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Small plane crashes in Northeast Philadelphia

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Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and EntertainmentPHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Multiple casualties...
Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and EntertainmentPHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Multiple casualties have been reported after a small plane crashed in a residential neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia.It happened near Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard just after 6 p.m. Frida...

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Notes on OpenAI O3-Mini

simonwillison.net

31st January 2025 OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly...
31st January 2025 OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly difficult one to evaluate—we now need to decide if a prompt is best run using GPT-4o, o1, o3-mini or (if we have access) o1 Pro. Confusing matters further, the benchmarks in the o3-mini system card (PDF) aren’t a universal...
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Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees

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A year ago, Google started off 2024 with some layoffs. It hasn’t taken similar steps (yet)...
A year ago, Google started off 2024 with some layoffs. It hasn’t taken similar steps (yet) in 2025, but employees are fearing the worst. And if the Platforms and Devices team is anything to go by, there’s ample reason for concern. Google has distributed a memo to all US employees working on Android, Pixel hardware, ...
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LinuxPDF

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Web Analytics Accidentally Collecting Passwords

freshpaint.io

Posted on October 5, 2020RudderStack is an open source data collection and routing tool. It collects...
Posted on October 5, 2020RudderStack is an open source data collection and routing tool. It collects data from your website with a bit of Javascript and allows you to send it to different tools like a database or 3rd party analytics tool. Three months ago, I reported a serious issue where under certain circumstances...
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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income

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| Trump’s economic team is a “recipe for disaster,” according to Americans for Tax Fairness Executive...
| Trump’s economic team is a “recipe for disaster,” according to Americans for Tax Fairness Executive Director David Kass.
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Designing Great Watchdog Timers for Embedded Systems

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Great Watchdog Timers For Embedded Systems, by Jack Ganssle A watchdog timer is an embedded system's...
Great Watchdog Timers For Embedded Systems, by Jack Ganssle A watchdog timer is an embedded system's last line of defense against firmware failures. It simply has to be designed correctly. Few are. This page shows how. Sept 2011 - updated July 2016 - Added reference to Niall Murphy article Launched in January of 199...
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Sparrow, a Modern C++ Implementation of the Apache Arrow Columnar Format

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We are thrilled to introduce Sparrow, a new library designed to simplify the integration of Apache...
We are thrilled to introduce Sparrow, a new library designed to simplify the integration of Apache Arrow’s columnar format into C++ applications.Why Sparrow?Apache Arrow is a universal columnar format and a multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics. It offers accessible and well-tested...

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Cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety

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LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda

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Failures Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, has been promising to restore trust in media...
Failures Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, has been promising to restore trust in media over the last few months. Instead, he has launched an escalating campaign of editorial interference that accomplishes exactly the opposite. First, he blocked the paper from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris. Th...
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The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech

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Free Speech There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the...
Free Speech There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial system and executive power, to actually suppress speech. It’s a strategy that turns the First Amendment’s principles inside out,...
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Germany: Number of unemployed highest in 10 years

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The number of unemployed people in Germany reached almost three million in January, according to figures...
The number of unemployed people in Germany reached almost three million in January, according to figures from Germany's Federal Employment Agency. While such upticks are typical for the first month of the year, the 2025 figure is the highest since January 2015. Employers have blamed a range of headwinds that have ha...
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Show HN: Lua-libuv – A Lua with libuv experiments

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Non-Western founders say DeepSeek proves innovation need not cost billions

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During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said...
During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said it was “hopeless” for a young team with less than $10 million to compete with his company on training foundational large language models. A year and a half later, a Chinese startup appears to have proved him wrong. “This is the ne...

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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

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Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept...
Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept was straightforward enough. If global warming is to be kept from getting out of hand, there is a limit to the amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted into the atmosphere. Yet the fossil fuel reserves current...

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Android 16's Linux Terminal will soon let you run graphical apps...we ran Doom

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Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android 16’s Linux Terminal can now run graphical Linux apps such...
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Android 16’s Linux Terminal can now run graphical Linux apps such as Doom. This is thanks to improvements like hardware acceleration support and a display server. These upgrades aren’t live yet in the most recent Android 16 beta, but they could arrive in a future release. Goo...
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Oil giant Shell walks away from major New Jersey offshore wind farm

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In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil...
In the first serious fallout from President Donald Trump’s early actions against offshore wind power, oil and gas giant Shell is walking away from a major project off the coast of New Jersey.Shell told The Associated Press it is writing off the project, citing increased competition, delays and a changing market. “Na...

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Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency

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How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work? We asked the law's enforcer

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Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under...
Australia passed one of the strictest internet crackdowns in the world last month, banning children under 16 from being on social media or opening new accounts. The law, which takes effect a year from now, holds social media companies responsible for verifying kids' ages. Not complying could trigger fines up to near...
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When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++]

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In the realm of computer science, we're always told to pursue what is the most efficient...
In the realm of computer science, we're always told to pursue what is the most efficient solution. This can be either what is the fastest way to solve a problem; or what may be the cheapest. What is the easiest, but not always the best, is typically a "greedy algorithm"; think bubble sort. More often than not, there...
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Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from...
If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. It turns out that if you include any expletives in your search query, Google will not return an AI Overview, as they are called, at the top of the results page. For instance, if ...
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GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable

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Page Content Recently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority...
Page Content Recently, AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music” in what sounds like yet another justification of Suno’s prompt-based (and very popular) generative AI music service. Like all good misleading statement...
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Asteroid YR24; now at 1.6% impact probability in 2032

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In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed...
In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between 40 and 100 meters in size—was spotted on December 27. The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out, had bee...
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Exacluster with 144 Nvidia H200 AI GPUs detailed by its designer

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Earlier this month, we reported on ExaAILabs's Exacluster, a cluster of 18 machines running 144 Nvidia...
Earlier this month, we reported on ExaAILabs's Exacluster, a cluster of 18 machines running 144 Nvidia H200 GPUs, which happens to be one of the first clusters based on these processors. Since then, Hydra Host, the company that facilitated the construction of the cluster, has given us additional details about the sy...
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