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Failures of Kindness (2013)

jamesclear.com

Background George Saunders is an American writer and winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction...
Background George Saunders is an American writer and winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Saunders delivered this speech about “failures of kindness” as the commencement address to Syracuse University’s class of 2013. 1 Note: Thanks to reader Harvey Freedenberg, who original...
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People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to

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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

gizmodo.com

YouTube has become the internet’s go-to library for all things video, but make no mistake, advertisers...
YouTube has become the internet’s go-to library for all things video, but make no mistake, advertisers run this library. YouTube escalated its war against ad blockers on Monday with an update saying the use of mobile ad-blocking apps may result in buffering issues and error messages that read “the following content ...

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Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

theguardian.com

Creating a sexually explicit “deepfake” image is to be made an offence under a new law,...
Creating a sexually explicit “deepfake” image is to be made an offence under a new law, the Ministry of Justice has announced.Under the legislation, anyone who creates such an image without consent will face a criminal record and an unlimited fine. They could also face jail if the image is shared more widely.The cre...
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A visual guide to Vision Transformer – A scroll story

mdturp.ch

This is a visual guide to Vision Transformers (ViTs), a class of deep learning models that...
This is a visual guide to Vision Transformers (ViTs), a class of deep learning models that have achieved state-of-the-art performance on image classification tasks. Vision Transformers apply the transformer architecture, originally designed for natural language processing (NLP), to image data. This guide will walk y...
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Product-Market Fit Isn't a Black Box – A New Framework to Help B2B Founders

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Product-Market Fit Isn’t a Black Box — A New Framework to Help B2B Founders Find It,...
Product-Market Fit Isn’t a Black Box — A New Framework to Help B2B Founders Find It, FasterMost people describe finding product-market fit as an art, not a science. But when it comes to sales-led B2B startups, we’ve reverse engineered a method to increase the odds of unlocking it. We’ve worked with some of the world...

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Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

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Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing...
Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime. NBC News found that at least 150 paid “Premium” subscriber X accounts and thousands of unpaid accounts have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content on X in re...
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Trimming The Herbs TAS Clear on my Wii U [video]

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Iran Attacks Israel, Sort Of –| Peter Zeihan [video]

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Copenhagen's 400-yr-old exchange burns down

ft.com

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Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M

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Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two...
Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two cloud providers—one based in Seattle and the other in Redmond, Washington—out of $3.5 million. The indictment, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of New York and unsealed on Monday, charge...
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NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism

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NPR suspended Senior Editor Uri Berliner for five days without pay after he wrote an essay...
NPR suspended Senior Editor Uri Berliner for five days without pay after he wrote an essay accusing the network of losing the public's trust and appeared on a podcast to explain his argument. Uri Berliner NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had "l...
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AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors

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America's young men are blowing their money like never before

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$10M in Gold Disguised as Machine Parts Seized from Cargo Plane

jalopnik.com

Customs officials in Hong Kong seized 146 kilograms of gold late last month, worth an estimated...
Customs officials in Hong Kong seized 146 kilograms of gold late last month, worth an estimated $10 million. They discovered the gold on a cargo plane scheduled to leave for Japan, and officials now say the value of the seizure makes it the biggest gold smuggling case in Hong Kong’s history. What makes this case esp...

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Ice to treat soft-tissue injuries contraindicated by creator of protocol

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Medical acronym For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation). RICE is a mnemonic acronym for the four...
Medical acronym For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation). RICE is a mnemonic acronym for the four elements of a treatment regimen that was once recommended for soft tissue injuries: rest, ice, compression, and elevation.[1] It was considered a first-aid treatment rather than a cure and aimed to control inflammation...
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Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation

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Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB

aliramadhan.me

Global snapshot of surface temperature at 2018-12-04 04:00:00 UTC. I think it would be cool to...
Global snapshot of surface temperature at 2018-12-04 04:00:00 UTC. I think it would be cool to have historical weather data from around the world to analyze for signals of climate change we’ve already had rather than think about potential future change. If we had a huge weather data warehouse we could query it to fi...
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Yes, Python and Matplotlib can make pretty charts

python-graph-gallery.com

The Python Graph Gallery has always been a reservoir of inspiration, providing hundreds of foundational chart...
The Python Graph Gallery has always been a reservoir of inspiration, providing hundreds of foundational chart examples for newcomers and seasoned developers alike. While our vast collection offers a stepping stone into the world of data visualization, the following list stands out.Every chart here represents the pin...

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Ask HN: Books for engaging with business problems as an IC?

ycombinator.com

After a youth spent avoiding the rat race by any means possible—volunteering on farms, teaching English...
After a youth spent avoiding the rat race by any means possible—volunteering on farms, teaching English overseas, etc.—I find myself in my late 30s as a junior eng. IC at a tech megacorp (think 10k+ employees).Even after 1y+ here, I continue to struggle with adapting to this environment and making myself valuable to...
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Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled

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Tesla Cybertruck's Stuck Accelerator Pedal Creates 6,800-Pound Land Missile

insideevs.com

Owners of the Tesla Cybertruck are coming forward with an issue that could potentially turn the...
Owners of the Tesla Cybertruck are coming forward with an issue that could potentially turn the stainless steel trapezoid into a 6,800-pound land missile. At least one owner has posted a video outlining their experience with a fault in the design of the Cybertruck's accelerator pedal. As shown in the video below, th...
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Why We Practice Magic

princeton.edu

Humans love magic. Discord servers, YouTube channels, and Instawitches show that magic is more popular than...
Humans love magic. Discord servers, YouTube channels, and Instawitches show that magic is more popular than ever. We enjoy performances where skilled magicians make lemons or elephants appear and disappear before our eyes. Not many academic philosophers discuss magic, however, five centuries ago, prominent Renaissan...
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IPv6 for the Remotely Interested

ssg.dev

I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond...
I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond “an overengineered solution to the IPv4 address space problem”. IPv6 was even presented as “every atom could get its own IP address, no IP address shortages anymore”, but I didn’t know how true that was either. I occasionally saw an IPv...
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