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If you (a superpower) deploy a bunch of GPS dependent equipment, and I (another nuclear power) am fighting you--and I'm less dependent on GPS--why would I not destroy GPS immediately, given that it's not very hard?

EDIT: Destroying GPS completely with nukes lobbed into space isn't the only way to mess it up either, it's susceptible to more terrestrial electronic countermeasures as well. It's generally not a good idea to depend on GPS alone, you need other backups as well. Pilots know this It's why they fly with a paper chart and a compass as well as GPS.

EDIT: Also, if my opening move is nuking space, I don't just deny you GPS, I also deny you all your other space-based advantages. I'd guess that would be one of the very first things any nuclear adversary of the US would do, because the damage is so asymmetric.
Look at wages, not jobs. Someone working three jobs who cannot make ends meet is not a success story, it is a symptom of dysfunction.

“You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."

To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005”
― George W. Bush

Businesses are trying to squeeze as hard as possible to maintain margins and profit levels previously seen (running "lean", outsourcing to India and South America, etc). Regardless, it is time to cut rates, no less than 50 bps next month. Preserve the labor market, to hell with the last of inflation unlikely to be squeezed out because of housing shortages and corporate consolidation.

Tech and Google are not the economy, broadly speaking. They are microcosms in a macro of ~157 million US workers (give or take).
I don't know what you mean by "gravity assist around the Sun":

1. Using the perihelion in an orbit "around the sun" as a gravity assist?: spacecraft usually care about their speed relative to the sun (characteristic energy, C3), and a (free) gravity assist around the sun won't do much. Dropping close to the sun to perform a powered bi-elliptic transfer could be a thing if you wanted to travel extreme distances (e.g. put a telescope at 500 AU to use the solar gravitational lens)

2. Using other bodies that are "around the sun" to get a gravity assist?: spacecraft do this all the time.

Also "get around the solar system faster":

1. Decrease the orbital period (lower orbits orbit faster): This is exactly what Messenger and Parker Solar Probe is doing flying by Venus/Mercury. They're 'bouncing' off of the planets, trading orbital energy and raising the planets' orbit around the sun while dropping their own.

2. Get to places faster: This is what outer planets probes (Voyagers 1/2, Cassini, New Horizons) do. If Jupiter wasn't there, these missions might not be possible.
Long COVID is a well documented health issue affecting many workers. Here is a recent publication in nature regarding how many hours are being lost in various economies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03173-6/tables/1
Revisions happen all the time, sometimes more and sometimes less. https://recruitonomics.com/revisions-to-the-job-numbers-may-... It’s a headline now for different reasons!
Nobody is entitled to any of this being easy. If you don't like working with badly-designed databases, why not simply work with people who know how databases work? In the meantime, I have bad news: nobody is going to do the hard work for you.
How can anyone look at the state of retail on Main Street USA since Covid-19 and think that there are lots of jobs?

Second observation - the central unemployment rate has always been a political measure.. it has always been "cooked" from the earliest days. The actual measures are complex and hard to ascertain with certainty, yet a stable single number appears out of the miasma somehow.
"While this is a substantial change in the demographic composition of the Class of 2028 compared with recent years, I want to be clear that it does not bring any aggregate change in the quantifiable characteristics we use to predict academic success at MIT, such as performance in high school or scores on standardized tests. By these measures, this cohort is no more or less prepared to excel in our curriculum than other recent classes that were more broadly diverse."

I doubt this and would like to see the numbers. To simplify a bit, racial preferences existed because relatively few blacks and Hispanics had the test scores needed to get into MIT. If MIT has stopped using racial preferences, the average test scores of admitted students should have risen a little.
Even if this is true, it need not be either-or. Saying that they are 'actually' autistic seems to imply that you do not believe that they are 'actually' trans.
Who is going to be left to write unique code if programming is seen as a terrible career choice?
I wonder if Pigafetta's account was the inspiration for the ending of Jules Verne's "Around The World In Eighty Days"?
Not to mention that software has indeed eaten the world, and now there's not much left on the menu. Especially with the recent AI hype (which is of course the end of the road, software will eat itself too).

So we will see how long these salaries are sustainable. (Oh, and of course there was a definite overproduction of developers, when everyone and their dog assumed that remote will be the undisputed default during the pandemic.)
Please elaborate. For example the Google layoffs clearly targeted their most senior and highest-paid people. One of my friends with > 15 years at Google was laid off and not only are they still paying him because of the terms of the layoff, but he's also basically retired and very much not giving AF, even though he's a "prime working age" White guy that some political commentators feign so much concern over.
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To verify, you have to think through the problem and arrive at a solution, like all of programming.
The US economy still added jobs during this period, just fewer than previously calculated.
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But then you can get caught for lying or at least being incompetent, instead of just playing it off as "statistics is hard :(" If the initial claims get more press than the revisions, then it pays off. I'm really curious how often the revised figures are worse, rather than better. I have a feeling the revised figures are always worse for whatever administration is in power.
I'm in a small town in rural America in a county that went 80% for Trump in 2020. I grew up in a conservative household steeped in conservative politics. I only stopped voting Republican in 2016.

