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GitHub Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
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‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
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Words Now Forbidden in the Free Speech United States of Academic Freedom
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Lazarou Monkey Terror
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How to Scale Your Model: A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs
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How To Scale Your Model
Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other…
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Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata
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Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata
As we saw in the opening post, SQLite stores metadata about tables in a special "schema table" starting on page 1. We've been reading records from this table to list the tables in the current database, but before we can start evaluating SQL queries a...
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Apple Launches Apple Invites
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Apple Invites App - App Store
Download Apple Invites by Apple on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Apple Invites.
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America desperately needs more air traffic controllers
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CNN
America desperately needs more air traffic controllers. So why is it so tough to hire them? | CNN Business
The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain but the flying public at large.
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Google Drops Pledge Not to Use AI for Weapons or Surveillance
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Open Deep Research
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smolagents/examples/open_deep_research at main · huggingface/smolagents
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smolagents: a barebones library for agents that think in code. - huggingface/smolagents
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Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
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The Reality of Dating Apps
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The reality of dating apps
I have been working inside a dating app for a few months and there are a lot of interesting things. This article is going to be without any structure as there are many things to say. I will mostly ignore homosexual interactions. Not because they don't exist…
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
What I use them for and what I don't
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Doge Sets Sights on Medicaid: New York Times
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Becker's Hospital Review
DOGE sets sights on Medicaid: New York Times
President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, aims to reduce federal spending by $1 trillion, with Medicaid emerging as a likely target, The New York Times reported Feb. 3.
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Government planned it 7 years,beavers built the dam in 2 days and saved them $1M
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Vox News
The government had been planning it for 7 years, beavers built the dam in two days and saved them $1 million
castorIn the Czech Republic, beavers built a dam in two days, which local authorities had planned for 7 years
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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
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Deno
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored | Deno
Oracle filed a motion to dismiss in response to Deno’s petition to cancel its “JavaScript” trademark. But instead of addressing the real issue—that JavaScript is an open standard with multiple independent implementations—Oracle is trying to stall the process…
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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company
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What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
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TrailBase: Sub-millisecond open-source application base with Rust, SQLite and V8
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TrailBase
Benchmarks
Performance comparison with similar products.
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How does fentanyl get into the US?
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How does fentanyl get into the US?
President Trump has blamed China for its opioid crisis and imposed sweeping tariffs.
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Pyramid structure discovered near Caral Peru
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Omni Letters
Hidden pyramid structure discovered near Caral
Archaeologists discover a pyramidal structure and geoglyph in Chupacigarro, near Caral, expanding the understanding of Andean civilization.
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Beej's Guide to Git
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Infosec 101 for Activists
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Infosec for Activists
Infosec 101 for Activists
Website: https://infosecforactivists.org/
Introduction America has a strong tradition of activism, dating back to slave revolts and indigenous uprisings even before the founding of the United States. Today, activism in the US remains critical. Street protests…
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