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It's Charisma, StupidRated Jan 15th
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Take the pedals off the bikeApparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again. Jan 6th Fortress of Doors Lars Doucet 1,000 words Rated Jan 15th
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacleSpeaker maker Sonos said on Monday Patrick Spence will step down as its CEO after a disastrous app update last year sparked customer criticism and delayed the development and release of other products. Jan 13th Reuters ($) 500 words Rated Jan 14th
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Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties. #Startups Jan 11th The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words Rated Jan 12th
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How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to KarafkaHoneybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned. Jan 8th Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words Rated Jan 11th
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What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrongFunding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce… 2024-12-22 lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words Rated Jan 10th
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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood FactoryHow a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories. Jan 5th Asimov Press Eric Gilliam 9,000 words Rated Jan 9th
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Trump vows to rename Denali as Mount McKinleyThe U.S. changed its name to the Athabascan "Denali" in 2015. 2024-12-22 Reuters Kanishka Singh ($) 1,000 words Rated Jan 8th
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Magic/Tragic Email Links: Don't make them the only optionSubscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying. Jan 7th Recyclebin.zip 500 words Rated Jan 8th
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They squandered the holy grailWhy Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect xeiaso.net 5,000 words Rated Jan 6th
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Hitting OKRs vs Doing Your JobIn Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say "Ship the Roadmap." What new information are they communicating in that case? And if the OKRs say anything else, they're in conflict the roadmap! An example (that I made up): In Marketing, quarterly OKRs express our… Jan 6th Jessitron 1,000 words Rated Jan 6th |
Software is eating the world, … all rightI retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real world where I run two “brick-and-mortar” small businesses. I… 2024-05-18 Medium Jean-Jacques Dubray 3,000 words Rated Jan 6th
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. Jan 4th ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words Rated Jan 5th
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Judge Rejects New Jersey’s Bid to Halt Congestion PricingStarting Sunday, most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during peak travel times will be charged a $9 fee. #New Jersey Jan 4th The New York Times Tracey Tully, Ana Ley ($) 1,000 words Rated Jan 4th
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Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learncoding2learn.org Marc Scott 4,000 words Rated Jan 4th
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‘Are we the first generation that won’t die?’: Bryan Johnson on his controversial lifestyleThe 47-year-old multimillionaire spends $2m a year on staying youthful and, in a new documentary, he explains why we should be following his lead Jan 2nd The Guardian Radheyan Simonpillai 2,000 words Rated Jan 4th
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Lake Tahoe’s Bear BoomRated Jan 4th
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4In the previous post, we established that as long as ruby/json wasn’t competitive on micro-benchmarks, public perception wouldn’t change. Since what made ruby/json appear so bad on micro-benchmarks was its setup cost, we had to find ways to reduce it further. 2024-12-29 byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated Jan 3rd
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Ruby 3.4 highlightsblog.sinjakli.co.uk 1,000 words Rated Jan 1st
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Improve Your Heart Rate Training Zones With The Karvonen FormulaHow to use the Karvonen heart rate formula to improve training zones. A comparison with the percent maximum HR method. 2021-01-27 Training 4 Endurance training4endurance 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-31
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Opinion | I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve ThisThe aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions don’t remain in the atmosphere. #Climate Change #Global Warming 2024-12-28 The New York Times Mark Miodownik ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-31
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The Truth About WHOOP and Other Fitness Trackers: Part II spoke with WHOOP’s Principal Scientist and a critic of some wearable devices to help you understand the new world of wearables. 2024-02-12 Two Percent with Michael Easter Michael Easter 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-30
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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-30
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Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable businessOn a September morning in 2024, two Jonathan Cohens — one from the Rockaways in Queens, the other from London — stood in an empty 15,000-square-foot 2024-11-30 TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-29
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PlasticListData on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods PlasticList 10,000 words Rated 2024-12-29
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The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-26 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28
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Billionaire Daniel Ek Shuts Down Spotify Unwrapped CalculatorMulti-billionaire Daniel Ek has shut down the Spotify Unwrapped calculator that showcased how little the DSP pays to artists. 2024-12-24 Digital Music News Ashley King 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-28
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Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas 2024-12-11 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28
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fhurfhur's blog fhur 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-28
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“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American DreamIn Brady Corbet’s latest film, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce, the director depicts the fate of a brilliant Hungarian architect, who lands in the United States after surviving Buchenwald. 2024-12-20 The New Yorker Justin Chang 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-28
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BatteriesI am a simple enthusiast attempting to convey my love and enjoyment of radio, electronics, and computing and perhaps to inspire YOU to build something too. hanssummers.com Hans Summers 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-28
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Seconds Since the EpochRated 2024-12-26
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Cognitive load is what mattersThere are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code. minds.md 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-26
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Berkeley's Evolution On HousingTo understand and appreciate Adena Ishii's victory, it's important to understand how Berkeley got to this point and what the election really means vs. the bombastic headlines. 2024-12-23 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-25
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Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matterCorrection issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas. 2024-12-16 Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-21
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Introducing Governing San FranciscoCampaigns are marketing and sales. Governing is the product. 2024-11-12 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-20
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Alignment faking in large language modelsA paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-20
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2In the previous post, I covered my motivations for improving ruby/json’s performance, and detailed the first 4 notable optimizations applied to speed up JSON generation. 2024-12-18 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-19
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks. 2024-12-15 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-19
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The Illusion of Miles Per Gallon2008-06-20 Wheels Blog Richard S. Chang 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-18
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DroppingsRated 2024-12-18
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The art of a Russian joke: anekdoty about Putin and the warCollection of recent Russian jokes about Putin and the war in Ukraine 2024-11-13 Tap Water Sommelier Konstantin Asimonov 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-18
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On blankfacesFor years, I've had a private term I've used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world's top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair. No, I paid… 2021-08-02 Shtetl-Optimized 20,000 words Rated 2024-12-18
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Chip Cities Rise in Japan’s Fields of DreamsThe scale of Tokyo’s ambition creates the risk of spectacular failure, but so too does succumbing to decline in a sector the nation once dominated. #City #Government #Infrastructure #Japan 2024-12-11 Bloomberg Gearoid Reidy 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18
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Telraam Traffic Monitoring & Bike Match Network Shutting DownReflecting on 4 years of Bike Match and 2 years of Bay Area Traffic Monitoring 2024-12-17 Transpo Maps Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-18
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Always Go To The FuneralAs a child, Deirdre Sullivan learned from her father to always pay her respects at funerals. Now, this NPR listener believes those simple acts of human kindness are as important as the grand gestures. 2005-08-08 NPR Deirdre Sullivan 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-17
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Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic SkillsAs with kids' test scores, a crucial question is the role of knowledge 2024-12-15 Minding the Gap Natalie Wexler 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-16
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Opinion | The Trouble Began Where #MeToo Became #ChurchTooYes, people want justice — as long as justice costs them nothing or very little. #Child Abuse #Christianity #Donald Trump #Harvey Weinstein #Rape 2024-12-15 The New York Times David French ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-16
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Opinion | My 500-Mile Journey Across Alaska’s Thawing ArcticI had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it. #Climate Change #Global Warming #Weather #Wildfire 2024-12-15 The New York Times Jon Waterman ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-15
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Maximizing the Expected Value of a Lottery Ticket: How to Sell and When to Buy | CHANCEAllen Kim and Steven Skiena With players attracted by the potential winnings from enormous lottery pools, multistate lotteries like Mega Millions and Powerball sell tens to hundreds of millions of tickets each week across the United States. Larger lottery pools attract more sales, but the expected value of a particular lottery ticket is a function ... chance.amstat.org 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-15
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