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What I Learned Reading 1,000 Investor Reports · Collab FundRated 2023-03-05T17:59:18-0800
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First-principles on AI scalingRated 2023-03-09T18:08:54-0800
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SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers To Weaken Bank Risk RegsRated 2023-03-11T07:38:49-0800
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Israeli protesters: ‘Traitors’ – or best and brightest?Rated 2023-03-13T12:49:15-0700
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A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B MovementRated 2023-03-16T18:28:17-0700
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March Madness betting: Gambling on expanding legal sports gambling was a bad ideaRated 2023-03-16T19:20:17-0700
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Banking in very uncertain timesRated 2023-03-16T21:15:39-0700
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Negativity drives online news consumption | Nature Human BehaviourRated 2023-03-17T19:03:56-0700
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OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: ExclusiveRated 2023-03-18T15:32:42-0700
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Arlington's GuaranteeRated 2023-03-19T08:20:24-0700
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“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15Rated 2023-03-21T06:37:09-0700
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GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong questionRated 2023-03-21T08:26:54-0700
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JuiceRated 2023-03-24T07:34:43-0700
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DC statehood is bad policy and worse politicsRated 2023-03-29T13:26:51-0700
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the WebRated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700
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Building GitHub with Ruby and RailsRated 2023-04-07T06:59:43-0700
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Elon Musk says NPR's 'state-affiliated media' label might not have been accurateRated 2023-04-07T16:30:32-0700
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Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend ItRated 2023-04-10T21:16:58-0700
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The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States | Nature CommunicationsRated 2023-04-11T03:06:42-0700
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It’s 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Cat Is?Rated 2023-04-13T23:48:52-0700
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Poking around OpenAI.Rated 2023-04-14T17:10:35-0700
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Do We Need to Abolish Child Protective Services?Rated 2023-04-16T09:46:06-0700
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MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen blasted for 'leave pity city' leaked videoRated 2023-04-19T07:51:11-0700
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The Future of Search Is BoutiqueRated 2023-04-20T15:28:40-0700
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Long accused of Native American misappropriation, Boy Scouts ask if it’s time to changeRated 2023-04-20T18:18:58-0700
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The Commission for Stopping Further ImprovementsRated 2023-04-21T16:42:40-0700
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#ReceptioGate and the (absolute) state of academia | Charlotte Gauthier | The Critic MagazineRated 2023-04-23T07:27:58-0700
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Alcohol healthy: the flip-flop on whether it's good for you is to understand—if you know who's behind it.Rated 2023-04-25T23:05:45-0700
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Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problemsRated 2023-04-26T22:56:57-0700
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The Internet Is Just Investment Banking NowThe internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit. 2022-02-04T08:19:58-0800 The Atlantic Ian Bogost ($) 6,000 words Rated 2023-04-30T07:21:13-0700
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When Private Equity Firms Bankrupt Their Own CompaniesPrivate equity firms can succeed when their companies, customers, and employees fail. It’s a broken system. 2023-05-01T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Brendan Ballou ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-02T23:35:44-0700
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Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill... 2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700
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The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”Rated 2023-05-11T22:16:37-0700
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Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen, the Front Line in the Stunt-Food WarsAntonia Hitchens writes about how the chain outdid Burger King’s Bacon Sundae, Pizza Hut’s hot-dog-stuffed crust, and KFC’s fried-chicken-flavored nail polish. 2023-04-17T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Antonia Hitchens 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-12T22:14:26-0700
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Our crazy farm subsidies, explainedThe US offers farm subsidies pretty heavily for some crops, but what began as a temporary measure gradually became more permanent. #Technology 2015-04-20T02:00:23-0700 Grist Amelia Urry 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-14T22:58:24-0700
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Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture?Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting. #Agriculture #Barack Obama #Fast Food #Food & drink 2016-10-05T01:55:45-0700 The New York Times Michael Pollan ($) 6,000 words Rated 2023-05-15T22:27:38-0700
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How to Quit CarsAdam Gopnik reviews “Carmageddon,” by Daniel Knowles, and “Paved Paradise,” by Henry Grabar, and considers the shortsighted history of transportation and the possibilities for its future. #Books 2023-05-15T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 4,000 words Rated 2023-05-19T07:28:42-0700
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Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. #Drugs 2023-05-19T07:37:59-0700 The Atlantic Sarah Zhang ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-05-19T16:53:16-0700
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How Tokyo Became an Anti-Car ParadiseThe world’s biggest, most functional city might also be the most pedestrian-friendly. That’s not a coincidence. 2023-04-11T04:45:01-0700 Heatmap News Daniel Knowles 5,000 words Rated 2023-05-22T23:39:08-0700
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Undoing bikeshare’s original sinBikeshare has been a godsend. Why not subsidize it? 2023-04-18T00:00:00-0700 Fast Company Aimee Rawlins 3,000 words Rated 2023-05-30T19:54:00-0700
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It Will Cost Up to $21.5 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites. The Industry Won’t Make Enough Money to Pay for It.An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected profits. 2023-05-18T03:00:00-0700 ProPublica Mark Olalde 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-03T21:02:38-0700
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The Talk: Accused of PlagiarismIn an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Talk,” Darrin Bell illustrates a conversation with a professor at U.C. Berkeley who accused him, without evidence, of plagiarism. #College 2023-06-03T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words Rated 2023-06-04T07:23:39-0700
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Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological DeficitsSmall plastic particulates can induce inflammatory responses in the gut and brain, but removing them reverses this damage. #Nanoplastics The Scientist Magazine 1,000 words Rated 2023-06-08T07:40:41-0700
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Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies HappyThe pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting 2023-04-09T12:25:06-0700 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-09T16:54:30-0700
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Pluto should be our ninth planet. A planetary scientist explains whyAstronomers believe they’re closing in on the so-called Planet Nine, but planetary scientist Paul Byrne argues our official definition of what is and isn’t a planet is in need of a long-overdue shake up. 2023-06-11T23:40:00-0700 BBC Science Focus Magazine Paul Byrne 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T10:52:47-0700
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'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweetsDopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior. #Dopamine #Parenting 2023-06-12T02:00:32-0700 NPR Michaeleen Doucleff 3,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T10:59:28-0700
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Lessons From a Renters’ UtopiaWorldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate 2023-05-23T01:20:41-0700 The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T11:07:14-0700
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Rewriting the Ruby parserAt Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through... 2023-06-11T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale 5,000 words Rated 2023-06-13T16:37:24-0700
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Laundry Pods Are Bad. Laundry Sheets Aren’t Any Better.Laundry and dishwasher pods are encased in toxic plastic. Save money and go easier on the planet with these sustainable laundry tips. #Sustainability 2023-06-14T04:42:18-0700 Outside Online Kristin Hostetter 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-14T05:56:23-0700
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Burying Indiana JonesChristopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies 2023-06-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words Rated 2023-06-19T23:43:03-0700
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