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Building GCC 1.27 (first GCC with x86 support) (2019)

kristerw.blogspot.com

GCC 1.27 was released in 1988 and is the first version of GCC supporting the x86...
GCC 1.27 was released in 1988 and is the first version of GCC supporting the x86 CPU. I thought it would be fun to make it work on my desktop computer. Mikhail Maltsev wrote a great blog post about this a while back “Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system”. I used Mikhail’s work as a starting p...
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Google to destroy billions of incognito browsing records to settle lawsuit

theguardian.com

Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the...
Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s incognito mode.Users alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google...
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Traffic deaths rise in U.S. cities despite billions spent to make streets safer

cbsnews.com

car accident pedestrian killed traffic
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The Incognito Mode Myth Has Unraveled

wired.com

If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to...
If you still hold any notion that Google Chrome’s “Incognito mode” is a good way to protect your privacy online, now’s a good time to stop.Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” the company collected while users browsed the web using Incognito mode, according to documents filed in federal court in Sa...
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Two Warner Bros Discovery directors resigned following antitrust investigation

qz.com

business finance time warner warner bros warner bros.
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Tracking vehicles across state lines

papersplease.org
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Big Banks Are "Quiet Quitting" Their Climate Promises

bloomberg.com

business the-big-take
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Google to delete search data of millions who used 'incognito' mode

npr.org

Google will destroy "billions of data records" of peoples' private browsing history as part of a...
Google will destroy "billions of data records" of peoples' private browsing history as part of a settlement disclosed on Monday over the company's web-tracking practices. Matt Slocum/AP Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of...
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Get a Person at the IRS

github.com
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New Leader Alert: Anthropic's Claude3 Tops Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard

berkeley.edu
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Why isn't anyone signing up?

imgz.org
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A16Z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing

frankzliu.com

I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for...
I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered around data orchestration tools such as Langchain and Llamaindex. Data pipelines, embedding...
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Vision Transformers Are Overrated

frankzliu.com

Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an...
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity (w.r.t. number of input patches) of lan...
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Developer Experience Book by Addy Osmani

addy.ie
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OpenAI Startup Fund: GP Hallucination

nongaap.com
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OpenAI's comment to the NTIA on open model weights

openai.com

We believe that people and companies should be able to participate in AI as they choose...
We believe that people and companies should be able to participate in AI as they choose —which can include developing or using AI that reflects their values and vision —in order to achieve the benefits of AI. At the same time, highly capable AI systems should be built and used safely, with any discovered catastrophi...
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WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy

github.com
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Ask HN: What can we do as a community to prevent XZ-like attacks in future?

ycombinator.com
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California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix

economist.com
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GPT-4 earned higher clinical reasoning scores than physicians

medpagetoday.com

When evaluating simulated clinical cases, Open AI's GPT-4 chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning, a cross-sectional...
When evaluating simulated clinical cases, Open AI's GPT-4 chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning, a cross-sectional study showed. Median R-IDEA scores -- an assessment of clinical reasoning -- were 10 for the chatbot, 9 for attending physicians, and 8 for internal medicine residents, Adam Rodman, MD, ...
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How the Soviets invented the internet and why it didnt work

aeon.co
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Ask HN: Why would you ever use C++ for a new project over Rust?

ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?

ycombinator.com
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A Sniff Test for Some Query Optimizers

buttondown.email
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