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mhh__··on San Francisco Onion Futures Company
> Treasury futures are far too big that no single person could ever corner it.

Well, you'd think, but squeezing the CTD bond was completely accepted practice well into the noughties until PIMCO flew too close to the sun and faced regulatory wrath.

mhh__··on San Francisco Onion Futures Company
Is the price of onions really that seasonal? Shall have to check
mhh__··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
frankly i think most of these "tools" are the result of people being addicted to watching the agent shit code out and as such quietly abolishing review.
mhh__··on Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
> brainwash

You have been brainwashed. Or was it Russia as well?

Everything started much longer ago. You can't go along in life just assuming everything will converge to some whig paradise.

mhh__··on QueryBrew: System-Agnostic SQL-to-SQL Query Optimization [pdf]
Quite a cool concept. Seems that things are finally on the edge of moving again in database land (e.g. postgres is great but it's quite old)
mhh__··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
I think it seems sensible to _assume_ anything the LLM reads (if you aren't inferencing it) has a chance of ending up in some database somewhere. Regardless of whether you trust the other party its a sensible thing to plan around.
mhh__··on iPhone Duo
The folding phones are genuinely interesting although all the cool demos I've seen people do irl have been quite reliant on android being quite liberal as to what software you can run
mhh__··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
small behaviours are fine, yes, what i was referring to was people making "foobar api skill" with just a bad compression of the foobar docs in a .md
mhh__··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
They're literally just documentation with a hat on. I don't mind a skill saying where the docs are but an overreliance on skills is simply proof someone isn't able to reason about the gestalt
mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
They already do, you need permission from local government to build almost anything in Britain.
mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
The renters rights act is already seemingly leading to distortion in the market - it's not really the price controls as per se but the inability to do things when the tenant is in place.
mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
Why are these cases only happening now? The article is clearly talking about the wider principle anywwy
mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
Rent controls are great if you already have a place
mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0817jd9dqo

The judge decided that, despite prices suggesting otherwise, the two types of labour here were the same.

mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
> British state to ignore any possible volume of petitions

Do you live under a rock?

mhh__··on How AI is breaking the British state
> Is the Economist seriously suggesting we should roll back workers and renters rights because AI makes it too easy for the average Joe to actually get those rights?

Yes, both of these pieces of legislation are extremely badly designed feel-good nonsense, which I personally hope will be shown to be so by an avalanche of claims automated by AI.

The employment rights legislation we have at the moment literally abolishes the market for labour - the final decision as to if your salary is "fair" is made by a judge.

mhh__··on Muse Spark 1.3
I would expect, although have no evidence, that any obviously high entropy crap like base64 and so on probably would get removed whether it's a secret or not.
mhh__··on British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
this is very "data centres using all the water" coded. the guardian used to be above running this kind of nonsense, now every single issue has pages of prickly "ooh, not a good look!" stilletto-ing.

what does "no known interest" mean?

mhh__··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
I don't think they do. The revealed preference is online safety this online safety that - although in fairness some of this is out of a desire to avoid deeper issues.
mhh__··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
How much do you trust the medical advice of a doctor in 2026?
mhh__··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
The idea that humans were basically retarded prior to about 1901 is a little hubristic
mhh__··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
It works
mhh__··on Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
do go on... tease
mhh__··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Seems to work pretty well. The alternative is either no food or no prices.
mhh__··on RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
The ISA not mattering I think isn't as true when you account cost e.g. in a huge OOO cpu all the fusions and so on are afaict fairly doable but if you are on a cheaper / worse CPU all those extra bytes in the instruction stream do add up.
mhh__··on Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant
I really believe people who publish huge slop PRs (short of being fired) should have their tokens taxed on the basis that it's an unpriced cost on the colleagues and the firm
mhh__··on Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike
Yes but it doesn't actually exist yet so anyone saying "just use batteries" is basically either a bit naive or a journalist.
mhh__··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Really really hilarious. I commend and ask all centrist parties to continue sending failed comedians as their provincial vassals
mhh__··on Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike
When these batteries actually exist then sure...
mhh__··on Major oil slick washes up on Iran coast after Hormuz ship strike
The prices do change because (many, at least) renewable projects are subsidised via CFD schemes and so on and atop of that are selling into a spot market that may (it varies) pay them more than what they offer into the market.

It's wonderful technology, the sun is god and so on, but we can't run everything on bursty renewables.

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