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Why machine learning struggles with causality
Machine learning systems thrive on finding and exploiting statistical regularities. This is why they can't do causal reasoning.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations
Science, programming, books, and other interesting stuff
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Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date.
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Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with the threat actor tracked as NOBELIUM, attempting to gain access to downstream customers of multiple cloud service providers (CSP), managed service providers (MSP), and other IT services organizations.
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Factorio's Belt Bug
Factorio is a factory-building game involving lots (and I mean, LOTS) of conveyor belts. The code that implements these belts is marvel of optimization, but unfortunately they can't handle every construct.
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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.
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Advice for young scientists and curious people in general
In Advice to a Young Scientist, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar shares practical advice for people planning to embark on a career in the sciences—and curious people in general. Here, we summarize some of Medawar’s key insights.
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New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web
If you run any large public-facing website or web application on the modern web, caching your static content in a CDN or other caching service is super...
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I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)
A few months ago, I stumbled upon this post where someone spent 9 years making a shed . No knocks on them, but it’s not even a particularly good-looking shed.
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Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
Three years ago I found a 32 GB memory leak caused by CcmExec.exe failing to close process handles. That bug is fixed, but ever since then I have had the handles column in Windows Task Manager ena…
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RSA chief believed cryptographers’ warnings on Dual EC DRBG lacked merit (2014)
"When, last September, it became possible that concerns raised in 2007 might have merit as part of a strategy of exploitation, NIST as the...
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Pitching your early stage startup
Tell your company's story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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Elementary OS 6.1
We come bearing gifts and Yule tidings!
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AWS Region Coming to New Zealand
We are currently working on regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain , Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Auckland, New Zealand in the Works Today I am happy to announce that the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region is in the works and will open in 2024. This region will have three Availability…
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Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation
Yet another sad story of how big companies kill small ones because of poor processes.
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Against Hickelism
Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism
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Ten Years of Bootstrap
Ten years ago today, we shipped the first release of Bootstrap. Releasing it on GitHub was my first real plunge into open source—what an introduction! Here we…
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Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone
Today, we are launching Cloudflare Images for all customers. Images provides a single product to store, resize and serve images. We built Cloudflare Images, so customers of all sizes can build a scalable and affordable image pipeline with a fraction of the effort.
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An Introduction to Type Level Programming in Haskell
Learn about type level programming by building a custom theming engine.
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Study finds a difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
Human neurons have a lower density of ion channels than expected, compared to neurons of other mammals, according to a new study. The researchers hypothesize that a lower channel density may have helped the human brain evolve to operate more efficiently.