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Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,918 posts.
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A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…
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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center of Excellence with more than 5,000 jobs.
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
To help businesses, schools, and others navigate remote work and life, we're making our premium video conferencing solution free for all.
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Text Embedding Models Contain Bias
As Machine Learning practitioners, when faced with a task, we usually select or train a model primarily based on how well it performs on that task. For example, say we're building a system to classify whether a movie review is positive or negative. We take 5 different models and see how well each performs this task:
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Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
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How I Start: Erlang
Erlang releases are a bit like magnets. Everyone who thinks about them shares the same thought: f**king releases, how do they work?
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Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B
StripedHyena-7B is an open-source model built beyond the Transformer architecture, matching Llama-2 and Mistral 7B while running faster on long sequences.
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A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
Building a lock free continuous ring buffer
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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OpenAI technical goals
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.
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Debugging Asynchronous JavaScript with Chrome DevTools
A powerful feature that makes JavaScript unique is its ability to work asynchronously via callback functions. Assigning async callbacks let you write event-driven code but it also makes tracking down bugs a hair pulling experience since the JavaScript is not executing in a linear fashion.
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Pg_jsonschema – JSON Schema Support for Postgres
Today we're releasing pg_jsonschema, a Postgres extension for JSON validation.
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Tor's Fall Harvest: The Next Generation of Onion Services
We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched it two weeks ago by publishing our first alpha releases. All in all, the new system is a well needed improvement that fixes many shortcomings of the old design, and…
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Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p
With no fees, no minimum deposits, and no minimum balance requirements, users can easily set up and manage their Savings account directly from Wallet.
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Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
LLMs excel at text generation but fail at precise document extraction due to nondeterminism. | Pulse AI
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Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
Age-related declines in stem cell function can be reversed by a 24-hour fast, according to a new study from MIT. Biologists found fasting dramatically improves stem cells’ ability to regenerate, in both aged and young mice.
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Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
Two competing syntaxes need your help in determining which should be championed through to a specification candidate.
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Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres
A key part of running a reliable database as a service is ensuring you have a good plan for disaster recovery. This post introduces WAL-G, the successor to WAL-E for Postgres, a complete rewrite of WAL-E that provides the same functionality plus 4x faster restores on recovery.
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An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
The Circle Blog is your source for the latest product features, company announcements, and insights from Circle and USDC. Read and subscribe for more info!
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Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies
Mozilla has a long running interest in fostering greater transparency, trust and accountability related to privacy and the many cookie-based practices we see today. On Friday, Mozilla released a Firefox ...
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OCSP Service Has Reached End of Life
Today we turned off our Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) service, as announced in December of last year. We stopped including OCSP URLs in our certificates more than 90 days ago, so all Let’s Encrypt certificates that contained OCSP URLs have now expired. Going forward, we will publish revocation information…
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Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Logitech MX Master 3 vs. 2S Teardown
The Logitech MX Master series of mice is a favorite among the Bolt team. They’re consistently rated as top of the pack among graphic designers, engineering design professionals and everyday users who are looking for a solid wireless mouse. While they aren’t ideal for gaming, they’re well-suited for