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How to use a Python multiprocessing module
Working with Python multiprocessing module can be difficult at times. Learn what you can do with it.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,677 posts.
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How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers
Monarch Mixer: Revisiting BERT, Without Attention or MLPs
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eSIM is altering how consumers interact with operators
While eSIM adoption in the mobile market has been arriving for some time, Apple’s move to make
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Kids Online Safety Act is still a danger to our rights online
Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like KOSA? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to...
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WordPress Core to start using SQLite
This post is an update to the proposal for officially support SQLite in WordPress. The initial implementation was included in the Performance Lab plugin and then released as a stand-alone plugin. T…
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UK version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process
Experts warn that ISPs would use black-box AI to comply Like our piece on Canada's Cyber-Security Bill earlier this year, this item was flagged in my work for the Internet Society, Canada Chapter, but this post does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ISCC. It concerns a legal opinion…
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Rethinking Window Management
Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. Ever since the dawn of time we've relied on the window metaphor as the primary way of multitasking on the desktop. In this metaphor, each app can spawn one or more rectangular windows, which are...
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JEP 400: UTF-8 by Default
Specify UTF-8 as the default charset of the standard Java APIs. With this change, APIs that depend upon the default charset will behave consistently across all implementations, operating systems, locales, and configurations.
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Memory Copy Hunting
I have a super power. I want to share it in this blog post so that you, my dear reader, also have it!
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Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification
Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
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An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby
Learn Ruby metaprogramming: call methods dynamically with send, define them at runtime with define_method, and handle missing calls with method_missing.
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Google vs. the Open Web
A few days ago, I made a social media post about Google vs. the Open Web. It received some responses, so I’ll reproduce it below with some...
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“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewarding more than 340,00
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Guide to running Llama 2 locally
How to run Llama 2 on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your phone.
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Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote
Virtual space platform to help remote teams collaborate.
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Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.
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Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed
There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and apparently being...
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Digikey's Physical Connectors Tutorial
There are many different kinds of connectors, all serve the same purpose but in different ways. This article discusses connectors and their typical applications.
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Per capita CO₂ emissions Over Time
An interactive visualization from Our World in Data.
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Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)
These extensions expand the x86 instruction set with access to registers and features that improve performance.
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A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2
Brev.Dev Instances Console
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Elixir is still safe
Examining the misleading claims in a published paper about Elixir security
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Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction
Learn how to train LLM for accurate answers with VectorSQL which allows you to execute finely-grained vector searches to target and retrieve the required information
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Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences
Learning Elixir when you already know Ruby? Here are the three most important things you need to understand
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Mixing Swift and C++
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.