I don't really care where you live—you don't understand mainstream conservatives, as proven by the fact that you cite Project 2025. Most mainstream conservatives wouldn't have a clue what that document is, and if they did they'd disagree with huge chunks of it. There's a reason Trump has tried to distance himself from it, and it's not to appeal to moderates—it's because it's fringe. Someone who actually listened to conservatives would know that.
I came of age to drive in the 90s, and the first two pickups I drove were a 1984 ford ranger and a 1990 Toyota Pickup. Those were both what I would call "value" pickup trucks. They weren't fancy, but they moved shit around well.

I know everyone says that the EPA killed small trucks in 2008[1] but Toyota replaced the "Toyota Pickup" with the less-practical Tundra in '95, and embiggened it in 2004, so I'm not convinced that companies would make them even were they legal.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI3nqrHEXM
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Surely revising the numbers downward close to election when people are paying most attention to them is exactly the opposite thing you would want to do to get re-elected? I'd argue the motivation for malfeasance only makes sense the opposite -- BLS does not want the administration reelected and thus is releasing worse numbers close to the election.
Run with bogus numbers, let the narrative set in, release revised numbers, and they hurt you for a few days but are quickly forgotten. Especially if they are released during the middle of your convention where every major outlet is absorbed with releasing puff pieces about how the VP pick is "America's dad".
Cycle Count: 434
Condition: Normal
Maximum Capacity: 88%

Long way to go
Thought experiment:

Why can't you start your own 500-person company, but hire 0 people and instead have LLMs make up the difference?
My old one started swelling around 900 cycles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/18/lithium...
A friend of mine just got a month off of work and it was trivial. All it took was telling a doctor they were tired and fatigued after COVID. Easily approved.
Ask HN: Have you noticed your songs being swapped out with inferior versions?
Without my having made any change to my playlists or library I'm noticing songs I've had in my library for years are being swapped out with re-recorded or remastered versions and they're are almost universally WORSE than the originals. The artists are older, their voices are no longer at their peak and the accompanying band sounds different and somehow weaker. It's like I'm getting the off-brand version of the original song.
It's hard not to anticipate a rate cut right around the corner. But it's also kind of refreshing to be in a place where there is a meaningful rate cut the Federal Reserve can make.
It's not just databases, it's everything: git, HTTP, even programming language features. The industry collectively decided you don't have to actually _know_ anything about anything anymore. And people wonder why software is so broken...
The explosion of online sports betting is taking a toll on how people invest
Part of it is everybody knows exactly what's happening, but one dude has one job, and that is to put the rudder exactly where it's supposed to be and hold it there. It isn't actually like there's something that holds the rudder in position -- it is manual, like driving a car, and the rudder will move if not held in place. Also, the order might not be rudder left 5, it might be steer course xxx. Then they use their training to hold the ship on that course.

Another thing not always obvious is the conning officer is in training to be the Officer of the Deck. He/She is learning the exact characteristics of the ship while qualifying for the next higher position.

Yes, you are absolutely correct that this can be fully automated -- and it is in merchant ships. Warships are a bit different, you want instant responses, you want people who can think and issue the right orders and people who can evaluate those orders. SN Timmy isn't stupid -- if conning officer is in the middle of an unrep (alongside another ship) and says right instead of left, SN Timmy will repeat back the order, and ten other people heard that order and there's room to stop the disaster before it happens.

You've absolutely got it where merchant shipping is concerned. Warships are different.
> Development is already slowing down and focusing on fixing bugs

Yes - because it's stable and powerful. So grateful they care about quality and are not becoming bloatware / chasing random features.

As for the plugin ecosystem, it was always inevitable that a significant portion of them wouldn't be well-maintained and wld become obsolete.

As an Obsidian early adopter and heavy daily user, I have only good things to say about the core software and the handful of high-quality community plugins that support every workflow and use case I desire.
Nope, this is as straight forward as it gets. There are only two ways not to know if you're failing or acing an interview:

1. You don't know what metrics you're being judged on.

2. You do know but you either can't assess your abilities in said metrics or you can't tell how well you've presented them.

The second one is up to the candidate, not much you can do about that, but if during an interview you have no idea what the interviewer is looking for, that's a terrible interview.
I challenge you to do it better then.

