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WoahNoun··on "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"
Most US homes have at least one 220v split phase line for major appliances like stoves or AC.
WoahNoun··on The economics of the Birkin handbag
I've bought many leather wallets in the US even from seemingly upscale places like Nordstrom's. They all kinda fell apart after a few years. I bought a leather wallet in Italy near the Trevi Fountain for roughly the same price almost decade ago and it's by far the best wallet I've ever owned. It's even aged in a nice way.

https://lasellaroma.it/product/wallet-cod-5026/

WoahNoun··on A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire
WoahNoun··on Quantum mechanics is the operating system other physical theories run on (2007)
[2006]
WoahNoun··on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
The policy doesn't say all outside works is banned. It says approval must be sought. Do you have any evidence Inskeep didn't have approval to post on Substack?
WoahNoun··on Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead
>Its application last April said the company had hired 6,939 employees for qualifying jobs, out of 8,000 total positions in Arlington. Amazon’s report this year said it had filled 6,644 qualifying jobs and had 7,791 total employees assigned to HQ2.

>Virginia’s incentives for the company are supposed to reward its progress toward a goal of bringing 25,000 new jobs to Arlington by 2030. They are also structured to ensure that the company maintains those new jobs for at least five years.

They have 6 years to fill ~20,000 jobs. Seems pretty doable once they scale up hiring again.

WoahNoun··on Why are there suddenly so many car washes?
US manufacturing output is at an all time high. It just requires less employees to produce due to automation.
WoahNoun··on Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027
Boeing's previous CEO was an engineer.
WoahNoun··on SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python
It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's. The difference isn't necessarily technical, but the sheer amount of labor that has gone into adding more edge cases and niche use cases. Sympy is great but like most open source, it's created by volunteer maintainers supported by donations.

I imagine the difference is even bigger in things like solving ODE's/PDE's.

WoahNoun··on Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
There's an ongoing insider trading case where an executive at Company A learned that Company A by might acquired. He then bought call options on his closest competitor assuming that the news of Company A being acquired would cause the value of the competitor to also increase.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/12/17/sec-defeats-summa...

WoahNoun··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
Where does that dissent say 40% disagreed? It only uses the term majority.
WoahNoun··on Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length
The testimony and article was about the removal of a nypost story about Hunter's laptop. Not that they are never in contact with government officials.
WoahNoun··on Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length
If there was any actual evidence, they'd be in jail for lying to congress.
WoahNoun··on Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length
No, they fear that enterprises won't buy their product.
WoahNoun··on Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length
From your own link:

>[Twitter] officials emphasized there was no government involvement in the decision.

>“I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should have handled the Hunter Biden laptop situation,” Baker said in his opening statement. “Even though many disagree with how Twitter handled the Hunter Biden matter, I believe that the public record reveals that my client acted in a manner that was fully consistent with the First Amendment.”

WoahNoun··on Alibaba releases 72B LLM with 32k context length
One is a company freely deciding what it's product should and shouldn't do and the other is forced by the government.
WoahNoun··on SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange
They created a new enforcement division and doubled the number of positions working on crypto enforcement last year.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-78

WoahNoun··on Big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says
The difference is the software/forums encouraged the landlords to all leave more units empty then they normally would to raise prices.
WoahNoun··on Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds
I don't see where in the article they imply causation. They use the words "linked" and "associated." In fact, they specifically call out they don't have a causal explanation.

>As an observational study, the research was not able to determine what is causing the link between housing tenure and biological ageing, and the DNA samples analysed so far were only from white, European householders.

WoahNoun··on Synthetic opioids deadlier than fentanyl are showing up in overdose cases
Law enforcement is a broad term. 15 years ago oxycodone pills were everywhere. With the crackdown on "pill mill" doctors/pharmacies and prescription monitoring, it's almost impossible to find those pills and the alternative is the fentanyl currently flooding the market.
WoahNoun··on Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence
It potentially could have. For example, post-signing he had a big fight with twitter's lawyers over the right way to measure bot accounts. If he could prove it was much higher than twitter's SEC filings, he might have been able to withdraw from the deal if he kept the due diligence condition.
WoahNoun··on Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence
Elon specifically waived the ability to withdraw because of post-signing due diligence in his offer to twitter's board. It's one of the (many) reasons he had little ability to get out of the deal once he changed his mind.
WoahNoun··on FTC has named Amazon staffers accused of approving tactics designed to confuse
>Neil Lindsay, former head of the Prime team

He now runs their healthcare teams (pharmacy/pillpack and one medicine). His background is marketing and not healthcare.

WoahNoun··on FBI, partners dismantle Qakbot infrastructure
The mythbuster's didn't blow stuff up or set things on fire without having the FD there.
WoahNoun··on Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea
I use a nose mask and my CPAP is great. No snoring anymore, the mask doesn't bother me, and I wake feeling much, much better than before.
WoahNoun··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
Math overflow and math.stackexchange are still pretty fantastic and the content does go "stale" as fast as programming / software engineering.
WoahNoun··on Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of largest Lemmy servers
More worryingly, typos to US military addresses from external address will now be routed to Mali. From Matt Levine this week:

>Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali through a “typo leak” that has exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, passwords and the travel details of top officers.

>Despite repeated warnings over a decade, a steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses.

>The problem was first identified almost a decade ago by Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch internet entrepreneur who has a contract to manage Mali’s country domain.

>Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday from Zuurbier to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia. When Zuurbier’s 10-year management contract expires, Malian authorities will be able to gather the misdirected emails. The Malian government did not respond to requests for comment.

>“Much of the email flow is spam and none is marked as classified,” and apparently if you work in the US military and you email someone else in the US military, the system prevents this typo. But if you are an outside contractor, or an Army officer emailing from your personal account, all bets are off. “Around a dozen people mistakenly requested recovery passwords for an intelligence community system to be sent to Mali.”

WoahNoun··on Almost all research on the mind is in English
As always, XKCD is on the case: https://xkcd.com/1138/
WoahNoun··on Ask HN: Why do functional programmers hate loops (for, while, etc.)?
>"build a pipeline and feed data into it."

Arrows in Haskell are actually pretty good at building functional left to right data processing pipelines.

WoahNoun··on Supreme Court Opinion on Student Loan Forgiveness [pdf]
The Department of Education issued the loans. They should be able to decide if they want to collect them. The money has already been spent so the only "cost" is the opportunity cost of collecting. So it's not an appropriations issue.
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