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In Australia there is the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021. It is speculated that it was passed to plug a capability gap in data collection for Five-Eyes/USA.

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Profiling TikToken’s Python/Rust implementation showed a lot of time was spent doing regex matching. Most of my perf gains come from a) using a faster jit-compiled regex engine; and b) simplifying the algorithm to forego regex matching special tokens at all.

My guess is they will store them on tape e.g. on something like Spectra TFinity ExaScale library. I assume AWS glacier et al use this sort of thing for their deep archives.

Storing them on something that has hours to days retrieval window satisfies the court order, is cheaper, and makes me as a customer that little bit more content with it (mass data breach would take months of plundering and easily detectable).

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Trump has been in love with tariffs since at least 1988. See https://www.wita.org/trade-news/trumps-love-for-tariffs-bega....

Feb 24th

“The top operatives of DOGE are reported to be young, tech-savvy “hackers” with unprecedented access to systems holding everything from personnel records to highly sensitive financial data.” - Forbes

Doge.gov database left open.

Mind boggles.

Looks like a Boway K5 for doing the bindings (In a photo on their about page)

Keeping a lot of the incriminating evidence on him (including, it seems, the jacket) can't be a careless mistake (in my opinion). So what are some of the possible reasons?

- He committed the crime and had another target in mind

- He committed the crime and really didn't think he'd get away with it so he kept it to keep some unknown options open.

- He committed the crime and didn't want any doubt that he was guilty when he got caught. Perhaps he wanted the media to be focussed more on the "why" than "is it him?" speculation.

How about some of the possible reasons he was at a McDonalds instead of many other ways to get food that wouldn't have security cameras

- He was ready to be caught as the media cycle was moving on and he perceived momentum of empathy for him right now

- He was ready to be caught because being on the run was too hard and not inline with his goals

- He wasn't thinking clearly and didn't really have much of a post-shooting plan outside of getting out of NYC

- He felt safe in that town

- He overestimated his support

About 1% of VFIAX is UnitedHealthcare. This is my main mutual fund holding. Product idea: auto short selling in proportion to your holdings for companies you dislike.

Living in SF as a family of four with both adults working from home... Owning 1 car and using Waymo/uber/lyft/e-Bike is already significantly cheaper than owning 2 cars.

Cost of making up a rumor : 2c

Cost of proving a rumor is false : $$$

Cost of disseminating that proof to say 90% of people fooled: $$

Cost of persuading those 90% that your proof is more reliable than the rumor: $$$$$

Waymo has much better data than Tesla. It is just the coverage of that data that is different.

FWIW, Waymo has more cameras than a Tesla. Both companies are removing sensors over time. In some ways removing sensors is easier to prove out with real-life data than adding them. I think it is going to be fascinating to see how it plays out.

One challenge for Tesla and Waymo has been the piecemeal permitting process. Even though California gave Waymo a statewide permit they have still needed to work through various cities/counties for permits. I imagine one goal of Musk's is to make that all go away sometime next year. I'm not making a comment on whether I agree that is a good idea. Just speculating.

25% of Taylor's revenue (at least 3 years ago) were parts and repair services. source - https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4?si=n_L87Fx3VWeEz9Xz&t=1261

Follow up interview question. Update the code using your LLM code gen tool of choice that, when someone submits a complaint via an online form, feeds that complaint text back into your LLM to score it again. Points deduction if the candidate ever mentions informing the complainant of anything.

Google product manager interview question - Write some code with an LLM tool that leverages a LLM to determine if the new owner of a domain is doing (a) same dodgy thing as prior owner that got flagged (b) different dodgy thing as prior owner but should be flagged (c) something completely innocuous (d) needs further review.

I think the grocery store security video supports the two directions idea. If you watch carefully it looks like a pressure wave away from the target and clearly something takes the target down. Perhaps a pressure wave in the opposite direction too.

Watching the grocery store security video, I think a multi-directional shaped charge is plausible with pressure evident in two directions. But very hard to draw any conclusions.

Shaped charge hidden in the battery casing. Sounds like batteries heated up which is consistent with one method that shaped charges could be detonated. No extra wires needed going into the battery (better concealment).

If there have been big breakthroughs I suspect they are classified.

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I've set a countdown timer and then asked it "how much time is left on the timer?" and it says "You have no timers set" then inside say 30s, the timer goes off. Has happened to me a half dozen times in the last 2 months (at different amounts of time left obviously). This was my primary use case of alexa and now I just use Siri on my phone when my phone is nearby. Siri isn't ideal as I find it hard sometimes to quickly see how much time is left on the timer. But at least it doesn't forget one is running.

#1 could be slit into two parts I think. Microsoft kernel side and CloudStrike module side.

Anytime critical infrastructure goes down I always have a fleeting thought back to “Spy Game” movie where the CIA cut power to part of a Chinese city to help with a prison escape.

Greatest Educational Life Hack is getting your children to love going to school.

David McBride and Richard Boyle. Both tried the official channels then whistleblower channels. Both made some mistakes but all in the public interest. Aussie gov treated them shamefully.

Not always. For example if bringing a new product to market has the perception it might eat into existing revenue then all sorts of managment shenanigans will likely happen at most big orgs.

My local sushi train is all about the belts.