Also from the guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I'm of two minds about this. I'm not sure continuously adding features is really necessary or desirable in software like Obsidian. I want new, shiny things but perhaps those should come in the form of optional plug-ins I could buy if I want/need them.
> Economists generally believe the baseline, target rate should be around 2-3%.

The problem with that is (as we found out) that does not leave you much room to cut without going to near zero rates.
But what kinds of jobs? Bottom of the barrel jobs, or semi-skilled, skilled and professional? That maters a lot.
Pager was great! Thank you for building it.
Heh. I was just going to comment on how Djangos ORM is great because it cleanly and transparently solves the number one problem of the paper: the horrible joins.

SQLAlchemy however falls flat on its face in this regard.
When do they just start calling it an ocean or a sea?
Maybe in the US. There are a number of companies offering robotaxi rides to the public in China.
They are quite good at near content duplicate detection so I imagine it's within their capabilities. Whether they care about recency, maybe not as long as the user metrics say the page is useful. Maybe a fallacy about content recency.

You don't see many geocities style sites nowadays, even though there's many older sites with quality (and original) content. Maybe mobile friendliness plays into that though.
Yes, semaglutide (made by Novo Nordisk, brand names Ozempic, Wegovy) is a GLP-1 agonist; tirzepatide (made by Eli Lilly, brand names Mounjaro, Zepbound) is a dual GLP-1 and GIP agonist. Tirzepatide is newer and more effective, otherwise they're very similar - once a week injection, significantly reduces appetite, the use cases are diabetes and weight loss. Eli Lilly also have retatrutide in their pipeline which is a triple (GLP-1, GIP, glucagon) agonist, and which will likely be even better and will be available in a couple of years.
This observation should be really obvious. The people who think this is nefarious believe they are thinking critically. What they fail to realize is that they are skipping the part where they critically examine their own thought process.
Context? What is FreeValve?
Docs... And a technical writer that'll tend to them.

https://passo.uno/signs-need-tech-writer/
> To me, that's terrifying because it means that there could be truly world-ending, mass-extinction level consequences lurking in these systems.

"Could be" is the real key there in my opinion. We simply don't know.

And I don't mean that in any kind of climate change denial sense, those arguments fall into the same trap as anyone arguing that we definitely know how and why climate will change and why it is changing.

We don't have the data for it, and a system on the scale of the entire planet is simply too complex to be able to predict.

My big worry when it comes to climate isn't what mass extinction events could be coming, its the fear that potential creates. Fear as scale always leads to bad outcomes. Fear gives us authoritarians, bigotry, wars, and on and on.

We need to recognize that society is almost certainly drastically outstripping planetary boundaries. Once we accept that we need to move towards simple changes we can make like reducing consumption, and we need to focus heavily on embracing the uncertainty of life rather than fearing it.
> “Our industry is built on trust,” Sentonas said.

And CrowdStrike lost a lot of that trust all by itself. It's a bit amusing that they're trying to blame their woes on the fact that their competitors are pointing and laughing.
Yeah, I thought it was well known that the data is messy. They make educated guesses off the data they have monthly, and then continue to clean it up as they get more data.

Such a big revision shows the Fed may already be behind with cuts. Odds were already 100% for a cut in Sept, this new data continues to move the odds up from 25bps to 50bps.

As an aside, big government conspiracies always make me laugh because they often come from the same people who say government is incompetent.
I believe they are referring to drone strike on Moscow today: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-launches-drone-...
I like this other article on the topic, here's what it says about splitting rudder from speed:

> Sanchez quickly noticed that his new helmsman seemed flustered by the difficulty of having to control the ship’s steering and speed at the same time. He decided to split the helm, giving Bordeaux control over the ship’s wheel. While Bordeaux remained at his station, Dontrius Mitchell, a second sailor on the bridge, was assigned to take control of the speed of the McCain at a neighboring station known as the lee helm.

> Sanchez’s order was unexpected — he had not discussed the possibility in meetings with the crew before entering the straits. Nor had the crew practiced the maneuver much. Bordeaux could only remember doing it once or twice before.

> https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-i...
Well a simple (cynical) take is that the current administration is no longer up for re-election, they’ve been replaced by a new candidate and so now it’s okay to blame the current administration.
Seb! Look at who reached the top of Hacker News today! haha!
> Will insurance costs come down if the US becomes healthier?

Health insurance prices in US are not related to demand, but to how much the market can bear. It may even go the other way, if drug companies decide to increase prices to make up for reduced demand ("we still need to recoup our drug R&D costs, so fewer sales means higher prices").
I don't know it's origination, but I suspect the 6+6 was probably a result of having the ability to split operations of a 24 hour day into even crews (not much different than the civilian 8 hour allowing factory work to be split into 3 shifts). How they rationalize it after the fact is a different story.
> The revisions, which are preliminary, are part of an annual process in which monthly estimates, based on surveys, are reconciled with more accurate but less timely records from state unemployment offices. The new figures, once finalized, will be incorporated into official government employment statistics early next year.

