The True Rate of Unemployment
Using data compiled by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the True Rate of Unemployment tracks the percentage of the U.S. labor force that does not have a full-time job (35+ hours a week) but wants one, has no job, or does not earn a living wage, conservatively pegged at $25,000 annually before taxes. […]
Microlino boss: Most cars are far too big for what they’re being used for
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Functional ownership through fractional uniqueness
Abstract:Ownership and borrowing systems, designed to enforce safe memory management without the need for garbage collection, have been brought to the fore by the Rust programming language. Rust also aims to bring some guarantees offered by functional programming into the realm of performant systems code, but the type system is largely separate from the ownership […]
Norwegian Consumer Council files complaint against Meta for GDPR violations
29. februar, 2024 Together with seven other consumer organizations across Europe, the Norwegian Consumer Council is filing a legal complaint against Meta for numerous breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). – Metas ongoing cat-and-mouse game with European authorities must come to an end, according to the Consumer Council. In the complaint, which has […]
ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)
Allow me to say this clearly and succinctly – ICANN is not a global regulator of Internet content, nor should the 2013 Registry Accreditation Agreement (RAA) be interpreted in such a way as to put us in that role. Our mission is to coordinate, at the overall level, the global Internet’s systems of unique identifiers, […]
Defcon: Meta’s system for preventing overload with graceful feature degradation
Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation This is one in a series of papers I’m reading from OSDI and Usenix ATC. These paper reviews can be delivered weekly to your inbox, or you can subscribe to the Atom feed. As always, feel free to reach out on Twitter with feedback or suggestions! What is […]
Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
After a frantic scramble this morning, our billing team has finished patching a bug which erroneously was charging our monthly subscribers for an extra day. All test suites are passing now, and SRE has scheduled a postmortem after the QA confirms the fix in 2028.
GGUF, the Long Way Around
Table of Contents Large language models today are consumed in one of several ways: As API endpoints for proprietary models hosted by OpenAI, Anthropic, or major cloud providers As model artifacts downloaded from HuggingFace’s Model Hub and/or trained/fine-tuned using HuggingFace libraries and hosted on local storage As model artifacts available in a format optimized for […]
Financial systems take a holiday
All systems reflect the culture they are created in, in ways great and small. The financial system, and the human and computer systems which compose it, have inherited norms about when work is performed from the diverse societies which built (and build) financial systems. Your bank takes holidays. Your conception of a holiday is materially […]