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Scaling AI for everyone
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
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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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Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.
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Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
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AF_UNIX comes to Windows
Introduction: Beginning in Insider Build 17063, you’ll be able to use the unix socket (AF_UNIX) address family on Windows to communicate between Win32
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A New, Optional Way to Share and Discover Music, TV and Movies
We’re making conversations quicker and easier.
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Participation Inequality: The 90-9-1 Rule for Social Features
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
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Friday Facts #176 - Belts optimization for 0.15
Hi everyone. About half a year ago whenever I was sitting deeply in Factorio and when I needed to spend time in my phone, I was reading FFF or Factorio forum. Later when I decided to move - I suddenly realized that Wube is the most logical target to apply my crazy mind. All thanks to those FFF and you guys. Now I am…
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Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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SSL added and removed here ;-)
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
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A number of countries have decoupled economic growth from energy use, even if we take offshored production into account
Energy use is declining in some countries, despite economic growth.
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PEP 518 – Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects
This PEP specifies how Python software packages should specify what build dependencies they have in order to execute their chosen build system. As part of this specification, a new configuration file is introduced for software packages to use to specify...
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Signals and Threads Podcast
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Air pollution
Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. WHO data shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. WHO is working with countries to monitor air pollution and improve air quality.
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Masking lack of evidence with politics
The increasing polarised and politicised views 1 on whether to wear masks in public during the current COVID-19 crisis hides a bitter truth on the state of contemporary research and the value we pose on clinical evidence to guide our decisions.
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The DeWitt Clause: Why You Rarely See Database Benchmarks
Back in the early 1980s, Dr. David DeWitt – who you might know from past PASS Summit keynotes, formerly of Microsoft (LinkedIn) – was working on measuring database performance. His team wrote a benchmark, ran it against Oracle, and Oracle didn’t fare well in the results. Oracle reacted as one would expect – they were…
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Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers
Team82 researched the attack surface of the Danfoss AK-SM 800A refrigeration controller platform and identified multiple vulnerabilities affecting the embedded web management interface. Team82 disclosed the vulnerabilities to Danfoss, which addressed them in a new firmware version. Successful exploits of the…
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The Growth Ponzi Scheme: A Crash Course
Ponzi schemes fail because they are built on illusions: there is no there there. So what happens when an entire continent of towns and cities is caught up in a kind of Growth Ponzi Scheme? We are finding out.
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iCloud Private Relay: What Cloudflare Customers Need to Know
iCloud Private Relay is an Apple service for browsing more privately and securely. Learn how to ensure the best user experience using iCloud Private Relay.
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Aseprite - New source code license
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
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8.3 Who Pays for Schools?: Where California's Public School Funds Come From
Where does the money for public schools in California come from? What is the role of property taxes in education? When did income taxes become the biggest source of school funding? Does the lottery provide a lot of money for schools?
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Yubico proposes WebAuthn protocol extension to simplify backup security keys
Yubico proposes a new WebAuthn extension to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to add a user-friendly solution for backup security keys, and receives cryptographic proof from researchers at the Surrey Center for Cyber Security.
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Init Freedom
Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.
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Bezos Expeditions invests in 37signals
Today we have a very special announcement to make: Bezos Expeditions, a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, has made a minority private equity investment in 37signals.
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A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab ...
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Impact Speed and a Pedestrian's Risk of Severe Injury or Death
This study examines how vehicle speed influences the probability that a pedestrian struck by a vehicle will sustain severe injuries or die.
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PEP 3131 – Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers
This PEP suggests to support non-ASCII letters (such as accented characters, Cyrillic, Greek, Kanji, etc.) in Python identifiers.
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Net migration to the UK
An overview of net migration in the UK – defined as the difference between immigration and emigration of people moving for at least a year.
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Human Height
The average height of a population can inform us about the nutrition and living conditions of populations in the past for which we have little other data.