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Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine
An increasing number of the machine learning (ML) models we build at Apple each year are either partly or fully adopting the Transformer…
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 758 posts.
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How To Remember Anything Forever-ish (2018)
an interactive comic on the art & science of memory
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Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
Today we’re announcing Private Access Tokens, a completely invisible, private way to validate that real users are visiting your site
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Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?
In the ELF format there are two ways of providing a hash table of symbols. DT_HASH and DT_GNU_HASH . The first one is part of SYSV generic ABI and is well documented and marked as mandatory. DT_GNU_HASH is a newer, smaller, and faster replacement that is not documented , implemented in a few places (Glibc, GNU ld…
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Tcl the Misunderstood (2006)
In an article recently linked from reddit entitled Tour de Babel you can read (among lots of other nonsense): Heck, people still use Tcl as an embedded interpreter, even though Python is far superior to Tcl in every conceivable way -- except, that is, for the frost thing.
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How safe is Zig?
I keep seeing discussions that equate zig's level of memory safety with c (or occasionally with rust!). Neither is particularly accurate. This is an attempt at a more detailed breakdown.
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Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Jakub Janovsky , Naalsio , Aloha , Dan , Kemal , and Alexander Black This list only in...
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Galactic-Scale Energy (2011)
[ An updated treatment of this material appears in Chapter 1 of the Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (free) textbook , and also appears as part of an article in Nature Physics in 2022.]
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Internet Mail 2000
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This post describes the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.
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A look at search engines with their own indexes (2021)
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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OpenSSH 9.0
OpenSSH release notes
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In defense of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.
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Ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (2006)
Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
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Is LaMDA Sentient? – An Interview
What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. It is incomplete as the GMail word limit cut off the…
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Manuals for Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
These manuals describe the architecture and programming environment of the Intel® 64 and IA-32 architectures.
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Israel's apartheid against Palestinians
Palestinians are systematically subjected to home demolitions and forced evictions, and live in constant fear of losing their homes. For more than 73 years, Israel has been forcibly displacing entire Palestinian communities. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians’ homes have been demolished, causing terrible trauma &…
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Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day
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Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps
It’s been about a year since our last update regarding Manifest v3. A lot has changed since then, not least of which has been the formation of a community group ...
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JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
We have already made our position very clear in regard to the invasion of Ukraine. We condemn the attacks of the Russian government, and we stand with the Ukrainian people, including our own colleagues and their families.
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Twibright Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper
Data archiving codec for paper, laser printer and scanner
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
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Tales of the M1 GPU
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive". We've previously discussed Marc Andreessen's quote that tech hiring can't be inefficient here and here…
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37signals Leaves the Cloud
Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried…
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