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missionlocal.org 9d ago

$65K to work at Anthropic? Debate ensues amid IPO wave

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nautil.us 1y ago

Finding Peter Putnam

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theintercept.com 1y ago

Pentagon Keeps Pouring Cash into Golf Courses

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missionlocal.org 2y ago

More SF supervisors get threats after Y Combinator CEO's posts

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www.thebignewsletter.com 2y ago

The Case for Ambulance Chasing Lawyers

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theness.com 2y ago

Passive Solar Water Desalination

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www.thebignewsletter.com 2y ago

The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September

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www.thebignewsletter.com 2y ago

How to Forget the Lessons of the Pandemic

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www.thebignewsletter.com 3y ago

Will the Biggest Tech Merger of All Time Go Through?

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www.nytimes.com 3y ago

Roger Payne, Biologist Who Heard Whales Singing, Dies at 88

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www.thebignewsletter.com 3y ago

Lina Khan Fires a Crooked CEO

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theness.com 3y ago

Woman with Catatonia for Years Wakes After Treatment

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apnews.com 3y ago

Mushroom coffin a last best wish for some

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mattstoller.substack.com 3y ago

A Google Antitrust Case Could Determine the Future of AI

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mattstoller.substack.com 3y ago

The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex

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www.forbes.com 3y ago

Vietnamese Refugee David Tran Became America's First Hot Sauce Billionaire

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www.sfgate.com 3y ago

New York Magazine Blasts SF Techies’ NYC ‘Neighborhood’

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qz.com 3y ago

In 2023, humanity moved closer than ever to self-destruction

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qz.com 3y ago

Mass layoffs: a history of cost cuts and psychological tolls (2019)

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qz.com 3y ago

Mass layoffs: a history of cost cuts and psychological tolls (2019)

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skepchick.org 3y ago

Reasonable Philosophies Led to FTX’s Crypto Scam Collapsing

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mattstoller.substack.com 4y ago

Apple's Backup Plan to Stop Antitrust Legislation

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mattstoller.substack.com 4y ago

Apple's Backup Plan to Stop Antitrust Legislation

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www.vox.com 4y ago

A billion-dollar chip factory just opened in upstate New York

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mattstoller.substack.com 4y ago

Elon Musk, China, and the Biden Collapse

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mattstoller.substack.com 4y ago

The Secret Plot to Unleash Corporate Power

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craftindustryalliance.org 4y ago

Epic, Apple, and Our Small Knitting App

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Brains do not slow down until after age of 60

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www.spoon-tamago.com 5y ago

A Wooden Cabin Constructed Locally in the Mountains Using a 3D Wood Cutter

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www.vice.com 6y ago

Instacart’s gig workers are planning a nationwide strike

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I got my hunter's safety card back just before covid. Prior to the actual course starting, our instructors spent a good 15 minutes "encouraging" us to join the NRA because "they're really trying to take our guns, blah blah". This was in "liberal" California. When I had last taken the course as a kid in my home state of Oregon, in a conservative majority town, there was never any kind of propaganda that I can recall of this level.

I would hypothesize that this is strongly correlated to where a person's sense of purpose comes from. If someone gets most of their sense of purpose from their job then you would expect to see a decline once they leave their job if they can't replace it with something else. For those whose sense of purpose is derived mainly outside of work and can continue to derive that sense of purpose in retirement, I would expect less of a decline in retirement other than normal aging.

Waymo in Portland 3 months ago

From the article it doesn't sound like it was physically stuck as much as it's maps might not have been updated with the latest addition of that light rail and/or it was confused by the ongoing construction.

I have an EV and am on a Time of Use rate plane here in SF. My lowest rates are between 12am and 3pm every day. I charge the car and run everything I can in terms of major appliance use between these hours (dishwasher scheduled to start at midnight or manually run early in the day, washer/dryer loads run in the morning). I am home during the day which makes this easier to do though. Another solution of course would be to bank your solar generation or low rate electricity into a set of batteries that you could draw from during peak times.

Can you take advantage of the Portuguese educational system to train for a professional career while you are living and working there? If so, I think that might tilt things in favor of Portugal especially if the prospect of obtaining an EU passport is there.

I don't know if even they know that they're looking for with the question as they marked it as experimental and optional but the explanation perhaps gives some hint:

"Optional: attach a coding agent session you're particularly proud of. This is an experimental question for the Spring 2026 batch to give people a chance to show off their skills with AI coding tools."

Maybe they're hoping to gain some signal around a correlation between good AI coding skills and future company success?

Sometimes the why is discovered when you try to change the code to what you think it should be and see it fall down in some cases you didn't anticipate or some other system is affected. It's often really hard to find out the why but either it will become clear at some point when the code is refactored or it will be irrelevant.

Unless you have a paying customer willing to pay you with just a promise of something to be delivered (see kickstarter et al, Steve Blanks's customer discovery, etc.), you don't. If it solves a problem you have and in a better way for you than other solutions then you personally get immediate value from it. From there, it's possible others may have the same problem and will be willing to pay for it. It's not guaranteed but the number of people getting value from the software will be at least n = 1.

I think you're talking about parental leave which is a different thing and another area where the US falls short compared to other developed countries. This is to provide care for your kids after you would have gone back to work in any regular scenario until the kids are old enough to start school.

I don't know where it's going but as of this moment Meta at least is still using them and it doesn't look like they're going to change anytime soon. Source: I have an upcoming interview with them. If I'm to believe what they tell me, you're not just scored on how well you can implement a solution, but how well you can explain in real time what your approach will be before you start coding and how well you communicate during the implementation. I was told to overcommunicate if anything even to the level of correcting typos. I don't think LLM's can do that yet.