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There are large organizations at Meta focused on basic research & design (FAIR, Open Compute, PyTorch, etc) and giving back to the community. Not everyone is maximizing revenue.

> “Our test facilities can’t reach the combination of heat flux, pressure, shear stresses, etc., that an actual reentering spacecraft does. We’re always having to wait for the flig…

OP you may enjoy Rabkin’s “alien chess” - https://www.markrabkin.com/the-resilience-of-alien-chess/

Since you’re in security, you may enjoy this write up of decrypting the app database with glucose readings and third party API keys - https://www.frdmtoplay.com/freeing-glucose-dat…

Check out the plot in the header, and find the particulate size you care the most about: https://www.frdmtoplay.com/nagivating-air-purification/

Yes, hotels were injecting ads on their free WiFi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608

I haven’t had any problems with OpenNIC: https://opennic.org/ > OpenNIC (also referred to as the OpenNIC Project) is a user owned and controlled top-level Network Information Cente…

> "Which city are you from?" Many big tech companies have inclusion training calling this question out as inappropriate on the grounds it provides an opportunity to introduce bias.…

> Pop tarts and soda provide zero nutritional value But they have a very high calorie:dollar ratio.

The signage claims the _image_, i.e. the pixels, is deleted but makes no claims about embeddings, biometric measurements, etc that are generated from the image.

You may also be interested in the Work Number product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

When whole orgs/product lines are cut, you’re laid off regardless of performance.

If you like this model you may also enjoy “paint drip people” https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people

> ziplock bag filled with water You’ll often see this done with brine instead of water so if the bag develops a leak the salt concentration of the ferment stays the same.

> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google …

Referrals are vetted by global teams who are just checking boxes - it's very common to have to reach out to the recruiter for the role directly to resurrect a rejected referral.

Also useful, cloud forecasts with the eclipse path: https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=srefens&p=clou...