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Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
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Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)
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The Ringer
Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art
He worked as an engineer developing the technology to make Pringles potato chips before embarking on a prolific writing career. Known as the Melville of science fiction and celebrated for his inventive and challenging work, Wolfe died on April 14 at age 87.
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Clip: Connecting Text and Images
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CLIP: Connecting text and images
We’re introducing a neural network called CLIP which efficiently learns visual concepts from natural language supervision. CLIP can be applied to any visual classification benchmark by simply providing the names of the visual categories to be recognized,…
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Ask HN: Any luck negotiating better terms for on-call?
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Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
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Dstrohmaier
Why Learn Prolog in 2021? » David Strohmaier
?- learn(prolog).
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How the union busting consulting firm Google hired compiles employee dossiers
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Vice
'Lazy,' 'Money-Oriented,' 'Single Mother': How Union-Busting Firms Compile Dossiers on Employees
Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a top union avoidance firm hired by Google, show how it collects data on workers' personality, motivations, and work ethic to bust unions.
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Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)
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Atlas Obscura
Cincinnati Built a Subway System 100 Years Ago–But Never Used It
Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world.
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27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published
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Greenland Sharks
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The Cole-Bar Hammer, a 7-year old Kickstarter that is still going
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Kickstarter
The Cole-Bar Hammer
The Cole-Bar is a multi-function hammer with a full crow bar built in. It combines many tools into one. It is the hammer...reinvented!
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Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters
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15.dev
Natural, high-fidelity, emotional text-to-speech with minimal data.
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Show HN: Build your own programming language in C++
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GitHub
GitHub - codr7/alang: A minimal viable programming language on top of liblgpp
A minimal viable programming language on top of liblgpp - codr7/alang
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We Built a Facebook Inspector
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themarkup.org
How We Built a Facebook Inspector – The Markup
The Citizen Browser project seeks to illuminate the content Facebook elevates in its users’ feeds
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An Uncommon Cold
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PubMed Central (PMC)
An uncommon cold
The covid-19 virus isn't the first coronavirus to jump from animals to humans. What can we learn from previous encounters, asks Anthony King
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Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested
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Nikkei Asia
Dozens of Hong Kong democracy figures arrested over security law
Candidates and others involved in primary elections accused of subverting state
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What I Use Now Instead of Google
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What I Use Now Instead Of Google
I made a goal for myself in January 2020 to stop using Google products by the end of the year. That might sound like way too generous a timeline, but...
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US doctor forgives $650k in medical bills for cancer patients
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Bbc
US doctor forgives $650,000 in medical bills for cancer patients
The Arkansas oncologist said the pandemic had left many of his patients struggling to pay.
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Court says Uber can’t hold users to terms they probably didn’t read
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Ars Technica
Court says Uber can’t hold users to terms they probably didn’t read
Adding a link to a registration page isn't good enough, court says.
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Locust – Open-source Load Testing Tool
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How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus
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WHYY
How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus
When evolutionary biologists studied the protein involved in fusing placenta cells, it didn’t look like it came from human DNA. It looked like a virus.
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Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup
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U.S.
MOVES-Former Intel, Tesla chip exec Jim Keller joins artificial intelligence startup
Jim Keller, a prominent computing chip architect who left Intel Corp last year, has joined a Toronto-based startup developing artificial intelligence chips.
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