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As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.
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GE Aerospace Successfully Develops and Tests New Hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet
A dual-mode ramjet was developed and tested in less than 11 monthsTesting demonstrates a threefold increase in airflow compared to previously flight-tested hypersonic technology
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Using S3 as a Container Registry
For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right…
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Floppy8 – A Tiny Computer, in a Floppy Drive (2023)
This post covers the design and creation of the Floppy8, a microcomputer and cartridge system which fits inside a floppy drive. To see it in action, checkout this video! The Floppy8 plays 4K movies and games on custom cartridges, features wireless controllers, status lights, motorized cartridge ejection and more! Simil
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AuraFlow v0.1: a open source alternative to Stable Diffusion 3
Open-source AI is in jeopardy. As community interest in AI models skyrocketed over the past year, we noticed that development of new open-source foundational models came to a halt. Some even boldly announced that open-source AI is dead. Not so fast! We are excited to present you
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Leaked admin access token to Python, PyPI, and PSF GitHub repos
The JFrog Security Research team has recently discovered and reported a leaked access token with administrator access to Python’s, PyPI’s and Python Software Foundation’s GitHub repositories, which was leaked in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub. As a community service, the JFrog Security Research team…
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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Beating the L1 cache with value speculation (2021)
If we have a heuristic to guess some value cheaply, we can remove a data dependency in a tight loop using the branch predictor. This allows the CPU to run more instructions in parallel, increasing performance. If this explanation does not make much sense to you, keep reading to learn about some of the magic making…
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Gene-silencing tool shows promise as a future therapy against prion diseases
MIT Whitehead and Broad Institute researchers designed an epigenetic editor that can silence the prion protein gene, which could potentially be developed into a therapy against fatal prion diseases. The same approach could be used against other genetic diseases.
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The economics of a Postgres free tier
Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.
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FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision
FlashAttention-3 achieves up to 75% GPU utilization on H100s, making AI models up to 2x faster and enabling efficient processing of longer text inputs. It allows for faster training and inference of LLMs, supports lower precision operations for improved efficiency.
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Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
Surviving 3 years in North Korea as a foreign diplomat was not easy. Living and working in the Hermit Kingdom was certainly the unique experience of a lifetime.
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General Theory of Neural Networks
From gene regulatory networks to artificial neural networks
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We need visual programming. No, not like that
Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?
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Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
If you are of a certain vintage, this image is burned indelibly somewhere in your posterior parietal complex: Oh, my old friend. How it’s been a long time. Cultural Significance For the uninitiated, what are we looking at? Could it be the Moiré Error from Doom? Well, no. You are looking at (part of) the boot up screen…
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Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit
Binance Scales its Log Service to 100PB and Saves Millions with Quickwit
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If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it
About a week ago, my home Internet (AT&T Fiber) went from the ~1 Gbps I pay for down to about 100 Mbps (see how I monitor my home Internet with a Pi). It wasn't too inconvenient, and I considered waiting it out to see if the speed recovered at some point, because latency was fine. But as you can see around 7/7 on that…
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Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)
New global study from Sapien Labs finds consistent links, stronger for girls
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The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)
Maintaining a resume is not the most interesting use of time. Naturally, when I needed to bring my own up to date, I decided to spend a great deal more time on it and overengineer the process.
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Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
One-time passwords are often sent via SMS. Security researchers from the CCC recently had live access to over 200 million such SMS messages from more than 200 affected companies.
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First Contact with SQLite
I've been playing around with SQLite the last couple of days. I thought I knew a little about SQLite, but I didn't, and am getting my remedial education through an accelerated gauntlet. Some of what …
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Engineering principles for building financial systems
Best practices and principles to create accurate and reliable software based financial systems.
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Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in lupus and demonstrated that reversing the defect may potentially reverse the disease.
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Big Ball of Mud (1999)
While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture: the BIG BALL OF MUD
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Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2023)
If you’ve read my first post about assembly language, you might expect that this is another post on how to understand assembly language. I will write more about that at some point, but this post is not that. Instead, this post is going to talk about some of the weird things and random trivia I learned while writing an…
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At the Mountains of Madness
We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.
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Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
Tooting photos on the go from Samsung WiFi cameras with a $20 LTE stick
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Plausible Community Edition
We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).