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Audacity 3: Data Collection and Privacy Violations
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PSA: If you use Audacity, the new owners just updated the terms of service so they can collect data on you, including for very open-ended "legal enforcement"; and then sell it to "potential buyers" all without your consent
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World’s largest ever four day week trial in Iceland ‘overwhelming success’
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World’s largest ever four day week trial ‘overwhelming success’
Unions in the country are following up the trial by negotiating agreements that cut hours
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The Powder Toy
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GitHub - The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy: Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling…
Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat. - The-Powder...
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Biogen used an FDA back channel to win Alzheimer's drug approval
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STAT
Inside 'Project Onyx': How Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its polarizing Alzheimer's drug
EXCLUSIVE: STAT has learned that the back-channel relationship between Biogen and the FDA that led to approval of the new Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm, started earlier and was far more extensive than previously disclosed.
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Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016)
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8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles
As a VC at Icon Ventures and a twenty year veteran of productizing and marketing high tech for VMware, Netscape and others, I've always been fascinated by how new technologies emerge and come to market. One of the major artifacts that tries to capture the…
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Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
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Substack
STUDENTS FLEE FIELD AS COMPUTER 'FAD FADES'
The Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota - 20 Jan 1987, Tue • Page 9
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A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)
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www.caitlingreen.org
The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast
Although the name 'New England' is now firmly associated with the east coast of America, this is not the first place to be called that. In t...
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YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug
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Techlead (youtuber with 1.1+ million subscribers) is a scammer -...
Techlead, the *"Ex-Google/Facebook Tech Lead, YouTuber (1M subscribers), multi-millionaire app entrepreneur, digital nomad"* is another one you...
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A Mindful Mobile OS
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GitHub Copilot giving outdated code
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Fastest Shoelace Knot
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Ian's Shoelace Site
Ian Knot (Ian's Fast Shoelace Knot)
Tutorial for tying the “Ian Knot”, the world's fastest shoelace knot.
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How not to break a search engine
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How not to break a search engine or: What I learned about unglamorous engineering
When we switched to a new search query parser in September 2020, you'd never know that anything had changed. This is an account of the rigorous testing that happened behind the scenes to ensure a seamless transition.
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Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in Postgres (2017)
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brandur.org
Implementing Stripe-like Idempotency Keys in Postgres
Building resilient services by identifying foreign state mutations and grouping local changes into restartable atomic phases so that every request can be driven to completion.
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YouTube Censors Nobel Prize Winner Professor Satoshi Omura
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Pierre Kory, MD MPA
Nobel Prize Winner Professor Satoshi Omura, whose discovery of ivermectin led to one of history's greatest public health achievements in transforming the health status of large parts of the globe... gets censored for discussing the science supporting ivermectin…
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2021)
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Finra Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood Financial LLC
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Mental Poker [pdf]
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Java Agents
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Java Agents
Java Agents are an interesting capability of the JVM. Agents can either be Static(Load when the java app starts with a special flag) or the...
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The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm
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Math ∩ Programming
The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm
papad Hard to believe Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.” Christos Papadimitriou calls it “so hard to believe…
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Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
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AppleInsider
Audacity 3.0 called spyware over data collection changes by new owner
Audacity, the well-known open-source audio-editing software, has been called spyware in a report, with privacy policy changes revealing the tool is collecting data on its users and sharing it with other firms, as well as sending the data to Russia.
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Product validation frameworks are mostly useless without taste
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Product Validation Frameworks are Useless Without Taste
Product validation frameworks often describe processes without talking about taste. Here's why this is almost always a bad idea.
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