Or you could just assume everything is a stupid conspiracy
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ACA compliant health insurance premiums are only for healthcare for under 65 year olds. I’m sure there is quite a bit of spend in there for diabetes/CVD/and other obesity related health issues, but the bigger impact would be on Medicare spending (65+ year olds), which is a federal expense.

Edit: note that the weight loss drugs may not decrease healthcare spend. For example, if it leads to more people living longer and utilizing other more expensive healthcare such as dialysis or cancer treatments, then the net effect will be an increase. For example, 25% of all Medicare spend is just for dialysis or kidney related issues.

https://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/fy2023_kidney_dis...
It's old so it's bad?
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While we're getting used to rockets "just working", it's still rocket science. Things go wrong and you'd rather have the hundred tons of fuel and aluminium (or steel since Starship) going supersonic into the ocean. Unless you're Chinese or Russian, they don't mind.
OK, I am looking at it right now. Prime-age workforce participation rate stands at 84%, a 20-year high and nearly the all-time high. What did you want it to be? Have you actually ever seen this stat?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1sW5m
Ack, true VC-backed startup optimize for TAM and therefore go more generalized. At PeerDB, we were still focused on just Postgres and were expanding from CDC to other ETL/data-movement use cases for Postgres, such as Active<>Active, Database migrations etc. With the pace at which Postgres is growing, I believe that ETL for Postgres can meet that billion-dollar TAM. Anyway, we were recently acquired by ClickHouse and are now doubling down on providing a world-class CDC experience from Postgres to ClickHouse. :)
I’m observing this for many years and it feels like there are two types of people. Those who perceive lists as a whole and those who list.shuffle().pop(). Try asking your colleagues/etc three semi-related questions in one message and you’ll get only a partial answer in a significant number of cases. When confronted (constructively, much later) they usually get evasive and can’t explain. I could theorize it’s a learned behavior to avoid threaded pedantry or something, but my messages aren’t even long and other people share my frustration too (we communicate 10x faster and clearer between us). I’d write it off to attention capacity issues, but these people often aren’t even busy at all.
For me the join problem doesn't exist anymore, because I use the excellent Django ORM for work and hobby projects.

This is a SELECT with 5 joins:

Foo.objects.filter(a__b__c__d__e=3)

Types are respected, valid relations exist and invalid relations do not. Clean.
How does this compare to auth0's OpenFGA (based on Zanzibar)?

https://openfga.dev
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install live-wallpapers using this app. I hope I'm not the only one..
They don't call it diabesity for nothing...

>The accumulation of an excessive amount of body fat can cause type 2 diabetes, and the risk of type 2 diabetes increases linearly with an increase in body mass index. Accordingly, the worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity has led to a concomitant increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes.

I'd love to see the math on how much the governement would save just handing this out for free to people vs. paying the lifetime of medical costs and burdens to the medicare system, etc. Seems this is $1000 a month without insurance now, I wonder how low it needs to go to be cost effective? It's really expensive to be obese, have diabetes, cancer, heart disease...
"As a baseline, in recent years around 25% of our enrolling undergraduate students have identified as Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and Pacific Islander. For the incoming Class of 2028, that number is about 16%."

MIT admits 1275 students. So, 9% difference is about 115.
There's this old story about an old farmer and his horse. You see, this old farmer had a horse that he loved dearly; took great care of it and pampered it.
But he was getting old, and wanted to retire to the City, where he could not keep a horse.

So what do I do with this horse, he wondered? He asked a wise friend, who told him: sell the horse for the highest amount of money that you can.

What?!? replied the farmer; I love my horse dearly and would never think of selling it like some goods.

The wise man replied: if you give it away, whoever gets it will abuse the shit out of it, and treat it like a workhorse, whip it every day, etc. because they got it for free, and won't value it. On the other hand, if you sell it for a huge sum, the buyer will pamper it and take good care of it, because it's an investment to them.
Fact-based rebuttals are not useful. People aren't seeking truth and don't care whether what they write is true or not. That's not the point.
The other actually happened to me recently, my wife answered one of those automated bank texts checking on a transaction with no, which cancelled the card (and marked it stolen), and I tried to use it before she told me about it.

But yeah those are the only two I can think of and yours is the case 99.99% of the time.
Step 1: vote for people who will make it mandatory that this type of "service" is opt in
I assume that they are looking at in laymans terms, and saying that if an electromagnetic motor is 80% efficient, an electrostatic motor could increase efficiency of the remaining 20% by 30% to 100% (86-100% total efficiency).
Not that it makes any sense, but I think that was their intention.