> A problem with the system of having a domain as a username is that people can claim it who don’t have access to that username. For example, someone was able to get the AWS S3 domain as their handle!
That isn't necessarily an issue with using a domain as a username, it was only possible because you could verify ownership by putting something in a subdirectory they defined which was available as an S3 bucket name (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820815). If you allow verification only from the root directory or via DNS records this shouldn't be a problem AFAICT.
Was wondering the same thing. If you look at some of the station displays pictured, you can see that there‘s not much space between lines, so I assume this is to have space for descenders without clashing with the lines below (more like raising the baseline for non-capital letters).
I recently came across Michael Hastings, whom I hadn't heard of before (living in Europe), but alas he passed away quite early. This sort of journalism seems to be a rare thing, but also not dead by a long shot.
I keep being fascinated by how medicine is simultaneously things like "that death sentence is a minor inconvenience now" and others and things like... this
I still don't have good intuitions about overall economical impacts, but that part struck me as well because I've been wondering whether it'll be more "the best can use these tools better" or "the best will lose their competitive advantage".
What is important to consider though is that in this case here, the AI tool in question merely provided pre-written responses for agents to accept/reject/adapt, and how the effects are distributed may well shift as tools become more sophisticated and will just automatically handle most low-stakes/simple cases.
I previously worked on ecommerce and SaaS UX and have first-hand experience with longer customer support rotations in those fields. While I'm sure there's a lot of low-hanging UX fruit, this seems to be an overestimation of how sophosticated most of the customer base is and how much they are able to just read things and figure stuff out without hand-holding. Add to this how past a certain scale even freak issues affecting <0.01% of users/sessions suddenly become quite frequent in absolute terms, and I don't think customer support, automated or not, is going anywhere.
I remember a patio11 thread about exactly this — once your operations reach a certain scale, even a 0.1% of cases problem takes a whole department to deal with
Am I reading this correctly that at 7nm intel had >2x the transistor density of TSMC and their 7nm node is still ahead of TSMCs 5nm node on that measure? That‘s not what I‘d have expected given everything one hears abt. intel —- have they fallen off mainly by not progressing beyond that node, or along other dimensions?
We started using their stuff "as an experiment" in my civil protection service unit and have had great experiences so far — a breeze to set up and manage, really good performance, and surprisingly affordable even at retail prices. I think it's a bit above your budget constraint except for the CPE side, but maybe you can reach out and set something up given it's for humanitarian purposes or someone on here has a connection.
One of the funniest assignments I got in university was a recent one from a finance course: The prof had us generate a bunch of random company characteristics and yearly returns, then fish for correlations and come up with fake newspaper-style stories about why these "effects" we found made sense.
I just recently saw a documentary excerpt where two women were browsing and discussing profiles on a dating site in the early aughts — there sure seemed to be more info and more engagement with a given profile. Whether that actually led to better outcomes, I don't know, but the difference is pretty big.
Aside: I'm in my late twenties and have used various of the currently popular dating apps on/off over the last few years. Whenever I see one of the old OKC blogposts around the internet, it's kind of striking how different the pictures look from what you'd see on the apps today. It's possible/not unlikely I'm overinterpreting based on the different style/fashion alone here, but it just all seems a lot less posed & staged, and like there's much more variance than with the pictures you see today, and even the extremely attractive examples seem much more natural.
I read most of the print version of this (which is very nice and I can recommend). One thing that really sticks out about this is just how much work in such a project ends up going nowhere — you record something, you try using it weeks later, you realize it's useless, you do it again differently/better, lather, rinse, repeat. I'd somehow forgotten about this and started feeling kind of bad whenever I was working on something creative-ish (using it very broadly here) and didn't know exactly where each step would lead me. This sort of firsthand account of large projects goes a great way in reminding you that that's just part of the process.
I'm just struck by how cool those assignments are — I feel like this might be one of the biggest differences in school quality, most of the stuff I've had to do at an unremarkable school felt a lot more like "fake problems", but this OTOH sounds like something that would actually get me a lot more motivated even if I had no clue where to begin at first
I sympathize with this and have definitely been horribly wrong about basics before, but it‘s also crazy how many teachers don‘t manage to set up courses and asssignments such that they really force you to understand the basics.
Also I'm not sure the data is available, does the US entity which is publicly traded have to report on all subentities' financials separately? Don't they usually just consolidate the financials?
This only occurred to me now in reference to Uber and other serial offenders, and I don't know what the situation in other countries is, but... In Switzerland there's actually a law against unfair competitive practices, and it has a clause prohibiting you from constantly or repeatedly (i.e. not as a one-off clearance sale or whatever) offering goods or services below cost! Wonder how it would go if you were to sue one of these companies operating here under that...
> These can be quickly transported elsewhere to ensure they can setup elsewhere and prevent the tech from falling into China's hand.
Wouldn't it still take quite a long time to get a new fab to the point of being productive? These machines aren't exactly sitting in storage by the hundreds, and I imagine you'd also need to dial in all the processes pretty well to get good yields? (though I have no idea what that entails...)
While some of the measurement methods can be debated, pretty much all mental health metrics down to medication prescriptions I've seen over the last few years can best be described as "alarming". I don't have very substantiated or strong opinions as to what's causing it, I don't know if we're just better at treating stuff people would have had to just soldier through 100+ years ago, but it gives me a weird feeling about the world.