The Silicon Valley narrative centers on entrepreneurial protagonists who are poised one predestined step away from changing the world. A decade ago they were heroes, and more recently they’ve become villains, but either way they are absolutely the protagonists.…

Joe Mathews writes that the poorer Asian island nation faced similar obstacles, yet has built a great system for its people.

Only about 1,000 of 3,000 individual reefs have been documented, but the Great Reef Census hopes to fill in the gaps

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there is little point in doing time-based estimations on how long building
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coverage guided fuzz testing for javanoscript. Contribute to fuzzitdev/jsfuzz development by creating an account on GitHub.

Welcome to the third post in our series on Python at scale at Instagram! As we mentioned in the first post in the series, Instagram Server…

This week Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech in which he extolled “giving everyone a voice” and fighting “to uphold a wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible.” That sounds great, of course! Freedom of expression is a cornerstone, if not the cornerstone…

Billy Reilly, 28 years old, worked part-time as a confidential source for the Detroit office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For years, he penetrated radical internet groups online, using false identities. Then he disappeared.

Since @OpenAI still has not changed misleading blog post about "solving the Rubik's cube", I attach detailed analysis, comparing what they say and imply with what they actually did. IMHO most would not be obvious to nonexperts. Please zoom in to read & judge…

Over the last five decades, middle-wage jobs diminished in the US as wage inequality increased. This column investigates the relationship between these two phenomena, and finds no evidence that

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Being censored by an organization that claims to be promoting Free as in Speech is no small feat. It raises an interesting question: where do I go from here?

The term has become a central part of an important conversation about the division of household work. But the sociologist who coined it says it’s being used incorrectly.

First of all, as always my opinions are my own, not those of my employer. Since I have 2 children I was happy to learn that the Netherlands would be one of the first countries to get Disney+ streaming. So I subscribed for the testing period, problem all devices…

October 2019 – Trees have had over 200 million years to evolve into all the beautiful shapes and characters we see around us today. Dinosaurs have come and gone, continents were torn apart, and through it all, trees stood tall. We now know more about trees…

F# RISC-V Instruction Set formal specification. Contribute to mrLSD/riscv-fs development by creating an account on GitHub.

In 1996, Zachary Moore committed a murder. Today, he’s a computer engineer at a Silicon Valley tech firm. Here’s how he got there.