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Quantum winter is coming
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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The number input is the worst input
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
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AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
Tonight, I took the time actually to read DeepMind’s AlphaCode paper, and to work through the example contest problems provided, and understand how I would’ve solved those problems, and how A…
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Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019)
Your email provider owns your online identity by controlling your email address. You can’t port your email address to another provider as with phone numbers.
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SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated
Learn how to benchmark SQLite and PostgreSQL databases.
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Be critical or be corrupted
I recently rewatched "The Wire". The show's central theme is about counter-productive metrics and their corrupting influence on institutions. I've noticed hints of this pattern in software engineering, too
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The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”
Akron and Macon were flying aircraft carriers designed for long-range scouting. Both crashed at sea, ending the U.S. Navy's rigid airship program.
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Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms
In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate change, researchers at UMass Amherst recently announced that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 to 1,000 times greater than pre-agricultural erosion rates.
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Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22
By Laura Nolan, with contributions from Glen D. Sanford, Jamie Scheinblum, and Chris Sullivan. Assessing conditions Slack experienced a major incident on February 22 this year, during which time many users were unable to connect to Slack, including the author — which certainly made my role as Incident Commander more…
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Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of humans
Explore the diversity of wildlife across the planet. What are species threatened with? What can we do to prevent biodiversity loss?
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How to set junior employees up for success in remote
It just gets a bad rap. Here's how to set junior employees up for success in remote.
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C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
The 1999 revision to the C programming language brought several interesting changes and additions to the standard. Among those are variable length arrays, or VLAs for short, which allow array types to have lengths that are determined at runtime. These can show up in different contexts, but for the purposes of this…
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Librem 5: First Impressions
The Librem 5 does not run Android or iOS, it runs a proper Linux operating system ( PureOS , derived from Debian). There are hardware kill switches for the baseband modem, the camera and microphone, and WiFi and bluetooth. The phone's main selling point is that it doesn't spy on you.
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False memory implantation in adults is easy
false memory implantation in adults is easy (bonus: here's one way to do it)
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XFCE 4.18
After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 !
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Antitrust lawsuit says Apple and Amazon colluded to raise iPhone, iPad prices
SEATTLE – A new antitrust class-action lawsuit accuses Apple Inc. and Amazon.com of colluding to raise the price of iPhones and iPads, according to Hagens Berman, the law firm representing consumers against two of the world’s largest companies in today’s filing.
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I hacked SONOS and YouTube the same day
Or how to play YouTube videos on you SONOS, easy and for free.
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Stop measuring community engagement
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Michael Hall and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. I want to start you off with a story about good intentions with bad outcomes. Hopefully, everybody has seen the Disney Pixar movie Monster’s Inc. by now. In the movie, the monster society runs on energy produced by children’s screams. Even…
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Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails
This morning I woke up to an official-looking email from YouTube in my inbox, addressed to an address that isn't mine.
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First make the change easy, then make the easy change (2021)
When I find myself stuck between differing choices I have to make, I’ll refer to this quote. I’ll ask myself “why is the decision difficult to make?”
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U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
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AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing
In 2022, it actually makes sense to build your own infrastructure for scientific computing if you're a university, NASA, or a growing bio company.
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Experience Report: 6 months of Go
A report of my positive and negative experiences with Go after using it for 6 months at work.
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The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
Up until a few years ago, I used to feel good when sharing Twitter links. Compared to the other handful of websites that now make up our entire lives, it was the best option: Not a walled garden like Facebook or Instagram where you either don’t see any content at all or are bombarded with “sign up to continue” popups…
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Netlify Edge Functions: A new serverless runtime powered by Deno
Build fast, personalized web experiences with Netlify Edge Functions: a serverless runtime built for on Deno, and compatible with your favorite JavaScript frameworks.
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Six charged in mass takedown of DDoS-for-hire sites
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S. men with…
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D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
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