We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find…

jack Morris's investigation into GPT-OSS training data

https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164?t=3YRhVQDwQLk2gouTSACoqA&s=09

Beale Infrastructure's Arizona site could have grown to two million sq ft

Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it&…

The Eye Security Research team has uncovered a new critical misconfiguration that exposed sensitive data at internal Microsoft applications.

A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

hiring in tech is broken and everyone knows it. what can we do better?

A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has…

Don't "let it crash". Let it heal.

Abstract: An implementation of a minimal CPU on Conway's the Game of Life (an 'unlimited register machine'), and runs at ~10Hz.

Is your volume discount a good deal? Who nose!

curious about the training data of OpenAI's new gpt-oss models? i was too.

so i generated 10M examples from gpt-oss-20b, ran some analysis, and the results were... pretty bizarre

time for a deep dive 🧵

New evidence suggests an informal settlement was established after the eruption that buried much of the city.

New evidence suggests an informal settlement was established after the eruption that buried much of the city.