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ro_bit··on Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays
The y axis only goes up to 0.4%

edit: see azundos explanation

ro_bit··on Mexico's welfare policies helped 13.4M people out of poverty
Why did the “no access to health services” figure double?
ro_bit··on Open AI announces $1.5M bonus for every employee
Are there any news sources corroborating this? Maybe it's early but I'm surprised I can't find any articles from OpenAI or press outlets about this. Googling "openAI bonus" gives some reddit threads, some linkedin posts, and this hacker news post
ro_bit··on Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
Thanks for your response! I love this forum for how many experts chime in in the comments section
ro_bit··on Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
The title scared me a bit before I opened the article and realized it was talking about restaurant->consumer food delivery services. While that isn't great, I was initially thinking was that the companies that facilitate the food delivery supply chains around the world were massively consolidated (I sure hope they aren't)
ro_bit··on The 'Arbitrage Consultants' Promising Risk-Free Sports Betting
What stops online gambling conglomerates from creating terms that say “you can’t hedge your promotional money bet on another gambling site” and cooperate with other sites to enforce it? Casinos already happily cooperate with each other to ban card counters from blackjack

Also for anyone confused by the article, the Wikipedia for matched betting is much better at explaining all this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_betting

ro_bit··on Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court
He ordered the materials online and displayed them in his room in extremely small quantities. How exactly did the authorities even find out? Let alone evacuate a neighboorhood decide to pursue such a trivial case
ro_bit··on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
4 hour catastrophic outage because of a shitty domain registrar makes me wonder if zoom will be switching critical services to a different tld sooner or later as a result of this
ro_bit··on I got kicked out of Columbia for taking a stand against LeetCode interviews
So tired of seeing this guy. LinkedIns algorithm has decided my feed needs to be incessantly bombarded with his marketing rather than the updates from my connections that I actually want LinkedIn for. Is there any way to turn off non followed people entirely on my feed?
ro_bit··on Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
> Adams said the settlement came after Cantu’s lawyers agreed this month to exclude Black employees from the proposed class action, which Google had sought.

Does anyone familiar with the case know the context behind this?

ro_bit··on EA Origin is shutting down
Origin has already been functionally unusable already for most platforms, as if you launched it on any EA App compatible platform, Origin would automatically force update to the EA App unless you messed with the files to disable the check. Shutting down the app will mostly just pull up the ladder for anyone on an incompatible platform.

I switched to the EA App recently. It's definitely a lot more user hostile than Origin was. Unlike Origin, there's no setting in the app to make it close when you hit the X button, and every time you open the app it opens a full page of ads for their games, with no option to have to have it default to your library instead. All in all it really just seems like an enshittified update offering no new features I want and a lot of "features" I don't want.

ro_bit··on Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location
With the level of opsec described, I'd honestly be surprised if his legal name was Brian Krebs
ro_bit··on Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer
It looks like they did, but the comments after seem to indicate there are still affected users https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/issues/4979#issuec...
ro_bit··on Are Overemployed 'Ghost Engineers' Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?
> The Stanford research has not yet been published in any form outside of a few graphs Denisov-Blanch shared on Twitter. It has not been peer reviewed.

While I don’t doubt the existence of some useless engineers and people secretly working two engineering positions, the fact that they’re claiming 9.5% of engineers are useless based on the output of some code analysis tool and the paper isn’t even published yet makes me think this is junk science. Is their tool going to mark the engineer with decades of institutional knowledge who mainly spends their time helping others as useless? Or the tech lead who is a manager in all but name but doesn’t have time anymore for code?

ro_bit··on The $3T AI Opportunity Everyone Missed
> The real opportunity isn't in API fees or enterprise AI. It's in something far bigger: AI-generated, personalized audio and video advertising. Think programmatic advertising, but orders of magnitude larger.

