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Looking at California's $20 minimum wage impact 6 months later

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It’s been six months since minimum wage for workers at large fast food chains in California...
It’s been six months since minimum wage for workers at large fast food chains in California went from $16 to $20 an hour. Restaurant operators opposed the new law, claiming it would force them to raise their prices and cut jobs, but economists at UC Berkeley say their data contradicts those predictions. The Center o...

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Remote Work and Fertility

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Serge Semin's Goodbye to the Linux Kernel

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Nvidia to ship a billion of RISC-V cores in 2024

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(Image credit: Nvidia) Although Nvidia's GPUs rely on proprietary CUDA cores that feature their instruction set...
(Image credit: Nvidia) Although Nvidia's GPUs rely on proprietary CUDA cores that feature their instruction set architecture and support for various data formats, these cores are controlled by custom cores that rely on the industry-standard RISC-V ISA, albeit with some extensions, the company revealed at the RISC-V ...
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Nonlinear Schrödinger numerical simulation in 3D

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Brush – a new super compatible Gaussian splatting engine in Rust

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Show HN: Desktop Sandbox for Secure Cloud Computer Use

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Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to describe data models

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Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint

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TakeawaysToday, we’re releasing our first lightweight quantized Llama models that are small and performant enough to...
TakeawaysToday, we’re releasing our first lightweight quantized Llama models that are small and performant enough to run on many popular mobile devices. At Meta, we’re uniquely positioned to provide quantized models because of access to compute resources, training data, full evaluations, and safety.As our first quan...
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Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems

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Thanks to Holden Karnofsky, David Duvenaud, and Kate Woolverton for useful discussions and feedback.Following up on...
Thanks to Holden Karnofsky, David Duvenaud, and Kate Woolverton for useful discussions and feedback.Following up on our recent “Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models” paper, I wanted to share more of my personal thoughts on why I think catastrophic sabotage is important and why I care about it as a threat model. ...
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Reading Lord of the Rings aloud: Yes, I sang all the songs

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Like Frodo himself, I wasn't sure we were going to make it all the way to...
Like Frodo himself, I wasn't sure we were going to make it all the way to the end of our quest. But this week, my family crossed an important life threshold: every member has now heard J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (LotR) read aloud—and sung aloud—in its entirety. Five years ago, I read the series to my eldest ...
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Apple's Card Was Confusing

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Use Prolog to write psycho-philosophical case studies

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Supply Chain Attacks Targeting LLM Application Developers: The Hidden Dangers Of

socket.dev

As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continues to evolve at a...
As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, developers are always on the lookout for new tools to simplify their work with large language models (LLMs). Open-source libraries and packages are central to this progress, but this convenience comes with hid...
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White House orders Pentagon and Intel agencies to increase use of AI

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Logical vs. Physical Data Types

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BYD EV Teardown in Japan Reveals the Secret to Its Affordability

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The integration of multiple components into a single drive unit that BYD calls E-Axle was the...
The integration of multiple components into a single drive unit that BYD calls E-Axle was the most impressive part. Between the E-Axle and the economies of scale that BYD can achieve, it can sell its EVs at very affordable prices that non-Chinese automakers simply can't match. Japan used to be a world leader in elec...
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Self-Hosting Marketing Automation Software: A Guide

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Marketing and customer engagement software continues to grow in usage, and sophistication and maybe the most...
Marketing and customer engagement software continues to grow in usage, and sophistication and maybe the most crowded software category in terms of number of vendors. With such a wide variety of SaaS marketing automation options, self hosting can seem like an odd choice. But there are still many companies for whom se...
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Tim Burton: The internet makes me quite depressed

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PAOscar-nominated director Tim Burton took a quick break from filming the latest series of Wednesday to...
PAOscar-nominated director Tim Burton took a quick break from filming the latest series of Wednesday to visit the exhibition in London ahead of its openingDirector Tim Burton has revealed that being on the internet makes him feel "quite depressed".Ahead of the opening of a major career retrospective in London, he to...
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Calculating the norm of a complex number

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October 17, 2024 at 19:45 Tags Math In this quick post I'll dispel a common confusion...
October 17, 2024 at 19:45 Tags Math In this quick post I'll dispel a common confusion in the basic math of complex numbers. It's often useful to calculate the norm-square (also known as absolute square) of a complex number z. This norm-square is denoted . One could naively expect that: However, that's false! The way...
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Why did you write a new RTOS for CHERIoT?

cheriot.org

I’m often asked why we decided to write a new RTOS for CHERIoT instead of using...
I’m often asked why we decided to write a new RTOS for CHERIoT instead of using something that already existed, such as ThreadX, FreeRTOS, or Zephyr. The short answer is that CHERIoT is a hardware-software co-design project and retrofitting ground-up co-design is hard. This post is for people who want the long answe...
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Data viz project that maps all earthquakes by magnitude

concord.org
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Throw more AI at your problems

substack.com

Last week, we published our longest-ever post outlining how we think the AI market will evolve....
Last week, we published our longest-ever post outlining how we think the AI market will evolve. The feedback on that post has been super positive so far — we’d love to hear what you think of it! This week, we’re going in the exact opposite direction with a much more tactical observation about how you should build AI...
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Dynamic Models of Gentrification

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