When he saw that I couldn't open the door I asked him what the trick was he said, in a tone of voice that made it sound like this was obviously something everyone should know, you need to pull the door before pushing it. The door was wedged such that the easiest way to open the door was to pull the door as tightly shut as possible and then immediately shove the door open. This friend, since he grew up in that house, thought this was obvious, apparently not realizing that it's not normal to have to try to close a door extra hard to open it.

Astra supports Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers, and as we shared last month, we're testing Private Safety Processing to strengthen safety monitoring while preserving customer privacy.

During the evaluation, Astra even discovered and used two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. We are disclosing both vulnerabilities to their maintainers.

Zero-based budgeting requires every expense to be justified for each period, starting from a "zero base."

ZBB involves analyzing and justifying each cost

YNAB expects you to put your money into budgets based on whatever money comes in. But that's not how Firefly III works. Firefly III works the other way around. At the start of the month, you decide what you want to spend. If everything is OK, your budget should at least match what you earn. So that's easy. But if everything is better than OK, you budget less than you make, and you save the rest. You can use the rest of the money to fill piggy banks or donate to me (kidding ;)).

Contrary, zero based budgeting keeps the focus on your paychecks and forces you to divide it over your budgets. Your primary driver becomes how much money you make and not how much money you spend. This is an important distinction.

Here's the important part: your budget is not static. It's not something you set and forget. Maybe you check in and realize your food budget is busted because you hosted a dinner party. No problem — just move money from somewhere else to cover it. Maybe when the next month starts, you see that your budget didn't really work. Make a new budget based off what you learned!

We find the best way to track your money is rooted in something called envelope budgeting. Instead of predicting how much you'll make and spend and trying to reconcile that with what actually happened, envelope budgeting embraces real income as the source of your budget instead. This means you can only budget money that you already have. You can think of categories as little funds that you deposit money into. Combined with our rollover system, it provides an intuitive way to handle a lot of things that come up in life. And you know it's always accurately depicting your finances — there's no made up numbers.

With a zero-based budget, you’re giving every single dollar a job on purpose. It’s hands down the best way to take control of your money and feel confident every time you spend.

Every page write extracts entity refs and creates typed edges (attended, works_at, invested_in, founded, advises) with zero LLM calls.

CXL solves this by introducing a shared memory pool that expands capacity beyond GPU memory, enabling KV reuse across workers. With CXL's load/store semantics, KV data can be accessed with zero-copy, reducing recomputation, stabilizing latency, and significantly lowering cost per token.

It demonstrated incredible generalization. Without any retraining, TRINITY transferred zero-shot to four unseen tasks

TRINITY transferred zero-shot to four unseen tasks (AIME, BigCodeBench, MT-Bench, and GPQA). On average, the evolved coordinator surpassed every individual constituent model in its pool, including GPT-5, Gemini 2.5-Pro, and Claude-4-Sonnet.

V3.3 achieves 70.4% in Mode A (zero-LLM), with +23.8pp on multi-hop and +12.7pp on adversarial. V3.2 achieved 74.8% Mode A and 87.7% Mode C; the 4.4pp gap reflects a deliberate architectural trade-off.

building and shipping an internal beta product with zero manually written code

Mythos reportedly autonomously discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities within weeks

A deployment cascade combining both stages attains 90% accuracy at 71% coverage without any task-specific labels.

Mythos found zero-day bugs in every major OS and browser, without human guidance.

Humans abandon wikis because the maintenance burden grows faster than the value. LLMs don't get bored, don't forget to update a cross-reference, and can touch 15 files in one pass. The wiki stays maintained because the cost of maintenance is near zero.

Instructive resources cannot assume the user has prior knowledge of all the neighbouring issues of the task at hand

The most popular static site generator, Jekyll, may have the best documentation pages of the lot. And yet, it still puts a bunch of technical language front-and-center, on the project’s home page: Jekyll’s core message, “Get up and running in seconds” This is developer-talk, because static site generators are tools made by developers for themselves and their peers.

if it's just about bending the curve I think solar panels can bend the curve of coal consumption for instance. But of course the difficulty is to get to get near to net zero which is a far far more difficult task

Another problem with existing chunky levees is that they tend tohave zero-sum gotchas.

Darwin's theory says the probability is zero that any sensory system like eyes, ears, smell, touch, taste has ever been shaped to see any aspect of objective reality truly. So the probability is zero that you see any aspect of the truth. Period.

Point Zero, Vol. I, a book on civilizational development by Boris Sirbey

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The world of Silicon Valley is a world of the strong in which there is no place for the weak. It is ruled by zero-sum meritocracy.

What is a realistic timeframe on which “the point of no return” should be understood muchbetter and its implications communicated?