It’s hard to embrace the hype of this “opportunity” when the end goal seems downright horrific for society

ro_bit··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
The catch looks amazing, but one thing I don't understand is why SpaceX needs the technology to catch a booster they've already demonstrated the ability to land boosters on barges. Is the arm more cost effective to scale compared to a barge?
ro_bit··on ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms
AI based code editing tool (https://www.cursor.com/)
ro_bit··on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
I guess you need a subscription for everything these days
ro_bit··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
> When a user buys $30 in Robux, the platform’s virtual currency, Roblox recognizes $30 in bookings. An average of $3 of that $30 is spent on a “consumable” (i.e., a single-user or otherwise perishable good), and so Roblox recognizes that $3 as revenue right away. The remaining $27 is spent on “durable” goods such as an avatar. As an avatar can and often will be used over time, Roblox recognizes this revenue over the average lifetime of a Roblox user

I'm not sure if I'm understanding this point correctly. From my understanding, wouldn't roblox consider their revenue in a given month to be 1/9th of this months purchases + 1/27th of last month's purchases + ...

If so, why would their revenue recognition make them unprofitable? Every month they only realize 1/9th of revenue from that month, but that would be offset by the other 8/9ths of revenue coming from the last 27 months. Wouldn't it just make their recognized revenue a frontloaded rolling average?

ro_bit··on How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)
The graphic at the end of the article says the author's team only treated patients with gunshot wounds, and not tramples or sprains, so I imagine those lower priority injuries were diverted to other hospitals.
ro_bit··on How one ED mobilized his department during a mass casualty incident (2017)
Does "crumped" in this context mean a sudden deterioration? (ie. crumpled)
ro_bit··on Panic at the Job Market
> Now I’ve got nothing to show of my life of work, while other people who just picked a better company to work at 20 years ago and never left have been growing their wealth by a couple million dollars per year every year for almost their entire career, all working as just some rando middle manager at multi-trillion-dollar companies.

The authors repeated insistence on incredibly inflated salary numbers makes me question if I'm on the outside of some inside joke

ro_bit··on US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
Why was the previous discussion flagged?
ro_bit··on Android's theft protection features
> Factory reset upgrade prevents a reset by a thief. For some criminals, the goal is to quickly reset your stolen device and resell it. We’re making it more difficult to do that with an upgrade to Android’s factory reset protection. With this upgrade, if a thief forces a reset of the stolen device, they’re not able to set it up again without knowing your device or Google account credentials. This renders a stolen device unsellable, reducing incentives for phone theft.

Has this not been the case in the past?

ro_bit··on Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward
You're right it's more than 6. The 190 figure probably comes from the number of "countries" that were restricted from purchasing the game after (and only after) the PSN account linking was announced. Steam defines a lot of territories and unrecognized regions as "countries". Supported PSN countries are listed here https://www.playstation.com/country-selector/index.html

E: Actually some of the countries in the selector aren't supported for PSN either (at least PH), so I'm no longer sure if there is an offical list of supported PSN countries anywhere.

ro_bit··on Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
> Arrowhead allowed their game to be sold in countries where you will not be able to play.

This is the thing that I'm not sure of and that I think the question of whether to blame Arrowhead depends on. Who authorized selling it in non PSN countries in the first place? Is that Arrowhead's responsibility as a studio, or Sony's responsibility as a publisher?

Considering you can find locations to buy the physical game on Playstation's official website, even in unsupported countries, I'm leaning towards the latter

(https://www.playstation.com/en-ph/games/helldivers-2/)

ro_bit··on Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
I'm not sure about the actual hardware, but physical copies of helldivers 2 are on sale in the Philippines, where you can't make a PSN account. You can find them on Playstation's website which makes me think they are authorized copies https://www.playstation.com/en-ph/games/helldivers-2/
ro_bit··on The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City
> After rounding up the employees, he would direct them to grab their jackets before herding them into the walk-in freezer. Once they were locked inside, he raided the store, then called police to alert them to the frigid workers.

Aren't freezers designed to be very easy to get out of from the inside? Is there something I'm missing about confining people in a freezer? Maybe it blocks cell reception or he's blocking the doors

ro_bit··on Randar: A Minecraft exploit that uses LLL lattice reduction to crack server RNG
Between nocom and this I'm sure at least a dozen people who had no idea about reverse engineering are going to eventually have a career in it thanks to his videos, even if I find them incredibly cheesy. His videos have a habit of reaching and engrossing all sorts of people who otherwise wouldn't really care about minecraft server exploits, and maybe that will inspire some of them to learn more

Thanks for the writeup!

ro_bit··on Once again, California exceeds 100% of demand on its main grid with
What does the "imports" chart mean? Is energy imported from outside the grid renewable?
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