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posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, the January 2018 report, the report at Scheme Workshop 2018, the January 2019 report, the ICFP experience report, an...
Biotechnology is plainly advancing rapidly, and by 2020 there will be thousands-even millions-of people with the capability to cause a catastrophic biological disaster. My concern is not only organized terrorist groups, but individual weirdos with the mindset of the people who now design computer viruses. Even if all…
Micro-housing—dorm-room-sized apartments in desirable, walkable neighborhoods—isn’t for everyone, but it most definitely is for Anna Rogers. Anna is a recent college graduate who grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and now works a retail job while looking to start a career that harnesses her passion for politics. Thanks…
We’ve filed a lawsuit against the makers of Search Guard. Here is what we know, the actions we’re taking, and potential impact to Search Guard users.
Learn how the engineering team at Asana rewrote the Asana app to improve app performance and speed from an in-depth, technical perspective.
This document explains the WebAssembly tail calls proposal and demonstrates it with some examples.
OCaml 4.03 is branched and a first release candidate is imminent, so it seems like a good time to take stock of what’s coming.
A full overview of what Ethereum is, how it works, what it does and how to start using or building on it. Explained in simple terms.
To streamline the productivity of the JFrog Platform we will be sunsetting Bintray (including JCenter), GoCenter, and ChartCenter services on May 1st, 2021.
The mudflap run time checker has been removed. The mudflap options remain, but do nothing.
The job market is a whole lot better than it was during the worst of the Great Recession, but around 7 million American men between the ages of 25 and 54 – mostly too old to be in school and too young to retire – are neither working nor looking for work. That amounts to […]
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering2011133 points69 commentscited by 4Security & Privacy details
 UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
Anthropic's new system, Clio, analyzes how people use AI while maintaining their privacy.
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.
So you’ve bought into this whole RPC thing and want to try it out, but aren’t quite sure about Protocol Buffers. Your existing code encodes your own objects, or perhaps you have code that needs a particular encoding. What to do? Fortunately, gRPC is encoding agnostic! You can still get a lot of the benefits of gRPC…
Our customers reasonably expect to be able to spend on their card, make bank transfers and pay their bills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their lives don’t have downtime for maintenance so nor should we. We dedicate a lot of our engineering effort to minimise the risk of downtime during technical migrations and…
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Espressif’s ESP32-C5 is the industry’s first RISC-V SoC solution that supports 2.4 and 5 GHz dual-band Wi-Fi 6, along with Bluetooth LE. It is designed for applications that require a high-efficiency wireless transmission.
Official winners and technical report.
We present Performance RNN, an LSTM-based recurrent neural network designed to model polyphonic music with expressive timing and dynamics. Here’s an example...
Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to...