Aurora Serverless packs a number of database instances onto a single physical machine (each isolated inside its own virtual machine using AWS’s Nitro Hypervisor). As these databases shrink and grow, resources like CPU and memory are reclaimed from shrinking workloads, pooled in the hypervisor, and given to growing workloads

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I don't think that anything can happen that influence Russian people to protest or to stand up to disagree whatever if they give their own children Sons with 00:45:48 their own hands

who is among 32 academics who signed a letter in Nature arguing against the SBTi announcement, s

What is the most that a working-class person could hope for from a net-zero future?

The term was coined by productivity expert Merlin Mann in 2006. Mann's point is that time and attention are finite, and productivity suffers when an inbox is confused with a to-do list.  What is the Inbox Zero approach to email management? - TechTarget According to Mann, the zero isn't a reference to the number of messages in an inbox, but rather "the amount of time an employee's brain is in his inbox." Mann's point is that time and attention are finite, and productivity suffers when an inbox is confused with a to-do list. techtarget.com Inbox Zero Method: How to Inbox Zero in 15 Minutes - Superhuman Blog Oct 31, 2023 — What is the Inbox Zero method? Coined by productivity expert Merlin Mann, Inbox Zero is an email management strategy aimed at keeping your inbox empty. Or as empty as possible, at all times. The goal: triage your inbox quickly to reduce clutter and manage emails effectively. Superhuman Blog What is Inbox Zero – Definition, Example, and FAQ - Mindmesh Popularized by productivity guru Merlin Mann in 2006, inbox zero advocates for an empty or nearly empty inbox. It focuses instead on the most important and urgent emails. Inbox zero uses sorting tools and filters to eliminate unnecessary items — archiving and keeping only the important emails. mindmesh.com (function(){ (this||self).Bqpk9e=function(f,d,n,e,k,p){var g=document.getElementById(f);if(g&&(0!==g.offsetWidth||0!==g.offsetHeight)){var l=g.querySelector("div"),h=l.querySelector("div"),a=0;f=Math.max(l.scrollWidth-l.offsetWidth,0);if(0<d&&(h=h.children,a=h[d].offsetLeft-h[0].offsetLeft,e)){for(var m=a=0;m<d;++m)a+=h[m].offsetWidth;a=Math.min(f,a)}a+=n;d=Math.min(e?f-a:a,f);l.scrollLeft=e&&p?a:e&&k?-a:d;var b=g.getElementsByTagName("g-left-button")[0],c=g.getElementsByTagName("g-right-button")[0];b&&c&&(e= RegExp("\\btHT0l\\b"),k=RegExp("\\bpQXcHc\\b"),b.className=b.className.replace(e,""),c.className=c.className.replace(e,""),b.className=0===d?"pQXcHc "+b.className:b.className.replace(k,""),c.className=d===f?"pQXcHc "+c.className:c.className.replace(k,""),setTimeout(function(){b.className+=" tHT0l";c.className+=" tHT0l"},50))}};}).call(this);(function(){var id='_StdsZa-bFNXSkPIPkcqykAk_9';var index=0;var offset=0;var is_rtl=false;var is_gecko=false;var is_edge=false;var init='Bqpk9e';window[init](id,index,offset,is_rtl,is_gecko,is_edge);})();

"Zero inbox" is an email management strategy that aims to keep your inbox as empty as possible. The goal is to triage your inbox quickly to reduce clutter and manage emails effectively.

It'd be a hell of a lot easier to contribute to open source projects if step 0 wasn't "spend 8 hours configuring environment to build"

Absence injustifiée et note « zéro »Une absence non justifiée ou à la justification non valable lors d’un devoir en classe, un travail nonrendu ou une copie « blanche» ou sans valeur du fait d’une tricherie avérée peut impliquer uneévaluation par la note « zéro ». C’est le CPE qui évalue la validité de la justification. Ce zéro neconstitue ni une sanction, ni une punition : l’élève peut donc être sanctionné ou puni par ailleurspour le même fait. Le ou les « zéro » ainsi obtenus peuvent être comptabilisés dans la moyennetrimestrielle.Les possibilités pour le professeur, après échange avec le CPE : Ne pas noter le devoir et indiquer ABS ou NN (si non rendu ou copie blanche) Intégrer un zéro dans la moyenne sans mention particulière Intégrer un zéro dans la moyenne, et préciser en appréciation sur le bulletin « moyenne nonsignificative », avec les notes obtenues

Customers are often left to cobble together disparate services without tight integration in the way Microsoft might provide, for example.All this makes the introduction of Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift such a jaw-dropper. Let’s be clear: In essence, AWS announced that two of its services now work well together. It’s more than that, of course. Removing the cost and complexity of ETL is a great way to remove the need to build data pipelines. At heart, this is about making two AWS services work exceptionally well together. For another company, this might be considered table stakes, but for AWS, it’s relatively new and incredibly welcome.It’s also a sign of where AWS may be headed: tighter integration between its own services so that customers needn’t take on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of AWS service integration.

One of the places where customers spend the most time building and managing ETL pipelines is between transactional databases and data warehouses, which is where AWS set its sights.

