Favorites April 29th 2024
The video he released was fun. One thing you can't quite see from the video is that the circles tilt so that just one side is touching your foot at a time.
Someone else commented on TikTok's statement that they'd rather destroy the company than sell: "they’re behaving in a manner that suggests they don’t want to succeed, and would prefer the company go to zero. unthinkable choices from a business perspective. almost as if bytedance isn’t being run by the CEO". I'm worried that TikTok will do whatever they can to help Trump between now and election day.
Relatedly, polling indicates TikTok bill is relatively popular with Americans. A basic analysis of whether Tiktok will get the recent bill overturned. Base rate is 13% this kind of challenge rarely works, but they have some things going for them, so overall estimate is 20%.
I had not realized that like two thirds of the lives saved by vaccines are from the measles vaccine alone, I'd be interested in some quality adjusted life years saved stats. Look at this set of before/after graphs.
Longer Reads
– A basic analysis of whether Tiktok will get the recent bill overturned. Base rate is 13% this kind of challenge rarely works, but they have some things going for them, so overall estimate is 20%. (src)(cached)
– I was not aware that after the US withdrew from Vietnam, over a million fled, between 200k and 400k died (src)(cached)
– AOC understands message discipline, commenting on Israel/Gaza protests, pivots straight to abortion (src)(cached)
– "Redondo Beach has denied the demolition of a power plant next to a beach in order to block the construction of more housing" (src)(cached)
– Argument that at the end of the day, no matter how you configure an LLM, they all converge on the dataset they're trained on. (src)(cached)
– EPA is imposing regulations that will eventually phase out coal power plants (src)
– Gruber posted again about keyboard wear from soft ABS plastic. On some old keyboards, just the spacebar was ABS, the rest was more durable PBT. (src)
– Oh dang, BYD figured out how to use a linear motor instead of a spring for suspension, right out of Snow Crash. (src)(cached)
– France has a law saying supermarkets can't discount more than 30%, in Germany, robots can't work on sunday (src)(cached)
– California is considering making AVs impossible to operate, contact your rep about SB915, which seems bad. (src)(cached)
– SF Parking control officers are picketing because they don't want to do their jobs because they get assaulted too often for issuing tickets. Not a good situation, automated enforcement would be better! (src)(cached)
– Politico is reporting that NYTimes' nonstop coverage of Biden's age is retribution for not giving them an interview. (src)(cached)
– Looks like the Chips act has been a success, the US is now on track to produce 20% of leading node chips by 2030. (src)(cached)
– Austin built lots of homes, now rents have fallen, what a concept! (src)(cached)
– Seems like the Green party in Germany altered the conclusions of export reports in order to justify shutting down Germany's nuclear reactors, and oh look electricity prices there are way way up. (src)(cached)