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The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley

project-syndicate.org

A generation ago, tech workers viewed themselves as billionaires-in-waiting, working extremely long hours at the expense...
A generation ago, tech workers viewed themselves as billionaires-in-waiting, working extremely long hours at the expense of sleep and social life in the hope of making “a dent in the universe.” But deteriorating working conditions have led to a shift in perspective, sparking an unprecedented wave of worker activism....

big tech cory doctorow data industry labor
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This is a teenager

pudding.cool

This is a teenager.We'll call him Alex. It's 1997.Alex is a 13-year-old Hispanic kid being raised...
This is a teenager.We'll call him Alex. It's 1997.Alex is a 13-year-old Hispanic kid being raised by his dad and step-mom. His family's net worth is less than $2,000. And his parents are neither supportive nor involved in his life.When researchers assessed his home and family life, they determined he was in a fairly...

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Turn entire websites into LLM-ready data

firecrawl.dev

Frequently asked questions about FireCrawl What is FireCrawl?FireCrawl is an advanced web crawling and data conversion...
Frequently asked questions about FireCrawl What is FireCrawl?FireCrawl is an advanced web crawling and data conversion tool designed to transform any website into clean, LLM-ready markdown. Ideal for AI developers and data scientists, it automates the collection, cleaning, and formatting of web data, streamlining th...

data firecrawl langchain markdown mendable
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Chronon, Airbnb's ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source

medium.com

A feature platform that offers observability and management tools, allows ML practitioners to use a variety...
A feature platform that offers observability and management tools, allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources, while handling the complexity of data engineering, and provides low latency streaming.By: Varant Zanoyan, Nikhil Simha RaproluChronon allows ML practitioners to use a variety of data sources a...

ai data data engineering machine learning open source
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Would you use a government-issued ID to prove your identity online?

abc.net.au

Could an online, government-issued ID be a safer way to prove who you are online without...
Could an online, government-issued ID be a safer way to prove who you are online without giving companies your personal details?The federal government hopes so, and last week moved it one step closer to setting up such a system when the Senate approved its Digital ID bill.The bill would establish a voluntary identit...

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4.5Ms faster speed than broadband

newatlas.com

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Serious security breach hits EU police agency

politico.eu

They were supposed to be under lock and key, in a secure storage room deep inside...
They were supposed to be under lock and key, in a secure storage room deep inside Europol's headquarters in The Hague. But a clutch of highly sensitive files containing the personal information of top law enforcement executives went missing last summer. Europe's law enforcement agency has been mired in a whodunit ev...

catherine de bolle cybersecurity data data / privacy data breaches
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Ireland gambles on China's big tech billions

politico.eu

artificial intelligence big tech business and competition china data
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Car is spying on you, leading to higher insurance rates

nypost.com

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Storing binary data in playing cards (2014)

timwarriner.com

Using playing cards to store hidden data: The implied card method for encoding data into playing...
Using playing cards to store hidden data: The implied card method for encoding data into playing cards Introduction: This is an explanation of my method of storing messages and data in a deck of playing cards. The method encodes binary bits into the cards, usually resulting in many more bits of data being stored tha...

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Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm your mental health

newscientist.com

data ethics
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Thinking about high-quality human data

lilianweng.github.io

[Special thank you to Ian Kivlichan for many useful pointers (E.g. the 100+ year old Nature...
[Special thank you to Ian Kivlichan for many useful pointers (E.g. the 100+ year old Nature paper “Vox populi”) and nice feedback. 🙏 ] High-quality data is the fuel for modern data deep learning model training. Most of task-specific labeled data comes from human annotation, such as classification task or RLHF labeli...

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'Mother of all breaches' data leak reveals 26B account stolen records

nypost.com

cybersecurity data data breach lifestyle tech
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The Telemetron (2017)

mit.edu

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled...
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during their relatively short stays, they are provided with minimum supplies to remain alive and able to perform experiments. As we begin to plan less for short visits and more for life...

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Almost never use a pie chart for data

theconversation.com

data data visualisation graphs mathematics statistics
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Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

thegist.ie

data ireland
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Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during Covid

politico.eu

Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of COVID, according...
Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of COVID, according to a study by French researchers. The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, "despite the absence of evidence documenting its clin...

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Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more

politico.eu

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — The U.K. already...
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — The U.K. already has some of the most far-reaching surveillance laws in the democratic world. Now it’s rushing to beef them up even further — and tech firms are spooked. Britain's government wants to build on its landmark Investigatory ...

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The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley

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Turn entire websites into LLM-ready data

Chronon, Airbnb's ML Feature Platform, Is Now Open Source

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4.5Ms faster speed than broadband

Serious security breach hits EU police agency

Ireland gambles on China's big tech billions

Car is spying on you, leading to higher insurance rates

Storing binary data in playing cards (2014)

Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm your mental health

Thinking about high-quality human data

'Mother of all breaches' data leak reveals 26B account stolen records

The Telemetron (2017)

Almost never use a pie chart for data

Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU

Hydroxychloroquine could have caused 17,000 deaths during Covid

Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more