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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
Magika code and model are freely available starting today in Github under the Apache2 License.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,675 posts.
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Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our…
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Uv: Python packaging in Rust
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.
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Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long-context understanding across modalities.
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How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back
Today, we’re releasing a new guide explaining how to compel companies employing deceptive design to dodge data protection requests—like those for data deletion or access—to comply. It encapsulates five years...
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We sped up time series by 20-30x
This is a follow up post that dives into how we managed to achieve such huge performance gains for time series (among other things), and why it was so hard in the first place.
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What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer
More than 700 million years ago, planet Earth was plunged into a 57-million-year-long ice age. Australian scientists led by Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz and Professor Dietmar Müller at the University of Sydney now have an answer why this happened.
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Protein biomarkers predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis in new study
In the largest study of its kind, scientists have shown how protein “biomarkers” predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis.
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A bird's eye view of Polars
Read how Polars executes your query from planning, optimizing to execution.
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Fly.io has GPUs now
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
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Aya: An open LLM by 3k independent researchers across the globe
Cohere's research lab, Cohere Labs, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.
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Is something bugging you?
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
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Git tips and tricks
Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.
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Nokia made too many phones
TextQuery is a desktop app to import data file as a table, query it using SQL.
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Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)
We identified 10 security vulnerabilities within the caddy-security plugin for the Caddy web server that could enable a variety of high-severity attacks in web applications, including client-side code execution, OAuth replay attacks, and unauthorized access to resources. During our evaluation, Caddy was deployed as a…
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Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
Last Thursday, on a clear, sunny morning in Waco, Texas, a jury returned a verdict after less than two hours of deliberation. The jury found that Cloudflare did not infringe the patent asserted against Cloudflare by patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks.
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It Can Be Done (2003)
A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.
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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
OpenStreetMap will take a large leap forward with the introduction of vector tiles on openstreetmap.org this year. This is the first of a series of blog posts where we will share our progress.
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Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?
My vote: no.
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Becoming a dungeon master for an interview
Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join. While that seems like a pretty tautological statement, it is unfortunately not always true. When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms interviews. And don’t…
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Semiconductor Fabrication 101
Free online course from Purdue University in collaboration with Intel Corporation, the University of Texas at Austin, and leading worldwide partners in the field*
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Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
This is a story about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, building the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does.
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Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
UPDATE 2/9: Added an important known issue for Dev Drive users. Please see the known issues below. Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary
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Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
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Fedora Atomic Desktops
Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.