HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

mythical_39

no profile record

Submissions

Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

reuters.com
776 points·by mythical_39·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·806 comments

comments

mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
one possible argument against the productivity is if the mirgration introduced too many bugs to be useable.

In which case the code produced has zero value, resulting in a wasted month.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Put it into a storage locker. Pre-pay 5 years of fees on the locker. Wait 5 years.

This is what we call a 'self-sovling-problem'
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
huh. I'm a professional data scientist, and my masters was in signal processing. In one class the final exam required us to transcribe fourier transforms of speech into the actual words. In another the final exam required us to perform 2d FFTs in our head.

Please be careful about generalizing.

I agree that many 'data science' programs don't teach these skills, and you certainly have evidence behind your assertation.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
There is also a dimension which is about caring for your fellow man and caring for the land which the food you grow depends on.

Which society seems to have lost because we've focused too much on the one metric, "money", over all others.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
wait, did you see the part where the person you are replying to said that writing the code themself was essential to correctly solving the problem?

Because they didn't understand the architecture or the domain models otherwise.

Perhaps in your case you do have strong hands-on experience with the domain models, which may indeed have shifted you job requirements to supervising those implementing the actual models.

I do wonder, however, how much of your actual job also entails ensuring that whoever is doing the implementation is also growing in their understanding of the domain models. Are you developing the people under you? Is that part of your job?

If it is an AI that is reporting to you, how are you doing this? Are you writing "skills" files? How are you verifying that it is following them? How are you verifying that it understands them the same way that you intended it to?

Funny story-- I asked a LLM to review a call transcript to see if the caller was an existing customer. The LLM said True. It was only when I looked closer that I saw that the LLM mean "True-- the caller is an existing customer of one of our competitors". Not at all what I meant.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> I don't think an American civil war in the next 5 years is at all likely.

Minnesota might like a word with you
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Your first paragraph is close to correct, but have you thought of the difference between supportive vs coercive power?

If the Russian army is the force that enables Russian foreign policy, they why do some people in Ukraine think that they don't want to do things the Russian way?

Likewise, I wonder how helpful the US military will be at forcing our former allies to do things they don't want to do?
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
many of whom are jacked on testosterone supplements.

The aggressiveness might be related to that.

https://www.them.us/story/testosterone-parties-silicon-valle... https://stand.ie/stand-newsroom/political-power-testosterone
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
not even P/E ratios resetting back to historic norms? Or have we finally entered a new age where highly elevated P/E are a permanent feature of markets?
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> ICE has widespread support for what they are actually doing

Minnesota would like to have a chat with you.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
or couldn't use a LLM to help port your CUDA code to "new framework", i.e. software is no longer a lock-in....

assuming LLM coding agents are good, but if they aren't any good, then what is the value of the CUDA code?
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
"The decision is rooted in the poor U.S. government finances, which make us think that we need to make an effort to find an alternative way of conducting our liquidity and risk management," Investment Director Anders Schelde said in a written statement.

"Thus, it is not directly related to the ongoing rift between the U.S. and Europe, but of course that didn't make it more difficult to take the decision," he added.

quotes from the Reuters article
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
So if the Treasury is the only entity buying treasuries, what is the USD worth at your local grocery store?

how about at the companies that supply that grocery store?

and so on up the chain.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I saw an interesting article about plumbing problems on one of our aircraft carriers.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-...
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Claude, I noticed you rm -rf my entire system. Your .instructions.md file specifically prohibits this. Please re-read your .instructions.md file and comply with it for all further work
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I can sympathize with this, but

1) earbuds are not the only headphone style

2) listening to speakers is not a necessity.

So fine if you don't want to use earbuds, but not necessarily fine to annoy those around you with music/talk shows or whatever sounds you want to introduce to the enviroment.
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> How people spend their time outdoors is not up to you or I to decide. If they want to listen to music from a bluetooth speaker, that's what they want to do.

What if it interferes with my desire to NOT listen to their music on their bluetooth speaker?
mythical_39
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Wonder if we replace the demons with the various things which today try to capture our attention?

Or the massive chemical swings we self-induce, and how those might tear at (or help??) our soul?