Not necessarily servers, just not into the register as a tracked transaction.

Tax fraud, essentially.

E.g. you go to the Minnesota State Fair, merchants may offer to not charge sales tax if you pay cash. It is shockingly brazen sometimes.

> How could a business possibly operate in this reality?

Extremely lax enforcement on the part of the specific US state's department of revenue

US Bank for a brief period opened up a 4% card, but then closed it so quick that obviously the numbers didn't work out there.

2% seems to be a local maximum of cashback cards. There's a lot of 2% cards, and only a handful above that.

Makes sense?

27 tonnes of gold fits in a single container. You're talking about like 1 or 2 cubic meters of gold (for comparison, a standard 2TEU container is like 50+ cubic meters). And that'll fit as a partial payload in a single military transport aircraft. The actual flying of the gold isn't super interesting (not like there's roving piracy in the air), but the logistics of how it would securely get from NYC to airport etc is kinda cool.

From the article it sounds like they moved 27 tonnes, not 86. (Most gold "moves" are just selling in one location and buying in the new, and eating the spread. Eventually I guess there's math showing the spread is large enough it's worth moving)

But yes, would be a cool read on the logistics.

I don't know anything about the last 8 years of chess engines, but yea maybe 8-10 years ago AlphaZero shit all over e.g. stockfish.

I guess you missed Leela then.

And in 2020 Stockfish 12 adding some NN evaluation. And then in 2023 Stockfish 16 entirely removing the classical position evaluation code.

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2023/stockfish-16/

It depends what on what you're growing.

With roses, a significant % of manual time is spent fighting aphids

Fair point

I guess JS doesn't have to care about this at all because they're not selling their UI to others, just making it in house for in house use

JavaScript?

No, OCaml

Think node, except the other direction. They write their backend in OCaml, and then they also write their web ui in OCaml with a translation layer

Or think of gwt (java) awhile back

JaneStreet, see post title.

That is a cool visualization.

Punched in my grandparents' town and a bunch of the slices stretched 1500km over three states away. A lot of the US is big and empty.

This is not exactly a new criticism. See e.g. Fisk's complaint from decades ago r.e. "US Officials Say"

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/rober...

How can we measure if things are worse now? Potentially asking/training an LLM on news stories from different eras might be a fairer comparison than human intelligence at this point.