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Composable SQL (Functors)

borretti.me
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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

googleblog.com

Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public PolicyHundreds of millions of users around the world...
Posted by Andrew McLaughlin, Director of Global Public PolicyHundreds of millions of users around the world use Google Earth. Many of them have strong -- and sometimes conflicting -- opinions about how places should be named and where borders should be drawn. Disputes over place names and territorial borders exist i...
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Departing the New York Times

substack.com

As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion...
As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years. Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure. If you check out my Substack, you will see that I have by no means run out of energy or topics to...
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'Super pod' of 1,500 dolphins captured on video as they cavort off Cali coast

apnews.com

A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the...
A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of more than 1,500 of the marine creatures. “They were on the horizon I feel like as far as I could see,” said Captain Evan Brodsky, with the Monterey Bay Whale W...

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Wi-Fi 7 in 2025: Will this be the year?

networkworld.com
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Digital River has ceased operations

thelayoff.com
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What's OAuth2, Anyway?

romaglushko.com

Have you ever logged into a website using your Google or Facebook account? Or connected an...
Have you ever logged into a website using your Google or Facebook account? Or connected an app to access your GitHub data? If so, you’ve already used OAuth2, whether you knew it or not. OAuth2 is the world’s most popular, extensible authorization framework. It allows you to integrate a couple of systems together by ...

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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

arstechnica.com

Currently, Aaron predicts that Nepenthes might be most attractive to rights holders who want AI companies...
Currently, Aaron predicts that Nepenthes might be most attractive to rights holders who want AI companies to pay to scrape their data. And many people seem enthusiastic about using it to reinforce robots.txt. But "some of the most exciting people are in the 'let it burn' category," Aaron said. These people are drawn...
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Job Trends of HN Who is hiring?

hnhiring.com
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Civilization VII only needs 20 GB of free disk space

corsair.com
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DeepSeek's Multi-head latent attention and other KV cache tricks explained

pyspur.dev

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1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek

promptfoo.dev

DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App...
DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store. As a Chinese company, DeepSeek is beholden to CCP policy. This is reflected even in the open-source model, prompting concerns about censorship and other influence. Today we’re publishing a dataset of prompts covering sensiti...
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Machine learning and nano-3D printing produce nano-architected materials

utoronto.ca

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning...
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. In a new paper published in Advanced Materials, a team led by Professor Tobin Filleter (MIE) descr...
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The History of Toontown’s SpeedChat

habitatchronicles.com

This story has been recorded as part of the Social Media Clarity podcast: [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.buzzsprout.com/16050/138068-disney-s-hercworld-toontown-and-blockchat-tm-s01e08.mp3″] In...
This story has been recorded as part of the Social Media Clarity podcast: [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://www.buzzsprout.com/16050/138068-disney-s-hercworld-toontown-and-blockchat-tm-s01e08.mp3″] In 1992, I co-founded a company with Chip Morningstar and Douglas Crockford named Electric Communities. We initially did...
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Slicing the Fourth

axalatar.github.io

An Exploration of Dimensions and 4D Geometry What is the fourth dimension? What does it mean...
An Exploration of Dimensions and 4D Geometry What is the fourth dimension? What does it mean for there to be another? First, let's explain what a dimension is. In essence, a dimension is just a direction. Imagine a man living on a line: He can move either left or right on the line. We can understand this means he ha...
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CA, NY Attorneys General sue to resume federal funding of Medicaid, FEMA, PEPFAR

ca.gov
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SciPhi (YC W24) Is Hiring

ycombinator.com
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2024 YR4 and other dangerous asteroids

starwalk.space

Every now and then, the media produces dozens of scary headlines about rocks from space headed...
Every now and then, the media produces dozens of scary headlines about rocks from space headed toward our planet. But is there really a big chance that an asteroid could hit Earth in the near future? For now, people are discussing the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR, which has a 1/88 chance to hit Earth in 2032. I...
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OpenAI: DeepSeek "found some of the core ideas that we did on our way to o1"

twitter.com
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The Onion CEO regrets using an AI-generated image as basis for art

bsky.app
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Norway set to become first country to transition to electric vehicles

cnbc.com

Norway, which boasts vast oil and gas reserves, has long been recognized as a global leader...
Norway, which boasts vast oil and gas reserves, has long been recognized as a global leader in sustainable transportation.The country's electric vehicle sales have increased from less than 1% of total auto sales in 2010 to a whopping 88.9% last year."This is the new normal," Norway's Deputy Transport Minister Cecili...

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TokenVerse: Multi-Concept Personalization in Token Modulation Space by Google

token-verse.github.io
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Svelte 5 and the Future of Frameworks: A Chat with Rich Harris

smashingmagazine.com

After months of anticipation, debate, and even a bit of apprehension, Svelte 5 arrived earlier this...
After months of anticipation, debate, and even a bit of apprehension, Svelte 5 arrived earlier this year. Frederick O’Brien caught up with its creator, Rich Harris, to talk about the path that brought him and his team here and what lies ahead.Svelte occupies a curious space within the web development world. It’s bee...

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Why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia

theguardian.com

Before the internet, if you were an avid gamer then you were very likely to be...
Before the internet, if you were an avid gamer then you were very likely to be an avid reader of games magazines. From the early 1980s, the likes of Crash, Mega, PC Gamer and the Official PlayStation Magazine were your connection with the industry, providing news, reviews and interviews as well as lively letters pag...
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