Favorites September 12th 2022

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman

New data from the NY Fed shows another big drop in inflation expectations in August.

Awesome, if he pulls this off, Powell is gonna look like a genius. In related news, the bubble has burst for European natural gas prices, which is also great.

Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener

It’s time to take down the remaining portion of the Central Freeway, south of Market. The removal of the Central Freeway north of Market was a huge success: energized Hayes Valley/Octavia, more housing, revolution in public space. Let’s keep this going.

sfstandard.comForget the Central Subway—What’s Happening With the Central Freeway?SF City Hall was supposed to look into tearing down the remainder of the Central Freeway and replacing it with housing—but never did. Now a grassroots campaign is reviving the idea.

This seems like a good idea. Also, the drone shots and photography from the article do a great job illustrating the problem. Doing this in the Embarcadero area worked, this could too. It's better than the alternative.

Jeremy Neufeld @JeremyLNeufeld

"Our findings show that only 10 to 20% of foreign graduates work in the US even in the short run, likely due to visa and policy restrictions. This significantly dampens the local returns to human capital investments that US universities generate" I would simply let them stay

Aughh, We should do everything we can to get graduates of US Colleges to work in the United States!

Riley Goodside @goodside

Exploiting GPT-3 prompts with malicious inputs that order the model to ignore its previous directions.

Really clever query text, and he goes on to say that he was inspired by a Sketch from Mr Show. Someone else demonstrated a way this attack could be used to extract hidden values, it seems clear that these APIs should have a better way of separating instructions from data.

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• More than 20 tanks captured by Ukraine and visually confirmed by third parties, meanwhile Putin recently inaugurated a Ferris wheel in Moscow, which broke down in less than a day. Western and Ukrainian intelligence are also saying that Russia has stopped sending reinforcements, apparently soldiers are refusing to go. So far Ukraine has retaken about half of Russia's high water mark. Unfortunately, Russia's weakness means that Azerbaijan is using this moment to violate the ceasefire with Armenia that had been guaranteed by Russia.