A bad day at the office
While looking for something else, I came across this rather incredible photo in the Imperial War Museum collection. That’s a seaplane stuck 300 feet up a 350ft tall radio mast! If that’s not amazing enough, the pilot was rescued by three men who climbed up to retrieve him. And he survived. Here’s the IWM’s description: […]
Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites
Here, as promised in my last post, is a written version of the talk I delivered a couple weeks ago at MindFest in Florida, entitled “The Problem of Human Specialness in the Age of AI.” The talk is designed as one-stop shopping, summarizing many different AI-related thoughts I’ve had over the past couple years (and […]
Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Microsoft has struck a deal with French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral as it seeks to broaden its involvement in the fast-growing industry beyond OpenAI. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, unveiled a “multiyear partnership” with Paris-based Mistral […]
Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It
Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It. Clockwise from top left: Breanna Scott, Marco Troper, Tiffany Iler, Noah Rodriguez, and Luca Manuel. (Illustration by The Free Press using images courtesy of the families) Every week, more than a dozen U.S. teenagers lose their lives to fentanyl. James Fishback reports on […]
Show HN: R2R – Open-source framework for production-grade RAG
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The Disappointing Tea.xyz
A few days ago I got a pull request to a project (since been deleted) and a user was attempting to add a file like this to the root of the project. # https://tea.xyz/what-is-this-file — version: 1.0.0 codeOwners: – “0xREDACTED” quorum: 1 Of course my first reaction was to close the pull request immediately. It […]
Clouds Vanish During a Solar Eclipse, and We Know Why
When the Moon passes in front of the Sun in a solar eclipse, the jaw-dropping spectacle seems to change our world momentarily. However, the effects on our planet are far more profound than a few moments of darkness during the daylight hours. And one effect that might surprise you? Clouds dissipate, and quickly – from […]
“14 Years of Go” by Rob Pike
At the closing talk of GopherConAU 2023, Rob Pike, one of the original creators of Go, shared a retrospective on the 14-year journey of the Go programming language. Celebrating the anniversary of Go’s launch as an open-source project, Pike offered a personal, rather than an official Google or Go team perspective. Check it out! But […]
How I build and run behavioral interviews
This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard for me to tell what was a good answer. I’d end up grading every candidate as an “okay, I guess” […]
The 14 pains of building your own billing system
Billing and revenue systems are a necessity if you ever plan to monetize your business. If you’ve spent any time with them, you know that billing systems are complicated, and no one wants to think about them. When they work, it’s great and everyone is happy. I’ve seen them likened to an octopus, and I […]