One potential solution is the use of a “one big table” (OBT) strategy, where all the raw data is placed into one table. This strategy has both proponents and detractors, but leveraging large language models may overcome some of its challenges, such as discovery and pattern recognition. Super early startups such as Delphi and GetDot.AI, as well as more established players such as AWS QuickSite, Tableau Ask Data, and ThoughtSpot, are driving this trend.

Snowflake and Databricks are pursuing “no copy data sharing,” which provides expanded access to the data where it’s stored without the need for ETL.

A zero-ETL tool is another name for a data replication tool.

Meta, Carbon Trust, and others join the Carbon Call to advance reliable emissions accounting

Gold Standard for the Global Goals customises safeguards, requirements, and methodologies to measure and verify impact on a wide range of activities

Climate Neutral Now

This week Four Corners journeys deep into the Papua New Guinean jungle to uncover the confronting truth about the carbon trade.

We can’t fix what we can’t measure

Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda

reaching zero by 2050 won't take us there

Net Zero Sales covers scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions on an intensity, full equity-share basisacross the value chain and seeks to reduce these:a. By 5% by 2025b. By 15-20% by 2030c. To net-zero by 2050

Net Zero Emissions Commitment covers scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions on an intensity, partialequity-share basis across the value chain and seeks to reduce these:a. By 15% by 2025b. By 28% by 2030c. By 55% by 2040d. To net-zero by 2050.

Net Zero Production covers scope 3 emissions on an absolute, full equity-share basis inthe upstream sector, excluding 3rd party crude, and seeks to reduce these:a. By 10-15% by 2025 [20%]b. By 20-30% by 2030 [30-40%]c. To net-zero by 2050

Net Zero Operations covers scope 1 and 2 emissions on an absolute, operated-asset basisacross the value chain and seeks to reduce these:a. By 20% by 2025b. By 50% by 2030c. To net-zero by 2050

climate finance expert Malango Mughogho, who is managing director of ZeniZeni Sustainable Finance Limited in South Africa and a member of the United Nations High-Level Expert Group on net-zero emissions commitments.

one of the things I think Civil Society has to be aware of is that there's been 00:09:33 a deliberate misuse of the prospects of technology

the graph you see here shows the two Alternatives we have 00:12:22 either we really radically reduce emissions and come to Net Zero by 2040 with limited overshoot

In 2021, Alibaba set ambitious targets of achieving carbon neutrality in our own operations and halving the energy intensity across our value chain by 2030 and driving emission reduction of 1.5 gigatons over 15 years in our platform ecosystem

I just can't get into these sort of high-ritual triage approaches to note-taking. I can admire it from afar, which I do, but find this sort of "consider this ahead of time before you make a move" approaches to really drag down my process.But, I do appreciate them from a sort of "aesthetics of academia" perspective.

Setup a recurring Zoom meeting for set times every week where you guarantee to be present. As much as possible, when people send you an ambiguous request or initiate a conversation that will require a lot of back and forth, point them toward your office hours schedule and tell them to stop by next time they can to discuss. It’s a simple idea, but it can reduce the number of attention-snagging back-and-forth electronic messages in your professional life by an order of magnitude.

I currently inhabit four professional roles: writer, teacher, researcher, and director of graduate studies for my department. For each of these roles, I set up a Trello board that includes a column for: things I’m working on actively, thing I’m waiting to hear back about from someone else,  things on my “back burner” that I’m not yet ready to tackle, and  a list of ambiguous or complicated things that I need to spend some time on figuring out. Every email I receive immediately gets moved to one of these columns in one of my Trello boards.

The new report evokes a mild sense of urgency, calling on governments to mobilise finance to accelerate the uptake of green technology. But its conclusions are far removed from a direct interpretation of the IPCC’s own carbon budgets (the total amount of CO₂ scientists estimate

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I’ve also begun adopting a style loosely based on the approach to introductory signals used in legal writing, where things like See: [[something]] and See also: [[something]] and But see: [[something]] each have slightly different meanings. This gives me a set of supporting, comparison, and contradictory signals I can use when placing links as well.

In addition to specific operations such as rewriting, there are also controls for elaboration and continutation. The user can even ask Wordcraft to perform arbitrary tasks, such as "describe the gold earring" or "tell me why the dog was trying to climb the tree", a control we call freeform prompting. And, because sometimes knowing what to ask is the hardest part, the user can ask Wordcraft to generate these freeform prompts and then use them to generate text. We've also integrated a chatbot feature into the app to enable unstructured conversation about the story being written. This way, Wordcraft becomes both an editor and creative partner for the writer, opening up new and exciting creative workflows.

we have committed to spend 6.2 billion dollars we've made that public to give ourselves real Zero by 2030.

Net Zero

Isaac and I uh with another colleague we did a little bit of work trying to look at what would the Swedish policy or the UK policy indeed look like if it was carried out globally and it would look at something like two and a half degrees Centigrade of warming if 00:31:58 not more