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The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

theatlantic.com

technology
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New Video of Strong Full Levitation of Pcposos Room Temperature Superconductor

nextbigfuture.com

New video from SCTL Korea room temperature superconductor experimenters shows a very strong full levitation effect....
New video from SCTL Korea room temperature superconductor experimenters shows a very strong full levitation effect. Full levitation is evidence of the Meissner effect found only in superconductors. I have shown how the levitation evidence was originally partial levitation. Critics says partial levitation can be from...

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Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]

youtube.com

news & politics
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Australia's spies, cops want accountable encryption- a.k.a. access to backdoors

theregister.com
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A Note about Coercions

oleg.fi
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Foxtrot and Dom's Kitchen & Market restaurants are closing down all locations

thestreet.com
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McKinsey Is Under Criminal Investigation for Its Opioid Work

nytimes.com

U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFederal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of...
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFederal prosecutors are examining the consulting company’s role in helping “turbocharge” the sale of painkillers like OxyContin.Since 2021, McKinsey has agreed to pay about $1 billion to settle investigations and lawsuits a...

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Show HN: Open-source alternative to HashiCorp/IBM Vault

github.com
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HTML Attributes vs. DOM Properties

jakearchibald.com
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Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking

theregister.com
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Zoning Out American Families

discoursemagazine.com

Land use regulations often harm the very families they’re meant to help. Image Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty...
Land use regulations often harm the very families they’re meant to help. Image Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty ImagesBy Emily HamiltonAmong U.S. households that rent, the share of household income going toward housing costs has been rising steadily since the 1960s. And rent is becoming less affordable fastest for hou...
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Meta loses $200B in value as earning call focuses on all the ways bleeds cash

cnbc.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unnerved investors on the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday by focusing on...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unnerved investors on the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday by focusing on its long-term investments in AI and the metaverse.Shares of Meta tumbled as much as 19% in extended trading Wednesday."We've historically seen a lot of volatility in our stock during this phase of our produc...

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Make Invalid States Unrepresentable

geeklaunch.io

Let’s talk about types.1This post will be applicable to most programming languages, but it is significantly...
Let’s talk about types.1This post will be applicable to most programming languages, but it is significantly easier to apply these concepts when using languages that have more powerful, functionally-inspired, or mathematically-flavored type systems2.As you probably know, the Rust compiler can spit out some pretty hig...
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As the US Air Force fleet keeps shrinking, can it still win wars?

defensenews.com

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Twilight of the Age of Steam, Part 2: Petroleum and After

technicshistory.com

In the mid-nineteenth century, a new industry emerged, based on the refining of petroleum. The human...
In the mid-nineteenth century, a new industry emerged, based on the refining of petroleum. The human use of petroleum is ancient, and may (for all we know) date well into pre-history. In the form found most often in nature, as thick pools of bituminous tar, this sticky, potentially flammable substance found use as a...
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

breakingdefense.com
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Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeed

medium.com

Model : LLAMA-8b-instructDataset: Openhermes-2.5(700k training, 300k testing)GPU: 4 RTX 4090, 24GBBit of background about me,I’m a...
Model : LLAMA-8b-instructDataset: Openhermes-2.5(700k training, 300k testing)GPU: 4 RTX 4090, 24GBBit of background about me,I’m a full-time software engineer 2, at the core of our platform team. In my scarce free time, I explore various aspects of the machine learning world, with interests in tabular data, NLP, and...

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A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266

tttapa.github.io
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You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it

jim-nielsen.com
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Ruby might be faster than you think

johnhawthorn.com

I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline...
I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file. It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the README example looked off to me. require 'crystalruby' require 'benchmark' module Fibonnaci crystalize [n: :int32] => :int32 ...
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The Folly of China's Real-Estate Boom Was Easy to See, No One Wanted to Stop It

wsj.com
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Firefighting foam company reaches $750M settlement for PFAS in drinking water

thenewlede.org
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Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data

timescale.com

One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the...
One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the de facto database standard. There have been a few blog posts on how to use PostgreSQL for Everything, but none yet on why this is happening (and more importantly, why this matters). Until now. PostgreSQL Is Becoming the De ...

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Unregulated 'identity tracers' harass people for debts they do not owe

theguardian.com

The letter from the debt collection agency arrived out of the blue, and it was intimidating....
The letter from the debt collection agency arrived out of the blue, and it was intimidating. It informed Joshua Simpson* that he owed £2,212 to Octopus Energy, and accused him of ignoring previous requests to settle the bill. If he did not stump up within 14 days, he was told, further action would be taken to recove...
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