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Customizing GPT-3 for Your Application
Fine-tune with a single command.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,692 posts.
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Webb placed on top of Ariane 5
On Saturday 11 December, the James Webb Space Telescope was placed on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
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Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition in 2023
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to the 17th-century master Johannes Vermeer for the first time in its history. With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. The Rijksmuseum itself has…
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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era
A deep dive into Adaptive Projections, a novel way to make interactive maps more accurate without compromises to user experience or rendering quality.
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Vivaldi: Violating CoC on forum may close your email account
We’re building a Community that is happy, kind, and constructive. Read our Code of Conduct for and find out how you can help us get there.
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Deno Joins TC39
Deno has joined the JavaScript standards committee to improve the language for everyone.
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Managed by Bots: surveillance of gig economy workers
What if your boss was an algorithm? What would you do if your employer suddenly fired you or reduced your pay without telling you why? And without being willing to give you a reason when you ask for one?
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Étoilé on Gnustep
Étoilé is an innovative GNUstep based user environment built from the ground up on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in mind.
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Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
The tools you didn’t know you need
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Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic
ITU’s Measuring digital development: Facts and figures 2021 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year.
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The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.
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Widespread exploitation of critical remote code execution in Apache Log4j
On December 10, 2021, Apache released a fix for CVE-2021-44228, a critical RCE vulnerability affecting Log4j that is being exploited in the wild.
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Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies
In the previous post, I made a case for why programming languages should have a utility library that provides small-but-commonly-needed functions. Today I’m introducing a Raku package that I hope w…
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What happens to developers who never go into management?
What if you never take that promotion?
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Kropotkin escapes from prison
On the occasion of Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his escape from prison in Tsarist Russia.
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0-Day Vulnerability on Log4j
Learn about the Log4j vulnerability and how you can combat it. Read this comprehensive guide to get actionable tips.
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The future of Python build systems and Gentoo
Anyone following my Twitter could have seen me complaining about things happening around Python build systems frequently. The late changes feel like people around the Python packaging ecosystem hav…
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Scala at scale at Databricks
Explore how Databricks leverages Scala for large-scale data processing, enhancing performance and developer productivity.
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How do you fix a stroad?
We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.
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Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
Like FLoC and Privacy Sandbox before it, Google Chrome’s Manifest V3 is another example of the inherent conflict of interest that comes from Google controlling both the dominant web browser and one of the largest internet advertising networks.
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Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B
Following our Series A announcement earlier this year, I'm thrilled to announce that we raised Series B financing from new and existing investors. This year alone we've doubled our user base to reach 10m+ users, tripled concurrent containers on our network, and grew traffic to sites and apps on the network by orders…
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Tailwind CSS v3.0
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is here — bringing incredible performance gains, huge workflow improvements, and a seriously ridiculous number of new features.
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HashiCorp IPO today
As we officially enter the public markets, we plan to continue to do what we think we do best: solving problems for our end users.