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The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
Please let's stop predicting the future of A.I.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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Some mistakes I made as a new manager
the trough of zero dopamine • managing the wrong amount • procrastinating on hard questions • indefinitely deferring maintenance • angsting instead of asking
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That won't scale: Present cost vs. future value
Thanks for reading Code Solo!
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The dark side of the Mac App Store
In the last 30 days, I have been closely monitoring the Mac App Store and have made a disturbing discovery. In the midst of the OpenAI…
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The loophole that made cars in America so big
Here's why American cars and trucks are so big
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The Sudan crisis and the Sahel gold rush
Sudan is a pivotal link in the increasingly fragile and violent geopolitics of both the Sahel and the Red Sea/Horn of Africa regions.
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Fire Mark Zuckerberg
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
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No Source Code == No Patent
How we know you "have' the invention
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SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th.
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The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex
Why is the US military ceding ground to China? As a new DOD report shows, big defense contractors are middlemen whose main purpose is stock buybacks and dividends.
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Efficiency trades off against resiliency
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a single answer. That said, for a long time…
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Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
I'm sick of it. In the world of mobile development (though likely also elsewhere), we sink so much engineering talent into making tools that are great...
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Low Code Software Development Is a Lie
I’ve been writing custom software for a long time and one of the things that annoys me most is when a client adopts the position that there is a silver bullet which will reduce or remove the inherent complexity of this task. This happens more often than you’d think and guess what? They are almost always wrong. Perhaps…
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The least impactful way to spend $300M?
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
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Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
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Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where your monitoring systems only alerted when things were actually broken? And wouldn’t it be great if, in that world, your alerts would always fi…
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I worked at Google for -10 days
It’s the story of how I was laid off from Google before I even started to do my job there.
1822
Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
How large language models process multilingual data differently
1823
Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
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What does a research grant pay for?
People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.
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Street fighting engineers vs. martial arts engineers
Street fighters and Martial artists.
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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk
In "Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation," a trio of business researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Pamplin College investigate the difference between the goods purchased through highly targeted online ads and just plain web-searches, and conclude social media ads push overpriced junk:
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Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better
You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation.
1829
Replacing bad systems with bad systems
A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a cumbersome, awkward system. Coins are heavy and you need to have them handy, meters need to be reinfo…
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