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A PHP Compiler, a.k.a. the FFI Rabbit Hole
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ircmaxell's Blog
A PHP Compiler, aka The FFI Rabbit Hole
It’s no secret that I’m into building toy compilers and programming languages. Today I’m introducing something that’s not a toy (I hope). Today, I’m introducing php-compiler (among many other projects
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Tech Needs More Conscientious Objectors
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Nytimes
Opinion | I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector. (Published 2019)
American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections.
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The Climate and Cloudflare
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The Cloudflare Blog
The Climate and Cloudflare
Power is the precursor to all modern technology. James Watt’s steam engine energized the factory, Edison and Tesla’s inventions powered street lamps, and now both fossil fuels and renewable resources power the trillions of transistors in computers and phones.
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Amazon customers will be able to return purchases to any Kohl’s store in July
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Kohls Corporation
Kohl’s Announces Expansion of Amazon Returns to All Kohl’s Stores Nationwide
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Japan is scrambling to reconcile systems with imperial calendar
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NY Times
Japan Has a New Emperor. Now It Needs a Software Update. (Published 2019)
It isn’t exactly Y2K, but the country is scrambling to reconcile its systems with the ancient demands of an imperial calendar.
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How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell
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Fortune
How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell | Fortune
Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak. It missed the era’s hottest companies, took a disastrous detour into renewable energy, and failed to groom its next-generation leadership.…
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Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel
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TheHill
Facebook taps lawyer who helped write Patriot Act as new general counsel
Facebook has tapped a top State Department lawyer who was credited with helping to write the controversial 2001 Patriot Act as its new general counsel, beefing up its legal team as the company faces
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Cadence: Uber's Workflow Orchestration Engine
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GitHub
GitHub - cadence-workflow/cadence: Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute…
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way. - cadence-workflow/cadence
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Generative Modeling with Sparse Transformers
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Openai
Generative modeling with sparse transformers
We’ve developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic improvement of the attention mechanism to extract patterns from sequences…
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Nils Nillson has died
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Yann LeCun
Nils Nilsson passed away. He is best known for the invention of the A* algorithm for path finding, and for his leading role in the Shakey project at SRI, one of the first mobile robots with visual perception and trajectory planning.... https://t.co/tXlRzWXJUy
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Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly
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Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve It Deserves
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Thurrott.com
Microsoft Gives Paint the 11th Hour Reprieve it Deserves - Thurrott.com
Microsoft is reversing course and will keep Paint as a part of the basic install of Windows 10.
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Here’s Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing
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iFixit
Here’s Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing
Who could have guessed that Samsung’s Galaxy Fold would be such a fragile PR nightmare? The iFixit folks who take apart and investigate mobile devices for a…
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How to Ace the Google Interview: Ultimate Guide
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interviewing.io
A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG
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Crispr gene-editing creates wave of exotic model organisms
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Nature
CRISPR gene-editing creates wave of exotic model organisms
But the practical challenges of breeding and maintaining unconventional lab animals persist.
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Alabama police raid home, take money out of man's wallet over $50 of marijuana
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Reason
Alabama Cops Raided Their House, Seized Their Cash, and Ruined Their Lives Over $50 of Marijuana
Greg and Teresa Almond lost their house after a financially devastating drug raid involving civil asset forfeiture.
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Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws? This Law Student Has Evidence
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Inthesetimes
Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws? This Law Student Thinks He Has Evidence.
Amazon's reports of low--or zero--profits have long raised suspicions that it's selling below cost to build a global monopoly.
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Renaissance Explores Settlement as IRS Seeks Billions in Taxes
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U.S. billionaires worry about the survival of the system that made them rich
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Ultra Low Latency WebRTC Streaming – Open-Source Media Server
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Ant Media
Scalable Streaming Solutions with Ant Media Server
Experience sub-0.5 second latency with Ant Media Server, compatible with WebRTC, CMAF, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, SRT, Zixi, and additional protocols.
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Foundations of Databases
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