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Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking

theregister.com
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Zoning Out American Families

discoursemagazine.com

Land use regulations often harm the very families they’re meant to help. Image Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty...
Land use regulations often harm the very families they’re meant to help. Image Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty ImagesBy Emily HamiltonAmong U.S. households that rent, the share of household income going toward housing costs has been rising steadily since the 1960s. And rent is becoming less affordable fastest for hou...
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Meta loses $200B in value as earning call focuses on all the ways bleeds cash

cnbc.com

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unnerved investors on the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday by focusing on...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unnerved investors on the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday by focusing on its long-term investments in AI and the metaverse.Shares of Meta tumbled as much as 19% in extended trading Wednesday."We've historically seen a lot of volatility in our stock during this phase of our produc...

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Make Invalid States Unrepresentable

geeklaunch.io

Let’s talk about types.1This post will be applicable to most programming languages, but it is significantly...
Let’s talk about types.1This post will be applicable to most programming languages, but it is significantly easier to apply these concepts when using languages that have more powerful, functionally-inspired, or mathematically-flavored type systems2.As you probably know, the Rust compiler can spit out some pretty hig...
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As the US Air Force fleet keeps shrinking, can it still win wars?

defensenews.com

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Twilight of the Age of Steam, Part 2: Petroleum and After

technicshistory.com

In the mid-nineteenth century, a new industry emerged, based on the refining of petroleum. The human...
In the mid-nineteenth century, a new industry emerged, based on the refining of petroleum. The human use of petroleum is ancient, and may (for all we know) date well into pre-history. In the form found most often in nature, as thick pools of bituminous tar, this sticky, potentially flammable substance found use as a...
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

breakingdefense.com
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Fine tune LLAMA3 on million scale dataset in consumer GPU using QLora, DeepSpeed

medium.com

Model : LLAMA-8b-instructDataset: Openhermes-2.5(700k training, 300k testing)GPU: 4 RTX 4090, 24GBBit of background about me,I’m a...
Model : LLAMA-8b-instructDataset: Openhermes-2.5(700k training, 300k testing)GPU: 4 RTX 4090, 24GBBit of background about me,I’m a full-time software engineer 2, at the core of our platform team. In my scarce free time, I explore various aspects of the machine learning world, with interests in tabular data, NLP, and...

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A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266

tttapa.github.io
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You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it

jim-nielsen.com
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Ruby might be faster than you think

johnhawthorn.com

I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline...
I saw a project a couple weeks back which allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file. It’s a neat project, and I don’t want to take away from it but something in the README example looked off to me. require 'crystalruby' require 'benchmark' module Fibonnaci crystalize [n: :int32] => :int32 ...
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The Folly of China's Real-Estate Boom Was Easy to See, No One Wanted to Stop It

wsj.com
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Firefighting foam company reaches $750M settlement for PFAS in drinking water

thenewlede.org
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Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data

timescale.com

One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the...
One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the de facto database standard. There have been a few blog posts on how to use PostgreSQL for Everything, but none yet on why this is happening (and more importantly, why this matters). Until now. PostgreSQL Is Becoming the De ...

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Unregulated 'identity tracers' harass people for debts they do not owe

theguardian.com

The letter from the debt collection agency arrived out of the blue, and it was intimidating....
The letter from the debt collection agency arrived out of the blue, and it was intimidating. It informed Joshua Simpson* that he owed £2,212 to Octopus Energy, and accused him of ignoring previous requests to settle the bill. If he did not stump up within 14 days, he was told, further action would be taken to recove...
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The AI Lie

muddycolors.com

I recently had a job which did not go well. Eight weeks in, I was mired...
I recently had a job which did not go well. Eight weeks in, I was mired in sketch revisions and being asked to start over for the fourth time and so I decided to cut my losses and walk. When I shared the experience, most replies I received were from folks commiserating that, unfortunately, that’s how it goes sometim...
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Modern EV Batteries Rarely Fail: Study

insideevs.com

Plug-in electric vehicle's lithium-ion batteries have become less prone to failures in recent years. According to...
Plug-in electric vehicle's lithium-ion batteries have become less prone to failures in recent years. According to Recurrent's study entitled New Study: How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last?, recently highlighted by the DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office, significant progress has been made after the first several y...
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Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged

afterbabel.com
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Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar

github.com
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List of founders and companies rejected by YC

google.com

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Why the AI Industry's Thirst for New Data Centers Can't Be Satisfied

wsj.com
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Llama3 – 65k Context Window with great recall

twitter.com
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Windows 11 now comes with its own adware

engadget.com

It used to be that you could pay for a retail version of Windows 11 and...
It used to be that you could pay for a retail version of Windows 11 and expect it to be ad-free, but those days are apparently finito. The latest update to Windows 11 (KB5036980) comes out this week and includes ads for apps in the "recommended" section of the Start Menu, one of the most oft-used parts of the OS."Th...

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Mercedes unveils 2025 electric G-Class, with 4 motors and tank turns

electrek.co

Mercedes unveiled its 2025 electric G-Class tonight – which it’s calling the “G580 with EQ technology”...
Mercedes unveiled its 2025 electric G-Class tonight – which it’s calling the “G580 with EQ technology” – and we’re here in Beverly Hills at the reveal with all the details. Mercedes first surprised us with its “EQG” concept at IAA in 2021. Now it’s heading to production, but with a somewhat more plain name. At the t...
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