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The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock
It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying
ChatGPT is really good at roleplaying as strange and unusual characters with minimal prompting.
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Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders Will Migrate to Google Tasks Soon
As previously announced , in the coming months, we’ll migrate Reminders from Google Calendar and Google Assistant to Google Tasks to create a single experience for managing to-dos across Google.
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Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system
Today, Internet Explorer has been consigned to the dustbin of history, yet its quirks and peculiar features remain an interesting area of discussion from a historical perspective. There was one particular feature of IE which not only now seems comically naive, but also completely impractical: namely, IE tried to…
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Belgium legalises ethical hacking
On 15 February 2023, Belgium saw the entering into force of a new ‘whistleblower’ law, which legalised ‘ethical hacking’ even for cases where the hacked entity did not consent to it. In order to benefit from such decriminalisation, the law poses a number of conditions for ethical hacking, that have to be fulfilled in…
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Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten
A new population-based study, involving 22 million people, shows that autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten individuals
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FaaS in Go with WASM, WASI and Rust
This post is best described as a technology demonstration; it melds together web servers, plugins, WebAssembly, Go, Rust and ABIs. Here's what it shows:
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Windows 11: TPMs and Digital Sovereignty
The problem with enforcing TPMs on consumers
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I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
I downloaded all the posts on Bluesky as of 2023-05-01. Then I did some data analysis on the 1680399 posts from 45457 accounts.
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Transcending My Father's Abuse
Seeing My Dad as More than a Monster
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Implementing Value Speculation in OCaml
Lucas Pluvinage's website
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ACM Software System Award Given to seL4 Microkernel
William Gropp, University of Illinois; Pavan Balaji, Meta; Rajeev Thakur, Yanfei Guo, Kenneth Raffenetti, and Hui Zhou (all of Argonne National Laboratory), receive the ACM Software System Award for MPICH, which has powered 30 years of progress in computational science and engineering by providing scalable, robust…
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The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
Electric vehicle (EV) owners tend to leave their cars charging overnight, putting pressure on the grid. This habit must change, Stanford researchers say.
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Bruce Schneier’s Plan to Reinvent Democracy
I have a confession to make: I am a complete Bruce Schneier fanboy. I have been following the cryptographer, Harvard lecturer and privacy specialist for many years, and was delighted to meet him face-to-face at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, where he gave a keynote (registration required) on how to…
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How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?
Ramblings of a self-taught software engineer2023185 points149 commentsTech Industry & Business details
Truth time! I love transparency because it takes away the uncertainty and illusions. It helps and inspires people to plan and execute based on facts, not bullshit.
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Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg
Besök Ostindiefararen Götheborg i Göteborg och upptäck världens största oceanfärdiga träskepp. Boka biljetter och utforska historien bakom detta unika fartyg.
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How is it even possible to cheat on a musical performance practical exam?
Nature finds a way.
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Life After Language
In October 2013, I wrote a post arguing that computing was disrupting language and that this was the Mother of All Disruptions . My specific argument was that…
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When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
Last week, the open-core team chat platform Mattermost announced that “Mattermost Cloud Free will no longer be offered after July 26, 2023.” This likely came as an unpleasant surprise to users on that plan, as less than a month before, Mattermost’s pricing page featured the promise that the Cloud Free …
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Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama
Together releases the RedPajama-INCITE 3B and 7B model family, including base, instruction-tuned, and chat versions, with the 3B model running on an RTX 2070.
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Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.
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Monoliths are not dinosaurs
Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.
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A few words on Ruby's type annotations state
...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words
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Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond review-and-approval
We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm
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MosaicML MPT-7B: A Commercially-Usable LLaMa-Quality Model
Introducing MPT-7B, the first entry in our MosaicML Foundation Series. MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. MPT-7B was trained on the MosaicML platform in 9.5 days with zero human intervention…