Favorite Rejects 2023-02-20

Matteo Crismani @crismani_matteo

With the discussions about how hard getting into graduate school is without already having PhD qualities, I find it important to remember why this might be happening. Every social issue is nuanced and requires more than a tweet, but this correlation...

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis @ArmsControlWonk

The open source missile detection tool that @tylerni7 and @michaelnute detected the North Korean ICBM launch. I will never get tried of seeing this.

Brittney Bush Bollay ⚾️ @BrittneyBush

This is why preventing speeding matters.

Urban Environmentalists @UrbanEnviroCA

"In a typical apartment building, circulation (hallways, stairs, and elevators) takes up around 12%-20% of each floor. In short, that means 12%-20% of your rent isn’t paying for the apartment, it’s paying for hallways."- @alfred_twu in @sfc_opinions sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

Tired: LLMs are fancy autocomplete. Wired: Most knowledge work is human autocomplete.

Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh

“When we first launched GitHub Copilot for Individuals in June 2022, more than 27% of developers’ code files on average were generated by GitHub Copilot. Today, GitHub Copilot is behind an average of 46% of a developers’ code…..” Woah https://t.co/bxxR5tB5i6

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Don’t spend hundreds of millions of dollars to accomplish something every sleepaway camp counselor has solved with a chore wheel.

🛠 Kenneth Auchenberg @auchenberg

CTO: We need to build distributed microservices in Rust or Go deployed in multi cloud kubetnetes clusters, with per service databases, so we are ready to handle millions of users Founder: How about we use Google Sheets as the backend to get this off the ground?

Alex Rowell @alexjrowell

Incredible: The threat from Iran to journalists *living in Britain* is so severe UK police say they can't protect them, advise them to leave the country. They're relocating to the US.

theguardian.comMet police and MI5 foil 15 plots by Iran against British or UK-based ‘enemies’Attempted assassinations and abductions made public as Iranian broadcaster forced to quit London for US after safety concerns

Moment of Zen Clips @moz_tok

Bernie Sanders helped crash our Economy in 2008 🚨 It wasn’t Glass-Steagall being repealed like most people think… It was the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that made derivatives a free for all — which Bernie voted for. @Noahpinion guest on @MOZ_Podcast explains!

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

many people are saying

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@McveyCs @JamesAndrewL711 Native-born Americans make GREAT contributions. There just aren't that many of us. Per capita, we produce 3x the number of top AI researchers China does. But we're only 1/4 as big as China.

rev. howard arson @revhowardarson

just as increasing the number of lanes increases the amount of congestion by increasing the number of car trips and creating bottlenecks at exits, increasing the number of apartments increases prices by encouraging people to rent more than one and trapping them in their hallways

Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov

@errollouis Adding more lanes to highways doesn't reduce congestion, it increases cars. Adding more unaffordable apartments to New York doesn't solve the housing crisis, it increases displacement. This is not hard.

Anders Åslund @anders_aslund

Washington Post Editorial Board on Putin's war in Ukraine: "the West’s overarching goal must be ensuring that the Russian tyrant gains nothing by his aggression. To allow an outcome that rewards the Kremlin in any way would be a moral travesty."

washingtonpost.comOpinion | How to break the stalemate in UkraineThe United States and its European allies have little choice but to intensify their military, economic and diplomatic support for Kyiv.