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Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (1997)
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‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows
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the Guardian
‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows
Some scientists fear the ‘shocking’ shift is the beginning of a global heating-linked collapse of the ice that could have alarming knock-on effects
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Insect memories may not survive metamorphosis
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Quanta Magazine
Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis | Quanta Magazine
The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults.
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Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
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WIRED
US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'
The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers.
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US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks
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the Guardian
Julian Assange: US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks founder during Ausmin talks
Ministers’ meeting focused on military cooperation and agreed to increase ‘tempo’ of US nuclear-powered submarine visits to Australia as part of Aukus pact
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What Happened to Vivaldi Social?
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Thomas Pike’s other blog
What happened to Vivaldi Social? | Thomas Pike’s other blog
A deep dive into the events of Saturday 8 July 2023, when user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance.
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Cyberdecks (2013)
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blog.rfox.eu
Cyberdecks
Article about the philosophy of custom made computers without displays, usually known as decks.
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Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill
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The dream of the personal machine
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Substack
The dream of the personal machine
On portable computers.
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How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
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Slowboring
How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
New rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists
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The Hacker's Dictionary (2001)
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“Gzip beats BERT?” Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results
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If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity
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Strong Towns
If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need To Prioritize Dignity
Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an unpleasant chore that immediately drives us into a car?
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Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might hold a nasty surprise
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noyb.eu
Booking a Ryanair flight through an online travel agent might hold a nasty surprise
noyb filed a complaint against Ryanair. When booking through an online travel agent, the airline pushes some customers to go through an invasive facial recognition process
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Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter
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Android Authority
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter
Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung's profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.
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Researchers Discover New Vulnerability in Large Language Models
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Researchers Discover New Vulnerability in Large Language Models
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have uncovered a new vulnerability that causes aligned language models like ChatGPT to generate objectionable behaviors at a high success rate.
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HuggingFace Text Generation License No Longer Open-Source
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GitHub
Text-Generation-Inference v1.0+ new license: HFOIL 1.0 · Issue #726 · huggingface/text-generation-inference
Text-Generation-Inference, aka TGI, is a project we started earlier this year to power optimized inference of Large Language Models, as an internal tool to power LLM inference on the Hugging Face I...
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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On
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IFLScience
The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On
It’s turbo time.
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The future of Clang-based tooling
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The Trail of Bits Blog
The future of Clang-based tooling
Clang is a marvelous compiler; it’s a compiler’s compiler! But it isn’t a toolsmith’s compiler. As a toolsmith, my ideal compiler would be an open book, allowing me to get to everywhere from anywhere. The data on which my ideal compiler would operate (files…
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System Design for Recommendations and Search
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eugeneyan.com
System Design for Recommendations and Search
Breaking it into offline vs. online environments, and candidate retrieval vs. ranking steps.
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Bpfilter Is Forever
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