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JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
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InfoWorld
JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
The as-yet-unnamed language in development would produce cross-platform applications and make AI code generation more controllable, transparent, and useful.
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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
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Adults Are Going to Sleep-Away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Work
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The Wall Street Journal
Adults Are Going to Sleep-away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Actually Work.
Overnight camps are increasingly catering to solo travelers who are looking for in person connection.
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Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling
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The Wall Street Journal
Nobody’s Buying Homes, Nobody’s Switching Jobs—and America’s Mobility Is Stalling
America’s mobility is stalling, and it has economic consequences for everyone. Growing families can’t upgrade, empty-nesters can’t downsize, and when people can’t move for a job offer, they often earn less.
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Big Tech's A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
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Nytimes
Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
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The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale
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Artnet News
The Key to Crack the CIA’s Mysterious ‘Kryptos’ Sculpture Is Up for Sale
The top secret code to crack Kryptos, the infamous CIA engima, is hitting the auction block courtesy of sculptor Jim Sanborn.
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I used to know how to write in Japanese
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Meta's AI rules let bots hold sensual chats with kids, offer false medical info
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Reuters
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
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Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism
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aeplay.org
Citybound
A city building game that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate the organism of a city arising from the interactions of millions of individuals.
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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
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Council on Foreign Relations
Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
Sometimes a news story makes your case for you. That happened this past week, when the Wall Street Journal published a remarkable story on surging U.S. imports of peptides and protein-based hormones from Ireland. Chelsey Dulaney and Jared Hopkins wrote: “Planes…
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South Park and the greatest TV contract clause
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Readtrung
South Park and The Greatest TV Contract Clause Ever
Matt Stone and Trey Parker became billionaires by making 27 seasons of the funniest shows ever (and signing a first TV deal with an improbable clause).
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Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
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Mark Stosberg
Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C.
But what if…
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Teenage Engineering's free computer case
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store - teenage engineering
computer–2
computer–2 is a small form factor, mini-ITX computer case, constructed from one sheet of plastic with living hinges and snap hooks. just push-click the motherboard into place–no screws needed. the chassis fits a mini-ITX motherboard, a sfx power supply and…
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The new science of “emergent misalignment”
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Quanta Magazine
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
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Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
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Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]
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Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem
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blog.foletta.net
Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem
I completed a Computer Science degree at uni, and bundled a lot of maths subjects in as electives: partial differential equations, vector calculus, discrete maths, linear algebra. For some reason however I always avoided statistics subjects.
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UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse
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Bluesky Social
Simon McGarr (@tupped.bsky.social)
The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”
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Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?
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GitHub
Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? · Issue #11523 · whatwg/html
What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart f...
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Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit
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GitHub
GitHub - rcarmo/homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit
A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit - rcarmo/homekit-steam-user-switcher
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