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At some point, I'd think labs would start "teaching the test" and start adding bike riding pelican's in the fine-tuning.

In the US, every time I file my taxes, I wonder what % of people don't meet the cognitive barrier to successfully file. I suspect a large portion of people offload tax filing to a …

I spent countless hours as a kid trying to figure out the games secrets. Only, 20-years later, did I read that you were supposed to be collecting specific items and putting them in…

Not FANG, but I work at a company that operates some infrastructure at scale. What I've seen is after we've rotated through a number of different tools, in different pilot groups, …

Still, they didn’t give up because that wallet contained 5 BTC; this may not sound much, but it has a value of almost $400,000. They are really underestimating their audiance here.…

Additionally, the author seems to be placing value judgments on agreeableness and neroticism. That's fine they if want to change their personality, but I would be very hesitant to …

I've read this one before, but this time it really hit home in how unlike most of the modern AI-emoji-filled-cringy-heading-20-page blog slop, it is. Very refreshing.

I like when people explore deep interests and share them. Especially, someone who has been doing it for 15 years, consistently. A pre-AI window of humanity. This stuff is more impo…

I agree - there is a baseline amount of effort that should be expected. I was once dealing with a co-worker who was treating me like an llm. I had to encourage him that our job isn…

Will this help other services like Netflix, Spotify? Or am I misreading things. My understanding, at least several years ago, that Netflix was paying as much to Apple in subscripti…

Just think about what they could accomplish if they had more engineers than lawyers.

I wonder what effect the US's heavy reliance on HB1 visas (and off-shoring more broadly) has had on the size of the cohorts graduating with CS degrees. All I have is anecdotal conv…

Using the author's loose criteria, one could say a criminal record is a social credit system. These are the emergent fruits of living in a complex society, where one cannot realist…

The emergent trait of AI laceing every other sentence/comment with emojis is a pretty good signal for when you want to ignore AI slop. I almost wish it was codified in to the model…

Where I live, the ability for the "Kia Boys" to easily steal cars, really boosts their effectiveness at robbing people at gunpoint. Sprees of 20 people being robbed by the same gro…

Agreed 100%. I will enjoy the creative financial engineering that likely comes with this policy, as we attempt to classify more and more things as gratuity, to escape the reach of …

I'd love to find a way to encourage more dragonfly's to come hang out in my yard (middle of forest). I think of them as little organic mosquito-eating drones.

The skilcraft US government pen, was spec'd to write 5k in -40F to 160F and is also manufactured by the blind. I've got a box of them spread out anywhere I need a pen. https://www.…

I re-read Gatsby about 30 years after high-school and came away thinking that it was one of the most well written books I'd ever read. FSF's command of the English language is true…

Target basically decided to stop "over-delivering" on DEI. e.g. stuff like $2 billion to black-owned businesses, increase black workforce by 20%, etc. Even with the rollbacks, they…

> "Every pub conversation winding up talking about it." Is this a SV thing? Conversations about IT with anyone other than co-workers are a once-a-year thing for me. It is actually …

The fact that the elephant in the room, the Jones Act, is never mentioned in the parent article, is pretty telling.

Google translate says vim = 'I came' in portuguese, so I guess that explains Brazil.

There is a lot in this piece, but one of the things mentioned was public spaces. While it likely doesn't play a huge role, it can't be ignored that the last ten or so years in the …

My issue is the metrics constantly parroted to show inequality wouldn't (shouldn't) stand muster to an Econ 101 student. - Household income disparities between groups, without cont…