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Cars suck, man
What better way to start off the new year than with a little rant.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Type information for faster Python C extensions
Update: The paper version of this post is accepted at PLDI SOAP 2024. Take a look at the preprint (PDF).
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The Ultimate Docker Cheat Sheet
TLDR; Get your Docker Cheat Sheet as PDF or as an image . To follow this article, make sure your development machine has Docker installed . In this blog post, we write our own Dockerfiles, learn how to create images, and finally run them as container. The complete source code is available on GitHub .
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SQLite: Wal2 Mode
"Wal2" mode is very similar to "wal" mode. To change a database to wal2 mode, use the command:
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Dynamic programming is not black magic
This year’s Advent of Code has been brutal (compare the stats of 2023 with that of 2022, especially day 1 part 1 vs. day 1 part 2). It included a problem to solve with dynamic programming as soon as day 12, which discouraged some people I know. This specific problem was particularly gnarly for Advent […]
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Introduction to GPU Programming in Chapel
This post gives a beginner’s introduction to Chapel’s GPU programming features
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Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
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OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
Contributing development work upstream to D leadership has always been a very frustrating process. While the oft-repeated claim that D is a closed-source language is not really true (the D-specific parts of the compiler were GPL'd as early as 2002, leading to an all-GPL compiler (what we now know as gdc) being…
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Researchers trace a form of lupus back to a single mutation
Researchers were able to trace a form of the autoimmune disease lupus back to a single mutation
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John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
When a country parson first described black holes in 1783, the concept was so ahead of its time it was mostly ignored.
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Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
I’ve had my days with Siri and Google Assistant. While they have the ability to control your devices, they cannot be customized and inherently rely on cloud services. In hopes of learning something new and having something cool I could use in my life, I decided I want better. The premises are simple: I want my new…
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Tachiyomi – It's Joever
Tachiyomi has 14 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Exposed RSS
I get sites not having an “RSS” for “Feed” link on their website while actually having an RSS feed. I don’t like it, but I get it. Maybe they picked an off-the-shelf t…
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Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)
It would take too long to expose all of the flaws of peer review, here are some: some work is just flat wrong because the reviewers cannot analyze all of the mathematical results, and because they cannot redo the experiments; numerous researchers cheat, sometimes in small ways ("2 out of 3 experiments agree with by ……
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It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
If America wants to make civilian airplanes here, the government must step in, take over Boeing, and then design a competitive industry.
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Exploring Podman: A More Secure Docker Alternative
This article explore Podman's features and benefits, comparing it to Docker and describing a step-by-step migration guide
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Listening with LLM
Overview # This is the first part of many posts I am writing to consolidate learnings on how to finetune Large Language Models (LLMs) to process audio, with the eventual goal of being able to build and host a LLM able to describe human voices. I am motivated to gain hands-on experience tinkering LLMs so, as much as…
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My Knowledge Lakehouse
1 There’re only three entities: log, list, structure.
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How to Be More Agentic
On a supposedly difficult thing
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A decade-old Steam bug
Valve has shown to occasionally not act on community feedback and bug reports. A story about a decade old bug.
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What I learned selling my company
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
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Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
The tool instructions in this article are not up to date as of 2024-01-12, see this post to learn more about the new tool OpenAI added to block conversations about U.S. elections using function calls.
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Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Freeways were supposed to be easy. What happened?
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The current state of OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry round for 2023 and what to expect in 2024
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Features and Benefits of Bluetooth Mesh 1.1 for Wireless Mesh Networking
Commercial and industrial applications like lighting require large-scale, low-power device networks where thousands of devices need to communicate with one another efficiently, reliably and securely.
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A supply chain attack on PyTorch
Security tends to lag behind adoption, and AI/ML is no exception. Four months ago, Adnan Khan and I exploited a critical CI/CD vulnerability in PyTorch, one of the world’s leading ML platform…
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A vision for the alleviation of water scarcity in the US Southwest
[Edit May 2024: This concept was republished in Asterisk Magazine.] Just a couple of hours drive east of Los Angeles lies the Imperial Valley, home to Palm Springs, some of the most productive agri…