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The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem

Python Software Foundation Blog2023186 points134 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details

After reviewing the proposed Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Act , the PSF has found issues that put the mission of our organization and the health of the open-source software community at risk. While we support the stated goals of these policies of increasing security and accountability for European…

I worked at Google for -10 days

Andrew Gein2023727 points444 commentsCareer & Management details

It’s the story of how I was laid off from Google before I even started to do my job there.

Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions

Supabase Blog2023349 points102 commentsInfrastructure & DevOps details

We are open-sourcing Supabase Edge Runtime allowing you to host your Edge Functions anywhere.

The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding

Silver Repair, Restoration, Silver Conservation,…2023147 points79 commentsHardware & Electronics details

Sterling welding with the Lampert PUK04 pulse arc welder.

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Drew DeVault2023171 points221 commentsOpen Source details

What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015)

AudioNotch Blog2023160 points157 commentsScience & Space details

Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus. I've been reading the literature on tinnitus for several years, and I have yet to come across a paper that provided data…

Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering

Roger Oriol2023244 points176 commentsAI & Machine Learning details

Language models have rapidly improved in recent years, with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 taking center stage. These models have…

Becoming Rustacean: Resources to Learn Rust Programming

Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?

nicole.express2023129 points64 commentsHardware & Electronics details

Most people have two eyes, allowing for a stereoscopic view of reality.[citation needed]. Nevertheless, video games are generally designed to run on monitors...

We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

Andreas Kling2023515 points325 commentsWeb & Frontend details

“How is the SerenityOS team making such good progress on building their Ladybird browser, when we've heard for years that it’s impossible”?

The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale

Murat Demirbas2023327 points88 commentsDatabases & Data details

This paper appeared in VLDB'17. The paper presents NAM-DB, a scalable distributed database system that uses RDMA (mostly 1-way RDMA) and a ...

Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?

Knight First Amendment Institute2023225 points163 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

On March 31, Twitter open-sourced its recommendation algorithm. It turns out to be a standard engagement prediction algorithm of the kind most major platforms use; I explained how these algorithms work in a recent essay . The source code release makes for an interesting case study of social media transparency. Let’s…

Supabase Logs: open-source logging server

Supabase Blog2023237 points67 commentsInfrastructure & DevOps details

We're releasing Supabase Logs for both self-hosted users and CLI development.

Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study

MIT News2023205 points231 commentsScience & Space details

An MIT study shows that if U.S. nuclear power plants are retired, the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas to fill the energy gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths.

Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

Harris Brakmic2023158 points77 commentsInfrastructure & DevOps details

In this article we will learn how to deploy Keycloak with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes. We will first do everything manually with separate YAMLs and then later with Helm. Our k8s environment will run i…

Emergent abilities of large language models

Jason Wei2023157 points190 commentscited by 3AI & Machine Learning details

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Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language

medium.com/@szopa2023428 points200 commentsAI & Machine Learning details

Becoming fluent in my son’s invented language was too difficult for me, so I decided to see how would AI do.

Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic

Ben Greenberg2023195 points49 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Automatically Update Your Profile with Fresh Content and Showcase Your Latest Work

Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?

Denys Linkov2023117 points149 commentsAI & Machine Learning details

How large language models process multilingual data differently

Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB

Sam Thorogood2023145 points83 commentsInfrastructure & DevOps details

Something something Amplify is bad

P < 0.05 Considered Harmful

Simplicity is SOTA2023122 points86 commentsMath & Algorithms details

The unreasonable persistence of an old standard

I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days

How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on my Car in 408 Days

Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings

[Part of a series: Penrose and hats | Spectres | finite-state transducers | more transducers | refining tilings ]

OpenBSD 7.3

OpenBSD2023258 points98 commentsOpen Source details

My diatribe against “skeptics” (2016)

John Horgan2023125 points202 commentsScience & Space details

April 10, 2023. The backlash was immediate after I spoke at the&nbsp;2016 Northeast Conference on Science &amp; Skepticism , which bills itself as a “celebration of science and critical thinking.” Although the conference had allotted me 10 minutes for questions, the stage manager, Jamy

Effective Spaced Repetition

Fernando Borretti2023561 points262 commentscited by 4Life, Learning & Writing details

“To flash conviction on the mind.”

Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags

Brian Hicks2023126 points17 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Understanding Git better by using lightweight formal methods

What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year

jakob.space2023164 points70 commentsSoftware Engineering details

A retrospective on a few months of working on a graduate degree in computer science.

RePalm

Dmitry.GR: PalmOS on new hardware!

Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source

decodebytes2023560 points319 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details