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GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
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The GitHub Blog
Sunsetting Subversion support
On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion.
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Towards a Reproducible F-Droid
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Towards a reproducible F-Droid | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A common criticism directed at F-Droid is that F-Droid signs published APKswith its own keys. Using our own keys doesn’t mean insecure — we have a goodtrack ...
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ChatGPT is not all you need. A SOTA Review of large Generative AI models
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Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
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WIRED
Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.
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From Zero to main(): Bare metal C
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Interrupt
From Zero to main(): Bare metal C
Throughout the Zero to main() series of posts, we demystify what happens between when power is applied and your main function is called. In the process, we’ll learn how to bootstrap a C environment, implement a bootloader, relocate code, and more!
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Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars
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Science
Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars from 2011 to 2022
Observations of the night sky by citizen scientists show that it is rapidly getting brighter due to light pollution.
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Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after convicted of fraud
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NBC News
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes still had a one-way ticket to Mexico after she was convicted of fraud
"The hope was that the verdict would be different and Ms. Holmes would be able to make this trip to attend the wedding of close friends in Mexico," an attorney for Holmes said in a filing.
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: the best sudo replacement
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Databricks cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business
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Forbes
Accidental Billionaires: How Seven Academics Who Didn’t Want To Make A Cent Are Now Worth Billions
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and his cofounders weren’t interested in starting a business, and even less interested in making a profit on the tech. Eight years later, at least three are billionaires.
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Script Kit: cross-platform, noscriptable, automatic shortcuts to everything
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Large Transformer Model Inference Optimization
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lilianweng.github.io
Large Transformer Model Inference Optimization
[Updated on 2023-01-24: add a small section on Distillation.]
Large transformer models are mainstream nowadays, creating SoTA results for a variety of tasks. They are powerful but very expensive to train and use. The extremely high inference cost, in both…
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Microsoft held an invite-only concert for execs, 1 day before announcing layoffs
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Business Insider
Microsoft held an invite-only Sting concert for execs in Davos the day before the company announced layoffs of 10,000 employees
The tech giant held a Sting performance in Davos where the business elite is attending the World Economic Forum, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Lean – Theorem Prover
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Writing a Vector Tileserver for Osm2streets
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Jake Coppinger - Jake Coppinger's blog and portfolio. I'm currently working as a full stack software engineer at Atlassian in the Linking Platform team, improving the features and reliability of Smart Link experiences in products like Confluence, Jira and Trello.
Lane-accurate street maps with OpenStreetMap – writing a vector tileserver for osm2streets - Jake Coppinger
I've built safecyclingmap.com, an open-source proof of concept map that renders cycleways and streets down to the individual lanes, to assist cyclists picking safe routes in cities with little dedicated cycling infrastructure.
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Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
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Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
A chess exercise to improve board vision.
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WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity
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LifeSite
World Economic Forum speaker touts technology that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity
Nita Farahany admits the discovery that we’re already tracking brain activity in the workplace made her shudder. But she is now hailing the benefits, insisting that they can be used without abuse.
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U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server
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VICE
U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server
The list, which was discovered by a Swiss hacker, contains names and birth dates and over 1 million entries.
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Late Hokusai: Thought, technique, society
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The British Museum
Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society
What Hokusai’s pictures reveal about ways of living at a particular time in history.
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New York got it wrong on cybersecurity and the right to repair
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Times Union
Commentary: New York got it wrong on cybersecurity and the right to repair
Disabling software locks that prevent repair has no bearing on the cybersecurity of...
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Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse
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Jon Udell
Of course the attention economy is threatened by the Fediverse
Megan McArdle says this week, in the Washington Post, that “Twitter might be replaced, but not by Mastodon or other imitators.” I’m not linking to the article, you can easily find…
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Ask HN: Why is everybody copying layoffs?
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