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The least impactful way to spend $300M?
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,021 posts.
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GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the projects that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality.
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Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
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Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where your monitoring systems only alerted when things were actually broken? And wouldn’t it be great if, in that world, your alerts would always fi…
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Substack Notes Launched
A way to share posts and short-form content on Substack
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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…
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I worked at Google for -10 days
It’s the story of how I was laid off from Google before I even started to do my job there.
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Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
How large language models process multilingual data differently
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Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
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What does a research grant pay for?
People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.
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Street fighting engineers vs. martial arts engineers
Street fighters and Martial artists.
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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk
In "Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation," a trio of business researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Pamplin College investigate the difference between the goods purchased through highly targeted online ads and just plain web-searches, and conclude social media ads push overpriced junk:
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Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better
You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation.
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Introducing Substack Notes
Unlocking the power of the subscription network
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Replacing bad systems with bad systems
A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a cumbersome, awkward system. Coins are heavy and you need to have them handy, meters need to be reinfo…
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No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Although users worldwide benefit from PDF, adoption of ISO standardized PDF technology has lagged because:
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Brave launches self-serve ads program
Today, Brave is launching its Self-Serve Ads Program. These new tools allow brands to set up and run advertising for their products and services within the privacy-preserving Brave Ads and Rewards ecosystem.
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LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round
LangChain secures $10M seed round from Benchmark to empower developers building AI apps with our open-source framework for data-aware, agentic LLMs.
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Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
Office of the President of the Republic of Finland Press release 10/2023 3 April 2023 Finland will become a Member of NATO on Tuesday, 4 April 2023. President of the...
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A Reply to Josef Průša
On the state of open source 3D printing in 2023