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Maximizing resume SNR

This is a brief note about resumes and hiring. At Terraform Industries, I've been doing a lot of recruiting recently and it's helped me crystallize a few ideas I've had in this area. This blog will change over time. Terraform Industries is hiring! Join us as we decarbonize our industrial economy by getting carbon from…

2022-03-22T01:09:33-0700 Casey Handmer's blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T14:57:24-0800 - sethherr

Energy Cheat Sheet

Building an intuition about energy

2024-12-20T05:01:09-0800 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T14:27:31-0800 - sethherr

calculator-app

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home

Chad Nauseam Home 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-16T17:36:11-0800 - sethherr

We Were Wrong About GPUs

Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.

Fly 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-14T20:37:14-0800 - sethherr

Do you need permission from the government to do independent research?

IRB you kidding me?

2025-02-13T09:00:15-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 6,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T19:08:48-0800 - sethherr

Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3D

Over the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. …

stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T07:37:20-0800 - sethherr

Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition.

2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words

Rated 2025-02-13T06:56:59-0800 - sethherr

Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22

YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead.

2023-08-28T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T21:06:10-0800 - sethherr

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel

brutecat.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:31:59-0800 - sethherr

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

2025-02-11T16:00:00-0800 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:26:07-0800 - sethherr

Introducing: Barbecue Running Gel

It's time to smoke the competition.

2024-02-29T04:02:09-0800 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:26:07-0800 - sethherr

I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape

And I will do it again unless someone stops me.

2021-07-30T04:06:12-0700 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:22:27-0800 - sethherr

VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Fly 500 words

Rated 2025-02-08T00:24:45-0800 - sethherr

1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals

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2025-02-07T03:40:50-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:39:55-0800 - sethherr

How to avoid problems with Turbo morphing

A beautiful UI Morphed into existence Suddenly broken

2025-02-04T15:00:00-0800 Radan Skorić’s personal site 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T22:03:38-0800 - sethherr

From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer Club

zachholman.com

Rated 2025-02-06T21:00:43-0800 - sethherr

Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuing

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T10:17:51-0800 - sethherr

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

darioamodei.com Dario Amodei 15,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T08:16:12-0800 - sethherr

Everyone knows your location

Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself! This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some...

2025-01-31T15:30:18-0800 tim.sh tim 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-02T18:58:15-0800 - sethherr

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

2025-01-30T11:36:15-0800 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:56-0800 - sethherr

Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticism

Patrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL

2025-01-30T02:00:43-0800 The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T07:47:15-0800 - sethherr

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. Lynn

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court

2024-08-20T14:23:10-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated 2025-01-30T21:50:20-0800 - sethherr

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If…

2024-12-17T09:53:35-0800 charity.wtf 9,000 words

Rated 2025-01-29T12:39:41-0800 - sethherr

The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App

When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general?

2025-01-23T02:17:51-0800 byroot’s blog 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-26T06:42:15-0800 - sethherr

Creation | anyon_e

Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands.

byran.ee 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-23T06:40:39-0800 - sethherr

Gem::SafeMarshal escape

nastystereo.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-22T07:11:01-0800 - sethherr

I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup Attempts

A while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ...

blog.rongarret.info 5,000 words

Rated 2025-01-20T19:06:16-0800 - sethherr

Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.

2025-01-13T05:09:15-0800 GitButler Scott Chacon 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-20T06:21:26-0800 - sethherr

NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days

People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.

2025-01-14T05:53:11-0800 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 5,000 words

Rated 2025-01-19T14:13:47-0800 - sethherr

Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the Signals

Now we've tapped in to the wiring of a VanMoof e-shifter, let's work out the baud rate and format of the data being transmitted and which format of messages are being exchanged between it and the bike.

mikecoats.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-19T08:04:52-0800 - sethherr

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.

joeyehand.com 200 words

Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

Julia Evans 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:48:46-0800 - sethherr

What Is It (in Ruby 3.4)?

An explanation of the it block parameter introduced in Ruby 3.4

2025-01-10T12:40:50-0800 Kevin Murphy 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:15:06-0800 - sethherr

How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to Karafka

Honeybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned.

2025-01-07T16:00:00-0800 Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-11T07:48:57-0800 - sethherr

What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrong

Funding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce…

2024-12-22T04:37:20-0800 lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-09T20:45:16-0800 - sethherr

Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.

2025-01-05T10:01:47-0800 Asimov Press Eric Gilliam 9,000 words

Rated 2025-01-08T16:10:07-0800 - sethherr

They squandered the holy grail

Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect

xeiaso.net 5,000 words

Rated 2025-01-06T13:57:30-0800 - sethherr

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.

2025-01-04T02:00:00-0800 ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words

Rated 2025-01-05T08:08:32-0800 - sethherr

Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom

The New Yorker

Rated 2025-01-03T16:04:53-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4

In 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.

2024-12-29T10:21:51-0800 byroot’s blog 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T09:11:08-0800 - sethherr

PlasticList

Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

PlasticList 10,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T21:18:11-0800 - sethherr

The torture of an unphilosophical life

#Culture

2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800 - sethherr

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

2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr

Batteries

I 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 2024-12-27T19:22:51-0800 - sethherr

Seconds Since the Epoch

aphyr.com

Rated 2024-12-26T12:52:52-0800 - sethherr

When to Start Sleep Training

I’m answering all of your questions about sleep training: what is sleep training, when to start sleep training, how long does sleep training take, and more!

Taking Cara Babies 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-26T07:32:54-0800 - l_wals773

Berkeley's Evolution On Housing

To 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.

2024-12-23T13:56:36-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-25T11:23:27-0800 - sethherr

Alignment faking in large language models

A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-19T19:01:38-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2

In 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.

2024-12-18T08:05:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-18T19:12:01-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1

I 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.

2024-12-15T11:19:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-18T19:04:49-0800 - sethherr