The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,918 posts.
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…
We're releasing Supabase Logs for both self-hosted users and CLI development.
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.
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…
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Becoming fluent in my son’s invented language was too difficult for me, so I decided to see how would AI do.
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How large language models process multilingual data differently
Something something Amplify is bad
The unreasonable persistence of an old standard
How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on my Car in 408 Days
[Part of a series: Penrose and hats | Spectres | finite-state transducers | more transducers | refining tilings ]
April 10, 2023. The backlash was immediate after I spoke at the 2016 Northeast Conference on Science & 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
“To flash conviction on the mind.”
Understanding Git better by using lightweight formal methods
A retrospective on a few months of working on a graduate degree in computer science.
Dmitry.GR: PalmOS on new hardware!
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
Dmitry.GR: Driving a poorly-designed display and touch board using no CPU at all
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published: 09-04-2023 23:59 | Last update: 11-04-2023 22:29 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
Back in spring 2020, I was wrapping up the distributed systems course I was teaching, and for the last lecture, decided to spend a little time poking at the question of who actually invented vector clocks. Most people who need something to cite for vector clocks cite Friedemann Mattern’s “Virtual Time and Global…
People don't usually share what a research grant pays for, so here are the budgets from mine.
Street fighters and Martial artists.
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
Suppose you’re connected to a remote host with SSH and after a while the SSH session goes stale. The terminal is unresponsive and no keypress seem to take effect. There might be something with the network, the remote host is restarting or maybe your machine has been in hibernation, there could be multiple reasons for…
One assumes it's easy because it's a non-technical problem, the other assumes that's why it's hard
