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Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics for Wall Street and a Pedophile Hellscape for Kids

hindenburgresearch.com

Roblox is a $27 billion online gaming platform headquartered in San Mateo, CA. The company was...
Roblox is a $27 billion online gaming platform headquartered in San Mateo, CA. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is led by founder and CEO David Baszucki. The company has reported net losses every quarter since becoming a public company, with last twelve months (LTM) losses totaling $1.07 billion. Its stock t...
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Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring

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Why U.S. Regulators See Minicars as the Enemy

jalopnik.com

JalopnikKotakuQuartzThe RootThe InventoryMinicars and microcars aren’t a thing in the U.S. Despite their popularity in Europe...
JalopnikKotakuQuartzThe RootThe InventoryMinicars and microcars aren’t a thing in the U.S. Despite their popularity in Europe and Asia, tiny cars have never been able to get a foothold stateside. Now, with the advent of electric vehicles, they’re getting even more popular overseas, but our attitudes toward them over...

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Differential Transformer

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Generation Never-Called-in-Sick

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Tesla Cybertruck 'too big and sharp' for European roads, say campaigners

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Tesla’s Cybertruck is too big and sharp for European roads, transport campaigners have warned, as questions...
Tesla’s Cybertruck is too big and sharp for European roads, transport campaigners have warned, as questions are raised about the registration of one of the first of the electric pickup trucks to hit the continent.There had been confusion about whether the Cybertruck could be driven in Europe, owing to strict road sa...
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Fantasia for Piano: Joyce Hatto's Incredible Career (2007)

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That same month, in MusicWeb, Christopher Howell, reviewing favorably Hatto’s Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, asked,...
That same month, in MusicWeb, Christopher Howell, reviewing favorably Hatto’s Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, asked, “If she has been playing around the world all these years . . . why is the world so little aware of her?” Speaking of the moribund Concert Artist label, he said, “Where has it been all these years? How i...

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KDE Plasma 6.2 Released

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Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always...
Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.One of the outstanding issues has been to make Plasma...
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They trained artificial neural networks using physics

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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and Neural Networks

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John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf]

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Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent

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When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago,...
When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square feet—less than a football field. But since then, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly, and a new study shows that mos...
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Kernighan's Lever (2012)

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Brian Kernighan famously wrote: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program...
Brian Kernighan famously wrote: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd edition, chapter 2 The following version also circulates on the net: Deb...
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The Static Site Paradox

kristoff.it

October 08, 2024 • 3 min read • by Loris Cro In front of you are...
October 08, 2024 • 3 min read • by Loris Cro In front of you are two personal websites, each used as a blog and to display basic contact info of the owner:One is a complex CMS written in PHP that requires a web server, multiple workers, a Redis cache, and a SQL database. The site also has a big frontend component th...
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Stay in the Gap

everythingchanges.us

02 Oct 2024 by Mandy Brown WHEN THE SAME TOPIC comes up in three sessions in...
02 Oct 2024 by Mandy Brown WHEN THE SAME TOPIC comes up in three sessions in the same day, I take note. In this case, it was Ira Glass’ famous “taste gap” story. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s short and worth a watch. But the gist of it is that when you start some new creative practice, you very quickly confront a gap b...
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A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase

microsoft.com

It seems that a popular way of converting a string to uppercase or lowercase is to...
It seems that a popular way of converting a string to uppercase or lowercase is to do it letter by letter. std::wstring name; std::transform(name.begin(), name.end(), name.begin(), std::tolower); This is wrong for many reasons. First of all, std::tolower is not an addressible function. This means, among other things...
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Rust GPU: The future of GPU programming

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Finally, a modern language for GPUs Rust GPU makes it possible to write and run GPU...
Finally, a modern language for GPUs Rust GPU makes it possible to write and run GPU software in Rust, leveraging the language's powerful safety and concurrency features to enhance performance and reliability. With Rust GPU, you can seamlessly develop for both CPU and GPU using a unified codebase, all while benefitin...
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Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses

asteriskmag.com

To many people, “development economics” is synonymous with the randomized controlled trial: randomly assigning some group...
To many people, “development economics” is synonymous with the randomized controlled trial: randomly assigning some group of people to an intervention, like cash transfers or malaria protection nets, in order to tell if it really makes the recipients better off. RCTs have revolutionized development economics and int...
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First wave of M4 Macs, including smaller Mac mini, coming November 1

arstechnica.com

Reliable rumors have suggested that M4 Macs are right around the corner, and now Bloomberg's Mark...
Reliable rumors have suggested that M4 Macs are right around the corner, and now Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is forecasting a specific launch date: November 1, following a late-October announcement that mirrors last year's Halloween-themed reveal for the first M3 Macs. This date could be subject to change, and not all t...
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Show HN: Running Game Boy ROMs on the STM32 ARM Cortex Microcontroller

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The million-dollar mystery of milk.com

thehustle.co

Can you still make a fortune off a domain name? I don’t remember why I typed...
Can you still make a fortune off a domain name? I don’t remember why I typed milk.com in my browser and hit enter — I just remember being delighted that I did. I’d expected the website of the dairy lobby, or perhaps some text that read, “This domain is for sale.” Instead I discovered what appeared to be a quirky per...
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SigNoz (YC W21) Is Hiring Site Reliability Engineers (Remote)

ycombinator.com
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Passwords Aren't Going Away

cybershow.uk

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Systems Design for Advanced Beginners

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