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One man’s quest to revive the great American vacuum tube
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One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube
The prized retro audio components are mostly manufactured in Russia and China. Now, a small Georgia company is rebooting US production.
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Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server
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Folia - Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server
Folia is a Minecraft server software with true multithreading and regionalize ticking, with a goal to achieve better scalability and performance.
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BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance
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San Francisco schools banned kids from taking algebra in 8th grade
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San Francisco schools banned kids from taking algebra in 8th grade in an attempt to cover up how badly they were educating kids. The ban predictably made kids worse at math, which the district promptly lied about and covered up.
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When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
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That time when SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
SVG Phone Home
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Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free tax-filing system
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Lobbyists Begin Chipping Away at Biden’s $80 Billion I.R.S. Overhaul
The tax preparation industry is alarmed over the prospect that the Internal Revenue Service will devise its own free tax-filing system.
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An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged
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Literary Hub
An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged
“Extra-illustrated, my friend, that’s what you want to call it.” James is picking through a set of books he’s left with me for cataloguing. He picks one up and flicks through the pages. “A tad fa…
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Better World Books
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Better World Books
Buy New & Used Books Online | Better World Books
Shop affordable used & new books at Better World Books. Every purchase fuels global literacy with book donations to transform lives. Free shipping on qualifying orders.
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Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)
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Hard Pivot
Open-Sourcing My Y Combinator Winter 2021 Application
And Why You Should or Should Not Join
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Cosine Implementation in C
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musl/src/math/__cos.c at master · ifduyue/musl
unofficial musl mirror git://git.musl-libc.org/musl - ifduyue/musl
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Show HN: Open-Source Webhooks Gateway for Platform Engineers
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GitHub - frain-dev/convoy: The Cloud Native Webhooks Gateway
The Cloud Native Webhooks Gateway. Contribute to frain-dev/convoy development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Nuclear Power Is Too Safe
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Nuclear Power is Too Safe
We know the litany. Nuclear power is too slow. Nuclear power is too expensive. I propose another more grievous fault. Nuclear power is too safe, way too safe. It is easy to show that, if society wants to be efficient in avoiding deaths, the amount of resources…
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AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
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AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
The thing I’m most excited about in our weird new AI-enhanced reality is the way it allows me to be more ambitious with my projects. As an experienced developer, ChatGPT …
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You probably shouldn't use OpenAI's embeddings
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I Am Not a Robot
Should you use OpenAI's embeddings? Probably not, and here's why.
Recently semantic search has exploded. Everyone is chatting with their data, using the same basic recipe: Take a set of documents and split them into paragraphs. Convert each paragraph into a vector of embeddings that represent its coordinates in the semantic…
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Stressed plants emit sounds that can be detected from more than a meter away
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Stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be detected from more than a meter away
What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like bubble-wrap being popped. Researchers in Israel report in the journal Cell on March 30 that tomato and tobacco plants that are stressed—from dehydration ...
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Show HN: Random Aerial Airport Views
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Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (2019)
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Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next
Your expectations shape and quicken your perceptions. A new model that explains how that happens also suggests it’s time to update theories about sensory perception and decision making.
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Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection
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Ars Technica
Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection
Instead of a yes/no consent, Meta users will fill out a form and include justification.
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Mini-Consortia Forming Around Chiplets
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Semiconductor Engineering
Mini-Consortia Forming Around Chiplets
Commercial chiplet marketplaces are still on the distant horizon, but companies are getting an early start with more limited partnerships.
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Thunderbird to add automatic encryption after 21 years
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135636 - Automatically enable or disable end-to-end encryption (OpenPGP or S/MIME) if it's possible based on existing user and…
RESOLVED (kaie) in MailNews Core - Security: S/MIME. Last updated 2023-05-23.
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