs. S. Korea, so given the numbers above, how can the U.S. compete? What chips are we making vs. what is intended to be made in S. Korea?
Not sure why you wrote this since nearly all prices are falling right now, directly due to interest rate hikes.

How could you conclude that an interest rate hikes wouldn't reduce all asset prices?
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> This seems easier to get right than if( x = *p++ )

For people with native or fluent English, for sure. For the others, probably not.
So, the solution to bad assets is more debt? How are the banks going to cover that debt when their customers are fleeing and interest rates are rising? I fear this is only kicking the can down the road by a few months (or years) before even worse fallout occurs when the failed banks have to make substantially larger interest payments.

Edit: a better term might be Zombie Banks.
Completely agree on the complexity criticism, but this interactive tutorial (that literally embeds a full nix interpreter in the browser) went a looooooong way towards making Nix files not just look like arcane incantations to me, and doesn't take very long to do:

https://nixcloud.io/tour/

if at some point you realize "oh... this is just JSON with a different syntax, some shorthands, and anonymous or library functions," you're on the right path
You seem to have completely misunderstood TFA : Unicode makes it easier for a screen reader ??
I couldn't agree with you more. And I can add even more to the list. Stripe, Sendgrid.

I simply just stop using their service if there's no customer support. If I'm paying and there's no customer support, then it's only a matter of time before my money is used to make my experience worse.

Seems like an abusive relationship with a narcissist more than a technology partner.
For what it’s worth, I can’t get any adapters to work on my ThinkPad and haven’t been able to resolve it for a long time. My only HDMI port is broken.

I’m going to try this with one of the Pi’s I have laying around. I’m excited to see if I can get it to work!
So my understanding is Silicon Valley programmers have a liberal to progressive culture, but the VCs that fund tech companies have the reputation of being libertarian. Thiel at least a is a noted libertarian.

The stereotype is that rich investors have these 'libertarian' ideals where they believe that, freed from burdensome taxes and living in a world where bailouts don't happen, they will invest wisely and create a tech utopia thanks to 'survival of the fittest' principles. However, people feel these rich investor types behave more along the lines of 'libertarian principles when we make money, socialism when we are losing money'.

I don't know the extent to that which is true but obviously when rich people have their money threatened it makes sense that they would want a bailout even according to their own 'principles' they shouldn't get it.
A belief isn't False because you don't share it. Neither is it True, because you do.

Make your decisions for yourself, and retain humility about making decisions for others. Community masking might help COVID, or not; but telling people who cannot breathe through a mask that they must have one to participate in society certainly doesn't help anyone. Denying that there can be debate on the question is similarly unhelpful.

Isn't "Diversity of views" a good thing? Weren't we supposed to benefit from a variety of opinions and beliefs and even intellectual capacities being applied to social problems? How has it come to "there's one and only one solution to every problem, it's immediately evident tot the rulers, and anyone who doesn't come along is an Enemy of Society"
> can make my own coffee, I don’t need on-site baristas doing it for me.

Hey, some FAANG offices require you to make your own coffee. I had to make my own espresso on one of the $5k+ espresso machines in the microkitchen. Of course, I'd do that after company-provided breakfast in the cafeteria. My cash compensation alone was what I imagined my total equity would be worth if my first startup "hit it big" and IPO'd.

I agree that it's totally unnecessary, and would cringe when people would complain about the quality of the coffee purchased for the machines, that office X got free laundry service and we didn't, or that it was lame that there was no free dinner on Friday nights.

When I started my career, some Hot Pockets in the freezer seemed like an extravagance. I want a decent pay, a clean work environment, IT infrastructure that isn't a burden, and to feel like I'm making a real impact. Beyond that, it's all gravy.
Yes cgroupsv2 was a big problem for docker on EL8 for a long time.