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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
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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Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US Air Force communications – report
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the Guardian
Pentagon hit by ‘critical compromise’ of US air force communications – report
Forbes reports claim that engineer at Arnold air force base in Tennessee had taken home government radio technologies
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Show HN: ssh-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
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GitHub
GitHub - Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent: :computer: ssh-agent for TPMs
:computer: :key: ssh-agent for TPMs. Contribute to Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Electric recumbent bikes are 80 more efficient than EV (2018)
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LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Les Vélomobiles Electriques: aussi Rapides et Confortables que les Automobiles, mais 80 fois plus Efficaces
A peu près un quart des éoliennes existantes suffiraient à alimenter autant de vélomobiles électriques qu’il y a d’humains.
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Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis
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philbooth.me
Four ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis
Production outages are great
at teaching you how not to cause production outages.
I've caused plenty and hope that by sharing them publicly,
it might help some people bypass part one
of the production outage learning syllabus.
Previously I discussed ways…
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Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic
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buttondown.email
The Ed's Up - An Ending...
Hello! It seems like only yesterday that I last emailed you... which is because it was yesterday. Sorry for filling your inbox so soon, but I have two...
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US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf]
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Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers
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The Intercept
The Online Christian Counterinsurgency Against Sex Workers
Special Operations vet Jeff Tiegs runs Skull Games, where evangelical Christians use internet surveillance to locate and bust sex workers.
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Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor
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Airgradient
Outdoor Air Quality Monitor
Open-source / open-hardware low cost outdoor air quality monitor to enable citizen science projects around the world with a trusted and accurate design.
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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
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Reuters
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.
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'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, set for July 30
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The Mainichi
'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, set for July 30 screening in Tokyo
TOKYO -- The 1953 Japanese film
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In the 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas
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IEEE Spectrum
In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas
The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them
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